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The battery pack's usable life is determined by how long the company offers and maintains the app. I'm willing to bet that the app will not be around for more than 3 years.
Yeah, still not entirely clear what exactly they're doing with all of it...but they certainly saw the GPU supply crunch earlier than the rest
Seconding this: adding "-pix_fmt yuv420p" to your conversion will ensure compatibility, for example if you try attaching a converted MP4 to a WhatsApp chat, it will not show a preview or play unless you include this flag.
Minuscule indeed. In the late 2000s I ordered a gram of desoxypipradrol [1] from a sketchy Chinese chemical company. A gram was the smallest unit they'd sell.

When it arrived we dissolved it in water at 1mg/mL so we could volumetrically measure 2mg doses accurately. Our first test doses were 500ug.

It took us so long to get though the jar that some mold started to grow on the solution, even though we kept it in the fridge! Not wanting to throw hundreds of doses down the drain we scooped off the mold, added Everclear (ethanol), redid our concentration math, and moved the jar to the freezer. Wild, innocent times.

Sadly, one of my friends in on the desoxypipradrol jar died from fentanyl contaminated dark web drugs a couple years ago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desoxypipradrol
My concern is that these platforms will soon sell Human Created (tm) content back to us.
Would be much safer if I teach my kids to stay away from smoking and drugs.

Worked on me.
I've said it before, and I'll never stop saying it.

Zones were awful.

Solaris had all of these great ideas, but the OS was an absolute pain in the ass to admin. And I say that from both sides of the SWAN firewall.
> I'll note that the cumulative delays from TSA "security" have had a much, much larger human cost than the destruction of the WTC towers. Relatedly, the financial cost has been staggering. Tragically, the process creating both of these costs are ongoing.

People die because of the TSA? Like die immediately, in the aftermath, and a decade later from cancer? Any sources on this?

Your two things fall apart with a (not even that big to trigger an explosive decompression in a bad part of the aircraft and cause a near certain crash) bomb. Or a grenade to blow up the cabin door. Or hell, a deranged pilot who decides to end it all and crash the plane.
Is it really a decline? If people are looking for and consuming the slop, where is the issue?

There is still plenty high quality stuff too if that is what you’re looking for. If you want to roll with the pigs in the shit, who am I to tell you no?
Hardware video encoders all - even in 2024 - produce significantly worse quality at the same filesize.

They're made to be realtime, but for any kind of delayed playback where there's time to encode, software encoders win without any kind of effort. For web delivery especially, hw encoders have no business being used because quality per expended bandwidth is paramount and costs money.
How does Hyprland compare to similar software such as Enlightenment? Which seems to be the same sort of thing but for X instead of Wayland.
The salaries in Warsaw are incredibly low for such a big xity, they are lower than in Krakow. The hate towards foreigners is way too high. It feels very non-European.
Here's some more information I found linked through the reservation process: https://docs.gouach.com/
> C-suite have bought into the dream that AI magically makes everyone more productive

I don't think they are just that naive. Modern stock markets expect CEOs to collude with them in pumping up the stock price by any means necessary( including outright lying).

"LLMs are going to lead to AGI, and its just around the corner". Everyone knows this is bullshit but we have CEOs of mega corps trafficking in these lies openly because markets expect them to and keep the gravy train rolling.
I sometimes read hacker news with Emacs eww. An easy way to get dark mode.

In Emacs-eww, the nested replies are rendered flat, not indented, but you can set up a search on the "parent" hyperlinks. then search forward to move down the comment tree, or click the hyperlink to jump backup the tree.

When viewing in a modern browser a bit of javascript can make HN dark.

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Both. To some extent.
I don't want yet another app on my smartphone just to manage a battery. I don't want yet another smartphone app that tries to collect data from me. I want to be able to use it even if the company goes bankrupt, the app disappear from the playstore and I have a new phone. I want to be able to use it even if android and iOS disappear from the landscape because smartphone tech change.

Or at least give me an api documentation and an open source SDK.
While you can argue that amateur sports competitions promote healthy lifestyle and whatnot, professional sports is already a caricature of that. I don't see any reason not to organize "Olympics of doping" where rules allow participants to virtually do whatever they want in order to win.
> How do you find the best cyclist if the quality of the bikes is wildly different?

In that case, you should probably give everyone the same 'official' bike.
I think globalization is on average a good thing (and probably the only way we survive long-term, but that's another discussion) - but indeed, we have lost some things in the transition, namely stable communities. For a long time, these were provided by our family, our local community, a church, etc. Now, we have much more freedom in our choices of communities (i.e., one might leave an abusive family) which is generally a good thing, but without replacing those communities, it's difficult to grow as a person. Not to mention the myriad other social problems that arise from this - a lack of community to care for the elderly, generations who don't know how to develop real relationships, and the loneliness that comes from that, etc...
First things first: The "article" (if it can be called one) is complete garbage and is nothing more than an advert for UpWork. That being said, the (clickbait) title resonates with me and from what I can observe with my colleagues at least.

It's clear to me from talking to the C-level in my company that they've been completely hoodwinked by Sam "Give me your biotelemetrics" Altman and others like him into thinking current day LLM technology is some sort of superhuman AI capable of replacing entire teams. The only thing they hear in their circles is "Infinite productivity and growth!!!" and salivating at the thought like an abused dog hearing a dinner bell that's never actually coming.

We build customer support software, and the CEO is adamant on "replacing 95% of human agents with an AI chatbot". So we've been building out this AI feature (Read: we're calling OpenAI's APIs with some custom prompts) and it's been laughable how fucking useless and unusable it is. The responses are full of lies & contradictions and never actually answers any queries with any kind of accuracy once you examine the output for longer than 2 seconds. But the C-level is loving it, despite it being a massive resource drain in every conceivable way, I suspect because now they can put "We have AI!" in their pitch to investors.

I dream of a massive solar storm that wipes out all of this crap off the planet for good, because I'm not sure if I can handle the incoming future full of spam, scams, lies automated at such an insane rate.
> compatible with all major brands

How does the compatibility work ? For my experience as an e bike mecanist, most of the brand have their own plug (with different number of pins). Event for those that use the standard shimano/bosch/bafang there is a new plug every two years. This plug market make me think of the mobile phone in 2000’s.
Just give everyone the same official bike then.

> Of course you are. If you’re against any rule you personally dislike or misunderstand you’re not for rules.

Haha.
When large corporations like banks say they want "access to social media," what they mean is they would love to get their hands on something like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

...but they want it to be controlled by large corporations instead of a government.
Even if recumbent bikes were not forbidden, no one would use them. Cycling is a sport of dignity. See also, underhanded free throws in basketball, which are strictly superior to the usual free throw style, but lack dignity and are embarrassing to perform so no one does them.
Coinbase's Stand With Crypto Alliance, a crypto CEO has a meltdown, etc.
> How Do We Prevent This From Happening Again?

> Software Resiliency and Testing

> * Improve Rapid Response Content testing by using testing types such as:

> * Local developer testing

So no one actually tested the changes before deploying?!
It's been coming soon for a couple of months now, meanwhile Groq churns out a lot of other improvements, so to an outsider like me it looks like it's not terribly high on their list of priorities.

I'm really impressed by what (&how) they're doing and would like to pay for a higher rate limit, or failing that at least know if "soon" means "weeks" or "months" or "eventually".

I remember TravisCI did something similar back in the day, and then Circle and GitHub ate their lunch.
This actually sort of ruins the sport for me. I'm sure there's practical reasons for it, just like with BattleBot but it's just so... lame. Put them into an irregular tunnel maze, time them from the millisecond they enter.
Those are difficult situations indeed. I asked because I was wondering how it goes. Thanks for the explanation.
You may be surprised to learn that if you go to the garden of the Yad Vashem institute the trees there have tags with names of Poles. Each tree is planted for the person who saved Jews during the Holocaust. Here are the statistics https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/statistics.html Those numbers do not only matter as statistics, there was a law in place in occupied Poland that allowed the whole family to be sentenced to death if one of the members was caught helping Jews. Herr Schindler was not the only person who was saving Jews.
Can you trust that it faithfully reproduces undefined behavior? ;)
I noticed that when I applied there during my last job hunt. I took it as a hint that "We're not interested in hiring older workers."
It does seem like their batteries may be available for sale in europe? https://www.daurema-batteries.com/en/products/gouach-batteri...

And this twitter post is from early 2022 https://twitter.com/Gouachbatteries/status/15149892871414865...
I remember a write-up of this competition around the same time, a year or two earlier perhaps, in Popular Mechanics or some such magazine. From memory there were two main strategies: simple brute-force wall-followers and maze-mappers. The only bot I can remember was named Harvey Wallbanger.

Edit: 1980, found it.

http://davidbuckley.net/RS/mmouse/images/PM80p17article1268....
Several call themselves energy drinks and don’t like C4 Smart Energy.

At least as far as the Federal Trade Commission is concerned that’s not an issue.
> It's not my fault

I don’t think anyone was blaming you personally, nor am I.

> that the experience with developers coming from those areas has not been good and my current company does not want to repeat the mistake.

> There's no racism involved, African applicants are very welcome as they live in the same timezone as most of Europe do.

Whether or not racism is involved in this case, it is absolutely possible to be racist against Middle Easterners and Indians without being racist against Africans. Racism is not a single binary yes/no question.

Also, is the time zone (whether of residence or of work) really the determining factor, or is it where the person personally or ancestrally comes from?

For example, would the client consider someone personally and ancestrally from India or the Middle East who currently lives in Germany or Africa and works in the local time zone there, or who lives in India or a Middle Eastern country but nevertheless can work at the same times that the Europeans work instead of asynchronously?

(Tangent: Egypt is usually considered to be both in Africa and in the Middle East, and it’s in a Europe-compatible time zone like the rest of Africa. The rest of my comment will ignore this, but it highlights how weird it is to exclude the Middle East but not Africa for time zone reasons.)

What about a Swedish or British person who lives in India or a Middle Eastern country and works in the local time zone there?

And does the client’s policy treat Israel like the Middle Eastern country that it in fact is, or is “Middle Eastern” a short hand for “majority Arab or certain other ethnicities such as Persian but not African”?

I’ve worked with plenty of good and bad people from all regions - including not only good and bad people from India and the Middle East, but also including good and bad people from Europe and the Americas. The same is true when I’ve interviewed people as a hiring manager.

Your client’s biases are not supported by most data or anecdotes, unless there is something very unusual about the particular candidate pool they attract, in which they should fix their outreach methods.

Rather than true racism, my suspicion is that your client is simply unaware of how to get past the cultural differences that developers from India and many Middle Eastern countries have to overcome in order to work well in European (or American) companies, none of which are inherent to their level of talent or skill. For example, they need to learn that it’s okay for an individual contributor to take initiative, to admit problems, and to (politely and with data) question potentially bad decisions made or proposed by people above them in the hierarchy.

There are ways to either retrain people from that region or to filter at an early stage of the hiring process for candidates who have already made that adjustment.
I agree with your statement mostly.
However I think if we're dealing with 1080p displays, hardware-accelerated transcoding produces acceptable video quality for non-4k+ watching. That's just my 2 cents.
All officers are employees, but not all employees are officers. C-suite employees are all officers at least. I’m not sure how far below that it expands.
>Use of stored energy is obviously allowed or else you couldn't make use of gravity when on a hill.

You've walked past gold in search of silver. A biking competition that disallowed the use of gravity would be wild. What would that even look like? How could it be run? Compressed air jets to maneuver bikes onto friction platforms? Entire courses built into the non-rotating sections of space stations? Racers suspended on bungee cords to counteract natural forces?
> With these words you have already doomed yourself.

At least they didn't say "xeroxing a page".
Translated into simple language, Ruby chose to expose the multithreading paradigm (multple threads over shared data), like Java and others.

Multithreading is strictly more powerful than single threaded event loops. For some kinds of software there is just no alternative - a modern browser engine for example needs to be multithreaded.

The trade off is that you need to make sure your code is thread safe, which is not trivial as the collection of articles explains. That's your function color right there, green functions are verified thread safe, gray functions are not or not sure.

Personally in nearly 30 years of programming I've never needed to write multithreaded code. I still haven't found a business need that could not be met with suitable choices between multiprocessing (i.e fork) and event loops.

I'll definitely take wait/async programming over having to worry about concurrent thread safety any day of the week.
I'm not 100% sure what you're asking. The package manager equivalent is in development but currently looks like a tiny wrapper around a hash->serialized_program database.
Cool idea! Make it yourself :)
FTC to study surveillance pricing methods of Mastercard, Chase, others
> There would be no need for these server threads if the client thread transferred directly to the server process address space.

The client’s stack isn’t present in the server’s address space: the server needs a pool of threads so that a door call does not need to allocate memory for the server stack.
Oh boy, watching the assembly video… don’t put the batteries in the wrong way around! Boom!

The layout is not obvious so I wonder how they control for that.
Nobody working on GPU algorithms to get a bit of the best of both worlds?
Is your PM technical?
> I don’t think theres a universal healthy/unhealthy line. It’s seemingly just a matter of taste and synchrony between partners

I don't think there's a universal line but I also don't think that this is necessarily "up to the couple"

A lot of couples are miserable together. There are abusive relationships where the person being abused will try and convince everyone around them (including themselves) that everything is fine. Some couples have frequent screaming matches in public. I think it's reasonable for people on the outside to call that unhealthy behavior regardless of how normal the couple thinks it is

The same goes for this. I'm not saying that I think there is absolutely no way this sort of scheduled "weekly retro" can work. I don't think it sounds very healthy though.
Absolutely. Same with the favelas – locals are safer than strangers.

Incidentally, the UK government website contains specific warnings about using GPS navigation in Brazil:

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The security situation in many favelas is unpredictable. Visiting a favela can be dangerous. Avoid all favelas, including favela tours marketed to tourists and any accommodation, restaurants or bars advertised as being within a favela.

You should:

– make sure the suggested route does not take you into a favela if you’re using GPS navigation

– avoid entering unpaved, cobbled or narrow streets which may lead into a favela - tourists have been shot after accidentally entering favelas

If you’re unsure about a location, check with your hotel or the local authorities.

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https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/brazil/safety-and-s...
It often helps when you need to do something that you haven't done before. Letting ChatGPT show you the code - e.g. in another programming language b/c it's a script - and you learning from the correct code, makes development faster.

Outside learning, something you have done a hundred times already, ChatGPT doesn't help a lot.

So I guess the amount of ChatGPT helping depends on the ratio unknown-work/known-work.
And of course, these developers will also complain that the project lacks documentation. Often this is the case for projects that are actually well documented, its just that the dev didn't read it.
It feels a little weird to word it like that, if I say "dead battery" or "my phone is dead", I would almost certainly mean "it is out of charge" not "it is unable to be charged"
Like LinkedIn, when you create a new bank account and plan to deposit funds it's often checked.
The All-In podcast predicted this exact strategy for keeping OpenAI and other upstarts from disrupting the existing big tech firms.

By giving away higher and higher quality models, they undermine the potential return on investment for startups who seek money to train their own. Thus investment in foundation model building stops and they control the ecosystem.
I think it may be a self-fulfilling prophecy of sort - the more you struggle to make it reasonable, the more C-suite will think that their current IT teams are overpriced and useless, so AI consultants must be the way!

Of course reality will eventually get back to this, but it may take surprising amount of time with usual service quality degradation and losing of customers.
IIRC both x264 and nvenc have multiple profiles for the tradeoff between quality and computing power.

For your comparison, are assuming that the objective is best quality, e.g. that you'd accept 10x the computation even if it gave only a 2% quality improvement?

(I can see how this could make sense, if you're encoding a file once and it will be viewed many times. But I could imagine other situations, e.g. where most files are viewed once or never, and only a few files are very popular.)
Mostly all of my side effect free functions are done with ChatGPT (e.g. sort the list of items by X then y then return z, or find A in this deep structure of map[map[map[...]]). If it doesn't need to use lots of APis it's usually right.

For my website in Hugo, it writes all the code for partials and shortcuts.
> How did you pick your settings, what issues have you encountered and any tips you can share are certainly appreciated.

The settings are picked based on what format, resolution, bitrate, and codec I'd like. I don't think this is something you need to spend time nitpicking, admittedly. :)

You mention you're working on a site for video hosting. Have you thought about how you're going to deliver video at scale? Sending video over the wire is super expensive and your costs will probably increase faster than your revenue, unless you're charging out the gate. Cloudflare has some plans which let you deliver for nearly free, but your content needs to be fairly static.

Good luck! Don't sweat the small stuff - just keep building.
As a Pole why it got down voted, it was funny
I think you are missing the point of pro cycling to be honest.

As other commenters have said, the very purpose of this all is to see who can cheat in a way that's not outright illegal.

We are at a point of such peak human performance and conditioning that if you bring in equalisers such as the same bike for everyone etc, you'll just have a whole peloton crossing the finish line at the same time.
> a 33% discount on the shipping price

33% of how much? Why is there no price listed anywhere? Saying there's a percentage discount but not saying how much the price will be makes it feel very scammy.