skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It annoys me that there wasn't even a mention of the mere possibility that we may have contaminated the planet with the microbes in question. Sterilizing complex machinery is difficult and absolute sterilization of spacecraft has never been a goal of any space agency. Then we find out the microbes are probably in an area where one of our rovers has been exploring for a few years and you have to wonder. Granted, it does seem unlikely, and perhaps the microbes are indeed under the ice and have been since before we got there. But it seems irresponsible to not even consider contamination as a potential cause when we can clearly connect the dots to how that could have happened.
A little bit of A and all of B/C/D. Not all of HDMI is encrypted, but for the part that is the protocol is known, but you also need the keys which are meant to be stored in secure hardware and difficult to extract.

Also, old keys are frequently phased out, with new media requiring newer keys for playback.
OK, not Iran. The trade embargo on Iraq, which killed many thousands through starvation. How is that not a human-rights violation?

And the thing here is that this is about how China is treating people in areas that are part of China, and have off-and-on been part of China for thousands of years. Some of them were part of China long before the proto-US was importing slaves from Africa.

So if the US wants to focus on human-rights violations, they arguably ought to focus on African-Americans. Some huge percentage of African-American men are, or have been, in prison. Far more than the Chinese are fucking with.

And fundamentally, it's not whataboutism. It's about realistic expectations. I mean, just consider what the US diplomatic response would be if China started organizing a UN conference on treatment of African-Americans. Pretty soon, as with China, it'd come down to "don't mess with us".
How is it morally gray? Who exactly is being harmed? What this guy did is the definition of the hacker ethos. I could even make a compelling argument that he's made the world a better place through this project.
Although I also disagree with the GP, I think phrasing evolution as an optimization process is a mistake. Evolution is a diversification process that exploits variation within a population to make the population as a whole more resilient to changes in the fitness function.

The net result is the same -- even if Klotho production is neutral in the fitness landscape, you would expect it to be quite common. For it to be naturally as rare as it is probably implies a significant fitness cost in other ways.

It could very well be, however, that the particular problems with Klotho production are factors which are no longer relevant in the current fitness landscape, but we (and other animals) evolved a certain resistance to Klotho production that has yet to be overcome by the irrelevance of the underlying costs. For example, if Klotho production significantly reduced reaction times or the time it takes to ramp up adrenaline production, then it might be that we are at a point where the downsides are no longer as relevant as they once were.
Tenured professors generally care about the grad students and postdocs under their tutelage, which can push them towards submitting to a closed journal.
at least your paying for a sandwich, I feel like this guy is doing the equivalent of using the bathroom at a Chick-Fill-A and then stealing all the honey on the way out
Your use case might be different than what is being offered here. This isn't meant to allow SPARQL to query nodes and edges.

This provides embeddings that follow graph relationships to improve correlations between entities when looking through text. For example, if you use word2vec you will see that terms in the same context appear in similarly trained vectors...but those vectors are lacking formal relationships and just go off where they are likely to appear in text. A good use case for this might be Entity Linking / Disambiguation, when performing Named Entity Recognition on unstructured text...such as knowing that William Shatner and Bill Shatner are the same person, and 'She drank a Manhattan' is referring to the cocktail and not the city.
Color blind / dichromat here:
They're pretty much all shades of blue to me.
But the content they have represents a significant slice of humanity's knowledge that we have all worked hard and paid for. So if we allow these giants to wither and die but we don't rescue this content (currently possible only via illegal means) then don't we risk losing access to it entirely? To me, a moral action is one which confers the greatest benefit to humanity, so from this view these scurrilous science pirates may be legally wrong, but morally correct.
The link I posted is a balanced summary of the situation we find ourselves in. Please read links more thoughtfully before crying "conspiracy".
I've been happily using Joplin for about a year now, after having been an Evernote paid user for years. It's definitely "good enough" for my needs, and it's open source so it's hackable (I added in a 'today's date' shortcut key just by hacking the production package - I didn't even bother to build it.) Everyone of course wants something different from a note taker, but I figured I'd chime in with an endorsement.
It bothers me that HTTP + aggregators or search failed so hard in this arena. I'd prefer an "IPFS + curated journal documents" model to any of these "hubs."
Are you communicating with Seller Central, A-to-z, or Seller Performance?

You need to be talking to Seller Performance. That’s the legal team. My mom had some return fraud, same person, second time at a new address. I proved beyond a doubt the damage photos were photoshopped and we refused to refund and refused to replace. We pre-emptively contacted Seller Performance before denying to take care of the customer as it was in a grey area of the seller contract. Seller Performance said it was our customer and we could do as we saw fit. A-to-z got all unreasonable with us and threatened to terminate our account until we referred them to the Seller Performance email stream. Yes, all this over a shitty pair of $5 sunglasses...but it’s the principle of the matter.

Talk to the lawyers. Be brief, clear and truthful. That’s your best bet.
NoScript = no problems

Well, not the one you're mentioning.
> Sure they could've redesigned the half of the plane but then it's not really a 737.

That is exactly the budget and time bit - lots of time and money for Boeing spent designing a new airframe, then the "not really a 737" part means lots more time and money spent by Boeing getting it certified, and lots of time and money for their customers in getting their pilots trained for the new plane.
Including the same signing model as castLabs suggests, where the default release is only for UAT and you need to sign production builds (which are only generated on your infra) to decrypt production content? Or did you want to allow downstream open-source users to decrypt production content?

i.e., if they denied you, are there users of castLabs they would have allowed, and what's the distinction between you and them?
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Particle physicists did it, though. They managed to organize. If your field has one Elsevier journal to which everything is published all the better, because that means an alternative will be easier to promote with emails and at conferences. If your field is small, coordinating a shift away from journals is easier than if it is massive.
> However... I wonder how long this will remain true. More and more devices are ready to go out of the box and kids are being taught to use Google products in school.

If the Google products change too much, the curriculum will become so wrong as to be unusable. My school taught me Microsoft Word with outdated versions on outdated computers; but that was OK because the book matched the computers; when you eventually run into a more recent Word, you have to dig around to find where they moved the menus and controls, but the core concepts still work. With Google's tendency to move stuff around willy-nilly, I expect the curriculum to become unusably stale --- once you have the core concepts, you can search them out; but if you're still learning, it's really hard when step a of every step in the process is find where they moved the things you're being taught.
I think the biggest unforseen effect of these shutdowns is the consumers perception of Google's new products. Google announced gaming service? So what, it will be gone in 2 years tops. Google announced a new product? I don't want to be a beta tester for life.

Edit: Just found this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19553601
> When I want to stop using something, but I can't, that's power someone holds over me. In my case, that's Google search, GMail, and Android.

What's the issue with Search? I see how Gmail and Android can lock you in, but Search? You just have to type a different address.
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Firebase is an example of something that I would use except that I know Google is "behind it".
Look for an LED UV torch/flashlight with a wavelength of 400nm.

You could also use a diffraction grating, prism, or spectroscope, but you'll need to make sure the light source going into it actually contains violet light. i.e. if you use one of those with a CFL or LED bulb, you'll most likely not get much (if any) actual violet.
Can artificial intelligence be taught how to joke?
I switched to Bear Notes long ago. The hash tagging feature is pretty powerful and allows for really nice, complex structures for your notes (or simple, really it's up to you).
I disagree.

Google killing Reader was very shortsighted because they’ve hurt the open web in an effort to promote Google+. And it was all an effort to promote Google+, nothing more.

Reader was perfect the way it was and could have been left unmaintained. Don’t tell me that Google couldn’t spare an intern for the occasional fix.

And I don’t have any numbers however I’m willing to bet that Reader was, as a social network, far more popular and active than Google+ ever was.

Also such metrics don’t count the brand damage. I will never forgive Google for killing Reader and as a result I have rejected again and again Google’s products. Even at work I just convinced everyone that we must not depend on Google’s Firebase because we can’t trust Google.
It looks like the account has been removed now
Exactly - now these guys are in charge of what's "Good".
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FSF has always been about the users. And that has always been controversial among developers. I remember talking to my brother about it around 1999.

The basic premise is relatively simple - with no insight in something very complex, you're at the mercy of the creators of that complexity.

Doesn't that sounds nice, as a developer? It's a power struggle, really.

Regarding certification: I think you have this situation backwards. Developers will easily see through and gravitate to the project that's more friendly and open. The very examples you mention - people see through that and the companies end up getting negative PR in developer circles, despite releasing the code.

Those who have a problem in this game is again the users - they don't understand what's going on, but they might have lost a great deal of the power that the open source was supposed to give back to them, it's locked in behind the wall that the code is thrown over.
Nope, SillyValley. Live with 2 room mates and pay less than $2k/mo for a 3/2 with a nice yard in a walkable neighborhood (for music, groceries, food & drink). I've lived in multiple places and I've never had a longer working commute than when I was an off-campus grad student.

It's harder if you've got 2 incomes (one in the city the other elsewhere), or you want to live in the Mission with the cool kids (and bum poop), but as a single it's not that hard. You have to make compromises, but they aren't Tokyo compromises.

Now I do hate the empty lots driven by Prop13 and 30 years speculation... and I think the current trend of 5-7 story "mixed use" with inadequate parking, inadequate roads, and inadequate transit (sorry a bus line doesn't count) placed next to single story residential is stupid and will cause more problems than it solves.

I also don't see a good local solution for homeless in a place where a parking space is >$20 a day. You're not going to find a livable space for less than a parking place... but it's the same in Tokyo.
Surprised no one has mentioned a lawyer. Even if Amazon/FB is in full rights to do what they've done, having a lawyer send a letter usually gets a more indepth and careful examination of your issue(s).
You need professional help. It's unfortunate, but there's a very specific format you need to be responding in that's not intuitive unless you've written a bunch of these.

Check out any of the following (I've met both of them and can recommend them):

Ed Rosenberg, ASGTG

Chris McCabe, ecommerceChris

You'll pay somewhere in the $1-2k range for a listing reinstatement, they'll write a professional letter to Amazon in the format they want and hitting all the right points, and you'll be back in business.

Alternatively, you can sell wholesale to other sellers who will sell on Amazon, and not have to deal with this crap yourself.
That's an absurd summary of the degree to which we know Russia interfered in the election. I recommend you read the entire Wikipedia article rather than the section I cited.
The airlines can and do switch planes at the last minute, though. And I imagine part of the selling point of the MAX not requiring any recertification is that it meant they should be able to also swap a MAX for a non-MAX 737 like this.

Certainly there have been reports of pilots complaining that they didn't find out they'd be flying a MAX 8 until the last minute, and having to get "trained" on it during their ride to the airport.
Most of the above, with a couple caveats.

For HDMI, specifically:

A is true, as HDMI requires a pretty ugly IP core on an fpga or an asic to process or produce the phy.

B is also true, as to sell a device with an HDMI port you have to join the group and pay fees. If you're just hacking stuff together for personal use I think you're A-okay here.

C is true ONLY in the case of HDCP protected content, as that handshake does not occur for unprotected content or HDMI 1.0

Also, side note, VGA uses analog R/G/B channels so if you want to pipe signals into the program you'd need an ADC to get useful values from it, and a pretty fast one depending on your resolution.
I'm going to use debian as an example (since this is what I use):

* Fonts configuration & tools -- https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts

* I've always found if the touchpad was decent enough all the gestures could be easily configured and supported

* Touchpad configuration and tools -- https://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad

* Connecting external displays stopped being wonky 5 years ago. In modern KDE this requires connecting the display and then opening display configuration dialog in System Settings.

* For color calibration, have you tried something like ColorHug 2? https://hughski.com/colorhug2.html A friend of mine has the previous version of it and likes it a lot, but I haven't had the need to calibrate my displays.

* Power management -- If you choose the hardware with good linux support.

* rootless/SIP -- there is selinux, but in general linux security model is different from apple, you just pick whatever technologies you more comfortable with and want to use.
To invoke a cliche, "red states" are not a monolith. West Virginia is not Texas, Alabama is not Idaho, and Alaska is not Kentucky.
Damaging? It's been damaged for years around here
Actually it was a reverse proxy that was taken down, and they didn’t even target what.cd, it was collateral damage. The admins got scared nevertheless and pulled the plug.
You make good points but:

>And if you don't want to make copying too easy because you think that it will get you more money, that's your right.

They seem to think that but is there any truth to it? I do pirate some series/movies from time to time (mostly out of convenience) and you can get high quality rips of pretty much anything mere hours after it's available on streaming sites anyway.

So what is this DRM supposed to achieve? Prevent the average non-technical user from saving the stream? I mean I'm sure they wouldn't even know where to start, there's no "Save As" button on Netflix for instance. Simple client-side limitations would do the trick for 99.9% of the population. On the other hand the few technically-savvy stream rippers seem to have no issue bypassing these protections.

DRM works better for interactive content like games because it's not just about ripping the output.

How many decades do we have to suffer through this broken scheme and this technical debt until the right owners realize that they're wasting their time and their resources to push a system that only serves to make it harder for legit clients to consume their contents?

When iTunes got rid of DRM on music files I thought it would be the tipping point where right owners would realize that this scheme was ineffective and counter-productive, but apparently it's still an industry standard for some reason. Have legit users on unsupported systems stream low-res video while the pirates can watch it in 4k for free. Ridiculous.
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Whereby "best" I mean "most pleasing combination of readability, insight, and accuracy"
Over the course of twenty years, especially in the twenty before your first thirty, many people grow, change, refine their understanding of themselves and the world around them, and reject beliefs they previously held. That’s just a part of being human.
Uhh, he's taking other people's photos for his own gain. He even thinks crediting them makes it okay, when in fact it works against him by showing that he knows he is stealing.

Forget about all the other morally grey things about this, this is blatant copyright infringement. There truly is no such thing as a free lunch, the content is where 100% of the work and money is, and its completely stolen.

I re-read his article to see if he took steps to work around this. My god, he even seems proud that he directly scrapes from other people's instagram. I would go as far as to report this guy.
Tweet at the company and the CEO of such company with details. That is what the media is watching. This will get their attention. Worked for a couple of people I know personally.
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The thing about Microsoft’s stuff is that it slowly but inexorably gets better over time. Like a watched pot, if you are waiting for a feature it will never arrive but if you walk away and come back a few years later it will be significantly better.
I want to try using Google Hire to recruit talent at my company but unfortunately I feel as if I've been conditioned to believe that there is a higher probability of the product being killed compared to its alternatives.
The dark theme has been a feature request for years, I believe the top voted one on their forum. It's been ignored completely, afaik no staff even commented on it. Pretty weird, I mean, why would you ask people to vote on feature requests if you're going to ignore them anyway.
I am surprised the support person suggested to just start a new account as I doubt this is sanctioned advice by Amazon and could lead you to be banned again in the future.

Best to try to email jeff@amazon.com and be polite and succinct with your issue and desired outcome. Even perhaps mention that you were told to simply create a new account but that you doubt that this is the right approach. Hopefully someone from his team will respond.

I believe Dave Clark (SVP of Ops) is also on Twitter so you could try to reach out to him and see if he can direct you to the right person. Best of luck, hope you resolve the issue.
Are Hackintoshes still a thing? I remember building one with a friend in the mid oughts (2005 maybe?).
> each project gets its own LLC, which allows them to contain any potential liability for the project

Interesting. That's a great idea for any fixed time + capital intensive projects. Keeps the structure, ownership, and responsibilities clean for a small amount of legal/paperwork.
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Amazon and Apple have similar market caps and yet don't have this product discombobulation
For my own stuff, I have postfix deliver email for about a dozen domains to a text file.

For family members, I point some domains to fastmail. Way cheaper than gmail.
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You could pick an airline that does not use the plane you don't want to fly. In the US Delta does not fly the 737MAX nor does it have any on order. Delta has ordered 100 of the A321neos in place of the 737MAX.

https://airwaysmag.com/airlines/delta-orders-100-airbus-a321...
I wonder if twenty years from now, someone will be archiving one of the big email providers.

"In the early 21st century, there existed large cloud 'email' organizations. Here I found a trove of 'hard disks' images from one of the companies, HotMail. I've been digging around and look at these email addresses, it appears this image contains all the 'email' for around 10k users. Here is one where a couple users with the usernames 'joesmith' and 'andreasanchez', engaged in playful romantic flirting. Although by digging further in the emails it appears one of them, 'joesmith' is newly married to 'andreasmith'. Here is thier wedding invitation. Fascinating digital archeology"
Why not blame everyone involved who let EME happen? Blame is not a limited resource.
Wow. Flagged for flagrant inaccuracy.