skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was probably mining industry promotion. This report from Navigant Research, prepared on behalf of the Copper Development Association, contains both statistics and copper industry scheming regarding copper use in wind power:

https://www.copper.org/publications/pub_list/pdf/a6198-na-wi...

Most uses of copper in wind power can be substituted by aluminum when copper prices rise. Speaking on behalf of copper producers who want to impede substitution, the report says:

Substitution by aluminum can be addressed with proactive promotion based on copper’s known benefits of higher energy efficiency (reduction of energy losses) and assurance of long‐term reliability. Aluminum is vulnerable here due to its lower strength, relaxation behavior and corrosion resistance. The downstream technical and economic risks associated with “value engineering” copper out of critical components are unknown. And, because the costs or repair, maintenance and downtime are known to be high in wind‐energy plants, copper promotion based on reducing life‐cycle costs through improved reliability and efficiency should be a worthwhile undertaking. Institutional promotion through the establishment of prudent codes, standards and recommended practices is also recommended.

It's a mixture of highlighting legitimate engineering concerns, raising FUD about failure to address those concerns, and trying to get copper specifically entrenched in codes and standards so that aluminum will not be allowed to compete with copper.

For answering the specific question of how much copper current wind power uses, see table 2-1. There's a lot of variation. The project built with 2.1 MW turbines from Suzlon had a copper intensity of 6.8 tonnes (14,900 pounds) per megawatt, while the project with 3.0 MW turbines from Vestas took only 2.5 tonnes (5600 lbs) per megawatt. Mass of copper per turbine is a poor metric because turbines come in various generating capacities.
there will never be a safe country. The robust option is to mirror them in hostile countries. Divide them and conquer
Not that big of a difference, since I see unit tests as examples, still sloppy either ways.
How to remember anything forever-ish (2018)
I just installed it from archive.org using the url homebrew uses. It's a simple matter to run brew install -d youtube-dl plug the url that into archive.org, download the archive, cp it to the dl location (minus the .incomplete) that brew expects, and then run it again without the -d so it thinks it is already downloaded.

I wouldn't have installed if they hadn't done this, and I'll probably never use it, but this rubbed me the wrong way.
I don't think it's healthy to fear what most don't care to attempt to understand.
Because browsers and network protocols were not created with the primary purpose of violating copyrights...

Intent matters in the law.

After after all, two guns can be physically and functionally identical, but if one is purchased to be used in a conspiracy to commit murder then it's evidence of a crime, and the other gun is still just a gun.
Yeah I might update that with a little more info.

Essentially it's just a matter of ringing round all the offset printing companies in your area til you find one that will sell you their used plates.
I've only so far not managed to find them in the deep Australian outback, and the high Himalayas.

Otherwise tho any ~0.3mm aluminium sheet will do.
Weight and oxidisation are certainly issues, but mostly it's that the alu is easy to bend and cut by hand, and is more than strong enough to withstand high winds.
Doesn't this NYU research project fall squarely within Facebook's stated mission "To give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected."

Seriously fuck Facebook and fuck Zuckerberg. This company is the absolute height of hypocrisy, hubris and deception.

I hope this only makes more people interested in this research project and spurs more interest in similar projects in the future.
> What is odd though is that it's the RIAA filing suit here and not google. Google has a real complaint, RIAA certainly does not.

Probably not wanting to poke a hornets nest of the open source community.
Agreed. There's a lot of dignity in honest work. Exploitation can rob people of that dignity but it doesn't have to.
The difference is that the FiveThirtyEight tool is taking into account the coupling between the outcomes. They project Trump's odds of winning PA at 13%, so if he does win PA it's likely he's doing better than expected in other competitive races. The originally linked tool is just showing all the combinations of outcomes for these 12 competitive races.

Sure, Biden would win the election if Trump won PA and FL but then lost Ohio and Georgia. But what are the odds that Trump wins PA and then loses Georgia? Unlikely.
Yep I'd guess NY is one of the eight. In NC they process in advance, and if I vote with both methods, they arrest me for a felony. The state attorney general and BoE had to point that out to everyone after Trump suggested people try it.
Office 365 is crushing Google Docs in sales. It would have been hard not to :-)
Not sure, but can generally keep myself composed in public. I imagine it will catch up to me eventually
What new products? The iPhone and iPads I use today are materially the same things as the ones I had half a decade ago. The only new products that come to mind are airpods and the Watch, and I credit Tim Cook with those, but I can't think of anything else.

Apple's valuation doesn't do me any good (or ill!) as a customer. I feel like there are a lot more bugs in Mac OS than there were in the past, and I'd happily trade Apple's market cap for a return to confident OS upgrades.
Warning: Lower your expectation.

The novel was written in traditional Chinese, with a different style and narration system.

The novel has many ancient poem mixed in the text, a major part of the plot, they were almost always vastly inferior when translated.

Lastly, even if the translation goes well, the cultural sensitivity required to appreciate the story and character is going to put you in such a disadvantage that you'll wonder why it feels so bland, even claimed one of the best...
“this approach will be feasible if it is possible to design gravimetric devices that are four to five order of magnitude more sensitive than current devices.“

Catch that?
"Leading" is incorrect, but modeling has assumed D's need a 70-30% advantage in mail voting. This is because of polling regarding COVID where R's are less worried about early IPEV and more likely voting on election day. The current numbers are nowhere near that, so I wouldn't be surprised if Florida is red.
Thank you for the time-scale comparison on a level with money transfers as opposed to POS Credit/Debit -- it is a more appropriate comparison IMHO.

Here's one interesting angle in POS comparison that I never see mentioned anywhere:

VISA, MC, AMEX set a high-standard being able to very quickly process transactions even under high-load times like holidays.

But they did this in part, because they practically had to...Think of holidays shoppers at physical retail stores lined-up at a cash register -- they need approved or denied answer ASAP.

But with that sales model is dying a noticeable death -- no one doubts it will soon be gone -- which brings me back to BTC and and me finally making my point

If you're making a retail purchase from Amazon and choose Next Day for delivery, does it matter that BTC is going to take 15 minutes or even 30 minutes to clear?
Which has nothing to do with the "presence and communications" data you actually commented about.
Except that it is exactly what we want for the level of demand that we never fall below, which is still about half of the peak demand. And if we use nuclear for that, it significantly reduces the amount of storage we need for renewables.

Also, nuclear combines well with thermal storage because you don't incur double conversion losses. If you store heat from the reactor during the day when solar is generating, use it during the peak demand in the evening when it isn't, and then run directly from the reactor overnight, you don't really need any other storage.
The incidents were unrelated to maintenance. They were only related to training in the sense that the airlines in question didn't have access to the training that would have informed pilots of the serious design flaws inherent in this aircraft.
> So it was at the time when the king could've simply set the gold rate for the currency, and do the very same thing with borrowing, and lending on behalf of the state

No. The de facto currency was estimated mass of precious metal. The king could default, of course. But that is selective; inflation is not. Re-basing happened, but just as with money printing, it is tracked and accounted for and, in extreme cases, fled from.

Equating modern monetarism with gold-standard economics betrays, fortunately, a terrific opportunity to learn from works that have been peer reviewed, in many cases, for over a century.
Your proprietary code analogy is incredibly weird. Why would anyone need gofyourself-dl to download your container code? And what does Google have to do with the creation of youtube-dl, which is used to download stuff hosted on Google's website? And you talked about publishing code, but where does youtube-dl publish the videos it downloads?
Or are you just implying that not executing all of Google's code and not watching a gazillion ads to download and view videos is some sort of "theft of IP"? Or is it that youtube-dl doesn't automatically delete the video after watching? I seriously don't get it.

> don't for a second think the RIAA is thrilled with that mechanism

What would they prefer doing? Arrest people who are using youtube-dl to listen to music? Go after people who are rehosting music from youtube on their website?
I use the Xperia X. Newer phones are supported (e.g. XA2), and I'm speculating here, but I imagine even newer phones are in the pipeline (e.g. Xperia 10 II).

I don't recommend SailfishOS to anyone who is looking for the fastest/most supported device out there. I recommend SailfishOS devices to those who primarily use their phone as a phone (and a desktop/laptop as their primary work station), and want an independent mobile device, or want the Linux ethos on their phone.
In 2016, there was furor regarding third party data analytics. The $5 billion FTC fine was ostensibly about protecting user privacy. It can be seen here as a fine for inadequate exercise of data authority: Facebook was letting outsiders see what's in the castle.

Now, the walls are opaque, and privacy situation is worse. Outsiders can no longer observe and audit Facebook's output information to users, let alone the information users offer as input.
There is a longstanding acknowledgement of the "rude tourist" effect where people behave less respectfully when outside of their hometown, even if it's one town over. It just becomes more of a caricature when it's an entirely different language and culture and tourist is like, "well, that's not how we do things where I come from".
The cross-platform technology behind Livecode has been in use and in development since before Windows 95.

http://metacard.com/

The product known as Metacard and was bought out and enhanced to create Livecode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCard

I've been using it for 20 years, creating apps for Windows, MacOS, Linux, iPhone and Android.
I think he says early on that the archive trap doesn't have self-awareness, except for a few subroutines that need to be self-aware like the simulations of the researchers which facilitate the escape. Even the name blight evokes a fungus. I was thinking of it's cruelty to lower civs as analogous to the cruelty of a fungus secreting an antibiotic.

Hunting down the OOBII comes down to the escaped personae having data that could be used against it by another power.
It's fast, because it's old

-- State of software, 2020
There are several abilities that can be called "perfect pitch" -- identification vs recall, automatic vs labored. I've never seen this categorized before, but here's my attempt:

1. The ability to immediately identify a pitch name from listening. This is the common definition. It is analogous to a native language speaker recognizing a spoken word -- it's automatic and requires no effort.

2. The ability to /recall/ a pitch from memory accurately. When you sing a tune, are you singing in the same key as the original recording? Some people can't do this.

3. The ability to identify a pitch name from listening, not immediately/reflexively but by mentally matching it against a well-remembered reference pitch. This requires (2) and also requires some work on your part, to remember a "catalog" of reference pitches.

4. Ability to recognize a chord type and root, either automatically (like #1) or by mental reference to some well-remembered chords (like #3). Of course, the root can be ambiguous and tricky to find.

I can't do #1 (immediate automatic pitch recognition) but once in a rare while it happens. I can do #2 easily -- mentally recall or sing any remembered tune within probably 25 cents. That means I can tune a newly-strung guitar, e.g., pretty well (though not perfectly) by just remembering a reference low E (first note in Airbag) or drop-D (first note in Everlong). I can do #3 with some mental effort -- requires me remembering my catalog of opening note for a handful of songs/pieces, and then doing a slow mental match.
CEO emails 10M customers to tell them to vote for Biden
Uranium can be extracted from seawater at reasonable cost and can last for at least tens of thousands of years from there
This isn't a DMCA takedown. It's a cease and desist letter citing the DMCA.

The difference matters. GitHub is required to honor DMCA takedowns. Other legal requests are granted on a case by case basis.

-- /u/telionn @ reddit

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jgub36/youtube...

As I understand, takedown is a 17 USC 512 (copyright infringement) safe-harbour, but not a required or indemnifying protection under 17 USC 1201, anti-circumvention:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

Lumen (Chilling Effects) is silent on this point in their FAQ: https://lumendatabase.org/topics/14
What about the opportunity cost of having a planet to live on?
This writer seems more interested in getting a literary award than explaining anything about bankruptcy law.

Get to the point.
You get copper mining ads in the USA? Who and why are they for?
Cue the plot of Doom Eternal
> Also, does the fact that YouTube doesn't supply a download feature constitute a "technical protection measure"?

an actual court in germany ruled that: https://openjur.de/u/2194436.html

sadly german only. lots of fud and hamburg is often pro copyright owner. not sure if that would hold at the highest instance.
Yes lets shutdown everything we dont agree with.
Washington Post public editor: powerful have realized they don’t need the Post
> I've always wondered, are courts fooled by such disclaimers?

No. And there's no educational exception in the DMCA anyway.
The kicker is that if their demo examples had been something like that, or e.g. students downloading copies of free lectures, or etc, the RIAA would have much less of a case. No actual code would have had to change.

If you have a tool which skirts (bad, overreaching, probably constitutionally invalid) laws, be smart about how you present them!
> Except that it is exactly what we want for the level of demand that we never fall below, which is still about half of the peak demand. And if we use nuclear for that, it significantly reduces the amount of storage we need for renewables.

The bottom half of the demand is the easy half, why would you use your most expensive power for the easy stuff?

> Also, nuclear combines well with thermal storage because you don't incur double conversion losses. If you store heat from the reactor during the day when solar is generating, use it during the peak demand in the evening when it isn't, and then run directly from the reactor overnight, you don't really need any other storage.

In other words, you're running your nuclear at a 50% duty cycle, doubling it's price. I don't think there is much appetite for power that costs over $200 per MWh.
Or you and your wife and her extended family across five states in three time zones all get together for a game of mini-golf, a round of bowling, a hoverbike race, or a match of zero-g ender's game quidditch.

There are cool single-player experiences, sure, but that's not all it's good for. And with standalone hardware that doesn't require an external sensor setup and powerful gaming computer, they're really quite accessible.
Recently a lot of tweets in the front page, 5 tweets on the frontpage on the same day even just last week[1]

Can't help but think hn now showing the username for some domains including twitter is increasing the submissions somehow? Or maybe people just engage more in discussion around tweets lately.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2020-10-15
This is one of the few cases where I went from thinking the headline was clickbait to thinking it was an excellent way to draw a connection between high-level science and aspects of the world that lay people can easily connect with. It would be nice if the author used the section you quoted for something like a "see TL;DR below", but anyone who fully reads the article should get the connection at least.
Compared to youtube-dl and an offline media player like mpv, youtube's web interface is absolute garbage for consuming content. The only thing it's half-good for is discovery because it shows thumbnails of the videos and links to related videos.

Useful things that I can't do on through youtube's web interface:

1 - archive videos (so many videos have been taken down and would be lost forever to me had I not had an offline archive of them)

2 - quickly play through a ton of videos on demand, offline, without waiting to load the video (and the ads) -- skimming through dozens of offline videos takes seconds, but I'd have to stare at my browser loading forever to accomplish the same thing through a web browser

3 - make use of many useful features of powerful media players like mpv... just yesterday I needed to invert the colors on a screencast because I was watching it at night and the video's white window background was blinding me.. I could do this instantly in mpv, but absolutely impossible on youtube

4 - remix the video or otherwise alter it to my needs using powerful offline video editors.. youtube's offerings here are again a sad joke in comparison (as are most web tools compared to offline tools)

5 - not have to sit through a single stinking ad

If youtube could have just offered simple download links for their videos this would not be a problem.

But, no, they need you to be glued to their website and bound hand and foot to their service for as many hours of the day as they can bleed out of you.
By opening up a business nearby that causes lots of noise, so something like a truck marshalling yard or truck stop would be perfect as you have large moving objects that cause lots of vibrations, making it nearly impossible to filter the noise out well enough.

Failing that, you would want to have your craft look like a heavy truck as much as possible (vibrations should be close to the same period as a common truck suspension, etc) so their denoising algorithms discard you as yet another truck.
Recording Industry Association of America Gets YouTube-Dl Kicked Off GitHub
There's gotta be a sci-fi book about this but what are the chances that another civilization already went through the singularity? Is that even possible? How would that change things?
Certainly not impossible but I don’t often have to deal with large amounts of files in circumstances where the performance hit matters to anyone. And while I know sed, awk, etc are powerful, I don’t know them & I’d have to learn how to use them, whereas I do know Ruby & Python.

At the very best this is an edge case where one would have reason to choose shell scripts over scripting languages.
i find that ruby combines the best features of perl and python in that respect. makes shell-like scripts really convenient and easy while still providing the means to add structure.
Show HN: Bolt, a fuzzy search library focused on speed and memory
Calls to handlers/functions (usually) pass through what is called "the message path", going from object -> grouped objects -> card -> substack -> stack. This path is also enhanced by frontscripts and backscripts (code placed in the path either before the initial object or behind the stack).

So well-organized code does not have to be scattered among 100s of objects, but is instead centralized and placed in the most appropriate location.

In 2016 "script only stacks" were introduced. The normal stack is a binary file containing code and GUI elements. The script only stack is a text file, meaning it can be diffed and put under normal version control.

https://livecode.com/script-only-stacks/
Click link in Firefox on iOS...

Get greeted with notice that says “Please copy paste URL into safari, your browser isn’t supported.”

Proceed to roll eyes.
This is why I buy digital material I like and keep it locally with the copies backed up in few places around the globe on rented servers. Not hosting my source codes, software etc on clouds either. All on my own servers with backups/standby elsewhere.
Ugh, I don't want to get into this Stallmanist "if the server returns 200 it's ok!" tarpit. If you believe that, it's fine.

You probably won't ever actually need to use that defense outside of internet arguments honestly... for all their noise the most repercussions the average person might ever see from infringing copyrights is a scary letter from an ISP.

Good luck if the legal system decides to test your hypothesis though.

This isn't about YouTube's TOS at this point, you're making a copy of a copyrighted video without the consent of the copyright holder

> downloading works protected by copyright without the authority of the copyright owner is an infringement of the copyright owner's exclusive rights of reproduction and/or distribution
thats because repetition is key. a book will repeat the same idea over and over many times, an article 3 times (introduction, body and conclusion), but a comment is usually terse and hastily written. So the solution is to read the comment a few times, preferably in 7 minute intervals
Not only do you have to figure out the URLs from the source, but you have to assemble all the parts.

Youtube's website changes all the time, too, so you'll have to constantly re-read the source and adapt your downloader to it (essentially what youtube-dl does).

It may not be rocket science, but it's not trivial either, and not every developer on HN is a web developer or has any interest (or time) to become one.
Self-reply: d'oh, I may have misinterpreted on this too; the data in the report is a little more complex.

I was comparing the 'max' lifetime estimates per-source (the third value in the column) rather than the medians (second value).

Using the medians, wind is cleanest, followed by nuclear, followed by solar. I'd encourage anyone interested to read the linked report to confirm their understanding.

It'd be nice to find trends over time to see whether these estimates (and thus the overall ordering) is likely to remain stable, or whether recent developments may change the situation.
> making half of European continent uninhabitable

In what remotely plausible scenario would that have happened? Feel free to involve the USSR, reactor safety of the time, etc.

Because from what I know, the fallout was definitely not making anything nearly that large "uninhabitable". Deaths would go up, but so did they from the coal plants that were subsequently built (we're at 3 million deaths a year, if memory serves; that's the number you have to beat to make nuclear less attractive than coal from a more sciency perspective than "what maybe could have happened but didn't, ha-haa!").