skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally use squishy foam-type ones at concerts (and when I played in a band) and find they make music sound better by isolating the individual components of the band. They are far from fancy, but I have not had ringing in my ears after a show since I started using them. I wish I had been smarter as a teen.

See: https://www.amazon.com/Macks-Ultra-Soft-Foam-Earplugs/dp/B00...
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> ... and watch as your page hit Slashdot...

And then fall over?

I miss the days of The Slashdot Effect[1]. Now it's the JS that makes my PC fall over.

[1] Come to think of it The Slashdot Effect would have been a good band name back in the '90s.
VW even did this mechanically before switching to an electronic version. At least that means it's easier to shut it up: https://www.carworklog.com/2016/07/02/guide-disableturn-down...
How Seer Stones Were Used to Translate the Book of Mormon
Well the voyager probes were designed to visit planets, not just be flung in to space. Their very path away from the sun involved a ton of planetary passes. Oh and the probes are pretty big and heavy.

What has been discussed is the creation of small probes designed just to be flung in many directions. We just haven’t felt the need to prioritize that over other possible missions. My hope is that this is something we will do in the next couple of decades as space travel becomes cheaper.
Congratulations to JAXA for this big achievement!
It's a very good idea because you don't have to hire or retrain the people to perform the work and maintain it.

Instead you can just talk about how it'a a good idea.
> And in my opinion, a good pair always makes the music sound better.

Yes. I can’t understand the thinking that goes into such extreme levels of amplification. It sounds horrible, like my ears are clipping the waveform before my brain gets the audio signal.

Is there a sound engineer out there brave enough to set the levels to a “reasonable” 95dB or what?
The Google Home can make phone calls in the US and UK.
Many people everywhere are suffering hair loss. FolicileRX Review It can affect you from as early as your teens and you can become bald by the time you are 20. This is the case for many people so don't ever think you are the only one.We all know that there is nothing like having a head full of thick hair and that is what everyone wishes for. It begins to feel hopeless when you see all that hair in your brush or all over your white t-shirts. Many people are always searching for a product that will magically give them thicker hair but unfortunately that isn't what you should be searching for. If you want to get your hair back and take control there are three things that need to happen eat healthy exercise and sleep.

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Only the wealthy should make a killing on works of artists after the market filters them out. While they are alive most of them should not be able to make any sort of decent living. Such is capitalism and art.
Well I don’t think scientists blindly trust the instruments. They probably say “instrument X provided measurement Y” and then they can argue for decades as to the accuracy of the measurement.
I agree. do we want to teach AIs war? This seems like a decision/trend that humanity might regret profoundly in a century or two...
I've seen it, and didn't find it very convincing. Graeber presents some interesting anecdotes regarding selected ancient social conventions, which may or may not be accurate[1], but—in my opinion—even taken at face value they don't really support his conclusions regarding the nature of debt. Perhaps the book would seem more compelling to someone who already shares the author's worldview.

[1] https://www.bradford-delong.com/2014/12/2014-11-24-mo-ann-le...
That’s not the OPs point, at all. Nobody disagrees with or does not appreciate Google for their Go support, OP (rightly, imo) calls out that it’s a bit disingenuous to call it a “community” when “internal” continues to get thrown about on relation to language decisions.
You don‘t seem to be the only one https://devlids.com/lids/stevenjudd
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No, they are our industry's equivalent for prison tattoos.
I don't fully understand the difference. But signed is different from notarized. Notarized means you uploaded the binary to Apple. Previously, you can sign without doing that.

I haven't looked enough to understand what is gained by notary. Does Apple want to search your binary for maliciousness or rulebreaking (potentially even at a later date) so that it might revoke the notarization/signature?
What Vastu Tells Us About the Most Successful Relationships?
Color pie violations are not an inherent bug, just an outcome of the inherent random nature of AI. This AI does a better job than previous ones of following the color pie.
The Apple I was a hobby project developed before Woz met Jobs, if I remember right.
Ask HN: What does culture fit mean?
I've heard of companies doing "Culture Fit" interviews but I realized I have no idea what this actually means.

1) What does "culture fit" mean? What specific things would you include?

2) What exactly does a candidate get asked in these interviews?

3) What is the interviewer evaluating?
Evolutionary improvement of mature tools instead of jumping on bandwagons is not very street, yo. Greenfield development or GTFO.
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For users who know what they are doing:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/unsigned-apps-catalyst-...

sudo spctl --master-disable
Oooh, a Debian derivative smartphone. I been wanting one of these to reappear in the wild ever since having a play with a Nokia N900.
A lot of concert venues have these: https://www.amazon.com/Howard-Leight-Honeywell-Disposable-LP...

They're comfy and they sound pretty good. Unlike some others, they only reduce by about 12dB, which brings a concert into the safe zone while retaining good clarity. The more reduction you have, the more bass-heavy the resulting curve is, which doesn't sound too good.
mine dropped almost to zero since I am a member of a FoodCoop.
I gave plotnine a go in one of my personal Python projects (I'm a big fan of ggplot2 and tidyverse in general over pandas and seaborn) and after struggling for a while with a more complicated graph I went back to using seaborn.

Not to mention writing R-like code in Python will prevent you from being immediately understood by both R and Python developers. It's just not worth it.
in essen germany, there is a place called "unperfekthaus" which is set up on that premise. artists get free workspace, and in turn they allow visitors to watch them work.

visitors pay a small entrance fee (which includes free drinks), but besides watching artists work there are also other interesting activities and even workspaces for them to use.

https://www.unperfekthaus.de/ (in german)
When was the last time one was murdered in an embassy?
Monday – A tool to run local apps and/or forward others from Kubernetes
Watch the security talk. macOS is on the path to adopt iOS permissions model and long term roadmap is to apply the sandbox to everything, with the option to explicitly disable it on per-case basis.

A path similar to how Windows 10 is now converging the Win32 and UWP sanbox models, or how ChromeOS sandboxes GNU/Linux processes.
Reminds me of Merit Badges. :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit_badge_(Boy_Scouts_of_A...
I’m personally against over-sanitization and think exposure to a moderate amount of ‘germs’, especially during developmental years, is healthy. However, a public restroom isn’t really the place I want to get my daily dose. I’m definitely no infectious disease expert, but traces of excrement and grime from hundreds of strangers definitely sounds like something I’d like to avoid.

Probiotic foods and exposure to my family’s germs, on the other hand, I am okay with.
But the original Aladdin isn't even an original story, it's just on of the many adaptations of a middle eastern folk tale.
My kids left Alexa outside over a rainy weekend. Cest la vie!
I complained to Trekkie friend that nothing since Star Trek TOS has Star Trek been any good. He asked what evidence I had.

I said the lack of quotable lines. I know a long list of TOS quotable lines, and exactly one from after ("KKKAAAAAAHHHHHNNNNNN!"). No quotable lines means the writing is crummy and the shows are not memorable.

The same for Star Wars. Who quotes any lines from other than the first one? I stopped watching the SW new movies, too. Zzzzzz....
Trump administration launches unfair trade practices probe of French tech tax
I even heard an advertisement here in Sydney the other day for Mailchimp on a mainstream popular radio channel.

Made me think twice about discounting radio as a channel.
Taking a container to production, part 2
> During that interval, something might happen. The user might receive a warning that a factual claim in her post had been disputed by leading fact-checkers.

Nope, nope, nope. And therein lies the problem.

I'm all for time delays to give people time to delete/edit things they wish they hadn't said. Or even the ability to pause your access to social media if you think it's starting to become a problem. But that is self censorship. What this article proposes is not.

As soon as you start introducing information arbiters onto what should be a public platform you have a problem. Facebook is not a news station where it can decide what to publish - its scale is now too big for that.

> But muh private company

Sure, it's a private company. Most utilities are owned by private companies. The sooner the Internet is classed as a utility the better.

Social media is not a newspaper that can publish what it chooses, or a radio station, or any other media outlet. It is a platform for users to self-censor, self-publish, and share what they like.

Should be give users tools to make self-censorship and self-control over their usage patterns? Absolutely. Should be give technology monopolies the power to decide what we see and read? Absolutely not.
I got a pair of Etymotic’s ER20 ear plugs after seeing a few recommendations here on HN. I’ve worn them at concerts, at loud events, in a hotel next to the freeway, and even in the car when the driver had the radio too loud for me. Highly recommend them. I have small ear canals and the foam earplugs never worked, but Etymotic’s “standard” fits me fine, and also works for another friend with normal ears.

https://www.etymotic.com/consumer/hearing-protection/er20.ht...

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00G0PPTAK/
Hey HN,
I'm someone who has spent most of his career in big companies, working with pretty silo'd tech. However, for the past year and half, I've been lucky to be at an awesome startup that has allowed me to learn a lot about open source cloud software, and I've gotten to see, first hand, how you can go from prototype to production. I put together a high level list of things you need to get there, which managed to get published in Container Journal. It's for people who are new to cloud apps, and need to know where to look. Check it out if that's you.

There is a part one as well, but linking to part 2 felt a little more rebellious.
Right? I’m tired of ridiculous-still-inadequate hoops some websites try to make you jump through such as “add a number”, or “add an uppercase letter”, etc. - it really doesn’t matter. If this is an account I need to protect, I’ll use a password manager.
I don't think you need any conspiracy theory to explain anything. The 'influencer market is becoming saturated. With low barriers of entry, you have millions of people joining and trying to squeeze out every penny of value.

This is the end result of 'perfect competition' or 'long tail' - depending on what your dance is.
Why did you exclude the highest grossing film that year from the list? It seems you just selected the movies you thought helped you point.

Movies among the top ten grossing which you left out of the list:

- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

- Tarzan

- Big Daddy

- The Mummy

- Runaway Bride

- The World Is Not Enough

- The Blair Witch Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_1999_box_office_number...

I do agree Hollywood is different today, but rehashing ideas is nothing new.

The Godfather was a book. Twelve Angry Men was a play. Ben Hur (1956) was remake of Ben Hur (1925). All the songs in Singing in the Rain was recycled from previous movies. The Lion King was the first Disney animated movie with an original story (and even then people say it was plagiarized from Kimba).

As for TV shows and made-for-streaming, do you exclude this from Hollywood? It is increasingly the same talent writing producing and acting, so it is more a question of format and distribution.
To enhance point #1, you don't even need to have churn rates that change over time.

Consider a very simple model where the probability of "disengaging" in a given year is 50%, at which point the follower doesn't engage any more with your content (but they don't unfollow you). It doesn't matter what churn rate you pick, you still witness the same effect. And then assume that your follower count grows linearly by 1000 each year.

Time 0 1 2

Engage 1000 1500 1750

Follow 1000 2000 3000

Ratio 1 0.750 0.583

In fact, if you have a flat disengagement rate, as long as even a single person disengages without unfollowing, you will see this downward trend in engagement rates. Same assumptions as before, but this time, of the people that churn, 99% unfollow.

Time 0 1 2

Engage 1000 1500 1750

Follow 1000 1505 1762.5

Ratio 1 0.997 0.992
I don't think it's just old software that might break. One must also consider the software not yet to be written. If the isolation is too constraining for some type of application that really needs a privilege, and isolation is mandatory, then some amount of innovation will just have to happen somewhere else or not at all.

Remember old school Mac was full of hacks upon hacks upon hacks, many by third parties, and there was cool stuff in there too. The App Store mentality has caused everyone to overreact and think that every third party app on the planet will turn into the worst conception of Win98 era malware overnight if unconstrained, when this is just one outcome among many possible.
The horrors I've seen in academic code speak otherwise.
> dance to their tune to get their funding”) doesn't really make sense

It makes perfect sense to me, having worked for a couple of non-profits. A regular business gets money by selling products to people. A nonprofit gets money by selling good feelings to rich people.

Often, one of those good feelings a rich person buys is a sense of control. They don't just give you money and say go; they give you money for a very specific purpose. Often, to get that money you have to apply for grants, meaning that you must conform to their desires up front, write a big project plan, and the follow that plan closely to receive the money. It's very much a waterfall approach to things, which can cause a lot of waste, and can be very distracting for people who want to focus on the non-profit mission. You also of course need a whole apparatus to find and flatter those rich people, which isn't free.

Basically non-profits sound like a better vehicle in theory than they are in practice for many purposes. And they don't guarantee fiscal probity from the community's perspective. A non-profit exec can still pay themselves millions of dollars [1].

For what it's worth, I am happy to help out community-oriented for-profit businesses. E.g., San Francisco's Borderlands Books, which is community-sponsored [1]. I give them $100/year just because I want them to keep existing, and bookstores in SF aren't really viable businesses anymore.

[1] https://www.erieri.com/blog/post/top-10-highest-paid-ceos-at...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/25/borderlands-bo...
As far as I know most traditional package managers only remove files and folders declared in the package. Not files installed somewhere else during the install script or created by the binary when it runs.
Tried mountain biking? I enjoy getting out and combining the exercise with technical ability and social time. I can practice technique or watch my heart rate and cadence, or just enjoy the scenery. Travel to very nice places and ride way off the beaten track. It's interesting and not just a slog.
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Take a look at the eight of the most common things most people do that hinder them from achieving their waistline-trimming goals.Skipping a meal or two. Skipping meals may sound like it's a good idea to get rid of extra calories. However, when you starve your body, your metabolism slows down. When this happens, the process of fat and calorie burning also slows down.

Eating in a hurry. You usually overeat when you eat fast and do not chew your food well. Remember that it takes about 20 minutes for your stomach to tell your brain that it is already satisfied. Eating in front of the TV or computer. This will get your mind out of the meal you are eating. You would eat mindlessly and end up eating more.Frequent restaurant visits. You add hundreds more of calories just by eating out in restaurants and fast food chains.https://healthadviserpro.com/ultra-apex-diet-review/
I wonder in which way an ethics board was consulted for this. Is it ethically justifiable to introduce an anonymously "cheating" AI like DeepMind in the competitive ladder? After all

> A win or a loss against AlphaStar will affect your MMR as normal.

While the scenario at hand might be relatively unproblematic, at what point does an ethics board get consulted for anonymous trials concerning AI - human interaction? Is this something on the radar of the DeepMind team?
Google, w3c, mdn... to name a few

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@keyframes
In order to avoid repeating myself, from WWDC 2019:

"Advances in macOS Security"

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/701/

"All About Notarization"

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/703
My hobby project is collecting photos of stickered laptops [1]

From my impression and experience, it‘s like saying „I am root. This is MY device“ more than anything else. So I‘d say your last point applies in most cases.
Although Salesforce-people seem to have a special relationship with their stickers [2]. They have tons of them, but usually none from other companies. They seem to be achievment-badges.

[1] https://devlids.com

[2] https://devlids.com/all/tag:salesforce
That will be the Mac books death.

Many open source projects will not participate in this.

If this kills brew you will also loose a lot of devs.
If as a professional artist, you have dramatic media articles detailing your failure to produce a particular work of art, then I think that this is actually a massive success, at least by the terms of the professional art world.
Sound engineer here. My goal is always to keep things as quiet as possible. It can be really hard to do so. The louder the mix, the more control you have because you have a larger ratio of PA sound to stage sound up front, and a larger ratio of PA sound to audience/bar noise in the back. The quieter the mix, the more the audience near the front gets overwhelmed with drums and whatever else on stage is naturally loud, and the more the audience in the back gets overwhelmed with the drunk people nearby.

Basically, the necessary mix volume is established by getting the vocals to sit sufficiently above those uncontrollable things, and everything else falls into place.

That said, plenty of engineers do mix too damn loud. They might have a good reason (and would compromise the mix by lowering it), but they might not (and are hurting people's ears unnecessarily).
Which are a very tiny percentage of typical Mac users.
Who really believes this?
Since some bacteria and viruses can survive the cold, could there also be dangerous deceases buried in the permafrost?
Individuals and institutions do fund artists already, e.g. grants, patreon, commissions, donations, a plethora of residence programs - I'm all for having as much of all this as possible, and there is certainly not as much of it as there could be.

However, I think all of these have some element of the artists needing to have proven themselves or having a good portfolio - and I think that is more than fair and true of all professions.

Nobody who values their time and money wants to hire an untrained, inexperienced contractor who is about to do their first job. They are free to go to school, they may choose to get loans, it may turn out they suck at plumbing and then they are back at square one. None of that is society's fault.

For every successful artist there are thousands upon thousands of people whose art is unmarketable or unvalued by the market, and you simply cannot bend the market to your say-so. That's not how any of this works.
Reading through it seems more of an issue about people who make promises and fail to upheld them due to poor planning?
Aw man there’s such deep beautiful feeling in some old movies. I sorta feel like it’s a huge oversight to believe that movies are watched for their technical achievements, rather than the people and ideas in them.

But my dad was into cinema so showed me tons of old film when I was a kid. Charlie Chaplin is still hilarious.
This is just reversible computation, isn’t it?
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I used to be in the anti sticker camp, but then someone nearly walked off with my identical MacBook Pro at Newark. After that, I've gone through three laptops and each one ends up caked in stickers from various customers and conferences. I don't have to risk someone picking up my MacBook unless they have the same arrangement IP video tech and Seattle sports stickers.
iPhone and iPad don't seem to have suffered from lack of open source projects.

Neither do game consoles or the large population using Windows based systems.

I never cared for brew on the occasional moments I get to use Apple computers, XCode and default tooling is more than enough.

Which is like what the large majority of developers targeting Apple devices actually care about.
How to use continual learning to your machine learning models
> On an Echo, either I turn it off and might as well not have it, or I turn it on and it's recording everything. There's no middle ground where I get some basic functionality without being spied on.

I'd guess that most people could effectively find a middle ground by treating the Echo as if it were someone in a cordial but not really friends relationship with a family member, such as a classmate of one of you kids over to discuss a school project, or a member of your spouse's church over to discuss planning the annual church picnic.

If they are doing things that they would not mind such a person overhearing, have the Echo on. If they are doing things that they would not do until such a person leaves, have the Echo off.

It would be interesting to give these home voice assistants faces, including eyes that look at and track people it is listening to when they speak, to help people remember that it is still listening to them. That might make it easier to remember to turn it off before discussing sensitive things in its presence.