skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently bought a set of MDR-1000X and this is how they behave. At work I’m sat next to the sales team, and without them I wouldn’t be able to do any work.

When they are on, but not playing music, I can still hear loud voices but it’s significantly dampened (like in the room next door).

With music playing, at a relatively low volume, I can’t hear anyone - unless someone is shouting right next to me.
Show HN: Super Snake – Snake game packed with extra fun
" When I think of JS, Oracle is like the last company I would think of." - Check out Oracle JET (JavaScript Toolkit), it's an open source library for modern web developers : https://github.com/oracle/oraclejet
Cool advice, thanks.
I don't know if you've come across i.reddit e.g. [0], I only heard about it a few weeks ago, but it's an old mobile site from reddit with nice simple styling and all the shite taken out. No popups for the stupid app.

I don't understand the drive to force people to use the app. Medium trys similar but less annoying tactics. Either way you get eyeballs on your site. Perhaps there's better tracking that they can get hold of from the app.

[0]: https://i.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/89o16y/im_mark_karpe...
Good on you for this contribution. Plugins can be a liability in so many ways. I remember almost a decade ago, a favorite plugin of my clients' was sold by the original dev to a third party. From that day on the quality of support and release schedule both took a dive, and soon after we started receiving telecommunications product spam from the new vendor. Like telephony solutions, which were completely unrelated to the plugin.

After having spent hundreds of hours customizing that plugin, this was a devastating experience. I'm still leery of plugins and rarely install anything that could leave me stranded if it went unsupported one day.
Any companies whose business model is security may want to avoid open spaces. Among those I worked with, like some chip makers (gemalto, safran, etc), space agencies (the CNES comes to mind) or banks (labanquepostale/banque populaire have a few old school offices, bank of luxembourg has lots open plan though).

I don't think founders think the geeks wellbeing is ever a criteria to choose a floor plan. Money, space and ability to check on your team mates are the first points.
Bridge Technologies Wins Best of Show Award at NAB 2018
I’m guessing it is a combination of cost and constant team growth. Liquidity is a scarce resource for startups and investing in a larger office than necessary for the time being requires too much capital.

At our startup, Delibr, we try to combine these conditions with personal preferences. We are 6 people and 3 of us have our own rooms.
All those given to us also by governments but a thousand times worse, along with wars, dictators, mass genocides, race purges, and so on and so forth.

I look around me and every single object I use and makes my life better was made by a corporation. From my PC to my phone to my house and my card.

While every single thing that makes me fear tomorrow and sucks in my life is controlled by governments: health care, roads, bureaucrats, borders, international conflicts, corruption, etc.

I don't fear Facebook knowing everything about me and selling that info to third parties, but I do fear my government buying that info from FB and using it restrict my freedoms in the name of my own good or simply to steal more money from me.
We recently moved to Mailtrain for the Citationsy newsletter after hitting 10K users and not having sent a newsletter from MailChimp for a couple months (basically since we hit 2K users, the limit for the free plan). We now use Mailtrain with Amazon SES and it costs less than a dollar to send one issue of the newsletter, as opposed to $250 on MailChimp.
I can absolutely see the value in MailChimp, their editor is one of the best and the tools and ease of use are second to none, but the dirty secret is that you can still build your email in MailChimp, and then simply export the HTML and send it with Mailtrain.
Keep going. Do what you can to get traction and let the traction validate the idea. Validation of an idea by YC is a little bit of a crapshoot. Keep going and let the market validate the idea. If you don't get traction then re-evaluate things.
What "local tramway" is 45 years old? VTA light rail barely started 30 years ago. And I wouldn't say the trams look worn, primarily because hardly anyone rides them.
+1. I'm interested in a rough blueprint too.
I'm think those reviews are more or less fluff pieces.

First, they intentionally gloss over the performance aspect; as a owner of multiple ARM boards, I can tell you that the A53 performance is terrible for desktop usage; it's not even good for headless servers (although "terrible" is relative).

Second, I'm very skeptical about the 64-bit claim, which they haven't investigated. While ARM CPUs are 64-bit themselves, ARM Linux distros are typically 32-bit.

And finally, don't underestimate the lack of support for ARM builds. While of course, the full Ubuntu repositories are available, for software outside them, the "compiling from source" can be troublesome for ARM architectures.

I think that a high-power ARM laptop (ie. A15 or more) would be interesting; but not a low-power one.
Are companies required to delete employee records?
Building a Raspberry Pi Retro-Gaming Emulation Console
I feel your pain. I found this video from Vox very interesting, to see the rationale behind the original open office space, and contrast it with what modern organizations has made it into.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p6WWRarjNs
Which no 'modern' web developer would go anywhere near!
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Do they always send a rejection mail if not invited?
> But then you then use that to argue that therefore people should be able to force others to behave in a certain way. You know?

I'm not sure how I'm arguing to be able to force others to behave in certain way. I'm against some people being able to punch others; so in that sort of sense, I'm for that sort of controlling others' behavior. But this is no paradox, it's fundamental about what sort of control we're exerting on others.

Is it to increase all our freedom and letting us interact more? Or are we restricting people's behavior to prevent overall freedom?

When a cartel forms, and controls the market, is that regular market behavior? It's certainly to the cartel's benefit, and it's most certainly the natural thing for a cartel to act in its own self interest. But we outlaw that in markets, because they overall greatly restrict markets from operating.

I'm hugely hesitant to view everything from the point of view of markets, but if we were to do that, it's clear that local municipalities are acting as housing cartels on the behalf of a minority of the residents of a community. It's landowners highly constraining the use of land such they benefit and restrict the rest of the market from using land in ways that the cartel disapproves of (for example, multi-unit apartments).
I like the themes but they all aim at websites that don't really present any content. Those huge headers look nice but are not really suitable if you want to present users with information that doesn't require them to scroll down the page. The lack of any sidebars also reduces the amount of content you can show on desktop.

It appears to be a common trend though, I guess because most content is now on apps and those websites only advertise apps or services.
TwinGAN – Cross-Domain Translation of Human Portraits
Debugging JS/TypeScript Node Apps with Chrome DevTools, VS Code and WebStorm
I think that sentence would have been a lot clearer if I had not omitted the word "other"

"Also, they do not get the right to decide other where people live."

Otherwise, everybody gets to choose on their own where they live, and that is a freedom that I am absolutely loathe to restrict.
It's one of the market leader in enterprise software and database for decades. Don't be just another hater.
It happens when companies don't behave as they should, and others lack the money to enforce how things should be.

"James Gosling: Oracle vs Google"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ7xVO9lqD0
Yes they notify you either way
One of those things that feels completely obvious in retrospect yet I envy person that has the mind to think you can grow mushrooms and make leather out of it.
Putting in my year of birth to 1911 (but the same month/day so half friends don't send me wishes on the wrong day) used to mostly destroy their targeted advertising. It was all adverts for arthritis medication. They're steadily figuring it out, but it's taken them about 10 years.
Facilities gets a different budget than operations. It's OK to spend $150k for an engineer that can't concentrate from the noise, but $1k to make him productive is out of the question, and out from another budget!
Just got the email! Aaaaaaaaaaaannnndd its a rejection!
Sell it or run it, there is no middle ground (2015)
Yeah. Imagine normal cruising flight level as a bank account with $35000 in it. Something unexpected happens (severe turbulence) and you have to spend $30 (you drop 30 feet). It barely makes a dent. You wouldn't feel bad about the money. You have a huge buffer against those events.

As long as you are at several thousand feet, altitude will do a lot of work in your favour. There is plenty of time for a trained pilot to do one of many different recovery maneuvers in the unlikely event shit hits the fan. That high up in the sky, the pilot almost has to intentionally want to crash you to succeed.

What personally helps me in the cruise part of the flight is a particular kind of mindfulness. I observe the turbulence, and recognise it for what it is without judging it as good or bad. But since my mind is so strictly sey on judgment, as a substitute for judging each individual event of turbulence, I try to judge the pilots response to it. Do they climb to find a more stable altitude? Do they slow down? Turn to a different heading? And does it work? Is the amount of turbulence, on a larger scale, decreasing? Does it at first increase, and then decrease?

That sort of thing keeps me occupied in a way more disconnected from the evolutionary panic of shit-fuck-I-feel-like-I'm-in-a-free-fall.
Amazing traffic for websites
Alien Hand Syndrome
I know from experience that a few banks have open office spaces with hot desks. (Clearly not for all employees, but part of their tech staff works like that)
If you accept fuzzing as similar to your random monkey:
https://testing.googleblog.com/2017/05/oss-fuzz-five-months-...
Apparently the GPL was never an issue to those enjoying GNU/Linux, maybe you are enjoying your BSD desktop experience?
Raspberry Pi 3 vs. 2 vs. Zero: Single-Board Computers
Re: Archiving Previous Years

I setup a new `.gnucash` file for each year, by making a copy of previous year's file, and emptying it of all records. I then review the accounts I've created in it, and remove anything that won't be necessary for the new year. Finally, I bring forward balances from assets and liabilities, and enter them as Opening Balances.
Just got the rejection email.
I don't care if "Basic" setting sends harmless information. I don't want to send ANYTHING. It's my computer, I paid for it, I paid for this system and I want full control.

Full disclosure:
I don't use Windows, I don't use Apple products, I'm trying to avoid using any closed-source software.
I don't trust Facebook.
I am 'aware' of the importance of privacy.
I install 'Facebook Container' because I prefer to install an extension to keep Facebook kind of controlled than to delete my account.

It doesn't make sense to me. If you are so privacy concerned it seems to me that the step you should take is to delete your account but not to look for ways to avoid being tracked by the company you don't trust, although you use its services.

If this extension is not for Facebook users but for everyone, why don't implement it by default and for a lot of other websites?
I meant it wasn't a governments mandated monopoly - I agree with you and that they built a monopoly through anti-competitive practices.

But my point is that didn't last as the market punished them for it and made them irrelevant. The market moved to mobiles and web and today they are a good player in the industry.

Even on desktop where they still enjoy a healthy margin, it's not monopoly: Windows is ~80% while Mac OS and others take the other 20%.
How we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades
Not sure if that's a great idea. If you wear sunglasses (or light-adaptive glasses), you can still take them off quickly. E.g. when driving against the sun and entering a tunnel, taking off the glasses help to be able to see the road. With contact lenses, I could imagine that you'd be basically blind for at least a few seconds?
I disagree because even the Actor Model was inspired by Lisp and Physics. Why are we so against different ideas in programming? Theres no pure land ivory tower in development, whatever works will work because they are tools to a craftsman, you can't compete with new tools like the cloud deployments if you're still fighting with an old school server under the same load and achieve cost efficiency, programmers need to constantly relearn and reshape to keep up with the trades and the times.

I learn new programming languages to keep up with the market because the market isnt fair and loves hyped up new stuff and to also provide for myself and family, if I stayed with the programming language I had from high school, I might be a master in Visual Basic but also likely live not as well. In the end, its people's choice and tradeoff I guess.

Unless of course this person can supply a empirical causation, he isnt right.
I was trying to learn about it as well but gave up because how bad the homepage is, no relevant information or screenshots. I'm sticking with Slack.
I mostly remote work and love it.

But it's not for everybody.

It involves:

- being able to motivate yourself;

- being disciplined;

- being autonomous;

- being capable to communicate efficiently asynchronously, with time and space constrains on limiting medium;

- accepting less social time;

- juggling private and pro time/space. Which includes your friends and family. My GF still hasn't get used to the fact that when I'm home working, she should consider I'm not home. It makes things harder.

Honestly, you should never, on hiring, accept remote work right away. First, assess the person on site on all those points for a few months, then make a short test of remote, then decide. And don't be afraid to say no.

I know more devs that are not fit for remote that devs that are, despite most of them stating the contrary. Particularly, a lot of my colleagues can quickly work on a non priority topic if left unchecked, just because they don't have the client as a priority, but the tech. You can loose a lot of time to this.
large condo/apartments with shops at the ground floor

That's a model that has been used for decades (e.g. Two Worlds in Mountain View), but we're already facing a growing number of retail space vacancies, as fewer retail purchases occur locally due to Amazon, etc.
pins and needles!! havent got mine yet!! anyone got admitted yet??
Best office I ever worked in (in both productivity AND developer happiness) was subdivided into 4m x 4m rooms each with two or three developers, wood panels between adjacent rooms, glass corridor walls with privacy frosting, and floor-to-ceiling glass exterior walls with Melbourne city and parkland views. Each space was decorated and equipped as the occupants pleased. Company was acquired in 2004 and that office sadly no longer exists.
This is the terrible outcome of having tons of votes for so many offices on huge ballots, most people can not possibly track the positions of all the people they are voting for.

So that leaves a small number of highly motivated people to choose these commissions. And because it takes very few votes to change the commissions one way or the other every decision can now be swayed by whatever small number of people show up at random times during the day.

Small numbers of highly motivated people control these commissions. They rally a large enough number of people at the right time, and they organize, and they do have complete control of these decisions.

Meanwhile, those who are young and have to work, or those who have to work many jobs and have children to take care of, can't spend the hours per week it takes to give input.

This form of direct democracy ends up enfranchising those with the most time and power to follow minutia that's unrelated to their day-to-day lives. And it attracts the sort of people that like to stick their noses into all sorts of other people's business.
I'm familiar with the works of Andy Clark. In particular, I found parts (but not all) of "Being There" and "Supersizing the Mind" to be interesting to read, although he does ramble on sometimes. There's an interesting article called "The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark" that I can recommend reading:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/the-mind-expan...

There's an older work from Hod Lipson, that is often referenced in Clark's writing, that I also found inspirational. An old TED talk (2007) from Lipson about "Building 'self-aware' robots":

https://www.ted.com/talks/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robot...
best of luck!!!
Not sure why this was downvoted. They basically don't work at all for voices.
Talk is low frequency enough typically.
>to what degree my own internal models of my friends and family are actually mini-versions of them

I'd say there's still a lot of inference in your models on what goes on in them internally. They're extrapolated models from outward behavior. There are some things you don't know about them which they don't show.
What is Synthetic Monitoring and Why use it
Yes, I didn't say "all", I said "some" that I visited.
There's also a recent theory, that suggests, that the space expanding is accelerating due to a very distant merger of gigantic (on the scale of mass of the entire visible universe) black holes, caused by long gravitational wave pressure (as I understood it), emitted by that merger. The theory is interesting for it drops the need for cosmological constant.

https://don-beaver.livejournal.com/196412.html

Mix of Russian explanation + paper in English published in MNRAS (closer to the end of post).

The theory's main premise is that "gravitational waves don't have gravitational mass", and spewed quite a lot of debate.

I wish I'd know physics better to check their math.
Our eyes have adapted to pure sunlight. But there are scenarios that are fairly new and where our eyes don't work well. E.g. driving on a sunny day, sunglasses can be helpful to see elements both in the (comparably) dark car and the much brighter environment. Your eyes can only adapt to one of those and usually that's the car, leaving you temporarily "blinded" by the road.
Congressmembers Raise Doubts About the “Going Dark” Problem
Why not to use direct messages for the example you gave ? Or even better reply to the message itself which creates semi topic under it ?
Also if you have some specific topic you would like to discuss like k8s or linux there should be specific channels for that in a company.
You can reply to exact message in slack. Ive been using it for over a year in a company hiring few thousend people and we had no issues you describe here...
I'm quite proud of the plugin I wrote so I'm going to plug it here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/revisionize/
Perhaps we need a specific Tor shell Facebook app. Then it's just a wrapper onto the desktop site.

Just force your kids to use that on mobile and use Tor on desktop with Facebook as the homepage.

You can tell your kids that 'Tor' means 'Facebook' in Icelandic.
yes, the server admin can.
Erm, no. It's not just the auditory noise but also the visuals. We are wired to react to movement seen from the side of our eyes. What am I to do, wear sideblinds like a horse?
Easy Payment and Delivery in China
E payment and delivery are very popular in China.

With everything you could ever want just a fingerprint-scan away, emptying your wallet, your savings account, and your emergency fund, has never been easier. Chinese consumers don’t need to worry about the war raging between WeChat Wallet and Alipay, because whether they’re with team Green or team Blue, they’re winning – or losing, depending on how you look at it.

Online shopping in China is easy. Step aside Amazon Prime, because Chinese people in most metropolitan areas can order daily necessities and plenty of other odds and ends on one of a few different apps and have them delivered to their door by motorbike (or motortrike) within the hour.
I need a Google container for firefox.
got our rejection mail just now...:(
I'm working on one https://www.frontseat.pro. It's still in beta. It would be great to read your feedback.
Zulip is 100% open source; we're not playing the "open core" game that Mattermost is.
If “open office” makes you think “another human nearby”, you may not be informed enough to contribute on this topic. That would be a shared office - an open office generally means many people nearby.
It really depends. Sometimes a specialised developer would be more helpful than an general developer.
Zulip is fully FOSS. The project makes money from hosting and enterprise support.
I’ve never heard a developer say good things about Oracle databases though.

Being the #1 doesn’t mean you’re right. It just means your ads work.
Use them all in combination.

Containers are nice way to divide up your tabs even if you don't want to be tracked.
1) Cheaper -- different budgets. Usually the people specing the office are judged on how cheaply they can deliver (partially), not on anything related to employee productivity.

2) Open offices look way better in photos/concepts -- so they'll get chosen over a boring all-offices layout

3) Much easier to reconfigure -- this is why a lot of startups or those in high-growth periods end up in them, even if they'd prefer offices. Even cubicles require some professional reconfiguring, but anything requiring permitted construction is a big deal.
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Honestly, I think one should use the container for specific things and just destroy it.
First try several things to find something you like, then focus on one thing to become good, then go back to trying out several things to get better at your general skill.

But don't:

- jump on the first tech/instrument. It's a lottery.

- keep changing again and again. You'll never develop mastery. There is so much you can do by being a jack of all trade.

- stay on what you master and never go out of your comfort zone. Still will make you stale.
Being rich and successful puts them above criticism?
> It doesn't make sense to me. If you are so privacy concerned it seems to me that the step you should take is to delete your account but not to look for ways to avoid being tracked by the company you don't trust, although you use its services.

A lot of people I know use Facebook because they have to. For instance, a friend of mine keeps track of job postings that are only posted in certain Facebook groups.

I would modify the argument such that if you're so privacy concerned, don't put any personal information on Facebook, and limit what Facebook has access to (which is what the container extension is doing).
I'm not sure if this is the same thing you are suggesting, but what I like to do is use the "Manage people" option from the menu at the top right. My work and home google accounts are never logged in at the same time in the same chrome window. It seems to keep everything separated pretty well, even extensions seem to maintain their own settings/"activated-ness" within each person/account.
There you go: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...
Received a rejection just now :/
Just got the rejection email