skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally 8-bit or 10-bit h.264, occasionally h.265, at either 1280x720 or 1920x1080 progressive with frame rate usually 23.976. Split and decoded in software via LAVFilters then ran through ffdshow before rendering on Enhanced Video Renderer.

CPU anything ranging from an i7-14700K to an i3-2100 (yes, Sandy Bridge). Seriously, decoding video has never been a significant workload for over a decade.

>4K h.265 / AV1 video on a couple of years old laptop dual-core CPU.

Kindly, why the hell would I even watch 4K video on a laptop? Y'all keep throwing out contrived situations like that, meanwhile I'll be a sane man living in reality and re-encode it (in software, finer tuning of parameters) in my spare time down to 1080p or 720p so I save myself precious disk space and CPU usage while travelling.
I can qualify "Postgres doesn't scale for analytics" a bit: You cannot run large scale aggregations in a row-based database like Postgres the way you can in a columnular data warehouse.

If all you need is daily aggregations of metrics like counts of certain events, then Postgres will be fine for a long time. But as soon as you want to ask more complex questions like 'What is the average time between a user signup to the first time they do a certain event?' or 'How many distinct users did X in the past month?', Postgres is going to struggle. It's not impossible to get Postgres to do these things, but every additional question like this will require figuring out how to get Postgres to do it in a reasonable amount of time, whereas a data warehouse is designed to do these kinds of aggregations very efficiently.

In terms of the integration, I think you'd be pleasantly surprised by how easy these tools make it to pipe data into your warehouse. Outside of setting up permissions, you don't really even need engineering. A strong data analyst could do the job.

For startups, engineering time is often the most scarce resource. I strongly believe that startups should not spend time building custom analytics solutions when so many great tools exist off the shelf, and instead focus 100% on building the core product.
Nothing in GDPR says anything about EU citizens. Everyplace it talks about data subjects it talks about data subjects "in the Union".

If he is not "in the Union" and the processor or controller processing his data is not "established in the Union" then GDPR does not apply. See Article 3 [1] for details.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
And at the end of the day you're just pointing and clicking on various things with your mouse in both types of game...

(Modulo controller users, of course)
I really like these ideas here! Is privacy a key value proposition here? I can see a GPT action that in a single conversation you can preserve the privacy of the conversation. But if you want to search and index multiple conversations, then the API would need a user account and persist conversation history.
My definition of tourist is unimportant. That of the person at the border with the ability to deprive you of your liberty is.
There is nothing magic about two parties, in fact there are plenty of other parties even in the US. However due to game theoretic mechanisms [1] in the winner-takes-all system we tend to get two dominant parties.

I'm not sure how this could be avoided in the US system of 2 senators per state. You can't exactly send 2/3ds of a senator to Washington if you had a proportional system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
Both parties heavily invest in gerrymandering
and both parties apepar to (think) they get an
advantage out of doing it.

Neither wants the practice to stop.
Politicians will pretend outrage when
they personally are negatively impacted
by a change of course.

I think there ought to be precise rules and regulations
for how and what you can do, but of course for the reason
above, this wont happen.
Can GDP be gamed and overemphasized? Yes.

Is America gaming and overemphasizing GDP? I don't think so. We have all kinds of economic measurements, and the one most people seem to be discussing today is inflation.

As long as we don't go stupid and braindead, and consider the overall economic picture, we'll do fine. We also can't ignore the best data that's collected or consider it conspiracy-laden fakes. But we also need to have enough skepticism to make sure our numbers are legitimate.

There's certainly people who fail on both sides. Overly trusting one number (ignoring all others) for the sake of their arguments. Or alternatively, ignoring inconvenient numbers (well, inconvenient for their side of the argument).
What numbers are YOU using?
You're right that this method doesn't protect incumbents. However, protecting incumbency and avoiding open-seat elections isn't necessarily a bad thing, and could increase electoral competition in some places. Some states don't allow incumbency to be taken into account when redistricting already.
The kids have no choice. It might happen, or even be compulsory depending on social system.

Worth asking though. Your kids might end up at the equivalent of Aveling Park.
I read an interesting discussion of the jobs numbers from 2023 recently, the conclusion of which was basically that most of the jobs "created" last year were in healthcare and government and that in general all other sectors held steady or contracted. The piece went on to note that these are considered counter-cyclical industries and that that does not bode well for the labor market this year [0].

Further, I've been reading a lot of commentary saying that most of the posted job openings are fake (which I also experience anecdotally as true) since these jobs are posted to make it seem like companies aren't in the process of cutting costs and attempting to weather bad economic winds without any intention of hiring anyone into the listed roles. Similarly, I've seen my current employer list a lot of positions despite a lot of internal talk about hiring freezes. Worse than that, despite the hiring freezes, there are a tiny fraction of the open positions that get special dispensation to hire, so you can't just write off a whole giant company on rumors of hiring freezes, even if you have strong confidence in the rumor mill. All of this tends to indicate that hiring is down and will continue to be down through most of if not all of 2024.

Charitably, you could interpret the article title as "true" in that most companies in the US do little hiring in late December and a lot in early January to avoid starting new employees when everyone with any seniority is out of office on vacation for at least the last week of December and often much longer, even at companies without an official Christmas to New Year's break.

[0] https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/capitolism/some-of-my-big...
But we're forecasting growth in all EV bands. The average vehicle weight will double in the next 30 years.

It does make sense to start thinking and talking about this now (before that happens) so we can fix it.
I think the fact they revise the numbers is a positive. Gives me more faith they are trying to paint the most accurate picture they can.

However, I understand your point. News sites rarely trumpet the revisions, only the headline number. So it behooves you (or others) to dig into the numbers and include things like the revisions or what it means that some sectors are doing better than others. (If all the growth is in low-wage service jobs, that means a different kind of economy than if all the growth is in health care jobs or housing related jobs.)
The latest website I was asked to build is just Pandoc + Make. It works super well, it's very fast and decently flexible. I even do blog-like processing by just calling Pandoc several times.
I don't understand what's going on. Could someone give me a birds eye view of what this is about?

- What is the regulation aimed at?

- What did the open source community communicate?
I am also in favour of proportional voting systems.

But with a party list system, there can be a perception that the party machine has more control over who gets elected. If a party can realistically expect a vote share of 20-30%, and ten candidates are being elected proportionally, then the top two candidates on the list are pretty much guaranteed a seat, whether or not they work or campaign very hard. This puts a lot of power in the hands of the people who decide the party list.

But to be honest, FPTP has a very similar problem with safe seats.
High reflex games don't scratch the same itch, thinking of Hades: prediction and reflexes are not something I encounter at work
I recently switched to Pandoc to parse my Markdown documents for my blog. Up until then I used the original Perl script. It’s not slower and I get syntax highlighting for my code snippets. My only regret is not switching sooner.

Maybe one day I’ll write a blazing fast Markdown parser that does exactly what I want, full control and maximum simplicity and all that. In all probability though, I won’t. I really like what little I have seen from Pandoc.
you're free to check your device as necessary. the personal device rule is for things that have cameras and storage. so a smart watch that can receive messages would be fine. we seem to think that the only way to communicate with someone is via personal device, but in the corp world there is always a corp phone on employee's desk. you could provide that number to whatever contacts you wanted, so this lame concept of passing notes is just so unimaginative on your part that it just feels like someone grasping for straws.
Probably low paying zero benefit jobs.
I would have thought that the point of spending 6 months in Japan was to experience Japan in a deeper and more relaxed way than a short-ish trip as a tourist.

Spending money on living expenses, including rent, and touristy stuff is indeed spending money in the country. And if you are well paid then that may be more than the average local: the threshold for this visa is $68k while the average annual pay in Japan is apparently $41-45k.
> When did software design / engineering change so much?

We need to do more complex things, and if you want to do these things efficiently without reinventing things from scratch, you need to rely on different tooling and work on various level of abstraction.

> Are things really getting better

No but they aren't getting worse either, they're just different (except for the parts that aren't).

> or is computing power allowing the industry to duck tape a billion things together instead of writing in low level languages and using standard packages and compilers?

Lower level languages aren't better than higher level languages, they serve a different purpose. As a professional, you need to pick the right tools to do your job.
There’s usually no problem with security in thin hypermedia apps. Backend still has full control over access, you just have an extra step of actually rendering the view with the model you’d otherwise return via API.
While pandoc is certainly a very useful tool, don't you think it's overkill to call a 143MB (on my Linux system) pandoc executable to do word (un)wrapping?

Emacs has `fill-paragraph` built in and `unfill-paragraph` is a short function definition [1]. Both work across multiple paragraphs.

[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UnfillParagraph
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If you’re in Japan on a 90 day tourist visa and working remotely, there is next to zero chance you’ll be found out an deported.

Many many people are doing this already.
But there's no world where the tooling doesn't suck for an SPA.

As the application grows, the bundle is going to grow and the caching / building / splitting problems will just increase higher and higher. All those esbuild & associated tools just slightly delay the inevitable.

All the ones I worked on inevitably stumble upon this problem and the worst part is, the bigger your team is, the harder it's going to be to scale an SPA meaning that hiring more people doesn't even help here.
You’re currently being downvoted, I assume because those are monthly numbers as opposed to annual numbers.
everyone does it

must work some of the time
Hi! I am Amarens, the creator of Untranslatable and I just wanted to thank you for sharing my project on here! It has given me a big spike in visitors and new contributions, and I just think it's very cool you wanted to share this project with other people. THANK YOU!
I salute your honest madness.
I meant compared to getting coalition governments that most voters didn't want.
Indeed. Most developers with enough experience have probably encountered documentation which was wrong or incorrect implementations against a spec which amounts to basically the same thing. A discrepancy between the documented reality and the actual reality.
That sounds plausible, yeah. The Color object is space-agnostic, so you can take any set of colors and interpolate their lightness/luminosity/value using any color space you prefer.

So something like this:

Color('#123').lch[0] *= 1.2
There's digital nomads everywhere, and it's not hard to do legally under tourist visas. I know for a fact there are FAANG employees who do it today -- companies who would certainly shut that down if it was illegal.

There are legal gotchas and grey areas. I would guess the Japan visa is aimed at clarifying the matter for long stays, because there's certainly no shortage of digital nomads in Japan.
Ex-wife, had very unusual brown stripe on fingernail. Proactively removed finger, did perfusion. Total recovery. Predates our two children.
Just like to say, you can have a pretty robust SPA tooling experience ONLY using esbuild. Yes, you give up a lot of the features provided by larger tools, but you also have less things to have to understand.

I recommend this article about a non-js savvy person: https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/11/15/esbuild-vue/
IT departments do not care for the musings of self-proclaimed neckbeards. The arrogance of such users to comfort to security policy is a well known risk and usually grounds for swift disciplinary action.
I had a script that piped to curl to send, Mail.app for downloading via POP and Vim to read/write, but I gave up and ended up copy/pasting as well.

Someday I may try that again, if email is still relevant by then.
Vim and email would be my perfect set up.
That must be when Google realized that child safety directly hurts its bottom line.
The leading growth sector was education and health. This information is all in the report in eye-watering detail.
I was trying to head off a nitpicking discussion over what is and is not a good use of tax payer money.

The big idea is that cities do need some money.

Locking away large portions of the city’s revenue generating assets (the land) indefinitely is going to reduce options for future city governments.

We don’t know what the funding challenges of the future will be. I hope they are small - with minimal tax increases. But I think cities should have some ability to safeguard their future revenue generation.
Actually, wages went up 4.5%. Not bad -- and probably ahead of inflation.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/02/business/jobs-report...
The legislation (Cyber Resilience Act) aims to enforce some standards and add liability around software products, to enforce that vendors don't just throw something out, never touch it again and it becomes a problem (customers stuck with paperweights, security holes exploited). The problem is that if you enforce that sort of thing on random open source projects, many will be simply incapable of even trying to follow the legislation because they're a small one-two dev team that cannot navigate complex laws. So, progressively, more and more exceptions have been added to who does the regulation apply to.
These are all valid issues.

Germany addresses them by doing a FPTP pass and then filling the remainder of the parliament such that the overall parliament has PR according to a second, independent vote given at the same time. This creates some other issues again, but works surprisingly well for the most part.
Palworlds gathering doesn't feel like a gathering chore, you don't spend much time gathering stuff you mostly spend time exploring and catching monsters or organizing the monsters work.

It wouldn't have become so popular if it is the slow kind of grindy chores you talk about, in general the most popular such games has a lot of things to make it not feel like a chore because most people don't like chores.

But a game reviewer can't really pick what they play, they have to play new shitty games that will never be popular all the time and then I can see how you start to associate these things with chores.
I strongly dislike this idea, because it would make people I want to hear from extremely hesitant to use email, phone calls, or texts.
UKIP won a seat in the 2015 general election, and previously won one in a by-election. They were also extremely successful in achieving their goal of getting the UK to leave the EU - the conservative manifesto promise to hold a referendum was directly due to the threat from UKIP.
Suppose you're defining as Party B, and you draw 8 majority-B districts (2:3) and 2 majority-A districts. Then, when Party A is combining, they would pair each of the majority-A districts with a majority-B district with a smaller margin, resulting in 2 A districts and 3 B districts. This is an improvement compared to if B drew 5 districts unilaterally, where it could draw 4 majority-B districts.
You have a (smallish) subset of people in tech, many living in an area of the country which has tended to be more expensive--often much more expensive--than just about any metro other than NYC for decades, which came to regard totally compensation that was totally out of line with what engineers traditionally earned as normal. And presumably the flood of people who went into computer science and programming because that's obviously where the money was will tend to bring the market into equilibrium.
https://archive.ph/XlqUU
Is there an archive link to the vid somewhere?
> But there's no world where the tooling doesn't suck for an SPA.

I dunno about that. I've seen good things with htmx. Also pretty nifty things with web components.

An SPA doesn't have to use all the most modern frameworks. SPAs were being done long before React and friends were created, long before even Jquery was popular.
> you can join a call without risk of deportation.

Is that a definite interpretation of the law or just an in-practice one? I have had friends have issues are borders with this, albeit not with Japan. That countries feel the need to clarify this the world over tells me that this isn't totally settled.
I spent 1 month around Kyoto's UNESCO sites 10 years ago while working remotely for a company in the US and am not sure I'd want to spend whole 6 months in Japan when there are so many interesting places all around the world. One needed to know basic Japanese as very few people spoke English, finding an accommodation was a chore as AirBnB was non-existing and hotels with unlimited fast WiFi scarce and one had to book an apartment in some of their temporary housings months in advance. Overall a nice and unique country though people looked overworked (young people complaining about working 996 lifestyles) and isolated from foreigners, similar to Germans (except their children that always wanted to practice Engrish with anyone not looking Japanese).
> level of freedom

There are freedoms to and freedoms from. The Cyber Resilience Act is giving freedoms from to consumers that never had them before, at the expense of some freedoms to abuse from software vendors.
Yes, but we have to consider what is politically feasible or plausible.

The US is not going to switch to proportional representation at any point in the near to medium future. It's just not going to happen. There's zero public awareness or desire -- right now we're having a hard enough time just making the much smaller incremental improvement of ranked voting.

On the other hand, there's no strong tradition of any kind behind drawing districts. If someone really can come up with a fair, objective way of doing it, it's far easier to see it getting adopted. Gradually at first (state by state), and then possibly nationally. Still difficult, but within the realm of possibility (unlike PR).
This deserves its own submission I think.
> Tech billionaires often seem more interested in surviving the apocalypse than preventing it.

- pretty much sums everything we observe today. And it's only getting worse, despite tech advancements. Great article.
Is there a way to lock documents in some way, so that direct formatting is disallowed and only styles work? Not that we could truly lock a document, but at least having some sort of header that lists allowed features, such that one would get a warning whenever they veered off course?
That's implied. If you're working with your tourist visa you're changing the purpose of your stay and thus lying regarding your visa declaration:

> Single-entry short-term stay visa for the purpose of Tourism (for a period of up to 90 days) (Note).

> [...]

> If you wish to visit Japan for other purposes or for a long-term stay, please submit your application to the Japanese Embassy, Consulate General or Consular office with jurisdiction over your place of residence.

https://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/visaonline.html
I agree that gerrymandering destroys the community advantage of geographic representation.

I generally follow a political philosophy that the larger the geography of the political body, the fewer laws they should make, and the less those laws should impact daily life of most individuals. For example, (in the USA) the Federal government shouldn't make as many laws as the State, and the laws they make should focus on Federal issues, like national defense and interstate commerce. States shouldn't make as many laws that impact daily life as the counties and cities do, etc. Likewise, more taxes should be levied and paid (as a proportion, not necessarily in aggregate) locally than nationally.
Chinese scientists make breakthrough in BCI-assisted rehabilitation trial
I would not suggest paying off a mortgage at that interest rate. Keep enough cash on hand to ensure you can service the debt, but that rate is a gift, a unicorn likely never to be seen again. Ride it to maturity.
Herbes or herpes?
> for up to six months while enjoying sightseeing trips, the agency said

Almost sounds like the sightseeing trips are part of the visa
> You think nobody's logged into their personal spotify on their work computer?

I don't think anyone thinks that. No one also thinks logging into a personal account on a device owned by someone else gives you any claim of ownership over it.

The computer belongs to the company. You will do what the company says you need to with their computer.
Whether he should have said it on moral grounds is one question, and whether it is indicative of handling part of the CEO's job very poorly is another. The CEO is the public face of a company - that is literally part of the job. He did this abysmally, and in many, many companies, it would be enough for a board to sack him. The CEO doesn't get a firewall between their personal life and work, or a pass for off work behaviour. They get paid to live it.

I work in diligence on medium stage companies and the acquirer wondering if they have to ditch some of the current exectutive is very common. (I know nothing about the ownership of YC mind you.)
I used Pandoc recently to convert a large Word document into markdown. It took a lot of babysitting and manual tweaking to get to the final result. Overall it probably still saved me time compared to doing the conversion manually, but only just. YMMV.