skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Betamax case predates the DMCA, which created the “anti-circumvention” laws the RIAA is relying on here. It was also a 5:4 decision that depended on “a significant likelihood that substantial numbers of copyright holders who license their works for broadcast on free television would not object to having their broadcasts time-shifted,” and the copyright holders’ failure “to demonstrate that time-shifting would cause any likelihood of non-minimal harm to the potential market for, or the value of, their copyrighted works.” The opinion explicitly did not cover pay TV, and the court also noted that the cost of Betamax tapes made it difficult to build your own library of tapes for repeated viewing, in concluding that there was no likelihood of harm. I think it’s an interesting and open question whether the typical use of youtube-dl falls under fair use.
I agree with this except for one thing.

I do want my phone to be such a thing.

The open source community simply hasn’t done what it takes to build a trustworthy, and usable end-user operating system.

We need to close the gap, and in order to do that, we need hardware.
He's written 13 novels and lots of shorter works. He's not someone who's written very little.

I think his fundamental problem is that he's in a position that few writers end up in -- he became so popular that if he doesn't end the book well he will be hated and reviled by thousands of people on the internet. Most writers never end up in a position where if they let the public down, they will become hated figures.
Did you mean KDE Plasma 5? Plasma 4 was comparatively short-lived (and arguably, far from perfect).
Agree. Did you have a specific app in mind here? Just curious.
Those viruses weren't eradicated for decades though and we didn't shutdown our way of life for the interim. And they were much more deadly.
> In recent years, the NSA and the German BND have also been accused of massive illegal domestic spying. Thorough investigations have shown that was not the case, although their employees were sometimes careless and it was technically not always possible to do what was legally required.

Absurd statement from the article. What investigations? Internal from the NSA? It's like saying "No the NSA are not collecting data on Americans because Mr. Clapper said so to the Senate under oath."
Well, when you ask me, no, it is not a settled issue that moderators are needed. But that is a big side-topic.

"Who moderates in a socialised society?"

And you probably mean a theoretic anarchistic society with no authority?

Because in implemented socialist societies, there was plenty of moderation going on.
In your case, I could definitely see the mind-body connection. And even in the case of some carpal tunnel.

But I went over some Sarno-related forum, and the mainstream view seems to be that pretty much all chronic neuropathic pain (including all NCV and EMG-confirmed pain) and all chronic musculoskeletal pain (including structural issues on x-ray) are mind-body. And there's a significant nutty minority who seems to think even some cancer and such is mind-body.

Also, how does it explain people who have chronic pain, then surgery, then they never experience pain again?

I'd like to buy into this, but that just seems vaccine conspiracy level crazy - overly simplistic for most cases to say the least. Maybe I'm wrong.

That said, I do strongly believe that your state of mind has a huge impact with how you deal with chronic pain. I know that's true.
I'm not sure /. moderation should be used as a model - for whatever reason, the moderation system at hn seems to produce much more mature discussion than /. ever did.
you lift weights along muscle systems designed to handle load.

Your wrist/elbows etc are relatively weak. See tennis elbow, etc.

The other issue is that you end up writing 4-6hrs a day in school 5days a week, wheras the gym is something like, maybe 20 minutes per muscle group? depending. And that doesn't tend to be more than 3-4x a week.

I used to weightlift with a much lighter ex. The one thing I noticed was that even tho I could lift substantially more, our recovery rate was basically the same. So I'd end up with a lot more nagging injuries over time if I didn't properly take care of myself.
It looks like they are developing Flutter Web in isolation, unconcerned about what are the needs of the broader public for a web framework.
> It's not about being constructive

I agree that "constructive" was not a good term. This...

> It's about accepting a theory whose meaning refers to objects that are not generally viewed as sufficiently basic.

...is fine as a better phrasing for what I was thinking of. My point is that there is a tradeoff between the property "the theory is built entirely from objects that are sufficiently basic" and the ability to precisely pin down a single semantic model; having either one means giving up the other.
It might be allowed by guidelines, but it's quite counter productive for any discussion and I've never seen it doing anything positive. All it does it is just hiding less voiced opinions.

You have a point that not everyone might think it's a problem though.

I personally don't agree that downvoting to disagree is OK.
Both you and these commenters are missing the point. They're not just collecting metadata. We know from the Snowden leaks that the NSA was able to decrypt most https traffic as well as most SSH and VPN traffic around 2013. Although protocol security has been beefed up a bit and many bugs have been weeded out since then, it's still naive to assume they've lost this capability.
The wretched signal-to-noise ratio of the internet is a surprising result.

Wasn't the whole point when Tim Berners-Lee begat this thing to connect researchers, so that knowledge could flourish?

Still TBD, TBL.
This is not true. As a matter of fact many companies enable p2p cdn via eCDN to reduce network bottlenecks
I downvote when someone responds with attacks rather than debating the topic itself.

I’m not sure how effective the system really is though. I’ve seen plenty of my own posts get downvoted for no reason other than I had a different opinion.

When people downvote without offering their own opinion, it feels more like censorship than anything else.
size_t is unsigned.
When did the term onboarding start to be applied to applications? Until a year or two ago, I had only heard of it as an HR term.
Don't most of us live in a bubble of ballpoint users? It is the most pervasive pen by a pretty wide margin.
Generally, it's pretty easy to tell if they're acting in bad faith if you look at their account/post history, especially on sites like twitter dot com.
> Apparently some measures were taken to prevent the virus from spreading along that route.

Police road blocks. Geography no doubt helps: there are only so many bridges across the Murray River, passes through the Australian Alps, and roads across the desert to Adelaide. And it's a bit far to ride a bicycle cross country.
That's Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-interactive Argument of Knowledge, for those (like me) with only a passing interest who wondered what the term refers to. ZK-SNARKs are a particular form of mathematical proof.

Despite the title, the article doesn't motivate their existence. They’re a research subtopic in cryptography, for proving you know something without revealing exactly what it is. This has potential applications in financial transactions, voting, authentication, audits etc.

No, I cannot adequately explain why the hyphen moves. Draw your own conclusions.
Business plans and financial models are useless, yet they are not.

They force the entrepreneur to put some level of deep thought into the entire endeavor and create some sort of initial hypothesis.

Even if it proves to be entirely incorrect in future, it provides a very good starting point, that you can keep iterating upon as you learn more.

Most of the times you don't know what you don't know and the business plans and financial models force you to think the entire thing through and start getting a feel for what you know and what all you perhaps don't know.

Edit: to be very clear, I’m not suggesting that one develops an old style 50 page business plan. I’m simply suggesting that one must have at least a basic understating of the business, the need, the opportunity, the revenue model and so on. It’s a business after all.
Let me put it this way: I've gotten far more comments downvoted without explanation that could have used an explanation than comments that get downvoted where I can look back and say "Yeah, that was fair." And, usually, by the time I'm downvoting and explaining, it's to the point where the comment displays such ignorance it's not worth a point by point response, but there's some hope that the commenter might learn something.

This comment I made a while ago is a case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24736220 The person I was replying to had no literal idea of how economics is supposed to work (according to economists), so I downvoted, then explained.
“I felt like I was stripped of my voice because if I said anything there would be a conflict of interest or it would affect the financials of the company. That’s a weird place to be in. It’s something I didn’t want to normalize,” he said.
/r/fountainpens/ would like a word
List of bitcoin uses:
- Avoiding bad government
- Illegal activities
- Ransom payment
- Speculation (provides liquidity)
I read that link. I looked up Pixel Envy and read both of that guy's posts about The Big Hack.

I don't really see a debunking anywhere...

A debunking would be people in affected companies and within the U.S. Intelligence community going on record as saying this story is false.

If anything, the total lack of comment lends credibility here.
Seconding.

And that's why, unlike some other comments, I worry it will gain traction. Publishers of all kind - news companies, streaming companies, social media - will be more than happy to adopt technologies that take away control over the experience from end users. After all, most of the web already looks like glorified print posters and lifestyle magazines. With Flutter, they'll have the ability to make it impossible for end-users to turn on Reader Mode or remove ads, or branding. The site will look exactly the way the UX experts designed them to, simplifying all kinds of data-driven user abuse.

Now of course, they could've done that already without Flutter. But they didn't, because it's too hard. Regular HTML+CSS+JS are the default. It's what has the mindshare, it's what the devs on the market do, it's what works for everyone, ever since Flash died. It's already good enough to control majority of end-users, so there's no marginal benefit in trying to invent an even more restrictive form of content delivery. It's not worth the time spent fixing bugs and cross-device inconsistencies. But now add a player like Google - with money, mass, and clout - pushing such new solution, and it may be enough. God knows, webdev community just embraces everything Google releases.
I doubt that's true. It's a minor side thing of a project, it's easily explained as done this way because it's the easiest, it's unclear it actually makes adblocking that much harder. It seems unlikely that this is a targeted strategy, companies that size generally suck at that.
The overlap is exactly the same. Just purely by math and rules of physical space.
I would be curious of hearing more about the dynamics of this helps? I have a talk (honestly not a very good one: this was my first virtual talk and I wasn't confident in the topic and I did too much preparation on the tech and not enough on the talk; but this is the best part of the talk) at a conference recently about working from home where I spent some time using interrupting of people as a more in-depth example of cultural crosstalk in action: https://youtu.be/W5PlZqdMR5w. A core thing to appreciate--and there are studies on this from the field of linguistics--is that it takes so long to begin speaking with so many muscles and so much mental effort (in the same way it takes way more time than you would expect to just move your arm, and the studies that show you had to have decided to move your arm before you "thought" you had) that I assure you: no one who is interacting "fluently" in that discussion dynamic is waiting for pauses... they are anticipating (likely automatically, with no conscious processing or anxiety about it) the end of someone else's thought and are just better at the prediction or better at aborting the process if they are wrong (or imply are OK with incorrectly predicted interruptions happening occasionally and don't take it as an embarrassing faux pas).

(Not in the talk, as the talk wasn't actually about any of this, despite how much time I dedicated to it... it was about working from home.) I do feel like there is a real problem here in that we have a systemic issue (in addition to some people who are just directly assholes who don't want to hear women speak; I 100% appreciate that these people, unfortunately, exist) where we have taught women to be subservient and to not speak up for themselves in lots of contexts, even if the pervading culture of the men around them involves a very short short turn delay, and one aspect of this is "they don't interrupt people"... men do interrupt people, as part of simply being taught that our new information is de facto valuable, and we thereby have an advantage over women. It isn't because we are rude: it is because we have a different dynamic ingrained in us by our (joint) surrounding culture and it is absolutely unfair and biased against women. And so we need to be cognizant of this and do it less with women and even actively "make space" for women to speak. But, at the same time, we should be training women that interruption is ok and that not only will they do better if they interrupt but the entire team might benefit from their interruption, and that being good at the predictive modeling is a conversational skill everyone must have anyway and for which there is general value if you get better.
I tried putting it through Archive, which can be useful for some sites, but I agree it doesn't fix the CSS.

https://archive.is/8qeJD
archive.org has a copy too, and it's probably one you can trust.
I have a question about those state machine: did you tried to do it without goto with functions only? The idea is a straightforward one, just chuck all branches into functions and call functions instead of goto. Rust wouldn't be happy with that, if you try to make branches into local functions, because they would access "global" mutable variables on stack. Borrow checker might misunderstand your intentions and go mad. But we could think a way around it, how about state as a struct-like variable passed by a mutable reference into inline functions?

Or maybe not functions, one might consider duplicating code. There is DRY principle, but there is WET principle[1] also. Both of them have their proponents, so at least they are not stupid. How WET shows itself in a highly-optimized programs? Did you try it? I have no link, and may be wrong, but I believe that John Carmack argued in a favor of WET, and I wouldn't say that Carmack doesn't bother with a program speed.

I mean, I'm not convinced, that goto is the game changer, I see other ways around the issue, which in some ways are superior to the solution using goto. So I'm not so sure that your way to use goto is not a misuse.

> if a developer is already perfect with writing good code, but (s)he needs to do something special, like the state machine in the article, the restriction just makes the developer's life harder.

The trouble is there are no developers who a perfect. So it is not intrinsically bad thing to make live of a developer harder by introducing restrictions. If it forces developer to codify more of his assumptions about his program, then it is harder to be imperfect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself
Maybe “arguably illegal”? The RIAA’s argument is that youtube-dl is a tool for circumventing copyright protection, which is related to the concept of piracy or copyright infringement, but prohibited by different laws. Marketing a circumvention tool can be illegal even if there are ways to use it that don’t infringe copyright. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention
>...we know signal doesn’t keep those logs because of their response to the sealed subpoena ...

That doesn't prove that. If Signal was, say, a NSA project they would have to respond to such things in that way to protect the signal intelligence value of the metadata they were collecting for their primary mission.

After Crypto AG we know it is a bad idea to trust any particular entity. Something like Signal can only be trusted as much as can verified.
"In the situation there were in, the solution was either a radical reconception of the economic system, or fascism. If you think that fascism is the best option, that makes you a fascist. "

So you like also tautologism. Because from the point of view of the burgeois, socialism means in the end total collapse, starvation, apocalypse. And fascism the known lesser evil.

So rephrasing your sentence would be "If you think that socialism is the best option, that makes you a apocalypse fanatic"

And to make a last disclaimer before I leave that conversation: I am neither a burgeois, nor a socialist, nor a fascist.
Yes, mobile users will never try to highlight and select text to "search with Google" or copy to paste into another application. That's a pretty huge design flaw. I highlight text all the time mate. Pretty common feature for some of us who read on our fondle-slabs.
I don't think so. I have lived, studied, and taught in three different European countries and everywhere, a sizeable proportion of students used fountain pens (a large majority in the case of France). For my part, I use mostly rollers and fountain pens, and I hate the high pressure needed to use ballpoints.

EDIT: In any case, even if most people use only ballpoint pens, it seems very hard to live without ever crossing a fountain pen user (as seems to be the case for the author of this article).
The article isn't saying "my feed is boring", or even "my feed is full of extremists". I have a feeling the guy knows how to choose who to follow.

The problem he's raising is that at a social level, extremists voices spread much faster that sane ones because the way Twitter (and others) are built. The the tool of virality, once used for marketing, is now used to cripple down society. Sure you can pick who to follow, but as you can see from stories like pizzagate more and more people are having hard time choosing the right people to follow, and that makes our world a dangerous place.

He's not leaving Twitter because he didn't his experience. He's leaving because he thinks it's harmful to society and he doesn't want to be part of it.
The companies have said it is false.

I wouldn’t expect the intelligence agencies to do so.

If it wasn’t false, there would be clear physical evidence by now.

It is false.
For some people, "modern software" is a lost cause.
I echo the sibling comments and would like to learn more about your work and perhaps have a link to your company or another one in the same industry.
Same, once I used one, there is no no going back.

You can certainly go deep with ink and pens and whatnot, but you can buy a Lamy for cheap on Amazon and just stick with cartridges and still get a far superior result.

If anyone feel like their writing is sloppy and avoid writing because of it, try a fountain pen.
Bolivia: Santa Cruz Pro-Coup Gangs Terrorize Residents in Rejection of Election
Yes in the general case, but not for text editing software. Discoverability is great in modern GUIs, for example a photos app on a mobile device. There are lots of options and they’re all mostly independent and needed in different cases. So it’s great you can just get started, click around at icons that look familiar and get results.

I would argue that this doesn’t apply specifically to text editors. 95% of all text documents are paragraphs with headings and inline formatting. With styles and display codes, WordPerfect lived up to its name. You could get the document looking perfect, exactly the way you wanted it. WYSIWYG editors look nice and could get you started quickly, but anything more than a letter turned into a mishmash of styles and fonts and spacing. The now-infamous ribbon in Word lets you discover and apply all sorts of formatting, but what you really want are consistent paragraph styles. Word perfect guided you into using those styles because the UI was restricted in just the right way.
Also let's be honest I'm not sure flutter web really matters.

Flutter is a cross-paltform app framework. If you have a app on all platforms you (the company) care about the web app would often become just a seconds class citizen which you (the company) only have as some users are hesitant to install apps and some few users have some exotic platform or need access during holidays after their laptop was stolen etc. Anyway from a business POV a second/third class citizen you don't want to spend much money on. So flutter web would be good enough (once it's out of beta, at which point text selection likely will somewhat work).

But if you ever have a web app as first class target you probably would never go for flutter anyway.

My prediction:

- Flutter will long term be come the new default native way to write apps on google phones. Dart will very slowly replace java.

- Flutter will become a serious way to write the UI of apps on Linux, through maybe not as big as Qt/Gtk. But likely a common choice companies which target Linux as 2nd/3rd class citizen.

- Companies mainly targeting Android will use flutter for their iOs, Windows, Linux, Web apps to save cost.

- Google pushes some new Web API's around accessibility to provide a better flutter on web experience. Making it again harder for non chrome browsers, through in this case not intentionally.
Not the parent, but I have run into these ones before:

Issue 645845 (Open, ~4 years old): DevTools: "disable cache" doesn't work for media resources:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=645845

Issue 470030 (WontFix): 'Disable cache' should prevent HSTS redirects:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=574345

Issue 775435 (Fixed after ~1 year): Disable cache does not disable cached redirects
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=775435
Linux Mint Now Packaging Their Own Chromium, Developing New IPTV Player
Right, but you don't need to sign extend it.
For a road bike on the track, yet. For a dedicated track bike no, you remove the lights.
I think downvoting as a disagreement would be fine if (on HN) it did not cause a post to become grey or in worse case, leads to it getting flagged and then made invisible to everyone without showdead on.

Due to these effects, downvotes are used as a tool of censorship. It's explicitly used that way in many cases, to make sure that unpopular opinions/ideas are not seen by more people. Because they do not believe people are capable of making judgements for themselves, and must be protected from unpopular speech, because if they accidentally see it, they might end up agreeing with it. We can't have that, can we?
Many companies push p2p CDNs for their online software products, on the premise that load on their edge servers/centralized CDN providers will be reduced if their users get data from peers.

However, I believe GP was referring to companies blocking such CDNs on their internal networks (used by their employees). That corroborates my experience and that of my colleagues (healthcare, education, defense).
Yes, the real criticism of this article should have focused on the hard-to-fix problem of performance because it seemed absolutely abysmal to me -- multiple seconds before the page showed up as anything but black on both Firefox & Chrome.
I would not call that small amount of cheese. It is normal portion to make you full and there was essentially infinite amount of it.

I did not said I see any of that horrible. AFAIK, cheese is good thing to eat. I don't know why you insist on minimizing it.