skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious whether there are/were plans for a VLC-lite that eschews the many more advanced features (transcoding, streaming, etc) and focuses purely on playback with as little overhead as possible?

Maybe I missed this discussion already but as much as I love VLC sometimes it feels like I'm using a semi truck to drive to the store and back.
I never understood why Amazon rolled another engine.

Unreal and Unity are both fantastic. Let your dev teams pick from one of those two and be done with it.

Unless your doing something really special theirs no reason to build an engine( if your goal is shipping games )
What is a "unit" of LSD? Is that like International Units?
Not disagree that Apple should work on a solution, but what app store already does this?

We can ask that Apple do better but don’t forget it already does far more then any other store.
You're misinterpreting my comment. There is no 'American Antifa (TM)', it is many smaller groups. That just supports what I wrote. I wasn't about to write "some movement in Germany != many smaller groups in the US, some of which are violent and destructive, and have varying levels of attachment to the same ideology." Although, considering the reading comprehension of some people on this site, being more explicit might have helped.

Edit: just gathered from reading your comment history that you are Norwegian (something I like to do when people reply to me). What experiences have you had with Americans and 'antifa' groups in America?
i am curious, what kind of project are you working on?
Want to thank you and your team for such an great piece of software!
I'll assume you're referencing SkySat imagery, as that's the more direct comparison to our product!

Different is more of an over-arching theme, so I'll focus on how we're better and cheaper. We are better in the sense that our native resolution will be 25x finer than theirs - Planet SkySats have 50cm native GSD and our satellites will have 10cm native GSD. This is "better" in the sense that we're more resolute, but we do sacrifice coverage.

As far as cheaper goes, the commercial space industry has made a lot of progress in the past 10 years, and as a result, getting to space has gotten substantially cheaper. This may be slightly oversimplified, but we're hoping cheaper costs for us will transfer over to our users.
Where do you draw the line? At the Columbian Exchange?
> Last one -- I have no idea if this is a placebo effect. But caffeine seems to really help.

Yep. As has been mentioned, in this context you're basically using it like Adderall. Unfortunately, the body will build up a tolerance quickly, so I find myself needing to use them sparingly, Adderall especially, otherwise end up feeling the withdrawal symptoms (excessive irritability, more trouble focusing than before medicating).
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I'm like the OP. The distinction I make is:

1) A tough project can be engrossing. Getting started is always tough, but after that it's relatively easy to keep up momentum.

2) Menial tasks are not engrossing and are usually quick, so they require a level of attention control to stay focused on them that I'm just not capable of. It's like "getting started" over and over.
What's harmful is telling people without qualification that they should seek dangerous and addictive medication without a careful cost/benefit analysis.

My comment isn't saying that you shouldn't, it's saying that there are downsides that are not apparent that must be weighed against the upsides—same as any medication. Even ibuprofen can fuck up your stomach, each remedy must be evaluated on its risks and merits.

I speak from extreme personal experience. Same team!
You can use a site like this to compare: https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolio/total-stock-market/ versus https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolio/classic-60-40/

Mixing bonds gives you a slightly higher safe withdrawal rate but you do lose 2 percentage points average yearly returns.
Author is using Rails, so my guess would be the bottleneck is ActiveRecord. I've never used ActiveRecord, so I can't speak to it directly, but in my experience when dealing with large numbers of records in an ORM (and author easily is working with hundreds of thousands), things grind to a halt, even with eager loading. There's a lot more overhead to create thousands of ORM objects than it is to serialize an equivalent chunk of BSON.
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If you divide the height of the satellite by X then the resolution is multiplied by X. This is Thales theorem [0]. What else do you need?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercept_theorem
ADHD medication has different effects on people, and you’ll
know very quickly what it’s effect is on you. Furthermore, it does not make me spaced out or zombie like, nor does it make me strung out. It simply calms my brain down so I can actually focus on the problem at hand, rather than the opposite of that, with my brain flitting back and forth with other thoughts.

I don’t take it on a day when I’m being creative or brainstorming, because the lateral thinking required does that is actually something ADD helps, but I take it when I have to get something done.

Take it from a guy who has had ample coping mechanisms, got a CS degree from MIT, founded and sold a security startup, etc.; all of those coping mechanisms worked, but got much easier once I accepted the ADD and found the right meds. It only made me more productive and a better contributing member of the team.

YMMV, but I suspect your assumptions about how it affects people are very wrong.
I agree, I see this in many forms: (From IT projects, to dealing with huge homeless problems, to drug crime)

We shouldn't do this, because this doesn't 'solve' the problem in 100% of cases.

That is how nothing ever gets done. I think we should absolutely hit the low hanging fruit.

I mean, a few years ago, Oregon legalized Weed. This last election, they legalized shrooms (in certain clinical settings). Once people see progress being made, they are much more likely to go with the next step.
Ask HN: How have whoishiring threads fared for remote workers in non-US regions?
How has the experience been for remote workers in non-US regions in any of the following threads :

- Who is hiring?

- Who wants to be hired?

- Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?
At Monitoro[0] we've been asked for satellite imagery monitoring (geographic change detection). Supplier prices were prohibitive but I'm glad to see activity in this space (pun non intended) and we're considering pursuing it at some point.

[0]: https://monitoro.xyz
The tracking technology itself has a much wider scope of application than "small businesses focusing their development budget". Ads are used as a commercial justification for broadening the larger ability to surveil.
They're essentially asking their users to bail them out by trying to garner sympathy towards the nebulous 'small businesses' who probably wouldn't notice any difference anyway. Unless FB threw a bunch of them under the bus first and then tried to blame Apple for it.

FB aren't entitled to a user's entire internet presence (digital and physical) just because the user doesn't pay for the account.
Thank you guys for the great work! VLC is just great.
The age of envy: how to be happy when everyone else’s life looks perfect
Which in turn would create an incentive to actually create websites attracting different audiences?
The “capitalism socialism” opposition seems outdated
So ten years ago they showed why it’s a bad idea?
It would be great to see the public bombard these companies with a demand for privacy. Petitions/demonstrations/email campaigns...whatever it takes.
My Thoughts and Highlights from Naval Ravikant's Almanack (AngelList)
But some won't. And if people get used to it, they will go elsewhere for a specific app and leave the scams behind.

People be forced will go to really shitty stores that are way worse than Apple’s one for specific apps, and the overall app market will become much less safe.

Why? Because people establishing new stores will just pay for exclusives.
Could Machine Learning Have Predicted GameStop Madness?
I drink lots and lots of caffeine during the week. I mostly like hot drinks when I have to sit down and work throughout the day. I definitely cannot relate to that caffeine buzz. I consume almost no caffeine on the weekends and I cannot really tell a difference from an alertness standpoint. There are nights I cannot sleep at all and toss and turn until the wee hours of the morning, and there are nights I fall asleep within 5 minutes and sleep throughout the night. Neither seems to have anything to do with the amount of caffeine I'm consuming.
Hmm, I agree there's a market here, but I don't know why I wouldn't just use Snowflake or Bigquery if what I really wanted was a big-data RDBMS.

Everyone I know who uses Databricks (and they all like it) use it as hosted Spark with S3 integrations, or write... directly to Snowflake. I'm a little skeptical they're going to get traction as a true data lake model
GABA supplements can help alleviate the symptoms of ADHD, if the source of it is anxiety.
You know an architecture is dead when even Linux gives up on it. Mixed feelings on this architecture. Oh well...
> someone servicing an active physical dependency to have a "perfect bill of health"

Is taking immunosuppressants also a physical dependency or a functional addiction?
> It's dead, Jim.

I wonder how many folks would miss this reference. If I'm not mistaken, it's only in the original series. On the other hand, I guess Itanium is even more obscure than Star Trek at this point.

I tend to assume that most people know at least as much as I do, so I was taken aback when, after explaining line endings to a co-worker, she asked, "What's DOS?"
It's really a shame IA64 accelerated the deaths of Alpha and PA-RISC. Not sure they could have survived x86-64 or ARM64 but they still had legs when Itanium hit the scene.
THey still need cause to search your car. Not that they won't manufacture it if they want to. But I've been pulled over for speeding, expired tags, and other minor traffic issues a few times and have never had my car searched.
It's been 10 years since Sony removed Linux support from the PS3. Surely we have better sources for their rationale than the official press release of their CEO at the time?
Chats Inspired by Diverse Futures
There are realistic scenarios here where the liquidity of a stock can't cover the short though, as in there being not enough shares listed for sale at any ask price.

I understand shorts are said to be unbounded risk, but surely there's some escape hatch: if the top hedge fund shorted 30% of some penny stock presumably a competitor that buys out 71% of shares doesn't get to take over the whole hedge fund by only selling that last share back at a price of 100% of the funds value: instead the fund will default on their recall responsibility and pay out some reasonable amount (and some true end stock holder just surprise loses their share?)
Thank you for the excellent program! It seems to be the only video processing library that I can use for all Apple systems, and, unfortunately, I need to use it, because RTSP...

There's very few dependencies that I will include without too much hesitation, and VLCKit is one.

But it is...large...
2008 makes sense, about the time where k-lite codec pack and media player classic started to be eclipsed! Wow. Thank you for the best video player out there, for all those exciting, strange and exciting codecs!
Personal data of 1.4M Washington unemployment claimants exposed in hack
I read the article. I'll bet real money that Stadia is cancelled within five years.
Oh nice to have that on the roadmap.

Subaligner does respect the original frame rate. How the player is going to interpret the subtitle timecode is hard to know though.
I don't have any questions directly, just wanna say that I love VLC, it's one of the first programs I install on any computer, and I will continue to use it as my primary media-viewer for the foreseeable future.

The number of features that the devs have packed into VLC is staggering; I've been using VLC for almost 15 years now, and I still find new things about it occasionally. Fun fact (though probably not as surprising to an HN crowd as it is to most people I tell this to), VLC can also be used to convert media to different formats, AND works as a quick ad-hoc media server if you want to display something on a TV. This can be really handy if you have a video file in a weird format and want a way to quickly watch it on a device that doesn't support weird formats.

I think I'm going to donate. Keep up the good work folks!
‘Weird new things are happening in software,’ says Stanford AI prof Chris Re
> Despite having used document oriented databases for many years(largely because they were shoved down my throat and I inherited someone else's architecture), I never really managed to figure out why people find them so compelling.

Well, filesystems are pretty good. It's the only document store I use (and mostly enjoy).

But then you look at the trade-off with some think like just Maildir, and you really start to wonder if this schemaless document store thing is so great?

I suppose the real shame is that proper object dbs like zodb or gemstone gets much less attention - they to have big trade-offs - but I feel they at least give back in terms of consistency and simplicity.
It was likely a very poor keyboard. Just operating well enough to pass review. Once a user saw it, no one is buying.
No, Databricks is a distribution of Apache Spark with some value-added features such as the Delta Lake data format and a clean UI for hosting notebooks, doing cluster admin, etc
As I understand it, it does some static analysis still. The big idea with the Perseus algorithm, I think, is that instead of lending a reference at a function call, it is given. This leads to numerous optimizations where memory can statically be reused. They still do dynamic checks that an object has only one reference, too, when it's not statically known.
Usually the rhyme scheme is ABCB: https://www.printmag.com/post/the-morbid-roadside-ad-poetry-...

I'll submit this:

Let Turing try
to read our mail
Our ciphertext
will never fail.
German-Shave.
Absolutely not. Those are very dangerous substances to take. Now add in the additional dangers posed by criminal production. How does a drug user know whether it's really cocaine? Of course, they don't. It's completely unregulated the most extreme manner possible.
data lake, delta lake, lake house. snowflake, snowpark. cloud, data warehouse. I just want to take a second to thank these companies for trying to turn my profession (data science + analytics) into the living hell of your every day enterprise and tech culture cluster-fuck (pun not intended).

I'm still coming to terms with the fact that there's actually a technology called Kafka...

/sorry, I'm just particularly bitter after having to do some databricks training yesterday... it was basically 80% trying to rote the sales literature about why they're so great/enterprisy and parroting company and platform specific jargon. I don't like seeing my profession turn into an obsession with tech and platforms when 99.9% of companies and people can't reason properly or operate their current tools/resources efficiently. obviously just my own opinion.
What's cheaper and more easily distributed:

reliable high speed connections

or

Computing devices with dedicated graphical processors

Survey says... nobody wants what you're selling Google, and nobody with half a brain trusts you to maintain services long term anyways. Stadia is doomed and riddance.
I was expecting something a bit different, but that might be because last night I realized my children had never heard of Vladimir Horowitz. We sat down and watched him playing Chopin, and they were suitably impressed.

We live in privileged times, where we can hear greats from over 100 years of performing history. It's a double-edged sword, though; in the old days, the guy down the street who played the fiddle was enjoyable to listen to, because you couldn't listen to Heifetz or Kreisler on demand, where now, every amateur is compared to the greats of an entire century. It's made amateur music-making less enjoyable for a lot of people.
> we require employees to overlap with PST working hours for four hours a day

Whenever I read something like this I feel like any claim towards ‘being global’ loses some of it’s power.

That basically excludes everyone outside the Americas, which is most of the world (assuming they want to work normal hours).
and I'm sitting where wondering, why would you use Airflow over Argo Workflows?

Everyone should evaluate the options for their own needs.
HavenProtocol (XHV) – Decentralized Stablecoins and Assets
So Hedge Funds & Trading Platforms like Robinhood showed us what a 'free market' apparently looks like. Finally it is clear to see for everybody: Different rights for different groups of people on this world, especially on the financial markets. When hedge funds screw over retail investors and traders that's fine, but dare you to give them a taste of their own medicine...
This is always the case. Remember the panama papers, that revealed how rich individuals and organisations offshore their money to avoid paying taxes? Hiding black money or what ever?
Well, I do. But what if I tell you that the game recently changed? In summer 2020, to be more concrete. This was the time that HavenProtocol started it's mainnet and it is one of the rare real innovations in the sector of cryptocurrencies.
With HavenProtocol you can:

- Offshore money in a decentralized environment
- There are no third parties involved
- Your account can never be closed
- Your transactions are untraceable (based on Monero technology)
- Swap XHV to xUSD and vice versa

You can swap any amount from XHV in xUSD. If you want to go back to XHV, you can do this also at any time. You don't need an exchange! You are basically your own bank!
The market cap of XHV is still pretty tiny, most people don't know about it. But it is really a game changer.
Take a look at their website & their whitepaper: havenprotocol.org
Decide for yourself - freedom or nah?!
Oh: The best thing is, it's not just xUSD. In the future you will be able to do swaps to xEUR, xCNY, xSILVER and xGOLD. Even xSTOCKS are no problem in theory!
Sure. However if you are thinking for server/cloud usage, I would recommend considering AMQP instead (RabbitMQ etc). Especially if you want a "worker" type model with horizontal scalability for job processing, then the roundrobin.

Some of the functionality has been added to the MQTTv5 spec, but client support is not as good for that yet, and its not as battle tested as AMQP.
I'm having a hard time finding any info on what "SG&E" is despite a lot of searching. Can anyone provide some context?
Is alcohol and smokes supposed to be safe for you?
That doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing doesn't it? If large hedges stop overleveraging themselves to such an extent where this could happen we might see a return to more accurate company valuations. I see it as a net positive for the market in the long run
> At this time, SAO has determined that data files from the Employment Security Department (ESD) were impacted. These ESD data files contained unemployment compensation claim information including the person’s name, social security number and/or driver’s license or state identification number, bank account number and bank routing number, and place of employment.

It's bad.
One requires getting diagnosed to get medication. I am not advocating buying Adderall from a dealer. I am encouraging people not to be afraid to pursue the medication route because it is so demonized.

Medication helps a lot. You could struggle with no medication, trying to build a system to help yourself, possibly fail and never be who you can be or you can seek out professional help (potentially with medication) and begin building support today and have a good shot.

---

Would you say the same if I encouraged a depressed person to do their best to get diagnosed and get on 'anti-depressants'? I am doubtful.

We have invented medication for a reason. People go to decades of med school for a reason. Medical professionals know what they are doing and are very upfront about it not being a panacea and needing to still work on non-medication solutions (as with any medication).

I will admit my first sentence ("Get diagnosed and get a low-dose of meds") was too strong to start with.
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Why would you ask a doctor? Ask a pharmacologist, the person who researches it.
I presume that they came out of the gate with the sensible perspective that if you build it, and there aren't any games on it, the players won't come. My guess is what changed is that the infrastructure is now viable as infrastructure, they don't need to prop it up with their own game releases.
Non rapid updates to HN profile, I guess.

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Same here and I worked on Stadia
To paraphrase, "I think adderall is kinda like meth, so it's obviously addictive."

The fuck?

Adderall is one of many medical options for treating ADHD. Not all of which are stimulants. And some of which are chemically designed so they can't be abused (like Vyvance).

EDIT: The OP pulled the "in my opinion" phrasing from their post, but I'm going leave mine as-is. There's a lot of anecdote based FUD about ADHD meds going on in these threads, and it makes me mad. My above thoughts stand.
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