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Mr Beast’s company has been getting a ton of negative attention for how it works and how it treats employees and contestants. It seems plausible it was leaked as another example of toxic culture.
To anyone else wondering: this comes from the dev's description of the episode in the YouTube comments section. Highly worth a read to get the whole story, it has information not in TFA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIEwcTKUFCA
Not every Sedan: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/09/the-heavy-r...

"The Ford Fusion, Honda Accord, and Mazda6 midsized sedans, for example, all have a combined load capacity of 850 lbs. for passengers and cargo."
>> Decentralize decision-making authority as much as possible. Remove barriers in their way, slash approval layers, attack dependencies.
> This is awful advice. You can only operate in this mode for at best 2-3 months before your entire SDLC grinds to a halt because it's been the wild west in github.

If that happens, you decentralised more than was possible ("as much as possible" doesn't mean "completely"). You removed too many important barriers. A bit more concretely, you gave authority to those that weren't capable of handling it, or weren't supported properly. You removed an approval layer without supporting your team to check these things for themselves.
Absolutely, for the use cases where it makes sense. There are some examples here: https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport/blo...

In the web case, it mostly only makes sense if users are using a site for more than one page (or over a long time).

Some of the common places where it can have a huge impact:

- Delta-updating wasm or JS/CSS code between releases. Like the youtube player JavaScript or Adobe Web's WASM code. Instead of downloading the whole thing again, the version in the user's cache can be used as a "dictionary" and just the deltas for the update can be delivered. Typically this is 90-99% smaller than using Brotli with no dictionary.

- Lazy-loading a site-specific dictionary for the HTML content. Pages after the first one can use the dictionary and just load the page-specific content (compresses away the headers, template, common phrases, logos, inline svg's or data URI's, etc). This usually makes the HTML 60-90% smaller depending on how much unique content is in the HTML (there is a LOT of site boilerplate).

- JSON API's can load a dictionary that has the keys and common values and basically yield a binary format on the wire for JSON data, compressing out all of the verbosity.

I expect we're still just scratching the surface of how they will be used but the results are pretty stunning if you have a site with regular user engagement.

FWIW, they are not "pre-shared" so it doesn't help the first visit to a site. The can use existing requests for delta updates or the dictionaries can be loaded on demand but it is up to the site to load them (and create them).

It will probably fall over if it gets hit too hard, but there is some tooling here that can generate dictionaries for you (using the brotli dictionary generator) and let you test the effectiveness: https://use-as-dictionary.com/
Sure git is a bit different than P4 or Svn or whatever; they all have unique implementation details. I don’t disagree that git confusion sometimes exists nor that you’ve seen it, but it might make your point clearer to give a specific example, one that knowing a branch is a pointer fixes. I’m not sure if it’s useful to think of commits as immovable; they can be rebased and cherry picked, the “version” (SHA) is another implementation detail. Moving the content of commits around is common standard practice with git. That’s a different type of move than a branch move, not what I was referring to above, but I guess I’m arguing that branching is more about workflows, conventions, and conceptual understanding than how it works technically. You’re right that it’s sometimes useful to know that a git branch is a pointer and super lightweight, but that doesn’t help you differentiate branches and tags, for example. Git has a bunch of features that are ‘just’ a pointer. Knowing that is good for advanced workflows, but not really necessary for basic version control.
It is based on the fact that the upper range limit of the private key used in the puzzle is known. A securely generated private key would not be vulnerable even if its public key is known.

The second post on this thread[0] has a helpful chart that makes it easier to understand.

0: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5218972.0
By "faces" I don't mean triangles. I mean the true geometry of the object.

Say for example a single six-sided die: six faces, twelve edges.

But this would be twelve mesh triangles, right? None of which individually represent a face -- and six of the mesh edges are not edges in the true geometry.

A rounded six-sided die might have 26 faces (including the curved edges, rounded corners). 48 edges between them. etc. But the number of mesh triangles and edges will vary according to the precision.

bRep kernels can give you the geometry information, not just the mesh information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_representation
I think what you are missing:

- not everything is worth doing extraordinarily as no one will pay for excellence of some services or goods

- being exceptionally good at something doesn’t guarantee someone will buy from you, people might just don’t like you or your branding

- there are bunch of other market forces that you have to overcome and Dan seems like was writing about being 95% on a single thing
Fallacy of consequentialism. Yes, tons of people got free cataract surgery but that's a band-aid solution to cataract surgery being artificially locked behind a paywall all those people were unable to bypass, and the paywall still exists and is still preventing multiple factors of that group from accessing the same surgery. And wells in the developing world has been a charity money sink for decades at this point, instead of asking "well where's the well you're going to build" why don't you ask "why do so many people all across the world lack clean water?"

And the answer to that question is that it's not profitable to provide clean drinking water to people who can't pay for it. Not that it's not possible, not that it's not a solved engineering problem, clearly it is because some fuckin YouTuber pony's up the cash and suddenly there's a goddamn well. The only reason it's not already there is because we decided someone has to pay for the problem to be solved, and if none of the people who need it solved can afford it, we let them continue drinking dirty water and die from preventable illness because they were born in the wrong income bracket.

And by the same logic, why does Mr. Beast have this money in the first place? Because he's making bullshit videos about """solving""" these problems, because presenting loud, stupid nonsense to a western audience, for free, so they can be showed video ads in the midst of it, is worth enough to pay for these fucking wells.

To make this completely fucking clear: the attention of a western, young audience who's parents have money to spend and may, MIGHT, influence them to buy a product, is worth more than providing clean fucking drinking water to entire villages of people who live in a non-western place, with enough leftover for Mr. Beast to draw a frankly unethical salary for what he's actually doing, and providing to the world. That level of inequity between two groups of people is the grand fucking canyon.

And, to make this other point extra clear, that's not Mr. Beast's fault. He's acting completely rationally within a system that has utterly lost the plot in terms of what actually has value. The fact that unhinged amounts of money are going to a frankly, by all accounts I can find, quite amoral man who has cracked the code for generating loud, obnoxious nonsense that children will consume on an industrial scale so equally morally bankrupt companies can shove advertisements down their eyeballs and convince them to buy shit they don't need, so much so that he can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make yet more loud, obnoxious bullshit, is the problem. All of this is so completely and thoroughly disentangled from any notion of what anyone actually needs, and the fact that tons of people on this board and elsewhere still manage to call this system the most rational economic system yet discovered while looking at this complete fucking nonsense is astonishing to me.
I'm so sorry to hear about this.
A scam implies an element of deception and malice, which is not the case.

The games are clear in what they sell (particularly Fire Emblem Heroes after they got burned once by the players). I am acutely aware what I am buying, and what I can get with them. I am happy with the experience the games provide me as a whole, else I wouldn't be playing them for the better part of a decade straight and paying them my money.

So no, the games I cited aren't scammers. You are welcome to not like the business model, but calling them scammers is unwarranted.
Or, you know… build more houses.

We could drop western Europe into central BC / Alberta/ Sask. / Manitoba and not notice.

Or, we could destroy our small builders, import millions of immigrants incapable of construction / trade work, inflate asset prices, pay for their housing with government grants, lie about CPI inflation, and fix it all if we just…

“only allow Canadian nationals to own real estate”?
The problem is that those are not typically accusations, those are reported emergencies.

If you see your neighbor, for example, actively trying to kill his wife during a domestic incident, the last thing the police should do is sit on that report and carefully investigate whether that is true. They should act, because it might be a life or death scenario.

What logically follows, is that false reports like this should come with very heavy punishment. I would say at least as grave as attempted murder.
If the proxy is correctly handling the Accept-Encoding (rewriting it with only encodings that it understands), it can either remove the `dcb` and `dcz` encodings or it can check if it knows the announced dictionary and only allow them through if it has the dictionary.

MITM devices that just inspect and fail on unknown content-encoding values will have a problem and will need to be updated (there is an enterprise policy to disable the feature in Chrome for that situation until the proxies can be updated).
This is true, but it's a constant fight with the recommendation system, requiring a fairly strict approach to flagging "not interested" and "do not show this channel again" etc - as soon as you watch one junk-food video in a lazy day, prepare for another round of moderating tangentially related garbage.
I would argue that firearm ownership per 100 people is very misleading, you have more guns than owners in US. Comparing ownership per household (how many house holds have guns vs total number of households), the difference is way smaller, maybe less than 2x.

For example I know a guy that has more than 400 firearms. For him it is a business, not a passion, he does not even carry one, but he is giving a wrong impression of gun ownership.
> I don’t think MrBeast needs to farm for attention outside of his current very successful video tactics.

Well he is in the middle of a PR push responding to the claims from former employees that he fakes his videos and is generally fraudulent
Unnecessarily negative. Maybe rethink it.
Better than aviation: "it was legal when we got it approved it, so it's legal to manufacture now!" (decades later)

(I like the discussion about this example: https://www.flightglobal.com/airbus-challenges-737-grandfath... )
This is another useful example to have handy against the canard: "You're only skeptical of cryptocurrencies/blockchain because you haven't learned enough about how they work."

I believe the correlation is the other way around... at least once you get past some early local maxima near "people who don't understand how money can be in a computer."

P.S.: To digress (rant) a bit: The linchpin is whether your system needs to allow anybody to create and control any number of new participant-nodes at any time. That fundamental requirement is actually very rare, and it's also the root causing a cascading tree of workarounds, compromises, inefficiencies, and risks.
None of the philantropic actions I mentioned are fake.
We successfully moved to restoration videos. They’re great. Agreed with everything said about both Mr Beast and Mark Rober. Not what I want my kids watching a lot of.
> Lot of people critiquing this, but you can't deny the success.

You could say that about literally any shady business. Imagine seeing a PDF proving tobacco leaders knew for decades that it caused cancer and saying what you did.

Being monetarily successful does not mean you’re good or shouldn’t be criticised.
“don’t work with …”

You seem strangely certain of that.

It is unlikely that you should be.
Don't afterschool cartoons every weekday and several hours of Saturday morning cartoons qualify? IIRC that was the usual habit of children a few decades ago.
> Yes, because that activity cannot be distinguished from thd Russian government evading financial sanctions.

I am not sure this is true, but regardless I was going for a moral angle - the question was basically: Suppose a western bank was 100% certain that it was not Russian government avoiding sanctions, would that still apply?
And such is the age old tale of old people forgetting what they were like when they were children.

The younger generation always has been, and always will be, totally so much worse than the older generation.
If you're 4th and 10, that's when you cut your losses and attempt to kick a field goal so you can at least score something before the ball changes hands. (My wife took me to a Saints game for my birthday, so I'm actually learning stuff about the game as she is actually played.)

I guess the equivalent in a software shop would be adjust expectations way lower and focus on what's achievable without running the team ragged and risking getting nothing done, postponing loftier goals until the team/business is in a better position to address them.
It's in trademark as long as Disney registers and renews the trademark in whatever country.

And trademark doesn't protect against any and all use in the same way copyright does -- only uses that might create consumer confusion with the trademark owner's uses.

Presumably, a company that has been selling grocery staples since 1935 with that logo isn't creating much confusion.

Arguably, Paraguayan Mickey has a better claim that modern do-everything Disney Mickey is infringing on its long-established trademark...
But how could he have avoided this attack? I'm only familiar with Bitcoin's blockchain on a begginner level. But I assume the only way would be to avoid revealing the answer key (public) when sending the transaction to get the reward?
Growing ChartMogul To –$10M ARR
i love seeing stuff like this, im guessing it wont be long until this method becomes the norm
They're using Mickey Mouse (or their version of him), as a mascot. Doesn't that mean it's about a trademark?

The business in question literally has a mouse, named Mickey, that looks a lot like the trademark of Disney, on their packaging, their buildings, and their advertisements. They are literally using Disney's trademark.
A proper branch in Git is just a name for a commit with the rule that when you commit to a branch you move the name to point to the new commit, and similar rules on push.
You take what you can as a freelancer and I'm sure I know a number of folks who wrote for a the magazine at some point or other and did a fine job. But you certainly didn't subscribe or buy issues for the articles.
Or the actual PDF file instead of Google docs: http://splet.4a.si/dir/How-To-Succeed-At-MrBeast-Production....
By broad definitions of "pull off", if the accusations of faking things and changing rules are to be believed.
What is the less-naive way to claim this type of puzzle?
Then choose some other educational channel in which there are thousands.
FWIW, this addresses the BREACH/CRIME issues that killed SDCH by only operating on CORS-readable content.

It also solves the problem that SDCH had where the dictionary would be forced on the response and the client would have to go fetch it if it didn't have it before it could process the response.

The tooling for generating dictionaries is also WAY better than it was back in the SDCH days (and they are a much cleaner format, being arbitrary byte strings that Brotli and ZStandard can back-reference).

Lots of people involved in working on it were also involved with SDCH and have been trying to find a workable solution since it had to be turned down.
Should I have to click on a link to find out what an acronym cited in a post means?
I agree that just from the picture side, this looks very similar.

However, in Germany, police is taught in a very different way than US:
They are only allowed to use firearms as a last resort, and only to use it after non-lethal measures like the taser have been used beforehand.

They are also asked to only use it to wound, not to kill suspects.
In contrast, US police is e.g. trained to shoot at the center of mass as they argue that anything else would be more difficult under stressful circumstances.

I see the situation itself as the problem (that fake reports can lead to it), but realistically, there is probably no way to avoid them compeletely, so just looking at the way how such interactions are going on from there on can make the difference as well.
It's not too late. But the criterion here isn't whether the articles are technically different, it's whether the discussions are substantially the same or not. In this case the answer was yes: the discussion in the current thread was generic and therefore indistinguishable from the discussion in the previous thread. You can see this for yourself—here are the subthreads I moved:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549800

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549690

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549645

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549625

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549535

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549483

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549342

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549200
Having guzzled that Kool-aid myself for a while, and I'm still shaking it off: PKM/zettelkasten/digital garden folks feel a lot like the GTD fad visited upon a new generation of victims.

It has a lot of audience and topic overlap with grindset/hustle culture. There's a large, insidious YouTube corpus promising productivity panacea if only you'll adopt whatever specific software and methodology is currently being blessed. The fetishization of a specific process and artifact is treated as whats important rather than cultivating writing habits and periods of reflection.

Neurodivergent and otherwise chronically-disorganized folks aren't going to find salvation there, but often find themselves suckered in to something like this.
This is correct, and I came to the comments to say the same thing. It takes some work to implement without arbitrary-precision floating point, but arithmetic coding can make use of the full entropy in the input stream, whereas the approach in the article discards a lot of information.
There are laws about how the nicotine % a vape can have. In the uk it's something like 2 to 3 percent. In other countries you can get up to 5 percent. Probably so that people don't end up poisoning themselves.
For extra compliance, use <b><i><u><h1> tags, set volume to 11, phasers to 7, and use SchIzOCasE and +E+X+T+R+A+I+M+P+O+R+T+A+N+T+ annotations. That's assuming Unicode is not supported of course.
That's great that you've figured out all the problems of the world, but I was simply answering "what have they done" to a mis-characterization that they are simply time-wasting machines.
I think the numbers here are more like the expected consumption in actual mail delivery usage vs. something like the familiar EPA MPG ratings you'd see on cars.

A mail truck is going to be driving pretty slowly and stopping a lot, both of which will make an extra constant load like AC have a bigger effect.
Easy to wag fingers when you’ve never remotely been in this situation before.
I am Swedish.

Has Sweden been destroying Africa? Yes, I know about Lundin Oil, what else? And the rest of Europe? Sources please? :)

Climate refugees are not Europe's responsibility. Check USA, China and India.

Why should Europe destroy USA relations over Iran. Why is Iran our responsibility?

The current war in the Middle East was started by Hamas on October 7th. Israel have my full personal support, but Europe does not "supply a ton of weapons to Israel". We are currently sending all stock to Ukraine. But again, the war got started by Hamas. Hezbollah is an Iranian puppet. Hezbollah shelled and rocket attacked Israel, is Israel not allowed to respond? Should Israel just take the attacks? Why is Israel responsible for the internal politics of Hamas/Palestine/Hezbollah?

I am MORE pro USA now than before. Has USA done bad stuff like war crimes? Sure. But let us be frank, the Cold War never went away. Now you are either with the USA and Europe side OR you are with Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea side. It is clear what side you are on.
I reject this characterization from a quite frankly biased party. They’re selling hardware here themselves, and attempting to justify selling old hardware.

Modern hardware is quite good, but it inevitably succumbs to compute creep needs over time.
Yes, specifically secp256k1
Perhaps you can't use the auto-start/stop feature of the ICE system when the aircon is on? When the vehicle is stopped, something needs to be turning the compressor or things get hot pretty quick in hot climates. USPS trucks probably benefit from the start/stop system more than any other efficiency feature this new vehicle has.
Yes, that's why it's a config option; but if the code is in the kernel a distro can package up a preempt-rt kernel by flipping the config flag rather than maintaining an out-of-tree patchset, which is a _much_ lower burden.
> Fortunately, René Rebe and his loved ones are safe in the aftermath of this incident,

Considering that anyone could do this again at any time, “this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn’t previously aware of.”

> though they likely won't feel totally safe for quite some time.

Quite a well-founded feeling, I would say.
Opinionated branching is super obnoxious. It's much better to let you see the truth with a thin traditional branching veneer, and you can choose to enforce "fast-forwards"ness or not.
Yes, thank you! And I dont even watch Mr Beast, but I admit I immediately want to click on that «I spent 24 hours in ketchup»