skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah we just had to accept the new ToS a few weeks ago selecting between 1. switching to Facebook right now or 2. staying with an Oculus account for now and switching later or lose access when they remove dual login. So they made us "agree" with their ploy just to continue using the device.
By his description, he took FMLA, was fired after he came back for taking it, which would be textbook FMLA retaliation.

But he claimed FMLA interference, not retaliation, which the judge called out in dismissing the FMLA claim.
This is beside the main point, which is that Facebook openly says they will steal your property (take back your game and make your headset worthless) if you close your Facebook account, or if they decide to close your FB account, which they can and do do for no apparent reason at all, and for which you have no recourse.

It isn't OK just because they don't care. It's criminal.
There is one thing that confuses me:

>After an 18-month legal struggle, he was granted political asylum in the Netherlands, while his wife and children are living safely in Turkey.

So after such inhuman tortures living safely with his wife and kids in Turkey was not enough for him? Why on earth did he leave his family for the Netherlands? And why there was the 18-month legal struggle?

I believe the struggle was because judges are not as easily fooled as the general audience. They need real proofs, not just his own words and some scars on his hand.

All this looks very much like he just invented this horror story to get a refugee status in a rich European country. As for me, I'd rather believe the Chinese government who says it is fake news than this Kazakh-Uighur.

Another question: why not Kazakhstan if he's half Kazakh? Why first Turkey and then the Netherlands?
> (Which we now know exists),

No we don't. You've misunderstood whatever you've read.

> and they pretty much unilaterally state that there's very little spread happening there

This is untrue. Just today: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/coronavirus-r-rat...

(But there are many others showing that schools increase spread of covid).
Yes, like https://forgefed.peers.community/ which is exactly that.
In other words, instead of trying to change the laws, which is the whole idea of a democracy, just give up on laws altogether.
I could already do that on my J2ME and Symbian phones.
If you are the trusted party and your servers are secure, why do you need a blockchain?
I would like to start using Pandoc in my commercial software [1] to help convert documents into different formats, but the GPL license makes that difficult (or at least confusing.) I think it's generally fine to call a GPL program from a SaaS application. I believe it's fine as long as it is providing an optional or tangential feature, and your application can continue to perform the core functions when that GPL tool is not present. AGPL licenses go a step further and prevent access to any AGPL commands over the network, so that's when a commercial license is always required.

Am I allowed to distribute GPL programs contained inside a Docker image for on-premise installations? Do I just need to provide proper credit and a link to the source code?

Or is there a commercial license available for Pandoc? (I couldn't find anything.)

[1] https://docspring.com

UPDATE: I've decided to evaluate pandoc and see if it might be useful for supporting Markdown and Word formats, etc. If it is, then I'll reach out to John McFarlane and ask about a commercial license (or just something in writing), perhaps in exchange for sponsorship on GitHub.
That's one of my all-time favourite talks, but I lost the reference, and googling "JavaScript talk" is futile.

Thanks for the link, I'll be sure to bookmark it this time...
It's not just the output of their team; compared to people like Bellard (and John Carmack, Jeff Dean, Peter Norvig, ...), 99.99% of people are mediocre. Increasing the output of 100 mediocre people by 20%-30% is worth more than contributing one person's output, even if it's 10x or 20x.

And I would argue the difference between a mediocre manager and a good manager is more than that.
Not a good endorsement. Google sells very shitty hardware and on top of it their customer support sucks.
I beg to differ. PP seems to see nothing wrong with Facebook breaking your property - that is, rendering your games and your hardware literally useless - simply because FB doesn't "care" about VR.

No. Wrong. This is clueless. If I spend a few hundred dollars to buy a headset and a game, Facebook has no legal or moral basis to take it away from me just because I won't use their other services.

It isn't a "privacy" issue. It's a theft issue. Being pro-theft is clueless.
Right-handed neutrinos are a prime candidate for dark matter. The possibilities and exact contributions depend on whether neutrinos are massive or not.

The article glosses over the fact that massive neutrinos are not part of the mainstream Standard Model, but depend on semi-detached and unconfirmed extensions, such as Majorana spinors and (P)MNS mixing matrix:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontecorvo%E2%80%93Maki%E2%80%...
If Epic fought against console stores, people would say they are completely fine with Apple's store.
Right, but 17 USC§117 only applies to programs, not video. Who provides me the license to copy the video from the buffer of the network card to main RAM, and then to GPU ram, and then to my screen?
Source seems to be on GitHub in a private repo from this [0] account, according to this [1] image on the submission page

[0]
https://github.com/mudita
[1] https://images.ctfassets.net/isxmxtc67n72/3tX0E1fLT8J9Twtao4...
Sort of off-topic, but for digital detox I've found that a phone that doesn't at least support WhatsApp, Signal, and a few other Android apps would be useless as a phone for me. I can't remember the last time I've used my phone for something that doesn't involve data, so I would rather detox temporarily with no phone at all.

In case anyone has any suggestions: For a more sustainable long-term detox to avoid extensive screen time, I'm trying to find a very minimal Android device that can preferably be de-Googled (with Lineage or related Roms) but definitely at least supports a few basic Android applications but isn't very comfortable to use for just browsing. It's surprisingly difficult to find a small-display Android device these days...
drawing parallel, if someone research on ads published in news paper and news paper says you cant do that. This is crazy, wake up FB
That's the point, you're not talking about money, but about debt and risk (people always forget about risk and insurance). What there is to know about credit cards, really? I pay something today with it, then I pay it back at a later date, it's debt.

This will to complicate things more than they need to comes from banks pretending that they are "cool again" and have all sorts of different products, when in reality banking is the most boring thing ever invented: here's some money now, you'll give it back to me at a later date with an interest.

Moreover, by your remark "communist utopia" you're perfectly showing that I'm right in calling for more literacy about history, philosophy and politics. This isn't communism in any possible form, au contraire we're still moving well within the boundaries of capitalism.

communism isn't about abolishing money, or debt
They do actually mention 3 specific copyrighted songs used as examples in the tests. Seems to me that was on oversight, and they should have only used open videos as tests in the repo. Similar to how Kodi can't use copyrighted material in app store screenshots or videos.
I have a background in some computer related mathematics, not once in my entire life has anything but the most trivial of it (basic logic equivalences) been of any use. That's deeply sad.
I learned the other day that Dutch company ASML is the only company in the world that makes the extreme ultraviolet lithography machines that the various top semiconductor foundries use in their sub 10nm processes (TSMC, Samsung, Intel, etc). Seems like a critical company in a high value niche that will have value into the future.
> Wouldn't this be better with design by contract by having first() enforce length>0 then turning off assertions if desired for release code?

I would say very much not, but maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean, or maybe you're misunderstanding the language?

What I'm getting from your suggestion is

pub fn first(&self) -> &T {
debug_assert!(self.len() > 0);
unsafe { &* self.as_ptr() }
}

which is a straight UB in "safe Rust" as soon as you invoke it on an empty slice (or vec), which is completely verboten.

What you could do is have a separate `NonEmpty` vector either by construction or by assertion, for which `first` wouldn't be failible (but other operations would be).

> Also OP should have mentioned not matching none is an error otherwise there's no point

That actually is irrelevant to the story OP is telling. They're talking about null-safety, match-completeness is an orthogonal concern (and one they don't really care for here, they just want to operate on a present value).
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That argument is :-o levels of bad.

"If the legal obligation to maximize profit for shareholders existed we would have to develop a good definition of how is is to be measured."

Translation of this bad argument: "Everyone uses words differently, so laws are impossible."

We have almost a century of stockholder lawsuits, some successful, to show how ridiculous this argument is.
It's a fun hack, but to those thinking about streisanding the source: The strength of ytdl and other downloaders isn't their source code, it's the extensive library of scrapers that are tailor-made for individual sites.

The devs have to constantly maintain and update those to keep working when a site changes its design.

So if the takedown manages to stop ongoing development on ytdl then even existing copies will become mostly useless pretty quickly.
I am quite curious about the old London coffee house culture. Why don't we have it today? Could we recreate it? Do we have it today in another form? Have they been mythologised? Is it an example of the September effect?

It's talked about as being a place where relative strangers socialised and had substantive conversations on politics and philosophy that changed the history of ideas whereas today they are places to be "alone together".

My best guess is that clientele were so filtered by opportunity/access such that they resembled a business cafeteria or a private members club more than a public venue. I guess the closest thing today might be a subject specific meetup. I suppose that if trying to recreate one, you might want to base it around the service of a novel stimulant that can't be found elsewhere that encourages frenzied socialisation. MDMA cafe anyone?
From the linked-to Nature article:

> Earlier in the pandemic, media reports claimed that Sweden was pursuing a herd immunity strategy by essentially letting people live their lives as normal, but that idea is a “misunderstanding”, according to the country’s minister for health and social affairs, Lena Hallengren. Herd immunity “is a potential consequence of how the spread of the virus develops, in Sweden or in any other country”, she told Nature in a written statement, but it is “not a part of our strategy”. Sweden’s approach, she said, uses similar tools to most other countries: “Promoting social distancing, protecting vulnerable people, carrying out testing and contact tracing, and reinforcing our health system to cope with the pandemic.”
Interesting point, I hadn't actually considered what the power consumption of RPis is. I use a few around the house to do various things. Honestly though, the only reason I've used one here is that it was lying around unused. As you mentioned, if I were buying something myself I'd use a different, smaller controller.
I want to use it in commercial product, is it allowed?
I think it really depends what kind of mathematical exploration you want to do.

If you are interested in something similar to Mathematica or Matlab, then probably Python, because it is used as a language in SageMath: https://www.sagemath.org/

If you're interested in numerical computing, then there might be other choices such as Julia.

If you're interested in theory programming languages, logic or category theory, then Haskell or even more esoteric language (theorem prover) like Coq or Lean could be interesting for you.
"math" is a massive area, arguably bigger than all of computing (just because it has a longer history).

If you wanted (for example) to learn about group theory, the best tool is gap (https://www.gap-system.org). It satisfies your requirements -- an open source system, with a language which hasn't broken backwards compatbility in over 20 years.
That seems pretty natural? The only reason why you don't have this in e.g. python is that iterators are often implemented as generators, so the "own type of iterator" is implicit. But I remember pretty much the same thing from my Java days, if you need to iterate you have to create an iterator type. It's a bit less visible due to type erasure but it's there nonetheless.
For the other devices the prices are fairly close considering exchange rate, VAT and added warranties. So the most likely explanation is the "Powered by up to a 10th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 processor" line. The base model in EMEA will be one of the higher speced ones.
>Relying on other countries can't ever be a long term solution.

It is the only solution that can put any pressure on the US in a macro sense. The DMCA is a uniquely American creation, and it will remain in tact until the US starts losing intellectual capital to other countries. Such a thing is not likely to happen any time soon, but in a decade or two, the US will still be arguing which Larry owns the copyright to a header file, while China and others would have moved on to far more interesting challenges.
The feature’s called alternates. You can use it on-the-fly without modifying any repos by using the GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES environment variable.

If you want the effect permanently, there’s the .git/objects/info/alternates file. For HTTP remotes, there’s apparently a .git/objects/info/http-alternates file as well (no idea how that works though). I’m assuming these files allow multiple alternates as the environment variable does.
I never made the logical connection between the historical and modern iterations of kaffeeklatsch behaviors and social media, but you just did. Kudos.
Right now I would start with Typescript with Deno. You learn to code the syntax of the web (javascript) without much of the headaches of building and tooling of ts/js/node.
Epic is just playing stupid games for their bottom line and then there are all these hippies, the same ones that believed in junk like Google's "Do no evil", routing for Epic, without realising that they just want their Epic store, with their own exclusives.

It is going to be such a major fail, thankfully some lawyers will be happy.
New Airport, Beleaguered Symbol of ‘Irreverent’ Berlin, Is Opening at Long Last
A very small fraction of experimental science is about just doing something and seeing what happens without a strong prior. You are expected to do your homework first. As a scientist, your role is typically to read and understand all the relevant prior work in the area first, then using this theory to derive a hypothesis for the outcome of your experiment. If you are lucky, the way the experiment unfolds might be outside your understanding, given that your understanding of the prior theory was correct, you have made a new scientific discovery which will be used to create new theory.

The fragment of uncertainty in this is typically very small and the process is very far from guessing your way through, hoping to find something new (whatever you found using such a method will most likely be either already known or incorrect).
A transistor has moving parts: electrons.

More importantly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_electronics:

”The term "solid state" became popular in the beginning of the semiconductor era in the 1960s to distinguish this new technology based on the transistor, in which the electronic action of devices occurred in a solid state, from previous electronic equipment that used vacuum tubes, in which the electronic action occurred in a gaseous state.”

⇒ the term doesn’t reference the hardware being solid.
> Has the tech improved significantly since then? I'm also skeptical of wireless headphones

i used logitech h600 for a decade, they had a usb-bt dongle which connected instantly, the range was good, they were lightweight an cost around 60euro at the time. i liked them but the battery died.

replacement is 50% heavier has no mic-arm and the bt connection is a mess everytime.

i'd say no, bt-headphones have not improved.
> I am quite curious about the old London coffee house culture. Why don't we have it today? Could we recreate it? Do we have it today in another form? Have they been mythologised? Is it an example of the September effect?

I think arguably we're posting on a modern one right now.
Considering how Apple doesn't want either OpenGL or Vulkan on macOS you shouldn't be surprised.
pricing it at 300+ is insane.
My dentist (in Norway) has had a machine for doing this on demand while you wait for years. Both of my crowns were done this way:

- take X-rays to diagnose the problem

- take photographs of the existing tooth

- set the machine running to make the crown

- grind away the surface of the old tooth, drill out whatever needs removing as usual

- apply adhesive

- fit new tooth

- adjust tooth slightly to fit by grinding as usual for any filling.

From arriving at the dentist to paying the bill is less than an hour.
Many psychopaths assume a position where they are given trust and they can exercise control over vulnerable people without being questioned. I have seen these people working as pain specialists. They get money from pharma industry and prescribe ineffective pain meds or do it in a way that harms the patient. Some tools in their box are telling patients their pain is only in their heads, that they are nothing wrong, asking patient if they come to get drugs, prescribing opioids where other way are more effective, cutting the doses so people feel withdrawals and so on. The biggest nightmare of these people is medical cannabis as it changes perception of pain and in many cases they lose power over patient.
From the standpoint of someone who produces music as a hobby, I tend to pay attention to sound quality
The problem being solved isn’t how to have cleaner teeth, it’s how to sell people more expensive toothbrushes when the existing options do the job perfectly adequately.
The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?
As a Samsung employee, I'm a bit worried if there could be a governance dispute. Due to the Samsung Group not having a holding company, and the high amount of the inheritance tax in South Korea, the current major stockholder Lee Jaeyong, who is the son of Lee Kunhee, may have some difficulties maintaining the current governance. I hope this does not lead the company to a crisis.
I use FFmpeg for many years, and I did wonder many times why isn't there a CLI that would be simpler to use but still useful for most tasks.

To my knowledge, no project succeeded in doing that. It's not difficult to code a simple reader and a basic encoder, but then you have many cases not supported correctly, as you wrote.
Nope, Corsair does not officially want to do anything with Linux.
TikTok would welcome you
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Regulators have a hard enough time believing true things about encryption and back doors — I expect that if regulators see FB do this and have a problem with it they will say “your problem, not ours” and order the split anyway.
Computers fail first because the memory content gets corrupted. I can imagine, that power electronics will continue functioning despite radiation.
If only needed for the home you can get RF wireless headphones with analog inputs and a powered docking base that does the transmission completely transparent to the source. So no driver needed and you can use them for the TV or whatever. Another benefit is the excelent range and low lag compared to bluetooth. Ergonomics also, pick them from base and they turn on and "pair" instantly. Most (all? are without microphone though. Sennheiser RS 195 for example has decent sound. I owned a cheaper Panasonic one.

BT is very convenient for me for work. I own Bose Quiercomfort 35 II. Active noise cancelation, simultaneus phone and laptop connection. Good sound quality. Range is very small compared to RF, lag, linux BT in headset mode has bad quality. Occasional pairing issues all solved in 1 minute but annoying.

My wired set is Sony MDR-1AM2. Same price range as the Bose. The sound quality is so far ahead of the BT that I can't listen to music on the Bose without feeling cheated. You just plug them to whatever you need and don't worry about anything, battery, range or interference, pairing, etc. Comfort is also better because of the weight.

Overall I would say unless you have some special need wireless is more headaches and low quality sound. Get a good wired pair of phones with microphone (my Sony has it) and get a cheap true wireless pair for the road (I have Xiaomi TWE 2) and that's it.
This is what I use, too. No qualms whatsoever
> The issue with bluetooth is the lag, though. I don't really care about that as I mostly listen to music or watch movies, but if lag is important to you (say for video-conferencing or games) then the usb-wireless may be a better route. But I get the feeling that those models don't really attempt to address high audio quality.

Is there any benchmark out there for bluetooth audio lag vs usb-wireless?
> at least insofar as they do not work on the kinds of things that I dislike Facebook for.

Why do you draw that distinction? Do you believe it's possible to work for Facebook without at least indirectly benefiting the company as a whole?
Not in my experience. I have two Acer Notebooks. They don't get much use now simply because they are a bit underpowered for a lot of current software but they have been working flawlessly for years.
Or the Spanish Flu, which we don't call "Spanish" anymore.
The change is gone now, I literally watched it disappear. I really hope that youtube-dl can bounce back from this. I mean what's next, Kodi? NewPipe?
I don't think you understand what innovator's dilemma is.

Facebook is poised to crush the rest of the industry. They have the cash, talent, distribution channel and brand to do it.

Innovator's dilemma happens when
1) a low-priced, low-feature startup takes on higher-priced incumbent. High priced incumbent ignores low-priced startup.
No one can go lower than FB on pricing

2) Fear of cannibalizations (EV eating Gas-guzzlers for GM, BMW). FB has always let Insta, WhatsApp and Oculus to run like startups with plenty of freedom. Oculus is not a threat to core FB, but an enhancer.

Bottomline, time to load up on FB stocks
Exactly, I think it's trading write efficiency for readability. It's good for write only projects (so mostly personal projects I'd think)
It shoudl not be a problem if GPL code is called from separate app and it output is used. Of course It's best to consult a lawyer.

Also what in GPL makes this difficult to use it commercial software? You are even free to sell it after all.

Also using AGPL doesent require to use commercial license, where does that come from?!