skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that Java 8 -> 11 is going to be and order of magnitude more disruptive than 11 -> 17.

So if you have downtime now (ha ha), you might as well migrate to 11.
I may be wrong, but I think the overwhelming majority of meetings are sufficiently asymmetrical that one side will not have the need to put their free time in a calendar.

Example: my manager is in meetings most of the day, with the meetings scheduled via outlook invites, so his free time is pretty specified in his work calendar. The majority of his direct reports do not have their free time specified in their work calendars.

I'm fine with him sending calendly links though -- and I get the impression that's the common view on the team. None of us want to be in meetings all day, so having to hunt through his calendar from time to time is far preferred.
A legal name change means they stopped making “computers” from an engineers perspective?

Banal political filings have little bearing on what makes a computer.
Also as someone at a company almost exclusively MacBooks, I’ve never noticed and issue with sound or video quality
Exactly. While the linked proposal isn’t very heavy on details it does include what appears to be a pretty open stance on protecting Canadian internet users rights and freedoms.
The alternative suppliers that don't have any employees?
Recording gear is not the most important part: a decent mike paired with a good and properly set up preamp/compressor will do. What is extremely important is the ambient noise and reflections that will be picked up by the microphone in a far from ideal environment. In other words, be prepared to spend more in sound proofing than in recording gear.
It seems like every hardware geek makes one of these at some point. I think it's really cool. Designing a chording scheme for individual keys is a fun problem, kind of a nerd snipe. But in the end everyone concludes, "It's too slow to be useful."
I think where the hand held keyboard might be really interesting is in combination with steno (http://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/), but I haven't seen that done.
The way I've started to look at it is: I don't expect I would be able to make $10 in that hour, but if I could skip doing chore X (cleaning, going to the store, whatever) and instead spend an hour going to the park with my wife and kids, or having lunch with them, or going for a run, that experience would be worth $10 (or probably more) to me. So it's not about trading time for money, it's about paying to trade an unpleasurable experience (e.g. standing in line at the grocery store) for a pleasurable one (drawing or having a hand stand competition with your kids).
Why not just offer a preview (headline and first paragraph) and pay a small fee per article; maybe something like a quarter? They could also include an unlimited tier for avid readers. A decade ago this model would probably be a non-starter because it would require the inconvenience of maintaining an account everywhere and going through an awkward checkout flow for every transaction. SSO payment providers make this a lot easier now. Anecdotally, Apple Pay is a joy to use, for example.
The bike price isn't that ridiculous for a quality spinning bike. I paid nearly as much for my Keiser bike. It's the $39/month fee that's expensive... That's almost $500/yr.
The storefront was SSL2. It needed major software overhaul that wasn’t justified without being the star revenue source.
My first project was trying to deploy a Redshift cluster. It flat out didn’t work. Did 2-3 calls with their tech sales before giving up on it. And then cdktf came out shortly after that.
Active discussion underway of the other side of this coin, Peloton disabling Apple Watch functionality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26819577
No, they work just as well as they always do. It's just easier to run in to a bigger, badder imperium.
A more profitable business is slightly worse for society now, but much much better in terms of long term tax revenues.
Is it me or is the current state of the internet akin to physical society that lacks trust systems and law enforcement?

In this analogy, are moderators of a given platform equivalent to mall cops/neighborhood watch?
the same with npr, a crumbling sheen of objectivity thinly veiling increasingly blatant partisanship.

there is value in curation, as demonstrated by subscriptions (or 'donations'), but these outlets have lost sight of that value in the quest to ever-more-desperately shape public opinion while retaining relevance. they've slid down the slippery slope from objective(-ish) curation to the coercive variety and have no one but themselves--principally their wealthy owners/directors/executives but also the rank & file--to blame.

i'd love to pay for objective(-ish) curation, and ideally slower, more considered reporting but that latter bit may be more than is practically possible right now. the paradox of choice makes it really hard to curate your own news feed as substack invites you to do. just like a portfolio of stocks, you won't get great returns on a (likely) highly correlated group of individual newsletters. and without a plethora of them (like 60+), you'd likely fail to garner enough breadth to even have a chance of avoiding false correlation, much like how the nyt and npr (and fox) fail via partisanship bias.
They're not bragging, they're saying it to counter the media narrative about them.

I think a lot of white collar workers (ie. journalists and people reading certain papers) are shocked to find out that warehouse/blue collar jobs are hard and not paid great. It says more about the reader than anything else.. I'd wager that conditions are a lot better at Amazon than at some random warehouse where people are working out of the media spotlight.

Also, if you have over 1 million employees, you can always find plenty of stories of things that went wrong, kind of like in a 1-million population city there's always plenty of stuff going on.
In my experience, »mushrooms rewire you« does not really do them justice: they mostly help you rewire yourself; more like changing habits (internal) rather than surgery (external).

Here’s a personal example: a couple of years ago I had a very rough breakup, but over the years came to terms with it. More than 3 years later, I internally »met« my ex in a psychedelic dream-like state, both were happy with our new lives, and we said goodbye to each other. It was calm and peaceful. It was also the first positive thought I’ve had about her, undiluted by lingering negativity. I was not rewired, but it allowed me to think a thought I did not think I could ever have, and changed my outlook on the whole situation.

(It was a dose on the low-medium end, and I haven’t attempted repeating it, nor do I plan to.)
There was a lot of proprietary sun stuff that got yanked out in the 8 -> 11 shift, along with the addition of the module system that makes reflection to hack into dependencies a lot harder (IIUC).

Upgrading 8 -> 11 is a lot harder than upgrading 11 -> 17 will be.
You're overstating the difficulty/brittleness of "engineered" objects.

I used to be around the rally racing scene, and it's utterly routine there to weld tons of re-enforcements into the unibody. Most people with the money will straight up laminate the suspension mounts with plate. The safety cage makes the car incredibly rigid, as does replacing all bushings. The cars work just fine. The people doing this have relatively ordinary welding skills. Modern cars are not some sort of high tech magic that can't be modified or repaired with ordinary metalworking skills... it's just usually not cost effective to do so.
Somewhat random anecdote:

On my morning walk into the office there’s a healthy population of Kaka, a native NZ parrot somewhat similar to the more widely known Kea. They’re the result of a successful breeding program at Zealandia, and lurk around the town belt fringes of Te Ahumairangi hill and Tinakori Rd in fair numbers.

Being a bit of a bird nut, I pay attention to their calls, locations, and behaviours and have spent a bit of time mimicking calls back to them. Quite a few times they’ve responded back and forth for a few minutes.

Interestingly, they’ve remembered this for a long time and now I get a flyover and particular call noise when I’m spotted. It doesn’t seem to matter what I’m wearing and I don’t have to look up so they’re not ID-ing by face or plumage. I have a pretty unique gait which I’m guessing is what they pick up on.

I probably shouldn’t take this any further via offerings since maintaining a distrust of humans is broadly beneficial for their long-term success, but the temptation is certainly there and my chance of success seems pretty high. Spotting a handful of seed from hundreds of yards away is a universal parrot superpower.

The point made in the article about just paying attention resonates, but of course some interest has to exist beforehand.
Hahaha not this again. More ignorance and misinterpretation of how and why energy is used. It doesn’t matter how much energy is used! What matters is how it is made, and there is no better financial incentive than renewably mined bitcoin.

Eventually humanity should build acoustic Dyson spheres around nocoiners to convert their void screams into network hashrate.
Or just luck.

Plenty of people have also lost money on crypto and oil speculation.
Show HN: Diagram and audit any AWS CloudFormation template
Xpeng takes on the tech that Tesla acorns and rejects
I wonder how effective a law would be that simply said: "you can't outsource content moderation, and all employees, directors, etc. of any company that does moderation must perform at least X hours of moderation shifts per year."

If the Facebook execs had to do a day of content moderation every quarter, I imagine that meaningful change would happen a lot sooner.
I have begun to worry that broad indexes are themselves becoming a problem. As that advice seeps out, a lot of people are buying "the market". Which has long been good sensible advice, because the market as a whole genuinely produces wealth, but it's not inexhaustible.

The S&P 500 P/E ratio is up over 40, a number it has seen only twice before and both immediately before crashes. P/E is an imperfect measure, especially during a genuine crisis that results in fewer goods being produced, but the idea that "it will take 40 years to produce enough profits to return your money" is a little scary. The pandemic is certainly contributing, but it's been heading this direction since well before the pandemic.

The broad market is still probably your best bet long term, and even if now isn't a great time we all know that timing doesn't really work. Stick it in a broad index and forget about it remains the best advice. But that advice eventually undercuts itself, if everybody invests in every company regardless of its merits just because it's listed. The listing itself is becoming a skew.
He is clearly escalating. Perhaps it is driven by a wish not to be perceived as "old and weak". If that is the case, it is not good.

Currently Russian forces are amassing near Ukraine. Why put Russia in a situation where they don't care about Western reactions as it is already as bad as it can get? I mean what stick is Biden going to use if they actually invade?
I mean, content moderation would be comparable after it had 500 years to evolve human centric best practices.

Even police forces have developed unions and employee care and training practices to keep them sane and healthy.

In contrast, for CM you have the magic of the market outsourcing the work to replaceable humans.

To be honest this assertion of “strong stomachs” is a unsubstantiated and unhealthy fantasy of how people in stressful jobs handle that stress.
CloudFormation is really slow and lags behind in supporting all AWS features.

Terraform is super fast, has great docs and vast coverage for managing just about any type of cloud resource.
Just because Uri Behringer happens to be antisemitic[1] doesn't mean that people buying Behringer gear are also antisemitic, so I don't think people would call you that if you buy it. Although I personally stay clear from their gear for lots of reasons.

- [1] https://www.musictech.net/news/is-this-how-behringer-respond...
Building an API Gateway for gRPC Microservices
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion

It's not instant but it's very scary stuff and 100% incurable.
Okay, you are suggesting something (level meters, "you are clipping the shit out of your input"-indicators) that would actively improve things.

Let me suggest instead that they shall start by not actively harming things. Microsoft Teams is an excellent study subject for "how on earth do you make something this bad while owning all of Skype's IP?".
And some of those issues show up when migrating to recent Oracle Java, too.
Get a user agent spoofer and find out. The answer's usually no.
I'm surprised nobody has released a reasonable quality USB camera that supports standard lens mounts. There are some out there but they seem to be suited more for computer vision projects than video conferencing.
> Where does the article mention a website-blocking system?

Read the longer version rather than the press release: https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/693.nsf/eng/00191.html

d. clarify or strengthen rights holders' enforcement tools against intermediaries, including by way of a statutory "website-blocking" and "de-indexing" regime.
Why not hire the sickos who like these things to do the filtering?
I don't particularly mind it, mostly because as you mentioned, it is much easier, as long as the sender is aware that it doesn't always work; a Calendly link isn't the solution to every scheduling situation.

It also has to be sent with some sort of message/introduction, otherwise yes, it does feel like I'm being pushed aside.

Finally, the person sending the Calendly link has to keep their calendar actually up to date. There is nothing worse than setting an appointment through Calendly, and then being told "Oh sorry, I actually have a conflict".

I think the "rudeness" interpretation comes from an interpretation that the person sending it "doesn't care enough", which isn't always true.
> So not only do users need to actually opt-out but site owners have to opt-out too?

By setting this on the site level, your users won't have to opt-out. You are doing it for them (all of them).

If you don't, then the browser can always ignore it also. But that would only affect that individual user.
I call it the privacy doom principle. Any information which separates you into a subset of a larger group can eventually be compounded to fully break your anonymity.

I did a lot of work on privacy coins, and the power of statistics is staggering. Doesn't matter if you shield yourself by grouping with 100,000 people per transaction, if your anonymity set isn't _everyone_, eventually you can be singly identified.

Same goes for browsers, tracking, and "anonymized data".
One example that comes to my mind: libraries that handle bytecode manipulation (e.g. javassist) may require to be updated because they give new and strange error if they meet newly introduced bytecode.
Since those libraries are often used by high level frameworks like Spring, this means that to move to a new Java version you have to update your framework.

These most often means new API, new bugs, new regressions...
> There are two equal and opposite ways for that assumption to be false

Hm? There are many ways for pricing to occur if EMH is not true, not two equal and opposite ways (how are they opposite in magnitude?)

Anyway I think this is not going to be a fruitful conversation going forward since I'm not interested in showing all the way markets without pareto-optimal outcomes can fail, so cheers.
I have a friend with a $1200 smart trainer setup and he rides his Peloton 4x/week. The bike is way smoother and quieter than a Wahoo and he finds the coached workouts more motivating than riding in a CGI countryside.
For non-hobbyist drone photographer/videographers we're talking about setups that cost nearly $10k. If you're doing high-end real estate photography or even semi-pro aerial cinematography AND you're required to broadcast where the drone took off, you're inviting trouble. For a cheap $200 toy drone... yeah, who cares, right?
Neocities, a 21st century reincarnation of GeoCities
What do I, as an end user, have to do to be protected? Is it sufficient to use Firefox with its default settings?

Honestly I don't know and I think I should. I have uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, ClearURLs installed on Firefox, I'm running pi-hole at home, it's just so much.
I think the number you want is closer to 99.99%.
You cannot really compare a production line to a warehouse. Production lines cannot function when people leave their position at random. On the other hand, there is no pressure to work as fast as you can, because the speed is determined by the production line (and needs to be humane, of course). When you are a picker in a warehouse, the situation is different. The packages can always wait a few minutes. But if I don't want people to piss in bottles, I have to make sure they will not have to compensate for the time lost by working longer/faster.
Chainlink 2.0 Lays Foundation for Adoption of Hybrid Smart Contracts
He pretty much has to. From what I read in Jim Mattis's recent book, Obama and Trump both significantly damaged the credibility of the US military among allied nations. If Biden lets the USA appear weak and unwilling to push back against other super powers, then smaller nations are likely to change their allegiances to whoever they think will keep them safe.
Russian citizens can still visit US! They could be spies who try to sabotage US economy. You can still stop them!
People haven't really grasped yet that the future of fitness isn't equipment it is ecosystems.

You look at something like Peloton and your natural instinct is to compare it to other equipment manufacturers, but that's wrong. Consumers aren't spending 50% more of Peloton because a Peloton bike/tred is 50% better than their nearest competitor. People are spending that money to be in the Peloton ecosystem. To work out with friends in Peloton.

So I say to people that Apple is Peloton's biggest competitor, and they look at me like I'm a moron. Because they see equipment and I see ecosystems. I believe fitness will be the next "social media" land rush, and most traditional equipment makers are unprepared (they're naively copying Peloton on features without really grasping what Peloton is building).

PS - Phase 1: Social Media Fitness, Phase 2: Gamification of Fitness (apps/games inc. achievements tied directly into equipment, like the "iPhone" of fitness equipment).
As usual, a lot of people here discuss and suggest some microphone models to improve their sound quality, but I think this is not the biggest factor. Specific models are mostly irrelevant as long as the recording conditions and personal preferences are not known.

Some people just hate keeping the mic just in front of their faces, but it's often the only reasonable way to achieve tolerable signal-to-noise ratio (in noisy or/and reverberant environments).

You need to decide where are you going to use the mic, how are you going to place yourself and the mic in the room, how free in your movements do you need to be while recording, and then choose the type of the mic accordingly. After that, the budget is often the deciding factor so you can seriously narrow down the options.

Anyway, I also highly advice using separate vocal/podcasting microphone (the kind you buy at music stores) and the headphones of you choice over headsets or, god forbid, internal laptop mics.

Don't know how many times you can link you own article, but it's relevant to the topic and I think it covers most of the information one needs to understand the basic processes and techniques:

https://indiscipline.github.io/post/voice-sound-reference/
I see something of this in the plumbing of git. "pies of entries and
lists? By patching techniques, of course. Variant entries and
lists can take virtually no space, being modification data
plus pointers to the original. When a modified version of a
list or entry is created, the machine patches the original
with the changes necessary to make the modified version"
ICYMI: In Case You Missed It
I bet the romans said the same thing
I made no claims about WW2. My claim is that you can’t distill a complex system like war into an overly simplistic formula like “more dead = win”. There are system effects that distort this, particularly with asymmetric warfare.

As an aside, snark is discouraged on HN. Your account is new, son of encourage you to take a look at the guidelines for posting if you haven’t already.
"Conservation status: Least Concern."
> You don't need an SM7 if you're not making money with it...

Or maybe not at all. Someone actually measured one against an SM57:
http://www.3daudioinc.com/3db/showthread.php?17046-SM57-vs-S...
Yes the market should be regulated. Some substances can be more dangerous than others so there should be adequate restrictions and support plus raised tax could help with mental health services and education to ensure people can make informed decisions and also receive help if they get it wrong.
> For those who learn java in school and don't much touch it again, it can be quite confusing.

Is it really _confusing_? The idea that a product might change release cadence probably should not be confusing.
I think you read it wrong, it was 25k per employee. So it’s an average of... 25k per person
https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
European Union allowing the use of deepfakes
An amazon worker makes, on average, $15 per hour. That's $31,500 per year. That is just a bit above poverty - the poverty level for a family of 4 is $26,500. You probably are going to have issues saving up for a house, and are going to be lucky to have enough leftover money to actually use the health care. Deductibles of $2-3k are really difficult at that range, especially if you have a family.

In short, you are going to need your spouse to work as well. Then things look up, so long as both of you work. Good luck if you aren't dual income, though.

Folks in the US die preventable deaths, by the way. And a lot of "third world countries" have health care in place, sometimes more fairly widespread than the US.
Maybe some corpo bullshit fiddling with drivers?

One of the bottom-of-the-barrel-but-actually-still-ok interfaces might be worth a try. E.g. the Behringer UMC22 has a PCM2906 clone in it, which doesn't even have any drivers, it's just straight USB audio class, supported right out of the box in Windows.
The standard itself looks kind of good, honestly! Have a look at 4.2 (pg 9):

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c6dbac1f8135a29c7fbb...

I think tech as an industry has come quite a long way in the past few years of clarifying (and hopefully adopting) what security best practices is. This, OWASP, and other similar initiatives are good: you can have a rough checklist of what's required to have a roughly "secure" app, and what the common loopholes are. This is not easy stuff.

I don't know what this means for the institutional/enterprise side, whether certification will be meaningless, etc. But the document itself seems relatively sensible to me!
China's great firewall got us shadowsocks and v2ray. Shadowsocks is interesting because, if I understand it correctly, its obfuscation (plugin?) method makes the firewall think I'm browsing github or some other innocuous website I set. I wonder what new advancements in censorship circumvention we'll get when the western firewalls go up. Never mind overt talks of combatting piracy or protecting children or whatnot. That's where announcements like this are headed.
I usually feel like Apple targets their products and advertisements at a pretty young demographic. The TV ads feel like they're all about 25 year olds with lots of money, friends and free time.

This feels like it is solidly aimed at 'older' people, and by older I mean not the same group that those TV ads are after.

"Workouts for Older Adults, trainers, and Time to Walk guest"... and that guest is Jane Fonda.