skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "social contract" doesn't serve those in poverty. What's there to lose? Freedom in exchange for three squares and a dry bed? The "law and order" approach sounds great if you're inclined to authoritarianism, but with the largest (absolute and per capita) prison population in the world, what's to show for it? We're a "Christian nation" when that means banning abortion and homosexuality or torturing Muslims, but Jesus would be appalled at how we approach charity, poverty, and forgiveness.
Google doesn't need to explain to him anything because he is not their client. That's the problem we have now. Google have become judge and executioner. They are also decide what gets distributed because they own a browser used by most users. The solution to this is just stick to the basic, let the browser be a browser and the search engine just a search engine.
Something I've been working on lately to help with generating some of the common ffmpeg commands:

https://alfg.github.io/ffmpeg-commander/

Hoping to cover more options soon.
It was always super confusing to me that the "Mac Pro" and the "iMac Pro" were very different products, and the latter occupied an awkward spot from a power perspective too. It makes sense to drop it imo
Generally something like Mail.app or Xcode.app or some internal frameworks that can get pretty huge.

Not sure if I’m comfortable disclosing numbers, but the iMac Pro is a lot faster for me in that sort of situation.
Then write them as single quote and let it autocorrect it to double quote on commit hook.
Weird, I submitted this yesterday...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26361523
I learned way too late that I am procrastinating things that I already know, based on my experience, would take me forever to complete due to my perfectionism. And these don't necessarily have to be complicated tasks, but tasks that require choosing one option over the other, with several variables involved. The more I know, the older I get, the more experienced I become, the harder it is to make a good choice. It's a curse. But once I'd learned the emotional reason behind it, it has become much more manageable.
You still can't sideload apps on them without hacks
So you need a google quality malware detection filter to allow user content upload on your site? That's a pretty big barrier to entry.

And I find it hard to believe that there isn't any malware or phishing content on any of the big content provider's properties.
I love articles/videos like this. Highly fascinating and just goes to show how much we still have to learn about our planet.

On a related note; see the "Planet Earth 1986 TV series" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(1986_TV_series) for a amazing and well-rounded view of Our Planet Earth. This was done back when Science programs were Scientific with no annoying hosts, dumbing down of narratives, cutesy-poo graphics and other distractions. I highly recommend watching this with your kids to instill a sense of wonder and sparking fruitful discussions.

Episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=planet+earth+pb...

PS: This is completely unrelated to "Planet Earth" produced by BBC and narrated by David Attenborough.
On the other hand I have a Samsung Active 2 watch which is IPX68 rated and has a swimming mode for a pool swim yesterday, in which it died. It lasted a total of 1 year and 4 months.

It also has an ECG sensor that died for most people(myself included) before Samsung released the ECG mode(one year later).
But regulation is being proposed as an alternative to competition. It can't do that. You need competition whether or not you have regulation.

Look at what a dumpster fire every regulated private monopoly is. "Success" is a stagnant inefficient bureaucracy that ossifies everything it touches. Failure is the F-35 wasting a number of public dollars with twelve zeroes after it.
Link the data.

I’m saying it attracts people who need something. You stop services to people maintaining the status of quo and invest in rehabilitating and upon failure, removing people.

The problem is (idk how many homeless you’ve spoken with in SF). Most chose to be there, you have to make it somewhere they can’t live like that.

This is a failure of policy. Other cities have solved this, SF can too.
I learned a lot about waterproofing years ago when I had an underwater (film) camera.

You had to be able to open the camera to get the film in and out, so there was a gasket around the door.

You had to be really careful - you had to keep it supple and clean. One hair or bit of pocket fuzz and you could destroy your camera (and film). You had to wash the camera with fresh water after using it. And depth mattered.

I figured that the digital age would bring cameras that were hermetically sealed, but that didn't seem to happen - they still seemed to put doors on cameras.
See also: Adding comments with Mastodon https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570268
How about towns, dense in the middle, with greenways out to nearby nature?

My thinking is there is more space for nature if people are a bit concentrated in one area. Hong Kong is an extreme example, over two thirds of the land is nature [0], the rest seems to be mostly high-rise skyscrapers! I think they did a good job with the small space they had to work within.

I was hoping that you weren't thinking like a giant suburb or exurb where we are in cars all the time? That can be such a drag.

[0] https://www.pland.gov.hk/pland_en/info_serv/statistic/landu....
Why not both? GUIs can be built that can emit the command-line equivalent.

In ffmpeg's case, I would be looking for a GUI beyond just "here's all the command line parameters, only in a form"... the hardest thing is taking something I already know what I want to do, and encoding it into the command line, because the way to encode a graph into a command line is not obvious. It is easy in principle but there are so many degrees of freedom in how it is done that I can never remember it all. This is a perfect time for a visual language.
Devour fear, or be devoured.

I've struggled my whole life with procrastination, and this article really resonated with me as to why. I've only recently started forcing myself to act first, as best as I can, and accept and deal with the consequences.
"the usage of this particular word in this particular situation is offensive"

Again, it's offensive to you.

I disagree, as I understand that the metaphor is about mob justice without evidence or due process; a concept that is well understood and easily separated from social history. If you truly think it's about individuals then I'm not sure what there is to discuss on such a subjective matter.
Apple shows how much maximum capacity a device’s battery still has, compared to a new one. That’s called battery health. If battery health is 96% and the battery is charged at 50%, it holds 0.96 * 0.50 = 0.48 times the charge of a new battery, i.e. 48%.

If battery health becomes too low a device’s speed can be reduced to preserve running time of the device. That’s what got Apple into problems before (“Apple is intentionally crippling devices”), see “Batterygate”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate
I used an HP 50g in high school — I always loved the look of confusion after someone asked to borrow my calculator.
This kind of discussion is the exact reason I want someone to pick the default and make it unconfigurable.

If it's configurable then I'm going to end up wasting time talking about style rather than focusing on functionality. It's the exact reason I've set up my team's code with standard (and Prettier)
Heh who knew, that's all the motivation they needed, cheap rent.
I like playing a paper airplane building exercise with my teams when I get a chance and it fits with what's been going on in the team. Shows the benefits of limiting WIP real nice.

This is the first video and you'll find the second in there too:
https://youtu.be/KSsWm1LxEQQ
18 Intelligence, 3 Wisdom.
Ugh, almost all modern cities have solved this. SF can solve this too. You force the homeless out of the city and attempt to rehabilitate where you can.

Also, this is definitely not a federal problem. At most it’s a Cali problem. This is how the US works, local jurisdictions deal with the local problem.
x264 encoded streams have the original encoding parameters included by default.
Yep. my bad
Let's please not wreck the San Francisco Bay with artificial islands.
Setup Prettier and never talk about style again.

(Linting is slightly different -- just use some sane eslint defaults and call it a day)
The meaning of words changes over time. The classics are like strong currents in which some words have been caught and carried for many centuries. The way we speak and write today is an echo of the words spoken and written before us.

There are some who prefer to speak and write free from the burden of what was spoken or written before. They may see themselves as radical or pragmatic, seeking to subvert the influence of the past or at least avoid its prejudices. But they are no more likely to subvert or avoid those past influences than others who have immersed themselves in them because whatever they say or write will be heard and read by audiences who have been brought up in them.

As American classic author Mark Twain observed, the past does not repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes. We read the classics to find the rhythms and rhymes of life, to find articulated with clarity what we ourselves might otherwise only have seen in dim half-light. Once in the light, these rhythms and rhymes become a shared experience that binds us together, not only in terms of how we speak and write, but in terms of how we think and feel, yes ultimately in terms of who we are.
Template and guide for creating user story maps
Is there any book you’d recommend for scripting vfx/media pipelines using tools like ffmpeg , imagemagick , etc ?
I've seen automated testing tools for that. I was thinking about it for the future once I get other monitoring I want. I'm literally building this to be a monitoring tool I want to use. But you would have to make the montioring system aware of deployments or design changes. But those are the things that generally break things.

But the key thing for me is the "goal" montioring. So for ecommerce it's orders but for other systems it's different. That's the thing I really want to monitor. If other things break they'll affect those so you can detect lots of failures. The only issue is finding out what the cause is. But first I'll improve the anomaly detection a bunch before looking into root cause detection.
A rising zero / falling zero is the difference between freezing and melting, where you can see zero as a fuzzy number that is too low to consider close to 1, and too high to consider close to -1, while distinctly approaching one or the other.

Here's a LispWorks session:

CL-USER 1 > (minusp -0.0f0) ; as you said
NIL
CL-USER 2 > (< -0.f0 0.0f0) ; as minusp & you predict
NIL
CL-USER 3 > (* -0.f0 0.f0) ; but...
-0.0
CL-USER 4 >

It seems inconsistent that the multiply function understands that zero is approaching -1, but less-than doesn't.
Added to mine. Experimentally, it looks like a 4:3 ratio makes the floppy come out square, which lines up with expectations.
> 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.

Why not both?

"In 2013, the Utah Housing and Community Development Division reported that the cost of emergency room treatment and jail time averaged over $16,000 a year per homeless person, while the cost of providing a fully subsidized apartment was only $11,000."[0]

The author quoted above makes an excellent case – multiple times – for reducing cost to society if we'd just spend the money to get people off the street in a chapter titled, Criminalizing Homelessness. Think of the number of hours spent by police responding to calls related to homelessness and what social ills it creates. Consider that there are functional individuals who want to contribute to society, but medical bills or a run of bad luck has created circumstances under which this is impossible. Getting those people back into the economy could be useful.

I'm not saying this addresses other issues, such as mental illness. There's quite a lot of services that would be needed there, as well. Also, job training, etc. Another chapter, We Called for Help, and They Killed My Son, deals with the first part.

There's also the problem of addiction among the unhoused. There's a chapter on that as well. I've spot-checked info in the book a number of times and found the information to be well researched. According to the chapter, The War on Drugs, what we've been doing to combat drug use is an even more colossal failure and cash sink than probably most of us realize (assuming that you already think it's a failure).

The book has me convinced that it's cheaper for society, overall, to just pay to help people rather than funding the punitive system that's currently in place.

[0] The End of Policing, by Alex S. Vitale pg 97
^^ This book is excellent. I've already bought copies for three people who are close to me who I think will be open to its message.
When I was first on the internet, there were about 16 million people using it. Now there are allegedly around 5 billion. Roughly 260 million people got connected in the last 6 months or so. How many does it take to be a shocking mass?
I look forward to "AI" being tasked to solve the climate crisis deciding its best chance of success is to kill all humans... (only half kidding)
It's unlikely that a shop would seek enforcement if it could result in a violent altercation and scare away customers. Likewise police are more likely to expect violence if they are only called in dire emergencies.
Yeah I don't really get what's happening with Florida either. The state has more population than New York yet is beaten out in the tech sector by what would normally be seen as hill-billy fly-over states. Not even the space coast has a lot going on, though I guess the market for space-stable software is kinda limited.

At least housing is cheap enough you can stumble into a 3b2b with a pool and a 20 minute commute to the city on a 80k salary
Just don't pretend that essentially-slave labor in China doesn't lead to essentially-slave labor in other places if the sole purpose of practically applied economic theory is to arbitrage to the lowest common denominator.
That does not seem to be the typical definition of intelligence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence#Definitions

Intelligence is usually defined in terms of adaptability, ability to learn, solve problems, etc.
> This is done to prevent the Chinese people from realizing that people in the West are on their side and they are not their government.

Currently there are more than 919.14 million CPC members in China (data point circa 2019), and this does not include the people working for 事业单位 (gov. funded public institutes).
So for a random Chinese citizen, Western people have a, like, 3% chance of hate and 97% of love?
If we propagate one hop further to the relatives/friends (let's say it knows 100 people in his/her life), the number goes to 4% of love and 96% of hate.

:-(
SF's homeless problem is the US's homeless problem. Talk to people camping on the sidewalk and each one will tell you a different story, but with common themes: horrible home situation in a different state, crime -> prison -> loss of work opportunity, depression & drug abuse. These are suffering people that the American People have decided to let suffer. Yes, SF has enough money to get them all off the streets and into housing and only does that for half of them. But SF doesn't deserve all the blame.
>Where is NYC?

Mostly boarded up
> It should be “to help the poor on the dime of the rich”.

Hard no. I have no interest, whatsoever, in punishing anyone for the accident of their birth and life.

Whether they're rich or poor, white or black, man or woman, healthy or disabled; take care of them. Period.

> This idea that the unlucky rich should be made whole by society doesn’t make any sense, because after all what is being born but another way of being unlucky?

Basic courtesy towards our fellow society members shouldn't care about luck. Good or bad. Take care of your fellow humans, without a care of whether they're richest or poorest person in the world.
This looks fun. Going to try this out at work. Thanks.
I support opening up more public restrooms but those are extremely expensive to maintain and secure in areas with large homeless populations. People use them for drug dealing and prostitution, and vandalism is constant.
Because they can make you a better person.

Many of the classic books that are still available are those that explore profound truths about who we are or tell stories that affect us deeply. They have been examined and discussed for centuries (or even millennia) and they form the foundation that modern thought, society and storytelling is based on.

Reading the classics give you an appreciation of how little is new in the world. You'll see that most modern works are shallow reworking of the classics.

And that's OK. It's always been this way.

You'll also develop a healthy skepticism for those claiming that "nothing like this has happened before," "no one could have foreseen this" or that "we live in unprecedented times".

The classics are a distillation of the best thinking of mankind, and they are free. Why on Earth would you not want to read them?
> Is this something that we, the developers and designers and UX specialists, should seek to change?

We must do our part. We can't do it alone, though.

I'm already seeing a distressingly high number of IT people fall prey to invocation practicing. Much of it is due to time pressure from management, but even absent that stressor, I'm quite concerned that there is nil curiosity in peeling back the abstractions, and find the wizard behind the curtains.

I'm no Fabrice Bellard by any stretch of the imagination. To compensate, I'm willing to rapidly point out my current limits of understanding when working with others, and to seek how to push it further back. I'm confident given sufficient time, information, and practice, I can master a lot more cognitive subject matter material. Definitely not most much less all available (sometimes raw intellectual firepower is required to even access some material, and most days I'm lucky if I crack one standard deviation above average), but enough to keep a lifetime of the joy of learning busy.

I used to be absolutely surrounded IRL by like-minded people in the early days of the personal computer. These days, I've yet to run into that crowd at any gathering IRL (certain online communities tend to sort of scratch that itch for me), and I'd really like to find my people again.

To the heart of the question however, we must because otherwise we'll forever be limited by the complexity of what we can model and solve with software. And we'll need a lot, lot more complexity management to solve the really interesting problem spaces still hanging out there.
It can be waterproof sealed without the glue. I used my Kyocera Torque (rugged) until I couldn't update it's OS. (needed updated software for work) Changed it's battery once, you could use a nickel (or a fingernail) to unlock its backside and pry it open with your fingers. Battery slipped right off. Waterproof and tougher than a Nokia. I still use it as a hammer.

I am not sure the glue is that necessary for a waterproof seal, hence the crap.
Hats off to your optimism, but having lived in SF it looks the govt has only gotten more dysfunctional. It was never about “building a city that works for everyone” and good luck on changing that.
AppleCare and a store to do the replace at in most major cities is one of the big reasons I stick with apple
The Math Behind Project Scheduling, Bug Tracking, and Triage (2017)
What I don't understand is why this stuff isn't commoditized to death and used everywhere.
It’s probably cheaper then a proper seal
WA and OR yes, but only the part west of Cascades. The parts of these states east of Cascades are totally unlike the ones west of them. For Oregon, actually, Portland area is totally unlike the rest of Oregon culturally, so southern Oregon would also probably prefer to stay with the Union instead of leaving along CA and western WA.
Encoding settings metatag can be striped.

Regardless, I don't think these software are "matching" anything. TMPGEnc for example has settings to choose what quality you want for these re-encoded frames.
>...soon to be considered classic?

It was "classic", not classic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
Nimda
Link on the same page: iPhone rescued from ice wall https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/group-effort-reco.... Complete with sappy poem. I wonder if there's a whole genre here of feel-good stories involving iPhones and Canadians.
This stuff is all a little like rock paper scissors in my life during the pandemic.
That's pretty incredible, and here I though the Wankel was a fairly unique engine.

Not directly related but learning about the diesel-electric locomotives and the transition from PWM DC to 3-phase VFD with the traction improvements(I seem to recall they doubled available traction but would have to check my sources[1]) was also something that caught me by surprise. All these EVs out there now owe a lot to the work that happened back in that industry.

Edit: found the one of the sources I remember reading.

[1] http://www.republiclocomotive.com/ac-traction-vs-dc-traction...
It’s always a bit problematic to compare SF County to other counties like LA. SF City and County are the same geographical area where, Los Angles City and Los Angeles county are not. LA county includes 60+ suburbs. Santa Clara county has San Jose metro but also 14 suburbs.

Put it this way LA county is 4000 square miles, Santa Clara is 1300. San Francisco is 47. I bet if you target the most urban areas of those counties the numbers get a lot closer.
Plug your phone into your computer and back + pull photos off. Even with icloud I do that every 3-6 months for a secondary backup
I once dropped my SE into a pond while I was fishing. I didn’t notice until I actually saw the thing at the bottom of the pond. It was probably down there at least 5 minutes.

I fished it out and it worked completely fine. I don’t think SEs were even marketed as waterproof. They still had the headphone jack, which I think was the weakspot
Not everyone wants to do that? I’ve had an iPhone since the 4 and never cared once or have wanted to
The main problem is that any politician who tried to get these policies in place would find themselves out of a job pretty quickly, unfortunately.
"A strange game; the only winning move is not to play."
The actual issue is that reality has a bias towards people with deep pockets.
Spaceballs was a true story?
> missing these deeper features

examples?
Show HN: Added Finder Extensions to My Native Mac App
The article doesn't cover that having a code was required for extra security, but as protest against this requirement the implementation set it to all 0's.
Visual Programming with Cables
The incarceration rate of the US as a whole is higher. So the fact that SF is also higher doesn't mean much.
His enthusiasm when he gets it working is really great!
Tim Wu Explains Why He Thinks Facebook Should Be Broken Up (2019)
I've been wanting something like this for ages. I always thought the Kindle not having the full Wikipedia archive as an optional install was a massive missed opportunity, especially back when the Kindle had the keyboard at the bottom. It would have literally been the Hitchhikers Guide as explained in the books.
I'm actually quite fond of Swift, SwiftUI and most new stuff Apple pushing out to devs, but man, getting these extensions up was some fight.