skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not "a problem with ffmpeg-based editors"; that's the only way to do it lossless.

Some containers such as Matroska are able to store an offset (and ffmpeg does that), so it starts playing from exact wanted position even though the actual stream contains data since the last keyframe. Some players ignore that though.
Nothing because the last one also didn’t face issues. And the one before… You catch my drift.
By leaving the position open forever and taking a loan against the security.

Where would they get the money to pay installments on the loan? What you're claiming is really just shuffling around which dollar gets taxed.
I think it's probably pretty dependent on who you follow and how you interact. I'm not tweeting anymore, but still have my account (I harbour some vague hope that it'll eventually do a Tumblr and get resold to some more competent steward). My timeline has gone pretty quiet, and pretty meta (a lot of it is _about_ Twitter). There's a lot more random crap suggested than there used to be; I'd say at least two thirds of my feed is suggestions or "[someone] liked". Until I blocked him, Elon tweets were inescapable (I'd never followed him, but til recently he never made frequent enough appearances on my timeline that I felt the need to block him). The ads have gone very gambling and crypto-oriented (though, interestingly, right now they're not appearing at all).

All in all, it is not what is was; on the contrary Mastodon has gone from a ghost town to having most of the stuff I liked from Twitter; in many ways it's the Twitter of 15 years ago, and that's largely a good thing.
Contact the company, and tell them they need to publish their salary range. Or else you'll report them to the NYC Attorney General (or whoever is in charge of this thing). Maybe they're ignorant. Or they're hoping noone calls them out on this. Either way, make sure they know the consequences if they don't publish it
For some reason this one feels right to express with if-not to me too.

The one place I’ll often use unless is things like:

return unless valid

raise unless h.key?(k)

I think it might have something to do with:

1. How abundantly clear it is that the condition is a Boolean; and

2. The “false” condition indicating a “no work to do” situation.

I think I only use them for postfix return, break, next, and raise.
That's considered "a wire" by the law now :)
Sure 'professional engineer' and 'licensed engineer' are protected. Just 'engineer' isn't in the US, unless you're in Texas. Even still, I thought Texas lets people be business card engineers.
Show HN: Persistent Pushd and Popd
> In an authoritarian regime you have none

This is a pretty myopic view. History is absolutely resplendent with examples of Kings deposed and overthrown, either by rival aristocracy with popular blessing, or by straight up popular revolution.

Authority has always been backed up by popular power, in one way or another. Democracy is a (poor) attempt to codify it, but it's always been there.

Nobless Oblige existed primarily because rulers knew that fucking over the people of their kingdom would mean their head.

It would be nice if we lived in a polity in which legislators were personally responsible for their own mistakes. Instead, we're treated to a smorgasbord of moral hazard on the part of those who pretend to represent us.

I'd take a King or Queen in fear of their life over the status quo any day.
I thought Fast Ignition had been abandoned because it was found it didn't work.

HiPER is also dead, I think.
Can they harvest the (electrical?) power to keep the laser running from whatver form of energy the fusion provides (radiation, heat?)?
Yes, the commercial rights, but who decides on the regulations of the sport? Who determines the penalizations when teams/drivers do not follow the rules?

But anyway my point was that F1 is not "open source" and it's quite successful.
I still prefer smoking ban over freedom to roam and protest against fascist/oppressive government.

Full disclosure: I am not smoker.
Truly sorry for your loss, may better days come to you and your family.
Musk's high-interest loans added the equivalent of roughly ⅓ to ¼ of their total reported annual costs (excluding the one-time lawsuit settlement) so a large fraction of the people he sacked are cancelled out for years to come by debt service.

Traffic going up doesn't directly correlate with revenue — it depends on ad sales to be anything other than a cost and by all accounts advertisers have been hesitant to stick with the company. There's a reason why Gab, Parler, Truth Social, etc. struggled and unless Musk can convince mainstream advertisers that people are not going to see their ads next to extremist content those revenues are going to decline.

I would also be very skeptical about numbers without much detail because we know that bot activity has gone up since the teams which dealt with it were decimated and there have already been news reports about e.g. China taking advantage of this to drown out unfavorable stories.
And based on how NIF is set up, ignition and scientific breakeven occur at around the same spot.
1. Disable unused plugins

2. Exclude folders from indexing

3. Tune the JVM

It is less work than tuning emacs.
It means that they have identified acts back to 2019 but are not foreclosing on finding more acts earlier.
What are the reasons against?
Going back to MacOS for my new job gave me RSI. The touchpad centric UI is painful as a power user, and the haptics somehow don't work for me.

That and the inability to stretch a desktop across two monitors. I have a T-mux hack and basically live inside vim and chrome (unfortunately can't use Firefox). I'd be better off with a Chromebook.
LSP helps, but even with it Emacs is falling behind. Language hackers support Visual Studio Code first these days, with extensions that go beyond LSP.
That you too can have a highly functional Ponzi scheme if you follow these practices?
Like he said that was just one technique - he was probably doing it to show viewers something they may not already know, like using a regex. The technique I would use for this is the one that requires the least thinking and the one I usually use in general - record a macro that does one line and moves to the next, and then run it to the bottom.
Or ffmpeg (with 'copy' codec) or mkvtoolnix
Are you implying if I buy ads to promote your candidacy using illegal funds that the election you won is illegitimate?

How would we go about enforcing that?
True that he didn’t confess per se.

But his admissions and the public and transparent nature of the fraud are effectively equivalent. Anyway, now that action is being taken I’m placated :)
I found an example on today's front page (Rutter): https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rutter/7b222f5f-cd46-4592-9cf8-6cd1...

No salary range posted, job is in NYC.
I do a little with objects but not a lot. Doubt that I ever wanted to refactor some! Yes, some of my code editing, revisions involved code motion, but I don't recall that was a big problem.

> KEdit sounds pretty scriptable, but it seems limited by treating everything as text and not being aware of syntax.

Right. To have KEdit honor syntax, would have to program that in the KEdit macro language. No doubt that is doable, and since the macro language has a lot on string handling quite doable. Doable but for me more work than worthwhile.

KEdit is old but so is Emacs.

> Not trying to convince you to use something else, just giving you an idea why people like these tools.

Thanks, I've been wondering what I'm missing not using Emacs.

For an IDE, once I looked at Microsoft's Visual Studio. Created a project or whatever it was called -- years ago. It created a directory with lots of files. And that was before even "Hello World". I didn't know what all those files were for, didn't want to go to the trouble to find out, and was concerned that if something went wrong I'd have to fix it. I gave up, but here with the start of this thread wondered what value I might be missing from some heavy computing busy trying to make my work easier -- what was it, 12 cores, 64 GB of main memory, gads?

So, for now, stay with KEdit and Rexx.

I could have wasted time evaluating IDEs. Thanks!
it is privacy. The ISP and routers can see the IP addresses but that gives a lot less info than the url since most websites will pull from a changing set of IPs due to server changes, cdns, and 3rd party content (e.g. ads). For a large number of sites, the IP addresses will just tell you that someone is looking at a website hosted by cloudflare/aws.

(also just getting rid of the name is effective at getting the info away from low tech surveillance like schools where someone on the route is mildly interested in seeing/blocking connections but won't bother if it's annoying to do)
> What does Mac OS X have to do with it?

It was an analogy, hence the term "analogue". I've been a Mac user for 20 years, so that's where I get my technological analogies.

> If something I downloaded from npm trashes my Windows desktop or my Linux server it's just as bad.

This is missing the point, which is that Apple took responsibility for curating, installing, and updating Unix components in Mac OS X, rather than forcing individual users to take full responsibility for that.
This makes no sense. If you upgraded your libraries, thats in you to fix it tho.
You can lower the autocomplete time threshold.
I agree with the sentiment but maybe you can see this post as them doing that very thing but aimed at YC. While I agree normal HN posts don’t need to be policed, the ads for hiring at YC companies aren’t normal posts.
Interesting wording. I am not a Lawyer but have had a lot of interest in this case and others like it.

"SAMUEL BANKMAN-FRIED" a/k/a "SBF," the defendant, and others known and unknown did combine, conspire, confederate, and agree together and with each other to commit wire fraud".

Does this indicate that they intend to charge more people in the organization under RICO laws? Or is that just standard legalese for any wire fraud case.
I am wondering why the bit masks are Big (not Little) Endian? I'm sure there's a reason the example is done that way, I just don't know what it is.
A related species is Yaupon Holly that grows all over the Gulf Coast region from Texas to Florida.

That one is Ilex vomitoria and is the only native caffeine producing plant that grows in north America. I make tea from the leaves after roasting them for a few minutes on low heat. You can find Yaupon Tea for sale in quite a few places now after articles about it appeared a few years back.

It is a hardy bush that can form thickets that are nearly impenetrable. It is used as a landscape plant here in Texas and most nurseries carry dwarf varieties that form hedges. I prefer the trees. They can reach 20' tall and are covered in berries during winter. On the coldest days here in N Texas the birds descend on my trees and feast until everything is gone.

I agree that it seems like they ignored a lot of related plants in their description.
Hey, we're just big-boned.
This will certainly move you to the top of the list for hiring consideration. /s
I discovered a book back in the 90's called "Focusing" by Eugene T. Gendlin. It's about paying attention to your body. Not just the obvious parts - arms/legs, etc, - but including your thoughts and feelings. I found it extremely useful for dealing with nearly any kind of emotional discomfort or stress.

The OP is of a piece of that.

Here's a short 12 minute video with the author of the book describing the process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjhf_qUklSc
I'm a recovering rubyist (actually I still love ruby, just never get to write it anymore). The only times I felt `unless` was truly more readable than `if !something` was when it was used in the conditional suffix form like

do_something unless already_done?
Can a good explanation prevent a prod incident?
As always it depends on the application. It can definitely be useful in some applications.
I thought it was standard federal prosecution practice to put up huge potential sentencing numbers, then negotiate downwards in hopes of securing a swift process, and therefore the initial indictment-implied sentencing number carries very little context?
Does it support spot instances ?
As you learn more programming languages, these cute little operators become less cute and appealing, as you realize that !condition would be far more ubiquitous and transferable than something like unless condition.

I "grew up" in my career as a rails dev myself, but I favor things that are immediately clear to the broadest amount of people possible these days. And if you truly miss these constructs, in any language where you have metaprogramming, which is most these days amongst the broadly used ones, it should be trivially to implement them, should you insist on continuing to use them.

I use Elixir for my "fun" language these days, and they provide unless/2 as a macro, (if/2 is also a macro), but I haven't found myself reaching to use it once.
Don't do this. Place both ss and t before the input -i.

As output options, ss waits till the first KF after the given value, it's not a seek. With a t of 2, that may very well result in an empty video stream.
To be fair, I read that as a joke that actually plays on this notion. Some people within the fediverse are of the opinion that Twitter is a dying dumpster fire. The reality is that it's got a bunch more dumpster fires going on, but depending on the corner you are in, it's business as normal.

So the way I read that opening is a tongue in cheek expression in the voice of someone who is a little overeager to promote the fediverse as the Twitter Killer (when it's just... a different thing).

Edit: Shared this thought only to say that there possibly is a different interpretation to this opening. Not to invalidate what you said (should have mentioned this in the start) :)
IANAL either, however: RICO's pretty uncommon and it's probably not RICO. See for example [0]. But absolutely possible they charge many others.

[0] https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/14/lawsplainer-its-not-rico-...
Curses! Foiled again!

Does it help that I've now removed the fiber?
It's quite possible that as part of the bankruptcy proceedings, some/ all of the donations could be clawed back
Analysts Predict 'Exodus' of Twitter Users by 2024
Fiber internet often gives you 1Gbps up.
Versioning data is great, but storing as diffs is inefficient when 99% of the file changes each version.
That’s what “at least” means.

The “in or about” is separate, and means they found things that may have been in 2019 but are not foreclosing that those particular things may have occurred at a different time
Julia is a very nice language, its core abstractions (mutli-dispatch and macros) are not tied to any particular use-case. My overriding feeling using it is that it is a language visiting from the future, it is very well put together. Having said that, I've not had the opportunity to use it in production, Python is very popular!
Different taste I guess. I work in Python and always go out of my way to write "if thing is True" or "if thing is False" nowadays to make conditions clear and uniform.
I now don't think the writer had hoped we would argue the article's flawed premises (analysis of an argument would be an "coastal elite" activity), but rather consider what "the base" might possibly be attempting to convey with their "real American" tantrums[0]. As best as I have been able to suss out, it is: "Fine, alright already, some White males do have their thumbs on the scale. But {I'm/my town is} obviously not among them"

[American Chopper Meme Blank]

You're helping Black people! They need our help!

We need to help poor Whites too! So let's help everyone?

No! That's Socialism

[0] eg https://indyweek.com/news/Letters-to-the-Editor/op-ed-oath-k...

> I didn't really see Trump as a savior, I saw him as the Bigly-est brick the American people could pick up and throw through the White House windows.
>Probably because HN is not a law enforcement agency for New York City.

Okay? But this law exists in other places too.

>Why not contact the company and politely ask for the salary range?

Because its not their responsibility to make sure some random corp is following the law? They're just getting burned by the effect.
Can't find any numbers nationwide for that (though I didn't search too hard) but I did find estimates that there were ~700 prohibition related gang deaths in Chicago over the 13 years of prohibition, and ~1,000 in NYC. I'm going to assume that the vast majority of gang-related prohibition deaths were in major cities. There was an overall increase in the US murder rate by ~2.5 per 100k over the course of Prohibition, but that can't be exclusively attributed to Prohibition since the murder rate has already been rising steadily since 1904, and even though it dropped after 1933 we have the economic effects of the Great Depression as a major confounder.

Chicago had a population of 2.7 million in the 1920 census and 3.3 million in the 1930 census. NYC had a population of 5.6 million in the 1920 census and 6.9 million in the 1930 census.

Even if we use the lower 1920 numbers, that works out to ~2 Prohibition gang related murders per 100k population in Chicago per year. For NYC it's ~1.4.

Cirrhosis deaths during Prohibition ranged from 7.1 to 7.5 per 100k for the US as a whole. The study I linked attributes only 10-20% of the reduction to Prohibition, but other studies attribute more than that. The pre-Prohibition peak of 14.8 per 100k in 1907. It's likely that the temperance movement generally (which is what led to Prohibition) as well as state-level Prohibition acts prior to constitutional prohibition, contributed to this decline.

In any case, if we assume only 10% of the reduction was due to Prohibition, and we use the lowest of the Prohibition era cirrhosis numbers (7.1 per 10k), that works out to ~.7 per 100k fewer deaths per year due to alcoholism nationwide, as opposed to the gang murders focuses in cities (or about 13k total for the 1920 us population, or about 14k for the 1933 US population). If we assume 20% those numbers double, obviously, and if we attribute any more of the drop from the 1907 peak to state level prohibition movements, we have an upper bound of ~156k, though that's unlikely since cultural forces like the temperance movement probably played a significant role there as well.

There are plenty of arguments that can be made in favor of or against prohibition, but the most common arguments that I see ("It didn't actually reduce drinking!" and "Gang related killings outweigh the lives saved!") don't really hold water.
I have a number of librarian acquaintances who seem to cope with the gradual disappearance/destruction of their careers by telling themselves "one day, they'll get sick of current state, and they'll be back". I hope it's true.
Yeah i just realized my math wrong.
This is not how it works at all. The confinement is produced for a tiny fraction of a second by the inertia of the fuel pellet casing which is driven inward by ablation from a powerful pulse of light. It’s the same basic mechanism as an H-bomb, except unlike an H-bomb, this uses lasers instead of a fission (A-bomb) trigger. And is MUCH smaller.
it's called disruption bb
Opponents of politicians who took the money opponents will use it against them in future elections. Maybe some will return the money to attempt to defect that attack.
right! I was struggling to translate "libertine" into the noun related to the act itself. ie, free -> freedom; hedonist -> hedonism; libertine -> ?

In romance languages there's a word "libertinaje", but the best translation I could find into english was debauchery which I agree has too many connotations of "partying." Wantonness perhaps?
At minimum roughly in 2019, but possibly earlier?
I actually completely agree with the author. I remember coming across my first unless statement while trying to find the source of a nasty bug and I spent probably 5 minutes just trying to decipher the behavior of the unless block because my brain had some roadblock with the double negatives. This has become a lot easier to understand as I’ve used Ruby more but it still seems like a massive opportunity for cognitive complexity and errors for little gain
TPP was a trade agreement that was meant to align Pacific trading partners with the US instead of China. Four years were lost where China gained ground on trading agreements with the other TPP countries, but the idea is still the same.
But why would they need all these swaps if they held customer USDC 1:1 ? They clearly have done bad accounting and used customer funds for their own schemes. We'll soon find out if it's FTX-level-bad.
I do not mean to say it is just a west coast issue. But I do know that in the places where I have seen people selling drugs without fear, the drug problem is very, very bad.
They put out a help-wanted call several months ago on the mailing list <https://lists.bugzilla.org/pipermail/developers/2022-August/...> There's a similar appeal at the bottom of this post.

Bugzilla used to be written in Tcl. It got rewritten in Perl because they recognized that it would be easier to get people to contribute to it if they did. For the same reasons, the same thing should happen again; today, the fact that it's written in Perl is a liability in much the same way that it was a strength circa Y2K.

I love Bugzilla, and it'd be great if everyone would drop out of the mass psychosis that GitHub issues (and the culture that has developed there) represents anything close to the correct or optimal way to manage bugs. I can't, however, actually expect or recommend with a straight face that anyone deploy or work on it, considering it's a foreign codebase written in Perl, so it's not something I want to do myself, either.
> how cool would it be if your smartphone (or pocket computer) functions as a server!?

Completely not cool, that is, pretty hot. And short-lived.

Mobile devices are only practical because they don't work 80-90% of time. Being awake for longer requires larger batteries. Being suddenly popular and thus withstanding much more load would just physically kill a node, by depleting its battery quickly and suddenly.

The luxury of peer to peer networks requires either a large power supply, or a limited availability of each node. If you introduce super-nodes with good power and constant connectivity, where weaker nodes can post their data to be cached and replicated, you just invent servers again.
Cofounder/CEO here! I think it less about "versioning", but the ability to modify with confidence knowing that you can go back in time anytime. (Minor clarification: we are not quite storing diffs; holding snapshots just like Git + a bunch of data dedupe)
I think it means "we have evidences about his crimes in 2019, but we suspect he also commited some crimes earlier, and if we'd find additional information in due course, we reserve the right to add it to the charges" in legalspeak.
Eh, it feels like he may have donated a lot, but he wasn't crazy popular. Plus, not like he's had a long track record of donations over many years. I am not sure anyone with much influence will stick their neck out for someone like him
Things that happened earlier than 2019 have dates less than 2019, no?
Capturing DNS requests is a low effort way to list all the sites you visit. Using TCP destination IPs is harder to tie to a particular website as there is shared hosting and CDN proxy-ing among other things.
Once a hacker gets access they immediately change the password, and then the homeless person loses access anyway.
Not exactly the same. It's been a while, but if I recall, count takes a predicate block so you can do things like `numbers.count { |n| n.even? }`
yeah i’m sure, they just happened to wait till after the election and after he was out of money, and after it was early enough to prevent people from losing their life savings