skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We can detect which parts of your video do not include any speech, and could be cut off your video, saving you hours of editing to cut off silence and non-relevant content.

Please don't (over)do this. My brain can't handle a literal constant stream of speech. I've had to stop watching quite a number of videos about topics I was interested in because of this.

For example the 'Wired' YouTube channel. The 'tech support' videos look really fun, but I can't watch and listen to that for more than 30 seconds.

So I just do 'never recommend this channel again' on those.

Are more people like me in this regard, or is it just my brain?
Thirty recursive loops of LLMs perform better than one prompt? I should hope so!

But how much power does it need?
I think you are replying to the wrong person?

If I set my search engine to DDG and Firefox has a deal with Google, then my browser is going to change my search engine to Google? Of course not. When you install Firefox it defaults to Google. In the past when Firefox had a deal with Yahoo it defaulted to Yahoo.

Are you suggesting that is incorrect because all of that happened?
The problem with bikes is, in sf if a driver kills you, as long as they don't flee the scene, they'll be let off with a talking to or maybe a ticket. I don't know a single former coworker who regularly bikes who hasn't been at minimum doored.

45 minutes from mission and 24 to south park is about right if you use bart; see my timeline above.
We must have been using different Twitters? Can you link to these studies?
I don't see how that's reasonable. What I'm interested in is how likely crime is to happen to me, personally, not how likely any given crime will happen in some radius to me.
Did you… did you, ah, raise spiders on the family farm?
Intel and AMD "Serviced" and "Returned" % Rates from Largest Finnish PC Retailer
Since you're directly competing with Tailscale, you have to compare the websites. The landing pages and documentation are waaay nicer, IMHO.

I see the difference though. Tailscale goes with "secure this and that." It appears to attract people who don't already use a VPN, while you compare it straight to a VPN, which may be more enterprise crowd.

I'm not sure what your exact market is, but for a young startup at the very least, Tailscale marketing and UX appears a lot nicer.
You can get to San Jose on BART now but have to go all the way under and around the bay instead of directly south, so it’s not really worth it to go from SF to SJ using anything other than Caltrain.
No one company can be.
NetworkManager can read old style sysconfig network configuration, which is still used to this very day even if Red Hat wishes you wouldn't, and you really shouldn't.
This is only tangential, but Adam Gazzaley's The Distracted Mind (2016, MIT Press) provides an excellent anatomy of focus and attention, working memory, goal management and overall cognitive control, then places them in the context of modern technology to discuss how people can fight distraction.

https://www.amazon.com/Distracted-Mind-Ancient-Brains-High-T...

It's the first time I read someone properly explain all the parts and tasks involved in attentional control in the service of achieving goals.
I know this is a completely unimportant tangent. But I'm always amused that systemd skeptics insist on the "SystemD" spelling. Where does that come from? I never see anybody talk about NtpD, InetD or VsftpD. But somehow systemd needs to be SystemD. As I said, amusing.
I don’t understand your allegations against Proton VPN. They give data to federal agencies and they keep user data? When did they do that? Can you share any evidence of this?
I'm not OP, and not currently a sentry user (but I am a sentry fan. That said, my feelings here are the same for other MIT-like to BSL/Fair-source like transitions).

> I will then ask, do you think Sentry would have been able to get enough of a mass of users to justify getting the VC funding it did if it weren't a MITish licensed product in its early years?

I agree no they wouldn't, but I also think it's not realistic to look at the 2012 ecosystem from the lens of 2024. I'd wager that you'd find it very hard to get VC funding if you had an MIT licensed SAAS in 2024 that could be "jeff'ed". The reality is that Sentry's model worked for the first 6-7 years of it's life, and whether or not it would have survived the competition is something we'll never know.
This should have the full title: Microsoft Encourages Employee Donations to Illegal West Bank Settlements, While Barring UNRWA

This is absolutely disgusting on the part of MS.
I think it is worse than that. When I make a change to some code or config, I'll run it locally to make sure that the change has the effect that I want. I know that we are human and that bugs occasionally appear in code. But what I can't understand is that the human who initiated this change decided not to see if it actually did what they wanted it to do.

I've made changes on personal projects that I thought were simple, and yet broke stuff. But CrowdStrike is a multi-billion dollar company -- how can it be possible to have such a broken process. Their RCA document was interesting, but didn't cover any of the interesting issues. It seems that they don't know about the 5 Whys process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys) or decided that those answers were so embarrassing that they had to omit them.
What happened was an unwinding of Japanese yen interest rate arbitraging. The party of one of the last remaining sources of cheap cash went away, and a bunch of fragile investment theses collapsed in other markets around the globe.

I think MAANG has much more value to lose and are probably headed for more rounds of layoffs. NVDA and SMCI are still way overvalued.
It's just a very American-centric sentiment, because here in the states, that's true.
Wait is there a CLI mode? What if I want a simple rtmp/srt -> webrtc bridge on a "headless" device?
I suggest you try Fleak, Langflow, and LangChain to compare. Neither Langflow nor LangChain are simple options, and they are more geared towards chatbot use cases.
Also, it likely worked better before cars became popular. In Dublin, at peak, in 1928, we had 23 tram lines. By 1949 they were all gone. Today we have two to four, depending on how you count them (some branching is involved), but they were only built 20 years ago.

What happened to the old ones? They were largely replaced with buses. Some of Dublin’s bus lines _still_ follow the path of tramlines from a century ago. And the thing is, _at the time_, this kind of worked. Not many people had cars in 1928. There was no significant traffic, and the buses operated about as fast as the trams, and were cheaper to maintain (and the trams from a century ago weren’t the 400 person capacity monsters you get now; they were similar capacity to buses). A few decades later, when traffic picked up and suddenly the buses weren’t so fine, the tram infra was all gone, and it was far too late to go back.
California's news industry is shrinking while misinformation spreads
Ask HN: What credentials have you gotten for fun?
I'm particularly interested in non-technical or niche credentials, but anything folks are interested in is cool.
hahaha well Kubernetes is the opposite of a special shuttle that keeps on flying. It crashes all the time, version updates etc. If you want stability go to apache or nginx.
Relatable!!
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> Do you really believe you can conclude this from your personal observations?

Yes, because none of the retailers have been willing to cough up data.

If the data supported that shoplifting is a problem and that locking things up helped, the companies would be trumpeting the data. There was a very recent article that nobody, not even the main retailers trade association, seems to know if locking things up is actually improving the situation or not.

The primary hypothesis seems to be that employee theft is the real issue and no retailer wants to admit it because it opens up a whole host of issues that are all solved with "pay money". (ie. Why aren't they paying their employees more? Why aren't they prosecuting these thefts? etc.)
// KEEP THE SPACE SHUTTLE FLYING.

I understand the intent, but it is a bit funny that the comment references a system that is no longer operational due to its poor safety record.

In ten years or so, will people even remember the Space Shuttle in a good light?
Not ideal, but far better than supporting the current crazies on Twitter. It's basically a right-wing echo chamber with Musk leading the way pushing conspiracy theories and misinformation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/search/?q=right+wing&type=l...
I tried to link directly to these lines, but hn's url sanitizer stripped off the anchor tags.
I love YC and how generous they are with their knowledge and tools. Never did it and wont be applying but just wanted to say that the Dalton + Michael videos make me calm somehow. Not sure why.
Rent-setting as you mention came to my mind immediately as well. Planet money has a good piece on a related topic https://www.npr.org/2023/02/06/1154775118/ice-cream-ben-jerr... .

This stuff really opened my eyes to the idea that old-school conceptions of things like collusion, and even classic game theoretic ideas of perfect and complete information, all seem to need radical updates for the tightly connected and algorithmic times and economies that we live in.

It seems almost unavoidable that all markets are generally going to move towards both complete and perfect information. We see that this is still somewhat asymmetric, because sellers are more organized because they have more capital, and they can generally afford to hold rather than sell whenever they don't like the market. But in the limit, buyers do catch up a bit, because at least they can browse lots of listings for stuff like housing. Meanwhile in the labor market, the (mostly American) taboo against discussing compensation with coworkers is slowly going away, and there's stuff like glassdoor, and laws that require stating some kind of range for compensation, etc. In terms of cards on the table, people generally can't keep secrets, since we need to account for practically every expense over 10k. Corporations might have an easier time in some cases, but large organizations leak, so I doubt whether they can really hide the fact that they are ramping up for a new chip factory or whatever. So getting a fair price for anything seems likely to get harder, and prices for everything go up.

I'm not versed enough in the topics to really even articulate a good question here, but particularly with more things being algorithmically determined more of the time, perhaps open information is not as good for markets as we thought. Even the relatively straightforward classical idea of a monopoly is starting to feel dated, because if I can own only 10% of 10 key industries and use that to meltdown the whole economy because of the interconnectedness, then focusing on monopolies has little effect on market stability and consumer choice anyway.

Back to the topic of collusion though, maybe the simplest thing is to remove the idea of intent when this stuff is getting litigated. Do we even care that collusion should be some kind of conspiracy with intent? Or do we just dislike the effects and so we want it to never happen? Because in the future human "intent" is going to continue to disappear completely while everyone says "look, the computers decided". There's no cigar-smoking cabal planning stuff in dark rooms anymore because those guys are out golfing. No email chain with a smoking gun, because all that stuff is itself an inefficiency that profit-optimizing algorithms will increasingly be working around.
Probably because they saw what happened with Apple TV (the device), Apple TV+ (the service) and TV (the app).

That's a whole headache I think Google is (wisely) trying to avoid here...
This. Most times its no response or a form letter. Any type of warm blooded response is a valuable signal, even if it's not one you like.
It's a voluntary experiment on a website. It's not that serious.
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I'll start. So far I've gotten my Wilderness First Aid and Wilderness First Responder certification.

I've looked into getting CEFR certification in German or studying for the HSK (Mandarin), but haven't put my money where my mouth is yet.
Anthropic doesn't offer embeddings.
Yeah but that's hugely wasteful of tokens.
This seems really last minute. 3 weeks to submit your application? Was this thing planned over the weekend?

Kind of a shit time to be away from family or school. Lots of stuff happens between September and December.
Surely it is good practise to always try to offer comfort and support, and to listen, no matter who you are talking to or whether they are in a more inner ring than you? Obviously we don't always have the mental space to do so, but it doesn't quite sit right with me to say "these people are allowed to moan as much as they want". It feels like an arbitrary social more.
Well over 100 successful missions carrying a bunch of people and gear up into outer space and then bringing them back home.

I hold it in a good light now, and will likely continue to feel that way. As far as human progress and net good, it was a success.
You can easily hide (mute) posts with certain words. I have posts with Musk or Elon hidden because it can be excessive. Problem solved.

https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/threads-finally-lets-...
To me it's still useful but I exclusively read it through lists. That way it's always chronological and only consists of tweets from selected accounts and retweets from other (usually interesting) people.
... that is what I said. Good experience, not scalable.

However, transit advocates need to realize that the experience of individual users _does_ matter.
It’s not cost effective at all unless you can boost density by several times. An order of magnitude will often do it.
Not really, usage is down from before he bought it.
Main reason it is, as it is, and is usually not seen in any other languages is that go does not has operator functions for variable fallbacks and logical error handling.
But overall this helps in improving performance of application(on a large scale).
If you think Crowdstrike and Cloudflare are not political actors used to take down undesired speech and speakers, remember Kiwifarms and Russiagate. https://yandex.com/search?text=bill+binney+crowdstrike
> If you're claiming Marbury v. Madison to be wrong... well, that was an unexpected twist and I must say I've totally misread your comment.

It's not so much that Marbury v. Madison is wrong, though I do believe that. It's more that it began the transformation of the Supreme Court into being the go-to way of amending the Constitution. It's just that this particular Court is unusually shameless about it. And their decisions are removing rights, as opposed to decisions like Miranda v. Arizona, or Gideon v. Wainwright.

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Judicial Review for Constitutionality has no bearing in the Constitution. And while it can be argued that it's mentioned within the Federalist Papers, those are not law. The Declaration of Independence is also an extremely important document in US history, but that doesn't grant a legal right to secede, much to Texas' chagrin.

The Constitution says shockingly little about the judiciary in general. Using the National Constitution Centre, Article 3 has 377 words, whereas Article 2 (executive) has 1025 words, and Article 1 (Congress) has 2297 words. And since the Constitution was written to only grant as much power as was considered necessary, unless those 377 words grant carte blanche to the judiciary (they don't), then one might expect the judiciary to be the most restrained branch of the three; its enumerated powers are very few indeed.

Instead, the Supreme Court has arguably become the most powerful branch of government due to its self-proclaimed stewardship of the Constitution. What can the other branches do to reign the Supreme Court in? And I mean in real-terms, not theoretical ability with a politically-harmonious Congress. The honest answer is little to nothing, that the only real solution is a Constitutional Convention, which is unprecedented as none of the 27 (or 18 depending on how you choose to count) Amendments were passed that way.

If the Supreme Court never came to believe that they were stewards of the Constitution, this decision would've never happened. Firstly because there'd be little point or interest in making political appointments to a Court with comparatively little power, so you wouldn't have a bunch of Federalist Society minions on the bench. But secondly, such a Court would feel extremely uneasy about overturning Chevron exactly because it upends the legal framework that Congress and the executive have been willingly operating under for the past several decades.
Bingo, at this point, any social media company welcomes engagement, even if inauthentic.
This is very cool! We've been exploring the idea of software simulation with what we're building (CodeYam) but I hadn't really thought a ton about applying simulation to find the Nash equilibria / for game theory. Nicely done!
You really don't see how that's reasonable?

People want to feel safe. Having high crime nearby makes people feel unsafe, even if it's just drug dealers and gangs beefing with each other that likely don't care about you.
I just learned about HTTP/3 a few days ago. In Belarus I am having problems opening any site that uses cloudflare (e.g. qbittorrent.org, openstreetmap.org) beginning just about the time russia started messing with youtube. The solution for now is to set network.http.http3.enable to false in Firefox.
I feel like I've read this exact comment before on another "Apply to YC!" thread.

So I went through and applied for the first time, and honestly, I felt like a lot of the questions were very obvious? Could be because I come from a finance / business background vs. a CS background, but I was shocked that people would consider these questions non-obvious.

Hopefully this doesn't come off as arrogant. If it helps, I was rejected from YC, so perhaps I hadn't thought through the questions enough!
Everyone knows what "ChatGPT" is, and its becoming to AI what "Google" is to search.

Speaking of Gemini, I can't really remember the last time Google launched a successful product. Why bother using and depending on it when you know it will be replaced by another product within a year.
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You don’t anyone will use it to contribute to open source projects?

Seems like an obvious net gain for the community.
You mean 14 years later?

(2020)

Discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23204666
Related article on Space Shuttle Software Quality [0]

Excerpt: "But how much work the software does is not what makes it remarkable. What makes it remarkable is how well the software works. This software never crashes. It never needs to be re-booted. This software is bug-free. It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved. Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program — each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors."

[0] https://archive.is/HX7n4
HN doesn't like Threads bc it's generally pro-Musk. But it's having lots of momentum since June. Lots of steady features.
That's not really how the SF presence developed historically but I admire your confidence
I don't know, the residential neighborhoods of SF are the perfect place to raise a family if you make tech money: dense enough that there is a ton of stuff to do and your kid knows other kid nearby, low density enough that you get 1500-2500sqft to yourself.
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So, in order to reduce airplanes environmental impact, your plan is to increase it first by putting more airplanes in the sky?

Sounds like some wicked variation of Jevon's paradox.
As I recall from school, your lead suit would need to be more than 3 lightyears thick to make the chance of a neutrino (that was already heading towards you) going through you fall to 50%.
dang, I appreciate the long winded explanation and how you took control over this. Not just for being on my side, but that's exactly what people are missing when it comes to HN posting.
They somehow pulled the hammer on me because I included my age in the title (which makes 40% of the case to my project).
Everything i wrote here is original, and almost all of the feedback is seemingly positive/constructive for the good.

I get the feeling that if I didn't include my age (which, again it's the main thing) this submission wouldn't have received much attention. big thanks to learning copywriting beforehand.

Small clarification: I eat haters for a living.
Thanks, I'll keep on improving. Also what do you think about a paid version where AI is integrated? So imagine each paper having an AI generated image cover, the summaries being more descriptive, and you can also converse with the ai to explain specific words/concepts right in the app. Do you think people would pay for it?
And, presumably, the big chains agreed to longer term leases in order to get into the space. At this point, the landlords have zero possibility of getting the same rent so they're certainly not going to allow these leases to be bought out or sublet.

The solution, as always, is a vacancy tax. The problem here is that these drugstores may very well still be paying rent which makes defining "vacant" a bit difficult.
I mean, the EU is 27 small countries barely even bothering to wear the trenchcoat. It is not like the EU has some sort of integrated transport policy, except in the vaguest terms; every country does its own, and they’re often quite different. In many countries it even varies quite a lot between cities.
For a long while, I've been helping people diagnose problems with 3D printers and one of the things that stands out to me is how often people throw away bad prints while they're troubleshooting.

One of the first things I ask someone now is to give me their test prints for the last few changes they've made and what they changed, if they remember. Nine times out of ten, just looking at other factors, I've been able to pinpoint what's wrong.

Interestingly, this has also led me to a few "is it turned on" questions, the first of which is "when is the last time you tightened all the bolts that should be tight and loosened the bolts that should be loose?" The simple act of making sure tight things are square and tight has resolved many an unrelated problem because it makes you check so many different parts of the machine.

This also correlates with one of the takeaways from the old Computerworld column called Shark Tank. The most common aspect of the solution was to simply go and observe the failure, because so often it was an unaccounted for externality -- such as a cleaning crew unplugging something at 2AM when a system would "mysteriously" go down.
Not the case with the main Google SF office (except now some buildings are indeed the results of acquisitions) but definitely for San Bruno and varied for the other ones.
Wasn't a poor safety record whut killed the shuttle. It was the cost, and anticipation of degraded safety, in the future.

Even though more astronauts died, because of the two shuttle accidents, than any other NASA disaster, the safety record was absolutely amazing, when we consider everything that was going on.

The code seems damn good code.
San Francisco has really really good playgrounds, it's quite crazy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240805222516/https://www.natio...
I recall that someone made a compilation image showing the gradual progression from an obviously offset box (with a different design and solid colored background) to a design that's virtually identical to a search result other than the "Sponsored" label. Of course, I can't find it because search engines are garbage now.