<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SllX</author><text>The barbarians aren’t at the gate, Genghis Khan ain’t riding across Central Asia, Japan is unified, America isn’t in the midst of a civil war, and Europe is trying this union thing on to see how that goes, and the relative fallout if it doesn’t work out looks fairly minor compared to the Napoleonic Wars, the Franco-Prussian Wars, two World Wars and the Iron Curtain.&lt;p&gt;I know I know, recency bias and all that, but the world is pretty great these days, even if 2020 seems a low point in our lives.</text><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>So glad this is updated. yt-dl.org&amp;#x2F;bug still seems to point to the github DMCA takedown notice. There seems to be an issue on YouTube itself where youtube-dl has been throwing the error:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;token&amp;quot; parameter not in video info for unknown reason; please report this issue on &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yt-dl.org&amp;#x2F;bug&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yt-dl.org&amp;#x2F;bug&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Considering the current political climate, youtube-dl is going to be my (and many&amp;#x27;s) literal weapon of choice against disinformation operations. Of course, the conspiracy theorist in me asks, what if that&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;the reason why&lt;/i&gt; youtube videos are suddenly breaking yt-dl? Making a video analysis tool unavailable during one of the most unstable times in history is beyond negligent, it&amp;#x27;s the kind of mendacity that polarizes and radicalizes people.&lt;p&gt;Surely an innocent mistake, that happened at the precise moment, at the worst possible time, affecting the one thing opposition would use, and with complete deniability.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Oops.&amp;quot; Indeed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1</title><url>https://youtube-dl.org/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>christocracy</author><text>&amp;gt; one of the most unstable times in history&lt;p&gt;I can think of far more unstable times &lt;i&gt;in history&lt;/i&gt; than the times we’re living in now, recent examples being WW1 &amp;amp; 2, nuclear threat during the Cold War.</text><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>So glad this is updated. yt-dl.org&amp;#x2F;bug still seems to point to the github DMCA takedown notice. There seems to be an issue on YouTube itself where youtube-dl has been throwing the error:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;token&amp;quot; parameter not in video info for unknown reason; please report this issue on &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yt-dl.org&amp;#x2F;bug&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yt-dl.org&amp;#x2F;bug&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Considering the current political climate, youtube-dl is going to be my (and many&amp;#x27;s) literal weapon of choice against disinformation operations. Of course, the conspiracy theorist in me asks, what if that&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;the reason why&lt;/i&gt; youtube videos are suddenly breaking yt-dl? Making a video analysis tool unavailable during one of the most unstable times in history is beyond negligent, it&amp;#x27;s the kind of mendacity that polarizes and radicalizes people.&lt;p&gt;Surely an innocent mistake, that happened at the precise moment, at the worst possible time, affecting the one thing opposition would use, and with complete deniability.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Oops.&amp;quot; Indeed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1</title><url>https://youtube-dl.org/</url></story>