skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>3) Pink Noise.

I worked in an office where they put speakers in the ceiling to radiate such noise. It was odd because no notice was given and it just happened. For the first week or two, we all thought it was airflow noise from the HVAC system until we noticed speakers in the ceiling.

It was effective, though. It did reduce the apparent noise, though our 15 person office wasn't terribly loud to begin with. An interesting side effect was that conversations, when they did occur, got louder because the noise made low volume conversations difficult to hear.
I'm not sure if I want a Stadia, but I think there is a product that could succeed doing something similar. Like, I occasionally play Starcraft and other PC games, but it's kind of a pain to plan out future desktop or laptop upgrades because I can only consider products with more powerful video cards and enough extra space to hold each 60+gb game to handle even moderate gaming.
It seems like the technique described would be unreliable and dependent on the nature of the damage causing your tinnitus. Also, at best it offers only momentary relief, though when tinnitus is bad that seems like that's worth a little effort in itself.
What makes you think making up charges and constantly threatening to destroy you are not extremely stressful. He has a family too that he's been unable to see properly for a long while.

Is his only current crime skipping bail on charges he believed were fake?

Clearly, facing deportation to the US is problematic for a number of reasons, mostly that it's impossible for even Snowden to get a fair trial there, let alone an Australian citizen.
> If it has no evidnce and no substance as it seems no to, the rationale behind it is of academic interest alone. Maybe it's pure malice? Maybe it's jealous rage? Maybe it's delusional? Maybe it's propaganda? Maybe it's just not interesting what caused it - it shouldn't be to the legal process. Substance is everything. What seems like a strong lack of it here, stinks.

What I'm doing is what you're doing and what everyone should do: synthesize information into an opinion. I don't claim knowledge, but I have a model of the world, of how people act, and I'm feeding various information into that model and using it to generate an opinion. You have a different model and you've generated a different opinion. That's fine. But to conclude that people can't form certain opinions absent evidence is naive. Human beings are not courts of law.

I made no comment about whether Assange should be convicted in a court of law. I only said that I think he did something wrong and that, if I'm right, I see his behavior as representative of a pattern wherein certain people view themselves as above normative morality.
While I agree that downloads in and of themselves aren’t super telling, if we think about the conversion rate to user this is still an insane amount of people. At 20% conversion, that’s 300M users. Even 1% DAU from that would be 3M people and probably from a segment of people that are the most valued (ages 14-25) to instagram from an audience perspective.

Now what the retention looks like, that’s another story.
I'm currently using Symfony to build fun things. Examples of toy projects I've worked on: https://ryanl.co.uk

If anyone wants to work on something together, email is in my profile or ryan @ the domain above.
Does it matter? Even if they are on tiktok (whatever that is, I am getting too old for that shit) watching something without ad, they are not on instagram watching something with ads.
Thanks Anand!

Love idea #3, I'll have to dig in and see if there's enough of that. Might be info that's in the article and not in the quote itself.

I'm excited to get into #4 as I go through historical sources and extract old quotes.
I'm not talking about Sweden. The charges in Sweden never mattered besides being a way for him to be extradited to the U.S.

The U.S. does have the death penalty, and it would be on the table if the U.S. didn't tell the U.K. he won't get it. It's still possible that the U.S. lied of course.

Either way, he'll likely be put in prison in the U.S. for the rest of his life.
He’s being held in a maximum-security prison in solitary confinement. That is torture.
He could have made this point to the British legal system in an effort to avoid deportation. But instead he fled that process and doomed himself by biasing the entire British legal system against him.
instagram ads are skippable too?
It doesn't work quite like that. People can be extradited to countries that have death penalty, as long as the country gives guarantees that death penalty (or other cruel punishment) will not be applied. Thus it is possible for a person to be extradited to U.S. for a murder committed in the U.S., but the death penalty is then not possible.
Thanks for the tip! That looks good! After playing around I found what I was actually thinking about is called "channels" and it works well!

http://docs.yworks.com/yfiles/doc/developers-guide/figures/c...
Did we read the same article? As far as I can tell, the only mention of white men is as part of a bigger picture of someone who hit the jackpot with respect to "burnout recovery" options, and so whose advice isn't worth much to the average person suffering burnout. The fact that they're white men isn't presented as a problem per se.
You're employing a fallacy that corporations are only too happy to indulge, shifting the blame to consumers. Whereas the vast majority of power consumption (and pollution) is caused by big industries.
A bit of a random comment here - it just happened that I recently injured my sternocleidomastoid muscle and has caused some hearing trouble on the right ear (not tinnitus). I saw that this also caused tinnitus in some individuals. I’m not a doctor or anything but if you suffer from this and didn’t find any relief, I’d suggest looking up for trigger point massage for this muscle. It’s safe and free, and it helped some people at least.
I agree with what you say and still support him. This has nothing to do with his personality and everything to do with the fact that a free press is more important than any one of the particular things you stated.
This honestly seems like a big leap to ask kids to take from Scratch. I agree with some of the comments I'm seeing that the concept of "this" is a big one - but even other common JavaScript concepts such as callback functions seem like a stretch. What I wonder is why a variant of BASIC hasn't taken off. I think most Gen X and Millennial software professionals can point to early exposure to BASIC as an inspiration for their careers. The syntax of that language was meant to be for beginners - so why aren't we using it?
why doesn't australia protect its citizens?

Apparently, "The Commonwealth will not extradite or deport a prisoner to another jurisdiction if they might face the death penalty"
Can you find interesting video(non funny) on tik tok ?

For example if your interested in bike, can you find cool bike related stuff ? Or is it just some people doing funny thing with some music on it ?

I tried it a few months ago and found only funny videos.

It's cool but it's not what's going to create a account on it.

I like Instagram or YouTube because I can follow thing I'm interesting in.
Well he still has a valid point about spineless partizans.
I found it surprising that Hawaii was chosen for the first expansion. Maybe someone looking for an excuse to take a trip?
I was excited when I heard about these for VR. Haven’t heard much about them yet.

But I do wonder if there won’t be unintended consequences. The brain is pretty good at adapting. I believe these work by overloading the inner ear signal with noise so the brain stops paying attention to it. What if the brain decides to stop paying attention to it after the device is removed? Could it affect balance?
Oh awesome, thanks.
I’ve had the same experience. I left Fitbit for Garmin early 2015 and switched back to Fitbit early 2017. Garmin has better overall health tracking but the app user experience is (was?) woefully lacking. I enjoyed and enjoy the Fitbit app and its 90% of the reason I went back.

However I am one of the ones trying to de-Google, so I’ll see how a data dump goes. Trying to find a device that toes the line between health tracker and smart watch as artfully as the Versa 1 does that isn’t produced by a monster Corp should be fun as well
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Don't forget the U.S. Constitution. Nor the millions of veterans who swore to uphold it. Nor the 1.3 million active duty military personnel who are also sworn to uphold it.
Which has nothing to do with people reusing passwords on Netflix and other sites. Netflix isn’t doing anything special to keep from getting hacked.
That's why I think you need to tie it in a non-transferable way to a market. So if Amazon UK pays Amazon US for a license, either it pays that license in the US, which means they can't deduct it from their UK profits, or they pay the license in the UK, which means Amazon US has to pay taxes on it in the UK. Either way, someone is going to pay tax over that revenue in the UK, and it'd be the most profitable for Amazon if it was done by the company that also spends the most on costs (labour, services, whatever) in the UK.

I still think that would actually close these loopholes. It would erect some barriers to international trade, though, because companies making their costs and revenue in the same market have an advantage over companies coming from other markets. I don't think that's necessarily bad, though, and it can be mitigated by trade deals by which countries decide to treat their markets as a single market for these purposes as long as their tax rates are similar enough. Of course then they shouldn't make those deals with tax havens, and they'd be stupid to do so, because they'd be inviting a loss in tax revenue if they did that.
I think it exists because they've got plenty of infrastructure assets all around the world because of GCP (and are investing in more) and they're probably trying to dream up ideas to drive up utilization and gain some operating leverage on it. A consumer subscription business that depends on all your data centers would do that.

That's not a really good reason to make a product though.
Offtopic, but why someone bothers to type a proper blogpost in Twitter? It's such a crap experience read something there that multiple thread reader projects exists.

I can only think of the simplicity to publish content makes it too easy for lazy authors.
Yes. Everyone in my office complains about it.
Perhaps try taping an electric toothbrush behind your head...
Yes. We should allow free competition between tax jurisdictions. If another state is willing to provide better services in any regard, people should be free to decide what suits them best.

What is the meaning of private property if individuals can not move it abroad as they wish?

A more productive line of inquiry might be an examination of what tax authorities can do to make their schemes more palatable.

Perhaps the experiment of liberalism (as suggested in the 18th century) has failed if government has reached the point where it is trying to optimize and maximize revenue. It seems that liberalism has arrived at the same place that inspired the guillotine and the Boston tea party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
What typically happens to corporate profits that are declared in a tax-haven?

Naively, when those profits are moved out of the tax-haven, they will create income, profits or dividends on the entities they are transferred to, and those will be taxed in turn. But there are probably ways around these taxes, what would the point be otherwise?
"Yes, technically, he was free to leave, but arguing that is ignoring the fact that leaving would mean jail."

Didn't it mean he would be free to stand trial for the rape allegations?

Do those women not have a right to have their case heard?
I wrote this relatively recently in another comment. I think it applies here:

I have tinnitus. I got it from going out too much. I wasn't the biggest party-hardy individual, but there were moments where I went out quite a bit. During that time I lived in Amsterdam and loved parties for: music, social experimentation and doing whatever. I wasn't too much into the drugs/alcohol thing. I think during my 'going out phase' I was above average in terms of how many times I went out to clubs. This period lasted for 4 years.

It was 6 months of agony, then I started to ignore it. It wasn't a conscious decision, the ignoring happened automatically. I only have the high pitched ringing in my ears when it's quiet. It literally feels like a curse though, I can't hear silence.

5 years later, I found out something remarkable (and I hope there's a researcher willing to test this with me and other tinnitus people). It was an accident to figure this out.

When I do the Wim Hof Method, for just a brief moment it's silent. I can kind of have an idea why, since it's silent during an oxygen starvation moment (breathing all your oxygen out and then not breathing for another 2 to 3 minutes).

But for me it was a life saver. Why? Because if I really want to experience true quietness again, I can do the Wim Hof Method and experience about 10 to 20 seconds of quietness per 5 minutes.

My curse is lifted. It's not perfect, but good enough for me.

If you have tinnitus and want to learn the Wim Hof Method from me, feel free to reach out [1], my email is in my profile.

[1] My time is limited, I can teach up a total of 6 people for free who also have tinnitus. If you send an email, I'll put you in an online session with 1 to 2 other people (who also responded to this, so they're all from HN). After 6 people, I need to charge for my time. And please, leave the spots open for people who actually have tinnitus. Don't fake it, there are probably (hopefully) videos online on how to do the Wim Hof Method.

Final note: learning the WHM to alleviate yourself from tinnitus is an experiment. It worked for me. It may not work for you. Also, learning the WHM you need someone to be physically there to be a 100% sure about your physical safety (normally that would be me). And you need to be in an otherwise healthy condition.

I'm not a doctor, and this invitation is for entertainment purposes only.
In case anyone else is curious...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressumspflicht

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/23307/to-whom-does-t...
Please don't.

Assange jumped bail after a multi stage judicial process on charges of rape and sexual molestation.

Ms Frank was hiding to avoid genocidal extermination by an occupying force during war.

They're not equivalent.
What would you define a "free country" as?
In addition, he didn't even know if it would be a real arrest and just solitary confinement considering the CIA's reputation.
Change your word selection from group to community and your point is more effective. Your point about newton is exactly right and you can see it again in the physicist community that unraveled the secrets of the atom. You can see it again in the creation of the internet and again in Silicon Valley today. Communities do matter but not in the collective organizing sense that most people think of when they read the word.. more in the rapid feedback and competition for ideas.
"It is the third most-downloaded app outside of gaming this year. Numbers one and two are WhatsApp and Messenger, while four and five are the Facebook app and Instagram."

Facebook owns 4/5 of the most downloaded apps - just let that sink in for a minute. This space needs competition pretty badly.
I will shed no tears if Assange has 'an accident' in prision,
Keep up with updates from the vendors. Patch monthly, audit passwords and access. Dont use the same passwords etc.
I'd buy a Garmin if they provided a FitBit importer.
True, but I think the parent's absolutism is closer to reality than your absolutism. I.e. it's essentially a pointless semantic argument - "didn't really want to" doesn't have enough context to decide in either direction.
Stadia exists because Google is a perpetual spaghetti throwing machine.

Mainframe-style gaming is possible and they have the resources to try it so... here we are. If it doesn't take off, Google will have no problem killing the program in 3 or 4 years.

That said, I really don't see the problem with this strategy. It surely makes much more sense than having an ever growing stable of also-ran offerings. The upshot of course is that every now and then one of these "side projects" takes off into an enormously successful business unit (e.g. Android, Maps, GSuite). All of those programs could have just as easily died on the vine like Google Plus or Wave.
This is how a lot of government contracting works, too. The prime contractor is always some [I'll gently call it] Incentivized-Demographic-Owned company whose only job is to subcontract all their contracts out to a bigger company who actually does the work. The "IDO" company (often one person) does nothing but takes a small cut and passes the rest of the profits to the company doing the work.
First to file in the US still has a 1 year grace period. It's not as robust as under first to invent, but it still exists.
Why exactly should we trust you?
Whistleblowers do not deserve to be in prison. Exposing war crimes is good.
A lot of people liked Assange back when he had only yet published information about corrupt politicians in the Third World. Some people abandoned Assange when he published information about US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some people abandoned him when he published information about the back-room dealing of US diplomacy. Some people abandoned him when he published embarrassing information about a Democratic Presidential candidate.

As for destabilizing the globe: some would say the people Assange has exposed are the ones destabilizing the world.
> Mr. Assange’s health has been seriously affected by the extremely hostile and arbitrary environment he has been exposed to for many years

Let me correct that: Mr Assange’s health has been seriously affected by the environment that he exposed himself to

(Edit: I’m talking about the embassy episode here, not his more recent incarceration)
He is currently held in solitary confinement, with 1 hour outside his cell per day. That is torture.
Ask HN: Can You Log into HN with Firefox on Android?
This morning, I've been unable to log into HN from my Android on Firefox. Anyone else experiencing this? I click 'login' at the top of the page, paste in my username and password, click the login button, the page re-loads to the front page of HN and I continue to be logged out. This might be the first time attempting to log in since I installed the latest Android update. Not sure if that is related.

Firefox 68.2.1, Pixel 2, Android 10
1) Surprising to the mainstream view even as recently as 2007, coal use globally has actually decreased in recent years, and mostly not due to any environmental regulation, but simply cost.
2) ...but surely, this cannot continue, and further decrease in coal will require environmental regulation.

Uh, someone is not learning from what just happened. Renewables are on a decades long, Moore's Law-like exponential decline in cost per kilowatt-hour. Fracking has caused natural gas to decline in cost dramatically, and since the drop in oil prices has shown an ability to continually improve its cost structure; not so long ago it was thought that you needed $100/barrel oil for fracking to continue.

There is no good reason to expect these trends to stop, especially the one for wind and solar, which have been going on for decades. We have, globally, passed Peak Coal, a few years back.
In England, you get (essentially automatic) early release at the half way point. He's now held on remand for the extradition proceedings: didn't ask for bail, and essentially no chance of him being granted it given what happened last time he was bailed...
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> "Now go on and export more with that. Those export sales won't affect your tax."

Not in the UK, but of course they will be taxable in the country you're exporting to. Assuming that country uses similar tax rules.
The report / article seem to be about his time before that.
A better question is how many people do you think trust Google and is that number growing?

Google feels like a spouse who cheated on you. You don’t trust them but you haven’t found a better option yet. I can’t imagine that helps them competitively in the long run.
You watch those DIY guides be region blocked to "everywhere but the USA" because the fines for even publishing the design of an unapproved medical device are massive.
What is it going to do with 64GB of ram? Load the whole OS in memory?
Yep, the fix it to buy a separate Chromecast.

IDK why the built-in one is incompatible; I've literally never seen this before.

EDIT: Looks like if I buy a Mac, I could use Airplay with Smartcast. Or way until next month when they supposedly have support coming.

https://support.vizio.com/s/article/Disney-App-EXT
It’s easy enough to add a separate user as a “child” where you have to approve any purchases to keep them from charging anything.
This is crucial tech to understand docker-style containers...

I used this to build custom iso images based on an existing iso file. The old method mounted the ISO image, rsync'd the entire contents, copied and updated some files, and then created a new image. This took quite a while and (temporarily) wasted a lot of disk space, and was initially sped up by copying the temp ISO to RAM disk, which also presented some challenges, and wasn't as fast as the eventual solution, using aufs on top of the ISO mount to patch the image. Worked like a charm and sped up the ISO building considerably :)
> prosecution in a free country

The free country responsible for the Guantanamo secret prison? We are talking about the same one?
Did you make it to the end of my post?

> You can still think Assange is right (or at least important), but he's a deeply flawed person and it's not all propaganda.

Anyway, I agree with you that the release of the "collateral murder" video was a good thing. But I strongly disagree with the idea that I "shouldn't have an opinion about certain things that are beyond my purview" or whatever you're saying.
What might have worked for them, develop a new game engine from the ground up, designed for their unique environment.

Games do non-trivial amount of processing with relaxed latency requirements: physics, cloth, many particle systems, fluid dynamics, some other VFX like weather / time of day, many parts of gameplay logic. Even some parts of rendering pipeline don’t require low latency, e.g. camera frustum culling doesn’t. Many of these things even run on CPUs as opposed to GPUs, and cloud providers have a lot of idle CPU and RAM resources.

Such a hybrid engine might be OK offloading half of the code to the cloud, while still using local GPU for rendering and dynamic lighting, using assets streamed from server and cached locally. This still requires a reasonably fast local machine, but hopefully less so compared to current game engines.

Very expensive to develop and run, though. Also it may consume even more download bandwidth compared to the streaming video they have now.
works for me for about 2 mins... then it comes back
The sexual freedom of the Romans of the Roman Empire did not exist in the Romans that BUILT that Roman empire. They were, although the same blood, different peoples. Just as the founders of our nations and we today are different peoples. The same pretty much with every Empire that has come and gone including the Greeks.
> that “white men” from Gen X and before don’t get burned out.

"Midlife" crisis could easily fall under burning out and that's a term that was around since my "millennial" self was a kid and beyond probably.
If Julian makes it to the US he'll be executed just like Epstein.
is this evidence of conspiracy to get Sanders elected?
"are not extremely stressful."

That's not torture.
interesting. it seems like a two party system is as effective for an autocracy as a one party one but with less brutality