skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it is literally not possible to not seek to keyframe if you are stream copying.

There are however, plenty of great software that can but at any frame and only re-encode the frames that are outside the whole GOP. Most of them are commercial though, I haven't find one that is free and good.

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Also, seeking in FFMPEG in practice, is actually more complicated than the guide [1] you linked.
Below is a note I keep for own reference for keyframe-copy. Hope someone will find it useful.

How to keyframe-cut video properly with FFMPEG

FFMPEG supports "input seeking" and "output seeking". The output seeking is very slow (it needs to decode the whole video until the timestamp of your -ss) so you want to avoid it if unnecessary.

However, while -ss (seek start) works fine with input seeking, "-to/-t" (seek ending) is somehow vastly inaccurate in input seeking for FFMPEG. It could be off by a few seconds, or sometimes straight up does not work (for some mepeg-ts files recorded from TV).

The best of the two worlds is to use input seeking for -ss and then output seeking for -to.
However, this way, the timestamp will restart from 0 in output seeking. So instead of using -to, you should calculate -t (duration) yourself by subtracting -ss from -to, and use `-t duration` instead. Below is a quick Python script to do so.

https://gist.github.com/fireattack/9a100c5a200154937babd1823...

(You can also try to use -copyts to keep timestamp, but not recommended because it doesn't work if the video file has non-zero start time.)
Not everything is a double blind study, geez.
My feeling is that they're already there with the command line (just look at the filter stuff). Might as well just go all the way and have something sane that's supported all over.
They said Boston _wasn’t_ conservative.
avidemux is a clean ffmpeg gui for quick transcoding, truncating, and container swapping.
>>The idea that raw blockchains would ever be a scalable payment network for the world's population was always a completely absurd idea.

Strawman.

Bitcoin could have increased its block size 100X, allowing tens of millions of people to use it every day, and it would still impose lower bandwidth costs on full node operators than streaming Netflix 24/7.

The mental gymnastics used to rationalize keeping Bitcoin transaction throughput limited to 7 per second, instead of allowing it to rise several orders of magnitude to meet more of the immense market demand for p2p transactions, has been very harmful to cryptocurrency adoption.

>>Decentralized layer two networks like Lightning are exciting because they have the potential to create a trustless payment network that directly settles to the blockchain.

The Lightning Network has no chance of gaining mass-adoption. It has high start up and capital lock-up costs, proportional to on-chain transaction fees, which only grow as Bitcoin/LN adoption ramps up. It has high upkeep costs, requiring you to have your LN node online to receive payments, and for your node to have access to the LN funds via a connection to the private keys, which is a security liability.

To monitor for fraudulent channel closes in order to be able to react in time to challenge them, it also requires you to have an always on-line node, or a trusted third party delegated to do that on your behalf. And if you want rapid/automated reaction to fraudulent channel closes, that node needs to have access to the private keys to your LN funds.

Then there are routing issues when the topography of the network changes with every transaction, and where the existence of routes is dependent on sufficient capital being locked up in channels.

There's a reason why there's 100 times more BTC locked up for use in Ethereum dApps than for use in the LN. Ethereum-based scalability solutions could, ironically, provide BTC with the scalability needed to gain mass-adoption as an instrument for peer-to-peer payments.

Anyway, Bitcoin can scale, on-chain, just as Satoshi described. I don't know if it can scale to 8 billion transactions a day, but it can scale to 30 million transactions day, which would make it more effective for every application, including using Bitcoin as a savings account and Bitcoin-based layer two solutions.

>>And even if you could solve all these problems, it doesn't get around the fact that blockchains as a payment system are a really shitty experience compared to existing solutions.

They're a far better solution than cash, and in many cases better than other electronic payment solutions, because they are censorship resistant and can be made very private.

>>You have to wait an unknown amount of time for your transaction to make it into a block before you're safe from a double spend. That time is 10 minutes on average,

You can use Bitcoin with zero-confirmations, as long as miners reject RBF. Satoshi explained this all over a decade ago [1], and zero-confirmations being enough has been amply demonstrated in practice.

[1] https://archive.is/vzSWw#selection-115.211-183.1744
I agree with you.

JetBrains IDEs are more thorough, kind of Apple like vertical integration while VS Code is more like Windows: hack everything together.

From a experimental standpoint I highly prefer VS Code, since writing add-ons for JetBrain was too complicated for me in an affordable time. VS Code shines here.

I think that this flexibility really is a different beast. For example, workflow optimization is becoming a thing in software development. In my department, I turned VS Code into a somewhat low-code editor for Web development. This could not have been achieved using JetBrains.
Why not run a fully functional monitoring job i.e. upload file with a monitoring account and check the results to validate that it is working end to end. Doing this even once a minute shouldn't put any load and is a much more reliable test.
That the most liberal place has such disparity, I assume.
The article states:

>"Most who left San Francisco stayed in the Bay Area economic region, according to the study, and some 80% remained in the stateMost who left San Francisco stayed in the Bay Area economic region, according to the study, and some 80% remained in the state"

I'm curious where you fall on the exodus spectrum? Are you leaving California or just SF? Where did you decide to relocate to?
It's not meant to be any one thing.

That's its strength.

Core to many usecases, many eyes, many industries' backing.
I took my phone out of the case today and noticed how dirty it, and the case was. I simply washed it off in the sink and it was nice and clean. I couldn’t help but think this was such a strange thing to do but also so natural.

Also, I’ve done underwater selfies too. It’s a lot of fun!
Obviously the reason artists would flock to NFTs are for easy etherium profits.

Buyers are correctly skeptical of how vague and poorly articulated the value proposition is for them.
Cool engine Bizarre safety protocols.
> I'd rather vendors like Apple gave us the ability to build our own private clouds instead of locking us into theirs.

They literally do. I have my iPhone 11 synced with my self hosted Nextcloud instance. It works pretty well.
> Don’t use base-64 images (or inline images)

For SVG just paste the markup on your HTML. Browser support is excellent and it will weight less than using a base64 encoded string.

You will be able to style it using CSS as if it was regular HTML, use JS, etc.
Enterprise policy is one use case, where devs must use locked down windows workstations to dev on remote Linux hosts.
Idk, I’ve used regex before.
A question that's not "weird" has been asked and answered before, so you can answer it with a database and zero "intelligence".

I think you're lowering expectations for an AI to zero.
I'm not a video expert, but one thing I've noticed is that there seems to be a lot of discrepancies between video files and the way programs use them.

I think it might be differences between how the the container describes the video and the video itself, and which one is chosen as the truth during operations.
Same, went swimming with my iPhone 7. It never fully died but the camera clouded up and it totally freaked out to the point of being near unuseable. AppleCare+ ,£70 and replaced in-store. I always get AppleCare+ now.
The problem isn’t the wealthy people per se. The problem is industries like tech that generate highly paid upper middle class jobs that most people aren’t qualified for (and realistically will never be qualified for), as opposed to a larger number of middle class jobs that most people can be qualified for.

There is a reason people pine for coal and oil jobs. Head out to east or west Texas sometime. Lots of prosperity for middle class people through skilled, but not college required, jobs that most people can learn. But few upper middle class knowledge workers to drive up prices. The result is much more palpable middle class prosperity than places that are much richer on paper, like the Bay Area. (Also far less racial segregation, for exactly the same reason.)
At around 2000 - 2010 San Francisco had the reputation of being an amazing city. It wasn't a tech hub back then but it was a very cultural city with a lot of diversity, art and amazing views. A lot of people just wanted to live there, including tech workers. One my friends worked at google and lived in SF because she told me she was so "enamored" by the city.

In fact that's why those google shuttles exist. Because back then tons and tons of people loved the city so much that they wanted to live in SF while working in Mountain View.

When tech started rising more and more, tech workers started moving into SF turning it into the tech hub that it is today. This upped property values which in turn drove a lot of junkies and homeless people out of the condemned properties as those properties were getting repurposed to take advantage of the growing market.

That's why you see shit on the streets and needles everywhere. Rising property values essentially took what was happening behind closed doors and put it in the middle of the street. Everybody applauds all the social programs offered to the needy by SF until it they see it up close and personal.

So really there's two main root causes for why SF is the shit hole it is today:

1. Excessive amount of tech workers.
2. Drug availability.

The Tech worker thing is new. The Drug problem is old, although I'm not sure how much the recent opioid epidemic contributes to that.

Anyway this seemed like a tangent but to address your point: Companies wanted to move to SF because the tech workers WANTED to live there. The companies relocated based off the location of talent.

The situation today is the end result of a feedback loop produced by Tech companies and Tech workers from 2010 to now. Tech workers move to SF, so companies follow. This causes more workers to follow the companies.

You'll see this correlation everywhere. If companies don't want to be in a certain city, for sure there's an amount of skilled workers who don't want to be there either.
Why would this be puzzling? Liberals support diversity until the rubber meets the road and they have to live near diverse sets of people. That's why they vehemently vote in favor of NIMBY policies.
> Give up #1, and it’ll be possible to do all of the rules enforcement reactively, with no algorithms and no inhumane call centers, because when someone is banned, they’ll stay banned.

This doesn't actually work because the people doing bad stuff are criminals with no qualms about committing crimes, like identity theft. Some large fraction of spam is sent from compromised but otherwise legitimate mail servers.

> Give up #2, and it won’t matter how much spam you make available on the web because nobody will fall victim to it. The web becomes less like a publishing platform and more P2P, because you basically only find content on there through your in-person social contacts.

This is the one you can actually fix because it's a spectrum rather than binary. It's also something that doesn't need to be a monopoly, and not being a monopoly would significantly reduce the consequences of mistakes.

Discovery is also fundamentally a search issue. Not putting something you suspect of being spam in the first page of your search results is a world away from shutting down some guilty until proven innocent third party's DNS or hosting.
^ counter-parties can balance their books in this manner and are likely to do it more efficiently than loan officers. Hypothetically, your example can be performed at an arbitrary scale with the only constraint being how fast the currency devalues prints and how fast you can turn bolivars into coffee beans, gold, or other hard goods.

additionally, the government may not have rights to the beans. In cases where governments can expropriate assets and goods from individuals, they have used them to directly raise foreign currency. A notable example of this is the Ukrainian famine.
I've quit jobs, argued with bosses, and turned down contracts over it. Dark patterns are hardly the most unethical thing in a startup. Often you're aware of the company lying to investors, faking traction, selling features that aren't working, testing risky things in production.

I think it's just another work perk though, to be able to work on something less unethical. And like other work benefits, it attracts better people.
Ah, I'm not from the US, so it might just me the phrasing. "Countryside" where I live is the small towns and vily.

My opinion has only been made stronger since having been to San Francisco.
First, the underlying report is at : https://www.capolicylab.org/calexodus-are-people-leaving-cal...

Interesting to notice the title for the report vs. the title the LA Times headline writers selected.

Second, much of the data is being reported as Year over year deltas and ratios of %, which is mathematically accurate but hard to interpret. A increase of over 900% in people leaving S.F. sounds pretty spectacular, but the same metric has Alameda at over 400%, and LA is over 130%

I got estimates of the populations from https://www.california-demographics.com/counties_by_populati..., and used that to normalize the exit rate by percent of population.

S.F definitely leads, with 2.3% net leaving, but only 19 of 57 California Counties in the report actually grew.

L.A., San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Orange Counties all shrunk, but the "Everyone hate on S.F." bandwagon gets more clicks.
Prefer NetLogo https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ for modeling
It seems to be a false positive in the phishing detector:

https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect/issues/4749
Ive left SF before as well.

Homelessness issue is a joke to the city. Transportation was horrible. The non-tourist parts of town were a toilet for people (way more than you'd even think, without seeing it). I am a younger white guy who doesn't necessarily look timid, and even then I've been threatened in the BART by drunk dudes on multiple occasions.

It's expensive. It's politics 24/7. It's crowded (not just bustling, but more as though you took a large city and squeezed it into a small city).

The local governments have failed everyone there.
Another idea could be to maybe have a separate dedicated companion domain (not a sub-domain) for communication which can be mentioned in the main domain. Atleast if the main domain is affected, you can still have a working channel that is a single place of truth for updates/communications.
you actually don't. You just have to use pattern matching correctly.
To your list of misfits contributing greatly whilst treated poorly, I'd add Ian Murdoch.
Ask HN: Why do you think you want a promotion?
Some options that I thought of:

1. Fear of being left behind (if everyone else got one you need one too)

2. Need more challenging work (you are not challenged enough in your current rank)

3. Capability of influencing the company a lot more in higher roles (a promotion means you get to make a lot more critical decisions which have a bigger impact)

4. Validation of hard work (if you have worked hard you deserve recognition in terms of promotion)

5. Compensation for an average life (if you are not happy with your life then you try harder to succeed at work)

6. Success at work can only be measured by rank (more promotions = more success)

7. Money
I see a use-case for public resource data sets. For example, right of way, land use variance, permits, and land records. These are fundamentally public data sets that are often maintained by entities with limit budgets and the potential (even incentive) for fraud is substantial. Also, there is significant value in being able to access the data set for analytical purposes such as real estate analysis.
I wonder if there are page monitoring utilities that can download the full html payload, render the page via a headless chrome browser, and then perform a diff against the content? Most landing pages are quite static, and like you said, it's about full page load, so measuring how long the entire page took to load, along with each asset's network request and subsequent content paints, you could get a pretty good idea of your holistic page load health.
This article is from 2013. The code has since been updated to ASDFGHJKL.
> the recent Texas power outage is the result of a free-market system for energy

Texas was not the only area that had problems. Louisiana is regulated and had outages, people with no potable water, etc [0] Nearby states did not have available power to send via the interconnects. It was really cold for a really long time. Everyone talks about how it snowed ten years ago in Austin. I know, I was there. But do they also mention that this cold spell was the worst cold spell in 100 years?

There are many bad things that can happen in this world, we can't afford to prevent all of them. As a society we do not have unlimited money to spend, decisions need to be made, sometimes we have to muddle through. Societies have to prioritize where to spend their limited resources.

I get the feeling that there's a lot of partisan politics involved in the dialogue around things like this, always in hindsight! I don't understand the urge people have to knock down others who are doing something different. Not everyone thinks the way you or I do. The Texas power system has its pros and cons. They've been enjoying cheap power for a long time. They, along with others, struggled during this record cold. I don't understand why this needs to be a partisan issue, or what business it is of anybody outside of Texas. I'm sure they'll make adjustments and improvements to their system. They get to decide, it's their system, right?

I wouldn't say that regulation is a failed model because the power went out in Louisiana. I also don't agree that markets are to blame for a 100-year cold snap in Texas. Disasters happen.

(Note that I don't necessarily agree with the parent you were replying to. I grew up in a city like the ones mentioned, and the problems were more due to corruption, I believe. Politicians are not our friends, none of them.)

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/02/17/te...
This was it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20275178
Or public funding for development of federated protocols and free software implementations.
I moved to Reno short term once covid hit and have zero regrets. Saving 1k a month in taxes alone. One thing I really appreciate is not having to wait in line for everything e.g. lunch, gas at Costco, post office, car service etc.
1. Easier to learn than other programming languages (very intuitive)
2. Lots of practical applications (Machine learning, application servers, interview questions, etc.)
I wish this had been known and disseminated more widely ten years ago. I don't know if it would improve outcome back then, but I think I would have a better idea where to start.

I feel my life outcome and success depends on emotional regulation more than anything else.
Well, if that's what you meant, then I guess we're in full agreement. :)
It always makes me sad when a company decides to pursue a walled garden approach, because it means nothing inside the new "engage" site will be indexed by search engines, nor available to non-registered users.

The neat part about forum software itself is that it allows companies to have that slice of control (insofar as the forum itself is under control of the company), but allows for free and open discussion of the niche subject.
The Case for Low Code
> Only number go up and money laundering?

This is ill informed and not in the spirit of HN. I don't even want to argue against this because you haven't done the bare minimum in terms of "research", speaking of confirmation bias, have you considered that you may be confirming your own biases by spouting things like "number go up and money laundering"? really? bitcoin is probably the worst way to launder money. You are yet another irrational critic.
That's an interesting way to frame it.

You sure a bunch of blue staters are moving to redder pastures? The way I see it is a bunch of blue staters are fleeing totalitarian extremists.
my toy for programming in Chinese http://jiuzhang.cirru.org/ .
looking at the GH issues on that extension, false positives seems to be the name of the game there...
Are you working from home or, are living at work?
But it seems every year it gets a bit harder to store locally workout paying apple a monthly fee for iCloud. The UI in iTunes has stagnated while iCloud makes it super easy – for a price.
Nah. Would have to disagree on this front. These should still work. After all each language/runtime is defined by some underlying template (for example in Visual Studio - .vcxproj for C++, .csproj for C# in .NET, etc.). I don't see reason all of this to work under one Umbreall IDE, even if I have to pay more for it - I'd rather pay for it, than the bundle I'm getting now.
One of my favorite short stories by Jorge Luis Borges is The Library of Babel[0], in which characters live in an infinite library that enumerates all possible strings of a certain length in book form. It even has an online version[1]! You can find the version of this post at[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

[1] https://libraryofbabel.info/

[2] https://libraryofbabel.info/book.cgi?c4rswwjyq92rx9b0t433js5...
Who is getting even arrested let alone jailed for misdemeanor theft?
Because someone manipulating parts couldn't glue it back together?
This is an important question, I'm surprised to see it downvoted.

That being said, I would imagine it would be done the same way as an automod type bot for any Matrix room. You'd probably have to implement it yourself though.

Edit: That being said, I don't like the idea of automatic moderation. For small scale blogs, maybe just a manual approval of comments would be worthwhile.
looks cool guys! I'm working on something similar (won't be so vulgar as to self-promote on your post though) - it's exciting to see more people exploring this space. I think there's a lot of potential in visual programming going forwards; I know it's been explored before but it feels like smart phones pre-iPhone: lots of entries but no-one has captured the essence of it into a compelling product yet (outside of specialist but great tools like Houdini and UE Blueprints).

Have you shared this with the Future of Coding community (https://futureofcoding.org/)? They're very excited by these kinds of tools.
> Which allows banks to remain an uncompetitive yet inherently necessary market. But how is that better than having enough competition between banks that anyone can find one willing to provide service?

Just because the market is regulated doesn't mean there is no competition.

It's better because the banks can't gang up on you like tech companies do. At least in the EU.
if you need funding, why not create a profile on Patreon[1] or GitHub sponsors?

[1]https://www.patreon.com
East Asians aren’t white enough to be invited to the tee time and they’re not diverse enough to get special quotas so they keep doing what they have always done which is study harder and perform better.