skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the physical comfort isn't really the main issue, but yeah I guess I don't like having something resting on my ears for more than say 30-60 minutes at a time.

I would flip it on its head: Why headphones? To me the only advantages of headphones are (1) not disturbing people near you and (2) traveling. For everything else I would use speakers!

The other things I don't like are:

- the cable following me around, especially if I'm mobile (and that applies to ear buds too).

- the feeling of being cut off from sounds around me.

- Admittedly a niche complaint, but for music: I don't like the stereo imaging of headphones. Compared to good speakers, it's an unnatural stereo field -- although I realize not everyone is sensitive to that. Depends what you listen to as well.
The Egyptian argument is likely going to be that the the forests will more than pay for they cost in water due to the lower albedo and induced rainfall, and will eventually become self-suficient as well as provide excess rainfall.
A similar complaint: https://ungoogle.us/
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Herman Miller Embody chair, not just fixed my broken posture after sitting on crappy 40$ chair from Craigslist for 4 years, but improved my back, posture and develoepd good habit sitting with straight back.
That is how most crafts with a large knowledge base works. You learn what you use the most by repetition, know that other things exist, and use a reference when you need to apply it.

Mastering the craft does not mean you know by hand everything in it (every seam, every recipe, every joint, every semi-conductor). It means that you know what exists, when to apply it, and where to find the required information about it.
How common is it for people to donate to campaigns? I don't think I know anyone who does it in Australia, unless they do it secretly.
Decades from now, our children will look back on this time and wonder how we could be so stupid to think that all this software, costing billions to build, was being given to us for free by kind-hearted technology companies in exchange for a few simple ads. This is, and always has been a devil's bargain.

I was there at the beginning and I wish more than anything we could have saved the web from becoming this mutated monstrosity that is hurting our civilization so badly.
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> One eighteenth century philosopher (if only I could remember who) said that we do not know what forces are but “time has domesticated them”.

Interestingly, I could only find one other reference to that phrase[1]:

One 18th century natural philosopher wrote that forces were incomprehensible but "time has domesticated them."

[1] Why do we study geometry https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~piers/F-I-G_opening_ppr.pdf
Bruce Ames, at the University of California, devised a method of screening for mutagens, using bacteria. One of his graduate students using the technique found that the flame retardants in children's pajamas and bedding were powerful mutagens, and were probably causing cancer. That event made Ames a celebrity, and in the 1980s he went on a lecture tour supported by the American Cancer Society. His lectures reflected the doctrine of the A.C.S., that industrial chemicals aren't responsible for cancer, but that individual actions, such as smoking or dietary choices, are the main causes of cancer. He used a fraudulently "age adjusted" graph of cancer mortality, that falsely showed that mortality from all types of cancer except lung cancer had leveled off after the A.C.S. came into existence. He described tests in which he had compared DDT to extracts of food herbs, and found DDT to be less mutagenic than several of the most commonly used flavoring herbs. His message, which was eagerly received by his audience of chemistry and biology professors, was that we should not worry about environmental pollution, because it's not as harmful as the things that we do to ourselves.

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Slightly off-topic, but which trade platforms are trustworthy for buying stocks in pre-IPO companies? I see in this post that SharesPost appears to be legit. Any others?

Also curious to hear if anyone managed to make such a purchase in a US pre-IPO company without being US-based.
My problem with Rubocop is both in tests and in normal code.
The rules about complexity hit both tests and production code, while the rules about tests obviously impact only that (experience limited to RSpec).

A senior developer won't need Rubocop, it's a blocker rather than an improvement.
In the rare occurrence where you have an undisciplined senior developer, it's worth exploring training or re-evaluating the standards in place.

All in all, I keep thinking this is a problem of culture, if it's addressed there the value in Rubocop decreases drammatically.

That being said, Elixir formatter is "ok-ish". I didn't have the same problem with it because it doesn't overstep the boundaries of styling.
It did remove valuable structure of the code for the sake of formatting standardization, so again it's actually doing damage, but at least it doesn't force you to write code that is more cryptic to a human for the purpose of pleasing a machine.
It does change the subtext of the whole article. Thank you for highlighting it.

It does read more like an article on "list of legal accessories you can add to a physical product to propup the chances in a IP lawsuit"... While smart, can't help but think this goes against the spirit of IP law.
@molsonhart. I believe it from your (apparently) successful ip protection biz. :-) I think the disconnect is that I'm a patent guy, and your patent advice seems confused/incomplete/misleading. But this makes sense because your primary protection tools for attacking direct copycats would likely be TM and CR, not utility patents.
This is one of the reasons among many that search needs more competition. Having one dominant search engine means that abuses towards site owners can't simply be remedied by being listed somewhere else. Yes there are other search engines right now but they either serve Google's results or Bing's and that means they're actually furthering this problem.

Full disclosure, I recently founded a search engine and we are serving our own indexes to fight problems exactly like this.

https://www.whize.co
My understanding here is that the ball (like everything else) is moving at a constant "speed" through spacetime. From the Earth's reference frame, when the ball is frozen in space, all of that speed is in the time component (as is yours). The reason its path is parabolic is due to the very slight curvature in spacetime induced by the Earth; if you instead stand in a "flat" reference frame (e.g. freefall) and watch the ball, it will indeed look like it's going in a straight line (but the Earth will follow a curved path in spacetime, allowing it to "catch" the ball). You can verify this using the link to https://timhutton.github.io/GravityIsNotAForce/.

I won't push my luck by pretending to understand how this changes when your spatial velocity is nontrivial (intuitively I feel like it should not even possible to differentiate between spatial and temporal components except relative to your own reference frame, but I could easily be wrong there). But in the case you describe it seems pretty clear.
I understood more rendering the point moot than considering its validity
They are listed here: http://www.fao.org/forestry/35800-094f4eedb0c86a4a33be1a3d90...

Wikipedia indicates that the following are from Australasia and South Asia and therefore are non-native and must have extremely limited conservation value in north Africa:

Casuarina equisetifolia,
Dalbergia sissoo,
Eucalyptus camaldulensis,
Eucalyptus citriodora,
Terminalia arjuna

The following are Mediterranean or Sub-saharan African:

Cupressus sempervirens,
Khaya grandifoliola,
Khaya senegalensis,
Pinus halepensis

I am very concerned that climate change is creating a generation that does not understand the value of natural habitat with native plant species. Many people nowadays seems to just care about climate change and not about species conservation.
> Republicans have a strong incentive to encourage citizens to ignore the political news, because their policies are deeply unpopular. Republicans rely on a non-engaged citizenry for votes.

Conservatives outnumber liberals in every age bracket above 30, among both men and women, in every income bracket, among every education class except folks with post-graduate degrees, in every region, and among both non-Hispanic white and Hispanic people: https://news.gallup.com/poll/275792/remained-center-right-id....
> NIST. Hmm. Isn't this the IETF's job?

It absolutely is. In fact, in the email I sent to my senators/representative (included in another comment[0] in this discussion), I write:

"I'd further urge you to introduce amendments to this bill to accomplish the following:

[...]

2. In addition to tasking the National Institute for Standards and Technology with creating the protocols and interfaces required to implement this bill, invite the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to participate as well. The IETF (https://ietf.org/about/ ) are the people who have, for more than 30 years, been developing, documenting and implementing the technical standards that have made the Internet the economic and cultural dynamo it is today."

[0] Is it possible to reference a specific comment via URL that is a reply to someone else's comment? Not sure how to do that.
"poorly" and "bad" related to what? what measure are we using to evaluate these outcomes? Whats the magical thing that we use to tell whether "rationality" is bad at achieving "it"?
The way I try to understand this is that the stationary body is not a single particle but a collection of particles. Since the black hole distorts the space-time gravity in a humongous manner each of the particles in the body at different points in space-time have significant different curvature in space-time and hence would experience the different tidal "forces" which would account for spaghettification.
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The way I understand it. We are moving towards the ball the ball dis not fall back it just accelerated away from us for a while.
This made me chuckle. Sounds a lot like fractional reserve banking.
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The browser version has a lot more friction with getting audio inputs working for me as well as not supporting screen streaming I think.
You have part of a point.

But then you also go into this fantasy where most criticism of Trump is the sober assessment of dispassionate intellectuals with no conflicts of interest, rather than plain old opposition PR funded by the people whose power he threatens. You’re not seeing the whole picture by a long shot.
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> why would headphones need to be waterproof

because of consumers

and it makes them last longer

> I think it's just planned obsolescence.

you're blaming them for planned obsolescence (which is a wildly overplayed card on HN), while being willing to discard water resistance, which has ended god only knows how many consumer electronic devices.

please consider the possibility that you lack the information to understand the trade offs being made.
We have old Lego bricks bought back in the 80s, and it still works perfectly with Lego bought last week. That kind of long term precision isn't easy.
I recently got some Mega Construx for my kid, as they have the license to make Pokemon characters. One of the Pokeballs that came in the set has visibly deformed pegs on the top, making it impossible to use as displayed in the instructions. Luckily it's not a big deal to be able to stack things on top of the Pokeball so I didn't bother to return it for that.
You are exactly correct. These "digital currencies" are simply new types of bank accounts where retail consumers can hold money at central banks. They are no more digital than any other bank account.

They have absolutely nothing to do with crypto either.
The problem can occur if the provisional patent application were to be found in court not to support the "full patent" filed with a lawyer. For example, if the "full patent" includes 10 pages of explanatory text, and 10 drawings, and the provisional patent application filed by the inventor only contains 1 paragraph of explanation, and 1 drawing, aspects of the "full patent" might not be apble to claim priority to (or be suported by)the provisional application.
LyX is great piece of software. People interested in LyX should also take a look at TeXmacs https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html
The fact that the account would be a liability on the balance sheet of the central bank, not the retail bank who you hold the account with.

As you correctly point out, these accounts are no more or less digital than your current bank account.
People who would make beats but are intimidated by Ableton or Fruity Loops or Pro Tools. Garage Band kind of serves that role, but a simple, browser based DAW for a subscription seems like a great way to take a slice of the amateur producer market.
I had a toy 100% precisely like brain flakes when I was a kid.
Didn't know Discord has the domain "watchanimeattheoffice.com", lol.
That's an OS upgrade thing. They didn't request enough access originally and after upgrades had to ask for more. As annoying as those access restriction requests are, they're probably the best implementation I've seen that is clear enough for the average user to accept and still understand what they're doing.
wow - glad that works for you! I love my Bose, but can't sleep in them. The ear piece inevitably 'cracks'; just a hairline crack turns the ANC in to an ear-piercing squeal. :/
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Virtual interviews have completely changed the way technical interviews can be approached. With just a few simple steps you can have all the answers at your finger tips.

My interview language of choice is JavaScript. So I went to GitHub searched for leetcode filtered by JavaScript and compiled the top 8 repos into one master list of solutions. https://github.com/AlexJuarez/solutions

The next steps are to compile implementations in JavaScript of all the algorithms and data structures that one might need to know. I already had written one https://github.com/AlexJuarez/learn-js/tree/master/data-structures.

The last step is to feed all this information into your programmatic ai app of choice mines, kite.app, and from there magic.

This isn’t about ethic this is about acknowledging there is a better way to write code and solve problems. I’m not advocating for cheating quite the opposite I’m saying leverage all of your advantages.
I'm not surprised, there does seem to be a pretty big overlap between people using healing crystals if you know what I mean, and people avoiding actually harmful chemicals.
I wouldn't. I think I'd prefer a better search experience than automatic categorisation
nice! "a2" - Ann Arbor, by any chance? I used to live in Ypsi, but those were the days of dual-channel ISDN being 'hot stuff'. :)
I don't believe in 100% original work. Everything is build upon the past. Doing new things will always be some form of doing old things better.
I don't think it's dynamic, just macros. a |> foo() |> def do ... end just gets macroexpanded to foo(a) |> def do ... end and then def foo(a) do ... end.
I guess the market will decide how much it values that feature? Choice is good.
Cars are the de facto American transportation and what most cities are designed around. LAX is the 2nd biggest airport in the USA and has no direct rail connection either.
I've built a visual project plan tool to scratch this itch for myself - www.gameplan.global

It's not open source though

It's a visual DAG that auto schedules out the plan given the constraints. It's not for everybody - but for highly visual people it seems to resonate really strongly.
I'm sure that clause will come in handy after a mind-reading device is invented. The SEC already has a tough time proving "market manipulation".
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Hey I remember using this. Good stuff. That VB6 icon brings back memories.
Fire retardants are everywhere! Car seats, even children pijamas. Not sure why people thought it was a good idea to put chemicals on children
This tells me that you’re going to have a huge discoverability problem. People won’t know which group chats to join, unless they are explicitly invited. If you’re going to replace FB Messenger, then you have to have an established community that is the size of FB. Or you have to have a really strong network effect that will rapidly build the size of your community to that range.

Things that I hate about Discord are that it forces me to have just one global account name across all servers, and one icon. Sure, once I join a server, I can change my nickname there, but I still can’t change my icon. But names (and nicknames) aren’t globally appropriate or useful. Nor are icons.

But at least Discord servers have public forums, some of which might be announce-only, others might be discussion oriented, and then there might be private forums that are only available to certain people with a particular tag. It doesn’t sound like your service is going to have any of this.
Leather!
This has absolutely nothing to do with block chain of you look at the actual legislation being proposed.
As long as it didn't come with 23&me privacy implications. I can't believe people sent samples to them.
> our children will look back on this time and wonder how we could be so stupid to think that all this software, costing billions to build, was being given to us for free by kind-hearted technology companies in exchange for a few simple ads.

What will they think instead?
Does this have auto scheduling of tasks? (I could not determine from the features page).
I've personally had to refollow people, and I've seen many many many people comment they've had to do the same.
Its not hard, it just costs money. Lego is the default option and the only reason you would pick another brand is if it was cheaper and to be cheaper they have to cut corners since Lego isn't massively ripping people off.
These "digital currencies" are simply new types of bank accounts where retail consumers can hold money at central banks. They are no more digital than any other bank account.

They have absolutely nothing to do with crypto either.
I'm looking for a new office chair since Covid lockdown has done a number on my posture and lower back strength.

This sounds just like what the doctor would order. Thanks for mentioning it.
> Do I really want another time sink?

Most probably not, but I think the argument is it's a better time sink than the other social platforms it competes with.
That's not a UBI then is it? Isn't the point of a UBI to give it to everyone universally regardless of their specific situation?
Looking at your list Apple is doing best of all flaghships.

Plus these scores need to price in scale of manufacturing. Fairphone total sales is less than iPhones per day.
It’s one bug. Sure if it’s still open (the article was from January) then that’s not good but Chrome has thousands of open bugs as well and likely some that would give me pause. The fact that Google is the one giving Apple a hard time might indicate a bit of an agenda since it’s their competitor..

Google literally sends your browsing habits from pages visited to mouse movements to their servers where they link it with your other Google info like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Maps GPS tracking via your phone. Google products “leak” all the users data back to the mothership as a feature. And Chrome users tend to use a lot of random extensions which means the data usually leaks to a lot of unknown third parties as well (see DataSpii for one example which effected millions of Chrome and Firefox users)

So yes let’s expect higher standards from all browser developers. But realistically Apple likely fixed the bug or has a very good reason why it’s difficult to entirely patch yet. Google has had many extended data leaks as well but they actually build tools to gather your data up in the first place which makes it that much riskier should it get stolen or misused by Google or Google employees.
A more interesting issue is why Belgium can never be compared to Germany and Netherlands, in the same way as Sweden is constantly compared to Norway and Finland.

The way the beliefs are repeated is just as interesting as why the Groupthink has come about in the first place.

It’s a worldview. Note that the elderly have to be protected as though they are cattle rather than being told they can choose to protect themselves if they want.

Top down vs bottom up
mix format doesn’t have complexity rules. It will never change the semantics, it’s just there to make sure all the braces, brackets, commas, pipes, etc. end up in the same place so that it’s easy to scan a file.

mix format is not a linter it’s a formatter.
I was raised on Perl golf by Tim Toady so I have to respectfully disagree.
Yeah that's a good question, because it is incredibly hard to wade through all the BS in the industry. The average consumer definitely pays more for "style" and "prestige", and the companies respond in kind with a lot of BS.

I've owned a pair of Ohm Walsh 1000 speakers since 2014, and used them basically every day, and couldn't be happier. Along with a Marantz receiver with an integrated amp.

https://ohmspeaker.com/

This company basically makes one kind of speaker (omnipolar) and has been refining the design for ~50 years:

https://lobste.rs/s/nt9kfo/writing_software_last_50_years#c_... (comment by me, 9 months ago)

If you have the space for floor standing speakers, I wholeheartedly recommend them. The sellers are very honest and will recommend the right size for your room. I did buy them without hearing them, so I get why people are reluctant to buy speakers. (They have a generous money back guarantee.) I've visited many audio stores in person, and it's not a great alternative. There are too many variables and I don't like to engage too much with salesmen.

I bought them mainly for music, but they reproduce voices better than anything I've heard, which is good not only for music, but for lectures and even video conferencing! A lot of speakers and headphones lack midrange, and that is where a lot of the information in human voices is. It's just more comfortable to listen to.

Also, you can turn them up really loud, and it doesn't hurt you ears. The speakers which have a lot of flashy treble and bass sound good in the store, but you get fatigued over 30 or 60 minutes, and you have to turn them down. These speakers can be turned up comfortably.

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If you want something smaller, there are also lots of good deals for bookshelf speakers -- you shouldn't need to spend more than $300 to $600. The amp is sometimes a problem but I've used some tiny $100 amps to good effect too.

But yes unfortunately there is a ton of BS to wade through. I got this recommendation from Don Lindich, a newspaper columnist for consumer audio. He also recommended me Mirage speakers way back in the day, which I loved as well. These are all omnipolar speakers -- they have an open sound that brings to life the information in stereo recordings. I listen to rock / metal / pop / hip-hop on them, and they're very good for jazz / classical (perhaps a more typical use, but they're not limited to that).
I sympathize with the author, but his comparisons at the end (screenshots and pictures) show the problem:

- The competitor's product is in stock, the author's product is not.

- The competitor's price is cheaper.

- The competitor's packaging looks better and advertises more pieces (while still being cheaper).

Albeit packaging appearance is subjective, and so is this: I think the competitor has a better product name.