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Because you can run your bash scripts with Oil. The tagline is:

It's our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. [1]

It's basically the same as JS -> TypeScript, or PHP -> Hack. It's a saner language (and runtime) that runs existing code.

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Shell is good for creating Unix systems because of the tools it provides. Ones that deal with the file system and heterogeneous processes (i.e. stuff you didn't write in different languages).

It's hard to explain, but if you work in that area, you'll very quickly see it. You could also do something like Linux From Scratch [2] and it will be very clear why shell is used.

[1] http://www.oilshell.org/

[2] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
People really need to stop quoting tangentially invented technologies as the justification for CERN to exist, if I was to gather the same group of scientists to ask them to build the best Lego set possible with 50bil they would have also produced the same tangential technologies.
As another comment pointed[0], there is a mirror on gitee: https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872999
Where does Signal prevent you from using your own server? Spin up your own and use it if you'd like.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
I find this hard to agree with, even though I really want to agree because I want the Chinese people to have the freedom they deserve. But the facts aren't right. China in the 1980s enjoyed a similar period of increasing freedom of speech under the leadership of Zhao Ziyang. We all know what happened in 1989. But the economy kept chugging along just fine.
You realize that Gmail blocks most of that by default, right?
> For example, numerous people asserting that QAnon, and conspiracy theories (conspiracy theorists) in general, "are" or "believe" certain things. If one pays close attention to these threads every time they appear on HN (or elsewhere, be it social media or formal media), one may notice that the asserted descriptions are always very vague, and always only include the very worst/silliest of ideas that exist within the communities - very often, ideas that really don't have high consensus agreement in the actual communities themselves. And again, with no with no concern whatsoever for whether the assertions are actually true.

Wikipedia defines Qanon as "QAnon[a] (/ˌkjuːəˈnɒn/) is a far-right conspiracy theory.[b] It alleges that a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against US President Donald Trump, who is battling against the cabal"

The ACTUAL TRUTH is that... there is not a cabal of Satanic pedophiles plotting against Donald Trump.

If you want to claim that there's isn't a firm consensus around Qanon supporters about the exact definitions of this conspiracy theory, I'm still going to go ahead and say anyone in this vague ballpark is missing a few marbles. Qualifying that Conspiracy Theory != False is not a valid argument to deny that this theory, and many others, are obviously false. Debating the semantics of what a theory is or isn't to each subjective viewer is tiring and false and not a real debate.

I say missing a few marbles, and that's rude, because most conspiracy theorists are genuinely suffering from a degree of paranoia and extreme distrust. They believe that others are lying to them, and affirmation of that belief is appealing. But they're still terribly incorrect.

This happens on every type of definition, from Feminism to Socialism, to Nazism. If you want to have a nuanced discussion about aspects of QAnon in the context of what it means to you, you need to recognize that there's not point in pushing the brand. You need to state specific issues with their own identity.

All the logic in your great wall of text is nullified and is more or less amounting to a reverse straw man. Implying that an outrageous claim has merit because a severely watered down version of it might be accurate.
The only way to fight DMCA abuse is through a lawsuit. Hopefully they setup a legal fund, because I would certainly donate.
It is messed up in practice, yeah. The counter to that is supposed to be that if you submit totally bogus claims you can be prosecuted for an actual crime, but as far as I know that never happens, at least for the big players.
Great point.

People saying "You know what, I was wrong" is incredibly rare in public internet forums. Nearly non-existent in a lot of places.

But it doesn't mean that they didn't shift their beliefs. And if nothing else, they may not spread it again.

You'll just likely never know.
People have been spewing nonsense like this for decades.

More emotion.

As if customers being happy with a product is a worthless concept.

No, customers not being able to look at things with a reasonable sense of perspective and ability to judge things reasonably impartially is to be borne in mind when considering sweeping claims. Somewhat different.
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All but 8 states can start processing ballots before election day. Unfortunately, 3 of those 8 are MI, WI, PA. So it may take longer for those.

Florida will likely be an early sign, since those mail ballots get processed and counted early. IF (and this is a big if) Biden carries Florida on election night, then it's actually possible we know who wins that night.
As I pointed out elsewhere in the thread, Signal uses SGX to let clients confirm exactly what version of the contact discovery server software they're running against:

https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

It's not bulletproof by any means (https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/ goes into this, and also points out several features they've used SGX for since), but it's certainly something, and they're doing it.
For the love of all mighty, if you happen to use the TS template DO NOT FOR A SECOND assume you’re using it in strict mode.

For whatever reason CRA has a different hidden env var flag that controls this even though you have a “strict: true” in your tsconfig file.
Oh golly. To think that people would quote my own words to answer Hacker News questions...

(Thanks for the assist!)
It's kind of amazing that computing in general, and the internet in particular, is as open and free as it is (contrast with the closed end-to-end "appliance" model of gaming consoles, or to some extent iOS). Cory Doctorow has been ringing alarm bells for over a decade about both technical and legal efforts to end general purpose computation itself, or at least to make it more the exception than the norm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Com...
I think you are misunderstanding the legal argument. The DMCA Section 1201 specifically prohibits (among other things) technology that "is marketed ... for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title." The example in the README is evidence of this.

The argument is that youtube-dl is primarily used for breaking DRM not just that it could be used for doing so.
That's extremely unfair to Ballmer- Ballmer made lots of bets and put a lot of effort into them. Some were given up on- the phone, but you can't critize Azure, among many. Microsoft has developed lots of products and can develop more. They did plenty under Ballmer. When they fail they try again, or invest more effort.

Google has only one cash cow. They don't know how to develop products and how to win customers. I feel like products at Google get developed when someone has a bright idea, and then as soon as they get promoted they go do other stuff, and the business isn't really about nurturing a new product. All they care about is their big ads cash cow, with which nothing can compare.
Be careful. Those counts are for registered party, not vote. R membership has been slipping in the last few years and an exceptionally high number of prominent Rs have endorsed the D candidate. This year, those ballots are likely to break more toward D votes than the party registration suggests.
A forced restart which ignores the save prompt applications show on close is a crash, plain and simple.
Declining is an option, but one you don't seem willing to take.
I'm still disappointed that no country in Europe would give him asylum.
+1. Apple isn't the same as it was under Steve Jobs, but it's stayed successful and relevant. I miss the old Apple software quality — the Apple apps were once a reason to use macOS or iOS, and it's pretty rare I actually use them anymore — and the stronger hardware innovation (Watch is cool but not industry-defining on the scale of the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad), but the overall Apple ecosystem has if anything grown stronger under Cook... And their edge on hardware has grown significantly, especially with respect to chip design, to the point where their in-house-designed ARM chips are likely to give them not only a generational advantage on phones, which they already have, but also soon on laptops and desktops as well. Apple under Tim Cook isn't going to wow the world with innovative new products to the same degree it did under Steve Jobs, but its product lines will relentlessly improve and Apple will in many ways stay ahead of the competition because Tim is a great operator. I can't say the same for Ballmer: not only did Microsoft innovate less successfully under his leadership than Apple has under Cook (at least Cook has Watch and Airpods!), but also Microsoft's cash cow product lines didn't do well under his leadership — Windows 8, for example, was a travesty.

That being said I'm also very impressed with Satya Nadella, and have recently been using Windows more and more again, something I thought would be pretty unlikely (to put it mildly) a decade ago when Ballmer was at the helm. I'm pretty excited about future products from both companies.
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In many jurisdictions knives of certain length or design are illegal. To posess to manufacture. In short to exist.

Many many other tools are deemed iheirently illegal. Guns, explosives, motorcycles over certain CC, encryption software, etc.
Copyright lobby has been pushing the line tighter every year, every decade.
But ~anyone can host it.

Re: your edits, yes, DMCA reform is also important, and quite arguably more so. But decentralizing from GitHub would still slow takedowns down, and have other benefits.
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I tried all kinds of alternatives. Lately I used context a lot. But still Redux always wins :-)
I got into software through a paid internship at a webdev company that was spinning out a startup on the side. The founders were great folk who invested a lot into the tech/startup scene in the city. They also invested in their employees and into me. Without them, I wouldn't have had the head-start that I did. I'm not suggesting that companies should be compelled to behave like this. I am saying that there's at least some social/ethical/civic responsibility a company has towards its employees.

If you've hired someone and they aren't doing a good enough job, it's in both of your best interests for that person to be trained and supported appropriately to help them improve. If they still aren't up to the job you should part ways but at least you've both tried to make it work. Employers and employees cooperating in the pursuit of aligned interests like this has nothing to do with control. Independently deciding what's good for people and how they will best learn sounds like it has a lot to do with control but that's what you're suggesting, not me.

I do agree that failure can sometimes be a great teacher. In my experience, the best work happens in places where it's acceptable to fail and where failures can be recovered from. Safety nets exist to allow for more risk and more failure, not less.
That's just the first page. The others were less politically charged and match the title appropriately.
This person's classmate copied and re-posted their exam as their own: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-2...
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7493 says to use an ISO 8601/RFC 3339 timestamp, uppercase, with timezone, with seconds. IOW, Javascript's toISOString() or equivalent.
I am very sympathetic to this. I like the concept of a shell (there's a place for light scripting that doesn't involve python or perl or ruby), and appreciate what bash can do, but after encountering enough of the "gotchas" and just ugly behavior, I'm not really motivated to master it. The biggest reason to learn it seems to be the fact that everybody uses it and has done so for years.

We need something akin to Jupyter notebooks for unix.
The former gives money to the original content owner for every listen while the latter does not. Which is why you're able to listen to it on youtube without having to personally pay someone.
Not sure about you, but universities as institutions that historically had only places for upper class men with no room or tolerance for anyone who didn't look like them isn't exactly the pinnacle of morality. One might even consider that a morally bankrupt starting point...
> The RIAA is fishing, and all the precedents are against them pulling up even a minnow.

Unfortunately there is a lot of precedent for the lawyers of a large organization bullying a smaller one and getting away with it.
History doesn't lend much hope for that.
DMCA is a bad law, but you'd have a harder time arguing a general purpose web browser meets any of the following conditions:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

(2)No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that—

(A)is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;

(B)has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or

(C)is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person’s knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
> Github is obligated to take down the "offending" content as soon as they receive a DMCA notice.

No, they aren't obligated to do anything.

Github is immunized from any liability they would otherwise have to the complaining party for hosting the material affected by the notice if they comply within the parameters of the DMCA safe harbor provision (which requires action "expeditiously" rather than "immediately") when they receive a notice.
...and I've reached the exact opposite conclusion. You aren't unusual, but I've never been able to understand how people get there any more than they understand how I have come to my conclusion.
Paris in particular comes to mind as a place that has really nice (calling them really nice might be a stretch, but they are mostly functional and taken care of) public toilets in regular locales through the city. Otherwise the typical M.O. (though this is unfortunate for lower income populace) in the US city is to walk into a food service or bar establishment, purchase the cheapest item on the menu, then use the facilities. Even this is somewhat difficult however in the COVID era when many lobbies are closed and there is takeout service only.
The covalent bonds stay the same (which is why it's still the same molecule), apart for sometimes localized modification (e.g. protonation).

The 3D structure (= shape) however, is mostly dependent on the hydrogen bonds (among other things like bisulfide bonds) between the amino acids that make up a protein. So the deprotonated variant of a amino acid side chain might not be able to interact in the same way as its protonated form, which will cause a different 3D structure for the whole protein, which in turn influences how it interacts with other molecules.
Theranos had a high market cap to, right up until the WSJ reporting revealed it to be a fraud. And on that note, there's strong evidence that multiple parties have been manipulating the value of cryptocurrencies, including especially Bitcoin, through various fraudulent mechanisms (see, e.g., Tether).

I also used to be heavily involved in cryptocurrency, when it first started, and what I saw then is a large part of why I don't see any usefulness in cryptocurrency now and why I'm convinced that it will never replace any part of the financial system.
This is like issuing a DMCA takedown on Microsoft Word because it's possible to use it as a means to defame someone.
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Going fast in a straight line with conventional rockets is achievable, just not very timely.

Bending spacetime enough to make a difference — even just to the time taken between here and Alpha Centauri — is beyond any known mechanism humans could build, even in principle, using the total resources of our entire solar system.

(Using unknown mechanisms: perhaps, but they’re unknown)
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Is there any legislative or regulatory work that is trying to address the gigantic mess that is music (or media in general) copyright and licensing in the US?

The DMCA is over 2 decades old, and seemingly nothing useful has come up since. The current system seems to do not much other than provide a big stick for the RIAA and MPAA to wield whenever they get bored and try to extract rent using law that still seems stuck in some mire of player piano era logic. The last sane system I encountered was when I was doing college radio, where you had a license to play music, were required to log what music you played, and were assured that some clearinghouse would sort out the royalties that needed paying out of the aggregate license fees.

There seems to be mass confusion over what's legal on modern services like Twitch, where music is used in the same spirit as radio (background music chosen at the whim of the DJ/streamer), but isn't legal because it runs up against licensing schemes designed for including music in TV and film productions with massive budgets.

There doesn't seem to be any clear way to handle shit as any sort of small content creator, as the rightsholders seem to want to preserve some weird fantasy land where they're both entitled to complex negotiated rights deals (which make sense if you're say, some massive entity a la NBC, and want to include music in a new big budget show) while also not providing anything for the rest of society (if you're not NBC- or CBS-sized, the people who negotiate rights contracts won't give you the time of day). If you're not one of the mammoth-class media conglomerates, your options appear to be "do not use music ever" or "use music casually, and then be on the receiving end of a massive legal bludgeon". You can't get the time (or music) of day, but if you do somehow manage to get it, then you _do_ get the time of day, but in the form of massive retroactive fees or whatever that you "should" have paid had the licensing cthulu been willing to engage with you before you determined that the rightsholders weren't interested in dealing with you.

Right ol' kafkaesque nightmare, it is.
> this seems outrageous the same way DMCA'ing a Bittorrent client would be

popcorn time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23075484
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EFF takes up these causes sometimes, right? This notice is hollow sabre-rattling, so I wouldn’t worry too much. What can RIAA do if somebody forks the project and hosts it in the Lithuania? Not much. Yell into a pillow, maybe.
Yeah lol. A# is not the same thing as B. It's the same as Bb though.

Also, how do you answer sharps or flats? It just has the natural notes as answers.
And Donald Trump has been the chief investigator going back a decade or two now? His recent trip to Walter Reed was just cover for his actual purpose which was a trip to hunt and kill some of these cannibalistic paedophiles? You aren't skeptical of that?
I hear a lot of people lament that the American dream is dead because they worked hard but still don't have the riches the thought they would have. I never understood that, I can dig holes in my backyard all day every day and that would be very hard work but it gets me no where. To me, hard work and success are just correlated in the way ice cream sales and murder rates are correlated.
"purpose"

this is the "inverse teleological fallacy", q.v.
> Using wget is enough to get you thrown in federal prison for accessing public web resources.

Example?
No it doesn't follow at all, any more than had the repo owners included a couple of public domain recordings in the repo then the conclusion that the tool was clearly intended to download public domain recordings.
Yes, please. Are not interval training and perfect pitch different things?

I'm mostly concentrating on confidence and quantity — one test / 5s, running hundreds of tests, trying to discard intervals and feel chroma.
But it's not legally the same.
Considering youtube-dl isn't doing anything a web browser accessing these sites can't do, essentially serving as a headless web browser with a convenient CLI, I don't see how this could possibly have a leg to stand on.

It's like serving Mozilla a DMCA takedown for FireFox.

I however welcome the highly visible reminder that github should only be used as a mirror at most.
4-5 orders of magnitude more sensitive?

Good luck, mate.

Real world geophysical gravity measurements are already noise limited by vertical differences of about 1cm (moving w.r.t. the center of mass of the Earth and measuring the mass of the whole planet).

Gradiometry is slightly better, but still. I say build such an instrument first, _then_ try to detect airplanes.
This is not a valid DMCA takedown request, as the claimant has not asserted copyright ownership of anything in the repository.

This notice is a conflation of two separate aspects of the DMCA, the copyright takedown process and technological circumvention devices. If the RIAA wishes to claim that youtube-dl is a circumvention device, the proper route is to sue the authors of youtube-dl. This notice is an abuse of process, and highlights the need for a penalty for fraudulent DMCA requests.
Are you in California? All the people I have seen get it so far are in CA.
They literally recommended downloading copyrighted material, which seems like a beacon of "this is primarily for copyright infringement"
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