skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously Jesse Powell isn't right for the CEO position but I do have a tiny bit of sympathy because I refuse to put my preferred pronouns in my profile. I think it's an invasion of privacy to force me to announce to the whole world my gender identity. Friends and coworkers know on a need-to-know basis.
> I'm constantly amazed at how stupid supposed smart people can be when it comes to applying metrics to an organization made up of humans.

Intelligence isn't a spectrum, it's an infinite-dimensional space. Someone can be smart on one axis and a dunce on infinity-minus-one other axes. Every genius ever born was almost certainly mediocre at nearly everything outside their expertise.
I use Slack all day every day, and frequently use Slack huddles as a more instant alternative to spinning up a zoom meeting (huddles are more discoverable because you can instantly see channels with a active huddle, and its good for more of a general hang out / paired session that doesn't demand a more static meeting).

I've not once had trouble with the screen sharing, though in the initial rollout of the feature to our org audio was a bit glitchy - that hasn't been an issue for us in the past ~6 months.
Retirement for the masses is a relatively new, rich invention. It seems likely ar some point we will revert back to working until we become unable to work.
I'm curious if this is any more consistent than the webcam software that Canon provided for Windows and Mac. I tried the Mac implementation briefly, but found it to be _extremely_ glitchy (even with hard-wired power).
Yes. Would you beleive I agree with that (maybe you would if you actually read your own comments)

You stated that receiving coupon payments from the Treasury reduces liquidity. How? I don’t know. But you said it.

Buying more Treasuries makes the fed receive larger coupon payments. Are you saying that process reduces liquidity?

That’s my only question.
Serious question:
If I'm getting traffic data from my load balancer, what will GA or Plausible offer me that I don't already have?
GCP error messages will indicate if resources were not available, if you reached your quota, or if it was some other error. Tests like OP can differentiate these situations
However, 1000x is really not very much. With a 1000x uplift, we could certainly get better weather predictions, but not necessarily paradigm-altering improvement. In a real sense, we already have 1000x speedup and its what you get in a contemporary "supercomputer", whatever that is in a given market at a given point in history.

Let's say we had perfect 1000x improvement in compute, storage, and IO such that everything remains balanced. A fluid-dynamics or atmospheric simulation can only increase resolution by about 10x if a 3D volumetric grid is refined uniformly, or only about 5x if we spread it uniformly over 4D to also improve temporal resolution. Or maybe you decide to increase the 2D geographic reach of a model by 30x and leave the height and temporal resolution alone. These growth factors are not life-changing unless you happen to be close to a non-linear boundary where you cross a threshold from impractical to practical.

I'm not sure we can say how much a video game would improve. There are so many "dimensions" that are currently limited and it's hard to say where that extra resource budget should go. Maybe you currently can simulate a dozen interesting NPCs and now you could have a crowd of 10,000 of them. But you still couldn't handle a full stadium full of these interesting behaviors without another 10x of resources...
One reason may be that Teams is an Electron app.

There's a huge stack of APIs between you and your headphones.
Not the one you are answering to, but reading along and what is the chance of 300+ people all having the same standard?
Does minio have cluster support? I've always thought of it as non-clustered software.
> I really wish there was an easy demo for Whisper that I could try out.

Like the colab notebook linked on the official Whisper github project page?
And people followed your advice, and when not every group was equally successful, were accused of racism, because we know ability (in every area... well, every intellectual area) is equally distributed, so what else could it be?

And not just ability, but behavior too. So if one group has more violent interactions with the police, it is, again, entirely due to racism.

But not sexism. Because everyone knows men are more violent than women, so it doesn't raise any alarm bells that men are over-represented in prison 13 to 1 compared to women:

https://www.statista.com/chart/11573/gender-of-inmates-in-us...
AWS has different pools of EC2 instances depending on the customer, the size of the account and any reservations you may have.

Spawning a single GPU at varying times is nothing. Try spawning more than one, or using spot instances, and you’ll get a very different picture. We often run into capacity issues with GPU and even the new m6i instances at all times of the day.

Very few realistic company size workloads need a single GPU. I would willingly wait 30 minutes for my instances to become available if it meant all of them where available at the same time.
It seems to be mainly the work of barely-passing programmers on a platform (the web-app-everything) that strongly popularises form over function, quantity over quality, and from a company that increasingly prioritises (controversial opinion) DEI over competence.

That said, MS has not always been like this; those who remember MSN Messenger, and perhaps even Skype for Business, may realise that despite all the various problems they had, they still seem much better than what Teams is today. Hence it's definitely a degradation.

If I had the time and strong need, I'd try to write a native client for it, but apaprently it's very close to Skype (the MS version, not the original one) for which several 3rd-party clients exist, so the effort there might not be so much. They've even documented at least some of the APIs, e.g.: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/chatmessage-post
Plus if you use teams on Linux, guess what's getting blamed first.

Nevermind the fact I have cross- platform issues (win/OSX/linux/android) with audio and bluetooth devices with teams...
1. Buckets is unnecessary concept. Why use it at all, when we have domain and path. That should be enough.

2. Authentication is too convoluted. Signings, etc. Simple `Authorization` header should be enough.

3. Uploading a file should be as simple as PUT /path/to/file. Instead of multipart upload, header `Range: bytes=0-1023` should be used.

4. List is unnecessarily flexible. Why should users have the ability to use any character as path delimiter. `/` should be fixed. List operation should use ordinary REST conventions, like `GET /dir/?from=token` should return JSON with items inside `dir` and continuation token.

Basically I want to be able to use object storage with simple `fetch` and few lines of code. Without all that SDK nonsense.
Bluntly: neither do you and doomerism is unhelpful.
We need another less polarized word than deep state to describe the various industrial complexes entrenched in military & government, and the revolving door of employment between government -> lobbyists -> industry etc.
Less of an interview and more of an informal team-matching coffee chat. They all have access to your co-workers and body of work, so no need to haze you with leetcode again.
It's not only the cost, but it's having to deal with another vendor and maintain another system, interoperability, security, access, etc.
You have a lot more options on lenses and do stuff like background blurring with Bokeh. Some smaller meeting services also provide 4k support.
"a sphere of human goo just under 1 km wide. I made a visualization of how that would look like in the middle of Central Park in NYC."

You may want to pass on that, it's right at the top of that reddit page.
Can you tell me what you mean by electron overhead?

Does that mean, like, the CPU resources it exhausts in the browser as opposed to the app is capped or reduced? Thanks
How can you write all of that and miss the fun?

apt-get install gnome-video-effects-frei0r #or whatever works for you

filter_idx=2

filters=(
"videobalance"
"quarktv"
"rippletv" #2
"streaktv"
"radioactv"
"vertigotv"
"frei0r-filter-twolay0r"
"frei0r-filter-distort0r"
"dicetv"
"edgetv"
"warptv"
"revtv"
"frei0r-filter-cartoon"
"shagadelictv")

gst-launch-1.0 autovideosrc device=$CAMERA ! videoconvert ! ${filters[$filter_idx]} ! videoconvert ! videobalance ! videoconvert ! v4l2sink device=$VID_LOOPBACK

edit:

I've always needed an LD_PRELOAD to launch whatever, eg

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/zoom

maybe someone will chime in because they know better than me about all the details here.
Absolutely agree. Somehow, since going premium, YouTube is a better experience overall, with better content. Add that to the lack of ads and we’re sticking with it.
> . 2 days to set up a PC tells me they are just fucking with too much stuff. I have the same problem. But my parents, who aren't tech savvy, have 0 problems because they aren't fucking with the workings of their PC changing defaults and making customizations.

People have different annoyances and preferences. Perhaps you are lucky enough to be close to the default where you don't need to change so many things.

While the defaults for other is death by a thousand papercuts...
Whats the point of discussing genetics and research?

Also, its not necessarily about inferiority or superiority, its a discussion of genetic difference amongst humans, which is interesting.
That’s a good one, next in my reread list.
Long ago Microsoft had MSN Messenger, which was one of the leading messaging apps. It worked well, and many 'normal' users were using it. Then Microsoft dissolved the team behind it and screwed up the product so bad with bloatware and ads that everyone moved to WhatsApp (except in the US where people went back to texting).

Then Microsoft came out with Communicator, renamed it to Lync, which was a corporate messenger/meeting software. It used its own server, that could federate outside. It worked very well. They added LiveMeeting as a separate app for meetings, built on the same protocols. Our company used it with the "roundtable" camera from 2008, and it all worked amazingly well. We had meetings with people joining in from home and other offices over the internet using inexpensive webcams, 15 years ago.

Then they bought Skype and it went downhill from there. I don't know what happened, but they took a lot of time integrating technologies from Skype (peer-to-peer) with their own tech (which was more telecom/server based) and tried competing with ever-changing perceived competitors by copying parts of their features and UI, without ever making any feature really good. They integrated everything into a single program, Skype for Business, now renamed Teams, and made it bloated and obnoxious. Just try to get it to not start at login... It's like MSN all over again.

I think the Communicator/LiveMeeting software combo they had 15 years ago would still (conceptually) do pretty well as messenger/meeting software now, when modernized. It was much less intrusive and behaved like nice software that you actually wanted to use.
iPhone SE is a good compromise if you don't want to fully make the switch. The smaller screen is hard to watch media so I don't have any media apps on my phone.
This is one of those things like an alternate reality where the Nazis won World War II or some fever dream.

Thank God it wasn't picked up.

I know it's a pilot, but the American actors are even mimicking the UK character's mannerisms.
> some combination of the US government's ability to indefinitely tax the largest/most advanced economy in the world + the US military are the two things cited as to why this is true

+ USD being reserve currency of the world, which basically means that rest of the world also pays for US debt/printing money.
It's almost like Teams would perform better as a bunch of VS Code extensions

I wish open sourcing would go beyond dev tooling
Cool project! What’s the motivation? Since it eschews any graphics API, is it safe to assume this only does CPU-based rendering?
Nobody. The price is insane for what it is and the only thing it might have going for it is that it might be carried in retail shops and hopefully Logitech will support it.

It's within spitting distance of the Switch and Steam Deck while being considerably more expensive than Chinese competitors like the Retroid Pocket 3 and Ayn Odin Lite while not offering a whole lot of value.

For streaming a Retroid Pocket 3 is fine since it has 5Ghz WiFi and it only costs $120. The Odin Lite should be faster than the Logitech yet cheaper still at $230ish.
Disclosure: I work for Amazon, and in the past I worked directly on EC2.

From the FAQ: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/

Q: How does EC2 perform maintenance?

AWS regularly performs routine hardware, power, and network maintenance with minimal disruption across all EC2 instance types. To achieve this we employ a combination of tools and methods across the entire AWS Global infrastructure, such as redundant and concurrently maintainable systems, as well as live system updates and migration.
If we assume every one-on-one transaction is a zero-sum game, and if we
assume the salesperson aims to gain, then the buyer necessarily loses.

While not every transaction is zero-sum, nearly all those being shoved
in our faces daily are.

The irony is most programmers are aware their software is a solution
looking for a problem, and rely on their own salespeople to win the game
they despise. It's not hypocrisy if we do it.
So basically every anti-minority society? Be it mostly white people with black people, mostly Christian ones with Jews, etc.

What I am trying to say is 90% white people and them thinking that black people are drug dealers isn't exactly unheard of.

And you can basically go back decade by decade over history with such situations. What makes you think that minority is more right now about someone being just bad/a jerk?
>Trivial to remove, I give you that. But AFAIK, the original repository + most forks put the watermark automatically unless you've removed it on your own.

almost all of the 'low-vram' variant forks either have an argument to turn off the watermark (it saves a bit of memory) or come with it disabled all together.
I swear I saw a recent article saying they were moving forward.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-us-army-combat-hololens...
> We would only see this on a massive sell off when Tether can't prop up the price fast enough with their reserves (by buying USDT with USD). This almost happened on May 11 of 2022.

This did not almost happen. Do you enjoy writing fiction?
The Red Dwarf pilot was also similarly terrible, and there's a great mini documentary of the making of it on the DVD bonuses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCmBRAX_V6o
Thanks so much, I will try this! Much appreciated!
At least they were native.
This is an appealing sentiment, but I have so many counter-examples it's laughable. Including:

- Senior citizens who are homeless because they were too busy "living life" to hold a job (read: life-long hippy types living on mexican beaches)

- Middle-aged friends who are waking up and realizing they don't have careers, just a string of jobs that paid for the weekend getaways.

- Colleagues (across multiple jobs) who show up with this attitude and, quite clearly, do absolutely nothing on average. Nowadays, I push them out if they land on my team. Don't worry, they usually pick up another gig fairly easy.
Sure, but I did see one linked in another thread here on HN after posting that comment.
Who decides what is uninteresting?
Those are just missing features, though!

My favorite Teams bug is when the arrow keys stop working for text navigation. They had to go out of the way to break something like that.
I took a linguistics class years ago that talked about this!

The hypothesis was that upper class women pronounced the "r" as in "Fourth", but lower class women "rolled the r" so "Fourth" became "fowth".

The researchers entered department stores with high and low end customers and asked for a product that was "on the Fourth floor", then they counted the number of times the "r" was pronounced or "rolled"
For real. The way people normally speak, with backtracking, repetition, restarting sentences, or stopping mid sentence and starting a new one with entirely different nouns or entire subjects is perfectly normal in synchronous conversation and isn't jarring, but written down as is, it's like 40% noise.
Many people in tech has had a bad experience (or sometimes several) with sales people who make commitments to a client to close a deal, and then come back to the office and tell the tech people what they need to deliver. Finding oneself having to bridge the gap between reality and what the client imagined they were going to get is an acutely unpleasant experience. Recall too that many people work with computers because they don't particularly enjoy working with people. Of course, it's equally true that good sales people take that social burden off engineers and act as bridge builders with clients rather than selling used cars.

On a more general level:

> I've earned a 7 figure income for 10+ years
> a 80-100 hours a week sales machine

Maybe just chill out a bit? A lot of people don't want to work 4-5000 hours a year, and if their utility function doesn't match yours then they're just going to find you stressful to be around. By most people's standards you've already Made It economically speaking, yet you sound anxious as hell about everything falling apart.
Although if there had only ever been a pilot of The Office (US) I would've felt the same way about that, whereas once it got going I could appreciate it as 'different'. (To be blunt, in the beginning it's just the same jokes with far worse delivery.)
How to “Melt” Stones with Sound
Or, if using pulseaudio, on Linux. Install and open 'pavucontrol'. Change fldigi's (or whatever) input to "monitor of output".
It’s not great on my Intel Mac. Code formatting via backticks is only applied if I type the last backtick slowly. If I type normally, it just interprets it as non-markup.
I think you’ll find there are plenty of tech companies who value your skill

Engineers tend to undervalue sales, so companies founded by engineers can reflect that

I’m curious what your process has been for finding a potential team to join?
Statistica puts CoD 4 at 20M units, MW2 at 25M units, and MW3 at 31M units [0].

You must also consider the environment. 2009 was a FPS deadzone. There was MW2, World at War, Resident Evil 5, Left 4 Dead 2, and Borderlands.

2007 had a TON of superb titles including CoD 4, Halo 3, Crysis, Bioshock, Half Life 2/TF2/Portal (Orange Box), S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Quake Wars, and probably a couple I'm forgetting.

Given that difference, MW2 sales being just 20% higher is not that great.

The worst aspect of console CoD 4 and MW2 was grenade spam and the second worst issue was win more killstreaks. Both of these vastly outran any map issues. The only bad map I can recall was the one with all the shipping containers, but that was because it was miniscule.

I used to play a LOT of hardcore search and destroy (with perk, grenade launcher, and killstreak limits -- yay custom PC servers). I don't remember any situation where having fast reflexes wasn't by far the most important thing along with hitting the max FPS (140 FPS?) so you could jump farther (I can't remember if this was fixed in MW2). Maybe it was different for other people though.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/321374/global-all-time-u...
That wasn't nearly as atrocious as I was expecting. Partly because the script is almost the same as the UK first episode, of course, but even putting that aside it was OK. Richard Ayoade is still great but also Joel McHale is a pretty decent choice as Roy. Even the actress playing Jen, although a bit annoying, wasn't too bad. And the twist that the boss actually isn't crazy is interesting.

Not like the US Red Dwarf pilot. That actually is tear-your-eyes-out bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Sabotage

Looks like Microsoft will have to do in the matter of keeping the state from being too efficient.
The beauty of compression is the paradox of specificy and simultaneous ambiguity.
Renewables are only cheaper if you count nuclear as a renewable.

When people say solar is cheaper, they neglect to consider the supporting subsidies, or the fact that 76% on global average of solar power is actually natural gas in-fill.

At that rate, the whole grid could go solar and climate change would only be set back three years. It's a farce.
That book came out 60 years ago and is still spot on.
This is called "a fishing expedition" and is wildly unconstitutional in the US.

>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This seems oddly redundant. The laughing track didn't help. I had a strange feeling this was just an extended SNL sketch all throughout watching it.
I'm pretty sure this pilot is the same script as episode 1 of the original UK series. Clearly someone felt the need to recast and reshoot the series with US actors (plus Richard Ayoade), like they did the US Office.

I wonder if that's old thinking (or wasn't actually needed) - the amount of UK TV that's now on Netflix and other OTT platforms seems to suggest that US audiences are open to enjoying original UK series without being reshot. Did the UK IT Crowd ever take off in the US?
Because I'm not trying to prove that it did or not, but rather make parallels between that and OpenAI's name. For I care it could be an urban legend, but who cares that's not the point.
Worst bug IMO is that Teams seems unable to reconnect after my machine goes to sleep.

This feels like an extremely basic state to detect: after n seconds of no heartbeat, reconnect.
High level, fossil gas filling in when there are renewable shortfalls is acceptable in the short term due to the rapid energy transition occurring.

Australia is on track to hit 100% renewables with solar, wind, batteries, hydro, and transmission in the next decade for example.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-near-100-per-cent-renewables-g...

Europe has equivalent wind potential to being able to power the world. As more renewables are deployed, this continues to push fossil gas to the margins.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/wind-power-in-europe-...

NextEra’s latest investor deck forecasts battery backed solar and wind cheaper than existing natural gas, coal, and nuclear in the US before the end of the decade.

https://cleantechnica.com/files/2022/06/lcoe-small.jpg?mrf-s...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Wow, nice overview! This is worthy of a submission of its own (perhaps in prose with the links inlined), this shouldn't be at the bottom of some other thread.
I live in a place that barely have 3G and mostly not even that. The best strategy is to simply adjust to not having or using cellular.

When I need to make a cellular call, I simply have to get in my car and drive the 8 miles into the nearby village. There's a certain part of the village where you can get both cellular and data. The rest of the area only gives audio phone.

I live about 30 miles from our state capital and you only need to be about 2 miles outside of the city limits and there's zero cellular.

For personal security, that's why we own guns. For personal health, that's why we make friends with neighbors. This is simply how it is. The best strategy is to get used to it and stop whining about what cellular providers will NEVER provide.
That would be over-fitting which is certainly a failure mode of ML. But it's still a failure mode, not an inherent property.