skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I guess one question is: do those things have to cost thousands of dollars?

No. Hunters (and shooters) have been buying electronic ear protection for years at much lower prices. There is no FDA approval, and they are not needed so the manufactures have to compete. The result is hearing aids in everything but the FDA approval. Some people find they work better than hearing aids because the manufactures have to tune them to work well for their customers which means background noise reduction (not just gun noise reduction)

Don't get me wrong, those who are borderline find the hunters hearing protection better. If your hearing is very bad you need expert tuning for just year ears, and that can't be offered without FDA approval.

The high end ones are $200, and internally pretty much the same thing other than the programming. The cheap ones are $30 (but not programmable)
They added a more sensitive camera that year as well as a brighter display with more colors, found interference, moved the display circuitry and cabling to the other side of the phone to compensate, and then that interfered with the headphone jack instead. So they took the headphone jack out instead of compromising the quality of the audio output.

If the guy who put the jack back in did any actual signal quality testing while playing video to stress the display, I'd be appreciative to have this theory put to rest, but I don't think he did.
I think this just fundamentally misunderstands how languages work in practice. In the vast majority of cases, switching languages is impossible, whereas picking up new words or idioms within the same language is very practical.

And as far as I know, this will be in a future version of ECMAscript, which means that most people will in fact be using this via babel?
I understand why the Hack-style pipes are probably a better choice for JS as we find it and its ecosystem, it's just that, having switched from my main languages being JS/TS and Python to now using Haskell most of the time, this contortion was what really struck me -- the emphasis on currying and function composition in pure functional languages just makes this a lot more natural.

As I said above, however, I think either method will be a fantastic addition to JS.
No. There is a (IIUC, recently floated, and non mainstream) theory that inflation did in fact precede the big bang. No, I don't understand how that's possible, or even a meaningful statement.

There was an article on it here on HN, almost certainly within the last month. I don't recall more.
Cars and trucks get a "cost based adjustment":
https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/

According to this, hedonic adjustments and cost based adjustments are two ways that the US BLS performs quality adjustments for the CPI: [pdf] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/additional-resources/quality-adjustm...

For a higher level view of how these adjustments may have impacted the CPI, along with changes within individual categories, this article presents a fairly balanced view: https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/#cpi
It's a very small bounty...missing at least 2 zeros considering the scope of Tether's supply.
Facebook pays new grads 200K and Staff engineers 700K. Had to call it underpayment.
Chrome 95 Released with FTP Support Completely Removed, New Developer Additions
> tax companies for resources consumed

I feel like so much could be fixed by just making things cost their true price.
And they've opened a door that others will walk through.
I don't get your objection

"Numbers are objects you build to act like the concept of a number."

So, numbers (i read that as a colloquialism for "numerals") are symbols that represent the abstract idea of a "number".

You can't have (non-trivial) rules for manipulating symbols without symbols, so i don't understand your objection.
> > "you call a library, but a framework calls you."

> This is why I don't like when people say "React isn't a framework, it's just a library"

Eh, this is just a breakdown in the "framework calls you" heuristic. It's still a reasonable heuristic, but it doesn't completely describe all distinctions people make between frameworks and libraries.

The distinction missing from the heuristic is the overall scope of the software project relative to other popular software projects in the same area. When people say "React isn't a framework, it's just a library" they're not saying much about the coding style one uses while using React. They're just comparing the overall scope of React to some of its close competitors (like Ember and Angular).
The castaways wouldn’t have been rescued if it weren’t for Gilligan’s goofy exploits in Rescue From Gilligan’s Island. It would be suboptimal to kill him.
We are trying an interesting use-case at Overseed (https://www.overseed.io/). We recently replaced JSON with CUE as our data configuration language. To summarize, our application allows users to describe their fake data's attributes and behavior and then output that data as a file or stream API.

At the moment, we mainly use CUE for the structure, variables, and validation. It replaced our custom JSON and validation logic and cleaned up a lot of our code! We are still exploring moving more of our specifications to CUE style configuration and validation.

We are still early-stage users (a few weeks). So far, we love the concise syntax, strong typing, and validation. I plan to spend some time this week checking out the querying, scripting, and external tools.

I liked this tutorial site for those who are starting out: https://cuetorials.com/
Recently spent a long time agonizing over getting a new phone. This is the only phone that checked all my boxes (small, decent ram, storage and camera, headphone jack...) but it doesn't work on Verizon :(

Went with the Pixel 4a, we'll see how it goes
Urashima Effect: A Version [pdf]
Having it up closer to the middle of the screen does at least look way more convenient than standard iPhone placement.
No need to overspend. A million dollars will still motivate people with the necessary skills. You can always increase the bounty, decreasing it is frowned upon.
0% APR finance over 2 years in the UK, interesting. Never seen that before. Will definitely wait and see though, my Pixel 4 was terribly disappointing (woeful battery and tiny screen).
I remember selling bulk quantities of beer bottles back to the shop as recently as 2005. A state-mandated, industry-wide reuse scheme would lead to them being examined for damage, sterilised and supplied back to breweries. Theoretically the scheme still works, but somehow the beers I buy when visiting the home country all come in bottles not partaking in it.
Windows 11 Runs and Updates on 2006-Era Single-Core Intel Pentium 4 CPU
In the US, corruption at high-enough levels has been explicitly legalized. US now leads the world in legalized corruption.

Russia would like to lead, but doesn't handle enough money.

In China it is still technically not legal. So, if you always do as you are told by the Party, you will not be prosecuted. Step out of line, and boom!

I don't know of any way to get back to corruption being illegal, even neglecting prosecution like in the old days.
Maybe not a doctor, but you need someone to test your hearing and write a custom frequency map for how your ear works. Good hearing aids are not simple amplifiers, they have complex signal processing to make it easier to hear what you want to hear (if you like music they make music worse, but you can understand the lyrics - this is a simplification, but good enough)
> DCOM is COM-over-the-network

The hint is in the name: "Distributed COM" i.e. DCOM :)

> Unlike DCOM, COM is extremely popular and widely used.

My understanding was that DCOM is nothing but data marshaling and registring GUIDs with Windows registry so that the COM object can be created locally/remotely. If COM is widely in use, then DCOM should be as well. The whole gaming(DirectX) and finance(OLE) industry is built on the DCOM/COM infrastructure :)
Doesn't FDIC cover default risk as well?
There was a really interesting (and disheartening) story by NPR this year about recycling in the US: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/21/987111675/video-is-recycling-...

One of the comments made was that consumers assume recycling works as a kind of magical "Get out of Pollution Free" card. In reality, the system we have only works if there are companies that want to actually use the recycled materials. If there are none, it just gets landfilled.

I bring this up because one of the things mentioned was Pringles cans. Everyone thinks they are recyclable. But the can is two sheets of cardboard glued over a thin sheet of aluminum. The paper companies don't want the cans because they don't want to somehow deglue the cardboard from the aluminum (time and cost expensive to process), and ditto for the aluminum people. So the cans just get thrown out.

In fact some people make arguments that recycling programs do more harm than good, because they allow consumers to alleviate their guilt about waste without actually helping the environment. The cynic may say that's intentional.
> I want as little to do with Google’s services as possible in my life

As a Fi and Fiber user, those services have actually been really solid and reasonably priced.

Android wise, Calyx maintains a nice de-googled one (https://calyxos.org/install/ ) and they will sell you an unlocked phone at a reasonable price if you are a member. We use one on Google Fi with no issues in any of about 10 countries so far.
I'll bet most earbuds with active noise reduction and equalization could be tweaked to provide augmentation similar to a hearing aid. The current algorithms for active noise reduction are designed to suppress external sounds -- all they have to do is invert the logic and amplify external sounds. Just add EQ to make my wife's voice come in better.
I always considered rituals to be a form of proof of intelligence.
He was breaking the law in Japan it seems so:

Under Article 175 of the Criminal Code of Japan people who sell or distribute obscene materials can be punished by fines or imprisonment. Article 175 was included in the original document in 1907 and remains relatively unchanged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_Japan
> features such as protecting your ears against a sudden loud noise

Reminds me of the Artemis Fowl series or the first Iron Man, awesome to see former science fiction coming closer to reality. Adaptive ear protection in real life would be really interesting on construction sites or for musicians...
Just to be clear, he was also offered $285 million 6 months later from Microsoft, so whatever he's doing seems to have worked out pretty well for him.

Perhaps his tolerance, and aptitude for risk-taking, which seems crazy to us (talking carelessly right before deal has been formalized) is also what lead him to success in the first place.
Your vision could change faster than however often you need your cornea examined or whatever. Or someone may not be able to afford a doctor's visit but know they need glasses (ignoring the question of whether it's right for people to not be able to afford an eye doctor's visit).

Extending your logic to other areas would end up with absurdities like needing a doctor to measure your waist size before you can buy clothes. "You should visit your doctor regularly anyway, what's the value of allowing people to buy pants without a prescription?"
I just realized that the Bloomberg reporter who wrote the recent story is named "Zeke Faux." (Faux meaning "fake" in French, in a story about fraud.) Is his name a pseudonym? If not, it's another surreal point in a surreal story.
Ok, fine, you wrote "the idea" and you meant "taking seriously".

But I suspect you had it right the first time. I sort of think "the idea" is the relevant stage. And that adds ~15 years to that particular thing.
That "definition" rubbed me the wrong way, too. A bit recursive...
Hmm, I don’t really agree on this one. Just a day ago I’ve added a totally not vdom, stateful component that was mutating DOM and adding nodes on it’s own to fix performance problems with critical part of the app that required instant feedback to user typing.

React was not bothered at all. From the start there were ways to escape React model in components and integrate components into other frameworks. Been there, done that, it was never a huge deal.
Based on my reading you dont seem to fundamentally disagree with the author. I think hes just playing with the ambiguity of the word number for some effect.

So: (Some mathematical formalism for) numbers are objects you build to act like the (informal) concept of a number.
This is my point! We cannot presume scepticism.

Conditioning on any global scepticism disables reasoning.

Any any alternative is "positivistic" in the sense that it positsts against scepticism.

Idealism, ie., the false belief that there is a neutral language of "experience alone" is a posit against scepticism and presumes quite a radical metaphysics.

My point is that one alwayas has to condition on some positive account of the objectiuve content of our concepts in order to reason.
Even worse than I thought. OP should probably get a warning if not ban that site outright. Especially since they're clearly attempting to astroturf HN.
The anecdata mentioned, that all the software companies they have worked for have poor internal security struck a chord with me even if it can be argued it's just anecdata. And if you look at facebook's checkered history of security it's not a good track record. Or how about the fact that you can still to this day post public links to private photos?
That's exactly the purpose of the moderator comment, as people pointed out near the start of all this.
The odds of someone’s face randomly unlocking Face ID is lower than randomly unlocking Touch ID, but what is the chance of someone intentionally unlocking it - say with some mask or facial prosthetic built up from video observation? Maybe there is no Face ID because laptops are more often unattended than phones?
<i>It could not. A hearing test requires an environment with exceptional isolation</i>
Don't be so picky. Or don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good enough.
Interestly, it was also associated with black turtles and a fear of buttons. Some scholars think that there were two different apple gods, both named Steve, while others insist that it was two aspects of the same deity.

Records point that there was a war for the skies between the thunder god, Macromedia Flash,and the apple god, Steve. The thunder god was huge and lived in the cloud, so Steve gave its followers very small boxes and put the clouds on them. Little by little there were no more clouds big enough for the thunder god and he falled into oblivion.
Fuck ups like this get me so mad as they are always such a waste of time and you never get compensated for having to resolve them yourself, e.g. waiting on hold for hours to speak to a human being or having to send a physical letter, etc.
How? Because you simply amplify the sound too much?
Tethered satellites for propulsion without fuel
Doesn't matter how easy it is if it is still illegal to do so.
You just keep putting stuff in smaller and smaller Matryoshka dolls and then poof! No more stuff.
This is why people have been trying to promote IPv6 for the last couple decades. It is silly that new internet companies should have to pay money to those who got here first.

Still waiting for AAAA records on news.ycombinator.com. IPv6-only SIP trunking would also be nice, since an IPv4 address is the main cost of hosting a small PBX.
I would imagine if enough people made that choice it would eventually come up in a shareholder meeting as it would affect their active number of users. I'm not sure how they report this if you just don't use your account for a long period of time.
I'm seriously loving F#. It's a steep learning curve from an OO background but it just feels more ergonomic to use.
Sure, but those are symptoms of larger problems. Increasing enforcement is an act of hiding the symptoms and it does not and will never solve the underlying problem.

That's sometimes true but I'd just note this has nothing to do with the original argument made praising gray areas.

The drug war is a place where there's an escalating war between dealing and enforcement, yes. But most dealers aren't having a lot of fun in this gray area.
yes, both of those parallels came to mind as I was writing. You're exactly right, from my perspective, in underscoring the similarity.

Once you have that basic model then all the rest of the variations: the company can allow it etc fall out of the model.
The Zenfone is still significantly larger and heavier than the iPhone mini, which for me is already at the upper limit for one-handed use.
The definition as stated is circular. It has the same information content as "A foo is an object that you build to act like the concept of a foo."

Also, the symbols that stand for numbers have a name. They are called numerals.

So: a number is an abstraction of a quantity, which is a number plus a unit. "Seven sheep" is a quantity of sheep. "Seven bushels of grain" is a quantity of grain. "Seven acres of land" is a quantity of land. "Seven" is the abstract property that these things have in common, and the symbol "7" is the numeral that denotes this property.
I haven't used a 14", but that may be the sweet spot. That's why it's taken the $2k price point. I like the portability of the 13", while the 16" can be cumbersome on an airplane.

The 13" I have now is adequate, but I miss the extra screen real-estate I had with the 15/16". The 16", especially, was really a treat.
But... does it ultimately matter? All the other sh*tcoins are backed against nothing and have huge market caps as well.
Brave Search looks like a clone of Google Search and the search results are almost exactly the same for the few queries I tried: the same URLs are returned by both, with the position of a couple URLs +/- 1 position.

Seems fishy?
Another perspective is whether the framework is declarative or imperative.

If your code describes what is to be done without making the motions itself, you're using a very heavy framework or, honestly, DSL. These types of frameworks have lots of magic built into them and favor convention over configuration.

If your code performs actions imperatively, and moreover if it's explicit rather than implicit, then it can be easy to wrap or replace the framework. It's like a library.
AsmBB v2.9 has been released
It strongly reminded me of The long read articles from The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-long-read
In a few years, tell me how it went.

I prefer to work a 9-5 for a single company/product than shuffle between 10 different projects. It's fun for a short period of time, but eventually it tires me out. People are different, of course.
That’s a pretty bad metaphor imo.

It’s more like either I spend $500 on this device and own it or I spend only $100 but have to deal with ads. Yeah I hate ads but I can use that extra $400 to fix my leaking roof.
Ah okay. I think the work required to get this implemented across the stack will still cost a lot more than $11,000, just saying. Also in my opinion 4K monitors at that size are an unfortunate purchase because the PPI is not high enough to look crisp at that viewing distance. Apple upgraded theirs because you need to get above 200 PPI range in order to have it look comparable to print. For me personally, I couldn't justify spending my spare time working on that when other monitors exist that don't have that problem.
not clear if it is the easiest target to short, given that many people who use tether are fairly skeptical about how/if the tokens are backed by assets but use it anyway (if the recent Bloomberg story is accurate).
Mattermost 6.0: A New Approach to Developer Collaboration
How is this possible? 18 year olds can't even rent a car, you usually need to be 25.
I found myself talking about "myself" in third person when the discussion gets philosophical with respect to free-will, as it can help convey my beliefs better.

PartiallyTyped stops being the person directly opposite the other party, but instead becomes a commentator, one who explaining the thought processes of the person that sits opposite the other part; it just happens that the voice of the commentator is the same as that of the person, and the lips are synced, however, for all intents and purposes of that discussion, that person is a p-zombie, and the commentator somehow manifests into the head of the other party.

The commentator considers the case where the audience may be wondering why one would create such a scenario. PartiallyTyped uses that scenario to expresses her belief that free-will is an illusion. She believes that talking about her brain but referring to the p-zombie person enables the other party to understand her point of view; that is, that she is the person that arises or manifests out of the zombie, the person who experiences the world even though she is never in control.
This article was written at the peak of Enterprise Java, and it did have a negative effect on the industry. Tons of boilerplate and fragile XML.

"Framework" meant something else then. It more was like a kitchen sink of design patterns and maybe some persistence.
Do you think black people striving for equality are looking for companies putting black people on their ads? They want equality, not their struggle to be washed away by bullshit empty posturing.

"Want to end racism? Stop talking about it. I'll stop calling you a white man if you stop calling me a black man."

- Morgan Freeman
Our society has stabilized on a business schedule and sleep pattern that is asymmetrical about noon; most people stay up after 6pm and wake up after 6AM, regardless of when the sun rises and sets in their locale. If you live in the perfectly calibrated point for your time zone (such that the sun is directly at its apex exactly at noon, with the caveat that you aren't on the equator) you will experience the sun rising before 6AM for half the year, and setting before 6PM for the other half, leaving you with wasted daylight in the summer and lots of darkness during waking hours in the winter. Since a larger portion of our waking (and non-working) hours are after 6PM, the thinking goes that it is beneficial for more of the year to bias your daylight to the evening by an hour than to actually be perfectly calibrated to solar noon.
So... Why did it have to be Java?
I guess some people just don’t make mistakes. Wish I was one of them.
> What happened to the recent work showing that galactic rotation curves are consistent with ordinary GR? Last I read, cosmologists were choosing to ignore it.

Gravitomagnetism is a well-understood and experimentally measured effect. It is also a very small effect, of the order v^2 / c^2 where v is the speed of the sources. In the galaxy, stars move with v/c ~ 1/1000, which means the gravitomagnetic correction is one in a million. So while N-body simulations do sometimes account for general relativistic corrections like these, they're not nearly large enough to remove the requirement for dark matter.

That is the simple reason the paper has been ignored by everyone in the scientific community and rejected from decent journals. Of course, this hasn't stopped hundreds of fluffy pop articles being written on it, or it getting posted every week on HN. The blind leading the blind.
Decentology raised $4.3M to build a marketplace for composable smart contracts
Both chemically combine with other atoms to form molecules - that is how a battery works. If they combine with the wrong thing it can be a lot harder to separate them again (not nuclear level, but harder)
Federal Reserve was crafted in a secret meeting on Jekyll Island (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve) between industry and government.

Still exists and functions today. Lot of people don’t like it, but it’s there regardless.

Even if the origin, operation of Tether is highly suspicious: if it functions, is widely adopted and does what is expected … may last longer than people think.

Best response is more open stable coin equivalents.