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>Oh yes it is. The government in most (all?) developed countries has special (often at arms length) relationships with utilities, research institutions, nonprofits and NGOs, universities, etc.

Youtube is none of these things, it's private property. The government in free societies tends to respect private property. Especially when that property is a platform for speech. Television and radio being an exception because spectrum is a limited resource, but there is no equivalent to that on the internet. Youtube's dominance is not the end result of their control over infrastructure, we could have a million video platforms on the internet, if we wanted.

>This is probably the most extreme interpretation possible of what I'm saying. Do you really think it's what I'm suggesting?

I think it's the inevitable result of what you're suggesting. Why stop at Youtube, after all? Aren't Twitter and Facebook also "sufficiently important?" I've seen people suggest any social media platform with over some arbitrary number of users should be automatically nationalized. It's a moving target.

And of course, these platforms will be regulated and censored, because that's what government does.

Again, I think a better solution would be for governments (or even academic institutions) to create their own platforms. That would be more in the spirit of the internet, rather than centralization and government control.
So much nostalgia in this thread!
Technically sure, but in practice states have little difference between them. Any issue of consequence is federalized, can't have a low tax state with federal taxes being so high for example.
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It’s commercially guided now, unfortunately.
But is that old man wrong?
>They're in Michigan's upper peninsula and what they're doing is too risky for Midwest VC's.

Can't they connect with VCs anywhere in the world over the internet?
> This scenario does seem like something that would be cacheable to me though

The table of contents has a course with sections, lessons and downloads / videos with sums of video lengths that roll up to each section and back to the whole course. It rarely changes but the monkey wrench is there's a checkbox next to each lesson where a user can toggle a lesson as being complete so now it's really personalized for each user with a model storing this state. I didn't want to save this client side in local storage in case they watch things on multiple devices.

Having a separate cache for each user seemed like it would be a big mess, especially since these "lesson completions" move very fast in the sense that a user can toggle a handful of them per session. This table is also pretty big. Imagine having a 200 lesson course but you have 10,000 people who took it. Now we're at 2 million rows. Russian doll caching seemed pretty dangerous here, I'd have to have touch: true on like 5 cascading models where editing 1 thing would bust components of the cache for everyone.

The queries themselves aren't too complicated. It's pretty much 3 queries with "includes" being used at times to avoid N+1 queries. It's getting the course, then looping over its sections and then looping over its lessons and in that lesson loop it gets any downloads. Then there's the lesson completion state for the current user too to see if it should be checked or not.

It doesn't seem very friendly to being cached.

I really wanted to avoid having a single cache for the whole TOC and making a separate ajax request to load in the user's lesson completions after the page has loaded. The UI gets jittery with the checkboxes being populated afterwards. This also opens a few cans of worms. Even if this were to happen in the end with Turbo 8, I'd still have to query the per user lesson completions + all of the resources (questions or show notes, etc.) presented under the video on every page transition.
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So first, let's consider what I am not talking about. That would be videos of cats, entertainment, etc.

Things that could more easily be argued to be important would be stuff like academic content or news content.

At this point Youtube is a part of the broader internet infrastructure (as are many other large social networks), and you can make an argument that it's a bit like any other utility (roads, phone lines, fiber op cable, GPS satellites, etc).
> magic constants maintained by a kernel dev who has had to sign an NDA for the privilege of maintaining the driver

Wait is this true? How did the kernel team agree to this?
Honestly at this point is there anywhere in the US that isn't known for corrupt politicians?
I was thinking especially of a conversation I once had with my wife's coworker's spouse who was at the time a Republican environmental lobbyist. That sounds even more oxymoronic now than it did back then but he said that he used to have fairly good results getting coalitions together because even if they disagreed on a lot, especially in the West there were a lot Republican who liked to hike, fish, hunt, etc. and were willing to strike deals which would protect those natural environments. That didn't always work – e.g. ranchers were never going to support restoring wolves to their natural habitat – but he felt that over the years he'd been able to help get a fair amount of good done.

According to him, that stopped being even conceivable the day Obama was elected and people like Mitch McConnell made it very clear to everyone in the party that there were to be no deals of any sort which could give Obama any sort of accomplishment, not even things which had previously been generally uncontroversial. It was apparently quite frankly stated that anyone who did so would have the national party and the right-wing media machine targeting them during the next primary as if they were a Democrat, even if it was something like getting something like a highway project in their state. They knew how Bush had been able to campaign for re-election on things like “No Child Left Behind” and Medicare part D which had only passed with some Democratic votes and were determined not to allow that to happen in reverse, just as we're seeing now.
It does, that’s one reason frostbite is such a risk in these high climbs. It’s harder for the body to generate heat because it’s got less oxygen to work with.
Beacuse they would do the same. We currently have mutual defence pacts with nations that do a lot worse than any of your neighbors would do. Don't have to like someone to engage in a mutual defense.
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I think we really screwed up. We're using WFH to hide child care while saying it's more efficient. We should have just demanded better work hours but here we are.
But it was not really unprecedented. They gave full refunds when they shut down Google video.
if this wasn't a thing Britta wouldn't exist
This article might provide some insight:

https://earthly.dev/blog/bazel-build/

My thoughts, as someone who has done a lot of build engineering, but that has only a small amount of experience with bazel:

If you are working with languages that are well supported by existing, maintained bazel rules, maybe. Otherwise, the answer is likely "no". You do not want to take on the burden of maintaining significant rules, or figuring out how to mate your ecosystem of choice to an opinionated build system that nobody else in your ecosystem uses.

If you can manage with something easier to setup, it probably makes sense to do that instead. My general experience in startups is that you have to "pick your battles" constantly. You don't have the luxury of infinite time and resources. Work on the build system has a high opportunity cost.

Most developers and other people who aren't build nerds care about the answer to two questions in regard to builds:

1. Is the build fast enough?

2. Is the build working?

That's it. This is frustrating when they don't understand the other important aspects of build system quality, but it is also, admittedly, somewhat of a pragmatic perspective.

There is much leeway inherent in the speed question. If the build is slow, people can wait. Do they have any other choice? There is plenty of other work to do while they wait.

If the build doesn't work, you, THE build guy, are going to feel the pressure to get it working again quickly. This often turns to bodging, and eventually to something resembling life support. However, nobody will care how much of a brittle, knotted mess the build code is if it still manages to mostly work.

To put it bluntly: A startup company can probably survive with a shit build system. And that might even be the right answer depending on the context.

I would personally be perfectly happy to get paid to set up a beautiful, apex example of a build system for a startup, whether it makes business sense or not. My professional integrity just won't allow me to recommend that path unless I think it's justified.

I might recommend to start with a script, or a makefile, or a ninja generator, and see how that works out first. After all, that is how Google did it for a long time before they decided to create Blaze.
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It's definitely not a commercial thing but political.

I'm located in Hong Kong and using Hong Kong credit cards have never been a problem with online merchants. I don't think Hong Kong credit cards are particularly bad with chargebacks or whatever. OpenAI has explicitly blocked Hong Kong (and China). Hong Kong and China, together with other "US adversaries" like Iran, N. Korea, etc are not on OpenAI's supported countries list.

If you have been paying attention, you'll know that US policy makers are worried that Chinese access to AI technology will pose a security risk to the US. This is just one instance of these AI technology restrictions. Ineffectual of course given the many ways to workaround them, but it is what it is.
We continue to be talking about different things.

"What is" is different that "what ought to be". I am talking about the latter, but you continue to refer to the former.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem

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> I think a better solution would be for governments (or even academic institutions) to create their own platforms.

This is perfectly compatible with what I was saying. It's a reasonable approach.

> rather than centralization and government control

The other kinds of approaches I was considering have nothing to do with control in the sense of "government oppression". Much to the contrary. There are many laws and rights that are technically a form of government control but which have the effect of protecting individuals from being oppressed by larger forces. These types of government control are generally very important. (I also worry when government control serves the government's interests more than that of individuals, but that's not really what I'm talking about in this context.)
Yeah, the title is misleading here. What happened is that the Turing test judges, who had to decide whether they were talking to a human or an AI, judged ELIZA's output as much too poor for current AI, and therefore probably generated by a human intentionally being uncooperative.
> Man, not having to build the same code that hasn’t changed over and over locally and in pipelines sounds so appealing.

Can't you use something like Maven build cache ( https://maven.apache.org/extensions/maven-build-cache-extens... ) for that?
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That’s actually an extremely attractive proposition to work in a Perl shop. It’s the same deal as Lisp or Haskell or Erlang shops: you know you’ll be surrounded by top notch talent!
Pretty sure the <5 ppl micro businesses just want money too
Performance has not been a complaint of mine, especially network-related. It's everything else. Almost like Firefox is optimizing for just shoveling as much CPU power and RAM as possible into it's gaping, bloated maw, not caring about anything else. Kinda like an old mail application from a startup I worked at. Nothing has ever matched how amazingly good it was at certain things it did (or even have similar features), but hot DANG did it just drink battery like its going out of style.
He likely will face charges - the United States government regularly charges people for grant fraud. Here's a particularly relevant example:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.17660
Dude, its work. Regardless of where and how hard you are whistling, its work. Youre trading your life for dollars. Your point at wherever you work is to produce ... could be pulling carrots or hitting a keyboard but youre selling your time. Dont expect to enjoy it. Wake up
The article implies that the Mira Murati and the rest of the C suite were the ones responsible for getting people to sign the letter threatening to quit unless the board resigned. And there seems to be some direct involvement from Microsoft (even before they announced they would hire employees who quit).

This sounds a lot different from the narrative that it was a grass roots show of support for Sam Altman.

If the CEO, the rest of the execs, and the investors in the for-profit were pushing employees to sign, doing so wasn’t a sign of loyalty to Altman at all.
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Bootloaders support all the common root filesystems now, and even less common like zfs & btrfs. Just leave the bootloader where it is and use a directory in root for the kernel & initramfs.
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Damn, I've never watched a video to learn academic topics in my entire life, I must have actual brain damage. I just read books like some moron.
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He's literally in the video on the linked home page of the site explaining why he built the service.
I am running this on my 3070 RTX and 32GB ram Ryzen 5 and this is flawless!

Literally the reason why I am coming to HN every day! Thanks devs :)
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Yes but targeting WASM and SQLite minimizes that pain quite a bit.
I really don't like the idea that refunds make theft acceptable (and don't tell me this is not theft, because it is)

If someone broke into my house, stole something worth $100 and left behind $100 in cash, that wouldn't make it not theft, so why should this be different? If I buy a product, I should have full control over it for the purposes of personal use, nobody should have the right to take it from me without my consent, that's stealing and a refund doesn't justify it. If a corporation can do this and get away with it, the law has failed.
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Books are great, but if you haven't noticed, they are different than content in video form. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages, so they are not perfectly fungible.
The word "legal" simply means "the wish of those in power, written down on paper." There are few exceptions, but certainly not in the copyright law.
This reminds me of: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/J3wemDGtsy5gzD3xa/toni-kurz-...
I’m all about equality when it comes to specious conspiracy theories.
That restricts you to using root filesystem that the bootloader can read, which excludes many modern filesystems, btra, f2fs, etc..
Also you would then need a separate efi partition instead of a combined boot and efi setup as is typical these days.
There's a lot of room between small- to medium-sized and Reddit-sized. Drupal 9/10 scales out well and does just fine at that large (read "enterprise") size. But certainly the more read-heavy a site is, the more suited it is to Drupal.
There's also some magic to the Universal Translator and Babel Fish: they perform zero-shot real time translation.

That is, they are able to translate (in all directions) novel languages that were not previously heard[0]. It is an open question, with likely a negative answers, that there is a universal grammar even among humans[1] (the definition itself is vague but even the most abstract version is suspect and highly likely to not be universal across species). I think no one will be surprised if it is always impossible to interpret an entire language based on only a few words (let alone do it in real time)

This isn't a knock down, because even a trained device is insanely useful, it's just a note about limitations and triage. This is awesome stuff and I can't wait for the day we have transnational headphones. It's an incredibly complex problem that I'm sure is not short of surprises.

[0] There are a few exceptions such as Star Trek TNG's episode Darmok, S5E2, where the Tamarians' language is unable to be translated due to its reliance on cultural references (the literal words are translated but the semantic meanings are not). It's a well known episode and if you hear anyone saying "Shaka, when the walls fell" (translates to "Failure") they are referencing this episode (often not using the language accurately but who cares (nerds. The answer is nerds)).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar
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