pavlov

Stream powers Chat, Video, AI Moderation, and Activity Feeds for billions of global end users across thousands of different apps.

We're constantly hiring backend engineers, but I wanted to take this opportunity to tout my own hire because I'm hoping you'll come work with me... I'm pavlov on HN, been here for nearly two decades, and working in realtime media for a good while longer. Now I run the Video team at Stream and I'm looking for a Staff Engineer. You'd report to me with a direct line to our CTO. Check out the details:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stream/82b37457-3d54-4f7a-8a0e-ae52...

You'd own the media plane of Stream Video. It's a modern stack: SFU in Go, cascading to handle very large audiences, ingest and recording fleets, global multi-cloud edge. Video is fundamentally different from request-based services, which means this is not just a seat in Stream's shared infra team, but a genuine Staff role with its own roadmap defined by you. You can email me directly at [email protected], happy to connect and tell you more.

Full-time role, hybrid with 3 days a week in our Amsterdam office, or remote from anywhere in the EU. Visa sponsorship for the Netherlands.

Also hiring: Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Amsterdam), Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Amsterdam), Senior Fullstack Engineer, Moderation (Toronto).

See all roles: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stream?utm_source=5rrpvObp3r

Of course the Supreme Court will change its mind about executive powers soon after the next election, because they are an impartial body dedicated to the abstract intellectual pursuit of discovering the true intent behind 250-year-old sacred documents.

So you can look for “Worf” or “wormhole” or whatever, without having to know the title.

Oppressive regimes like North Korea kill people. Crypto is proven to be a major source of funding for them (and sanctions circumvention for Iran and others).

The question is whether these are worth the benefits you perceive in crypto.

Is crypto "Breaking Bad" for nerds? Sounds about right...

If that's the original stipend value, it shows that poets were well appreciated.

1) unregulated gambling (a.k.a. "prediction markets"),

2) funding North Korea.

Heartening to see the beautiful web3 vision come alive.

Instead I’ll go find my old DVD box set of “I, Claudius” where he had a memorable role too.

Interesting guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer

I guess if users don’t touch it, then you just have to keep trying with something bigger to touch.

In 30 years we’ll be reading these stories about Anthropic.

It’s the nature of the industry.

Something fundamentally switched around 1998-2002 in how interface design was viewed and approached. I started my career in software as a design summer intern at a company that made a Windows “groupware” application in 1997. They took pride in following the platform’s guidelines and actually testing their designs with real users being videotaped trying to use it. The company’s UI design department was tiny, but employed both an industrial designer and a cognitive scientist.

Five years later, everybody I met in UI design was a graphic designer who was drawing glossy website mockups in Photoshop. The elder lore of science-based UI design was completely lost when Web 2.0 happened and app designs became vibes-based. Even Apple couldn’t resist the tide. (Indeed Steve Jobs’s return to Apple in 1997 was a major contributor because he had developed a taste for user-hostile skeuomorphism like the brushed metal QuickTime Player.)

The Pentium III was a superscalar core that scaled up to 1.4 GHz. This microcontroller is max 240 MHz and does less work per cycle.

People like Marc Andreessen, Larry Ellison and Elon Musk are actively supporting the administration, including hundreds of millions in donations to MAGA political campaigns in recent months.

Should we hold these people accountable for the damage they're indirectly doing to public health? If not, why?

The point is that they use a lot of electricity, and this is an active concern to many Americans who see electricity prices go up and polluting energy sources being used more as data centers roll into their state.

For consistency it ought to be called Unix.

It’s kind of mind-blowing to remember that what’s the basic residential building standard everywhere else in the world is already “huge” in most American cities.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/1o0kz9d/i_have_no_inne...

Compared to the uniformity of LLMs, human minds are fascinatingly different from each other. Are voices good, are they bad, or maybe you don't have even an inner monologue? Yet these differences mostly stay hidden and don't stop us from collaborating and understanding each other through empathy.

If the implementation brief says "attempting a reconnect in this handler would be a wild goose chase", the model needs to know enough Shakespeare, at least indirectly, to understand that expression...

A house of mirrors.

A sibling comment notes that he indeed filed a provisional patent in 2017 before going public. That’s the part that the article muddled. 2019 was when the patent was granted, not filed.

When the market keeps expanding, you don’t need to kill your predecessor. The shelf life for legacy enterprise computing is very long.

Slow and steady wins the race. How could they lose to something on the web, when Microsoft owns the web browser itself? Everything runs on Windows and IE. They can just relax and wait for competitors to exhaust themselves, then quickly build their own version. Isn’t that how Netscape lost. Etc.

Now Google is the new Microsoft, just like Microsoft became the new IBM.

It's nice that he gave the patent to public domain, but this is not how patents are supposed to work. You can't patent something two years after it was already published.

I'm guessing he actually filed for a patent before publishing, and the article should read: "Lengyel was granted a patent for it in 2019"

It's an AI-written article, so maybe it's not reasonable to expect it to be consistent on this level...