skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>My Audiologist suggested the headphones dont help the Tinnitus as they trigger the Limbic system and heighten anxiety which could trigger Tinnitus. Anyone heard this?

that is a known theory in AUD, also when wearing hearing protection you decrease the outside noise which increases the perceived volume of your tinnitus.

As well by reducing your hearing ability when wearing ear plugs can cause your brain to shift into a "hyper hearing" mode to compensate.

This is also why it is not recommended to wear ear protection to sleep. (once in a while is ok, extended usage is not recommended)
How about: The physical laws of the universe just don't allow a practical way for us to interact. "Space is big."

Science fiction authors can imagine all sorts of ways we could communicate or travel across interstellar distances, but really we have no idea how to build them. Maybe there just isn't some new discovery to be had.
It's precisely this pattern that sours me on the recent "corporate social responsibility" trend. If all that's standing between our society and dystopia is the strenuous objections of a few employees, we're going to get a dystopia. Even if the individuals that comprise a corporation are decent human beings, the emergent behavior of the corporate egregore inexorably trends toward evil.

Now, I'm very far from saying we should ban corporations. They're quite useful, for all the reasons classical economics tells us. But we should stop expecting them to be moral. Instead, let's just accept that the object of a corporation is to maximally profit within the law, then use the law to constrain corporate behavior while retaining corporate benefits.

The state is the only entity powerful enough to go toe-to-toe against the profit motive and win. Activists, however well-intentioned, just don't have the firepower.

If I can proffer an opinion that's probably unpopular: I think prominent CSR activism is probably harmful on a net basis. It accrues attention to itself and deprives more serious efforts, ones that operate at the level of the law, of oxygen. If you want to change how corporations behave, change their incentives.
It's from the book, Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley
It's sad to see anything this old fade away. At the same time I definitely understand why the young people there are making the choice to move to cities. There is a romance to being a nomad, but I'm sure there is a lot of suffering involved as well.
Re: "That there are legitimate uses of parallelism is enough to make my point." -- Yes, there are niches that need such; I don't dispute that. "Faddism" is a matter of degree. Every big language shoehorning in lots of X because niche Y needs X is probably a case of faddism. Again, we'd probably have to examine specific instances. English by itself won't settle this.
"____ aren't intended for use while driving, because they can make road glare much more prominent than regular sunglasses."
I feel the common rhetoric here is to dictate people what's ok and what's not under the assumption they don't understand.

Many people (including myself) are fine with the price we pay for free online services and understand the downsides. I really don't mind companies trying to show me more relevant ads by tracking and analyzing what I interact with in return for most of the products I use being free.

Obviously a large group of people does either not understand the implications or does not think they are worth the services but I think it's wrong to assume you know what's best for every user.
> It also seems people dislike open floor plans for different reasons. You don't like sounds. I don't mind sounds, I don't like feeling the presence of other people around me all the time.

Alas, I suffer both but it's more socially acceptable to blame noise...
Especially if we ensure that the end of exponential growth will kill us.
If you're graduating hundreds of students per month, you can't be very selective on the entrance criteria, right? I'm skeptical that there's a curriculum out there that's so good it can turn thousands of "whoever happened to apply" students into $90k starting-salary junior devs, year in and year out. That's way over the average in most markets.
62% of Americans favor legalizing marijuana
That's is relatively ok. Payment will be posted later, you will see.
The "evidence" is that it was not in his will. Where do you think we should draw the line on what could be called a Nobel price? It is not like Alfred Nobel did not understand economics, he just (highly probably) did not want such a price (or he would have created it).

If someone created a price for pedophile arts, brain studies of humans of lesser value, or other questionable "sciences" in the memory of Alfred Nobel, do you think we should call it a Nobel price? Do we have evidence that Nobel would disagree with such a price?

I would say we have no evidence, but it is highly unlikely that Alfred Nobel would like that. I think the question that should be asked is: do we have any evidence (or even any sign at all) that Alfred Nobel wanted a Nobel price in economics???
I've been part to numerous audits during my career and there's always an initial findings report with the opportunity to explain away findings such that they never show up on the final report.
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Yeah, my mb had an nvme m.2 slot, but it was pciex2, so the x4 card (most seem to be) didn't work. Why I went with an adapter.

The main thing lately is when I'm running a lot of containers/vms for workloads it tends to box down a little. Outside of that and 4k 3d, don't notice it ever. But the new stuff is only just starting to get better enough that I may upgrade next year sometime.
Wouldn't facebook already have his data anyways even if he deleted his account? I thought they were even making shadow profiles of people who didn't exist?

So if he's not adding new information the only info he's giving them is by what events he clicks which is still valuable.

And then of course if he browses the web with the facebook cookie that probably gives them a significant amount of browser habits, no? Which i feel like really doesn't get enough attention.
By authoring private structs with public constructors, you can get what you want out of this. Gets a bit messy with testing, but not impossible.
DNS flag day (1st Feb 2019)
Go modules

FTA:
"Go modules are great, and probably the single best module system I’ve used in any programming language. Go 1.11 took my biggest complaint and turned it into one of my biggest compliments."

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules
Google has appealed a $5B Android fine from the EU
China used political capital to buy off the votes in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Greece so those 3 countries veto any measure that China doesn’t want the EU to develop.

China is smart, not naive. They can bring the EU to their knees with tens of billions of dollars making them completely ineffective due to their huge bureaucracy.
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> Networking is the other reason. Google is miles ahead of everyone here. Similar story with HA and scaling.

Does anyone know what the author is referring to with this claim? I don't see anything in the sheet to back this up. At least from a high level, all three options support network policies via CNI, and GKE and EKS use the same one, Calico.
Their search share continues to increase and now over 92%. Does that represent them being more trusted?

http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share
Search Engine Market Share Worldwide ...
Ditto!

Netlify is one of those few products that feels like it Just Works(TM) which is rare to find!
Why the Best Websites Are Static
Not sure about the slate, but I have a Pixelbook, which is my personal laptop, and the crostini Linux integration is great for development. Specifically, I use it for Rust programming, and have compiled a couple of C++ projects too.

The Terminal app that comes with the Linux install is good, supports tmux etc.

There is clipboard integration between the pixelbook host and the container. File sharing is also easy with the file manager being able to drag andd drop files in and out of the container.

I can use Firefox inside the container, which is what I usually use to browse.

Theoretically you have access to the lxc tool inside the top level container, so you could create multiple containers and possibly set up complicated networking setups between them, but I've not tried this.
There's a reason it reminds you of it...
Such policy existed since the very beginning of Google APIs, and is well documented within the company. Anyone who worked at Google should be aware of it.
... maybe this is crazy, but why not just name the script r and do away with the alias? that way your shell can let you know "hey that's not an executable in this dir" if you ever try and run it somewhere it isn't instead of "hell i'll run that alias for you... oh "
I've been a f.lux user since 2011, but unfortunately their support for the macOS version seems to have decreased in the last couple of years and I've had various bugs and graphical artifacts that proved too annoying to continue using it.
Night Shift probably isn't as good (specifically I prefer the intensity curve provided by f.lux) but at least it isn't as buggy.
Shifty made the jump easier since it provides a whitelist mechanism like f.lux, plus other features like website whitelist and automatic Night Mode toggling.

N.B. I'm probably biased since I made a couple small contributions to the project, but I just think it's a great app
And here I thought it was about Iran's use of functional programming.
You will most likely turn up at the airport to discover your tickets have been canceled. You must check with the airline.
> on a home price of just 60-100k.

As a millennial, I bought my home for $120k. I'm not sure if your figures are real or nominal, but even if they are real, at worst we're talking $20k more. That's not life ending. Food is way less expensive now. I will easily save $20k on food during the lifespan of my home when compared to what they had to spend, not to mention that interest costs are much cheaper today.

The housing issue is vastly overblown, except in certain major centres. But if you have a job that compensates for the higher cost of housing, what's the problem? You cannot expect to have more money than someone outside of the city. The economy and its quest for equilibrium would never allow that over the long term, although there may be short term opportunities now and again. Economically speaking, your higher paying job must, on average, come with higher expenses so that you don't make more money than people with low-income jobs in low-cost areas.

If you don't have one of those jobs that makes up for the cost of housing, why are you there? There are houses everywhere.

> it is much more difficult to obtain a high paying job without college.

A common misconception that it matters, but a higher paying job doesn't mean anything. The goal is to maximize income less expenses. If a job is higher paying, but you have higher living costs due to the job being in a high cost city, and needing a high cost college degree, then you're not necessarily further ahead.

If you are further ahead than you would be without, what's the issue? You're literally further ahead. The costs are a non-issue. The costs are recouped and then some.

> And study after study show that college educations result in higher incomes.

Not quite. Study after study shows that successful people are successful in college and in the workplace. This is not the same as college resulting in higher income. Handing a college degree to someone who has a crippling mental disability is not going to benefit from it in the workplace. They are going to struggle no matter what, just as successful people will succeed no matter what.

If we took it to the logical extreme and assumed everyone had a post-secondary education, the jobs wouldn't change. Someone would still be flipping burgers at McDonalds, someone would be driving trucks around the country, someone would be writing software, and so on. And they're not going to magically pay more just because you have a degree. Why would they? When have you ever offered the burger flipper at McDonalds more money because they happened to have a degree? College degrees have no bearing on the job market.

I see how it is easy to mix them up, but the data is abundantly clear that it is the latter and not the former. After all, incomes are stagnant and have been for 50-some-odd years. If incomes were increasing with post-secondary attainment, they couldn't also be stagnant.
Why observability matters
Where I want to keep my code is not one of the things I grant the language the right to dictate - even if the code is written in that language.
How about just using the builder pattern?
Try not being a jerk.
Even before the GDPR, Google had to contend with the NSA / GCHQ illicit access events and the China hack.

They had plenty of experience to suggest to them that keeping highly-detailed logs around indefinitely could do more harm to their users than good.
If you have your tests within the same package, they can access the private members of structs directly, which helps avoid some of the mess.

If you’re in a different package things aren’t too bad if you have meaningfully abstracted interfaces. And with Go’s duck typing, even if you’re using another package that doesn’t have good abstraction, you can create your own interfaces with the functionality you need for mocking purposes.
What we know is Apple gave the iCloud data to the China government and removed the VPN software. Versus China government tried to hack Gmail accounts and Google left China and walked from making billions.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/02/5-things-you-...
When Profits Threaten Privacy – 5 Things You Need to Know about ...

https://www.ft.com/content/ad42e536-cf36-11e7-b781-794ce08b2...
Apple drops hundreds of VPN apps at Beijing's request

https://www.androidauthority.com/using-google-fi-in-china-85...
Using Project Fi in China: Say goodbye to VPNs - Android Authority
There is a big difference between claiming 17 sources, a claiming all 17 sources corroborate the full story. The Apple letter to Congress highlight that Bloomberg is relying on a single source for the specific claims about compromised servers being found at Apple.
If that's the case then you haven't been working with good auditors.

That said, the opportunity to do this (scrub reports) is a driving decision behind many companies' choice to work with more permissive firms. If you want a rubber stamp, you can certainly get it, but if you want a true partner who will find and exploit issues you can get that too.
This is just re reporting Pat Gray's podcast.

https://risky.biz/RB517_feature/

Also worth mentioning here is the background on the credibility of these journo's that Robert Lee provides:

https://twitter.com/RobertMLee/status/1049617855396933632?s=...

The most interesting tweet in that thread:

"They claimed anonymous US intelligence community sources as well. Except I led the ICS threat discovery mission at the time at the NSA. And I had never heard of this attack being a cyber attack. The NSA doesn’t see everything but if the US IC is your source we would have."

He is referring to the BTC pipeline piece that these guys wrote. It claims the pipeline explosion was a cyber attack, which has never been substantiated.
Right, with noise cancelling headphones on I can talk on a plane at a normal volume and hear everything better generally. If I just wanted to block out noise entirely, ear plugs/muffs would do a better job.
Yes, the 79 character limit gets in my nerves. Unless you're using a machine built in the 70s or 80s, this limit is complete BS

To be honest it says right at the beginning of PEP-8 that "A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds" but it seems little minds are the norm (and usage of 'pep8' package to make developers do what a computer could do faster and better)
Save your money and buy a Pocophone F1 for $300

https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9256&idPhone2...
You're right! I take it back, thanks for the follow up. To make this comment useful...

For small biz the order of priority usually goes:

1. collect email addresses

2. start a newsletter

3. publish regularly

4. start to look at open and click rates to get a better understanding of your audience

5. use that data to influence content and send rate and acquisition methods

Unfortunately most don't get past 1/2 :(
On iOS Google Photos doesn't sync automatically unless you open the app regularly. On Android it runs in the background, so your photos are backed up even if you don't open the app.

I'm not sure if it's an iOS limitation or Google choose to artificially limit the app but OP is right that Android provides a better platform for Google services.
> Luckily this coincided with the introduction of the 60bay HGST JBOD chassis. We haven't looked back.

Yes, these units are stellar and anyone buying Supermicro JBOD units should be looking into these as much better replacements. If you have volume they can be even more competitive than Supermicro if you push.
Well, if it got you inti cybersec then it worked exactly as intended!
One idea: let people pay if they want to, move old posts and videos to Amazon Glacier or similar long-term storage, and let paid users expedite the retrieval. Matching the Glacier terms, free users have to wait 5-12 hours to see old posts and videos, while paid users can see them in 1-5 minutes.
Yup this. It works perhaps even more nicely in languages that have braces and return types, e.g.

func some_name(
arg: Type,
arg2: Type
) -> RetVal {
…
}
Yup, also heard this on my flight some days ago: "Feel free to enable Bluetooth after selecting flight mode."
Class D is generally though not always 4 nautical miles not 5, which is a 20% smaller area.

Now, if you want more permissive rules around class D airspace that's IMO very reasonable. But, talking about class B as any airport is extremely misleading.

PS: Class C is again not that long a list, and still represents high traffic areas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Class_C_airports_in_th....
Hi, there's a comment on the cross region networking for GKE.

"Each cluster receiving an IP range for nodes and another for the containers inside, which are directly routable across your private network, other clusters, and regions."

AWS and Azure don't have a flat global network. You have to setup VPN's and complicated overlay networks.
What exactly do you mean? The specific scenario I described in very, very broad terms was from a lecture by Eric S. Lander about a specific bacterial cell. If you have an issue with the general description I don't understand it, since you don't say anything at all apart from some snide comment that doesn't even make sense to me. At the very least I would expect someone who bothers to reply because they disagree to say what exactly it is they disagree with, and also be specific about it. While I'm a CS person I have a broad background in life sciences too.
I'm not quite understanding how storing a quantity of data indefinitely doesn't have an ongoing cost?
Couldn’t agree more. Started with hosting static sites directly on AWS with a combo of S3, CloudFront, Route51, etc. While it worked, Netlify is just so much nicer.

Git push done.

Now I use a combo or netlify plus aws lambda for functionality. Interested to see what they deliver next.
>Show them how some things on Azure need to be done in a clunky web UI, other things need Powershell and other random stuff uses the CLI.

This, at least, is wrong. Everything related to Azure's hosted Kubernetes can be done via the CLI without ever touching the web portal or PS.
Why Amnesty International is upset with Apple and the human rights abused with giving the data to the government.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/02/5-things-you-...
When Profits Threaten Privacy – 5 Things You Need to Know about ...

But also removing the VPN software.

https://www.ft.com/content/ad42e536-cf36-11e7-b781-794ce08b2...
Apple drops hundreds of VPN apps at Beijing's request
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Couldn't it be done on-demand? Apple orders X hundred boards, motherboard manufacturer makes their small modification(s) to a line that is currently producing the same models of motherboard as Apple ordered, they produce a handful, then they revert and mix in a few of those modified boards into the real order. I don't really know the exact scale, so maybe they make a few hundred / the entire order with chips in them, but economic cost isn't a big deal for things like this, so even losing money making the modified boards wouldn't be the end of the world (and presumably they get a hefty sum of money for whoever is paying them to do this).

I thought China was famous for extremely short turnarounds for industrial engineering edits, so it seems plausible that they could manufacture the boards in a reactionary way and not need to do much in the way of logistics to get them to their targets.
> people who understand the value of privacy are probably less than 1% of the total population

Am I so out of touch? No it must be 99% of people who are wrong.

What exactly is the value of privacy besides the satisfaction that big tech companies aren't making as much money from me?
Nope, decentralized doesn't mean disconnected. It means it's not owned or controlled by any one entity and runs on many independent but connected nodes.
Or whey protein. No way those chiseled olympians weren't taking supplements
I missed that! thanks - most likely I was thrown into a blind rage when I got to the "When you tap the “screen call” button" and stopped reading. Shame on me.

Since I use an older iPhone, I'm trying YouMail (now) but am not impressed. Going to try Hiya next.
Campaigns use what's effective, that doesn't mean you can't find facts and statistics if you actually go looking.
How is this any different than namespace_init(); functions from C?

I hear language complaints like this all the time, and it always sounds like developers grasping for something to complain about.

I'm not even a Go fan, but I think you can cut the language some slack here at least in this department.

The entire approach Go is selling from what I've hear is they're entirely forgoing the traditional object-oriented (in the C++ and Java sense of the term) approach for composability. Okay, sure, whatever, good for Go developers; but you can't complain about a leopard having spots. Just accept it or move on.
tl;dr US shocked (shocked i say!) that other countries doing the same sorts of things they do.
I find some of the implications here very interesting.

Apple is rapidly approaching the status of being a luxury goods brand. They certainly charge luxury goods prices. This implies that privacy is a luxury good.

That isn't wrong, in a strictly factual and financial sense. There's money to be made invading privacy that certainly can help defray device costs.

It's possible that some might opine that this might be less than fully right in an ethical sense, however...
That's just a lot of waste. Cause you know most people aren't going to find a way to recycle those old phones.
Our studio, Marquee (https://www.marquee.studio), has an in-house publishing platform called Proof (https://www.proof.pub) that we started back in 2012 which couples fully customizable editorial tools and content model, a headless CMS, and React/Serverless based SDK to compile static websites specifically for editorial and content marketing teams. An example that was designed by our team and managed through Proof that HN is probably familiar with is The First Round Review (http://firstround.com/review/).

It's a similar approach that Netlify has put together and works great. Can't advocate for it strongly enough.
Who are these extremely productive peasants and where do they live? We could use some at our company.