skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> loud music at a bar called power tools

Please tell me this was a gay bar. If it wasn't, it should have been.

I have some upper range hearing loss that's more or less consistent with my age. I also have tinnitus and ADHD, so I'm interested in the comments about how all these things may be interrelated. I definitely struggle to hear conversations in noisy environments and I always assumed it was high frequency hearing loss, but maybe the ADHD is part of it as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Liberation_Army

Not sure what "top friends list" means, but SA isn't represented by all forces born there, anymore than Blackwater mercenaries are always acting as a US proxy.
Celebrating 30 years of a giant LEP for humankind
Not to mention the issues are apples and oranges - Elsevier is acting as a gatekeeper for public research. Google is at worst exploiting fair use at scale.
You are right. You have to make architectural choices to build a soft layer that can absorb such hacky throwaway code that can be pruned easily later. Usually a hard platform layers sits underneath it and supports this. Following Conway's law, usually there are teams to build and enforce the platform constructs that are relatively debt free and there are teams that work on the soft application layer on top of those platforms where these throwaway hacks can be easily put. You have to design for this in your architecture. But if this strategy is right for your business domain, then once you make the initial investment, it will pay for itself multiple-folds. You will see this pattern in online gaming code bases.
I don’t see any way to actually achieve this at scale let alone any reason to add an opening for more pointless lawsuits. Let’s say they’re liable and you choose to act on incorrect information recieved for free. Do you really try to take them to court and on what grounds?
One part of the problem may be the current state of discourse around mental health in the United States: we have a long history of trivializing and/or stigmatizing mental health troubles, and so there's kind of a back-swing right now where people are very sensitive to anything that might be interpreted in that way. If you aren't from the U.S., you may have unintentionally waded into a cultural mine-field.

But, going past that, I think the bigger problem is that this site seems to lack a clear vision. Is it for support groups? The tagline makes it sound like it's just for "anyone who isn't mainstream", but then further down it gets very medical about mental health. It's unclear who the site is really aimed at and what purpose it's trying to serve, as well as what makes it different from standard social sites (aside from not asking for tons of personal information).

I get the sense you're doing this from a good place, so I wish you luck, but it needs some work if it's going to get traction, at least in the U.S.
I wonder if a old server can be used for heating...like literally exhaust the air into a duct and pipe it into the desired room

..In that context crazy inefficient boxes make way more sense. Esp with the reduced e-waste contribution
To your last sentence specifically though, I wouldn’t want Google to use ads data to influence non-ads rankings.
And instead of talking to governments to try and get them to enact legislation they started a propaganda campaign to discredit the idea that anthropogenic global warming is real.
Did you read the article? SVGs are super crufty and extremely easy to optimize.
If was an oil company I would invest in renewables for examples.
Sure, we need to present both sides of the story.

So >90% of coverage should be about what >90% of people think, and <10% of coverage should be what <10% of people think.

Let's make it proportional.
TLDR: Azure is cheaper than AWS for Windows VMs.
Sorry, I'm not following why from a licensing perspective it matters if you are running on a bare metal server in your office, a virtual environment on a physical server you own in a co-lo, or on virtual servers you "rent" from a cloud provider.
I wonder how many micromorts I'm exposing delivery people to each time they bring me a pizza on an e-bike.

Wikipedia suggests about 1 micromort per 10 miles on a bike [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort] so maybe it's 1/2 micromort in an urban area and 1 in the suburbs.
Google Maps is vastly underutilized for search was the most valuable takeaway for me.
It's valuable if you care about transmitting. Sure you can transmit under part 15 or other unlicensed transmission rules, but you have to maintain extremely low power that is typically not very useful for communication.

On PO Boxes, I don't think it does much to thwart a person looking for your address. It's one single barrier, but anyone can find anyone's legal mailing address via whitepages/public record using only a name and location.
The automatic calculator and translator is what me switch back from DDG a few weeks ago.
Nvidia trains world’s largest Transformer-based language model
A solid-stone desk with built-in tech to get more done
I have a particular page on my blog that mostly appear as the answer to a question "Can you do X with Y tool". Before Google started displaying it as a snippet, the post was getting decent traffic, and the comments were more somewhat moderate.

Then the snippet appeared, and a bunch of negative comments started to appear. To clarify, my answer was not a solid yes or no, but more of my experience with the tool. But Google snippets conveniently answers with a section that says: "It is pointless."

User's read the snippet, are enraged, click, don't bother to read the article, jump to the comment and say "YOU ARE WRONG."

Now, the controversy brings a decent amount of traffic. But unfortunately, the traffic is not from people reading in the first place.
They did publish in alternative journals, those journals got bought by Elsevier.
Nvidia claims world records in conversational AI training
Start a lobbying campaign to enact a carbon tax or a similar scheme and invest heavily in renewable and nuclear energy.
Any idea why he named it "Wagyu"? Am just curious! :D
I think there are some people with sever conditions inside their minds that truly disabled. I saw them and I don't understand how they live, what they feel about this life except I know they feel kindness and care to them just as anybody else. And there are others that can behave almost normaly on public and even those who lead an asolutely normal life. I know for an average person it's hard to understand the people with mental issues and the people understand it too but it's just some mistakes in the gene in the brains but they are all just as normal as anyone in the earth, just little problems, everybody has problems.
Not sure I'm following you.. also it doesn't have signup. You can use the entire app and export a codebase without signing up.
IBM Deploys Triton AI Supercomputer at University of Miami
I've always used premium power cables just because of the possibility of shorts from cheap cables.

I wonder what HN thinks of Anker cables? I've always loved them because they are rugged and well made. Though I know they are a Chinese company...
From the article:

> Besides the Cavendish bananas that dominate modern supermarket shelves, residents of banana-producing nations rely on a multitude of local varieties, including plantains, for their food security. Panama disease TR4 has a notoriously broad host range, meaning it threatens nearly all of these varieties to some degree.

Unfortunately, pretty much all banana species are vulnerable. Even if Cavendish is the most-affected, replacing Cavendish with another cultivar isn't a complete solution. Other banana cultivars don't have the same properties, and breeding a replacement dessert banana that is resistant, and then spreading that cultivar (and hoping that it too doesn't fall prey) is not a trivial undertaking.

If a GMO solution can save the existing cultivars, which have established consumers, it's a better approach. Since all bananas are grown using monoculture grafting (because we long ago bred the seeds out), it's not as easy to produce new cultivars as with other fruits.
Omigosh! The F-22 was the example of avionics software that worked, standing in contrast to the F-35 (sometimes) flying tarpit of tens of millions of lines of C and C++. Does this mean the DoD is now acquiring assured and acceptable agile-accelerated advanced armed airborne Ada avionics assets?
That was me, also. I found that a pair of Bose Hearphones helped considerably. You can set them to focus 45 deg in front and cancel noise from behind. Basically, you hear the person you are facing. I've been in some incredibly noisy bar environments, and I find younger people are asking me to repeat, though I can make their speech out pretty well.
But, didn't browser vendors do that and that's why the EV indicator is being moved to a less prominent location?..
> Content farms were huge before Google started kicking them out in 2011. Have they made a comeback?

Have they not? Content marketing seems as alive as ever, if not more.

> Google's latest attempt to keep the crap under control (AMP) is very unpopular on Hacker News, but I guess it shows they are trying to do something?

Because we - myself and many of those other HNers disliking it - believe that with AMP, making web more performant and less crappy is only an excuse, and one that doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
That is a given. Of course every company has the goal of making money.

They really don't stand to gain much by open-sourcing their tools, though, besides developer goodwill, which is something that they sorely needed to remain competitive in today's market.
American parents struggle to afford child care and student loan debt
With what key are you encrypting someone else's private key? And who holds this master key?

I would love it if you could link a technical deep dive into how Blockstack fundamentally works because I've gotten very few answers from both implementors and founders, and their existing documentation isn't at all helpful.
In general I'd recommend the opposite: don't minify anything unless necessary, prettify it instead. Every plaintext-based format file should be optimized for human readability unless you actually need to make it hard to read (e.g. you are developing a proprietary product not meant to be open-source) or your bandwidth is limited so severely that every single byte matters.

Nevertheless the kind of minification demonstrated in the example (removing Inkscape bloat) feels really great and actually makes the file more human-readable. This reminds me of HTML files generated by MS Word and other WYSIWG editors which included tons of bloat code that actually harmed rendering (needless to say human readability).
I didn't buy a single computer currently at home new - a few year old hardware is almost new and undistinguishable in performance. However I would stay away from servers - workstations (e.g. Z440) can be bought with almost the same hardware and for similar cost, yet are quiet.
>but nothing like the capability the JSF brings in computing technology.

What computing technology can't be put into the F-22? Iirc it has a much bigger radar housing, and EO DAS (fancy term for 360 IR / situational awareness) can be added to it.

To answer the parent term - the F-22 was used for air-to-ground in the middle east, so it can definitely fill that role. There was also an attack plane/bomber variant proposed.

With that said, I don't think "its old" holds.
Oh. I didn't expect that, probably because in the US car-pedestrian accidents kill 6,000 people a year [1] and air pollution kills 6,000,000 [2]

1. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/28/589453431...
2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/04/18/air-po...
I prefer Googles snippet to visiting a shitty site. This is one of the few instances that I fully support Google. If websites want to stay relevant, they need to be more inventive.
Facebook Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Transcribe Users’ Audio
The ads in search results are a utterly, completely different character to the on-site garbage parent is talking about. They are simple text entries that are clearly marked.
I made a platform for crowdsourcing factual information (seeking feedback)
Stealth Blackhawks (pretty much confirmed by the Bin Laden raid) are definitely an example of the cancelled Comanche program tech going into black projects.
You need to add some resistors to the data pins to be recognized as a charger.
Setting Up a Linux Workstation for Software Development
There is a website from which I make purchases on a monthly basis. I discovered early on that if I hit the back button after putting an item in my shopping cart, instead of pressing their javascript "Continue Shopping..." button at the top of the page, it messes up the session and I end up having to log in again to straighten things out. Thankfully I don't lose the shopping cart contents, but this proves to be a real pita whenever I forget about their buggy session management.

That isn't to say that this is the reason some sites disable the back button, or that there aren't nefarious reasons for it being done, but this is one site where I wish they would do it.

So, a very small maybe, is that the sites in question are bandaging over bad session management.
Thanks. Us full-time nerds sometimes need to be reminded that people have all this emotional baggage. It is actually scientifically clear that women are childlike, both in physique (relatively large eyes and heads, shorter, weaker) and behavior (crying, emotional instability, docility etc.). Admittedly, the effects of modesty have never been studied scientifically to my knowledge, but it seems very logical that tabooing sexual signals should reduce bad feelings due to sexual competition, envy, mate guarding etc.
You'd need a lot more balloons inside the atmosphere than a good way away from Earth at L1.
Responsibility for what? Either the people of Hong Kong are entitled to their opinions and freedoms, or they are not.

I don't see why the actions of some dead British guys from 150 years ago have anything to do with whether that it true or not?

Nobody is spinning the opium wars in any way. You are the one who brought up the topic.
https://epiphany.pub

My tech blog on different topics
What does my theories about International reactions on Brexit and the Irish border have to do with the legality of China using troops to forcefully break another treaty? Would China’s action become legal depending on what I answer?
For an increasing proportion of users, the "address bar" is now the "Google search" bar. You may have discovered xe.com when the distinction was much more obvious, but as time went on the browser UI underwent changes, that will change as well.

New versions of Chromium will begin hiding the full URL entirely, probably so that more and more marketing/targeting related UTM parameters can be jammed in without the user ever even knowing.
I don't trust them either. They seem to pull info out of random places, and you can't easily tell how up-to-date the content is.
Have you heard of opencores.org? Its been around for a long time.
>Amazon reviewers would quickly notice terminal windows pop up on their screens or keystrokes happening at inopportune times

Back in the day sure, but with the way amazon works now I don't think this would be the case. I stopped purchasing items from amazon because one of the things they do is lump "like" or "same" items and reviews together, the only problem is sometimes the items are actually completely different. I've bough electronics, components, cables, and other items from amazon before and then received a similar item but from a completely different brand, manufacturer, seller, etc. When I went back to look at reviews they are all lumped under one page of amazon so you can't get details about a particular product. You can order a cable on a page that's called "apple lightning cable" with reviews for legitimate products but then receive a cheap lightning cable from china with no way to leave a review for that particular product. One way I've found of identifying pages like this is by examining pictures that people upload in reviews, and many times you'll find a variety of products being reviewed/received.
market fit
This is interesting as what I've seen in other developed countries is a very efficient use of plastic bags. Most things you buy that need a bag (salt, rice, etc) come in a super small and thin plastic bag.

Far more efficient than the packaging we have in the west which tends to be either super thick paper or super heavy plastic bags with added packaging on top.
Who's paying for it?
That content will be much much harder to extract and determine authority than what google is using right now, giving greater chances of it being wrong.
This world we live in is terrifying.
>I deliberately opted out of snippets

Appreciate your datapoint. Also btw, when I "view source" the HTML of tld-list.com, I notice it has "nosnippet" inside a comment:

<!--
<meta name="googlebot" content="nosnippet">
-->

Does google crawler parse and obey "nosnippet" embedded in HTML comments?
I've been pretty successful in meeting my private cloud dreams. I use FreeNAS as the bare metal OS, and run Ubuntu VMs which host Docker Containers (using NFS to keep actual persistent data on the underlying FreeNAS box).

Docker/Docker-Compose isn't quite lego.. but it's awfully close.
I've actually lost traffic on https://wtfismyip.com/ since Google started doing this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=wtf+is+my+ip
Well, here there are 2 categories of people (with exceptions, of course): people that have 1-2 kids and take a very short leave and people that have 5-15 kids just to live on the checks they get for the kids. You don't have that yet because we started a long time ago, but it does not mean you will not repeat the history, again and again. So yes, you are right, it works now in Canada, we were there 30-40 years ago. Look where we are today before answering.
Can a web site simply stop providing the markup for featured snippets?
Kyoto was in fact the first target for the atomic bomb:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33755182

After holding a discussion with the President, Mr Stimson wrote in his diary on 24 July 1945 that "he was particularly emphatic in agreeing with my suggestion that if elimination was not done, the bitterness which would be caused by such a wanton act might make it impossible during the long post-war period to reconcile the Japanese to us in that area rather than to the Russians".
The majority of US home mortgages are 30 year fixed rate with no variable period.
My dog was chased around as a puppy by an old lady with oven mitts.

Now he gets anxious when he smells old people. So from my anecdotal evidence, I think they probably have a distinct smell.

My theory is that the smell is distinct because of pharmaceuticals. A lot of older people are on all sorts of medications. I think a lot of medicines cause the body to give off differing odors. From personal experience, I've noticed my body odor change when on different medicines. And have actually noticed that other elderly people I've been around have a faint chemical odor to them.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what%27s+the+monthly+p...

You're dreaming of what wolfram alpha is trying to build.

Edit: funnily enough, they parsed the input slightly wrong but you can quickly get to your answer.
Wavelets (1994) [pdf]
Ask HN: Is there any guarantee that my phone's camera isn't spying on me?
The same question can be applied to the microphone.

I am actually curious if there are reports about phones taking pictures of their owners without their consent to be used in ML models or anything like that.

It seems to be something that Google and Apple could do without much effort and without the user noticing.
Interestingly, that Arctic DEM covers where I live with much better resolution than the national one. On the Arctic DEM I can see my house!

However, it clearly doesn't do well with water, lots of "fake" terrain going on where the ocean meets the land.
This is addressed in Envoy 1.11.1 (https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.11.1/intro/version_h...) and Ambassador 0.75 (https://blog.getambassador.io/multiple-http-2-vulnerabilitie...).
Seattle has this rolled out in Pioneer Square w/Domino's for quite awhile now.
whats stopping them from installing a rail along X,Y,Z axis around the build area (with a robot arm), and having the robot build up the wall instead of humans?
What "whistleblowers"? Proven liar and manipulative editor, felon, and direct cause of a spree shooting James O'Keefe and his mark of inaccuracy Project Veritas?

As for "having their speech" - they already have it but nobody has to help them spread it.
For what it's worth, anxiety can be well-managed through a combination of medication and habits, depending on your own situation and body. Ask me how I know.

Hang in there, the suffering does have a good end.
While this is getting away from the point of the story, I do have to ask; why does it always seem to be these types that are the most aggressive supporters of individualism?

If you want to go out to the middle of nowhere, wipe your ass with grass an live without any person or government's help/interference, that is totally your prerogative. But the irony of someone surviving off welfare checks, killing a man because of police inaction, and then suing the county for inadequate mental health support is palpable.

You don't get to have your cake and eat it too. Mooching off of welfare programs and posting tough-guy memes while calling everyone else pansies and having a hard-on for rugged 1800-style living? Cry me a river.
Definitely. Received similar feedback from other users as well and will consider making this optional.
That is incorrect. When I say "seal", I am referring to the sealed cavity between ear and driver, not to anything behind the driver. This is actually quite important for planars in particular, as a broken seal between the ear and driver leads to rapid bass rolloff, due to the lack of excursion found in most planar drivers (ime this is most noticeable with audezes since their excursion is especially low but I notice it with my HE-6 when I don't have the pads on my head quite right and there's a tiny gap between my head and the pads somewhere)
Personalized Cancer Vaccines in Clinical Trials
Oculus Founder Nate Mitchell Departs Facebook
No, sounds don't prevent me from tasting food. But certain types of sounds are severe migraine triggers for me, and my migraines are definitely related to synesthesia and sensory issues. Over the past 20 years or so, my migraines evolved to mostly go after my sense of smell. It's bizarre, trying to explain that a smell can hurt as much as a burn - worse, it happens with smells I normally like.

Sounds that trigger migraines are mostly certain kinds of echoes - the kind from sharp sounds in large, hard rooms like gymnasiums. I can't really be in a gym with people applauding.
Is CSS Turing Complete?
I absolutely love ImageOptim for manually optimizing SVGs, JPGs, PNGs, and GIFs. It's a simple GUI that wraps some excellent compression libs (including SVGO), which I find much faster to use for one-off image optimization than the CLI. It does a clever job of trying multiple compressors and picking whichever one creates the smallest file for each image. You can run it in a lossless or lossy mode, and tune various compression options. It's free (gratis), OSS, and runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

I make it a habit of running images through ImageOptim before sending them via Messages or Slack, as a courtesy for people on slow connections.

https://imageoptim.com (by HN user pornel)

Bonus round: When it comes to optimizing SVGs, nothing beats hand-editing the SVG source. I've done a fair bit of that optimizing the artwork for https://www.lunchboxsessions.com and it's been totally worth the effort. Taking a detailed 10k SVG down to 500 bytes with no perceptual difference is a huge win when you have hundreds of those SVGs on the page and you serve people who still use dialup.
Exactly, watch what happens to the price when you add 128GB of DDR4 memory.