skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tor and I2P allow the free flow of information, which is a net good for society. Monero allows the free flow of money which is a net negative; it effectively destroys the rule of law because those with enough money can freely commission crimes that benefit them.
>Even US regulators looked into that and found nothing - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/23/tether-bitfinex-reach-settle...
This feels extremely dishonest. They paid a fine/settlement, and are literally no longer allowed to do business in NY lol. Same as trump's businesses. I wouldn't call that finding nothing. You don't pay a 20m fine to regulators and get banned from doing business in the state, if they found nothing lol.
That would help, but a lot of people have such a distaste for checking luggage, even when free (And TBF to them, it can easily add an hour to your trip), that I don't know it would completely solve the problem.
This is me, as well. I was a Kindle user for years, always stripped the DRM. Now I use Kobo and still have those books...the ones I bought. I just changed the bookshelf, you might say.
Let's say a gate handles 2 flights an hour and operates for 18 hours a day (last flight 11pm, first flight 5am).

That's a gate capacity of 36 flights per day. Saving 2 mins per flight frees up an hour of gate time daily.

That's enough to squeeze in two more flights into that gate. If United is operating 10 gates at an airport, that's room for 20 more flights a day. Now I don't know whether gate capacity is the main bottleneck but I do know "waiting for a gate" is a common problem after landing, so it must be an issue to some degree.
Yeah, this is what made me abandon Amazon for Kobo.
This likely has to do with the fact that iPhone Pro and Pro Max were backordered into October and November within an hour of going on sale.
I level mentioned anything about images. If you have a LoL skin and the game shuts down it similarly becomes useless. Digital items becoming useless is nothing new. At least with NFTs they can at least be collectors items that you can keep if you want.
I wholeheartedly agree. I saw a great quote that summaries how I feel:

Piracy isn't stealing if purchasing isn't ownership

Whenever I buy something, I start by trying to find a DRM-free version. ebooks.com has a whole section devoted to this (https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/drm-free/) and https://libro.fm exclusively sells DRM-free.

Failing that, I mostly get things from my local library (via Libby). Conveniently, those all have weak DRM, so one could still build a personal library that way.
It's illegal to drive without a license, but your license doesn't automatically get suspended/canceled when you die - a loved one has to do the legwork to cancel it. So probably technically legal until a court case involving someone declared legally dead who's just driving around somewhere?
I wonder the same thing about Asteroids! We have https://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/Subspace_Continuum... as a multiplayer variant but I can't find anything else!
Books only require the efforts of one person for a relatively short period of time and only a shoestring budget and as a result there's an unfathomable number of books to choose from, and the technology required to manufacture books is so simple that any number of large companies deciding to opt out of paper books is not going to stop them from being made. Even if major publishers and stores stop selling physical books, these factors mean that nothing short of literally outlawing paper books could make them a thing of the past.
Ahh okay wasn't aware the encodings were different, after taking a glance at spec it seems much better than what I pessimistically envisioned.

2 NaNs, and -0 still seem like a bad call (-0 could have been the singular NaN), but I guess I understand maybe why they don't want to deviate too much from IEEE754 floats.
Why not make 80% the new 100%?
Teslas aren't special enough anymore to buy even though you and a good portion of the population can't stand the guy who comes to mind whenever you think of Tesla. Especially since the "coolness" of Tesla has always been a big part of the draw

It's like mypillow for many people, why would you buy any of that guy's products if you can't stand him?
You’re right, I worded that terribly. Not changing it though
Audio Space for Mastodon
Well I'm winning than. I've written so much useless software, and projects, and starts of projects.

It's all fun and joy until you come back to it 1 or 1.5 years later, and resources are now throttled because they're so over used because of the explosion in AI. The fun seems to go away when you come back to an old project, and things have changed.
>One thing early stage business can do to increase success is have a process where the undesirable are filtered out early.

This is why I always put typos in my spam emails, and make sure to always mention that Javascript is a good programming language at least once in all of my HN comments.
We need more of this on both sides to limit the influence of the gullible and dim-witted on our future.
Also one (or very rarely 2 with some 757s) entrance vs. 5+ exits.
This line from the article was a real off-key note:

“Unfortunately, software that strips an e-book of its DRM protections is readily available online.”

What??? UNfortunately?

And this is coming from Library Journal?
Work has told me my perfectly fine 2018 pro is too old and I need to get with the refresh program. They said I could buy the old one for $480, so apparently they think it’s still premium.

A 5 year old Dell would be in a trash heap somewhere.
Ref for that: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3822

Who's winning, Invidious or Youtube?

I'm something of a fan of PeerTube for distribution, but that's used by so few people that my tech demo graphics videos with a few hundred views are at the top of the ratings. PeerTube is an OK distribution system, but a terrible discovery system. In the unlikely event that RSS for videos got some traction, it might be useful.
I mean, you say that like it isn't a well-worn meme that people loathe the companies they work for but have no real choice to get different jobs. I know dozens of people who work for companies they believe are actively worsening the world because they literally don't have a choice. If they quit, they would die. And that's just like, the basic money problem. If you happen to be in the United States, your ability to access healthcare is also extremely tightly tied to your employment status.

Would anyone at all work food service if the alternative wasn't starvation? I don't know a single person who's worked that sort of job that would do it if they didn't need to to eat, not because it's antithetical to the human experience to serve food, but because it pays like garbage and the customers treat you like shit.
This is very interesting food for thought imo. I mean, I've mentioned that the only thing I want is for large companies not to do deals behind our back that might affect us negatively on purpose.

But let's talk about my ideal world. I think allowing developers to work on open source (or eat a second lunch if they prefer) would be a tremendously good idea, not just for all the mental freedom it would give to developers, but also because it would help propel the _entire_ industry forward. Imagine if _half of every single dev_ did OSS during that time.

What a world that would be.
There is educational, fun kid-friendly programming available from other sources. If there are specific YT channels that are a must-watch, you can do this with only the channels you know have safe content.
I'm pretty sure most (maybe a vast majority) of authors don't like DRM and don't want it. DRM is a publisher's thing, not an author's. It's the same with libraries; authors love them, publisher's hate them.
Why would any company make a website instead of requiring people to install a native app where they have more control?
The passengers aren't all filing out the one door at the front in that situation. I'd say an average jet has at least 6 emergency exists (2 in the front, 2 in the exit row, and 2 in the rear) so nobody is more than a couple of rows from an exit in that situation, plus they are moving their ass and they are not dealing with luggage.
Two hardest things, Naming and Time synchronization. Thanks for building this.
It's not about pretending. It's about a simple question and answer of whether the union has my back. As a prospective member that would be important to me?

If the point of a union is to protect me and my interest as a worker how does it do that by saying "you may be a higher performer but you're not the right <skin-color|religion|gender|sexual-orientation|etc>"?
I’m sure apple keeps logs so you can be looked up for law enforcement
National Park of American Samoa
Yes, if AI uses enough electricity/resources such that have to take 2nd job to pay down the electric bill(s).
As long as I get on the flight, doesn't matter if I'm waiting at the gate or waiting in the plane. I dont care if my carry-on gets checked under the plane, I'll keep my expensive stuff under the seat in front of me in a personal.

It really boggles my mind that people get upset about airline travel. You're paying a pittance to travel thousands of miles in a day, and you get free snacks and tv. Oh you're uncomfortable? Less comfortable than taking a car, bus or train that will take ten times as long and is much more likely to crash, and probably costs more? Cool cool cool.

Modern life is so hard.
Ask HN: Can you suggest advanced books on all type differential equations?
I had a septoplasty and turbinate reduction. The recovery was pretty brutal - there’s many nerves and pain receptors in the middle of your skull apparently. In all it’s amazing to not have a “stuffed” nose all the time.
That's a straw-man (or True Scotsman?) argument. You're putting up BTC against the most traded ETF in the world, and claiming that BTC has no liquidity because the volume is just 7% of that?

There's nowhere in the world where $3B daily volume can be called "negligible".
It can be against the ToS, but ToS aren't legally enforceable in a court of law.
Artificially limiting yourself to 40% of your battery’s capacity to extend its life seems like an enormous waste of effort

My last phone spent like 8-10 hours a day on and off a wireless charger and had 88% battery health when I sold it over two years after I bought it
Does he have a specific book that would relate to the hollowing out of the middle class?
A thing that seems incredibly rare these days, in my perceptual bubble anyway, is an online address form that lets you enter US states on the keyboard with the standard postal abbreviation.
It's a bit similar, but it sounds like that's less than 1% of the battery.

I already expect my phone to die fast when it gets under 5%.
Yes and the number should match the iOS release of the same vintage.
Assuming there is a charge for transfers, that sets a minimum bound on the expected global utility of a given transfer, the sum of which, would intuitively be correlated with the size of the economy.
Call it a repository if you want to.

Artificially imposing a limitation doesn’t seem like a great thing to do.
You said you're in Pittsburgh, right? You should be able to get hired at a day labor place if you're physically able

https://jobs.peopleready.com/jobtools/jncustomsearch.searchR...
The only thing wrong with this is that piracy means the author gets no benefit. I have pirated very few books; but I buy and strip DRM, getting the best of both worlds.
Just buy paperbacks and scan them. Way easier than changing how publishers do things.

http://www.davisr.me/projects/books/

On that note, do the same for your CDs and Blu-Rays.
An NFT could be a bond that provides 1 USDC to owner every day for the next year.

A certificate saying that you own the moon can not be a bond. NFTs are much more versatile.
TBH I just switch to the lock screen if I need that
It depends on use case. Physical valuables are less traceable because there's no global ledger for transactions, but they're more "traceable" if your threat model includes law enforcement raiding your house and office, while crypto is basically a bunch of numbers in your head.
Do you think that this is the most objectionable use of this new power that the state will think of?

Supreme Court cases are not about the case. They're about the implications of precedent.
It think this should still work for Kobo ebook?
I just created an account on Kobo. Is there a search filter for only showing DRM free selections? All the books I saw were ePub Adobe DRM.
I posted this comment as a question on the last thread about Invidious and YouTube blocking ads but didn't get a response. I'd like to try it but for now when I get the blocker I open the same video in an incognito window. For which I have a different extension that I can just click on and it opens right away.

> I just installed, then uninstalled, the Chrome (Brave) extension that is supposed to redirect videos to some invidious instance.
> I use Brave and am now seeing the "sorry you can't watch YouTube" anymore sign because Brave blocks ads.
> I thought installing the extension from the website would just redirect whatever video I clicked on to the mirrored video on an Invidious instance, is that not the case?

Is my understanding wrong? I already uninstalled it but would give it another go if it "just works".

I don't really want to care about this or that "instance". The promise of the extension (from what I can tell) is to just automatically do it?
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

I read it in 1970. It sparked my interest in technology; an interest that is very much alive and kicking all these years later.
All good. Easy misread to make.
What are the limitations of OPFS not being a real file system?

100% agree that the file system API ergonomics make it unusable as the storage layer for a local-first application. OPFS seems promising though, which is why I ask the above.
The [Ego] chainsaw is quite capable, but it's a relatively small saw (16" blade). Perfect for most backyard type applications, and it handily cut through a 5" pressure treated fencepost that I was replacing and had to cut to length.

The real issue with bigger trees would be the blade length, not the battery (well, unless you're taking an entire tree down in which case you'd need extra batteries).

Also, like any chainsaw, keeping the blade sharp is also key.

No, I haven't had to take any trees down, this is mostly for trimming and chopping up fallen branches etc.
I don't think you should be linking to that stuff here.

Besides, I'm pretty sure it's this one:

http://library.lol/main/DF685E8ED6CBF00858A861342AAF6DED
This is just an optional feature, nobody is forcing you to turn it on, or to care about it. Personally I rarely need a 100% charge: my iPhone 13 easily gets through a typical day with 40% remaining. But I do get annoyed when a phone is 2 or 3 years old and the battery is already worn out. Genuine iPhone batteries are expensive, and limiting charging to 80% will significantly extend their life.

Worn out batteries don't just have limited capacity, they charge slower and create more heat while charging due to internal resistance. I'd much rather charge to 80% for my typical day, but have the option to 100% charge on those rare occasions when I know I might need it (long day travelling, etc).
Good pun +1 for that.

I recommend nginx or Apache for the learning exercise. Then go with whatever best suits your use case. My rule is choose that which fits the objective and which doesn't overburden with cognitive load. So I don't use Apache for anything and sometimes just use python's built in. suitability for purpose and usability is what counts for me.
That’s the whole point of boarding earlier, securing carry on space.
Macs, and Apple products in general, hold their value very well.

I always factor resale value in. And when I do, Apple products really aren’t more expensive.
Netflix adds 9M new subscribers as it cracks down on password-sharing
Plus layer 2 switches when they don't know the destination port will flood. With so many hosts that would be absolutely horrific.

I've seen computers at moderately sized LAN parties (talking 100 nodes, far from the large or even massive events) that were literally crippled by the broadcast traffic. At some point the flooding and layer 2 discovery (ARP) would do the same as well.

Limiting the broadcast domains with layer 3 really makes the Internet possible. Sure, you can have less overhead and simply do layer 2 only, and really it is completely possible. It's just such a rare use case that it in practice isn't important enough to actually do.
Came here to say: me, too.

When I see something like Kindle or Audible, the first thing I do is check to see if I can strip off the DRM. If I'm buying it, I have the right to use it anyway I see fit (short of copying and redistributing...obviously).

I still check the DRM-free places first, because they deserve the sale, even if the price is higher. If I can't, I'll buy it and strip the DRM off (super simple, with the right software). If that won't work, I'll check the darknet. If there's a decent copy there, then I'll buy the useless DRM work (so the author gets paid), and use the darknet copy for my library.

Technically, this probably breaks several US laws. But I don't think any lawyer wants to try a case where I paid for the books/audiobooks, then removed their DRM. Kinda hard to show damages, or bad intent.
My career consisted of two separate paths. I had 'day jobs', and the Hughes job was my fourth technical job, and orders of magnitude better than any of the previous ones. Separately, I've also maintained a consulting gig, which did involve explorations/leaps of faith/backing myself. The hardest part of it all was trying to find balance between work and family. I always felt like I was failing them both.
Well the mathematicians care for those pathological cases. Probably the most important of said pathological cases is Brownian motion / Weiner processes / SDEs. Brownian motion is differential with zero probability, yet it has many modeling applications. It is also fractal-like (the self-similarity property).

The more practical advantage measure theory provides for probability is you can simultaneously handle continuous and discrete distributions. Most of the time what works for one works for the other but you can get some weird mistakes (Shannon’s differential entropy has a few issues as a measure of information not found in the discrete case because he got lazy and just replaced the sum with an integral).

A good chunk of the time I come across measure theoretic probability papers I feel like they’re making the paper a lot more complicated and messier than it needs to be, but it does serve a purpose.
Now that episode I loved, but the parts I liked would have worked just fine in a TOS-style episode where the same 4 characters are captured by <some random species we've never heard of>.
I guess a few people got the board to do something useful, but the vast majority of Parallella boards are sitting in a box in the bottom of a closet somewhere.
OP, it's good form to include (2013) on articles from from the current year. You have about 30 minutes to edit the title after you submit it.
I think another huge killer of lithium batteries is charging them when below freezing. I bet most phones probably wouldn’t allow it though - or at least would limit it.
Japanese government bought IOC for Olympic to be held in Tokyo. This kind of thing should never happen again.
But how much of that is because boarding is a complete mess, and the last thing you want is to get to the back of the plane where your seat is and that's all full already because for some reason all the people with status are also in the back. Then you have to wade "upstream" to put your bag somewhere.

If the plane was more reliably boarded in some sort of order, I'd be more relaxed about it.
Kobo books use a completely different DRM, Adobe Digital Editions. It is apparently easier to strip DRM from these books than from Amazon.
I still don’t see how blockchain is a part of this. You can have an API and a log anyway, if you want one.
Huh? I didn't ask for advice. You went off on the wrong person.
The Inner-Platform Effect
I'm pissed that stock Android doesn't have this unless you charge for 4 continuous days
Any more info on that?
According to recent queuing theory research using a supercomputer, scientists have discovered that the ideal loading strategy is to get loaded at the airport bar.
Full federation would be nice, but just using alternative, smaller platforms makes a huge difference in reducing YouTube's stranglehold. About half the people I follow are on Nebula, which is a surprisingly solid platform that provides a lot of good redundancy for educational YouTubers.

As an added bonus, creators remove sponsorships from Nebula videos, so unlike YouTube Premium it really is completely ad free.
These days in the fall I use the blower to spread the leaves across the lawn, then I mulch the leaves with the grass using the mower with no bag on "mulch mode". Gets rid of the leaves and also fertilizes the lawn.
There is an HD mod for The Ur-Quan Masters - UQM-MegaMod. It is beautiful and really improves the experience with redrawn graphics and crisp fonts.
Why? Aren't they doing well?
Because there is a trade off here between ease-of-use day-to-day and long term longevity.
> Failing that, I mostly get things from my local library (via Libby). Conveniently, those all have weak DRM, so one could still build a personal library that way.

Doesn't this motivate publishers to only let books be shared from public libraries using strong DRM?
It's also possible to make a browser game that uses the open protocols of the web, but target a certain user and instead of the game send them the floppy penis version of the game. In practice this doesn't happen. Game creators simply make games on top of these open platforms without the need to bully people.

>NFTs "in games" is just laughable

Microtransactions and in game economies already exist. Moving that economy to a blockchain is not laughable. If a developer doesn't want to spend development time working on features for the in game economy they can use the cryptocurrency ecosystem to accelerate their project.

>because no game studio will ever care to build anything like that for any reason other than just to sell crypto coins on a marketplace for quick cash.

If you think microtransactions are not a way for game studios to get quick cash you are misleading yourself.
Homoiconicity at the molecular level. LISP in a jar. Go Forth and multiply.
If you don't care about practicality, take all the even rows of seats, board the left window seats first, then the middle, then the aisles, then the right window, middle, and aisle, then the same thing again with the odd rows of seats. (Steffen Modified) If you're really dead set on perfection, force every one of those groups of people to board back-to-front, effectively creating a separate boarding group for each seat. (Steffen Perfect)

If you live on Planet Earth, don't assign seats and don't have boarding groups. Let people sit whenever and wherever they want. (Random) It turns out most people will naturally do the things that make boarding quick anyway and literally all organized boarding is a conspiracy to make boarding take longer so airlines can sell you faster boarding.
It's common once the bins start filling up. You don't want to get to your seat to find no overhead space, having to go further down the aisle and then awkwardly shuffle back. Then when you land you now have to wait until everyone gets off to go to the back to get your stuff.
Wow, that's some incredible imaging. iFixit should get one of those CT scanners for disassembly-free teardown.
For me, time is linear, too, but there are no cycles. I visualize it as an infinite number line [0].

That's how I also visualize numbers as well - always as notches on a number line. Whenever someone mentions a number, I immediately picture it there. It helps with comparisons and subtractions because I can immediately see the distance between values.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_line