skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a service you can pay for right now that does this on the fly for Netflix and other streaming services.

Edit 1: I just found this one: https://www.vidangel.com/ but that's not the one I saw originally. Must be quite a popular service if there are competing providers.

Edit 2: It looks like vidangel got into trouble: https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/vidangel-jury-verdict-dama...

Edit 3: Here's another service: https://clearplay.com/
remember that there's great value in always being the dumbest person in the room. as long as you're always learning regardless of your learning rate you will leave with much more than you think.

that being said, the point at which you should feel comfortable in a project is the point once you can mimic the whole project yourself. for small projects this may just take a couple months. for large projects this could take much longer.

you can narrow your scope bye fixing the range of types of work. this can be done by restricting yourself to backed, frontend, data... this gives you the opportunity to get better more quickly because you can focus more. this does however limits your contributions, may not always be an option, and maybe over reacting

the other option is to just get better at estimating time. track all of your time, don't report it if you don't have to. if you become good at estimating your time, and use those in your projections, you will feel far more confident. include learning time. this is a skill that most engineers don't have.

it also helps to remember that regardless of how slow you are, any work your complete his work somebody else doesn't have to do. how fast do army not be the most marketable part of who you are. discover if your value add is elsewhere even if it is just a cog that does things that others don't want to. that it value and appreciated. other values may be communication, documentation, education, management, culture, ...

also, when always pushing yourself it's easier to feel behind. you won't need to push yourself your whole life. a co-worker of mine said he would never work at a startup again because he always had to push to learn new technologies and had to wear too many hats. he is an Excellent developer (better than most I know who love working at stadtups) who didn't thrive in that environment.
The dent in the rubber sheet that the earth currently sits on - hence the whole curvature in spacetime thing. As far as I know no one has figured out or found gravitons yet, so it's just a theory.

Which I assume means there should be a few gravity-deniers out there to give themselves a break from global heating denial. :)
Sounds like insurance companies with fine prints.
> What "looks like corruption" that she hasn't condemned?

Hunter Biden working for Burisma. She was asked about it, and the contorted answer she gave to avoid condemning it is rather hilarious.

> You say this as though corruption isn't fought off regularly in basically all functions of Government?

And you're proposing giving a corruptible institution vast new powers to control public dialogue.

> And this idea that mass media should be policed for something resembling accuracy and honesty means the first amendment is dead is just ridiculous false dichotomy. We police speech CONSTANTLY.

Libel and incitement are very narrowly defined, and proving either is incredibly difficult. Those laws could be used as a political tool to suppress speech, which is why they're so narrowly construed.

I can predict with 99% confidence what will happen if the truth police are instituted. The truth police will be heavily influenced by the same industries and financial interests that dominate government today. Many views that you hold will be declared false. Black Lives Matter will be declared a form of incitement. Socialism will be declared a false ideology.

I'm just very surprised by how many Americans have decided after Trump's election that the First Amendment has to go. It's very short-sighted.
Thanks for the heads up; prioritizing mobile ux now.
Interestingly enough, in Germany you are forced to use the same page and layout, leading to sometimes very visible retractions...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/9/9c/Bild_Gegendar...

If you ask me, that‘s a good thing. If the stakes of an ad campaign with fake news or hate speech would be having to run a disproval campaign of the same size, on the same audience (if you are proven wrong) — I‘d be fine with it. Political ads weren‘t the problem. A complete and utter lack of regulation for the medium was.
I was once (or maybe still am) one of these power users. Started out with writing VBA macro's in excel to automate some work, probably created some monstrosities in excel. Then migrated over to MS Access and eventually taught myself proper (MS-)SQL which I have been developing in for over 9 years.

One of my crutches is exactly that, that SQL is more or less the only language I have mastered and when I while I feel like I am skilled enough to develop complex databases, I am always lost at creating a proper frontend for end-users. Quite often I will resort to MS Access as a light frontend (holding no data and minimal coding), just a bunch of forms.

Does anyone know an alternative to this? If I just want some forms but don't want to dive into web-based applications, what alternatives to access exist?
I just realized that the USA does not have civil services. Like your elected officials can appoint random people for random things.

Anyway, a good election commision can be formed by pooling career civil servants, equal representatives from each political party, a bench of retired judges elected by the Senate for a unit time.

The commision can not make any policy decision. All they can do is ensure that the elections happen in a clean way. Also banning is one of the extreme decisions, but if they do ban the candidate, the party has to provide someone else to contest.

A democracy where all candidates are liars is no better than Russian democracy where there are no candidates
I understand without really sharing the parent’s sentiment. I’ll probably continue doing some of the work I do now when I retire. But at some point I do want to spend more time on hobbies and travel that’s more in the more time than money (eg backpacking) vein.

But I understand how someone might find fiddling around with photography or home software projects frivolous if they could instead contribute to projects they find significant-but are of a nature that they really need to work on more or less full time.
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This is incorrect. You can update up to every minute.
Someone linked me to this on HN a few days ago: https://neocities.org/browse . It definitely brings back that old geocities/webring vibe the internet used to have.
It’s a bit misleading to say that Catalonia (along with other regions) was “essentially annexed” by Spain three centuries ago when it had been already be part of Spain for two centuries already. Since the very creation of the Kingdom of Spain. (It’s true that it tried to secede in 1640-1652 but the result was the loss of its northern territories to France. By the way, Napoleon would actually annex Catalonia to France later.)

Anyway, they level of independence that Catalonia has had in the last decades is much higher that before that “annexion”.
I'm pretty sure I've read — quite possibly right here on HN — that with some effort and expense, it's possible to build houses that will survive wildfires, or at least have a pretty good chance of doing so. Seems like something we're going to have to do more of.
Cool, but every time I see something like this I feel the need to point out gpiozero - https://gpiozero.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

from gpiozero import DigitalOutputDevice
relay = DigitalOutputDevice(17)
relay.on()
When you see performance factors beyond 1000 on some algorithms between python/ruby and C/C++ and you see python being deployed everywhere, no wonder where all the earth's energy is going. At least these are promoted by silicon vendors.

Edit: I cannot blame too much though, its generating comfortable revenue for me as a consultant. Still, having to deploy nginx/haproxy to load balance python servers for only 200 requests per second each makes me pray for our planet, but it grants me the money the customer saved on developers ;-)
24x7 no but 9-5 staff fixing broken cameras in a matter of weeks is probably more typical. Especially considering how many cameras are in this one location and how straightforward it is to keep track of if any cells don't have working cameras.

I'm not saying it's a movie where the moment a camera goes down a 250lb Russian goon comes down and investigates. However cameras not working for years? In the fucking suicide watch cell? You honestly think that's realistic? Honestly those would probably get replaced faster than most cameras...

Maybe there's a few cameras people just forgot were broken and get forgotten about for years but it wouldn't be a typical case if the IT and maintenance team was even half-competent.
I think people is typically annoyed about articles disguised as a typical link but link to a paywall, not the paywall itself. If the content is valuable enough content creators do not need to resort to SEO and disguise a link to trick people. Such content will be still protected by a paywall, and that sounds fine. But the organic growth and paywall simply don't mix well.
That’s a great point of feedback, thanks for raising it!

I’ll make sure to fix that one on next release.
“This is what has kept our society well informed and critical thinking for a hundred years.”

Ironic.
Mysterious US Space Plane Arrives Back After Long, Unexplained Mission
It's at least a couple orders of magnitude more horrible than that.

All we have is the binaries. There's no high-level language they can "decompile" into, because the binaries were not compiled from anything. They were literally "grown" from previous binaries by randomness and time. There was no mind guiding the changes so the only way to deduce some design lines is by looking at the system constraints. Nothing makes "sense" besides that.

That's how you get, for example, the perception of time subroutine entangled with the vision routine [1]

Oh and the hardware is the same deal: we can examine existing working "processors", but each one was "grown", not designed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception#Eye_movements_...
Does this mean that the app could be forked to support multiple accounts (which is currently not possible for the free tier users with the official app)?
Airtable is widely lauded at being a modern, web-based version of Access. Haven‘t tried myself, but it‘s looking promising.
1,629.98 = $1,119.99 + $509.99

$4.46 day = $1,629.98 / 365 days

I was a bit off, but you get the idea.
I feel it is a good ROI.
I'm curious, what's been going on with Parcoursup? (I don't read enough French to understand the discussions.)

Also, I'm not surprised that tuition for foreigners is a lever they are pulling. A government is responsible, first and foremost, to its own citizens. Racism? Really? What about "localism" or "separation of duties"?
> as intended if you think that the point was to make only the most well-financed and technically savvy advertisers able to receive a benefit.

Your argument is that breaking a law is expensive and only those with money can break it so why bother with laws. Beyond ridiculous.

The example you’re using is also not convincing. Statistically insignificant amount of people know or care enough to watch F1 races.
Perhaps that's why "panic" is in quotes.

Also keep in mind some believe that a lot of "animalyness" is also "plantyness".

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170109-plants-can-see-hear-...

https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/6759
Top object oriented programming languages to follow in 2020
It is an illusion. You are floating freely in the space, but massive mass near-by is causing curvature in space-time. In other words: Time goes more slowly in your shoes, because they are closer to the mass. This causes any movement to be circular movement, which is pressing you to the near-by mass, which you experience as "gravity".
> They do, however, foster a prosecutorial attitude among academics and public intellectuals. As a colleague once told me: ‘I am always looking for the Freudian slip.’ He scours the writings of his peers to spot when they trip up and betray their problematic intellectual commitments. One poorly chosen phrase can sully an entire work.

Interesting how operating routinely in a certain 'mode' like this ends up spreading into other areas of your life.

I wonder how many programmers can relate who've found their tendency toward problem solving extending beyond the computer screen.
This is the most important comment. Whenever i hear about someones saying that "XYZ should do something about fake news" i understand that they really dont understand the depth of the problem. Solving "fake news" is a non-trivial problem and no single arbiter of truth can tackle it, Facebook, twitter etc are claiming about "cracking down of fake news" but all that is just hogwash.
Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeals Court Says
> Trust me, if they're focused on reducing costs, they won't cost 2.5k a month.

They don't cost 2.5k a month, and they aren't swanky broom closets. The average is ~1k, cheaper if you live with more people; this is below Palo Alto rent, mind you.

I believe the Stanford dorm experience is way better than that of most American institutions. For starters, every undergrad is basically guaranteed housing for the entirety of their college education, so no one is unwillingly ejected from university housing and forced to rent elsewhere (which is more expensive, as I already pointed out).

Not sure why gp decided to throw some random defamation at Stanford (might have been exaggerating to make a point, but it's not at all clear from the writing).

Disclosure: Stanford alum.
PBS Space Time just did an episode on this. Turns out, based purely on the maths it is possible, however highly improbable for us to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGnMiGrYmPE
Maybe. Maybe not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_gravity
Useful things to do in space:

1. make more space habitats

2. live

3. breed

4. astronomy
I'm reminded of the many videos of police assaulting people while shouting "stop resisting".
This is actually against the WebAuthn spec (https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-1/#credential-loss-key-mobili...). Hope they fix it soon.
"6 out of 10 Danish boys now have breasts, women’s breasts, many with mammary glands."

I'm calling bullshit on that
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Honestly an IT team would MAYBE bother to prioritize these cameras as critical. They only definitely would after something like this happened. It's an easy thing to put on the backburner...
Thank you for checking it out!

Funny you mention the saving on time... I created it for work! I'm a web developer, so there are times when I need to extract a "video thumbnail" for my clients from a mp4 and it gets annoying when they have to run the entire video just to tell me which screenshot to grab. So with this, I can send them a zipped file of all the thumbnails extracted from the video clip. Or grabbing the thumbnail from a YouTube video is pretty easy.

I'd have to go searching for a tool for all my needs. And there are plenty out there! But it would require that I bookmark the page and have to search for what I need. Sometimes I'd forget. This kind of put everything in one place.

It has saved me so much time. Since I'm also on a Chromebook for everything else, I don't really have any "easy access" to a converter that can do it all so I created this one to do as much as I can get it to do. I'm still expanding it so that any conversions I come across.. I'll try to add. I just added PDF to JPG/PNG/WEBP.

Very happy to share! Happy to help! Hope it helps you as much as it has helped me!
> The case of Nambi Narayanan is by far the most infamous, where the Kerala State Govt. was actively conspiring (with what circumstantially, and in Nambi's opinion, appears to be US) against Indian state interests.

That is a strange claim. Why say State Govt, and subsequent analogy with Texas? Few government officials and a prominent media house seem to have trapped Nambi.
It’s perhaps surprising that they pushed Catalyst out with so many bugs and unimplemented features. Just look at Apple’s own apps built with it.

On the other hand, it’s not surprising at all. When was the last time Apple cared about quality in MacOS?
God damn, telling me to go to YouTube to figure out what it can do, where the video is some desktop screen; and audio (and minutes of my time) is needed to hear what they're saying. So user unfriendly, mobile users in particular.
The committee of 7 people that drafted the constitution included people from very different ideologies, for example a former member of the Franco government, a Catalan member of UCD, a Catalan nationalist, a socialist or a Catalan member of the communist party and they all agreed on the text that was voted. Were they all dominated by the Francoist regime? By that time Spain had already had democratic elections so, if that text were rejected the result would be to restart the constitutive process, not to go back to the dictatorship.

Ultimately we need to answer one question: is the current Spanish Constitution democratic or not? if it is, it does not matter how it came to be. Any changes could be done by a democratic process. If it is not, then all the Spanish citizens are affected and a whole new constitutive process is needed where all the citizens vote, not only Catalans.
I primarily use Calc from LibreOffice for all my personal stuff. And I find the fonts and layout to be unsatisfactory. Having nicer displays with higher resolutions makes it look even worse (this is on the Windows version; the Mac version seems to look better).
Not yet, maybe sonn
Give The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben a read and you might have to blur the border between the two. Highly recommended though - it's a marvellous read and very enlightening.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28256439-the-hidden-life...
He was claimed to have been killed by the CIA. It's entirely possible that they were not involved.
This was such an exciting comment to read.

It’s easy to forget how many potentially revolutionary ideas are yet to be tried, once we remember the power of good government.

Although I am also skeptical of hyperloop delivery, it seems worth costing.

I hope the US snaps out of its market obsession and starts experimenting with this sort of thing, before it’s too late.
There is a market for experts saying "how the experts (except me) got it all wrong". It's pretty common in economics as well.
I was checking it out just now but I feel quite happy with the SQL-Server side of things, I am basically looking for a more modern way to present forms to the user to interact with my database, without having to learn C#/VB.Net or web dev. Or maybe that's just what I need to do to move away from MS Access as a frontend.
Medicine is not about "drugs".

You might at well claim that medicine made great strides because so many new and exciting leeches were discovered.
Sound like an ad for the movie 'Haunt'? That's exactly the script
From Wikipedia:

"Deadspin is a sports news and blog website, originally founded by Gawker Media. Deadspin posts commentaries, recaps and previews of major sports stories of the day, as well as sports-related anecdotes, rumors and video"

I'm not a reader of deadspin, but if their content no longer aligned to this, and was primarily focussed on politics. Its little wonder the owners said knock it off.

Coincidentally, ESPN, has done the same thing, putting the focus back on sports[1]

[1] https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/07/espn-dan-le-batard-no-polit...
I have to do a lot of conversions in a single day. So, basically searching proper site to achieve this job and struggling to convert file and downloading is a tough job to manage.
Every example you provide is legal, what isn’t legal is telling people that the moon is made of cheese in a non-satirical news article.
Just to clarify, what this does is take commands from Slack and translate them to some predefined GPIO signals which you can of course edit.

It’s a simple script for which there are tons of tutorials around. Expected way more from the title (“to automate your office”).
Given Twitter’s size, you’d think they would be able to create good apps.

Instead, they killed off or bought and killed most of the alternative apps which provided significantly better experience with a fraction of resources.
IIRC there was a first result ad showing malware infected Chrome some time ago
I don't, but those are traditional Defence partners India buys from and collaborates with. China, not so much, anymore.
There are Chromebooks that you can buy today that give you best-in-class battery life with good suspend/resume, and run android apps as well as containerized Linux. Multiple/hidpi displays are handled, but I don’t know how good it is, so I can’t say for sure. Full HD is fine, and hidpi & 4K displays exist, so it’s not impossible, but I don’t know how good it is.
These are generally priced quite competitively compared to MacBooks Pro and higher-quality wintel laptops, and they also have a lower-quality, lower-cost tier that’s very close to the cheap end of wintel. They have pretty good security as well, although the Google connection is a problem for some people.
What do they lack? Photoshop/AdobeCC. The high end of PC games. Some direct hardware access things (due to the security model). If those aren’t a dealbreaker, then it’s actually quite good.
It's not impossible people are just pointing out it was implausible that the highest profile prisoner in the damn prison was the first person to successfully kill themselves in years and years.

A guard got blackmailed or something.
> And? Did the world end?

No, but people died needlessly.
I recently discovered my favorite summary of "Worse is Better". It's by the author, but it isn't anywhere in articles by that name.

“It is far better to have an under-featured product that is rock solid, fast, and small than one that covers what an expert would consider the complete requirements.”

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf (pg 219)
Why aren’t more mass murders carried out with bump stocks, then, instead of just the one? Why aren’t there more IEDs when gasoline is sold on every corner? Why is the flying of private aircraft (small or large) as weapons still an insanely rare event? Why don’t we see hundreds of mass stabbings with knives?

It turns out that most people do not want to harm or endanger others.

We don’t need technological restrictions. Laws and education are more than sufficient, as is presently being demonstrated every day in our society.

Our society entirely breaks down without trust. People do not want to hurt you. Move in the other direction.
Just because it is a hard to name a concrete situation, where panic is a good survival strategy for the individual, it can not be concluded that nature is not ripe with situations, where panic saves the flock.

Also, it would seem that the panic response is evolved for the benefit of the flock, not the individual, as it spreads rapidly; if one person panics, more will follow suit.
The big ticket items are Medicaid and teachers.
I'm a bit sad to see such a brilliant mathematician playing the game of petty politics. I like when scientists participate in "everyday" duties, but in this case it feels that we completely lost the guy to administrative tasks.
In India, it was definitely born because of input difficulty, its such a big thing that It has given rise to Hinglish (Mixing Hindi and English) plus translit is the only way 99% of people type here
I use DAX in Power BI which I believe shares a common data model with excel.

Dax is powerful but sometimes frustrating. When you need bidirectional relationships you end up making custom measures to keep the whole model performant. Depending on the scale of the problem being looked at it becomes a mess.

But Power BI is the access of dashboard world...