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Have you read the H.264 spec? 30k seems light to me

For Youtube, try invidious or yt-dlp

That’s even more cheating.

This can be done purely in shell, no extra tools!

Very cute. It would have been cooler as a shell alias for ssh.

Using node seems like cheating; plus you have to call it explicitly, you know you really want to use this to prank your colleague who left their laptop unlocked.

Many Vegas casinos have similar ventilation systems, it’s amazing to be near smokers and barely smell it.

see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_derailment

I was taught RICE which is:

Rest, Immobilization, Cold, Elevation

The article mentions a shift from ICE to RICE (which I’m aware of) and then another shift to PRICE, which I’m not aware of— anyone know what the P stands for?

> he very obviously made a mistake in compiling files of incriminating evidence on the rich and powerful

This strategy clearly seems to have worked well in some cases (Scientology, Hoover’s FBI).

Maybe you need a big institution engaging in the strategy, to obfuscate and diffuse the responsibility & blame?

> a "green" cow that can get energy from photosynthesis

Sun-fed beef?

“3 quarks in a proton” is an oversimplification; the reality involves “zillions” of particles, as per https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/largehadron...

Maybe we need to use 1024-bit types?

So true. This article accurately describes DS at many companies.

The preceding sentence is a hilariously cynical zinger:

“Those who have seen my Twitter posts know that I believe the role of the data scientist in a scenario of insane management is not to provide real, honest consultation, but to launder these insane ideas as having some sort of basis in objective reality even if they don’t.”

Curiosity forces me to push the limits of your acceptance of the morally abhorrent -- Are you OK with "sufficiently artsy" CSAM?

totally agree, and you can learn a lot from Snorri, but that doesn’t make what he says about ancient traditions actually true — best to add whatever the archaeology & other forensic science says and take the whole picture.

Some context -- Snorri has 500 years of dark-ages obscuring whatever he wants to say [1]. I am utterly unconvinced that what Snorri writes is what the original Vikings believed.

[1] The Prose Edda was written in the early 13th century; the earliest recorded Viking raids on Britain are late 8th century; original Viking culture/beliefs must be even older.

> I just want everything to be immutable unless mutability is really truly needed

Have you tried Rust? It’s nice in this regard; variables are immutable unless explicitly declared mutable.

I read a fun book that explored this possibility, “Kingdom of the Wicked” by Helen Dale.

In the story, the Romans have somehow stumbled upon the industrial revolution at the height of the republic, the consequences are fascinating. Very good read.

Some are meant to be noticed: mandated calorie counts on food menus (nudge to health eating), or dire warnings on cigarette packs (nudge to quit smoking). Neither of these have had any measurable impact on their goals; I welcome evidence to the contrary.

additionally notable— the melody the poem was ultimately set to: a tavern drinking song, To Anacreon in Heaven [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anacreontic_Song

Thank you Gina

Seconded! I’ve been curious about a self-hosted recommendation engine, I would love to see your implementation.

Actively evolving entry on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Shinzo_Abe

Not to mention, unless you’re into bodybuilding, trying to push anyone who weighs enough to derail a trolley will probably not work.

Or that’s one weak-ass trolley.

> Forcing all of your code to be GPL is like saying “I am on a diet, so now I will force everyone else be on the same diet. Freedom!”

This is a terrible analogy. Here’s a better one: I’m holding a potluck. If you decide to come, you can eat all you want. If you take food from my event, you can’t hoard it, you must share it, even if you’ve “made it better” by changing it somehow after you left.

Don’t like my rules? OK, don’t come to my potluck.

When I was first learning Rust, it was exactly this sort of lifetime issue that tripped me up and frustrated me, until I finally saw the light and understood how things work.

Yes, the article is overly technical and detailed, but it captures very well the eureka moment of understanding Rust’s memory management. Some aspects are subtle yet profound.

I am always happy to take a little more pain at code-writing and compile-time in exchange for more safety guarantees at run time; Rust is great in this regard.

https://librivox.org/ free public domain audiobooks

> I passed Con Law in law school, and it is.

Maybe after I take that course I’ll agree with you. I don’t think that’s a great option for most.

IANAL, but it’s not this simple.

Everywhere in the US, the law around Terry stops[1] applies. In fact every time the police “pull you over” on the road is a Terry stop.

In such a stop, mere “reasonable suspicion” is required for police to require you to identify yourself. You’re not required to present ID but you must tell them your name (you could lie, but that’s another crime). You can be arrested for refusing to identify yourself.

In order to determine if your are experiencing a Terry stop, ask the officer “Am I free to go?”, if the answer is no, ask “Why am I being detained?” and the officer should state his cause. If it’s not valid you won’t be able to fight it until after the encounter, possibly after you’ve already been arrested.

Egregious example: The infamous NYC “stop and frisk” policy[2] was essentially a massive Terry-stop program.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_stop

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...

(dons mad scientist hat)

Create a system like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31668814 for voting.

Voters remain anonymous yet can still verify their particular vote was counted correctly (and in fact that all votes are counted correctly)

You’d still want a paper trail.

Fantastic project.

Have you considered running (# of cpus) parallel scanners continuously? An inbound query “hops on” the the least-loaded scanner; at each article/chunk the scanner runs all the queries; each query “hops off” and returns after it has completed the cycle through the entire DB.

Receipts would not have mattered here.

The guilty parties were literally casting votes for people they knew would not show up.

It’s an identity issue, much harder, and with its own set of controversies.