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by akersten 6y ago
> i.e. random error. Did they say that their confidence interval was confidence against random error? I don't think that's a requirement of a confidence interval, I think it's certainly valid to encode e.g. the chance of
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by akersten 6y ago
The proposed solution (an HTML attribute to 'allow' double-click submissions of <form>s) is backwards from how the standard would be updated. The proposal should instead be for an attribute that prevents double-clicks, bec
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by akersten 6y ago
> section 1201 takedowns Does the DMCA actually define these, or is the entire concept of a "section 1201 takedown" a courtesy GitHub is extending to rightsholders, but not legally required to provide? I am only familiar with
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by akersten 6y ago
The misuse of the DMCA takedown notice is that none of the content in the repository was copyright to the RIAA or to an entity the RIAA represents. That's it. The DMCA takedown process is emphatically not the avenue to remedy an allege
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by akersten 6y ago
Not only should they resign from the RIAA, they should reinstate the code, and sue the RIAA for reputational damages resulting from the perjurious DMCA notice. The RIAA knowingly issued a takedown where there was no copyrighted content. Tha
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by akersten 6y ago
In case this comment is in earnest and not flamebait: all of those things are true, and it is simultaneously true that we can advocate for private companies to not do this or to encourage people to use different platforms, without said po
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by akersten 6y ago
> The upper bound is there to ensure that you do not have to use BigNum in languages like JavaScript, I think that is a far too generous read of the document. I think it's because they wanted you to be able to use a JS Number to sto
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by akersten 6y ago
I've worked on an enterprise application serving hundreds of millions of users and this exact error went out the door. So no, practically speaking, this absolutely does not get caught right away. And if the specification is this sloppy
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by akersten 6y ago
Woah, this is beyond just "bitter taste." If these values are potentially stored in JS Numbers, this scheme is completely dead on arrival. It is not acceptable for currency to be stored in a floating-point data type, full stop. Th
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by akersten 6y ago
It's a perfect analogy because it is so extreme. The powers that be have already accepted that way of thinking (because guns are not illegal) and it's therefore even less of a stretch to apply the same concept to software tools.
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by akersten 6y ago
> into a user agent instead of a download tool? There's no legal distinction. It is a user agent, it's a web tool (agent) acting on your (the user's) behalf.
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by akersten 6y ago
> make youtube-dl compliant with copyright law, namely by removing the TPM-circumventing code from youtube-dl (`YoutubeIE._decrypt_signature`) I fail to see how this code is non-compliant with copyright law, considering it is a necessar
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by akersten 6y ago
Even if YouTube was the only extractor, it shouldn't make a lick of difference - not everything on YouTube is owned by the RIAA as they'd like to believe!
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by akersten 6y ago
Yeah, if you hang around HN long enough you'll get the privilege of seeing the man himself lament about the supposed penalty. It's gotten really long in the tooth and it's the same spiel every time. At no point does he consid
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by akersten 6y ago
HackerNews could not exist in your proposed world. I doubt YC would hire a full-time staff of moderators to vet every single post. Since we remove things for being off-topic or overly mean, the only possible conclusion is that HN would shut
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by akersten 6y ago
Probably that it's been around so long, an entire generation of Netizens aren't aware of it. I genuinely had forgotten about it until this post, so it's a nice reminder. Super helpful project, especially to see past surface-l
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by akersten 6y ago
The claim that "The president's medical report got banned," which I quoted, verbatim, in my post. Flagging something as misinformation is not "banning." And Trump claiming he's "immune" has nothing to
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by akersten 6y ago
> The president's medical report got banned, probably because it was good news. It was dry, factual, scientific... and now banned as coronavirus misinformation. Evidently his health is disputed by our social media overlords. They mu
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by akersten 6y ago
This is a really detailed writeup and a huge amount of effort clearly went into the post. The NFS maintainer seems to agree that this was a bug worth fixing. But I think I'm missing something - doesn't the specification say that t
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by akersten 6y ago
Yes, if you deliberately run commands as administrator to create an encrypted volume, then move all your files to that encrypted volume, I suppose you've gotten yourself into a quandary. This isn't a vulnerability, as suggested by
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by akersten 6y ago
I really can't blame Google for not having readily accessible support staff or communication channels when odds are that 99% of incoming issues will read just like this thread: abrasive, presumptuous, entitled, and just plain rude. Not
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by akersten 6y ago
This is off-topic, but I wound up on 2nd Quadrant's website while reading this. Isn't their logo indicating the 1st Quadrant? Or is there an alternative cartesian labeling I'm unaware of?
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by akersten 6y ago
> You cannot patent the completely generic idea of "a tool to lift people in buildings", You should see some of the software patents that get approved nowadays to see just how often "idea on a computer" gets greenlit.
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by akersten 6y ago
A lot of these are less "woah, AI is real bad and we need to be better about using it appropriately" and more "people need to stop being fooled by snake oil products that promise impossible things."
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by akersten 6y ago
> It is nothing new and was propheted in bla-blah paragraph. I don't think we can have a reasoned discussion about this if you're going to write off any contention as "bla-blah," so I'm disengaging.
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by akersten 6y ago
CSS is a top-down language, not a constraint language. It is not surprising that you cannot construct things in the same way as you would in a constraint-based layout system. I am sure I could discover an equal "simple" example th
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by akersten 6y ago
I left out some assumptions for brevity, but my presumption was that everything inside of the container (like p tags) would be display: block, so it would try to fill the max-width of 65ch with blank space anyway.
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by akersten 6y ago
I don't know if there is a single perfect resource out there, but the thing that helped me the most was understanding CSS as a shift from programming with an imperative mindset to a declarative mindset. Treat CSS as a medium for expres
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by akersten 6y ago
I've wanted to actually! It's become almost a meme that CSS is hard and a badge of honor to be ignorant of it, but it's not that bad. I will concede that there are some annoying design decisions (like margin collapsing) but o

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