skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I was them, I would not back up YouTube, but I might carefully scrape and discard.

Hell, if I was a _benevolent_ surveillance program, I'd probably run routine searches for illegal stuff on YouTube, both to find it myself, and to make sure YouTube's tripwires are working.

There is so much low-hanging fruit in terms of "interesting secrets per byte"

Like, I could believe all SMS messages are stored for a year or so.

Some random source says, "Over 6 billion texts are sent every day".

If a text is about 140 characters, and you use a dumb image classifier to transcribe photos as "Nude woman", "nude man", "dick pic", "image macro", "guns", etc., that's only about 1 TB per day, right?

365 TB to keep all US text messages for a year? Maybe my source is wrong. That sounds low. But, it's just text. Maybe it's right.

In fact, the upper bound for all US keyboard input for a year must be below 4.6 petabytes.

(350 million people typing 365 days a year, 16 hours a day, 40 words per minute, 1 bit of entropy per character after compression, 8 bits per word)
A scientific foundation for artificial comprehension does not exist.

When comprehension tasks are discussed and researched within the AI field that is a statistical calculus applied to large bodies of text. The comprehension task is to predict follow-on text given starting text, which does not require any comprehension of the content of the text, only statistical probabilities over an extremely large training data set of human written text. This is, essentially, a misappropriation of the use of the word comprehension by AI Researchers - a common practice. The fact that this type of software development is called artificial intelligence and not applied statistical calculus is an example of how successful these appropriations have been.

Quantum computers or not, we still need some type of underlying scientific reasoning how comprehension itself functions.

Consider for a moment, when thinking about a yet-to-be-understood concept, what that activity of trying to understand is composed. A person will decompose complex concepts into smaller concepts, and then mentally create virtual logical versions of these smaller concepts, followed by experimentally, in their imagination, perform trial combinations of the raw concepts to determine if the complex idea can be reproduced. This process is roughly how comprehension is achieved, and it is a universal process human reasoning can apply to any situation. Human science and technology has no such fully transferrable and operational representation of raw concepts and ideas. The closest we have is software, and the closest form of software to something capable of artificial comprehension is… yet to be formally defined. What we call artificial intelligence is not software capable of decomposing complex ideas into smaller concepts because modern AI does not work with the content, the meaning, of the data it is trained, AI works with the landscape the data exists. Modern AI identifies a landscape the data associated with something of interest exists, and through the training of an algorithm that something of interest can be identified, with some level of statistical confidence. All this can and does take place without any comprehension capacity within the software, it is all just sophisticated pattern matching. It’s an idiot savant that can do but can’t tell you how, why, or is even aware it is doing what it does.

Comprehension is the recreation of an observed behavior or event, virtually, within one's imagination, with that recreation composed of the different ingredients that when composed in some new, unique, never before seen manner recreate this observed behavior or event. Comprehension is the process of mentally reverse engineering reality. Modern AI has nothing capable of such a grand calculus.
I agree. Further, in this case it did not work: one of my friends at Google said that even if he reported it, he doubts they would do anything about it. What are we going to do about it though?
Sadly the 1Password extension doesn't really work on Orion (no inline autofill and very long UI delays)
Nothing is unlimited. If it cut into our tank budget, or anything old retirees care about, something would happen.
The paywall cuts off before you actually learn the name - "copi", short for copious.
It's not for extremely specific use-case, unless you consider using variables as a condition of an if statement or loop extremely specific.

> And worse, effects code maintainability - if you need that assignment higher up, you're now editing the if statement, adding an assignment, plus whatever your interstitial code is.

How is that different than variables declared without the walrus operator? If you declare a variable with the walrus operator and decide to move its declaration you can still continue to reference that variable in the same spot, just like any other variable. Do you have an example you can share to demonstrate this? I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

> Python doesn't have block scoping so the argument for it is weak.

The walrus operator another way to define variables, not change how they behave. It's just another addition to the "pythonic" way of coding. It's helped me to write more concise and even clearer code. I suggest reading the Effective Python link I provided for some examples of how you can benefit from it.
I definitely agree that it's worth thinking about things like scarcity, our ultimate goals, what kind of societies we're creating, etc., and that an over focus on GDP growth or personal wealth is a problem. I've often talked about how much of our GDP is wasted on things that have a net negative value for society (but a positive value for GDP).

The issues I have with Daly's approach, though, is in placing the blame on growth and acting as if a steady-state economy is the answer. Even if we froze the economy today, we'd still be emitting too much CO2 and we'd still be wasting tons of time and resources on things that have a net negative value on society. Being simply opposed to growth doesn't solve the real issues. It just unnecessarily alienates people who would otherwise be willing to address the actual problems, and also places you in opposition to good forms of growth that don't cause these problems (and may help solve them).

And while I think it's important to think about the big questions, I don't think it should the focus of economists. The role of economists isn't to decide what our values and goals are, it's to give us an insight into how we can best pursue them after we decide those values and goals ourselves.
> tied with network stream interruptions killing the playback rather than reconnecting

So I'm not alone in hating this! How come this was never fixed?

I didn't want to switch from MX Player (Android), which worked quite well, for ages, but finally gave up because with MX Player you have to go look for some codecs.zip every (major?) update. (must be related to the licenses)

On top of VLC not being able to reconnect to the source, it also doesn't show the title of the video. So every time the stream dies I have to remember which episode I was on.
> the real-time typing feature was one of the main things that killed Wave

Nah. I was there. One thing killed Wave, and nothing else: not-invented-here syndrome from Mountain View executive team. It wouldn't have mattered whether Wave was perfect and bringing in a billion dollars a year; Lars wasn't in California, so whatever he was doing was going to get killed because he wasn't part of the in-crowd.
They limit it so something like 20 machines max. After that you must use their other services, which are much more expensive
She shouldn't be forced to, but her choice is whether or not to conceive the baby.

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the concept of rape? That's without getting into much more controversial points concerning how very much female income is frequently in some way tied to sex (among other issues).
The Declaration of Independence holds no legal weight.
You have a typo, it's HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State).
You have a whole lot of assumptions baked into this theory, but they all seem a bit irrelevant given that Twitter is the party pushing for speedier resolution...
> We won't have false positives (like with a bloom filter) -- we'll have a degree of error (i.e. the actual count may be 1000, but the HLL reports 1004).

Isn’t what the article is describing a false positive? I expected an undercount.
No man would choose to be 5’6 in America. Anyone under 6’ knows how difficult it is to date, especially online.
No one sane actually advocates using system python to develop anything, whether on mac or linux
If you look at the current Texas demand/supply curves at the ERCOT dashboard, the current squeeze would be very well addressed by adding more solar capacity (and perhaps a few hours of batteries for the period around and just after sundown.)
I've tried to switch from TST to Sidebery twice and both times hit small but bad bugs (restore not working on browser restart) and went back to TST. It's simultaneously slicker but buggier. It looks like Sidebery is still under development though: https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/issues
Agree, this is like those AI anime character generator game startups that YC seems to enjoy investing in so much. They think they can leverage AI face generation to "somehow" make a game/experience/show/app/nft/whatever when that is the extent of their tech. With no consideration at all of any of the actual work that goes into making anything actually valuable. But I mean, who's the idiot - the company that boasts these claims, or the ones giving them money?
lol are you sure about that?
Thanks for taking the time to leave this comment.

While it may be read as some sort of Jealous screed, I have observed similar behaviors from people who fall under this collection of traits. People that might at first be seen as having accomplished a lot, but on further examination, its maybe a few things, and the rest of the things are generally exaggerations.

To a certain extent I understand the need to self promote if one wants to continue to work on OSS but without corporate sponsorship/funding.
Announcement on dev.to: https://dev.to/meetkern/were-open-source-the-data-centric-si...
Cool, then that spec is more useful than the one I was replying about.
If there is anything I can do to help let me know. There is a learning curve, understanding how the form builder works takes a little time. What were you looking to do that you have problems with?
>Twitter has huge growth in front of it.

Twitter has been around for 16 years. In western countries, I think everyone who was going to join, has joined by now. What growth is left? Children becoming old enough to join, people with multiple accounts?
Yeah, I think readers. Like cheap SEGGERS. Gotta watch than again.
I have edited nothing.
https://mobile.twitter.com/kerpen/status/1548335911233998848...
Basal metabolism does not seem to slow down until one is around 60 years old (recent NYT editorial on the Science publication https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/health/metabolism-weight-...).
There is heterogeneity, but still.

Although our physiology is adaptable and we don't see daily or weekly wild weight swings with a few hundred calories up or down from maintenance, over weeks and months, 4-800 kcals of average daily surplus have very noticeable effects.

And those are differences that can be had by working 2 days from office instead of 5 and getting into the habit of eating a cookie in the morning, while previously we just grabbed a black coffee and that was it.

It is very easy to get into the "plus calories" territory. At the start of the pandemic, after a few weeks of working from home, many of my colleagues were 5-8 pounds heavier than they were before. And those pounds were not of muscle tissue.
What's the name of the phenomena wherein people who once mocked the idea of this occuring now act as if it's obvious and unremarkable?
Vivaldi offers that feature.
I don't recall where I heard it but found this in a quick search:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/li1pep/a_global...
If you like my garish and ugly theme, it is TST friendly (it will theme the TST tabs as long as you pick the "Photon" TST theme in the TST settings): https://alan.norbauer.com/projects/alanglow
And "drinks one to two servings of alcohol a day" is a pretty good proxy for "has enough money to afford to drink wine regularly, but is in a stable enough community to not slide into alcoholism".
That's a good suggestion. Check out this guy, he has a way to root ornamental shrubs in garbage bags. One could go around town with pair or pruning shears and get cuttings of many different plants and trees to root.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyXSNzywqvw

The only problem with living things though is then you have to care for them. Even if you don't feel like it that day. And if they don't sell you still have to water them or throw them out.

There are people who breed specialty plants also and make a (modest) living from their backyard. I know a retired guy who does this and sells his developed cultivars (ships once a year) on Facebook marketplace. He does like 20-30K in sales a year from his yard but it took him years of growing to start developing the cultivars.
Where was this? As a STEM teacher, I'm wanting to push for more things like this.
I'm also in southeast Asia at the moment. Grab got big during the lockdowns and over the past few years of the pandemic. You would see the Grab-branded motorbike riders everywhere. But now it seems like I don't see them on the street as much anymore because they've hit a big speed bump: fuel costs for the motorbikes. As long as fuel was relatively cheap they could get employees here, especially since there's high unemployment, wages are low, and there are not a lot of jobs in provincial towns. But now they're struggling to scale.
Boy, wait till you hear about capitalism
Paywall - I guess I'll never know the new name
I wonder how many readers they've netted with their pun-tastic title, and whether we should actually reward that kind of trolling.
One can not explain anything to an AI, it has no comprehension. You're talking to nothing, a brick. Lacking comprehension, using "intelligence" in the name of AI is a marketing joke. I write the stuff, at a very high level. All the "software engineer careers are doomed" crap is nonsense. Lacking comprehension, AI is an idiot savant and a damn good actor, and nothing more because there is literally nothing inside.
I do love json-html-rpc (rest) api's that embed the "next page" and "previous page" links in their json. That is super useful.
>- python -m venv .venv

>- source .venv/bin/activate

If those two steps were automatic like in node.js we'd literally have 99% less problems.
That's not impossible, but where are the records?
> Families will lose their vacation planning that they started 4 months ago.

if you rely on slack to plan your family vacation you have other problems
You know its funny that you mention this through a political lens because the entire time I've been watching this narrative play out, this is the exact reason that I think Elon made his play. The value in twitter would be in delivering it to the 2024 R assumed candidate. If you can't hold the office, control the office.

I've speculated that the J6 committee might actually be the origin of Elons cold feet. Maybe he sees the assumed candidates position as far more tenuous than he previously thought, and thus the value of the platform is decreased as well. Maybe Elon sees charges coming for the assumed and in his calculus, this lowers the valuation.
A feature which is useful in my opinion is that the end user can enter commands to use external programs with pipes. There are other good ideas such as standard I/O, command lines, etc. Better also is: you have enough ropes to hang yourself, and also a few more just in case (this is UNIX philosophy). Most web browsers are the opposite of what is any good, though; they do not believe the end user, offer too few controls, do things automatically that they should not do, break things, etc. I do not know of any good ones, and most of them just become worse over time.

I try to write better programs, although of course, if it is any good or not, is a matter of your opinion.

I wrote a ZZT editor which is has some similarities with vim (it has a modal interface similar to vim, using various key commands for many operations (even can use hjkl for cursor movement, and numeric prefixes, like vim does), and also you can enter SQL codes to perform queries and batch operations, and can use SQL codes to customize keybindings too). You can also use external text editors to edit ZZT-OOP text (later might also be adding option to allow a built-in text editor too, with syntax highlighting and auto-completion).

I had written other programs too, and there are probably many that I had not written, too. However, many newer programs are not designed well like that and instead include only a few options that are nearly worthless. I try to oppose that and write a better one.
Please be respectful of my time by reading what I write and not trying to change what you actually said.

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particularly when we have the technology today to literally ask everyone what they think.

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In turn I said

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To get a statistically valid sample of 338M people you need as little as a few thousand respondents depending on desired accuracy.

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Now you say

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If you're sitting here, telling me it's too much work to talk to everyone to actually get a representative sample

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You know what I said and you knew what I said.

The broader context is the parent poster, rather than you, attempted to dismiss legitimate sources by asserting without evidence that polls are worthless.

He made the statement thus

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You put too much stock in polls. The average (or even intelligent) person does not have time for polls. Trusting these numbers is to believe in FUD.

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To which you answered

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They are right...

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They aren't right and you aren't right. Polling is an imperfect tool. Changing how you phrase a question can change the answer. Getting a representative sample is an imperfect science. This is good cause to ask how it was used vs misused lest a manipulative author come to the preordained conclusion. It is not however good cause to dismiss the entire notion of polling and ask no-one nor that we somehow as you said ask "literally everyone". Nor is it reasonable to determine what the people want by looking at the contents of your legislators mailbox.

They will no doubt be full of letters from a passionate self selected minority rather than representing in any way shape or form a representative sample.

You can say polls aren't grounds for policy but they are a damn fine tool to find out on average what the potentially millions of constituents think as opposed to the 12 people that wrote letters and if you want a substantial portion of those millions to vote for you then you had better at least understand what they think even if you intend to defy them because you know better.
It seems like the article is basically calling REST an architecture or set of conventions that well-designed websites should adhere to, leaving APIs in the literal sense of the term basically out of it entirely. I mean, you could write code to parse any structured data, but if it can change anytime (because it's self-documenting?) then I'm not sure why you would bother.
This is the TechShop business model, and they went out of business :/

I think fundamentally the problem is that we have been operating for a long time in an economic environment where "stuff" is relatively cheap, but land and labour close to population centres are relatively expensive.

Very often the cost of the "co-ordination labour" required for sharing exceeds the "use value" of the item to the user. Ensuring the equipment is checked in and out, isn't stolen, people aren't lasering PVC in shared space, doing inventory, answering questions etc all take time.

If you have situations where people are interacting with each other (e.g. forums or same physical space) you will also have community maintenance to deal with (codes of conduct, dealing with problem behaviour and interpersonal conflict etc).

There are also issues around transfer of liability, you need an organisation that is responsible for testing and tagging, ensuring the equipment is in a safe operating condition, that users understand safety procedures - plus the policy/governance to make sure this stuff is happening and the audit tracking to prove it.

These sorts of things all sound like "paper cuts" but together they can easily kill what seems like an obviously good idea.

I am involved in 2 co-operatives (a school and a neighbourhood community centre) and there is a LOT of effort required to stand up and maintain shared capabilities. The legal / admin / compliance burden also only keeps growing.

It's not that it can't be done, but the details matter and it's a lot gnarlier than it looks.
Like rabies. Rabies has no symptoms until it's too late. The cellphones and ALPRs and PRISM have no symptoms until they're used.

Stress would be nice. If we felt stressed, we might vote for treatment.
Do you mean it should automatically ask if you want to convert it to a private channel? You can manually convert to a private channel and keep message history.

https://slack.com/help/articles/217555437-Convert-a-group-di...
Whoa, could there be a parasite that alters HUMAN behavior?!
To be clear, nobody is claiming that he didn’t write viper, or that he isn’t a brand name in OSS. The claim is that he was responsible for “taking go language from niche technologies to widespread adoption”, which seems like a pretty big one to make.

No doubt his contributions did in fact help that process, but as I read it, the claim asserts him as the driver of that process, which he was not.
This should not be surprising at all ... hope we still remember the Snowden revelation ....
Right?

Twitter's done.

But that's not the point or where it value lies.
He signed that he knows everything he needs to know about the company and wants to buy it. Now he wants to back out with the claim that he actually did not know everything, which is a pretty hard sell.

Though it's important to note that his lawyers are well aware that this will never fly and therefore the actual court case is them trying to find an edge case where Twitter actually broke the contract (that's the shoddy talk about Twitter apparently rate limiting the data analysis). Which is still a hard sell, but there's at least a chance they'll get away with it.
por qué no los dos dot gif, my friend.
That's exactly what I meant. The "new REST" appropriated the term because it's what's actually being used. The "old REST" didn't get a new term because it's not actually being used.

There are still theoretical discussions around "old REST", but they all have "new REST isn't REST at all" as their core point, so the lack of new terminology is deliberate there.
Your exact example is explained in the article, might try reading it. A computer getting faster is development, not growth.