skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the comments I see the QC35 is not very durable pair of headphones. I would understand if the price tag would be under 100 euros, but the QC35's are quite expensive. And if they last only a couple of years, I wouldn't count that progress at all!

There are great headphone manufacturers, such as Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, Focal and Grado, who make excellent studio level headphones that can easily last for decades in use, delivering that beautiful sound and feeling comfortable in daily office use.

I think the biggest problem is having Bluetooth in your headphones, which then requires a battery that is not easily replaced, and requires software and technology that either has bugs or degrades in a faster manner. I'd suggest while sitting in front of your computer, to use a corded pair of quality headphones and keep using them for years to come. Less waste, less money spent, better sound.

I've had Beyerdynamic's dt-880 model since 2003. I could still use them in the office, but them being open I replaced them with the dt-1770 pro model to not annoy my colleagues that much. Brought the 880's home and now with the lockdowns I'm again using them daily while writing software. Just replace the ear pads every five years, clean the drivers with pressurized air and you're ready to go.
What makes you say it looks paused? There’s been a very steady stream of releases since the big 3.0 launch last spring. There’s certainly more than one active contributor, although the core team is just a few people.
Does someone has a plan to find T65-like flour in UK/London? Everything looks sold out now.
One of those cases when no one is wrong or right
Former chemist here. What are you doing in this life? Feel free to contact me - see email in profile.
(Don't Fear) the Reaper (2019)
This doesn't apply to kids in schools though. If kids are a big transmission vector then not shutting down schools will have a big effect.
There are a lot more RNA virus specifically targeting antivirals surprised that most of them are not yet tested.
Mast fire probe amid 5G coronavirus claims
I self host Seafile. It has a simple and markdown friendly editor in its mobile app.
In the 1918 flu pandemic, not wearing a mask was illegal
I've been using the Swopper (https://www.aeris.de/en/swopper/), a swivel stool which is similar to sitting on an exercise ball. The stool is built on top of a spring fitted shaft, which means you can _bounce_ up and down while sitting. Additionally the shaft is attached to the base with a free swinging joint, meaning that you can rock around 360 degrees.

The whole design rational is about keeping your legs active while you are sitting. In order to sit on the stool, you need to continually balance yourself using your legs and back. I've had a few friend sit down on it, completely unaware of this, and fall off immediately. It can be tiring but really I've gotten use to it and can sit for hours without problems.

The stool has helped a lot with my back pain and improving my posture. I have two versions, one with and without rollers. The one without rollers is nicer to use, as the rollers don't always _lock_ meaning as one is bouncing around the stool base might shift.

Aeris also make a more traditional desk chair based on the same principle, see https://www.aeris.de/en/3dee/.

The price is about $1K for the Swopper, and for me was totally worth it! Also it's built like a tank and weighs 10kg.
What happens if I win a million dollars in a casino?
If people liked this, this is actually the third in a series. Schubert wrote them in quick succession (as he knew his death was near) and some internal references within the series.

D958 D959 D960 are the numbers to look up.

Mitsuko Uchida (the featured pianist) is the go-to for Schubert recitals, her exquisitely sensitive touch is great for realising the lightness in Schubert's music which tends to switch between ironic, tragic and profound at a moment's notice while he grappled with the reality of his impending death.

Although currently I am listening to the Alfred Brendel recordings (who is another go to for Schubert).
While I don't agree with the gp's vehemence, saying that a certain statement is "almost literally equivalent to Holocaust denial" doesn't mean accusing someone of Holocaust denial- but of something similar.

Btw, accusing someone of something should or should not be a bannable offence independently from the accused ethnicity or religion. You don't want to have classes of people who can or cannot be accused of something on a "racial" basis, do you?
Yeah it feels great to be able to prioritize and decide what to work on (code)
They can probably learn from the German reunion. A lot of mistakes could have been avoided, like letting western companies buy and close east German companies that were previously owned by the state, or closing eastern youth organizations.
Or you could also learn how to make mixed 4/3 rye/wheat sourdough with a natural starter, which requires no scheduling at all. Just mix it in the morning and put it in the oven some time in the late afternoon/evening.

I've been doing it for years and it's the only kind of bread that I can make on a regular basis. It's something you can actually do daily, not an additional hobby.

Ingredients:

* 400g full-grain rye flour

* 300g wheat flour

* 10-15g salt

* 600ml water

* 50-80g levain starter (rye based)

mix, wait 6-8h, bake at 210C for 1h05.

This is a very popular kind of bread in Poland, while I found that in the US people don't really know what to do with full-grain rye flour. I've read books that said it can only be used to make dark pumpernickel breads, and I never found the recipe above (or similar) in any bread-baking books I've read.

Also, the rye starter is fairly stable, forgiving and easy to maintain in a fridge.
The 880s aren't wireless, active noise cancelling cans and aren't relevant in this context.

The brands you list have fine build quality, classic headphones based on the same physics and materials dating back about 50 years. They sound great, but they're not particularly novel, nor are they the same kind of product that is discussed here.
Finally a tangible publication on the matter! I was astounded by Michael Levin's presentation at NeurIPS in 2018. I did not understand was no press outlet mentionned it.

This is a breakthrough discovery that will enable the creation of whole new classes of technology and medicine!
Minds of My Generation (2017)
Well, suppose you want to prove another result similar to abc conjecture. What would you rather read, a formal proof (basically low-level machine code), or an actual human description of a theory used to produce the result?
Basically, what you are saying is that the idea of minimalism is incompatible with minimalism. Personally I think that there's some sort of conservation law at work here (or even entropy-like growth rather than conservation): the more you try to minimize one thing, the more expense you incur elsewhere - even if only at a psychological level (because, to confuse things even more, it looks like that at a psychological level minimalism is, in fact, a form of maximalism - similarly to, say, perfectionism being, in fact, a sign of feeling insecure and of distrust in one's ability to do a good job).
I don't think being multi-national confers much of an advantage considering this has spread across the globe.

Companies providing essential services (supermarkets, healthcare) will probably be fine. Otherwise having lots of cash on hand or no liabilities (rent, debt, etc).
Valid criticisms of the specific tweet thread.

But the general point that "complexity is a subsidy" stands. If one does not understand an investment well enough to explain it, then it might not be worth the risk.
Well, the QC 15 was perfect for me for a number of years, as long as I had AAA batteries. And while every new version after had some kind of trade off to it, the QC series has overall been quite reliable, with removable cords, etc. The Bluetooth version added a lot of complexity, but when it works well, it’s magic. And it works more often than it doesn’t, I just tend to notice the Bluetooth stack bugs more when they occur. Similarly I had to replace a number of QC 15 and 25 cords over the years as they inevitably went bad due to prolonged use and abuse, as it were. The Bose store historically made it very easy to get spare parts and service, though I presume that’s changed somewhat today...
You should read that sort of info directly from the source. eg. your city or goverment web page. Not spoon fed by facebook, news sites, et.al.
This is Mochizuki's informal blog post in Japanese about the current situation.

https://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/shinichi0329/diary/202001050000/

Although he had lived in the US for more than a decade and has no problem with the English language, he seem to have a kind of "western culture allergy" that is written in detail in the post below:

https://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/shinichi0329/diary/201711210000/

I think the "allergy thing" is the reason he doesn't want to follow the ordinary "western approved way" and do a tour in the US.

Also I have read somewhere that he is open to mathematical discussions via online or if you visit him in Japan.
I used to use Balsamiq wireframes for quite some time. Now I use https://draw.io for most basic sketching.

https://balsamiq.com/wireframes/
'Pablo EskoBear': The story of the legendary cocaine bear
I agree with you 100%, just wanted to add as an extra data point that after reading some of Max Weber's works I realised that he was the one that best described how society works in modern times (not saying that his observations were perfect, just closer to the perceived truth). He is of course the one that re-popularised the "monopoly on violence" [1] term that describes (among other, countless things) Italian Mafia's tactics (which I think Weber even mentions) and today's Mexican cartels' way of doing things.

As such, I highly recommend Weber's "Economy and Society" [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_and_Society
democracy is better because in extreme situations it works.

the u.s. is not exactly a democracy tho, because it is so hard for a third party to be viable it's practically illegal. fptp doesn't do that - see canada, india, the u.k. it's a deliberate choice by the powerful to prevent them from having to listen to the weak - which is exactly the point of democracy.
Has there been any significant improvement due to firmware? I’ve never updated.
Am I now safe from this bug?
Is this any more useful as a comparison? http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/
why a state fed is making those predictions?
Just heard there will be a round of applause for courier and delivery drivers on Monday
It will be some time between 9am and 5pm.
I'm not familiar with the synthesis development of remdesivir, but typically those side groups are discovered through a process called Structure Activity Relationship (SAR). The basic idea is you start with a bunch of different compounds (like 1000's) and look at their ability to interfere with a specific enzyme in a high-throughput screen. When you rank the 1000's of compounds, some will work better than others. Then you compare the structures of the top hits and look for similarities. So in this case those huge groups attached to the adenosine likley improve binding to the enzyme because they're greasy/hydrophibic.

So then you add different greasy groups to new compounds and screen those. So will be worse, but sometimes some will be better. Then you look at the better ones, like having a nitrile group off the 1' position of the ribose and maybe that started as an amine (I'm making shit up here) and they decided to make it stick further out (IDK).

Anyway, I did some quick looking at it seems like remdesivir is a prodrug that gets modified by other enzymes to become triphosphorylated and then incorporated into the RNA genome of the virus (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature17180/figures/1). So they got super lucky finding it! Check out that paper for the story.
It just had a major release :P any faster and people would be complaining about churn !
Using clubs of various sizes has been pretty common in the Japanese martial arts for centuries as well. Mostly as a strength building tool.

Here's a littly YT video of an example using particularly large specimen .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=KnbaTYX2jE4
Don’t Mute, Get a Better Headset – Matt Mullenweg
SV events businesses are suddenly staring at blank calendars and layoffs
It's actually really easy to read the svelte compiler output! You'll see exactly how it works :P
JCL is certainly not any worse than bash.
Did you ever wonder how Internet was created before the Internet
This is not a leverage covenant. This is a change in control provision, which there always is for any type of senior debt.
If you see that something is missing, just add it!

If you see something is done bad, just make it better!

This is the way a successful society works, this is especially true for the open source society of planet earth.

Be constructive, it is a way of life that will make you happy. Good Luck!
Your story is inspiring, I wish you all the best! Keep at it and make the most of this period!
lament not working on mesh networks and praying my failing will be cut short by the internet getting back up soon.

in other words, the same as everyone here.
Exactly! But the 1770 pro blocks enough noise to be used in a noisy studio and office space. No need for active noise cancellation or software to get a perfect bubble for your own thoughts.

What I tried to say here is that maybe we're not witnessing progress with headphones such as the QC35. That maybe buying an expensive pair of headphones that needs to be replaced in every few years and which provide a subpar audio quality is not really that great.

I understand the noise cancellation aspect in certain settings though. I own a pair of QC35's only for commuting. They work great for that, and the mediocre sound quality doesn't really bother me when I'm on the go. But the more I'm using them the more I'm getting worried are they going to be waste soon and if so, should I buy a new pair to replace them.
From the same author, you may find this useful:
https://lihautan.com/compile-svelte-in-your-head-part-1/
Having read all of the comments to this article, it's quite impressive how quickly people lost sight of the conflict, and took sides with whoever they empathised most with.

I included enough facts to elicit a trigger response for anyone that's worked in a tech company. Just reading them was enough to make people angry, and invent a back story that 'management never listens' and 'this company is going to fail' (paraphrasing). This wasn't in the piece and likely reflects a projection of their reality.

This angry tone is pervasive in the comments and quickly turned people against each other. Anger that came from somewhere, perhaps a place that isn't apparent to the angry. A lasting sensation of not feeling listened to, or truly seen and valued.

Even if you only communicate your emotions to yourself, and get curious about where they come from, it's likely to help simply by acknowledging that not all emotions arise from the present situation. I believe this is true in life as it is in the comments.

Anyway, I wish you all a productive week!
Next step is to better schedule yeast procuring in stores around the world, I have been looking for it at stores close to me for two weeks now with no success, I've read that the situation is similar in other European cities.
Yeah, you can calculate the vertical rhythm, but it can be a bit of pain if you can't rely on CSS4 vars or preprocessing (SASS/LESS/PostCSS and such).

Still, nowadays this is much easier than even 3-4 years ago.

/* _variables.css */

--font-size: 12px;
--ru: 1.5;

/* _typography.css */

p {
font-size: 2rem;
line-height: calc(var(--ru) * 2rem);
margin: calc(var(--ru) * 1rem) 0;

&.small {
font-size: 1.5rem;
line-height: calc(var(--ru) * 1rem);
}
}
>> A button "Show ansectors"

> That implementations seems to be both the most robust and the easiest to implement

I think so too. I'd like to implement it.

If you want to, you could send me an email (see my profile)? Then I can send you an email, once I've built this ( >= 2 weeks), if you'd like to see how it works & maybe have feedback

\* * *

> arrow-key navigation and highlight current message in some way

I've thought about that some times. Could also be nice for people with accessibilyty problems? (e.g. shaky hands, keyboard navigation better than the mouse pointer)

If the screen is small, e.g. on mobile, Talkyard could probably be pretty certain which post one is currently reading, so might work ok well, automatically.

> not sure if that would work well outside of some special keyboard-centric navigation mode

Yes, maybe this would be for power users and people with disabilities.

> but others would just switch to simpler software, with flatter conversations and/or less navigation features

I suppose such power user navigation things, should be disabled by default.

\* * *

> sticky header at the top of the viewport?

Yes

> going to be as problematic as keyboard shortcuts (i.e. can't decide which message's parent we need to jump and where to return to).

This is also related to highlighting the post one is reading — there'd be one specific parent post to jump to, when pressing 'P'(arten).

Could also experiment with mouse pointing on a post, to make it the keyboard target. And then pressing 'P' to jump to its parent.

\* * *

> Zulip comes to mind: in there selected message affects what topic people are going to reply into [ ...] result in misdirected replies

Now I'm wondering if this is a reason why e.g. Mattermost is more popular than Zulip.

Maybe it's not only that Mattermost is better at marketing (are they?) but also that they are less "power user focused"?
I don't think it works like that at all. I think the cognitive process is more like

"they have all the stuff, and we have nothing. They have it because they're stealing it from us. And they know we're starving and they don't care, so they're existential enemies to us, and they deserve to die".

Thus the process is completely one-sided, and there is very little the other side can do.
My guess: loud, obnoxious, forum participants who won't stop brigading about it. Providing the downgrade – while technologically pointless – will rob those forum participants of their bluster (although they'll probably claim the downgrade is a lie or some other conspiracy).
There is no guarantee those high salaries will come back quickly or at all. This event might well usher in a more cost-conscious era.
Clojure really needs the equivalent of Portacle; self contained directory with everything in it that's needed to just start coding without faffing about.
Keep in mind that there are multiple elements to risk: mortality (deaths), morbidity (general diseased or injured state, also incidence or prevalence), infectiousness, detectability, rate of transmission, long-term health consequences, social & economic impacts.

Regards COVID-19:

The COVID-19 situation is changing rapidly. Since this disease is caused by a new virus, people do not have immunity to it, and a vaccine may be many months away. Doctors and scientists are working on estimating the mortality rate of COVID-19, but at present, it is thought to be higher than that of most strains of the flu.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

Comparing with other diseases:

Mortality rate for SARS was 10%, and for MERS 34%.

Virus Death Rate
Wuhan Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): 2%*
SARS: 9.6%
MERS: 4%
Swine Flu: 0.02%

The case fatality rate with seasonal flu in the United States is less than 0.1% (1 death per every 1,000 cases).

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...

https://smw.ch/article/doi/smw.2020.20203
You can simply cheat around the real-time-effect. Powergamers do it all the "time".
Predictions for the Coronavirus Stock Market
I just go m-x auto-sneer-mode and Emacs automatically sneers at my code as I write it!

I like to edit the source code to auto-sneer-mode.el in sneer mode, so it sneers at itself! Nothing more snarky than self-sneering code. I had to manually sneer by myself while writing it, to get it bootstrapped.
Awesome! That looks absolutely amazing!
Yep, I have the Sony WH-1000XM3s. They're fantastic headphones - really impressive given how awful the ANC was on a previous set of Sony headphones I had (MDR-ZX770BN).

However, the touch interface is bad. Swiping up/down is often confused for left/right, which is probably me swiping the wrong way, but it's not a natural motion. If I take the headphones off and put them around my neck, my chin often activates the headphones by mistake.

That said, I picked them up at an airport. I wore them with a mask on a 10 hour flight and I've never slept so well on a plane. That alone was worth the price and I can suffer the touch controls for now.
As well as commenting here. It would make sense to update your readme.
The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." -- Cunningham's Law

I'd suggest that you create a language for doing this. Don't make it good, make it barely functional. Don't do any research on what might already exist, just go ahead and think about what you'd want, and implement a half-assed version. Then post it here as a "Show HN:".

One of two things will happen:

(a) People will pile in to say, "It's good, but why didn't you just use XXXX"; or

(b) People will say "We've long needed something like this ... thanks!"

In the latter case, if you've put it on GitHub (or similar) people might actually start offering improvements and sending you pull requests, and then you'll end up with the thing you want that didn't previously exist.
CASE tools are widely used today, but, you will see them scoped very specifically the databases in systems where everything is built around the massive pillar of a major db implementation.

I worked for a company for little while that made extremely effective use of this approach allowing hundreds of devs to effectively work simultaneously on a single monolithic system. It was shocking. I was so impressed. I've still never seen any software organization so... organized. And they owed it largely to the protocols revolving around their use of a CASE tool.
A whiteboard or a Everlast Rocket Book, erasable pen and OfficeLens app to digitalise it. Then I put it into Figma and can prototype with them and show it to my clients.

I'm too slow with any software solution as it allows for too many details.
Facebooks problem won't be lack of users, it will be lack of advertisers.
Refinancing and selling
your home are both ways to get cash. The best time to refinance is when 1) rates are at their lowest 2) your home value is at its highest and 3) you can get good ROI on that cash. Typically people look for ROI either by investing it in the currently down market or using it for down payment on a second rental property.

All three of those apply at this moment so record numbers of people have been getting refi’s this month. When fed rates eventually go up perhaps next year people will shift back to selling, or simply holding while they wait for their perceived home value to recover. Either way you have less people selling homes.

Not an expert - this is just what has been explained to me so take it with a grain of salt. Also this falls apart if the market is flooded with foreclosures.
This is interesting. It would appear Santa Clara has quite a bit more capacity for when things get worse.
>North Korea is in no position to offer anything. They would be wiped off the earth if they used their nukes.

They would be wiped off the earth if the US used their nukes at any point for the past sixty years. That's why they desired nukes. If you fear North Korea using them then stop threatening then.