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We turn raw clips from your google drive into edited videos automatically. This notebook uses a combination of LLMs to analyze, organize, and edit video into interesting sequences.
It just depends on your state and what particular service you need. I've moved around a lot and lived in a few states, and some of them were particularly bad.

But yes, simple in-state renewals tend to be the easiest, and can often be done online. But things like custom license plates (for an already registered vehicle) or cross-state transfers (when you've been driving for 20+ years) or changing your address or donor status or whatever... can be more difficult than necessary.
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So, for the United States - we should be pointing fingers at one or two things...

Is it a) the FTC has not stopped bad mergers. Too much power over the price of food/gas/etc... in control by 1 company.

Or b) actual price collusion. From my personal research price collusion has become "legalized" through a cottage industry of "price analyst" companies that provide "good guestimates" of what gas, food, etc... should be. (aka realpage is out there for EVERYTHING already we just need to find them).
what does "irreversible" mean in this context? the population hasn't been sterilized, French people are perfectly capable of making more of themselves. there may be economic or cultural reasons why they choose not to, but that doesn't sound irreversible.
No, not really. Ubuntu and Debian are far more prevalent in the datacentre than Redhat.

Linux became popular through grass roots deployments and then companies cashed in on that. There seems to be a new narrative that it was the companies that started the ball rolling but it's not so.
And 'funny' posting didn't earn you post karma, which eventually conferred moderation powers (by lottery, sort of). IIRC there was at least one other way that they nerfed using humor to farm visibility and karma, as well.
College is great and very useful, it's just heavily abused by our society. I think that a lot of well-meaning people in the 80s and 90s saw that people with college degrees were better off, and confusing correlation with causation, insisted everyone needed to go to college so they could also be better off. Well, now we have way more people with college degrees than we need.

They've taken on debt that their (government-employed) guidance counselors insisted would pay for itself. Decent paying white collar positions for non-degree holders, like administrative assistant, now require them because of lazy recruiting. And income inequality is worse because you can't resolve structural economic issues with credentials.

So you have someone with an expensive English degree from BU answering phones in a CS pool for 35k, and the 'dumb' kids who went to trade school and became electricians have to turn away work at hundreds of dollars per hour because they're in such high demand.
John Goodenough, Nobel laureate and battery pioneer, dies at 100
Thank you for the tip! I tried Googling the term but I didn't see anything jumping out at me as being a good resource to read up on it; do you have particular things you'd recommend?
Nordic products are generally excellent. But for wifi they acquired a company and my understanding is they basically slapped their name on and wrapped their sdk around a non-nordic solution.
As an adult you should understand the financial realities of a stay at home parent.

If the breadwinner (man or woman) needs to make enough to support the kids and family. If they don't, the marriage and kids suffer.

The stay at home parent (man or woman) also has duties to the kids and family and home. Otherwise the kids suffer. If either party wants to divorce for any reason, the kids suffer. That's the reality of parenthood.

Protection is antiquated but it's foolhardy to think a healthy man would suppress his instinct to protect his pregnant wife. You're right though women don't need protecting all the time.
The value being provided here is the website, which received no taxpayer funding other than the lottery proceeds.
Ferenginar was originally called "Ferengal"
Small nit to pick: TMBG didn’t write the song— they covered it (quite well, too).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_(Not_Constantinople...

The song’s appearance on MTV’s Liquid Television was my introduction to TMBG.
> It's amusing to read the comments from commercial real estate owners. There's a huge sense of entitlement. If they're losing money, somebody else must do something to make them stop losing money. Immediately.

Many homeowners have the same attitude toward their home value. If their home value is going down, politicians need to do something. It's part of why reform is so hard. It's political suicide to do anything that could reduce home prices for existing home owners.

Real estate appreciation is basically an entitlement. I fully expect a bailout for commercial real estate.

Maybe this is how we get to the stars. Warp drive will be invented once the final campaign to allow infill development on Mars falls to a NIMBY campaign to preserve the character of the planet. (Actually I think something like this is a plot point in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars novels...)
I suggest asking your Indian friends where they buy their spices from, and check out your local Indian grocery store - the spices are from major Indian brands and undergo a lot of testing, with additional certification for export to the US.
Congress sets limits on staff ChatGPT use
TLDR:

* Profits: 45 percent

* Import costs: 40 percent

* Labour costs: 25 percent

Somehow obviously arriving at 110%?

"As the Chart of the Week shows, the higher inflation so far mainly reflects higher profits and import prices, with profits accounting for 45 percent of price rises since the start of 2022."

"Import costs accounted for about 40 percent of inflation, while labor costs accounted for 25 percent. Taxes had a slightly deflationary impact."
Theoretically, I guess it could - iron selenide superconducts when its electrons are all forced the outer ring, and physically stretching the material can cause force electrons to the outer ring. But the precision required to apply enough tension to pull the electrons of every single atom into that state is absurd, and if some aren’t in that state then it won’t superconduct. Not to mention you also have to guarantee somehow that the material won’t do all the other things it normally does when physically stretched, like deform or break.
nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

I loved this piece; sometimes I think of reviewing past memories as akin to rewatching a familiar show. There are no surprises, so even the hardest plot-twists have less anxiety associated with them.
I don’t agree that it affects the worst perps less though. I think society has progressed enormously. I think strong men have significantly much less power than they did before, both with respect to how women are treated and with respect to how men interact with other men. There is work to be done, and it is hardly universal, but it is much better.

For example, you can’t just… grab and hump subordinate women in the workplace as a joke anymore in most areas. This is a kind of thing that is now so outrageous you will see people young people doubting that it was ever a normative thing.

Or cliche locker room bullies. You’ve got someone in this comment thread denying that this was real because it’s so far from their experience.

A large part of this is probably because being a strong white dude is not a good indicator of social power anymore because the economy is much harder. But narratives help.
No, you can't. You could accidentally take classified documents/information out of a SCIF, but not innocently. This is a strict liability offense, so it being an accident doesn't make you innocent.

If it weren't so, then every spy trying to exfiltrate documents would do it 'accidentally'. "Oops, I accidentally put the wrong documents into my bag. Oops, I accidentally left the bag on a bus where, completely unknown to me, that Russian agent with a diplomatic passport picked it up. Terrible mistake, but you can't prove I meant for this to happen." It doesn't work like that; even if it was a genuine accident that doesn't get you out of trouble.
It's not a TMBG song, they just covered it. It was originally released by a Canadian vocal quartet called The Four Lads in 1953.
Geerling is very good at getting his content to the top of lists. I had the same sentiments you have at the second post on this issue with Redhat. Occasionally, he'll post something that piques my interest, but most of the time his YT style "marketing" is just too over the top. I know he's doing it specifically to get those metrics, and I hope it works for him and the audience it gathers is what he's looking for. Since he doesn't change, I assume it is. I'm sure he sleeps at night just fine
Power/awe/joy/ecstasy. The kind of emotionally loaded words dropped in to make something sound more interesting than it is. It's just crap writing and you're just accepting it. And another one, you can't just 'want' or 'like' anything any more, you 'crave' it.
It is a cultural tradition of the UK government to never be prepared for anything.
This is the principle of muddling through because everything always works out alright in the end, so there is no point worrying about it.
It probably would have if the Russian empire had won ww1
I’m told that greedy employees are to blame for 95% of inflation, so this is an interesting take on the subject.

/s in case someone thought I was serious?
I wish we had a trickle-up, trickle-down system where states could experiment with different strategies/providers for tackling some public use case, and the successful ones could push that up to Congress to then disseminate back down to other states.

But alas, either that never happens because nobody cares (most digital services) or it becomes a political battleground (California vs Texas in education). Sometimes I hate our system of powerful states vs centralized nations...
Haha this is probably because in the crippled language called JavaScript array elements are by default sorted by first converting them to strings.
In terms of price collision the big one is rent, there are a couple companies that sell software to literally all of the institutional landlords which determines what pricing should be for each market.

The only reason rent isn't currently going through the roof was that corporate fad of buying up every property under the sun for nice reliable income.
This middle ground of sorts is what I was alluding to with "a few specific scenarios". From what I recall Fedora is the distro of choice for Linus? So it's clearly not completely terrible and I never said it was. That said, the creator of Linux is about as far as you can get from a typical/average user...

Per usual HN there are plenty of conflicting anecdotal reports and wildly differing perspectives on my position here and as I noted in another reply I absolutely could not care any less when it comes to people selecting the best tool for their purposes/opinion/experience/worldview. Not being steeped in modern Red Hat (I have an RHCE cert for RedHat 8 around here somewhere) but having decades of experience across many other distros the difference in experience as a "new user" with Fedora was striking. Also note that "new user" isn't exactly accurate here either - the install process was great, the UI is clean, etc. However, as soon as I got off the beaten path the quality of experience (again, for me personally) dropped to among the poorest I've seen in years with Linux distros.

Back to another anecdote for me, after decades I can count on one hand the number of times I thought "wow I could really stand to have a newer system python release" (as one example) - even when using pretty long in the tooth Ubuntu 20.04.

I'm not saying that doesn't happen and doesn't have it's advantages. It's a good point generally but I'm as confused as I am because it's never been even remotely close to a deal-breaker in my decades of doing all kinds of random stuff (from embedded to desktop to server to cloud). I don't know what people are doing to call them "too out-of-date to be useful" but again that's just me - I'm sure you and others have plenty of reasons for this position. I've just never encountered anything close to it.

Python specifically has such famous and nightmarish packaging and dependency issues I more times than not just throw everything into whatever official release Docker container for the version I need and call it a day. Great? No. Hacky? Yes. Practical? Absolutely.
Depends on how much you cook and how good you are at it, right?

When I was a kid, I was damn proud of "discovering" Sub7 and using it to fuck with all of my friends, teaching them to do the same. Years later, I would "discover" how to read assembly by reading a book on it and then "discover" pirated copies of various disassemblers online and use them to reverse engineer games, write keygens, etc. Years later, I would write my first 0day exploit and then eventually make a whole career out of that.

But I was just as proud of discovering and using Sub7 to mess around as a kid as I was popping my first shell. I just knew more at each stage; the act of 'discovery' felt little different, though.
The basic approximation I use is
n! ~ (n/e)^n so ln(n!) ~ n(ln(n)-1).
The basic inequality is
(n/e)^n < n! < (n/e)^{n+1}.
When considering convergence of series using the n-th root test,
(n!)^{1/n} ~ n/e so
((an)!)^{1/n} = (((an)!)^{1/(an)})^a ~(an/e)^a = a^an^a/e^a.
Just gonna plug Suse that basically does what Red Hat + CentOS (not stream) used to be. Even more so because OpenSuse Leap is now binary compatible, not just source/ bug compatible like the RHEL flavors, the binaries in the Leap repositories are the same ones that are in the SLE repositories and you can switch from Leap to SLE with no issues. Amazing distro, it runs my home lab and would not change it for anything.
Thanks for the info, I'd assumed the limiting somewhere including obviously the engine but interesting to think about multiple limit types.
Very much depends on the market. A marketplace app establishing a great user base? What will the intrusive technical due diligence get you?

Very much depends on the stage. At Idea Stage or Prototype what are you looking at exactly?

Series C biotech though…
This project brought together a lot of different pieces of engineering and was a larger personal project for me, so there were a lot of parts and making those work together was a challenge at times.

For the backend, I found it helpful to implement monitoring proactively to be able to detect and debug issues without having to bug users which has been really helpful so far and allowed me to make some performance improvements too!

For the frontend it was interesting to optimize the result searching using the Web Worker + WebAssembly approach. I found some interesting ways to speed up things by parallelizing and, interestingly, manually collecting garbage in the WASM runtime.

And of course learning about the entire audio analysis portion and reading on how to find similar sections of audio!
Not necessarily for lack of trying.

> The power grid is also grappling with supply chain and worker shortage problems that have cause some power facilities to delay or cancel maintenance aimed at getting the system primed for summer. Specifically, NERC warned that low inventories of replacement transformers could derail efforts to restart power facilities following hurricanes and severe storms.
The way this works is interesting. I asked it to cut 30 seconds from the middle of a song (a spoken word portion without music) and then shorten the track by 30 seconds. I figured it would just cut that out and do some fancy blending of the music before and after the cut to make it sound good. Instead I got:

at 00:00 a 00:16 segment (00:00–00:16)
at 00:16 a 00:51 segment (02:05–02:57)
at 01:07 a 02:31 segment (01:34–04:05)
at 03:39 a 00:11 segment (04:03–04:14)

It's adding and repeating chunks of the song and cutting other parts and I'm not sure why.
selling binaries, yes.

Trying to prevent people from redistributing the source: no.

(Yes, in an internet world, it's hard to make money selling binaries if people can redistribute source, maybe. the FSF was selling binaries in a different context, for better or worse. You are still welcome to sell binaries. You are even welcome to charge for distribution of source. But the fundamental goal of the GPL is to give users the right to redistribute source without restriction. The FSF never tried to limit that.)
Backing up the email database is probably a bad idea for an org like this, because they have data that isn’t allowed to be backed up.

I had a customer that got accidentally sent confidential data to the wrong email address and it was backed up for multiple months. In the end we left it in there but they considered deleting all the backups that contained this email.

That is a good reason for having short lived backups and an archiving solution with retention policies emails.
99% of national park and forest activities do not require a reservation. It's only for the most popular hikes and river rafting, with some exceptions.
"corporate and conservative propaganda"

Most center-left economists are pretty dismissive of the idea that inflation is a corporate-profits-driven phenomenon too.
Why were corporations settling for such comparatively low profits before 2022?
From what I can tell the issue here is that Rob Pike thinks the label "generics" is inaccurate? Seems like a far cry from what you have accused them of. I think theres not only a lack of evidence to convince me, I think your claim is just straight up unsubstantiated. I think an unbiased, responsible observer would have to conclude similarly to me.
Ah yes ignore the money printing, certainly all of this inflation is the private sector! Where are the price caps?!?
1000bit.it has some documentation plus a ton of old advertisments and brochures.
You quoted an irrelevant source which you do not understand. The primary source is right here:

CVC §410 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

CVC §471
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....

CVC §260
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

The last of which makes pickups, based on the prior two definitions, commercial vehicles. "A “commercial vehicle” is a motor vehicle of a type required to be registered under this code ... designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property."

Or, you could just google "are all trucks in California registered commercial", ask any truck owner, or ask any truck dealer.
We at cashflowy.io has been using argonaut for a while now. As a single person dev team, I did not have the time luxury to deal with kubernetees and also handle customer support/business development etc. Wanted the flexibility of kubernetees but did not want the full kubernetees overhead being a small startup. Argonaut has worked out really well for us.
Echo Nest! That's right.

Did I over-attribute the above to Paul? I didn't realize he wasn't a founder.
AI killing the old web: Generative AI models are changing the economy of the web
I find it hilarious when companies are following their stated goal of making profits, while everybody else is rushing to explaining rising prices by factoring in everything but profits.
For those that own a Meta Quest, is this subscription service actually an attractive offer? This type of service is pretty standard nowadays but I’m just curious how much money this would actually generate for Meta.

Because it’s certainly not going to be in the billions…
No but it gives every customer the right to redistribute the sourcecode to software they bought if that code is covered by the GPL under the same terms as RedHat got from their upstream.

It looks like RedHat might be trying to avoid that clause by threatening to stop selling any software to people who might use that part of the GPL.
A centralised system should be cheaper.

Instead of 50 states all having separate DMV offices, all too small for a decent website, now it is just one office double the size with a small web dev team. That should be substantially better and cheaper.

Same for the forest service.
Because they didn't know the pricing power they had. The macro gave them cover to stretch and see what would happen.
People will continue to blame workers regardless. Central banks will continue to raise interest rates, squeezing consumers, and debt laden companies will increase prices further to compensate.

The UK has already seen retail volume decouple from revenue and is now seeing the beginnings of a mortgage crisis. At least the rich will have yet another opportunity to snap up the foreclosures.

The good news is that energy bills this winter might only be 2-3x what they were pre-pandemic.
It's Ford Kugas as far as the eye can see. Lots of absurdly high Rangers too :-(
My favorite line from the article:

> I realized that what I missed most about playing the violin was that it had given me a vehicle for connecting emotionally with others.

That is a great way to explain why I have interest in certain hobbies as well.
That's not what executive privilege means. Executive privilege is the right to shield documents from disclosure to Congress.

Moreover, taking certain documents, specifically those relating to nuclear secrets, is unrelated to the Presidential Records Act, and must be declassified following the Atomic Energy Act.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)
So it worked, weeded out dangerous driver before it can kill bunch of kids crossing the road on pedestrian crossing. Generally it really works, I mean 100% of the cases where I live. Everybody slows down, normal cars, sports cars, motobikes etc. If you don't, you suffer for your own ignorance.
Children are too often nothing but whiny, annoying screamlings. Any café that bans them makes a very good chance at my custom. Any café that encourages their presence loses my custom. Bars exist, and kids are generally prohibited from entering them: must we change that, as well?
If we are so unable to predict the future consequences of dumping an unlimited amount of carbon dioxide and methane into the Earth's atmosphere, then I would think the cautious approach would be to cease such action.
Fearing copyright lawyers, I implemented this message so you cannot share audio by just sending a link anymore, but have to import the song yourself to be able to use it :(

You can use this example though if you just want to try: https://mofi.loud.red/edit/8bd3fdf780f8c3927e41029f3b957f8a7...
In the beginning it wasn't meant to be a protest. It was meant to be a blackout to show everyone 'this is what reddit is like when the people you depend on leave' and make everyone aware of the issues, and it accomplished that in a massive way.

The protestors were the ones doing it until the proposed API changes were called off, but of course reddit smashed that by shutting down communities and replacing mods.
> I've had the argument online many times, but people are simply too stupid and/or wishful-thinking to understand how wrong they are.

This is a terrible way to conduct a discussion. Please read the site rules, in particular “be nice”. If you can’t comment without being triggered, don’t.
This is thinking from a bygone passive-media era--the one of television and radio--where you were forced to be the passive consumer and had no choice but to obey your mass media masters with respect to what they delivered.

There are so many tools to customize and make your audio experience your own. Ultimately my ears are my own and I love living in a world where I can precisely control my audio experiences.
Wow, this is the first comprehensible documentation on OAuth (post 1.0, which I actually did understand) I've ever seen. If the author of the StackOverflow post is on here, please publish a book, I'll buy it.
Because government services have to be accessible to everyone. An API is not “accessible” to most people.