skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My all time question about FFmpeg is what are all those timestamp correction flags and synchronization options for:

* -fflags +genpts, +igndts, +ignidx

* -vsync

* -copyts

* -use_wallclock_as_timestamps 1

* And more that you find even when you thought you had seen all flags that might be related.

FFmpeg docs are a strange beast, they cover a lot of topics, but are extremely shallow in most of them, so the overall quality ends up being pretty poor. I mean it's like the kind of frowned upon code comments such as "ignidx ignores the index; genpts generates PTS". No surprises there... but no real explanation, either.

What I'd love is for a real, technical explanation of what are the consequences of each flag, and more importantly, the kind of scenarios where they would make a desirable difference.

Especially for the case of recording live video that comes from an unreliable connection (RTP through UDP) and storing it as-is (no transcoding whatsoever): what is the best, or recommended set of flags that FFmpeg authors would recommend? Given that packets can get lost, or timestamps can get garbled, UDP packets reordered in the network, or any combination of funny stuff.

For now I've sort of decided on using genpts+igndts and use_wallclock_as_timestamps, but all comes from intuition and simple tests, and not from actual evidence and guided by technical documentation of each flag.
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> people's trust in mainstream medicine

Mainstream medicine says it is incredibly addictive with an incredibly low lethal dose.

People like to get high, a lot. Probably second only to triggering the libs / whatever the lib version is.
> Same here, and same with most people I know.

Well yeah. By definition you're no longer engaging with people on Facebook for the most part. People who are organizing events, participating in Facebook groups, posting memes to Facebook no longer exist to you (and vice versa). The contingent of people that have moved of Facebook is larger today, but I'd be wary of drawing conclusions based on "well my friends don't use it" method of gathering data. Eg depending on who you friends are, Snapchat is either one more copied Instagram feature away from failing, or the only platform they'll ever use and couldn't be more successful.
I imagine insect "meat" would be far cheaper than this.

Now, I don't know how people feel about eating Charlotte & Hopper over Elsie & Foghorn Leghorn - probably wouldn't be too bad with the right sauce
Thanks for sending me the prototype to test; besides the labeling issue, and the fact that I accidentally fried one of the fan power cables (thought I'd burnt up the whole unit!) when I first put it together, it's already a great product. I hope you sell many more thousands, and keep improving the experience!
I have no experience in the area, but just to point out that you could equally apply some of those arguments to meat production.

The current meat industry is only cost effective because we've spent the last few millennia optimising the everloving hell out of it - and its scale is just as unfathomable. A significant proportion of the Earth's land surface is currently dedicated to either growing animals or growing animal feed.

So of course, for an alternative to displace it, it would also have to work at unfathomable scales too.

And bearing in mind, the technology to grow meat is essentially an exercise in recreating eons of evolution in a factory. It's an enormous challenge, but that alone doesn't mean it's impossible. Current meat production is also incredibly inefficient from a thermodynamic perspective.

I have no idea whether lab meat will ever come to pass. I suspect it will eventually, but probably take longer than expected.
I think that is a reference to amateur photography.
And yet the Authors of this letter fail to address the most cited meta-analyses (by Dr Lawrie). She's publicly stated the removing the Elgazzar data did effect her numbers, but not the conclusion. Also, if you read the paper she downgrades the Niaee data for several potential biases.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34145166/
Looking at pricing for Google One to compare it with a Synology, I noticed my account doesn't seem to have the option for the higher tiers of storage such as the 5TB or 10TB that should be an option, instead 2TB is the highest. Have these plans gone away recently, or is this perhaps an account issue? I see articles mentioning them this month.
The second line of his post indicates that he's unable to post using the email account in question, so I must assume that means that the account in its entirety has been blocked
hmm I'm guessing this form factor would be an even harder sell? https://www.lupin.ski/images/portfolio-full-9.jpg

i can touch-type fine, but for some reason my eyes drift back down to the keyboard anyway.... so I stuck the display there :P
Well, it will if it's in a different location. But that's just what I mean—you don't need one solution that protects against everything; different solutions can protect against different threats, and all you really need is one to make it through.
I never said anything about cigarettes, I was talking about nicotine. Cigarettes give you cancer. Nicotine does not.
From the post:

>Google Drive which I used to back up all of my data

“back up” rather than “only copy”.
What algae do you grow? What kind of aquarium is needed for that?

You make your own biofuel?
I am quite interested to see this -- thank you BrendanEich
"the top 1% wage grew 138% since 1979, while wages for the bottom 90% grew 15%"

https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/
tell it to those cancelled for decade old tweets
Or too many businesses that are only viable if they’re paying less than what their employees need to live a stable lifestyle in their area (housing, food, transportation, health care)
Sure is - and Firefox has done that (while still allowing you to put it at the top if that's what you prefer) for several versions now.
I recently decided against G Drive and for office.com for our tiny startup. One reason being the unreliable customer support often mentioned here on HN.

I hope MS customer support is better…
Some similar projects are Pyston , PyPy and Rapids.ai

Pyston I was able to get a 15% increase in speed out of the box.
PyPy I could not get to work with my project (numpy/pandas/ta-lib), I finally got everything to compile but it blew through my 32 gigs in 10 seconds and crashed.

Pyccel, Cython, Numba and Rapids I have yet to try but am interested in anyones experience.
Mandatory names parameters?

You have been able to provide anonymous arguments since I first started playing with Swift in 2.0. The function just has to define it that way.
It's not that, it's the risk of permanently losing culturally significant media because of it.

Not everyone is a techie that can switch from google's friendly UI, and transfer everything to another safer service that operates differently.
Can you switch easily? Cheaply? Would you not need to sell all that hardware and fundamentally overhaul your technical life to switch away from Apple?

If Apple wants to deploy a new update that scans all your files for anything they deem undesirable, or bundles ads, or add backdoors... they can, knowing the cost of most users to switch is too high so they will tolerate it. Don't think they won't aid spying if the USG asks them extra nice.

Apple has totally sold control of their hardware in China to the Chinese government with full knowledge it will be used to help with genocide, all to maintain doing business there.

They will do whatever is the most profitable regardless of if it is aligned with your interests or not.

I only rely on open source software and best effort open hardware/firmware because freedom to me means no lock-in. No one can force me to take a software, firmware, or hardware update I don't want. My reliance on tech is highly flexible.

In my quest to become a more capable engineer it was worth the extra effort to learn how computers work well enough to make them do exactly what I want with whatever software, firmware, or hardware I want for both my personal and work life.

I built a career on those skills.
I was there with you too. Objective-C may have been verbose, but it was readable and easily modifiable.

It definitely seemed like the people who wrote Swift hated Objective-C. The "let", "func", etc syntax is ugly and unnecessary, along with the question marks.

I know I'm swimming against the tide, but I'll be writing Objective-C for as long as I can.
Their parts library is available for download and search https://jlcpcb.com/parts

They have instructions on how to generate the BOM and placement files as CSV too https://support.jlcpcb.com/article/84-how-to-generate-the-bo...
backdoored by FBI : Which phone is that?
I mean... the mother of all demos was 1968. Moore's law was also fully active with truly exponential growth in the number of transistors per dollar and per watt for years at that point.

Those computer guys in the late 1960s / early 1970s were looking far into the future for how computing would evolve, and their predictions were largely accurate. If anything, the trajectory of computer progress has been one of the more predictable things in the last 50 years.
Take a lesson from "AI" companies and "communism" - Have the pigs be in a coma for their whole lives or something and call it lab grown.
> Lithuania has been capitalist for 20+ years and quality of life has increased by a lot ever since.

That's what I said. Lithuania had it bad under communism (USSR). Maybe they are simply not interested in having an other communist regime (the CCP) meddle into it's internal affairs.
I mean, beyond/impossible already are a pretty good simulacrum of some kinds of meat. If what you're trying to do is simulate meat, I don't think you're going to do better wth insects. If what you're trying to do is just have good protein, we already have tons of options, starting at beans. But sure, insects is another. (I ate a bunch of Brood X cicadas this summer, they were tasty. They did not make me think they were beef or chicken).

I think the idea of lab-grown meat in the OP is supposed to be a much better simulation (I mean, arguably not a simulation at all) than impossible/beyond, and be able to simulate whole pieces like a steak or piece of chicken not just ground meat.

But yeah, that's a question I have, with plant-based meat like beyond/impossible already being way better than I would have predicted a few years ago... what's the point of spending so much money on the "moon shot" of vat-grown meat, instead of just doing more with the plant-based approach that's already working well?
I’m not sure anything would help. Though, I find hot dogs to be disgusting, so I’m probably not a great candidate for cricket dogs.
If you use current technology for growing cells I can easily believe that it will never be competitive. Even with economies of scale that is rather sensitive work that is very easily spoiled. Unless you figure out how to ensure clean-room conditions for low cost this part alone might make this too expensive.

But I don't see how there could be any kind of insurmountable problem here. Animals "solve" this problem for us right now, so there is a way. I just think that the solution has to be quite different than how we grow cell cultures in the lab right now.

Short term I'd be really skeptical on the prospects of replacing meat in this way. But long term is an entirely different question.
What a terribly inaccurate, sweeping generalization.
telegram is certainly non a tech-giant with 500M users
It's crazy, I wonder if it actually works and they actually get a higher percentage of good coders. I just do a face to face, then a take home assignment, then another face to face where we discuss the take home, and then I immediately make the decision. I skip the take home if they've got impressive GitHub accounts or other clear public displays of skill.
Ahh, I'm on firefox - wonder why its only there?

Oh wait, I think that's even worse. This is the case for all google sites, if you use firefox, back button is disabled. Maybe this is to worsen the user experience for Firefox and encourage use of Chrome?
Being free is not an excuse. If Google can't give a reliable free service, then they should stop offering free services. Thee way they're doing it is way unprofessional.
I would not consider it a forum in the sense of an old-fashioned phpBB community, because it has the concept of moving people's contributions to more visible places based on how many people upvote them. In the way I understand the term, a forum would only rank posts and topics based on when people choose to contribute, and nothing more.
> You're not even _using_ a database to store your state, you're just using SQL to produce some graph of things you need to reconcile.

Well, that's one way of doing it. The better way, imho, is to actually have a database to store the state. That also solves:

> You would create all these resources, then modify them, then delete them, then create some new resources as a linear history of operations. Not good, very brittle.

When you have an actual database backing your SQL queries, the migrations would all run in this DB, produce a final state of the DB, then this final state would get applied to bring up your system in one shot.

> So you'd need to add a unique identifier to every `INSERT` statement:

Sure, and that's fairly easy to derive, because we already have a unique identifier, the bucket name:

INSERT INTO aws_kms_key (node_id) VALUES (concat('aws_kms_key', bucket_name)) RETURNING arn INTO kms_arn;
Ah, I'll try again, thanks!
My personal preference for a DAW is Studio One, it’s lovely. I like the efficient UI and it has all the features I ever wanted.

One of the sad ironies of my life is that once I switched to macOS and could’ve avoided all the annoyances and instabilities I’ve had with audio on Windows, I just never felt like making music again. Life is like that sometimes. :)
printed text is not going to be as durable as letters of the past
'Grindstone,' a Game About Matching Colors, Solved Its Colorblind Issue
I'd consider it weak because covid mostly has non-severe symptoms.

A sugar pill could also get the same observational results because the number of severe cases is very low.
This "friend of yours" should probably get vaccinated then, because we know that works pretty well.
Is he on a free plan? Because if so, I see exactly zero basis for his complaint. He got what he paid for.

P.S. No, I'm not saying that Google is in the right.
A 100 applications got me 10 phone calls, and 10 phone calls would lead to 1 onsite.

So I just need to apply to a thousand places to get a job.

Oh and before anyone jumps in with "are you just applying to FAANGS?", no. Categorically, absolutely not.
Ah, but you have heard of them!

(gotta do everything myself, but I can go to sleep now :D)
I could change every assumption in this comment to the opposite and it would make just as much or little sense.

You can’t pretend to be searching for truth if your solution to the problem of people making mistakes is to shut down any possible way to discuss the disagreement. I just find the cognitive dissonance on display here staggering. How do you you know you’re right? Have you ever been wrong? I suppose you knew at the time that you were wrong? Or maybe you just know that this time you’re right?
If you are going to rewrite, you may want to consider Julia. It will give you close to C speed, but will be as high level (or higher level) than Python.
This actually proves the point that the journalists who wrote about UK tech immigration issues (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28377438) are missing a bigger picture: investors and major industries that feed IT sector with new opportunities and contracts (such as entertainment and construction) have already made their mind and have chosen Greater London over EU cities as their primary european hub [1] [2]. Bureaucracy around Brexit ramifications does exist, but it's not a decisive factor for the region to develop.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqydTPDKQ44

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNXotuREZQ4
If you want to own your data you can use Nextcloud with Collabora
Few months ago I read Xiaomi is now bigger than Apple.

The cynic in me says this is just part of American anti China warfare. And Lithuania is, how should I put it nicely, an American lapdog.
Disclosure: yes this was typed on a Poco.
They already have, when they remotely deleted copies of 1984, IIRC whose copyright had expired in one country, but not in another.
There’s a good xkcd for this one. It is worth remembering just how many people there are and how big the world is. Considering this, I think it is pretty easy to find yourself in a group that is multiple standard deviations away from the mean.

https://xkcd.com/2357/
As one more piece of evidence - two of my family members are internal medicine physicians who are running covid units -- just a shocking number of people are showing up to hospitals with severe Covid after having self-medicated with IVM.
I mean wouldn't it be logical for the criminals to adapt? It's now public that:

a) Crypto is secure,
b) Infiltration is difficult, and
c) You can't trust hardware and software vendors.

From what I can tell the criminals need international communications to facilitate their operations.

Ergo, my earlier speculation that the technologically savvy ones will adapt and develop their own proprietary software.

Maybe the juice isn't worth the squeeze for criminals to learn software development, but I worry about criminals who do learn.
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Could it be used with Theatre.js (https://github.com/ariaminaei/theatre) posted a few days ago?
Which is why I download the Takeout backup monthly.
If you are fixated on conspiracy claims against your amazing scientific discovery - pretty much you are always wrong, that's true for perpetual motion machines, faster than light drives (that's the one I hope could be right), extra-ordinary life extensions for microbes applies to humans (wish that one could be right), and covid. If you use opinion columns from obscure news sources to prove you are right, almost always wrong too.

Ivermectin is safe enough to take, the important question is does it do any good against covid. At best it doesn't hurt you and it's unclear, but probably does nothing. It's certain there is no international pharmaceutical conspiracy trying to block discussion of it. That's different than trying to avoid showing incorrect medical information to people during a worldwide medical emergency. The hospitals in my state are full of idiotic non-vaxed covid victims. The latest thing is a conspiracy that the hospital won't treat them with ivermectin because they want them to die.

People are just killing themselves because of their bizarre and irrational resistance to safe, life-saving vaccinations and preference for random spoutings on the internet to research proven treatments. Do people challenge their math professors in college because they don't consult fox news for the truth? No. I don't have much hope for our future when we can't get these simple things right. It's like a new dark ages has come upon us. But the truth is we humans were always this foolish.
Absolutely they should stay home if they don't want to take the risk.

Technically I think we could ban anyone from going outside and save lot of lives in traffic and with covid.

I don't see any sacrifice if one wants to stay safe. It is their freedom to not go outside house. It is not their freedom to oppress others and take away their freedom by forcing them to do anything. Specially being vaccinated.
Anyone else so sick of the reddit website and its content? Using it on mobile is terrible. So over it.
Because you’re you and I was basing it on working in the space 3 years ago, I admit I was wrong. But I really do want to solve this problem. Despite my mistake, the spirit of the question is unresolved — you claim that you allow publishers/creators to be paid for their work. In the case a pub isn’t on your platform, you don’t pay them — you return payment to the user. So content continues to go unfunded. How do you intend to get publishers to hook in to your system and get paid, instead of just making users feel like they’re supporting the open internet and instead not actually funding the sites they care about?
Most of these bullet points could still be done on a Mac.

You don't need special permission, or a hacked computer, to do the things the non-apple way.

I moved to Linux 7 years ago from MacOS (and windows before that). As I get older, my patience wanes for dealing with the, half-baked house-of-cards teetering on collapse, Linux ecosystem. I just want something that works better, and took a different direction than the modern versions of Windows or MacOS.
You’re right, I have experience but only in Australia. The number of barn raised and or processed grain fed cattle is almost 0.
This is a long feature piece. It's journalism. If you want the simple facts, the story has been reported plenty of other places. You can get the CliffsNotes on Twitter.
How can you predict that a "superintelligence" does or could even exist then?

To be fair, based on your description, assuming is is not completely random, you can still build a somewhat accurate model that would be able to somewhat accurately estimate when and how often the light will be blinking without having a full understanding on what exactly causes it.
One thing to note: the waves in quantum physics have complex amplitudes[0] (e.g. a real number + an imaginary number), rather than the waves in most synthesizers and analog computers which only have a real amplitude. This means that they can have very different behavior e.g. wave interference is different for real-valued classical waves and complex-valued quantum waves. Experience with any wave dynamics is certainly still valuable though.

[0]https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/46054
Cryptomator has overall a nice clean interface, I find
> In all this, it would be so good to know we have a silver bullet. But until solid, publicly accessible science proves otherwise, cultured meat is still a gamble

The article is written as if this lab-grown meat was expected to solve the worlds problems. There are more factors in play. I appreciate other sides of the coin argument, but this is a strange one..
The reasonable thing is get vaccinated immediately. You could also stick chili peppers in your butt, that probably won't hurt either. It has as much ability to help as horse dewormer.
I'm also using Firefox. No addons, running on Ubuntu. I click on the link, read the article, click the "Back" button, and everything works as I expect.

Maybe you have some scripts or addons.
To Google, this is not unfortunate, this is planned. They truly do not give a single shit about you. Consume content and shut up is exactly what they want you to do.
One big reason is you're removing the economic incentive to produce good evidence. The herbal remedies industry is a perfect example, there will be valid treatments there but yet the industry is almost entirely medically useless. Some of the treatments might be effective for particular diseases, at particular doses but no one ever knows. These companies have billions in revenue and are vastly profitable but they never look for evidence that treatments work because people buy the remedies anyway, and a company that spent the money to run the trials would be undercut by less scrupulous competition. This is not even a market with asymmetry of knowledge, it's a market where no one knows anything, and the lack of regulation makes sure it continues that way.