skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will easily take an investment from viable to unviable, and be especially hard on companies expected to produce long term, stable profits. To illustrate, a company that's guaranteed to make 1mm in profits in perpetuity will be worth, maybe 50 million, let's say 2% is a reasonable risk-free return. But a company that's poised to make 1 mm this year, and probably fail next year (Maybe they sold fidget spinners a few years ago will only be worth about a million.

The 6% tax with founders owning 50% tank the valuation of the first company to 20 million. Which means anyone who invested at the beginning just had their returns cut by 60%. That's just not going to work for most investors, and in all likelihood this company never gets funded and has the chance to contribute to the economy. The fidget spinner company, on the other hand, barely notices the tax, what with its valuation only having been cut by 6%. End result, everyone lives for the short term and sells fidget spinners because you've literally introduced a 6%/year discount rate for everything in the future.
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Fortunately I am mostly able to avoid working on legacy C++ code these days (rr being the exception, and it's only 70K lines).

Rust code accumulates some cruft over time, but Rust's type system and safety guarantees put a floor on how crappy the code can be. The first Rust code I ever wrote is still part of my project five years later; it's less than perfect, but it's free of undefined behavior now just as it was then. The data structure parsers I wrote four years ago look a bit ugly to me now, but are free of exploitable security bugs, and always were. Etc.
I own both, and an Android phone. Unfortunately, I don't own a memory checker for HN. I test with Safari as well, I just forgot to add it to the list.
Laws in Canada require all sweepstakes and the like to have a challenge aspect and a no purchase necessary aspect to separate them from gambling which is quite regulated.

For example, when McDonald's is doing the Monopoly peel offs you can mail them and ask for some free peel offs, which they send you from a limited supply.
Not disagreeing with your conclusion, but wasn't one of the takeaways of the article that there are no "eras"? "Eras" are arbitrary delineations when in fact change is incremental. Doesn't part 2) of the essay explain how "golden era" was "invented" by scholars post-hoc, and later coined "renaissance"?
In the United States I don’t think there are many jurisdictions where an automated marketing email will get anyone put on the most-wanted list.

I have a very hard time seeing the criminality of this. Can any lawyers provide more insight?
It really bothers me that I can't lock mic gain on macOS. You can adjust it, but then it will self adjust itself automatically. Somehow some background noises in my room trigger it to increase the mic sensitive to 100% after a few minutes. It's much worse with iPhone EarPods.
You've signed up with a throwaway account and started the last three comments I've read in this thread with a sneering "I'm pretty sure screeching HN/Reddit morons would think X but I know better"; it's against the HN guidelines to comment in that style: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Sure, I don't advocate FLoC itself (because I don't want to be uniquely identified through fingerprinting) but I'm not sure I understand why particular FLoC cohorts actual meaning being discovered is considered bad. I actually feel like I want that to happen so I could probably tweak my cohort consciously.
I kinda agree with your cynical view, I often view that way too.

But I think not worth defending further than this. It will end up trash talks.
I support and promote brave, but i think they shouldn't just focus on the adblocking benefits, but they have the opportunity to bundle additional functionality that will be popular with both devs and users
Arthur Andersen and their ~85,000 employees would like a word.
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too" -Abe Simpson
> there are also a myriad of ways that C++ enforces correctness that Rust doesn't.

There are? Like what?

> But in 20 years it will make no difference. The Rust of 2031 that will need to accommodate 30 years of legacy backwards compatibility will be no prettier than C++ today.

I don't really believe this. There are 20 year old Java codebases, and yes they can be a mess and hell to work with, but they're not nearl as bad as C++ ones. And Rust is stricter than Java.
Same here. Even if my dad wasn't on call, his job would call every saturday and sunday with some dumb emergency caused by their own cheapness. So we pulled the phone plug at night, and at daytime we counted the rings.
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Interesting video on Canadians having to do math to win prices: https://youtu.be/jOmnx-V1zBo
I TOTALLY AGREE!

This was like OP-1 advertisement!
How does that work, I don't suppose residents are dying away? Does unemployment force them to move out?
Why? The audio component, if it's bad, makes you hard to understand and makes its harder to contribute. The visual component is basically just a way for people to know that I'm there and a backup channel to indicate that yes, I am aware meet has once again decided not to recognise my mic and that I'm working on it. If I find a workplace that's ergonomic and works with my home environment, then the fact that there's a window with bright objects visible behind it that screws with the auto balance on the webcam 2 hours a day is a distant concern. I'm not going to compromise on the prior points to fix that.
"I'm fine with being manipulated with supernormal stimulus." aka being profiled and then targeted with ads.
Ah, I did not pay close attention to those. I don't think you can be blamed for a myth spreading as a result of someone not reading the article, but reading and misremembering the section titles.
I have been using a Blue Yeti usb condenser mic for all my team calls. I paired it with a nice set of computer speakers. It does make a difference.
> my ears will continue to bleed from the awful audio people broadcast into this world. I wonder, most people must notice how terrible everyone in e.g. video conferences sounds;

If it is physically hurting your ears or being difficult to follow then it's understandable, but otherwise (as you mention with the masks) this sounds very superficial. Do you also complain about people wearing the wrong kind of clothes (and I don't mean tailored confederate flags)?

I hope to one day see the day when most people realise it's none of their business how others present themselves.
The SM58 is still great for a dynamic mic (condensers are good but often pick up too much). Will need a good preamp, though.
I've been having it for nearly 3 years now:
Twice managed to spill food on it.Just a couple of weeks ago spilled some water on the keyboard. Also dropped couple of times,the last time it was on a pavement from more than 1m height. The build is rock solid.
Had to replace the battery recently,as it wasn't holding anymore and also the CPU fan, as one of the ball-bearings gave in and resulted in some odd noises. I don't know if they fixed it in the new models,but there were lots of issues with WIFI, google it, you'll see.

The screen isn't big enough for development and while it's doable,it would damage your posture long term,so consider getting an external monitor.

In overall,I'm very satisfied with it.
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> Inquisition meant still burning or torturing people to death - or threatening of doing so, if they continue to speak heresy, like "the earth moves around the sun".

A perfect example of the tidy little "big bad Church vs. SCIENCE (tm)" fables that refuse to die. The first problem with your statement is that somehow heliocentrism is heretical. Show me where this contradicts dogma. You can't because it's not true. A moment of reflection should make it obvious that it is utterly irrelevant, from a theological perspective, whether the ball of burning gas revolves around the rock or the rock resolves around the burning ball of gas. To claim that because the Bible uses language that speaks of the sun rising and setting, it must mean that such trivialities are theologically important is as absurd as claiming that geocentrism is widespread today because we still use that language. This is phenomenological and descriptive language that is only used as an occasion to convey some other point, not a scientific explanation. Common sense is easily blinded by bigotry.

> (Galileo and the Inquisition)

This whole "affair" actually lasted decades and really had nothing to do with heliocentrism. Galileo had made political enemies and was known for his harassment and vicious remarks directed at people in power, who, btw, were slow to anger; it took decades for him to finally be put under...house arrest overlooking the Vatican gardens. Seems pretty mild esp. given the witch hunts taking place in Protestant northern Europe at the time.

> Inquisition (which still exists today! only with no physical authority anymore) might be a bit missrepresented in their thirst for blood - but the harm they done over the centuries to free thinking and therefore advancement of science and technology and therefore progress of humanity as its whole - is something on its own validating their bad reputation.

Not this again. Show me where the brave, good, noble men of SCIENCE (tm) were prevented from climbing the hills of PROGRESS (tm) by the big, bad, mean old Church? If you peer a little more closely at the stock examples (Bruno is one), you find nothing of the sort. You find no such trend. This is a historically illiterate trope that, frankly, is embarrassing.
> interoperability with Windows

Even on Windows, it's much easier to just use UTF-8 internally and perform conversion to/from UTF-16 when you're about to do/return from a WinAPI call.
However, in many of your cases C, D, E, and F perhaps it is not even a data base you need, but a simple .csv or .json file...
What's your solution then?
Rome wasn't built in a day.

imho:
* Calendso has the potential to become an interstellar spaceship, whenever it comes to scheduling a meeting without hassle.

* Aggressive marketing/"comparing" is not my style - prefer a more subtil way. Can you push the first version of your spaceship to pole position "comparing". yes. Will it work, maybe. At least you are in the race.

>So "An open source Calendly alternative" is quite clear for most people who want to make use of this.

ack.

* Knowing the team behind, the mentioned shortcomings will be resolved asap

* I18N is on the roadmap/in the pipeline

> 9. Fill out the fields (remembering to encrypt your password with BCrypt)

Find this normal. Do this often. Has room for improvement. Sure. Will be improved, sure.

imho: The most important thing about calendso is how much heart and love the team is putting into it. I can feel that. It makes me feel humble.

Go, go, go ... and stay safe.
The cruise line business is very cyclical so the companies hold really big piles of cash for when things get slow (like 2007-2008 financial crisis)

All the big companies had a couple billions each sitting around just for shit like this. They just fired most of the crew (they still need to have 100+ crew per ship to keep them in good condition) and anchored them waiting for better days.

With this reduction in costs they could easily wait out a year or two for business to come back.

Wendover Productions did an excellent video on the topic https://youtu.be/N4dOCfWlgBw

(including how they solved getting their tens of thousands of employees back home when planes were not flying really)
This is a common dilemma in social media. Does "liking" a post mean you agree with it? Does "angry face" mean you disagree? What about "laughing face", "shocked face"? It is dangerous to read legal responsibilities into an action which is probably meaningless.
“This court-authorized operation to copy and remove malicious web shells from hundreds of vulnerable computers shows our commitment to use any viable resource to fight cyber criminals,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery of the Southern District of Texas.
Yeah, there was some interpretation of the intent behind the comment on my part (cf "you probably want it to be a static type error").

How you view the claim itself depends on your thoughts about the level at which equality should operate (should type tags be considered part of a value's identity, is it about the bit representation, or the abstract value encoded by that representation, ...)
Is it better to live in a world where the future is unknown, and the best we can do is guess where value will be, or one where the future is known, and the prices of all investments are stable and already priced at their exact values? In which world is optimism and class mobility possible?
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I can't imagine how we'd go about doing that. We just spent four years antagonizing all of the people we should be building relationships with, and there's no mechanism to prevent us from doing so again four years from now. Any relationship is on a shaky foundation, and I don't know how to fix that.
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Berlin is also full of empty spaces for historical reasons. Previous rulers intentionally built some things big and far apart for their capital, WW2 left even more unused spaces after the rubble was cleared and during the cold war only some parts got rebuilt. So even compared to most smaller German cities, Berlin has a low density overall.
I even know where your environment got that belief. Blame MTV, since 2004:

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

A lot of non-natives then miss that the meaning of the word is not about an "upgrade" but about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procuring_(prostitution)

which was on MTV glorified as the part of the "Afro-American" "pop culture" which is also... not a really nicest approach. But... it was supposed to be a "fashion." And relativised as "the thing of certain culture." Postmodernism and all that. And therefore....

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

...and "acceptable" for MTV.

Edit: also, 2008:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/msnbc-reporter-begrudging_n_8...
Doesn’t matter, plausible deniability means a reasonable person might spend it. Without knowing who’s next, you may have circumstantial evidence but that’s not enough to hold up in court.

You don’t punish someone based on chance.
Yes, all the time. You get a static picture of the reporter, or shots of the presenter or studio, or b-roll, or an animation of a waveform.
does calendso provide an api to embed calendly like functionality into an app ?
I picked up a GLS es58 on Amazon a while back because I got an audio interface and figured might as well get a mic. Chose it because it's a shure 58 clone.

It's made quite a difference and importantly it makes you feel better to use.

I've been convincing my friends to pick up dynamic mics to lower their surrounding noise and sound clearer.

There's an Audio Technica that's usb/xlr. So you can start with usb and upgrade to xlr when you get a preamp.
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100%. Disappointment from seeing a once upstart (which I was rooting on from the sidelines) become a faceless big co aside, I think insurance is the right way to handle this problem and prevent it from being unfairly externalized.
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But that is precisely what mypyc[0] is doing!

It is part of mypy, and it compiles type-valid python files to cpython binary extensions, and takes advantage of a lot of shortcuts available to cut execution time. It is still a bit early to advocate for its use everywhere, and has it drawbacks (extensions compiled with mypyc will also typecheck the inputs and outputs of the module at runtime, which is great for improving code quality and validity of the annotations, but also means you may get TypeErrors in production if you hit a bad edge case).

If there is no shortcut it will fallback to normal, slow, python performance, with some smallish benefits (e.g. vtables for attribute lookups, no parsing time, etc).

[0] https://mypyc.readthedocs.io/
That's neither "fairly cheap", nor is going to sound better than buying a microphone at the same price and using free EQ and compressor plugins, nor is adding extra "warmth" the main benefit from using a compressor. (A compressor can help with making the the quiet and the loud parts more equal in volume, at the cost of amplifying background noise.)
You can test with webkit though which is almost the same.
It’s also interesting to see just how wrong he was in many ways about BitCoin and the future.

In 2012 he’s talking about changes on 5-10 years that really haven’t manifested. It’s not that they won’t eventually happen, but we often miss where the change will occur.

In the last 10 years, the only material change has been adding the mobile payment layer on top of the existing infrastructure (I.e. ApplePay).

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. -Bill Gates-
>windows really needs a native way of doing this like sound flower.

https://vb-audio.com/Cable/ might interest you.
You actually made me create a HN-Account to reply to this.

This is not true. The cap didn't apply to new flats. Which means that nobody wanted to invest and build new housing, but instead created artificial scarcity, there are a lot of empty buildings now because very few people can afford some of the abhorrent prices.

So yeah supply and demand totally worked. /s
This is the most insane approach to responsive design I've ever seen. Just scale down everything, including the text, as the window gets narrower?
This isn’t an issue of fashion, it’s an issue of cognitive load. Bad audio is distracting, and requires more mental work to process. It’s fatiguing, and as someone who spends an absurd amount of time doing video conferencing, it makes a huge difference.

I’m also a teacher, so I bought a nice microphone and some acoustic panels to help my students focus on the material.
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This seems a little silly. Nobody calls it Google Chrome Vivaldi or Google Chrome Brave. Why the hate for Edge?
I told my cat to get back in her box (jokingly) yesterday.

She promptly did.

I freaked a little.
„Puścić strzałkę” (to send/drop an arrow) in Polish. Also sometimes called „puścić sygnał (to send/drop a signal), „puścić dzwonek” (to send/drop a ring), and other variants.
> we got an email from their sales rep

That doesn't sound automated.
Yeaaa, SSRI isn't safe by any means.

It won't kill you for sure. But a 100% loss in sex drive isn't really something people actually want. Took a year after stopping SSRIs to get back.
Never realised this, but indeed. Javascript may very well another ActionScript; same cycle, just spread out over a longer timeframe.
Agreed. That's more or less the basis of what I have said in all my comments in this thread. Maybe adding the word "designed" or "intended" into my comment would have made that clearer.

But this doesn't respond to the main point I was trying to make - this new law is not just a "switch from one god to another".
Somebody tell this to "smart" TV makers.
It’s actually very clear and very easy to opt out.

Telemetry is a good thing which is why vscode is currently the top editor in the world today.
It is a plain statement of fact that far-right politics and privacy-focused tech culture in the US are dominated by white men. It is a reasonable inference to suppose that this would explain why DDG tends to overly promote far-right search results.

You really don’t need to be a social justice warrior to understand my point. It is a shame if either of these completely uncontroversial statements offends you, but HN in fact truly does not need your centrist form of political correctness policing legitimate comments.
All right! Thanks!
> They also ignore GDPR (which would give me the right to have my data deleted

Report them to your local ICO.
So turning off your internet is an appropriate response, but making your projects closed source isn't?
Interesting idea, would it noticeably eat into my CPU? (e.g., cause the fan to crank up) (MBP 16" 2020)
We are talking far before the Mughal Empire. Most older Indian dynasties were utterly demolished by invaders. Islamic Conquerors deliberately made it a point to demolish them - temples, libraries, etc.

It is not surprising that Mughal Empire was rich for the ruling class. It imposed the Jizya tax on non-muslims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya
Just came across TurtleSpaces the other day. Very impressed.
Acoustics & audio quality is important when trying to pay attention. Crappy acoustics can fatigue you and give you headache. Crappy audio can distract you, make you mishear things and overall is tiring to listen to. I've skipped online videos and lectures due to crap audio. I've gotten headaches and sore throat after sitting & talking in echo-y rooms for 30 mins.
You can’t fault folks for being “negative” when Armstrong’s narrative did in fact prove to be very wrong. He’s saying in 5-10 years Amazon isn’t going to suffer paying CC interchange fees, and yet here we are and that hasn’t changed.

Folks are talking about mainstream acceptance of BTC, and that means holding 1-3% of the balance sheet in BTC and an eccentric billionaire with an electric car company accepting them for payment.

To be sure, the underlying crypto value has blown up, but it’s integration into society has fallen well short of Armstrong’s predictions in 2012.

More mature/older tech individuals have seen this cycle play out before, and so they’re just not as quick to embrace the unchecked enthusiasm and optimism.
Multiple profiles have never been well implemented in any other browser. It's the only feature keeping me on Chrome.
Note that using SQLite over SSHFS is dangerous if you're not the only user of the DB, because SSHFS does not support file locking.

According to: https://www.fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/8749496886

> There's a very real possibility that you could corrupt the SQLite DB by running it over SSHFS.
> But virtually all money is being made on being a broker for people speculating on Bitcoin as if they're buying gold, with no significant intent to use bitcoin.

And there is a ton of other exchanges that are both user-friendly for regular people who are looking to buy Bitcoin (Cash App) and trader-friendly for people looking to trade bitcoin (Kraken/Binance).

Most serious Bitcoin enthusiasts don't prefer Coinbase over the alternatives, so I'm not sure what Coinbase's real moat is? How is it able to charge higher fees than most other crypto exchanges?
I'm currently about to switch to pulumi/python (we're a python show).

What showstoppers did you run into? Any insight welcome if that prevents me from hitting a wall I've not seen yet :)
Well, either you build over the growing plants in the city, or you raze plants in the outskirts. The former gets complaints because people want greenery in the city, the latter gets complaints because of sprawl, added traffic and unnecessary pollution.
What's incredible about this is how negative the top 5-10 replies are. For as visionary as this community is, sometimes it really does miss the future right under its nose.