skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Youtube has built shorts (youtube tiktok competitor), and according to Google it has more users now than tiktok [0] even though it's been launched in September 2020. It contains tons of reposts of tiktok videos, sometimes legal ones by the original creators, sometimes uploads by third parties.

That being said, I would take that claim with a big grain of salt, for multiple reasons. First you need to look at the relevant generation where tiktok is strong, whether youtube can break that monopoly. Also, it's fairly easy to make existing youtube users "try out" shorts via an in app pop up, and then mark that down as successful use of the feature. If your app has enough users, you can reach relevant usage counts easily, even though none of the users are there for the shorts feature only.

Also, what matters with social apps like these is also not just the content consumption but whether friend groups etc. are communicating on that app or another one. This has extremely strong network effects that are hard to break.

[0]: https://www.investors.com/news/technology/google-stock-rises...
Seconded! It also helps in my code that I can see all the things that can go wrong for a given module. Sure, this isn't unique to "thiserror" because you can do this with any enum, but it's much cleaner while being sensible and explicit.
> There is no replacement for animal models, except trials in humans, so if the alternative is that we do more, riskier trials on humans, then I'd much prefer animal testing

Totally true, but, at the same time---

Computational models have prevented all kinds of unnecessary animal testing of things that can be shown computationally to be unlikely to work. So, computational models avoid us doing more, riskier trials on animals.

Of course, we've not reduced animal testing-- instead we've just pursued more compounds and ideas. I'd argue it's worth it for speeding up the pace of medicine. But these things are not completely orthogonal.
I imagine (without research) that it's just "what percentage of your moves are the same as top computer moves", with a threshold.
There's a significant amount of original content on TikTok, so I'm not sure what you've seen exactly, but you might want to scroll past those to see less of them.
Not true. In SF when Uber started, it only had black cars and was meaningfully more expensive than a cab. The difference was that if you called a cab, depending on where you were in the city, there was a pretty decent chance you'd be told it'd take 15 minutes, but no one would ever show up. The Uber would be there 100% of the time.

Uber held drivers accountable. The taxi lobby did the exact opposite - they brutally abused an advantage gifted to them by the government because taxis are supposed to be a valuable public service.

In India it may be different, but in the US it continues to be extremely reliable.
Well, if the originalists are going to originalise, there's nothing in USC about cameras which means you therefore don't have any rights to use them in any circumstance and recording the police is verboten.

Now if you want to use a pencil and sketch pad ...
Youtube is a part of Google, they got rid of Youtube logins and merged it to use Google accounts to login in shortly after being acquired.
Also depending on residential they might not care about price. Like I don't. I live in apartment. So best I can do is choose some activities. And even then I could save what couple dozen euros? Maximum of hundred? Just easier to not really have the mental load to think about it.
Balaji Srinivasan Explains the Network State Theory
It does not appear in the polls as any top issue of any concern. Violence and Gun violence are examples of real issues Americans care about
If Microsoft said "Come work for us every day for free, you may get brand deals!"

Would anyone with talent, skills, and self respect jump to do it?

Working for free at a large and quite profitable company?

The problem is that because of how perception can be manipulated on social platforms based on that success illusion. It makes people think that the success comes just for creating simple content, and trumps one's ability to prioritize making money to do real world things like paying rent and for food. It's borderline exploitation of children, who often over expose themselves just for likes, and that is going to be bad for their future prospects in being taken seriously when they want to get real world and respectable jobs.

It's free work with little reward. The brand deals go to celebrity creators, NOT to normal creators, while the platform profits massively and underpays most everyone who does the real work. Most of the influencers on these platforms find that even the popularity they gain fades quickly in the real world, especially as the platforms begin to decline in popularity as well, and the minute they stop working hard for free.

We need to stop fooling ourselves about it all.
> Site visit might be "too expensive" or "not warranted" or just dismissed

But that should only happen if there's no 'reasonable doubt', right? And if not, that's a bigger more general problem.
Real Engineering: “The Problem with the Next Moon Mission”
The point is that Laws have interpretations. This law is unnecessary and not required. Police already can arrest you for interfering. This law is an attempt to stop citizens from recording the police.

Before this law: I as a citizen can record a police activity reasonably from anywhere. Even up close as long as I am not interfering for which I can already get arrested

After this law: I as a citizen am never sure if it is a good idea to record because the new law can have many interpretations. Do I want to risk filming and getting approached by a Bad Cop on a Power trip who will tell me it is illegal to record ?
"Yet the courts and legislature have added restrictions without following that process."

I don't mean to suggest that it's perfect or followed perfectly. As I said, there's room for interpretation.

"However, it's not a radical change to include killers names under the 'fighting words'"

I disagree and I doubt you'd find many people who understand our legal system that agree with you.

"Why [would it not get much support]?"

Hypothetically, let's say I'm wrong. Wouldn't all those people who support it be able to pressure mainstream outlets to suppress information that glorifies killers? Sounds like a much easier alternative that would produce the desired result.

Personally, I already avoid reading news articles about mass killers. I usually wait a while, and then read wikipedia or something if I'm interested to know.
We just call this "literature review", and everyone does it at times regardless of seniority level. But the aim is not a sentiment graph because it doesn't really matter whether author A said paper B was good or bad. What would we even use that information for? We instead want a comprehensive list of papers that are relevant to what we're trying to do right now, with a note on each saying why it is relevant.
EU and US are both fundamentally liberal democracies and not adversarial. China is an authoritarian single party state which openly declares the US an enemy...
we can anticipate - maybe even observe - countries which retain something close to sovereignty make moves in this direction. China obviously, but also Modi's India, and I would also say any version of France, still have the ambition to maintain an independent line
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/c1cIX
Why Firefox Deserves Its Sad Decline
Charges can fuck up your life even if you are eventually found not guilty.
This model has already spent more time learning than most humans ever would...

Imagine if we gave it more power and funding. Maybe redirect all of Congress's salary to it?
> this money was effectively stolen from the workers

Yep. And also from the state/taxpayers, as the state will have to spend money to ensure those workers aren't left out in the street when older.
What's the importance of means to an end?

US rules the world through a liberal voting political propaganda; a rule-based capitalism market economy; a USD denominated financial structure.

Sure, US blocked Huawei through rule of law; and you think China has no laws to block FB & Google? But behind the cloak of laws regulations, the intention of mutual exclusion is pure and same, nothing different.
Because TikTok has so far kept its strongly algorithmically tailored content to retain users, instead of optimising for more ad minutes like YouTube or Facebook.

YouTube could be just as good, even without shorts, if it actually gave people what they want instead of what makes YT the absolute maximum amount of money over.
“I don't like sand”
Yeah they stuck "shorts" on the homepage so that anyone who visits "youtube.com" has to see them. That's not actual engagement.
Also insurance companies. Your home insurance might cover water damage from appliance going wrong, but if you aren't present or sleeping they might try to get out of it... And single bigger leak will waste any gains from price savings for years or forever...
As a citizen of a democratic country I still prefer the laws dictating what is harmful rather than a CEO and a member of the government unilaterally.

And if something goes wrong use the tools from a democratic regime to change it. Even with its drawbacks democracies are the best system known to rule countries.
This is amazing - thank you so much for sharing this, people like you who go to great depths for random internet users make this world a much better place.

I'm going to attempt to use this methodology on a pet-project for components on PCBs.
It’s not too different from “kettling” tactics.
So, there are two problems:

1. When the price of power went up, everyone spontaneously decided that charging the market rate for power was evil and the company deserved to be destroyed.

2. The company delivered a lot of power at high market rates because customers demanded it. But those customers then refused to pay (and in many cases weren't able to pay), which is why the company went bankrupt.

It doesn't matter so much that there's demand if the government and the population all hate you and you can't collect the money you're theoretically owed.
You are probably misremembering the story. If the module was really not enabled it wouldn't come up in a security scan or be present in the banner.
Some of the most vulnerable are the homeless and mentally disabled. How is Uber exploiting them?
> Or is that necessary because of the borrow checker?

It’s not because of the borrow checker, it’s because Rust defaults to (destructive) moves, and implicit copies can only be trivial.

Any non-trivial copy has to go through an explicit clone() instead.
> I would think the Err(err) => return Err(err) line needlessly constructs a copy of result.

You would think wrong. In Rust, everything is move by default. To create a copy, you need to explicitly call .clone() on an object (assuming it implements Clone, of course), or you can implement Copy for the type, which will cause .clone() to be called instead of moving the value.

(I'm not actually sure where the compiler will generate calls to clone() on Copy types in favor of moving. In practice, you're not going to implement Copy for a type that isn't trivially copyable anyways [using the C++ definition], so any optimizer would easily be able to elide any excessive copy operations.)
For digestion issues it is usually a FODMAP, gluten, lactose, fructose, legumes. Everyone is different though so I try to not bias things. Chicken and rice, I'd recommend cutting out caffeine and sugar but it's a bit extreme, just mind what you drink for fructose and lactose.
The University of Waterloo’s co-op program is a major pipeline into big tech. I’ve worked with Waterloo interns and graduates many times and they’ve all been well above average.
So many great books here. I have stumbled upon something that I was looking for for a long time without knowing what exactly it is.

I found this page in an HN comment.
Sure, but what matters for your personal security is not what the book says, but what the men with the weapons think the book says.
What is your point? Is it that we can’t have nice things and we should just settle with whichever company is able to make the most money from whatever corruption they can get away with?

You are posting an anecdote and non-substantiated accusations against an industry based on your area. And you are doing this under a news where they have evidence that their competitors are as corrupt as it gets, a company which has been accused in the past of violating labor rights, disregarding local laws, bribing officials, exploiting workers, etc. And your point is that their competitors in Australia are worse “because you say so”.

Nah, I’m not buying it. The fact that the Australian taxi industry is bad, does not excuse Uber’s conduct. In fact I don’t care what the state is in this industry regarding this conduct and I wish Uber all the worst.
Satellite internet requires a direct line of sight between the satellite and the receiver, so a handheld phone in someone's pocket whilst they spend their day moving in and out of different buildings isn't an obvious use case
That the pandemic caused suffering, is without question.

The question is whether the measures deployed to combat it caused more harm, overall, than good.

In the UK, children died during lockdown, who may have lived had they been in regular contact with school who could have noticed abuse.

Cancer patients found their cancer could have been caught earlier.

Mental health conditions have surged amongst young people, including those such as anorexia.

There was never a public debate on the full picture. It was either support every, often illogical, policy, or you're labelled as an "antivaxxer" or "granny killer".
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The police in China doesn't kill with guns. It kills by preventing people from demanding better healthcare.

The same goes for incarceration. In US 3M people can't use Internet due to being incarcerated, but in China more than 1.5B have significant restrictions. (This is just an example for the idea of total restricted freedom)
It’s weird to see this from Cloudflare. Is this someone’s promotion project? Usually the stuff they release is related to their product and platform in some way and you instantly understand the overarching narrative. This is… not that… rather just a neat idea that actually doesn't work in practice… It’s also pretty trivial. I don’t really understand why we need another CLI KDF implementation. This is probably a python one-liner.
ICIJ investigation into Uber based on leaked documents
This is kind of a side-note, but any time chess comes up on here I smile at the resurgence in interest via Twitch/Blitz. I’m a miserable chess player but I fucking love watching it.

Carlson playing the Botez sisters in Blitz may be a publicity stunt, but the best chess player in the world is also model-photogenic and surrounded by serious fucking players who also photograph well?

Good for the game.
I'm not sure how much that reflects general attitudes. That show is also set in Shinjuku which I believe houses a lot of strip clubs and other similar activites.
Telstar 1, first TV satellite, launched 60 years ago today
I’m glad you had the determination to do something like what you did. You sound like a better person than me. Keep doing what you’re doing - need more folks like you who actually walk the walk.
Work Context, Home Context
Conclusion: invest in paperclips
If you look at the chain of redirects during your Google login you'll be redirected to youtube.com before redirecting back to Google.
It's been a long time since I've worked in a support-adjacent role, but IME it was always less about "keep[ing] the idiots at bay" and more about covering the ass of the help desk.

Things that take a support person 5 minutes are the bulk of the job, and those things have to be accounted for. If you slack on that, people will make their own determination of what constitutes a "simple" issue, you'll wind up with most of the issues the help desk solves not showing up in their metrics at all, and it looks to the higher-ups like the support people are just lazy.

In the places I've worked, support always _loved_ the "idiots" because their problems were simple. Being able to resolve a ticket by putting in a single screw, telling the person to turn on their computer, or initiating a password reset was the easiest kind of win you could get.
Imagine a wormhole which dumped you from New York to LA instantly. How would that provide time travel? Ok you beat your message by a few milliseconds, HFTs love it, but that’s now different to the ping routing via Sydney. how do you get the message back to the location it left before it left?

If an FTl spaceship went to a different universe then presumably a ship in orbit of Earth aiming at mars would simply vanish and never appear in mars orbit, telescopes on earth wouldn’t see it 8, 16, 30 minutes or even years later
The calculation is simple, it’s what we know from his track record, that he has made numerous calculated, high risk moves over several decades and has generally prevailed in a substantial manner. It’s just in vogue right now to assume “Elon is a pompous fool,” full bore myopia. The same guy that has ramped up several massively successful companies.

I don’t have a dog in the hunt, I genuinely don’t care of the outcome, I don’t think Twitter is worth buying, I don’t care if Elon loses several billion or whatever. I just wouldn’t bet against him on something like this where he has much more information than any of us. That’s a pretty simple calculation.
Just anecdotally, a friend who took an enormous shellacking in crypto told me the other day he's glad he'd bought two rental houses before getting into DeFi. He seems totally disinclined at this point to make any high risk moves with what remains of his savings. I suppose if he had to sell that would be another thing, but I don't think most even-marginally-sane people in that position are going to sell property and chase higher returns in the market.
At enormous expense the US rebuilt Europe (Marshall plan), protected it from Soviet Encroachment (and is still doing so to this day, apparently), and is above all reciprocal with Europe in a way that China is not.

Facebook is not banned in Europe. Spotify is not banned in America. Both are banned in China. On that basis alone both entities have ample cause to limit China's influence in their own domestic spheres.
> since google.com and youtube.com are two different websites

Both are part of Google.
Presumably a guestimate not a measurement.
Thanks to FFmpeg it's really simple to convert an HDR file to SDR in HandBrake by setting the colourspace to BT.709 under the Filters tab.
Return of the Great American Bubble Machine
all of that was part of my undergraduate degree in the mid 2000s as part of the core course

(oxbridge)
> Just the ones that want to act as a store of value.

No. It's all of them.

> There is nothing inherently about smart contracts that necessitates this

What do "smart" "contracts" have to do with this? There's a simple fact of life: every cryptocurrency has a limited supply. So, the people who got to it first will get significantly more than anyone in the future.
> If you are party to the police interaction you can film closer than 8 ft. If you are in a car as a passenger you can film the interaction and the police cannot ask you to stop. If you are a non-party person simply watching the interaction the police can now ask you to maintain a distance of 8 ft.

Maybe there are different versions going around? The text pasted here suggests even if you are a party to the interaction, police can claim filming is interfering and ask you to stop it.
Fungal Safari: An effort to raise the profile of often invisible soil fungi
I think there's not a great way for people to learn how to be pro-social on fear forums. The feedback signals and coaching that help people develop social skills IRL are much, much weaker online and reputation has much less value. Moreover, a lot of people are initially attracted to these forums due to lack of success in IRL contexts. And then there's often these parasocial assymetries between the authors, who have high reputation and visibility, and the commenters.

I don't want to paint the state of digital forums in a completely negative light. Online communities keep it real, to an extent. There are many examples of high reputation people getting much deserved pushback, when they're used to sycophancy IRL. And there are also many occasions where valuable insights from fairly anonymous people float to the surface, due to the democratization of these forums.

It's interesting that 30 years into the Internet, the problem of facilitating digital community is still very much unsolved.
I quite like triangle grids, but they definitely have more complications than squares or hexagons.

For a few years I've been working on a tri-grid RTS with buildable units:
https://cragwind.com/blog/posts/triangle-text-grids/

I originally tried hexagons, but I ultimately chose triangles because they can compose into hexes and there were already so many hex-based games. First I tried a design using separate grids floating in continuous space but later switched to a complete grid-based world as it could make for a novel turn-based classic roguelike or strategy game. It's more limited than continuous space, although with tri- or hex-grids you get six rotations versus four with squares.

One difficulty with tri-grids is the poor spatial locality of triangles versus squares or hexes. For example, when calculating influence maps for AI on a triangle grid, each cell score is effectively stretched to the triangle vertices rather than representing a more consolidated or circular region (so for this purpose hexes would be ideal).

Like other grids, transforms (translation/rotation) on a tri-grid can be done with all integer math (and generally, if the game world is grid-based, everything but graphics/animations can be integer math). Rotations about a cell center are trickier (and are limited to three distinct rotations) but can be done by scaling up coordinates and then back down. I'll write up more details if anyone is interested.
Arctic temperatures are increasing four times faster than global warming
The message being interrupted is itself information, so I'm not sure you can say that information can't be transmitted. If the entangled counterparty can notice message interruptions then binary messaging and information passage is possible.
A "reasonable argument" for the George Floyd case? Seriously?
Read the law. Police activity is defined as: questioning a suspect, conducting a search or arrest, or detaining an emotionally unstable person.

If you record and they start questioning you, you are exempt from 8 ft.

If they try to arrest you, you are exempt from 8 ft.

If they claim you are emotionally unstable, you are exempt from 8 ft.

If you are just a bystander, you need to stay 8 ft away from the police activity.
Because having it all public and on moot’s server in Virginia is so much better

I just can’t make this different enough. I see the difference, just not enough.
Doesn’t this position rest on the premise that the public education system is “broken”?

Here’s a premise for public education: Continuous investment and incremental improvement will yield better outcomes than starting from scratch, particularly where starting from scratch means providing a mechanism for public education funds to be funneled into private enterprise.

Setting aside the practical barriers for families to individually navigate providing quality non-public education for their children, which are substantial, this kind of approach introduces a whole range of new risks. If a family with five children is facing poverty, loss of housing, and financial instability, it might start to look appealing to take those five kids and sign them up for homeschooling so that the funds can be used for some education and for survival. Those aren’t the kinds of risks that financially secure families will ever have to face.