skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can find your way to Costco, make an appointment with their audiologist. The test is free and hearing aids are less than $900 each. Follow-up visits are free. You do not need a Costco membership unless you decide to make a purchase. If you are unhappy with your purchase you can get a refund on the hearing aids and the membership.

I believe that most of their hearing aids support bluetooth, but only when you get a pair. I only need one, so no bluetooth for me.

I've had fittings by two people at Costco. One is an audiologist and the other was less credentialed, but I forget the title. I could hear better when fitted by the audiologist.
Remember all the people, including HN commenters, who said he should just turn himself in and clear his name in court in Sweden. Only conspiracy theorists believed that powerful authorities were gunning for him behind the scenes.
Might I add that I've had and seen much more success talking to people outside of social media, where people of every political persuasion seem more concerned with performative outrage (makes sense, since that's what social media is designed to encourage).
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Exactly when did the hub and spoke die (on long haul, where the A380 tends to operate)?

When I think of large airlines across the world very few point to points come to mind. The 787 has allows hubs to serve smaller cities so it's no longer 2 stops, just 1.

If I want to fly from say Dar es Salaam to Ho Chi Minh City, or Athens to Lima, I'm going to be flying via a hub (probably Dubai / Frankfurt respectively).

Perhaps I no longer need to fly Athens-Frankfurt-LAX-SanDiago, with Frankfurt-LAX leg therefore justifying a large jet, but that's a change from multi-hub to single-hub

Thinking of the big long haul (>2500 mile) routes, very few fly direct outside of their hubs

Cathay / Hong Kong
JAL / Tokyo
China Southern / Guangzhou
Singapore / Singapore
BA / London
Emirates / Dubai
Qatar / Qatar
Ethiad / Abu Dhabi
Turkish / Istanbul
Seems intuitive to me. Most things that are at the edge of my ability I can do in relaxed practice but not under stress. Mouth aerobics are just one example.
Just came out on Neuron, unfortunately behind a paywall: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.09.005
Source doesn't look especially reliable coming from a US Dairy website, it mentions a survey from 2008 but doesn't provide a reference.
I see that my explanation to 101008 of a Russell Teapot was downvoted. That's sad for a board that prides itself on people with intellect.
If you're parsing it dynamically, I agree. If you're validating it against a static data structure after parsing it, it's not bad.
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If you want to talk about childish, should we talk about the sort of answer Zuckerberg gave. Atleast the guy there for the snacks was getting snacks until recently, I'm worried about the guys who think they joined facebook because:

>you’re here for some combination of reasons around the mission of the company, the impact that we can have in the world, trying to make sure that that’s as positive as possible
In direct conversion, all of the particles used on the conversion have MeV energies. It is exactly that bulk heating that is the problem.

When you get a very low entropy source and your first step on using it consist on increasing the entropy 1000000000 times, you lose a lot of flexibility and efficiency.
> a connector, which take up precious volume. Wireless recharging requires a coil with the same problem.

Couldn’t a “connector” just be a tiny gold contact to meet another in a charging cradle/case like a smart watch or wireless earbuds? Would that be too big?
This is going back many years, but I seem to recall that one of the arguments against primordial black holes is that - assuming Hawking radiation is correct - we should see evidence of black holes evaporating if they are of the correct size, but that hasn't been seen.

https://www.nature.com/articles/248030a0
I squealed with laughter when I saw the first article last week. It is far past time we put away such nonsense. This week on twitter I was informed by many of these professional agitators that Sobel-Feldman Edge Detection is racist.
It's because it's a medical device. The OTC Hearing Aid Act will change that so Bose (and I would guess Samsung and Apple in the future) can sell hearing aids directly to consumers.

Bluetooth 5.2 LE Audio will solve the vendor lock-in. So the future looks bright for us with hearing loss.

Edit: And with iOS 14 you can use AirPods Pro as hearings aids by adding an audiogram to the Apple Health app. Works really well.
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> And the hubs became less relevant

Dubai is the 4th busiest airport in the world

Atlanta is the busiest, don't tell me people want to go to Atlanta.

If I fly Manchester to Singapore, I can either fly on a 90 minute narrow shorthaul flight to Heathrow then spend 15 hours on a tired BA plane departing evening, arriving the next evening, or I have a choice of multiple departures on Qatar and Emirates, with two 8 hour flights. Same amount of hassle, but works far better for jetlag.

Now if I'm flying UK to South Africa, and there's little time change, then sure I want an overnight 12 hour flight where I can get a good 9 hour sleep in addition to dinner and breakfast. Not many routes like that (10+ hours, overnight, sub-3 hour time difference).
> There's a difference between the legal American right to free speech, and the global ethical principle of free speech.

So if I ask you to leave my house because I don't want to listen to you any more, am I violating the global ethical principle of free speech?
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This is not some random guy posting, as a result of their 'leaks' people did dangerous things.

It not something to underestimate since the Q speaks in riddles and doesn't give directions the movement is prone to fall into extremism - the most vocal outrageous theories gain the biggest popularity - a cult without leader, makes it quite volatile.

Like the whole pizzagate debacle and morons storming in with guns.

Consider this, people love conspiracy theories. We all consider one or another to some degree. Its something that we are primed to be interested in. Now some people are really hooked on that. To the point that they create whole communities that are convinced earth is flat.

We were all laughing at the 'trolls' role-playing flat-earth society for laugh. Surely its a big joke. Now we have conventions book and Netflix documentary about theory that was disproved by ancient Greeks.

Qanon seems like its a powder keg ready to explode in some time.
Boy, have I!

Acting on it, though... :-)

Life seems balanced now, I get to scratch my itches, not unhappy at my current job, and I don't feel like I'm saying "no" and making excuses. A tiny step here, a tiny step there, worst case it turns out to be a pleasant stroll.
Like that time a professional athlete was blacklisted from his league for kneeling silently during the national anthem? Is that the cancel culture you're talking about?
About the precious volume and heat - the technology still seems very unimpressive given we have wireless earbuds in stores. Mounting something behind the ear doesn't seem very extravagant these days and vendors only profit from this forced conservative approach because it smothers any potential competition that thinks it has to be this way.
It reminds me of my college days. Glad they’ve kept the moose :)
is it possible to use the users phone for those calculations ?

Think about a dumb hearing aid, with a microphone and bluetooth connection, which is able to connect to any compatible phone and phone does the processing.
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>In which of those sections do they put the Bible? There’s also plenty of content on social media that isn’t cleanly fiction or non-fiction.

It's pretty clear that the anthology/compendium often termed "The Bible" is mostly myth and retellings of oral histories that date back many millenia, with some of those incorporating historical events (think docudrama[0]).

As such, I'd posit that in a vacuum, such works should be placed in the "Historical Fiction" section.

However, since there are quite a few of these works (the Hindu Vedas, the Tripitaka, the Quran, etc.), it seems that the current classification (Religion) is reasonable.

That said, not specifically calling it "fiction" doesn't make it non-fiction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docudrama
There are a lot of merits to an SUV over a crossover/minivan. The SUV will be able to hold more cargo — you can tow a boat or a small trailer. An SUV will be able to handle off road situations much better —- perfect for taking the family camping, skiing, or to the beach. An SUV is generally more comfortable and roomy than a crossover.

Yeah, many people can an do operate with a crossover or an EV instead. Smaller crossovers, like the RAV4, would be very crammed and feel underpowered with filled with 5 people, enough of their stuff for a week’s vacation, towing a 3000lb boat, and going up hill.
Interesting that they list the cost of raw PLA pellets for the "mass production cost" of the 3d printed case.

This is starting to smell like an exercise in making an incorrect BOM to justify the result they were looking for. Nobody will 3d print you a case for $0.06. If what they meant was that they'd 3d print the case themselves, then it should be the filament or resin listed on the BOM. You probably can get a plastic part pretty close to that price, but not 3d printed, it would be injection molded.
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> no one reading the Bible is settling down for story time

Speak for yourself. Several atheists including myself read some of the Bible for our book club. In particular the wisdom literature has value as a fiction removed from the religious context. Beyond that, the Bible is the earliest work we have which exhibits several tropes, and western art has been heavily influenced by it.
> It is sad to me that the aviation industry doesn't appear to be able reward the manufacturers that take risks with their designs.

Well, there's a lot of incorrect assumptions in that one sentence.

Most Boeing airliners had significant pre-orders from airlines, like the 747, making those designs possible economically.

Airbus offered a design and mfg. partnership with Boeing for the A380, but Boeing knew that hub-and-spoke was dead and let Airbus burn $50 billion or more on it. Also, Airbus' wiring harness CAD mistakes delayed the A380 an entire year:

https://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=4700

Regarding airlines, their sole criterion for an airliner is that it's more efficient than the last one. The A380 was both overweight (by tons) and had an operating cost up to 4x as much as smaller airplanes (around $25,000/hr vs $7,500/hr for a 777.) Considering even 2% is huge for an airline, you can see why nobody wants the A380 even for free.

FYI: You won't see any of the supersonic startups build a certified model for cost and time reasons. Ain't gonna happen.

Even the US government couldn't afford to operate the SR-71 after satellite imaging was good enough because everything was special for it (special fuel, a dozen dedicated tanker jets for that fuel, high-temperature engines, maintenance, backup flight, etc.)

What actually killed the Concorde was the number of WTC passengers (many approving managers) who were killed, as well as the year-long retrofit of wing fuel Kevlar liners, etc. Also France treats air accidents as criminal investigations, unlike the US, so that doesn't help.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/19/concorde.world
Well, my mom has one of those.

They are actually two pieces, one is a match-box sized thingy that can connect to Bluetooth devices and that she wears around her neck that transmits to the devices in her ears and also has a microphone, it is very handy as she can easily answer the phone by pressing a button on it (leaving the telephone in the bag, it works as hand-free) and it also has two buttons that can regulate the volume of the hearing aids (the volume of her hearing aids can be regulated also through a teeny-tiny button on the back of the hearing aid, right hand one up, left hand down, but she simply cannot find/push them properly).

We got the above first to better adjust volume and for the telephone use, then she started getting issue with the TV and we bought the following.

Then there is a small transmitter connected to the TV that can link to the matchbox-like device (that has a fourth button to connect/disconnect to the TV device), it has both RCA plug and an optical input.

She is very, very happy of this setup for the TV, much more than what she had before (wireless headphones).

Prices are steep, to give you an idea, if I recall correctly:

hearing aids € 2,500

neck matchbox-like thingy € 250

TV transmitter € 300
Repair and bulk assembly are substantially different expertise. Almost no matter how cheap the local labor is, doing automated assembly with manual finishing is probably going to be way cheaper in China (especially since the supply chain for components is well established there).
Heh - I worked on 2 of those systems .... remember these are systems with ~1/2Mb of ram and 1-2 mips of CPU. Most are swapping systems, no paging.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Albert_Einstein allows to set a dark mode in the settings.
I see "Shipping: C $89.99 (approx. US $67.34) Standard Int'l Shipping"
Yep yep and yep. But people these days “but mah bacon!”
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There's no reason to be embarrassed. You might be a very learned individual of deep and wide experience, but the truth is still that you have not heard of most things. None of us has heard of most things.
On the project I supported we did, but due to nonexistent database version control I had to do restores instead. Thankfully this was on Dev/Test envs, so things got ironed out before production releases. Thanks to no rollbacks, I cannot imagine running a full fledged CICD pipeline on neither of those envs.
Conscience..
I don't have any first-hand experience to share, but my wife used to work at https://www.audicus.com/ which is a startup focused on exactly this problem, in case you're interested in further research.
Overall, I agree it's a problem, but I see responsive design as a (perhaps poor) solution to the convergence of three more fundamental problems.

The first being screen size fragmentation. Most tablets fall into a similar size/scale category, so you can have buffers (kinda like how you were saying). However, there are still corner cases where (e.g.) a tablet in landscape mode happens to trigger a different size category. The fact that resolution helps in fingerprinting users is pretty indicative that fragmentation is a huge problem.

The second being the lack of a good way for a page to know exactly what type of device it's displayed on. There are hints/etc. to get close enough. However, it's still a fundamental truth of web development that the browser can always lie to you. Not necessarily a bad thing, but a design challenge regardless.

The third is less of a technical or even a design problem, but I personally think it's the worst. More and more, companies are making increasingly complex sites with no real thought to user implications. I believe this will always be true in a web where the real customers are ad companies and search engines and the user is the product.

On the lines of another point you've made, I'm not suggesting we give up; there are still plenty of ways we could and should improve designs and frameworks (you've outlined some really good ones).
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>I'd appreciate a few examples of them behaving in such a manner as knowingly lying about how deadly a disease is and then having large crowded ....

Lol are you shitting me? Didn't you notice the mobs of leftist chuckleheads, erm, I mean "anti-racism activists" burning the cities down over the last couple of months, complete with excuses for why it's not REALLY a covid transmission problem, and, like business owners have insurance so it's not REALLY destroying livelihoods and property; where Trump rallies or jaunts to the beach or going to the hairdresser or a sit-down restaurant totally are covid transmission death cesspits you evil racist bigots[0]. There are hundreds of articles, thousands of memes making fun of what is obviously a completely ridiculous pair of ideas to hold in one brain, but which left leaning people in America seem universally to self-seriously hold.

The fact of the matter is, the right was more correct than the left when it comes to Covid; it's mostly a nothingburger unless you're over 70. Even the CDC says so at this point[1].

Of course, other than people like Ioannidis, they were correct via instinct rather than statistics. That's kind of the point of conservatism. It's a basket of prejudices with known survival advantage.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-evaluate-c...

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

Death rates (mind you, among lardy diabetic americans):

0-19 years: 0.00003

20-49 years: 0.0002

50-69 years: 0.005

70+ years: 0.054
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Great work postgres team!
> I fail to see how small businesses are prevented from using metadata

Your answer misses the point, which is that microdata and co profit Google first and foremost who are extracting information from 3rd parties and displaying that information on their own website or crunching them for various purposes without giving back web traffic or a cent.

Implementing micro data on public facing websites isn't cost free.
I agree -- I end up choosing things that larger enterprises wouldn't pick because most of my projects are specs of dust in comparison.

What do you think about the angle of Go having a lot of potential (I honestly think it might replace java for large enterprises in 10-20 years?) because it's built for developer fungibility?

If there's one things enterprises want to do, it's reduce the cost of employing resources, and employees are one resource that gets a lot cheaper when codebases are easier to pop in and out of, and you don't need a Java Spring MVC expert, but rather a golang dev fresh out of a coding bootcamp (or whatever actually good shorter-term switch-to-tech education trends come out in the future).
First the censors came for the right-wingers, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not right-wing....

That's the problem with putting in place censorship. Sometimes it affects people you like.
I didn't find a data collection tool which is secure and safe that led me to create Blocksurvey. It uses Blockstack blockchain for Decentralized Identity and data storage. All your data collection is encrypted using your own keys.

Tech Stack:
Account / Identity : Blockstack's Decentralized Identity
Auth: Blockstack Connect
Storage: Gaia Decentralized Storage
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This wouldn't be a problem if the modern Republican party wasn't a genocidal hate group that wants to kill most of the people working for Facebook. I half-jokingly said in a group chat the other day, I wouldn't be a radical leftist if I didn't have Republicans in trucks waving Trump flags calling me a faggot in broad daylight. Half-joking because this is a real experience I faced as a trans person just trying to live my life and go about my day. Meanwhile, I have Facebook recruiters messaging me on LinkedIn with promises that the company is "turning things around" and trying to make a "positive change". It's sad and telling that they even feel the need to incorporate that sort of language into their recruitment strategy.

If any LGBTQ people, people of color, immigrants or really anyone subjected to conservative hate is reading this, please know that you owe it to no one to check your politics in at the door when entering any space. You owe it to no one to use your creative energy and talents to build platforms for people who want you dead. And if you're a member of one of these communities who actually works at Facebook, understand that you will never turn that ship around. Go take a look at some of the social media platforms that have cropped up in response to what conservatives perceive as "censorship" and "deplatforming" - sites like Gab or Parler. This is what Republicans want Facebook to become.
This looks great!

I've been building something similar[1] but it only supports bash as a language. Looking forward to try this out!

[1]: https://github.com/zimbatm/mdsh
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Personal sound amplification devices already exist at significantly less cost than conventional hearing aids. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2635618 https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-personal-sou...
It's still a single instruction in the hot path: jo.

All such overflow jumps could go to the same handler, in which case it really would just be one instruction overall, but you'd lose the ability to report the exact location of the overflow. A small per-overflow thunk would solve that (it could be as small as a single call instruction).

Currently the jo doesn't macro-fuse with the addition on Intel chip, but maybe that will change in the future.
I think it would be on the whole more decent to give Disney its own press at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving than to continue to see it use small children as its conduit from parents' pockets. The good news might be that some parents resolve to shut Disney off completely.
> To make it easier to take advantage of PostgreSQL’s extensibility, PostgreSQL 13 adds the concept of a "trusted extension," which allows database users to install extensions that a superuser marks as "trusted." Certain built-in extensions are marked as trusted by default, including pgcrypto, tablefunc, hstore, and more.

Wow, that should make setting up a new installation easier. It looks like trigrams are marked as trusted (my favorite extension). I think this is the full list: https://blog.dbi-services.com/postgresql-13-trusted-extensio...
All SSE instructions can be encoded into VEX and won’t trigger the issue. It’s just an unfortunate combination of compiler and linker settings, where compiler used legacy encoding despite AVX was enabled somewhere else.

Modern compilers are aware, e.g. check out gcc 10: https://godbolt.org/z/39v98r I asked it to compile for Sandy Bridge and the compiler has encoded all vector instruction in VEX, you can tell by opcodes starting with v, e.g. vmovmskpd instead of just movmskpd: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/movmskpd
> In particular near the ending of SOMA where the thing happens to Simon and he freaks out, despite the same thing happening shortly beforehand and freaking him out, was the most annoying bit that really sealed my distaste.

I agree that that was a weak point but not because it's unrealistic for Simon to be surprised - that continuity of Simon did after all jump along with every copy so he did not really experience the same thing before. Being so focused on getting on the Ark I find it quite believable that Simon would not think too much about that he would also be staying on the sea floor.

Forcing that reaction onto the player was a mistake though. I think it would have been better use of the medium if Frictional had not added the Ark ending and instead left the player stranded under the ocean with nothing to do and leaving you to come up with your own reaction.

For me that ending didn't take away from the rest of the game though.

> the horror aspect is better

As weird as it is to say about Frictional's games, the actual horror aspect is the least interesting part to me. I guess that also explains why I'm a bit biased against TDD. I do agree that the Penumbra games have great characters though - Red is one of my all time favorite video game characters.