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The "focus" feature in Hubs is terrible. There needs to be a way to focus (aka view in full screen) on something without having to hold down the f key. If screen sharing was as good as it is in Zoom, Hubs could actually be a Zoom replacement for online classes. But not being able to share your screen in a way that the others can view full screen makes Hubs unusable.
Why would you not just use repl.it, glich, or qoom?
The question here isn't whether youtube owns the videos, the question is whether youtube's use of anti-scraping measures constitutes DRM that, by circumventing, violates the DMCA.
Ah, that is a good one! I've never even messed with the -prinf options.
I mean the way that yarn 2 “installs” typescript is by patching it with some manually maintained base64 blob that (I assume) corresponds in some way to the base64 blob that pnp produces. Both are probably something you can reverse engineer... if that’s how you want to trust your package manager I guess? Idk I only learned that the patching was a thing because it failed when I tried to install an “unsupported” package. I was alarmed by trying to track down what was happening and saw the patch has no explanation. I was more alarmed when yarn2 tried to apply the patch even with pnp disabled.
The ad itself is not private information. The fact that I match the targeting for said ad, is.
Whoa there. The DMCA is not “copyright protection”. The DMCA is a bunch of additional obnoxious protections on top of copyright.
If states’ winner takes all rules were eliminated the EC would serve as a far more accurate representation of voter interest than either the EC in its current form or the straight popular vote. I say that because it would allow a wider distribution of diversity in the vote while countering bias of density disparities.
Every time I see this I'm just going to ask, why Yahoo was willing $500 million a year to Google's insurance policy?
This is an argument copyright owners tried to argue with VCR and later TiVo, as it lets them skip out on the ads.
There's nothing fancy in youtube-dl. It's just a bunch of ad-hoc scripts maintained by folks which make it convenient to route the api responses to files on disks. Literally things like pulling html and regexing for certain snippets. In fact it supports many video services, cspan for one. It just dispatches to the appropriate scraper based on the endpoint.
For those interested, I just watched the excellent PBS Documentary "Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos".

Available for free [1], and Shel Kaphan is one of the several former and current employees interviewed by the Frontline investigative reporters.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVVfJVj5z8s
> Nuclear power is a zero emissions source of power

Nuclear and offshore wind are equivalent (median: 12 gCO2eq/kWh)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emis...

> Alternative renewables (e.g. wind, solar) require fossil fuels to power the electrical grid when they are not able to generate

Overprovision is part of a solution. Storage may tackle part of the challenge ( https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2020/declining-renewable-... ).

On a large geographic scale renewables are able to continuously generate enough energy. We know how to transport energy (and nuke plants also need it), and interconnecting grid is considered a win whatever the type of source used (nuclear, wind...).

See https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(19)30225-... , which doesn't seem to me more ambitious than hoping to quickly multiply by 10+ the existing nuclear power generation capacity, and hoping that there will be enough practically available combustible for them.

> The amount of energy they output, relative to the energy input to construct

The net outcome is positive.

Moreover renewables don't need fuel, and therefore there is no need to worry about cost/reserves/geopolitical turmoil/terrorist actions/waste.

> amount of land they consume

For solar there are many adequate deserts and unused surfaces. For offshore wind there are huge pertinent areas.

> Nuclear energy is safe, causing fewer deaths and adverse health impacts

There are many ways to consider this. Here is one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl:_Consequences_of_the...

> If it is a dinosaur, then so are the transistors

Transistors sci/tech made and makes huge progress. The nuke promises/dreams (fusion, no-waste...), albeit massively subsidized for decades, are stuck.
Cool, sounds like Snow Crash is finally happening in real live! :) Now some needs to build Black Sun in VRChat to move it to the next level. ;)
IMO as soon as you feel the need to create a file for your shell commands, it’s time to use another language. Bash is great for quick jobs like running ffmpeg on every file in a folder or counting the lines in a file but it sucks as a programming language.
> I wouldn't even say lack of testing is technical deb

You are right, it depends on the kind of application and circumstances testing can be done in different ways. There is occasions were instead of automated testing there are other ways of working with quality. But, in this case automated testing is in the list of things that needs to be done. So, I think that to want automated testing and not have them is technical debt.
I’m not an expert but I don’t think this is true. The dark streak in the Milky Way (the “Great Rift”) is actually dust clouds that obscure our view of stars.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Rift_(astronomy)
It sells papers (or digital equivalents).

On Fox News, the left is nothing but a violent BLM mob being cheered on by supportive governors. Supported by Soros.

On MSNBC, the right is nothing but a violent fascist mob being cheered on by a supportive president. Supported by the Koch brothers.

Thankfully, we live in a country where the average person is not crazy. Unfortunately, you'd never know that from watching what passes for news these days.
An alternative to eye tracking, that uses your webcam (move your head to move the mouse, smile to click):

https://smylemouse.com

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg6Q3r2p_yE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant
> Not only are common practices like lectures, cramming, and re-reading boring, science has shown they don't even work well. But what if I said there's a way to learn that's evidence-based and fun? What if I said there's a memory card game you can play, for 20 minutes a day, to store anything you choose into long-term memory, forever?

A mistake I made when I first started experimenting with spaced repetition was treating it as a learning tool, as described above, rather than as a memorization tool.
I'd create a bunch of cards with facts that I wanted to learn on them, then review my cards each day and hope that spaced repetition would help me learn what was on them. In reality, I learned very little.

What I've since discovered works much better for me is to separate studying and memorizing, and only create cards with facts that I already know on them. You might say "but why would I make a card with something I already know on it?", and this question reveals the mistake that most people make when it comes to remembering -- that just because they know something, it will be in their head forever.

I often still make this mistake whenever I learn something new. The important thing is to remind myself that without reviewing that information again at a later date, I will forget it. I've lost count of the amount of times I've figured out a problem and thought "great, I know this now!" only to run into the same problem a month later and forget what the solution was.
I mean... it helps, because they can't simply pocket the treasury outright. There is presumably some limit where the voters wouldn't stand for it.

The fact that incumbents are generally reelected does certainly weaken the mechanism.
Add:
- dropped print support (!)
- dropped tablet optimized UI (tab bar)
- dropped keyboard shortcut support
But it's perfectly legal to screencapture a video platform in full-screen, and previous courts have ruled that recording a stream you otherwise have access to is allowed (the VCR/TiVo lawsuits). The question here is whether youtube-dl is a tool that allows for the bypassing of DRM, as the RIAA is asserting that youtube has DRM on their videos that prevent automated tools from scraping the website.
We don't need any major tech breakthroughs, what we need is to put in actual effort, money, and political capital into trying to solve the biggest long term threat facing our species. The solution has been around for at least forty years in the form of the nuclear lightbulb reactor [1].

This research was completed by the United Aircraft Corporation in the late 60's and early 70's before it was canceled by Nixon along with the Mars program. It was under a NASA contract for space exploration so the literature was written in the context of the arms race but it is even more compelling as a terrestrial reactor as it uses a tiny amount of fuel (tens of kilos instead of tens of tonnes) and actively keeps that fuel at supercritical so if power is lost the entire thing fizzles out. This is a fast neutron design with an extremely high neutron cross section, far beyond that of any other reactor, easily allowing you to feed nuclear waste into it and very efficiently transmute much of it into fuel or more manageable waste that is then separated out by centrifuges (which are already in the design to separate usable UF6 from the neon exhaust). UAC was set to win a
contract to test the reactor with nuclear fuel when Nixon pulled the plug. They even had a design mapped out for a slow neutron reactor that would have made it economically viable in the 70s.

All of the technological breakthroughs in computation, material science, and nuclear engineering needed to make this happen at an industrial scale have been discovered since the project was canceled. If it weren't for all the anti-nuclear hysteria, we might have actually had someone willing to take the risk to bring the nuclear lightbulb reactor to market. Sadly, almost all of the scientists and engineers that worked on this design have passed on so the institutional knowledge is gone and our best opportunity to head off climate change remains bogged down by pointless arguments over thorium and molten salt reactors.

[1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19710050022
Ah, but it isn't the copyright owner putting it in place. YouTube is. Therefore, it's just a protocol quirk of speaking YouTube.

You can say it's a selling point meant to entice ordered an the pot for rightsholders, but frankly, there is nothing but bandwidth consumption, storage, and processing limits that keeps anyone from just fuzzing the CDN namespace.

Stop thinking keys to locks. YouTube isn't there for that. I can pull off the equivalent of driving a fleet of minivans up and walking out with copies of the drives if no one else is eating up the bandwidth for long enough.
Correlation in Latency Analysis
One of the things which bothers me is that, with the explosion of interest in all aspects of Yoga, there has been a concomitant dilution/muddying of its original teachings by Self-styled, New-Age, Half-baked gurus and plain old Charlatans. They simply lack the knowledge, which is unforgivable when you realize that the original sources are just a "google search" away.

For people interested in the Original sources, i highly recommend starting with; Roots of Yoga by James Mallinson and Mark Singleton to know the primary sources and then actually reading them.
I switched to brave after this latest round on the Mozilla merry-go round.

My theory is that the money from Google comes with strings attached to pester the power users that rely on Firefox with disruptions and anti-features. To avoid Firefox from actually getting market share, but keep it as a paper tiger for anti-trust purposes.
Missed the edit window but another cool thing to note here is that Vader Immortal is inherently ambidextrous. That's a pretty common setup in VR software.

I learned to mouse right handed because that's always where the mice were (and often specifically shaped for right hands). Other peripherals like joysticks and throttles tend to be set up that way as well. First person shooters always have all their characters holding items in their right hand, even if that doesn't affect gameplay.

But in VR the two controllers are often equals - they're your hands, and you can use whichever one of them you like. There's a ping pong paddle or a lightsaber or a laser gun, and the game doesn't care what hand you pick it up with. The lightsaber dojo clip I posted has me using the sabre with my left hand the whole time, but you can even pass it from one to the other mid-game if you want to.

Probably not exciting for all you righties, but I enjoy it.
Why are you trying to scare all of us?
Where are all the successful rationalists?
Even if could only get music, I still don't want meme songs like Gangnam Style and What does the Fox say as actual songs I listen to.
a shell doesn't have to be a programming language as well. I just need it to get around the fs and execute a program
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Another one of the early Amazon employees (I think he was #3 or 4?) has talked about his experiences a bit in comments here on HN but I unfortunately don't remember his account name. It's interesting to see what early employees think of what Amazon has become, and their current relations (or lack thereof)with Jeff Bezos
The Problem with Abolishing Coins
Evidently publicly drinking the kool aid is the 7th lesson op learned. There are maybe 3 actual lessons, and quite a few “Shopify is so great” lessons.

Separately, I cannot possibly imagine an internal podcast is anything but awful.
> And compare the treatment he gets to other people in position of power. Compare that to the MANY MIT faculty who DO use power dynamics to abuse female students, and who DID fly to Epstein's island to party.

None of those people should remain in positions of power, including faculty positions at MIT. The fact that RMS finally got consequences for the behavior we're discussing is good; the fact that the others didn't is bad; the fix is to apply consequences to the places where they're deserved but missing, not reverse some just deserts that were finally given.
Their money can and needs to be spent elsewhere. But then again who am I to tell them how to spend?

This project isn't going anywhere, I guarantee it - but at the sane time I'd also like to be proved wrong on that.
Nuclear requires huge amounts of cement and steel to build. Both of these resources are enormous sources of CO2. Cement clinker manufacturing, in particular, is a horrible emitter, responsible for 8% of global CO2 emissions all by itself.

That’s one type of building material among many that are needed in huge quantities.
How to Search Like a Programmer?
Is it any different than how non-programmers search? What is your favorite search trick?
By "in parallel" I don't mean XOR. I mean concatenation. So in my example sha256+md5 would concatenate sha256's 256 bit digest, and md5's 128 bit digest, to form a 384 bit digest.

The intuitive explanation for why XOR instead of concatenation doesn't work, is it lets the output of the broken hash function influence the output of the remaining good hash function. That is obviously cause for concern!
Google is out of the music purchase business, they no longer have licensing for that. That feature is fully gone.

Out of curiosity, are you a premium member or are you using YTM at free tier? I find the free tier version is much more handicapped compared to GPM, but arguably GPM was very generous comparative to the competition.
"...this is a medium that the RIAA barely tolerates, rather than the (ideal) main distribution channel."

Right, this is the precise problem, and it has to be solved - not by a free-for-all but with proper equitabl copywrite laws.

As matters stand, it's only going to get worse. Say we assume that if somehow both YouTube downloads are made much more difficult to crack AND no downloaders are available, then viewers and downloaders will then use newer tech that's even easier to use to record the videos. With new hi-resonution 4k cameras becoming commonly available, they'll be able to record stuff with still-excellent resolution by just photographing the monitor.

Of course, that still won't deter the RIAA, I can see them trying to ban cardboard covers and jigs that hold cameras and
monitors accurately in alignment.
They'll send the DMCA to your hosting provider
So many workarounds and engineering tasks just to be competitive with the simplicity of Nuclear.
Nice! I always assumed unless there was a known crystal, you’d be in for pain. “Good and globular” is the way to go I guess.
Plex server with the newer Plexamp app has been my replacement, but you do need a PlexPass subscription for it.
"Certain to have the intended outcome" goes a long way in aligning people's expectations with outcomes, and removing sources of unfairness.

>>Why would that be? You have plenty of situations right now where a given company will offer you an ordinary contracts where there are no alternatives. Google's monopoly on Internet advertising has gotten a lot of press, there are plenty of places where a single ISP is all that's possible.

That's not the fault of the provider who steps in to provide the service. If there is a natural monopoly, it's the public's job to come together and collectively fund a public option to ensure that the economic rent from being the monopolistic provider is distributed to the public rather than captured by a private party.

The solution is not to restrict people's right to engage in mutually voluntary private interactions.
Picasa is quite different from Photos, and Wallet wasn't quite the same as Pay. Android Pay and Google Wallet merged together to become Google Pay.
When you live to be a billion, you probably study ants just to have something better to do than bitch about joint pain.

And having seen many, many, many ant hills, specific ones with slight odd variations unnoticed by people who are merely a million years old would stand out like a flashing neon sign and you would be all "Hello! What, pray tell, is this?!" while everyone looked at you funny because they lack context.

Just sayin'...
I know there are tradeoffs to using any project framework or generator, but I'm just impressed by the amount of work people dedicate to these open source platforms. Congratulations on the release! I used this for a production application at work and it's served its purpose masterfully. Thank you for continuing to push the ecosystem forward.
OmniGraffle can be used to scratch some of the many needs that HyperCard fufilled.

Shapes can trigger not just navigation or show/hide but also AppleScripts. Can be quite useful to throw together a quick MVP, which HyperCard was awesome for.
Pulsar is pretty good. I have tried almost every player in the play store, but most of them had big UX problems in my opinion.
My theory is that the money from Google comes with strings attached to pester the power users that rely on Firefox with disruptions and anti-features.

To avoid Firefox from actually getting market share, but keep it as a paper tiger for anti-trust purposes.
They probably don't want to be on the hook for the administrative fee required under the Music Modernization Act.

It's probably going to kill a bunch of small music services.
Rewrites are warranted, but rebranded every time you rewrite is not. Being able to replace core components while keeping the same brand and feature set is what takes real effort. Throwing everything out and making a completely different app with is imo a bit lazy and bad for the user.

If you truly must change things, gradual piece by piece changes is far prefered than complete 100% replacements like GPM -> YTM.

If they had slowly migrated GPM behind the scene to use Youtube over the years, and then after 2-3 years, just changed the name, I'm sure users would've been far less alienated.
This is the main reason I prefer it to Spotify.
Right, I'm not really familiar with PowerShell, but my understanding is that the objects in object pipelines are literally .NET objects with methods on them.

So the entire shell script is confined to the .NET VM?

In that case, I would hesitate to even call it a shell in the traditional sense.

Shell has a kind of code <-> data <-> code <-> data architecture, i.e. programs in different languages processing standard language-independent data formats (lines of text, JSON, HTML, QSN, etc.)

It's more like functional programming, where functions stand alone. (And note Oil is in a very OO style, because it deals with significant program state, so I'm not against objects. Right tool for the right job.)

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Other questions:

What if I want to pass some data to R and plot it? Or throw away some outliers with a little formula? I now have to figure out how to serialize those objects. Or do I have to write an R interpreter for the .NET VM? :)

What about splitting the pipeline over two different machines? I can do "ssh user@host find / -type f" trivially in shell. And I do this in practice, e.g. in Oil's continuous build: http://travis-ci.oilshell.org/jobs/

"Distributed objects" have proven to be a bad idea. "Real" (large scale, deployed) distributed systems are architected more like Unix than Windows.

The point of shell is to integrate disparate tools, so if there are some privileged tools in the .NET VM, and then some other tools that require a lot of work to get at, then that misses the point IMO.
I'm using Plex. They've been working on their Plexamp music player app for a bit, and it works fine for me.
Scratch definitely gets the IDE aspect right: you can edit code, images, create and edit sounds, do layout, all in a sensible combined interface. Something like PySimpleGUI totally misses this point, and juggling different kinds of files will be too complicated for kids.

What Scratch doesn't get right is the card aspect. It's like Hypercard with one card, and the patterns involved in making basic shifts from one mode to another, or one level to another, involve lots of global messages and setup code. It's really bad. Making a Choose Your Own Adventure program will be very hard! It's my biggest disappointment.

https://arcade.makecode.com is quite nice, but is more "program" like than Scratch, where I think Hypercard is more "document" like than Scratch... and so MakeCode isn't exactly a move in the right direction. MakeCode is better for games, but not good for things that aren't games. Scratch is also natural for making videos (Flash-reminiscent), documents, silly music players, etc.
There's literally zero precedent on the 2nd Amendment other than Miller, a badly written opinion on a case that was guaranteed to fail for political reasons and applied specifically to NFA short barreled shotguns.

Scalia didn't write judicial activism. Nothing he ever wrote was judicial activism. "legislate from the bench?" Come on now. If you like the first amendment, the second exists to protect it. If you don't believe the second amendment exists (and that the opinion you've just stated), then the first doesn't either. The second amendment is the second most strict language in the entire Constitution. "Shall make no law", and "shall not be infringed".

You should read Heller -- you clearly have not. He carefully documented all of your arguments and destroyed them. Heller is one of the very few decisions that's come from the bench in the last 60 years that actually strictly respected the exact words of the Constitution for exactly what they said.