skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the same issue and had it all my life but got a bit worse as I got older. I used to feel ashamed of this but no longer do as I excuse myself from environments that distress me. I’ve been thinking about hearing aids but just like you my hearing is good, it’s a processing issue and am not sure hearing aids could help. Still willing to give them a try, I heard the apple earpods pro are good at filtering out voices from a noise environment.
Hmm can a jailbroken Kindle receive library books via, say Libby/Overdrive or other method?
It wouldn’t surprise me. I can definitely feel a ‘pressurization’ when wearing headphones or earbuds with noise cancellation. That isn’t the “natural” way our ears operate so there must be some side effects. But I wonder if the same would be true for wearing ear plugs or earbuds that don’t have active noise cancellation but sit tightly in your canal.
I have this problem! Not 100% of the time though. Some thinking tasks are non auditory, and don't get interrupted. But yeah, is there a term for this?
Alternatively, in a high-dimension space, everyone sits in their own corner.
What's in a ring buffer? And using them in Rust
Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux
I disabled noise-cancelling on my headphones because I actually found it make the sound of my kid crying very uncomfortable.

I honestly think that noise-cancelling is a great idea for a technology, and is basically required from a marketing perspective, but not all that helpful in practice. Sound isolation isn't is sexy, but it works much better.
So you have to already have all the linters installed? Ok I am planning to solve that problem too, but we'll have to see whether it's actually possible to compile e.g. rustfmt to WASI. In my experience so far WASI is pretty alpha quality.
Ironically, a work meeting was my best experience with VR. I enjoyed it much more than video calls (at least once a group is > 4 people)
Though it does exist, 'gaol' very infrequently used in the UK too.
Oh, I thought we didn't do political stories here. Or does that only matter when it doesn't align with certain peoples agendas?
Ah, I overlooked the "my state" in your original post.
Autoplaying gif mixed into text, closed the page.
Probably white noise would cover those but some people can’t take white noise. I actually love white noise, it calms me and helps me stay focused on the task at hand
> The NY Times isn't required to write an article I submit to them for example, that's no different than Twitter deciding not to keep a post a write

I generally agree with your point about private companies and the 1A.

However, the NYT and Twitter/X are fundamentally different in that the NYT is not a user platform but rather a media company who decides what it wants to publish--meaning that is it's stated goal. Twitter/X stated goal is to provide a platform for users to publish whatever they want to say. Now, Twitter/X can have a policy saying "here's a platform where you can say whatever you want except for X, Y and Z" and that's fine. Just like HN has policies. As long as it's clear and transparent as to what they are allowing or disallowing, then users are informed enough to know what they're going to get when they log on to X. Just like I know what I'm going to get if I visit Fox News.

Prior to Elon, Twitter's policies were stricter and so there was a lot less "hate speech" (for lack of a better term). Those guardrails are gone, since for one Elon fired the whole moderation team, and also because of Elon's own immature posts setting the example, it's devolved into a reddit-style cesspool so I decided not to go there anymore.

Banning links to Signal would be no big deal if Elon hadn't loudly proclaimed himself as the "defender of free speech" and demonized the "censorship" of Twitter.
https://archive.ph/gemd4
And to think they went on to build Candlestick park. :-)
That's cool. I just noticed after skimming it, and mentioned.
In this particular case 'most' means 99.77%:

> At the time of our review, approximately 44,000 of the 18.9 million numberholders were receiving SSA payments.

There were something like 90k centenarians in the US at the time so the amount of fraud from this category is likely some small fraction of that 0.27%.
> The Inspectors General and their OIG employees are the federal employees with the mandate to identify waste, fraud, and abuse in every federal program regardless of size.

There are more than 1 million 150-159 year old Americans that receive social security and America is funding trans comic books for children in Peru. Do you think the OIG was doing a good job?
Does this jailbreak allow unrestricted web browsing? Ability to read long threads on kindle would be amazing.
I took it as trying to corner a hardware device market they owned. Not limited by whatever telemetry Google and Apple are willing to share.
Which state?

I thought only California bans non competes. Washington almost did, but then their leaders took bribes from the tech companies to exclude higher earners.
Your last idea reminds me of https://mlf.org/community-first/

From what I hear, it is quite successful, giving their residents the dignity and autonomy they need to stand on their own.
I'm not well-versed enough on sci-fi to be able to connect more dots than this, but I am assuming these are common tropes.

The Mass Effect series describes the Reapers as (copied from masseffect.fandom.com - I <3 this game's lore):

"The Reapers are a highly-advanced machine race of synthetic-organic starships. The Reapers reside in dark space: the vast, mostly starless space between galaxies. They hibernate there, dormant for fifty thousand years at a time, before returning to the galaxy...the Reapers spare little concern for whatever labels other races choose to call them, and merely claim that they have neither beginning nor end."

The other pop-sci-fi analogue I can think of is The Borg.
I can only imagine what happens to your hearing if you work at some of these bars. Long term exposure would wreck your hearing.
To be frank, they never wanted to help to begin with. Why would I care about coddling their concerns if they are being selfish all this time?

Sometimes, awareness is just as much about identifying who to not bother with as it is about empowering future allies.
I'm not sure if there have been any rulings on this so I don't know what lawyers say about this but based on a layperson's reading of the GDPR, I would expect that the company can not simply unilaterally delete the user's data in response to a request to have their data corrected as the user retains ownership of their data (the terms of service may grant a license for specific purposes but any clauses that would waive your basic rights would be unenforceable and void).

I know that companies (especially in the US) tend to stuff everything they can think of in the ToS or EULA but generally European courts seem to hold the opinion that they're not allowed to contain "surprising" clauses and it's generally not possible to waive your rights (e.g. you can't waive your copyright but you can grant a license functionally equivalent to putting a work in the public domain in the US). I suspect UK courts may still rule similarly with regard to data ownership.
They're unlocked now with a spam warning added. Occam's razor wins again.

https://x.com/JeremiahDJohns/status/1891554583756845526
> to be able to experiment and hack random little personal stuff

Yes, a more sane approach is just use replit or the like, but this thread is about keeping it complicated.

> 2) enter into another subscription-ish contractual relationship (Let's Encrypt),

afaik, LE only does certs on machines for which they can see.

Taking a moment to look it up, I'm incorrect, it looks like you can establish LE with a DNS challenge instead of http. [0]

0. https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/#dns-01-challen...
The obvious problem is that that fear is entirely justified and rational.

Even if you disregard history, the current POTUS literally talked about concentrating homeless populations into centralized camps away from the general population.

How realistic this fear is and how probable it is, is of course debatable. But given that these people probably didn't have any positive experiences with mental healthcare and institutions and that the public discourse often describes them as analogous to vermin or disease and focuses on "removing them" rather than helping them, trusting a psychiatrist - especially if it means having to go to them, especially into a clinical environment - let alone taking psychopharmaceuticals seems like it would require quite the leap of faith.
You said heroes are enabling the system.

Hero narratives are enabling the system.

Those are two different things. She likely doesn't consinder herself heroic. The story about her however is written in such a way to portray her as heroic. It doesn't leave room for any other option than helplessness and hoping for more heroes to emerge.

Framing it as heroes being toxic and enabling the system suggests accelerationism: if things only get bad enough (i.e. if we stop "enabling" the system by trying to work around it), the people will see how bad things are and demand change. But accelerationism doesn't work. When things are bad enough, the people will want a simple answer and a promise of a fast change. Stable systemic changes don't work fast and they are rarely simple.

To put it another way, heroes aren't toxic, heroes are harm reduction. Harm reduction is good because it helps people in the here and now. But harm reduction is not a solution to problems. Solving problems requires putting in the ground work of building bottom-up social structures. There's no reason to believe she would be just as good and enduring in doing that as she is in what she does now. And most importantly, she wouldn't be helping those she helps now because she might not even see it resulting in change within her lifetime.

So given that heroism doesn't work and letting things get worse doesn't work, what now? It sounds like we need a hero to take on the herculean task of dismantling the individualist atomizing culture norms - oh.
I grew up there partially. Its a terrible place now.
Mt32-pi developer quits due to community harassment
Any sources on some of the tech being used over there?
Earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083012
This would be my guess as it sounds similar to what I experience and have been experiencing for decades long before any king of noise cancelling headphones. I find it very difficult to process noises when there are too many occurring at once and adding voices into the mix will make it look like I am lagging trying to respond. I have no idea what the underlying condition is, but I consider this problem to be called "misophonia". I think it is about not being able to filter sounds well.

Thankfully I'm not regularly in an environment that force me to wear noise cancelling headphones.

Sometimes I believe this was caused by my childhood bedroom being soundproofed, but I still went to noisy public school so who knows.
Local coverage/discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083012
Pre-commit has like the worst DX to me, so I'm really looking forward to a replacement.

My biggest gripes are:

1. Pre-commit hooks are designed to modify files in-place, which turns `git commit` into something that can alter your work tree. IMO those tools should never ever modify files (unless explicitly asked by the user) and only output a diff and exit code that signifies if the check failed.

2. It manages the tools with its own environment but never exposes it. I always have to dig around its cache directory to find out which executable it is running if I have to reproduce the problem after something goes wrong.
> you have changed the statement

Please don't be so aggressive. I did not take your statement, I was just saying that in the situation where there is a need of a correction, not applying the correction is also a justification for discrimination.

The question is "do we need a correction", and it is a very tricky question, and people who jump on "of course no" usually are just careless and don't realise that they put themselves as "the judge who decide what is fair and what is not", as much as the person who says "yes it needs a correction".

> You set yourself up to be the judge of which discrimination is justified. I said you are not equipped to do that.

My point is that if you judge that it does not need a correction, then you are doing exactly the same as me: you judge which discrimination is justified.

> I just said that you cannot be the judge to determine who deserves discrimination.

But that's exactly my point: if you just say "obviously there is no need for correction, obviously the default value is neutral", you are judging that the needed correction is 0. How is that not as bad as me if I judge that the needed correction is 1.

> I fully support relieves to the poor, financial support for education and several sensible policies.

But you are therefore discriminating: you give advantages to the poor that you don't give to the rich. How is that different?

> And I believe neither are you or some alleged "discrimination experts".

But I haven't said that I support any concrete DEI/AA. For all you know, I'm opposed to all the DEI/AA you have in mind, and just support the same policies as you about the poor and the sensible policies.

I think that in fact we are exactly the same. All I'm saying is that everyone, including you, end up applying "corrections" to reach fairness (decided by them or not, it does not matter). And that the choice "the correction should be 0" is as much a "choice of discriminating to a given level" than the choice "the correction should be 1".
Anti-debugging (and even anti-anti-anti-debugging) tricks have been commonplace on the DOS/Windows side of things for a long time. Any old cracking/unpacking information will discuss those in varying amounts of detail.

How easy it is for the user to have control over what apps do is inversely related to how user-hostile the platform is. PT_DENY_ATTACH seems like a feature specifically invented for the purpose of serving the latter. Of course on the Windows side, which I believe doesn't have such a feature, the trick is to make the app attach to itself instead:

https://www.x86matthew.com/view_post?id=selfdebug

https://anti-debug.checkpoint.com/techniques/interactive.htm...
The US seems to be a text book case of treating the symptom rather than the cause (and not just in terms of homelessness either). Culturally we:

- Seem to tolerate high income inequality or even see it as a good thing.

- Value "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" and devalue social safety nets and other avenues of providing opportunity to the masses

- Have given up on higher crime rates, lower education, poorer health care and health outcomes compared to other wealthy nations

Instead of trying to prevent homelessness in the first place, we try to tackle it once it's already there, then throw up our hands and say it's not possible to deal with.
When I wear Bose noise-cancelling headphones on airplanes I can hear the female flight attendants much better than when I'm not wearing headphones. The noise-cancelling filters out lower frequencies and constant hum (wind, engines), but not the higher-pitched frequencies (which is why the female voices are easier to hear, and, as you mentioned, crying toddlers).
So, when the announcement asks people to remove headphones while they explain the security setup it actually has the opposite effect for me - it makes it more difficult to hear what they're saying if I remove my headphones.

Note that there are different kinds of noise-cancelling headphones. The ones pilots wear are different, and then you have those made for hunters - they are focused at reacting very fast to sounds from shooting.
Interesting thinking about this being connected with young people using subtitles all the time. I've been using noise isolating and active noise cancelling earbuds and headphones for a good 20 years while working in noisy cubicle farms, open office plans, and working at home with kids around, and I don't think I have the problems cited here. Is it an age related thing? I didn't start with the headphones until I was in my mid 20's
I can't even find work with experience and a clean record. I can't imagine how bad it'd be to find minimum wage work while not having an address to full a form out with. If it's been a whine for you it's gotten so much worse.

>Most the people actually on the street are nuts or drugged out

The most obvious, in your face example are the crazy ones. For basic human survival we remember those the most. But I bet most homeless people are just a person on the streets getting by. Not even the ones begging for change. It's a lot harder to get by in CA though.
Idk about Bazel, but Buck2 (and Buck1, but 2 is better in every way) does handle adding -fPIC for shared libraries and leaving it off when statically linking. Each library has a PIC and non-PIC version, and the appropriate one is selected depending on if the library is being linked into an executable or a shared library. (The versions are only built when needed.) I don't remember if it also handles -fPIE similarly smartly though if you do want position-independent executables.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083012
I'm trying to search this and it seems the numbers for both (ear canal and infants cries) are all over the place. Do you have a specific article about the connection?

Interesting if true...
When I worked at Second Life we'd often have work meetings in-world. It was fun, often silly, but also productive. Ultimately, it was a voice conference with decent audio and tinker-toy visuals, and we could dogfood and demo our work.

But this was around 2010, when most internet video conferencing tools were still terrible, so Second Life was decent competition. For doing work meetings in 2025, the only virtual-world-like competition to Zoom & co that I can think of is maybe Apple's Spatial Facetime, and that's thanks to expensive hardware designed to solve or hide the usual VR usability issues.
> This sort of injury, with the missing sensory input, triggers brain plasticity

Huh. Charles Bonnet syndrome?
There is of course a feedback loop here. It's not like they get a check and no one ever looks to see what it was spent on. Congress has multiple levels of oversight over these agencies, including several congressional Committees (House and Senate), inspectors general, and whistleblowers. This oversight serves to minimize fraud, waste, and abuse.
All credibility is gone if you, in 2025, still have Murmur over Reckoning in your REM rankings.
When my friend got robbed in SF the police didnt even show up for 2hrs and the owner of the bar I was at laughed at the idea of calling the police like they'd care. I highly doubt crime statistics reflect how bad it really is. Besides most of the worst of SF is the dirtiness and petty crime that police care even less about. Come out of the subway and see a homeless guy urinating right in front of the steps without even turning away is not something people are calling the police over but is a typical day-to-day experience.
Also the same weather these idiots felt it was wise to go surfing in: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1992/08/24/playing-docs-g...
Ah, I fell prey to the double negative and reread the article. I'll leave my comment for histories sake.
My thinkpad E14 gen5 intel + ubuntu 24.04 is my first ever laptop where sleep work exactly as intended.
with ~1% battery waste per hour
Minnesota did as of 2023. Might be others

https://www.mmmlaw.com/news-resources/minnesota-becomes-yet-...

North Dakota and Oklahoma as well, according to this map:

https://eig.org/state-noncompete-map/
If companies are implementing unfair policies like non-competes then the invisible hand of the free market will cause employees to leave those companies or never join them! I mean it's really not very likely that the 2-3 CEOs we currently have for each industry now could possibly find time to meet in a room together in order to pad their pockets with billions more and help squash further competition.

/s
PMF or Die
I have inherited projects where I just could never understand what they were thinking well enough to make the service good (not running out of memory and crashing). It was very humbling; I still sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with things I wish I'd tried, but the assumptions of how it all worked was just scattered throughout a bunch of files and the assumptions of everything was just not how I'd do it.
Sort of related, but in the two or three times I've lucid dreamt, one of them was flying and having relatively functional control of my direction. Not sure how/why my brain rendered this sensation having never experienced it in real life, but it felt strange and novel and not easy to direct.

It was akin to a sensation of VR games where my mind seems to interpolate real-life expectations with visual input, but not quite. Not quite "brain-computer-interfaces", but perhaps a glimpse with current tech.
Well, I still prefer https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk/#a-smalltalk-80-c...
In my case Minnesota.
That sounds kind of similar to Dedikin cuts but crossed with ordered sequence < and > the real? Cool web site.
> Interesting thinking about this being connected with young people using subtitles all the time.

For what it's worth, I've used subtitles whenever possible ever since that became a thing, more or less with the advent of DVDs, which was in my teens to twenties. But I do also have childhood hearing damage in one ear.
Warning: unsolicited advice incoming. DFS, at least in the context of big-tech interviews, basically just means searching a 2D matrix, or a graph. It's not some esoteric 160 IQ PhD CS concept. You probably've implemented DFS in your day job without even realizing. I used to think algorithmic interviews were beneath me, too, but then I realized that attitude and insecurity was just getting in my own way.

I begrudgingly started treating LeetCode and CodeForces like a game, and it turned out to be more engaging than I expected. I'm also 30 with a family, so I get the time constraints, but just 30 minutes a day for a few months made a huge difference.

Put it this way: If someone told you, 'I'll give you $500k, top-tier career opportunities, and a resume that opens doors, but you have to spend 30 minutes a day for six months solving toy programming problems,' would your sincere reply be "no thanks"?
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> they are sending some relatively small number of checks out to dead people.

This isn't even necessarily true from the report. SSA said 44k of the 18.9 million 100+ were receiving payments, but the US had something like 90k centenarians in 2021. It's probable that a huge majority of the 44k were still alive at the time of the audit.
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