skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sympathize with you completely, but I just want to point out that there's no simple solution.

At the end of the day, nothing is perfectly safe and everything is a tradeoff. In a capitalist society, corporations are always going to try to maximize profit because that's how the incentives are structured, and it's always going to be the job of government to set safety regulations. Safety regulations that aren't so onerous that they simply shut down the economy (e.g. you can't ever transport chemicals ever) but also aren't so lax that people are getting killed in accidents all the time (do whatever you want, railroads!).

The job of developing safety regulations to achieve the right balance is not only incredibly difficult by itself, but it becomes even more difficult in a messy democratic process.

Because if it were done entirely technocratically, you could assign a monetary value to each human life and try to model the safety tradeoffs and come up with "objective" standards that would nevertheless only be so-so because a lot of the estimation is necessarily guesstimation, and figuring out what to do about black swan disasters is almost an unsolvable problem.

But we also live in a democracy where many voters are horrified by the idea of putting a dollar value on someone's life for that kind of economic/safety modeling, and some of them just want more jobs because their community is disintegrating economically so damn the regulations, and some of them just want to protect the environment so damn the unemployed. (And then add another 20 different viewpoints and perspectives, because those aren't the only ones.) So we kind of muddle along somewhere in the middle because that's what democracy does.
Other pages of Substack don't do that. Is it possible that it could be that «Music commentary» from Spotify?
I am not OP.
I wonder if it's the noise cancellation causing problems. I definitely hear a high-pitched noise from the noise cancellation feature and rarely use it at all specifically because of that, except very infrequently like on planes. Maybe the high frequency noise is damaging the ear drums at high frequencies?

But I can definitely say I do not have tinnitus despite wearing AirPod Maxes quite often.
Would be cool, as a follow-up study, to repeat the experiment but with the curves painted onto the ground, and participants are advised to loosely follow the lines of their color (or avoid lines of the opposite color). Could also do a variation where only a couple people towards the front know of the paths and implicitly guide the rest of the group's trajectory.
Thanks a lot for the advice! I've been going to the gym for years on and off now. But I told myself that from now on I am going every single day for the foreseeable future.
But at that point you may as well use TRAMP[1] and let Emacs do the multiplexing for you. Yes, (e)shell works over TRAMP too. ;)

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/
Good vs Evil is a spectrum from Mr. Rogers to Pol Pot. This childish postmodern idea of moral relativism needs to die.
My AirPod Pros emit some loud, short static noise bursts from time to time. Mostly in situation where there is a single loud noise in the environment.
Please be open to the possibility that it also might not explain it. There is going to be a natural overlap between people developing tinnitus and using Airpods considering the number of people that have them. But is there an increased rate of tinnitus among people who use Airpods?
"Monkey Mind", is with regards to meditation. When you try to maintain mindful awareness of your breath or body, your mind hijacks your awareness and takes it on a trip back into the past or into the future. You have to tirelessly bring it back into the present moment. After a few moments it again takes flight. As you repeatedly do this, your mindfulness increases. This is the monkey mind.

If you are living a normal regular life you won't really be aware of the monkey mind.
Same here, I have been spreading mobx everywhere I have gone. There's usually some resistance but once people got used to automatic dependency tracking, they never go back.

I've seen so many projects get bogged down in props hell, then gobs of context api and performance problems when too many things react at once.

Mobx has been solving these problems for a long time now!
Embedded Linux user? We used screen & minicom extensively in my unis satellite lab
Technically yes, but I think what most people think of as "legal" is rather different from "can be prescribed by a doctor for a legitimate medical use".
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Sell heroine.
Sometimes I wonder about electronic noise cancellation. On most of the headphones and earbuds I've tried it on, it's felt like having cotton rammed into my ears. It almost feels like a sonic version of having minor surgery/dental work with local anesthetic, like my ear is being absolutely blasted with something I can't actually hear. I worry about what the side effects could be. After all, you can't see ultraviolet light but it can still destroy your retina.
Caldera, pre SCO, was actually pretty sold 'professional' desktop OS. A place I worked at used it and we had a bunch of developers and researchers with Windows backgrounds that were using Linux for the first time and they all found it a pretty smooth and polished desktop and development experience over all.
Vaccine? It is better called as a COVID inoculant.

Simply because it was (Oct 2023) way leas than 55% effective and still falling.
Flagged with 23 points. Looks like I ran afoul of the thought police.
Yes, it's not real, see the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35012981
China's youth unemployment is at 20% end of 2022. https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20221021-i-feel-lik..., a Great Depression type of number. With the recent estimated 80% reduction in factory jobs in 2023, One can assume the unemployment is a lot worse than 20%. If you look at some of the online videos, you will see factories that are now requiring only female workers, workers under 23, etc. You will see 100 people in line for 3-4 positions.
Without looking exactly how Rosenpass works (outside of your brief explanation), could this just be merged into WireGuard? If yes, why hasn't it?
I am under the assumption constant use of any headphones at the volumes most people listen to inevitably causes tinnitus.
Comedians that pretend to do news like Jon Stewart or John Oliver are just as harmful.

Presenting biased views that shape people’s entire views of society can be much more destructive over a lifetime than bad stock picks. Destroyed family connections because people refuse nuance, non-existent careers because “capitalism bad”, etc.
I don't think that's working out so well for you, because developers disagree

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dre...
I use tox extensively. Nox looks far easier to configure.
In a perfect world, yes!

But in my experience with Qt, you always have to adjust font names separately for every OS. This is especially true for nice coding fonts.

If I had written that program, I would have brought my own font (like "Hack"), and simply set the pixel size of the font, to ensure it's exactly the same size on any OS (and I would have written it in QML, with heavy usage of Repeater, which would simplify the UI code a lot, but I digress...).
But they did not replace other reference to a male character by a female one. In particular, in the same paragraph, they did not replace Hemingway and Kipling (who are way worst in the "woke circle").
I feel that this is a good example that everything can be shoe-horned into a "woke agenda". They would have replaced Austen by Conrad and some people would have said "these woke had to switch to an anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist".
If you read everything with the idea that there is a woke agenda, you will always find "reason" why what you observed is secretly part of the woke conspiracy.
For a split second there, I thought a post-airline accident flight recorder had some Java heap dumps that showed major issues and thread leaks.
That’s pretty awesome. I quite like this one too https://youtu.be/PX3A7GLtFqM
I wonder if a reduced noise level makes existing tinnitus more noticeable.
Signals are a common term for this. Someone else invented the term not the people who wrote this.
Thank you so much! Good luck on your further journey!
Is the US richer and more prosperous than the Vatican? I’m intrigued now how to figure these rankings out, no joke.
You have to disclose that you have a vested interest. And even then you have to avoid transactions for a period of time after to avoid it being a “pump and dump”.
Kinda reminds me of recession-time travel industry deals.

E.g. in 2008 where many went for a 100k mile bonus credit card offer for British Airways miles.
pyenv is really slow. It'll increase the time it takes to run `python` by a ton. For me it makes `python -V` take ~120ms but without pyenv it only takes ~13ms.

I wrote an alternative that has 0 overhead called rtx. https://github.com/jdxcode/rtx
Mini did some tricks so the "display" was much wider than the device display but text columns were wrapped at device display width. So you you could zoom out and see the whole page but the text was readable when you zoomed in.
I agree with all of that. Police need more training, higher standards, higher pay, and more consequences for misconduct or betraying their mission and values.

We also need to be more forgiving when mistakes are genuine.
OpenBSD -current is now 7.3-beta
ChatGPT API in Google Sheets Tutorial
You can't be sure. But nor can you collect it and transport it for proper incineration. What's not burned will evaporate eventually, with deleterious effects.
“Signal” was used for a time-varying value in a reactive system for a very long time (I thought it was as far back as Fran in 1998, but I was remembering wrong—I was only able to find usage in Grapefruit in 2009, older references welcome). One way or another, in a functional reactive programming system, you need distinct names for:

(a) A thing that happens (or might happen but ultimately doesn’t) and is associated with a value of some sort, such as the mouse coordinates of first left-button click the program sees;

(b) A list of the above with monotonically increasing times, such as all the left-button click coordinates in order;

(c) The above plus an initial value, representing a piecewise constant function of time, such as the state of a toggle;

(d) A (conceptually) piecewise continuous function of time, such as the position of an animated object.

[To avoid “time leaks”, i.e. accidentally retaining all change history from the beginning of time, you also need

(e) A computation that reads the current time, such as the mouse coordinates of the next left-button click the program will see;

but that’s not supposed to be obvious—it took more than a decade to figure out.]

Possible names include: event occurrence [for (a)], event stream [for (b)], event [either (a) or (b)]; behaviour [(c) or (d)—the library may not distinguish them in the API or only provide (d)]; reactive [Conal Elliot’s name for (c) as opposed to (d)]; signal [(b), (c), or both]. All of these make sense in isolation. I don’t think you can win here.

[Perhaps the worst word to use is “stream“, because people start trying to fit streams with backpressure in there. FRP only makes sense as far as you can assume any recalculations happen instantaneously, meaning at the very least before the next input change happens. If you forget that, you get Rx instead of FRP, and that’s not amenable to human comprehension—or indeed sanity.]
Nested sessions. Hypothetical:

local computer with screen
\
\ ssh/mosh to remote A, run screen
\
\ ssh/mosh to remote B, run screen

If each uses the same prefix (the default is C-a for screen, C-b for tmux) then you have to send it multiple times to send a command to the screen sessions on either of the remote systems. If you give each a unique prefix then you can send the prefix once and it goes directly to the desired screen session.

Easier to give each system its own prefix that's constant regardless of depth, though, than trying to remember "Did I connect to A first or B first today?". Or, better in my experience, don't nest them. It's a pain however you choose to deal with the prefix problem.
It's their social vr app, but meta knows very well that other uses cases drive vr now. Why do you think they are spending billions on acquiring game studios?
Like ultra sonic bursts from devices trying to identify other devices in the room? What a irony that would be, add tech destroying the hearing with which they try to reach the audience.
See also: "The Zen Anti-Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5359
Thank you, appreciate the empathy and advice!
I think there is a replacement program for this issue - https://support.apple.com/airpods-pro-service-program-sound-...
In German it's a bit complicated:

- die See (fem.), alt. das Meer (neutr.) - the sea (a saltwater ocean)

- der See (masc.) - the lake (an inland freshwater lake)

But then again, "das Meer" is sometimes used for freshwater lakes when connotated with some context, e.g. "das Schwäbische Meer" as an alternative name for "Lake Constance".
That’s my understanding as well. It all depends whether their technique really can do this. If it can, it’s solid work imo. If it can’t (better than random chance), then it’s bunk.

There’s not much way to know other than to try it and see. But that’s true of almost every paper in ML. Some of them suck, some of them are great, but they all contribute something in their own way. Even “rat brain flies plane” paper (as much as I despise it) showed that you can change the values of mice neurons in a lab setting.
I'm from the Midlands and have heard that many times.
What are you going through is a normal reaction when going through a breakup. You just need perspective and that will only come with time. In the meantime focus on your physical health - diet, working out, sleep etc. Don't repeat my mistake - these things may seem completely pointless now and future may seem bleak etc. But please, just do it, you will thank yourself in the future. Watch some movies, I recommend "Swingers" (1996) and "A Serious Man". And remember, there are plenty of fish in the sea.
I am open to the idea that these new modes could be causing this. I've used AirPods for years, almost never with any mode other than basic listening, and have never had issues with them. The transparency mode being a super crude hearing aid approximation, has some cause for concern, and it amplifying sounds you don't need amplified is a weird idea (I don't have hearing loss, and I hate transparency mode). I personally don't like how the noise cancellations feel when it is on, and only use it in truly loud environments and on planes.
Ask HN: What software stack to select for my project (a modern retro computer)?
Hello all,

I need your advice in selecting the software stack for an educational, boot-to-code computer. The computer will be an AIO with a keyboard, screen and a Linux board with just-enough CPU to run the coding environment.

The intent is that eventually in the future to turn the computer in a commercial product that will come bundled with a coding book that will teach coding to young audiences and enthusiasts. E.g. a modern-retro computer.
Below are a few mockups and even a possible ad:

Pic1: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqZl4tNWAAEVICB?format=jpg

Pic2: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fo-QP-MX0AEOjUJ?format=jpg

Pic3: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fo-QP-PXEAIGSn4?format=jpg

The computer will offer a simple coding editor, a language (TBD) with a nice API for drawing shapes, put sprites, etc. on a graphical canvas.

Now, back to software stack that will power the coding environment (editor, menus, etc.) and a language interpreter (e.g. JavaScript).

Main requirement from software stack is to run on a low-powered Linux SBC and boot in under 5 seconds to coding environment.

I’m considering the following options:

1. Dart + Flutter + Skia (no X)

2. C# + Avalonia + Skia (no X)

3. Kotlin + Compose for Desktop + Skia (no X)

4. Pascal + Ultibo (no Linux)

5. C + LVGL (no X)

6. Vala + GTK (Linux w/ X)

7. HTML5 (Linux w/X and Chromium engine).

What do you recommend?

P.S. Looking forward to your recommendations regarding features of the coding platform. My intent is that experience to be similar to fantasy consoles (but high-res) or to codeguppy.com environment.
I have read on occasion that pyenv seems to be woefully unmaintained. Is that true? Is it a good move to learn using poetry instead.

Another observation I have is that although pip installs in environment are sanitized, they share a global cache (or tarball dump under .cache/ e.g). Is there any way, pip packages can be further compartmentalized? Is there any merit to pipx that I hear mentioned at times. Thank you for answering
Listening to loud stuff directly piped into your ear certainly seems like a good way to get tinnitus...
I have tinnitus and I do not see any issues with my WH1000XM4s making it any worse. It does feel like I can hear the tinnitus a bit worse with the headphones on, but I think that's just the ANC cutting out low frequency noise as expected. I've been using XM4s and XM3s for years, and my tinnitus has been steady, so I assume not all ANC makes tinnitus worse inherently. It is possible AirPods Max would also not increase tinnitus for me, but I am not going to use them because I do not use Apple products for much currently and so I am sure it'd be a pain to update and configure them. (Not to mention, it's nice being able to use LDAC in Pipewire, or Multipoint, and I don't know if Apple supports either of these options.)
“promising to tick off 375 ports around the world, visiting 135 countries and all seven continents. The ship will cover more than 130,000 miles over the three years, taking in iconic sights from Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue and India’s Taj Mahal, to Mexico’s Chichen Itza, the pyramids of Giza, Machu Picchu and the Great Wall of China. It even slots in trips to 103 “tropical islands.” Of those 375 ports, 208 will be overnight stops, giving you extra time in the destination.“

Sounds epic for retired people who want to see the world!
But is it profitable for the cruise company… what happens if they realise this half way through the journey and are forced to cancel the rest of the trip?
Well said, thank you!
I suspect all ear plugs will always cause tinnitus. Having sound emitted so close to your ear drum is not a good idea.

Not to mention that often, air cannot escape, which increase energy and/or air pressure inside the ear canal.

A better alternative would be to have helicopter-type headset (not as much soundproof, though), so that you won't increase volume to mask surrounding noise in public transport or outside.
I felt the same as you when I was younger, but next time watch the faces of all the non-engineers in the room. It will start to make sense.
To me it feels like pressure or a vacuum. I don’t know enough about physics is it just that active noise cancelling is increasing the total stimulus to your eardrum and it just sounds better because they cancel each other out but physically it’s still more soundwaves to absorb.

I only use active when I vacuum pretty much. Sometimes if the kids are really loud or there’s some obnoxious background noise
So the next move is to train chat GPT like language model out of the data from whatsapp, facebook and instagram.

Gee, what could go wrong?
Poor man’s AirPods: construction earmuffs over old-school wired Apple earbuds. You can keep the actual volume setting quite low, and the suppression of outside noise is powerful. Feels like you’re underwater or you’re Frodo wearing the One Ring.
But you need the `FOO.` prefix anyways. So there was never any ambiguity. It seems that it would be good to either make the prefix optional (presumably something equivalent to the `STR.` processor would be default) or keep the interpolation syntax clean. (IMHO just `STR."Hello {name}!"` would have been ideal). But instead they require both the prefix and the ugly interpretation syntax.
I also don't have tinnitus, and like you don't use noise cancellation much at all (planes being just about the only time). I find the Maxes sound very good in normal mode and block out a lot of noise on their own. But these noise cancellation modes could be a cause for concern.
What accounts for a 40% collapse? That's an enormous shortfall for such a large economy.
TMJ problem maybe? You unconsciously clenched your jaw in just the wrong way upon hearing an unexpected noise and it caused a problem with your jaw joint, possibly exacerbated by the headphone in your ear canal?

It’s a common cause of tinnitus from what I hear, and anecdotally, my tinnitus is worse when my TMJ is worse. But mine is mild and intermittent so wouldn’t want to compare to your situation.
Startup's bladeless flying car could reach Mach 0.8 – Big Think
> Disputing reasonable cause is very hard to do. Most people would likely find it reasonable to be suspicious of a person lacking a cell phone. Also appears judge granted a warrant, which to me confirms they believed their the threshold for reasonable suspicion had been passed.

I don’t know what I stumbled upon but it definitely does not meet my threshold of reasonable suspicion to do an involuntary body cavity search for anyone solely because they do not own a cell phone.

Also I would hope the public pays for all costs of whatever involuntary search or medical procedure regardless of whether the search results in evidence of guilt but definitely if the search does not yield anything.
Yeah we're so fucked. We live on our phones and have either checked out or turn it into us-them mentality. Neither political administration did what they should have. We can't fix it, so we finger-point or throw up our hands in despair. And most people who haven't given up are simply too dense to understand how they're getting played by their little echo chamber, or what a strategy to fix it would even look like. Let's just wait till the boomers die, and then demographics shift, then corporate capture will fix itself, right??
A Samsung s20 might also be much cheaper.

And why should anyone follow trends just because of some kids?
Ummmm. ANC attenuates certain frequencies and fails to attenuate other frequencies. Which you would end up hearing anyway if you weren’t wearing the headphones. So effectively the sound power reaching your ears didn’t change for those frequencies.

I have worked on ANC systems in automotive applications.
That's not my experience at all, if anything I feel like HN is quite fond of Java. The anti Java crowd is mostly on Reddit instead where it's the subject of memes and jokes and the like.
Editor from within the repl or outside? If outside, what triggers the repl to reload files?
If inside, which editor? I never found a good way to copy and paste a line I got right and liked into a file. I tried drdocstrings but it never seemed to feel smooth bit doesn't help all the keys in julia default to being emacslike and ally muscle memory is vimish. So even after making my repl editor vim, there is stuff in the repl that feels foreign.
I'm wondering if there might be some kind of interaction with the drivers and amplifiers?

They've gotta be pretty wide-range drivers, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's class D amplifiers in there. That can produce loads of power, efficiently, but high-frequency switching noise could be a concern.

Might be worth measuring these with a reference microphone, capturing at something like 192k. Might only need 96k. You want to find out if it is producing 'ultrasonic' noise, particularly at high amplitudes.
Has it ever been otherwise? Everyone thinks they’ve done their due diligence and arrived at the correct conclusion.
The people who disagree are obviously wrong. And maybe they even know it.
'excludes' come on.