skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MB should make that illuminated star standard and charge a fee to remove it. They would make a fortune on the upper models. I sure as hell wouldn't have it on mine.

Its not too uncommon for owners to remove the model designation emblems from the rear of the car too. If you bought the cheap engine, nobody will know how much money you didn't spend. If you bought the expensive engine, your boss wont know how much extra money you spent.
> The larger point is - there's a spectrum here that ranges from literally believing Clinton and Trump hang out in the same pizza parlor raping children

One of the things that shows the total bankruptcy of QAnon is that despite the long history of trump sexual abuse and several credible rape claims and the fact that Trump peeked on underage teenage girls changing at a miss teen usa contest, almost none of these conspiracy theories accuse Trump of anything. Instead it's always perceived enemies of trump Democrat or Republican or celeb that doesn't like Trump accused almost always without any evidence
> The biggest problem with it is that it's unconstitutional.

There is considerable debate about that.

> States are not allowed to make agreements with each other parallel to the system.

Yes, they are. In certain circumstances, such agreements require affirmative Congressional consent, though its questionable if the National Popular Vote "Interstate Compact" would meet the standards for requiring such consent, whether it would require only negative consent, or whether it would be outside of Congress' authority because of the assignment of the power of choosing electors.

> if you can get that many states to agree to it, then you could have just done a constitutional amendment

No, that's not at all necessarily even approximately true. For it to be effective, you need jurisdictions with a bare majority of electoral votes to implement it. For a constitutional amendment, you need 3/4 of states.

The minimum number of states to hit a majority of EVs is 16, as opposed to 38 for a constitutional amendment.

> since all you need for that is for the states to agree, and the senate to agree.

You don't need the Senate to agree to a Constitutional Amendment. You need 3/4 of state legislatures to agree.
You can propose a constitutional amendment with 2/3 of both houses of Congress, or call a Constitutional Convention on the application of 2/3 of states.

Both proposal and ratification (presuming senators vote in line with their states, regardless of the House) have a higher minimum threshold than would be otherwise required for states representing a majority of EVs to assign electors in line with the national popular vote and determine Presidential elections that way.
A gigantic single file encoded version of `node_modules` is just modules I can’t go look in.
I’m sure that in the list of substances which have leaked into the environment and caused one or more deaths, nuclear material is certainly one of them—possibly even in the top 1,000.
Yes, but we also do not generally count the radiation that coal plants leak into the environment nor the animal deaths caused by windmills.
I don’t follow, the argument seems to be along the lines of:

Guns can be used to shoot people, they’re explicitly advertised as being for shooting people, shooting people is a crime. We request you stop selling guns.

It’s all just a tad misplaced.
You do subject request under GDPR and they have to give you all your data.
I would bet that pure text-reading AI can absolutely deduce the rules. Finnish morphology (word structure) isn't that complicated. It's routinely used as an example in linguistics classes because it is simple and regular. If you want to see truly crazy word structure, try Georgian or Navajo.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_grammar
"but it can't without a major tech breakthrough. "

It can absolutely compete on cost, the only 'breakthrough' we need is operational fidelity.

It's 'expensive' for the same reason that the AHA web site cost $1B to build when it should have cost $50M or the tunnel in Boston went 5x over budget.

Also, there's the issue of liability and insurance is problematic, it needs to be externalized i.e. we need to have rules, safeguards around what happens and how people are comped.

The 'modern world' is significantly harangued by our inability to build complicated things with effectiveness, Nuclear Power is just an artifact of that.
Honestly RMS has always struck me as someone who isn't really in control of himself socially. I can feel it in myself sometimes, maybe I'm autistic (who knows); saying "Fuck off and get out" solves nothing.

He's a strange man, but the beauty of free software is that you can be free to only view a man or woman as the sum of their code if you choose to.
No, he never advocated for "child rape." He advocated for sexual relationships between minors and adults. I find it disgusting, but to say that he supports child rape is simply flat-out wrong, and it is a smear.
It's non-unique - there are an infinite number of configurations of mass that could have cause that single object to move in exactly the way it was measured.
> Given that life only appeared once on earth in 3.5 billion years on Earth

So, one theory is that once life shows up it tends to suppress protolife.

If it is hard for life to show up, then it is arguably very suspicious that it apparently did so so soon (in geological time) after conditions were suitable for it.
I disagree with this 100%. Smart contracts are the most ethical contracts possible.
The DAO was just poorly coded, there is nothing wrong with Ethereum itself. It's the smart contract developer's fault if they can't test their contracts properly. It doesn't facilitate abuse of any kind, this is not a good argument. Ethereum is the second most valuable cryptocurrency for a good reason.

Also, your comment was heavily downvoted, thus proving by consensus that it is incorrect.
I wonder if a) PyPI will get a DMCA notice and b) PyPI honours such notices.
Why do I always find out about cool and useful things as soon as they are about to be shut down? ;-(
> Torrents are illegal

I assume this only applies to "copyrighted" content? Is it illegal to torrent a Linux distro or some such thing?

Either way, this seems much more reasonable than the US's current system.
Maybe this one? https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7274479/Maxwell-D...

People have been working on unredacting it: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/ghislaine-maxwel...
Well I for one hope you are correct. The fact that popcorn time is still up gives me hope that ytdl will also return soon.
Isn’t the problem that this stuff is on youtube in the first place? The RIAA can’t win against google, so now they’re going against smaller players?
Googled has tightened restrictions for login
Here's a fact: Regardless of who wins the electoral college, Biden is going to receive at least 5 to 6 million more votes than Trump. This isn't a biased prediction, it's based on national polling which has proven itself to be accurate to within a couple points. This makes sense, given the law of large numbers.

Biden is currently up +10, though this will drop before election day. Hillary ended up winning with 48.2% vs 46.1% - +2.1 points equaling 2.8 million votes more than Trump. Biden will most likely double that number, and yet still easily lose the election.

The system we have is amazingly broken.
That's a very common misconception of private copy; the existence of the private copy tax is not excusing copyright violation.

What private copy wanted to cover is more like "I bought a physical CD and I make a cassette copy because my car doesn't have a CD player" or because I want to listen to a mix of my favorite music (so you paid a tax on cassettes and later on CD-R and CD-RW media). This was later extended to "I copy all my collection of music to a hard drive and stop flipping CDs in and out of the player" (so you pay a tax on hard disk drives).
Could this woman be induced to become a US citizen and run for Congress?
I've been using Powershell for a few years now, there are some minor warts, but those can fit in a single page. I found it rather nice for shell scripting.
As it should be. The immense personal risk taken by whistleblowers needs to be compensated accordingly. Given that these awards constitute a portion of the sanctions levied on the perpetrators it's not even a net expense to the government.
I don't think that's quite how it works. It's not (generally) capability that matters but rather intent.

The RIAA would of course argue that examples of infringement in the test cases or readme demonstrate intent. A reasonable response to that might (or might not, depending on the context) be that infringement in those specific cases was never intentional but instead purely by accident.

If the infringement in this case ends up appearing to be intentional, it would probably make for a very uphill battle to argue that the tool itself was only intended for legitimate use cases.

Edit: Of course, it's reasonable to ask - if it's legal for YouTube to distribute the content, does using youtube-dl suddenly make it illegal? Is it a violation of copyright to record a pay per view stream? What about a publicly available stream paid for by ad revenue?
Maybe also mentioned that it managed those 1.8 miles travelling since the 70s...
A nuclear reactor well above sea level and on geologically stable ground would have many orders of magnitude less risk than the east coast of Japan.

Just because it’s not safe everywhere doesn’t mean it’s not safe anywhere.
As I know no one achieved perfect pitch with this tool. I have no your background, I've took tool name from the web [1]. Maybe it is wrong like serverless is deployed on servers though it should be p2p or flat files.

I've thought perfect pitch is a knowledge like "this note is G". You describe intuition as something different (or different from perfect pitch), maybe we need a special word for it?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?&q=perfect+pitch+training
What is the percentage of content hosted on youtube actually under control of the RIAA vs other content? If less than the majority of content on youtube is theirs, what gives them the right to have a tool removed for downloading content from a service that's not theirs and which they don't own the majority of the hosted content?

Why does the tool being hosted on an American website make any difference?

YouTube's content doesn't all belong to them, they don't even own the majority of the content on there and a huge number of users and creators on youtube do not live in or fall under American jurisdiction which means neither does the content they create, so again, why should the RIAA have the ability to do this?
I had already been meaning to look at it but had written it off because I wanted what yarn 2 was selling... but definitely gonna give it another look.
Awesome!

It looks like some files are missing from the photos directory, or maybe the index is just wrong.
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Look again. Quarterly vs yearly numbers.
That's not what perfect pitch means, per se. It should work with any tonal system.
Hmm, I'm not sure that that's correct. If you build an apartment block and it catches fire the week afterwards, then it's perhaps not reasonable to expect that if you build another one to exactly the same design it will never catch fire. At that point you might want to be reviewing your wiring plans.

That life showed up so early says... something. If life showing up was so fantastically difficult, we would arguably expect it to be later in geological time.
Can it download from Youtube over the command line?
> It could just as easily be that a download feature doesn't exist because YouTube wants you to keep returning to their site if you want to rewatch a video.

Lets be clear though - the only reason copyrighted material is allowed on Youtube is because the owners then grant a license for the content in exchange for ad revenue. Offering a download link severly damages the "owners are paid for their content" part of the equation.
You would like https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
I was just about to comment the same thing.
It is the worst!
> If the planet is in the habitual zone

This makes it sound like the planet is hanging out on skid row with a belt wrapped around its arm getting ready to shoot up.

I prefer planets in the habitable zone. Less crime in that part of the solar system.
I agree. Generally I find the approach to have a few tools that work well in their specific niches to be superior to having one tool for all jobs.

I use a shell for shell stuff, I use a scripting language for most other stuff, and I might use a systems level compiled language (or a scripting language that calls into a compiled library) for more performance specific needs. If you're already within a specific area and only need to venture into the other for a minimal aspect of the current project, it can be useful to stick with what you're in, but you quickly reach the point where it's better to choose a better tool because of diminishing returns from using a tool for something it's not good for.

Maybe the hammer in the hand is fine for prying the single board off fence or wall, but if you're going to be doing it to ten or twenty boards, maybe walking over to the shed to get the crowbar will save a lot of time and effort in the end.
Also everyone uses package managers these days, and if you ever need to install a package manager manually, spending 2 seconds to specify the location of a certain library, or googling “cannot find -lpng”, doesn’t take much effort. The automatics of library finding is super complex and can really get in the way of package/repo maintainers. Today, it’s probably a better idea to optimise build systems to be used by people who understand how the relevant programming language finds libraries, and not to “help end users understand how to compile their code”.

Autoconf often does a good job in having some “—with-libX11=some-path” but sometimes people just do weird stuff with their packages.

But maybe I’m just butthurt from trying to package stuff to nixos and having too many “smart build tools” fail.
I guess that means those decisions are then based more on emotion than facts?
No need, just code a fully compatible alternative implementation. It's very unclear what is the situation with Mono (unlike alternative JVM implementations).
I thought this was about the 1985 RPG of the same name. The amazing Rob Hubbard soundtrack immediately played in my head when I clicked through, only to find screenshots of a completely unfamiliar game. It took me almost half an hour to figure out that my brain hadn't played tricks on me, and that there are two completely different games with the same name!
You wouldn't even need ML. Iirc there was this guy who coded a script that played every permutation of 12 notes in a 5 minute period and then made all the Melodys public domain. Ianal so I don't know if this would hold up in court, but technically that should invalidate every copyright on Melodys after that point in time.

E: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJtm0MoOgiU&t=135 found the ted talk
Maybe down the line (too many side projects already). I really should just add that little extra bit of work to make the Vue version usable.

UI wise i need to add an envelope editor instead of entering numbers manually, the player code already has support for envelopes although it needs a bit fixing with how sustain is handled.

Would be fun to "put up" the project for public consumption, took the opportunity to try out a serverless backend (since this isn't something i plan to manage myself or think will pull or cost in any real money) and that was fairly easy for what i have in mind (adding the possibility to share tunes and some 3rd party login for saving stuff maybe)
Not for the person who installed them.
> Disabling Javascript and cosmetic filters doesn't make any sense.

it does for those concerned with their privacy - i recommend to my readers to disable JS globally and allow it per-host where needed

as for cosmetic filters, processing them consumes more CPU

also these are suggested settings based on my experience and tailored to fit the Firefox config guides i wrote - i didn't state they were better than everyone elses
Hi everyone, I couldn't sleep the other day so I made this quick game. I thought it was simple and fun, so I'm sharing here. Hope you like it.

It probably won't work in Safari, because they disabled Canvas, so you need to disable cross site tracking[1]

1 - https://support.apple.com/pt-br/guide/safari/sfri40732/mac
I agree that "the Iran deal" is a sore issue. But that is not the issue. Regarding climate change, I would focus much more in China and India getting nuclear power plants (which they are building right now), rather than worry about proliferation, since that ship sailed decades ago.
For context, if Texas goes for Biden, then the 538 model predicts some amusing things.
1. The next most likely state that Biden could win is South Carolina at 25%.
2. The next most likely state that Trump could win is Ohio at 28%.
3. Biden would have the same chance of winning Mississippi as Trump would have of winning Iowa, 21%.

Calibrate your expectations accordingly.
Can someone PM me the location of a repo that still has this up somewhere? I might be able to clone it and host it.
Is there a law that says https protocol has to be consumed by a browser?
So lets have someone outside the influence of the RIAA do so? Not everyone lives under their thumb.
Ahem, your honor, please use the gavel to make it official.
...or globally for those that care about privacy (then allow per-host as needed)
> They have been corrected.

Hispanic vote numbers are wrong this cycle (too high of support for Biden in the models). Might not matter, I'm still expecting a Biden victory.
command 2> >(sort -n|logger -t DEBUG -f -) | other pipeline
As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, Yarn v2 does have an "unplug" command that will extract a given dep into a folder for the time being. Does help with that use case.
It's on life-support, yes.

Incredibly sad, it did IM very well and on top of it all, it had a bunch of very innovative features. And no, nothing really competes with it.
Lawyers have no sense of humor. They are like the opposite of hackers.
> Humans have been civilized for only some tens of thousands of years,

That's giving humans a lot of credit. Civility has been regressing. I would be embarrassed for another civilization to find us now. Sure, we may have more technology and scientific understanding, but how we treat one another needs another world than civil.
Although the OS might do that as well when you watch a video and put the computer into hibernation mode.
Batteries are not cheap. And current tech doesn't scale to the massive scale needed to fix the problem "cheap" wind and solar : unreliability.
> I think skype is good and important

There is no way you seriously think this...

Skype is atrocious, and offensive as a product.
There's stuff like Justin Timberlake in there and Taylor Swift. This was immensely sloppy considering how the RIAA has won cases before.
People forget that Youtube is a _business_. The reason they maintain all of those servers and network machinery is to serve ads, otherwise why would they provide that service for free?
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks (2019)
When "what maybe could have happened but didn't, ha-haa!" is making half of European continent uninhabitable for several generations in 1986... fear is fully justified.

Our brain evolved the capability to explore hypothetical undesirable outcomes and feel fear of it to keep us alive, and it serves us well since millions of years. The fools that never are afraid of anything tend to have very short lives.
I've thought of separate names "A z B C u D v E F w G" (from the end of the alphabet). Your approach looks more practical, have to ditch accesskey though.
I disagree 100%, there is a lot of negativity in these comments and the downvotes seem to validate this.
> This modern trend of needing to pay before you even know if you love the work

How modern do you mean? It seems to me that I pay for a movie ticket before I sit down in the theatre and watch it (trailer not withstanding). Same is true for plays and operas which preceded that. I would pay for a book before reading it (cover excerpt not withstanding). In fact, I'm trying to think of any media that I would consume before I paid.

> Got any data to back up this feeling?

Meh, we're only going to throw anecdotes back and forth. I recall bands like Radiohead and comedians like Luis C.K. experimenting with "pay what you want" ideas. I would suppose the fact that didn't catch on (outside of humble bundle charity type things) would be evidence that it didn't work for a large enough segment of creators.

Also, it isn't like RIAA members are allergic to money. I mean, if there was any reasonable evidence that free sharing of content resulted in profits that are equal or greater (or even viable) rationality suggests that they would embrace it.
Standing in the Sunlight damages human DNA.
(Not a real edit): my last gig was with a lot of well prepared juniors, but they lacked the confidence to go look inside dependencies to find out what was happening. I tried to encourage setting breakpoints or logging or whatever felt comfortable in required packages. It was hard.

Turning that into a blob is even more discouraging.
I read it the other way. It appears to me that Bitwise is both against the smear campaign, and showing the "logic" that those behind it use.
Pay close attention to social media companies and privately run social networks and forums. I used to work for a major social media network that was growing and eventually stalled.

If you run a social network and it gets popular you're going to run into major problems that no one talks about.

1.) Multiple governments, private organization and luddites send people to your company to compromise the source code.

2.) People eventually find out they can use the social network as a covert advertising platform. They end up trying to make side money using the platform to slip ad campaigns as normal human interactions.

3.) Eventually someone figures out they can control the behavior of people on the social media platform in strange ways. One guy figured out he could create sock puppet accounts and automate the process of bringing women he liked everywhere he went. Don't do this!!! If you start slipping covert advertising in the platform and you get caught you're eventually going to run into organized crime, the govt or both.

4.) And my favorite, people start offering your best employees obscsene amounts of money to try and stop you from starting another social network.
The signal is broadcast (ie not under your control) and so the sole purpose being permitted there is time shifting.

YouTube is an on demand stream. It would be comparable to recording a pay per view movie that you purchased. Is that legal? (The question isn't rhetorical, but I seriously doubt it.)