skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tbh it's kind of strange that it's 2021 and we still can't have good quality bidirectional audio over bluetooth.

WHY?
How many people are actually getting rich with NFTs besides people who who are already celebrities/famous? Not many. The market is flooded now with NTFs. The overwhelming majority of listings do not sell or sell for little.

A better way to make money is with 3x ETFs using options strategies, which I am working on. The performance of some of the major 3x funds such as TECL, FNGU, and TQQQ surpass even Bitcoin
Your television probably lets you remap it, in the settings near retune.
A zero dependency Rust IRC bot customized with shell scripts
Ha. I was skeptical about the unprecedented bit but googling seems to indicate you are correct, at least for the US https://mobile.twitter.com/fgmr/status/1355105955982282752
I wish there was a way to donate directly to Firefox. Unfortunately, the only option is to donate to Mozilla and they will likely use the money to fund their other initiatives and continue to neglect Firefox.
I would rephrase it to 'Do not build websites that work 100% fine and fast only in Google Chrome'. Unfortunately, this is the case and most of users just choose the most convenient tool, while trading their privacy.
Yes, at the time there was still lots of hope that Bitcoin was going to be a currency, so everyone thought, the way to make a quick buck was to start literally any online retail/service and start accepting Bitcoin as payment. That enthusiasm was short lived.

Every crypto enthusiast was wrong about that including Satoshi. The economists who shat on Bitcoin from the very beginning were right about that one thing, it was never suited to be a currency.
That's just one way to use it. Practitioners practice something. For example you can find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_arts using "practitioner" for people training martial arts. There are practitioners of religion, techniques, etc.
Yes I know, that Galileo prefered the money and luxery(and de facto imprisonment) over death. How noble of the inquisition to offer him that.

And comparing that with breaking an NDA, well I don't know. I didn't know NDA's contain that.
This is the best Windows File Explorer design concept I’ve ever seen
Wow, I've seen some videos and damn, I didn't know how capable those were. Thanks, I may end up with one.
I believe tracking people is unethical and I believe Googles FLoC is unethical because it sole purpose is for tracking.

Browser Cookies are inherently more ethical when used properly.

More of my public thoughts here:

https://www.remarkbox.com/remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can....
There's an important privacy trade-off there. At the end of the day, it's about choice.

I want the CHOICE to share my interests in return to have more relevant content.
Most C programmers are not kernel developers either.
I really wonder what they think of me shooing them from the nests of smaller birds in the garden. (A futile endeavor, I fear, since I cannot be there all day.) It probably destroys all chances of having a good relationship.. too bad.
How to maintain books of accounts in Dubai
Maybe you are mistaking Amazon for Tesla.

Amazon was all about re-investing the extra revenues over costs.

Bezos wasn't very popular on Wall St. for this strategy...or at least less popular than he'd have otherwise been.
Tesla production and service quality is also a public relations disaster, but it happened anyway.
I try to sell friends and family on resisting Google's privacy invasions but lately it always goes the same way. "Yeah I know they know everything. How does that hurt me, like how does that cause me a problem in a real way that makes my life worse?" And I can't come up with a good answer for that.
Are you comparing psychedelics to sugar and social media?

Unless psilocybin is thoroughly tested and validated as a treatment that is as safe as SSRI, I don't think it's really worthwhile to jump into the psilocybin train.
Code With Me: collaborative coding through audio and video calls (JetBrains)
The problem with EA is that they seem to assume that they aren't doing politics. Except they are, and of the non-democratic kind. Now maybe they are right and current mainstream politics are so fucked up that secession is the best idea, but I would be very careful about thinking that you have politics all figured out! Also, the "Prime Directive" style non-intervention policies are common in science fiction for a reason!
> The frame is generally not designed to be welded like that, so without reinforcement it will be significantly weaker.

Welds can definitely be strong enough if done properly, as evidenced by the fact that welded parts involved in accidents can often be found to have broken somewhere other than a nearby weld.

However achieving the proper level of welding is easier said than done, and in particular being confident that a particular weld is done properly requires advanced equipment for non-destructive testing (x-ray, conductivity, echo ...)
Many of these system now a days use automation with little human oversight. Algorithms classify and block accounts. The little human oversight is inadequate to even verify what happened. I believe support is spread thin with cost saving and automation.

P.S. I am having a similar problem, but with Viber. I posted the details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/viber/comments/mrcu6f/viber_block_f...
This thread is making my company seriously reconsider using Twilio. Please make sure Twilio’s leadership is aware of how damaging these kinds of situations are to your customers, and how much other customers pay attention to this kind of customer mistreatment.
Reddit does not pœnalize one for downvotes to the same extent.

On Reddit, if one's all time score be negative, one is throttled to one post per 10 minutes.

H.N. throttles to five posts per day if one's recent comments are negative I believe the number is that I've read.
I'm really happy with Fifine K678. Plus it has a headphones ouput & a mute button.

https://fifinemicrophone.com/collections/microphones/product...
And I was waiting till downvotes. But even the github opensource survey mentions only 1/20 are female ( which is perfectly aligned with my example)

Too bad some people don't accept facts anymore. They should fix the root causes, eg. make coding for women more popular.
I have a Samson Q2U and have had a few people tell me I sound like a podcaster.
If you live in NYC you pay their resident surtax no matter where you work.

If you live in NY and work in NYC you pay NY state taxes.

If you live in NJ and work in NYC you pay NY state taxes. I believe Connecticut works the same way.

NY state taxation helps out NYC.

NYC has a broad, implicit tax base well beyond the city borders in addition to their tax base inside them.
Thinkpads and a lot of Dell laptop models both have good hardware and Linux support. I cannot recommend a laptop with a touchscreen, as I have never used nor needed one.
> do you allow users to position the caret between parts of a grapheme cluster

Where the carot can go is dependent on the editor, not the underlying protocol.

> I don't think they would be very happy if a program reported that 'année' was 6 characters long.

CRDT / OT edits don't make a lot of sense to the user in their raw form no matter what format you use for offsets. "Insert x at position 5043" is equally meaningless if 5043 stores a byte offset, a grapheme cluster index or codepoint index.

> Would it be significantly different if you allowed them to place the caret between the parts of a UTF-16 surrogate pair?

Yes - if you managed to insert something in the middle of a UTF-16 surrogate pair, the string contents would become invalid - and that causes weird language dependant problems. Rust will panic(). In comparison, a broken country flag just renders weirdly - which isn't ideal, but its fine. Mind you, in both cases you'd need one of the editors to do something weird to insert those characters in the document. As you say, the input method will normally treat grapheme clusters as indivisible anyway. But I much prefer invalid states to be impossible to represent in the first place when I can. I don't want a lack of input validation to allow wonky edits to crash my rust server. Invalid grapheme clusters are a much smaller problem in comparison.

And this all skips over how difficult it is to efficiently convert a UCS-2 offset position in javascript into a position in a UTF-8 string in rust. Its much easier to just count in codepoints everywhere.

> And even when sending a UTF-8 body the Content-Length header needs to be set to the number of bytes, not the number of unique codepoints, so again you'd use .length.

No, that'll break as soon as you insert non ASCII characters into your document. string.length will not tell you the number of bytes your string takes up. It will tell you the number of UCS-2 elements in your string, which is the number of codepoints + 1 for each UTF-16 surrogate pair. Which again, I've never wanted to know. You can't use that to calculate the UTF-8 byte length, where each codepoint takes somewhere between 1 and 4 bytes depending on its unicode table value.

Your example 'année' has a string.length of 5, but a UTF-8 byte length of 6. (From new TextEncoder().encode('année').length). If you set Content-Length to 5, bad things happen. Ask me how I know :/
File operation in kernel (hello windows 2000- graphics). What can go wrong. Nevermind, it is android, it has other security problems.
> People vastly undervalue good audio quality

Providers of conferencing tools undervalue audio quality as well, as evidenced by the fact that they don't provide tools that have been common for audio recording for nearly a century, such as simple vu-meters.
Generating unique invoice numbers in Ruby on Rails
>Can you imagine running a business and having a critical aspect of it just entirely stopped without warning or recourse?

I understand what you're saying, but OP cannot alleviate their responsibility in this. You can't outsource your critical infrastructure to a third-party SAAS vendor and not have a plan for when things go tits up. OP didn't even know who to call. That's on them because they should have identified this as a risk long time ago.
Reporters calling in on a phone when the regular connection could not be set up?

I have seen those.
Poland - we're in the "sweet spot" of having:

-Schengen(so a steady stream of cars imported from Germany with no additional fees).

-A Skilled workforce.

-Cost-conscious customers.

-Badly enforced regulations.

Which create an ideal environment for a cottage industry of shops which will take your storm-damaged aluminium roof sheets and turn them into an inspection, passing, moving car with a real VIN by next week.

I could create a Blade Runner'esque quote on stuff I've seen on the roads around here - especially regarding commercial vehicles.

It's less so like that than comparing to the 90s, but still.
One can use ::new(std::nothrow), which selects the non-throwing allocation function. Returns nullptr on failure.
For what it's worth, I would normally downvote this post because it essentially opens with "I'm absolutely right", goes straight into "I will be downvoted" and closes with "I don't need attention". What is the point of that? All that you've come here to say is apparently that you don't need to be read and you're successful regardless of what anyone thinks. Great, I'm happy for you. What value have you added to this conversation? You're not helping on an emotional level and intellectually I'm really struggling to see the insight I'm supposed to be deriving from this as well.
I think I may have to send this link to our thursday night GM :-) his cheap headset mic keeps popping and has terrible quality.

I use a chaepo Plantronics £40 for work but for my steaming I use a Focusrite claret and a separate cheap dynamic mic (plus an exciter).

I do need to upgrade that mic to a sm58b or a AT 3035.

I have thought about buying a focusrite scarlet and use a separate dynamic mic for work as well.
I find audiobooks easier to get through. I listen when I'm working out or walking somewhere. I read about a book month, all fiction. I just like a good story.
SSRI's can be not terribly safe as well. In some people their use leads to extremely unsafe impulsive behaviour and which itself can lead to suicide.
A beautiful script. More examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_script#Sample_texts.
Yes, it does, usually they show B-roll or a static image with the audio.
The Middle Ages were bad. They were a period of enforced authoritarian ignorance dominated by the Roman Church, a period which was "dark" because of the distinct lack of written material in Europe after a Greek and Roman period of oceans of insightful written works.

I haven't been exposed to a mythical Renaissance where poor and working people were comfortable, so I don't really need that refuted. I went to school in the 80s, so maybe it was taught that way before or after.

What the Renaissance marked was the beginning of good times through the breaking of the Church in Europe, which allowed proto-atheism and atheist methods to spread. The Plague brought proto-atheism in that, if not actual open disbelief in the Christian God, there was at least a belief that the Roman Church wasn't a good steward of Europe if God had sent something as terrible and universal as plague. This ended up expressed in the Reformation (a movement against the Church citing its selling of indulgences and its tolerance of Jews as reasons it had lost its legitimacy.) The Reformation created a quasi-personal relationship with God (your monarch chose your worship) which in the hands of the lower-middle class preachers of Protestant areas became actual encouragement of a personal relationship with God.

The Peace (of Westphalia) between Protestants and Catholics created a space where atheism could flourish, because as long as it wasn't blatant, it would easily be mistaken for a weird Protestantism (or in Spinoza's case, a weird Judaism.) When the question again became "Why does this happen?" rather than "Why would God make this happen?", something not seen since polytheism, technology lurched, then raced forward.

Of course the sense of ownership and obligation toward the poor dropped with the rise of atheism, along with a middle-class and courtier expansion created by those in the economic position to take advantage of those new tools. A drop in life-expectancy seems as as inevitable as the new philosophers of a secular ethics of the time are impenetrable.

Life expectancy also dropped along with the industrial revolution. But the technological thought introduced with European atheism, and its quick advancement, made it so that even authoritarian societies run by elites could by accident (and a bit of imperialism) raise the living conditions of the Western working class and poor simply through an excess of resources.

Now after 500 years, our working class and poor are more comfortable than peasants in the Middle Ages. That's the good times. Marx and others eventually came up with few decent stabs at a secular ethics. That's good. If we can figure out a way to combine atheism and obligation to others, we've solved civilization.

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Edit: we haven't yet had the sort of disaster that would break liberalism (not in the American sense), although 2008 certainly got us in the ballpark in a way we hadn't been since the early 20th century. The big question is whether a break with liberalism would lead to a new dark age, or if some secular ethics has gained enough consistency and legitimacy to ultimately take over.
That's why rule of 5 classes are rare in modern C++. But well-written ones help tremendously.
There is no city hall, I live outside city limits.

The water where I live is supplied by a municipal utility district, and this particular one is involved in a lot of projects. They have regular meetings which are public and recorded, and everything is well maintained.
Not sure about an unintentional loss of picture, but it's fairly normal to have an audio-only feed when video isn't available.
And Cloudlfare's idea of "suspicious" traffic is any browser they can't fingerprint easily - so if you enable privacy settings and use the many privacy browser extensions, you encounter this page a lot when you hit any cloudflare enabled site.
Yeti picks up too much background noise.
And that was in 2015, wow. Nowadays a high end smartphone's camera delivers results close to a dedicated camera, assuming good lighting and stock lens. The difference is pretty much unnoticeable if you watch it on a smartphone, tablet or any small screen. If you're just starting out with video, it makes little sense to invest in a dedicated camera.

Audio, on the other hand, a couple hundred dollars on a good mic and preamp/recorder will be worth it 100%. It will make a noticeable difference on both good speakers/headphones and on the small speakers in phones.
Show HN: Querying Your Kubernetes API Server Using SQL
Listnr: Start a Podcast without recording anything
This article is correct that lots of charitable giving decisions are focused on benefiting the giver. It's true that most orgs' fundraising pitches emphasize the effectiveness of their programs. Retail orgs also tug at heartstrings to get people to give.

But I think the author misses something. The "feel-good" and "effectiveness" arguments are part of entry-level charity. They are not the whole story, not by any stretch of the imagination. They're intended to convince people to start giving, using this argument:

There's a lot of bad in the world and I can
exercise my personal agency to make it less.

This so-called consumer-hero pitch is a retail pitch. It's a way to get people to start giving and acquire a habit of generosity. In behavioral economics lingo, it's a "nudge." Think of the pitch from "Save the Children". It's effective. So is the Kiva pitch.

The next question is, what are we nudging / being nudged toward? Once we have a habit of generosity how should we proceed? Who can we trust to deploy the capital and labor we hand over to them?

My observation from my experience working in nonprofits: the real problems are hard. Sure, we can raise money to buy a Thanksgiving turkey for each family in public housing, and that's all good.

But actually changing things so fewer families need subsidized roofs over their heads? I don't know how to do that. I personally believe better education will help, so I work with kiddos. Others work on addiction issues, higher-minimum-wage issues, systemic racism, public transportation, criminal-justice reform, and all the other civil-society stuff that makes life hard for people down on their luck. I have to trust them with my cash donations. They WILL do a better job deploying my cash than I could.

Charity spending is like the old adage about advertising: about a quarter of it is worthwhile, but we cannot know which quarter. If the "consumer-hero" pitch gets more people to the point where we know that and still are generous, I'm all for it.
With bluetooth headsets you have several issues:

- aggressive noise reduction can add unpleasant distortion

- depending what you use them with, you get a low bitrate bi-directional codec that does not sound great.

- any bluetooth interference leads to dropped frames and choppy sound.

- There's a bit of extra latency. I've had issues with bluetooth sound visibly getting out of sync with video I was watching. I expect this could also happen for the microphone.

The worst is people who are not aware they sound bad that ought to know better. I've had more than a few calls with people who basically talk a lot on audio/video calls professionally (e.g. recruiters, sales people, etc.) with apparently really shitty headsets. A lot of those people were using some bluetooth headset that combined with a lousy network (or saturated upload in the case of DSL), makes for a really lousy sound quality. Talking extra loud does not really help.

I just picked up a pair of Shure Aonic 50 headphones. I asked a few people in calls if it was an improvement over my built in imacs microphone. Answer: nope. It wasn't horrible but not exactly an upgrade. I also was not enjoying the low bit rate with the bi-directional codec that makes people sound like they are on a bad phone line. So, I switched to using the headphones for output only. The imac microphone is fine. I just need to make sure to be near it when talking.

If I bought these for calls I'd be annoyed of course. But I bought them for their sound quality and ability to filter out my obnoxious neighbor. Neighbor cancelling headphones are great for my stress levels.
During the 1990's that would have been uncommon, but not today.

Just the opposite, the amount of money chasing 'money losing operations' is extraordinary.

Most high flying startups today that have working capital needs (like 'food delivery') run at a loss in perpetuity with the backing of entities like SoftBank picking up where public markets used to.

I wouldn't dismiss how hard it is to get something like that off of the ground, but once it is, it's almost comical how badly you can screw up and still get money.

'Sonder' formerly 'Flatbook' spent years screwing everything up, they continue to screw up, but because they had a basis of a critical mass and some basis of operations, they've continually been able to get investors to hand over to a net money losing operation that doesn't look like it will have the scale to work.

So this issue is relevant to the overall 'Coinbase' picture because we're living in an era of tremendous liquidity, never really before seen in human history, and due to COVID, basically government/central-bank backed guarantees of money and credit. There's no real precedent for what we're doing right now.
Might libphonenumber be of some help?
The same arguments you make against Crypto can be made against Central Banks and I'd say governments in general.

There are institutions which only exist because humans project themselves into the future and imagine the consequences that they'd suffer because of adverse events and they create institutions to protect them against such events.

People are scared as hell of inflation and that's why the Fed was created. The "stable prices" thing is an elegant way to say "prevent inflation". Now people are really upset that the Fed won't allow deflation and is pretty much encouraging inflation. They see this as a betrayal to the public and the reason why the Fed was created in the first place.

There is a misalignment between the Fed inflation preference of 2% and the public inflation preference which is 0% or even -2%

Enter crypto: what draws people to crypto is deflation. People love deflation, they gravitate towards crypto because deflation is hard built in protocol and it brings about financial nirvana for the saver: that is being able to increase one's net worth without doing any tangible work, manual or intellectual.

You can try to remove it but efforts will fail and it will take a whole lot of effort just to prevent it from getting bigger.

The government pretty much gave up on removing drugs, cash, tax evasion..

Crypto is the same thing, great for the individual, but very bad for society. Tragedy of the commons can't be solved , so the work is to contain because they can't extinguish it.

Better yet it can be extinguished but it would require government to do the one thing it can't possibly do:

A similarly deflationary dollar
Couldn’t agree more. I also find it rude for other people to presume I need to be told what to read.

And this regardless of the fact that downvoted comments are often more nuanced and interesting than the content surrounding them
Such a thing is not a type. Not by the usual definition, which predates not only python but mechanical computation.
When Trump wanted to do this it was a bad idea, what changed?
'Anklingeln' in Germany. Mobile credit on pocket money was expensive..