skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That tool has been a total productivity drain on me since it was launched.

When I play around with it, the real 'turning point' states tend to be PA and FL. You can fill in the likely EC votes and the chances don't really change all that much. I mean, CA going Blue is not a surprise.

But when you fill in PA or FL for Donny, then the whole race changes. If FL or PA go Red, then Donny has ~1/3 chance, if one goes Blue, then it's 1/100 [0].

PA is unlikely to be called on election night. But FL is very likely to be called. So that is the one to watch. Just like every other election, really.

It's a great tool and I'd totally suggest spending some time with it. Kudos to the team that built it!

[0] Note that these models are updated all the time by 538 as new polls roll in.
China's system acknowledge power and classes.

Billinares have enourmous power, then putting them into the power system, is a appropriate recognition; and ensures appropriate control and management as well.

While in US, the enourmous power of billinares are masked behind an entagled web of legal and political constructs, which are so complicated that the ones involved probably dont have a clue how much power they actually have. Today they can be enoumously powerful, the next day they are suddenly under constant barrage from all sides. Like FB Google and Twitter were chanted as the beacon of free world's inevitable domination in world in the grassroot's revolutions in middle east (Arab's spring); now they were blamed for almost every instances of domestic plitical failures.

A better approach might be subject these powers into the government system, and manage and use them as tools. Instead of pretending that a free-rein systems can regulate themselves, which ends up with a swamp of complications and complexity that no one is able to remotely influence the thing with a coherent vision and strategy.
I'd expect the opposite: The more we build the better, cheaper and safer they become.

That's what happened with cars and airplanes for example. I'm not aware of counterexamples.
I meant homeopaths, not osteopaths. Osteopaths might actually be quite similar to what I'm talking about but am not 100% sure.
So rebase it and convert to rust.
What does it matter if I watch a song on YouTube or just dl the video. Mp4 and watch it,
The riaa might say the reasons the videos are on YouTube is
they promote the artist like old videos on MTV
and someone gets paid ad revenue ,
In theory someone could just
use a pc dl 1000s of videos put em on a pc and avoid watching ads
Also video streams count to get a song in the charts
and the riaa employs lawyers
so they have to do something
to justify their wages
even if it will have no effect on the music marketplace or the behavior of the average music fan
he didnt develop it he already had it
Nuclear has lifecycle emissions about equals to wind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emis...

Until we decarbonize construction, mining, and other energy needed to produce energy sources, everything still has a carbon emussions footprint.
Sounds like they picked it from Apple where they like to run high voltage traces next to low voltage ones...
Narrative takes precedence over reality at this time.
It would be interesting to see _who_ added this unit test. I wouldn't be surprised if it was some RIAA lackey.
Military munitions are engineered dispersal devices. They do a far far better job than plastic bags and umbrellas.
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Yes I am aware that the bits are not what is copywritten and I am not suggesting Youtube has any right to the content itself. But using youtube-dl to download content from a competitors site is taking advantage of the functionality on that competitors site to add value to your own product.

It could still be in Youtube's interest to prevent this from happening.

I'm asking why you would expect a competitor to make your own product more compelling for your customers.

This is a further example that Youtube-dl is there to circumvent the intended functionality of Youtube.
How do I notify the RIAA that they can keep their private property out of my computer's temp folder then?
So what does it mean when someone says "he got off on a technicality"?

There have been plenty of cases where exactly that happened.

There's the spirit of the law and the letter of the law, and many are persuaded that when someone hasn't violated the letter of the law, they haven't violated the law.

Judges, lawyers, and juries will vary on this, but in many cases the letter of the law will carry the day, and people will in fact "get off on a technicality".
I'm not a lawyer, and even if it was I could never tell you that anything would be "ok" in this kind of situation. But I suspect that it would be better off.
Hmm, are you sure that link is correct? In firefox and chromium that gets me about 122K of not-very-easy-to-parse text.
Hm, but youtube-dl doesn't break DRM. You can just get the video link from the dev tools panel when you open a youtube page. It doesn't let you download anything you wouldn't otherwise be able to.
Sure that is perfectly reasonable. And the fact that YouTube is a resource for this is one of its competitive advantages. So it makes sense that YouTube might make it hard for other parties to take advantage of its position as a repository. Thus Youtube-dl is created to circumvent this design choice on the part of YouTube.
The horrors in Rotterham weren't exposed by conspiracy nuts, though. It was exposed by real investigative journalism and law enforcement work.

That's the whole point here: it's not that bad things don't happen, it's that this fact is not sufficient evidence for other bad things happening.

The suppression here is of baseless conspiracy theories about child abuse because they're baseless, not because they're about child abuse.
This is really cool imho - and can have many different use cases.

I poked around and considering diving into this more.

Curious about the self hosted version, and I'd like more info about "You will need to provide a database" - type of database needed? link to some articles on connecting DB from one server to another perhaps?

Quick scrolling for terms of use - not seen... I have not read all the docs, but did a search for the words porn and sex and did not find results
- I hate to assume things - but at the moment I am assuming it's up to the individual room creators as to what kind of discussions can be had.. and if we self hosted, having some that got into adults only discussions would be fine?
Do you get it on your first try?

Sometimes when I'm bored and microwaving something I'll try to match my hum to the microwave's tone and I sometimes do this when planes fly by too.

I never get it immediately but it usually syncs up after a few seconds.
The Milky Way lacked rocky planets early on, making that 12.5 Billion year age largely meaningless.

Which is just one of many bad assumptions in how people do these calculations. At a minimum you don’t get a straight path from A to B. Assuming any kind of limitation in distance traveled and your at the mercy of the distribution of whatever resource you need. Aka need rocky planets with liquid water, that’s likely going to be an very indirect path. Even just non binary star systems is significant. Further, assuming every trip is successful is again unlikely. How long you need to wait before the next trip is again a major qualifier.

For example, what happens if they first send a probe to verify habitability? Suddenly travel times more than double.

I have seen plenty of optimistic calculations that still add up to over a billion years before total colonization and sometimes much much higher than that. And that’s a billion years where expansion is a major priority at the frontier. Look at successful colonizations that don’t expand rapidly and again things keep slowing down.
We are in agreement that,

1) They don't say they are a fan club

2) They moderate as a fan club would
There is nothing in the (IT) world I fear more then... Perl projects. The shear madness it will leash upon you when the dependencies fail is maddening. Never will I voluntarily touch anything written in Perl ever again in my live.

I've seen the power of Perl, the beauty and elegance of it, but everything was ruined by the absolute shit show when it comes to its packet managers.

/rant.
When I ask SQL questions I'm looking for a few important things.

1. Have you written SQL
2. Do you understand keys and joins
3. Do you understand one to one, one to many, and many to many relationships
4. Do you know any advanced language features: window functions, CTEs, grouping sets, strategies for pivoting data in different dbs, etc.

I don't care if you write syntactically correct SQL or even remember all the keywords. Just as long as you can talk intelligently about some of those concepts.
> Tech literacy is way up, too.

I'm surprised to read that. Is that really what you see?

I'd say I see the opposite as being true.
> Getting people of the HN crowd to buy somehing shiny they don't need? Lets say, the new KI assistance? I would say, that is a lot harder, as most people here understand how (political) marketing works.

Maybe easier actually, but different. Bigger flats, Apple products, travels, cloud services ...

The arguments used may appeal to meaning, sense, evolution, progress ... instead of comfort, fear, luxury ... just as easily and probably more profitably.
Most modelling puts Florida as about 52/48 Biden's way but Texas 60/40 Trump's way.

It would be a mild surprise if Biden won Texas. It would be astonishing is Biden won Texas without also winning Florida.
A lot of people have a knee-jerk negative reaction to the name perl without understanding that perl chewed up and spit out this particular problem space. You probably don't want to develop your next webapp with a team of perl coders, but the language has its niche.
It doesn't matter how much value YouTube adds. It neither owns, nor does it assert that it owns, the copyright to these videos. Banks provide a value-add service for your money. They don't own your money. Value-add is not a valid legal test for copyright ownership.
Interesting that the tool above makes it appear that Trump has a much longer journey to win, and this tool shows that if he wins FL and PA, he's 92% likely to win the election. Guess, as always, the lens you're using affects your interpretation of the data.
it's absurd, but people rarely appreciate the runner ups. bing? not the best. office 365? nah, google docs is better.

and so it's not seen ad big tech, even if it's used by more people.

maybe it's also because MS tech talks don't really make no1 on HN.
It makes it worse lol. Using links to copyrighted materials in the tests meant to verify correct functionality?

It's "prominent" in the source code. They literally wrote out "Test VEVO video with video age protection" then linked to a Justin Timberlake song

https://gitlab.com/HacktorIT/youtube-dl/-/blob/master/youtub...

I clicked on this ready to see some stupidity from the copyright industry but literally downloading from links to copyrighted music in your unit tests?

That's how you give the RIAA a way to take down your project.
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Actually seeing this made the comments made in the worst faith about how "they took it down because you can use it to download bad stuff, what's next?!?!" seem pretty dumb.

If that was the case Bittorrent... which makes youtube-dl look like a guy slinging tapes out of a van next to Naspter HQ...

wouldn't have been able to send them packing with a simple "we don't endorse piracy": https://venturebeat.com/2015/08/07/bittorrent-to-riaa-youre-...
Makes sense. Copyright before digital goods seemed to strike a pretty acceptable balance. I can't mass-produce and sell a textbook that someone else owns the copyright to, but I can give it to my friend who's taking the class after me. The author makes a living, and purchasers gain a reasonable set of rights.

How do we get to a digital analogue of this? The physical-book copyright system probably wouldn't work well if everyone had a printing press and unlimited free paper, which is effectively what computers have given us.

Or maybe it would work fine. It's trivially easy (although maybe not legal) for me to download DRM-free copies of most ebooks that I want to read, and I still pay for them. Maybe enough people think that way that authors would still make a living.
I can’t really fault Joe for taking the money, as I think I probably would have done the same if given the chance. But man it sucks that this is the direction podcasting is headed. It is going to be so annoying in the future when you need 4 podcasting clients to play all your podcasts.
I would counter argue that if you are able to use youtube-dl you can explore the cache

The opposite cannot be taken for granted

But usually someone with very little technical knowledge can find files on their hard disks

It requires more than that to be able to run youtube-dl from the shell

The technical argument is even weaker, there are dozens of browser extensions that inject a "download video" button in video on demand websites

Video downloader professional has over 230k users, it can't download YouTube videos anymore because Chrome blocked it, because Chrome and YouTube are Google's and they don't care if you download videos, they only care about their videos, that show their ads, that make their money

youtube-dl serves a niche, a tiny one

What RIAA is doing is scaring people off from even trying, because the truth is that the real money is on mobile where youtube-dl doesn't exists...

BTW youtube-dl is a f*ng good piece of software, it should be praised not blocked

Meanwhile people will keep using JDownloader
"Napster could have been used for legal means as well, and it got destroyed in court."

But Napster was a service run by an organization.

youtube-dl is neither a service nor an organization. It's just some source code floating around the internet, to which volunteers contribute to.

A very different situation.

If anything, it's Youtube itself that's like Napster, and it's telling that the RIAA has gone after youtube-dl rather than Google.
> Regarding this, does anyone know where the best place to hear from the main developers is?

Sure, their website https://youtube-dl.org/

But they don't seem to have updated it yet
> Nuclear power is a zero emissions source of power. Alternative renewables (e.g. wind, solar) require fossil fuels to power the electrical grid when they are not able to generate power.

Renewables are about an order of magnitude cheaper than nuclear. $15/MWh vs $112/MWh. So what you do is overprovision your renewables. In other words, build more than you need. The major reason to do this is so that when the wind is barely blowing and/or it's a cloudy day you still get enough power to supply your needs without peakers. Then on the days when you're producing excess power (ie, most of them), you use that excess energy to produce methane from CO2. Use that methane to run your natural gas peakers, making them carbon neutral. This is likely much cheaper than batteries, certainly if you already have the gas peakers.

You'll have to overprovision to cover the very unlikely time that both the wind and sun disappear for a long stretch, so you'll be overprovisioned all other times. Methane production takes Hydrogen as an input, so you can use some of that excess energy to create extra Hydrogen. Or you can turn methane into plastic for use or storage. Or just sell the extra electricity, there are several industries that can soak up cheap electricity (please not to bitcoin miners though).

> Nuclear energy is more cost effective than alternatives. The main issue is that antinuclear activists, funded by the fossil fuel industry, have lobbied to make it cost prohibitive to build nuclear power plants by way of onerous regulation and prolonged legal battles.

Even in China, nuclear is incredibly expensive and takes a long time. So I don't think regulation is the main problem.

> Why? Producing hydrogen is inefficient and unnecessary

Clean steel & cement.
Hard to tell.

Ballmer became CEO in 2000. But Bill Gates continued being involved in day to day operations until 2009.

Considering that Microsoft got religious about security in the 2000s, and this was a shift in corporate policy, I give credit to Ballmer.
Yeah especially with COVID which has caused an ideal situation for this to flourish.
Unless you have a really good reason, I advise against learning absolute perfect pitch. If you do, it will drive you absolutely nuts to hear almost any music (since it will almost never be perfectly tuned).

Imagine for a moment that you could see all decimal numbers to 100 places, and it turned out that almost never was any number used by anyone else exactly x.0. Suddenly your world becomes full of "insignificant" but very distracting/annoying .9999887424151515 garbage. That, at least for me, is what absolute perfect pitch is like. (And thankfully, it can fade away as an ability just as it can arrive as one.)

Relative perfect pitch, which simply means you can accurately perceive relative distances between pitches, is very useful. I would expect that most experienced musicians (and some inexperienced but ?gifted? people) have this. It is also attainable, as nearly every other skill is.
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But YouTube is not the one taking legal action here, The RIAA is.
> a sphere with a radius of 24.4 meters

A more human-sized comparison is "100 average single-family homes in the US, all filled to the brim with rice". Or 60 ISSes, all filled completely with rice. Per person. And this is volume, not taking into account the weight of rice.

Minimum sustainable population size seems to be about 100 people, so consider how large a ship you'd need just to fit all that rice storage.
I thought that the costs come mostly from insurance? (Which the public is already on the hook for to some degree)

There are an lot of industry where they are not cost effective without heavy government involvement, and even then the public barely get to reap the rewards.

(Though I supposed if this happened in the USA it would be the death knell of the fossil fuel industry)
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> it is very much out of the norms of HN to do email-style alternating quote/response the way you are.

Counterpoint (with the quote for irony): I find that in politicized discussions like this one, when I want to jump in to correct something, it is horrifyingly common to find that the original comment has been editted to sneak around the point I wrote. The quotes act as protection against bad faith discussion.
Keep in mind that molecular evolution happens at a massive parallel scale. If there's some simple recipe for basic evolving life it is very unlikely that is not being hit in a few million years by a large number of molecules and then primitive cells.

And it's unlikely that there is only a single recipe. Most likely there are many (just on Earth all the others died out)
Yeah. The probably rarely is the debt itself, but the processes and circumstances that lead to the debt being accumulated in the first place.

Looking back and going "this is bad!" at your 'technical debt' isnt all that interesting. It's much more useful to understand what lead you (the team) to take those shortcuts in the first place.
This is an obsolete, 25 year old product. I very much doubt there are any existing customers anymore. The company and the product literally no longer exist.
Courts have ruled betamax Vcrs were legal, its legal to record tv shows and movies to watch them at a later date.
Even though in theory Vcrs could be used for the purposes of piracy.
Just because a device might be used to pirate content does not mean its can be banned.
Like bittorrent is used by many non profits to distribute
Open source software like
Linux distro iso, s
> We were planning on going to Bali next around March but we were slowly coming to the realization that that was not a good choice.

Would you please explain why Bali is not a good choice for you?

Why do you prefer Penang over Bali?
They didn’t build all the cars they would need concurrently; they mostly finished a small number at a time. That let them learn along the way, but there isn’t time to do that for nuclear because we need hundreds or thousands of plants and they each take years to build.
If Musk sent out a generation ship he'd die onboard and his grandchildren would turn the ship around to visit the mysterious alien planet they've heard tales of known as "earth".

I don't see any scenario where a generation ship can plausibly be expected to colonize another planet.
I'm not involved in smart contract development, but my understanding is that Vyper and its offshot Fe, are more amenable to formal verification on the Ethereum Virtual Machine.

And there's VeriSol, which allows for formal verification of Solidity smart contracts:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/verisol-a-f...

Anyway, FV doesn't guarantee secure smart contracts, because it doesn't guarantee that the claims that a team sets out to formally prove are themselves correct, or sufficient.
I do not think this is a relevant stance. Privacy issues people have with Firefox are not some imperfections that has to be fixed, they are due to misfeatures that were intentionally implemented to Firefox.
Indeed. Those videos are three out of 94 test cases scattered among youtube.py.
Or they could have had the YouTube links in another file, not part of the repo, and only download and parse it when tests are run.
I graduated from a meritocratic institution 20 years ago. Got there on a scholarship, studied unhindered by the politics of the day for 5 years, and it made me who I am today.

Unfortunately the same institution is today spending too much time and energy on various socio-political abstractions, hence it is not being able to offer the same opportunities for scientific exploration I enjoyed during my time there to the new generation.

From my experience, the pinnacle of education was around the end of the cold war here in the West, then it started going downhill once we lacked a properly defined adversary and started to look for enemies and oppressors in our own midst.
And that was my original point, using React for a small one page thing like this is grossly overkill but Vue is a good smaller alternative at this scale that gives you most benefits.

I looked at the jQuery example above and checked the Vue example in the same repo. That example has about as many lines total but the Vue example is 30% smaller in total due to shorter lines.

https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/tree/gh-pages/examples/vu...
As equipment ages out, we need to replace it with something. Just as we need to buy computers right now for our computation needs, even if it would be cheaper to wait until 2050 to compute things, that doesn't help us with decisions now.

The lifecycle of wind and solar is typically planned to be around 25 years. Most installs are lasting longer than expected. With wind, some farms are reporting with bigger turbines even before lifetimes are over as it is the economically advantageous choice for getting more energy out of a prime location for wind. This isn't common with solar because new panels are cheaper, but so now generate much more power from the same land usage unlike wind.

Renewables are a proven option, solar has truly become a "magic bullet," in that it is the cheapest energy source in history. But it will only be one tool among many that we will use.

I would like for nuclear to be a tool, but the current generation of tech is not constructable, and the lead times are too long for it to have an impact in the foreseeable future.
> unit tests are evidence that the whole project is meant for copyright infringement

Minor quibble, it's not so much infringement (Wouldn't that require redistribution? Or that the original upload itself be a violation?) as circumvention of a mechanism as described under DMCA section 1201.

(But does _generally_ circumventing a mechanism that is only _sometimes_ used to protect copyright actually run afoul of this?)