skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat related self advertising. I made this tiny tool that lets you take a YouTube playlist or channel and turn it into a podcast RSS that works with any podcast listening app that still supports RSS sources. And the final audio URLs are pointing to YouTube anyway.

https://github.com/naugtur/handsfreeyoutube
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What unintended consequences?
What portion of the $10 actually ends up in your favorite content creator's hands?

That's why I prefer to support creators via Patreon. Then 80%+ of the money goes directly to the creator, and none to YT.
Yeah, the one thing I took away from this timely endorsement of using two screens(?) is that Zoom has a special two-screen mode.
Jitsi Meet works fine as long as you do not use Firefox.

W.r.t. the general meme about WebRTC, this is old (2018) and explicitly does not claim to be anything other than suggestive:
https://jitsi.org/blog/a-simple-congestion-test-for-zoom/
And demonstrate to everyone thinking about switching to Google from another company that Google will throw them to the wolves?
Thanks!

I found this trick to make vimeo videos "seamless" just as gifs back in the days. It's surprisingly not distracting yet super vivid :)
It's not that we don't see it, but we don't agree. I honestly don't have the energy to try to explain it here anymore -- the conversation always turns unpleasant, and I need a place on the Internet where I can avoid thinking about economics for a while.
Cov-lite loans are at the largest percentage of issuance of all-time. 30-40% with a complete lack of meaningful covenants in a lot of cases is wishful thinking.

Additionally, what's new about this cycle is tech companies being a massive percentage of issuance. What's the recovery value of a tech company with little to no real assets? Additionally, what's the recovery value of an energy company when oil has dropped as much as it has? Both of those sectors make up a huge portion of outstanding and will move the needle meaningfully even if other sectors are fine.

I probably agree with your overall point about the Fed and and govt but you really cannot use historical assumptions for recovery rates this cycle.
I definitely agree that large single screens are better in some cases, but not everyone can afford a 27” 4K monitor. I can however, afford the 1080p monitor I found at the thrift store. Most of the time I use my second screen for documentation, anyways - I don’t have to interact with it heavily.
Thousands of scientists go on strike to protest systemic racism in STEM
She's certainly not conceding defeat, so yes it's "doubling down" in a sense. But "doubling down" might imply some sort of "I'm right, you're wrong" in an objective sense. Maybe she just wants to share her perspectives on the matter so the reader can better understand how her experiences shape her views.

This is a topic with a lot of nuance and I'm no Rowling when it comes to writing or discussion about gender and sex. I think she's making clear that she's a feminist first, and that she's taking issue with how any woman who does not fall in line with the "approved hashtags" regarding trans issues is labeled a TERF. All nuance on what she actually believes (3690-word essay) has been replaced by a catchy, provocative statement like "you are killing trans people with your ideas."

It would be so much easier to tweet the approved hashtags – because of course trans rights are human rights and of course trans lives matter – scoop up the woke cookies and bask in a virtue-signalling afterglow
> could bring the whole thing crashing down.

Hmm yes I guess for him personally maybe, however to me the overall system looks stable
I know you asked another user but figure I'd offer some input as someone who sees themselves as more libertarian in belief structure. I agree with you on healthcare needing to be essential infrastructure.

However, it's a bit of a sticky, dividing part for a lot of libertarians - especially the more dedicated believers. You get the ones that are just so driven to "gub'mint don't tread on me!", and you get the ones that understand that any mindset or belief is not bulletproof in theory and/or in practice and need to build safeguards in place.

In an ideal, perfect world to a lot of libertarians (again, this is subjective) - there wouldn't be a need for any government ran programs. That will never, EVER happen in my opinion. There will always still be people who just are not educated, intelligent, lucky, skillful, advantageous (whatever qualifier anyone picks to use) enough to succeed or to be able to have an acceptable standard of living independently. We need to have some sort of safety net in place. What that net is, I'm not educated enough to offer an opinion or thoughts on specifically.

Rest assured that there's a LOT of libertarians that understand that "shit happens" and there should be systems in place to handle these edge cases.
I'd rather see the listing. Is the height 9", 10", 11"? Hard to tell because of the angle.
With Jitsi the main thing is the browser, you should try different versions of Firefox & Chrome.
Google will respect your robot.txt

Put the values you'd like in there
So he is "identified" as a killer now because a journalist and police say that. No weapon. No proofs. Throw a dice. Guilty.

And we were spending all this money on expensive judges, prosecutors and lawyers, for thousands of years without a reason...
I agree with the GP: it does not matter which side of a topic you are on, which ever side it is, it could come back an bite you professionally. It is wisest to either be anonymous or not engage.
Treat online discussions as online, even among friends. You're never going to win anybody over, get over yourself. In real-life, you might be able to at least make a persuasive argument based on facts and supporting evidence, or even just charm. Online dialogue is just not suited to true understanding and hearing eachother out, but rather the opposite. Just observe the wild conspiracy theories that in normal discourse would never otherwise be allowed such prominence, if not for social media platforms and covert ad campaigns.
In the US system you are free to criticize the government. In the Chinese and Russian systems you are not. That alone tells me all I need to know about who I want scooping up my data.
Please watch Garbo on Amazon Video, about the English double Agent in WWII. I am amazed at this 90+ year old woman seeming as sharp, sharper than I am most days.

Quite a life
Also, a lot of people make 10x levered bets on AAA instruments, which means even a 10% loss can wipe you out.

The trick is "repo", or repurchase agreements.

(1) Buy bonds

(2) Use those bonds as collateral for a low-interest loan

(3) Use the loan money to buy bonds

(4) goto 2

See, e.g [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-15/how-repo-...
Retrieval-Based Learning: A Perspective for Enhancing Meaningful Learning
FYI Google Meet supports two screens as well.
I have my base in Poland. And those times I'm less of a nomad due to many things including some virus in the air.
If tacit knowledge is not something you can get by reading, then training and mentoring is much better (dare I say vital!) than documenting it all in a wiki, or just making sure everything is done asynchronously in a well written pull request.

This is a weird thing to argue. Productivity could be something like [system-knowledge] X [tacit-knowledge-of-programming] so just tacit knowledge wouldn't get a team maximum productivity.

Altogether, it seems like what's tacit in programming or tacit in any complex domain is "how to integrate different complex and sometimes contradictory things". It's important but hardly important in a "you can discard everything else, this is the magic" sort of way.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23481161.
What? Really? If you're being placed in front of a different OS than what you use you loose basic troubleshooting capabilities?

Look, I'm not using Windows nor OSX very often, when people ask me for help, I mostly start out as helpless as them. But programmers (or generally computer literate, or whatever you wanna call it) seem to have way better searching skills, even for things they have no idea about.

So yeah, helping people with the windows/osx setup sucks, because I'm completely lost. But if you're a linux user, you're probably used to searching for knowledge in order to gain it. This also works for others OSes.

I'd understand if you don't want to help them out of principle, but please don't call yourself incompetent when so many people have it so much "worse". Mention "DNS" or "proxy" and they'll think you're speaking yiddish.
I wouldn't argue for or against the use of the term "modern" to describe the F-16 since that's the most boring thing ever, but it is the most common fighter in service today, with multiple active production lines.
Would be useful to collect the links solely about the Zoom's security politics, not about bugs which everyone has.
You’ve got QI kind of backwards. QI was never meant to alter what cops were allowed to do, it was supposed to shield them from nuisance suits. Think less “cops killing people” and more “suing the clerk over a denied license”. The bounds of acceptable police force is set by law and department policy, not QI. Before QI the police were still legally allowed to arrest people, after all.

The problem is that QI rulings are insanely narrow, to the point where minor differences get cops off scot free. The differences can be as minor as the difference between setting dogs on a surrendering suspect in a “wooded creek” vs. in a “shrubby ditch”. And every single time this happens, a specific precedent is denied for future incidents.
I also disagree.

When the pandemic started I left a couple of my monitors at the cowork space where I had my desk, and had to do with what I had at home (one 1920 x 1080 and another at 1366 x whatever).

I had another monitor lying around, and eventually I plugged it into my box as well.

As I didn't have a way to keep the monitor in a decent position... I put it as a "console" window, almost on level to the keyboard and right in the space between it and the larger monitor I had.

Eventually I went to pick my stuff from the cowork, so now I have 3 HD monitors arranged in portrait mode side by side; and I still crave for the "console" window.

Although I do reckon I wouldn't mind having a 4K monitor, but the price of those in my country are prohibitive (To the tune of +400 USD last time I checked).

Also I'm looking forward to the point that I can buy a decent VR headset, and then I think I'll be at a point of no return.
Depends on the webpage, but the you can always render server-side
Please don't post this sort of unsubstantive and generic comment. It makes discussion more predictable and much less interesting.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Also, the whataboutism trope is an example of canned arguments that don't belong in HN threads. One should respond either to the specifics of an argument, or downvote/flag a comment as appropriate, or just not respond. I wrote more on this elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23481335.
> Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said in early June that the company has chosen not to encrypt free calls in order to cooperate with law enforcement.

This is incorrect. They don't offer end-to-end encryption, but it is encrypted between each client and the Zoom servers, and they have promised there's no way for a Zoom employee to spy on a conversation without visibly joining the meeting. https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1268061790954385408
A 1 Gbps link in meet me room or downtown in a big city is very cheap. 1 Gbps in a residential neighborhood could be the node uplink shared between hundreds of households. Like electricity, most of retail cost is distribution to your home.
Why don't you try being a little kinder, especially when you don't have all the facts?

It's not as though web design like knowledge of meta tags and robots.txt is the sum total of everything to know about computers. Maybe they've built their own 8-bitter, or are a motherboard PCB designer? I'd argue that'd put them firmly in the 'computer guru' class. But we don't know, so it's probably better to say nothing at all.
https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/06/we-know-lot-less-we-thi...
This is why a successful democracy is one where only well educated and thoughtful people vote. Making it easier and easier to vote is a losing formula.
Do you use this commercially? <- no. just as test.

"and have tools to detect and prevent such abuse" <- This was my assumption too. I tested all large carriers. Verizon, however doesn't seem to have these limits in place. With a verizon sim I can push out about 200 texts per hour per device. If you get rejected in my tests depends on the receiving carrier.

"it's that carriers essentially have a cartel and can set prices however they want" <- yes. Carrier to carrier is where things are interesting. Sprint gets quickly blocked by ATT for example. But, wow, a UNLIMITED TEXT plan is pretty cheap...
"You only look once" in Chinese.
> I lose a bunch every election. Selfish right wing friends get removed.

You didn't "lose" (passive voice) friends, you actively decided to not be friends with them. That's on you, not them.

> I don't know how people can be anti-BLM .... How can I be friends with them?

You could try to understand why they express the views that they do. Presumably they aren't full of hatred, or you probably wouldn't be friends in the first place, which means they probably have a reasonable view, even if you disagree. The more your friends have to agree with you on everything to be friends, the fewer friends you'll have. Personally I think that shared interests and values and ability to have healthy conflict are more important than agreement. Plus, you'll grow more as a person if you don't live in an echo chamber.
I think the Go guideline to commit messages is exceptionally good: https://golang.org/doc/contribute.html#commit_messages.

Also: Rob Pike's Google internal rant on the very same topic https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/6M4dmZWpF...
Stop! Most USA company bow to China, isn't it?
DNSSEC-Like Trust for Certificate Authorities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
Asking for discussion. Original text goes over HN's character limit for text entries.
'Fired' doesn't make much sense for stand up. Most comedians won't play (or aren't invited to) college campuses anymore. Two decades ago every comedian would tour campuses. Something has changed drastically.
For me, the second screen isn't there for me to focus on. It's there to keep the focus on the main screen. I keep my less-used programs (spotify, discord, etc) on the secondary display so I don't have to constantly alt-tab on my main display.
Freedom from surveillance facilitates criticism of the government. Do away with that and you end up with something like Russia or China.
"P(W) == P(M)" is not supported by the statement. More like "P(W), but also P(M)"
equity !== equality

Equity means striving for an impossible, ever moving goalpost that will lead to oppression of many over time.

Equality of opportunity may not overcome the starting point, but doesn't seek to raise some and oppress others for actions that they didn't create.

Nobody should have to suffer, apologize or have their actions dismissed because of how they were born. We are all raised in different environments and all have to make our own decisions in life.

Our best option is to spread knowledge and points of ethical example.

People should read both MLK and Malcom-X and consider them before trying to raise a PoV about status quo vs change that may actually be worse for everyone. I'm not entirely in favor of the status quo, but that doesn't mean that changes proposed have any more value in terms of improving society as a whole.
> Design is not something that should be tied to a particular decade.

Design does not exist in a vacuum. Technological progress, for example, creates the need for design change. Microsoft's switch from a serif to a sans serif font as the default typeface for Word was a good move, because we rarely print documents anymore and a the best design for print is not the same as the best design for screens.

20th century physics books had a distinct design for illustrations. It was beautiful and functional. But it was also designed around the limitations of their eventual monochrome (not even greyscale) print. A 2020 textbook does not have the same limitations and should not be designed with the same set of constraints.
That goes for random phone calls too. About two weeks ago I get a call on my office phone from the CIO at 4:45 PM on a Friday.

There's about 50 people in the IT staff and there's one manager between me and the CIO. I might chat with her once a quarter as I pass her in the hallway, but due to COVID I haven't heard from her informally in quite a while.

I guess she really did just want to chat about how things are going. But for a quick 10 seconds I really did think "oh crap, I'm fired."
you know there are plenty of Hacker News readers in countries other than the US right?...
Exchange That Allows You to Trade Cryptocurrency at Zero Trade Fees: Phemex
> do they even offer it?

Just to answer this—technically yes, but they use dark patterns to dissuade people from learning about it.
Why Writing Will Redefine Your Life
On the same day they shutdown a Chinese activist's zoom account in an act of censorship [1]. I have a hard time accepting this as a coincidence and not paid-for good will. On a side note, I'm really disheartened that everyone is starting to verb Zoom when it's such a foul company.

1-https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23480918
It is a hard rule! https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Perhaps the issue is that UBlock Origin allows some ads.
AdBlocker Ultimate, recommended by Firefox, faces that issue, removing all adds. See https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblocker-ult...

EDIT: I don't think UBlock Origin has acceptable ads anymore :)
Seems reasonable enough, but you might be falling for the old fallacy that doing something is always better than doing nothing. It's an easy sales pitch but it's not actually a valid argument.

Using #DefundThePolice as an example... it seems obvious that something needs done but https://blacklivesmatter.com/defundthepolice/ doesn't make a convincing case about. There are a lot of people who are opposed to the status quo but don't see much value in that particular hashtag. Does that seem anti-BLM to you?
It's relatively cheap, and it seems to be supported fairly well (loosely, "good"), so that's two points of the triad. The Law says we can't also have "fast", but that's a reasonable trade-off for those who prioritize "cheap" and "good".
> Is there any reason not to assume that the Chinese government is surveilling Zoom calls en masse?

Always assume your calls on the public internet are being surveilled by all parties, no matter which service you're using.

But beside that... if they were surveilling them... why would they close them? Why would you shut down your intelligence source?
I was thinking something similar. The default styles don't look super shiny, I suppose, but they are clean, which I appreciate. All in all, I think it does a good job of supporting my main reason for choosing graphviz over something like Visio: It encourages me to get the illustration done and then get on with my day without getting caught up with trying to make everything perfect.

I will turn to Visio if I need to make something presentation-quality, so there's that.

I have similar feelings about the lack of ability to fine-tune the layout: I've started seeing it as a feature, because it gives me a great feedback mechanism: If the graph is too complicated for Graphviz to lay out nicely, I take that as a sign that the thing the graph represents needs to be simplified. I've even gone so far as to incorporate Graphviz into my definition of done for a refactoring project: I kept a dotfile representing the current state of the dependency graph, and stopped refactoring when the rendered graph stopped making my eyes water.
Seems like even on HN people are walking on eggshells and won't address the elephant in the room.

Very well, I will.

FUCK ZOOM and FUCK CCP.

I am dreaming of a unified world where we boycott China until they change their ways. A man can only dream.
Is there a comprehensive list of all CCP-favoring [self-]censorship incidents involving major entities outside of China?

Leica, Mariott cases come to mind.
Same, except that you still can't execute expressions in the debugger. It only reads existing values. I think it's something with Delve.
> but the question is, how and why will the bubble burst?

I'd take the Black Swan approach. There are probably a dozen each unlikely events that could cause the bubble to pop but you're unlikely to actually predict which one will do it and when it will happen. Your optimal move is to assume something is going to happen at some point and just hedge yourself against that rather than try to predict. Taleb gets called an oracle but his entire philosophy is not to predict rare events that destabilize a system but just accept they will eventually happen and prepare accordingly

In this case having some portion of your net worth in BTC/Crypto seems like an obvious hedge
I checked the Tweeter's scientific skills and was not impressed. Interesting that he's anti-mask as well, if I read his tweet correctly.
>I've taken to appending "reddit" to my queries just to know what actual people think about an issue

Woah, thought I might be one of the few that did this. You articulated my reasoning behind it perfectly.
> No the Government borrows against future taxes (consider that an accounts receivable), the borrowed money doesn’t have value because of consensus it has value because it is backed by future tax revenue.

This is one of two reasons it has value.

As other comments mention, the other reason is because it's by far the leading global reserve currency. Which is to say it's an attractive mix of liquid, stable, and available, compared to alternatives.

Furthermore, there are certain commodities (e.g. oil), for which dollars are required.

As a result, other countries / parties may believe the dollar is overvalued, but they will still have to acquire them, at the market rate, to execute transactions.

As a result of that ongoing demand, the dollar will tend to be valued both on its future tax revenue value AND as a result of a substantial, continuous demand.
Couple of points

1. Where are your legal docs?

2. First? I didn't even have to finish typing and hit search to see there are many many apps which purport to use "ai" as a wellness coach
hmmm, do they discuss that in the podcast?
"When I pushed these people on their judgments, they would try to explain in terms of principles or heuristics. But the more I pushed, the more exceptions and caveats and potential gotchas I unearthed."

It is a popular believe that being an expert on something doesn't mean you will be an expert on teaching that thing, but in this case it could also be that any number of implementations was possible, and the seniors had more clout or were more pushy.
I took my numbers from here: https://www.androidauthority.com/how-much-data-does-netflix-...

3 GB / hour to Mbps = 6.667 Mb/s https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=3+GB+%2F+hour+to+Mbps

7 GB / hour to Mbps = 15.56 Mb/s
Going to be honest, I have trouble seeing how this is good. If you feel the need to pay someone to do it, it probably shouldn't be done like that.
Thanks for making it in summary. I have been following this from last few months and works really well.