It might be fun to collect the same data if not for any other reason than to note the changes but adding the caveat that it doesn’t represent human output.
The point was it’s getting harder and harder to do that as things get locked down or go behind a massive paywall to either profit off of or avoid being used in generative AI. The places where previous versions got data is impossible to gather from anymore so the dataset you would collect would be completely different, which (might) cause weird skewing.
But that would always be the case. Twitter will not last forever; heck, it may not even be long before an open alternative like Bluesky competes with it. Would be interesting to know what percentage of the original mined data was from Twitter.
> Allowing your personal crusade against a person to impact your regulatory duties as a government official should land you in jail.
Considering the state goal of the Republican platform is “to rid itself of the woke mind virus” and to hire only conservative loyalists, I’m not sure how popular your idea would be.
I haven’t read through the binder yet but I appreciate you cross posting this to HN because the work many FRC teams do is excellent for a bunch of high schoolers and deserves more visibility.
Shocker, people who take advantage of other people aren’t usually trustworthy or particularly generous - now I realize the counter example here is going to be malware companies that allegedly release keys after receiving the bounty payment but this is hardly a counter example.
just this particular post on hn. I'm not from the UK so I can't fully comment, but based on the stories I read here, I'd agree with your general sentiment.
As the article points out, given the rampant levels of shoplifting in the UK (and the associated abuse of staff), all of the major retailers and a lot of their staff are going to be on board with this.
For the government and police, it's a cheap option to deal with the problem.
The staff don't really care about lifting: they really aren't paid enough for it to be their problem, or cared for enough by the employers such that they care if the employer looses a bit through shoplifting. The few that do care see the heavy end of the abuse you mention, and those that don't see abuse anyway, and if it isn't on CCTV the employers don't seem to care (it is far too much hassle to prosecute) despite the higher-ups pretending otherwise: that is why the staff support CCTV and related monitoring, not the lifting.
The abuse is a very real problem, I know a few who work in shops, all of whom have been verbally abused and physically threatened at various times. One of them was not long ago punched in the face in front of witnesses. Tesco, ever caring, had her working the next day, just a few hours later (incident happened on late shift, next shift was early morning, "are you sure you can't come in?, it'll be hard to find someone to cover") and seemed to put as more effort into investigating what she might have done wrong as they put into helping the police gather evidence to investigate the abusive individual, so she was glad of the CCTV. She got out off Tesco as quick as she could. She has had notification from the police that the individual involved is being prosecuted, but for a number of other offences also so it is unlikely she'll need to testify or otherwise be involved further.
The staff want the CCTV because they don't trust the managers and higher to look after their interests otherwise.
> The likelihood of the world where the only job are model architects, engineers or technicians is very very small.
Oh, especially since it will be a priority to automate their jobs, or somehow optimize them with an algorithm because that's a self-reinforcing improvement scheme that would give you a huge edge.
Every corporate workplace is already thinking: How can I surveil and record everything an employee does as training data for their replacement in 3 years time.
Yeah but if you look at a lot of single-screen apps with about 5 input boxes developed for Windows/Linux, they've got a face only a FOSS fanatic could love.
Might even change the tool name.