skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is YOUR politically biased vision of how medicare and social security should work. It is not how the system currently works.

I'm not against moving to such a system, but it cannot be applied selectively to a couple few companies that would profit from it (in this case Uber, Lyft, Doordash etc).

Uber and Lyft are unprofitable by design. They are only profitable if you don't account for the huge driver's incentives and other users promotions that are always written off as a "one time thing". (I looked at Uber's financials).

If they want to become profitable, they need to increase price and most users would stop using it all together. They don't want to go this way as it would instantly make the stock tank.
I usually avoid scripting in bash or sh and use python instead on the linux side. But yea, powershell is a pretty solid shell and seems more intuitive than bash/sh. The object oriented part is pretty awesome and lets you introspect objects easily so you know what kind of properties and methods are available.
We don't know the mechanism, but we have hints. Surprisingly enough, relative pitch is the one most unique to humans. Birds have perfect pitch, and can fail to recognize a song if it's pitch-shifted by even a small amount. And we know what the signals are that come off of the cochlea (and we can even emulate them with a cochlear implant). So what's different is something in the way the brain processes the sounds, and to my knowledge, out of the millions of highly trained musicians there are in this world, none of them has developed perfect pitch outside of childhood.
Why can't we take a fair use copy? That is not a violation of copyright.

That's not covered under "Fair Use": see [1] for fair-use criteria. It is definitely a violation of copyright, yea.

[1] http://fairusetube.org/guide-to-youtube-removals/3-deciding-...
The text of the DMCA and cases based on it.

Once the infringing use has been established, it doesn't matter that there is also the potential for legitimate fair use. If it did, then Napster, Kazaa, and Limewire would still be around because they all had the potential for legitimate fair use.
Interesting, it sounds like in this case it's mostly a good problem to have - even ensuring all voices are heard is good, from a sound engineering perspective, which I'd imagine is important for NASA's missions!

I wonder if there would be a benefit in your case if folks had to follow a similar process to the one Amazon requires for its meetings (this may be something NASA already does, but I will admit I'm projecting a bit here and am wishing my organization required some writing before calling for a meeting):

> We don’t do PowerPoint (or any other slide-oriented) presentations at Amazon. Instead, we write narratively structured six-page memos. We silently read one at the beginning of each meeting in a kind of “study hall.” Not surprisingly, the quality of these memos varies widely. Some have the clarity of angels singing. They are brilliant and thoughtful and set up the meeting for high-quality discussion. Sometimes they come in at the other end of the spectrum.

> ...

> Here’s what we’ve figured out. Often, when a memo isn’t great, it’s not the writer’s inability to recognize the high standard, but instead a wrong expectation on scope: they mistakenly believe a high-standards, six-page memo can be written in one or two days or even a few hours, when really it might take a week or more! They’re trying to perfect a handstand in just two weeks, and we’re not coaching them right. The great memos are written and re-written, shared with colleagues who are asked to improve the work, set aside for a couple of days, and then edited again with a fresh mind. They simply can’t be done in a day or two. The key point here is that you can improve results through the simple act of teaching scope – that a great memo probably should take a week or more.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312518...
Parent poster wasn't just talking about aggregate data; they want to see what their acquaintances are seeing. Should we also force disclosure of what petitioners are saying? What about individual phone calls regarding political matters? Party newsletters?
I could tell the difference between them if you play them back to back. But if I woke up in the morning and listened to one of them, I wouldn't be able to tell you whether it was the one in C or the one in Db.

Not sure if there are recordings like this, but you could use GarageBand, Audacity, or the like to pitch-shift a recording without changing the tempo.
I agree regarding VB6.

What are your thoughts about winforms? Seems pretty similar, no?
YT Music sucks and I just cancelled it yesterday (signed up for Google Play Music was was great).

Google Play Music has the best recommendation tech.

YT Music (and Spotify) have very poor recommendation tech.

Examples:

Spotify Playlist "Morning Pickup"

First song is someone depressed they know they should break up but can't yet do it. Second song is about someone longing for their ex while in their current relationship. Maybe I interpreted this wrong. I assumed "Morning Pickup" was supposed to be music played to "pick me up", make me ready for the day, in other words, happy or inspiring music. Instead it could have just meant music promoted this morning.

Spotify: Prince (Radio)

Spotify plays rap. AFAIK that's a racist suggestion. Prince had nothing to do with rap. The only connection is that he's African American.

Youtube Music: Song "Fuck you till your Groove" by Jill Jones (radio)

Youtube plays "Such a Shame" by Talk Talk and "All Night Long" by Lionel Richie as suggested followup songs!?! WTFBBQ!!

Youtube Music: Swingrowers (Radio) (this is a Swing or Electro-Swing group)

Youtube plays "Bliss on Mushrooms" by Infected Mushroom

Youtube Music: Prince (Radio)

Youtube plays "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" by Whitney Houston, "Inspector Horse" by Todd Terge, A bunch of Micheal Jackson, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" by Santa Esmeralda, "Heart of Glass" by Blondie. Those all of next to nothing to do with Prince.

Youtube Music: Depeche Mode (Radio)

Youtube plays "Call on Me" by Eric Prydz
> Perl's references are basically pointers. ... This is really a huge, unnecessary wart in the language.

Call me crazy :), but I count this as a pro for perl! It makes thinking about data structures in perl very "regular" for me.. there's a few rules to learn, but then I find it simple to construct (or de-construct) nested data structures while applying those rules. As opposed to other scripting languages, where the difference between "value" and "reference" frequently seems to be more hidden from sight...
What's a javascript console? Sounds like a hacker tool, off to prison with him.
How Spotify organises work in figma to improve collaboration
Man Rust seems like it’s really on fire at the lower levels right now, like it’s gonna replace C.
Bitrate isn't everything in audio — MP3 (which Google Play Music uses) is a much older format compared to AAC.

I like Hydrogen Audio for theory and comparisons: https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Hydrogenaudio_Li...
The extractors directory had 765 extractors in it, only one of which is YouTube. The facts seem cherry-picked to support their case (well duh). Hopefully that will matter. Given that youtube is a tenth of a percent of the extractors maybe there's hope.

FWIW, it's easy to find the code on Google. The release tarballs have the format youtube-dl-YYYY.MM.DD.tar.gz and one can look in the Homebrew Cellar, for example and see there was a release on 2020.09.20. ;)
>What other people are seeing is public discourse

advertisement is part of public discourse, in particular political advertisement.
What "binary blob patches" are you referring to?

FWIW, if I wanted to confirm whether an "unplugged" package had been modified, I'd just download the original tarball from NPM, extract it, and diff the two folders.
It's interesting you should mention that, because successful female models are orders of magnitude lower status today than they were 25 years ago. Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford, and Tyra Banks, to name a few, were massively high status, on the level of professional athletes and movie stars. Nowadays, not so much.
An even stronger, still accurate phrasing, would be to say the volunteers are telling the researchers what ads they see on Facebook. The browser extension is just a tool, doing the bidding of the volunteers, to make that sharing easier.

Facebook is essentially saying we're not allowed to talk to each-other ("in bulk") about what ads Facebook is showing us. Not the first time corporations try to prevent consumers/users/workers from organizing.
Somebody please, please make an equivalent to Tullio.jl for Rust ... by far the easiest way to write custom kernels
Probably means (A(text) XOR C(text)) or something. Then you would need to find a collision in both algorithms for the same input and that will be arguably much harder.

I.e. just because someone demonstrates a lack of knowledge in his/her post, you can still show some flexibility for positive interpretation ;).
The whole animal deaths from windmills is a misinformation campaign

Cats kill 900M birds a year, windows 200M a year, cell towers 7M a year, oil fields 1M a year

Windmills kill ~300k a year and that can be reduced 70% by painting one blade black

And you know what else kills birds and animals more? Climate change ..
The playlists behavior (once they finally let us import them) isn't great, so I've been using the "Your Mix" feature a lot. It's pretty good, but there are a couple songs I've Thumbs Downed that keep popping up in my mix anyway.

Bad UI + incredibly simple, stupid things like that drive me crazy. Google Music wasn't great, but it was far better tha YouTube Music.
I'm not scared of nuclear, but I'm terrified of climate change.

I’ve said this before. It’s not one or the other. The fallout of climate change is potentially so catastrophic, you need to spend the money on nuclear anyway. You have to double down just in case renewables don’t pan out 100% the way we hope. You want to spend the money to maximise the chances of a working solution.

Think of it like COVID vaccine trials. We’re spending money on multiple vaccine candidates in parallel.
Different incentive structure in Chernobyl; still fucked up.

Given a large enough number of chances, people will fuck up. The fallout from nuclear fuckups is just too big to risk it.
This excellent! Thank you this. Love it.
Assuming there's one Product Team at Google? ha!
I do not care if you choose to live in a single family home or a unit in a multi family building. The issue that we have is that "single family zoning" where the maximum density allowed on a plot of land is a single house is a land use pattern that it is a government restriction that subsidizes homes for the well off at the expense of everyone else. In a world in which central city land that is currently zoned SFHs is rezoned for multi family dwellings, the price of SFHs would rise to meet the true demand, while the price of a "living unit" in the area would fall due to the land required per dwelling unit decreasing.
> Many of the victims from the area, also called Black Wall Street, are thought to have been buried in mass graves, but there are few recordds that exist from the massacre or the burials.

Just in case your first exposure was from a different source, people started saying "black lives matter" because of the instances where people acted callously or apathetic towards the lives of black people, and the centuries of history in the Americas that are congruent with and reinforce that reality continuing now.

It has since been assigned to a faction and movement that has very little to do with the point of why people are saying it.

Hope that helps someone! There are a lot of people that think this came out of the blue and interpret the chants as an impending pogrom putting some people's lives above others, but that is a distortion that is furthest from the truth.
This seems qualitatively different compared to Cambridge Analytica. CA used app permissions to gather data not just from the users who used the app, but also their contacts which enabled them to build up a database that covered a good chunk of the US.

The researchers here, as per the article, used 6500 volunteers to collect ads that Facebook explicitly showed to them, apparently without the use of any API or unwilling participants.
Ha, I remember my days trying to get friends and family to use Google services only to have them shutdown. No more. I tell them to stay far, far away from anything Google.
China's a tough problem so America shrugs and gives up.

What a defeatist attitude...but I expect nothing less from weak people that vote for/support a weak man.

We managed to absolutely crush CFCs in the late 80's and reverse the damage that we were doing to the Ozone layer. Only in Trump's America is America relegated to a non-actor on the world stage...and he did it by choice.
Millions of customers - including many not in the US. He couldn’t even be assed enough to at least segment his client list before spamming them...(said as an Aussie who received his email)
The footnotes appear to be missing from the text files, but are present in the RTFs.
I use Plex to store my TV, Movies, and Music. One nice feature is that you can have your own music AND integrate Tidal to augment your music collection. It works pretty well.
Interesting, I didn't know that it had the tools to work with the myriad different device sizes and resolutions. I used it back in the day but I was just making static images to be sliced into image maps
Is there a self hosted alternative to Google Play Music? The software was an excellent free service- just not very good at making money for Google. A lot of us with music collections are running NAS- surely something can fill the void. Right now I'm using MusicBee for playing flac locally, Spotify for streaming on the go.
How to Create a Branch in GitHub
The market has already spoken on renewables + storage vs nuclear
It makes it worse because otherwise they could have argued that the README was separate from the development of the tool itself, so the tool itself wasn't intended for violating copyright.

By putting the infringing act into the code of the tool itself, they lose the ability to make that argument, and moreover show that the tool was built to infringe copyrights, because clearly they thought it was important enough to be able to infringe copyrights that they created multiple unit tests for it.

are there any greater damages that aggrieved parties could calculate than the loss of advertising revenue from my repeated viewing of that file?

The loss of advertising revenue is largely irrelevant unless the RIAA chooses to demonstrate the amount. Copyright law provides statutory damages starting at $750, and for that they just need to show a single infringing act (and for each additional act they prove, they get another $750).

What incentive is there for me to share this file in violation of copyright if anyone can download a fair use copy for themselves, with the tools provided by youtube-dl?

You're assuming a fair use case for using youtube-dl to download a copy of a licensed music video. But fair use is defense to a claim of violating copyright, so you need to show why your use is a fair use, you can't just say "fair use" as if it were a magic spell that makes your legal problems go away. And generally, it would be difficult to prove fair use for any of the content covered by an RIAA license because they make that content available for use offline, time-shifted, etc...they simply require that you pay for that.
Apple Music does have Android [1] and web [2] apps.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...

[2] https://music.apple.com/us/browse
If reports have to be believed, they’ll “clean up” fukushima by just... offloading all their shit in the ocean and hoping for the best. Reassuring. /s
Thanks. I'm surprised that there isn't something like lambda where you can just get a really fancy cpu on demand for a quick encoding job.
https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/
Cambridge Analytica got most of their data from a university researcher Aleksandr Kogan, who promised Facebook the data was being used only for academic research but was secretly handing it over to Cambridge Analytica.
This arguement honestly sounds like “we need to change the system so my side isn’t denied power”. No doubt if the situation was reversed you’d be arguing for them.
All political correspondence to the public ought be publicly accessible and publicly auditable.
Considering YouTube allows Creative-Commons licensed videos[0], how exactly do they suggest we "reuse and edit" videos, as per their own documentation? I'm not seeing any "Download video" button on a CC-licensed video's page, so... am I missing something here, or is one not forced to use a 3rd-party video download utility like youtube-dl to actually "reuse and edit" a CC-licensed video?

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797468?hl=en
Trump ran on his identity as Trump. The man successfully "built his personal brand" before that was even a thing. I don't know of an earlier example of "famous for being famous" either. He really is in a class by himself and he objectively proved that by winning the Presidency of the United States. One can actively dislike his personality and policies while still being honest enough to acknowledge his cultural impact.
Show HN: ORACLE of Blair – election model by high schoolers
Uncontrolled reactor breach and explosion, spreading core material into the atmosphere at several orders of magnitude bigger level than occurred. It actually almost occurred, it’s a major drama arc in the HBO special.

I think you may want to do some more googling.
> It feels nice knowing that it cannot be taken away from me by anyone.

One of the main reasons why I download stuff (YouTube videos/articles), so I can always revisit it whenever I want to.
EToys is pretty nice http://www.squeakland.org

It's similar to Scratch (both use drag and drop "blocks", both use Smalltalk, although I think Scratch has a JS version now). The nice thing about EToys is that it manipulates objects in a direct and live way, whereas Scratch separate the "code" from the "scene". For example, EToys lets us draw a character and attach script blocks to make it move and react; but we can also attach script blocks to those script blocks; and so on. I find this more powerful, and reduces the barrier for "graduating" from block-based programming to "real" programming (EToys lets us mix and match scripting blocks with real Smalltalk code).
When I was a kid, I had a music program on my Apple IIe that taught you the scales, and would test you on the notes. Using the speaker in the computer case. It was amusing. "Brrrrrrrr beeeeeee brrrrrr boooooooo." Ummm... A# B A# C? Correct!
> but its interesting to look back at how we got here.

Oh, please, I worked at Google as well, and this is typical Google’s inability to have attention span and coherent leadership for anything longer than 6 months. One VP did one thing, then another one another, then it turned out that it’s stupid and inconsistent. As. with. any. other. non-core product! Basically Google’s top leadership doesn’t care enough to impose coherent strategy across different divisions, and thing like this happen all the time (Android/Chrome OS, Chat/GVC/Hangouts/Allo/Duo/RCS/Meet, Gmail/Inbox, Nest/Google Home, and so on).
Could Life Evolve Inside Stars?

Cosmic strings and magnetic monopoles coming together as the "DNA" of this theorized exotic life form.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNK5oahmw3I&ab_channel=PBSSp...
Remember that we need to put all the carbon we added to the atmosphere since the 1800’s, which will take more energy than we generated during that time window (ignoring some one time bonuses, like planting trees and olivine).
I am working on a project that does this. Its still got a ways to go though

https://mstream.io
I do hope they fail, but regardless I think your analysis here is completely off base.

The intent or action taken in this case is the creation, maintenance, and publication of the tool itself. At issue isn't the intent of any particular end user, or even the majority of end users, but rather of the authors themselves.

To the best of my knowledge, it simply does not matter how the tool is used in practice. AFAIK, all that matters is the intent of the authors in creating and distributing it.
Better get cracking then.
Oh? No kidding? I think my TrueNAS machine has a way to setup Plex pretty easily. Maybe I'll give that a shot this weekend. That machine incidentally already has all my old lossless CD rips on it as an archive from before I uploaded them all to Google.

Thanks for the tip!
How come there are many countries with 100% renewable then?
Big, small, rich, poor; we have many examples of different characteristics and still we get the nuclear vs coal debate as those were the only options.
Is it really that expensive, how come 3rd world countries can afford it?
I think it's more about politics than feasibility.
The Cautionary Tale of Adam Neumann and WeWork
It makes sense to if you are in a moderate or high status white-collar and seriously thinking about pursuing your own lifetime-goal. You have to give up the 'easy' way of life you currently have to trade for some success rate for your own goal.

To practice this and it makes more sense. I recently quit my decent job despite I was doing great. I spent a while to fully-convince myself, and I realize I don't really care about status, and wasn't feeling I was achieving anything. But I live in a relatively judgemental country. When I communicate this idea with my collegues many wouldn't understand it. When I communicate with my parent I recieve immediate objection, then I receive quit some interruptive phone calls from them telling me go back to work. In practice it take more to be low-status.
Why am I not surprised that the PERL part could be solved with bash in the same space. Why are you so eager to use lang on top of lang, in such simple cases?
as the author of that article i obviously wouldn't disagree that there are serious problem with Moz, but my impression is that they are largely at the corporate level - the developers (at least some) seem to care far more about privacy which is why i personally recommend Firefox (along with a shit load of pref tweaks and a few add-ons) over any other mainstream browser, and especially G.Chrome
Including phone calls and in-person communication? Many organizations hire or otherwise compel individuals to perform one-to-one communications for the purpose of furthering a political agenda.
Partially agree,,Google Colabs is outstanding, even though inspired by jupyter notebook. Taking over scientific community
Except that Cambridge University did not scrape any data from Facebook nor were they behind Cambridge Analytica. Aleksandar Kogan was a former assistant Professor at Cambridge University who subsequently developed and sold an app to Strategic Communication Laboratories(SCL), the parent company of Cambridge Analytica. That's the entirety of the connection to Cambridge University.

This NYU project is the very antithesis of Cambridge Analytica. This project is part of The Online Political Transparency Project. All of the data is public:

https://onlinepoliticaltransparencyproject.org/

From the NYU Ad Observatory page:

>"The Facebook Ad Observatory is part of the Online Political Transparency Project, which operates from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. This nonpartisan, independent project is focused on improving the transparency of online political advertising, by deploying traditional methods used in cybersecurity to evaluate the vulnerabilities of online sites. The Project builds tools to collect and archive political advertising data, and makes these available publicly. We encourage journalists and researchers to use these to fuel analysis of online political advertising."
> They hire the best and brightest to do it.

Oh, and how do they determine the "best and brightest"?