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I'm not convinced that even telling people how to dump their own keys is legal.

DMCA 1201 comes in two parts: a law that prohibits breaking DRM, and a law that prohibits telling people how to break DRM. If someone just had a Switch and somehow managed to figure out how to get the keys and games out of it, then ran them on an emulator, it'd probably be legal[0]. This is because the part of 1201 that makes it illegal to break DRM has shittons of escape valves that are designed to ensure that previously legal behavior doesn't suddenly become illegal just because you put a digital lock on it.

However, the part that prohibits trafficking in circumvention devices lacks any of these escape valves. I believe this to be by design. Congress wasn't willing to, say, reverse the Sony Betamax decision[1] and criminalize home video recording, but they were willing to allow Hollywood to slowly shut it down. A escape valve for circumvention would render the whole law ineffective: so long as someone has a legal right to break the DRM, you can sell it to anyone, not just people who can demonstrate they need it.

The legal standard for what constitutes a circumvention device is very broad. Specifically, something is a circumvention device if either:

- It's only function is to break DRM, or

- It's only commercially significant function is to break DRM (read: courts, ignore Betamax), or

- It's advertised to break DRM

That last one is the tricky bit. Let's say I took an ordinary HDMI-to-composite video adapter and put a sticker on it that said "Copy Netflix Originals Quick And Easy"[2]. Streaming boxes and Blu-Ray players support unencrypted output at legacy resolutions, so the video adapter breaks no DRM, it's just a DAC. But because I've advertised it as a way to strip DRM, I've broken the law by selling it.

So let's go back to our key dumping tool. Even if it's literally just a shell script for whatever the Switch equivalent of GodMode9 is, because it's being advertised as a way to copy games, it's just as illegal as putting the production Switch keys directly into Yuzu's source code. As an emulator developer, the only way to avoid liability under DMCA 1201 is to provide zero assistance to people who want to rip their games.

[0] This isn't court-tested, and probably never will, but prior attempts to argue against format-shifting in US courts haven't fared well.

[1] SCOTUS would do that later on with MGM v. Grokster. Remember: the reason why Sony was in hot water was specifically because they advertised Betamax as being good for pirating movies, not just that you could do so.

[2] In the world where Congress did include safety valves for 1201(a)(2), this sticker would probably say "Make Fair Use Commentaries On Netflix Originals Quick And Easy".
Or like, affordable renewables and reforestation. Also we need to cool the oceans ASAP so they can recover their carbon sequestration capacity. Maybe we could use the negative spot price of renewables to cool the coastal waters as a form of geo engineering.
A few general observations: While there are still opportunities, perhaps fewer in developed and more in developing countries, the QUALITY of opportunities were different back in the days. The SOFTWARE field was still relatively wide open. The barrier-to-entry was being nerdy smart, but otherwise the costs (basic computers, telephone line access, some education) were low, at least in parts of the USA. Simultaneously the potential return was high. Because the information age was just beginning, and the world was hungry for software. People who were smart with software at that right time could literally shape the coming world. Think Microsoft and Google. In comparison, while the hardware side (chipsets, telecom equipment, etc) has grown, it hasn't "exploded", maybe except CPU or GPU, which are hugely capital intensive. You cannot train AI in your garage yet in a way that differentiates your "product" from that of the big players. The demand for pure software is no longer that high. On the hardware side, barriers to "physical" innovations, such as semiconductors, medicine, etc are still high now as ever. The "low" hanging "soft" fruits have been picked. This now feels more like the big mainframe computer era. So while there are still opportunities, they aren't comparable to the past. When science and technology fundamentally changed in the past, from manual labor to machinery to electronics etc, they opened up new fields for human innovation and endeavors. Groundbreaking disruptions are much rarer now, and the only one, AI, opens up a new field more for computers than for people.
I mean sentence 3 says who the guy is. You're not supposed to recognize his name.

And BI is recycled garbage but NYT breaks stories left and right. The cycle is such that anyone who breaks a story will get their story rehashed by everyone else including clickbait artists. But realistically the old guard of NYT, AP, NPR, WaPo and the like are actually uncovering the big stories and doing the legwork of just listening to all the players. Them plus the galaxy of niche players and scrappy independent journos who score occasional scoops.
Russian cyberespionage group APT29 targeting cloud vulnerabilities
:)

When did you last see a kerosene-powered fridge? It's about 40 years since I last saw one. Hence my 'obsolete technology' label.

Reverse-cycle (heating) heat-pumps rely on fans to extract the heat away from the machine and send warm air into the room. If you have electricity for the fans, you might as well use that electricity to power the heat-pump too.
Yeah I think a lot of people forget that students talk on the radio on their first flight. Controllers in real life are used to people talking too casually and not knowing the right phrases. You can also say "student pilot" after saying your first line if you want them to speak slower
I don’t necessarily know if the famous graph is accurate - I don’t think the divergence in beliefs is so extreme as that graph indicates, but it is undeniably true that on a worldwide scale there is a growing rift between men and women. Articles like the following are frequently written about the gender gap in South Korea: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna59747

And obviously there are the redpill and other gender-centric movements in the US.

Here is my fundamental question: why is society suddenly producing so many people that have ill will to the opposite gender? There have always been discussions about the differences between genders - the famous “men are from mars, women are from Venus” was published 30+ years ago - but what is making todays discussions so vile and toxic?
And who do we have to blame for that? Other big corporations who optimize shareholder value over people's well being.
US Bans Trading with Canadian Network Intelligence Firm Sandvine
Ah, in Spanish I think I knew that as "la prueba del 9" (9's try/9's proof). It was a CRC-like operation. I repeat, I think. I knew that mostly from my grandma, and I almost never used it.
How dare you question the impact on carbon footprint? Are you some kind of fossil fuel drinking cowboy?
Is it really "slashing" if it's 5%? That is, half of these folks could be hiring/HR people who were brought on in the last couple years as many tech companies went on hiring sprees. And the other half could be quiet-quitters who might have been laid off even in normal times.

Does anyone know more about what types of employees were affected?
conventional fixed nuclear is even less dispatchable than coal; you need totally different plant designs to make it dispatchable. those designs do exist (all naval reactors are highly dispatchable) but they diverged from commercial nuclear power over half a century ago
We don't do that for Georgetown, despite being in Washington DC and what George it's named after being somewhat unclear.
No business survives by offering the bare minimum service for the lowest price. The $5/yr you might spend on stories is not worth them making their subscriptions be less valuable. Absent sustained recurring revenue and a trusted relationship with readers, they'd basically be doing click bait all over again.
you may be interested to know that the price of solar panels has dropped by half in the last year and a factor of 24 over the last 15; see my summary at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39544358
>And as an European I much hope for cleaner air, less smog, less gas heaters, etc.

And everyone will be poorer. It's already happening in Europe. Coming from the tech world you probably don't notice because you are relatively wealthy. But your neighbors might.

And we have much bigger moral issues than energy...
How could he stash billions when the bankruptcy estate tracked everything? That would be like the FBI overlooking Silk Road coins. There would be an obvious hole in the account records were he stashed it. Everything is traced via blockchain.
It is a combination of the two words, but the meaning is the other way around - they're throwing in their anecdote with everyone else's to build data.
Because the 18 year old who really misses his girlfriend needs to have his phone on him? The operator's wife back at Bragg (excuse me, Fort Liberty now) wants to know that he's safe, to use the example from the original article about watching phones go from North Carolina to Syria and back.

The article I linked to in WP talked about how difficult the Ukrainian army is finding cellphone discipline, at the beginning of their third year of high intensity war (and a decade of low-intensity combat operations). Because even in a real shooting war zone this sort of stuff is hard to police.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube_online_functionality
>- As a long time user of Nim (including on really lean embedded targets), compared to hygienic macros, comptime falls way short.

In what way? Comptime should be generally capable of anything macros are.

>- The lack of first class interfaces/traits/typeclasses is not my favorite. The currently suggested alternatives are so un-ergonomic I'd almost call them hostile.

Terribly difficult to implement without breaking a major language tenant of “no hidden control flow”.

But I found that once I left behind OO style of thinking, I haven’t missed this all that much. For the rare time I do generalize like this, you can literally just check at comptime that the passed in type provides the necessary decls. It’s not terribly complex or hostile (although tooling could use some work around it)
wait, how is Dom the domino fish surviving with that mantis shrimp? Or is Dom just food for the mantis shrimp?
Very little of that even starts to justify expecting monopolies to form in the healthcare industry. None of it is persuasive.

> Surgery requires a sterilised filtered room, anaesthesia equipment, monitoring of all kinds, and in many cases specialised tools.

But none of that, you'll notice, is a large capital expense. Those are what we would call "small, routine capital expenses". And sterilising the room isn't even a capital expense at all, it is an operating expense. That matters for monopolies, it isn't an up-front cost (except for literally the first patient). It is unreasonable to suggest that a business's operating costs create natural monopolies. The ease of competing with businesses with high operating costs is the big driver of market competition and exactly what people should want in the healthcare industry.

> It costs >$100m to build a hospital, and then you have staffing, maintenance, IT, and other costs.

Superficially that makes sense, but if we get into it a bit there are a bunch of reasons that won't promote monopoly conditions:

1) CBDs are full of buildings that cost >100MM, ie, skyscrapers. None of the businesses in them are monopolies, or even paying high capital costs - because they rent space. And most cities manage to organise their CBDs so that owning a skyscraper doesn't give monopoly power.

2) You don't need a 100MM hospital. I've seen small hospitals that would cost single digit millions, which is an approachable fee even for just a single wealthy family let alone a small group of people trying to sort something out.

3) You don't even need a hospital. I've had surgery done in some dude's office. You can start with a room and build up organically if the local demand is there. That is how most other businesses expand. Walmart didn't start with a global empire.

There just isn't a need for large capital accumulations to get started in healthcare. It isn't that demanding. There are a lot of edge cases that need a hospital, but that isn't where new businesses will start. They can grow in to it.

> an ECG machine, IT systems with subscription access to industry databases and insurance applications, and possibly some on-prem blood testing

Again, you're listing a couple of operating expenses (subscriptions and insurance). High operating expenses have nothing to do with monopolies; they are paid for on an ongoing basis and by customers bear the cost.

ECGs and blood testing aren't expensive enough to be interesting. A watch can be an ECG machine; and a good ECG machine is only a few thousand dollars. That'd be like saying a restaurant is a natural monopoly because it needs a special fridge ore one of those big fancy stoves.

> All of that on top of property costs. And student fee payments.

Rent then. And the limit on the number of students is generally legislative not financial. There is no tendency towards monopoly here in a free market.
Tell HN: Coinbase Added a Fake Signatory to My Vault
I first signed up for Coinbase in 2016.

In post-FTX 2022, I was ready to dive back into crypto. With a 5 figures investment, I chose Coinbase's Vault for "security" without the cold wallet setup hassle. I setup my email and phone number as the standard Signatories, loaded up my vault.

But this "No hassle" option became a horror show.

One month after setting up, I was blocked from accessing my Vault by a mysterious OTP pop-up that claimed to have sent me an OTP which never came. As an engineer, I signed in on my desktop and using inspect-element, found out some weird JS blocking the OTP request button from actually sending the OTP — odd, but I wrote it off as a bug and moved on.

Zoom to August 2023: Coinbase sends me an email that my region will no longer be supported. Few days later, they inform me I must go through a KYC process to keep using Coinbase, which I powered through. Post-KYC, my Vault's back, but guess what? A stranger's email had been added as a signatory to my Vaults — "Trudey Schucker" (d***@gmail.com).
Full-on panic mode, I contacted support through a form that can only be found using a hidden treasure map of their site, only to be ghosted with an "Coinbase will only offer self-help customer support in your region" auto-reply. Case closed, and radio silence.

Few weeks later, I get an email from Coinbase Compliance (#16618823) , demanding my financial life story. I thought it was a scam email, but no, it was Coinbase asking for everything from bank statements to invoices to private chats—yeah, they went full strip-search on me. Here's what I provided them:
1. Personal Bank statement
2. Proof of income
3. Proof of employment
4. Business registration
5. Business invoices
6. private conversations between myself and the broker I used
7. Brokerage statements
8. All Transaction histories at other Exchanges, etc.

This is more information than I've given National Governments and Banks. It has been the most degrading experience of my life.

Plot twist: During this process, I got a hold of another Coinbase support team who that then addmitted that they added that bogus signatory email to my Vault to lock me down. This team then went ahead to break the Vault with the lesser crypto and siezed the crypto pending "hearing from Complaince". A complete shit-show.

It's been a 5-month now with no Vault access and no response from Coinbase. I'm sharing this story as a warning and in hopes someone with power sees this. When companies grow, they become evil. It's also true what they say: Not your wallet, not your coins. Lesson learnt.

Stay vigilant out there.
thats not at all what is happening here. it looks a lot more like Gemini is following direct rules from a kind of DEI organization than anything else.
“when you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression”
I'd rather not introduce another thing that can go wrong. Video outputs are already picky enough.
Confirmation Bias: A Bayesian Interpretation
There’s a pretty wide suite of options built into iOS which lets parents restrict their child’s usage. It’s actually a problem they cared about a lot and spent many millions on, it’s a bit disingenuous to say Apple doesn’t put control in parent’s hands here.

Which parental control features exist in Ubuntu which are lacking in iOS?
This is a good point, but my understanding is that a lot of it is translated to full Hangul. So unless you’re searching for some obscure piece of literature, or specifically want to own and read original editions, I don’t think you’re at a total loss.
Let’s just hope China doesn’t collapse then. We need to produce more panels in more places, however high startup and supply chain setup costs with falling market prices means it’s leading to only established players or national strategic investing.
I may simply have been considering a longer period of history than you. I was counting Itanium and later Pentium 4 among Intel's major failures in microarchitecture design, and consider early Opteron to be AMD's most significant and sustained time in the lead prior to their Zen renaissance.

Intel being stuck on 14nm for so long was basically a single sustained fab failure, but their inability to make any significant improvements to the Skylake CPU core or deliver an improved iGPU during those years also illustrates some severe problems on the chip design side of the company: they're too trusting of what their fab teams promise, and their chip designs are too closely tied to a particular fab process preventing them from porting their designs to a working process when things go wrong with their fab plans.
Yes, with the caveat that some monitors that support both HDMI and DP will only take audio from HDMI inputs.
Super interesting answer, thank you for that.
Anatomy of a Rip-Off
Believe it or not, fossil fuels are cheap. And as demand decreases in the West, they will become even cheaper for developing nations.
Apple will 'break new ground' in generative AI this year, Tim Cook teases
Most hunters want the animal to have a "sporting chance", otherwise there's not a lot of pride or accomplishment for taking an animal. If you removed every law around hunting, you'd just drive around with a spotlight until you found a deer, and shoot it from the road. That's not sporting, it's what many poachers do. Actually being successful in a hunt is HARD, and that's what makes it feel so good if/when you succeed.

And also, the laws mean that harvest numbers will be lower. It lets the state sell MORE licenses and tags than the number of deer they want to be actually taken, so they make more money. It's the same reason gyms want your membership, but don't want you working out :)

States are different though, some places have real population problems and will give ya a fistful of tags for cheap. My state isn't that way, they want the revenue and our game population would never support 100% success rates.
Coal is not really very suitable for replacing renewables, natgas is much better suited.

The UK is building/planning a lot of natgas peaker plants at the moment, seemingly without anyone realising. One I read about is limited (for emissions reasons) to 240hours/10 days operation per year, which suggests that the price of power when renewables aren't going is going to be extremely high to make it profitable to build a plant that only runs 3% of the time.
A lot of people who sell audio plugins previously used Gumroad, but have moved to Lemon Squeezy - https://lemonsqueezy.com

I think it’s because Gumroad hiked their rates at some point, and Lemon Squeezy is cheaper but the customer experience is similar.
Yep.

If you look at : https://app.electricitymaps.com/map

and look for 1 year as the time period then the places with low emissions from electricity either have lots of hydro, import power or are nuclear powered.

As yet there does not yet appear to be a single place in the world that uses solar and wind and has low emissions for electricity.

Germany's emissions given the Energiewende and the huge cost of that are particularly noteworthy.
Eric here from Varda. Short answer: lots of math. But really, that's the job of lots of folks over here, but primarily comes from our GNC and Hypersonic/Analysis teams. Folks like my colleagues Marat Kulakhmetov
> What I'm most curious about is, why did the Pennsylvania Game Commission set up this sting operation in the first place?

Because he explicitly specialized in this kind of thing. From his linked website:

> we specialize in providing services related to deer hunting,

> 3) Can you fly at night? Yes, we can fly day or night. Our drones are equipped with military-grade night vision cameras.

but this is combined with the fact that the drone was clearly actually equipped with light sources (not just night vision), which are quite broadly illegal when animals are involved.

The game wardens wouldn't set up a sting for something he wasn't in the habit of doing.

The most chapter of law for people to interpret (several sections are potentially relevant):

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/consCheck.cfm?...
Reforestation is a scam, the total biomass of all plants on earth is about 450 billion tons.[1] Global CO2 emissions are on the order of 55 billion tons a year.
The only way reforestation is going to matter is if we cut down all the trees globally and regrow them completely every 10 years, which uh seems unlikely.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6016768/

Edit: that being said I do like forests, not because of the CO2 reduction, but because they're nice places.
And the fridge will not use freon etc…
The Micropreneur Manifesto [pdf]
It's a big country. Big enough that the hunters you're thinking of and the ones he's talking about might not even be the same people! Farfetched but it's at least possible.
What if they just replaced "HDMI" with "Mystery Port" in the specs and marketing materials?
To most consumers, DisplayPort is just "that thing that won't fit into my HDMI port for some reason." DP is royalty-free, but it seems like HDMI is cheaper to implement in the end because it's on every low-end device.
No. It's all C code in the stacktrace. And kernel devs still don't have to deal with Rust, if they don't want to.
At the same time he violated laws meant to protect investor from losses. But if they didn't actually lose something, it would make sense to have a modest sentence. Not knowing what his reckless behavior actually caused would make the sentencing frivolous in my opinion.
The Devs thought this solar system was outside our render distance, so they used default placeholder values for everything. Should be patched in the next release.
I'm not trying to justify netlify, because it's pretty obvious all cloud providers have vile intentions here (even though they pretend otherwise): it's obvious that total majority of use cases for such platforms are toy or small-scale projects, and literally everyone in this market would prefer their website being shut down, rather than getting $100K (or even $5K) bill, BUT…

1 million downloads (= visits) is nothing for "going viral overnight"
Using drones to hunt is illegal but his advertisement is to recover already shot game. I think that's worth the distinction
Perhaps, but I suspect this is part of the rationale behind the law.
A more likely penalty is that they refuse to certify any newly manufactured plane.
Lying to your kids is a terrible idea, unless you want to breed distrust and resentment.
it seems to be running JS in webworker. which is good as it does not block the main thread, but then you cannot access some of the JS features like the DOMs and importing modules dynamically.

still I ♥ the fact that it can loaded from guthub pages without any backend!!