skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Teams doesn't have to be good to succeed. It just has to exist. It's not even very important how good it is. Given it exists, IT will make everyone use it on Microsoft's behalf regardless of how bad it is.

Or another way to look at it is that the real customers for Teams are IT departments. It makes their lives easier because they don't have to do anything and it meets all the compliance requirements they are supposed to enforce.

Which in turn reflects that the real customers of IT are regulators and auditors. Nobody with decision making power actually cares whether any of the software in use in enterprises works well or not.
>God forbid you try to change the audio device from speakers to headphones in the middle of a call

I can not do this either in Cisco Webex.
Nah this is why:

https://www.optus.com.au/about/media-centre/media-releases/2...

> Optus appoints Gladys Berejiklian to its Executive Team in a new role as Managing Director, Enterprise, Business and Institutional
It depends how fast “fast” is. PCs in the 90s could run games like quake in lower quality mode with lower framerates, but they ran. CPUs that we have now are many orders of magnitude more powerful, so imagine what you can do with that.

Though most games don't bother so we don't really have actual evidence.
Children need museums that cater to them. Dragging a 6 year old into a building full of weird paintings or sculptures is a waste of time and only annoys the kid.

There are plenty museums full of cool stuff that's either interesting them, or can be played with, or are outdoors and can be handled as just a pleasant walk through a cool looking place.
> - 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.

Sounds like it's working out great for them, where's the downside?
I hope you also have a wonderful evening/night but I wouldn't call this "high quality discussion". If the comments were technical in nature and direct from the people involved in the creation of this film, I would agree. Otherwise this is just a nostalgic circle jerk. The quality of posts on HN is vital to the continuation of the platform and this is hardly such an example. As I said, this is not reddit.
I'm the OP but not the creator.

Here are some tweets about the project from the creator https://twitter.com/floydophone/status/1572240761113935875
Steam is surprisingly good at offering refunds. So if you find a subscription wall you don't agree to after you bought a game, Steam will almost certainly refund your money.
Does your browser version support webassembly?
You can blame CUDA quite a bit for that. Proprietary, you need to sort out which driver you need, plus an nvidia GPU...

I tried compiling pytorch with vulkan support, but there are a few LDFLAGS that are wrong. I'll try to solve that some time later.

One piece of advice: use distribution packages! Arch provides pytorch-cuda, and has PKGBUILDS as well.

For reproductibility, I wish we were all on Nix/Guix, but that's not the case (and CUDA+HW dependency would make it complicated).
cmd+tab only works on mac until you've received one notification, after that focus goes to an invisible window.
They are some of the best museums in the world too.
A realistic portrayal of Doomer optimism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Mq6IBkgaI
i absolutely hate vscode but visual studio is incredible and one of the main reasons i use windows
- Last time I tried it didn't support screensharing on Wayland.
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On the history page of York Sub-Aqua club, they refer to members having regularly gone diving in the "Stridd" at Bolton Abbey in years gone past [1]. The only other reference I can find to diving in the Strid is in Youtube comments [2], which apparently suggest that the dives stopped some decades ago.

Anyone know differently?

EDIT: More at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUamSryCUK4, but sadly without progess as reported at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDskXBfyNes#t=179.

[1] https://york-diving.co.uk/index.php/history/

[2] https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/scub...
Let me unreliable that for you.
This. This is really the real direction we need. Changing to renewable energy is only one small part of the whole problem. The real problem is that there are too many people on the planet.
It's software that has never said no to a feature.

So you get a pile of conflicting goals.

Generally to resolve this you need to demand a high level of user competency. Think emacs; does everything, things are mutually exclusive, competency is required.

The teams approach though is to try to satisfy this without requiring any competency. It's probably not doable
I second the hassle and stress part. Going through customs while leaving from Amsterdam to London is no fun. Going to Berlin by train from Amsterdam, in comparison, is utopia.

You get in the train, laptop open, have a workday, get some food or whatever you need if needed. Boom! Arrival.

Can't say the same for Ams-Lon or Lon-Ams.
Ouch. So extrapolating, they could do a 75W no extra power 4050 hypothetically. If they cared to bin their parts. But instead it will be 130 W.
Could not agree less. Unkindness to creatures inevitably results in a devaluation of all life, including human life. Just look at the sorry state of the world today.

I am OK to kill a cockroach, but not to inflict unnecessary suffering on it, or any creature.
Yes. But we've already reached peak child. So once the current glut passes breeding age the population should steady and start to fall.
Being privately owned has its advantages
vscode example notwithstanding, I do not encounter the 'conflicting packages' problem very often on Arch. In fact, I don't remember the last time I encountered it, other than when it's an explicit choice - like, Python can only have one version of a package installed for the system Python interpreter, so if you try to install both python-numpy and python-numpy-mkl-bin, well, you have to choose. That's how Python works, though you can of course make additional Python environments (venv/conda/whatever) with different packages.

I notice the vscode example involves the AUR, which is not the official repositories. I consider that a broken package, and it should be fixed. One of the packages should rename its main executable or whatever.

Chrome, for example, has various versions, but they ship binaries with different names, e.g. /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable.

The great thing about Arch is that there is one canonical user repository, the AUR. So the official repos should not have conflicts unless absolutely necessary, and the AUR should endeavour not to have conflicts, though it's more of a wild-west so they're somewhat more likely.

However, you generally don't have to think about how to not conflict with whatever random packages may be out there - you only need to consider the repos and the AUR. Anyone making their own packages that are not in the official repos or the AUR, and yet conflict with them, well, that's their problem.

Arch being super up to date and the existence of the AUR really does obviate the need for containerising apps to a large degree, at least from the perspective of ensuring dependencies are satisfied (there are still security reasons to want containerisation). I don't believe I have any containerised apps, and yet I'm running loads of modern common programs like zoom, chrome, discord, spotify, the list goes on.
It doesn’t matter if I think they’re right or not - it’s their community.
They have a remit [0] for what content to create, but don't receive any licence fee

[0] https://www.channel4.com/corporate/about-4/what-we-do/channe...
> Very few who bothered to do their own independent research and figure out that the translations are wrong reconvert back.

To whom are Dharmic religions bleeding followers? Other religions or ireligion? Is conversion happening between the Dharmic religions? Any idea about percentages related to conversions?
It is possible to create customised UNIX-like OS with custom kernels, read-only filesystems (mounted images) and writable directories mounted as tmpfs, booting from removable USB. Some call this "diskless". There are some drawbacks from using USB media such as lack of a good randomness source on boot but there are many advantages. Kernels and filesystems are just single files on the USB media and can be easily switched/updated. The system stays "clean". It is "like new" on every reboot. I was doing this with a netbook long before the so-called "Chromebook" came along.^1

The problem with Chromebooks is that they are designed to try to get people to "log in" to Google and to use "the [Google] cloud" for storage. Chromebooks in Guest Mode have an array of Google-authored daemons running the the background from read-only media. There is no way to disable them. You cannot even change the options passed to Chrome, e.g., to disable "Origin Trials". This setup is great if you love everything Google, but not great if you just like computers, you bought the computer for the hardware and drivers, and prefer to choose your own software. With these Google programs always running in the background, it means you do not have ultimate control over the computer, Google does. Another annoying thing is that ChromeOS, as well as Chrome, is a WIP. It is constantly changing. For example, bluetooth may be working fine and then suddenly there is an "automatic update" that breaks it. Then you wait for Google to fix it. I am not too fond of that approach to updates. For the systems I create I choose if and when to update them. I prefer stability as opposed to bleeding edge. Chromebooks OTOH assume the computer user is willingly along for the ride as the Chromebook development teams figures out what they are doing.

1. Google likes to boast about Chromebook security. Indeed the Google programs run from write-protected media, and the user is denied access to parts of the storage media, but this type of setup is nothing one could not achieve, before or after the arrival of the "Chromebook", using an open source project such as NetBSD. IMO, the benefit of the Chromebook project is the hardware support, not the deliberately limited storage, lack of user access to parts of the storage media, mandatory installation and running of Chrome and other Google programs. Additionally, one has to consider the "security" implications of an OS that steers people to use Chrome and cloud storage and to remain online. Those Google programs are constantly probing for internet access. ChromeOS is an OS that encourages risk-taking, i.e., giving more data to Google, including storing user data "in the cloud".

I always make diskless systems to be offline by default. I avoid running X11 unless needed, staying in VGA textmode by default. There is no phoning home for "updates" to an advertising company.

Chromebooks are not designed to be offline by default. ChromeOS forces users to launch a GUI and run Chrome. Google is always trying to collect more data about computer users.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/11/22/chromebook-explo...
My company is migrating to DaaS and there is a plethora of Teams issues. IT teams got what they deserve.
it's a strategic move against Slack etc.

Quick dirty copy of Slack, bundle it ("for free") with the Office which people already pay for. Adjust the bundle price few months later...
The answer is simple, the company is not public it's private. it doesn't seek infinite growth which is impossible thing to to.
In the case of the Congress, the problem is not bureaucratic slowness but the desire that as many companies from every state as possible took part in the project. Every congressperson wants to bring some business to their constituencies; what this business ultimately achieves may be of secondary importance.
Have any of the US talk shows started to copy Graham Norton's "all guests on the couch together" style?

For anyone unfamiliar Graham Norton hosts a late night style talk show but instead of inviting guests out one by one and talking to each in turn he brings them all out together. He still focuses in on each guest at times but he jumps between and encourages them to engage with each other like a good dinner party host. Here's an example of British comedian Greg Davies telling a story while Ryan Gosling next to him dies of laughter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuXGpUR7fXA

It essentially copies the best parts of panel shows and since he started doing that a lot of folk (most notably Jonathon Ross) have started to copy.
What are the odds someone makes iranstagram.com lol

Edit: i've just read the article. disheartening series of events. my country philippines has flaws but damn i can still say i'm lucky in a lot of ways.
This is old news. AMD has since cancelled orders because of GPU sales falling off a cliff. They have enough for Framework, if Framework wants to jump on to make something
I solve that issue with zero guilt piracy. I bought the game - it's single player (or only single player interests me) I can play it however I want not however the seller wants.
Only the BBC gets money from the license fee. Part of the strong objection to the license fee is that BBC’s international arm already is a huge cash cow, so BBC UK could still remain ad-free.
Skype for Business (SfB) was not renamed Teams, the two products are completely unrelated, beyond Teams being a successor product to SfB.

Although there was a little bit of integration between SfB and Skype, (and between SfB and Teams as well) - so could communicate from one to the other.

Although Skype for Business Online was phased out in favour of Teams, the on-prem version still exists, probably for those customers that cannot/will not use Teams for regulatory/compliance reasons, and no end of life date has been announced for the on-prem version yet.
Simplified browser test automation without use of CDP that uses tests composed of a data structure that simply walks the DOM. Quick and easy event execution.

A small script that converts a few key files so that the rest of the Node application builds as commonJS instead of ECMA modules.

Custom DOM methods to get elements by text or get elements by attribute or attribute value or content type.

An https certificate generator and domains that point to loopback IPs.

Automated command line documentation for all the options and various switches of the many various commands in my big terminal application.

A terminal clock tool shows how long each step and groups of steps take to execute in test automation and build tasks in nanoseconds.

Embedding state data directly into the HTML so that it’s there when the page is first accessed by JavaScript without a call for additional state artifacts.
> Similar things were predicted in the 70s but new sources of energy and improvements in productivity invalidated those predictions.

ok, cool. So you've identified the limits (energy and productivity).

Are you sure productivity has grown? Is this growth sustainable?

For example, agriculture. Highly dependent on rapidly disappearing resources Like i.e. dirt. If you look at erosion rates in the US, we are on track to run out of soil by end of century. The petro-chemical fueled "green revolution" exhausts and kills biodiversity, leading to soil death in a century-- and we are 50 years into this. Water. See "US Drought Monitor".

So have we really achieved long-term (> 100 year) productivity improvements in agriculture?
No, they are fully funded by adverts and licencing their programmes to other channels and platforms. See the 4th question in this FAQ:

https://www.channel4.com/corporate/about-4/operating-respons...

There's been a fair bit of misunderstanding around Channel 4 since Nadine Dorris (ex Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) aanounced plans to sell off Channel 4. A lot of people never reaslised it was publicly owned and then assumed it was the same model as the BBC, but with some adverts.
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

Republic - Plato

Laws - Cicero

National System of Political Economy - Friedrich List

Man and Technics - Oswald Spengler

The Bible
You can use our typescript client for everything not only for Schemas. Here is a section that has examples on how to use it https://docs.tigrisdata.com/typescript/. Please let us know if anything is confusing.
Sounds like this will work on understanding any complex system.. like a code base or production system. Very cool, will try it.
Ukraine war: The Russians risking freedom to protest against Putin's invasion
It is a kind of a bad thing from the perspective of monopolistic practices. As a game developer I'm hoping for a better deal than a 30% cut, but then I see the other stores and there's not much viable choices. Also if steam decides to cut out my genre like it does through algorithms changes, etc, I'm hosed.

Such is the price of a winner take all industry. My hopium is that it changes in the future so that the customers win, and the small guys win before the big platform does.
Is this practical to be used on the "edge" (for voice-control)? Would love to know if anyone has a rough idea roughly how fast/slow this would be on a M1 Mac or V100
Science fiction suggestion: The Spin by Robert Charles Wilson.

Always makes me think that as a species how we come to peace with and normalize extraordinary events.
It's worth remembering that Google tried this with Stadia, with levels of investment unimaginable for a regular startup and a product that was superior in many ways (instant games! no hardware requirements!), and still failed.

Of course you can Monday morning quarterback this and point out Stadia's limitations (weak games library, hurr durr Google Reader, etc), but still, the cards were stacked in their favor and they still couldn't pull it off.
The plastic egg tray making machine is a thermoforming machine, which is a multifunctional device. It can handle a variety of plastic materials, such as VC, PE, PET, PC, PP, HIPS, APET, PETG, and PS. The plastic sheet is formed by this plastic egg tray making machine, heating, thermoforming, trimming, and other processes.
Why? The language is great, it's the runtime that needs some work. We have bun because someone thought kind of the same thing about Javascript and decided to improve the runtime rather than to learn Rust.
Nonsense. There are essentially two conflicting ideals here: what developers want and what distros want. The problem is that distros are generally right and what distros want is also what users want. So it's devs against the world.

Devs want to ship updates whenever they want and force them into their users' machines as soon as possible, and forget about updating dependencies and pin them to ten versions ago so they never have to eat the cost of upgrading them. Devs don't want to make sure their application plays well with others, they just want to package it up in its own universe, the user's hard drive space and bandwidth be damned. Devs never want to finish their software or declare it stable, they just want to ship their machine on Monday morning so users have it installed by Monday afternoon, just to be updated again on Wednesday. Devs want to ship spyware and adware and malware without any oversight. All of this is cheap and profitable for devs but highly antisocial.

Everything is better about the distro model: security, efficiency, and stability, and they represent the users interests even when they conflict with the dev's interests.

"Modern applications" are developed by children and distros are the teacher slapping them on the wrist for misbehaving. Don't bitch about it -- just grow up.
What do you think of Joe Lycett's series of Travel Man? I've only watched clips rather than full episodes but while he's very different to Ayoade I've still enjoyed it. I'm perhaps biased though because he has James Acaster for an episode and I could watch that man do anything.
The local walmart has 3 55" TV options for under $300 that are 2160p displays, and even more 43" options that are under $200. This is not a premium feature in TVs anymore.

You can argue that it is a premium content feature and NetFlix would certainly agree. But today you can shoot 4k on a new mid-tier cellphone, or for even less money on an older used flagship phone, and edit 4k video on just about any used business laptop of the last 5-8 years. It feels weird to call this premium with how accessible creating 4k video is.

Personally, I'm more annoyed at their increase in ads recently than at this limitation. I don't know what the acceptable limit is, but 5-10 ads at the beginning is clearly way too many and much more of a problem. I really want reasonable competition. I don't consider Floatplane or Vimeo to be that competition.
Part of the reason is CPython left performance gains on the table for so long, in favour of implementation simplicity. It wasn't that difficult to improve on its performance. That policy seems to have changed now, though.
> Replacing all instances of libFFMoeg.so on a drive is not particularly harder than replacing one.

but how would you know the new version works with the app?

And how do you even know the app needed this library? Are you going to now investigate every app, and check that the library needed updating?

It's work, even if each individual app has only a small amount, it will add up. And not to mention _every_ user would need to do it for themselves.
Anybody know if on GCP the cheaper ephemeral spot instances are available on managed instance groups and cloud run, where it spins up more instances according to demand, and how well it deals with replacing spot instances that drop dead, if so? How about AWS?
> - Media handling is inconsistent, sometimes I can't paste photos, sometimes I can

I think this has something to do with the input format of the file being pasted. I’ve been able to work around this by first copying the image I want to share into WordPad and then into Teams.

I also don’t know if this is a policy set by my IT department to reduce the bandwidth consumption from external aniGIFs.
> "Time to interactive" and "time to first byte" are pointless numbers if the purpose of your site

They matter for SEO.

> "Time to human satisfaction" should be a number that front-end developers measure and aim to improve.

Satisfaction varies. TTI is a relevant metric. E.g. On our ecommerce it takes less than 10 seconds to load the entire page (sub 5 for most pages), but then the user can literally do nothing till all hydration has happened and executed which is simply not a great experience.

Our users, if using the website through slower connections/devices are looking at 40 seconds + delays before they can do anything meaningful, that's unacceptable.
Is it though? I use on in Mac and it never crashes… I routinely change mic and headset midcall with no issues whatsoever! Or seamlessly transfer calls from Mac to iPhone and back. My entire company uses it (and we are thousand employees) and we are pretty satisfied!
How about just drones then flown by tourists in otherwise quite and relaxing nature spots?
Just the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon at work! Or perhaps a synchronicity, if you are inclined to believe in such things.

A similar thing happened to me the last time the Strid popped up on Reddit and HN. It was only a day after I had just returned from a popular walking route which passes alongside it and the Abbey.
Nobody compares to steam in terms of refund policy. As long as you keep within their boundaries, you will get the refund 100%. Its must have when buying from a digital only marketplace.

I’ve even made it a personal policy to only buy digital only games through steam.