skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One common solution for piezo pickups / contact mics is to put an amplifier or buffer near the pickups, powered by a 9V battery or 48V phantom power.

The piezo pickup is not balanced but it's not necessary, you can make the output of the amplifier balanced. This is the same way that condenser mics work. The microphone capsule itself is not balanced, but it doesn't need to be... the output of the amplifier or buffer is balanced and that's all you need.
> I do recommend considering visx.

Just to add another recommendation to the mix. I'm an extremely happy echarts user. I recently had somebody comment about the graph that was in my product as they were surprised by how it was done, which goes to show how flexible and powerful echarts is.

If you go to https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?r=gith... and look at the timeline chart, you can see that it is pretty flexible. I was able to convert a scatter chart into the timeline chart which supports scrolling left and right fairly easily.
The paper explains why basic pitch shifting in hearing aids is not localisable,

> A less drastic version of such processing is utilised by certain hearing aids, where high frequencies that are audible to normal-hearing subjects, but inaudible to those who are hearing-impaired, are shifted down to the audible range of the wearer. However, such an approach is problematic in terms of the preservation of directional cues, since the acoustic filtering effects due to the diffraction caused by the head and pinna vary substantially with frequency. Therefore, the directional cues delivered by the pitch-shifted signals do not carry the appropriate information related to the source direction that a human subject would have evolved and grown accustomed to.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-90829-9
Congratulations, Central Planner! It sounds like individuals and markets almost won.
What if I told you that in many areas households don’t even need a single car?

If you require large amounts of parking everywhere and commensurately large roads, everything ends up so spread out that car based transportation seems like a necessity. It’s a self perpetuating cycle. If you don’t require so much land to be dedicated to cars you can build things denser and lower or even remove the need for personal cars.

I think one car per household is fine for townhomes assuming most are 2-3 bedrooms. A lot of families only need one car.
It's climate change an incendiary topic for anyone anymore, who isn't already at the political fringes?

This is a serious question. Even the oil companies admit it's a problem now.

I'm aware that there is still some controversy over exactly what the climate change forecasts should be, but that's not the same thing.
If that's what your bank had been using during the login flow...
》making yourself replaceable”; “deprecating yourself”; “automating yourself out of your job”

That is horrible advice. How about:

You quit, and get hired back at 5x rate as consultant, because nobody understands the system. It is not your job to fix broken management!!
Easily solved by a user configurable staleness value with some reasonable default. Google don't crawl the entire web in response to every query because for the vast majority of queries it's unnecessary. For those where it might be necessary (like news), they instead crawl at a higher frequency or use some special flow (like they do for tweets), either way the result is seamless, involves no progress spinners and is well suited for the vast majority of users.
>They can block any transaction

Not exactly. Any miner can arbitrarily exclude transactions from the blocks they're working on, but that won't do much because it can still be confirmed via another miner. To full censor transactions you need to perform a 51% attack, ie. form a cartel of miners controlling 51+% of the hashpower, and refusing to build on top of other miner's blocks. such attacks would be plainly visible, cause the network to slow down (because hashing power is halved), and would decrease confidence in the network (which is the cost that miner pays for doing it).

>They can create and confirm fraudulent transactions.

No they can't. Confirming fraudulent transactions (ie. ones with invalid signatures) would produce invalid blocks that are rejected by the rest of the network.

>what would it look like if they decide to rob someone and the network has to fork

I doubt this will occur. The precedence for this exists in ethereum (ie. DAO hack), but not in bitcoin.

>In economic terms, it would be identical to previous cases of the currency being destroyed.

That happens in fiat demonetizations (eg. india) because the old currency is deemed worthless and you must exchange your old currency for new ones (via official channels and subject to arbitrary limits, of course). In contrast this doesn't happen with forks because you end up owning coins on both sides of the fork.
This is such a profound writeup. Fundamentally, Silicon Valley and "app for everything" is about business at scale but also about economics of the 1% products. Products created by the 1% for everyone else.

Remember Google killing anything that does not have millions of users? How many such companies can exist and thrive? What happens to the rest of the world - do they become app serfs for Uber/Instacart and Amazon? Elite programmers and startup founders harvest massive paydays while pushing the rest of the world into minimum wage jobs. While I am not thrilled about this reality that we are creating, I see no alternative.

As an Economist, I would like to think, I am being a luddite and markets and innovation find a way.

But as a computer scientist, I see the other side of this techno future and it is bleak.
Is that how it works in Singapore? I know in China you lease land from the government for 50 or 100 years. I do think it's important to be open to ideas, and I think there probably ought to be redistribution of wealth, particularly when it comes to land ownership. That has to be balanced with some minimum set of rights so that people can't be randomly evicted because people in power want that land, and that when people are evicted, they receive fair compensation.
I think you should assume malice... but reconcile yourself to the fact that there's not much you can do about it. People engage in petty acts of malice on social media because they can get away with it.

The best you can hope for is to forget about it. It's unsatisfying, but less unsatisfying than trying to get back at them or apply "sour grapes" or whatever. None of that works.

The sooner you put your brain on something else, the sooner you'll forget that somebody was a dick to you and got away with it. It sucks, but it's the least worst alternative. Treat it as noise -- which I think is what the OP was trying to say.
Python's Filter(): Extract Values from Iterables
No, I reject the over-simplified model in general, but my argument is that whatever terms you are, in your own model, using to mean "good" and "bad" and "too much" and "too little" are irrelevant to the question of, even if you could define them clearly, if you can also place and measure a valid threshold. Given the problem here specifically is the epistemological value of consuming views you currently disagree with, by setting yourself up as judge and jury of who is considered worth listening to you're just begging the question, regardless of your framework to act as said judge.

At the end of the day, you have scarce attention, so there are necessarily heuristics you need to use to navigate information and consuming it due to opportunity costs. But my argument is that pegging some people and not others as "too skeptical" is low on the list of good heuristics.
That's perhaps 10% of what I said, possibly less.

Yes, it's a dupe, but I hope I gave enough extra information to be interesting to anyone who will take the time to read it and are curious.

If you're not curious then yes ... it's a dupe.

(Clarification provided ... it was a joke ... all is well)
The programmers who visit this site are ambitious, and the advice in this post may be good for them. I wonder if the advice is good for less-ambitious developers who want to stay at their current employer for a long time. I have often read about programmers who were asked to train their replacements before being replaced.
"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27449544.
I went on Zillow and looked at the house I'm renting (not in a major market) and it went up $28K in expected value in the last 30 days.

Can't see buying in this market at all. Fully expect my rent to be raised after my 1 year lease is up.

Who's improving what?
re Check the Toilet ...

There was a company, that to save money, had cut the hot water in the restrooms.

Another company visited to discuss having said company provide provide their IT as a service. This was long before the AWS et el. Both companies were Fortune 100 at the time.

The visitors, made the mistake of going to a restroom that was not in the executive suits area. They inquired about the lack of hot water.

The deal, which was hours from complete, fell apart.

If that company treated their employees so poorly, how can we expect them to treat us....

Yes visit the toilet to see if they care or just provide lip service.
That kind of kit has reliability properties that are hard to imagine. There is a number of things that can go wrong and that gear basically guarantees that if you pass a green sign the track is free. 100% bug free and the only glitches there are is that if a bulb burns out, the system doesn’t run until it is replaced.

You can rebuild that kind of system but it’ll be exactly the same hardware behind a more modern looking panel.
I use .Net Core, and often make changes to data base through the application and the application updates the database in both staging/production. This creates a migration history and allows me to revert back to a previous database state. However, in some instances data is still lost, in that scenario I would just do a back up.

This way I can almost painlessly revert back, and restore data.
> After all, transactions are all public and once you can label one wallet address, you can perform all sorts of graph analysis and learn a lot.

This is true for most cryptocurrencies, but not Monero.
Sure, no security measure is perfect. Hardware tokens are likely to have better properties than TOTP, which has better properties than SMS, which has better properties than nothing.

you can phish SMS exactly the same way you can phish TOTP, I'd say :)
The syntax is used where you're quoting text, but you're replacing some text with other text for explanatory purposes. So, for example, if the original quote was:

> The majority, however, uses this factor to create a distinction between declaring and implementing code that in effect removes copyright protection from declaring code.

Standing alone, you might not realize what "this" refers to. Instead, you'd substitute an explanation:

> The majority, however, uses [the nature of copyrighted work] factor to create a distinction between declaring and implementing code that in effect removes copyright protection from declaring code.

In practice, one of the most common replacements is replacing a pronoun with a name. So "his" becomes "[John Doe's]".
It sounds to me like GP’s concern is that their LVT would go up (across the entire town) due to popularity and become unaffordable (forcing them out economically), rather than being concerned with increasing density.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-telegram-ban-idUSK...

Roskomnadzor said it had acted because the app’s Russian founder, Pavel Durov, was prepared to cooperate in combating terrorism and extremism on the platform.
As someone who develops sites which use cryptocurrency, USD price volatility isn't a concern. Users are riding the same wave. What is important is that it is technically possible. I realize this isn't the majority view, but that doesn't make it any less valid. There are many things which are popular with the masses that are arguably irrational.

https://mises.org/wire/why-wild-swings-crypto-prices-are-not...

>Weston Nakamura in an interview with Real Vision’s Jack Farley made the trenchant point, “This is what markets look like when you don't have global central banks artificially suppressing volatility, intervention of central banks buying every dip, putting a safety net under every single slight tremor or taper tantrum or whatever it may be, this is what happens.”

>He explains, “Bitcoin is not a US asset, just like oil is not a US asset, just like gold is not a US asset. Now, those are denominated in USD.” Sure, Americans think in US dollars, but “it's BTC/fiat, and it's not an American asset. People need to get that in their head. If you actually look at BTC/JPY (Japanese yen), the levels make a hell of a lot more sense.”
It is surreal that this article showed up now. I am going back and forth currently with our electric utility company. They upgraded capacitor pack on the pole by my house. And these new ones are generating so much of this kind of low buzz sound, it is unbearable. I was researching into what generates this noise, and found this article very timely. Only solution is to move these, as nothing else can be done about this sound. Which is turning into quite a project.
The "whataboutism" argument doesn't refute the initial claim. It's simply changing the subject and is effectively surrendering the point.
It's not really market oriented, it's tragedy of the commons oriented, as developers will build the cheapest thing they can on the premise that new residents can use existing parking, resulting in a reduction of value for others utilizing those commons. By not having parking minimums, it allows developers to pass those costs onto surrounding residents. There are townhouse neighborhoods near me with nearly impassable streets, people crossing 4 lane roads, spreading into surrounding areas, having to walk over 1km to their home from their parking due to insufficient parking minimums. Everyone sees it is a giant problem now, but it is too late to fix. These minimums are there for a reason.
Not in the next week, but hopefully soon by our standards.
In that case, bury a seed phrase somewhere like hidden treasure. The whole point is that a seed phrase is all that's needed to backup a wallet.

It's akin to hiding money in your mattress, but less bulky. You could even memorize it because seed phrases are between 12 and 24 words.
Bitcoin blockchain as an open ledger is the perfect tool for El Salvador gov to track any laundering, ransomware or extortion money.
Except in practice, most providers (even those that should know better, like Google) allow use of SMS, ostensibly set up as a “second factor,” to be used for account recovery without knowing the password. Making it, in practice, 1FA.
We have something vaguely similar with "BankID" in Norway. It's a bank issued digital ID that submits a 2FA to your phone (not through SMS, but through some other system that takes over the whole screen - not sure what it is).

It's usable for almost all government agencies or official stuff online here, but I haven't seen anyone use it for third party auth as it costs roughly 10 cents per login for the service using it.
It's pretty clearly just a provocative list of predictions and not a call to action. It's like a commercial from 1995 saying "You'll have a phone in your pocket everywhere you go". They're predicting it will be a major trend that consumers adopt because it will makes sense when it comes. It's not even that crazy of a prediction. There's loads of shit in my house that I use maybe once a year and I wouldn't mind sharing with others via drone.
Yeah, you're not going to do that without a ton of pumps. I ran the numbers once for a pipeline to the Salton Sea and it looks bad. However, if you built a canal (about ten meters wide and the same deep) and flooded the whole Imperial Valley (this isn't popular!), tidal variation would exchange all of the water on average about three times per year. There's an equation for pipe flow rate given a diameter and a pressure difference; the pipe you would need for the Salton is either unrealistically huge or has a really big pump. Hence, canal. I doubt it ever happens, of course, due to all the lost farmland/towns (and the "why bother?" factor).

What I was referring to is entirely different: the desalination occurs in Mexico and fresh water is piped around.
I've read a bit about what Japan did in relation to Bitcoin, and I've read a bit about what El Salvador is proposing to do in relation to Bitcoin, and I've read a bit about what the term "legal tender" means, and honestly I can find almost no points of similarity between those three things.
We are refraining from building a deck due to lumber prices. Maybe next year.

Or I buy a mill and cut my own lumber. I’ve got plenty of trees I can take down and use.
Don't those seated office jobs also weaken the relationship between work done and results achieved? And make shifting internal politics a major factor in advancement?

Feeling ineffectual and not knowing who you can trust seem like pretty major stressors to me.
At those time scales, it's pretty difficult to predict anything imo. That said, Bitcoin has been declared many times before and it'll continue to be predicted, it always comes back stronger.

1: https://www.bitcoinisdead.org/
In South Korea I visited Dorasan station that is on the train line between South and North Korea. That train line has only been used a few times, for obvious reasons. At the moment I visited Dorasan. it was not really used. So there was this big modern station that was almost completely empty.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorasan_station
IN EVERY WAY.
> if you start subthreads collapsed, it means it's loading all the comments

If we went with the collapse UI for this, we'd have to lazyload the comments on uncollapse. That would be a pain, which is another argument for using 'more' links rather than collapses to solve this particular problem.

On the other hand, it breaks the UI paradigm to have to go to a different page to continue reading a subthread, and there would be strange consequences (e.g. if you click 'parent' to go to the parent subthread, then the 'more' links will switch to a different set of comments).
The noose continues to be used as a symbol of terror:

https://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/story/_/id/29345568/nasca...

It's disappointing how explicitly and consistently HN responds to discussions of slightly-subtle racism with a very explicit not-at-all-subtly-racist pretension that it doesn't exist. "It doesn't bother me therefore it shouldn't bother you" and "You should look at the context", as if being black isn't a context.
https://login.vivaldi.net/profile/id/signup

Last line on the page: "Before using Vivaldi Webmail and the blogging platform, we’ll ask you to verify your phone number. That’s it."
Disincentivize the rent-seeking investors.

Incentivize the investors creating and selling something of value.
I tried using Ulysses with Leanpub and it wasn't compatible - it adds blank markdown here and there and breaks the Leanpub rendering process.

Couldn't get either Leanpub or Ulysses to fix it, and it was a known problem.

That said, Ulysses is a nice editor, as long as that behavior doesn't cause issues.
Because they are afraid of the DOM and yell at each other about code style?

This is common, but it’s still very junior thinking.

The best way to minimize tech debt is to supply the most direct solution to a given problem and refactor along the way to bring similar solutions together into a single delivery. Decoration in the code is not that.
Shouldn't pass on to your heirs either.
It's relatively easy to make a headphone amp quiet because its input is typically already quite strong.

Noise is more of a problem for microphone preamps, guitar pickups, etc., where the input signal is weak.
Those disclaimers at the beginning of the article are so out of touch
Most of the examples of Lightning that I've seen involve frequent transactions between small numbers of parties. How would this work in a retail transaction? For example, if I want to buy a cup of coffee from a shop that I visit infrequently?
Antifascismo Contro Comune DI Lecce
So you aren't using Bitcoin, the government is using Bitcoin as a backing for their own currency...
The Economist is a fan:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aeconomist.com+land+value+ta...
Exactly right - BlackRock and other large indexers have no legal obligation to follow the recommendation of an independent adviser (like ISS, Glass Lewis) in a proxy contest, even for a passive fund. In most cases they passively anticipate the index provider's (S&P, Russell, MSCI, etc.) moves for corporate actions, but management elections for the board and executives are much more subjective as they don't influence the position itself (note that the manager can sometimes also be the index provider, like BlackRock = iShares). The smaller index managers almost exclusively follow the proxy adviser's recommendation because they don't have the resources to analyze board decisions for ~8,000 different companies.
If the author believes it to be illegal, why should they care about "fixing it"?

Murderer: <kills a person with a hammer>

You: Let's introduce a new law to make killing people with hammers illegal.

Author: We don't need to introduce a new law, murder is already a crime.

You: That's a bad faith argument, because it means we can't kill people with any kind of implement, not just hammers!

There are two ways you can argue this:

1) Either you believe that the crime should not be illegal.

2) Or you disagree that the act falls under the definition of this crime.

In neither case is the author acting in bad faith, they're just disagreeing with you. It sounds like you would argue (2) but in that case you should provide some reasoning for that.
Most proposals in this direction (e.g. Glen Weyl's "Radical Markets", [1]) make reasonable exemptions for basic personal needs, so people don't get thrown out of their (modest) homes or lose their personal belongings unexpectedly. The point isn't to kick you out of your village, it's to make speculative investments in real estate unattractive.

[1] http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s11222.pdf
Built-in OverDrive integration is the only thing keeping me on Kobo over Kindle. I wonder why Kindle doesn't support OverDrive outside of the US?
My comment was only in regards with adding the date to the headline.
It was a conspiracy that the original twitter thread brought up, and you seemed to be criticizing conspiratorial thinking in general.

My point was that, of the conspiracies mentioned by the original user, the conspiracy to influence the 2020 election was openly acknowledged by its participants.
It may be also relevant that (from Wikipedia) it only has 1.2M /10.3M = 12% of the population of Sweden.
Government agencies like the FBI are subject to the Freedom of Information Act and cannot keep stuff like this a secret once they start making arrests. Once they go public it's all subject to scrutiny. This may be why they did all these arrests at once in a large wave.

https://www.foia.gov/