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Thanks! I don't get to work on it as much as I'd like but I literally fantasize about it existing every day. Just being able to turn stuff down as needed. Sheesh.

I've been told by a few people that bone conduction noise canceling is impossible, but I beg to differ. I did a patent search the other day and it looks like Apple filed a patent on some bone conduction noise canceling headset concepts that use accelerometers[1] and so did another company I've never heard of[2]. Also in 2002 the us government funded a $100,000 research grant for it[3]. I do a lot of AR/VR R&D, I have for about 10 years. I'm pretty convinced that selective sound isolation with bone conduction headsets is crucial to a good AR experience too but at the end of the day I'd just like to be able to go to a social gathering without a performance hangover or not want to kill my buddy because his jaw clicks when he eats.

[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/08/27/apple-researching-...

[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150170633

[3] https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/306044
Speaking personally, noises that I can locate the source/direction of are easily ignored. Noises that sound the same in multiple locations/appear to be coming from everywhere are _much_ more annoying (I once had a fridge that produced a whine that was right of the cusp of my hearing -- both in volume and frequency -- and I must have spent a good 20 minutes tracking it down because it was impossible to ignore - it sounded the same from anywhere in the room until I got within a few inches of the source). If it's a noise similar to that, I can see it potentially effecting people's sleep and having knock-on health effect.

If it was louder, some may actually find it easier to ignore. I can sleep easily with either a quiet room or with a loud room fan on, but if there's just the fan noise from my NAS I find it much more difficult.
I think it's very important to address the reason why AMP is possible in the first place: Websites are so extremely slow these days.

From users perspective, when I see the lightning icon on my search results I feel happy because it means that the page will show me it's contents as soon as I click it.

It means that the website is not going to show me white page for 15 seconds then start jumping around, changing shape and position for another 30 seconds until everything is downloaded.

I hear all the ethical/economical/strategic concerns but the tech community resembles the taxi industry a bit, that is, claiming that a tech that improves users experience significantly is bad for the user and must be stopped politically instead of addressing the UX issue that allows this tech to exist in first place.
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It's hard to tell whether some of the comments are serious, trolling, or the product of deranged Markov Chains.
Full disclosure: I'm in the industry for 10+ years as a programmer. I just realized that if I want to move in the AI direction I'll need some math education. I don't want to become a data scientist.
I am soon to be 28 and do not have many friends. However, it is by choice. Partly because I have moved around a lot and partly because there is no need for me to have a lot of friends.

But I have also noticed that is very hard and very much so for me that works remotely, not attending any sports events or similar and spend way too much time either gaming or working of side projects.
God. This "free will trumps all things. You are in total control of your destiny. All things that happen to you are your own doing" needs to die. Slowly and painfully.

You are a tiny sliver of consciousness on top of a vast, powerful machine. That machine gives you ideas, manages your body, and dictates your desires. Using conscious will power to try to overcome innate points of equilibrium in the system that is you, is extremely difficult in most cases. And in some cases it is impossible.
I think the point of the article is a little more nuanced. The claim doesn't seem to be about the accuracy of any particular study, rather that both sides were 1) funded by industry and 2) lacking evidence to really support any intervention at the time.

It's making the case that scientists were working on incomplete information, and that while industry pressure informed what research was done and publicized, there also simply wasn't at the time enough evidence for anybody to have known the effects of sugar were so problematic.

So the article is really considering intent, and the idea is that the outcome was a result of understandable ignorance rather than malice and coverup. I find that plausible, at least initially. The nature of science is that consensus evolves over time, and while industry funding may have skewed what research was done and publicized, thus allowing incorrect assumptions to live longer than ideal, it is possible that people were all still acting in good faith along the way.
Reminds me of that black mirror episode
While the servers are going down in June, projects like https://rebble.io are moving toward replacing those services. For the last release of the Pebble app, they included a dev mode which allows us to change the path for the store.

We'll see how it goes, but I bought a Pebble 2 HR a few months ago and love it. This is my third Pebble.
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This comment comes from me travelling all the time between Asia, Europe and the US.

And comparing the volume of people in different countries, usually US or wealthy China vs. France (my country) or Italy or Japan.

The difference is striking. It doesn't come from the fact that Americans or wealthy Chinese have some physiological problem: they just eat TONS of food and drink pure sugar (last one is for the US).

One should not look for fancy explanations when the evidence is there: people are more and more obese because they eat shitty food and drink sugar.

And do not talk me about "the poors who cannot afford anything else". We have poverty in France as well, and these people are not horrifically obese.

Chronic obesity means chronic overeating. Except for the infinitesimal minority wich was obese 100 years ago as well because of the weird gene. When they become obese, they are programmed to be even more obese. Or "big boned".

And like with everything in life, willpower moves you ahead in most cases. There is one genius for every 100 hard working people (with willpower) and 100 slackers (in the same demographics).

I cut by 1/3 to 1/2 what I was eating. I eat the same things, just less. And more fruit, and almost no sugar.
Was it hard? Yes, to a point. Was it excruciating? No - I was just salivating while looking at a nice cake and my brain decided to say "no".

I still have a hamburger from time to time (say, every two weeks). It is European size.

My kid made a cake, I had two parts (even if it was awful, way too sugary).

I bike to the office because I love it, and play sports again. Just because I WANT TO.
Being in a modern city doesn't prevent you from having relationships with your neighbours. We live in a dense mixed-used neighbourhood in Berlin, in a 4 stories apartment building and have good contact with most of our neighbours.
> It's very simple, if somebody is 1h late to the D&D game you start without them. I'm not sure about the game dynamics, but they can probably enter your storyline after 1h if you're creative.

Temporary NPCs do the stupidest things!
Becoming the example that people want to emulate? Yes, it does work, but it's a lot harder. The key is to do it in little increments everyday. The more influence you have, the more you'll be able to sway a person's opinion. Growing this organically is the challenge.
Exactly. I believe that if people were forced to say this phrase nobody would be late anymore.

(sorry for the short comment but I came to say the same)
my money is on markov chains, no human is _that_ bad at grammar
Anyone know if the program is open to current grad students?
The best comments I've seen about this is when you look at cumulative storage needed over time to gain weigh vs the total amount of energy consumed, the 'imbalance' is an accounting error.

Simple physics says one thing, simple engineering says another which is anything controlled that finely is under hormonally driven feedback control.

Frankly I think in the 20th century, particularly in the US and Britain there was a strong cultural imperative to assign psychological causes for conditions medical 'science' wasn't able to explain. So fat people are gluttons, erectile dysfunction is physiological, ulcers are caused by physiological stress. Heart disease is caused by a 'type A personality'.
So they negotiate 300 days of credit and cajoled you into becoming a kind of banker. But hey, why complain? You're being "rewarded" for the waiting while they grow even bigger (and more fragile) on the acquisitions you helped to fund. It's win-win!

This article is yet another example of how not just the financial economy but also the world of "real stuff" has become calibrated on policies of extremely low interest rates. The financialization of everything is complete.

And here's the important bit of the article:

"Sharply higher interest rates or a sudden spike in futures prices could leave traders with losses or stretch their financing needs as hedging costs go up."

The priests have spent a decade praying and sacrificing central bank balance sheets to the gods of inflation. Some day their prayers will be heard but we may not like it when that happens.
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I agree. I like to think that Idris is to Haskell what C# is to Java, with the exception that it's still a non-production-ready academic open source language.
I met most friends I made besides/after college on gay dating apps.
Isn't that the same type of building? I thought an "apartment" in the US was just a rented condo.
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Anyone know of any maintained Docker images for this?

I'm not a fan of pip etc and prefer to isolate my notebooks in a docker container.

EDIT: never mind, you can run it using the official images by executing `start.sh jupyter lab`
so, I didn't quite get the connection between element 115 and superferrofluids/the warpdrive theory...is element 115 a superferrofluid? or did that first part of the article have nothing to do with the rest of it?
Thanks for sharing this interesting reading.

It makes sense.

> [...] most of the time, staying with 32-bit and reducing the amount of memory being consumed will have a much larger impact for both the application and the operating systems as a whole.
They sell things whose purpose is to be sharp things from Japan, to people who like sharp things from Japan.
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Assuming you believe you aren't able to secure commitments >$1M in publisher cash for that book, then?
"Alpha male" as a concept does not exist: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-myth-of-the-alph...
Kubernetes using flannel creates a veth pair per container, but they're all attached to the same bridge.
The one thing Google Maps is missing for me over the other two is speed limits. It's so handy to have an alert go off especially in larger cities where they can fluctuate frequently.

Waze sometimes feels like it's taking you off the beaten path to improve data reliability and collection. I've had it take me off a quiet street onto a country lane only to emerge onto the same quiet street half a mile further along but having spent a significant period of time taking a weird route.
For many reasons I often hung out with people much older than me. I am the only one of my age range in my family so I guess I was always surrounded by adults. I am appalled by calm diners more than bars. Also I like questioning people's experience, and I'm currently in a place where I have many questions about later life and I don't have a sufficient sample of people similar to me, just older, to talk about that sort of stuff.

I just really enjoy the interactions I have with older adults...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16402439
> Besides the obvious craziness of keeping track of these things...

It's not necessarily an actual scorecard or anything like that, but more like a subconscious intolerance for bullshit that you don't HAVE to put with anymore.

If I meet someone that doesn't bring any positivity, and worse, requires me to put an effort into finding them companionable (e.g. trying to discover their good qualities), I decide I'm too old for that shit and have other things to worry about.
> There’s no way to work around this privacy problem while allowing your browser to visit 10 random sites.

Wrong. Browsers could intelligently delete cookies after a short time, which is what Apple is doing with Intelligent Tracking Prevention[0].

More sophisticated users can install browser extensions that allow them to do this manually[1].

[0]: https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention...

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
The Petro is extremely questionable.
ICO review: https://concourseq.io/Q/Petro
Commentary by avsa: https://twitter.com/avsa/status/961252705443418112?lang=en

It seems pretty obvious to me that it's a money grab and they lack both the knowledge and intention to execute this properly.
you mean like how Disney made Disneyland?

you'd need quite a large amount.
That’s a very callous attitude, and an incorrect one, I believe.

Not everyone has the same ability to learn about different subjects equally - even amongst groups with the same intellignece levels. It sounds like you’re arguing that one’s entire future career, even in post-secondary and undergraduate level, is decided entirely by their grade-average across all their subjects. This will disqualify many talented individuals from studying (and consequently working in) areas that strongly interest them simply for having an inability to adequately perform in completely unrelated areas. How is that a meritocracy?

Take myself, for example: I have ASD, I have “special interests” and my brain is incredibly stubborn and demotivated to do anything outside certain narrow interest areas. I did exceptionally well in my UK A-Level electives (maths/physics/compsci, etc, getting mostly top grades) compared to my GCSEs that we’re far more broader (English Lit, Biology, Chemistry, Theology, etc) where I got mostly B-grades. After getting my degree I landed a job at a high-profile software company in the US, launching me into a career and a very high tax bracket. Hopefully this means my net societal impact is positive. But under your proposal, my hardwired unwillingness to memorise Shakespeare and compare Dickens with Steinbeck should condemn me to never entering academia to study what I enjoy.
I'm sorry, that was a super disappointing reveal.

"However, we would expect the centrifuge to gain mass (and hence generate an increasing gravitational field) as fluid spins up to relativistic speeds. Hello warp drive! Oh, and you’re welcome."

Congrats, E=mc², you've collected a large amount of energy in a small area and created a gravitational field. You've now reached the space travel and anti-gravity technology of a small rock.
This is a sign that there might be something wrong with your positioning/marketing/messaging. The initial high churn means your customers think they will get X but they get Y - so they abandon the product. The ones that "get it" stick around.
For now i would just remove the 1st month from the stats and look at it independently and then try to tweak the perception. Talking to the people who drop out will give you a better picture (it's hard but very much worth pursuing).

ps: we sell project management at https://www.paymoapp.com - every time someone cancels or deletes an account we show them a form where we collect data.
> My personal projects often depend on only myself to maintain survival, and I didn't put all that time in to see them go by the wayside so easily.

That's great, but when push comes to shove, you can and will ignore an intractable issue in a personal project until you feel like working on it again. With a job, consistently ignoring issues can endanger your career and thereby, eventually, your ability to provide for yourself. (And to me, being a parasite who punts issues like you describe is hardly a better existence even if you're able to get away with it.)

> While certainly true, this is also something I would never expect someone on my team to be proud of. This is a shameful act, and done often enough leads to the departure of good talent. I expect management(including myself) to do it's job: Manage. This means not taking advantage of your employees often enough to make it a norm.

Sometimes accumulating technical debt is a more pragmatic option in the bigger picture - what I'm describing isn't necessarily a universally bad thing (although it often is bad); the point is that professional and personal projects have fundamentally different priorities and that they require different skills and approaches to navigate effectively.

> However, the thing I keep noticing about a lot of these is a certain level of assumption of what a personal project entails. That you may be producing something with significant technical debt, that you are coding in a way that isn't trying to work best with others, that you're not aiming for revenue or having to work under unrealistic constraints.

You are validating this assumption with statements like this:

> Sometimes I don't return to projects for months- and I want to be able to pick them up the way I put them down.

When you are in production with real customers, you rarely have the option to do this. It's great to strive to adopt good practices in your personal projects, but when shit hits the fan at 3am, you're not going to get out of bed and fix it unless you have some real skin in the game, and you're not going to be truly motivated to code as if that's a real possibility (That means having: runbooks, paging, escalations, dashboards, metrics, alarms, gradual rollouts, time windowing, calendar blackouts, rollbacks, multi-step deployments, canaries, tech-ops, feature toggling, A/B testing, backup/restore, DNS safeguards, load balancing, SLAs, pentesting, failover, status reporting through 3rd-party channel, etc. etc.). I never said personal projects don't mean anything for technical experience; they certainly do. But that doesn't mean they're representative of professional experience either.
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> A subreddit for those who can control their Tensor Tympani muscle.

Oh weird, I always assumed that was something that people could just do. It never occurred to me that there would be any particular variance in it. Oddly enough, it seems a little easier to do if I close my eyes.
Does that exist for tech books?
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Thanks - is there any literature that you are aware of on this so I can get started?
Why do opensource developers and communities prefer IRC?
What do you like about it?
What do you hate about it?
If they were to be sent to a desert island, they would lose weight

Have them exercise, switch sugary soft drinks on refill with water and not eat the one pizza per day or something "they must have", replace that with filling but low calorie food if needed and see what happens

This excuse sounds like the excuses for why the US has more school shootings than every other country.
Are you talking about monthly churn or yearly?
I think you’re referring to the No Child Left Behind act - is that still relevant today? I was hoping that Obama’s education secretary rolled-back the worst parts of that.
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Out of curiosity I checked their jobs site. What a cool opportunity, working in a nascent field of science at a prestigious institution.

It was funny to notice that they seem to value a Bachelor's degree at a rate of higher than 1:1 with career experience:

> 4-5 years of experience in a software development team AND a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field | OR 15+ years of relevant working experience...

> 6-9 years of experience in a software development team AND a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field | OR 20+ years of relevant working experience

That is a pretty heavy premium to put on those years during undergrad. I certainly wasn't as good by undergrad + 5 years as at 15+ years in the field, but maybe they know better than me.
I never once said it was easy, and I'm not saying that everyone has the will power for it. I'm merely stating that barring physical ailments, everyone can technically do it.

Neither of my parents worked out a day in their life, and neither did I until my late 20s. So I definitely understand the point of view of never learning good habits, but bad habits and not making choices are also a habit, even if you haven't realized an alternative.
I think that we're at a point where customers no longer care, it's just a technicality
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Or if that attribute was populated via props from it's parent, which is a more common implementation.
What about gaming?

I don't think anybody would have forseen that the primary use of massively parallel processors would be playing video games. I wouldn't be surprised if quantum turns out to work, that graphics programmers find a use for them.
I don't see why it would have to correlate with age. When I was younger I used to get annoyed at late people more easily. As the years have passed I've developed my philosophy. I still think it's often a sign of selfishness but we all have our flaws.

Early on in any relationship I learn which style of timekeeping a person has. You get the people who will warn in advance and apologise profusely if they are going to be 2 minutes late, then at the other end of the scale you have the people who say "I'm just around the corner I'll be there in 5 minutes" and you know they might turn up some time that day/night, if they're having a particularly switched-on day.

Once I have my expectations set correctly I don't get annoyed. It does mean that any arrangement with the 'very late' style of friends always has a status of 'tentative'. And I make it clear to them that I may be doing something else by the time they arrive and that they'd better be able to handle that as it's a cost of their style of being. I've never known a late person to have any problem with that arrangement, they generally seem to quite like it as then they know they can do their thing and not worry about putting me out.

I've not read the linked article but I've been pretty constant with my level of making new friends throughout my adult life (am in my forties now). I've moved around a bit and lived in a few different towns/cities, had a few career paths, maybe that's relevant. I think some people narrow their worldview as they get older and perhaps this makes them more choosy about who is 'worth it'. I've always been a weirdo/outlier. I'm fine with loads of people around me and making parties etc., but also more than happy in my own company. I noticed quite early in life that I could be accepted in most social groups and drift between them and developed a distaste for cliques and the negative behaviour they encourage (exclusivity, "our love for each other is based on our hatred of everyone else" etc).
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