skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back a while I tried to implement a MP4 demuxer, and I can kind of relate to that. The mdat box is sometimes an opaque blob and you need to parse the codec framing to split packets (fMP4 helps with this a bit), each codec has its own set of boxes, and the specs for each of them are paywalled...

Matroska/WebM is so much simpler and easier to parse, you can essentially abstract it away in a JSON-like DOM (obviously without loading 1GB of data into memory) and just get what you want, it's great.
You're contradicting thousands of years of political philosophy and theory with that statement. Democracy is a complete mess of whiplashing changes. It's only real redeeming factor is that it's better than tyranny by a monarch or aristocracy. That's an incredibly important factor though, so you need to find a way to make it work. Representative democracy is a way to temper the erratic will of the people and turn democracy into a workable form of government.
I am also on the Bluesky board, and while the original funding did come from Twitter (at Jack’s direction), the company has no control over Bluesky and it is 100% independent.
I think most places that require you to pay $100-200/day for the privilege of using them still have customer service.
Partial Cloudflare outage on October 25, 2022
Don’t you think a mother able to teach those classes would be in general a better test taker than the average person, and so her children likely would be too?

And nobody is denying that test scores can be raised. That’s likely a fixed amount so just amounts to constant noise. I think you’re as likely to find a way to consistently raise a 600 SAT to 1600 as you are trying to train any couch potato into an Olympic sprinter.
Now how will we force people to do unpopular things without the ability to deprive them of their livelihood?
It sounds like you're upset that you're not considered an accredited investor - but even if you were, it's not like SpaceX would just give you some shares if you gave them $10M.
Ask HN: Do you also hate iOS's rubber-band effect when scrolling?
Every time I scroll all the way up or down, the page bounces back for a second or two, which means I can't quickly press whatever I scrolled for. On Android, (at least v11, the last one I used), I could expect a rock solid scrolling UX, no rubber-band, no eye-candy, to-the-point and predictable.

Given that this "feature" has been in iOS for as long as I can remember, there must be people who like it? Or is it just me who hates it? I also don't like it on macOS, it's as if the page content is "fluid" and there's no stability.
I was bitten once a few years ago and have always pinned everything since then.
And of course last year I was bitten by a ~ in a package.json that I hadn't got around to pinning in a code base I'd inherited.
The hotel can offer a cheaper rate, if you are a member of the hotels’ free rewards program. All the chain hotels offer a discounted “members” discount price for reserving directly and saving them commissions.
Thank you for the correction. the resistance to COVID vaccination coincided with its availability. What was killing Trump supporters was his calling the virus media hype and hosting superspreader events, while he and his wife were among the first vaccinated before he left the White House.
Sorry, we might be crossing devices then. I'm talking about iPhone Brave, which is where I use it.
Webpack does not bundle the type checking by default - iirc it cannot handle typescript at all by default, it needs to be configured.

The typescript plugin that you used may have included type checking, but it very much depends on how you set it up. Many common setups use Babel to compile typescript code, which doesn't do any type checking at all, just mechanically strips away the type signatures. I would be very surprised if much of webpack's success has come from the type checking functionality you describe.

As for whether it's "the only workflow that makes sense", I find the most comfortable flow for me is using the compiler as a linter rather than a "true" compiler. It runs in my IDE, potentially as a pre-commit script, and in CI (which means checked in code cannot fail to type check), but I can still build failing code. This would be, as you say strange if I were using C#, but syntactically valid typescript can always be covered to syntactically valid javascript, so the output won't be "broken" in the same way that a C# program with invalid types would be. Most of the time, a program that isn't accepted by TSC is still a valid javascript program, just with poorly specified input and output types.

That said, while it can be useful occasionally if I'm still trying to figure out the types, the advantage here is less that I can now compile invalid code, and more that my bundler doesn't need to do unnecessary type checking. Any errors I can catch myself based on the red squiggles in my editor, so I know not to look at the browser until I've fixed all the issues, and at that point I don't need my bundler to also confirm that the types are accurate. Each tool does one task well. (Similarly, I don't want my bundler to also run all the unit tests before it compiles, even though I would normally expect the tests to be passing before I check the output of my code. 90% of the time, if I run the bundler, my tests are passing, and in the last 10%, I probably want to quickly try something out without changing the tests. The same logic usually applies to my types.)

As a result, I strongly disagree with the claim that your process is the only one that makes sense. It may be the most logical for you and your team, but I tend to find that it makes sense to approach typescript from a different angle to most typical compiled languages, and I've found a lot of success in my process.
This lasted 2 months for me. Rest as much as possible, seriously. I regret trying to work so much so soon.
If you don’t self identify you just get binned as white. Putting down mixed race is the standard workaround. It’s vague enough that you’re probably not lying and it avoids being labeled white.
> It definitely costs more to maintain a good privacy portal

It costs them more to do fraud and abuse prevention than to run a customer support system that happens to hook into google3 (because that's what it is - if you click 'remove result' it just puts it in a queue for review. The privacy portal at myactivity.google.com/results-about-you is just a way to check on the status of your removals).
Not at the moment, I tried everything.

My 2 most important shortcuts: Ctrl+Alt+T for Terminal and Ctrl+Alt+C for VSCode are extremely difficult to achieve on MacOS.

This is why I prefer Linux, it has keyboard shortcuts that are more consistent and freedom that's important to me.
If apple is sending out security updates for iOS 12 then they haven't abandoned it yet. If the developers chose to abandon it before apple did then it's on the developers.
Home Depot was open because people need to fix shit around their house if you want them to stay home. What's arbitrary about that?

I agree with you about the beaches. But in the early days, we didn't really know what worked and what didn't. People said 6 feet apart was safe enough indoors because "droplets containing the virus fall to the ground".
JXL support is already available in stable release Chrome, behind a feature flag (chrome://flags). I enabled it and it works well.
I've spent ~150 nights in hotels in the past year, and it's super rare that booking directly is cheaper. I almost always save like 30% on Hotels.com/HotelTonight/etc.

I recently wanted to extend a stay and the front desk quoted me $120/nt while Hotels.com was $107 (plus 10% back as a reward, so ~$96).

I wish that weren't the case because this is 100% true:

> never know what's going on and when anything goes wrong they just tell you they can't help you. Then the place tells you that they can't help you because you didn't book through them and they just point fingers at each other.

I've come to rely greatly on in-app ratings/reviews before booking.
That’s a false dichotomy.

Firstly, this is about the core platform, not third-party libraries.

Secondly, I absolutely do keep all my projects in lock-step with the latest stable platform version.
My point is that I do that deliberately and in a controlled way, decoupled from my system package manager’s decisions.

I certainly don’t appreciate waking up to dozens of unexpected compile errors and warnings due to some random system Python version bump.
‘89 saw minimal damage save for a few neighborhoods like the Marina.

If SF sees 50% of houses uninhabitable and 12% have earthquake insurance you think the govt will shrug and say “too bad”?
Post-COVID, hotel booking terms are actually really generous, at least in my experience. Unless/until the status quo returns, I don't see any need for third-party booking.
For everyone that isn't on HN, a captcha is higher friction than the google app or being logged into google on their mobile browser.
I will never use an OTA again too.

I booked a massage at the Banyan Tree on Koh Samui via Expedia back in 2021.

My email confirmation of the booking said I needed to contact a company Newway Travel via phone to confirm the reservation time. I attempted to call Newway Travel five times throughout via phone but nobody ever answered. I called the Banyan Tree Spa and they had no record of the booking. I waited until later in the day to see if there were just processing delays.

Later in the evening I received an email from Newway Travel stating that “for chinese speaking , right ? Becasue this package 90 mins available for that market.” I asked them to call me to clarify their policy and they replied via email and reiterated "*Inform you that 90 mins package available for chainese market only and 60 mins package for worldwide market. Pls inform us guest what nationality ?”

I told them I object to such race based discrimination and Newway replied: “As the hotel needs us to report the customer’s nationality and it’s about the different rates for each market as well.”

I had to spend about 10 hours on the phone with Expedia trying to get a refund since we were refused service even after sharing the email correspondence I had with them. Horrible experience, horrible customer service.
Personally, I have no idea why people are so upset about WebM and AV1 and etc. Like sure, they're not necessarily God's gift to AV, but they're reasonable enough, and patent unencumbered. Google may be awful, but that doesn't mean the incentives can't align. I can tell you that my incentives are perpendicularly aligned with MPEG-LA's in this situation, so...
> None of that's worth the hassle of booking directly. Go to the hotel site. Skip the intro video. Find the booking button under two levels of menus. Try to figure out what their cancellation terms are... nope, haha, good luck.

Is this sarcasm?

Good luck getting any after purchase support from booking.com. Your hotel is now a homeless shelter -- too bad! How do you think something like booking.com makes their money?
It won't because it's too close to human interaction.
Nice. I don't remember coming across `+` movement before (move to the first non-whitespace character of the next line)

I'm also doing a Vim tip series: https://learnbyexample.github.io/tips/#vim (or, you can also check out my Vim Reference Guide ebook: https://learnbyexample.github.io/vim_reference/Introduction....)
My grandpa told me the same thing; he didn't think computers were gonna last.

Not sure of exact time, but I think it was late-60s-to-early-70s; Gramps was a business professor at a major university in the Midwest. A team of math nerds started working on this new thing called a "computer". He said it was almost the size of a basketball gymnasium, it took weeks to get the thing set up, and was always breaking. In the end, it could only do simple calculations. He said the university viewed the project as pretty much a failure. So, Gramps, the futurist, told all his business students not to get involved with computers, there was no future in them. Good job, Gramps.

He later told me his big hope was that none of his students listened to a word he said. LOL
The point of the above is to highlight that there's still a way out for free will.

Can you define "free will" in a way that gives it any significance? If not deterministic and not random then what is it?
Am confused by your second paragraph. You refer to "easy times" of 5 years ago, but also say "one of the hottest tech job markets" in the past 18 months. Not sure if this is meant to say that today is as good as it was 5 years ago for jobs.

I just can't see myself improving by learning on my own anymore. As another professional told me, "you're practicing, but with no guidance and nobody to step in and let you know when what you're practicing is the wrong approach." And when a person can spend many hours a week with practice and learning and receive the same result - no job offers - as someone who did little-none, it's entirely reasonable to conclude that learning new things is just a waste of time.

I still code once in a while, just to keep busy. Still haven't gotten a good idea of "exchange rate" for employability with the knowledge I obtained from my personal C and JavaScript projects.

I know that many companies won't train you from the ground up, but there are a couple. So I started looking into WITCH and similar consulting firms with a contract training program.

InfoSys and Deloitte have rejected me for some general SWE positions (not language-specific) but there are other similar places. Don't mind if I have to go to one of these body shops, they seem like my best fit for a software job right now.
What was wild is the amount of hate and vitriol directed towards those who chose not get to vaccinated and lost or risked losing their jobs.

This forum was not exempt from that hate.

I hope this court opinion is enough to sway the opinion of those who held such extreme beliefs in this vaccine mandate that there are different opinions, and it doesnt have to be so extreme when deciding how to move forward with things that affect peoples livelihoods. Sometimes you do what is best for you and I do what is best for me is a perfectly logical and sane reasoning.
There was a recent kerfuffle about Fedora removing support for hardware accelerated H.265 from their distribution of mesa because of threat of patent litigation. See https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Disable-Bad-VA-API. That would also seem to suggest that the OS has to pay royalties if it uses hardware acceleration. It seems pretty strange to me that the OS/library/driver has to pay royalties just to expose access to hardware, which is where the patented technology actually exists. But I also don't understand how a video codec can be patented in the first place. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ IANAL.
It wasn't Kyrie, it was the Yankees. The opening came just before the start of the MLB season but well into the NBA season.
Scientists want to make you young again
For the record, it seems like more and more devices are supporting Opus for general use cases. It seems to be the audio codec end game - at 16kbps it sounds as good to me as 64kbps mp3
> they're cheaper anyway.

Sometimes they are not cheaper, the price on their site is higher compared to what you see on booking.com.

Some hotels dont have a website and I dont like to book using the phone.
The Nielsen Norman Group has quite a bit. [1]

[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-writing-study-guide/
The problem with thoughts like these are they aren’t practical as anything but a source of speculative entertainment. If this theory was factual then knowing that doesn’t change how I perceive the world. Knowing this theory also doesn’t bring me any new definite insights in the study of life that I could sue to launch off more research into. This is an interesting thing to think about but it’s not too useful
My personal anecdote is that nobody outside of the tech bubble actually thinks Google Search is dying. People mostly use it to find restaurants, events, basic information, and to navigate to specific webpages, and it works just fine for those purposes.
Zero-Shot Image Classification with OpenAI Clip
Being “public” has issue yes. That doesn’t mean we need maternalistic governmental policy to “”protect”” people.
> My elderly mother and her (also elderly) friend recently booked a place in Lyon, France using a well-known online travel agency (OTA).

Did they check the reviews?
This comment inspired me to check our storage spend and we also have a very unusual spike in storage cost on Oct 4th and 5th. More like 40% increase than 70% though, hot tier.
What makes you think Elon would take your money? Do you plan to email him? Why take a large number of small dollar checks from people who (as a group) don't know the first thing about private company investment when you can take a $100M check from one of a few funds and individuals who do? What specifically do you bring to the table that your $10K investment will make up for the administrative costs of having you on the cap table?

The reality is that companies who can raise capital from top-tier investors will do that and not bother with what to them is chump-change - but the companies that can't raise capital from top-tier investors will definitely take your money and then proceed to lose it all.

[edit] The system we have right now is a pretty reasonable balance IMO and the bar has been going lower and lower over time as the $1M/$200K/yr limits aren't indexed to inflation.
that's why piracy is regaining currency - when you pay for DRM'd content, you're just paying money to be treated like a pirate. Better to be a pirate to start with :)
In your hypothetical, institutions would quickly realize that a bunch of non-college graduates were just as smart as college graduates. Which is actually the public perception in places where jobs are filled based on social status and connections rather than objective metrics.

What I’m saying that the current scoring function appears to match up pretty well with our intuition about who is smart enough to work on Wall Street or at Facebook. At least, these profit-seeking institutions don’t seem to think it would be better for them to shift their hiring from Stanford to kids with 4.1s and lower SATs who went to UCSB instead.
It actually is 300PB. Reading 10 million GB / day, for 30 days is $104. 10 million GB = 10 PB. This is from the examples at the bottom.
> I'm not reading words that my eyes scanned half a second ago.

How would you know? If you experience everything half a second after it actually happens that’ll feel like it happening instantly to you.

Coordination would require instant perception, but your memory/recollection of the action/vision could happen any time after.

I guess this theory is a variation of the ‘your life is predetermined’ thing.
> At the core, all social structure is built on the threat of violence - Commit non-violent white collar crime? Show up to court, because if you don't you'll get arrested. Run from the police when they try to arrest you? You'll get taken by force.

Is this true for all social structures, or just our current one?

The social structures that emerge are time dependent. The people living in the middle ages had no way of predicting the social structures of today. Since we can't predict the social structures that the future will bring, how could we know for sure that there isn't X social structure that doesn't need violence to propagate itself?

We can talk about the likelihood of X social structure emerging, sure. But to make the universal claim about all social structures, viz "human nature", is flawed reasoning
> it sets a precedent for government to mandate medical procedures

Does it, though? Just because the government can mandate employees be vaccinated as a condition of continued employment, doesn't mean they can mandate employees be sterilized (for instance). No reasonable person would say the second follows from the first. Law isn't code.
A (probably insane, ill-conceived) question I’ve been entertained by for as long as I can remember is whether or not “qualia”, which I understand to be “the experience itself of consciousness”, is a physical phenomenon that could ever be directly engaged with on physical terms. I suppose it’s basically a mix of relativity and Descartes. For instance, I can “feel myself here in my mental space”, however where is that mental space in relation to the physical world I’m using it to observe, what would be the SI units for such a measurement? If we assume consciousness itself is a physical phenomenon, wouldn’t the reality from the perspective of consciousness be equally as… how do I say this, “mechanically relevant”?

I doubt an answer will come in my lifetime or my great grandchildren’s but it seems like a crowning achievement for mankind to understand in physical terms if possible from whence consciousness came, and to where it goes when the body dies.

Like I said, insane.
What's the punishment for that SC when a later SC overrules it, three new justices later?

And while we're at it, are we also creating a three strikes law for lower courts that get overruled by the SC three times?

And what about the courts below them? What if they get overruled by a higher court... which in turn gets overruled by the SC?

I can't wait to keep track of all this ;)
The paranoia is a bit too late. Emergency powers were established by Congress a century ago, and at least 60 national emergencies have been declared since. In New York State, a state of emergency declaration permits the governor to direct local officials and state agencies, and to suspend state and local law or regulation to facilitate disaster response efforts. If there ever was a slippery slope, it has long since been descended many times.
There are other (partly regulatory, partly logistical) reasons that companies don't like having extremely large cap sheets.

At this scale if it's easy to raise $2B from 2-3 institutional investors you probably don't want to take money from 50,000 small investors.
esbuild is great, but our only blocker for using it was that there was no way to control the number of chunks. On a moderately sized modular app, this can slow down things significantly[0]

[0] https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/2317
Yep, my parents are moving to the Florida coast. I carefully floated the notion that their property will be underwater in 30 years, and they were just like, who cares, we're probably not going to live for 30 more years anyway.
>Did you read the ruling?

That's a lot of ask of an internet commenter.

In all seriousness, I did see that part while skimming through it, but I don't find it very convincing in regards to public employees. The order came from the Mayor, not the health commissioner. Requiring city employees be vaccinated is an administrative decision. It's within the best interests of the city that city employees not get sick, that the city's health insurance premiums don't go up, etc.
Most of the time those are very poor customer service
TBH, I'm amazed that "real travel agent via videochat" isn't a thing now. Even if you end up booking yourself, I could see paying up front $20 for half an hour of asking for some basic suggestions and sanity checks, or even providing a proposed itinerary via email for review.

I'm almost sure I left money on the table the last time I booked a holiday. I could probably have optimized my rail pass choice more, not sure I picked the absolute best departure days (I could probably have gone a week earlier or later) and there was probably a better way to book a hotel when I needed two non-consecutive stays (Visit $major_tourist_city for four days, then spend three days with family, then back to $major_tourist_city)

I ended up staying in the hotel said family used when they would spend a weekend in that city, which was extremely convenient and passable, but as much as anything, I went for it because I figured I couldn't trust random weirdly cropped photos and dueling reviews on travel sites. If I want to go somewhere else, I don't have that opportunity.