skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You joke but this has already been suggested by several airplane manufacturers. They want to build in lightning and USB-C ports to replace/add to the power outlets. Most airports already have the extra USB ports now next to the power block.
I'm being completely serious.

Typically a DAC has two components, the digital to analog part and an analog amplifier. So while the D2A won't typically be different, the audio amplification can vastly be different depending upon what you're trying to drive.

Unfortunately you can't remove the audio amplification and replace it with another, unless you're willing to do surgery on your macbook, say.

The best option is to buy a DAC with an amp that drives what you want it to. I have one that drives headphones that works like a charm, and I can hear not just the instruments clearer, but the location of the instruments recorded in stereo space better.
GitLab fills that to some degree...
No, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

We spend a lot of that sun on meat and other livestock products though:

https://ourworldindata.org/yields-and-land-use-in-agricultur...

(the numbers in the second figure)
Since you've read up on this your aware that at the height of the cold war both the Soviet Union and the US possessed enough strategic weapons to obliterate the other country. Further, the premptive use of such weapons would leave the other country unable to respond. That lead to a dangerously unstable system that more than once nearly triggered WWIII.

In an effort to return to sanity both countries agreed to bilateral reductions in strategic arms. The point of which was to reduce the number of warheads on strategic weapons (ICBMs) to make such a pre-emptive strike unlikely to succeed. The next step of moving back from the brink of annihilation was to limit the number of warheads in submarines, bombers and medium range missiles. By the end of the cold war both sides had reduced (and verified) that their respective stocks of nuclear warheads was at a level such that neither side was able to preemptively destroy the other, and entering into a conflict could be more controlled/restrained because there would be significant and incontrovertible evidence of first use while the victim would retain significant response capability. These were perhaps the most important treaties negotiated and executed in the 20th century. And have generally kept the chains on that horrific capability.

If New START is not renewed, and we see a build up in nuclear arms again, then it is possible that we see an adversary (or allied adversaries) who get to the point that they can take out all of the strategic capability of the US. If that is likely to occur, then the first step to combat it is to resurrect the bomber force requiring your adversary to expend more warheads to counter all more potential delivery systems. And the typical hawkish policy is to try to keep the number of delivery systems and warheads ahead of your worst cast threat.

In any event, it is the "wrong direction" we need to go if we wish to avoid killing everyone.
One of those blog posts that has never been written...

Briefly, I had to deploy what is now a pretty standard WISP setup but back then almost nobody was doing that so I had to learn everything from scratch. I'm an EE by birth so it wasn't that hard, and I've worked in the networking/network application development sphere most of my career so that part wasn't too hard either. Being your own ISP is basically just a problem solved only by the application of a subtle combination of time and money.

We exited the ISP market a couple of years ago though since it had turned into a deep money pit with the rise of Netflix. Today the network is still in place but only serves my home, fed by a traditional residential copper coax connection to our office building in town.
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Fat calories would be one reason. 47% in soylent vs 35% max allowed. Their announcement mentions that it failed more than one requirement, so there must be something else in addition to this.
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Anyone have broader context?
No issues here connecting at all with the AirPods. iPhone 7, Apple Watch, iPad, Nexus 5X, and even my old Nexus tablet all work beautifully.
I went to Pennsylvania for the first time in my mid twenties. When I saw fireflies, it affected me in a way writing about it can only hint at. A sense of surprise and wonder that I haven’t experienced since childhood - maybe not even then. I haven’t experienced anything like it again, and I suspect I never will.

Intellectually, I knew they were ‘a real thing’, but that in no way prepared me for the reality.

Since then, it’s always been reassuring to look back and know that such wonder can still be felt by a grown adult.
One can buy complex hearing instrument silicon now for $60 per ear quantity one. Dual mic, echo cancellation, equalization, noise cancellation, bluetooth, telecoil, etc. There is no excuse.
So much this. I just want an upgraded Nexus. Hell I'd even take the 5X.
I'm not sure people understand quite the level of investment Apple puts into 1) quality-control and 2) supply-chain management. These take years to build up and maintain.

HTC at least has long had issues. A few years ago, my much-anticipated HTC One was a huge disappointment when the camera went purple. I'm curious to know what their defect rate on the Pixel 2 is (not that there's any chance of that ever being public)
Just to add to that: I spent a fair amount of time with this data on a side project and you really need to dedicate yourself to understanding what this data is and isn't, and how it gets updated.
This isn’t about making phones smaller- they didn’t get smaller. This is about upselling some wireless earbuds. It made more sense to me when apple did it, owning beats, so even if you don’t go for the AirPods they win, but it looks like Google wants some of that upsell with the pixel buds.
Not to minimize lines of code at all cost, repetitive but clear code is better than clever code with many abstractions.

Design user interfaces around workflows not database tables.

Unix. Sed, grep, awk, bash and more. Learn them all well.
Here is a heuristic argument for why we should expect there to be infinitely many.

Suppose we start with a prime p which is d digits long (say p=3 so that d=1), and consider the sequence {a10^k + p : 1≤a≤9, k ≥ d}. So for p=3, we would consider 13, 23, … 93, then 103, 203, … 903, then 1003, 2003, … 9003, etc. By a standard heuristic argument (based on the prime number theorem), the number n is prime with "probability" about 1/log n, so each a10^k + p will be prime with probability about 1/k (ignoring some constant factors). The sum of these probabilities diverges, so one can be very confident that there will be a prime number in this sequence. In other words, we can be extremely confident of the following lemma: given any prime number p, there is a way of extending it to another prime number by adding some digit (followed by 0s) to its left.

Repeated applications of this lemma (with any starting prime p, or even different primes p if you wish) will give the result. For example starting with the prime p=3 and taking the first choice each time, you get primes like 30007020009000000000000000600000000900906001600500006000001026001050612113.

Of course, turning this heuristic argument from "extremely confident" to an actual proof is a challenge. (There may be ways to prove this, I don't know: I know this heuristic is often used by number theorists though.)
I was recently listening to a podcast (embedded fm) regarding paypal and this triangular BLE block that had no ports. Would be funny if your phone was bricked and you had no way to interface with it. Maybe by display at the very least.
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Flash on iPhone didn’t exist because Apple didn’t want it due to security issues. It was controversial when they decided not to allow it.

https://www.google.com/amp/bgr.com/2016/12/12/steve-jobs-iph...
The interior of most PCs (and phones) are very noisy from an RF standpoint. I get hiss on my USB headphones (!!!) from just out poorly shielded the case on my computer is.

That said, Apple had traditionally put very well isolated low noise DACs in their products. I'm not sure if that is still the case.
I use a tiny dongle that allows me to use any headphones I want. It's really not that big of a deal. It's about 2" in length that looks exactly like my apple headphone jack - so no one's the wiser really.

I thought it would be a big deal - I was wrong. It's fine. If you still want to use your cheap/expensive wired headphones, you can.
Got the email 6 hours after my Canada Post notification of shipment - lucky me?
> The Hearphones have a 10 hour battery life and don't have replaceable batteries. My hearing aids have a 3 day battery life and have replaceable batteries I can carry around on my keychain.

What's the cost of your hearing aids?

How many 'hearphones' could you have for, say, 50% of that cost.

10 hour of hearing seems close enough to a day's usage, perhaps a bit shy but probably not by much. Certainly two recharged pairs should see you through a day.

How much charge do they need - or rather, what's the size of a recharge battery pack, and how would you compare the cap-ex of your hearing aids versus the cost /convenience trade-offs of an alternative?
Most of Apple's major markets had pretty good Internet connections by 2012, when they started producing computers without CD drives.
Samsung understands the need, and the headphone jack in note 8 and next s9 is a feature
Sure. I feel like this discussion has drifted away from the original comment and reply. Great vent, mediocre article.
These regulations are outdated. The push against fat calories and towards carbohydrates was largely motivated by the sugar industry, see: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtQLDptI1g

In addition to this, fat calories are more “filling” than carbohydrate calories. Something useful for a meal replacement (assuming unsaturated/“healthy” fats)

I hope Soylent sticks to their guns with the best knowledge available, and I hope interested/concerned Canadians push for reform here.
https://twitter.com/damanr/status/922321678868160513 - Gruber retweet. It's actually hardware that Apple is far beyond not software - there's nothing in Android land that touches the A11. Android really has been doing close to iOS for a while now as far as performance goes.
Magsafe is a lifesaver if you have kids/pets. I even tripped the wire sometimes. I understand the appeal of a single cable for power/data but Magsafe was great.
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I noticed this thing with my old acer transformer 2-in-1 laptop if you enable bluetooth for audio streaming and have wifi running it slows to a crawl (watching youtube for example) actually won't buffer. I'm wondering if the bluetooth/wifi is on the same chip and can't run simultaneously.
I've had my GS8 since its release and there are zero scratches on it. I have it in a case, but otherwise no screen protector, and no issue. I've dropped it several times, and today had the scariest incident yet -- set it on the counter and opened the cupboard to have a big can of split pea soup fall and smack right off the screen. No problem.

Scratching definitely isn't a problem. Cracking is a risk, but a basic case dramatically reduces the odds of that.
Further down it says:

"When a meal replacement is represented as a replacement for all daily meals, the maximum amount of energy from fat is reduced to 30 percent, of which no more than 10 percent may be from saturated fat. For complete composition requirements, refer to B.24.200 of the FDR."

So it's actually 47% vs 30%, plus probably the additional composition requirements.
Actually I agree that this is just like a CD drive but reach the opposite conclusion. Removing the CD drive was mostly worse for the consumer of the MBA at the time. Sure, almost no one wants a CD drive now, but that gives little credence to the idea that it should have been removed while still best for the consumer.
I was about to say, maybe it was supposed to be 1,015 of some other kind of unit of time.
> ... but the lack of a headphone jack on the flagship Google phone is really the last straw.

Look, this is inevitable. The titans have decided this thing is dead, so it's going to happen. The thing that pissed me off most about the iPhone 7 and convinced me to leave wasn't the lack of a headphone jack, it's that Apple was/is confused about what to do about it. You can't go making USB-C only computers and then have all of your phones using something different. I get that this is shitty, but at least if we decide that USB-C is the way forward we can end the Great Dongle Wars.
The 30% cap on calories from fat is pretty ridiculous in my view. Even if you don't buy into the idea that fat is healthful, there is plenty of science that indicates it is, and so at least CIFA should not regulate fat content in this way.

Sidenote: I don't drink Soylent and have no idea if it fails the fat content. I'm in the "Soylent is not healthful" camp, if it matters.
I may as well eat dog food milkshakes
The OnePlus 5 is pretty awesome.
Early on Apple shipped with a thunderbolt connector that the rest of the industry ended up not using. Any tech purchased around that connector was deprecated when the machine it was to connect to was upgraded.
so true. actually the whole phone market is dogshit right now

it sure seems like things are getting worse, when all my phone upgrades have been forced:

1. original iphone wipes itself when i connect it to a new computer. ouch. my own itunes account, but somehow not recognized, and zap. went to android after this.

2. first android was the nexus. it had a known hardware bug where the soft buttons were being triggered randomly without being touched. started to drive me insane.

3. enter a unibody aluminum HTC. owned it for 3 years. i missed the sdcard slot but grew to love it anyway because it was durable as hell. it fell down a flight of concrete stairs. then carried on about its day. eventually the camera died on it (all pics started coming out hazy and red). i still see people using htc 7s even now.

4. enter nexus 6p. decent phone. screen was not very bright which was annoying outside but otherwise checks all the boxes. and it still gets the latest updates-- thing runs on oreo! but now its falling apart. the glass at the back broke twice, the sim is loose, gps works half the time, the plastic bottom fell off..

5. and so here we are today. cannot find another 6p. the pixel looks worse in many ways (fugly and bezels are even bigger while the software is the same). the v2 with no headphone jack?? and all these phones with glass backs that are actually even thicker than their predecessors that are obviously not going to last very long (anyone out there have a screen shatter?? lets double those odds). everyone using their own bloatware and not updating anything... android ones only really available in eurasia... ugh. do not want to crawl back to apple. someone help? blackberry, where are you?? lol
Exchange 8 for the X and TMo refurbs and resells, perhaps.
In the age of mass production, you get what they make. Custom items of the same price & quality as those mass produced are often/usually prohibitively expensive. If they stop making what you want, you stop being able to get it. So what's Parent going to do when his current phone dies?
Few things

1. What do you want me to do when I hit that page?
Just randomly browse around until I find something?

2. It is very unclear what the product is for and why do you expect it to stick. I think for a product like this to stick you will have a very hard time explaining the benefits.

3. Considering this is for "completionists", every list I see is basically empty. Not a great motivator.

There was a similar startup a little while ago:
https://angel.co/complete
I'm not saying they are, but phone connectors.. aka "Aux ports" were designed in 1878, with the 3.5mm rendition dating back to the 1960's. It's obsolete tech. We can easily be making headphones with connectors that are a fraction the size. There's no reason USB-C and lightning ports shouldn't be multi-use. One port, many applications.
No worries. I didn't flag you actually :-)
What were you quasi famous for when you were young?
Ughhhhhhh just got into it. I should have got a bigger box. :|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_Law

The results of "many eyes" seems to be basically moot (i.e. certainly not a 10x magnitude and more likely well below 2x) in the face of the cultural mores of a project. For example, Linux kernel treats userland ABI compatibility quite seriously and there haven't been many faults there. OTOH security and KPI stability are not taken seriously, and are in constant flux. I can dig up papers on the former if needed, but it is the most glaring failure of "many eyes"

What's particularly noteworthy from my perspective is the bandwagon effect toward one kernel is causing the thing that is supposed to be the ultimate best that keeps getting better (Linux kernel) to lose focus, investment (new talent and money), maybe even quality due to decreased competition. Systems software is starting to look a lot more like Electrical Engineering as a field than the greater software ecosystem. Mostly done by large, central organizations. That makes me sad.
What I've read everywhere is that enzymes in your stomach make short work of disaccharides.
Apple Airpods.
Huel (another powdered food) is running into this. They just started shipping to the US, but are delayed with Canada because they say the regulations there are "much more stringent." Canada outright banned rBGH.
It will depend on your location, job title, the company, and your education background.

The good news is that you can plug all of that into a salary calculator on Glassdoor or Indeed.

I've also found talking to recruiters helpful in this one case. They have a good idea of what salary you can command on the job market based on your skills and work experience.

These articles I wrote walk you through finding what salary you can get and negotiating during the interview process:

http://www.climbuptheladder.com/how-to-know-if-youre-paid-wh...

http://www.climbuptheladder.com/they-asked-me-what-salary-i-...
Im not ok with it in every other scenario, I just swallow it often times because e.g. making a switch away from my MacBook would be prohibitively costly for me and I'll rather endure these "mild inconveniences" (dongle for Cinema Display, USB, Ethernet).

And yes, I really do prefer what I already have (my headphones working without a dongle).

Edit: I'm not even an audiophile btw
My Aiepoda replaces a pair of $20 Sony over the ear headphones. They mostly sound better, the only difference being that the Sonys has bigger drivers and could do a better job on the low end.

I never spend more than $60 on headphones (ignoring my noise cancelling Bose).

Quality isn’t an issue. For something so small they sound quite good. For something so convenient they sound fantastic.
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I always found Swagger to not be very readable or usable. APIs keep changing, and are meant to be malleable, not rigid. IMO, Swagger always ends up being too much planning, too little implementation.

I remember having a bunch of discussions about these issues when I worked on the Postman Collection Format (https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-collection/blob/devel...) which can be very flexible.
There is this: https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/language-st...
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French people, what can I say...
Fewer than 10k people have the skills necessary for AI research?
This seems low. Are there fewer than 10k people with a master's in the subject in the entire world? How do you think they calculated it?

"Solving tough A.I. problems is not like building the flavor-of-the-month smartphone app. In the entire world, fewer than 10,000 people have the skills necessary to tackle serious artificial intelligence research, according to Element AI, an independent lab in Montreal." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/technology/artificial-intelligence-experts-salaries.html?
No matter how well you don’t Bluetooth has some latency, so until something improves I wouldn’t expect it to show up on game consoles.
What might make this a thousand times better is a way to submit questions online for the Q&A session.

Obviously some hard decisions would need to be made about which questions to actually ask, but a voting system, while crude, might allow the question database to self-prioritize before the event.

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I have to admit that the question I immediately wanted to ask this group is very offtopic, but I wanted to add the above suggestion anyway because I know others likely would come up with good questions. FWIW, here's what I thought of:

The source code to SketchPad turned up online several months ago: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102726903

I'd love to see a functional TX-2 emulator that can run SketchPad, and I'd be very willing to commit time to making it a reality. But the source scan is of extremely poor quality, AFAIK comprehensive in-depth info about the TX-2 isn't really out there, and no hardware survives.

A better scan would be an excellent start. I'm in Australia, or I'd have volunteered the time to rescan everything a very long time ago.

From there, much more info about the TX-2 is needed.

I'm reminded of http://martin.poupe.org/casio/ (select "assembler information", the site uses frames) who reverse-engineered and wrote an assembler for his calculator without knowing anything about the architecture - but he had hardware he could experiment with.

Again, I realize this is incredibly offtopic...
For the few months before I got AirPods it was fine. I bought 2 or 3 of the little pigtails and it was largely a non-issue.
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What's the salary for a new graduate (Bachelor's) in this field? Do they even get the opportunity or are these jobs only available for Masters/PH.D.s?
So much this. This is one of the main reasons I wanted to build this.

https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo/issues/127
This can really be attributed to a general rule of thumb in game development: aesthetics are more important than graphics.
Only for business users (i.e. custom Google Apps domains)
That's because tons of people have to pay for their own auto repairs.
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I think the skills to develop training sets and develop real applications are even rarer.
They are too high at the dealership. At least, they feel high compared to what a knowledgeable friend who knows how to get used parts (junkyard etc) will charge for parts.
I'm still bummed about losing Magsafe!

However, I am very glad that I can now charge my laptop with pretty much any USB charger* and a cheap cable. I consider not having to buy $88 replacement chargers a huge win.

*Yes, even the tiny iPhone brick can charge my MacBook, albeit very, very slowly.
> while in vim you have to go V 10d x 13down P or something along those lines, figuring out exactly what numbers to use there probably takes more than 1 second alone.

Honestly, I usually just use 9j/9k[1] a bunch to get reasonably close / maybe overshoot a bit, and then adjust with j/k, using visual feedback to guide me. Much quicker than grabbing the mouse, IMO, or computing what line number to go to.

(Admittedly, I should really learn the "go to end of block/paragraph/etc. keys.)

You can also `set relativenumber`, which will change the line numbers on the side to be "relative" (that is, 2 lines down is labelled as "2"); this makes it obvious which number to hit.

[1]: (move down/up 9 lines, 9 being an arbitrary "several")
Title: should be "CFIA."
right???
I believe it's FB's response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15531823
You could say something else given that most of Canada isn't french.