skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you only use that pair on headphones for your phone, it's only a minor inconvenience to just keep it attached to the headphones. if not, it becomes yet another small item that you can forget or lose.

the real issue with dongles from my perspective is that they move the DAC out of the phone. manufacturers already tend to cut corners with onboard DACs, and they're likely to use even worse components in a $5 dongle.

in theory, usb-c could enable headphone manufacturers to move the DAC to the headphones themselves and use much better components than a mass market phone would. unfortunately I think the future is probably "good enough" but convenient wireless protocols.
> I invite you to consider versions of god that are not, that's all.

You invite me to consider versions of god which are not personal, benevolent, caring gods.

That's fine, but this argument is precisely about such gods, the gods that people try to sell us in mainstream religions, and how reality precludes them.
Update: it seems that fortunately is just locally rare in the city, so I'm wrong and the former does not apply.
When they support Syria or Hamas (Sunni), their are not guided by ideology but by Iranian and regime interst
Full disclosure: I am the author of the post. Hope it's okay to post this here. I thought it'd be pretty interesting to other people too.
Go is simple & simplicity scales when it comes to development (learnability, dev-effort, tooling, etc). So from a manager's point-of-view he/she can hire/train people far more quickly with Go than Rust. As much as I love Rust and have advocated for it in my company I cannot argue on this point with my management.
I’m not insulting. It’s true blue collar workers flocked to Trump hoping to bring back manufacturing. Joe the Plumber was the epitome of a blue collar Republican.
yes that is a second type of ambiguity, and it does occur in audio as well:

an lower frequenncy sinusoidally amplitude modulated higher frequency sinusoid can be indistinguishable from 2 constant amplitude sinusoids at the sum and difference of the frequencies.

see an article by Plomp and Leveldt for the determination of the bandwidth of the auditory frequency bins (or filter bank)
Unless there's a trade treaty stating this, then the US is not beholden to EU rules. Even if there is a treaty, they generally all give the US the ability to ignore their provisions if it is an issue of national security, and it's under that claim that the current administration has issued tariffs already.
Thanks you're right. The important idea I was remembering is that they have no editorial connection to the university; they're just an investment.
> terseness is beautiful.

I'd much rather read

rect = element.getBoundingClientRect()
area = rect.width * rect.height
velocity += acceleration * deltaTime
position += velocity * deltaTime

than

r = e.g()
a = r.w * r.h
v += a * d
p += v * d

but to each their own.

Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook etc all specifically say terseness is not a goal and say to use whole words so naming a function '$' would be explicity against their guidelines. I suspect there's a reason for that. The most obvious is I don't know what 'a' or 'd' or '$' mean without digging through the code but I do know what 'area' or 'detlaTime' or 'getElementById' mean
Same. Unfortunately, it looks like iOS 13 will be the last one to support it
Sure, this would also have been true under feudalism.

The important thing to recognize is that the ruling class - whoever owns property and is able to use that to exploit workers - will control the government and make laws that benefit them.
What the fuck is wrong with the Internet? https://i.imgur.com/nv7wTet.png
Android for the infotainment system, not necessarily the whole car. I'm not sure if they'll base everything off Android.
Depends on what you are looking for.

In a new 3-Series you can turn the steering wheel with your index finger, there is no manual transmission, you hear fake engine noise.
The 15 year old car offers a completely different driving experience and he might prefer it over the bland, comfortable new car.
If you spend $100,000 to market a book that only sells 3k copies.. maybe you're bad at marketing.
I'm shooting for indestructible, myself.
From the article: "Go is faster than Java / C#"

The is more often untrue, than it is true. There are times when the low latency GC is beneficial though.
I don't think the amount of people using any of the various (afaik all rather alpha-stage) GUI frontends is very high at all, at this point.
People use nvim in their terminal, and that will likely be the case for a long time.

In any case, there are many multiple cursor plugs for vim, now also supporting operator pending.
And :substitute includes built-in real-time preview.
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I doubt Russia will let him leave.
It's sad that food has to travel long distances to be purchased at reasonable prices when it's grown relatively nearby. To put the shoe on a different foot. The Dominican Republic produces a lot of tomatoes. But they lack a lot of the infrastructure and machinery that both the US and Mexico have. Shops there sell Mexico and US tomatoes when there's a tomato field ten or twenty miles away. Those fields truly can't compete on a serious level without specialty importers in the USA. That's the sad part.

The bad part, environmentally, think of all the excess CO2 produced in transport that in reality, doesn't truly need to happen.
Would the land route be safer?
I'm from Europe and I also live apart from my long term SO.
The reason being our job commutes.

We work in completely opposite parts of town and due to the city lacking fast public transport and her job lacking flextime she has to wake up way earlier than I'm use to if I want to be productive at work and so far we haven't found a middle ground where one doesn't have to compromise too much.

Honestly, remote work would ease a lot of modern urban problems like traffic, rents, relationships, childcare, etc. If only our corporate masters would allow it.

World governments need to start incentivizing employers to offer remote ASAP as infrastructure in the cities is not keeping up with population growth.
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This has been my experience, 100%.
I don't know whether I'm reading into this with a bias given that it's published in The American Conservative, but the conclusion of the article definitely reads as an homage to when "Western Civilization" was nice and homogeneous, and everyone could trace its lineage back to Rome.

> The importance of classical Rome to the conscious and unconscious customs of later Western urbanism cannot be overstated. Today, as cultures cross-pollinate, and as technologies topple timeless ways of living, it is an open question whether the familiarity of Rome’s ancient forms will be felt much by those who live in the future, beyond the next horizon. [ ... ] Perhaps this time—our time—is really the end of the ancient world.

I read this as "all of the 'other' people who come into the West won't share this unifying history of the city that was the pinnacle of civilization."

Highly ironic that the article in the carousel directly above this one was "Why Identity Politics Kills Democracy."
But then they discovered it is in fact not purely about self-discipline, but rather the degree of trust the child has in the marshmallow promiser. In an uncertain life, it makes sense to take whatever marshmallow is actually here now.
I think I've heard the phrase "idiot in a hurry", so, yes, they could be confused.
Unfortunately most of the companies in this generation of "unicorns" are being pumped and dumped by VCs. This idea that you can buy your way to a monopoly, get large market share like Amazon and Google,then figure out how to profit from your position in the market will backfire spectacularly and public investors will have to pay for it.
That just means they'd have to charter a special flight that used only Russian, International, and French airspace.
Yes, but to get a good picture one should account for how large the geographic separation between the couples is and for what reasons? The case of spouses voluntarily living apart on either coasts of the continental USA for career reasons or to save time commuting is quite different from that of a couple within tens of miles of each other, separated involuntarily due to affordability.
Because the Go standard library is nice - net/http is a joy to use
Yeah, from reading the linked New Scientist article that sounds like an almighty cock-up. One scientist speculated in a media interview that all of the glaciers in certain parts of the Himalayas could disappear by 2035, and this somehow not only made it into the IPCC's report but got blown up into a claim that all of the glaciers in the Himalayas were very likely to disappear by 2035. Then the chairman of the IPCC accused the Indian government of practicing "voodoo science" for questioning this.
Magnetic cockroaches, dirty money, wombat poo: It's the Ig Nobels 2019
The main problem with a lot of personal data is that it’s used for identification right? There are other issues of course, but wouldn’t it make sense to assign everyone a cryptographic key that’s just used for authentication?
I've probably taken under 50 photos this year so I am not a good reference point for camera features. I haven't been disappointed with the photos but I also probably have no idea what I'm missing.
yes, that's exactly what the bankers told us (via their special interest politicians who were given the talking points)

do you believe them?

and even if you do, why are they allowed to remain that big? this is exactly what "too big to fail" means, and why it's a problem.
There needs to be fines for when stuff like this happens. The bottom line is all that matters to bosses, so unless engineers can credibly point to the economic impact of poor security decisions, these things will keep happening.
> They literally aren't prisoners in China, they just can't leave the country.

So it's just an exceptionally big prison, but it's still a prison. And once you run out of money, what are you supposed to do? Beg on the streets?
Russia doesn't give a shit about Snowden, of course, but Putin cares a lot about his own image of power. Such event would be a huge slap in the face for both the country and him personally - it would make Russia look weak and that's of great importance for their internal politics and Putin's ability to keep the public support and stay in power. So it wouldn't go unpunished, you can bet on that, he would be forced to demonstrate the power somehow... not for Snowden, but because of his voters...
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I've had the same experience. Understanding how the thing you are programming actually works can really help, at least in certain domains.
And the dark knight films. Apparently Nolan is fond of it.
> The U.A.W. is pushing G.M. to improve wages, reopen idled plants, add jobs at others and close or narrow the difference between pay rates for new hires and veteran workers.

Can someone help me understand this? I mean, I guess I have to think about this as "factory workers are doing algorithmic tasks" so there's less benefit to being a veteran worker than there would be as a "knowledge worker?"

I don't want that to sound demeaning - it just seems odd to me that you'd be in a union to improve things for workers, but you wouldn't want the most senior people to be making solid money in comparison to new employees. Wouldn't you then lose some of the motivation for those experienced workers to stick around?
I wholeheartedly disagree with you. haha

Go back to a BMW of 1990, and it's not that much different from a new car today. Fuel injection, air bags, ABS. Internal combustion engine, exhaust, radiator, transmission. etc. etc.

Heck, even back then it was perfectly normal for a car to get better than 10L/100km (23.5mpg)

There have been incremental improvements for sure, but in all honesty it's the same thing, just tweaked a little.
> 1GHz Pentium III with 256MB of RAM would've been sufficient for those

I remember running games on Bleem (yes, I actually bought Bleem) on significantly less. I know it ran on my family's Pentium 166Mhz with 64MB or RAM, but it probably wasn't full speed. I am fairly confident it ran on full speed on my 2-300Mhz P2 laptop though.
Tangentially, what language right now most closely hits the mark of Rust + GC?

I'm thinking Algol based syntax, expressive type system (sum types/generics/structurally typed structs), and optional mutability like Rust, but without the mental overhead of memory management.
Not yet on iOS, or am I mistaken?
I think they have different applications. If I were to choose a language for writing a web service I'd use Go but if I wanted to write an opengl renderer I'd use Rust.
Dive into VC
Looks like the site is made with gatsby. PWA install comes as standard.
This is a deep question, but the simple answer is they were told repeatedly that it was safe and effective to prescribe for a lot of different ailments.
Haha wow!
> In some of these, Apple is catching up to Android

Where Android/Google itself is a bigger problem perhaps than the 3rd party apps.
I Recommend this too.

Read this back in January. 10/10
Saudi wealth is seeking to diversify, so its using its patrimony to seek alternative income streams to oil. So good for Saudis. This fund is seeking opportunity in many places, among them SV. That’s also a good thing, for the most part. In short, I don’t see it being so negative that it comes from oil. It’s funneling research away from oil
You could glue the dongle to the headphones.
have to is a strong statement. Public investors need not buy a single share of a mis-valued stock.
I’ve written a bit of Go and am learning Rust. In my toolbox I believe there will be a place for both.
Looking into their faces, Most of them are waiting, and some of them are trying to read those papers. So I assume there is an exam and those are questions and the the exam has not started yet when they took this photo. Probably they are only allowed to pick them up once exam starts.
From my understanding, this company lied about the effects of the drug. That is the problem. If they would have said "hey we have a great drug that completely dopes a patient up and works like magic to block pain, BUT only give it for one or two days OR ELSE they will become addicted" then we would not be here now debating this. Instead what they told doctors was that the drug was safe at the recommended prescription levels which was not true.
This account appears to be a China Communist Party shill when you read the comments history.
There is nothing inherently wrong with mortgage bonds.

The principle is simple and fine, chop up a bunch of mortgages from all over, with the same risk profile and pool them together.

That way local environmental factors don't cause the whole investment to go south. Basically raid for investment

What is a problem, and one that still hasn't fully been tackled is the industrial scale fraud that sold delinquent, or knowingly under par mortgages as high quality instruments.

Through all the use of fancy words, every seems to have got the impression that commoditized mortgages investments are complex, using words like "tranche", "proprietary instruments" and blended risk.

its really not, get a bunch of mortgages, shove them in a blender and make mortgage sausage.

So long as there isn't widespread and systematic fraud, then everything will be fine.

However considering that there haven't been large scale arrests, I don't hold out much hope.
Thanks! I should have worded it a bit differently, I think, and it's pretty great as-is.
I'd say D, but it has optional immutability. It feels like C++ with GC more than Rust.
Cool tool. Also I like the animations, improves the experience a lot!
Similarly my parents live in a rural community and practically everyone grows garlic, but farm-stands have trouble competing with grocery store (read: Chinese) garlic.
My old Andriod phone won't let me load that page. It force opens the Play Store and wants me to install messenger. So I can load Facebook through Chrome, but I can't chat to anyone.
Nyaaaaaah!
I agree and it echoes what Paul Graham said here [0] about ego.

If your identity is tied to being a 'Xer' you are going to have a hard time working with 'Y' even if it is the best solution in this case.

Don't identify as a Xer or Yer, but as someone solving problems and creating value.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
(author here) Uhh, I've just setup the normal progressive webapp manifest, it's not supposed to be asking you actively about it.

I'd recommend checking out the settings in your browser.
Off topic to the article, because I can't read it. I blocked Medium's annoying pop-up and now there is no way for me to click somewhere to open the article. Ah well, I'll just see this as a step towards being indistractable by medium articles.
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I recently registered 'twitbook.uk' when the .uk TLD opened for general registrations, with the intention of running a satirical social network that would blatantly ask for personal information, allow open bidding to access the data, and provide features such as 'make me angry' or 'validate my opinions'. Just for fun of course, no real information would be solicited or sold.

I wonder if such a site would be considered a violation of this trademark, were it to be granted.
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I would choose Go to solve network I/O bound problems, Rust to solve CPU / memory bound problems, and Clojure to solve business bound problems: where mental cycles are more expensive than computational cycles.
If there is a gap between "the institution" and "the instructors", that is a problem large enough to overwhelm any problems that may exist in standardized testing.

The motive of an instructor is presumably to ensure that, by the end of a course, every student will be adequately prepared to meet a minimum standard of knowledge, regardless of their preparedness prior to the beginning of the course (subject to prerequisites). At a wider scope, the instructor, as a member of an instructional department, is also motivated to progress students towards possession of a total body of knowledge deemed adequate by their peers to either practice in the field, or continue on to a more intense program of academic study.

The institution is motivated to collect tuition, receive grants, accumulate prestige, and pester alumni to support goals that are not necessarily academic in nature. The only instructional goal is to produce graduates that will not embarrass the institution.

The student is motivated primarily to get a degree that is their admission ticket to a broad swath of jobs otherwise unavailable to anyone without a degree. They are motivated secondarily to actually learn about subjects that interest them personally. The student's sole reason to take SAT, ACT, AP, IB, CLEP, &cetera is because the academic institutions reward those passing test scores.

The principle in play is that it should not be necessary to instruct any person that already has the knowledge. If the standardized tests are insufficient to establish that, the instructors should then be applying the same methods they use on students that have taken their courses, on prospective students that have not, and only recommend taking a course that would otherwise not be required by the institution, when it can be shown that the standardized test signaled a false positive.

That is, a passing score on the test should not automatically grant credit, but should allow a brief interview with a professor that teaches the relevant course, who can then determine by any means they care to use whether or not the student already possesses the knowledge to pass. If too many false positives are found, the institution can then revise its treatment of the test scores.
I did't mean Iran is a worst regime ever. I was only objecting to claiming it being 'roughly the same' as Netherlands in 1980s based on one trait, that is women's rights.

Considering Stalin's regime it was quite progressive wrt gender equality for it's time: women had equal rights to vote (even if voting was meaningless), could study at universities and work almost any job they wanted. Still, it was a brutal totalitarian dictatorship, and if I was a woman, I would probably prefer living in some less equal Western country at the time.
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Absolutely. I agree with you. The only way to do thing in a good maner is to stop using plastics. We have the technology and the talent enough for find an alternative for every single use.
I was listening to a recent interview with Snowden (on NPR I believe) where he did that quite a lot.
Rust is lower-level, it is a replacement for C and C++. I'd love to work with Rust but there are only so much low-level projects where it makes sense - kernels, Web engines, things like HTTP servers. Go covers those cases where you would like to use Python but it would be too slow.
I'm genuinely impressed with the public's judgment on this; Uber's stock is generally falling, and Slack is settling into the same trajectory.
“This idea that you can buy your way to a monopoly, get large market share like Amazon and Google,then figure out how to profit from your position in the market”

This idea doesn’t seem to go away. In the 90s it was the same. Whoever would sell dog food on the internet first would own the market and keep it forever. Reality turned out differently.
Leave those peaceful furry creatures alone, please.
Have very close friends in Taiwan and among majority (especially the middle aged and older generation) its an accepted fact that the chance Taiwan had to declare itself sovereign state, independent of China has already passed. Most are hoping to keep the status quo and enjoy the existing political freedom, instead of endless fights and economic ruin.

It was Chiang Kai-Shek's decision for Taiwan to quit United Nations in 1971 due to insistence on "One China policy" [1][2]. Today China demands the acceptance of same One China policy for which Chiang Kai-Shek fought.

In my view Taiwan can keep its political structure along with its economic ties with China, it doesn't need to change. But its not in the interest of many nations. If Taiwan becomes a separate entity the situation will be worse like it's happening between India and Pakistan where both countries are suffering due to enmity although both were one country for thousands of years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembl...

[2] http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/10/...
Just finished the "four steps to epiphany". A must read for any startup founder. 10/10

Currently reading "never split the difference".
What about replying with a link to this article :- )
Yes, removing Internet access is always an option (although eventually we might have to physically disconnect wifi antennas or use a Faraday cage...).

I was responding to a comment that was talking about creating Free Software to communicate with the device, specifically the idea of proxying access to the corporate server and modifying the communication, rather than implementing the whole protocol from scratch.

I'd guess the Fitbit protocol is encrypted, from a desire to keep people from cheating their activity reports. If a company wants to spend the development time, there is basically nothing that can be done to prevent a device requiring Internet access on a dumb-pipe all-or-nothing basis.
You might want to look at Kotlin, though the mutability options aren’t as good as Rust’s.