skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t speak about puerto rico, but in another latin american country i’ve spent a lot of time in it’s very common for every small store to have a loudspeaker and blast (imo shitty) music from 10 to 5. That isn’t even bad compared to the many discos right next to each other than play music as loud as possible to not be dwarfed by their neighbor.

Whenever I’m in a Western city I’m grateful for how much more quiet it is (relatively anyways), even with greater density and size.
Thanks for this. Really great idea! I normally don't set my headphones that loud but it's happened that I raised the volume during a meeting because someone was talking too quietly and forgot to lower it.
I made one in JS years ago, what I learned is that DNS is simpler than I thought.
You don't weed out the people, you weed out their drugs. The threat of being caught with drugs by a security guard means they don't bring their drugs with them onto the plane. Net result: fewer people currently on drugs sitting beside me while I try to sleep. I don't mind sleeping amongst a bunch of stranger on a plane or at an airport because I know they have at least been screened for basic weapons. Sleeping on an interstate bus or at a bus station is very different. See below. The knife in that killing would have been detected at any airport by even the laziest of TSA screeners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean
What's worse an SEO black magic or NFT nonsense?
Who whitelists email domains? Do they explain why?
The 12 Pillars of Wisdom – John C. Bogle [pdf]
> It strikes me a lot of the nuclear focus is (understandable, if not justifiable) interest in cool new technology.

This is very funny. The first nuclear power plant began operation in June 1954. That same year is when Bell Labs created the first commercially viable solar cell (although I doubt it was used to generate power for any grids until long after that).

So this (implied) claim is not just wrong about the age of nuclear power, it even gets the chronology wrong in comparing it to solar.
My GPU that was midrange in 2012 could use an upgrade.
Aside from the bustling ecosystem, Surplus has been around for a long time, consistently beats benchmarks, and is quite lightweight and unopinionated. I've used it for a lot of projects, small and large, quite successfully.
I don't deny that, with careful coding review, Ada has the potential to be safer than C++ even with the noted deficiencies.
I track my death for a year- This is what I learned
seems like it'd be better served to have some sort of limit on how loud the volume on a device can be set. maybe in the system preferences set MAX = 75%, but in Finder allow the volume to be set at 100% in the UI but the system keeping it limited. make this a per Output setting so when you switch back to Built-in or other external device it is not limited to anything but your buds.
One or more of the following factors:

1) What you are working on. Is it yet another CRUD application? Alternatively: a project you are not getting to work on.

2) Who you are working for and with. Perhaps you have a bad manager or you just don't gel with them. Maybe you are not getting along with your co-workers, or vice versa.

3) How you are working. This is really very broad, from in-office to work-from-home, frameworks you don't want to work with, maybe you're not an Agile person, or the fluorescent lights keep flickering, or the push to microservices is obviously a bad idea or they were cheap with your computer. A lot to explore here. Some crossover with where.

4) When you are working. Always in a rush? Never stop "sprinting" only to find that the deadline you met meant nothing, and your project would not be looked at by stakeholders for another eight months? Too many hours, or the wrong hours? Or perhaps your time subdivided so finely that any progress bleeds to death from the finely-sliced task-switching that passes for the "multitasking" some manager thinks will lead to a free FTE?

5) Why you are working: for money, and you're not getting enough of it? Because you believe in the cause and you see the organization headed the wrong way?

So many possibilities ...
Solo Founders Should Do a Spring Cleaning of Their Business
there's a muscle called the tensor tympani
the way I learned conscious control was through yawning.
this muscle can be strengthened then can protect from hearing damage.
Fireship did a nice overview for Solidity here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdvVwGrV7ec

And FreeCodeCamp has in depth tutorials for Solidity.

That's what I'd get started with.
Keep in mind they're not always equivalent. If you have 'continue' in the middle then the for loop will still perform the increment but the while loop won't.
Yup. Cops are just a gang, chapter 47: https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Oakland-PD-s-Harleys...
Ukraine’s Tanks Are So Good, Its Own Army Can’t Afford Them
You might be TOO OLD if you believe the pundits who are telling us that Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence based systems have (nearly) reached the point that a user can simply ask for what they need and the ML & AI system will program it for you. These folks believe that artificial intelligence will soon replace programmers completely and there will be on need for professional programmers. They are wrong.
https://maps.dot.gov/BTS/NationalTransportationNoiseMap/
What lie am I spreading? Ok, I'll grant that saying "Serbia" as whole supporting Russia is incorrect, I should've said "many Serbians." Yes, Serbia's recent UN vote condemning the invasion of Ukraine is appreciated, given their usual Putin-friendliness. But the state still frequently sides with Russia on issues like invading and annexing Crimea:

https://balkaninsight.com/2020/12/08/serbia-backs-russia-aga...

What other non-Russian country would this pro-"invasion of Ukraine" rally happen?

https://twitter.com/SerbiaBased/status/1499815809065132033?r...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/world/europe/ukraine-serb... and
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-presidential...

explain more details:

"Serbia, a traditional Russian ally, has rejected calls from the European Union and the United States to join in sanctions against Moscow, citing national interests. The country’s representative to the United Nations did vote in favor of a resolution condemning Moscow’s attack on Ukraine as a violation of international law.

Despite the Serbian government saying it is seeking EU membership, Vucic and his allies have refrained from condemning Russia over the invasion, a possible sign they want to avoid alienating pro-Russia voters ahead of Sunday’s election.

Thousands of people in Serbia have turned out for pro-Putin rallies during the five-week invasion, waving Russian flags and displaying the letter Z - a symbol seen on Russian military vehicles in Ukraine. The support for Moscow makes Serbia somewhat of an outlier in Europe."
I see one or two messages per week, and I guarantee that my email addresses are on every spam list in the English-speaking world. (Also Chinese and Russian -- at a minimum)

If spam is a problem for you in 2022, you have a crappy email provider.
I guess I’m willing to accept emails out of the blue to my GitHub address, so long as they’re encrypted. Must be annoying to some people, but I’ll never know.
The greed and envy in this comment reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xcYLVdfFro
Not to be rude but you ascribing an equal likelihood of causing tinnitus to one night of using earplugs(which BLOCK sound from your ears) vs presumably regular/sustained use of noise cancelling headphones(which BLAST sound into your ears) borders on ridiculousness and make me think you're just trolling..
HyperNext Studio is a kind of spiritual successor to HyperCard
http://www.tigabyte.com/index.html
Let's say this is the work of a persons mind - and not a GPT-3 writing prompt generator with a sentimentalizing filter to get social media to talk about brands, (and one which is learning to generate viral propaganda) - what must it be like to have dozens of people sincerely speculate as to whether you are a robot or not? It would be like being invited to participate in a Turing test but as it progresses, you find out you are the computer. Catchpas keep getting harder and harder, but it's probably nothing etc.

If there is a real person who wrote the OP reading this, these comments are evidence you have written provocatively, (don't read your press - weigh it) and that itself is a gift worth refining. However, if I'm offering sympathy to a robot, meh, I've felt it wasted more on better people. :)
> Or abandon failed ideas like nukes

which produce 778 billion kwh in the united states

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> A very respectable amount of utility power is generated geothermally

16 billion kwh

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> and has been for decades without mishap.

More deaths have occurred from geothermal, total, than nuclear, despite that nuclear delivers 48x the power.

Guatemala City: 33.

Dieng: 41.

Fenton Hill: 12.

Sorik Marapi: 5.

Soultz-sous-Foretz: 19.

Calpine: three times. 1, 5, 4.

El Salvador: 12.

Sumatera: 6.

Leyte: two incidents: 5, 17.

Sarulla: 18.

Brisbane: 14.

Reykavik: 2.

It'll get worse. AltaRock had to be stopped twice for causing earthquakes. Strasbourg was permanently stopped. So was dover.
Pohang's earthquakes put a city under lockdown and killed two people.

There exists no decade since the launch of geothermal power where at least 25 people didn't die. Nuclear has only had that count once.
> would you claim that eating a banana (even at population scale) meaningfully changes mortality

Probably not, but only because "That's silly, bananas are just fruit!" rather than because of any scientific study I've seen or done. So you really shouldn't listen to me.
Of all of the years as a DJ using headphones in loud settings, all of the concerts, all of the events with loud amplified sound systems, etc, I was able to avoid tinnitus. It wasn't until I was driving and was t-boned in my side of the car with a side impact airbag going off. I walked away from the car with nothing more than a few scratches from flying glass, this lovely ringing in the ear, and this lousy t-shirt.
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The location of the fastmail office has zero impacts on this. If the complaint was that the PGP extension was developed in Australia then that would be a valid complaint. But email hosts themselves are not private against government requests.
I hope you aren't running with ear plugs and noise cancelling headphones or have some dedicated safe place to run.
Could there be some content in the emails that triggers spam filters? Are the usernames or domain something that might trigger it? Is your server time correct?

It might also be that many users have marked emails from the domain as spam (I know of that happening with competitors signing up to newsletters etc. just to mark them as spam).
Nice write–up. I happened to write a little dns client last month too, although I avoided all the low–level protocol stuff and concentrated on the high–level business logic: pull many rows from a database, then create and execute as many queries in parallel as possible.

It’s a good demonstration of why I like Rust so much. All the pieces were already there, and Rust’s type system ensures that I cannot have any unexpected sources of errors. My error–handling code is honestly pretty crude, but the compiler ensures that I have actually handled them all, and that there can be no surprises. No innocent–looking library functions that – surprise! – can actually throw exceptions.
That as well. But it does feel very wrong that combustion engine users can emit huge amounts of noise and pollution while sitting in sound proof, HEPA filtered boxes.
and not evasive the way this piece is

It's a piece about identifying 'PR hits' that misidentified something as a 'PR hit'. There's a microscopic 'correction' at the bottom but the fact the correction undermines the premise of the piece - that you too can learn to identify 'PR hits' from Paul Graham - is just ignored.
Thank you for the feedback. I agree this behavior was confusing. (We changed it to slightly dimming the second log in response to the community discussion. This change is released in React 18.) The new behavior seems like the tradeoff we dislike the least but new ideas are always welcome.

Overall, we’ve found that calling some methods twice is a crude but effective way to surface a class of bugs early. I absolutely agree that it’s not the best possible way to do that, and we’re always thinking about ways to surface that earlier — for example, at the compile time. But for now, the current solution is the best we have found in practice.
Interesting!

Here's the abstract to save you a click:
We presented participants with lecture videos at different speeds and tested immediate and delayed (1 week) comprehension. Results revealed minimal costs incurred by increasing video speed from 1x to 1.5x, or 2x speed, but performance declined beyond 2x speed. We also compared learning outcomes after watching videos once at 1x or twice at 2x speed. There was not an advantage to watching twice at 2x speed but if participants watched the video again at 2x speed immediately before the test, compared with watching once at 1x a week before the test, comprehension improved. Thus, increasing the speed of videos (up to 2x) may be an efficient strategy, especially if students use the time saved for additional studying or rewatching the videos, but learners should do this additional studying shortly before an exam.However, these trends may differ for videos with different speech rates, complexity or difficulty, and audiovisual overlap
I find by far the biggest disruption in US suburbs is lawn equipment. Suburbs are louder than cities imo because there is always a leaf blower, lawn mower, and weedwacker going at all times during the day within 100 yards of you. Often for hours.

Moving from Palo Alto to SF things got way quieter.
The only time I've really seen this info about bananas being bad is typically in Taboola sponsored ads that I'll never click on and only see when I'm using some device that's not mine not using blockers.

Just because of where the article is listed, I've always just assumed it to be crackpottery.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linville_Gorge_Wilderness

"The forbidding nature of the terrain made resource extraction unprofitable, which is the primary reason why the gorge is one of the few remaining examples of old growth forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains range. No industrial logging ever took place within the gorge, and its virgin forests span 10,000 acres (40 km2).[5]"

https://news.yahoo.com/final-nantahala-pisgah-forest-plan-10...

"One addition in the plan is the special designation of an 11,500-acre Big Ivy/Craggy Mountains Forest Scenic Area in Buncombe County, which Will Harlan, organizer with Friends of Big Ivy and I Heart Pisgah, said leaves just one step before it becomes the state's first national scenic area: a congressional designation.

It is one of five Forest Scenic Areas included in the plan, alongside Looking Glass Rock, John Rock in the Pisgah and Whitewater Falls and Glen Falls in the Nantahala."

I spend quite a bit of time in the Nantahala and Pisgah forests along the southern escarpment of the Blue Ridge.

Pisgah is, in my opinion, far and away the best XC mountain biking in the southeast.

Some pretty good fly fishing for brookies in the streams above 3000 feet in both forests..
Rand() on OpenBSD Is Random
The entire point of the phrase "security theater" is to emphasize that there is no observable difference in outcomes. Ordinary people understand this, and criminals (especially the kinds that seize airplanes) are usually at least as smart as laypeople. Evaluating the success of the TSA based on perceived deterrents is at best an unknown unknown, but the fact that we know those deterrents to be ineffective makes the null hypothesis (it's just not that common to hijack planes anymore, potentially for other reasons) much more likely.

> Look into news reports from the 60s and 70s, before serious security at airports. Hijackings were almost normal. Today they are almost non-existent.

I would wager that this has more to do with the FAA requiring the reinforced and locked cockpit doors, and almost nothing to do with the TSA. The hijackings of the 1960s and 1970s were not done as acts of terror -- they were frequently "statement" actions, done with the goal of making the plane land somewhere troublesome for the US (like Cuba).

> I also appreciate the security theater because it makes airports a generally drug-free environment.

Do we go to the same airports? I regularly see daydrinking, mixing alcohol with sleep medications, and all kinds of behavior that adults generally do when they're in a space where they know their actions don't have real consequences for them. I'll go as far as to say that I've seen more open drug use (and consequent poor behavior) in airports than I've ever seen in the Port Authority in NYC. And I rode interstate buses for years.
Everyone has seen those results, but have you looked into the nature of the devices they were using? These weren't handguns or swords. These were devices designed to mimic bombs, bombs built to best sneak past security checks.
Thought this was interesting so had a quick search and here is what I found

For linux there are a few solutions depending on the install:

*/5 * * * * pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -2%

or with amixer

*/5 * * * * amixer -D pulse sset Master 2%-

Terminal command to set audio volume? - https://askubuntu.com/a/97945

For windows you can use powershell to trigger the Volume Down Button

$obj = new-object -com wscript.shell
$obj.SendKeys([char]174)

Simply add the script to a Task scheduler task (create as a daily task then go into advanced and trigger every x minutes)

Change audio level from powershell - https://stackoverflow.com/a/21362870
Run a task every x-minutes - https://stackoverflow.com/a/4250516
The horn on automobiles should be mounted inside the cabin. They can make it as loud as they need to make it, but the person who hears it the loudest should be the driver.
> By the way, OTAN is a defensive alliance.

Small useless nitpick, it's called NATO in English.

> I don't believe in a second of a nuclear escalation, escape on one matter: Crimea. It's an Ukrainian territory but Russians may go bersek if we retake it. But let's kick Putin out of Dombass and Transnistria.

It's a matter of water - strategic access to the Black sea, and actually having water in Crimea for food and drinking.

I don't think "leave Putin with just Crimea" works either, it's long term unsustainable. Potable water access issues are always ugly, and often lead to instability, like the conflicts that happen in the Palestine region (most of them, at least partially water related), or the current issues plaging Egypt and Ethiopia (disputes over the use of the Nile's water). Russia is not a rich country and can't do the equivalent of the Berlin airlift to relive Crimea of water issues if, say, the North Crimean Canal closes again.
> We keep getting guilted for flying everywhere, but projects like this are needed to make the alternatives practical.

Projects like this are needed for very specific cases, like this. Not "everywhere", so yes you get guilted for flying everywhere when it is not necessary.
Honestly I prefer companies that don't do any recognition at all rather than ones that play lipservice to the idea. It's just entirely too cringe and sort of weirdly reminds me of high school prep rallies.

In all likelihood your job just revolves around some meaningless CRUD application for some equally meaningless commerce application, zero of my self-worth is tied into my job and I'm constantly baffled by people on the other end of the spectrum.
That is basically the dictionary definition of cashing out social capital: be so good that people evangelize your brand, then start aggressively putting profit first once you reach a critical mass of public awareness.
Title seems misleading. Should be "Ukraine's next generation tanks are too expensive" or similar. From what I've heard, Ukraine's current tank force is very outdated.
>> the reinforced and locked cockpit doors

Nope. Hijackings disappeared long before 9/11, when they started x-raying carry-ons in the 80s. No longer could just anyone bring an AK-47 on in a guitar case.

https://airport.nridigital.com/air_mar20/timeline_the_histor...

"As time went by, a series of skyjacking attempts – which in 1969 alone amounted to 40 in the US [ie one every week] – eventually led to the introduction of the first x-ray scanning machines for baggage in the 1970s. However, passengers themselves were only checked with an electronic magnetometer and later through metal detectors."
And a singleton is not an instance? Its all the same thing; 1 file, 1 instance. A file has properties, size, data memory, you can copy, paste it, delete it. A file has a type though generic.
It all comes back to code. Noise abatement materials are not part of most residential building codes in the US because most residential buildings are expected to be single family homes with detached lots. If you don't live in that situation then tough luck. Very little effort is spent politically trying to improve quality of life in any other form of domicile.

Concretely I suggest reaching out to your city council and trying to push for using more noise abating materials in code depending on the classification of residence (e.g. for dense residential.) My partner and I live in a condo run by an HOA and noise abatement material (underflooring, between walls, etc) up to certain spec is mandated by our HOA. We only hear our neighbors when they're having drywall work done in the home.
Nuclear tipped ICBMs put an end to that. It's even questionable how much should a president drink alcohol while in office. A drunk president ordering a preemptive nuclear strike likely would be ignored by the military but a drunk president when an attack is incoming would be a very bad situation.
It drives me absolutely insane. I can’t record audio virtually anywhere unless I treat the hell out of the room. I shouldn’t have to turn my room into a soundproof bunker to be able to record some voiceovers. It’s ridiculous.

My previous home office had spray foam insulation with double layer sheet rock and bass traps on the walls, yet I still had to have a small homemade box around the microphone when I was doing any sort of voice work that wasn’t more informal.
For what it's worth, I think that the critical position on this bill is basically extreme skepticism about what the parties initiating legal proceedings are going to consider "instruction ... on sexual orientation and gender identity". Because that's a very vague passage, and I'm not confident that bigots won't cause a large chilling effect on schools by suing over teachers mentioning that gay/trans people exist, even if these lawsuits are eventually lost by said bigots.

> Of course not. ... The teacher is just stating a fact.

A lot of "classroom instruction" is stating facts. You're instructing the children about what these facts are. The law seems very vague on where this line is going to fall.

(The other issue is the extreme lack of consideration of the possibility that parental-abuse is the problem you're now required to inform the parents their child has complained about in the other sections of the bill...)
It’s Not About “Faith”