skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just went through this in the last year at my current job. Each conference room had a Mac mini with a keyboard attached and sometimes people used zoom, sometimes gotomeeting, sometimes hangouts. If you wanted to share a screen locally, it involved changing inputs on the TV and making sure you have an HDMI cable with the right dongle. As a result, the rooms were a mess.

Inevitably, it always took some kind of effort to get connected to the correct system and the meeting started.

After evaluating a few options, we’ve moved to zoom rooms. Our sales team was already using zoom and it was an easy decision to roll out zoom to everyone. In my opinion, it was best to have one way and only one way have a meeting. It’s paid off, because it’s now effortless and default. We're really happy with it.

The zoom room setup requires an iPad controller and a Mac or PC to run the zoom software. Everything is setup in kiosk mode and even on reboot, zoom automatically starts up. I don’t even keep keyboards in the rooms because there’s no reason to touch anything but the iPad controller (which is also in kiosk mode so you can't accidentally close the zoom software).

For sharing a screen locally it's done wirelessly and it’s as simple as clicking “share screen” and most of the time it picks up what room you’re in and starts sharing your screen (if not, you just type in the sharing code). No more looking for a cable and dongle. It's pretty cool to be across the room from the TV and be able to share your screen without friction.

We have 15 zoom rooms now in all of our office globally (New Orleans, Austin, Cairo).

We do dual-monitor setups in almost all of conference rooms, save for the smaller huddle rooms. In our new office, I did a 3 monitor setup for a large conference room. To be able to see faces and content being shared is great. Product/dev teams love it particularly because it's easy to review specs or code and see the face of the person you're talking to.

Mentioned elsewhere in this thread, we use Owls (owllabs.com) and have 8 of them in use globally. The team loves them. Particularly for cross-cultural conversations it’s helpful that the camera is in the center of the table and you can see the speaker’s face (vs. being a fly on the wall).

For microphones, we like the VTech VCS704 ErisStation with wireless mics. It’s trained everyone to think to grab a mic before beginning to speak. We put a pricey, high quality MXL AC-360-Z in our new conference room and I think I’m going to switch to a Vtech. There’s just something about the act of grabbing a mic and putting it right in front of your face. People tend to talk with a laptop in front of them, or hands in front of their face, or from the end of the room. There’s something about having a physical object that makes people stop and grab one before speaking. It’s made me think that microphone sound isn’t a tech problem so much as it is a people problem.

This is not my primary job but something I took on. Happy to answer any questions or provide more details about our setup.
By a huge margin! And putting together that beginner course only took me a couple of months working in my spare time, and recording it only took a couple of days in O'Reilly's studio.

I still edit my friend's programming books, but I sure don't do it for the money.
Tensorflow support on AMD is supposedly not awful anymore.
https://medium.com/tensorflow/amd-rocm-gpu-support-for-tenso...

I wish someone who had >actual< practical experience in the domain would comment.

It's an important question.
Although autostereogram is fun, an additional anaglyph mode (red-cyan) might be nice for people who have trouble with such images.
According to the timeline of events in The Fine Article, this story only exists because someone cared. At many companies the story would end at "one diff reviewer noticed passwords getting logged in one diff". All of the numbers in this story come from an internal investigation to see where else they're making the same mistake, _so they stop doing that_. That's not what you do if you don't care.
Have you seen the commuter trains in some larger European cities, like London, Paris, Brussels (I think)...?

People sometimes aren't just stacked, they're squashed.
This is the real reason. Heck even real drugs were less appealing to the rush I got completing a raid with my clan back in the day in WoW.
Yay government-run train service.
I take the train cross-country whenever I can. I enjoy it. I enjoy the people, I enjoy the views. All the positive aspects mentioned in the article are 100% true.

But I can't help but feel that this author wants to dislike trains. He wants everyone to understand how awful and slow it is. And they went into this story with a chip on their shoulder, and were disappointed to find that the trip had value.

But the trains aren't just about cross-country travel. They travel through small towns where people rely on them for trips to larger cities. If you live in Mount Pleasant, IA, you can take the train into Chicago just as fast, and far easier, than driving. Want to go from Salt Lake to Denver in a blizzard? Trains will take twice as long as driving but you can sit there and safely watch snow-capped peaks go by instead of worrying about driving your car off the edge of a mountainside. Pick any 2-6 hours train trip on the map, and those are the majority of passengers on Amtrak. And I have frequently run into retired people heading to Iowa to pick up RVs, because Winnebago contracts delivery of RVs out, and it is a nice part-time job to get a one-way train ticket, then drive a RV to someone's home and get paid for it all.

In short, the purposes serve by Amtrak have as much variety as reasons people get in their cars. It is a valuable service to those who need it, even if authors for the NY times aren't the 'target audience'.
If this leads Californian restaurants to declare "We don't take tips because we pay our staff livable wages (and also we pay less tax that way)", then I am one hundred percent behind this particular taxation system.
>Assault rifle is a defined term

It is not precise enough, that is my point. You can take an assault rifle and manufacture a sport version that removes military convenience features but is still as deadly. Not so with the auto or semi-auto designation.

They are right to focus on magazine size in legislation. Also ammo type.
> Housing is a right.

That only means that the state should not have the right to evict a homeowner from their private property, not that you have the right to live in someone else's home at someone else's expense.
Show HN: A Color Picker I Made
Basic human tact. If I was mad at the company, I would probably overcome decorum and dish. But I wasn't an employee, just someone involved with the company.

I gave them data from my company, and they gave me things in return. Through a bunch of sales that database ended up being the core of a large mobile app that's a household name, but you'd never know it from the outside.
If you want actual doom as a magic eye thingy, someone else made it already:

https://blogum.itch.io/omdo
The minute anyone sells a self driving car it will be completely dismantled and quickly reverse engineered by every auto manufacturer, like they already do for every product their competitors put out. The reverse engineering even happens before your product is out. Go to any auto show and you will find employees of other companies taking measurements or scanning paint pigments of concept cars that will never even hit production. You loose your proprietary advantage the minute you sell your first product.
Tangent: I have spent probably at least a few hours total periodically trying, from when I was a child until now, to see the hidden image in Magic Eye, and have never been able to see absolutely anything at all, despite reading guides on how to do it, etc.

Does anyone else have this experience? Is there something physically different about my eyes or brain compared to people who can see them?
That's what it's supposed to be. The explanation assumes you already know what an "autostereogram" is and know how to look at them. There is a trick involved where you focus your eyes on a point somewhere in space behind the screen instead of on the screen, and it suddenly acquires depth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram will tell you more about this.
I think this "lawsuit" is an April fools joke, as Tesla openly open source everything they work on:

https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
I don’t get it!!!

Facebook is supposed to be hiring the best developers. It has tons of money. This is the most basic security consideration - hashing passwords on the client at least. At LEAST.

I am constantly surprised by how basic practices were ignored by these corporations that got so big, while the small guys implement them. I guess people really were "dumb fucks" to trust Zuckerberg with their passwords.
What makes code slow to execute (2018)
>I could be wrong but I don't think that before the tweet there were any previous filings or announcements saying that Tesla would build 500,000 cars this year.

I'm fairly certain that during the Q4 2018 earnings call they talked about expecting to deliver between 350,000 and 500,000 cars in 2019.

I'm not a lawyer, I don't know much about public companies or regulations, so I don't know if that counts or not (or if saying "500,000 in 2019" is hugely different than "between 350,000 and 500,000 in 2019"), but it's not like the 500,000 was never said before.
yea this feels click-baity I don't see how it threatens Google or Facebook.
If you have a lot of faith in the founders that's a great sign. Good teams can always pivot. However, if they fired everyone and don't have any money then their pivot might be a new company. It also sounds like that their best bet currently is an acquihire that won't be worth much. But you never know.
I had a good experience moving a domain to Cloudflare, but one thing is still bugging me:

To allow a third party to modify the DNS (eg pfSense dynamic DNS client) you have to use an API key that has full access to modify everything in your Cloudflare account. You can’t limit the type of operation and you can’t scope it to a domain. That’s nuts.
>> Another week, another swipe at successful people.

I don't remember ever seeing "swipes" at successful scientists, doctors, nurses, midwives, school teachers, etc etc whose hard work has tangible benefits for the entire community. It is obvious that the article is targeting people who are successful at being "egotistical assholes" that "succeed" by harming everyone else's prospects.

I don't find anything strange in that. I find it strange that this is not a more widely adopted attitude.
For anyone curious, TechCrunch posted both complaints on scribd:

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/402668366/Tesla-v-Zoox

[2] https://www.scribd.com/document/402668404/Tesla-vs-Guangzhi
What Is the C— Programming Language?
If their rival stole and use their logistics algo, that would probably be "use" of the trade secrets. It doesn't matter if the IP is good or bad, just that it was inappropriately acquired and then used by the defendant.

My point about the value of Tesla's logistics IP is that it doesn't make sense for anyone to use it because it's not valuable: Tesla has messed up on the basic logistics enough times that its clear they're not very good at logistics.
Rural Spain and some coast hotspots, especially in the Atlantic have really good weather, food, infrastructure and cheap housing.

Also the weather is really mild all year round.
So wasn't throwing Chromecasts out of the Amazon Store and showing rival products when searching for Chromecasts.
Before you register your domain with Cloudflare, please consider who their other customers are. Cloudflare today provides services for many white supremacist websites; they kicked off the Daily Stormer in 2017 after widespread criticism, but still receive money from many others.

From what I can see, their senior leadership genuinely believes that, morally, they have an obligation to provide services for horrible people in exchange for money[1]. If you agree, use them! But if you think it's bad to defend these sites in an era of white nationalist terrorism, look elsewhere.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-cloudflare/
I can't quite understand the difference here between the crime classes. Burglary (the victim is absent) and robbery (the victim is present) are somehow separate from theft?
I wrote a snarky and unconstructive reply to you, but though I don't think I was wrong, I deleted it to try to be more constructive.

In this thread, you began by replying to a comment ultimately making the point that the OP commenter brushed off academics unjustifiably. Your reply suggested that the relevant comparison was between a professor whose position is secure and a startup founder in the early throes of trying to gain traction and stability. This was the clear essence of your point -- that somewhere somebody suggested, through such a comparison, that running a business is easy, and that this is wrong.

That comparison is obviously not relevant, especially since the slightly broader context is this article about "capitalist cowboys", i.e. people like James Duke. Duke was born into money and the tobacco business. He did not risk everything for his business. If his cigarette company went completely under, he would not have been destitute. People like Duke are relevant for comparison.

The reference in OP's comment is a common one, to "academics" at large, and is uselessly disparaging. Beyond user "lower"'s point about the skills needed in academia being comparable to those needed for business, we should note that many academics, especially in business schools, have themselves literally been successful in industry and business (read outside of academia). This is a proven way of getting a faculty position at a business school.

I think your point doesn't stand. But you are right that starting and having a business is a nuanced, often risky... business.
patent != copyright
In theory customers do want to see ads, if the ads are working.
Glad to hear that :)!

Honestly, what you've built looks super solid and polished. In many ways, it's what I wanted hug to be - it's really inspiring to see someone build that.
> There's no shortage of work out there to be done

Ok, I have to agree with this to a certain point as it’s an argument I find myself making in change resisting organizations. But the implication here is that there will always be no shortage of low end minimum wage work and that the best way to discover and assign that work is via a centralized means. So with a jobs guarantee we have to invent a government system that identifies and assigns jobs that need doing in an efficient manner. No one has done that yet.

> which doesn't follow if your first point fails.

I’m not sure it’s entirely failed. Because although the ideal is “there is always more work you can shift to once this job is done” that is simply not what happens in practice. People and organizations don’t behave that way. Try working in an organization facing disruption, or an old developing world government department where people rely on it for their job, etc. It is full of resistence to anything that might put at threat peoples jobs. I’ve worked at places as recently as 2010 that still had telex operators who came to work and sat their doing nothing all day because the telex systems had been decommissioned. This is what you get with jobs guarantees.
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Swift-Log: A Logging API Package for Swift 5
What irks me is that they're not going to issue a mandatory password reset, since they only do so "in cases where there’s definitely been signs of abuse."

Even if it's an internal server, having passwords stored in plain-text always merits a password reset. Storing it on a file-server unencrypted somewhere is just as bad (and arguably worse), than storing them in plaintext in the database.
doesnt seem to lookup lots of subdomain.not ready for any serious usage
Click-bait. Flagged.
Unfortunately that only captured a small part of the article. And archive.is is refusing the URL. Is there another option?
I'm using "How to Design Programs", 2nd edition, and it's helpful. It's on Amazon, and free online by Felleisen and colleagues here: https://htdp.org/2018-01-06/Book/part_preface.html
US nuclear is dying, but it produced more electricity in 2018 than ever before
Not compelling.

1) Go for the experience. If you get accepted, take the $100k+ and invaluable mentoring.

2) There is no requirement to play the VC's game. Take the money and play your own game.
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I would expect multi-view rendered models of ships/stations etc to also help significantly as well... vs. re-rendering sfx, it would be upscaling via AI with knowledge of detailed views/models for the actors... training stills could go a significant way.
There's always breadfruit! (And Elaeis guineensis, of all things...)

:/
Pretty misleading title. US homicides are up significantly since 2013 (they rose by almost 25% from 2014 to 2016 before leveling off in 2017 and dropping perhaps 7% in 2018).
But as someone else said, even though it maybe a common mistake (I've seen similar mistakes at my work), how is it that a number of those thousands of engineers didn't raise the alarm and get traction sooner on securing it? Companies need to incentivize engineers to not have a "not my problem" attitude.
If you want cheap:

In some of our huddle rooms we just have a simple $100 logitech cam with a jabra usb ($60).

We're also trying out some Logitech Conference Cam BCC950 devices (<$200).

All of our iPad controllers are from the Apple refurb store.
I doubt this is going anywhere. As a PC gamer I have no need for this, don't want to deal with lag, and don't trust Google to operate the platform in a consumer friendly way.

Look at how angry people are at epic right now. Taking a brand that already has a bad rap and trying to start a new market (that has already failed several times over) is not a great angle, especially with an audience as skeptical and anal retentive as gamers.

Additionally, who is the audience for this? Casual gamers use consoles, and those more invested use PCs. This is too out of the box for the former and completely useless to the latter. I could also see Google trying to get exclusives which would be a PR disaster.

Sure, it's a novel idea and looks like a decent execution, but its by no means a new one. Onlive did this 10 years ago and couldn't get market share. PSnow is available right now and its completely unusable even with a great connection because they dont have enough servers. The game selection is also terrible considering they should be able to load up any game in their ecosystem. I cant play MGS4, the PS4 remaster of last of us, nor horizon as they want me to buy a console to play it. So what's the point?
You sound like part of that 60MM, or 17% of the US.
I wonder if traditional memory techniques (e.g. method of loci [1]) would have long-term benefits over taking notes by hand?

Mathematics already is a sort of hierarchical interconnected structure that allow you to easily remember everything, as long as you understand it. The understanding is the hard part, not remembering it. Mathematics is not a set of random facts that you have to memorize.
They could generate higher detail model compositions to train the AI.
There's probably six million recreations of every 3D model in B5 made by fans, just like it is with Star Trek. Lack of 3D models isn't really a show-stopper, just ups the labor requirements. Hell, if respective owners relaxed their grips on IP, remasters would've been done already by fans of both Star Trek and B5 (I'd happily participate).
Major thoughts that come to my mind:

* Shared / Local memory is moved from L3 cache (in Gen9) to inside of a subslice (I presume L2 or L1 speeds?? Hard to tell... from this overview). SLM is now independent from the cache-structure, so it works far more similarly to AMD / NVidia GPUs. SLM can be used as fast gather/scatter operations without using "The Dataport" (Intel's load/store to L3).

* Bunch of DX12 features -- Hard for me to fully understand, since I'm not really a graphics programmer. Coarse Pixel Shading looks cool, and should reduce bandwidth to DDR4 (a far bigger deal on iGPUs which are very bandwidth limited).

* Seems to be 4-levels of cache? L3 is in the iGPU, but the L3 of the CPU is called "LLC" (last-level cache). So it looks like iGPU L4 coincides with the CPU's L3 cache? Am I reading this correctly?
Required by reasonable/responsible engineering principles.

If you add an automated system that has high control authority, which is fed data by a failure prone sensor, you add redundant information sources, compare/average out inputs and alert the operator to the possible technical issue.

This is a well known engineering pattern. No one tells you to do it. You're expected to be able to identify when something is high risk and act accordingly.
If you seriously believe that regulations change designs rather than codifying lessons learned the hard way, I don't know what to tell you, as apparently we start from two completely different sets of axioms when it comes to implementing things others depend on.

The FAA are there to maintain a collection of lessons paid for in blood, and to provide a general process to follow which strikes a balance between manufacturers doing their thing, and the public's interest in not crashing with no survivors, and maintain a cohesive set of guidelines that govern the industry. An FAA inspector can't be looked at as outsourceable common sense for manufacturers and designers however. Due diligence starts at home.

It is up to the people signing off and the engineers overseeing everything to ensure that design is safe, and all outcomes are such that the public interest is best served. Executives and sales be damned.

Unethical engineering costs innocent lives. Dollars are (or should be) secondary in all regards.

The fact this is even debatable demonstrates how much safety ethos has taken a back seat to economic factors in the modern aviation industry.
It occurs to me that the primary motivation for politicians to give MMT any attention is because it ostensibly enables their otherwise impractical spending plans, due to the scale of spending proposed in policies like Medicare for All (M4A) or Green New Deal (GND). The interpretation undertaken by these politicians is frightening, at least to me, since it seems like spending that is unchecked.

I can't help but think that rather than starting with a principled look at macroeconomic theory, this is really just politicians figuring out which theory or economic "camp" enables them, and then throwing their weight behind it. In today's age of populism both on the left and right of the American political spectrum, I am extremely wary of proposals for such widely-scoped and fundamental changes to be undertaken just because they have received wide attention very recently. After all, MMT is not new - it is a rehash/repackaging of principles that have been studied in economic theory before.