skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, the word sounds bad on the OSX land.

I have a couple meetings/day on Meet, some small, some 20+, usually with screensharing by others, with a laptop with two webcams, 3 mics (internal, external webcam and dedicated mic) and 4 audio outputs (internal, each of two monitors (but only one has speakers connected) and Bluetooth headphones). The settings seem to always pick the right choices of inputs and outputs by default but change is easy.

The only thing that sometimes gives me trouble is the Bluetooth headphones connecting to my phone instead, but that's once in a blue moon.

The thing that is somewhat broken is sharing my screen, but sharing an application works so not a big deal.

Not sure about Zoom land though, only watched a couple classes over it.
Ear-Biometrics for Human Identification
I thought it was standard knowledge that if you need a specific Web API or JavaScript feature, you explicitly test for it, rather than making assumptions based on the user agent.
Yep, some of the subreddits definitely kind of focus on one section of the genre but that’s what I kind of like. If I want to find some good new music with a specific sound, I know I can just check those communities out. When I was first discovering electronic though, all the subgenres and labels was overwhelming. Now that I have my tastes kinda figured out I now add in listening to labels I like and artists.
That everynoise site is really interesting, never heard of it before. Excited to check it out, thanks for the link!
Thank you for your message :-). Can you tell me in which ways you think Hype is more mature?

My app does not currently allow importing JSON, that is something on the roadmap. It does however allow you to send values to your project dynamically if you embed it on a web page. This way you can drive it with javascript.

If you would want to recreate the example from my website in Hype would you need to know code or do you use some kind of plugin?
They can be made a bit prettier by using flat sided rocks and line the front of the wall with rocks that seems to interlock a bit. Any round rocks that will not make a flat wall go in the back.
Looks like they removed some 9s from availability in one day. I wonder if more are considering moving away from cloud.
Don't plan projects out 5+ years and fail to revisit the plan. That is, don't do Waterfall.

Work with the actual user/operators (this I did see a lot of, but not on new systems, only on systems in "maintenance") to get regular feedback. One of the best jobs of this I saw brought in both current and retired operators. Current ones rotated through helping evaluate the system and the requirements, retired ones were hired on to be part of test/QA.

Switch from fixed contracts to more level of effort contracts.

Generally shift towards continuous delivery where possible (with information systems much easier than with embedded systems, but doable to an extent with embedded systems).

Fix the official release test phase which is often 6-24 months at the end, most of it waiting. This is part of the program's overall process which is very Waterfall in structure for most systems. I've seen work that was completed and put on a shelf for over a year before being evaluated for flight readiness. Well, it was useless to operators by that point [0] and delayed vital feedback for the next iteration. That's partly a logistics problem, but addressable.

Fix the lack of trust the operational test teams have for development teams. There was a complete lack of trust for the teams delivering the product to be tested, but the test plans for flight testing were often so bad that they were a joke (for the particular delivered systems, not flight test plans in general). If you don't have the trust, gain the trust. Take the existing operational test plans and back port them to your own test infrastructure and test efforts. Deliver that report along with the product, eventually they may trust your test reports and can start speeding things along.

As with all software, get as much testing done as early as you can. The longer you wait, the more costly it is to address discovered issues, particularly validation issues.

Finally, get experienced software engineers into program offices. Most of the time their "software engineers" are a recent college graduate, or someone from a totally unrelated field that wrote some Matlab code once. They lack sufficient experience to properly manage or guide the management of the software portion of a project. The worst I saw with this was that system I mentioned in my previous comment, the program office lead for the software portion was a newly pinned on 1st LT history major. Zero technical experience (had been in some finance role before), they trusted the contractors too much and made decisions more on their input than anyone actually using the system.

[0] For context, this is software that spent 2-4 years being developed and then would be shelved for 1-2 years before being tested. Which meant it still had 1-2 years for fielding. So from conception to release you're talking 4-8 years. That is an awful pace.
> Even Netflix "had it all" with the million dollar recommender prize they set out in 2014, and I know their data science team is top notch. But if I scroll through their experience with my personal account in 2021, I basically still get "what all others are currently watching in {your_country} now" and I'm less than thrilled.

IMO, Netflix's recommender system suffers from the simple fact that the company itself doesn't want to collect accurate user ratings and make recommendations with them. If they did that, then a not insignificant portion of the content and deals they invested in would get memory-holed due to bad ratings or lack of interest, and that would make the company and its leaders look bad.
> I've read previously on HN that there's one company with a stranglehold on the e-ink patent and so the prices are artificially high for the screens.

I wouldn't believe such extreme claims without any evidence. Please see my comment history for my repeated attempts to get to the bottom of this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28740452#28746303
Supposedly, craters are uniformly round, because at high speed, meteorites do not act like pebbles hitting mud, but as if they exploded on impact.

However, if you look long enough, you will see some elongated oval ones, suggesting it can be more complicated.

What's really strange, is a crater I found in an old atlas of the Moon from the 1960s, that was approximately square.

Once I asked a planetary geologist what the hell makes a square crater. She went "mumble mumble underlying faults and stresses".
I've got a Keyboardio Model 100 on order which I'm hoping will arrive in January. I'll be graduating from a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000, the model I've loved and used for donkey's ages.

I'll admit I'm a bit anxious about choosing the switches. Every time I read about mechanical keyboards it seems to be "a big deal™". I'll be choosing between Kailh Silent BOX Brown (tactile), BOX red (linear), BOX white (clicky) switches, plus a fourth yet to be decided.

Noise is a bit issue - quieter the better - so the whites are off the menu. Have to dig into the pros and cons at some point.
I am skeptical that licensing could stop someone from using a project as the basis for a weapon - I doubt lawsuits would seem like much of a deterrent.

That said, I am not sure that a quadruped robot is much better for delivering a bomb than an RC car, other than a slight edge on rough terrain. Both would have an advantage over flying, since weight is a problem for drones.
The same Elon Musk who has 7 children and is so busy at work he doesn't even have time to be a proper father to them ? Wrong Elon. The problem we face is TOO MANY PEOPLE on planet earth right now. Massive consumerism which results in massive consumption, vehicles, computers, all ending up in landfills, unrest, poverty, disease, pollution. Fossil fuels causing global warming. I welcome wars and pandemics.
Yeah, all civilization needs to survive is about another 20 billion more, 10 billion of them on Mars and 10 billion more here to lead the life worth living.

I thought any supply/demand believer would recognize we have more supply than ever, and the marginal need for any is less than ever before.
Whenever I start feeling worn out of the music I have been listening too I spend some time just scrolling through and listening. I am not a big playlist person but rather a library person. (I use Apple Music for this reason as they emphasize libraries). When I find a song I like I just add it to my library. And Apple Music’s interface is great as I can retrieve it by either looking for the album, artists, or genre (albeit it’s classifications aren’t very good).
Apple too, probably.
This project is dead in the water if the resulting libc depends on libc++ at runtime.
Really disagree IME — there are great people at GDS, but they're doing it as a vocational thing and could make much more money in private sector.

Generally in the UK you have to go freelancing to earn the top of the market, but even permanent roles in private sector have much better pay for less responsibility. E.g. I saw some GDS "Head of" roles advertised with a salary band ~£60-80k.

AFAIK, they've also dialled back on public sector & they now offer defined contributions nearer to general private sector.
It's actually a transcript of the video, so there are plenty of images, not just immediately apparent.
It’s much easier to write safer code in C++ than in C. You can still shoot yourself in the foot, but unlike C, modern C++ at least helps you avoid that.
Here is a partial fix.
I have Firefox set to block autoplay vids, and I also created a bookmarklet (look it up) that removes video elements from the web page.
If you see a video playing, you can click on the button in your bookmark toolbar to execute javascript to kill the video. It leaves the video player visible, but it is now empty: it does not use bandwidth and it does not distract you.

Here is the javascript. To use this, you need to create a button on your bookmarks toolbar, and add this as the URL:

javascript:var x = document.querySelectorAll("video");var i;for (i = 0; i < x.length; i++) {x[i].parentNode.removeChild(x[i]);}undefined;

One way to use this bookmarklet is to make a new button by dragging (say) this page's URL to your toolbar, then editing it to set the url to above, and renaming it to FixVid.
There are lots of very specific details, but the top line number is really important - what % of the benefit premium does the employer cover. 85% is a decent answer (83% is apparently the average in 2020 [1]).

HSAs and HRAs complicate the calculations, but that topline % should be something a recruiter or hiring manager knows.

Also if you happen to be dual-income, your spouse's benefits may be better or good enough that you don't care as much the employee premium % vs. an equivalent salary boost.

[1] https://www.peoplekeep.com/blog/what-percent-of-health-insur...
Sounds similar to numerous discussions I had in law school... and everyone from my law school would give you the same answer - It depends. Call a lawyer.
It's probably only a matter of time.

I had a similar thought when I saw Mercedes new infotainment UI [0] -- the dark blue with heavy use of gradients is very reminiscent of vista-era design to my eyes.

[0] https://mediacloud.carbuyer.co.uk/image/private/s--av_nNtkN-...
I do offline navigation with OSMAnd all the time; you have to think ahead a little (download the relevant maps when you have a connection available) but it works great. I even found out about a construction project under my home before the official notification.
The Japanese military was not one that their contemporaries dismissed lightly. Casually assuming racism as well?
Ah, the wonders of Thunderbolt over USB-C. One connector, two sides, three generations, ten protocols, a hundred dollars and still one just one monitor. If you're lucky.
That's almost every ERP system....

You could customize it to match your business, but 90% of the time that would cost more than reorganizing your business.
Not that Apple cares.
> Eink will go through a similar process of nerd shaming as the patents expire and new competitors emerge, but eventually outdoor capable displays will also become a normal, acceptable option.

Which patents? How will any company get past G = τ / γ ? You do realize that in the last 30 years of development in electrophoretics, the update time has remained around 700ms right? Those who do better like Clearink do it by sacrificing bistability.

Please see my comment history, eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28740452#28746303 , for why I strongly doubt your claims. I don't see how your observations about LCD apply to electrophoresis, unless there's some new physics that you're describing.
Losses from BitMart breach reach $200M
> I realize it creates a legal quagmire to have abandoned works and I think registration should be required to solve that.

I really like the model of every work automatically receiving protection. I think creations should automatically receive a relatively short-term automatic copy-right protection (say 14 years). After that, I think extensions should require manual renewals by the current rights holder (including contact information for the rights holder)
I can't speak for that user in particular but I use Reddit for music discovery as well. My flow is this: I'll look for stuff with the genre tags I know I like and look for new artists I don't recognize that have those tags. I'll listen to one or two songs and set their name aside if I like them and go back to browsing. After I get bored of looking for new stuff, I'll go back through and listen to the entire discography of that artist and add songs I like to my Spotify or Youtube playlists. I then move from artist to artist that I set aside earlier. After that, I'll look for any collabs they've done and check out the assisting artist or I'll check out the "people also listen to" suggestions on Spotify and start the process over but there instead of on Reddit. That cycle typically lasts about a year before I get the urge to look for new stuff again on Reddit like that.
We are Wet'suwet'en and the Coastal GasLink protesters do not represent us
Also a lot of really interesting science to be done by pointing Hubble and JWST at the same target.

(NASA’s Curious Universe podcast is running a JWST series right now and this came up in a recent episode).
Founder of Robo-Text Service Accused of Running Secret Spying Operation
The blockchain will make anime real and give everyone a big tittied schoolgirl gf!
Firefox is now also an Ad-Ware and Spyware:

> “When contextual suggestions are enabled, Firefox Suggest uses your city location and search keywords to make contextual suggestions from Firefox and our partners, while keeping your privacy in mind,” the support post reads. The “relevant suggestions” from “trusted partners” appear at the bottom of the usual search suggestions pulled from your bookmarks, browser history, and open tabs — a less intrusive version of a search ad, but technically still an ad.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/7/22715179/firefox-suggest-...

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I've now switched to Tor Browser - it's a privacy hardened Firefox browser with all the crap removed. (Disabling and removing Tor, which is integrated with it, is a slight pain, but doable).
I saw reports it was milder in the first reports I read about it yet the media has been fnord omicron fnord at the same time.
Why there’s no such thing as pristine nature
Interestingly, 50% declare that it makes a company unappealing if people are asked to work in an office. This also mean that half of developers have no problem at all with onsite work. Reading HN, I would have expected the ratio of "remote required" devs to be higher.
Camera Roll as a Tool for Thought
Previous posting about the original blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29455852

Though the article does provide some additional commentary.
We have more efficient processors today that may be able extend battery life. AR glasses definitely have to be untethered.
And yet there never seem to be enough serious people who believe this finding to engage in arbitrage by only hiring the women who are supposedly underpaid. It's just journalists... Maybe they should try to get funding for such a venture.
I have one of these I may want to bring back into service and have the same question.
Yes, check their profile ;)
“Cube”? Or “monolith”?
Energy weapons are expensive to build. Chemical weapons are cheap. The War of the Machines is going to be all nerve gas, all the time. :(
The USA has centralized censorship systems widely deployed and ready to be activated at a moment's notice come wartime, too.

Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, iMessage, all of the App Stores, even which apps you can launch on your computer or phone - this is all centrally censorable in minutes with a single phone call.

It's a ticking time bomb. The moment a war breaks out, you're going to lose a ton of things you take for granted, even in the USA.
Yes, but this system seems to have generated WAL at a very high rate for something that is a test system with no load.

It went from effectively 0 to 97 GB in less than 6 days; which is 673 MB/hr; 11MB /min, or 58 MB /checkpoint timer.

If we consider that most, if not all, of this traffic would be based on checkpoint-related full-page writes, that's still some 7000 distinct pages being modified every 5 minutes. Even when I consider pg_stat_statements recording and writing out all activities, modifying ~7000 blocks is a lot for what I can expect to be repeating and templated maintenance tasks.
It’s standard. Career ladder [1] sets expectation for each level. Performance is measured against those expectations. Outages don’t negatively impact a single engineer.

The key difference is the perspective. If reliability is bad that’s an organizational problem and blaming or punishing one engineer won’t fix that.

[1] An example ladder from Patreon: https://levels.patreon.com/
The claim is that fractional reserve banking will not be competitive enough to trading of the real thing so no one would want it to begin with.

Tell me what would a fractionally reserved loan offer me that the actual amount that I could possess would not?

If I don't own the actual amount, then how do I send it to other people's wallets?

And if the actual amount can never technically get into other people's wallets, why would anyone even accept them over the real thing?

And if it does enter other people's wallets, mathematically how does the system fractionally reserve?

And if people start accepting the loans themselves, would the loans be priced equally the same, or would it be traded at a different value?

And if the loans and actual thing work in different valuations, then aren't they different currencies?

So then what does one being fractionally reserved have anything to do with the original which is not?

There are many alternate forms of btc already, just look at bitcoin cash, bitcoin sv, bitcoin gold, bitcoin sv, the list goes on and on and on and on.

You can even claim litecoin, dogecoin, ethereum, tether, buttcoin, and all the other coins are its alternative forms, and they exist just fine.

And exactly as you have said, fractional reserve btc banking will exist just fine as well, just like every last one of them.

The question is: will it have anything at all to do with the original thing?
But it still compares both free tiers as he mentioned. It seems dubious that you demand to compare Fastly's paying tier with Cloudflare's free one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cloudflare's free tier does not optimize for speed/performance, but for available ( = unused ) datacenter capacity based on location. Which makes it less fast than their paying tier.

Additionally, there will be an update soon as mentioned before, based on past comments.

There are other things that you ignore/are unaware of that are not even mentioned in Fastly's post. Eg. That cloudflare also optimizes their network for routing to denser cities instead of rural areas. That metric is not even mentioned by Fastly...

Note: i don't know any inner workings of them as I don't work there. It's based on what I remember from their blog about their SDN and performance weeks. I suppose it's applicable to this scenario, if i got the details right.
Is it electron-based?
> Weird how the stats were just of the US. Elsewhere in the world there are children being born at a high rate.

In pockets, yes, mostly in the world's poorest nations. But the global birthrate as a whole has been falling since the 1970s: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/108A/production/...

It is now only a bit above replacement. Even a conservative projection of the trend has us at a shrinking global population in a few decades. Also, if Nigeria's population quadruples and China's goes down by nearly half, on paper it looks approximately break-even. But that would hide a great deal going on there, in terms of economic, social and political consequences, for both countries, and the world.
> but in practice the difference is negligible [...] A particle filter with a million points is trivial

This will be O(millions * state_size) of flops per frame. A Kalman filter of the same state size will have the expense of a matrix invert, which will be O(state_size^3). So for a state size of, say, 12 floats, the Kalman will be about O(2000)-ish flops. A particle filter with "millions of points" modeling the same system will be O(state_size * millions * flops_per_state_update) which could be literally billions of flops, a six order of magnitude difference.

While there are absolutely applications where the particle filter is a more appropriate choice, it's just false to say that the performance difference is negligible. The difference is quite large.
That sounds like a retaining wall failure waiting to happen. Thin galvanized cages are providing short term structure, but they have relatively short lifespan underground. Fine for knee high walls, but if your covering it with soil it’s not obvious these these things are going to become unstable.
EPA Trims Ethanol Mandate for Gasoline as Biofuel Pressures Pump Prices
I'm not talking about running infrastructure, I'm talking about working with HR and making sure that the people they've hired as sysadmins aren't meeting with FSB or PLA agents in a local park on weekends and accepting suitcases of USD cash to accidentally `rm -rf` all of the Zookeeper/etcd nodes at once on a Monday morning.
Roku could lose YouTube this week – so now’s a good time to download the app
I didn’t express an opinion on the motivation for the API, I just mentioned why uBlock doesn’t work as well.
The number of DAYS my team put into optimizing nginx was unbelievable. You would have thought it was our product given the amount of attention. Glad someone is thinking about this so we don't have to
There is a company that delivers broadcast video ads to hundreds of TV stations on demand. The ad has to run and run now, so they cannot tolerate failure.

They write the videos to GCS storage in Google Cloud, and to S3 in AWS. Every point of their workflows are checkpointed and cross referenced across GCP and AWS. If either side drops the ball, the other picks it up.

So yes, you can design a super fault tolerant system. This company did it because failing to deliver a few ads would mean lose of major contracts.
Yeah, my chrismas tree was fugazi.
Because "services down" also means SLA credits.
MAANG*

How long before Meta takes over for Facebook?
I am unhappy with pfsense's inability to push gigabit traffic on my hardware, but IPV6 works fine for me. I'd be curious what isp you have and what your issue is.
Launch HN: Directus 9 – Open-Source Instant App and API for Any SQL Database
You can hire experts to pretend they care and do whatever's the most convenient for them and since you don't understand, you'll never know the difference.
Designers happened.