skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I'm a fan of zero touch where I as a developer submit my code repo to app store like play store, apple app store, flathub or something and they just build it using a standard definition that the store defines and make it available on the store. Kind of feels like a lot of effort for every distro to look at every change in every application...
I'll attest to cycling being a great reliever of stress and anxiety, I don't know what I'd do without my daily commute.

But while cycling is good for thinking, when I really want to get some thinking done and sort out my problems, going for a long walk in nature is my preference.
> People using different implementations will come across different issues too.

...which is the biggest problem of Wayland in my opinion.

By defining protocols only, we now have the development fragmentation problem. The desktop experiences will be more inconsistent between DEs than the era of X11, and minor DE users eventually are forced to switch to major DEs like Gnome because other DEs won't have enough devs to maintain its low-level implementation.
They are not whining, and GitLab could have notified them about the account suspension, and sent them a link with their archived account data to download.
The fix can be submitted on the previous release branch. If that branch doesn't exist, it can be cut off of the old commit the release was made from.

If your objective is to improve security, this is better than getting a version with myriad changes that may introduce new bugs.
> [F]or my friends and colleagues from the 10%, discussing income inequality has become a sort of social signal to show that you yourself are too smart to be poor, but you still feel bad for all the unfortunate people that were left behind by capitalism.

> Does discussing inequality so much become a self fulfilling prophecy for the low-income strata? Does it simply benefit the current winners of the status quo?

I suppose it depends on whether the discussion stops at the "Oh Noes" level, or if it continues to discussing how the 10% (or the 1%, for that matter) gets co-opted by the 0.01%, and on to various proposed remedies[0], and then on to more explicitly political activities such as support (in whatever form) for specific policies, organizations, and candidates.

[0] Campaign finance reform is probably the ur-remedy that enables most others.
Sounds to me like you want a regular phone.
> If you haven't legitimately obtained Taylor Swift's Shake it Off

Obtaining Taylor Swift's Shake it Off from a public YouTube video without watching ads is a legitimate way of obtaining it. That is exactly the point.
> This leaves higher application code to handle duplicated messages.

True, better send twice than never.

> the client connects later than the server send

Server only responds, never sends anything.

> overwhelming the network

"broker" is handling it nicely

I strongly agree that zmq will not fit in every use case. Always search for best option.
If California wants to keep the non-whites out, they're doing a pretty poor job of it.
Yep, usually gets picked up when a company ends up getting SOX compliance before going public. While OFAC sanctions are not strictly speaking part of SOX, every audit I've seen ends up putting them in place anyway.
F-Droid works fine without malware even for non-technical people (if they managed to instal it).
Why would that be? Caring about VR and Facebook are entirely orthogonal to one another.

It's like saying that people who like the color yellow are unlikely to like chocolate.
It’s weird because apple recently added IAP family sharing but I’ve yet to see an app add support for it (I can see why though, it’s easy to get people to double dip when they’re in a family and can’t share it)
As a summer-job 30 years ago I was working with moving stuff around the university. We had wagons to drag the stuff around everywhere. Everything was very accessible, you can even get between the buildings without stepping outside thanks to tunnels above or below ground. Elevators or long slopes where there is need. The local university is a relatively new one, about 55 years old so I guess it was planned from the beginning.
I worked as CTO of two companies for about a year. I tended to work a full day for one company then a full day for the other to lessen the context switching. It was hard work, but it was fun and very beneficial to both organizations. You really do focus on editing (what projects matter, what solutions matter, which candidates do we offer, coaching w 1x1s) which has much more of an impact than IC work. In fact, the only issues I ever had were classic time x resource tradeoffs, since I so little time for IC work.
Nobody said that they were equivalent, just that there are multiple guilty parties. Not guilty of the same thing, but guilty nonetheless.

It's not victim blaming because the victims are the patients. The people who were in charge of securing the records and left the creds as root:root are not victims.
Apologies, but I don't understand your comment. The original article said X.org is unmaintained. Your comment basically replied "it works for me and I like it, Wayland doesn't cut it".

Sure - great opinion - but doesn't change the state of the world, which is that X.org is unmaintained and all the real development firepower has moved on to Wayland.

We can all have opinions and I kind of agree with yours, but the article is about the realities of life and facts which we need to accept.
There's a sort of 'iron triangle' of news stories that get emphasis depending on the political cycle.

1) Size of the national debt

2) Number of immigrants entering the country

3) Hunger/poverty of existing countrymen

Depending on how the mood of the reader is to be manipulated, the proper story is crafted.
I think part of it is that corporations hadn't really been invented yet. So for any venture too expensive for one person, you needed to gather backers... and they had to gather somewhere.

Maybe we should think of this as the slime mold stage of capitalism, before real permanent multi-cellular entities got going.
Are there alternatives outside the reach of the US?
What's your alternative to sanctions that's more effective? War?
Hey Holgerd,

Here in Belgium, OSM-BE we will be sitting together with the 'OnWheels'-app which does pretty much the same.

They are talking about moving their database of POI, collected by their community into OSM and by improving the OSM tagging scheme at the same time. We have no idea where it'll go to, but it might be based on MapComplete (https://pietervdvn.github.io/MapComplete/index.html).

We are having a talk the 28th. Please send me a PM via OSM to 'Pieter Vander Vennet' if you are interested in joining.
The RIAA letter was a takedown notice, tho from the looks of it a rather frivolous one.

They used a DMCA (17 U.S. Code § 512) takedown notice not to complain about infringing content but to complain about "circumvention" (17 U.S. Code § 1201). This is probably outside of the scope of DMCA notices, but courts often rule like common people would not expect (shout-out to Google vs Oracle).

Github then followed the letter of the law (and case law and jurisprudence) and processed the takedown request without looking into the merit, just making sure the notice had the required elements under the DMCA. Doing anything else would potentially open up Github to liability.

Now it's up to yt-dl to file a counter-notice, pointing out that the RIAA members do not actually own any copyright to the code itself (and maybe also state that yt-dl is not "primarily" a "circumvention" software according to 17 U.S. Code § 1201), and see what happens.

RIAA can then file a lawsuit, which at this point they would probably win just because they can throw more money at it. Hurray for the US civil law legal system, where the richer party almost always wins.
Can anyone point me to docs/code where the internal pandoc format (AST) is described please?
Someone just needs to create a swiss army knife headless browser streaming file saver/converter and leave out any text about how to download youtube videos with it.

Then the community can be like Popcorn time and say, ahem, no copyright infringing code here.

Or a version could even be released w/out the test cases and or README files that make any reference to any type of "illegal" activities.
I’d lurk and read old discussions for a while before posting for sure. I think that though they do lean heavily towards the theoretical side, they do discuss pragmatic aspects as well.

I’ve only ever lurked there though, and haven’t even done that in the past few years. Things may have changed beyond just the decrease in traffic that I have noticed.
It could be a combination of both. Usually it starts like: "I have to leave a bit earlier because I have to walk". From then there is pitying/sympathy.
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I love StreetComplete but I wish it was faster at discovering nearby quests, it can take many minutes if you are in a new area and have many quest types active.
On the flip side, I've only recently started using an IDE (vscode) after using a pretty light vim build for almost a decade to learn full stack app development (there's no demand for a crusty scientific programmer). I've also recently ditched my arch+awesome wm box for a mac.

I'm blown away by the features, speed of code completion, tooling, and great built-in terminals. These's were all the features I've wanted for a while but always seemed kind of clunky in vim plugins (I didn't look too hard :)). I'm still not a fan of the memory footprint but I have plenty of it.

I'm not an embedded guy, but Makefiles are super versatile, I still use them to automate everything from building large latex docs to trivial git commits. I consider Make one of the greatest pieces of free software developed.
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> Granted, the response to that didn't make much sense - the current law doesn't have to directly affect end users for us to make a reasonable prediction based on it that laws proposed in the future would attempt to do just that.

You're right. I assumed the OP was arguing that Article 13 itself somehow regulates ad blocking software, which is the only way I could interpret it so as to not be a non sequitur, but in doing so I made a non sequitur myself.
There should be a non-SMS messaging app built into all those pure/light/offline phones. I have a lot of international friends and international texting is prohibitively expensive. Even if they would need a special app just to communicate with me, it would still be miles better than having no option at all. Same goes for VoIP calls, I don't care that it doesn't have WhatsApp/Telegram/Discord but I do care that there's no option to contact people from other countries without selling my kidney to afford it all.
This sounds awful! Do you have excerpts from his platform or policy pronouncements that support that interpretation?
I wonder what countries, if any, give the patient the right to
have obviously non-critical information deleted from his health records. In Norway, at
least, if you talk to a shrink, there's no easy way to have the
record of that conversation deleted; you have only to sit and
wait for something like this to happen.
...which is much better than the current state of the web, which is "(nearly) everything is funded by advertisements".
Ah I get it now. My question was like asking why mailto: links don't take SMTP servers into consideration.

In the US, this is going to be used to print checks ;)

The ACH links will be opened by the check printing program to print the check and send it through the mail.
Pretty much every western country has implemented the WIPO treaties equivalent to the DMCA. You can't flaunt copyright law without causing headache for the vast majority of contributors.

The productive next step is to make youtube-dl compliant with copyright law, namely by removing the TPM-circumventing code from youtube-dl (`YoutubeIE._decrypt_signature`), and making the marketing material reflect that it's designed for non-infringing or exempted uses only. Unfortunately, you can't 'put the genie back in the bottle', so it's unlikely the original authors can continue to be contributors.

In the long term, put energy into reforming copyright law.
I'm surprised that the author equated embedded programming with IDEs! In my experience that's where the IDE programming fares poorly because every environment is different (so everybody has their "official" IDE that you need to relearn) whereas the low level tools tend to be fairly standard (you usually have a vendor-provided GCC toolchain and a few command line tools for generating images and flashing).

I know that IDEs are incredibly popular nowadays, but I do 100% of my development in Vim without any issues. It does require proficiency with the command line, Makefile and shell scripting though.

For instance the Makefile shown in TFA is not great, in particular because it doesn't track changes on header files. My personal template looks like:

NAME = my_prog

CFLAGS = -Wall -O2 -MMD -MP

SRC = main.c foo.c bar.c

OBJ = $(SRC:%.c=%.o)
DEP = $(SRC:%.c=%.d)

$(NAME) : $(OBJ)
$(info LD $@)
$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $^

-include $(DEP)

%.o: %.c
$(info CC $@)
$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $<

.PHONY : clean
clean:
$(info CLEAN $(NAME))
rm -f $(OBJ) $(DEP)

# Be verbose if V is set
$V.SILENT:

Note that it hides the actual commands being executed unless you set "V" on the command line, which I know some people actively dislike.

The "magic" here is the "-MMD -MP" flags to gcc to generate header dependencies and the "-include $(DEP)" to integrate them in the Makefile.
That's not correct - OpenBSD is being actively maintained. Although they're using a lot of old, stable and proven software, they're also doing security and bug fixes and even creating new functionality.
Putting post like that is nothing more than whining, as it doesn’t change anything. Want to do something better? Write some petitions, make a campaign or anything other, but bashing company that have to comply with US laws is just stupid. Sorry if this is unkindly and defeatist for you.
> just throw output eDP1-1 scale 2 in the config and you're set

Why? What? Why? The system exactly knows the DPI of all attached displays, why does it still need explicit configuration in 2020 to support HiDPI?!
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It’s not a takedown notice and doesn’t follow takedown notice procedure. It doesn’t claim to be a takedown notice.

RIAA sent a letter asking GitHub to take a repo down and they listened. They weren’t legally obligated to but they chose to and that’s their right. A counter notification wouldn’t necessarily do anything since the original letter was not a takedown notice. GitHub can’t be compelled to host something they no longer wish to host.
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Sadly to the point. I feel for Iranians in Iran (I know many, whether they call themselves Persians or Iranians as expats is their choice and I respect that).

Having had the opportunity to meet the former in their homeland so so long ago, many Americans do not understand how grueling the sanctions regime system is for average Iranian citizens in their everyday; this is sadly a minor example as I saw based experiences a decade ago. It does not impact government officials as much as we hope, and the citizens are far, far less empowered to force government change to break free of a system sanctions hopes to disincentivize (I will not even waste time here, Google and look, even recent attempts lead to backlash).

As a Westerner, and a lover of HN, I would love to see data-driven examples of sanctions actually working. Was South Africa are only positive example from US sanction strategies? I will go look, but this is one of many examples in Iran of us causing resentment and confusion for citizenry and not really helping. (For Americans, this is a not a red-blue problem if we talk long-term approach, all political parties have sided with sanction strategies in the long-term for a while: Cubans and Iranians we have punished and it has not really seemed to help us _in the long-term_ shifting their governments and policy objectives, but I would love to see evidenced counterpoints.)

The first time I was struck by this perverting are efforts in explaining open society to citizens of countries with indifferent governments was a decade ago, when SourceForge did the same thing. We respect the rule of law, but to spite the faces of democratic cultural principles. Oh well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1073903
From my comparisons, the base model in the EU is not generally better-specced than the base model in the US, and on top of that, some higher-specced versions never make it to the EU at all.
The only thing Iran is guilty of is insufficient deference to US hegemony. Any other charge you levy can have its equal found in our so-called allies in the region, or even the US itself.
oh_sigh
Install your own GitLab -- it's on-premise.
> The argument in favour of Free Software was won, philosophically, a while ago.

This is what depresses me. It was won, like you said -- yet there's a new generation of tech-minded people, even here (or on stackoverflow, reddit and many other places), who are not Joe Averages and who don't acknowledge the matter is settled, who disregard the old arguments, and who will argue walled gardens and locked down hardware are good things. Surely you've seen this too. It's really disheartening, and probably part of the wider phenomenon of younger generations unwilling to learn and understand old battles and hard-won rights and lessons.

To be clear: I don't mind people not knowing about the history of computing. Nobody is born knowing. But actively arguing for less freedom, freedom that was once part of hacker culture -- that hurts.
> This procedure will also happen with youtube-dl if they decide to counter-notice.

They might decide not to counter-notice, because there's a big trap in the DMCA counter-notice: as far as I know, for a DMCA counter-notice to be valid, the one doing the counter-notice must agree to be bound to the jurisdiction of an USA court. If the youtube-dl author is not from the USA (I think he's from the EU), that would expose him to legal risk.

(As a non-USA person, to me this is the most evil part of the DMCA take-down system: even a defective DMCA notice leads to a dilemma, either you keep the content offline, or you risk being sued in a foreign jurisdiction you have no control over. This is also why I believe one should always prefer to host in one's own country, so that any dispute can be resolved by the local courts.)
Funny to see an odd quirk from my hometown pop up here. We visited the current tree (Son of...) as school kids and heard the story.

Imho, it's persisted in Athens, GA lore because of the idea's memetic virality rather than legal validity.

In other words, people find the idea of a beloved tree that owns itself just and right, and so do what they can legally and simply play along when legal possibilities are insufficient. Effectively, the tree wins a cultural victory.

The idea also resonates with two major themes in southern heritage and culture, now that I'm looking at this from an older pespective: quasi-religious responsibility to the land and an ethical struggle with slavery of intelligent beings.

The first is fairly self explanatory, in the Teddy Roosevelt-esque mold of being stewards of nature, while using its bounty.

The latter... post-Reconstruction southern culture has a complicated relationship with the idea of slavery in broader form, for obvious reasons, and manifesting in myriad ways (healthy and unhealthy).

So the idea of a living being (undeniably) beloved by its owner (undeniably) being granted freedom from ownership on the owner's death... is about the only just and moral tale you can tell with respect to a tradition of slavery (leaving aside the inconvenient "it took until the owner's death" timing). Note the legend sourcing back to ~40 years pre-Civil War (1820s), although obviously maintained post- as well.

I'm not one to pull current hot button topics into tortured historical analogies, but here I think it's apt.

The concrete idea of a tree owning itself is dumb.

And yet, the people of Athens, GA and visitors want to believe in a world where that's possible. And for ~200 years have acted to support that belief.

As a child, it instilled a belief in me that the legal system existed to codify our desires, not limit them, regardless of how odd they may be. Which probably wasn't the worst lesson for a young child to take away.
I have worked with with healthcare professionals for decades, have never once met seen an MD or nurse take pleasure in seeing a patient in pain. I’ve interviewed over 10,000 people to date.

We live in two different computer simulations I guess.
standardebooks also has much better quality - typography, metadata, table of contents etc. They have a proper styleguide as well.

See this simple comparison of what the metadata looks like for the same book (Kidnapped) - https://gist.github.com/captn3m0/ec44b93636b83c1b9f78bfc64a8...

However, due to how both these efforts are treating copyright - planetebook seems to have a better coverage of newer books (standardebooks doesn't have 1984 for eg).
The author quotes part of it, but Orewell's discussion of fascism is still relevant [0].

[0] https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/e...
> After all, if you're not going anywhere, what is the rush?

I have IBS, so getting to a bathroom. When I have an attack, walking makes things much worse, combined with the fact that it takes forever to get anywhere on foot it’s a recipe for disaster.
no sanctions may[0] be equally effective as sanctions.

[0] https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/reser_e/ersd201803_e.pdf

The literature isn't conclusive either way, there's evidence in both directions. But sanctions definitely tend to hurt everyday citizens more than they hurt the targeted governments. Dictators and cronies aren't going to have to worry about increased prices of goods - they get whatever they want - that's sort of the point of being dictator
> Gives me time to think, to unwind, _sometimes to read_.

Uh, sorry, what do you mean by "read"? You're not one of those people who reads books while walking down the sidewalk, are you?
There were over a dozen largely incompatible definitions of fascism on the page you linked and you cherry picked the one you happened to agree with. I feel like that sort of proves the author's point when says the word is applied too opportunistically.