skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that these things have to be faced in the open, and that addicts are sick people, not bad people. You don't send sick people to jail

... and not all users of <substance> are addicts. Recreational use shouldn't be lumped in with addiction, nor should it be persecuted.
Yeah, well, go figure...
The alternative three-pass technique on how to properly read research paper by Prof. Keshav is worth reading:

http://ccr.sigcomm.org/online/files/p83-keshavA.pdf
I figured that was the area most closely aligned with the subject: Drugs/Therapies to reverse aging.
For the butcher, yes. Not for the pig.
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Of course therapists don't define it that way... their definition is limited by what the treatment options are. Those options basically amount to prescribing drugs or becoming a friend for hire, not changing the structure of society.

And there are plenty of therapists (and researchers) who would definitely say that the quality of the relationship with a depressed patient makes or breaks treatment, in many cases it actually is the distinguishing factor. At the very least, it's a necessary one.

"The literature" isn't even clear on what major depressive disorder is. Well, the clinical definition is clear: literally sadness/low mood for at least 2 weeks. But what does that mean?

I guess what I really mean to say here is that we have essentially created a situation where people are pushed toward being alone. Then when a whole bunch of them feel empty about their state of being, we assign the label of "depressed" on them and give them drugs that are only barely effective. The lucky ones can afford to buy someone who basically takes the place of a close friend or parent. We have no framework to describe this state of affairs because every single one of us only has our permanently modern society as a point of reference.

It's easy to forget that the human brain is not designed to live the way we live. It's designed to spend every waking moment together with a very small group/family, always outdoors together, always doing something entirely tangible and physical together. Seeing a stranger was a rare occurrence. Imagine that!

"Sadness" happens when someone close dies. "Depression" happens when a huge number of human relationships that the brain needs get replaced by vastly inferior alternatives -- coworkers, social media, video game friends, service workers, etc. Nothing else but modern society creates this.
> If I say "women are biologically different which causes them to have different skills", that can be argued both ways. Some people might focus on lactation and agree. Others might think about mental skills and strongly disagree.

I have a disagreement on one word choice here: “skills”. I don’t think that’s the best word to use in this context since it could be understood for one of its dictionary meanings, which is expertise.
I'm working on porting ffplay, targeting HEVC but also all the other decoders if possible. I've had nothing but trouble from emscripten and have had to start from the beginning, just using ffplay as reference and very slowly building the application up.

Emsriptens proxy_to_thread option doesn't transfer the document context correctly, so calls from SDL to change canvas size, mouse scroll events, etc, all error. I just had to comment those lines out.

But then the program would infinitely lock because a mutex would not return when a pthread was created. It would just spin on mutex.wait, and there were no errors in the thread creation as I tracked it line by line.

Then debugging randomly wouldn't compile anymore.

There's a whole blog I'll write on it but the summary is that emscripten is cool, but the quality of it's features isn't ready to simply cross compile without the underlying code supporting it.
Nat Friedman: “GitHub hasn't been hacked. Everything is fine, situation normal.”
It is not just a matter of links. For example, in HTML, the span lang="XX" tag around quoted foreign-language text lets the screenreader know how to properly read those portions, instead of just outputting nonsense.
> impersonating Nat Friedman using a bug in GitHub's application.

This is not a bug, it's a part of how Git fundamentally works. If you want to mitigate it you have to sign your commits. GitHub could only attribute commits in the UI if they're signed, but I suspect that this is considered too much friction to enable.
"Online voting" is a solution in search of a problem. A pencil and paper does the job better, cheaper, and more securely.
I think the first problem this runs into is: "If women are human beings just like me, then why aren't they as comfortable with the idea of casual sex as me and my male friends?" It may take a while for men at that stage to learn and accept that there is a significant difference in that between men and women (statistically), especially if they've been brought up to believe that men and women are essentially no different except in their body parts; and then to internalize social norms premised on that.
Doesnt look like that comment came from nat? Username for that comment is naikrovek not natfriedman
That was a significant fraction of the links I could find, yes.
Using quantum properties of light to transmit information
A big reason for using vanilla Workflowy for me is that the mobile app is quite good. It's actually ... really, really good. A lot of edit operations that I'd've had to think for a while about how to support UX for--they do a good job of. I even ran into more hiccups using Notion. It's a huge plus for me to be able to see the same "knowledge tree" both at my computer and while I'm on the go.

I love the key-feel of Vimflowy tho, and it makes me wish they could both just talk about the same underlying data store... Pairs especially well with being added to the "scratch workspace" in i3 for example.

More generally speaking about this kind of tool: Workflowy has been amazing. The zoom aspect is really what makes it what it is for me, being able to enter a context, but then also have that as part of larger one, and being able to move things so quickly too.
Uber-backed Proposition 22 passes in California
I second this. It's pointless to do it for free.

I'm getting out of ops for the simple reason that it's way more lucrative to be called in after the fact rather than try to stop incidents ahead of time (whether by probing and disclosing or trying to build out a blue team without being paid a contract to do so).
Brother (and all others) make different grades. You can pay a little more for a printer that is rated for more prints before needing a new drum. At work we were chewing through 2 brothers per year of the cheaper consumer grade type. Paid just a little more for an office version and it lasted until we stopped with faxes a few years ago. Now they bought an HP without asking me and it just sits in a corner because no-one can get it to work for very long. On the other hand paper usage is way down now so eco friendlier :)
Security Tradeoffs in Chips and AI Systems
With regard to YouTube-dl did you actually follow through on this step?

> GitHub Asks User to Make Changes.
State of Linux Gaming
I was also curious, so I looked it up on Google Ngram Viewer. Looks like the phrase became relatively popular in the 1940s and then started a steep rise around 1994 up until 2012 when it peaked.
Except that post isn't from anyone that works at GH?
What are the business risks to a company like Github when their source code has been released in the wild? Startups treat their code like IP, but I imagine it'd still be incredibly difficult for a competitor to try and build the same tool/features even if they have the code as a "cheat sheet" of sorts. Are there other risks (i.e. security vulnerabilities) it causes?
Ya, the thing you have to realize about running a small farm is that you are either competing with the huge industrial scale guys or you are competing with all the small town family farms that were born into it. And most of those who were born into it have either bought and built their farm over their entire life or inherited it. It's hard to make a living selling farm products when you have a mortgage payment and you are competing with people who don't and also with people who are more than happy to make near nothing as they are mostly living on pensions and social security anyway.

We have lots of farmland in my family that is passed down. It's a beef cattle ranch. And it's really not even that profitable even though the land is fully paid for. My grandparents farmed it their whole lives, but they also worked as teachers and now get that pension as well as social security. The farm is more of a way of life than a way to make a good living.
The context up thread is that Amazon contributes a remarkably small amount to open source compared to the amount of code that Amazon produces and the amount of open source projects that Amazon depends on. Also I find it interesting that you don’t think that Microsoft and Facebook are comparable to Amazon.
Look that’s just not what “hard currency” is. “Hard currency” basically means “money which is considered a reliable store of value in major international markets.” Bitcoin simply isn’t that. No functional national government or large corporation is going to sign a large contract in Bitcoin - the very act of signing it could dramatically devalue the currency! You can’t just say Bitcoin is hard currency and devise some random measure of “hardness” out of ideological convenience.

Bitcoin is a fine technology and a fine thing to put part of your wealth into, especially if you support the tech and want to use it to buy things or invest. It’s also brand new, it’s price / USD or euro is obviously unstable, and there’s a global pandemic-depression! It’s just short-sighted (and intellectually dishonest) to say Bitcoin is low-risk and “hard currency” because it’s protected against inflation.
Ironically, this is a feature people have been asking GitHub to implement for years now.
The answer is gitlab.
Maybe the pollsters should stop trying to call people? Everyone is on social media these days. ”Polling continues to face the challenge of declining participation. As fewer people pick up the phone for unknown callers, survey-response rates have fallen from 36% in 1997 to 6% in 2018 at the Pew Research Center, the group says.”
But a takedown is required in the course of due process until some leaning can be established as to legality and validity of the request.

It's really, really, really stupid, because it presumes guilt before innocence, standing in opposition to most general legal principles.

If anything, Microsoft via Github would do well to assert itself by not conforming, forcing the court to examine the DMCA's legality and process.
Cherry-picked headline. From the quoted interview:

CON - The process of fracking can leak methane into the atmosphere (that's bad news re: climate change)

Methane leaks are an unintended consequence through poor wellbore casing designs. This means methane leaks into the atmosphere due to lack of upholding regulations and monitoring.

CON - CO2 gets vented into the atmosphere

With no regulations or caps on venting, a well can vent excess formation CO2 into the atmosphere. In Canada, methane is considered toxic and there are caps on how much CO2 and methane a well can vent a year to manage these greenhouse gases.

Meanwhile in America... ENERGYminute wrote a piece on the Environmental Protection Agency regulation rollbacks in August this year which largely deregulated American methane venting and flaring. That's not a good sign for the Earth.

CON - Mismanagement of water waste disposal and seismic activity

When waste water is disposed in certain geologic formations, there is evidence of an increase in seismic activity. Also, surface water that is not disposed of properly can contaminate ground water aquifers.
Wittgenstein wrote a dictionary for elementary school students
>music they illegally downloaded

Since this site has a technical audience, please explain to me how streamed music is played at all, if it is not downloaded?

What I am getting at is - where is the line drawn? Supposedly I am fine to download when streaming but I am not allowed to retain that downloaded file. Once the stream is in my cache, I can rewind and play it a thousand times without downloading it again, but if I close my browser or power off the PC, suddenly I seem to be legally required to download it again - all of this on a PC that I have paid for, and on a network connection that I also pay for data on.

This all seems like a lot of control for a third party to demand over the internal workings of a PC and network connection that I pay the bills for.

Legally, would I be able to run a virtual machine with a browser inside, take a snapshot of the state just after caching a stream, and save that to return to later? Why or why not?
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The data formats are standardized with expected outputs, so it should be possible to develop parsers that enforce strict specs. It would be significant faster and cheaper than encoding.
Here's Reddit's announcement about going "closed source". They list similar challenges to that mentioned by the GP comment. https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update...
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Fewer species drink human blood, and only a handful carry diseases we currently worry about (West Nile, Dengue, Malaria). We're not aware of any species that feeds specifically on one of these dangerous mosquito species, and all of these dangerous species have other mosquito species in their habitats, so we're pretty sure that first- and second-order environmental impact of the extinction of these dangerous mosquito species would be minimal.

Though, by greatly reducing human morbidity and mortality, wiping out these dangerous mosquito populations would increase general human environmental impact. Granted, that's a Thanos-level complaint, similar to bicycles causing pollution because exercise causes people to live longer.
I have the way that the second amendment is weaponised, but just like gun manufacturers don't absorb liability for what is done with their weapons, the same could be said of the creation of software made available on GitHub.
> Doctors even put fruit juice on the list of bad things

That's not because simple sugars are inherently bad for you but rather because many people don't realize just how much of it fruit juices contain. Related to this, an older family member was warned by a doctor for various reasons to cut back on fruit intake (not juice, but fruit itself).
unless a thief finds and disables it first
But most Evangelical churches vote as a block.
Very uncharitable interpretation.
In French, we say podomètre so let’s just say I thought a pedometer measured something else than steps.
1) It is extremely unlikely that this was actually pushed to the github/dmca repo. Github has a bug where you can make commits to forked/"networked" repo's appear as if they're in the original repo.

2) They most certainly did not "impersonat[e] Nat Friedman using a bug in GitHub's application"; they impersonated him using a design feature in Git.
Pretty good advice for a college undergrad. Thanks!
I could be wrong but I’m certain in California you can only film people on public property. You can’t film public to private if I remember correctly.

Mississippi may have different filming/photographing laws on the books. I almost feel like this wouldn’t be allowed in California.
> why hasn't a better, more general icon representing the concept of persisting something emerged?

Icons are good at representing objects but terrible at representing behavior over time unless it's simple directional movement. How would you symbolize something like the concept of persistence? "Data that can be retrieved unchanged in the future"? A pen, a clock with progression arrows on the hands, and reading glasses? Surely not if there's already an established convention available. The floppy disk happens to be that convention, as the last object that was unambiguously connected to local storage (an optical disk would be ambiguous for recorded music consumption, HDD were supposed to be invisible to the regular user and USB sticks could just as well be any of a variety of radio interfaces in the same form factor). So floppy disk it is. And it's not a problem at all that the convention, once established, is now used by generations that have never seen a floppy, it's just visual language to them. Complaining about the lack of connect between that language and the life realities of it's users seems to me as pointless as complaining that the word dog does not sound like barking at all (why not whoofwhoof?) or that the word hammer does not sound like the noise of hammering (why not banger?).

And still, the floppy disk icon is in decline, because applications that eschew local storage tend to use the "arrow up to cloud" icon. Another convention that has absolutely nothing to do with what is actually going on (few datacenters are actually hidden in clouds)
DMCA takedowns do not need to be from the copyright holder themselves. They can be from ANY authorized agent of the copyright holder, like a lawyer, or ... the rights-enforcement association to which the copyright holder belongs.

ETA: And yes, if you submitted a DMCA takedown which has any reasonable chance (from the recipient/provider's perspective) of being valid, it would get taken down. Otherwise, the provider takes on their customer's liability. Very few (and zero free) providers are willing to do so.
I wonder what the equivalent would look like for software. Open-source obviously, but what does a "right to repair" look like for a SAAS app? It sounds like this rule is mainly about accessing information about the vehicle so maybe requirements to allow consumers to export their data in a reasonable format.
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I didn't imply YTDL was illegal. My response was directly to your implication that "committed code to a repo" (or however you want to phrase it) is a protected class like race or sex.

> "Oh, you committed code to a repo I consider dubious though nothing proven... hmmm not sure I'll hire you".
> "Oh, you shop at a store run by a non-white person.... hmmm not sure I'll hire you".
> "Oh, you follow a religion, but I'm atheist... hmmm not sure I'll hire you".

There are zero laws on the books to stop a company from firing you for committing code to an open source project.

Unless you can find me a law that actually says "Companies can't terminate employment or otherwise discriminate based on a code repo commit".

There ARE actual laws that say "You can't discriminate based on Race/Religion/Sex/ethnicity/etc".

Whether or not YTDL is illegal (I doubt it is) is irrelevant to this thread. Just like a company firing you because of a post on facebook or twitter is generally allowed (local laws and state statutes may grant more protections).

Please... prove me wrong and provide laws - local or otherwise - and possible a case where someone successfully sued for wrongful discrimination based on code they wrote.
Doesn't seem like there's a lot of research, but the one study I could find seems to agree that specifically the climate impact of natural fur is quite a bit higher than faux fur: https://www.cedelft.eu/en/publications/download/1538
Appreciate the response. Sadly not obvious to all these days : (.
Congrats on the launch, I’m excited to try this out.
Cool, fuck you.
Would be nice to have a pcie version of this
That's not as secure (or at least not as obviously secure) as when we mark the paper ourselves. People make mistakes, and people miss errors. This creates room for the software to introduce rare (but, in some races, common enough to matter) errors in a particular direction and rely on them 1) often being missed, and 2) accounted to user error when noticed.
The only time I would bother looking into your backyard would be if I was about to land off-airport into it.
What a useless and smug response. You think people here don't know about the DMCA?
Sounds cool! Maybe you can check my build script and see if anything is helpful. :)

https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm-core/tree/n4.3.1-w...
What's great about this is that repair companies can move to Mass. and do mail-in repairs nation-wide, while other states get their act together.

(The USPS is often maligned, but large-volume mailers know it's affordable and almost 100% reliable.)

One of the largest aviation consumables companies did something simiilar. A guy just picked a central state with cheap warehouse rent, then advertised quick delivery on specialty airplane radio antennas (most planes have several sticking out), composite shrouds/covers, etc. and made a killing. He uses Fedex, but same idea of picking the friendliest state for a nation-wide business.) Those items weigh ounces, so shipping costs are on the lowest tier.
The reason you can see his comment is that I brought it back from dead status to make it possible to reply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification
Wow, what a bio. 1941: Chicago Sun art critic. WW2: WAAC major. 1952-55 CIA. 1967 PhD from GWU in experimental psychology.
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I'm much more inclined to believe there was some funny business going on with the Trump votes.
No one is born knowing social norms, so yes I would agree that many if not most men, at some point, struggled. Myself included. But norms change over time and I find the prospect of a sea change like the author seems to suggest, that leaves most (hetero) men simultaneously and suddenly lost, unlikely.

Taking it a step further, too often I've seen hand-wringing arguments that look awfully similar to this author's used as an excuse to minimize some of the worst behavior of men. It is, in fact, possible for the average man to understand things like boundaries and consent. I'm not saying that's what this author is doing, but it sound similar enough that it sets off my BS meter.
Being downvoted bc of why? I literally said THE MOST obvious purposefully and left out the 20+ other things that a good security researcher would hunt down in this - each to allow compromise of the company, build process, downstream or someone using enterprise.

I am not advocating it - I am making people aware that is what leaks mean.

[I randomly picked 20. Because it's usually a lot of options when you have source code access]
It's a bit early to do a post-mortem when there's still millions of votes to count.
Copyright is about copying.

Are there any verbatim copies of the original in your project. Did you sign an enforceable ip ownership or non-compete agreement with GitHub about trade secrets learned while working on their source code?

If the answers to those questions are no, there is a very long, very steep, uphill battle facing GitHub.
According to the EFF link below they don't need to be a holder. If the software is for breaking locks they can submit a take down notice under section 1201.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/github-youtube-dl-take...
What? Git absolutely makes it trivial to impersonate commits. All you have to do is change some Git config settings. Or, export your commit into a patch/email file (git format-patch), modify it, and then import it (git am). Or, set some environment variables (GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL). etc.

As you yourself mentioned, very, very, very few projects/people sign their commits. Even fewer actually verify them.
"Cryptocurrency is designed specifically, by virtue of its decentralized and trustless nature, to facilitate money laundering. "

No it's designed to eliminate debasement and inflation
I'm aware of this project, but the demo doesn't work well, might just be slow access to video hosted on Chinese servers: https://github.com/sonysuqin/WasmVideoPlayer

I would be interested to sponsor development of a project that could reliably play large video files with different formats in the browser. I'd use it adapt our Chrome extension ('Language Learning with Netflix') into a website/SPA that could load in local video files, so you could study with movies from your hard drive. Contact email is in my profile. :-)