skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having tried this, I think it's super impressive. I used it to set up social events to welcome new people to our group, and it went quite well. Honestly not sure why it is not more known, it's miles ahead of stuff like online.town and anything else I've seen.
Git-on-the-Blockchain?
I've seen this. When I was in grad school I was playing with assembly language to click a speaker in a timed loop, such that it would generate A440.

I played it to my coworker who was working in my lab, and he said: "I'm a singer and I have perfect pitch. THat isn't A440, it's slightly low. Probably one hertz."

I checked my code and indeed, I had miscomputed the timer, it was slightly longer than it should have been. Fixed the code and he confirmed it sounded better, but not absolutely perfect.
You are able to download YouTube videos on your phone, if you subscribe to YouTube premium. I haven’t made any deep investigation of this but I kinda assume the videos are protected by DRM.
On a slight tangent, my team had very good results when we finally brought a style guide online. Our org was big enough that people would be working on pages without context for the bigger design themes (especially related to sales/marketing). We required any UI variations to be added to the style guide, and we required a minor justification to add styles. This added just enough friction that a lot of the unintended variation went away, and a lot of the variation just to be different became explicit so discussions about the design could be more deliberate.
LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019)
Over here (France), ad-free Youtube comes only with Youtube Premium, not Youtube Music Premium (great branding!).
> YouTube's web interface is basically useless for me on a slow link

I've never used youtube-dl. How do you find the videos to download?
On the other hand, large objects made by us on the Moon could last for 100's of millions of years. Especially if the object was designed to last that long.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-n...

https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-qanon.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2020/10/qano...
> according to RIAA, youtube-dl is circumventing the "DRM"

I didn't find any mention of "DRM" or "Digital rights management" on the page. Can you be more specific?
The ruling there doesn't seem to rule out making copies of shows from a cable network, which are not exactly public airwaves in the same sense I think you mean.
Charismatic people often can be IME.
I think this is the kernel of what you are saying, and I hope that it finds its way above all of the noise about specific websites or conspiracy theories:

> Does it matter to anyone what is actually True any longer, or have we mass adopted a culture of "the ends justifies the means" to managing and discussing the affairs of the world? Should bad ideas be fought with better ideas, or with censorship (formal, or informal) and pretending they do not exist?

And I believe this is your end goal:

> the abilty ... to ascend to a level of more thoughtful, less combative/partisan communication and sense making

Is that a fair set of summary quotations?
We need to ban oxygen. It CAN be used to download copyrighted materials!
> So why would competitors continue to use elephants?

Not specifically for Rome's competitors, but elephants were kept also for prestige reasons in other regions, as described in this follow-up article:

https://acoup.blog/2019/08/09/collections-war-elephants-part...
Monorepo Is a Bad Idea
It's still up on gitee

Warning: do a diff against the last archive.org copy to make sure it's clean.
Just in case people are looking for something really new in a shell: besides Oil, check out fish shell. The killer feature for me is its autocompletion -- its basically psychic.
I mean it's not the best setup, but what else do you suggest? This was meant for protecting income of authors while not being too inconvenient for most users. Netflix primary model is this and it is working great for them and users. Many people do share the account but it does add some inconvenience that only some maximum number of people can watch at the same time, making people get subscription.
For what I've seen, all apps/methods for 'developing perfect pitch' would either not work on adults, or are not actually perfect/absolute pitch.
hold on...
brew update && brew upgrade

phew. i'm all good.
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If there weren't any technological measures preventing you from downloading and saving YouTube videos, then youtube-dl wouldn't exist. You would just download the video from YouTube yourself.
Idk, there are still people that study ants. Both professionally and as a hobby. Just because you don't care doesn't mean someone doesn't. I don't know why the same wouldn't be true for aliens. Unless those aliens are ant like (hive mind...ish)
Can't find a better source, but something like this tried to happen, indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music

Upd: In another thread, the "Betamax case" was cited.
TCL, Powershell, and Rebol are probably the closest I've seen in this area.
Same boat here. I was a Google play music user for a long time, but switched to Spotify for good as soon as they announced YouTube music. The writing on the wall was there.
I think the "86% of billionaires" thing can be attributed to wealth concentration to income gap. If you want to be a billionaire, it helps if your family had many millions. The extraction of the ultra wealthy that has happened in the last 40 years is pretty incredible. I'm unsure that there are any billionaires that started out leaving home as an emancipated minor with no job and no money an an early life of untreated trauma resulting in complex PTSD.
Wait a minute, there's a difference between distributed copyrighted works, and merely copying it for yourself. In France for instance, we have this notion of "copie privée" (private copy), that says we are allowed to copy anything as long as we don't distribute it back. We even pay taxes on persistent memory for the privilege.

Up thread there's also a citation of the Betamax case, which says that it's okay for people to record shows so they can watch them later, and it's okay to sell video recording devices.

This is different from Bittorent, which automatically distribute any content you download. With this too, when you are downloading, you are also distributing, which is a much clearer case of infringement in most jurisdictions.
I've had a few issues using pnpm with other tools (Renovate, Dependabot, etc.) but at least with Renovate the issues have / are being worked out. I'm happy with pnpm so far and will continue to adopt it incrementally as it's popularity grows.
I just read that YTM has only 256 bit AAC just like YouTube. Going down in audio quality is a step in the wrong direction. There's just no point in installing 5G in so many countries when the encoding bit rates are going down for services.
Yep - I stand by all that because I choose the public over the police. I don't care what happens to the police doesn't mean I want anything bad to happen, it means I don't care. If I say I don't care about you it doesn't mean I wish you harm it means I'm indifferent.

I choose to help the people, not the police.
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You talk like this is all a forgone conclusion. Technology is not magic. Time is not a salve that solves all issues.

You say that my view is "painfully anthropocentric", but how?

It seems your only response is "but aliens". That is not good enough.

You want to say that it is foolish of me to try and guess their intentions and capabilities, but that's what the paradox does as well. It assumes their intentions are to colonize and their capabilities allow it. With no proof. The only life we have to base anything off of is right here.

And if you think I haven't identified a single valid criticism of the Fermi paradox, then I'm just going to assume you aren't aware of the criticisms.

I've basically touched on this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Economic_explana...

So no, I'm not saying that just because it can't be done now, it can't be done ever. I'm saying the Fermi Paradox is basically saying "Once you solve these incredibly hard problems, this becomes easy."

I think the Fermi Paradox is phrased wrong. It should state that if it were possible to colonize the galaxy, it would have been done by now.
Lawyers are not engineers. Corporate lawyers are mercenary thugs with assistants, expensive suits, and very very very high daily rates.

This is the kind of thing is that lawyers do, because this is what they're paid to do.

You cannot win this by simply saying "Hands off our code - this is outrageous" because that's not how the law works.

If you want to make an argument agains this you literally have to make it stand up in court, and that is not easy.

While lawyers are sometimes foul and shameless creatures, the engineering community does not seem to understand that it is not playing on its own turf here.

If you do not take the time to understand the rules of the game you will lose hard. In this case the RIAA could easily have sued for damages and loss of earnings - and it would probably win that case if it came to court, although someone in counsel probably argued (wisely) that it wouldn't be worth the Streisand Effect damage.
You haven't seen a fast feedback loop until you've programmed in Lisp. And it has none of that "interface vs implementation" nonsense.
It’s for when the person isn’t necessarily idle. I mean, in the namesake example, running for President is, like, the opposite of idle. It’s just not generating wage/salary income.

Edit: and even if “idle” in that sense is assumed to mean the previous sentence, that’s still counterintuitive and misleading.
I see two issues with what you're saying.

First, it's not just that some rich people are pedophiles. It's called a conspiracy theory for a reason - there's conspiring going on. The CEO of the Ritz knows that his hotels offer underage prostitutes. The personal concierge directs the CEO to club which is known to be "good for rich people." The club owner knows that the company they outsource to for renting table dancers on the weekends also has dancers doing some prostituting on the side. The other rich attendees of the club (who are not purchasing) can see that that girl is clearly not 21. There's more than just pedophilia going on here - a system of winks and nods whereby powerful people are offered the opportunity to engage in illegal behavior and make no moves against the powerful people who facilitate these opportunities.

The second thing is that you're missing the point around alignment. These people DON'T align themselves with each other. They frequent the same forums as each other (e.g. 8chan) and disagree with each other on those forums. It's only in the eyes of the media and in people influenced by the media that the various flavors of conspiracy people are actually aligned.

Edit: was thinking about this line.

> If you had a genuine interest in an issue that you wanted to raise in public awareness or do something to combat it, the route of the conspiracy theorist is an awfully dumb way to do it.

What is the right way to address e.g. the widespread availability of illegal prostitution in hotels owned by American companies in foreign countries? I saw a few news articles in the press exploring the phenomenon a few years back, but nothing changed. Am I supposed to found a non-profit? A newspaper? Do the investigation myself and publish it to LiveLeak? Write a letter to my congresswoman? I'm honestly not sure how to work that problem, other than just talking to other people about it.
These examples are not about strong typing, but about type juggling. Strong typing is this:

declare(strict_types=1);

use \Domain\SomeItem;
use \Domain\SomeItemId;
use \Domain\SomeItemSpec;

abstract class SomeItemRepo {
public function GetOneByID(SomeItemId $id): SomeItem;
/*
* Still hacky
*
* @param []SomeItemSpec $specs
*
* @return []SomeItem
*/
public function GetManyBySpecs(array $specs): array;
}
To traverse 100k light-years at 16km/s would take approximately 1.8 billion years. FWIW.
>Likewise, the itunes music store still exists! It is a place where you can buy and download music. It’s not the same service as Apple Music, which is a streaming music service.

That's actually an interesting point that I've never considered before, even though I was aware of it.

iTunes has always been kept separate from Apple Music, with no evident plans to merge those in sight, while Google Play Music was used for both streaming and purchasing music. I don't think it ultimately affected the demise of GPM, but it is still an interesting topic to ponder.
Amusingly, this link does not work in Firefox Focus. It tells me to open the link in Safari.
I tried Tidal, but the UI was much worse for me. I'm thinking of trying Amazon HD as well, as it has great reviews.
How could a craft camouflage itself against this kind of detection?
> You can expect new releases of Node.js 15 approximately every two-weeks,

In this state, shouldn't it be Node 0.15?
> It's outrageous indeed that GH/MS is complying.

Not really. They're legally required to do so. The DMCA notice (despite what someone suggests downthread) is unfortunately quite properly served. Even if it is flat-out wrong, GH/MS has no reason (and likely no resources) to investigate whether or not that's the case. And if they did, and got it wrong, they'd lose their safe harbor status and be liable for damages.

If the youtube-dl author believes it to be bullshit, they can send a counter-notice, and GH/MS will then put it back up. If the RIAA still has a bone to pick, they can file a lawsuit. Unfortunately, they very well may.

> It's not that far from targeting wget or curl, were it not for the widespread use of them in industry.

I get really confused when I hear things like this, because this makes no sense. Targeting a program called "YouTube Download", which has the main purpose of downloading clean copies of YT videos, against the wishes of the content creators is absolutely not the same thing as targeting a generic HTTP/FTP download tool.

I think the DMCA is garbage, but it feels like willful ignorance to be at all surprised about things like this, and to compare this to something obviously non-infringing.
The first is interesting. I have a hard time imagining what that syntax would look like. You'd need a way to refer to your graph nodes, so I don't think you would get much better than what named pipes (aka FIFOs) already provide.

Totally agree about GNU parallel. The syntax is not badly-designed IMO, but I don't use it very frequently and it's different from everything else so I often get it wrong. Using it as a drop-in replacement for xargs is easy enough though.
I think it's hilarious that it says 'Communicate naturally' with a photo of 3 legless avatar bodies floating in a poorly rendered 3D environment.
I assume 'your part of the world' is America. I can flip somebody the bird for obeying the speed limit and nobody calls cops with guns to stop me from being a shithead. I think it's generally true that people are more willing to be assholes to strangers than their close acquaintances. This has certainly been my observation of American culture at least. People are ruder to people the further removed from those people they are and are very rarely ever ruder than they are in public. I've heard similar sentiments from people who work in public facing jobs, particularly retail.
I think this assumes you want to write perfect software, when sometimes it just needs to be good enough.
I do not understand how to use this... how is this supposed to train something when I'm selecting and can see the note played?
this some bougie af stuff
Academic scientists can be intensely conservative, even reactionary, when confronted with new ideas and methods. If you want to see something really horrific, try digging up some of the original debate on whether experimental data deposition should be mandatory for structural biology publications. Here is the one bit I know that's online still (PDF is free):
https://www.nature.com/articles/nsb0698-407

The fact that there had to be a debate on this issue at all tells you everything. The forces of good triumphed in the end but it probably took a full generation for everyone to get in line. (I've heard legends of computer-vision software being written just to decode the figures in protein structure publications from competitors. Would love to know if this is actually true, but again, the fact that it even sounds plausible tells you a lot about the broken incentives.)
"made-up scandals"

If I had the choice of a superpower, whether flight, or invincibility, or setting things on fire with my mind, I wouldn't be all that disappointed if I had to settle for a superpower where I could force half the population and the vast majority of journalists to simply give me the benefit of the doubt of any situation and not question things too much beyond that. There's almost nothing I could do wrong and be punished for by society.
I don’t see the fact that the RIAA dislikes internet based streaming as relevant to the analysis. Downloading a publicly available video transmitted over a nearly global communications network is directly analogous to recording a show to tape from a TV signal.
These things might justify making a non-Bourne shell, but they don't justify making a greenfield shell: the fish shell already has all these features, and since we all benefit by reducing shell fragmentation, I think the author ought to work on hacking on fish more before making yet another shell.
weev?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach
The DMCA was intended to give large content publishers a big stick to extract rent from third parties without needing to do any work. It is functioning as intended and is very unlikely to be reformed to favor the public interest.

If anything, the next DMCA will be tilted even further towards publisher interests. The latest EU publisher payout copyright 'reform' -- which, among other things, banned photography of buildings and skylines -- is the most likely model for the next US copyright 'reform' measure.

Congress only passes laws that large piles of money pay for[0], so the only prospect of copyright reform is if someone puts up a billion dollars in campaign contributions (bribes). Further money may be needed to re-stack the judiciary to ensure a reform will survive the wide-eyed fanatics on the USSC. This scenario is deeply unlikely as piles of money large enough to afford to spend a billion dollars purchasing legislation are very happy with the law as it stands.

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
I like the way he hints at singularity in Rainbows End.
And you cannot play a single song that you've just searched, everything is in an auto-generated playlist. Including normal YT videos that it detects as music just because there are some music playing in it. It's awful and I won't make the switch. My subscription ends when GPM dies.
I think it is FTE 40 hour salaries, based on the linked pdf.
RealPlayer next?

"Download Web Videos"
"Keep your favorite web videos safe on your PC by downloading them.
You can save videos from popular sites in one click – including YouTube."

* https://www.real.com/uk/realplayer
Makes me think of Imogen Heap giving a concert in a yurt with bicycle generators powering all her electronic music gear -- which is one of the most Imogen Heap things ever.
I changed the file in Windows 10 so that the old Photo Viewer app was kept active.
As a software developer, not a sysadmin, I have real trouble with Powershell. They didn't tradition-break enough and it's like some bastard child of .NET and Bash. I think most people have an easier time understanding https://www.cs-script.net.

It's powerful but the syntax and semantics are maddening.

It's going to be entrenched in the Windows world for the next 20 years and prevent anything better from coming along.
"Preventing" is not the same as failing to enable. As far as I know, there's nothing that youtube has implemented that prevents downloading. It is simply inconvenient as a result of not being the primary goal.
I mostly agree with all the above, but as a guitarist/singer* there is distinctly something about transposing songs - it is clearly obvious that most songs work best in their original keys and quite a number of times transposition completely changes how a song sounds, to the point where some songs when transposed simply do not work at all.

If music was all about relative intervals, surely this wouldn't be an issue?

* Not the world's best singer, hence my observations around transposition, as I try to bend songs I like into a range I can just about manage.
can't recommend fish enough, the autocompletions and the intelligent history scrolling absolutely made the difference to me.

probably an unpopular opinion but I really like fish scripting more than bash, the syntax is way more intuitive and I don't find myself missing bash at all.
Digital Audio Tape DAT -- they tried REALLY hard to keep this technology out of the US market. Eventually they got a the authorities to impose a surcharge per blank DAT tape for 'lost income'.

Writable CDs came soon after which was probably going to kill DAT market no matter what.
Ah, sort of like how concealed carry isn't "banned" in Hawaii because a permitting process exists, but in reality <10 permits have been issued since the system's inception.

https://ag.hawaii.gov/cpja/files/2018/05/Firearm-Registratio...
This should be about impossible to enforce? Every developer and everyone who has ever cloned the repo has the complete source tree with commits. I can think of a list of countries where United States laws are not a concern, I imagine that shortly this will be one of the most distributed repositories ever.

It also shows again that while free services like Github are convenient, and truthfully their interface is the one to beat, it is better to use them as a mirror of something you self host then the primary.

Some options: (I prefer gitea - easiest to install and maintain, very active development community, single binary, written in Go)

https://gitea.com/

https://gogs.io/

https://about.gitlab.com/install/

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-GitWeb