skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth pointing out just how absolutely terrible the Bluetooth experience that AirPods provide in comparison to being able to simply plug in headphones.

When I put on my AirPods, I have no clue how long it's actually going to take until I can listen to my phone through them. Even when going into the output selection, and tapping the AirPods (it they even show up), I never know how long it's going to take. Many times, after 40-60 seconds of waiting for the damn things to finally connect, I put them back in their case, wait a few seconds, and then put them back in, hoping that resets whatever silly and incompetent Bluetooth implementation that prevents pairing.

They are really really terrible when it comes to connecting, just awful awful things. So infuriating. Yet, what else am I going to do in the Apple ecosystem? Apple provides no other option. Steve Jobs would not have put up with quality this poor. The executive team should be ashamed of shipping stuff like this.
Are they unlabeled though? If location sharing metadata exists, that's a decent chunk of location-tagged photos of places to have.
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I'm not sure where these myths are coming from, even The Pixar documentary go through some of those details

Myth 1 seems to be more about details than simply a myth: George Lucas needed money
> It is a choice to keep backwards compatibility with the C extensions API.

IIUC for CRuby it's mostly about how to keep the VM simple. Koichi Sasada is working on an ownership based model like Erlang has, which sidesteps a bunch of theses issues.
So, does that mean if one is 10x engineer under mediocre manager in other countries, things are better for that engineer compared to these countries?
Visiting Venice many years ago, I found myself watching the ground rather than viewing the architecture due to the amount of dog shit on the streets. Obviously picking up after your dog is not in any way.
I’m not going full plant based but comparing how I’ve felt in various points in my life with various diet compositions, I felt a bit better overall with a bit higher vegetable content.
I actually use Ant in my product. I had no idea this would happen. And I think this is... pretty awesome?

The world needs more random amusing-but-not-damaging surprises like this. To the Ant team: I'm impressed.
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As far as I can tell, if you want timely security updates on your smartphone you can buy one of: iPhone XR, iPhone XS, Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL. No headphone jacks on any of those. How's that for "choice in the marketplace"?
> Put it this way: If you rely on an alarm clock to wake up, you’re out of sync with your own biology.

You're out of sync if you're not feeling the air around you warm up with the sun, or watching the sky above you change from black to the glimmer of dawn, or hearing the birds start to chirp with the sunrise. I've experienced all of these with hundreds of nights backpacking in the wilderness, and indeed it has been the best sleep of my life. If you've any semblance of a modern, industrial lifestyle though then you're so screwed up by the rest of your life that an alarm clock is the least of your artifical interruptions.
Meditation. Most days I meditate around the corner from work during lunch. It massively improves my mood, gives me new perspective, sometimes gives me a physical body high like a good edible, and helps me focus.

I usually meditate again before I leave work, which makes me less tired. I now have the energy to go out and socialise after work.

I initially dismissed meditation as stupid, but many of the smartest people I know and respect do it. Eventually I just said, "what if I'm wrong". Haven't looked back.

I can recommend starting with the Headspace app and The Mind Illuminated book.
I tried that. Maybe it works for some people, but as a salesman, I make a good technician. As a PR person, I make a good technician. As an accountant or billing person, I make a good technician. As a business development person, I make a good technician. Ad nauseum.

I found there are so many parts to running your own business that I am well and truly horrible at, well I went back to working for consulting companies.
Writing a program to measure your current speed using Android phone
Arghl! How do I get rid of that horrible techno music, after I closed all the pop-unders?
If I was developing such a library, I'd add easter eggs into the code, tie all of them to a single, big switch and disable it by default.

Last, but not the least, I'll document it as follows:

This code contains easter eggs which are disabled by default. If you want to enable them, set easter_eggs_enabled=true. Please note that, the eggs have their own time, and it won't make them enabled all the time.
It’s not totally uncommon to list folks as co-founders that didn’t actually co-found the company, but had a major influence on its direction, E.g. at Polyvore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvore

Also, he stops footnoting during the final myth:

“Jobs poured more money in to cover the losses each time. It's sometimes construed that he did this because he saw the long-term potential of the movie business and held on to "his vision" with further investments. This wasn't the case at all, however. Jobs kept pouring money into the company so that he wouldn't have to sustain the embarrassment that his first company - after being booted from Apple - was a failure.”

I am surprised Steve had no inclination that a studio who had wanted to make animated film all these years at least had the potential to do so. So clearly Steve wasn’t just investing into a hardware company.
Spacemacs with a mostly standard config has similar load times as VSCode (2-3 seconds)...
I wonder why a small icon change is so bothering. Care to elaborate?
I love ruby, but I kind of consider blocks an antifeature compared to, say, JavaScript arrow functions (where you can actually call return and not inanvertsntly break out of the entire enclosing function).
Getting a solid 8+ hours of good quality sleep each night. For me this meant:

- Sleeping/waking at the same time each night/morning
- Keeping my room cool at night
- Relaxation exercises for both body and mind once I get into bed
- Getting a comfortable eye mask
- Actually taking sleep seriously (read Why We Sleep)

I feel so good each day, I have a better memory and emotional stability, and I don't fall asleep at work any more.
What's wrong with comparing fruit with fruit?
> Boise is a prime example of political refugees running to a place because they love the current policies.

No, it's not; the people fleeing to Idaho for political reasons aren't going to Boise, the people going to Boise largely aren't doing it for political reasons.

> And then voting in people who enacted the types of policies that they ran away from.

That's pretty solid evidence that they aren't running away from the policies.

> The district I live in went completely Democrat for the first time in its history.

That's happened a lot of places recently, and has little to do with migration.

> It’s also making house unaffordable.

What's making housing unaffordable for people not participating in the boom is the inpouring of money chasing housing and the fact that the real housing market—everywhere, not just in Boise—has friction, creating supply limits in the short run that don't represent long-run capacity.
Illusion of control: Why the world is full of buttons that don't work
I was literally speaking for myself.
It amazes me that now eight years later that everyone seems to agree that not supporting Flash was a good idea - like the article did- but for years after the iPhone and iPad were introduce, people were complaining that Apple’s wall garden was hurting consumers that wanted Flash.

https://techcrunch.com/2010/02/18/jobs-flash-will-murder-the...

People were also complaining about Apple ditching the floppy and the CD ROM Drive.
My company used to have great employees, who I learned a lot from and to this day respect. I've been there 9 years now. At the first sign of trouble, the brightest left. At the next sign of trouble, the next brightest left, and so on and so forth. I don't necessarily think of myself as not bright, but being remote it was a great job compared to my city. Each iteration of trouble I watched the people I respect leave, and those I didn't latch on for power. Now it's in a freefall... I've had 5 managers in the last year, we were bought by PE, and my team was replaced with a new team who are quite honestly the least talented people I've ever worked with. I've never felt less productive, and moreso like I absolutely don't care about the product, and it's very depressing to me. I don't hide my identity online, and don't care that they inevitably see this message.
Not really. I use Bluetooth headphones - they are branded but not a major brand (in fact a company known for something else).

Bluetooth is pretty ubiquitous and has been for a decade.

The charging case means I have to recharge them every ten days or so (so I don’t worry about it), the sound quality is good enough and I don’t get tangled any more.

The only disadvantage is switching between multiple devices can be a bit fiddly at times - which is where AirPods do come into their own.
I mean, it's not "your" ad revenue. It's youtube - if someone is looking for revenue they should start a business, or get a job.

Youtube is a private company, they can do whatever they want - even take revenue generated by ads on a video you upload, and give it to someone else, without reason - just because. You don't like it - don't upload your video. They owe you zero - they never signed your contract.

It's brilliant in the way Christianity is brilliant. Stupefying to doorknob-licking level, yet able very well to separate complete retards from their money, but them voluntarily giving it away. When they much later figure out this basic obvious bad deal, they complain of unfairness. Because they're stupid. Just leave them alone and let them be stupid. It's what keeps the lower class down - the lower class itself.
Java, .Net/C#, C++ are popular with large sized Indian IT (Services/Consulting)companies. The choice of language is purely based on customer requirements. One of my friend was working to maintain legacy systems written in BASIC. Product companies or startups get to work with new programming languages/technology that are popular.

Code/Comments are entirely written in English.
Chamomile: A herbal medicine of the past with bright future
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I'd love to see one day ML will subsume traditional algorithms. What i mean is that, traditional algorithms is just one use case of AI techniques.
Do we want to stop fraud or not?

What was happening was highly suspicious.

It was a research project not normal use of credit cards / app store.

Algorithm was correct really, especially given how the humans had no idea what was going on, the algorithm seemed like it was more correct to me.

The humans seemed to believe him without any proof. That seems like a problem to me.

Still.... an interesting story.
If the issue is major then I suggest specialized dongles, wireless headphones, or a wireless charging station.
- Launch couple of projects based on ideas that have remained with me for last couple of years.

- Spend 300 hours in Gym

- Apply to YC

- Pay off loan
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Not really, let's see: You have two analogue ears and a smartphone, the traditional and cheaper way is to put the DACs and the battery inside the smartphone and then feed two passive impedances using 4 wires. So far, so good: it makes sense, it works, most people are happy with it.

And then there's the overengineered way that enables some companies to sell a much more expensive product with greater margins: let's replace those cheap speakers with two tiny computers. Each one of them needs its own DAC, its own battery and its own Bluetooth antenna. Now you have to recharge these marvels of technology after a few hours and maybe worry about pairing because Bluetooth is what it is. You still carry your smartphone around plus a charging station for your shiny new toys, which only can sound worse than what you used before someone convinced you it was obsolete because they said it was.
I recently started using an app called Sleep Cycle to help my body's response to the alarm. It measures how deep your sleep is and wakes you when your sleep is shallow (within the time range). I find myself waking up thirty-plus minutes earlier and feeling much better and awake, all day.

My next endeavor will be to build a Circadian Rythm light clock that changes the ambient light in the room to naturally wake me up.
Not much of tangible content here. There are many Russians in Prague, and they all want a nice car with diplomatic plates. Somehow, this is the reason that Prague is used as some kind of springboard to the wider EU (ignoring the fact that Russia has other embassies in the EU)
OK. Let me clarify.
YAML couldn't be imported directly by , for example, Javascript. You have to readFileSync, parse it, process it some way.
YAML whitespaces are hard to get right. You have to have consistent indent format for both editor and the yaml file itself.
YAML couldn't be composed.
YAML's types are confusing with quotes and not quotes.
Ask HN: Does anyone get individual comp sci coaching?
As per the question, does anyone get individual coaching / mentoring? I.e to help finish a project, learn a totally different field etc?
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Makes me wonder how much AI we could fit into ZX Spectrum, an old Amiga or 80386...
Magnificent writing, painful story, in a real way this article articulates, in a small way, what it's like for the foundation of your career to slip away. I'm sure there are plenty of other types of careers this same article can be written for.

What I'm afraid of is that many of us reading this article now will have a similar story 20 or so years from now. Ouch!
I believe submitting fixes to the upstream Apache NetBeans is the way to go: https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans

PS: Although reproducible builds are on the list...
Sony's Xperia flagships are quite regular with their monthly updates.

I think they've also ditched the headphone jack in their latest models though. For a while it seemed like they'd hold out against glass backs and dropping jacks. But no.
https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/you-can-now-get-morgan-f...
How high can you go? Senior devs at google can pull 300k+ with stock at the L5 level, does contracting scale in the same way or is 500k atypical?
I hate our open office setup. I usually commandeer our one office to get some peace and quiet so I can concentrate.

It’s definitely a deal breaker for my next job.
Being able to bundle a JDK and have the app run from the get go is nice, no?
Ah, Flash...I still can't show my kids how cool Orsinal was without annoying runarounds :-(
It's possible, but I guess I should have specified "logic outside the standard curriculum of computer science studies." For example, I think understanding bits of modal logic through how monads behave is much more fruitful for a CS person. Also, I want to further add here that the correspondence between proofs and programs is known as the Curry–Howard correspondence. This is the more general term under which these relationships between type theory and logic are discussed. The term "computational trinitarianism" also adds a further correspondence to categories. ( As shown in my link above ).
Star Wars Galaxies was great dammit
> programmers are basically 'bred' out of an assembly line like education system. Which means you find programmers with no passion or love of their craft.

Every educated programmer in the country, passionate or not, goes through the same education system. If you like the work and are good at it, you'll do it with love and care when you're a professional, no matter how you were educated. I went through it myself, and I like to think I've done all right career-wise.

> good natural programmers

I'm not even sure what "natural" means in this context. If someone is a good programmer, does it matter if they are naturally talented or attained their skill by grinding? (and most of the time it's a combination of the two anyway). To quote a popular Westworld meme, "If you can't tell the difference, does it matter?"

> where the likes of IIT graduates are preferred over a simpleton with great passion, skill and knowledge of the craft.

Evaluating programmer talent in the timespan of an interview is hard. Of course, hiring an IIT grad is going to be preferred over taking a punt on a random candidate - assuming both candidates are at the beginning of their career. It's not a cultural problem unique to India or China - hiring based on educational pedigree happens in every country in the world.
> That's just marketing speak.

Pretty sure it was the initial thinking when Neural Network was created and it have move beyond that. I think people who know surface level only repeating this tadbit that's out of dated.

It's even in the official wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network).

Everything you've stated was basically a personal opinion that could have been verified via google...
Samsung flagship devices get frequent security updates. In my experience, the hardware integration and service center support is far superior to Pixel and on the software side, Android even with Samsung's add on crap far and away superior to iOS.
Over 1 million active NetBeans users.
Again the same thing. Rewards don't flow in the direction of merit, so there is no incentive to deliver quality stuff.
I remember having that. I loved SimCity on the desktop but honestly the NES version was a complete piece of shit. I don't comprehend why any would want to save it. It had an incredibly poor interface, terrible controls for that sort of game. It was just plain bad. I question the author claiming it was unreleased. Or I somehow managed to score a copy as a kid.
Alacritty, a terminal emulator written in Rust, now supports Windows
From the talk, their main point about alchemy:

> Now alchemy is OK, alchemy is not bad, there is a place for alchemy, alchemy worked, alchemists invented metallurgy, [inaudible] dyed textiles, our modern glass making processes and medications.

> Then again, alchemists also believed they could cure diseases with leeches and transmute base metals into gold.

> For the physics and chemistry of the 1700s to usher in the sea change in our understanding of the universe that we now experience, scientists had to dismantle 2,000 years worth of alchemical theories.

> If you're building photo-sharing systems, alchemy is okay. But we're beyond that.

> Now we're building systems that govern health care, and mediate our civic dialogue. We influence elections.

> I would like to live in a society whose systems are built on top of verifiable rigorous thorough knowledge and not on alchemy.
Can confirm, worked at an AI hype company for over a year and built all their systems outside the NN internals. There is going to be a correction.
Previous discussion when this was first released: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15919115
> At this point, I’d rather go without entertainment than carry around anything more than AirPods...

This, and parents' comment, is pretty much the archetype of misunderstanding the point being made by tfa and other 'I want the headphone port back' argument.

We all understand some people are happy without a headphone jack.

That's fine.

You guys can use a headphone jacked phone with low quality Bluetooth audio just fine, but we can't use a non headphone jacked phone at all -- hence the feeling of brutally enforced unfairness.
How is GOTO not equivalent to WHILE? You can emulate any arbitrary flow-control construct with GOTO.
Ex-Full Stack Developer BrowserStack in Mumbai, India. BrowserStack is a manual and automated web + mobile testing platform.

- The local language is not at all a part of the code. English is considered second nature for most people and that is what is used for all internal communication, documentation, and code.

- They have been using Agile for pretty much their entire lifecycle with daily standups and bi-weekly retrospectives.

- Languages: Most of the codebase is in Ruby/Rails and NodeJS. The FrontEnd is built on React and jQuery (for the static pages).

BrowserStack is usually considered one of the fine examples of an engineering-driven culture. Engineers are empowered and listened to.

Plus, since the product is a testing tool, we ended up being our own best customers. This provided very valuable insight on user behavior and helped navigate product decisions and keep function over form for the most part.

But as I have learned, BrowserStack is more of an exception in this matter as most other companies in India I have heard of rarely are engineering driven and.
I was a night owl. I would sleep around 2-3AM. Then I started working out and Stopped drinking coffee. These days, I feel tired by 11 and wake up around 7AM.
Added in Watch later yesterday. Absolutely fun and knowledgeable. You might also check his home page[1], contains good and important stuff like this one.

[1]. https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens
I worked at a job where a coworker of mine would commute 1.25-1.50 hours one way, every day. I’m not sure how he did it.

To get to work at 8am, he’d have to wake up at 6am, assuming he gets ready quickly. Then, after leaving at 5, he’d arrive home around 6:30. So all in all, about 4 hours of time to himself, assuming he didn’t work late. That’s a hell of a way to live.
But again, my point is, you can't explain why a human works. Nor can you predict how the human will perform in an extreme situation they haven't been through before.

To modify your example. Say you have a doctor who haven't killed anyone yet and she reads a paper describing a new high risk / high reward treatment. The same standard of proof is not applied to her, so she can just go ahead and try it. Wasn't there a story just the other day where doctors were injecting people with some proteins linked to Alzheimer's? They weren't required to be "proven that they're safe" before they did that.
+1 for Sony Xperia. I had one until it fell out of my pocket on a lake (always wondered how long it operated being waterproof).

That was my first and last Android phone however. If you think Android is a decent OS try removing Google from it.

If you are ok with Android, Sony hardware is good. Was my second favorite phone vs my X. The screen was 4K and the audio was great for a phone. It was on the heavy side but well built. Lots of battery.
Right mate and the Christ is just an old action hero.
Older iPhones with headphone jack are getting the same security updates as XR and XS.
Most machine learning algorithms that aren't statistical base doesn't give a CI. From a statistical stand point it doesn't give a sense of how good your prediction is. You can get a general sense with just CV.

Also your parameter is not inferable like in statistical algorithm. This is where I see people saying Deep Learning isn't interprable and there are research into this area. If you compare time series stat forecast algorithm with deep learning you at least get a CI on stat algorithm.

Randomly dropping node is pretty magic in my mind.

While I don't know much about SVM I know it's mathematically proven so there should be a way to interpret SVM fitted model.

I sure as hell wouldn't use ML in clinical trial for drugs. That's why biostat is a thing.
Can you specify where you hear him be condescending? Also no bashing of Germany in there, unless you see describing specific mechanisms by which german banks profited from the Greeks, as bashing Germany.
You may be right. My experience came from a rather famous and elite team that worked for me in China. It may not be a representative experience anymore.
A much shorter guide by the same author in 2 pages instead of 90:
https://www.logicmatters.net/tyl/shorter-tyl/
The hottest tools in coding this year included React and Python
Indeed I use emacs for all "real" editing, but I use vim for composing emails - in my own console-based mail-client.