skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps those people don't want to use a camera in the first place? It seems like camera usage isn't always optional. It wouldn't make sense for a person like that to put in effort to make it look nicer.
Also, Constantine the Great created the Catholic Church. That an institution from Ancient Rome is still going strong today boggles my mind.

If humanity is around ten or twenty thousand years from now, perhaps historians will just lump us together with the Ancient Romans, and consider it all part of the same era.
This. I develop against firefox only, internal apps for my company. It's been many years since something was funtionally crippled in Chrome. At worst some ugly UI elements.
I’m using the ATR2100x-USB. It’s great. I can use it with USB for zoom meetings or XLR for recording. My RE320 sounds better, but in a listening test with friends, not by much. Other factors come into play.
> that the added cost of the supercapacitor

Anything made in the millions of units per year is value engineered to death. Even if the cost is only $0.10 more that will really add up. I’m not sure the cost is offset when the repairs are out of warranty.
Recent discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26800481

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26805199
That's the 'Dhalsim' pose
Apple and partners launch first-ever $200M Restore Fund
For those curious: you can cultivate your own at home. It’s 100% legal to purchase psilocybin spores online in many states.

I just had to throw out a grow due to contamination - super frustrating setback - but I’m determined to produce a healthy harvest.
También me preguntaba esto cuando escribía mi mensaje previo, pero no lo mencioné porque el chino usa caracteres no latinos. En el caso de palabras claves en inglés, aunque no sepa pronunciarlas les puedo asignar un sonido en mi mente, lo que ayuda a memorizar; en el caso del chino, estaría en chino… :P

Hace rato estaba leyendo sobre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale y su traducción de la Biblia del latín al inglés. Supongo que en ese caso, fue más fácil (digo fácil, pero spoiler alert lo mataron) traducir la Biblia que hacer que toda la población inglesa aprendiera latín.
Lo menciono porque pensé: «he aquí un caso en el que traducir fue la mejor opción». Y eso que ambos idiomas tienen el mismo alfabeto.

Supongo que sí puede ser una barrera, hasta cierto punto, que las palabras clave no estén en tu lengua natal, pero un mayor problema es que los recursos de aprendizaje suelen ser ininteligibles si no sabes —y a veces aun sabiendo— inglés.
I’ve noticed that iPhone autocomplete has at least some rudimentary intelligence built in - at the “Spell a word a certain way a few times and it begins to not correct it” level. It’d be nice for that to improve (instead of always replacing “an” with “and”).
That was my point: both of these companies have expanded well beyond their initial purpose and now overlap. If you look at their origins, there is no overlap at all.
Middle English, before the Great Vowel Shift, sounded much more Germanic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GihrWuysnrc
I must say I'm not convinced that those approaches are valid. "Large Room" introduces a lot of reverb and that can make people stop listening, instead of changing their perception of the speaker.

Of course that still means bad audio may influence the effect of your presentation, but not in the way suggested in the linked article.
You are asking for sanity and ethics on the net. From advertisers. You must be insane.

I don't like this FLoC proposal either but to me I see it as a small leap in saying goodbye to mass cross-site spying that has been uncontrollably rampant with no present working solutions.
I actually love how multiple profiles are implemented in Firefox.

I have a keybinding on my system to launch "firefox -P" so that I can pick which profile to launch an instance of right away. I juggle between 5 different profiles at any time and it works exactly as I'd like it to. Additionally, it is much easier to do than setting up a complex multi-account container setup.
I think sales emails can be automated.

Isn’t this a major selling feature of pretty much every CRM?
I self-hosted everything for years. Now I just use FastMail and Netlify. It's a time-saver, works well, and overall is more reliable.

> The dogma is in thinking that the cloud makes everything simpler.

I never said anything of the sort. Everything comes with trade-offs. I host my product on two Alpine Linux VPSs. But I also spent time setting all of that up and need to spend time maintaining it. For personal projects, cloud tools like FastMail tend to be the better choice in most cases.
I'll offer a corollary to "Create More Than You Consume": Destroy less than you create.
> I also don't really ask "trick" questions

My reply was only intended for "trick" questions that have absolutely no relevance for the day to day job of 99% of Software Engineers. And that's exactly because those trick questions tend to be more about the "exact final answer" than about the process, so my point was about figuring out if the interviewer actually has a grasp of those sort of problems in general or if they memorised a good solution and are milking that for all it's worth.

And I do know that almost any interviewer would reject me based on that, but I think it's worth letting them feel the burn they try to inflict themselves.
Hey, thanks a lot. I will send you an email now. I seriously do appreciate your offer.
Stomping on the shoulders of workers while lobbying the left seems to be the winning strategy.
Ask people from Ukraine.
People are scared as hell of inflation and that's why the Fed was created. The "stable prices" thing is an elegant way to say "prevent inflation". Now people are really upset that the Fed not only won't allow deflation but it is pretty much encouraging inflation. They see this as a betrayal to the public and the reason why the Fed was created in the first place.

There is a misalignment between the Fed inflation preference of 2% and the public inflation preference which is 0% or even -2%

Enter crypto: what draws people to crypto is deflation. People love deflation, they gravitate towards crypto because deflation is hard built in protocol and it brings about financial nirvana for the saver: that is being able to increase one's net worth without doing any tangible work, manual or intellectual.

That's the value of Crypto, people have lost faith in the Fed. BTC gives people what they want (hard coded deflation) and has an amazing marketing story.
I agree with everything you have written and I would also suggest that they improve the video. It has the same shortcomings as the rest of the website and the charts presented are totally meaningless without proper axes and axes titles.
Usefulness is about the general usefulness of a project, not design.

UX and DX ( you removed halve), it can be an API. An API doesn't need design or UX.

There's not a single absolute requirement on design.

Since product design/ux is about graphics/visuals.
A Zero Trust terminal in the browser
Could this be solved (hacked) with a MITM? Spoof the required responses to get the current time via raspi or something?
Peloton also have a much cheaper (than the bike/tread membership) video-only product for strength training/HIIT/yoga etc. which is pretty directly competing with Apple Fitness. It's a similar price, though they do still differentiate by having live classes and instructor overlap with the bike/tread side.
Opportunity cost can be a big thing. You could be working for money instead of doing something which doesn't increase your wealth.
> They are simply working at a place where they can benefit from expensive government launches, government development contracts and VC money.

SpaceX had far less government launches then ULA for most of its history. Not to mention extra subsidies and launch readiness contracts. And not to mention that their rockets were all developed thanks to military money. Just recently ULA got another 1 billion for the Vulcan development when SpaceX got nothing.

Arianespace never in its history paid for development of rockets or a single major rocket component. Even the 4 billion for the Ariane 6 doesn't pay for the solid or liquid engines, those have been in development for years and sometimes decades and were planned for Ariane 5 upgrades already.

You act as if SpaceX profits from government while all other providers are small corner shops when in reality received less direct subsidies.

You are basically just repeating the nonsense story that all the government launch providers are pushing because SpaceX is beating them and they don't know how to compete other then propaganda and increase lobbying for more money.

> Remove VC money, money the competition will never get, and the competitive landscape is totally different.

They will never get VC money because they haven't proven to be technically excellent, can build cheap sats and launch cheaply. VC don't give money to SpaceX for no reason, you act like VC simply love SpaceX because they have a cool name or something.

Arianespace had a massive leadership in space for 15-20 years and failed to evolve their rocket or technology and failed to use their internal launch capacity to do interesting things in space. And that is why they don't get VC money.

ULA was never interested in commercial launch. They didn't even compete with Arianespace, before SpaceX US share of commercial launch was basically 0%. ULA is monopoly created by the military to do military launch reliably, no matter the price. That is how the operated for 15+ years before SpaceX forced them to lower prices.

> And quite honestly, I don't like that some companies can strong arm competition by not having to be profitable.

They can 'strong arm' competition because they have far cheaper launches and they use those to gain leadership in another field. The launches however are not enough, SpaceX is also building sats like nobody has ever done in history before. Not to mention terminals also.

SpaceX has been profitable since like 2008 with their launch business. It seems like you operate under a fundamentally false premise. Even without Starlink re-usability would have been worth it for SpaceX. It gave their launch business very high margin and guaranteed them leadership in space launch for a decade or more.

Most of this re-usability btw was done when SpaceX barley received any military contracts yet and they had not received money for human space flight from NASA either. It also took quite a long time for SpaceX to be allowed to launch highest class NASA payloads.

All this was done by SpaceX (including engines) for far less money then Arianespace received as a blank check for Ariane 6 development (excluding engines).
> websites that make use of in-browser audio synthesis often (in my experience) just don't work in Firefox.

How recently have you tried this? Firefox added AudioWorklet in v76 [1] and it's very well done.

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/05/firefox-76-audio-worklets-...
"The species" has been using psychedelics in religious ceremonies for a long time. We're just out of the loop.
Why Microsoft’s new AI acquisition is a big deal
Or fire up a Mac VPS on one of the billions of hosts that provide them. AWS has em now.
> is recording worse than playback?

Yes / kind of. Bluetooth headphones can be in a few modes, but generally they're either "high quality playback" or "crap playback with crap input". As soon as you activate the mic, the playback quality will drop. But for the isolated playback of a recording, you'll get better quality.
Um, public inflation preference is hardly deflationary. Would you like it if your mortgage became harder and harder to pay off every month? If your wages went down over time?
It only takes one.

One young prosecutor seeking to make a splash in a jurisdiction with a twilio customer.

Twilio might win in court, but they’d lose in the big picture.
Remember, CPI is just the average of a particular basket of goods weighted in a particular way - it doesn't necessarily represent the real levels of inflation people will see. I know for example that here in the UK, the low figures were the result of price increases in things people were actually buying like food, computers, cars, holiday stays when we weren't locked down, etc being counterbalanced by lower increases or even decreases in things they weren't buying as much anymore like clothes. (Our better news sources went out their way to explain this.) So the average person would have seen rather higher inflation than the CPI and RPI would suggest.
There’s nothing “wrong” with MySQL/MariaDB - it powers huge portions of the web.

Postgres has a larger feature set. Whether or not you need it depends on your use case. There are ample pages out there that will give you a side by side comparison if you’re curious.
I thought the purpose was specifically to allow google to build ad profiles without direct tracking of individuals?
Giving you today another version of what you had yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHFrhIAj0ME
> strong vs weak concerns objects

and, in particular, explicit vs. implicit type casts of those objects.
Battery life on linux laptops can be indeed improved by tweaking, I did so on various devices. But I never came close to windows battery life and I allmost bricked a brand new laptop while doing so (only save was to tear it apart). So beware of what you are doing.
I don’t know about the US, but in Germany taking away a key feature from people who paid for said feature without compensation is enough for a big lawsuit.
> 5 if statements are explainable and subject to proper scrutiny.

Except when they are secret. I will never know why my CV got sent to /dev/null that day, was I missing the right keyword for the fourth if ? For me the 5 ifs are as much a blackbox as an advanced neural network.
Is SQLite a good choice for a user facing file format?

I.e. were the user can access the database file in Finder/Explorer and make a copy at any point in time to share, backup, etc. Would that copy be consistent?
Codecov Bash Uploader compromised
Thank you for sharing them :)
I'm glad they have helped you and I'll keep them in mind. Specially, I feel that, some day, I'll remember the one about traveling alone and it will be helpful.
I've been wondering about that a lot. The last big crisis was 2007 / 2008[0]. Bitcoin had an initial release in 2009 according to Wikipedia, and has performed well in a bull market. I'm almost morbidly curious to see what will happen when the next crisis hits.
"In this interpretation of history, God determined everything that happens, as the author of a story determines what happens."

Just a note about the bit about divine providence. It doesn't quite work that way and is not the Catholic understanding. Given free will, human beings are able to choose against their own good, they are able to behave in evil ways, so divine providence cannot be responsible for EVERYTHING because that would both contradict free will (and introduce contradiction into God, something we see in Islam) and make God the author of evil. Divine providence must be understood as something involving both active and passive will. That is, God wills the good and only the good, but permits evil because he has chosen to create free agents. However, the divine plan takes into account the evil of free agents, and in permitting it, makes use of it for some good end. Thus understood, Satan, in his rebellion toward God and the divine plan, is nonetheless serving God in a sense because his evil is exploited by God, so to speak, to produce good and further the plan.
the camera thing is really an issue in my company, we mostly work on software development so we share our screen constantly in our meetings... no one cares on turning on the camera and this has become regular behavior

the problem is that you dont know if the other people are actually paying attention and human interactions need that feedback
April Update: New Developments
A New Standard for Mobile App Security
Oh I see now, thank you for having spotted this!
That is a problem I'd love to have.
That’s exactly my point. He and others aren’t trying to divide Americans as some coordinated scheme to prevent revolution or something, they just make a lot of money from clickbait and outrage. It’s independent profit seeking division only as a byproduct
Note that studio mics recommended in this thread, like the SM57 or the C1, need to be plugged with an XLR cable into an audio interface. Focusrite, for one, makes good USB audio interfaces - but it's still an extra device to buy and then keep on your desk/carry around (and, optionally, to understand).

For conferencing, it's much more convenient to just use a USB mic. I can recommend the RØDE NT-USB for this purpose - all it needs is an available USB-A port.
There is no justice in the world. You seem to be strugglinh with this idea :(
I have (mild) worries about privacy from all over the tech spectrum in our day and age, and I can understand people having these worries about big tech such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Mastercard, Walmart, but the list must spread all over the space of tech, devtech, socialtech, fintech, edutech, insurancetech, govtech, medtech, citytech, and whathaveyoutech.

The problem is not constrained to Google Chrome, and the problem is certainly not solved by "taking side" in a made-up rivalry of Google Search and Duck Duck Go (childish to say the least)!
Part of the problem is that I don't believe FLoC will stop a fingerprinting arms race.

FLoC in many ways makes it easier to fingerprint users, and I don't think that advertisers are going to look at the brand new opportunity FLoC-enhanced fingerprinting presents and just leave it sitting there untouched. There's nothing built into the FLoC spec that prevents advertisers from adding in additional fingerprinting on top of FLoC, and we've been down this road already with stuff like DNT. If any technology at all can be abused for fingerprinting, they'll abuse it. The market they're in doesn't allow them to have restraint, somebody will cross the line and then everyone else will follow under the excuse of being competitive.

So I'm just not willing to give advertisers the benefit of the doubt anymore, or to assume that if we meet them halfway they'll be satisfied. They've already burned that bridge, I'm not inclined to keep offering them new bridges to burn.
Add to that the collapse in wage growth and the conspicuous difference in the rate of improvement in Asia vs in America.

The World Bank says [0] the US GDP per capita has more than doubled since 1996. In real terms. Computers have been a big boost, but it seems a tough sell that the US population has actually seen a real doubling in that time. That is saying a dude with a house in 1996 is a dude with 2 houses now. Is that arguably true? Where is the stuff?

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
Bang and Olufsen’s latest speaker disappears into your bookshelf
I’ve never touched Zoom and nor will I. Thanks for the rude assumption though, you can jump off that tall horse.

I don’t use Keybase much anymore but for some fun stuff. I still find the the file system useful.

Sounds like you will be quitting Signal soon too. Time to spend more time & energy researching which company to jump to next, splitting hairs, agonizing over business practices. Reading blogs & Twitter feeds of company officers and forcing opinions of them. Until 6 months later they do something egregious, and you have to start all over.

My main avenue for anything secure now is self hosted Matrix Synapse server. I’m in full control, and I don’t have to waste energy and mental cycles on getting mad about how other people run their business and stirring up outrage in forums.

It’s fantastic, low effort and low stress :) I’ve gone down the rabbit hole you describe before, I don’t need a lecture on it. But I decided it’s not worth it.

I believe I am happier by skipping all the stuff you’re taking about. Which was really my main point, I didn’t really say it very well though.
Which is so frustrating, as nobody would check the box for a 0.02% discount to avoid having to change batteries.
Cloudflare for SaaS
The most important thing is to have the microphone close to your mouth. There is nothing more annoying than listening to echo-y voice.

The mic even have to be that expensive. I use a cheap dynamic mic from ebay with a windscreen and a mic arm and it sounds fine.
This surprises me. I thought they would disable the service when the balance goes negative. I need to add some more monitoring and a failsafe rate limit...
Can you link to Rust fans saying Rust gives you correctness for free? I've seen the opposite-- Rust folks interested in proofs and property tests and fuzzing as well as what Rust gives you for free, which they understand is not "correctness".
> The main reason was that the death penalty was only given to unrepentant or repeat offenders.

And even then in their spiritual world view the auto-da-fé was a last ditch effort to persuade the condemned to repent. It gave the sinner a taste of the eternal fires awaiting them and time enough to make an act of perfect contrition and be saved from hell.
Sort of like a Field Manual for Yoga? Sounds like a fun project, thanks for giving me the idea!

A fun acronym:

Bioenergetically Overcoming Death through Yoga; Manual for Immortality, Non-degeneration and Development.

BODYMIND
I know it is a hidden one, I should have been more clear in my statment. I found stride to be better in my experiments in my code for many of my use cases. It is a mater of finding the correct stride for your code (sometimes I make it self tune itself). If you pick stride x2 you will waste memory in some (many) cases. Some libraries calls touch the whole thing and make sure it is 0 and paged in. Usually you want to find a balance of 'not a lot of waste and not a lot of speed loss'. Now in some cases yeah x2 on every alloc where you bubble over is the perfect choice. Other times the O(n^2) is the right choice. I found stride to be a nice compromise. As many times you know up front what the block size is. Finding a good compromise on slack is sometimes tough. Especially if you have buffers that are discarded and re-used over and over.

One project I used a compromised stride alg. Basically if it every had to double create one of the strides it doubled the stride from then on. So it would say start 'cold' at allocating 4 bytes (you get 4, 8 or 16, usually at the bottom anyway). Then when you have to allocate 2 blocks in a row to fulfill you double the stride for the next time (which is coming in on the next tick of the for loop). It was not perfect but it also did not balloon the memory wildly out. This was because of the way the incoming data was structured. But gave a decent hidden average of size. It ended up very nicely between O(n^2) and O(n). Both speed and size wise.

This is why I have the fancy CS degree. To know the trade off between runtime and space usage. If you blindly pick algs you will have a 'bad time'. Sometimes space is of consideration (you have 256k total in your box), sometimes speed is a consideration (I need this to finish in 3ms). Pick one alg over the other and you can have a bad time in some cases.
Great read - great company.
The status quo for US taxpayers is to fund black hat activities like introducing new vulnerabilities, so believe it or not a move towards grey hat actions is a change for the better.
Are there places where you pay for incoming calls?