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I don't think general relativity at least fits into this model: general relativity explained phenomena that special relativity just couldn't, and that were already well known to exist (gravity, objects of equal mass falling at equal speeds, time dilation in relation to acceleration).

I'm less well versed about the other subjects you mention, but there were several unsolved problems in physics at that time that absolutely required new theories (the photoelectric effect VS the wave behavior of light, black body radiation, the need to reconcile quantum mechanics with special relativity). In all of these cases, we had unexplained data or inconsistencies between theories.

By contrast, most of the theories that could be tested with a new collider are not solving anything - they are just theories about things that might exist, but could very well not exist at all. There is no hope of gaining insights into the measurement problem or quantum gravity at the next collider.

Even the theories of dark matter that could be tested are still too early to be worth a 20b bet. There are too many equally plausible theories of dark matter to say any one of them is promising enough to be worth that amount of money. And even ruling one of them out will not have a major effect on the field. It's not like it would rule out string theory, for example.
> Habitable planets are the ultimate scarce resource.

Are they? That was once a common belief, but recent results in extrasolar planet searching would tend to contradict it, or at least cast it into serious doubt.

> Once the earth is full we’ll have to find a way to move

Will we? It's quite possible we'll see humanity's maximum population within the next century. Malthusianism didn't really survive contact with modernity; it turns out that most people don't particularly _want_ to have fifteen children, and as countries develop their population tends to become self-limiting. Wholesale emigration off earth feels like a very unlikely solution to population pressure, especially given that society seems to be automatically solving it.

And if we have the energy to lift billions of people off earth, we also have the energy to massively increase population density. Food, in particular, is ultimately largely a question of energy; we typically grow it in fields today, but given super-cheap energy there are other options.
> Which part of it? Not the parts that consist of HTTP libraries, apparently? But you can break any given program into arbitrarily many components that are each independently useful as a component of a different program.

Not parts, but the entire thing. Colour propagates through causality. The article I refer to explains pretty clearly about what it means. It's the intent and provenance, not the bits, that are important. If youtube-dl gets classified as illegal, then any trivial modification to it will get the same treatment. Even if you end up slowly replacing every bit of code, if you forked off youtube-dl and didn't change the functionality, that's still essentially youtube-dl.

(You can argue that after enough work done, the ship of Theseus isn't the same ship that sailed into the dock. But the important part is that it's still the ship of Theseus, no matter how many parts you iteratively replace.)

Consider cases like going after someone who took GPL code and republished it as proprietary, or plagiarism, or copyright infringement itself. For the law, it doesn't matter whether or not the bits you have are identical to those of the protected work; what matters is how did you get them. It's the same principle at work here.

> In this case the "meant for copyright infringement" part seems to be some of the unit tests.

In this case, unit tests are evidence that the whole project is meant for copyright infringement. The offending entries serve to establish intent.
>Lawyers have no sense of humor. They are like the opposite of hackers.

Although you're posting this on a forum for hackers where humor is considered a mortal sin.
> The website's other articles are spammy conspiracy crud anyway.

provide evidence where i'm wrong and i'll be happy to correct, but rubber-stamping someones content as "spammy", whatever that means, is lazy
Something I've learned in my old age is that merely ugly is still better than anything I'm likely to come up with myself. If something threatens to be interesting enough to distribute, the marketeers will never let me decide how it's going to look anyway. For the work that I do, not having to think about layout or aesthetics at all is a time saver with virtually no downside.
It literally doesn't. It isn't a good takedown.
Future of Jython
git clone https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader.git
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874660
Each of which, had they gone very wrong, would have rendered the better part of a continent uninhabitable
No. But they shouldn't harm environment. If business is harmful then should be illegal.
Where was this? I feel rude to object to your personal history, but no major, trustworthy institution has reported anything like this.

The worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl, had around 50 casualties. This was mostly due to the handling by the Soviet Union, not something inherent to nuclear power itself (other than the obvious radiation involved, but the secrecy, lack of knowledge, etc. is 100% a political issue).
I note that you haven’t addressed the evidence I presented, but have instead resorted to gaslighting.
This project really needs more attention. Would have resolved the issue we had earlier today. Some others ideas:

* Write a client in C, JS sucks

* Make a web-frontend for this so average users can jump on quickly.
NB: There's an updated Lazard report for 2020 (LCOE 14.0) published as of a few days ago: https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

(it's been posted to HN[1] but without any discussion so far)

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24837837
Stream YouTube URL directly to mplayer. Using echo, grep, sed
“The life expectancy at birth for men has increased by 20.5 years, from 58.8 years in 1920–1922 to 79.3 years in 2009–2011.”

Not sure what it would have been given you were 50 years old in 1920.

Anyway, you seem to not believe that science over the next 60-80 years will advance much.

People live to be over 100 today. Now it’s just a matter of figuring out why.

Science will advance more in the next 50 years than it did in the last 100.
There is a better option and its name is Perl. Perl mixes the ins of shell scripts like easy argument and output passing with complex and easy to use control structures.

You could use Python, but having been forced to use Perl extensively Perl is the superior choice for a complex shellscript-like workload. There's less boilerplate in Perl. There's a couple Python projects that come close like Fabric, but Perl was literally made for this type of workload.
The author addresses this argument:

> However, Python and Ruby aren't good shell replacements in general. Shell is a domain-specific language for dealing with concurrent processes and the file system. But Python and Ruby have too much abstraction over these concepts, sometimes in the name of portability (e.g. to Windows). They hide what's really going on.

From: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html#i-dont-understa...
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The phrase I always tell them, you wont do it specifically doesn't strike me as the words of the helpful, skeptical voice of reason, but perhaps I'm reading too much into a careless phrasing. It sounds to me like the words of a superior know-it-all douchebag, not the hard-nosed, skeptical advice of a worthwhile friend. YMMV.
WTF this isn't copyright infringement. This is breach of TOS, technically. They have no grounds to use DMCA takedowns for this.

How in the world is Github allowing this?
Media Manipulation Casebook
All this work because Etherium wanted a JavaScript-like language.

If instead the language supported formal verification, almost all of this would be unneeded.
> I can't tell if you're for or against the Stallman smear campaign. You can't possibly say that "We live in a post-truth world" and actually think that's a good thing, right?

You're making an is-ought distinction. Of course we should not believe serious accusations against someone until they can back up their claims -- in an ideal world. In the real world, standards of evidence are routinely weaponized against decent people by assholes. Everybody knows that Trump has colluded with Russia, but no one can make anything stick.

As another example, there is a small but growing movement to weaken the standards of evidence for rape and sexual assault. These crimes are notoriously difficult to get evidence for that meets the burden of proof, and the result is a very low conviction rape and active harm to women and society by rapists on the loose. I find it increasingly hard to challenge this argument except on theoretical or procedural grounds, and some countries -- such as Spain, which has special violence against women tribunals where the burden of proof is essentially on the accused to prove innocence -- have already followed through with this idea in their laws.

> What harm has he "continually done" to deserve this?

Numerous women have come forward with stories about being sexually harassed by Stallman over the years. He creates what is known in law as a hostile work environment. Women are afraid to work with him because they might be inappropriately propositioned, and risk consequences if they turned him down. (Stallman was "protected" by people in the MIT community, including Marvin Minsky.) And of course, he actually did advocate for legalization of child rape earlier in his career.
No worries about the mixup, but I’ll at least answer the core of your question anyway: DC is bigger than a handful of States by population, but it is still just a carve out from Maryland. You could make a case for any of the top 20 cities by population to be their own State, but you need a limiting principle.

DC does not have proper representation in Congress, and I think that’s a shame and worth addressing, but there is also a case to be made for Congress having some territory that it directly governs. Only problem is DC became cool and a place where a lot of people live. My compromise is to leave the city itself to be administered by Congress and the government it setup there, but to have Maryland administer elections and put DC back under Maryland law for civil, criminal and tax purposes.
I don't have perfect pitch, but I have pitch memory. I can recall the sound of the A string of a guitar being plucked, then hum the note which matches what I "hear" in my head, whip out tuner app and see that I'm indeed at 110 Hz.
Linux is already often banned in online videogames with claims that it's done to prevent cheating
YouTube TV is a web page, albeit one you can't simply open with a web browser. Google could easily obfuscate it too.
I found the wikipedia table of energy density informative.

-- wh/kg --
uranium: 22,394,000,000
oil: 11,630
coal: 9,166

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Tables_of_energ...

by weight nuclear has 2 million times the energy of coal or oil.

(and I think coal might have more radioactivity by energy)
I have kept an eye on a massive amount of content and it's truly horrifying how much content is lost each month. It's not even clear violation of copyright, it's just that nobody small has the energy to fight for fair use.

There should be no DMCA, all ligitation should cost the person suing a percent of income. The tyranny big players have is disgusting.
Li-Chen Wang is an amazing person!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Chen_Wang

We stand on the giant shoulders of a lot of the early hackers/engineers in the Homebrew club. Hope they get the credit that they deserve.
> Please note that this article focuses on NetBSD and FreeBSD first.

There's a reason I prefaced my comment with Linux debuggers. I haven't played much with BSD kernels to know how problematic debuggers are there.
EDIT: The full post is published and can be found here: https://planflow.dev/blog/how-to-get-better-at-css.

The HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24875357.
This would be really interesting if it had literally any details
> a great candidate

Not just a candidate. Torsocks + Git works perfectly. There's no mainstream free Tor Git hosting I know of, so that's a market ripe for picking.
Like what specifically, this is a very abstract idea.
I just wanna thank you for that.
IIRC, horses.

Cavalry can't be used around elephants unless the horses are specifically trained to be around elephants. Rome itself of the Republican/early Imperial era didn't use cavalry, although some of their allies did. As a hypothesis, those using elephants may have been fighting entities that used cavalry.
I give them money every month because their archives are essential to preserving our history. Not to mention, they have really saved my bacon before when I really needed to read some technical blog published a decade ago that has since been lost due to the website being reorganized or even being completely taken down.

Even though it takes a lot of bandwidth, I think preserving the source code on GitHub is an invaluable service and hope they continue to do so. I didn't know they were saving the zip file of every release, but I can understand why. It gives you point in time snapshots more easily and who knows how easy it will be to use a git repo from today 100 years from now. ZIP is a much simpler format if it needs to be reimplemented and is used all over the place.
Also note that forking a repository on github is not enough to make it your code.

All the connected forks have also been disabled. Better to clone and re-push if you ask me.
What is `rg`? I like its output better than grep's.
I should be clear, I think the US policy re: proliferation is more draconian than necessary, and will essentially prevent any new nuclear technology from being shared, worsening climate change and increasing the risk of mishaps.

Climate change is a global problem and if nuclear is going to be a part of the solution the proliferation issue is central.
It's also included in his books ("Modern compiler programming in <insert language name>", where the language is only used in the first third of the book).
There has been no other technology faster at decarbonizing the energy sector, than nuclear power. France and Sweden still hold the record for that exact same reason.
This is not Earth that needs to be fixed, it's human behavior.

Teraformation and space conquest are fassinating topics, but "fixing our behavior to avoid to fuck up the only accessible viable environment we have" is far from deserving only a mere "might be more cost-effective".
Nuclear requires a lot of concrete and steel, both sources of carbon emissions (at least until the rest of the economy is decarbonized). The other "low carbon" sources are similar, they have carbon emissions only because the rest of the economy that manufactures them produces carbon.

As for cost, you are contradicting yourself when you say it's cheap (it's not), and when you say that it's expensive because of anti-nuclear activists. See, for example, France, whose new nuclear projects are not cost competitive despite having a strongly pro-nuclear regulatory situation.

As for the "efficiency" of hydrogen, the only efficiency that matters is economic efficiency, and all indications point to hydrogen storage of wind/solar to be more economically efficient than nuclear. (And for the record, for energy efficiency both nuclear and hydrogen are about 50% efficient, but like I said the only efficiency that matters for deployment is cost efficiency.
As an older millennial I am so fortunate that the bulk of my dating was done before everybody started texting. If you wanted to talk to somebody you had to call or meet up. The best part of this was it was easy to tell who was interested, who wasn't, and those that where just too clingy.
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I think there's a good case to dampen/smoothen supply/demand shocks in general, but I think this goes deeper, as in the belief that the equilibrium is worse after the shock then before it.
If you would put aside your emotions for a second, you would see that this is clearly just an issue of different priorities and values -- on both sides. And the side that has the power has priorities that presumably, given your phrasing, disagree with yours. I understand that can be frustrating and that that frustration might lead you to questionable rhetorical devices, but it won't change the fact of the situation.
I use and recommend powershell as well but only because it is best in class at interacting with Windows components. I think there are better general solutions.
To be clear, I'm not saying that the US is entirely without mobility. Particularly for the billionaires, most of that wealth is not inherited - although much more of that mobility is from low millionaires -> billionaire than it is from poverty -> billionaire.

You deleted your other comment about income and IQ. Worried that it would reflect badly when someone in the future would trawl through your account?
That's a really bad example, giving that this thing will poison the ocean for millennia to come and stopped short just on the brink of becoming the next Chernobyl. If things had just turned out slightly differently, the reactor core could have gone haywire and that would have been the end of it.

As it is, this was just dumb luck. Nothing more. If anything, Fukushima has proven (if there was ever any doubt) that there is absolutely nothing, even a high tech nation like Japan can do to deal with a disaster like this. Exactly the opposite of what you claim.
I'm not sure if the gospels mention dates but I believe the quoran has a reference regarding Jesus's birth.

I believe there are also thousands of strains of dates at risk of being lost or that have been lost in Afghanistan due to the years of war.

I'm astounded that 2000 year old seeds are still viable. I'm not a fan of GMO products but there might be something worth looking into in the date's genome.
But way less fun :)

Or we could, you know, just transfer our consciousness to machines that can easily survive Mars and other environments and start our colonization after declaring ourselves to be Homo-sapiens-machina.
Youtube-dl doesn't do anything your browser doesn't do already do when accessing said video.

Also, I asked what is being circumvented, not what the tool does.
Radicle[1] can't come soon enough. Git already works over I2P[2] (TOR alternative) btw ;)

The more often this happens, the more we'll learn about reproducible builds, decentralized (and/or anonymous) code hosting, and setup tools and software that uses this more. I'm sure the distributed tar.gz is next on the list for this DMCA and we can't rely on things hosted on the clear web anymore.

[1]: https://radicle.xyz/

[2]: https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/git
Didn't RIAA already win against Google? A lot of the messed up stuff with Content ID comes from Google's fight with record labels.
"Deutschland 86" makes some pretty good TV out of West Germany buying arms via South Africa (from East Germany? can't remember) to escape sanctions
I mean yeah, our government is totally captured which definitely hurts mobility and efficient capital allocation.
that works maybe with multi threaded code but not with greenthreads that are all over the place. the calls stacks are a pain in the ass.
For ideological reasons, yes, but not for financial. I think you're overestimating the demand.
I would like to add to the discussion that there are many perfectly legal uses of YoutubeDL:

* Downloading a video you uploaded and no longer have stored locally.

* Downloading a video to create a fair-use response video.

* Downloading video/music that is free commons (or some other non-restrictive license).

* (Gray) Downloading content to archive it.

* Downloading content you have already purchased and have in your possession.

* (Dark gray) Downloading content you have a paid subscription to view, but don't have reliable internet.

All of these anti-piracy measures need to answer one simple question - what stops somebody from just screen recording your material? At the point in which somebody can view your material on another device, you've lost a lot of control.

P.S. This clone seems legit:

`git clone https://gitea.eponym.info/Mirrors/youtube-dl.git`
My thought exactly. It even incorporates functionality for turning any local git repo into a shared git repo.

Mainly what they need besides that is a place to co-ordinate, collaborate and track tickets. Solutions abound.

The RIAA's actions are annoying but won't kill the project.
> I hope this does not set a precedence

Psst, precedent* :) Precedence is the order of importance in which something occurs (e.g. operator precedence). Precedent is a level of standard to which a secondary action is compared.

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Also that dude's a fucking legend, DMCA takedown-ing his classmate.
I would like to add that Git works over I2P which will render it anonymous https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/git
What’s the difference? The main one I can see is that the RIAA is accusing ytdl of being a DRM circumvention tool while Popcorn Time is just a straightforward P2P infringement tool. That doesn’t make the DMCA notice any more valid.

I guess I’m nitpicking but it’s important that they’re not “filing suit”, possibly because they don’t care enough or don’t think they have a case. DMCA takedown is a sort of dispute resolution process mandated by law, it’s not a substitute for an actual lawsuit.
> Storing energy is incredibly expensive.

This isn't true. Pump solar/wind is cheaper than gas plants.
Wow, the pitch deck data and intros to investors were incredible
Unanimously dropped by the State Supreme Court. Not one justice voted to require signatures.
Thank you kindly. Lots of good videos there!
man 2 ptrace is really one of the worst man pages in existence, and it's made doubly bad because there are only two real clients that you can reference, one of which is pretty much the definition of an awful legacy codebase and the other which is over- and strangely-engineered and at times not even correct or complete. Actually, triply bad because ptrace(2) itself is the worst API and it bleeds into some other fairly reasonable APIs for signals and process notifications.

I guess the silver lining is that if you ever find yourself in the position of having to implement ptrace (like I did recently) you can get away with a surprisingly broken and incomplete API and GDB at least will take it mostly in stride, as long as you don't mess up a couple of the fundamental operations (your wait4(2) has to mostly be correct, a couple of the SIGTRAPs need the right codes). It's still really difficult to do–my implementation was designed by cross-checking against strace output and only supports basic single-task debugging–but you can return strange errors or "I don't support this" and GDB for the most part is OK with that, because not only is ptrace a broken API many of its implementations are broken themselves, or certain features are strangely missing in some places.
I was a longtime Google Play Music All Access subscriber. One HUGE benefit that YouTube Music has is the available catalog. I like a lot of obscure music and remixes that no one else but YouTube has. I also agree that it's ridiculous that YouTube Music doesn't have all the features of Google Play Music. Still this was handled much better than most shutdowns where there is no migration path. I'm glad that Google is combining some redundant services. 5 more years and they might get their chat situation in order.
That’s reasonable, but I don’t think it’s fair to say everyone else just emulated he US.

There were many other democracies, and pro-democracy movements that preceded WW2 and had nothing to do with the US.
The old Quest was amazing. The new one is cheaper and it shows. Plus it requires a non-anonymous FB login just to turn the thing on. No thanks.