skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree 100%. Satya Nadella stepped up to the CEO role and almost single-handedly turned Microsoft around. You could see the effects within the first few months. He is a genius. A natural born leader.
Cryptocats – A free cat photo generator
Possible, but far reaching.
There are other explanations:

* We are a computer simulation (hence there is no colonization, we are in an experiment)

* There are like 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 habitable planets in the universe. Just because something is "extremely unlikely" doesn't mean that it didn't happen to us. I.e. whomever this happened to, would ask himself that question. We may just be the ones it happened to.

Also: Why would they settle species from millions of years in their own past. If they wanted to colonize, they could start with their own life-forms.

Could be several things as well:

* We are a genesis project and they will simply come back later and settle in what we left behind (i.e. they let the ecosystem build for a few million years before trying out this settlement)

* They don't want to create competitors

* We are a population bomb, i.e. they just sent out billions of probes trying to populate any given habitable planet, and they couldn't just spawn themselves there and instead had to start from somewhere where a sustainable ecosystem would derive from
> We refuse to sell quackery.

This phrase appears multiple times. Wherever it appears, they are wrong. So I love this set of pages. It tells me these are not people to be trusted. They have deep, fundamental misunderstandings of the things they "cannot" provide.

Sometimes, they are mistaking the practical (and useful) for the theoretically perfect. They don't do X because it isn't theoretically perfect, and they can't seem to imagine a way to do it other than the strawman trivial (and bad) way they set up for a smackdown.

Sometimes, they are confusing different issues. Like in this case, what encryption at rest even is, and what it achieves. Or how they seemingly misunderstand ASPs.

I think they are actually probably reasonable tech-wise, and the presentation just needs some help (or some topics not discussed at all). It feels like a Swiss caricature though -- we are always right, if you disagree go away. We only want competent customers. (Where competent == agree that we are correct.) Spoken with a calm air of superiority of course. But maybe what comes off as user hostile to my sensibilities is perfectly cordial to a Swiss person. It would be ok if they weren't actually wrong on the security topics.

I especially enjoy:

No feature parity

We really do not care what service X offers and will not try to match them
Jetbrains is also constantly taking down cracks/piracy license servers/etc - see [0,1,2].

0: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-0...

1: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/01/2020-01-1...

2: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2019/09/2019-09-0...
I did try it but it caused two problems as compared to yarn v2: the dependency resolution algorithm seems less deterministic or strict, causing version incompatibilities that yarn v2 did solve, and also the symlinks are poorly supported by many tools (nextJS until very recently, react native etc...). Also the install is longer with pnpm. However it has less runtime performance impact.
>Unfortunately, in the present political climate, any reasonable interpretation of these words that hurts the representation of states with regressive voting laws would be seen as an act of politics.

We've been misinterpreting words like "infringed" and "papers, and effects" for well over a century. The current climate while certainly non-helpful but I think there's a deeper root cause that keeps us from strongly enforcing the constitution.
actually that it is in the test cases instead of the readme makes it seem worse to me, after all the readme is not addressed to anyone in particular, they needed examples of things someone might do and they used popular videos (that happened to be copyrighted) as those examples.

But anyone running the test cases that does not have rights to those videos will have infringed, and then of course youtube-dl must also run their own test cases and we know they don't have rights to the videos.
A friend of mine has a teenager who developed perfect pitch in middle school. Their first language is English, but they are learning Mandarin very rapidly (along with 2-3 other Chinese dialects).
Uninformed conjecture here, but, should nuclear power be a private industry? Where the incentive is profit?

Could it be a Government Utility, where the incentive can be safety above all else?
RMS advocated for the normalization of sexual relationships between minors and adults (aka "child rape") in his blog posts for years[0]. That's not a smear, nor a failure to understand him simply because he's awkward and stubborn, that's on the record, in his words, the intent and meaning perfectly clear. It's not post-truth, it's truth.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287006
You could kill someone with the output of the inverters very easily. Also, the ones that are placed over "bare land" have killed life that was there on that land before the panels stole the energy that used to hit the land there.

That's not to mention what it took to gather materials, manufacture, and transport the panels.
But what is being circumvented? As far as I'm aware there are no controls put in place that are being circumvented.

Edit: I'm also curious why the riaa would have standing at all? Even assuming there is some protection being circumvented, it's not the riaa's control that is being circumvented.
Facebook tries to block tool aimed at promoting transparency with political ads
this is honestly the first Hacker News article in a few years that made me yell at my computer. pure insanity.
What about the financial disasters? Especially in all attempts within the last 30 years?

Nuclear has long had a reputation as a tech that could bankrupt a utility, which is why utilities stopped building it in the 1980s.

In the mid-2000s, in an attempt to revitalize the industry, we had an attempt to build nuclear in highly supportive communities with high levels of support from the Nuclear Regulatory Committee.

This attempt ended in yet more financial disaster. South Carolina residents pay an average of $20/month on their electricity bill for a failed project that will never produce energy (Vogtle). In order to convince the utility to take on the massive financial risk of a nuclear construction project, the nuclear industry pushed through a special bill in the state legislature that lets the utility charge ratepayers whether or not a nuclear construction project completes.

The UK started attempts at building nuclear at the same time, and though it started construction at Hinckley C, a project far behind schedule and far over budget, it has not even been able to find somebody to build at Wylfa. Hitachi pulled out.

Similarly, France, who is often an example of "good nuclear," is abandoning new nuclear because their attempts at building again have all ended in financial disaster and blown schedules.

Chernobyl, TMI, and Fukushima are not the nuclear failures that scare those who would build it. It's the financial risk that scares away investors, and it should scare us all. Dumping such high capital costs in a 50-year investment, at a time when alternatives are dropping in cost exponentially, is just foolish. It's like buying 50 years of lock-in to 386 Intel processors in 1990. Just foolish.
The fact that youtube wants people to come back to the site and use servers, miles of wires, electricity, network machinery instead of letting them download videos so they can watch them from thumbdrive just says to me this company is unethical and harms environment. Any business model that forces people to be on the network without any reason other than greed, should be illegal. If you can stream the file, download option should be mandatory by law.
In addition to your excellent point, the fact that there is such a groundswell of people who tacitly buy into these destructive theories is incredibly demoralizing to many.

The fact that there are so many Americans who accept this is enough to make me rethink my participation in society here. Who are we if we've become enablers of this? I can't fight this, there's no "there" there.
Last I checked normal youtube videos are just a MPEG-DASH/HLS stream, with no DRM.

What youtube-dl essentially does is reading the playlist and concatenating chunks together, there is no DRM circumvention here.
In today's world, perhaps, but it must have taken vast amounts of time until the first bacteria covered the planet. If abiogenesis were a frequent event on the early earth, there should have been plenty of space for more than one lifeform to survive before life became ubiquitous. And of course it's possible, but it shouldn't be the default assumption either.
A source?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/reddit-quarantines-pro-trump-s...
It makes both a copyright claim and a claim about circumvention devices. I don't agree, as you don't, that the copyright claim is valid, youtube-dl git repo clearly isn't hosting any copyrighted materials owned by the RIAA members represented in the letter. But the letter also never claims that it does.

The law does not demand automated enforcement of claims or the establishment of a channel for automated enforcement. That is a compliance device invented by GitHub/YouTube/etc. for managing the substantial volume of requests they must receive with as much transparency as their customers demand and its operational characteristics are not covered by the law, it's simply a tool that GitHub uses to make themselves responsive and in compliance with as little overhead and manual intervention required as possible.

The law does prescribe the "claim, counter-claim" process, which GitHub must respect if they are to maintain their compliance and safe harbor. If they were in the habit of reviewing every claim for validity (strictly not required by the law that insulates them), then I might agree with you, but I think that singling out this one claim and handling it specially would in fact open them up to a great big world of even criminal liability, that their straightforward compliance with the law insulates them from.

The law prescribes almost exactly how GitHub should respond to claims and counter-claims, down to how many days the content may be removed for if a counter-claim is laid.

> If you send a counter-notice, your online service provider is required to replace the disputed content unless the complaining party sues you within fourteen business days of your sending the counter-notice. (Your service provider may replace the disputed material after ten business days if the complaining party has not filed a lawsuit, but it is required to replace it within fourteen business days.)

What must happen now, is youtube-dl either responds with a counter-claim or they don't. Then either a lawsuit is filed by RIAA within 10-14 days, or it isn't. Possibly one is filed later. (They don't waive any rights by not filing the lawsuit right away.) By managing the claim this way, GitHub has ensured at least that they need not be party to the lawsuit. (They will not be on the receiving side of a lawsuit. This does not preclude them from going on the offensive and claiming tortuous interference, but it does protect them from imminent danger.)

So, whether this was a valid claim by RIAA or an illegal attempt at tortious interference is surely a matter for the courts to decide, but suffice it to say I am far less confident than you are that GitHub would be safe from any kind of legal reprisal if they stood fast here, and tried to hold the position that you are arguing without letting the compliance channel play out however that goes.

It is a chilling law and we've known this since it was penned. I don't agree with the law and I am interested to see this play out, I hope this takedown is not the end of the story.
They did not put that in the readme. The README contains only references to test videos, videos that don't actually exist, and one small-time video (in spanish?) that seems to be an old test video, but I have a hard time seeing for sure.

The source code does contain references to copyrighted videos in the tests, tests intended to make sure that youtube-dl can download the data from videos using the extremely "token" signature scrambling that youtube employs for certain videos. You can see the test cases here:

https://gitlab.com/HacktorIT/youtube-dl/-/blob/master/youtub...
>> While I won't be able to convince most of my friends or family to keep their own files for all of their valued content, since it can be a difficult hassle for nontechnical users

This IMHO is what should be a priority for someone - the FSF or EFF I dont know. The reason people keep handing over their freedom is often convenience. Free tools need to be as easy to setup and use as tools that take away peoples freedom.
You think an instruction with Javascript in the name, that converts JavaScript floating-point to signed fixed-point, rounding towards zero, isn't used when parsing JSON?
The signature verification part was dropped by court. And to be honest I don't understand why.
> Also, the ones that are placed over "bare land" have killed life that was there on that land before the panels stole the energy that used to hit the land there.

There's also evidence that the shade they provide reduced loss of water in a similar way as trees would.
My answer to this is to look at it this way. We’ve been running nuclear power for over fifty years, exposed to these very concerns you have of regulatory capture and humans at the controls, and it’s still over that time proven to be the safest form of electricity. So the experiment has been done and the conclusion is really: nuclear power is safer than other forms in spite of regulatory conditions or humans.
Let's take this even further. It may be technically possible to build an inherently safe nuclear reactors.

But what about Terrorism ? War ? Unstable political regimes ?

All that over centuries.

How do we protect ourselves against those risks ?
Will it be cost effective then? It's already pretty marginal.
Dispersal is a well studied problem: https://fas.org/programs/bio/chemweapons/delivery.html

But to simplify, cluster mutinous are more effective vs troops than a single large detonation. Similarly, rather than starting from a single source you want to spread the weapon from a large number of points. By comparison to 7mg/m3 a 1 metric ton weapon could ideally cover a square kilometer to a thickness of 30m and concentration of 30mg/m3.

Notably, exposure time plays a major role in lethality so covering a wider area makes it much harder to escape from.
How I pick coding side projects that keep me motivated to learn
I worked on torsion balances, gravity measurements, and gravity gradiometers for my PhD. Getting just a factor-of-two increase in sensitivity is significant--getting 4-5 orders of magnitude better would be incredible and also next to impossible, given the other factors to account for.

The author considers environmental gravitational noise, but you have to also consider that any movement of the instrument in a non-uniform gravitational field will create a signal. If you consider Earth as a perfect sphere, the gravitational signal of a B-2 that the author considers is equivalent to the change in gravity from a vertical displacement of 0.2nm. This is about the size of a water molecule. Vertical stability at that level is unachievable.
I've never seen a project or company killed by tech debt. I've seen projects and companies killed by obsessive-compulsively trying to eliminate it. YMMV
Time to revive GitTorrent? https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
I'd probably say pygame which repl.it now has support for. It's pretty slick and works on a crappy school ChromeBook. For "regular" gui stuff I'd say PySimpleGUI (see my earlier comment above/below).
Sure, but to call it early requires a blow out.
It's important not to let our biases get in the way here. Clearly, it was Satya who turned Microsoft around. Ballmer had the opportunity for years and did nothing as the stock prices clearly show.

Since Satya took over, MSFT stock has been soaring... You can't deny the evidence. That's 100% clear
By serious I meant large indeed, I’m not a native speaker. I have some serious projects that have less than 180 packages too aha.

But if you start an ambitious company with a JS codebase today, start with yarn v2, you’ll save yourself some pain in the future.
Does it really matter what they said?

This is like the reverse of those common disclaimers on hacking tools and tutorials which claim:

This is for educational use only.

I've always wondered, are courts fooled by such disclaimers? Are their authors untouchable just because they put in some boilerplate disclaimer like that?

As for what was written in some code somewhere in the repo, it could have been written by anyone, even an RIAA plant who contributed that trojan horse to the project.

What makes anyone think what was said there is endorsed by or even representative of the views of the rest of the authors of youtube-dl or is what youtube-dl is for?

God, it pisses me off to no end to think that I'm going to be forced to use youtube's piece of shit, slow, ad-infested, tacker-infested, feature-poor, non-automatable browser interface.

But, after taking a few deep breaths, I think within a year there'll be multiple alternatives to youtube-dl which will all bear disclaimers that they are "for educational purposes only" and that they in no way endorse copyright infringement.
> I wonder how many Qanon believers are hate-filed extremists, people going through mental health issues, or just edgy kids/teenagers.

There are enough who are simply run-of-the-mill angry white men to be terrifying.
Yet another reason you should host outside the US no matter the legality.
Working with large amounts of files or analyzing the content of large files. Not only will you be faster in glueing commands together with pipes but tools like find, grep, sed, awk, cut and so on will also perform much much better than interpreted languages.

Also, I'd never prefer using the stdlib of Python/Ruby/etc for system commands like cp/chmod etc. It takes way more boilerplate code than a oneliner.
Devtools for Your Reducer
There is a misconception that the Redux devtools can only be used with Redux. For those who want to use the same reducer pattern with all the benefits of Redux devtools.

I just published my first npm module so you can have devtools with any reducer function that respects the flux architecture. Basically Redux devtools without Redux.

You can use it with React's useReducer or even vanillaJS, just implement the reducer pattern.

Feel free to have a look or give a star if you find it useful.
Oh, of course. Sigh. Thanks.
Err, presumably the product still works for existing customers?
All the better for Youtube to control their content creators more.
Saving videos
Basically a perfect description of the problem.

Seems to me the default is obviously getting things wrong whether that be over or under engineering.

How would one go about reliably making choices that strike exactly the right balance consistently?

One thing I'm starting to really internalize is that to do so requires a deep understanding of software engineering as a domain, the domain and existing system, and the technical vectors in the business.
The button doesn't exist, but apparently they do have a link that lets you download the video, it is just obfuscated. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874277>
Not counting the kid's books, I have about 1600 books in the house, and every time I read another kindle-style invidious story about forced changes after purchase, I buy more paper. I actually prefer reading on a screen, and someday, it'll be safe to do so.
No, you use some non-renewables to make solar panels, which then - over their lifetime - replace more non-renewable energy than they cost to make.
Jacob Collier can be accurate to a few cents, microtonal or not (I assume he thinks in terms of offset to the nearest ET pitch)
Blood & Magic (2015)
I think the author of this article may find that meditation might help them in proving their premise, without the need of a brain injury.
I think its possible to start a consulting / services / freelance style business without cofounders and with mental health issues. Don't expect to start the next disruptive startup without putting in a lot of time to develop mental resilience and learn to collaborate better with other people. But if all you want is to be free and run your own business, then yeah, definitely possible.
wow this straight up sounds like the best solution by far since who knows if microsoft or google is willing to put up a fight
Latest Lazard LCOE (Levelized cost of energy) report actually showed that the building new of the cheapest onshore wind is lower than marginal cost of running existing nuclear plants. It also showed that PV+Storage, though with their defined amount, can compete to nuclear new builds.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2019
Lend the Community a Hand. A Clean One
Many of his video game or (current, pop) cultural references seem to stem from the challenges he faces teaching students for whom these references are their only exposure to pre-modern ideas.

But they are fun. :)
There was never a high-level plan to deprecate Gecko for Servo, nor C++ for Rust.
Do you think GitHub automatically enforces these against forks? I wonder how long this will stay up. https://github.com/iameli/youtube-dl
Not perfect pitch, but I play a fretless instrument. I learned to map specific intervals to songs.

minor 2nd : Jaws
major 2nd : Frere Jacques
...

Now every time I hear an interval these things enter my brain.
Exactly, Satya Nadella is an awesome leader. Who is to say Tim Cook could have taken all these difficult challenges which MSFT was facing at the time? It's 100% speculation.
>But it would benefit the people of that state

But that doesn't matter because the specific individuals who would have to enact is are just as much if not more beholden to their party than to the the people.

I agree with what you said about changing the parties policies though.
If Biden wins Florida, Biden has very likely won the whole election, but if Trump wins Florida it becomes a toss-up. So I think we’ll only know the result early if it’s Biden.
Absolutely, but this seems hard to attain. For-profit tools inherently have millions (or billions) of dollars to put into not only improving their UX, but also into advertising and making their product viral, sometimes at the cost of users (e.g. data harvesting).

I'm not sure who really has enough money, drive, and talent, to be able to do this but with free software.
The community was very welcoming to all people, until the SJW moved in and started to tell others to get out.
No, this is silly, it's like Second Life or something else, it's only ever going to be used by Extremely Online people who will never pay a cent for the infra needed to run it or for the coders, and it will sap away at the important part of what Mozilla is doing.

> there are numerous monetization opportunities that naturally arise from this effort

if you want an internet which consists of poorly rendered VRML-looking crap that bothers you for micropayments continuously, ok, sure, but most of us really want something that keeps the big FAANG types honest, and Firefox is one of the keystones of that effort.
It's relatively new in the mainstream of compiler's, i.e. MSVC only got SSA in its backend 5 years ago or so.

I think Appel wrote a paper comparing SSA to functional programming way back in the 90s.
I wish I could remember where I saw it, but somewhere someone had the data on Mercedes options. The illuminated logo was most popular on the cheapest models; least popular on the E-class station wagon, which while not cheap, is far from their most expensive.
So when was this pinnacle of education, out of curiosity? It's interesting you mention meritocracy, considering how classist education has always been