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I have read way too many of these kinds of stories.

Thru-hikers are akin to long distance runners.(For some of them) Their goal is to brag about how many miles they walked and how grueling it was, and that's exactly what this author does.

I have backpacked for close to 50 years now and there are a few types of hikers I've run across that have sucked up my time or just been obnoxious to meet on the trails and by far thru-hikers are likely to be obnoxious.

I've had them hike into my camp at night, tell me this is where they've planned to setup for the night, and then demand I give them water because they ran out, and ask for supplies like bandages, neosporin, aspirin, tylenol, and even food. I have cut trips short because of that.

It happened so often I quit using hiking trails and that I can kind of thank them for because I'd been leery of bushwhacking far off trail and getting lost.

I had to sharpen my mapping skills and learn how to remember how to get back to my starting point. That was actually pretty easy once I put it in practice and now with a topo map and compass I always know where I am so I can wander aimlessly in our forests for days, which are the same forests the author talks about blistering her feet.

I've been hiking here for over 30 years and never blistered my feet. And I wouldn't consider myself to be anything but stupid if I did.

Had she taken the time to get off trail and explore the "hills and hollers" here she could have wrote about the stunning beauty everywhere you go no matter what direction you take.

Instead she told everyone how miserable it was but she was tough enough to take it and you should learn how to "suffer" too.

If you really want to learn how to suffer come here and hike those trails in the summer and don't use any bug repellent. The ticks and chiggers will give you a serious lesson in suffering and it'll last at least a couple weeks after you've left.
Agreed.

We actually were customers of Elastic's offering for a while, but they went down 3 times in a quarter, which was simply unacceptable. We had to switch, and have been okay since. Our bill is also more than half of what it used to be.

The AWS implementation is quite limited in many ways, and there could be a point where we switch back or host it ourselves.
Have you ever found confirmation that they use OpenDistro internally? I've looked and have been unable to find such a statement.
Do your part and come back with an example that does the same thing in your syntax.

Don't be lazy and fool yourself into thinking you have a point because you didn't write it out.

I know what problems will come up and I'd like to see how you try and solve them. In the best case you end up with a more verbose syntax for doing the same thing, and in the likely case it will be brittle because you'd have to manually link the instantiations and re-runs, manually ensure you're calling things in order, and may even have to manually dispose things.
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Pretty sure free speech is gone from "liberal democracies" now that the left has decided that Twitter and Facebook should be arbiters of what speech is allowed.
Maybe it wasn't clear, but the article I linked is saying that compared to M1, x86 architectures are decode-limited, because parallel decoding with variable-length instructions is tricky. Intel and AMD (again according to the linked article) have at most 4 decoders, while M1 has 8.

So yes the ROB is after decoding, but surely there's little point in having the ROB be larger than can be kept relatively full by the decoders.
Just means it partly succeeded, not that the rebellion was a moral failure.
If you don't feel like desoldering, just fill the button depression with epoxy. It's what we did with our Scion xB. And then it would start panicking on its own, at which point we returned to the dealer and told them to take the whole damned thing out. Which they did without charge.
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I like this. The more free information the better.
Trademark law is very different than copyright law. You are allowed to use trademarks in certain circumstances. You can’t imply a relationship that doesn’t exist, but AWS saying - this is a hosted version of Elasticsearch would probably be okay (but IANAL).

Where they’d get into trouble is if they said they offered a hosted Elasticsearch, but under the hood it was something else. But, even then they could probably say that their offering was Elasticsearch compatible.

The real question is: was AWS misleading customers? I don’t make any claims one way or the other about this specific case. But I wanted to point out that you don’t always need permission to use another’s trademark.

From [1]:

> Nominative use permits the use of a trademark – even in commercial contexts – if it is the most accurate way to refer to a good or service without misleading consumers as to its source.

[1] https://google.github.io/opencasebook/trademarks/#fair-use-d...
This isn't safe to use:

https://github.com/tomquirk/zuccnet/blob/42e351e36b3b5dbaef0...

1. Try encrypting a message larger than 256 characters. Even if you somehow succeed, it will fail to decrypt. (My understanding of JS crypto is that it will throw an error if you try.)

2. It lacks forward secrecy.

A much better design would be to encrypt with an ephemeral (one-time) 256-bit AES key (using CBC+HMAC), then encrypt the key with RSA. (AES-GCM is probably easier, but if you're worried about message commitment, that's not recommended.)

(On sweis's comment about Secret Conversations: I don't trust closed source implementations--and neither do a lot of us on HN, so that's a non-starter. Tell the Facebook team to open source it, with reproducible builds, if you want it to be trusted.)

Recommended reading for the author: https://soatok.blog/2020/11/14/going-bark-a-furrys-guide-to-...
Rioting in my city during the protests and the way it was underreported (initially) was how I experienced it, not as a plight of suffering students and bicyclists who were the marchers. Now crime here has gone up a lot, including a doubling of homicides, a tripling of shootings, and all sorts of random violence in neighborhoods not known for it.

Trapped in a one bedroom, working all day, and walking outside sucks. There's nowhere to go except online, and that's full of stressful garbage.

My dream is nature and simplicity.
I've been watching it very closely for years. I've been waiting for it to become a little more stable as a product. It might already be there for me, but I just bought a Jelly 2 and I'm liking the smallness for now. I use F-Droid to install most apps I use anyway, which isn't many.
I’m the opposite. I get much more done at home. I love having all this time with my family, access to my kitchen, and walking my dog. The lockdown has been great for me.
To play devil's advocate: how, when they won't let us?
Or, in reality speak: "Some Trump supporters/goofs discussed this protest for months on Facebook".

Makes it sound like it describes some huge conspiracy with dire results instead of the equivalent of partisan people dissatisfied with the results (and driven by polarization from both sides) to discuss and do the equivalent of "Let's go into the Capitol to protest, that'll show them".
The reason there's no requirement to identify yourself is that this stuff isn't hard to make and the FCC already employs professionals for tracking (this is a common sport) and arresting people who abuse the radios.
Great example of building something fun not because we should but because we can :)

My take on "Lisp in Julia" using deprecated-but-still-parseable syntax instead of a string macro: https://github.com/christopher-dG/jlisp

I should probably put some examples in the readme.
Trust is earned.
I’m not sure, but it’s possible. The version in stable was 0.31 or so, while the version in snap and unstable/sid is 1.11. The specific incompatibility I faced was for the CloudFlare DNS plugin, which added support for API Tokens that had granular permissions somewhere between the 0.23 version in stable and the current version of the plugin at 1.11. Current Certbot docs and CloudFlare docs both encourage you to use API tokens instead of account-wide API secrets and the previous install instructions for wildcard DNS support suggested installing the CloudFlare DNS plugin by default on the Certbot site.
I've made a cool app that consumes yts api a while ago. Naively I even shared it here. After learning that someone in England was arrested only for having links to pirated movies I took everything down.

It's a shame how hard they are coming after torrents and copyright content like that. As I kid growing up in Brazil I wouldn't have access to a lot of movies, games and tv shows if weren't for torrents and pirate content. Now a days I can buy these games and pay for a subscription to movies and tv shows, but I learned of them by downloading first.

I wonder how much it hurts a tv show like GOT to have some kid watching it without buying.
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You can set up movable paper walls Japanese style and separate spaces that way.
Unfortunately, the common pattern for an academic abstract is something like:

In this paper, the Soyuz clock is analyzed in detail and the underlying reason for its high complexity is described.

You still usually have to access the full paper to get the reason itself...
The official word from TV Licensing is quite misleading (which admittedly is in their interest). You do not require any exemption nor to correspond with them at all.

Their "officers" are private individuals employed by a private company who have no special rights to enter your property. Absent a search warrant, it is almost certainly a mistake to allow them to enter your property.
It's weird that we expect Github to do that, in a way. The repo might well be hosted on there for free, but we all want Github to spend a ton in legal fees to defend something they make zero cash from.

I'm not sure what my point is here other than finding it sad that code hosting is so centralised.
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>If they can be sure there is no copyright violation

Will they think that, though? I doubt they would take the risk.
It's clear that the author should not contribute to Apache 2.0 projects, because they do not like freedoms this license provides.

They should contribute to projects whose licenses do not allow changing terms of the license easily. That's it.
You clearly didn’t read the DMCA
Strong disagree, and wish this sort of gatekeeping wasn't present. Go get one of these things. They're $20, and ham radio is a fun and useful hobby.

I have many baofeng radios which have been in many forms of being thrown into boxes, backpacks, filled with dust, rained on, abused by drunks, dropped, etc. and they ALL are still working fine, albeit some with dest behind the LCD cover.
Introduce levy to cover for people copying stuff, then introduce copy protection and anti-circumvention laws so copying becomes illegal. Continue to collect levy. Ingenious.
but it is a safe assumption
What torpedoed him was the money laundering.
You've got a point, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25836800 also points this out.

My eye was caught by

> The Project blatantly infringes the MPA Member Studios’ copyrights and countless other copyrights. Indeed, copyright infringement is so prevalent within the Project that infringement plainly is its predominant use and purpose.

when submitting, and you could argue that does constitute a blanket attack against dual-use products, but the specific allegations you cite are also relevant. Since I could still edit the title I changed it to "for source code of torrent tracker nyaa.si"; hope that's clearer.
Aren't phone lines also technically managed by private companies?

AFAIK, postal service is a public service, but not phones.
It’s like when the feds go for the capos instead of the mob boss because it’s easier.
Sooner or later, one of these projects will counter-sue for misuse of copyright.

Misuse of copyright is when a copyright holder attempts to illegitimately expand the rights granted to them by their copyright in some work (in this case, quashing competition from distribution channels that are used to distribute unrelated copyrighted material).

The normal punishment for misuse of copyright is the rendering of the copyright unenforceable. The letter clearly sets the scope of the copyrights that would be at stake in this case:

" each of the major motion picture studios in the United States, specifically, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Universal City Studios LLC, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Netflix Studios, LLC, and their respective affiliates (collectively, the “MPA Member Studios”), which own or control exclusive rights under copyright in and to a vast number of motion pictures and television shows."

I'm not a lawyer, but misuse of copyright / trademark should be covered in any decent introduction to intellectual property law course. The MPA lawyers are either incompetent or working under the assumption that their clients are invincible / above the law.

I think pushing back on this take down notice would be a slam dunk case.
>There is that little affair from 1765 to 1783 that gets generally good press, though

Gets good press, but, compared to the Commonwealth countries, it's not clear it was really necessary or beneficial.
In the U. S., where we don't like to get in the way of our corporate overlords.
6. Drink water throughout the day.

I'm convinced that a large part of the stress people have been feeling this past year is due to dehydration and lack of proper nutrition.
> Running a 3 phase VFD on single phase (tieing all 3 phases together) works if you derate the VFD/inverter.

Interesting, I've never tried that.

Yes, those cap-and-coil based 3 phase 'convertors' are more of a fake 3 phase than the real thing and they will put a lot of stress on one of the three phase windings of the motor and hardly any on the other two.
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That’s a great question for these app stores. How much nazi content and calls to violently overthrow the government is too much to be allowed on the app store? Kind of like asking the FDA how much arsenic should be allowed in my Cheerios. I’d like to see what their idea of the right threshold is.
Not forbidden, but SSPL goes beyond AGPL in a key way by defining the source that must be released as wider, including any code necessary to offer the covered code as a service, such as user interfaces, backup mechanisms, provisioning etc. That might indeed be more than AWS is willing to do
And if not loyal to an artist it is a genera or station. Classical music listeners can get Bach from a number of different artists, if a few are missing they typically can get by with the others. If someone puts a station on Pandora it will be a long time before they notice that something is missing.

With TV there is a long standing character development to get people interested in something in particular. With music you often just want a style - though there are favorites with particular meaning that you may want.
> 1. Have a room that is a dedicated office. When I leave this room, I leave the "office".

I live in a city where an apartment costs 1500 a square foot, so a two bedroom apartment for a single person is barely affordable.

This pandemic has taught me that crowded cities suck.
The funny thing is, in the time period being addressed first in the article (2013) Intel was better at mobile than it is now. Its Bay Trail and Cherry Trail chips had more performance per dollar than even today's offerings, eight years later. Intel just decided low-margin wasn't a concept in which they were interested.
Very few OSS projects get popular enough and are structurally amenable to that kind of group contribution scenario. Of those that are, in most cases it results in an unusable hodge podge of crap rather than a well crafted product.
Sometimes, people who have easy access (and habit) to write blog posts, etc. forget to ask themselves whether they have some standing or weight to comment on the things that they think during the day. Or responsibility.

Why would I listen to a software developer on whether I should follow medical guidelines in a health crisis, over some source more involved/accountable to the vaccine distribution system?

There's absolutely no consequence for him to give 5 minute advice that he has no accountability for. Will he accept responsibility for advising people to do this?

He might be right, even, but for some reason this morning I got set off irritably by such a person giving others medical advice. So for that, I apologize in advance.
The point of Free Software is, in part, that other people can use it.

That includes nice people like you and me

It includes reprobates like Amazon

The horrid games they were playing with trade marks is part of why Amazon is a reprobate.
If the negative externalities are the same in both cases, then this isn't an excuse. Just because Facebook has proportionally fewer posts that violate its policies doesn't mean it should get a free pass. The fact that up to 15,000 people have PTSD is the societal cost we pay, even if the vast majority of FB users are using the platform as expected.

Facebook gets a free pass because Facebook is an influential organization. Parler had no network of elites protecting it, because as you say, it had no other purpose beyond being 'volunteer' moderated.

If at a minimum, the attack gets us to think about the type of questions posed by The Social Dilemma, we're trending towards a better place.
I see belief in the "placebo effect" as a mind virus. Because it is not just a justification for lying to patients, but entails medical people lying to themselves.

I get tired trying to explain, and if I'm not convincing anyone, maybe it's me who doesn't understand...but, I feel like the key is to ask yourself, if the placebo effect is something that you can scientifically demonstrate, how would you arrange a control group?

Failure to identify a reason for an apparent effect cannot be turned into proof that "nothing" has an effect. It's just a mental short circuit that people get trapped in.
I think it is also fair to point out that FB does have a review process, policies, and despite not being able to keep up with the volume, has tried to keep the most incendiary behavior off its platform. Meanwhile, Parler has refused to do any of these things as a matter of principle. As much as I hate on FB, I think there is a clear distinction here.
Yeah, it's the same category in the way a truck and sedan have 4 wheels. It's amazing that people have been gaslit to alternatively believe it was this was some secure, free speech alternative to Facebook when it's quite evident w/ the data pulls that they had no intention of doing so and were at best, incompetent.

They were trying to growth hack using an extremist leaning, marginalized audience and got burned for it. Roll the dice, accept the outcome.
Facebook and pretty much all the advertising-supported platforms made billions while directly contributing to this incident by pitting people against each other and showing them divisive, offensive and often false/misleading content.

Parler in comparison doesn't seem to be making any money off this yet.
The case seems to rest on this precedent:

"""
See Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster Ltd., 545 U.S. 913, 940 n.13 (2005) (“the distribution of a product can itself give rise to liability where evidence shows that the distributor intended and encouraged the product to be used to infringe”)
"""
That was a really good read. I appreciate the detail that the writer went into describing his investigative process.

Let the warning be heard loud and clear: state is the devil
1. Refusal to moderate.

2. By far smaller user base, with that base overwhelmingly participating in fear mongering fake news. There are people I know convinced of entirely fabricated stories that contributed to the violence at the capitol.

3. It's clear the admins of parler explicitly allowed content that encouraged the riots and violence therein.

Facebook does admin all of these things. They're also significantly larger. Don't be dishonest.
Again, I applaud them for their efforts. I think it is cool. However, it would also be cool to have a standalone crossword app that uses an ncurses-type of library to play crosswords in the console without relying on Emacs. That is all I was saying. I'm not criticizing the author that what they did isn't neat.
The road to low-code and no-code development needs strong guardrails
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Amazon published anti union website: https://www.doitwithoutdues.com/

So Tech Workers Coalition published a parody of it at https://JustDue.it

Find a tweet about it https://twitter.com/techworkersco/status/1351590466261823489
"Progress" is an undefined, or ill-defined, and highly subjective term. In the 90's, Chris Lasch even argued that it was a relatively new concept, and unknown to his favorite class of human being (the "yeoman", with the traditional US family farmer as a key example, though the concept goes back to at least the Greeks).

The Luddites were not against progress. They were against specific forms of progress in which they (1) had no say (2) lost their livelihoods (3) to others who benefitted in what they considered unreasonable ways.
According to the article I linked, that's basically how they do it:

"The brute force way Intel and AMD deal with this is by simply attempting to decode instructions at every possible starting point. That means x86 chips have to deal with lots of wrong guesses and mistakes which has to be discarded. This creates such a convoluted and complicated decoder stage that it is really hard to add more decoders. But for Apple, it is trivial in comparison to keep adding more.

In fact, adding more causes so many other problems that four decoders according to AMD itself is basically an upper limit for them."
Your comment:

I never owned Apple products and never will, but some (most?) consumers don't care about the openness of their system and just want to be in a reliable and cozy ecosystem or walled garden if you will, of well polished products, even if it costs a lot and is mostly used for watching netflix and browsing the web which, I guess, is the majority of Apple's customer base.
For everyone else who wants full control and ownership of their hardware there's always Linux.

Because of the way Apple is, you'll never use their hardware, but you use Microsoft Windows, which is horrible for privacy. Seems there's a contradiction there.

If you replied "I only use Linux on hardware I make", then I'd have thought, "yeah, very consistent" but using Windows and being so anti-Apple blows my mind.
Why does Apple and Google as a duopoly get to determine what businesses must do and not do to exist? (from a practical perspective not a legal one) For me that's the real question.
I used Scrivener (MacOS) for my first novel, but I did not use most of the features of the software. Now it's stuck as the last remaining 32-bit app on MacOS, and I've debating whether to pay for an upgrade or use something else for novel #2.

I've learned about this at a very good time!
U.S. organizations need to follow U.S. law.

Github has shown that they're trying to fight these things, with yt-dl reinstatement and a recent donation to the EFF.

https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-yo...