skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That has not been my observation, it seems to me that it has been other individuals making a "think of the old people" argument. Now that is anecdotal but I have not heard many of the elderly I know voice fear over the situation. Concern maybe but not fear. It also helps to frame what we term as old I am not talking about someone in their 60's still fit and able to enjoy life. My frame of reference has been my very elderly grandparents and the friends that they have left. I have heard more complaints about loneliness from them than fear of death. Now I have heard them express that they would rather not go out by COVID as it seems like a pretty crappy way to go.

I don't think anyone ever truly gets over the fear of the process of death. I know that while I do not fear it, if I imagine myself burning to death or falling to my death in a plane crash with other people around me screaming in futility. I can give myself that oh crap I hope I does not go down like that feeling, but that is different than being terrified of being dead.
Can you reframe their "pity" as an expression of sympathy? Or is it the way you're telling them "OH, well I HAVE to walk now." Instead, say "Well, I get to walk now, see ya!", show them you're happy with the decision.
The first bullet point on the Amazon listing for the WRT54GL is “Linux-based, open-source firmware allows you to customize your device”.

The original WRT54G supported loading third party firmware, until Linksys removed that ability in V5 by switching from Linux to VxWorks. After the backlash, Linksys released the WRT54GL which was able to use third party firmware again.
https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/26...

Anecdotally, the only reason I bought a WRT54GL was because I could run DR-WRT on it.
No the line appears to be: "we love opensource, unless it messes with some BigCorps businessmodel, in which case a letter of nebulous legal fudge is enough to delete your repo without due process"
Also, nitpick, nobody's blocking Persians. I'm not Persian but if I go to Iran I bet I'm blocked too.

I'm strongly opposed to these sanctions, and I also think GitLab should've given people notice so they could get their data out. But I'm not sure it's a good place to pull the racism card.
Tool to check if your information has been leaked (based on e-mail) https://www.tietovuodot.fi/
Submarine communication: an aquatic device extracting energy from ambient noise
A dangerous hole in US vaccine safety
Having an active maintainer fixing security bugs as they arise isn’t “finding new problems to solve.”
The RIAA is specifically making the allegation that "the source code was designed and is marketed for the purpose of circumventing YouTube’s technological measures to enable unauthorized access to our member’s copyrighted works" [1], justified by the references to copyrighted works in the youtube-dl readme and source code. If it wasn't for that, it'd be much easier to argue that it's designed for non-infringing purposes only (or one of the other exceptions to the DMCA's TPM clauses), like you could plausibly argue for libdvdcss.

[1] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-2...
what is wrong with SMS? I don't see how it is easily compromised.
> Actually the RK3399-based Chromebooks are the "most-rootable" device you can buy today, by a long shot.

No, they aren't: https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/
The person who claimed to be the "hacker" commented on Finnish 4chan-like board (kuvalauta) that the credentials to access the servers were root:root. AFAIK there's no evidence for or against the claim, but if true, I see two quilty parties here.
Fair enough. I didn't realize there were Show HN specific rules.
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-2...

> and in plain violation of Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §1201.

Doesn’t mean it’s legally valid, just that the service provider must take it down until they receive a counter.
Ten years ago Google sent me a Cr-48[1] and I spent two years as a beta tester. I always assumed it was to be some sort of web terminal, but beefier than a netbook. I am stunned how far it has progressed (he writes on his Chromebook)...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook#Cr-48
He Just Disrupted 400 Years of Banking and Financial Services in 24 Months
So why can't we crowdsource some Youtube partners that are willing to allow their copyright to be used, while still utilizing the obfuscation?

Or are we talking a sweetheart deal only available to specific parnters ?coughvevocough
I always find the fascination of programming courses with mathematics to be interesting. In my mind, it is pretty clear that programming is a technique, that can be applied in any field. There is of course the field of programming programming languages, which does tend to require mathematical knowledge. Statistics is also an extremely broadly applicable mathematical tool, used today in almost any field.

But in general, knowledge of biology or sociology is about as likely to be useful in your programming career as knowledge of mathematics is - domain-specific knowledge of the domain you are programming for is the real key. If you're programming a biology or sociology tool, those will be more useful than maths. If you're programming a mathematical tool, of course maths is extremely important. If you're programming a library of base algorithms, algorithm knowledge is important.
There’s a big difference between the pull and push models.

The pull model is where I provide you with my details, and you draw money from me. Credit card numbers are the best-known mechanism for this. Ecommerce uses the pull model almost exclusively, because it lets the retailer confirm the payment and start the next step (fulfilment of goods) immediately.

The push model is where you provide me with your details, and I send money to you. This is seldom used for ecommerce because it requires reconciliation, for you to observe that you have received the money (which may take a greater period of time, depending on the systems involved—a lot of the world still operates on nightly clearing) and correlate payments with orders. This is used for much more casual things like people sending money to one another, or for larger amounts of commerce where transaction fees are much lower this way and maybe you don’t actually need the payment to be confirmed today.

For the pull model, your payment provider needs to know how to take money from the account details I provide. Sometimes this doesn’t work out, e.g. if someone has an American Express card but the merchant only accepts Visa and Mastercard.

For the push model, each sender needs to be able to target money to the account details the recipient provides. For example, I may be able to send to an Australian bank account by BSB and account number, but if you give me an American bank account, I won’t be able to pay to it directly but will have to figure out some kind of international transfer, potentially involving routing it through a third party.

The payto: URI scheme is the push model. For payto://stripe.com/… to make sense, each person’s bank would need to know how to send money to the nominated Stripe account. But that’s not how Stripe works; Stripe payments operate by the pull model.
I last tried Wayland on Ubuntu 19.10, but quickly went back to Xorg after discovering some issues trying to share my screen on Zoom. I don’t remember what the issues were specifically, but given that Xorg was working perfectly fine, it wasn’t something I was willing to spend much effort troubleshooting.

It sounds like screen sharing is a known problem area? Does anyone know if they have fixed these issues in later versions of Zoom or Ubuntu?
Is there still 2G coverage? My impression is they are taking down 3G endpoints now.
Stop pushing Orwellian tracking because your family is in danger from it not protected by it. Watch yourself militia will get you if you keep messing with their freedom. Stop pushing us toward civil war where millions will die.
I’ve bought a few dictionaries to keep around in case we reach a point where the definitions of words are “adjusted” to fit the narrative. Fascism is one of those words.
Just read that article:

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/808cf690f8e801381778002590d8e...
For the most part, I actually use Lynx to read HN. So it should be relatively easy for you to see how that feels. For added spice, you can install a screen reader like Orca and activate the "virtual braille viewer". That will give you one line of text, usually 40 or 80 characters long. The screen reader will largely follow the terminal cursor. As long as you are just editing text, that is all you need. For reading things other then around the cursor, you basically have a few buttons to move the braille display "window" around on the screen.
This is a heavy blow for the community, regardless of where forks show up.
I would add lots of kids in lower income homes are exposed to music being played by family members, peers, school programs, or church groups (examples). It's true that these kids might not be playing Mozart but there is nothing wrong with bluegrass, gospel, or whatever, to instill a love of playing music.

Maybe listen to "Juke Box Hero" or "Coat Of Many Colors" for inspiration on how people from modest backgrounds can have the same fulfilling experiences as wealthy people. (sorry - personal soapbox)
Why whining, just head over gitee.
Competition is good.

Light Phone II is 300 USD.

There was a FOSS project announced on crowdfunding platform, called Blloc [1]. Its a launcher for Android, for minimal, distraction free use.

[1] https://www.blloc.com
Or host your own GitLab instance in Iran.
> Pretty sure RIAA/MPAA aren’t targeting China (yet), it’s still a bittorrenting Wild West according to my Chinese sources. They’ll need lawyers specialized in Chinese law and be prepared to navigate a foreign legal system if they want to look that way, frivolous DMCA takedowns that they file hundreds a day won’t do.

Pretty sure they already have Chinese lawyers. While suing every single BitTorrent user would be an exercise in futility, the effort is much more justified when limited to the handful of big video platforms, where the licensing fees are enough to offset the legal costs of enforcing compliance. Those platforms are using their licensed content to convert free users into paid (e.g. first few episodes are free to get you hooked, the rest requires a VIP account), so they also have an incentive to prevent pirates from undercutting them with a free copy on their own platform.

I think torrents will get less and less popular in China due to an increasingly mobile-first user base and rising incomes making paid content more convenient that piracy. I know someone active in the subbing scene, and they recently had to handle an entire subtitling project on their own because the other members quit the group. (I don't know why they quit, though. Maybe they just grew out of the hobby.)
What is needed is also liability for those responsible for managing that data, and maybe an argument that certain data shouldn’t be created to begin with?

Content of therapy sessions should maybe not have been kept in a digital format to begin with.
>Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. //

That's not why, that's just reiterating what one does.

Recently I came across a thesis by Dr Pychyl that in fact it's emotional - you're looking for a win, a win based on your intellect (or whatever aspect you're exercising). This fits for me.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303933104579306... has some leads to follow.

Pychyl has a YouTube channel and a website on procrastination: http://www.procrastination.ca/
Open source code, books and knowledge should never be blocked, until we learn this we are no better than the people we are trying to "punish" with pointless and ineffective sanctions.
How did you enforce this style guide, e.g. to make sure that sales cannot simply write a proposal in Tahoma instead of your company font or marketing publishes a newsletter in Arial using underlined words (gasp)?

A couple of years ago I had to spend a considerable amount of time PoC'ing platforms and tools claiming to solve this issue and I remember there were virtually none that did this on-prem using established Office programs, without a four to five figure investment. The organisation in question ended up using password-protected Word files with forms (a royal pain). Before that, they had been using Excel files (apparently it's easier there to lock parts of the sheet you don't want users to mess with) but this was an even bigger pain as Excel still has this decade-old bug even in its latest version which distort graphics when row height is changed...).

Long story short, I'd be curious how you solved this and what software you used.
A device by Fadel Adib of MIT not only broadcasts and receives sound. It is also powered by sound.
Just because it's written in the RFC doesn't mean that's how it's going to work.
Mostly, no benefit over Gutenberg.

Though you could compare such sites based on:
- individual title design (cover, ebook formatting/layout)
- curation of titles and authors based on genre, literary period, country, and other factors

Legally, books are freely available where public domain status for a book is recognized. In the U.S., that is practically anything published before 1925. In most other countries, it's 70 years after the author or translator's death.

Gutenberg decided to block access to its main site in Germany (where I am), to resolve copyright claims.
Not likely but quite definitely, the price of violating US sanctions is quite high, no one wants to be at risk of being made an example of.

Depending on the actual sanctions these might not require a blanket ban on paper but in practice there is no effective way of performing sufficient KYC for every individual from Iran to comply with the sanctions even if they only target specific individuals and institutions.
When Americans talk about “socialism” neither side is talking about modern Sweden. American “democratic socialists” have a distaste for markets and a love of centralized federal power that is really quite different from Social Democrats in Sweden: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/bernie-sande...

A good example is healthcare. Sweden has universal healthcare, but it’s highly decentralized and managed at the municipal level. Sanders is not proposing something like that. He rejects the ACA, which has state-run exchanges that could be expanded to provide universal coverage. Instead, he supports a single centrally administered federal insurance system. As noted in the article above, this love of centralized power is quite different than the countries Sanders invokes as models:

> Although Sanders often justifies his plan by referring to Canada and European countries, they generally achieve universal coverage without the degree of centralization he is calling for. The Canadian system is financed and run at the provincial level. Many European countries have multiple insurance funds and institutionalized bargaining among stakeholder groups, with power devolved on regional bodies. As in the case of tax policy, Sanders’ policies are more traditionally socialist than those of most of the countries he invokes as models.

There are many other examples: https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-report/swedens-less...

> If Sanders and Ocasio‐ Cortez really want to turn America into Sweden, what would that look like? For the United States, it would mean, for example, more free trade and a more deregulated product market, no Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the abolition of occupational licensing and minimum wage laws. The United States would also have to abolish taxes on property, gifts, and inheritance. And even after the recent tax cut, America would still have to slightly reduce its corporate tax. Americans would need to reform Social Security from defined benefits to defined contributions and introduce private accounts. They would also need to adopt a comprehensive school voucher system where private schools get the same per‐ pupil funding as public ones.

> If this is socialism, call me comrade.

Sanders is a left wing populist, not a Swedish social Democrat. While Swedes are cutting corporate taxes, Sanders is demonizing Wall Street and saying “billionaires shouldn’t exist.” His political is a politics of class warfare: unlike Sweden which taxes everyone broadly to pay for social services, Sanders promises to make “the rich and corporations” pay for everything. Sanders is ideologically much closer to someone like Jeremy Corbyn, who admired Cuba and the USSR and largely missed the boat on the market-oriented revolution in thinking that distinguishes Sweden circa 1970 from Sweden today.
It’s odd that this question which specifically refers to “legal obligations” appears on skeptics.stackexchange.com and not law.stackexchange.com. But the accepted answer hints at the true position when quoting another source that says “the business judgment rule ensures that, contrary to popular belief, the managers of public companies have no enforceable legal duty to maximize shareholder value.” That is, as pointed out in a less-upvoted answer [1], there is indeed a legal duty to act in the (financial) interest of the company and its shareholders, but courts allows for some risk-taking and for value to be realised over a long period, so you can’t prove a breach of the duty solely by reference to share prices.

[1] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/25118/19389
That's really cool dude. Keep it up!
Big ideas and concepts can come from this!
I'm very unlike the author in that I mostly dislike the terminal and I really like IDEs.

That said, I think he's onto something here because, invariably, the IDE experience for embedded programming sucks. The amount of chipsets that pretty much force you to use an outdated compiler toolchain with some shitty unmaintained Eclipse plugin, or Visual Studio 2008 or whatever outdated piece of shit, is baffling.

I'll never understand why professional embedded developers just suck this up. I know large companies that develop enormous C codebases in stuff like Notepad++ or SlickEdit with ancient toolchains, no way to attach a debugger, and no way to automate tests. When I moved from embedded programming to web dev, I moved to an environment where people care about their own productivity. I can't understate how different that is, it was a breath of fresh air.
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How did you find SELinux was doing its job and how long did it take?

I gave up on SELinux about 20 years ago when it was a source of endless frustration, or was that 15?
> You want to access YouTube videos through an alternate client, as is your legal right in the European Union?

Do you have a source on this? I can't find anything about this through a quick Google search, but I'd love for this to be true.
all accused are allowed even provided lawyers.
I know this was written somewhat tongue in cheek but it mostly didn't resinate with me. Instead, my guess is I procrastinate mostly when the project I should do is both not well defined and probably going to talk a long time to finish.

In particular I should spend a large portion of my free time (I'm between jobs and not actively looking) trying to make something that will let me be my own boss. Instead, for example, I decided to make a new web app. I'm guessing I tried to make the web app because I thought I could get to MVP in 1-3 days. It ended up being about 20 days, 8-12 hrs a day. But when I finished I wasn't remotely closer to doing something that will let me keep the freedom I have right now. Instead I piddled away those 20 days of productiveness on something that for the most part has no meaning.

Worse, although I made it to MVP it will arguably take another 1-2 weeks to get to "maybe/probably good enough others will want to use this free web app" and, probably because it doesn't seem like too much work (it will be more than I suspect) and because of the sunk cost feeling, if I stop then it was worthless, I'm feeling somewhat compelled to keep working on it, to continue to procrastinate, instead of spending this free time between jobs, or at least some portion of it, doing something that might let me not need a new job..... sigh
This is a false equivalence, and victim blaming. Using root:root credentials is sloppy and poor dev practices, but that is minuscule compared with extortion and inflicting widespread stress on a vulnerable population.

There’s a reason we have laws against both negligent manslaughter and first degree murder, and there’s also a reason why the penalties for the latter are much more severe than for the former.
That’s not a takedown notice and does not allege that the repo is infringing any RIAA copyright. They are alleging instead a violation of the anti-circumvention provision of DMCA which is not covered by takedown notice procedure. The letter is also missing several required elements of a takedown letter which makes sense because it’s not a takedown notice nor does it purport to be one.

It’s just a letter making demands that cites the DMCA. It carries no legal weight other than the implied threat of a lawsuit.
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>Why wasn't this mentioned in the Bible?

After the Cain and Abel story, doesn't Cain go off and settle in some other city? If those people don't present a problem in explaining origins, why would extraterrestrials? They would be completely un-un-precedented.
- youtube-dl should be re-named to something like webvideo-dl

- I'm not familiar with the ytdl codebase, but I believe its already structured as a general framework, with separate per-site extraction functions. The central framework should be stored in a "webvideo-dl" repo, and the separate extraction functions should be contained under separate repos - e.g. "wvdl-plugin-youtube".

This solves two problems:

1. If "wvdl-plugin-youtube" is DMCA'ed, the rest of the project continues to function.

2. Separate "plugins" can be maintained by separate teams. It sounds like the original youtube-dl was already running behind on responding to issues and PRs, prompting the creation of the youtube-dlc fork.
What a defeatist attitude. What you unkindly label as whining, I see as advocacy for a good cause. Blocking access to gitlab does nothing but strengthen the autocracy in Iran and prevents Iranian devs from making a living and supporting their communities.
Much of the US is decades ahead of Canada in that regard too. (New York City being a notable exception.) We were supposed to have our own law equivalent to the Americans with Disabilities Act or what you describe, until Prime Minister Trudeau watered it down so much that it became meaningless.

I'm encouraged to hear that things are also improving in Sweden, although respectfully I'll reserve judgement about the problem being "fixed" until I hear it from a handicapped person. It's remarkable how much we overlook - I recall one disagreement with coworkers over the presence of a step to get into the restaurant they had just entered.