skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, you totally overestimated how hard cracking Widevine is.

It's not exactly "trivial", but extracting L1 key from an Android phone running older Android OS version isn't rocket science either.
> people are constantly spreading tiny aerosolized particles from their lungs

Which (for me) brings up this never-asked question. You hear about the cattle methane ... but how much CO2 do 8 billion people breathe out in a year?
Four year olds -

> a group of older retirement home residents are brought together with a group of preschoolers, to see if this inter-generational contact can improve the health and well-being of the older people

Before and after testing demonstrated significant improvement in mental health, mobility, and balance (in both AU and UK).

[1] https://thetvdb.com/series/old-peoples-home-for-4-year-olds

[2] https://thetvdb.com/series/the-old-peoples-home-for-4-year-o...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13_rJVvxx_g

Staying active.
All values ,social construct and structure we create as human maybe just as part of our human existence (essence ) ,same a wildlife photographer watches wild animals ,like a passive observer ,without any moral judgement and prejudice .We can watch humans with same lens ,all our man made problem ,may it be ecological disasters or economic system ,it maybe just side effect of our existence as a species.
For a commuter car, a plug-in hybrid is great if its all-electric range fits within your commute distance. Otherwise it's just a more expensive hybrid.

For a snow plow that needs to run for hours at a time, I suspect that the additional cost of the batteries of a plug-in hybrid isn't worth it over a normal hybrid, or just a diesel-powered engine.

We don't need to electrify everything, and even if that will happen in the long run, we don't need to rush to do it now. What percentage of total NYC emissions come from these trucks? Probably a pretty small portion.

It's not politically correct for NYC to buy more diesel trucks, but it is probably what they should do.
Public trackers are the slums where people shit in the streets. You don't want to walk there and look for the things you want.

Private trackers are the communal libraries where enthusiasts work hard to improve the collective archives. They sort out the people who cannot behave and the whole experience is a lot better: rules regarding organization and filenames etc are being followed, tags are added so that you can search efficiently, requests are filled, quality is ensured, holes are plugged, people don't upload duplicates, you'll find help and exchange in forums about the tracker's topic etc etc, all because it's a private club which includes the possibility that your membership ends if you pee into the kitchen.
> it’s not personal, it’s just good business

What message does that send to the employees who stick it out who are expected to "give a part of their lives" for the company? Sacrifice, go the extra mile, "what can you do for the company versus what can the company do for you"?
Again, tracker URLs are public information. Including seemingly secret things like passkeys.

So again I ask: What is the problem? The article does a fucking terrible job explaining what the problem is.

All I can take away is that public information is being passed around in public. That is a problem how?
Not if all of those peers download their "free" movie then disappear. Compare the number of orphaned torrents on something like TPB to that of a private tracker. Private community allows rules that incentivise behaviour that allows the community and its content to persist long term.
Firetruck battery >>> Tesla battery

Even if you could run Level 3 charging to the station it would still take a couple of hours to charge the huge batteries you need for a fire truck. Level 2 charging would take about 12 hours. Adding a Level 3 charging ability is non-trivial and doesn't make economic sense with low volume usage.
Dude, I know exactly how not hard it is because I have done so.

The fact remains, zero scene groups figured this out.
> ~10 years ago, when I got my first job, I was in the minority, pretty much the only person cynical about big companies' claims how "people are our most important resource"

Tell that to Johnny Paycheck.
What I recently saw is people trying to charge commissions from art generated by AI. Which I guess you can do that but sucks for the actual creators.
> Why hate private trackers?

They force you to create accounts and hand over personal info that can get you busted later when the site gets raided, or just silently handed off to the authorities who run it themselves for a time collecting data to go after the pirates later. Now they've got logs of your username, possibly your password, the email address you signed up with, and lists of every IP addresses you've used and when, interview questions/answers, detailed records of every single file you've ever downloaded/shared. It's gotten people caught many times.

A tracker/website shouldn't know anything about you other than the IP address of the VPN you're using (which should change every single time you connect) and whatever information they can collect from your BitTorrent client and the locked down dedicated browser you're using whose fingerprint should also change regularly. No logins/accounts. No need to have your download/IP address history tracked and tied to anything that could point back to you. Ideally the site you use shouldn't even know what files you're downloading since you should be able to simply copy the magnet link instead of clicking on the names of the files you want or downloading torrent files from the server.
I gave up piano, was spending all my practice time just keeping level but not progressing. Switched to drawing art (mostly nsfw). Takes far less work imo and I don’t seem to regress in skill after taking a break.

You get way more attention for low skill drawings than music too.
Also Australia. From the outside (and this could well be the wrong take), it seems as though “at will employment” leads to cultural problems. People are afraid to speak their mind, and hierarchy becomes dominant.

I like that Australia is a bit more egalitarian, and people can “speak truth to power”.
The Great Podcasting Market Correction
If I didn't know better, I would not have guessed that the male voice was computer generated. The inflection sounds just like someone reading the book.

I used to use the Kindle's text to speech feature before they removed the speaker, while driving or doing dishes, and that was just the standard robotic voice. This is fantastic, though I agree with another comment that buying it for the normal price is a bit odd.
What a shame it’d be if we’d put cigarette company jobs first. For their victims, of course, but also for jobs. Think of all those smart, talented, gainfully employed people out there. What a shame it’d be if we’d instead fought to keep them somewhere both their talent and their lives are wasted.
My plumber has been saying this for decades.

I always assumed this is why the lid on the toilets exists.

I have seen many arguing about leaving the toilet seat up and down but I always felt the only real answer is to put the whole lid down.

Even if you’re not flushing the water still evaporates and brings some tiny particles with it.
There is an Australia company that are converting big rigs to electric including hot swapped batteries.

https://thedriven.io/2022/02/10/janus-unveils-first-electric...
10% is literally "decimating"
FreeBSD (402)

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributors/#staff-com...

vs.

DragonflyBSD (67)

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/team/

So, correct. Not 1/50th.
Yeah feels very anti-small team
Good point.

https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Public-Works/Engi...
This looks like Ruby's equivalent to the Python docs:

https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/index.html
The future is not exclusively electric. The future will have a mix of technologies appropriate for different situations. We are still going to have horses and gas vehicles just as we do now, with EVs alongside them.
No money to buy house, support ppl iny life.
This hed seems like it could be an exception to Betteridge's Law?
Algol based languages -> 1st order logic (implicit 'single' return)

algol languages array/stack with 'struct' abstract ('struc' abstract converted by compiler to ether parallel array(s) and/or array byte grouping per array ordinal index offset)

Lisp languages -> 2nd order logic (implicit nil/1 or many returns)

lisp is a tree / heap language where tree node is the 'implied' struct.

tree/heap much more flexible than fixed size array of strucs.
How did you go from 9 to working age without getting residency in the US or another country?
if the employees that were cut were working on a product that was losing money, then its more akin to liposuction. Its not about the employee's skills either, it's the business unit. If you start cutting database or network engineers on the AWS team, now we're talking about cutting off limbs.

Put another way, lots of startups are failing or are going to fail in this environment. Layoffs are like killing "internal startups" that aren't moneymakers.
There's always infection. Don't give up hope!
If I just bought a house with shit insulation with mortgage, is HELOC gonna help me?
On the other hand, stability has value too. I can go onto CL and immediately know how I'm going to drive it, because it has been so stable. This can save a surprising amount of time.
Indeed!

> Sometimes I crave pancakes, despite them being nearly 100% carbohydrates. I eventually ended up with a recipe that substitutes wheat flour with almond and coconut flour, and to replace the syrup, a berry sauce reduction sweetened with erythritol. Barely any carbohydrates and the berry sauce is better than maple syrup,

This reads like an elaborate troll, at that!
> Since when does having zero openings mean that a team is shut down?

This is not a claim that anyone made. The claim was that an ad for zero openings doesn't prove a team hasn't shut down.
?? lack of knowledge about ansi escape sequences ??
Looks like they understood it and operated exactly according to supply and demand.

If the Feds did not raise interest, I doubt any of this would have happened, inflation might cross 10% though.
What's the mystery? It was to get in on the device platform game: walled garden, app store, ads, subscriptions, control, etc., same as Google, Apple, Meta, and even Microsoft and Sony.
If coolprop is still available, I doubt adding CAD on top of it would make it a target for a takedown.

But, maybe so, as this does help manufacture.

This said, being able to make a good blade on a CNC mill is, IMHO, only a very very small part of being able to manufacture a high performance blade for a jet engine. The material and manufacturing science in blade production is insanely complex.
where was it posted? want to check if i'm in there
I hate to break this to you, but the decline of company-employee loyalty started 40 years ago, and even before that it only existed as a result of unprecedented post-war prosperity and lack of global competition.

This doesn't mean that it's all downside for employees though. Amazon grew a huge business and paid their corporate employees top of market with huge upside over the last 20 years due to their phenomenal growth. It was a very good deal for those who worked in Amazon corporate over the last 20 years—a lot of people got richer than their parents ever could have gotten in the previous generation of more stable corporate jobs.

But make no mistake, Amazon is not a magic pot of gold, they still have a P&L like any other company. 17,000 employees are not cheap. Amazon grew from 800k employess to 1.3m and then 1.6m at the end of 2019, 2020 and 2021 in response to the pandemic. It is to be expected that their forecasts were not completely accurate in light of the generational event and tech sea change that the pandemic brought. The fact that people are scandalized by this is indicative of how insane the 12-year bull run for tech really was.
Removal of NIL punning would make lisp a non-conforming 2nd order logic language.
Japan's Bubble-Burst: The Party That Wasn't Supposed to End
Japan's Bubble-Burst: The Party That Wasn't Supposed to End

Then, the party suddenly stopped…
I use AS inside my Automator actions along with shell scripts. It all works together!
Nah, don’t abolish them. Just require them to continue to pay the ex-employee for the duration, including bonuses and the equivalent of any commission earned if applicable. Fair is fair.
> it's a violation of "piracy spirit"

wouldn't private trackers be more aligned with the original piracy spirit? They are just a group of people who knew each other and shared stuff.

Public trackers are actually more against the spirit of piracy imho - which has turned into publicly broadcasting content without the expectation of reciprocity.
I don't know why people think this list is so crazy. When I was in grad school, I usually took 4 courses per semester. Each of them would require us to read about 100 pages per week. No one though it was an insane idea.

This discussion also reminded me of a guy on YouTube I used to watch - The Completionist. Every week he completes a single video game. Fully completing a video game can take way, way, way longer than finishing a book (especially if it's an open-world game or a game that includes a multiplayer mode), but in minds of a lot of people those two are completely incomparable.
https://www.teamblind.com/post/Got-laid-off---AWS-tsDSaLue
Also, 17,000 workers that know each other and have their own networks could start an Amazon competitor (or anything else.)
Yep! Easy to specify, hard to do!
yeah its a meat preservative. I used to buy it at the butchers, then cook it into sugar and some cotton balls to make spectacular smoke bombs
It's about the IPT mafia, isn't it?
Are Black Holes Time Machines? Yes, but There’s a Catch
> We are seeing a bit of a market downturn - but it hasn’t hit Amazon pocketbook now, has it? Are they in danger of running out of money?

That's not the logic we should expect from companies in a competitive market economy. Companies that think like that will eventually pile up so many bad decisions that they will fail -- and then everyone gets laid off!
Ok I'm going to bite. What is this simple problem that Amazon and Uber engineers can't solve?
> They force you to create accounts and hand over personal info that can get you busted later when the site gets raided

What tracker forces you to hand over personal info?

> just silently handed off to the authorities who run it themselves for a time to go after the pirates

This has literally never happened.

> It's gotten people caught many times.

MAFIAA groups don’t even bother to sue private tracker uploaders anymore, what do you mean by “caught”?

It’s like as if your comment was coming from a parallel universe where industry groups hadn’t stopped giving a shit about private trackers a decade+ ago.
That sucks. Interesting that they specifically have a reference to Firefox, so apparently they expect it to work. I would call them and say make it work or refund my month's fee.

This is unacceptable. I don't know about you, but I actually take the time to call out any service provider for incompetence. Not enough people do, and that's what leads to the continual degradation of service and acceptance of shit (such as "this site works best with...").
Also, it's worth remembering that the number of Amazon shareholders, and the number of people impacted by Amazon's stock price as a component of index funds, is vastly larger than the number of Amazon employees.
Opinion: Kevin McCarthy is getting schooled in history
TPS visa maybe.
Amazon is one of the largest online retailers, and one of the largest vendors of compute capacity to other companies. They are better positioned to see a downturn coming than almost anyone else. What makes you think they got it wrong?
You have more chances of "backdoors" in the hardware from Huawei servers ... or from HPE/Dell. Just different agencies.
> It makes me throw up every time I see corporate messages speaking of family and employees being their most important resource.

Relevant joke:

An engineer is messaging with her boss on Slack after hours. The boss is talking about how his brother is in the hospital.

The engineer asks "What are you gonna do?" and the boss responds "Well, he is family..."

The engineer says "You're gonna make him come in on weekends?!"
Not sure if you're being purposefully ignorant or not so I'm not going to engage this discussion, but for anyone reading, this should be basic dietary knowledge
I ran FreeBSD on my desktop for a while; it's fine as a daily driver. I can't speak to bluetooth, and I'm not sure I'd trust it on a laptop (given how hard it is to get suspend working properly even on Linux), but wifi and video work great (you can run the proper nvidia drivers same as Linux).
"The term "natural weight" as used here is misleading."

It just means that bodies have a set point that they'll defend. And that weight changes. If you get fat, no matter how you do it, your body will defend that weight and if you lose will take action, increase hunger, reduce metabolism, etc. making it near impossible to keep it off even if you lose it.
Also, there is history. JFK's inauguration speech was pretty much "we're going to stop* being stupid" — and he was rather permanently cancelled for having made it.

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-john-...

* or at least: maybe riding this tiger will not turn out well, so we're going to see if saying "nice kitty" enough times could allow us to dismount?
Simple is better than complex.

Frame this quote on the wall beside the monitor, things will magically (simply?) improve.
FWIW v8 does too through its "snapshot" feature. It's used by Chrome and Node.js to speed up the initialization of the standard library. It might even be faster because it includes both the bytecode and the heap.
"Personally I think leaving everything to "the market" is also a very bad idea since all the market cares about is money"

That seems to be a bit of an oversimplification. I think it is more wholesome to say that all the market cares about is value, money is just one measurement of it.

https://mises.org/library/introduction-value-theory
As someone who was genuinely interested in distributed computing back 20 years ago, the same lack of awareness of history is extremely prevalent in crypto.

That said, I feel like that's true of people in general, at least in tech (I can't speak to other fields much), and it is extremely frustrating: history is important!
Ask HN: Can you think of any positive black swans?
I read a comment on here tonight about how “no-one in 2019 would have predicted the pandemic” which is semi true, but we can hypothesise about generalised events with negative effects. Which got me to thinking about whether there are generalised positive events on the same scale. I would think that these would mainly be mathematical, scientific and technological breakthroughs but thought I would put it to the crowd to see what you all think.
They didn't have a new contract for you with the local provisions when you got raises, etc? That's how companies I've worked for have forced new things in.
I received this email as well. Here is the blog post:
https://circleci.com/blog/january-4-2023-security-alert/
Idk, not a welding expert, maybe you're trying to tell me it is a-okay? What about the heat affected zone? What welding process are you thinking?

> Any particular reason the reciprocating action of a normal scroll saw doesn't work for your application?

It works... just not well. Reciprocating is only 50% time efficient (only cutting on the down stroke!), wears out the blades by rubbing on the up stroke, and the very small length wears out quickly so they have to get changed often
Some people like to chase whatever is hot. That is life.
I think the only way you can make this argument is to have a completely value agnostic perspective and believe that any individual value curve is good. Is Meth good because people clearly value it enough to destroy their lives to get more? No. It isn't - we know individual value assessment isn't always right.

People genuinely enjoy those foods because they're closer to their bliss point than natural analogues. Increasing salt, fat and sugar content of processed foods doesn't mean they're better for consumers. They just mean they're more addictive. People consume more of them and are more likely to purchase them in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)

We have no issues identifying that restrictions on tobacco are acceptable from a public health standpoint - the same chemical reward hijacking is being done with food.
I think cases like this are super rare compared to the harmful cases, so it would still be a net gain for society

Also- most of the reasonable cases for noncompetes are already covered by trade secret/NDA stuff
Also, usually using many popular artists' work as training data for the model.
This is inspiring, if anyone came to me with a SaaS idea to sell a timeline maker with premium plan $19/month I'd tell them to think of something else. At first blush, its too much a one off need, too cheap to have margin on marketing/sales, and there are free competitors.

To build what I just described into supporting a family fulltime is amazing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS
> Also, many people who aren't "rich" own stocks.

But the sum of all people who aren't "rich" don't own very much stock (as a proportion.) And 99% of the ones that do own that stock indirectly through a fund with added management costs and management risk.
my parents' GC didn't go through until well after I turned 21.
Oh! That is neat.
Based on screenshots? Wouldn’t have thought of that.

I have many questions, about backup and disk space. I’m going to give it a try.

Thanks!
There’s a brand new Pickaxe for 3.2: https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby5/programming-ruby-3-2-5th-e...

I learned from it for 1.7 ages ago, and I’d still recommend it (especially since it’s been updated).
CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI
From my perspective as a torrent user not in "the scene", scene releases are usually trash tier and stuck in the '00s. Poorer visual quality encodes, and rules that dictate ludicrous behaviour like making the files a multi-part RAR then putting each part inside a ZIP.
https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/new-orleans-surveillance...

"NOPD will request use of software licensed by the Louisiana State Analytical and Fusion Exchange, a hub for data and tech used by law enforcement agencies. To find matches and identify possible crime suspects in investigations, the NOPD can now request that the Fusion Exchange use its facial recognition software to perform searches of its database, which includes photos from criminal mugshots and of people who have been fingerprinted or passed through security clearances such as those at airports.

...

Idemia makes the facial recognition software licensed by the state that NOPD will access, according to New Orleans city council staff. Headquartered in France, Idemia provides algorithmic systems that use biometric data representing fingerprints, irises, faces and tattoos for identification services used by law enforcement and government ID programs such as India’s immense Aadhaar program."

Also:

"During Thursday’s meeting, Marvin Arnold, a representative of New Orleans anti-surveillance tech advocacy group Eye on Surveillance, gave a presentation claiming that facial recognition is biased and racist.

...

During the meeting, (New Orleans city council member Freddie King III, who voted in support of the ordinance change,) said the contention that using facial recognition is racist was a faulty one because he, the city’s police chief and some people supporting use of the technology by law enforcement are Black."
Probably the law passed long enough ago that $46.8k was a high salary and it wasn't indexed for inflation.