skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was an awesome read! Free enterprise at its best.

Another happy message in these times of corporate dominance of everything:

“Small town grocery stores are having kind of a renaissance because of COVID-19,” he says. “Everyone is stuck at home and buying locally.”
>The fax requires a 56KHz channel

hmm so you're basically saying that fax machines only listen to data coming across on a 56KHz carrier wave? i guess that makes sense since the same device (a fax machine) can function both as a telephone and fax (and you'd need to distinguish in hardware which mode you were operating in upon "picking up the phone").

but what i don't understand is the telephony (i'm not a network engineer): when i make a phone call from either a fax or a phone isn't there, at this point in time, a hop through a digital connection? so doesn't some interchange between me and the person i'm calling ultimately decide what frequency carrier the receiver hears?
Short term winner in this game will be Salesforce-most of their stuff is on 12 month or 3 year agreements,so it will take time to propagate.
My pet peeve is VP9 on YouTube vs Chrome on MacOS. My original estimate lack of codec on MacOS / YouTube's choice to drop x264 for high resolution videos waste as much power as entire country Puerto Rico.

It's even impossible to play 8K YouTube videos on highest end MacBook and Chrome. It's ironic that MKBHD uploading them without being able to play them himself.
They were talking about people autoconnecting to an office ssid on the bus. If you use your office phone on the bus, you probably use it at the coffee shop too.
Yea as you pointed out the long term capital gains is one area where you might have a tax advantage hedging. Imagine you bought a bunch of stock 11 months ago and you want to capture profits right now, it may be cheaper to buy puts out for 1 month and then sell for as long term capital gains.

Puts are of course only one way to hedge, some people hold cash, buy gold/bonds/natural resources, buy VXX, etc. Also the spread varies a lot, options on SPY tend to have tighter spreads than on a random stock, but I've found that submitting a "reasonable" offer (in the middle of the buy/ask prices, in-line with the black-scholes estimate) usually gets filled within the day.

Just buying a put without owning the underlying is definitely a risky gamble. But if you own 100 shares of the underlying it becomes a hedge since it limits your downside (at the cost of upside). And if you buy the put and sell a call you can limit any gains and losses to within a narrow band: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/collar.asp
Ask HN: Headphones for “big” ears?
I am a software developer, working at home, and looking for a pair of headphones with these characteristics:

* 100 € budget

* Usable with a laptop and a mobile phone, no hifi, amps, etc

* Closed

* Circumaural and comfortable (and, very important, they must contain my ears: they are ~ 7.2 - 7.5 cm and the earpads must be big enough, otherwise I will not use them). I say that I think to have "big ears" because in the past I tried some circumaural headphones that didn't do the job because the earpads weren't big enough, and they became uncomfortable after some minutes.

* Isolating in both ways (I don't want to hear the noise around me, and I don't want to disturb people around me with my music)

* Balanced/flat/neutral (no punchy bass nor shrieking treble, I will use them also when working to relax/concentrate/isolate me, and the listening mustn't be fatiguing)

* Absolutely wired, with standard audio plugs (detachable cable is a plus)

Is the Audio Technica ATH-M40X a good choice? Does it meets all my requirements? I am open to suggestions, of course :)

Thanks in advance!
While G.711 is uncompressed (it’s the same codec used within the PTSN backhauls), it’s still not great for fax because the fax protocol doesn’t tolerate the jitter introduced by VoIP. (Reliable latency is the one big benefit to switched networks like the PTSN.)

As I understand it (and I could be wrong), T.38 solves this by emulating an independent fax modem on each side of the analog connection, and only sending the image data over IP as opposed to sending audio.
I can only speak on behalf of my model (#3), but that's meant entirely for companies who want better visibility in their existing operations. Say, they want to figure out how much cash they have in the bank in 6 months, or can they afford to hire 3 more ppl next quarter.

Personally, I have found it hard to work with pre-revenue companies, especially if they come to me with a plan to hit tens of millions in revenue in just a couple of years since launching. Maybe a small percentage of them do, but given how many don't make even a single dollar I've tried to steer clear of pre-revenue startups. Companies with real revenue and growth seem to be a much better fit.
There is a whole group of people with an opinion thats different from yours. In my area nobody obeys lockdown or social distancing.
Can we put "Docker image" in the title somewhere? Otherwise, it seems like the article is talking about the site itself (i.e. having less JavaScript, optimizing the images, …)
(Not the one you replied to, but) I was actually affected — but my nginx setup as ingress controller in kubernetes worked just fine, and automatically handled everything. I actually read in the news about it later, but my systems never went down.

And in contrast to caddy, my setup actually follows the DNS and URL standards, and actually handles Absolute URIs correctly, in contrast to e.g. http://caddyserver.com./, which doesn’t even set HSTS on caddyserver.com., while even browsers consider caddyserver.com. the same origin for the purpose of TLS and HSTS.
You have an actual Engineering degree!? You're miles ahead of any "boot camp" or self-taught people that lack formal training in math. Many of the software people I work with have degrees in EE. There shouldn't be a problem and it wouldn't be seen as a negative by anybody.
Have you ever used that support?
> HQ audio quality (over 4G) is markedly better than land lines

This is one of those facts that, no matter how many times I hear it or what proof is offered, I find it impossible to believe.
I keep wondering can you design a solar panel that uses photonic bitcoin mining. That would be ridiculously efficient.
20 years ago, I was looking for a software developer job. I had quit university, because I didn't feel like I was getting anything out of it - I had no previous formal experience, and now no degree either. What I did have was a love of coding, and I'd been part of an online "clan" selling commercial Quake mods, but as silly as it sounded, I put it in my CV/resume. What I also did was try to stand out, so when sending my CV, I also included a CD (20 years back, mind!) and URL, showing some programming stuff.

Eventually I got a break - and it was all because of the CD!

Just as most hirers today don't look at Github profiles, most back then would have binned the CD - I reckon if your Github profile checks out and you keep at it, you'll get a break eventually.
Get good sleep. Eat well. Don't drink and expect to be productive. See a therapist. Exercise. Get fresh air. Take allergy medication if you need it.

There's a lot of wonderful techniques and software out there but the most important optimization is the foundation of good health, mental and physical. My memory has improved so much with consistent sleep. A plant based carb light diet helps so much with energy and focus.

Then take some time to consistently study a little. I've started setting a daily calendar event to read a book.

Don't worry too much if you're not focused these days. It's a pretty stressful moment in time.
Actually one of Mobileye’s big strengths is their custom chips. They are purpose built and very efficient, which allows them to mount them under the windshield (important for their main business, ADAS), and they are built with the needs of the software in mind. I don’t know if Mobileye uses any Intel fabs, but it’s not such a crazy stretch to say one could help the other.
I keep a running categorized list in Apple Notes. Several times a week I will add new items to it. Typically they’re links to blogs or YouTube, categorized by tech, leadership, coding, productivity & misc. When I find quiet time, on vacation or during a slow weekend, I’ll chip away at the list. It grows faster than I can keep up with...probably not a good sign but beats no list at all.
"Effectiveness" isn't a binary measure - it's a continuous scale. Maybe Amazon believes that its employees are able to work effectively from home, but also believes that they could work even more effectively from the office?

My own recent experience with remote working makes me think that I'm more effective when working at the office.
I've been hearing this "Intel is in trouble" story for many years now. Yet their stock doubled in the last 5 years. What gives?
I believe there’s a joke being missed, by you or by me. The paper says

diff --git a/src/exec.c b/src/exec.C

I don’t think git existed in 1975 ;-)

I’ll assume that you are in on the joke and I am not, however!
Perhaps someone could start a relay service.
The idea is old but not exactly old-world: I wouldn't be surprised to find the phrase in some insurance policies even today for example. But the whole concept of chalking things up to a God is interesting -- basically whether you believe in a God or not, it's a stand-in for anything that exists apart from us, wasn't created by us, certainly doesn't exist FOR us or do our bidding, and might do things with indifference to us that either help or hurt us. Pretty good antidote to hubris if you asked me. But yeah that does happen to be a pretty good description of Google for most people, not to mention something like COVID-19.
Quite a few leading questions there! I'm sure you have probably touched a nerve for us all at one point or another but why not go easy on the attack and dive in with some empathy? Or why not play silly buggers with randomish thoughts:

Perhaps we could come up with a trail of breadcrumbs that touches on decent YT vids. By leaving carefully coded comments. warms to idea That would leave the trail in YT itself which would self heal if multiply pointered properly, ie each point has a link forwards, backwards and to, perhaps a hub to use in the event of a bigger outage.

The above might be far more fun to deploy than a search engine or an old school WAIS/Gopher. After a while the host would cotton on and decide to either encourage or thwart. Game on!

sips more wine OK so who fancies playing stenography style games with YT comments to generate guided courses using YT vids?
If your dependencies don’t have ARM builds, you need to build them from source. Which is fine, unless you get unlucky and they don’t build. Which happens way more often than I’d like.
Software talent is not in demand but fairly high wages for untalented seat-fillers are sticky for a number of reasons. It's pretty hard. If I were hiring right now, I'd consider hiring you, but I'm instead looking to be hired, so sorry.
Of course, it's important to note that bloom filters by themselves can give false positives.
This is a trap. The best way to do storage on K8s is not to do it. Especially on-premises.

The networking used to be simple, you could just set up a few static routes and manually assign blocks of CIDRs to nodes and be done. I'm sure there there are some newer networking API components that obfuscated the whole thing in the name of "simplicity" because nobody understands networking anymore.
It's probably shit metric as my two browsers open now use 10GB of RAM on MacOS, but Windows 10 requires 2-4x less minimum RAM to run when compared with latest Ubuntu...
Spinning up an ARM machine to build a container that needs to be shipped over the network to a Jetson is a pain when developing.
About as well as I managed "self-study" in college. Poorly.

However, if covid has done anything it's broken me enough by spending enough time at home to break my bad ADHD fueled habits.

If anyone else has a rigid discipline or advice for how to keep up a streak of improvement I'm all ears!
Yes, it's just the amplifier. I see that the title could be confusing.
You think not knowing about Bloom Filters is a 'humorous gap in knowledge'? Are you saying you worked some place that expected people to know about them and also hired self-taught engineers? I've worked at some companies people here think of as 'elite' and I can't even begin to imagine how this might occur.

In fact, it smells to me a lot like the mentality of certain people at said companies who liked hazing interviewees by testing esoteric knowledge (e.g. twisted DP problems, reservoir sampling) instead of talent and potential. A part of me would have loved to see those companies implement a policy of using those interview questions on other employees, like a kind of 'random drug testing'. I imagine many would have been humbled rather quickly by such a process.
Nice work. I really appreciate acknowledging the landscape and sharing that work before putting your own into the mix. Underrated step
“AI”: What’s in a Name?
Try asking at head-fi.org - there are some people on there who will also make you custom earpads for whatever headphones you choose.
> Companies like Apple and Google saying they "don't care about education" really just means they're excited to have another reason to pay employees less.

Interestingly, not having a college education will often get you passed over there.
It also interfaces with bike shares in some cities.

Bike share + train multimodal commutes being the norm is the dream of every modern urbanist.
Schedule it, regularly. And actually write it down and mark it on a piece of paper or in your calendar. Then make a check on a whiteboard, or on a desk calendar each day you do it, building a streak you don't want to break.

This has really helped me rein in my focus, at least partially.
Another reason you don't have this is that if an executive knew they become personally responsible for such wrongdoing they would refuse the position. Today the bar is pretty high to punish the executive personally.

And if they do take the job they would be hyper-cautious. This is not conducive to high profit. So companies via lobbyists make sure legislation is passed "as it should". The balance of power is incredibly tilted in the favor of corporations, and some governments really did their best to maintain this status-quo.
> The paper came from 1975

Did it? Then how come it has references to “diff --git”, “https://git.kernel.org ”, and “https://github.com/”?
I seem to recall some occasions in the early 90's where there was exactly this problem and fax was not guaranteed to work with some land line due to the digital nature.
I assume what fizixer means is, if you're making an Amazon-Alexa-type-thing, training 1 model on 1 million user's data will work better than 1 million models trained on 1 user's data each.

AFAIK the "Roomba learns the layout of your house" type of edge learning is generally done with SLAM rather than neural networks. There might be other applications for edge learning, of course.
It doesn't, strictly speaking, and in fact, it barely does.

It's usually just a symlink from libwhatever.latest.version.number to libwhatever.so, on the theory that you probably want the latest version of the library (with all its improvements and bugfixes).

There's sometimes an intermediate symlink to the newest major versions too (libwhatever.latest.so, libwhatever.2.so), to avoid breaking changes.
I bet you also held your iPhone 4 wrong /s
I just tell Visual Studio to create an installer, I select the set of target platforms, and it just works. See, for example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/ide/walkthrough-deployi...
Agreed. Elements of Style is full of errors, some of which are so obviously wrong that even its own authors don't follow them.
It seems that this whole thing is some inside joke that we do not have the context for.
Time and time again I'm astonished how much flamewar there is on HN when it comes to discussing people's favourite languages. (Referring to the comments, not the article.)
The odd thing about your comment is that most of the other comments in this thread (at the time I'm typing this) call for personally holding Facebook office-bearers to account, the implication being that Zuckerberg is a criminal who should be thrown in jail.
It seems to be the same as cheques and magstrip-only cards - uniquely American thing that rest of the world hasn't seen in years.

I do remember not that long ago opening an apple developer account required filling out a form with your card details and faxing it to some US-based number. It was madness back then already.
Looks like an interesting piece, but any paragraphs after the first few are for subscribers only.
I disagree in part. The articles notes:

> The settlement also obligates Facebook to pay $5 billion in civil penalties; that penalty is significantly larger than the next-closest penalty the FTC has ever won–which topped out at $22.5 million.

With $5 billion, I believe we're within a factor of ten of the right fine, which isn't something I always believe about these settlements. Compared to e.g. Janet Jackson at the Superbowl, resulting in a fine of $27 thousand - $5 billion is at least a line on the spreadsheet.
I recently heard the advice to do some forensics on yourself -- bookmarks, search history, youtube history, to figure out what kind of person you are (in the context of what work would suit you best).
Gee, what country does that sound like? It just occurred to me, seriously.
This question feels and reads from the past...
That’s a fair argument about the level of services that the Norwegian government can offer its citizens, but the size of the country has little to nothing to do with how wisely the use the proceeds of natural resources.
Thanks for the context, I would not have expected anyone to name anything after the most-hated piece of software ever written.
Why jail time? Hit them where it hurts: their company stock. Corporate malfeasance should (in part) be punished by clawing back some portion of executive stock compensation FBO the victims and/or the government. Some portion of their compensation was “earned” by decisions that violated the law and directly harmed others. Take it away.
I'm waiting for faxing to come back like cassettes:

Artists draw pictures and robodial a secret fan list (through a POTS modem and some 90s software) of fax machines where insiders can get exclusive limited physical copies of the art and the copies with the earliest timestamps become the most valued.

People will just be sitting around their house and they hear the fax machine starting to unexpectedly print something on a Saturday afternoon. Then, like some tactile version of a phone alert, they slowly watch the paper slide out of the machine with the latest artwork.

The lost joy of anticipation in the 30 or so seconds of waiting as you see the thing slowly form in front of you, recaptured once again.

Alternatively they hear from their friend that a new artwork is out and they anticipate going home and checking the tray of their fax machine to see their own copy.

This should be a thing, it sounds fun
I've used several, on linux and MacOS, and gmail. Now I use mutt, and am happy. Nothing else comes close. But the author writes that he needs integration with cardDAV, or something. I don't know if mutt can do that.
Agreed, Intel seems to buy companies and then destroy or borg only small bits leaving everything else to rot.

But such purchases are good PR for the shareholder perception and almost gets down to churning purches thru the books on the surface, look good at that level of perception.

Agreed, They should focus upon what they have and with that, perish the thought they focused upon there FPGA with toolchains and support that could drive it into that and many markets.

If Intel added a small FPGA to their CPU's and they could - that could drive a whole new market of development and one in which they are placed to capitlise upon what IP they do have. Certainly an FPGA would make for a good mix with AI, if Intel would make such tools and open up FPGA's more to users and get that adoption going. Then the whole CPU/GPU race may well change into their favour.
I enjoy reading proceedings from SIGBOVIK :)

http://sigbovik.org/2020/proceedings.pdf
Bunyan format support for Rust when using tokio/tracing
The article seems to be overly preoccupied with nouns.
Welcome to embedded computing :-)
The bloom filter one wasn't really one of the humorous ones. More like not knowing the name "Big O notation" despite understanding the concept. It was humorous that in all that time they never heard the term "Big O" even when using the concepts.
It's absolutely possible. I have an art degree and what I have found to be important is to have some impressive personal projects to show employers. Maybe not all of them will look at your portfolio but enough do that you should be able to get a job if it's good.

Falling in love with programming has been very fortunate for me because it is one of the few professions where you can show your skills with a portfolio instead of a piece of paper, and it pays pretty well
That seems like utter nonsense. The threat of jail is much more daunting for middle-class people than poor people, and fines are often the other way around. However, the rich can afford fines and can generally buy their way, more or less legally, from jail sentences, so they don't see it as a realistic probability for themselves. This would be the only reason that the rich can't usually be kept in line by the threat of jail.
Can the Saudi government survive a reduction in services? Their economy is largely built around the distribution of oil sale proceeds, I’m worried that cutting benefits might destabilize that regime.
The law is not based on reality.

If I sent you a fax, and your fax machine (of whatever type) printed it out, that copy is legally as good as the original.

If I scan, then email, and you print it out, it is not legally as good as the original.

It doesn't matter if it makes sense, it is what it is.
It is possible to extend CSI through good HDMI cables
https://www.robotshop.com/en/arducam-csi-hdmi-cable-extensio...
Right, I said that. I said that it may return yes when it isn't in the set. But it never gives a false negative, which is key.
curious as to how a post like this gets allowed. this is quite obviously click-bait, a personal blog post that is pretty dramatically un-informed. is HN going the route of Fox/CNN/DailyMail???
You're right, I meant that each valid RHS matches one and only one LHS--but that's also true of CSGs.
I’m not sure people are using it for true archiving purposes, so much as they are to avoid giving clicks to sites like CNN.
The rebuttal is in the beginning stating that Germany's renewable electricity production is important and not it's total energy consumption, at the end they claim that we need to shift all of our energy consumption to renewable electricity. This is a fundamental contradiction.
I wonder if you could hold up your smart phone to a landline handset like an acoustic coupler to send a fax?
That quote seems to come from the testimony of R. James Woolsley [1], who was referencing this commission report from 2008: http://www.empcommission.org/docs/A2473-EMP_Commission-7MB.p... [pdf]

Unfortunately discussion in this thread will be dead before anybody will finish comprehensively reading that report.

With the recent failure of the federal government during what should be a significantly easier to manage emergency, I find the 90% to be more believable than I would have just a year ago.

[1]: https://www.powermag.com/expect-death-if-pulse-event-hits-po...
Cool, but the whistleblower claiming 30% seems like a strange incentive.
Generation Alpha
I mean..everyone can be kept in line with a).
I have some capacitive (?) touch-sensitive lamps and a big switch for a ceiling fan. Sometimes when I flick the switch the lamps turn on