skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm about 15 years of constant tinnitus. The trouble with curing it is that it seems to be a problem with your brain not receiving the signal it expects form from the auditory nerve.

This famous reddit trick[0.] for at least temporarily curing tinnitus seems to lend credence to this idea. It essentially involves making noise near the skull, which presumably does temporarily stimulate the auditory nerve even if the ear drum itself is not able to correct create a signal.

My tinnitus has nothing to do with my ear drum, and interestingly enough this trick does not work for me.

I suspect curing tinnitus would require understanding a lot more about how nerves work and how to simulate sending an auditory signal without actually sending one.

0. https://np.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/3l3uri/these_guys_light...
The article really seems to be more about "so you want to design a custom PCB for a given embedded Linux capable application processor". While it is full of useful information and candid findings, there is usually negative business value in this approach as Jay admits lower down the article: I don’t think most people design PCBs around these raw parts anyway — the off-the-shelf SOMs are so ridiculously cheap (even ones that plausibly are FCC certified) that even relatively high-volume products I've seen in the wild use the solder-down modules. It is, however, necessary sometimes.

Zooming out to a broader management context, non-trivial systems usually comprise multiple processors. In these circumstances production volumes are generally lower and subsystem iteration more likely, therefore it makes more sense for managers to worry about overall architecture (eg. bus selection, microntroller vs application processor, application processor architecture) and consider factors such as speed of prototyping, availability of talent, longevity/market-stability of vendor's platform, feature-set and nature of software toolchain(s), etc. rather than worry about optimizing specific processor part selection.

The management priority generally only flips closer to the article's fine-grained approach in the event that you are designing a consumer electronics widget or otherwise very high production run product with a low change expectation, where individual processor selection and BOM optimization become greater concerns.

Conclusion: For most people, for most products, most of the time, you don't want to start by worrying about specific processor part selection. Further, prototyping should be done on third party dev boards/SOMs and when production volumes justify it, final PCB design can be handed to an outside EE. This is not always a viable strategy (eg. due to form factor or other application constraints), but it's fast, cheap and hard to go too far wrong.
Ask HN: Alternative to unison for two-way syncing?
I just received this error after upgrading my laptop:

Failed: Server: Fatal error during unmarshaling (input_value: ill-formed message), possibly because client and server have been compiled with differentversions of the OCaml compiler.

Yes, it's the same version of unison on both ends, 2.48.4.

Is there a good alternative to unison two-way syncing? My use case is some files which may be touched from several laptops, not simultaneously. I run unison before and after working with the files and therefore always have the most up-to-date file.

I've considered DropBox, etc., but I prefer keeping my data on my machines.
I would recommend that you read a book a week, every week, for the rest of your life. :)

Just start with the ones in the article and Amazon/Kindle will get good at recommending books.

Here's some books recently read on my Kindle:

- No Rules Rules
- Never Split The Difference
- The Manager's Path
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- Ultralearning
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- What You Do is Who You Are
- User Story Mapping
- Inspired
- The Lean Product Playbook
- Competing Against Luck
- Domain Driven Design
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
- Data-Driven Marketing
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- Monetizing Innovation
- Super Thinking
- The Great Mental Models
- Nonviolent Communication
- High Growth Handbook
- Powerful
- Trillion Dollar Coach
Ancient tiny teeth reveal first mammals lived more like reptiles
Not sure if this is right place but thought I could ask here with regards to embedded development.

1. I once had a temperature/humidity sensor, but never figured out if it was analog or digital (it had three prong.
someone in field thought it could be digital). What would be some ways/tooling needed you could use to independently test this out?

2. In/Out on embedded boards is any suggested way to capture reads (or write), for example raw data? What about the other way around?

3. Which board here might be good to practice (or something else) doing a hello world on making device drivers. Something on easy, learning side and possibly practical that interacts with a real device.

Thx!
Auth0 and Splunk Provide Enhanced Security, Operational Monitoring and Insights
Splunk is a data platform that allows companies to analyze any structure data, across any timescale. Auth0 extends log streaming capabilities with the new integration.
I wouldn't call that being a crap shield. I'd call that executing on the non-technical aspects of your team's strategy.

When teams don't see (and/or frame) those things as key part of achieving their goals the results aren't gonna be great for anyone.
> that news sources would be required to present contrasting viewpoints

Personally, I don't have a problem with publishers engaging in publishing. So I wouldn't support that.

But there is a large, philosophical difference, IMO, between a publisher and a platform.

And our laws need to be changed to further clarify this.
I don't care much about the bad press for holes that were patched years back, but I do care about those unupdated machines becoming zombies in a botnet. Those things are so disruptive and the mitigations only work so well.
> have appeared on HN that are libelous

Not just have appeared, but which are still on display.

Sometimes the difference between libellous and a critical statement protecting the public is purely the difference of the statement being true or not.

This is not something a moderator is necessarily in a position to be able to judge but it's critically important to a community that its members can communicate true negative facts about other members.
Per an earlier study (which may or may not have weathered the replication crisis, I'm not sure) they proved it for adults with anterograde amnesia (inability to form new memories).

If memory serves:

They had patients sort paintings by preference, told them they could have a copy of whatever they ranked 2nd or 3rd (of course they'd pick the one they ranked 2nd), told them (falsly) they'd be mailed their copy, came back in a week and had them rank the same paintings again. More often than should be explained by chance, patients would rank what had been 2 as 1 or what had been 3 as 4 or 5; their preferences for these paintings changed in the direction of their choice, despite choosing freely and even though they didn't remember making the decision.
Morality is a code of values a person may hold, whereas ethics is a philosophic (scientific) approach to discovering and defining such codes, and an attempt to answer two specific questions - whether a human being needs a code of values, and if so, what code of values they should choose to flourish as a human being (and not as any other "being").

So, a person may be clear morally, based on a code of values that puts an emphasis on a legal aspect of interactions between people, but from the perspective of ethics we can observe that such a code may not be sufficient to fully realise their potential of flourishing as a human being.
I think so, it describes it as 'a menu, like Creative Commons' - and on the adopters page 'AppsCode' is described as using 'Non Commercial and Free Trial' (which are two of the licences listed).

But I'm not sure if that means like usual 'dual licensing' (pick your licence) or a conjunction of their terms, so that any pair is more restrictive than its parts.
Parent here. I admit this wasn’t from a scientific method, it is just that when I saw it in the theater, I suddenly understood why it was annoying, and started counting from there. Maybe there were longer shots earlier in the movie (although I’ve tried watching it recently and the first scenes were cut this way), maybe the average isn’t 0.7 which was a ballpark figure based on my counting.

Sorry for being probably wrong on the exactness of the figures, I thought the background idea was important, that pre-2000 movies were slower, and there has been an acceleration to the point of ridicule, and it is probable that directors dialled down from the extremely-fast-paced style because it didn’t find its audience. Yes, more recent movies didn’t go faster than that one, it was really a style that had its apogee in that movie.
> In practice this often means that "from midnight on Monday to midnight on Tuesday" is a 48-hour interval so far as consumers are concerned.

I generally insist on midnight being 0:00 or 24:00 for much the same reasons.
> There is like no circumstances where it is beneficial since you

the days before Windows auto update meant millions of unpatched machines running wild on the internet. I know it gets a lot of hate these days but its gotta be better than the alternative.
Minor correction Re: "young age" - Nim dates back to 2006 with a first public release in 2008 and is older than Go and Go is older than Kotlin.
Fair enough! It just feels like a funny meta example of why one might want to "editorialize" content without also being forced to moderate every single thing posted.
Unless I missed something, no. Extensions can still have full access to the data stream as long as it's read-only. Maybe it could help a little if you're extremely careful about permissions, but how many people are?
I feel like a lot of the people I'm around every day know, but since most of my socialization is in a work context we don't talk about it much. Maybe others are similar.

Thank you for being out there. Politicians need to hear from people on the streets.
That scenario has happened repeatedly - 91-94, 01-02, 08-11, and now from 2018-present. It usually plays out as a ~10-25% drop in housing prices over a few years as the market exhausts itself, followed by a resurgence as wages & demand starts catching up again.

https://havengroupsf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/30-years...

The way I think a glut could arise is when a tipping point is reached and pro-housing renters outnumber NIMBY owners on city councils. This has happened already in Mountain View (which was notoriously anti-development until a group of young pro-housing Googlers packed the city council and voted out all the NIMBYs in 2014, and now green-lights nearly any housing development), Sunnyvale, Redwood City, and San Mateo, and may make its way down to San Jose and up the rest of the peninsula. At present a lot of Bay Area communities are starting to look more like Paris: dense ~4 story apartment buildings, public squares, outdoor dining on pedestrian thoroughfares, etc.
> A job at Google making $200-400k, having good work life balance and enough time to pursue your hobbies is success. It is also more reliably achievable.

Yes. Perhaps restating your point in statistical terms, "Where Are All the Successful Rationalists?" is entirely the wrong question. A rationalist is not particularly interested in outliers and assumes their outcome is no likely to be better than the odds predict.

The right question is "What is the median level of success among all rationalists compared to other groups?" My hunch is that you'd find that they do tend to be more successful in the aggregate.

If you only look at the set of people who have made a ton of money to draw your conclusions, it would tell you you should buy more lottery tickets.
Worse yet: sometimes the difference is just who happens to be on your jury that day!
Fortunately HIV isn't communicable by sharing air. Despite that truvada costs $2000/month[] in the us. And, unless I'm mistaken, it needs to be taken for life, or until a proper cure is found and hopefully that doesn't cost $2,000,000. Truvada costs more than the median us salary. I'd rather risk covid19. Death would come much faster than an agonising death from untreated aids.

[] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
Anyone know what the uninstall steps should be for those of us who used Nano Defender with uBlock Origin [0]? I've disabled Nano Defender and removed NanoResources.txt [1] from my UBO advanced settings, but I'm not sure if there is anything else I should be worried about. I also disabled the Nano Defender Integration and Nano filters lists, but I don't know whether those are safe to use.

[0]: https://jspenguin2017.github.io/uBlockProtector/#extra-insta...

[1]: https://gitcdn.xyz/repo/NanoAdblocker/NanoFilters/master/Nan...
There can be quite interesting work involving modelling and optimising decisions that organisations are making -- e.g. helping to understand and improving the efficiency or profitability of some manufacturing process, or logistics.

One possible entry point into this kind of work could be to find some consultancy that specialises in this kind of work that's willing to hire a grad with solid comp science & coding & mathematics foundations. You're certain to get worked hard and billed out to clients for a lot more than what you get paid, but it can be a great environment for learning rapidly and also getting real world exposure to seeing how general math & computer science & optimisation techniques can be combined and fruitfully applied to some particular industry or business niche. Early in your career it is a lot easier to do something for a year or two and decide it isn't for you, and try something else -- or decide that it's a good fit and that you want to keep pursuing it in industry or pursue further studies to go into more depth about an area you didn't realise you were excited about.

I've found the work most engaging in my career where there's a combination of learning about and understanding some particular industry and then combining that with software development and mathematical modelling/optimisation techniques and then seeing the real world industry-specific results --- but it's hard to know what opportunities in specific real world industries exist and if you would enjoy them without being immersed in it.
Well, just check his username.
Fair enough. I think then we get into how easy this is to do in these. For example, can you really target the web browser vs node from the same JS codebase by simply changing the compiler invokation?
> Let's better stabilize on one target than chasing a moving target forever.

Fuck yeah! That's a solid engineering decision.

Thanks for the response and keep up the extremely impressive work!
I'm not sure that anyone ever _really_ thought it improved survival. Just cutting time in hospital would be useful enough.
I like saying up 3, down 1 :)
wow... Way to try to steal the show. I'm now 100% certain I'll never try piano gym.
What the... what? I've never seen the Simple TCP/IP services enabled anywhere, ever!

It's not needed for any application that I've ever heard of.

Why would anyone install this? On an Internet-facing server no less!?
Ask HN: HN Dark Mode?
I was just now thinking how cool it would be if HN had a dark mode? Browsing hacker news on a 34 inch wide monitor right now. Everything else on my desktop is in dark mode, so my eyes took quite a hit :) I'm guessing for reading, black on white is proven to be more effective, but it seems my eyes are very sensitive to pure white backgrounds now.
But that's a styrofoam "wall" it's cutting through.
Not sure why this is dead.

> This study showed that there is significant loss in the

> dominant ear compared to the non-dominant ear (P < 0.05).

> Chronic usage mobile phone revealed high frequency

> hearing loss in the dominant ear (mobile phone used)

> compared to the non dominant ear.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3918279/

Anecdotally, a hearing test performed after many years of having my earpiece in my right ear found that in the vocal frequency ranges my right ear has some hearing loss. (It was not like that before.) Which may or may not be coincidental.

It's not a stretch to think that holding a speaker–which is often far louder than it should be–right up to one's ear for extended periods every day could cause tinnitus in that ear.
I wouldn't say so. Since my game mostly just needs a canvas I make use of SDL2 to target Android (and plan to use it for iOS/desktop as well). I created a thin library which targets either HTML5 canvas (JS) or SDL2 (everything else): https://github.com/dom96/gamelight
Right on! We'll be waiting if you change your mind!
Safety and Immunogenicity of Two RNA-Based Covid-19 Vaccine Candidates
I've been dealing with it for nearly 20 years now.

I'm apparently fairly adept at putting it to the background these days, because I mostly don't notice it except for when it's particularly quiet, or something specifically triggers my awareness of it. Certain sounds in certain frequency ranges trigger it off too. My youngest kid had a playful shriek thing she did that would palpably hurt me and cause it to kick off.

Seeing this post on HN itself is triggering and I'm now very conscious of the high pitched ringing sound.

I would be willing to pay good money to be cured of this.
HN comments are a statistical distribution. If you make generalizations based on the long tail in the direction you dislike, you won't end up with an accurate picture or feel very good. Everybody does it, though, because we are primed to notice most what we dislike: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... This seems to be an invariant of how human hard-wiring meets the internet.
Well, apparently if you chew corn thoroughly you'll break down the cellulose fibers enough where you can digest the corn kernel shells. I don't pay attention to how I chew food and hadn't noticed chewing more than anyone else. Hmmm, strange! You would think being an older person and having been born, raised and still living in the corn belt and therefore eating LOTS of corn I would have seen the kernel shells sometime! Who knows? Maybe I'm a mutant who can digest cellulose better than most! :)

P.S. - In all seriousness maybe that's why I've been able to be a vegetarian for 30 years without suffering from the ill effects people typically suffer, such as excessive gas. Maybe I really do digest cellulose better than most.
It's as if they're doing this on purpose. It is quite obviously pointless to administer antiviral drugs _after_ the cytokine storm sets in and the person is already dying.
Images can be faked. Videos can be faked. I can make a deepfake video using open source tools with a few hours of work. There is a video floating around on the internet that shows Trump in a hotel with women peeing on the bed. Mainstream news doesn't report on that video because the origin of the video is uncertain. NY Post has made zero effort to verify the authenticity of the documents they have. And they are a right wing tabloid, so have no prior credibility to trade on.

And please post links to your sources. Until then, I am going to go out on a limb and assume that the reason you are not doing so is because they are also coming from sites with little to no credibility.
Seriously fuck Tesla. Thanks to them we have other car makers pushing against right to repair as well.

Because of the current right to repair in Massachusetts (I think the only state) they have to provide the service manual. However, they make you pay $100 per day and it's online only with all kinds of measures to prevent you from downloading it.

Any other car's service manual can be picked up in the store for a reasonable price.

If you no longer own a car they should not be allowed to sell it to you. Make it lease only and if it breaks, they need to deal with it, like a cable box.
> Some people, including both Joe Biden and Donald Trump, have called for a complete repeal of Section 230 at various times in the last year

AFAICT, that characterization of Biden's position is based entirely on a single oral interview response, which quite arguably was not saying that the law should be repeated but that, on the facts of Facebook's specific conduct, and that of some unspecified other platforms, their conduct should be excluded from Section 230 protections because they were knowingly engaging in misinformation.

Note that Section 230 protections in case law are broader than what is provided on the face of the statute; in addition to the "publisher or speaker" protection in Section 230(c)(1); courts have extended it to also prevent liability as a distributor for content, IIRC by synthesizing 230(c)(1) and the good-faith blocking rule in Section 230(c)(2) and some legislative history to add the not-express-in-statute rule that sites are also not liable even as a distributor for the material they don't block, with some exceptions. Biden's statement is consist with restricting Section 230 to what is says on the face, which would be only removing publisher/speaker liability, not distributor liability (which comes about when the distributor has knowledge or legal notice of the legal problem with the content.)
The Costs of Streaming Music
I don't feel like you are being honest. Driving across the state of California is not being nearby. A 4+ hour, 200+ mile, one way drive is not nearby.
Sounds like the distinction is between project work and owning one or more products. A Wipro could function like this. No reason a Microsoft couldn’t, but they just don’t.
Right. As weird as it sounds I think you have to "practice" liking certain foods.

I used to hate ginger but drinking ginger kombucha, which has a ginger taste but isn't overwhelming, slowly acclimated me to the taste of ginger. A few months later and I actually liked ginger.

I can still see why I use to hate it but it's just...more palatable now.

The more I looked into flavors (bitter, salty, sour, sweet, umami) I realized I almost always had issues with sour. Not anymore.
I personally know at least one rationalist who is amongst the wealthiest people in the world and got there at least in part as a direct consequence of his rationalist interests, uses the lingo etc.

(No, I won’t say who it is)

That being said most people who self-identify as rationalists are significantly held back by (a) lack of charisma (b) the fact that they believe that their elaborate mental constructs are reality. Of course these are just another mental narrative, and not even a particularly useful one.
We use Zepta every time we discuss ZFS.
Politifact has been wrong more time’s than I can count.

First, US closed late Jan before they are citing many others than closed right after that, I know someone who was disallowed before the 31st but they wouldn’t be straightforward on why, so the admin was restricting travel even before the announcement.

And I was referring mostly to within the US there, and with the WHO. Here’s Biden right after the ban:

> We need to lead the way with science -- not Donald Trump's record of hysteria, xenophobia and fear-mongering.

And before you reply saying he didn’t mean directly at the ban, I don’t buy it. It was sent directly after the announcement specifically saying “xenophobic” and suggesting the alternative was “science”. That isn’t someone who is signaling they support it.
Brian Schatz and John Thune have one: https://www.schatz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/OLL20612.pdf

The DOJ has one: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-unveils-pr...

The Whitehouse has a somewhat bogus EO https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...

There have been a bunch of attempts to rewrite and at least a few attempts to just repeal it from both Democrats and Republicans.
The iPhone 12 Is a Smartphone Made for Our Terrible Times
Not disputing the point here, but he also had Regeneron and Vitamin D both which have shown promising results