skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, so pointing out that the number itself, being an integer, is computable even though the function isn't. Makes sense.
Over-The-Horizon Radar (OTH) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-horizon_radar
Humans are not rational but you can bet that they will act in their perceived self-interest more often than not. They will always do in the workplace, which is the point here.
Johnny Castaway.
GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users
That's an interesting perspective. Some corrections are in order.

MP4 encryption, specifically Common Encryption addition to ISO BMFF has two levels of partial encryption.

- Each frame's media bytes are encrypted independently of other frames. MP4 boxes themselves are not encrypted. This is done so that applications can parse container metadata such as codec params and timestamps without depending on the secure decrypt and decode layer.

- Each frame consists of codec protocol messages such as NAL Units for H.264 and HEVC, OBUs for AV1, and uncompressed and compressed headers and tile headers for VP9. Subsample encryption leaves message headers unencrypted, but encrypts their contents. This is done for efficiency of the secure decode hardware. Clear and encrypted byte ranges are stored in MP4 boxes.

MP4 encryption of course fully supports HEVC using both mechanisms.

Widevine in general supports HEVC. The Widevine module in Chrome has to include a decoder for each supported codec. They probably skipped HEVC to avoid increasing download size for users.
I started parking as far as I could from the building in college so I'd have to walk more. Park at the far end of a parking lot. Don't get deliveres, go to a store.
This is precisely the attitude that I'm arguing against.

No, Linux is not superior in any way for Windows install image automation!

Why the heck would you reverse engineer and port the DISM tool, when the DISM tool already exists!?.

Windows has a built-in set of free tools for automating image updates, integrations, and builds.

E.g.: you can mount a WIM image offline (without booting a VM or needing a container), and inject updates, software, configuration, or even drivers.

This is 100% supported an Will Just Work. It takes minutes, not hours.

The article is the rough equivalent of trying to build a Linux install image using Windows, via some broken FUSE EXT3 driver the causes blue-screen crashes of the entire host OS, then spending a month trying to fix that instead of just using Linux to solve the task like a normal person.

PS: I do 99.9% of my work with Windows. The one time in my career I had to inject drivers into a Linux install image, I created a Linux VM and just used that. (I had to make a version of XenServer that could boot from a MPIO FC adapter during install time, even if a path was down. Fun stuff.)
Doubt it. The court also said the following (court towards the end indicates that the mandate didn’t make sense even when the order was issued):

> “”Being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting Covid-19. As of the day of this Decision, CDC guidelines regarding quarantine and isolation are the same for vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals. The Petitioners should not have been terminated for choosing not to protect themselves. We have learned through the course of the pandemic that the vaccine against Covid-19 is not absolute. Breakthrough cases occur, even for those who have been vaccinated and boosted. President Joseph Biden has said that the pandemic is over.& The State of New York ended the Covid-19 state of emergency over a month ago.? As this Court stated in its decision in the Rivicci matter, this is not a commentary on the efficacy of vaccination, but about how we are treating our first responders, the ones who worked day-to-day through the height of the pandemic. See Rivicci v. NYC Fire Dept., Index No.
85131/2022. They worked without protective gear. They were infected with Covid-19, creating natural immunity. They continued working full duty while their exemption requests were pending.
They were terminated and are willing to come back to work for the City that cast them aside.
The vaccination mandate for City employees was not just about safety and public health: it was about compliance. If it was about safety and public health, unvaccinated workers would have been placed on leave the moment the order was issued. If it was about safety and public health, the Health Commissioner would have issued city-wide mandates for vaccination for all residents. In a City with a nearly 80% vaccination rate, we shouldn't be penalizing the people who showed up to work, at great risk to themselves and their families, while we were locked down.
If it was about safety and public health, no one would be exempt. It is time for the City of New York to do what is right and what is just.”

Source:

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet...
Because it doesn’t matter who has Covid in a fire.
> There are kids in their 20s getting burned out at Amazon who'd be able to singlehandedly revolutionize the engineering processes at most normal companies in the world.

You'd have to believe that talent and compensation are actually well-correlated and I'm pretty sure it's tenuous at best.

Yeah, the kids coming out of top schools and crushing their LeetCode interviews are probably smarter on average, but it's not like that necessarily translates to the sort of skills or behaviors that can revolutionize business practices.
I'm generally supportive of more tools like this, but we need to know what your hook is. How is this different from other no-code tools? What does it do uniquely well? What tradeoffs are you making that will appeal to certain users?

Also, you may run into some name conflict issues with:

- Airtable

- Airrange

- Airdev

- AirOps
Isn't that what Netflix does - or at least doesn't really permit for having an off-year?
If you are interested in details, the author has a blog:

https://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3881/dhtml-lemmings-primer...
Try playing an original Star Wars arcade game or a Vectrex system; that's something you cannot really reproduce with an emulator at all.
Just my 2 cents - don't reduce the price. If someone isn't getting enough value out of it they likely aren't the right customer and might pull you all over the place with requests.

If someone is running $100m through your system they are going to call to negotiate anyway, you don't have to advertise it.
Check Flite2 with the voice pack. A lot of them like SLT and RMS (not that RMS) are good enough.
You’re talking about capitalism not social structure. The post above that brought up social structure is also a red herring. This is about legal power and the threat of coercion. It would be trivial to implement a law to punish (say) Eric Adams or someone else in or formerly in nyc government for what they did. There are probably some basic mechanical reasons that is not generally done (although I don’t mean to dismiss the idea).
Reminds me of the PAGNI posts from a couple of days ago.

2. This depends on how much you want to have control over your core business technicalities. Open source works wonders if we're dealing with complex standards, but not when the subject needs to change often.

4. Can't argue with that. Go for the extreme route of business object modelling the functional way.

5. Or add analytics when ethical!
This quarter Microsoft Cloud revenue was $25.7 billion, up 24% (up 31% in constant currency) year-over-year.

Compared to Google, if I read their Financials correctly, their Cloud revenue was just $6.8 billion for the quarter. https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q3_alphabet_earnings...
Not just that, but few people have both the depth to recognize competency and the breadth to know which competent people are key.

In practice, most places I've been have a few people who are "obviously" key and then a lot of ambiguity.
They are Machines. Machines need to be operated by humans. So No.
Ha, perhaps. I work in game dev, and previously had a stint in integrated display controllers for feature phones. Anecdotally, most of my code is effectively thrown away once shipped.
While true, I think it was illustrating the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" approach HN takes to Google in general.
One weird trick for retention: pay your valued employees the market rate for their talent level... even if they have made the mistake of staying at your company for more than two years.
> It became the New York Supreme Court under the New York Constitutional Convention of 1846.

Sounds like they blew their chance to name it properly. Oh well.
> At the core, all social structure is built on the threat of violence

Put another way, people with nuclear weapons don’t need to pay parking tickets.
Works as Intended.

> Managers don't discover the work

I disagree. Have you never seen a manager hired from another place already come in with a bucket list they want to do bc “that’s how we done it at X”? That’s a classic. There are less nefarious examples of this ofc but ime managers absolutely do and even want to discover the work. Now whether they’re the right people to do it is entirely different question =)
We've already migrated our old webpack rails front end to esbuild as of a couple months ago, and couldn't be happier.
It already exists https://www.sisvel.com/licensing-programs/audio-and-video-co...
>I would expect that a company like Google is able to find partners, but if not, there's always screen scraping.

They can shut that down with laws banning the practice. It might not stop someone working on a personal project, but it would prevent any significant company from offering any kind of paid product or service using screen-scraping. In fact, it might already be forbidden just by ToS.
Pretty much everything.

As far as I can tell, there is a significant gap in modern software: there is a large catalogue of software that is intended to be easy to use but is inflexible, and a decent selection of software that is flexible yet is incredibly complex to use. A lot of software of the 1990's was both flexible yet not overwhelming to use.
The Abba museum is also a lot of fun. Yes, that Abba from the 70s.
I’m going contrarian and will say I really don’t miss the CRT and how it burned my eyes after hours of use on a daily basis making pixel perfect web design at 1024x768 and using some of the things I see discussed on this post.
I have a Thinkpad X120e Chromebook that still kicks with Gallium OS on it. I think you can pick those up for about $50 USD now. There's a Chromebook version and a "regular" version.
Is it politicized?
This honestly sounds like cowardice to me. Maybe you're right that explicit feedback is overrated; I don't know. But what is the drawback to providing it? Is there one, besides a fear of awkwardness? Even if the upside isn't strong, there is no real downside, so it's worth doing.
Yes, S-expressions come in many flavors, some more minimal than others, some binary. They are all truly wonderful.

The most wonderful to me are the simplest ones, and Jevko grows out of the same spirit as them.

However, it does not attempt to be a new flavor of S-expressions and diverges in ways which to me are worth looking at. I hope it can appeal and be useful not only to minimalist syntax enthusiasts.

BTW Some time ago I've been also experimenting with binary versions of Jevko, certainly with inspiration from both netstrings and Rivest's csexps:

https://github.com/jevko/binary-experiments#asttolengthprefi...

Since then I had some more ideas which I hope to get around to implementing at some point.
You don't sound very serious about your career. I don't know you, but I speculate that you would be frustrating to work with. Who knows, though.

Anyway, none of my business. Do you have a plan for your actual retirement?
The US now has just 25 days of diesel supply
Seconded. I haven't still haven't done anything that does face identification and grouping as well.
West Texas gas price falls below $0 as pipeline outages trap supply
Build a solid foundation quickly!

Have your cake and eat it too.

It’s the secret to success.
> every other product you try to bring to market ends in failure

Pretty difficult to square >$250B of annual revenue with “all of your products are failures” and “can’t think of a product that people actually want”
I think you've missed the point that this sort of thing is often easier on Linux than on Windows.

Many of the leading repair tools for Windows are Linux based, for example.

If you want to run older Windows software, you'll have an easier time on non-windows platforms via wine than on modern Windows. (Or, you can run otvdm, wine on windows itself)

etc etc
Looking like great news for Google
Scaling engineering velocity is also dependent on the domain and strategy. If the strategy is throw darts on the wall and see what sticks - one can scale independent teams. If the strategy is leverage what we have to build new features then teams have to communicate with each and this doesn't scale linearly.
But I can't take back my 3 months of waiting
Because athletes and performers are irreplaceable and bring in tourist revenue which the city wants. Firefighters are more easily replaceable and have no effect on tourism. Having competing priorities is common enough, I don't see what doesn't make sense here. The city wants everyone to be vaccinated but it also wants broadway and basketball to be happening more, so they came up with this policy.
My childhood friend reached out about wanting to hide her music collection. This completely nerd sniped me. What I did was create a FAT-like FS in complete reverse (starting at the end of the disk). AES-CTR was used to encrypt it (hurrah plausible deniability), so it would merely look like random empty space. The idea was then to drop some decoy files on the drive, defrag+compact, and then use the free space for the music collection.

She decided against crossing the border with the music collection, and so it was never used. Still a fun steganography project.
100% use it if it's not your money on the line - solid DX across the board but the pricing is oriented at overfunded startups not the True IDE-wielding Glaswegian
Oh that looks cool. Will investigate this. Thanks.
"never telling the employee that there’s a problem" is almost never the case. Your comment mentioned years of miscommunication. If they never expect an update or ever ask you about that thing you were supposed to do, I guess that's one thing, but it's highly unusual. Usually the manager will check in several times "so where's project X at?" and your response would easily clear up the confusion. 'I don't think that's on my plate, I thought you said X' would lead to a quick conversation where the problem is solved, and mappings are updated. This doesn't take more than 2-3 weeks of coworking to figure out, not years.

If the manager asks you repeatedly about project X, and you repeatedly say "I haven't looked at that yet" or some other thing that accepts responsibility but clings to the original phrasing as an excuse to get yourself off the hook, the manager is correct about thinking "why don't they do what I ask". This indicates a judgment problem.
It's not that they are displeased with the Word doc or examining every detail. Just that aesthetically pleasing things attract our good graces on a subconscious level, and CVs are in competition with other CVs. Really we are overcomplicating this. The OP could have fixed the CV in the time it took us to discuss it.

I'd say too often what happens is that engineer minded types rebel against unwritten norms like these and derive a sense of moral superiority from being immune to them, when ironically from an engineering POV it would make more sense to just do these little things, iron the shirts, use a template, and call it a day.
>Hell I could even see them abandoning Waymo

That seems less improbable than even a lot of other cuts. A science experiment that doesn't have a clear path to an assistive driving revenue opportunity much less something transformational? I'd probably make an argument that they have to keep plugging on GCP but could cut Waymo loose without much collateral damage.
I think an article trending earlier yesterday is a big point to strengthen this.

Forgetting the Asbestos – how we lose knowledge and technologies
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33320294]

Especially in startups losing knowledge is a huge problem -- I claim -- and a fundamental management issue as productivity models and other resource management models (theories) do not account for memory.

Who had someone left or themselves left only for X system to start dying in production? Or for a lot of info to have been lost because it existed on slack or on the conversation participants heads?

Startups can simply not afford to lose some/most people. Best case that knowledge is at the hands of competition.
MSN Messenger. Compact and I still like the emoji.... ah, smileys that it came with.

Mainly I miss the free time and the lack of social networks. Content sucks, I think. Posts and statuses were definitely a mistake.
That's why this is so exceptional.
That definitely plays into the sabotage thread. Any competent corp counsel would have been able to navigate around this issue.
The growth in wages at the low end has outpaced inflation.
I think it's remarkable that the pirate scene has barely touched VP9 or AV1. We discussed this 2.5 years ago, nothing really has changed except there's more H.265 than before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19362098
how would you fix that?
I’ve seen other startups with poor post-IPO performance make the same mistake:

Hire a bunch of domain experts, then let someone who has no clue why those people were hired (or why the team succeeded in the past) run the show.
Wow, that sounds super cool! Nice work on that!
I would like to know your arguments against it. How would you define a maximum count of LOC, why would you set that particular limit, and how would you address the "problem" if your team were to hit that limit?
Some discussion on this question 2.5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19362098
>There’s quite a bit of information out there and I’ll basically just repeat what you can find online already.

Yeah, too much information. Maybe I'm just not finding the precise search words to find what I want.

Your reply was very helpful so thanks for that.

>You’re additionally not very specific about your goals

I'd like to be able to do very basic audits of how programs work and precisely what they're doing, and also modify their behavior in simple ways (change hardcoded servers, change program execution flow, disable or enable certain functionality). Reverse engineering with basic modifications.

I'd also like to have a go at modifying firmware of embedded devices, eg a car head unit with a stupid splash screen on startup that I'd like to disable.

For example I have a camera with wifi functionality, and you can control it from a phone app. It would be cool if I could somehow control that from the command line, or create my own basic app for the PC to control it. On top of that it would be good if I could modify the firmware to make it automatically start up in that remote control mode.

Mostly just for adding to my box of tools and general understanding though.
> I think you'd be surprised how long some tests queue waiting for a runner

Why would you ever queue? Our runners take about 40 seconds to come up from nothing. If 50 jobs come in we start 50 runners and then kill them again afterwards.

It’s not like 50 x 1 is more expensive than 5 x 10 x 1.
- Opera 12. I know, propietary. But Otter is not as fast as Opera 12 was, not even close. By comparison, it should be screaming lightweight too under a 2007 netbook.
I haven't done anything with Widevine , but I have written multiple BMFF parsers, and I'm intimately familiar with how many different boxes/atoms there are. Luckily you can implement them incrementally because the box hierarchy is so normalized.

It's actually my go-to project when I'm trying to learn a new language, because the problem itself is simple enough to understand, but it forces you to learn the idioms about the language you're learning. What is the idiomatic way to represent different box types? How do you read values with specific endianness from a buffer? How do you seek through a file's contents without loading the whole 10GB movie into memory?
If slavery is the original sin, this is the second sin.
> Memes are not very tightly coupled to the physical fleshbags they inhabit.

Which is why the most successful memes are those which induce an artificial coupling, e.g. religious beliefs that infuse culture so thoroughly that they are passed from parent to offspring essentially by default. All the major world religions do this to some extent, and it's on vivid display in the more cult-like sects.

> Currently, that pressure is for women to WANT to have children. While cultural effects may come and go, any genes coding directly for that will be reinforced.

Perhaps the fundamental disagreement here is about whether or not the extent to which a woman "wants" children is encoded primarily in genes. I have trouble believing that, on the whole, genes have anything more than a marginal influence on birth rates in the presence of freely available contraception. I could be wrong. But there's probably a reason why at least one major religion forbids the use of contraception. That looks a lot like a meme that has taken matters into its own hands, genes be damned.
Dunno how it is in NY, but in my city, the fire department spends way more time on paramedic duties than on actually fighting fires (around 40 EMS calls for every fire call). IMO if you're getting a ride to the hospital from someone it matters if they have COVID. And even though the vaccines don't guarantee that you won't get infected, the government does have an interest in preventing severe infections. COVID was the #1 killer of first responders
"the average person has no intuitive sense for earthquake magnitudes"

probably true, but when you live in an earthquake zone you pick it up fairly quick.

for me it is sort of like

5 lots of shakes.

6 damage starts

7 lots of damage

8+ god help us all
Not mine. I almost exclusively write glue code that forms a bridge between internal, closed data structures and a firmament of third party libraries. How's an AI going to help with that?
Democracy is fine. Representative democracy can go to hell.
> HN takes to Google in general

Not exclusive to HN.
Humans just have different opinions.
Quarantine, DOS. Required EMS, so you always had to EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to play.
> Netflix's AV1 encoder SVT-AV1 is extremely fast

https://netflixtechblog.com/svt-av1-an-open-source-av1-encod...
Spark is the bane of my existence.

Sure, you can spin out multiple executors and have it distribute work amongst them…

Provided you figure out the 3 million configs necessary to do this in a reasonable way, so our dependency, networking and storage issues, only for the runtime to decide that actually, it’d quite like to run your entire workload on only 1 of your machines, or something equally frustrating.

Given how frustrating it is to operate on, I’m shocked it has gained as much popularity as it has. I sort of wonder if that’s a bit by design from vested commercial interests- make it simultaneously exceedingly popular and so convoluted to run that you are basically obliged to pay for the likes of databricks just to make your life not awful.

Of course, once you’ve done this, you’ve now bought into a whole suite of other issues, but that’s a different discussion…
Which is outpacing wage growth like a cheetah versus a sloth.
Honestly, I'm so tired of arbitrary UI and behavior changes, I'd actually say more companies need to back off their engineering velocity as they scale. Get it right, then leave it alone.