skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there are a few factors. there is the weighting ( how many electoral college votes per citizen) as well as how they get allocated. If California has a single voter more for Biden and Trump, it's the same as if nobody in California voted for Trump. If your state has 100 electoral votes and the voters are split 50-50, the fair thing to do would be to allocate those electoral votes 50-50. Instead it's all winner take all, making people further feel like their vote doesn't matter. The probability that your vote is the swing vote is so low compared to a simple popular vote for the vast vast majority of voters, so at least with regards to the presidency, they have a lot less reason to even vote.
Yeah, anyone using it to save books for future generations instead having them rot to nothing should burn in hell! (sarcasm)
I will add buttons, which accesscodes would you recommend?
> - splitting pipes to separate flows (e.g one flow for stderr, one for stdout). Think of it as a graph.

Could you elaborate a little on what you mean by this? bash already has the ability to redirect STDERR and STDOUT independently, and when you introduce named pipes into the mix things can get really fancy (probably too fancy, this is about where your script stops being a script and starts being a program written in perhaps the most inconvenient language available.)
I agree, the scientific consensus appears to be that absolute pitch cannot be developed after a certain age, and that this age is related to the 'prime' language acquisition ages. Tonal language speakers (e.g. Mandarin) have absolute pitch with higher frequency, possibly because their ears have needed to train to distinguish tones in this critical period.

As someone with absolute pitch, I should say I have not found it musically useful, and I would hesitate recommending people train for it even if it was possible. When I was learning to play jazz, it was actually a major crutch for me. For jazz especially, the modes, chords, progressions, and relationships between tones are really important and are what determines the 'color' of what you're playing. Harmony in general is determined by the relationships between tones, not the absolute tones themselves (mostly - there are of course differences in sound playing three octaves up or down), and an ear for absolute pitch doesn't help much there at all.

I could use absolute pitch to identify chords and modes, but it didn't help me 'think' about and play within them the way relative pitch does. A good ear for relative pitch, and an understanding of harmony go much farther.
YouTube videos don't have a right click option to download the video (a browser builtin) therefore there's a technical measure that controls the downloading of the video

You don't have to be technically correct, you have to be legally correct. It's like technically correct only it's way more pedantic
Keybase, outside of the distributed bit along with the question of their future, provides zero-knowledge git repositories (they’ve literally got no idea what is in your repositories, including metadata).
Hiding would be good if you could do it, but:

(a) to the best of everyone’s knowledge it is impossible to hide your heat signature in space, let alone hide the shadow of a planet blocking the light of its star (metamaterial cloaks are far too frequency-specific)

(b) the biosignatures we’re looking for right now are anything out of chemical equilibrium, so a planet-dwelling civilisation would only hide from us if they wiped out their surface and ocean ecosystems at the very least
If being on the whitelist doesn't grant any special privilege, why have a whitelist? I got the impression that it's for security, but I want my machine to be secure from YouTube as well.
you are amazing how consistently you live your values. thank you for being an inspiration to the rest of us.
Doesn't work on Safari. tried it on chrome and clicking on the correct answer has a tendency to not do anything.
Amazon doesn't allow HD music in their Linux client and unfortunately does not play nicely with the Google ecosystem. Shame too because I really liked it.
The US uses the Vice President instead of a lottery.
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I'm thinking of putting my music in my Google Drive and using Plex (on a seedbox server). So my music is safe and accessible but I still need to pay for a streaming service because I like the discovery options they have.
An Instapot. You can practically cook anything on it. Being more at home and time being split between working and child care, the Instapot has been a lifesaver.

Toaster/Air Fryer. An all in one that we can fry food without the mess of oil, or toast bread and bagels.
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Apple specifically used to call out the DR Congo as one area where their supply chain responsibility was not yet up to their standards, but in recent years, they claim to have established an audited supply chain: https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple-Conf...

(I'm going by Apple's own claims here, would be interested to hear whether you have information contradicting these claims).
(disclosure I work for Microsoft but not on this stuff)

Biggest benefit for me has been how simple it has made ssh on Windows. I got a nicer spec'd Surface Laptop 3 during my last hardware refresh and haven't missed Macbook at all.
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So they messed with the synchroniser and the synch check relays, on a reciprocating deisel.

I design such systems and it sort of reads ok, but a few key details not right or not explained - those size of generators grid connected will have reverse power, pole slip, instantaneous over current electrical protection as well, AVR excitation limiting, plus overspeed relays which would not have let this happen. (gas turbines traditionally have a hydraulic control oil relief overspeed "bolt" that comes out with centrifugal force and no software could mess with, these days electronic replacements are coming in vogue, but...)

As for synch check, rule of thumb is two independant systems, one hard wired, three overall if you can swing it because often one of the multifunction protection relays will have that function available and you wire it and/or code it in line.

But I have seen big reciprocating diesels go into synch at 30-60 degrees out of phase and if they hold without tripping the generator protection then you might get a brief flicker of the lights, some stress on the crankshaft that who knows what it does long term, but some of them were old and had it done to them many times.

Yeah, so they did it, waste of a good machine for known outcome if ask me, very wasteful with no need.

And it is a very particular kind of attack, if you knew it was a problem it could be protected against for hundreds or thousands of generators literally in 24 hours or less - hardwired synch check which can be achieved with a voltage relay at it's simplest.

So I am not seeing anything in that excerpt other than highghting bad design practices.
It does have to do with Youtube, because the claim that a download client breaks copy protection of the Peertube service would be absurd, since (I presume) there's none.
Rick Beato's take on adults not being able to develop perfect pitch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=816VLQNdPMM

I must say though, watching videos of his kid demonstrate perfect pitch is quite astounding!
I think you'd need to find evidence they intentionally launched this complaint with bad faith, which would require a discovery process.
It has also destoyed families. I know people whose parents have gone down the QAnon rabbit hole, and the outcome is absolutely insane. They can't have a 20 minute conversation without the vast pedophilic conspiracy in Washington intruding (Because the parents cannot understand why their children could possibly be acting in accord with it.)

Another one of my friends can't even see his mother, because she doesn't believe that coronavirus is real, and is actively refusing to get her symptoms tested.

Edit: It's interesting to see how this is not a popular opinion to express here. Do folks disagree with me about this being a bad thing? Do folks actually think there's an iota of value in the Augean pile of QAnon crap? Do they think that this madness elevates the level of discourse in their society? Are they made uncomfortable by a mention of a human-scale anecdote of the observable harm that this movement is inflicting?
It's not about whether the agent will or will not find an optimal solution (no agent can possibly find good solutions in every environment). It's about whether the agent could even understand the true environment based on your real-value-reward description of it.

Suppose the true environment has various tasks the agent can do which give big-O-complexity-valued rewards, one task giving a reward of O(2^n), and others giving rewards of O(n^i) for various i. For concreteness, say Task A rewards O(2^n), Task B rewards O(n^10000), and Task C rewards O(n^20000).

Now suppose you present this to the agent using real-valued rewards, say, where O(n^i) is replaced by arctan(i) and O(2^n) is replaced by arctan(2)+pi, as you suggest, then the agent will be deluded into thinking, e.g., that Task B and Task C give almost identical rewards (Task B gives reward 1.57069633 and Task C gives reward 1.57074633, which barely differ from each other at all). This is misleading because in the true environment, Task C gives much more reward than Task B. Yes, the agent understands Task C gives a bigger reward, but the agent totally mis-understands how much bigger :)
I don't see anything that's a conspiracy theory though. Like, the fact that there's corruption in the high levels of government that willfully enable war... Sounds like something Britta said on Community. The fact that there may be specific groups of long tenured employees in the State Department doing it isn't that noteworthy either. They work there.

The way you've written and described your views, experiences, and assumptions is what makes it seem like an offputting conspiracy theory.
Yes, we do need this. I feel that the first step would be to move ytdl to a self hosted repository. But even this has the potential for takedowns.
China is pragmatic. The CCCP portrays their leaders as competent technocrats who are building their way into a future of prosperity. The Belt and Road Initiative is a means for China to secure access to needed raw materials in Africa and other developing countries in exchange for Chinese financed and built public works projects such as ports highways and telecom. Similar to how the internet is splitting due to the Great Firewall, China is creating its alternative vision of world trade and international order.

I would argue that China is almost economically and technologically on par with the USA. It’s military is behind. It’s biggest weakness is internal politics. Xi Jinping is using the tools at his disposal to prevent China from falling apart like the USSR. What is unknown is the amount of push back he is getting for his crackdown of dissent, secret detentions, mass incarcerations and re-education. As the article mentioned both Xi and his father suffered from the Cultural Revolution which was triggered by Mao to regain power after he was temporarily sidelined by the failure of the Great Leap Forward. After Mao’s death it was Deng Xiao Peng who gave the Chinese the right to make decisions based on facts again instead of blindly following the latest central party dictates. This was the “Seek truth from facts” speech. It seems that China is reverting to its old ways with the enshrinement of Xi Jinping thought. But I think Chinese leaders are very much aware their legitimacy is based solely on providing material prosperity to their people. China is not actively seeking to antagonize the West but their relentless focus on winning the trade wars may be misinterpreted which is dangerous for everyone.
I mean, the general design is fine, the UX kind of sucks though. systemctl stop/start/restart/reload/enable/disable is a lot easier to grok than launchctl.
Using a copyrighted music track as the example in the README is really stupid or just shows a total lack of respect for copyright.
US stance is mainly Trump's stance and neither Democrats (Obama / Clinton / Biden) nor mainstream Republicans want to alienate our allies. While Trump is indeed tapping into "America only" sentiment prevalent in some sections (make NATO allies allocate more budget towards defense, end endless wars in the Middle East etc), I don't see a broad political support to completely alienate the allies.
Nitpick, on page three of the document you posted it states that his script used curl and not wget
Count me in as someone who didn’t know this existed/that I had it until someone else pointed it out for me. I started music in middle school and got frustrated with a friend who couldn’t play back a melody from a video game we both liked even though I could (he was much better at violin so I wanted to hear him play it, haha).

Thankfully, he knew what perfect pitch was and after figuring out the disconnect, explained it to me. I honestly thought he was lying until I asked other folks in the class and found out they couldn’t identify the notes by ear either. I just assumed it was something I learned to do as a part of the class instruction.

I wouldn’t say I have any attached feelings/synesthesia to particular notes besides their western names.
Unfortunately, the claimed videos are in some tests in youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py, e.g.

# JS player signature function name containing $
{
'url': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM',
'info_dict': {
'id': 'nfWlot6h_JM',
'ext': 'm4a',
'title': 'Taylor Swift - Shake It Off',
'description': 'md5:307195cd21ff7fa352270fe884570ef0',
'duration': 242,
'uploader': 'TaylorSwiftVEVO',
'uploader_id': 'TaylorSwiftVEVO',
'upload_date': '20140818',
},
'params': {
'youtube_include_dash_manifest': True,
'format': '141/bestaudio[ext=m4a]',
},
},
Such a great and novel idea. I'm sure there are holes in it but the principle is excellent.
You talk like this is all expected to be done by 21st century humans when in reality if there were civilizations out there capable of doing this colonization they would likely be millions of years our elders and its incredibly foolish to try to guess their intentions or the capabilities of their technology. Your view is painfully anthropocentric.

Just to add, there are plenty of valid criticisms or plausible solutions to the Fermi paradox but I think you've failed to identify a single one.
The Betamax case was about stuff broadcast over public airwaves, whereas this is a medium that the RIAA barely tolerates, rather than the (ideal) main distribution channel. Seems like a big enough difference to me.
Not sure about Amazon Music, but as a rule any piece of software related to a printer is almost malware by virtue of being complete shit.
> High end professional fashion and fancy watches are nowhere to be seen in my office

Status symbols drastically change between generations. The question is: what are the status symbols of your peer group?

My impression is that as you move up in earnings (or perhaps with age?), the symbols of status become more esoteric.

One female friend of mine wants to start a yoga studio: that appears to me to be a particularly alpha-female status seeking activity in her social circle.

And the definition of what are status symbols is extremely dependent upon the group, and the symbols are not always visible or obvious. One symbol that seems invariant between different cliques (although somewhat recursive) is having a high status partner.

The clearest status symbol across different groups is whether high status individuals within the group (or globally high status people) spend time with you. Name dropping. Audience seeking.
Sure, as long as you don't live in SF/US. It's almost certainly going to help me, but I'm not sure I'd like it if I was based in the Valley.

I'm just pointing out some of the potential consequences.
more info on Dave Cutler for those who are new to him:

- https://news.microsoft.com/features/the-engineers-engineer-c...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29RkHH-psrY
Assuming youtube-dl is dead and the web APIs become hopelessly obfuscated, how hard would it be to talk to youtube as if I were a samsung smart tv?

Perhaps the next iteration of this project can leverage google's own insatiable greed against them. Embedding youtube into every "smart" device on the face of the planet probably requires that google maintain a fairly consistent private API which all of these devices can communicate with. If someone were to reverse engineer one of these devices or just throw wireshark on the WLAN, it probably wouldn't take long to emulate the same approach...

What is stopping someone from using these types of internal interfaces instead of the public ones?
keybase.io provide decentralized crypto solution, it's better to open source community to move on to such crypto soluion
What is the simplest way to store source code repos in some decentralized file system? Like store git repo in IPFS folder, would others be able to clone it and submit pull requests?
Rick Beato has some great videos on this subject

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXivZlPu0ms
IANAL, but DMCA takedowns do not have "no repercussions" for false claims. If the DMCA takedown was actually baseless, they would be opening themselves up to damage liabilities, as specified under 17 U.S. Code § 512 under section f[1]. This is different than YouTube copyright claims, which as far as I'm aware don't actually have any repercussions for false claims unless YouTube decides to take action[2], since copyright claims on YouTube are not DMCA takedown requests.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/youtubes-new-lawsuit-s...
I made the switch to Apple Music after GPM went on life support. It's got some weird UI choices (Apple conventions, I assume - I'm on Android), but I've been pretty happy with it, and it's more or less sold me on investigating how far an android user can invest in their cloud services ecosystem.

I avoid Spotify because I'm leery of their podcast play, especially given their employee's protests over the Rogan contract. Just because Rogan's too valuable an asset to compromise, doesn't mean they won't go after smaller podcasters.

Apple by contrast has been a fairly responsible steward of the podcasting ecosystem with its publicly available index, and hasn't attempted to exert undue control over individual podcasts beyond delisting them from their search engine.
Those illuminated brand logos are so tacky. I hope the trend ends quickly, with a whimper.
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Me too and I've been a long time fan, user, shareholder, evangelist, etc. I feel they just can't execute anymore (software and hardware).
You truly believe that some scandal will result that drives Bitcoin from $240 billion to 0? And you were "heavily involved when it first started"? A lot has changed in 10 years, I don't think you understand this industry whatsoever.
That's what you get for hiring the B-school type who I doubt has coded even one line after undergrad (or even in undergrad). Google has just been McKinseying a ton of products in the name of poor sales instead of actively changing them for better. Not to mention the loss of workplace culture, the end of TGIF dinners, and zero diversification from the ads business.
This tool literally recommendeds downloading copyrighted material. This is a good take down.
Please don't give them any ideas
I don't think anybody really disagrees that redistribution is a copyright violation and the youtube-dl software doesn't provide any facilities for uploading or re-broadcasting content. This takedown is completely frivilous.
I should turn this into a FAQ, but PowerShell is natural on Windows, where the OS provides objects (either via the .NET VM, or COM and .DLLs, etc.)

A Unix shell like bash or Oil is natural on Unix, where the OS uses text files. And in distributed systems where data is JSON, YAML, XML, protobuf, msgpack, etc. not objects.

So basically shell is a "situated" language, and the easy of accomplishing any given task depends a lot on the environment.

Windows is more tightly coupled and trying to provide something nice for you. Unix is messier but doesn't limit you, and it's what basically all big systems are made of these days. A major strength of shell is to glue things together that nobody thought should be glued together.

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Good example here from Paul Bucheit: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/01/simplest-explanation.ht...

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/01/communicating-with-...

However, we needed a way for Gmail to make money, and Sanjeev Singh kept talking about using relevant ads, even though it was obviously a "bad idea". I remained skeptical, but thought that it might be a fun experiment, so I connected to that ads database (I assure you, random engineers can no longer do this!), copied out all of the ads+keywords, and did a little bit of sorting and filtering with some UNIX SHELL COMMANDS

I then hacked up the "adult content" classifier that Matt Cutts and I had written for safe-search, linked that into the Gmail prototype, and then loaded the ads data into the classifier. My change to the classifier (which completely broke its original functionality, but this was a separate code branch) changed it from classifying pages as "adult", to classifying them according to which ad was most relevant. The resulting ad was then displayed in a little box on our Gmail prototype ui. The code was rather ugly and hackish, but more importantly, it only took a few hours to write!

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Also, use whatever's best for you, but Unix people tend to hate PowerShell:

https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-woes-of-powershell-8737e5...

PowerShell feels like it was built by people who had heard about command lines a long time ago and tried to recreate one based on stories passed down through generations of their ancestors

The fact that they cargo-culted operators like -eq, -le, -lt, while not maintaining compatibility is just silly to me. In Oil it's "x == y" for string equality.
I've only really scratched the surface of what it would take to move onto a boat full time, but my impression is that the vast majority of boat dwellers have a permanent slip in a harbor where they spend the majority of their time. Given that, depending on location Starlink might be practical sooner. (Although as a land dweller who owns some rural property I'd like to make better use of, I'm getting a little tired of living on Elon time.)
> This is part of the DMCA process. Github takes it down until they get a counter-claim from the repo owner, don't think they really have much of a choice in it, legally.

They have a choice, but if they would be liable for hosting the content but for the DMCA safe harbor, failing to take it down when they receive compliant takedown notice means that they are then exposed to that liability because they are outside of the safe harbor.
I have both Youtube and Google Play subscription, but never listen to Youtube music because the sound quality is quite bad. But now I'm getting really pissed:

Youtube Music has only 256kbit AAC compression...that's a no go for me. I tried Tidal once, but the user interface was very slow, so I unsubscribed.
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> Mongolian and Manchurian descended rulers ... were Buddhist. However, the Qing dynasty...

Huh? First Manchuria equals Qing in my limited remembrance of imperial
history. Second, the Manchurians were Buddhist?
> it uses examples in the README as an example of that:

>> We also note that the source code prominently includes as sample uses

as far as I can tell these videos are not referenced in the README, but instead in the youtube.py extractor file, which would go against the accusation that they were featured 'prominently'