skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because synching subtitles to the video isn't even a goal.

Most people read more slowly than they can listen. Many other people can read faster than they can listen. But you need subtitles that stick around long enough for the first group, and really, you want a comfortable margin so that people aren't frantically trying to finish reading every subtitle before it disappears.

I watched the show 大江大河 ("Like a Flowing River") on Viki, which has excellent community-generated subtitling. The second season isn't available on Viki - only YouTube. (Actually, Viki seems to have lost the license to the first season by now, too.) And the subtitles are abominably bad, bad enough to make me stop watching the show. But they're perfectly synched - every subtitle on Youtube is exactly matched, millisecond-to-millisecond, with a Chinese subtitle which it attempts to translate.[1]

[1] Ignoring the timing, which is much too fast for the English subtitles, the fact that each subtitle is translated independently is another huge problem. It leads to nonsense when one sentence is split across multiple subtitles, because the English and Chinese do not naturally present the same information in the same order.
What good are security cameras if they still will not prosecute.

We all have property rights, even businesses believe it or not.

Theft is a violation of property rights.

If you don’t believe in property rights then I’ll take the keys to your house- thanks
Audible is discontinuing their Windows Desktop App
Just 3 dollars a month… if every piece of software I use on a daily basis cost me a few dollars then the usage cost would spiral out of control.

Now many of us are software developers here on HN, so I understand the need to charge money for software. But I paid full price for 1Password6 years ago and I haven’t needed any updates to continue using it.

Now the company refuses to sell a non-subscription service version and I’m suppose to be thankful that they’re “only” charging $3 a month?

These types of subscriptions are purely highway robbery. I’d be happy to pay for upgrades if software needs to be updated to remain compatible with browser or OS updates, but let me decide whether I feel it’s necessary.
I understand. The PubMed link says nothing about psychedelics though, which is the subject of this thread. It's merely stating the difference between substance and non-substance abuse.
Yeah, I use Signal for a few of my friends and I try to get others in so we can all be in the same chat group on PC and phone, the responses I get would make you think I asked them to feed their children to piranha.
Both kinds of results are possible.

But to prevent the worse, just don't tell.
I feel like the core premise of the article is wrong. Google's problem is not a lack of innovation, but the complete opposite - there's _too much_ of it. Great Google products come out very often but few get "long term" treatment. Part of it is engineer churn/turnover, but a bigger factor imo is culture.
I don't know why I didn't think of this before... thanks! I will definitely try that out, especially since at such a young age she won't be able to sit through a whole film anyway.
I was looking at this yesterday too. Using USPS as the back end for COVIDtests.gov was particularly apt because (a) USPS is typically the US government website with the highest traffic and (b) verifying and storing addresses is their bread and butter.
> Because I'm going to be using it for that long.

Cool, I'm planning to use it for a lifetime. The point is that you didn't just use the monthly number because it's extremely low as far as paid software subscriptions go...

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And I don't do this:

> Decisions like this shouldn't be taken in complete isolation and rounded to zero.

So I don't end up worrying about:

> For this single app. It's easy to justify $3 at a time, but suddenly you're paying a whole cable bill for marginal value.

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> I don't want the service, just sell me the program.

First off you literally just said:

> Money for service is fine, but this is a long term thing, and I'm not going to pay $180 per 5 years to keep 100KB in sync.

So clearly you want the service but feel it's too expensive...

But secondly, software doesn't exist in a time bubble! Security updates, maintenance and support all exist and these are people trying to make a living while handling all that.

It's super cool that you want to get their hard work in the most personally beneficial way, but they have this very reasonably priced service that lets the people have the software, and them have their livelihood.

You can say "oh well I don't care about maintenance, I'll buy the new version if it's compatible with my OS", which again is super convenient for you... but once they hit plateaus in new users are they just supposed to pause development until old versions break?

If the utility of the program was so low you wouldn't be asking them for it without the service after all... if it's "just storing 100kb of text" there's plenty of other options out there.

10 cents a day for something that saves a lot of stress is a great price.
Prestige is great and can really juice sales, but it only works for so long. If your product isn’t good the prestige won’t last.

I’m not saying your product has to be the absolute best, but it needs to somewhat earn its reputation.

Brands have lost their prestige in the past for this exact reason. Some probably are right now.

Apple has been a juggernaut for ~20 years (since the first iPod). The “people just buy for the prestige” argument can’t hold that long if that’s all a brand has.
> I can't understand why anyone would like to use iMessage, when you can use Telegram, whatsapp

People don't use iMessage, we use Messages, and iMessage is one of the protocols that it supports. And I use Messages preferentially because I know everyone will have iMessage or a SMS fallback and it Just Works. I don't have to think about it. I don't have to go to one of four apps to talk to somebody (I have Signal because of That One Friend but I don't open WhatsApp or Telegram ever despite having both). They're all in this one, and it's good enough. (Messages also works on my laptop without me having to install anything, which is minor but handy if I want to dash off a longer message--and just like Messages on iOS it'll send as a SMS or as an iMessage and I don't have to care which is which. And no, nobody I know socially uses email.)

I'm sure WhatsApp is a great alternative if you live in a country where Everyone Has It, but I do not.
Zettelkasten – Luhmann Style
USPS won’t deliver to my door, but they will deliver to a mailbox on a paved road about 1.5 miles away. They installed some of those locking CBU things, but not enough for everyone in the area that needs one. So I’m stuck with a non-locking mailbox.

Unfortunately, mail theft went through the roof over the past year. 90% of our packages were stolen. So, we won’t ship anything via USPS anymore and got a PO Box for things that won’t ship UPS/FedEx (which happily deliver to my door).
Wow. You really have no idea how it works. This is a case about an IP address. The most basic thing that gets logged by most websites. You should honestly go out and hire an attorney to teach you about GDPR. Let us know what the legal bill is.

This is why most US companies chose to just block the EU entirely. No need to deal with it or bad advice like what you're sharing here.
Hi, I just saw your reply from 55 days ago on a related COVID topic, and I'm honestly stumped that you would think paraphrasing Vincent Racaniello who literally writes the modern textbook on virology is somehow spreading misinformation. I don't know if you've watched his podcasts on YouTube, but he and his colleagues lay out their reasons for disagreeing with the position of other scientists. So check it out and maybe if you still think what I said was wrong then let me know.
The QT Timebomb
Can you share what sleep meds helped you? Are you still taking them? My primary care doctor is not a big fan of sleeping meds. He also told me they are designed for short term use.
Another advantage is that you can eat your chips and still understand what's going on.
No kidding. I think in the "Marketing" section there were 91 cookies! Absurd.
We've heard good things about AOPS, but haven't heard of Davidson Gifted. Will definitely check that out, thanks!
I think you’re right. However, I do know that CSPE [1] is trying to change this. It’s a bit of an uphill battle for them, though. Ideally (for them) there would be new laws in place mandating professionally certified software engineers signing off on projects.

Having said that, it would probably take a bunch of high profile disasters to move the needle on the issue, politically speaking.
I was wondering the same thing. The town has a total population of like 2200. I can’t find any data centers near there. Maybe it’s just a flaw in their metrics.
Ben Stiller’s New Series Is a Sci-Fi Take on Office Space
when doing forwarding, yeah, it doesn't look like it. When I tried to add an alias on my gmail.com it asked for my SMTP account. I guess maybe I've never done that off a free gmail before (just paid / grandfathered Workspace ones!) - so it'll work well for anything inbound that's needed. But yeah, if you need outbound, still an open. Still assuming Google Domains allows you a basic Workspace account though.
Steam stats are based on active users iirc - at the moment about 1.93% of all Steam users use VR Headsets, and Half Life Alyx recorded 42k concurrent users. This is keeping in mind Q2 (the current sales winner) is a standalone headset by default. You could argue most of those concurrent users used the headset once and put it away, but that line is getting harder to argue as time goes on and the numbers keep increasing.

If this was 2016-2019 I'd agree it was very touch and go in terms of where it was going. But the investment and interest building around VR now has that here-to-stay feel to it - at least on my sometimes accurate vibe-ometer.
You shouldn't have total control over a shared message. You have no right to delete something that you sent to someone else from their device. Same reason you can't delete an email you sent to someone from their inbox or burn a letter you sent via mail.

This is a bad take.
How long a notice period is long enough?

Looking at it another way, Google's most recent net profit is $18.94 billion per quarter.

I have no idea but if there are 1 million G Suite Legacy accounts out there at $60 per year. That would increase their revenue $60 million per year.

So just assume all that revenue is net profit which would make their quarterly net profit go from $18.94 billion to $18.955 billion for the low cost of pissing off 1 million people.
I have to disagree, I can setup a profile and name per discord. I strongly dislike Slack's method of having different accounts tied to a single email but each can potentially have a different password. I hate having to switch and log out and log into different Slacks and there's no clear way to see an overview of all of the ones I am in efficiently. It feels like a UX thing more than a functionality thing. Discord's UX for managing notifications and what communities I'm part of is very pleasant.

I am only a "gamer" in the gaming related Discords. There's no cross talk between two Discords unless the other people also share in being a part of both communities. People in a music related discord don't ask about the game I am playing unless they happen to be interested in it.
Wealth inequality is relatively straightforward to measure, and it has steadily been getting much worse. So I am not sure what results you are seeing.

That is the topic of the post you originally replied to anyways.
i have had 4 phones since 2011.

iphone 4 (2011)

iphone 6+ (2014)

nexus 6 (2017 - hand-me-down from my partner)

oneplus 6t - Nov 2018 to present, and i can't justify buying a new phone yet. i will probably need to replace the battery soon though.

my laptop is a mid 2014 macbook pro i traded my unused vacation for when i left that job. still going strong. amazing actually, considering it's 8 years old now.
there's also https://logseq.com/
a minor correction just in case anyone's confused: this site is for ordering free covid tests to be delivered to your home; the free masks will be distributed starting next week at locations like pharmacies and health clinics
I don't see an actual technical issue on Pleroma that is the issue here that would justify the effort of forking, the only complaint was some old merge requests that Alex expedited merging.

This blog post is mostly about a personality and communication style conflict, not a technical one.

The Soapbox change was perfectly fine to do, and long overdue for hellthreads. Waiting 12+ months for some consensus that would never arrive wasn't going to make things go any better.
Time is money baby
Me doing some task: I'm not an idiot.
My 6-year-old: How would you know?
Im not arguing for or against (I'm pretty against micro services), I'm just explaining what the arguments are
Frankly speaking, most people out of HN don't care.

Not this is a good or bad thing, but this news make no sense to 99.9% of their customers.
>>(“Studies show that prosecution of the offenses driving the bulk of misdemeanor cases have minimal, or even negative, long-term impacts on public safety.”)

>...with no sources provided.

In the original directive, "the offenses" in this quoted sentence refers to a basket of crimes including "unlicensed driving, sex work, drug possession, drinking in public, and trespassing" -- it does not mention theft explicitly:

https://da.lacounty.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/SPECIAL-DIRE...

Considering that it is questionable whether sex work, drug possession, and drinking in public should even be criminalized at all, this seems like a fallacy of composition.

>>Even though, according to LAPD data, property crime is down.

>That's not really as slam dunk as it suggests. If the government openly states that they're not going to bother prosecuting minor property crime, it seems reasonable that a fair chunk of the victims will be dissuaded from reporting the crime, driving property crime statistics down.

Special Directive 20-07 went into effect on December 8, about six weeks ago. I'd be surprised if there are even reliable data available, especially since the on/off lockdowns act as a large confounder.
I could never understand how to use it personally, people would sometimes message me from gmail, I was utterly confused. I never used it because of that.
It says a lot about your citizens when they regularly steal.
I never said they are paid to “administer justice” but I do expect them to prioritize their activities. Making arrests for things that won’t be prosecuted is a waste of time.

I’m honestly not even sure what you are advocating for. J walking is a good example of something I expect them not to bother with 99% of the time but it is a law nearly everywhere. To enforce that in a major metro could use all the cops every day. Huge waste of time.
Try accessing off of VPN.
This year marks 3 years working on Label LIVE, an electron app for designing and printing labels. Think: import a spreadsheet and print barcodes to a zebra printer.

In 2021 the profit eclipsed my consulting income. My 2020 goal is to double revenue. Today it’s making mid 4-figure MRR but adding in one-time-license-sales the annual revenue is healthy 6-figure.

The last few months I’ve been focusing on marketing and integrations. Today you can trigger label print jobs via the command line, MQTT, and now HTTP.

If label printers are your jam you can read more here: https://label.live/features
I could be way off base, but I vaguely remember Google Talk being unreliable across multiple clients, something we take for granted now.
Very good point. I do get frustrated when watching Korean media with my wife and needing Korean subs for myself and English for her. I notice that the subs frequently mistranslate, or convert to a Western equivalent, which drops the nuance. ie. Korean honorifics, or differentiation between older and younger female/male siblings, which can get totally lost when translated to English.

Though this is much less of an issue when watching fansubbed media (for Japanese content, anyway) because the fans have translator notes and do a much better job than Netflix or media studio translators.
Postgres can do parallel table and index scans. Don't rely on order without explicit order by.
> According to the source, the number of patrolling officers has been cut from 50 to 60 agents to eight, which the worker thinks has led to an increase in train robberies.

And they deterred several times more than arrested, imagine how much more effective deterring would be with ~10x more officers.
The Administration Knew Afghan Air Force Would Collapse After a U.S. Withdrawal
I completely understand what you mean by this, and what bothers me the most is that this is problem should be entirely avoidable. Pleaes correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't think of a single technical reason why "a non iphone in a group chat" has to cause such infuriating levels of inconvenience for everyone involved. Someone had to put explicit effort into making it as unbearable as it is.

The only reason I can think of is Apple using a dominant position in a network in order to sabotage alternatives.
Calorie Counting App Has No Effect on Mental Health or Health Behaviors
As someone who uses PKM tools I'll say the answer is probably that you _do not_ use the graph view. It makes for nice screenshots.

That being said, part of what makes PKM tools so useful is that they can be used be different people with different workflows, so perhaps other people are using the graph view effectively.
I’m just using my normal phone browser
>What good are security cameras if they still will not prosecute.

Prosecution is not the only punishment. Getting arrested or getting in a confrontation with security are still negative outcomes that still occur and people will want to avoid. If you allow people to just walk into the area and walk out with the stolen property more people are going to do it. Making the act of stealing more difficult (or even just appear more difficult) will reduce theft regardless of the punishment.

>We all have property rights, even businesses believe it or not.

>Theft is a violation of property rights.

What did I say that makes you think I would disagree with this.

>If you don’t believe in property rights then I’ll take the keys to your house- thanks

My point is that Union Pacific has a responsibility to lock their house. If I leave my door unlocked and my house gets burgled, I have some responsibility in contributing to that outcome.
> discover-interesting-website portals (the modern versions of StumbleUpon)

Such as? Besides HN, of course.
This Osho really sounded like an idiot guru every time I tried to listen to him.
Totes, people should starve to death before resorting to stealing. /s
> Identity is often intimately tied to distinct material circumstances

Not so fast. Au courant are stories around data disaggregation, highlighting that Asian Americans in NYC have the highest poverty rate (also noted is the way this runs counter to popular perceptions). But rather than splitting up the populace in increasingly finer-grained ways, why don't we just do something to address the poverty in our society?

To wit, yes we agree the DNC does want to do anything about poverty or economic inequalities in general. They are happy to stage photo ops while draped in kente cloth but they will never do anything to improve the material circumstances of the lower classes.

> The Democratic party has held the belief that demographics will keep them in power without having to actually address economic and legal inequalities

>> That's very much not true of either of the major factions of the Democratic Party.

You mean the neoliberal and conservative wings of the Democratic party? I assume "the squad" knows how to use political power as well as Manchin, but the fact that they don't indicates they, too, simply use identity as a means to the ends of the donor class.
Was anyone else’s first response to this submission something along the lines of, “wow, MacWorld is still around?” I remember when they started muscling in on MacUser with a frankly inferior product, but were so successful that they crushed it. And then MacAddict tried to be the scrappy underdog.
For one I am glad the CDC has finely ditched their two year long quest in undermining natural immunity. Sadly it may be too late, and I am certain that once this crisis peter out there will be a massive re-organizing (specially if the GOP takes back both Houses).
I'm not sure if I agree that's a valid disadvantage of using Discord though. The basic features of Discord are very easily to learn and you only come across the more complex features by needing to use them. I personally find IRC to be more complex to understand properly for a beginner. Being complex is anti-apple in terms of philosophy but I believe that it gives more usability in the long term.
This is a super exciting finding, other discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29999807

I find the final paragraph amazing of the mmwr:

> Among the two cohorts with a previous COVID-19 diagnosis, no consistent incidence gradient by time since the previous diagnosis was observed (Supplementary Figure 3, https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/113253). When the vaccinated cohorts were stratified by the vaccine product received, among vaccinated persons without a previous COVID-19 diagnosis, the highest incidences were observed among persons receiving the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson), followed by Pfizer-BioNTech, then Moderna vaccines (Supplementary Figure 4, https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/113253). No pattern by product was observed among vaccinated persons with a previous COVID-19 diagnosis.

1) Natural immunity did not appear to wane over the study interval. (No difference in Hazard Ratio when stratifying by time since infection)

2) Vaccine only immunity showed major differences stratified across brands and time but if the person also had prior exposure then all differences disappear. Seems to indicate natural immunity is the heavy lifter here.

Of course they go on to blanket recommend vaccines but of course that was going to be the conclusion somehow.
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They have a free “limited” plan that should be good just for a custom domain email.
It’s less about blue bubbles and more about functionality. I don’t want WhatsApp as my main messaging app. And I can’t get critical mass on Signal. And sure as shit not FB Messenger or Telegram or Snapchat….

Even if Apple made all chat bubbles blue, I’d still get ultra low shitty videos from my “Android friends” sending a clip and not thinking about SMS limits. Maybe it looks fine on their end. On my end, get the magnifying glass out.

Or having too many people on a text thread? Wtf? Is this 20 years ago?

I also don’t get the hard core Google defensiveness thing. This is a company that mines everything they can get from you to sell ads to you…Who notoriously cancels services or fails to execute fully on them. Google Chat/Talk/Voice was confusing. Which do we use? And what about that bizarre email experiment? Voice is my favorite Google product by far. I don’t use Chrome for privacy reasons, but admit I’m stuck on Gmail. I tried to de Google my email, and then realized that having my email off of Google was cool except so many people I email were on it, so they have it anyway…

I don’t really care if your chat bubble is green or blue or red. I just want it to work with whatever I’m sending and be encrypted. SMS isn’t. Carriers retain. Why subject myself to that?