I will agree that for the most part LA has SF beat on Asian food, but Cantonese/HK style Chinese is better in SF, and the rest is probably on par, just fewer options in SF.
But you nailed in on the head -- you have to find ethnic food made by people who know how it's supposed to taste and making it for people who know how it's supposed to taste. If I go into an ethnic restaurant I know it's good if the majority of the customers are that ethnicity.
Seattle seems to be more authentically Japanese than other places. I found a ramen booth place in Capital Hill like Ichiran where everyone eats inside a curtain.
SF Japantown feels old and rundown like nobody's moving there anymore.
Having your own private bathroom is a really underrated perk of WFH. There are of course many more benefits to WFH, but using your own bathroom is something no office and their disgusting communal bathrooms could ever compete with.
Having your own bathroom is the best, but one thing I liked when I worked in Italy is that they had real bathrooms in most offices. It's very normal to have a little room with a door that fully closes, rather than those stalls where you can see people's feet, as well as smell and hear everything.
I mean, I kind of get having that kind of thing in, say, an airport or somewhere with security concerns, but being treated like that in an office environment is horrible.
To add to this, when there are annoying things like that in the office.. most places there's no people in charge. There are facilities teams but they don't really care if the toilet flush is not powerful enough, or if one of the taps is leaking, or a quarter of the chairs are wonky.. and you can't really say it to your direct manager since it is not work related.
The company I work for took the opportunity to switch things up at the office during the pandemic. One was switching to what can only be described as 1/2-ply toilet paper with perforated designs. They bragged about how much it saved while mandating back to the office. They also swamped out the food at the cafe, good luck getting anything fresh.
No thanks, I'll take my 2 ply, my own toilet, and actual nutritious lunches.
Okay, so I have this idea. And by idea I mean effectively a fever dream: Separate building connected by underground tunnel with one of those moving sidewalks and the building is filled with personal bathrooms for each employee.
Each employee is given a small budget and menu where they can decide what amenities their bathroom gets stocked with. You can decorate it according to your whims.
There's so many logistical and even geometric problems with the idea. But just imagine the retention numbers if someone was actually able to pull it off. You have your own personal bathroom overlooking a serene wooded area, wall mounted TV doing sports ball recap, small private library, and scented candle with that sent you can't get enough of.
[Although, honestly, I would be happy if they just made the toilet stall dividers go from the floor to the ceiling.]
Does it have the same music? That was my favorite part of the original game. You could even put the second cd in a regular stereo and play it. The Fat Man has re-released it and music from the sequel:
The problem is that Warp is closed source, requires a log in, has extensive telemetry, promised to go open source but never did and has raised 78M from VCs including 50M from Sequoia, the FTX people.
Indeed, VCs will want a return on their investment at some point, and it doesn't seem like simply sharing some terminal commands in the cloud with your team will be enough to justify that valuation. This is especially true as the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon of the last 15 years is now over.
Personally I'd never use something VC backed for something so critical to my productivity.
Having never heard of Warp and wondering what would get VCs to give that much to a terminal project I just took look at their website and it’s obviously the AI/LLM aspect.
With that said does anyone know which open source projects are looking at LLM integration. It’s not a bad idea.
I took a look before this year and it used to be that their value proposition was more so geared towards sharing terminal inputs and outputs easily. Now they seem to be leveraging OpenAI APIs instead as their main value prop.
However, I still don't really see why someone would pay 12 bucks a month for that when they could just pay a little bit more for full blown ChatGPT and use AI for much more than terminal commands (and there are already terminal and vim plugins to directly query GPT with your API key, which is orders of magnitudes cheaper than Warp). It seems like a product that has no clear target market or target usage, seems more like a feature than a full product.
Thankfully it doesn't run it, it just inserts the commands into your prompt. It's kinda nice but I've also been using the terminal for like 12 years, so I don't find myself relying on it very often.
I can just run Llama locally for that, no VC required (and indeed there are plugins which do exactly this already). Llama and other local LLMs are being optimized to run on the CPU on less than 1 GB of RAM so it's not as if only those with beefy GPUs can do so.
Agreed and the part I’m missing is these plugins which do this. Any suggestions or recommendations would be interesting to hear. Which terminals and which plugins etc.
It does a ton of really great deep dives into pre-Columbian and native cultures. I agree with you that there's a lot to learn and an unrecognized degree of influence on our day to day lives (corn and potatoes being two examples).
It works well in practice. The DHT protocol includes announce messages that broadcast when new files are shared on BitTorrent. It then includes a "geometric" way to find people who are sharing those files. It doesn't include the files themselves, just the torrents which include a file list and location hashes.
If you listen to BitTorrent's DHT network, you'll build an index of everything shared on BitTorrent (over time), this will include commercial movies and such.
Hi, I worked on gnutella and lots of P2P systems in the early 00s. This will devolve into noise and spam as the number of users who adopt this feature pass a critical mass. With a fully decentralized system, there are no gatekeepers, and as such, there is no way to filter counterfiet items. While your client will present with you the data you are searching for, you will find out (usually hours later) that your supposed pirated download is actually just a 2hour loop of Rick Astley (still piracy though, so you are still winning.. i think?).
I don't think this project changes any of this? Torrents have been around for decades and this hasn't been a problem yet. We can't rule it out entirely but it does seem unlikely at this point to be worthwhile doing otherwise we'd see more exploitation.
If the criticism is that a DHT crawler is going to be more subject to this than a website where people submit upload torrents, that may be the case, but I think the author of this project underestimates the DHT crawling going on. I believe the torrent ecosystem is largely automated and there's little in the way of manual submission or human review going on.
The "problem" is that most users aren't crawling the DHT to find torrents, right now. The more people start using DHT crawlers as their primary way of finding new torrents, the more incentive there is to spam the DHT with junk, malware, etc. (because there will be more eyeballs on it)
That is, the usefulness of DHT crawling is inversely proportional to how many people are doing it.
But my second point is that I really think they are crawling the DHT, albeit indirectly. There are many torrent websites and they tend to have the same content. It seems fairly clear to me that this is what most torrent sites are doing. Maybe not the major names that users might submit to, but the long tail of other torrent search indexes certainly. It also seems to be what Popcorn Time does.
While you're technically correct, the protocol is resilient to such attack, as the number of people participating in a particular torrent is a good indicator of its validity. After all, everyone who was fooled will delete and stop sharing such items.
New releases of something that just came out tend to suffer from this, though. Sometimes the counterfeits reach escape velocity - the rate of people joining in downloading the counterfeit exceed the rate of people realizing and stopping, thus giving the illusion of a legit torrent.
Currently this problem is being solved by torrent sites' reputation and comment systems. If we imagine a world where only decentralized indexes like Bitmagnet exist, your prediction is 100% accurate. This only works if reputation from a reliable site is bootstrapping the initial popularity of a torrent.
You are describing a pay-to-play model. The validator is if the seeder/leech count is high. Well does DHT provide aggregate bandwidth of each torrent? If not, you can easily spin up 1000+ nodes and connect to your torrent. Tada fake popularity. If bandwidth is known, then you simply raise your costs a bit by running fake clients. There are anti-piracy groups who's entire mandate is to provide noise in the piracy ecosystem. Food for thought: bandwidth costs for this would be a rounding error for e.g. MGM, Universal, or any major content creator.
DHT does not offer any sort of reputation or comment system. Back to centralized torrenting which is why I suspect DHT crawling has not been a very popular feature
> If not, you can easily spin up 1000+ nodes and connect to your torrent. Tada fake popularity. If bandwidth is known, then you simply raise your costs a bit by running fake clients.
Sure, but like the other commenter said, this has been possible for years, and yet public trackers aren't swamped with fake torrents. I think in all my years of using BitTorrent I've only ever found a single fake torrent, where the content was inside an encrypted RAR with no key (obviously there was no way to know it was encrypted ahead of time).
Once you've discovered a torrent being seeded, is there no way to interrogate the seeders and/or the DHT itself, to find out the oldest active seeder registration on that torrent hash; and then use the time-of-oldest-observed-registration to rank torrents that claim to be "the same thing" in their metadata, but which have different piece-trie-hash-root?
I ask, because a similar heuristic is used in crypto wallet software, visibility-weighting the various "versions" of a crypto token with the same metadata, by (in part) which were oldest-created. (The logic being: scam clones of a thing need to first observe the real thing, before they can clone it. So the real thing will always come first.)
Of course, I'm assuming here that you're searching for an "expected to exist" release of a thing by a specific distributor, where the distributor has a known-to-you structured naming scheme to the files in their releases, and so you'll only be trying to rank "versions" of the torrent that all have identical names under this naming scheme, save for e.g. the [hash] part of the file name being different to match the content. This won't help if you're trying to find e.g. "X song by Y artist, by any distributor."
Hehe in a popular P2P client from the '03-'05 period, we said the same thing. Turns out there are groups with large amounts of funding which will provide a fake seed count. Either just faking metadata making it seem there was a high seed count but bogus nodes which would refuse connections (which was actual behavior from clients with bad ISPs - which we saw valid cases in asia or east europe) or would actually stream data (and some of them were on good hosts seeding multi mbps of bad data)
What i'm saying is it becomes a numbers game and those fake seeders usually have deep pockets financed by the content creators themselves
> New releases of something that just came out tend to suffer from this, though. Sometimes the counterfeits reach escape velocity - the rate of people joining in downloading the counterfeit exceed the rate of people realizing and stopping, thus giving the illusion of a legit torrent.
It's possible. I never follow new releases. But back in the ed2k days, I'd say about half of just about any file you cared you search for was fake, regardless of age.
You are what’s called, an edge case. A statistical anomaly. While that is great, you are far from the norm and not the target of this product (or even this particular thread :)
>If you listen to BitTorrent's DHT network, you'll build an index of everything shared on BitTorrent (over time),
Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I understand, passively listening on DHT would only mean you build up a list of infohashes of everything shared on BitTorrent. You'd actually have to reach out to your DHT peers to know what files the infohashes actually represents.
Wrapping back to grandparent's question of
>Also what happens if illegal content gets scooped up into the index?
I think this could get dicey if someone announces something very illegal like CP, and your crawler starts asking every peer that announced the infohash about it's contents with this[0] protocol. This would put your IP into a pretty awful exclusive club of
> Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I understand, passively listening on DHT would only mean you build up a list of infohashes of everything shared on BitTorrent. You'd actually have to reach out to your DHT peers to know what files the infohashes actually represents.
Yes, you're correct! I should have stated that, you still need to resolve the metadata from the peers that have the infohashed files hosted. That's a separate operation from downloading the file's content.
No because private trackers enforce that all torrents uploaded have DHT,PEX and LPD disabled. Usually done by a single tickbox that says “Make torrent private” in the client.
Of course, respecting these options in the torrent file is still up to the client. This is one of the reasons why all private trackers have a client whitelist too.
There is a reasonable case to be made that the Nazis' escaped WW2 and were imported into the USA, and they created their Fifth Reich within the military-industrial complex where - under the guise of the oppressive National Security regime that this complex wraps itself in - they have been perfectly able to continue to propagate their hateful ideology.
And this is why the USA has demolished one sovereign state after the other - deemed inferior by America's bigoted ruling classes, whose malign influence over the 'intelligence community' follows the Nazi playbook to a tee .. those cultures deemed racially/politically inferior are brought nothing but calamity and ruin.
I agree. It's also worth noting that Hitler himself was inspired by the US Jim Crow laws and history of violent racism. He used it as a model for his own ethnic cleansing. So for a long time Nazis and the US have had a symbiotic relationship.
