skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using FFMPEG for 15+ years, and still can't remember almost any commands. LLMs have been amazing for using FFMPEG though. ChatGPT and Claude do wonders with "give me an ffmpeg command that will remux a video into mkv, include subtitle.srt in the file, and I only want it between 0:00:05 and 0:01:00." It produced this in case you were wondering: `ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i subtitle.srt -ss 00:00:05 -to 00:01:00 -map 0 -map 1 -c copy -c:s mov_text output.mkv`

I wonder how small of an LLM you could develop if you only wanted to target creating ffmpeg commands. Perhaps it could be small enough to be hosted on a static webpage where it is run locally?
This has been submitted, like, five times already over the past 5 weeks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=modal.com
Yeah, no worries. I'm stable for now, just not full time stable. I just gotta survive until the market bounces back.

I work in games so I was pre-programmed far in advance to expect shakey times. Just not times where I'm ghosted for over a year with no sign of anything opening up (quite the contrary, still plenty of gaming layoffs!).
The complete corruption/co-opting of reviews / star-rating systems (e.g., like Amazon's) means we need more articles like this every single year. Ideally, enough that someone could even aggregate said articles.
kudos do you even just for sticking with it for that long, but I know it's well loved
How does anyone know when someone else is right on moral issues?
Thank you for the honest answer. It is a definitive show-stopper for me to continue using your service considering how much access you will accumulate in your database - I am sure your current setup is technically more secure than any enterprise solution - however - considering my notes and remarkable are sensitive information, and contain (c) documents I cannot risk it.

I think remarkable should consider opening/widening their API.

have you investigating using the browser extension/word/ppt "send to remarkable" API?

if you have a patreon or community I'd love to support because the idea is great!
It's okay to be "the bad guy". They're your kids, not your friends. Too many parents want to be buddies with their kids these days. That's just setting everyone up for failure.

My wife and I have a loving relationship with our kids but they are quite clear on the fact that we are not equals. The distinction will lessen as they reach adulthood and prove their responsibility.
Software jobs are more plentiful, sure, but you’re discounting the extremely high quantity of EE/CE jobs available at semiconductor companies (Intel, AMD, and many smaller ones) and companies like Apple. They don’t pay as well, but they can pay quite good over time and tend to be more stable than software jobs.
Ah, I've just stumbled on some hints after clicking around.. click on your avatar image (top right) and then click "Tasks"

Then there are some UI hints.

"Remind me of your mom's birthday on [X] date"

Wow, really maximising that $10bn GPU investment!
As I understand, L2ARC doesn't work across reboots which unfortunately makes it almost useless for systems that get rebooted regularly, like desktops.
Co-signing. Encode time was faster with nvenc, but quality was noticeably worse even to my untrained eye.
It's interesting that the name Linken Sphere comes from the DotA game. It's a piece of equipment that when equipped blocks one harmful spell from hitting your character. The analogy seems fit the anti-tracking as well, by preventing you from being tracked.
>Just as, for example, if a business decided (if it was legal) to only allow people of a certain race to enter, I would like to think that most members of that race would be disgusted enough to boycott that business and the business will rightly fail.

We literally have federal laws outlawing this because it was, in fact, a selling point to exclude other races. Are you unaware of the history, or just hoping that racism has successfully been ended in the United States?
> My take is: flakes don’t align with centralised nixpkgs and ultimately don’t solve any problems that can’t be solved without flakes.

I've turned to flakes to specifically solve some problems, and flaked solved them. To this day, flakes are still the only way to solve them.

Flakes aren't default due to political reasons.
I don't drink, so I have no opinion on champagne, and I don't use Campsite, so I don't have any opinion on whether the license is reasonable for what it offers. All I know is that the words "open source" and "source available" would look and sound basically synonymous in pretty much any other context, and the common consensus that one of them apparently means something much more prescriptive will never make sense to me from a linguistic perspective.
I will say that once I found out about Flakes it bothered me a lot less. I find them a lot easier to test and it's nice to be able to easily define a custom little environment for them and then just do `nix run` afterwards.

It's been especially useful to be able to specify exact versions of wine and winetricks installs on a per-game basis.
Everyone who doesn't see this sign is also going to die
I enjoy writing tools.

How do you feel about Kubernetes?

It would be good to have some interesting tasks to do?

I think the tools should do also much of the work. I actually prefer batch systems that are a simple execution of a program against a dump which are just process all the data and generate data with the new states than a networked online system that breaks all the time and due to DNS

Micro services keep me awake but a simple CSV processing I can fix in my own time.
In the UK, taxes are abnormally high in the 100k-125k band.
Just put on the Android in the EU, starts in English, asks for hobbies and plays an endless stream of bilingual heart warming welcome videos for the American friends.
Sure, but if it becomes ubiquitous, web devs will assume lower latency. That wouldn't make it less sad, just makes different people sad - my first guesses are those at crowded areas with overloaded cellular connections, and Australians.
I really like Nix but recently I ended up in a very tricky situation:

If you you are cut from the internet or end up with a very slow connection you can end up totally blocked. As a minor configuration change can require you to download a lot of data.

I also found out there is not much you can do to protect you from this.
I'm a EE and had no problem finding a job and neither did any of my classmates in my EE program (early 2010s). I also didn't exactly go to anything approaching MIT, but it was an engineering school and I had a decent GPA. Particularly, there are a lot of well paying jobs in power systems with good work life balance. We have an energy transition going on, so that helps. Having an internship probably helped me too. I acknowledge that things might have broadly changed.
The beta is inconsistently showing (required a few refreshes to get something to show up), but my limited usage of it showed a plethora of issues:

- Assumed UTC instead of EST. Corrected it and it still continued to bork

- Added random time deltas to my asked times (+2, -10 min).

- Couple notifications didn't go off at all

- The one that did go off didn't provide a push notification.

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On top of that, only usable without search mode. In search mode, it was totally confused and gave me a Forbes article.

Seems half baked to me.

Doing scheduled research behind the scenes or sending a push notification to my phone would be cool, but surprised they thought this was OK for a public beta.
The phones don't make the people use them more or less. People choose different phones based on their inherent usage patterns.
As clickbait goes it's not even that bad. It's quite informative/entertaining.
Mastodon has a good track record so I'm going to give them some benefit of the doubt.
Visit Germany. The right stretch of Autobahn at the right time and you can still experience this. I just did two days ago.
They do hermetic builds so that it is viable at large scale via granular caching. They were made to make that work at those scales, with pretty much zero consideration for any external package managers or anything like that
Anyone know where there any installations of these signs?
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The jobs needed for chip manufacturing aren’t primarily EE. It’s largely chemical engineering with specializations related to semiconductor tech. EEs use the tools developed by fabs to make their products, but those are typically separate companies (or, in the case of in-house fabs like Intel, basically run as separate companies).
Fascinating, it didn't occur to me quality could take a hit, I thought the flag merely meant "perform h264 encoding over here"

Edit: relevant docs from ffmpeg, they back up your perception, and now I'm left to wonder how much I want to learn about profiles in order to cut up these videos. I suppose I'll run an overnight job to reencode them from Avi to h264 at high quality, and make sure the scene detect script is only doing copys, not reencoding, since that's the part I'm doing interactively, there's no real reason I should be sitting at the computer while its transcoding.

Hardware encoders typically generate output of significantly lower quality than good software encoders like x264, but are generally faster and do not use much CPU resource. (That is, they require a higher bitrate to make output with the same perceptual quality, or they make output with a lower perceptual quality at the same bitrate.)

[0] https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro
H.R.25 – Repeal income tax and abolish the Internal Revenue Service
Yeah, I just thought "Food sources are animal products" might be an inaccurate characterization.

As far as the link to diet goes, I'm not an expert but look at pretty much every report with suspicion unless there is a lot of independent confirmation.

From the outside "meta-analysis" seems like fishing for signal and then jumping on results as causal. But I honestly don't know if these things proceed via scientific method (I have a theory, I've devised this test, etc) or are digging up possible relations between data and then making a story to match whatever pops up.
You don't get to just ignore laws because they cut into your profit margin.
More like voters are on average more likely to be drivers than pedestrians, so politicians favor drivers. In my experience this is even more true for poor voters as they generally can’t afford to live in walkable areas.
Which parts of that quote don't align with the actual policy proposals?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#Policies
DateTime stuff is generally super annoying to debug. Can't fault them too badly. Adding a scheduler is a key enabling idea for a ton of use cases
The one case where I find ads useful, when word of mouth isn't an option, is in a static image on a site (review site, blog, whatever) where I'm researching a thing. The ad would be related to that thing, doesn't need to know a thing about me other than I'm browsing that page, and is related to the content on that page. I click on those ads sometimes.
While I cherish other kinds of videos, I too have noticed smaller creators getting recommended, and few large ones. Perhaps because most of the channels I subscribe to are smaller channels?
Hey, this is the dev for Subway Stories! Can't believe I just saw this thread.

The site is back up now. Thanks so much to anyone who left a kind word, and my apologies for the downtime. Ironically, some server-side logic that was supposed to make sure I don't run up a huge Mapbox bill got into an unexpected state somehow.

If folks are curious about how it was built, maybe I'll write up a blog post. I also want to take this opportunity to plug our talk at the NY Transit Museum next week! It's not too late to get tickets here: https://www.nytransitmuseum.org/program/opendata/
I don't know how to compute with marbles without mass and stopping. Marble computers I've seen rely on gravity and friction, though I'd love to see one that didn't.
and i guess includes other possibilities than numbers, like 'f' which could lead to four or five. There's probably a separate probability for 'fi' and 'fo' too.
Excellent! Keep up the great work.
I'm having a blast playing with Glicol. Thanks for posting it.

Any aspirations to add more song-level concepts like arrangement, chord progression, and/or semantic meaning? Right now it excels at creating short loops but I'm not seeing a good way to get a sense of movement and purpose (short of hand-coding everything)
The events leading to their installation never happened, so I'd assume nowhere.
It's not cargo culting. Deterministic Simulation Testing has been the standard for silicon verification practically forever (though it isn't called that because nobody does anything else).

Applying it to software is a logical step if you want similar levels of quality assurance.

Do you need that level of assurance for a database? Probably not in most cases. But I think it's a reasonable thing to mention on a post that is touting database reliability, especially because there are real databases that do use it.
A fairly clear hierarchy emerges with enough experience, I think, but I don't know if there's explicit consensus about it of the kind that could make its way into documentation. Here are the rules of thumb, though (in a kind of priority order):

0. If you're new and on the fence about using flakes, go ahead. (If you know you don't want them, fine.)

1. Prefer declarative installation to imperative installation.

2. If a module exists, prefer using it to configure a package to just adding that package to a list of installed packages.

3. 'Native' packages are better than 'alien' packages.

3a. Packaged for Nix is better than managed externally. (I.e., prefer that programs live in the Nix store rather than Flatpak or Homebrew.)

3b. Prefer packages built from source to packages carved out of foreign binaries.

4. Prefer to just rely on Nixpkgs for things that are already in Nixpkgs; only bother with other sources of Nix code (likely distributed as 'flakes') if you know you need them.

5. Prefer smaller installation scopes to larger installation scopes— when installing a package, go with the first of these that will work: per-session (i.e., ephemeral dev env) -> per-user -> system-wide).

6. Prefer Nixlang to not-Nixlang (YAML, JSON, TOML, whatever).

7. If you're not sure, go for it.

If you follow these guidelines you'll make reasonable choices and likely have a decent time. The most important rule is #1, so once you know your OS, your task is to make sure you have at least one module system available to you. (On NixOS, that's NixOS and optionally Home Manager. On other Linux, that's Home Manager. On macOS, that's Home Manager and/or Nix-Darwin.)

After that, everything can find its natural place according to the constraints above. If you need to break or relax a rule, it'll be obvious.

Inevitably you'll end up with things installed in a handful of ways and places, but you'll know why each thing belongs where it is, and you can leave yourself a note with a '#' character anywhere that you think a reminder might be useful. :)
What a great find! I'll definitely be thinking through where this is appropriate to use.
>Given that single user instances are largely nonviable due to the abundance of blocking in the 'verse

Yeah, that's nonsense. I've been running my own single-user instance since 2018 and server blocks by other instance administrators have never caused any problems for my use of the Fediverse.

I also follow a bunch of other people who run their own and never see any comments suggesting it's a problem for them either.
To the vast majority of Americans it unfortunately is.
You think an 'off' button is not used by 'common users' and is restricted to audiophiles?

This is also solved by using $8 earbuds and not shoving overhyped $200 hazelnuts into your ears.
Oh, I like formalising things, don't get me wrong, and I don't mind spending time on it at all. I just don't like doing it via types, and looking at how much time you spent on what, I rest my case.
It's not government owned and operated. It's just on government land.
Yeah, I am flabbergasted that anyone can claim flakes don't solve problems. And yet, every SINGLE WEEK some newcomer gets tripped up on channels, managing them, realizing the root's channels are different than users, realizing their channels are out of sync on their multiple machines, no posting their channel revision when they solicit help. Not to mention pure eval. Not to mention transitive dependency overriding.
> From a documentation, examples, accessibility, tooling, and number of people you can get help from, JS wins

Maybe as a general purpose language, but for this specific comparison (extending editors). Elisp and Emacs wins. Vimscript is not the best plugin language, but the interation process is way better than VSC.
This is a rather capitalistic and self-centered way to think about pricing. Under our current paradigms, a "fully optimized system" would behave in the way you described, but I would argue that it is optimizing for the wrong things (same as the larger system). To me, a "fully optimized system" would be one that is capable of providing products & services at an equal price to all people. It wouldn't care about who can afford to pay more because it doesn't require the additional profit. Instead, it is efficient at a predictable and stable price point.

Those who politically advocate for "equality of opportunity" should favor a future where this is how things work, not one where everyone ends up with $0 spending money. In fact, the latter is exactly the opposite – equality of outcome.
There were volunteers even in Chernobyl. (Not-really volunteers as well)
Okay, this made me curious if there was a technical solution to this that people could be providing using the existing tools available, and I think there is.

RDAP and WHOIS will return the creation date of a domain. These fields are controlled by the registrar not the registrant. That creation/registration date gets reset when the domain is lapsed and picked up by somebody new.

So, when doing any domain-name-based authentication (like email password resets) authenticators should look up the registration date of the domain name. If it's newer than the last time the user logged in using the domain name auth? That might be somebody who snatched the domain name.
> Left strategy has been terrible for years. That's one of the consequences of the Woke movement. Far too much political capital was expended on niche issues. Gays are 3% of the US population. Trans are 0.3% of the US population. Can't win an election catering to those groups.

This isn't the left's strategy. It's the right's. The right targets these small groups because they know we won't let them be attacked. We will push back. It makes it very easy to paint the left as trying to cater to LGBT folk, but that's nonsense that only sells to those completely out of the loop. Which is unfortunately most of the US electorate. And it's not about it being a strategy. It's about being an ally against bigotry. It takes a really fucked up person to abandon millions of people to increased discrimination because you think it'll help your polling with middle America.
That is still the case and no where else is even close.

https://www.statista.com/chart/30815/top-destination-countri...

https://news.gallup.com/poll/468218/nearly-900-million-world...
You don't. I have a baby and a teenager and the teenager is pretty mind-rotted even tho mild restrictions were in place. Kids don't exist in a vacuum and you will only have strong influence over them until they turn 12 or so in my experience. The environment they are in matters a lot. Other kids, etc.. I am very worried about the future of my baby. My main concern is that he'll have a hard time being useful since automation looks like it'll do everything soon enough. Purposeless people are not good.
Homeschooling without a ton of extracurriculars with interaction with children their age makes your kids weird. It completely stunts their ability to socialize.

I did fencing as a kid. It was basically a 50/50 split between homeschooled kids and private school kids. It was immediately obvious which were which, and the friend groups that formed were made almost exclusively of the private school kids and the smattering of public school kids.

If you're restricting your children's social life sufficiently to avoid peer pressure, you're causing irreparable harm.
I love what Foam is/was doing. Unfortunately the project looks dead..
You are right about welfare. Less on infrastructure and housing.

in 2024, the US Fed collected 4.9 Trillion in taxes and spent 3.8 trillion (78% of revenue) on the following programs: Social security, Medicare, health, and income payments like disability.

It also had 1.8 Trillion dollars of deficit spending, bringing the total to 6.7 trillion with welfare taking up (57% of total spending). The fed spent 0.9 trillion (13%) paying interest.

Education and Infrastructure (e.g. transportation) are 3% and 2% of spending, respectively.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
Yes, this. I also use a service to capture all emails (catch all) so that I can detect any loose ends that might have been overlooked. Services like ForwardMX or Cloudflare can do this for you at relatively low (or no) cost.
There's no penalty if they get it wrong and kill someone.

No exec that killed the spending on better/more sensors for more profit will be punished, certainly not jail.

No coder or their manager that missed any bug will be punished or go to jail.

So why would they even worry about it? One less thing.
Every time I see a linux installation with a mess in /opt because it's faster than making a package, I get annoyed.
Iirc, this is because the network access required to control the speakers could be used to determine your location. So it is really the OS that is letting you know what you’re risking, not the app requesting too much.
High-quality knives come from proper metallurgy, especially as it relates to proper hardening steps. If you don't get these things exactly right, the best machining on earth is not going to produce even mediocre knives.
Maybe it's time you switch to a trackball.
Isn't this trivially broken? I can't use a VPN, but if I log into a shell at Amsterdam and run the program there (say, Firefox in a remote X Windows context), then all the code they might need will execute there. If any user interaction is needed, this can be pre-scripted.
That’s where the stop lights are.
What am I supposed to see at the link?
It depends where in Germany. Many parts of Autobahn have local speed regulations.
Same here, it's one of these things where AI has taken over completely and I'm just a broker that copy-pastes error traces.