skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using the kit with the arm for about a year now. I bought it just for meetings as I don't stream games or do podcasts. The kit itself is freaking amazing. Almost all parts are made from smooth-non-gloss metal and the audio quality is amazing. People from the office commented on it when I switched over since the mic on the macbook makes my voice sound like I'm talking from a tin can and the voice was very nasal-like (+ the obvious echo issues). Now I sound like myself and I would dare say, more manly. Deeper sound etc. I recommend the kit to everyone I can. It is the best "cheap" kit you will find and won't need to spend thousands. The mic itself has a small volume knob that that I set to about 10% to 15%. I can have my washing machine run in the background and nobody can hear it. It uses 1x usb port and work on Windows/Mac/Linux - I'm currently using on a MacBook Air that runs Fedora 33 (mic volume knob at ~15% and PulseAudio mic volume 85%). Gaming headsets are all basically garbage, don't bother with them. Other than that, I use a Samson SR850. It's a cheap studio headset that is decent quality - I bought it because the Roland model I wanted was out of stock.

I have no affiliation with the company(s).

https://fifinemicrophone.com/collections/microphones/product...
The approval of a patent registration request should work like this:

The issuer provides a public description of the problem the patent solves and a secret description of the solution.
They pay $10k in advance to request a patent registration.

The patent institution then publishes the public problem description.
External challengers can submit additional solutions for $100.
After some time (e.g. a month) submission closes and independent judges need to identify the solution proposed by the patent issuer out of all submitted solutions.
If they succeed, the patent will be registered. Otherwise, the submitter of the identified solution gets a split of the patent registration fee (e.g. $2k) and registration is denied.

The institution manages hundreds of possible judges, only a few are selected randomly by a trusted computer. If a selected judge correctly identifies the solution of the patent, they will get a bonus (more than challengers would get, e.g. $3k). Non-selected judges can submit challenging solutions.

This should be robust against bribery and prevent low effort bullshit patents!?

If a company wants to bribe judges, they need to identify the selected judges, otherwise they help not-selected judges to submit challenging solutions. This can be made very hard.

Also, the solution of the patent should solve a hard problem (i.e. a problem that is hard to find solutions for). Otherwise, challengers can easily come up with solutions of equivalent quality.

If the problem is "A mechanism to visually indicate progress", it should not be too hard to come up with the progress bar.
the problem are externalities as such, bitcoin just makes the problem obvious
We lost the war, haven't we?
Research the origins of IP. IP didn't exist forever. It was introduced because it was needed.

If you think this is subjective, let me ask you think: you have a popular YouTube channel, your content requires paying writers, actors, VFX teams and editors. Bunch of other people copy your content freely and legally and get most of the ad revenue.

You protest: you made this content, you paid for it. Please just link to me, not the copycats. Response "we can just as easily assert that you'd continue making videos anyway with or without other people copying you."

Kind of tonedeaf isn't it?

Look, eventually all our jobs will be producing IP. We'll have IP schematics to prints 3D printers which prints other 3D printers, which print robots which do all the work. I'm simplifying but basically that's the future of jobs. No one cares about your muscles, they only care about your brain. So, to say IP deserves no rights in the long-term means basically no one has jobs, and we have no economy.
That game had 0% as much cleavage as the ad campaign. I don't see how that worked.
Pakistan blocks social media sites after violent protests
“Of course you can steal ip ... you reduce the value of their ip”. This is a circular argument, and invalid. Then default state is for ip to have no value. The only thing that gives it value is far-reaching laws that diminish the real property rights of anyone who owns a pen or hard disk. The existence of those laws cannot be an argument in favour of those laws.
Same. I heard it once completely unexpectedly and it scared the shit out of me. I was 13.
It's true I am from India, last time even after taxes, apple products were cheapest in Switzerland, other countries did charge like 5-10% more
I think I can talk to my technical manager about it.

The thing is this is my first time working in a corporate setting. I come from an academia background where bottling up technical challenges in your projects was the norm.

I'd love some pointers on how to talk about these issues with my manager.

Thanks again!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_regulation#Economists'_vi...
It’s not job hopping that’s the problem. It’s unemployment. Companies actually like job hoppers because they learn more, and actually can find those jobs, hence they hop. Job hopping without jobs (gaps) is unattractive but that would be unemployment not job hopping, since the dude is unemployed.

I’m saying this only for people who are in utter shit jobs and have the talent to find another one, but are afraid to be classified a job hopper.
Still got PTSD from a Hinernate codebase that had all sorts of initialization magic afoot.

Who needs CPP macros when you've got reflection?
Many IPs likely wouldn't even exist if the 10 year monopoly didn't exist.

Yeah they patented some parts of DNA and there was a huge debate over it but that patent is almost expired now so the whole debate eventually becomes irrelevant.

It's worth it.
They only have an ID until you decide to deanonymise yourself on purpose by registering.
Yep' it would seem that Daniele Procida left Divio and hosts the Documentation System on its own domain now
We use i, x, y, etc. all the time as variable names as professional programmers.

So you're sort of arguing against a straw man there, almost no programmer would expect you to name such a concept 'arbitraryNumber2', we would also name it x or y if it made sense in the code.
> why have the greater financial markets become so wonky, why has the behavior of investors changed so radically

Since the global saving glut (1), the best question to ask of crazy asset valuations is not "does it reflect the fundamental value?", but "does the money have anywhere else to go?"

(1) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_saving_glut
I used the US Apple website, and the French Apple website in that case (in €, converted to USD using WolframAlpha and accounting for 20% VAT). I've already seen in the past that the Spanish and German Apple websites have similar prices to the French one.
> Stop using Google Chrome, and install another browser

As a thought experiment, i've wondered what would happen if webdevs started to add those ugly "This website does not support Chrome, please install [Firefox](...) for the best experience."

Does Chrome have the branding to sustain it? Would the websites take the traffic hit? If trends continue as they have the last 5+ years, it may be a test worth running.
The war has not ended yet. I see no point in declaring defeat.
By that same logic, why have property rights at all?

You invest to produce IP, to you this still results in "IP has no value by default".

So I guess investing to buy a house, also results in "this house has no value by default" by that same logic.
I think it will. I am personally targeting arm64/Graviton2 on my side projects because the cost/performance improvement is noticeable. I think this will only snowball for adoption in work environments.
> Nobody would invest billions in IP if someone from the street can walk by and take it.

That's called a university. Such institutions are responsible for the vast majority of technical advances.
+1 on the rose tinted glasses. In retrospect, I'm still quite bitter about Skyrim. In many ways it's the best TES game so far, definitely in terms of environment etc. But even at the time, it fell short; voice acting is one, bad animations is another. I think it's the engine and core technology, which at the base is still the same as Morrowind's.

I mean I get it, they have a staff that is experienced in that engine and a heap of modders. But it's past its prime, and I hope (but doubt) that for TES VI they make big changes.
> Some website owners think the best strategy is to opt their websites out of FLoC by attaching a header.

I've tried to look up which header that would be. The only thing I could find was a github issue, but only containing a request for such a header, not actually describing one. https://github.com/WICG/floc/issues/13

So I understand it correctly, currently publishers can't opt out from this tracking? What if you process sensitive data, e.g. protected by HIPAA, or attorney client communication?
> 25MB ad-filled app

I really started noticing this since starting to use F-Droid, for a lot of simple apps in the Google Play Store, you can get the same functionality, with zero ads and a much smaller bundle size in F-Droid.

For example this app from F-Droid, which shows your GPS location & coordinates, weighs in at _48KiB_! https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.borneq.heregpslocation/ (disclaimer: I have not tried the app, it was just the first result that came up from a search).

It's pretty cool to see that yes, it's perfectly possible to build lightweight Android apps; and it's really a question of what you put in the bundle.
Would be interested in discussing a project(startup idea) with you. If interested, my email is in my profile.
I use php for my startup and all new things are made in php for these reasons.

the ecosystem is very much complete. There is nothing that has not been done and tested in php.

Plenty of developers know php and if you have done C#/Java/C++ etc its super easy to learn.

Its easy to setup and well documented and the LAMP/LEMP stack is battle tested and people know it well.

There is great Editor/IDE support with plenty of options to choose from.

You can run it on any kind of developer-os and do you development there then just deploy it to a linux server. Altho docker solves this now with any lang its still nice if you dont want to use solutions like this. I have devs developing on windows, linux and mac with no issues getting the whole development stack running and then deploy the app on linux with no issue. This has been a challange in ruby on rails last time i tired it (back in 2010).

The laravel framework is great.
That is because everyone is writing SPAs with node and thus only needs an api like express for the backend stuff.
This is just a rant and not very helpful for anyone that gets redirected here. I can’t really see anyone that care about their visitors doing this.

Do as the good old times when we showed a banner to IE users below a certain version, and suggest better alternatives.
Have you tried installing Discourse? It's not that straightforward. And then there's also the issue that you need a working e-mail setup, even if you only want to set up a local test environment.
Switzerland has a 7.7% VAT, when most of Europe has about 20%. That's on top of the prices I gave.
I'm sure that getting payed by people for living in the property, would be better than having to pay people to live there, but I'm no economist.
>- The programs are very verbose for the functionality they provide.

That's true for 2005, not 2021, with var, type inference, closures, streams, and other such features. And since forever getters/setters are auto-generated by the IDE (including Emaca and Vim) and can just be ignored, and Java today has Records which don't need them.

>- If you do want to use Java ecosystem, there is Scala.

Now you have exponential problems. Scala has less support, slower builds, and features Scala-devs are eager to abuse to make the code unreadable.

>- Finally, if you have to run medium to large java programs, you need to constantly tune the JVM.

No, you really don't.
> "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

> "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

It looks bleak... but hey. Hobbits toppled the Eye of Sauron.
I know you're being sarcastic, but that sort of is the whole game, isn't it?
How To Win Friends is a great book for fine tuning interpersonal skills in adversarial situations such as sales calls and job interviews. It's worth a read. But I wouldn't recommend it as something to internalize for actually making friends. It mostly teaches how to seem empathetic as leverage in negotiations. It's more important IMO to develop real empathy through routinely putting yourself in other people's shoes, both when interactimg with them and when passively observing situations.
A lot of advice here already, but personally I don't understand why you're applying at all these big-name companies like Google, Facebook, Dell, NSA, CIA, DoE (E=Energy), Airbnb, Palantir. I probably wouldn't get hired at most of them, and I'm fairly experienced, got a reasonably nice CV, and have reasonably okay interview and social skills.

There are many MANY small tech companies out there, ranging from 2-3 employees to maybe 100. At one of my jobs we worked from the owner's mother's garage; we had lunch with his mother every day. It's not shiny and glamorous like Google or Apple, but it's honest work and plenty interesting. I sure wasn't bored and had a great time there.

Just go on Stack Overflow jobs, or Monster, or whatever is in your local area, find software dev jobs that seem interesting and send in your CV with a decent cover letter. You probably never heard of that particular company and that's just fine.

Because quite frankly it looks like right now you're trying to star in a big-budget Hollywood movie when all you've got is one B-movie on your credits.
Know All About How RPA Improves Infrastructure
The real value for businesses comes in how RPA improves infrastructure, allowing for better interactions with the customer. Implementing RPA into your business operations starts with educating employees about what is going on and why.
I'm in Islamabad, Pakistan, I can't access twitter or whatsapp, I don't use facebook, so no idea about that.

Protests have been extremely violent, and this is a genie that the government itself released and now can't put back in the bottle.

AMA
I've been working with Scala professionally for the last 8 years and I consider it pretty stable. Code I've written for Scala 2.10/2.11 still compiles with 2.13.

I think the biggest change for me was the redesigned collections-library, but that was rather simple migration.

That said; there are a few breaking changes with the migration to 3.0 - especially if you rely on unsupported features of the compiler, namely macros. Macros have been widely used in the past and will not be supported anymore.
> but the story suggests FB values good connections with the quasi-fascist ruling party over the risk of yet more damage to its reputation.

Do people need a better example?

He literally orders Facebook employees to read communist propaganda. https://amp.smh.com.au/technology/mark-zuckerberg-snapped-wi...
Smart Python Documentation
Use a phone that supports removable media.
Chrome has around 69% market share right now. I'm guessing sites that have easy alternatives would suffer, but more "essential" sites like Amazon or something might be able to have an impact. Obviously consumers would hate this but if it was coordinated among many top sites, it might have an impact. Assuming people don't make Chrome extensions to remove those ugly popups I guess.
WordPress is about as old as Netscape Navigator. Am I judging JavaScript based on the hot mess it was in these days?

Using WordPress as an example for the state of PHP is disingenuous.
> They pay like $10k to test their patent.

Cool, so patents are (even more so) for rich people exclusively. Also, what you're describing soudns a lot like the existing system to me, but with more upfront money.
> No entity in the world can control the price of crypto.

Paolo Ardoino would like a word with you.
Even MS ships a Qt app with the OS (OneDrive)
Scarce things have limited use.
.NET NanoFramework – C# on ESP32
What is it that I do not get about this joke?
Your comment reminded me of this minutephysics video about the census.
https://youtu.be/pT19VwBAqKA
It a great walkthrough of the "privacy doom principle."
He's blossomed. I disagree with him politically most of the time but he actually supports free speech and reporting facts. He's also a hero in Brazilian politics who could very well die for his reporting. I am thrilled to support him and canceled my subscription to the Intercept when they canceled him.
Right, that sounds pretty terrible. It's a shame because the designs are very interesting.
It has replaced things. You are just ignorant to it.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/15_...
In general, there are so many conflicts of interest in the google ecosystem and good alternatives (though not as well integrated). Even if it’s less convenient it’s good to be open to other options and actively try to use and improve them.
Well that's fine, no legitimate businesses hold them. Seriously. Your suppliers are paid in dollars, your tax burden is in dollars based on the conversion price on receipt. To hold them on receipt is wildly irresponsible speculation, as a business.
Don't forget XML DSLs. Or are we past that?
What is yield farming? In DeFi
Coinbase’s public listing is a moment for cryptocurrencies
This might be a good thing. There are a few responses possible:

1. Do nothing, public gets angry.

2. Make bitcoin, or its mining, illegal. However, what is the criteria? All blockchains? Should google be illegal too? Both are just a digital product that the public wants.

3. Tax CO2 production by data centers, that might have a chance it can be coordinated broadly between nations, there is enough money there to tax, and bitcoin adds some urgency.

While doubtful CO2 can be taxed globally, without coordination, big companies play governments against each other.
We don't read documentation to entertained, but to solve problems. How searchable your text is extremely important.
> Does Chrome has the branding to sustain it?

Every student in America is running a Chromebook. Why do they need branding?
Ok you can compare products, but you still have to use/compare them without making any obvious mistakes.

Using the Rust example, you could say “Rust is not safe because I can wrap my code in unsafe{} and that corrupts my data when I fork”.

The OPs point is “when I run two threads that write to the same memory I get corrupt data”.

The first point of call is not “well it’s Samsung memory, so Samsung make terrible memory modules, I shall run my incorrect programs on Sony henceforth”.

It’s “why are you expecting your incorrect program to even work”.
If you like Pidgin I'd recommend https://gajim.org/ - it has a similar feel to the UI, is cross-platform and actively developed. Use it with a modern up-to-date server (see https://joinjabber.org/ for some general advice, and https://compliance.conversations.im/ for testing a specific server).
Don't think floc tags be shared b/w domains
That falls under point 5 - no real evidence, just thought experiments.

I don't really agree with that argument - 'real evidence' is always elusive - at some point we always have to do thought experiments - but I think you need to go a bit deeper. Your examples assume the business model of current copy right related businesses - it is obvious that in a world without copy rights they would not function, but that does not mean that we would not get the things that those businesses produce - they could be produced in other business models.
No one will ever redirect their chrome visitors to this site for a couple of reasons:

1. It is unfriendly and hostile.

2. It doesn't say what alternatives there are. Many people don't know about alternatives.

3. The biggest point of all: sites will lose the majority of their visitors if they redirected away chrome users.
That wasn't intended to be a joke. It might sound comical but it would solve the problem and would probably the first solution an 8-year-old would think of.
But you do? Not sure what feature you are talking about. Access to data on the EO browser is free. That's the only thing advertised.

If you do R&D you can also get API access for free or heavily discounted.

This a project backed by the EU and the European Space Agency; no scams there!
Interesting parallel to the “nightly reboot”, the Java community’s dirty little secret ... memory management is hard.
Docker Desktop (3.3.1) for Apple Silicon
I think its an anti pattern if you do it locally different than what you do on production.
>The sheer verbosity of Java is just unbearable when you're used to Python/Go/Swift/etc.

I'm used to Python (and some Go) for decades, and the verbosity of Java is a non-issue to me.

I'd rather have the speed, type safety, and refactoring tools support, over Python... (not to mention the much better packaging situation).

I'd still prefer Python for smaller programs, basically because of the startup time and quick write/try cycle. But for larger stuff, I'm not so sold, and I've been doing them (in Python) for decades...
Obaseki and finance minister: tale of money printing and the economy
PHP/Laravel is a higher level of abstraction. With Laravel specifically, it's the closest thing I've seen to writing web-app business logic directly in English. Sure, like any abstraction, it comes at a cost. Your applications would be more performant and CS-theoretically-elegant if written in C++ or Elixir/Phoenix. But you would spend a lot more time digging into segfaults, manipulating databases, and writing CRUD form boilerplate, which is far removed from your business logic.

I chose PHP for my recent startup -- despite being less experienced with PHP. The speed of development in Laravel is insane, because most of the framework is focused on making the common features of web apps more convenient. Coupled with static analysis tools and IDE helpers, all of the Laravel magic is actually understood by your IDE (PHPStorm). I've worked with Python and NodeJS for most of my career, and I've never seen this level of dev tooling. My newest project was in Laravel. I was able to ship the whole thing in half of the time it would've taken me in Django or some NodeJS framework, simply because the Laravel "magic" around databases, forms, CRUD, IDE helpers, ORM and scheduling and task queues is so fantastic.
Deploying a Rails apps is, in general, harder than deploying a PHP app.

I'm not convinced that Discourse is the right example here, though. Arguably the actual steps for installing Discourse aren't significantly more complicated than WordPress's install, because they've gone out of their way to make it as easy as possible. (It does suffer from "you must use Docker for this," which would likely intimidate non-techies who could otherwise suffer through a WP install, though.) Also, I don't think Discourse can remotely be described as an abject failure, given that virtually every forum I've seen go up in the last five or six years runs on it, and I can think of more than a few sites that migrated to it from legacy PHP forums in that time.
William Hazlitt, The Shyness of Scholars (1827)

That was before universities had PR departments.