skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working conditions in the US are a lot better than in Africa or the poorest post-USSR countries.What's your point?

1st world countries should not boast about basic human rights.That should be the standard.
The USB adapter has a headphone jack so I plug my Samsung headphones into that.
"Non-authoritative" ... this is why BTC people just suck to talk to.

Everyone DYOR. It is indisputable that Satoshi wanted big blocks. Here are a couple quotes:

The existing Visa credit card network processes about 15 million Internet purchases per day worldwide. Bitcoin can already scale much larger than that with existing hardware for a fraction of the cost.

https://www.bitcoin.com/satoshi-archive/emails/mike-hearn/1/

At first, most users would run network nodes, but as the network grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to specialists with server farms of specialized hardware.

https://www.bitcoin.com/satoshi-archive/emails/cryptography/...

I find it interesting that these are missing in the Nakamoto Institute's quotes on scaling.
I mean... a microcontroller has only one 'loop'. If you don't want to 'block' it, you either 1) use external devices, i.e. a synth chip or 2) compose the multiple notes you want into one signal. If you're doing PWM only then option 2 will rapidly start to present interesting challenges.
Funny you should mention political satire. Is it protected speech to show a to-be mob a deepfake video of a political rival in a secret meeting saying that they enjoy causing suffering of the weak?

This is just one example. People are very easily manipulated and these days tribes are operating in a post-fact era manner. The prospect of readily available deepfakes makes this problem much worse.
Civilization for sure
I always wonder how extremely dedicated someone has to be to bashing a product/group to make a whole username dedicated to it.

>>You pay for Apple products because it's impractical and hard to use

Exactly, that's why developers who charge big money for their time use them - because they are impractical and hard to use. You cracked it mate.
It's not a fitness tracker but if you are looking for an open source fitness app for VR then check out VRWorkout (disclaimer I am the developer)

It's a full body fitness game with hand tracking (built with GodotEngine).
You can use the VRHealth Institute app to provide biofeedback to the app and control the difficulty dynamically if you have a heart rate sensor.

Data sharing is completely opt-in but you can also write your own backend to store any data

https://vrworkout.at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c-74EfrKAQ
Not if you have bills to pay.
> Most humans look at a person and immediately bucket them into a cohort using some mix of physical attributes and prior beliefs of these attributes. Once we're in a cohort, relative probabilities can change.

That indeed happens, but going by the gut isn't a bullet-proof moral philosophy. Snap judgements are something we can evaluate and consciously calibrate when we're not in the heat of the moment.

> lots of intelligent philosophers have argued against utilitarianism and have brought up flaws in utilitarianism

Yeah, I read some of those, many are really solid objections. I'm not arguing that utilitarianism is the be-all, end-all moral philosophy - just that it's a surprisingly good heuristic that can be pushed quite far before it starts to go "off the rails". And primarily, I'm arguing that working with approximations and heuristics is something we know how to do - not being able to compute a perfectly precise answer isn't a valid argument against a method.
I have a Shure MV7 USB/XLR microphone, and while pricey, I like it a lot, as it's very easy to tune how you sound using the ShurePlus Motiv software.

It also has a headphone jack that you can use for monitoring.

Unfortunately the USB connection on the microphone is micro-usb, which is pretty sad for a microphone that was released in 2020. It also doesn't come with a stand.
I've seen shameless bastards return christmas trees in january lol - but still as a whole the majority of people in the states don't abuse policies like that.
Start producing something by yourself. You will be very happy with such "non-abusive" uses that generate you losses.

If you are an honest seller, you can't even resell returned products as brand new.
Ethereum is NOT a second, nor compatible implementation of Bitcoin. That would be BCH, LiteCoin, DogeCoin, etc. which are literally forks of BTC. Although those are not exactly compatible either.

Ethereum started with its own code base, its own core. It's a completely different concept altogether and its a true 10x innovation on blockchain as a concept. Ethereum has many client implementations built on several different programming languages. The whole reason they have multiple clients is to make the network more resilient for moments like this.
Is the implication that people are buying extra furniture for having family or other guests over, with the intent of returning it after the guests leave?
> Finally, some $49B was transacted yesterday on Bitcoin. Whether billions is virtually zero is a matter of interpretation.

There were $2.6T of US treasuries traded last week (approx $520B/day) and average US equity volume is $200B+/day. $49B a day isn’t all that much in comparison.
A job for fuse. :) I'd like having a nice sysfs like view on all tables and other objects in a database. Even better if editable.

Or alternatively a midnight commander for databases. :)
> In my experience Americans sort of take for granted the breadth and depth of consumer protection you enjoy.

Please. American consumer protection is almost non-existent, especially when compared with places like the EU.
Play Chrome's dinosaur game with your body and webcam
And retrieving it, too.
I don't really see Apple Fitness+ and Peloton as competitors. First, the Peloton bike/equipment is both targeted at and only really make sense for the 1%. Apple's hardware is a few hundred bucks and has insane usability beyond Fitness+.

If you're speaking about just the apps and not hardware, again, I don't think they're direct competitors. Peloton's app sans Peloton hardware is basically just YouTube videos... There are dozens of content producers that cater to everyone's style or form of working out. Why pay Peloton $13/mo. just to get into the ecosystem? An ecosystem that was designed from the ground-up for people who make +$100K/yr., so the average American probably doesn't have friends who are using Peloton's app. Apple Fitness+ on the other-hand is designed to work in tandem with your cheapish Apple Watch. The fusion between hardware and software is where the magic happens. Peloton doesn't have that unless you have a spare bedroom + $3,000 to spend on fitness upfront.
The thing is incredibly “sticky”. People def use the thing.
I have replaced the keyboard and battery on my2017 Pro in India that was purchased in US I bought it in2017 and replaced both under applecare in 2020. I had the extended global warranty . They took a week to fix it but worked like a breeze . I paid nothing for it.
What? No one thought that Hitler was going to be tame in the early 1930s. People thought that Hitler wasn't going to attack them, but kill other people instead. It's very different. Hitler himself said that his goal was to kill half of all Eastern Europe much before WW2 starting.

>And underplays the goals of China and Russia. And it doesn’t acknowledge what’s already happened like invasions and labor camps.

There is no interest for either Russia or China beyond that. A war in Eastern Europe is not in the interests of Russia, because of NATO and existing military capabilities. What is in the interests of Russia is to keep Ukraine out of NATO. The invasion of Crimea and the Donbass only happened after Ukraine expressed intent to join the EU and NATO, not before.

As far as labour camps, penal labour for unjustified offenses is simply par for the course in the Earth of 2021. It is sad. And it has nothing to do with the assertion that China somehow wants to invade all of Asia or something equally ridiculous.
Yes, but that's a hidden defect.

If I sell you a TV, pretending that it was working perfectly when I know for a fact that there's a component in it that has 90% chances of blowing up in the next month, you'd be perfectly right to complain and expect me to pay you back your money after your TV exploded.
I have yet to find a tech company that is not about extracting as much wealth as it can by min/maxing on human suffering.
Probably depends on lighting but I'm not sure I'd call it "good." I find it's often a noticeable distraction when people move around.
Based on this, are you a fan of Bitcoin Cash?

I find it interesting how divisive the split in Bitcoin / SegWit / Lightning Network vs Bitcoin Cash has been.
The biggest problem with Actions that I see a lot of people struggle with is that you can’t easily debug things when they aren’t going well.

I think they need to add some way for users to be able to ssh into the worker. Maybe each time an action step fails you have 5 mins to ssh into the container and inspect what’s going on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2NSYyO749I
This is, perhaps, a better explanation.

https://torrentfreak.com/canada-proposes-new-regime-to-block...
For some reason my friend bet on 26 last spin and won, that takes some skill.
1. https://thenewstack.io

2. The "reference architectures" page on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

3. ThoughtRadar by ThoughtWorks: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar
I've seen mysql used in multi-master ha configuration (percona-based solution) successfully, do you have anything to recommend for a true multi-master postgresql solution (ideally open source)?
That's really nice in theory, but in the real world money IS a proxy for time and value creation. Having money is the same thing has being able to create value, and gives you freedom to create value at your own pace however you want.

Crypto as an asset class is only working the way it is because there is a separation between perceived value and net present value. The same way fundamentalists value companies by expected earnings and angel investors look at the TAM, crypto is blowing up in large part because people are starting to believe in the story that crypto is pinned to.

At the end of the day, you probably should have some skills to fall back on and not depend on an asset increasing in value, but if you have enough assets, that is your skill.
> But there is only one type of number in javascript. Everything is just a double(BigInt aside).

There is nothing stopping JS engines from trying to infer when a number is only an integer and optimize for that. In fact, that's what Small Integer (SMI) optimizations are all about[0].

It's just that |0 isn't really able to guarantee that our number value is the type of SMI that V8 optimizes for (since the V8 SMIs are 31 bits, and bitmasking operations only guarantee 32 bit integers)

https://ponyfoo.com/articles/an-introduction-to-speculative-...
> Was he abusing policy?

Yes. Here, abuse means misuse, which must be interpreted relative to the intent of the ones making the policy (or else it's meaningless). The intent is clear: for customers to be able to return the item if they are not satisfied. It is not a borrow/rental policy.
Where are they aggregating all this insider data from? Is there an index of stocks being traded by government insiders and officials that can be tracked in real-time?
Ethereum is a distributed blockchain focusing on smart contracts. ETH is just the cryptocurrency built to power it. The vision is much, much bigger than a mere currency (Bitcoin), even if the roll-out is proving complex.
I'm pretty sure that macOS doesn't do this by default at all, based upon over a decade of experience.

This StackOverflow seems to agree — but it also offers suggestions to help find the actual culprit (a lot of third-party software seems to auto-level the mic volume), and also offers a further suggestion of configuring an Aggregate Audio Device (using the default Audio MIDI Setup app) which doesn't have a mic-level control that apps can mess with.

Perhaps one of the solutions discussed here might help you.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/97810/mac-osx-micr...
> The business offers a policy. You're simply using it.

There is the spirit and the letter of an agreement. The relative importance of these in commercial contexts varies from culture to culture. (The term of art is high trust versus low trust societies.) Abuse (versus breach) involves complying with the letter of an agreement while violating its spirit. As you observe, this is subjective.

Fundamentally, if return policies are treated by customers as a return versus rental, terms can be more generous. If they are abused, the terms must be stricter.
Keeping the apartment and subletting it is non-trivial since the landlord is not forced to accept it, and has no incentive to. Illegal sublets are common, but more inconvenient.

The part about hearing more Russian that German doesn't ring true to me, and reeks of xenophobia. Doubly so for the non sequitur quip about refugees.
Facebook adds Subscriptions to Oculus apps
I'm just an observer of forums and whatnot, and not Indian, but have a couple guesses.

1 - People buying a handful of phones and comparing them, then returning all but the one they decide to keep.

2 - Semi related, one of the ten thousand phone comparison Youtuber channels.
As status symbols.

Many people also abuse return policies to buy expensive cameras, use them to shoot nice pictures on vacation and then sending them back. They can still keep the pictures, so the camera lost its value for them.
In Bessemer Alabama, where the union effort recently was voted down by the employees, the median annual income is $19,000 and Zillow is full of houses selling for $110k.

$31.5k is a middle class income there and certainly not poverty level.
Games Workshop, the miniature manufacturer is like this. The few times I've had an issue with something from them -- mostly missing pieces -- they've shipped me a replacement entire kit, usually overnight at no cost to me.
One of the three appears to have a Google affiliation, another one a Facebook affiliation.

Google sponsors the Turing Award:

https://awards.acm.org/sponsors

I don't know who is right, but Schmidhuber certainly comes across as someone who is interested in an accurate history.

For example the backpropagation algorithm is often misattributed. After the Perelman story my faith in proper attribution in science is fairly low in general.
The user opts in to being placed into a cohort. The site opts out of providing information to Google to let them generate cohorts based on the site. There’s no overlap.
Some MCUs have multiple cores
I think it’s easy to underestimate small stake tit for tats and I’ve not heard a clear or reassuring enunciation of Biden’s foreign policy vision other than the “undoing” of stuff that was done under trump. Iran is a particular concern. Hopefully my fears prove unfounded. It is still very early in the new administration to make judgements one way or the other, but it does seem the conditions are ripe for new directions if not abrupt shifts in global power dynamics.
But wouldn't that be expected? More people buying (because they think they need it, as they're going to cook a lot), would mean, even if the return percentage is the same, more people returning.

Add to that the people who realize what a waste of an investment that was after the holiday spree is over, you can explain it a bit more.

But of course, it's impossible to tell surely without data.

Going back to gut feelings: Does he see suspicious behavior? Weird reasons for returning?
Finally, a logical comment. Thank you.

I counter with the following observation: You note that a return policy exists so that customers can use it. Under what conditions are you allowed to use it and it not be abuse?

Being able to return the product is often why customers buy something. How many times have you considered the return policy before buying? You can decide to return it for any reason you like: whether you dislike the product, whether you ran out of money and needed a refund, or for no reason at all.

If it's a problem, the business will change the policy, just as Apple did here.
The security sandboxing of Chromium-based browsers is sadly unmatched, however.
I see this argument come up a lot, I'd like to point out 2 points.

1) Wealth wasn't created during WW2, almost all of the increased production went to things like bombs and tanks and bullets, these things don't provide a real increase in quality of life this is one of the main points in 1984, people need to be kept busy, but Quality of Life can't increase.

2) The postwar boom was largely a result of everyone except America being unable to really produce because their economy and workforce was shattered. When you suddenly have 66% percent of the world only able to purchase from you, that's a lot of demand that you can then serve.
This is really cool. However I'm going to bring you the Traditional HN Nitpick: it's very odd to see Google use these horribly over-compressed gifs over proper videos: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ori...
What 'best practices' developed over 500 years are you referring?

I have numerous friends who are police.

They had three months training, then were sent out to see the worst humanity has to offer.

One of my police friends has a coffee table book of interesting dead bodies from crime scenes.

I'm not sure what 500 years of best practice you're referring.
This is the stuff I'd like to see Google do more of. Build things that are true to their mission of Collecting and organising the world's information. Truly remarkable.
And everywhere in EU sellers have to accept a return within 14 days for any online purchases, for any reason. And no, they can't charge a restocking fee. You can only be asked to pay for the postage back.

And in general, the responsibility for the goods is always with the seller first, manufacturer second. If your laptop breaks and the seller says "oh the manufacturer declined warranty" then sorry, tough luck, it's the seller who has to repair/replace it now.
A 23-Year-Old Coder Kept QAnon and the Far Right Online When No One Else Would
I have one.

One of the models has an wifi chip that doesn't work on Linux (I think it's the one that comes with 32gb RAM). The others have working wifi.

Sound doesn't work unless you plug a headset.

The Home and End keys are in very awkward places instead of just being fn+arrows.

There's a small defect on the screen that it took me a while to notice and now I can't send it back. It looks something scratched it.

There's a problem on Windows where if I leave it idle for too long it just stops working and the fan gets all the way to the maximum and it gets super hot. This doesn't happen on Linux.

The Tigerlake graphics is good enough to run Street Fighter V on Windows and Dota 2 on Linux, so I'm happy with it.

It's good locking and nice but I don't think it's going to last a lot. My model from 2014 lasted a few years and then the Keyboard and Touchpad completely broke.

If I had to buy another one I wouldn't buy the same model.
There's a long list of simple features that calend.ly users have been asking for a long time. There is a good opportunity to capture by offering them. Top of my list: limit the total number of hours that can be booked per day.
Obesity is a far bigger problem in the world today than hunger, even in developing nations. 11% of the world suffers from hunger still, down from 40% 3 decades ago. The kind of starving absolute poverty is rapidly disappearing. In first world countries, the unequal distribution of wealth mostly means who gets to live in larger houses, travel more, go to restaurants more, send kids to better schools, etc, rather than who gets all of their needs.
This is pretty concerning, if not scary:

> “users of AI systems who use the same to generate or manipulate image, audio or video content that appreciably resembles existing persons, objects, places or other entities or events and would falsely appear to a reasonable person to be authentic [or truthful], shall disclose that the content has been artificially created or manipulated. This obligation shall not apply where necessary for the purposes of safeguarding public security [and other prevailing public interests] or for the exercise of a legitimate right or freedom of a person and subject to appropriate safeguards for the rights and freedoms of third parties.”.

So, if "for the public good", it's all good for government and others to fake all they want without disclosing that manipulation has taken place.
fwiw, your numbers are correct, but the 30k figure includes part time workers and is therefore skewed to the downside. Among full time workers, the median annual income is about $51k for men and $48k for women, according to data collected by the BLS.
Israeli startups on CB Insights’ AI 100 list for 2021
It's pretty easy to do with one core, too - I would guess that the author didn't use interrupts or peripherals because they were writing about MCUs in general rather than a specific chipset. The K210 they used as an example is actually targeted towards ML applications.

Most chips will have some sort of PWM or advanced timer peripheral that can generate waveforms on a pin without direct CPU intervention. You write to registers to change the frequency, duty cycle, etc.

Many chips also include asynchronous DACs, but they're usually too low-resolution for high-fidelity audio.

Most microcontrollers also include some form of DMA, which can shuttle data between peripherals and memory without CPU intervention. You can also user timer peripherals to trigger DMA transfers, which lets you send buffered data to a DAC on a KHz schedule while the CPU does other things.

And of course, you can usually use timer peripherals to periodically interrupt the main thread when you don't want to wait in a busy-loop.
Are we going to blame people for not buying WinRaR licenses next? These are businesses, they offer the policy for a variety of reasons, I am free to use them within the terms; it sounds a bit out there to categorise returning a product in a “no questions asked return” policy as unethical unless I actively sabotaged the product or did anything other than use it and give it back.
This disconnect is precisely why you can get a refund in the US but not in India.

There's the "letter of the policy" interpretation, where anything the text of the policy doesn't explicitly forbid is A-Okay. And then there's the "socially acceptable norms" interpretation, where you're only supposed to ask for refunds when a product is actually defective, and if you go any further than that, society and HN comments will shame you for it.

In the US, we have a thriving culture of shaming people for anything and everything, so companies can have generous policies and lean on the social norms interpretation to keep people in check. India is more of a free-for-all, so companies feel the need to spell everything out.
This was also really common with TVs during the Super Bowl. People would come in and buy the biggest TV they could get, have their Super Bowl party and then return the TV.
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I suppose you could, assuming the law had teeth and was actually enforceable in a meaningful sense.

But in my opinion, the idea that a flag begging companies not to track them would be respected was always a naive fantasy, regardless of whether it was turned on by default (because why wouldn't I want this turned on by default if it worked?).
The next thing I would like to hear is a voicefile.wav converted to instructions for microcontroller.