skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in 2004, someone released an unauthorized fan dub/narration of the the first Harry Potter movie called Wizard People, Dear Reader that hilariously butchers the entire plot, character names, and motivations. This narration is (loosely) synced to the movie and its scenes, and for a long time I watched it via clips uploaded to YouTube. But when Sorcerer’s Stone got a 4K release, I decided it was time to rip it and create my own canonical copy.

The original audio files of the dub were at this point still available on archive.org. The problem is that the second audio file is not meant to play directly after the first - this was back in the days of CD players, so halfway through the movie the dub instructs you to begin playing the second CD once the next scene starts. The other problem is that the second file is louder than the first.

Most sources I saw online said to insert a gap of three seconds to account for the delay, and didn’t have a solution for the difference in volume. I wanted to be more precise.

First, I found the exact start time of the scene where the second audio track begins:

ffprobe hp.mkv
...
Chapter #0:18: start 4428.882000, end 4817.521000
Metadata:
title : Chapter 19
...

Then I compared this with the duration of the first audio track:

ffprobe wiz1.mp3
...
Duration: 01:13:45.33, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 66 kb/s
...

The difference between these time stamps gave the actual delay of 3.582 seconds.

I then compared the maximum audio levels of the two audio tracks to determine the level to increase the first track’s volume by (there are more advanced features in FFmpeg for volume normalization, but I just wanted to remove the potential for eardrum damage when beginning Chapter 19 and keep things as similar as possible otherwise):

ffmpeg -i wiz1.mp3 -af volumedetect -f null -
[Parsed_volumedetect_0 @ 000001ecf871c1c0] max_volume: -11.1 dB

ffmpeg -i wiz2.mp3 -af volumedetect -f null -
[Parsed_volumedetect_0 @ 000001858b881880] max_volume: -3.6 dB

This gave me the volume increase for the first track of 7.5 dB.

Once I had these numbers, it was time for the one-liner to adjust the first track’s volume, concatenate the two tracks with the gap of silence, and mux them with the video from the movie:

ffmpeg -i hp.mkv -i wiz1.mp3 -i wiz2.mp3 -filter_complex "[1]volume=7.5dB[wiz1];aevalsrc=0:duration=3.582:sample_rate=22050[gap];[wiz1][gap][2]concat=n=3:v=0:a=1,apad[wiz]" -map 0 -map "[wiz]" -shortest -c:v copy -c:a flac -sample_fmt s16 -f matroska wiz.mkv
They're already facing anticompetitive scrutiny. Retaliation would have tipped the political scales.
VW TN was offered a works council deal and they still voted it down.
I imagine GP is being facetious
Fun While It Lasted, Falcon 9 Telemetry Now Encrypted
Chinese cities in the northeast Yellow Sea area (like Dalian) were historically industrial centers, but are now somewhat of a Chinese rust belt while the industrial gravity has moved south (ex: Shenzhen, Chongqing).
I know a number of people in a large teacher's union and the stories indicate that the union is good for both teachers and students. I've personally seen many great teachers stay in public schools. The union rewarded the competent and pushed back against administrator abuse.
You mean, the one were it is actually easy to fire people?
I think the signalling equilibrium works. People with high-quality fresh articles put the date on to gain a temporary advantage, so now when I see an article that doesn't have a date, I become suspicious that means it is old. Like no GPA or graduation date on a resume, it isn't fooling anyone.
I'm from Canada, but certainly education on economics would be amazingly helpful, I agree.
I used to have the same problem, and now I can barely stop working! I grab the opportunity to start.

What changed? I'm not sure, but I think it's that I'm working on a project that I believe in, that's more challenging to me, and that I feel in more control over. I used to be the guy who got added to a team that was already in progress, but now I'm the guy who was working on this project from the very start, and I'm determined to see it through. I feel more ownership over the project.

How do you get there? No idea, but I just made a proposal for a new project and I've got 4 days to make a prototype. This sort of thing seems to work for me. Maybe you need to figure out what works for you.
Which organizations have figured out how to handle their bad apples?
I like this presentation of evidence. Rarely do you see such a short acknowledgement that there are multiple contradictory theories, each having some evidence, and making no attempt to pick which theory is correct.

Sometimes its wrong to present "both sides" like that. Like pretending the evidence against the moon landings is equal to the evidence for the moon landings. But if you're going to be wrong, this is probably the best kind of wrong.
Well, it's more than "fiction" -- the build files are on github!

https://marcteys.github.io/eyecam/
Let’s buy each of the workers a sub
The most likely candidate for this virus, and most future viruses that produce pandemics, will be environmental destruction and animal agriculture.

We know there are novel viruses out there, too many to count. Even if this started in a lab the most likely reason is that scientists need to study the viruses that we will be coming into contact with as we commit, as a species, to more environmental destruction. I'm really exhausted of watching scientists get blamed repeatedly for the failures of our economic and social systems to act responsibly.

Sure, the lab hypothesis might have some weight, some possibility of being true. It's still a red herring, either a distraction from the real issues we face by accident or design, or both.
I'm really sorry for the situation you're in but,

> they bear the moral responsibility for all the people who will be affected by this

Facebook should not be held responsible for dictatorships and totalitarian regimes killing people - even if they use Facebook's leaked data to do so. It's quite unfortunate, but the responsible party to blame is still the people actually doing the killing.
Until you get sick and/or can't work that is.
I just wished Figma would run offline when not having internet without the need to login every day. One of the reasons I keep using Sketch.

Currently, it's less of a problem because you can't travel much but before, for me, it was a pain to use Figma on planes, or trains.
Not sure why someone hasn't done it recently, but I'm not surprised they didn't do it back then. At the time of MD's popularity, it probably wouldn't have made much sense to compete with zip and jaz drives unless you could make them much cheaper, and I doubt they could have with MD. Portable audio that wasn't as finicky as CD but was higher quality than a cassette was the real killer functionality.
Sure, there are limits to the extend in which people can take care of themselves. For example if they are born with a low IQ they may never be able to do provide a net benefit to any job or almost any job. So that they are effectively unemployable. But if you are able to do anything of benefit to the society then you should do it. And having a job is the way to do it and be sustainable.
This is the first I've heard of this - why is it being downvoted? I'd like to know more.

Do you have any more info about this?
That's what they did in Seattle.
> Then they'll hold them hostage if they do make it, by threatening to kill their families back home if payment is not received.

I'm struggling to see what you think is odd about trying to collect payment for services already rendered?
Sure. But this is not specific to Amazon. Most media pieces around this made it sound like Amazon drivers' are exclusive to this experience.

A lot of people working in the transportation industry do this and it is not very hard to imagine why they would do this.

Just one example: https://www.quora.com/Do-truck-drivers-ever-actually-use-pis...
You can find several other articles, and also speak to actual drivers and they will also explain why do they do this.
Go on...

Food? Health care? Transportation?
As a user, if there was a way to get a "pro"/ad-free subscription for free or at a discounted rate for a month or so for an app that I'm not super invested in to purchase a subscription for anyway, it would be a good way to get me to submit all my feedback/gripes/etc to the app devs, but that might just be me.
I think you misunderstand the situation. These are generation changes taking place where workers expect their companies to support their values. "Cancel culture" is simply a derogatory term for workers and the public holding organizations accountable for the actions, decisions, and beliefs of those they employ.

https://www.axios.com/ceo-political-activism-03b148a0-d921-4...
> The clearly obvious hypothesis is that animal transmission was the vector

Except nobody has been able to identify that animal. With SARS it was quickly determined to be civets, with MERS camels. With Covid, more than a year on, we still don't know.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/26/1021263/bat-covi...
I don't get how people keep saying this. A UBI is effectively a tax credit. You fund it with higher nominal rates. These mostly cancel out for working people, netting to zero in the middle. People at the top pay on net so that people at the bottom receive on net.

It's completely sustainable and is effectively just a simplification and improvement of the status quo of having unemployment insurance and a bunch of means-tested benefits for low income people, but without the poverty traps, perverse incentives and excessive bureaucracy.
The catchphrase around it became a meme and fell out of popularity, but despite all of that, there remains a huge disparity (definitely more than an order of magnitude) in the productivity and output between the most efficient hackers and the least.

I wouldn't take this as a reason to quit trying: take it as an inspiration to which to aspire.
I found this to be a fairly engaging story of how a team at Amazon went about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1RD-UDE0rQ
>Are "dying cities/slums" a purely American phenomenon, in terms of rich first-world countries?

The UK definitely has declining factory towns (often called mill towns there) similar to the US. Northern England is like that for the most part. Less of a rust belt and more of a rust hat.
I believe the Ruhr valley experienced some rust belt like phenomena. Abandoned factories and such, but not like NAm. Germany’s economic might rests on their mittelstand midsized businesses (KMU) typically family owned or run and which are to some extent protected by the gov.
A family that travels the world full time on a yacht for $2,500 a month
I use it in Firefox regularly, and just checked and it runs in chrome too. Weird...
Clever idea and implementation! I think from a health standpoint, though, this is a false positive and it is probably better to go for an old fashioned _walk_; or to drop to the floor and do some yoga.

For instance, sitting down too much is in itself detrimental to ones health (whether pedaling or not). E.g. prostate health, posture, etc.

In contrast, a stationary bike or road bike, the rider can stand up and pedal fast, etc. There's a much broader range of motion which make the activity healthy!
Regardless of whether or not it was "gotcha" journalism, I learned a LOT of stuff that I didn't previously know.

For example, I had no idea that the "Dolphin Safe" label was just marketing and didn't actually represent any sort of guarantee.

When you think about it, it all makes logical sense. These fishing trawlers are dragging huge nets across the ocean to catch giant schools of fish. Who else eats that fish? Dolphins and sharks. So of course they are going to get caught in the nets along with all the other fish. This had never really occurred to me before.

It was also incredibly eye opening to find out what really happens at most fish farms. They have all these fish contained in a relatively small area and they are feeding them all the other waste fish byproducts that come from normal fishing. The farmed fish just sit there in their own filth. It's hard to believe that's a healthy or sustainable way.

I also learned that a lot of the health benefits of fish such as omega 3 oils actually originate from the algae that fish eat. This means that you can just avoid eating fish entirely and just source omega 3 oils from algae. No reason to even eat the fish.

It was also very eye opening to discover just how much more toxic the ocean is becoming over time as humans keep using it as our dumping ground.

Ultimately, there only seems to be one solution: Stop eating fish.

But that begs the question... if the ocean runs out of fish, then we have to stop eating fish, right? So if we just all stop eating fish now, how is that any better than running out of fish later? The net effect is the same!
Ok I see what you mean. I agree.

But you have also misunderstood what I was saying wrt 'universe'

Consider that this universe could be an instance of the structure that is formed by the algorithm that you are talking about. Consider that all possible alternate structures may also exist. Now consider that there exist 'Garden states' that are unreachable because they are incompressible. So might it not be possible to be conscious in a universe that has no generating function? The mathematical structure representing this universe exist in the abstract, timeless and static. Your life is a slice through this giant structure.

Infinitely many of those structures exist, is there one out there that contains conscious beings that believe they inhabit an orderly universe but they actually inhabit one where the starting state of their universe was a garden state, containing a vast un-generatable structure that has informed the evolution of the universe from afar.

But then it would still have a minimal function. Bugger. What if that universe there existed a capricious demon that used the information in the initial state to... Nope that doesn't work either. Ok you win :(
This is the key to solving property crime. Arrest the fences, the pawn shops, the chop shops, the guy with a warehouse full of bikes.

When you can't turn property into quick cash, the incentive to steal goes down. A lot.
Here's an interesting and surprising analysis from a labor organizer and writer (you'll need to follow the back-and-forth of the comments a bit):

https://twitter.com/yeselson/status/1380363511709196288

The short version is: while the Bessemer campaign was a good thing, the vote (according to this person --- everything I'm writing here is according to Yeselson and subject to errors in my understanding) was not. To wit: if a skilled organizer effort isn't sure it's going to win, they pull the vote, reorganize, and try again when they're sure they will.

There's further evidence in the threads that nuts-and-bolts organizing, "101 stuff" to use the term I got from labor organizing blogs following up on this, wasn't done; that in fact the worker opponents to unionization were only weakly opposed, and under-educated.

Another fun Google search that I found from this thread: [union "hot shop"].
The warehouse workers get the same (extremely generous) healthcare as every other Amazon employee (due to ERISA).

And even if they didn't, through the Affordable Care Act, someone at that income level can buy a "Gold" plan with low deductibles for $75/month. Obviously for Amazon workers, that's irrelevant.

K-12 education is free, and once you factor in-state tuition and FAFSA, university is also basically free for anyone that continues to make minimum wage throughout their career.
> Where do you get your information from

History and reality. Look at union run cities like Chicago and union run industries like the auto-industry that got demolished by foreign companies.

Personally, I think unions have their places... but in 99% of cases these days? The bureaucracy, red tape, added expenses and other assorted BS are more net negative than the few positives that unions offer.
My personal favorite time/NTP website is

https://time.is/

https://time.is/UTC
it's 2021 now. They have presumably been tracking the orbits of there large objects for years now. Yes this is literally rocket science, but this collision is only a few hours away. Why can't they do better then a vague 20%?
I don't typically expect companies to light money on fire (including future money), but maybe that's just me
I love all the Affinity products so far but the RAW part of Affinity Photo is where the suite falls a bit short in my opinion.

Things I miss most when compared to Lightroom are:

- the ability to quickly create circular and gradient masks and apply a set of setting to them

- Edits are not saved into a .xmp file like Lightroom does. Once you developed your image and closed the Raw editor, there is no way to apply the exact same settings again if you want to tweak something later.
This map is for UK ONLY at the moment. Sorry for posting this and running away. This map is using crime data from https://data.police.uk/ filtered by Bicycle theft category. All thefts were then linked to areas using the polygons of coordinates shown on the map. Indeed I should update and remove areas from Scotland and Northern Ireland as those were not included in the dataset extracted from data.police.uk.
In the former "rust belt" of Germany unemployement rate is higher (~12%) compared to the rest of Germany (~6%). And although we had social reforms in the 2000s cutting unemployment benefits - today with unemployment benefits, "free" health care and social security payments you can live from (though should be higher), areas with higher unemployment are not comparable to the US.

(Also German carmakers have - at least until now - done much better than Detroit for a variety of reasons).
First of all. Don’t put long forms (i.e. more then a couple of inputs; including checkboxes) in a single dialog modal. Second do listen for keypresses on the dialog it self (not window) so that hitting esc on e.g. the URL bar (or the developer console) has no effect on the dialog it self. And thirdly—as parent states—don’t use deprecated properties and listeners, i.e. use `keydown` and `event.key`.

If you follow these three rules feel free to use the esc to close the dialog. I just tested logging `event.key` with hiragana Mozc input device and every keydown while selecting the correct kanji registers as `Process` even cancelling the input with Esc just adds another Process keydown event. I admit it can be frustrating if you double tab Esc accidentally to close the input (second Esc will close the dialog), but that is where rule one comes in, and the accident will only cause the user a minor annoyance.
My mistake! Your original link does indeed make the erroneous reporting clear.
Maybe a controversial or skewed observation - But as a European looking (from outside) into the US, it looks like everyone has the impression that they're all millionaires who just haven't made it yet. They don't seem to want to disrupt the status quo, even if it benefits them, incase they're next inline to make it big :/
> it is probably better to go for an old fashioned _walk_

For cardiofitness you need to get your heartrate over a certain threshold. A walk won't do that.
> Similar corruption exists today. It is inevitable.

OK, so if it's inevitably why hasn't this happened to the creative unions in Hollywood like SAG, WGA, the DGA, and the PGA?
It's not the worst rule of thumb as long as the social context is taken into account (i.e. it wouldn't be as appropriate here.) Heuristics do save time.
We have special laws in most places for the theft of automobiles. Prior to that, there were special laws for the theft of horses (with pretty steep penalties, as I understand).

I see no reason why bikes should be exempt.
Just like 'Infrastructure' in 2021.
Correct. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Union_Facts
> Closing it would almost certainly be a lot more expensive than meeting union demands, so I don't think it's reasonable to conclude that is likely.

Not if Amazon thought swift action would act as a deterrent in other locations. This specific thing has happened with other companies, so I don't think it's unlikely at all.

> Regardless, it's a decent argument for a nationwide union to avoid race to the bottom effects.

OK, but the question is whether these specific workers could possibly have any reason to vote against unionization. Maybe they don't find it plausible that a nationwide union will form, or maybe they don't want to deal with the interim turmoil that will befall them personally, even if they would support a nationwide effort. All seem like perfectly fine reasons to me.
It's even less momentous than that: "Apache XML Project" was a banner under which several different tools lived. Some of those tools have gone on to have their own lives and live on elsewhere.
You're making union shops and the people who support them sound so depressing and indifferent to their jobs and careers that I really don't want to be anywhere near either.

>In the jobs that I do, "bad performance" is super subjective and very hard to measure. It's also the common canard to use from the managerial class to get rid of someone they don't like.

Personally I'll take risk of getting fired over having to spend 8 hours a day dealing with utter idiots. Not spending 8 hours a day miserable is worth a lot to me personally.

>And, it's a common and well understood in the tech field that if you want better pay, you job hop.

Exactly, you have the option and path for getting a better pay through your own efforts. In a union industry you don't. New job will pay the same as the old one based on union rules.
50 (or 80) years ago, you could get a high school education, get a job in a factory, and be middle class. From there, you could learn what was going on, show that you knew your stuff, and move into management, which would put you at least on the edge of the upper middle class.

Today, you may be able to get a middle class job without a college degree. But the route from there to the upper middle class is much harder. That may be what people are feeling. There's a much harder ceiling above the middle class than there was before.
I've never heard blockchain hyped as faster to develop for than a RDBMS before.

I also enjoy calling a few bits per person for a few million people "intergalactic" scale.

> “All of the data stays distributed,” Paydos said. “We’re not creating a big intergalactic database in the sky. We wouldn’t want to do that, nor given the time urgency could we do that.”
You mean costs the same and as a result is entirely a function of how well you're paid in order to be able to afford better coverage?
They aren't equivalent, and it's not even solely a factor of sanitation. You are keeping tons of live animals in cages in close proximity to each other and tons of people. Stress is extremely effective at weakening immune response, which makes it easier for pathogens to replicate, jump hosts, and jump species. Now the pathogen is an a different environment, which begins to force adaptation, which is to say the pathogens that mutate in beneficial ways to their new environment begin to outcompete the rest. And this just keeps happening. And happening. And happening. And with new strains of disease brought in from pathogen reservoirs in the wild.

There's only so much good sanitation processes could even achieve here, in the same way there's only so much that bad sanitation processes at a restaurant can do. Bad sanitation in a restaurant almost always means an increase in known pathogens that we can either take care of fairly easily, or even in the worst case scenarios of something such as botulism, have limited ability to spread among the general population.

The risk of an unsanitized kitchen is just totally different from that of even a somewhat sanitized wet market.