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> While we'd prefer that Microsoft would simply [...] reject their DMCA requests

Yes, they should and could have done that, all the more so, since justification for the request is on thin ice.

> Microsoft can take the easy first step of resigning from RIAA in protest

What should that be good for? Rather they should use their influence there to prevent such nonsense in the future.
Leftists see conservatives as intolerant, conservatives see leftists as intolerant.

The whole point of political discussions is pointing out the intolerances of your opponents without using physical violence.

I think that 99% of people are intolerant. The 1% being, of course, those that agree with me on everything.
There is nothing unique to the Japanese to this website. Nothing about this website would stand out to any Western visitor roughly 15, maybe 10, years ago.
Triggered by Snaps/Flatpaks (Luke Smith)
I agree. When I teach intro computer programming to law students I often provide snacks, because I think it makes the class more effective.
If you may, please explain to me what a language server is and how to implement one.
First of all, I'm thrilled someone looked at the footnotes - thanks :)

I was flippant about the arguments against longevity only because other authors (linked in the appendix) have done such a thorough job of making the case already. The goal of this piece was to help push the longevity discussion past that a bit.

Completely agree that the arguments against longevity should be taken seriously. I just happen to think they're wrong.
By attempting to trademark WebAssembly you've outed yourself as a hostile actor.

You don't then get to go and complain that the community isn't treating you well. They're right not to trust you.

You use Oracle's JS trademark as precedent, but that's woefully ignorant of how it came about. JavaScript was not a four year old open standard when Oracle came along and scooped it up. JS was a Java branding deal between Sun and Netscape.

If you want to contribute to build something good, because a strong wasm community is in your best interest, drop the attitude and don't make any more moves to sabotage the project.

If you want to lawyer up and try to exploit the fruits of the community, then do that. But you need to pick a lane. I don't see Larry hanging around HN complaining about how people are treating him on GitHub.

I don't have a dog in this fight. Prior to this thread, I didn't know about you, your company, or anyone in all these links you've posted except I remember reading a post by Lin Clark once.

I wrote another post that I deleted pretty quickly when I realized how aggressive it sounded. But it wasn't trying to be aggressive, just convey the hostility of what you did and how you should expect people to react.
It will sound harsh but I have observed there is a political alignment that doesn't feel comfortable with people being exposed to information and allowed to make their own decisions, and believe that a learned class has to shield the common people from bad ideas they could unwittingly adopt. Curbing this kind of speech is just an extension of this, and as you point out, ends if having the opposite effect than that being held up as a reason to curb the speech.
> since the ones I looked at use crude, regex-based parsers that don't maintain information about the structure.

It's assembly, not anything like C, C++, etc. It's simple. You're supposed to be able to handle it with regexes.

> If you are looking for a hand-written lexer and parser for RISC-V assembly that builds a parse tree

Huh? Parse tree for assembly?

> For example, "xor xor, xor, xor, xor" will be parsed just fine, despite it not being legal RISC-V assembly.

Then ... why parse it??????

See, this is what happens when you refer to assembling as compiling. They are not the same.
It has always felt like wasmer was trying to be the NPM of the Wasm world and stake out a defacto monopoly position.

I don't have much data around that, happy to be proven wrong. But we don't need more corporate control over package managers and code-reuse ecosystems.
Eliminatórias: Conmebol confirma datas e horários das PRóximas rodadas
> Languages like C and Rust do not have any equivalent to JVM tuning.

They absolutely do. It’s called “managing memory.”
I would be shocked if they don't have a whole team of people keeping up on the threat models for client workstation windows, macos and linux endpoint devices, and creating the equivalent of windows active directory registry pushes+other software loads to guarantee the condition of an endpoint device.

Otherwise how do you know an endpoint device (assuming it's on a network segment with a default route out to the internet, or is somebody in a work-from-home mode) isn't running a persistent video recording session feeding something like a realtime mirror of the screen, VNC-over-SSH tunnel to some third party.

At smaller size companies I have even seen stories of a person who was hired as a fully remote developer by $software_corp, and proceeded to set up a remote desktop tool and subcontract their entire job to a person in $developing_country, at a significant profit margin.
Anecdotally I have 5 years professional experience and every time I'm looking for work people have always asked for at least 1 referral
BRB: Going to look for that line item in Tesla's public financials... (Come on, it's not like Musk wouldn't have talked this over with Thiel, right???)
The person will get a trial, but I don't think you're being particularly honest when you throw out unsupported arguments that the "weapons" the police confiscated were "butter knives". You're just inventing a strawman that is incredibly unlikely.

Don't forget that the more deadly attacks recently have just been using vehicles to run people down. No special guns necessary to go on a killing spree.
RISC-V is from a significantly differing category. A category for WASM doesn't really exist yet, there is nothing else like this -- a relatively low level bytecode language with high-level features such as nominal types, garbage collection, modules.
> The advantage Apple still holds over its competitors is its willingness to break backward compatibility.

This is a disadvantage, not a feature. There has never been an instance where I have not wanted backwards compatibility, but there have been many where it was lacking and I did want it.
> NYP would have showed how they verified the information then twitter would have let them spread the info.

Did Twitter or Facebook ever ask The Atlantic to "show them how they verified the information" about Trump calling war heroes "losers" and "suckers"?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-a...

That story was based on 100% anonymous sourced. Unverified, unverifiable by definition. People who were on the scene went on record to deny it. Twitter and Facebook were happy to spread it. The Atlantic accounts were never blocked.

How about the NYT story about Trump's tax returns, also based on 100% anonymous, unauthorized, unverified document leak? Has the NYT account been blocked for that, too?

By contrast, the NYP actually did explain how they got the emails: from a laptop dropped off and signed for by Hunter Biden himself at a PC repair shop.

The double standard here is beyond obvious.
I don't much like needles. I'm thinking the Bharat Biotech nasal vaccine is the way to go. https://indianexpress.com/article/india/bharat-biotech-to-ma...
What is the misuse here? The DMCA makes it illegal to distribute software whose intention is to circumvent technical measures that prevent access to copyrighted materials [1]. youtube-dl's own documentation provides instructions on downloading copyrighted music videos and its test suite uses copyrighted material as well. It's pretty hard, although not impossible, to claim that the intention of the software isn't to engage in copyright violations given those two facts.

Okay so you make a counterargument that maybe this qualifies as fair-use or falls under some other exemption. Maybe you're right, maybe you're not right, that's for a court to decide. The RIAA's lawyer is not here to defend youtube-dl's position on the matter, youtube-dl has the responsibility of defending itself and demonstrating why it chose to use copyrighted music videos as the key example and use case.

You can object to the law and you can even provide a defense for youtube-dl and counter the takedown notice, but you can't say that RIAA's lawyer abused the DMCA takedown process by defending its client.

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/policy/1201/#:~:text=Enacted%20in%...
A) Because voting is a pain in the ass (In texas where i am, you have to register by printing out a piece of paper, and mailing it in, and then driving to a polling location and voting).

And

B) For the average person, they believe voting does nothing to affect their lives (D or R, they are all crooked, that is the belief of the average person).
Isn’t it just that their interpretation and your interpretation of bible are different? They claim that their position is a literal interpretation of the book. They are fundamentalist by the same reason Wahhabism is the fundamental strain of Islam.
They've been killed for religious reasons related to what was perceived as sinning. Blasphemy has many definitions, and I believe that what you've suggested is a distinction without a difference.
Yes on both counts. The latter is a travesty and a very real problem.
> Could you give some examples of societies that are more equal and how they are?

Why? That has nothing to do with my point. Even if the US was in fact the most equal society to ever exist, it's indisputable that it still has significant inequality, which was the starting point of my comment.
Software Freedom Conservancy are asking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over the youtube-dl takedown demand:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/oct/26/microsoft-github-...
Morphology, Longevity, Incept Dates...
Net neutrality is not applicable outside the network layers.
Does OCaml have dependent types? I thought that was a Coq and Idris (and Haskell, to a lesser extent) thing.

I am aware that dependent types exist, but quite frankly I've yet to see a popular/ergonomic language implement them. As much as we'd like absence of null pointers, error types, and immutability to be the norm it is not and it will take decades until it is.
Atheism is a very strong stance. Consider that not everybody needs to think in such absolutes.
I don't understand this fundamental anti-human worldview. People are able to change their mind. Just think about how much more accepted homosexuality is today compared to 25 years ago. I changed during the last 10 years, everyone else I know did as well. Did you?

Think about how much people will change, how many lives they will live over 300 years.

Also keep in mind a society that is able to develop and sustain anti-aging medicine has to be by definition more advanced than ours.

Boredom is not valid, since nobody talks about people being forced to live. However, I don't think I would be ever bored. There is so much to do. So much space so many things and so many minds to explore. The tragedy, the insult of the brevity of life outweighs the dangers of boredom infinitely.
In other news they are hoping to ship it to NHS hospitals next week for emergency authorisation use in medics and old folk.
I am a little surprised and quite saddened that Sydney ranks 8th out of non Chinese cities.

All of a sudden I'm _way_ more predisposed to wearing a mask in public 100% of the time. And a hat. and sunglasses - even at night... :sigh:
Probably not.

There's just too much that stinks about the story. As you mentioned, every company which was supposed to be involved has categorically denied Bloomberg's claims, some of those claims are suspiciously similar to material provided to them by sources as theoretical examples (like the suggestion that analog filters could conceal implanted logic), and Bloomberg never made any further attempts to substantiate their story.
Its mostly about having secure transactions between state transitions. If you do not need them, you have often better performance when you run multiple instances with a load balancer.
I was strongly considering Joplin the other day. I see it mentioned a lot at different sites. I respect how simple it is. The common trends seems to be based on stuffing as much features into an app to please the "Second brain" crowd, but I just want to take notes, I don't necessarily need all the graphs and glitter. Thank you.
Delighted to see that despite the whole point of the piece being to NOT discuss the arguments for/against longevity, basically all the comments are about that. ;)
The existence of civilization is the proof that not everything is lost when we die, at least not for everyone.

Nonetheless, learning is still a long and painful process, even when it is about knowledge that has been known for centuries. And when a master in a field dies, his unique mix of knowledge and views dies with him, without any ways to transfer it.

Human language is a powerful tool but still weak and unreliable to transfer knowledge.
I even have a VHS VCR that does this automatically. It’s fascinating - once the recording is done it rewinds and watches the show at high speed, when it sees something in the signal that indicates that an ad was spliced in it marks the start and end. Then when playing back it fast-forwards over the commercials.

It worked brilliantly, back in the days of analog cable TV.
I was a beta tester for Fireworks for one version. It was a pure joy to work with. It was the best web design/interface design software for years.

And yes, another reason I have lost faith in Adobe as a company is them bailing on Fireworks. Maybe because it was a Macromedia product originally. It seems every Macromedia product has been abandoned/neglected by Adobe.
An even more hellish vision is Iain Banks' _Surface Detail_ [1] where some civilizations upload the consciousnesses of thousands of their citizens into simulations that make them suffer (at least there are counterexamples that upload themselves into 'heaven').

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Detail
> which is now under control

Famous last words. See e.g. France.
Nuclear reactors don't explode? I suppose then Chernobyl was just another bomb and this: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster) is just the official cover-up, eh? </sarcasm>
I think if you did RISC-V you would have to convert asm -> wasm so that you could recover the CFI information.

You can send anything down the wire to the wasm env provided

1. It can instantiate wasm itself

2. Your (whatever) to wasm compiler is small enough and outweighs the downsides of on device compilation (to wasm)
The British government was very upfront about the fact that it wasn't under control very early on. That honesty doesn't seem to have worked out very well for them politically - I'm pretty sure that being so upfront about it fuelled a lot of the speculation about herd immunity, which somehow seems to have outlasted the current Europe-wide practical demonstration that yes, lockdown fatigue is real no matter what the British press said at the time - but you certainly can't argue that they lied about it like China did.
Why would you assume cookies cause learning causes high ratings instead of occam's razor cookies cause high ratings?
> A newspaper with a better reputation for reporting the news than Twitter.

Hard nope there.
Did you objectively test effectiveness?
Eerie Hawking Point implications – 'Corpses of black holes from before Big Bang'
They don't have a responsibility except in a goodwill sense.

The DMCA gives hosts an option to have legal immunity for each specific case of infringement, to gain the immunity they need only take the content down at the cost of outraging a potential customer. They don't have to take the option, however.

It is common in industry for hosts to simply discard obviously invalid complaints particularly if the target is high profile. The legal immunity isn't very valuable if the complaint is baseless-- (sure, there might be frivolous litigation, but that is always possible).

It also seems pretty common for hosts to allow the target of the complaint to counter-notice in advance of taking the material down and then just skip the takedown, or they take it down but restore it immediately on counter-notice (youtube itself does this, or at least did when I was hit with a spurious dmca complaint there years ago). Both of these procedures don't follow the letter of the law and arguably cost the provider their safe-harbour. OTOH, almost no DMCA complaints are actually valid per the specific requirements of the statute, so maybe they don't actually lose their safe-harbour.
The misuse of the DMCA takedown notice is that none of the content in the repository was copyright to the RIAA or to an entity the RIAA represents. That's it. The DMCA takedown process is emphatically not the avenue to remedy an alleged circumvention tool as defined by the DMCA. The DMCA allows relief through the courts in that case, a route the RIAA chose not to persue because it is easier to misuse the takedown process. The DMCA takedown process is intended only to remedy the situation where your or your clients' copyrighted content is hosted without permission - any other use is perjury. You can read more about how a claimant must identify the specific infringing content in a takedown notice here [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_...
We could just drive them out and replicate Zimbabwe I guess.

Also are the complainers Bantu settlers or Khoi-San natives?
> You admit it's a rag, that publishes some of the lowest quality journalism. It's also very politically biased, in a way that damages the very fabric of society. Restricting its reach is the responsible thing to do in their case.

Let's just let tech monopolies determine what information we can or cannot communicate. Definitely nothing wrong will come of it. In fact, it's "the responsible thing to do"!

Also, stating that NYP "publishes some of the lowest quality journalism" is an insane hyperbole with no basis in reality. It may not be a top newspaper, but it's also far from being the worst paper in the US.

This story, specifically, had more verifiable sources than plenty of recently published stories which cite only "anonymous" sources and are therefore completely unverifiable.
If it’s like telemetry it’ll be double down and silence the critics.
The likelihood that you will succeed in self-learning any field of mathematics without outside help goes down as the material gets more advanced, but there's nothing fundamentally impossible about the endeavor. You can definitely get to graduate level that way if you're willing to put in the work and study the right things in the right order.

Luckily, there are plenty of resources available to someone self-studying online on various math forums.
> The stuff people wrote on it? That's the people.

That’s like putting an alligator pit in a mall and blaming people for getting eaten.
Yes, Zettlr is an Electron application. There's room for compromise (as you see, I've tried Obsidian). Thank you for the suggestion.
AMD Made a Mountain Bike: Review, Safety Concerns, Test Ride [video]
Hi Ron. If you're still employed by Oracle, it might not be a bad idea to disclose that, either in the specific comments where you may be talking (semi-)authoritatively about Java and its licensing / commercial model, or within your HN profile. I recall the last talk I saw from you was an AMA at QCon London in 2019 about Java, where you were with Oracle.

I found the comments really clueful but also appreciate when others like e.g. @_msw_ are very overt with disclosure of their employment and interests whilst talking about $employer's stuff on HN (and in his case that'd be AWS and EC2).
> their actions constitute an illegal campaign contribution to the Democrats by way of their intentionally tilted censorship.

The sheer volume of right wing propaganda that escapes their moderators would indicate the exact opposite. They suppressed this one so it wouldn't be glaringly obvious they ignore right wing abuses.
I mean, we’re talking about publicly viewable stuff, here. Both the citizenry and law enforcement ought to have ways of archiving stuff like this.

(I can imagine lots of cases how this could be used to fight police corruption.)
You opened your post by baiting it. What did you expect?
Talk to employment attorney, even if expensive. Hostile workplace. Constructive dismissal. Employment attorney's have seen everything. They have good advice.
> He was already on the radar of the authorities for having endorsed a massacre at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that first published the Mohammed cartoons.

> Several knives and other weapons were found at his home, prosecutor Frederic Chevallier.

I'm all for free speech and I understand slippery slopes and don't approve of thought policing. My reading of this article is that they had sufficient evidence to arrest him, technicalities and legalities aside.
I know right! Outsourcing must be really picking up, I get tons of helpful calls from Microsoft support telling me how to use TeamViewer
Psychology and sociology departments are radicalized echo chambers. No one in he street has any of the imaginary problems they concoct.

Morgan Freeman (black) has said it years ago: "Stop talking about it".
Looks like there hasn’t been a lot of activity on Akita since the Kickstarter failed.
Step 1: "if you don't support Black lives, unfriend me" (a sentiment you agree with, from your other comment in this thread)

Step 2: "I almost never encounter people who think we should [...] not fight racism"

You're free to exclude anyone you don't like from your friends – it's your life. But if you do this, maybe don't use the fact that your bubble doesn't have anyone who thinks differently from you as evidence of there being very few people out there who disagree with you on such things?
Adobe Fonts is near the top reason I currently am pushing people I work closely with away from Adobe.

Adobe's font control is simply dystopian. Many hours wasted debugging why a font was having issues _only_ in Adobe products, but not in other software (like Word).
Does anyone know when Microsoft joined the RIAA and what MS had to say about that? I'm curious what reason MS gave for it, if any.

The RIAA was founded in 1952 so it couldn't have been a founding member, yet I can't find any news or press release with permutations of "Microsoft joins RIAA". Based on archive.org's oldest copy of the RIAA website's members page, it was a member since 2016 at least.
You can manually precompile a system image with libraries you find yourself using often, like Plots.jl. The usability of it stinks, but... you can do it, and it speeds common things up.

https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl/dev/examples/...