skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you watch something from Youtube in the browser, it makes copies on your computer---in memory transiently, and on disk files.

Computers aren't radio or CDs, there's no way to actually consume media on them without copies being made at some point.

Additionally, its not obvious who is infringing. Unlike say, downloading a torrent, people have legal access to youtube ordinarily, and pay for it. If you pay for offline access to music, why can't you use youtube-dl? Any infringement will only begin when your license to the content ends.

Additionally, the software just makes HTTP(s) requests and can work with any site. I actually have never used it to download anything on youtube.
It would be fitting if they just convert them into homeless shelters. SF could officially be in the business of housing the nation's homeless.
Not of personal results, no, I've got finals but not interstitials, and attempting to capture a clip resulted in finding out my VCR is having trouble reading tapes, which isn't entirely surprising. However, there are examples on the median() plugin forum posts, including the first set at: https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=170216 (Scroll down a bit for the pics).
I personally think the information is a big nothingburger. But that's quite a different thing from saying it's misinformation.
Libre/open source is the point. Not being restricted by proprietary software and walled gardens.

The only truly successful open source software running on a Linux system is the kernel, because there's NO choice. No talented teenager can write their own Linux kernel that does Y instead. Imagine what would the world look like if there were 50 half compatible, community-managed forks of the Linux kernel.

The year of the Linux desktop won't come because apart from the kernel the ecosystem is incredibly fragmented and reaching consensus is pretty much impossible, so in 2020 we're still deciding whether to do client side or server side decorations.
And then just fly into your still-fissioning exhaust? Wouldn’t that be bad?
This makes the common and terrible assumption that humans don't change as they age. The fact that Millennials seem more to the left of Boomers is presumed to mean that the country will move left as the Boomers die. We must remember that the Boomers were those 1960s leftist radicals. Some day, decades from now, the Millennials will be elderly and conservative.

Another bad assumption is that party platforms don't change, and that the current alliances will be forever unchanged.
There is also this [1] Heads project which aims to be an alternative to Tails using free as in "libre" software, and a de-blobbed kernel.

1: https://heads.dyne.org/about.html
> The most limiting thing is TDP, which in the highest performance laptop processors is still capped at 45W, whereas a maxed out desktop processor can draw 100W or more.

Maybe a small desktop. My desktop processor is 180W TDP (Threadripper 1950x), while some others are 250W TDP. You can also get a dual-socket workstation, for 2x CPUs (both pulling 200W each).

Thermals and power are significantly higher on desktops, it ain't even funny. Laptops win in power-efficiency, but absolute performance is always going to be a Desktop.
Who cares if all you're doing is optimizing the massive spam operation that is Pinterest? You've made garbage faster. Well done.
Obligated to mention "Oxygen Not Included".

The game features "duplicants" in a futuristic scenario trying to survive in deep space.
The first technology to produce power is a sort-of hamster wheelie that one of them has to cycle on to generate power.

Very funny game.
>It's literally designed to download content from sites that don't allow downloads.

Any video you watch requires you to download it, the only difference from a browser is how it stores the file. And section 1201 does not outlaw tools used for circumventing copyright, it outlaws tools used to circumvent copyright protection.
I've been watching the Long Way Up motorcycle travelogue series with Ewan McGregor and Charlie Borman on AppleTV+.

They're doing the trip from the tip of South America all the way to Los Angeles on a pair of prototype electric Harley Davidsons. The support crew is in a pair of prototype Rivian pickup trucks.

The Rivians have a "tow to recharge" mode that they've used several times already in the first half dozen episodes.

The show is great and I'm as fascinated by their dedication to do the trip on electric bikes (the first parts of the trip were in freezing and sub-freezing temps in areas with long distances between grid electricity availability) as I am by the scenery and their narration.

Anyway, sorry for the tangent, but the title reminded me of the series. I hope it escapes AppleTV+ so that non-Apple folks can watch it at some point.
For me the biggest issue is that CI is often siloed to hell and back.

Even when most of the rest of the engineering environment is fine, the build scripts and configuration often aren't under version control themselves, or are manually deployed - meaning any changes require access to carefully guarded server credentials. This may even be by design as a "security measure" - as if I didn't already have the ability to run arbitrary code on the build servers in question through unit tests etc. The gatekeepers in question are often an underfunded IT department that has too much on their plate already, and are underwhelmed by the idea of reviewing a bunch of changes to "legacy" code that they've somehow convinced themselves they'll rewrite "soon" that they don't directly benefit from anyways.

And I find I can rarely run the scripts locally. They're also often hideously locked in to a specific CI solution that I can't locally install without a ton of work on my part to figure out the mess of undocumented dependencies, and rife with edge cases that I can't easily imitate on my dev machines.

My preferred CI setups involve a single configuration file, checked into the same repository it's configuring CI for, that simply forwards to a low-dependencies script that works on dev machines. Getting there from an existing CI setup, however, can be quite the challenge.
One could make a case that lithium is the Cinderella of psychotropic medications, neglected and ill used. Reported by an Australian psychiatrist, John Cade, in 1949 to be an effective treatment for bipolar disorder (it was approved as a drug by the Food and Drug Administration in 1970) its efficacy in mood disorders and suicide prevention has been documented as well as or better than virtually any other psychotropic medication. But it retains a grim and undeserved reputation, perhaps because it was originally associated in the public mind with serious mental illness and because, like many medications, lithium can have serious side effects if not monitored properly. As a psychiatrist, I can tell you that because of its stigma, lithium as a medication is a hard sell to patients with serious mood disorders who could clearly benefit from treatment. But there are undoubtedly other reasons for its neglect. Pharmaceutical companies have nothing to gain from this cheap, ubiquitous element.

> https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/should-we-...
tbh the people who are gullible enough to believe this would believe anything.
if it's not hunter biden, then it's creepy joe, if it's not creepy joe it's something else. the republican trump smear circus never ends.
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It's a logical fallacy, meaning the statements don't logically follow. That doesn't mean there isn't a heavy implication, which there often is.
Do Americans not put milk in their coffee?
According to the FBI[0] and the DNI[1], there is no evidence indicating that Hunter Biden's laptop is misinformation. Given that some of the emails have been independently verified by their recipients who have made statements on the record[2], and Joe Biden's campaign still has not disputed the emails' authenticity, the vast majority of the evidence points towards this material being authentic.

The media and big tech companies crying "Russian misinformation!" when politically convenient is just going to further reduce trust in our institutions, and make the population more susceptible to real state-sponsored disinformation efforts.

[0] - https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fbi-tells-congress-it-ha...

[1] - https://news.yahoo.com/dni-ratcliffe-hunter-biden-emails-134...

[2] - https://nypost.com/2020/10/22/hunter-biz-partner-confirms-e-...
Just push customers to get mail delivery, no need for a store.
Their acronym sounds like a Halo reference
Thanks, I will have a look for that.
> Most people are not content creators, they are consumers.

And using locked-down devices will condemn them to that for the term of their natural lives.

But actually I disagree. At different stages in their lives, people do different things. Make music. take photos, and wonder why they suck. Make family trees. Various hobbies, that require working with multiple bits of sotware on on multiple projects.

Take electronics. It's a hobby. It's nuts to use apps that each store their data in their own sandbox. One app to draw a schematic diagram, another app to plan the hardware layout, another app to record calibrations and test results, another for photos--and other apps to record the project goals and plans, and the lessons learned.

If I couldn't use a general purpose computer and store all of these files (and others, such as manufacturers' datasheets for critical components) in a single folder for each project (not part in one app, and another bit in aonther app, and so on), I'd be using paper, a drawing board and a filing cabinet.
I’m quite happy when sites don’t use YouTube. That site has WAY too much of the Internet’s content already.

Agree on playback speed though.
Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21211419.

There's no point arguing if you can't even accurately state the other side's views (you know, the ones Obama aligned himself with in 2008 in order to get elected).

This used to be a required skill in political debating, but it's not taught or practiced much now. It definitely is more work than simply putting bad intentions or premises into your opponent's mouth, grandstanding against the resulting straw-man, and hiving off into disjoint factions that can be divided and conquered more easily.

Still, I would never pull that kind of crap on you or any other HN antagonists. We need to work together against common enemies, if we can. Warmongers, crypto-backdoor advocates, surveillance capitalists, banksters, polluters, DRM-everything vendors -- in general, the monied interests and oligarchs who call too many shots today.
> I don't see it. I recently bought a System76 laptop, in honest competition with a comparable (and comparably priced) machine from a huge corporation. I ended up going for S76 based on better battery life and better design, plus the benefits of open firmware and excellent hardware integration with Linux. No regrets. I also got my employer to buy me a S76 desktop at work.

I really want to want a System76 laptop, but I just can't bring myself to get one because of the 16:9 screens [1].

[1] 16:9 screens are another one of the computing marketplace's shitty regressions over the last decade. General purpose computers should have 16:10 or 3:2 screens, but unfortunately the number of models that have one is very small.
Interestingly, the "visible homeless" population has decreased substantially over the course of the pandemic, and is now below pre-pandemic levels: https://missionlocal.org/2020/10/citys-homeless-tent-count-d...

The pandemic has managed to cure a few of San Francisco's ills. Rents and real estate prices are trending down towards sanity, the city/county government has managed to get a large number of homeless folks situated indoors, restaurants are getting outdoor seating space, and initiatives to massively reduce the amount of red tape small business have to work through are getting fast tracked. All that, and the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths are extremely low relative to the rest of the country, even as businesses re-open. The post-pandemic San Francisco has a decent shot at being a livable city again (though the property crime problem isn't yet on a path to being solved).
I don’t think there’s necessarily an issue with giving fines. As I see it the issue comes from the profit motive, which is a lot more complicated to solve than it might first appear. You could do something like give the fine revenue away in a lottery to charities, but even then you’d still have some issues.

The other side of that argument is that the payment of the fine to the government is supposed to play a restorative role in whatever crime you have committed against the community. But I don’t think there’s a way to operate a system like that that does lead to this type of corruption.
Just because that's all you use it for doesn't mean that's all others use it for. I've seen the yt-dl issue tracker, it's swamped in non-youtube support requests.
It takes >12h to build Windows on the MS build platform.

On a single core, Chromium surely takes hours to build.

Though I agree that 40min for the repository in question is highly suspect.
You'd think cooling would be no problem, but it turns out that when your only option is to radiate away heat, that's _very_ slow. We get spoiled here on Earth by conduction and convection, both much easier and faster.
I've gone from desktops to laptops and back again. The reasons are somewhat technical but mostly center around psychology.

From a technical perspective not many laptops come close to my desktop's performance and if they did they'd cost way more.

But the psychological benefit of having a desktop to do my work on is when I get home I don't continue working. I lock my ability to do most of my job (DevOps) to my desktop at my private office away from the home. That means when I get home I can do basic tasks on my 2020 MBP but for security reasons there's a lot I can't do.

Maybe this is something to consider when making your choice? Let me know how you get on.
> Contributors want to do their work, not investigate "what does a git clone really do".

Exactly this. Especially if the repo and CI pipeline are complicated, it is incredibly easy to just assume “it’s slow” is a fact of life.

And from the point of view of the dev-productivity team, well, they have tons of possible issues to deal with at any given time. Not just CI but the repos themselves, the build system, maybe IDEs, debuggers, ... Sure the fix ends up being easy but you have to know to go looking for it.
I'm taking a look here (visualization is crummy, but there's a list below) https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/donor-state...

There are only ten donor states in 2019:

- Connecticut (- $4,000)
- New Jersey (- $2,368)
- Massachusetts (- $2,343)
- New York (- $1,792)
- North Dakota (- $720)
- Illinois (- $364)
- New Hampshire (- $234)
- Washington (- $184)
- Nebraska (- $164)
- Colorado (- $95)

And these are the top taker states:

- Virginia ($10,301)
- Kentucky ($9,145)
- New Mexico ($8,692)
- West Virginia ($7,283)
- Alaska ($7,048)
- Mississippi ($6,880)
- Alabama ($6,694)
- Maryland ($6,035)
- Maine ($5,572)
- Hawaii ($5,270)

The majority of those top taker states are under Democratic Party control, and 40 out of 50 states are takers of federal dollars, so I don't see much evidence for your point.
I will never do a wireless keyboard. The idea of trusting a company to properly encrypt my wireless keystrokes is laughable. My security is far more important than cable management thanks.
Commerical real estate != residential, I wouldn't get your hopes up unless demand drops, which it totally could.
They're better/relevant than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_writings and their https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_earth
As someone from the US, I would have smiled with a smirk after reading your comment, but seeing how my country deals with current crises, now I fear my country is now no better, and I realize how important it is that everyone does their part and everyone is fairly rewarded.
yeah, I hate Uber and Lyft more than most, but I have to admit that you're totally right about it being an unambiguous upgrade over taxi service

I used to get super angry every time I had to take a taxi in the Bay Area. Before I got in I'd say "OK, your credit card reader is working, right?" and they'd swear it is, and then wouldn't you know it? Somehow the machine broke down between the airport and my destination EVERY TIME. The drivers would pitch a hissy fit when I refused to pay cash, and then they'd manually take a print of my card or write down the number.

It cost something like $60 for a 20 minute ride, and they had the audacity to expect a huge tip on top of that. Fuck those guys.

I'm pretty sure they're all lying about their income and hiding it from the government to commit tax fraud. For a brief period before Uber took off, they'd even started using personal Square readers to charge credit cards instead of the official ones built into their cars.

That said, I'm willing to bet that society won't tolerate a return to how things used to be, even if Uber and Lyft leave the state after we shoot down Prop 22. There's such a vast gulf in price difference between a taxi and an uber that I'm sure we can reach a comfortable middle ground where drivers make a living wage without us living under a scumbag taxi rein of terror
Ed Snowden doesn’t need to worry about being turfed out of Russia any more
Curiously, most of the historians from the west blatantly ignore significant contributions from the other part of the world's, for their own versions of biased history. They just conveniently sweep the other people contributions as their era of dark ages. The dark ages are for them and not for other part of the worlds.

This Brief History of Surgeons article is another proof of this biased narrative. The five volumes of The Canon of Medicine book by Ibnu Sina (Avicenna) was used as one of the main reference textbooks throughout Europe including Oxford and Cambridge University for several hundred years until 18th century [1]. It also has significant original contents on surgery that were based on the work of Galen and extend them [2]. If you think the title is familiar it is because the English word "Canon" is derived from the title of this book, in a similar fashion that the word "Algebra" is derived from the title of another book by Al-Khwarizmi.

There are many other significant medical works from Middle Eastern scholars on the subject of surgery since they are the pioneers of modern university based hospitals that are common in the world today.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canon_of_Medicine

[2]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32013741/
Link to the paper mentioned in the blogpost: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/handbook20...
World needs 600M jobs for economic growth over next decade – UN report
I wouldn't say so. Israel is thought to have nuclear weapons, but they don't admit it. There could be others. There is a huge incentive to publicly support a ban while secretly having the weapons.
Isn’t it usually the other way around? People at the top are all in it together, so they look after one another if just for self preservation. Instead they blame it on a rogue employee (or child).
I actually wear some waterproof trail running shoes for walking in icy weather. You have to be a bit careful what you step in obviously, since they're not high tops, but they're thick enough to walk on ice without it getting to you. Boots are overkill and walking in snow is just too slow to get exercise anyway, so you end up only walking on the cleared streets and sidewalks.
The answer would be, of course, are you fucking crazy? And that would be the end of it.
Not to mention that the area available within N miles grows quadratically with N, so it'll run out more slowly/be more spacious.
i3/i5/i7/i9 aren’t actually different processors, they make a handful of desktop/laptop/server... variants for each generation of Core architecture CPU and differentiate down the line by binning and restrictions added at time of production. So mobile i5 might have nothing to do with desktop i5, or i7 and Xeon can be taken from the same batch.
They're quite close to the IRA in name ...
I hope that some large company chooses to challenge this and force it to a court ruling for precedent. (hopefully against RIAA, obviously, is my position)

But it brings up a side point in my mind -- how interesting is it that sometimes, a company, or university will have someone in their administration who cares enough to say, we're going to take this on, and not roll over? Or be willing to say, "even though this is a small annoying cost to us individually, this nuisance is taking $B across everyone and should be stopped".

That's a very rare thing to see. I remember only a couple of times this has gotten to the news in a major way:

-- When Newegg took those patent trolls to court

-- When Caltech, or was it MIT/Harvard took the MPAA to court to say that they are not responsible for their students' hosting of content

I.e. not some non-profit or foundation dedicated to the topic, but an actual business that goes out of its way (and at cost to itself) to fight something. I'm sure others can give better examples. (And perhaps I'm not aware, but some industry association also helps back the lawsuit financially?)

But still, it takes some kind of courage of legal counsel, probably with backing of the CEO or president of the company, to take stands like this and actually make it a big deal and push back.

Funny how personality and individuals at corporations can still show through what you would think is otherwise bland legal daily life. I almost take that as more of a brand equity enhancement / reason that a company gains in reputation than sometimes its products. Or maybe it's those companies that have strong culture and brand that choose (or have the strength) to do this.

Anyway, the story just made me reflect on that.
On World Health Day, new report says the world needs 6M more nurses
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24817594
Not all of google's us traffic is from smartphones though
There are usb hubs with hardware switched for each port. You can use that to turn off the port used by a camera or microphone.
This distinction is neither as clear nor as absolute as you appear to believe.

Classical liberalism[1] is an economic stance somewhat similar to the economic views of libertarianism in the US. This is distinct from social liberalism which is what "liberal" commonly means in the US, which mostly overlaps with what could be called "progressive politics".

"Classical Liberalism" is confusing in the modern context, so it is rarely used execpt by people trying to confuse people (eg, right wing commentators who claim to be "classical liberals"). The biggest exception to this is the (right-wing, conservative) Liberal party in Australia, which was founded on the ideas of "Classical Liberalism"

There's also "liberal" in the "liberal democracy" sense. This is where multiple parties contend for power under known, written down rules.[2]

And then there is "left-[wing]". Left wing can refer to a social view, where it is used as a close-synonym for social liberalism or progressivism. Or it can refer to an economic view, which is much more context (and country) specific.

In the context of US politics the Democratic party is the most left-wing major party in both an economic and social sense.

In terms of media sources, the NY Times is definitely a proponent of "liberal democracy", but in a social and economic sense it is fairly centerist (despite the claims to the contrary by populist).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism

[2] https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/l/Libera...
If you are concerned about your keystrokes being broadcast wirelessly (which is a reasonable concern), I remember from a video or something I saw a long time ago that there was success in reconstructing keys pressed by the sound waves they make. Modern methods are probably better.