skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It's not about mechanically causing build-up or impaction. It's about not disturbing the natural cerumen flow (epithelial migration).

Cerumen will thinly coat the ear canal to protect it. When you mess with that flow, you create little build-ups, kind of like road traffic. This accumulates and create the equivalent of a traffic jam.

This is also why Q-tips users swear by them: they are creating the issue that requires the Q-tips in the first place.

Worth noting that not all humans have the same kind of cerumen. There is wet cerumen (dominant, 50%) and dry cerumen (20%). It depends on your genetic. If you are asian, chances are that your cerumen will be harder and require scooping out. Again, this is done with a little spoon by a third-party or by using one carefully (they also come with cameras and flashlights). You remove the build-up with accuracy, you don't just jam cotton in there and randomly scrape at your ear canal.
Yup. For me the Sublime default theme is perfect, whereas I find this new GitHub redesign to be basically unreadable.
Was Monster's marketing ever that aggressive?
I discovered Koyaanisqatsi and Glass after hearing a 10 second bit played on an episode a Scrubs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2VZk560_g
My taxes, land for a home purchase, out of pocket maximum and deductibles for health insurance, health insurance premiums, tuition are all increasing at quite a clip for me. I have to save an increasing proportion of income due to higher (perceived) volatility of future income, as well as the expected increasing prices in the aforementioned expenses.

Sure doesn't feel like inflation is slow to me.
OT indeed, this is about a kernel and you're asking for a userspace feature.

Also, there are large number of "contenders" in the Linux based OS space which may have the UX you want, and if there isn't one this sort of thing tends to be pretty easy to tweak and suggest changes for (unlike in most of Google's OSes.)
I'm someone who naturally produces a lot of ear wax. I don't think people really appreciate just how unpleasant it is. After it builds up past a certain point, sounds become distorted and it's hard to decode individual words. It can often be extremely itching and irritating.
Sounds like a great opportunity for AGPL projects to offer commercial licenses to companies who are influenced by AGPL FUD.
I require external validation and I can't validate myself. Does it make me narcissistic too?
Now I’m waiting for tomorrow’s news “Hacker News Releases Dark Mode”! :)
I guess I spent a lot of time studying lisp this year, but I mostly beefed up on previously learned tech which newly recaptured my interest, like Elm, Go, Awk, Tcl and CSS.
It's a conspiracy that the U.S. government spies on its citizens via technology companies? And that there is a clear national security interest in preventing foreign adversaries from doing the same??

It's as if we learned absolutely nothing from Snowden.
I’m surprised it’s only 80%. I would have thought it would be higher.
I should have been more clear. Requires personally identifying information (phone, email, CC).
Yes, but 80% of music on streaming services is not that good.
Discovered his "The Photographer" when it came out (I am older than 30).

https://youtu.be/oPCkt9VvkY0
Yes, It reminds me when Java has been released for the first time.

The mantra was : "Yes, pretty slow but don't panic, in a couple of months better hardware will fix that" !!
In my view, having things "just work" is elusive and unpredictable. I've seen this in the workplace. You can have two workers with similar jobs, similar or even the same hardware and software tools. One person will constantly be cursing at their machine, running into indescribable hang-ups, and so forth. The other will just be cruising right along.

You're tempted to suspect that the problems experienced by your one colleague are self inflicted, but you'd never suggest it out loud. The differences might be real, but due to a hidden cause. Or, some workers might be more "accident prone" when it comes to dealing with tech. I've even seen this with people who should be the most tech savvy: Good programmers.

Regardless of the cause, imagine that someone discovers a market appeal to the effect of: "The problems are not your fault, we have stuff that just works." It's a safe bet that the message will resonate with X percent of people. That's a perfect market. And if Apple has discovered that market, we certainly can't dispute that they're successful -- possibly the most successful company on the planet.

On the other hand, if you belong to the other group, and somebody can make a less expensive product that you're satisfied with, and it "just works" for you, then you're happy too. They can be successful too, even if on a modest scale. I'd take 10% of Apple's market. ;-)

At one workplace, long ago, two of us were using Windows, and my colleague couldn't make it work at all, plus he sent me articles about Windows horror stories from magazines. I never had a problem. My friend ended up with Apple, and I kept using Windows. We were both happy.
[sighs the deepest sigh I’ve sighed all year]

this is about Twitter, isn’t it?
> But does that frying pan evolve new features or fixes while you have it and use it in your restaurant? Do you make requests to the manufacturer to make the handle bigger/smaller on the frying pan you own and use?

No, but neither does the version of Qt in the already compiled and being distributed software, and yet even if no more development is done and no new version of Qt is used, it sounds like the licensing fee still applies.
The Bandwagon
Latency is (where I am used to it) a hard physical limit imposed on the upper end by the speed of light. When you have a system that literally spans a planet, there's only so much clever algorithms (and hardware) can do to speed up the time difference between "things happen in one end" to "things happen on the other".
> Si vis pacem, para bellum. "If you want peace, prepare for war"

This quote is so out of date, really. Humanity progressed so far just in the last couple of decades, but we're still supposed to prepare ourselves to smash each others heads in like we're some brutish barbarians? At some point, we should start acting like civilized adults and solve our conflicts by discussion, not by smashing each others head in.

The things you mentioned with regards to skills and such - you're right, but you don't need to have training on the weapon and such. The army teaches you ultimately death and destruction; everything else is just a means to that end. After all, if it truly were about the skills you mentioned, we could just have an obligatory boy scout camp instead and learn all the stuff without the barbaric parts, no?
I appreciate Uncle Bob's opinionated approach. The easy path would be to remain agnostic on which way is best. But that often, at least for me, results in design paralysis as I try to figure out that magic best way to organize a project or accomplish some task.

Instead, if I start with an opinion, I'm able to make immediate progress even if I end up refactoring down the road for some reason or another.

Of course there's no single write way to organize projects and write software. But one mediocre way that makes sense to me right now is often preferable to 10 better ways that I don't yet understand.
frankly speaking even little guys like I am are now thinking about moving out of CA. “The deal” (taxes paid vs quality of gov services) we get here is just very bad.

And, of course, remote work makes this a very real possibility for a lot of software related jobs.
Companies’ strategies change with time. RH took over CentOS in 2014, but then was itself bought by IBM last year. So what was the plan (and the leadership) in 2014 is not necessarily the plan (and the leadership) in 2020.

Also, conditions change. RH might have decided that Centos had become a bit too successful and was cannibalizing actual RHEL sales (covid year, everyone is hurting, people try to skimp on licenses...).
D-Wave interoperability support in IBM Qiskit
Senate confirms Trump ally to FCC
Zalando CEO to quit 'to prioritise wife's career'
If there was an easy and definitive way to become rich, everyone would do it.
If happiness is the ultimate goal should we work on finding something like heroin, but without tolerance build up and withdrawals?
If you tested "option to have a dark mode" vs "that other feature which was already requested 150 times", you might have come to an entirely different conclusion.
Why don’t artists just release music under different names? E.g. an artist who only made $200 could create 5,000 different variations and now be making $100,000 which is awesome.
I want to know how many % of developers earn less than $200 a year in the App Store.
I do this every few months. It’s an odd combination of horrifying and satisfying to see what comes out.

But it’s just pure satisfaction to hear the Pop Rocks crackling in my ear (“that means it’s working!”), and the clarity of my hearing afterward.
> Like proper or inbuilt vector tiles support

I thought one of the primary features of Leaflet was its modularity. Would built-in vector tile support be an anti-pattern?
I never know how to edit down long titles to fit the 80 character limit.

The full title is "The contagiousness of memes: containing the spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories in a forensic psychiatric hospital"

This report comes from an English "Medium Secure Unit". These are a special type of mental health hospital that deal with people who are detained under the mental health act, and who have complex risk behaviours. Some, but not all, patients will have some criminal justice system involvement in their care. So, for example, they may have been in prison and then become mentally ill. Or they may have been mentally ill when they committed their offence and been sent by the courts to hospital. But some of the patients in a medium secure unit will not have any criminal justice system involvement in their treatment.
I have seen here similar opinions about HTML vs. PDF in a few other threads.

However, this is a matter of personal opinion and I am certain that nobody knows how many people prefer PDF and how many prefer HTML.

I strongly prefer PDF for any non-ephemeral content that I might need to read twice or more times, so I hate anyone who forces me to read an HTML user manual or scientific paper, instead of providing PDF documents for them.

Even if HTML can be opened on every device, it also looks different on every device and it looks bad on those that are different from the one used by the developer (unless the HTML pages have been carefully designed to look good on various devices, which seldom happens).

Even on a small smartphone screen, I prefer a good PDF viewer with a good user interface that makes it easy to zoom & pan, instead of the feeble attempts of the Web browsers to reformat the text, which make very difficult the navigation through complex technical documents.

"Print" support is horrible for HTML. Modern Web pages, which use a lot of JS, are almost always mutilated when you use the "Print" command in both Chrome and Firefox, even if they display the pages correctly outside the "Print" mode.
Thanks for the clarification. I still think these techniques were somewhat widespread already ... see for example this figure from US Patent 9292389 describing nested, aka layered coding that to my thinking is isomorphic with the "LRC" or "pyramid code" described by the Microsoft researchers.

By the way, not at all trying to say this paper isn't interesting. I keep it in my filing cabinet to show my colleagues when I need to describe this technique, since Google hasn't ever bothered to describe Colossus in a way I can reference.

https://imgur.com/a/gi2Xdl0
A better metric is to work out if that 20% is bigger and better off than the previous generation of artists. I'm willing to bet streaming has made the industry better when looking through that lens.
You're right. For all of Google's other flaws, their hardware has been surprisingly good about this. The Chromebook write-protect screw is a good example of a thoughtful feature here.

However, Google's approach is so uncommon, that it's basically the exception that proves the rule. The vast majority of device manufacturers don't do anything like this, and if you were to pick a phone at random, you would probably expect to encounter some sort of issue flashing it. That's why we're still stuck with databases of "if you want to run a custom Android ROM on your phone / OpenWRT on your router / etc., pick from one of these known-good devices."
Comparing to XM3, I find it strange that AirPods Max don’t fold. I mean, it seems insignificant, but it does really take away from portability and convenience, which are (since for stationary listening I can get high-quality, made-in-Germany reference monitors at the same price!) among the main attractions.

The only feature I find worth considering AirPods Max for is, unexpectedly, the 5.1/7.1 sound. If it is truly done properly (which I doubt, but promo materials hint at something there) then I have to admit, I don’t have the room for a proper setup like that, so this could be an accessible way to try working with surround sound.

Suspiciously, nothing is known about the codec and connectivity in general. If new AirPods are limited to kbps-starved AAC/SBC, like AirPods Pro, that’d be very frustrating. I know, diminishing returns, but I don’t want yet another sound reproduction system “optimized” for streaming at Apple Music bitrates (especially if it’s 7.1). Sony’s LDAC aside, something approaching 600 kbps like aptX—or, absent that, at least an external audio in!—could make the price almost seem acceptable.
Be born rich. Most people don't hit that genetic lottery though.
SpaceX Starship high altitude test live stream
Web scraping is a tool, not a crime
It's kind of interesting that we started computing with dark mode and when we jumped to windowing systems, for some reason that coincided with move to white on black. Maybe it was more familiar for office workers used to paper.

There's no absolute reason why the evolution happened that way that I can say. It was all more or less arbitrary design decisions.
Will any of these work with LIDAR data under their 3D rendering?

I'm keen on industrial archaeology and it's really helpful to have 3D visualisations of sites like old quarries.

Stand-alone 3D models can be done like [1] and the detail is substantially better compared to the map 3D views [2] (pits are pits again!) but I want to embed these into a website and start overlaying other data - just like I can with Mapbox maps.

1. https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/dinorwic-snakes-ladders-and-...

2. https://felixpalmer.github.io/procedural-gl-js/, search for Llanberis
> They just don't care as much about lock in as you.

I'm sure some Apple customers realize what's happening. As in, they knowingly look at the slowly boiling pot of water and get in because it's not hot enough to burn them yet.

But I think for the most part, Apple is exploiting a common blind spot in human psychology, the ability to predict the future. People look at the Apple devices they have now and make a decision to buy Airpods. They don't see the future implications of being locked-in.

The typical Apple consumer probably starts with an iPhone or mac (because of phone plans, open standards, apps, etc). The real lock-in begins with the AirPods, iWatch, etc. Once they get you to buy one of these 'lock in' devices, they're much more likely to continue making more money off of you the next time you need a new laptop/phone/desktop. That's all well and fine if you know this going in, but I'd wager most don't.
USA doesn't even have personal data protection laws. China does.

As for the article - this all sounds like a subset of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_government_mass_survei..., until you realize one crucial thing: in case of US, the preferred way of dealing with this kind of minorities is either AC-130, or JDAM. Any kind of surveillance and reeducation camps is better from ethics point of view.
HK: Families watching their loved ones being bused out to ‘re-education’ camps
I think those of us with hearing loss can appreciate the unpleasantness pretty well.
Interesting, who else are involved in the embargoes? Anywhere I could read more about this?
Don't have the foggiest idea what you're talking about. Payouts go a lot lower than $200, all the way down to $0.00 in fact.
Plotting patterns in music with a fantasy record player
80% of the music you listen to which is probably part of the 20% most popular content.

If you had better discovery you might find something in those under used 80%.
I wish I had taken screenshots or photos or something. Then at the very least, the Apple gallery could tell me why I was doing it wrong.
DBeaver - https://dbeaver.io/
According to Reuters, a Western security official claims similar companies have been affected in a similar way to FireEye [1].

It will be interesting to see how this plays out, and if true, this may be the first of many compromises to be revealed.

[1] https://twitter.com/Bing_Chris/status/1336431664478687239
I think this understates how many people could be avoiding q-tips because they're potentially bad. A good outcome of a study could have a material impact on sales.
I wonder if the attackers could use what they stole to impersonate FireEye. As in, some org thinks they're contracted/working with FireEye, but they're actually working with this nation state doing intelligence against the org.
Politics is everywhere. The GPL licenses just choose to be explicitely political. After all, any other restrictive license that forbids users to change the product they buy is making a poli1tical statement too, even if it doesn't say so in its preamble.
If there is no scrub - looks like it will be live by 5:30 PM EST
Yup. I occasionally get earwax impactions from wax build up, then try to use a q-tip for a quick remedy. 75% of time I manage to make things worse.
what does "None of the tools contain zero-day exploits" exactly mean? Does the tools contain knows zero-days but not non public zero days?
Considering I have multiple packages with UPS of which all previous tracking status has been removed and replaced with simply "Delayed" without any other information, and at least one has been that way for over a week, I'm not sure exactly what piece of mind or tracking functionality you're talking about.
Starship Test Flight – “now targetting ~4:30PM CST”
"evil" is a non-sensical model. Corporations are amoral.
That pretty much sounds like my workplace in action.
Maybe it's because the dark mode is new and in beta, waiting for more user feedback before they feel comfortable making it default in more situations.
> Sciter could be considered a competitor to Qt Quick

Yes and no.

Yes, it allows to create declarative UI.

And no, not just declarative UI. It supports immediate mode graphics for example and use of native UI components including existing HWND, GtkWidget, NSView, etc. based ones.

As of other non UI parts of Qt... Sciter does not provide all that beauty, yes. Host application (C/C++, Go, Rust, etc) that uses Sciter UI layer is free to use whatever libraries/runtime they prefer, and usually each runtime is superior to what Qt provides.

That's the cornerstone idea of its design - it is embeddable UI layer. While Qt is a foundation (a.k.a. framework) similar to MFC, Gtk and other frameworks.

At early stages of C++ having things like CList & Co did make sense. But not in recent 10 years. Yet I am silent about Go, Rust, Python and other languages / runtimes that use Sciter.
My email address was wrong - I've fixed that now.
The headphone jack that all of the other mobile manufacturers are dropping too? Putting its removal at Apple's feet alone is a bit disingenious when it was the obvious direction for smartphones. Eventually one of the manufacturers was going to be "brave" and the rest would follow.
Also, a long trailing cable from your TV / accessories across your living room to a y-connector to two more long trailing cables to two headsets is incredibly inelegant and for some houses, an impractical solution. Having wireless headphones that support a Bluetooth standard (because no two implementations are the same) that allows multiple speakers for a single source, is very nice.
Along the same vein, I tried to find studies on what dry beans you can cook directly in a modern slow cooker to save effort and there's not a lot out of evidence to go on. All online articles on it uses similar quotes that trace back to a couple of old studies that aren't that comprehensive.

The common parroted advice is not to use slow cookers for this because they don't get hot enough to destroy toxins in some bean varieties - this seems to be based on slow cookers not reaching above 80C though, when I'd say most slow cookers get much hotter than this.
I wonder if 20% of musicians make 80% of the streaming revenue.
Some personality traits haven't adapted to modern life as well as others and some have adapted extremely well. For instance most people have too much anxiety since you had to be way more careful throughout history. Now you have so much safety net everywhere so risk taking is a much more valuable trait as most people are biased against taking risks.
Tweeting destroys credibility. It makes you look like a kardashian.
In this case there's no upside to doing it "correctly". Or at least that's what many doctors think. So have no reason to care about overstating risks.
Many used to, but how many modern "smart" devices do? It's all touchscreen now. I'm glad they're keeping this tech around.
Show HN: End to end encrypt Git repos
80/20 rule?
Not sure, it is very strange. I work for a company worth tens of billions but my laptop is from 2015. Asked multiple times for an upgrade, nothing yet.