skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you to the Mux team for putting this together! I've been using Mux as the basis of milk.video's transcoding and video serving from the start, and it's been an absolute pleasure to work with.

This site is an incredible, concise, and comprehensive resource for people trying to better understand how video works.

I attended the demuxed conference this year, and was exposed for the first time into the nitty gritty of how video works behind the scenes.

Huge props for the content not being a sales pitch, and truly being educational and informative.
Sjogrens patients have what’s known as a “flare”
Basically severe inflammation throughout entire body.

Brain fog is a common part of this.

Getting inflammation under control becomes your life.

Lots of successes (not all)

Autoimmune protocol Diet is meant for controlling inflammation.

It’s almost a Keto diet, but some Kinds carbs allowed, some things not allowed.

Overall your hives with personal experience and my own research.
> When a mussel breaches the hull

I knew barnacles were a problem, I hadn't realised there were other dangerous bivalves. :)
The squirrels in London, and most of the UK, are American greys - imported as pets in the 19th century. The rest of Europe has the much more timid red squirrel.
There is "Program the Classics" :

https://wireframe.raspberrypi.org/books/code-the-classics1/p...

Review here :

https://geektechstuff.com/2020/01/01/code-the-classics-volum...
I think libxml does not have that problem, IIRC golang supports c-bindings.
I guess the author time travels?
That's optimized based on the video codec itself where you keep frames with major changes but surrounding frames can be optimized by encoding where certain pixels move. That's essentially what the bitrate tells us, how much of the bits are new and how many are copied from a previous frame. This is an oversimplification, but with static images, you would need a low bitrate after the initial few frames because it doesn't change. And bitrate is a proxy to how much data is transmitted while streaming, it's bits per second.

So a more concise answer, the codecs used for video by YouTube have the optimization you're thinking about built in. It would send a "pixel didn't change from last frame" and not need to send all the color information for all the pixels.

YouTube does not really do variable frame rate, and it's messy for editing, but it's another optimization that is possible and could be useful for the type of video you're describing.

The article describes DASH which you would need to send the full frame initially every time segment but per segment the previously described concept still applies. I don't believe YouTube uses DASH for anything outside live streams.
I mean, is giving someone nicotine a crime, especially when they request it by going to the store and buying more cigarettes?
Evaluating the carbon footprint of a software platform hosted in the cloud
Cool video! It's very easy to do (provided you have the ingredients). The serving in the video seems to be for 3 people. It's a really greasy dish, there's no way you can eat all of that alone.
I think the issue was he went into the back door, and then found a key, and then started unlocking more doors. In other words, he used the initial bug to escalate access into their systems. Which is pretty obvious a no-no.
Matrix is self hosted and more of a protocol while signal is not
I do not know the answer, but I would absolutely shocked if it was streamed as a regular video. To the best of my knowledge, there are many, many optimizations which go into video.

This is a pretty good high-level video I came across - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI
Getting Sugar out of diet is a big deal for a lot of people.
I wish AON was more common than GPON, since with AON you can have your own CPE, while with GPON your CPE will get data from multiple customers, so you controlling it is a privacy risk.
I think this highlights the need to rotate keys more frequently. Basically, the crackers broke into a corporate Exchange server and stole the Duo "secret" key. With this key they could sign any future log-in attempts and prevent Duo from issuing a MFA request.

So, they just sat on the key until they needed access to someone's account. Changing that key every 'N' days would reduce the attackers opportunities severely. Then again, changing keys all the time also has it's downsides.
That's one way to look at the problem ( we need to get people to stop destroying rainforest by giving them their livehood), another way is that once there is no value in destroying the rainforest, people will stop doing so.

In this regard, coming up with a palm oil substitute is very valuable, because it takes away a major reason to destroy the rainforest.

And now, since they can no longer drill the rainforest for a ( relatively easy) living, they have to drill their brain, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Big South East Asia countries are generally cursed with natural resources[0], they have oil, timber and whatnot, and yet their GDPs dwarfed compared to Singapore and lag behind in virtually all the indexes measuring good living like corruption index, a tiny SEA country with absolutely zero natural resources.

Stop people from destroying the rainforest comes first before giving them their livehood, not after.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
> But when it comes to media stuff (think: cropping a lossless audio file and compressing the result into an AAC or MP3, resizing 20 images, transcoding a movie from one format to the other, removing one page from a PDF), on Mac it can usually be done with built in tools.

Which tools are these? On Mac I ended up using Audacity for cropping audio files, ffmpeg (cli) to compress it, and used either ffmpeg or Handbrake for transcoding. I don't remember what I used for pdf page split/combine, but I do remember that it was a pain.

Honest question - as I still use Mac occasionally, it'd be great to know what are those builtin tools so I can actually use the features the OS has.
Technically he used the 1st bug to enter their systems and then escalate access through other security holes or bugs.

That's not likely to be accepted by default by most companies. I would assume a default "do not escalate access" unless explicitly asked for.
Todo App Using Vue and Django REST Framework
If you're a US citizen with a Facebook account, your value for Facebook is about $ 200 per year. That's the average, including children, seniors, etc. If you're a tech worker in your 30s, it's probably 3x as much.

If you want to use Facebook without targeted advertising, you need to either convince them that they don't need all that money, or pay it yourself. And that's just Facebook.

In other words: the internet economy without targeted ads will be a very different place. Facebook will survive. imgurl / snopes / fivethirtyeight? Unlikely...
This very much needed to be implemented worldwide. We have not seen capitalism to have been exploited to such extent, so we need regulation to limit any anomalies. I would go further and require that at a certain scale companies should be divided into smaller ones.
I don't think it's that uncommon, plenty of people would say 'Nurofen' in the UK as well.
> But that would make it fail the "eval e = eval (opt e)" rule in siraben's proof. The same for picking a different order to execute the functions in "f() + g()".

This is really a question of how the semantics are formulated. The eval function I gave doesn't take into account an abstract machine so there is no notion of "variable allocation" or "final state" to check, the semantics doesn't account for it.

To scale it to a more realistic model with nondeterminism, heaps and so on, the semantics needs to be changed to a relational one. For instance, eval would now be a relation that relates two states of the machine, and a proof of correctness would be something like[0], which takes into account all possible states of the heap.

Equality would no longer used to relate two "equivalent" programs but rather some other equivalence relation with the properties one cares about, for instance two programs would be heap-equivalent if they have exactly the same effect on the heap, or UB-equivalent if they have possible UB at the "same" (again under another relation) places.

[0] https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/plf-current/Equiv....
Toward a Critical Technical Practice: Lessons Learned in Trying to Reform AI
I think we have a contender for "Scum Company of the Decade"
Ex-Cisco Employee Convicted for Deleting 16K Webex Accounts
I wonder if we’ll ever get to a point where a non-western autocratic government will carry out a hit job in a western country. Russia sort of does it with the poisoning, but we’d really see a true shift in power when the mafia does it in broad daylight similar to the Khashoggi situation.

The short list is China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25422930
> They're [...] gentle [...]

No they're not. They're brutal, vicious killers (a trait they share with lots of others of members of the rodent family, such as rabbits).

Here's just one example:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/03/red-squirrel...
I personally know people who switched to Mac because of Print/Save as PDF. Not just because of that but it was the proverbial last straw. (That was before it was built in in Windows.)
Deutsche Welle's English site looks like a useful one to broaden my news repertoire.
> Cash handouts to encourage poor men to receive vasectomies for example.

Yikes.

There is a better alternative: it is very well known/studied that women that have a strong position and are educated have less children.

One (poor; your words) man without a vasectomy can knock up many women. Hence I think it's better to focus on the women.
Isn’t loss of rainforest in Indonesia now due to large agrobusinesses cutting it down to build enormous plantations of palm oil trees? Deforestation in Madagascar is largely driven by dirt-poor subsistence farmers cutting down neighboring patches of rainforest in order to plant rice (and also Chinese firms logging precious woods for the furniture industry), but I thought Southeast Asia was a different case.
Emacs4CL: A DIY ~/.emacs in 35 lines to get started with Common Lisp programming
Good thing quota systems can't go bonkers and take over all the resources, that would be a nightmare!
It's a hypothetical. Waiting until the technology exists is probably a bad idea, since at that point there'd be someone with the means and motive to convince you that the technology is entirely benign.
Sperm granuloma
A sperm granuloma is a lump of sperm that can cause small bumps or cysts that range from 1 millimeter to 1 centimeter in size. A person can experience multiple lesions. They don’t usually cause any symptoms. However, some men may have pain at the granuloma areas.

Experts estimate 15 to 40 percent of men undergoing vasectomy experience a sperm granuloma. In some instances, a man may have to have the granuloma surgically removed.
as long as binary safe transport is given, possible. unless that ... . you can't skip the memory protocol.
How to Build a Strong Engineering Culture That Empowers Engineers
A system where women are forced or pressured to marry undesirable men benefits welfare in general?

Otherwise, we need to deal with the very real suffering of lonely people.
You're right that we don't need to understand something completely before we regulate it.

My point was to emphasize how little we know about psychology and how little good a law that addresses our current technology will do in the long run, since the psychology-focused technology we have 50 or 100 years from now will likely be vastly more dangerous.

The image I have is of a caveman who, upon seeing one of his tribesmen kill another with a rock, proposes to regulate the use of rocks. Good idea maybe, but give it time and rocks will be the least of his troubles.

However it's unfair of me to dismiss our real life solutions to real life problems by pointing to a problem that might come to exist in an imaginary long-term future. We can only make the best with what we have.

Maybe I need to update my mental model of the law from an eternal-and-perfect view to an incremental-and-imperfect view, especially when it comes to the intersection of law and technology.
Why can't both be true though

For example, regression models aren't exactly ai magic, but unchecked, they compute discriminatory insurance premiums in a way we find morally unacceptable.

The naked emperor still needs keeping in check.
I should think that actually having academics access to the internal effectiveness metrics would in and of itself be hugely beneficial.

- what is the range of ads to be served like? I rmeber thebfounder of duck duck go saying lack of PII made little difference to him - someone is searching for "PC Monitor" then the range of ads seems pretty obvious. Is this true in "persuasive" mode? Are there bidders trying to serve political ads or lingerie when I search for a monitor? How can you tell?

- is this a zero sum arms race ? A study I cannot find should that Political races are decided by who the public prefers not by total spend. Congressional races showed that if ad spend was matched the winner stayed consistent - it's only when one side out spent the other did ads have an effect. If I am outraged by ad X do ai also get served the anti-X advert? Would it work if I was?
(this is the equalicalent of how many adverts saying fruit and vegetables are good for you outweighs adverts for sugary drinks? There is probably a lot of metrics out there on that - how comparable is it?)

good luck
At least in Germany, since we got VoIP the voice quality is absolutely crystal-clear if all devices on the line are digital. It will still sound muffled if you connect e.g. an analog phone to your VoIP router, but a DECT phone over VoIP will sound so bright and clear that it's almost frightening.
My ISP uses GPON FTTH and anticipates you to use their all-in-one box they provide.

You can "easily" replace the Freebox, provided you can:

A) find the necessary ipip6 configuration for your region

B) you don't mind losing VOIP and IPTV

It should even be possible to retain IPTV if you route the correct VLAN to their set-top box, but I didn't care enough to go through that.

The amazing part to me is that (IMO) they are selling you a more expensive monthly subscription to get an all-in-one box with a less terrible WiFi implementation. [1]

The standard WiFi experience with their lower-tier all-in-one is terribad, which could easily be solved by buying a WiFi AP and plugging it into their box via Ethernet.

German ISPs do the same thing, by offering you the choice of a basic router or a Fritz!Box for a higher fee. In every instance I have seen, you're better off selecting the cheapest device your ISP will provide, putting it into bridge mode, and using your own router/AP via Ethernet.

[1] https://www.free.fr/freebox/
> Saudi Arabia wanted to send ten men on an official assignment to Norway, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms to Dagbladet. The ten men were all security guards, who were deployed to work at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Norway, according to Dagbladet’s sources. But Saudi Arabia wanted the security guards to be registered as diplomats in Norway. This would give them extended room for manoeuvring in Norway.

This sounds like they're amateurs, sending 10 at once. Other nations do that probably one by one to stay under the radar.
After reading this comment again, I realise that I should have just shut up a few comments before. I can't delete my comments any more now.

My apologies for being so argumentative; GP triggered me and I just spewed expletives instead of calmly explaining my point of view.
The article never mentions the liability thing, which is key (at least searching liability I didn't find anything).
Well, technically it's possible that any percentage is above average - just not above median.
I think the EU was set to ban the use of palm oil for use in biofuels this year. Also, biofuel is/was "only" 50% of the EU's total palm oil consumption. And for other coutries, it's a lot less.
For cropping audio files, QuickTime can do it. Look in its menus. Also transcoding video files (to what extent this might be “compression” depends on your use case).

PDF page manipulation is the easiest thing on macOS, also quite robust usually. Just open the document in Preview and open the page sidebar. You can reorder or remove pages there; or drag and drop pages from other documents.
As mentioned before, work on your Leetcode skills. Be sure you can talk while solving them on whiteboard.

From books I like "Elements of Programming Interviews" and also "Cracking the coding interview", even though it's little lightweight.

Then make your LinkedIn profile nice and shiny and contact the recruiters.
The FCC Just Upended Decades of Research on Connected Vehicles
One more law from EU that won't accomplish anything.

We should be grateful it doesn't look like they're screwing up small businesses (VATMESS) or the entire internet (cookie law, GDPR, copyright link tax) this time
Yes, me too. But it's more expensive. And ISPs are so used to milking old infrastructure it's a miracle we're getting any fiber now that DOCSIS can do gigabit.

edit: funnily enough, DSL is similar to AON in that it's dedicated last mile
Pretty sure they make you an offer on the gold that you can decline. Probably still predatory but I think you are mistaken
Soon we will see a ‘We are working on making this website accessible to our EU customers’ on the Google homepage :/
Why the Future of Startups Are Studios
> Cash handouts to encourage poor men to receive vasectomies for example.

Why poor men?
As an EU citizen, I'm extremely happy for the way the EU is pushing back on the tech giants. It's empowering.

The GDPR, in my opinion, turned out to be a terrific first step (which does not mean it does not have its issues). It's been a rocky two+ years, but most sites are already up to a point where they actually give me a way to express my consent, or (more importantly) to object to processing on grounds of legitimate interest (which is where advertisers come in).

And that's just one example. The GDPR starts with the following sentence (in recital 1): The protection of natural persons in relation to the processing of personal data is a fundamental right. And the EU is living up to it.

It's empowering to actually have a say in how one's own data is being processed, rather than just being the product at someone else's mercy.

I can only welcome any further steps in this direction. I have no issues with some entity getting rich and powerful, the problem is when they get too powerful.
> I think you learn the most when you steam train into something and get stuck - then figure out how to get out of it.

Warning: Please don't apply this to _other_ people who say they need help with something. If someone comes to you with a problem they say that they are stuck on and can't figure out, please don't respond solely by giving them encouragement to just keep plugging along. Either encourage them to find someone else with time to listen or give your time to listen.

1. It feels incredibly _isolating_ to be told something like, "Thats just imposter syndrome. I'm sure you'll figure it out."

2. It is much harder to focus and succeed when you're trying to push yourself down a path you think is probably fruitless.

3. It is much harder to solve problems when you don't have a sounding board. When you can have conversational space to teach someone else about the problem space, paths open up.
> please do try and avoid buying products palm oil.

If you want to make that lifestyle choice, then you do your thing, but be aware that this pretty much means never eating out, either. Loads of fast food establishment and restaurants today are using palm oil because it is such a cheap solution. You see those huge bulk containers of palm oil at the local hypermarket for a reason, those aren’t for household use.
On a very basic level Quicktime can do that. And Preview lets you easily remove pages from PDFs - select the page in the sidebar, press Delete.

Apart from that, more advanced 1st party apps for editing (for certain values of advanced) are available free - iMovie for video, GarageBand for audio, Pages for documents, etc.
> For me, the difficulty is on the other side. Even outside of games it can be hard to find something that feels like it matters and is important (even if you can make money and be otherwise better off in your life by doing it). Curiosity can also pull you in a thousand different directions.

Yes, pretty similar for me. Therefore I quite envy people that can get
that much out of just games, and I'm even struggling to find something in
the real world.

I think the modern kind of work can feel quite pointless, because being
just a part of a complex machinery can make it hard to see what you're
really provoking. And if you're a bit of a misfit for the modern culture,
can't get meaning out of money, status and career, then also these
game-like achievements aren't an option.

But life in general is just quite strange if you think long and deep
enough about it. So it's pretty nice if you can loose yourself in such a simple
thing as a game. I really think that being able to look at life as a kind
of game makes it a lot easier, because taking it really seriously is just
too painful.

Well, seems to be one of my more melancholic days. ;)
If this gets through and implemented, it's probably gonna affect Google a lot, but I wonder whether they'll also go after Apple with their App Store and the whole Spotify situation, since I don't think I've seen the EU regulators look into that before.
Worth noting that the $200 ultimately come from our pockets. We are paying those $200 anyway through markups on products ads made us buy.
That is indeed interesting. The pipeline should be filling up if the OS scheduler delays the buffering for 40ms, giving enough data on the next call. Except if the buffering isn't greedy enough or aborted by the OS in some way.
Do we know that's the case, that a product manager did this? Seems odd if they all accidentally designed very similar icons across the products. More likely this was a sweeping design centralisation change.

And do we know they were misled about their roles? You might think "manage" means "lead", but it doesn't.
> Mac a little better in window management

Can you elaborate on this? I've been using a Mac for work for a couple of years now and I find the out-of-the-box window management experience pretty bad compared to Windows. No snapping to sides or corners, no quick resize to standard sizes other than maximum, and most importantly no easy way to change between multiple windows of the same program using keyboard shortcuts. I've been using Magnet [1] and Contexts [2] to improve things, but it's a shame I have to use paid third party apps for basic functionality like this.

[1] https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/
[2] https://contexts.co/
EU is already going after apple.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_...
For voice, I don't think you need a "good speed" internet connection?
> By confirming my info above and clicking "Submit", I consent to Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and to receive personal messages and automated text alerts (which may be marketing in nature) from Capiche FM. Consent not a condition of any purchase. Msg frequency will vary. Msg & data rates may apply. Text STOP to cancel anytime.

I would be extremely vary about this service. Not only it explicitly violates GDPR, but it may also substantially increase your phone bill.
Remove the Pip Search Command
Wah wah wah.

Spectrum-squatters can eat a bag.
What are you referring to by "Spotify situation"? I'm out of the loop. Could it be the data breaches mentioned here?

https://threatpost.com/spotify-changes-passwords-data-breach...
A very modest proposal.
Selimchan Changoschwili was shot in broad day light in Berlin Tiergarten, allegedly by russian agencies.