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We live in the same neck of the woods, based on your HN profile; there is a balance tracked at Vancouver Public Libraries that is based on late fees. It's also worth noting that VPL wants to get rid of late fees as well, based on this article from a few months ago. https://bc.ctvnews.ca/vancouver-libraries-offering-fine-forg...
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Ask HN: What's the science behind audio echo on conference calls?
We've all been on Zoom (or conference call app of your choice) where, due to people being in close proximity, or other reasons, there is harsh audio echo/feedback.

What is the science behind this? Why does that occur? We all understand what to do when such echo occurs ("can someone please mute?" "can someone turn off their volume?"), but what actually drives this phenomenon?
I don't get it. It mostly seems to be about swallowing danger, which is generally considered an issue for children under 3. Tiny magnets and remote control helicopters are not appropriate toys for children under 3, and I assume this would be obvious to most parents. In the U.S. such toys would have to be labeled for older children. Is this just a labeling problem?
So where does the control originate from?
Looks like we didn't support SETOF.

Added this here:
https://github.com/sqlfluff/sqlfluff/pull/1522

Demonstrating how easy it is to add this sort of thing to the project thanks to how the code is structured! :-)
> It's also strange that someone who has this level of access to what is presumably a multi-billion dollar company decided to just leak the data? Maybe they did try to ransom it, but I'd imagine someone with this kind of access inside Twitch must have had some creative way of making money.

Notably, the initial leak didn't actually include the password data which the leaker claims to have, just source code and payment data which has been verified by several affected streamers. It's possible that this first leak was just to establish trust so they can random or auction password hashes later.
> It's pretty simple to make the models transparent. Just select the inputs you want the model to have access to. You shouldn't be feeding your model the percentage of minorities in an area.

That doesn't make the model transparent, it just makes the input and output transparent, but it's still a black box.

It's nice to say that everyone will ensure that the model isn't fed with information which will allow it to make decisions or be biased based on sex / gender / race / income but in reality accidental racial bias has already shown up multiple times in applications where it should be easier to detect than an invisible 'crime prediction' algorithm that the general public won't have access to but public policy will be implemented on the basis of.

> I don't see how you make a meaningful separation between the two. Either you can use predictive models or not. It's hard to carve out "use predictive models but not too predictive". The more likely scenario is just not using any model and distributing police resources uniformly regardless of need.

I make a meaningful separation because one has clear logic which can be viewed to be unbiased, and the other has a black box calculating it.
> The reality, is that most of what people see is left wing.

This brings to mind the liberal battle cry that facts have a well-known liberal bias.

> Real far-right news isn’t on the air, and isn’t in most public debate.

I'm guessing you don't live in the U.S.?

> The Overton window is pretty far left, so anything more moderate seems right or far right.

O, for a scale on which to measure the position of the Overton window!
If Google is the only search engine that doesn't implement Chinese censorship outside of China, then that sounds a lot better than alts that censor search results via Bing.
If you're actively using you cards (churning [0]) then yes. The point of tap to pay is to prevent carrying all the cards, thus lightening your daily carry.

[0]: https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/what-is-credit-c...
Hard. Pass.

No one can be trusted with personal data, even do-gooder researchers.

And the data will be tainted by extreme self-selection bias so in the end, how useful are the studies you're contributing to?

Also, what about honeypot "studies?"

It's easier for me to just say no.

> Big Tech has built its success by exploiting your data. It’s time you put your data to work for you, not them.

No one is going to "stick it" to big tech by doing anything other than completely locking up their personal data.
WTF Is Serverless Anyway?
William Goldbloom Bloch, The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel is a pretty good companion volume by a math professor, delving into some fun combinations and topology topics.
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I would be worried about the 30% real estate part. That doesn't sound healthy when you consider that China is a manufacturing powerhouse.

Meanwhile some western nations just see some mild inflation that was very common 30 years ago.

If you want to see a "horror story" look at the UK and the effects of Brexit.
Can Google Pay be made to come up automatically whenever your iPhone is near a payment terminal?

(I"m not sure if this was the EU's complaint, but it's why I've always thought Apple Pay was anti-competitive.)
I'm an AMP noob but why would someone block AMP pages?
According to their press release it says:

> That's why Cloudflare plans to eliminate egress fees, deliver object storage that is at least 10% cheaper than S3, and make infrequent access completely free for customers

A few elements of concern. It says they "plan to", so we don't know if this is near term or some moonshot type of goal. It also states earlier in the press release that the free egress frees are offered via the "Bandwidth Alliance", which removes bandwidth charges between member providers. While it is noteworthy that GCP (Google Cloud Provider) and Microsoft Azure are part of this alliance, AWS is not! So does this mean that egress fees will be charged if an AWS server requests the file?

I also don't know what to think about the statement that they plan to make infrequent access completely free... does that mean that I can throw files onto R2 for archive purposes and not pay anything? Because that is what it sounds like by that statement, but it obviously sounds impractical or too good to be true.

Original Press Release: https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2021/cloudflare-an...
What the hell do we do in this industry if that’s not the case?
I did the same thing, that is the quickest few bucks I have spent on the App Store ever (and then shared to all of my friends).

Did not even need to think about it, I have wanted this since APM first started being rolled out.
If I understood well, it's around using NFC for payment indeed.

Developers do not get access to the low-level NFC interface but a set of APIs that allows to use NFC, but in a restricted way.

Apple does not seem to allow developers to use contact-less payment, making Apple Pay a monopoly on iOS, hence the antirtrust case.
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This is exactly like the classic fighting game advice "don't get hit"
Excuse the self promotion but to answer your question there is Gigablast and Mojeek.
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This reminds me a lot of "I don't have an accent! YOU have an accent!"
One officer died of a stroke and the other four died of suicide. You have been mislead and are spreading misinformation by implying that they were killed by rioters. For all we know, some or all of them took their own lives because they agreed with the rioters but were forced to fight them. Blaming the rioters for their deaths is pure, biased speculation. Are you also blaming nationwide BLM riots for officer suicides?

You are fundamentally not arguing in good faith and continue to twist my words and make disingenuous arguments. For the third time, my original point was that this was not an insurrection because the rioters did not bring guns. That they were technically "armed" with flagpoles and mace does not change the argument, nor is it an excuse for you and the media to conflate "armed" with "carrying lethal ranged weapons (guns)". That is my entire argument and everything else you've written is not relevant to this discussion.

Also
>They died because they were beaten by a violent mob, as confirmed by several medical examiners

This is one of the many blatant falsehoods that you are regurgitating.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/third-d-c-officer-who-r...
That's 6.25GB/day over a 20 day working month. More time, less data per work day, harder to detect.
The only reason the popular payment system in Switzerland (Twint) uses garbage bluetooth at some cash registers or qr codes (at RF terminals) is because Apple not allowing the use of their NFC (at least they did not back a few years ago). Until recently, Apple was very dominant in Switzerland and any payment solution that didn't work with Apple would be dead on arrival.

Every 3rd question on the Twint forums is a request to implement payment via watch but that ain't happening as long as Apple block this and they will not enable a feature only for Android users.
I have no issue with the official Reddit app and I can use Reddit just fine.
I would hazard a guess that it’s less fanboyism and more cynicism towards and lack of trust in the software makers that would be creating competition. A big selling point of Apple platforms has been a unified experience that acts an escape from much of the nonsense brought by those software makers.

In my mind the fact that support for opening up iPhones and the like isn’t unilateral is something of an indictment of the larger state of the software world. When users are actively seeking a walled garden as a form of shelter, you know something with the surrounding world is messed up pretty badly. Yes Apple needs to do better, but so do the overwhelming majority of companies putting out any kind of software.
After a lot of research I settled on SnapToggles for floor-to-ceiling shelving mounted to lath and plaster. About as easy to install as could reasonably be expected for the wall type and seems to be holding well.
Does it take a genius to figure out how to build twitch? It’s a modern crud app with video streaming.
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do you find out your serum levels through a regular blood test at the doctor, or is there something specific you need to request?
For sure. NPR, Newsweek, and The Christian-Science Monitor aren't centrist by the most charitable of interpretations either unless you stopped reading those publications in 2008.

Al-Jazeera (which I don't see on that list for some reason), AP, and the BBC are the only ones I'd place in that middle column. The rest have obvious agendas in my opinion (e.g. if your publication unironically uses the term "incel" to refer to any group, you're not centrist).
No, most countries suffering from hyperinflation either got bombed, hit by massive sanctions on their primary industry or intentionally shut down their agriculture industry.

Yes, I am talking about the Weimar Republic, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
> So clearly going back to this pattern won't necessarily make everyone sleep better. And so "modernity" is not the issue, and the problem does not have a simple solution.

Yes, you can have a sleep pathology, and overweight can be the symptom of a pathology too - not to mention that you might have no weight problem at all, it might be that your genetic heritage makes you an outlier ; just as there are "naturally" skinny people or people that only need 5 hours of sleep.

But the thing TFA questions is the exploitation of mere difficulties experienced by healthy people. Basically it says, stop buying snake oil.

> Telling overweight people to eat less is like telling an alcoholic to drink less, or a depressed person to cheer up. It's pointless, silly, and naive and it won't work.

Those are used as, indeed, simple examples - which include topics that are not related to health and well-being.

The real message, though, is that you should analyze the problem you have before falling for snake oil. If you can't figure out by yourself what are the root causes of your problem, it resists a priori reasoning and you are probably in the left part of the "law of decomplication" curve - a person with a specific problem (i.e. a pathology). In this case, sure, the right move is to go see a specialist.
That's what parent is saying. He is contrasting a compiler (which this isn't) to a linter (which this arguably also isn't).
Ask HN: When does my company need its own ASN?
With the recent FB outage, I’ve been reading more about BGP and ASNs. Question: when do I need my own ASN? I see all of the digital giants have their own ASN, but I also see companies like Mailchimp as well have their own ASN. When do I need an ASN for my business? Is it when you want to own a block of IPs?
If you have a good tiling manager you just need a lightweight single tab browser with mostly shared libraries and one process per window / tab / whatever abstraction is supported by your tiling manager
Do users actually use these chat widgets?

I sometimes see websites try them but I cannot remember a single site that kept it going.
You absolutely can have a complete mental model of the thing you're coding. Especially if you properly break it down into pieces (modules, libraries, functions, whatever you want to call them) which can be understood as a unit.

The biggest problem is that many people use libraries as a crutch, without any knowledge of how they work or what they actually do.
> Why the hell shouldn't I be able show ads to people who want to see them?

Nobody's stopping you. If you want to show ads to people interested in football, post ads on a football site. If you want to show ads to people interested in horses, show them on a horses site. If this type of non-invasive targeting to display ads doesn't make you as much profit, well that's a you problem.

> HN is an algorithmic feed.

You seem to be struggling with the idea of a 'bespoke' algorithm where everyone's algorithm is different, informed by an internet-wide surveillance system. This is the difference between HN and FB.
Useful to note that Prime Gaming has been doing the exact same strategy (for longer), backfilling users' catalogs by throwing a lot of money in games giveaways. Once the games have been added to your Amazon/Twitch today you can download an EXE installer from a hard to find Amazon page or use a really bland "Twitch Launcher" app that clearly is the first stage towards "Vapor" or whatever the final brand would be. For a lot of Amazon Prime users that pay attention to the Prime Gaming page month to month and click the bright shiny green "Claim" buttons whenever they show up, Amazon can just go "look at all the games you already 'own'" when they start actually marketing it as its own store.
That's the whole point — I can add the ones I rarely use to Android Pay still.

For example, I have 11 Chase credit cards, and all of them are in Google Pay on Android. I almost never use the hotel ones; they simply provide other benefits for the annual fee, like the free hotel night for each annual fee renewal. But sometimes they do run bonus spend promotions, that's where once every year I can simply use those cards through Android/Google Pay on Android without having to worry about finding the physical card that I only use once a year.
Figma-Like Data Science Tool?
I think that a top 3 problem for most enterprise data scientists is getting accurate context and framing the problem correctly (e.g. communication). If artists could move to Figma, can data scientists also move to a collaboration-first platform?

From what I understand, Figma is not as good as powerful but unlocked prototyping and stopped designers from pulling out their hair because their PM kept iterating over email. Maybe we have to do the same?
love what you all are doing, and wish i had this when i worked at airbnb. the reactivity update is killer!
My kids are 13-17 and are pretty good with money.

When they were very little, I did the following:

1. Bought a cash register at Staples and we would have "store days" on the weekend where the kids would make stuff to sell to mom and dad. They had to learn how to use the real cash register to accomplish their sales. That cash register is one of the things that my kids remember so fondly they won't let me get rid of it.

2. Got each of them Greenlight cards almost as soon as they were available. They get real credit cards with their name on them. I have a parent wallet that I can then put money onto their credit cards either one time or assign an allowance or give money for chores, whatever. I can see everything they spend, I can stop them from spending money on certain categories and I can turn their cards on/off with the app. Works really great - link to sign up with a $30 bonus for both of us:

https://share.greenlight.com/582861?share_id=701600482970897...
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>As the article suggested, there are often caveats to "unlimited" and honestly I don't even think they have written unlimited anywhere :)

CF already talked about egress pricing here https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/

i would say that when they talk unlimited, they actually mean it.
Maybe the point is that just having the S3 and CDN isn’t enough to move customers.

If you’re using AWS, S3 (and Cloudfront) it will just be a tiny part of your infrastructure, why would you move that out of AWS and lose the integration coming from having everything in AWS?
people will seemingly hop aboard anything that gives them authority over other people. i am reminded of that scientology grade chart that leaked a while back[1]. the end result of each training was usually the ability to give the training to others. so while all orgs obviously want to remain on a positive tipping point with the general membership rising to serve hierarchical functions over time, scientology teachings seem to exist mainly an opportunity to advance relative to other scientology members.

[1] http://scientologymyths.info/definitions/gradechart.gif
Does anyone know if Twitch employees have two factor auth? Having access to an employee's account would be the easiest way to pull this off.

It'd be strange if they don't have two factor auth, of course, but it's just as strange to have this large of a hack.

I think if it is a simple case of an employee account takeover, then the attack would "work" to some extent at any company. Larger companies typically have strict data access requirements, though. Good luck finding the few employees who have raw access to Google password hashes, for example. And even more luck knowing how to get that data if you do.
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This seems to be almost universal for banking apps. Aside from those of some of the huge national banks, in the US bank apps tend to be lowest-bidder barely functional junk.
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Oh, no, disagreeing how to call colors is not a deficiency. But there is a deficiency that causes disagreement on how to call colors (or, well, maybe "deficiency" isn't even the right name, because it doesn't impact your daily live.).

I can attest that those kinds of tests work well even on a screen, maybe not this one (I failed it in approximately the same way I fail every one, so it probably does). If you are in doubt, just show the test (or that color spectrum at the last page) to another person and ask if they can solve it. It is really disconcerting discovering that you don't see colors that everybody else does, and doubting the test is the reaction that nearly everybody has.

Anyway, it may be the case that you just see different colors. I know I can see some UV light that most people can't.

(Oh, and if the spectra looked different, that probably means you made mistakes in the test, getting an error on some image that you could see.)
I've come to learn that kids really cant learn about the value of money until they start earning their own money. it's easy to spend someone else's moeny, its hard to part with your own once you know how hard it is to earn.

So step 1 is to figure out a way to get them earning their own money, either a job or some sort of allowance.

We started our kids with a job at age 12, we tried allowances before then but dropped it because it was tied to doing work around the house which we felt they should do anyway.
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Yea it's a weird situation for sure. I would assume that any facial recognition attempt has taken a hit with masks being so prevalent.
Chat widgets instantly erode my trust of your site to zero, and if you're selling anything on that site there's a 90% chance you just lost my sale. It's gaudy, intrusive, and so often a contrivance from a user standpoint that I would never add something like that to my site. A simple contact page will suffice (and require less Javascript).
WWII would have looked very different, especially the aircraft. Naval warfare would have looked nothing like it did. Well, maybe naval boilers wouldn't be counted as ICE, but even if you allow for that it likely means no oil based infrastructure so everybody is still shoveling coal. Even that relatively small change makes a big difference.
It is widely held in the BSV community that UTXO has better scaling properties. Txs can be validated independently of other txs, alowing for parallelization of tx processing. See this for more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mhvk0U6zqE&ab_channel=Unbou...
In account based models tx cannot be parralely validated. Please enlighten me if I have been mislead.
Is it actually a good idea to start with a starter kit?

Or is it better to start with an empty Django project and add Stripe and whatever else you need?

I would think usually Stripe is the only thing you need to add to Django?
Love this idea!

Plan9 wants a network
Plan9 wants to be distributed
Plan9 wants a community

I've always heard about Plan9's networking, does this include having good leverage for tasks like audio streaming?
expectation of privacy

People keep using this phrase as if it's binary. I 100% expect that when I go in public, there isn't someone following me with a notebook, keeping a log of everything I do. I also expect that someone won't walk up into my face and take a picture of me without asking.
Probably more useful than teaching them how to save with the way the economy's going.
Trying to protect against leaking developers/employees is like trying to protect against lone gunman terrorists: useless.
And, if you try anyway, it is likely to cause more annoyance to everyone involved than actual protection (think TSA).