skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I researched this (when I settled on a desktop condenser mic), the only headphones that had good mic quality were the very expensive ones, $200 and higher and/or the professional ones (the ones you see used in sports on the field).

The problem is that, just like cameras, size matters for mics. In order to even sense the full frequency range of the human voice it helps to have a larger diaphragm size. For headsets they range from microscopic to tiny which results in the voice recorded with the headset sounding like "telephone" voice (ie it's designed to capture the most important frequency range of the human voice, the medium frequencies) however, to me that sounds bad, artificial, cheap so I wanted more. Capturing more of the frequency range allows you to sound more natural, you know, like you are actually there in the same room talking to that person.

Depending on your usecase this may or may not be a consideration.

EDIT: as for noise issues, it's always best to avoid recording it if possible but even then there are software techniques to remove it post-facto. In order to achieve the former you can get super/hyper-cardioid pattern microphones that are very sensible recording sound that comes directly in front but not from other directions. However, no pattern will save you if you use a condenser microphone in a noisy room. It may be possible to use a second mic positioned away from your mouth and use software to remove the noise by essentially computing the difference between the two (some headsets can do that). Alternatively you can go for a desktop dynamic mic, just make sure you speak loud enough, but at least you won't get noise :)
A "consistent design language". The developers who worked on the feature argued against it (among other things it was almost impossible to tell which window was active since "Black on White" isn't easily distinguishable from "Gray on white"). Selfhost feedback said the same thing. It didn't matter - the designers had their mocks, the PMs sided with them, and that was how it shipped.

The public response was entirely predictable (for "not being the target customer", it turns out that we knew how they think pretty well) and soon enough we added a toggle for color and APIs to control title bar colors back in TH1.
Tesla Claims Engineer Stole Secrets Just Three Days on the Job
Human embryos susceptible to coronavirus at early stages of development
It's one thing to install a charger in a two-car garage. Installing charging capacity for 20, or 50, or 100 cars is something else. I'm not sure how most existing apartment buildings could handle all of their tenants charging their cars at night at the same time. I'm not even clear on how much strain that would put on the electrical grid.

How much more power would we need to produce to handle the demand if everyone had electric cars instead of gas cars? That power consumption would be added on top of all the power consumption we currently have.
>As newspaper barons before them, the internet has not policed itself adequately enough, according to the governments of the world, and now they will act in unity to take back some control.

How did the US government take back any control from newspaper barons? I honestly cannot think of anything.
But facebook messenger at least used to work, I know I used it with pidgin before
> One of the problems with this is opening up to criticism, liability, and further argumentation.

That's not a problem; it's the point.

> It's better for users if the platform's transparent.

Exactly.

> or even sue you because that line of reasoning makes you liable.

Also the point. Corporations are not people, and their reasoning should be assumed liability-worthy unless shown otherwise.
I feel like we sort of did get a "Space New Deal" in the form of "Let's just send robots everywhere." Not great from a human space flight perspective, but political will is what it is.
Not to be ignorant, but: So what?

What are they going to do with my car once they have it, Tesla’s notified it’s stolen for when the car phones home and I’m driving off in my new X the insurance company bought me. The same insurance company that now has ALL the data Tesla has about the car and some real mean lawyers going after whoever it was that stole it so they can recoup their money.

Maybe I’m blind, but the risk/reward on stealing a Tesla just isn’t there like stealing fancy cars was back in the 90’s. I know criminals aren’t always the smartest on the block, but even with the dumb ones, why should I care?
I agree that's a real difference and M1 makes good use of it, it's just to me RISC ("everything MIPS did") vs CISC ("everything x86 did") implies a lot of other stuff that's just coincidences. Specifically RISC means all of simple fixed-length instructions, 3-operand instructions (a=b+c not a+=b), and few address modes. Some of these are the wrong tradeoff when you have the transistor budget of a modern CPU.

x86 has complicated variable instructions but the advantage is they're compressed - they fit in less memory. I would've expected this to still be good because cache size is so important, but ARM64 got rid of theirs and they know better than me, so apparently not. (They have other problems, like they're a security risk because attackers can jump into the middle of an instruction and create new programs…)

One thing you can do is have a cache after the decoder so you can issue recent instructions over again and let it do something else. That helps with loops at least.
Even where I live, the streets are full of cars but there are maybe 2-3 lamp posts on the street. You’d need lamp posts every 50 feet on both sides of the street. Which we definitely don’t have.

I live in the peninsula in the Bay Area in a rich neighborhood. If there is that many cars on the street here in a place with $2mil+ homes then there’s no way it’s gonna work in other areas as well.
I'm well aware of that. My point is that these guys are armchair revolutionaries. Revolutions don't always need to be violent. They can be cerebral.
The ISS is modular.

There's no need for a "new" ISS, per se. You just attach new modules and, if need be, detach and deorbit old modules.

It's less exciting, kind of like maintaining an old code base.
I remember in Thanksgiving 2019 that Tesla owners were sometimes waiting in line for hours at Supercharger stations in California -- and California has a lot of those! Even Tesla doesn't have it figured out during peak travel times.
So loosing a large part of Bangladesh to the sea by 2050 and then loosing more to the sea by 2051, and even more by 2052, etc. with no hope of recovering... displacing therein tens to hundreds of millions of people that will need new homes, and new infrastructure that is requiring housing, feeding and transporting those people is going to cost less then then a year and a half of pandemic?

I would love to see your calculations for this.
I can't tell if the site is down or blocked by my ISP?
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I'm sorry but that design is not timeless at all. That car looks aged as hell and I wouldn't want to drive it.

(My 2 grumpy cents)
That's an old installation that still has the pmbootstrap version used to build the image in there.

Also if it's an old installation it might have hundreds of lines in /etc/apk/world and those installations don't upgrade cleanly sadly. Took quite a while to figure out that bug...
I was a bit disappointed by the missed opportunity for a joke: Steve Jobs for the demise of serial ports.
I remember back around 1999 I had a Pentium 3 450 or 500 running NT 4 and it was fast. I think we had Photoshop 5 at the time. It seemed to load almost instantly. This is with SCSI adapter and decent video card too. I loved NT 4, but as time went on the lack of USB support made it hard to use.
ah that does it I'm off facebook asap! Will only use it to tell people to get off of it.
Oral History of Brad Cox

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1xrL2d5omuA
We have. see what stenographers do, for just one example.

Perhaps your question might be better "why haven't more efficient systems gained wider adoption," and there's a large "installed base" etc but also some hidden values to the inefficiencies that might not be apparent at first glance.
The common solution to the flat-cost-per-transaction problem is to use not-money. Do microtransactions with company script, and buy the script in bulk units (eg 100 NYT coins for $5)

Which is generally how games do it
Even the Qt folks accepted, though, that for run/event-loop integration between glib and Qt code, it was Qt that provided a way to use the glib event loop not vice versa (because Qt doesn't offer a sufficiently hook-able event loop abstraction).
Damn if allbirds aren’t comfy as shit tho
Oral History of Brad Cox
If one wants to contribute to something under an Apache license but exclude certain part, one is expected to explicitly point the exclusion out as in “this part is not delivered under Apache 2 license”.
Thanks. Send any feedback my way: onassar@gmail.com :)
You see to know a bit about the subject matter. Sorry for the aside, but do you know what the latest consensus on gravitons happens to be? Do they exist?
> Is BBC iPLayer still geolocked to the UK? There are bunch of BBC productions that I would love to watch, that I would gladly pay money for online access, but I have not been able to.

Get a VPN (Nord is practically spamming it with 1/2 pricing on every podcast) and donate 100 quid to the BBC as a write off. Done. That's what I did.

Or better yet since this is YC, buy a laptop (or a few used ones off of ebay depending on your budget) to help kids in the UK without one in their charity drive [0].

This was one of the first things I used to do with TOR before it was a simple thing and required you to build your own SOCKS proxy setting back in the day (2008?) and had to learn to bypass the iplayer Geo-restrictions. I even did it when I lived in the UK for a bit just for the hell of it to prove that I could do it. Fun times!

Honestly, I wish I would have created backups of Saturday Kitchen archives from back in the day; it had so many Michelin star chefs from all over Europe/US as guests just screwing around and making dishes from their flagships in a casual setting, drinking wine the shows 'wacky' sommelier picked out and just generally BSing on screen with omelette challenges and taking guest calls that made me think it was worth going to Europe to try my hand in.

And now being retired from that Industry and seeing how COVID has shaken out for the culinary Industry I wanted to go back and watch them just to cheer up about the 'good ol days' but even youtube has very limited options for those episodes.

They had a 1.5 month back catalog if I recall correctly, but I'm not even sure if that show is still on the air anymore.

0: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5SqHJMTKZx5sYhlltX...
There were a few different programs for that, but probably the most popular was Unsanity's Shapeshifter, which allowed theming without replacing any system files (it instead hooked app launches and patched those files in memory).

Those themes were pretty good, but suffered some significant limitations, especially with dark themes and carbon apps. The best OS X themes really looked great though, since they supported full color and alpha.
Adam Curtis films are horror movies to me. Existential horror, the worst kind. I haven't found conventional horror films to be scary since my mid-teens, but Adam Curtis knows how to keep me awake at night.
I didn't realize that Volvo had such a rich history. That P1800 is gorgeous!
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25187170
I'm very proud to say I flew from California to NYC to see Adam Curtis vs Massive Attack at the Armory in 2013 and it was probably the best live show I have ever seen. Huge video monitors, live Massive Attack behind them (gauzy) and Curtis voice booming out.

It was superb.
https://youtu.be/3e3I1mLc3RM

I really hope this new Curtis work is as thought provoking as his previous series!

I really miss his BBC blog which is hidden now but still there, those posts were terrific too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/2989a78a-ee94...
> magnons are the elementary particles forming what scientists call “spin waves”

Magnons are quasiparticles that represent changes in electron spin. Surprised to see this in the official press release. The arrow analogy didn't help either.

The abstract here might be more helpful: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
I have no doubt that Johnny Ives was obsessed with thinness.

But ... my shiny new Lenovo Carbon X1, which is an engineering laptop if there ever was one, is developing key impressions all over it's very expensive 4K OLED screen because they didn't put enough space between the keyboard and the display when it is closed, presumably to keep the thing thin.

It ain't just Mr Ives.
> A staggering amount of buildings are built to code

A staggering amount of buildings are also NOT built to code. My smoke detector failed and isn't getting replaced for a whole week. My heater makes scraping noises every time it starts and maintainence thinks it's normal. Smack in the middle of Silicon Valley.

But this is the best of what I could afford. It's decent. It's clean. Everything else I saw at my budget was worse. One apartment I saw was $2400 for a 1-bedroom and had the toilet paper holder was bolted to the wall right above a red hot heating element recessed in the wall with a grill. Needless to say I didn't rent there.

Want an apartment that is built to code? It'll cost you $3000 or more.
Interesting. I hadn't heard about that. I just read up on it, and it's crazy how well they gerrymandered. Look like in one election Democrats got 56% of the vote but only 28% of the seats.
There are plans on the Russian side. If it will be decided to discontinue ISS after 2026, then the new Russian modules (Nauka, Prichal, and SPM-1) will be undocked to form core of a new station. Depending on negotiations it could either become ISS-2, or sovereign OPSEK [0]. But unfortunately I don't have high hopes for those plans to be implemented in reality for a number of reasons.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_Piloted_Assembly_and_E...
I'm hoping he mentions something about the liberal/russiagate conspiracy theories as the emotional counterbalance to the rightwing/qanon-kenyan theories. Also a discussion of how the current dismissal of all conspiracy theories as axiomatically untrue is foolish.
This is true. There are already a few decentralized platforms being worked on, and some mainly by socialists!
Mostly they get taken across country borders and broken down into parts. Not a lot of traceability left after that.
If that interests you I highly recommend Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism.
Plus, the newly voted-in Democratic leadership has a policy of advocating for the freedom of the web.

Biden is pro-MPAA/RIAA.
Yes, agree on the benefit of a specific diagnosis, but those aren't available to everyone with autoimmune symptoms. As mentioned, there are people who check all the boxes but are short one or two to get a specific diagnosis.

In these cases, the psychological toll is pretty heavy - the uncertainty of your future while your very identity is being challenged. I've seen people respond badly - instances where people engage in a tragically comic route of turning to chronic alcohol intake, becoming inactive/sedentary, bandaging emotional pain with bad diet, etc. Precisely activities that are known to aggravate autoimmune disorders. This is a horrible reaction.

Now, even with a specific diagnosis, the first thing your rheumatologist is going to tell you is that you need to make lifestyle changes - diet, sleep quality, stress levels, etc. That's going to be solid medical advice regardless of what drugs you go on.

For those without a specific diagnosis, adopting these lifestyle changes is still good advice and within reach. There is no instance I've seen where someone with an autoimmune disorder can rely solely on drugs and be otherwise "normal". The drugs (especially those beyond hydroxychloroquine) have unpleasant side effects of their own that need to be managed. In all cases with drugs, the goal is to get the disease itself into a managed state, and ideally into remission. That's not possible for everyone, but for plenty of people it is possible to manage mild instances of disease without drugs, and enough of a possibility that I think it's at least worth a try. This doesn't mean stopping your drugs and doing reckless experiments, but in consultation with a rheumatologist weaning off drugs while having adopted lifestyle changes that avoid known triggers for flare ups. If it doesn't work, go back on the drugs.
But I think what's overlooked is that these changes will happen over a long period of time. 20, 50, 100 years. We will grow different crops 100 years hence, but we were growing different crops 100 years ago. There will be lots of immigration over the next 100 years, but there's been a lot of immigration over the past 100 years, including in my family and likely in yours.

I think the costs of a changing climate are real, but I think the benefits are too often overlooked. For instance, most landmass on earth is not at the equator, but it's in the northern hemisphere. Much of it is uninhabitable at present but will become habitable as the climate changes. Canada, Sweden, Finland, and others will become more than 100km tall. A lot of Russia, and Northern Europe, as well as Mongolia and South America will become more habitable. Further, according to Lancet, very cold weather kills more people than very hot weather, so as winters become more mild and summers become hotter, the net effect will be fewer deaths.
After hack of U.S. government, Biden enlists 'world class' cybersecurity team
Clickbait rescue: […] inside the board game named “Prime Minister”.
It also leads bad actors to game the system.
Haven’t tried it yet but looks great.
I disagree, this is from the article:

“If you do celebrate Christmas, then please don’t forget that there are many other religious holidays being celebrated in December. Some of your customers and coworkers may not want to have Christmas shoved down their throats.”

It definitely might be clickbait but it was one of the first Google results. Clearly at least some people think the greeting is “shoving Christmas down their throats”
I disagree with this. Retro installs maybe, yes. But new construction, which I consult heavily on, most of the developers I work with are motivated to install them. They’re revenue sources and attract the kind of tenants they want occupying their new building.

The answer to retro installs (which is always about money anyway) is to not force the hand of property owners, but make the install cost a no brainer with tax rebates and subsidies. Regulation in this regard would just cause negative effects I think, IF it ever passed a public vote (Cali maybe, but not much of the rest of the country).
If the efforts to reduce parking requirements succeed, you can be sure that more units will be built with no parking lots at all (Profit$). We are seeing this in Portland where 20 unit apartment buildings are getting built with zero parking (or maybe 10 spaces available for additional rent). The end result, for now at least, is 30-40 more cars parked in the surrounding streets.
Probably an aesthetic decision, or the overhead of changing the site?
> you don’t control the agenda

True, but not really in the way you describe. The US is the main (often, the only) customer of US space companies. If you control the money, you control the operational agenda. If you want a a new ISS? Just write up the contract.

The way in which you don’t control the agenda is only inasmuch as the strategic interests of the space company diverges from those of the US govt. But typically, with outsourced high-value work, vendors will evolve to MORE closely align to their big customers. (It screws the small customers often, but hey, the govt isn’t small).

The issue in my mind is much more value extraction & leverage, but as long as there’s multiple players (including an in-sourced option), I don’t see how it’s a problem.
> If you demand that he allows you to post on his site, could I make demands to post on your site?

Facebook is the Internet equivalent of a public accommodation[1]. It is not Zuckerberg's personal home, it is a place open to the public to conduct business. If Facebook is going to set conditions that some members of the public are allowed and not others, it should be clear what those conditions are and when they are and are not met.

That said, I do agree that people should flee these places where they're at the mercy of whatever algorithm or ideological fad that takes over the current employees or whatever. But insofar as they aren't we should regulate it the same way we regulate (in the US) hotels, restaurants, and other public-facing businesses to ensure that the whole public has a fair chance to use them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_accommodations_in_the_U...
Yeah of course, but that's and IOU, it is not a micropayment. Transaction means that the money/tokens are transferred right away. In the example i gave with the light technician happens the same thing. He completes his work and it is the promise of the state that he will be paid at some time in the future. That's called IOU not a payment transaction. It is the promise given only, albeit by a big company we trust, or a state we trust. Or we don't.
Fair enough. That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.
Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation
A species can be common in some place and critically endangered in other at the same time. Wildlife managers are enough smart to distinguish between the global and local situations.

And talking about that, I had seen before hunters bragging about how they can solve in a week what the stupid biologists were unable to solve in ten years. They always say the same.

Ok. Do it. Try it. I'll be waiting here.

I still haven't seen -one- real problem solved correctly by the bang bang experts, only lots of money burnt to achieve nothing. The list of problems that they create for other people is endless and well documented, from dozens of new diseases introduced, to game species extinct for greed, to entire populations of preys collapsing after removing the predators.
To corroborate your point, I loved fiddling with the Enhancer plugin:

https://i.imgur.com/DuxpATX.gif

It's what started my desire for better sound quality, pursuing better equipment and assembling my own crazy dsp stacks in order to... well, enhance sound quality, which I do to this day!

Dealing with equalizers, dynamics processors, crossover, convolvers/IR, applying hrtf/hrir found on the net, using room eq wizard to try and improve speaker/room response, buying a damn binaural microphone so I could make my own ears impulse responses... I ended up learning a lot about the subject, form such a tiny "seed"
People don't steal cars to keep cars. They steal them to use them in commission of other crimes and then ditched, for joy riding, or for breaking down into parts to sell.

Thus, no one is going to come after these people because they won't be able to find anyone to come after.
Except loud cracking sounds followed by a gentle breeze
If it's about externalities then there is a ceiling on the taxes. Because combination isn't infinitely bad.

If it's about revenue, taxing combustion engines gets less attractive the smaller the market becomes especially if it's easy to switch.
This page suggests that cost can be as low as $750 installed:

https://homeguide.com/costs/electric-car-charging-stations-c...

So in comparison most other typical annual car cost (i.e. repairs, service, running costs etc.) that one off expense is actually quite low.
Can you send more info about your FX + the collab you have in mind to team@servicestack.net