skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It stands up to legal scrutiny, and Betamax case is not applicable.

They have these things called "streaming licenses" these days, that are very different from "download licenses" because streamed data is not the same thing as a downloaded file even if they both use the same codec and are derived from the same source.
There are alternatives. Last time I checked OpenBSD uses BSD_Auth; not PAM.
GitHub has voluntarily complied with this (bad IMHO) law. If that were true, and frivolous requests were being made and dismissed routinely, then GitHub might curb their voluntary "compliance" machine. Is that actually happening, or are you trying to argue that it's a slippery slope?

If bad complaints are not dismissed by the courts, then it's a really bad law, or a bad court. That is a problem for GitHub, granted. If you are shopping for a source code hosting service that will insulate you from such DMCA claims, then sure, GitHub has just shown they won't do that. I guess!

I'm not sure that will have any measurable impact on their business model. They were never to my knowledge in the business of providing that kind of protection, before or after Microsoft.
sure. but their post analysis says that national polling in 2016 was CLOSER than 2012. and state polls were even closer - but there weren't as many as this cycle

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-real-story-of-2016/

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-are-all-right...
you too.
I remember the 90s just fine, but i think MS also knows that they lucked out on the antitrust rulings with getting their fingers slapped. Also on top of it Gates isn't there in charge to be ruthless any more (and the competitors today knows the things to watch out for).

But more importantly than all that... MS knows they aren't competing with other companies per-se but rather ecosystems, open source and developer mindshare. If we don't like it we can fork off things and go on our way (like developers did during the Ballmer era despite him jumping around chanting developers....).

Windows isn't even the most used personal OS today, Android is.

Funnily enough thanks to MS in part, not because they sabotaged Nokia (Many N insiders have spoken about how dysfunctional and unfocused their management was even before MS came into the picture), But rather because they fucked over their enthusiastic WinPhone7 users, retailers and devs with WP8 not supporting the prev generation of devices and API's changing.

WP7 had a far snapper and easier to understand UI than contemporary Android devices, but once they dropped the WP8 news the old devices just lay on shelves and sellers who had bet on WP7 selling were left with un-sellable devices and didn't feel like buying a new batch to see it happen again.
There have also been near misses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis%E2%80%93Besse_Nuclear_Po...

Had that liner perforated, high pressure fluid from the core would have jetted straight up into the control rod mechanisms.

(and that was just the fifth most serious event at the time since 1979, the first being the TMI accident in 1979.)
Yeah, that's not a bad idea. I've not come across any, but sure they'd be sourceable if specifically looked for.
Every place on the Internet that has free speech becomes nazi. Make of that what you want.
I wrote the story behind Mozilla Hubs a few months ago for anyone wondering “Why is Mozilla working on this?”

https://medium.com/@gfodor/the-path-to-mozilla-hubs-2697e635...

Also here is a talk I gave on the reasons social VR is important to work on for anyone who cares about a healthy Internet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5w8xbeCc2Q
By this argument, nothing is zero emissions and the phrase zero emissions is worthless.

The process of nuclear fission is zero-carbon (unlike combustion) and the lifecycle carbon emissions for nuclear are 12 gCO2-eq/kWh compared to 40 for solar, 490 for fracked natural gas, and 820 for coal.

It's easier and meaningful in my opinion to just call nuclear zero carbon.
I doubt that includes every transcoded rendition of every one of your videos. And I don't think they probably store source videos in the original format in most cases? Hard to say for sure.
Assessing tech debt is basically my job these days, as I'm an architecture and infrastructure consultant for technical due diligence on acquisitions, mostly by PE firms. Some fun things you might not know from the field of technical due diligence:

- Your startup is much more likely to succeed by being purchased by a private equity fund than anything else these days. Most tech acquisitions are now PE, like over 75% of big ones. (Even up to north of a billion)

- The PE fund will send a diligence team. Depending on who they hire, your diligence team could be clueless consultants with checklists, or they could be real hackers who will look at your code, ask all the hard questions, and know a lot about tech debt. They will talk to you for many hours about tech debt. We typically interview for 12 hours and ask for a lot of metrics and docs. We do this for a living, so we're pretty good at sniffing out BS and knowing how to get devs to talk about their software realistically. Most devs are pretty happy to talk shop once they know we are actually developers who have been through the same process ourselves. Sometimes I feel like it's more like Developer Therapy. :-)

- If you have bad tech debt, it won't necessarily sink a deal. Deals usually go through or not on other reasons, like business model revenue numbers - stuff that can't be fixed with the application of cash. However, we make a table for them of estimated cost to mitigate debt, and that can be serious cash. (i.e. X extra senior devs and QA for Y months/years)

- This cash will come off the price. Or as Amazon apparently puts it... "a haircut". A haircut can easily run over a million on even a small company. So the money saved on devs for the years of accruing debt just comes off the acquisition price, but with a terrible interest rate.

Also of interest: we don't actually say it's always bad. We differentiate between intentional and unintentional debt. If you accrued debt to get to market quickly and are then doubling back to attend to it reasonably, that can be a very smart decision and may actually reflect well on the assessment. On the other, debt accrued because the founders only hired interns and new grads and let them run the asylum for years does not.

If I were to encapsulate in one sentence what I've learnt about tech debt in the last two years and 50 odd companies examined it would be this: nobody saves money by trying to hire mostly junior developers. Nope nope nope nope nope. If you are running a start up, you need at least a couple of six figure salary, 5+ years experience devs, and a CTO or lead architect with like 10+ years or who really, really knows their stuff. Do not cheap out on this! At a guess, I'd say it's the most obvious differentiator between the hits and the really big haircuts. That said, I only look at companies who have gotten pretty far, so the main differentiator is likely different at early VC stage. We're basically doing the first exit, and if we're talking to you, you have a successful business that some professional big time investors want in on.

Hope that's of interest to some folks! :-)
Youtube-dlc has merged a lot of youtube-dl's outstanding PRs, i remember -dlc being 350 commits/7 behind -dl some 2 or 3 days ago. So definitely base the fork off *-dlc
To use an analogy to get at the point I think he is making, a bunch of medieval peasants reading the bible and nothing else isn't what we would call literacy.

And I know the immediate response is that, in fact, those things are what lead to actual literacy, etc, etc. But the point I'm trying to make is that using prepacked apps, on a locked down device, in exactly the way the developer intends you to, to create content that you irrevocably license to the corporation that created the app isn't "tech literacy" any more than memorizing the bible and never reading anything else is what we would "written literacy".

Most people use tech in an entirely consumptive manner, and again, we wouldn't call someone who can only read but not write, literate. A person who can't use tech to empower themselves outside of the predefined forms set by the companies that made their devices is not tech literate, even though they may navigate those forms with great speed and fluidity.
Okay, to be fair, cost-effective SSTOs would be possible with the 50x strength/weight ratio increase you get from molecular nanotechnology. That particular example doesn't require 4 to 5 orders.
TOS don't really have any legal power, and you don't even have to accept TOS to use youtube-dl, so I guess the worst they could do would be to deny you service.
>In letter this month, Facebook says the project violates provisions in its terms of service that prohibit bulk data collection

I thought people asked for these restrictions after Cambridge Analytica. Are they evil now? :^)
Apple lost its way when they shoved Scott Forstall out the door for refusing to take the blame for the Apple Maps debacle. Apple has been gliding on the backs of Steve's vision since then and they're terrified to make any wrong decision. That's why they overlap generations of products as they don't have a clue what will succeed.
> The fact that copyrighted works were included in the readme shows it was intended for that use

How could that be true? if the YouTube link in the test case was a video of farmer on his truck would that show it is intended for that use? No. YouTube dl is made to download any YouTube videos it has not been made to download specifically Taylor Swift music videos, it just has just been picked as a test case as any other YouTube videos could have been
Or maybe not: How does this connect with General Relativity and GPS? As predicted by Einstein's theory, clocks under the force of gravity run at a slower rate than clocks viewed from a distant region experiencing weaker gravity. This means that clocks on Earth observed from orbiting satellites run at a slower rate. To have the high precision needed for GPS, this effect needs to be taken into account or there will be small differences in time that would add up quickly, calculating inaccurate positions.
Modeled in Rhino, everything else done in Maya.
From a technical point of view it's fairly basic, bit of work tho. This one needs a bit of an update, and got a couple other bits of tech on the list for same...
I request that the mods remove comments like this, which are obviously being offered in bad faith when they include deliberate misspellings like "etherium" in a petty attempt to aggravate a specific group of people.
Does it solve data-binding? From what I've understood of WC it's about making developing customized elements saner?
We might as well ban screen shots because it can illegally reproduce photography stills. /s
Sure, youtube-dl could be hosted on TOR, but how many of its users will follow it to TOR?

The RIAA would score a great victory if it could essentially force youtube-dl development to go underground.
Sure, that seems reasonable, although likely a different mechanism than the one I’m talking about, which seems to come from early life language acquisition. I think when people discuss absolute pitch, this is the type they have in mind, because using tinnitus is still using a reference tone. I believe there were early theories for absolute pitch around this idea (that those with absolute pitch used tinnitus to help them identify tones), but they have been made obsolete by more recent knowledge.

I have tinnitus as well, and while it is very mild, I am surprised at the idea it can be ‘stable’ enough to form a basis for absolute pitch. Most of the time I don’t experience it as a pitch layered on top of all other sounds. Even if I focus on it, it doesn’t feel like a sound that can be given a clear singular tone, if that makes sense. I do know experience of tinnitus varies, so perhaps there are forms that are more capable.
Do you (does anyone?) have a projection for what the popular vote would be if we had a popular election? You'd need to make a lot of assumptions about voter behavior, of course, but it would be a lot more interesting than adding the votes as cast in the various state elections.
Is there reason to be "terrified" of climate change? The scientific consensus forecasts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that the risks we face are manageable, and we have decades to prepare mitigation measures like improved flood management and forest management. Certainly we would like to avoid these outcomes if possible, but I don't see a reason it should keep you up at night any more than other government policy questions.

https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
They asked volunteers to install a browser extension to collect the data for them. So technically aren't they bulk collecting their volunteers' data, not Facebook's?

We really need a law/court case that establishes who owns data and who has permission to share it. The volunteers should be allowed to share whatever they want.
I hate everything there is to hate about CPAN. I also hate how Perl libraries are handled. I have to have like 5 lines of code related to it in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile. Bleh. Perl libraries are always a problem when I want my program to run on other machines. No thank you.
Let me know where I can mine a kilo of sunlight, and when you've got a container I can put it in.

Opining that energy density isn't a useful metric is silly to the point of disingenuousness.
The Pandemic Turned My Parents into Day Traders
Suppose you're calibrated to an G1 on 49Hz. You get exposed to a wave at 61.25Hz. Do you consider it to be a B ?
For me, the major third on a piano sounds different ('off') from where I imagine it to be.
It was grossly overhyped by a government trying to make trillions (current dollars) spent on nuclear weaponry not seem such an egregious drain on humanity. That it would crash back to Earth as the hype and groupthink met reality was inevitable.
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I'm of the opinion that going after the places these people are known to congregate is a bad idea. It pushes them underground, and strengthens their bubble more than even Youtube's or Facebook's algorithms can accomplish. I agree that there is a problem here, but I don't think isolating them more is the solution.

My friend's wife went off the rails on the flat earth conspiracy. Thankfully, it's mostly benign as far as conspiracies go. She got in with a certain crowd and started cutting ties with those that gave her grief about it, or that she thought might. She knew the truth, the government was covering it up, etc. It was only through the actions of her husband, patiently bringing up questions and referring to science and hearing her out over a long period of time, that she came clean that she had finally come to the conclusion that she was wrong.

The quote about "sunlight being the best disinfectant" has some truth to it.
I was thinking the same thing. Man I miss VB6.

For rapidly prototyping an idea, I have yet to find anything that was as good as VB6. Drag a button, write code. Want to change things about the button? Use properties, that live update the GUI without recompiling. It was so simple that a reasonably intelligent person could grasp it in an afternoon, but in the hands of a capable developer could do some very impressive things.

It was also a fun game to hunt for OCX controls that you could use in things that were downloaded or came on random disks or CDs.

I really feel like VB6 was the peak of that development model and we've been moving away from it since. And I get some of the reasons why (just look at the mess that comes from trying to do anything with Xcode storyboards and version control.) But for just rapidly trying out an idea, I have yet to find anything anywhere that was as good as VB6 was.
There is a lot of CC0 content on youtube that exists so you can download it, like stock video, sounds, background videos etc. How are we going to dowload those now?

Also couldn't the youtub-dl team claim that the whole "drm video download test" was a security test?
1. It's usually just standard off the shelf items. Square steel tube, steel rope, turnbuckles, thimbles, D clamps, cable clamps.

2. Modeled in Rhino, everything else in Maya. I've not used Blender but I hear good things.

3. Not directly, but I'm a fan.
I certainly don't agree with these people but isn't this what they've always done?

The church views the poor and those with health issues as people they can "help". This is how it has always been and they are entirely open about it. So I'd say this is kind of a non story.
I have a friend who's a trumpet player who has it. He can lay in bed and write out an arrangement, whereas most of us mere mortals would need to reference a piano or a guitar.

Other than that, it's mostly a cool parlor trick. The best story I've heard of someone who had it is that of Woody Shaw, the great jazz trumpet player. A piano player tried to test him on it once, and played a bunch of different chord voicings -- Woody correctly identified all the notes in each of them. Then, to up the challenge, the piano player played a random cluster of notes. Woody listed them all out, and the piano player replied, "Wrong," thinking he had finally stumped him. Then Woody replied, "Now take every note I just said down by a half step." Of course, Woody got them all right, and everybody's mind was blown.
Notes on the Evolution of Trust (2017)
Is there any chance that someone could sue them for filing illegitimate claims?
But the metric says nothing about availability. I'm just taking the metric at face value, and showing that it is absurd.
I've worked with several startup founders and a few early engineers who told me they'd been clinically diagnosed with mental health problems.

Generally I've noticed that an unfunded, stressful startup environment magnifies their existing problems.

Some suggestions to avoid a breakdown:

- wait for the right time to begin your own startup (get funding based on a powerpoint first, start a popular blog or podcast to have PR traction before writing any software, get caught up at the dentist, buy a new car if needed, see if any medication is needed/works for you, etc.)

- or join an early but funded startup

- understand that startups are usually 7-10 year marathons before the final success or failure, so you need to be able to keep it together for several years. That includes maintaining the best physical and mental health you can so you can handle inevitable setbacks. Even if you're an introvert, that includes relationships.

Starting your own company to "escape" civilization usually doesn't make sense unless you can self-fund it for several years, or your existing contacts can quickly be paying clients.

What happens when you're not prepared is that paranoia will dominate your relationships, depression will deepen, etc. so your startup marathon doesn't have a chance of finishing.

Having said that, manic people can accomplish a lot during their manic phases, but to sustain that over several years means they need to follow the preparation above.

If you're a non-technical founder, understand that engineers are very expensive to make payroll (which adds to your stress), and have options (don't really need you or other mentally ill people in their life.) So ensure you have adequate runway, or structure your staff relationships, so that you don't stall your project.

Also, in the US, ensure you've considered health insurance expenses before doing the startup thing. Most small businesses struggle with that, and it gets worse every Jan. 1.
Yes, this is totally on the money. This is exactly what we want to see when assessing tech debt on an acquisition assessment (I do tech diligence for acquisitions). If you do it for good reasons, and you track it, and you proactively allocate resources on an ongoing basis or make tech debt remediation a first class road map item, it's not a problem, it might even be a good thing. If you wracked it up playing fast and loose and being all "go fast and break things", it could cost you the deal, or millions of dollars off the deal price.
Sheer as in "unmitigated" and shear as in sheep

But I agree with this, except for python
According to Vyacheslav Grishin of the Chernobyl Union, 25,000 of the Russian liquidators are dead and 70,000 disabled, about the same in Ukraine, and 10,000 dead in Belarus and 25,000 disabled"

Which makes a total of 60,000 dead and 165,000 disabled (by now).

The organisation Médecins pour la prévention de la guerre nucléaire estimated that 10,000 babies had born in Europe with malformations attributable to Chernobyl, and 5,000 sucklings died by the effects of radiation.

The "but just 31 people died" statement, that conveniently forgets about the long and middle term health effects suffered, or about the effects on babies and pregnant women, is incredibly disrespectful for the victims.
This is one of the more egregious titles I've seen allowed to stay up on HN. Not only is it biased, it's not even clear what it means.
Birds don't fly into this for the same reason they don't fly into chimneys; it's a fairly solid shape that they can see.

Horizontal axis turbines are more dangerous as the blades are thinner and fast moving.
Does crop failure, both from temperatures and loss of pollinators, famine, and civil unrest terrify you? It terrifies me.
Tldr all these comments - youtube dl got in trouble because they link to copyrighted material in the readme which from a legal perspective shows intent to circumvent copyright. If they had just linked to videos they had uploaded themselves as examples everything would be fine.
The embeded js that YouTube provides gives your browser the link in clear.
Yeah, it is kind of on purpose, not sure should I fix it.
Thank you for the reference of the "Cassandra" metaphor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_(metaphor)

It's something which I have struggled with. Not that I think my ideas are all prophetic, or ignored/misunderstood, but that in the past some of my ideas have been prophetic but ignored, until some point in time where they were validated to be true. With that being a possibility, I struggle to know whether or not an idea that I feel strongly about, but is misunderstood or discounted, whether or not it should be discounted or discarded. It's hard to know what the right thing to do is when you are pretty confident that you're right, but you know you could just simply be wrong.

It's mostly about trying to figure myself out that I'm bewildered, not issues that apply to society at large. But even in that limited domain, I'm still gripped by analysis paralysis for that reason.
I'm always fascinated in the assumptions underlying some of these proposals, and how little thought they've given to the problem. For example, the complete disregard for the lives or autonomy of the "replacement crew", who are effectively treated as a consumable resource starting from childhood.

Science fiction set on generation ships tends to be extremely gloomy for good reason.
http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/800867-how-do-i-put-my-...
Sure I did! Just read my previous comments. No need for us to be repetitive here :)
Ask HN: Why Pinterest's market cap is 15x Yelp's?
Pinterest's market cap is about 30bn, but Yelp's is 1.5bn. That's 15x. I know many people who regularly use Yelp, but I know of zero users of Pinterest. At the same time I read stuff like https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/hejbl0/lpt_when_using_google_add_pinterest_sans_quotes/

which tells me they are essentially Google-bombing. Is there traffic real?