skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty more reasons to not pay for YT Premium beyond the monetary aspect. Not trusting Google is a big one (and in fact why I personally don't pay for it despite happily paying for Spotify and donating to the YT creators I watch directly).
I was disapointed by the quality of my Logitech c920. Because I coach people with Zoom I've switched to a Sony ZV1, which is quite expensive but has better quality (although their webcam software only supports 720p - camlink is in the mail)

My old iMacPro has the best camera of a computer I know.
Yeah, the security policies let you do that. I think the current mechanism is called AppLocker.

Note that there may be still ways to bypass it if you're an attacker sitting at the computer, rather than a hapless user.
Earlier discussions, sorted by popularity:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25867264 (67 points/8 hours ago/111 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25789773 (46 points/6 days ago/70 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25867547 (35 points/7 hours ago/16 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866493 (26 points/9 hours ago/13 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25867742 (26 points/7 hours ago/11 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25867761 (15 points/7 hours ago/11 comments)
Oh cool. Didn't understand that.

Even a js firmware for me front-end guy. Cool!
Agree, It's all wonderful comparing quality until you jump on a call and the stream gets throttled to 480p.
To add a voice in support of your comment, I agree with you. Amazon and others is why we can't have nice things.

I'll quote Bill Burr here:

> Just because it's legal, doesn't mean it's right.

And just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Because of this shitty behavior, we will need to write new licenses to restrict who can do what with our software. Society moves at the pace of its slowest members. I guess for opensource, that's "at the pace of our most exploitive and cut throat business".
If the Australian government feels so strongly about the declining revenue of news publishers, they have a host of reasonable options. They could subsidize them, they could lower their taxes, they could even substantially raise Google and Facebook's taxes (ideally without directly naming them in the law). But telling two (foreign!) companies "you have to pay these people, because you've outcompeted them" is just not how this is done. I don't see what made them choose this unprecedentedly direct and confrontational option.
>It's a flexible distinction.

No Cruise Missiles are not used for observations.

Hence the name of Loitering Munition as suicide drone or kamikaze drone, but there are similarity's, but with a shift of the focus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loitering_munition#Comparison_...

But you could say the same about Rockets, some Missiles have them, but also Space-rockets and even Aircraft's or Drones (shorter starts or landings)
Invidious is a good solution and solves a lot of the other issues with YouTube's UX (the ads can actually be dealt with AdGuard for Safari): https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
Stadia's successful now? How many users do they have?
IMHO most of those are not general "C++ anti-patterns", but instead define a personal C++ coding style (e.g. another C++ subset). It's important for teams to have such a coding style / C++ subset, but that doesn't mean that others are better or worse.
Why would that change the competition? I don't think that at the technical underpinnings have been a problem to rollout one or the other. Honestly curious.
> Or maybe ask "the owner" before you start, i.e. the citizens of the world.

Are you under the impression that the sky and satellite space is unregulated, by the people's representatives?

Huh.
If by "addressed" you mean "mentioned and ignored", then yes.
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I'm really confused by your perspective. How is this a win for open source? A big open source project has just shifted away from open source to protect their revenue stream, and now serves as (yet another) warning against other companies to open source their code because Amazon will eat your lunch.

No matter what you believe is right I fail to see how events such as this are anything but bad for open source. This will directly lead to fewer companies working on open source code, fewer jobs available writing open source code, and fewer code being available outside of the closed-source moats of tech giants for smaller companies to use.
But given that you have a 4K RED setup in your bedroom with a studio microphone, what technology actually preserves most of the quality over the video call? Let's say both participants have fibre connections and located in the same city.
The problem with big tech companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Uber & Co. is that these companies _want_ to create a service to humans which is so good and so crucial that it is unimaginable to live without those, but then at the same time they don't want to bear any of the duties and responsibilities which come with such fundamental necessities in our society.

There is really no other way out of this. Either they have to be regulated down to a point where their market shares shrink to a level where people can live without them, or they have to accept that society wants to have a stake in the things which are fundamental necessities in their lives.
If you're interested in using a mirrorless or DSLR camera you have lying around as a webcam on Linux, I recommend this article: https://www.crackedthecode.co/how-to-use-your-dslr-as-a-webc....

If you're using a Mac, this article is the best I've found, though the CamTwist Studio setup is a bit slow if you don't have a Macbook Pro with 16GB RAM or more: https://www.nicksherlock.com/2020/04/using-a-canon-dslr-as-a.... I plan on writing a more comprehensive article for Mac users in the future.

All the steps are free! No paid software or hardware needed.

I've taken to doing this, and while the setup is a bit tedious, people are always super impressed with the bokeh and all-around nice quality of my "webcam." I haven't told anyone it's really a DSLR yet.

With my camera quality, I feel like Bill Gates with his camera setup (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyFT8qXcOrM).
And a few decades ago most people would say that SDTV looked absolutely fine for everything but some high-visuals movies that they would rather see in the cinema. Now, even a newscast looks crap in SDTV.

I think if webcams look absolutely fine to you for online meetings it's probably because you have become used to the crappiness. People don't typically show notebooks or pieces of paper in online meetings, because the cameras are crap, and they know they will create an awkward moment trying to focus on the notes and probably failing. For the same reason, people often won't use a whiteboard in an online meeting, etc. These would be totally normal things to do if we had decent webcams.
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1) Chip makers (AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Apple etc). Chips are still improving. Theres always new applications to more compute eg: 3D work can be done on laptop now, realistic renders can be ray traced with consumer graphics cards, phones can do voice recognition and so on locally. I mentioned graphics a lot but video games look amazing and some will be photo-realistic in ~10 years.

2) Tesla and other car companies. Battery costs have reduced 10x in a few decades, cars now have OTA updates and increasingly sophisticated self driving abilities (already pretty good on the highway). Whole car industry is going to electrify in the next few decades.

3) Space X is making space transport way cheaper, and Starlink seems to be a great internet solution for remote areas.

3) Open source or donation based projects. Apps such as Blender, VLC, Signal continue to improve. Sites such as Our World in Data and Wikipedia provide amazing value. Open standards such as RISC-V, AV1 continue to push forward.

4) Wind and solar. Costs have reduced 10x in a few decades. The tech is being pushed to their efficiency limits, solar can still improve a lot. Of course, the intermittency of renewables remains an issue.
Shouldn't the rise of remote work change this?
ah, I dabbled in a same idea, but before "guardians" I had another step, which was contacting the "vault" owner after "keyholder" requests and before "guardians" approval allowing for the owner to veto access if needed be, as another layer of authorization.

glad to see things like these are cropping up, there's a need for sure.
Smartmusic.com does exactly this. It's not 100% accurate and is mostly sold to school band programs but they've got a pretty cheap annual hobbyist subscription.
>It's missing some important feature, like persistence?

Hard to answer, considering....

>It's had very little advertising?

Personally, I've never heard of it and have no idea what differential dataflow is. Maybe I've done but I never gave or discovered a name for it. I don't know what spark or kafka streams are. Maybe because I've never had a use case for those that wasn't satisfied by a tool that was "good enough", or, more likely, I haven't come across anyone recommending those on projects, because they also don't know what those tools are. I would have never known what RabbitMQ was if a coworker never suggested we use it to build queues, and it turned out to be cumbersome to use and 100x more complicated than writing a stored procedure that turned out to be "good enough". Most tools fall into that space where they are marginally better in some regards over "good enough", but not better enough to accomadate for the learning curve for other developers, changes in maintenance or design, cost, etc. Advertising is pretty general and it's hard to say if which of these it's doing wrong, and depending on their market none of these might be wrong for them, just the potential market is content with "good enough" and have no need to search for tools like this.

>Rust is intimidating?

I'm not sure what the stats on Rust are but I don't think its that popular for business developers to where you could point to it for the reason a tool has failed the adoption phase
IANAL but my understanding is that commercial access to terrestrial mobile service spectrum from space ought to require legal action (e.g., FCC rulemaking) in essentially all countries. It’s not a use for which that spectrum is allocated by the ITU.

The issue is potential interference with terrestrial mobile networks, particularly those in non-approving countries and of non-partner operators. A test over the middle of the ocean may not violate ITU Radio Regulations, but a satellite transmitting over land in a way that interferes with a mobile operator’s network surely does. I looked at some of their recent FCC filings and they seem to say they will be able to manage this using very tight spot beam control. (They will have to work around arbitrary national and operator license borders.) Other than that, they decline to say how this will work, drawing on the theory that they are just a contractor for a terrestrial service who remains liable if they mess up. I’ll be interested to see if that argument flies.
That excerpt made me think of Romantically Apocalyptic, which is a... visual novel / web comic? I read it for a while, really enjoying the art and the strange and absurd conversations, characters and events. It felt a bit unplanned and all over the place though, but that might just be my prejudice towards web comics combined with the style of writing.
> A hole which didn't exist in this way 10 years ago.

Wordpress hosting was huge ten years ago.
They already do effectively subsidise them (by not enforcing taxes properly)

> 2013 News Corp had just won a court case against the Australian Tax Office (ATO) in the Federal Court and was duly awarded a tax refund of $882 million. At the Tax Office, they were not happy. Some badly wanted to appeal the decision. After all, News was then the ATO’s “number one corporate tax risk”, the nation’s premier tax dodger that is.

> Insiders say the prospects of the Tax Office winning on appeal were good but the case was never re-contested. Taxpayers picked up the bill for what was a non-cash, paper transaction where News Corp’s Australian operations recorded a $2 billion loss and its tax haven entities a $2 billion gain.

Their tax from the last 5 years was less than $10M, while they got government subsidies of $40M. So not only are they paying no tax, the taxpayers are paying THEM. An American company, btw.

https://iknow.cch.com.au/document/atagUio1574205sl227210907/...
(Court case with the Newscorp)
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I agree. I rarely find I’m bothered by the quality of another person’s camera in video chat situations.

However, it’s significantly bothersome when people refuse to use earbuds or a headset so audio isn’t constantly clipping during conversation, or they have a massive light source behind them like a window and their face is just a shadow the whole time, or their camera is staring god knows where the whole time.

There’s a lot of low hanging fruit to up the quality of a video chat before you need to get too worried about the quality of the camera.

Obviously this is for everyday video chat. If you’re live-streaming or doing some kind of professional video presentation, then yes it’s frustrating that the market is $100 or $1,500+.
I'm unclear why news has a special place here? There's lots of business that people to via Google to deal with, why news gets special legal treatment.

I'm all for restraining the Google monopoly but this feels a little weirdly targeted.
> even Apple would seemingly rather shave 50 cents off the BOM by speccing a 720p Facetime camera in their $3000 Macbook Pros

The reason I've heard is that the macbook display assembly simply doesn't have the depth to house a decent camera. The camera bump in phones exists for a reason - and phones are already way fatter than macbook displays.

I have no idea if thats true though.
> AWS knows that if they take too much of ES' market that they won't survive.

If they can take the market like that they'll do it, that's what companies do. The limits of taking the market has never been ethics, but sales.
> AWS (and their fans): What, how dare you?! We've made millions by reselling it as our own, and not you are going to restrict us doing exactly that. You dick!

The latest event is more like

AWS: Ok, your choice, we'll keep developing and making available an open-source version with the original license.
I would be satisfied if someone explains to me why such software is a subscription instead of a one time buy.
I can confirm this as my colleagues have mentioned the quality difference between my feed (samsung tablet) and their webcams. I used a couple different webcam apps orginially but DroidCam was the best IMO.
Except if you're a small/independent news provider who doesn't make enough revenue.

Or if you're a wholesale (Newswire) provider.

Then you get nothing.
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IMHO if you have decent lighting the Logitechs are ”good enough” for the usual video call purposes.

What real value would much better image quality bring? Most of the time you are just small box on other participant’s screen. Of courae totally different thing if you are producing video content.

In order of importance for me 1) Get sound right. Use headset if needed. 2) Try to get good light for your face (check on Youtube three point light setup videos to get the rough idea, then improvise). 3) Try to arrange boring and simple background.
I don't know. I've worked for a couple of companies who open source their software and they don't open source because they believe it's good for the world (they may or may not, but it isn't the driving motivation), they open source because it's a near requirement for building a profitable business. It's easier for a no-name company to convince enterprise clients to use your software when the code is open source - it's often a non-starter if your code is closed-source. It's easier to get developers and keep them happy. It's easier to get community contributions. It's easier to get your name out there (you lose a LOT if you have a software product without a GitHub).

As long as open-source is a near requirement for getting traction, I don't think there is much to worry about.
I would say I'm in a somewhat similar boat where I believe the work and problems I get to work on are very unexplored and super interesting but the company and industry doesn't "value" software engineers at the moment. Tbh, in a capitalist society, I cannot accept that and am looking for a change. Give me cash or give me stocks in the company, neither and you just take me for a fool. I am sincerely curious what your thoughts are on this, why would you accept a massive paycut to work on something interesting for a company that makes $$ off your work?
Yeh that makes sense I guess. Conversely, a family of 4 turning up to get a private viewing doesn't seem in the spirit, even if it's their home-schooling art class.

I was curious with respect to places like the Tate that are really only partly state funded (30%) so I'd consider it reasonable for them to approve the most "worthy" 30% of requests.
> Nobody needs permission to live comfortably where they're at.

You don't need a palace, a AC-cooled beach and a couple Bentleys to live comfortably. The people in the UAE that are using problematic amounts of fossil fuels are not just "living comfortably".

Point being, it would reduce power consumption probably 2 orders of magnitudes more to stop cooling down beaches and pools than to switch a bunch of lights to ultra-efficient LEDs.

> It is far more sustainable to live in a warm climate, with electric cooling (keeping in mind electricity comes from cleaner sources like nuclear and solar) vs living in a cold climate with gas heating.

You forgot to mention the world "palace". It is far more energy-efficient to heat 40m2 per person than it is to cool down 400m2 per person.

You are also conveniently ignoring reality. The UAE electricity production is 99% fossil fuels (mainly petrol/gas). It is also possible to live in a cold climate with electric heating (regular electric or heat pumps). Most northern countries are much more advanced in this area.
Agreed- we don't even turn on the webcams for those
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That works, but the right click menu only includes logins. In addition, if your vault is locked, you can't unlock it without switching to a normal window.
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I have so many problems with core syncing with my NextCloud here - I wish I had used something else. But I guess "competition" is over who has more features.
Netlify, heroku, and firebase have some great free services. I use heroku mostly. What I like is I can create stuff that will not lock me in (other than firebase for example).

My go to stack on heroku on hobby projects: Frontend React, Backend node js, database postgres. I can have all of that for free, even logging with papertrail. I can also move that stack from heroku if I would ever need that.
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> "After 911, our government correctly took bold steps to defend American lives against foreign terrorism, and prevent another attack against our nation." said Rep. Lou Correa (CA-46).

I haven't followed this Act at all (not a US citizen), but a direct comparison to the Patriot Act does not bode well.
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Which country? Rates differ a lot.

Please figure it out for yourself how consulting works. If you can't do this, consulting is not for you.
As an outsider to the US, I wonder how Americans contrast the nights of burning cities for the BLM movement to the capitol protest? I don't know how to ask it in a more sensitive way
Except that's not the case here. It's not a "Parler" thing. It's a DDos-Guard. Parler happened to use one of the IPs ALLOCATED for them by DDos-Guard. Also, according to the article, DDos-Guard already gave them another IP.

So no, it's not a Parler thing.
I'd be willing to pay for a good webcam, but I'm not willing to plug something as bulky and heavy as a mirrorless camera to my monitor, let alone to my laptop. I don't think that's a weird stance to have.
Even if MongoDB was closed-source, it would not stop anyone from creating a product that was compatible with the MongoDB API. Put another way, your API cannot be your USP.

Lots of companies offer S3-compatible APIs, for instance. They compete not on the API, but around reliability, price, features.

Of course, we have Oracle v Google coming up in the US Supreme Court, so things could change, but this is the way things are now.
Right? Long term I can definitely see Ethereum's winning if the proof of stake system tests out well. Will save a lot on power!
nevermind, the contents of the primary links are completely uninteresting anyway
On the flip side, you can get some decent cameras in the "nose up position" these days.
Wasn't there a discussion about image processing because of a lack of dedicated and optimized on-camera software? Usually phones are tuned to deliver an "as close as possible to the result" viewfinder image, while webcams in general do very little or no processing on their side. I might be completely wrong here though, however I do agree with the article. It's 2021. If Thunderbolt can provide enough bandwidth to support a full-on GPU, then we can dedicate resources to do correct image processing either on our CPUs or boycott Webcam makers to actually invest some time to finetune and optimize Webcams. As the article states, it's better to buy a used iPhone 6 and buy EpocCam by Elgato to use the phone as a cam. At least it's actually good as compared to the C920 which has been price gauged to oblivion throughout the world
How big is the market for "good webcams"? If 99% of the people just need a "good enough" (to recognise your face) webcam, that they turn off after the initial "hello!" (so noone notices they have no pants on if they have to stand up), does that really make it worth it to develop new tech for the 1%?

...compared to phone cameras, where people actually want (and are willing to pay more) for a good camera, especially for one that works better in shitty lighting conditions.
Other than possibly gaining performance from Go vs PHP, as well as less memory consumption. I have no idea how large scale Next/Own-cloud implementations behave, but i'd assume you just throw more hardware after it.

What will change though is the relatively well tested and hardened code that is Owncloud today. Switching to Go doesn't just magically make your webapp secure.
It is obviously a good idea to use a safe language that compiles to machine-code for something performance-sensitive. But I do not quite understand why someone should choose go over rust for any large-scale project.
> The enormous amounts of data? If it's not valuable they can just discard it!

I'm curious what the legal requirements for this will be. But I imagine they'd want to hold on to data of driving scenarios for at least a month, in case they get accused of wrongdoing by other drivers. If they had no data to back up their case with all those sensors, it would look awfully suspicious and essentially one witness against nobody - so they'd have to hold onto the data for however long the legal teams deem is okay.

This may sound crazy, but it's already happening at the scale of testing with just a few dozen cars.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/gm-settles-with-motorcy...
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