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oplav commented on Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce openai.com/index/providin... · Posted by u/gmays

akprasad · 24 days ago

What is the strategy, in your view? Maybe something like this? --

1. All government employees get access to ChatGPT

2. ChatGPT increasingly becomes a part of people's daily workflows and cognitive toolkit.

3. As the price increases, ChatGPT will be too embedded to roll back.

4. Over time, OpenAI becomes tightly integrated with government work and "too big to fail": since the government relies on OpenAI, OpenAI must succeed as a matter of national security.

5. The government pursues policy objectives that bolster OpenAI's market position.

oplav · 24 days ago

Do you view Microsoft as too big to fail because of the federal governments use of Office?

oplav commented on I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave themaister.net/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

Almondsetat · a month ago

VC-2 is an intra-only wavelet-based ultra low latency codec developed by the BBC years ago for exactly this purpose. It is royalty free and currently the only implementations are in ffmpeg and in the official BBC repository, and are CPU based. I am planning to make a CUDA accelerated version for my master thesis, since the Vulkan implementations made at GSoC last year still suck quite a bit. I would suggest people to look into this codec

oplav · a month ago

In your experience, how does VC-2 compare to JPEG XS from a quality perspective? The JPEG XS resources I’ve seen say JPEG XS has higher visual quality, but curious what it’s like in practice.

oplav commented on When flat rate movers won't answer your calls aphyr.com/posts/381-when-... · Posted by u/kevincox

Jtsummers · 4 months ago

Issues like this are why I used PODS for my last move. Hire a local packing and unpacking crew at each end yourself, it's a lot less expensive and you get more control but assume more responsibility. Alternatively a rental truck, but you can still hire local crews for the labor.

oplav · 4 months ago

Another good option is U-Pack if you have more things that can fit in PODS. ABF Freight drops a container off on your street and you have a couple days to fill it. Then they pick it up and drive it to your destination. You only pay per linear foot you use in the container.

The downside is that it’s a little slower than PODS or traditional moving because the unused space is separated and then resold to a local freight partner going to the same destination area. If you can live with that constraint, the process was very smooth and the U-Pack customer service was extremely good and responsive.

We hired local movers on both ends to just load and unload the container (did the packing of boxes ourselves, left furniture to the loaders) and paid a little under $6K to move a small 3BR house from the midwest to the east coast a couple years ago.

oplav commented on Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir elixir-lang.org/blog/2025... · Posted by u/lawik

sschueller · 5 months ago

Someone tracked every single camera shot during the halftime show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXNWfFtgbNI

oplav · 5 months ago

John DeMarsico directs the SNY broadcasts for the NY Mets and sometimes posts behind the scenes for how all the cameras come together into a production. I think they are pretty interesting to watch.

https://x.com/SNYtv/status/1832250958258036871

oplav commented on Australian Open resorts to animated caricatures to bypass broadcast restrictions crikey.com.au/2025/01/16/... · Posted by u/defrost

voidfunc · 7 months ago

Let's do this for baseball.. would probably make everything way more interesting

oplav · 7 months ago

MLB does something similar called Gameday 3D. https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-gameday-3d-guide

The main difference is that it's rendered client side so you can control the camera for yourself. You can watch in real time during the season, the latency is around 30 seconds behind live action.

oplav commented on Launch HN: Double (YC W24) – Index Investing with 0% Expense Ratios · Posted by u/jjmaxwell4

loeg · 9 months ago

TLH is sort of a synthetic loss. You just sell and buy essentially equivalent funds to realize an unrealized but existing loss, lowering your cost basis. The amount of stock you own doesn't change at the TLH event. You get a (small) deduction against your taxable income at the cost of more capital gains in the (maybe distant, lower tax bracket) future.

oplav · 9 months ago

If you participate in charitable donations and are able to itemize deductions, after a period of capital gains you can also donate the low basis shares and then rebuy the shares with cash immediately. This is effectively donating cash while stepping up the basis of the asset.

I’ve been doing this cycle for a bit now and while it doesn’t produce life changing savings, it does motivate me to donate more.

Donor advised funds make donating shares pretty easy to do.

oplav commented on CT Scans of New vs. Used SawStop lumafield.com/article/new... · Posted by u/saltypal

aidenn0 · 9 months ago

My shop teacher seemed to think the band saw was more dangerous than the table saw. Was he wrong, or is it just that table saws are used so much more than band saws that they dominate the injuries?

oplav · 9 months ago

I haven’t used a bandsaw a lot, but I have seen some photos of gnarly lost fingers.

I use a table saw quite a bit and think there are more ways things can go wrong, most of which stem from kickback which happens in a split second. The wood will either fly back and hit you, or your hand will be pulled into the blade and you will likely lose a finger.

Both machines can be safe with the proper precautions. That said, I still enjoy my SawStop as insurance for my fingers since I still write software for my day job.

oplav commented on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson sportingnews.com/us/boxin... · Posted by u/storf45

MyFedora · 9 months ago

Netflix won't take a hit here.

Most people pay Netflix to watch movies and tv shows, not sports. If I hadn't checked Hacker News today, I wouldn't even know they streamed sports, let alone that they had issues with it. Even now that I do, it doesn't affect how I see their core offering, which is their library of on-demand content.

Netflix's infrastructure is clearly built for static content, not live events, so it's no shock they aren't as polished in this area. Streaming anything live over the internet is a tough technical challenge compared to traditional cable.

oplav · 9 months ago

Netflix is trying to expand into live sports. This event wasn’t a one off thing. There is an NFL game they are streaming at the end of the year.

oplav commented on Someone hijacked the in-flight WiFi on flight 2416 and tried to used my CC old.reddit.com/r/delta/co... · Posted by u/oplav

oplav · a year ago

Lots of discussion inside the comments about how this could have happened, and whether OP just made a careless mistake. Thought some people here might find it interesting.