skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I'm here to say simply that this is a great idea! Way to put it together. Very few posts seem to be about new digital products to help the music industry, the last few years seem to have mostly been about consolidation. Keep up the good work!
I think it may be the other way around. In the Jony Ive post-Steve-Jobs era, we got the iPhones 6-11, and, in my opinion, all of them are considerably worse physical designs than the 5. Now Apple has (imminently) the 12 and 12 Mini, which are, IMO, the best designs from Apple in years.
I think people conflate LeetCode with basic programming skills...
Free thinking means to create your own fact based opinion without ideological bias.
Now, we should be afraid to think freely on thorny topics lest we end up offending someone's feelings. It could also come at the cost of careers and livelihoods.
It's hard for a lot of techies to grapple with this, but courts and law are often decided by the intent of the offense. This shows intent, whereas public domain works would not. The difference, in court, is massive.
This is a good point, but I think ultimately Github has to comply with it to maintain their legal immunity, it's not their responsibility to determine if a copyright claim is valid.

Similarly, youtube-dl can issue a counter-notice, and Github will have no responsibility to determine the validity of that either. They simply restore access unless they have been notified that a lawsuit is in progress.
> they couldn't get SIMs from half the major carriers at any given time

... in the USA.

Meanwhile the other 90% of the global market awaited.
Might’ve been, but I think I recall it took them a couple of months.

Anyway, another factor in the decision could be that aside from Tidal, Apple Music pays the most to the actual artists per stream. Almost twice what Spotify pays, I believe.
Given that life only appeared once on earth in 3.5 billion years on Earth, the Milky Way is around 14 billion years old, we don't really have a good reason to believe there were more than a handful of abiogenesis events in the history of the galaxy.

Of course, its possible this is completely wrong, perhaps the Earth was completely unlucky, or perhaps there have been many abiogenesis events and they have just failed for whatever reasons.
In general, general purpose hosts are going to want you to fight your own legal battles.
Wittgenstein on Bertrand Russell's theory of types
Pruning Neural Networks with Catalyst
Satya ran the entire cloud strategy before being promoted. The things you're giving Ballmer credit for were literally things Satya worked on :)

In February 2011 Nadella was promoted to president of the Server and Tools Division, which oversaw products for companies’ data centers like Windows Server and the SQL Server database. This department also oversaw the Azure cloud platform. When he took over this area it was doing $16.6 billion in revenue. In two years, by 2013, Nadella raised that number to $20.3 billion.
Reliable, fast internet is less of a nice-to-have and more of an absolute requirement when the whole family is going to be on Zoom calls all day.

Rural areas often don't have that. DSL is usually asymmetric, and doesn't have anywhere near the required upload bandwidth.
Or more likely, it highlights a failing of the civic institutions' responsibilities to properly address the problem themselves, rather than relying on an external service provider, whatever the source. That is to say, in this day and age, a high-trust society should be unnecessary; these are basic services that state and local government need to be addressing, rather than budgeting only for the police department.
What platform are you on. because I know for a fact that you can repeat individual songs, and playlists on the Android app. I'm also wondering about the casting, since I regularly cast (again from the Android app) to my minis at home.
It’s GPU backend, and the rendering actually takes longer than the audio length
> Most of the stuff was in development during Jobs' time,

We're 10 years past Jobs and Cook was running quite a bit of Apple even before Jobs passed away. Not even Jobs is prescient enough to have predicted where the market would have gone this far out. He was good at being where the puck was going, but he didn't have a crystal ball.
What about it makes it "state level"? Dozens of failed predictions. Vague, open-ended insinuations that can be interpreted by anyone in totally different ways. No legitimate information that can't be found with a search engine.

Whoever made up Q is similar to Trump in that they identified a group of people with real problems (loss of faith in institutions, fear of losing social power) to whom they could spread propaganda, but have no real solutions to any of the identified problems.

I find it ironic that you say "think for yourself" while repeating nonsense propaganda that has little to no impact outside of made-up scandals targeting the Clintons.
I switched to Spotify and I'm pretty happy. It's a bit more buggy and some features are missing, but overall it's a decent replacement and I'm liking the playlists/radio more.
At some point, I hope such hidden heroes get their success outspoken more publicly: Dave cutler, Dianne hackborn are prime examples. I do like the fact John Carmack and Linus who are well-deserved to have a public following. But there are many more. And it doesn't have to be a showoff as much understanding the context in which Dave Cutler or Dianne Hackborn et al actually succeeded as engineers and the deep technical work they are lauded for.
There's also that copy in the Arctic. I don't think that Github will remove that one.

Edit: On a serious note, though. I just realised that Internet Archive apparently doesn't archive most PRs? (https://web.archive.org/web/20201018122643if_/https://github...)
If so, that's a real shame, I had an open PR on youtube_dl and even though I still have the code locally, I would've liked to keep the PR conversation as it had some really helpful feedback and a bunch of people that were potentially interested in my feature.
What are some episodes from this book that you found particularly poignant and interesting?
Maybe a stupid question but can the repository just be hosted in a server outside US jurisdiction and everyone carries on as before?

Why do I need to be denied access to a repo if I'm outside the US?
> No, they aren't obligated to do anything.

This is semantics. Because github absolutely would not be able to exist if it lost its safe harbor protections.

So, it is "obligated", in that if it does not follow these laws, then it will 100% have shut down, eventually, due to business reasons.

If the alternative to doing a certain action, is that your business will almost certainly be shut down eventually, then I think that is a reasonable situation to use the word "obligated" for.
In all the time I have spent on the internet, I have never seen facts or logic convince someone who believed in truly beyond-the-pale, completely-outrageous, not-even-a-matter-of-opinion bullshit.

You can't reason someone out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into. That's not how human brains work - and Homo Rationalus only exists in economics textbooks.
why would they invade a hostile coast?

The paratroopers would have secured the landing spots well before the beach craft even set sail.

>belgians didn't have the world largest navy. The belgians didn't didn't air superiority either.

They did have an army and ammunition tho, something the UK did not throughout 1940 and beyond.

And they still only held out for 18 days.
> understanding of future requirements, which by definition are both unknown and subject to educated guesses. Making such guesses correctly is what distinguishes a good engineer from a bad one

I would rephrase this as make guesses based on probabilities and urgency estimates from past experience. You can't know the future but you have stats of the past. So a good engineer is one that has relevant experience and applies it appropriately.
> As someone with absolute pitch, I should say I have not found it musically useful

True. Perfect pitch can indeed prevent you from appreciating some kinds of music that become too predictable, too fast.
This is so annoying... this means they can go after the OS we are using because some kids use their OS to download pirated stuff
Were those public resources, though?
The problem with "technical debt" as a meme is twofold: It's a lousy analogy, and people tend to label absolute garbage as "tech debt". The garbage is not a tool to enable quick growth. It's not a shortcut. It's just garbage.

"Technical debt" conversations usually go something like this:

Me: "Could we spend a few hours getting a handle on what the data model should look like? Maybe rough out a crude ER diagram?"

PHB: "Oh slumdev, you're such a Boy Scout. Just blam it into a document store. If something changes, we'll just be Agile about it. Technical debt is a tool!"
> the US is becoming increasingly liberal and India is becoming increasingly jingoistic/illiberal.

False. India is becoming culturally jingoistic but far more liberal economically than what it was a few decades ago. That brings it closer to US economic model.

>The US views Pakistan as an important strategic ally.

US viewed Pakistan as a strategic ally, mainly during Cold War era when India was tilted towards USSR (friendship pact etc).

Ultimately, "antagonism towards China" can outweigh the differences if China continues on its current path.
Presumably towns could easily afford to buy those water rights from farmers if needed. Many farmers use inefficient flood irrigation because water rights are so cheap it's not worth them investing in drip irrigation.
Think of it like a big public message forum. Technically it works like one: You post messages and they're stored on the server and served up to everyone else at any point in the future. It's perfect for coordinating big groups of strangers.

It has a good reputation for refusing to kick people off when governments demand it. Although accounts are tied to phone numbers it doesn't show them by default and users can choose a unique username, so unlike WhatsApp or Signal it's easy to recognize the pseudo anonymous identity of people you don't know. It's much easier for many people to use than Twitter.

When running an opposition movement it doesn't matter if there's no encryption. Since you are open to the public your adversaries are going to be in your groups anyway. Another bonus is that most of your followers aren't already using it, which makes them more free to act. If a different messenger is popular in your country you might not want to tie the long held account that everyone in real life knows you as to your freedom fighting activity.
Oh yeah, this paragraph:

"For example, as shown on Exhibit A, the source code expressly suggests its use to copy and/or distribute the following copyrighted works owned by our member companies"

That's quite unwise to be honest. But these examples should be removed, not the code itself.
Oh I love the specifics of that page. Did a lot of people try to walk around with kusari-gamas?
I canceled after they screwed up the last service I liked and paid for from google.

I wish I could upload my music to spotify and redownload it again at will but otherwise its even offering the same decent suggestions, just went back to using adblock on youtube videos without a problem.
Git mirror: https://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/youtube-dl

This is master on 4eda10499e8db831167062b0e0dbc7d10d34c1f9, retrieved from gitee.com, and is the last known hash from Google Webcache [1].

Clone, verify and rehost.

[1] - https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o7ilf8...
> Are there reasons to go back to npm?

Ships with Node.
Why is it dumb? The House of Representatives is supposed to proportionally represent the constituencies of the various states. The Senate exists to represent the state legislatures - though the 17th amendment changed that(and I personally believe it should be repealed).

It makes sense to me, as the House choosing the President is still a somewhat representation of the will of the people. It's also very similar to Westminster-styled parliamentary democracies choose their Prime Ministers.
Just to add a data point, but back when I still was working for a video distribution startup, we offered our customers the ability to directly import their video inventory from YouTube. They were the owners of the videos, it was just a convenient (and very popular!) feature for them to let us handle this import.

We used YouTube-dl for this, of course. No way we could have done this easily without it. We imported hundreds of thousands of videos like this.

I suspect there are many more legitimate uses of YouTube-dl than you would expect.
If we rename it and add some open license video as an example instead of music videos, can they still ask for a takedown?
That's some prime rate bullshit. Like saying since I could use Linux to download copyrighted materials, and there are guides around which tell how to do so, Linux should be removed from the Internet.

Also a good reminder - never trust a third party to host your files, always have a backup. And hosting your infrastructure on Github means anybody who wants it can take it down with a single letter.
better than JSON is JSOFF.
I think it came out recently that it actually detected an increase in the particle density of the interstellar medium as it leaves the solar system.
Lesson learned: always use Creative Commons licensed data to demo your multimedia tools. Else people get the wrong idea.

Some examples for youtube-dl might be:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqz-KE-bpKQ Big buck bunny

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRsGyueVLvQ Sintel

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhWc3b3KhnY Spring

In fact, youtube actually allows you to filter by CC, so there's never a reason not to!
This is a very underrated workaround. I had no idea this was used.
How does this train perfect pitch? I have gone through years of formal ear training, the closest techniques I've seen to true perfect pitch were exercises for audio engineers to recognize frequency ranges (iirc, pioneered at University of Michigan a few decades ago). But even that doesn't give you perfect pitch, it gives you a strong intuition.

In conservatories and other classical schools, they teach relative pitch recognition using the same techniques that have been used for centuries because pitch is so subjective. When I did it, they even used different keys to force the kids with perfect pitch and synesthesia (they gravitate towards music schools) to learn their intervals.
Setting aside the evils of the DMCA itself:

Seems clearly that if youtube authorizes downloads, then people shouldn't put things on youtube they don't want downloaded?

The takedown notices should be going to youtube. But of course they want to use youtube to promote themselves.
This is a vast oversimplification, and doesn't really answer OP's question.
Aren't books kinda a special case ? Given all the past (and even current!) cases of censorship and book burning, shouldn't we strive to never allow that ever again and to protects books for future generations ?

Finally we have a way to preserve books in perfect form forever digitally yet people somehow try to shackle this new technology with paper book technology limitations. The same limitations that coat us so much ideas, knowledge and stories as books would burn, rot or turn to dust.

Frankly any form of technology trying to prevent digital book distribution and archiving really is a digital equivalent of the inquisition book burning (or helping make that happen again).
Youtube-dl works with many more services than YouTube, FYI.
I don't think debt is really a great analogy. Lot's of people are comfortable with debt, if nothing else.

I think it's more like a rushed major remodel of a house. It's kinda bad, but there's really just no practical way to fix it without a teardown.
I have perfect pitch. For me it’s much easier to identify tones on piano (which I play) than other instruments or sine waves. So I feel like there is some part of it that’s “tuneable”.
I was more referring to the overkill nature of needing a HTTP server rather than the ease of integration of JSON parsing code.
Most people on HN are extremely intelligent and could adapt easily to any kind of STEM job it’s not an issue, just look at how many experts comment on a diverse range of topics here.
Old-school angels were just as likely to rip your face off as serve you tea and cookies. Read the older Abrahamic texts, and it's clear that to encounter an angel was often a terrifying experience, even when it went well.

Obviously their marketing department has given angels quite a rebranding over the last thousand-odd years, but still...
I don't see "designed to fail" or any corresponding language on that page.

There is concern about repairability there. I seem to recall that the UK was a member of a trans-national organization that recently passed tougher repairability legislation, and quit that organization to be rid of all that burdensome regulation.

For the life of me, I can't understand why Apple wouldn't take the UK seriously…
This is kind of a bullshit argument because Uber is a venture-back corporation not a welfare agency.

If there are people who truly "cannot contribute work of sufficient quality to be paid for full time work and benefits" then we give them a check.

Are you really suggesting that uber/lyft driving is work therapy for mental invalids?

https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-market-fairy-will-not-solve-the...

> They [Uber and Lyft] don’t pay the cost of their capital.

> The wages they pay to their drivers are less than the depreciation of the cars and the expense of keeping the drivers fed, housed, and healthy. They pay less than minimum wage in most markets, and, in most markets, that is not enough to pay the costs of a car plus a human.

> These business models are ways of draining capital from the economy and putting them into the hands of a few investors and executives. They prey on desperate people who need money now, even if the money is insufficient to pay their total costs. Drivers are draining their own reserves to get cash now, but, hey, they gotta eat and pay the bills.

> This sharing economy shit works in a shitty economy. In a good economy, where people have what they need, it doesn’t work.
Won't disclouse which, but I'm among them!
> DMCA takedowns do not have "no repercussions" for false claims.

They mostly do.

> 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].

The basis for liability there is knowing misrepresentation of infringement. So as long as RIAA believed (and that belief need not be reasonable) the legal theory of infringement that they advanced, there's not a liability problem.

SUre, if they misrepresented their right to act on behalf of the legal owners of the works they claimed were infringed by it, or that would be an issue, but no one even suspects that they are doing that.
IMO, Git+blockchain is a pretty good match on paper.
Do you have some sort of RMS-style setup? If so, I'm curious about your reasons for that and why mainstream browsers aren't an option for you
PureScript: Tomorrow’s JavaScript Today
Accessibility shouldn't be an afterthought. It really needs to be baked in from the start.
Why would you expect anything less from 1) a service from Google who has a track record of shutting things down, 2) a streaming service?
Project Mono Air – An “Open Source” Fleece Jacket
Thank you!

Well at least if they can hold onto their domain, and then host development somewhere, they'll maintain the ability to redirect updates to a new location without people having to manually reinstall.
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Is "life only appeared once on earth" an accepted fact at this point? There was clearly at least one occurrence that led to a subsequent successful reproductive pattern from which we evolved, but prior to that, or alongside that, it strikes me as pretty unlikely that we would be able to discover other fleeting abiogenesis events.

We just discovered new salivary glands in human heads. Organs. Not microscopic ones. They are in our actual heads that we are walking around with and we just found out about it like a week ago.

So, forgive me if I am a little skeptical of our ability to find hard-to-find things. Some stuff is... hard to find.
> While Apple have a single message service (iMessage)

Only recently. Before iMessage, Apple had iChat. iMessage used to interoperate, but no longer does.
I believe all of the cutting-edge process node foundries are in Taiwan. If all of those foundries were to be lost, that would be something like 50% of the entire production capacity for computers, computer peripherals, and smartphones completely axed, and it would take years for the capacity to resume.
Third option: Tidal, better sound quality, huge library and awesome playlists. Based on my own personal experience of course :-)
Your weekly reminder that

1. You should not have your development process on a centralized platform, at least not if you're doing anything that smells of copyright issues

2. If you do host on a centralized platform, have regular, decentralized backups of code and issue tracking.

3. Also, avoid US-centric hosting for this kind of thing. But really, refer to 1.
Yes, which makes this very sad that a simple slip-up can make it very difficult to come back from this.
So why does the Recording Industry Association of America get to decide whether a tool for downloading content on a service that is produced by people around the world and released under many different licenses exists or not?

The RIAA and America in general has no right to police the rest of the world.
- $2/day snacks

- $4/day coffee (really this should be higher b/c the cafe at the office made expressos that would cost $4/ea at Starbucks and I drink 3 per day)

- $4/day bfast

==

monthly food total: $200.

I needed to buy a desk ($100), office chair ($80), networking / power equipment, etc (total ~$200).

Studies have shown that sleep quality is very important and you should reserve your bedroom for sleep and sex [0]. If I work 3ft from where I sleep, I never "turn off" work.

So this means I needed either find space in the rest of my house (the kitchen table or rent a larger place).

Assuming I don't want to reduce my quality of life by working WFH, I'm now spending an extra $300/mo on food, equipment, and sq footage. If I was freelancing, I could write off these expenses on my taxes and my prices would reflect these costs. As a W2 worker, I am not able to write off these expenses from my taxes nor have I been able to negotiate better pay from my employer.

[0] - https://buffer.com/resources/work-bed/
Of course they are. No one should ever trust that a Google product or project will be around for the duration.
I use Amazon music because it lets you download DRM-free MP3s and lets me easily switch between iPhone and Android. I just wish it didn't reset to 'cloud' when I want it in 'offline' mode because I live in a patchy area.
Focus and stay away from digital crack
Perhaps it's time to take a closer look at projects like Fossil that combine distributed version control with wiki and issues tracker built in. If the devs behind youtube-dl were using Fossil then picking up right where the DMCA leaves them is no sweat.

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki