skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally I've been using a combination of open-ear headphones and IEMs for over a decade now. Also a huge live music fan.

Despite listening to a lot of music, some of it quite loudly, I've no perceived hearing loss. Can still hear whispers, distant conversations, and feint sounds that many people can't even hear at all.

Everything I've read on heading loss indicates that managing listening duration relative to the loudness of the source is critical. There's charts for this that'll tell you exactly how long you need to listen at a specific volume for damage to occur.

You can crank it up for a song or two, provided it's followed by a break or significantly reduced volume. Similarly you can very briefly remove ear protection close to the stage at live venues. It's all about breaks, protection, and managing duration.

If you listen to music all day at the same volume, I'm sure it's very possible to unknowingly build tolerance and do some damage. Fortunately my mind tends to burn out on music long before my ears do.

Slightly off topic, but there's a similar risk with live music. One of my first live shows, I forgot my ear plugs and ended up too close to one of the speakers. Didn't really bother me until the next day when I awoke to my ears ringing. Fortunately it cleared fast with seemingly no permanent damage, but I was lucky. I'd say 95% of people at live shows have zero hearing protection.

On that note, if you ever forget your ear plugs at a show, just periodically plug one ear at a time with a finger for 30+ seconds every few minutes (or whatever keeps you comfortable). You might look stupid, but it'll save you.
Graal already can compile bytecode, right, so I don't get why SubstrateVM finds it so hard to dynamically load code but a truffle java bytecode interpreter would work
This is the ultimate article on scrolling UX:

https://bost.ocks.org/mike/scroll/

Basically, don't mess with built-in scrolling functionality - just change how your page renders based on scroll position.
I want this for email! As far as I can tell, there is no great open-source tool for processing my mail archive and giving me similar stats. Everyone wants me to hand over a fully-privileged OAUTH token to some random person's website, and then it never gives me the stats I want.
Beer please
Looks like the HN effect is happening already -- the "Demo" link to Github shows this:

{
"message": "API rate limit exceeded for 52.53.190.53. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)",
"documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting"
}
Trevor Perrin also went on and created the Noise protocol framework (of which some protocols are quite similar to Signal).
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Were he alive, John Bardeen would want to have a word with you.
Show HN: Concorde Re-mixed
Doesn't handle replay attacks...

This is why we have CSRF tokens, right? Orthogonal to session cookies, but when used together they avoid this vuln.
Total irony fail
Isn't the cost of healthcare (whoever ends up paying for it, whether it's tax, national insurance, medical aid, self pay) is cheaper in any country compared to the US?
company or country?
You can just give a chroot. At a company I used to work for, our build system used a chroot with a bunch of rarely-changing binaries/headers that let us build binaries for old distros, and then the directory with the actual code you were working on got bind-mounted into that chroot. The build process didn't depend on anything at all from the host system except for the build tool itself that set up the chroot environment. Everything to actually do the build (compiler, headers, utilities) lived in source control and was put into the build environment from there, so builds were 100% reproducible.
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I see that you're focused on mechatronics, so you may well be able to build machines that replace humans at tasks, that's awesome. I think a more automated future has already displaced a decent amnt of the work force, to see in real time what happens, and I think the consensus is that human labor displacement will continue. Thus there's no reason for the abstract thought experiment, for the reality that we live in is already the one you're trying to simulate.

Since I'm made of meat, I'd prefer you work on machines that can repair meat, perhaps since so many discoveries are made by accident, you could accelerate the rate accidents occur. I know some companies use giant mix and match machines to just try things and see what works.

I'm ok with working in the factory while some other machine is figuring out how to save my life. I prefer that to having my life not saved, but getting to chill out and watch from a hammock on a hill the machines do my old job.
I had a pair of Shures in 2008 (the tips look the same today), and had a similar experience with my ear canals being different sizes.

Mainly I used the foam tips which isolated extremely well vs triple flange tips, but were very uncomfortable to wear for more than ~2 hours. Is that something you've noticed too?
Pretty cool, but there should be a warning not to enter in API credentials (through the URI) on this page, as the request is proxied to jsonbrowse.com
$130k in the US with paid health insurance, 2-4 weeks of vacation and dramatically lower taxes, vs. $50k in France with more 'benefits' and higher taxes.. Are those extra benefits worth $80k per year?

Social charges really crush the ability for French companies to compete. Then with CDIs making it almost impossible to fire anyone, it results in a far less liquid job market. Now there's even talk of actually forcing men to take paternity leave in the name of reducing inequality between men and women in the workplace. I live in France and love it for the most part, but other than my tiny hotel business on the side, I would never consider starting a company here. Even filing the paperwork to form an SAS is arduous. I can incorporate in the US in less than a day and have a bank account opened the next day. In France, even something as simple as getting business-class internet requires a SIRET number for no logical reason. I could offer to pay €1000 per month and without some piece of paper saying you're a business, you can't even get a business phone line.

However one really important area that ought not be missed is the amazing pre-k (free or nearly free) childcare. If I were in the US, that would amount to $20k+ per year (I have 3 kids.) That is definitely a plus.

In France, you have less disposable income than you would in the US (even after benefits are counted,) however, France does have a great lifestyle if you can afford it. Though I can't say much for Paris -- expensive, somewhat dirty, a dreadful public transport system (try taking kids with strollers on the metro,) along with a very high cost of living and you have a pretty bad place to raise a family. Toulouse, Grenoble, Lyon, Avignon on the other hand -- really great places!
Good karma (hypertext) and productivity (presentations, landings, and long-forms). Designers, marketers, and journalists can now focus on the content.
I can not find a quote because the numbers are hidden.

But i am in an engineering school, i am in the top 10%, and it is true.

There was even a note from the ministry this year asking engineering school to stop the mandatory semester in a foreign university for all engineering student, to try to reduce the drain.
> Some of the artists sell their art to people in other towns.

Ah ha! The author realized that a village full of artists selling their art to each other would be nonsense. But didn't stop to notice that a whole world of people like that would be just as surreal.

That's not just a minor problem, it blows the whole scheme apart. Attention economies are always very winner-take-all, and become more so as you remove barriers. If you relieve people of all tasks except showing off to each other, that will create cutthroat competition for attention where only a small minority can ever flourish. In my eyes that's much worse than the current situation, where an uninteresting person can still become worthwhile to others by doing necessary work.

The monumentally hard part of writing any utopia is fulfilling people's need to be needed. Writers need to get serious about that challenge, instead of talking about bread and circuses for the thousandth time.
Trans-Oceanic Fiber Optic Cable Layer
So while this is good that this is getting press again, its not a new thing, see this Sigmetrics paper from 2014 (i.e. about 2.5 years ago)

(and ignored on hacker news back then)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7918649

mostly good to give credit where credit is due.
I have a CPA tax attorney who handles this for me. As I said in the other reply, I don't think that I am out of touch.

$200k isn't as much as people make it out to be. It's enough to not worry about monthly commitments, but it's not enough for much else. A new construction home in a middle class part of Dallas runs $700k, or $3300/month + another $13k in tax = $50k annually. Add your 5-Series for $500/month for another $6000. Plus insurance. Meh.

And as I said before, at $200k, you can utilize a 401(k).
I would like to see some interoperation in issue tracking/case management.

For instance a customer has an internal ticket that they shoot to me that is mirrored in my system and when I resolve it on my system, my system resolves it in their system.

Today much of this communication goes through email where it is conflated with spam and messages from multiple clients and vendors as well as potential clients and vendors.

Of course there is the enterprise angle too: for me to satisfy your request I might create a case with the delivery company and share it with you as well as any other vendor that provides a component or product service to you.
Pitfalls of machine learning – the tank problem
Woman Dies After Infection from Bacteria Resistant to 26 Antibiotic Drugs
Hover over the image. Interesting way to add context and opinion, above an image that's flat/non-opinionated. Nice!
What you're looking for is the radio headsets that airport ground support crews use. More than 20dB attenuation, headphones built in, designed to be worn an entire shift. If someone can deal with multiple Rolls Royce turbofans nearby while wearing these, you can too. Be careful to buy one with two drivers (some ground crews use the single headphone driver model to have an ear free to hear other sounds), and get a proper adapter to plug them into your audio source. Active noise cancelation only works in the 900Hz and lower range on consumer bose headphones. You can try the Bose pilot headsets if you want, but they are much pricier. You can get a good used ground crew set for about $100.
and bad internet.
Competition between producers already incentivizes eliminating labor whenever you can do a job cheaper without human labor. That provides enduring pressure for more automation without any basic changes to the incentive structure of markets.

How do you get human liberation instead of IP-holders-and-landlords-own-everything after human labor is 90% obsolete? Several possibilities here:

- Open source imitations of commercial robot systems

- "Pirate" clones of commercial systems (de facto illegal, but de jure as common as copying movies)

- Poorer nations rejecting rich nations' IP regimes and legalizing all sorts of imitations, even building national programs to copy the rich, if the previous two factors are not sufficient by themselves

You might think that it's in the long term interest of producers to require some skilled human labor to make the makerbots, so the bots don't become effectively reducible to bits and copied as easily as bits. But there is a collective action problem that works against producers and in the long term favor of the general public: a "defecting" producer can always gain a temporary advantage by eliminating a bit more human labor, even if in the long term it means the decline of their own position and the position of all large capital owners.
> It's hardly a stretch to read this as an invitation

It's an interesting Rorschach test.

What would be fascinating is to do an experiment where someone didn't have an emotional attachment to the issue and see how this is interpreted by different parties.

For that matter do the same with this issue merely see what people who fell on either side (or in the middle) thought.
When I worked in tech in the US, I got three or four weeks off. This was considered an incredible degree of largess on the part of my employers. Unfortunately, though, my partner generally got only a week off per year (she works in museums, a tough industry).

In Europe we both get a month off every year by law, which means we can both enjoy it. My salary is lower, but hers is higher. In general, we find we have more fun this way.
Google Tensorflow chooses Keras
Signal is a centralized point of failure and surveillance.

Why can't I run my own signal server? Why doesn't the client support this?

We need something like Signal that that isn't under the control of a single party.
Good. Hope you feel good about yourself.
It's difficult to get good statistics, because the cost is rising primarily for those that don't get subsidies via the ACA. When you mix costs to those that get subsidies with costs for those that don't, you get mud. Similarly, they will show "employer costs" over time, when they know well that some employers are passing increased costs down to employees.

In short, it's the usual situation for statistics. You can show pretty much any story you want. My story of $1200/month to $2200/month (over 6 years) is real, with apples-for-apples coverage. Of course, it's just one data point.
Maybe because you can try it directly online without registration?

https://riot.im/app/
I'm fairly sure that reveal.js URLs are hackable... the slide number is added to the URL as an anchor. Setting that in your URL bar might be a simple way to jump around to various slides. Also, ESC brings up a slide map that you can jump around on.

e.g. http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/2

(Hi from a fellow enthusiast)
The Pi has a single USB OTG interface, and no onboard ethernet. On the regular Pis, that's sent to an on-board hub, which fans it out to the USB sockets and the USB-Ethernet chips. The Compute Module, on the other hand, doesn't include a hub and Ethernet chip, because not every application will need it, and probably more importantly, it can be set to boot off code it receives from a USB host. This is useful in debugging because you can start working on things with a very minimal number of connections, and also so you can rapidly reprogram it without having to reflash for every boot.

In general, the CM has a lot of support for I/O that is just not feasible with the package the regular PI uses. Things like the extra camera and display ports can be useful for computer vision packages, but would make routing on the normal board real difficult. By minimizing the extent of the breakout, they really do make the chip able to be considered in a lot more use cases.
Not OP, but I sense perhaps a limitation of HN; articles with comments where the comment is the submission get conflated with submissions about the article itself.

(EDIT: the submission's URL has now been changed from a particular reddit comment at https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/5m0zpo/moxie_marlin... to a different announcement about the prize. The rest of my post as it originally stood follows.)

Reproducing the subject matter of the submission for discussion's sake:

dionyziz says:

I think Moxie decided not to be recorded for his acceptance speech. He said something very nice during his speech however, and I'll try to phrase it like he did:

If you watch videos of politicians giving speeches in the 1930's, you observe the fascist leaders who gladly accept an applause from the audience because they have earned it. They feel they are responsible for it, that they are the creators of history. On the contrary, if you observe a communist leader, they will applaud with the audience in every chance. This is because they have a different belief system, that of historical materialism, that history is a force of its own, unstoppable and inevitable, that drives what is happening in the world equipped with the momentum of what has happened in the past. These leaders feel they are simply the bearer of history, the tool that history chose to run its course, so they applaud together with the audience for history.

Similarly, today, we have a similar force, and that is technology. I once had the chance to meet Mark Zuckerberg. When I met him, a thought occurred to me: I could, right there... kill him. [audience laughs] I never thought I would get so close. But would that really change anything? Us technologists are the bearers of technological momentum. We make things happen, because the time has come for them to happen. And now is the time for strong encryption and crypto.

[audience applauds together with Moxie]
Pretty much. And much of the time, we will never know if it was the stars, or the unavoidable missteps that we make.
For years I've been wondering why companies only have to pay taxes for human work but not for robot work, how are we supposed to live in this post work paradise if those with the means of production are replacing human workers with robots to extract more profit by sharing less with everyone else?
Learning to learn is a deepmind paper, not schmidhuber.
An advantage of the French visa programme currently also being discussed on HN.
Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views
Hey mods: can we reinstate the no politics rule, please? I know I could just ignore these threads, but for some idiotic reason I can't seem to help myself from peering into and contributing to these pointless debates where everyone essentially preaches to the choir and comes out feeling frustrated and angry at the other side's stupidity/ignorance/dishonesty/corruption.

One of my New Year's resolutions was to mercilessly unfollow anyone on Facebook whose posts were over 66% political -- no matter whether Republican or Democrat.
Now I'm facebooking like it's 2005, and I gotta say, I'm liking it. It's so nice looking at happy people on holiday with their families and kids rather than mulling through all the political hatred and divisiveness. I never thought I'd say that, but such is the degree of poison afflicting political discourse that anything to block it out feels like desperately needed palliative.

You took a courageous decision to ban politics and to my mind it was bliss... more of the same please!
Huh? 1024^4 is how Windows defines a terabyte, accordingly that's what most people think a terabyte is. OS X was the first OS to switch to 1000^4 with Snow Leopard (2009). Different Linux system tools use either standard.
haha, I'm reading it now - finally after many years - and I can absolutely relate to the feeling you describe. I decided that I won't be hard on myself for not understanding it all at the first read. Still quite enjoying it so far (1/3rd read). Additionally I also decided that I don't have to finish it unless I feel like ( specially considering it's 800pages).
I've been using Microsoft stuff (basically many components from the 365 suite, including outlook) for the last three months, including Outlook.

I must say, I am definitely impressed. I haven't rebooted my work laptop in nearly three months and it's been working tirelessly since then.

You might not like outlook, but it hasn't let me down.

I am impressed by what Microsoft is achieving.

If Microsoft gets pricing right and offers free tier and bot/api, slack is going to have a relly hard time...
Still early - I've put together an "Awesome Slideshows" page -> https://github.com/slideshow-s9/awesome-slideshows listing (awesome) html presentation / slideshow templates, themes, tools and more.
besides the Machine discussion, the article also says

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There is no crime, because the residents know each other, have what they need, and do not wish to steal important rare items from their community members.
...
There is no broader government with any power over them. They ask nothing of anyone outside their village aside from peace, and so no one but a bully can exercise power over them.
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don't mean to be pessimistic, but I find it very unlikely things could ever work like this in real life. Just because "residents know each other" it does not mean these towns will automatically become gardens of Eden. Having what one needs has never prevented people from stepping on other people to get what they want.

If everybody was content with having what one needs, we wouldn't need a Machine to have a utopian society, we could set it up quite easily without it.
I saw this movie... I think it was called "Wall-E"?
Add to that the administrative environment. One to two months to incorporate, really complex stuff to implement when pass the 20 then 50 employees bar, etc etc.
Australians pay a 2% payroll tax to fund Medicare (which provides universal coverage). I'm betting you (or your employer) pay more than 2% for health insurance...

Here's a good primer on Australia's healthcare system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylsO0VVy29U
NYC to Chicago goes through a (smaller) continental divide though (the Appalachians) [ADDED in what's also a pretty built-up area of the country]. So HSR is problematic on that route. It's about a 20 hour trip today so cutting that by 2/3rds would be a significant achievement but probably still wouldn't be enough to make it interesting.

The somewhat controversial LA to San Francisco route through the Central Valley may make sense. We'll see in 15 or 20 years or whatever. Unfortunately LA is pretty spread out so you don't get the same downtown to downtown advantages that trains in the Northeast have.

The route that probably would have the biggest potential benefit is speeding up the Northeast Corridor to the point where Boston to DC was more practical vs. flying. Amtrak is apparently doing some upgrades but decided that the most aggressive improvements weren't cost-justified.
Going to the moon, and space exploration more generally, is not something that can be justified based on economics. We simply don't know enough about the future to know the potential upsides vs. the potential downsides of going vs. not going, particularly when the most significant consequences could be decades or centuries or more away. Those of us who advocate doing it are basing that on a general principle that exploration can eventually pay dividends, or, to look at it from the other side, not exploring can eventually lead to extinction.
Or Canada. Or the UK. Or Ireland. Or Germany. Or .....
Personally, I think it's more honest than promising 100%, then raising deductibles or lowering percentage covered later. You state the fixed amount, and then you have the option to raise that amount, discuss options with employees, etc.
The Medicare levy in Australia is effectively an extra 2% income tax. Of course that levy doesn't cover all the costs of the public health system; the vast majority of the rest of the cost comes from state budgets which is largely funded by GST (VAT or sales tax as it called in other places).