skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A ton of people want mms support, I really appreciate your work on it. The MMS support is also one of the hard problems nobody wanted to pick up, like the camera support.

I get it, and I get your frustrations too, that's why I just picked it up myself. I really do want to help.

https://source.puri.sm/kop316/mmsd/

There is my mmsd fork.

https://source.puri.sm/kop316/chatty/-/tree/wip/sadiq/mm-acc...

This is where I have my reference MMS implementation for chatty.

You are also welcome to get a hold of me on Matrix, I am on the pmOS matrix channel!
Sounds likely that the initial recording was a live screen recording so mac probably uses lowest compression settings so to be able to transcode in real time well at the same time not monopolizing the cpu.

Maybe i'm wrong, but the comparision is stupid without having ffmpeg re-encode the video with the same codec. Otherwise its just apples to oranges.
The real elephant in the room is that a lot of people use Linux because they don't like paying for software, and like using other people's labor for free. The free software movement has completely failed at providing a business model for itself. This is why funding its projects is essentially charity when they're not valuable to a large corporation selling proprietary software.
Absolutely gorgeous, anyone who finds themselves in Dublin should give it, and the rest of trinity college, some time.
It's easier to generate hard X-rays than EUV. An X-ray tube is just an electron gun and a copper target.
Many of those distros are just focused on making their preferred distro work on ARM, it's not like they are targeting the PinePhone. They even count Gentoo as one of the 18.
Maybe they were just trying to get a stable 40.0 and will add in 40.1 ?
When I worked in the semiconductor industry, it turned out that the same set of people often worked for multiple different vendors as contractors and consultants, setting up lines and troubleshooting process problems, etc. So presumably you need to tap into those people.
I personally find the open letter a bit short on these sorts of details. I think better sources are these:

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html (October 2019, by a former FSF board member and 2021 recipient of the FSF's Award for the Advancement of Free Software):

> For the last two years, I had been a loud internal voice in the FSF leadership regarding RMS' Free-Software-unrelated public statements; I felt strongly that it was in the best interest of the FSF to actively seek to limit such statements, and that it was my duty to FSF to speak out about this within the organization. [...] When the escalation started, I still considered RMS both a friend and colleague, and I attempted to argue with him at length to convince him that some of his positions were harmful to sexual assault survivors and those who are sex-trafficked, and to the people who devote their lives in service to such individuals. More importantly to the FSF, I attempted to persuade RMS that launching a controversial campaign on sexual behavior and morality was counter to his and FSF's mission to advance software freedom, and told RMS that my duty as an FSF Director was to assure the best outcome for the FSF, which IMO didn't include having a leader who made such statements.

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52587.html (September 2019, by a former FSF board member and 2014 recipient of the FSF's Award for the Advancement of Free Software):

> I've spent a lot of time working with him to help him understand why various positions he holds are harmful. I've reached the conclusion that it's not that he's unable to understand, he's just unwilling to change his mind.

They aren't going to change the letter or its appendix at this point, given that people have signed, but if I had the magic power to change it, I would suggest those two as citations that he was repeatedly asked to consider the impact of his actions and repeatedly refused.

If he did stop - if he did express the interest in figuring out why he's alienating people and why his statements were not only hurting the cause of free software directly but wasting the time of FSF board members who could be contributing to free software instead - then yes, the letter would have been unnecessary, because the problem would have been resolved.
We are using D in our laboratory and found that it has been incredibly easy to onboard Python and Go programmers, and they are more productive to boot. We miss the packages /ecosystem libraries of some other languages , but otherwise the experience has been excellent.
cloudfront is a joke. It doesn't even encrypt the traffic inside their network.
I’ve never understood - what do you do if the tally sticks don’t match? You just know there’s a dispute but it doesn’t resolve the dispute does it? So what next?
Perhaps, but (based purely on anecdotes) most medical visits are the type where you walk in. I expect check-ups are far more common than open heart surgery, simply because every major operation requires a precautionary followup or two.
Never understood the point of these kinds of article -- why would you trust them? It is not much easier to read than offical AWS docs... and even if you read it all, you should still head over to AWS docs anyway because who knows when this article was written, which region was author looking at, and if the prices mentioned are still correct.

And finally, you don't want to calculate it by hand anyway, get one of the many AWS cost calculators.
I only heard about Glass because he was used in this Battlestar Galactica scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCrxDsuwXjI
Going to wait and see on this coffee situation:

http://www.msn.com/en-xl/northamerica/top-stories/the-world-...
According to realtor.com median house price in OC is fifth of that in the bay so that sounds like a good deal (if you like living there).
Real Python's “Python Basics” is now available as a paperback book
And if everyone lived in nature, there would be no more nature.
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> The page links to just that blog post, but the post links to other reports, and an earlier open letter had many links (https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix) to RMS's own blog; to substantiate their claim that RMS holds views objectionable to them.

But it seems like he's disavowed those comments (and did so prior to that website being compiled):

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/richard-stallman...

> "Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it," Stallman wrote. "Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per [sic] psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why."
I think it's an academics vs practitioners thing. Rich is willing and can use Svelte and Svelte/kit in actual production workloads in NYT. Kind of similar in how most Rails abstractions are pulled out from Basecamp's implementation. Doesn't hurt that Rails HEAD is directly used (in % deploy) by Shopify etc too.
Interesting. I didn't mean it as a gotcha, just another example of the phenomenon under discussion. Maybe the "surprised the article didn't mention" formulation is not the way to go.
I found this passage really provocative as well! It got me wondering what sort of conceptualization and distinction these cultures and early humans had around gender when they didn't see gender as the original way to split themselves.

It got me thinking about what sort of language a descendent of bonobos might develop, and even whether proto humans conceived of gender in a more fluid way during co-evolution of language and our biology that allowed for language. Wondering if there's anything here like the original sort of QWERTY entrenchment
It's never that simple. Freight trains are extremely long and have to have massive yards to park in. Then you have to shuffle them around to get to the car you need. Then you have to have the Semi Truck in a position that a crane can access to mount the payload. It's a very difficult problem to solve at scale and certainly not economical for every city in America.
20% sounds like a lot, but I don't know what to compare it to.

Surely no system could reach 0%. Some areas are bound to be net exporters of stuff, and others net importers.
why do people care?

where is bill gate right now? why did he disappear for 1 year then studently appeared for his reddit AMA?

did he spend the 1 year getting briefed in secret for what to say for the massive vaccine campaign?

the amount of propaganda and conspiracy theories the west is spitting these days is insane, mostly the western journalists / politics
In my country outside of the city center (where most homes have district heating or gas), wood burning stoves are the most common way people heat their homes. Coal never really caught on here, but there are abundant forests and not that many people, so there is always plenty of firewood that is easy to find.

That combined with low temperatures during winter (somehow it causes pollution to stay low to the ground?) means the government usually issue air quality warnings to stay inside a few times during the heating season.

There have been some attempts to improve the quality of the fuels used, e.g. funding to push upgrading to automatic pellet stoves which burn much cleaner, but most of the issue (which is also the case in the UK) is that older homes are simply poorly insulated and waste a lot of heat. The problem is by 'older homes' I mean anything more than 10 years ago, when the EU started pushing for lower energy use in housing. In the US that means today, for homes built to minimum building codes - which the majority of new housing is.

We are building a new 160m2 home - to modern insulation standards - and even the smallest 5kW wood burning stove would produce too much heat for the house. We probably won't even need to turn on the heating (electric heat pump) until it gets close to 0c outside.
@Mozilla is the twitter account of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation and not the for profit Mozilla Corporation.
In the office, a team or group meeting is a great break from sitting at the desk and an opportunity to be social. At home, it’s yet more staring at the screen at a fixed focus distance and speaking in fits and starts due to network latency. I don’t agree at all that an open office is simply inferior to remote work.
I was thinking along the same lines. Some time ago GNOME seriously considered Mono to be a good platform to develop Linux apps.

There is now an active project Avalonia, that provides WPF-like GPU accelerated framework, that is cross-platform, and can potentially work well on PinePhone with .NET Core.
> slow

Raku performance is decent enough where it has to be, and continues, slowly, to improve. I would be seriously surprised if cpython outperformed it, and python gets used quite a lot in the same domains.
One of my most serious laughs was a programming aptitude test designed by a psychologist that I could see never got past basic Fortran.

It tested your ability to program basic loops, but I could see an algorithm that would have enveloped the loops,but the test had no questions about that.

So what do you want out of a developer? How about an ability to dig into the problem domain and come up with an economic way to produce a good solution from the available data?
Benzodiazepines are such cursed drugs. Their withdrawal symptoms can be so severe, I don't understand why they would be used for anything other than a last resort.
Repurposing eInk electronic shelf labels into photo frames
Okay, but what about the apps that do? Some governments and banks require you to use their apps to get certain things done.
Is there any reason to suspect that they used a longer GOP structure? Is the default one for ffmpeg longer than the recording software?
It very much is, because if you have the gene therapy and you think that protects you more so than your own natural immune system, then you have nothing to worry about from me. You're protected. Anyone else who fears Covid is protected the same. You get to make your choice based on your own personal health choice and risk profile. I get to make my own choice. That we arrive at different conclusions based on our own individual nature, is the beauty of living in a free society.

You have no idea if it causes cancer or Alzheimer's or any other complication down the road and you can't point me to a long term study that proves that because it hasn't been around long enough. As I said before, if in 10 years time there's a long track record of success in the odds of any long term complications are less than my odds of dying in a car wreck, I may change my mind. As it stands, already the AstraZeneca has been paused in numerous countries on account of blood clots. And I've already seen one person get Bells palsy from it.

It's not worth it to me. And I've had plenty of vaccines, but this is gene therapy, it's not a traditional vaccine.
He's not. https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2016/01/i-will-not-vote-for...
If you re-encoded to h.264 with ffmpeg it would also probably get smaller.

Video codecs have lots of options and trade-offs. Its not just quality and file size, but also cpu usage. I suspect the original was encoded in minimize cpu usage while keeping quality constant, and the new one was minimize file size while keeping quality constant and use as much cpu as you want.
Then why doesn't the article list the SAT in with the other dozen or so tests? Nor any other aptitude tests?

Not all standardized tests are IQ tests. Just as not all tests involving reasoning, arithmetic, and vocabulary are not IQ tests.

https://prepexpert.com/sat-to-iq/#

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/12/04/why-should-...

Mensa considers that scores from after January 31, 1994, "No longer correlate with an IQ test."
Raku outperforms perl5 and cpython on quite a few benchmarks, and has for a couple of years now. Some of the ‘nice’ features have pathological performance, but if it becomes a problem in practice you have recourse.
No -- I want a phone that is not subject to Google's data vampirism that competes with Apple for the dollars of the actual humans who use them. If that phone runs Linux and is free, great! If not, less good, but still acceptable.

I wish Microsoft hadn't bungled Windows Phone quite so thoroughly.
I wasn't saying that this was actual literally an interview problem for intelligence services. It was sort of a joke riffing off the possibility that this was already solved before, simply because it seems like it's within the technical capabilities of intelligence agencies (and academic research teams, perhaps) to crack this code. And the joke was that it wasn't even for gating purposes, but more like an introductory first homework assignment for the elite of elites.

I'm not diminishing the tremendous work done by these codebreakers, I'm just speculating if it was already achievable by institutions, just not revealed publicly.
Signal also uses opus by default, and I have found that audio quality on Signal voice calls is uniformly excellent, unless one person's end is experiencing very high packet loss (which would significantly hurt any VoIP application)
And then has to be unloaded, and sent back. Worse, if it's being sent back loaded, it has to make two stops in North America.

Ships are too valuable to wait around for the containers to catch up.
Seconded with building Megapixels on the PinePhone - though I do the actual editing itself on another machine. I have however found that doing clean builds of libraries like libhandy (specifically for building flatpaks) is a lot faster using qemu on a desktop.
So is every computer. 2^(RAM size in bits + Caches size in bits + Registers size in bits + stuff I forgot) is a finite number of states.
And that's exactly why we have a core docs "Fundamentals" tutorial that _does_ walk through the "how it works underneath", but culminates in "and now that you know how to write this code by hand, use RTK and never write all that extra code again:

https://redux.js.org/tutorials/fundamentals/part-1-overview

https://redux.js.org/tutorials/fundamentals/part-8-modern-re...

But, even while the "Fundamentals" tutorial does show things like hand-writing reducers and action type strings with no abstractions, it approaches teaching a lot of the common patterns differently than we used to. It doesn't talk about "action creators" until almost at the end, there's no multiple files by type, inline type strings instead of `const ADD_TODO = "ADD_TODO"`, etc.

So sure, I agree that there's value in understanding how this code works by hand. But, all older tutorials and a lot of the _new_ tutorials I see still being written don't even mention RTK at all. The "Fundamentals" tutorial clearly states up front that:

> The initial code will be less concise than the way we suggest writing real app code, but writing it out long-hand is the best way to learn. Once you understand how everything fits together, we'll look at using Redux Toolkit to simplify things. Redux Toolkit is the recommended way to build production apps with Redux, and is built on all of the concepts that we will look at throughout this tutorial. Once you understand the core concepts covered here, you'll understand how to use Redux Toolkit more efficiently.

Meanwhile, for people who do just want to jump in and start writing something "real", the Essentials tutorial covers that learning use case.

Out of curiosity, which of RTK's abstractions do you feel are "difficult to understand"?
Bitcoin, Gold, and Paul Tudor Jones II
The technical term is "contiguous united states"
I always thought inflation was a dangerous potential side effect of a booking economy, and that deflation was much more dangerous. If the baker can't sell their bread unless they charge pennies for it, it's probably a sign that people can't buy much of anything else either.

IANAE
European cities used to be designed to withstand medieval battles. Sadly, they were not designed to withstand carpet bombing due to WW2 and had to spend a massive amount of money on rebuilding over decades.

That said, like you mentioned: that didn't stop them from making traffic hellholes. Designing a city to need cars is a choice.
Just whatever data is being shown interactively, to also be available as a file that you can download (in order that you can process it locally).

Otherwise, if you have a link to the interactive report but not to the data as a downloadable file, it won't work so well; users (at least myself) would complain.
I say that because you would think a community site would have some sort of filtering process for predators and their enablers, and the Reddit statement says their vetting failed. But I don't know.
Some Reddit employees certainly can see message content. This shows up in /r/redditrequest . Some times the system will flag a request for manual review. In that case, the following message is in the request:

> Thanks for submitting this request! It’s been flagged for manual review (not a bad thing!). This might delay a decision by a couple weeks. In the meantime, please politely message the moderators of r/whatever and reply to this comment with a link to that message. Only you, the mods of r/whatever, and some admins will be able to view the message content. Including a link to this message will help speed the process along.
This is why we end up with a new reinvention of make every five years.

The churn rate on junior developers is probably the single biggest factor in software over the past two decades.
The particular plugins I was referencing are the ones at https://www.wootiecartoons.com/search/label/TOOLs - which are as much about solving particular points of pain with "trying to get animation done in this one particular program" as they are about generally animating.

Flash was always kind of a big pile of shit, while at the same time being the least shitty thing available, and it seems to have maintained that status after fifteen years of development while I was off mastering Illustrator. It is the devil I halfway know, and am already paying for with my Adobe subscription, vs. the mystery of shelling out for Toon Boom and starting from scratch on it or trying to learn Blender's weird 2d workflow or something. You should look at animation tools that aren't Animate. :)
Yep. Opus evolved from merging SILK and CELT. It’s like magic.

Unfortunately, adoption in the digital audiophile hardware world seems very low. E.g. none of the flagship digital audio players from FiiO, Shanling, Cowon, Astell&Kern has built-in support for Opus, even though the codec is completely royalty-free.
But I wish new frameworks stayed away from inventing new language syntax. Not only is it a cognitive burden on programmers, it throws all the tooling off.

From Svelte: {#each cats as { id, name }, i}

JavaScript already has facility for loops and mapping, and relying on that will automatically get you tooling/IDE support. React handles this aspect quite well, and to me that's a point in favor of React.

I do agree with your post - especially on hooks being a step backward.
Real talk why school districts are segregated? Racism and classism. It’s very easy to draw school lines along socioeconomic borders and then blame any differences in quality in individual management. Also most schools are funded via property tax which is tightly coupled to home value and this income.
As they should- provided a strong binhost,, it's the distribution that has brought me the most joy to run on mine, and it's been a delight to see Gentoo users come together over time to make easier as it's evolved alongside other pinephone distribution c:
Help me explain where my unfounded assumption is. If the interest rate is negative, that explicitly means that money in the future is worth more than money today. That's the definition of a negative interest rate.
A lot happier than with a linux phone. Would love to have an illumos phone too, but won't get my hopes up for that happening any time soon...
I’d say it’s even worse than that. I’d be willing to pay for a Linux distro (and have donated in the past), but, in their pursuit of user lock-in and/or profit, Ubuntu and RedHat are increasingly hostile toward desktop users. Therefore, my money goes to smaller projects without many (any?) full time developers.
Flutter in vscode is quite good.

And although Flutter has historically been for ios and android, I actually prefer writing Flutter apps while running them on my Ubuntu box. It feels lighter and faster running them natively in Linux than running them in an emulator.
Is there a good explanation for how these came to develop?

I've heard it explained by saying that "they're typically men's spheres" as rationale from my brief exposure to the language, but this seems deeply unsatisfying for a variety of reasons - id est, in comparison to something along the lines of loanword/archaism/evolution of root/evolution of grammatic gender.
It allows me to run any linux desktop program, which includes programs that can be run with wine, anbox or even a virtual machine. If it's fast enough i wouldn't need a PC at all.

So I would say that is the long term goal: convergence. Linux has a major advantage over other operating systems in this regard.
Just shipping much amount is fine in shortage situation (if lasts until DG2 is released).
Sure but each person seriously attempting it still increased the probability of a solution arising