skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its equivalent to x264 medium when using "quality" or "low latency quality. "High quality" just enables two pass on top of quality, which doesn't get it out of medium, but improves the bit distribution similarly to how two pass in x264 does.

All the gens of GCN through RDNA1 are on the spectrum of veryfast to fast, Pascal is fast; RDNA2 (due to inclusion in PS5 and XB2) meets Turing's new bar for quality (so no more low quality console streams on Twitch).

So, none of them compare to veryslow. Ampere will probably have a better encoder than Turing, but I think the fair comparison will still be against medium, not slow. The big change, afiact, will be work on h265, h264 for them is pretty much as good as they need.
Where does github publish post-moderms of downtime? I only see things like "We have deployed a fix and are monitoring recovery." in the github status history which doesn't provide details.
This is weird because we haven't encountered any real issues with agents in Azure DevOps pipelines. I think we maybe had a single downtime in last 6 months. They recently removed .NET Core 2.2 SDK without any notice and broke our builds but that's another thing.
> He was still not born in Bangladesh nor did he live there

Sure, and all OP wrote is

> (his original country)

Though it's not 100% correct, it's easy to see how someone's family coming from there would be summarized as their "original country."

> it was still mentioned by the root comment merely for ideological purposes.

What ideology? All the OP pointed out was that this person had strong ties to Bangladesh, both in heritage in business, and that extremists from that country use the same technique for murder as this man suffered. That seems clearly like relevant context.
You're conflating the personality traits of the interviewee with criticism of the generally accepted 'best practice' of interviewers.

On my experience far too many companies are using processes that select for entirely the wrong criteria.
Hmm I am a professional, so it is easily possible for meet my own reliability
Same here. A guy was soaked in arrogance even though the test he submitted was average at best. "This looks good enough. when do I start?"

Even worse: I had an encounter with another guy who refused to make a test because his CV demonstrated everything we needed to know and asking him to solve a few problems was "incredibly disrespectful". He was also apparently going to start next Monday. Needless to say he didn't.
That is funny as that is the way alot of my interviews go as well. I tend to have extreme anxiety on a job I really want and "pysch myself out" so to speak. I really dislike typical tech interviews as it is alot of pop quiz obscure answers under extremely tight timelines never seen on the job. I have had interviews where 3 interviewers are all demanding answers at the same time and it was horrible. I hope at some point in the future this is realized as a colossal fail in the industry and a new method is realized.
I'd largely disagree. There's a huge amount of R&D and Engineering work being done in Ireland.

On the hardware side Intel, Qualcomm, Huawei, HP, Analog Devices, Xilinx, Nokia Bell Labs and many more all have extensive R&D departments in Ireland.

On the software side, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Google etc. all have engineering roles advertised currently on Linkedin.
So in order to please the environmental agenda of the Green party they are shutting down a nuclear plant and switching to fossil fuels.
That's my understanding as well, that Platinum is more of a sweet spot compared to Titanium or Gold for these tradeoffs.
> As a white person I have never in my life cared about getting a receipt from any store I shop at

I agree with your meaning overall, but this is not a great example. I'm a white dude, and I worry about getting receipts any time I am going to one store after buying from another (while walking). I'm hyper-aware in stores of whether it would appear to an observer that I was shoplifting, having been accused of such more than once when young, so I take visible steps like tying off the bags I'm carrying from the previous store, consider whether the store I'm entering is likely to sell items I have in the bag I'm carrying, and so on.
Cisco has spent about $1b and millions of man hours to figure out the seconds market. As the first bootleg hits market, Cisco releases its next gen piece.
Always buy from authorized dealers.
There's no way this build draws 900W.
I agree that this is a problem. That being said, it irks me a little while the opinions you couldn't express were stuff like being a communist, promoting gay rights, or other stuff, there was never an uproar against this soft censorship. Suddenly it's stuff like not being a racist that's no longer mainstream to express and it's suddenly a problem (which it is).
Licensing agreements like this always make me wonder how companies are supposed to handle the accounting for depreciation on hardware. Since the license isn't transferable, the effective resale value of the expensive hardware you just bought is zero as soon as you open the box.
> In short, the findings suggest that companies are missing out on really good programmers because those programmers aren’t good at writing on a whiteboard and explaining their work out loud while coding.

In most of my programming jobs, explaining your work was most of the job and writing code was less important.

The whiteboard environment is a bit unnatural but I don’t want to hire someone who gets the right answer if they can’t explain it to me.
I’m also from Croatia...we actually had population growth in early nineties and we are losing more people to emigration rather than natural decline.
It’s myopic to think that population decline doesn’t harm us. It puts rural areas in vicious cycle of losing population -> smaller economic base -> losing population due to no economic opportunities.
Also cohort of women able to give birth declines even faster thus preventing any future recovery.

I live in a small town that is almost 1700 years old. Something is very wrong if we are unable to maintain or grow our population while living in unprecedented luxury and wealth compared to historical norms.
You don't think they're intentionally using that word for precisely that reason?
To clarify, is Zoom or DTEN the company you are referring to?
Actually, you may well be right. The infographics didn’t explicitly judge “whiteness”. I may indeed have brought the idea with me given how whiteness is used and connotated nowadays.

I hope I’m totally wrong about my interpretation about the infographics and I hope my frustration is unsubstantiated.
I am Divyansh Prakash - github.com/divs1210

The credit goes to the author of that library, though. :)

All the best for your book!
Stephen Colbert: The Newest Zealander Visits PM Jacinda Ardern
I agree that poor white people should not have their problems dismissed. However, there are some differences between poor white people and poor black people. For one, there's a lot more poor black people per population. The average black family has a tenth of the wealth of the average white family.

Second, poor black people face large amounts of racism, both systematic and personal. They live in particularly poor neighborhoods due to redlining. They face significantly harder times getting hired for jobs. They encounter police brutality.

Again, the solution is not to dismiss the problems of poor white people. However it's also important to acknowledge that at a macro level, poor black people need more help to counter systematic effects.

Imagine we have two countries. Both have poor people, but one country has an average household wealth that is a tenth of the other country's. One country was brutally colonized, had its citizens enslaved for hundreds of years, faced segregation for a 100 years after that, and only passed significant civil rights legislature in the last 70 years.

The other country had full rights for all men for 150 years, then full rights for all citizens for 100 years after that. The other country reaped the rewards of its colonized counterpart. It grew wealthy on it. Yes, there are poor people in the country, but its citizens have never been enslaved. They have never been made to be second class citizens. They have never lived under fear of lynching and false conviction.

At a personal and present level, there is not a gigantic difference from a poor white family and a poor black family. But that ignores the larger context of history and of quantity.
> Speaking at the panel discussion with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and representatives of the IT industry in Innopolis

Wait, wasn't Durov in bad terms with the Russian government and exiled?
What is the viability over time of your samples? Even the highest quality cryostorage results in 10% loss per year.
The online version of Practical Common Lisp was published fifteen years ago, well before the ebook market was as developed as it is now. Given the current market situation, I've made the decision to go the same way that Common Lisp Recipes went - selling ebooks + dead-tree books.
Keyframe intervals in OBS are just "keyframe per x seconds"; x264 itself exposes this as keyframe x frames.

As I said in my comment, a keyframe interval of 10 is doable. Don't be afraid of trying large values to see what they do.
Having multiple respectable people that can vouch for you is a much better performance predictor than a 1-day interview. Same reason that recommendation letters are more important than GRE tests for the ones seeking PhD studies.
I think a problem with this line of thinking is if treats people like averages (stereotypical) -but people are not the average. People don’t see the nuance. So it’s kind of like the other side of the coin of traditional stereotyping.

So on the one hand we’re saying let’s not stereotype people, but in the other hand let’s stereotype a subset of people.
Often, "luxury condo" means "decent place to live in a supply-constrained city".
Good networking has always been the best way to find work. Or, come to think of it, opportunity of any kind.
> And yet that seems to be the game people have to play in order for their statements to have any currency.

My experiences, as a cis-het-white-affluent person would disagree. ;)

> I even know people who had to take an "oppression index" in college to see who in the class had the least privilege.

I'm sorry if I don't put much trust in third hand stories like this, it's easy for them to be blown out of proportion.
Interesting, but I'm not sure this qualifies to the point, in this case they are worried for your safety for valid reasons.. not trying to force you an opinion on something.
In one of my recent interviews at a mid size silicon valley company, I was given 4 hours to make a tetris like game.

One of the most enjoyable interviews ever with no whiteboard and no one around me to check on my progress. I was blank for first half an hour or so but made great progress by the end. Eventually got the offer.
So in other words, Germany (with some the most serious "green tech" laws) is basically forcing France to shut down their plant, even though it's been operating mostly fine and has been actually helping fight climate change for a long time already.
I find this to be true. It's not that I can't enjoy extremely productive work, but that's only possible when my interest directly line up with the skillset I need, which is very, very rare.

Otherwise it's a difficult, tedious grind.
No, that's simply false. White flight was about racism. Period. And it was not "a tiny minority acting in a bad direction," it was one of many ways Blacks were systematically oppressed at the time, see, e.g., red-lining, employment descrimination, and discriminatory policing. (To be clear, except traditional red-lining, all of this still happends.) White opposition to school integration was so mainstream, presidential candidate Joe Biden vocally opposed busing in the 1970's when he was a Deleware senator. You may remember Kamala Harris pointing this out in a Democratic primary debate. In Boston, white residents rioted in opposition to school desegregation.

For more evidence that white flight was motivated by racism and not something more innocuous, look at the story school enrollment numbers tell:

> Upon desegregation in 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland, the Clifton Park Junior High School had 2,023 white students and 34 black students; ten years later, it had twelve white students and 2,037 black students. In northwest Baltimore, Garrison Junior High School's student body declined from 2,504 whites and twelve blacks to 297 whites and 1,263 blacks in that period.[1]

Now look at this chart of Columbus City Schools enrollment over the past 100 years.[2] It looks like a church steeple with the peak at 1971. In the nine years leading up to 1971, enrollment increased 19%. In the nine years following 1971, enrollment fell 34%. What happened?

In 1972, the CCS school board adopted a pledge stating, "It shall be the goal and policy of the Columbus Public Schools to prepare every student for life in an integrated society by giving each student the opportunity of integrated educational experiences." In 1974, the board approved a program to transport students in a voluntary racial balance plan. In 1975, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund sued the school district, demanding desegregation. Finally, in 1979, the district implemented a busing plan to desegregate its schools after the district court ruled against it.[3] White families in the 1970's saw change coming and fled to the suburbs in response.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#Desegregation_of_...

[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qvT_UF_mZdyqjfDlCdMy...

[3] Getting Around Brown details the entire history of school segregation in Columbus, including the events cited in this paragraph. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxH84YBTnvm3dmhNM0ZqMHlCbDg...
It's more like: "I can't say anything that someone somewhere might uncharitably interpret as sexist/racist/transphobic/homophobic or else I get in trouble now."

For instance, pointing out scientifically well-established differences between genders and daring to draw the conclusion that maybe gender inequity is not entirely the fault of a sexist white cismale conspiracy - that will probably get you cancelled.
I wish I were clairvoyant like this, but otherwise, may I never come under investigation from those people.

This is off on a little bit of a tangent, but there is an interesting point to be made, I think.

I was on a jury once. Not a murder case, mind you, but the principle is the same. There was a detective from the local law enforcement agency that investigated the case, and he testified on the stand about the case and his investigation.

Now the defense attorney was a sharp guy, and he found (and seized on) every tiny little discrepancy or crack in this guy's testimony, which made this all the more glaring. The detective was a complete buffoon. I mean, calling this guy "Barney Fife" or "Officer Barbrady" would be paying him a compliment.

We sat in the jury room deliberating and were making jokes like "Man, if I ever murder anybody, I hope this guy is the one investigating me" and so on.

The point is just to say... detectives come in all grades of competence, just like anybody else. For every Sherlock Holmes there is a guy like the one I encountered. I'm not sure if a normal distribution applies, but I wouldn't be surprised. And I'm definitely not surprised when I see (apparently) silly statements come from law enforcement agencies. TV and movies glamorous the more "Sherlock Holmes'ian" type detectives, and maybe we subconsciously tend to assume that most detectives are like that as a result. But it's definitely not always the case.
Thats why the self hosted options are there -- and why GitLab has a competitive advantage in this sense.

Cloud solutions are great -- however they have a golden rule, don't go down ever. This is seriously damaging to GitHubs reputation.
Why does HN insist on downvoting genuine questions like this?
> It's not clear to me the difference between "cancel culture" and legitimate outrage.

Legitimate outrage is "I think an opinion you currently hold or thing you currently do is bad, so I'm going to try to cut you off from society until you walk back the opinion or stop doing the thing."

Cancel culture is "I think an opinion you once held or thing you once did is bad, so I'm going to try to cut you off from society forever, even if it wasn't considered bad at the time, and even if you've since walked it back/stopped/apologized."

In a nutshell, cancel culture is refusing to forgive.
Marketplaces aren't that easy. Supply (developers) wants to be where there is demand. Demand (consumers) is wherever it is and sometimes follows (some) of the supply.

In our case, the demand being consumers, they are friction-averse and if you don't have a rock solid and unique value proposition, they tend to stay wherever they are.
> The vast majority of child abduction cases in the United States are parental kidnapping, where one parent hides, takes, or holds a child without the knowledge or consent of another parent or guardian.[3] Depending on the state and the legal status of the family members, this might not be a criminal offense. In 1976, parental kidnappings in the United States stood at 60,000.[clarification needed] By 1984, it was between 459,000 and 751,000.[citation needed] In 2010, the US Department of Justice reported 200,000 cases of parental kidnapping; these comprised both domestic and international abductions.[4]

> Fewer than 350 people under the age of 21 have been abducted by strangers in the United States per year between 2010–2017.[5]

> The federal government estimated about 50,000 people reported missing in 2001 who were younger than 18. Only about 100 cases per year can be classified as abductions by strangers.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_in_the_United_State...
How is that argument against what he said? It is precisely own thoughts and perspectives that makes people of common demographics and with common experiences to make different conclusions then from those who did not lived the same way.
That's a great question, and one where keeping everything cool is important in both cases.

We get a lot of monitoring information, both on the way to the cryostorage facilities (everything from humidity to temperature variance to battery level of our trackers), and we similarly get daily or weekly checks of the frozen sperm (like manually checking on levels of liquid nitrogen).

We hadn't considered making this information front-facing, although I understand why you'd ask that. What would you be most interested in seeing? Would 'last checked' and 'current temperature' be enough for you to feel it is secure?
For many organizations, that's still true.
Whatabout what the US did to people in Iran?
I disagree with almost everything you just said.

You're saying that "because X group said Y and X group also does Z, Y supports Z".

Your premise is based on a genetic fallacy, and your argument implies a false dichotomy. Your claims are hasty generalizations with insufficient evidence.
Isn't it obvious? "They were acting white."
I appreciate their effort to use science to support the narrative that tech interviews suck, because I do think they suck and need to change, but isn't N=48 a little small? Also, if it was only undergraduates or graduates, who's to say their performance is indicative of the rest of the tech workforce?
News is not news. It is entertainment. Pick your flavor and let them tell you how to feel.
Yes but my skill in meditation is no match for 4 1-hour coding interviews back to back.
i'm very pro-vaccine in general (grew up in USSR and, until coming to US, didn't know that "anti-vaccine" can even exist in modern society :), yet recently and very surprisingly for myself i caught myself thinking that i will be very hesitant about getting a vaccine which is rushed through Trump's FDA to meet election day targeting schedule and to get the first dibs on the Operation Warp Speed billions - i think Trump's second term is a direct function of whether he'd triumphantly announce vaccine in the last week of October or not, and i fully expect that he would. Choosing between such a vaccine and a straight coronavirus with well-known low risk profile for my group - i'm still undecided :) So, i'd guess there would be a lot of people who wouldn't be rushing to get the vaccine.
IANAL

The service allows potential employers to post jobs ads on a site that openly favors some political affiliations over others. This could (imho) plausibly open up a company posting jobs in NY and CA to a lawsuit.

In CA and NY political affiliation is a protected class just like race. I would be very cautious about posting job ads or even filling open positions using a service like this in CA and NY without talking to a good lawyer.
> Yes: "All new Tesla cars come standard with advanced hardware capable of providing Autopilot features today..."

> No: "...and full self-driving capabilities in the future—through software updates designed to improve functionality over time."

"Autopilot" is not the same thing as full self-driving. What don't you understand? Those statements make perfect sense.

> Yes: "All you will need to do is get in and tell your car where to go."

"WILL NEED". What is not clear? "Will" implies future tense.
Thanks. It was you who directed me towards this implementation and made it possible for me to mention it in the book, though, so I only consider it fair if I also add you to the book's Hall of Fame.
Interesting. What part of the world are you talking about?

I bet that, with so many moving parts, if there is the slightest problem the whole thing falls apart and unlucky buyers end up cash-strapped and with no apartments to show for it.
The graphics did not attack anything. It described a set of assumptions that are cultural. It did say they were good or bad, or racist.

Your perception of it as an attack is your own.
The key is to decouple your inner self from how you present to the world. Your inner mental model of the world can acknowledge all apparent truths, even if some of them might upset various factions (the legitimacy of which varies; the offensiveness of sensitive topics to particular people is a real thing, but it also sometimes gets invoked inauthentically), without necessarily saying all of them. At the same time, if you're chronically contradicting everyone else you should still see that as a prompt for deeper examination of your beliefs.

It's always been a fantasy that the whole of society could accept all corners of a person's thoughts and feelings, as-is, laid bare. Before the internet, we could pretend the fantasy was true because of our mostly-local social spheres. But now the veil has been removed completely.

This isn't to say you should never vocalize controversial beliefs. But you should pick your battles. Ask yourself whether it really matters to society that X gets discussed - and that it's therefore worth risking offense and/or backlash - or whether you're just being pedantic.

I really liked this quote as a broader description of political correctness:

> Perhaps the solution is to appeal to politeness. If someone says they can hear a high-pitched noise that you can't, it's only polite to take them at their word, instead of demanding evidence that's impossible to produce, or simply denying that they hear anything. Imagine how rude that would seem.
Despicable. I assume the hackers were willing to expose their own addresses?
I'm 15 and might be more productive than you
I think you're looking at this the wrong way.

It only needs to be able to do juuust enough work to justify its cost (obviously not true yet).

Roomba is, for example, an even more limited device, but since it does one thing well enough to justify a $500-$900 price.

Talking about all the myriad of things it can't do is just pointless.