skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are an unethical use of the data produced by Youtube creators, who miss out on ad revenue which they worked hard to earn.

There are many creators who don't only rely on unethical privacy invasive ads and support more ethical donations based support systems.

Just because a creator refuses to support a more ethical payment system, doesn't make it unethical to bypass participating in a system (the ad network) that actively harms you (by unethically violating your privacy).
U.S. Code § 117 – Limitations on exclusive rights: Computer programs
My very first thought was "wonder how long before YouTube shuts this down somehow"..

Also, old drupal crew represent
Would like to hear the story behind this one.
Forgot to mention I also exercise control over TLS.
I make my website hand-made too, but because I found those tools to take too long to set up exactly how I want or they're too bulky.
You're demonstrably wrong. I can waldo any number of commercially available arms to do work humans do today. Surgeons waldo precise robots to conduct surgeries as a matter of course. Every piece of construction machinery operated by a human today is an incredibly useful robot lacking sufficiently capable software.

"When the hardware is ready, the software will be comparatively easy to develop." I take it you've never written any software for a robot? The long tail of the real world takes years and years to handle. Probably the most advanced robotics company, at the cutting edge of the ML+Robotics, is Covariant and their entire business model rests on an understanding that the long tail can and should be handled by humans.

I agree that OpenAI is right to cut out the hardware, but all your reasoning about why is wrong.

The reason, which they state, is that data collection on physical devices is slow and modification to those devices is slow and maintenance on those devices is expensive. You want to simulate everything, not because it reproduces the real world in high fidelity, that doesn't matter, but because it gives you approximations with sufficient variety and complexity that you can continually challenge your AI, and you can do all that at 1M fps.
Some cultural asymmetries have swung the other way since. For example:

41. "At the Folies Bergers or the Casino de Paris, even the usher girls demand tips! What a racket!"

Imagine a US person going abroad and being upset about tipping expectations today.
It is irrelevant.

A private business is a private business and they can set their rules as they please as long as it doesn't run afoul of laws (ADA in the states for example).

That you think there is some important distinction where Google loses rights that Ma and Pa's store has shows that you have nothing reasonable to offer.
Well, they're on strike.
In order to look like it's indicating distance, it has to be a straight line, not a curve, and moreover actually have the distance written alongside it. That's at a minimum, I'd say; putting arrowheads on the ends might also help, e.g.
Both, though weighted toward the former. The more multicultural and privileged a society becomes, the more good food rises to the top and replaces bad recipes. For example, all those despicable gelatin salad foods that rose out of the rationing of WW2 and have long since gone from this world.
My guess is they've exhausted the local supply of labor for the price they're willing to pay, but I've been in situation where I don't think they crunched the numbers (or they didn't care). In my situation, which I feel bad comparing since it wasn't anywhere near as egregious, a team of us had mandatory overtime--enough to cover another salary at base pay. They didn't want to hire someone else because they said paying us 1.5x was less than hiring someone new with benefits. What I don't think they appreciated was covering vacations, resignation, or illness put even more stress on us and local laws required double-pay after a certain number of worked hours (which was put on us to try and avoid but still cover the shifts). When someone did resign, interviewing and onboarding made the next few months suck. Even with stronger labor laws than Kansas, the economic pressure wasn't enough to have them address the situation. A few people didn't mind the overtime and had the flexibility and willingness to work.

I suspect that many organizations have a "model" that's profitable and they're afraid to mess with it or dig into problems making it work better. I had another job where it was kind of a joke that most people quit their first week. They had a group that had been working there for years, they just had a lot of turnover for new hires. It seemed like a weird process to interview and hire so many people that left immediately, but they were running (presumably) a profitable business and they didn't seem interested in changing things.
"It means BEAR right, Michael!"
>Is “strictly non partisan exercise” a piece of military jargon that’s different from regular English like in legal documents, or is this sketchy from the first sentence.

Having read the full linked document, I would suggest your implication that this report is a partisan-politically motivated document is far from on target. The concerns the report raises are significant, critical to national defense, and broadly seconded by most other recent writings on the health of the US Navy as an organization. If the Navy were to be called upon to defend the US or its allies in a peer level conflict today, several decades of training, maintenance, and leadership neglect make failure a likely outcome.

This report is important. As General Mattis says in the report, "the United States does not have a preordained right to victory on the battlefield." If one fails to acknowledge and address issues like these in peacetime, there will not be time to do so in wartime.
Hey man, sorry to call you out. I want you to find where you heard that, and maybe post it here so that we can review.

I have fasted many times for that length, and I happen to already be thin. Never even got close to refeeding syndrome.

I've read a variety of books on the subject. I've spent some time on PubMed. I don't know everything about fasting -- absolutely not -- but I know enough to say that you might be misremembering the time it takes to get refeeding syndrome.

I personally believe the number is closer to 30 or 40 days. We are talking Christ-level fasters, hunger strikers, performance artists, or concentration camp victims.

I downvoted your comment because I consider it to be spreading misinformation, and because your tone indicates that you have expertise or experience on the matter.
I have not consumed a combined 2Liters of Coca Cola in the last ten years. Thats an astonishing amount of CC.
Not really cool to steal YouTube's bandwidth in my opinion. The only ethical high ground that really exists here is to stop using the service altogether.
I haven't kept up lately but his talk with Sweet Anita showed me how little I understood about Tourette's based on popular media. Some of his streams have been very educational for me.
Ooh, you know, if you hit a Rowsdower, you get to keep it.
The State of Mastodon iOS Apps (Hint: Breathtaking.)
You run into the dotted line a lot if you use mass transit directions.
“YOU HAVE been ordered to Iraq (i - RAHK) as part of the world-wide offensive to beat Hitler.”

I always laugh when Americans say eyeRaq or eyeRan.

But apparently this incorrect pronunciation goes all the way back to 1943. Wild.
Did you mean cookies instead of history?
It’s plain and simple Google is doing the bidding of the entities in the Gov. this is exactly what happened in Xinjiang

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541757033/
>Utopias like solarpunk look nice but how does it make good stories

Kim Stanley Robinson (better known for the 'Red Mars' trilogy) wrote in the 1980s the Three Californias trilogy about three possible futures for California in the 21st century, one dystopian, one neutral, and one utopian. The utopian one (basically "solarpunk" although the term didn't exist then) was, predictably, the least interesting as a story.
Well, I'm not fond of Google and I'm not willing to run it's proprietary code. I'd pay for the video hosting service but I'm actively avoiding Google in my life and would rather avoid giving it money. I also don't like ads and tracking. I'd normally boycott a Google service but YouTube is where the content is (network effect).

These alternative frontends at least avoid part of the tracking (ads are already taken care of by uBlock Origin anyway) and the non-free Javascript code. With respect to the business model, I don't feel especially guilty, Google has way too much money and power and I'd rather have an unsustainable YouTube replaced by a federation of PeerTube instances with a power diluted across these instances.

These alternative frontends could be seen as a temporary, partial solution while YouTube is up.

On the technical side, they are way easier on underpowered devices than YouTube proper, including the PinePhone.
It's still an interesting word choice: the one offering an exchange considers being taken up on it by an informed counter-party to be "abusive".
Some people don't believe this virus is the severe danger that it has been sold as.

In some places, at some times, it would've been unthinkable to employ a Catholic, or in others just as unthinkable to employ someone who wasn't. Was there less subjectivity there?
Is it actually still maintained? It's been nine months since the last update and Github's for network for uMatrix shows several forks updating more recently than that.
Anecdotal: I have worked with Frito Lay in the past (training their workers) and they are ruthless. Would not do it again.
It’s common, a friend almost got expelled for reporting a flaw in the universities ID card system. That friend did not brake anything, they did not sneak into any protected spaces. Just discovered and validated a flaw and then reported it.
The Mount of piety (Monte de piedad) were also common in Spain. Monte de Piedad de Dueñas is the oldest one in Spain founded in Palencia around 1500. But Monte de Piedad de Madrid (1720) by a Franciscan monk was the most important one and it was created influenced by the Italian ones.
All that’s needed is a debris field to render the orbit unusable for decades.
The uBlock Origin patch can be cleanly applied to the uMatrix codebase. Here's the analogous PR for nuTensor: https://github.com/geekprojects/nuTensor/pull/24

The ηMatrix patch would require slight modifications due to stylistic differences between the uMatrix and ηMatrix codebases.

If the nuTensor PR gets applied and releases are made, then switching extensions might be a reasonable migration path for some users. You can also try to sideload a patched version of uMatrix, but sideloading procedures have become more onerous over time and may be annoying to deal with.
Slab City is featured in the movie Into The Wild. The movie sends you through many of these out of the way places on Chris’s journey through the North American West.
What possessed you to go in and take photos after you saw the no photo and keep out signs?

Was it entitlement? It sounds like entitlement.
It’s plain and simple. Google is doing the bidding of the entities in Government. Otherwise they have no interest in “civic misinformation”. We are slowly becoming Xinjiang.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541757033/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm...
Instead of there being no way its completely trivial.

Furthermore you just said we have to choose between hard limits that will provably reduce exploitation and harm and handy wavy notions of dignity and equality with literally zero actual suggestions of any kind given.

The people that are vulnerable to exploitation and harm are virtually always the lower paid individuals without options or stability. If you want to allow a high powered lawyer or a highly paid software developer to work 80 hours this week while protecting lowly paid people who fab "chips" composed of delicious cheese instead of silicon its simple. Add exceptions for individuals making n dollars where n is a function of the median income in the state preferably multiple times n. For example the median income in WA state is about 41k. Make individuals making 164k+ exempt from overtime rules under the reasonable presumption that they can negotiate their own rules.

Otherwise

- Time past 8 hours in a day paid double, time past 12 hours paid triple.

- Days in a row past 6 paid double, days in a row past 8 paid triple.

- Hours in a week past 40 paid double, past 60 triple

- Require 2 consecutive days of rest after every 5 or more days on. Working on one of these days double the pay.

Forbid any employment that doesn't guarantee a minimum of 24 hours and tax the beejesus out of anyone who makes use of more than 30% part time labor defined as less than 36 hours. Ensure that running on >30% part time labor is substantially more expensive than not.

Forbid paying employees less than their scheduled hours for the week. Schedule someone for 24 hours and figure out you planned poorly. Yes you can send your people home but you can't opt out of paying them.

Make work schedules agreed with less than 2 weeks notice cost 1.5x rate to discourage forcing people to live on call for meager wage jobs.

Propose this and people will scream that you are destroying their business. Let people live this for a year and you will shockingly find them adapting to it by providing predictable scheduling to their 75%+ full time staff who work sane hours.
> I think this is a case of straw-manning potentially legitimate complaints about Google's service by using the word "ethics" to skip the work of making an actual argument.

I don't think that they're straw-manning, I think that they're simply not trying to persuade. The tool is meant for those who are already sold on privacy, and they didn't want to waste time that could have been spent explaining the tool.
Tracking (or “personalization”) should always be opt-in.
hmm japan isn't very west nor is mongolia...
Agreed.

Humans are inherently fragile beings with almost no redundant parts. If I fry your brain with long hours and politically hostile work environment and drive you to depression; vs. I fry your brain with long hours in physically exhausting environments. The results are the same - your brain is fried. One type of hostile work environment is not necessarily better or worse than another type of hostile work environment.
Mexico and then Canada.
Do you know of any good resources for picking up modern C++?
If the US implemented more reasonable restrictions on labor in the US do you propose the hardest working most ambitious are going to move to China or Brazil?
Too bad you are being down voted and being misunderstood. I fully agree with you that in this day given our over all productivity, humans should be able to, in theory able to design systems to minimize work without co-coercion. But as you partially correctly observed, typical human nature ( ranging from bureaucratic govts, to seeing survival as a zero sum game ) is a hindrance to achieving this goal. Where I completely disagree is that you will completely not change people's mind en masse even if you showed them a working example, so in a manner speaking any strategizing that one does is moot.
Is the tracking part not a cover argument? For me I went full adblock because forms of ads became obnoxious and contents unpleasant.

I wouldn’t mind being manipulated into buying a clunky life improvement gadget that I use exactly once as much as being forced to watch a guy screaming at me for 15 seconds. On second thought, isn’t the latter straight up jumpscare?
Downvoted by people not used to reading topographic maps I guess ;) In all seriousness though, not sure why it's being downvoted. Perhaps we are just misunderstanding each other? That's how topographic maps work so I'm asking if that was not the case here. Surely even the online topographic maps come with a legend?
> The article talks briefly about mocking your database: definitely never do this

I honestly thought you meant to never ‘ridicule’ your database, and I was thinking “that might be a healthy level of respect” :)
> So, I could be wrong and maybe there are other examples of words that are shortened by taking single letters from the middle of the word.

“Borg” derives from the already established “cyborg”, the letters are taken from the beginning (if you mean the elisions; the end if you mean the retained letters), not the middle.
Basic Concepts in Information Theory and Coding
> In the process I pulled in a javascript dependency via policykit, which is giving me pause and I am re-evaluating if my approach is correct here.

To be fair, policykit is great. It solves a real problem (namely is this user allowed to peform this action, which traditional POSIX permissions do not solve in a portably) in a very sane way that is totally optional to opt in to.

Should polkit use a different, turing complete language than JavaScript? I don't know, probably, but it's not an awful choice. There is definitely more developer literacy for JS than, say, Lua or some other bespoke monstrosity they could've picked instead.
Probably this one: https://db.debian.org/fetchkey.cgi?fingerprint=58B66D48736BE...

Debian uses PGP signing pretty extensively, and maintain a keyserver (and separate search interface I used for this) for their keys: https://keyring.debian.org/
One day a person will see a Spot robot and smile at its cuteness, then notice that there's no way to get past it, no way to have it not decide where you can and can't step towards. It won't have a gun, but that person will no longer have a reason to smile at them in the future.

Later you will have a Spot robot chasing a person and getting it to stop, surrendering at the machine without being threatened by it, but just by recognizing that there's no longer a point in running away.
I think the difference here is that Piped is using a custom backend server (piped-backend) which scrapes youtube html to obtain the video content/metadata (a-la invidious), while your app was using the youtube API. Google is allowed to shut your app down, but AFAIK can't police who can and can't consume their publicly available HTML.
It looks like Kansas overtime law kicks in at 46 hours in a week[0], so closer to $110k. Maybe a touch less since they probably shut down periodically for machine maintenance.

Thing is, this sort of schedule turns into a weird form of neo-slavery. You don't have enough time to yourself to job hunt, even if something is even available, and you can't schedule an interview around your work. Saving money can be nigh impossible even when making that much because you no don't really have the time to try doing anything the cheap way (making your own food, fixing things yourself, etc.). It turns into this vicious, endless cycle of nothing but work and sleep. If you try take a day off, you run the risk of getting fired.

[0]https://www.overtime-flsa.com/kansas-labor-laws/
LispPad is very good, worth a try!

I was looking at the source code on GitHub, very well done.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27479971
HdrHistogram: A High Dynamic Range Histogram by Gil Tene
No. It's the police department computer. They should be liable for the harm caused by it. Maybe the police can recover damages from the software vendor, but that should be separate.
I heard that Google was able to get it to break even after a substantial investment to improve efficiency (custom ASICs for transcoding, machine learning models for prioritizing allocation of storage and computing resources).

I think I agree that it probably wouldn't exist. Not very many companies would invest that much to just to break even.
Jekyll Polyglot 1.5.0
> We all do it for the sake of doing it, because it feels good to do it, to learn, to overcome, to achieve.

Speak for yourself - but I do it because I’m on the spectrum and nothing else interests or motivates me.
> They are an unethical use of the data produced by Youtube creators, who miss out on ad revenue which they worked hard to earn.

Substitute "creators" with "collaborators" and maybe it'll be more obvious to you why this is a flawed argument. Anyway, I don't think you can even opt out of Youtube inserting advertisements into your uploads anymore, but back when you could it would result in a discoverability penalty.
That’s what makes it so appealing to me. It was one of the most depressing places I’ve visited. Slab City is even worse. It blew away my expectations. I thought the documentaries and coverage of it were overblown, but no, that place is more fucked up than I ever imagined.
EOS related project Bullish to be merged with Tom Farley’s
I would push back against "the results are the same". They are objectively not the same. Of course physical and mental exhaustion are both bad, but I think people would prefer to work in an office than a factory and trying to equate the two experiences is a little reductive.
If that were true, everyone would be drinking decaf for the taste.
Off-topic but this is the first time I've seen waldo used as a verb. It's not in the Urban Dictionary, but from the way you use it I take it that it means "to find the correct thing out of the sea of so many similar things", right?
Oh yeah? Well I think about child slaves working in coal mines.
Climate change fueled the devastating floods in Germany and northwest Europe
The OP asked, "isn't this Darwinian?" And the answer is that, no, it isn't and the question doesn't make any sense, because the people most likely to die from COVID have already had whatever biological kids they're going to have.
I think the current path of least resistance would be unwind with unwind.conf forwarding to unbound.
This article is 100% right
> huge red herring … sick in the head … weird … stars.

Strongly agree…

And also won’t be surprised when some small team, or solo entrepreneur, turns this idea in to something they can sell for $obscene_sum
Given the diversity of pronunciation even within one local group, and that everyone learns to make the sounds their own mechanical way, how does this generalize between individuals?
I'd argue that it's unfair for Google to use their market power in search to subsidise their video hosting products, thereby limiting the number of competitors, and then start forcing people to participate in their unethical privacy invasive ad network to consume video content online. Using services like this is a way to protest that injustice.
How to wireframe in UX product design – pen and paper, iPad and Figma
This part of the war was definitely about oil, and the guidebook makes no bones about it. Hitler found the Caucasian oil fields substantially less accessible than he'd hoped. In fact, it was already a lost cause by the time this book was written, which meant the Middle East was far more important to the Germans than it otherwise would have been.

The whole idea was to deny those resources to the enemy and safeguard them for Allied use.
I agree or at least sympathize with everything you’re saying.

And I am a hopeful person at heart, so it’s like I think we are fucked but I’ll try anyway and think we should. :)
If you can't afford to keep videos with ads, then your business is junk to begin with.
Essentially, to telemanipulate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_manipulator
Maybe VQGAN would be good for you
> Anyone knows why people decide to do this kind of time consuming work?

Weak labour laws and enforcement of same, weak unions.

This and worse used to be completely standard in all industrialised countries.

> Everyone, through culture, decided not to overwork

I mean… Madeira’s subject to the EU working time directive. It’s not just culture; it’s law.
>Each tier is either easy to reason about scaling out horizontally except for the database.

Vitess [1], A database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, or Planetscale [2] which is the SaaS version. Of course everything is good on paper until you run into edge cases. But I am convinced within this decade scaling problem or hassle will be a thing of the past for 95% of us.

[1] https://vitess.io

[2] https://www.planetscale.com