skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably overkill, but I use Pandoc to generate tailored resumes for roles and jobs I’m interested in.

I keep a list of all my skills, experience and education in a YAML file and have a LaTeX template that I clone when creating a new resume. Then it’s just a matter of replacing the template fields with YAML metadata and running Pandoc.
Of course it sucks. That's why I never had an FB account. But Google, Apple, Amazon and any other big monopoly are equally bad, and worse. I don't understand why people single out FB.
Greed is not the problem, and trying to avoid it is going to frankly impossible and would require a degree of control that honestly none of us should want.

The problem is that the individual is not being greedy enough for their own control. They are being greedy for many wrong things, not exclusively but many.

This problem is solved with education not control, which is what stallman had tried to do. People should understand what they should be greedy for i.e. protect at all costs
>When I was a teen, growing up on a diet of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos and Alvin Toffler’s Futurism, I had plenty of big ideas: spaceflight, supersonic travel, mag-lev trains, geodesic domes, bio-nanotech for longevity, and social organization to provide maximum freedom for all. Cheesy, but optimistic.

Now I am 29 and I have no big, optimistic ideas.[...]It feels like I’m in the belly of the ship, frenetically plugging leaky holes, never even having the space of mind to think where the ship should go. Ostensibly, those decisions are made on the bridge of the ship, which, in October 2020, seems to be populated by well-intentioned individuals, but hamstrung in their ability to make good collective decisions.*

So the author turned into an adult. Geodesic domes and flying cars are cool but whether the future is good or not will depend on many people doing boring work over many decades and stuffing those leaks in the ship. Torvalds has said many times that you make the future better fixing one pothole at a time, and what he has built proves that's true. Bold visions aren't all they're cracked up to be and I'll take the linux kernel and git over Bezos phallic rockets when it comes to world improvement in tech. What I'll take from Bezos is the decidedly non-futuristic idea of putting books into boxes a little bit faster than everyone else. That made the world a bit better as well.
Google distances itself from Stadia creative director Alex Hutchinson
No, why would it? Carmack stepped down as CTO of Oculus a year ago: https://www.businessinsider.com/john-carmack-leaves-oculus-r...
Seriously people really need to get rid of all these shit, Facebook deserve neither our data nor our money, just no.
Wouldn't this be better with design by contract...
I don't believe so. No plans survive contact with "the enemy", and the enemy here is input that your system may not have control over (such as processing streaming data from an external source). If we simply turn off the check for release builds, this case would halt the system rather than provide an option to log the offending input contextual information to an error channel and perhaps ignore or recover from the situation (as appropriate).
Not at all, the American consumer's/company's demand for U.S. dollars is because taxes must be paid in dollars to the US Government
Origami is so cool!

https://www.eecs.mit.edu/news-events/announcements/computati...
Is there an open source syncing backend? I'd love something like this connected to a reMarkable.
There are a lot of other fields where you need to go to university just to use the building blocks of the field. Doctors cant just acquire cadavers and try it out at home. Those industries move much slower, but innovation in our field might be related to how new it is.

There are many cheap computers like rpi, but regulations could demand certain security controls that might eliminate those devices.

So I could imagine (a terrible) future where innovation slows, our devices are like ipads, and you need to go to uni to use a real computer. It would take some time... but I think theres a chance it could happen.
I don't think zeroing out home equity to buy bonds is a bad idea.

After all, you either have real estate exposure or some other one, bond or equity exposure. While I haven't done the analysis, I would venture to guess that investment grade bonds at the very least have lower volatility than real estate.
I'm wondering why ffmpeg is more popular than other media libraries like gstreamer.

I'm currently learning gstreamer and it seems to cover more features than ffmpeg. Its CLI command, gst-launch is fantastic to prototype. Is there a specific reasons why more people choose ffmpeg over gstreamer for go-to media processing library?
It looks like they did it in the middle of some farmer's field. I don't think any trees were uprooted for this.
> Ffmpegs documentation

ffplay --help

8826 lines
It would be cool to have technology that tells you how long is a trip, oh wait, precise maps are hundreds of years old.
I have been using my watch's solar dial theme for a while for non-work times and days. It's very interesting to see how solar time drifts -- and a bit depressing at this part of the year how little daylight we get!
I remember learning that “nothing” was slang for a woman’s downstairs privates, which made Much Ado About Nothing seem like a really clever title.
Depends on the level of trust you require. Family wealth or family photos - big difference. At least they state this as their objective, Dropbox does not. They also list on their website the kind of measures they have taken to try and achieve that objective.
I'm sure Lloyd would happily insure your photos 100 years. I'm not sure you have the kind of money that Lloyd would ask for that service.
You must have an account with your real information, send FB proof of identification if they ask, and not have more than one account.
Humans Are Born Wired to See Words, Study Finds
Almost every upper class parent invest in musical education. Learning to play instrument is both enjoyable and discipline building activity.
You don't need to be a chef to give your opinion on food.
That gets to be a nitpicking distinction when you get to the level of micron moving parts. If a practical definition of solid state is that something can survive, say, 20G of abuse, then an accelerometer in silicon, even with moving parts, is pretty indistinguishable from true "solid state".
The article shouldn't have brought up points about FP performance that it couldn't really support.

But it's interesting content overall and that was a side point.
Genius and available time? Even if your smart but don’t have time you can’t do this volume of work.
So a twitch.tv for mathematicians might help.
>Let's be real: they don't care about VR per se. They care about it only insofar as it gets you to use a Facebook account.

Not only to use a Facebook account, but to have access to even more intensive and intrusive monitoring and information harvesting from users. All sorts of biometric and behavioral activity that is integral to using VR will now all be available to Facebook to integrate into customer profiles. Then there is the possibility of behavioral influence through the use of AI. Just like Facebook can influence behavior and choices by tailoring news feeds and ads to users, they will be able to mold the user's VR experience with behavioral cues and advertisements (both subtle and integrated).

Think about the effort they go through in order to track all of your digital movements now, and how valuable that is to them, and then consider how much more fruitful their efforts would be if you literally wore a headset that allowed them to monitor and influence your every perception in real time.
Agreed on all points. Not to mention the abridgement of civil rights that has already happened, and would continue to happen.
> Why would you detach from suffering?

To not have to suffer. The goal of Buddha was to end "suffering". What he found was that the/one way to do that is to become aware of feelings/emotions/sensations, to the point where we don't spontaneously react to them, but instead can consciously choose how to act when we encounter them. How you do that is by first fostering awareness and then by detaching yourself from your own reaction patterns. The idea is not to desensitize yourself, you still very much feel everything, but you can then choose what you do afterwards. Which means you still feel pain, love, bitterness and joy, but you don't need to suffer.

Why would you want to suffer?
I think most of this has to do with intel getting out of a low margin business. They really are only interested I. Products with high margins, and if they don’t see a component with the desired margin they get out.

For the change in the IDM model, it will be interesting. Part of the way intel has seen high margins is by having the best yields and processes. Outsourcing fabs may reduce their ability to execute, or allow them to take advantage of new expertise from folk making much larger quantities in the arm marketplace. I really only see them doing it if they can preserve or increase their margin.
I think they're hoping to become the equivalent of the OASIS in Ready Player One: The one VR platform where all virtual life happens.

Out of all companies that could own such a world, Facebook is the one that I'm most worried about.
I think that with modern fiber-optics it might be possible to make a really long robot arm without any sensitive circuits at the extremity.
Uncensorable Twitter
Not eventually, more like instantly
There isn't one; both of those things are equivalent to a banned account.

Facebook has no room for freeloaders.
Technically there are, practically none.
The supremacy of advertising is also a very small example of the much larger picture of the entire western economy degenerating from something that made actual stuff[0] into a zero-sum game that leeches economic value from productive purposes and transfers it to non-productive middlemen who do nothing other than enrich themselves.

The other big example of this problem is the massive overgrowth of the FIRE sector, which has largely eaten the US economy whole while accomplishing nothing other than its own enrichment.

[0] For the purposes of this argument, 'actual stuff' does apply to intangible goods, like software, that expands the production possibilities curve.
But real Swiss army knife does not include any magic either - even simply extracting text from PDF (ignoring all formatting) is completely non-trivial. Do not know any (non-magical) specialized tool that can convert PDF formatting.
Let's agree to disagree.
My impression is that in 1967 four phase logic was the superior approach, but by the 1970s technology had changed enough that it wasn't. The problem is how to implement the pull-up on your gates. The four phase approach precharged the gates using 4 different clock phases. This was fairly efficient since you just wasted one charge. In contrast, using a pull-up transistor meant that you had a constant current flow, wasting power. The disadvantage with four phase logic is that each gate level takes two clock cycles. If you use static logic, on the other hand, you have the propagation delay through the gates. Another disadvantage of four-phase logic was the more complex design. I think it also required one more transistor per gate.

The main technology changes between 1967 and 1975 were the switch to silicon-gate transistors, the switch from PMOS to NMOS, and the use of depletion-load transistors. I think these considerably reduced the advantage of four-phase logic. The common microprocessors of that era (8080, 6502, Z-80, etc) used depletion-load NMOS logic, although the IMP-16 and TI TMS9900 apparently used four-phase logic. I'm currently looking at the Mostek 4116 memory chip which uses weird precharge logic, probably not four-phase, but I haven't figured out yet what's going on there.

I've read some of the papers on four-phase logic, but haven't studied it closely enough to be sure of the above. So I welcome corrections and more information about the demise of four-phase logic.
A law which can't be proven to be effective is a bad law. If it's difficult to prove whether or not copyright is effective then the laws which restrict freedom need to be removed.
It's what I know and it's never let me down. It powers other software I like, particularly mpv. I have very little experience with gstreamer and don't presently see a need to learn it when ffmpeg already has my needs filled.
Thank you! This has been useful to know, and I now have some amount of fiddling around with pandoc and docx files on my TODO list :)
Not working for me, but this one is: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/45951
No Bezos memo to work out obvious kinks. Two pizza rule limits the blast radius.
How did it change his life?
Can you not request a refund and have consumer protections if they did change the terms of service (effectively crippling) of what you paid for?

Do their terms of service allow crippling changes to their terms of service?
Try watching/listening to youtube videos of someone else explaining a problem you can already solve. Then write out thier words, like if you were writing the script for the video, as well as the math. I found that focusing like this really helped me learn the specific math vocabulary of both the symbols, and constructs. Good luck!
Didn't America's civil rights as well as communism fear/wars, population explosion fear, and nuclear holocaust fear, happen in a time absolutely brimming with technological marvels like nuclear power, space travel, and the first computers, not to mention general technological utopia thinking? I don't see why you can't have both. Maybe stop worrying about the politics and get more enthusiastic about Mars colonies or machine learning or whatever.
>Recent years have shown me how difficult it is to make any meaningful public decision. Every debate is endlessly contentious, every subject has meaningful nuance, and every decision has exceedingly hard-to-predict second-order-effects. The world is much more complex than it was even twenty years ago, and the effects are paralyzing.

I would disagree that the world is much more complex than it was twenty years ago. The increase in complexity is perceived rather than actual. Just like more reporting of crime creates more awareness of crime that existed before but was unreported creating a mistaken awareness of more crime. On most indicators the world has gotten better and more free and more democratic. This matters for the next bit of reasoning.

I would posit that what has happened is that second order effects are now more visible like the crime that was not reported and is now reported. More democracy and access to media means that second-order effects sufferers are more likely to make a kerfuffle and bang the equivalent of pots to get attention whereas previously the big decisions were just rammed through.

A Hoover dam would probably not be built now because the communities affected are more empowered and have the resources to mobilize political opinion. I dont even know how much opposition the Hoover dam faced when it was built if any. Similarly it is far harder if not impossible to build Nuclear power plants because surrounding communities will raise hell. There is also far more understanding of the second order effects. They always existed but we were just unaware of them.

I am not saying this is a bad thing or a good thing just pointing out that you are conflating awareness of second order effects with the existence of more second order effects.
He's in his 50s keep in mind. Most people of his productivity get shoved into management long before his age. He's very good but it's not like he did ffmpeg last week and QuickJS this week.

Some people are just born to be able to work all day all week, if you are one of those people please don't throw it away (I am not one of them). I think I have the knowledge to do most of his projects e.g. I have the mathematics, and RF engineering to do (say) the LTE stuff but there is absolutely no way in hell I could ever sit down and write it (I've done my own RF projects but I burn out so quickly).
This is a lot of great information, and I'll check out that subreddit when I'm at a computer. Thank you!
I can accept those terms and must be as flawed as anybody else.

>Do you stay focused on one subject, iterating multiple times over the result, in order to achieve incremental improvements?

Yes.

>Do you explore a wide breadth of problems, giving you new perspectives on thinking about the problem at hand?

Yes.

>Do you churn out mindless crap just for the sake of it?

No.

I just like to churn out mindless crap when it's absolutely required.

This is what takes up most of many people's time.

You're going to have to churn out some mindless crap anyway, so when you do things for the sake of it try your very best to make it non-mindless for a change.

Sometimes the mindless, or the crap, or the stuff for the sake of it can be the glue that binds all efforts in a way that they are always moving forward together though.
Oh, totally. I have a Glowforge that was about $4k I think, and we're a member of a makerspace that has like a $40k laser cutter we use. But we've easily re-couped that through my stuff, my wife's business doing laser cut/engraved signs, and custom work for folks (e.g., signs for businesses, putting artists' works on ornaments, etc.).

And yep I do all the designs using a mixture of Illustrator and Procreate on my iPad. :)
Is that really still contaminated? I see a lot of new apartments going in there.
This site has something weird going on.

If you try to select text, you can only select it in reverse. If you try to select forward, it just selects the entire page.

Why do people do stuff like this?
Maybe a this is'nt English warning?
There are a number of issues with this program. First, there are a large number of bugs and general implementation issues. For example, "vdx --help" does not print help output, but instead raises "Need a glob pattern for input files". Invalid options are ignored, and debug output is non-existent: "vdx myfile.mp4 --asdf garbage" results in "error build/myfile.garbage" with no other explanation. It turns out that it is interpreted as "vdx myfile.mp4 -f garbage". The list goes on and on.

More fundamentally, however, FFmpeg supports both simple and complex operations. This program takes simple operations and does them wrong, and takes complex operations and throws them out. For example, the command to halve the audio volume of an mp4 file containing audio and video would be:

ffmpeg -i infile.mp4 -c:v copy -af volume=.5 outfile.mp4

There are a number of problems with this command. Most importantly, it always encodes audio output with the built-in AAC encoder at 128 kbps. A better command would take into account the input quality and desired output quality and codec, then specify something like "-c:a libopus -b:a 80k" to select the desired result. vdx solves this complexity by simply ignoring it and using the FFmpeg default. A similar problem applies to its video codec settings, which always uses libx264 with the default settings. This is a poor choice. Almost always, either a slow setting (for better quality and smaller file size) or a fast setting (for worse quality and larger file size) is desired. Also, in my experience, either a lower CRF (for high-quality film content) or a higher CRF (for low-quality phone/ripped content) is desired. If you're going to punt on doing it properly and just use the defaults, you might as well just use ffmpeg directly.

The issues go far deeper than that, however. The entire design of the program is flawed. It appears to try to process the file twice: once for video, and once for audio. However, the author seems not to know that ffmpeg will re-encode video by default. Therefore, a simple command like "vdx myfile.mp4 --volume 0.5" unnecessarily re-encodes the entire video, twice. It applies operations in what seems to be undefined order, which is a problem when (for example) cropping and also resizing a video.
Pandoc is a true work of art. Everything about it embodies the Unix philosophy of "Do One Thing and Do It Well".

I've been using Pandoc (and make) daily for over 6 years for all sorts of document writing (letter, report, thesis, design doc, performance review, you name it) and solve the occasional "interesting" format conversion problem. Its robust, reliable, fast, and a pleasure to use (and script).
Unless something is contractual and legally binding, I don't know why anybody would take a word of PR at any value. An SLA of 99.99% uptime, sure, I can probably assume there's organization incentive to uphold it, and even still, you should perform your due diligence. Some company like Facebook saying one thing and doing another is to be expected, especially when the stated reason is purely emotional and stands at odds with core business directives.
And there is GitCenter, which is git over zeronet (a p2p network similar to BitTorrent but for dynamic content)
I guess, but I think JS is to far away from C to be worth it. This is saying a lot coming from me, but I would rather write python - at least longs would be the right length (if you catch my drift)
And there are statically-compiled versions available for multiple platforms on Pandoc's download page. (I tend to use those for the Mac, rather than installing through Homebrew.)
Intel Creating Cryptographic Codes That Quantum Computers Can't Crack
That was cool. The guy walking around the stack calling plays was making me nervous though, lol. He'd need more than a hard hat to survive a pileup.
Hadn't heard of pandoc before. Momentarily thought it converted from PDF to anything, and my heart leapt. Alas, it only converts to PDF. My hopes dashed...
I love that he calls [1] the incredibly useful tools he built a product of structured procrastination [2].

[1] https://johnmacfarlane.net/tools

[2] http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
Calibre (`ebook-convert`) makes a decent attempt at converting PDFs to other formats. This of course is very far from perfect, but it takes a good stab at it and I've sometimes found the results to be usable (often with some manual cleanup.)

Another example where Caliber compliments Pandoc well is when generating ebooks for sideloading onto kindles. Pandoc can create epubs which Calibre can in turn convert to mobi.
Every time I deactivate facebook, using facebook login on spotify (which is how I setup my Spotify account years ago) re-activates my FB profile... ridiculous.
In theory purity unlocks optimizing potential, but in practice I don't think what you're saying holds true.

Mutating a value is almost always cheaper than allocating a new version of that value and collecting the old one. I think you're vastly understating the "you can usually" and overstating the "much less readable and maintainable".
Have you tried eBay?

When I have an appliance that is beyond repair, I salvage the parts that are still intact and put them up for sale. You’d be surprised what the door of a microwave oven sells for on a parts website. You can undercut that by 50%.

GE appliances always have a wiring diagram tucked in them somewhere.
Everything right with BeOS can be found here: https://www.haiku-os.org/
It is at least a triple pun, yep!

This exercise was more to do with the actual ordinary "plain" word meanings. In 1605, "nice" had the primary sense of "precise" or "careful and tidy", and if you don't know that this sentence, for example, doesn't parse:

Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice / To change true rules for odd inventions.
How? PMEL is located in Seattle. According to their website, they have a location in Newport, Oregon also. What do they have here?

I can't even find an island or something near this location on Google Maps.
> As a single person I can wash my dishes in less than a minute. Glass, plate no. 1, plate no. 2, bowl, fork, knife, no more than a few seconds each.

This list. Where are you going to cut your sweet potatoes? On a plate? How is this list of equipment sufficient to prepare and cook meals?