skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to a talk I went to we don't have the tech to pick up our own signals. In other words, we started putting out singnals ~100 years ago with radio and then TV. If we were even at Alpha Centuri, our current equipment could not pick up those radio/tv signals.
I need to mentally s/EU/Europe/ more often, sorry about that.
Mhmm, and what will you pay for that kind of guarantee, hmmm?
In Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. the majority opinion stated:

> [There must be] a balance between a copyright holder's legitimate demand for effective - not merely symbolic - protection of the statutory monopoly, and the rights of others freely to engage in substantially unrelated areas of commerce. Accordingly, the sale of copying equipment, like the sale of other articles of commerce, does not constitute contributory infringement if the product is widely used for legitimate, unobjectionable purposes. Indeed, it need merely be capable of substantial noninfringing uses.

Is there a subsequent opinion that reversed that? (How is youtube-dl substantially different from a VCR recording, if youtube is substantially similar to a broadcast medium?)

> [W]hen one considers the nature of a televised copyrighted audiovisual work ... and that time-shifting merely enables a viewer to see such a work which he had been invited to witness in its entirety free of charge, the fact ... that the entire work is reproduced ... does not have its ordinary effect of militating against a finding of fair use.
There's plenty of websites where you can download drm-free pdfs/mobis of most of the world's texts (at least I can attest for English, I'm less familiar with other languages).

I also usually buy paper books. If you buy the book, you shouldn't feel particularly guilty for "acquiring" the pdf/mobi. :)
“Renewables” doesn’t address climate change, low carbon grid-scale power does.
The landlord, a [redacted] engineer, was bragging about it on LinkedIn: [link redacted]
Well said. How the consensus on this thread ignores that huge point, I’m not sure.

It’s like people want to introduce more black swan possibilities in a world already inundated with them.
If google et al. could spin a legal case against adblockers, they would. The strategy here is just to use the legal bludgeon whenever it's possible.
Sounds to me like the CAPM economic model is in need of revision. Buybacks are a common tool for increasing shareholder value and investor sentiment figures heavily in asset pricing.
Show HN: Making Laundry Less Terrible with Machine Learning
We developed this in my political statistics class at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD. Everything was written from scratch (including an all-nighter by me to get the frontend ready :D), and we're very proud of the work we've done. I'm happy to answer any questions, although I might defer to my peers for some of parts of the model. It was a collaborative effort from the whole class, and some statistical analysis blog posts are coming in the next couple weeks!
Yeah, it gets weird. The little I know about Korea and Okinawa were cultures greatly shaped by Ming dynasty practice of vassal states, and later, Japanese expansionism.
The Australian government maintains a website and app listing public toilets.

There’s plenty of economic and social benefits to justify providing this as a public service.

https://toiletmap.gov.au/
> 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.

When there is zero wind and zero sun then it doesn't matter how much over provisioning there is: your output will be zero.

I live in Ontario, Canada, where we do have wind and (some) solar in our energy mixture. Wind can go from 100 to 2900 MW, and solar from 0 to 350 MW.

Looking at the Supply tab (18-24 Oct), on Tues, Oct 20, at 05:00 we had 173MW of wind and zero solar (sunrise@07:48):

* http://www.ieso.ca/power-data

The amount that we would have had to to "overprovision" to get useful renewables would have been ridiculous. Luckily our 9,500MW of nuclear just chugs along filling our base load with >4,000MW total available hydro helping, as well as some gas peakers.

If we built another 3000MW of nuclear then we could handle our base load with that, and hydro would be used for the variable portion of demand.

As someone who lives <50km from a nuclear power plant [0] bring in more.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickering_Nuclear_Generating_S...
Basically, use the best tool for the job. If you're working with complex data structures from many sources, having data, validation and transformation languages (XML, XSD and XSLT) which have been co-developed and refined to basically be able to validate any third-party tool is invaluable. Sometimes extra safety is worth both the extra space and time.
Taking a copy does not affect the potential market of the copyrighted work in any way. Sharing a copy is another matter. Youtube-dl facilitates taking a copy only, it is not a tool for sharing. This case is substantially different than Napster, I disagree. In some circumstances, you must be able to take a copy in order to exercise your allowed "transformative" fair use rights. You cannot sample a record without a way to take a copy.
It’s not “wrong” necessarily, but if you’re doing it intentionally, it’s probably because you believe that 432 is somehow better. Obviously, it’s possible to do it for satire reasons, but that’s not as common I would assume.
> Basically, defaulting to rolling over to DMCA requests had led to an environment where there’s no way to fight them

That's the DMCA works I thought? When the host receives the notice they have to take down the content then forward the notice to the user, who can then file a counter-claim and then the host restores the content (if they don't take it down they they're liable).
> shorter shelf-life than a bottle of ketchup

You know, that doesn’t really work, because ketchup lasts for ages
I personally love space and aviation stuff. But, as economies become more efficient and global, it’s increasingly unlikely that it will be possible to finance such projects. See: people haven’t been on the Moon for 50 years, Concord haven’t
flown for 20. Both projects have been financed through relatively undemocratic, non-market means.
Though fears of safety has prematurely shut down nuclear in some markets, I don't think that safety fears has hindered deployment of new reactors that much. And if we are talking about addressing climate change, we are talking about new deployment because we must replace other energy sources.

In places where new nuclear has been built, it has not proven to be a spectacularly desirable energy source. The entire Western world has failed at building new reactors, causing bankruptcies and state acquisitions and restructurings. Even nuclear darling France is pulling back from new nuclear, instead looking to renewables and storage, including hydrogen. China tried valiantly but is pulling back from very large scale deployment. South Korea has had some success, but that's because quality control turned out to be a scam, so who knows about the quality of the reactors they built.

Russia's Rosatom has had some success, probably, but nobody trusts them.

The remaining market for nuclear are where there are corrupt bureaucracies where the prospect of a massive single project makes the potential for massive bribes possible. This is why coal succeeds in India, for example.

As for "doing no harm" with solar, I have yet to see any concrete examples of solar causing definitive harm. A solar failure doesn't cause massive environmental harm. The mining issues are similar to uranium mining. If solar is causing harm, I'd love to know how, but having searched for this and come up empty, and having people claim that solar causes harm and never follow through with specifics, I'm extremely skeptical of the claim. At least until there's some evidence to look into.

Until we can reliably contradict nuclear and also see that it actually seems like a good financial deal (taking into account all the costs of failed builds), nobody will really want to put up money for nuclear unless it's for ulterior reasons: corruption or nuclear proliferation or subsidizing a nuclear submarine fleet or something like that.
> And it still suck as a scripting language.

Why do you think that? I find PowerShell quite neat and more consistent than what bash and alike has to offer.
Lol, Chipotle is popular with me because you get good quality food that’s healthy enough to touch most areas of the food pyramid all in one meal. Also a filling amount of food at a fair price.
they all work fine for me.
But I would much rather an industry be run by fair, auditable code than (unfortunately faulty) humans.

The only thing "auditable" gets you is "certain to have the intended outcome". It doesn't make the intended outcome good or ... uh, fair.

If a company uses unfair smart contracts, there will always be alternatives.

Why would that be? You have plenty of situations right now where a given company will offer you an ordinary contracts where there are no alternatives. Google's monopoly on Internet advertising has gotten a lot of press, there are plenty of places where a single ISP is all that's possible. What kind of contract would hospitals offer a person right before surgery?

I find it remarkable someone would make this sort of statement.
But that's what I'm saying.. when the candidates are so similar that certain interest groups always get their way (for example biden and sanders agree on oil, unlike republicans and sanders), then certain special interests become privileged
The issue here isn’t that youtube-dl infringes copyright, it’s that (according to the RIAA claim) its purpose is to “circumvent the technological protection measures used by authorized streaming services.” Even if youtube-dl was tested exclusively on public domain videos, so that the developers never infringe copyright, it could violate 17 U.S.C. 1201 [1] if the RIAA succeeds in proving that it was “primarily designed” or “marketed” for circumventing technological protection measures.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
Most ants are benign. Some ants will eat your house. We have the technological capacity to make our own planet uninhabitable to humans and perhaps to any kind of life if we tried hard enough. We could probably do pretty nasty things to planets in other star systems if we were sufficiently motivated to do so and weren't in any great hurry.

An advanced alien civilization might see us not as threatening per se but rather as a potential problem they have to manage somehow and not just ignore.
> would a "derivative work" ... be considered to have a different intent?

Probably not. If intent were to be demonstrated in court, a derivative work would almost certainly be tainted in turn unless those authors had a _really_ good justification for their actions. (IANAL though; I'm just guessing based on other copyright cases that came up in the media before.)

For example, imagine forking Napster back in the day, redoing the UI, and rewriting half of the internals. Do you really think a court would let that fly? Judges are hardly idiots.

That being said, why not just mirror the original to a host running as a tor hidden service and continue all development efforts there?
Have you tried xonsh? It's lovely. If you have python, you can install xonsh. It's packaged in apt, brew, conda, and probably more.

It's pretty seamless to flow from bashlike pipelines to pythonic imports and functions.

Autocomplete out of the box is better than bash, comparable to fish or ipython.

https://xon.sh/
This is ridiculous. California's gop is broadly successful as most of the states land is republican by far. And at the state level that's what matters. Plus it's only a few years ago that california had a gop governor. You can say lots of schwarzenegger but he didn't campaign like it's Kansas.
Amazing program: There are a lot of homeless pets and the affection from an animal is very therapeutic. I hope these programs expand and the US prison system comes into the 21st century.
I don't sorry, but it was probably a HBR case study.
>It makes it worse lol. Using links to copyrighted materials in the tests meant to verify correct functionality?

Using copyrighted materials in test code is fair use and a well established practice:

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

The creators of youtube-dl are not distributing the material or inducing infringement by using a link to it in a unit test. I am typically on the RIAA's side,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23079092

but they're going to lose this one. If RIAA should be mad at anyone, it is youtube for distributing it without DRM. Youtube really really REALLY should have had their asses taken to the cleaners in viacom vs youtube. I don't know what the settlement was, but it wasn't enough, because youtube still exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y....

This is a python program doing exactly the same steps a browser takes to download the file. It's just written in python instead of js.
Not having read any legal literature around or really understanding the DMCA, how can they not make a distinction between things with legitimate uses and not? How do torrent clients stand up to that?
Rather ironic given that facebook has engaged in human subject research regarding emotional manipulation without informed consent in the past. I think they’ve waived their right to object.
I really want to like Tidal but I can't support Tidal's endorsement of MQA[1] - an audiophile scam and an attempt to lock music into yet another proprietary format. While they still use it, I won't sign up and I'll continue to dissuade others from doing so.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Quality_Authenticated#C...
TrueNAS 12.0 Is Released
I am so fucking glad I never stopped buying my music on CDs and ripping the tracks like a caveman.

Why is it considered reasonable to rely on services and companies that we know we're going to outlive?
Sharing the OP’s position, and having worked in a biochemical technology development lab in grad school, I don’t think that’s quite right. Structural biology is disproportionately seductive as a data source because we are such visual creatures. You “see” it so it must be true. I’ve definitely been guilty of it while looking at protein structures, I doubt anyone in the field hasn’t. Hell there used to be 3D rigs you could buy with IR activated LED shutter glasses so you could see structures in 3D on your monitor and “better understand” the structure.

It’s easy to get misled, proteins are incredibly dynamic in solution. Binding pockets appear and disappear, change shape, add and remove water. Given a structure of an unknown enzyme, with little to no biochemical characterization, you can’t tell what the catalytic mechanism or rate is. You probably can’t tell what the crucial residues are for binding at all. You may be able to tell the binding pocket, and... generate some hypotheses!

That’s not to say protein structures aren’t helpful, they are! Especially things like co-crystals with drugs can help study that specific interaction. But I think the OP is totally right, we should back off strong conclusions on structure alone. It’s a great hypothesis generator, not a final answer in and of itself.

The awesome part of cryoem at atomic scale is that we can now get MORE hypotheses generated faster with tougher proteins than with X-ray crystallography and other methods.
> youtube has it's own Download function in the mobile apps, even for copyrighted content

Wait, seriously? I had no idea. I would think the presence of such a feature would severely undermine the RIAA's case.
Just make the vote of each state proportional to the number of people who voted in that state.

Or change the Constitution.
There are a number of reasons why buybacks can increase prices. See https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-cor... for a list.

All are second order effects.
Political ads, political commentaries, memes.

I have someone on my contact list in fb who honestly thinks that QAnon exposes pedophiles. I can't wrap my head around how the heck they've reached that conclusion.
The mention of the copyrighted work eg. "Taylor Swift" does not lay out a case of infringement. Merely possessing a copy does not indicate infringement, you could be in pursuit of your fair use rights, with no intention to share. Given the cost of bandwidth and predilection of media conglomerates to meter and limit it, I would argue that there is actually no likelihood of facilitating any substantially infringing use.

The person who took a copy has no substantial reason to share it with anyone, as it is freely available through the content providers. Anyone with a copy of youtube-dl can get it, (does youtube-dl enable the download of any paywalled content? If so, that might be a fact that changes the game. But if so, does the RIAA claimant have standing to make that argument?)
Are they lying when they say ‘YouTube’s “rolling cipher” is an effective technical measure within the meaning of EU and German law, which is materially identical to Title 17 U.S.C. §1201 of the United States Code’? That seems quite plausible to me. Executing Google’s code in a regular web browser doesn’t give you a way to save an .mp4 file on your computer.
> This is a particularly sci-fi element. I don't think it's immediately obvious how to separate the universe into "meaningful" computation and the sort of computation a stationary rock is "performing" as its atoms jiggle around, such that one can distinguish at the level of the laws of physics themselves between a rock and a car engine or other simple mechanical device.

It sounds like what you’re asking boils down to “is entropy a real thing, or is it subjective / relative to our purposes and measurements.” And that the Zones essentially work by enforcing an “entropy quota” on things according to where they are in the galaxy- things in the Slow Zones must be very high-entropy (and somehow are forced to become so if they weren’t before) and things in the Transcend can be low-entropy in ways we couldn’t currently imagine.
Even if it really is safe now, it's going to be hard to sell the public on nuclear when we keep telling them how safe it is and how Chernobyl was a one-time Communist screw-up, and Fukushima only happened because it was an old design, and every other excuse listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_and...

Dropping the ball wasn't a one time thing, and it's going to be hard to talk people into believing we somehow now finally will stop dropping the ball, or that we have foreseen every possible edge case, or that the worst-case scenario really isn't that bad.

So, then, how do we do that?
I disagree. CMake is a freaking mess, but its won, so most non-header-only libraries are setup for CMake. I've tried to learn CMake a number of times and have written non-trivial CMake configs. I spent a lot of time on it that I could have spent on my actual project instead and in the end it was still not quite right (breaking after moving to a different system and trying to compile there). I made multiple attempts to try and learn how to do it and failed.

So I gave up, I have better (more fun, more productive) things to spend my time on. Life is too short to waste on such things.
> * We are a genesis project and they will simply come back later and settle in what we left behind (i.e. they let the ecosystem build for a few million years before trying out this settlement)

Depressing fiction idea: our progenitors return, look at what we've done with the world, shake their heads and leave us to suffer.
One obvious consideration is to see if anyone is living there. Even just the basic economic consideration of spending a low fraction of the cost of a habitable ship to collect more data. Generation ships also implies different people will be arriving, however having a X thousands of year lifespan is another possibility. Which is kind of the thing, sharing physics is a given but biology and especially culture could be very different.
You're assuming that all code performing SHA requires a "secure" hash.

It's only "broken" for security applications, and there are tons of others for which security is not even a consideration, or where collision is not possible due to input constraints.
I agree with your concept. The main problem though, is that each of those code hosting web app is a silo of its own. Any new contributor will have to create a new account for each of the self-hosted projects. Youtube-dl is one of those projects that can't survive in such an environment. Sourcehut is free from such requirements - but many complain about difficulty of email-based workflow. Another option is the upcoming federation protocol from gitlab.
I mean, I worked in the .com era with perl coders who made some pretty compelling products out of Perl, for the time, with some discipline, and TBH... it wasn't terrible, and when they "Did the right thing" and rewrote the whole thing in the new hotness (J2EE) it _was_ terrible.

Perl will let you hang yourself, and I hated it at the time, but it also got the job done.
They can just move the project to IPFS[1] then, it has support for Git repositories [2].

[1] https://ipfs.io/

[2] https://docs.ipfs.io/how-to/host-git-style-repo/
Feel free to demonstrate. Take a long path with nasty characters and give me the ending file name. I want "track1.mp3" returned from:

/podcast/with/nasty'--c h a r$/and/stuff/track1.mp3
Perhaps you're getting down voted for pointing out that the BLM organization is different than the sentiment that yes, black lives matter. I've found you can't criticize the BLM organization or else it's equated that you think black lives do not matter.
> There are a lot of people that think this came out of the blue and interpret the chants as an impending pogrom putting some people's lives above others, but that is a distortion that is furthest from the truth.

Indeed. There's a lot of knee-jerk reaction against Black Lives Matter, and an eagerness to establish who the leaders are so it and everyone involved can be discredited. However, it's not an organization, it's a movement. Do you think the lives of black people matter? Then you're part of Black Lives Matter.
iTunes was designed [in part, probably a principal part of the original design] for CD ripping, I gather (I haven't personally used it more than twice, many years ago).

Format shifting was at the time not allowed in UK copyright law, and again is not allowed as of a couple of years ago (it was only allowed for about a year).

iTunes was designed for copyright violation. I'm sure the manual will show that.

Just for comparison.

It's my understanding that any media _can_ fall under Fair Use in the USA, meaning that there would have to be specification as to who was using the software and their circumstances within the unit tests in order to make it infringing use. You might fir example be archiving, or preparing educational materials, or compiling a review, or doing subtitling.

It's not sufficient to prove someone downloaded, you have to show it was infringing activity. How do you do that with a unit test? Software to perform legitimate, legal downloads would still have to do that same test.

In short you've found a smoking gun, now prove its principle purpose is murder.

This comment is provided solely for entertainment and in no way relates to my employment.
I migrated to ampache a while back. Other than a bad UI it's really solid. It supports the subsonic API (among others) so you can use one of those apps.
Here's hoping he'll be rethinking his "backup career" real soon, then.
Let’s assume your sending a Von Neumann probe to prep the way for your ship. Now it shows up and does whatever it needs to and then sends an everything is ready signal before you send your generation ship.

I mean sure you could in theory send out an endlessly replicating probe that keeps going to other star systems, but that’s even more risky.