jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, I tried it and it was... not great?

Versus piping my audio through OBS as a way of using RNNoise and doing noise gating, OBS retains the original audio quality quite well and does a really good job of removing clicks/clacks/etc.

Krisp made my voice sound like I was talking through two tin cans and a string, and, at least in my environment, did not do a very good job of actually removing any of the background sounds.

I've also tried it in Discord (as it's integrated directly into Discord) and kept running into a problem of it deciding my own voice was noise and just cutting me out mid word.

They have a free tier (gives you 120min/week of noise cancelling), so anyone looking to try it definitely worth using that first. I'd suggest turning on audio monitoring in some headphones and listening to yourself a bit though and deciding if the quality is acceptable to you.
I interviewed for a job at Elsevier near Camden Lock (London) years ago. I said the location was great if I decided to get a tattoo. Didn't get the job. Thank you Lord.
The problem is newspapers and journalists would be killed with a change in the law, and let TV "news" commentators like Tucker Carlson and Rachel Maddow to continue saying whatever they want.

The problem is that the line between news and commentary at this time is blurred. Hell; we can't even agree on what is true anymore just look no further than the election fraud claims made by the President of the United States.
Laptop is stolen.
It's the company's responsibility to manage effort, staff levels, timelines and overtime compensation. So when you say that it takes more than 9-5, what I hear is that they need more staff, longer time frames for delivery, or to pay higher rates for overtime but instead they're extracting the additional cost for free out of naive 20-something-year-olds who have been brainwashed to think that "being passionate" = working for free.
What kind of an exchange charges 2.5%?
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He posted his number privately in order to facilitate an interview regarding the topic at hand. I'd argue publishing that is far more egregious than taking a selfie outside someones publicly listed place of work.

Either way they are both shitty behaviours, don't really think we need to take a one vs the other.
It's hard to understand how AR / holographic technology could help people in their day-to-day life. There are a zillion potential uses, but all of them seem extremely complicated and hard to pull off.

Take the example of fixing your car. For example, performing your own oil change, or replacing your alternator. That seems like a perfect use case for holo, right? The goggles would tell you what needs to be done and what the next step is.

But that would involve so many technical challenges that it seems very difficult. You, as the creator of FixYourCar holo app, would need need to detect what type of car the user is looking at, what part of the car they're looking at, render an overlay with the correct orientation, and so on. And at the end of all of that, it's not entirely clear that your app is more helpful to them than if they'd just look up a list of steps for fixing their car using their mobile phone.

I guess what I'm asking is, what do you think holo's killer app would be?
I stand corrected about cable networks. But my thesis that allowing one-sided broadcasting of views still stands: it insulates people from contrasting views and makes them uncomfortable with having those views challenged. I'm not suggesting we go the route of state run media, but state regulation of media may come about thanks to what happened yesterday.
Yeah, none of the IMAP server authors really thought of search as a first-class feature, nor did they seem to want to do the development to build the backend support. Resource constraints were also an issue back then, as well as a client-first approach. Most large mail servers only had enough resources to run the IMAP and POP services themselves; adding search index maintenance would have overloaded their CPUs. (Not that they couldn't have added more CPU, but this was all pre-cloud.)
A ton of short sellers that have so far lost that bet handily.
The jackboots of the totalitarian left are coming down. There will be no free thought under their reign.
I’m aware of race, religion, sex, age, and some other federally protected statuses in the US that a business can’t discriminate against, but what protected class would political affiliation fall under?
Can you provide a source that wasn't written by a (checks notes) magician?
> Less taxes,

Paid for by running up record deficits - which is the opposite of what the right claimed to stand for, and which Trump directly ran on. And those taxes expire for the people, showing who Trump really worked for in this case.

>no new wars,

Yet destabilizing many areas of the world, leaving it in the opinion of some countries in a much less peaceful place. Here's Germany putting Trump as "Greatest Threat to World Peace " [1]. He's destabilized NATO, he's attacked the US and other intelligence forces to where the US is no longer trusted, likely causing other agencies to share less intel with us. Here's how a lot of the first world thinks of Trump [2].

>leaving each state making their own decisions for covid-19

And his lack of leadership is a central reason the US has 350K_ dead, while other first world countries only have a fraction of the death and economic downturn Trump caused.

Trump also fought states having the right to their own election rules, didn't want states to deal with immigration on their own terms, didn't want states to deal with protests on their own terms, has repeatedly claimed he has absolute authority over state decisions (including COVID related ones where he claimed he could dictate economic policy, which he didn't have), and on and on....

Trump uses "states rights" to score political points only - pretend to respect them when he wants, and attack them when he wants.

When your evaulation uses a fallacy (cherry-picking) you end up ignoring the majority of the eivdence, your assessment ends up incorrect.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-angela-merkel-germans-...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/09/15/us-image-plumm...
> Nintendo: what if we try <any number of crazy and interesting ideas>.

I've just discovered Warioware Smooth Moves and man, was it fun! A great way to spend time with friends in these sad times.
Yeah exactly. We might not have had Rush Limbaugh in the mid-90s, but we still would have had Fox News or whatever.
Right now on Earth and potentially on Mars real soon.
I think it is still debated in the sense that Ottomans' intention was forced migration or genocide.
Economic inequality is still a problem, but everything else you wrote is about twenty years out of date.

It's like how there are still white supremacist websites in the US even when a black guy is their president. Sure, there is at least one online community who show extreme hatred toward people from the Southwest region (I wouldn't name it, but it should be obvious to anyone who's been following South Korean news for the past several years[1]), but they represent the social norms of South Korea about as much as Youtube comments do of America. (They also tend to show extreme hatred of women, the liberals, the poor, the disabled, and North Korea.)

Also anybody who talks about "a couple millenia old feud" between these regions don't know what they're talking about. Case in point: in 1963, Southeast(Gyeongsang)-based candidate Park Jung Hee won the presidential election[2] thanks to the votes of both Southeast and Southwest regions. (He then went on to foster the regional discrimination we're talking about to secure his political base, and died a dictator, but that's another story.)

Even when it comes to economic inequality, the much more serious problem is that between Seoul (and its neighbor regions) and everywhere else. It was another social problem president Roh Moo-Hyun (2003-2008) tried to solve (by building a new capital city that specializes on administration, like Washington DC), but the constitutional court killed the plan by basically inventing "customary constitution" out of thin air. He was also widely supported by the Democratic Party (or several other names the party assumed in Korea's hectic climate), largely based on the Southwest region, but he himself was from Busan, the biggest city in the Southeast. So, there.

As for why these "island slaves" are always found in the Southwest region, I think there's a much simpler explanation: that's where almost all islands are. Look at the map of South Korea. Not all coastlines are shaped alike.

[1] By the way, if you know the site, admitting "I visit that site" will be about as beneficial to your online reputation as saying that you support Westboro Baptist Church.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_presidential_elect...
No one is claiming the Patriots aren't good. They are claiming that, with extremely good evidence at this point, they also cheated.

There are other teams that try really hard to train their players not to fumble, including taking them out until they learn not to fumble. Belichick has been otherworldly good at this training.

The Patriots were not always otherworldly at not fumbling. In fact, this acumen started the same year the NFL changed the rules so that the team was allowed to have full control of the balls after pregame inspection.

This isn't a minor issue. Turnovers are hugely predictive of game outcomes.

The Patriots were caught with deflated footballs. They had deflated footballs for a reason.
I've played a few Arimaa rounds, it's very fun. For even more simple + challenging, try 2v2 speed chess where you give captured pieces to your teamate.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess

(It's one of the best games I've ever played and only lasts 90 seconds to play!)
In my experience it's better to park in the shade and keep your windows open to let some air flow, than to park in the sun to run AC…
I read the whole thing but I did not notice it as being very prominent, while it's the number ONE "FAIL" point of your experiment.
Why do we have to have ssl cert providers? I understand when you're doing ecommerce, it makes sense. But for a website that is just trying to do SSL to get past firesheep, or simply because they are transmitting sensitive information, doesn't it make sense to allow them to just encrypt their traffic?

To answer the actual question, we use godaddy.
I'll be opting out as well, karma be damned.
It's funny because everyone ALWAYS complains about the CakePHP documentation on #cakephp, but whenever it is pointed out that it is a wiki, the following excuses come up:

- I'm too busy

- It should already be there, this is a common problem

- I don't know enough to edit

- How do I make an account

Good documentation for a community is hard.
The only engineering management program at our school is a graduate degree for engineers with undergrad engineering degrees already. One of the attractions of Comp Sci was the availability of jobs, which was why they tried to complete a traditional engineering program in the first place. It was kind of hilarious to see a frustrated student complaining about one of the simpler classes, but then explain that he was enduring the pain because of a job at the end of the tunnel.
I think because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_the_Unite...
"Stross' objections to ST are really along the lines that these questions are meaningless in the sense that the characters' actions are essentially identical to what they would be in a time with totally different technology."

They aren't though? Like what about Data??

There is a fundamental issue with the logic here that Stross is equating not explaining future tech in a believable, consistent way with characters not being meaningfully changed by the technology. Fantasy could not exist as a genre if one equalled the other.
The point is that temporary network partitions happen and you can't guarantee delivery without expensive coordination. Sure, exactly-once is possible in environments where network partitions don't occur. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world.
Interestingly, I have the opposite preference as a college student and avid non-fiction reader.

I like reading PDFs and ebooks of texts in a window while taking notes with emacs in Org mode. I structure my notes with the chapter-section-subsection-etc. structure of the text, and in this manner, I always have a good gauge of my understanding of the text, and am more confident with jumping around to the chapters that interest me more or are more relevant.

This has been so useful for me that I've started to refrain from reading long non-fiction texts that are not amenable to this structure, as I'm less likely to be able to recall and apply information learned that have not been hierarchically organized, given equal investment of time and focused effort.
I am willing to give John McAfee my occasional attention so long as he continues to entertain me with his ridiculous and insane antics.
This could be interesting for projects where keeping revisions would be handy, for instance a note-taking or document platform.
Or a couple of kites!

You keep what you catch?
To be clear, it's not because they're less flawed per se, but less symmetrical. Physical asymmetries indicate poorer genetic fitness, and we interpret this potential genetic detriment as flaw.
Just to come back on the point regarding NFS versus iSCSI:
- proprietary systems like IBM's, HP etc. are both expensive and complicated. This violates our 'simple problems' mantra as well as having cost implications.
- our IaaS platform has an open software layer with sole root access granted to the user. That has huge security and privacy implications for our users i.e. they have access to their data, we as a vendor don't (except for physical access which is highly restricted and monitored). It means we see customer drives as block storage devices. We can't see their file systems. NFS can we implemented by a customer on top of our platform but not by ourselves. We do in fact have many users of NFS in our cloud. Its our job to manage the storage at the block device level. As a vendor we are a 'pure IaaS' provider. We don't reach into the software and networking layers wherever possible. Its a fundamentally different approach giving our customers the same sort of control over their computing as they would with a dedicated set-up.
- DRBD has de-duplification. For a public cloud like ours this will save us a lot of space, more than the replication introduced. Why? We just RAID6 already so replication won't be higher with DRBD (we will swap RAID6 for DRBD). We have thousands of identical operating systems running concurrently with their own distinct copies (each of our cloud servers is a complete stand alone OS on its own block device, again for privacy/security reasons).

So, we believe that a move from our current set-up to distributed block storage will actually REDUCE costs overall no increase them. We will of course have the added convenience and elimination of single points of failure in storage that distributed block storage entails.

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How about making these smaller and smaller until they are just resemble swarms of insects ?

I wonder if there are any projects that are starting the process from the other side : take a mosquito and bio-engineer it somehow to use as a micro surveillance platform. I wouldn't be surprised if DoD already has such projects underway.

As the size gets smaller, FAA radars won't be able to detect these anymore. They might have to scan the control frequencies perhaps and triangulate to the base station.
Yep, you can, have a look at http://packrati.us. However, I think you've just described Greplin :)
I've never put my email into a signup form faster.
What's bizarre about the vaccine restrictions? The publicized plans I'm aware of start with healthcare workers and long-term care residents, which is pretty much what I expected. I've heard there are about 3 million of those people and 1 million doses, so even if over half of those people for some reason are refusing doses, there's no reasons to expect that we're through that crowd yet.

I've got several acquaintances who work in both areas and what I'm hearing that there are challenges: not ones that have to do with "rules", but actual supply and logistics. Still, among these are people who've received their first dose.
To be clear: I don’t like contact us pricing.

But SSO support does feel like an enterprise feature that people typically pay for.

I can’t think of any other feature gate that would work as well for software such as this. Though it typically is the largest hinderance to SSO adoption.
Only he's wrong. He's supposed to be the top expert behind Free Software movement, nobody else can answer that real-life question better than RMS.

An idea that's inapplicable to reality even in principle is worthless.
If we boycott Russian products, and do not hire Russian people, should we start doing the same with US products and american engineers?
I'm not following this logic -- do you think it would've been better not to take the rickshaw?

You do realise that this man is providing for himself, and perhaps others, by this job?

It seems like your issue was being confronted with the "realities of life" which distressed your sensibilities; and your solution appears to be to hide from these. I dont see this as a moral impulse, but a disgust response.

If you wished to do anything, tip.
> Remember that half the population has an IQ under 100

It's more than half.
> Missing a reflection about how abundance of F/OSS has pushed us towards SaaS as one of the few places left to make a living from pure software dev, and the oligopolies arising out of it.

The fundamental reason is the shift towards the web as a platform, not the abundance of Free Software. As for the oligopolies you mention, the process is as democratic as possible with extremely low barrier to entry: many of the current big players weren't millionaires who had to invest piles of money into factories and wait for decades for their dreams to materialize.

> What about Linux (Android) being used as the prime spyware vector, and Linux being used for cloud lock-in (k8s et al)?

I don't believe RMS would object to that, he is not a Linux fanboy and concentrates on Free Software instead.
I think you mean conflated, not confounded?
Which is more likely: that these tools are all broken, or you didn't actually set the ethernet link speed successfully?
> Apache and commercial no-cost is not the same.

They are the same in the sense that they are both not GPL. They just illustrate the spectrum of licenses that are not ideologically aligned with FSF, but may still do the job.

> As for the software products: they are still very common.

I will just repeat myself: there are some successes, but this is not the majority of the software. It’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s enormous pile of proprietary software, that is absolutely not free or open source. Think of Google, Facebook or Salesforce codebase. Think of all the banking or military software. Even some Linux distro can be dwarfed by those applications.
Twitter has the freedom of speech/association right to ban whomever they want from posting on their privately owned servers. Freedom of speech and association cuts both ways, and your freedom of speech rights do not extend to other people's property without their permission.
Crazy Brits, screwing up our American English...
Software is still an incredibly immature field. It's been getting better, much better, but it still has an incredibly long way to go. It's worth pointing out that software is also an incredibly difficult field.
When asked what a Script Kiddie was, you could have just said they figured out how to press the Refresh button faster than most other people.

Calling them Hackers is giving in, as is looking at it as "that ship has sailed". Language is fluid, it's always changing, and all we have to do to keep the term Hacker is to keep correcting people who mis-use it.

Did Electrical Engineers give in and start calling it "sodder"? No. They correct you when you mis-pronounce the word solder. I argue this is no different.
You mean, "so it is still an example of slavery being, indirectly, the base of an industrial society"? That's probably fair.
At this point, it merely sounds like you've started with the conclusion that Big Tech is bad and then worked backwards to sound reasonable.

In particular since the "riots have been going all year" is demonstrably false nonsense. Parades and rallies, maybe. Riots? What?

And how are you even going to equivocate riots to an invasion of the physical center of the US government by whiny "patriots" who had no other plan except to waltz in and wait for the next cutscene to start?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: while the "giant aluminum heatsink" idea generally works pretty well for the MacBooks and has for some time, it's not the same as if Apple were to really fix the thermal engineering in their machines: The machines could run downright cool if only Apple were to steal some ideas from Lenovo and Asus.

As a side benefit, Apple could begin referring to the machines as "laptops" again in their marketing from time to time (which they have abstained from for at least the last 5+ years).
Yes these are all very good points.

And in fact my oil analogy isn't so great because that is talking the about supply of a largely fungible commodity whereas with programmers the whole point is that different programmers have different skill sets.

So it's lots of different markets that aren't really competing against each other (the market for quantitative programmers who know Haskell and financial mathematics vs the market for programmers who know lots about Java, Spring, Hibernate and SCRUM) rather than a single market.

And that's a better explanation for why there are 10x differences in pay: the supply and demand in each "niche" is often very different (by an order of magnitude).

If you're a programmer working in exactly the same niche as another programmer and you can prove that you're ten times as productive, then yes I suppose you could get 10x the pay... The trick is the first part though (proving that you're actually 10 times as productive).
Not sure why we're discussing fault at all, what was being discussed is whether it was worth upgrading to Mavericks. The practical reality was that until 3 days ago, if you used Gmail everything was fine in every release of OS X except for Mavericks, regardless of the reason (knowing "why" is of no comfort when it just doesnt work, especially when it used to work and you were recommended to upgrade).
On the other hand, my last three Dells, my Acer netbook and my no-brand ancient notebook sleep and hibernate flawlessly under Linux. My son has the same experience with his HP, albeit he has been booting the machine more frequently because he wants Windows for some of his games.
They generally are, yes. On most other cars, you can get the software and interfaces to interact with them as the dealer can, if you're willing to jump through a few hoops. Various service procedures require this sort of interaction (often a coolant replacement requires some bleeding procedures to get the air out, brake fluid flushing requires some toggling of the ABS controller valves, etc). Or, sometimes, there's just an easy diagnostic procedure you can do. "This problem could be caused by valve A being bad - can you test valve A? It's not moving as commanded? Ok, I'll go replace it."

I can do none of that on a Tesla. I can't even access the diagnostic screens built into the car without a rolling code generator - even if I own the car free and clear.

And that's a problem.