skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thunderbolt was a collaboration as well

As far as I understand, Intel co-developed Thunderbolt with Apple on their own. The standard was published, but this isn't the same as an open and public collaboration the way other standards are, e.g. USB has the USB Implementers Forum, which is a consortium of companies. Plus, they used to charge royalties, and only recently did intel make the standard royalty-free. Good for them for doing that.

To me it looks like they did what they wanted on their own, then eventually slapped it on top of the existing USB-C standard when it didn't get much adoption elsewhere. I don't know why Apple would care about that in the slightest, but I can imagine Intel does.

> Anyway, make up your mind. Are you furious that Apple had the courage to adopt a standard like USB-C, or are you happy? Choose one. :)

Why? Can't it be both? I'm happy that they found the "courage" now, but unhappy that they found it after floundering through a bunch of different options first. I'm also unhappy that they took away my darned headphone jack in the process :-)
Too many Chinese buyers, rich businessmen, corrupt bureaucrats, made money speculating on Beijing real estate and middle class speculators with children planning to study in the US have flooded the housing market from Vancouver, Seattle to SF Bay area. I guess they probably form at least 10-25% of buyers.

Just making overpriced metros ineligible for foreign buyers could ease the pricing pressure.
> The ACS comes in 1, 3, and 5 year editions. The 1-year is the least precise, and has the smallest sample, while the 5-year uses trailing 5-year data. The tradeoff is that ACS-5 estimates are only available, IIRC, for geographies of 50,000 or more people.

Other way around. ACS-1 is only available for geographies above 20k people, but ACS-5 is available for everything up to and including the block group level.

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/guidance/estimat...

Also, ACS-3 has been discontinued.
According to https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2017/10/23/16501164/puerto-... the main problem right now is that the power lines run through inaccessible places. No one wants to live next to a power station, and investing in better access roads would be really expensive.
I'm just sick of all of this "I know you think that" condescension. I'm not even telling people "The massive sucking sound you're hearing is a fad, you just haven't noticed yet.", I'm not telling people that wireless headphones aren't great sometimes.

I'm just saying: keep the jack there, it's cheap, it's convenient, it costs next to nothing in any way (BOM, water resistance, space), it gives customers good and valid options, even if they ultimately want to shove a little plug in the hole and forget about it.

It is not like a CD-ROM drive at all, because it is ubiquitous and common in use (unlike optical media at the time of the superdrive removal), and removing it does not notably improve the device in any way. It doesn't hinder form factor, it doesn't hinder any selling point of the device, and it makes hundreds of millions of people happy.

Four years ago, when Apple started removing laptops with optical drives — they only finished this time last year —
from their lineup, very few people were still using optical media on a regular basis. Today, almost everyone who uses headphones uses wired ones when they have the option to.

There's a difference between avant-garde, and jumping the gun.
Real estate values have always been rooted in location, location, and location (land).
Consider going to Costco. I think my Dad pays around 500 CAD for his set. They would likely cost more than double at other places. The service at Costco is great as well.

Also, as other people have said, they are expensive because they are technologically advanced and expensive to manufacture. You can build some kind of hearing aid for less than $100 but it will not compare with a $500 one.
I wonder. How does SL compare to Minecraft? I went through a phase of playing quite a bit of Minecraft with strangers on a random server I picked. I was about double the age of most people there, the youngest one them being around 10 years old. It was a really great experience: from finding someone’s creepy abandoned and boobytrapped temple, to saving Colin the chicken from running away, to cliff diving, to exchanging holiday gifts.

But how does it compare to something like SL where it seems you can create much more interesting scenarios?
I did. It is easy to find nice places for less than 200k in Texas. Prices are going up, but still very affordable.
Some of the comments on here demonstrate that few readers actually know what a hearing aid does. In a majority of hearing loss cases, you can't simply amplify the sound and call it a day. If you want to do that, go buy a $20 amplifying device online. Hearing loss is usually characterized by an inability to hear different frequencies at differing levels. When you get a hearing aid, the audiologist has to tune it to your particular graph. Most modern hearing aids also come with speech detection, background noise reduction, etc., also tuned to the wearer's loss. Mine have bluetooth capabilities built in as well and can be synced to my phone, laptop, etc.

Not everything is something you can throw some Arduino parts and Python code at, contrary to what half of HN seems to think some times. This isn't to say that prices are not ridiculously high, but at the end of the day, they are a medical device that require a trained professional to tune.

Source: worn hearing aids since I was 3 years old.
I've been using Prettier. Write out a mess of code, hit save, code formats itself
For USG systems engineers, clearance level has zero impact on compensation; you either have it or you don't.

> Most with that high of clearance are working in the DC area...

For a systems engineer based on 2017 DC locality, that's lead-/supervisory-level GS-14 Step 3, or working-level GS-13 at the tail end of a long career in government...hardly an average.
Yes, as someone who has played with Census data a lot this year, I've found myself becoming intimately familiar with FIPS numbers. Also, it's interesting to see what the Census Bureau designates a "place" and what it designates a "county subdivision". New England and New Jersey in particular look weird from a Census perspective (because of this, I've found my self using subdivisions exclusively for New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas).

And if you think that's arcane, you should try shapefiles. It took me a while to figure out how to do it, but I have some Python code for pulling the vector data out of shapefiles, sticking them in Python data structures, and then rendering arbitrary combinations of shapefile shapes into a single PNG. It's pretty nice that I can traverse my data, grab the shapes for every place in, say, the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA, and render them all to a PNG. And I have a REST API for doing that dynamically.

Yeah, I really need to get my Census application up and running again and post it here...
These types of comments always restore my faith in the world.

Nothing like a bit of justice.
I do all of my development on a remote box. All of my work is in a screen session, so I can always reattach to it. Since that box is a lot more stable than my Mac is, it doesn't take much effort to restore my workspace after OS X crashes. I also regularly leave builds and tests running while my laptop's asleep, and, because they're remote, they never cause my laptop to overheat and kick on its fan.
This was certainly not meant to be a crucial piece of information, but sure, let's get into it.

Much of the post comes from a general assumption that the goal of computer graphics is primarily to replicate how a camera sees the world around it. Thus I think it's easiest to start from the idea of real world light entering a digital image sensor. Light in this setting is not continuous! Each subpixel in an image sensor acts as a photon counter. One photon hits the sensor, the count ticks up by one. There's no question of being able to perceive the values between 1 and 2 because they don't even exist. Either the sensor counted one photon or two. If you were going to literally create a digital camera that can process the entire world, you need 20 bits to count up to a million photons without losing any along the way. So if you were to build the hypothetical rendering pipeline that works on "real world" data about the scene, that 20 bit value would be the input.

As a practical matter, nearly all modern games store lighting levels internally in floating point, in arbitrary units chosen by the developers. Lighting pipelines are not integer based, but they're linear and not perceptual. The conversion to perceptual 8 bit (gamma curve) happens as part of the tone map stage. Doing things in floating point physical units is a better idea than the photon counter anyway, but the line you're confused about was really written with idealized cameras in mind.

(Technically an image sensor is an analog device and the voltage increases with each photon detection by an increment that is subject to noise of all sorts and pre-amplification before hitting ADC. Don't jump me on the photon counter thing.)
I think that Hawkins has a great summary on some things that are necessary for intelligence [0]. Personally I think the tie between motor actuation and sensory detection is one of the most important -- did a project on that in 2010. Motor-sensory link is essentially how all intelligence evolved. Even c.elegans has neurons to determine whether it should wiggle one way or another.

On the surface he seems to be cramming a whole lot of "solutions" into his HTM (hierarchical temporal memory). HTM is an interesting implementation and the sparse coding is definitely a benefit. However I think he is focused too much on his baby and not on other techniques that may fulfill the necessary components more efficiently.

That is just on the surface. With a product / research balance maybe we just aren't seeing all the cool things going on underneath in research, but it does seem like that research will be shoe-horned into HTM whether or not it is the best architecture.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y43qwS8fl4&app=desktop

Starting at ~8m20s
There's a lot of different types of hearing loss, and being able to determine the exact requirements for any given person (right hardware, right settings for it, etc) is (as I'm led to believe) not trivial. Sure, you can get better hearing with something off the shelf, but the comparison is similar to off the shelf glasses compared to ones measured specifically for your eyes.
The universe shouldn't exist, scientists say after bizarre  antimatter behavior
Ah, someone else who also shares this view. I realized this myself a few weeks ago, and it was kinda sad.

The reason I realized this could become something to reckon with is the intricacy of the AirPods' innards: https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/lScC1ACEJmdTFQRm.h...,
https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/XwBdUPqAmhHbWgWn.h..., https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/1ZnAZMJBfmIxFr1f.h... (from https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+Teardown/75578)

Only Apple could design something like that. Have fun reverse engineering such a monster. If good crypto got applied to something like this... ouch.

That's one possibility, at least.

The other possibility is this. Shhhhhh, but Encrypted Media Extensions can't really stop you from, uhh, tinkering with PulseAudio on Linux, maybe doing a little rerouting, and et voila, who ordered PCM?

Obviously everyone's interested in making such systems be full-stack all the way down to the hardware level in the very long term, but for now, Spotify's entire DRM model is based (very successfully!) on this status quo.

It could be argued that this is why they're actually delivering Ogg audio (I'm not sure of the bitrate) but the more logical explanation is that it requires much less diskspace. But I'm sure everyone in the industry is aware of the above, and it's factored in somehow.

So the cyberpunk distopian worst case scenario is speakers with SoC DACs woven into the acuator coil in the speaker itself, but I strongly (and with much relief) suspect this is objectively quite unlikely.
SSH Escape Sequences
That is not my assumption. That is my recollection of what I was told by a knowledgeable individual whose word I trust on the subject.

It may be inaccurate. It is fine to share what you know. But, if you want to nitpick the hell out of a comment based on accuracy, you need to at least read the comment accurately and frame your objection or criticism with precise accuracy. If you cannot even accurately read and frame my comment while critiquing it, it basically gives me the impression that the whole point is to try do some kind of ugly social pecking order negging rather than improving accuracy of information in the discussion. And that generally does not go over well with me.

I am 100% fine with pedantry. If you know more than me, totes cool. But the inaccurate framing -- which suggests sloppy thinking on my part -- looks awfully suspicious from where I sit.
Kotlin to wasm
I don't really have a problem with DACs on PCs, but the amount of noise present on most motherboards is terrible. (I can usually tell when my machine is compiling).

A few years ago I bought some USB DACs and separate headphone amplifiers and it made a world of difference, even to my relatively ancient ears.
> you're under-estimating the cognitive overhead of using the mouse

What "cognitive overhead?" And how is memorizing a bunch of arcane key combinations for cursor movement and region selection not cognitive overhead?

The (imo, dubious) argument against the mouse has always been that there's a strictly mechanical penalty for moving your hands around - not that there's "cognitive overhead."
I moved from Seattle to a midsized city in Texas. Gigabit is available, but expensive.

While my house is by far the nicest I have lived in, most of my neighbors have far larger/more expensive homes. It would have been easy to spend twice as much for more land and square footage, but I am very happy having something we can very comfortably afford.
That’s really hopeful, thanks!
“Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.”

Yogi Berra and San Jose Mercury News on Silicon Valley.
> do people really enjoy passively consuming entertainment?

Yes! But what kind of entertainment? And how "passively"? Is reading a hard sci-fi novel or watching Black Mirror "passive", when it makes you question the nature of reality?
+1 for A2

We should have a meetup
BuzzFeed News has a large investigative team with several Pulitzer Prize winners. Last year they were a finalist for international reporting: https://www.poynter.org/news/buzzfeed-news-gets-its-first-pu...
And that's the reason why anything and everything medical costs as much as can be gotten away with.

You've just described the intersection of capitalism and human survival instinct in a nutshell.
> pov

so, light. which is not the medium used.

I known nothing of quatum shrnanigans, but I am thinking that in terms of protocols :)
Agree.

Switched to using Insomnia from Postman since it was showcased in HN.
It's still choppy today. I decided to check it out earlier in the year, and the lag was just horrendous and the controls were just horrible.
You need water to live and would pay anything for it, but this is not sufficient to explain a market failure.
With new inventions like UEFI and the Intel Management Engine, running Linux might be ruled out entirely at some point.
Thanks for the advice! I was initially concerned that negotiating for a 20-25% increase would make me unreasonable for my currently median-level skills. It seems that if 10% is a fair, but low-end, increase, then I can continue to target ~ 20%, so long as I practice negotiating.
> The second one was investing to become faster in the future.

There's definitely an upper limit to human text manipulation speed, and I would be downright shocked if the difference between "fastest vi user" was even a single order of magnitude better than "experienced mouse user."
You don't have to be accredited to fix cars. You just need to open up a shop. As such, there is plenty of competition.
Portier, glyphosate and lawyers
"The passengers and pilot on the civilian boat would later say they were terrified by the helicopters and did not intend to steer toward the canoe containing the law enforcement agents."

Sounds like they made a mistake and it sounds like the DEA agents mistakingly killed them for it and then claimed to have been shot at to cover up the civilian death toll. Obviously none of us were there and even if we were it is unlikely that our recollection would be more accurate than a video recording.
He's not making things up. I experience massive delay with bluetooth headphones, and speakers. The delay is not one second, but it's enough to make it useless for watching video.
Finally, someone invented a braille smartwatch for the blind
I own AirPods and Jaybird X3s, and the sound quality of AirPods crushes that of the Jaybirds. I completely switched over to AirPods a few months ago and have never looked back.
From a language age point of view, FORTRAN and COBOL are closing in on a quarter of a century. I don't know the odds of COBOL surviving the full century	but I'm very confident that large chunks of FORTRAN will still be in widespread use when it hits the century mark.

The ease of which code can be wrapped and reused, from FORTRAN into C or C++ libraries, which are then wrapped or reused in almost any other language, has led to FORTRAN being buried at the base of many existing libraries where FORTRAN was originally the only language for such tasks.
Canada may be cheaper than US. But still, I've heard the same advice in US.
Need English too, to learn about paragraphs.
> My argument isn't scary chemical names.

Isn't it? You're the one bandying about phrases like "...strange synthetic meal..." and touting the ingredient lists of one meal over another.

As for bad omega 3:6 ratio, that's easily solved by eating something else that contains omega-3. Nobody says that Soylent is the only thing a person is permitted to eat.
Cool.

Also, figlet sighting, "large" font. :-)
I still have one of these from the 1964 World's Fair. I figure it's worth at least - oh - ten cents.
From Buffer Overflows to “Weird Machines” and  Theory of Computation [pdf]
Many of their top leaders have engineering background. Xi Jinping himself studied chemical engineering. Those who studied liberal arts often have very strong academic records or a PhD. Li Keqiang, the premier, is an economics PhD.
But we are talking about an external observer - so how is this traversable plan going to work?
Isn't the story that they don't put any DACs in their products anymore? Or, more accurately, that the DACs have moved to the output devices (headphones, speakers).
I come across these once a year or so on the net but when I need them I never can remember them because it's not so often that I need them
This has, as usual, several reasons :)

One reason is the absence of sex chromosomes in plants. If humans get a duplicated sex chromosomes things go completely haywire.
Another reason is that due to so many WGDs, plants have ample gene copies, so the copies can freely mutate around or even break, there's always a backup.

Not all of these shenanigans work out, in plants this has the wonderful name 'genomic shock'. In wheat there's a candidate gene (Ph-1) which seems to somehow stabilise these instabilities between chromosome copies. In other species people have been trying for a few years to make polyploids but have been failing because there is no stability mechanism - for example, there are only few papers where people managed to make a Brassica hexaploid, these hexaploids are usually very unstable and have problems generating offspring (see for example http://www.cropj.com/malek_7_9_2013_1375_1382.pdf )
I have nothing against the major hearing aid companies per se. Their approach to product development is hidebound and stuck in about 1987, though, and they are going to find out in short order that that doesn't fly any more.

Personally, my money is on Apple and Google squabbling over who gets to buy Cochlear, Oticon, and Starkey for their IP and regulatory know-how, and then just mopping up the floor with the rest of the players in the space.

It's already begun, actually: https://www.wired.com/story/how-apple-is-putting-voices-in-u...

Wired fundamentally does not understand how crappy CIs can be, so it's too enthusiastically reported, but I'm pretty sure this is the opening salvo.
One might argue that a more practically consequential question is what happens when this same argument gets extended to achievement tests, or admission tests, such as the SAT, GRE, MCAT, or LSAT?
Here you go: https://www.buildzoom.com/blog/feed
Free food ;-)
Who uses mice anymore?

Does anyone here seriously take more than sub-second time to get the cursor on any given character using a trackpad?
Just looking through the nutrition info in the links you gave, there's zero iron and vitamin C in Skyr and cream. Yes you can get those nutrients from other sources, but it's a lot harder than just mixing two ingredients into a drink.
He is indeed the master. Much of his advice is timeless. I find myself going back to things every so often. Especially the Eric Conspiracy, which most certainly does not exist.

http://www.catb.org/esr/ecsl/
My apologies, I was wrong about the direction of the tradeoff. I.e., ACS-1 is only available for larger geographies.

There is a distinction though between the "ACS-1" and "ACS-1 supplemental estimates". The former is only available for 65,000+ person geographies.

Also, it's worth noting that for ACS-1 datasets, if you're looking at the census tract or census block level, you're going to have a significant number of omitted estimates. E.g. if you want to see the year to year median income even in a well-surveyed area like New York City, there will be many NA values
If you can't hear the difference between 320kbps and lossless you're either not using equipment capable of the response and the frequencies where the cutoff for 320kbps and resulting compression artifacts are noticeable or you just aren't able to hear the artifacts, either because of unfamiliarity or bad hearing especially as you get older. I've done blind a/b tests with my equipment and over 20 samples proven that I can tell a difference with a high degree of statistical certainty between 320kbps and FLAC (try http://abx.digitalfeed.net/list.html) Lossless vs 192kbps or lower is just too obvious, I think most "audiophiles" like yourself should be able to tell the difference with a high-end set of headphones or speakers. 320kbps really only makes a difference for me for classical recordings as a violinist who can hear every detail with audio equipment thats pricier then what 99% of people are willing to pay for that extra 0.1% of audio fidelity. Alot of enthusiasts are also audio engineers who are very familiar with compression artifacts and audio mastering
FAKE ALERT!
Guys DO NOT enter this link. It's from DISGUSTING and very dumb THIEVES.
(i won't even call them hackers because i hacked them in less than 30 seconds)
1) The YCombinator is not the owner of the domain. It's a fake company registered in the Cayman Islands.
2) They are trying to rob your passwords to steal your businesses. The YC login in that page is fake.
3) They couldn't even set up a https server LMFAO.
Spread the word fellows.
Phone DACs aren't very good. I use a very expensive DAC when I listen to music at home because I actually care. I also own a pair of AirPods because in a noisy city environment walking around it doesn't actually matter that I'm losing fidelity.
A heavy amount of ProtonMail's infrastructure is in New York at NYI [1] accordingly to blog posts however they say 'ProtonMail stores user data exclusively in European countries with strong privacy protections such as Switzerland.' Now I am confused

[1] https://blog.fastmail.com/2017/05/13/nyi-datacentre-move/