skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are lucky. My wife's 65t's left earbud is dead after very light usage for a little over a year (right after the warranty expired, basically). I don't think she's used them more than maybe twice a week on average.

Seems like a common problem too and various fixes that I've read up on don't work.

She is no considering the airpods but I don't know what to tell her. Like the poster above, the price seems ridiculous to me, especially after the bad experience with the Jabras which are also expensive and supposedly high quality.
I am a happy user of their minimal Vivofit 2 watch. No heartbeat but some nice sleep metrics and the usual step metric. Most important: the battery means no USB charging for a year+; I pretty much never take it off. The occasional sync to my phone and we are good.
> hostile json format

This is new. Is "hostile" referring to a data format that has been created to be as un-portable as possible? Feels like a more accurate description would be to just saw "poorly designed format" as you cannot know their intent (unless they published their intent of course)
>Like, your whole argument is equally applicable to torpedoes, except those are even harder to hit.

Torpedos can cost a million bucks each, a stolen/commandeered/seized speedboat is free.

Torpedos are covered under ITAR and require quite a bit of sophistication to manufacture and are effectively limited to nations. Anyone can obtain a speedboat, or a dozen speedboats, and deploy them. Kinda like when the USS Cole was successfully attacked, leaving a 40x60 foot hole in the side, by a small fiberglass boat carrying several hundred pounds of explosives and modern day pirates usually use small fishing boats.
I feel pretty similarly: they're a phenomenal testament for the value of it just works. I'd been using wireless Anker ear buds for workouts for years, and while they were fine, they lost connection, were annoying to connect to my phone, required plugging in when they died, etc.

That said, I really* wish there were an option that didn't decay in battery quality so rapidly after a year.

* iPhone required
I put my airpods through the washer and dryer about 2 weeks into ownership (oops). They still work perfect to this day, almost a year later. I also run a couple miles every other day with them in, during the summer that means 90 degree weather and me drenched in sweat. Sweat is a non-issue for them.
How the IPO Market Is Being Hijacked
https://disqus.com/home/discussion/tomwoods/ep_1186_lightnin...

Youtube-dl and awk to grep out of a YouTube channel.

If I were doing it again I would use youtube-dl -o to just
print the base64, instead of "manually" renaming it to that
with ls>awk:mv>sh.
Could it?
The Sony 1000's are so much better than any of the Bose noise canceling headphones
Sophistry. "Discrimination' is well-understood to mean 'decide with bias regarding protected categories'.
Logo was my first programming experience - my older sister(who had Logo in school) introduced me to a few basic commands.

These quickly turned out to be insufficient, so I reverse-engineered the examples shipped with the platform. We didn't have internet access, so that was the only viable option.

When that turned out to be insufficient I noticed that many Logo commands were three characters long and highlighted, so I generated all the three-character combinations and checked them out one by one.

Turns out you can make games in Logo, but sounds and keyboard interactions introduce pauses in the main loop.

Eventually this new browser named Internet Explorer 6, which shipped with a language called JScript, proved to be more interesting, even though I didn't understand what a "<div>" was and how to write a for loop properly.
The Chinatown Matchmaker Whose Memory Puts Your Dating Algorithm to Shame
And this is exactly why any consumer device that relies on the cloud is a bad idea. I would never buy a Ring doorbell or Nest camera for the same reason - I'd always look for a version that can be used locally so I can host the software myself and don't need to depend on a third party that may go bust, or get aquihired and shutdown.
Cards with cash back and points charge a much higher rate to the merchant, so please don't use such cards at small businesses.
Depends on how they're set up. My Sony over-ear noise-cancelling set has ambient noise mics that assume a non-windy environment, and thus can pick up wind noise themselves. I turn the noise-cancelling off if I'm going to be somewhere windy, but I have a hunch that putting a little faux fur patch (deadcat) over the ambient noise mic port would fix this.
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The Last Answer, Short Story by Isaac Asimov
You're both right. Unfortunately.
> You fundamentally misunderstand the article you cite.

That seems entirely possible.

> As for the second article, I’ve made reference to that in my previous comment, too (that’s GC bias). And, as mentioned, this isn’t relevant here.

Can you unpack why you think this isn't relevant? The rate of change varying across regions of the genome seems highly relevant to me, even if our current knowledge of it were hypothetically confined to a specific type of change.
> And the Fitbit brand doesn't seem particularly strong right now...

It's the only wearable brand other than Apple Watch that has any traction whatsoever with consumers.
I'm jealous. I don't think your experience is typical.
NAT is not a security measure. You want a firewall regardless of whether you’re running IPv4 or IPv6
There is an object-oriented extension to Tcl which is along the lines of CLOS.

http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/whatIsXOTcl.html

Lispers need to stop thinking that they are the only ones who can do "macros" and "DSLs". The evidence is clearly on the contrarian side. You can have syntax and macros and be practical.

If the failure of Tcl has taught us anything its that performance is important.
To some extent, every currency[0] requires collective faith. Paper money backed by our bizarre Federal Reserve / QE system isn't much less absurd than anything in the crypto world, and that's money that can't be programmed.

Still, you're not wrong about the quasi-cult like behavior in the crypto culture, which is unsurprising given the financial incentives that reward irrational exuberance and unsubstantiated hype. And the experience and performance are as abysmal as you describe; it's reasonable to hope/expect those would be improved upon, but it's somewhat surprising that we're roughly at the ten-year mark and it still hasn't happened [1]. (Aside: proof-of-work is an ecological anti-pattern that needs taxed out of existence; proof-of-stake isn't perfect, but it does the job well enough without needing an insane energy overhead.)

I think there's a strong case for replacing, or at least augmenting, faith in the state (aka, violence-backed currency) with a Schelling-focus faith in Turing-complete algorithms (aka, math-backed currency). I think there's even room for banking institutions as value-adds: if you're a nerd or a tinfoil-hat type, you own your keys, but most people outsource that service (including theft protection) to the bank. But the infrastructure simply isn't there today, and the actual value provided by the crypto ecosystem is minuscule relative to its valuation. It's better treated as slow-motion gambling than anything resembling an investment. When the belief disappears, so does the value, and there are a vast number of small gods vying for our attention, most of whom won't make it.

[0] (other than commodity-backed, like Romans with salt)

[1] I'm sure someone can point out an up-and-coming counter-example; while I'd love to hear about those, the point stands, given that a seamless experience isn't normalized, and hasn't hit an inflection point of utility for consumers.
aptX HD and LDAC are good, with bitrates of 576 kbps/990 kbps. The bigger problem with sound quality is that for any given price tier, adding Bluetooth comes with a significant compromise in SQ versus offerings that are optimized for only SQ.

Bluetooth also caps out at roughly the midrange for headphones. High-end bluetooth Bluetooth headphones are technically possible, but nobody makes anything equivalent to say, the Focal Clear, but with Bluetooth.

At home I use the Sennheiser RS 185, Sennheiser's top-end RF (non-Bluetooth) wireless headphones. I love them, but realistically, the sound quality is on par with $200 wired headphones.
Anybody know how to delete your data from fitbit? Looks like I have a crappy watch now, instead of a smart device.
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Speaking from experience, they're not. Back-of-house tends to get a slightly higher wage, but end up making less than servers factoring in tips. Sometimes a lot less.
Your friend is mixing together some stuff in telephone game style.

While there were some military applications to the space shuttle, it rather emphatically was not some sort of covert space bomber. It's ability to glide and boost itself back into orbit is very limited as it can't store a ton of propellant. While gliding it needs to be in a level slightly nose up posture. How do you think it's supposed to release a bomb in that pose? It rather plainly has a thermal protection system on the bottom, and nothing usable as a bomb bay.

The whole idea is just preposterous.

The military applications of the shuttle were the ability to launch and capture satellites, as well as to potentially act as a reconnaissance platform. The X-37B largely continues those same missions.
Yeah I'm sure it's lovely with a touchpad or touchscreen! I can't say I'm a huge fan of that style even with those input devices, but I can appreciate what they're going for.

I just wish a little attention was paid when other input devices are being used.
Yeah. I agree. Normally I’d think they’d improve things but after dropcam, I’m less enthusiastic. The consolation is that they’re not going after Garmin, so there is that.
Do you have a recommendation for sleep headphones that don't hurt your ears or fall out? I'm a side sleeper, so I've always found the ear I'm sleeping on to get irritated.
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I agree. Thankfully the Bose app allows that to be turned off when it gets to be too much for me, though the office is worse without the Bose cancelling, at least it stops killing my brain.
> built-in! part of the standard library, for some reason

Well, as far as I can tell, the reason is that

> Logo's turtle interface [...] is a convenient and intuitive way to describe graphics imperatively. It's great for kids.

:)
My only problem is that I cannot export as custom element. Web component is nice but shadow dom is complicating far too much my use cases
> I definitely wouldn't say that government is always trustworthy, but having the food supply controlled by a democratically operated nonprofit entity with a clear interest in everyone's wellbeing is obviously better than having the food supply controlled by a single for-profit entity with no stake in the wellbeing of employees or customers except insomuch as it provides profit for its owners.

I don't think this argument is very convincing. For example, why limit the application of this rationale to food supply? Why trust the market (i.e., corporations) with _anything_. Is our government strictly superior to the market in all cases, or does the market have some strengths that the government lacks? If so, why are those strengths the wrong tradeoff for this case in particular but perhaps not for others? Without more nuance, this argument could support socialism (as in "the government completely owns production", not the capitalism-friendly democratic socialism).

Another issue is that we're not talking about complete ownership of the food supply, but only temporary ownership (i.e., patents have a lifetime) over individual food products that are individually subject to competition and regulation.

> While Monsanto owns the patents, they can legally wreck anyone who attempts to violate them. If the government owns the patents, "violation" doesn't exist because anyone can use them freely.

Patent enforcement is a feature, not a bug. We want people to invest in making food production more sustainable, so we need incentives. Notably, patents _do_ expire, so Monsato's (or whomever) risk is rewarded and society benefits. If the enforcement is too strict or the patents too long, we can adjust those knobs accordingly. No need smash the system because the knobs aren't tuned properly.
Was annoying Fitbit started charging for more information on sleep. Paying for details that was included, now they want you to pay a monthly fee. If it was additional details maybe, but to cripple the reports just for profit, is shady as fuck.
Working with other languages was how I realized how brilliant the combo of Maven and Java was ;-)

(PS: today Yarn and Nuget does some of this for the Node/JS/etc and .Net ecosystem but back when Maven arrived those weren't even planned.)
For runners Garmin is far more reliable and superior in every way. Fitbit is cheap. I think google wants data from more people, and Fitbit is a distressed asset, so good opportunity.
the main reason being that they just don’t seem to fit in my ears very well, needing constant readjustment

The fix for that is the PowerBeats Pro. I know, I know, another $250. But they took AirPods and put on earhooks and rubber tips. Same W1 chip, so you get the pairing/switching convenience. They sound better than AirPods, too.
Both viewpoints exist, loudly. You'll find plenty of people today that say that the Tether stuff is fine and completely ordinary, and if it hasn't popped by now it probably won't. (Hell, you could read my original comment in this thread that way.)

What changes is which side you look at. Think of it like a Rorschach test: there is no truth, but there's a smattering of contradictory evidence that can be interpreted both ways. Your brain can't deal with the contradiction, and then picks a side based on the preponderance of evidence it sees. It can flip sides if strong new evidence comes out, but in general the brain discounts evidence that contradicts its initial hypothesis and amplifies evidence that confirms it.
Why Is End-to-End Encryption So Important?
It's good practice for your math skills, too!

Cashier: "That will be $3.86"

Me: [hands over a $5 bill, a dime, and a penny]

Cashier: "..."

Cashier: "..."

Cashier: [hands back a dollar and a quarter]
You've already gotta be pretty damn rich for the most likely outcome, even as a quite comfortably retired person who's careful not to overspend, not to be "hospitals and hospice care take all my money in the last few years, and I die nearly penniless".

We're rapidly approaching a time when leaving inheritance will no longer happen at all for nearly all people who've worked their whole lives (i.e. have never been owners, "capitalists", as their primary source of income). I mean I know there's not much there already, but soon that'll just not be a thing anymore. Healthcare expenses plus the death of pensions are going to cause some serious unrest in the next decade or two, unless we course correct hard and very soon.
They don't advertise the water resistance but I run with mine drenched in sweat and have never had an issue. I also put them through the washer and dryer (not in the case) and they work fine almost a year later. I wouldn't worry about carefully drying them..
The same is true for me, however, I'm also quite productive early mornings. My "down" time is 2-10pm, so I often feel like it's a shame I have to sleep at all.
Adobe leaves 7.5M Creative Cloud accounts exposed
I'm definitely open to getting better at this so I'm glad the second model worked for you.

I have run into practical problems with ad-hoc call when working across a lot of time zones (like 10 in our company). It's hard to slot in engineering ad-hoc meetings because the slots are limited to begin with and already used up with other things like talking to customers.

We definitely try to avoid burning people's time. Slack has been helpful for intermittent communication.
> most people don't exercise effectively and are too lazy to get a trainer so a workout watch is a good way to know that they didn't really work out as hard as they thought they did.

OK, out of all the responses to my question on here, this is actually the only one that sounds like a decent argument to me.
That use case is currently comparatively vanishingly small and no where near large enough to explain Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies current values. Speculation isn't just the dominant use case. It's the overwhelmingly dominant use case.
I have a Garmin fitness watch, and I mainly use it to tell the time, daily step count, and the distance/pace/heart rate/duration during runs and bike rides. I do sync the resultant recorded activities to Strava but frankly that's not very important to me.

And this is enough to justify the device for me. It only cost $150 or so, lasts much longer than a year, and earns its keep in useful functionality.
We use DNS... Its been around about as long as IPv4
I see, thanks for the explanation, I can see how that might be useful.

Not having an iPad, I always got by with having a single set of earphones plugged in my work machine, and bluetooth ones for my phone, which I use for running.

I can imagine having many more devices and using the same set for all could be preferable.
Especially one that I'd have to install into a wall. I mean, I was always thinking that the whole "IOT lightbulbs" were at the wrong spot - that an IOT lightswitch would make more sense - you get all the lights on that circuit in one go, and you don't have the "is the light off because it's set off or is the switch off" thing.

But IOT device lifespan is way too short to be installed into a wall, even something as easy to DIY as a lightswitch.
I've also got the Jabra 65t on Android and would completely recommend. I've used some AirPods that my family owns and I find the audio quality better on the Jabras. Never used the mic on either, though.

With a Pixel 3a I also have had zero Bluetooth connection issues; I keep it paired to both my 3a and my laptop and it works flawlessly, including switching between devices as needed.
I was just expressing my own opinion about "status symbol". Why would I care about being in line with whatever "longitudinal trends" there are
Sure, but like... `package.json` as a source of truth for dependencies (package names + semver criteria to match) followed by abstracting fetch + build away through one command `yarn install`

Those two concepts will always remain the same despite the underlying workings, no?
Looks like PPA.launchpad.net got IPv6 support 3 days ago haha:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/776040
In high school, this is probably what it was. My body wanted to fall asleep well after hours due to timing but I still had to get up at 7am for school. Being shorted on sleep sucks.

My current adult strategy is to simply plan for 7.5 hours of sleep each night; this gets me well rested consistently and doesn't appear to have any negative side effects. So long as I get the sleep in at some point, it doesn't seem to matter all that much when in the day it is. I could shift to mornings (and worked retail this way for years), but it's harder to maintain; 2am just feels "normal" to me. So, given the choice, I'll start the day later and wake up rested.
'Pwnagotchi' Is the Open Source Handheld That Eats Wi-Fi Handshakes
Why? Airpods work with Android.
Congrats.

I went to their site. Too bad there is no blog or any content there beside the homepage. Hope they will create it soon.

A large portion of that $30M will go to PPC campaigns probably, instead of building a solid SEO structure that gives real value to their target audience and creates a solid brand.
I can literally buy a $30 Chinese smartwatch that does 95% of what Fitbit and their $200 devices claim. The Chinese product spies on me less, has better customer service, and isn't asking me to join their stupid service which just locked up parts of the device that used to come with it. I'm surprised that they haven't imploded already.
Surprised no one has mentioned NativeScript yet. I've used it, admittedly only for investigation purposes, but was super impressed.

https://www.nativescript.org/
> You just tell people what to do, and they will build it.

That's a pretty simplistic idea of how a manager wields influence imo.
Wow, fantastic read. The author seems to fully internalize and understand how when done well, it's not just junior engineers that grow but the senior engineers that mentor them and the organization as a whole:

"
Knowledge transfer isn’t something that just happens, it’s a skill. And like all skills you only get good at it by doing it over and over again. Consider this: in 2013 Sun Microsystems published the conclusions of a seven year study about the impact of mentorship that found that the people doing the mentoring experienced similar benefits to the junior colleagues being mentored. 25% of mentees saw a positive change in their salary growth, and so did 28% of mentors. Retention rate for the juniors rose from 49% to 72% and for the seniors it rose from 49% to 69%. When senior level people are able to grow junior colleagues, they are able to take on new responsibilities, build new skills, find new challenges without leaving the organization and ultimately everyone is better off.
So why aren’t you hiring junior engineers?"

The truth is, a lot of organizations either cannot see these decisions as long term investments (rather than liabilities), or have enough trouble hiring senior engineers in the first place that they're horrified of hiring junior engineers who will flounder without the right amount of mentorship.
I've found that Garmin has higher quality hardware than Fitbit anyway. Every Fitbit I ever had ended up being replaced multiple times under warranty because the hardware was very low quality (or badly designed) and broke.
The "HTML" parts are generally not the hard part of a browser engine, nowadays.
+1

Running an e-commerce store, would definitely pay for something that could help me track margins on my products, when I break even, etc.
How exactly would you block this behavior without getting rid of a substantial portion of web functionality, even around simple document styling?

It's not a Javascript problem. To make it impossible, we'd need to get rid of invisible spans. Text overflow can't be hidden. This means you can't display extra text to screen readers, since that's invisible text. Also, non-system fonts are right out, because they can contain invisible characters, or even be remapped so that the wrong characters display.

The 'solutions' I'm seeing proposed on this issue are hacks. If this is a real problem, the real answer is to just make the clipboard visible when you copy, preferably on an OS level (since literally every format/platform that allows bundling custom fonts is vulnerable to this, including PDFs).

Prefer security solutions that are simple and universally understandable, rather than solutions that rely on adding a bunch of code to plug part of a hole. Doing real-time analysis to figure out whether text is visible doesn't fix the whole problem, and is highly error prone.

I think Mozilla is right to reject this. If you're coming up with hacks about per-domain character recognition that will end up behind some kind of permission prompt that users will click through without reading anyway... that's a sign you haven't thought hard enough about what the problem is. When something is written to the clipboard, just bring up a notification on-screen and show the user what they copied, and give them the option to inspect/edit it in more detail. The best thing is that's an OS-level mitigation, and not another weird, buggy implementation detail that makes it harder to build or inspect a web browser.
Experience + an "older" language typically mean those types of candidates.