skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've also investigated this quite deeply. As I'm sure most of us know, the main problems with 'webcams', either the built-in ones or USB ones that you perch on top of your monitor, are the lens size, and the CCD/CMOS image sensor size. Manufacturers spouting specs like '4k' are deliberately misleading the public if the sensor and/or the lens aren't also upgraded.

The only cost-viable methods to get 'broadcast quality' imagery for streaming/recording right now is to buy a second hand DLSR or mirrorless camera that has 'clean' HDMI out that works without the camera auto-shutting down after X amount of time. There are a few sites out there that list the preferable models[1]. I've got a couple of old Canon DSLRs (That don't do clean HDMI) and a load of lenses, so I've been watching Ebay for a newer model Canon DSLR that I can afford. The lowest cost Canon DSLR body I've seen with unrestricted clean HDMI or that can take the Magic Lantern[2] firmware is about £150.

However... You also need a HDMI-to-USB dongle. This converts the cameras HDMI output into a standard USB Webcam input. I've already got an Elgato CamLink[3] (bought for a different reason a couple of years ago), but you can get cheap China knockoffs for about £15, I don't know how good they are though. My Camlink cost WAY more than that, so I have my doubts about the knockoff quality.

Finally, you need good audio capture that importantly is in sync with the picture. The HDMI to USB conversion adds a tiny delay to the image which can put your audio out of sync if you are using a standard USB microphone. Good software like OBS[4] can correct for this though.

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[1] https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/cam-link/camera-check

[2] https://magiclantern.fm/

[3] https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/cam-link-4k

[4] https://obsproject.com/
And it depends on what you consider better.

If C++ never had any (sort of) backwards compatibility with C, I would probably say that C++ is better.

But the way it is today, C is a simple language (good) lacking a lot of features that have become common in other languages (bad). C++ is the most capable and featurefull language (good) but it is a continuously evolving monstruousity and (for the usecase of C) lacks a sable ABI.

The downsides of each result in extensive use of metaprogramming or radically different stacks resulting in very little common ground between different programmers. There is no equivalent to "JavaScript the good parts". There is no one true way to write something like in Python.
This puts a lot of responsability on the programmers instead of putting it on automated tools (compilers, linters, etc.). This is why I favour newer languages like D, Nim and Rust for low level (manual memory management), and something with a garbage collecting VM like Python, Go, C# for higher level.

But in the end it doesn't matter which is "better". You will probably use the language used by the platform or stack you want to use. Or the language used by your employer or university teachers.

If the question is which one to learn, that is entirely different and it's a question about career planning.
Can you mention a specific models that would work well in this use case?
The original Ripple site was available for a while under https://classic.ripplepay.com/. I just noticed that Ryan is now operating it under the new domain https://rumplepay.com/.
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Golang and simplicity in the same sentence does not quite reflects my daily experience.

Want a Set? Golang does not have one, create a map[type]boolean instead.

Want an Enum? Golang does not have one, create a bunch of constants yourself that are not tied together by a type, or create your own type that won't quite make what an Enum is.

If simplicity means feeling like you are programming in the 80's, that is what Golang meant for me with simplicity.

Not having basic stuff such as Set and having to workaround with a map of booleans is not simplicity, as you will have to make it turning the code into a more complex blob to represent the same kind of data structure.

I could go on and on with the list of things that lack instead of things that are simple. </rant>
Interesting. I use solely tig which makes staging hunks/ stashing a breeze.

If this tool is even faster and I can keep my tig muscle memory and use something like tig . or tig —all then I might get sold on this new tool
Canon M200, Panasonic G7, Sony a5100 (oldest but can be bought for cheap and has good autofocus).
What's your lag with Droidcam?

My experience was a delay of half a second, making it unusable for live conferencing.
You actually want a mirrorless camera, not a DSLR one. If you intend to only use it as a webcam, probably just buy Panasonic G7 or Canon M200 for $500.
Sony recently added support for webcam-over-usb to a lot of their cameras, apparently. And they are known for video quality and good lenses. So that’s $700-800 for a very good camera (new) that also works as webcam.

https://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/app/webcam/en/download/
I think that the perception runs both ways - many Japanese people here enjoy being recognized as "polite", "super clean" and "obsessively precise", etc throughout the globe.

And for some weird things - eating raw squid or raw egg for example - people are secretly relieved as Westerners never understand the "true Japanese delicacy". It gives people a sense of superiority.
I spent those late teens to mid thirties actively trying to have significant impact.

The most relevant example I can provide is that I was a very strong advocate for racial equality since my teens. Recently after George Floyd's death and the mainstreaming of Black Lives Matter, I told my wife that I don't have the energy to get involved - though I did participate in several marches with my kids (more for them than me or black people - because I'm convinced of the impact). I applaud those doing impactful work .... and perhaps my focus on making an impact had impact which I did not see. I hope it did.
- MacBook Pro 2020. This is my first personal Apple device (I already had a MacBook Pro 2019 for work) and I love it. It's expensive but really has a nice premium feeling and UX. The only comparable non-Apple ultrabook on the market was the last XPS 13 but it was actually MORE expensive than the MBP.

- Jabra wireless earbuds. I was skeptical at first but they're amazing.
I meant critical component, not seat buttons. People are getting too involved in this.

Nobody gives a damn about the infotainment or door knobs.. it's delegated to one supplier just like a phone charger or any secondary part.

The car mechanics, engine, battery and control units are what I was mostly thinking about.

If Musk keeps on going their EVs car body will be two cast parts, so in terms of supply chain management the complexity is gone into the manufacturing process.
'whether cars have to engineer at the scale of 5 nanometers'

Thats done by TSMC, but you are right, I have much higher confidence in them producing a car than I do in Apple.

> do you honestly believe that automobiles are more complex from an engineering standpoint than microelectronics?

By two orders of magnitudes, at least! Modern car encompasses microelectronics, safety critical software and hardware design, passenger safety, repairability, corrosion, and thousands of other issues phones and laptops never face. You can't just push an OTA and fix a flawed engine. You can't tell you users 'they are holding it wrong'

> How could you possibly explain why the microchip was invented 100 years after the automobile?

How do you explain that Segway was invented after the microchip?
The Stewart Brand book How Buildings Learn mentioned in the article is excellent! The only architecture book you need. There's also a 1997 BBC TV series by the author on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=PLxFD-wxU4...)
My entry-level Canon DSLR (EOS 550D) can stream over USB, although it's not "plug and play", at least not on Linux. To make Chrome detect it as a webcam I need to go through gphoto2 -> ffmpeg -> v4l2loopback pipeline.
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Some people think that if you start creating micro services you will magically just "get" those boundaries.
C920 is still only mediocre IMO. It's ok if you sit completely still but it doesn't handle motion at all.
And you haven't yet started thinking in moral ways, but also your nihilistic desire has stopped you from seeing the logical truth: There are countries that both have the COVID virus under control and also have their economy back on track; and there are countries that have achieved neither. There is no "one or the other". It is "control the virus and benefit economically, or get neither benefit".
would^^^^^will
It's much worse. Poor people have their money financed in depreciating assets.
BMW switched back to normal turn stalks in more recent cars.
> The continuous political vigilance widely acknowledged to be necessary to prevent liberal democracy from devolving into tyranny is incompatible with the political disengagement you seem to prefer, so I think would be not at all a disgrace if your opinion were unpopular.

That is if you believe that politics have infected all corners of the Internet because there's a "struggle to prevent democracy from devolving into tyranny", paraphrased from your quote.

In my opinion it is the other way around: politics are everywhere nowadays, and it's perfectly fine and encouraged that teenagers participate and radicalise further toward one side, people whose critical mind are still under development. Add a sprinkle of bipartisan politics, so it's often a matter of black and white, and the amplifying power of social media, and that's the perfect recipe towards tyranny, bigotry, entrenchment and moving further and further from the centre.

I said this on other threads and I'll repeat: until not very long ago at all, politics was a game for rich, old people. It still is, but these days you're shamed if you're not actively involved in it.

I'm from Europe, while this attitude has started to affect over here as well, it's come from the English-speaking world (two famous bipartisan democracies, which are very overrepresented on the Internet) yet people are always quick to point out "The internet/world has always been so politicised." No it wasn't, in my experience.
This seems fairly reasonable, but it reads as just a set of disparate notes. I feel that if author is asking for money for writing (via paywall) then maybe convert the notes to an essay/article?
I have a similar setup but don't you find the latency to be bad? At least it's not good enough for video calls IMO. It's fine for streaming to an audience or recording.
The real rule turns out to be simple (although non-obvious): "Declaration matches usage."

So, for example, if you want a pointer to a function returning a pointer to an array of 3 integers, you'd want

(*(*f)())[3 - 1]

to evaluate to an int, so the declaration would be

int (*(*f)())[3];
A crypto thread on Hacker News without mentionning Monero is a sad thread.
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Sony's A6000 works perfectly well, but I recommend you also grab a NP-FW50 dummy battery as it will drain the battery even when plugged in via USB over time.

If you want better sound, grab the A6600 which can also sport the XLR-K2M microphone adapter.

Regarding HDMI capture: the Blackmagic DeckLink card series works just fine in a Thunderbolt case (at work I run a 2x A6000 system + external HDMI input).
Owner of a Logitech Brio 4K here. The quality is terrible just like this article mentions and I would have happily spent the money elsewhere if I had options.

I used to have a tiny Canon digital camera in 2003 that had better quality than this.
From the post title, I was expecting this to be about an application the author created in which the community of users and devs is accessible from within the application itself.

So for example, if you are using Blender then there is a tab for viewing recent posts, or Q&A by fellow users of the application.

I wonder why no one does that.
> And then whenever they would post rank inaccuracies, there were clearer-minded people to point out why they were wrong, in the same place where the same people could see it.

I don't think this works on reddit either, since subreddit moderators can simply delete such comments.
Thanks a lot for this reference. I am a professional dancer and phd student in machine learning and starting to combine these fields for an art project, but I wasn’t aware of Donna Harraway, this could actually be really helpful to me.
> you can get cheap china-knockoffs for about £12, I don't know how good they are.

They are so-so. Well, they are much-much better than any webcam, of course, but 1080p is almost the same as 720p on them. So as a budget thingie it'll work, but Elgato's adapter is much better, of course.
There certainly is a middle ground and I agree it should be protected. In this case, though, the posters on Voat seem to be nowhere near the middle ground and instead wading around in the cesspool of racial hatred.
Well, consistency in itself is a good rule to follow. The problem is , if a bad decision was made at the beginning of the project, maintaining consistency despite that is madness.
What is your goal? Earn more money? Create interesting stuff?
The situation as it is does not pit option A: "you die right now" vs. option B: "save a handful of jobs". You are still oversimplifying the issue. In reality, both options are just modifying chances, and both options entail a huge number of second order effects. This needs to be weighed. It's not as simple as saying "well option A is literal death, so the other must always be better". And pointing that out does not mean I'd die to save a handful of jobs.

The flu also kills hundreds of thousands of people, and it does so each and every year. So should we be in permanent lockdown? After all, it's lives versus a handful of jobs.
Recent MacBook Pros (2020 13" M1 and 2019+ 16" Intel based) have incredible microphones for laptop mics [1]. Older 13" Pros and Airs have decent mics too but not as good as dedicated USB microphone.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=237&v=CmMOJTs7Pu8
Copyleft licenses haven't prevented Linux to be used for the largest installed base of spying devices on earth (Android phones) nor for lock-in schemes ("the cloud").

In fact, it can be argued the ubiquity and availability of F/OSS is largely responsible for creating a situation in which the only buck to be made is integration, QA, and value-add (eg RedHat capturing the enterprise market) superseded by convenience and CapEx->OpEx benefits (cloud providers). Accompanied by EEE tactics (KHTML->WebKit, POSIXly/LSB Linux->systemd "Lennax"). Holding on to philosophical discourses of old doesn't help.

Progress and choice is made by individuals/idealists (TBL) and industry consortiums (POSIX, SQL) in rare moments of lucky adoption, to be then captured by venture capital, and the ad, porn, and gambling industries; then leveraged by money-launderes, CPers and other criminals, dictators, radical whackos.
what about camcorders? is there any model that also acts as a webcam? they’re pretty cheap nowadays
The fact that gender critical subreddits were banned, (like LGBdroptheT) where respectful discussion on gay erasure were taking place, speaks volumes. In The current political climate, gay people need to hear from members of their own community that homosexuality is transphobic, because it excludes transpeople. Mainstream gay and lesbian subreddits are teaching lesbians to like "girl dick". A simple joke that gay men need not to worry about getting pregnant is transphobic because WHAT ABOUT TRANS MEN. LGBT communities on reddit are incredibly homophobic, and no community that tries to speak survives. I am So incredibly sad for young gay men and women who are being victimized by their own communit, being told that being attracted to only the same sex is wrong.
You know it's a video chat tool only because of the HN thread. How would you know if you randomly stumbled on to the landing page?
Please try out teddit.net , it's an amazing, lightweight, privacy friendly version of reddit!
I am looking for an improvement in convenience over mirrorless, even if it costs the same.

A webcam can be more compact because it does not need half the stuff thats in a mirrorless camera
On a fundamental level, how can the adoption of laws in bulk (like with such omnibus bills) ever be considered democratic and not just (at best) pretty much an open invitation for all kinds of corruptions?

Isn't it essential for democracy that lawmakers decide on laws based on merits, instead of their adoption being dependent on all kind of unrelated laws and other external factors? How did this practice ever become a defensible one? I guess there will plenty of US citizens who have found a way to rationalize/defend this process, but I sincerely wonder if that might not be the most fundamental mistake of them all.

Seriously though .. why does anyone consider the USA a democratic state of law? I mean, both in absolute terms and in comparison with many other countries, it simply appears to be neither .. that despite unparalleled volumes of systemic propaganda to the contrary and many of its citizens stubbornly holding on to this belief that the USA is somehow a beacon and example to the rest of the world.

I grew up, as many others who grew up in NATO countries during the 80s, with horror stories about USSR and Chinese state propaganda. I have no doubt that a lot of that was actually true and certainly devastating. However, with the years, it increasingly appears as if the USA might actually be (and may always have been) the worst of them all. Just that most of its propaganda hides in plain sight, under banners of individual freedom and prosperity. Sure, you can say whatever you want, as long as you don't pose any real threat to anything of importance. But that is actually not all that different in most parts of the world (Russia and China included; despite the US trying to convince everyone to the contrary). Sure, the USA appears to act less oppressive towards its citizens (or at least compared to the stories they tell about events in other countries). But with a population so thoroughly brainwashed since birth, and being able to do what they do (most lucrative/criminal things almost exclusive in other countries) unopposed either way, maybe they just don't need it as much.

Feel free to down vote and flag, I honestly don't care (anymore). In fact, I would prefer to delete this account if HN allowed that. Because sincerely, I'm done with this site and this "community". Good luck to you all.

Just don't expect any sympathy, for anyone who will argue something along the lines of "we didn't know" or "we could not have seen that coming".
The article doesn't really go into a lot of depth about which Logitech cameras they looked at. I've got the Brio (https://www.logitech.com/en-gb/product/brio) and it seems pretty good to me.

If you are looking to use an iPhone camera for streaming/Video conferencing camo (https://reincubate.com/camo/) works well.
> I’m not gonna use any platform that allows me to encounter Nazis

The main reason you think of your political opponents as nazis is because you haven't been interacting with them and talking to them.

"Nazi" as a label is pretty useless as there are dozens of beliefs that are associated with "Nazi" (normally used as a label for rejecting any of the core tenants of progressivism), most people called Nazis might agree with a watered down version of one of them and disagree with the rest (The amount of conflation going on is a bit ridiculous, someone who believes in using military power to acquire resources and someone who believes in a "traditional" gender roles and someone who thinks those with learning difficulties should be steralized and someone who thinks Jews have too much influence in media are all "Nazis" but will agree with eachother on nothing else).

Of course, because someone who voices one of the views will get ejected from their community and go to the community of rejects where other people who had a single "Nazi" belief are... they'll become radicalized and adopt some of the other "Nazi" views they would otherwise have opposed (though rarely all). :/
Reading this article actually got me sold on the idea of a phone-holder+software in lieu of a good web cam.

I, like many people have an old smartphone lying around.

My Samsung S7 has better camera (front and back) and better mic than any webcam I’ve owned.

Getting a nice holder and a reliable app that could spit webcam picture out of that phone would be great.
so what, everyone else buys Sony or m4/3 and a capture card. It's not that you need motion in the typical videoconference that much - and even then: what's handling motion about? I don't have a problem with my c900 (or whatever) and the only problem with a very old Quickcam STX seems to be no driver ..
That's where the analogy breaks down. If you take Einstein relativity at face value, there's no priviledged spatial slicing (contrasting with, say, Lorentz ether theory), and the balloon is not really a thing.

The most obvious interpretation of general relativity is in terms of B-theory of time: Spacetime is some 'pre-existing', 'eternal' thing over mich matter is distributed. This also fixes the geometry (things like lengths and angles) via Einstein's equations, which more or less state that energy-momentum ∝ Ricci curvature.

In our universe, that distribution comes in layers, ie there's a spatial slicing where the matter distribution appears homogeneous. In that sense, there is a priviledged slicing, which has the unfortunate side effect of making people forget the lessons of special relativity.

Now, the average density of matter changes from layer to layer, and, if our universe were described by the 'closed' Friedmann model, so would the (finite!) volume of the slice. That change is not arbitrary: The layers can be labelled by cosmological time, and with its increase, the average proper distance between galaxies increases as well. That's called the metric expansion of space, because in our idealized model, the metric (a thing defining distances and angles) within a given slice is just a scaled version of the one in a different slice.
is hacker news a link aggregator for paid articles?
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Brio is retailing at ~$330 in my country.
No no no, stop it, it's Apple and this word is the synonym to "privacy", you are not buying a device, it's like second mother, caring about you and protecting your privacy with angel wings.
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The reason you can’t buy a good webcam is the same reason you can’t buy a high quality monitor outside of LG’s unreliable apple collab.

The lazy conglomerates who sell these peripherals often don’t actually produce the parts in them. They simply rebrand commodity cameras and IPS panels in a crap plastic housing and slap their logo on it.

Then they give the product a hilariously user-hostile product name, like “PQS GRT46782-WT” as an extra f-you to the user.

They don’t care about you because they have no ongoing relationship with you, and their executives mistakenly see their own products as commodities.

Combine this with the fact that most home users don’t care about good quality or even know what it is, and you have the current situation.

A friend once described the peripheral market as “Assholes selling crap to idiots.”
If you are looking here to improve your webcam because you started to do remote work, don't.

First try to improve lighting and audio.

Any camera will look bad in bad lighting. It is always better to first improve your lighting before you invest in a new camera. Use high CRI lightbulbs and ensure even source color temperature in your room (ie. all lightbulbs should be emitting same color temperature).

Audio is also very important. It is processed by different parts of brain and we don't put so much attention to it but the quality will influence the other person, subconsciously. Also, audio is how the information is being passed.