skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think looking for a "YouTube Killer" is the wrong direction anyway, unless you're just looking for another large corporation to take over video dominance.

What I would personally love is an aggregator, or many aggregators, that act like YouTube, but are actually a distributed network of video sources.

The key to the concept is thinking of a source like a library of content, and the individual uploader manages their own source. You could consider it a channel, and then that uploader can syndicate their source/channel to any aggregator they want. Sources can be private/public, sources can be tagged, discoverable, and searchable.

Another key point is that uploaders need not host things themselves, SaaS products will quickly fill that role.

a) Anyone can start an aggregator and immediately have content, lowering the bar for entry.

b) A niche aggregator can pick or have submitted to them video library sources that match their niche, and can curate them just like any other video hosting site.

c) A cottage industry for video hosting can utilize an "average user" friendly UI to allow for anyone to create a source and submit it to these aggregators.

d) Allows free information to flow freely

f) Allows content creators full control over deals with aggregators on how they'll be reimbursed for access to their source. You can imagine YouTube accepting sources with an ad revenue share model just like they have now. Some aggregators will choose to "cache and redistribute" content from sources to allow for consistent UX to their users, but that's their decision.
>>"but we do not know _your application_ at all."

You're missing the point. A PaaS, or serverless service doesn't need to know your application. That's the whole point. They're just API calls, and they need to succeed with consistently low latency.
Usually through their YouTube channel or twitter or telegram. “hey, I just got my channel taken down on YouTube. Sub to me on bitchute instead”

Personally, I’m not confident bitchute is technically competent enough to implement a real discovery algorithm. They haven’t made any discernible technical improvements to the site since they first launched.
Hi, dev here! Comments and so forth are welcome.
> mostly because mainstream Christianity does not currently have many restrictions which inconvenience people day to day.

Note however that Islam has similar restrictions but an entirely different way to deal with them (respecting the spirit as well as their letter). My pet theory about the approach of the three main Abrahamic religions to restrictions:

1) Christianity: (loosely) respects the spirit but not the letter;

2) Islam: respects both the spirit and the letter.

3) Judaism: respects only the letter.
(Please note this is 2014, aka, "before Rust 1.0", and so doesn't really describe the state of the world. The section "a hybrid scheme" is the closest to what the state of things are now.)
Makes me wonder if the Supreme Court would have ruled differently in emergency stay requests from churches had they seen the change in responses towards the protest rallys by the same leaders who were restricting religious gatherings.
Are you saying that eyeball tests are wrong? That's an extreme claim.
>Those who protested stay-at-home orders were “rooted in white nationalism and run contrary to respect for Black lives,” the letter stated.

I feel like we've gotten to a point where "white nationalism" has become a code word for "anyone the disagrees with me" I agree white nationalism and racial justice is an important topic, but by arbitrarily labeling everyone who disagrees as a "white nationalist" it seems to be an intellectually dishonest way of refusing to engage with their arguments and the ultimate example of an "ad hominen" attack. Plus it makes it hard to figure out where to really focus attention because to quote Syndrome "If everyone is a [white nationlist] then no one is".

Am I alone on this, or do we really believe everyone that doesn't agree with one side is secretly just trying to bring back Jim Crow?
You can't take someone's lifeline away and act surprised when they try to get around it. Of course websites will do what they can to remain viable.
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Whatever one might think of socialism, and I really don't mean to start a political discussion here, FOSS is an example for me that shows that at the very least we're not purely driven by competition.
as long as anywhere has a specific version of the JRE installed that's been EoL since 2007.

I just ran into this on a new machine while trying to get Bamboo (Atlassian's CI product) running. Just download latest? phhhttt It needs a specific version: 1.8. Wait a minute, WTF? Java is at like v14 now, or something, right? Ah, because apparently there's some soft link from 1.8 to $WHATEVER_VERSION. Didn't matter because I downloaded the JRE, but needed the JDK. Or something. I've eventually got it working, and wrote it down this time.

I go back so far that I've written software on punch cards. And someone suggests that we foist this on your average Mac (or for that matter, any OS) user? Fat binaries, please.
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That's a hilarious premise for a lawsuit, because that's never what incognito mode meant.
You can sterilize a mall at 9am, but it won't be clean for long. There will still be plenty of germs about.
haha, curious what the actual context behind that statement is. one thing id ask them is does anyone on that team understand how that system works? also, what's the reason it was broken?
Lol I wouldn't want to soil these grounds
If the protest has a reasonable chance of increasing the fitness of your group then it may be worthwhile even if it is risky for the individual.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection

This logic applies to non-contagious, individual level, hazards such as this 8 year girl shot after her mom inadvertently drove into a mini-CHAZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTEemY1d0dc&t=338s

However in the case of contagious pandemic it seems to be risky for the group to concentrate in one place. Is there a name for this effect? I can not find any papers on it.
Sometimes simple suggestions are complex to implement or have wide reaching implications.

For example, it is very hard to come up with a sort list of clear content rules. There are all sorts of ambiguities. For example, when is nudity ok? What about violence? Every line you draw in the sand will have false positives and false negatives. See any number of stories about Facebook moderators who despite having lots of content rules, will make subjective and contradictory judgement calls.

Furthermore, with a concrete list of rules, bad actors will act just to the left of rules violations. Clearly, having some feedback is required. In this case, however, we don't know what Jordan Pier knew, since this was initially a reaction to the channel's deletion without consulting with Jordan about what happened.

Finally, having a support deposit--no matter how small--will disadvantage many creators and increase the divide between haves and have-nots. I admit that it's frustrating that you literally can't purchase a human's attention, but every policy decision like this has profound ramifications when you have billions of users.
The problem is that they are currently not mandatory (at least in most countries).

I think Apple and Google should make contact tracing built-in and on by default, plus ideally there should be enforcement of activation by all places that require to pass a thermal scanner to enter.

The Apple/Google protocol is privacy preserving, so there is no "spy" concern.
I'm essentially saying that we should write specifications and a translation/implementation layer that "tests" the specification against reality. Maintain a separation of concerns.

For instance.

This is done in theory by cucumber/gherkin but it's done pretty badly. Good concept, bad implementation.

My broader point, though, is that unit tests are a bad concept and bad abstraction for this among many reasons but it's so embedded in programming culture (to the point that when people say "test" they automatically mean "unit test") that other approaches almost become "unthinkable".
I recommend learning about, and practicing, servant leadership to the furthest extent possible in the role.

I don't have a specific book for you, so will link the wikipedia article as a jumping off point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership
How so? I'm disputing deaths in recent history, based on the present-tense phrasing, not the fact that racism has killed millions throughout the history of the United States. As far as I can tell, we don't disagree on the latter point. You speak as if I'm dumb and didn't know about the African slave trade.
The designs have to fit in 10mm² but the total chip will be 16mm² with the pads, a RISC-V and some interfaces supplied by Google. They could obviously fit some trick into their part, but given that it too will be open source you can inspect it if you don't trust them.
This law (and the California one) should be amended so that it takes the same number of clicks to opt in as to opt out, and so that ignoring the banner is an opt out.
> Seems to me Net and Open are remarkably similar- relatively simple implementations with an eye to traditional Unix and standards.

Well OpenBSD was originally forked from NetBSD and iirc, NetBSD was the first of the "modern" BSD's forked from 386BSD.
What incentive do lower cost manufacturers have to cooperate with this?
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The 'often' is missing not just from the title, but the entire article. It fails to draw any attention to the weaknesses or limited applicability of the experiments, and implies they're more universal, overstating their results.

I believe this is deliberate - "humans sometimes don't change their minds on some topics when given some types of new evidence" is uncontroversial, it generates few clicks, little argument. But "facts don't change our minds" (and nothing in the article text about the limitations of that statement), gets you a flame war with one side eager to embrace science, while the other struggles with the contradiction between the article and their own experience.
I live in Israel and always felt terrible for tourists who accidentally got stuck! Depending where you are you can end up with no public transportation, no grocery stores, restaurants, shops, museums, anything!
I second this. Will Larson's book is definitely one of the best if not the best book I have read on the subject.

There are other good books which can add to it like "The Manager's Path" by Camille Fournier.(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XP3GJ7F/)
Even tracking ads don't allow many sites to make a decent dollar!

But if we assume that tracking ads provide enough revenue, and we make the tracking illegal, once the market settles I bet that non-tracking ads will be reasonably close.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_Aptitude_Test_in_Engi...
Oh interesting! I had heard of some hydro in the US planning to instal batteries to help with faster response. But I guess there is great variety in design.
A while back I looked at a problem where Monte Carlo simulation said that the answer was probably 4.

But analysis showed that the actual answer was 9304682830147 ÷ 2329089562800 = 3.994987….

https://blog.plover.com/math/breaking-pills.html
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Anyone know if these questions are freely available?
Cool thanks. I might have to start from scratch just because of the underlying mechanisms that I'd want in it. The premise is to use microtransactions for posting/comments, mixed with a bit of the patreon model, to reward good posts and have a barrier to entry for reposts/trolling.
Or the truely great hack of just taking a photo of your screen with another device, which my elderly aunt uses not only for perserving snapchats but also for forwarding word docs and emails.

You can't actually fix a people problem with a technology solution, but maybe you can get rich selling technology solutions all the same.
In economics, ... but the power of cooperation seems to be valued much less

I'm not sure that I agree with this. The creation of firms and trade are both cooperative. They aren't altruistic though. (I'm not disagreeing with your overall point, just that cooperation isn't valued in economics.)
> Regression tests don't usually identify bugs in new features

Neither do unit tests in most cases.
If I recall correctly, only the first 2 chapters are about tech leads and mentoring. The rest is already about manager roles. I don't know if it's a good investment for someone focusing exclusively on tech lead role.

That being said, really good book :)
Thanks for the comments usrusr! And great points. So one of the things we did early-on is to prototype the whole flow to see if you could indeed get incredibly low false-positives. The key ended up being the combination of disparity depth (which gives over 1 million depth points) and neural inference so that the system can know incredibly granularly (i.e. within inches) the edges of things and their predictive trajectories.

So at the outset of this effort (back in 2017) such a computer-vision based device that was inexpensive and embeddable was impossible. The Movidius Myriad X came out, which has all the requisite CV/AI processing to make such a thing solvable... but there was no hardware/firmware/software/AI ecosystem which allowed producing such embedded spatial AI problems.

So we had to build that first to solve this safety problem and we're releasing it in conjunction with OpenCV as the OpenCV AI Kit (OAK).
https://opencv.org/opencv-spatial-ai-competition/

So the `why` of this is it allows others to solve problems on embedded systems which were previously intractable. And there are a ton of them... the number of applications we've seen has blown our mind.

We'll have a KickStarter around this OpenCV AI Kit which will be going live on July 14th: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/opencv/opencv-ai-kit

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Brandon
1. "An Elegant Puzzle - Systems of Engineering Management" by Will Larson. His blog & "Staff Eng" posts are helpful as well. https://lethain.com/tags/staff-eng/

2. "The Phoenix Project", "The Unicorn Project" (novels), and "DevOps Handbook" by Eugene Kim, on how different parts of a tech + non-tech organization come and work together.

3. "High Output Management" by Andrew Grove on overall technical management.

4. "Measure What Matters" by John Doerr on setting objectives and measuring their progress.

5. "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande on thinking through replicable processes.

6. "Who" by Geoff Smart on hiring.

7. "Start with Why" by Simon Sinek and "The Culture Code" by Daniel Coyle on creating culture and reasons for why people do the work. It's an important part of any management process, double import because of how often it is lost in technical management.
nice articles
I think the principles underlying FOSS are found everywhere. It's just that the idea of 'markets' and 'transactions' being the ubiquitous thing has infected our thinking.
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It is saddening to see so much pessimism in the thread.

Tight regulations on reproducibility are the first thing academia needs. Academia is a rat race with so much dishonesty and optimizing for measure (citation count etc..) these days. I have seen too many of professors producing low quality papers for the sake of producing papers - which creates a lot of noise, and a cargo cult PhD culture. Without reproducibility how can you even trust the results?

While academic code doesn't adhere to code quality standards of software development, I don't think many software engineers involve in ridiculing the author if they produce the code, leave alone other academics.

Btw, I submitted a link (a very comprehensive article by a CS academic) but it was lost in the HN noise. Maybe someone with higher karma points repost that? I found that article through nofreeview-noreview manifesto website and that's very well written, it covers a number of problems like this.. (http://a3nm.net/work/research/wrong).. PS I am no way affiliated to the author. Just mentioning because that article deserves to be at HN front page.
This book is not about technical management in particular, but it can help you a lot in understanding and dealing with people better, it's called The Charisma Myth: https://www.amazon.com/Charisma-Myth-Science-Personal-Magnet...

The book is an interesting read, but merely reading it won't do anything. There are one or two exercises per chapter, and you should work on them if you really want to see the benefits.

Also, if you want to do a little test before reading the whole book follow these tips from the intro:

> Three quick tips to boost charisma in conversation: Lower the intonation of your voice at the end of sentences, reduce how quickly and how often you nod, and pause for two full seconds before you speak.

From this summary: https://github.com/mgp/book-notes/blob/master/the-charisma-m...
So are you saying that the entire mass of the whole flywheel is all the synchronous motor?

I guess I had assumed -- especially based on the picture and description -- that a portion of the mass of the device was the synchronous motor and that a portion of the mass of the device is just "dead weight" whose purpose is just to act as energy storage via rotational inertia.

The parallels to the steam turbine would seem apt; the turbine end of a generator has a lot of mass relative to the electrical end. Isn't that a part of the point? Or did I miss something?
Hmm, yes, perhaps I was mistaken there.
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Possibly, but (simplifying a lot) the actual refactoring involves JSONB fields that store serializations of objects which include those fields plus a yet unknown amount of code that might be using them, etc. And we're ending up redesigning part of the UI because 1) it makes sense and 2) it makes the migration to the new backend simpler. Luckily we're pretty well covered by tests.
> And it’s definitely not hurting their business.

I would question that conclusion. There have been times in the past I've wanted to order from B&H, but could not because it was on the Sabbath. In most cases, I just keep looking until I found the item on a different website.

I'm sure they consider the loss of business worthwhile to comply with their religion, but there is a cost.
Interesting.

Do you have any timeline as to when custom functions or docker containers will be available?

This will be a game changer, and finally an alternative to the serverless framework.
Saved chat history is the big one. Discord is not suitable for business comms without it.

Other than that:

- shared channels between workspaces

- threads

- private messages within a workspace, instead of globally

- decoupled accounts from workspaces, so I can use my personal email and work email associated slack workspaces at the same time

- much tighter integration with third party tools eg zoom, webex, etc

Discord is great for casual chats with friends or open source communities. Insufficient for business.
They use all [their] money and it's well spent.

False.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...

Revenue: $ 120,067,266

Expenses: $ 91,414,010
"They use all the money" Yes, exactly why you should move your money to internet archive. Despite earning more than ever and providing relatively the same service wikipedia still 'use up' your money and ask for more in the form of an obtrusive banner. Therefore you can see that it's probaly not "well spent" see an agregate link below of wikipedia critics explaining and sourcing this.

http://xahlee.info/w/do_not_donate_to_Wikipedia.html
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It would allow them to spend less time designing an entire software ecosystem, for one.

Sort of like OpenDaylight https://www.opendaylight.org
I was told it would make my shopping experience more targeted. That I would want my materialism overlords to have a detailed accounting of my wants and likes to make consuming oh so much easier.
The current chinese regime under Xi is also essentially a coalition formed of nationalist and marxist factions where nationalists get their outward looking and military/defense spending and posturing while the marxists get their largely inward looking state owned and planned economy as well as social programs.
AFAIK this is pretty spot on. I don't know if it's "policy" or what, but based on talking with AWS account managers, AWS does not often (or ever) create custom AWS services/products for individual customers. They do however let customers submit feature requests, and then let customers lean heavily on AWS to implement those feature requests in the public AWS services.

I think this is what leads to a lot of MVP-type services. A large customer clamors for some individual niche feature, AWS implements a MVP version of it, and then the team moves on to the next feature request (which might be for a completely different service, leaving the MVP in a perpetual MVP state).
That's not a rejection of the claim at all though, even though OP dislikes it. Why should objective proof exert a 'slow force' on our reason? Surely it should be decisive. Saying it can take a generation is tantamount to admitting that objective proof can have to wait for the people who reject it anyway to literally die off before it gets accepted.

So what OP seems to be actually rejecting is an extreme version of the claim, along the lines that humans aren't rational at all, which isn't there in the article.
> debate semantics until they're blue in the face.

> I'm drawing a line between UTILITY and MURDER.

The irony is so thick here, especially when you're talking about a search engine.
Years of downsizing of the British Navy and the reduction of the merchant fleet to cheaper flags of convenience left the UK with a very poor capability for a maritime invasion. The Task Force that sailed to the Falklands was a rag-tag group of various ships including supply vessels used in the North Sea. Had the Argentinians pilots that attacked the fleet had been a little more successful I seriously doubt the British would have had the capability to launch another one.
There is many people that will change their business model once it's unlawful. Not everybody is willing to break the law.

But, there is people that does not care for their customers nor the law. From safety food violations to illegal pollution of air or rivers. That's why we need more strict law enforcement for companies.
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IS THAT GLOCK!?

EDIT: for reference https://youtu.be/XHSeGou-pCI
I think it's or, which can look like xor because, e.g. (2|1)==(2^1);
Trade and money are just tools to facilitate cooperation. They incentivize agents to cooperate by sharing the value of that cooperation.
It is known that the banana contains small amounts of radioactive postassium, perhpas it would be possible to use a banana for scale?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
I doubt that video will become the modern equivalent of the book. Written text is still the best medium to transmit information. For entertainment purposes sure. But video probably already dominates that domain since we have more than 3 TV channels. Electronic repair might be a special case but I claim that a blog post with a bunch of annotated photos makes a more practical repair guide. People make YouTube videos nowadays because they can be better monetized. I agree with you, it is not a nice development, but I don't see free speech endangered because of that. (Google dominance in the search market is of course another story)
Scalability is always such a spur of the moment implementation at a startup. This seems to be cruft left over from that startup phase. Would a scalability audit have caught it? Tough to say as Slack came from that build fast and break things era.