skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Five people? Maybe five kids under the age of ten.
Maybe he isn't allowed to give interviews.
You’re a weirdo if you don’t care about your clothes and accessories beyond clean, free from visible wear and fitting properly, at least in high school and your 20s, and that’s why a lot of us force ourselves to care, at least for a decade or so.

I am now a proud jeans and t-shirts lady who throws on a scarf and not-sneakers when I need to look a little fancier.

Think about why lots of young men who don’t actually like beer or booze that much go drinking with the guys anyway. Some of them even over consume to the point of angering their wives/girlfriends.
I read the article once and thought, "So at Box a senior staff SWE is differentiated from a senior SWE by mentoring others, and in so doing, has a greater impact. And senior staff is still in the technical track, not the management track. What does the author (or, What do HN commentators) think are the differences between mentoring and managing? Other than the obvious of course."

I read it again--I liked the article--and saw that the article talks about too many kinds of staff-level contributions, including kinds of mentorship, for my question to be relevant.

I'm still interested enough to pose: I had thought elevation of the technical track to "equal" the management track was a response to technical employees "needing" to go-into-management-and-deal-with-people in order to advance their careers. So now it would seem to me that the technical track is absorbing some of the functions of the management track. That's assuming that mentoring is related to managing.
Author of PySceneDetect here. Sorry about that, this is one thing I never figured out how to fix with the generated documentation yet.

Now that you mention it, I might ask the Readthedocs folks to see if they have any idea why this is happening.
>I haven't really met anyone who is particularly bothered by these issues

This is a game of reducing friction incrementally, not big ticket bothered by it
Tesla Batteries Are Keeping Zimbabwe’s Economy Running
>Forget about the Syrian civil war, the number of violent deaths globally have gone down!"

Yes, because the proper "statistical reasoning" is to point at the Syrian civil war and say, "the world is becoming more violent" even though the data say otherwise, right?
And "if it doesn't come in a resealable package, it's meant as a single serving."
They are to me, still haven't heard a convincing argument, and believe me I tried.
> I checked half your list and found no flagged stories. I saw comments and discussion though.

All of them were penalized when I saw them. I know my word doesn't mean much, but I know that I took care to double check, which means that stories with more comments, a lower score, and an older date were ranked higher. Naturally, any stories that gained the [flagged] status gained it after I had spotted them as penalized, otherwise, I never would even have seen them in the first place.

That most stories that suddenly get sunk like a brick don't get that status is a fact, from which follows that it can't be automatic per URL, since they float and rise naturally for a few minutes or hours, sometimes to the very top, and then sink quickly, or even sink several pages at once.

> You are the one complaining you don't see what you want to see on the front page.

I'm actually not, I'm saying your explanations of how it's all benign don't hold water from what I'm seeing. If I don't like something on the front page, I hide it for myself. I don't try to take it away from others, and I'm complaining about people who are doing exactly that.

> with some kind of anti-spam filter in between

It's the big black box of plausible deniability, of "I didn't see anything, you must be the problem".

> I don't think you can be reasoned with if you hold the position that downvoting/upvoting/flagging is downright censoring.

Like that's just a general flag you get to set on a person while doing no damage to your own credibility at all.

I'm saying in, context of that quote, that it's "violence", as opposed to intellectually honest and open debate, because that's the function violence has in debate, to replace good faith arguments, just like silent downvotes and flags do. I stand by that, if all you have to say is "that's so silly I don't even have to argue against it", I just note that you can't or don't want to argue against it.

> Now the truth is, you haven't really provided yet solid evidences of tampering attempts from the CCP (or anyone else) on HN.

Like you have this narrative about why some things get flagged, without any proof, then keep shifting goal posts without even acknowledging that you're shifting them? And once again, I chose my words carefully. "the CCP driving this" also includes nationalistic mainlanders, the CCP acts by proxy in that case. Just like the CCP is behind stuff like this without directly being behind it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IingQPPEh0
I haven't been able to track down an original source for this, but while at Google in mid 2000s I was told it was a joke/hat-tip to Bell labs.
I'd prefer they didn't, because I fear they'd just start making it indistinguishable from google.com.
It seems to make sense, as populations fall -- there would be less need for healthcare. The more we subsidize rural living the more we distort their long term viability. Towns and cities shouldn't be deploying infrastructure that they can't support, it adds up over time and makes their situation even more untenable in the future.

A classic example of this small towns implementing city like water/sewer systems without the tax base to do the maintenance; the federal government provides a grant for the initial installation and the town slowly goes bankrupt trying to pay for it.
Yeah, at the very least I expect to see Processes used like Liveview when you need containers/reactors to state and/or run-time control for messages between components. I wonder if an approach like Svelte (https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte) where it compiles into DOM updating code can be enhanced with the concurrency the BEAM provides.

It's amazing so much has been done already considering the team only started last February. Writing all those BIFs can't be easy! Lumen is definitely a compelling challenge.
I did enjoy the first 20% of the post explaining the difference in file system types, however beyond that I was pretty much lost :)
This is a longstanding problem of geography and demographics. It is not unexpected that many of the States with the worst problem are also the ones that are least urbanized i.e. much of the population is diffused across a vast region. The aging and decline of these populations makes the situation worse.

The rural hospitals typically serve a population that otherwise would be several hours travel from the nearest "real" hospital, and typically have a catchment area of 1-2 hours travel. Many of these hospitals are located in towns with populations of a few thousand people. Even when heavily subsidized, the economics of maintaining these hospitals is very poor, especially as populations decline. Maintaining a fleet of doctors and facilities that are increasingly rarely used is expensive. And even with the current distribution of rural hospitals, it is not uncommon for people to live several hours from the nearest hospital.

It is essentially a math problem. To ensure that virtually everyone lives within N hours of a hospital, you would need to build an enormous number of hospitals that each service a population of a few thousand people unless N is quite large. This has an extremely high cost per capita, most of which is wasted because they are often very underutilized, which does nothing to help reduce healthcare costs. And you can't force these people to move to more urbanized areas of the country either. The other challenge is finding enough doctors willing to work in a tiny remote town. Few people want to live in these areas and so many doctors that do work in these hospitals are effectively required to commute from a city that is hours away -- it is not a desirable assignment for most.
Hey Lemmox, good questions:

1) Not currently, but it's certainly possible. We don't foresee any major fundamental changes. The most likely change is around transforming. Specifically, how you shape both log and metrics data structures. Right now it's a little too piecemeal and we hope to provide ways to consolidate that more. For example, we have a transform for adding, removing, renaming, and coercing fields. We'll probably introduce a single transform to support that or think about ways to support schemas.
2) Yep! We're organizing our content and education strategy to start sharing this information. Expect to see high-quality guides, blog posts, and comparisons in the next 6-12 months.

Hope that helps!
Hi genp;

Just curious, what didn't you like about the output quality? What version of PySceneDetect were you using?

The latest version (v0.5.x) uses ffmpeg instead of mkvmerge for output by default now, which produces significantly more accurate and higher quality output than before.

That being said, you are correct in that optical flow and keyframe information is currently not being used during the detection phase. There are several proposals to incorporate this into a future release, however, along with several other techniques:
- histogram analysis
- edge detection
- background subtraction
- automatic or dynamic threshold detection

Thanks for your feedback!
> Trains put into operation without the ability to survive a power transient without intervention.

The trains were built to a environmental tolerance spec, and shutting down when that spec is exceeded seems like a reasonable thing to do. Having an expert test that all the safety systems are still working properly after they've been exposed to conditions they weren't designed for also seems prudent.

Do you think people should pay higher ticket prices / more tax to fund trains that can tolerate a wider range of input frequencies, given how rarely these sorts of events happen?
This does not help prevent the blink monoculture though.
Don’t have experience with gSuite, but I use fastmail and very happy with them. The idea is you go to your registrar or DNS provider and change MX records to the Fastmail servers (they provide the host names and comprehensive setup help in their documentation).
Anti-capitalist thinker Immanuel Wallerstein dies at age of 88
We've done some benchmarking to help understand the differences: https://github.com/lumen/threading-benchmarks

The tldr is that with Web Workers as the threading model that browsers are forcing WASM to use the memory footprint for BEAM processes is going to be larger. This is of course a concern for us. We've been talking about distributing a many processes across a few WWs but ultimately we'd like to see the vendors give up on WWs are being the implementation of the WASM spec.
I can eat a family sized Papa Murphy's pizza by myself in one sitting so I don't know how relevant a metric that is.
DO YOU STILL WRITE IN ALL CAPS?
Global Fire Maps
Void is rolling release; I would prefer Alpine for production environments. Void is an amazing desktop, though.
Surprisingly, this uses a fairly simple heuristic to accomplish just that (HSV deltas). I'm the author of the program, and it actually works pretty well with Pulp Fiction as a whole.

The one area where PySceneDetect does struggle with currently, however, is dealing with sudden/rapid flashes, or momentary obstructions to the viewing scene.
A less established though more complete and descriptive source is this blog entry:

RIP Immanuel Wallerstein — “This is the end; this is the beginning”

https://economicsociology.org/2019/09/01/rip-immanuel-waller...
> Configuration languages succeed and work just fine most of the time, despite their inadequacies and quirks, but no one ever complains about them when they work

I'm genuinely intrigued to see a non-trivial example of this, a configuration in use by an organisation with complex needs, describing its applications and its cloud infrastructure, while avoiding the pitfalls you describe that bedevil the use of Turing complete languages.
if you want a shallow comparison. I'm a senior dev, and I hired a junior who went to a bootcamp to solve the problem of "bootstrap a react project" for me (honestly, I'm too old to figure out how to do that -- once the project is up I'm pretty productive in react). This took him about a week. I also gave him an instruction to "bootstrap a phoenix liveview" for me, and even though he's less good at elixir (which he learned on the job) than JS, he got something up and running in two days. He then later taught me how to stand up phoenix liveview, which amounted to "pointing me to the docs" and I build a phoenix liveview app from the docs (normally i have to watch a video).
The Council of Nicea managed it.
I doubt it based on the fact that Pamela Anderson was able to visit him in jail...I think we have syntax meaning confusion here
I would be the first one to read it, maybe you'd really do it?
Because I have a lot of books around mu house which I started reading, one is 1/2 finished, the other 1/10 finished, then there's another one that I started reading and left somewhere at work etc...
And I have no idea how to deal with it because it's really hard to concentrate on one book, but when I switch to the other I have to go a bit backwards in order to remember the idea.
Aren't systemd units simple text files with no hidden magic? In fact, all systemd configuration is plain text files and symbolic links. The only binary format is the journal.
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Maybe some hardware/carrier configurations have less problems?

All I can say is, in the past 15+ years of SMS messaging, in the US, on every carrier, with devices ranging from the early Nokias to the latest iPhones, I have had reliability problems that are frequent enough for me to avoid SMS when possible.
Author of the program here. Yes, the program detects shots rather than scenes, but I didn't want to give the impression that this project was related to the existing ShotDetect program. I felt that the documentation explained this well enough, but I'm open to considering an alternative project name if anyone has a suggestion.
Me either. When something doesn't work it's almost always because of Privacy Badger. If I'm really curious I'll whitelist it to see if that does the trick. Otherwise I might report the bug to the site, but typically there's just not enough time in my life to waste on broken web sites.

People hold on to this belief that Google is infallible because they're rich and they put together a marketing campaign some years back to convince people that only smart people work there. I believe the truth is exactly the opposite.
to be fair, looking at their product page (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products)

firefox (different spins) and thunderbird appears to be about it at this point. I'm glad for the work they do but I also find the entire size of the operation staggering.
We did switch eventually partly due to these reasons, but the switching took three years for 50+ people in integration labor; it's not a trivial choice to make.

Anyways, the point is that paying lots of money does NOT mean that you'll be getting good service. There's plenty of examples in the enterprise space, they're not just isolated cases.
Well, if by "tech hub" you mean the Bay Area, there are hundreds of options under $150 right now. I assume there are other places that meet the definition of "tech hub" in the US, and I'm certain they also have many hotels under $150.
> the article goes on to explain that part of the decline is because forests are being converted into cities susceptible to forest fires.

That isn't what it says at all. It says that the amount of forest being burned to create farms (deliberately) is going down because the farms are more economically productive.

From the article.

> That's because the amount of land being converted into ranches and farms has been going down, not up, and because more of it is being done with machines than with fire.

> For the last 35 years, the world has been re-foresting, meaning new tree growth has exceeded deforestation. The area of the Earth covered with forest has increased by an area the size of Texas and Alaska combined.
”Like correctly reporting net frequency in the range 49-51 Hz but reporting false values when outside of that range.”

You can’t fake the system frequency like that. Anyone connected to the grid can observe/measure the system frequency trivially - you could do so right now at the nearest 10A socket. The attack you describe would require compromising large numbers of diverse, distributed generation and frequency response assets.

It would be like trying to fool everyone into thinking it’s a hot day by hacking every single thermometer!
A mail server is hard.

Writing applications is hard. Designing a website is hard. Professional work is hard.

But setting up your initial mail server is not hard. Read some guides (ahem: https://flurdy.com/docs/postfix), fix a lot of typos, and you're up an running.

Same with developing the initial version of an application, or designing the first draft. Not rocket science. Not easy but not that hard for an experienced person with simple initial requirements.

But what is hard is keeping it running with more and more users, more requirements and evolving tech and less time to maintain it. Never mind forgotten skills and less priority.

Mail servers have a special knack for running out of disc space or going down for some reason only when you are on holiday and can not get online easily. And you usually only find out after a day or more as you start not receiving messages but don't really notice it for a while.

Or you friends, family or colleagues using it start complaining that some random person they are emailing is not receiving their email and you need to look into it... (Ps. Use DKIM and then DMARC reporting)

If you just want a reliable mail service, just use https://fastmail.com. If you want even more freedom and configurations, do try to set up a mail server. But it is hard. A bit hard.
Actually, nitrogen is what causes the bends as well as nitrogen narcosis, making it toxic under pressure. And argon is even more narcotic under pressure.

You are right, however, that ozone was the wrong gas of choice. I meant helium.
Stuxnet was damaging equipment by running it in slightly bad ways once in a while.

That seems to be a quite different attack from something that causes a sudden outage.
Unfortunately, for any human activity at scale, project management is weak. You can get good quality with small teams, but when more than 100 people are together, you can be sure that someone is going to commit every athrocity they can get away with. And then major damage happens, even if all the other people do aperfect job.

See Boeing recently. See chernobyl. See any major disaster.

So having tooling that limit your ability to do damage, even at the cost of pain for power users, is one of the few ways to keep humanity in check.
Especially if you have a transmitter at full volume one room over, you'd be able to pick that up loud and clear on a crystal radio. I think you could make a small unpowered crystal radio using 1919 tech, since there's no amplification.
That depends on the state they're in. If they're in a state that didn't expand Medicaid with the ACA, like the states in orange on this map[1], then no, they do not have access to government-run healthcare unless they are retired or disabled.

[1] https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/status-of-sta...
Inflation Rates by CPI Category
Author of the program here. This is definitely something that is worth while considering, although I'm not too sure if a correlation always exists between the audio and picture patterns (e.g. in a music video, scene transitions may not be exactly synchronized with the audio).

I've also seen people combine the cuts detected by PySceneDetect with subtitle (.srt) information to generate a more comprehensive list of scenes, which are sets of shots joined together by some context (to allow for jumping forward to a particular scene by it's description).
When you eat home grown vegetables, the experience isn’t objectively worse. When you run your own mail server it is.

If you were running your own restaurant and your home grown vegetables caused a worse customer experience would you do it? Running your own mail server which causes more of your mail to go to spam is worse than using a commercial provider.
That claim is bullshit and we should stop making it. Evolution doesn't have a direction or a teleology.
Oxygen depletion linked to mass extinction event in late Silurian oceans
> Computers definitely peaked in performance almost a decade ago

haha no way. I was lent a octoccore server from ~2009 recently, and I'd describe it as a hairdryer with a modicum of compute tacked on.

My personal dev machine is ~4 years old is a boatload faster core for core, and matched the octocore overall performance (DB benchmark on real world task, not disk-bound).
How much new css do you actually use though w/ patchy browser support?
> Have you actually read the article ?

I would edit this part out of your reply, it's unnecassary to your point, goes against the rules of HN and will invite downvotes.
In the UK "medicated" has negative connotations, usually implying "medicated with psychotropic medications, often against the patient's will".

There's paperwork and procedures for that to happen, and I'd guess for a high profile person like Assange the prison is being careful to make sure all the paperwork is correctly done.
The ACA was a repackaging of Massachusetts' "RomneyCare" that was passed by Republicans in that state. The reason this legislature was chosen was because it was thought to be a bipartisan solution to rising healthcare costs.
From what I understand, it was already well known that the USA could take satellite photos of things, except not at the level of quality/detail as the one shown in this image.

Is that a distinction without a difference?

I suppose in theory now that this information is out there regarding capabilities, you know this for sure, but would you have guessed the capability is not there if you were making a decision that factored it in?

My guess is you would assume that this capability exists.

If I wanted to be really good, I would assume 10x this capability exists.
I keep journals of books I read. I generally record interesting thoughts I had while reading and impressions when I’m done.

For more technical books like maths I tend to keep workbooks for each one. I do the exercises and distill my understanding in notes as I go.
I see a lot more subtlety here than that. This is already a pop summary of work published in the "Journal of Experimental Social Psychology". Do we need to reduce every piece of information to a 10-word summary?
Humans are higher/better, not “more evolved”.
If production is servers, then alpine is the better choice as it provides stable releases.
Void Linux is a nice desktop system and you can run it on single servers you personally take care of.
But I would rather not use it at scale for servers as updating rolling release can always lead to issues and not updating will leave security issues unfixed.

The one benefit would probably providing a glibc version if you require it.

(I'm a Void Linux contributor.)
I've seen a proof of concept which combined the output of PySceneDetect with subtitle information and computer vision to allow you to do something like "go to the scene with the big castle" or something similar. I can't remember what it's called off the top of my head, but it seemed like a pretty cool concept.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of PySceneDetect.
oh sorry about that. Didn't mean to do so, We were in a very early phase right now so, I just wanted to know if you guys are also facing similar kind of problem.
To me, if the site doesn't work on Firefox, the site is broken. End of story.