The Mt. Rushmore speech by D.J. Trump.
You're not allowed to say anything nice about Trump on HN unless it is also critical of H1Bs, but I also enjoyed that speech.
Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
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Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
I enjoyed his talk, but i can't help but feel like these style of talks always use the same examples: game of life, fractals, esolangs, and some sort of human-computer interactive art system (usually the last one has a lot of variety so maybe that should get a pass for this critique). I would love to see these sorts of programming as art talks with a different set of examples. Not that i don't love fractals and the G…
If you liked the Game of Life running a Game of Life simulation you might enjoy the YT video[0] showing someone's functioning raycasting engine within the game world of Factorio using thousands of machines and parts provided by the game. It blew my mind. What I also found quite amusing was the PowerPoint presentation demonstrating the Turing-completeness of PowerPoint animations[1]. I'll never get tired of this kind…
I would also very highly recommend you watch this talk about PowerPoint’s Turing-completeness — https://youtu.be/_3loq22TxSc
It’s from the same person (Tom Wildenhain) as your video, but this is an hour long, there’s an actual audience (that’s supportive and spends most of the talk in disbelief), and the end with recursive slides / fractals is an absolute mind melt.
Strong recommend! :) Thanks for the suggestions/reminder!
Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really enjoyed that. I think I will also really enjoy a longer version that talks a little bit more concretely about the tech stack being used. Also, not sure if the qr code is just prop or not, scanning it didn't work.
Thanks! I was constrained by the talk length but intended it to be a starting point for future conversations if people are curious about details. Zach Bintliff has a reinvent talk in January going over some details of how we did deployments at Disney+ if you'd like some specific details about that part of the stack. The QR code was intended to be functional and worked in editing but I never got it to work after uploa…
I am actually curious about the details, especially the cloud storage. What kind of storage makes sense in this kind of infrastructure ? Is it just regular block volumes being mounted as ext4, or is it something more k8s-ish solution like longhorn or openEBS? I recently started learning and maintaining a k8s cluster, so I tend to really enjoy this kind of content. Will be really looking forward for the January talk.
Also, Turkey Leg and Mmm The Peas are both masterpiece.
Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jeezus. What is wrong with people? If this woke nonsense is not stopped we are going to chase away all the people who actually create things and be left only with the evil mediocrities that enforce COCs.
> the evil mediocrities that enforce COCs Most "people who actually create things" like communities with an explicit, reasonable code of conduct. This is of course not to say that mistakes haven't ever been made in enforcement, or that some COCs are poorly designed. People under-appreciate the difficulty of building a community that people want to participate in. The problem is a close analogue to maintaining a desir…
There are people who like communities with codes of conduct, and there are people who like to be the ones in the community enforcing codes of conduct. I prefer to live in a country with laws, but I don't fancy being a police officer enforcing the law. And, while plenty of good folks do want to enforce the rules with the purest of intentions, there's no question that, as with any role of power, some people will try to get the job because they specifically want to exert that power and derive great joy out of doing so.
I don't think many people are against the concept of a code of conduct itself - "hey, be nice to each other" is perfectly uncontroversial. It's when a few enforcers want to embroil themselves in a loud crusade against evil and stretch vague codes of conduct for their own gratification that we start to have controversy.
A case like this one where the rule broken was basically "you were mean" but the "victim" didn't actually care, didn't support the investigation, and wasn't even aware there was an investigation, and a full inquisition complete with intimidation and public punishment was brought out nonetheless is a perfect example of a situation where some spectators can't help but wonder if the committee is truly out to do good, or if some members are acting rather recklessly for their own enjoyment and parading around a false banner of justice to get their next high.
Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
#145https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/ Overall I agree with much of the tone that they set and some of the things are long overdue. --- Edit: duckduckgo censor the search query "the great reset" when you search for the first time. proof: https://imgur.com/UbsvTCz Edit2: Changed from "sometimes" to "when you search for the first time" in response to the comment below.
Update: it appears that there is a reason for it.
DDG doesn't show results if there isn't an exact match for the query it seems. It requires you to search the same query again for some reason.
Maybe this is an experiment of some sort, I'm not sure. Again, this doesn't happen on a VPN, but happens on my ip address.
And no corporate settings interfere with the browser, it's the personal device I tried on.
Another thing: when you search for "names database" on DDG there doesn't appear to be any results. No matter how much you try. I haven't found another query that yielded the same results.
Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you liked the Game of Life running a Game of Life simulation you might enjoy the YT video[0] showing someone's functioning raycasting engine within the game world of Factorio using thousands of machines and parts provided by the game. It blew my mind. What I also found quite amusing was the PowerPoint presentation demonstrating the Turing-completeness of PowerPoint animations[1]. I'll never get tired of this kind…
I would also very highly recommend you watch this talk about PowerPoint’s Turing-completeness — https://youtu.be/_3loq22TxSc It’s from the same person (Tom Wildenhain) as your video, but this is an hour long, there’s an actual audience (that’s supportive and spends most of the talk in disbelief), and the end with recursive slides / fractals is an absolute mind melt. Strong recommend! :) Thanks for the suggestions/rem…
That's an idea for a talk. Crazy place where people have implemented computers. My personal favorite is the pokemon red implementation in minecraft.
Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! I was constrained by the talk length but intended it to be a starting point for future conversations if people are curious about details. Zach Bintliff has a reinvent talk in January going over some details of how we did deployments at Disney+ if you'd like some specific details about that part of the stack. The QR code was intended to be functional and worked in editing but I never got it to work after uploa…
I am actually curious about the details, especially the cloud storage. What kind of storage makes sense in this kind of infrastructure ? Is it just regular block volumes being mounted as ext4, or is it something more k8s-ish solution like longhorn or openEBS? I recently started learning and maintaining a k8s cluster, so I tend to really enjoy this kind of content. Will be really looking forward for the January talk.…
The storage animation goes through some of it but for the basics using something like an 80/20 rule for content popularity you can also apply that to data cost. Your most popular 20% of content needs to be as close to the client as possible and will probably be the most expensive for you to store (typically in 1 or many CDNs).
The next most popular 20% will probably be semi expensive but doesn't need to be as close. This can be a subset of CDNs (where it financially makes sense) or georeplicated s3 buckets.
The lower ~60% of your content probably doesn't get accessed very often (relative to "hot" content) and depending on your content and user demands can probably live in your own data centers or POP locations.
You'll want to make it as easy as possible to promote/demote content into these tiers. Content popularity happens seasonally and in different regions so keeping the APIs similar between tiers will help you a lot. S3 is a pretty good standard to build toward so you'll probably want something like that on-prem or in your k8s clusters (minio, swift, etc.). We're also talking about each movie having potentially thousands of assets to track (different encodings for video and audio and different DRM wrappers etc) and hundreds or thousands of terabytes for big catalogs. So using immutable object storage is going to save you a TON of time instead of sticking with POSIX based block or file storage.
During the file ingest (when your encoding it) you're probably going to be dealing with POSIX based files so the encoders can work on the file but you'll want as many systems after that dealing with object storage as soon as possible.
Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jeezus. What is wrong with people? If this woke nonsense is not stopped we are going to chase away all the people who actually create things and be left only with the evil mediocrities that enforce COCs.
From the article: "I would rather not have to write this post at all. However I know that people will ask about why my talk isn’t available on the JupyterCon site, so I felt that I should explain exactly what happened. In particular, I was concerned that if only partial information became available, the anti-CoC crowd might jump on this as an example of problems with codes of conduct more generally, or might point at…
How about this quote: "The process has left me shattered" ?
Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am actually curious about the details, especially the cloud storage. What kind of storage makes sense in this kind of infrastructure ? Is it just regular block volumes being mounted as ext4, or is it something more k8s-ish solution like longhorn or openEBS? I recently started learning and maintaining a k8s cluster, so I tend to really enjoy this kind of content. Will be really looking forward for the January talk.…
The storage animation goes through some of it but for the basics using something like an 80/20 rule for content popularity you can also apply that to data cost. Your most popular 20% of content needs to be as close to the client as possible and will probably be the most expensive for you to store (typically in 1 or many CDNs). The next most popular 20% will probably be semi expensive but doesn't need to be as close.…
Hmm, makes sense. Does same principles also hold while rendering the movie? The 80/20 rule will be harder to maintain because assets can change frequently and unexpectedly during production. But I guess the need for the data to geographically replicated, with fast and easy access, remains (especially during these remote times). During those times, is s3 a still good enough choice or do you want something more robust so your rendering process is not bottlenecked by io.
Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
#150For me, it was Art of Code by Dylan Beattie, but mostly because that talk has the best ending[0] I have seen. Also, introduced to me a side of programming that I instinctively knew existed but never sought out. [0]: https://youtu.be/6avJHaC3C2U?t=3366
As an ex mathematician, I can't handle the part where he claims mathematicians have only been studying imaginary numbers "in recent decades" and then goes on to say that Mandelbrot is the first person to rigorously study these kinds of systems. Made me die inside.
And the whole "mathematicians are only interested in problems they can solve" bit. Mathematicians have been interested in unsolved problems as long as maths has existed!
Edit: Okay, now I've watched the whole talk. Overall it's great.