skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are working at a new job, ask questions, ask lots of questions. The more you put your ego aside, and focus on absorbing everything like a sponge, you will leap ahead of your peers and your early career will set you up for long term success.

Often times, imposter syndrome will keep people from asking questions out of fear of being judged as incompetent. Let me tell you, the people who immediately ask about what they don't know are the ones you want around, the ones who pretend to know, or struggle through issues, or end up with odd solutions that need to be reworked take up more time and cost teams more money. The more you seek to understand form other more seasoned engineers, your peers, etc will only benefit you and will also have the added effect of building relationships and respect from others that will also set you up for a better long term career.
Galileo proved its conclusions false. That’s a far cry from asserting that it failed to sufficiently consider his feelings about identity.
Another thing that is really obnoxious is how there is now an inconsistency with how it's implemented.

Some phones use a pass-through system so USB-C headphones connect directly to the phone's amplifier / DAC (digital-to-analog converter); other cables might contain a DAC / amp themselves, while the last small percentage just transfer a digital signal.

Phones with speakers already have a dedicated DAC and amp. The headphone jack was just a way to interface with the amplifier. Manufacturers turned a small size issue into a giant consistency problem that didn't need to exist.
It's a visual representation of place value-- it doesn't have to just be binary; it can just as easily be base 10, or base 37, or base 1.5, or base x (polynomials).

The full set of lessons is here: http://gdaymath.com/courses/exploding-dots/
In cryptocurrencies the desire is often to not tie a legal entity to a wallet, hence digital cash. Likewise Tor, again anonymity may be the entire the purpose. However other mechanisms exist that do exactly this when desired: Tor only uses EV SSL to make sure you're communicating with the legal entity you think you are. At CertSimple we have customers including Privacy International and Buzzfeed that use our Tor EV product for exactly this.

Linking PGP keys to identities is done at most well known universities, as you noted.

Keybase links pubkeys to social media accounts, but that's also the point: a single network endpoint is not a sufficient indicator of identity.

Debian key parties link passports and drivers licenses to pubkeys.

Windows binaries are signed with EV certs.

> I can guarantee that by typing in the https URL they (the bank) gave me on the welcome brochure.

Users will never type in most URLs, let alone every URL.
I disagree. The doomsday machine “argument” is invalid - it’s probably some dual argument to solipsism based on the near zero thought I’m willing to expend.
Why not Hetzner or Leaseweb or Rackspace? There are lots of choice among big EU-based bare metal hosting services.
It still makes me mad that I can't use my Apogee JAM in any practical way with new iPhones. Bluetooth is way too laggy and there doesn't exist an adaptor that lets you use data and analog-out at the same time. The only option is to use the built-in speakers.
I agree... mostly. Till the end when the author portrays the lack of a headphone jack as a complete block to using TRS connectors. iPhones do come with working wired headphones and at least used to include a Lightning-TRS adapter (it can be had for $9 if not). Not ideal, no. Offensive, maybe. But it’s a ridiculous overstatement to say that this requires users to spend hundreds of dollars on Bluetooth replacements.
Any course UNSW has put up by Richard Buckland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpRRUQFbePU

So much enthusiasm -- I wish I had teachers like him at school.
My understanding is that the do is needed for counterfactual reasoning, so if I were to do x assuming condition y. And that is lacking in other approaches? Or am I mistaken?
Don't forget that Apple also participated in the design of Type C, which followed development of lightning.

The big wins for lightning are that it's tsuper thin and that the part more likely to break is on the cable rather than the socket, while the type c socket on my MacBook and the one on my Anker charger (somewhat) rapidly became loose. I'd hoped that it would be the ground shroud on the cable but sadly it was the sockets that failed.

The newer phones are getting thicker again so it's possible there will be room for Type C. The 6/7/8 designs were too thin to admit a type C cable, especially given the camber.
In this case Debian provides the operating system, and YunoHost is an administrative tool similar to cPanel or Plesk.
I invest in my tools and learn a bit more than what I need to make them functional. This isn't always a tech deep dive- sometimes it's just being a "power user" and knowing the shortcuts.

I haven't met a recent grad in the workforce that uses git to its potential. They cargo cult workflows which is a good start but get in to trouble by not understanding just a bit more about how you can make temp branches / rags to keep from destroying commits in a rebase or how to prune duplicate commits from a sloppy rebase.

For terminals - using tmux or screen and understanding how they work enough to pair up on a remote box.

For any language knowing how to debug and how to profile. Understanding that print/println/log debugging is great and just keeping moving when figuring out why something isn't quite right.

This isn't a hard answer to what you asked but it's what popped up in my mind.
I put a mid-range Kenwood head unit in my road trip car last year. So far only one person has been able to figure out how to pair their phone to it over Bluetooth (the instruction manual is in the glove compartment; doesn't help). The Bluetooth audio skips. The audio jack requires no set-up, works 100% of the time, and never skips.
Not just binary. It seems to be teaching the place value idea with a graphical representation. It would work for any base.
Tons of bullion exchanges will allow you to buy precious metals with cryptocoin. How trackable is it if someone uses a new wallet for each transaction, and has their gold bars shipped to model homes and abandoned property within ~25-50 miles of their location?

If you're speaking in absolutes, you're not using your imagination!

I can think of tons of schemes to anonymously extract real world spending power from crypto coins..
For pro audio lightening just works far better than any alternative. My ipad 2018 gets around 5ms of round trip latency with cubasis 2 and keep in mind this is Apple's entry level device for the education market, not an ipad pro.
The USB-PD spec requires active cables in order to support over 3A, which is 60W @ 20V. Any cable supporting over 60W will most likely specifically advertise itself as either a 5A or 100W cable.
Again, critiquing capitalism != establishing that some alternative is superior.
Eastern Canada. I'm willing to relocate to anywhere west of Toronto or go all the way to BC.
I love Ichor!

Back in 2013 I e-mailed the original developers with some WebGL fluid dynamics demos, and asked if they'd be interested in porting Ichor to WebGL, and they were, but it died down soon after.

The Ichor source is on GitHub as well, although it doesn't have a license.

https://github.com/luqui/ichor

It would be so awesome to have this game ported to WebGL, or even just to GPU in general.
I used to work at google too. End users don't get casually notified when someone looks at their data. But there are definitely audit logs inside the company. I worked on a product and you couldn't look at the data without running a special command, logging in with your account and describing what you were doing, and they audited those afterwards (didn't happen too much I guess). Here's an article about someone fired when I worked there https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8003925/Google...
> ...I bought stock, which payed for my new headphones.

This reads as: "What's your problem? I have lots of money, so I can afford this."

When people talk about classism and privilege in the tech industry, this is the sort of thing they mean. Nobody claimed that bluetooth headsets aren't better in some situations—but their benefits are not necessarily in areas that interest everyone. "Forcing people's hand" to buy the more expensive but unneeded thing is precisely what the OP is complaining about, and your post does not address that argument even a little bit.
Bisqwit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF9qWbuQLuw

Also Professor Leonard but someone already mentioned him.
What is this "not coming back" about? It hasn't gone away at all so far as I can see. The phone I'm typing on has a normal headphone jack. Bluetooth remains just as frustrating and unreliable as it's ever been. If the day ever comes that no phone is sold with a headphone jack anywhere, it'd be much easier to just stop bothering with music via phones than to put up with the endless hassles of a wireless headset.
> They sort of tried to let FireWire be a standard, and it never caught on.

Firewire is a standard — IEEE 1394.
Please name some individuals that come to mind.
Literature supporting a whole foods, plant based diet has already been documented and discussed in the book “How not to die.”
Use it with autossh for automatically reconnecting during computer standby / internet drops. I used to use Mosh + TMux for super durable connections and that worked beautifully. Unfortunately Mosh doesn't play well with ITerm's native integration so you can achieve a poor man's Mosh by using http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/.

All-together it looks something like this: Open iTerm. autossh -t myRemoteHost "tmux -CC -A"
Disclaimer: I'm an ex-FANG, ex-founder, now-again-FANG, so I'm also biased.

I'm somewhat bothered by your comment about money:

> If your goal is just money (which is fine, don't be afraid to say this), then definitely go to google.

I find this disingenuous, as money is also a big reason why people do startups, both the employees and the founders. The founders could have chosen to implement their idea inside Google or wherever (with an army of marketing, virtually unlimited funding as long as the idea is working out, and all forms of support to bolster the team and the product), but the founder passed on that in order to reap the huge rewards that come with owning a successful company. Or, in order to have "personal" control (inasmuch as you can have that when you still have investors, a Board, and an indifferent target audience).

Sure, there are _some_ founders whose vision genuinely doesn't fit inside any FANG... but those are the exception. For most visions, the best possible way to realize them is inside BigCo.

Also, the promise of a Google-sized payday is hinted at to employees ("Join us... we think this is a Google-sized opportunity" is a common thing founders say). Even your own statement ("you _might_ make $10m, but that's unlikely") embodies the dream and the challenge presented to a prospective employee who's ready for a big risk, to put their guarantees and expected-outcomes on the line for that sweet $10m.

The prospective employee probably doesn't realize that the founders who are pitching them on .01% still hold 60% between the two of them, and a different class of shares. The prospective doesn't realize that there is only an infinitesimally, vanishingly small likelihood they'll make even close to what they'll make at the big company.

But even when the employees make very little, the founders still have a good path to making bank, in the case of even a minor acquisition or an acquihire.
Harvard Stats 110:

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/youtube
-> Backing up to encrypted iTunes (AFAIK the only way to fully back up everything including wifi passwords and health data)

Nope, iCloud backup or WiFi iTunes backup can do this as well
I can assure you, I have no problem reading straightforward assertions. I am a mathematician. The thing is: language and humans are rarely straightforward. Pretending otherwise is dangerous.
Last year’s iPhones 8 use volume down + power for restart because home is not a button, but a sensor and it has to be powered to work.
Aubrey McClendon and America's fracking boom
It’s a big red herring when someone tells you “I have high end headphones and need hp output”, or “I record my guitar into iPhone and need a jack”.

- if you are really an audiophile you will have at least a Dragonfly or similar feeding your expensive cans off of USB. You would not use iPhone’s (previous) tiny dac/amp. Also note that iPads still have a builtin DAC/amp and that they are, in fact, really really good.

- Same for music making on iPhone. You will have one of many audio interfaces for iOS. I mean, come on, you are not recording guitars into your pc over a builtin audio input, surely?

I don’t believe this whole “cornering the market” argument. I do believe removing unnecessary hardware and making way for bigger battery/thinner phones or whatever other benefit may come out of it.
How does it compare with the original Abelson & Sussman lectures? (for HP employees)
Could you elaborate? Do you mean the latency for wireless microphones is unacceptable for dictation, or what?
I considered doing this too. I wonder if there is a service doing this.
That is not a vaccine... No antibodies are created by the body to attack HIV. There's a big difference.
Can you link to a source with some detail on what was wrong with those films? Particularly Jurassic Park?
For machining, it's hard to beat tubalcain (Mr. Pete). Retired high-school shop teacher, very educational and entertaining.

Edit: spelling
I've not noticed any of this in my local theater, but it's possible that it happens in some locations.
Do the galaxy models have headphone jacks?
This is a benefit of moving away from centralizing platforms: rather than the platform forcing you into a particular "editorial" regime [where "no moderation/censorship at all" is an editorial regime just like any other], you can decide for yourself what editorial regime works best for you.
Why is this always framed this in terms of old vs new technology?? There are other ways of looking at it. Simplicity vs complexity. Established, working tech vs novel tech (with fewer use cases IMO). Flexibility and options vs "you can have it any color you want, as long as it's black"

The seemingly blind fascination with novelty and "design" (extra emphasis on the finger quotes) within the tech community will be its downfall. There was nothing wrong with including both options (NOT a dongle); it is these legacy-type features which enable the rich interconnectivity that we have enjoyed up until very recently. So many seem so happy to steamroll the sometimes billions of people who are happy with what they have, just to sell them a bunch of new crap under the guise of 'innovation'

I don't know about you but the last few years I have begun to seriously question some of the fundamental values of tech, such as this obsession with disruptive innovation.

If existing wireless tech were truly innovative then it would be as seamless and interconnectible as past tech, which includes interoperability with existing tech without forcing the user to make sacrifices (like charging). This, and this trend towards software complexity and proprietary solutions (like lightning/thunderbolt vs usb) is the very thing that compromises that interconnectivity that so many of us enjoy and rely upon today.

Knocking off ports is not design, and it is not innovation. It's corporate conquest at the cost of existing communities.

edit: and the above doesn't even begin to factor in the decline in quality in nearly all areas of manufacturing over the past 30 years or so. Yes your Apple stock might have paid for a new pair of headphones but I can almost guarantee you that they were not made to nearly the same standards in materials and durability that they would have, had they been made in the past. You would have to pay considerably higher sum (not just from inflation adjustment) of money to get the same quality parts.

Meanwhile (and for example), Sennheiser still makes the HD280's, they're still awesome, and now they're going for like a hundred bucks (probably because of "no bluetooth", but also economies of scale and mfring optimizations), and they knock the socks off Beats' entire product line.
'Child refugee' causes brain injury to 91-year-old Swedish woman
Had the same issue with Windows 10 and Chrome, but no problems with Firefox
> Outsourced, automatic, personal censorship?

You mean, like spam filtering in Gmail?
Law trumps whatever sellers say. In the EU, B2C sellers have to comply with regulation that more or less say “once you’re the middle man, you stay the middle man”

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...:

”Guarantees and returns

Under EU rules, a trader must repair, replace, reduce the price or give you a refund if goods you bought turn out to be faulty or do not look or work as advertised.

If you bought a good or a service online or outside of a shop (by telephone, mail order, from a door-to-door salesperson), you also have the right to cancel and return your order within 14 days, for any reason and with no justification.”

Having said that, sellers are allowed to outsource required support, so I don’t see how products saying the manufacturer will cover repairs and warranties is in conflict with those rules, as long as those manufacturers actually provide the services law requires.

And of course, nothing guarantees consumers will get what they are entitled to, but having the law on their side won’t hurt and may help.
I think that’s just because there are more car drivers around. It’s super funny: whenever I’m in the car myself I get annoyed by bikers. When I’m on a bike I don’t understand how dumb some car drivers are. I think it’s just the vehicle you’re in/on which shapes your perspective. Quite telling for other situations too btw
I'm reasonably sure they'll switch either to USB-C or something they find even better (which could very well be inductive charging only, no connector), but there were plenty of rumours about adopting all flavors of usb before they switched to lightning too.
SkyDeck, UC Berkeley's startup accelerator, is accepting applications
> and would need a driver for said DAC

FWIW I've got a USB DAC (an older Dragonfly) which works just fine on MacOS and FreeBSD without any custom drivers.
Not surprising, here's a scenario: It's 2007. A poker company, a credit card aff site or a lawyer referral service offers $250K cash to a Google Search employee for tips on how to rank #1 for their top keywords. Even $1 Million if it lasts for x months. All you need is b*lls, er audacity, which exists in certain pockets, and a little time to find a connection. I think they would be takers. Ranking on top would be worth (back then at least) tens of millions so why not share the FU money?
FYI There is only 1 China.
Maybe that is more the fault of the head unit than anything else. Several years ago I bought and installed an aftermarket stereo which could play mp3s from a usb stick. I think it was a Kenwood in the $150 - $200 range. I recall being stunned by how horrible and behind-the-times the UI and menus were. I thought "all they had to do was copy the iPod menu layout" (or any other decent mp3 player).

That and other experiences with car infotainment systems have lead me to believe that any electronics that go in a car are at least 5 years behind their non-automobile equivalents.
To be fair I wore them 2-3 times a week running. Sweat definitely roles off my ears onto the airpods. I bet sweat is particularly corrosive. The Apple store tried to brush off the rust and it worked a little better, but not consistently.

I would recommend buying cheap exercise headphones instead of using airpods.

I also sometimes prefer having the over ear headphones for some sound cancelation. You can buy reasonable headphones plus a mic-in cable for less than $50.
I'd recommend to learn several languages that are pretty different from each other. E.g. java, golang and javascript. Learn enough to be proficient in each - enough so you are fully comfortable in the ecosystem and could happily start a new project from scratch and do it all in that language + ecosystem without much help or stumbling blocks.

Benefits: learning multiple languages makes you better in each by opening your mind to new approaches or reinforcing higer-level understanding... Plus you won't become wedded to a specific language or "scared" of touching something new you've not done before. You'll see more similarities than differences, and although you may never actually get to code in java/golang/javascript professionally the experience of learning and coding in the different languages is really powerful in my experience.

Other than that, I am personally a fan of "full stack" development. Learn a little bit about everything so you can hit the ground running on whatever project you land on - web development, databases, mobile device, backend developer, continuous integration, containers, serverles etc etc. Play around with all of these and you'll learn a lot about designing systems and what really matters. Again - you'll see many similarities across all of these apparently different areas of expertise, all of which will be to your benefit.

With respect, ignore comments about learning the tools - tools change rapidly and you might not get to use your particular favourite tool/ide/editor/source control system/operating system/hardware on your next proejct, so just make sure you stay flexible.

Good luck - you're in for a really fun ride.
Technically, even though Lightning does handle audio, the dongle contains its own DAC, so that functionality remains unused.
GCC toolchain for Xtensa has been available since day one. ESP8266 is upstream, pretty sure ESP32 is also.
Remember when they ran test drills on 9/11 about hi-jacked plans.
> File transfers are outstandingly simple and fast with Airdrop

I've run into constant problems with AirDrop. On my older MacBook Pro running 10.9 it's often visibility related. On the newer equipment problems manifest themselves as transfers that refuse to start or refuse to prompt the recipient to allow the download. Debugging it often requires rebooting the machine. And, yes, it's slower than GigE.
Essential Craftsman when it comes to DIY and construction: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzr30osBdTmuFUS8IfXtXmg
Not too hard. You just start pulling out cash and if anyone asks you claim an addiction(drugs, gambling, sex, etc).
Ajit Pai seems really upset about the California net neutrality bill that passed
This move to Bluetooth very much seems like planned obsolescence. In sure in a few years all the issues people have with Bluetooth will be "solved" by a whole incompatible spec.

The only problem with the 3.5m jack is that it's too cheap, unobtrusive, and reliable. You can't brand it, market it, or upsell it.
I was in a similar situation, I had offers from both companies and chose the startup, but ultimately ended up at Google.

I was up with the startup for 6 months, it was not a good fit for me and I lost faith in the company quickly. A recruiter reached out to me from Google while I was there to follow up. I did not need to re-interview and they brought me in since I was still in the system as an accepted candidate (I think this stands for one year). so I got to experience the best of both worlds. I’m still at google 2 years later, I can echo the sentiments of it opening up many more doors