Is your example here a bit oblique to the point? I see this more of a failing of the people to properly appreciate and discuss/process the contents of the book, and as well as, in my opinion, socially overcompensating for the diversity in the room?
I definitely see your point around a lot of people trying to be so inclusive, they end up being somewhat racist. But I see this more of a lack of proper cultural empathy/education -- go figure, Dunning-Kruger is everywhere all the time. But as you said,
> This law is about what books are in public libraries.
So why would we ban the books, rather than encourage reading them and having the more meaningful discussions focusing on heritage rather than identity?
As a slightly more abstract aside, identity anything to me is a slippery slope because it will always automatically encourage one to make assumptions; it's a mental shortcut to say Person A == Person B iff PersonA.identity == PersonB.identity. Given that education is hard, learning is hard, and life is hard, I think we need to at least emphathize and appreciate that teachers and the the education system in general need to often fall back on these sorts of mental shortcuts. But that's we need to really invoke our right, privilege, and duty of grassroots participation. Why not walk into that book club that's overcompensating and help them learn what is making you uncomfortable? You might be surprised at how ignorant they were of their own mistakes and that they're willing to learn from your perspective.
> I definitely see your point around a lot of people trying to be so inclusive, they end up being somewhat racist.
But it’s not inclusiveness at all, it’s a caste system. In academic liberal spaces, non-whites are not “included” on the same terms as whites. We are bucketed into a separate caste subject to different standards and expectations. And that caste system plays out in routine social interactions, because white people afraid of being called “racist” will not treat you the same.
Calling it “heritage” instead of identity doesn’t change anything. Your average second-generation non-white American has weak ties to any non-american society. My kids have no meaningful ties to Bangladeshi society, only superficial ones. They can’t, and they wouldn’t even like it if they did. So the only outcome of talking to them about their “heritage” would be to encourage them to see themselves differently from their peers based on connections that are at best superficial.
As to your point about “banning”—we’re not banning the book club. This law is about school libraries. People are voting for what kind of ideas their children are socialized into, which is one of the fundamental rights as a parent.
> People are voting for what kind of ideas their children are socialized into, which is one of the fundamental rights as a parent.
Wait, I thought you were all about how Western society has gone too far in the direction of individual rights?
And assuming your "fundamental rights as a parent" premise (purely for the sake of argument): The rest of us have a pretty-compelling interest in how each other's kids — our future fellow adults — are being raised.
I agree the community has a strong interest in how children are socialized. That’s exactly what’s happening here: Florida voters have exercised their power over government schools to vindicate the community’s right to decide how children should be socialized.
You’re also proving my point about why it’s so critical to strictly control who is allowed into your community. Once people are allowed into the community, they get to participate in deciding how the community collectively socializes children. That means communities have a strong interest in excluding people who aren’t like minded.
> You’re also proving my point about why it’s so critical to strictly control who is allowed into your community.
"Strictly control[led]" is a line-drawing function — and needs to remember that life is a movie, not a snapshot, and so patience is needed. EDIT: Growing a society seems not unlike raising children: Society needs kids to grow into adults, and sometimes that means gritting your teeth and being patient ....
Example: Many of my own immigrant ancestors, those on the non-Aryan branches of our family tree, probably wouldn't have been let in under today's MAGA criteria. (Even my German-immigrant ancestors faced hostility from the "real Americans.") Yet each successive generation in this country has done just a bit better, thank you very much.
Example: In this morning's home-delivery Times, Cardinal Dolan is quoted as recalling about the decades-long progress of the Irish migration to America — who were definitely considered ubermenschen by many American nativists of the time:
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“He [19th-century Archbishop John Hughes] was frustrated about raising money,” remarked [Cardinal] Dolan, who wore Hughes’ pectoral cross on a cord around his neck as he described the new artistic addition. “He said, ‘This cathedral will be built on the pennies of immigrants.’”
Dolan noted that by contrast, raising $3 million to underwrite the creation, installation, lighting and conservation of the Cvijanovic mural took less than a day — paid for, he added with a chuckle, by “the big checks of the grandchildren of the immigrants.”
</quote>
(Emphasis and extra paragraphing added; my first-generation Irish-American grandmother told of seeing signs here and there: No Irish need apply.)
I can’t quite read this without feeling there some significant over-generalizations and assumptions being made. My experience with people of various races, cultures, and backgrounds has not exhibited any unilateral caste system mentality. I’ve spent plenty of time in academia and, while it certainly has issues, has not been quite so dystopian.
In the end, if we’re just comparing anecdata, this isn’t going to be productive.
JD Vance had a comment about his Appalachian ancestors who “built this country with their bare hands.” Find a white person to say something similar in one of your liberal places. Then find a black or mexican american person to say something similar. You know what the reaction would be even if you’ve never experienced it first hand. That’s the caste system: among other things, ethnic identity is condemned for one caste, while being lauded in the other caste.
There’s dozens of other examples, of course. Admissions, hiring, and promotions are often subject to explicit or implicit racial considerations. It’s naive to believe that the same people who are required by institutional policies to think about your skin color when they hired you or admitted you or when they decided to promote you or give your a research grant aren’t thinking about it in daily interactions as well.
Yes,I already had to migrate from Realm to MongoDB Realm and now again to another solution. I'm looking into Firebase Real-time database hoping they have more stability and is not changing the ownership every 5 years
Brutal :') As Firebase is a Google product it's pretty far down my list in terms of reliable alternatives. But I may check it out as well after I see how a migration to Ditto looks.
Adam (CEO of Ditto) here, Mongo is transitioning to a partner-first strategy for mobile and edge applications. We are working closely with Mongo to create a cohesive product experience between Ditto and Mongo Atlas. High-level that is a supported bidirectional connector between Atlas and Ditto's Edge Sync platform.
Furthermore, we are working with customers of Atlas Device Sync to help and support them in the transition. There are aspects of Ditto different than Realm - most prominent is that we are schema-less. This will mean some client-side code transition, but longer-term a tighter alignment with Mongo Atlas. We are excited as well to introduce more to Ditto's unique capability of P2P device sync.
Note, I previously worked at Realm before the Mongo acquisition and even before joining the team I was an avid fan of the database. I hope it continues life via the community!
It is great to know that there's a logical successor.
As I mentioned above, I work in a company that offers a SAAS that's based on the Device Sync solution. We were weeks away from announcing a collaboration-oriented product based on Atlas, but now these plans are in shambles.
We are actively looking into Ditto now, and the P2P approach to sync is genuinely impressive. So, a couple of questions for you:
1. Is there something in your platform resembling the Flexible sync functionality of Atlas?
2. Do you feel that the partner-first approach will open up some space for Ditto? Have you encountered any Atlas Device Sync functionality that would be impossible to replicate for Ditto in terms of integration with MongoDB?
1. Yes Ditto uses query-based sync. Candidly, the flexible sync in Atlas has roots back to when I was VP of Product at Realm. It was a must for me, but I think got abandoned for performance issues then brought back. Ditto was built always to support flexible/query sync. We recently have added our own more advanced query engine - DQL (SQLish) and it will enable JOINs and other advanced queries while still being schemaless JSON collections. In this regard Ditto is a better compliment to Mongo than Realm is from data model perspective.
2. Yes this partner-first approach is huge opportunity for us. Given Realm had to sell, we were very focused on building a sustainable business. This meant though more focus on enterprise and specific use-cases than going wide to all developers (you can see how well that worked with Firebase, Parse, and many other developer products when you have VC backing). This means we have a solid foundation technically (large-scale deployments in mission critical systems) to now handle wider awareness. Mongo will really help us bring the awareness of Ditto.
3. Right now candidly our permission system is nascent compared to Atlas - a webhook fires from Ditto to allow you to integrate into external identity systems and apply permissions. The focus with enterprise meant we targeted use-cases that didn't have too much dynamism in their permissions and data models, so you will find our system naive comparatively. This is a top priority where we will be adding built-in dynamic permission functionality that is similar to Device Sync later this year. You can read more on our system here: https://docs.ditto.live/auth-and-authorization/data-authoriz...
Thanks for the reply! Will definitely be looking into Ditto as a migration option. What would you say the main benefits are of going schema-less? In this context does it more mean that the client is responsible for serializing/de-serializing into the correct data structures? I'm browsing the docs already but any extra information would be helpful, particularly around handling evolving data needs, import/export, client sync, etc.
Yeah the client has to serialize/deserialize - think of the DB as a mini Mongo where you insert JSON into collections as the mental model. Reason for this is that in our experience, sync is easier when the system is schema-less because the nature of the system ties folks across teams, so this means the schema tends to live above each individual client (iOS, Android, backend, etc and in larger orgs those are each separate teams). Furthermore, advances such as Codable in Swift and other patterns means client devs are fairly used to handling this with JSON/REST patterns anyway.
More similar is that Ditto uses a query-based sync approach - this was an area I am particularly passionate about and helped push at Realm. The challenge with this vs. strict channels is then scalability of the backend system - but we have solved these scalability challenges in several ways.
Most prominently, internally Ditto works different than at least my understanding of how Realm Sync worked originally (it might have evolved more under Mongo). We use CRDTs to handle the conflict resolution, so any JSON inserted into Ditto, ends up being a nested CRDT structure on disk. This enables the same predictive conflict resolution, but its a crucial trade off compared to other approaches.
First, CRDTs enable P2P sync where no server is needed to mediate the system. This opens up use-cases that Ditto powers where mobile devices sync over Bluetooth and P2P WiFi even without a device accessing the internet. Furthermore, it also opens up more scalability on the backend because the server nodes themselves can communicate P2P.
At a more fundamental level this is a trade off of using extra metadata (CRDTs include more context like version vectors and such to know how to merge with each other) compared to Realm's original approach of Operational Transformation which is an algorithmic approach. We felt that the metadata approach was holistically better because of the access to new use-cases and scalability meanwhile there are clever ways to make the metadata cost not a real-world issue (i.e. compression in various ways). Conversely, the algorithmic approach is limited to a client server architecture and has computational scalability issues.
All in all, we are very sympathetic to transition costs, but are confident folks will find Ditto can meet the same and more capabilities in Device Sync. Our current challenge is going to be introducing a pricing scheme to support the broader set of Mongo users. To date, we have been very focused on larger enterprise deployments (gotta ensure the bills are paid!) so we will be creative to ensure anyone transitioning is not affected by pricing if they like us!
Given the topic of the paper[0], the footnote is especially charming:
> the authors decided to forgo the old convention of alphabetical ordering of authors in favor of a randomized ordering, denoted by r⃝. The publicly verifiable record of the randomization is available at https://www.aeaweb.org/journals/policies/random-author-order...
There are many interesting efforts — going back quite a few years —- to this goal, many of which in the PAC setting (which automatically means MLP is out, for theoretical guarantees). E.g [0]and its related references come to mind as an interesting place to look into it!
Yes, this is exactly why many baristas will choose a darker or more full-bodied coffee for an espresso type drink vs a lighter roast for something like a pour over.
Darker roast coffees are also much more forgiving in general, since they already have some bitter taste to them in the first place.
It's still a better end product to brew the coffee or espresso well in the first place vs try to mask faults (bitterness, sourness, etc) after the fact.
While I agree, I think the essence of this comment is that the converse of OP is not true, i.e. "you should trust a senior engineer that has strong opinions". As a sibling pointed out, it's sort of two steps: 1) make sure they have opinions, then 2) ask yourself if those opinions are that of a fan-boy or somebody who has been around the block enough to know a thing or two.
I guess you're getting downvoted because people didn't realize you're also the tweet author.
So you can confirm that you did lose ad revenue because of the claim and really are just stuck until somebody steps in and reverses it? Or is it as described in the YT terms linked in another comment?
I don't monetize my videos to begin with, so I wouldn't be making any money anyway. My creator revenue (for my work on the Asahi Linux project) comes entirely from Patreon and GitHub Sponsors, so I can afford to laugh this off, as it doesn't affect my bottom line. However, not everyone is lucky enough to be in this position.
I've heard countless horror stories of creators ending up in Content ID hell and losing huge amounts of revenue. Whatever systems YouTube has to try to make this work, they obviously don't, not in practice, and real people are being hurt by copyright trolls like this one.
One thing I have no recourse for is that there are now incredibly intrusive pre-roll ads running on the video and annoying my viewers, where there shouldn't be any. No amount of escrow is going to make up for that problem.
If you had a second account that claimed a copyright on the content in your first account, can a copyright troll still claim copyright on the content in your first account, or would that prevent the second copyright claim from pushing ads onto your content?
It doesn't work directly through YouTube; only big companies get to do that.
What you can do is release your content as music (e.g. your channel intro music or similar) through a music distributor that offers Content ID services, and claim it on yourself. Then it becomes a revenue share, so instead of stealing 100% of your revenue, a fraudulent claim only takes 50%. This is, no joke, legitimately a thing people have done.
What's your basis for this "nope"? Google's own stated policy is that they hold all monetization revenue during dispute, and only release it to the winner of the dispute. Is that not true?
I see in a sibling comment/reply that you say you weren't monetizing your videos, and that now there are pre-roll ads on them that you don't want, and there's no way to undo that fact right now. I agree those are bad things, but those issues are separate from the one to which you are replying, which is about who gets the monetization revenue that accrues during a dispute.
I feel this. One of my favorite artists, Ray LaMontagne, has entire albums that he has apparently (due to essentially rumors and, at some point, wikipedia) worked hard to completely remove from the internet. They're from his early days and a little different in terms of his style and voice, but I never found anything definite about the reasoning. However, these albums have some of my absolutely favorite material of his, far more than what you can find on even YouTube now and I was fortunate enough to get some of the tracks digitally years ago and hang onto them. Some of them have even been covered more recently and become pretty popular.
So that's what happened to those. I knew I wasn't completely crazy and that I'd heard and/or "bought" some early Ray LaMontagne music, but last year when I was trying to find it the tracks I was thinking of were nowhere to be seen. Just "Trouble."
A guy I knew in high school released seven or eight albums with a co-conspirator and also felt the same way about their early work. Some of it was admittedly a bit rough, but some was also very good. He eventually relented on his opposition to re-leasing any of it, and those early songs have long since made it onto iTunes (and basically every streaming service). So I can definitely understand artists not wanting to see or hear their earliest works, worried that people will hate it and judge them based on who they used to be.
It's interesting that there are many different trajectories for musical artists, the ones that this particular narrative most applies to are the ones that become more polished as they get older but whose creative genius was spent in the early years. And there are quite a few of those. Listen to early recordings of 'The Police' and what they - and Sting - put out later for some nice examples of that. The early stuff was definitely rough, but it has so much energy and originality.
I definitely see your point around a lot of people trying to be so inclusive, they end up being somewhat racist. But I see this more of a lack of proper cultural empathy/education -- go figure, Dunning-Kruger is everywhere all the time. But as you said,
> This law is about what books are in public libraries.
So why would we ban the books, rather than encourage reading them and having the more meaningful discussions focusing on heritage rather than identity?
As a slightly more abstract aside, identity anything to me is a slippery slope because it will always automatically encourage one to make assumptions; it's a mental shortcut to say Person A == Person B iff PersonA.identity == PersonB.identity. Given that education is hard, learning is hard, and life is hard, I think we need to at least emphathize and appreciate that teachers and the the education system in general need to often fall back on these sorts of mental shortcuts. But that's we need to really invoke our right, privilege, and duty of grassroots participation. Why not walk into that book club that's overcompensating and help them learn what is making you uncomfortable? You might be surprised at how ignorant they were of their own mistakes and that they're willing to learn from your perspective.