skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem isn't the mic though, it's that in the earlier days of radio there was a trend towards boosting the bass artificially in the microphones to make the host sound more authoritative. Howard Stern is BIG time guilty of this. NPR doesn't do this, and cuts the bass picked up by the full-range mics using a channel EQ (or mic built-in) to eliminate plosives rather than employ lots of pop screens and boosting the bass. Using a full-range mic for vocals means ultra low-end is preserved, and that's not always desired for replicating the human voice accurately. This is also how most vocals in music are treated, there's no reason for all that low-end mud, so they're high-pass filtered heavily as a matter of course before the rest of the vocal effects chain is applied. Pop vocals in particular are way thinner than people realize.

As far as mics go, if you don't want to pay thousands for a Neumann, the Austrian Audio OC18 is a fantastic mic with a similarly flat response and has a 3-way switch for different levels of high-pass filtering before the signal even leaves the mic. It's fast becoming my favorite mic to use in the studio.
If we could use AI for something other than controlling and predicting people and making companies as much money as possible, I think AI could be very beneficial.
I would love to hear more on the security challenges and debugging issues, if you have time. It’s not used as much in industry, so any insights are really very valuable.

Also so cool that you worked in AI! That’s my dream field :)
Yes and also Map's "get(Object key)" and "remove(Object key)". Those are the bane of refactorings, for me.
Having overpaid underperforming workers is almost entirely a function of not letting them go. FANG companies onboard plenty of incompetent people, but they don’t last that long.

However, to get away with that requires high levels of compensation otherwise people will take the safer option.
Also Time Magazine: https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/bitcoin/time-magazine-to-ho...
This is the first time I've ever seen this usage of NAK. I'm used to the ACK/NAK jargon, but this one is new to me. I can figure this one out by context I think, but I find the new usage interesting. Can anyone shed light on how exactly he's using it here, and the reasons why you think that?
Whoa, the British I'm a Mac ads were much cooler than the American ones. Still can't believe that PC dumped Queen Elizabeth II at the altar tho…
Yeah, I agree with your point.

I’d rather see legislation that focused on both improving worker wage and making it easier for new companies to enter the marketplace and compete with Amazon rather than punishing Amazon for having a store brand or whatever (store brands very often seem to be a good thing for consumers, even if companies don’t like being undercut).
that's what they advertise the Petro as

> A total of 100 million Petros will be sold, with an initial value set at $60, based on the price of a barrel of Venezuelan crude in mid-January.

Unfortunately we know that its purpose is raise cash because they can't repay their huge national debt.

Which is why every dictator loves cryptos if they can control them as they control state currencies.

The narrative can be shifted to we are all in this together, we live and die together.

If they'd allow bitcoins for the general population (they love them only for themselves) some would become richer, but the country as a whole would not benefit a bit from it.

And failing at that is something no politician can survive.
Should they have, though?

I agree they should have been penalized (ideally more harshly than they were) for their legendary anticompetitive behavior, I'm just no longer as sure that partitioning the company out into distinct divisions would have been a net gain for the consumer as I used to be, especially against the specific behaviors they were accused of.

How, for example, would breaking up Microsoft into distinct divisions prevent, say, the OS division from enforcing the same anticompetitive requirements on companies licensing the OS?

I also think consumer perception of what's reasonable in an OS has shifted since then. I don't think any of us would argue now, for example, that shipping a desktop OS with no browser installed by default would be a reasonable choice. (Likewise probably a media player.)

Should it be impossible to uninstall? Maybe not, but there's a not-unreasonable argument to be made for preventing someone from winding up in a situation where they have no browser installed at all and can't look up how to fix it. (Having no media player installed is obviously less catastrophic.)
250Hz high pass seems too high for male voices in the baritone or bass range. And depending on whether the female in question is more of an alto vs soprano 250Hz might still be too high.
Elasticsearch abusing the OSS community by hijacking meetups
As if public school wasn't boring and stupid enough... the only inequality you
need for budgeting is "keep it positive". Teaching any financing concepts
beyond that is putting the cart before the horse (kids need "skin in the
game", i.e., a salary, before learning mortgages, taxes, and diversification).
The fact that there's no framework, you basically start learning the new codebase from scratch. With Rails I have a good chance of fixing a bug just by knowing the structure.
And even if they do, no miner individually has an incentive to do what’s best for the collective.
The raise is to overcome laziness and inherent risk (new boss and coworkers might be incompetent and unfriendly).

As long as the wage gap is less than the required "risk/laziness incentive", rational employees will not leave (=> small raises are presumably enough to achieve that).

(personal perspective)
They didn't have one important dot: cheap good steel or other durable materials. Steel for them was more expensive and hard to get than titanium now.
That's absolutely an apples to hand grenades comparison.

First of all, global credit card volumes are much larger than Bitcoin volumes. Asia Pacific has been a bigger credit card market than the U.S. for some time - for example.

Secondly, credit cards payments are overwhelmingly payments for services or goods; effectively none of Bitcoin's total volume is in that category.

In fact, virtually all of Bitcoin volume is gross settlement and relates to speculative trading activity.
That's exactly what I did a week ago (with a Fusion 15, but System76 was a serious competitor). It took a day to customize the thing to my heavily-apple-influenced habits and it was a joy to find out I could actually feel _pleasure_ using the machine, something I had forgotten 3 or 4 macOS updates ago.

Now, do we need another DE? Dunno, wouldn't make the top of my wishlist. I realize the good I'm getting comes much more from intelligent choices of sensible defaults rather than specific features. It's removing - or, if you prefer amend - the noise (apps/utils/extensions/clutterware) the key here, even more so for the open-source software ocean of half-baked solutions. Yes, that's what distributions are for but unfortunately even the biggest struggle to keep a steady route (think Ubuntu and Unity, for instance) and often fall for the latest shining tech everybody wants (hint: no, there's a whole lot of people who'd better like a stable, predictable, coherent environment to a new set of flashy icons and widget palettes).

And if you wonder what would make the top of my whishlist, it's solid a development environment (again, a-la macOS but it's actually a-la OpenStep and NextStep, where it all started) enforcing good defaults at the OS level, letting people/companies build quality apps easily and preventing them to disrupt/reinvent existing OS patterns/paradigms (without a reason). Or we could keep on downloading browsers-disguised-as-applications and call it a day.
Yes, that's what I understand about how it works. There's a lot to be said against the idea of dealing with Unicode at the codepoint level in most applications though. I'm writing code that would allow commands to be either \ + non-letter character or \ + one or more letters (a la TeX). So that means that I would allow commands to include \bird, \pták, \طائر and \鳥, but what happens if the á in \pták is input as ´+ a rather than á? Is that supposed to be the same code? Or perhaps the user has \Spi¨nalTap (and there code editor has a type compositor that's willing to put the umlaut on the n?) Some of this can be dealt with through Unicode normalization, although there's also the question of whether, e.g., the ohm and angstrom symbols should be treated as symbols or letters if they're input at their symbolic code points rather than as a Greek or Latin letters. Would \+white man shrugging be a valid \+non-letter command since it's multiple code points? It's amazing how much a "simple" specification gets complicated when you start to look at all the ways that Unicode can complicate matters.
Does anyone know what the cage-like section on the bottom of the U87 is for? Neumann themselves state that the U87 'looks like a studio mic'.
One causes cancer, the other causes or contributes to atherosclerosis. [1]

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3755365/
This is true for JS too, but I never hear as much hate for that language.

Also there are classes of games for which the latency introduced by a GC may not be that much relevant (e.g. strategy or simulation games).
Congratulations, Slip looks awesome as well! I see only 5 languages are supported right now. Do you have any plans on adding more?
Your point clearly has merit in many cases, but paint seems almost the epitome of practicality. Assuming that it could be mass producible at a price similar to premium house paints I can't see the problem in bringing this to market.

And from the article:
> In the US, New York has recently coated more than 10 million sq ft of rooftops white. The state of California has already updated building codes to promote cool roofs.
Ok, so let me see if I understand this correctly:

I run a website with no trackers, no ads, nothing at all to do with Google or any other company in any way.
You come along, with Google Chrome, and visit my site.
Google adds the fact that you visited my site to their massive dataset (as well as who-knows-what-else)
And to opt out of something I have never been asked to be involved with in any way, I need to contact Google and ask them to please leave my site alone?

Am I understanding this shit correctly?

Whether I like it or not, my site, by proxy, is participating in Google's data mining?

If my guess is correct, how the actual fuck is this not illegal?

Edit: Ok, I guess I'm off the mark here with my assumptions so I'll put my pitchfork down.

Google are just using your Chrome browsing data, matching it with site id's (or hashes?) and then analysing the shit out of it for their gain.

As a website owner, nothing has changed other than I can tell them not to use my site as part of their analysis... that sound about right?
Loongson Technology Develops Its Own CPU Instruction Set Architecture
The solar system isnt sustainable.
React Native vs. Flutter: The Ultimate Comparison
Nobody is "dumb" enough to knowingly try something with a 75% fatality rate.

Some people are desperate enough to do it.
As opposed to six-figure salaries paid to software engineers?
Boot licker
The Power of Boredom
Yea because humans aren't animals. Our behaviors haven't been dominated by our genes for quite some time.
> Way too many human rights and labor abuse issues to be worth the risk IMHO.

I worked in Doha short term once, and frequent Dubai.

There is so many expats there other than people who effectively sold themselves into indentured slavery because of they can't read the employment contract, that I would say it worth the consideration.

The occasional horror stories of Western C-level exec getting on the bad side of their employers, and getting stuck in the country are very much real, but again most of them wouldn't be examples of good deliberation, and they very much knew what they are going for.
The two insects don't seem to be that closely related, and red dye comes from a variety of sources. Besides, even if the English suspected that there was some kind of Mexican cochineal, the mystery of how to farm it would still be a problem.

>till the imported dye won over because of higher yields = cheaper price

I'd be interested to know if this is true, or if the imported dye was more valuable for being a brighter colour. Do you have a source? Wikipedia is not specific about the reason for the decline in demand of Polish cochineal.
> And if calculations about Bitcoin’s footprint are true it uses up as much energy as Argentina. An entire country. I don’t think that for the use Bitcoin gets in the developed world it justifies energy uses at that level.

Compare for example with MGM's properties in Las Vegas which they claim consume 171 MW. That's not quite as much as Bitcoin, but it's still higher than 65 of the countries listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...

So it's actually pretty easy to surpass the usage of "an entire country". And that to me seems like a much more useless waste than Bitcoin, which has significant uses besides entertainment
I'll hold my judgement until someone manages to actually find out what this "dark" space is (quote from the article: "At this time, I do not have a satisfying explanation for this “dark” file usage").
It's a lot easier to add another server to a data center than to increase the battery life and performance of a mobile device that is constraint by size and cooling.
I tried tinygo on web assembly. I very quickly decided to use Rust instead.
There's truth to that, a lot of it depends on that developer's language skills and business network.

If you're a developer in the Ukraine with great English and reasonable business skills, you should be able to land a pretty good dev job with a global company.

Another, just as good dev in the Ukraine that only knows Russian/Ukrainian, will have much harder time and will likely be limited to working with just local companies, significantly limited with options.
Wasn't this tested 50 years ago and then sort of left dormant?
HAProxy forwards over 2M HTTP req/s on a single AWS Graviton2 instance
No what you said is completely wrong. Publication is not required for an exclusive monopoly it is only required for a patent.

There are many many monopolies and oligopolies over products that are enforced without patents or use of intellectual property laws.

Oil was an example of a oligopoly enforced by geography. OPEC.

The f35 is a publicly and internationally distributed product for which a monopoly by lockheed is obtained by unparalleled and uncopyable technical aptitude crystallized into the product itself. This as well as astronomically high costs, and trade secrets help make sure very few entities can copy the product.

The only incentive for highly complex products to exhist in the market place is the ability to monopolize the product to a certain extent. What is the point of selling the product if anyone can make it?

The point is that there are barriers of entry that every business uses to stay relevant. A patent is simply one barrier in a toolset of economic barriers.

Make no mistake, the monopoly google holds over search has fundamentally the same economic effect as a patent. Same with monopolies held by facebook, uber and apple all held without patents.
Distribution symmetry doesn't change the definition of a word.
> Would it still be a nice house if 10-15 people with no kinship were crammed into it?

You're currently arguing in favor of artificial scarcity through property rights. Are you sure that's your thesis. /s

> No, scarcity is inherent, as explained earlier.

There's nothing "inherent" in having the right to keep those 10-15 people away from your nice house.

I think you're so used to having the right of property, you can't even realize none of this is inherent. Rights, laws and law enforcement gave you that.

Without this artificial scarcity, there would be zero homeless people. And there would also be zero people owning houses.

But I'm sure nice houses will just keep being built anyway. /s

> At the start of the thread, you were using the language of real property to argue for IP. But here, you reveal that you are in fact opposed to real property.

I'm not opposed to real property at all. I'm just showing you what a world without property rights looks like. You seem to not like it. QED.
By no means is Zagreb tiny. The metro area is 1.15 million people. If you are going to be that picky, then you are not going to find a digital nomad visa that meets your criteria.

There are only a handful of western countries with high quality of living that will let you have such visas on the premise of “willing to pay the taxes”. There is a reason why.
New tech builds ultralow-loss integrated photonic circuits
Maybe kinda, but really you'd want reproducible cross-compilation too, so a reproducible build should produce the same binary regardless of which machine it is run on.
Why not? If you use wasm for a small library need in your web app, then sure, go doesn't make sense. But if your whole app is coded in wasm like a game, then it's probably ok I guess as the app will be heavy to load regardless.
I'd agree, except it reads to me as "many of the erudite readers _of this_ little book", it seems to imply erudites of Darwin's book.
> Elixir is a niche dialect of a niche language (Erlang).

Nitpick: Elixir is not a dialect of Erlang. It doesn't even compile to Erlang, but directly to the BEAM bytecode.

Erlang and Elixir are very different languages. Think of it as Java and Groovy. Erlang is old, battle-tested, explicit and verbose to a fault (which stops being a fault when you try to maintain a decade+ old code) and is used mainly for writing large systems with very specific requirements. Elixir is younger, tries to be less verbose, adds magic completely absent from Erlang, and is intended to be used more like a traditional scripting language in addition to also covering the Erlang use case.
I think the landing page should say a little more about what this really is. Even if you use a link to do that (Read more...).
Minecraft is not successful because of its programming language, it's successful despite the questionable choice of its programming language. Games can be fine and successful withouth being top-notch software, they need to be enjoyable, not performant. Cities:Skylines is also successful, and with decent hardware you get like 40 fps. Again, not its hardware efficiency made it popular.

Regarding modding, I think if the game is successful, then there will be at least a small handful of people that write a modding interface for others.
It seems a serious shortcoming if you can't allocate String or Vec using a custom allocator? Presumably you can pass an arena parameter to create the custom allocator?

There's plenty of room between <unlimited heap> and <preallocated>, I don't really understand why, e.g., you couldn't have a pool for a particular usage of String, or fixed size objects?

Also, introspection to ask which pool an object is allocated on, how much space is available (units for fixed size, largest hole for variable size)?

Is it just a syntax choice or is there a rusty reason not to have a thread-local list of allocators?
"DLL Hell" was coined in the early days of Windows (before C#), and originally referred to C and C++ dynamic library problems.
Has there ever been strict global regulation of anything?
If that were true, then why don't we do the same thing for programming? We only do that for languages and algorithms (which I'm still not a fan of), but everything else tries to have descriptive names because then it's easier to understand how it fits together with other concepts. If we called for loops "bobs" and while loops "jims", how are you supposed to know how they are related, structurally?
It's bad for wet environments and snowy ones. You need to be super vigilant about inspection and maintenance if you have a flat roof where I live in northern U.S. While two feet of snow on the roof will provide a small amount of insulation, every material in contact with it needs to be rubberized or sealed every couple of years or both.

Shovelling your roof with a flexible waterproof membrane can lead to gouges which defeat the impermeability. And one small leak can go unnoticed until it has seeped into the visible part of the house and rotted rafters and supporting timbers. Drainage on flat roofs get clogged and need to be cleaned or you end up with standing water.

A sloped metal roof will last for 30+ years without any maintenance. A flat roof of any type will require several maintenance operations a year and last half that unless you have a commercial tar and gravel roof which is heavy and imposes additional load bearing requirements on the structure.
As a synonym of "rejected as invalid", for that is the information conveyed by a NAK response.
"New Zealand has announced a suite of proposals..."

It's not a law or even a plan. Just thought bubbles at this stage.
Related discussion from a few weeks ago about the mentioned licensing issue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26644053
Everything Facebook does nowadays is rotten. I don't see how I would trust this company in the future, unless they drastically change their business model.
Whoops, you're right. I missed the detail that this was on Lex's podcast, not Joe's.
I’m curious, does anyone know if the location data collected under “Web & Activity Data” is derived from GPS, WiFi, and/or IP data?
I share your sentiment in the regard that it highlights an obvious difference between how we think about humans and animals.
I think you probably know why applying darwinisim to human society is "extremely controversial".

On a side note, what constitutes "good genes" nowadays?

The ability to exploit finite natural resources (including human health and lives) in a maximally efficient way?
Accumulating as much money as possible?

Would you prefer to reduce human population to a wealthy, healthy remainder and purge all people who cannot sustain themselves?

What does sustaining yourself mean in terms of "benefit to society"?

Is making money by burning fossil fuel - or facilitating and developing systems that (unnecessarily) burn more fossil fuel - a contribution to a "better human gene pool"?

Can sustaining yourself make life worse for others?

Would you approve eugenics, if yes, to what degree?

These are ethical questions as old as humanity.

Overcoming naive social darwinism is arguably one of the reasons that todays "civilized" society can even exist.

I appreciate your comment as a start for a discussion, but I also dislike the implications that I read into it.

People who earn obscene amounts of money and deplete natural resources hardly contribute to an improvement of the human gene pool.

And to me it seems that most people with physical or psychological handicaps that deem them "unfit" already are poor, die young and often don't procreate.
“The standard for decades”... the article is about a new laws being proposed because the current laws don’t properly account for the harms monopoly actors cause.
Electric Cars of the East, Part 1: A Tale of Two Nations
Why are tech salaries so low in London? The CoL is as high as any city in the world really
You need machine tools capable of tight tolerances and quality metals/alloys to make useable (for work) steam engines. The Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Abbasid, Persians, Europeans, etc all lacked these, thus no usable steam engines in antiquity/Middle Ages. Usable engines followed consistent quality metal production and machine tools pretty closely, it’s not like older people were just stupid, they didn’t have the technology necessary to create steam engines capable of real work.

It’s like asking “Why wasn’t there a chess engine as good as stockfish for the PDP-11?” It simply wasn’t possible with the technology in 1970.