skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sifting through videos for a specific piece of information is a problem I've come across as a developer (and more generally, as someone who watches a lot of informational/instructional videos).

Over the past few weeks, I've built Topica as an app that helps viewers search for the exact moments they're looking for in a video catalog/playlist. Along with that, I've built out a clickable “interactive transcript” that makes it easy to follow along and jump around in a given section of video.

I've used Sam Altman's "How To Build The Future" video playlist as a demo (but the MVP lets users build out and index an entire catalog/playlist). I’ve also put up a landing page here:

https://topica.io

Still in the early stages (and obviously still a bit rough around the edges), but I'd appreciate any feedback!
Armored and heavily equipped cops are not what’s causing police brutality by and large. It’s your run of the mill guy with a simple handgun racially profiling and using deceptive tactics to drum up charges. We can keep our focus exactly where the issue is (for once we identified it exactly), or we can emotionally extrapolate it into the larger narrative.

Armored cops are a much bigger deal in China where the CCP uses them in places like Hong Kong to enact quasi martial law.
That’s is the aim, let naive civilians think this is for their protection while bad guys at government can use these new capabilities for their own profits.
You may want to look up the "Lost Decade" of the S&P 500 from 2000 to 2009.

Why is that 9 year period special? You're just picking two bottoms of the market. 9/2002 to 2/2009 is -7% even with dividends.

But if I push it out only 1 year (9/2002 to 2/2010) the return is +25%.
I've heard something similar for the past two years, except mine is at 78 Hz, and only in my left ear. As with you, I hear it only when it is extremely quiet. When the room ambient noise is above about 35 dBA, I never hear it.

Also, oddly, it comes and goes over a scale of months, seemingly at random. One day, I'll wake up in my quiet bedroom and hear it, and I'll continue to hear it in quiet environments for a month or two. Then, after those several months, I'll wake up again and find it gone.

I notice a very loose correlation to it abating after a loud weekend, like a weekend spent driving my race car or doing metal fabrication, but otherwise it seems random.

A while back I ran it down with medical professionals, but the gist of that expensive adventure was that it was likely idiopathic. It appears to be of the subjective type rather than objective, but -- long story short -- that's not definitive.

My "solution" for now is to run the ceiling fan at night during the months it's present.
See the North Hollywood Shootout for a good example of what happens if the cops are outgunned.
Awesome! Could be nice to also include what Series the deck is for (Seed rounds pitch decks are vastly different than Series A and onwards)
IANAL (and I am linking to Wikipedia) but I don't believe this is a problem in the US (as long as the painting is out of copywrite) due to Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Cor....

In Germany on the other hand, things are different: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11983043
You don't even have to go that far. The writer and leading creative force of one of the two shows in question (Aaron Sorkin) was forced out after getting busted for weed and shrooms at the Burbank airport.

Actors (probably the closest equivalent to mega-church pastors really) get this sort of treatment all the time, and have been subjected to trials in the court of public opinion for as long as they have been the subject of public adulation.
> It would be really hard to trade in my 28" 4k display for any CRT I've ever had.

Agreed. I use an LCD today (25" 2560x1440) and I'm happy with it.

But I did wait until about 2007 or 2008 to get my first LCD which was a 1600x1200 Dell FP2007 (which still works the last time I plugged it in a year ago as a very temporary 2nd monitor while I waited for a replacement).
It can also be used for very dubious purposes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheComplainerIsA...
Practices like that are directly against the spirit of data portability under GDPR and CCPA. What's protecting Spotify here is that the user's data is accessed through an API not considered for that privacy control use case.

In principle, a tool for transferring of user's data could be operating on a GDPR/CCPA data export that has to be available for all Spotify users in California and EU. Those are just not exposes as easy-to-use APIs (yet).
True, nothing on my Raspberry Pi is mission critical and I do consider the SD card corruption to be a risk and a weak point of the Raspberry Pi.
There is less consensus on routing for cycling, no one-size-fits-all solution, because everything depends on stamina, level of comfort cycling with traffic, tire width and wheel durability. On Android, for instance, see how different the routes can be when generated by OSMAnd's in-built cycling router and when generated by the Brouter plugin (which in turn has two profiles users must choose from). No surprise that DDG doesn't want to roll out cycle routing before they can think up a UI that offers the required customizability without daunting the user.
> Tend in what way? I can think of perhaps rebalancing so if you're doing a multi-fund setup with particularly desired asset allocation (bonds, equities: US, world, EM). But if you're using (say) a target date fund, what's there to do?

(General response, just quoting this part) - life is messy, things change around you. My 401k for example (throughout different jobs) bounces around, I've had Schwab, WellsFargo, Vanguard (even some no-brand way back when) who each offer their own strategies; some having severely limited options, some having open playing fields - in 2000 WellsFargo may have offered 1 of 3 choices IIRC. In 2020, they have 30 choices (many are target date funds) - but Schwab is open-ended, do what you want; when your money rolls over from one to the other, it's usually a liquidation and cash transfer (although I've used in-kind for a Roth IRA, worked OK but not perfect - lost some cost basis data, had to repair). I do not get to choose where my 401k is hosted in USA, your company chooses the vendor - this may differ up there in Soviet Canuckistan. :)

Some companies shut down their investment division (USAA -> Victory Capital recently), so what was a no-fee no-load option at that company now costs $$ at another company - for example, I think Vanguard funds are free to trade on Vanguard but really expensive on Schwab, so if you held VFINX and rolled it in-kind over to Schwab it would now cost you more than if you unloaded VFINX and replaced it with SWPPX. Some funds are unique to that company and it's hard to find replacements (USAA's USNQX e.g.) so you might choose to eat cross-vendor fees because it's performance is just that good. Really depends on all the "what's free to trade at this vendor" - it's not always an even playing field, each vendor wants to push their in-house flavour of the index.

Different category but related: company stock - for whatever reason, that's almost always been E-Trade (now Morgan Stanley!) in tech; both Google and Red Hat offered friends-of-company shares exclusively though E-Trade, my company does it, etc. - so now I have yet another vendor to deal with and it tends to grow arms and legs unless you keep pulling money out and pushing it over to your preferred vendors. Target funds are actively managed assets, they have higher fees and constant re-balancing being done by humans to meet "the target" - they're still kind of new (many created mid-2010s I think) so we only have so much data, but generally they're 4-star and lag (returns) behind any common 5-star index fund. (compare 2 from the same vendor, for example SWPPX vs SWYGX but almost all vendors have them now, this is not investing advice).
I think this is begging the question a bit.

We assume a lot of inevitables in this case, specifically that an interaction with law enforcement will likely end in conflict
For starters, VOA isn't foreign.
U.S. military aid scandal: new fighter helmets go unused in Ukraine
Then it goes both ways right? I think we need to also say "For most people Python is fine, if you need that extra speed, try Julia" instead of blanket praises of Julia as true competitor to Python (It doesn't even come close IMO).
I agree that the issue is "why," but I also know the answer: they cannot ascertain a path forward. I do agree with your general advice, however. Health and involvement in groups are foundational.

As an example, a friend from this age group, but crucially, without a child, powered through a coding camp at 14-16 hours a day for several months and has had, to her, well-paid and fulfilling work since then. But, most would have difficulty carving out that kind of time, while also questioning a successful outcome (edit: in short, opportunity cost comes to be seen as very dear. This certainly does not excuse wasted time, but if you actually do not know where to invest time....).

The truly motivated are indeed a minority, but again, I perceive that as often a product of not seeing a path in the forest: sensing promise in no direction, they wander. Taking the metaphor further, and drawing on my meager SAR training, lost people wander until they needn't or cannot--the tools they need are a map and compass rather than will.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
Ones offered by legitimate universities, that require bachelors to take ~12-18 credit hours of liberal arts courses.

Those courses typically require you to submit essays, which will be evaluated for both their form, and their function.

Given the generally poor grasp of civics, ethics, and ability to relate to other cultures that I have seen, if the job of a university is the creation of educated people (as opposed to vocational training), more liberal arts education can't go that amiss.

You're also missing the main thrust of my argument. My university offered - and required - CS majors to take a number of practical, vocational courses, with many programming assignments. But it never actually took the time to train, or grade us on the quality of our solutions to those assignments. This is not how real engineers, chemists, or physicists, or folks studying bioscience get trained.
If anyone is looking for an alternative, I have had a good experience using https://github.com/SathyaBhat/spotify-dl

Really unfortunate that Spotify dictates what you do with your own playlist when you're not even ripping the songs off of their service.
Under what circumstances would a police department require an armored personnel carrier? Especially in a country that's spanning half a continent, with allies on both sides. And a potentially-soon-to-be has-been world superpower? Even if it turns out to be necessary or practical, it certainly won't be the solution to the problem that necessitates having an APC.
Some countries use firewalls or other means to block content they do not want their citizens to see.

The US removes them from the Internet to ensure nobody in the world can read them. A great display of American exceptionalism.

Presumably this entitlement to outright remove content on the web should be extended and available for other nations as well.

A form of immediate global censorship.

I hope over time the Internet infrastructure and operations will either make these types of operations impossible or available for any country.
So your solution is to just keep escalating?
The book that fully crystalized this for me were the books by Nassim Taleb (his Incerto series). These books completely and utterly changed my life.

If you read the descriptions it may not seem directly related to what I'm talking about but he gives you a complete and fully articulated intellectual framework for understanding the pitfalls of modernity and also as importantly in explaining his ideas he references ancient authors, bits of history and mythology.

Those references will give you a good idea of the depth and breadth of what's there and you can choose from among those where you want to dive deeper.
> Armored and heavily equipped cops are not what’s causing police brutality by and large.

I agree with this, but wonder if it's more a law of averages than anything. The guy driving the local PD tank does not have nearly as many interactions as the beat cop or the traffic cop.
https://caniuse.com/subresource-integrity

It is basic available for every browser except IE and Opera Mini, so I think it is user's problem to use an old browser that don't support a wide supported security feature.
I own a 77” LG oled that I positively love and have not noticed any strobing. I’m also no longer epileptic, so maybe that also plays a role?
I bought my white car (Camaro) in 2011, when true white was really rare. Every white car around was off-white.

The other day I parked in a line of 7 white vehicles in a row.

In my defense, I wanted orange, but the orange they offered was more of a red than an orange. They had two other types of red available, so that was ridiculous. Then I wanted a deep gray, but the Japanese tsunami wiped out the plant that made the pigment. I would have liked green, but their green option was also a terrible shade.

So, white. With black stripes.
Yeah, I was expecting a well organized categorization of high-level transferable concepts. Instead I got a list of arbitrary code snippets for all manner of idioms for specific languages/environments.
You must be living in Brigadoon or you live in a jurisdiction driving very old cop cars. Ford hasn't made the police Crown Vic in almost a decade, every force in metro Chicago now drives around in midsize SUVs. I don't see military style uniforms anywhere, but the Taser is now standard equipment in most departments so cops all sport those along with their service weapon.

My municipality got M16s from this Pentagon program some years ago, and at least some of the officers were actually pissed because it replaced the shotgun they used to carry and which was actually useful because it could load breaching shells to blow open doors, which was its most common use.
Anyone know what the domains were?
That's astonishing.
The author identifies 3 things - the chances of X happening, the consequences of X happening, and the long-term effects of X happening. Personally I don’t separate (2) and (3). If X involves you breaking your spine, then long term consequences are indicated, to my view...

But I’ve been saying for decades that “risk” is not the chances of something happening, which is how most people understand it. Risk is (the chance of something happening) x (the consequences of it happening).

Imagine a 2x4 beam, 24’ long, lying on the floor, and I tell you to walk along the top of it without touching the floor. If you do, I’ll give you a sherbet lemon.

Now imagine it’s a 2x4, 24’ long between two office buildings, the one you’re in is on fire and this is the only way out.

The chances of you falling off the beam are the same (within a margin of error, assuming a non-windy day, etc. etc), but the risk to your life is much much higher in the second case.

Risk encompasses consequence, and it always surprises me how few people understand that in meetings when I’m describing a new approach, or criticizing a new service conformation.
There is something subtler and more important concealed in sitcoms and dramas. Narrative has its own logic. By that I mean that there are kinds of things that are easy to describe in certain media and difficult or impossible to describe in others. And also that the systematic requirements of storytelling satisfaction act to prioritise certain kinds of understandings of the world.

One simple but ill understood way in which this is true is in the numbers of people interacting within a group or institution. In drama the audience can keep in mind only a set number of major actors - even in a relatively complex political procedural, at most a dozen characters will recur. In reality, the humblest institution may have dozens or hundreds of regularly interacting people who take active part in decision making. So the implicit and unintended myth created by all films and television diminishes the importance of the collective - with its web of loyalties and contrasting intentions - and replaces it with a tiny number of easily tracked isolates. Character motivations always need to be personalised in drama, with 'complex' motivation existing to humanise rather than explicate action.

There are countless other examples of the ways drama systematically distorts our understanding of life and politics. From the disavowal of the motivating force ideology and (even in the United States) religion, to the systematic concealment of poverty.

None of these necessarily require censorship or explicit manipulation. They're not simply expressions of a particular societies blindness to its own flaws. But exemplars of what can easily be transmitted in drama.
If publishers provided the TeX source, you could do this.

I don't really see this as an issue. TeX is just a language that can be translated into PDFs for visual consumption well, but it could similarly be translated into audio or code (in the case of equations), we just can't do that because publishing TeX isn't something we do for some reason.
> Well, TV writers are paid peanuts next to mega-church pastors, so there's less scope for charges of hypocrisy.

Well, how many "mega"-churches are there though? How many people congregate to them versus the local micro-/mini-church?

Also, just because a pastor is a hypocrite doesn't necessarily make them wrong:

* https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

A doctor who smokes, but tells you smoking is bad for your health, is a hypocrite but still medically correct. :)

> Also scripts are generally developed by a room of writers, not any single one.

Usually in the US: in the (e.g.) the UK each series/season is often done by an individual (or 2-3).
Maybe I'm a cranky old man, but I think there's immense value in the fact that Python's (scientific and non-scientific) ecosystem has matured and has become standard over the last 1-2 decades.

Starting again from the ground up in a shiny new language (even if the language is perhaps slightly better) is a waste of so much effort. Transitioning from Python 2 to 3 was already a nightmare.

I know there's some interoperability between Julia and Python, but a lot of stuff is not interoperable, and there are annoying differences in array indexing etc.

Why can't people just settle on some tech, let it mature, and enjoy reaching higher and higher in capability? Why do we have to always tear things down and start from scratch?

This causes a lot of artificial bit rot, there's a never ending treadmill of just porting well-developed concepts and mature code to slightly changed representations. It's the busywork of tech.

Does the scientific community also want to follow web dev in their insane churn of frameworks and libraries where last week's best practice is laughable ancient stone-age primitiveness today?
> but those teams are only deployed in situations like bank robberies, hostage situations, school shootings, etc

That's not true and is the reason people are upset. Nobody disagrees with the use of SWAT teams for school shooting and the like. However, that isn't how militarized units are used in real life. There simply isn't enough violent crime in most areas to justify a full time force dedicated to it. Instead, SWAT is used to target drug offenses (often times w/o an indication that there will be violence). In fact, the federal 1033 program (which funnels military hardware to the police) was founded to help fight the war on drugs.

The other big use of SWAT is for search warrants where they have replaced patrol officers in 80% of cases, the vast majority of which don't involve any suspicion that things will get violent.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/new-documents-r...
I'm not sure I understand the threat here. Say I visit SiteA which references jQuery from CDNJS, then later visit SiteB which references exactly the same jQuery from CDNJS - what's the problem?
Literally every country does this. US has more power because it controls .com domains.

They have taken the most effective way of blocking the site instead of using ineffective blocks like DNS, firewalls, etc.
My preference is always to actually test parts in as close as possible to the real state, avoiding mocks unless they're necessary. The more "fake" the system is, the less it tells you about how your software actually works.

So since I could generate collisions for the real hash, that's what I did. If it had been infeasible, I would of course have found a different way to test.

This particular software was written mostly in C (today I would not write it in C) which makes it even more likely that introducing never-used-in-production behaviour unexpectedly perturbs the system. This same system for example ran into an obscure (and since fixed) libc allocator bug, and a defect in the Linux kernel, because we were really kicking the shit out of the memory mapped file I/O with what we were doing.
"You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library." -- Will Hunting

And yet people still pay to go to college. It is okay.

Yes, the distribution of CC and GPL work products at negligible cost does cut into the revenue streams of existing business models. However, there will always be something to do for others that is both engaging and adds value to their lives. Furthermore, Mozart hasn't put modern music out of business.

Unsplash absolutely threatens existing business models, but Unsplash and derivatives aren't going away. One must adapt. Furthermore, CC-BY-SA licensing of high-quality content may even threaten the likes of Getty in the long run. GNU/Linux/BSD clearly compete with once-dominant Microsoft.

The alternative is to force people to charge for something of value they wish to give, gratis, to the world.
Yeees. I used to work for Diebold on ATM's, and we had some research that proved that:

- people want to take out money from the machine
- once they have their money, the activity is complete

We found that if we provided the card back before the money, they stopped leaving their card in the machine. This is because the 'activity' was taking out money.
The native Slack app for iOS is still hot garbage. I have an A13 device, it's the only app to regularly freeze when doing simple actions, including sharing from another app.

All Catalyst apps on Mac that I've tried (including Apple's own Home) feel about as badly out-of-place as anything Electron.
Very difficult due to rounding errors;
I am anti-racist but this is too much.
Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Heap allocation
Lots of countries have requirements for use of their TLDs, not just the US. I can't buy a .eu address here in the US.

Iran has their own TLD, no?
The opponents to your argument would state "one life is too many". The retort is then usually the Benjamin Franklin quote "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Finally it ends with 'do you trust current authority?' and depending upon the social circle you will get various answers.
I’m hoping that the last four years have reminded the world that the US is not reliable and our dependence on them needs to be divested slowly over time. Long term it will be very healthy for almost everyone else, probably not as much for Americans.

Would probably be a healthy thing for the Internet to expand capability and capacity to other parts of the world.