skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried both of them and even Microsoft Neural speech and IBM's ones; eventually, Microsoft one has sounded me the most clear and natural amongst these four services.
> Now I kind of figure that when they need more care than we can provide, the best institutional care we can afford, even at our income level, may well be a neglectful hellhole, so we're concentrating on keeping them with us right to the end if possible.

Working as a paramedic definitely influenced my desire to do this. Even the best nursing homes are... not great.
>which also balances out to $0

>The process literally creates money, meaning a bank could theoretically lend money even if it had no deposits at all

If the assets and liabilities balance, why describe it as "literally creating money"?

It makes it sound to me like someone gained something, like banks have a special privilege, and like money is a physical resource.

And being able to lend money without deposits is possible whenever a bank has money from another source. Are you suggesting that there is something non-obvious going on that permits bootstrapping from nothing?
I would say it's more of a fashion thing.

Back when many people are still using black, more nuanced coloring would pleasantly stand out because it makes the former look blunt.

Now, after the doctrine has taken over the world for quite some years (the article was from 2012), designs like Vercel landing page[0] feel like fresh air to me. I like the aesthetics because it's clean and straightforward, and how it communicates in a clear way by punching important information in my face.

There's a certain dynamic behind the game, since what I perceived as blunt before, I perceive as clean and straightforward now.

[0] https://vercel.com/
While I find it interesting that focus in comments appears to be on Israel, NSO and the complicated ( or not really that complicated if you look at it from a different angle ) relationship between them and US. I did not see a mention a broader discussion of, you know, hoarding zero days, exploits and whether using those can be worse than conventional weaponry.

The reason I find it interesting is because it is clear that US government supports Israel ( and NSO ) practically unconditionally ( recent vote on Iron Dome being a more amusing example of bipartisanship ).

Why is Reuters, an old guard by any account, concerned? Or are they simply following what sells and government is really at odds with its people when it comes to policy in ME.
Oh yes, the expertise of Patek Philippe will trickle down any day now.
Ruby IntelliSense on VS Code with Solargraph
"medical mask" = "surgical mask" is that it? anyway, this one seems a bit fishy to me, as far I can tell, in the first wave covid wasn't THAT MUCH more widespread, when very few regular people were wearing masks, this claim seems dubious to me
Exactly. Every time it's the same thing. They come up with stupid rules for the sake of equity, just to realize they made things worse cause everyone who could afford it moved to another town, or private school, etc. My town one day decided to cancel so many school traditions like the halloween parade for the sake of equity. Then they didn't allow in-person learning during the entire year. Then they did many other stupid things like that. Everyone I know who could afford it moved. They just have no clue what they are doing, they are just trying to look good, but in practice are doing more harm than good.
Well, it's not that I want it owned by a massive firm, but the fact is that only an extremely large company would be in a position to buy it. I was primarily pointing out that, I'd personally favor it being owned by an American company, because the most obvious alternative is a Chinese one. I can't think of many British/European technology companies who could afford ARM and could justify the price premium.

The alternative would be to go public again. But I think the temptation is too great, and some massive company would take it over. ARM is the kind of company which is much more valuable as a part of a conglomerate than it is as an independent company.
Yeah, pretty much.

An actual clone, no real value add. But it'd be fun to do, regardless.
So the virtualization hooks aren't just in MacOS? I could compile your app on my M1 iPad and run full MacOS virtually?
That is why it is annoying to read Silicon Valley / tech or mainstream media's take on Retail.( As well as supply chain... or pretty much everything other than their own tech.) Not to mention that 34% is gross profits. There are huge amount of operation cost involves.

I understand some press, or parties want to take down Amazon or whatever it is. But they need to do a better job at it.
> The jury is still out on Apple Silicon.

In no sense is the jury still out. The x86 hegemony on laptops and desktops is dead.
This can indeed work well for some people, but for others it's the worst compromise. It means they can't benefit from moving to a lower CoL area or nearer to family etc., because they still have to be within a reasonable commute distance. But at the same time, it can mean they still have to keep the necessary equipment and space setup for remote working at home, may no longer have a permanent desk/office, lose the benefit of reduced-cost season tickets for public transport etc.

It's hard to come up with something that's going to work for everyone.
That's the noise floor, which should be below the threshold of human hearing unless you turn the volume up so high that the loudest signals would be uncomfortably/damagingly loud. 16-bit digital audio has a dynamic range of 96 dB. Even in an extremely well-insulated anechoic chamber where we (unrealistically) assume the ambient noise level is 0 db, you would theoretically hear extremely quiet white noise when playing back a plain old 16-bit CD, but that CD would still be able to blast out 96 dB which in nearly all imaginable circumstances would be louder than desired. In a more realistic scenario wearing well-isolating headphones in a very quiet normal room, the ambient noise level is probably more like 30 dB, and plain old 16-bit audio gives you plenty of dynamic range to perfect reproduce any conceivable digital audio signal for the vast majority of use cases. Certainly for things like music, I think it would be quite rare for a recording to have a dynamic range greater than, say, 60-70 dB.
> This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.
Is this not just a clone of vim.so??
Mall owners at top malls do get a cut of profits and stores have minimum profit or they can be let out of a lease.

Strip malls no. Strip malls with an anchor store could have some profit going to the anchor stores.

Amazon has solved the shipping end and that's where much of their value is.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29198589
As someone who did a BA and PhD in math, went through high school geometry proofs, taught geometry proofs to math students and math education students:

Geometry proofs are a terrible way of introducing rigorous mathematical proofs to students. Seriously. I cannot overstate how misleading they are. I remember my first abstract algebra class in college, after the first HW I got called in by the TA because I tried to structure my proofs like I learned in geometry class - a sequence of symbols and references to hard-coded lists of axioms and prior deductions. I thought that's what proofs are, but they are not, at least not as humans do higher math. High school geometry tries to distill this process down to a symbol manipulation game that students can memorize and regurgitate, and in the process loses the essence of the thing it was meant to capture in the first place.
This article is due for a refresh, but it's still relevant on this topic: http://www.realityprose.com/what-happened-with-lego/
> Like everything in the software world, because some Google engineers used it, it became world wide famous.

I'm skeptical to this claim because vi/vim's widespread usage predate google itself, by decades. It used to be the only way to really edit something in the 1980s on unix systems, unless you preferred ed.

Vim's modal system extends way beyond some special cases. The most time save I have using it are probably not fancy stuff but quick movement across lines and within lines.
Context is important, no? I'm not sure how you got to read that bit, without reading the preceding rationale:

> Research is also clear that all students are capable of becoming powerful mathematics learners and users (Boaler, 2019a, c). This notion runs counter to many students’ ideas about school mathematics. Most adults can recall times when they received messages during their school or college years that they were not cut out for mathematics-based fields. The race-, class-, and gender-based differences in those who pursue more advanced mathematics make it clear that messages students receive about who belongs in mathematics are biased along racial, socioeconomic status, language, and gender lines, a fact that has led to considerable inequities in mathematics.

>In 2015, Sarah-Jane Leslie, Andrei Cimpian, and colleagues interviewed university professors in different subject areas to gauge student perceptions of educational “gifts”—the concept that people need a special ability to be successful in a particular field. The results were staggering; the more prevalent the idea, in any academic field, the fewer women and people of color participating in that field. This outcome held across all thirty subjects in the study. More mathematics professors believed that students needed a gift than any other professor of STEAM content. The study highlights the subtle ways that students are dissuaded from continuing in mathematics and underscores the important role mathematics teachers play in communicating messages that mathematics success is only achievable for select students. This pervasive belief more often influences women and people of color to conclude they will not find success in classes or studies that rely on knowledge of mathematics.

>Negative messages, either explicit (“I think you’d be happier if you didn’t take that hard mathematics class”) or implicit (“I’m just not a math person”), both imply that only some people can succeed. Perceptions can also be personal (“Math just doesn’t seem to be your strength”) or general (“This test isn’t showing me that these students have what it takes in math.” My other class aced this test.”). And they can also be linked to labels (“low kids,” “bubble kids,” “slow kids”) that lead to a differentiated and unjust mathematics education for students.

That leads to the principals:

> ● All students deserve powerful mathematics; we reject ideas of natural gifts and talents (Cimpian et al, 2015; Boaler, 2019) and the “cult of the genius” (Ellenberg, 2015).

> ● The belief that “I treat everyone the same” is insufficient: Active efforts in mathematics teaching are required in order to counter the cultural forces that have led to and continue to perpetuate current inequities (Langer-Osuna, 2011).
We don't know if an omicron specific booster will actually work due to something called "Original Antigenic Sin". For more information, consult this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S08968...

If you are eligible for a booster, then you should get one ASAP. The original coronavirus vaccine antibodies present in your body will cross-react, to a certain degree, with omicron.
You'll never guess what I think about credit card interchange fees and the contracts that prevent these prices from being exposed to the customers who could force Visa, Mastercard, and Discover to actually compete on price.
I had originally assumed the criticisms were exaggerated, but the more I read about the new curriculum the less comfortable I am.

It seems every defense is built around hedges like this one:

> although they are cutting geometry a bit, which doesn't make as much sense today as it did 100 years ago when far more people grew up to be farmers or ranchers

Which suggests to me that they really are trying to walk back the complexity of the education, perhaps as part of a goal to force the variance of educational progress into a narrower range within classes.

The language is so vague that it's hard to understand exactly what they're trying to do, which I think is their point. If they wanted to emphasize advanced education topics it would have been front and center in the plan. Instead, it seems like a footnote that we're supposed to assume will get taken care of in some future iteration of this integrative math program.
> Public education in the US sits at a difficult nexus of political will, cultural ideology, public opinion, and educational 'theory'.

And that doesn't even list the people with remunerative interests, teachers unions, textbook publishers the testing/test-prep industry, the for-profit outrage machine., etc.
Don’t get me wrong, he makes a lot of mistakes, contradicts himself all over the place, and is generally not what I would call a reliable witness by any stretch of the imagination, but I can’t find anywhere where he said that he had no reason to believe Rittenhouse had shot anyone.

I admit though that I’ve only seen the highlights of the cross, which I why I asked for a link.

I might go away and watch the rest of cross this evening.
Because now it's the idea of the times and it's making its way into various spheres of life.

Do we have data that it helps/worsens?
I make both free builds and sets. I view sets as lessons on building techniques.
And don't forget about the most obvious factor, which is that people simply want their website to look a certain way and don't want all websites to look the same.
I wish you the very best. This has potential to fill in the long standing gap of designs to implementations flash used to fill.

I'm assuming it's closed source to respect your business, but do you keep any kind of blog or progress updates online?

Any chances of open sourcing in the future? :)
ITA should instead be the poster child of clueless computer science stunts that actually are not that helpful. The fact that ITA can find and suggest that you could do this trip at a higher price but with a 24-hour layover in Charlotte, or with a 48-hour layover in Charlotte, or with a 96-hour layover in Charlotte, ... Someone with good taste should have stopped these crazed graph theorists before they reached the keyboard.
No, I would argue you're not. The runtime destributables for .NET and Java are not bloated like Electron. Python is worse however it's a already a built-in part of many system's package ecosystem.
The ”do anything” mentality get displaced with something else

I disagree, I think plenty of adults still have that mentality, but for them Legos is not the place to fulfill it. As a kid, Legos are one of the most approachable medium to manifest your imagination. But they are also very limited. As an adult, with more skills, knowledge, and money you might get into wood or metalworking or software instead, where you have significantly more freedom.

An AFOL might be looking for something more nostalgic or meditative (e.g. rock gardens, bonsai?), and so they approach it differently.
I guess that may be what I meant, i.e second 24 of the video.
Multiple failed relationships, I am afraid. We are all same but there are also some fundamental differences in how people process certain experiences. Some people care a lot about others while others might care less about others or some might not care at all and I think that changes perception of reality drastically of each person. And that's just one parameter, empathy. In reality, there could 100s of parameters shaping an individual's perception resulting in so many variations and so many misunderstandings. People usually project there own good/bad traits on others like I used to think that people think like me which is far from reality.

But I think these differences are absolutely needed and the evolution kind of selected this approach for the world to move forward. Also, even if this world had come this far with only 1 trait I believe it would have been pretty boring place to be.
> Like, liberty and privacy sound nice, but how many lives do they save?

When considering this question, one should be careful to distinguish between how many lives are saved with "the society we are currently, but without liberty or privacy", and with "the kind of society we will become if we lose liberty or privacy".

Lives "saved" are also a poor metric. How much is a life worth, spent inside a cage? Many would be willing to risk death for liberty. In fact, they have.
I'll bump you up to n=2!

I learned vim to, say, like, a low-moderate-ish proficiency? Basically forced myself to use it everywhere at work and home. After a few weeks of this... I went back to just vanilla IDEs/Editors.

For me, it was just a mix of not liking some stuff being handled in vim bindings and some stuff being handled by the IDE's bindings. I'm sure there's a bunch've plugins or customizations that'd smooth it over, but... vim also made me realize, I'm a pretty meat and potatoes text editing kinda guy. I like to shift lines, expand selections in a context aware way, and copy/paste. When I split panes, I do it with the mouse like a cave man. So the bulk of vims power was either lost on me, or felt like it got in the way of my minimal needs.

Also, I pretty much never ssh onto an individual machine to edit anything substantial these days, so... the selling point of having some bedrock transferable "everywhere" skill is kinda moot.
My personal pet-peeve is when the obsession with DRY carries over to testing. Testing is not the place for DRY. Reading a test should be like reading a recipe: do A then do B, then do C, then expect result X. When you start abstracting the setup to the nth degree it becomes much harder to understand the test because you have to click around the code to following the abstractions like a trail of bread crumbs, when really what you want is for the stack trace to say "error on line 123" and the cause to easily found near line 123. Tests shouldn't be dry, they should be wet.
* Someone who left before the project finished, or immediately after.

In my experience, people leave just after the big project ships. They've been focused on a task, working hard and are usually left with "now what?". It's interesting psychology.
Not from my experience. All you have to do to get that is to give them slack channels and allow them to speak freely in shared spaces. Everything will work itself out.
Show HN: I made a documentation websites builder on top of Notion
To give you some insight about the situation in France:
> It is very difficult to maintain diversity. Challengers can hardly face the leader head on. Amazon's dominance in e-commerce can always be put into perspective, as it only represents 13% of commerce in France today. Its position is much less dominant in France than in the United States. Except that e-commerce is far from having reached its saturation point.

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Source: Interview wiwth Philippe Moati, https://www.lenouveleconomiste.fr/philippe-moati-la-force-da...
* A US Phone will route your call via NSA servers[1], so yeah thats OK from the US governments side

* Publicly at least, NSO acknowledges there are state level agreements, the latest one with France, to block entire country codes from Pegasus (in return, France has stopped all legal action against NSO)

* According to Israeli Channel 12 reporting on this tonight, the official NSO response also includes the statement that the accused numbers in the report were not +1 numbers. Their so called "customers" were targeting US government employees using African area codes. NSO claim they have completely disconnected said customers from the system

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Recording a macro is probably easier than to decode that physical memory haha.
Ask HN: Customer support outsourcing experiences?
Hey all.

_If I just launched a consumer product and need to outsource some customer support, do you have any words of wisdom for how I should do it?_

I'm pretty interested in general wisdom on this topic, but a few notes on my specific use case:

* All text-based, no phone support. We use Zendesk, installed SDK's/widgets for receiving tickets and email for follow-up.

* US-based, English-speaking user base.

* Most tickets aren't simple account lockouts and the like. Users engage pretty substantially with the product. We need dedicated reps, not an on-call service with a runbook.

* We have on-staff reps, and we've been using a consultancy that our parent company uses for other projects to augment the staff. We're looking for more of the same going forward—some FTE's, some contractors—but the current consultancy is very expensive. We have plenty of budget, but we're not totally cost-insensitive. Will pay for quality and to avoid user frustration.

Google presents no shortage of options. (and ads!) But this would be a really expensive and embarrassing move to get wrong, so any advice on how to choose or experience with players in the space would be helpful.

Green account for obvious reasons. Thanks, friends.
Great feedback. This is one of the areas that I designed MathLingua to help with.

Every definition has a ‘written:’ section describing how to express the math idea on paper and a ‘called:’ section describing how it is described when speaking.

Right now the ‘written:’ is used to render how a result looks, and in a similar way the ‘called:’ section can be used to convert a result into a transcript that a screen reader would read.

I haven’t yet been able to implement this feature though, but stay tuned for updates.
Please don't virtue signal, or state flame wars, or use this to posture some kind of agenda.
Replying to my own comment, re: risk reduction, are masks the new seatbelts, as some like to point out? Are our bodies now to be considered as dangerous as vehicles, and so it's reasonable to enforce security measures when you "take your body out for a ride"? This seems very strange to me, and, along with the vaccine passports, quite disturbing.
"We promise we don't work on numbers with +1" :wink: :wink:
Affirm fully supports the use of virtual cards. You can use the app to generate a new visa card for every purchase.
Though after looking into it more, it seems to me like bastions usually aren't used for reverse proxy / SOCKS like this.

Usually bastions are just allowing one SSH server on your VPC/network and every SSH connection going through it.

I still actually haven't found similar projects to mine.
Wouldn't a normalizer destroy the dynamic range of the sound throughout the movie?

That seems to be the problem mentioned in the "Mixing For Streaming" portion of the article.

> Case in point: Mann recently worked on Joe Carnahan's "Boss Level," which was originally meant to be a theatrical release. "For a variety of reasons, it ended up at Hulu, and when we got a look at that spec, they require it to be based on the overall [volume] of the film, not on the dialogue level of the film. Consequently, that's a big action movie with shooting and cars and big music, and the result of that is that you have a much more squashed up, un-impactful mix ... there are only a couple different ways of measuring these things these days, and I can only imagine that it's somebody just not understanding the reason why it should be this and not that."
Of course they would do that, which is why they historically are required by regulators to more than 100% back their liabilities with assets.

With stablecoins, does anyone even care?
Math at school started losing me some time around multiplying and dividing fractions, and I haven't seen anything uses of math in any of my jobs. I, for one, am glad that schools are finally removing the unnecessary pressure to Take More Math Than Necessary. Maybe they can now focus on more practical subjects like CS or shop, or even just reduce the number of hours students spend cooped up in those kid prisons with tyrannical teachers.