skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The noise has gotten bad enough that I'm considering quitting my job and running away to a small town.

so, uh, my own solution? requires money, but is probably cheaper than giving up the big city wages (depending on your situation and remote-work opportunities.)

1. giant yellow passive hearing protectors at work with soft music.

Personally, I still kinda suspect that active noise canceling is just placebo. (I'm joking a little here, but passive noise dampening is a thousand times better than active, if you ask me.) Give me passive muffs. You still need some soft music, or your ears will adjust, but getting hearing protection earmuffs with bluetooth means the music can be soft. The other advantage is that nothing says "Don't bother me, I'm working" like giant yellow industrial earmuffs. (I like the '3m worktunes connect' - not exactly audiophile grade, but even with really soft music, it makes the office silent )

MMm. you say you find headphones 'heavy and constricting' - perhaps I should take back my advice. the passive earmuffs are both heavy and constricting. I find it kind of comforting? but if pressure is a problem, you probably won't like them.

2. at home: my own room with a solid door with weather stripping and walls with offset studs and triple pane windows. (weather stripping is super cheap and helps a lot with interior noise. A solid door is rather more expensive, and probably helps more, but as for relief per dollar, weather stripping is hard to beat)

Key here, I think, is that construction is more important than location.

3. I show up and leave work late. I get mornings (well, afternoons) for talking with people, and lots of evening time mostly by myself for actual work.

#2. is obviously pricey, but without it, I'd go insane. Personally, I find newer, well-built apartments to have less noise than older single-pane suburban housing. (but then, I think I have a lower tolerance for traffic noise than most; the neighbor warming up his junker in the morning always super bothered me when I was living in an older SFH. some people are okay with that.)

I've talked about building a sleeping box with noise dampening, but... eh, just paying the money for an apartment with proper noise dampening is doable to me.
Note: they were talking about the size rather than the layout. I think the OP wants full-size cursor keys in an inverted T layout, which does sound like the best of both worlds to me.
I agree. I once put down an audiobook (Xenocide or Children of the mind, don't remember which one) because I couldn't stand one of the voice actors. She did a Japanese accent so overdone, it was so bad that I just skipped all those sections of the story.

Having the choice between a monotone narration and the voice actors in this case would be a much welcome improvement.
"I still prefer the old school kind"

Of course you do, because it's an emotional experience. Just like how those tomatoes you ate at nanna's summer cottage in Italy tasted incredible, yet if you'd eat those exact same tomatoes in your drabby work canteen on a rainy tuesday morning, they'd be nothing special. My children don't particularly like my old legos, yet I somehow see them as "obviously" superior over the ones they have themselves. I'm sure they'll feel the same about those same sets 25 years from now when their children play with whatever is new then.
That's interesting, thanks for (re)sharing
Good news! The battery was likely recalled for your laptop. Check the Apple site. If it's in the serial number range, you get a free new battery.
For your amusement, Go:

fmt.Print(0.3 == 0.1 + 0.2)
// => true

https://repl.it/repls/SubtleQuarrelsomeMaintenance
Basics we've had for generations--like tractors, and the haber process--have made food production so easy that the biggest problem in agriculture isn't fragile crops, but how to keep the farmers from bankrupting themselves through overproduction.

We have "solved" this problem through things like protectionism, quotas, subsidies, and dumping any remaining surplus on the developing world--thus destroying their own local farm economies.

The Guardian article he links to is an obvious astroturf. Long before GMOs, Americans had no problem feeding themselves. To this day, the Amish manage to do the same, and most do so without GMOs, tractors, pesticides, etc, etc. To pin malnutrition in the developing world on GMO restrictions is bogus, and the title is the sleaziest thing I have ever seen on this site.

edit: And whatever you think of Taleb, the man is a friggin' hero for standing up to Monsanto.
Or simpler if done anyways: make estimates on how long things should take and if estimates are not met by a large margin discuss why.

The first step would be for him to see that this is not ideal.
Whatever the size of the company, noisy environment is usually the consequence of the choice of office space, as exemplified here.

An employee cannot change this, only suggest.
make.py looks great.

I also wrote a make replacement in python (2.7) [1]. I'm proud of it but it doesn't do parallel builds and there are so many other build tools that are better tested. But I'll put it here in case it gives anyone any ideas.

[1] https://github.com/robochat/buildbit
You sir, are an ace. I wish you all the best.
Does any employer offer private offices during the day to rank-and-file employees? I'm assuming that's an unsolveable problem, but hopefully a salary would make it easier to rent an apartment.
Yeah totally, but that's the least worst system I can think of though.

We could exclude any freelancer that abuses this structure to just get the 'easy third' and any clients that repeatedly reject whatever freelancers do even when it corresponds to their requirements.

I'm always looking for a more fair and less hackable model though.
Are the slides mentioned in the article ( https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/raw/source/2019-Confe... ) dead for others too?
> Switzerland (like EU countries) depends a 100 % on the US for defense, in the sense it would basically turn into Russia / China overnight if the US wasn't a military power protecting them.

Neither Switzerland nor the EU depend "100%" on the US for defense, far from it. Some EU countries are among the biggest military spenders in the world. It's also difficult to see how Switzerland would "turn into Russia / China overnight" given that it's completely surrounded by the EU. How do you imagine that the Russians or Chinese will come to dominate Switzerland? Note that Switzerland managed to maintain its independence in WWII even though it was completely surrounded by the Axis.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21552425
Based on what you're saying, it's immoral to send the shooter to prison or punish him in any way since he had no control over his actions and therefore was not guilty of assault or murder. Bet that theory goes right out the window when it's someone you know lying dead in a pool of blood. Does this apply to all actions? In that case mortality simply doesn't exist and there cannot be good or bad things. How far do you take this delusion is what I'm curious about?
Lua. Its main selling points are that it's small, simple to embed and easy to learn. You also won't find many interpreted languages that can even come close to match its speed.

Also multiple returns. I find it hard to believe that nobody else thought of that, but it's just not something any other language has.
Indeed. There are as many exceptions to the OPs point as there are examples.

In fact I will flit between those two extremes in any given day based purely on the work I'm doing. eg if I'm doing management administration then I tend to be more chatty because it's lots of small jobs that often require coordinating other people vs when I'm solving engineering problems and I just want a quiet controlled environment.
Yeah, sadly skillsmatter have gone bust so all their content has disappeared. Its a huge shame as there was so much good stuff there. I really hope it will resurface soon..
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The audible audiobook version of Anathem is extremely good in my opinion. Probably one of my favorite readings... I’m surprised that speech synthesis does a reasonable job given the language involved.
What device did you use to capture all the data including radiation?
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DRM doesn't seem to stop warez. Things that can be decoded, can be shared.

All they gain with DRM is to put off potential customers. For many of us, the best way would be a downloadable file format, that I can copy or watch whatever player or device I want to use.
Storz remains a standard in laparoscopic surgical equipment.
There's a lot of spam already in this regard, e.g. on youtube where there's bots posting machine spoken textbooks or wiki pages.
>in the sense it would basically turn into Russia / China overnight if the US wasn't a military power protecting them

Russia doesn't have any power beyond posturing to overly sensitive Eastern Europeans and China can't project much beyond their loans (and that's if they're willing to spend the little currency reserves they have).

There's quite a bit of resistance to NATO in parts of Europe these days precisely because the US is both unneeded and overbearing.
These users would never notice if their filenames are encoded using one type of space or the other inside the filesystem. That's a win-win!
Well, it's a good thing they disallowed linux, if they didn't do that then all their content would get shared using torrents.
Our current machines are more powerful than past workstations yet more portable.

I get what you are pointing at, but it's a tradeoff only regarding what you prioritise. We still can improve on both fronts with different approaches.
Low to mediocre? There's more than enough existing audio files for specific voice actors to give it the Deepfakes treatment and synthesize the voices accurately. Of course, that's just voice synthesization, for stories they would have to be able to do different voices for different characters and be able to understand context and emotional moods and the like.
In case the rivals don’t base their position on how it looks, the score may play against itself.
It's a part of a lot of European treaties and it's aligned with the rest of Western Europe on most things.
The UNIX on NeXT and derived OS is just there mostly for compatibility purposes, and not much else.

http://www.nextop.de/NeXTstep_3.3_Developer_Documentation/

https://www.amazon.com/Mac-OS-Internals-Approach-paperback/d...

https://www.amazon.com/Mac-OS-iOS-Internals-Apples/dp/111805...
I love how Apple claim to care so much about the environment and then goes on to create basically the most unfixable pieces of hardware possible.

Great job, really awesome for the environment Apple.
People have been pooping for millions of years without filling our oceans with poop. We have been creating new chemicals for a hundred years and have created a huge waste problem. The last time pooping had a big impact on the global ecosystem was during the Great Oxygenation Event, afaik.
Juncker made for a convenient political foil in many ways, but ultimately EU policy is made by national leaders in the European Council. The shady practices of Luxembourg and Cyprus were previously of no interest to the national leaders who had bigger fish to fry.

This has changed though, as certain European parties' voters have become irate about international tax evasion. For center-left PMs, stomping down on countries like Cyprus isn't going to lose them any votes and increasingly looks like a political win.

For Britain, the conundrum is that there's so much British money in the "nearshore" tax havens of Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Whereas Luxembourg mostly cut sweetheart deals for corporations and Cyprus mostly dealt with non-EU foreigners who don't get to vote anyway, cleaning up the British tax havens would threaten the hidden wealth of Conservative voters directly.
Most engineers have an easier time getting their company to pay for a 1000$ tool, than donate 1000$ to an open-source project, that's the long and short of it.
Can you provide a link to the talk? I tried searching on mobile and failed. Will try again later today and post it here if I manage to find it.
I guess you didn't read the part that says it generates a simple unrolled Makefile.

That's way more debuggable than the crap that ie configure generates.
How long you have been using the keyboard ? Mine got screwed after couple of months of usage (I took really good care of it as I had read about the initial backlash)
I really wish people would be more precise in their language. Often, it is completely unclear to me what people mean. I'm too autistic to properly read "beween the lines".
File names with spaces is a sign of lousy developers and IT technicians. If you have file names with spaces you have already lost.
There is Gephi, which is very capable, though I've also found it frustrating to work with, particularly for graph editing. Interface glitches, unresponsive elements etc. quickly get in the way.

Development seems to have stalled somewhat, so I'm not optimistic that this has improved.
So far that sufficiently expressive language, usable by mainstream developers is yet to be invented, and no Rust isn't yet it, too many hurdles to overcome in common programming patterns.
Wouldn't #dualism be more appropriate with that explanation?

Because it would ascribe fundamental different properties to master and slave as beings that just might have been different opportunities at one point? I would think so, because the same "whole" seems arbitrary.
Consider this holocaust survivor.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/16/holocaust-surviv...

His family is murdered by Nazis but he escapes to the UK. He sets up offshore funds in the event something like the holocaust happens again, but the tax authorities go after him.

This is one of many reasons for people to set up offshore accounts that have nothing to do with illegal activities.

How many people like this has this person hurt?

Where does this belief in the infallibility of the tax man come from?
Pleased to see the "no borders" argument being made, but the more important one is to the south of California.
If I were to produce a survey for users here asking if they are empathetic I would expect everyone to answer in the positive.

It's like those surveys of university students asking how many times a week they have sex (hint, it's much more than reality as no insecure student wants to admit they are not getting any)

People want to be thought as good, kind and considerate. Whether they actually are or of it only applies to their in group are other questions.

I'd wager to say that it's a selective empathy, compassion or love at its core that drives partianship. That your opposite group are full of people thinking and feeling they are good and empathetic is itself a shaking thought for most people.

For example, here is something that most of the people who voted yes to in my survey would shudder at. The idea that Trump voters are acting how they do from the sense of love and positive feeling for their families and communities is very worrying for self identified empathetic people. Or how about that China is acting the way they do from a sense of love and empathy to their huge country and people and they seek to reduce suffering overall. It sounds insane doesn't it?
just to understand - do you use this to avoid out of rhythm periods when excercising (by monitoring your heart rate), and then to have some evidence of less and less AF over time, thanks to the excercise?
Bwahahahahahaha! Good one!
+ they will be charging absurd amount for small fixes that were possible to do on own.

example RAM is soldered to the logic board!
Only for tools that are stupid for not being able to handle any kind of filename.
Tax assets not transactions.

Land ownership is registered for good public purposes which does not unreasonably destroy privacy concerns - it's usually obvious who (person or business) controls the land anyway (who should a tenant pay the rent to? who gets to decide if you can be a tenant?) and it gives people a great deal of confidence that they know that whoever is recorded in the government land registry as having a right to sell the property actually has that right. The common law approach of having to hold a series of documents that identify a continuous line of owners going back to some unconfirmable initial grant by a long dead king is not in the interest of the purchaser of the land.

Moreover, the market distortions taxing land (as the primary source of government income) will have are generally positive. A person can no longer buy a house in the hope that the land it sits on will double in value. They can only buy a house in the hope that they are capable of making a profit out of it; the land purchase merely gives them the right to improve it.

The same advantages may be visible for taxation of share holdings: instead of simply trying to profit from someone else's actions, you would buy shares because you think the dividends will exceed other income sources for the same purchase. It may be legitimate to have anonymous share holdings which require active detective work, so it's possible this would be an unreasonable invasion of privacy.
In Scandinavia, 30%+ tax rates are pretty much where people start, and it doesn't take too high an income to be right up at 35%. Yet those countries don't seem to be collapsing from tax evasion, and surely there must be some Scandinavian readers here.
I’m on 100Mbit Chorus fibre, with the option to go to 1Gbit.
Joule for Joule radioactivity seems like the only reasonable sense. Who cares if it's one drop of death or a pool full of lightly toxic waste? You could easily just dilute the drop to arrive at a similar but less toxic pool (if you wanted to, for some reason).
If they are against the government defining marriage, then why do they want to define marriage as being between a man and a woman? For example, the California proposition 8 ballot measure read: "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." [1]

So please explain how this is not defining marriage and how it is supportive of gay marriage rather than in opposition to it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_...
You're aware that depending on where you are in the world you can sample a vast range of development levels, so where exactly do you wish to move to have this well functioning society where people are taxed on trust alone?
> It's with open source but not free software

What do you mean?
I think, you can ask to take no pay cut: it's a win for the company too, if you move the company will have you an could hire another employee on the free place. I moved into the middle of nowhere without a pay cut.
To play devil's advocate, perhaps we'd get more bang for our buck in this case.

This particular group of people are very homogenous; same place physically, similar skills, similar experience. I would hazard that these similarities would make a program to assist them cheaper than helping the same number of other people who are much less homogenous. Cheaper and more effective to help them now than dropping them into the general purpose help mechanisms.
> It would be wonderful for say 10 c files compiling one way, and the 11th having a different option.

You can do this by combining implicit and explicit rules:

target: $(OBJ)

# default rule
%.o: %.c
cc -o $@ $^

# special case
special.o: special.c
specialc -o $@ $^
Same here. I found out that music of any kind not only doesn't do the trick for me, but is counterproductive - it distracts me from trying to focus on the task at hand.
Have we entirely eliminated tax evasion today? Money laundering continues. Our current approach of criminalising everyone and their dog isn't efficient.
The first time I ever heard the Numa Numa song was when I was 10 and had the flu. I was puking in the hallway and had intense nausea for hours. My classmates kept playing the song because it was the new viral thing.

It took me over 10 years before I could listen to the song without feeling sick. It's fine now though.
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Never above 25C... so Iceland, Greenland and Svalbard? Actually not even those, they are pretty humid above 0 celzius
You think there's no difference between public and private land?
Wireless, fair enough. But are you really ignorant enough to think it's not productive to

1. Buy a stick of RAM / new or bigger SSD from your provider of choice online
2. Open the delivery package and install it in your computer in 3 minutes

And get another three years out of your device? Or how about, when your Macbook breaks and you need to take it to a genius bar only to have them tell you that you need to order either a whole new logic board or buy a new computer. Both will require days of waiting.

It's because of people like you that Apple is increasingly producing and pushing worsening quality hardware and service.

EDIT: I should also mention, the XPS 15 is comparable in every aspect of the hardware. And the very thing you're complaining about "I don't want to change my hardware I just want to use it" is completely optional.
So basically everyone should move to pytorch and ONNX?
While it's certainly possible to introduce huge memory safety issues in C++, those usually stem from using C++ as C, i.e. directly allocating and freeing memory, or using plain integers as index variables, or messing with raw pointers etc. C++ contains the tools to minimize (but not entirely eliminate) those potentially difficult to make correct operations. The problem is the defaults are not those safe alternatives, and, especially in large teams, some one some how will use C++ as C eventually.

C++ is used in a lot of closed systems (i.e. closed as in 'no chance to communicate with outside code), as in embedded software, weapon systems, etc, so the potential of exploitation of bugs from the outside is very small.

Where does this leave Rust? well, if the extra safety is justified by the cost of the change, then Rust is the right choice there. But the cost of change can be really huge, because it's not only the retraining of the developers, but also the tools, the infrastructure, the ecosystem etc. And these can be potentially very expensive to change.

Also, C++ is not used alone in systems where increased safety is required. There are lots of tools that can be applied to C++ code to statically discover potential bugs. The combination of idiomatic C++ and of those tools can be cheaper than migrating to Rust and the result could be of the same quality, i.e. bug-free code.

In conclusion, using Rust shall be judged, as always, in economic terms: between C++/safety analysis tools and Rust, which one is the cheaper in the short term and long term? that's the question to answer.
I've lived a lot of my life in ex-Spanish territories which are now part of the US.

This includes visiting St. Augustine, FL as a kid (founded 1565), and living in Santa Fe[1], NM (founded 1610), which is an hour or so drive south of Taos Pueblo where you there are multi-story buildings around 600 years old.

I think these should be part of a US-centric perspective of US history, but I recognize that most people -- including myself -- learn an English/British flavored perspective of that history.

I also know what you mean. I grew up in Miami, and as a kid there were still people alive born before the city was founded.

[1] Full name: La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís
The best part is the whole Tensorflow-Swift, with the halfbacked support for anything that isn't an Apple device.

Meanwhile Julia works just fine on Windows.
I'm interested in the downvotes - is it disagreement from people on the American left that the Democrats are, by my Kiwi political compass, centre-right? Or disagreement from people on the American right that the Democrats aren't lefties?
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