skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC the overall prevalence of hearing loss is has not been changing that much. There are a couple of opposing forces at the population level.

Most common hearing loss is age-related and the population is getting older.

Two other common causes are exposure to loud noises at work and infections.
Work-related exposure is decreasing as fewer people work in heavy industry and hearing protection has become almost universal. Infections have also decreased with better hygiene and health care.

I don't know of evidence that loud music is actually causing hearing loss in young people.
There isn't a coming ice age, since we are in one right now which has lasted 2 million years so far.

There is good reason to believe it isn't over and a glacial period will return.
C#/.NET (and Java) run the Fortune 1000 and pretty much every enterprise and internal line-of-business app in the country.

It's the other language stacks that are smaller, but just get more attention on startup-related discussion boards.
Would you have a pointer to the 20% number? I'm genuinely interested in learning more.
I use the browser's bookmark folder or reading list as my inbox and the those that make it past the interesting threshold get tagged in my org-roam repo.

I think this is a problem crying out for a better solution though. Searchable local history with summarization and classification that respects incognito mode with good batch nuking capability.
I've been using Guix on top of Ubuntu so that I can have the latest versions of some applications I care about, while keeping the core Ubuntu which works well with my hardare.

Similar to your comment the ability to see exactly what is installed, with repeatability is fantastic. For my personal use-case the ability to install an application in parallel to Ubuntu's is really useful.
Basically I’m saying they should make a finished solution but leave distribution and full scale manufacturing to private industry. Not because private will do that part better, but because at that point there’s not much need to use taxes to finish the job. What drug manufacturer wouldn’t want the contract to exclusively sell an already developed product? All they need to do is follow FDA regulations and pricing.
Seems like it might just be a case of all the little downsides add right up without the curved edges adding anything to the experience.

We get left without very many options to work differently despite the screen actually working differently!

That might not read well, but I did give this some thought. It's an interesting question to me personally.

Say we have two experiences, a dial telephone and one with the little buttons. And then someone comes up with a dial that does the tones instead of the pulses. And this actually happened! Button phones ended up with a set of buttons arranged like a dial!

They sucked and I think the dynamics are similar:

In the case of the phone input schemes, dials were seen as slow and limited to numeric input. Nothing prevented a dial with more holes in it, other than being able to put fingers in the holes, but the design seemed optimal with just the numbers.

One of the real negatives about the dial was each unique digit of input varied in both the time required for a user to perform the input as well as that time being different per unique digit input needed. It's laborious. And it's all driven by the pulsing.

Buttons were a lot nicer! Each input took roughly the same time. DTMF tones are fast, as is the mechanical operation of the button. And one gets a nice benefit for repeat digits! Finger is already in position, making it a no brainer to work the button twice. It's not laborious to anywhere near the degree a dial was. It's driven by the DTMF tones.

One could look at these two cases and see that it's really about the tones vs the pulses, and from that insight a move to a dial shaped arrangement of buttons might be the best thing ever! What gets missed is many subtle things adding up to take potential gains off the table.

With the screens, Samsung made a big deal out of the edge of the screen being a new UX element that seems like a gain. One can flick from the side without much effort, and it can be fast, by way of one example.

But the negatives add right up!!

It's hard to grip the phone without triggering some actions. Disabling that stuff helps, but it's still a very smooth phone that wants to slip away and having less of a grip takes away from the confidence one gets with a non curved screen.

One thing I did was a get a beefy battery case for mine. It made the phone thicker and it put a ledge near those screen edges. I don't trigger mine in error much at all now. The phone feels substantial, I can grip it, and it's not slick, and, and, and...

BTW, you may really benefit from that battery back. I got the Mophie one. It's excellent, allows reasonable access to the pen, though worse than without the case, just not that much worse. Battery life is extended and I can operate the phone in ways that do not wear the internal battery as much.

It turned out to have changed the balance. The upsides have value I can benefit from while marginalizing the many downsides.

And that is my take on this. Worth what you paid...
I would love something which would categorise my bookmarks for me. Right now they are just one huge bucket. It ought to be possible.

Nothing seems to do that.
This funny "windows key" has any use in Firefox? I didn't know.

Firefox is a mess! (On every OS I think). I'm already happy to have proper looking dialogs by now…

There is a feature request hanging around to be able to configure shortcuts in FF. Nothing happened until now. Since many many years…

That's the problem if there is no choice.

You can only use Mozilla crap, or Google spy-ware.

Imho a replacement for the whole insanity that "the web" is is long overdue. But I guess nothing will ever happen. (Except maybe if our future AI-Overlords would show mercy).
In Australia they allowed merchants to pass on the payment network costs, and a good lot of them did - so you might pay x for cash, x + 0.5% for debit card or EFTPOS (equiv of European EC card) or x + 2.5% for credit card. I think it was partially responsible for a significant reduction in the use of credit cards in the country. But perhaps not the dominance of Visa/Mastercard in POS transactions, since most debit cards are in their network.

At first I hated the rule, but then I realised it was exactly a rule that put the decisions in the hands of the customer and the merchant and took power from the card networks.

(I don't live in Australia at the moment so maybe this is changed. I gather there is now also app-based credit payments which have eaten into Visa/Mastercard's market, both for credit payments and for POS transactions. But how significant, who knows)
but for how long? I guess until new variants that defeats it?

Jokes aside, I feel the public has become indifferent to covid, I doubt this antibody will have a good commercial prospect
Is this a statistical reality? As in it would take a 1/1,000,000 chance to evolve out of this local maxima?

Or is it a logical reality? i.e. we know the possible permutations of the RNA and from its current state it could not reach an escape branch?

Edit: FYI, my biology is weak but it has occured to me that there must be a topology of evolution.
Flatpak is not an OS. Weird question.
Passports have verifiable codes on them. Letterheads can be copied like word docs.

Granted that's not to say people will actually verify passports using the data, but it is there compared to a letterhead being effectively just a random doc template.
well given it has strong traction but no money another way of describing that might be failed?
Larger animals can be inspected individually to find pathogens or diseases.

Insects are so small that it's practically impossible to inspect each individual organism. You can do sampling of the batch, but the odds of missing bad ones are still high.

Same with the fruits and vegetables, some are easy to inspect, others are almost impossible, or impossible to clean. There are kosher (insect-free) versions of lettuce and some berries which are much more expensive than non-kosher ones.

Lastly, disgust is a part of the human immune system. Religious dietary laws and cultural taboos are probably partly developed from disgust, and partly from trial-and-error.
Drug Trial Ends with All 18 Patients Cancer-Free
This is an extremely accessible blog post, and very interesting, even if you're not deep into transformers.
This didn't used to be a thing. I've started being annoyed by it this year, but I Don't remember when minor updates started to take 20+ minutes.
Most of that works to a degree. The create class was just an example.

Fwiw: I'm not trying to convince anyone to switch over to vscode either... But it is surprisingly decent once you get used to the fact that you have to trigger basically everything through the command palette.

And some of the named features occasionally fail spectacularly with intellij too, depending on the project.
> Businesses are generally taxed on their PROFITS, which are [INCOME] MINUS [COSTS].

Sure. But why does it get such a sweet deal?

It's because we want to encourage business, since businesses produce things of value.

But how much does a landlord actually produce things of value, and how much is he just extracting value others are producing (a.k.a "rent")? That's an important thing to consider when we look at having this tax/tax break or not.
I went from delicious to Evernote for the same benefits. Now on Joplin.
Sounds like a personal?
The precedence of it is baffling. Seeing how much money was lost on GME/AMC last year, along with the swathe of suicide-related posts on socials around the LUNA/TERRA debacle, and whatever the hell the NFT market is, you'd think people would realise by this point that there's not only any such thing as a get rich quick scheme, but that in fact, the majority of these swells are simple pump and dump schemes. Combine that with the "impending" recession, we really are facing the roaring 20s version 2, but off of our own hubris.
> No, it would not be illegal to make a law whose punishment was an oubliette. The British Parliament is sovereign and supreme, and can make any law it wishes.

Sure, but this is the same argument that comes around whenever previously signed treaties become 'inconvenient'.

Parliament can, of course, choose to ignore EHCR/Geneva/pick-any-other-ratified-treaty. But there are both predictable and unpredictable consequences for doing so, so in practice it's prudent for parliament to not just wield their unlimited power to just start murdering whoever they fancy.
It will help Vietnam develop knowledge and know-how and eventually we might see Vietnamese companies in the field. That's how China got started.
> The essence of programming is designing a way to transform data

I don’t agree here - in my experience data-oriented programming is only a subset of all useful programs.

For example, a game is in my opinion not like that. Sure, very pedantically it may be considered a “mathematical function”, but then so is every human interaction, and that’s not a useful pedantism.
So you’re the reason Azure’s interface is constantly in flux.
If there’s any value in your 100k users, you can probably sell it on a site like MicroAcquire:

https://microacquire.com/

Don’t expect a crazy valuation, but anything is better than shutting down?
I used to do this when I was leading the development of an internal tool used by a small research department. Researchers were initially using a clunky prototype that had not received any end user feedback. By meeting them regularly I was able to fix their pet peeves, add the features they needed, and remove useless stuff. Doing this for an internal tool is of course relatively easy, but ever since I have been wondering if it would work for B2B software.
>Do they just fire at random during the day? Or in response to requests?

They are played in response to a request. They aren't long but they are regularly played.
Awesome! will do when I get back home! Just curious, what was the issue by the way?
They acquire the rights i don't think they fund much.

Why these diseases are serious enough to lock us all in our fucking homes but yet rampant profiteering is allowed is a travesty. The entire state and industry hand in hand, defacto fascism.
Its instinctual, not cultural. I'm going to guess you're referring to hunter-gatherer societies that frequently have to overcome famine and eat bugs out of desperation.
Gregory Crewdson – Deep Dive #3: Oak Street
Faster Remainder by Direct Computation: Applications to Compilers and Libraries
The problem is that we probably do not agree on the usefulness of the device versus it's abuse potential.

It's not like someone gleefully commented that they are tracking their father with it without clarifiying if the father in question is aware ...
Does double-blind peer review reduce bias?
SeaweedFS author here. Thanks for your candid answer. You do not need to use multiple SeaweedFS components. Just download the binary and run "weed server -s3".

There are many other components, but you do not really need to use them. This default mode should be good enough for most cases. I saw many times people try to optimize too early, but often unnecessary, and sometimes in the wrong way.

I would like to know what kind of setup you are running. It should beat most other options if the use case needs lots of small files, e.g. millions or billions of files. If just small use case, e.g. a few personal files, it would be an overkill.

Another aspect is how to increase capacity for existing clusters. It should be most simple for SeaweedFS, just start one more volume server. And it will linearly increase the throughput.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I will stick with Firefox despite all this because I don't trust Google and Microsoft with my data but this is good to know.

With how many exploits Google needs to patch each release it's a little surprising how many security measures seem to get bypassed regularly for them to have any effect.
Just reading "The Little Book Of Ikigai" - this post reads like a rewording of the most important aspects of Ikigai :)
Sounds all quite familiar to me..
It's possible to serve ads without compromising privacy: https://searchads.apple.com/privacy/

Google is the one that has "extensive chronological profiles on probably everyone". Apple is the only major company that actively tries not to store anything about its customers. Even Apple Maps retrieves the route in multiple anonymised segments, so that Apple can't know where you went.

Google on the other hand will actively track where you are and ask you to review places you went to. And will "helpfully" send you an email of all the places you visited.
> It is quite bizarre how us programmers, who make hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, are unwilling to pay $1,400 that will make us more productive.

Not all of us. Here in Latvia that amount would be around a half of one's salary, quite likely more than that.

The further you move in the direction of poorer countries, the less the argument of "developers are expensive, everything else is cheap" actually holds.

I don't doubt that in some places a single decent AWS EC2 instance would be a developer's salary.
i would love if bookmarks would act more like outliners such as dynalist or workflowy.

i would like to able to focus in on one folder on the sidebar and have nothing else showing. currently when you have things organised in folders and subfolders, the 1st level of subfolders are indented, the 2nd level are indented even more and eventually you have to scroll sideways to see things.

and having shortcuts to get back to frequently used folders, or at least be able to search for a folder in the sidebar. at the moment firefox only searches for bookmarks, not folders

being able to edit bookmark names and links directly without having to open separate editing window. vivaldi's sidebar does a pretty good job of this and also has a note section which can be very useful to remind your future self in a few years why you bookmarked something
Ironic that out of all countries, it's China that stands up for their citizen's privacy in this particular case. The incompetent European DPAs should take note.
How often do you get blackout in California? Here in Central Europe I didn't get even 1min. blackout for a year, lol.

Guys, you should upgrade your power grid and build more powerplants, not this dumb BS.
Exactly this. People notice this when they have kids and kids start going to kindergarten.

I was almost never sick with colds until my kid started going out with other kids. I thought I had a great immunity, it happens I only had good hygiene - washing hands, avoiding contact, rarely going to mass event during flu season and etc.

As kids have poorer hygiene habits, are in very very close contact with each other they get sick easier. After a week or so the father is sick with exactly the same symptoms.
At least the steak will not be soared in pesticides designed to kill animals
My browser home page is a page of bookmarks I originally made in 1998 and it's still going strong: https://david.kitchen/bookmarks/

I update it occasionally (last updated the HTML to XHTML 1.0 in 2000, but last edited the bookmarks a month or so ago)... but these are my frequently used bookmarks.

I also use Pinboard ( https://pinboard.in/ ) for the long tail of bookmarks where I can search the full text of the bookmarked page. If I see something half interesting it goes to Pinboard, and later I can find something with just a remembered keyword or two.

For me, bookmarks remain my primary entry into the web, and is how I open every browser and new tab... it's my personal curation of how I perceive the web and how I launch into it.

I used to rely on the browser bookmarks back in Netscape. But it feels like it never improved and with every browser since it's just been relegated and gone downhill a fraction more. I still use the Bookmark Toolbar in Firefox, but really just for ephemeral things which I keep for a week or so before either deleting or moving to Pinboard or my home page. I consider browser bookmarks impermanent, partly because I use a mix of browsers for different purposes but partly because the discovery is terrible and it may as well be a black hole.
This is made by the creator of Pixel Dungeon.
Thank you to Marius Bakke for this post. I can relate, this is exactly why I've been doing my own project since 2016 even when not many know about it or use it or even supported it. I've learned so much from doing this project from scratch and made some very good friends since day one.

And @behnamoh "Does it bother you if people don't discover your work and don't use it?" If I may... I personally don't care if people use my project(s), as long as I do =) It's what makes you personally happy that matters ^_^ I'm actually working actively on v2.0 of the project without much support at all, just because I use it daily myself =)

Edit: I think that the best project(s) you can do in life is the ones you use yourself the most. When you are both creator and user of your project(s) you have unique perspective. Thanks to all for reading my comment.
I don't know how you all do it in the US, but ever since Biometrics was introduced after 9/11 we have had open public access to verify passports on the Swedish Police website. https://polisen.se/en/services-and-permits/passport-and-nati...

and we have a central organisation called PRADO with information on how to verify any EU country's passport. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/prado/en/prado-start-page.ht...
> If someone else’s AirTag finds its way into your stuff, your iPhone will notice it’s traveling with you and send you an alert.

So, if you want to avoid being tracked by a worldwide private corporate mesh network - you can just give $500+ to that corporation. Bonus points: you will become a part of said network!

Good job, Apple! Nicely planned and brilliantly executed.
There was an article a while ago that said that American history since the civil war made much more sense if you assumed the South won, and made a reasonable case for them actually winning the peace, even if they technically lost the war.

I'd guess a similar argument could be made for the Nazis.

It's easy to look back and think the North had our modern values, and were fighting against 19th Century racists, when really it was (broadly speaking) 19th century racists vs 19th Century racists, so it's not surprising that the 19th century racists won.

Similarly, Nazi Germany wasn't being fought by modern liberals, it was being fought (from the west) by people who were generally more positive about Hitler destroying trade unionists than they were about the Russian Revolution deposing monarchs.

So, it's not really a surprise that the corporate-rich-military complex 'won', because they were on both sides. Though for a few decades afterwards, the average man in the street was needed to fend off wars, so got treated a little better than before, which could have seemed like massive and inevitable progress.
Why is WEF in coordination with Bill Gates owned companies, lobbying so hard for insect consumption?
Raindrop looks amazing. Wish it weren't based in Russia.
I wonder how our culture looks from that point of view. Like some freak who is into self-humilation? I also do not understand how one can innovate in a culture that subscribes to harmony (aka societal peace) as a basic value. Any creative destruction is disharmonious. Google maps destroyed the atlas-schoolbook buisness and there was nothing nice or harmonious about that..

Just better maps, free of charge, a new ecosystem springing up around what replaced the old eco system..
Show HN: List of successful products made without code
Do you have a link to your sponsorship/donation pages?
Is this a native Apple advertising?
Oh Damn, that's actually quite useful. I really like it so far
Obviously since some of them dance around the topic, and won't say outright say it. We just have the occasional hiccups during interviews where they give it away.

naturals shouldn't take advice from people that juiced up. The amount of volume they can do bizarre, and way more then naturals can do. The wear and tear on the ligaments, joints and spine is dangerous.

It's even dangerous for them, at least one of them got very badly hurt.
The alternative is shipping your own, which most of the time is a) a bad idea since you don't have domain specific knowledge and b) the customer is not paying for you to reimplement the 10th jpeg parsing function.
Most of what you see is probably Apple bypassing all VPNs to talk to their own servers.

There are more serious problems though, with any app being able to bypass VPN simply by prohibiting Wi-Fi interface and iOS gladly letting all traffic via LTE, unfiltered. That's been described in https://blog.disconnect.me/ios-vpn-leak-advisory/.

It's well known and pretty sad that these issues go unaddressed for years. VPN developers have little power to change that given that VPN apps run in a walled garden of Apple in a sandboxed environment. Hence the the best effort at this point with a hope that this can addressed in the coming updates.

It would be great if more of these pop up on Apple forums and Apple Feedback with people demanding improvements on transparency and privacy from the company.

So far reading your blog post looks like a recollection of what's been going on.

I really wanna throw an analogy of a bear waking up from hibernation. This is not sensational and just reiterates what's been said before you, yet the title throws a shadow at VPNs just to sound like it.
https://diigo.com

It's less simple than Delicious used to be, but it scratched the itch for a while for me. I barely ever bookmark anything these days. When Delicious was sold I stopped using it, and realised I didn't miss bookmarking and hardly ever read any of my bookmarks anyway. Excessive bookmarking seems like FOMO to me, I try to avoid it and embrace a more Zen-like attitude :)
Yes, they even have a map on their website in the members area.