skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want a single tool/library that does all the things ffmpeg does, I agree. ffmpeg does lots of things, some of them are inherently extremely complex, and it puts them together cohesively. That's impressive! I think the closest competition is gstreamer, and gstreamer ends up calling into ffmpeg for software H.264 decoding...

But...sometimes you want one particular thing, that thing is relatively simple (compared to e.g. H.264 decoding), and you have needs ffmpeg doesn't meet. Then you probably can do better. A couple examples that have come up for me:

* specialized .mp4 muxing. My NVR project does this in a way where it can do HTTP range serving, so put the moov up front, produce the length quickly, and produce a given byte range without iterating through all the bytes before. ffmpeg can't do that, understandably. Hard to do in a general-purpose library; the container muxing input interface doesn't expect all the necessary information is available up front. But it's not that bad as a one-off. As you say, the consensus around a small number of containers really helps.

* RTSP. Consistent with your "modules that mostly work, usually, mostly", ffmpeg has various long-standing bugs in its RTSP handling (e.g. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/5018), has the risk associated with protocol handling in a non-memory-safe language, doesn't have much of a test framework for this, etc. This problem is relatively approachable (though hardly trivial), so I had success making my own library.
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If VR doesn’t pay off, there might be a Ballmer/MS situation. Zuck leaving might boost the stock and at the end of the day, he is just one big investor (with voting power).
It's so interesting seeing this.

There is currently a film making the rounds in right wing/election-interested circles called 2000 Mules.

In the film, the narrator/host purport to have purchased several trillions of points of tracing data from the time around the 2020 election, and claim to have identified "ballot mules", that is: people who appeared to be going from various Democrat affiliated non-profits to many different ballot boxes in their city.

The conclusion being: these people were stuffing ballot boxes.

However, the "technical" take downs of these claims are that this location data is not accurate enough to support them.

But then articles like this come out, or many of the comments below, which do support the idea that you could purchase highly accurate GPS tracking data of "anonymized" cell phone users.

It's just interesting how the technical analysis on these things seems to change so dramatically based on what the context is.
You code while high? How's it like? Do you feel more creative and are able to solve problems?
It seems it'd be a lot easier to just get a jog at FAANG for 2 years...
That's a good list.

This one seems more up to date, apparently the owner is scraping from somewhere: https://github.com/dotspencer/block-admiral
Minecraft being the obvious example
Because all of our projects use Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection, I make all our service classes internal

The way other projects can access these services is by using the project's helper to register them all in the DI container by their interface. That way I can be sure no one is directly using the classes and make breaking changes to the constructors (like swapping loggers or api clients), but still access them from tests.
a 2 minute delay is asynchronous. You should be devoting 2% of your attention to keeping up the thread, and put the rest on other tasks, like everyone else does. What you're describing - turning a casual, asynchronous conversation into a demand for full attention and relying on the open 'channel' of the chat to somewhat force consent is an annoying move and would get you put solidly into the 'respond in a few hours when I'm done with everything else' pile.
That, of course, is called dead reckoning and some GPSes have it, but I wouldn't trust it for very long. [1] I'm not sure what cgriswald is on about. Maybe he just lives in a tunnel or some dead zone, because I've never lost satellite connections. Maybe cellphones can triangulate via cell towers? But how is he getting cell data in his tunnel?

[1] Pre-GPS systems used this https://ndrive.com/brief-history-gps-car-navigation/
Cut substantially all of the Seventh Astral Era line and maybe we can talk.
Exactly. I try to underline the fact that catering to audience with multiple opinions, often contradicting one another, is not easy, and can only be a compromise. Everybody will constantly complain, no matter how optimal the moderation and general governance would be.
Sorry, just really not convinced by this rebuttal. I don't think the enslavers and torturers today are concerned with Spartacus-type events and that makes them not assume their experiences are generalizable.
Yes, I also have insults in my client_checks file. I enjoy running my own mail server.
> I still don't understand what's the difference between MMOs and Metaverse

Metaverse demos have felt super underwhelming compared to e.g. playing Grand Theft Auto 5 for a few hours
I want VR to be a thing. I want Ready Player One. I want the Star Trek Holodeck.

But I also want a time machine. And honestly, that seems almost as likely as the metaverse ever being a "thing". The technology simply doesn't exist and we are so far off that pivoting to it now seems...either wildly optimistic or HBO Silicon Valley level out of touch.
Well, and Facebook kind of hurt the media in a pretty big way with people getting their news from them, and other social media.
love the use of ssh / scp here. Almost applied just because I wanted to see the full flow but also didn't want to spam you. :)
What can I say. A Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article I am not.
I thought TomTom was just another Kodak, Blockbuster, or RIM. Didn’t realise they were still trying to make things, surely Google and Apple own the car market now?
I was purchasing a car at local Honda dealership and the salesman refused to believe that my email address was honda@mydomain.com. He just insisted that I should tell him my "real" email address. If it happens today, I would just walk away. But back then I was a new grad who just got a new job and really wanted a new car in a new city, so I said "fine, does mylastname@mydomain.com sound more legit?" He was ok with that. I brought the car back home, and set a new inbox rule that blocks all emails to mylastname@mydomain.com. Because I can't think of a reason to use mylastname@mydomain.com in any cases. I have never heard anything from Honda ever again.

I once got a text message from an agent after a dealership visit, he asked me why I just couldn't give him a good feedback since he worked so hard and I seemed to be happy with the result. I was like "sorry, but for some reason I can't receive emails from Honda, including after-visit survey".

> The truth is no one really sells your email – at least no legitimate companies.

Speaking of this, I actually did sometimes catch someone sold or leaked my email addresses. They usually came from spam emails with "Undisclosed recipients" that I had to dig into headers to find out which one of my addresses was leaked.

Most of addresses used in spams are the ones I shared with individual/small business and I would like to believe that they were not intentional.

The only legit, big company that sold/leaked my email was Docker. I applied for a new job with docker@mydomain.com and a year later a bunch of recruiting spams came to me via that address. Although it was possible that it's just that particular recruiter forgot to shred my resume after I rejected their interview invite.
It’s interesting, because I remember Steve or somebody saying this was a selling point of iMessage. “No busy indicator, no offline state, just send your message and they’ll get it on all of their devices”. Then at the last WWDC they go up there and show how cool it is that iMessage will now tell your contacts if you are in Do Not Disturb (and allow them to override it). You can opt out, of course, but I guess people really like the busy indicator?
I think its interesting that this article isn't about your opinion on typing status, its about the user story they are building that messenger for. Yet most of the comments are about an opinion on typing status in general. So... what do people think about the cardinal messenger and their exclusion of typing status?
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see also https://www.shotspotter.com/
Slack threads are not fun.
Many thanks. Your support is really appreciated!

I will reach out to you once the MVP is about to be finished.
I have no love for the old system either, but I think that a lot of misinformation is getting shared around to encourage decriminalization in other places, and I think people should understand what kind of consequences they can expect if they choose to go down that path.

When the ballot measure was announced in Oregon, it presented the case for decriminalization in optimistic terms. I think a lot of people, including myself, voted for it believing that it would make things better for everyone, but it didn’t. For most people who aren’t drug users, things got much worse, especially in Portland. The negative externalities of drug use are much more present in the average citizen’s everyday life than they were before decriminalization was enacted.

For some people, decriminalization is still a net positive, because it aligns with their principles and values. I get the impression that you may be in this group. Not everyone shares the view that people should have an unassailable right to take drugs, regardless of the consequences. I would count myself in the latter group. I’m not sure I can agree with your assertion that this system is better than what came before. Perhaps for those who would have been likely to face jail time under the previous system, and maybe that makes the trade off in worse living conditions for the rest of us worthwhile, but I can’t say for sure that if I had to vote for decriminalization over again, knowing what I do now. that I would make the same choice I did the last time.
I gotta say, seeing the Meta CTO / Senior Fellow pop up on HN is an unexpected treat! (Oddly, a relative and an ex-boss of mine both worked with you at CenterRun back in the day. Silicon Valley is a small place indeed)
No, it can't. Google reviews every Android app that is requesting special permission for background location access.

Tim Hortons was doing this back prior to 2020 when Google started requiring approval.
iChat supported jabber
And I should be able to provide fake data to apps out of the box. Some location that I can set manually, an address book with fake contacts, an image/video of my choice instead of camera access, audio for microphone, a directory of my choice for file/media access...

All of these apps are not entitled to collect accurate data.

I think there is an app on f-droid that does this.
It seems like every new "simple" language is basically re-creating MS QuickBASIC and Borland PASCAL. But being "new", they deftly escape the stigma and negative connotations these old "simple" languages had.
Looks like JXA offers properties and methods, with parallel namespaces.

properties like `foo` are objects with rich API of methods and properties

methods like `foo()` give a data serialization
API autocomplete and unit tests are not a replacement for a debugger, it's a separate use case.

Being able to evaluate code while in the middle of a breakpoint is extremely useful.

You don't need to say it doesn't matter. Your language has features Python doesn't have, there can be tradeoffs
I thought “mysql” was y’all. Sorry! I'll have to remember in the future to use "mysql/mysql-server". I just remember that GitHub issue for "mysql" being open forever.
New release with an MVP implementation is now building! It's the opposite of what you described, but should fulfil roughly the same use case: if you select something and then hit the button, it will obfuscate (roughly) just that part of the page.
Boring. Give me emergent sentient AI, fact or fiction!
> Want to contain inflation? Tax excessive market capital.

Isn't that exactly what inflation is, a tax on uninvested capital?
Yup, unfortunately (but fortunately for my employer) there's no off the shelf tool that does this. Ultimately you just have to write a bunch of code.

There does exist a standardized way to encode the data: MISB (Motion Imagery Standards Board) ST 0601: https://nsgreg.nga.mil/doc/view?i=5093
A new release is now building that should fix this!
You're absolutely right and this is the part that many do not understand about crypto culture.

Its players are fully aware of most of it being a casino. They play anyway. They do not want to be "rescued" by your moral preaching or regulation, they willingly take big risks, often lose it all, and then do it again.

Crypto, as they see it, is the only asymmetrical bet of their lifetime. The only way to "make it". And making it doesn't even have to mean millionaire status, it could just mean any type of life improving wealth.

So "adults" preaching about why they can't just be "normal" and financially sane, are deeply out of touch. "Normal" as in...student debt, stagnant wages, unaffordable housing, healthcare costs that can bankrupt you, double digit inflation, one crisis after the other (9/11, financial crisis, COVID, war), job insecurity, climate change, political boiling pot...that kind of "normal"?

Many if not most young people cannot get ahead by doing "normal". They can't even reach middle class. If doing all the right things leads to a miserable result, any escape hatch is embraced.
Not a priori. A posteori the lottery of life plays a big part in liberal praxis.

Dunno why my reasoning is “backwards”. Politics from first principles is fruitless and I don’t intend to play that game. But he can play it if he wishes.
How does this differ from Functional Decision Theory? Or did they just change what they call it?
DevOps has its days numbered. What you see is the wide adoption of DevOps in every industry. This trend is likely to plateau and decline in the next couple of years, after which DevOps practices are taken for granted and become rather an expectation from customers. The DevOps problem only needs to be solved once, public cloud providers are almost there.
> Ban the sale of or trafficking in illegally collected personal information.

In the US isn’t the sale of illegally acquired data already illegal under 18 U.S. Code § 2315?

I wonder if any existing stalking laws would cover existing data collection practices. Most people are upset when they learn there are records of their location down to a meter or so wherever they go that are sold to anyone who wants it. Does that meet the bar of “emotional distress”?
IMO, I think the way he was publicly lambasted and fired was punishment enough. Not to mention that shortly after, people were calling for him to return to OpenSea, because they were struggling without him for a hot minute.

I agree what he did was stupid and wrong, but I think he's the wrong person for the DOJ to throw the book at. They are only targeting him, because this was low hanging fruit due to the public outcry around this incident.
Now get a load of a ship shipping ships shipping shipping ships: https://i.imgur.com/agDf1B0.jpg
I could probably list ten examples, but I will limit myself to two easy (or not) to explain examples.

1. To take my research group to dinner, e.g., if a visitor comes to town, requires that I submit a form with about ten fields. We have to name all attendees, date and time of dinner. When the form is submitted, some admin will call the restaurant to organize that the bill is sent to the university. But before all this, I have to call the restaurant to make a reservation. (One time I forgot this and it caused a lot of confusion… I thought the whole idea was to get approval before booking.) Then if the admin approve, it goes to my department head who also has to approve. Actually, before the whole process I have to get an informal approval from my HoD. All this requires a lot of careful planning with all attendees and so forth… it may not sound so bad, but I didn’t mention that the admins require that we submit the form at least five work days in advance to be guaranteed processing in time for the dinner… that’s a lot of hassle pre-dinner… compared to the previous approach; ask HoD if ok, go to dinner, pay with CC, submit receipt and get reimbursed.

(Sorry the explanation became more complicated than necessary because I couldn’t remember the ordering of the steps off the top of my head… goes without saying — we spend a lot less funds on dinners after this system was introduced, which is why I keep forgetting the steps…)

2. Our travel reimbursement system is based on the infamous SAP platform… last time I traveled I spent four hours filling the form. We need to provide loads of unnecessary details. And every minor change to a form field requires a save to the database, which typically takes about a second or two in the best case. The system is broken.

They keep hiring more admins that are supposed to help. The result is more admin tasks being pushed down to the faculty…
How to Solve New York City’s Housing Crisis
> It resonates very strongly with my belief that VR/Metaverse will continue to under deliver.

Just offer VR porn applications, and a lot of people will urge to get a VR headset and a decent computer to support it. For a lot of kinds of media, porn was the killer application.
Is this a crime if you know ahead of time it's going to be listed?
Not exactly what you're asking for, but a new release is now building that at least let's you select something and only obfuscate (roughly) that part of the page.
I'm going to buy this game after work. I'm a big fan of these kind of games combined with trading and a paradigm for competition/cooperation with ally regions. Thanks for sharing!
There's a treaty that everyone signed, and it says Starlink launches are fine as long as the country they launch from says OK. China can OK Chinese launches. Satellites aren't supposed to interfere with each other, but that's not strictly defined. You aren't supposed to create debris, but the standard for that isn't strict at all.

There's a good discussion going on about extending that treaty: stricter rules on deorbiting failed satellites and stages, light pollution, excessive numbers of satellites in narrow orbital bands, and so on.
is it 2005?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31584937
Maybe coz the vulnerable are already dead, hospitalized or suffering for long Covid upstate.

https://www.newsday.com/news/health/coronavirus/covid-19-pos...
I just wrote an article on this (adding custom claims to the JWT) for Supabase projects: https://dev.to/supabase/supabase-custom-claims-34l2
And Emacs
Southwest Colorado is home to one of America’s oldest bicycle races
I've found that CrossOver[0] does a really good job at getting Windows games to run on Mac. It might be a good stopgap.

[0] https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover
Thanks! The inspiration is a complex topic, I am sure that many games affected my decisions but it was more like making a game that I want to play that does not exist. I wanted to mine ore with excavators and see the land disappear.

Also, reality and real industrial processes was a source of inspirations. I have probably watched all episodes of How it's made!

But just for the record, I have probably a few hundred hours in Factorio and ~60 hours in Satisfactory. I also enjoyed Anno series, DSP, Tropico series, W&R: Soviet republic, Factory town, Oxygen not included, Frostpunk, and OpenTTD :)
This may help: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
What are those weird lines on the background of this web page? I thought my kids misused crayons for a bit...
*poignant
Patents are time limited, then go into the public domain for this reason.
In fairness, high-level departure statements are carefully scrubbed to remove any genuine feeling or humanity.
There're ways to get rid of all of it already. Get a dumbphone/featurephone, install open source OS, or even get a phone with one installed. Yes, they're more expensive and way less polished. Android is way more developed, has a large number of apps, and it's free (at least Android OS itself). Why do you think that is? Who do you think is paying for all that?
It redirects me to the login page, even with incognito. Even the Wayback Machine is getting redirected: https://i.imgur.com/84UDbjG.png

Facebook and Instagram often do this when they don't like your IP (a problem with CG-NAT, VPN, etc).
Close, ha-meem-sad

If it was ha-meem-sheen, it would be pronounced "Hummush"
Didn't LANL get renamed to LANS?
Waiting for the Meta "power glove" too.

What, wrong decade?
Whack-a-mole by the way the laws are written. You can write laws that aren't whack-a-mole. E.g. "it is illegal to sell or transfer user's data to another company without positive informed consent from the user within 1 month of the transfer"

Every time a company wants to sell on your data, they have to email you and ask permission. Not responding to that message isn't consent.

Find a loophole in that.