skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you argue that youtube-dl meets any of those conditions?

You can argue that youtube-dl facilitates making copies of copyrighted works; that's easy. But the items A, B, and C that you quote all require circumventing a technological measure that controls access to a protected work. And youtube videos, in the general case, have completely uncontrolled access. You can't circumvent measures that don't exist.
Why not just stick to the classic "idle rich"?
Interesting that it starts with Bret Weinstein who just yesterday was banned from Facebook without reason, his account restored after uproar that included Tulsi Gabbard, and then given an official reason that it was a "mistake" from the company.

Similarly interesting is that despite being only an hour old, having 43 points and being on the front page at my time of writing this post, this post was explicitly removed.

Do you think that when one conjures the phrase "dark times ahead", those who experience those dark times understand that they live in the dark times, or are they repeating the phrase to others in the belief that despite their misery, things could be worse?
Institutions of learning becoming subordinate to a faith-based ideology might be worth reacting to. Lysenkoism probably shouldn’t be repeated.
In light of this DMCA, this seems like a site that needs to exist...but I don't know of one? Seems like as trivial a build as anything cryptographic actually
Any input or output device
this last phase in your coder evolution reminds me of a very rough translation of the wabi sabi view on manufacturing. "Nothing lasts, nothing is perfect, nothing is finished."
An array of maps - each map is a row, each key a column.
Show HN: Sorry-cypress an open-source alternative to Cypress dashboard
Have you done this before. The I70 resorts, Summit County, Eagle County, and even the Roaring fork valley make it really difficult to park overnight. Even in summer where dispersed camping is available, it's not a no brainer affair. You might have luck out in the far west like Silverton, Telluride or Durango.
YouTube-dl is actually in pypi and other places, GitHub is not the sole distributor. However, it is their sole development hub, as far as I can see, and that should change. After all, Git is distributed by nature. I suspect they’ll have to investigate a bunch of those new tools that try to do issue-tracking on top of pure git, and the main developers will have to go underground. It’s DeCSS all over again.
This logic could have been used to outright ban dual cassette tape decks in the 80s.

Why not ban the pen, since it can be used to hand copy books. RIAA needs to stay in their lane.
Spotify. I doubt they'll shut down / rebrand / move their music streaming service in a few months time.
Read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872959
I think there's much higher status in the average person in law or medicine versus the average tech person.

I don't think you can really have that same kind of status in tech without building something very significant which typically takes years of experience.
But isn’t that how the term is used? The system is over engineered when it is built to scale to a million concurrent users while we current only have a hundred. Or when it is built to handle use cases that no one has required.
Or large apartment complexes. But isn't that where most real estate investing goes? Detached single family homes are mostly owner-occupied.

In terms of absolute deals? Yes. In terms of dollar value? Not even close, commercial property far exceeds residential property.

But then the tenant is paying correspondingly less rent, which means less taxable income to the property owner. It's a wash either way.

Generally, no. That's not how triple-net leases work. Tenant pays market value, and maintenance costs on top of that.

It's one of the two options.

In your hypothetical, sure. But in the real world, you don't make enough money in rent from one property to use to pay a down payment on the other, and actual real estate investment companies don't pay down the loans; they take out balloon mortgages and just pay interest on the loans until they sell (or refinance before the balloon). I've done this for enough real property investor clients to know how they actually think.

That's evidence of what I'm saying -- when corporate taxes are high, people move investment from businesses to real estate. Making improvements to real estate is investing in real estate. Lower taxes and they stop because they make more to invest the same money in other businesses.

No, it's not. Because all businesses make more investments in their businesses during periods of high taxes. And specifically in my example, I wasn't referring to real estate investors, but companies that actually manage buildings with the intent of being landlords and making their money from commercial leases, not from selling their buildings.
I love your documentation.

Small thing: Your "Built with" links at the bottom are broken.
The data obviously must make it to your computer. A distinction that can be made is whether it is possible/easy to use it separately, outside of YouTube.
United States v. Swartz?
That's a good point. I forgotten about what happened with the Natives, as well as immigrants from Europe.

However, I don't think a cohesive will in the populus will emerge anytime soon. We have at least two major factions talking past each other here in the US (along with a lot of other points of contention: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/03/06/a-quick-battle-field-g...)

An interesting period to consider is that of the Ming dynasty. They were expansionist up until a point, and then they turned inwards. Recalled their expedition fleets. Expanded the Great Wall. They were shutting down steel foundaries at a time when the European colonialism was getting started. It reminds me (at least superficially) much of US today. A narrative of why the Ming turned inward has been subject to a lot of discussion, particularly since they had the economic and technological might to preempt the industrialization of Europe.

(But I think it is also histories like this gets the Chinese thinking about their perceived rightful place as the world's leading superpower).
That's really cool. How much computation (FLOPs) goes into rendering 10 sec of audio?
It sounds as if the restaurant, and everyone else, handled the situation well.
Is there still no safe alternative to GitHub?
IMHO the biggest problem here is the US government is policing the world with DMCA: you have to comply even you are not with physical US jurisdiction. Like the world's biggest cyber-troll, just dressed in business suits.
> What? I have no idea what you're talking about.

OK.

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

> Carbon footprint per transaction: 312.24 kg, estimated at 780,602 VISA transactions.
> What do you mean by "left wing systems"?

Non-capitalist ones.

> And do they wield power through any other means than capitalism?

Sure. For an obvious example, see public sector unions. For another, NASA. The public school system. In the news lately are the police interests. The military. Organized religion.

They wield considerable political power via controlling large voting blocks.

Other means historically used are military power. The end of the Roman republic is an obvious example, but the historical examples are endless. (Even in the US, George Washington was offered a military dictatorship, but turned it down.)

None of these are capitalist, and all are present in non-capitalist systems. The idea that under non-capitalism there wouldn't be powerful special interests is hopelessly untrue.
> but if it didn't work in general, we wouldn't see so much money pouring into political advertisements.

We might, because professional political strategists (who advise campaigns on what works) tend also to be involved in the firms that do this work, and direct their clients to spend money with entities in which they have a financial interest. It is an industry which is absolutely rife with the kinds of conflicts of interest that wouldn't be tolerated for long elsewhere.

And its also an industry where people very often fail upward due to connections rather than succeeding on their track record.
For anyone who might not know what perfect pitch is:
Absolute pitch (AP), often called perfect pitch, is a rare ability of a person to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone. - Wikipedia

Most people, even musicians, don't know that this talent exists. When I was in high school, there was someone who has this skill. He had started music when he was a very little. Most perfect pitch persons starts their music in their early ages. This person in my school "senses" pitches (I think it's similar to how we see colors.)

THERE'S NO KNOWN CASES OF ANY ADULT DEVELOPING PERFECT PITCH. There's a number of studies saying it cannot be developed as an adult.

However, I'm doing research for a few months and trying to develop perfect pitch myself (I have a fine relative pitch). None has worked for now. I strongly believe there must be a way for adults to develop this.

My thoughts on this app: It may help to improve something called "tone identification", but that instinct of having perfect pitch is completely different.

By the way, anyone here have perfect pitch (possibility is 1/10000)?

(For any one interested, search Youtube for perfect pitch. There's a lot of fascinating stories)
We had a guy in our college band with perfect relative and absolute pitch. One time we walked out of the dorms and the AC was squealing on top the building across the street.

"Hey Dave, what note is that?"
"Do you really want to know?"
heads nod
"It's a G"

One of the other tales was someone with true perfect pitch could tell the difference between A at 440 vs 441 hz.
I can't say I've had that experience, I've never had YT music throw a video at me. I've seen them listed as results in searches though. The YT Music move annoys me more because it all just seems like such a dumb waste of time, and Google is making me think and expend effort to service their corporate nonsense.

(for me, I'm sticking with YT Music over Spotify because you also get a YouTube Red subscription, and no ads on YouTube is worth it for me personally)
What about https://sr.ht?
Yes, I would like for that to happen:

Shell as an engine for TUI or GUI https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues/738

C++ code should be embeddable in another program https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues/822

I think you can already use bash in Jupyter, but the integration is necessarily kind of coarse.

I don't know exactly what a good integration is, but I'm looking for people interested in UIs to help me figure it out. At the very least, you can use Oil's parser to provide completions:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=interactive-shell...

(which is a separate integration point that running commands)

Also, I mentioned in the blog post that there's some interest from maintainers in combining the fish shell and Oil. However someone has to do that work, and there's a lot of it!

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Where-To-Send-Feedback

----

Also, I use shell scripts as a productivity tool like a Jupyter notebook:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/02/good-parts-sketch.html#...

I think we need to come up with a clever name for it -- some people call it "Taskfile", "go script", and I call it "run.sh".

The basic idea is that I don't remember how to do things with computers, because there are too many things to do.

I just remember WHERE I WROTE IT DOWN in a shell script. Some people write their notes in text files; I write them in executable shell scripts.
the DMCA makes false notices punishable by perjury iirc
The youtube cipher has probably not been tested in US courts as an "effective measure" so they are demonstrating that other reasonable courts, interpreting a materially equivalent statute have agreed it was an effective measure.

You see similar things with state laws. If say Wisconsin and California have a very similar statute, and Wisconsin has precedent but California does not, the Wisconsin precedent is not binding, but is persuasive for a judge in California.
Google used to be the brand of cutting edge innovation and an optimistic technofuture...now they’re much more a brand of unreliable, half-baked ideas spread far too thin.
+1, This was the first thing came in mind after reading the article.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/coca-cola-to-kill-off-ha...
It could but probably doesn't

One could argue that YouTube success is mostly about unlimited access to illegal copyrighted material uploaded by some unknown person in some unknown part of the world

After all the thing it's already on YouTube and on my HD after I watched it
Goodness! Someone else who remembers LUE. It's refreshing that someone else has noticed the repetitive cycle of the Internet. There were white supremacists taking advantage of usenet from the beginning. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant" is useless pablum to someone like me who has seen the same people acting in bad faith pushing the most pernicious ideas on each communication platform that comes and goes for decades.
$ rg 'UPDATE_URL|VERSION_URL'
youtube_dl/update.py
35: UPDATE_URL = 'https://yt-dl.org/update/'
36: VERSION_URL = UPDATE_URL + 'LATEST_VERSION'
37: JSON_URL = UPDATE_URL + 'versions.json'
46: newversion = opener.open(VERSION_URL).read().decode('utf-8').strip()

$ curl -IL https://yt-dl.org/update/LATEST_VERSION
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:15:04 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
Location: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/update/LATEST_VERSION
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

HTTP/2 404
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
server: GitHub.com
etag: "5f777b31-239b"
content-security-policy: default-src 'none'; style-src 'unsafe-inline'; img-src data:; connect-src 'self'
x-github-request-id: 170E:2B71:1A0B5DC:1B8177E:5F933973
accept-ranges: bytes
date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:15:04 GMT
via: 1.1 varnish
age: 85
x-served-by: cache-hnd18722-HND
x-cache: HIT
x-cache-hits: 1
x-timer: S1603484104.479172,VS0,VE0
vary: Accept-Encoding
x-fastly-request-id: a7128dab84232184052e51f07eb6263f5c88ab7e
content-length: 9115
In Chinese government, often the smart people get to control capital allocation without owning all of the money.

Also, that's not necessarily true - I think it is better to have investment controlled by a diversified group of smart people, which would mean not a super-duper high gini coeff.
I was intrigued by this paper. Haven't tried it though.

Valproate reopens critical-period learning of absolute pitch
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3848041/

Absolute pitch, the ability to identify or produce the pitch of a sound without a reference point, has a critical period, i.e., it can only be acquired early in life. However, research has shown that histone-deacetylase inhibitors (HDAC inhibitors) enable adult mice to establish perceptual preferences that are otherwise impossible to acquire after youth. In humans, we found that adult men who took valproate (VPA) (a HDAC inhibitor) learned to identify pitch significantly better than those taking placebo—evidence that VPA facilitated critical-period learning in the adult human brain. Importantly, this result was not due to a general change in cognitive function, but rather a specific effect on a sensory task associated with a critical-period.
It sounds like some of the technologies made it into prototypes, and could be feasible in some applications. e.g. ship detection is more feasible than aircraft detection
Countries where guns are "banned" only include a handful of outliers. I think only Eritrea has a blanket ban on gun possession by civilians. "Applicants for a gun owner’s licence in Laos are required to establish a genuine reason to possess a firearm, for example hunting" (https://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/laos).
Who is the defendant here? Do they have resources to take this to court? If not, is there any movement on raising a legal defense fund and finding competent counsel? Anyone from the ACLU team here, and interested in weighing in or at least bringing this to your leadership for consideration?
There are some good ideas in here, but `--qsn` is described[1] like this:

> Print filenames ONE PER LINE. If a name contains a newline or other special char, it's QSN-encoded like 'multi-line \n name with NUL \0 byte'

This is a bad idea. There is a solution which already works. Just terminate every filename with NUL and you're done. Trying to make something "sorta kinda human readable" is a mistake when dealing with what is effectively arbitrary byte sequences which can contain anything except for NUL. Consistency makes the consuming code much simpler.

That said, QSN is a great idea for human input.

[1] https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/10/osh-features.html#safe...
Its quite irrelevant - seems like "forbidding knifes because they can be used as a weapon" or "banning port scanners because of security reasons".
"simplicity of http/json" always elicits snickering from me.

HTTP, by itself, is one of the more complex layer-7 protocols known to man. UTF-8 is not simple. Converting a decimal string representation of a floating point value into IEEE 754 is not simple (particularly compared to... memcpy). In a bizarre example of the tail wagging the dog, the ARM ISA has added an instruction specifically for parsing JSON...

There's really not a lot of value in having different serialization formats, so the "even if it doesn't make sense" requires a specific context for determining what makes sense.
It is a bit of a tough question. How would I feel about someone borrowing a book from a library and then photocopying it to keep a local copy? If the intent was to re-distribute then I would not feel comfortable allowing it. However, if the proposed remedy was to ban personal ownership of photocopiers I would not even consider that a valid approach. But would I expect I could keep my own photocopied version instead of paying retail price for the book? And what if a purpose built photocopier was designed and marketed for the express purpose of photocopying books from the library?

My personal feeling, and obviously not a legal opinion or even morally infallible in any sense, is that storing a local copy of digital content that has been consumed should be allowed. Where it becomes grey (or my feeling tends towards disallowing) is if I share or re-broadcast that content in any form.

That is, I feel the DMCA is in the wrong here. Unless they can prove intent to re-distribute it feels wrong that they can ban my ability to maintain a copy for myself. I believe it ought to be a right to store such content locally.
I moved my purchased music to YT Music in additional to having previously downloaded it but I am not super happy: the old model of buying a song or an album and then downloading it seems to no longer be an option in this craven new world - I guess they don't want my money if it does not arrive vassal-like in fixed monthly amounts.
I haven't tried it personally, but there is a notebook-style terminal that might interest you, aptly-named Shell Notebook.

https://shellnotebook.com/
Made a torrent of the latest version from pypi. Hope it works.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:da76788b4d05583f8a3a7ed60f136c5647daa113&dn=youtube%5Fdl-2020.9.20.tar.gz&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bittorrent.am%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fopen.acgtracker.com%3A1096%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fretracker.krs-ix.ru%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.com%3A2710%2Fannounce

Edit: NVM. Getting nowhere with setting that up.
Empirically, we've just had our first occurrence of astronomers not being able to explain a compound in a planet's atmosphere, and it's something much easier to deal with than a massive amount of oxygen.

I think they would settle on the opinion that any explanation would be about as interesting as life. But not fully settle on life.
Personally, I think "designed to fail" is a downright false charge, and "repairability" is a trickier trade-off than repair advocates make it out to be ...

Somebody should tell the UK Parliament, they need some feedback and Apple cannot spare anybody to clear up this "downright false charge" :

https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/62/environmental-...
Angelic doesn't imply good, just being sufficiently advanced enough to seem like magic (to use another Clarke quote.) Demons are technically angels after all.
It's not because Word doesn't:

1. Advertise that it is intended to aid in copyright infringement

2. Include some tools to circumvent DRM used in harry potter e-books.
The Sinica podcast has plenty of rational discussion, usually in the form of interviews with various academics:

https://supchina.com/series/sinica/
gitlab ftw
Even further, they are saying that the primary use of youtube-dl is reproduction and distribution. Distribution is the actual illegal act.

I can't speak to the average youtube-dl user's experience, but I've used it a lot and have never distributed a video. I've saved videos to watch later on my own, that's it.
can RIAA be hit back? - to me it looks like the RIAA actions to take down software intimidate the authors of the software and obstructs the authors from exercising and enjoying of the copyright of their software.
Incorrect. DRMed YouTube-content cannot be downloaded using YouTube-dl. Only regular content.
iTunes would like a word with you...
> The public face of 8chan is Jim Watkins, a pig farmer in the Philippines who many experts believe is also the person behind the shadowy persona of “Q” at the center of the conspiracy theory movement.

It’s funny to me that people think Jim is capable of leading a worldwide movement and has enough opsec not to get caught. Have you seen the guy on YouTube? Give it a watch and decide for yourself.

I followed Q (not qanon) in relation to spygate, and let’s just say I was surprised. It’s not some basement mouth breather, it’s state level. Have the people who followed Q also considered it could be some Russian or other country’s psyop against us? Again think for yourself folks.

Anyway, I’m convinced Q at this point is out of the bag. Even if you banned it on the clear web it would spill out from the dark web into every public space. The only way to attack it effectively now is to get transparent about some of the central claims Q says control the levers of power:

1. What was happening on Epstein’s island?

2. What evidence does Assange have regarding the source of hacked emails?

3. What were the deleted emails on HRC server and how did the Clinton foundation amass so much money?

Interesting enough just now after two years of Q, we’re getting some more information about these, so it really is going to be do or die for “qanon”.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/10/09/poli...

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17318376/united-states-...
I switched from Spotify to Amazon Music Unlimited, as I found it to be much less buggy.
(Googler, opinions are my own)

Agreed that it is annoying, but its interesting to look back at how we got here. Google Play Music (GPM) launched in 2011. To get music on here, I'm guessing that team had to sign contracts with the various publishers and record studios. The onboarding and licensing terms of those were likely entirely around this music streaming service.

Then you have Youtube. It's been a video hub for anything, and other those 9 years since GPM launched, it has become a place where lots of people listen to music (watching music videos or the like). You have companies like Vevo that publish music content there. I'd guess Youtube has different contracts with those companies that have evolved over time about how music can be played.

So over these past 9 years, 2 products that had little overlap, have started to overlap more and more. As youtube expanded, it started butting into GPM's world. That likely was odd for Google for contracts and licensing of that content. Youtube Music (YTM) likely allows them to do it all under one silo now. Plus, YTM lets you do background music or videos, which is not something you could ever really do with GPM.