skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hehe, I just posted a sibling comment about the same mic. I've been using it for 5+ years, and I don't think like I'm missing anything. I suppose I need to make sure to keep myself uninformed on the subject so I don't get an upgrade :)

The USB connector is not an issue for me, because the mic is connected to a docking station/computer display.

The sound quality hasn't been an issue yet, and I've used it to record some game assets, etc...

Have you used Yeti X? If so, how does it compare to Blue in practice?
> What's worse (for the society), is that in this world nobody has an incentive to create wealth, because they know it'll just be taken away.

I know this has been discussed at length in many places, but I just want to point out that it isn't binary. There is some kind of distribution where "sovereign ownership" (full protection, no taxes, no redistribution) would entice the most people to create wealth (and even then, I doubt it would be 100% of the population), all the way to "mob rule" where a minimal number of people would be enticed to create wealth (and I don't think it would be 0%). People do things for multidimensional reasons.

That said, our societies have tried many variations along the spectrum between these two extremes, and I think we have uncovered the importance of protecting wealth and the incentive to create it.
Because anything related to "delivering better lives" gets labeled as "tangled up social issues" and discarded in favor of "increasing profits". Maybe the majority only understands life through money? Like, a better life means more money, period - and has no concept that a better life could mean road safety, reliable healthcare, serious schooling, quiet retirement, and such.
Show HN: I made a simple journal app
Hey HN! I got sick of journaling apps with endless subscriptions and feature bloat, so I built my own.

It's super simple:

- Web-first

- One payment, then it's yours forever (no subscription BS)

- Clean interface that gets out of your way

- Just the essentials for actually writing

Roadmap:

- Media upload

- Importing Day One's entries

Give it a try if you're into journaling. Would love to hear what you think!
> Since more affordable housing is very nearly equivalent to real estate values decreasing (at the very least, as perceived by voters)

Wrong!!

Please get this right, because telling people they need to loose wealth to fix society is a horrible place to be in.

They own the land and the land will appreciate in value (unless your house as a shit location, but then you area poor-ass republican anyways, statistically speaking).

This is the great positive some outcome:

- Housing unit costs go down

- Land values go up

So long as it is economical to density by a greater ratio than the ratio land prices grow by, this works out.
A heliocentric model isn't necessary for solar eclipse explanation.

"The moon and the sun revolve around the Earth, the moon is closer, and sometimes it is interposed between the sun and the Earth" is a story that works if the coordinate frame is Earth-centric or sun-centric.

(I know this wasn't the point of this comment, but identifying the problem while missing key details that end up mattering in the long run is, arguably, where Leninism falls down as effective political philosophy, so it seemed relevant. Lenin identified the problem of class consolidation, but attempts to reconcile it just moved the class barriers around instead of breaking them).
Yeah, some local standards are reasonable and necessary, but most are just about "character", not actual building standards to adopt to local geography or anything like that.
We live in a nation where grown-up children systematically are, in a way, turned into economic refugees fleeing the high-cost areas where they were born and their parents live. There are lots of people that care deeply about promoting housing abundance, more than enough to be a political force.

The real problem is-- this is a problem of a diffuse absence. There is, generally, no simple focused location to complain about, and the problem does not lend itself to a roll-up-our-sleeves-and-spend-some-money solution. Those are called "housing projects" and they are a tool of last resort.

In addition, this is a failed policy built on the shoulders of a failed transportation policy. Government is stuck on the developmental cul-de-sac of rubber tires and individual vehicles, and the housing crisis is intrinsically linked to this. The modern generation has demonstrated no profoundly increased enthusiasm for investment in mass transit, and instead prefer unproven technology fixes always just beyond the horizon.
As a layman though, I often see this description for how it is LLMs work.
> I didn't realize that QR codes had a proper orientation and figured that their corner identifiers handled any orientation.

Same, I assumed they were designed to always work. I suspect it was whatever app or library you were using that wasn't designed to handle them correctly.
Show HN: Orpheus.cpp – fast audio generation without a GPU
How is this bias different than dressing and looking well? The screen/sound is where the rubber hits the road and if you have a messy room, noisy environment, crapy mic setup, poor internet quality, it all adds up to a chance you are not really detailed oriented.
> DPA 6066

These are about $1,000 and look (though looks may be deceiving) shockingly easy to accidentally destroy, to save anyone wondering a Google.
The experience has become worse with WinUI 3. They got rid of the designer view. So now you're developing the UX code first. This is very unlike the prior paradigm, where you would typically drag and drop the components in your workspace/design view and then code the interactions. It is precisely what made Windows programming so accessible to the millions of developers. This is a step in the wrong direction IMO.
Any% Pokemon Red is under a minute and a half long and beats the game using memory corruption and needs specific inputs in a four-frame window. Claude has no concept of time. What do you think is going to happen?
I don't understand why this is varying so widely person to person. I was just able to use a photo of a famous athlete and a photo of myself and get them to shake hands in a photo of a location where neither of us have ever been.

Some people I work with are having similar experiences to you though, but it's wildly inconsistent.
I hear what you’re saying, and of course, there’s always room to improve the system. But let’s not pretend economics doesn’t exist. If there were twice as many of us, we simply wouldn’t be worth as much. Not because we’d be less capable — but because value is determined not just by skill, but by rarity.

Flood the market with physicians, and suddenly, the decade I spent sacrificing my youth, relationships, and financial sanity becomes… just a long, expensive hobby. We didn’t endure that gauntlet so that healthcare could be as available as tap water.

Yes, med school is expensive. Yes, resident salaries are lean — especially in NYC. But that’s part of the process. It creates a kind of gravity around the profession. It filters out those unwilling to bear the cost of commitment. You say plenty of people are qualified. I don’t doubt that. But the profession is not merely about who can do it — it’s about who is willing to pay to do it, in every possible way.

And as for doctors who haven’t cracked open a journal in 20 years — well, isn’t that the beauty of the system? They don’t have to. The structure itself protects them. We’ve built an ecosystem where even if a physician isn’t on the cutting edge, the mere fact that they exist — credentialed, licensed, and allowed to operate within this curated bottleneck — means they remain valuable.

If the goal is universal access, then yes, by all means, widen the gates. But just know: the moment everyone can see a doctor anytime, anywhere, the profession stops being a calling — and starts being customer service. And I didn’t sign up to wear a headset.

So no — there shouldn’t be twice as many of us. There should be just enough that when you finally get an appointment, it means something.
> Luddism is a strange philosophy for a software engineer.

Luddism and critically evaluating the net benefit and cost of a piece of tech, are 2 very different things.

And the latter is not strange for a SWE at all, in fact I'd say it's an essential skill.
Ugh I wish heating was what I had to deal with. Heaters don't need the exorbitant amount of maintenance that air conditioners do. Also, air conditioners don't even meet my needs, probably once I get my own house I'm going to need to get some sort of refrigeration system installed just to be at a comfortable temperature for this body's heat output. (not a joke)
I don't think it's such a big deal. It's a very well known package. The main reason I mentioned him was that it might be a nice/friendly thing to do.
> As the neighborhood becomes denser, rents might go down, but land values will go up, since a given piece of land can now be used to build a more profitable apartment building.

You're taking about the wholesale destruction of neighborhoods, as they are, to be replaced with something else. The land value might go up, but the existing house value goes down, especially halfway through such a project. It's one thing if you're replacing low density multitenant buildings with higher-density ones, but it's a totally different story if you're replacing detached, single family homes. Usually the latter only happens after a decade or 3 of neglected, low value homes.

Higher density brings pluses and minuses.. more businesses, transit and other services, but also more traffic, crime, noise, etc.
It's a real thing, my family would frequently travel to SeaTac from Vancouver to travel to sunny destinations because airfare was substantially cheaper, and there were more direct flight options, especially to the Caribbean. We also travelled frequently to Seattle for MLB, NFL, and NHL games. During the first Trump administration we stopped due to outright hostility from some, individual, border agents, but picked up again over the last few years. That all stopped in December when Trump started "joking" about annexation, and threatening Canada and other allies.

I have also set expectations with my leaders at work that even work travel to the US beyond previously booked trips (the last of which is next week) is off the table, and I would prefer to find a new job than continue to travel to a country that is treating it's allies so poorly.
> Productivity is not a problem

GP didn't claim it was
I've grown a little bit more skeptical of what can realistically be achieved by the passive nature of YIMBY-ism.

In Portland, they passed some radical new zoning laws a few years ago that allowed anyone, anywhere the ability to zone ADUs on their property. And the cost to get permits is almost nothing.

I have lots of friends and family in the area with property. But not a single one has added an ADU. It seems like it should be a no-brainer, so I'll bring up and ask why not? And there are basically two reasons:

- There's a general fear of being a landlord. Tenants have a lot of legal rights, and the risk of inviting someone onto your property who could start squatting or doing drugs and not being able to evict them is beyond the pale for most families.

- They don't need the money. If you can afford a home in the area, you're already pretty well off. Even though adding a rental could be pretty lucrative, there's just not enough motivation to go through with it.

To me it has little to do with incumbent politicians and everything to do with the incumbent middle class. I'm all for removing red tape and restrictions, but we also need to come up with incentives to light a fire under the butts of individual actors in our economy to actually go out and make things.
See also "You'll Never Guess Which Recent DF Article Was 'Flagged' at Hacker News" (with reports from other sites: Tim Bary, Oliver Reichenstein):

* https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/27/youll-never-gue...
And they show the differences when the language models are made larger.
It’s amazing that this gets upvoted while it is completely uninformed about what liberal politicians actually run on. This is what the Kamala campaign ran on, it didn’t work. People love getting tangled on social issues as it’s the most provocative. This conception that most people actually care about rational policies is false and has been false for at least the past decade.
It's in the article but I want to elevate it to the thread for folks who don't read the article. The new book Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is an interesting book in the context of modern American Politics and inflation and worth a read.

We all know adding money to a system without adding more stuff creates inflation. Abundance is an interesting evolution that in my view is a step forward to what has been remanded as "tax and spend" politics of both US political parties.
> stuck relying on a linter to catch you

Isn't that what your tests are for? Linters aren't normally intended to stop you from creating undefined behaviour.

It is not like Rust negates the need for those tests. Remembering to handle an error is not sufficient. You also need to ensure that you handle it correctly and define a contract to ensure that the intent is documented for human consumption and remains handled correctly as changes are made. Rust is very much a language designed around testing like every other popular language.
> and you have to be careful to not get sick etc.

Sooo easy.
With that said, a substantial part of that is that every major city in the US has spent decades underbuilding housing, so the smaller homes that urban seniors might otherwise want to downsize to are in very short supply in the first place.
I'm grateful that this bill is taking a much more measured approach than the headline suggests. The bill is targeting specific additives, or "excessive" amounts of added sugar, salt, or fat (exact thresholds unnamed).

"Ultra-processed" gets thrown about as a big food quality bogeyman, but some definitions of the label are as broad as "contains any amount of added sugar". I'm glad California isn't following a standard that extreme.
> building a character without assistance - both from people, and from software - is virtualy impossible

I'd be fine with this part, my biggest motivation to switch systems is being able to have a decent online character builder without having to rebuy every book AND pay a subscription.
In my town (in Czechoslovakia), of the people of my generation, only those who listened to the BBC or VoA knew who the Vaclav Havel was, who became the first president after the fall of communism. I can't imagine the chaos that would happen if no one had any true information at the time of the fall of communism.
When the Democrats had a majority in the House and a supermajority in the Senate when Obama was elected, they couldn't even get a public option included in the Affordable Care Act, and the right so successfully demagogued "Obamacare" (their name for it) that the Democrats lost an incredible number of seats in the 2010 midterms. Bernie Sanders campaigned on Medicare for All (essentially what you're suggesting) in 2016 and 2020, and he didn't even win the Democratic primary.

Despite how big a problem healthcare is in the US, most voters fear any change that may put their current health coverage at risk. Most people under 65 have (or feel like they have) decent-to-good health insurance through an employer-sponsored plan and don't necessarily see a big benefit to throwing that away. People over 65 are fiercely protective of their Medicare benefits and tend to worry that Medicare for All is going to make their healthcare worse. (Judging by the amount of "shocked Pikachu face" we see lately from Trump voters who expected him to fix the economy, there's a critical group of swing voters who seem unwilling or unable to accurately judge candidates based on their policies vs. their vibes.)

I don't agree with those people. I'd love to see our healthcare system dramatically overhauled. But between the polarization and risk aversion of American voters, "a quality National Health Service" has not proven to be a winning platform so far and is unlikely to be in the future.
I use an Elgato Wave XLR $200 so that I can upgrade my microphone separately; I'm not a fan of hybrid/integrated devices. I use it with an Audio-Technica AT2035 $200 and a Elgato Low-Profile Microphone Arm $100.
Kids are very familiar with The Presidents of the United States of America, in a way, through Caspar Babypants.
One is strategic and other is tactical. The goal is the strategy and the process is tactical. Just having a goal without specific means of achieving it is useless.
“Delivering better lives for people” is already an inherently social issue, though. There are many people who don’t WANT to improve certain people’s lives, and if your proposed policies help them, they will be against it even if it makes everyone’s life better; they are willing to forgo improving their own life to make sure the people they hate won’t see any improvement.

Unless your policies go out of their way to exclude the groups they hate, you aren’t going to get their support.
I used to hate analysing my chess games – now I use an AI agent
An MRI of my lower back would have cost €160 in Europe had I been paying cash.

Imagine having a free European vacation included with your MRI...
Plants can take up CWD-causing prions from soil in lab. What happens if eaten?
I follow a YouTube channel Gamma1734 [1] where the creator who runs it plays a bunch of piano sheet music from the past, a lot of it in the Romantic style. The artists played on the channel are all obscure to me. None of the names I consider "masters" from that period or style. And to be frank, the average quality of the compositions is not great.

My own opinion, as an amateur musician with no classical training, is the music I heard on this AI generated page would not have stood out to me compared to the rest of the pieces on that channel. I would wager that in a randomized test of these average middle of the road composers vs. an AI score generated by NoteGen that almost no average person would be able to distinguish them.

That leaves two categories. The highly trained individuals (e.g. professional composers or well educated amateurs) who may be able to tell a difference (I would love a real study on this and not just "vibes"). And the master composers (Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, etc.) which stand above the average human composers of their own times.

I would admit the pieces composed by the AI aren't at the level of the master, but they do feel indistinguishable to me from the average.

https://www.youtube.com/@PianoScoreVids
> You need to line up the breadcrumbs right.

And in the time I line up the breadcrumbs to help this thing to emulate an actual thought process, I would probably alrady have finshed doing it myself, especially since I speed up the typing-it-all-out part using a much less "clever" and "agentic" AI system.
Right, but it leads to too many false conclusions by lay people. User facing LLMs are only trained on next token prediction during initial stages of their training. They have to go through Reinforcement Learning before they become useful to users, and RL training occurs on complete responses, not just token-by-token.

That leads to conclusions elucidated by the very article, that LLMs couldn't possibly plan ahead because they are only trained to predict next tokens. When the opposite conclusion would be more common if it was better understood that they go through RL.
is this gonna open some kind of cool new way to extract actinides and lanthanides (i.e., rare earths) from the ground?

VCs talk about deep tech and then they don't jump on stuff like this!
Here in Norway we've got a point system[1], and I'm sure we didn't invent it.

Each point lasts for 3 years, and if you accumulate more than 8 you lose your license for 6 months.

A speeding ticket is at least two points, and running a red light or tailgating is three for example. You get double points the first two years after getting your license.

[1]: https://www.vegvesen.no/en/driving-licences/driving-licence-...
2015: Human embryonic stem cells in the treatment of patients with spinal cord injury

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4627203/
That hasn't been my experience at all, especially when set for cardioid. I use to ask diligently about whether my coworkers could hear me type, or my kids yelling from another room, etc., and they couldn't. It does a surprisingly good job of not picking up the trucks leaving from fire department literally across the street from my house.
Given that I'm not trying to sell my house, its market value is meaningless to me. Meanwhile, that house is in the midst of an growing group of increasingly desperate people. Desperation has very real consequences for the people living nearby.

The effect you're describing is not nothing, but I think you're overstating it. I'd rather see the homeless housed than see my property value go up by another 10k. It would be worth more in that case, market evaluation be damned.
To add four year degree is a very recent phenomena. For most of the people it was an exception. The norm was to become an apprentice after or during high school and then go on to become a master tradesman. We might just be seeing a reversion to the norm.
The one built into a Logitech C922 camera. Works best when there is some sound-absorbing material in the room, such as carpet on the floor, tapestry on the wall, sofa somewhere, and so on.
> "During videoconferencing, of course, you know how you look, since you can see yourself too," Walter-Terrill noted. "But on a call with dozens of people, you may be the only one who doesn't know how you sound to everyone else: you may hear yourself as rich and resonant, while everyone else hears a tinny voice."

Not quite! You don't really know how you look, because you see yourself before transmission.
As tags aren't necessarily immutable, it's probably advisable to use the full hash in most situations anyway.

This is a useful trick in situations where the image changing under your feet isn't very important.
> In Portland, they passed some radical new zoning laws a few years ago that allowed anyone, anywhere the ability to zone ADUs on their property. And the cost to get permits is almost nothing.

Yeah, see, this mindset is exactly the problem.

Letting anyone put a granny flat on their property if they have space for it is radical? Come on, that's a moderate change at most.

And yeah, that kind of thing is never going to make a big difference over the short or even medium term. You want a big impact quickly, you need bigger changes: allow for higher density "missing middle" housing across the whole city, drastically streamline the approval process to be "as of right", get rid of all mandatory parking minimums, invest tens of millions of tax dollars every year into new public housing, etc.
null_resource is being deprecated in favor of terraform_data:

https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/resources...

~8 years in or so with terraform and I've found null_resource to be a useful crutch in doing things like, "take this source and compile it with this script that'll basically never change, then put it somewhere that's defined in terraform." Overly relying on this mechanism feels like terraform code smell to me, just from my personal experience, if that's even a thing.