skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cultural difference between the US and Europe is very interesting. In the US, when a flight is overbooked, the airline is allowed to bump anyone if they provide good enough compensation. Usually what happens is the airline “auctions” being bumped where they keep upping the “benefit” for staying. Usually that’s just a voucher for the next flight out, a gift card for the future, and a nights stay in a hotel. “We’re sorry we got greedy, and made you miss your multi million dollar business deal, and it fell through. Here’s some money that you can only spend with us. We hope to see you soon!”

At the extreme, if no one takes the offer, they’ll just bump some rando and you have to pray it’s not you.

Of course, nothing is done about it because it doesn’t happen enough for enough people to complain. I also bet that the airline’s systems are programmed to never choose a powerful enough person for the rando being bumped. You wouldn’t want to bump a Congressperson, right? That’d be just rude!
Me too. I always thought it was because throughout childhood my seat at the table was next to my noisily eating stepfather. Actually, that would have desensitized me, I guess. I don't even like hearing myself eat... there must always be tv or music playing.

Restaurants are different though. For one, many of them understand how to maintain low level ambient noise; plus, in a restaurant there's usually a din of conversation, and in that setting I'm there to socialize as much as eat.
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as for comparison:

With MailMeteor you are limited by gmail limit of sending while sendsimple you can use SMTP's like Amazon SES and sendgrid to send unlimited mail every day.

We have text messaging in road map too with twillio overall my plan is to make sending simple
People were dividing into groups and killing each other long before the 1600s. Graphs of killings dropping: https://media.gatesnotes.com/-/media/Images/Articles/About-B... (from pinker and gates notes)

Also having some familiarity with the conflicts in Ireland it was never much about varieties of Christianity - it was about the English colonising Ireland and pushing the native Irish around as second class citizens - see the potato famine and the like. Catholic vs Protestant was just a way to identify the two sides.
does Urbit destroy the atmosphere too?
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Alot more then 3/5s of everyone are people fortunate to not be in the high risk group.

From what I've read, the drugs aren't riskless. I looked into taking PrEP back when I had a positive partner. IIRC, it can cause kidney complications. Obviously much better than having HIV.

Just amazing news. Imagine if it took ~40 years to get the covid vaccine. Still, I never thought I would live to see a HIV vaccine ever become a possiblity, much less be in trials. Even if this particular one doesn't work out, what an amazing corner to turn.

Thank you science!
Uh, I still use the no-javascript interface in my personal gmail.

it's immensely fast when compared to modern crapware-gmail.

and btw I remember hotmail too... the nicest thing was that you didn't have to refresh the whole page, e-mails just appeared (ajax probably).

and the conversation view, that was really innovative. i mean, mail clients had been doing threading for like forever, but wemail mostly didn't.
Wow, I'm incredibly sad for you. If I felt that way towards a field I've been working in since I was in the sixth grade and now for some 30 years of my life... well it wouldn't be pretty. Sounds like you're burned out. If software development is your passion, perhaps take a break and reconnect with yourself?
Your comment actually matches my experience. Projects with grandiose descriptions that sound completely BS. Why do publicly funded research project need to use these "tactics"? In my experience these projects attract the very kind of people that I don't like to work with; people with long CVs that like to speak with buzzwords and that don't build anything interesting or valuable.
Hello former neighbor. :-) (Lived in Lake City for four years)

Casa Del Mariachi (off 125th) has great breakfast burritos. Haven’t tried the rest of their food, only came across them recently. Should be good though.

Azteca by Northgate is only okay if you don’t want to go far, you could do a lot better.

Plaza Garcia is your classic southwest Mexican food and one of our favorites. It’s in Kirkland but worth the drive.

Acapulco Fresh Mexican Grill in Kenmore is pretty good.

Taqueria El Sabor in Shoreline is also pretty good.

Anita’s Food Truck on Aurora also has good burritos. Wouldn’t classify them as typical southwest fare though.

And if you’re up for driving, the list wouldn’t be complete without mentioning Jumbo Burrito in Oak Harbor. Take the Ferry to Whidbey, do a day trip across Whidbey, stop at Jumbo and try the carnitas before you cross Deception Pass on the way back. You’re welcome.
As an example of this, the SQLite bug tracker [0] is closed for submissions from non-developers (or some set of trusted people), and instead the SQLite forum [1][2] is used to discuss possible bugs.

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/src/reportlist
[1] https://www.sqlite.org/src/wiki?name=Bug+Reports
[2] https://www.sqlite.org/forum/forum
The evolution of China's high-speed rail network
How many of your colleagues are outside Google?
No it wasn't. Those for it said that, but it is clear from their efforts of the many decades prior that they wanted it to continue forever.
Almost glad I'm not the only one who feels like this.

I always wonder how and why people feel differently. It is obvious, that a good chunk of programmers have no problem being passionate about completely abstract problems. I've also seen some of those programmers talk about having a mental map of the program, which they can manipulate inside their mind. Is that the difference? I don't have this mental map for code, therefore I crave a 3D representation through other means?

Let's call it the ability to physicalize mental models inside your head. I've also heard mathematicians talking about this ability. And personally, I'm way better at math that can be visualized (geometry, trigonometry, calculus and so on). Respectively, I only start to get math that can be visualized and it's my preferred way of thinking about math, not the manipulation of symbols.

Well, I'm rambling. Good luck finding a more hands on software job!
The 10ms (or 5ms, depending on the source) is a threshold - under which a human perceives the sound as "instant", even though - yes, physically - it is not actually instant.
We gain so much more by fomenting international resentment toward China. The whole situation exemplifies how authoritarianism and lackadaisical safety practices can reduce costs and improve efficiency while increasing the incidence of disasters that wipe out all those benefits.

Trying to quantify harms and seize assets makes the pandemic seem like a unary problem rather than the result of profound ideological weaknesses.
> Melbourne for example implementation of their chip card system ran much over budget and was 1.5 billion AUD in the end [1].

...

This is a lot! How in the world they managed to spend so much? I myself worked on a turnstile project once, and with such money you can buy 5823187.5 most feature loaded, RFID+QR reading turnstiles.
I experience ASMR and enjoy some ASMR sounds, but I absolutely can't stand chewing sounds.
Good point. Cars are not really a good asset except in very special cases. I should have probably picked a better example. They will many times borrow against an existing asset to basically buy/grow another asset. The 'fluff' is usually for tax writeoff if they can.
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"permission denied"
I definitely hate the sound of people eating, but I also can't stand people idley whistling or humming. And I can not stand the muffled sound of a conversation, especially if it's someone I know, somewhat similarly to how one gets annoyed if they can't hear the other side of a conversation. As such, working from home has been more challenging than I expected. And it's terrible, I hate these noises, and I'm fine with that, but not hating the people is really hard. This is a problem that only really should affect me, but it's very hard to not get upset.
F# can just use C#, that is the magic of CLR.

VScode F# plugin and Rider also have much more resources into them.

Then 20 years of production code to chose from.
> Wouldn't a world of Arm based synthesizer be kind of stagnant?

The computer in a digital synthesizer is an implementation detail to the consumer. What they're buying is the synthesis engine, the way it sounds, performs and interoperates, the case, the user interface etc. In that sense the CPU used seems about as relevant to stagnation as the screw heads used for the case.
Let's say you're building Python. You write a rule to build Python, which is something like "Get a tarball from python.org/... with hash abcd1234; depend on glibc and zlib and OpenSSL; ./configure && make install." The libraries each of which have their own rules like that, say "Get a tarball from gnu.org/glibc/... with hash dbca4321; ./configure && make install."

You can hash these build descriptions themselves, and that hash is available to you before you start building. So the hash of that glibc description is 98765432 - which includes the hash of the tarball. So you install glibc into /nix/store/98765432-glibc-2.30. (The name and version there are just for human convenience.) Then, when you install Python, you point it at the glibc in that directory and build it into e.g. /nix/store/aaaabbbb-python-3.9.

If anything changes - tarball hashes, build steps, dependencies - the Nix hashes of everything affected also change. So the two versions, with and without the change, can be installed side by side.

There are separate mechanisms in Nix to do things like get the hash of the "current" version of Python and put it on your PATH.

(The downside is that Nix does not make use of the ordinary dynamic-library behavior where you can upgrade OpenSSL without recompiling Python. It does use dynamic linking, but it always points at exact paths and the thing being pointed to never changes versions. But there are good reasons to prefer this anyway, and the only downside is compilation time, and computers have gotten a lot faster since Linux distros and dynamic linking itself were originally designed.)
It's not a basic requirment, just convenient. In the absence of £, GBP works nearly as well.
Now that everyone has smartphones vertical screens are no longer an uncommon trick for programmers who've realized that text scrolls more vertically than horizontally - they're the most common aspect ratio.
Well, damn, I stand corrected. Here's the documentation for the List Passengers (LP) command on Amadeus:

http://www.amadeus.com/ir/documents/aco/ir/en/Quick6.pdf
It's a clever trap we're caught in. We have to rely on 'courts' to 'rule' to decide basic rights for us like privacy. Every once in a while, the courts throw us peasants a bone, to keep the system looking legitimate.

You see, the government didn't perform the necessary rituals to deny your rights, and the courts have been clear: the government needs to 'vote' and say something about 'the children' before they take your rights. Of course, that's only if the courts decide to hear your case, which is dependent upon the government saying the court is allowed to hear your case.

Just keep working through the system, it's working!
Good article on ETH but doesn't mention Charles Hoskinson leaving and ADA. When I read "You’ll be comforted to know, then, that Ethereum is the Excel of blockchains." my first thought was um Cardano? Algorand?

Edit: he mentiones ADA but doesn't seem to understand it.
Similar in a different time period https://www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstrass... "online street map of late medieval and early modern northern Europe (1350-1650)" includes routing
Show me a bot that can tell the difference between a testable and well described bug and one that's affecting lots of users but has bad descriptions.
There, I did it for you in PostgreSQL:
ALTER TABLE table_name SET (autovacuum_enabled = false);

Snark aside, it‘s still not 100% clear what‘s the upside of using a completely different database, just for that use case.
Sounds like Apple's 30% feudal tax.
> immudb is the first database which allows you to do queries across time.

I don't think it is

e.g. Datomic already had this for a long time, no?
That is because you are clearly a Computer person. The average person has their entire digital life owned by Google.
Tracking deforestation, melting of glaciers, basically anything geographic. If you're looking for things people profit from, you're right that some trading firms use satellite images to count cars in parking lots of e.g. Walmart to predict earnings reports. Similar things can be done on oil refineries for example (some satellites can even look /through/ oil tanks to look at oil levels by looking at specific wavelengths).
Most of the good resources where already mentioned, but these are some I missed:

- Musimathics Vol I & II: This will teach you the basics of Music and DSP in a very approachable way. I wish I had these when I started writing audio software.

- The Art of VA Filter Design: https://www.native-instruments.com/fileadmin/ni_media/downlo...

If you are programming in C, these libraries are very useful:

- PortAudio: Cross platform audio playback

- libsndfile: Easy and cross platform sound file io

- ladspa: Really simple plugin API, useful if you want to make or use audio plugins without all the boilerplate of vst or lv2
I have a feeling that in the near future, newborns will receive an id card and a password form to secure their data
I too used to be human and am now connected to the internet. Resistance is futile.
I’m sure they have a list of VIPs, but just “frequent flyer” seniority is a good proxy that sorts the powerful from the plebs.
James Floyd on his nontraditional path to a physics degree at age 75
Hey,

I asked myself too how I should get started with Audio Programming in 2019. I ended up building my own little synth in the progress and I ended up talking to people from Ableton and even gave a talk at Native Instrument's headquarters here in Berlin.

I blogged about my experience and my product here: https://timdaub.github.io/2020/02/19/wasm-synth/
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> If you understood my comment to stand in opposition to that obvious statement, then I'm not surprised its logic escaped you.

Let me rephrase it: Surely you couldn't mean that there is connection between being a researcher and the risk of vaccination. Therefore, what is the logical connection between the premise and the conclusion?

> So just do what society asks of you, for good reason, and move on.

I have a response to this, but it would be inappropriate to post it here.
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I believe most public cloud providers pin different user VMs to separate physical cores, which defends a lot against these attacks because you aren't sharing a branch predictor or an L1 cache with other people.

And qemu comes with other mitigations: https://www.qemu.org/2018/02/14/qemu-2-11-1-and-spectre-upda...
Then when we're overrun by the cats, we'll unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes to keep their population in check. Then when we're overrun by snakes, we have a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.

https://youtu.be/3f5viRoaZNw?t=89
Most common cloud misconfigurations – not what you might think
The personal is political. And the technical is political.

You cannot separate a work from the context in which it operates.
Five Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics (2017) [pdf]
I had taken the habit to use cmd-ctrl-d while hovering over words (in any app really)
Yes, but only a violin can make the violin sound.
Comment in December 2000:

> Yes, WONTFIX and INVALID seem a bit much. We'll just keep it in the database for eons.

That joke aged exceptionally well!
Taking any stance is a political decision.

Organisations and people will happily go with their side's narrative, regardless of scientific accuracy.
Most likely, in this specific case, there was a political reason to save the face of the Chinese Communist party (who omitted information, so it's likely at fault here); someone probably got paid in some form, circulated fake news and the rest of the media / political machine just repeated their side's safe source.

This is why you can't just "trust the experts" and that's why the scientific process is a continuous work in progress which needs multiple people thinking and debunking each other.

Sure, the experts consensus is a safe default - certainly safer than believing random individuals saying the opposite on the internet - but experts can be wrong and conspiracy theories sometimes turn out to be true.
the residents now complain that the feudal law is old and should be abolished. it would be funny if they win the case using a Roman law
Purr Data is not really more “up to date“, it is rather Pd vanilla with batteries included + a nicer UI. Both are actively developed. Note, however, that they are not 100% compatible: both have features that the other one is (still) missing.
It looks nice, but not really sure who the target market for it is?

It's pretty easy for a dev to send emails from Google Sheets using Apps Script. If you want to send bulk, custom emails, then something like MailChimp can do this for free/cheap.

If you're looking to send thousands of emails, then you likely have a large customer base or a big marketing budget and can afford a proper tool.

I mainly use Sheets to automate internal processes, linking to Google Forms. Plus there's free tools out there, for example AutoCrat[0] that can do a similar thing, albeit without the SendGrid/SES link. But then again, if you're aware of SES you're probably technically minded.

I may be wrong though, good luck with it either way. If it doesn't gain traction, open sourcing it with a tip jar may be a nice touch and help keep it alive.

[0] - https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/autocrat/539341...
This is an interesting insight, but I don't think it's even close to telling the whole story of the pathophysiology of misophonia.

The researchers seem to focus mainly on the mouth and throat sounds that bother many people. It's probably the most relatable disgusting kind of sound that a lot of neurotypical people can sympathize with hating too. But newer research (like that from Dr. Zach Rosenthal and CMER at Duke [1]) is showing that the root of misophonia has something to do with trained aversive reactions, and that meshes a lot better with my own experience. It's very common for people with misophonia to develop more triggers over the course of their lives such as footsteps, doors closing, car engines, etc., and even for associated visual stimuli to cause similar triggers.

[1] - https://www.misophonia.duke.edu/content/research-overview
And Google provides auto-deletion of search history.
Same. Also the heavy breathing that the article mentions. When I was a kid and around a noisy eater, I would also start eating noisily. I rationalized the behavior as a mechanism to cover up the sounds of their eating, but the explanation in the article makes a lot of sense. I would try to synchronize my eating somewhat with theirs to cover the sound up better.
I guess that would be a 2 way street.
> Filed issues say something about your product

Yes, it says that the product is popular enough that hundreds of people feel the need to post feature requests with notes like “how is this not fixed yet, it should be five minutes of work, it's a deal-breaker issue for me, I'm migrating to Chrome if this is not fixed!!!”
You may want to take a look at https://sendportal.io, which integrates with SES, Postmark, Sendgrid, Mailgun and shows full info on opens, clicks, bounces, etc.

Disclaimer - I work there.
I'll re-iterate how important this comment is, sorry dang, when I see the responses to this comment, some comments of mine, and other 'this is a suspicious pattern' comments.

There is nothing insulating HN from being a home for some particular conspiracy theory anymore than other sites. The willingness of some comments in this thread to just absolutely push the 'lab' narrative despite admitting the lack of evidence is deeply troubling.
The main job of the PR manager who wrote this piece is to make stories like these heard. The researchers did a very good job indeed and I doubt any of them would use such a silly title - since the very core of their research is formal verification, it means they're very precise folks and would never call their system "hacker-resistant"; there are several other names, more adequate but less clickbaity.
> makes sense

So if it didn’t (have this restriction), you’d be confused as to why? Or are you just praising a high-status decision for being high-status?
>> vuex is very complicated

there is vuex alternative called pinia[0] which is much simpler than vuex

[0]: https://pinia.esm.dev/
Why Billionaires Like Bill Gates Can’t Fix the Problems They Helped Create
Why some people can deal with the cold
A question formed while reading this article. I was going to email a college professor, but I think there are probably folks on HN who know the answer, and my guess is that other people have a similar question. The article is about a mutation linked to cold weather climates and should take readers with an average level of English proficiency <13 minutes.

The study cited in the article uses data from “healthy young males 18-40 years old.” Are there studies trying to discover whether mutations have to occur by a certain age and in the absence of specific environmental conditions those mutations won’t initiate?

An example loosely based on the article would be to imagine someone lacking α-actinin-3 was born and grew up in Miami. Raised by her single mom, they rarely had extra money to travel. Occasionally they would visit family in Jamaica. After attending a local community college she earns a scholarship to Berkelee College of Music or MIT. She’s now 20 years old and has only spent time in warm climates before experiencing winter in Boston. Will the mutation fail to express itself?

If you don't know the answer, but know where to look or someone who might, please direct us.
Does the book account for the effect of more people undergoing testing once there was an effective treatment? If there's no effective treatment, testing mostly benefits others.
It's a charade. I will pay attention when those that participated in both deciding to do it and doing it go to prison.
Does no-one complain that it breaks The UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
When they thought it was a problem with them self they thought they could fix it. Now that they know its a problem with the problem they know they are unable to fix it. Not that they previously thought they could fix the world.