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Ask HN: Recommendations for Conference Microphone?
Does anyone have any recommendations for conference microphones? We're going to be holding hybrid (in-person and online) meetings in the next few months and hoping to have a decent setup.
In my opinion, we have deviated from the true essence of "Science" by using it to determine "what ought to be" instead of focusing on answering the fundamental question of "what is."

I know that this is not particularly in vogue now to say, but social sciences especially did a whole lot to discredit the idea of science being something that is objective. They pretend to "do science" but instead use it to either "Launder Ideas" (https://www.wsj.com/articles/idea-laundering-in-academia-115...) or pure activism (for example, a paper published in Hipatia suggested that male students should be trained to propagate the feminist message, much like the way viruses spread https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315583936_Women's_S....

Not even going to mention the Grievance studies affair.

I have embraced accelerationism and hope that "science" (and academia specifically) fails quickly so that it can rise again with greater resilience and the ability to withstand pressure from activist organizations. Let's hope the hard sciences renaissance is nigh.
I moved to city skylines, which I like, but I miss something from SimCity. First CS forces roads everywhere, this is the biggest con to me, I would love to experiment with biking only neighborhood with mass transit. The other problem is that it's too easy. I love the constraint of having no money and struggling with public opinion. Like "You want to build a train line here? You will have major unhappiness from it". Skylines is good in sandbox mode, but misses a lot in "rogue like" mode. I would also like more terrain diversity.
References are worthless because they're used to pawn off bad employees to competitors. No HR department wants to risk a defamation lawsuit from an honest reference on a bad employee.
There's at least one music genre (vaporwave) that has a lot of new releases on tape, and often tapes are the only physical format released. Actually come of think of it, there's some releases on floppy disk as well!
Would have been great if the post quantified the advantages.

For networks (order of preference): IPv6 only > IPv4 Only > Dual Stack.
This issue has come up in the past on other forums, I think one of the answers that I identified the most with was saying:

"I'm not sure I agree with that, and I have a few significant concerns. I'm not comfortable agreeing at this time. We'll have to take this offline and come up with a well-formed (answer, options analysis, options assessment)."

You can also try to push back and ask for an option analysis or position assessment: "I'm not sure that the details are clear on this. Can you provide a (proper) option analysis on this position?"

In this case bureaucracy is your friend.
I am quite happy that all those shady IoT devices cannot be reached from the internet directly when I am using IPv4 and NAT - what would be the best way forward to keep it that way in a IPv6-only future?

The best idea I can come up with (at least right now) is: put all less trustworthy (read: Closed source) devices into a special legacy IPv4 network and only use IPv6 on my workstation and little Raspis?
> Thankfully Linux-related searches are still useful.

Mostly if you add an specific distro on your terms. It doesn't have to be your distro, just one that cares about what you are searching.

If you just ask for "how do I do X in linux", you will get plenty of spam and a few wrong answers here or there.
Yesterday I wanted to figure out whether some languages are more difficult than others as a native language. Google failed miserably. Nowadays, there are things, simple things like that, for which Google is increasingly useless. I encounter such every week. This definitely didn’t happen 10 years ago. In this case, it gave me results about bullshit ad sites, random barely related Quora questions, what languages are more difficult for native English speakers. Nothing helped. Zero proper result in 10 minutes. There were none which I could use as a reference, or had any proper reference.
"For the purpose
of this report, Hired examined software engineering
candidate interview requests (IVR) and salary data from
January 2021 through December 2022 inclusive.
The data included reflects over 68,500 candidates and
494,000 interview requests between companies and
software engineers on Hired during this time period."

Then, I think, the numbers reflect only candidates and companies that use Hired, as opposed to the industry as a whole. I wonder how many folks land jobs through Hired?
I'm the same imo. I've always found myself to be quite intelligent but also rather slow.
> There are some other strange evolutionary dead ends we find ourselves tied to because everything has to bow to the gods of reliability in aviation

Ironically floppies are utterly unreliable and will become corrupted if you look at them the wrong way. I understand that if you are after reliability you have incentives not to change, but it sounds weird to me that you wouldn't move away from that terrible format as soon as a better one like usb storage became available and prominent.
No country has pushed for paying people to have children... er what? This is simply false.

Plenty of countries have monthly child benefit payments, just a few examples I know of [1], [2] [3] [4]. You can easily google "child benefits [country]" to find loads more examples. There are direct government payments and/or tax breaks in many countries. Countries with decent social welfare systems usually have some form of financial support during parental leave, for both mothers and fathers too.

These efforts don't really have much of an impact to raise birth rates.

[1] https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_...

[2] https://www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/social-security/child-ben...

[3] https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/child-benefit/bef...

[4] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/03/asia/south-korea-worlds-l...
IPv4 is now stretched to the point that you often end up requiring multiple layers of NAT, such as carrier-grade NAT plus endpoint NAT. That reduces the reliability of pretty much all protocols and makes any protocol doing peer to peer communication really hard or even impossible to run. The latter includes tons of games, video chat, peer to peer VPNs, decentralized social networks, and so on.

These problems will only get worse from here on out, but they're not as visible to people outside networking because this degradation of quality of service is a slow creep. The IPv4 Internet just gradually gets more and more limited in capability and less reliable for anything beyond the most basic use cases.

IPv4's address space is simply too small. There are already almost twice as many people on Earth as there are possible IPv4 addresses, and that assumes perfectly efficient utilization of IP addresses which is pretty much impossible. In reality there are probably 8-10X as many humans as viable IPv4 addresses. If every human being tends to have a computer and a phone that means there's at least 20X more devices than IPs.
On the hunt for a bug with a hump and a long tail
Dow Group's team of experienced developers and designers work closely with clients to understand their business requirements and develop tailored software solutions that streamline their operations and boost productivity. The company's expertise in a range of programming languages and frameworks enables it to build robust, scalable, and secure software applications that are designed to perform and exceed expectations.
Well, I should have said "text is better for me". Especially for recipes, which are a list of instructions. I just need to see the list, not have someone tell it to me.

Videos aren't dense enough, information-wise. I can't just put them up on a screen as a reference, and they require too much interaction as I have to back up, play, back up, play, back up, etc. in order to use the information being relayed.

If I only have a video telling me something, it's better than nothing, but it's going to slow me down, reduce my understanding, and will inevitably leave out detail that is important to me.
Nations reach accord to protect marine life on high seas
So fix those issues?
Working in offices always had issues as well, some of those issues have been addressed over time though effort on the part of employees and managers. Nothing is without trade-offs and side effects.

The real question there is:
Are the minor issues associated with working remotely so bad that it is better to

force everyone to risk their lives on the roads every day (including in snow and other bad weather which exacerbates road death rates 100% purely because of employer demands to come in anyway)

destroy the environment with all of that unnecessary exhaust,

give asthma to their neighbor's kids,

harm parent/child relationships due to work schedules being out of sync with school schedules and work/commute demands leaving little time for parents to properly interact with their kids,

pass flu and cvoid around to everyone,

cause unnecessary deaths among their parents and grandparents,

drive up housing costs in specific areas causing homelessness as well,

and otherwise add layers of stress and unhappiness to every person's daily existence?

Put the other way around: Are all of the personal, professional, societal, and environmental negatives that directly result from people being forced to commute to and work in an office every day actually worth the supposed productivity and/or collaboration gains due to office related friction points having already been solved over time? (btw they really haven't been solved for many people either, see: the ongoing harassment and diversity issues at most companies)

Or might it be better to just solve the few issues with collaborating in a remote work setup like we already did for the office?
The playable area was tiny and the game was weird in the way it cycled boom and bust development seemingly at random. And then despite the game selling incredibly well they abandoned it after launch and never really improved the game much.

The marketing hype leading up to it featured lot of outright lies in terms of how the game works. Compute was not offloaded to the cloud, but bigger than that there was the lie that every sim had a daily routine that was simulated and when a factory had an output it was an input somewhere else and that was all simulated like Factorio. It wasn't. It was all faked and not even convincingly well.

I have been hoping for a new city builder for awhile. Cities Skylines was great, but I am looking for something a bit more in depth. I think I want the original promise of SimCity (2013) with the transportation flexibility of Cities Skylines. Solving transportation issues and bottlenecks to make sure your city is operating efficiently sounds incredibly rewarding.
Forums, tech documentation, personal websites.

I think for many queries, a non-commercial search engines would have plenty of relevant pages to show.
Lab Tour of Frore Solid-State Cooling Tech
> During CES 2023 Gordon got a demo of AirJet - a potentially revolutionary solid state active cooling system for tech like laptops. In this video Gordon gets a tour of the labs at Frore Systems and follows up with Seshu Madhavapeddy, the Founder and CEO, about some of the biggest questions people had concerning this technology. He also gets to check out how the AirJet is tested for things like dust and reliability.

----

HN post from a month ago when this was revealed at CES:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34474120
> It's a job, the employer defines their policies (EDIT: abiding by the local laws) and you decide if you want to continue working there or go and find a new job.

I mean, sure, but it's in employees best interest to voice their opposition for policies that will cause them to incur hardship. The time commitment alone is insane - commuting is probably the biggest waste of time anyone can incur, especially when a 30 minute commute with no traffic turns into an hour or 1.5 hour commute with traffic, which only got worse as more and more companies reinstated their in-office policy in 2022 and beyond. For anyone with an hour commute, they end up wasting 20 days a year sitting in a car.
I don't get ads on iOS, macOS or iPadOS. Literally none.

The only revenue stream they have in that space is in-app ads (I don't have any of those apps) and the app store, which is basically an advertising portal to find tools so I expect it there.

Google and Microsoft shovel it down you and bug you constantly about upsells and third party trash.
I want to believe he married the girl.
I kind of like iOS Siri's limitations. Unlike Alexa, which gives you the illusion that it can do everything, Siri fails spectacularly on certain tasks, and, if you use it enough, you can understand the demarcation between Siri-capable tasks and things that you'd be better off doing "manually."
Network segmentation, i.e use of vlans is the traditional way to solve this.
I've no problem with "yes / maybe later". To me, "maybe later" implies "no" is also a possibility. I don't read passive/aggressiveness into it, and I don't need a separate "no" option which would add nothing.

Why do I like seeing the "maybe later" option? Because the app's devs are telling me "this is possible to configure later; we thought about this flow, and you won't be locked out of this option if you skip it now".

If they don't show this wording, maybe they thought about it, maybe not. Maybe I'll be forced to reinstall the app from scratch. Who knows!
I find it interesting that the culmination of so many amazing technologies result in a tool for americans to handle their crazy ancient measurement system more easily.
Exactly this. Consider the "hand axe" -- a multipurpose stone tool made contiguously by basically almost all bipedal hominids (if not more) for a million and a half (or more!) years. Homo erectus, neanderthals, sapiens, etc.

Then abruptly lost around the Paleolithic to Neolithic transition really. Apart from a few anthropologists who've studied to try to recreate the technique.

It essentially "defined" what it is to be human for over a million years, and we can't do it anymore. I'm not saying it's a useful skill, only that this is a piece of cultural memory lost and that's kind of sad.

It's not like hand-etching circuit boards, which is nothing more than a transitory technique to accomplish a goal until we found a new way. Stone tool making (and language) is what distinguished us from every other species on the planet, and was one of the central activities that people did with their time for hours on end, and is probably one of the key things that got us to "sharpen" our problem-solving brains and develop the other skills we rely on now.
Stop Designing Languages, Write Libraries Instead
Some single player games in the same broad genre as Sim City have successfully been adapted to multiplayer, so the premise of doing so wasn't poorly conceived. Transport Tycoon to OpenTTD in particular. The problem in this case was they botched the execution (which was no surprise given EA's abysmal reputation, as you mention.)
I hate the back talking and advertising. I already bought the device, I’m a prime member, why can’t you just tell me the temperature and shut the fuck back up?

I hate the stupid thing but my wife has a little more patience for her than me.

Siri on the other hand, never seems to miss.
That’s only one factor, though it’s not just “Gary” IME many people are in this category, the very effective remote people are less common. The junior engineer issue and the comms issue affects everyone. Companies are teams of people and you want to make the collaboration as low effort and fast as possible. In person is very good for that and I suspect better on net.

It’s why companies with the leverage to push for it (Apple and Amazon, Elon Musk companies) do so - they believe it to be an advantage.
Pleroma also runs on basically everything, which is another big mark in favor of it.

Mastodon is a ruby on rails dinosaur, which to its credit scales as well as Ruby usually does. The disadvantage is that if you're trying to run something for yourself, you're looking at a cost that is hard to justify. Last I tried using it, without downtuning sidekiq workers, you get constant CPU pressure and ~2GB idle ram usage and that's on a low-cost VPS from Hetzner (somewhere below the 10$ mark).

It also caches media like there's no tomorrow, which means that you basically need a cronjob to clear out old attachments and for 4 years straight you couldn't clean out old avatars and headers either.

Pleroma by contrast uses barely any CPU when idle and it's ram usage has only rarely exceeded the 300mb mark (and only when I foolishly plugged my instance into a relay). Media caching is off by default, so it doesn't clog up your disk unless you want it to.
Alaska’s Fisheries Are Collapsing
Intel announces delays and deletions to its GPU and HPC roadmap
I have many issues with Siri but adding things to the reminder list across the family works fairly seamlessly for me, now that my wife has given permission in the 'home' app to use personal requests.

That said, my 11yo daughter said to me yesterday "why don't they just add AI to Siri" after failing to get Siri to tell her how long a timer was originally set for (Siri would only tell you how much time is left on the timer).

Someone did build a crazy ChatGPT-to-Siri bridge through Automations which I haven't tried yet but plan to at some point...
It's Fine to Order the Same Dish as Your Spouse
I never thought about it, but that is so true. It also seemed like it was roughly the peak of bad DRM as well as trying to curtail resale of console games.
Is there any risks of nodes assigning same IP if there's no central DHCP?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/11bzvbe/comment/ja2...
+1. "Let me go back to you" and "i don't know" are sentences people should use more IMO.
Essential Science Fiction Books for Beginners
The IPv6 transition is challenging because it requires coordination and cooperation from many different stakeholders, including site admins, CDNs, network designers, and device manufacturers. However, as the author realized, IPv6 is ready for prime time and offers significant benefits over IPv4. Looking forward to the transition to IPv6 for unlock its full potential for a more secure, efficient, and connected internet.
Its a reference to 2010 which is the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

IDK how to spoiler tag in HN, but be warned...spoilers for the first two Odyssey books/possibly both movies below. Keep in mind this is off of memory and I have not read them in many years, so I might be wrong on some points. I have also not seen the movie, so IDK if there are any significant differences between the movie and the book.

In 2001, David Bowman transforms into a starchild. The monoliths that created man chose him to evolve. A starchild's responsibility is to foster life throughout the universe. David Bowman discovered life on Europa, and decided that this would be the population he would evolve. However, he knew how humanity tends to exploit those below them, so any time a human satellite or spaceship got too close it would mysteriously go wrong. Blow up, go missing, etc. This was because David Bowman was protecting his population from humanity by preventing humans from interacting with Europa at all.
Microsoft's GitHub Actions (continuous integration) runner machines do not have IPv6, and cannot be used for things like unit tests that require an IPv6 network interface for whatever thing they are testing.

Add that to the list of thousand cuts.
I thought essential oils were just concentrated versions of the original? Eg I use orange essential oil to make my own air freshener spray.
As soon as it becomes terminally unprofitable, they will kill her and brick everyone’s devices. It has happened before and it will happen again and again and again to every IoT device that relies on a cloud service. The only way to win this game is to refuse to p(l)ay.
I was just looking at this paper of his per your comment: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.01560.pdf

You know, looking at figure 2 and 3 I was thinking so sure it is a mapping structure but really looks like a tiny tiny database! I had no idea phfs were so involved structurally. Reminds me of delicate tiny clockworks.
On system upgrade dialogs. I want to stay up to date and I won't remember to do it but usually I don't want to do it right now.

In fact, I use this style of "snooze" quite often as a user.
I find that CS does a good job with road construction and design and I think the traffic simulation is largely on par with Sim City 4. Other parts of the simulation are weaker and the game really doesn't have much challenge as a city management game. It is a better sandbox though.
Model training is already trivial, just expensive. As LLM optimized HW appears the expense will drop. By 2030, I’d expect decent consumer hardware to be both faster and two orders of magnitude cheaper than what’s in use today for model training.
Unlike in IPv4, in IPv6 there is a lower risk of nodes assigning the same IPv6 address if there's no central DHCP. This is because IPv6 uses a unique interface identifier (IID) that is automatically generated by the node based on its MAC address and a random value. This makes it highly unlikely that two nodes on the same network would generate the same IID and therefore, the same IPv6 address.
As one of the comments points out:

Posts authored from outside Mastodon can already include more formatting, and that has been the case for years
Just gotta make sure the people who will actually make a difference in your company are in the group you choose to go along with.

Such a huge discrepancy would make me wonder which side the wheat is mostly sitting in.
The obsolete format I’ve most recently gotten into is VHS tape. Used decks go for $10 or $20 at our reuse center, you can buy prerecorded tapes for 50 cents. If a deck fails or a tape gets pulled you won’t feel so bad. Decks from 2000 or so are solidly better than they were in the 1980s, particularly they all support HiFi sound which is excellent. The quality is not so good as a DVD or Blu-Ray but a good movie on VHS is still a good movie.
Doubtful. AP is terrible but also generic enough that I don't think anyone will ever abandon it.

It's in that sweet spot of being bad enough that anyone who has experience with it can sum up a whole myriad of issues with it, but at the same time, you're going to be hard-pressed to find a different solution that will meet everyones goals. It's terrible but it works "well enough".
My biggest problem with Mastodon, although Twitter has the same issue, the quoting convention creates context if the reply poster adds it, but tweets with lots of replies are similarly a morass.

Someone is building a threaded Mastodon client, currently macOS only.

https://mastodon.social/@terhechte

Early days, and kind of slow, but looks promising.
I agree, we don't have enough data. And a common mistake is extrapolating too much from limited data, but here's the most important data point and why we continue to use these practices: these companies are worth trillions of dollars and they hire this way. You want the industry to change its practices? Find an equally successful (impact, market cap, innovation) company that hires differently in software.
>Apple has nothing like the AOSP, which love-it-or-lump-it is the best thing Android has going for it today.

ELI5, what's AOSP? Is it like, base android without hardware drivers? Does this make it easier to maintain 3rd party android roms?
> Sure, one can randomly pick a textbook that they like and that cites that content, but this looks rather arbitrary to me.

The alternative is to trust your memory that you’re quoting the correct information on a source you haven’t read. That’s going to quickly mutate into something unrecognizable.