skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably not a particularly PC comment, but occasionally I am jealous of people who need hearing aids to hear that they can turn off if they need quiet
I’ve never understood how some people believe that the problem of too much noise could be solved by adding more noise.

There’s too much light in my eyes, and dark glasses are uncomfortable. Well, have you tried shining another light at your face? Maybe a different color of light would help.
Seconded. I actually use the EAR Classic Plus, and they’re excellent.

I work in a coworking space.
They’re not quite comfortable enough to wear continuously all day. If you take periodic breaks, and remove them when you go to the bathroom, get coffee, take a walk, that’s enough make it so you can keep them in while working at your desk.

Breaks are good so I don’t really count this as a negative.

They even perform well in super noisy coffee shops.
So Samsung has a monopoly on Galaxy phones?
parent is talking about publicity though. The case is so high profile and mysterious it's worthy of at least one hollywood drama.
This is a common misconception, but it is unfortunately not accurate.

The Device Account Number is different for every device, but it is the same for all vendors, unless reset by the issuer.
Already done. It really feels like new dark times are upon us, this time not because of a lack of writings, but because of automated garbage arriving quickly. Previously one had to hire some writers to write crappy ad-driven garbage articles, soon you can do a 1-person operation for that.
maybe, maybe not?

I think health care costs can easily become exponential, no matter what society you live in.
You have to pick your battles.

I've found I can politely request that people not have meetings standing three feet from me, and I can generally get people to not yell across the entire room.

But every now and then this womans let off her ear-shattering "AHHH HUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUH" laugh and not once has my muse inspired me with words that would convey a gentle, face-saving admonishment.

It's ultimately because she's laughing. Her laugh sounds like someone torturing a seal with a jackhammer, but my company policy is that it's a fun place to work. And that means people get loud, and if I don't like it, I can look for work elsewhere.
> This loophole was unintentional,

Yet it's a known. And it remains in place.

Let's stop being so naive.
This is the study Apple did with Stanford. It's based on the photoplethysmograph (PPG) sensor from the pre-Series 4 Apple Watches. Presumably the new Apple heart study announced will also use the ECG in the Series 4 and later [1].

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/apple-launches-three-...
Exactly. In our village, it was a latrine. We were lucky enough to have ceramic ones.

When I first encountered this as a 4 year old, I was so disgusted with the idea of squatting over a latrine that my parents had to have a Western toilet installed in our house in the village. When I returned at 10 years old, I was more amenable to the idea.

Every time you had to go, you had to fill a bucket of water from the well, and carry it with you to the outhouse. Then you’d squat over the latrine, do your deed, and then use a cup (a lota) to pour water over your backside, using the other hand to help rinse. Heaven forbid you had to do all of this at night.

When I got back to Canada, it was the toilet that I missed the most. Now, I appreciate the sheer convenience and modern marvel that is modern plumbing and sewage.
Live Chat Using Slack
We developed a product with which you can provide Live chat using Slack or Mattermost (Open source alternative to Slack).

You can also automate your Live chat using Chatbots that can be designed using simple Google Spreadsheets. See the demo here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hybrid-chat

The product is called Hybrid.Chat and we would love your feedback
Makefiles are great entry points for ci/cd pipelines. It's easy to pass arbitrary environment variables at runtime, targets to build, define basic dependencies, and have clear steps to execute that can include some minimal inline shell. And since it's pretty dependency-less, I can run the same make commands locally to test the pipeline as I'd use in a remote CI system.

I often use them as a wrapper for Terraform weirdness, where you may want to call an ADFS-enabled AWS login tool or not, depending on if `aws sts get-caller-identity` returns. Or assume a role before running all targets. Or extract values from a terraform.tfvars.json, to pass to the above two steps. Or bootstrap a remote backend if it doesn't exist. Or remove stale module symlinks. Or properly run init, get, and validate before running a plan or apply. Or document weird -target usage. The end result of just running make prep and make apply with no further knowledge required is exactly the experience I wanted out of Terraform initially.
I've been going through a now-decade-long rethink on this topic. It's pretty clear that there are 1) fields and 2) levels of technology.

A decent encyclopaedia or technical school course catalogue will lay out most of the basics (library classification systems are another good option), and models vary. I've been devising my own based on mechanisms rather than application areas. The MIT course catalogue itself is a fascinating artefact.

The levels of technology also matter: there's cutting-edge, high, middle, low, and primitive. Examples such as "Low Tech Magazine" and the "Primitive Technology" YouTube channel are excellent opportunities for enlightenment (and also surprisingly and reassuringly popular).

The domain most at HN are familiar with is the higher end of information technology, itself a very narrow subset, though one which touches on many others through its interactions with communications, media, control, monitoring, surveillance, and manipulation.
I came across a recent blog post[1], that mentioned some text-to-diagram tools, out of which I liked Gleek.io and nomnoml in particular.

[1] https://avdi.codes/tools-for-turning-descriptions-into-diagr...
“Some internet person did it wrong once [in my view]” isn’t really an indictment of the whole thing
The science on the marshmallow test converged on your guess years ago

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmall...
I mostly have in mind the KYC strip-tease one must go through nowadays do open an account or purchase anything over $1000. There's no privacy these days.
It might just move the problem around and/or give it a bigger attack surface (not only the device, but the cloud can be attacked)
I moved from the US and every city I went to was really inclusive, but I can be biased because I socialized with churchgoers (where inclusion of outsiders is their responsibility). This is based on a fairly large sample size: Houston, Austin, Menlo Park, New York, and LA for ~10 year period. This subset is completely different in Vancouver though: the cliqueness, especially in Chinese speaking communities, is prevalent- I just gave up after 2 years and ~5-10 churches. Btw, I am Asian and know fluent Chinese...
I know many hackers who can communicate just fine without redirecting conversation to a debate over the meaning of words. Semantics are trivial to clarify. Pedantry honestly has very little to do with building things except when resolving miscommunication.

Besides, words have multiple meanings, and there are many floating signifiers in the world. Correcting diction without an acknowledgment of intent might as well be pissing into the wind.

On a personal level, aimless pedantry is a terrible attribute in people you work with, and these people can be toxic to productivity.
This is totally nonresponsive.
Turn the mine into pumped hydro. A lot of mines will fill with water once you stop pumping it out.

The cooling pond would become the upper reservoir but may need to be enlarged for more potential as a battery.

That keeps jobs in the area.

EDIT: In the case of the Navaho the mine isn't next door to the plant but it does have water. Maybe a thermal plant would make sense with natural gas backup/overnight reheat and repurpose the current plants steam turbines.
Not rich, not poor.

You're generalizing and stereotyping. If what you say is true then it seems your law makers are failing to implement laws that curtail CO2 emissions by rich people?

People can do anything legal with their money, if it shouldn't be allowed why is it legal? It seems you're taking a morao high ground against the rich, which is fine so long as you realize rich people are not above the law and even if they control civilian governments they don't control the military (at least not at non-admin levels) so democratic societies still have a lot of power. You also have to consider how just india and china generate emissions that eclipse the US but most billionaires are in the US. So it might feel nice to blame the rich and please don't let me get in the way but I don't see how fixing wealth inequality even makes a small dent on climate change. Mind you, publicly traded corps benefit the rich but their policy making is entirely designed to benefit shareholders as a whole.

I don't care who is to blame,show me solutions not a person to blame.
LGPL - not GPL.
+1 to this and some other comments below. Our combination call/field technicians are actually quite experienced for help desk (min. 4-5 years experience) but have been perpetually understaffed. We have to go through a staffing firm to hire people at low rate to fill those ranks and then people wonder why they don't do well.

Upper level IT management doesn't communicate with the team when large changes are made, and pretty much treat them disrespectfully, even though they have their fingers on the pulse of what's going wrong from the medical staff. There's also a lot of waste from poorly implemented/delayed projects (there are more PMs than IT staff to implement the projects). Definitely a frustrating and bureaucratic area to be in.
It's definitely better/worse in some areas. Condesa is probably your best option.
Yes, along with 100 million other Americans who bank with credit unions.
This is Vyatta + DPDK(for performance). Right?

I'm missing any use case not covered by vyatta?
Is this the return of OpenCL?
Cognitive dissonance at its best...
Java?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once,_run_anywhere
Unlike a target, .PHONY can be populated incrementally. For example, this:

.PHONY: serve live-reload

serve: init deps compile db-setup db-migrate
rails server

live-reload: yarn
./bin/webpack-dev-server --host 127.0.0.1

can become this, making things a tiny bit easier to maintain when there are many targets:

.PHONY: serve
serve: init deps compile db-setup db-migrate
rails server

.PHONY: live-reload
live-reload: yarn
./bin/webpack-dev-server --host 127.0.0.1

Recently I joined an environment that uses Makefiles as the facade in front of pretty much everything, from git submodule update shortcuts to building code and running local development servers.

Surprising myself, I’ve quickly grown to appreciate working Makefiles. That said, since the syntax somewhat encourages terseness, when I need to fix a non-trivial target it tends to look like black magic—nothing reading a few man pages can’t fix, but it takes extra time.

It’s not my first choice overall, I prefer to leave out the extra layer and document direct command-line calls in a README. If a commonly used tool changes its call in a new version, with README it’s a documentation issue, but with Makefile it’s broken software.
Spaces in filenames break most of make's builtin functions such as $(sort), and break the $?, $^ and $+ automatic variables. But they're OK in target names as long as you escape the spaces with backslashes. In some cases you can also use them in source file names -- you have to hard code the names in the build rules since $^ won't work (but for targets built from a single source file, $< still does work).

This applies to GNU make; not sure about AT&T make.
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>There are two mutually exclusive groups of people

gonna have to stop you right there mate
Sigh, all those sources are talking about API access, not packaging up a tarball of their user database and shipping it off. Some of those links are just speculation about early ideas of charging for API access.

In either case, the model for having API access was that the end user would get a nice clear permissions dialog telling them what info they were giving to the third party and having them click "I Agree" before any data was transferred.

Even better, in the case of the device partnerships, you had to login with your FB username and password!

Those articles are the equivalent of saying Apple shares data with Google because iMail can open your Gmail account
Loss aversion refers to a preference for "not getting something you don't have" over "losing something you do have", even when the thing you don't gain is worth more.

It's nearly wholly irrational.
My doctor friends confirm. They would rather spend their time on patient care but have to make a lot more time for the paperwork.
excellent. this is a needed step.

the first block programming tool i used is etoys.

it has an interesting feature, where each piece of blocks has a direct equivalent in smalltalk, so you can compare the block version with the code version.

the transition is therefore much smoother as you can reuse your existing block code.

in that vein it would be nice if blocklike had an import function to load scratch projects.

at least for simpler projects this should be possible, and it would further enhance the transition.
I absolutely agree.

Back in 2016 I wrote a blog post about accounting being still a strangely manual process: https://bjoernkw.com/2016/04/03/accounting-in-2016/

Ultimately, I came to the conclusion that in order to solve these problems I would have to start my own bank.

Unfortunately, not much has changed since then. At least I now use this useful tool for converting CSV exports of my account statements to MT940 files: https://github.com/msc01/soacsv2mt940

It’s still a semi-automatic and somewhat error-prone process, though.
I've definitely come across this and learned a bit about it. These links should be at least somewhat helpful for anyone in this thread who's unaware theirs a name. It's really distressing and I've come to realize that my dad and brother feel the same. In my case, I also have ADHD—or at least have been prescribed medication for it at 27—so being taken out of any zone I'd managed to get myself in is really unfortunate. Good luck with your solution! I've found headphones helpful, but at some point constant white noise gets tiresome and music loses its appeal.
> Nor could it, with the millions of rounds of taxes an average paper dollars will see.

Somebody said a computer can't do something, somebody prove them wrong!
DISCLAIMER: I'm not saying this to be a jerk. This is not uncommon.

There is a fair chance that your core annoyance is something else.

That is, if you somehow got a perfectly sounds proofed workroom of your own, you would after a while realize that you're still irritable, find it difficult to concentrate etc.

Often, we don't want to face our real problems and assign discomfort to some external thing we have no power over. "If only X was gone, I'd be happy". But when X disappears little changes.
this reminds me of a project with similar goals (of providing learner coders with a "level-up" from Scratch) https://github.com/stevekrouse/WoofJS
Google to offer checking accounts as it seeks financial data
AI also has a history of being stalled by believing its own hype (the AI winter of the 1990s). Too much money can kill AI as fast as too little.
What's the reason for believing one scientist's result over another's? Perhaps the author is wrong and his predecessor is right?

The OP is an opinion piece with a clickbait headline.
All colors are wrong. So that you can properly see a clog, the toilet must be clear glass.
In my org's environment, not very far with USB key. Email = very much yes.

We had one user who called after filling in every email address she had into a very plausible looking O365 login page. She admitted she initially distrusted the email/link that led her to this page and had replied saying so. The hackers on the other end told her to go ahead and do so. I mean, who she to question when it's coming directly from the hospital's lawyer?
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Thanks! I really appreciate the thoughts and the fact that you tried it out! :)

I have validated it with a handful of contractors, but I feel like my reach is limited. I also feel limited by my ability to sell / distribute. I'm a product guy/engineer, so I'm comfortable there, but I have much less experience selling.

I'm still not sure about the tagline, I don't feel like I have enough data points one way or the other.

It's been a really fun project to work on, and brings me back to when I would work constructions in the summers during university.

Again – thanks for trying it out and sharing your thoughts!
Ask HN: How to best design our next office?
We fell into the pitfall of having an open office and the moment we went beyond 5 people, it has been nothing but catastrophic to productivity. Even worst our meeting area is open too and terrible for having client meetings.

There are some very obvious benefits too in terms of rapidity of feedback and collaboration between employees.

As we are moving to a new office, what are some best practices to design it so we can get the max benefits?
I think the explanation you have above ("...for people who haven’t met on a platform and need a framework to engage in a standard deal") does not come across in your website copy. My impression from your website was that it was just an alternative to Upwork, etc.

Perhaps consider making it more clear what it is you do - something like "Contract and escrow service for freelancers" or something along that line, rather than the current "A fair, simple and free alternative...".

Also, the flow diagram under "How it works" is helpful, but please don't repeat the animation. I was still busy reading the part under what happens when the client rejects when the diagram was cleared and the animation started again. Even better would be if you don't animate it at all as I think it goes too fast for non-native English readers such as myself.

Best of luck with the platform!
The shop doesn't care about the Doritos. The owner isn't going to eat them. The shops only care about getting paid by who takes the Doritos.
I will say I like how python uses whitespace syntactically. The whitespace is consistent, makes programs readable and much more compact.

make seems to be less consistent. I think it distinguishes between a space and a tab, which isn't clear without editor help.
The issue I'm thinking of was still an issue even with early HOP lenticular displays (IIRC philips had a 7-view one in the 90s), and I seem to recall reading research that specifically identified accommodation/parallax mismatch rather than anything else, which is why large viewing distances do not have this problem.
Was it that obvious?? ;) :)

How very true, having such a fine GS and observe it do +9s or +10s per day would be disappointing.

This is completely individual of course, but I'd really want such a watch to be regulated to be somewhere in between 0 and +4s, taking owners wearing habits into account...

A bit silly how a few seconds can make a difference in one's perception of such an object! Even knowing that the precision is there, still...

Luckily I can properly regulate my watches but not everybody can easily do so these days. In view of this, pushing the 9s65 spec to +10s when cased really seems a bit excessive...
Meh - it didn't work that well when I tried it. [1]

Params I used were {architecture: 'ResNet50', outputStride: 32, quantBytes: 2}, with segmentMultiPerson function.

The same images DeepLab handles perfectly. [2] If anyone sees a problem with the params/method I used let me know.

[1] https://superanimo.com/bodypix/

[2] Deeplab: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/research/de...
A few days ago, my adjacent coworker started cracking and eating eggs in whatever form they can be cracked and eaten as a solid. I was repulsed for obvious reasons, and angry because of the sound. It seems like a comedy
Ya, I think the key bit of spook that can be derived from the title is that they're using the CPUs to do this, maybe like they're baking it into Intel ME. That's what I first thought until I read the article. It's just intel saying, hey come install our spyware. However it's worth nothing that I bet this will come preinstalled on a ton of devices which is in fact spooky.
China's Grand Plan to Take over the World
Timeboxing. When you delegate something, provide a time box. People either lean expeditious (ie. make sure you include logging, tests, robust error handling, take your time with it) or perfectionistic (ie. I trust you to write great code, try to timebox it to under a day, send up a PR at the end of the day with your WIP, you don't need test coverage for this, etc.). It's one or the other. More or less bucket people and then coach them on it. Also, try to put them on projects that benefit from their approach.
If you read the article South Dakota is a great choice. It's a fantastic read on the history of how these states to harbor cash came to be. This part of the article sums it up in a very compelling manner:

"Here is an example from one academic paper on South Dakotan trusts: after 200 years, $1m placed in trust and growing tax-free at an annual rate of 6% will have become $136bn. After 300 years, it will have grown to $50.4tn. That is more than twice the current size of the US economy, and this trust will last for ever, assuming that society doesn’t collapse altogether under the weight of this ever-swelling leach."

So, yes - if you want to anonymously store your legally gained cash you have options stateside.
The more I code, the more I like messiness. By that I don't mean bad code. I mean code where all techniques in and out of books are used together.

For example, a mix of exception and error returns, direct access to class members combined with accessors, etc... I like to see best practice rules being broken when there is a good reason for that.

Rule of the thumb: good code is short code. If your "tidying up" makes the code longer, then it is probably better to leave it as it is. What you are going to do is most likely add useless layers of abstraction or try make it abide by some made-up rule that shouldn't apply here.

As for "efficient" code. Most efficient code I see is actually quite good and readable. The worst code I see usually gives no fucks to efficiency. At least premature optimizers show some love to their code.
And this boys and girls is why they don't let us run vuln scans on production during work hours (or unplanned). I've worked at at least two companies where a scan caused some important device to crash and have business impact because the scan packets were unusual. They will fire you if you mistakenly ran the scan against a prod asset.
This must vary from person to person.
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totally agree, after years of vscode/geany/eclipse/whatever I now pay full annual license for the jetbrains bundle, so that I can focus on coding better, much better.

I do keep my vim around though, for any command line related editing vim will be my first choice, otherwise it will be jetbrains GUI.

I really missed source-navigator which is outdated badly these days, sourcetrail seems the new alternative finally. source-insight was pretty good too but it has no linux version.

Obviously the server is under heavy load, the page is barely reachable and the download stuck at 74MB. Will test this later.
Thanks for the suggestion. I hadn't thought about a physical ambient noise generator. Typically I'll try and use Coffeetivity and music, but it gets tiresome.
One of the local businesses, right there in coastal California, is Koch Carbon. I like how the name is so honest and descriptive, despite not mentioning coal. You get carbon from the Koch brothers.