skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If all you are looking for is noise reduction, use a dynamic mic instead of a condenser.

Example condenser mic: Blue Yeti

You'll see a lot of streamers use these kinds of mics because you don't need to be right up on it.

Example dynamic mic: Shure SM58

Typically you'd see these kind of mics in performances or radio.
They do require a pre-amp.
I got a used ElectroVoice RE-20 (oft used in radio).
Nobody can hear my kids yelling/playing/watching tv right behind me.
Sound is phenomenal.
Defining CO2 as a pollutant is a problem for me.
...which doesn't mean anything at all (unless you are quoting firefly, of course).
> Practically, you are talking nonsense and it's patently impossible.

The existence of IP over Avian Carrier demonstrates otherwise. It's slow and it's lossy, but it's good enough for a blockchain.
That's a very "just used a pencil" type punchline.
Ask HN: Is a non-profit selling at cost drugs using True Pill possible?
I'm interested in starting website similar to Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs. From what I've gather, his website sells drugs with a 15% markup and shipping. The actual drugs are white labeled and shipped by True Pill. His site mainly does the marketing and maintains the customer relationship.

I want to launch a similar venture but sell the drugs at cost (no mark up). This would be a non-profit with the goal of helping people reduce their drug cost. I applied to True Pill to get access to their API but I don't get any response from them. I've tried calling their 800 number but it tells me to send an email to their sales/support email address. Does True Pill only work with large, established players? Does anybody work for True Pill that can help?
Time to make a fork and use that for teaching instead
I had a look at the platform democracy page and I couldn’t see any explanation of how the process avoids capture by particular interest groups.
I like to say they are the Facebook of Crypto
On the monetization front I’ve been looking for something to automatically catalog a large collection of cards but it looks like the only ones that exist are for large outfits (https://tcgmachines.com/shop/phyzbatch-9000) given the cost.

I imagine it’d be pretty easy to have a camera identify cards with OCR being what it is today but then you have to go about laying out every single card which is labor intensive.

I would just love some automatic way to have my cards automatically registered in a database. Then it becomes incredibly easy to quantify the worth of a collection and identify which cards are actually worth the time to sell (anything over $5, $10, etc.).
I generally agree with the article. I would say that people using "crypto" as a hedge against inflation are sorely mistaken as the correlation with inflation is probably incredibly low. It's too volatile to be a store of wealth. It has no intrinsic value. It's incredibly resource inefficient. It's not an "investment" since it doesn't produce anything, and financially it has performed worse than real investments.

The only thing it does have going for it is a perfect pump and dump economics. Crypto "believers" are really only truly believing in this ponzi scheme economics, which is a shame since they'd make more money by using real financial instruments. If crypto was really so good, we shouldn't have to worry about "investing" in it, we'd all just buy some to use it for day to day transactions. Which categorically is not viable at all any time soon.
Honestly it's not that bad. If you don't insist on getting correctly-formatted email for git-am, most people manage fine. They'll send you the output of git-diff, a git-bundle, or attach the files they changed.
This reminds me, I was looking at the periodic table the other day and I noticed that gold actually has a pretty high electronegativity: almost as high as carbon!

https://mappingignorance.org/2017/02/09/electronegative-gold...

Makes me wonder if there are a ton of unexplored properties and usecases for rare metals that we just haven't discovered yet.
Also, insects the size of a small pony.

In the past I almost became a nomadic worker but to do my work properly I need better ergonomics than a laptop. Hauling large displays and a tower case around the world didn't appeal. So I have stayed put. No regrets.
Only when it’s convenient for their position. For the 2nd amendment they take a very broad reading.
Going through security certification procedure, I was asked to list all the third party SAAS things we use.

I didn't include github, gitlab, or anything else, because we don't use it. The auditor was going off on a tirade about how lack of version control is not okay at all, so convinced they were that 'no github or gitlab' must therefore mean 'no version control'.

The mind boggles. He barely believed me when I showed how git just syncs with other git repos and that's really the start and end of it.

This has actually gotten me into thinking about a few things. What a web site 'backed' by your git repo seems to get you is:

* Some insights to those who don't have a full git dump. Mostly irrelevant.

* CI stuff and hook processing, but this does not need to be done by the system that hosts git, or even a dedicated system in the first place.

* An issue tracker that nicely links together and that auto-updates when you commit with messages like 'fixes #1234'.

* Code signoff/review coordination.

And all of that should be possible __with git__, no?

If you have a policy that all code must be signed off otherwise it isn't allowed to be in the commit tree of your `main`, `deploy` or whatever you prefer to call it branch, then why not just say that a reviewer makes a commit that has no changes (git allows this with the right switches), _JUST_ a commit message that includes 'I vouch for this', signed by the reviewer? And that _IS_ the review?

What if issue tickets are text files that show up in git, to close a ticket you make a commit that deletes it. Or even: Not text files at all, but branches where the commit messages forms the conversation about the issue, and the changes in the commits are what you're doing to address it (write a test case that reproduces the issue, then fix it, for example), and you close a ticket by removing the branch from that git repo that everybody uses as origin?

Then all you really need is some lightweight read only web frontend so that the non-technically-savvy folks can observe progress on tickets in a nice web thingie perhaps, if that. But it's just a stateless web frontend that reads git commit trees and turns them into pretty HTML, really.

Commit hooks to ensure policies such as 'at least 2 sign-off reviews needed before the CI server is supposed to deploy it to production'.

Does something like that exist?
There's no such thing as not being on a diet. Everyone is on a diet all the time. Some diets are shittier than others.

Where are you and others here on HN getting this idea that a diet necessarily means something temporary?

Most diets that aren't hypocaloric are meant to be a lifestyle. An actually healthful diet can promote health and weight loss without restricting calories or being a temporary measure, and such diets are usually more successful in the long run than telling people to eat leaves and wiggle a lot. When a diet is sufficient for daily needs, there's no need for it to be temporary, then it shouldn't be a diet but the diet for a given person.

> junk food

As an aside, most people have no idea what that even is. Raisin Bran is arguably junk food, but most people wouldn't think to classify it as such. Some people think eggs are junk food.
As an intermediary, currency requires a minimum amount of social relations. Its value, if it can be said to have one, lies in its use as an indirect measure of the degree of faith in a particular set of social constructs.

The reason I use the post-apocalyptic scenario is exactly because of this rupture of social relations. It is not the ghost of the previous civilization trying to reconstitute itself. It is a place in a wilderness onto which people might stumble. (Admittedly, this might not be communicated well and too informed by my early secondary consumption of old western movies.)

Without this broader social context, the concept of trade becomes purely localized. My needs are not serviced by an explicit diffuse network which is conceptualized as an aspect not just of society but constitutive of reality. Operating on a faith, we take the conceptualization as reality and can accept, in our lives now, intermediary exchange: I firmly believe that by accepting an electronic transfer to my bank, I will be able to buy sweet and salty food that is engineered to appeal to my dietary obsessions as bequeathed by a combination of evolution and social conditioning.

In the midst of such a thought experiment, however, I am not guaranteed to encounter another haggard individual in this hypothesized godforsaken world for a very long time. Neither am I guaranteed that any individual I meet will have such social relations as to value such an intermediary, either.

Intermediary exchange is only viable once the pool of social relations grows beyond a certain bounds.

The function of my acceptance of any system is the fulfillment of my needs, to some degree. In such a scenario, the only way those needs can be serviced is an equivalence of exchange. In this case, food is required for immediate survival, the tools of procuring such, and shelter, etc. Intermediaries, in such a scenario, provide no guarantee to provide such. So such must be acquired directly. I can eat beans. To take the gold assumes, incorrectly, I can obtain another can or equivalent. That incorrect assumption is a holdover from the fundamental and all-pervasive faith we are at present steeped in and that must be maintained for our reality to function.
As a solo founder myself, yes.

If you ask for a feature, they tend to actually go out of their way to help, instead of having it rot on the backlog for a decade.
What is the dependency here?
oh wow. thanks!
In theory, consciousness requires a body (maybe virtual) and memories management.
I'm Canadian so I was pretty removed. All i'm saying is I wasn't surprised that Trump won. I was expecting that based off of my experience.
> I use it on most of my calls now, and I don't get any complaints

It's probably because people you are talking to are nice. It's a bit awkward to ask someone to invest a little in a better mic.

I did complain however to a colleague that his room is somehow generating a low-end feedback or standing wave. I measured the peak frequency and asked him to measure his room, but I couldn't confirm 100% if that's the reason :) Probably nobody else noticed it, it just annoyed me because I have studio monitors, I had to unplug them to understand him better.

If you are curious if it really has good audio quality, render a spectrogram of the throat mic and a professional podcasting mic and compare the image. The richer the image, the better it is.
> What is the Supreme Court's mandate? To stop climate change?

Stopping climate change should be everyone’s mandate. When your house is on fire and a neighbor has a hose pipe, so you get into an argument with them because they’re not a fireman?
They didn’t miss the mark.
Soufflé: a Datalog Synthesis Tool for Static Analysis
The entire point was to kick this to Congress, which they know can't pass anything, thus achieving their entire goal of allowing companies to pollute and do whatever they want to make an additional buck.
The last amendment to the constitution was in 1992, so amendments aren't impossible. The story behind the 27th amendment is pretty amusing. An undergrad student wrote a paper saying that the proposed amendment was still live and could be ratified even though it had been proposed in 1789 and not passed, but got a C grade on the paper since his TA disagreed. Annoyed by this, the student started a letter-writing campaign which eventually succeeded in getting the constitutional amendment passed. Years later, his grade was changed to an A to recognize that he had been right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_th...
> the sort of person who is comfortable with choosing an investor's bank account over an employee's family is also the sort of person who is likely to be chosen to be CEO.

A hard part about being a leader is doing what's best for the highest number of people. If you're short on runway and the investors tell you that you either lay people off or you're not getting funded, it's not about choosing investors over employees, it's about saving as many employees as you can.

In the current climate this is exactly what investors are saying.

Ben Horowitz has some good stories about this in The Hard Thing About Hard Things
the video is really not convincing lol, it doesn't look like it's doing much more than gliding from the initial launch force, which is due to an external (moving) force.

EDIT: ok this one is more convincing https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iihprC5Huf4
This isn't a git-specific issue. People generally conflate local software and network services that are similarly named.

A good example is the f/oss community confusing the terms for the Signal.org API and the GPL-published Signal client software.
Yes. The US Fed Govt was never intended to have unlimited and arbitrary power, but POTUS candidates make big promises they don’t really have the power to deliver and try anyway. Right now it still has power very very close to that because even once a mook is elected and finds out he can’t really say, run the economy, he’ll still end up expanding the power of his branch of government falling short of the goal.

The path forward is clear for every single political ideology working within the legal Constitutional framework of the United States: get popular support, build a political coalition and then pass laws. Anything that tries to take shortcuts around that process deserves the axe.
its certainly a problem with all the fragmentation, but in general discord users will use something else whereas others will likely not use discord (also means content is never indexed meaning people can't easily stumble upon answers/questions etc) as it's essentially a walled garden...

Edit: a good example is the rust project who insist on using a zulip walled garden for development which excludes a whole bunch of people and makes finding answers to already solved problems impossible as obviously it's never indexed by search engines etc - quite a different field of course but the general principle still applies
I'd say the year in jail is more than a slap on the wrist. That's in addition to the fines.
No, we, the alphabet mafia, demand total fealty ...or else.
As a potential buyer, I would be concerned that a solo entrepreneur would get bored/leave/discontinue the service. This would typically lead me to prefer one-off purchases vs. ongoing SaaS offerings. This equation would change if my requirement is pretty ad-hoc to begin with, and I don't expect to require an ongoing service.
It isn’t hobbling the federal government. It’s strengthening it by giving powers to Congress and the states where it belongs. It’s hobbling the executive branch to prevent them from ignoring the will of the people via Congress.
The topic is not defining CO2 as a pollutant.

The topic is about controlling proportions of different molecules in the environment to maintain a preferable quality of life for citizens of the world.
Wrong. Smart contracts can be updated. If they are deployed with the ability to update, any outcome can be revoked. It is as simple as adding a new function.
Answering the question "why does Y have value X" with "because people/someone are/is willing to buy Y at price X" is technically correct but a cop-out. When people ask why something has value, they are typically asking why someone is willing to give money for it, what's the motivation. And the reason why people are willing to pay for something can be very relevant, especially if you want to figure out whether something will rise in value or collapse.

There are many reasons to want something, but broadly you can argue that you either want something because you believe owning the thing will make your life better in some way (food, housing, transportation, ...); or you can want something because you think someone else will pay more for it later down the line, in which case the value of the thing is entirely speculative to you.

Some things are not entirely one or the other. People wanted tulips because they are pretty. Eventually they became a status symbol, demand grew faster than supply, and quickly people started buying tulips not because they wanted them, but because someone else might pay more later. So tulips became a speculative bubble, which eventually collapsed.
Presumably there are moving parts involved, they are just too small to see.
That's actually an excellent way of explaining it.

Though it's frustrating that it's pornhub specifically, because referencing pornography can be awkward or impractical in workplace contexts.
> Has the Docker service failed? I'll get a notification. Docker bridge network down? I'll get a notification.

If you rely on cloud services yes. If you run your own infra, then no, you will have to metric/alert that in a custom manner as with everything else. So that thing you mention is NOT a borring technology (which should be promoted) but outsourceing (which should NOT get promoted in general).

> For development/test environments, Uptime Kuma on a separate server is enough

It doesn't matter as your network will fail. There is nothing worse then status page having false positives.
Explain how
That's not how it works. The IRS can tax profits earned from transactions in any medium of exchange (bitcoin or anything else) because Congress has specifically granted them that statutory authority. The EPA does not have blanket authority to regulate anything that might happen to negatively impact the environment. Congress could give them that authority, but has chosen not to do so.
It's worse than you think: the entire contents of the post is stored in a srcdoc attribute on an iframe with no height specified. The javascript resizes the iframe to match the content. Bloody stupid way to code a webpage.
Cheaper than hiring in house expertees?
"It's not a business" sure, then wonder why companies are managing ever more properties and private renters prefer renting it through AirBnb

I think there are points in protection but not being able to evict a tenant because you want an apartment for yourself (and no, in practice it can take even as high as 5 years) is simply ridiculous
(I engaged in pointless argument here. The quotes below are sufficient.)
> It doesn't make sense to claim itsme doesn't support linux. It's only a phone app, you dont need desktop software. I can login to proximus.be using itsme on linux.

I think you're seriously confused. It's perfectly reasonable to claim that itsme doesn't support Linux. Phone have operating systems too, you know - and some phones run a Linux userspace (e.g. the Pinephone and Purism).

"Does not support Linux" means "itsme can't run on a Linux userspace" (as opposed to a Linux kernel but Google userspace, which is what Android is).

The author explicitly says this: "I don't use itsme, only CSAM, because itsme does not support Linux: I can't log in with Firefox or Chrome on Linux with my eID."
That's part of what I'm getting at with the "multiple lieges" bit. Feudal lordship and fealty are more fungible now than they were centuries ago, but the fundamental power dynamic remains; being able to swap out lords ostensibly at will is one of those "illusion of freedom" things that helps us feel slightly less bad about our exploitation.
Having a body made up of two opposing sides is generally how we build neutral bodies.

The liberal justices are not a beacon of neutrality - they lean towards liberal policies and expansionist interpretations the same way the conservative justices lean towards conservative policies and paring down the Fed.
People are used to "manage it myself money" - it's called cash and most people do not want to carry large amounts of it around or have it at home.

And cash has significant security advantages over crypto in that it's very hard to remotely steal the dollars from someone's physical wallet or mattress; even if it is relatively easy to just walk up and take them.
I guess the question would be if this is more harmful than a plane of similar pulling power
Because the Court has taken an issue that Congress did not [yet] show any urgent inclination to act on, i.e., alleged overreach by the EPA over many Congressional sessions with many different partisan compositions. And they have taken away Congress's discretion to decide its own agenda and priorities by turning this into an emergency that has to be dealt with right now by this Congress. There is real harm to this: it halts an existing regulatory process, and it may take years for Congress to repair the damage.
point of GP being availability of source, not freedom as in beer.
Let's go one meta level up.

It's not like they cornered the decision into their own branch of government like they did with abortion (before Dobbs).

If there's disagreement on how a text should be interpreted I don't care whether a conservative court produces a different opinion to a liberal one.

I care whether congress still retains the ultimate authority in the matter, and in this case it does.

If congress thinks the court is wrong, it can say so.

However I think you'll find that just as there is disagreement within the court as to what this text actually means - there is just as much if not more disagreement in congress.

If congress itself is in disagreement - I think being radically strict is a good way to go.

I think it's healthy for judicial review and separations of powers for legislative interpetation to be kicked back to congress if there's any disagreement.
Someday someone is going to invent a way to sample your DNA for under 1 USD, and all of this will be moot. Further, they will probably be able to do it by touch or by air.

Our problems stem because we take certain privacies for granted by the nature of them being impractical.

Humans are excellent at facial recognition. Yet it was inly when face recognition became automated that people cared. Yet there was no reason (legally) that someone couldnt have hired a mass of people to learn the faces of their customers. It was just impractical.

Same for license plate readers. We could just hire people to stand in street corners and log each livense plate number as it drives by--we just assume no one will do that.

Instead it seems we want to blame the technology--yet it seems to me we never had that privacy to begin with--we just assumed no one could gather it at scale.

It wouldn't surprise me if at some point, these the things become open secrets. That is--they are legally confidential, but in reality broadly known by anyone who is willing to ignore the law (sort of like how Americans social security numbers are all leaked). I don't know what the solution is.
> Kind of like how the IRS can tax bitcoins, despite cryptocurrencies not being explicitly written into the constitution or tax laws.

Nope. The IRS could always tax assets. And bitcoin is another form of asset.
Depends on the uni. Mine focused on fundamentals, almost to a fault; we learned algorithmic complexity and relational normal-forms but never touched eg. JavaScript, Python, or - ironically - git. Practical skills were very much not the entrypoint; I had to learn most of that myself.
Who sees a Jabra set as flaunt? Aren't they more blackberry than iphone?
If the terms of service allow it, then it doesn't matter what it's fair or not: you're allowed to make a client for it. The discussion is moot.
that sounds reasonable, but consider this complimentary explanation: temperature itself has inertia, so the (formerly) hot water's temperature momentum is greater as it smashes against the 32F buffer zone, forming crystals instantly

not to mention static vs rolling friction (as in rolling boil)
> what Perez did was one of the greatest driving feats I've ever seen

Yeesh.