skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had great luck with chatGPT assisted FFMPEG commands.

There is very little that FFMPEG can't do as far as video manipulation, but getting a good CLI invocation is a lot of work, documentation surfing, and piecing things together from stackoverflow and Reddit. I don't really feel like committing such things to memory.

With ChatGPT, I can ask for it to make a parameterized bash script that takes a path for video input and output, and any other parameters of consequence and make a "converter from x format to Y using Z codec and nvidia hw accelerated encoding at W bit rate" and most of the time, the bash script that it gives me just works and I move it into my tool-bin.

It's nice! There are probably a lot of other tedious pieces of automation that it can handle well even in its early state.
Because they also tend to find ways to make that easier for themselves (like no ads, etc) which what Reddit doesn’t want. I believe they are drastically underestimating the overlap of short two groups.
I do wonder how much of this is genetic. I know people who just need less sleep than I do (which I believe is genetic), and they can be more productive than me no matter how hard I try. I just need more time to rest than they do.

After a few hours (5ish) of deep work, I can't think straight, and start overthinking problems. I could probably train myself to go longer, but likely not that much longer. So I wonder if there is a genetic basis to that.

(Although even if there is, I doubt people like John Carmack would understand)
You pay cash for it and then run it into the ground. Cars will never be an investment (they're a depreciating asset, except in 2021), but this way you can keep your consumption to a minimum.

I've got a 14-year-old Honda that I paid $14K for. That amortizes out to about $1K/year. Annual repair bills and smog checks are still way less than $1K/year (I think I spend amortized $200-300/year, plus vehicle registration renewal, which is less on super old cars than new). I hear there are people out there now who spend $1K/month on their car payment. It's pretty nice to not have to deal with that.

It's got plenty of life left too - I'm hoping to keep it until EV technology stabilizes a bit and then just upgrade straight to whatever EV gets it right.
> but he does have decades of experience being highly productive

...in software engineering. But then he steers into talk about menial jobs. I worked minimum wage jobs for over a decade before I got an app published. I rather doubt Carmack worked a manual job for very long but perhaps someone can correct me.
> That's some Alex Jones-tier hyperbole, completely unbecoming of anyone in a position of leadership

What sort of naive idealism is this? People in power will exercise that power however they see fit as long as they believe they can get away with it. With Reddit of course it’s even easier as there’s no real stake/serious consequences (or at least the owners seem to believe there’s not). People don’t get leadership positions because of their superior ethics and morals.
To get insider information about a company under the pretext of due diligence/etc for a potential investment round.
That’s because most people work at bullshit jobs they don’t care about, where productivity can’t be effectively measured and they are distracted more than half the day anyway. With a shorter day you are compelled to focus more to get essential things done and this is probably where people get the idea that you can accomplish just as much in fewer hours.
'Lunch of suffering’: plain ‘white people food’ goes viral in China
The Seattle subreddit is pretty calm. That community expresses a lot of stereotypical 'I vote democrat' values.

The SeattleWA subreddit is pretty angry. That community expresses a lot of stereotypical 'I vote republican values'.

I prefer the Seattle reddit but don't much like either. The Seattle subreddit can have too much holier than thou sniping for points for my taste. Its the kind of place where if you expressed some doubt about this 'defund the police' thing you've heard about you might get some thoughtful responses and you might also get a breathless history lesson that accuses you of supporting chattel slavery. The SeattleWA subreddit is too full of violence for me - many posts are about violent crime, conversations about street people frequently have people fantasizing about using violence to resolve the issue. Its the kind of place where a post asking what post-covid seattle is like mostly has people expressing contempt for masking policies in the abstract and deriding people they have seen wearing a mask, a few folk addressing the question, and one person who has been around long enough to compare it to the recession in the 80's (which I thought was neat enough to mention).

I don't know of a third, but those two are different enough that I think even a casual inspection of both will give you an idea of which you might prefer.
Henceforth, /r/Pics will feature only images of John Oliver looking sexy
Malicious compliance, but oh so sweet; I wish more subs would follow instead of ceding to blackmail. For example, /r/Apple could institute a rule that all posts must be pictures of apples (if the subscribers so choose by majority vote).
> when people say "orders of magnitude" do they always mean base 10?

Yes, and that has always bothered me just a little bit, given that there is nothing intrinsically special about base 10 and yet the phrase seems to suggest something fundamental.
He clearly said that his points apply to "knowledge workers with some tactical discretion". He's not talking about productivity in menial jobs.
- Investment accounts and stock plan accounts

- 401(k)s, IRAs, etc.

- 529s

- SSNs
So the greater moral courage would have been for Snowden to keep his mouth shut and remain a U.S.citizen? Where do you put the average person, who would simply prefer to keep their head down and enjoy their life, in your moral rankings scale?
How is it possible for the LLM completion to be so fast? I can't even run 169M RNN models that quickly.
Yes. And yes. In fact I remembered a post I deleted two weeks ago and it's still gone.
at the point that would matter you have more pressing things to worry about then old code.
how is #4 even remotely controversial?
I've been trying to find words to describe this take but I fail. It's as if someone thought "what's the most jingoistic thing I can say in support of the US and its anti-regulation free-for-all?".
You can get 100% of the way there with Kotlin and Swift for UIs and a multiplatform library. Or web.
> He's not technical, he's not a musician, he doesn't really do anything beyond taking naps in the recording studio while the musicians record, occasionally opening his eyes to ask them how they feel

He sounds like the Steve Jobs of music production! He seems to have the unquantifiable gift of having good taste, the faith and respect of the people who work with him.
Honestly every time the FBI is in the news I get confirmation they're a bunch of lying incompent sleaze bags backed and protected by the state.
The cultural point is one I hadn't considered before. IIUC, you're saying that if my goal is to work 60 hours a week (for any reason), having 40 hours as the cultural minimum is better than 32.
We have some projects that have been continuously running for tens of thousands of years, like plant and animal breeding for example. Dogs for example originated tens of thousands of years ago.

Compare this to running nuclear power plants and operating radioactive waste storage facilities. That we haven't done for even a single century. Already now we know way better how to build nuclear power plants than 40 years ago, and our knowledge is only improving.

Personally I think we shouldn't bury any highly contaminant waste for the next 300 years, until we gain experience from the medium to low contaminant storage sites.
It's not as extensive as you're suggesting. HTTP parsing is handled by Node.js and it merely connects to an existing Tor server running in the background. The thing is, if I use any kind of third-party software then I end up with much more than I'm needing. For example, what is involved in running a websocket? Mention websocket to anyone and they'll tell you that you need a package like ws or something. Fact is, basic websocket functionality can be had with a few dozen lines of code. Same with DNS. Think you need a package for that?

Besides, even a well-designed library can be fatal for security if it is not handled correctly.
> Also, Snowden was trapped in Russia by the U.S. government

Snowden was trapped in Russia by the Russian government. If you think the Russian government cares about Snowden's travel documents, I've got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36223342
I did something similar, but with the current low rate climate I believe using Google salary to buy an apartment / house and max out a 30 year fixed house loan is a much better investment, as it's a safe leverage and it will always be easier for the government to print money than building houses.
Sure but the point is that ChatGPT can already write those same scripts in 6 seconds instead of 60. Whether you want to call that thinking or not. And the level of script sophistication and speed will continue to increase. For those examples you gave we don't even need a leading-edge LLM.

And automated decision making is exactly what I am warning about. As the speed, effectiveness and performance of the models increases, it becomes uneconomic and uncompetitive to keep humans in the loop. The most obvious real danger is in warfare. Racial bias is one aspect of the problem but overall it's more than that. It's that the efficiency pushes towards fewer and fewer check-ins with humans so you are relying more and more on the AI training. And so any type of defect at all or misalignment with your goals can be very problematic for you.
There are some examples given here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_ad
Carmack is a beast. Here's one of the first articles I ever read on HN, written by a guy who used to work with him:

Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls
https://waivek.github.io/website/tooltip.html
I requested mine last week and haven't heard back from them.
Galaxy S5 did it 9 years ago
Congratulations, I hope the monetization won't kill it
That doesn’t apply to fission power due to breeder reactors. We can wring more power and efficiency out of nuclear waste by just sticking it into a breeder reactor to absorb neutrons until the waste is up-converted back into fuel.

That’s where the increased efficiency and gains will come from in the future - better and better ways to convert big atoms into fissile atoms. It doesn’t matter if those big atoms come from nuclear waste or some other source (like thorium!)
Human experience varies way, way too much for there to be a definite answer to this. There are billions of people, and a 100% chance that some people work better with longer hours. Some people love work more than having a family and will happily go without one or get divorced to stay longer at the office. Some people wind up committing suicide because of how oppressive their work is. Some people just naturally have more energy, some less.

At the end of the day, research on the general population can really only give us a good baseline default. It won't be perfect for everyone, but actual, tangible research has shown that on average, less hours at work makes things more productive. That should be our default. When (not if) an individual who isn't compatible with the default comes along, we should just make them not work on the default.
I'd strongly recommend django-channels if you want to change very little. It feels like Django and it integrates without a lot of headache (at least in my experience).
The bleeding has started, management badgering the wound will keep it flowing - Oxen have died from large persisting sucking insects.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mosquitoes...
the low rate climate went away with the interest rate hikes.
Purism and Debian?
There were some discussions about the safety of the encasing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBS-3#Criticism
It's completely insane; though there are other similar things that can happen.

But the bank, the fraudster, and/or the credit burro should be liable, not the unsuspecting innocent.
Reminds me that I've yet to see Chris Morris' 2019 film The Day Shall Come which satirizes the FBI's pathological shoehorning of hapless individuals into a paranoid narrative of terrorist cells plotting violence against the state, based on many instances (the number 100 is mentioned) researched by Morris.

Morris writes[1]:

> The US Attorney General is announcing the sensational arrest of an army based in Miami, about to launch a full ground war on America. The FBI had saved the Nation [...]

> Two years later in Washington DC I met a witness from the resulting trial and discovered this terrifying coup would have been pulled off by seven construction workers riding into Chicago on horses. The idea was a fantasy, spun to make money. They had no guns – and no horses. An FBI informant had offered them $50,000 to attack America [...]

> The government presented it as an Al Qaeda plot bigger than 9/11. These guys weren’t even Muslims, they were Haitian Catholics. It took three trials to find them guilty. They were all jailed as terrorists.

> “I discovered this was not a freakish one off. Since 9/11 it has become Standard Operating Procedure. Informants encourage a Person of Interest to break the law and when they do, the FBI arrest them. Each plan is put together with the federal attorney. Arrest is delayed until the case will play in court. So the conviction rate is 98 per cent. The typical sentence is 25 years.

1: https://lwlies.com/articles/the-day-shall-come-trailer-chris...
For issues unknown to the user until they are locked out.
The whole deinstitutionalization thing was supposed to come with community mental health centers funded by the government. But when Reagan took office after Carter this was one of the first things on the chopping block. This left us in the situation we have today of lots of really ill people ending up in jail or on the streets. But I’m sure someone saved some taxes somewhere.
It’s used for various government and tax purposes. You can seemingly use it to apply for state benefits and then have them paid elsewhere, then get threaded with being arrested for fraud. Same with student loans. One person on a radio phone in a couple of days ago had had both happen
I agree this seems to be the reason. The second urn has a more uncertain return in the same way that I'm uncertain about the 98th digit of pi. It's not a random event, but my certainty around it is related to the deductive effort I put in. It's immediately clear that they're the same-ish, and also immediately clear that the first urn doesn't have a gotcha.

Still very interesting.
I wonder why this

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fviro.2022.8348...

is not more widely discussed.
Snowden sacrificed a comfortable life to expose a criminal enterprise in Washington that deprived Americans of their constitutional rights.

Why should he accept to be judged by the criminals he exposed?

He initially wanted to go to a different state, for your information, because he knew there would be people who would use his refuge in Russia to question his loyalty.

The good news is that Americans on the street are overwhelmingly on his side and against the corrupt and unaccountable cabal running the country.
His story about his attempted nuclear whistleblowing is pretty amazing.

Aside from the Pentagon Papers he copied thousands of pages on US nuclear war doctrine, which was horrific. Decided to release the Pentagon Papers first, because he figured nobody would even care about them in the wake of the nuclear documents. Hid them in a black plastic bag on the edge of the town dump, then a freak storm washed that whole section of the dump down a hill. He and his brother spent a year looking for it and finally gave up.

He said his wife considered the storm a gift from God, because he certainly would have gone to prison for life if he'd released that stuff.
For OG sriracha or some knockoff?
Don't forget sharing classified information with people that didn't have the proper clearance
> It's borderline inexplicable to me. How could someone want this in the first place and how could they be willing to do it in a volunteer capacity?

I wasn't sure what it was going to be like when I was invited. It's not fun telling people to behave, but I've found a lot of personal satisfaction in coding moderation tasks and working with the team. There are whole classes of work that I've automated away and it's easy to deploy improvements.
What is your process of verifying it?
The content and context matters. The response would have been different if he had leaked random material rather than the Pentagon Papers, which showed heinous behavior by our government.
> solely for information transmission

Certainly one function of financial markets and prices is to convey information, but that's not "solely" their purpose. They also provide a mechanism for resource allocation, risk management, wealth generation and collective action, among other things.

Your point about centrally planned economies, while historically corroborated in cases like the Soviet Union, might be an overgeneralization. The effectiveness of an economic system depends on numerous factors, including its degree of flexibility, the effectiveness of its institutions, and its ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Not all centrally planned economies are doomed to failure; some have been quite successful, notably in East Asia where countries like China and Vietnam have managed a mixed economy with elements of central planning and market mechanisms.

Many capitalist corporations are centrally planned economies larger than many nation states. While everything fails eventually, these centrally planned organizations can last multiple human generations, and can be more durable than many markets and market-oriented economies.

The assertion about the feudal Middle Ages also needs some nuance. The Middle Ages, and the feudal system in particular, had complexities beyond simple information and incentive problems. Numerous sociopolitical factors were at play, including a rigid class structure, the influence of the Church, and the lack of certain technological innovations. Ascribing the issues of a historical period mainly to its economic structure oversimplifies the multitude of factors that influenced societal development.

Moreover, while financial markets do help in transmitting information from consumers to producers, they are not infallible. They can, and often do, suffer from issues like information asymmetry, where one party in a transaction has more or better information than the other. This can lead to problems like adverse selection and moral hazard. Financial markets can also be subject to speculation, which can distort the "signal" provided by prices.

The focus on profit as the sole incentive in the market might be somewhat limited. People's decisions to buy, sell, and produce are influenced by a host of factors beyond profit, including societal and environmental concerns, personal values, and ethical considerations. Financial systems, to be truly effective, need to take into account this wide range of motivations.
If the bullying at school wasn't enough, even the government bullied him. Wow.
Because /large/ sub modding requires third party tools.
Ask HN: Is Flutter/Dart safe from the Google chopping block?
I was just about to invest considerable time and effort into learning Flutter and building a cross platform app. I’m well aware of Google’s propensity to cancel products, but the Google Domains news was still surprising to me because it seemed central to their GCP business. Now. I’m not so sure that Flutter won’t be canned next year. I mean, Google isn’t making mega money directly from Flutter, so it can’t be safe. Opinions?
I feel like you're both not appreciating the level with which botting, AI and PR shills/astroturfing can make up for the power users.

The content will suffer in ways that will turn all of us here off, but the content already has suffered and the main forums (most of the ad dollars probably) are full of reposts and inane comments.

Reddit can just keep their Eternal September going on for a long time on endlessly recycled content that most of the users still haven't seen due to xkcd/1053 (Ten Thousand).

There's going to have to be a viable alternative emerge to really defeat reddit, otherwise it is just the only real game in town, and most of the people actually will be happy to use it.

I think that "imminent collapse" predictions of a stark failure of reddit in a year or two are probably off the mark, and the most likely outcome is going to be continued and accelerating "enshittification". My bet is the analogy is probably more like the Discovery Channel and less like Digg.

Of course at some point with all the discontent there will probably be a new social network that emerges and attracts everyone and at some point reddit will likely hit a hard stop, but I think that's more of a 5-10 year timescale since there's currently no good alternative.

That doesn't make for a very emotionally appealing story though because the bad guy is probably going to get his IPO and walk away quite wealthy. But that is our system of Capitalism for you.

[ Oh, and the 2024 election is just around the corner and reddit is likely to turn into a battleground again and that will drive both engagement and shilling/astroturfing like mad, which will all be good for profits and some nice numbers for the IPO ]
I don't have a lot of sympathy for the idea of making laws uniform for the convenience of large companies that operate across many jurisdictions.

Besides the fact that the reduced cost of compliance you mention comes at the expense of the localities freedom to govern themselves, federal laws make it more convenient for these companies to manipulate the system to their advantage. A large company can bribe a couple hundred federal politicians to get their way instead of having to bribe many thousands across so many state legislatures or even more at a municipal level.
I have several PCs, my personal machines. Those never have anything to do with work.

Employers have always provided their own hardware, which in turn never have anything to do with my personal uses.

Sharing hardware muddles that. It's not like my employer's going to pay for upkeep of my personal hardware, or accept when I take my hardware down for maintenance due to something I did on my own time.

Then again, I've never worked for a startup, or a company that I held any significant equity in. I suppose that the calculus would change in that case.
I agree with the problem of federation identity but suspect this is partly an “image problem” in the sense that less specific and broader identities are a fix.

As for being subject to the whims of the instance; that is no different to reddit/twitter admin who also push ideological agendas. In fact, federation allows you to at least migrate to a different regime, something that neither commercial site permits.
> childish and unethical

These are not attributes you want in a CEO. They prevent the building of trust with both employees and users. Both of which you should seek when building a site like Reddit.

The seeds of his character were revealed years ago. Now we're seeing the fruits.
That isn’t really relevant to the topic, which isn’t an indictment of workers but a simple explanation of the “productivity benefits” of less work.
Seems the same argument could be applied to coal and oil, but at least the byproducts of nuclear reactors could be potentially useful. Not much hope for the remnants of burnt coal.