skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It baffles me that some people don't seem to care about their audio quality on calls.

Here's the thing about perception: A lot of it happens without your conscious knowledge.

One of the things about using Audacity as one's cheap studio software, is that you have to adjust for recording latency for multitrack. It's really easy to see how a part of perception is unconscious with the delay.

Almost no one is going to notice 5ms or below. At 20ms, many musicians are going to have this definite sense that something is off, but they can still hang. In between, it's a spectrum.

In order to introspect enough to notice things that are below conscious perception, some people require some training. This is also why audio snake oil works.

I use the wireless ModMic myself.
Google Earth VR is fantastic. Especially during the lockdowns. It felt like going out! ;)

I'm wondering if the Timelapse will get added to it.

(Used on a Quest 1 and 2 over Virtual Desktop to a PC)
If the author of this site is reading this, you could add a redirect for this URL with either trailing comma or trailing comma-and-whitespace, to catch the cases where people copy a little bit too much to the clipboard:

https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate,
Yes, a client side DSL for querying data is superior to REST.

But the data model of a complex app is usually more than its sql database. So maybe something closer to gql with code gen for your database is more appropriate?
The only difference being that we can understand the impact we're having. And yet...
FWIW, I was not trying to pass a value judgement on whether Google, on net, is good or bad. It was just a thought I had when I saw the time lapse thing.

But I don't think Google turned internet into a cesspit. Yes, Youtube's recommendation algorithms are pretty bad. But there other actors who deserver a bigger share of the blame.
Honestly some of these trades also seemed small to me; anyone can make a trade that’s up 30% in a year with public information - they can also easily lose as much. It is only problematic when they consistently win by large percentages on the majority of their trades, and this doesn’t appear to do that kind of statistical analysis of average returns?
The only reasonable way out is to create our own systems. You have to stop thinking top-down.

Liquid democracy is something that can be built from the ground up, and has the potential to deprecate our modern system.
I have a Play Station VR headset and it's awesome but I always felt sad that I coudln't experience this. How is the experience? I know a lot of friends felt sick when we play a space videogame or some game where the environment isn't clear and they can't see where they are standing, I guess having a view from outer space can trigger same feelings.
Yah; it’s a game changer. I played around a bit with it on small projects, with obvious limitations/caveats/footguns[0].

[0] - https://github.com/alexanderguy/pgress
I have a class 1 ebike: Pedal assist and up to 20mph only.

It’s an amazing piece of tech, because it makes grades and hills feel flat.

Yet it never feels like a scooter or something motorized that you don’t have full control over.

That is, it’s no worse than a regular bike.

It has all of the other downsides of bikes, however. To make this work, government needs to build up physical and legal infrastructure for bikes: Roads and paths optimized for bicycles only. No cars. No scooters. No pedestrians.

And enforced, meaningful
penalties for violators.

And yes, parking as well.
Note that ships in the same class are rarely actually identical. There was also quite a bit of time since they were both built, and the later vessel no doubt incorporated changes / improvements on the design.

And then you get into the really fun stuff, where what's on the plans, and what actually got built are usually at least a little different... and maybe the as-built documentation was not finished correctly either.
That's a pretty pessimistic view. Perhaps the individuals currently filling those roles wouldn't go for it, but it seems like we might be able to find 536 altruistic idealists somewhere in America.
Pretty sure it’s just Landsat data, which is freely available. As is Sentinel, MODIS, and a number of other satellite platforms.

Google has been a pretty great pioneer on geospatial data science and visualization platforms, especially with Earth Engine (also free to use and allows you to access vast repositories of free geospatial data and use Googles computing resources to do data science with them).
Because those people don't live in a vacuum.

I know I'm just one case, but as someone who's mother got addicted to legally prescribed Fentanyl as well as other opioids as a result of her cancer treatments, and to had serve as caregiver for said mother when said drugs sent her into irrational rages and occasionally made her suicidal (she later admitted to not remembering multiple months of time from the years she was on it), the libertarian individual choice argument is particularly full of shit when it comes to these substances.

There are some things that the average human biology simply cannot handle. Making said substances illegal or regulating them such that they are impossible for the average person to get is perfectly rational and beneficial for society. Naturally treatment centers should be provided for those who manage to obtain them illegally as opposed to jail time, and that's the part we suck at. No rational person with purpose seeks out illegal opioids, it's a symptom of underlying issues and should be treated as such, not punished.

Psilocybin, Marijuana, Tobacco and Alcohol are completely different animals. And yes there are people who can't handle these, but the vast majority of the population is capable of doing so and/or the consequences are less severe when they are mishandled. You can't say that about opioids.

Same reason even in the US while I can own an AR-15, I cannot own a Patriot Missile Battery. One the average individual can be relatively trusted with, the other they cannot.
My employer has 105b plans available if you want to trade outside of trading windows. I think we should have something like that for politicians. Insider trading would be less of an issue if politicians and spouses were required to publicly announce trades 30-90 days before they were made. I don't think that would impact long term trading strategies, and I think it's reasonable to ask politicians to give up short term trading.
I wrote a similar article on this for Ethereum a few years ago:

https://reidjs.medium.com/top-6-weird-innovative-and-hilario...

Sorry for the clickbaity title (it was for work)
Tell that to the founders of the Pirate Bay who were continuously raided and eventually wound up in jail, despite not being American, and not being in America.
> People are scared as hell of inflation and that's why the Fed was created.

The rationale for the Federal Reserve Act was not inflation but financial crises, more or less like the 2008 one. Inflation in the U.S. before the Fed was rare and episodic, e.g. "not worth a continental". (BTW I think it's far from clear the Act made us better off wrt financial crises either, considering the 1930s for a start.)
Democratize has the disadvantage of never having made sense. It's usually meant to say "open access to all", but never implies any sort of distributed authority over how a system is run.
There is already Archive.is to bypass paywalls. You wait until someone with a subscription archives the site (no more than a few hours for NY Times articles, for instance), and then you can read the archived copy after entering the URL.
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my naive solution: politicians become monks. They go without. They are provided modest housing and budgets. I'm sure there are zounds of issues with it, but I like to imagine servant leaders who go without to do more for the communities they serve.
Doesn't appear it was deprecated for the usage that I propose.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2202...

>Byte-level storage

Would be cool.

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https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...

> From article: we think developer aesthetics are an important consideration...we were resolved that using strings representing SQL commands lacked the elegance of a “web native” JavaScript API, and started looking at alternatives.

Seems a bit short-sighted considering SQL is super popular today on the backend.
The only one I know https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/13p6Hr9kSZuVKbQgO...
Whenever you have a speaker and a microphone in the same room, there is always bleed from the speaker into the microphone. However, when those speakers are tiny little things pointed directly into your ear canals, the amount of bleed that makes it into the microphone is so small as to be completely negligible.

For regular in-room speakers, the amount of bleed depends on the relative placement of the speaker and microphone, the directionality of both, the volume of sound from the speaker and the sensitivity of the microphone. For most people on videoconferencing calls, the amount of bleed is going to be quite substantial.

The reason it's sometimes a big deal and sometimes not is because of echo cancellation software. But echo cancellation is a hard problem when you don't know the precise physical characteristics of the setup: the relative placement of the speakers and mic, the frequency response curves, and the amount of round trip latency. You have to attempt to detect what you think is an echo rather than a direct sound source, and then try to cancel it. That often fails.

But because it sometimes works, people who hate headphones take that as license to never wear headphones. And since it doesn't affect them, they often don't realize how much they are wrecking the experience for everyone else.
Where do you live that you are locked in your house? I haven’t seen that where I am.
Joe Rogan talks about the idea in an old clip:

I think human beings are just a very complicated form of bacteria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyc12-neTjM
Bezos says Amazon needs to do better for employees in last letter as CEO
Memories of Turbo Pascal v1.0: J.D.Hildebrand – A.Hejlsberg at age 28 (2008)
you mean of these projects? Golem decentralizes computing power: censorship resistant, and resistant to central cloud failures (remember Google down in December)
This has been the subject of numerous academic papers. Again, it's not like the EU government has somehow fooled companies into losing money in the EU.

I highly doubt you're doing true absolute calculations factoring in all the supply chain, macroeconomic, and tax considerations.

The reason you can't easily compare this at a glance is complicated by currency fluctuations, shipping costs, labor costs, embedded VAT in prices vs. taxes added at purchase, VAT rebates, differences in EU warranty law vs. purchased warranties in the US, "discount" marketing tactics of American retailers vs. European retailers, everyday low prices vs. seasonal discounting, etc.

Trust me when I say you're not enjoying some free lunch at the expense of corporate earnings by living in the EU. You're simply restricting consumer and entrepreneur choices, by preemptively deciding what the consumer needs.

Which can be good or bad depending on the item in question. Computer hardware? Not sure we need the nanny state involved, there's healthy competition and you run the risk of stifling new business models from arising (it's no secret that Europe isn't exactly a hotbed of tech innovation). Healthcare? Now that's a different story.
Lack of shipping containers causing bike shortages
It's really quite awful, isn't it? Completely inequitable and very unfair. But if I had to choose between equal misery and unequal prosperity, I think I choose the latter each time.

I'd like for us to make psychedelics accessible to all, but since lots of people don't want that, I think I'll settle for keeping psychedelics accessible to me.
I found the video unneccesserialy dramatic.
I was only pointing out that the claim of love fading due to cheap Chinese gadgets is wrong. They could have had all the cheap Chinese gadgets they want, and if they kept the filter for showing only Amazon sourced products and did not commingle inventory, then there would not have been any love faded.

That the lay population does not care or is not as informed about the above issue is probably true.

Although, the lay population is very price sensitive, and Amazon’s prices are much higher than comparable in store prices at Walmart/Costco/Target/Home Depot/etc. Especially if the item is a heavy and/or liquid.
That's surprising to me. I believe you, but I'm surprised. I would have assumed that this information would have been turned over to the police and the perpetrators whittled out of the general population in short order.
I support any and every coin that aims to build Satoshi's version of peer-to-peer electronic cash. Right now, the coins that come closest are Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Dash. Sadly all three have had to make some big concessions that make them look less like the original version.

I also find the split interesting. I'm most interested in how effectively public perception was manipulated with regards to the split and the reasons for it.

Bitcoin Cash exists solely because of the censorship on r/bitcoin and the bitcointalk forums. When supporters of a high throughput network were silenced, the exodus started. That exodus turned into the fork. You can read more about that here ( https://medium.com/@johnblocke/a-brief-and-incomplete-histor... ) and here ( https://medium.com/@johnblocke/r-bitcoin-censorship-revisite... )

With regards to lightning network, it was pulled into the debate as a deflection from the real issue which was that a few high ranking core devs (after forming Blockstream, a company aiming to make money off of BTC's "scaling problems" ) reneged on their agreement to bump the blocksize to 2mb with the passing of segwit. Those devs realized they could hide behind lightning network and make it's supporters think big blockers were attacking them.

The truth is, very few people in the big block camps are against lightning network. I know many BCH devs that would welcome and even contribute to a lightning implementation on BCH, which for the record would work substantially better because on-chain fees wouldn't make it cost prohibitive to open/close channels or provide liquidity. The only beef with Lightning that big blockers really have is that they don't see it as an alternative to on-chain scaling. This whole BCH vs Lightning war is just a false flag.

Also, while we're all watching the Coinbase IPO with great interest, here's a gem from the golden boy himself that is very much relevant to this discussion: https://blog.coinbase.com/what-happened-at-the-satoshi-round...
> It took four hours

Love this guy's prototyping skills, I wish I could hammer out a project in that short a time. Takes me longer just to get the soldering right.
Young people become old people, serfs don't become feudal lords.

Foreigners can naturalize (and most of them have the freedom to weigh the costs of paying into systems they don't benefit from, and consider whether or not immigrating is worth it.)
That's because it's the only war they even have a chance at winning because people in power will at least use them as pawns in their shared interests. They realize they lost the other war long ago and are subjects, not citizens in regards to holding the system itself accountable. Or are in blissful ignorance because it hasn't screwed them... yet.
How else is Pelosi expected to afford her $20k sub z fridges filled with 13 dollar a pint ice cream?
For Big Tech whistleblowers, there’s no such thing as 'moving on'
If we REALLY understood it then maybe we would stop doing it. My bet is that we don't really get it.
Re: Re: UBI — there's a difference in how a person who's in pain but otherwise healthy will use painkillers, and how a person who is in pain but also is addicted to painkillers will use painkillers.

Like an addiction, prolonged poverty — and especially being born into poverty, and having your social circle consist mostly of other people born into poverty — changes many people for the worse, such that they become less able to effectively strategize to lift themselves out of poverty if they do get offered the resources to do so. They never learned how, and/or they have no role-models to mirror, so they don't even try.

UBI certainly isn't a magic fix for poverty. But I've never seen anyone claiming it to be. People in poverty are already usually receiving social assistance, so UBI wouldn't even change anything for them!

Instead, UBI is more likely to serve as a prophylactic to prevent poverty. It's a secure, predictable safety net that's just always there by default; a much-improved version of Unemployment, without stigma (because everyone gets it no matter what) and without restrictions (e.g. you get it even if you were previously self-employed. I mean, you get it even while you're employed, so of course you do.)
60~90wpm is out of the question? </joke>
congratulations!
One Port to Rule Them All
With flagship electric car, Mercedes takes fight to Tesla
Since the media and intelligence agencies are great at vilifying any dissent (see "Capitol Riot" and how difficult it is for them to even get representation), there is no hope. The US is not going to get better as corruption is rampant and most are in the dark or powerless.
Politicians like Bernie Sanders give hope, but they are few and far between, and muzzled.
Perhaps the migration away from centralized news sources that are filtered by advertisers & intelligence agencies (see Manufacture of Consent) could help move us towards actually having information in the mainstream so that we can have a say, since our election system is rigged by the two right-wing parties, but there are too many decision makers still reading NYT and WSJ.
Social media is clamping down on "fake news".
The majority in the House/Senate are trying to push censorship for this reason, and now they are even trying to change the judicial branch to suit their whims.
>Google has bailed on VR apps

Yeah, whats up with that? Unless its all under wraps, Google is letting what lead they had whither away. Its silly to think they had working inside out tracking (Tango) in 2014.
a thing a I tried, and ran out of steam with, was writing SQL queries in my client side code but statically extracting them with babel, so you have some code like this:

const users = await sql.query`select * from users`;
console.log(users);

and in production this becomes something like

const users = await fetch('/query?id=19a1f14efc0f221d30afcb1e1344bebd');
console.log(users);

and the query itself stays on the server so you don't have to deal with the problem of unbounded complexity / DoS.

This is the same approach Facebook uses for GraphQL. The only reason I gave up with this idea is that getting the developer experience right is hard work and it does introduce some very tight coupling!
> Apple resellers consider BTO models to be custom-made and thus not eligible for this protection.

I thought the only get-out for Apple was personalized items, namely those with laser-engraving. BTO/JIT orders where you choose from a narrow set of options (e.g. RAM size, HDD size, etc) in Apple's case probably wouldn't be BTO because they tend to pre-assemble a modest stockpile of all of the different BTO configs.

Lower-volume products, like the $6000 Mac Pro might have a case, but it's not like a returned (but new, even unopened) MacPro isn't resalable...
Arguing a narrow dictionary definition is the lowest form of discussion.
The Peloton doesn’t track heart rate without an external Bluetooth monitor. The Apple Watch is one such monitor.
What's going to stop someone from spending 5$ a month on a VPN and connecting to a neighboring country and continuing to torrent things, this time, much more securely? Is the next step banning VPN clients?
Sort of. But yes; the idea that Western Democracy seems to largely be based on the idea of "money talks". A rich person's voice is far louder, both in direct access to elected officials, and in affecting other voters, than a poor person's. The media reports on the amounts spent in any given election because it's a direct proxy on how likely a given outcome is. Etc.

So I'd say it's not sarcasm so much as bitter truth.
Ads are ok. Subscription would be too. It's the monopoly that's generating all this throw-around cash.
Honestly can't stand the guy but I think of this soundbite constantly - he MUST have gotten it from someone else, right? lol
I mean, I don’t do whiteboard coding interviews either. But Amazons, Zalandos and Wayfairs pay that.
I have to say Games Workshop and Starbucks are two easy examples, and say nothing about the underlying system of trust in a country.

Games Workshop: a piece costs near nothing to them. It's just a piece of plastic. Makes a ton of economic sense to just replace it and keep customers coming back to buy more profitable plastic.

Starbucks: are a huge multinational that operate a sophisticated logistics network so shipping an item out is less than a thousandth of a rounding error in their daily P&L both in terms of money and time.

The real places to call out / praise are small independent shops where a single item purchased (or returned) could swing the daily revenue / profit one way or another.
Because of the parent poster's thesis that it's unfair that the first people to move somewhere get advantages.

I am just taking that axiom to it's logical, but absurd conclusion, to argue that the axiom itself is absurd.
That would mostly be limited by tolerances, surface finish and specific alloy used.

When you end up with a part that needs a lot of steps and removes a lot of material you need a machine that is more complicated, more expensive and with a lower throughput than a machine that simply stamps parts out of a sheet, or shapes them through a mandrill.

Casting is a whole other deal, you end up with different properties because the way you cast has different requirements than creating the raw stock. If the part or product you want to make can't match with the results of a cast part (more than just surface finish) you simply can't use casting (until some sort or alloy is found that delivers the required properties).

You can obviously use other methods, i.e. metal injection, or sintering, or you could simply make it out of plastic. Or you make multiple simpler parts and interface them together (screws, glue, welds etc). But all of those are fine from the construction perspective, but not fine from the aesthetic perspective, and those are valid requirements as well.

The manufacturing method generally is selected during a 'design for manufacture' phase, and that phase only comes after you have already established some parameters on the look, feel, and other properties of the product.

If you could just make it out of concrete or a single injected piece of plastic and still meet all the requirements, they would probably do just that (as the process is simpler, cheaper, higher volume etc).
I sometimes have to go through an SSH tunnel simply to access some YouTube contents.
Is this another marketed solution that let's you do less than when not using it, effectiviley creating more problems without actually solving anything? Or am I just paranoid?
Heres an article from Feb 2020 (last year) were Guilbeault was backtracking after a report came out that the government wanted to issue licenses for content creators.

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2020/02/03/liberals...

> Asked if the government would block foreign websites like Breitbart News, the New York Times ... if they failed to comply ... Guilbeault said no one has said sites should be blocked in Canada but he added, “Frankly, I’m not sure I see what the big deal is.”

These are the people you're dealing with, they don't see any issue with this type of censorship. Authoritarian regimes don't happen at once, they grow over time.