skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I tried this on a couple of papers I need to read: awesome awesome awesome awesome. Would upvote a thousand times if I could. Awesome.
How is that different than the other companies which have been mentioned? Is there a problem/bottleneck that you’ve solved that you can give as an example?
They make fun instructional videos of firemen dismantling perfectly good cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFWCM6iJR_w
Apple did not drop the floppy drive at the right time. They did in in 1998 which was at least 4 years before widely available USB flash drives. I remember every computer in the labs at school having a external floppy drive or even worse a Zip drive as there was no easy way for students to save their work and bring it with them. They also weren't responsible for the death of the Floppy disk as their marketshare then was low single digits.

Removing USB A from laptops for "professionals" and removing 3.5mm headphone jack is not really helping anything. USB C adoption will continue but there so many USB A products out there that it is inconvenient to the customer with zero advantage. Yeah I'd really like less ports on here for no decrease in price or increase in portability and would like to carry dongles said no one ever.
Do Swagger/OpenAPI and its more popular implementations support JWT/bearer tokens yet?
That has also been my experience.

I bought an external audio interface to connect a condenser microphone and was shocked at how much better it sounded compared with the audio output at the back of my desktop (Realtek 24 bit...).

I noticed that audio interfaces tend to have a lot of big condensers on the inside. The kind which don't fit in a laptop, and especially in a phone. Now I'm not an electronics expert to comment on this, but I would guess that the big condensers are not in there just for the fun of it. Note that I'm talking about professional audio interfaces (the kind used by music producers, in the $100-$400 range), not audiophile ones (kilo$, buzz words)
Or get a computer with a sane keyboard.
I use the airpods and these are the future. I'm always wearing them and they are the least intrusing earbuds I ever wore. Now I always carry a wired one with me for two reasons:

1. The battery doesn't always last. the benefits are huge so I'm OK with it though. I don't think I'll ever go full airpods just because I'm always going to be in situations where I have no battery in these.

2. My Nintendo switch and some other devices don't have bluetooth :(
Hearing loss has many possible underlying etiologies. Some are easily treated, like wax buildup. Some are not, like noise-induced sensorineural hearing loss. Both of those are not dangerous, but others like acoustic neuroma and cholesteatoma are potentially fatal if left untreated. There's good reason for someone to be checked out and cleared by a specialist before they are fitted with hearing aids.
It's obvious Google has miscalculated when the their billboards show off the back of the device while Apple is advertising the edge-to-edge display of the iPhone X.
Disclosure: I'm not a doctor or audiologist.

Hearing loss runs in my family. When it's time for me, I plan to roll my own. I suspect that if you get rid of just one requirement, it becomes easy. That requirement is to stuff the whole thing in your ear. If the electronics can be in a separate box (or in a smartphone as mentioned), then analog, signal processing, and battery power all become trivial.
As HDR panels used for TVs 'trickle down' to PC displays the HDR part of the problem will solve itself. Perhaps then people will focus more on color grading (although I suspect over-saturation will always be a staple in some genres).
Yes, you can see Eleanor speaking at a conference at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zqnQ0Mvi-as.
> I literally forget that I'm wearing them sometimes to the point where it feels like the music is coming from inside my head.

I see I'm not the only one :D I've also noticed other people and their wires hanging out more and more. I'm thinking wires are probably going to go out of fashion in the future and will look weird.
I rented a Hyundai over the summer and to play music from my iPhone, I had to Bluetooth pair with the car.

Guess what? It started syncing my entire contacts list. I just wanted to pipe audio from my phone to the car speakers, not share my life with a rental car.

So for those of us who value compartmentalising our lives, we'd very much like that bulky 3.5mm headphone jack, in addition to Bluetooth. Thanks.
>And nobody cares to give you a good adblocking solution out of the box. Google makes money by ads so I guess they'll never change that.

I've never used an apple device, but does apple give you that ? The problem you are describing is a general one due to overlapping roles of all hardware and software makers. Everyone wants ad and data money.
I consider myself an "audiophile" and have spent way too much money on nice equipment. That being said, once I started hanging out with people that call themselves audiophiles and have way more money that I do, I realized that most of these people can't even tell the difference in the sound quality and, frankly, there is no loss. One of the meetups I went to even had a contest for anyone that could tell which DAC was being used and another for anyone that could tell a FLAC apart from a 320kbps MP3. No one won the prize money. "Audiophiles" are, for the most part, full of shit, in my opinion and just need to justify spending ridiculous amounts of money on great looking audio equipment.

Mind you, I'm also probably full of shit because everyone tells me that I can get exactly the same computer for half the cost of what I paid for my MacBook Pro and I'm yet to find anything that comes close. At least with the Apple stuff, there are objective things I can point to that justify the more expensive costs. With audio equipment, there's a slow curve up and then it just drops off once you get past a certain point.
Reasonable, but not great, LTE.
Yes, Sac’s a great example of a city that is largely in line with housing costs versus median salary increases.
As an Australian who lives in our national capital, I can assure you that our friendly local FVEY agency will happily employ Australian citizens at a Top Secret Positive Vetting level who are naturalised immigrants or dual citizens (a huge chunk of this country are dual British citizens, in particular). I get the impression that it makes your life a bit more difficult, but it's definitely achievable.
A social business in Brazil has an alternative:

http://www.solarear.com.br/
(There is an english version, just click the british flag closer to the footer)

"Solar Ear manufactures low cost, solar rechargeable and environment friendly hearing aids so you can hear perfectly again. Our products are manufactured by deaf workers with high quality components."
It is a similar argument, but I think there is an important qualitative difference between TVs and smartphones. One is inherently passive, I interact with it on my own terms. The worst case is they show too many ads and I get pissed and cancel my service. I have some power in the relationship, they need my money month to month.

The other is an integral part of my daily life and knows virtually everything about me, who I communicate with, where I go, and is almost mandatory in modern society. I have no control over the software that runs on it, and the organization that does control it already has my money. If I want to exit the relationship, there are maybe one or two serious competitors (depending on if you include non-google android).
Lisp.
When racket is running on the Chez scheme VM...now that will be special...and fast.
What do people map control to then? The fundamental problem for this era of computing seems to be that people's needs/workflows are fragmenting while devices are converging, becoming more proprietary and one-size-fits-all.

Will there be a backlash to this? Possibly, but if dealing with a shitty keyboard is the cost of getting a high-end machine with great build quality, maybe not. People will come up with more and more workarounds to fix something which wasn't a problem a few years ago.
How Space-Time Codes Work (video by Art of the Problem and IEEE)
Betting site shows odds for cities in HQ2 race
Are you sure this legislation isn't a covert increase in regulation of hearing assit devices by the hearing instrument cartel?
Bezels make a phone easier to use. It's incredibly awkward trying to reach the space bar with my thumb on a phone without bezels.
Maybe if you email cold prospects. With tracking links. And hidden tracking images. And automate sending it every week. And make the email sound increasingly urgent. And call them something intriguing like 'drip campaigns'. And include no unsubscribe link.

We could even build a service to do all of that. I suggest calling it spam.io
Pieter Abbeel, "Deep Learning-to-Learn Robotic Control" [video]
What kind of issues is the lack of DVD drive causing your customers?
Cray has produced (still producing?) some compilers for HPC applications that are considered pretty decent. At the very least, some very large legacy codes got caught up in the vendor lock-out - in software that usually means non-portable preprocessor directives for example.
I just think it would be fantastic to have a presentation from people who had their hands in it about what made that such a different and productive platform. especially given the level of general interest in that topic the last couple years.

thanks very much for the link, will follow up there
Simple Share Buttons Adder is an adtech and redirect nightmare
Few hearing-aid companies. Highly specialised product. They can charge pretty much what they want. And they do. The retail price has a very sizable level of over-charging built in, and many times the client is talked into a product which is much more costly than the one which is necessary.

(The place I worked at many decades ago used to be an agent for one of the major hearing-aid companies.)
I don’t know any audiophiles period. Hence the lack of knowledge on the subject.

I have a couple different sets of speakers and know that my larger ones sound better than the smaller ones (more “tinny” sound), but figured the core difference isn’t the quality of analog output on the source. Rather it’s the larger amplifier and larger size for bass generation.
Most of them certainly aren't true on my Pixel XL. Play store loads immediately, GPS locks immediately, idle battery life is excellent, volume controls consistently adjust whatever is playing, etc...

GP's list of complaints also don't apply. My AOSP Pixel XL never lags, has no malware, the UI is great, and it doesn't feel cheap at all. Reviews all match my experience as well, so I don't have any reason to believe I somehow got a golden lucky device. It seems far more likely that Xiaomi's implementation is just garbage, particularly since OEMs have a well established history of fucking this up.

The only complaints that match my experience are no native themes and no good ad block solution, but I also think native themes are a terrible idea. It seems op just wants dark mode instead of native themes anyway, but Android sort of has that it's just called night mode instead.
Have you considered the possibility that is doesn't?

The thing is, I wasn't making any assertions (or counter-assertions) about the original storyline. The person I was responding to did, in the form of, basically, "But there was already a similar-sounding product on the market, wasn't there? Therefore this kid couldn't possibly have come up with anything all that novel or interesting."

Which to my ears sounds like an unsupported inference.
I find it telling that you chose the verb "using" over, say, "eating"... :)
> The average annual salary for a systems engineer working for the U.S. government with a security clearance is about $119,000...

In other words, the average USG systems engineer is roughly a GS-14 Step 6 based on 2017 Rest-of-US locality...GTFO with this garbage.
"just look through GitHub issues and look at the products waiting to be built"

Interesting idea. Thanks for that. On the topic of quora, I converted alot of followers by putting the product and describing it in depth on my profile. It happens to be a promotional tool. So Quora is so far the most effective strategy for me because a good number of people view my posts and most power users have something to promote.
You can't be seriously suggesting that Apple did all the work to put only USB-C ports on the computer so that people would pay them "tons of money" for adapters. For starters, the adapters are cheap and can be purchased from any number of retailers that aren't Apple but, secondly, I have had to purchase 1 single adapter that has given me all the functionality of having these multiple ports and I've literally used it twice (once for the VGA out and once for USB). They didn't remove the old ports to get money out of people just like they didn't remove the headphone jack from the iPhone to get money from people. They did it because they feel that USB-C and wireless devices are the future and they're not wrong.
Benchtop and education NMR machines
The PDF is just a scan of actual book printed pages. No wonder it is a monstrous size.
It's a nice way to make sure you won't get any notifications etc as well. I realise there are Do Not Disturb modes and so on though that achieve the same result.
Samsung is the one selling SSD with images of half naked girls. What exactly is the link between a bunch of pretty girls and an SSD?
Please make the References section hyperlinked so clicking on a reference takes you to the paper.
This might be the most elitist thing I've read all day.
Yeah sure! I'll ask my advisor what I can and can't say and put it up on my blog and submit it to HN
No one has taken away anything. Your current phone still has a headphone jack. Stop acting like somebody took something away from you.
You may be right, but consider another alternative, that some markets have a lot of money sloshing around and have yet to be disrupted.

A great example is the home infusion industry. People used to make money hand over fist. It took some knowledge to offer home infusion to patients (have a pharmacy, hire some nurses), but it wasn't rocket science. The market was made up of a ton of small companies, all making good money servicing only a handful of patients with certain conditions. We're talking each patient bringing in tens of thousands of dollar of profit each.

There were no regulations or evil conspiracies holding this industry up. It just wasn't big enough for anyone to do anything about. Insurance companies were worried about bigger fish to fry.

Then the large specialty pharmacies came along, bought up all the small players. They used the profits to boost their bottom line.

Then some bean counter somewhere figured out insurance companies were paying way too much, so they renegotiated their contracts, squeezed the profits out of it and now it's like a lot of medical services, single digit profit margins.

There are a lot of markets like this out there. I'll bet hearing aids are one of them.
One big problem is how many users actually translate into extra eyes contributing to the codebase. Linux has a huge number of users but how many actually do more than find a workaround for a bug, much less contribute a patch back.

It definitely happens but in my experience a lot of people think that’s too much work and assume someone else will do it even if they don’t. It’s been far more common for someone to try hoping it doesn’t happen again, disabling features blindly, etc.
>Counterexamples to your claim: Thunderbolt? Magsafe? Magsafe2? The physical escape key?

How are any of those counterexamples? Thunderbolt wasn't dropped and most users don't care a single bit about Magsafe and/or the physical escape key.
Salinas has a serious gang problem. Thus most people who can afford it don't want to move there due to safety concerns.
I saw the other day that no other game consoles use bluetooth headsets. However a recent Switch update enabled USB audio, either through the dock or with an adapter on the port (although for handheld you might as well just use a wire).
My main frustration with soap services is that when it works it's great, but when something is wrong and you don't control the server side it's really frustrating to figure out what's wrong. Too often wsdl descriptions for 3rd party apis are desperately out of date, and debugging api call by looking at xml with auto-generated type definitions is hell. SOAP is just not human-friendly enough, it's too complex. In the end the most popular formats always end up being the ones that are easiest for humans to process & debug: plain text commands in telnet/pop3/smpt, html, json, restful calls, etc.
All of those transitions where painful, it's just that we tend to look at the past with rose color glasses.

Not that not having a headphone jack doesn't suck. It very much does
So, I worked with ROS over the summer at my internship. If I could ask, what did your closed-source version improve on?

In my experience, one of my worst experiences with ROS was maintaining environments and python versions as well as the build system.
I map ctrl to ctrl
That first map is misleading because it tops out at 530/square mile, which on an absolute scale is not very dense at all. For comparison, Tokyo metro houses 37 million people at 11,300/square mile. NY/NJ/CT has 20 million people at 4,500/square mile. The nine Bay Area counties have a mean density of 1100/square mile.

http://www.newgeography.com/content/002808-world-urban-areas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area
I know that go.com is older than that. I'm talking about what Disney is currently using it for.
Mileage definitely varies on living expenses. Anyone who doesn't have a family (yet) can save far more than that.
This. To expand on it a little more, if you ran into a poorly define wsdl, you'd get horrible looking objects back. Some even generate ambiguous "data" objects that essentially contain an xml string you'd have to parse yourself.
I type in dvorak but I've never been able to stop the escape spamming.

Habits are strange.
You didn't have to do that, though. You can connect Bluetooth audio without syncing your contact list. Additionally, just because your phone is showing your contacts in the car's interface, that doesn't mean anything was synced to the car. It may have just been reading your contacts from the phone via Bluetooth. As soon you as unpair the device, those contacts would be gone, if that's the case...
The counter argument would be that there is enough business that isn't paid by insurance companies to keep competition high.

If no one paid for car repair out of pocket, prices would be much higher.
I have Powerbeats wireless 2 headphones and have no perceptible delay. I wouldn't be able to tolerate a half second delay.
lol... but Mac keyboards have small ctrl keys!! :)
The ones I currently use have the same issues on both MBP and Nexus 5X, so I doubt it.
> the strongest/fittest will survive

Most able to adapt, most responsive to change. Not the strongest / fittest.

It's an extremely important distinction.

Wealth isn't the ultimate strength or source of power. It's #2 on the list behind political power, which is backed up by armies in most cases. Just ask rich people in authoritarian nations who is in charge (in recent times see: China, where rich people are routinely disappeared, or Russia where their wealthiest person was put in a gulag for opposing their dictator; all Russian oligarchs are universally terrified of said dictator).

Does anyone actually question whether Xi Jinping is weaker than Jack Ma? He could disappear Jack Ma tomorrow and nobody would do anything about it. Just look at what has been done to Wang Jianlin, his business is being diced up piece by piece by edict of the State (which arbitrarily cut off bank funding access for his business, forcing Wanda Group to being liquidating its holdings).

Was Sergey Brin more powerful than Barack Obama while Obama was president? The notion is laughable. Obama was not an especially rich man when he took over the Presidency, his power was entirely political in nature.

If you want a convenient example in the West, see what happened when tech companies ran up against the US military in the form of the NSA. They all lost universally across the board. All were forced to comply, or else. If the military didn't get what they wanted up front, they illegally circumvented the front door and tapped the link between data centers anyway. Qwest's CEO was put in prison when he attempted to disobey. Yahoo was threatened with vast fines [1] over trying to resist PRISM (they could trivially destroy any given tech company in this manner). It's clear who has the greatest position of power: the people with the stealth bombers, tanks and FISA court.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2014/09/feds-yahoo-fine-prism/
It does happen in other states, though not to the extent it was happening to seniors in California when the measure was enacted.

Just because it’s a real phenomenon doesn’t mean they had to adopt the most destructive solution I’ve seen.

Other states have a deep discount for seniors’ property taxes, while others have a lien on the property that the buyer has to pay (thus reducing the sale price). Other states just have very low tax increases due to stagnant property values.
I just wanted to say that this is a really great point and, inevitably, the answer from people with these objections is always the same - they just prefer what they already have and are comfortable with. It's such a mild inconvenience that they're already ok with in every other scenario but, for some reason, this time it's completely different. It doesn't make sense.
ICCV 2017 Tutorial on GANs
Buy a refurbished 6s or SE.

I don't know how you use your phone, but I don't forsee my 6s becoming unusable in the next year or two for my use cases (WhatsApp, maps, taking photos, checking email). Granted iOS 11 (and High Sierra) have been notoriously buggy. :\
why would you be, that's already underway
Removing obsolete features is advancing. Like removal of floppy drives, phone keypads etc.
> Never in my life have I used a shitty OS like Android.

This is pretty much what it comes down to. The latest iPhone models aren't really that far beyond any decent Android phone in terms of hardware at this point.The real secret sauce is iOS. Google is well aware of this, which explains the existence of Fuchsia. Once they have a full mobile OS based off of that, Apple will finally see competition in the high end market.
To distill down the article:

Most of what we're seeing now with neural networks was pretty well understood 20+ years ago. The hard part is forming hierarchies or clusters of networks that are only active in certain scenarios, so that we can scale learning beyond simple pattern recognition (which is effectively a solved problem today).

I've read very few satisfactory articles on how to go about teaching large neural nets to learn multiple distinct patterns and know which networks to engage in different scenarios. This article is suggesting that dendrites form that orchestration layer by waiting for enough specific patterns to happen in close enough proximity that the neuron becomes engaged and goes to work when the rest of the pattern arrives. This gives the network some ability to predict what is coming, whereas the simple neural networks we model would only fire when the whole pattern matches.

There is a bit of hand waving here and I probably missed something so please add any insights of your own thanks!
I have a 2015 rMBP and its audio sounds as good as through my CEntrance DACport Slim. Maybe my headphones aren't audiophile quality (Grado SR80i, Sony MDR-7506)?
Mike Bostock of D3 puts this API to use in his somewhat esoteric but very impressive Command Line Cartography tutorial series.

https://medium.com/@mbostock/command-line-cartography-part-1...