skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are seeing things that aren't there. Just ask any people on the street what is more useful (i.e. intrinsically valuable) - dollars or btc. I am not sure why this isn't obvious to you.

Also, you focused on the bull run, but forgot that people _stopped_ using btc for payments. For me the breaking point was Steam removing it as a payment option. Everything after seemed like a show, concealing the main trend. That's why I added question whether anybody started using it again - I hear only people longing for days when btc was not valuable and you could pay with it. Now everyone just hodl's.

And as you say,everyone heard of it already. I don't see how usage can jump now, when btc made its name as super-crazy digital lottery. You continuously lean (Gresham law) on the btc being "good", but never mention why it is good, other than paper money being "worthless".

Which brings me to my "shitty economics" point ...
report it. your neglegence of not doing so will cost you yours one day. that is, if he doesn't do it himself. proper would be for him to report it himself. if he's not professional about a mistake, then you might consider a career path in being the new janitor?
don't feel guilty about this kind of things. people need to own their mistakes. next think you know someone hiding their mistakes will point to you , the responsible kind, to blame.

don't let your goodness for other bring you in a situation that leaves you helpless. seen happen many times some superior got found out of some derping and they shift the blame downward. even if the ppl below already knew of these things and perhaps helped them hide it out of the good of their heart or care for this person. since they were with that part of the problem, it was easy for them to point fingers downwards... and it's always easier to point a finger than man up at fear risk losing your own job so that option is what a lot of ppl take...
My Samsung Galaxy S9 has a IP68 rating (it's water-resistant) and has a mini jack port.
I think you nailed it there. We live in the cyberpunk world envisioned by so much if great cyberpunk media. Sure it's not as gritty and bleak, at least not in the West but I'm pretty sure that there are less fortunate places, where hi tech resides alongside low-tech in the cyberpunk aesthetic. Wikileaks, Anonymous, bitcoin, data heists, billionaires going to mars, VR, AR, stuxnet and cyberwarfare. The real world has it all.

Edit: yes to joining a cyberpunk community.
> microVMs, which provide enhanced security and workload isolation over traditional VMs, while enabling the speed and resource efficiency of containers.

Reminds me of rkt + kvm stage 1 https://github.com/rkt/rkt/blob/master/Documentation/running...

Too bad it didn't take off.
I (or someone) needs to archive all those annotations links on those games, since most of these old channels that did such videos aren't active anymore.
Investor John McAfee Attempts to Calm Nervous Investors
In a move to calm down nervous cryptoasset investors, Bitcoin enthusiast John McAfee released some words of encouragement via Twitter. For ardent followers of the cryptocurrency market, more often than not, McAfee has some unrealistic expectations. Well, the 73-year-old tech veteran took to his Twitter handle on Tuesday to share some advice with his followers.
"it can be a lucrative trap to become invested in a single person, and then accumulate expectations that far outweigh the responsible obligations of any friendship"

Expectations aren't what friendship is about. A friendship is a little club where you conspire to make both your lives better
You're still not addressing the main question: how do you prove that the closest approximation, among vectors of a given magnitude — whether you take this to be the infinity norm (max coordinate), the Euclidean norm, total length, whatever — will never approximate 60 degrees from below?

Yes, as you've said, when the angle between two vectors is less than 60 degrees, you can always “reduce” the length of the vectors, but what good is this reduction, if the angle actually gets farther away from 60 degrees? All it does is preserve the lattice, but that's not our goal here.

Thanks for explaining lattice basis reduction to me. Now I know more about it, which is great. I just don't see how it has any bearing on the question asked here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18538456): why is it that, when we enumerate the “best” solutions among those under a given magnitude, they always (after the first two) approximate 60° from above? Is it coincidence and does the pattern break down (will we see 59.999...x° eventually as an angle that cannot be beaten by smaller vectors), or is there a proof?

And if there is a proof, can you please illustrate with the example of (11, 5) and (1, 10), how to (procedurally) get a pair of vectors with smaller magnitude, but angle at least as close to 60° as in this pair? (Note that the lattice reduction step you gave takes the angle further away from 60°, so as far as I can tell it's not helpful.)
> Since Google basically prints money, I don't think money could be the issue. Since Google is overflowing with engineers, I don't think throwing more engineers at the problem would help.

That's why Google Reader is gone, I suppose. Google just couldn't save it, no matter how much money and engineers' time was spend on it. And we all know how much exactly it were.

> Rather, I think that removing annotations is a good sign that Google is trying to do something smarter: manage the scale of YouTube.

Consistently removing the features which is not popular among majority of users is not smart at all. That's the dumbest way to manage the scale actually.
GPU architecture part 2: SIMT control flow management [pdf]
As someone not in the know, Rich's post seems like an extremely aggressive and arrogant piece. When you put it in context, it does make more sense.
This thread made me look at Clojure again (it has been a few years since the last time). Searching for Bayesian inference libraries I came across this: https://github.com/cemerick/raposo

"Never, ever, ever give a talk about a library or other code publicly unless it's in a public repo prior to the talk. Period. (Exceptions to this might be things like case studies and such.) Doing otherwise is surely irritating to talk attendees, but it's even more disrespectful towards organizers, as their acceptance of your talk may have been implicitly preconditioned on the attendees being able to benefit from the code/library/project in question."

Is the expectation now that when you talk about something it is necessarily going to be open source? (And from there the expectations grow and grow...)
I think the key is "stay" (vs. initiate)

U.S. started the war on Iraq for no reason but pulling out the troops too early was a mistake that allowed ISIS to exist.

Pulling out of Syria in its current form might create a similar vacuum of power that allowed ISIS to exist.

Asking the U.S. to stay in Syria is not comparable to how U.S. started the Iraq war.
You could even use an older iPhone if innovation frightens you in general

Putting aside your unnecessarily snarky tone, it is not innovation to remove something from a phone. It's just not.

Get/use headphones with the new style of plug.

What, with the proprietary Lightning connector that works with nothing else but an iPad or iPhone? (Not even a Mac! Oh, but there's another dongle for that...)

What if I also have an Android USB-C device that needs another connector, and then since I'm interested in music I also have amps or other portable players that take the standard 3,5 mm plug? I now need buy three pairs of headphones instead of one that works with everything from the past forty years? Is this innovation or is it just marketing garbage to sell people more shit they don't need that will end up in landfills in three years?

In lots of ways it's objectively better.

In lots of ways it's objectively worse.

Bluetooth audio is compressed and objectively worse than uncompressed audio over an analog cable.

Wireless headphones require batteries, which means less flexibility and more mental overhead.

The batteries age and are generally not easily replacable, which contributes to waste. We don't need to make more disposable electronics with lithium batteries that end up in landfills.

Bluetooth introduces latency which makes it entirely unsuitable for musicians.

Also, Bluetooth in 2018 is still janky as hell (susceptible to interference, forgets pairings, etc.) and not nearly as reliable as just plugging a cable into a thing and having it work always and forever. It also drains a non-trivial amount of battery. I usually have Bluetooth switched off because I never use it, and enjoy better battery life as a result.
They were stopped. The criminal activities ceased. Japan is a completely different country today.

It's not the fault of the US that the government of Japan militarized their whole society and literally made the whole of the country a military target.
Permission is one basis for lawful processing. There are others. A bunch of websites have been mislead into thinking that GDPR forces them to get permission for everything, or that them having permission allows them to do what they want.

They are wrong.
>I don’t get it: why doesn’t the USA get more flak for being the only country that has used nukes on people?

Who would they get flak from? They are the top dog. They can point fingers on others for even thinking of having nukes, invade countries that don't have nukes, and generally do as it pleases. And they can always say they did it to end the war sooner (which of course anyone can use to justify any such mass civilian killing in a war).
McKernel – A lightweight multi-kernel OS for high-performance computing
That's becoming increasingly more difficult on the Android side, with so many high-end vendors looking to remove the headphone jack too.

Hell, OnePlus ran a campaign eight months ago laughing about others removing the headphone jack, only to remove it six months later on the 6T.

I bought the OnePlus 6 because I wanted a good phone with a close-to-stock OS and a headphone jack. Nowadays, I think you'll struggle to get both, and I think that we're one manufacturer away (Samsung) away from the market joining Apple and Google in getting rid of the jack.

I'll support it for as long as I can, because I use the jack every single day, but I fear that in three years time the high-end market will have left us behind.
> As a very wise manager told me, "Code is a liability. Functionality and business value are assets."

I'm not sure he is drawing the line in the right place. Business value requires functionality which requires code. Business value would be an asset for obvious reasons. Functionality and code would be liabilities. Functionality and code that doesn't provide business value is waste. You want to minimize both functionality and code. Maybe it is just the analogy breaking down though.
No - it was use nukes or waste 250000 to 500000 US lives (and possibly allow Stalin to occupy half of japan) to make them surrender.
And current Japan is trying to rebuild their Army.
How does starting a campfire work in practice?
Sure, you need invoices. But I don't think this is illegal with respect to the IRS. Though if your friend doesn't have $10 million in his LLC, then your friend will become insolvent and that might be illegal. On the other hand, if you net your invoices regularly, then maybe the time spent being insolvent is short. IANAA.
From what I can tell, yes.
I suspect the kind of civil defence training described on that page would probably help with a small scale terrorist level attack. However, I don't think it would achieve very much in a full scale attack and certainly not the scale of attacks likely during the 1980s and on densely populated areas of Europe.

Where I sit now in Scotland is within range of about 5 different high value Cold War targets - I don't think Duck and Cover would achieve very much.
Civility hasn't been a thing on HN for quite some time now, especially in any polarized thread. It's terrible, but even the moderators get in on the action by taking sides and burying viewpoints they don't like. This allows the Valley's toxic monoculture to shine through, which leads to rude comments like this one. Notice how that comment wasn't even flagged.
But that's has been the case for years now - well before this change.

What I'm saying is that I don't see any change that could be attributed specifically to the trend of removing headphone jacks from phones.
Khaddaffi (not sure about spelling) was a friend of France just a few years before he got killed. He was even invited to put his tent in the gardens of the Élysée by newly elected president Sarkozy, four years before. And back then, Khaddaffi was not especially a benevolent dictator.

And there are tons of counter examples. For example, Eritrea is recognized as one of the worst dictatorship in the world, and we have no troops over here to free the people of Eritrea.
^
Also, With Vue you can very easily build a component library (buttons / forms / pages / etc) that can be re-used throughout your various platform versions of your application.

I normally do this by making a node module in a parent directory of the application projects like so:

parentDir/
node_modules/
@applicationLibrary
components/
mixins/
services/
applicationProjects/
ios/
android/
electron/
web/
server/
Sorry, it did not keep formatting...
i just want to remind you that the original discussion that i initiated was to point out that apple has not given any legitimate reason for removing the audio jack. there is simply no need to remove it. creating a thin or water resistant phone is not an explanation since other manufacturers include the audio jack and have no issues with these features.

your argument is that it helps the wireless headphone market. i don’t think it does in a way that actually matters, but even that doesn’t explain why it was removed in the first place. why does apple care about that market outside of their own sales? the real reason why they removed it is to further increase accessory sales and to market themselves as a design leader, which further sells devices. they have created this mystique that they do and others will follow. unfortunately, that is somewhat the case given other dynamics.

the fact of the matter is that there is zero benefit to the consumer of an iphone for having the audio jack removed. there is benefit to apple’s cash flow by removing it. and here we are.
Ask HN: What student programmers should learn
Now, I am a student.
I want to tell me what to learn.

For example:
OS,
Database,
Programming languages,
Algorithms
etc...
The Future of AI Chatbots with Conversational UI Development
> all integral part of the dev skills

Then you found a bunch of unicorns, congrats :) In real life good app devs and good infra devs are different people. I mean good not as in nice and easy personalities, the skills. Do all your app/web devs have AWS certificates?

And by production I mean Netflix like infrastructure.
Recently i'm switchback to linux from openindiana, can't use eclipse (old) JEE on illumos, as update site are not working well.

- https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Eclipse
It's about the refugees. Many EU countries lack basic decency and risk to destroy EU because of Syrian refugees.

Solving the crisis there is indirectly one of the interests of the EU. The current situation also strengthens the position of Russia in the Middle East which is not in European interest.

Disclaimer: I'm from Germany. We have a shift to the right in most EU countries. One of the reasons the Britains left the EU was the refugee crisis - populists used this to scare the voters. This concept was also very successful to get votes in Germany with AfD (alternative party for Germany, right-wing).

Would love to hear other opinions instead of getting downvotes.
I think the high price is to amortize the Annapurna Labs acquisition and to pay for NRE.

Now they will own the entire vertical stack like Apple, but unlike Apple, Amazon can live on minimal margins.

BTW, apparently I predicted it in 2011 ;)

"Rumors about ARM-based EC2 instances from Amazon this year. Also SSD based EBS. #aws #ec2 #arm #ssd #cloud #amazon

3:14 AM - 27 Feb 2011"

https://twitter.com/nivertech/status/41667359487823872
The problem with the headphone jack adapter is that it is mutually exclusive with input for the power cable.

Where this is particularly frustrating is when you are on a particularly long conference call and your phone starts to run out of charge. This happened regularly enough for me ditch the iphone.

I'm sure there yet another dongle you can buy to address this shortcoming though.
Oh look, a philosophical essay disguised as a series of self-evident truths.

"All social impositions associated with it, including the idea of 'community-driven-development' are part of a recently-invented mythology..."

Reminds me of Margaret Thatcher saying "There's nos such thing as society." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/08/margaret-th...

Now if only they can get someone to keep repeating it, it'll be true.
Then would be better to archive the videos too, because the next logical step for YouTube would be delete all the old low profile videos.
That's a very absolute statement that will almost certainly break down under some real or conceivable hypothetical situation.
Not the same thing at all - those are commercial products. If someone has paid for a product and feels it was missold then yes, they are entitled to leave a review. Especially since cinemas don’t offer refunds to dissatisfied customers.
> "This fixation on the spouse is kind of a modern oddity as well. In many societies past and present, your spouse, your parents, your kids, and maybe even your grandparents and grandkids are all of roughly equal importance."

Can you cite something for this?
Binance is creating a stablecoin market
You mean the same Apple that got a Louis Braille award[1] for their work in accessibility for the blind and visually impaired, that Apple ?

1. https://appleinsider.com/articles/17/01/27/apple-honored-wit...
>Once these criminals attacked the US in Hawaii and the Philippines

Wait, maybe rewind this a little? I know that the European settlers that created the US took the continental land from the natives, but how did they end up with claims to Hawaii and the Philippines in the first place?
If you'd left it at the first sentence I'd have read it as nicely pitched sarcasm.

If it's a single Hiroshima scale device, sure, it'll probably help some. If countries are exchanging their deterrent missiles, no, you're not going to avoid 90% of the deaths.
How do you mean no proof? There's numerous reports by impartial agencies documenting the use of chemical weapons since early 2014.

There is no failure to provide evidence, only the usual conflicts.
Iraq wasn't in the state of unrest at the time of invasion, although yes, in principle Saddam was as murderous dictator as the other two. Arab spring would most decidedly have flared up his Iraq as well.

Venezuela crisis is not anywhere on the scale of outright war in Syria and Libya. It is also well outside the reach of feasible French force projection. France however is involved in a number of conflicts elsewhere in francophone Africa, relatively low profile as the interventions have stabilizing effect.

With Libya and Syria we also had as close to A/B test in history as we get. What if we interfere in a massacre, and what if we watch from the sidelines in exchange for deal with Iran? The answer is apparently two orders of magnitude more deaths, displacement and human suffering.
It is a hassle to add yet another dongle, but more that it's just annoying that we have a perfectly good solution and it got removed, its a step backwards with few clear benefits. It's doubly annoying that Apple is heavily promoting its wireless headphones as the solution, while simultaneously promoting its 'Creatives' cred, and in no way acknowledging that their favored solution just doesn't work for the use case they are promoting.
Whataboutism? Really? Please stay on topic.
Fake news.

https://www.politifact.com/north-carolina/statements/2018/fe...
we'll get wireless charging at some point (though probably only if it doesn't interfere with 'thinness') and then we'll only have a couple hundred millions devices with that problem....
I can totally buy the narrative that the first bomb was a necessary evil. But, yeah, launching the second one was definitely avoidable.
The junkyard hideout was the Three Investigators, not the Hardy Boys. As far as I remember, the Hardy Boys didn't have a hideout.
>but I imagine that I would just leave the adapter on them 24/7?

Except people often use same headphone with both - phone and pc, so you will have to remove the adapter anyway.
I agree, definitely not random - it was sitting on the shelf waiting for someone to find an excuse to "do" it:

"Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable."

Milton Friedman
CAD Software for Making Your Drawings
Using NBD as a better alternative to loop mounting on Linux [video]
Can anyone suggest reading that explores the impact of biodiversity loss on ecosystems?

Ideally something that is semi understandable to someone with no background in ecology or biology.
I believe this way people are more likely to be reasonably self-moderating and specific and less likely to engage in personally emotional argument with you than if you use e-mail. It will also give people convenience of filing a bug/suggestion without having to register on yet another bug tracker given they already have a GitHib account (who hasn't?). Needless to say using a single bug tracking system and input channel is much more convenient for everybody than if there were many.
Ask HN: Why Docker for Mac is so much screwed up?
There are so many issues are still pending or aborted. Is there any alternative? Had to switch to Linux machine for docker.

Look into the issues:
https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/410

https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1759

https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1835

https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/5s9v72/is_docker_for_mac_extremely_slow_for_anyone_else/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46406980/rails-assets-are-very-slow-on-macox-docker
OPCW has provided the proof of multiple incidents perpetrated by Syrian government. That you decide to support Assad is a matter of conscience, not absence of facts.
Well, it's somebody's fault.

Japan wanted to be left alone. Western powers took it to war to force it to their will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakumatsu#Foreign_frictions
>> Use wireless. In lots of ways it's objectively better

In a lot of ways it isn't. First, as everyone pointed out, there are connectivity issues everywhere, and even when you are able to connect, the audio quality is inferior to what comes through the headphone jack. People have already talked about problems with the other options you listed.
>The Exorcist had only been on the list

Think you meant "had not been". p.s. Enlightening article, thanks.
> if Apple can do it on top of bluetooth I think others should also be able to.

they're only "doing it" with their own limited hardware combinations. the experience of pairing any random bluetooth devices even in ios is still mediocre overall.
The web view is just a widget. If you want to make it full screen, make it full screen. Apple is t stopping you.
The primary reason I want it back, is because audio though the jack of has usually been of better quality than audio though Bluetooth with another DAC. The difference can be enormous. Therefore it feels as a big downgrade to me.

And don't forget that all these USB C and wireless options are possible without removing the jack at all.
the link to the tweet would have been nice.