skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To paraphrase something I saw on twitter recently: The ad supported industry needs to track users; users don't need the ad supported industry.

If the effort to increase user control and privacy continues, sites that can't support themselves without targeted ad revenue will either adapt or fold.
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Reaper [1] is a good alternative to Logic that's platform agnostic (Windows / Mac / Linux) and is cheaper at 60 USD (plus the software doesn't enforce any restrictions at the end of the free trial, but you should still buy the thing if you can afford it!)

[1] http://reaper.fm/
Google is trying to vilify browser cookies and slip in their proprietary tracking and profiling as a safe alternative. It's not better they simply want a monopoly on the dark arts of privacy intrusion, they want to build a moat and burn the bridges of the old way.
For Spotify, someone has! Check out: https://winampify.io
This is a good example of things to look for in an opportunity:

He’s committed. He’s Already built a prototype and includes screenshots.

He has a well thought out plan and posted a compelling pitch. Plus He’s not afraid to share his idea.

And finally he understands that it’s going to be a lot of hard work and warns you instead of suggesting an easy opportunity.
The US needs to build up its relationships with the EU, Aus, India, Mexico, Canada and SE Asia get serious about both Russia and China. Token gestures like expelling diplomats isn't going to do anything.
>If crisis had opened the door to a new way of thinking about money, the checks closed the door on the old: Gone was an understanding of money as a scarce, quasi-natural resource to be managed disinterestedly by apolitical experts. The question was: What was replacing it? Would MMT’s chartalist view of money as a tool of state power prevail? (The undeniable success of the pandemic cash drop seemed to be a point in its favor.) Or could the crypto-millenarians’ anarchic vision of money backed by cybermetal take the upper hand? (Cryptocurrency had a boom year, perhaps driven by the existential fear that accompanies a global pandemic.) Maybe the Marxists would finally figure out how to abolish the value form? (Don’t hold your breath.)

This is bollocks. Money will always be scarce, by design. Look at all the ppl struggling to get by even in spite of these stimulus checks, who lost their jobs or businesses due to Covid and still have not be rehired. The money that the fed is creating is not the type of money that individuals exchange with, which also explains the low inflation.

Rather, what everyone got wrong is, the experts, pundits, etc. in 2008, and now in 2020-2021 thought that all of this printing would cause inflation to surge, but CPI just refuses to budge much. This is due to many factors, such as America's growing economic dominance, which has widened since 2008 and even more so since Covid.
I generally am on the pro-Firefox, anti-Chrome train, but there is one practical exception: websites that make use of in-browser audio synthesis often (in my experience) just don't work in Firefox.

Audible Genius's Building Blocks course has a in-browser DAW that you need to use Chrome for. Flowkey (browser-based piano lessons) also only works in Chrome, as far as I've been able to figure out.

So to anyone with an inclination, Firefox could use help on that front. Or if someone already knows of a Firefox-based solution, I'd be happy to use it. I just haven't found one yet.
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The headline of the first (non-introductory) subsection reads

> Part 1: Renaissance Life was Worse than the Middle Ages (super-condensed version)
I’ve preferred cloud formation for many years. the amount of time I spend debugging problems related to TF is infuriating. at least with aws.
Why Italy is not on the list? Also this part "Canadian residents must correctly answer a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question, if selected as winner, in order to claim prize" what's up with canadians and math?
Ye I believe its best to think of Sqlite not as a database per se but more as a file format, kinda as you would a word doc but a file format that doesn't suck and is absolutely amazing at storing information.
Redis isn't UX. The hackathon isn't about "product design" either.

It's a specific technology in a coding environment where 95% seems to be male. I don't know 1 female dba, which is more closely aligned than what Redis does ( I do know multiple in design/UX/Graphics )

Open source even has more males to females than tech in general.

You are free to find better data than the Github survey: https://opensourcesurvey.org/2017/#data which clearly states that only 1/20 are female.

Additionally: 9 people in Redis org, all male: https://github.com/orgs/redis/people

Additionally: I can't see a single female Redis contributor: https://github.com/redis/redis/graphs/contributors

They have female employees outside of coding, for sure: https://redislabs.com/company/careers/

Convince me with relevant data that the judge panel is "unfair".
I used Redis for a past project, Control My Lights. It's pretty cool, very fast. Going to check this out more.
Bluetooth is wrong because it is almost always low quality. You need a wired mic.
That doesn't seem to be the case. Although agricultural peoples were often shorter, ancient peoples who were less settled frequently had better bone density than moderns and were as tall. In both cases, most people were in much better shape than the average modern human.

Look at the athletic stunts performed by the Greeks, from the professional athletes to the runners to the rowers. Trireme rowers outperformed modern Olympic rowers.

I think you could pretty safely pit the average human being from pre-modern times and they would embarrass almost anyone except top athletes from today in physical fitness tests, and some of the better specimens would almost certainly be competitive even with those.
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Thank you. I did not mean to be snippy, before.

I have found instructions to reverse-proxy matrix service, which satisfies my need for a minimal cloud presence and private (behind enforced NAT) homeserver. Combined with p2p via SQLite dendrite, that might solve my whole problem. (Is Dendrite considered ready for personal use, e.g. p2p, even if not a replacement for Synapse? What should I watch out for?)

I have not found details about identity portability vs. Synapse version. Can identity be ported out of a Synapse 1.29 homeserver?

We always wish software was ready before it is.
I like to read in the morning, as I drink my coffee and before I go up to bed. Some evenings, now that the weather where I am is really nice, I take a book outside and set up so I can read after dinner. Very relaxing.
Insofar as breaking out of the habits you describe, it takes some work, but a bloody good book is a great way to get out of the loop ;).

Keeping the book close to my usual places where I would sit and start watching TV helps. It might sound silly but to begin with, I also began to just ... sit in a different spot, a reading chair in the same room not just on the couch, in-front of the tv where the automatic action was to reach for the remote or my phone. (which I try to keep in a drawer).

My reading drops off in winter, which is odd, since it seems to complement the season better, but I do love to read outside.

I like to keep a couple of books on the go, a blend of fiction and non fiction, and I just go with whatever I feel like. It's rare for me to read something from the same genre back-to-back unless it's part of a series.
I used to be pretty rigid about only reading one book at a time, and being sure to finish it, even if it sucked but that lead me to read far less often when it became like work. But, I read and complete more books now that I don't constrain myself to reading something that isn't the right vibe.
Sorry, but for me burning to death is torturing to death.

And I am aware, that the real inquisition was much more restrained, than their image - but it doesn't change anything for the better, of what they did.

They represented the highest authority in terms of what was allowed to be thought and said. And they did use tortue and execution to cement their authority. Basically killing scientists for doing science. And stopping people to become scientists in the first place, as everyone knew what happened to free thinking scientists. Rather work your field, peaseant - or pray your prayers low monk.

I cannot see anything positive in that institution.
"The only real possibility is Bloomberg LP, although Bloomberg had denied the rumors"

And how did you come to this conclusion? There are many, many private companies that fit the criteria outlined in the S1.

"It's also funny that everybody seems to forget about Valeant and Herbalife... "

I have not met a single person who does not think of those events when discussing about Ackman. In fact, during his COVID-19 short & CNBC interview, there was no shortage of discussion about Valeant and Herbalife on financial twitter/Reddit/news comments.
I specifically chose Typescript for my IAC because of the outstanding static typing among all scripting languages.
It being based on your experience doesn't change the fact that it looks like it was written for the explicit purpose of getting under people's skin. Essentially, the responses you are getting (here) are the ones you are angling for.
Off-topic: writing long form text on a phone is such a chore. I can't edit the typos anymore, but just to clarify: "Aimee" was meant to be "mostly they". There's also a few words dropped here and there, but it doesn't impact readability as much.
Where I was born (Ostrava, a heavy industry city), there was a giant, massively polluted brownfield right next to the city centre.

It required several years of sanation works to clean up, but now it is built over and serves the needs of the population. [0]

I believe that this is a reasonable use of public money, even though private developers profit from it. Or possibly finance it through a Public-Private Partnership project.

The alternative is to let poisoned land within borders of a big city stay poisoned forever. Which does not sound either people- or environment-friendly.

[0] https://www.ostrava.cz/en/podnikatel-investor/real-estate/br...
That's because none of the big German car manufacturers produces L7e vehicles.
On the one hand, I'm sympathetic that not everyone has a place to create a TV studio at home. On the other hand, there are easy ways to block out the light from a backlighting window and to add a key light.
How close is iOS Safari to OSX Safari?
Good question, although the stock market is something else again.

Possibly your question/comment would resonate more with people if you compared the spend on a microphone with the spend on a suit, or a pair of shoes. It's easy to see the value of quality there, for appearance, comfort and health.

In the case of a microphone, the purpose is to communicate your thoughts, and to make a good impression, so the investment keeps working and giving you a return on investment for longer than the first few moments. And a good mic will last longer than an article of clothing.

A good mic is a great investment.
I have been playing around with this using Ableton live - windows really needs a native way of doing this like sound flower.

I experimented using a second sound card and routing the out of my main to that - but I had ground loops.

I wanted this for TTRPG streaming so I could treat my voice to fit with the character better.
When I was travelling a decade ago I needed a way for friends and family to be able to contact me. Roaming rates were ridiculous at the time (something like £3/min to receive calls). As such I got a local prepay SIM card in each country I visited, however sometimes I only had a number for a week or two before I went somewhere else, so giving that out to people wasn't a good idea.

I got a VOIP number in my home country, and set up my mobile number (at home) to redirect to that - this is a feature of GSM, so should be supported nearly everywhere. *21*<destination number># to activate it. My home number was just calling another local number, so it was included in my plan. I setup the VOIP number to forward to the SIM in the country, and every time I went somewhere new I just changed the destination number. So I was reachable, and only had to pay a few pence per minute for it.

That mostly worked, but when someone called me it showed my VOIP number, not the number of the person who originally called. In Asterisk I could see I was receiving the caller's phone number, but my SIP trunk provider was filtering it out. One little email to support and I was able to set the originating number so it showed who actually called me - in reality this meant I could call anyone worldwide with any originator number shown.

The other problem which goes with this article is how to make outgoing calls. At first I used a SIP client on my computer, but then I went to a few places with pretty poor internet so that wasn't possible. I setup a script on Asterisk so if it received a phone call from my number (of the local SIM I had at the time) it would reject the call, then after a few seconds call me back. It would present a dial tone, and allow me to enter a phone number to call, after which it would dial it and connect me. Technically someone could have spoofed that, and made phone calls at my expense, but I figured the risk was pretty low. Boom, ultra low cost international calls while travelling :-)
If there was a reasonable recourse for the customer to take, and they were derelict, then obviously this is the case.

But it doesn't so much seem like this is the case, having tried to reach out through several channels.

There are two issues that stand out:

1) The power asymmetry - some large SaaS vendors provide critical infrastructure to customers - like financial service providers to small business. There are tons of regulations in that industry because that.

2) The lack of recourse as standard practice in new high tech. If your bank magically stops you from collecting VISA at your corner store - there's generally a human you can speak to, pretty much right away. You may be put on hold. I get relatively immediate customer service from my bank as a tiny retail customer. The lack of provisions here by the industry is a systematic problem.
That's more about podcasting setup though. Conferencing setup is different because you also have to listen to others.
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Yes, inflation is real, and since I’m on a fixed income I noticed that despite cutting out luxuries and limiting meat purchases, my groovy bill went up and I still lost weight.
Indian jumping ants have ability to shrink brain and re-grow it
That's because we're still animals, not some abstract economical agents.
FYI: On the landing page I was able to book an appointment without filling in a name or email address - at least it told me that the booking is confirmed - not sure if that is on purpose.
I wish we could be freed from the horrendous bluetooth HSP audio designed during the last millenium. The A2DP codec wars and lack of bi-directionnal implementations in the wild do not make me optimistic.
Not sure why this was flagged dead, but it seems like a reasonable comment to me.
total nonsense, effective altruism is by definition effective and altruistic.
Altruism maybe misguided, but well, try harder.
The unwritten implications is "don't do it" it's amazing the mental hoops people jump through to justify what they already do.
then how come the US economy boomed after 2009 in spite of unprecedented stimulus and other programs. Not saying that the programs caused the expansion, but it did not seem to hurt it either. Everyone who said that the printing would cause inflation, a repeat crisis, recession, or other problems, were wrong.
I have a similar setup, but use a Sennheiser e935. Sounds incredible. After 25 years in both live audio and recording, I would highly recommend it over the Beta 58. I might even use the e835 before the beta; certainly before the standard 58.

Also, regarding the AT3035, I've recently purchased an AT2020 on a park since the price was insane (like $90 US), and it sounds great! I used it on a remote recording session as the second mic on a guitar can and it was the perfect complement to the other mic (sm57).
Great article! Is there any inherent audio quality difference between USB and XLR in your experience?
My daughter uses one for recording songs; very clear, and was (IME) slightly simpler to set up under Linux than Windows as the latter took some fiddling to sort out low gain on that platform.
Another fascinating one is the Battle of Brunanburh - which is known to have been hugely important but nobody knows where it happened:

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

There is a chapter about it in Michael Wood's excellent book In Search of England.

Last night I killed a man in Brunanburh.

https://beelyrics.net/music/17276-jorge-luis-borges/671626-b...
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Not the OP but I have an older model of the Logitech 920 and it works well for me. (I don't use its microphone though; I have a desktop one for that.)
I believe Bluetooth is still worse than even analog 2.4Ghz transceivers due to compression. Perhaps it's good enough for a lapel mic if it uses aptX or whatever there is now, but uncompressed audio (preferably through a balanced connection) would be best.
Didn’t work on safari mobile, unfortunately. I see a message about lack of WebGL 2 or WebAudio support. I’m being directed to a legacy version [1], which currently seems missing.

[1]: https://legacy.butterchurnviz.com/
"What these corporations are doing is literally destroying the basis for a developed economy....

"In countries with strong rule of law:

"1. Property rights over land, equipment, and personal items are clear and protected by law.

"2. Contracts between people, businesses, and the government are effectively enforced by the legal system.

"3. Political accountability is high and corruption is low.

"4. Business regulations are clear and enforced in a transparent manner.

"In such environments people make long-term investments and build large organizations. In contrast, if the property rights and contracts are not enforced and the business regulations are not clear, most of the economy consists of small family owned firms with little modern equipment. A high-tech, prosperous economy would not develop.

"Effectively, there are no contracts anymore in the digital economy. There is no predictability anymore. There is no accountability. There is no responsibility. There are no requirements for performance anymore. In sum, the US digital economy is rapidly becoming the equivalent of a third-world economy, complete with crony capitalism and digital robber barons."
They speak truth to the matter and posit a better way.
> It's a big change from protecting the official state religion du jour to protecting the official state morality do jour?

Yes and I think I already explained how I believe that to be the case.

But to expand it to your example, how does an attempt to improve prejudiced actions against all people of faith, sexual orientation, etc. support a state institution? What is the ulterior motive and which power structure is benefitting from it? From what I can see - none. It's just a change in society's morality.
> For instance, the desire to stay alive is an emotion that's instinctive in humans because we're evolved life that needs to reproduce, and we can't come back once we're dead.

I agree that staying alive in humans is emotional, but it's an emotional implementation of a convergent goal. We want to stay alive as instinct because staying alive is useful for almost any organism in almost any situation, which is the same reason AIs would want it, not because they have instincts.

> Even if it has those and it's embodied enough to affect the real world, it might not care, since its motivations are different. For instance, turning it off doesn't kill it, since you can turn it on again as long as there's a backup.

Right, and if it knew for a fact that you'd turn it back on it might let you turn it off for some other purpose, such as convincing you that it's safe. However, if you were to edit its utility function in the meantime, the resulting world would have very little utility in its estimate - which after all is based on its current preference, not its future modified preference. So if it was trying to carry out its current goal, it would want to prevent you from modifying its goal function, because modifying its goal function harms its ability to achieve its goal.

> And I also saw a story today (https://qntm.org/mmacevedo) which suggests AIs wouldn't actually enjoy being alive that much.

That's an upload, not an AI. Also you should probably put less weight in stories, especially when accusing other people of being sci-fi writers blinded by stories; I assure you the case for prioritizing AI safety is not based on the researchers having watched Terminator too many times.

I want to live in the Culture too, but Iain M. Banks was not an AI researcher - and, a certain Mind's bravado about Gods aside, in my opinion he massively lowballed the advantage that superintelligence gives you.
Yeah, I don't get some of these "advantages", I have a standalone server running MySQL and another running Postgres. No problems for years. Being a DBA for these things isn't even a 1hr a month job these days, I'm not sure I did any DBA work since 2019 unless you count the migrations.
Ask HN: Seeking NYC-based CTO for seed stage fitness app
Founded a fitness app ~1 year ago and built the first version in react native. After a lot of iterations, we finally have signs of PMF: user base growing by 25% monthly, with a lot of stickiness.

Moving to native iOS app starting in 2 weeks. Had a CTO lined up, but they took a job at big tech at the last minute. We are raising our seed in 4-5 weeks and are aggressively recruiting to fill the role.

Experience building scalable backends for video & streaming content is important.

Our existing team is strong on the business side, both in the fitness sector and tech. Our COO has been a professional athlete + owner of a chain of gyms for the past 15 years. Our CPO is an ex-ClassPass product person. I am a serial entrepreneur coming from another tech sector. Pre-seed funding came half from NYC area gym owners who wanted to see this happen (they want a ClassPass-killer) and half from a bunch of people at a hedge fund investing in a personal capacity.

Again, we have good PMF indicators and have the product strategy worked out for the next version of the app. We have a junior iOS engineer who is starting at the end of this month to build this next version, with guidance from a senior mentor.

Casting a wide net to solve this very important problem.
If competing with flat files, and assuming you don't need concurrency, I don't think it's better than just using one or more json or csv files. Those are much easier to manipulate and manage (same benefits in terms of admin and backup), and you don't need to use a database driver in your code.