skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like if you want to make that statement (it'll ruin your software) you need more than a hypothetical example. There are some good ones in memory.

1. Netscape Navigator - was such "spaghetti" that they had trouble re-architecting it to allow it to keep up with evolving web standards, and then put everything into Navigator 6.0 which ended up running like a snail. (Second system effect). I'll note that according to jwz, it was written by people working lots of all-nighters.

2. Microsoft Word for Windows. Apparently had a ponzi-like accumulation of technical debt as they kept adding features to the release and writing code that looked technically correct but was known to be flawed, relying on testers to find the bugs they had known they wrote. Took version 2 for the bugs to get ironed out to a usable state.

I've tried coding with some open source programs that are mostly being used for a company's internal process that are basically piles of technical debt, but it'd be rude to mention.

I'm sure there are other great ones, but now that so much software is SaaS, we're probably not going to hear about it, because the release dates aren't as obvious. To me, eBay appears to be one, as they are trying to remake their web application to be more modern but it has tons of warts all over it.
There are huge opportunities happening in China all the time. They are doing new projects and creations that we do not have in the West, again - all the time.

Rare opportunities to be involved in something big are just not how I would characterize China if you've been there in the past 5 years.
This is not a new thing, DMCA was also used to take down specific plugins on Streamlink (tool to download livestreams)

https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/issues/1493
My understanding is that you will owe taxes on all 10,000 shares, since you were in CA when they were granted. Vesting dates don't matter.
How is this not perjury again? They need to be punished for this harshly.
There are more dimensions to this question than "are they behind or not?".

In most areas, western technology and capability, given the will, still leads China. However, China excels at getting capabilities fielded and generally benefits strongly from a unified desire to leap ahead. They can often accomplish things that are potent, but executed in a cruder way than would the west. No matter though, if they can field the capability and it is "good enough".

At least in the U.S., profound dysfunction and misalignment of incentives exist between high-level intent at the Secretary of Defense level and fielded capability.

A historical trope was that the Chinese are not creative problem solvers or researchers, unlike the west. Anyone paying any attention to relevant technical areas should be thoroughly disabused of such thinking. There is some impressive conceptual work China contributes to the technical literature.
Very happy to see this too!

In Emscripten we've had to emit a handler like that by default, so that test suites don't silently ignore errors. Being able to not emit it will avoid some code size and annoyances users have had.
Not looking for Github specifically, but a Github-equivalent where the entire contents of the repo could be pushed to for continued development.

If not Russia, any other country that has more freedom than the USA in software, doesn't take crap from the US, AND doesn't block Youtube.
Why in the world did they include copyright works in the README? That's contributory infringement!
YouTube-dl is a great tool that I've found use for a dozen times, and not once to download music or music videos. (Note that it works on sites beyond YouTube.) This takedown interferes with a number of legitimate uses that are completely independent of the RIAA's objectives.
> in the UK you need to be over 18 to buy even just kitchen knives

There's a "Challenge 25" (formerly "Think 21!" IIRC) policy which covers these kinds of situations - although it is just a voluntary agreement from the major retailers.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sale-of-knives-vo...
Please share your thoughts as well as the verse you think supports it.

I don't see it just from reading this verse (and knowing the section).
This is my preferred way of thinking about it too. I wouldn't say debt in general is universally bad, and so I wouldn't say the same thing about technical debt either.

Technical debt can save a company by pushing something forward and launching a product sooner than a competitor. It can save a big customer by fixing a bug for them quickly that if not fixed immediately would have caused them to cancel a multimillion dollar contract. It can also eat away at a company if you let it accrue for decades and never pay it down.
ok so I might just be stupid but how does that link let me clone the repo?.....
Isn't there a 1st-amendment exception for code? The code isn't violating any copyright.
In New York, you need to be over 18 to buy Sharpies and spray paint.
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Funny this happens right as everyone is scrambling to save JRE episodes, before he goes to Spotify.
This is exactly the issue. Growing appreciation for this kind of stuff often requires a level of understanding that a lot of the people in the industry lack. You can't miss what you don't know about.

I'll give some examples:

You cannot appreciate the extreme simplicity of Pascal or other Wirthian languages if you never wrote your own compiler. For the average developer, it is just a procedural language with weird excessive syntax, annoying separation between interface and implementation and way too picky about where you declare your variables.

You cannot appreciate Forth if you don't know how the machine works and see the beauty of threaded code. Forth then just becomes this reverse Polish notation thing that some crazy people love. They really must be nuts, as I'm solving my problems with C and JavaScript just fine. Why do they like RPN so much and why can't they just shut up about it?

So the same goes for Lisp and Smalltalk. These are not regular languages, they have operating system aspirations. What a small group of people were doing with Lisp Machines when everyone else were using line editors is completely unknown for the average developer, they just see the parenthesis and run away.

As you mention it is also the reason why I'm partial to Common Lisp over something like Scheme and Clojure. I mean, I like those a lot as well, but they don't offer me much over plain JavaScript and I'd rather use APL :)
Interestingly the article actually has 4 pages replying to earlier ones.
A claim like this is also a threat to the open-source software ecosystem.
If the torrent traffic is over a vpn out of the datacenter you're fine. If the torrent traffic is going out of that vm (like a seedbox) then certain providers may ban you. Many do allow bittorrent because of things like syncthing though.

Those seeding public torrents are in trouble if they get an abuse complaint. Most providers don't like those and will boot you off real quick.
They're probably claiming it's a circumvention device.

Some knives (switchblades and gravity knives especially) are illegal in most places. I think the UK is even stricter.
Tesla full self driving beta
BBC Micro bot: runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator
I talked to a developer from Mux a few months ago on my podcast that focuses on talking about tech stacks used by both small and large apps.

Mux serves billions of requests a month and supply one of the largest video APIs in the world.

That episode is at: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/31-mux-is-an-api-bas...
Hope this motivates a few more free software devs to move away to a free host, at least apart from GH mirrors for exposure.

IUUC importing this to GitLab would have taken ~½dozen clicks and saved the open issues, etc.?
There's angular for Google and Microsoft too, even though React is better for a lot of use cases, a lot of traditional devs still place their bets in Angular. As a brazilian a see this a lot in some regions of the country. We can't forget the differences in context of the different parts of the world
Unfortunately, it is making a copy. These guys also fucked up by "marketing" it for use in circumventing such controls. They should have showed how to pull OCW lectures.

(a)(2)(C) is the part. IANAL but that's my take.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
Would be interesting to find an explanation for the surge (and decline) in atmospheric Freon, and its replacement with other refrigerants.
Still a better idea than DRM
What on earth are you talking about? Ballmer should have been met at the airport and given his walking papers when he got back from laughing at the iPhone on the Today Show.

He basically won the lottery by getting assigned to the same dorm floor at Harvard as Bill Gates, and has been coasting ever since.
You've obviously never heard of Pet Rocks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock
What do you think produces the traditional ./configure scripts that you run to configure an open source project prior to building it? Did some human write these ./configure scripts manually?
IANAL, but regardless, according to RIAA, youtube-dl is circumventing the "DRM" built into YouTube, and therefore they're violating anti-circumvention parts of the DMCA. Therefore a DMCA claim can suffice to take it down.

Perhaps if youtube-dl used different examples (i.e. videos not protected by anti-circumvention) perhaps they could have avoided this.
I would love edn if it was viable as a standalone format. In practice, programming in clojure it's plain JSON vs transit vs fressian. I tend to go with just JSON.
anyone hosting mirror?
click code, download zip
https://pypi.org/project/youtube_dl/
> This needs free legal assistance from EFF

Legal assistance isn't free; it's just paid for by other donors: [0]

[0] https://supporters.eff.org/donate/30for30--S
Now that 4chan is behind bars, it's time to sue the Internet!
That was Gates.
Are there ever good reasons to choose a shell script over a Python/Ruby/etc script?
https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.... is a ZIP containing the repo.
I think WSL will get there eventually but in its current state it's just more tedious to use for permissions/networking/compatability issues.
Mostly things you can work around but just a bit more tinkering
Ignoring the fact that this is another ad hominem attack, judging a researcher by her/his home institution won't get you anywhere. I know dozens of outstanding mathematicians and physicists who are very well known in their respective fields and reside at less-than-well-known institutions. (Often, because their family is from there and they took the chance to go back.)

Generally speaking, in Central and Western Europe it doesn't matter which institution a researcher is from. They're all good and those at top-tier institutions are only marginally better at best.
During early wars between Islamic army vs Persian army in 634 AD, war elephants were crucial strategic weapons employed on the Persian side to rattle the horses of their opponents as the horses of Islamic army had never seen an elephant before.

Though the strategy worked, Persian side still lost as the Islamic army regrouped and specifically targeted the carriage harness to topple the rider, blinded the elephants and made them run amok causing disarray within Persian faction or straight away killed the elephants with skilled warriors[1].

[1]https://youtu.be/r2cEIDZwG5M?t=3863
Paying attention to the evolution of media and narrative over the past several years, it's as if every "mainstream institution" is fusing into one enormous superorganism mega-institution occupied by the same people, putting out the same stories and messages.

It's sort of disturbing but also really fascinating.
Why? youtube-dl is a violation of YouTube's ToS most probably, but does using it to download a copyrighted video necessarily constitute copyright infringement? I have literally used youtube-dl to watch YouTube, in the past; it's handy to be able to use whatever media player you want, including ones that have better scrubbing.
Why stop with torrent clients? They should ban all browsers, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted materials!
I don't think Microsoft needs the EFFs help.
> Kim was taken into custody on Monday—identified as one of the few Harvard wireless users who was also on Tor at the time. When interviewed by an FBI agent and an officer with the Harvard University Police Department that night, Kim admitted to sending the bomb threat emails and said that he acted alone.

Based on this it sounds like if he hadn't confessed he wouldn't have been caught. After all, it would still be on the prosecutors to prove he used tor to send the threat, instead of just using it out of paranoia or something.
I hate xml so much. But I had a exam at my university a year ago where they would let me type a validation schema for a xml file in notepad++ and a checker on a computer with no internet. The fail rate for that exam was high and the course was outdated, api am glad they updated the curriculum now. I just hope to never work with xml data again.
this is where the term "golden handcuffs" comes from. You want to do something else but the current situation is too good to risk.
Holy sh*t, is this true? CA wants to grab all your money!
I frequently use YouTube-dl, and have never once used it to download music videos and sound recordings owned by member companies of the RIAA.
They didn't like people buying VCRs either.
I don't know why this got down-voted. The milky way is 100K light years across. It's 13.5 billion years old. It's entirely possible to blanket the whole galaxy with probes, without even getting into self replicating probes.
This is pretty cool. A feature I would add to this sort of utility is to normalize text. For example, some of your own examples, and also CC are in full caps. It would be nice to have a paste-as option that would allow instant normalizing to sentence, camelcase, lower, etc formats.

Probably that option would need to be prior to capture, before the text is sent to the clipboard, so maybe the feature is sample-as versus paste-as.
A Man Who Retired at 27: Why You Should Consider House-Hacking
Creating a Drag and Drop Bookmarklet
the only thing that matters is for it to look like the consciousness has been attached.
Bell System breakup opens era of great expectations and great concern (1984)
I have a hobby project in react which I started using CRA. It only have few screen but uses material UI and few other libs so the minified bundle size already over 700k without splitting. In dev the refreshes became slow to the point where I have wait a few seconds to see result after I change a file in IntelliJ. So I wanted to give snowpack a try, and the results are amazing, In a blink of eye the browser screen is updated and state is preserved.

I read the linked issue on react-refresh on the release note, but no idea if it fast enough or not.
Actually, the advice was that the ordinary public didn't need to wear them and it was based on fears that there wouldn't be enough for medical workers as they would disappear like the toilet roll did.
The advice about masks from health authorties is based on many factors, from the pragmatic use due to supply and their usefulness in preventing transmission based on research and the advice of people whose job is knowing about these things.
The proliferation of misinformation about masks by people who can barely tie their shoelaces is at best bad information during normal times but during a pandemic, it is down right dangerous.
Their claims that the mask doesn't protect the wearer is correct to some extent but they fail to point out that the mask that I wear, protects other people.
The masks, combined with social distancing would bring down the 'r' value but because there are so many people having "learned" this misinformation and not taken precautions, we are now heading into a second wave.
This is directly the fault of these people spreading the misinformation as the cost will be many more dead, more lost jobs and more damage to the world economy.
If they had any valid evidence or even any real medical training (homeopathy is not valid training), there would be a case for them to present their case but most of the ones that I have seen, to put it as nicely as I can, are completely clueless.
Good point, though I think Arrow is optimized for larger amounts of data. Not sure how it would hold up for small messages. Still, lots of people use JSON, etc. to store large amounts of data, so Arrow (or maybe more accurately, Parquet) is a fair comparison here.
You can grab from the web archive.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201018120927/https://github.co...
This isn't a new debate; in the early days of the DMCA, it was used to go after the author of DeCSS [0], despite the fact that legitimate Fair Use cases for the tool exist (personal backups, playback on unsupported devices at the time, like Linux PCs). The case was in fact stronger there, as DeCSS explicitly circumvented encryption [1], which AFAIK youtube-dl does not.

And, of course, the infamous case of Napster [2]; while the vast majority of user behavior was obviously piracy, the tool/network itself was content-neutral, and could also be used for public domain content, or works published with the permission of the copyright holder.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

[1] https://www.stoel.com/legal-insights/article/the-anti-circum...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster#Shutdown
Gravimetric Radar: Gravity-Based Detection of a Point-Mass Moving in Static Back
Autoconf isn’t flexible enough for general purpose scripting though, is it? So not really relevant I think.
Github is obligated to take down the "offending" content as soon as they receive a DMCA notice. It's then on the owner of that content to file a counter claim to restore it.

Even if the content is not in violation of DMCA, your files will be gone for a day or two, or longer depending on how slow the publishing platform operators are to process the counter claim and how long it takes to file the counter claim.
The conversations happening on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jggx3l/falseho...
In terms of geopolitical significance, such as ability to wage war (modern industrial wars being heavily dependent on manufacturing capacity) then PPP is pretty relevant. If anything, that probably under-estimates China’s industrial capacity compared to the US.

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/20858/top-10-countries-by...
Isn't it possible to do in any system with CPS as well? I've not tried it but I would expect to be able to have a "conditions system" using the CPS monad in Haskell, for example. And Haskell doesn't even have variables the way most programmers think of them.
To be fair, more like Microsoft® Office® OneNote™; it has a camera feature and an automatic OCR feature and a “copy text from image” convenience feature.
Yes, a couple answers here: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html#shouldnt-we-dis...
TBH, I don't know lisp and I have no clue what you just wrote. Someone new to PHP can just be told $something is how variables look like. And they will recognize variables forever from then on. What's a variable in that lisp code, or in any general lisp code? I have no clue at first glance.

I didn't say it's necessary for the parser, but it's useful for the learner/user.
Sure, for instance EWSB by strong dynamics such as Technicolor. Here's a well known review from back in the day: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0203079

I'm not sure we're done with composite models. There are more exotic alternatives and then the fact remains that neutrino masses aren't in the SM.

I consider pretty hopeless to keep thinking that you can modify GR like plasticine in all the instances in which putting amounts of matter that doesn't radiate works (maybe it works because it's there and its effects on other stuff is how you "see" it). It has the appeal of making some people feel like they can call a whole profession or several a bunch of crooks, and that's pretty much what it has going for it outside of the scientists working in earnest on it.
msgpack users:

- Fluentd & Fluent Bit

- Microsoft SignalR https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/signalr/message...
This is part of the DMCA process. Github takes it down until they get a counter-claim from the repo owner, don't think they really have much of a choice in it, legally.
Well the actual Q posts routinely give false predictions - I think I recall one where he said that hillary clinton would be arrested on date X, which obviously never happened. Also there was some kind of thing earlier this year about coronavirus being a hoax to scare the elites into saying indoors to make them easier for trump to arrest them (lol)

But that said the general idea that powerful people can get away with pedophilia and probably all sorts of other crazy stuff should be undeniable by now given Epstein and his associates
Jacl: Just Another Configuration Language
Do you mean the situation generally in the DRC or specifically in the mines? Any articles/relevant links?
Wow I didn't think they'd host ZIP files of every commit of every repo.

Where the hell do they have that much hard disk space, and who is funding them?
It's not that they didn't have a plan, it's that the plan was so thoroughly ill-conceived and ill-executed.

iOS has not been unified with OS X, and Android has not been unified with Chrome OS. And all four OSes are quite successful despite the lack of unification. Meanwhile, the Windows RT Surface tablets never took off, and the Windows 8 unified experience was universally recognized as an unmitigated disaster on launch day, if not earlier.
Not sure why it was downvoted. Many people have looked into this. https://gtocx.jpl.nasa.gov/gtocx/competition/ Even entire competitions to find optimal colonization methods. Could take 90M years with measly future human tech. Age of Milky Way is 13.5 Billion so even conservatively you could indeed colonize the galaxy many many times over in that time.
You also loose out on more powerful adblocking features that cannot be implemented with content blocker API
https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130325/https://codeload.... is a link to zip of master from commit 4eda10499e8db831167062b0e0dbc7d10d34c1f9, which was around 18/10/2020
Maybe, if you're not paying for data transmission costs.

Binary formats win for the following cases:

- payload size

- serialisation/deserialisation speed

- simplicity of client / server code (e.g. replacing a full blown HTTP server with a simple ZeroMQ one)

Sure, having payloads that are human readable is great for initial debugging/verification, but once things are put live it's just an unnecessary expense.
The problem with their argument is that youtube-dl is a video camera. The US has already rules that video cameras, VCRs, DVD recorders, etc are all devices with legitimate uses, and you can't stop them from being made or sold. A movie theater is within its rights to ask patrons using video cameras to leave, and Google would be within its rights to lock down Youtube.

The RIAA is fishing, and all the precedents are against them pulling up even a minnow.
Youtube-dl is not a Microsoft's project. If they send a counter-notice to GitHub (they should), per DMCA Youtube-dl is exposed for liability when GitHub restores the repository (but GitHub is shielded from liability after they restore)
Is there an alternative to github that is resistant to denial of service attacks^1 like this?

1: At this time this is just a baseless accusation and there are no repercussions to the RIAA for blatant abuse. Why wouldn't they simply send a takedown for anything they don't like no matter whether it is legal or not?