skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am saying that I have tried this out by calling people and trying different things and they have told me that they can't tell the difference. This has included professional audio technicians recording a Zoom interview.

I don't know why this sometimes seems to be a big deal and sometimes isn't, but that does seem to be the case.
I don't consider it an abuse as they just offered to play on their own terms, no one forced them to accept!
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"Well, let's just add another level of indirection."

Modern software development in a nutshell.
I really like that with GitLab you can run the CI script in a local container to debug things and then only commit and push once it's working.
GDPR passed without FLoC though.

Do we have evidence that advertisers are going to stop lobbying politicians if FLoC is introduced? Have they promised to do that anywhere?
What will actually happen if the crypto coins collapse in price? What tangible effects will there be? Very few people's salaries are paid in crypto, crypto isn't backing people's mortgages, and outside of the rare (and newsworthy) cases, people are not investing extreme amounts of money into crypto that they cannot possibly afford to lose.

I have a hard time imagining what actual tangible disasters will happen if crypto currencies lose their value overnight besides some speculators losing money and some mining centers closing.
> Under what conditions are you allowed to use it and it not be abuse?

If your plan wasn't to return it from the start, then it isn't abuse. This seems pretty simple. In your original example your "friend" was planning on using GPUs to test and then return them. At no point was he planning on keeping this purchase.

Now, I will say if you're friend bought 3 GPU's with the plan to keep one and returned two I would say that's not abuse, but there are certainly better ways to try before you buy.
Get ready for higher grocery bills for the rest of the year
Brain clots 'more likely' with Covid infection than vaccine
The very people whose job it should be to stop this sort of thing are the ones who are profiting from it. How do you change this?

No really, how can we force congress to change the rules so that elected officials can't profit from inside information? Why would they ever vote for such a bill?
Best size is determined by each window. Min size is best size by default, but can be set to something different to override it. And the initial size is also min size by default, because this is what you'd expect: if you create a text entry wide enough for 50 characters, you don't want it to shrink to its best size which would be smaller. Generally speaking, it's best to avoid hardcoding any sizers (and definitely never use sizes in pixels).

For the relayout, the general principle is that it _always_ flows from top to bottom, i.e. changing anything for a child will _never_ affect the size of a (grand) parent. So you just need to call Layout() on the top-most window whose size you want to allow changing. Again, this might be too simple, perhaps, but at least it is simple and 100% consistent (well, wxCollapsiblePane just might be one of the very few exceptions...). I'm not sure how does Qt manage to avoid confusion if it propagates layout changes in both directions.

For markup, we do support it in wxGenericStaticText and several other controls, including buttons, checkboxes and wxDataViewCtrl which is quite enough for simple things like this. wxHtmlWindow is pretty nice for slightly more complicated stuff, even though it's just HTML 3.
Ah, 3x ETFs. For the sophisticated degenerate.
> and it's not all in one big monorepo

There's your first problem.
I applaud this project! I think there's a huge appetite for this sort of thing, and I think you're starting off well.

Some feedback:
1) It seems premature to launch without API docs for an API driven product (or, at least, I couldn't find them)

2) The choice of React for UI seems strange since this is intended to be embedded within other apps. Wouldn't Web Components have been a better choice?

3) Not being able to specify timezone in a calendar app is a deal-killer for most, I would think.

4) The installation instructions state that you add your first user manually in the database. This would be fine for pre-alpha software, but seems a bit rough for 1.0 - though I understand that your business model isn't focused on the self-hosted

5) The primary reason I'm interested in the product is because I'm a CTO for healthcare companies. HIPAA compliance is top of my list of priorities. I love that you call it out in your "enterprise" offering, but it would be helpful (to me) to have more details about what the difference in offering is as well as pricing for HIPAA compliance. What are you doing differently for hosting in that case? Is it single-tenant?

Very cool product, I'm looking forward to seeing it evolve!
Across all of their active subscribers, the average is 21 workouts per month [0]. So that user is technically above-average, but I'm curious what the actual distribution looks like, if it's like a bell curve or more "camel shaped" with a mixture of infrequent users and very frequent users at opposite ends.

I don't own one, but from people I know that do own one, the brand seems very good at turning their customers into that sort of ideal fanatical user. [1]

[0] Q2 2021 shareholder letter p2

https://investor.onepeloton.com/static-files/dd43f8b8-acc9-4...

[1] I don't mean fanatical as an insult to the users :P More power to you if it makes you work out. But for a company a 'multiple times per day' user who is probably also telling friends about the product is the dream.
There’s lots of great tools to explore such things as well.

https://www.globalforestwatch.org/

https://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-...

I built an app which visualizes global fire history per year from 2001 to 2020, still working out some kinks but maybe will share here.
I don't know about your experience but I have been buying Apple products here for more than a decade and the authorized service centers only replace iPhones and iPads (and they now repair iPhones) while macs are repair only. But the so called engineers are not well trained and I did have my MBP once that went bad thanks to the poor job they had done. If apple had an official service center I would not bother replacing or returning and just get it repaired since any repair comes with a 90 day warranty.
In the EU however, you generally are paying for that extra protection in the form of higher prices from retailers. There's no free lunch. The market isn't perfectly efficient, but it's pretty damn efficient. It's not like companies operating in countries where warranty is the law will suddenly say "welp, I guess we'll just have to accept less profit in the EU then, hopefully global consumers don't catch on!"

Whether you pay for extra protections via higher prices automatically (EU) or as an a la carte add-on (US) is irrelevant. On a risk adjusted basis, the cost is the same.

The EU simply cuts off the consumer's ability to take more risk for lower cost. They force you to buy the warranty every time.
This will do little to nothing to piracy. Commercial copyright infringement is already a crime and police can shutdown piracy websites in Canada. Isohunt guy cant attest to that. Meanwhile big entities like pornhub(Canadian org) regularly has copyright infringed content and the government does nothing about that.

Piracy as a reason is a complete lie.

This is about far more about political censorship in Canada. This is about censoring the media and free speech.

The current government has extensive experience at censoring their political opponents. They are quite public about 'accreditation' of the media and 'licensing' the news.
No. There is no substitute for capturing the signal you want in the first place. And “inferior” is not the right word. Even at the high end of pro audio where budget is not really a concern, there are lots of different microphones, because there are lots of different situations you might want to capture and lots of different ways you might want them to sound. It’s a “right tool for the job” thing.
I'm not that familiar with GH actions, but Sourcehut has a couple of pretty nice solutions for troubleshooting: (as you mentioned) time-limited SSH into the build server and a page to edit the manifest online and re-run without having to push anything.
Are you familiar with the author or does the Tweet mention him? He would famously go on to spend a large part of his career attempting to implement something roughly like this paper describes, and inspired by the Memex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
In practice if an "official" client has a different interpretation of the spec it must be accepted by other clients.

Like with mentioned OpenEthereum (ex. Parity) here: https://github.com/openethereum/openethereum/blob/582bca385f...
US foreign policy is deeply illogical. There is no overarching long term strategy. Is whole bunch of legacy polices that persist depending on various lobbying interest, inertia and situational responses. Add on top each president has their own ideas that are then promptly reversed by congress.

You basically end up with gigantic mess that makes little logical sense.
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The worst part is actually, it will never look like "just be Google", because that would be too obviously evil and be subject to decisive legislative action.

Google's Widevine (streaming media DRM) is a great correlate to this. If you wanted to try and create a great, novel 4th web engine/browser; good luck. Many of the major streaming sites use Widevine. You can't build a browser to stream that content without asking for access to Widevine encryption. Google will not give it to you; they may, eventually, if you build up enough of a userbase, but what browser would be able to build up that userbase without access to streaming media?

Its less about building a bulwark around Google's technology, a clear monopoly, and moreso a bulwark around the Boys Club of Established Big Tech. Then Google can go to Congress and say "we have competition, look, Facebook serves ads".
Speak for yourself. Pretty much everyone I know in my non-tech friends and family circles - everyone loves Amazon. Especially the customer service. Love has faded a tiny bit because of influx of Chinese cheap gadgets.

I'd say only tech people on HN are gung ho about Amazon's practices and in some sort of an eternal crusade against big corps. We can still criticize big corps for its workers rights and what not, but at the same time praise their technological prowess and incredible work from many thousands of people. They're orthogonal, but HN public does not know how to separate the two. Media fed and bloated minds sometimes.

Honestly, I come to HN for inspiration and motivation. Not activism. There are plenty of places to engage in productive activism on the internet if you wish, but better in person. HN is particularly not suited for it because of downvotes - activism requires people in person debating peacefully to progress and not regress into echo chambers. Activism is a joint affair, not an idealogical war. HN coalesces the worst of both - hive mind idealogical stance + echo chambering through black and grey text colors.
> I could almost swear that you can even create a class-D amplifier with the ATTiny85, with a clock rate of ~15kHz.

Pretty sure you can do that. A Class D amplifier is to a class A/B traditional one what a switching power supply is to a linear one, so I would expect to be able to make a class D amplifier using for example a PWM driven H bridge usually employed to drive electric motors, or a chip used to make switching power supplies. If they can work at high frequencies (say 50KHz or more) then they should work; all it's needed is modulating their input or feedback pins the right way.
Probably not HiFi for the sensitive ear, still good enough.
Interesting, and its contract language is LISP-like!

https://chialisp.com/
My daughter's friend uses a VPN to watch Netflix (paid account, not shared), apparently for EU shows or something. She's 14 years old. (we live in Canada)
Something to get excited about: we now have a tool that will be used by the world to see the changes. Sometimes a picture can be a much more powerful argument than a billion data points.

p.s. username checks out.
> I agree that the quasi-monopolies of early Netflix or Steam through most of it's history are arguably bad, but the irony is that they're the most consumer-friendly ways to distribute media while effectively curbing piracy.

I doubt that would remain the case indefinitely. There would be too much temptation to increase revenues once they were established.

Perhaps the question should be: what would the market look like if there were multiple providers, each of which had equal access to license content they felt best fit their customer base?
I have for years heard about pressuring merchants to accept bitcoin or what ever currency and in the end the number of daily or even monthly users was most often laughably low. Not that there isn't some that move stuff, but that isn't really too many...
Ladas are(were) Eastern European Soviet block cars, with a reputation for being cheap and low quality, and in the UK, a low social status indicator used to mock people[1]. The joke could be that a Lada is already an unsafe car so a stretch-Lada can't be any worse (the joke is that you say one Lada is unsafe but actually they are ALL unsafe, ha ha). But then it doesn't need any mention of "99.999% of HN".

The joke could instead be that Ladas are safe enough, the stretch Lada was probably safe enough, and the thing to laugh at is the 99.999% of HN who can't judge the safety of cars, or naively aren't used to a world outside their Silicon Valley spafe-space luxury. i.e. it's a sneering putdown at HN users and nothing to do with Ladas per-se. Given the context of the last two comments I read by throwaway account starting with sneering at HN and Reddit users, and the need to specify "99.999% of HN users would say X", I lean towards this interpretation.

That doesn't mean you can't find it a hilarious witty comment, sneering at some "inferior" group is a popular thing people laugh at. (Weirdly?[1]) You might find it a funny joke, and it might be sneering and against the guidelines, both at the same time. "I loled" isn't sufficient to say it's on-topic, you should be arguing that it wasn't sneering. Better again, arguing that it was within the spirit of the guidelines more than the letter of them; just jokes alone are not against the guidelines explicitly but are frequently frowned on.

Sneerclub and status grabbing are my own personal soupnazi topics of the moment; once you see comments where the main purpose is to sneer at how dumb some large disparate group is, or the flip-side to claim status as a superior, you see them everywhere. e.g. these two just seen in tabs I have open:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26821673

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26822285

both where the point is to call someone dumb/inferior.

(And e.g. much of my internet commenting history, tbh)

[1] (is it more social signalling than humour?)
I'm no fan of the deforestation that is being shown here, but for a Westerner to tell people in the Global South to not deforest is hypocritical and economically deceitful. Look at pretty much all of Europe and the Eastern United States. It has almost been all deforested and replaced with farmland at some point. Agriculture is an important step in a county's economic stability and progress. Some trees need to be cut down and that land be turned into farmland to help that developing county's citizens. Imagine being a poor framer supporting a growing family with an opportunity to grow more of your crop by cutting down some trees and having rich white people in a post scarcity society telling you you're a bad person.
GDPR mandates data portability so that users can move their data easily from one system to another. So is this even legal?
You’ve set up the Straw man arguments, I’m not going to defend “ridiculous”, to use your terminology, claims that I’ve never made. I did not say China has published intention to invade half of Asia, like you imply I did.

They did essentially rip up the agreement in Hong Kong, and intend to completely dominate the entire South China Sea with their nine dashed line manifest destiny type claims, and they are trying to re-educate away Uighur culture.

So no, they haven’t declare they want to invade half of Asia and it’s unlikely they will do that, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t on a very risky path.

And just because I focused on China here, doesn’t mean Russia is squeaky clean.
Constitutional amendment?
I know people personally who work at a Best Buy warehouse. Their conditions are NOTHING like Amazon's. This isn't a "all warehouse jobs just suck" issue, it's an Amazon issue.
If you wouldn't pay your taxes, you wouldn't be able to vote. Paying is one of the main part of our society, and I wish I'd see less HN'ers obsessing over anything with a price.
Pubg
Click on "Get Started" and I have to fill out a survey? And after I finish filling it out, nothing happens. What a horrible workflow. I would expect that "Get Started" take me to installation instructions.
I’ve built a Twitter bot around these timelapses a while ago – just updated to use the newly released data set: https://twitter.com/earthacrosstime

You can take a look at the source code here if you’re interested: https://github.com/doersino/earthacrosstime
ok, but what about reaching parity with the desktop version?
I agree with you, its something only possible because they are throwing off cash. But is it worth them having turned much of the internet into a cesspit?

I'm conflicted. On one hand you could argue it's like some dictatorship putting on lavish parades while conditions in their regime are generally terrible (I'm not trying to compare the magnitude of the problem, just the idea that having something fancy to show doesn't necessarily cancel out all the harm done)

Or is it a natural positive byproduct of capitalism that the internet has garbage strewn corners filled with listicles and "content" alongside genuinely cool stuff. And trying to clamp down on this would just make everything mediocre.

Anyway, there are definitely lots of good things Google had done, in research, in public availability of tech, and in cool stuff like this. Are we making the right tradeoff against all the bad they have done, I don't know.
Most (all?) major CI providers automatically censor secrets printed in the worker log, so this is not as much of a concern. :)
Right but Apple doesn't sell apples.
I'm sorry to hear that you are having such difficulties; I hope things improve for you soon.

That is the data we need to confirm that you're seeing inflation. Curious where you are located that you are seeing these numbers?
This. It’s kind of like putting together your own PC vs buying a prebuilt.

Not everyone is motivated enough to build it themselves if they have the means to buy a prebuilt.

Having said that, an exercise bike was sort of my gateway to hobby cycling and I ended up investing in a smart trainer and a used road bike. Once you set it up and find an app you prefer, you can’t go back. Just as you can’t go back to buying a prebuilt PC if you’ve built one in the past.

A little bit of research goes a long way, but some people would rather not and just focus on what’s important: getting fit. Setting up a smart trainer, although extremely simple, wasn’t obvious when I first got into it. I wasn’t sure which parts to choose and why.
Access to healthcare affects every single person and their community in a pretty obvious way. I don’t see any reason to assume people other than those in the coal industry and maybe their family and friends to care much about it. Maybe a few more for political ideology, but I still can’t see it being a significant amount.

The only reason we hear so much about it is because the states with coal industry hold some swing Senate and Electoral College votes.
oh I agree for sure; the title is just a bit confusing as is
> Even without capitalism, you have a duty to create value for the people around you

I don't think this is true. This is one of these work ethic corollaries that helped build wealthy societies when productivity was proportional to people's effort. But it seems to grow more obsolete by the day.
I bought some GNT back around 2016-17 because I thought it was a cool concept. Held it for a few months, years maybe? I can't recall for certain. I do recall Brass Golem getting released which was supposed to be a big deal and I never saw anything change. So I sold my GNT and looking at the primer, I still don't see much of a change from a few years ago.

Mined some ETH at the same time and it is doing much better.
The exceptions are odd and in my view indicate that some government agencies are already using deepfakes for questionable purposes or at least want to have the option to do so.

Other than that, I agree. Having to clearly label deepfakes is enough, and makes the use of deepfakes for deception illegal (except for the ominous exceptions).
Nintendo’s latest batch of Switch indie games includes Fez
That's an even better solution.
> I really don't understand this sentiment, as if a professional gambler would not gladly gamble with novices...

It depends on the situation and the game. Some poker professionals don't gamble significant sums with novices because the novices are far less likely to behave in a manner that is predictable according to statistics or some other strategy.
That's unfortunate; If was real time a copycat investment strategy would work, right?
Thats completely useless. he would never escrow his BTC before getting the money. He could loose 100% while you loose nothing.
I got a Keiser, too, mostly because the Peloton wasn’t available for like 10 months when I wanted one, but also for the money the Keiser is a much higher quality bike plus you have the flexibility of using Zwift or other apps. I currently use the Peloton app for 100% of my rides, but I hate the idea of spending $2500+ for a piece of equipment that I’ll probably never replace and being locked into their ecosystem and not having any choice (it’s not an iPhone that I’m going to replace every two years because it has better and better features- it’s a stationary bike). I suspect they recognize that the TAM for bikes is pretty well saturated and need to look elsewhere for opportunities.

I have a Fitbit because all I wanted was a fitness tracker, not a fully functional smart watch, but the ability to use it for my workouts is important. But it does a decent enough job of tracking effort just based on heart rate without knowing every detail of resistance, cadence, etc.
Yes, dialects exist. But within any given dialect, there's some consensus about what's correct and incorrect. You can call that elitist if you want.
You shouldn't be angry that Apple is changing the terms then.
Use data, not taxes, to pay for infrastructure
Per that bug report, you are likely to encounter it at https://codesandbox.io/s/sentry-js-sdk-unhandled-promise-fuq....

Which suggests an application error to me. I'd give decent odds to the real problem being some bounds check or pointer writing to the wrong place. To prove it, I'd instrument SQLite to log every single query that it was asked to do, then try to run those queries outside of the application. If the queries work fine, then the copy of SQLite in the application is being corrupted somehow.

In which case it really isn't fair to blame SQLite.
“Why I Only Invest in This Type of Mission Driven Company”
Value is already decoupled from money in the entire economy.

When inflation is 3% YOY, but wages don't increase.

If money was an indicator of value wages would track with inflation.

There's no objective measure of value anymore and most jobs are more or less bullshit jobs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs