skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this particular case, the North was in the right. As far as they were concerned, the Americans were just one more occupier in a long line of Western occupiers. And even though the Americans didn't intend to become occupiers, that's ultimately what happened (a theme that's repeated itself many times). The Americans and the Vietnamese were fighting different wars with each other. So the North pushed out the occupiers and liberated their country.
So, you're saying that if we adopt a stupid wind policy, bad things will happen?

I'd agree with that. Have you considered adopting a good policy instead?
Agent Detection
Trying to edit and sync a plain text file across iOS, Linux and Windows is such an effort every dozen times I've tried doing so I've lost motivation halfway.
Europe resolves the fire issue in other ways. Regulations that limit the number of units per floor (4 for Germany, 8 for Austria), regulations for maximum distance to stairwell, and often building height.

The building height one is significant as the balcony is often the second means of egress, via a fire truck ladder.

https://www.treehugger.com/single-stair-buildings-united-sta...
" is there literature where the soviet people were happy with their lot in the soviet union?"

Of course. It was a propaganda regime after all, so there are tons of books where the heroic simple workers or even children fight along red soldieres or party members against corruption and the various evils of capitalism.

I have some lying around and they are interesting, to get a feel of the time, but are not really the greatest literature ever written. Because to get success as a writer, it was encouraged to write like this. In the sense, that you would loose permission to write and publish, or worse, if the official thought you work was not helping the progressive spirit.
log4j v2 incoming...
As far as I know, the ones cozy with the regime were cared for (well beyond normal people) while underground artists worked odd jobs like night receptionists, janitors, boiler room operators or were in prison. (edit: also uranium mines for the ones who pissed off the state)

Those tend to get overlooked by people longing for the old days.
There can be other regulations for single stair that can prevent this.

Limiting number of units per floor or providing balconies that are ladder accessible.

https://www.treehugger.com/single-stair-buildings-united-sta...
Milanović is a he.
Because its the only system they know, and they've been told forever its the best system there is.

People in the late Soviet Union were quite aware they were not living under the best system there is and most of them did not particularly believe being told things to that effect repeatedly any more than people in western societies believe ads.
Try https://incoggo.com. No issues with Bloomberg thus far
In the West that was the same too. Things jumped the shark around 1967-68: the "Summer of Love" and the moonshot. That was the peak of optimism.
We see a lot of american visitors in europe (basically all over the place). In a normal year.
Thank you for the analysis.

I was confused as well by the reinfection topic too. I know people that theoretically got already twice infected. However even if it exists (and we have some peer-reviewed work supporting it), the CDC states that is rare: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/reinfe...
Ten geniuses in a long coat!
Yep! Anyone can pull themselves by their bootstraps.
There is no such thing as logical empathy. Empathy is the ability to perceive someone else's emotional state. i.e. putting yourself in someone's shoes.
When I worked retail, I was on-site, troubleshooting an issue with a store. It was getting late, and the store associates started their end-of-day procedure.

Since I was logged into the server, I could see that we were doing a LOT of database intensive processes and that the tables that we were pulling data from to generate the end-of-day reports didn't have indexes on them.

I couldn't leave until all of the associates left (policy), so, I started looking at why we were doing what we were doing, and trying to figure out how to optimize it.

Being stuck at that store helped me figure out that we were probably losing close to $(rnd(2-8)13.509400)/day -- at least 253,000 per day in labor costs just in the US by having the employees wait for this to finish up -- so, I can say that sitting there and watching them struggle to wait for it to finish up would have never alerted me to these issues, as, closing our test stores only took seconds with the few transactions that we'd do during the day for our testing.

I think that this is a good thing, but, only because I've seen the benefits of getting a second perspective on things. Eliminating pain points leads to happier employees. Happier employees means you don't see posts about your company in /r/antiwork these days.
Sorry if this comes across as a bit harsh but it sounds like you go straight for the low hanging trivial stuff that wastes your precious time before even starting work on the core value proposition.

I'm no founder (never successfully launched anything that has generated financial gain) and have only lurked in the shadows, listened and read what others have tried. Both on the failures and successes.

One thing I've noticed repeatedly is that there can always be a possibility for a product in a crowded market (it will be more difficult for sure) if it solves a niche problem that OTHERS have as well. It is not enough to assume that others know or even have this problem that your product solves. So first step should be to talk to potential customers before working on anything.

By this point you should also know what it is that you are making and why it matters for others (the value proposition). Start working on that first.

- Don't create a landing page for a product you don't have.

- Don't select colors and fonts for days when there is no product.

- Don't do SEO when you have nothing to sell.

Be ready to have it all fail as most startups do, and try to minimize the amount of lost time that goes into these endeavours.

And keep on trying. It is what I have been doing.
If you want a deep deep dive into how parking has shaped our cities - I would recommend reading about the “high cost of free parking” and “parking minimums”.

https://blog.getmyparking.com/2019/07/01/why-parking-minimum...
Intrigued by this exact question a long time ago, I took a look at some of Bellard's earlier projects.

I studied a bit of a partial implementation of an OpenGL software renderer written by him. I even found a bug I could fix!

Actually his first projects were not all that advanced, they are things "normal people" could do. I think key lies down to 3 points:

- Start simple: do not try advanced projects at first, start slow, plan, don't write the first function before you know what will be the last. Use this for many small but increasingly complex projects to gain experience.

- Understand what you do: most of the most notorious Bellard's projects are complex but based on many simple smaller moving parts and based on simple, understandable concepts. If the first point is respected, this one comes naturally.

- Be regular: do what you need/want but do it regularly. If you look at what Bellard does in a single day, it doesn't seem that different from what most people can do in a single day. But he does it with incredible regularity.

I think these are points that most people can follow. You may not get to his level, but you will certainly be a solid developer. If you're lucky to start projects that the "right people" need, you can see what separates devs like Torvalds or Bellard from other equally solid developers: they developed projects that attracted strong contributors. Think about the guy writing SerenityOS: he's probably as solid as one can be; nevertheless, there's a very small probability SerenityOS will ever be as commonplace as ffmpeg. And that doesn't mean it is not fantastic, neither SerenityOS or its developer.

Now, in Bellard's case there's just on more special thing: he is a gifted mathematician. That certainly helps being a good developer and planner too, but turning into a mathematician of his level also takes another level of discipline.
Unless I didn't understand the situation, these "wealthy" visas are the law.

Rule of law doesn't mean the law can't make a difference between the rich and the poor, in fact, it is very common in tax law (the rich pay more taxes), but not only.

Rule of law just means "no corruption", essentially. That the laws are the only criteria for judging people, it is not a discussion about the fairness of the law itself. It there is a "no parking" sign, then under the rule of law, no one will be allowed to park, including Bob, who will be fined/towed like everyone else. But if the sign says "no parking, except for Bob", then Bob will be allowed to park even if people find it unfair.

Usually, high rule of law countries are also democracies, so laws are made by elected officials, or even directly by people, and fairness is an important part of the lawmaking process. Indeed, people are usually reticent to apply laws they feel unfair, but technically, rule of law can apply even in the most unfair, despotic systems.
They needed more unit tests to cover bad cases like .. and ; and other special characters/sequences that shouldn’t be allowed. Not just the happy path.
perhaps if the artist is cozy with the regime they cant be critical of the regime?

can parents support their child that is an artist with their income? or the state knows everything about the artist (her age, fit to work so on) and will compulsorily draft them to work?
Interested to know what Twitch is using, they did a two part blog where they explained how ffmpeg was too slow, so they developed their own.
1) A profound interest in programming for its own sake.

2) More money than God.

Also helps: zero fucks to give about maintaining the damn thing.
Fed didn't increase interest rate, so they obviously didn't address inflation.
Good point. Also, in which color space the averaging is done, also strongly affects the results.
I find the entire notion of FOSS contributors looking for "their cut" to be a flawed understanding of what FOSS is, why it exists, and how it is supposed to work. This is viewing FOSS from a very specific perspective that's associated with capitalist economics and broadly how it treats intellectual property. It's as if some developers committed their code to projects expecting some sort of informal, unspoken, "scratch your back..." sort of patent agreement. If you want to use FOSS to make money, then go right ahead. If you have some kind of philosophical or principled view that finds the notion of for-profit software abhorrent, then don't--but also don't then expect those who did to turn around and toss a $20 bill at you. You aren't entitled to part of their success. What you are entitled to is the freedom to take the same FOSS they used and have a go at creating something of your own. This is the compact. If you find it distasteful, then do as the author did and ask yourself if it's really what you want to spend your efforts on. I personally think there is a great deal of inherent value in FOSS, and I have never for one moment thought that it's some zero-sum game where anyone else's behavior, beliefs, approach, success, or failure in any way subtracts from what I can achieve.

A lot these philosophical debates around FOSS remind me of similar discussions regarding socialism and anarcho-communism. There is a great deal of useful thought and objectively good ideas to be taken from these socioeconomic theories. I subscribe to a considerable number of them, and put forth a considerable effort to put into practice the values and beliefs they espouse. But pragmatically speaking, free-market capitalism and constitutional democratic republics are going to be the dominant economic and political systems for the foreseeable future. Certainly my lifetime. So every time I encounter a fundamentalist or someone who flatly refuses to engage with any entity or ideal that runs counter to their anarcho-communist orthodoxy, I cringe with the anticipation of hopelessly idealistic platitudes and the associated injured ego that the greater world won't "listen" and fall in line.

Yes, FOSS was/is/will be exploited by dishonest actors. It will go unappreciated by the large majority of those who benefit from it. It will never be as commercially viable as other more exploitative business models. It will likely remain an esoteric niche, even if it continues to be the buzzword darling of the tech industry. Twas ever thus. Just remember, you can't write code if you're wringing your hands. We contribute because for us personally the benefits outweigh the risks/burdens. We do it because we believe in the free and open exchange of ideas. We do it because we find satisfaction in the act of creating novel things and sharing them with others. We do it because we want to give back to a community that has already provided us with considerable value. If you're doing it because you're looking for glory and wealth, I invite you to look elsewhere. Viva la revolución!
To me, a system that was 50% towards AGI would demonstrate thinking and logic similar to the way we experience it in dreams.
I had a class where we would need to write Assembly code on paper, then copy the result into the question sheet and hand it in. Of course, there was a social convention that the program itself would be turned in too, but it clearly wasn’t written in the instruction sheet, and of course I, as a geek, lacked the social conventions, so we respected the absence of instruction and didn’t turn in the Assembly code (The teacher was a miserable authoritarian).

Our grade came in: Zero. Not even 10 out of 20 for answering the instruction sheet.

Add insult to injury, the teacher was a feminist who worked to improve girls’ grades, so a group of girls did the same as us, but recovered their points because “they asked nicely”. So they had 17/20. We got 10/20 “because half an assignment is still half an assignment.”
I think you’re on to something. You should explore that in an essay.
A google search snippet :)
thats number of trips taken by US citizens
Number of US citizens who traveled is 44 mil
so about half of the number of trips.
> Doing fork/exec for the mkdir tool is still many times slower that calling a good library function.

Would it be noticeably slower to the point it's measurably relevant, though? Or are we talking about something well within the domain of premature optimization?

I mean,if you're doing IO, how often does creating a dir end up being the performance bottleneck?
I realized additionally is that Armstrong has other complaints about OOP like inheritance. What I said above in that classes and functions are like a self-contained programs with structs and functions. I wasn't considering inheritance, but once you start inheriting it gets murky:

Joe Armstrong: Because the problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle

But some of his other complaints don't feel as right to me:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/why_oo_suck...

I do love the implementation of Erlang and the reliability. I think it would fun to try actors and see if it changes how I view software engineering. I bet it would.
Cactus containing Mescaline. Interesting compound. Also found in peyote. San Pedro grows everywhere and you've probably seen it around. Another one to look for is Peruvian Torch.

Peyote grows extremely slow and only in small corners of the world, I'd recommend skipping them as they need to be protected.

San Pedro grows about 40cm a year where I live. They can take plenty of water (growing thin and long) or they can get by with a cup a month (growing shorter and thicker). I'd recommend starving them once in a while to stress them out - this makes them produce mescaline. They also produce wonderful huge white flowers (only for a short time each year). If you do end up growing them, never sell them. Always give cuttings away as gifts to others.

Read up a bit about mescaline, it is not like the other psychedelics. With mushrooms, dmt, lsd + lsa (seed from Argyreia nervosa - plenty gardens have them) - these are all similar compounds with similar effects. Mescaline's effects are a bit different, so worth it to explore even if you think you've seen it all.

Fun fact: Mescaline is mentioned in The Matrix (the first one) when Neo encounters the girl with the white rabbit tattoo...make of it what you will.
> last year you were pumping serverless. What happened?

Who is the 'you' you're addressing?
All you need is a security deposit from the assassins before they start taking jobs.

Plumbers already have a bond system like that, for example.

If there are enough hitmen, they can just pick up jobs near them.

It's not impossible logistically.
We are living in post post modern times, which happen to be hyper globalised, so that the authors' feeling of past times are way past us. He could start to read Francis Fukyama - End Of History[0] to understand what happened in 1989.

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/24027184
Thanks jimpix45! Glad to hear you're enjoying Incoggo :)
I agree. Unless you had a lot of domain knowledge or a lot of time with a lot of weirdly encoded media I would say that it is impossible for someone to make something as seemingly simple as a thumbnail extractor with those libraries (eg. take the first frame or x seconds of a video and write an image file)

Your best bet is to just call ffmpeg to do what you need and not have to worry about the weirdness of the libav stuff.

Also, stuff like parsing a buffer of memory requires you to write a file driver since the code for libav is tightly coupled to ffmpeg which only handles files and not buffers.
The US Constitution makes it clear that the people and the military are not on the same page. The US people is supposed to have access to all the weapons that the military has... According to the old law.

This is a cultural consequence of achieving independence from an oppressor. People who desire control of others will always organize, oppress and build militaries. They invade, so peace is not an option with this personality type. Hence why seemingly normal people can buy machine guns. - There are predators around.
True. Now imagine those brains are not attached to people but to high bandwidth io. Ie Futurama.
Most probably some secret advanced biological counter weapon against the other thing.
This piece puts into words the way I manage personal projects!
Perhaps because over the course of the pandemic only 50 people have died in NZ from Covid. Going through MIQ and the systems built around it has enabled seeding events to be limited to only several incursions supporting elimination and then suppression strategies.

It’s interesting, NZ is a very egalitarian society and it has been one of the strengths through the pandemic to date. People were/are willing to adhere to strict lockdowns (proper ones) or quarantine at the border because it was for the greater good of the entire society rather than ‘what was best’ for a handful of individuals.
Ask HN: Anyone else alone because unvaccinated family members ruined Christmas?
Seriously, I hope you don't really believe that you have to do everything on your own. Getting help with things is okay too. It might even help you get to the point where you can hold your own shit together sooner.
Uh, this is the normal capitalist surveillance that is the business model of the kind of unicorns people here on hn want to found or work at.

The Canadian public health authorities just bought access to existing corporate databases.

Do you really think public health is less worthy of using this data than marketing and sales?
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to Hacker News admins and users.
I’m using ffmpeg to transcode files. My users give feedback that it is really slow. At first I thought they are wrong as I believed ffmpeg is as fast as it gets, but sure enough after testing transcoding (prores -> h264) is many times slower than using resolve, silverstack, compressor etc. I get asked all the time can’t we just swap to using something else, but this ffmpeg monoculture means there seems to be no alternative.
And you make me sick with your ignorant, shortsighted vision of the problem.

Reducing economic crisis to "just to earn some money right now" is borderline idiotic.

I'm waiting for a time when we'll start investigating economic and mental impact on different layers of society.
Do these contracts actually stand up in court if people sign without reading them and being given due consideration? Can’t find the link but I recall years ago some EULA provisions were found to be unreasonable and void by the courts (US I think).
Yeah, the safety argument is pretty valid. Personally I'd love to forgo driving altogether and cycle everywhere, but that's impractical at the moment.
I lectured on 20th century art for years and in terms of accessibility I always liked to point out that there was a pretty undeniable historical overlap between the (re)emergence of abstraction and the appropriation of preindustrial (most notably African) abstracted art mixed with the later discovery of largely abstracted pre-agricultural / prehistoric cave paintings in Europe which I always made the case had at least the possibility of a universal accessibility because they predated evidence of organized language (although I always thought that smelled a little undisprovable).

Anyway as an art-teacher-turned-dev I always like to see Hyperallergic articles pop up here but I think its worth beating the dead horse of celebrity spectaclization on this and most of their prominent articles in spite of their undeniably good work. For my money they're still the best current arts publication out there.

Soapboxing a bit but Kandinsky always makes me think about the notion that art has the power to democratize civilization and empower individuals when individuals feel empowered to create art without subjugating themselves to specters of the 19th and 20th century celebrity artists. Kandinsky was a great artist, but so are the dozens of unrecognized art students that I worked with every semester for the better part of a decade. And even though I personally love Kandinsky he can also be cast as a wealthy dilettante that used his familial privilege to buy his way into a historical narrative that was propped up on a globally destructive inter-European colonial economy. The great thing about his work within that historical narrative (imho) is that it proclaims "all humans are ennobled by the inalienable creative force" not the 21st century museum gift-shop narrative of "gosh artists in the 20th century sure were the best so buy a Magritte themed skateboard deck and a Francis Bacon coffee mug".

Rant over but seriously good art is all around us, especially in our own minds and hands as individual conscious entities. No hate, hyperallergic and Kandinsky are legit forever. Merry christmas.

> [kandinsky bourgeois context] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theartstory.org/amp/artist/...

> [african art appropriation] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso%27s_African_Period

> [abstract cave painting symbols context] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hJnEQCMA5Sg
> but stop pretending that anybody can do it

I do it as well and apparently so do many others.

Not sure why it seems problematic for some, but it hasn't been an issue at all for me.