skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've long been sympathetic to ideas like this - I remember as a little kid, blowing off the big stigma around the (then-novel) 3d shooters that had just come out, like Doom. Ironically I agree with exactly what you said, but simultaneously think you might miss something in the analysis. I think that maybe a better way to phrase the idea is:

In the rare case that you're positive for a trait, you can be incited to it by stimuli.

For example, if you have an anger-management problem, you can live quite peacefully, left alone, but you are uniquely dangerous to provoke. Behaviors and stimuli that are harmless to other people cause a violent outburst from you. Same thing with alcoholics and, for example, pedophiles - stimuli that provoke no negative behavior from other people will provoke it in someone positive for a trait. Violent media left us with a tiny driblet of actual killers because only a tiny fraction of people are positive for a trait of being stone-cold killers.

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So what are we afraid of? We have barely any actual killers. We're afraid of enablers.

We have a tiny, tiny group of people that will dare to do crimes (say, shooting up a synagogue) when there are clear and present consequences for it. I'm quite sure, however, we have a still small, but much, much larger group that are "latent" trait-positive for violence. They'd do it - if they could get away with it.

What we're really scared of is a third group - which might be a group so large that it could be anywhere from 30-60% of our society. People who could be coerced into not caring about the violence. That third group is the people who are trait-positive for gullibility (and several other related traits). I think it could very well be "most people" - a plurality if not a majority.

These are what enable horrible things. People who have bought into propaganda really don't do anything, and that's exactly what's so horrible about them; because they don't express some sort of obvious, negative externality in their neighbors and coworker's lives, nobody really cares if they believe horrible things. Because they don't really "act on" those beliefs - they don't go out and do things that hurt people.

But they also don't intervene when a crime aligning with their beliefs is perpetrated.

And that's what's so scary.

When a black man would get lynched in the old south, the real thing that made it possible was the hundreds of other bystanders who felt like the black guy deserved it. If they didn't exist, such a killer would rapidly be brought to justice. But instead, since so many were okay with it (and even cheered it on), not only would the killer get away with the act, but quite a few much more "minor" trait-positive people participated in it - people much less naturally driven to kill, but who could work up the courage to do so if they could get away with it.
RMS has always been prophetic. He's got the biggest Cassandra syndrome of anyone I've known. He's 100% right most of the time (at least evaluated a decade or two later), and most people have always thought that he sounds like a nutcase.

He's devoted his life to letting people know, and so few listen.
Ask HN: How do you cope with mental illness as a founder and/or employee?
Mental illness has made remaining employed very difficult for me. I've recently considered what it would be like to start a company of my own. This would require depending on many new people as well as many new people depending on me. Each new person, (say, a co-founder) is taking a risk by working with me, as my mental/emotional issues can, and perhaps will, make me a poor decision maker and even (irrationally) emotionally abusive at times.

Is it even possible? If so, is it worth it? Obviously there's a spectrum of issues here so please feel free to be vague if you're not comfortable in sharing your specific circumstances.

Career programmers, too - what has been your experience with employment and mental health?

Just a note: I see a lot of people on these types of threads try to suggest just general mental health solutions they've had success with. While I'm ecstatic you may have found something which worked for you, I'm more interested in experiences from people who continue to deal with mental illness.
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How is it illegal to file a DMCA takedown request if you believe you have legal standing to do so?

EDIT: The DMCA doesn't require that you have a law degree to submit a takedown request, it just requires that you truly believe it is infringing.
If you sell a "murderizer 3000" and explain in the owner's manual how to inflict a fatal wound and maybe also not leave any evidence behind it doesn't take a genius to argue you're selling a murder weapon, to murderers.
I believe that the "direct" path of one color and "alternating" path are just a choice of the graphing and not dictated by the data. If you make different node selections, you could make the reverse. Same for the layout of the nicely ordered trees and those that seem more chaotic--it's just a matter of adjusting the layout of the nodes to determine the angles of the edges.
The only way bitcoin can become corrupted is if someone gains control of >50% of the hashing power of the network.

I'm talking about the integrity of the system itself, not actors within it. George Soros famously did the same thing with the British Pound but the issue with the British Pound is that it is a fiat currency that can be devalued at the whim of a handful of people controlling the system itself regardless of market forces (aka the participants in the system). When Soros or that bitcoin whale "manipulate the market" they are still acting within the system.
AC squealing (and a lot of other noises that are somehow synchronous to the grid frequency) would be a slightly off G outside of North America (slightly to high, G is ~49 Hz and the grid frequency almost everywhere is 50 Hz), no need for perfect pitch to guess that.

In North America (60 Hz grid frequency), I'm not quite sure whether one would recognise it as a A# (58.3 Hz) or a B (61.8 Hz).
This is such a snark reply, you know exact that git and github are not the same thing.

Discovery and issue management is important and is not part of git.
Nice article thanks. I might try this approach as well. I maintain a large django app, heavy on the back end and light on the front end. We've been discussing modernizing the front end, which is based on jquery and bootstrap, but the instability of the JS ecosystem really frightens me. As a very small startup, we can't afford the overhead of keeping up with everything that's going on.

Maybe you're right. Vanilla JS and CSS may actually be good enough for a good enough time. Plus, it brings back memories of simpler view-source times.
I suspect that the parent comment might have been a joke.
It's always fair to call someone out on the ethics of their work, but I don't think this is a particularly effective or positive way of engaging the creator.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html for guidelines on HN comment expectations.
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how git is decentralized?
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Good thread! Note that the crash occurred in 2018. But as we see more self driving cars hit the road, the accountability situation is certainly something to be concerned with.
Oh the irony of cloning a banned repo from a Chinese git mirror...

c:\Users\david\dev\git
λ git clone https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader.git
Cloning into 'youtube-downloader'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 98560, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (98560/98560), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (30542/30542), done.
remote: Total 98560 (delta 73037), reused 90045 (delta 66441), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (98560/98560), 49.86 MiB | 9.58 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (73037/73037), done.
What about the failure of Mixer?
There have been democracies since the ancient era.

I'm saying that before World War 2 you wouldn't generally consider Democracy to be the default paradigm for how nations were governed.
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Seems to me this is leading to contested cases that can be routed to a more corporatist friendly Supreme Court.
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Exactly. I don't understand what's new in this paper. We've known for decades that since gravity is a force with unlimited range and information cannot be destroyed, you could work out the positions, masses, and motions of the entire earth and everything on it by monitoring a single object with enough precision and isolation.
I am evaluating Deezer now. Can’t say how good it supports your use case, but the UI is everything I want from a music player. Plus songs uploading
I don't see why that would be a bonus. You could actually be in China with a lower cost of living and bigger talent pool that speaks the language, assuming the goal is China-centric tech. If it's not specific to China, then opening a small branch office there should be specific. There are also a variety of regulatory and IP issues when working with China which might influence being in country vs out, but none of that should influence the decision to build a tech scene in HI.
Even if we restrict the target set to "tools with a high likelyhood of being used for an illegal purpose" which I believe youtube-dl belongs in, when is the RIAA going after "guns"?
The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it
> The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Using legal tactics to stop text on the Internet seems folly to me.
My partner did her dissertation on exactly this.

If you are interested, see Chapter 3:

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rp5w2rd
We wouldn't have mass produced washing machines without... Mass production :-)

The part about our life being better is non negotiable, you haven't had to hand wash clothes if you're saying otherwise.

And that's just one example, refrigeration, mass mobility... Life is incomparably better and saying otherwise is just ignoring reality, in my book ;-)
Only within the internal context of that state, though. Apportionment based on factors external to the state is likely unconstitutional, based on the voting rights act and resultant scotus decisions.

The supreme court has said (over-simplifying here) that the right to delegate this legislative power to a popular vote is only constitutional when it adheres to 1 person, 1 vote weighting.

Taking into account votes external to that state likely violates this.
This piece is so short, and the content so similar to what's being discussed in the original thread[0], that I'm not sure what about it warranted an entirely separate post. Wouldn't this have been better as a comment on the original thread?

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911
How does that justify one vote per state? Wouldn't one vote per representative represent the will of the people better?
I don't work around the clock.

Normally I'd leave for my commute at 0700 to get to the office at 8, and again leave around 1600 and be at home around 1700.

When remote, most of my work gets done between 0800 and 1700. There are a few late-night calls (15-30 minutes) due to time zones and maybe a handful of times I need to consult a team on the other side of the planet during the evening.

Basically I get to sleep an hour longer, since my commute is 60 seconds and doesn't require me to be dressed. Also I get to take breaks during the day any way I like - that's how I played through Spider-man on PS4 :D
If abiogenesis is common, we should expect it to keep happening everywhere around us. We should have noticed at least a few instances by now, given that we have been trying explicitly to produce it.

So at the very least, we can say that the conditions for the apparition of life and the conditions for the proliferation of life seem to be quite different.

Also, given the amount of isolated biomes on earth, if abiogenesis had ever been a common occurrence, i think we should expect for there to still exist some survivors of those other events.
Any object the same density as the surrounding medium should be much harder to detect via this method. Submarines and blimps should be safe for a while.
Ah, sorry, that was a confusing choice of words. In the law they are using "effective" to mean "has the effect of" not "works well."

In any event the entire phrase "effectively controls access to a work" is defined in the law so what the words mean in english is irrelevant.

Here it means anything that "requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work." Which I think we can all agree is very broad.
I really enjoy having copies of all of the content I consume locally. It feels nice knowing that it cannot be taken away from me by anyone. It's there when I lose Internet, it is there if I stop paying for various subscriptions, and it is there even if companies receive takedown notices, or otherwise just remove content for arbitrary reasons with no transparency or warning.

It's sad how difficult it is becoming for users to actually own any of their own files. We don't own our music, we use spotify. We don't own our videos, we use Youtube. We don't even own the things we write ourselves, we use Twitter, Medium, Facebook, Discord, and more, and as of more recently, we sometimes do not even own hardware that we purchase ourselves (far too many examples)!

youtube-dl being taken down today due to DMCA is a great showcase in how user-hostile the end-game here may actually be: you cannot own anything yourself, and must only access it on the terms of many very large parties (corporations, governments, laws, IP, etc), whose interests are not only not aligned with yours, but often completely inversed.

You never know when your favorite content on the Internet may completely disappear. Youtube videos get taken down, github repositories and all of their forks get removed, sometimes personal accounts for services such as Facebook or Google are deleted permanently and with no recourse, and sometimes even entire websites and services go dark, whether they shut down, are deplatformed, or get DMCA'd.

While I won't be able to convince most of my friends or family to keep their own files for all of their valued content, since it can be a difficult hassle for nontechnical users, I will continue to do so myself until I'm not longer able to.
Smart contract are effects that automatically happen to accounts using tokens that aspire to be currency.

So the scenario - a person works for etherium tokens (or whatever equilivalent), a person has certain number of tokens accumulated as their savings. A person violates whatever smart contract they have agreed to and they're automatically penalized, with courts or anyone else being unable to undo this - even if the contract was for, say, illegal activity. If the entire economy of any area runs on whatever crypto tokens, a person could have no choice but to agree to one of these contracts.

It's fairly unlikely to happen, admittedly, but the point is the entire exercise is a blue print for a Libertarian Party Utopia/Dystopia, depending on one's interpretation of the situation. My interpretation is extreme dystopia.
I wish people didn't believe everything others say about people.

RMS has lots of enemies, and most of the stuff you read about him is fabricated. You start with a grain of truth, mix in a few half-truths, add a bold-faced lie, and you've got a great smear.

I mean, he doesn't have the best human interface, but people take that, and use that as the basis of rumors to destroy him.

Read about his departure from MIT/FSF. Compare what he wrote to what he was accused of writing.
The concrete action they're accusing youtube-dl of is that it "circumvents YouTube’s rolling cipher". The RIAA has used this same complaint to have other sites/tools taken down. I've looked into the implementation, and it turns out the Youtube is at most merely rearranging the characters of the CDN url of the video, and they send you JS code in the page to correctly arrange the characters of the URL so you can download it. Youtube-dl is using the Google-supplied JS and a JS interpreter to transform the Google supplied URL into the URL they need to download the videos. Youtube is asking Google what to do, and Google is saying "here's how you download the video".

I explained the full RIAA complaint, with links to prior complaints and the youtube-dl source code, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874111
At least in NY, I don't see how this is possible because I can send in an absentee ballot and then invalidate it by voting on election day in-person. So I don't see how they can open any of the secrecy envelopes, let alone count any ballots, until they've determined if the ballot in the envelope should be counted, and they can't do that until they get the poll book back from my election site at the end of in-person voting. (But maybe NY is one of these 8 states due to this rule?)
> Basically there is not need and motivation for humans to colonize anything outside the Earth.

Our current gas emissions would disagree.

Also, asteroids, gamma ray bursts, curiosity, sheer ambition, etc, etc.

The thing is: we don't need to convince all of mankind to colonize another planet. All it takes is a few people. Crazy rich Mr. Musk is one example. He may not be able to achieve it, but maybe all we need is a few other Musks in the next generations and suddenly we'll be in other planets.

The Fermi Paradox discussion is fascinating.
But it would benefit the people of that state, because it would force both of the candidates to give the people of that state more of what they want, since that can now make the difference between California's 55 electoral votes going 30 to one candidate and 25 to the other, or 45 to one candidate and 10 to the other. And Presidential elections have been decided by less.

Moreover, both of the parties are a product of the election map. If the map changes, it doesn't destroy one of the parties, it changes both of them, to get the balance back. If Republicans started getting 20 of California's delegates, Democrats would change their policies until they were getting those 20 back somewhere else. They'd stop pussyfooting around on climate change so they can save Florida from ending up underwater and put those 29 in the solid blue column, or dump a big jobs program in Ohio and get those, or start paying attention to the plight of the rural poor.

Or the Republicans would realize they could stand to lose some votes they currently have to get, stop being so inconsistent about at the same time claiming to want smaller government while never actually making it smaller, and actually gore somebody's ox.

You need 270 to win. 300 means you gave somebody something you didn't have to. 240 means you didn't give somebody something you did have to.
This should really just be a comment on the top post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911 (IMHO)—I thought since there was another front page story, maybe this was one of the authors/maintainers of youtube-dl, but it's just a summary of a few top-level points from the other thread.
I own an Index and I love VR, but I have the feeling that if VR was going to be huge it would be a lot bigger than it is already. In my opinion it's more likely that in the future it will remain a niche, but never become really a hit in the general population. A bit like flight sticks or wheels are mostly for people who like to play simulators and have a small but very dedicated public.

There's still some room for growth as better products come out for better prices, but I don't see everybody adopting it, it's too much of a hastle.
Depends on the spatial resolution I suppose, but being neutrally buoyant (like an airship or hot air balloon) would seem to be much harder to to detect, since you are the same average mass as the air you are displacing.
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Worth noting the MPA already tried doing this to Popcorn Time, a BitTorrent client designed to provide a Netflix-like UX.[1] The Popcorn Time devs put in a counter-notice and the repository was back up a few weeks later when the period for the MPA to respond expired.

The same thing will probably happen here because this is not one of the purposes of DMCA takedown letters, period. Even if there are inappropriate test cases or something in the repo, or if they’re correct that youtube-dl bypasses DRM in violation of a different part of the DMCA, it’s still not a valid takedown because GitHub isn’t hosting anything the RIAA/those it represents own the copyright to. The correct way to do this is to go after the lead youtube-dl developer(s) and/or GitHub for facilitating infringement or whatever, but I don’t think RIAA wants to do that because they probably don’t have much/any legitimate grounds for legal claims against them, so they abuse the DMCA to look like they’re doing something.

Edit: for a more concrete picture of what happens next, read GitHub’s DMCA policy.[2] Basically youtube-dl can file a counter notice assuming they disagree with the claims, after that the RIAA has 10-14 days to get a court order or the repo goes back up.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/github-reinstates-popcorn-time-code...

[2] https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...
I think having both is a good idea. Sometimes maybe you get your list of path names from a Here-document, for example.
I would rephrase the last part of it as "Only mindful practice makes perfect." Sure, it makes the quote less catchy, but imo it makes it more accurate.

I observed it myself with a lot of things, esp. when it comes to learning an instrument over the course of almost 2 decades (piano specifically, in my scenario). Sure, you can pick a few notesheets and keep practicing the entirety of them from start to finish at full speed over and over. However, the process will be extremely non-efficient and will make you take much longer to learn the song, and it won't make you take away as many lessons from it that are unrelated to that song specifically (i.e., those "unrelated" things that make you a better piano player overall).

Instead, you need to be mindful of what specifically goes wrong, what goes right, and target practice those problem points specifically. Let's say you have a few bars with a syncopated rhythm in a song you are learning, and you are struggling with that section specifically, you nailed the entirety of the song otherwise. Instead of just keeping playing that entire song over and over, you should practice just those few syncopated bars by themselves at a very very slow pace with a metronome. It will feel very awkward at first and give you a feeling that you aren't progressing much. Then you start incorporating that small problematic section into the entirety of the song. Then you speed up the tempo on that specific section and practice it at that tempo over and over. If the problem is in your left hand, you practice the left hand by itself first, then graduate to both hands. Then you try to incorporate it at a higher tempo into the rest of the song.

The whole process of that sounds very tedious and painful, but mostly because it actually is. However, it will lead to much better results. Not only you will learn this specific piece much quicker using such a methodical approach, you will perform it much better and way more consistently at the end. You end up dissecting that problematic point so much, whenever you see syncopated bars in the future in completely different music pieces, you will have much less problem with them. Which will allow you to spend more time improving other aspects of your play or learn other techniques. All of that learned knowledge ends up snowballing and compounding so much, over the course of a few years you end up massively outperforming someone who just blindly kept practicing pieces over and over from start to finish until they got them right.