skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bass carries more energy, and the waves have higher pressure as well as a longer wavelength.

You can attenuate treble with a sheet of toilet paper, but you need a lot of mass to stop bass of equivalent nominal level.
Don't know. Rostelecom has invested. Seems wise to try to better protect government employees from leaking data from their phones. E.g. not so nice when my Bundeskanzlers (Merkel) phone get spied upon by friends.
Ask Lobsters: What are people using for their personal blogs?
‘We all have millennial burnout’
The title of the article is incomplete. It should read

> An “acoustic metamaterial” that can cancel 94 percent of sound _at one frequency_.

I don't see how that could counter the turbulence generated by a jet engine. Maybe that was just the journalist getting ahead of themselves.
Chrome Dino figure set; 10 years of Chrome and internet connection error code
Earplugs under the headphones?
And for comparison, a single 4mm pane of glass is about -27db, and cheap commodity wall board is about -46db (https://www.insulationsuperstore.co.uk/product/soundboard-3-...)
Btw, it's probably flagged because it is some guy's unsupported ramblings presented as fact. He says someone rebooted the SDU, how does he know that someone actually did that? More likely the plane had a power cycle.

He writes "when Inmarsat’s in-house scientists examined the data set, they realized that because the system wasn’t working properly, a residue of navigational information had leaked into the communications signal. It was this residue that allowed them to deduce—incorrectly, it turns out—where the plane had gone.". As far as I know Inmarsat figured out where the signal can come from due to the Doppler effect. What he wrote here is so technically ignorant that his credibility sank even further in my mind. Or maybe there really was "leakage" of data, I didn't want to google it because every stupid theory has backers on the Internet nowadays...
Protonmail Bridge, required for IMAP, is so buggy as to be unusable. This means you’re effectively left with the bare bones web client. This may be ok for lots of people/businesses, but not for others.
Google intros speech based reading-tutor app 'Bolo'
Yes, it did. AFAIK, they took in 15,000 companies, but gave the grant to about 100.

I got the grant :-)
Appreciate the non sequitur, but not really funny.
I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal
Lately, I have noticed a lot more downvoting going on than I was used to. Maybe a confirmation bias on my part, but sad nevertheless... I'd use downvoting only for submissions that are harmful.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Presses Trump for a National Coding HS Graduation Requirement
Phone spam.

It interrupts employees' train of thought, but many people can't simply not answer their phones: a salesman who doesn't answer incoming phone calls isn't very effective at their job. Gone are the days where you could tell by the caller ID.

It's fun to think about a crew of mercenaries who travel to whatever corner of this planet, find the autodialer equipment, and take a small brick of C-3 to both the equipment and the owner, but would just settle for finding a way to stop it transparently.
Very interesting. I think beind depressed is a higher-order functionality than simply an "emotion", but I get your point.

It would surely seem many of human emotions are based on reflective properties and certain thoughts being at the basis of the subjective reality in which these humans consequently find themselves, in which it "makes sense" for the emotion to occur. We "think" ourselves into emotions about work, about our homes, about society, politics, video games, etc. etc.

I do think that there is a place for emotions though, even aside from those conditions: many times people feel certain emotions, but they don't know themselves that they feel it, or what they feel. This is evident in psychotherapy, a lot of the time the work itself is simply to get the person to understand what they are feeling. This would suggest that feeling of these emotions somehow exist, in some sort of lower level emotional substrate, before the symbolic consciousness has acquired a view of these processes. Such emotions and their substrate likely is present in animals as well.

It is logical to assume, that for any emotion to exist, there has to be some ground "intelligent"(on some level) understanding of a certain reality - if one feels sad, there needs to be something going on in the subjective reality of the subject (like being separated from a loved one), to which this emotion should be reacting, and this event needs to have certain properties and not others, and there needs to be something in the subject that understands this difference. But this understanding does not need to be based in symbolic intelligence, it surely seems like it can be hosted in the aforementioned pre-symbolic substrate, which animals seem to share with us.

A cat obviously feels and "knows" somehow when it is being separated from a loved one, be it another cat or a human. Assuming that the cat does not have much of a symbolic intelligence, the fact that it can still do that, it means that there is a system in the cat which can nevertheless track how close it is to a loved one. So if there this system, that could likely serve a purpose of being this substrate on which the emotions are reacting.

Thus developed symbolic intelligence is not strictly required for emotions to occur, assuming there is another simpler intelligence to track the subjective reality, and it sure seems like many animals do have this.

(Of course the open question is how "much" of these respective types of emotions is present in humans, because it would make a difference for whether we would think humans are more emotional in general than animals or not.)
No, I use LibreOffice which is an open-source solution that has most of the same feature set. I simply don't believe nations should have to use proprietary solutions for something as simple as documents and taxpayers be forced to fund it when there are viable alternatives.

That being said Outlook would have probably been a better comparison and the statement would have lost no impact, Microsoft is just the easiest proprietary software giant to point at.
I don't know anything about the Obamacare website but from what you say that sounds very different since the US purchased something. It just happened to be from a foreign country. That sounds perfectly reasonable and common, assuming their was some kind of competitive selection process.

This is a grant:

> This grant also does not create any commitments on our part, other than using the funding for the purposes that we have outlined in our proposal

What am I missing?
I have "millenial" burnout. I just can't cope with reading about millenials every day everywhere.
The problem is that this experience wears off over time. I have to re-evaluate my problems even today. I think that if I hit extreme poverty again and went through this I would get something like a booster/refresher from the experience.

But, I do teach my kids how to appreciate things by simply not giving them too much to begin with. And I also intentionally choose, on a daily basis, to take less than I want (food control), put the music a tiny bit lower than I want (protect my ears), etc...

When I get angry at something, I say to myself, "what is the truth here?" And if I am honest, most of the time the problem is really me. When I see that, I then force myself to evaluate what is really going on, and I look really hard for the feeling I want to have.

One of the first things I did to start this was to remind myself there are people I have met with far less than I have and were happier. Pictures of kids in Africa with toy cars made out of rusty wire. One kid looked 18, and he was posing quite pleased with his creation.

I feel like the biggest battle I face now is complacency. So if you can choose to remove things from your life that give you pleasure, for the express purpose of changing an environment that fights against you making progress, then do it.

A couple weeks ago I quit coffee "again". My thought process is "choose something really, really good, not what your heart wants." I really like coffee, but I over do it and I get sick eventually. But I really enjoy hot chocolate (organic sugar, homemade syrup), and I can drink it all day and not have any bad side effects.

The real super power is built a little at a time, with practice. At first, I just "delayed" having coffee. Then later, I took less coffee than I want. All the while saying "this isn't good for you, you are going to make a better choice". Not lying to myself, but also not making an excuse.

Encourage yourself to always face the truth, that is the start. Then if you say something to yourself, that is a very real action. Eventually you will do something outside your head. Something small, something doable. Keep doing that every day and you can change anything.
Yes. If you click through to the paper you can see the frequency response dipping around 460 Hz. Which is the frequency they're using in the demo.
It takes very little effort to provide a cert these days. Even a landing page should have a cert. Especially from a company with a reputation for security and privacy like protonmail's.
If you're in the Bay Area, algae is already likely affecting you:

https://abc7news.com/health/toxic-algae-bloom-in-oaklands-la...

http://claycord.com/2017/08/07/contra-costa-residents-experi...

https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/four-different-algal-to...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/toxic-algae-clea...

These cyanobacteria levels are unusual--we don't have hundreds of years of records, but we certainly have never seen algae blooms happening regularly every year in so many bodies of water.

This isn't limited to SF, e.g. Toledo has been having regular algae blooms that have shut down their municipal water for years now: https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/lake-eri...
This is an important lesson, learn from other people's mistakes.

The things I will absolutely not screw up again, ever, are the things I really, really suffered from. But then I could apply this to seeing how other people destroyed their lives, and use the pain I already have to protect me from those mistakes too.

Was it Ben Franklin that said "experience is the worst way to learn"? (I think it's in reference to making bad decisions)
Because for non-zealots something being open-source isn't the one single yardstick for decision making. Something can be useful and worthy of investing and be closed-source.
> The most effective material is high mass and flexible, like cork or hemp crete.

Those materials work by providing a physical barrier. This invention is not comparable because it appears to allow air to flow down the pipe but (somewhat) prevents the sound. I guess it should be compared to the performance of acoustic ducting or inline silencers (ie like in a car exhaust).
But shouldn't enterprises be funding the development of enhancing enterprise-centric features?
But anyway, the article talks about the money being earmarked for developing ProtonDrive.
I've been using libreoffice since +10 years exclusively. Despite using protonmail myself if you look at it critically through a FOSS (libre) perspective it's one of the worst email platforms around which mainly benefits from the (incorrect) assumption that hosting in Switzerland is somehow safer than hosting anywhere else. They will happily comply with any court order even (or especially) from the US.

And it's not that the founders chose a Swiss structure because they were themselves Swiss. Even the product were hypothetically bug-free and fully FOSS ... the marketing (with its mountains in the background and "Secure Email Based in Switzerland" tagline) plays to the sentiment that a Swiss jurisdiction makes Protonmail a safer bet than other location is itself "snakeoil" ... if I think about this for too long I might even wonder about their much more relevant claims regarding security & actual code implementation.
Is h1b abuse by Indian companies still an issue?

According to this article: https://m.economictimes.com/nri/visa-and-immigration/h-1b-ex...

Six Indian companies — TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, and the US arms of Tech Mahindra and HCL Technologies — accounted for nearly two-thirds of the rejections among the top 30 companies, the think tank said after analysing data put out by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

The six firms got just 16%, or 2,145, H-1B work permits, less than the 2,399 visas that Amazon bagged in 2018.

Cognizant, which is headquartered in the US but has the majority of its workforce in India, saw 3,548 rejections during the year — the highest for any company.

From this: https://m.timesofindia.com/business/india-business/tcs-among...

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is the only Indian company among the top 10 firms to get foreign labour certification for the H-1B visas for the fiscal year 2018 by receiving over 20,000 such certifications, according to official data in which Ernst & Young was ranked No 1.

London-headquartered Ernst & Young, a multinational professional services firm, has emerged as the top employer to have received the certification, the date from the US labour department said. In fact, Ernst & Young with 151,164 H-1B specialist occupation labour certifications accounted for the 12.4 per cent of all foreign labour certification for the H-1B work visas for the fiscal year 2018 ending on September 30, according to the latest annual report released by the Department of Labour early this month. Ernst & Young is followed by Deloitte Consulting which received 69,869 H-1B specialty occupations labour conditions programme. Indian-American owned Cognizant Technology Corp comes at number three with 47,732 specialty occupations labour conditions programme, the Department of Labour said in its latest annual report. Cognizant is followed by HCL America (42,820), K Force Inc (32,996), and Apple (26,833). India's Tata Consultancy Services or TCS is the only Indian company in top 10 for the year 2018.
The article mentions using feno-like resonance to transform the frequency response (and phase). The effects of this are localized to a frequency-band around 440 Hz. Interestingly, this is a similar effect as mie-scattering.

Therefore, I am not sure the common knowledge of bass-traps and heavy materials for muffling sounds are actually applicable here.

I suggest reading the article and studying feno resonance.
Since Nim is influenced in some way by Python, I would rather believe the original compiler was written in Python. Interesting.
Harvard is probably one of the top 10 global brands along with Coke and Nike.
Visual Vocabulary Ft. Vega
Remind yourself of this lesson in the future, as in my experience, these feelings can be dulled over time or through neglect.

I have also spent time cooking a specific meal (the same one) over and over again at home tweaking it to get it to be as good, or better, than the restaurant, so I can have the same experience without the expense.

But also, it's funny how simple foods can be satisfying. I've been around some really rich people that are total food snobs and I feel a little sorry for them. They can't enjoy homemade or simple foods.
MathJax requires JavaScript, though; MathML doesn't.
Is it just me, or does this read like a massive farce? That everything that Triplebyte is trying to solve they just... can't?
Your result is correct but your explanation is all kinds of wrong. First, shorter wavelength waves have higher energy. Second, amplitude doesn't cause the difference here. Even if you needed 1000W of bass to get the same effect as 10W of treble, 50% attenuation of bass would sound the same as 50% attenuation of treble.

The real difference is that waves are attenuated much more by objects larger than their wavelength.
Quick tip - screenshot is good, but add a video of the bootloader in action, it will get you more shares from the visual crowd.
Yah, that is my experience as well. And it wasn't right away, it crept up on me slowly, and it was hard to come back from a little. But I knew it was from the old saying "a luxury once tasted becomes a necessity."
It's nice to see that Spark is on par with Unix tools on low data volumes.

The Spark program can be applied as-is for data volume 10 times or 100 times bigger without being modified.

You would have to reinvent Spark if you started from Unix tools and applied it to bigger volume of data
The latency in the active noise-cancelling systems is a few milliseconds, mostly due to processing time.

That's why they are less capable in filtering non-repetitive noises like speech, especially their higher frequencies.
Very serious handling of the issue!
That article is wrong about 16%.

In 2018, for these 6 companies, the initial approval rate is 60% = 2145/(2145+1405)

Continuing approval rate for these six companies is 77% = 29638/(29638+ 8742)

Source: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re...
And it's very unlikely to be a broadband attenuator. Attenuating a single frequency is a neat trick, but most acoustic applications require require something that works a wide frequency range.

Given the breathless tone and the curious turns of phrase, I strongly suspect the author has no background in sound, acoustics, science, or journalism.
https://asciinema.org/

I sometimes record deployments, bug fixes, refactoring, etc...
If you want to feel the kick of your drum, your neighbours will hear it too. This gadget won't help.
As soon as Proton paid a Bitcoin ransom [0] to try and avoid a DDoS attack, I lost all hope for this company.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/05/protonmai...
My pleasure, I do wonder if there's something to be concerned about microwaving food... a concern for another day.

I found too that if I put a bowl/cover over the potato, it steams it as well, and cooks faster and is more moist.
If there wasn't a government (other problems of that aside), the corporation wouldn't have to move. Simply put, it's a clash of two worlds - as we all know.

BTW what is the corporation supposed to do? Take the bullet? Why the hell would they do that? Would you personally do that? Economic migration is absolutely normal, especially today. Are you angry that people are moving away because things tank? I suppose not. Guess what? A corporation is made up of people.
I mentioned Jolla here b/c I thought while email/datadrive security is important, the phone ecosystem is much more so. Jolla (and Librem, anything else?) are an alternative to the Android/iPhone duopoly and should be actively supported.
I think it's unfair to blame it all on the Indians. There is another side to it, in the form of extremely demanding customers. The Indian companies resort to using cheap resources because the customer has x amount of budget, and they want things done within that budget. I knew one American product company (who is/was number one in the world in what they do) demanding that they will pay only x amount per hour for a person and make all these Indian as well as American consultancies compete with each other to find the lowest paid person. My Indian employer didn't even want to sent people there because they wouldn't make much profit while providing a decent salary.
The best interview I ever had was similar, the largest chunk of it was me and my boss whiteboarding out a problem together, he had the marker. We were solving a problem that I'd be solving on the product, and that he had implemented on a previous project at a different employer. It just felt great.
As a chemist who did the same thing a few years later and you’re doing it now, my primary advice is that whatever you choose to do make a medium range plan of a few months. And then follow that plan rigorously without spending time reconsidering it along the way. Distraction is your biggest enemy. At the end of few months, assess how things are going and make a new medium term plan.

If it’s any encouragement, I started cold with iOS at age 40. I knew nothing but a little bit of C.

If you learn the program, there will be people who need your skills.
Fiji just introduced 5 days/yr of "Family Care Leave" on the 1st of Jan, 2019. The Act doesn't require there to be sickness involved, so while you can take leave to care for your sick family member, theoretically you can also do so to support them at a school rugby match: https://i.imgur.com/Ct0wv5D.png

Fiji is just barely above "third world" status. What's your excuse, USA?
Is it possible to build this at home using a 3d printer ?
Camille Paglia
You're arguing as if I was suggesting we should abolish the government. I simply said that in case of corporations, you vote with your money, which is absolutely true (basically the first law of economics - supply/demand) - I said and meant nothing about government or its abolishment nor any change of laws (I'm European). I replied to a comment saying that corporations are not voted for, not to a comment saying that antitrust laws are important.
Quite obviously emotions are a continuum that correlates with intelligence.

The most intelligent animals feel/express the most sophisticated emotions.

To think otherwise would be clearly contrary to science (i.e. you believe in souls transcending to the physical world; OR you believe that a deity made an 100% equitative distribution of emotions among his creatures, from the worm to the dolphin).

This point is defended in Hofstadter's works.
They're more similar than dissimilar. For example, both try to have a selective process where they try to gauge potential of applicants, and whether they're worth investing resources into. Universities are actually a specific subset of accelerators..
This is the right answer. There are any number of people freshly learned programming but those with a decade (I guess) of experience in some domain , that's way more rare. And then it's just basic supply and demand :)
PEP 339 – Design of the CPython Compiler
The article is complete right, but forgets to mention the field it's applied at mostly: Scriptwriting for movies. Old drama theory (with the 3 basic arc's) plus the three outer ones is nowadays only used in scriptwriting scientifically. 0, 1, 01, 10, 010 and 101 is still the basis for all arcs, combined with the 6 main genres you can easily predict its market value. I think it was Relativity Media's Ryan Kavanaugh (the movie production and financing studio) which brought that to perfection, together with the popularity of the main cast, which is much more important than the script arc and the genre.

He used the moneyball approach to movies, as Daryll Morey does it in Basketball. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Kavanaugh
Of course Kavanaugh also dabbled in the sports agency business, because it was the same data driven approach.
If you haven't ever lived at subsistence level you may not understand what you are facing in reality. Food is food, better to have a deformity than to be dead.

There are tons of greens in everyone's backyard in America right now that you can eat. Half the weeds in your yard are editable and would fill in all the missing nutrients.

Education is the problem here, maybe not so much resources. (unless famine?)

But also, when I eat the same meal every day, I do feel a certain hunger for other things after awhile, so I don't disagree about nutrients.
The situation described in the article doesn’t seem to be related to patents. Rather this appears to be a generic drug with a very small market.

There is only one producer of an approved formulation and they are charging too much.

The article mentions that the compound (lutetium octreotate) has been in use for a long time, suggesting that any patent term on the compound has lapsed. Novartis’ specific preparation has been approved for this use by the EMA. Compounding pharmacies have the right to prepare the drug without this approval, which they could not do if the compound was subject to a patent.

Theoretically another company could make a generic version of this but the market is probably too small to justify the approval costs.
MGM Could Replace Many Employees with Robots