skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything looks like Tim Burtons bizzaroworld. Same problems as streetview : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324813#24326803

"Look at 'NY 41 central park west' train wreck. You have >20 good photos to work with, but the end result doesnt even maintain straight windows. Balconies look like Lara Croft breast from first Tomb Raider, not to mention they are all different geometry despite high quality source material showing them being all the same shape. The best data saving option would probably be no additional geometry at all, just a texture."

Now compare to https://i0.wp.com/syncedreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/1... from https://syncedreview.com/2020/10/19/google-open-sources-3d-s... Models this is producing are generations ahead of the current glitchy mess.
> Nepotic economies do well in copying what worked for others because the few nephews of the top party officials provide enough of a talent pool for that, but innovation by its nature requires a talent dragnet across the entire country (YC).

China runs a very large free market economy. The government only steps in when a company grows large, and mandate certain amount of state control. And we all know for sure that companies worth the notice of a national government probably should be placed under some control, instead of letting them blindly chasing the profit. And at that stage, their innovative prowess probably is also dragged down by enormous internal beauracracy that the intervention actually can help them focus on long-term technical investment (thinking about the flops of the big corps, the wasted investment by IBM on what they called AI...)

Thinking about Google, they are even seriously considering bending over to CCP to enter Chinese market. Imagine Google were under CCP control, anyone who dare to speak of such idea will be punished immediately. (Not to say CCP is better in any way)

If you have a free market economy with a size of 5-6 trillions of dollar, then you can have top-tier innovation all the time. And CCP feels pretty safe as long as it controls another 10 trillions+ market...

See, that's the economy of scale.

That's why ambitious people dream of scale, and smart people instead of value freedom. When combined, the one with ambition provides the scale to tolerate the freedom of the smart. That's how China works today.

Of cuz, Xi dreams of world domination. Precisely because he dreams of world domination, he can act absolutely like a open-minded market economy advocate: there is plenty of space under his control, where anyone, ambitious or smart, will have enough space for their personal satisfaction.

Dictators were born out of lack of imagination. Trump is not enlightened to see the possibility of his power, so he inevitably behave like a dictator, but not actually able to because of the US system.

True dictator like Xi, see the possibility, and is willing to behave like appropriate for the goal of ultimate domination.
"...first use in English is attributed to Adam Ferguson, who in his 1767 Essay on the History of Civil Society wrote, "Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation".[14] The word was therefore opposed to barbarism or rudeness, in the active pursuit of progress characteristic of the Age of Enlightenment." [0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization
ah, so at least some copies of the code remains even on github.
Energy density of sunlight: 25,000,000,000,000 wh/kg.

Of course, energy density is a silly metric.
this is my shocked face......

edit to add: the ROI for the GRU on the Q thing is only slightly less than the ROI on the 2016 election....
From a glance, it looks like it has the better features from either of HyperCard: message passing between "objects" vs. the class hierarchy, and VisualBasic: timers vs. the idle message, floating properties box vs. the dialog box.

<snark>It would be good if it has an option/property for resizeable windows "stacks" with some of the auto-resizing, alignment, and guides like Xcode - maybe it does, I get an error every time I attempt to login to LiveCode. "Critical mass" in user communities would be the killer feature, too bad the LiveCode App doesn't come by default with every new iPhone.</snark>
Transcoding a video is making a copy of a creative work. Ergo, by definition, copyright applies.

In fact, if transcoding a video added anything creative to the process, you would have two copyrights: one for the original creative work, and a second for the derivative (transcoded) work.
Are there any details on how much processing you need to get uranium from the ore? My intuition is that it is a lot harder to get to uranium fuel from the ore compared coal and oil.
They're only in this category specifically because each one is a bespoke custom project. That's not a compelling argument against standardization and mass factory production.
PA results will not be known on election night, Florida results will.
He has a strong opinion that you can only develop perfect pitch while young, and I have to agree. His videos are great.
"ML will lower the barrier to entry so dramatically that the value of individual songs and musicians will plummet"

It's hard for it to plummet down much further.

There's already a glut of content, and the vast majority of musicians can't make a living from their music.

The ones who do well tend to have giant marketing machines behind them to promote their music, and ML will do nothing to change that.
>> Insofar is I have an issue with your comment, it is that it is not going
anywhere, as I explained in my previous post.

I see this god-moding of my comment as a pretend-polite way to tell me I'm
takling nonsense, that seems to be designed to avoid criticism for being rude
to one's interlocutor on a site that has strong norms against that sort of
thing, but without really trying to understand why those norms exist, i.e.
because they make for more productive conversations and less wasting of
everyone's time.

You made a comment to say that unless I claim that X (which you came up with),
then my comment is not going anywhere. The intellectually corteous and honest
response to a comment with which one does not agree is to try and understand
the reasoning of the comment. Not to claim that there is only one possible
explanation and therefore the comment must be wrong. That is just a straw man
in sheep's clothing.

And this is not surprising given that it comes at the heels of nitpicking
about supposedly important terminology (necessarily!). This is how
discussions like this one go, very often. And that's why they should be
avoided, because they just waste everyone's time.
If someone can easily cheat on your exam by using a cheat sheet and get a good grade what value are you as an educator providing, really?
Or accidents like Aberfan where a coal waste tip collapsed onto a school killing 116 Children and 28 Adults - the anniversary was a couple of days ago.
ripgrep. It's a bit faster and automatically ignores files in .gitignore etc. Very handy.
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I saw an ad on TV last night (possibly a mining industry ad. Not sure, as is so often the case with tv ads) that said there was 4 tonnes of copper in each wind turbine.

So add that to the mix of what it takes to build a wind turbine. I'm not sure of the cost of copper production but I bet it's not cheap or easy on the environment.

Might be something to factor in.
But that's why the energy density matters. For every KG of material mined you get more bang for buck.
youtube-dl needs to be regularly updated as streaming sites add new countermeasures to block it. If those updates can no longer be crowdsourced from a popular, reputable site like GitHub, the tool has a good chance of dying.
Both uranium breeders and thorium breeders offer truly inexhaustible energy for humanity. Especially uranium, which is available in seawater at astronomical scale, and which replenishes first through runoff and then through plate tectonics.

We'll run out of nuclear fission fuel roughly when we run out of nuclear fusion fuel in the sun (i.e. when the sun burns out).

[1] http://large.stanford.edu/publications/coal/references/docs/...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-s...

[3] https://pubs.acs.org/toc/iecred/55/15
I contributed a bit to XBMC in the past, and in comparison, .. well, I'm not too sure how to describe this.

Plex is like everything wants to be proxied over the plex.tv cloud, want a plex SSL certificate, tunneling (ok, NAT is common at home and all that) control traffic, $80 one time purchase apps/pass, it feels significantly less like "running a Plex server" and much more like "sign up for a Plex account and link everything to it and link your server to it". Plex Pass also gates a significant amount of features.

It doesn't feel like running your own HTPC/media server anymore, for all intents and purposes it feels like you're paying a Netflix subscription to use your own hard drive, at least to me.
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Or in plainer terms: 1. You should not have your development process on a centralized platform, period.
>>The DAO event illustrates this but even more, the real ugly will rise when smart contracts are used for all of the really abuse which normal contracts have facilitated - usury, debt-peonage, sex-trafficking and so-forth. Basically, it facilitates putting the weak at the mercy of the strong in uncontestable fashion.

If certain voluntary interactions between consenting adults with different levels of power are "abuse", according to you, then I'd argue there are far more fruitful ways of addressing the problem, that are less disruptive to non-abusive interactions, than indiscriminately forbidding people from utilitizing smart contracts to interact, or trying to discourage people from developing smart contract technology. The latter is profoundly unethical in its lack of consideration for others' rights.

As an example of one of these better ways, those in vulnerable circumstances, who could be exploited in ostensibly voluntary interactions, could be put under the guardianship of a competent authority, and have restrictions placed on them to prevent them from entering into abusive situations.

This is a more sensible approach than attempting to turn the entire world into a safe space for adults who are not capable of wielding the freedom to choose what agreements they enter into.

While on this track, you may also want to consider restricting the right of these vulnerable people on who they may vote for, as obviously the state will know better than them as to which political candidates seek to abuse them.

Just as a curiousity: what is your profession? Might you have some financial conflict of interest in the dilemma of whether people at large will be able to interact without centralized intermediaries like regulators and lawyers as acting as gatekeepers?
that's my take once the patent expire then we will get decent mass market adoption for average consummers.

E-ink is in the same boat to many patent held by people unwilling to license them for a reasonable price, in 15-20 years most will expire and we will get e-ink everywhere
> the intent was shown to exist already

Well that's the question, isn't it? Is downloading those particular URLs infringement if the content is legally allowed to be hosted on YouTube in the first place? If so, was the use of those URLs specifically intended to demonstrate or verify the ability of the tool to infringe copyright? Alternatively, can the tool be said to circumvent a protection device under DMCA section 1201?

(For the record, my answer to all of the above is an emphatic "no".)
> Why? Producing hydrogen is inefficient and unnecessary if you have a consistent source of energy, which nuclear provides.

Renewables + short term storage + hydrogen will likely be cheaper than a grid based on nuclear, even with the inefficiency of hydrogen. One contributing reason for that (for the hydrogen) is that a simple cycle combustion turbine power plant is 1/20th the capital cost per MW of a nuclear power plant.

You can check this out with some plausible assumptions for 2030 technologies and real climate data at

https://model.energy/
I'd be a big fan of fission energy if it wasn't for people.

1. Processing uranium ore into sufficiently enriched U235 creates a lot of waste. That waste needs to essentially be stored (at least I'm unaware of a better option). I'm talking about UF6 centrifuge byproducts here.

2. Depleted uranium fuel also needs to be stored.

3. While running the plant needs to be properly maintained and serviced.

So I'm not sure the true cost of (1) and (2) is represented by fission energy costs. Maybe it is but the infrastructure around this (the NRC for inspections, storage sites, etc) needs to be accounted for.

I don't trust people to do any one of these things let alone all three. Not long term and at scale.
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YouTube's design choice is to serve all their content via an open api, which is why youtube-dl works. It's not circumventing anything.
I'm speaking from a mostly Linux perspective (and macOS-but that API is crippled so even though it's likely more similar I won't mention it much)–while I'll take your word for it that NetBSD has a better API, I am still curious if the various edge cases are handled. Are there multiple stop kinds that are somewhat difficult to distinguish against and keep track of? How you handle a child dying while stopped, or is this not possible? I don't think NetBSD has the same "tasks" model that Linux does, how do you distinguish between requests targeting threads and requests targeting the whole process? How do the rest of the OS APIs interact with a ptrace stopped process?
"I do not perceive notes in different octaves as same.
This makes Toned Ear pitch training guesswork."

??? How so? Is not this problem all of (ok, "all" of us not musically inclined) has? Perfect pitch isn't important in music anyway... relative pitch is way more useful and is actually learnable.
> Not parts, but the entire thing.

Which would include the HTTP library and the system call implementations it makes into the operating system etc., and you're back to an intractable mess.

> If youtube-dl gets classified as illegal, then any trivial modification to it will get the same treatment. Even if you end up slowly replacing every bit of code, if you forked off youtube-dl and didn't change the functionality, that's still essentially youtube-dl.

Play it backwards and see if it still works. Somebody forks Chrome and creates Chrome, Pirate Edition. The only difference is the logo and that the third party distributors overtly promote it for copyright infringement. It gets declared "illegal" but it's still 99% Chrome, and Chrome is still 99% it. Is Chrome now illegal? Is the shared 99% of it? If not, how are you drawing the distinction?

> Consider cases like going after someone who took GPL code and republished it as proprietary, or plagiarism, or copyright infringement itself. For the law, it doesn't matter whether or not the bits you have are identical to those of the protected work; what matters is how did you get them. It's the same principle at work here.

Except that copyright actually has some well defined mechanisms for determining which aspect of a work is infringement if you copy it. If you publish a book of poems and one of them is in the public domain, you can still copy that one. And the author of each of the other poems still owns the copyright to that poem, even if they're all published together in the same book.

So how does that apply in this case to an open source project with multiple contributors and components?

> In this case, unit tests are evidence that the whole project is meant for copyright infringement. The offending entries serve to establish intent.

Except that the project has multiple independent contributors each with their own intentions, so "the project" doesn't have any singular intent.
What percentage of ants that exist are studied? They absolutely study some, but the vast majority of ants won't ever be acknowledged by a human. That seems like a relevant factor here if the assumption is that humans are like ants in both interest level and commonality in the universe.
> Renewables are about an order of magnitude cheaper than nuclear.

I think there are a lot of complications that are encountered when doing this sort of calculation. You might get a max output of "$15/MWh" or "$112/MWh" but that's only a portion of the picture.

Firstly Nuclear is X amount of power essentially on tap 24/7 where X is between some Min and Max value. From what I understand this makes grid management much simpler and reduces storage, transmission, and conversion losses. Even in the best case situation of "renewable" energy you'll see, in the absolute best case claimed by pumped hydro storage, you're seeing about an 87% efficiency.

Suppose you had a nuclear power plant that could output 100W consistently. Suppose you wanted to build a similarly efficient "renewable" energy source. How much more peak power would it need to output to be competitive? If we assume the power source is 0% efficient at night and 100% efficient during the day, off the bat, you'd need to generate 200W continuously during the day. Then you'd need to generate an extra 13% on those extra 100Ws to make up for storage losses (1.13*100 ~= 113). That means 100W from Nuclear is ~= 213W "renewable". Obviously this is a terrible calculation and not at all accurate but it's just a sample of some of the math that needs to be done.

Another factor that I've been skirting around is that "renewable" sources of energy are often not so renewable. Specifically things like like solar require a huge amount of rare metals & complex fabrication. Right now none of those externalizations are represented in the price of solar because there are no carbon taxes in countries that manufacture them.

Money in this case is a proxy of what needs to be measured and should not be the only factor we optimize for.
You're downvoted because it's an unbelievable statement. You gotta provide credible sources when you say something that incredible.

People are usually blown away when they read the UN assessments of Chernobyl because of how different the science is compared to the pop culture.

[1] https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html
> Clean steel & cement.

Even today, 6% of all natural gas consumed in the world goes to making hydrogen (about 700 cubic kilometers of H2 per year at STP). The major use is in making ammonia.
Really depends on local conditions, but as a benchmark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghouta_chemical_attack

Estimates of the death toll range from at least 281 people[3] to 1,729.[14] and 3,600 patients displaying neurotoxic symptoms in 3 hospitals supported by MSF[5]

However, it was considered safe enough for the UN to inspect the area the next day.
What person who isn't already a literature/history nerd cares about London's public house scene in the mid-18th century?

Not saying it isn't interesting. But journalism needs to be provocative to have a "hook" to bring people in who normally wouldn't bother to read about an 18th century literary figure.

If the subject is Steve Jobs or Donald Trump you don't need to be provocative to get the eyeballs.
No. What I'm saying is that if you want to know how much developer time Debian's donation buys, you need to look at how much it costs Peertube to buy developer time, which includes all taxes Peertube must pay on employment, not just how much of that money shows up on the developer's paystub.
You can right-click->save-as the video link in the network panel of dev tools of either Chrome or Firefox. Google's own browser lets you save youtube videos with a few clicks. Also taping TV and radio is legal as well, even though the receiving device doesn't offer that functionality, unlike Chrome.
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Videos with obfuscated request signatures can be downloaded by youtube-dl. A german court ruled this is an effective technological protection measure.
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> as my mental/emotional issues can, and perhaps will, make me a poor decision maker and even (irrationally) emotionally abusive at times.

This resonates with me, and it's taken a ton of work on my part. I have compassion and empathy, but real talk, it is of utmost importance that you get this very specific thing in check. As an employee, that's legitimate grounds for termination; as a new employer, it's a lawsuit that will end your business.

Learn your triggers, and learn your triggered behaviors. In my life... that happened over the course of 20 years of failed romantic rationships; seeing harmful behaviors in my partners and doing hard self-reflection to identify those behaviors in myself. Maybe you'll have better luck in counseling. Maybe not? Progress is hard; setbacks are easy.

Once you can recognize that you're about to do harm, you can pull yourself away. Take a mental health day. Work on something else. Avoid that co-worker, but be explicit about it: "hey, I can't do this right now, can we come back to it tomorrow?". Be vague but open about mental health issues -- saying the words "mental health" is great to establish why you're stepping back; going into detail about your challenge in the moment is never a good idea, in my experience.
Polls are reported with fine print similar to "+/- 2%, 19 times out of 20".
That would be an interesting argument. I suspect it would be illegal because a pay per view stream is typically time limited. But if the stream itself were still valid while you were on the plane ... ?
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I think it’s unlikely that we’re ever going to find another particle as useful as, say, the electron. You need a particle collider to get free Higgs bosons; you can obtain free electrons by rubbing a balloon on your head. And electrons are the Swiss Army knife of technology, they are important in every chemical reaction and every electric device. Higgs bosons will likely never have a practical use.

But-

I still think we should keep doing particle physics, for a while longer. We have built up a huge global community of physicists and engineers who do particle physics, and without a way for them to conduct experiments there won’t be any jobs for those people to do, and in 2 generations all that expertise will be gone. The praxis will be gone. After all, that’s what technology really is; it isn’t a set of books on a shelf, it’s networks of people, with skills and connections to each other, who can get things done. Let’s make sure we don’t pull the plug early.
Yes, I'm watching https://radicle.xyz/ with great anticipation.
Mozilla is an insurance policy for Google to show they have competition. Anything else you see there is a falsity.

I say this as a Mozilla browser and vpn user.

They have no reasonable market share to speak of anymore and no direction.
i did a simple test between PHP, Java, Elixir and Haskell for fun (with a full payload/page that represents my problem domain) - PHP was within +/-10ms of the others for the same payload/template process. Guess which one was the slowest?
The 737 Max implies that third world pilot training programs should come under deeper scrutiny. It wasn’t a coincidence that both crashes had “pilot mill” pilots. The FO on Ethiopian had less hours than required to get a commercial certificate in the US, let alone an ATP rating required by US law to fly airliners. And Lion Air was a maintenance joke with a long history of 737 accidents and incidents.
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So... what is going to happen to youtube-dl? Will it get renamed considering it supports ~1155 websites (based on docs/supportedsites.md)? If it does get renamed, how are we going to know its name? Where do the developers going to push their changes, where is the development being continued?! Fuck everyone who complies with such retarded laws. Corruption is sometimes good, in cases such as these. :)