skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"uses the MKV and WEBM containers"

Maybe, but not exclusively

VP9: https://www.webmproject.org/vp9/mp4/ (uses 'vp09' & 'vpcC' in the stsd)

AV1: https://aomedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AV1-ISO-Base-... (uses 'av01' & 'av1C' in the stsd)

YouTube's AV1 playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nXYbGmF3_Q&list=PLyqf6gJt7K...

uses mp4 as the container for the av1 (av01.0.05M.08), webm for the VP9 (vp9)

./youtube-dl --list-formats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nXYbGmF3_Q
[youtube] 2nXYbGmF3_Q: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 2nXYbGmF3_Q: Downloading video info webpage
[info] Available formats for 2nXYbGmF3_Q:
format code extension resolution note
249 webm audio only DASH audio 55k , opus @ 50k, 1.43MiB
250 webm audio only DASH audio 70k , opus @ 70k, 1.81MiB
171 webm audio only DASH audio 118k , vorbis@128k, 2.99MiB
140 m4a audio only DASH audio 128k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k, 3.65MiB
251 webm audio only DASH audio 133k , opus @160k, 3.38MiB
278 webm 256x144 144p 101k , webm container, vp9, 30fps, video only, 2.57MiB
160 mp4 256x144 144p 109k , avc1.4d400c, 30fps, video only, 1.02MiB
242 webm 426x240 240p 205k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 2.81MiB
133 mp4 426x240 240p 241k , avc1.4d4015, 30fps, video only, 2.27MiB
243 webm 640x360 360p 377k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 5.08MiB
395 mp4 426x240 240p 426k , av01.0.05M.08, 30fps, video only, 3.33MiB
134 mp4 640x360 360p 514k , avc1.4d401e, 30fps, video only, 4.66MiB
244 webm 854x480 480p 696k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 8.29MiB
396 mp4 640x360 360p 751k , av01.0.05M.08, 30fps, video only, 6.04MiB
135 mp4 854x480 480p 989k , avc1.4d401f, 30fps, video only, 8.54MiB
397 mp4 854x480 480p 1175k , av01.0.05M.08, 30fps, video only, 9.86MiB
247 webm 1280x720 720p 1282k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 12.27MiB
136 mp4 1280x720 720p 1675k , avc1.4d401f, 30fps, video only, 14.43MiB
398 mp4 1280x720 720p 2075k , av01.0.05M.08, 30fps, video only, 18.99MiB
248 webm 1920x1080 1080p 2349k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 20.93MiB
137 mp4 1920x1080 1080p 2768k , avc1.640028, 30fps, video only, 23.33MiB
399 mp4 1920x1080 1080p 3759k , av01.0.05M.08, 30fps, video only, 39.32MiB
18 mp4 640x360 medium , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k, 11.11MiB
43 webm 640x360 medium , vp8.0, vorbis@128k, 16.66MiB
22 mp4 1280x720 hd720 , avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2@192k (best)
This is my experience. I have been there several times but never to the "real Baltimore", only the Inner Harbor and Fells Point. It's crazy how a city can keep small pockets of the city clean and local crime away from tourist areas.
FWIW, this is the same as San Francisco: https://www.kqed.org/news/11641238/how-the-san-francisco-sch...
Haha, how's the mood in the Elon Musk bot bunker these days?
Retrofitting multi-threading into an existing design, is actually a pretty big challenge. Especially if you're going with shared everything multi-threading as is common in C. I won't name and shame, but I've started using a well known "internet scale" project that recently added multithreading, and have run into three major locking errors already.

These are smart people, they've written a great program, but they didn't make the right locking decisions.

The approach antirez mentioned in a sibling thread of a multithreaded proxy process that communicates to multiple single threaded instances sounds much easier to implement without ending up with data in the wrong places. Although, even that doesn't necessarily need to be multithreaded either. A master process doing healtchecking and sending status to the worker processes, that are using a eventloop would probably work just as well.
And you don't want to be on the roads right after the polls close and they race each other to get the ballot boxes into the counter centres.

More importantly, yes you can rig a paper ballot, but you can't do it large scale without everybody knowing it.
These are much much better links
ProtonMail is a service I fully support, but these sorts of actions only underscore the importance of decentralized alternatives to email.
Linux Foundation Launches CommunityBridge
So the stable airframes we know are stable because a dynamic aerodynamic force opposes a static one.

Makes sense then, that those opposing aerodynamic forces induce drag.
The practical difference between selling a few items in a few test stores vs offering a marketplace is zero. The storespace is a much bigger limiting factor than the perceived difference between a "marketplace" and a "retailer", IMO.
As a site gets larger, quality control is tough, and the irony is, having SEO content makes it easier for the best content on your site to have better distribution. With more control of collections, tag pages and topic pages in hacker noon 2.0, I think we find strong SEO in other areas.

I will say if you pick the 3 best of today, the experience is a bit better:

"Why are we (still) sending so much web traffic unencrypted over the Internet?" https://hackernoon.com/why-are-we-still-sending-so-much-web-...

"Going Global (or Globally Local)? How Netflix Produces Amazing Global Content"https://hackernoon.com/going-global-or-globally-local-how-ne...

"The Future of Robotics Development with Eva Li of Vincross" https://hackernoon.com/the-future-of-robotics-development-wi...

And as a site who's rooting for every day tech story (as opposed to professional writing), there will be some bar to raise. Thank you for your 2 cents. Creating a better version of LinkedIn Publisher for the technology community would be a better site than we are today.
> Newsguard is a technology meant to control what people see, read, and ultimately think. If you don’t immediately see the dangers of that type of technology then I’m not sure what will convince you otherwise.

The problems aren't all one one side. There are problems with having technology like Newsguard, and there are problem with not having technology like it. Just today, I came across the phenomenon of partisan propaganda masquerading as local journalism (https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/03/04/activists-setup-local...).

I've never used Newsguard, but I really hope it flags stuff like "The Tennessee Star." It'd be a clue to question the source more, and God knows we need more clues to get through our hurried, overloaded lives.
I'm finding that Discord is bringing it back. I'm finding small communities again, and starting to recognize individuals and building some friendships that way.
Rod Logic and graphene: Elusive molecule-scale computers
Is there a web plugin for this yet.
If you're interested in voting systems and the challenges of election administration, the National Academies of Science published a paper last year that is approachable, relatively comprehensive and free to read: https://www.nap.edu/read/25120/chapter/1

It is a much harder problem than a lot of technologist think. And "just add blockchain" is almost certainly the wrong move.
How do we know the software works in all conditions, as described?

We don't know it had anything to do with pilot training until the investigation is actually finished. To say it's pilot training is pushing Boeing's narrative.
The problem here isn't that a 737 MAX style design is inherently unstable. The issue is that the larger engines really needed longer landing gear and other significant airframe changes, but due to demands from Southwest that it remain within type-certification for the 737 (to avoid the costs of pilot retraining) some unfortunate compromises were made that affected the aircraft's behavior.

You can design an aircraft just like this that won't have those characteristics. You'll just need to pay to get it certified and then airlines will have to pay to train their pilots. Instead, Southwest wanted the band-aid fix, and Boeing obliged them.
SSL isn't the only crypto you'd ever want to do though. What if you want encrypt data so that it is encrypted all the way through the layers of the application to the database? That's a valid use case to use in tandem with SSL. Also I have to mention cryptocurrencies.
I feel like this is nearly perfect if you automatically hand count statistically interesting number of boxes before certifying an election. If you hand count 1% randomly, you should feel pretty confident that nothing strange happened.
I don't know enough about the production of nuclear centrifuges to say for sure, but it seems probable that the damage intentionally inflicted by Stuxnet[1] may very well have put some lives at risk. Triton looks more like another step down this path than like a watershed moment.

Mike Hayden, 2012 [2]:

> We have entered into a new phase of conflict in which we use a cyberweapon to create physical destruction, and in this case, physical destruction in someone else's critical infrastructure.

Still, an alarming development.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stuxnet-computer-worm-opens-new...
I recall reading on HN that a second AOA sensor was an option.
Is this different from Baltimore City though?
> Because, of course, he campaigned to the Electoral College

Regardless of the validity of this argument as to Constitutional legitimacy, it's inapplicable to th claim made upthread which is that “the people chose him as their President”. They did not.
I bet Amazon does pretty good business with "Basics". It is a really interesting concept, IMO, and really different from store brands in the past.

In many cases, the Amazon Basics products compete with essentially brandless (or relatively unknown brand) importers. The Amazon Basics brand works in these cases by having significantly more credibility than (insert random name here) USB cables.

Its really the opposite way that store brand products have worked with traditional products in B&M stores, where the branded product generally has a higher natural reputation.
China says Xinjiang has 'boarding schools', not 'concentration camps'
Dictation works offline on iPhone since iOS10
This 6 minute video by CGP Grey explains the different possible relationships with the EU available to the UK, and why the UK has so far rejected all of them ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agZ0xISi40E
> One must wonder why an organization supposedly focused on trust would have mislead you like this.

Mislead how? By not offering permalinks? He didn't outline any issues with the information in the reports, just difficulties with accessing them.
I was mistaken, on two counts. One being the FEHB and what it is, you're right; also the FEHB was replaced with exchanges as part of the affordable care act, although the government does subsidize them. Of course many of them are old enough to end up in Medicare.

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2017/07/17/health-care/ive-alway...
My guess is that it's a few things:

1. Long form convo on mobile sucks, so instead we send memes but chat just wasn't ready for that.

2. iMessage defaulting to non SMS but proprietary, now sms has the features we want in mobile conversations like quick picture sharing, likes, memes, consistent emojis.

3. At the advent of iMessage, google had talk and could easily have transparently merged sms and xmpp in a shiny competitor that was cross platform, and worked everywhere. They failed to see any value in this, and instead have released a revolving door of halfass chat apps, half the time more than one at once, with a subset of the features of any normal chat app.

4. From there, everyone just made a platform specific chat app, because cross platform ease of use was of no value as there was no competition in that space.
Can't you recycle some old lawyer letters then?

Or a little more radical, why even bother with the lawyers? You can explain to them how it is, and if they won't listen, they can sue you. Then you spend some lawyer costs, they lose because the whole thing is ridiculous, and you get a 'cost conviction' or 'cost order' as we call it (kostenveroordeling, where you pay the winning party's costs to prevent abuse of the system) so they pay your lawyer.
I just switched my Pixel 1 to airplane mode and tried voice input. Sure enough, it worked offline and it was fast! Very impressive work. (I've tried that before, but in the past it could only understand a few special phrases.) I suppose this new feature came with the security update my phone downloaded a few days ago.

There are lots of ways to spin this, but I see it as a significant improvement for any app that could benefit from voice input. It's immediate and not susceptible to network glitches. The benefit for Google, IMHO, is primarily more sales of updated Android devices.
While I understand the concern about bloated frontends, I do not understand the throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater mentality of JavaScript-free front-ends.

Furthermore I feel like there's a misplaced sense of pastoralism or nostalgia about the-web-before-JavaScript. The fact is there was a very brief period where the World Wide Web was both widely accessible to the public and JavaScript free. I built my first website without JavaScript in 1995. By 1997 I was building incredibly interactive single page apps in IE4 with JavaScript and DHTML (as it was called at the time). By 1998 my full time job was writing cross-browser JavaScript. That's twenty years ago folks. jQuery didn't hit the scene until 2006. Why was jQuery created? Was it a revolutionary new tool that gave us the ability to create applications that heretofore had never been seen? Or, was it created to tame the horrendous mass of JavaScript that had already accumulated?

We can talk about bloat, but let's be honest about what the web browser is now. Chrome is an application container. The web hasn't been purely hypertext for a long time. Back when it was we complained about the bloat... of images
Musk lawyers accuse SEC of “unconstitutional power grab”
Don't a lot of these tech thought leaders/social influencers all know each other on Twitter and reply to each other's Tweets? I'm not on much anymore, but that seemed to be what I saw....

I know it's not the same as private chats. But I have to assume there's quite a bit of DMing going on in Twitter?
Awesome! How would it work for SaaS companies from other countries. For E.g. we are from India. So would these still be valid documents?
Why is speed so prioritized?

I’d prefer accurate >> speed when it comes down to something as important as an governmental election.

Accurate, triple-redundant hand counts can be done quickly - like in a day. Spot rechecks and audits may add another week.
Why are we (still) sending so much web traffic unencrypted over the Internet?
The issue with turns is turn cost plus lost income. For anyone without multiple properties, the cost of a turn is usually significantly more than they would recover with a high turn rate but increased rents. This is why institutional investors push rents aggressively but mom and pops don't. To a mom and pop, a long term renter is valuable. As where a large investor isn't concerned about cash flow issues from turns because they can spread it over many units. Look at the public REITs, some have near 40% turn rates, which is insane. But that's what you get when you ask for a 5% rent increase every year. As where the mom and pop is just happy that you renewed and they don't have to worry about a cash pinch.
> Being a dominant marketplace which takes anti-competitive stances is problematic.

Totally agree. The reason I bring up Wal Mart is to illustrate how this is essentially click-bait legislation.

Wal Mart tore through main street providing retail space for products they liked, also making their own versions and selling for much cheaper, preferencing products, etc. Dominating the marketplace and forcing businesses to close. We called that good capitalism. To my knowledge, Warren has not submitted or voted on a bill in her tenure to break up Wal Mart.

However now we are presenting Amazon as a unique type of problem and asking to break it up. With the one chief difference being the perception of fairness in presenting products equally because you can upload the listings yourself and it's on the internet.

I'm just trying to figure out why these relatively young, trendy companies, instead of a whole host of other monopolies that are far more important.

If the legislation comes down to semantics around an internet "marketplace" vs a retail store, then that begs another question of whether or not that is actually fair, and what the functional difference between the two actually is.
That’s a great explanation, even if it is oversimplifying.

We don’t build planes with training wheels anymore because the performance cost was too high. Planes are still the safest way to travel even without the training wheels.

I don’t think 737 MAX 8 pushes the envelope too far. I think they screwed up on re-training the disengage, and they may have screwed up on redundancy by only using a single AoA sensor, but I also am guessing the latest crash has absolutely nothing to do with trim.
If I have an upcoming flight on a MAX 8, can I sufficiently compensate for any increased risk by taking the train to the airport instead of a 25km Uber drive?
I don't think that's how to read it. They probably did not assume that at all. But they are not going to go public with any information until they have confirmation.

You're reading a postmortem and not necessary exactly what they were thinking at the time.
On the negative externalities point, can someone please explain how there are no negative externalities when you have 100 farms with 100 cows each vs 10 farms with 1000? The amount of waste generated is the same, presumably, and it all has to go somewhere, but perhaps it's just spread out more so that negative externalities aren't as apparent or is there a real difference as the article only brings them up as a consequence of large operations.
If relevant Mozilla people are here: Send does not work if "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox closes" checkbox in FF preferences is checked. Even the page doesn't load [1]. It surely is a bug, because I am not closing Firefox.

That checkbox is #1 reason I only use Firefox.

[1] Developer console log output: "Failed to register/update a ServiceWorker for scope ‘https://send.firefox.com/’: Storage access is restricted in this context due to user settings or private browsing mode. main.js:38:10
SecurityError: The operation is insecure."
Out of curiosity, what does a UK ballot look like? I found [1], is that typical?

Part of the problem might be one of ballot design. A US ballot is typically considerably more complicated than that. Here's one from New York [2]. There will be many races; in a presidential election there will be president, usually senator, representative, governor, state senator, local councilman, and assorted other offices. At least in New York State, the candidates will be presented by party, so a single candidate may be on the ballot multiple times.

Nobody is counting the US one by hand overnight; not without some pretty comprehensive redesigns of the ballot.

[1] https://www.gravesham.gov.uk/home/elections-and-voting/guide...

[2] http://www.otsegocounty.com/depts/boe/images/WO.jpg
That is a serious question, worth asking.

I'll try to summarize the arguments I've heard for justification for a government backed guarantee. 1) There's a widespread social benefit to having more highly educated citizens that won't be recouped by the institution making the loan. 2) The repayment term doesn't work well for very expensive professional degrees that confer huge long-term earning benefits, but aren't secured by those benefits (i.e.., it would make financial sense for a recent MD to declare bankruptcy to get out of $200k+ in med school bills, even though that person may be earning well over 300K/year for decades).

In the end, I think it's all fallen apart, though. In fact, I think the wide availability of student loans has had the absolute opposite effect. If prices had stayed flat, the availability of low cost loans might have improved affordability, but as others have pointed out on this forum, prices inflated to reflect the wide availability large scale unsecured loans to people with no credit or collateral. As a result, the lower-cost approaches never emerged - instead of finding a way to offer a quality low cost education, universities figured out bigger and better ways to spend this new source of money. That alone would be bad enough, but these loans had a truly toxic element of not being dischargeable through ordinary bankruptcy. And now, add in the fact that most of the people taking these loans out were, by design, fairly young - we start college in the US around age 18, so many of the people encountering perhaps the most dangerous type of loan they'd ever encounter were signing paperwork and entering binding contracts maybe a week after they'd reached an age where they were permitted to do so as an adult! I agree that people need to take responsibility for the actions they take, especially as an adult, but this is... cruel. This is a really insidious trap, put out for people as they take their first steps out into the adult world of lasting consequences.

I'm not saying this should be handled purely by the private sector... but seriously, if someone wouldn't touch a loan under standard bankruptcy laws with a 29 and a half foot pole... look, that should tell you something about the wisdom of subsidizing the loan though government programs.

People need to pay their debts, but the credit system is kept in check by an incentive on the part of the lender not to be an idiot. This is why I and many people have a limited sympathy for lenders like credit cards. If you make a massive, unsecured loan to people with no assets and no reputation for paying their debts, well, there's a limit to how much the government is going to help you get your money back. The system works because lenders need to be careful about debt too.

Yeah, this whole thing was a total disaster.
Another benefit is privacy, this eliminates an entire set of potentially personal data from being handed off to Google.
https://tdil-dc.in/index.php?lang=en has good some good datasets. Only problem is you need to agree the t&s and fax the document to Delhi to get the access. They supposedly will send the DVD. I don't understand why they are doing. If Indian government wants to foster the research, they should put them in public domain.
You can look at a basket of cities throughout the 90s across NA and Europe and they all have comparable decreases in crime regardless of their use of « Broken Windows » policing.
As an American I've been confused by this argument against a second referendum. It has for a long time seemed like the best option. If people still want Brexit, they'd vote for it (note that a second vote would only strengthen confidence that Brexit is really what people want). If not, then the will of the people has changed.

It seems like a second referendum would optimally be framed differently than the first, but it seems like the best option as an outsider. The current scenario doesn't seem to be working.

Strange times we all live in.
Google's AI Assistant injects "umms" and "ahhhs" into phone conversions.

Good or bad... that's an impressive detail that makes the AI sound remarkably human.
> But guess what? Net the body is really pretty good at smoothing this stuff out, it's sort of the entire point of fat storage.

Any resource to validate this claim. This is just a reformulation of the CICO argument. Saying the body "is good at smoothing this out" is tautological at saying that the distribution of the calories across the time domain (the IF crow) or accros the macro domain ( paleo peps) doesn't matter. And as i know we don't know that yet.

> that the insulin is consume more calories which is causing damage, not the insulin itself.

Again any claim to this ? Most reference i see have this causation relationship reversed....