skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because audio for 23.976fps film is playing at the same speed as 29.97fps video. Which is really interlaced video at 59.94 fields per second. 3:2 pulldown is used to synthesize extra video frames to transfer to NTSC video so for a given instance of time, for every 4 frames of film you get 5 frames of video. (23.976/29.97 = 4/5) The instance of time remains unchanged so the audio is playing back at the same speed. This is all inherited from the CRT days before progressive video playback on flatscreens, and the video fps was tied to the local electrical frequency (50 Hz in Europe vs 60 Hz in USA / Japan) which is how the CRT timings were derived.

Coincidentally PAL video plays back at 25fps, to convert film to PAL they just speed it up from 24 to 25fps, audio and all, which is why if you watch a Euro DVD release of the same film all the actors sound like they just ingested helium before the scene because the audio is playing back ~4% faster. This was largely fixed with Blu-Ray as films play back at their native rate[1] on progressive displays but our European friends who have only seen films on VHS/DVD or TV and not in the theatre or Blu-Ray have been done a disservice, because the video and audio is sped up on playback and not as the director intended it to be shown.

[1] A notable exception is some unscrupulous distributors abroad release shitty PAL 25fps Blu-Rays of films which are simply upscaled PAL DVD versions that they then market as Blu-Ray but are worse than DVD quality but at marked up prices. This is more common than you think. Official releases from the studios are encoded at 23.976fps on the disc. TV shows shot on PAL video (native 25fps) will always play back at 25fps.
Unicef Report on Children’s Risks and Opportunities in a Digital Age (2019)
The X in this case was to deliver an MVP.

I think we accomplished that. I don't think we can go further without funding because we need developers and help and funding to pay for our hosting needs.
None of the MVNOs offer proper international roaming, if not for that I had been using StraightTalk for years before I switched to T-Mobile
OS isn't terribly important, but thanks for the reply. i only have AVX2 on this system tho
The mysterious Chinese woman at Svalbard
Many browser addons already deal with this banner problem quite effectively so I assume that we can already work out what a banner is fairly reliably.

Example - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-dont-care-about-...
Ecosystem is a huge differentiator. But then, again, there are things for which some languages are infinitely better than some others.

As everything in development, it's a tradeoff. I have written system code in JavaScript (calling directly into libc or kernel32.dll methods) and I don't want to ever do it again. I have written compiler code in C++ and the code was orders of magnitude worse than it would have been in a functional programming language. I have written database code (the actual dbms, not using a database) in both OCaml and Rust and I'd really prefer using SQL (or some layer on top of it), rather than reinventing it.

etc.
I agree. Back in 2013 Frey and Osborne published a paper saying that 47% of US workers were threatened with unemployment from automation.

Here we are nine years later, and the prime working age employment-to-population ratio is higher than it was then[1], and unemployment is under half the 2013 rate.[2]

If automation is happening, it's probably increasing employment.

1. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060

2. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
This shouldn't be a surprise. We kind of knew the favorability of offshoring was changing, and we also knew the demographics for cheap labor were also going to end. Covid just ripped the rug out a lot faster on both.
It was Forth bytecode; the disassembly was pretty readable, without any fancy tools, straight from the OF console (at least on PPC Macs).
Of course, me too. But right now you can install through AltStore or build it yourself, or wait forever for Apple to change.
If you don't care about reducing false negatives, then the ideal policy is simply to abolish prisons because that results in zero falsely imprisoned people.
We clearly need more journalists with at least some kind of basic education in natural science.
It’s the same ratio. 30/29.97 = 24/23.976
It's actually worse than I had initially suspected. Pythons' dateutil timezone handling is, depending on your opinion, either hard to reason about or just outright broken - certainly it tries to be clever in unintuitive ways. This is why there is a couple of external libraries, like dateutil to try and make timezone things easier - which is even mentioned at the beginning of pythons' datetime documentation!

In this case, I believe that it's actually the inverse from what I thought - utcfromtimestamp is doing... nothing; but is different by the fact that nothing is different from everything else. It looks like .fromtimestamp builds a "naive" datetime in local time. So, it assumes the timestamp is UTC and "helpfully" converts it to the local date and time. When you do .timestamp it inverses this process and gives you back the timestamp value in UTC by converting implicitly from your local time zone. Thus, if you do .utcfromtimestamp it doesn't do this conversion, and gives you a naive datetime "in UTC".

This is horrible and I fully support the recommendation never to use it.
but rarely does anyone actually do this. normally, a 4% speed change is done to get the frame rate to match. as for the audio, it totally depends on how much effort someone put into it to correct the pitch so that the frequencies are the same in both frame rates. typically, nope. things sound higher pitched in 25fps than they do at the original 24 or 24000/1001 frame rates
Google translate: https://e24-no.translate.goog/naeringsliv/i/jlzR1b/den-mysti...
we wouldn't try to re-create it

Some people argue that we've already recreated it: https://consilienceproject.org/its-a-mad-information-war/

> While the 2016 U.S. election was a watershed in computational propaganda, the same phenomenon has basically swept the planet, beginning as early as 2010.[..] We posit that this frontier leads toward mutually assured destruction, like all frontiers of arms races in weapons technologies.
Yeah, I also did electronic kits as a kid, and both learned how to read a diagram thanks to them, but never understood what individual parts did in any circuit.

I “get” I=V/R (I mean not really… I know it exists), but how to go from there to understanding what each capacitor is doing in the simplest of fm circuits?

Is each component doing the equivalent of non-trivial real-time signal processing? How to visualize / think about it?
One part I couldn't follow on your talk is which software is Oxide designed and which is vendor supplied software? Have you really stripped out every piece of vendor software from the product? Or are there still some parts that are vendor supplied black boxes?

The question after your talk implied that DIMM training was still being done by non-Oxide software.
I'm not sure what you mean. There are many systems languages out there these days: C/C++, Rust, Zig, and even Go and Nim for things like file systems and networking!
3,200 Megapixels: The Largest Camera Is Almost Complete
Love his philosophy and the concept of the anthropocene. "No zoom level" and really just inspired thinking and system-viewing and lensing. Will miss him.
> It's not that the factories are being cheap (at least not in all cases), but the gov has to step in and bring real estate price under control, this is often the biggest economic gap that hurts our generation.

This will never happen.

The only way to get affordable housing is to build a lot more housing than is currently being built. But that means:

* Higher density living

* A sustained decrease in residential property values

Both of these would be very unpopular with voters. The second point would also probably cause some serious economic problems, as a lot of peoples' and businesses' decisions are based on property values generally going up faster than the rate of inflation.
"more important problems", very slippery slope
Edit: I also have the feeling that quite often "the shoulders of giants" things stand on looked like less important problems
> random employees were also selected to go through it again just because.

I can imagine being in the middle of a critical project, on a tight deadline, and getting the "You've been randomly selected to attend the performance program again." email.
I'll prepare some time-lapse video/animation of my next drawing. This might be of interest: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/07/30/playdate-1-bit-il...
Most public defenders are competent at their job.

Unfortunately, their job is to minimize the court's time spent spent dealing with their clients.
In rust the canonical way to get "newtypes" afaiu is to have a 1-member tuple struct, like

struct Id(u64);

then if `foo` is an `Id`, `foo.0` is the u64.
Looks like they're referencing the LA Times but I can't find the actual article.
I really like the simplicity of it and find the experience cute and charming, I bookmarked it for future.
One note though I can’t hear any music or anything playing it (iPhone).
Thanks for making and sharing it :)
you sure have a rose colored view of slavery, dont you?
You seem very emotionally attached to what people think of Elon Musk.
Read this article a few years ago and was glad it was published! It definitely reduced competition judging by the popularity on HN when it first debuted.

We were building our company on the back of GPT-3 and soon sold it for a life-changing amount of money.

So starting a business around GPT-3 ended up being a very good idea :)
Thanks, these are really great resources and I'm looking forward to exploring them. It's striking to me that so much work was done on this in the 1990s and early 2000s and that the subfield seems to have (mostly) been overlooked since.
It leads to people showing the hair in their heads, that is the normal way in our species. Including the majority of the muslim population and the majority of the human population.

If you think this is the same as being naked in public or that women's hair is impure, well... You live in a very sad place and deserve compassion. It really sucks to be you, but your pain is self-inflicted.

Enjoying the feminine grace and beauty is one of the greatest pleasures of being alive. Imagine yourself sit in a caffee three months from now watching by the first time an endless stream of smiling happy, "naked" women. If this image don't puts a smile in your heart, then something terrible must had happened to you
That's a very silly take and is easily disproven. For example, pick any science topic at random. Let's look at Quantum Mechanics:

There are 81 citations. Of these, only 9 are not citing published books with an ISBN, or articles published in journals.

4 are citations to papers or articles published by physics professors on their university websites (Berkeley, Riverside, CUNY, Caltech)

Three are links to magazines: Quanta Magazine, Scientific American, Physics World

The remaining two are a link to the Nobel Foundation (regarding a nobel prize award) and a link to Merriam-Webster for a definition of "Quantum."

> At best you can get some people's opinion about something.

Nah, not even close.
We did this! Built and sold. https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/19/unbounce-snags-snazzy-ai-t...
> Russia will eventually want to annex all other ex-USSR states as well

I don't know how people buy such uninformed BS. First, a lot of ex-USSR states are already NATO members. So, no game.

Further, USSR was a political construct. Their whole expansionism was based on that. Russia on the other hand is a nation state. They are not capable of annexing any region where there is no Russian-speaking + Russia-aligned population. Putin knows that very well.

As put by people who probably know better [1]:

One obvious difference between the Soviet Union and Russia is that the Soviet governing elite embraced Marxism-Leninism and its objective of world revolution. Today's Russia is not a messianic power.

[1] https://nationalinterest.org/feature/russia-not-soviet-union...
Oh looks like something AMD might want to upstream :p
I already moved from Edge to Firefox due to this after a long break from it (roughly the Firefox Quantum intro days). I was surprised by how fast and performant it felt. It’s going to be easy to stay this time, and feel good to once more support this absolutely vital open source browser for any kind of rendering engine competition other than the duopoly. Also, even before this, I recall Firefox has a more liberal extension API for adblockers like uBlock Origin to do their jobs as well as possible.

As for Chromium — The situation for Chrome is obvious, Edge sounds like V2 manifests may be turned on by policies but that really has an air of “we’re gonna stop supporting them too”, Brave has custom adblocking code, Vivaldi’s and Opera’s future here is unknown to me.

But I think Firefox is very important to support.
Bingo! Real estate prices and rents are so high precisely because this is what the majority (that is, homeowners) want: they want their home equity to go up. And they will vote for whoever makes it more likely.

Want to solve it? Scrap democracy (so no one gives a damn what people want), or scrap market economy (so the Party will provide free housing to everyone). I'd much rather stick with expensive rent.
Sometimes it makes me sad how "boring" digital transmission is. Just pack up your data and send it over IP. Life is too easy.
How difficult would it be to defeat that completely or fake a different date? If people can find subtle noise that fools computer vision algorithms, can something similar not be applied to this?

A band-pass filter might be a little simplistic because it's never 100% attenuated and the harmonics persist, so given a long enough sample you would probably be able to correlate. But perhaps more advanced techniques exist, if you know exactly what the other party is looking for?
Thanks.

Is there any study that areas of malnutrition have lower cancers? I imagine it's hard sorting out causality, with sugar in wealthy western style diets, and perhaps different environmental stressors (pollution?) elsewhere?
> CS is built on abstractions, which make things more modular and easier to think about.

CS also leads to generally garbage performance with its abstractions, because computers simply don't function according to assumptions of CS...

Better to teach people how computers actually work, and then go from there.

Doesn't feel particularly surprising anymore that software has been getting slower far more quickly than hardware can get faster.
An unfortunate typo on my part. Just noticed the downvote :)

This was supposed to be "NOT buying it, PayPal."
> I would really like to know if my x86 'linux PC', is actually running another 'hypervisor' OS that runs Linux - it seems like a recipe for security vulnerabilities.

There's not so much a "hypervisor" OS, but instead a congealed set of many different OSes, some realtime OSes, some possibly old Linux variants, some possibly closed source proprietary one-off OSes. I suggest taking a look at the talk Bryan mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo
Notwithstanding the other replies to your comment estimating as high as 5%, 1% struck me as shockingly high.
Not really a surprise when looking at the US male labor force participation rate from 1990 to 2021:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191725/us-male-civilian-...

1990: 76.4%

2021: 67.6%
For sure they have. The thing that makes me feel sick about this one is that it's an attack that killed civilians that has been widely celebrated.

I dont remember this happening before.

Being reminded that it is legal under our interpretation of international law doesnt make it feel any better. The same would apply to virtually all Russian attacks too.
The airplanes of the late 1920s through the late 1930s are absolutely wild. Engines were starting to become more capable, designers had more of a clue, people were willing to spend money on things... but the designers didn't have the whole clue yet, so you get some really amazing things like open top monoplanes that flew at 10k feet.

This YouTube channel covers some really interesting stuff from that time frame:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0g8HiAbNAE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uFNOtsucKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwa9unx9mpQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Qz6c38sGk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVnxQCa4ieM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DNGBIqiOaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD0SYy-stt4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2v5MvgAkaI

Oh, and the Stipa Caproni herself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3K0QPfmznY
I see the stat referenced in an LA Times OpEd [0] by the fiction author, John Grisham, but hit a dead end.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-grisham-wrongful...
Give it another 400 years. When we all have implants in our arms and the world is truely dystopian; you'll need credits. To top up your body things you'll need to plug in your program to one of these beasts.
Hey you! I've read the blog. It's magnificent. I looked at your garden. It's incredible. Love love love. Live, laugh, love. Cheers.
or is there illiquidity in labor markets, and ensuing stagnation?
Other than Korea and Japan, those markets will happily consume cha bu duo mediocre quality.
> If every time you enter the legal system and you have a 1% chance of being falsely convicted

I agree with you that 1% is a high number in this context, but I don't think the math works for what you're saying here.

If 1 out of 100 convictions are of innocent people, that doesn't mean that 1 out of 100 innocent people put on trial are going to get convicted. That rate could be higher or lower than 1% because it depends how many innocent people are rightfully judged innocent.

Hypothetically, a court system that always returns a guilty verdict could have a 1% false conviction rate if 99% of people put on trial are actually guilty. But the rate of wrongful conviction for an innocent person entering this system would be 100%.
People in the US who find this interesting should spend the ~$50 to get licensed for amateur and buy a UV5R radio.

There is just so much one can do and learn with these cheap radios. In many ways, it’s the raspberry pi of radio.
They said they don't think it's essential to reduce false negatives, presumably from current levels. That's quite different than your reducto ad absurdum.
“One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his ax. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars to learn how to navigate. And yet all will be as one. Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giving a shared taste for the sea, by the light of which you will see nothing contradictory but rather a community of love.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Citadelle, 1948
There was an article a couple weeks ago about the feature triggering when someone's iPhone fell off his motorcycle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32968229
Bonuses tied to ARR when most people do not directly impact revenue.
UTM implements VF and QEMU implements HVF as an accelerator. I don't know why theres so much circling the wagons about them itt, these are complementary technologies. VF and HVF are not competition or a replacement.
LWT is still the only way to guarantee your write don’t random disappear and that conditional update are really conditional.

LWT still have awful performance compared to a write request with same guarantee in any other database.
Aiming for a "chaotic neutral" would frankly be an improvement for many people in the industry. Not even joking...
The Global Meteor Network: A planet-sized scientific instrument [video]
https://profiles.forbes.com/members/tech/profile/Atal-Bansal...
Few years ago I did the same thing with a raspberry pi zero W and two bash scripts - one for power on/off one for reset. It's quite useful to have and was born out of the need to reboot my Ryzen 1700x powered pc, due to p(ower)state bug that I only uncovered as the culprit a year ago.

Here's a simple writeup with pictures : https://1drv.ms/u/s!Au9Lr9dxN7gUs8AQo6pkvUxXb1DD4g?e=DCqDzG
I prefer to write them as 24000/1001, 30000/1001, 60000/1001 fields-per-second to avoid the ugly decimals and because I think it makes it a little more intuitively clear what’s going on to achieve those numbers.
Have you corrected for confounders in your study? (Such as increased sedentism/reduced exercise and dietary changes?)
> due to the difficulty in proving innocence.

Remember: the person started out in a position of presumed innocence, and were found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. I would expect it to be hard to prove innocence after enough evidence was provided to prove guilt.

Note: I am not saying the system always operates according to principles - that's why those 2% get exonerated. I just wouldn't expect the real number of falsely convicted to be much (if any) higher.
Airflow but use KubernetesPodOperator so you can run your ETLs in docker containers or pods within k8s (any language you want). You may need to write a few lines of dumb python code to build a DAG of KubernetesPodOperators but the actual work is done within containers.
Reading this comment had me cheering “yes, a thousand times yes” but then it occurred to me how often I turn to an O’Reilly book instead of a concrete project and I wondered why.

I think I subconsciously avoid new projects to learn something programming-related because of how often they end up unbounded in time due to one of the fundamental attributes of writing software: unknown unknowns. The kinds of sticking points in a project that could take you minutes to figure out, or days, or even weeks.

I have limited free time and I want only so much of it to be _more_ programming. (I’m a professional software engineer) If I can’t be certain I can timebox a new pet project with _some_ degree of successful outcome, I think I’m low key anxious enough to avoid starting it.

Does anyone else struggle with this? How do folks overcome it and work on new things without them taking over?
This works both ways. The US is experiencing a crime wave currently and in several major cities, it’s become next to impossible to actually send someone to jail due to political pressures. Most prosecutors are not running as tough on crime, but on equity platforms.

(In Seattle, for example, a candidate for prosecutor, Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, ran on abolishing the police, jails, and vowed not to prosecute most crimes.)

The US used to solve the majority of murder cases, but now it’s solving less than half. That’s 10,000 murderers just walking around free each year.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/07/poli...
A couple builders were complaining why they couldn't build houses like in the old days when you would slap 2 blocks of wood together and call it a day. now you have to use steel, heatproof it, soundproof it, check the integrity of the build, submit designs, take safety into account, what a waste...

obviously sarcastic. most of the things you are complaining about bring to mind a person who is bored of doing responsible coding.
I hadn’t heard of Fresh Cards before, but this looks lovely.

I’ve used Anki over the years to great effect with second language learning and am fully bought into the paradigm, but I do find Anki quite clunky as a piece of software. Fresh Cards seems like it’s designed specifically in response to that.

Does this use a similar repetition algorithm to Anki? Are there any obvious limitations versus Anki? What sort of UX differences would a long-term Anki user need to get comfortable with?

Would also be keen to hear from anyone here that’s used this.
Biden did: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-if-vaccinated-wont-g...