skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first time I’ve ever heard that no amount of ear protection will help you from certain handheld weapons. Navy guns, yes (my dad was in the Navy and has many such stories) but every gun range I’ve been to and gun safety class has never once said that there’s a risk of hearing damage no matter how much ear protection you use.

Maybe it’s true! But if so, I am definitely surprised as heck, since I grew up around guns and gun safety. It was a big part of my upbringing. My gramps took me shooting underneath some bridge somewhere when I was like 11, and let me loose off a few rounds of a magnum. We just wore earplugs + earmuffs like usual. It felt like a hand cannon in the truest sense of the word, so it’s hard to imagine a louder handheld gun.

EDIT: Randomly searching for things like “is hearing protection always enough for guns?” doesn’t seem to bring up anything to support this, and all the links seem to say variations of “yes, hearing protection will always prevent hearing loss when shooting.” E.g. from ASHA: https://www.asha.org/public/hearing/recreational-firearm-noi...

> The good news is that people can prevent hearing loss by using appropriate hearing protective devices (HPDs), such as earmuffs or earplugs.

And ASHA’s credentials seem pretty impressive:

> The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for 223,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists; speech-language pathologists; speech, language, and hearing scientists; audiology and speech-language pathology support personnel; and students.

So would you mind pointing me to anything that supports the idea that a suppressor is a necessary component to prevent hearing loss, and that hearing protection alone isn’t enough? I’d appreciate it, since it’s a chance to reshape my worldview. I’m always willing to suspend disbelief in the face of evidence.
I feel this sort of black-and-white thinking about morality is responsible for a lot of problems. Short of moving into the desert and becoming some sort of Hesychastic hermit, it's difficult, near impossible to lead a life where you do no evil.

The conclusion many draw from that is not to even bother trying. I think the better conclusion is to be forgiving of the failings of others, because they too struggle with this. Maybe the point isn't to be perfect, but to reach for what's good.
Nice! :(
That would still be an improvement, as it would require getting the approval of the majority of voters, rather than a majority of land.
My pecking order is Firefox on my PC, Firefox on my Mac when I need uBlock for something, Safari for everything else. (And Edge, for when I want to make sure everything I make looks as good on Chromium as it does on WebKit and Gecko)
WSJ’s reputation publishing a column by s/o associated with fraudulent research?
How my indoor air made me sick and dumb (and how I fixed it)
TST is literally the killer feature for FF. It's actually the only reason I went to FF, it was getting out of hand to have all my tabs across the top, and it makes little sense with modern screens being so wide that giving up a little horizontal space to get legible titles is absolutely worth it.

Someone in Chrome/Edge/Safari must be thinking about doing this, I don't know why it hasn't been cloned. Can't be too hard to do.
While I personally don't much care for much new music I hear, I'm hesitant to chalk it up to music being worse rather than I'm somewhat set in my preferences. That said, pre-COVID I had definitely reached the point where I had never heard of the bands playing trade show parties and the like and, when I did hear them, my impression was somewhere between meh and it's noise.
I've never found editing Wikipedia to be a pleasant experience. Unless it's a totally obscure topic, there are just too many people who feel entitled ownership to the page and will fight you on every edit. This isn't exactly the abuse described here, but it feels bad when you just want to help. I tried adding the marriage of a celebrity couple once on the day it happened and someone was there to make sure THEY got to add it by reverting my changes until I just gave up.
Yeah I see a lot of complaints but this is the salient one.

18 months is not that old. Even mainstream pop radio stations are still going to be playing a stuff that’s 3 years old regularly.

Maybe it’s not brand new but it doesn’t fit their rhetoric later on.
America is becoming more like China lol.
Consistent and integrated pain, better than inconsistent and isolated
I recently watched the 1998 Will Smith movie "Enemy of the State" (lawyer targeted by the NSA finds himself entangled in a terrifying web of surveillance). The point of the movie was clearly to emphasize the importance of privacy and the dangers of mass data collection and surveillance.

What is most wild about the movie is that much of the tech (and government policies) seemed a bit far-fetched (Hollywood-style exaggeration) for 1998. However, now, after 20+ years of the Patriot Act and the advancement of global connectivity (read smartphones) it actually came across as pretty tame and unsurprising. The ramifications of society's decent down the rabbit hole have been clear for awhile to anyone willing to pay attention...
It would be somewhat reasonable to want to regulate suppressors if they worked like they did in movies. It's completely unreasonable to regulate suppressors given how they actually work.
Oil companies just extract the oil and take the blame for us when we burn it.

We should make them a statue every time we enjoy quality of life. Also lunatics such as exctinction rebellion and Greta Thumberg conveniently congregate near their North American or European HQs and luckily leave airports and highways alone so we can enjoy the quality of life provided by the aforementioned oil companies.
Actually why I don't see AI generated music a thing.

What I think we do as humans participating in culture is "select" music, I'm not sure music is every truly created or composed but stumbled upon and then selected. It's selected at a rate which we can manage. A large part of the fun comes from sharing music with others. When everything becomes personalized, we start to lose this.

If I had library of never ending new great AI generated music, what would happen? I guess I'd just keep browsing forever and never really know what I like. Arguably this is already happening. I've been a musician from a young age, and I now actually find it difficult to know what to listen to. Before I had steaming services, it was a lot easier a lot less option stress.
So weird that prostitution gets related to freedom of women or women's rights.

To be honest, it's such a masculine thing to begin with.
On the smoothness of JS, I wonder if that is more about site developers testing against Chrome and Safari but not FF.
I'm pretty sure the origin of shareholding was that it allowed the owners of corporations to avoid liability for the criminal actions of the corporation, and to limit possible losses to the value of the shares.

For example, imagine a corporation that specializes in Ponzi schemes and other methods of systematic defrauding of its customers. By becoming a shareholder in that corporation, one can profit from that criminal activity, and if any prosecution ever takes place, it will only be the employees and executives of the corporation who go to jail, not the shareholders. This is really what investment capitalism is all about: ownership without responsibility.

This is of course a simplified picture as shares are only one of a variety of securities, and understanding what securities are is the first step in financial education:

> "Securities appear in different forms such as bonds, stocks, bank notes, futures, options, forwards, swaps, etc. Depending on the distinguished characteristics that each of these securities holds, they are categorized into different types such as debt securities and equity securities. The securities that are used for the purpose of obtaining credit such as bank notes, debentures, bonds are known as debt securities. The securities that are being transacted as a result of the investors’ interest towards the assets of firms are known as equity securities such as stocks and shares. Further, the derivatives including options, futures and forwards formulate an agreement between two parties to buy or sell assets in the future date at a pre-agreed price."

https://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-shares-...
I see posts like this about all the rules and pitfalls or raising (functional?) children these days, and I just wonder - why are people doing it? What do they want for their children to do in the world? I couldn't enforce this level of discipline on myself, let alone a child. I suppose I'm happy someone is raising the future laborers and tax payers that I might rely upon someday, but the whole thing just looks very dreary and grim to me.
> after a certain time every night they insisted everyone in the family put their phones at the charging station

This is really great advice for anyone of any age. My sleep has improved a lot since I started leaving my phone downstairs while I sleep. (Bedroom is upstairs)

Instead of reading hacker news late at night, I might read a book or talk to my wife. Instead of waking up to my phone’s alarm, I wake up to an analog clock’s alarm. I have no notifications to review until I’m ready and go downstairs.
yes, and a rouge CA can sign a certificate for any site, and HTTPS in it's current state might not defend from it. (Though I think some browsers now check the presence of the Certificate Issuance in the CT logs, as a additional security measure)

Such a attack would immediately end up with the relevant CA being removed from the certificate stores across popular browsers/OS, quite detrimental to the business who owns them.

This does not mean that HTTPS doesn't provide security, compared to plain-text, it is a significantly harder to game it, verging on the edge of infeasible.
> mostly useless

that's a bit overstated, it's fine to get started on a topic and about broken links, you do realize you can help fix them as well right
Expose your kids to activities that are more compelling than screens. Trust me, once you take a kid go-karting, they aren't going to be as excited playing a video game.

Do cool shit with your kids. Go skiing, camping, fishing, go-karting, flying (small plane tours), drone racing, etc.

I know most of us here are nerds, but the jocks really do have life figured out when it comes to fun stuff.
> It's sad that despite all the warnings, people are so myopic and apathetic

99% of people I interact with have absolutely NO idea of the ramifications of the apps and services they use. Their understanding of technology ends at "click app icon and scroll". I think that (probably because you're in tech) you seriously overestimate the degree to which the vast majority of people can be said to have given "informed consent".

Hell, even among my friends with PhDs and whatnot a majority does not understand.
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I would posit that the "numbers on music consumption" are incorrect, and that Billboard, iTunes, Spotify, radio, television etc have no connection with "the whole creative culture". They are by their very construct focused on "old songs" and an old way of thinking about art. I am a musician and deeply grounded in virtually every genre of music. Not a day goes by that I am not blown away at some no-name musician on YouTube or other medium - at how they have extended the whole performance capability of their instrument(s) and of the creative process itself. Keep music LIVE!!
I think you underestimate the problem space.

Think of it like security issues where the attackers/researchers are constantly evolving and generating novel ways to hack a system. Your solution is telling fresh out of school developers to be really careful about use after free bugs and spear phishing. Obviously a good start. But it's not enough in a lot of cases.
They require a stamp from the ATF, but are legal with it.
No offense, but the "new music" you're talking about, that primarily appeals to men aged 55+, is new jazz and classical music? Kids these days don't pay enough attention to the hip new composers? Come on.
Besides entertainment cooperations and tech algorithms putting newer artists at a disadvantage, I reckon demographics also plays a part. Post WW2 generation has established cultural preferences.
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Edge has vertical tabs but no grouping by parent tab.
The safety device protect your hearing while shooting goes over your ears, or inside them. Not inbfront your mizzle. But hey, I guess operator style tacticoolness beats everything.

Anyway, gun safety pratices seem to be desperately lacking in the US, judging by all the stupid gun accidents. At least your hearing was protected by a cool, tactical device.
Shout out to librewolf which removes all the dumb Mozilla stuff like Pocket/telemetry (default on)/etc.

I wish firefox would have live captions for audio/video. It's one of the few features Chrome has that I use regularly and miss on FF.
SWAT showed up to my house, looking for a suicidal person, who may have had a gun. Wrong address.

Fortunately, I only had to walk out into the middle of my street in my PJs. Sadly, my biggest concern was some trigger happy lunatic would kill my new dog, imaging a hyperactive doodle puppy as a vicious cop killing hellhound.

I'm still a little fuzzy on why a health check requires a paramilitary response. Wouldn't it be safer and cheaper to have some sweet little old lady with a clip board knock on my door?
The haircut known as “The Mullet” is making a comeback. This is all you need to know about a culture that is out of ideas and is desperately looking backwards for anything that isn’t today, but is too timid and soaked in irony to sincerely attempt something novel. Something real.

I don’t know but I think something broke during the financial crisis that hasn’t mended yet and it has led to stagnation.
A few months ago, I posted a comment on an idea that I sent in to Apple[0].

I also mentioned how pessimistic I was, that anything like it would happen, because, even if they did, they'd poison it with commercialism, and wreck it.

It's like when a favorite local food treat is brought out by a major conglomeration. Everyone is thrilled, because their local fave will now be going national.

Except that the conglomerate "waters down" the treat. They may do some stuff to help with preservation and transport, but the stuff that kills the product, is the "taste adjustment." Maybe they reduce the spiciness, or substitute a cheaper ingredient, or one supplied by a crony company.

Soon, absolutely no one likes it; including the folks that invented it, and the product dies.

I see that happening in many creative industries.

It's also happening in the tech industry. As megacorps borg smaller companies, they start bowdlerizing the work.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30996691
Elon Musk wanted to entrust his fortune to a former pro gambler
> You don't sound like a typical nerd though. Most of my nerd friends (and certainly myself) would not do any kind of sports. Especially teamsports.

I think the definition of a nerd is to be atypical. I'm glad it's celebrated now, as it should be.
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Crime is down everywhere relative to when we were kids. Throw the kids outside and lock the door behind them.
I thought the French always put "Avec" on everything...
Can you elaborate on the Mozilla corporate weasel part? As far as I can tell, they are just a) poorly managed and b) desperately trying to diversify revenue away from search prioritization contracts.
For the privacy conscious, the arkenfox user.js template provides a nice structure for setting up Firefox settings [1]. This works extra nicely if version controlled with your dotfiles and NixOS.

programs.firefox.profiles.<name>.extraConfig = builtins.readFile ./user.js;

One of my favorite settings is setting "keyword.enabled" to false, to prevent leaking mistyped URLs to the search engine provider. It feels much cleaner to explicitly specify the search engine using e.g. "g<space>" when you want to search.

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/
I think the end of musical subcultures may be significant. It used to feel like there were many isolated musical bubbles, separated by geography or language or social class or simply aesthetic choice, and each one would develop its own unique musical idiom. Every now and then some cultural explorer would bring one of these idioms back to the mass market, introducing a new flavor into the pop music melting pot, and a surge of innovation would occur.

Of course the flow of attention back into the previously-isolated musical subculture tended to be destructive, as far as its inhabitants were concerned; the musicians who rode the wave out to mainstream popularity were often scorned and labeled sell-outs, for making private profit at the expense of the community which had supported them.

When there is no more isolation, all music shared everywhere over the internet all the time, how can a unique new cultural strain develop? When any new ideas one musician comes up with just get dropped into the global soup, instead of taking time to ferment in a smaller, more focused environment, how can any distinct new genre emerge? It seems like we are seeing a different model of musical creativity, which is likely to be broader and smoother; more gradual global drift and fewer irruptions.
I find the concept of being killed by someone who was allowed to do that more offensive than the concept of being killed, much less assaulted, by someone who wasn't. Neither is a realistic threat. On the other hand, we can easily change what's allowed.
Swift is kind of like the two-headed best Orthrus from greek mythology, but where classes & OOP are confined to one head.

You only really need to deal with them when you're interacting with legacy APIs. All of the new APIs use value semantics.
Pretty sure absence seizures are a stoppage in brain activity undetectable by the individual but visible on a PET Scan.

I do experience deep thought, where I can be thinking about something that is maxing out my short term memory and if someone interrupts with their voice, I have to ask them to repeat what they just said. Also very frustrating for me as it takes considerable time and focus to return to that state.
The rest of the thread discusses, and I think mostly debunks, the notion that breastfeeding is vitally important for infant health. I'm just here to take potshots at appeals to the naturalist fallacy, that if nature "designed" something some way, it's important for us to continue honoring that design. No, it isn't.

As for parental leave: why not pay men to stay home? Why the presumption that women must be the ones to sacrifice their careers? Because "breastfeeding"? That's a pitiful justification.
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DDD is really archaic, the UI is very much out of date and the fonts are hard(or impossible) to change,etc. It's for the last century. Still there is no decent alternative as of today.

I mainly use gdb -tui these days, with some vscode+gdb(or, is it lldb?), both worked OK for me, but neither is as complete as DDD.
Is Epiphany unworkable for testing? It's got the same engine behind it.
Its hurts that people like you are here solely to make others throw out the baby with the bathwater. MLK JR was a baptist. Do i have to hate him because of the baptists' pro-life stance? JKF was a kennedy; do i have to hate the civil rights act because of his illgotten wealth?
>fortune 500 type CEO works those hours it's because they want to.

I think the parent post was more a statement about the human condition than economic equality.

There are a lot of successful workaholics that are unhappy. On paper they have the economic ability to change their situation, but reality has more barriers.

Humans of all types are capable of depression, confusion, delusion, and disappointment.
Its seen as bad practice to use anything but one argument per word.

There's also quotations, retroforth[1] tends to use a prefix based system for indicating the type of the argument, c:put will print a character, s:put will print a string.

https://github.com/crcx/retroforth/blob/master/doc/NamingCon...

https://github.com/crcx/retroforth/blob/master/doc/QuickRef....
It’s no different than a muffler on a car. In fact, both were invented by the same guy. It’s a safety device.
Funny. I use Firefox Focus on mobile, and I didn’t see any ads.
Was a software developer in the ad industry. We dealt with billions of ads. A hundred hell thousand ads here or there won't make any difference.
I did use ad block though except for running tests on the code that I wrote.
I just read the first few paragraphs of this article before I stopped, but my very first instinct reading this is that it feels a lot like old me.

Disdain for basic human things is not a great sign. Eating food and enjoying food is not primitive, it's human, it's good. We do not need to be better than human. We need to be human, we need to excel and enjoy and enhance all of the things that make us who we are.

We are not robots, we're never going to be robots.

Enjoy your food, doesn't mean you're a monkey. It doesn't mean you're primitive. You're doing what all these wonderful marvelous tools we've built for ourselves are intended to do, make your life good and give you the things you need as a person. Smile, enjoy, be happy, and don't be afraid of who you are.

And talk to a therapist if need be, for me this fear of being human came from social experiences in my early life that led me to dislike other people and be afraid of other people.
> Yes an 18 year old may be a successful entrepreneur, video maker podcast host influencer who is reading ebooks for research or sending out emails or editing videos or programming a website in those hours but we are clearly not talking about that

Aren't we? I heard the same comments from my parents when I was learning to program and even when I was going to school online.

I think a lot of older folks genuinely don't understand how many different activities are mediated by computers.
Usually with no DB measurement. I couldn't find a single video of someone using silenced subsonic rounds with a decibel meter.
I want to see extensions which change how the user interacts with the browser (eg. Vimium or gesturify) work on browser internal pages such as settings, extensions or reader view. I know its not going to happen because "security".
I wish I could switch to Firefox exclusively, but the commerce websites I frequent only work correctly with Chrome. No doubt it's due to laziness and lack of testing by these websites, but it is reality. The worst part is the complete lack of warning that these sites have not been tested on anything but Chrome, and are not likely to function correctly.
Sadly, most audio APIs are not "half-decent" at zero-latency inter-app routing and minimal mixing/output latency (for a particularly bad example, see https://superpowered.com/androidaudiopathlatency). JACK on Linux supported this but few apps supported it, ALSA and PulseAudio loopback devices don't have it to my knowledge, and PipeWire is the first chance at bringing mainstream non-musician apps to this promised land (but only JACK and PipeWire apps, and Pulse and ALSA apps still have added latency).

Additionally, conventional hardware input/output requires at least two periods of buffering for a stable duplex session (mic input and speaker playback simultaneously). On startup, you fill the output buffer with 2 periods of silence. Every period (when input buffer grows and output buffer shrinks by 1 period), you take 1 period of input audio, feed it through the audio graph (which can take up to 1 period otherwise your speakers run out of audio to play and stutter), then write 1 period of output audio to the speakers. Smaller periods (lower sample/frame count, lower duration in ms) reduce latency, but increase the risk of stutter if your system can't schedule and run all audio apps in 1 period of time.