skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live near a busy road, close to an intersection with a stoplight, and have my desk at a window that faces said road. The constant slowing a revving of traffic around the light is very distracting and I run an air purifier on high throughout the day to stabilize the noise and drown out the shifting traffic noises. I have also shifted my desk so that it does not overlook the road and thus I don't have to watch individuals sitting at the light all day. These two adjustments have made a positive impact on my focus when I'm working.

While I am excited for EVs to become more mainstream, I'm afraid for roads such as mine where the speed limit is 40 and people often drive 50+ that the quiet engine won't make much of a difference given the speed and that the sound of tires on the road and wind rushing around the vehicle are still somewhat loud in their own right. It makes me want to move to a more rural environment where the loudest noise is the refrigerator.
It tooks years and a lot of work for them to make it on part or faster, Go did not focus on performance recently. Also you should take benchmark with a grain of salt, every recent language can be fast nowdays.
>Why don’t more people use USDC anyway?

USDT got there first.
I'm not sure I get the logic of the article. Google AI Research is going to implode because we know what the current models can't do? I thought we do research precisely because we wanted to expand our boundary of out knowledge. That is, shouldn't a research institution implode if there is nothing to research?

And why is Gebru relevant in this article? Does she do quality research, and the research results have to do with the claimed implode?
Show HN: Raspberry Pi weather station on Netlify
Have not ever noticed any performance problems using FF for Google products, personally. Works great.
Based on the enviro+ board and a pi zero wh, this setup monitors various environmental stats and plots them to a static rolling-week time series website.

Tutorial for building your own at https://enviropi.netlify.app/about.html
That “loud pipes save lives is rubbish” [1]. Even if it were true the ROI on some training and awareness would be far higher.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Do-loud-pipes-really-significantly-sav...
A low quality comment: you don't even know if it a person. In 2021 you actually need a coherent multi-paragraph post, and a lot of them, to separate a human from a bot. Presumably, there are also a tremendous amount of fake accounts regurgitating low quality information in order to help bump specific posts. That is a perverse incentive of the way their system is structured. The same can/does happen on hn but that activity has some counterbalances.

Reddit strikes me as being well in to its post-spam usenet phase. Instead of being drowned in blatant spam, it is drowned in noise.

A recurring complaint I've heard from friends - experts on narrow topics - is that particular subreddits around a given topic are just dominated with incorrect information. This isn't political. It isn't opinionated. It is topics that may have ranges of correctness, but posters are just repeating things that are completely wrong - as if they have no personal experience in the subject.

That is a big problem. If you were to look at various more political and activist subreddits (including banned ones that migrated elsewhere), the conclusion may be that many reddit user's lives are far worse off with it. When the blind are leading the blind off the side of a cliff, the outcome is predictable.
Does fruit contain as much fructose today as it did 50, 100, 200 years ago? Or have we selectively bread the sweetest fruits to the point where monkeys cannot eat bananas?

Monkeys banned from eating bananas at Devon zoo

Zookeepers say the stereotypical food actually makes monkeys more aggressive, rots their teeth and can lead to diabetes

[...]

Zookeepers said the fruit grown and exported for human consumption have far higher levels of sugar than the ones monkeys would eat in the wild – to the point that it’s bad for their teeth and can lead to diabetes.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/monkeys-bann...
> ... people don't know who Roberta Williams is, or what Sierra Online was!? In a videogame website?

A lot of these people are interested in playing games, not on history. Sadly, lots of people seem to be unbothered by being ignorant of the history of their own favorite pastimes.
Casein plays an important role in the meltiness of cheese[1] so it makes sense they'd want to replicate it (lots of almost-but-not-quite-vegan cheese alternatives like Trader Joe's almond cheese have ~1% casein in them for this reason).

1: https://www.finecooking.com/article/the-science-of-melting-c...
Yes, Prettier can format JSON.

https://prettier.io/docs/en
because denim
SnagIt!

80% of what I do is sending people screenshots. It's ridiculously time saving for me, and is one of the first things I install on a new computer.
That sounds very strange. Certainly don't see that in Firefox on Mac (work laptop) and both Linux and Windows (personal laptop). Try adding the h.264 extension. That forces YouTube to provide h.264 videos which is hardware accelerated on pretty much any hardware.
I'd like to see an actual legitimate source of research regarding this. I can understand how some people are sensitive to the disruption of noises and how that can induce stress to those individuals, but the connection between noise and heart damage seems indirectly related.
> rare and seasonal in nature

I don't know what else to add. You've gone too far off the path. It's pretty simple what OP wrote. Makes a person think about nature, evolution, adaption, is-this-healthy. Ok?
> It strikes me that I treat the result of git-rerere as a ridiculously weak version of this

I'm the main author of Pijul, and rerere has been my main argument in every discussion about Pijul to explain how everybody is trying to simulate commutation instead of really achieving it.

This is the first time I hear it from somebody else. THANKS!

Also, Darcs' theory doesn't really work around conflicts. Also, until recently, applying a patch in Darcs could take a time exponential in the size of history. It seems to be quadratic in the last few versions (Pijul is in log of the size of history).
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I don't know if you're on Linux. But I had issues with Youtube as well. Two things helped me an updated graphics driver and Wayland.
There was a similar situation the last time the NYC AG tried to shut down Tether and withdrawals from Bitfinex were blocked (June 2019). What happened was that Tether started trading at about $0.93 and USDC/DAI started trading around $1.04, as the supply of other stablecoins wasn't quite adequate to accommodate all the people fleeing Tether. Bitcoin actually ended up being the reserve currency instead: the price of Bitcoin spiked from $5200 -> $8700 over the course of a couple weeks as Tether holders dumped it to buy Bitcoin and move it to other exchanges.

Personally I'm surprised the risk premium wasn't more, but Tether is still around today despite both Bitfinex and Binance blocking withdrawals and the NYC AG initiating fraud charges against them, so ultimately the folks who decided it was nothing were right. Then, at least.
> being trans is a medical condition

Curious, what else is it if not that? Eczema is also a medical condition too but we don't shame people for having it. Medical conditions shouldn't carry the implication that you're a broken person as a result of it.
I'll leave software aside:

- Toto 550 bidet and a poop stool changed my life.

- Sideclick learning remote that snaps on to a Fire TV remote.

- "Neon" addressable LED RGB silicone strips that don't have the fugly individual LEDs exposed. Especially neat when directed by a music & bluetooth controller.

- It's something I assembled: installed a waterfall shower head and wand in an apartment using a very long extension pipe, 6 heavy-duty removable bathroom hooks, and strong fishing line for support like a bridge.

- Toilet bowl motion lights for not just toilet bowls.

- Hand-made plamp hats.

- Vinyl records turned into bowls.

- Sunglasses made from discarded baseball bats.

- Bed made out of enameled rebar with chemical drum nightstands.

- Lighting and tornado detector.

- Handmade and custom items on Etsy all the time.
The source of the problem is that OEMs won't go through the effort to get their kernel patches in the main tree.

Why won't they?
Well, because Tether is happy to look the other way for money launderers, cartels and other bad actors. USDC can't.
To be exact, what you're editing is an array of ten 20-byte Pascal strings (so length-prefixed) which contain the world's flags. A ZZT Object can set or clear flags which are carried across boards; this mechanism was repurposed to add the "SECRET" flag, which blocks editing with the built-in ZZT Editor.

Unless... you use the "?" key to open the cheat console, and type in "+DEBUG" as a command (in ZZT 3.1+, IIRC) - then it will let you open the worlds and edit them as-is.
NASM PE Macros – Create Windows PE Executables from NASM with No Linker
> The constant stream of useless notifications of the official app is just disgusting.

I cannot imagine a world where I would allow reddit to send me any push notifications ever.
Keto Diet and Its Benefits
To me one of the more compelling reasons to develop substitutes that closely resemble animal-produced originals (chemically, not just superficially) is the staggeringly huge number of recipes that depend on animal products.

There are substitutes that work as a technicality right now, but it's usually trivial to tell the difference between a recipe using original ingredients vs. a recipe that's been "veganized" (most often, the result is more crumbly, less rich, has wrong texture, etc).

Innovation in vegan food is a good thing that should be encouraged but it needn't come at the cost of large chunks of cultural heritage in the form of food. Vegan substitutes that are close analogues of animal-produced originals lets us have the best of both worlds.
I agree that Go is a little bit more verbose, but I usually consider that an example of "explicit is better than implicit" and I like that Go shows me the internals a lot more than other languages. The one thing that really drew me to Golang over any other was that it was extremely _easy_ for me to build a mental model of fairly complex code.

Go's interfaces in particular feel like a really easy way to build clean, composable abstractions that make sense and hide complexity in the right way. The single-function-interface pattern is really one of my favorite things about Go lately.
I agree with you, but "the world is better off for having search engines" is not a valid excuse.

As you mentioned copyright, world is better off for having piracy too.
Those videos have been debunked. Lustig used a lot of false claims.
Using 'Pick' in TypeScript to Simplify Types and Interfaces
You kind of proved my point.
">With these macro sets you can do custom executables by yourself.

You don't need any object linker or resource compiler whatsoever.

You can import any function you want just by typing its name; you can export any local function you want; you can include any resource you want; you can experiment and get a deeper insight of pe file format."
I tell people all the time not to underestimate the value of PRing your own code even if you are the only one reviewing the code. You can still use GitHub's merge time checks (including setting up your CI/CD builds and PR integration), even if it is just a solo project. You can use PR merge commits as your "clean level" instead of worrying as much about rebase/squash (and tools like --first-parent in git log and git bisect from your main branch).
AFAIK know, there's no trading in Fortnite. Games like Hearthstone or League of Legends where there is no way to exchange your goods for anything outside the game (except maybe selling the account as a whole) are indeed nowhere as real as bitcoin. On the otherhand, if it was a Valve game where you can trade items or sell them on the market place, then yes, those have a real value. Although dumping $78m of items in such a market place would probably collapse the item economy?

You can buy a car with bitcoin, but you cannot buy a car with fortnite bucks, that's generally the metric I use to tell how real a currency is and how usable it is.
that is pointless and show a lack of understanding of the core issue.

first, there were tons of x86 android devices. samsung tab3 to name the last one i used.

second, most of the code on android is tainted GPL code. technically GPL was supposed to not prevent you from running whatever you want on devices you own if it was distributed with GPL based code, but alas, that is exactly what happens.
Since there is no torque on the rotor (Except for maybe the part the spins up the rotor before takeoff) there is no need for a tail rotor. Typically autogyros will have a rear elevator and rudder like a traditional airplane. Since most have a pusher propeller that gives you even more control in a low velocity takeoff or landing which is what gyros are good at.

A good picture of this setup:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogyro#/media/File:AutoGyro_...

Edit Addendum: Typically loss of control in a nose down situation for autogyros is because they don't have ailerons to control roll. They rely on the cyclic of the rotor disk.
The Missing Documentation For the Google News RSS
This is how I felt before I found a room I regularly frequent. We meet up once a week for the past 3 weeks, and so far it's 3 consistent participants with 2-3 newcomers each time. I've only met 1 of them in real life. We talk about surfing ;p.

What I've learned is that Clubhouse is only fun if you're participating. Unstructured conversations are hard to follow if you're not actively shaping it.
I think you're right about the straight pipes being after market, but I believe the noise generally comes from the engine configuration firing at uneven intervals that make it unusually distinct.
>The inevitability of the abuse of political power is not something that has to be debated over and over again in every thread.

I don't contest this, what I contest is the idea that there is comparable misinformation on both sides. rayiner has since updated his post with some examples that he thinks constitute misinformation by news sources themselves, but before the only example given was the tweets from the Washington Times link.
I have stopped explaining people how my neighbor's friends honking when coming in and leaving drives me up the wall. There's the sound and then there's the rage from "that was fucking useless to do, you just spent 15 minutes saying goodbye on the doorstep, it 11PM, please be quiet" but I am the grumpy one. So I say nothing anymore.

Fun thing is, when I am in the city, I like opening the windows in summer and car noises don't bother me much because it's normal and part of the scenery.

But then I am perfectly capable of putting on my pajamas past 10PM, climb down the stairs from the flat to the street, knock on the car's window and ask the driver to turn off the engine because the low humming noise I hear in my bed is driving me insane. It's when the sound is useless and could be easily prevented that I get crazy. Misophonia very much also.
Show HN: A coding coach to help you write better code faster
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Roguelike Tutorial and bracket-lib joins Amethyst
With cameras everywhere and such a litigious society? The stress is probably less impactful in the short run compared to after they get fucked over by a lawsuit and/or criminal charge.
>4.75 nanograms may not seem like a lot, but when you consider that, at 414.07g/mol it is 6,908,293,060,000 parts of the stuff, it seems like quite a bit to me.

This doesn't prove anything part from molecules being really small. What's more important at what doses do negative health effects materialize.

>And that's in just one cooking session.

I'm not sure about you but 1 hour is an usually long time to be using a frying pan. Unless you're cooking a huge slab of meat, letting anything sit in a 230C degree pan for an hour would result it being burnt/overcooked.

>The EPA drinking water standards, the ones watered down by industry influence, are measured in parts per trillion.

Looking through https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/national..., the only one that I can find that's near 1 part per trillion is dioxin, at 0.03 PPT. The rest are well above that. Furthermore, even 1 part per trillion is a high estimate for actual exposure. In addition to being spread out across an hour (3600 seconds), the emissions are also dispersed across the room and vented out. Finally, like I pointed out earlier, what maters more is the toxicity of the compound. Dioxins and PFCAs are both "bad", but it doesn't mean they're equally as toxic. The limit for mercury is orders of magnitude higher at 2 parts per billion.
> Then what is your explanation for why it is not possible to directly exchange USDT for USD, there must be a reason that no exchange wants to do that.

https://global.bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=USD-USDT
Arguably inexhaustible government and loan money drove the price increase. The current loan program was introduced to stem increasing government direct grant expenditures.

Odds are that we're seeing the tail end of this where costs have risen to match the maximum that students are willing to pay over the course of 10 years multiplied by 1/interest rates. In times of economic uncertainty the amount I'm willing to spend in the future drops, when interest rates rise the total amount I'm willing to spend now drops.

Colleges will either have to become cheaper or face diminished demand for college education. It's a great time to found a new university with a lower cost structure and more emphasis put on professors/tenured teaching staff.
That's the admission requirement. You also have to take a language in college.

In ether case this isn't easily doable for people who come from unstable homes.
For the past 2-3 years, I've been working on archiving many of these games made by the ZZT and MegaZeux communities. I do have to say, though, that the DigitalMZX administrators have already been making attempts to keep track of and locate known lost games for over a decade. As always, however, more hard drive backups and other sources would certainly help find and preserve more works!
With more EVs the local pollution is going go down a lot. Probably also something that you'd notice more you could do a quick A/B test.
Small incremental commits on a feature branch, which allow for fine-grained development and review.

Large squashed commits on the main branch, each representing an approved and merged PR, which allow for a reasonable history of features and fixes.
Eating the equivalent amount of apples to HFCS is never going to have the same effect. Fiber content and other good stuff will completely remove the effects that you might see fructose isolate.
Goldman Sachs proclaims the dawn of a new commodity supercycle
A neighbor used to come home from work late at night and lock their doors three or four times, and every time it would wake me up. I wish there was a silent door lock and it would just flash the headlights.
Really glad to hear you got pregnant. It makes me so happy now when people do after finding it so hard. It’s a shame this info isn’t more easily found by most people.

I had the exact same experience with doctors just saying there was nothing a man can do to improve fertility. “It’s just genetic”.

I also second the case against sugar. I should have called out refined sugar specifically in my list. That was one thing I cut out 100% even in ingredients lists (this is tough. It’s in EVERYTHING. Even loads of savoury things that have zero business having sugar in).

Side pondering - I’ve often wondered if McDonalds got a really raw deal from Super Size Me (great documentary) and that it was just the super size soft drinks that were the cause of problems - remember the guy in there who has eaten thousands of Big Macs? But he never had the drink. And he was thin as a rake (dunno how many kids he had though!)
> the blocking of AskHistorians

What are you referring to here?
All I do is schedule wifi to turn off when I am typically sleeping, phone out of pocket when home, phone on speaker when using it, and I don't really have any IoT devices.

I'm not saying everyone should do this, but that's what I do.
I get where you're coming from, but I also believe that loud pipes save lives. Ultimately, is it really that big of a deal?
SPAC Investors Don’t Love Lucid
Give us some real concrete examples. This does not match my experience at all so I'm dubious.
These belong in a separate class about low level systems (CPU architecture and assembly).
If the total amount of USDT exceeds their USD cash reserves, who became the beneficiary of the extra USDT?
Because it takes a lot of effort, kernel developers will bitch that some of the code is there just to connect to blobs that aren't free, blah blah blah. cf the nvidia situation.
Depending on your point of view, security updates for old devices are almost preferable to full-feature updates. My reasoning is as follows:

Each new version of iOS/Android is more resource-hungry than the last, and expects better hardware to run it. Many people with Apple device complain, "This new version makes my old iPhone/iPad so slow it's practically useless." So in most cases, people want to keep using their old devices (presumably at the performance speed they were running previously), but they are compelled to stop using them when they stop receiving updates, because the unpatched bugs/exploits could put their data at risk.

While there are definitely many people who would like the latest-greatest OS on their device, I think a large number of people would be happy with their device's current OS, patched to ensure that it's not vulnerable to an active 0-day exploit.
> "Because it has a large numbers of applicants. It's offer and demand."

I suspect that's because these students are really buying prestige and a classics degree is the easiest option.

> Something I've noticed and take this with a grain of salt as this is a sample=1 observation is that the better researchers (more publications, better funded labs) were generally also better teachers.

This isn't a huge surprise to me since it's crazy competitive so the better funded labs are likely outliers in a bunch of ways (including social skills/teaching). Not all researchers teach much though and being good is more of a side-effect than a goal for Universities.