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I'm so sorry to hear you're going through this.

I can't say I've ever been in your shoes, but I've had experiences with depression, particularly in those around me. Suicide, or any form of self-harm for that matter, is never the answer. There is a way out of this without hurting yourself.

There is always a demand for experienced software engineers such as yourself. If you live in the UK, I'd be more than happy to set you up with some people I know.

That being said, if you would like a chat about anything, anything whatsoever, I'd be happy to. I put my email on my profile so you can hit me up there.
From what I have researched about conservation, it seems that our oceans are simultaneously the most important and most overlooked parts of our environment. The oceans house 80% of the world's biomass, and produce between 50% - 85% of the world's oxygen.

We can't see below the waves, so it's easy for us to ignore what is going on down there. Massive overfishing and acidification is having huge impacts, not to mention the falling levels of oxygen in the water.
Contra argument: this means podcast too. You need total solitude. Most podcast are useless, the only one I found useful (people in podcast just shit talk unlike audio books or/and crafted essays). Econ talk is great one (was recommended on HN) and every other where the guest is smart
> because a large amount of commentary comes across as Tweet-sized asides, not full articles.

There are very few topics that are both worthy of a news story and able to be summarized even remotely well in 140 characters. It is literally the downfall of journalism and in my opinion is a major driver in the complete lack of rational discussion in politics today.
Anecdata. Applied for a UN World Food Program grant this morning and they asked us to re-waffle the humans-vs-earth problem. A URL to your data would have been a neat answer :)
I'm impressed every release by Go's GC improvements. IIRC, they started with a terrible conservative GC. It was slow and (particularly on 32-bit platforms) ineffective. But then they made it increasingly precise, then targeted 10 ms pause times, then sub-millisecond, and so on. All with far fewer knobs than the Oracle JVM.

I understand there's still a cost compared to non-GCed languages, but I think it's mostly RAM usage (perhaps affecting CPU cache effectiveness and thus efficiency) rather than tail latency.
I used an online stream source; A HLS stream that one of my local TV stations broadcasts online.

My method will only work with streams that have SCTE35 packets embedded. This is normally used for local ad insertion on cable networks, so it may not always be available on OTA streams.

There is not much code because it is mostly ffmpeg that does the work.

I used nodejs to manage an ffmpeg child process, read its output streams (one stream over a unix domain socket for the video, and the stdout stream for the SCTE35 packets) and pipe them to a HTTP client.

My code parses the SCTE packets and then sends commands into the running ffmpeg child process to change the audio levels.

I am happy to share it when I get home in a few hours.
I don't know who does it. There are some professionals. Professionals do it for when e.g. BBC or SBS shows non-english movies/series I guess. I wish there was a site where you could put money towards english subs for things!! I guess judging the quality wouldn't be so easy etc. Just in the last few days I've had these subtitle-related issues:

- No English subtitles available for S04 of Rita (danish).. So I made English subtitles for E01, by machine translating existing German and Portuguese subs and using the 'original' German for reference. Turned out pretty great, but took an hour or 2. No way I'd do the whole season like that though.

- Season 2 of Blue Moon (in french) has been out for years, no English subtitles anywhere, seems like there never will be. There's a season 3 too I think, not sure.

- Trying to find subtitles for S02 of Overspel (dutch) there's everything available (but in 1 obscure subtitle site, not easy to find) except E07 and E08. I found someone in a forum asking about exactly those 2 subtitles in January 2014! No-one answered...

I'd be happy to pay for subtitles for things like that that I really want! The cost would be small, I guess, divided by a few or a few dozen or hundred people around the world. Then they would be available online forever, hopefully. Just need to coordinate the effort. That could be a great website.

Also, I helped a bit with some spanish and english subtitles for spanish-language tv shows on viki.com 6 or 7 years ago, which was a pretty great-seeming community-sourced translation effort, but it disappeared, along with all its subtitles. At least most of the content did, it was all asian stuff last time I looked, I think it must have changed hands.
Techs obsession with hustle is discriminatory and counterproductive
I fear we are approaching a time where the only means to stave off holocaust is for actions to be undertaken that would get one banned in polite forums such as this one were they to be openly suggested.
> The point is, if you skim text, you miss obvious absurdities. The point is OpenAI HAS achieved the ability to pass the Turing test against humans on autopilot.

The Turning test requires an ongoing conversation between an interrogator and a subject. I think even an interrogator "on autopilot" (whatever that means) would pretty quickly notice if a subject's responses contain "obvious absurdities".
If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? It sounds like you're basically "freaking out".

First off, take a step back and recalibrate yourself. I'll share some advice that works but sounds crazy.

1. Start waking up in the morning and remind yourself that you've succeeded in the past.

2. Tell yourself that you're good. I'm not joking, literally, tell yourself in the mirror. I did say some of this shit sounds crazy.

3. Be confident - if you lose confidence in yourself, so will everyone else.

4. Create a realistic road map of what you want. Chip away at it. Don't pause every day asking yourself "How far you've come since yesterday?" I do that when I'm trying to lose weight, and I tell you.. it takes 4 weeks to lose 8lbs. Hell, I can gain 8 pounds in a day.. wtf right? Success is the say way. Failure can happen overnight, but success takes time. Eventually, I will see more than just my toes and my toilet will thank me.

5. Get out of your house daily, open your windows and remember life naturally ends one day. So right now step up and play the game hard. I come to realize that no one will give a shit in 1,000 years about how great or how bad I was.. no one. And those that _might_, Fuck'em™ because I don't know who they are anyhow. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

6. Stop thinking and talking negative - You're creating some really be neural wiring in your head. Start rewiring your mind for success.

I'm not trying to save the world here or anything. My mom tells me you can't force anyone to change, only they can improve themselves. I know what it's like to deal with some shitty life events. I learned to care a lot less about my failures, enjoy my victors and really enjoy the journey.

Here's a taste of some shit I experienced. Raised by a mother who had 2 kids by 17. She got her ass beat daily at home by my father; who has AIDS. I lost over 8 friends to suicide (Uncle hung himself), 4+ from murder (one was raped and murdered in high school), a man who was like my father died on my 17th birthday of cancer, my brothers ex-girlfriend who he wanted to married died at 21 in a car wreck, I was homeless for 6 months (while working in IT.. long story and FYI the Holland Tunnel Hotel in New Jersey isn't a 4 out of 5 start rating like Yelp says.. trust me..), I slept on the floor from 17 until 25 because I had no bed, I worked two jobs to put my mom through college and went to trade school at night only to get a job programming for $30k a year and I can go on and on... BUT... no one really gives a shit.. I don't even care about the shit I been through because the past is immutable.

My life motto - Fuck'em™

Feel free to use my motto and when you find your way, send $1 to $rburton on Square Cash app. I'm just kidding about the send money. Pick your head up because your neck wasn't design to support a dangling head.

If you need any advice feel free to him me up on my username at the Google-0-Mail.
If the mechanical model also does this, it it conscious too?

So, how would you answer your question?
Crustaceans make up an entire subphylum, while insects are a class within a different subphylum. That would seem to indicate they are more differentiated than mammals and fish.
Most of it is that it's harder to come up with useful, safe, not overfitting APIs the deeper you go into internals. For example, registering extensions is rarely useful on its own as extensions are allowed to change literally anything else in the protocol, and without hooks for everything else you did not get much value.

But! Hearing about what people would like to do and then putting together an API if it makes sense is my job! So please do open an issue saying what you'd like to do but can't.

For example, I mean to extract Client Hello parsing and a capturing middleware net.Conn, as a lot of passive things can be implemented that way.
But actually, that's part of TFA's argument.

As spices became less expensive, TFA argues that became popular among poorer people. And so richer people instead came to emphasize the intrinsic flavors of foods.

But for that to work, those foods had to be high quality, and unspoiled. So, by TFA's argument, it was poorer people who came to use spices to mask low quality and spoiled foods.
It's getting better. I wrote a piece on immediate file transfer between apps to simulate "live painting" from one app into another. I can see iPad getting there, but productivity app developers are slow to adopt the iOS file system introduced some time ago.

https://codea.io/blog/whats-next-for-ipad-creativity/
hehe I guess so. Was a bit shocked to read SSL is deprecated! Still had that on my "Things to learn about one day" list! ...Ah, I did get this error trying to curl something earlier today "error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version" - seems my computer hasn't heard of it either.
My use case recently was [0]. I might open an issue if that spec comes further along.

> I mean to extract Client Hello parsing

Something like that could have helped when I was toying w/ DTLS, though [1] did a great job on their impl.

0 - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-krawczyk-cfrg-opaque-01#se...
1 - https://github.com/pions/dtls
Google Fi seems to be doing OK. I have been wondering why Internet Giant don't innovate in this space for a long time. Majority of the Internet is now Mobile, Google owns the Edge DC for Data Processing. Network for Traffics, it could essentially be the backend of these MVNO and let the parent Network do the Last Mile Work, Telecom Infrastructure, Leasing etc.

As for Apple it could provide Visual Voicemail ( Yes I like that feature ) and other type of Added Value Services. As well we iTunes Credit within Monthly Bill payment.

And yet as far as I can see, most ISP or MNO don't care about your route performance, nor does it care about any Services that improve User Experience. On one hand they don't want to be Dumb Pipe, on the other they are actively acting like one. And not a very good one either.
Great advice. I would add to this -

Better` is quite subjective & varies from situation to situation. People can be better or worse in a lot of attributes when compared to one another.

Being depressed won't help. You really really need to figure out why you're not being selected. Are you asking for too much salary? Applying to the wrong roles? How does your resume look? Have you got some feedback from the interviews that you can work on?

Since your not employed - how do you spend your free time? I would advice working on some side project, open source project, working on your people &communication skills would be good use of the free time.

This ex google guy on youtube talks a lot about software development, engineering, interviews etc. I have found the content quite helpful - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xKdmAXFh4ACyhpiQ_3qBw
Not available in my country(Romania). Guess I'll stick to TTS reading of epub/PDF version of them (I enjoy the Google TTS to avoid cognitive ease bias).
What have Google Apps been doing in the meantime? Google Drawing expecially hasn’t changed in years. Google Sheets isn’t improving at anything close to a rapid pace.
> I cannot spell bureau. It trips me up even typing it.

If it makes you feel any better, it trips me up reading it; I had to do 3 takes before my brain accepted that those letters were a word, and I still can't tell how to pronounce it. I suspect the problem is "eau"; that is a lot of vowels together for an English speaker.
Clickbait, but okay.

Noticing inauthentic authorship requires concentration. The end.
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At least the users flag gender and race based submissions organically or so I have noticed.

Try submitting anything here that criticizes China, Russia, India or Israel and watch an army of accounts flag your submission. They seem to have the hallmarks of a state sponsored clean up, especially true on the subject of China.
I like the TechLead's channel, too. He can be a little sarcastic at times, which may not be obvious if you only watch one or two of his videos.
That requires culture change and it's hard for big boys with checkbooks.
There's not going to be a holocaust, or mass deaths, or anything like that.

Even the worst case predictions do not predict that. The predict some species extinction, migration off the coast, and changes in the the weather - yes. But not "a holocaust" or anything like that.
Java was designed to have a syntax familiar to C++ programmers as its original intended use case was on embedded devices where C++ was king.

What about the language design makes you think it _is not_ influenced heavily by C++?
I feel that Go really excells in getting out of your way. I rarely find myself fighting with the language or runtime. The few occasions I have have been related to native interop and generally mean I'm having to look at the internal fields of slices or strings to modify data effeciently, and even that isn't too diffit.
It's solving apple having to rely on intel...
1.7 Billion ... for a couple miles of tunnel? Through/under green fields? That is an insane amount of money.

Put down some gravel and pave a road. Any artifacts will be safer under the road than if dug up for a tunnel. If you dont want to see the road, box it in above ground. Plant hedges around it. Dont rip up history just because you dont want to spoil someone's view.
Completely disagree, we could solve climate change with today's technology if the political/popular will existed.
Yeah, he is quite saractic :) But he just cuts through all the bs.
Can you not register a Google account with false data just for that purpose
I've spent a large percentage of my life in bookstores and I have never seen an Ada book. I've never met an Ada programmer or met someone who knew an Ada programmer. Is there any proof that the language actually existed? Maybe it was a CIA plot to trick the commies into wasting their time.
Interesting. BTW I thought it was ironic that in the first part of the post the author points out the lack of logical connections between sentences in GPT2-gerenated texts, while in the second part she changes the topic to performance on IQ and math tests, which have nothing to do with how well people can detect the failure-modes of GPT2 - after all, people with high IQ or math scores can easily be inattentive when reading texts. Maybe this post itself was generated by GPT2?!?!?!?!? (or GPT...3?!?!?)
You might be right, but damn does this world have a lot to worry about.
>the hallmarks of a state sponsored clean up

Really? Hmm...I just assumed it meant there's a lot of anti-China news in the USA these days.
You are right. C++ does some of the opposite trade-off that C does.

C++ is good for speed, good mapping with hardware features and fine tuned memory management. There is a replacement for C. But, it chooses to add complexity to the language to facilitate memory management, expressiveness and other perks. So, in that regard is the opposite that C.
More importantly, we should ask, should we? If the worst outcome is 3ft rise in sea level in 100 years, what’s the point of spending $50t+?
Ask HN: Monetizing Website Guests
I am running a website with a high producer to consumer ratio. I am currently monetizing on the producer side through monthly subscription. On the consumer side I am unable to show ads but I am gathering quite a lot of information in terms of what consumers are looking at which are typically high value goods in a particular city (exotic cars). Is there a way for me to monetize on this information?
This article and the Overcoming Bias post it links to ("Better Babblers") remind me of when I was in high school and was reading stuff like Gödel, Escher, Bach and Dawkins's The Selfish Gene (the two first books I ordered after mom allowed me to use Amazon) while also learning online about Wittgenstein and statistical text generation (Markov chains). All this led to a kind of crisis of identity because in their own ways all those things point to a deconstruction of the self.

That sounds hokey, but to explain briefly: GEB indicates that your self (your consciousness of being someone) is a swirling self-referential symbolic process (a "strange loop"); Dawkins indicates that your self is a kind of evolved meme whose function in nature is to further your family of genetic replicators; Wittgenstein indicates that your self is a habitual user of language where deep meaning is not as important as social function; and Markov chains indicate that your self's use of language can be modeled at least to a rough approximation by extremely simple statistics.

So I clearly remember wondering "Am I just a kind of slightly more advanced Markov chain?"

I think this is also the unsettling core question of Blade Runner: are we also artificial?

I wonder what theologians might say about this question.
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You know that the holocaust was the deliberate and methodical extermination of people, right? The word does not apply here, at all.
I've had great results with the Descript app which can both transcribe and can export a synchronized subtitle file.
https://www.descript.com/

Perhaps you can import an srt file, and have it sync'ed? or perhaps you can export the srt text and let Descript sync it and re-create an .srt file.
What are you talking about?? Mass extermination of life on Earth is genocide.
WebDAV wasn't a native Exchange protocol. But it was officially supported for Exchange server 2003/2007, and used heavily by Mac Entourage 2004/2008 to connect to Exchange servers as a supposedly "native" client.

In my experience, Mac Entourage clients connecting to suitable Exchange servers worked, but only for very few clients.

Vaguely remember that the Exchange servers would often get overloaded with the quantity of sync requests from the Mac clients.

This doc mentions that WebDAV was a previously-supported protocol for Mac Entourage: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2009/01/20/ento...
Find the video '50 in 50' by Steele and Gabriel.

50 programming languages of the last 50 years, illustrated in 50 minutes. It includes all the popular languages, but also covers some truly weird ones.
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I'm worried about the tails. Recent revelations like the bug biomass loss should sober anybody up.

https://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2017/10/insect-biom...
New-Age Bullshit Generator (2014)
I think we concentrate more on a one to one conversation - in fact I would suggest that reading counts is "listening to a public pronouncement" - something that is in the environment and not specific to us.

I suspect that twitter counts the same. It's something we don't apply much attention to because it does not look like a human being talking to us.

In fact I suspect that a whatsapp that records one human speaking and then plays it back will have a different attention spike than the text based idea

Edit: of course I wrote the above on autopilot.
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Very simplistic and shallow list, but it's by Charles Petzold, noted Microsoft shill and bad tech book writer.

In '96, LISP (tail end of the AI winter regardless), Perl (half the WWW was Perl), Tcl (maybe a quarter of the WWW and telnet-based services were Tcl), awk, & Ada were quite common, and Smalltalk, RPG, REXX, & PL/1 were at least as common as COBOL. Python was still obscure but gaining ground. PHP had just been released like smallpox on a vulnerable population.

I had a laugh at Delphi being for people who hate Microsoft. Its actual virtue was good performance and safety in large programs, you bought Borland tools because you wanted to double your program's speed, not for ideology.
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There is one FDA approved vitamin D lamp made by Sperti.com. Costs about $400, has a 5 minute timer, instructions say to use it once every other day, the UVB spectrum of the lamps is tailored to Vitamin D production. I have one, it works better than pills.
We’re always 10 years from total annihilation and destruction. You can worry your whole life (tons of people do) or go on with your life. The earth has dealt with far far far worse outcomes in the past and there’s no evidence that it’ll reach that in the newr future.
Do you enjoy breathing oxygen? If so, you might want to read the linked article.
> But we have that in math and logic: axioms!

Yes and no. Axioms are chosen such that the math that is based on them makes sense to us (because the math reflects what we'd expect in the real world) and isn't self-contradictory.

So they do exist for a reason.

> That we do not know is a fact; but is it a fact that we can never know?

What if our universe actually has randomness that appears to come from "outside the system",
i.e. there is really no way to predict the outcome of certain things from inside the system.

Picture you're sitting in a box trying to play Mikado. In theory you should
be able to perfectly predict the outcome of every move you make - except there's
a stranger shaking the box you're sitting in at truly random intervals.

For our reality this would mean that there's no way for us to develop an understanding of certain
things and predict their behavior.

So essentially the end of the line for all sciences except theology and philosophy.

This possibility makes me somewhat uncomfortable.

On the other hand maybe everything is perfectly deterministic within our universe.
You are asking for a 4x drop in GB/ Prices in 3 years. How is that inline with any historical rate. And completely ignored the fact that we got 256GB to this price point was a recent avalanche in NAND prices.

Cheapest 512 GB Cost ~$100, 1TB being top dog, lower yield is RSP ~$400. I would be surprised if these MicroSD were sub $100 in 3 years time.
OK thanks, yes, maybe you're right. Well, 'hide' would work for those people. It's a shame. (This article was also about design, technology etc. Also there seemed scope for startups to help with the problem with new better designs.)
hmm, it sounds like you are trying to sneak a taboo topic into the discussion.
Yes, absolutely. I'm an AI researcher, and most of my colleagues just use their desktop computers with a standard GPU to do their work. Of course, long-running jobs get put on the cloud, as do large distributed jobs, but those are surprisingly rare.

We just submitted a paper, for instance, that is entirely CPU based, and required running 4 CPUs for a few days to reproduce (and even then, you can reproduce 90% of the paper within minutes on a single machine).
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