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I'd love feedback on the idea, and the main two use cases: sales & support. This system requires no real phone, only a web browser (webrtc p2p video + screen sharing).

I was inspired to build this by a comment with a partner (on another SaaS): "if i have a team i want to scale quickly, they should be focused on 1 thing and 1 thing only"...

They do a lot of online marketing with funnels, and close deals over the phone. They use a mix of sales pages, and close deals over the phone.

So with CallKite their team of sales team can all actively answer questions of potential buyers, right there live on a sales page as if they were over their shoulder or in real life. They can sit down from anywhere with a browser, and just start answering calls.

I have a lot of ideas of where this product could go, but I wanted to get a usable and simple version out the door A.S.A.P. Thanks for checking it out!
Sorry, misread that as having to do with 3M the company.
Lots of universities have large endowments, which is used for research.
What is the alternative? Trump moderating content?
I know it's a popular Hacker News trope, but when done well I actually appreciate comments of the style "the author does a comparison and has some results, but do also keep in mind xyz that is non-obvious". I know there is a problem with people who go through articles and try to pick things that could affect the results and treat that as invalidating them, but more often than not simple comparisons like these do have more to say about them than what is presented and I don't want to discourage those.
I imagine it's likely that the most vulnerable parts of the population that were easily accessible (easily accessible isn't even saying much, since let's face it - it seems not many countries have been able to prevent the virus from reaching nursing homes) by the virus have died.
There's an activation threshold absolutely, which requires large-scale central investment to get there for the very first time. But like, if you had one Star Trek style replicator, and it was able to make more replicators, then once you've crossed that threshold, you don't necessarily need all that massive R&D infrastructure as much.

It's also kind of a difference in strategic approach, to pool resources and create cutting edge institutions, or to adopt a more decentralized approach where yes, you might not get as quick of a pace of innovation, but each community is more self-sufficient. So, you might not ever get a fancy cure for cancer or CRISPR technology in this alternate universe, but most communities might have their own local clinics and more local nurses and maybe better overall health outcomes by focusing on common treatable problems, rather than pushing for cutting edge innovation. Similarly, you might have fewer PhD's, but more high school graduates or bachelor's level of education.

Anyways, nothing about this is all that realistic or anything, just some idle world-building in my head.
Bro, 1-800-JUNK is going to say they'll "take" or "not take" things from you when you phone them up. Are they inciting violence to the same degree as trump here too?
So, what would a feed consist of then?
The problem with the contrary approach is that there are increased levels of crime there. Children end up equally fatherless -- possibly moreso -- if their fathers are killed by gang violence as if their fathers are in prison.

You don't solve the problem by sending police away from the places with the most crime. You solve it by fixing the root causes.

End the war on drugs, because prohibition is the primary funding source for gangs. Make it easier to start a small business, so that more people without much capital can start small businesses. Change the zoning to make it easier for people to start a small business out of their home instead of needing enough capital to secure prohibitively expensive business properties. Stop tying schools to real estate and let people choose to send their kids to any school they want.

Most of these are local issues that exist predominantly in cities and states with Democrat-majority legislatures. They could have been solved decades ago. They could be solved right now with the stroke of a pen.
Jesus. I imagine getting the 'big questions' right is so vague as to remove any culpability from both YC and those it funds.

I mean, if I had a friend who openly claimed to be 'naughty' in this way, I'd start being very cautious around them.
How do NIMBYs play into this?
Many women have obvious, easily predicable concerns about sharing living space with unknown men.
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Respectfully, Covid statistics and mask defiance in the US are rather good counters arguments to your point.
There's still a problem of small dogs being taken from a fenced yard.
To be among likeminded people to use as a network for social and business purposes for one. You're more likely to feel at home and happy if you are surrounded by people going through similar challenges as you. I'm sure there are other reasons.
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The Microsoft ignore updates is only temporary though isn't it?
YC doesn’t need to be in a high-demand place at all, especially so long before you need to ramp up hiring.
> And so what?

We've already seen what happens. People fall deeper into their echo chambers and stop thinking rationally.

Extremism increases, Trump gets elected, COVID-19 conspiracies run rampant, white nationalists are emboldened, fools believe Antifa is a terrorist org, etc.
This is even worse.

For the record; I tried lots of stuff but I think this german post was the solution: https://www.computerbase.de/forum/threads/universal-orchestr...
I've never had an issue with forced updates with Windows 10. Might be because I use the Enterprise edition?

If you want to get it, I recommend the Microsoft Action Pack - you get a lot stuff for the money, including multiple Windows 10 licenses, 5 O365 licenses, Visual Studio subscriptions, Azure credits... It's amazing value really, but seems to be relatively unknown.
Independently of this work, we have models which are competitive with HEVC while being significantly smaller (this is from previous work). They will not look nearly as good as what you see in the website demo, but they're still better.

I don't have any such model handy but perhaps it's 10x-20x smaller.

We don't claim that this (or even the previous work) is the way to go forward for images, but we hope to incentivize more researchers to look in this direction so that we can figure out how to deploy these kinds of methods since the results they produce are very compelling.
I mean the money is going to landlords either way is it not?
This perspective seems almost exactly wrong, considering what's been happening with the NYT lately.
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We are in a bind. More than ever we need trustworthy authorities to help us navigate the world's information as no one, no matter how educated or smart, can be expected to parse through the ocean of information we now have access to every day.

Unfortunately it has become obvious that no such authorities exist. The President lies. The Governors lie. The NYT lies. The WHO lies. CNN lies. Fox lies. The smart, young, well healed people that run tech lie (though for our own good, of course). Your Facebook feed lies. Not just little lies and not just a few. Big lies, multitudes of them, lies used as levers, attempting to advance conflicting and rarely benign agendas. There is a furious cacophony of bullshit, every day, from every channel, trying to sell us things that are neither good nor true.

If there is any unifying experience these days in America is confusion. No one knows what is going on, no one knows what the truth really is, we just react to whatever meme manages to get past our jaded weariness. The old ways to make sense of the world no longer work.

We need Journalism. Real Journalism, not the putrid husk of it we have today but the kind of Journalism that the political class fears and that the people trust. I cannot think of anything more important right now. Nothing will be fixed in this country until we have our eyes and ears back.
Perfect information is not a requirement of free markets.

The term for imperfect information is "risk" and pricing risk is very much an integral part of free markets.
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We need to start expanding the scope of our anti-trust laws so that internet communication channels go back to what they were meant to be: de-centralized.

The fact that the internet and web was designed to be decentralized and then somehow ended up being concentrated on 5 or 6 websites is a bug, not a feature.

I'm not proposing we just do this overnight though -- too much of the US economy and software sector is propped up by these companies to just yank it all out, but we need to head back to decentralization by revisiting our definition of monopolies as it applies to communication channels.
Pretty strange that Facebook tries aggressively to get you to sign up to Facebook just for viewing this post. There's a giant modal with a huge picture of Mark's face telling you to "See more of Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook".

You'd think they'd disable that for critical announcements like this.
I might digress but those who would want to understand the beauty behind Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights , I would recommend this basic and insightful documentary without the usual background mysterious/sassy music:

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NYC is running this "experiment" now, with the NYPD having disbanded it's anti-crime units, and with many reported incidents not being responded to.

New York City’s homicide rate has hit a five-year high as the amount of people shot has jumped 42 percent compared to last year.

Shooting incidents have gone up 86% since last year, and the murder Rate has gone up 47%.

It's obviously a result of many different factors, but I'm not so sure the same thing that worked there would work here.
I would argue that edge rank reinforce personal and group biases and let you see more of what you interacted with.

Believes (false or true) start with an event that leaves an imprint in you and later you start "seeing" only what goes along you believe and minimizing or ignoring what is against your believes.

So if edge rank would feed you more of what you interacted with your view would become more and more extreme.

If edge rank is aware of your context and your social graph, it will also feed you more and more what your social circle consumes and produces.

We can see what is going on in the whole world but we are still made by our local reality.
The big problem here is "AI" is some an incredibly unconstrained problem space for games, "AI" could just be lerping towards the player, or it could be a state machine that doesn't have a concept of manually being stepped forward

In fact, I don't think I've ever worked with a game AI that had a concept of manually being stepped forward. But more importantly, I can't think of any common game AI that benefits from "more thinking time" on a continous basis. For example, there's games like chess where more time can result in a better solution, but you wouldn't be using FixedUpdate anyways, you'd manually start "thinking" and use a timer to end "thinking".

"Continuous" AI I've worked with are usually a state machine (or some loose definition of one) that will respond to events and change state, and while in a given state they're usually running a certain set of code on each update.

There are parts of that update code you should put in FixedUpdate, like a raycast. You're (ideally) moving the colliders that are being cast against during FixedUpdate, so you do the raycast in update, you can miss raycasts that should have hit.

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But that actual decision making shouldn't be in FixedUpdate. FixedUpdate should set some flag or fire some event that is then handled in Update.

The AI won't be dumber or smarter based on FPS in any appreciable way (and if that's a concern you could still use coroutines). The parts of it that react to physics will already be happening as fast as possible since they're in FixedUpdate, the actual transition of states will happen on the very next frame rendered after this detection.

If anything, putting everything in FixedUpdates means there are times when the user gets to provide input (frame renders and Update is called), but the AI doesn't because FixedUpdate never got called
It’s realistic to use them as market signals for actual price discovery in the current year
Does Unilever really need to run ads on Facebook? They sell soap and ice cream[1]. That budget would be better spent on product placement with influencers on some type of image/video centric site like Instagram, Snap, TikTok, etc.

Edit: Apparently they are pulling out of Instagram as well. Maybe that didn't meet their ROI expectations?

[1] https://www.unileverusa.com/brands/
Definitely. The Kennedy Space Center Assembly Building has an excellent lightning rod system and it dissipates charge before a strike damages the building. A pointed, metal, grounded stick is effective. But their system is custom engineered and expensive. And, while it's worked well for them, still no guarantees.

About KSC, my inside sales rep for Square D (the best switchgear) worked there for awhile. They needed a contactor, holding up a Shuttle launch, and the nearest one was at Square D HQ in Florence, KY, and could not be delivered today, no way. The KSC rep tells him to hold on. About 30 minutes later, he calls back, "Tell Florence to deliver it to the Guard base there. An F-15 will be on the flight line waiting on it." They do have cool stuff. And the Shuttle launch? It still got delayed.
> There's an Apple Store a few blocks from me. I've never been there. But I like knowing I have the option.

Right - I feel like almost any city I'm going to for a conference will have an Apple store I can pop into if I have a problem.

What do you do if you have a ThinkPad or System76 and you get a problem while at a conference? I guess you're out of luck and on your own.
Perhaps because his lived experience has given him relevant, if subjective, perspective? And because people tend to prioritize learning about things that have more direct relevance to their lives?
So what you're saying is that we need more militarization of the police?
More context here: https://constine.substack.com/p/what-does-mean-well

We should know more tonight by 7 pm.
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So you do or you don't want a CLI tool?
Some years back, I talked with someone from PBS education video, about doing interative development and user testing, as with software. Rather creating the finished video and tossing it over the wall to be seen, and even then only rarely tested.

Their comment was they'd love to do that, and would... just as soon as someone was willing to pay for it.
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Monopolies come about because of government interference, not free markets.

The reason is pretty simple - the larger a company gets, the more bureaucratic and inefficient it becomes, until a smaller, nimbler company eats it for lunch.
Policy updates everywhere but no enforcement and accountability.
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This is easily one my favorite arguments against 5G. Why exactly do we need more mobile bandwidth? Is anyone doing anything useful with it?
But its more likely that one person was doing one thing taking up the majority of the badnwidth originating from tor

And the distinct users would be trying to do another thing
Nah, never had issues on Pro too (upgraded from win7)
The increase in CPU power doesn't become apparent until you start to use vectorization heavily or use your CPU for floating point-heavy scientific computing.

Some of the code I've written can speed up 3x just by using newer SIMD instruction sets and bigger caches. It's unbelievable until you see it.

I also manage HPC clusters, so we see strange effects when developers excessively hand-tune their code for a specific architecture.
>There's a worrying trend in the conversation these days that has shifted from "there's a serious problem with racism in how police go about their job" to "we need less police". Folks in neighborhoods living with the constant threat of gang violence don't have the luxury to sit in their aeron chairs and argue about defunding the police. They face the very real threat of themselves or their loved ones being shot on the streets and statistically not by police.

This is horseshit. The premise is false. The conclusion is misleading. It is FUD
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It’s so sad that is has come to this. It’s one of the reasons I’m a Mac user for the most part. Although since Mojave they have gotten more and more annoying with updates.

My biggest issue is windows server. I’m worried if I disable updates it will break it.
> Run htop or similar, sort by "shared memory"

The top two entries are 80 and 36 kB respectively. RES is 2.3 giga-bytes (over four orders of magnitude larger) between them. Even multiplying the top SHR by your ~400 processes gives 32 MB (still two orders of magnitude off). That is not a counter argument; that is a agreement that dynamic linking is useless.

Edit: RES, not VIRT.
Oh there'll still be inequality, don't worry about it :)
This is a real wat. You think the tech industry is almost entirely based in San Francisco?

Only about 1% of tech workers are employed by companies headquartered in Silicon Valley, let alone San Francisco. The absolute vast majority of technology employment is at companies that don't have a direct technology product. Software engineers working at traditional businesses like banks and retailers far overwhelm the employees at FAANG and startup type companies.

You're buying into an echo chamber concept because you don't realize the extent of the universe you're characterizing. You're mistaking the echo chamber for the reality, kind of how people mistake what people say on twitter for what people actually think.
On average over time, I feel that Linux definitely loses out on desktop. But it's not about rudeness, but about the choice of when you want to use the administration time. If you have a strict deadline or presentation coming up, then that 1 hour for updates or a forced restart can be much more costly than when the update happens during the weekend or while watching a movie.
That's like rebutting systemic racism by claiming "if there was racism in America, you wouldn't have had a black president!".

Maybe there isn't a blatant set of acts that is "biased" on tech platforms that you could point to and say "look see, bias!". Perhaps it is just systemic bias and there is structural suppression of certain viewpoints on the aggregate level.
I downvoted you because you made an extreme assertation with no supporting evidence. Also social media is not a utility or monopoly, no one needs to use them.
Then report it to the authorities for investigation and prosecution.
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For the decision paralysis thing it helps to start a timer and force yourself to come to a decision by then. Or else come up with 2 or 3 decent options and then flip a coin/roll a die for the final decision.
>Windows 10 will literally auto reboot while you are playing game, ignore the fact it's a game and think of it as high resource usage.

I feel like we're missing some context here. Is this happening the week that the patch was released? Or was the system unpatched for weeks/months, and the user clicked "delay" multiple times?

>People probably don't care if their machine reboots in the middle of the night, they do care when it decides to reboot right in the middle of usage.

The grandparent comment was complaining exactly about this.
A large company can benefit from massive economies of scale or upfront costs that create an impenetrable barrier to entry. e.g. Wal-mart, Barnes and Noble, mobile phone networks. In certain areas, once you amass enough power, you have the power to crush competition, no government interference necessary.

However, we're not just talking about market dynamics of monopoly, we're talking about concentration of power in a society. Billionaires control enough wealth to influence or even effectively buy politicians, who then make rules that benefit them. They use their money to control media narratives. They hamstring labor power and increase their own leverage without limit. You can't write this off as a consequence of government interference into an otherwise self-regulating system - government interference, and interference by other centers of power, on behalf of the super-rich is an essential feature of concentration of wealth and power in a society.
Hopefully this undermines your belief that technical people are in some way immune to all the biases, emotions, fears, hopes and general humanity of people at large. Frequently, they're worse; they believe themselves to be hyper-rational cyborgs driven purely by evidence, giving themselves carte blanche to assume they're unaffected and thus don't even need to examine their own thinking.

Yes, I too am a mental mess and use reasoning and convenient choice of evidence to justify decisions and opinions I already formed.
It's about presence and exposure. For people (like me) who use mostly Apple products and block ads on the internet, the Microsoft products aren't really on my mind. Having a store close by that I can visit certainly increases exposure to these products.

It's surprising how my own attitude changes depending on if it's online: if I see an ad for Microsoft or other brands on the Internet, I'd feel irate and start to wonder why my ad blocker stopped working. But if I see a Microsoft store taking up thousands of square feet, I don't mind its presence and would totally check it out if I am not busy.
"Show HN" posts are usually the result of people doing free labor, not the result of people hiring out tasks to an agency.
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I was once walking along a soccer field in Costa Rica during the daily afternoon shower in the rainy season. Suddenly the entire sky beyond the treeline turned completely white. It was like I was looking at a black and white silhouette of the treeline. At the same moment I heard the loudest sound I've ever heard. It was like an explosion; I could feel the ground tremble. I have no idea how close the strike was, only that the sound and lightning were simultaneous from my perspective. It honestly could have been just on the other side of the trees across the field, or maybe half a kilometer away, I couldn't tell you. All I can say for sure is I ran like hell to the nearest house.

I'm not regularly around explosions and such so I've never experienced anything like that before or since.
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Interesting idea but what is a new and what is not? What is a friend shares an article from the WSJ?

FB is people centric.
Nothing much has been happening with the New York Times lately. Most of the conflict around the New York Times is actually exactly said fringe groups being offended because the NYT pisses them off in one way or the other. Liberals complain about the Cotton piece, someone complains about Scott Alexander being doxxed, and someone on the right probably thinks the NYT has been overrun by communists.

Which actually proves that the New York Times still works perfectly fine. That's not the sort of conflict an independent journalist would even have, because they would never even dare to publish something that would anger their likely homogenous readerbase and thus threaten their paycheck.

It's actually precisely because the NYT still works like a reasonably diverse newspaper that they constantly end up in one shitstorm or the other, not despite of it.