skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my discord calls we have effectively resorted to shaming people into accepting a gifted clip-on amazon mic if they have an awful microphone. $10 every couple of months and no ear bleeding.

That said, I really think some people are just immune to it. My mom for instance prefers to use the standard definition channels because the channel numbers are easier to remember and type. She says she can't tell the difference between that and full HD so :shrug:
I've had issues on PopOs 20.04 and 20.10 with microphones connected through the audio jack. Connecting through a cheap jack-to-USB converter eliminated the background noise. There were proposed fixes although none of them worked.
Jack-to-USB converters are apparently not recommended[1] due to wildly varying quality though.

On PopOs 20.10 I'm currently getting good audio from a ModMic USB. This[2] review is what made me buy the ModMic USB, although I know next to nothing about audio and audio quality.

The Audio Technica ATGM2[3] was also considered, but the mounting options for the ModMic USB as well as lower cost in my area won me over.

For me a headset mounted mic was a requirement due to space considerations and slightly lower cost, although next time I'm probably buying a very high quality free standing microphone.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1v1jtHz4C0
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qquo2GpSQo4
[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIeJMdv5jxs
"just a driver issue"

Oh. Just a driver issue on Linux. Well then, problem solved.
I bought the fifine condenser microphone and it is really nice. I use it on Linux and it only costs about 30 bucks, depending on which version.
I got the slightly more expensive version for 40 dollars which has a detachable cable and a backchannel for headphones (so you hear directly what comes from the mic).
The benefit: Linux uses the mic as a audio interface and also gives you sound through the port of the mic:

https://www.amazon.com/Microphone-FIFINE-Computers-Podcastin...
This is fascinating! Makes me wonder about whether machine learning audio filters like Krisp[1] could actually take high quality audio and enhance it further to make you sound _even smarter_? Like as if you had the infamous NPR mic setup...

This phenomenon does kind of seem obvious in retrospect. I was at a Socialhour[2] event recently where they had a few presentations happening simultaneously and you could bounce between them, or just move from table to table in a newnetworking lounge -- and thinking back, the presenters with the biggest audiences did sound like they had superior audio.

[1]: https://krisp.ai

[2]: https://socialhour.com
I have one and I believe they are overpriced. Today I would instead get a gaming laptop which basically packs the same punch but at a much lower price.
Note that when you're poor your surroundings are usually also poor. So even if you are young and not yet burdened by health care costs and maybe even have free/good education you might need to drop out or at least spend a lot of your time and money to take care for your relatives.

Only when everybody you care about has a stable health/housing/food/(work) situation you get a chance to do something for yourself. Only if people around you are privileged enough to they have time to invest in you. You can start to build wealth. I don't mean with investing money. Maybe just by

- Lending you their garage
- Allowing you to work without income for a few months
- Taking care of your kids while you work a few times a week
- etc...

TDLR: if all you and your surrounding is doing is directly aimed at surviving you cannot build wealth.
Could change the link to https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-14/dell-will... which is behind a softer paywall and is a better article.
Hmm, I hadn't checked the license. Pylance is indeed proprietary.
Snowball or Yeti consistently get good reviews.
Are you seriously implying that before there were marathons, the capability for long-range running didn't exist (or existed much less)? Athleticism as a general activity has increased because it's a leisure activity (as in, something you do when there's not anything really important to do), so it makes sense that there's a dramatic rise in it when we're unquestionably in an abundant time.
OK, I see. The tool we are working on is similar but also not quite what you are looking for. In case you want to have a look, it is availale on <my-name> .io
American justice
In my hometown (Kraków), pigeons are considered to be rats with wings... but they're also sort of a symbol, because to this day they flock around the city's main square. Possibly because we used to feed them there.

When I was a kid, old ladies would sell grain in plastic cups for people to throw to the pigeons. The moment you poured some grain on your hand, you were suddenly surrounded by a hundred birds. It was an attraction for both tourists and children. I haven't seen that practiced in a decade or more, I suppose feeding the pigeons became illegal at some point.
Pimps aren't admirable people.
> I apologize for not being American...

There's nothing wrong with not being American. You should apologize for being French.

> ...and the press in my country costing money.

Indeed, it's absurd to charge money for articles written in French. They should pay you for reading them.

> I note that your link astablishes that long covid is the thing, which the parent comment denies.

Nobody in this thread denies that it exists. We're talking about what it is and is not.
how will they be forced?
SOA vs. Microservices
I don't think I 100% understand.

Could you elaborate a bit more?

Let's say I have an app with API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB.

I would provision them with one of those tools CDK or Pulumi.

How would these tools differ in their provisioning steps?
Disclaimer: IANAL

As far as telephony is concerned (things like SMS are a different story), a phone provider cannot legally do this, even if you signed some ToS agreement. According to the FCC, phone providers, including voip providers, have legal requirements around when they are allowed to terminate service: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/when-your-telephone-com...
> lots of lonely white men

We don't need that kind of rhetoric on HN.

Part of the reason I suspect Bing/DDG return right-leaning content is because grassroots US internet culture itself slants slightly to the right (as it slanted to the left back 10 years ago). Whereas Google pushes authoritative sources heavily, which tend to skew corporate-left.

Corporate content is less likely to push flagrant untruths (unlike grassroots extremists on either side), and what propaganda there is, is usually much more subtle.

A balance is needed, to be sure.
The Four Stages of the Creative Process: Prepare, Incubate, Illuminate, Verify
When I was a teenager, one of the local mobile providers had some plans where they would only charge you for a call after being connected for more than five seconds. One friend abused the hell out of this and started using it as "free push-to-talk" essentially. I had a plan with free calling time, so he would also sometimes call me, tell me to call him back, and hang up within about three seconds.
> The downside would be that you would occasionally get a runtime panic!() if your strings overflowed.

VLQ/LEB128 would take care of encoding an arbitrary string size to avoid this issue.
They excluded some types of engineers in their categorization.
>for many of us, money is only experienced through our phones, as a number on a screen. You pay your rent with one app, you buy put options with another. The number goes up, it goes down, it lives in the little portal we hold in our hands.

And decades ago it was a number written down on a little piece of paper, and before that it was little pieces of “precious” metal locked away somewhere.

At least nowadays amateurs have a better chance to be literate.
Looks great! A tool like this which a business uses to interact with prospects and customers needs to be rock solid. Please prioritize stability over features.
Also, what's up with this stock photo suddenly appearing halfway down the page?

https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1556761175-5973dc0f32e7

It's some picture of employees of "proof" (juding by the "proof.quip.com" URL in the guy's browser) watching a presentation by a guy in shorts holding a small statue of a whale with legs? What does that have to do with a calendar?
They gave psilocybin in much lower dose to the placebo group... I wonder what the point of that was... it could still be affecting them.
>but rather that they have different priorities than you and that you're narrowminded and judgemental.

Having been loosely affiliated with the Goa/Psytrance scene, I too, have met some individuals who seemed to have "fried" their brains.

If those "different priorities", how you call it, also include being almost dysfunctional and therefore dependent on constant external support, paranoid and frequently incoherent then, yes, it made me judgmental too.

And this isn't even speaking of phenomena like Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (HPPD)[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep...
> with the other websites

You meant with the other browsers, right?
I am not a native english speaker, to me "pimp up" means to "upgrade" something. Sorry if that came off wrong.
Along the lines of what I was thinking. Would be really neat! I already do this to an extent, but with a virtual file system it could automatically sort/categorize/etc like a regular database.
Pretty sexist of you to assume, that certainly there must be woman available for ux testing. Could it not be, that they have smth better to do?
It's impressive how long markets can remain irrational. Not just crypto, but the stock market and housing market as well. It seems that finance is completely detached from the fundamentals (and hence reality).
What are the key benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture?
Idk whether this is good?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/05/review-clevo-n151cu-lafite-...

Or maybe System76 Lemur Pro. It's 1kg only.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Right, but these are separate things that would both be beneficial. They should be exclusive pursuits.

Currently we have neither. I would prefer some preventative therapy that makes it never happen. I would also like a therapy that halts progression once diagnosed.
That accusation is quite the stone to be throwing around in the glasshouse that is the web technology stack. A portable version of Win32 would be infinitely better and more accessible than anything the web can come up with.
> No comparison without explicit casts is a valid design choice.

Sure, but that wasn't the claim.
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Frequency illusion a.k.a. Baader–Meinhof phenomenon
I have noticed with colleagues the insane improvements in video and audio after their amazon shopping sprees.

At the same I haven’t updated my camera because I don’t have a nice room to work from and I feel a bit ashamed to show my tiny box with a high resolution... sounds weird, I know, but that’s how I feel
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I cannot wait for a massive data leak containg apartment application documents, especially from high demand locations like Munich or Berlin. People simply send it all over the place and they contain everything. It would knacker out many people in various ways.
That is why it is especially disgusting when fake populist SPAC sponsors (looking at you Chamath) pretend to be on the side of retail as they give handouts to their Wall Street lords.
They'll keep the name, but is it still the Perle? It's a modern "ship of Theseus" situation
"Just a driver issue", unless it's a temporary regression in the Linux drivers, basically means the hardware manufacturer didn't use standard interfaces or write a good-enough spec for interoperability.

Solutions are calling your manufacturer and filing a support request, or voting with your wallet and picking another manufacturer next time.
why are so many people so cost conscious about mics and other consumer goods but have no hesitation about putting tons of money in the stock market , which sometimes drops 30% or more, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars or more of losses. Psychologically, it seems people are much more unnerved about overpaying $100 on a mic or laptop, versus potentially much larger losses on investments such as stocks or real estate.
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> How is it that rents are so high and yet there are empty housing units?

Rents are so high BECAUSE there are empty housing units. If all available housing units went on the market, rent prices would collapse along with the real-estate speculative bubble, which is precisely what landlords are trying to avoid.
"I don't think you've properly thought this through."
LMAO
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Zero mention of the recent unprecedented fiat currency printing we've seen, nor the fact that every time since the Tang Dynasty when we have done this, it has led to very troubling times 12-18 months later.

Everyone is gambling even if they dont know Crypto exists.
But effective altruism is an NGO, isn't it?
Here in NL, large festivals have drug testing booths, where the visitors can have their drugs tested so they know what they'll be ingesting. That's possible because of decriminalisation and destigmatization.

Legalization would allow the government to create a testing infrastructure so drugs can be tested/validated before they're sold, that's arguably better. But it's definitely possible to create a safer drug environment with decriminalisation only.
Now calls from those shitheads in india are free and they keep scamming us. I feel bad because they need soap and deodorant and some kind of food that fixes their shit holes.
A lot of people believe Q-anon. This is such a shitty, drive by way of asserting something. Do you believe it? If so then make the case, but the way you've dropped this steamy innuendo here without even taking a position on it yourself contributes less than nothing to the discussion.
For me the interesting thing is how the word 'yoga' was translated into Tibetan when the first yogis arrived to Tibet in the 8th century. Their term of choice wasn't the traditional 'union' (which is zung 'jug in Tibetan) but rnal 'byor. This word is composed of two terms: rnal means 'natural state', whereas 'byor' means to 'reach' or simply 'remain' in it.

They did the same with many other terms like "Buddha", translating it according it according to the meaning, not literally. (That was during the first wave of translations. In the second wave the translators were much more literary, although they praised the pioneers as superior.)
I do pranayama (breathing techniques). And two yoga poses (mountain, corpse).

That's what is left from 3 years intensive training. In other words I do what I like, when I like, how I like.

If you want something methodical try Pilates. It's yoga without the cult.
A Better World (?) – create alternative histories
Many companies are doing that already, and it's not working as a strategy for housing people (despite making some people very rich). The problem is that housing is a market to begin with. Basic commodities like housing shouldn't be subject to speculation and other capitalist nonsense.
Quite a rational choice for Diess to choose VW given the size of Tesla at the time.
Tomska used to have a video mentioning this (though in the context of making YouTube videos), in which he demonstated that video from a iPhone camera in conjunction with a professional mic was much more watchable than video from a professional camera with an iPhone mic.

Sadly the video seems to have been removed, the only reference I could find was the last paragraph of this Wired Article, https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tomska-wired-2015.

"use any camera, but get a good microphone. 'I started with a camera that's probably about ten times worse than the one in my phone,' he said. 'Bad sound will make anyone close a video in three seconds flat. Get a good microphone before you get a good camera.'"
It'd be nice to know the specific use cases for needing Parallels over VirtualBox since I've used the latter for years for things like running Win2K (not connected to the Internet) for a legacy financial app, and running Win10 just to use a tax program (cheaper than the web version). I also use VirtualBox to run a Linux VM for development where I don't want to crap up my day-to-day environment. Plus, you know, Parallels's subscription model.
"Heck, we can't even identify the proper causal relationship for events happening around us right now. Then how about going N centuries back and trying to reason about the involved parties and their intents"

Part of the reason we do not understand much of today, is that much is done behind closed doors.

So historians does have an edge when trying to make sense of an event 80 years ago with (allmost) all relevant documents now open and the people dead, than trying to make sense of an event 5 years ago, with people involved still trying to influence every investigation etc.

Going further back in time, especially to a time with no or burned down archives, is harder, agreed.
I've seen this claim bandied about, but if you look at Sweden and its neighbors the no-lockdown case has 1000s more deaths. There are perhaps subtle arguments, but "no obvious benefit" seems extremely tenuous.
I posited the interestingness of such an idea a couple months ago in a thread about app store blocks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25988410

IMHO, most emphatically *yes* - this is a completely unserved/unserviced area of the B2B and B2C markets.

I noted in the linked thread that such a service would likely start by leveraging individual contacts, and building a reputation for unwaveringly high signal.

It definitely does seem to me that the vacuum between corporate and customers represents a giant sleeper industry that fundamentally won't shift very quickly.

Which means you're unlikely to reach the usual core-problem-is-solved entrenchment/stagnation point that tends to happen when you ramp up on a complex-but-solve-once problem, then find yourself stuck with a bunch of intricate sausage machine bits that aren't doing anything...
And that's why I move the HD channels to the numbers of the traditional ones.
Cost of doing business factored in the product price...
Coinbase will one day become a crypto bank, but right now the role of exchanges is minimal, on/offramps and being the wallet for a lot of people. I don't think they re much different than binance. They re more trusted because as an american company they are considered more protected, but that's not something they achieved, it's afforded to them by the fact that they're american.
EV Vehicles and Power Consumption at home – An analysis of charging patterns
Those who add irrelevant comments trying to shame people for using popular, harmless slang aren't admirable people either.

(Neither are the schmucks like me who are baited into responding, but whatever)
Why die woman not invent redis themselfes? They could be in Charge of such Personal decisions then
Because in most cases, people can't hear their own audio quality.

They only hear the poor audio quality of other people in the conference.
I love SQLite. Used it to set up a small PHP tool which allowed users to check if their data was present in the latest Facebook leak. Took 30 mins of coding, incl. data import. The tool got picked up by the national media and the tiny 1GB VPS got quite hammered with traffic (±50 lookups a second, 5.5M records). But it didn't break a sweat. The only snag I ran into was running out of file descriptors/sockets, which was easily solved.
Viber Block for Sending Greetings
Yesterday was the Sinhala and Tamil new year. There was a Viber message with the ability to send stickers wishing Friends and Family. I clicked on this and selected my contacts to send greeting.

My account got blocked!

I contacted support who unblocked it but it got blocked again without me sending any messages or doing any things. The I got a message saying it is blocked again and unblocked again. The finally a message from the Viber support saying it is blocked again. I tried to send 2 test messages to my family which read "hi" and "test" some where during this time, but to one recipient only.

This is a relatively new number I got hence I want to get Viber unblocked on it as I want to start using this more. Also I don't see I have done anything wrong. The message I sent was the ticker they provided with contact I had in my address book also clicking on the "send sticker" button in the Viber message. There was no indication of how many greetings I could send, hence I selected my Viber contacts.

Many of my friends and family has also sent greeting to many common friends without issues. I am trying to figure out what might have gone wrong for this to happen:
- Since this is a new number I am not sure if the recipients all had this number saved.
- Also some numbers in my contacts may be out dated and used by new users as cell companies recycle numbers.
I still have gold and prefer cash for purchasing daily items.

The money seems real, swiping cards or phone financial transfers lack a physical reality and my brain has less friction with digital transfers, thus I avoid them out of financial prudence.
Because it's too complicated. If this would just be inside every router that would make a huge difference.
How many hardware manufacturers tell you that their device is supported on linux?
If you have a vocal fry or another annoying voice, the clarity is to your detriment, i 'll turn you off immediately!
You can also grow tabacco or make alcohol yourself, so I still expecting a giant industry that will try it's best to hide the side effects, blame the victim when something goes wrong, put billions in ads to make it look cool to use their products.

Why would you take micro doses of mushrooms rather then use an approved anti-depressant treatment? Your home grown mushrooms might differ in concentrations, the one you buy might be low quality...

I have nothing against the product, I am just anxious that it will be promoted as a miracle , "text mushrooms and your anxiety will be gone, your creativity is 10X better, see Joe the developer wrote this cool Rust project fueled just with weed and mushrooms in 48 hours" - I have a bias, I do not trust companies and capitalistic societies, they fuck the society for profit, we need to keep our eyes open on this studies, make impartial ones and maybe do something about misleading ads and posts promoting unsafe stuff.
Either you can install good proprietary drivers from the manufacturer, or they don't exist and you have to make do with the open source ones.
I thought you were going a different direction with that. I don't know if it was the same documentary, but the one I saw was focused on the medical and moral effects and questions around the use of Adderall in the tech population, college students, and children. The main gist I got from it was that people were using it without knowing the possible side effects, like liver issues or mood issues. And that many of the people in tech didn't actually need it but were using it to enhance performance, and found a doctor willing to write to script.
The contemporary view as in how the populace at the time viewed it, not the condemned person.

There are a lot of practices in our prison system today (both inside the US and in other industrialised nations) that some people find questionable, but much of the populace accept. This window is constantly moving over time.
My partner thought I was being a bit excessive when I bought a high-quality external webcam last year when she was applying for work, but I'm pretty sure it helped her during job interviews. Or maybe it would be better to say prevented her laptop's webcam+mic from getting in the way of presenting herself.
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