skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I developed constant tinnitus a couple of years ago, probably from a sequence of causes:

I've had sinus problems since childhood. Some exposure to loud music. An upper back spine injury that affects my neck and chest muscles. With this I sometimes had tinnitus, usually worse in the evenings or after spending many hours in front of a screen.

Then I got knocked on the head twice, the second time left a small dent in my nose, and it damaged the right side of my jaw. After this the tinnitus became more permanent.

Almost worse than the tinnitus is that my ears are always popping, as in many times per day. Just sitting at my desk I'll get the same sensation you get on descent when scuba diving, and I have to pinch my nose and blow on it to equalize. Any else have this symptom?
> "Trained logicians should know that semantic meaning is arbitrary...Abortion is the canonical example of [a semantic] argument: once you have decided what 'life' is, there’s really not much else to discuss. It’s not a political argument, not even in theory. It’s purely a semantic one."

Which is quite much exactly what I said.

That a definition is arbitrary doesn't mean that it is unimportant. If I use one arbitrary definition, and you another one, we won't have any meaningful discussion. Sometimes this can be resolved, when the definitions themselves aren't the central issue and we can agree about at least some provisional defintions. Sometimes the definition itself is the central issue, and can't be resolved. Like when we disagree about the meaning of the term life. In this case, any provisional definitions won't help.

> then they aren't really disagreeing over the meaning of the word 'life', they're disagreeing over the nature or essence of life itself

Those two things are the the same. What is the meaning of a word other than the "nature or essense" of the thing it references?
>I've always done well by being judged and rewarded as an individual

It doesn't surprise me too much that this union talk is coming from places like Kickstarter, I mean as an individual engineer at Kickstarter what could you really do to elevate yourself, the site is a solved problem.

Unless they have an interest in branching out into a new product you have very little opportunity to rise above the rest of the team just maintaining the site. The only people who are going to be causing that company to make more money are outside the engineering team and the engineering team are going to be being looked at constantly as a cost they need to reduce.

Most ambitious people would realize this and that they need to move on to somewhere with more opportunity where there is a chance for their individual contribution to shine.
The thing is: it doesn't have to be perfect. If you already remove the ones that are obviously political ads, you already reduce the noise by a lot.
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>Information or Lies?

There are no absolutes. If you're willing to accept some false-positives, nearly everything can be categorized as a "lie".

This is how and why Stephen Colbert coined the term "truthiness".
That means blackmail, threats of violence, divulging state secrects, forging documents, fake passports, and terrorist propaganda should all be allowed.
No it's not, it's a learned technique.

If you want to keep on suffering, go ahead, or you can learn to live with it.
Why does getUsers return Maybe [a] in the first place? It should be [a]. You can also implement your own version of length that works only with iterables of your choice. The language allows leveraging type constraints to achieve this, the fact that your team didn't use it doesn't indicate an inherent flaw in the type system you've been provided with. And if you want to go an extra mile, use liquid-base instead of base.
Needs dark theme.
Building your own version of something that already exists can be a really cool hack.
Redis

https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/6929
Definitely don't disagree!
The bigger and the more successful a forum/group/channel gets the more it attracts traffic. With more traffic comes more low-value traffic. Whether that is less than or more than or quite exactly proportional I don't want to speculate about.

If a forum gets too big, those who value lower volume higher quality traffic will leave. It often doesn't raise the level of the community remaining.

Most clearly we have seen that with Stack Overflow. Where Stack Overflow is still useful as a "static" resource for questions/answers who have not changed for some time.
I don't actually agree with the corrections, though.

Those phrases are similar, but subtly different. It depends on whether you meant you hear them every day, but not always a lot... Or whether you hear them constantly throughout the day, every day.
Google Maps has improved a lot over the past few years, especially around public transport and commute.

Having said that, Google is starting to add more ads, which degrades the experience somewhat and I guess proves your friends' point.
This is an awesome feature. Of your face, I mean, not of the recognition software.

At this points these complains are bullshit in my opinion. It shifts the debate about if we want to accept facial recognition to the side. It is like a free gift to those that sell these systems.

So if facial recognition is actually bad for minorities, people bringing up these topics should not be their friends. My opinion, I know it is a strong one, but it is also more correct.

Is a passport checker even needed for security would be a better discussion topic.
> It seems the people who are dying from COVID-19 are those who have reached an age which is well beyond the average life expectancy of a first world country.

Some data in support of this:

„According to the CDC’s data, the survival rate for COVID-19 is as follows:

0-19: 99.997%

20-49: 99.98%

50-69: 99.5%

70 & over: 94.6%

Life expectancy in the USA per CDC: 78.7 (2018)“ [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/drsimonegold/status/1313948710523424768?...
They phoned an ambulance twice, so if it was something fairly obvious like this it's a reasonable assumption that would have come to light at the hospital.
>This kind of nonsense shouldn't be tolerated either way.

But it's the crux of the problem.

If you're a relatively low-information voter, how else are you supposed to know who won besides the politicians themselves or the media?
This is the approximately going rate for all the major cloud providers (links [0]). Sure, you could buy your own SSDs, but how are you going to connect them to the VMs? I suppose this might be where their profit is, especially because these are logical volumes anyway. But it's not like you can just go out and beat this price at home with minimal effort.

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Amazon ($0.1/GB): https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/

Azure ($0.075/GB): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-di...

Google ($0.17/GB): https://cloud.google.com/persistent-disk/#section-7

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Am I wrong or the technology can be used one day to create Stillsuit (https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Stillsuit) as described in Dune by Frank Herbert?
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Image search for הצלע pretty much gives rib (and rib cuts). On the other hand, it's unclear that all of the many biblical references to feet are meant literally as pedal extremities.
For downvoters: it's a fine project, but I don't think they can fly planes at higher speed, lower cost, and lower carbon emissions, without a major technology shift. It is hardly controversial.

Most likely: they do care, but it is not their main priority.
You conveniently ignored "noise" from the list you quoted there.
I'd agree with all of this, except maybe saying English speaking instead of western world.

But here we are. Joining a union won't help me in the local or immediate sense and it won't change politics. I don't like the economic or political system. But with zero options to change it, I have to pursue whatever will get me the best return for my efforts. That isn't unionisation sadly. Its a 19th century solution that doesn't seem to fit 21st century problems. :(
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TBH on Hacker News it's also a problem. If you have a point of view that is consistent with the majority of users (or with the users who write lots of comments), then everything is fine. But if your point of view differs, then you're often downvoted into oblivion. This is often not a good place for discussing things.
I get the hating. By that argument, even private jets are an abomination and so is the lifestyle of almost every billionaire out there. It is no surprise that the top 1% account for all of the pollution of the bottom 50% of the population.

Depending on your perspective, every expenditure and experience that money can buy, can be viewed as wasteful and harming the environment. For someone with no access to water, a long shower feels very wasteful.

If we don't actively come out of this dogma and not embark on some ground breaking technology, our lives won't change at all. So many new technologies from aircraft and space technology have made it to mainstream - Kevlar, carbon fiber to think of a couple. So, even if Boom ends up building only billionaire's toye, there is a possibility that second and third order inventions can make it to mainstream society and bring about change at scale.
If you keep a good diary you can limit the blood tests to 1-2 times per year and assess therapeutic effect using self-reporting.
Since we are exchanging anecdotes, this also happened at my non-union job.
My Windows 10 Home Single Language license cost the OEM $50 AFAIK and despite that MS decided to put placeholder tiles on the start menu which are replaced with apps (e.g. Candy Crush) once you connect to the internet after setting up the OS and those are finished being downloaded.

Xbox app can be uninstalled, but not Xbox Game Bar? Bing on the Start menu search which for some reason I can't disable because there isn't any straightforward option for that.

When I try to download an app from Windows Store, the instant I press 'GET' button a dialogue window asking me to log into my MS account is opened upon closing which I can proceed to download the app.
I think that's a good analysis. Never work in a cost centre. Or if you do, unionize.
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> Now, it seems like we have a better understanding and how to potentially treat it.

I think you're being a bit optimistic here. There've been some procedural improvements. We have a few drugs which appear to shorten hospital stay but not reduce death rate. We have dexamethasone, which gives something like a 20% death rate reduction in hospitalized cases, but is not otherwise super-useful.

There've been modest improvements in treatment, but no silver bullet yet.
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(Anecdote time.)

I got myself Airpods Pro last autumn and used the transparent mode. After a few weeks my tinnitus had become way worse. After 3-4 months it had died down a bit (but not to what it used to be before the pods.)

I then used them again for a couple of days. And it became even worse. Haven't used them for 6 months and unfortunately it is still as bad.

I don't dare using them or my Bose headphones anymore. Your comment is the first I've seen relating noise cancelling with tinnitus.
Maybe my rant was a little bit too short
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But to understand, one has to know that Roblox used to be working well enough on Linux through Wine.

Then, up to the current day:
"Roblox anti-cheat started detecting Wine and would force the game to quit."

More details here:
https://roblox.fandom.com/wiki/Roblox_on_Linux
What is the primary difference between EU and US style unions?
Hm... Non-technical software you say. I would say Inkscape. Maybe web browsers...?
Wow, I assumed you were "yes-and"ing the parent commenter's joke, but it seems you're correct about the lick test.

Sounds like material for the pre-credits sequence of a low-budget horror movie.
* That's polythene bags replaced by polypropylene bags
Furthermore, each 'inalienable right' places some burden on the rest of society to actually enforce it.

For example, 'right to a fair trial by a jury of their peers' means that judges and the rest of them must be organised, paid for, etc.
>I'm curious what you consider the "hoax" in "very fine people hoax".

The idea that the POTUS just called racists who ran over and killed a woman "fine people" is beyond reason.

A person with some objectivity can understand that Trump wasn't talking about white supremacists with his "fine people" statement. He was referring to there being "fine people on both sides" of the political spectrum, protesters and counter-protesters, at the protest. His point was that not all of those protesting the statue removal were white supremacists, some were "fine people". Of course, that's the story the left went with anyway, because Trump fumbled another one.
I don't think the fish below the surface of the ocean are going to notice some noise originating from 10-15km above the surface.
My wife and I both constantly complain about the voice level in movies and TV. We've even hooked up a nice stereo system and let it calibrate itself, only to find out that we had to crank the center speaker up to hear them properly. And for crappy audio that isn't properly stereo, that still doesn't help because too much goes through the center speaker.
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Hehe, how topical, and you are right of course, thanks :)
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> For example, Sweden had school breaks around the time of the large outbreaks in northern Italy and Austria, leading to many ski vacations to those areas. Did the other Nordics?

Yes, Norway and Denmark had ski vacations at the same time with a lot of travel to the Alps. All three countries had very similar initial conditions and trajectories for the epidemic until early April. The differences in outcomes were clearly related to policy decisions made in March and April.
You can force someone to lie to you. Maybe you should be angry with the liar but that shouldn't stop you from seeing the reality of the situation.
So someone stopped visiting HN ten years ago. Is this really worth a post on HN and more than a hundred comments? Personally, I can't understand the statements of the person concerned; what bothers me more are those posts that don't contribute anything relevant to technological development. Basically, I find HN very helpful and both a good source of information and inspiration. The discussions are also generally quite good. And we should be able to trust adults to have a little bit of a culture of debate.
By the power of goooooglllleeeee!

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Doesn't have my last name. Neither of my friends.

Probably a good list, but far from exhaustive.
With Vulkan you can choose to have a small matrix of feature levels and thus few optional code paths. Or you can have many. That choice is up to you. Whereas if the API defines feature levels, it isn't.
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No, that's a caption on a photo of a modern analog mixer.
What, did Ludditism become the official 2020 philosophy?!
Which of these two sounds better?

1. Someone who has been in the private sector takes a sabbatical to serve in Congress for a term or two. When they're done, they go back to their old job.

2. Someone spends their life working on campaigns and for politicians, then gets elected and holds the same Congressional seat for 50 years.

I think my earlier comments make it clear I think #1 is an ideal and #2 is at best a bastardization of what we should have, but I tried not to editorialize the two options too much.
I mean, I think there _is_ some semantic debate, in that there are always semantic debates about what is life and what isn't on the edges (see the endless rather tedious argument about whether viruses, or, more esoterically, mitochondria, are life whenever anyone brings it up), but it's largely irrelevant to the actual question.
To me a large part of the value of HN is the back-catalog.

That's not a very flattering thing to say. I do the same as you. Yesterday I wanted information about Monero and did the site: trick with good results.

What I find annoying is the partisan chilling effect. Not just discussions about politics, that I try to avoid because I know it's doomed. But about anything. There is a front-page technical programming discussion where I started to compose a comment and gave up, thinking that it would be downvoted as hell, not because it's outrageus or false, just unpopular opinion.
Have to say I'm amazed at the speed of Starlink deployment. When I first heard about it it seemed similar to autonomous cars: probably mostly feasible, but years in the making so all technical constraints can be overcome.

But here we are, with public beta incoming, and people reporting Ookla speedtests with under 100 ms ping and download speeds into tens of Mbps. Amazing.
How exactly do you think we’re gonna escape those bounds?
How does the protection work in the case of e.g. Brexit going badly? Do they have insurance policies that pay out if the UK economy tanks?
Because the makers of websites are web devs and not copywriters.

I’m a copywriter that specializes in SaaS tools, and it’s literally always the case.

The founders are brilliant nerds but haven’t a cooking clue about the first thing when it comes to marketing, product positioning or delivery of their value proposition.
Vulkan does have versions too that provide bundled feature upgrades - no one is forcing you to use evey extension just because they are available. The same is/was true for OpenGL except for the large time window between 2.1 and 3.0 - you can write perfectly functual code without using any vendor extensions. Think of extensions more as a) a testing ground for bleeding edge features and b) a way to expose functionality that is truly specific to some hardware.
sometimes "falsehoods that other people believe and pay developers to do"
Board seats?
Also, on how this compares to other industries.

The report (https://www.accenture.com/_acnmedia/PDF-134/Accenture-A4-GWC...) discusses neither.

It also is a bit light in details, and has, IMO, some questionable methodology:

“We asked women who had left tech roles - or were likely to leave such roles within two years - why. Respondents were presented with 13 options (including “Other” and “Don’t know”). We then grouped these options into four buckets:”

“We created and defined the variables based on the survey data result.”

Grouping questions after questionnaires were filled in (and, reading that second quote, taking the answers into account) opens the door for (possibly unconsciously) introducing bias.
My point is that you shouldn't design things being made right now for an entirely speculative future change.

I don't think anyone believes that Tesla will have actual self-driving cars, which don't require constant driver attention, within the lifetime of the cars currently being produced.
>Those two things are the the same. What is the meaning of a word other than the "nature or essense" of the thing it references?

This is actually a vexed question in linguistics and the philosophy of language. I don’t want to get into it here, but the answer to your question is not in any way uncontroversial or obvious.

For me the idea that the root of the abortion debate is a disagreement over an arbitrary definition doesn’t compute, for the reasons I already gave. (Why not just introduce new words with commonly agreed definitions and be done with it?) But that discussion seems to be going round and round in circles.
> I've been thinking a lot lately about blindspots.

I think it works like this:

blindspots are so hard to see, but if they are inconvenient, they will get pushback. great effort will be spent creating counter-arguments i.e. arguments against, but not so much arguments for.
Effort will be spent repeating them so these counterarguments will become well-known, and accepted.

Soon enough, there will be a lamp-shade effect; there are so many counter-arguments people will wonder if the value they see is something is real because they only hear talk of the harm of something, not the value; everyone thinks it's harmful, but no one speaks of the value. Soon enough, it becomes harder to defend something, and this means the path-of-least-resistance is to not defend something, or to attack those that try. Anyone defending it has to adopt a "contrarian" style and tone, and sometimes hedge a little with "provocateur" behaviour to give themselves an out in case things come back on them (I wasn't really serious, lol).

I personally hate so-called "identity politics" because it gives people a personal, group-identity stake in things that not only bias their perspective, but often add a strong emotive current to topics that fuels the creation of stigmas and taboos as above.

> This was how I "got sick of philosophy" at Uni.

I did philosophy at uni. OMG stay away from the continental stuff. The (often American aka logical positivists) stuff that intersected with logic and mathematics was great though, although much of it seemed to be a study in semantics/language/meaning.

Check out Rudolf Carnaps "philosophical nonsense" stuff:

Such metaphysical sentences—into which we can be misled by the logical shortcomings of natural languages—are revealed to be pseudo-sentences by logical analysis. They are nonsense, in the sense of not having any theoretical content; they are not answers to any coherently expressible questions.

TBH, I think the answer to such things might be: revise the traditional list of fallacies. what a task this would be though..
I really don't enjoy numpy, the syntax is so cumbersome compared to the alternatives, some operations are in np/rng while others are defined as methods, and some operations are by reference (hi bugs) while others copy.

I really wish some aspects of matlab or k could be adapted into the language. Like adverbs, letting you type .* to multiply two matrices by element, or {x$x}/ for numerically finding eigenvectors of a Markov transition matrix.
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It's interesting for me, because I didn't realize at the time that the things that bother me now were present then. The author seems to be more sensitive than me like ten years more.
How many young people have died so far in the US?
If you are super handsome, rich, smart and young, it is easier for you than most people to find another girlfriend / boyfriend... but you still want to have influence of the big decision inside your couple, you don't want to be abused...
Needle exchanges are more about preventing multiple people from using the same needle, which is an excellent way to transmit diseases like hepatitis, HIV, etc.
I wrote a CLI tool for name generation awhile back:

https://github.com/ironarachne/namegen

It doesn't have the volume of names that this one does, but it does have custom rules for names (e.g., Icelandic last names), and it can generate Thai names.
That is from 2010.

Does anybody have the facts handy? How many posts per day now and then? Velocity of the front page? Comments per article?

HN has an API, so it's probably not difficult to get some data. But I have a day job and several hobbies already...
Far more comes from the media itself.

Like the "undecided voters" who thought Biden won the debate, but some of whom were interviewed by msnbc months ago and said they were voting got Biden.

Or the fact they classify antifa and blm as peaceful protest groups, not hate groups.

It's likely people don't particularly care about the truth. Narratives matter more.