skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not even private anymore. Anyone can easily find tools on GitHub or other sites[0] that can download widevine'd content. It's easy to find L3 keys on GitHub too. There are public sites[1] that get the decryption keys but using their own keys on the backend if you cant find keys or don't know how to dump the keys. There is an all-in-one tool[2] that lets anyone with 0 knowledge of DRM to dump content from practically any site that uses widevine, costs a leg but it's meant for people who don't want to waste time finding tools and learning how to do it manually.

[0]: https://cdm-project.com/CDM-Tools/

[1]: https://cdrm-project.com/ & http://getwvkeys.cc/

[2]: https://streamfab.com/
Quite a few comments pro and con for Debian Sid. My two cents worth: Sid aka Unstable for a reason. Some have said they have had unstable systems.

The resolution to to this is that one should subscribe to IRC or some of the Debian mailing lists. There the developers publish the fact that major changes are hitting Unstable.

If one stays away from Sid during those times, and perform an update once things have settled, a 'more stable' Unstable is realized.

I don't use Unstable, but I do run Testing (currently AKA BookWorm), and I act in a similar manner. There are breaking changes sometimes. I perform no updates at those times. In addition, I have to check packages.debian.org sometimes as specific packages might be broken, and it will indicate what/when change may occur.
Here's ChatGPT's summary with the query "Please summarize this article in 3-4 paragraphs: <pasted article>"

========

A group of residents in North Cove, Washington State, has developed a solution to the erosion of their coastline using piles of loose cobble. After dropping a load of rocks from the end of a road in 2016 to see what would happen, local farmer and drainage commissioner David Cottrell expanded the project to create a two-kilometer-long berm of rocks and stumps that shifts with the waves and collects sand, rebuilding the beach. The community's solution looks less like conventional structures such as sea walls and more like the dunes and berms that centuries of storms and tides build on their own, resembling the techniques many Indigenous communities use to cultivate shellfish.

As climate change progresses, coastal communities worldwide are searching for solutions to combat rising sea levels. Hard barriers like sea walls and riprap often cause further erosion and are expensive to build. By contrast, building beaches back could be enough to prevent some of the catastrophic land loss that many states in the US are forecasting due to climate change, according to coastal resilience experts.

North Cove's solution is influencing projects nearby and in California, Europe, and Guam, and is transforming the tools that agencies and communities can apply elsewhere. Engineers have long depended on rigid sea walls, and North Cove's berm is showing the benefits of a softer approach. The project has been successful in rebuilding the beach, and some species, including clam beds and shorebirds, have returned to the area.
> you would expect that the clients of SVB are a little more sophisticated than your retail bank demographic being start-up companies and all

Sometimes you can be too smart for your own good: in this case the CEO might have assumed that everyone knows that all banks inherently carry a risk in case of a bank run, but all the market hears is the word “risk” and panics correspondingly.
Yeah so it's not 34% of the discussion market, it's 34% of the top one million sites that use a discussion platform. The distinction is important, because the top one million sites are likely to be run by corporations as product Q&A platforms, which is very different from what you want from a Google Groups clone.
I happen to spend a lot of time in desert areas that have seen a lot of solar development in recent years and the places I am familiar with are anything but desolate; generally they are teeming with native flora and fauna. Unfortunately solar development has been harmful to these regions.

That said, developing solar has significant benefits to other regions. Mining and burning more coal or other legacy power source does even greater damage to different areas so I get it, solar isn't something we should block reflexively. But there are still costs and tradeoffs to consider, and plenty of room to improve as we transition off of fossil fuels.
She has almost 9000 patrons, and is an already successful Youtuber / e-celebrity. I'm sorry for what's happened to her, but I sincerely think charity is better directed elsewhere (for example, a local org that helps disadvantaged families receive healthcare/resources).
"Not rich by the standards of rich people" is a moving target as your social class improves and you rub elbows with the more wealth as you make more money. There are people making $500k a year in the Bay Area or NYC who don't think they are rich. But the simplest dividing line I can think of is "has fuck you money". That is, could you (financially, not socially or being bored) retire tomorrow if you felt like it.
You can always use zod or io-TS.
> Don’t know how land ambulances in particular managed to avoid being covered by the act

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/upshot/ground-ambulances-...
Yes, this is why I stopped leaving comments and reviews. I really can’t have YouTube comments showing up when people Google my name.
I think you'd probably be surprised how many (especially young and older) people are just fine with using a phone for basically everything.

>I cant imagine people using a phone when you are at home and have access to an actual computer.

Even I do this and I have a spare laptop open on the dining room table downstairs basically all the time. But if I'm sitting on the couch and just want to look up something quickly, I'll absolutely use my phone. (Or my tablet but that's the thing I actually don't use much at home.)

ADDED: Which is more important? That seems like fodder for a good faux-debate. They've both been important but for different reasons.
If google moves their entire app development workflow for Android to Kotlin, its pretty much a 1:1 replacement.
Here’s a website for a pizzeria in Seattle with some of the same early internet aesthetic:
https://www.dinostomatopie.com/
The key point here is that its not a permanent construct, its using natural mechanisms to slow down wave energy and encourage regrowth of the dunes and littoral zone.

In Australia we've had a lot of permanent fix approaches which were massively counter-productive. If you want to stop sand being mobile then be prepared to lose it entirely. Really? about 200m-500m back from the waters edge is probably the limit of where routine construction should take place. it doesn't make for million dollar views but its safer for that property owner, the commons (assuming you live in an economy where the intertidal zone is public access) and the dunes.

The Gold Coast is a huge sweep of beach which depends on sand from the river Tweed, which was walled off to make a clear run for boats, and now they have to pump sand to replenish. Noosa depends on sand pumping. Rocks might help, they might even make some fantastic surf breaks but they wind up altering the nature of the beach. If you want a beach like surfers paradise or main beach or noosa, you really don't want rocks.

The berm he's made suits his local hydrology. It won't be exactly the same everywhere.

I kind-of hate being the typical HN naysayer. I'm not a tidal engineer or an ecologist or civil engineer. This is stuff which is discussed quite a lot in Australia, since we cling to the coast and an image of ourselves as "in love with the sea" it becomes increasingly necessary to look at how to hold on to what we've got. The run of sand up the eastern seaboard of Australia is amazing. (its like barchan dunes, permanently on the move, in our case south-to-north)

I've visited some of the beachfronts of Washington state and Oregon and they're glorious. Huge trees litter the tide line, amazing to see. We've nothing like that in Australia really, our rivers aren't full of giant redwood logs like that. We have different problems with disappearing Kelp forests, as does the Californian coastline, Oregon might have some of the problems Washington State does.
Just out of curiosity, are you British?
Yes, that's one way to do it. It's the way that hasn't worked for years.

The other way is fire up a VPN (I suggest Mullvad), setup port fowarding in Mullvad once time, start QBittorent, search in QBittorent, done.

Yeah, not "easy"... But there are guides.
This is pretty much every human in every industry that's been replaced by machines in pretty much forever.

And if there are some exceptions, we'll it will probably be plumbers.
What’s wrong with a country exporting their solar resources? An arid resource less desert can become an economic boon.
Morroco is the one pushing for it, in this case. It's not like the nation state in question is being forced into it. They see it as a major opportunity to export energy, a famously lucrative enterprise for countries.
My surface-level understanding was the federal government started guaranteeing/ensuring customer deposits in order to prevent bank runs from starting. Why is that not happening here? And if it is why wasn't it enough to prevent a bank run?
But why? Because everyone else is doing it? Is this a power play by another bank? Is there an actual structural problem at SVB?
I’ve been using  Shortcuts to do this for a while now. Here’s my “Share Clean URL” shortcut:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b1bcc002fe894f11858721c0b14...
They called it a dummy in the manual. Seems like an odd way to hide it since there’s no regulatory requirement to come clean.

Seems clearly just an aesthetic move to keep symmetry and avoid retooling the large cover.

Also they can they easily move the cameras (center the remaining two) without partially retraining their machine learning?
I found G+ quite compelling. It was pleasant to use and I'm sure could of grown into a platform of its own. A place for features that made sense in their time and place and some kind of integration in some products. It seems YouTube is gaining some social features, for instance posts to followers and live chat. I think these would of been interesting areas to utilize g+.
But then again I'm outside looking in, I can't speak to the costs they might of incurred letting things unfold at a more measured pace.
> before:2020-01-01

However, all available versions of that product had their quality gutted in 202X.
As long as it's differentiable, and the derivative isn't too crazy to calculate it's fine. In this case Sigmoid Colon is a third degree polynomial. Computationally it should be fine, but the cube term probably means that you will have numerical stability issues if your data is not very normalized.
I think the biggest benefit I've found is TypeScript's inference is extremely smart and in fact it's considered a best practice to basically write as little TypeScript as possible and rely as much as possible on TS's inference

In general, if a "best practice" of a language is to write less code that tends to translate to great productivity
Remember folks, copy/paste jwz links if you see it on HN.
I didn't dispute that, i just said the value of it is not the only consideration, you still need to test it out before deciding, regardless of who pushed for it.
> May i ask, what specs you are running?

Ryzen 5 5600H and Nvidia RTX 3050
From those examples, I think you’re maybe also running up against people generally having a low threshold for giving a stranger on the internet the benefit of the doubt.

It’s hard to be surprised that “eugenics, but the good kind, just hear me out!” and “state’s rights, but not the disingenuous lost cause kind, just hear me out!” are a tough sell with complete strangers who have no prior reason to trust you or be interested in your opinions.
There is only one line I question

>I think the same goes for LLMs. They will achieve a form of intelligence that is uniquely their own and will adapt to accommodate us. Not the other way around.

And I say this somewhat jokingly, this is only true if they maintain subhumanlike intelligence. If actual intelligence far in excess of the human mind is possible, I am afraid it is us that will be adapting to our new living conditions.
Thanks! I don't think I'm rolling enough to drop $320 on a keyboard, but when I am, this will probably be the one.
FDIC insurance can also take time to recover your money. If you need cash tomorrow, you also may need to participate in the bank run.
Why are you asking me that as if I made that claim?
Mostly for learning new subjects and editing text.
That’s for personal deposits and limited to I think) $250k.

Lots of startups hold a lot more money there and aren’t protected.
> the entire user-contributed-internet is about to be completely flooded with amicable and true-sounding nonsense with a peppering of whatever viewpoint the bot-runner wants to push.

Feels like that's already happened before ChatGPT.
Haidt and Lukianoff were saying this six years ago when I was in undergrad. I didn't like the way he framed it then, and I'm not a fan of it now, either.

Most of what Haidt has been decrying all these years does have a basis, though. Leftists (myself included) tend to point out that leftist discourse is a circular firing squad. People get stomped on all the time based on objectively flimsy logic so that other people can accrue social capital. See for example the cases of Isabel Fall and Lindsay Ellis. This happens in real life --- and sometimes it makes the news and gets cited in whatever book Haidt is writing next --- but far less often than it does on the internet. The words "extremely online" are usually pejorative for a reason.

I am, however, entirely unconvinced by the general message of "white liberal professor, almost 60, thinks 20-somethings would be okay if they just did CBT harder." This isn't to decry CBT or to draw a dichotomy between him and me; I just think if two presidential candidates and twenty-odd states were trying to restrict his medical care for seemingly no reason other than realpolitik and his job paid him barely enough to make rent he'd be singing a different tune.
The article said Musk owns Tesla, which is false.
Externalities are hard to move fast on because you just can't get the populace excited by charging more for something, over time or suddenly. E.g. cheap fuel - good luck getting that past anyone without being thrown out of office.

The government just needs to line up the incentives with what's good for the country on many axes. Just some examples that seem fairly rational:

- 50 points for reducing carbon
- 10 points for leveraging local resources
- 10 points for technical innovation
- 10 points for jobs growth
- 10 points for defence benefits
- 10 points for foreign sales benefits

Iterate to refocus on what produces the most points, or update points and categories if you have better suggestions.

(Edit: in the spirit of actually looking for a rational outcome, it's possible you could reduce support for externalities over time, e.g. X% per year. But EU is usually better at that than US for some reason.)
Show HN: Depoch – Unix Epoch for Dates
Done with storing DateTime for dates. And I couldn't find anything decent where I can work just with dates. So here it is. Please try it out.
The IP address is revealed, yes. But there's no other data: no JavaScript, no referer headers, no cookies, URL tracking tags are removed before and after, etc.

I don't have any backend. The extension code is all local on your device and doesn't phone home to me. I don't aim to provide VPN service.
Engineers would have made services smarter by themselves, if PMs wouldn't give them new ,,features'' to implement all the time.

Top level goals make sense for focusing, but for generally just improving products significantly, getting rid of blockers is what's important.
Pros:

SVB received all the capital it needed to cover the losses on its bond portfolio liquidations.

Cons:

The announcement of bond sale losses made everyone realize ever bank has a bunch of bonds at a loss if they don't hold to maturity, and SVB is going to need to sell any more of its bonds at a greater loss as more customers pull money out.

Pros:

The losses, percentage wise, aren't that great, so far. As long as perhaps greater than 90% of deposits don't leave then everyone can get paid out and its really business as usual.

Cons:

Large institutional investors are the biggest account holders and they're absolutely pulling out, alongside all of their portfolio companies.

Pros:

Other banks that are more liquid could step in and shore up the capital.

Cons:

- The fed [likely] won't be one of those banks (even if it just meant buying the bonds closer to par value) because that would mean a reversal of policy.

- This didn't help Silvergate bank and the new equity investors are at major losses too now, wiped out.
Review: 'The China Hustle' Is the Most Important Film of 2018
OpenAI is doing an amazing job fueling hype and intrigue. It is hard to separate what is real and what is imagined.

Previously, I heard that Bing Chat was based on GPT4. Is this true or not? Is it publicly known, or not? Certainly the model is far more powerful than what is in ChatGPT.

If Bing is GPT4, did they remove its multimodal capabilities?

If Bing is not GPT4, what is it? Does there exist a GPT3.5-mega with vastly improved reasoning capabilities and larger context windows?

I find the current moment in tech quite confusing.
Tbh, yes - a bank run by definition occurs if "everyone else is doing it", and in this case it sure seems like we're moving in that direction. And it's beneficial to be the first out, with no real benefit to waiting and seeing.
"Hey, Some wierd stuff is going on at SVB. I'm short the stock. I suggest you get your money out."

No tin foil hat required.
Presently on gb14-wireguard but IP 185.195.232.163.

I have been getting A LOT of CAPTCHAs recently though.
Doesn’t seem like you can get a banking license for that. Look up “narrow banking.”
Especially in contemporary times banks make money in an immense amount of ways that don't involve touching customer funds: debit transaction fees, international exchange rate "adjustments", ATM fees, the million 'special processing fee' type fees, and so on. In other countries I've even had to pay a fee when depositing, which was quite odd.

Of course this all is going to pale in comparison to the amount that banks make by d̶u̶m̶p̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶s̶u̶m̶e̶r̶ ̶f̶u̶n̶d̶s̶,̶ ̶h̶e̶a̶v̶i̶l̶y̶ ̶l̶e̶v̶e̶r̶a̶g̶e̶d̶,̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶o̶ ̶h̶i̶g̶h̶ ̶r̶i̶s̶k̶ ̶a̶s̶s̶e̶t̶s̶
responsibly investing deposits. But of course banks under '100% deposits maintained' type systems could then engage in more typical behavior with their own funds above and beyond what's made from deposits. Under such a regime no bank would ever be "too big to fail", customer deposits would be 100% guaranteed at all times, and more. In exchange you'd see substantially slower overall economic growth and monetary multiplication, but I'm increasingly convinced that would not have been a bad thing.
I feel like this is unlikely. Startups didn't spring into existence in 2005. Every business was a startup at one point. Even venture capital isn't new. I'd wager every suit and tie wall st old guard firm knows how to handle startups just fine. SVB just had the right branding for young entrepreneurs who assumed JP Morgan wouldn't talk to them.
> How on earth do they expect to become better at their jobs this way? Have they no shame or sense of pride? It's pathetic.

To some people a job is just a way to make money to fund their hobbies or feed their mouths. Sometimes they do not care about their boss or company, at all.
I'm building projects to learn new stacks and architectures.

Currently working on Writedown: https://writedown.app - https://github.com/NayamAmarshe/writedown

I wanted to create a note writing app that supports markdown and has sharing capabilities. I usually use a Telegram private channel for saving stuff and writing notes, but Telegram doesn't really support Markdown so I thought it would be a good idea to create something like that.

Writedown is currently a WIP and I'm building in public (doing nothing special, just the repo is public haha)
The rule I tend to follow is "annotate as little as possible". This has worked out great for me so far since TypeScript's inference gets it right 90% of the time and it leads to more maintainable code.

Also after coding 5 days a week for a full year with it I really can't relate to the idea that it is somehow unpredictable. I think, like most things, you eventually get a "feel" for it and don't even have to think about it.

That's what I love most about it. It feels like it takes up no extra mental real estate for me. It's excellent at never "getting in the way" (when used properly)
It's great how the copy sustains the mood of nonsensical good cheer: "Life is rich and sweet and good and healthy like a warm, soothing, scented essential oils
massage in a steamy hot~springs bath~house ~* Aspen, Alice, Alpine"
You win but you may get stuck paying the borrow costs still for a while until either the stock is tradable or whatever happens with the resolution of the bankruptcy settles out (the residual shares potentially have _some_ value). In practice, before that, your broker or whomever you borrowed the shares from will probably just declare it a loss and close it out. They'll then get a little something from the bankruptcy, maybe.

That's assuming a traditional short, and not something like selling naked calls. In the latter case they just expire worthless.
> I don't think you should. It takes time, and effort. There is a hump. I have dedicated a large amount of the last ten years trying to help fix that problem. It is very real.

As a somewhat grumpy Rust learner, I appreciate you being clear about this.
Not quite what you describe, but in the ballpark, is "failing up": people (primarily men) who fail at activity after activity with such confidence that everyone believes he has great talent and can't wait to give him the opportunity to try again.
"Make yourself useful
unto the World and
Human Kind will give
you Bread" - Emerson

https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/famousquotes1.html
HTM accounting isn't the problem, it's one tool among many and has its uses. SVB's mistake was buying long term paper just as the country was heading into a rising rate environment. This has already put them in a hole they probably can never dig themselves out of (selling stock is clearly not gonna work). I think the only non-disastrous path forward here is an acquisition by another bank big enough to just absorb that paper into its balance sheet. If SVB is smart they'll try to get this done while there's still some value left to sell--if they wait too long it'll turn into another WaMu.
it would be wonderful if interpreter/compilers could just make this an option.
Definitely a bias, chatGPT will likely believe that only individuals with figures similar to models are real.
> All browsers deal in advertising, it's the only way to make money on a free product.

That's a pretty confidently wrong statement.

You're aware of Wikipedia, right? More directly relevant: Konqueror?

And as is typical of HN, you seem to be unaware that people might be motivated by things other than money. Browsers are a large enough undertaking that you need some money to make one sustainably, but when money isn't your primary motivation it turns out you can do quite a bit with less.

> There's a lot more privacy features built into Brave than there are in other browsers. It's user oriented, not adtech oriented.

Brave is literally adtech. They sell ads.
I suppose you could have tag curation limited to a vanguard of individuals who hold each other accountable and add new members slowly, maybe an invite system.