jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The DRM is actually implemented for Moonlight already, it's just distributed under a closed and exclusive license. Microsoft disseminates these relatively freely to embedded devices, but refuses to authorize the use of that component on desktop Linux because they are concerned that doing so would increase the likelihood of a crack for their DRM.

I guess their thinking is that the technically inclined use Linux, and if a Linux desktop client exists, someone will get bored one day and reverse-engineer the DRM. As it stands, you have to have significantly more determination than that to crack the DRM from Boxee, and it appears that nobody in the community has that determination since we have not seen a crack or reverse implementation.
The problem is that the hook is has nothing to do with the subject matter. The story is about a prison strike, the hook is "this story is being suppressed," which is essentially a lie. It's not a bait and reward, it's a bait and switch. It's like putting boobs in a youtube thumbnail despite there not being so much as a single woman in your video.

The first step to an intellectual approach is to actually approach the issue, which this article doesn't.

You would start with a more accurate description of the actual press coverage received, establishing some empirical expectation and an explanation of why this expectation was not met. The author leaves it to the reader to imagine what coverage actually means. What would have constituted adequate coverage? How does this coverage compare to coverage of other major stories? Many articles will have poor and vague answers to these questions. This article doesn't even attempt them.

The next basic question to address is "why was the coverage expectation not met." The author provides only once sentence in the entire article that is even remotely related to this question ("Perhaps there was..."), and it's merely speculation that encourages the reader to imagine all sorts of nefarious possibilities. One possibility is that people just don't care that much. As I mentioned, the article was submitted to hacker news and ignored until some ridiculous bait was added to the headline.

In intellectual article would have done some sort of investigation of those questions as an absolute minimum.
It should be an operating system. In practice, it's a religion
Maybe it's from http://CollegeOnly.com/ ?
As a Vim die-hard who had ultra-edit as default text editor in my Windows box at work before I installed vim, I can only reply "nothing". It is significantly far from being the best text editor in the world.
Amazing, only yesterday someone asked me to make him a social network "very similar to Facebook or Twitter" for his university, and what it would cost. He expected 50000 users and had his own savings to spend. Luckily he was happy after I showed him Ning, BuddyPress and StatusNet.
The merger surely would have been a boondoggle. I imagine the big beneficiary of that would have been Microsoft - if they managed to get their own act together.
I keep reading it as Recluse Center...
They said they "saved" 7.6k which was equivalent to 4 months rent so I think it is $1.9k.
like urban dictionary?
Still useful if you can put people in a balcony for instance, old school sanatorium style. And what is usually called "CPAP" is actually not constant airpressure anymore but adapts continuously with software.
People aren't buying anything because they don't have any money or they are in fear of not having a paycheck sometime down the road.
From what I've seen, taxi drivers have put up barriers between them and their passengers. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXJHp_zmgTE

Not sure how they disinfect the taxi afterwards though. Anyone more knowledgable on this?
There will likely always be someone willing to fill any position regardless of how abusive it is. There’s no reason to suffer because other people have decided they’re going to suffer at a miserable job. There’s also generally a huge pool of talent that management could find a way to accept for a position, if they’ve gotten the correct incentives.
related:

https://github.com/clojure/core.logic/wiki/A-Core.logic-Prim...
Good article. Its hard not to see the FDA as responsible for >50% of the deaths in the US. Using our prior knowledge about vaccines, we could reasonably expect them to be safe and effective, with no long term side effects (there has only been 1 long term effect ever recorded). So the right thing to do here was not ban the vaccine, which was what happened. Instead, they should have focused on informed consent and to limit the max size of the rollout. Informed consent mitigates any ethical concerns and limiting the rollout minimizes the chance of something being horribly wrong. For example something like 10 people max in week 1, 100 people max in week 2, 500 people max in week 3, up to no restrictions after 8 weeks or so. This has nearly equivalent safety checks and balances as separate phase 1, 2, and 3 trials, but moves much faster. If we followed this approach, then we would have Moderna's vaccine available on a widespread basis by April or so.

Yes, manufacturing needed to be improved, so Moderna couldn't have shipped 100M doses in Q2 2020, but we probably could have had everyone over 75 vaccinated before the second wave with moderna alone. Doing the same for J&J, Astrazeneca, Pfizer, and Novavax means in hindsight we would not have any serious COVID issues right now.
I'm having trouble following (maybe it's because I'm thinking in terms of residential loans, and the commercial market works differently or something).

If I purchase property in Switzerland with a Euro denominated loan, I have to convert my payments from CHF to EUR. If I'm depositing into a CHF denominated bank account that is owned by the bank I'm borrowing from and they charge me currency exchange fee, ok, but if I'm savvy enough to go with a foreign currency denominated mortgage, I'm also savvy enough to find a cheaper way to convert CHF to EUR. Otherwise I have to take on the onus of arranging the currency exchange myself, in which case the bank I'm borrowing from doesn't have a chance to benefit from the exchange fee.

If I'm a European bank and I want to engage in currency speculation, like the other people said below, there's no reason for me to have to go through the administrative hassle of making the loan in the first place.
At the risk of contributing my own probably-subtly-broken advice to the collection already present in this thread, I would note that there is a relatively sane system python3 on Catalina/Big Sur, and most projects are building and distributing compatible wheels [1] (binary packages). So something like:

/usr/bin/python3 -m venv ./venv # create a virtual environment in ./venv
./venv/bin/pip install wheel # optional
./venv/bin/pip install dep1 dep2 dep3 ...
./venv/bin/python ... # up and running

is enough to get started in most cases. Of course, all bets are off for GPU or Apple Silicon support...

[1]: https://pythonwheels.com/
If Amazon turns out to be similar to Dutch East India Company, we are looking at Amazon growing 200 years old with dozens of settlements and colonies all over the world.
The point of most things that you can buy should be the thing itself, not its investment-value. If not there is probably rent-seeking going on, i.e. a market failure.

All things degrade due to entropy. Things cannot truly become more valuable by themselves.
I think you're suggesting that if you want to retain both code and results you need to manage two different files - raw python and exported notebook. I think many notebook users would see that as inconvenient (and many are not familiar with VSCode).
How about we feed pigs and chickens bugs, like they were made to do, instead of feed corn? I'm pretty sure that's more calories than dogs consume.
Before the release of 2.1.0, funny_falcon, samsaffron and I developed a patch that removes the global method cache in favor of a local method cache inside each class. (This was originally proposed for upstream inclusion in https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9262).

The patch has been running in production on GitHub's servers for over a year, and provides the benefits of a high cache-hit rate without the need for manual tuning. I recently ported this patch to ruby 2.2 as well and it is available in this squashed commit: https://github.com/github/ruby/commit/bd002fc9fc3c7236395df2...
Hey Blackberry, how about you just make a product that doesn't suck?
Don't be confused, Win10 will be sold as a service: "free in the first year" will make it very difficult to re-win-d back to win7 or win8 once uncle Nadella starts threatening to brick your pc lest you start paying.

New vision: Two paid subscriptions (O365 + Win10), accessed from every desk and every home...and (unfortunately) 1 of every 10M phones
I've heard from security folks that 'changeme' and 'iforgot' are quite common also.
Missing from the list of PaaS offerings is Cloud Foundry, which already runs on AWS.

Obvious disclaimer: I work on CF for my dayjob.
If you are providing rides as a business, you must be willing to accept seeing eye dogs. If you cannot meet this qualification, then your options are limited.

I am not a lawyer, but it sounds like you might not want to own a driving business or you may want to work with your employer to accommodate your needs. (e.g. by dispatching another driver, etc.)
My understanding is that the original problem was that there is nothing in law that makes a difference between actual implementation code and API. Otherwise it would have been a trivial case.

And even in this, they rather go with the easier fair use claim that is case-by-case.
It works for freight, but the cars are comparatively expensive.
If you are driven into a panic by being near a service dog, you are not fit to be a taxi driver. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
Second-generation Americans almost universally didn't start from a low bar themselves. Many first-generation Americans didn't start from a low bar, either, but that's maybe a different point.
I don't want to be all conspiratorial or anything but wasn't Parler hacked during the Capitol Hill protest and a bunch of protesters where caught? To me this seems like a successful honeypot.
Let me guess, it was saying I dont like censorship that set people off :)
I'm not gonna debate the "appropriate level of liability."

My point has to do with what you're signalling. If a thing is alpha-level, and real humans can get killed, I wouldn't let random people buy it and use it in their cars, period.

Informed consent is deeply problematic for a product like this: Very few people have the expertise to look at the code and the hardware and properly evaluate the risks, right down to understanding which kinds of edge cases need to be very carefully avoided.

Unless you're vetting researchers and barring people who just want to save a few bucks and brag their car self-drives, you really don't know if every person who downloads the extra software really does grasp the implications of what they're consenting to.

You might grasp the implications, and so might many people in this thread, but that doesn't guarantee that everyone does. THE AUDIENCE OF HACKER NEWS IS NOT A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF SOCIETY.

And we are talking about a product to be used on open roads: In addition to informed consent from the person who downloads the software, if they get into an accident with another vehicle, pedestrian, or cyclist, did any of those people consent to share the road with someone who installed alpha software on their device?

Morally, I can't get behind a few disclaimers and a nudge-nudge, wink-wink for any kind of autonomous driving tech, even if it's "just" lane-keeping.

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Update: But to be clear, I am in favour of people tinkering with all sorts of digital automotive tech, and we really should find a way for lone inventors or small teams to innovate without the "enterprise outfits" using regulatory capture to drown small competitors with red tape.

I'm only arguing in favour of truly informed consent, which I believe is tricky for driver assistance technology being provided to arbitrary customers.
> How many people work two plus jobs? How many have to do gig work to make ends meet? Capitalism has created massive surpluses and free time, for the capitalists.

The US is not a capitalist country.

> By capitalists looking to exploit them.

By imperialists looking to exploit them. Under capitalism they would own their land.

> No, it isn't a social norm. What definition of social norm are you even using here? It is a direct consequence of capitalism.

Capitalism is a set of social norms, I’m using the same definition as sociologists and anthropologists.

> Half the globe lives in poverty. More and more in the US are living in poverty. Wages have stagnated while productivity has increased. There isn't widespread prosperity by any definition.

The increasing poverty is a direct result of social norms that inhibit free exchange on markets. Regardless, the level of prosperity is the highest its been in 10,000 years and if you think people are poor now, you should read a history book.

> You've been watching too much PragerU if you honestly believe this.

I suggest you widen your understanding of history rather than cast aspersions on the sources you believe others are relying upon.
> "with you also paying attention."

So no guarantees whatsoever then. Because you are always responsible and are always expected to recover from anything the autopilot might ever come up with.

Teslas do fail in deadly ways. Everyone that cares to look knows this. Yet Tesla is fine with it, even while knowing that humans can't reason about safety when the car drives perfectly the other 99% of times.
I totally am sold on fire sprinklers. They're installed in my house. Yeah, they'll wreck the room they come on in, but will save the rest of the house. I also read that, in the US, nobody ever died from fire in a building where there were sprinklers that were not disabled.

Even counting 9-11, as the plane crash cut the water pipes.

But still, relying on sprinklers to save your IT business is a bad idea. Offsite backups are needed.
I would like to be educated if there's something I'm missing. Is there a legal maneuver in CA that can prevent people from using their real estate for whatever it's zoned for, excluding frivolous lawsuits?
we are living in a volatile time right now. I too am considering buying a house and/or finding a different job. but unless you have a large appetite for risk, the prudent move is to wait for things to stabilize a bit. I think within a year or so we should have a better picture of where the remote trend is going.
Bitcoin uses 7% of the energy the global banking system uses and its energy use doesn't scale with adoption
The “omg everyone is leaving California and so should you!!” forced meme is getting really old. I welcome anyone at the Chronicle to go first and write about their firsthand experience :)
I have my doubts about Facebook's courage to shut down their services in Europe even temporarily, since that always comes with a risk of users switching to different services. I imagine they'd rather eat whatever fine the EU was going to throw at their direction than turn off service.
FWIW that ties out closely with my anecdotal experience.
> You can't fix lack of knowledge with a compiler.

The original article and the Rust language would beg to differ. The compiler generates detailed, didactic error messages with actionable suggestions.
It’s about being more than ….

A consumption device is nothing more than something designed to extract money out of a person.

And no, being productive is not a SV idea. In fact, it’s only recently (in the past 50 or so years) that buying something that doesn’t have a productive purpose is even considered.

But I’m not surprised that SV douches have convinced themselves that they’ve created the concept of being productive.
You're overestimating the importance of a digital messaging medium. If WhatsApp went away overnight, you bet your ass an alternative will be popularised the next day, if not sooner.
Yup, and even on Linux setup is faster / easier than say Ocaml.

With decent (neo)vim support!
> A massive framework tangle of interlocking dependencies is enough to default most teams to never-never-upgrade-land, even when struggling to compensate for a too-early release's flaws.

I definitely agree that the attitude of never upgrading dependencies doesn't work! But I've seen plenty of teams using dependencies successfully that took the opposite approach of updating them regularly (say, spending an hour updating versions every couple of weeks - perhaps a bit longer if there is a major release of an important dependency). This might not work if you require mission-critical stability, but it can work out to a huge time saving if you don't.
Way too many ads on this site.
Please don't do this here. It only makes things worse.
> Ha, looks like my opinions hurt someone's feelings and got downvoted. Meh.

Yeah, stupid, have an upvote!

> Haha, I'm glad we can civilly hate each other's preferences. To me, repeating the menu strip for each window is a waste of real-estate, but i'm a huge desktop space whore. I don't need "File, Edit, etc" on every program window.

Well a lot of programs are ditching having a menu bar at all. This Firefox window I'm typing this into is really minimal -- no menu at all. If you're a desktop space whore than this is better than both options. I feel like the Mac way makes sense when desktop space is at a premium (like with the original Mac) but I have more desktop space than I know what to do with!

> Actually, I find myself getting confused the other way around. In Windows, if I step away from my desk, and come back, it's not clear to me which program is currently active

That's a valid point. After getting distracted, I've typed into the wrong window in my multi-monitor desktop because the wrong app has focus. But I don't think I'd be any more likely to look in the very top left corner of one monitor to see which one is active either. In a single monitor situation, this is almost a non-issue.

> I feel like the root of our different workflows has as lot to do with the fact that I prefer to autohide my taskbars

Yeah, I don't autohide but I do make them smaller than the current Windows default.

> As long as those two remain intertwined concepts in Windows, it's going to feel less logical to me (in my opinion of course).

This is a totally valid point and I don't have a good argument against it. But I think it comes with the baggage of having that single top menu bar which I think is much less logical. But I'm not sure if it's possible to reconcile these things. I will say that Office has probably the worst window management of any application on Windows but thankfully I usually only have one document open at a time. Ironically, NextStep has menus in each app and this was removed when it became OS X to make the transition easier for users.

> So far, I feel pretty keyboard-warrior-y just as much as I was on Windows.

I'm actually more of a mouse person or perhaps more accurately a combo mouse/keyboard. But strangely enough, my file management workflow is weirdly hampered on OS X. I found a few apps that just wouldn't let me CTRL-C CTRL-V a file into them, for example. I'm willing to concede if I used nothing but the keyboard, the Finder might be better but in my usage I just find it frustrating.
KDE 3 was forked: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
If you do not trust him, you can compile your own client: https://github.com/meganz
The crypto war is not being waged by apple or google, that is ridiculous!
The the column width is just about ideal at approximately 77 characters per line.It could be slightly wider without detracting from the readability, but not all that much. [1][2]

The negative space left and right is to ensure an optimal column width. If there is nothing important to place to the sides, anything added there would serve only to distract from the flow of article content. That is to say, filling space for no reason is unreasonable.

Pagination is its own thing, and I won't comment one way or another on that.

[1] http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/13724/recom...

[2] http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/3618/ideal-column-widt...
C# seems useful in many different ways (web, mobile, desktop) and it's a very complete language, so perhaps that would be a nice start.
No, if you rebase master into the feature branch, that will move all of the new commits to master into the feature branch.

Now, it could be that I am just being a stickler for phrasing here. So, to clarify, if you are on the branch and run 'git rebase master', that is not rebasing master into the feature branch. That is rebasing the feature branch onto master.

So, is that what you were doing?
It always seems like jerks are better at handling other jerks than non-jerks. A jerk-led project may be more sustainable for that reason in the long run. I can think of numerous situations where contributing jerks (in the minority) did more to harm a project than the person leading the project.
> Cash will def be great then.

In case of the banking system collapsing in a modern developed country? That’s such an extreme situation I’m not sure if holding cash would be the right hedge against it. That sounds more like a canned food and flour bags kind of time.

If a bank fails, the deposit insurance also fails and the government can’t step in either that will undercut the trust in all other banks too. I would expect a chain reaction of follow-on bank collapses and hyper-inflation.
Actually he was a third right: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/is-larry-summe...
But it's not like people are necessarily worse off by choosing to drive for Uber. The thing is that for a lot of drivers, Uber is complementary income on top of a primary, inflexible income source. AFAIK, there's nothing else other than gig economy that lets someone supplement income piecemeal.

If you think in terms of socio-economic mobility, isn't the ability to squeeze extra earning opportunities in between other responsibilities a good thing?

Also, Uber has shown that it isn't 100% effective at "exploiting" its market. Last year, a lot of drivers were taking home 6 digit gross income due to driver shortages and the ability to opt into stupidly long work weeks. That's pretty significant for what is effectively a unskilled job.
"Can you say that again?" "How do you spell that?" "Is that B for book or P for penny?" "Sorry can you repeat the line is bad"
> React Native apps are slow if not engineered well. Naïve implementations of RN apps tend to scale really badly.

I think these statements are true for any application framework
Why would the Russian constitution be relevant? Journalists in Russia often end up dead.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2016/jan/04/does-vladimir...
Rather than a query planner, an interesting approach would be to expose the more stable part of the internals with a new language and let people roll their own query plans. Then Postgres can be NoSQL too and we can all be happy.

I'm not hopeful that it would be technically feasible, but it isn't obvious that Postgres needs to only support SQL as an interface. The SQL language is so horrible I assume it is already translated it into some intermediate representation.
In Turkey, the national meme is (for unknown reasons) "Scottish scientists...".
I believe it’s for the same purpose why we are seeing this. To reach a larger public audience than just the people at the faculty. I mean there might be others that work with this that may never hear about it and miss out on something. If they know the same things, well then it was just x minutes of wasted time.
"Apple considers Macs a separate platform from PCs?"

Apple might consider paying taxes optional, or the moon to be made of cheese. But why should any of us care or be bound by that?

"and PCs are not supposed to be friends."

Wtf does this even mean, how is it helpfull or provable?