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You can spend $700+ on his high end audio recommendations but 90% of home office style recording environments (even with acoustic panels) are going to have a noticeable amount of background hiss (computer fans, etc.) get picked up and his set up doesn't account for that.

If you goto the OP's Youtube channel and listen to his recordings, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh0sTxLs9VA, there is a HUGE amount of hiss / static in his audio, to the point where I would be uncomfortable listening to his voice for a long period of time at a medium volume. He's using the $400 Shure mic in that video too.

The $100 for the dedicated 2nd pre-amp with the Triton seems pretty wasteful. As an alternative, for $299 you can pick up the DBX 286s pre-amp[0] which also acts as a noise gate (helps filter hiss / static), de-esser, compressor and basic EQ together. It's an awesome piece of hardware and offers way more bang for your buck.

Also the AT2005[1] mic is a solid upgrade from the AT2100 that he recommends, and both are about the same price. IMO the AT2005 is worth using as an end-game microphone. The AT2005 is one of those crazy mics where it almost feels like it's mis-priced at $80 and the DBX 286 has enough knobs and buttons to make it sound good with a number of different types of voices.

Ultimately your real natural voice is going to play one of the biggest roles in how you sound in the end.

[0]: https://amzn.to/2VPbmMc

[1]: https://amzn.to/39hyQwI

(Yes these are affiliate links, I've been using both pieces of hardware for years)
I recently got ambushed with one of these types of interviews. I was going for a senior dev role, in the same industry I've been working on for the last 5+ years.

Had done the normal initial phone interview (overview of experience etc), a take home code challenge (only took ~1hr) then I was asked to come in for a final interview that was to be a 15-20min presentation on project I'd worked on (that related to what I would be doing at the new role) then 15-20min of questions on that project and the technical challenges/solutions.
All this sounded great until I got an email the day before informing me the presentation and follow up questions would be ~20 mins total and then there would be a 20 minute whiteboard session on data structures and algorithms.

I retracted my application asap!
They will say that and will often get away with it, but in the EU, that doesn’t fly. https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...:

”Under EU rules, a trader must repair, replace, reduce the price or give you a refund if goods you bought turn out to be faulty or do not look or work as advertised.”

So, the manufacturer, in the EU, never has anything to do with the consumer, legally.

I think a trader could successfully argue they didn’t advertise the device as secure, that the user didn’t suffer from it or, for devices that are out of warranty, that they don’t need to correct this issue anymore. claiming that it wasn’t ‘faulty’ could be harder, but I’m sure they would try. If a vulnerability isn’t known, is it a fault? Depends on whether its cause was generally known, I would think.
The reason why Uber subsidies so much is because if there's not enough drivers people would need to wait a long time, or the price is very high and that creates a shitty experience that won't be able to compete. Conversely drivers don't have enough passengers. Initially, when you're just starting, that's just going to be a fact. Until you nurture the market to maturity the market doesn't exist. Don't look at what Uber has already built through years of huge spending and take it for granted.
I'm also looking for its virtual-camera plugin which is only window :(
> Instead by aligning all of my meetings right next to each other, I go straight from one to the next. This way I have fewer larger blocks of time where I can get into flow and stay in flow.

I would probably go insane, depending on the team. When being polite is paramount but your teammates are deeply, deeply incompetent, there's only so much one can take at once.

Nevertheless, this is solid advice.
But if the track is distrupted (a tree falls on it, or somehow it's just damaged), the train would have to stop right there and then.

Maybe they can make something so the train can grip the ground/tracks so it just doesn't fall off when the forces are no longer acting on it.
Haha. I guess all fans are revolutionary then.

But this one is is comes with extra revolution for every USB-C port you use.
You're completely wrong. The anti immigrant sentiment is mostly about low skilled work being undervalued because the application pool is filled with immigrants who usually have no other choice because of language barriers or lack of recognition of foreign education. You can definitively argue that this hurts the bottom American families the most. Those who fell to the bottom because they lost their job permanently (e.g. coal workers) don't have a low skilled job as a fall back because salaries are being driven down by immigrants.
Again as I have said the downsides of immigration are an oversupply of workers in specific industries which drive salaries down. If migrant children were truly "taking all the good jobs" then those good jobs would cease to be good jobs and become low income as well. This is obviously not happening. Once an immigrant is no longer under H1B visa restrictions by obtaining a green card their salary shoots up because they can find better employers.

Finally does it matter if it is a disaster for American families especially if the newcomers will become one of those American families as well? If you want to reduce suffering in this world then you would start with those that suffer the most. Lets use refugees after WW2 as an example. As you may know Germany was divided into two pieces. What you may not know is that the third piece was given to Poland and Poland had to give Russia land on its eastern border. This means millions of polish people were forced to immigrate. Then there were the Germans of which 8 million had to migrate out of Poland. What are you going to do with such a huge influx of refugees? Just let them rot in a foreign country? Let them into your country even you can't feed or house everyone because of the war? Of course you let them in. It's the only right thing to do.
Noise cancellation on iPhones (and other phones) is outdated as it doesn’t support the form factors people increasingly use. It only works when we hold the phone close to our mouth.

We have built Krisp iOS app to fix this. Krisp is powered by our infamous Deep-Learning based noise-canceling technology.

The app is very simple, yet quite practical. You can join Zoom, Meet, Webex, etc meetings with a single touch and also call any phone number you want, without worrying about background noise.
Found this while reading on the recent Hague Court decision on the Syri (dutch) welfare control, to give some context:

http://www.tellerreport.com/tech/2020-02-05---five-questions...

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...
I was planning to buy MacBook 16-inch as I am still on 2014 edition which in my view were one of the best MacBooks.

I simply hate that unnecessary Touch Bar, was hoping Apple will remove it but didn’t. Thought then of getting 16-inch as they have an esc key.

Waiting for this kind of review, I will put on hold purchasing it until get a clarity on fan noise. My current old MacBook fan do make some noise but only under load of games.

Hope Apple can go back to basics and redo the MacBook Pro to make it similar to 2014 with new hardware.
On the contrary. For me, good intellisense just makes coding flow better. If you're just getting your feet wet with the API, auto complete greatly helps you discovering the API. If you're already a veteran, coding just flows at lightning speed as long as intellisense correctly predicts what you want, which is the case "most" of the time.
I love this site and use it for my news. It's funny to find this here.
> Just, please, pretty please, give us a --insecure

Have you taken a look at [0]? (All caveats around running an insecure cluster apply)

[0]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/deploy-cockroachdb...
Then shouldn't any other upgrades you buy be tied to your account?

Heated seats? Leather? Why should we treat meat space items differently than digital space ones?
And yet Europe has all those discount airlines that people apparently use. A Munich-Frankfurt route is a lot like a Boston or DC to NYC route, which is indeed popular by train in US. (Though traveling that by plane is also popular for reasons I don't understand outside of some fairly specific circumstances like an early morning meeting.)
I've found if I push the MacBook 16 at a certain point on the bottom of the chassis, it makes weird squeaking noises like there's a bird trapped in the machine. Other than that, a perfect machine so far!
I mean if you can go so far as to install or build third party ROMs, it'd be an interesting weekend hobby to repair electronics yourself.

I've saved hundreds of dollars of technology on trivial home repairs instead of buying replacements.
What can I say as a person somewhat close to electronics engineering:

Look at that single skinny heat pipe, it will get saturated very fast. Second to that, look at those tiny radiators, they are clearly not capable to discharge the full heat flux.

I simply don't see any signs of proper thermal engineering there.

Apple says "we are listening now, and here is a new cooling design," then it comes out to be even less adequate that the old one. I can't think of anybody else capable of trolling up their customers like that.

If anybody wants to dish out something on an order of $1.5m to do a contract manufacturing run for a properly designed full sized laptop, give me a note. I do have some tricks in mind how to make 40W+ CPUs work in a relatively compact case.
Great app! Any plans to release Krisp on Android as well?
My current phone (Samsung Note 5) is too old to receive updates and I'm still on Android 7. I hardly use Bluetooth but I'm still a little upset.
Mocking PostgreSQL Queries in Node.js
Angular is a framework if you've hack you're way without following best practices you expose yourself to such things.

I've been working with Angular2+ for 3 years and I haven't met any bug.

Know the concepts, apply them and you'll have an easy trip.
The alternative to React is not Angular or another JS framework. That was not just my anti-React rant, it was an anti-SPA rant in general. I still fail to see why people need to build an entire application twice, once on the server, and again on the client, except perhaps when you have very frontend-heavy interactivity requirements (like photoshop-in-the-browser or games). SPA's attempted to rebuild the entire HTML web-browser model, and they did it poorly. I yearn for the days of Rails/PHP/Django where the server "is" your application, and we use the web browser's native functionality as designed, with a much simpler application model, and, in most cases, a better end-user experience. That's enough for 80% of apps. A little bit of DOM manipulation is acceptable (i.e. jQuery / Vue.js) and easy to keep track of in your head since every page is a new context/state, instead of ever-increasing layers of abstraction for "state management" and "components". If you write clean HTML, the DOM is much easier to deal with than some state management library. If you could truly abstract away the DOM without ever thinking about it, I would agree with you, but you can't. You can't escape thinking about the DOM if you care at all about performance and debugging, and now you have to worry about the DOM AND your state abstractions. I'm not saying we have to go back to writing assembly code, but I'm saying JS frameworks are the leakiest abstraction ever designed.

That react-three-fiber project is cool, but engineering is not about you can do, it's about finding the best solution for a given set of requirements, and 95% of web apps don't need that kind of functionality - it's just unnecessary over-engineering at a huge overhead cost.

React devs love to talk about one-way-data flow and Flux state management. They forget state doesn't come from the client, it comes from the server. Why not carry this one-way-data-flow model all the way back to the database, which is where your state actually originates?
The quarantines already banned those in heavily infected areas. They specifically mentioned funerals though... which was odd.
I can’t cite it but wasn’t there some requirement coming from music industry back in 2010s to remove all analog outputs from devices?
What's disturbing is that Apple seem to be deleting posts:

After attempting to be part of the solution; spending a ton of time testing, providing information in the community, communicating with Apple Engineers and Apple Business Team, our most recent post was deleted as "Speculative".

We have spent over $300,000 on Apple hardware over the years both business and consumer and now our voice has been muted. How can we move forward using Apple? Instead of deleting our posts, how about send it to management?
these treaties are boilerplate take it or leave it. third world countries mostly don't have the option to vary these terms
Except that it is a transferable software license, as Tesla owners sell their cars regularly and of course the autopilot and the self-driving option stays active. Whatever exactly went wrong in this case, this has to be a very individual thing where it is unclear whether the car ever had a valid license for the autopilot.
Reasonable point. I'm usually traveling to Europe with carry-on or, at most, one piece of check-in wheeled luggage. Even dealing with the single big piece can be a bit of a pain on a crowded train and going beyond that would be pretty inconvenient.

I don't like checking luggage on planes for various reasons but the system is at least set up to accommodate it straightforwardly.
Automatic Call Screen is now available for all Pixel phones
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I kinda hate the current media though. I would definitely pay $1000 for the content that I want, content that caters to me.
Also look at ears and earrings.
So are you saying software developers should have to take the equivalent of a Bar exam in order to practice software development in a given state? That way ethical code violations have teeth because you can be debarred.

As of now anyone and their dog can practice software development and I'm not sure what a nebulous "ethical code" would imply for them.
Turns out that’s not the case with software
Sure but it also doesn't matter as I see it.

Medical care in the US is pretty good when you're got decent insurance and aren't bothered by copays (I see top specialists in under a week, average ones in 24 hours, etc.). Vacation is negotiable and when you make so much more you can literally take a year off between jobs. Larger tech companies provide good parental benefits and, again, you can always take unpaid time off.

There's a separate social argument but from a personal point of view it doesn't matter. You just need to shift your mindset from money being a scarce resource to money being (directly or indirectly) the thing you use to get anything else you value.
> There are alternatives

Can you name one smartphone device with open internals? I'd love to buy one, but I don't think they exist. From Replicant's recommendations [1]:

If compromising on privacy/security is not an option, or anything serious is at stake (e.g. political activism or journalism in a sensitive area), it is advised to avoid using a telephony-enabled device at all.

My impression from the smartphone market is that phone platforms have become less open, not more, over the last ten years. The PinePhone isn't generally available yet, and the Librem 5 current iterations don't have working audio calls.

[1] https://www.replicant.us/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php...
Judging by the three commits added by the android-9.0.0_r53 tag in the platform/system/bt android subcomponent, the vulns seem to be UAF + OOB write. All vulnerabilities thus belong into the class of vulnerabilities that safe Rust eliminates.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/bt/+/1d788d...

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/bt/+/c20f24...

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/bt/+/abc302...
We can argue whether this is theoretically true but I haven’t met an employer here in the Netherlands that thinks this.

Working from home some of or most of the time is fine but there needs to be face to face contact at least weekly.
The closed source modem, or network firmware for that matter, isn't much of a problem if it can't see clear data and/or access to system memory or execute instructions.
I'd see it more of a black box not unlike old RS232 connected modems: they could see all data going back and forth, but encrypting that data would be enough since they could never access the system memory to see the data before encryption or after decryption. Librem 5 and Pinephone should work along these lines. Having everything 100% open would be better, but in this case being closed doesn't create security concerns since all personal data is unavailable to these subsystems; only the main system, which is entirely open and where the user is king, can access them.
Great for cutting pizza too!
Yes, and hopefully very soon.

Apparently getting access to the microphone stream during calls, even from your own app, is really tough. There is only one provider that we know that implements the concept of "advanced audio filters" and that's Twilio's Voice SDK for iOS.
The implication is that they are an incompetent bureaucracy, not corrupted.
What changes is purchasing power. Without going into detail, eastern europeans can get lucky with a nice outsource SV job. Our common expenses are symbolic.
mid-2014 editions had only one flaw: macOS. Easily remedied.†

† https://habd.as/post/invisible-arch-linux/
Startups often only have 1 product, so the advice still holds true
Exactly... I mentioned this in an article 4 years ago.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/05/containers_state_of...
It has been interesting to see images clearly generated by this service (same artefacts, same resolution) start to flood online dating apps and social media profiles. Previously, fake accounts tended to use photos which could be reverse-image-searched to detect them.

Luckily, it doesn't seem that this approach can be sensibly extended to generate entire scenes, or multiple entire-body photos from different angles. Believability breaks down tremendously in less constrained datasets- see https://www.thiscatdoesnotexist.com for example.
Ask HN: How do I decide, what project I want to do?
First off, I have been learning/working as a Programmer for about 1.5 years. So I don't have that much experience.

But my Question is; how do I decide/inspire myself, about what Project I want to do in my free time. I really like to program, but for now I have only done Projects for School, and small exercises, that teach Programming. I have wanted to do a Project for quite some time now, but I really don't have any ideas on what to do.

I would really appreciate some help.
Just like we're all exclusively eating Chinese chocolate, drinking Chinese beer, driving Chinese assembled cars, and watching Chinese movies?
Actually yes, I did investigate that. Can post a screenshot.
This is not a model of working I’m familiar with. I work as collaboratively as possibly with my reports and my manager. 1:1 meetings are my most important. If I’m not discussing the non-obvious challenges we face, we are sharing our goals or tuning our shared vision.
FWIW, I've had a lot of success with barman (1). If you set it up using the newer streaming protocol, which doesn't require a separate ssh channel, then it's relatively straightforward to setup.

https://www.pgbarman.org/
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They are not people with more experience you are appealing to authority. The cold hard truth is that Angular got it so wrong the first go around that they had to completely rewrite the framework. The very reason was that a lot of the early guys where just out of school and built a framework on theory. If you contrast this with React, guys in the trenched trying to build applications at scale for FB, they where built with totally different mindsets. The FB guys understood the render loops that has been a pattern in UI since the desktop days and has stuck around because it works. To this day two way data binding and template based logic are both a dumpster fire, that cause unmaintainable code and side effects that cause debugging to be more difficult.

This is just a bad idea:
https://angular.io/guide/template-syntax
Without writing the tooling to debug it, to this day there is not said tooling.
My testing of YugabyteDB was not as extensive as CockroachDB. I had issues importing my PostgreSQL schema + data (I did use ysql_dump) I got timeouts and an occasional 100% cpu crash. I was able to import after trimming the amount of data and dumbing down the schema (dropping foreign key references) CPU usage was much higher than PostgreSQL and I found the overall tooling and setup less polished compared to CockroachDB.
Yeah. It’s human decency. Got cut from football tryouts in high school. Got excellent feedback to improve my stamina. Ended up running cross country cuz I loved it :)

Straight out of college I got rejected by failing miserably at a technical interview almost to the point of tears when I realized how little I knew. Maybe my interviewer saw this but I got very practical feedback, and knew exactly what to do with myself that summer to get hired.
I am probably adding to the pile of fanboyist Apple blah blah but I honestly think my AirPods are the single best tech purchase I have made in the last 5 years. They took away so much hassle and work exactly like I would expect.

AirPods are one fine product for daily casual use. Obviously they aren't going to meet an audiophiles demand at $150 but AirPods Pro might even be enough in that case.

My AirPods drop out at the rate of once a month or something. When it happens it's a quick fix and they have been nothing but convenient otherwise.

Would never use wired headphones again unless I am trying to analyze a Beethoven piece.
The best option for the environment would be going without a car at all, like many people in Europe do. Unfortunately people have created environments and societies where they are chained to car ownership.
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The previous commenter was not saying that machine learning didn't exist 10 years ago. They were saying that "many of the TOP CONTRIBUTORS TO THAT FIELD were not doing machine learning research 10 years ago."

There are also people who were doing machine learning 30 years ago and are still doing so. But there are people who were doing, say, fluid dynamics simulations 10 years ago who self-taught machine learning, and are now making significant contributions to machine learning, by transferring their knowledge of programming, optimization, calculus, etc.
No, FSD stays with the car.
So what it sounds like happened here is:

Tesla sells vehicle, original owner doesn't buy FSD. Sells vehicle back to Tesla.

Telsa turns FSD on, maybe as part of the recertification process, and forgets to turn it off.

Telsa resells vehicle to dealer, listed with FSD. Dealer resells to current owner, with FSD.

Systems audit at Tesla reconciles the sales data with the car features data, and rather than just eating their mistake, they turn off FSD.
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