skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have sufficient scratch disk space you can absolutely use ffmpeg to take input of a h264, h265, vp8 or vp9 file, or just about anything else, and write it out to a y4m format uncompressed, raw yuv420p or yuv422 file. From there you can use just about any industry standard commercial or free GUI based video editing tool (kdenlive, etc) to extract a clip, down to per-frame precision.
It takes a while for people to be canonized, but hell yes. I'm 40 and by no means a championship reader, but here's a small set of folks alive or recently departed that will be part of the canon:

- Kurt Vonnegut
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Margaret Atwood
- J. D. Salinger
- Salmon Rushdie
- Neal Stephenson
- Colson Whitehead
Ask HN: How to Become a Builder from Consumer?
I read online posts HN, news, finance (market health). I am working in software but I am not coding. It’s a people/project management job.
Looking at so many people creating things, I see I am lacking behind. In fact, I never created anything substantial that I can show or be proud of. At most, I have assembled IKEA desk and dinner table.

How I become a builder and pave way for enjoying remainder of life and make some money as well?
I doubt it but we're also in uncharted waters. There are no technical definitions to own off chain items or legal rulings about what ownership of an NFT means for the off chain item.

As I explain in this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26372130) there's a nuance between owning the NFT representation of the tweet and owning the ability to delete the tweet.
BTW. I wish all databases versioned their schema and kept full history. This should be a standard feature.
Seems more of a sales receipt. For any physical good like a pair of shoes, you can have the receipt but I snagged the shoes from your locker and I’m the one wearing them at the club.

I suppose the digital analogy would be for me to break into your stash and copy the files for the art or whatever and enjoy them on my own. Easier than learning how to forge a Rembrandt.
Your rambling is very much appreciated. I'm terribly sorry to hear about Jim Fox, it is often those who are the real knowledge behind development that get lost or left behind for a multitude of reasons, which, more often than not, are problems or a fallout with financial backers, entrepreneurs or it's the work of ruthless competitors. Unfortunately, this happens not only in programming and IT but in every endeavor imaginable. Other names in the IT game that immediately come to mind that fit this description are Gary Kildall, Phil Katz and Aaron Swartz; they all deserved a much better run.

I mentioned here in another post that I used to use WordStar to write/edit assembly (ASM) as well as high-level languages source files and the illustration I've used is an excerpt from the BIOS of my Godbout CompuPro 816 S-100 8085/8086 dual boot computer. You mentioned Jim Fox for a very good reason and I similarly do so for Bill Godbout who died tragically in the Camp fire in November 2018. You'll be aware of the fire but some who are not in CA may not be:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/25/camp-fire-d...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Godbout

http://vcfed.org/wp/2018/11/13/r-i-p-bill-godbout-79/

Bill Godbout may not have remembered me but I certainly remember him. I met him in Anaheim at a computer conference and I talked with him for ages about CompuPro and his S-100 boards—I even recall a three-way conversation with him when someone inquired about the reliability of his memory boards. The conversation revolved around a then common concern about the potential for new high speed RAM with a clock speed of 20MHz [wow!] in that stray random alpha particles may cause memory errors and thus we should always employ parity checking to avoid the problems. In fact, it was Bill who actually raised the matter.

He was a very pleasant and helpful guy and I'm so pleased to have met him. To think he died in a fire—in one of the most horrible ways imaginable—is hard to contemplate. It is especially hard and upsetting when the person who has died is not just another statistic but someone one can actually put a face to.

Re Jim Fox again, I recall another conversation not with Rubinstein but with a local WordStar agent around the time of the release of WordStar 2000 but mainly about the development of version 7 and earlier (as that's where my interests were). He told me much about it and I'm now racking my brain to remember what he said. The only thing that comes to mind was that it was mainly the work of one person (this seemed a bit strange to me as I thought that MicroPro would have had many more programmers). I also seem to recall an article about the development of WordStar written by either Jerry Pournelle of Byte fame (who had a CompuPro system) or perhaps it was in InfoWorld. It's a damn nuisance I can't remember.
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It's not even just the homelessness. Public transport sucks too. Just given taxes and cost of living, I just don't see the value at all.
I personally like seeing it because it’s still not as pervasive as a lot of design trends and feels like there’s still some variety on the web. But I pain for anyone struggling with the accessibility of these designs.
the power of HN, Speculation the conteiner is creating new instances like fire to HN traffic
People of San Francisco passed a law t̶o̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶o̶w̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶r̶o̶b̶b̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶u̶n̶d̶e̶r̶ ̶$̶1̶0̶0̶0̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶f̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶c̶a̶s̶e̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶c̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶p̶s̶.̶ They also expect safe neighborhoods. You can't have both.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26040812

Liberal policies such as this does not solve the actual problem. Instead of providing food and shelter to the poor, perhaps starting an infrastructure program to employ these people and fix the damn roads, they empower the poor to go rampage stores to survive.

Edit: I might be wrong. I think I am misreading this, it seems to be not just SF city per se, but the entire state of California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47

See sacramento article: https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/09/25/grab-and-dash-the...
> Production is not the source of all value

Yeah, it is.
HN is how I stay current in my field. Back when I was doing some sysadmin stuff for work, I shifted to writing scripts in Python instead of Perl because people on HN kept talking about it and I wanted to see if I needed to learn it. Knowing Python has broadened work opportunities, even though I mostly do C++. HN gives me a way to monitor up-and-coming trends, and decide if I need to join.

I got a fantastic client from the one who's freelancing post I did. It was one of those where the appreciation was mutual, so much fun to work with them!

Somebody posted the history blog (acoup.blog) last year, and I've learned so much from reading it. I've been tossing around writing a fantasy novel at some point, and due to his writings and explanations, I realized that the Tolkien-quality fantasy wasn't so much a product of twenty years of pre-writing like I thought (although that is part of it), but actually understanding how ancient people thought. This gave me guidance for research: I, too, need to learn how people in the middle ages thought and lived if I am going to write a believable middle-ages fantasy. Too many authors put modern characters in the middle ages, and it just doesn't feel right.

Patio11 made consulting/contracting seem like something I could do. I'm also indebted to his article on raising your rates (which I can't seem to find the original of, where he talks about hyperventilating over pressing send on his first email to raise his rates).

Reading all the blogs linked here made me realize I needed to start a software blog, kind of as a marketing tool (in the way that HN is a marketing tool of YC, which it isn't really, but it does have that side effect). No tangible benefits yet except that thinking about it has caused me to understand things better in a way I didn't before.

But don't ignore the intangible benefits, which is why I keep coming back. I get exposed to all kinds of new ideas. I wouldn't care about mechanics of startups, but Steve Blank's hilarious stories kept me reading even when he transitioned to less exciting didactic stuff. No plans on starting a startup, but if I do start a business, I am so much better informed about it because of years on HN.

And there's always a couple comments a year that change how you think about something. I don't know where else I would find that.

(By the way, thanks @dang et al for moderating, it really makes a difference)
> Intellij git integration in comparison, in my opinion, it's barely usable and generally counter intuitive.

You're going to have to explain that one to me. I don't know what part of `ctrl+k`, comment, `ctrl+enter` to commit is difficult. Keeps my hands on the keyboard and head in the code. Time to push? `ctrl+shift+k`. Update? `ctrl+t`.

I have yet to find any IDE that performs as well as IntelliJ et al.
Can't beat SQLite for distribution as a public dataset, though.
For better or for worse, accurate or inaccurate, there were two lessons pretty universally drawn from Detroit: (1) White flight is very, very bad news, and (2) Heavy unionization makes factories uncompetitive.

Especially (2) -- again, I'm not saying whether this is the right or wrong conclusion -- weighs heavily on the states that picked up auto manufacturing that fled Detroit. Obviously there are contrarian takes, but these have very wide mindshare, and I don't think it's true that "everyone will draw different conclusions".
I don't think San Francisco will ever be Detroit. The geography constrained SF from physically expanding to the point where it can't sustain itself, unlike Detroit.

I think more likely is hitting some low point, and then a crackdown/reversal of the politics. I think a more apt analogy is SF now is like NYC in the 80s, and the 90s cleanup is coming sooner or later.
> It’s a much more intuitive way to do math

Is it? It's easier to code an evaluator, but I'm not convinced it's necessarily more intuitive. In practice, only addition/subtraction and multiplication/division are ambiguous. I'll also play devil's advocate and admit order of precedence is somewhat arbitrary, and precedence of bitwise and and equality is wrong in most languages. Not sure why I'd want this: (flags & (4 == 4)), but that's what flags & 4 == 4 does.
NIMBYism is a scourge
They provided one license for every one of their product to use on this project. It was not mandatory but they requested to put a link to their website. So, i put it there.

Btw their products are extremely good.
Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis
Is there an English language website that tracks (ostensibly) state-sponsored hacks throughout the globe? I hear about Western targets getting hacked by Russian and Chinese actors, but other than big things like stuxnet, I almost never hear about what's going on in the other direction. Or about attacks that have nothing to do with the U.S. one way or the other.
Yeah, but we throw a really nice gay pride parade to show we're good people. Loads of BLM support on walls. Many of my colleagues updated their instagram filters.
We have 200 GB databases in dolt format that are totally queryable. They don't work well querying on the web though - you need a local copy to query it effectively. Making web query as fast as local is an ongoing project.
One one hand I understand that any site can be hacked anytime and that that can have huge repercussions, therefore I'm happy if Google reacts quickly when it detects something like that (if I were the owner of such a site I would be even thankful to Google to limit the damage).

One the other hand it seems, based on this and many other posts, that there isn't much communication from Google to its "clients" to 1) explain what's wrong and 2) quickly/directly ask for a reevaluation (e.g. after the problem has been fixed, to question the validity of the problem, etc)?

I understand that there might be bad actors around doing everything on purpose on their website/app and that therefore #1 (basically telling the bad people why they got detected) would be a bit of a gray zone, but at least #2 should be a no-brainer (e.g. in the case of the previous ".ass"-files-case anybody in any support desk could have immediately whitelisted that "problem")?
Worth noting that the actual tents are cheap and what's expensive is the security, social services, meals, etc that come along with it.

For comparison, the cost to incarcerate someone in California is around $7k/mo and what that money is spent on is broken down at https://lao.ca.gov/PolicyAreas/CJ/6_cj_inmatecost
I resent the use of the word Standard here, same with StandardJS. It's misleading and arrogant.
care to share? :D
Thank you! It's an ongoing labor of love, frustration and learning.

I could be convinced to buy/install a cert for HTTPS, but for a static page recipe site I'm not sure why that would be helpful. Of course if I ever made user accounts or personalized pages this would be the first thing I do, but in the meantime I can't see any benefits to offset the cost and effort. I'd be happy to hear any thoughts you have about it.
Amazing platform. New experience in Virtual meetings. I would recommend to each and everyone.
Even just directly on white, I find that Blue to be far too powerful. On that salmon, it's horrid.

Combined with the fonts and font sizes, it's rather hard to enjoy the site.
Cities are the root cause, imo. As a society we need to spread out towards the countryside more.
Only if your face has a gradient.
It does make itself sound like it's the standard, when it has no relation to either formal (ISO) or living standard (the body of language tests that make multiple compatible Ruby implementations possible).

It's pretentious naming at its worst, IMHO.

And yes, some people might have been looking for language standard and be mislead by this.
Yeah this site isn’t half of what I think it is.

Still, the quality of top level links tend to be pretty good and I tend to find stuff on here I otherwise wouldn’t have.
You're just repeating his point, but introduced unnecessary confusion.

The book quality has nothing to do with the release date itself. There's probably plenty of bad old books. The value is in the filtering that occurred and made those books disappear.
That's a very optimistic point of view on the ability of people to learn from examples. No matter how hard SF fails, there will be lots of people going around and telling how it have failed because of not building enough social housing for the poor, not having high enough taxes, and allowing rich to escape after robbing the city dry. Just like there are people saying that communist countries fail because of US sanctions.
The most useful answers I find on SO tend to be marked "closed; off-topic." Thank goodness for the off-topics and the dupes.
Lots of people moving domains away from GoDaddy, millions of $ of domains lost
The Most Dangerous Thing
Logic is my thing (although regrettably not what my supervisor has me doing; that's another can of worms).

For me personally, the above is exactly correct. Logic is wonderful for me in large part because it's so far removed from tactile reality, though so ingrained in everything.

PDEs/analysis are way too applied for my taste; they as such don't give me the same escape into a world of pure thought (although of course they do provide this moreso than applied ML, or -- god forbid, for me -- web development would). Logic is seductive to me this way.
The York RR museum is an excellent place to spend a day.
But why is that multi-step process even necessary?

There should be an quick command-line utility to concatenate multiple video files according to exactly the timestamps the user has provided. It's such a common operation.

There's no reason that the tool can't simply do a streaming decode of multiple different file formats and concatenate the video and sub-second precision. If input video resolutions are different, scaling the smaller video to the largest resolution is what the user almost always wants.

I get that FFMPEG is a "plumbing" CLI tool, but a "porcelain" wrapper would be amazing!
I very seldom share anything of my own here for this reason. It’s cool to have high expectations but it’s really a shame how much people just dump on everything without any consideration for the intent or level of effort that went into something.

It’s disheartening. I have a project I’ve just launched that I’m incredibly proud of, with all the warts a just launched thing might have, and I’ve barely mentioned it here and certainly won’t Show HN because I would be heartbroken to see it trashed by a bunch of strangers.
Guaranteed a decent amount of people won't see the sarcasm in this comment.
Do both sides have to be in on a money laundering exchange, though?

I still for the life of my figure out how Grimes made millions off her shitty videos last week. It was way more than "ha, ha this is hilarious and I'm going to spend some money on the joke".
The Lindy Effect[1] is a good answer to this question. In a sort of pseudo-evolutionary way, timeless ideas have a way of persisting because they are well-adapted for consumption no matter what the cultural milieu. There is, of course, survivorship bias to take into consideration, but I think this is a useful heuristic.

Not that I believe you shouldn’t read new books (because you should sometimes) but that would be a more interesting question: “Why should you read new books?” Because given the half-life of information/facts/data, it’s a risky proposition from a opportunity cost standpoint. You’re basically hoping the book becomes a classic — and therefore it has staying usefulness and that answers the original question on why you should read classics — or you simply what to be plugged into the zeitgeist for networking or other reasons.

Unrelated, I am always fascinated by classics, especially ones from antiquity, because they really demonstrate how very little we’ve changed as a species. The problems facing Seneca or Cicero and the questions they asked themselves aren’t all that different from the ones we have today.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
CSS regions back from the dead?
This is great but it has a lot of limitations. I will give it a try thanks.
And that, my friend, is the final reason why I am leaving ;-)
You can actually, but you need to provide enough basic services so that people in desperate situations have free, healthy, and convenient food, housing, medical care, and education.
Just want to point out, this could be the result of socialist values.

Throughout all history from Rome to Soviet Russia to the Bay Area. Giving away free stuff leads to an influx of people to the population center. They wanted or needed a free ride.

The population center doesn’t get taxes from those people, so they are a burden on the system.

Further exasperating the issue, corruption. There’s always corruption, in a company (using the corporate card to go out and eat), in government (preferred contractors - family friends, etc), etc. personally, I find corporations are slightly more accountable because they can fail if they don’t provide value... governments have no such burden. They raise taxes, and in the case of the US get bailed out by states or the feds. The only case counter to this is detroit that I know of (where it just collapsed).

When I lived in the bay, when I went to SF I was regularly accosted by people screaming. Shit was everywhere. The public transit was down at least once a week, it was miserable. I lived in Alameda and that was a bit better. Locals were super nice, worked on the beach, etc. still wondered why I couldn’t get the bus to show up but w.e.

If you want a better city / state, stop the one-party rule and actually shake things up. There needs to be competition and accountability. As it stands, it’s getting to the point the lights can’t even be kept on.
Most users will likely prefer a secure way to sync data. There should be a self hosted option.

I am a huge fan and even started looking at Svelte to contribute to https://nomie.app. It is going back to syncing with your own CouchDB instance or just locally. Right now it’s local or to some blockchain company. I don’t remember the exact details any more but it seemed like no one had access to the data.

With Devonthink for Apple ecosystem, I synced between LAN/bonjour only for a while before switching to iCloud sync this year.
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This is where the 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' ideology with lead you.
Was your friend UK based? Very cool that your friend was able to get into a good masters program (that’s part of the reason I’m considering going back) although I’m confused on how a physics degree works through distance learning. Do those not typically involve labs with millions of dollars worth of scientific equipment? I’m going to have to call a few schools I’m looking at to verify their programs are 100% distance learning, because while the marketing material claims that, many of the program courses seem to indicate otherwise.
Sure keep in mind that my data is a little old but last time I peeked into the git LFS space it seemed like there were still a few gaps.

First, most of my background in this area comes from gamedev so YMMV if the same applies in your use cases.

For our usage we'd usually have a repo history size that crossed the 1TB mark and even upwards of 2-3TB in some cases. The developer sync was 150-200GB, the art sync was closer to 500-600GB and the teams were regularly churning through 50-100GB/week depending on where we were in production.

You need discipline specific views into the repo. It just speeds everything up and means that only the teams that need to take the pain have to. From a performance perspective Perforce blows the pants off anything else I've seen, SVN tries, but P4 was easily an order of magnitude faster to sync or do a clean fetch.

I've seen proxy servers done with git but it's usually some really hack thing scripted together with a ton of ductape and client-specific host overrides. When you have a team split across East Coast/West Coast(or other country) you need that proxy so that history is cached in a way that it only gets pulled in locally once. Having a split push/pull model is asking for trouble and last I checked it wasn't clear to me if stuff like git LFS actually handles locking cleanly across it.

From an overhead perspective git just falls over at ~1gb(hence git LFS, which I've seen teams use to varying degrees of success based on project size). The need to do shallow history and sidestep resolving deltas is a ton of complexity that isn't adding anything.

With a lot of assets, merging just doesn't exist and a DVCS totally falls over here. I've seen fights nearly break out in the hallway multiple times when two artist/animators both forgot to checkout a file(usually because someone missed the metadata to say it's an exclusive access file). With unmergeable binary files that don't get locked your choice is who gets to drop 1-3 days of work on the floor when the other person blows away their changes to commit. If those changes span multiple interconnected packages/formats/etc you have a hard fork that you can never bring back together.

There's a couple other details but that's the large ones, Perforce worked incredibly well in this space but it is not cheap and so I've seen teams try to go their own way to mixed success. I'll admit that you can't do a monorepo in P4(and even tools like repo in the Android world have their problems too) but if you segregate your large business/product lines across P4 repos it scales surprisingly well.

Anyway, you may or may not hit any or all of this but I've yet to see git tackle a 1TB+ repo history well(and things like repo that uses many mini-repos doesn't count in my book due to the lack of atomicity across submissions that span multiple repos).