skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-paywalled, syndicated version at ArsTechnica:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/06/china...
Also, before then, Valve had a "one-time exception" to "no refunds" that you could use.

I bought 2 copies of a game advertising co-op to play with a friend, only to discover it's local-only. (Steam didn't have separate "local/remote play/online co-op" labels yet) I opened a ticket and they refunded me as a "one time exception".
when my wife uses her cellphone she can feel it in her head even when she is just holding the phone in her hands. she has no issues otherwise.
In my time as a Product Manager for both tiny startups and giant corporations, (and indeed one little startup that became a giant) I’ve killed maybe 15 products and launched 6. During those days I was always amazed how few customers bothered to enquire where the particular product was in the product’s lifecycle.
The most insane or sad is that there is some market for fractional ownership... Of collectibles in general, but also games... That alone should prove that it really isn't fully about owning it or nostalgia... At least in any sense I understand.
> the majority of their revenue comes from their in-game advertising business

So, they can open still open source it? I mean, open sourcing it would allow competitor to use the same code, but given it is not the same brand and not possible to release to consoles or stores, they could still keep most of their revenue, right?
youtube doesn't want to. there's plenty of porn sites in the US. there's plenty of money in the porn industry too.

sure, there's a social stigma. but if google/youtube/alphabet wanted to (as in they think there's enough money to be made in that sector) they would do it.

US conservatism does interfere with a lot of personal things (cough), but at least the current status quo is that it does not want to restrict selling data. (though there's a big think-of-the-children scare, and with the same sustained push for banning this or that this could change eventually)
Maybe. But in the OS world "object" does have an established meaning.

I think the broader point is that you can build an "object-oriented" system in the sense that you're expecting overtop of the "object-based" systems he is describing and it will give you much of the base level semantics of an OO system (object allocation, tagging, encapsulation) without enforcing any particular OO language semantics (inheritance, typing, methods, etc.) and while also allowing for non-OO (blob of memory) semantics if you need it.

Think of each C allocation via malloc/free as an object. It's just in his system the pointers that point to those allocations are not describable as a series of integer offsets into a big linear memory, but really are handles or unique IDs which map directly into the VM subsystem of the OS and to some action happening in the MMU.

In essence most object-oriented language VMs/runtimes are doing this themselves, essentially building abstract handles (object references, etc.) overtop of the "linear memory" abstraction that the OS provides. If I understand his gist he's really just talking about cutting out the middleman.

I suspect, though, that there's not really a lot of efficiency gains anyways. This path has been so heavily optimized (in both hardware and software) over the decades that it likely matters little.

The security argument maybe is more compelling. There's good argument for the concept of never being able to turn an integer into a pointer or into an integer and back again. Except this would break probably the majority of C programs out there.

Maybe the middle road is for the OS to present a sandboxed "legacy" or "emulation" environment for programs that do pointer arithmetic and to provide enhanced compilers that flag these kinds of things and encourage/offer alternatives.

Given the prevalence of virtualization tech now, there's probably more room for experimentation in this type of thing these days without breaking compat...
> just buy a proper mic or a roaming mic unless the choker look is more your choice,

Yeah I have/had a Sony 1000MX2, AirPods, a Corsair VOID (from a gamier time in my life), and a regular plug in headset+mic -- lots of redundancy in my audio setup.

Have to admit that the convenience of a bluetooth headset I can wear and walk around is still the most convenient right now. The throat mic only being wired (for now) is a real bummer.

> I doubt arch supports your webcam so nobody gets to see it...

Arch actually is not at fault 99% of the time! Arch Wiki is quite possibly the greatest distro wiki to ever exist -- I happily run pacman every day and mana falls from the gods and everything works great usually.

Webcam funnily enough has never been a problem :)
Throat mic ASMR is an untapped market.
But Unity isn't just used for games.
Cost perhaps.
Taxes are only a chunk of what makes fiat money work but theyre probably the largest chunk.

There arent really many counterexamples and arguably the counterexamples have extenuating circumstances (e.g. dinar under saddams occupation).
There will certainly be big problems to deal with, and terrible events. I grew up in the 1970s with headlines dominated by wars in the Middle East and many other places, terrorism, inflation, the threat of nuclear war, apocalyptic cults, ‘malaise’ and cynicism, pollution, violent crime, political corruption…and basically everything you mentioned too. With all that, things worked out OK.
OP here, I hundred percent agree -- it was definitely stupid and pointless.

Would do again :)

If I'm a real HNer I'll post an update in 3-6 months after I've wired bluetooth to this. (don't hold me to this)

[EDIT] - I'm not a real HNer, please don't expect that this will ever happen. No way I'll find time to hack up and wire bluetooth to this thing.
I always wonder how my wife would react if I told her to fill out a bunch of forms asking her to self-evaluate how good of a wife she was, and then I also filled out an evaluation, all while providing a sheet for her to fill in what she was spending her time on during the day.

Of course, when the boss does it, well then it's ok.
Sure, but even the UAE government can't force Amaxon in that sense. Amazon is not required to provide their services in the UAE.
The languages listed as "production ready" here[0] are Javascript, Lua, Nim, Rust and Typescript.

Also I would hesitate to call GDScript a weird Python. It shares some of Python's syntax, like significant whitespace, but beyond that it's a completely different beast.

There is an actual Python for Godot project[1] but I don't know how close it is to ready for prime time.

[0]https://github.com/Vivraan/godot-lang-support

[1]https://github.com/touilleMan/godot-python
I'll believe it when I see it. Tesla promised that, what, a decade ago? And it went nowhere.

Edit: Wow it really was almost a decade ago... /cry
https://www.tesla.com/videos/battery-swap-event
I recall some unpleasant fights with license-servers in my past.
I seem to remember The Mythical Man-Month making a point about a single architect being more effective.
The biggest use case of a throat microphone is to do an accurate version of "Ich liebst dich nicht du liebst mich nicht" part of "Da da da" by Trio (you also need a mini casio for the "tut-tut-tut tut-tut-tut-tut" beepy riff)
This is awesome.

The PICO has great software documentation and seems easy to program. I did not use it till now as it had no networking features at all.

Now this comes along, and the Pico can form a great Edge device.
Earlier, 'woke' described a person who is alert to injustice, but now it describes a person who wants everyone to know that they are alert to injustice.
History search is the way, especially with fzf. I love using fzf to pick git branches as well, so long as you use intelligible branch names :)
Reptile and Amphibian Aging Revealed
Paying taxes in a given currency means that the government forces the use of that currency nation-wide. Without a central tax authority requiring that currency, groups of people could start exchanging, say, peanuts for the mutual exchange of goods and services. Since you can't pay your taxes in peanuts, you would want to hold national currency instead of peanuts.
If anything this is an argument for Bitcoin also having “value” without being used by the average Joe for day to day transactions like buying a coffee.
It's not taxes but salaries.
I just want to point out as the other side (a business considering a purchase) that being someone's customer is not at all equivalent to trusting them for partnership.

Especially if the value of the deal is, say, $50/month (so 2nd lowest tier)
My problem is that this is a 20 year plus collection. It's of a size where logistics are needed to move the darn thing and monetizing it's value will be somewhat hard.
>Then there's support for reactive programming, which is still in its infancy

State management for UI I would think should be a first class objective rather than 3rd on the todo list. See SwiftUI for something evolving toward this direction.

>The best way to illustrate the advantages of functional/relational programming over OOP is through a case study

No, the best way is to be right up front with a real life common problems and code examples that make life better. I’d prefer not to read this many dry theoretical pages before seeing any of those.
15 years ago, due to poor earnings, had my wife gone to work, she would have only earned $20 per day after day care expenses were taken out. We opted for her staying at home.
Maybe it's some legal coverage for the one exception of pre-orders? IIRC you can pre-order games on the eShop and cancel >=30 days before release. Maybe it has its own "cancellation period" definition.
Do you have a background in physics or is this just stuff you read?

I have an undergrad degree in physics and nothing you just said sounds right at all. It all just sounds like gibberish. What kind of "energy states"? Molecules bounce off each other and vibrate around. The measurement of that kinetic energy is called "temperature".
Looking forward to the post when you get Doom to run on it. :)
I had one when I was a kid in the 60s from an army surplus store. I hooked it up to something somehow. Sound quality was appalling, but I guess that wasn't it's main goal. Thanks for the reminder.
It's not remotely bizarre. Distros take on so much god damn work because of the quality of firmware, etc releases. It's a real nightmare. Go check the firmware commit log. Or try to figure out what version of the kernel, firmware, dtbs, eeprom, and more, are actually tested by the Foundation.

Doing some work for (distro), I've spent an enormous amount of time building automated, hdmi-captured, media-less-netboot testing platform and you wouldn't believe the number of bugs I hit or slight behavior changes I saw as various firmware updates landed. Usbboot (nee rpiboot) is not really great or well written. Oh I forgot by/wifi firmware is in two more repos, with no instructions on usage, and they keep renaming files breaking my work.

So, yeah, I'm not remotely even 1% surprised by this.
Absolutely. I'm a fan of the SteelSeries Arctis 5, but the wireless version (Arctis 7) has too much clamp strength to be comfortable for me. Sony's WH-1000XM4 is a good wireless option on the go, but because it uses bluetooth it murders the quality of incoming audio if you use the mic.

It's a series of tradeoffs, and finding a headphone that is right for you and your situation is far from trivial.
Notepad++. Or Vim. Or any editor.
I do not see why it is gross. Employees have more utility if they get an abortion and less utility if they have to spend time out for parental leave.

If society wants to promote parenting, then society should pass laws about parental leave. Individual businesses have no obligation to reduce their competitiveness in the marketplace.
Another bullshit magnet is "superfood".
Why is it always on the Dev team to completely uplift whatever is working for them, and never that the PM/PO/DPO/Scrumwhatever has to do the heavy lifting themselves? Is it because they would actually have to do work instead of just attending meetings, slacking other people for updates, and sending out progress reports? (Sorry to all you good PMs out there, I am talking about the median case)

If you are a PM and you come on a team that isn't using JIRA, and you want JIRA with all it's fancy bells and whistles, that's fine. Set up a board yourself, write all the tickets, capture all the work that's happening based on the dev's tool they are currently using, and update all the knobs and buttons to your heart's content.

My guess is the infatuation with JIRA would quickly diminish if this was so.
Have a "open source upon death" clause ?
The TLDR says:

> Throat mics are an improvement over a standalone wired microphone

Seems like a claim to me!
This isn’t a Lego ad, no brownie points for just building random things. I mean build them if you want but don’t judge others because they don’t want to?
As stated it’s bollocks - but also a straw man. The value depends on the value of the state in question. A wealthy state will force money to have some value if they collect taxes in that currency. A completely dysfunctional state with no wealth or services doesn’t exchange any value for taxes.
But for the US, Europe, China, whatever - not Zimbabwe - it’s a major factor
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I don't even like wearing turtlenecks and you want me to strap on something around my neck that is a cross between fetish wear and military cosplay? hard pass.
At this point I just wish there was a killfile mechanism built into HN. I know I can run some local proxies and there are third party pages to achieve this, but I just want to filter every article that's $somehow flagged as "crpyto" ("currency", not actual cryptography)
I mean it's nice that all the arguments and rebuttals are presented in an easy-to-read format. Unfortunately, many of them are still very weak rebuttals.
Doug Berman == Russ Hanneman
The issue was settled in 1991 in a series of double-blind session where participants could detect exposure with 100% accuracy (link below). What you are quoting is a widespread myth perpetuated through particularly bad science where shrinks (!) exposed different participants to the same frequency/modulation for short periods and expected them to all react in the same way. And when not all reacted equally, they wrote it off as non-significant. Electromagnetic sensitivity doesn't work like that. Reactions are highly individual.
In one famously bad study (Rubin et al. 2006), participants had a GSM phone transmitter strapped to their heads and the "sham" exposure was the transmitter signal diverted to a resistor load instead of the antenna - so "sham" was ALSO emitting EMR, although probably less, but apparently detectable by participants. Again, it was written off as participants being unable to distinguish exposure from sham, when both were actual exposure! That's the level of "scientific" idiocy we're up against.

See "Electromagnetic Field Sensitivity", Rea W. et al. 1991: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/1536837910903141...
Gold has utility. You can't make circuits out of Bitcoins.
I have experienced few crash like scenario with network issues on my Mac. If my wifi is poor for a minute, slack will permanently stop working unless I force reload using menu or restart it. Messaging apps are basically meant to not have permanent connection, but I have seen very few that could work with this assumption.
These are all very minor changes. Yes, agencies can’t steal 100£ from you for each renewal, but they replaced it with commissions.

The tenancy deposit scheme is again a fake solution. Landlords can still block your money for months and force you to accept some deductions (because a fork is missing or the flat hasn’t been “professionally cleaned”). If you are money constrained and don’t have enough money to pay 2.5 months of rent (first month plus deposit), you are forced to give accept your landlord’s deductions in order to move to the next flat.
For what it's worth I have bone conduction headphones (Aftershokz Aeropex) and I find them very comfortable to wear for long periods (a few hours at a time; I have never used them for a full day), more so than other types of headphones.

They don't cover my ears at all, so obviously they are only good in situations where I don't want to block out sounds from the environment. I tend to use them on a low volume, partly also because when I use them I don't want to block out other sounds, and partly because I don't like loud music most of the time. Within those parameters, I'm very happy with them.

YMMV
I thought this was a satire. It looks like this is not. I like the fact that the author loves experimentation and tried this setup.

I'm someone who still thinks Apple has not even solved the design of the AirPods/Pro. So, anything else that makes us like "Batman with a utility belt" is something I would find a more aesthetic alternative.

For most of the video call needs, I have tried boom/condenser and XLR microphones. Right now, an XLR is the best that stays away from my desk (mounted on an extended arm) while I continue to keep a desk Microphone as a backup. The last resort is the trusty Bose Quietcomfort 35-II.

While on the move, a wireless bud such as the AirPods would be OK.

I have been working remotely since the early 00s, and have used the early Jabra Bluetooth with phones, and now, if I can take back that flaunt, I would.

These days, I drive past busy social hangout areas or visit diners with the family; I see people wearing AirPods or AirPod-like knockoffs as an always-on ornamental addition even while not talking (on phone). My brain always cries in silence, "Batman."

I don't see this throat mic fitting in any sensible scenario, and from the article, the ROI of audio quality over anything else is not worth the roll-eyes that will you will gain from your audience. Nonetheless, I would love to try this with a walkie-talkie in the jungles when I'm working with the planters for the natural decarbonization projects I'm involved with.
> todays pipelines include a whole new level of security that was pretty much ignored in 2005.

The very opposite.

> Security adds complexity

If anything, complexity is the enemy of security
Does Roblox have a main game, or is it just an editor with some custom content. Seems more analogous to the Warcraft III World Editor that Warcraft III.
> Mercedes joined the sport

Re-joined, I think they left in the 50s or 60s after a racing tragedy.

Fangio raced for Mercedes, I believe.
because it looks like a BDSM collar?
> Useful information disappears from the internet all the time.

If something is really useful it will stick around, maybe some site goes down but there will be others with the same information.
https://linuxmusicians.com
I disagree, the article is proclaiming them to be a good solution:

> Throat mics are an improvement over a standalone wired microphone (if that’s what you are using)

I'll go as far to say that the author is making a completely false claim here and does the reader a disservice by not even attempting to back up this claim with a recording.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5_eI9ungGE&t=228s

I'll just go ahead and say it: throat mics sound like shit.

Compare that to a popular dynamic microphone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9bniJsyb1E&t=57s

The author doesn't seem to know that dynamic microphones only capture sounds directly in front of them, which makes them ideal for environments where there is background noise, especially if the background noise comes from further away.

The other thing about AirPods is that they sound better connected to Apple equipment where they aren't limited by A2DP, and most AirPods owners own other Apple products.

Also, any recent laptop is likely to have multiple built-in microphones with noise cancelling, and if it's a recent Mac the quality is actually incredible.

The product I recommend that has been very flexible for my usage has been the Antlion ModMic Wireless. It has really amazing wireless quality without the need to mess with Bluetooth, as it uses a USB dongle. For PC gaming, I like to pair this with my over-ear Sony headphones, which are wireless headphones, but for my gaming purposes I plug in the wire and use the ModMic for input. Then, on the go, I can remove the microphone (mounted magnetically) and use my headphones as standard Bluetooth headsets.

For my Mac, the solution I like is to use AirPods for the output, but use the Mac built-in microphone as an input (only a good solution if you're typing on an external keyboard, or else people will hear you typing). It sounds a lot better than the AirPods microphone. It's so good that the only practical step up is a dedicated dynamic or condenser microphone.
Yeah - good point, many products have been discontinued by large tech companies.

Google Reader the first that comes to mind.
It's a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo that basically means: you can refund within 14 days, as long as you haven't started downloading the content yet (which is also Sony's legal policy), because then it hadn't been "delivered" yet.

But purchases on eShop queue up a download immediately (as opposed to Sony's "download now" button), so I don't know how that period can "exist". Maybe you have a case if all of your Nintendo devices are offline at the time or something.
That's not right.

One: gold is the og currency, it doesn't have to prove its value because it already did. Two: it is also being actively used for transactions, look no further than jewelry. If you have gold, you will find someone who is willing to exchange it for something else with material value in any city on the planet. This is not the case for crypto.