skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, just filtering out everything except the old-school telephone frequency range will make human voices much more intelligible in a noisy environment.

EQ alone is quite primitive though compared to the computing power that we have available. If you're capturing audio from both ears, it wouldn't be hard to filter out anything other than directly in front of you. If you're sitting across a table from someone in a loud restaurant, you could let all the audio in normally, vibe to the music, but duck the volume on all the background noise when a human voice is detected directly in front of you.
Did you follow this safety protocol with the current covid vaccines?
I think much like how there's Nix and NixOS, it's important to draw a line between Guix (the package manager) and GuixSD (the Linux distribution).

Guix the package manager, while still not usable at work for me (lack of MacOS support - just 4 of my eng org's ~25 folks use Linux), is full of interesting ideas and features that work well in Linux settings, and can do useful things. It could make interesting dev shells, for example, much like nix-shell (or Flakes).

GuixSD without `nonguix`? Yeah, I unfortunately share your "it's dead in the water" opinion here. I'm not aware of much, if any, modern hardware that can fully boot to a usable-framerate GUI with networking (and that is also safe to use for such) without at least linux-firmware, which I believe is only available in nonguix. If there's exceptions to this, I'd genuinely love to hear them in a thread here.
No one said anything about waterfall requiring perfect estimates?

No one proposed or implied that any software doesn't have an element of discovery?

Obviously there's wiggle room for all of these terms but you're defining waterfall so loosely that you didn't describe waterfall at all (nothing about fixed starting scope and fixed timelines requires waterfall...)

Then on the flip side you're defining agile so precisely that almost no one can meet it. I mean what is "full agility"?

It feels like you invented a term for a theoretical "perfect" implementation of agility, but my entire point is that you don't need to go off the deep end with the concept of agile to reap the benefits.

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Waterfall and agile mentalities don't need to be mutually exclusive, which is exactly what the article is about.

I lead projects on self-driving cars. When the NHTSA has hard requirements we don't get to go back and ask them to reconsider, but that doesn't mean that within implementing long-tail features we can't be have an agile process for making sure the teams implementing parts of those features aren't blindly banging away with no iteration on their approach.

Waterfall and agile should just be means to an end. The weird want some people have for one to be the "valid" approach has never made sense to me.
1-800-Contacts will auto-renew your existing prescription in some states via a eye exam you can do on your phone. I think optometrists consistently sue them over that sort of tech to try to keep their useless glasses monopoly in an era where they really don't need to exist anymore.

Else order from Canada or the UK. Still cheaper to get a new exam at Costco in most cases.
How much does back-end development cost?
I am using primarily testing, but some packages from unstable due to security updates or where the package got autoremoved from unstable due to release-critical bugs, which happens quite often. It feels a little more comfortable using testing, knowing that I don't hit any bugs piuparts/etc blocks from entering testing. I think I initially downgraded to testing to avoid dealing with unfinished transitions, which make upgrades a bit more annoying.
Possibly like any other food source, then? Boils down to how they're grown, handled, prepared.

Arguably, the wet markets in Wuhan wouldn't have been such a disease nightmare if the cages of live animals weren't kept one atop the other, dripping feces and other fluids between species and breaking the inter-species barrier.
Weekly scrub errors are definitely not normal. There has been a few bug fixes in Ceph & the Kernel. I would check how up to date your packages are.

Hardware errors are also possible but there has been a few software bugs so worth checking.

Here's a really curly one we recently found and solved at work (only in March) that causes both scrub errors and sometimes bluefs aborts, it's a kernel patch. Likely to happen under memory pressure:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/22464#note-50

But there have been various others.
PG&E doesn't set prices. Retail prices don't fluctuate, they're regulated. You can say with absolute certainty what the retail price of electricity will be tomorrow at any given time and place in California.

PG&E also doesn't set wholesale prices. The grid operator publishes day-ahead, hour-ahead, and real-time market price for every interchange point on the grid, at https://www.caiso.com/todaysoutlook/Pages/prices.html
In an event like this, you are effectively helping to power the other houses in your neighborhood. So it is likely to be fairly efficient.
Android manufacturers (Google and Samsung mostly) don't want to support Apple gear by default.

There are no technical reasons why they couldn't add all their phones to the Find My network. Only political.
>The teams I’ve worked on who didn’t practice agile where actually the most “agile” in the spirit of the manifesto. The teams that did agile, by the book, with the ceremonies and all, dogmatically, doubling down on it, where the least agile in the spirit of the manifesto and not that productive or creative, often micromanaging every tiny detail in a Jira ticket.

Personally I have noticed opposite scrum works if you run it by the book first and then start tinkering process based on retros and this "agile" does not work where you implement something that kinda looks scrum or kanban and kinda mess major part like estimates are hours etc. It is not ideal but low trust or multiple stakeholders it works.
I personally didn't use Guix or interacted with its community in any way.

But if GP is right about their attitude, it saddens me.

Can't there be a middle ground? Like, promoting free software and still helping people getting things done in the world we live right now?
What counts as "irrelevant old state"?
> by giving human populations such artificial resistances (non-live vaccines) we run the risk of selecting for viruses that are even harder for even our own immune systems to detect and destroy

That'd be a valid question if we didn't ready have non-live vaccines with very good proven track records for polio, hepatitis, the flu, etc.

> Current Covid strains don’t seem all that bad, basically everyone I know has been infected now.

And here comes the covid denial argument. Relentlessly repeating the same loaded arguments again and again.

> Might we run the risk of making things worse at this point?

Yeah, but what about wind turbine's rare earth ? It's really polluting ! And what if climate change has more benefits than problems once we have adapted, uh ?
Note the nuances of this decision.

Facebook wasn't found liable - they were seen as public forum.

But the newspaper by deciding to include comments on the article was found liable.
I will say that my favorite new methodology can be found here: http://programming-motherfucker.com/
I solved the ZFS DKMS bork issue by moving to Debian 11 from Centos 8. I've had zero openZFS issues since the move. On Centos it would require work every time a sufficient kernel upgrade came in.

Since I'm familiar with RHEL I just swapped some of the Debian default services for RHELish alternatives (Firewalld, Podman, etc.).
> More generally, there is still a central authority pushing out code

Not necessarily, it's quite common for forks to compete on a single ledger, with features activated when the majority of miners elect to run the fork which supports them.
> My bank's (Chase) policy limits debit card customer fraud losses to the same $50 that the law requires of credit cards.

Yes, many banks do. But be aware that when using a debit card, it's just the bank policy of being nice that protects you. They have the right to change that policy on a whim.

When using a credit card, that protection is built into the regulations so you can count on it.

Always use a credit card, never a debit card, is the safest approach.
That's the right question. And other food sources from similar farmers.
Interesting, I didn't know those existed. Seems like it makes a lot of sense.
Humans have been eating insects for a long time. In south africa they eat ants, china they eat scorpio, thailand they eat crickets...

The ants and the scorpio are quite tasty IMO.

On the other hand, I know of places where their casual vegetables are dangerous because their hold traces of animals feces with pathogens but you couldn't tell when buying them.

And finally, I remember eating the best eggs ever from my mother old neighbourg for years. One day friends from the city come, and eating them, get sick. So there is a strong habit component.

The study on insects is interesting but more informations is needed to draw conclusions.
"Perhaps 5% of children and younger adults (<60 years old) with “clinically normal” audiograms (i.e., tone thresholds better than 20 dB HL from 0.1 to 8 kHz) have difficulties understanding speech, particularly in noisy, reverberant or otherwise challenging listening environments "

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5325255/
Does the OpenID Connect work also include IndieAuth work? It seems like a natural fit for Matrix, given the shared focus on decentralization.
Tell me how code in the form of tests is not incredibly specific to a version and implementation of the thing youre testing?

A specification should specify behavior, edge cases, time complexity, possible pitfalls, etc.

Basically anything that is guaranteed (by the specification). A test may test a quirk of the implementation.
> Once they catch up with the 17th century

I wish people would have more empathy for Afghanistan instead of berating them.

They’ve just been through 20 years of foreign occupation and a decade of being used as a battlefield for a proxy war not long before that.
Source on the intel opcode thing?
Also a fantastic language!
Taken NMN 500g pill in morning for the first time last week, for 4 days. I felt physically and mentally very energized. My sleep length reduced to only couple of hours at night, so I stopped completely. First night after stopping was completely sleepless. Second night was solid and back to normal sleep pattern and energy.
If there is a specification, one can write code for a version of that specification, and later down the line someone can build a compiler for it according to the specification - youre implementation-independent. Seems important to me.
These are trivial quantities that are unreasonable to reference.
No, they just disagree that this makes the product evil. I think it makes the stalker evil.
It is not just macOS update either.

It is an unpopular opinion on HN but I have been saying this for quite some time. The old days we were optimising for file size and transfer speed. Making sure you get a smaller download size ( compressed ). That was when Bandwidth were expensive, both in Datacentre and in consumer last mile. Nowadays we have abundance of capacity and we get 100Mbos if not 1Gbps internet, the actual download happens in the background. We should be optimising for total installation time over bandwidth savings.
"Perhaps 5% of children and younger adults (<60 years old) with “clinically normal” audiograms (i.e., tone thresholds better than 20 dB HL from 0.1 to 8 kHz) have difficulties understanding speech, particularly in noisy, reverberant or otherwise challenging listening environments"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5325255/
Maybe there is something wrong with me, but I’ve tried playing this game a couple of times and it remains as some of the most boring times I’ve had with video games. I understand it’s supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek thing, but it’s just not fun to play or experience. I just can’t get it.
To continue with your analogy: this sounds more like instructing other vegetarians to refuse to help any meat eaters who would like to alter a vegetarian recipe.
Google: Terrible content that's not worth indexing
If Apple is not a privacy focused company for you, what is? Any examples?
If they increase the interconnect fee enough, homeowners will simply stop paying the bill and disconnect from the grid.

The PG&E proposal would cost the homeowner approximately 100% the price of their solar panels over 25 years. If it were not for net metering, that would already be enough to make a rational consumer oversize solar and batteries by another 50% and close their PG&E account.

The price of solar and batteries is dropping so fast that the threshold for a "too high" bill will soon be below the cost of line maintenance.

Unless something changes, at that point, the power grid will collapse in the same way the landline phone grid is collapsing.

That will drive up bills for remaining subscribers, driving more loss of business, creating a death spiral.

I think they should jack up the cost of electricity to cover grid maintenance, and allow community net metering, so that people without a roof can buy into solar collectives that count toward net metering. This would rapidly phase out nonrenewable generation by severely penalizing people that rely on power plants.

Once that became untenable, the aging zoomers can sit outside on their non-ruined planet and fret about supporting their carbon neutral power grid with taxpayer dollars.
Is this model flipper not simply SaaS? Aren’t a lot of the companies launched on this website just this concept but bigger?
HN is a microcosm of the world. People support whatever is the norm, because they are social beings. Being privacy focused is "idealist" or "extremist" or "paranoid", and people don't want to be outcasts. And you are a conspiracy theorist for thinking that Apple and Google don't have your best interests at heart. And abuse of Hanlon's razor, etc, etc
> We need dedicated programmers who commit their careers to single applications. Rewriting them over and over until they’re perfect.

I love this.
>Both still own one home. Both are still consuming housing that's worth $25k/yr to them. Yet the government collects no tax revenue. Exempting the implicit value of rent is a subsidy favoring owner occupied housing.

Why stop at rent? Alice cooks at home? Tax implicit cost of dining out.

Alice goes shopping? Tax implicit delivery cost.

Alice conceives a child? Tax implicit IVF cost.

Alice gives birth? Tax implicit adoption cost.

Alice dies? Tax implicit execution cost.
How about this story:

Apple initially launched AirTags with the “find your missing possessions” use case in mind, and didn’t fully anticipate the stalking use case.

When they realised there was a stalking problem, they put in some fairly robust defences against it (see https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/02/an-update-on-airtag-a...), robust enough that it makes the tags a lot less useful for tracking stolen items.

Do you agree that’s what happened? And if so, what parts of it make Apple anti-privacy? Should they have axed the entire product?
I think the brakes should be slammed until that is answered. Unless we want another pandemic. Given the rate of mutation and transmission in bugs with natural gestation and migration, the probability of catastrophic outcomes is exponential without a similar dataset in other human food sources.
If I install something (tile?) on my android, will it help people find their airtags (and tiles)?

I'm happy to run it for fun but don't know what to run.
How do these batteries know when to charge? Are their input signal purely $/kWh or some other signal like how much emissions would that kW emit?
If we select only for readability, we reduce down to a single language. Which would be something that most closely matches the readers' background... which puts us back at square one.

You say Python is readable, I say it is obnoxiously pedantic. (Among many other critiques). Honestly I find Java to be easier to parse than Python

My love goes to Ruby though...
You can find a ton of tracking devices that work "all over the world", none of them tell the one being tracked that someone is tracking them.
https://medium.com/@maniacbolts/signal-increases-their-relia...
Richard Stallman was right in the same sense Karl Marx was right. The people would, in fact, be better off if each have according to his abilities, and received according to his needs.

The problem here is the problem of incentives: you can state your desired end goal (prosperous communism, or free software utopia), but there is no mechanism to get there from here, and even if you somehow do get there, no mechanism to preserve that state without all encompassing coercion.

Moreover, the lack of incentives results in lack of prosperity: if there is little incentive to produce a lot (like in capitalism, where your profit grows with volume), people produce just enough to get by, plus some for individual entertainment. I’m sure Guix is good enough for the author’s needs! The problem is to get people to do things that nobody really wants to do. Who will build free software Salesforce? In capitalism, we do that by paying people money to do things they wouldn’t want to do for free. In fact, same is true in free and open source software: I can really only name a handful of projects that are widely used and of high quality that have not been largely funded by commercial world: OpenSSH, some other BSD stuff, what else?

Since commercial businesses want to use these things alongside their proprietary stuff, they necessarily cannot constitute part of pure (in free software sense) distributions. Thus, if you aim for purity, you either end up with shoddy quality, or depend on the largesse of the non-pure activities. This is analogous to modern welfare state, which can only function by skimming the value created by advanced commercial economies, and only to an extent that doesn’t actually choke them altogether.

In short, incentives matter.
I guess it depends where you work because this doesn't how things have been done throughout my career.
That is one extremely confused and unhelpful way to express our predicament! Private property and capital and competition and the invisible hand of the markets are all perfectly adapted if, and only if, the cost of externalities is accounted properly, and the net present value of one more mega-SUV idling in a jam is just damn paid for.
What part of economic activity is still a positive once all accounting is done, I don't know, but I do know everyone will still have needs and wants.
DIY Guide to Sheet Metal Press Brakes (2018)
It's more like saying "Not in my house, thanks."

Which is totally sensible!
I had a break in at my house a few months ago, and one of the items they took was my passport wallet with an airtag in it. So I could see where they were. However, the address located was a multi-unit building, and the find my device was unable to pinpoint it to a single unit, and police apparently aren't allowed to get a search warrant for multiple units (understandable), but I wasn't allowed to trigger the sound to narrow it down further...

The air tag moved one morning, and it was found thrown over the fence...
Couldn't agree more with the last two paragraphs. Web standards purists will trot out a reference to some standard and point out the imagined (and terrifying) consequences of making the TAB or ENTER key behave just as they would in a non-web application, AKA a real data-entry program. This is just a version of the "lest thou cause thy brother to stumble" club used to nudge the religious into compliance with strictures that make no sense to them (and yeah, the quote is probably not verbatim, but hopefully the gist of it is clear).

Example: I (who am not a programmer) once wrote a tangled mess of HTML and JavaScript to accept, and tabulate data entry for rebar (reinforcing steel) estimates. I was inordinately proud of it, bird's nest of bad programming practice that it was. I could TAB or ENTER-key my way through all fields, the up and down arrows performed the same tasks as the TAB-key, just like on a desktop program.

So why was it important to do things this way, and break the conventions so dear to the heart of the standard's purist? Because this is how I (and many others) estimated rebar in the 1990's:

You sat at a wide desk or table with a set of plans 30" to 48"-wide spread out to your left (if you were lucky) and another 30"-48" of table was needed to catch the plan pages turned to reveal the one you were working on. You right hand rested on the keyboard's ten-key pad some 3-5 feet away. You didn't look at your right hand -- you looked at your left hand index finger which was glued to (and rarely left) the large page at precisely the item you wanted to enter into your tabulation program, as you entered the SAC code, the qty per unit, the number of units, the bar size number, the bend category, the grade of steel, and the total length. Your eyes never left the drawing as you did this, and immediately upon completing that line item, your left hand picked up a yellow highlighter and highlighted that item -- one of many hundreds or thousands that would be necessary in a materials take-off of any appreciable size. To force the use of the TAB-key, or the mouse to move through data-entry fields would simply guarantee that no one would use your program. Ever.

But the purist says, "Someone may stumble."
Aunt Loreen said, "Sometimes the 'You shoulds' are the sh-ts."
> I can use Nix at work, at home, with family, with vendors, with binary blobs, on macOS.

I'm using Guix for work, at home, my wife has Guix on her gaming laptop with nvidia card, playing games on steam.
Nobody has any problems with enabling rpmfusion repo on Fedora, using aur on Arch, adding backports repo for kde or whatever on ubuntu. But as soon as it's nonguix channel it's suddenly a problem. Huh. It's literally just a channel and ultimately it is still same Guix.

"What's that? NONGUIX? Hell no, I ain't having Guix working on my hardware! I don't want a better experience using Guix! Not in a million years!"
And then:

> Guix has truly noble goals (in classic GNU fashion) but they're ultimately misguided.

> Actually useless.

Which are really big claims with nothing to back them up.

> The standard encouraged response to "Hi I'm a new Guix user and I was wondering how I can run steam?" is roughly equivalent to "Go fuck yourself" and I'm just amazed by that.

Look, if you can't figure out how to `guix install flatpak' and then flatpak install com.valvesoftware.Steam, then... well, I've nothing to say actually.
I'll add that empowering the development team via retrospectives and actual authority while having a single interface to the business via product owner are huge contributors to the agility of a team in my opinion.
Why would Pfizer drop a few billion on getting the vaccine to market if the funders would then relicense it?
Totally agree with your last paragraph
> 3% of your credit card spend is a steep cost to pay for that security though

You're not paying anything for the protections the credit card offers.

Or more precisely, you are but we all are, even if you pay cash or with a debit card, since the vendor prices the items accordingly and there's no cash discount. (There are exceptions, but very rare in the US.)

And most credit cards give you cash back so it's actually cheaper.
I can't find any blurb anywhere informing how much the land was acquired for, and is that in the $27M or not.