skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can explain. Its psyops techniques at play, one of the most blatant displays in a long time. There are a myriad, but the primary one at play is called "limited hangout". The example I usually use to illustrate this in conversation is flat earth conspiracy. Its so laughable, but what one will notice, with more analysis, is that many of the same people or sites that purport this genuinely ridiculous notion will also talk about things that are much more legitimate. The primary design is to discredit the genuine/legitimate " conspiracy theory" as crazy by association. In essence, qanon(the group and the boards that host believers), by giving a false outlet to those who would otherwise be digging into some very dangerous places, and then going on ridiculous tangents/assertions, essentially gets in front of the problem, so to speak. There are many more techniques at play with fun names regarding qanon, and it is highly likely there are gov and private intelligence agencies behind this. With an added benefit of being one of the best honeypots for conspiracy theorist metadata in the world. I could go on...
But the Han Chinese are the overwhelming majority (92%). They pay lip service to the 56 ethnic minorities but for the most part they are expected to act Chinese or are just tourist attractions. China is not going to have or allow problems like BLM to slow itself down internally.
Conversely, the RIAA is making its media available on a known, at-risk platform to attain distribution. They're not protecting their copyright sufficiently, and the copyrights should be revoked.

I can't wait for ML to lower the barrier to entry for music to near nil. Make anyone a vocalist or instrumentalist and hose these assholes.
No more AirPnP?
well the key is opening the door when opportunity knocks. You can certainly be more "lucky" by developing the decision making capability to identify and pounce on an opportunity when it presents itself.
That's precisely why wines are uncorked at the table, rather than being decanted. That's that whole ceremony with inspecting the bottle and sniffing the cork (to check for cork taint). And cork taint is a lot more likely on a 30-year-old bottle with a natural cork.

That ceremony seems officious and silly on an ordinary bottle of wine, but it's there for a reason. It's weird that a restaurant like Balthazar would dispense with it.
I went through my comment history and there's nothing I want to hide so I'd be happy to identify myself, not to argue, but to share my experience. I am not doing rideshare right now because I'm 63 and Covid is surging, but I may do it again once there is a vaccine. I highly recommend it to any out of work programmers in Silicon Valley. I've had several chances to network if I was looking for a job.
OpenSSH's SFTP server is significantly slower than FTP over Wireguard (or FTP over TLS) without the OpenSSH HPN patches (which upstream refuses to merge) on connections with >100ms latency.

FTP has sendfile support for data transfers since there is no framing in the data connection. (OpenSSL 3.0 has sendfile support so FTP over TLS would also benefit as well).
I've never done it, but I believe your body will adjust its metabolism to match your calories, eventually. Otherwise, you would continuously lose fat and muscle until you die, so yeah you can't eat under what you're body is using forever.
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I don’t disagree with you, but I would add that the historical American model has been assimilation, not multiculturalism. It’s only fairly recently that we explicitly accept new immigrants maintaining their old cultures wholesale. I wonder if we’ll see a return to an assimilation model in the future, if competition with China sparks a new Cold War.
I'm very scared by this. youtube-dl needs somewhat frequent updates as Google moves the youtube codebase around. I'm worried that the RIAA's next move, now that it's starting to get inconvenient to get youtube-dl, will be to make Youtube change in some way to make existing copies of youtube-dl no longer work.

youtube-dl has been my primary way of getting videos since I learned about it. If the RIAA manages to kill it, my ability to partake in culture will be severely limited.
The mere existence of this tool highlights the complexity and opaqueness of the electoral college system compared to the popular vote. You can't expect a layperson to have a somewhat accurate mental model of this probability breakdown and I believe it totally erodes their motivation to vote in the first place.
I remember books (with the code inside) being used as a workaround for cryptography export controls.

I wonder if the same could apply here (if this notice holds up to begin with), either as a book with code, or as a book with instructions in English language that are equivalent to what the code does.
I was under the notion that perfect pitch cannot be obtained after a certain age.
This post seems to be conflating various things such as configuration files, client side message configuration, and wire format.

I am not sure what the takeaway is from it aside from the author's personal opinions on various technologies
The RIAA would absolutely ban all torrent clients if they could. If one advertises itself as a way to download copyrighted material, they would try to pull the exact same thing.
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The writing style of your article seems more personal and narrative-oriented than scholarly, to be honest. It might be better to reword it if you want your personal blog to have a more academic perspective.
> I've once asked my Arab employee why only (foreign) Arabs applied to our job (in France) and had the skills, he very acutely noted that their parents don't allow them to fail, whereas French-born developers were more lazy. The result is very visible here: The only decent application we have are from North Africa.

That's a bold statement.

French-born engineers are some of the best I've worked with, definitely not lazy by any means. But the local market in France is truly disconnected, salary-wise, when compared to the rest of the world.

If you advertise French wages on the French market, you simply won't get any of that french-born talent. They are either working remotely or already in the Bay Area!
Is that what VSCode does for the settings.json and similar settings files?

I haven't tried multiline strings but it allows comments and trailing commas
Browsers?

We need to ban radios with tape decks and TVs with VCRs! The audio cassette and the VHS are bringing the downfall of the music industry with how easily they can be used to create unauthorized copies!

Oh wait.
What about chromium? They should take that down as well, imagine what children can see using that thing. `curl`, `wget` as well as gitlab - massive offender, random number generators - one of the biggest offenders, any worst nightmare you can imagine can be produced by it!
do you have a youtube demo or something? Personally I don't login to something unless I'm seriously interested, and I have no idea what this is without a demo
I can understand why it would seem like circumvention, but one usage of YouTube-dl even with the README invocations is so that you can listen to or watch the media in a personal capacity. Not technically any different from how you might using the actual YouTube client, albeit probably in violation of YouTube's ToS. "Copying" in a legal sense might need a little more rigor. (IANAL either, though, so hell if I know.)
This is an example of why you shouldn't use a bug tracker that does not store its data on machines you control.
As much as I would like this to be true, copyright doesn't have to be defended in order to be kept. That's a very different law, trademarks.

You can have your copyright infringed for decades before you try to prosecute the infringers, and the courts will still rule in your favour.
So you're saying that given a particular instance of a protein molecule, the surrounding environment can cause its shape to change, but the set of bonds stays constant?

Or are you saying that the shape change involves a change to the set of bonds, but for some reason we continue to call it the same "kind" of protein?
It seems to me that they are making the claim that this tool is expressly for doing something that is forbidden by the YouTube TOS and breaking the music licenses provided.

Of course YouTube has other videos that are under different licenses so it isn't clear that this is the only use case of the software.
Guns are not banned in any country. They are restricted in almost every country, for good reasons. The level of restriction may vary based on culture, history etc.

Also people who claim the same logic applies to kitchen knife and guns are mentally still living in the wild west of the 1800s.
What if we had a senator that represented all of the territories? It would be a better situation than we have right now...
> The funny thing is they have Wisconsin (my state) showing biden favored to win. Just look at the electoral college electors record. It's been a red majority since Bush.

Can you clarify what you mean? Wisconsin never went for a Bush, and other than Trump's win in 2016 it's been voting for Democrats in presidential elections since Reagan. What electoral college record and red majority are you referring to?

And even if you reject all polling evidence, why is that one Trump win indicative of a solidifying shift toward Republicans, as opposed to expecting a reversion to the mean and Wisconsin going back to being a generally blue state?
> You cannot appreciate the extreme simplicity of Pascal or other Wirthian languages if you never wrote your own compiler. For the average developer, it is just a procedural language with weird excessive syntax, annoying separation between interface and implementation and way too picky about where you declare your variables.

You don't need to have written a compiler. Just have wanted real modularity. You can get it with some popular and mainstream OO languages (Java, C#), but it's horribly broken in many other mainstream languages (C++).

Separating interface from implementation shines when dealing with larger teams, and can really be nice for compile times which improves feedback loops.
Chinese discoveries were more suited to their local needs and geographies, just as the Western ones were unique themselves. Besides, Chinese decline began way back, from the Yuan era, with a brief rise during the Ming Era, then stagnation again during the Manchurian period.

For some Chinese inventions: the meritocratic bureaucracy, which inspired the civil services in the UK, India and many other countries. Or the seismograph, block printing (which enabled a much higher literate population than the West in its time), their variant on paper, and tons of water-powered "appliances".

China might have been very different had the Ming not stagnated badly, and the Jurchens not invited to exploit the chaos.
Xml! NEXT!
Why stop with browsers? With enough creativity you can use any network protocol to download copyrighted material, so they should just ban computer networks.
Hush, don't leak their master plan! Of course they'd love to just ban about anything that can potentially be used to commit copyright infringement. Of course that includes your web browser, too. Unless it can only visit a list of websites pre-approved by RIAA ;)
Your I made it all the way to the "Google login", pressed it and was promoted for _way more_ than my email like my advertising preferences and any information I've found available.

It is possible to make that optional and by all means you should - that is possible with google sign in scopes. Even if you want my public profile info and not just my email that should be optional.
> this seems outrageous the same way DMCA'ing a Bittorrent client would be

Why stop there? I can use my browser to illegally download content, so I guess we better issue a DMCA takedown that too. But who even needs a browser? Let's issue a takedown for the GNU Project while we're at it because I could use wget to do the same thing. In fact, I could write my own program to illegally download content, so we better just get rid of computers altogether.

Stop attacking useful tools just because they can be used to do bad things! Youtube-dl should obviously change their README to get rid of the copyright-infringing example, but this DMCA takedown is otherwise rotten from the core.
Demo coming very soon!
That's not actually true. In fact, Google delisted 8Chan due to child abuse content.
Many (thousands, if not tens of thousands) YouTube videos are being deleted right now, crazy censorship taking place. If tools like those get banned then it gets harder to keep copies of videos before they will be banned from YouTube.
You can use the download zip button instead of cloning.
Click bait - thought the post was about the ripple effect of the ever inflating cost of undergrad and grad degrees through society. Instead it's a reactionary piece to the current push for more political correctness in academia.
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I'm not sure with the RIAA hopes to accomplish here.

I suspect this will be fixed in a day, and just be hosted elsewhere.

And also, isn't this like when the studios sued the makers of VCRs?
Another abuse of DMCA on the frontpage earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24867212

Indian startup taking down dissent, whistle blowers and leaks using take down requests to youtube and social media.
Is it called "pseudo-set" instead of just "set" because it's pseudoscientific jargon?

"Set" is a standard term for this, as in weightlifting.

Sets make sense because they make small efforts bigger (N items instead of 1), for economy of scale, and make big efforts smaller (M sets instead of M*N) and less intimidating.

It's the magic of exponential growth.
Is that a bad thing? If you're going to restrict residential construction, surely restricting office construction to match is a good thing?
What are you considering the "West"?

Prior to 1600, almost nothing of importance came out of Europe. For the last 400 years, Europe and the US have dominated technologically.

Maybe you mean the last few hundred years? I think this is what the parent comment was getting at.

For most of history, what we now consider "China" had -- by far -- the largest population. To think that nothing much came from there is a bit naive.
Oh? Where?

I go to about:preferences, and scroll down to Firefox Updates. Below that, it says "Keep Firefox up to date for the best performance, stability, and security." And then there's the version and a "What's new" link. No actual settings of any kind.

Based on tips found online, I've set app.update.auto=false, but that has had no effect.
I don't think there is so much of a difference between the deliberate decision and the accidental implementation of an incomplete or broken feature.

I have written software with tests and without. The latter start like prototypes and become quite useful over time. At first, everything looked good and there where just very few minor bugs which could be fixed easily. But over time, there appeared more edge cases which cannot be tracked down. As there are no tests, there are no specific definitions of what each part of the software is supposed to do. Yes, there is a big picture of how everything should work together, but obviously it doesn't catch every edge case. The problem is, that as a developer I can't act as effectively on my code anymore, because I took some shortcuts in the past.

On the other hand, there are other projects where I have test suits and where I can be totally confident, that everything has a well defined spec of what it should do and where I can't break something accidentally without noticing it.

So in the end it doesn't matter if your shortcuts have been made deliberately (most of the time it is a mix anyway). What matters is that due to the shortcuts you can't act as effectively on your code anymore.
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The fact that copyrighted works were included in the readme shows it was intended for that use, and the RIAA complaint will likely stand up to any legal scrutiny. Just because it can be used for legit purposes too won't matter in the slightest. I mean, Napster could have been used for legal means as well, and it got destroyed in court.

The only chance tools like this have legally is when infringement is an "unintended side effect."
Yeah, this process is messed up. It gives preference to abusers, instead of making them prove things to take something down.
cURL could be used to download pornography. Think of the children!
Been making music on and off for the past 20 years. Over the years, I've tried many ear training apps but there was little progress after hours of frustration.

A couple of months ago I found a very different method. The idea is is to internalize pitch by singing. For example, you play a triad on the piano and then sing the 3 notes individually. Or you train yourself to sing an interval. Say you're working on fifths. You play a C in the piano and then sing G, then play D and sing A, etc. I saw results within the first hour.

If anyone is interested I can try to find the video where I got this from.

Another method I can recommend is transcribing music by ear. You'll be amazed how quickly you will be able to find notes and then chords once you get more experience.
B-natural is missing.
I am not buying this.

Does this mean bittorrent client can be taken down as well?

Who is drawing the line here?
8chan doesn't officially allow child porn, but they have sexualized images of children which are 100% illegal.

That's why Google delisted them for child abuse content. A lot of people on HN seem really eager to defend 8chan for some reason.
Same for any kind of information exchange, like speech or the written word. Common sense says their argument doesn't hold water at all. Should courts decide in favor of the takedown that'd just go to show how broken our legal system is. Let's hope not.
I read somewhere that Satya openly expressed is views against Ballmer's Nokia/windows phone strategy and every other strategy which ended in failure during Ballmer's tenure during their meetings and that it played a crucial role in appointing him to the top role later on.
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I'm surprised they haven't gone after browsers. They would surely have asked Google to display certain messages when a user visits known piracy sites

This website is currently disabled due to a DMCA takedown notice. The website you are trying to access hosts copyrighted content. Please contact support, or seek the copyright holder's permission to access the content.
The entire IP concept is really hard to make sense of with the web: a browser works by making a local copy of a remote resource and then making that local copy available to the user. I don’t see why, from the server’s perspective, the precise client matters: if I use curl + pandoc to read your webpage, is that really meaningfully different from using Firefox or Chrome?
>>WOOT: Workshop on Offensive Technologies

It’s a shame they had to cancel this one.
Ergo, donating.
| I'm as big of a Satya fan as anyone, but someone who doesn't get enough credit is Ballmer.

Agreed. Ballmer's tenure is widely misunderstood. Gates does not receive enough blame for the missteps of that era.

Great read:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/08/microsoft-l...
I haven't explored the CPS topic deeply, so I cannot really answer. As far as I understand, CPS preserves the state of the program or stack information by storing it in closures that are ready to be called at any time, whereas a condition system simply does not unwind the stack by simply not unwinding it and executing on top of the already existing stack, ready to both return control to the signaling code and to transfer it somewhere up the stack.

In its nature, a condition system is simply a means of executing code that has been provided dynamically, including transfers of control. I think that a closer term would be algebraic effects, which seem to be an equivalent of a condition system in a strictly typed strictly functional world.
That’s not good indeed. We actually only store email and link to profile pic, so I’ll look if we can limit it as much as possible.
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>It's outrageous indeed that GH/MS is complying.

Because there's no upside and only downside. If they refuse to comply and it turns out that youtube-dl did infringe, then they won't have DMCA safe harbor status and could be liable for damages.
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Why not just ban computers or even why not jail people who even think about using ytdl? These organisations like RIAA need reality check. Sadly there is no body to stand against their bullying and stiffling the freedom of speech.
Discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24861923
Eating enough clean food is definetely the best, yeah. Even for losing weight I don't think eating a extremelly calorically restrictive diet is the way to go unless you are in immediate medical danger. Just didnt agree with the idea that people who really eat whatever they want in whatever quantity they want generally lead a very active lifestyle.
It is with Monero.
> It got run into the ground by bad management

This might be important. A free-market economy is more conductive to both creating new businesses and to killing those ran poorly, thus evolving better teams faster. OTOH a nepotic economy launches fewer companies by constricting the talent pool with nepotism and corruption, and it faces additional headwind in disbanding the failing teams. Nepotism also destroys the investor class, the one that accumulates collective knowledge about numerous failings and rare successes of new businesses.

Nepotic economies do well in copying what worked for others because the few nephews of the top party officials provide enough of a talent pool for that, but innovation by its nature requires a talent dragnet across the entire country (YC). Failing that it's back to copying the American tech, which has an advantage (and a disadvantage) of working quite well up to a point.
> It won't work. It would be like trying to convince people who are paid to write PHP not to write PHP. Many people have wasted breath on that, but important sites like Wikipedia are still written in hundreds of thousands of lines of PHP.

If they're gonna keep writing bash, why would a new shell language help?

> Even if a new line of shell never gets written, there will still be a huge installed base of shell scripts that you may need to understand (e.g. when they don't work).

If the old scripts are in bash, why would a new shell language help?

> Shell is still the best tool for many jobs. Most new "cloud" projects rely on Linux system images, in VMs or containers, and shell is the ideal language for creating such images.

What's good about shell for this task?
In a large datacenter. People like you and me, some institutional grants here and there...
Things like this make no sense from the notice:

> The clear purpose of this source code is to (i) circumvent the technological protection measures used by authorized streaming services such as YouTube

Using this logic then OBS or any desktop recording tool is also violating the same measures because you could press record while a Youtube video is playing and wind up with your own locally recorded copy of the video.

Since we're here, let's also say any smart phone is also in violation since they could technically record a Youtube video playing on another device.