skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oops but then I just realized what if string has numbers in it. I guess I would spend time trying to catch the different edge cases in my understanding of the question and at the end he would be like this guy struggled and did it wrong, when I just think they don't know letters are nouns.

on edit: hmm, a number is also a noun so I guess if query(9) or query("9") worked wouldn't have a problem, but then if it didn't I would have to say hey your dictionary is broken and then there would probably be discussions. But since it is all just hypothetical I suppose I could assume that the dictionary isn't broken and so any trimmed string with more than two characters in it would still return true.
There is much much more to the code base than simply youtube ripping, both can (in theory) also rip from (say) ABC Australia's iView, from the Royal Institute Christmas Lecture series, from redtube, etc (hundreds and hundreds of variations of websites).

That shim layer between the core ripping engine(s) and the manifold ways of embedding access to a stream is what is being kept current in yt-dlp releases (and -U updates).

Original most recent official youtube-dl (December 2021 release) can no longer find its update service.
All the Oculus hype was based on the promise of a $300 headset. The amount of people that are willing to pay $500-$2k is rather tiny (<< 1 million), especially with a near complete lack of AAA game content.

Meanwhile the VR-as-monitor replacement fails due to the low resolution. VR headsets by design waste a ton of resolution to get a larger FOV. That's good for immersion and gaming, but renders desktop use impossible. It's possible to build headsets with a small FOV and high resolution, such as what Nreal is doing, but that's not something Meta is focusing on. Worse yet, they kind of pretended that the QuestPro was ready for that use case, but it's not even close.

I do agree that there is potential in VR, but Meta has been focusing on all the wrong things. They were far more concerned with gaining total control over the space then they are were about making VR actually worth having. Nobody is looking at Horizon World and goes "I wanna have that", it not only looks terrible compared to stuff we have outside of VR, it even looks terrible compared to all the non-Meta stuff we have in VR.
The other book, which is somewhat more controversial than Payne, is Nolte's Three Faces of Fascism. It's kind of controversial because

1) Phenomenology is really out of style as a way of doing history

2) It analyses fascist movements within their own language/stated goals.

If you identify Nazis more closely with Italian Fascists than with Soviet Communism/Stalinism then this is the book that kind of mainstreamed that view.
> I am gonna try siding with the foundation, in the end all crates are from the ground up in Rust.

But the crate-name is often the same name as the git repo or project-name in general, which exists outside crates.io and will benefit from a language-disambiguation.

This is still a stupid decision.
I just used it last week, latest dev build, worked better than I ever imagined it was going to.
> We strongly believe we’re on the right side of history here. Everyone except the music industry knows this

I don’t think higher-ups at the RIAA or MPAA are so naïve as to believe they’re doing the right thing in any situation. They just prefer money and power to being decent.

Wikipedia gives more weight to Mitch Glazier¹ being a lobbyist than RIAA’s CEO. It comes as no surprise that:

> He played a role in drafting the No Electronic Theft Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and the Copyright Term Extension Act.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Glazier
Pretty much every single corporation of that size and age. And many startups too (they call it "pivoting" though - it's not like startup workers complaining over Google here are first in line to maintain failing products forever).
I’d really love a hybrid maverick, but they are impossible to get. People are still waiting on their 2021 Maverick orders.

I do think the popularity of the truck has sparked something in the auto industry. I believe Toyota is working on a competitor, but we likely won’t see that for another year out two.
those bugs were fixed in early March

https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/pixel/2023...
At google you used to see scores and feedback of everyone on the panel and whether hire/no hire decision was made by the Hiring Committee (which you otherwise didn't have any visibility into except sometimes they would leaver you feedback). You could also see your histogram of scores as well as other peoples' on the panel colored by recency and hiring decision which was very useful to calibrate your internal sense. Something so simple can go a long way and I haven't seen it in any of those crappy interviewing saas products out there. Did they scrap that system?
On the noise issue, I saw one company recently have the idea of keeping the main drone itself at a relatively high altitude, high enough that you can't hear it, and lowering its cargo along with an extra device for stability/maneuverability down below. Called zipline.

Of course, still far too small to be able to deliver e.g. a fridge, but can easily handle your typical food or small package deliveries.
It ended up looking similar to Oblivion. So I'd wager a guess that it was the intended aesthetic, only limited by the older technology.

The only authority here would be the original designers.
I too had that very book as a teenager. It's a small world - when I was at uni I was hired to build a website for someone. Their friend then asked me to build them a site and I recognised their name from the caption of a photo of a couple of schoolboys on the back page of that very book. Turns out they built the car at school and went on to build an automotive company.
What you wrote is full of disinformation and FUD. Please do better.
> Hasn't Bitcoin largely failed in these goals though?

No? It has been enormously successful over the last 14 years. Adoption is occurring exactly how you'd expect for a new form of digital gold/money that is outside of state control.

> Not only is it volatile making it a poor choice of currency

It's still very early in the life cycle of a new form of money. The market is still figuring out how to price it. That's not a problem inherent to Bitcoin itself. Also, the volatility is a side-effect of growth, which is a good thing if you're saving your wealth in Bitcoin. There isn't a stock or asset on Earth that has seen the type of price appreciation that Bitcoin has, that hasn't also had enormous volatility. Apple, Tesla, Amazon, you name it. You can't have price growth without volatility.

Bitcoin's volatility is been compared to stocks, indexes, and assets here: https://ecoinometrics.substack.com/p/ecoinometrics-bitcoin-i...

It's on par.

> most people transact via trusted third parties for a variety of reasons

How do you know this? Do you have a link that analyses proportion of on-chain transactions that are done through a third party and done by a peer? Not sure how you could possibly know this.

Also how could you account for off-chain transactions through the Lightning network? There's some custodial services on LN too, but plenty of people and businesses roll their own nodes, which is incredibly easy with self-hosting solutions like Umbrel, Start9, RaspiBlitz etc.

> The concentration of mining in a few large entities also points to effective centralization of the protocol.

I assume you're talking about mining pools? There's essentially zero barrier to changing pools. If a pool is found to be misbehaving people will leave the pool and they'll decimate their market share. There's no incentive for pools to fuck up like that. Pools are just an abstract grouping of hash that has no structural impact on the network's distributed nature. Bitcoin's hashrate is physically distributed all over the world, which is what matters. So no, it's not centralized.

And if it is... show me the consequences of that supposed centralization. Can you show any evidence of transaction censorship by mining operations or mining pools? If so, were the censored transactions eventually processed by other miners/pools?

Genuinely curious.
Anti-Piracy “Mega-Firewall” Could Render Italian ISPs Liable for Over-Blocking
Agree on your examples about judging liable a water company or electricity company for helping criminals…

And yet that slippery slope has been totally taken for granted in recent decades for banking and finance…
Yeah, you would need to give more memory to the lazy DFA.

And yeah sorry, I was only commenting narrowly on RE2 based on my knowledge of its internals.
youtube-dl is not dead, it just had a longer pause for reasons. There is (again) active development for some while now, after some reorganization and new focus[1].

[1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30568
Agreed, it's all up to open AI to bring them down,
And using services that need ads to survive by bypassing those ads does not help!
Google has the right to create or kill share products it wants. Consumers are not obligated to like it, refrain from complaining, or to keep adopting their products.
Phocus: Deepfake Detection Platform
Today they’ll be in Chinese. In China, you might actually have a chance of cost effective repair, except the units they generally sell there are so cheap that replace is still more economical.
It's just Conway's Law asserting itself. The internet is just continuing its transformation to better match the socio-economic-political system -- that of top-down control.
> Surely the people working at Google understand how all these shutdowns look to outsiders, right?

Yeah, about like this: https://killedbygoogle.com/

I don't really care if Google is unable, unwilling, or uninterested in supporting anything that isn't G-Suite, search, or ads. Their track record is more than enough for me to dismiss using Google Cloud Platform, or even saving anything of any importance to Google Drive. I'm occasionally involved some of those types of vendor decisions, and I imagine others in similar positions feel the same way, so I can't imagine this is all theoretical fake losses they've suffered from this MO. I don't know how you'd even begin to measure the amount of revenue opportunities lost in this way, but I will say this: I'm really glad I'm not a part of Google's marketing department.
Becoming Rustacean: Paid Online Resources to Learn Rust Programming
If YouTube had any issue with people downloading freely available videos they should just put their content behind a paywall instead of masquerading as a video host
Thanks for the link! What are we smoking? Smoking hot! :) ;p
Isn't it person's full right to write blog posts listing said abandoned projects? Why do people get criticized for such simple observations re. the behavior of some giant company?
It could be. I don't think Google are likely to just roll over and let OpenAI/MSFT take that market though. Obviously Google will try to compete. Maybe they'll fail, maybe they won't. If nothing else, as a user of these tools, it's going to be exciting to see some innovation in search UIs for the first time in decades.
Weighing the rich learning material the community has made available online for free, noobs do not need to incur extra bucks for paid resources. However, considering the difficult learning curve Rust happens to have, this blog post is dedicated for paid Rust learning materials that are good at spooning.
> What does this imply?

You or anyone else may no longer "publicly" use Rust or any things which is publicly associated with the language/ecosystem without explicit approval or license from the Rust Foundation's.

Also: Getting the Rust Foundation's approval depends on you adhering to their political views, on all things from gun-control to gender-identity.

That's quite extreme for a programming language, and the community is in uproar about the foundation being this tone-deaf.
Extremely disingenuous point you're making about OnHub. Nintendo didn't remotely remove functionalities from the Gameboy Color. Google did that with OnHub.

Arguing "it's hardware" doesn't work when the features are cloud-based and the company shuts down the servers. It's bait and switch, pure and simple.
That's not a given, since they have their own LLM they presumably have plans to do *something with.
I drew literal stick figures in GIMP yesterday and went from weird lumpy dragon on a castle drawn by a 3rd grader to an epic terrifying dragon in about ten minutes yesterday. The value of both img2img and then Controlnet cannot be overstated for defining what you want in a scene. Literally my eight year old can do it, given I help her with the prompts.
Why Do “Corporate Art Styles” Feel Fake?
When the company lawyer is teaching management how to manage, the company culture has lost all positive vitality. As a first-line manager, my reports and my boss understand that my job is to align in both directions. We're in this together. At times I have to help our team understand that they need to make some sacrifice for the sake of the business, and at times I have to help my management understand that the business needs to make some sacrifice for the sake of the team members.

I'm trying to build a culture of loyalty where we take care of each other and where people can stay and continue growing for a decade or more. The day my management tells me the company's bottom line matters more than the people who deliver that bottom line is the day I'm out the door, and my team with me if I can swing it.
why would we want to?

far as I remember, dodo evolved from a south asian bird that adapted to an island with abundant food and no competition. if they were alive today preserving them would mean establishing an uninhabited island that wouldnt get any predators where they can thrive.

but there already are many species like that that could use our help.
To be honest, $25 lifetime seems like a steal for this.

Maybe it's the value of the current content, but consider raising prices for new subscribers after some more content is finished, maybe to $40 or something.

Or you could also try location-based pricing if you want to keep it affordable/accessible to people outside of first-world countries
I dunno, i think these pale in comparison to humans. Pot kettle black, and all that.
How does the quote go again, someone can learn Lisp in a week, except if they know C then it will take three weeks? I'm sure I've got the quote completely wrong (maybe it was about Forth?), but the essence is there: if you're learning a programming language it may take longer if you're already used to a programming language with different semantics compared to getting into it from scratch.

Also Raku is the most obvious language because it inherited the "it" variable ($_) from Perl, and "it" is unbeatable for writing obvious code (read a line, uppercase it, replace all numbers in it with dollar signs, and print it out again).
From my perspective the Republicans are the reactionary party and the Democrats are the conservative party. It's just how far the Overton window has shifted. However I do agree that their actions do a lot to harm citizens and the country, more so than D or at least more blatantly and overtly. It's wild how they claim to be the about freedom then do everything they can to restrict it, especially with speech
The Google Graveyard [1] grows.

[1]: https://killedbygoogle.com/
Yes, i think so.

Web scraping automations often get stuck on some thing like a captcha or the page has changed and BrowserBox Pro let you attach to that running chrome automation instance, see the actual page that it got stuck on, and inspect that in remote version of dev tools (even from mobile!). This could let you quickly investigate and diagnose the issue and come up with a fix, all live.

In fact, that’s how some of our customers use it.
> If Google had lost interest they’d have no problem shutting it down by now

It does feel like they’ve lost a lot of interest in Android. It’s too big for Google to just close, but I could see them selling it. If that happens, hopefully it’s to a Microsoft but chances are they will screw us all and sell it to Oracle or Xiaomi.

But there are a lot of things that will die before Android or Fuschia. Here’s a list of 270 Google projects (past and present)[1]. I learned about Google Sunroof through this list (rooftop solar calculator) and it’s pretty neat.

[1]: https://maheshone.com/google-products-and-services/
GPT-4 still suck at scientific programming where you have to invent every wheel from scratch. It will be fine if you consider generic unoptimized code productive.

Maybe all we need is to finetune a LLM for code optimization. But first you need a large enough codebase handcrafted by phds. But again not many phd are even qualified for performant code.
Even G-Suite isn't really getting that much support, it's on life support at best. There's so many missing features and bugs and just painfully unergonomic workflows that have been ignored for 10+ years at this point; the long overdue and minimal UI facelift recently didn't really solve any pain points.
> He’s comparing an in-memory SQLite DB against a non-temp table in Postgres.

That’d surprise me, where does he say that? (Even if he doesn’t it’s important to iron out though, so thanks for being critical!) The ~18us sound reasonable from my own experiments, and that’s with flush to file (using wal mode).

EDIT: I think I ran my benchmarks with synchronous=normal. Not sure what he did.

> He’s connecting to Postgres over a loopback interface, instead of using a UNIX socket.

I agree unix sockets would be better for same host setup, but still, the more representative number for “typical use” would be networked, no?

Also, for fairness: SQLite setups come with downtime, that’s hard to avoid. Worth mentioning..
Will they actually need to do pen and paper multiplication in real life? I'm not sure when anyone I know would need to, or if I even still could.

Is using a lookup table just as good/almost as good if nobody actually needs to do it fast in the field?

Can they just use base 10 for all multiplication, if multiplication isn't needed in whatever problem set this is optimized for that seems to have them so excited?
They have a history of pulling projects that people like, and seem capricious / chaotic about it. How many different chat / messaging platforms has Google put out in the last ten years, for example?

Other companies cancel things, but I’m not aware of any that seem to do so as often. Google started developing a reputation for this more than a decade ago and has just kept doing it if not even doing it more often!

Is it Google’s right? This is always a weird question. Sure, it’s their right. It’s also people’s right to criticize them for doing so.

I do question anybody who adopts anything from Google these days. I just have zero confidence that I can expect any new Google product or service to stick around.
This describes me to a T, except that I'm not sure if I feel lonely or not at this point. It's been so long I can't tell. I'm in my 40s BTW.
Regarding OnHub:

> Then in January 2023, the company rendered the product almost completely useless by disabling most of its features.

I think GameBoy Color still works today?

Also, the list is missing Nest Secure.
And when it goes badly, rest assured we deserved it.
I didn't say that using ChatGPT to learn is the wrong way to learn, I said that you will learn wrong information, because ChatGPT says wrong stuff.

I guess that also makes it a wrong way to learn stuff but my original comment was clear.
Eliminate Four Pests Posters:

https://chineseposters.net/themes/four-pests

https://chineseposters.net/sites/default/files/2020-06/pc-19...
Rust Foundation attempts to limit user crates from containing the word “Rust”
How to Pass My Interview
https://archive.is/2023.04.12-223319/https://www.bloomberg.c...
Probably not, but we are only in the first quarter of the year so far.
Amazing, the author was a DT (design technology) teacher at a school just down the road from where I grew up. They would build these in a club at school.

Photo of the school workshop, with a production line of cars: https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/oundl...
If useful, here’s an answer: The Suzuki DR-Z400S/SM motorcycle. As one example.

It’s not a car! I know! The thing is that motorcycles are such good learning platforms. They’re small, man-portable (in a pinch), there’s almost everything in there that’s in a car – but much less of it and more accessible. Single-cylinder motorcycles are also good for learning because there’s only one cylinder and one set of valves and one cylinder or fuel injector etc. :) One of everything and everything is smaller and more easily accessible than in a car. In short they’re very hackable machines.

The DR-Z400 is reliable, ubiquitous and cheap. Parts are available. Lots of DIY information out there and easy to find.

I knew NOTHING about cars. Got the motorcycle bug. A DR-Z400S was the most bike for the money here. Bought it. And that’s how I got into this by accident.

Now I know how to swap out a carburator for a bigger one and tune it, tune suspension behavior by simulating the hydraulic valving inside the suspension, maintain brakes, replace tires and pick them for what road feel I want, fix flats on the side of the road, fix a stator if I need to, reduce vehicle weight etc. etc. All by chance. Has nothing to do with me being smart or industrious and everything to do with lucking into ownership of a bike that kind of teaches you how to work on it and has a great online community.

I also really really really want a Miata!!!
SQLite’s source code is well structured and pretty clean. It’s often held up as an example of a big codebase that’s great to learn from.
The cloud provider wouldn’t have to, if you are the one running your infra. The SSPL restrictions only apply to businesses that offer MongoDB as a service.

In fact, you can build a similar service and offer it within your organization (and subsidiaries), and you still don’t have to release anything. The license only applies to companies like Amazon if they offer MongoDB as their own service (DocumentDB).

I know that’s a bit tangential, but hope that helps a bit?
I will continue my existing strategy of ignoring everything GOOG releases so I can also ignore when they inevitably shut it down too.
I actually got a Levi's / google jacquard trucker jacket (on a good sale). It had potential but Google never seemed to do anything with it. It's pretty inconspicuous already but the Google app for it is very limited. If they open source it I think we could have some fun with the tech.
Does it though? Especially in the context of Google, and Google Products? John Gruber summarised it correctly: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/09/12/google-pixel-po...

And Google's approach to Pixels reflects that: they make them greta, then they all but abandon them, then okay again, then...
You could say the same about Google Earth on mobile. Do you need a separate app? I’m honestly surprised it still exists.
youtube-dl only works for some people around the globe, as youtube is apparently running A/B testing. Yeah there's a sort of fix ... that's been tucked away at github by way of go nowhere link, but there's the given idea it's time to ditch the cheap computer or online server and try and get something else to run instead. I read that sort of sentiment as that yup it's probably dead and maybe time to move onto more expensive toys that programmers really give a fuck, well that year ... or just ignore youtube for the time being. It's sad because what I generally viewed on youtube was of no interest to the music industry.