skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not trivial for Kindle anymore. I did it recently on a Mac, and it took a fair bit of work, was complicated and confusing, and required finding an old version of the Kindle reader program and somehow preventing it from checking in with Amazon’s servers. My brother in law recently tried and failed after having done it in the past.
> a single person who refused to stop harassing another person

Fram wasn't out harassing anyone.
Whenever people say they were born too late to explore the earth or too young to explore space i dont understand it. Something like 90% of the objects in our solar system have been discovered in the last ~15 years. There's tons more out there. Sure the major planets and their moons are here, but you scroll to the bottom of this list there's unconfirmed dwarf planets. And likely moons of them as well
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We really do need animations on everything, SPAs, etc. Having a less pretty looking site makes us appear much less trustworthy to non-technical customers, who don't care that their browser was not originally created for our online storefront. I imagine that's the same for pretty much every other e-commerce site.
I usually do not consider articles which blame the evils of the world on a group of people identified by gender or race or skin tone to be "fair". But that's just me.
Maybe:

Body and soul

Bought and sold
Is there a CSV somewhere?
Yeah and multi platform. Obviously Apple news+ is inherently limited to the Apple ecosystem
A better analogy: Barnes and Noble sets up a reading room down the street where you can pay a discounted amount to read books rather than buy them. One day you stop by and the place is boarded up, but the guy outside apologizes and explains that they had to close because it wasn't making enough money, then he gives you a full refund plus $25.
To get it out of the way, I disagree with the GP.

If you've looked through any number of the NSA or CIA leaks (Vault 7, for example) you'll have seen a device that looks like a standard Ethernet magjackn+ USB connector that has a little tiny processor embedded inside of it (it leaches power from the USB power rails, IIRC) that can be used to exfiltrate packets and the like.

It's not impossible to get bugged when you send your PC in for repair. It's also probably unlikely considering that there's many other easier ways to grab your data.
I believe they are all free for academic use. There is also SCIP, one of the fastest academic solvers but you also need a license for commercial use, although I think the license is much cheaper than CPLEX and Gurobi.
Spoofing certs is not comparable to breaking RSA. Also, I think for this thought experiment, you should also consider breaking elliptic curve crypto. Neither has been proven hard.
Ah, that makes a lot mote sense, thanks - and I wouldn't describe that as being Wikipedia's Linus. (Linus's known public behavior, at least, does not include singling out an individual for harassment.)

But then it re-raises the question of why community governance couldn't handle this, since the worry of the existing community leadership being assholes themselves doesn't apply. Banning users from harassing other users, and enforcing it, seems like a good chunk of what ArbCom already does, no? If WMF wants to take this role, that seems likely beneficial and fine (to me, as a non-Wikipedian observer) but shouldn't they coordinate with ArbCom?

(Also, they should say that, because there are now a dozen other theories of what Fram did, as you can see from these comments, the open letter, the BuzzFeed News article, etc. If you punish someone for X and don't say X was the offense, you're wasting an opportunity to dissuade others from doing X.)
See also: https://hashids.org/
I think it's possible that they feel like Teams and Enterprise are really great (I use Teams at work and really like it) but that it's not really well-known. When I talk to other people, they're not aware of them but like the idea.

If you have a product people really like but it doesn't seem like people are aware of it and want to encourage more adoption, you go looking for places to advertise... but the people most likely to want a internal version of SO are the people using SO. That means the obvious place to advertise is on Stack Overflow.

I think it's a bit overboard to make it the focus of the home page rather than a secondary focus. But the homepage can change. It's already changed once.

Lots of companies make the centerpiece of their homepage their big new product. When Teams is better-known, it probably won't need to be so obviously marketed.

I think what makes this so jarring is that the first use of the homepage is for a specific reason rather than to talk about SO's primary purpose. If the page talked about how to ask/answer (something like a short version of the tour page) before it mentioned the other things (Teams, Jobs, etc) would that have been okay?

I don't generally find the homepage to be a stellar introduction to SO.
Including WhatsApp?
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Note that the keyboard cannot be removed from the GUI - it does not show up. In the region and keyboard settings I mean, it shows up as configured keyboard though. What worked for me - and that was the only thing that worked - was to follow the registry-editing answer here (only the top part of the answer, not the update):

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10...

I had to look through the entire registry for the key mentioned there though, I had to delete about 4 or 5 before the hidden US keyboard finally disappeared.

Note that that thread is from 2015. Maybe US based Microsoft would find the issue more urgent if it was a different keyboard than a US one, so that they themselves notice it (I guess right now they would not?).
You should be using symmetric encryption, which is likely a lot less breakable.
The biggest difference in this case is that I can go the mailing list and see Linus Torvalds words and the context in which they have been said. There is even articles that list top 10 of Linus rants, all with links to the specific mail.

In the Fram case the closest we got is that he said the word "fuck" in regard to a statement that all admins who refuse two-token authentication would get banned, and that someone felt harassed after several stub articles had been deleted, although that is mostly speculations as WMF has explicitly said they won't give out specifics because of privacy concerns.
As a Dvorak user, ive had this problem (or similar ones) for years. I basically gave up typing in Dvorak on my windows machines (thankfully my primary desktop is Linux)
This crosses into religious flamewar. Please keep that far away from this site.

If you're wondering where the differences are, there are two critical ones. The GP's comment was mostly about personal experience, where your comment went generic—that's how we get boring flamewars. Had you shared personal experience in return, this might have been better. Second, your comment swerved into indignant rhetoric. When indignation levels spike up, the needle goes into the red for flamewar risk.

As a side point, I think you got your religions mixed up. That's a minor detail but it illustrates how generic the comment was. Generic comments on divisive issues are what we're most trying to avoid on HN, because they make discussion more repetitive and provoke other users into posting even more generically and indignantly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20317078).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The man is not going around stripping people of their rights because he's upset about how people talk to him. I don't think escalation of "I don't like his style" to "he should be banned from participating for a year" is appropriate, no matter how much that style upsets the sweet-sounding passive aggressive types.

I, for one, would prefer a world of people who act in good faith, even if they address issues in a coarse and gruff manner at times; to a world of petty, passive-aggressive crybullies who ultimately contribute nothing of value, nothing but a veneer of shallow procedural "niceness".
Not really, Twitter is a platform for publishing your thoughts, Wikipedia wants to be a platform for knowledge/facts.
Bye bye Wikipedia, it was nice while it lasted, looks like you got taken over by the totalitarians.

[The Wikimedia Foundation’s (WMF) Trust and Safety team] have reiterated that they are not willing to reconsider the ban, nor will they turn the full evidence over to the community or ArbCom for review.
I think he forgot the production cost of a human.
Very much so. Normally, such a restraining order would be issued through community governance; this one was from the Wikimedia Foundation, which itself was an unusual step. Also, I don't think there's any evidence of Fram breaking it?
IANL however my understanding of the legislation behind it boils down to:

Right to repair essentially boils down to the product needs to be repairable in a reproducible way. It doesn’t state how that repair needs to be done or what exactly that means.

The big one is for repair 𝙜𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 and 𝙖𝙫𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙧 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙨 is what is most important. So that a repair shop or savvy consumer could indeed do their repairs without push back from the manufacturer. It also means the specifications for those repairs and parts would be open(ish)

Having to openly document repair procedure and have open part availability is what I think wrongly companies are attempting to protect. Because third parties could manufacturer spec compliant parts that wouldn't void the overall warranty of a product

I think redesign is a non significant factor

EDIT: I just want to note that in the right to repair debate product lifecycle planned obelesance is actually a legitimate argument for right to repair. I don't think devices are built to live longer then a product generations lifecycle (for instance, an iPhone has a typical generation lifecycle of 3-5 years I believe)

Right to repair would reverse that trend at least somewhat
The reason factoring is hard is because finding very large probably prime numbers is easier making number sieve based methods useless for the purpose of breaking large numbers used in cryptography.
> The first thing to realize is that until the advent of public key cryptography in the 1970's, few people cared about factoring. Some people were interested in it for its intrinsic beauty, but nobody thought it was good for anything, and it certainly wasn't the notorious unsolved problem it is today. If anything, it was mildly obscure.

"There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world." - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

Applied mathematics is a problem looking for a solution and pure or abstract mathematics is a solution looking for a problem. An instance of this is the extension of the set of complex numbers called the quaternions discovered long ago which eventually found their application in affairs that require the representation of orientations in three dimensions, such as in computer graphics.

It seems here then that a motivated entrepreneur can establish a remunerative business should he or she find a solution to this prime factoring problem.
Bruce Perens argues[1] (HN comments[2]) that a penalty for exercising the right to redistribute is de facto a restriction on redistribution, which the GPL prohibits.

[1] https://perens.com/2017/06/28/warning-grsecurity-potential-c...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14731955
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IVE HAD ENOUGH iQuit. Jobs done. Jony cashes out at Apple to run his own biz
When my grandfather died he left behind a huge library of books. Many were junk, some were gold. I have a bunch of ebooks, I guess no one will ever see them again.
There are many issues with the WMF T&S team's actions.

They completely bypass the community procedures in place, deal out arbitrary sanctions without any explanation or justification and simultaneously refuse to deal with real issues that the community(ies) really can not deal with.

Quoting a Wikimedia steward (Rschen): "I know for Croatian [Wikipedia] we stewards
point-blank asked T&S if they would do anything about it and they said
no."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_response_t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_response_t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_response_t...
Fram has also clashed with LauraHale who is the girlfriend of the WMF chair and has made noises about going to the Trust and Safety people before. No one knows if WMF chair was recused from decision to ban Fram. Pretty much everyone sees an obvious conflict of interest.

http://wikirev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2222&start=10
Largely because people are at work during the day.
An OS? An exaggeration maybe, but only slight. The browser is pretty much its own environment already. It's been the case for decades. It can display text, process a variety of media, and run programs (written in JavaScript). The main cause of frustration at this point is that, compared to other popular programmable environments (C, PHP, Python, node.js, etc), where some real focus is put into evolving the language along with a variety of primary development tools, people in charge of the browser's ecosystem seem to still be coming to terms with the programmable part of its identity.

All the dilly-dallying results in community efforts that pile on top of each other to create all this bloat that is carried from one tool to the next framework.
> You teach them that a) they'll probably squander it, because they didn't work for it, and b) if they really want it, they can get it through honest means.

FIRST: Neither of your points is self-evident.

As to a), there's research indicating that poor people, given unrestricted cash grants, do not just squander the money. https://www.vox.com/2016/1/23/10810978/cash-transfer-givedir...

As to b), that's the No True Scotsman fallacy — you failed, so you must not have REALLY wanted it ....

SECOND: Assuming your premise arguendo, people vary in their ability to grasp life's lessons. That was tough for me to come to terms with — isn't it obvious? Why don't you see this? Believe it or not, what helped me see this was my frustration at the inability of my wife and our now-adult children — all of whom are very-intelligent people — to grasp what I regarded as simple mathematical concepts.

> If you have a problem with "failing to keep up with the Joneses", then you're in deeper doodoo than the freedom dividend can pull you out of. There is no amount of material wealth you can reasonably transfer to that person to make them satisfied with their lot in life.

As I mentioned upthread, we seem to be programmed by natural selection to want to keep up with the Joneses. OK, if that's the way things are: I make it a practice not to argue with the weather (to borrow a Heinlein saying), but instead to try to figure out how best to deal with it. If we want our interconnected global society to survive and thrive, we need to figure out better ways of dealing with the volatile combination of a) the Joneses problem and b) people's varying abilities to grasp life's lessons — especially when those who fail to grasp those lessons can misguidedly inflict grave damage on society.
Yeah, I can't imagine the assumption that tanks captured were "randomly uniformly distributed" is a good one. I can imagine all sorts of reasons that wouldn't be the case.
It's always bugged me that frozen food gets demonised so much instead of people weighing up the objective pros and cons based on evidence. Same thing with microwave ovens, artificial sweeteners and MSG.

Food science is difficult: this seems to create an environment where people make up, spread and strongly hold on to assertions that aren't evidence based.
Yeah, same problem here with some older Xeon Xserves. Still running (but Linux and Xen at this point). Without macOS you lose the cool CPU LED indicators at the front, but you still have everything else, including IPMI. They are way too neat to get rid of, specially when they still run (which for this 1U deal is fine because the power cost is fixed anyway).
You are confusing (the English) Wikipedia with the Wikimedia Foundation, the corporation that owns all the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects, like Wiktionary, Wikidata, Wikiversity, etc.
> Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948, 1h20m)

As Hitchcock explained in the Hitchbook, that is not an unbroken shot, merely an illusion of one. Film reels at the time just weren't long enough.
Surprise collapse of regional Chinese bank sets off domino effect
Sounds like competiting versions of slacktivism to me.
I dream of a bigger cage

And a lovely lash to teach me

The secret pleasures of the age

To learn to love

The broken dove

And the promise of

A garden where no regret can reach me

Sorry that’s too big for a t shirt
It's still trivial AFAIK (I last did it one or two years ago) if you have an old kindle device, and can therefore convince Amazon to send you the poorly encrypted files meant for old kindles. I use a "Kindle Keyboard" e.g. the 3rd gen. Amazon has stopped selling new-old-stock, but it seems you can still find them on ebay for somewhere between $20-50.

Incidentally this model of Kindle also comes with text-to-speach, which is a really nice feature which I believe is missing from all newer models (removed to avoid cannibalizing audio book sales.)
Overdrive ebooks are DRMed (or at least the majority of them are).
I have a hard time justifying using any other dynamically-typed language over JS. And JS' static typing story is pretty mature. And it has cool features like async-everything and a first-class Promise.

So, let's not be too extreme here just because you don't like something. It gets really silly to hear HNers suggest the equivalent of "I don't understand how people own blue cars. They must secretly aspire to drive $myFavoriteColor. Don't they realize how stupid blue looks to me?"
updates, enhancements, customer communication... none of which are notably wanting for ebooks, or require DRM.
He got screwed. May be his dad is just a greedy rich man lol
I think it's a nice idea OUTSIDE the vehicle.

But some car manufacturers are idiots (no other word) and add sounds INSIDE the vehicle.

The Nissan Leaf has tons of gratuitous sounds that cheapen the car.

When you turn the car on and off, they have startup and shutdown sounds like a cheap canon camera.

And they have a "futuristic" driving motor sound, which is probably damaging some of your hearing frequencies on long drives.
And here I was, thinking 'huh, they finally condensed down deep CS topics so that my dumb ass can understand it! Neat!' Imagine my disappointment looking at the ages section.

Still, a neat idea! Just not for my dumb ass.
I got the silent red switches, which have basically no tactile feedback at all. It doesn’t bother me
Yeah, you'd probably want to sign the content in the URL and verify the signature before displaying. Sound doable, if someone would actually take that idea serious...
I wonder whether they'll experiment with Windows compatibility in the WSL2 layer as Extend[1] phase, to possibility utalize it in a future upcoming distro creating an Extinguish[1] situation.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...
I don’t think parents were ever meant to play hide and seek with their children for hours on end, but to let them go play with the other 4 year olds and relatives in the village, give them bandaids and hugs when they fall, have them be back by sundown, feed them food and tuck them into bed by 8pm.

But in todays atomized and helicopter parenting with liability world, you can’t do that and thus parenting is a lot more work than it should be.
I guess I'm not surprised. Articles on contentious topics have always had people trying to control the narrative. As Wikipedia got more and more widely trusted/respected, you'd imagine that people would pay money to do it.

I assume there have already been attempts at decentralized, more democratic versions of it?
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Honestly, I thought this will be a post about the cost to civilization of something as sucky as JavaScript powering the Web.
> Those dynamics are central to Fram’s ban. Egged on by Fram’s insistence that the foundation had actually banned him because of a grudge, and stymied by the foundation’s refusal to name the complainant, Wikipedians began to scour his history on the platform, looking for someone to blame. Much of that blame fell, perhaps predictably, on a woman and a transgender editor.

Much of that blame fell, predictably, on the one and only person we know that the Wikimedia Foundation had taken the essentially unprecedented step of bypassing the standard community process to intervene against Fram on behalf of. (Because she publicly said so on her userpage, and Fram also confirmed this.) Framing it as though folks were just picking on some random woman because of misogyny is downright dishonest.

This framing is especially dubious since this seems to involve an area where the Wikimedia Foundation has had conflict-of-interest issues for a long time and where people's distrust of the Foundation demonstrably has nothing to do with gender or sex - the Wikipedian in Residence program. The Gibraltapedia fiasco, for example, involved entirely white cishet men so far as I can tell.
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It seems you could make a law out of this - something like, "The amount a site values its community is inversely proportional to the community's size."

Anywho, seems it's time to look at federating Q&A.
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Would the owner bounce their significant other for that behavior? Their sibling or close friend? Would they give more chances to those they favor and less to those they dislike? No one expects the owner to be truly impartial in that scenario, but we do expect that of Wikimedia foundation.
> I keep hearing complaints in the US that EU regulations strangle companies, but as a consumer I’m wildly envious.

It's all a matter of what the regulations actually are. Most of them get sold as "consumer protection" but in practice are written by the industries the consumers are supposedly being protected from, in order to create barriers to entry and destroy competition.

> The US is sold products that force you to buy more “juice” and make messes.

Is there something forcing you to buy those ones? Can't you just order the EU one and have it shipped to you in the US? (And if the thing preventing that is regulations, well, "we need more regulations" is probably the wrong fix.)
I have an example that I haven't yet uploaded of an entire (small) site in one URL. If the links are all to be URL Pages, the site has to have a strict tree structure, otherwise there is a circular dependence/chicken-egg problem.

I could see this issue becoming problematic with a browser implemented based on this idea, unless I am misunderstanding something.
I mean, I assume that they don't actually care about small companies, they don't have much money anyways. In these scenarios, they tend to act as a "loss-leader" for marketing purposes, mostly.
I am not sure what do you mean by "decentralized, more democratic versions of it", but one problem with that plan is that Google is going to put x.wikipedia.org in the first place in search results (where x is your country code).
At one point, JP Morgan had more money (and power) than the US government, so that is not surprising.
With an exact algorithm you could use, for example, 3-SAT to attack most if not all classical encryption algorithms. The know approximations are obviously not good enough for that, otherwise we would already be in trouble.
The pillow is depressed as though a person were lying there. The shape of the depression even seems to imply the shape of someone's shoulders.