skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noise-canceling headphones aren't as effective as passive noise blockers. If you don't want to wear earplugs all day, use the earmuffs meant for heavy machinery or shooting:

https://www.amazon.com/Ear-Defense-3000-Muffs-Earplugs/dp/B0...

They even sell some as pretty decent headphones:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004U4A5RU

Re: comfort, you will have to try a few pairs to see which ones are best for you; most seem to be designed more for safety and maintaining a seal than for wearing all day without fatigue.
I think most informed people share that skepticism. The entirety of the human story is probably many times more interesting than we know. But it's only scientifically responsible to include the well-attested facts in basic education.

That said, I do think a permissive imagination can be key to being receptive to new facts that support surprising outcomes. The impact of speculation and philosophy on science is underrated, in my opinion.
You probably meant 1970? :)
> Has anyone tried earmuffs worn at gun ranges instead and if so are they uncomfortable if worn for prolonged periods ?

I use such a pair at work: https://www.amazon.com/3M-Peltor-Over-Earmuffs-X5A/dp/B01MG1...

They are pretty uncomfortable at first, but I've gotten used to them. They are like focus pills for me -- I put them on, then take them off and suddenly realize two hours have passed.

I am interested in these "ex arm ear protectors" that roryisok mentions.
Leaving aside questions of if it could exist, if such a machine should exist, in my opinion, it should be used to relieve people of work, not merely to shift them to another job in the useless search for employment.

For too long has the capitalist replaced humans with machines and rather than returning the saved value to the labourer he has taken it for himself.

Automation ought to benefit the workers who should no longer need to sell their labour. Not benefit the "job creator" or "risk taker".

I think the utility of the machine could come three-fold; firstly as a way of producing with applying very little labour, secondly as a way of providing what would otherwise be too labour intensive to produce otherwise, thirdly as a way of ensuring we all really are freed.
In a company of about 40 we saw the same. Costs went up when ACA was expected to pass and has been going up pretty rapidly since. Insurance rep mentioned ACA legislation as the reason. Whether true or not I haven't verified.
They're limited by how much RAM fits into one chip at the price-point they require and using an interface that their SOC can use.
This is the kind of thing the parent means. They're very commonly available.

http://m.homedepot.com/p/3M-Orange-Disposable-Ear-Plugs-80-P...
As an ex-Amazon Affiliate myself, I disagree because the incentive to post those links is not aligned with the reader's expectations.

Do you enjoy viewing commercials and product placements without the proper disclaimer? Because this is exactly what this is. I surely don't appreciate hidden advertising, not because of the quality of the advertised products, but because I cannot trust such recommendations, as a salesman can say anything in order to sell his shit.

Notice how this is the biggest list of recommendations in this thread. Do you think that's because the author is very knowledgeable or is it because he has an incentive to post links?
The learning curve of a program is relevant. Even if it just takes a weekend of fiddling around with Rust to learn how to satisfy it, it will hinder adoption.
Seems similar to image inpainting...educated guesses that can be stunningly accurate, or stunningly bad :)
I'm in the exact same boat as you in my office. Who the hell designs an office space that requires static noise blasted 24 hours a day to drown conversations out?
A key quote here:

"He (Moxie) said: “The choice to make these notifications ‘blocking’ would in some ways make things worse. That would leak information to the server about who has enabled safety number change notifications and who hasn’t, effectively telling the server who it could man-in-the-middle transparently and who it couldn’t; something that WhatsApp considered very carefully.”

This claim is false. Those “blocking” clients could instead retransmit a message of the same length that just contains garbage and this message would just not be displayed by the receiver’s phone. Encryption guarantees the garbage or real messages are indistinguishable in the encrypted form. Hence, this technique would make identifying users with the additional security enabled on a large scale impossible."

This was raised in the previous WhatsApp vuln thread but as far as I'm aware, Moxie is yet to address this criticism. Would be good to get a response on this.
Sure, I was talking more about the situation in France.

Seems like, if what you saw is common, that they are trying to solve a brain drain with another brain drain, which suggests they don't have a complete grasp of the situation.
1) criteo (which is big nowadays, that's an ad company somewhat competing with Google)

Everything else is second tiers.
Yep that's the biggest reason
A lot of reading for precious little information:

Source: University of Cambridge.

Writing in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science a team of researchers from the Netherlands, the UK, the USA and Hong Kong

"The international team of researchers set out to gauge people’s views about this sort of language in a series of questionnaires which included interactions with social media users.

"In the first questionnaire 276 participants were asked to list their most commonly used and favourite swear words. They were also asked to rate their reasons for using these words and then took part in a lie test to determine whether they were being truthful or simply responding in the way they thought was socially acceptable. Those who wrote down a higher number of curse words were less likely to be lying.

"A second survey involved collecting data from 75,000 Facebook users to measure their use of swear words in their online social interactions. The research found that those who used more profanity were also more likely to use language patterns that have been shown in previous research to be related to honesty, such as using pronouns like “I” and “me”. The Facebook users were recruited from across the United States and their responses highlight the differing views to profanity that exist between different geographical areas. For example, those in the north-eastern states (such as Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and New York) were more likely to swear whereas people were less likely to in the southern states (South Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi)."

Doesn't strike me as a terribly strong result.
Here’s how much new Tesla owners will have to pay to supercharge their cars
> even if you wanted to you can't keep doing postdocs forever.

Why? I know an academic who has done exactly that. Nearing retirement now.
I was somewhat surprised by how many negative comments there were on the Ars article.

I think it's important not to knee-jerk in favor of everything that could help to catch criminals. From my own post history on Ars (I use the same nym there) you can see that I am strongly against dragnet communications surveillance and strongly in favor of secure systems with no back doors for government access. But I think it's also important to not knee-jerk against every technology that can increase the effectiveness of law enforcement.

This particular approach seems on balance positive to me: it's targeted at catching already-known criminals. It's not invasive of the privacy of the general public. It would be a bad tool to have in the hands of a totalitarian dictatorship, but so would any effective law enforcement system.
The problem is that the pharma industry wouldn't have you believe it's a bunch of pointless roadblocks. The pharmaceutical industry, as currently constituted, generally thinks the FDA's system is great, because it means that not only are smaller, novel, and foreign competitors easily closed out of the market, but that they have long-term sole approval for their drugs. The large drug companies find this an extremely comfortable relationship - it's stable, predictable, and they are well-practiced at it.

I think that it's not a problem to have an FDA which reviews and approves drugs, and even one which determines which drugs are qualified for Medicaid/Medicare payments. But what I would like to see is an "opt-out" system, where patients could sign a waiver declaring that they are aware that the drugs they would like have not been approved by the FDA and that they may be hazardous, to access otherwise-unapproved drugs. I think there are genuine costs to the current system that are too commonly dismissed: http://www.jpands.org/vol15no4/kazman.pdf

I'm not saying "abolish the FDA", I'm just saying "allow people to bypass its judgement if they really feel that they have to".
You're right. I was looking at the IRS site:

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

but I didn't read it carefully enough. Health insurance is excluded. Sorry.
Also in Spanish and Italian.
And given that these three are all neo-latin languages, unlike English, I strongly suspect that the real origin of w is from VV, not UU.
Can you please elaborate on the reasoning your company gave for such a wild idea? Have any of your coworkers commented on this? Is this some sort of trend to compensate for poor office planning? I thought the point of open plans was to reduce hardware costs, not introduce more equipment! You are right, that is absolutely insane
This isn't really a protest, you're missing the point.

If Instagram actually changed their policy to allow female nipples there would be thousands of novelty pop up accounts that just post women's breasts. Instagram already has a problem with borderline softcore porn. Why in the world would they walk down this slippery slope?

This 'protest' isn't really proving anything. It's just a funny mockery of the rules.
I use https://www.amazon.com/Howard-Leight-Visibility-Disposable-L.... They are pretty comfortable after you get used to them.
Sounds like it's trading the default form of open office plan insanity for another.
This is nice, but I'm not sure I understand. What advantage does this have over the stock event emitter in node, require(`events`)?
How to Get Help for Anything
DOCUMENTATION (no seriously...stuff is more documented than 1)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13404419
Man, I would love to try these out. Are they available for purchase?
Move them to Australia
One should mention their country of residence. In my case (Greece, 2005, during the golden days), if I had no money saved, my only option would be amputation instead of a titanium rod implant where my femur used to be.
HTTP Distribution and Replication Protocol (1997)
From Google blog:

https://www.blog.google/products/google-plus/saving-you-band...

"To help everyone be able to see the beautiful photos that photographers share to Google+ in their full glory"

"we’ve only begun to roll this out for high-resolution images when they appear in the streams of a subset of Android devices."

Anybody has an idea which subset?
Hard to say TBH. The least likely option is current income based transfers, much more likely some UBI scheme. Just going on the trend of increasing long term unemployment rates and automation. Honestly I have no idea what society is gonna look like in 40 years but I'm willing to bet your pension contributions will be irrelevant.
The Heroism of Incremental Care
Almost everywhere but in the US, Obama would be considered pretty conservative, not liberal at all.
Neat. I may end up using this.

fwiw as feedback:

- 1 would be far more useful to me if it suggested reviewers based on the files changed in this commit / branch / ?. probably true for most large projects.

- 7 is a thing I made myself as well (though yours is noticeably faster), and I LOVE it. glad to see it appearing elsewhere :)

- what Zikes said. non-interactive input is a must for script-ability (e.g. to add an alias to output one option).

- easily readable awk and bash... nice work. scripts like this are really handy for teaching people about sane complex bash scripting. I'll spread it around at work a bit :)
I never got the chance to meet Gene Cernan, but I spent some time chatting with Gen Tom Stafford, and part of that covered Gemini IX which they flew together. Stafford was the consummate gentleman and never said anything negative about anyone, but it was clear that he had tremendous respect and no little affection for Cernan.

Another loss.
Of course. And we're always looking to improve that.

Just pointing out that this isn't as major a problem when actually using Rust once you've picked it up.
This predates the ACA, for what it's worth: in a third of the 10 years prior to ACA, California's small group market saw double-digit increases.
EXPERIMENT Glowing 1000 Degree KNIFE VS COCA COLA REACTION
Yes, but why make html presentations at all? Are there any tangible benefits except for fancy animations?
My Ph.D. took 9 years from start of M.S. program til defense.

I was, relatively, fast at it as well. M.S. was 2 years. Ph.D. was 4 years of research, 3 years of writing. Though I spent the last 2 years of writing ABD working full time for a "startup".

I really enjoyed my time in grad school. I was a computational physicist, doing molecular dynamics. The reason I went into academia was lack of professor positions . The writing was on the wall. So I decided to go the industrial route.

With the impending closure of my latest venture, I am looking around at options, and am actively interviewing. As it turns out, it looks like my thesis advisor is retiring at my alma mater, and they have an open position.

I am thinking deeply as to whether or not I really want to do physics. The pay is terrible, and I am marked as an "undesirable" as I had left academia.

I'll keep looking for my next place. This said, the Ph.D. was a good thing to do. I learned a tremendous amount, not just about a narrow area, but how to compute, measure, and reason about things that are complex.

Seems like this is in demand now. Makes me happy.
> we've locked in the current life expectancy of ~75.

This is just false. The life expectancy has been rising through modern history, except a stagnation in 1993 and one this year. You can't point to 1 data point in 50+ years and say we're locked in. Look at the record with the FDA (data from world Bank)

https://www.google.com/search?q=us+life+expectancy

Granted UK and Japan are doing better. They also have healthier lifestyles in general and strong regulatory agencies.
I'll be turquoise
I'd concur, in fact I don't know if I'd like to see the borrow checker get more complex because then it becomes harder to keep a mental model in your head of what it's doing.

I found once I grasped the model that the borrow checker uses that I rarely fight it and instead find it catching many things that I miss.
A small sacrifice to avoid angering the aliens.
> It doesn't take "elaborate types" - just the question of "what interfaces does this need to support?"

I suppose what counts as "elaborate" is a matter of opinion, but Haskell types in everyday code often become very involved and intricate. Here's an example from a piece of code I wrote a while back:

bindingsToSet :: Monad ctx =>
LEnvironment ctx ->
[Binding NExpr] ->
LazyValue ctx
bindingsToSet env bindings = do
let start = InProgress mempty
finish <- flip execStateT start $ forM_ bindings $ \case
NamedVar keys expr -> do
-- Convert the key expressions to a list of text.
keyPath <- lift $ mapM (evalKeyName env) keys
-- Insert the key into the in-progress set.
let lval = evalNExpr env expr
get >>= lift . insertKeyPath keyPath lval >>= put
Inherit maybeExpr keyNames -> forM_ keyNames $ \keyName -> do
-- Evaluate the keyName to a string.
varName <- lift $ evalKeyName env keyName
-- Create the lazy value.
let lval = evalNExpr env $ case maybeExpr of
Nothing -> mkSym varName
Just expr -> mkDot expr varName
-- Insert the keyname into the state.
get >>= lift . insertKeyPath [varName] lval >>= put
-- Convert the finished in-progress object into a LazyValue.
convertIP finish

Inside of this, we have a rather complex interplay between monad transformers, monadic bind, state, etc. Of course to some Haskell devs this might be no big deal to write, but for me, there's no way I could get all of that to be correct without a type checker. And to that end the Haskell type system and GHCi are an invaluable resource. However, I could very easily write equivalent code in python without a great deal of effort, and all of that crazy juggling of monad transformers would turn into very straightforward for loops and mutable assignment. Which isn't to argue that python is a superior solution to the problem, but...

> But in order for pdb to work, I have to have already written the code. It's inherently "push based", whereas in GHCi (or with typed-holes) I can "pull".

I disagree. In python you can start with a pdb that only gets so far, and figure out what y0u need to write based on inspecting the objects you have available in scope, testing out some functions on them, etc. In GHCi you can get help on what object is required to satisfy a type equation, but only after you first provide it with enough information that it has a meaningfully small set of free variables to solve. This of course doesn't mean that type holes are not super useful, but I would argue that their usefulness is in part due to how complicated Haskell's type system is. Of course, by the same token features like type holes turn that complexity into a strength. The functionality is incredibly useful in Haskell, no argument there -- but I don't find myself needing or missing it in python.
I was quoting Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies

> The study found that "China was the biggest subsidizer in 2013 ($1.8 trillion), followed by the United States ($0.6 trillion), and Russia, the European Union, and India (each with about $0.3 trillion)."

> The study found that oil, natural gas, and coal received $369 billion, $121 billion, and $104 billion (2010 dollars), respectively, or 70% of total energy subsidies over that period.

Apologies, it seems fossil fuels get 70%. Not just oil.
It's interesting how different people can fall on the noise spectrum. For contrast, I go out of my way to add more white noise to my environment when in an open office. The quite hum of my air conditioner's fan in my home office is something that helps me concentrate when working.
You win on letters, you lose on i18n. "Syfy" in Polish is plural of "syf", which means disorder, dirt, something ugly, or (probably also the origin of the word) syphilis.

Obviously, this made telling some friends about some shows I watched rather awkward. ;).
If you click enough links, you may eventually find your way to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01299
If you've been to Tokyo or Shanghai/Beijing, you would know the New York public transport system is not well developed at all.
I occasionally play music in bands with in-ear monitors. I use a $100 pari of shure earbuds (se215), and they work quite well.

I don't play in these kinds of situations often enough to warrant paying 200-800 for a pair of custom molds and drivers, but I know people who do. I have been told that the main benefit of custom molds is better (higher-fidelity) bass response and are typically more comfortable, and typically more expensive IEMs will also have more drivers for different bands in the audio spectrum.

As far as noise isolation, the Shure's are plenty good enough for listening to low-volume music while, say mowing the lawn.

Or, if the drummer is being annoying in a rehearsal I have unplugged them to great relief.

Isolation doesn't, I think, get much better-- there is a lot of conduction through other pathways than the ear canal.

After I played around with a couple different tips (these are very inexpensive) I found that my ear canals differ slightly in size ;)
You seem to fall into the trap of "if I don't hand over
money at the same time as I make use of something, it's free."

The distinction is that it doesn't matter how much or little I use it, I pay no more.
If I drive on the highway, I don't pay anything extra. If I choose not to drive on the highway, I don't get cash in my pocket. Use of the service doesn't cost anything - this is "free at the point of delivery".

This is important, because it means that the service is independent of income. I don't need income to drive on the highway. I don't need income to have secure healthcare. Some services are important enough to be socialised, so that the service is open to everyone, irrespective of their income, wealth, or lack of.
It's not even that "headphones + music == hearing_loss", it's "headphones + too_loud_music == hearing_loss". But, given that "too_loud_music == hearing_loss", it seems that headphones aren't super related.
https://xkcd.com/893/
There's an open RFC for this: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0066-bett...
It doesn't allow people to work anywhere else than in France. The "Schengen" part of it (which basically any national residence permit contains) just allows holders to freely travel to the rest of Schengen for up to 90 days in each 180 day period but not perform any paid work in other countries (something which citizens of some countries – including the US – already enjoy without any visa).
Injecting Advanced Technology in the Education Industry
Yes, but in that time "double-digit" meant 1X%. Now it has been 3X% growth year-over-year.
If only they could do this for 18650 batteries which goes into vaping device that would be great, so many careless users blow up their face while vaping because they have no knowledge of battery safety or ohm law when building their coils.
> (in an environment where efficiency was paramount), Writing Efficient Programs was gold. I still have it, and I'm glad that to see that it's still valued.

Interesting to know, and agreed.

The book even has a list of thumb rules for the various kinds of optimizations it describes, with guidelines on when each one is appropriate to use or not (as you would know, having read it). Great writing throughout, too. Loop unrolling (for both fixed- and variable-length loops) was one among the many cool ones.
+1 - but:

> The Social Contract that the Party offers the People is this - you will not get political choice

then

> Projects such as high speed rail help the Party deliver on its promise.

Ain't that contradiction? Why do they need to deliver on that promise? In other words -- if they don't, what will happen, if as you say "you will not get political choice, you will always be ruled by us".

Further you describe China like some sort of wonderland. In such case, why is it so that the reality is far different?

Or is it just american propaganda I'm being fed, and I should immediately abandon my always "bills gotta get paid" worries and migrate to PRC?
Helium-3 would be useful for nuclear fusion reactors, but only once we get that actually working. If.

Also has it actually been confirmed that He-3 can be found in abundance on the Moon? I think it's assumed with good reason, but not necessarily confirmed.
The Sennheiser HD-280 are much better headphones for this purpose. They actually block significant amounts of sound, unlike the M50.
I guess that's good and bad news. I would have liked a Pi 4 soon (the pattern seems to be new releases in February), but as far as I've seen it's probably good if they redesign the next version and use something more standard and modern. I guess they're still committed to Broadcomm though.

Maybe one of the chinese competitors is a better choice at the moment? I would like an Intel Atom based board, but that doesn't seem viable yet. Maybe they're too expensive, despite Aliexpress and other shops having lots of different Atom based tablets for not even double what a Pi costs.