skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any hosting platform will sooner or later have to comply with such a request. It can become very expensive if you end up in court.

Yet it wasn't actually DMCA takedown request, but a strange new kind of takedown request, where a a private company claimed (falsely) that youtube-dl violated section 1201 and demanded that github remove it.

Unfortunately github seems to have codified these new "1201 takedowns" which didn't seem to exist previously.
I agree, there's something about B&W that makes anyplace look drab and rundown. I think it's because dirt is usually grey, so all the walls and items just look dirty.

It sometimes works for landscapes - especially at night. But for people it, unfortunately, makes them look like they're not alive anymore.

If you've ever seen someone who passed away, they somewhat look like a B&W photo of themselves.
> I'm just saying that IMHO it's not a definitive study

It's not, and I'm disappointed in the submission's title. The paper's title is
"No evidence that vitamin D is able to prevent or affect the severity of COVID-19 in individuals with European ancestry: a Mendelian randomisation study of open data"
Which is correct; no evidence was found in the study that correlated Vitamin D levels with Covid severity. But yes, this is not an RCT and we cannot use the study's conclusion to definitively disqualify Vitamin D supplementation.

> it was not even based on data about actual vitamin D levels

Medelian Randomization is a pretty well-established study technique which _isn't_ an RCT, but often yields results close to them. It's a bit simplistic to say that "the data isn't about actual Vitamin D levels", when MR is specifically a study method used to step around direct measurements to analyze effect.
Honestly, I get the impression that he's easily outflanked by smart people. And that something about his personality drives people to take advantage of him. That impression comes from his apparent business incompetence. He is capable of screwing up "sure things" such as casinos and hotels. Best I can tell, he ends up getting a raw deal, then proceeds to make the shit roll down hill by screwing over people down stream of him (i.e., not paying contractors).

He's clearly a capable actor. He pretends, rather convincingly, to be this amazing, confident, shrewd businessman. And I think a lot of people idolize him because he embodies what they think of when they think of a smart, successful business person. But I think real smart, successful business people spend two minutes with him, and paint him as a rube.
It does, actually. But you have to precede the command with <num>G to go to the correct line.
That isn't as big problem as you paint it. Yes, Trump was particularily "lucky" (for the lack of the better word) that during his single term in the office 3 Supreme Justices died, so he could appoint replacements. But Obama, George W. Bush, Clinton, George Bush senior, they each appointed 2 Justices. So it seems to me that the system is deliberately designed to capture long-term political trends - Democratic presidents appoint democratic judges, Repliblicans appoint Republicans, and the net result is: Supreme Court reflects society's deeply ingrained values, not its current mood.
Doesn't calling .format on a string do the exact same thing as an f-string?
Why yes, everything would include Hacker News as well.
Kodi downloads an entire ChromeOS image just to extract the widevine shared library, for example.
Graphcore IPU Put Through the Supercomputing Paces
“Secret' message for coders on the new White House website
Amazon offers Biden help with vaccine, suggests their 800K employees go first
Not every project will have a sufficiently high profile for the EFF to notice. Relying on the EFF like this doesn't scale, isn't future proof, and doesn't address the long tail of the problem.
This sounds incredible. I wonder why Lisp didn’t catch on as a more popular programming language.
Paradoxes are paradoxes precisely because they fail to disprove two contradictory claims.

For the Fermi paradox, the paradox is that the immensity of the universe leading to life seems obvious, yet the complete absence of that life around us seems to show it's not there. So it disproves nothing, but actually highlights the difficulty of disproving either claim given the other.
The effects of excessive UV exposure are known; the effects of UV deficiency are ...
I am from the Deep South. I have evangelical family members who have disowned others because of their beliefs. Who wish for the Kingdom of God to be realized, so that the non-believers can spend eternity in suffering. I grew up with peers who told me I would burn in hell for believing in evolution. Peers from middle class backgrounds with financial security, who then worry about "white genocide" and the "great replacement".

I have not been brainwashed by the TV to think these types of people are evil. I know them intimately. I know that they are multifaceted human beings, capable of love, but also capable of hate and great harm. I have family members that do believe other races are below them, aunts and uncles old enough to have fought against civil rights and desegregation. Much like Trump, who was 22 when MLK was assassinated. Grandparents who mutter about the war of northern aggression. They are still alive today, there are millions of people like them, and they vote. They push real policies that present a real threat to many Americans.

I have moved away from the South, and have new friends and family, who have directly been affected by the Muslim Ban, changes to immigration policy, and the rhetoric of Trump and his supporters these past four years. This is real harm.

"Both sides" are not the same, and there are real victims of such bigotry. To deny this reality perpetuates these problems.
It's pretty warranted when this is the type of attack possible:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25717156

See the comments for a summary and why the submission was flagged.
How to Use the Rule of Three in Writing
Because sometimes he behaves like what's in the image.
If the malware seller can make $0.10 / user / month, then paying the extension developer a one-time fee of $0.20 * users is only three months to pay back. Thus considered a low price for the extension developer but still attractive to the extension developer who likely earns $0 / user from their extension.
60% of people are water, 75% of feces are water.
I've had an eBay order arrive via Fedex in a flat rate box. I doubt anyone at Fedex cares as long as the label scans. I've also seen USPS labels printed on the free "UPS USE ONLY" thermal labels.
>And let's not forget the entire "mobile first"

Where half of the screen is covered with ads, banners, and irrelevant auto-playing videos that you cannot scroll away from.
I would love to pay you for this (though I think $10 is a bit steep), but I don't want you to be able to read my messages, which you are since you run the bridges.
OpenGL only did that in a very constrained way, because game consoles never bother to actually support it, despite urban myths.

The PS 2 had a timid attempt with ES GL 1.0 + Cg, and some Nintendo models do support a subset, miniGL sytle, and that is about it.

Most studios kept writing engines with plugins for various 3D APIs.
Humanity has gone to hell in a handcart since then. So we marvel over such pics from the past: the nostalgia, the simplicity, how natural people are with themselves and each other, that we now consider them wonderful glimpses of a bygone age, myself included. But life is and always was a struggle, and I don't blame people at time considering the images too negative. They wanted something better and things were getting better, for a brief time. They had the future to look forward to. No more.
Hello,

marcan is CCed on that set of patches as a courtesy, and he can help with figuring out better approaches before it's merged. Because it's set in stone forever after that.

- someone
Bro, I hear you and agree.
AFAIK NewPipe does not use youtube-dl.
Is this actually active now?

The FAQ implies it's an available product. Going through the form indicates I may be invited to use at some unspecified point in the future... :-/
Miami's Mayor Is Trying to Seize Its Tech Moment
Makes sense. China doesn't want any Yuan going to a US company.
I'm familiar. The jail breaking scene and other examples are one offs though. You just need to take a holistic view of life and civilization to know how critical competition is to success.

All of society and the development of capitalism to evolutionary biology is founded on competition. Competition is, in fact, the primary success story and collaboration is the side story. Citing the failure of one community discounts the view of the entire world. Competition works, and it works better than collaboration. See communism if you want an example about a community founded on collaboration as the primary driver.
I strongly agree that prison isn't the only option. At the same time, I can't support the notion that Charles Manson, Timothy McVeigh, Dylann Roof, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should all be free men today.
If you achieve it, it could be nice to improve the existing documentation.
Yes, it is. And it has also been happening for the whole history of anything recognizable as "science."

The nice, pretty scientific method we learn about in school is largely an idealized myth
To expand on what you're saying, there's a big difference between "I don't like X" and "X is bad". I've never been much of a wine person. It's not without trying. I've had everything from cheap boxed Franzia to a several hundred dollar bordeaux (that was totally wasted on me). I took a wine class where I was given samples and explicitly told "this is what good wine tastes like". I don't dislike wine and I don't think wine is bad, but the 10% of wine that is good doesn't appeal to me that much.
Where do you get the idea of Kotlin losing momentum?

Serious question.

Can Kotlin/JS be a real competitor to TypeScript on the browser? Kotlin Native vs Go? Because if so, Kotlin doesn't have to go head to head against Java to win on the JVM too. (imo)
> 90% of Everything Is Crap

I guess this applies to this blog entry as well.

And my reply here I guess.
World Wide Web inventor opposes Australia's news payment plan
Please don't sell it to Facebook when it will kick off
Actually, 99% of HN is crap. 90% of the front page is crap.
Not a scientist...but strongly feel humans would not have diverged into different skin colors if UV deficiency weren't a fairly large issue.
Or just laminate the glass?
Trump pardons convicted ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski
Maybe TSMC is not that important for making advanced weapons. It is still important for billion-dollar markets like cell phones, cloud servers, desktop and laptop computers, etc. For instance, Apple, which happens to somehow rack in money selling computing devices, is very dependent on TSMC, without a viable replacement available now.
> name 1 check/balance that's actually particularly good!

The overarching one is the government being a triumvirate. If one branch overreaches, the other two can keep it in check. Triumvirates have historically been stable governments. Even in the Soviet Union - the Party, the Army, the Police.
From watching some of his Twitch streams, I get the general impression that he really doesn't care if Jai is a language that "people" use. He seems to be developing it basically entirely as a language that he wants to use and whether anyone else outside of his company uses it is almost irrelevant.
I may be missing something; I'm jumping at the bits to use something like this, and I'm quite the opposite of spammer - I'm just a nerd with heterogeneous family and friends who refuse to all magically switch to my recommended and obviously superior chat app :P
All modern Windows APIs since Vista are based on COM, so it isn't going away anytime soon.

As does macOS/iOS driver model.
Got a kick out of one of the bugzilla links:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572

"Use native context menus on Mac OS"

"Opened 21 years ago"
It should probably be "reinstated" as you suggest.

And the title has been labeled (2020) as you suggest.

HN isn't up-to-the-minute "news" necessarily; the best date I've seen recently on HN was (516). ;-)
Well, even if I prefer XMPP over Matrix and still disagree over the developer ressources, I wish you the best of luck, because both solutions, being federated, are inherently better than the competition by design.
I may be wrong on the physically mailing you the iPhone. It could be that they ask for your Apple login and just log you in to a jailbroken iPhone on their premise.
There is a corollary to Sturgeon’s law which states:

This remains true for the remaining 10%
It's also a glaring ADA violation.
Even if DMCA 512 doesn't cover DMCA 1201 violating circumvention tools, that wouldn't make GitHub in the clear to host them. If anything, it would actually increase their liability: the whole point of DMCA 512 is to provide a process by which an ISP can disclaim liability for contributory copyright infringement.

If they refuse the request on the grounds of "you can't DMCA a circumvention tool", then they're still liable regardless of if a DMCA 512 takedown can or can't apply to a 1201 violation, since there's still an underlying tort of distributing a 1201 circumvention tool. If they accept the request, and get sued anyway, they could at least argue that they have a safe harbor (or should have a safe harbor).
Well, he's not releasing it generally yet, so it's not fair to criticize not releasing documentation. This was created by someone else. He mentioned that when he open-sources it or soon after, he's planning on releasing the engine from the game Thekla is currently working on, which will provide a good sample of "idiomatic Jai". I'm hoping that good documentation will come with it.
I mean it's Python, so you can do anything:

>>> fstring="Hello, {\"world\"}"
>>> eval(f"print(f'{fstring}')")
Hello, world
Apple has all the documentation needed to write drivers for all the custom hardware found in an iPhone (the original XNU-on-ARM device) or in an M1 Mac. The Asahi volunteers and Corellium don’t, they will need to do much more work, including reverse-engineering. So, what’s your point?
A rat as big as a lion, though.
How much sun exposure is enough? Lot of sources say 10-40 minutes. But nothing is said about how much skin should be exposed for that duration. (recommendations that are so vague are dismissed as useless)

.. and since i'm venting, diet experts use formula "1 cal = 1 kilo cal". why oh why?
Hmm, idk, I like anime too. But I would strongly expect to dislike a randomly chosen anime title (generously, filtering down to stuff at least loosely targeted at someone my age). It's relatively easy to find curated lists of stuff that is not crap. Games are harder. I feel like at this point I look at a game and can more or less visualize the entire game loop, estimate a low percentage of content that would actually interest me, and just yawn at the prospect of playing it. But art is pretty boring if it has nothing to novel to say.

Novel art is a fantastic thing to enjoy. But if you're really looking for it, it's a more difficult thing to find by the day.
My approach is to just use all the tools. I use clumsy IDEs when I really need powerful debugging. I use vim when I need powerful editing/macros. Sometimes I do code browsing with ctags. Sometimes I do code browsing with Eclipse. There's no need to be a purist.

Except vim. No plugins into vim. That is sacrilege.
Thank you for Pebble! It was my main Diabetes app for seeing the current blood glucose directly from my wrist until my Pebble 2 finally died a year ago. It was almost like magic and had a week of battery life.

The commercial matrix bridge is an excellent idea. I was able to get my homeserver running, but it is a hell of a job to get everything working. When it does work, oh boy, it again feels like magic!
DRM is just encryption. It being open source and everyone seeing what math is used is only going to make it stronger.
Not exactly programming per-se, but cute:

A mechanical engineer, an electrical engineer, and a software engineer from Microsoft are in a car together, driving to a conference. They start down a hill when the brakes give out and they crash into a tree at the bottom of the hill. Luckily no one is seriously injured, and they set out to figure out what happened. The mechanical engineer examines the car and says "I believe a brake line was over-pressured and burst, causing the crash." The electrical engineer looks and say "No, I think it was a short-circuit in the anti-lock braking system." The Microsoft guy stays quiet, so the other two look at him and ask "What do you think happened?" He looks up and say "I don't know, but let's push the car back to the top of the hill and try again."

---

A newly wed software engineer from Microsoft and his wife are going to visit her family in the mountains. For some reason they have to travel separately and she arrives before him. After a while the phone rings and the new wife's dad answers. It's the husband. He says "Tell everybody I'll be there in 5 minutes." 35 minutes pass and the phone rings again. The husband says "Tell everybody I'll be there in 2 hours." A minute later he calls again and says "Tell everybody I'll be there in 14 minutes." 45 minutes later the phone rings again and the dad answers and says "You're the guy who designed the Windows progress bar dialog aren't you?"
"Levandowski denies saying this."
This is based on a true story. And the required understanding was that the power had to be gone for long enough that it actually shut down completely.
Then you will never learn vim. Which is fine, not everyone needs to be a vim ninja.
This has never been true. We wouldn't have JavaScript if Netscape didn't go off and do their own thing. Netscape and Microsoft were locked in a fierce embrace-and-extend battle for the web. XMLHttpRequest wasn't even a standard when Gmail came out in 2004, and wasn't a standard until at least 2006.

Web standards merely describe the current world of web browsers and attempt to retroactively take credit for it.
I think you missed the point of what I was asking - what are the features that similarly priced headphones do/don’t have?
> the senate needs proportional representation too

No, the Seventeenth Amendment should be repealed and state legislatures should be required to appoint senators. The United States form a federal government, not a unitary state; that means the several states should be represented.

> If the senate were proportional, we could simply abolish the electoral college with little loss; just let congress elect the president and be done with it.

Alternatively, state legislatures could appoint electors. Or maybe they could appoint two electors, and the people of the state could vote for the rest.
No promises that that's actually the right flag. I had a rummage around searchfox and it looks like that just enables extensions that have been placed in special directories (whether they must be signed or not is a different flag). There clearly is a setting somewhere though as the unbranded builds exist...
Most Linux software is written by Red Hat. GNOME, Wayland, and systemd are all Red Hat projects. They are even a major contributor to the kernel itself.
Plus one on accurately quoting/applying strong opinions, loosely held. Anecdotally, most of the time I see this applied people just want someone to be easy to convince. Easy to convince should be a function of the data/reasoning that lead to the currently held choice. Until an exceeding choice is found, why relinquish the currently held one for one with _less_ data/rationale?
There are only two hard problems in computer science:

0) Cache invalidation
1) Naming things
5) Asynchronous callbacks
2) Off-by-one errors
3) Scope creep
6) Bounds checking
Just applying for roles in SF!
They kind of had to mention Duchamp since the artwork is slightly derivative of one of Duchamp's famous artwork which features glass panes broken during transport:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuf_GHmjxLM
This looks great.

I'm just in the middle of trying to set up a home server using dendrite to do exactly this (mainly for fun).

This looks really well done and polished though.

It's great to see services like this using matrix as it can only mean positive feedback for the protocol / server code.

Is it using synapse or dendrite (or something else) for the server?
but does that 90% cluster on a particular user set, or is it 90% of each user's submissions are crap?
I'd believe it. It would certainly explain a lot.
Trump pardons engineer Google accused of stealing secrets for Uber
The next time she says to him, "while you're at the store, pick up some bananas."

Legend says he's at the store still.
On the condition that Intel spin off their foundry business ala GlobalFoundries.
I was going to say the same thing, there is insane amount of pre-filtering before we even see anything. So real proportion of crap things is somewhere above 99%.
> but everybody has some kind of game type they don't like that makes it hard to reach consensus

The paradox of choice. Or whatever the term is. The huge range of options available let us whittle ourselves down into a perfect little hole of preference, but I suspect that diminishing returns kick in real quick.

The truth is that you'll probably have nearly as much fun if you just pick up one of six cartridges you've got (like we had to back in the old days) and have at it, than if you spent a week carefully selecting the optimal game from the tens of thousands out there. That is a deceptively attractive misuse of time, for some reason.
I giggled a bit, but the nice red tomatoe yield is quite high in my small garden experience.
Also, saying 'Chromium fork' is mostly untrue since these browsers almost always change stuff that's required (ie. changing the appearance, logos, chrome:// uri, and maybe solving some platform-specific bugs) then continue to pull changes from upstream Chromium with little intent to iterate on the core components of the browser or implement new standards. Brave is the one exception with IPFS support but that's it - not even MSFT did something like enabling PlayReady in chromium, it's straight widevine.
The real answer is:

Those who don't understand binary

Those that think its a binary joke

Those who understand trinary

no no it is:

Those who don't understand binary

Those that think its a binary joke

Those that think its a trinary joke

Those who understand base 4

...
Thanks, much appreciated. This is a very informative set of things to watch out for that I wouldn't have thought of otherwise.
Amazon offers to help US with vaccine efforts
'Practical' would to buy it from a 'farmer'.

The entire premise of this is 'hipster tech' - or - a very long term vision and investment towards making something like actually practical at some scale, which may or may not ever happen.
I would say they are the same (LEAP and Centos (not stream)), you can change instantly to SLES if you need too. Leap15 = SLES15, Leap15.1 = SLES15sp1 and so on.
Why stop there? just cancel the meeting entirely and your meeting emissions drop to zero.
Oh, I agree, durability and reliability are important, and it can be harder to get those right using plastics. Personally, I enjoy the fact that every single part on my Sennheiser HD25's can be replaced easily, and they're made of plastic.

I just dislike the "Oooooo metal! Must be good!" when it's a lot more complicated than that.
I guess it’s only a matter of time until Facebook et al fight the bridges in form of lawsuits and API changes. Some years ago Facebook’s chat was accessible via the Jabber protocol. I think they won’t like users switching away from their apps and miss the control and ad revenue.
Because the text motions, once learned, are extremely powerful and will cause your relationship to textual data to fundamentally change. All while avoiding wrist injury, because some critical keys (f, t, g, j, q) are so lettered due to the location on the keyboard. Think of your keyboard as more like a piano than an alphabet.