skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hearing loss is complicated. Based on your profile (frequency vs. degree of loss), hearing aids may not help enough. However a good analogy is that they are like crutches. Just like crutches do not restore walking capability but help improve mobility something similar happens with h aids.

Cochlear implant has existed for a long time but the problem is limitations in terms of profile it creates. I believe Neuralink is the only ultimate solution that might work giving you the capability to experience even frequencies beyond what humans normally hear which is if the biological approaches do not work.

The inner ear consisted of 15000 hair cells which are the crux of this. Idea behind regenerative medicine was to induce pluripotent stem cells to convert to these hair cells and replace those hair cells that were damaged or destroyed. Personally i think this approach will be like Nuclear Fusion, always 20 years away. At this point i personally think Neuralink may be achieved first, this is because of the amount of $ and interest in that space along with the wider repercussions.
I too use osTicket for my support escalation needs...
How does app handle authn?
Why scrum is overrated and overused
> You've been allowed to leave your home from Day 1 of the lockdown and there is no law to say otherwise

Again, only with reasonable excuse. He didn't have a reasonable excuse. The law says

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/regulation/6/ma...

> 6.—(1) During the emergency period, no person may leave the place where they are living without reasonable excuse.

It then lists some reasonable excuses. Travelling to a second home is not listed in the reasonable excuses.

The government guidance is important because it provides context to "reasonable" -- it expands the list of reasonable excuses.

The guidance at the time was "You must stay at home", "you must not travel", "you must not travel to a second home".

The Crown Prosecution Service guidance is important because it curtails police action. The CPS guidance was similarly clear: travelling to a second home is unlikely to be reasonable, unless it's someone fleeing domestic abuse.

Police guidance tells us how they would have handled Cummings if they'd stopped him as he travelled from London to Durham. The police have said that they'd have turned him back.

Very many people have been fined for doing exactly what Cummings did, and those fines are not going to be withdrawn.
The nation's been psychologically wrong-footed during an election year where the incumbent is the most controversial president in decades (one who's been impeached, even), the challenging party's primary process has been subjected to accusations of corruption and favoritism (at best) by the presumed nominee's opposition, and been riddled with suspicious errors. That alone would be a memorable storm and a half for our political history, but it coincides with a sweeping collapse in institutional trust, economic hardship, concerns of government overreach, and fear of mortal peril.

And we're just inaugurating the decade.
I'm overall surprised at how unpopular/unknown wxWidgets is when the discussion turns to cross platform UI toolkits.

I've used it a lot, as well as other popular toolkits (Qt, GTK, etc.) and I find that wx is, at the very least, the least bad option and overall programming in it hasn't been a pain, regardless of which binding I used.

I guess my only complaint would be that it's a bit harder to do something way outside the norm when compared to Qt, but at that point it might be better to use native SDKs or straight up OpenGL or something for your GUI.
Is this a joke about supa hot fire? Since I'm here for it.
Hospitals are busier than ever – and going out of business
The YouTube channel of this Figaro's owner, Technology Connections, is my absolute favorite channel! Super interesting stuff about how things like toasters or VCR actually works, a great series about the format wars, all with super high production value and a lot of snarky sarcasm. Be sure to watch it with the subtitles on for some extra snark.
Ahhh this reminded me of when I as a teen saved up and bought "Assembly Language Master Class"[1], the only assembly-related book I could find in my local bookstore that didn't look like a complete intro-book. I had learned a bit of asm from some articles I had downloaded from various BBSes, and wanted to take the next step.

After reading through it a few times I got the idea to try to write a pre-emptive scheduler myself. This was way before the internet so I just knew the concept existed, and the book didn't have anything like that in it per se. So I spent a day or two figuring out by my self how to preserve and restore the registers and flags without disturbing them.

I wrote it in Turbo Pascal, using the inline asm for the task switcher. Each "process" was just a procedure (subroutine) that ran in a loop until a global bool was set.

I decided to hook the RTC[2] for switching tasks, but nothing more. So each time-slice was fixed at 18.2ms which didn't make things terribly interactive.

Never got further, it was more of a "can I do it" type project, but boy that feeling when I saw my three "processes" running one after another without cooperation... priceless!

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Assembly-Language-Master-Class-Press/...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt_request_%28PC_archit...
I like to think of this example [0] when I have the feeling that I got to where I am all by myself, and forget how many and how much others have worked to "build my boat", and how much luck was involved at every step.

[0] https://digitalsynopsis.com/inspiration/privileged-kids-on-a...
About the choice of the database. Why did you decide to go with PSQL instead of a NoSQL database as Firebase does? Doesn't that affect your scalability?

Otherwise, great project!
I'm not 100% on this, but I'm pretty sure that HPC# has a separate, LLVM-based compiler.
Also, "idiots" can understand other "idiots" better, thus being able to make money.

Making money is not a function of pure "intelect", but being able to predict what others need and being able to meet those needs.

You can be Einstein smart and not business smart.
> What would the numbers look like without mitigations?

Look at Sweden, you'll find that their very light measures are not worse than the very late but much stronger measures of harder hit areas.
Higher education doesn't have to be expensive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party?wprov=sfla1
especially as one of the things pretty much everyone expects from a competent government is to not allow themselves to be tricked by evil foreigners.

People may disagree about how much power the government should exert over internal processes of the country, but protecting the country from evil foreigners is pretty much job 1 in most theories of governance.
https://github.com/expnkx/fast_io/wiki
wiki here
Enabling?
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> there’s good evidence that this is a substantial undercount.

I don’t know about the US, but most European countries count anyone who died with corona as a covid death. No matter how clearly you died to something else.
Really good time: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49547400
Is there anything like VisualVM for NodeJS? It's nice in JVM land that you can just see how many objects of a particular class are on the heap.

Chrome's devtools kind of work, but it's not nearly as good.

I'd love to be able to see how many objects exist with a certain signature, or prototype. I found some mdb_v8 thing but it seems it's built for a very old version of V8.
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We've been building furiously since January but (not surprisingly) we haven't yet reached feature parity. But we will :)

> data store

Yes - our data store is just Postgres so you can migrate in/out - no lockin

> hosting, auth

Not yet. We want to nail the auth and we're looking at leveraging Postgres' native Row Level Security. This is a tricky task to "generalize" for all businesses but we have some good ideas (we're discussing in our repo if you want to follow - https://github.com/supabase/supabase)

> What’s the migration pathway for someone currently on Firebase?

This is also something we're building - a migration tool. Mapping NoSQL to RDBMS is complex, but something I tackled in my previous company. We'll build it so that Firebase and Supabase run "in parallel", which we can do since both have realtime functionality. And then when you're happy, you will be able to switch off Firebase
You already knew that adding two consecutive Fibonacci numbers results in a third Fibonacci number...

But, did you know that adding the squares of two consecutive Fibonacci numbers -- results in a non-squared Fibonacci number from the original Fibonacci sequence?

(See the video for a more visual representation...)

To me, the fact that it does that is nothing short of fascinating...
The disclaimer is in the CDC link:

> The scenarios are intended to advance public health preparedness and planning. They are not predictions or estimates of the expected impact of COVID-19.
Lol - 90s is the era that gave birth to PHP, I'd wager to say very few things were "well understood".

People writing apps with 100s of global variables was the norm.

If you worked with WPF you'll see angular 2 is very similar in spirit - complexity is on par. I don't really see the difference between native development and JS once you start dealing with the same level of complexity.
There is no correlation between being an idiot and being rich. Being rich is (in most cases) the ability to... Sell yourself, for the lack of a better expression. And smart people commonly can't sell themselves or their products because they often solve problems which are far more complex than the ones ordinary people have. They will spend brutal amounts of resources and efforts to solve a problem which ordinary people just don't have. Ask any developer how often have they been in a non-tech circle having a casual conversation and saying "Wait, you paid how much for someone to do X?"

X usually being the work of two (below) average Joe developers which can be done in a few weeks. And there you are, sitting and wondering how to build something big.

Which is another common mistake: people rarely become rich overnight and it's a gradual process. You are looking at people who are light years ahead of you, while the route to success is a tight and windy mountain road, full of crests and dips. Looking at the people standing on the mountain peak isn't productive and doesn't give you any valuable information. It's those who are one or two corners ahead of you that you need to be looking at.
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Exactly. We all keep talking about leaving Netflix but it looks like we aren't. How long has Netflix now been without major movies? Clearly whatever they're doing works - from my ground-level experience, everyone has at least a couple of shows that they like watching in Netflix, and everyone shares accounts as well so in the end it's a few dollars a month for always having a backup service with a lot of "meh" titles at the least.

Perhaps that's what the company is gunning for? Perhaps they noticed that the crowd that sees Adam Sandler movies is the main market and they don't necessarily need to pander to "sophisticated" audience to be a successful company? Who knows. It just looks mindful, minimally, where they're trying to chart out a path that they CAN do, given all their constraints (mainly every major IP now being protected by their parent for their own streaming service).
Unless something has changed, Burst also uses IL2CPP.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.burst@1.3/manual...
Funny story, Supabase was originally a placeholder name - it was a joke so that Ant (co-founder) and I could entertain each other with Nikki Minaj "Super Bass" memes while we were brainstorming.

But the name grew on us once we made the initial design. Thankfully Nikki Minaj isn't well-known amongst techies.

I hope I haven't just ruined our credibility
Regarding the upvoting problem: Try using only downvotes and sort by downvotes*age. This should solve a lot of problems that usually come with upvoting systems, e.g. false negatives (good articles with bad score).
The overlap between Twitch-able content and Youtube-able content is rather small, and the Twitch audience is much smaller (and different) than Youtube's audience.

Patreon and Squarespace are not competitors to Youtube, they're in completely different races.

There is no real competition to Youtube when it comes to UX (specially loading speeds and availability of different resolutions) just due to the sheer number of CDNs and server infrastructure that Youtube has. Youtubers can complain and complain (sometimes rightfully), but 99% of them are not willing to abandon the platform, because that's equivalent to abandoning their online career altogether.
I am a progressive, so liberal I verge on socialist, and I think one of the "Left's" great flaws in the US is its inability to walk away, to just ignore. Engaging vociferously is seen almost as a moral imperative; "we must fight evil wherever we find it" sort of thing. But all that does is bring attention and a form of validation to the more lunatic attempts to enrage them. They aren't accomplishing a single thing by getting so righteously angry over statements the speakers probably aren't even making in good faith.

You can even see in the memes. It's the right that loves "trolling libs," and the left that's taking the bait. I think it's telling that the stereotype hardly ever seems to go the other way; you almost never see people talk about liberals "trolling reps."

You really don't need to engage with everything in order to be a good activist. In fact, I believe taking time and emotional energy to do so is actually being a bad activist. You're just wasting effort, nothing you say or do will change anyone's minds because mostly, the whole reason they're saying whatever it is is specifically to make you upset. To trap you into unwinnable arguments just to laugh at how heated you get.

Really we all need to be better at just walking away from crazy, whatever side of whatever spectrum we find it. By regularly surrounding yourself with such conflicts and by regularly basting yourself in such a soup of intense negativity, you are quite literally doing nothing more than causing physical harm to your body and mind via the morass of cortisol, etc. you are unleashing. You are accomplishing nothing.

I agree that Facebook makes this painfully easy, although Twitter and Reddit are right there as well.
It also doesn't use your Kanopy credits, which is an added bonus also, so you can basically watch however many as you want at any time.
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I was assuming a WeakMap is just a map (hash table) from a key to a WeakRef? What is it if it isn't that (Explain like I'm a 5 year old person who doesn't understand dynamic types or JS)? I read here that WeakRef is only a proposal yet, so clearly a WeakMap/WeakSet can't make use of a WeakRef...
> 10 short years ago, huge swaths of the population were swayed to accept non-scientific statements like eating fat and cholesterol were unhealthy. I don't think Facebook is the problem here.

That's a horrible example, I don't think that is even remotely comparable to swaying the population into burning down dozens (hundreds?) of cell towers or accusing Bill Gates of starting the coronavirus pandemic.
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... Lies Dormant. Or, Lies Moldering.
> You don't see news of hospitals struggling to cope with seasonal flu the way we've seen now.

You don't see this news because you aren't looking for it, Hospitals are struggling with influenza all the time. Example story:

> Hospitals Overwhelmed by Flu Patients Are Treating Them in Tents

https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...
Against YT tos, Linustechtips got channel blocked for it once.
that's not true in my experience. the rep had no direct answer and sometimes it would take a couple days till they reached somebody that knows the answer. and for everything else that i asked that they did not know directly the answer was "it's algorithm, even when i found the answer later somewhere deep in forums or faq".

i have dealt with google europe, i even visited the offices in dublin but i do not have a confidence that they know the answer, most of them are there to try to convince you to try this new thing and incrase you budget.
Any link to deployable dockerized versions?
Actually we chose Postgres specifically because it is scalable. I had to switch from Firebase in my previous company because we hit some scaling limits. Postgres handles the scale no problem - it's crazy the performance improvement we saw (and it's ACID)

The trickiest part was the realtime functionality - https://github.com/supabase/realtime
If no one else can fix it - we should criticise with a remark that BTW this is not fixable at the moment

Otherwise: Earth's gravity is too strong. Planes use too much fuel. Let's criticise Earth...
There's always a trade-off in technologies between things that are easier to learn, and things that are easier to use once you've learned them. When there's a steady state of people cycling through the system, it's easy to cater to specific segments of the population with different types of tools. Those that don't need hand holding and want the extra bells and whistles to get exactly what they want out of something will likely find their needs met in such a situation.

Now, consider that there's far more new people coming into programming each year than the prior year (or even if it's not strictly true on a year-over-year basis, there are far more software engineers with 1-10 years of experience than there are with 10-20 years experience, possibly even than those with 10+ years experience).

In a market such as that, ease of use is paramount and the killer feature that drives almost all you usage. Catering to amateurs is the path to increased usage, and mind-share, and market-share where applicable. With that in mind, is it really any wonder that amateurs are catered to so much that there's actually a regression in tools that cater to professionals?

My guess is that if you look into subgroups which are not friendly to new users for one reason or another (most commonly because of complexity and skill), yet still have retained users for some reason, you'll find high quality professional tools. I think C/C++ probably fits this, as well as systems programming, and kernel development. I'm not part of any of those subgroups, but my guess is they have not only retained the quality of their supplemental tools, but increased them.
Yes it is, but the gp is also right that it is part of a well calculated and proven way of keep existing customers and getting new ones. $$$ is the reason they do that, else this would not exist.
How does it differ from the NextDNS configuration profiles?
Not yet. We will start adding documentation after we left beta. Right now we are working hard on the new UI, which is time consuming.

You can take a look at our client libraries [1] and at this sample [2] for now. The js client is the most complete one.

[1] https://github.com/emvi

[2] https://github.com/Special-Tactical-Service/wiki

From the sample:

Client initialization: https://github.com/Special-Tactical-Service/wiki/blob/master...

Reading an article: https://github.com/Special-Tactical-Service/wiki/blob/master...
see my other comment

> We want to nail the auth and we're looking at leveraging Postgres' native Row Level Security. This is a tricky task to "generalize" for all businesses but we have some good ideas (we're discussing in our repo if you want to follow - https://github.com/supabase/supabase)
Doesn't this page answer all those questions? https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/how-cdc-estimates.htm
I assume that's a genuine question and that you're not trolling.

Opioids are a very different class of drugs than anti depressants (including medication to treat anxiety).

While people with mental issues may use opioids for self medication, no reasonable psychiatrist would ever prescribe such medication for psychological issues.

Oxy and their ilk were massively pushed by Purdue and their "colleagues" as a non-addictive pain relief if applied correctly.

They lied, of course, and that's where the US is now with the opioid crisis, since those drugs were massively over-prescribed.

It can't be mentioned enough that if you have serious mental issues then appropriate medication may be one of the pillars to help you out of the deepest circles of hell.

While it maybe a crutch (sometimes temporary, sometimes long term) it can be immensely helpful if properly prescribed and monitored and seriously be the difference between life and death.

edit: slight clarification
I did a bit of spelunking around about this issue recently and found theories but no evidence to support having more or less padding. The only conclusive result I remember from a study was that barefoot runners experienced more injuries..
I'm not sure about The Room, I felt the same way when I saw it, but after briefly interacting with Tommy Wiseau it seems plausible to me that he's a bizarre satirist with a strange sense of humor playing the long game.

I agree that Mulholland Drive is art, though I don't think it's particularly good art and I don't like it much. What did you think of "David Lynch Interviews a Monkey?" AKA "What Did Jack Do?"
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I mean, its hard to say that no voter fraud isnt going to happen...

but for it to happen in any meaningful way is super super unlikely as most other democracy's around the world can attest to.

he's technically right, but its not going to be in the order of even 1%. even if EVERY person in the US voted by mail, fraud on a level that would less than 1% of the entire vote.

Its a stupid blatant obvious ploy to try and gerrymander the vote.
How I launched a side-project in one weekend
There's a free edition for small business and personal use and a perpetual "enterprise" license for $1,895. Not so bad for a commercial product. But yes, no free software.
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook....
>They do so rather successfully (see their YouTube videos).

Well I wouldn't expect them to post Car Crash Compilations of their own making.
I assume something like IPFS pinning in exchange for crypto money
> At least we have real elections with more than one real candidate.

For some definition of "real elections" - the voting suppression techniques employed in the US are study material in politics courses in other democracies.

* gerrymandering

* not allowing for remote votes by letter

* having votes on days that are not free for working people - this is interesting because many other democracies used that to discourage working class people to vote, e.g. Germany in the late 19th century. But most countries now mandate that votes have to fall on either sundays or national holidays.

* (Edit:) Felony disenfranchisement - this in combination with the war on drugs is a very effective way to strip voting rights from minorities, e.g. this isn't even visible in voting turnout comparisons between countries.

And the techniques work: The US has one of the lowest voting participation rates of all OECD countries.