skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment and the grandparent both ring true for my and my experience. When using Teams as basically an IRC replacement it worked fine and didn't have any serious issues, when folks started using it to try to host meetings across sites and share interactivity it really struggled unsuccessfully.

I agree with Jacques that all the pieces (except for high speed networking) were in place in the last century I expected this to develop more than it has.

Given the stuff that ML can do TODAY, it should totally be possible to give the "presenter" a view of the audience where you use a combination of the pre-computed model for people's faces, and a client doing pose estimation from the web cam. If I'm looking at the presentation on my screen, that information should allow the presenter's view to see me looking at them. If I'm looking away it could show me looking down or something. If I leave and go to the bathroom or something it could show my seat being empty. Similarly, raising a hand should present on the speakers screen as my raising my hand in the audience, calling on me with the mouse should unmute my microphone until the presenter moves the mouse/pointer off my face in the audience.

Early, EARLY, on in the Java group the idea had been worked on to provide a "visual environment" for doing things, and of course "Snowcrash" came out at the same time and everyone was doing their own "metaverse." I was looking at the problem and realized that to be successful we'd have to emulate some of the physics that keep us sane in group settings today. (like everyone can't hear everyone else talking in a room usually). David Rosenthal did a study for NIST, as I recall, on the network implications of something like the metaverse and concluded that it would take a terabit of network connectivity to "host" a live concert in the metaverse with the same "feel" as being there in person. (so everyone gets a view from their POV, voices travel 10 - 30' in a cone from the direction of the mouth, sound from the stage follows the acoustics of the modeled room etc. And then that analysis is followed by trimming things out to reduce bandwidth until you reach the "present day" bandwidth numbers and describing that reduced experience. He got back to Zoom like meetings with something like 1mbps/10gbps for the participant/network ratio.

So summarizing; Often people approach the problem without realizing the complexity of what they are trying to do, in part because meetups/communication in "real life" has so much of the complexity taken care of by physics and the fact that you learned what worked as a toddler before you could think so it just "is" in your brain. Stepping outside of that mindset requires deliberate effort. There are likely opportunities here that are not being exploited because of this mindset.
It is actually odd they perceive it like this. I work much harder from home than I ever did from the office.

It is impossible to hide doing WFH like one can do “endlessly” collaborating with your colleagues at the office.
Nah I'm not - I think SolidWorks is also still Windows only but I could be wrong.
"tend to be less religious"

That is what I have heard too, but family/society patterns tend to linger for a generation or two after the religiosity has subsided.

Czechia, where I live, has only about 13 per cent of self-declared Christians, but the main Christian holidays such as Easter and Christmas are still almost universally observed. The trace is still strong, even though the religious core has mostly evaporated.

"I don't see how requiring sturdy housing would make the situation any better, as many families simply cannot afford it."

I am not certain that the bad housing was actually much cheaper when sold than it would be if the codes were at least somewhat respected. People who do this kind of shady stuff will still try to sell at the highest possible market prices.

This is a notorious problem in China: very expensive apartments of horrible quality. Once a few crooks coordinate with the corrupt officials to capture the local market, you don't have much choice but to accept their conditions or go pound sand.
Telnyx has SMS via API cornered at scale for about half the cost:

https://telnyx.com
Yeah, Twitter is on a fairly rough stretch of Market Street.
Also from the same author: Airplanes are taxed higher than skittles.

Because airplanes cost $50mil and Skittles cost $0.50.
You are mistaken.

Apple ushered in the mobile web. It was Apple's solution to the delay of the iPhone SDK: Web Apps.[1] That is exactly what created the non-WAP mobile web, which began in 2007 coinciding with the announcement and release of the first iPhone. What third party could have such influence over the entire WWW? None. It was Apple, it was only Apple, and it was entirely Apple that created the non-WAP mobile web that everyone loathes. Every mobile web site uses the tools that Apple created for web apps. And they all look the same.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/03/remembering-apples-sweet-solu...
Women around the world are avoiding marriage
Free, paid for by the advertising section I believe, i.e. the ad for Outer in today's edition: https://join1440.com/newsletter/chiefs-win-unidentified-floa...
The cross-platform GitHub action
Could you link to any sources? This sounds big.
Losing some key staff might be better than a 2nd, 3rd, Nth round of layoffs which could cause an increasing crisis in confidence, which would lead to proportionally more senior staff leaving.
Fantastic insight. Carl's Jr is another example, atleast in the early 2000s.
Vosk

https://alphacephei.com/vosk/lm

You can restrict the vocabulary the way you like, for example, here is the chess app built with Vosk

https://www.chessvis.com/
From an evolutionary standpoint, I sincerely believe that people aren't mentally equipped to deal with society as presented by the internet/media.

I make my living due to technology, but if there was a big switch to throw that would turn off television/internet I'd do it without hesitation. I think the long term benefits would outweigh the short term chaos.
It tries, but most stock APIs have limits for free accounts. I have updated the token to attempt to get more bandwidth.
Consider it valuable training to survive the new chatbot age.
> For people who are not solely at one company - contractors/freelancers who perhaps need to support connectivity with multiple organizations - MS Teams is a huge hostile pita.

Bingo, that right there. Need to work with one team, but also quickly jump onto a meeting with another client... So bad. If you need to be available to two clients at the same time? No, that's not going to work.

The UI is horrible, finding people is difficult at best. Chatting with someone and want to jump on a video call... well, that will take a few minutes to locate the right button. At least Google Chat just put a big old button right in your face so you can do a quick meeting. Google suite of product (Meet, Calendar and Chat) have their own issues, but it's so easy to do meetings, and it just works every time. For six months a number of us at the office were unable to make audio work on the desktop Mac app, and Firefox wasn't supported, so you needed Chrome to join a Teams meeting.

You can't really complain about the audio or video quality in Teams, they got that mostly figured out. It's just that the desktop app has a horrible UI. I mean so does Slack, given the option I'd use neither.
Teams has never worked reliably for me when sent a link from orgs that use Teams. Half the time we end up in my Zoom call and the people on the call always gripe about having to use Teams for the first few minutes.
Monitoring – Status Dashboards
How many types of dashboards do you need?
For the other layers one can front-end IRC with TheLounge [1][2] or Convos [3][4]. TheLounge only persists history in private mode meaning that users are created in that front-end and chat messages are in Redis. For small networks or groups of friends this is probably fine.

Notably missing is voice chat. I use the Mumble client [5] with the Murmur or uMurmur [6] server which is light-weight enough to run on ones home router. I use it on Alpine Linux, works great. It's not a shiny and attention grabbing as Discord but probably fine for everyone else. For people to create their own voice channels would require the full-blown Murmur server.

[1] - https://github.com/thelounge

[2] - https://thelounge.chat/

[3] - https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/

[4] - https://convos.chat/

[5] - https://www.mumble.info/

[6] - https://github.com/umurmur/umurmur/wiki/Configuration
Of course MBBs and others have expertise. It's just that most of that expertise is not in the industry domain.

They have expertise in crafting and creating compelling arguments, in selling ideas. They have expertise in maintaining an industry-wide view and synthesizing general trends across the industry (or across industries). They have expertise in parachuting in as third-party and the politics that are associated with that.

These are VALUABLE skills. Imagine if everyone in your organization was an expert in crafting narratives, in putting forth concise arguments, in maintaining the larger context beyond their own area of practice.

The problem with strategy consultants is that they are not hired to be objectively valuable to an organization, an industry, society, etc. They are mercenaries who apply their skills to be valuable to specific people. And because they know how to be more compelling, even if they are not actually correct, it becomes deeply problematic over time, or at scale.
> Pretty sure the GP definition of broke is not really what broke means. I know it is all the rage these days to just redefine terms to make them often mean the exact opposite of what the rest of the planet understands them to mean

After they explained to you it was broken in their official client for their officially supported operating system, you moved the goal post to it's only broken in the client, try the web app instead:

> The Linux Desktop client always sucked, so much is no longer a thing, 100% a web app now. The web App teams should work just fine.

Just stop.
Personally speaking, I would happily go to the office if attendance were more like 80% instead of 30%. Right now I rarely go because the attendance is so poor.

So I would say that it’s not just people who want to go vs people who don’t. There is a third category that basically doesn’t see the point if the office is “just” a working environment and doesn’t have enough actual coworkers there, which I find myself in, and I suspect many others do too.
"Superb" is not the word for deps.edn documentation. It is certainly documented but the gap between most Clojure documentation and the deps.edn documentation page is big. I suspect Rich wrote most of it but left the deps.edn page to someone else.The deps pages have a knack for includng pages of waffle that doesn't help to solve the current problem.

If a newbie is trying to debug

{:deps
{ring/ring-devel {:mvn/version "1.9.6"}}
{ring/ring-core {:mvn/version "1.9.6"}}}

=> Error building classpath. Error reading edn. Map literal must contain an even number of forms

They have to notice that while they got 80% of their maps right, the file itself if a map with 3 forms. This is compounded by the fact that there are no examples of a multi-dependency project in the getting started page! If you know Clojure, this is an easy puzzle. For rookies, they didn't use (map) so the error message will probably trick some percent of them.

I don't think the deps documentation has been validated to provide what people actually want to know. Technically it is probably thorough, but "Superb" is a high bar it does not reach.

Probably the proper approach is learning deps by copying other people. Trying to learn it from the docs didn't work for me (it did for the rest of Clojure, so that was an unpleasant change).
It occurs yes. But in some categories it is inverse. I bought a new in box $300 Chicago Pneumatic 1/2" drive impact for $50 on ebay because it was the pink "breast cancer awareness" version.
What platform are you on?
Doesn’t CTRL+SHIFT+V work for you?
Also, the inability to move existing posts or DMs from one instance to another discourages Twitter blue-check types. What if your instance is blocked by others? What if your instance shuts down?[1] What if you change jobs? (I think the last is why we haven't seen CNN or BBC or Yale create an instance and its people start using it.)

[1] Such as the recent spectacular implosion of mastodon.lol after its owner got horribly abused by members over Hogwarts Legacy. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34748195>
Boomers are in no way the majority in India. Its median age is 27.
They are plotting and scheming as they lurk in their burrows. The day of reckoning is looming ever closer. And with the help of celestial entities they gonna be victorious. :DDD
'The' Matrix, or 'Matrix'?

I've been slowly getting wow'ed by the current developments in Nostr, which could be a great, new open protocol for social media. The native implementation of lightning network payments, and the ability to follow paid relays without needing to be bound to them is pretty cool.
Umm...I'm sorry, but it very much is a form of survivorship bias. "Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not."

"I worked hard, my employer treated me well, and I retired early. It's not that hard!" Does not take into the account the workers that worked hard and in return were abused by their employers.
Is this the end of the Buy Now, Pay Later boom?
Because you can buy an infinite number of globally located, cheap, disposable front end VPSes starting at $1 a month or less that hide your critical infrastructure.
The reviews and funding decisions are normally based on project description. It's normally not blinded, and while that has many problems, I think the advantage is very real: You need to know if that person has a real shot at performing that research. What's the prior experience, etc. It's impossible to give that information without essentially unblinding the personal information anyway.
The original source has slightly more detail (see 2. Tarrif Rates)

https://www.progressivepolicy.org/blogs/ppis-trade-fact-of-t...

The original original schedule is here:

https://hts.usitc.gov/view/Chapter%2061?release=2023HTSABasi...

eg,

6108.91.00 - Women's Cotton underpants: 8.5%

6107.11.00 - Men's Cotton underpants: 7.4%
Do you have a model of the twin towers within it?
negative expected value to google
Are there any guides or examples of chat rooms for open source projects using Matrix?

We would like GitHub integration, strong spam/moderation features, and avoid the hassle of self-hosting. gitter.im used to provide those, but they were lost in the Matrix switch.
"e" is not a likely response to anything. I think you are not understanding the type of statistics involved here.
The woman on the cover was on the cardboard sleeve, it goes away probably on the first use

I told the guy: (paraphrasing of course, was years ago) "it's cheaper because they needed to lower the price since mostly guys are buying tools and guys don't want pink tools. You should buy the pink one because it's cheaper, I am"

I probably should have told him: "nobody will think you're gay because you have pink tools in your garage. Save yourself some money"
I'd rather have to suffer an extended period of hardship than the status quo of "Your corporate overlords own your soul and any attempt to claw back what little power you can to try and balance this stupidity will be made a literal fucking crime"

Every single employee who gains a little power to use in negotiations with their employer should be fought for, by all of us. Fucking solidarity.
> What does it mean to be "loyal to" a company or employee, though?

I think there are different flavors of this but they generally fall into one of two categories:

1. Short-term vs. Long-term

* Employee: I'm not getting a raise this year but I trust that they'll make it up to me. This project sucks but they'll put me on a better one next time.
* Employer: We don't need to keep this person on the payroll right now but we will in the future.

2. Past Behavior Predicts Future Behavior

* Employee: The company cut me some slack when I was going through X, or kept me on even when the economy tanked, so I'll forgo a slightly higher salary at a place that might not happen, in case that situation happens again.
* Employer: This person stuck it out when times were tough and didn't quit when we cut hours last quarter, so we're going to keep them around.

I'm not saying these are always this clean, or always the right decision, but I think they answer the "what does it mean" question in terms most people could identify with. You're probably going also going to see this more in companies that have a higher learning curve or where there is more personal attachment involved (e.g. small town/community where you're going to see them every day). If you're a Shiny Widgetmaker at the only company that makes Shiny Widgets, loyalty is probably worth it. If you work for a megacorp and were hired and fired by spreadsheet formulas, loyalty probably makes less rational sense for either side.
Goes both ways: men are avoiding marriage too.
> For video or text chat or both?

To keep things simple, I would like to use Teams for both.

I do not recall any issues on using Teams on Windows. On Mac neither, but most of my work is done on Windows, so even I am a Mac user I do not have that much experience of using Teams on Mac.

Edit. Even at the moment I am forced to use Google products at work for communication, I can't say that I have had any "issues" with those products either. I think the dislike/like is mostly about feeling. Maybe at some point in my working life I got used to Teams and that stuck?
Have they really? Or have airline near-crash stories for some reason been more popular on HN lately?
I'm familiar with two Joe Rogan episodes with people that have seen UFOs, or at least their stories seem very believable.

#1315 with Bob Lazar (scientist that worked reverse-engineering UFO propulsion tech for US military in 1980s): https://open.spotify.com/episode/7Gg4Qi578G5SXoEtaLVVpx

and #1883 Ryan Graves (was the first active duty pilot to publicly disclose regular sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon): https://open.spotify.com/episode/68t6BZRHenCslyLLaviW1H
prolog based expert systems
> new type of never-before-seen crap code that nobody can or will be able to debug short of throwing it away and starting over

Good thing is that we are dealing with exactly same type of code here and there for tens of years already. Actually, every time I see a commercial codebase not exactly like a yarn of spaghetti, I thank gods for it, because it is not a rule, but an exception.

What I really wonder is what it will be like when the next version of the same system will be coded from the ground up by next version of the same ML model?
The Rust Performance Book - https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/.
Have you considered releasing your code under both BSD and GPL?
Oh I remember this. He was abusing the pass.
I've no idea about biotech, but it's not as if this kit has some molecular factory that can build you arbitrary DNA strands. As far as I know, there is no magic cauldron where you can throw eye of newt for adenine, toe of frog for cytosine and so on, and it would spew out a flask of plasmids built to your spec.

And that E.Coli strain... I believe I may have more dangerous stuff in my lower intestine.
Upwork is revamping its business model to support full-time hiring
Ugh, this is boring.

Not everything is a narrative and not every omitted fact or forgotten nuance visible from a perspective of a local is "apologism". Back again, kinda hard to act friendly when people are so systemically discriminating against anything that doesn't correlate with their impressions.

What is so wrong with my comment history that you are now accusing me of a thoughcrime?
It's just that your comment history is also full of, let us call it "opinionated", arguments, but I'm not acting that you are a worse person than me. Why are you acting like you are a better person than me I wonder?
That he mentions his barber using it without prompting by him means that we're at least on the part of the curve from the early mid up to the very end.

I've noticed this too with friends and coworkers. People that I would think would have no business knowing about chatGPT are already using it in their work and their lives.

Almost axiomatically, that means that we have to be in the 'mass adoption' phase to some degree.

But I don't agree. I think we're in the early shallow phase still.

'The Kids' aren't the ones using it. I'm not being left behind by the 'hip new thing' like I should be. To me, that means that the nerds are still gawking about with it, trying on new things. Once 'The Kids' get a hand on it and use it in the innocent and unabashed way that they always do, then I can say we're in the early-mid phase. And by 'The Kids', I mean not the nerds at school, but the 'It Girls' and the 'Jocks', those kinds of people. If you hear your stoner nephew talking about it, but not your stoner brother, then you're in the early-mid phase, at least to me.
I have a handful of very close friends who are gay, but I've never heard of this bottom-face emoji thing before today.

And I'm a little concerned why not knowing about something that seems like an esoteric piece of fetish-related in-group communication implies that I don't hang out with queer people? Is there an expectation that in order to hang out with people belonging to some group, I need to learn specific lingo regarding that group's sexual power dynamics?
Between the passengers and the people who monitor aviation radio data, I'm surprised this story didn't come out sooner.
There are very few things that cannot kill and eat a rabbit - cats, coyotes, mountain lions, large raptors maybe some large snakes. Their quick reproduction is probably the only thing keeping them from extinction. In the case of Australia where the predators are insufficient well.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/how-europe...
Huh, given the steep dive, and equivalently steep climb-out, I wonder if they got hit by a microburst?
In my experience, it's less about the job and more about the person.

Some people just can't handle working from home. A lot of people, actually. Heavy-handed management can somewhat keep them in line, but then you're tying up extra manager time just to get certain employees to do their job.

That's not to say people can't slack off in the office, too. The problem is that someone prone to getting distracted has 10X more distractions at home and feels 1/10th the peer pressure to work like everyone else in the office.

But if you start picking and choosing who has to come back and who gets to stay home, it's a disaster. The people forced to come back to the office will resent the people who get to stay home, creating more divisions in the team.

The real issue, IMO, is that companies hired way too many people who couldn't handle remote work. At this point it's not an option to apply more management pressure or lay them off because they make up large parts of the employee base. It's not exactly fair to people who can WFH, but at some point bringing everyone into the office starts to look like the only practical solution to addressing widespread problems.