skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is a XLR microphone worth the cost increase - for meetings, not streaming(or youtube creation)?

I'm not sure how to quantify it, and I've not used USB microphones. By the time USB microphones appeared on the market, I already had microphones and there was no reason to downgrade.

My point of reference is the Shure SM57 / SM58 (which are very similar). The SM57/SM58 is dirt cheap at $100, extremely reliable, and has a very good sound to it. The "sound" of the microphone is largely created by the construction of the capsule and the construction of the microphone body. When you listen to a recording, you're hearing not only the sound, but also the resonances of the microphone capsule and body. My experience is that as you explore cheaper options below $100, you see microphones with much cheaper construction and noticeable resonance problems. I am extremely skeptical of USB microphones that are radically cheaper--up to 80% less expensive--than the most basic, inexpensive USB interface + microphone combo I could come up with.

For this reason, when I give advice to people who want to make music using a microphone, I recommend that they start with the $250 (total budget) USB interface and SM57/SM57. If $250 is out of their budget, then they should just save up until they can afford it.

So I will tell you that I am not happy with the quality of microphones in general under $100, or the quality of condenser microphones under $200-$300. I'll also tell you that the main thing I've been using Zoom for in the past couple years has been remote vocal lessons, so my needs are different from yours.

I would also caution you that there is an enormous amount of misinformation and bad advice about microphones online. People forget about acoustic treatment (super important), recommend that someone starting out get the SM7b (awful choice for first microphone), or tell you that condenser microphones are more sensitive to background noise and poorly treated rooms (just plain false--this one makes no sense at all).

So is it worth it? Don't know--how much money can you play around with, and how much do you care about audio quality?
No bad. I don't want those iritating headphone wires. Also a phone that doesn't mind being dropped in water, so no headphone jack please. Notch is not really an issue, front facing camera is useful for video-calls. And i don't have a camera bump, that's solved by the case. Also, no idea what i'd do with memory cards, there's plenty memory in the my phone.

The iphone 13 mini works well for me. No idea if this represents anybody elso on HN...
I think you need few master pieces first. Once you are established as a great artist then afterwards whatever you scribble becomes piece of art.
I think some punishment is deserved.

One can bring up the issues to employer, the fact that employer doesn't want to do anything about doesn't give one a right to exploit and delete things imo. I would just part ways with the employer or keep notes of whom I notified incase of a scandal.
Is there any plan to move to domain-qualified names? They seem to have prevented most of these attack in case of the java ecosystem.
You're hanging out in the wrong (or right) circles if that's your perception.
I'm using a Canon M50 just with the webcam software. (I don't think it has clean HDMI out so capture card won't help with this camera.)

I've since started recording some of my courses directly from OBS. [0] The framerate probably suffers, but I've never had thermal/overheating issues.

0 - https://store.metasnake.com/view/courses/a1a19c9e-af18-4615-...
could the masses still be convinced his art is good in modern times?

That's an interesting way to phrase this. There are hype beasts out there that camp out and spend tons money on a sneaker because it says SUPREME on it. I think people in this theoretical world can be convinced that Guernica is a masterpiece. I would go a step further and say most people wouldn't even need convincing.
And how many economists pretend that expanding the money supply doesn’t increase inflation?

Japan spent decades trying to create inflation to no avail. Despite trillions in spending from 2008-2020 inflation was very low, until finally spiking in 2021.
It looks like the error they made was this: They added too much latency because they forgot to account for the latency they added in the client. You can see from their architecture diagram (Figure 4) that the latency measurement didn't include the client delay.

https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltad9188aa9a70543a...

The blog post states: "The existing network monitoring system measured the latency at the networking layer as shown by the green arrow."
As one who actually did do some work while holding a newborn, what you actually want is a Moby wrap or similar.

You wrap the kid up and tie them around your torso, then you have both hands free. Even my fussy little guy was reasonably happy in his, and would contentedly nap there while I typed.
The current widespread destruction of the environment is directly caused by the human population and compounded by increased living standards.

If population doubled the planet would be destroyed and/or we would survive in minuscule pods and eat bland mush to survive.

This is not the same as Malthus' thesis. We are producing enough food and we would probably still do. The issue is the cost in terms of environmental destruction and quality of life.
The lifelike Fayum mummy portraits of Roman Egypt, 100 BC-200 AD
> We then bought an under $100 Logitech webcam that ran a web server on its ethernet interface

Wait hold up. Logitech webcams run web servers and have ethernet interfaces?
Linux phone is getting so exciting! I wish there was a way to dual boot or have something like a live CD to get into it in a low risk way.
How does it cut costs to give four months severance at the minimum? Basically, you continue paying the laid off people for four months while you receive zero benefits? I don't understand.
I bought a Palm Phone as soon as it came out, it is the perfect phone. Basically same size as the old Motorola Razr but even a bit thinner.

I'm very sad they discountinued it. I hope mine lasts forever or that either Palm or someone else fills this market gap for a small phone. If this initiative does it, thank you!

My highest requirement for a phone is that it easily fits into the front pocket of tight jeans so I can't ever even feel that it is there. The Palm Phone meets this requirement, haven't found anything else that does.
The TL;DR here is that Mark Pizzolato introduced an unpopular feature that silently turned disk images into containers. A few forks were started to remove this feature, resulting in Mark unilaterally changing the license to close the source.

Edit: Should clarify that Mark does NOT own the project, he owns only the GitHub presence, and has removed the ability of others to interfere in his takeover.
Does the Wii not have an OS? Or do you mean Wii U titles are far more integrated into its OS?
We recently finished shipping a SCIM server implementation. It was a big lift (it's quite protean).

If anyone else wants to look at software supporting SCIM, this list seems like a place to start: http://www.simplecloud.info/#Implementations2 It lists both SCIM servers (which can be the source of truth for a set of users and groups) and SCIM clients (which can received CRUD requests from a SCIM server).

(I submitted our company to the list but I think they got caught up in the GitHub/Heroku situation, since changes in the GH repo don't seem to be going live: https://github.com/erdtman/simplecloud.info )
Let me know when I can have the same item under N nodes.

Not a copy, but a leaf with multiple parents.
I think you can say this about a lot of 20th century artists. Most of them could paint like the masters if they wanted, but point has changed somewhat. Where a famous picture of Napoleon was painted to commemorate an like this

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/David_-_...

we use photography for the same thing

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Raising_...

This increases the value of the artistic side of painting relative to the technical side.

That said, Jackson Pollock sucks and I'll die on that hill
NaturalSpeech: End-to-end text to speech synthesis with human-level quality
Samsung XCover Field Pro (along with their other "rugged" tablets and phones) still have a removeable battery AND IPX waterproofing. Pretty cool stuff and shows that it can be done no problem and that manufacturers just do not want to do it. The rest of the phones specs are middle of the road but maybe some day.....
Off-topic, but it would be nice if HN could properly parse the Punycode encoding of internationalized domain names, so rather than the URL appearing as xn--rpa.cc, it appeared properly as ʞ.cc
Thought experiment...

Humans have weathered long durations of food insecurity for much of their existence. If the default metabolic solution to fasting was harvesting energy from skeletal muscle and smooth muscle... well that strategy wouldn't work for very long, would it? The lowest hanging fruit is muscle/liver glycogen, and fat mass after that.

Breaking down proteins (gluconeogenesis) is a metabolically expensive process, requiring large energy input for low energy output. The body is wholly invested in protecting these vital organs. Skeletal muscle has a reputation for being fickle, subject to change based on stimulus and energy demands, but those adjustments are most significant and relevant to those who are invested in maximizing lean mass (athletes, bodybuilders, statistical outliers).

Fasting is relatively protein-sparing, all things considered. The observations of apparent muscle loss can be attributed to loss of muscle turgidity - a reduction in glycogen, intracellular fluid, and electrolytes. The difference between fed and fasted states, both visual and internal perceptions, are quite extreme.

Are extended fasts ideal, or even generally recommended, for someone with the singular goal of building muscle? Absolutely not. But it is a flexible tool when goals shift towards catabolic outcomes (losing weight). Furthermore, the downstream benefits of fasting can translate to improvements in insulin sensitivity, nutrient partitioning, muscle-building, and body composition... which are relevant to anabolic outcomes.
In that case you just back up the database first and the WAL second.
To pile on a bit here, JSON-LD is based on RDF, which is an abstract syntax for data as semantic triples (i.e. RDF statements), there is also RDF* which is in development which extends this basic data model to make statements about statements.

RDF has concrete syntaxes, one of them being JSON-LD, and it can be used to model relational databases fairly well with R2RML (https://www.w3.org/TR/r2rml/) which essentially turns relation databases into a concrete syntax for RDF.

schema.org is also based on RDF, and is essentially an ontology (one of many) that can be used for RDF and non RDF data, but mainly because almost all data can be represented as RDF - so non RDF data is just data that does not have a formal mapping to RDF yet.

Ontologies is a concept used frequently in RDF but rarely outside of it, it is quite important for federated or distributed knowledge, or descriptions of entities. It focuses heavily on modelling properties instead of modelling objects, and then whenever a property occurs that property can be understood within the context of an ontology.

An example is the age of a person (https://schema.org/birthDate)

When I get a semantic triple:

<example:JohnSmith> <https://schema.org/birthDate> "2000-01-01"^^<https://schema.org/Date>

This tells me that the entity identified by the IRI <example:JohnSmith> is a person - and their birth date is 2000-01-01. I however don't expect that i will get all other descriptions of this person at the same time, I won't necessarily get their <https://schema.org/nationality> for example, even though this is a property of a <https://schema.org/Person> defined by schema.org

I can also combine https://schema.org/ based descriptions with other descriptions, and these descriptions can be merged from multiple sources and then queried together using SPARQL.
> It would be nice if there was enough of a standard one could download a Debian ARM64 image from Debian's main website, and it would just boot and work on an ARM SBC.

NetBSD has one image that will boot on all supported ARM64 systems, it just uses the device tree or ACPI table supplied by the firmware to configure the hardware, there is nothing stopping Linux from doing the same.
That's fair. On the other hand, if there's a single issue with modern phones that gets HN users raging more than their size, it's the lack of a headphone jack. I don't think I've seen a single issue that's been more complained about. The dominant narrative on HN seems to be that even if one doesn't use headphones personally, the removal of the jack served no purpose other than to pad the pockets of Apple. (Someone even managed to modify their iPhone to add an internal jack without breaking it, so it was definitely possible for Apple to do so without compromises.)
If people didn't like it, I don't think Legos would be so popular.
And you are qualified to make that assessment because...?
Choose the company that is on the best path to commercial success.
You're right, I think Yet-Another-Schema-Solution (YASS)™ would be much more compelling!

(Please forgive me)
Swiss Billionaire’s Mega-Influence on U.S. Politics
Here's more about realms and keycloak from a different HN comment thread I participated in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31266603

I don't know abraae, but they seemed familiar with Keycloak.
My favorite is the one he did at 25 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/...

Abstract, but not as crazy as the ones he did after he turned 50
What is cool or special about this?
There is not a lot of information to be had.

This is expensive compared with standard shared hosting provider
(or Netlify if your static)

> ""The only IDE that saves and syncs your code in the cloud""
That feels wrong?
Plenty of other IDEs do that.
What separates this from them?

Ok I can blog. Good.
I can also use a program to write code in my iPad
do I need to code my own blog?
What language?

>""With 1MB Ghostwriter you can kiss writer's block goodbye! Harness the power >of advanced artificial intelligence to help yourself easily compose blog posts. >1MB Ghostwriter will be able to help you code soon also - stay tuned.""

Well then I am going to figure out how to block anything served by this
company.
> “could the masses still be convinced his art is good in modern times?“

Is your actual question directed towards the quality of the art, or towards the ability of the masses to recognize it? Maybe it’s because I used to paint a bit, but man, Picasso was amazing. If you actually know a random grade schooler who “comes up” with this, hook me up!

ART is not about about aesthetical appeal or about realism. Art is about art, and what makes an artist just that is the ability to translate his perception into something. Look at the way the style of the self-portraits changed… you can look into his soul.

No one, and I mean no one, is driven towards art because they want the masses to be pleased about their artwork (if anything, the opposite is the case, but it’s not about that). Expression needs no public appeal.

Will what Picasso expressed still be accessible to humans removed from our contemporary culture? Yes. For the masses? Not in the chaotic absence of culture that dominates our time.
Looks terrific! You seem to have implemented the some common org-mode functionality, such as editing outline structure by moving elements and headings. Does Bike do anything that org-mode does not?

Bike certainly _looks_ nicer than org-mode!
I find the LogiTune software good enough for managing my Brio webcam. Certainly less buggy and frustrating on Mac than some other official software I tried previously.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/video-collaboration/software/...
Jesus - now I’m afraid to know. But kudos what a wonderful resource.

It seems less and less people want to use the terminal.

All the new developers I notice want to stay in the IDE and almost never want to get their “hands dirty”.

Thanks for writing that great resource.
> because they wanted the audience of the Chinese market.

Or maybe because the tournament would've been shit without them? Who wants to watch an international tournament with only 1 of the clearly top 2 regions represented? WHole thing would've been a forgone conclusion at that point.
a small point, but wikipedia says "The 7 kg bomb was hidden in a bag" which would be 15 lbs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Herrhausen#Assassinatio...
Termbox2
IMO thinking Picasso is special is more "tech bro" than not. Specially crypto-bros. Every time I see someone defending art like this and its value, it reads exactly like people defending crypto.
I meant to respond to you yesterday. Though I think we're going to disagree somewhat, I do appreciate the thoughtful responses.

>Basically, the incentives don't align because you're using FreeBSD in a way that most users/devs aren't.

I view this as a chicken/egg issue at this point - there is no reason to use FreeBSD on a laptop (and push/fix the other issues) without modern wifi. This also handicaps more than just laptops - e.g, the Raspberry Pi.

>It took an insane amount of time and effort to get Linux KPI going for graphics card support (something that affected both laptop and desktop users), you can infer from that the odds of getting something only for laptop use to become a priority.

I'm definitely aware of this - the mismatched incentives are why I asked in my last comment if this is just a funding/money issue. I recall that the FreeBSD Foundation has done funding work around wifi updates, but if that's not enough I'd like to know.

e.g

>The shortage for a project of this magnitude and nature isn't going to be lack of hardware, it's going to be lack of time and the opportunity cost for the few that could hack on this to stop hacking away on something else.

When I ask if it's a money issue, I'm not asking if they need money to buy hardware - I'm asking if there's sufficient funding for software engineering time.

Anyway, I've enjoyed the back and forth - here's hoping FreeBSD gets it eventually. I still love the OS to this day, but when it falls behind on stuff like this it can be rough.
The device tree describes the hardware, it can be used by any number of different operating systems.
Are you actually using the webcam microphone? And does it normally work well for you?
I studied economics. Everything except basic micro is nonsense. Intermediate micro is just calculus with silly variables. All the macro we studied was based on like fifty years of data, that of course showed the amazing power of economic theory, that everything compounds forever! Wow, what incredible achievements us humans have made. Pat on the back for us!
Alternatively, just do what Cloudflare does (did?), and have some cameras pointed at lava lamps[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cUUfMeOijg
Reminds me of Loise Wains' series of cat paintings, which some say is illustrating his descent into schizophrenia:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_psychedelic_madness_...
The original 1MB came up a few years ago just as I was looking for a place to build and host some js-based tools. The editor and file manager were great -- so easy to use that I forgot to make backups until after 1MB suddenly decided to delete all my work a year later, in violation of an earlier promise (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19772843).

Mea culpa. I'm using Google and Oracle free tier with Github now.
2%, all, as far as I can tell from the blog and other publicity groups.
Minor clarification -- the CM1 was the 4096-processor machine.

The CM2 had (well, those delivered to customers, anyway) a minimum of 8,192 processors, and up to a maximum 65,535. I worked on one for a number of years. I heard (but never saw) that for internal development at Connection Machines each developer had a single 512-processor board to work on.

You're spot on about the single-bit processor thing though. In their *Lisp implementation, you could declare an integer to be as many bits as you wanted, up to the max 128k bits each processor had.
the wire thing is definitely real for IEX

it's part of the exchange's license

and they have several videos of the rather large wire

there's even a tom scott video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8BcCLLX4N4
`ga` and `gcp`. Are those part of git?
13, and tons of anime. Naruto, Sword Art Online, One Piece, Full Metal Alchemist, and now Seven Deadly Sins.
> Picasso mastered "typical" art before he engaged in the abstract forms, right? That's what makes him special.

So in a hypothetical future where memory of Picasso's 'typical art' mastery has been lost, that which makes Picasso special will also be lost?

> This is such a techbro opinion

Scoffing at Picasso and (particularly) Pollock seems very mainstream in the working classes (and has been for as long as that art has existed.) It's not a "tech" thing.
I disagree. It's not even clear from the paper exactly how much learning transfer is actually happening. I think it's fair not to be rolling out the red carpet and showering the authors with awards.
That's exactly how I feel about it! Couldn't have put it better myself.

Posting on Facebook, LinkedIn or even Instagram feels like making a statement. I can't just throw a random thought or a picture in there, it feels out of place.

On the other hand, Twitter is a lot more casual. It works perfectly for stuff you wouldn't think twice about. Thoughts, jokes, ideas, pictures. Doesn't matter.

And yes, it's perfect for socializing. Little difference between tweets and replies means you can easily spend most of your time not posting anything and just replying to other people's content and get value out of it.
https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/positive-anymore

I picked it up from Pennsylvania unintentionally. Not a huge fan of it tbh.
Unfortunate timings of projects dramatically slowed down my career growth due to a lack of opportunities for me to take lead on. Every one of my peers recognizes that I'm performing at the next level, but I can't actually get promoted until I take lead on a big project.
I hate to say this but it’s almost entirely not worth it.

The image quality only shows up here because they’re uploading images that they took from the camera locally. Trying doing it with Zoom.

The compression is absolutely terrible. You’re gonna find that you spent a lot of time and money only to see a decent quality image on your side. Everyone else is gonna see the same muddy mess that they always saw.

The image is always bad due to the compression. If you’re a twitch steamer or something where you’re doing a 50mbps bitrate then whatever. But for most folks - there is little to no improvement. Your best way to improve image quality would be to improve lighting. Even a good camera will have a bad image with bad lighting.
Twitter is crazy and amazing. I stopped using it and a year ago I came back, its getting better!
> Ok, fine. But I'm not sure how this helps if you have six different systems with six different definitions of a customer, and more importantly, different relationships between customers and other objects like orders or transactions or locations or communications.

If you have this problem, consider giving RDF a look - you can fairly easily use RDF based technologies to map the data in these systems onto a common model, some examples of tools that may be useful here is https://www.w3.org/TR/r2rml/ and https://github.com/ontop/ontop - you can also use JSON-LD to convert most JSON data to RDF. For more info ask in https://gitter.im/linkeddata/chat
I saw those reports and also observe that the FB recruiters are more aggressive than ever. I tend to weigh the latter higher than the former
Wow really? I missed out on that one. Thanks for the update.