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I think one’s intent matters. If you feel superior, it is likely to come across regardless of style.

So, for me, it isn’t so much about not sounding condescending as much as it is to reflect on my motivation for explaining something: is my intent pure (share information, help, etc.) or impure (show off, diminish, etc.)
This really is great to see, but it’s clear from their careful wording that the google takedown of the recent widevine l3 repository won’t be reversed:

> And our reinstatement, based on new information that showed the project was not circumventing a technical protection measure (TPM)

Since it is clearly circumventing a “TPM.”
> Can someone with more knowledge on the matter help explain why downloading copyrighted material using youtube-dl as opposed to a browser is treated differently under the DMCA?

It's not.

It may be treated differently under other parts of copyright law based on implied license or other theory, but the DMCA impact is on distributing, offering, etc. youtube-dl, not using it, insofar as it constitutes a circumvention tool under the DMCA.
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> To help them, GitHub will establish and donate $1M to a developer defense fund to help protect open source developers on GitHub from unwarranted DMCA Section 1201 takedown claims.

At the end. While I hope it won't be needed, I hope it will be useful when the need arises.
Why not just use the actual data and not anecdata at all?

And also, the extremes are important because statistically more people hit those extremes than with other respiratory viruses. There are states reporting nearly full ICUs right now. There are states (re)opening field hospitals.

The whole reason for lockdowns and restrictions isn’t to prevent a huge amount of deaths. Most people don’t die from Covid. The whole point is to keep our hospital system above water.
I am sorry for your loss. I lost my father and my mother few years back. My mother’s passing away hit me very hard. My mother’s passing away meant I could no longer share my deepest feelings, fears and failings to someone who actually hears and understands. I still miss her. I now have kids and wish i had 1 percent the strength she had. I hope you find peace and are able to find strength from how your dad was a pillar in your family.
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I have to chime in with a third; I have been very happy with my AR300M from the same supplier for the last CPI years and I am planning on a new one from them soon.
Github is part of the RIAA via Microsoft. That is something wrong.
The citation for gunshot wound victims being counted as Covid deaths says it was 5 deaths, and it was only on the publicly-available dashboard to track deaths. Not being used for official reporting purposes. In my opinion it's kind of dishonest how you present that.

I'll admit it made me lose interest in reading much further because I don't trust you to have used the other 42 citations in good faith.

Anyway, that was just meant as constructive criticism. Just something to keep in mind in your writing in the future.
Aye, Saturday - now that my life has settled down I'm going to aim for once a quarter (I always announce them on twitter @caissabase ) but there will be another before Xmas because someone sent me a bunch of TWICS I was missing so once I've cleaned/de-duped those probably.
Then maybe try out RIOT-OS.
It tries to achieve the same a Zephyr but tends to be a lot simpler.
All you need to do to flash an application is

make BOARD=your_board flash

it has pretty good networking support (6LoWPAN) and is mostly used for sensor network applications
Congrats to Alex and team on the launch!
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I was at the Grammy’s one year and at the industry lunch the day before, I wound up at a table with a bunch of lawyers for the labels and the RIAA. It was an interesting position for me to be in, as someone who has been quite critical vocally of their positions and tactics since I was a teenager.

Anyway, everyone was cordial and professional and we didn’t really get into debate too much — and I was clearly the odd woman out, not a lawyer or in agreement with their position — but I walked away from the lunch with the belief that at least most of them absolutely believe they are fighting against what they see as abuse against copyright and ownership and that they see themselves as protectors of the industry, and to a lesser extent, artists. Now, I disagree that their tactics really succeed and would argue that ignoring the push of technology has hurt the music industry and especially artists, but I also accept that it is valid for people to have a completely different view from me. And it’s important to be exposed to that on occasion.

I’ll also say, as I was waiting for my Uber to take me to my next meeting, I saw valet bringing out $200,000 cars for many of the people I had politely been debating with earlier. I’m sure the money doesn’t hurt.

Not unlike my friends who work for tech giants that many of us find abhorrent but get $400,000 in stock grants a year.
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Why was the most upvoted comment before mine anecdata? Obviously people find anecdata relevant or it wouldn't be so upvoted.
I had an app that did nothing but try to identify plants from photos of them, and they updated it to require a social media login.

Another app that let you take a photo of a wine bottle and show you reviews of the wine. They added a social media login too. My list of favorite wines was gone unless I logged in.

I don't use those apps anymore.
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Great find through what looks like simple use of developer tools, OP.

Since you, the author, have submitted the post, I’d suggest changing the dashboard screenshot with the names also partially blacked out to avoid exposing people who have used this system. It’s possible that some of those names are rare or unique or the way they’re spelled makes them stand out.
This is not my understanding of the DMCA. Can you back this up?
Oops, a couple comments have corrected me on that point

The a100 is theoretically $12,500
https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-ampere-a100-price/
I found it strange that they constantly used "developers". I guess this is the marketing department word to use instead of "users"?
AFAIK the integration tests had a link do download copyrighted video and that was the initial basis of the claim. "They are demonstrating how to 'pirate'"
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On that note, does git as a protocol even have a clean mechanism for redacting history like this? If someone were to press this to the logical extreme, how could a developer most cleanly excise violating history from a repo using current tooling?
Sweet thanks! passing this to the designer.
Oh Goodness.

This again.

I'm fairly sure we're talking practically snake oil here. I wrote up a pretty long post on it before, but didn't get around to posting it, but since I have nothing else to do...

The subject matter is Indistinguishability obfuscation. The central idea seems to be, take a finite series of significant operations to do something, and generate some other program that maps the same input/outputs, but with a massive bump in complexity

An example to illustrate by the original authors is a banking application that instead of containing your password in memory at any recognizable point, magically makes sure the right bits get to where they need in order to be validated.

A bunch of other benefits are touted such as plausible deniability (the program can look like (!a-banking-program in obfuscated form) and if decompiled, you can't figure out which version of the artifact came from what build toolchain apparently.

Throwing my best effort understanding at it, I cannot say as I find anything remotely practical, as all this thing seems to promise to do is somehow magically hide what it's doing every execution by...eating up more processing cycles doing more stuff that isn't what you set out to do in the first place. This is being optimistic mind, and accepting it's even remotely possible. I still need to wade through their math. I've been putting it off, because I generally have a very hard time with papers claiming to have done something that doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Like if you imagine such a thing as an executable artifact, the only way I see it working is you've got this chunk of generative code in some library somewhere, you're dynamically linked, or hell, statically linked against it, your trace goes into that code for a long bloody time while you keep track of other tracepoints, and reconstitute what step in a known set of transformations is getting near-GIGO'd to hell and back. I mean, you can explode the implementation details of an encryption key bit get as much as you like, but if you want performance, you have to get those bits marshalled to the right place to feed unobfuscated decryption. Furthermore, hust think of the issues created by that generative piece. Run it in a reversing debugger, and all you get is a bigger pain in the arse trying to figure out what's going on, unless you already know what the thing is mostly up to, in which case enough understanding of the logistics of the program's functionality and the physical nature of information transfer dictates you can simplify the information down to a simplest possible transformation.

Unless, that is, you're swinging for the theoretical fences, and what you set out to do is so badly performant, it's difficult to even qualify it as computing anymore. I may be wrong, but this whole thing strikes me as sliding off the truck of realistic utility.
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Is there a compatibility table available? Are compact topics supported?
Any thoughts on Purism or System76? I like the Thinkpads but i'm tempted to go Purism or System76 purely to support them.. but i don't want to do it at the cost of being dissatisfied with a lesser product.
> The amount of sugar (especially fructose) in fruits like apples, oranges and bananas is shockingly high, and can cause or exacerbate conditions such as obesity, fatty liver, type 2 diabetes, gout and other metabolic or inflammatory diseases.

While vegetables are often superior to fruit for the reasons you indicate, if your diet contains neither then you could still consider fruit a 'step down' from the ever-popular refined carb snacks. Most fruit contains enough fiber to help you feel more satiated than a refined carb snack would.
I don't think I was being snarky. Everything since 2016 has taught us that nothing on the internet should be trusted. Nobody can be assumed to be without bias, agenda, or simply not trolling.
The developers would release an update to circumvent the block.
Emacs integrates well with Unix software that does one thing and does it well. You can even think of it as a buffering super shell with Lisp programmability, and use it to integrate and automate complicated tasks and put a usable UI on them.
Since you opened this "back-and-forth" I feel I need to correct the perception with some sources and point out your framing:

1. I couldn't find a source for your 3-4 k number,if you can point me to it I'd be greatful. I did find a a source of 532 developing Guillan-Barré https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18014-swine-flu-myth-...

2. That same source lays out why worrying about this risk is not rational (in this case)

3. No-one is seriously calling for forced vaccination for corona

4. (my opinion) by over-emphasizing the "personal choice" angle we are letting anti-vaxxination pseudo science and conspiracy beliefs spread without being challenged. Some things are more wrong than others and the science for the harm of vaccines has oveerwhelmingly failed to arrive. So using the term "without anti-vaccination beliefs" is fair in this case, since I will argue the only reason why you'd reject a vaccine that is recommended by a physician is an irrational belief not grounded in evidence
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The book came from my being selected to train some of my coworkers in Angular. I hope others can find the experience helpful.
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Are these average towns? Or millionaire towns?
> the average flow is 1Mbps. I find that hard to believe

hard to believe? I can confirm - tcp sessions with average flows of >1Mbps do exist.

you are right in identifying a weakness of the system but incorrect as to its significance. A drag racer cannot turn, because it has been optimized for something else.
A lot of the medical industry is about creating ongoing revenue streams rather than curing the causes of illness.
Dues are $2500/y if you have revenues of $1-5MM, $5000/y if you have revenues of $5-15MM, and "contact us" beyond that: https://www.riaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/RIAA_ApplyFo...

Since one presumes that Microsoft does not sell much music (didn't they shut down their music store a few years ago?), I can't imagine they've negotiated dues that scale linearly on Microsoft's total revenue - so, in fact, I'd expect that $1M is well beyond their RIAA dues.

Now, it's possible that MS is contributing money other than dues to the RIAA, but you can bound that a bit from their Form 990: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/131... For 2017, they got under $100K in "contributions and grants" and $29MM in "program service revenue," which is later determined to be dues. They received no other significant revenue. So no donor could have possibly given them more than $100K.

(... also, why did the RIAA give $4K to the Kenai River Sportfishing Association?)
Can you explain this more? I do not understand this
Why are you worried about who is upvoted?
Nope, they argued that their URL obfuscation is DRM.

edit I think YouTube-Red's successor has DRM on it's videos, I don't think youtube-dl ever worked on them though.
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I had it too. Symptoms were pretty negligible, a medium severity headache and an exhaustion for a day. Slept for 12 hours straight, next day I was as good as new.
If they can afford that so easily, they can also afford to end their contract with ICE, and stop providing services to people who imprison and separate children.
Think of a typical ag-focused rural town filled with mostly below-median incomes.
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You're just spewing garbage here.

The lawsuits in PA regarding kicking out GOP observers have been thrown out repeatedly, at this point the Trump campaign had to drop the claims about GOP observers not being allowed in from their lawsuits. Because there is zero basis to any of it.

The margins are close enough to recount, and nobody is arguing against a legal recount. But any reasonable person also recognizes that historically recounts don't change totals by tens of thousands of votes, so it is very unlikely to matter. The Florida results in the 2000 election you mention were much much closer than any state is in 2020.

Voter fraud is not at all difficult to prove. Many studies ballots have been analyzed in excruciating detail after elections, and surely will be done again this election. Voter fraud in the US is always extraordinarily rare. So far this election, one single case has been found in PA, and it was from a Trump supporter submitting a mail in ballot for his dead mother.

Not only are your claims untrue, they are so unfounded that there is hardly anything at all there to even refute https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/11/13/trump-vote...
Love the idea for mysideproject.rocks! I've added my project there too!
If you prefer Netlify: https://github.com/kentcdodds/netlify-shortener
The US has had 34k cases and 760 deaths per million people. Germany has had 10k cases and 152 deaths per million people. So Germany has done 3 to 5 times better than the US so far. The only Western European country that has clearly worse numbers than the US is Belgium and in part that may be because they have a much broader definition of deaths with COVID19.

Data from here:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
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That's not now the modern internet works.

It's now competition and one of the best ways to score points in this competition is by manipulating the empathy of your fellow human.

I wish the internet was still about real discussion but now it's about heartstrings and upvotes.

Haven't you notice the same pattern with the "long covid" stories? Light on science, heavy on heartstrings.

An internet based off of rational discussion is long dead, even here on HN. Just watched the mods (hi @dang ) wipe nuke a story about Sweden's Covid-19 success off the front page. [1]

Oh well.

[1] = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25112382
> I don't really get what's paradoxical here.

IIRC, the implication is that change predetermined and fixed, so is essentially static.
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> I have honestly never noticed. I've been blocking adverts on every device I use for almost as long as I've been using computers.

Once in a while, I have to use a browser that doesn't have uBlock origin, on a network I don't have PiHole running on.

And then I must scream.
Whenever you watch a video you are downloading it. youtube-dl merely gives you control over where that stream goes, whether it's to a hard disk or to a media player like the regular Youtube.
Many U.S. stores will close forever. That's a good thing
Because even those who are vehement supporters of lockdowns/wide spread health measures understand that this only affects a small percentage of those who contract it. We don't need examples of people who had no issues, 99%+ of people won't have issues.

Everyone knows its not going to kill most people, that's not what they're trying to prevent. They're trying to prevent it getting into long term care homes, or into at risk communities (indigenous, low income, obese, etc). They're trying to give you good reasons to want to wear a mask, want to cut down on your social interactions, and want to help stop the spread.
Due to a limitation in technology, people are forced to take the population risk as their own, which aligns self interest with collective interest. However, that will not always be the case and, at some point, people will be able to see their own individual risks. I find it interesting that people have no problem justifying their selfishness by showing that they are just being selfish. It will be interesting to see how that will develop.
Please dont try to belittle my experience by implying things you have no knowledge about.

Rogue doctor? no. I was used for an experiment in the year 1986 by the head ophthalmologist of the biggest clinic in the second largest city of the country where I am from. I was supposed to be screened every 6 months. From one of these "screenings", I came back with signed of an invasive operation. Weeks later, I was 100% blind. It turned out that this ophthalmologist in chief did all sorts of malicious things.
I even met another of his victims at my time in the school for the blind. And no, before you ask, he was never convicted for anything.

This is not a backward country mind you. At least we believe we are not. And we have a socialized medical system, so we pay nothing for hospital visits.
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Nevermind, I looked at the url and mistook it for https://learnxinyminutes.com/ ...
> Nobody has any lingering issues.

I think it’s too soon to declare that, with long term lung/organ damage being indicated for people (of course, this also depends on a few different factors).
FWIW, git didn't simply run on windows, it was rewritten to do it.
I'm not - I just wanted to try to provide a more balanced view after the fashion that the community seems to be interested in.
from [1]
> people always wind up extrapolating sort of unacceptably where people think oh I worked 18-hour days or something and I have to say no I never worked 18-hour days because I know my productivity falls off a cliff after 13 hours I'm you know that's about the longest that I can do any effective kind of computer work and the key to even being able to get an effective 13 hours is having multiple tasks that you can switch between rather than just kind of sitting heads down grinding beating your head against one specific topic but I'm you know I've been for most of my career now I like working a 60-hour workweek I like being productive I you know nowadays I have I have family and kids and I don't I usually miss that Target by a bit now but I if I ever don't hit 50 hours a week I feel I'm being a slacker

[1] https://podscribe.app/feeds/http-joeroganexpjoeroganlibsynpr...
It's because the alternative is millions of deaths in the US alone. It's a risk/benefit analysis. Yes, there is some risk to a new vaccine. That is an unknown. But there is a known risk to not widely distributing a vaccine, which is millions of deaths. Vaccines have been studied for a long time, their mechanisms are fairly well understood, and they have been going through full safety trials, even if somewhat accelerated. So those are your options on the table: guaranteed millions of deaths, or possibly some unknown long term implications from a vaccine, but unlikely given the understanding and safety trials.

Ask any reputable doctor, virologist, or epidemiologist: they all are backing the vaccine. Discussion is fine, but you have to provide some thoughtful justification behind your worry, and make a case for your alternative plan. Otherwise you're just spreading fear and doubt, which may impact vaccine uptake, and directly cause more deaths.
I assume you would have to revert to the parent of the offending commit, cherry-pick the non-offending code, commit, then rebase the entire master branch on that new commit.

Then you'd have to repeat the process for all forks and branches. It'd be a huge pain, but I think it's doable.

I've never tried something like this, though, so there might be some complications.
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Microsoft recognise that it's developers that have been pushing for open source/free software so they are desperate to keep them on side and locked in.
Reading this entire thread (I didn't expect this many replies this detailed!), I think it finally clicked with me after all these years.

So, for me, in a vehicle moving at 90% of the speed of light, the time itself slows down such that I observe the photons coming out of my lightbulb still at the speed of light, right? Basically, it would adjust the t in v=s/t because the speed and the distance are to remain constant. And because me and my spaceship or whatever have mass, there will always be a bit of difference between my speed and the speed of light to accommodate this adjustment. That's just so weirdly backwards to think about.

Now, I wonder about redshift and universe expansion deduced from it. Wavelength is a frequency, right? And frequency, by definition, is how many times something (wave period) happens per unit of time. So maybe the universe isn't expanding after all, maybe it's just that time runs faster in the parts of the universe where this light comes from, and the photons just keep oscillating with the frequency that was "correct" in whichever reference frame they were emitted? Besides, the idea that universe expands seems silly tbh. There must be a more sensible explanation. Maybe time slows down over time (?!) and it just ran faster when the universe was younger?
Awesome! Great project and best of luck!