skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working with internationalized URLs (IRIs) is a Cursed Problem.

Here is the IRI for the Wikipedia page on semiconductors. When you click on it, it should show you a page with a picture of a silicon wafer on the left.

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/شبه_موصل

Now try copy/pasting that link text into different web apps and see how they respond. HN seems to handle it correctly. Twitter doesn’t, it considers شبه_موصل to be just some extra text after the URL.
Yeah, but you can just solve this by having the human compare the two and place one in the bin. The hidden box just makes the receipt pointless.
There's probably a middle ground but you know that within a day of making it optional, the various "Clean my Mac" utilities will have an option to disable it and soon enough instead of 99% of people having it enabled, 75% will have it dibbled. And then some malware hits and spreads like wildfire and the same people who were so adamant on disabling it are now complaining that Apple isn't doing enough to protect them and woowee Macs are just as insecure as Windows.

Speaking of Windows, they also moved to a "we know what's best for you" model with Windows 10.

Definitely a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.

I understand why "power users" feel frustrated but also understand the company's POV. A story like "Macs are invulnerable to this latest ransomware attack" looks pretty good to investors; the random complaints of nerds and power users go mostly unnoticed.

I bet $100 this latest scandal will not affect Apple's bottom line nor will anyone care within a month - there'll be other reasons to be outraged over on Twitter.
Good job GitHub and Microsoft!
Wow the driveby downvoters ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Please give back to the community that is giving to you - provide comments clarifying things you are downvoting!
Even if we take that as a given, my response would be: "Yes, so what?"

The software also a long list of legitimate uses, as was demonstrated by the various prominent users that spoke up.

I can use the camera on my phone to record a copyrighted movie, and thus circumventing the DRM, or just use a device like this: https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-USB3HDCAP-Video-Capture-... (analog VGA is probably preferred here, for lack of HDCP support).

And that is only necessary if we're talking about some modern DRM that makes your OS work against you, so you can't directly capture with OBS or something.

We're gonna ban all of those now?
I’ll second this. A fairly easy to use framework. Not too big that you couldn’t read the PHP or make adjustments as needed.
Creating or providing a tool and using a tool are not the same action. Likewise, since there are legal fair use scenarios of copyrighted materials (short clips, criticism, satire, academic, etc) so even using the tool isn't inherently against the law and the person creating or providing the tools can't know and legally doesn't need to know the end user's intentions.

Copyright lawyers working for the highest profile abuser of copyrights absolutely know the very basics of copyright law and are therefore acting in bad faith.
Well, I would say that two months are still missing before the end of the year, so we are comparing 10 vs 12 months if my understanding is correct.
If the US had used the TPP to demonstrate some actual leadership in, for example, upholding environmental and labor Standards rather than trying to shoehorn ways for US corporations to sue foreign governments for lost profits it might still exist.

As it was it was dictated by US corporations and negotiated in secret and killed by a dedicated lobbying effort by concerned citizens.
If you're interested in playing around with term rewriting, I highly recommend the Redex framework! https://docs.racket-lang.org/redex/index.html

It's a really neat way to model programming languages and transition systems. Unfortunately, I think the documentation is perhaps more intimidating than the tool (its target audience is programming language theorists; not people who just like noodling around with programming language design).

My favorite Redex hack is that you surface your Redex model as a hashlang (Racket's way of providing replacing/extending the language), and get a fully-featured algebraic stepper in DrRacket! See this repo and PR for details: https://github.com/justinpombrio/RacketSchool/pull/5
as of 11:08am ET we're almost back up to 100% up on all our sites. Some are loading slowly but they are loading
I do have YOURLS on my personal domain/server. It does work well for me and has no spam as link creation can be made private!
Hey - this is pretty amazing. I have learned a lot about AOE from watching L_clan (mostly L_Clan_Chris but others as well!) replays back in 2004-2008 when I was playing a lot of Age. Never had Zone access, so we lived in a little bubble in our university of LAN AoE players with outside ideas, build orders etc. coming from watching pro replays.

No twitch obviously and very few blogs going around for strategy as well. It's amazing to see how far gaming has come in 15 years.
i haven't tested myself. the kafka ecosystem is huge. but we should test.
that's because they change their mind on the inside everyday or so, wait till the vaccination finishes
It is simplistic, but for most people it is probably a great start.

When people talk about sugar like this they are talking about fructose. Bringing glucose into it confuses people since it is scientifically sugar, but not what people mean when they talk about eating sugar, which is just eating sweets, soda, juice, etc.
Then when someone realizes to use the web interface to check out that old commit, the whole thing opens up again. Hopefully github's lawyers who OK'd this know a bit about git.
False. True VPN apps, that simply set up a VPN network interface and alter your default route, continue to route Apple traffic along with all other traffic.
That is definitely not what the opinion said.
Fair enough, I'm all for neat hacks. Link shorteners in general make me concerned since I've encountered more than a few dead ones. It's frustrating to know that the content you're trying to access may very well still be alive, but the only links you have to it are dead because somebody got bored of running the shortener used.
Searching for Mary Austin
Eviscerating the Test Automation Pyramid
Anyone coming to Oklahoma from the Northeast will be in for a shock. The poor state of schools in California is a surprise, but then large parts of the state are agricultural and deep red, or otherwise simply in the middle of nowhere. CA should take a look at GA, Georgia schools are surprisingly good, especially when you compare them to the utter lousiness you find across the state line in AL. I don't know what they are doing in GA, but it works.
YouTube-dl repository restored at GitHub
Lag in reporting also. So more like 9 vs 12.
There are ways around this. Art collectors have started building museums on their properties with limited, often onerous public access:

"Wealthy collectors, of course, have long saved millions of dollars in federal taxes by donating art and money to museums and foundations. But what distinguishes Mr. Brant’s center and a growing number of private tax-exempt exhibition spaces like it is that their founders can deduct the full market value of any art, cash and stocks they donate, even when the museums are just a quick stroll from their living rooms."

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/business/art-collectors-g...
This is not correct. If you adjust for population size, most of highly-developed Europe is doing much worse than the USA right now. That includes Germany, Switzerland, etc.
Is there a comparison of "short" childcare available (10am to 1pm) versus "long" childcare available (8am to 6pm)?

With a short childcare, one of the parents must be at home (or take turns, if their jobs have flexible hours). With the long childcare, both can have a full time job.
Corona virus outcomes can be improved by improving general health. The vaccine isn't needed at all because it doesn't help people in poor health(obesity) and healthy people don't need it.
Thanks for contributing to the board! I've added Show HN for you, and have also fixed the corresponding issue!
correct. xfs is just what we test all the time.
> the consequences of this simple rule

The consequence you refer to is not a logical necessity based on relativity. It's just a particular interpretation, the "block universe" interpretation, which is not accepted by all physicists.

See here for a refutation of the argument referred to:

https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/block-universe-refuti...
Not the person who you're asking, but I'd personally prefer as many months (or years) as is needed. I have no idea if that's a few months or years and would love an answer grounded in science.

Could somebody just explain how scientists know decades-long effects after only months of research? I'm taking a vaccine, 100%, no matter what. I'm pro-vaccine. And even if we're unsure, what we know is the massive numbers of deaths we'll have without a vaccine.

I'm asking because I want more peace of mind about it.
The problem is that ROCm is only for linux which is still a huge downside, and it doesn't have good support (or support at all) for the consumer grade GPUs, pretty much Polaris onwards is good luck, heck even Radeon VII isn't well supported.

CUDA works because any NVIDIA GPU will run CUDA this means it's easier to learn, easier to prototype and easier to ship and the code you ship isn't limited to the datacenter.

What AMD needs to do to "win" an HPC GPU launch is to have an event which is 95% "How we fixed ROCm, and here is our full software roadmap and support guarantee for the next 5 years" and the remaining 5% "oh btw here is our new silicon, it's really fast and shiny".
The basic principles of end-to-end encryption aren't particularly difficult if there are only two communicating parties[1]. However, you do need an architecture that supports it.

I suspect a lot of online communications and data hosting services now have a barrier to implementing E2E simply because they already have established infrastructure and software architecture but everything was originally specified to support a centralised system. You can't just drop in a different library or edit a handy configuration file to turn one type of system into the other. Fundamentally, you need to build something new and with a different architecture to work on an E2E basis, which is a major investment and a significant risk if you already have an otherwise successful product operating on a large scale.

The main challenge with E2E, as far as I'm aware, is still how to scale up the basic principle effectively as the number of participants increases.

However, none of this affects the iCloud functionality I've been referring to, where essentially you're only storing data for one party anyway.

[1] This statement is made in the context that encryption in general is a field where you really want people who know what they're doing implementing everything and if you don't have experts in-house then you should probably use someone else's tried and tested implementation instead of attempting a home-grown version.
With an external bluetooth keyboard, this solution is surprisingly good. This is what I use for light remote work when I go on leisure travel and don't want to bring my laptop.
Are there direct comparisons with other countries for the same reporting period?
Interesting, you’re right I’ve assumed that and actually have never thought about that.
They don't need to remove the cipher circumvention code, because there is no cipher circumvention code

https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-yo...
That's true. Getting the video out for enough people to see is the hard part. Have added Youtube to the list as well!
It was also identified very early on in the pandemic as a risk factor. It would be interesting to see if the negative effects are mitigated once a person loses the weight.
Fair point, and that sounds pretty awesome for getting data on things, but a luxury most don't have. I suspect nearly every organization where this is the case is doing it accidentally rather than conscientiously.
Surprised to see "previously had covid" isn't on the list of criteria. Given that 30%+ of US will have had it by then, makes a big difference in early days of distribution.

I do think they should eventually get it but they should be back of the line.
Technically yes, but dividing by number of days past and multiplying by total in the year you get ~88,411, so technically under.

they also noted this "Sweden was the Nordic country that reported the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in 2020."
I mean, if we believe it benefits us to have copyright laws, then obviously it benefits us to have copyright lawyers, and the rest is just implementation details. I'd wager 99% of people believe copyright laws are a net good.
> GM Hikaru Nakamura famously took the Mensa online IQ test and scored a very average 102

Nice clickbait. It you watched him take it on stream, you'd know that he was goofing around with his chat and ran out of time b/c he didn't know it was timed.
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? In either case you're accessing copyrighted material by downloading from youtube's servers.
Also, deaths caused by non-covid flu like diseases should have decreased due to lockdowns and hygiene awareness.
I'm actually shocked that pulse oximeters have not become a standard piece of a home diagnostic kit. Everybody has a thermometer, and everybody should have a pulseox as well.
Its pretty simple: GUI is more intuitive. I do not find them bizarre. Their diversity or bespokeness doesn't register as a hindrance to me. The options are visible all at once, or are a couple of clicks away. Contrast this with the command line where I more or less have to memorize each application's interface or look online or browse the manual for answers.

GUI lets me use keyboard + mouse. CLI is keyboard only.

Regardless of any rationale, my experience is what it is. No amount of counterpoints are going to change what I've felt using CLIs.
Enjoy

https://i.redd.it/gzv67r948ty51.jpg
My question was "why did only 90 out of 15000 get infected", but the data shows that's about what we'd expect, thanks.
PSA that decontextualized numbers are not really a great way to approach just about any issue.

Also, given my inkling as to why this was posted, please keep in mind that incomplete bar charts (alone) are a bad way to do important statistical tests.
> They already have the code in place to do this, and the only reason it isn’t this way now is pushback and a campaign by Facebook that it might be anticompetitive for them to use their power over the operating system to limit the ad industry this way.

I think you forgot that the user owns the computer and gets to decide what code runs. Not facebook, the ad industry or apple.
My situation is similar but with Vim. I have a comfortable setup
that combines a terminal multiplexer and Vim, and that lets me
do almost anything text-based within the same environment.

In the recent year I also starting doing some of my own custom
scripting and syntax files and it's been fun.

Also with Firefox plugins it's possible to use NeoVim as text
editing backend on websites which is nice. I'd prefer a
lightweight terminal browser for certain use cases, but I
haven't found one that can convincingly handle the cluttered web
of today. Emacs' eww seems to be more consistent there.
Sucks for gluttons like me, but I only have myself to blame.
Not everyone here is directly involved in the startup culture and yes, technology and disruption can get shady. But "at least I'm not a lawyer" is a low, low bar to clear.
I added https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject too, but now the title is just the URL ^^
Briefly, what would it take to get ROCm to be CUDA-competitive, as a platform?
The ACLU, Censorship and Semantic Contagion
There is no reason other than political will stopping the WHO and developed nations from subsidizing the purchase of vaccines for places like Africa. In fact, I don't think there is any vaccine that a country like Sudan could afford to administer without such subsidies. Additionally, I suspect the cost of distributing and administering the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in those areas is going to dwarf the raw cost of the doses anyway, considering the temperature sensitivities of the front runner candidates.

That said, the person I was replying to was claiming the price was too high for some developed nations.
Yes and no, we do both. For ack=-1 we wait for fsync & replication confirmation but for other modes we relaxed the behavior.
The Portuguese are also mad for salt cod. There's a dish called bacalhau à brás which is shredded salt cod, grated potato, and sliced onion, bound up with eggs and cooked to a scrambled consistency, and is one of my all time favourite dishes:

https://www.mulherportuguesa.com/receita/bacalhau-a-bras-tra...
Here's the CEO of Pfizer explciitly telling a journalist on the record they wanted to stay out of the "politics" of the program, which I think the non-naive reader can tell exactly what that means; they certainly would not announce that the very government they rely upon for drug approvals is "corrupt", they correctly identified that Trump has turned every US program into his own personal quid-pro-quo machine and they wanted no part of it:

> "When you get money from someone that always comes with strings. They want to see how we are going to progress, what type of moves you are going to do. They want reports," he finished. "And also, I wanted to keep Pfizer out of politics, by the way."

https://www.newsweek.com/pfizer-avoided-rd-funding-trumps-op...
It is almost like Restream, but supports less platforms.
This is an imaginary problem.

"31 people were attacked in all of Scandinavia between 1977 and 2012. Few of the attacks had deadly outcomes and almost all took place during a hunt."

https://sweden.se/nature/swedens-most-dangerous-animal/

Turns out if you leave them alone they leave you alone. You don't need to 'defend' yourself against them, let alone with firearms.
Pleasantly surprised here.
Maybe because

> He shares a lot of his secrets

? Teachers don't have to be the best at the _thing_, they should be really good at explaining concepts. Maybe T90 is the people watch when then want to go from zero to average?

I don't want to be coached by the best tennis player in the world, it would be a waste and I couldn't do any of the things they could teach me.

A solid above average player that knows my limits and can explain how to correct flaws would be much better (for me).
Read a Paper: A Rational Design Process–How and Why to Fake It
Yes, fake news/information wasn't a thing back then.
It's an explicit rule on this site, so please follow it.

Another rule you have violated is "don't be snarky"

For a list of rules, please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Am I mistaken or is that instead rather cheap in this segment (compared to A100)?
I wonder how much involvement there was from Microsoft on this matter. Either way, good job guys!
This was installed on every school computer growing up. My first go at content creation!
> It is expensive

At $6400 this is still only ~50% of the A100 price.

But as others have said, it does not really matter while ROCm is still so bad.
Git+your OS make it easy to acquire this software,
Your browser and OS collude together to make it easy to run it,
The elecric supply to your house makes it easy to run the computer that runs the OS,
...

Do you really want a world where this scumbags should go after everything that "makes it easy" to do illegal activities?
Nope. I fat fingered "colloquialism" and then fat fingered the spell check suggests on my mobile keyboard.
Interesting, so a globe on a 90 degree axial tilt rather than a 23 degree one. I'm sure I've seen such (either fixed at 90 degees or variable from 0-90 degrees), but I can't see any after a quick browser online.
"Consumption of 100% Tart Cherry Juice Reduces Serum Urate in Overweight and Obese Adults" [1] seems relevant.

Also, it's not precisely advice for gout, but cherry juice has also been studied [2] for pain relief.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6483050/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2874510/
EFF responded about that whole subject, and that allowed GitHub to "reinstate" the repo back:

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-1...
You're so uncurious that you dismissed the entire post as soon as you stumbled upon something that led to a question?
I don't understand why when you say "I have covid" people want the proof that you have it and ask you "did you do the test ?".
I personally think I got it twice and never did any test. Just had symptoms I never had before in the 2 waves we had in france, just after meeting persons who also got seek at the same time. This is enough coincidence for me to think I have covid.

I also think that this reasoning may be more accurate that the official not very accurate covid tests.

Doing this reasoning myself also saved me money and the 4h waiting queue to do the test (the last thing I want to do when I have fever).

On the other side, I know people who had symptoms, tested negative (and trusted the test) and still when out to meet (and maybe contaminate) friends or colleagues.
Since top comments here are anecdata about how terrible covid is for a young person, just thought I'd share my experience. Everyone I know who has gotten covid - several neighbors (and their households), most of my wife's hometown (400 people) - including her parents (in their 70s) and two of her siblings and all their children (15 people) all had it. For everyone it was somewhere between nothing and a bad cold. Nobody has any lingering issues. We don't want to paint our picture of the situation using only extremes. How about we include the "average" anecdata too?
I found a youtuber that has Starlink and had them run the dslreports bufferbloat test. They received an "A". This suggests that the jitter should be acceptable to most people on Starlink. Note: If running the test on Starlink, select "cable modem" as the Satellite tests on dslreports have not been updated to deal with Starlinks different behavior.

[1] - http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest
It seems like EFF fought for youtube-dl and GitHub used their letter as legal firepower to bring the repo back online. If GitHub were fighting for the developer they would have funded the attorney, right? Though from their blog post it does look like they are taking steps to fund defense in the future as well as other steps to improve the situation.

Reading EFFs claim is pretty interesting, they state that saving a copy of a video is only one function of youtube-dl. I think the biggest problem is the name is called "youtube download", it is sort of difficult to downplay that saving a copy is only one function when the name implies it is the main purpose of the program.
More so, since they are paying their ad dollars- bidding in a real-time auction for the privilege of filling the ad slot on the website you are looking at.
Yup, for some reason Reddit does not allow web scrapers, which is primarily how SeeLink gathers data about its links.
Lichess is something that strikes pure joy to me as a service. Full of features, free and open source, privacy friendly, zero ads or 'freemium' tiers, blazing fast, yet catering the 'non-tech-savvy' regular user (compare the last point with GNU/Linux vs Windows).
> it's the police and everyone in front will move far away

I’ve found in Europe (Germany, France, Croatia and Slovenia), drivers stay to the right unless passing. So the fast lanes will be fairly empty.

Contract that with US/Canada where cars will merge from the on-ramp, switch 3 lanes to the left and camp in the fast lane at the speed limit. All without anything in front of them to warrant such action.
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-ser...