skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point we have some proven designs that make things a little easier to get right because we're not building from scratch. But a big part of the problem now is lack of expertise. We don't have enough trained hands to build these sorts of specialized systems, or keep them running once built.

We need to bootstrap our way out of this problem. Appropriate education programs should be created and subsidized. The aging workforce that still exists should be paid well to put off retirement or hired out of retirement to help implement things like apprenticeships. In five years we could have a new generation of workers with an established pipeline to continue training more people.
Without the existence of youtube-dl, youtube itself is necessarily commuting copyright infringement over the a good portion of the CC-By-SA works uploaded to youtube.

(not all of them, since the uploader grants youtube a license... but if the work has copyright holders who aren't the uploader, it applies)
I'm not advocating violence. You're seeing what you want to see.
Dutroux Affair: Betrayed by a Country (2018)
Thank you! I hope my government teacher would be proud. :)

I'd love to hear anybody poke holes in this idea. It's a recent one for me. I'm sure they exist, but I haven't come up with them yet.

Obviously, there's the incentive for fraudulent votes. But there's already an incentive for fraudulent votes, and it doesn't seem to cause much of a problem.
What would abiogenesis even look like today? Some random molecules bouncing together in just the right way and spontaneously forming some organic compounds. And then a bacteria comes along and eats it, or it encounters the huge concentration of environmental oxygen and reacts.

Going from inorganic sludge to life isn't "an event", it's multiple events over millions of years until the right chemicals get together and form something that can reasonably be called "a thing" that can even be alive. It only makes sense for that process to have happened once, because the resulting life would have outcompeted any future proto-life.
> The example in the README is evidence of this.

it wasn't in the readme, it was in the test suite.

I don't think it would be difficult to argue that downloading the world for the sole purpose of making sure the downloading worked was not an infringement (or, alternatively, was fair use).
It also shows that if you cut power to the cooling system of a reactor of a very common design, there are no passive systems that can prevent a meltdown.
Freedom of opinion includes freedom from opinion. Can you imagine public life where ever interactions in coloured with politics.
You know what ruins software? Refactoring old stuff you don't like so the code base is "nice", which incidentally introduces 100 bugs that didn't need to exist, pushes deadlines back cause someone has to fix those bugs, and loses customer confidence to the point that investors and customers don't care anymore and then you have no one to build for (but at least your code base is nice and scale-able, to bad 10 x 0 customers is still 0).

I've seen more issues because of nonsense like that, or people insisting that code should be DRY and making ridiculous mental contortions in the name of a three letter acronym, or personal taste (the amount of fashion in software development is insane) but I've yet to see a project truly fail because someone cobbled something together quickly, and introduced tech debt. So far anyways.
It's currently possible to detect the atmosphere of some exoplanets. The presence of oxygen would be a pretty good indicator that photosynthesis is happening.
Improving my dating life one text analysis at a time
Damages include legal fees in the case of DMCA.
I'm only half joking.

> You can still buy a different device, not take part in an existing system, and do whatever you want.

The point is you can't. Intense social pressure to interact with people who _do_ take part in the existing system means you have to partake in the existing system to interact.

My friends use Messenger so I need a facebook account, or my family uses WhatsApp so I need a non-rooted android phone.

No mainstream messaging apps support federation and many are hostile towards reverse engineering. WhatsApp for example will permaban accounts who do not use official clients in the name of "security."

You don't notice because you have already excluded anyone who chooses not to use a mainstream Android or iOS device. Or anyone you know who _would_ like to make that choice doesn't, cause they don't want to be that one friend who can't be reached as easily as the rest of the group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKg8GSsPSMg
I think in that case the copyright infringement would be the uploader rather than YouTube, but IANAL.
There are several recorded cases of people acquiring perfect pitch late in life as a result of getting _tinnitus_. So what they do is learn the frequency of their 'ring' and map everything from there. I guess some people would call that cheating.
Copy-paste is not a tech debt, but just bad practice. Bad practices can increase tech debt.
Just how many people do you think they have working in Hubs?

Hell, before the layoff, they only had one person working on WebXR for desktop Firefox. Seems like being penny-wise, pound-foolish.
Let's put aside Chernobyl, Fukushima and all the safety/economic/environment implications those incidents have had.

What about the nuclear waste ? How/where are we gonna store it ?
And for how long is gonna be safe, before containers start leaking radioactive st into the environment ?
Nobody wants to live anywhere near that st.
That's a big problem.
Hardware-agnostic seems like a big selling point for Mozilla's service vs FB. Unless my company is going to go all-in and buy everyone a 'work headset' like how we have work laptops, they'll want it to be cross platform compatible so users have a choice.
Ok, we will add user+pw. I've done some research in the meantime:

- FB is not that easy, since you can't set the email address as a required field. We use that to send the final render. We could let it be filled in in the app though.

- Twitter will probably be added

- Apple can be investigated
JFYI i was wrong. There were no such examples in the README or “marketing material,” there was URLs and metadata in a few unit tests.
“For all distributions of copyrighted content through their service”

I don’t think that’s true? I think that only extends to this particular DMCA. Obviously it wouldn’t extend to eg me claiming Ruby on Rails is copyright infringement.
Memory Involves the Whole Body
Argue in front of whom exactly? Because thats ONE of the big problems with DMCA.
I've experienced VR with a good setup as few times and I'm meh to it. There's a bias where people who love something assume everyone will love it just as much if they only experienced it the right way.
A Shaggy Dog Story
*moot
That's the point. You owned a copy. You could lend it, sell it. Nowadays when the content store you bought your content from is closed, your content is gone. You die? Your content is gone as well. Account gets banned for some reason? Content is gone. Furthermore, data about you consuming the content are sent to the store. I don't want any of that.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/08/first-sale-why-it-matt...
i love how dead kennedys literally left one of their cassette tapes sides blank and printed "Home taping is killing record industry profits! We left this side blank so you can help." on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust,_Inc.#Artwork_...
Not perfect pitch, but yeah, this does happen to me. I'll hear a sound and start singing the rest of the song the sound reminds me of, and everyone will look at me oddly.
Off-topic, but has anyone ever taken the time to dive into:

http://alternativephysics.org/book/GPSmythology.htm

...which claims that the "standard" account of GPS needing relativistic adjustments is not correct. If nothing else, the author seems to have perfected the "crank" writing form.
Code Deep Learning: Capsule Routing via Variational Bayes
To be clear, the problem isn't just the drag-and-drop nature of the development environment. The whole GUI toolkit is completely inaccessible with a screen reader.
Pretty sure this is a Bayes' Theorem thing, but happy to be wrong and learn something.

I think we both agree the table talks in terms of current age. But making it to age 50 doesn't mean you'll make it to age 51, so you can't add that extra bit of life (the one you think of in terms of a day lived counting a little less than a day against your life expectancy) to the age 50 row in the table. You can't add that bit until you actually are age 51. Otherwise you're counting both a known thing (you did make it to 51) and an unknown thing (whether you will make it to 51 if you're only 50 today) to a predicted thing (when you'll die if you're 50 today). Not exactly double counting, but taking for granted something that's not yet proven.

I believe that extra bit is what the other commenter was wondering about.
the problem with wind, solar is that manufacturing them in sufficient capacity to replace fossils fuels will create even more pollution.

Those billions of solar panels and the materials and energy used to create and recycle them are not coming out of thin air. You have to burn enormous amounts of fossil fuels to generate that energy. It is not sustainable in the long run.

Nuclear, because of its extremely high energy density and close to zero emissions, is the best shot we have saving the environment.
> What we're discovering today

We who? This was known at least as far back as since Scientology and Holocaust.
> Tonal language speakers (e.g. Mandarin) have absolute pitch with higher frequency

This is interesting, because a tonal language like Mandarin does not care about absolute pitch; it's all relative. For example, 1st tone is a (usually higher) flat tone. But it doesn't matter what pitch you use. 2nd tone is a rising tone, but it doesn't matter what pitch you start at or end at; it just matters that the two pitches differ enough that your listener can tell that there was a change, and that it was rising.

I wonder why that sort of thing also leads to a higher prevalence of absolute pitch.
At this point I'm skeptical of these designs. How recent they are and how many units are in operation? How long have they operated? Did we see changes in projected useful life?
Totally agree. Joscha Bach laid out a few interesting ideas around this at the end of a podcast.

If you have a few minutes start here for a broader context (starts of wholly unrelated but with some great concepts):

https://youtu.be/P-2P3MSZrBM?t=10084

If not, he drills into it here:

https://youtu.be/P-2P3MSZrBM?t=10400
We need it to be cheaper, that will make it much easier to build our nuclear fleet. Solar, wind, batteries, and gas are much cheaper in the vast majority of power markets. The only way to build out nuclear is for innovation to drive down the price, or for society to come to grips with negative externalities from gas and coal.
Could you just make a fork, take out the offending samples, and call it youtube-ld?
Not sure if an irreparable reactor that's to date still leaking radioactive waste water should be used as an example of how well nuclear power plants handle catastrophic failure.
That logic is all fine and well, but that requires GitHub to determine if a takedown is valid or not. And if they determine incorrectly in a case, they’re open to damages in that case.

So, is it worth it? Or is it worth just letting the parties figure it out?

If the DMCA is truly invalid, a counter-claim can be filed. If the other party doesn’t want to file one, I guess GitHub wonders why it should keep the content up when the creator doesn’t have faith in it.

Obviously I note the possible flaw in the above logic, in that there’s a difference between an individual developer deciding it’s worth starting a legal faff with a big company by filing a counter-claim, verses GitHub doing it, but their service would go broke dealing with legal requests otherwise.

Correct way to deal with this is through your lawmakers, not saying Microsoft should foot the bill for a broken law.
Hi Kim!

They couldn't have done this. The 'infringing' links were in the test suite and were specifically tests for content from particular sources which had special links which required different techniques to download them.

The test would not have been accomplished if they were pointed at links which didn't have the behaviour that was being tested.
What's already out there is disturbing enough, but I don't think even 10% of what's really going on has come to light yet. Ex - how did Epstein die in jail? No way that's a legit suicide IMO. Some very powerful people must have arranged that. To expend so much energy on that, there must be a lot of powerful people who have a lot to lose if he were to ever talk.

Who else might be out there involved in this? What sort of evidence is hidden away out there somewhere, waiting for somebody's dead man switch to flip? Exactly what is it that these people have been up to that they're so afraid of everybody finding out? I don't have any idea. Possibly it could be nothing, but I think there's way too many suspicious coincidences that look like somebody powerful pulling some strings for there to be nothing else there.

Also, voting on Q related stuff gets really weird sometimes. No sense worrying about it.
I've thought of this before, but have no idea. It could be a lack of imagination?

Sadly, it's more likely that both political parties are simply comfortable with the status quo.

The republican party thinks they can gerrymander and voter-suppress their way to power.

The democratic party thinks they can let the republican party self-destruct, since most of their tactics to hold on to power are illegal, especially as the demographics of our country's states become overwhelmingly out of their favor.

But regardless of which party you belong to, I think universal suffrage is one of those rare principles that every American grows up believing in.

As such, especially in 2020, it makes perfect sense to base federal representation on such a shared principle. It would definitely have the effect of moderating our society. It is a natural evolution of a concept we already have (proportional representation). It does away with the grimy roots of that concept (ceding representation to slaveholders).

So, maybe one day.
Congress gets to decide salary for the next congress.
Fuck riaa, I'm going to open an offshore youtube-dl, and another one: a decentralised and blockchain hosted based youtube-dl. Good luck.
Everything would run out of fuel over that distance if you were constantly accelerating ahead [0], but you don’t need to constantly accelerate in space.

[0] spinning is accelerating, and you can do that forever, but it won’t help you get anywhere
This wikipedia article has some interesting and recent numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

That suggests solar and wind are much cheaper than nuclear, globally at least. But maybe that's not accounting for the battery costs necessary to make solar and wind practical for usual patterns of load?
Vertical-alternating seems very clear to me. Also consider allowing vertical-alternating to “compact“. Reducing blank space may be of value for some designs.
As someone who was at MS during those years, directly involved with Azure, OSS, Mobile/phone I can verify that Steve was a great biz guy but had very little sense for where the tech world was headed.

What Satya has done is incredibly impressive and will be much studied IMHO
It's ... a hosted chat app. Where the hell are they supposed to send presence and communications?
EDIT: Former comment snipped. krapp has the correct take on this. RMS is a known defender of pedophilia, and what happened to him was not a smear campaign at all, but understandable revulsion to someone who is provably a very gross individual when he put his foot in his mouth (figuratively speaking).
Yup, adopt to the business you’re in. As in, the company. Make suggestions if you think it’s worthwhile but in the end accept that there’s a “that is the way” in any company and you’re getting paid to learn and work with that “way”, and build it out :)
Your urine isn't going to show acetoacetate unless you're in ketosis. You're not supposed to use ketones to test accurate levels. It's to give you an idea of what's going on. There's no way your strips are going to show purple if your body isn't producing ketones for energy transport. The exact level doesn't even matter that much because what shows up in the urine is excess. Sure, acetoacetate is not the only ketone, but it doesn't just get created within the body for no reason. If you are fasted and you eat a bunch of ice cream, your ketone strip test will plummet to showing no signs of ketones at all. If you are fasted and you eat a fatty steak, at best you might see a slight decrease because of protein intake. This is consistent and easy to reproduce. I've repeated this test dozens of times. Carb and sugar heavy food plummets urine ketone levels and keto macros don't. Your body isn't going to produce an appreciable level of ketones when it's got simple carbs ready to go, which is because the body is going to prefer glucose every time it's given a choice.

And yes, you do bounce in and out of ketosis when you fast long enough, and it really doesn't take that long. Once you've expended your glycogen and you've digested all your food, your body doesn't have a choice but to dig in to fat stores. Depending on how much glycogen you have stored, what you've eaten, and how long it's been since you've eaten, getting into ketosis becomes ridiculously easy because the energy your body uses has to come from somewhere. You don't need to measure ketones to have confidence in this. It's well studied. If someone thinks that ketosis is hard to enter, I doubt they've gone more than a day without food. Once you get used to fasting for longer than 48 hours, it becomes obvious when your body is out of glycogen.
Managing Migrations
How to break up tech conglomerates: Why we can’t treat Google like Standard Oil
The movement according to itself: https://www.neonrevolt.com/2018/07/11/who-is-qanon-an-introd...
I'm not scared of nuclear, but I'm terrified of climate change.

We don't need nuclear, because we have other options for firm low-carbon energy (geothermal) and energy storage of surplus and super-cheap intermittent renewables (lithium ion, flow batteries, hydrogen, methane, compressed air, liquid air...).

If nuclear could compete on cost, we should go for it, but it can't without a major tech breakthrough. The potential tech breakthroughs (SMRs) are far less technologically mature than any of our other options.

For example, we will definitely need to start producing hydrogen in order to decarbonize heavy industry (e.g. steel production, ammonia production, etc.). So we need hydrogen infrastructure because it's the only foreseeable path for several parts of our economy. It will get developed. Even this article, which is interpreted as heavily skeptical of hydrogen, sees a huge future for hydrogen on the grid:

https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-separating-hype-from-h...

Nuclear will only have a future if it can solve its construction problem, and compete with more modern technologies. As it is, it's a dinosaur from the past, a legacy of a time before we had better tech. The more we learn about nuclear, the more expensive it seems to get, in contrast to pretty much any good tech.
It's been awhile since I've messed with a GUI in python, so I did quick image search to see just how ugly it is. And it actually looks very serviceable. A bit utilitarian, perhaps, but not too bad. I was expecting much worse, like the old Tk dialogs. And judging by the variety of examples I found, it can be themed to some degree. My only problem - and what has driven me to use web apps in the past - is the difficulties in bundling and distributing python apps.
This is a proper DMCA claim, not YouTube garbage, so the process goes claim->counterclaim->lawsuit.
The Haunting Case of a Belgian Child Killer and How WikiLeaks Helped Crack It
I'm surprised there isn't more marketing and sales tech tbh.
Federal court in the USA.
You're making it sound like solar and wind cause a net increase in fossil fuels because there are non-renewables involved in their manufacture, but that's simply not a true statement.
CANDU reactors are doing pretty good in Ontario
> which has the main purpose of downloading clean copies of YT videos

Among many other sites and services.

> against the wishes of the content creators

I'm a content creator on YouTube and I'd be honored if anyone chooses to save my videos on disk. The tool has its legitimate uses and abuses.
Indeed. Really, I was speaking to nice, open computers. Did what people expected out of the box.
Cute, but some of the keybindings aren't great for (us few) Dvorak users.
Right, but I'm familiar with each of them, because of the devastating impact each had (or could have had).

I'm not saying we don't do it, but "there were only 3" doesn't feel like an honest argument.
> Google Cloud Platform is a huge new product.

Does it define the category? Is Google Cloud 'the' cloud provider? "Just spin up a box on GCP" the default thing for people to do in tech?

> Today's Android is a whole different beast.

Is it? Android 4 (which was around that time) is pretty close to android as it is now.

> Google Home is a new product

And? Is it category defining like maps or Mail or GSuite, did it create something entirely new like GAE did for serverless? Is it the default home assistant? Do people outside tech even know the name 'Google Home'?

> hangouts video was a huge hit for a while

And now it's close to dead. Never reached the heights of Skype or Zoom.

None of these products are category defining.
idk if you've ever run into it, but `process.exit` has been a bit of a footgun in our node apps due to broken pipes and (sometimes) async io with `console`

we instead use

process.on('unhandledRejection', (reason) => {
throw reason;
});

which, as long as you havent handled `uncaughtException`, prints the stack trace and aborts.
I was filled with nostalgia seeing the title; alas, this is not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Magic_(1985_video_ga... , which is 35 years old by now - an update for this would really be impressive, given that the platforms it ran on were C64 and ZX Spectrum.

The soundtrack is amazing as well, IMHO:

C64 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm5Hjsm5NZ4

Inspired by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfxcreFEowE

(But Hubbard's c64 version is better - if you don't dislike chiptunes)