skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carl LeBel (Chief Development Officer of Frequency) revealed on the Tinnitus Talk Podcast that several patients in the Phase I/II study reported "improved" tinnitus to their ENTs. How much improvement wasn't measured, but it's one of the reasons they're testing for tinnitus in the phase 2a study.

Otonomy's OTO-413 drug (to fix the ribbon synapses in the cochlea) also seems really promising (results are due out next month). However, for their phase I/II study they're not testing for tinnitus and are actually excluding patients with "bothersome tinnitus". I'm hoping they see the same thing as Frequency and that some patients report improved tinnitus. These two drugs together (regrowing hair cells and ribbon synapses) seem like they could be a good one-two punch against hearing loss and tinnitus.
And the trust really comes down to observability. If I buy a vacuum cleaner it's easy to tell if it sucks and if I should recommend it to my friends. With software I might be able to judge functionality, but privacy and security usually come down to having a good track record.

That said, it's by far not the only reason leading to tech monopolies. Network effects (paired with a lack of interoperability) brings users to Instagram and MS Office alike.
I am using nim this week on a data file scraping project. If you can Google and write python you can just start with nim and learn as you go, very easy.

I am super bummed that there is (effectively) no debugging. I am too lazy to mess with VS code to get gdb working, it should just work already. Someday, I guess. Maybe jetbrains will save us. With real IDE support nim would sweep the nations.
Silicon Valley's been getting transplants since the 1860s. There's plenty of waves of immigrants before tech - the Gold Rush, Okies in the 1930s, WW2 GIs, the defense boom around Lockheed (which brought my father-in-law to the area; my wife is a Bay Area native), desktop software, and then finally the Internet. Just as Detroit had waves of migration from the 1700s - fur trading, Great Lakes trade, iron manufacturing, and then finally automobiles.

I'm specifically picking Detroit from ~1895-1970 vs. Silicon Valley from ~1995-future because there's a similar dynamic at root. A single globally-relevant industry that's remaking society, and everybody pouring in to capitalize on this. Given similar root causes, it seems likely that their futures will be similar as well.
hehe, here you go https://twitter.com/nim_lang/status/1317192813042372609 :)
"It tastes like mothballs. Maybe because it was stored with mothballs."

The amount of history that has traversed that man's stomach is incredible.
Full devils advocate mode here.. I think it would likely result in a severe scaling back of the operations of Facebook and Twitter (and Reddit and [...]). There are simply not enough people to hire as moderators and coordinate at the scales they're running at right now to operate in a manner that won't get them sued on the regular.

I also think this would result in a mad dash for anonymous, distributed, decentralized communication methods, i.e. things that can't be the target of a subpoena.

Given the toxic influence of both social media on society, and the severe centralization we're operating under... both of those things look very tempting.
LINK: https://archive.is/zt3EY#selection-1951.9-1951.45
VoIP Firm Broadvoice Leaks 350M Customer Records on Unsecured Elasticsearch
I think it's Nigerian Pidgin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Pidgin
AIM, ICQ and Yahoo Chats would work fine on that machine what features does Slack have that requires the additional resources?
> Social media platforms can easily argue

Social media platforms are not currently subject to common carrier laws.

And I am saying that the law should be changed so that they are, or whatever needs it be done to make that happen.

Common carriers are absolutely restricted from engaging in certain actions.

Were you not aware that there are regulations that restrict what common carriers do?
Well, that’s the point. The larger the population in jail, the more likely you will have deaths in jails. It doesn’t means the death is caused by the imprisonment. Particularly for a high risk population.
The USPS is

1. A government organization

2. An essential service

3. A de facto monopoly in many rural areas that are not profitable for private companies to serve.

Facebook/Twitter are none of these things.

HN: Facebook and Twitter are a stupid, pointless waste of time and you should delete your account and leave those platforms.

Also HN: Facebook and Twitter are essential services and banning people from Facebook and Twitter is a fundamental violation of their human rights.
I'm a bit ignorant of IBMs business model given how many times they've changed businesses. What you're saying is that IBM has a business that generates revenue, but that business continues to exist (and generate revenue) despite people not actively being at a desk, not that IBM has somehow managed to find a way to make money from empty desks, right?

WeWork makes more money from an oversubscription model, and thus could also make money from desks being unused. (Have 10 desks, rent out "13", and hope that all 13 people don't need desks at the same time).
I think you're missing half of #1...

While we did have to fight the Cold War, which led to much progress on a technological front, the US also had the advantage of reduced competition from previous world powers (UK, Germany, France, Japan, etc) which had been destroyed by WWII.

The Communists gave us focus. The end state of WWII provided the economic ability to put that focus to good use.

Or something like that. But, I do agree that the lack of a single unifying enemy is a problem when it comes to motivating society as a unit. It feels like we're more likely to be destroyed (as a nation) from internal factors than external, and that's not good.
We are protesting. We're forcing politicians to put themselves on one side or the other of a line by asking them whether they believe Black lives matter.

If you aren't seeing protests, I invite you to simply start one one your own. If your politicians aren't reacting, visit a local one with your cell phone camera on and ask them if Black lives matter. I've been twisting the screws like this on some local shithead conservative politicians and it's honestly kinda fun to watch them squirm.
They should switch to logarithmic scale and just say "an order-21 time interval". These "zepto" prefixes are gibberish.
JavaFX is the better alternative to all of these java libraries for building rich, cross platform desktop apps.
I just read it as Turkish= out of the country + basically unreachable. Based on the due diligence (or lack thereof) they could actually be from anywhere. He has no idea.
> But here’s where Yocto falls flat for me as a hardware person: it has absolutely no interest in helping you build images for the shiny new custom board you just made. It is not a tool for quickly hacking together a kernel/U-Boot/rootfs during the early stages of prototyping (say, during this entire blog project).

Let me suggest looking into the `devtool' utility. It's a yocto utility that enables on-the-fly work that the author enjoyed with buildroot. For instance, running `devtool modify virtual/kernel' will place the configured kernel source in a workspace directory where you can grep and modify and patch to your hearts content; on a new board, I might work for weeks in this state bringing up a new board as I patch drivers, or develop patches to play out-of-tree code over the mainline kernel. When I'm happy with my changes, I add them back into my recipe and test it by disabling the temporary workspace `devtool reset virtual/kernel' and building my recipe from scratch again.

Yocto has other amenities that ease iteration on existing boards. For one, it straightforward to cross-compile my python3 extension modules in a recipe in one base layer for my product family. Later, when I'm spinning up a derivative project, I can setup a product-specific layer to override the CPP flags, configurations, or patch the source to better target my board.

The yocto learning curve may be steeper, but the benefits of proper dependency tracking and layers far outweigh the drawbacks. At this point, if I use a board from a vendor that ships a buildroot BSP, I'll take a day to port it to yocto before moving further.
Interesting - congratulations for making it into phase I.

Your technology requires localised injection of the biopolymer ‘magnet’. Is the injection intratumoral? How difficult/specialised is this technique, and to what extent do you expect subtle differences here might influence the efficacy?
Humans can turn (almost) anything/anyone into a tribal fetish.
The actual answer is that rationalists are highly successful, but successful rationalists tend not to talk loudly about the weird esoteric thing they learned their mindset from, because they know how to read a room.

Unfortunately my only evidence is being a successful rationalist and knowing a lot of successful rationalists.
Just like over funding the police leads to over-policing, more funding for prisons would probably lead to more unnecessary incarceration, not better conditions.

Incarceration is just fundamentally antithetical to rehabilitation. To quote Danielle Sered in this excellent On The Media interview on restorative justice:

> The core drivers of violence are shame, isolation, exposure to violence, and an inability to meet one's economic needs. The four core features of prison are shame, isolation, exposure to violence and an inability to meet one's economic needs.

(https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-med...)
I am seeing them and I'm pretty active in the Seattle ones. I'm just disappointed that so many people aren't active in them.

What % of Americans do you think know there is nearly daily protests happening in nearly every metro area? 10%? 20%?
Yeah, trust is earned slowly and lost quickly. Doesn't matter the industry. But it's hard to ignore the Lindy Effect: if a system is serving me for so long and so well, why do I need to worry about lack of competition?

Before ublock, I had AdBlock and afterwards ABP on my machines. I started looking for alternatives when they introduced that "acceptable ads" crap.
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Rationalism is hydrofluoric acid. It silently creeps inside you and hollows out essential parts of you when you thought it was just a tool helpful for dissolving some external problem.

You start with a problem, and instead of solving the problem, you end up just losing your desire for the solution.

It's our nature to be self obsessed. So when we learn a new way of thinking, we cannot help but make ourselves the primary target of it. And nothing will disabuse you of a deeply held, arational, intensely motivational heroic narrative like the tools of rationalism.
> GPL is the better license for net freedom. - it's not, because of it's virality, it pollutes other code and then demands everything fall into it's license, which is ethically wrong.

Nobody has a gun held to their head and are forced to use GPL code in their code.
But they're bad people. Didn't you hear? Weren't you told?
I was also hoping for a tumor because at least can be removed surgically.
I'm going to get downvoted to hell but Open Source is broken.

The initial egalitarian view of OSS never came to fruition.

OSS is just companies like Google and Facebook throwing things on the other side of the fence to help their own business monopolies.

There aren't actually ANY OSS models where independent developers can make money to support their own code.

It's all support and services for some of the intermediate companies or you have to be FANG.

We need "free as in $19.95" for OSS where the code is open but licensing/payments are compelled.

A way to look at it is "less freedom is more freedom".

For example, if we had infinite freedom and no laws the world wouldn't work. So we compromise and accept the right amount of laws.

I think it's the same thing with OSS ... we could all public domain our code but most people don't because putting your code under a license has value. It's LESS free than public domain but more free because you're giving a license to the user but they can't sue you because they're no implied warranty.

If we had an a source code license that forced someone like Amazon to license the code we wouldn't be in this position.
Holy shit, people are expected to cross THAT on foot?
MIT, TU Wien and IST Austria Brain-Based AI Self-Drives with Just a Few Neurons
I have worked on lots of open source software with the full intent of just putting the code out there to allow others to use as they see fit. Even if one person uses it to save them or their business time, it’s achieved its goal.

If other people contribute back, great. If I get credit, great. But those are not the motivations when you put up something like a BSD license. Licenses mean things so you need to choose a restrictive license if you get your feelings hurt when people use your software in a way you don’t like.
Europe's a broken record because awful companies won't stop acting awfully with PII. it's my information. You have no right to any of it without my explicit informed consent for every aspect of the collection, use, distribution,and storage until it is provably deleted. Should you mishandle it and lose it I should be guaranteed compensation in the same way that banks deposits are insured to a certain amount.

>managed to completely obliterate whatever was left of european advertising agencies

That's a huge win in my books. I take the stance that advertising is a cancer on society wasting: lives,talent, and finite resources while doing what good for society exactly?

For every campaign that does measurable good I can usually argue that either the campaign wouldn't be necessary without advertisings infectious tendrils everywhere, or the effect is virtually worthless in the face of the overwhelming scaleof resources wasted on useless advertisement campaigns.
Yes, believe it or not I am questioning whether or not I should be free from liability if I host a public forum. And my conclusion is: perhaps I should be liable if I stand up a public forum.

You may suggest that would prevent me from creating a user-generated-content application of massive scale without the resources to sufficiently moderate it. And again, yes - maybe that should be a requirement of me doing such a thing.

It isn't like the only kind of business a person could create on the internet is one that surrounds the aggregation of user generated content. If it killed that entire class of business ... I am not sure we would lose very much of value that couldn't be replaced by individuals hosting their own content.
A large amount of websites now ask wether you want to be tracked and offer a button that allows you to say you don’t.

Google instead thinks they are above the law and offers a pop-up that can only be dismissed by accepting. Forced consent is not consent so that’s against the law.

Don’t complain if companies get into trouble because they break the law. Don’t complain Europe keeps telling companies like Google they need to follow the law until they actually start following the law.
This happens all the time across all sorts of industries. Where do you think things like ASTM standards come from? Companies pay people to participate in developing open standards that benefit themselves as well as their competitors.
That scary thought is the reason why I sympathize with big tech even though they don't always do the right thing with bans and restrictions. They are literally in new grounds. We haven't had this world of technological discussion available to us ever before. Most things are being done for the first time ever right now.

I remember how tought it was to moderate IRC channels that were larger than a certain amount of users. Imagine having to wrangle HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of users by trying to outmaneuver all the bad faith, harmful actors.

I'd rather live in a world where people can create websites and moderate them as they wish, since the alternative is probably no website at all since you are bound to run into bad faith actors in life.

As long as we can still freely create websites online there should not be people who are against moderation.
I found this video very helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM
Understanding Jakarta EE 9
As you've noted, non-compliance with Federal oversight is part of the game. They intentionally don't want numbers to reflect poorly on the penal institutions of the US.
Unless ethics is what the company is about, and what the customer wants.

I suspect smaller companies can have the luxury of being more ethically focused if they choose to.
For serious crimes, because criminals would flee.

For non-serious crimes we really shouldn't.

But "cashless bail" has downsides. People are more likely to just skip hearings. Or they keep committing minor crimes because they don't view themselves as facing consequences.
But that probably will void your MOT and your CO2 rating which in some places can get you in very hot water (or might lead to insurance not paying out in case of accident if the specs are an x% better than they were before the mod).
Same for me, the tinnitus is actually comforting. Like the noise when showering vs taking a bath. As long as my hearing is fine, I’m fine. The only solution for tinnitus is habituation. Fighting it puts it into focus and makes it worse without fail.
Capacity is a necessary but not sufficient condition to mitigate something at this scale though.
The only way anyone would have installed this trash in the first place is if their infosec threat model is complete nonsense. You're so worried about ad companies stealing your soul that you turn over full browser control to a bunch of randos? It does not and has not ever made sense.
But would you consider it reasonable to force people into lockdowns and quarantines for the cold?
The rationalist community and the number of people who call themselves rationalists has actually grown enormously (exponentially, in fact) since those early days. Modern rationalists exist in all walks of life. The early Yudkowsky-centered rationalist movement is a historical, not a modern depiction.
Ask HN: How much effort do you put into the code quality of your side projects
I'd like to know what you have to say about the topic of code quality in personal side projects. Be it from your experience in maintaining your own, or looking at other people's code.

Considering the fact you publicly display all of your work and use it in building your career, when is it considered acceptable to leave the project in its MVP state, and when is it more appropriate to build it up to a standard?
Quarkus 1.8.3.Final Released – Bugfixes
Theoretically, two reasons: flight risk, and if you think the person is probably guilty, risk of re-offence. IMO flight risk isn't a real concern most of the time, and the modern surveillance state makes flight much more difficult than in ye olden days. I'm not keen on keeping suspects locked up on risk of re-offence, either; it seems a total violation of presumption of innocence.
School choice would help to solve this by putting pressure on school systems to improve or lose students (and dollars) to better schools.
Thank you for your answer. After nine-ish years of higher education, I'm not sure I want to double down on that. Not right away, at least.

Another option is to learn on the side, and ask actual doctors to confirm/infirm theories and assess feasibility, but without credentials, it's easy to get dismissed...
I struggle to think of one thing that EU has done to help us small-time tech people

they managed to completely obliterate whatever was left of european advertising agencies

But seriously… I fucking love the GDPR.
That's not the whole picture- the giant surveillance program was never going to be killed.

Just give it different names each time congress finds out- Total Information Awareness, Carnivore (slightly different system, head of same hydra), etc.
You ever hear that thing where we don't hire people if they may be in debt for jobs that are said to matter or be a risk?

Well, we have this thing called civil forfeiture...

It lets you take somebody's money if you're a cop.

So let's say you're a cop in need of some money.

You can simply pull somebody over, among others things... and... take their money

Well, what would you do if somebody just took your money? You might want to tell on them, or at least get your money back.

Easiest way to not get told on with consequence if you stole somebody's money? Put them in jail with the powers vested in you...
...right, but it isn't correct. Clement wasn't feigning disinterest, his interest was in not granting an annulment. And Henry was able to appoint Cranmer, he was able to dictate his domestic situation freely, he had no real influence beyond the spiritual (which is why Henry left). I am not sure what you mean by "world politics"...that isn't a term that makes sense in this context.

Also, the situation with Cummings isn't remotely odd. What confuses people is recent history. Blair/Brown was the archetype of why you don't want a powerful Chancellor: Brown briefed against Blair and the govt constantly, his advisers used to attack other ministers, it was insane. Osborne's relationship with Cameron was a function of seeing Brown attempt to destroy Blair.

But that isn't always the case when there are issues with other Ministers or the Civil Service (both of which were true when Johnson took power). Thatcher is the prime example: almost everyone in the Tory party hated her, her 1981 Budget was made by Alan Walters not Howe, Lawson resigned when she opposed ERM (again, due to advice from Walters). Equally, in foreign policy she ignored her Ministers and, more importantly, the Foreign Office (who gave uniquely terrible, bizarre advice in this period...even by FO standards).

Our system is built with this tension in mind. Cameron had a strong policy unit. Blair didn't have one but he relied on a small circle of Ministers so it wasn't necessary. It is very normal, and quite necessary, for a Prime Minster to be hostage to no-one. The Prime Minister is always responsible to Parliament, that hasn't changed. But the growth of the media, growth in complexity of policy, and growth in suspicion of the Civil Service (particularly after the 70s) has led to this requirement.

And btw, I don't think most people in the public understand how ludicrous the situation with Javid was (it generally wasn't reported because the person in question was liked by the media because they leaked). Javid's advisers were actively briefing against the govt daily. When Javid was sacked, his advisers were out there literally the day after briefing against the govt. It wasn't close. It wasn't even remotely close. It is a very good thing that SPADs get taken down a peg because the massive proliferation in their number since the early 90s has meant some attempting to adopt a remit that vastly exceeds their purpose.
Echo the devtool advice.

I've used bare crosstools, buildroot and now yocto in production projects spanning 14 years. Personally I find it a lot faster to move with yocto once you grasp its principles and structure: especially if you have several related product lines that can be expressed as combinations of layers.
Yeah. Once I realised I could do it I got a bit carried away. I started to spend the majority of my life with various women. It was fun for a while but I eventually got back to doing the things I really like, like computers and programming etc. and just have one girlfriend now.
Reducing life advice to a few words is a disservice to the quality of the advice.