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A $1000 dollar computer might not be a status symbol in the western world, but a $1000 phone in your pocket, for many consumers, is. Apple's marketing and use by social media influencers has turned their brand into a status symbol. Apple isn't the most valuable brand because there tech is better, but because they have marketed themselves as a lifestyle company that makes life easier and more elegant than the competition.
Thanks for providing an overview.
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There is nothing wrong per se with SPIR-V to provide anything much better. What you said has indeed nothing to do with the intermediate language itself.
> They are not superior headphones, they excel because they are small.

They are superior headphones because they are small. Being small is part of their qualities as headphones, not apart from them.
Thanks for writing this, it’s a great end of the year reminder. Enjoyed your focus on sensations! I did a 10 day silent Vipassna retreat and the importance of sensations was such a revealing insight they drilled down on.
I like to watch F1, but also find it easy to fall asleep to. The sound of droning engines...
Despite both having the word block and chain, they aren’t really related. CBC mode is not even requisite to implement a block chain.
They are practical for some people.

1) first gen have no noise isolation/cancellation, which means I can't use them in noisy environments.

2) I have children. They will be eaten, played with and generally put places I am not party to.

3) pros have noise cancelling, which is ok but they don't work in places where peak noise is 75 db+ (ie loud train/car), The noise isolation is uncomfortable to get a good seal, though its less for some people.

But again, you are missing the broad thrust, they are headphones, not a platform.
This is timely, since I’m currently fiddling with an RGBW LED strip and having trouble mapping HomeKit’s HSL values.
I've noticed issues too when in a crowd, presumably because so many other bluetooth devices are within close proximity.
Insofar as I've understood, buying products that are sold and shipped by Amazon doesn't protect you anymore because inventories are no longer segregated.
You can re-activate the fabric by washing it with a special spray that you spray on and tumble dry it with.
That's an ingenious solution. Whoever thought of that was very, very smart, forward looking and insightful. We need to bring that into illumos, the runtime linker in illumos already has capability to do all sorts of things before the excutable even starts, so it would be the perfect place to plug into. It can easily be made optional, so programs which do not generate this declarative part will continue to function unmodified and nothing will be broken.

Just to set the record straight though, while the options in UNIX programs are very different from program to program, good UNIX programmers know to use getopt(3C) libc function and not invent their own custom parser. All programs which use getopt(3C) have a uniform, consistent option parser and command line behavior. https://illumos.org/man/3c/getopt
"Our European visitors are important to us.

This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws."

-> Well, not that important that you can just stop the tracking for a second for us apparently :S.
Then I don’t care about their content.
Oh indeed, they are good wireless headphones and for some people they are utter magic (I mean they are uber small, its fantastic how small they are)

but they are not a platform.
What games do you recommend?
No.

Ads have destroyed the web. I have no desire to support this broken system.
> they are the king of turning decent quality, well-packaged and integrated hardware into commodities

...but that sounds good to me? Was that supposed to be a negative point why to not buy their products?
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you have to forgive at least one breathlessly uncritical reference, otherwise it wouldn't be tech commentary....
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The biggest difference is that your wool sweater will keep you somewhat warm even if you're completely soaked. It's also has some nice fire resistant properties, but this might not be so useful for most people.
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Small bootstrappes company working on SaaS. Im the lead and has 2 programmers on the team, so Im the one usually on call, 24/7.
I‘ve heard reports [0] that Polartec NeoShell is not very durable. After a few months of light usage, apparently the fabric develops cracks at the shoulders and wrists.

[0] https://www.bergfreunde.de/basislager/polartec-neoshell-das-...
> move on to higher order stuff.

I was with you until here. I think many people don’t end up doing “higher order” stuff with the extra bit of time they have driving. Maybe once self driving is here, but it’s not.

I drive without GPS on long road trips and the cognitive load required is minimal so it’s not like it’s blocking me from thinking.
As someone who has written in every shader dialect and also dealt with bytecode for all the major consoles, I think SPIR-V is really awesome tbh...

The thing is, a text format is the worst format for interoperability between consoles, desktop and web. Having something like SPIR-V is more akin to LLVM for programming languages. LLVM doesn't preclude the existence of C, C++, etc, but it strictly benefits the ecosystem (which now includes Rust, Haskell, etc). In the same way, I see SPIR-V having the same potential as the interchange format for all the major IHVs.
My sister has 18 year old twins. They got MacBook Pros as graduation presents. They both got ones with 128GB drives which has turned into massive frustration. But we will ignore that for now.

But they both used Chrome. Today I switched them over to Firefox with uBlock Origin. And with some wankery you can make firefox look like a reasonable Macintosh application.

https://i.imgur.com/VaMnux3.png

But so far so good. And, as I have commented in the past about the pihole and when people leave the wifi at home they worried their phones were compromised because ad people have lost their fucking minds.

So now the twins can can have a reasonable internet on their computers.
if one hits a paywall, they must necessarily have cared about their content
Commodore didn't ship an Amiga with an MMU until the 2500/20 in 1988.
> Anything you can do with PostMan your backend should handle

Can someone expand on this and explain this? I'm just starting to build my first API, and it's not clear.
To write such criticism, you have to mention if you have your own experience of using this product.

"AirPods is a Platform" in that article is a bullshit, here I agree - while there's no apps running on the device, it's not a platform.

But their quality is not "substandard", far from it. And they have a lot of features, not just noice cancellation. There are reasons to love them and you didn't even try to find full description of their features before complaining.
I want an explanation what "when using" means exactly.
We bought a PlayStation 3 controller on Amazon many years back. It was a pretty good fake, the buttons felt slightly different, but we thought it is just a different production run. After six months or so, Sony disabled this range of counterfeits (IIRC because the built-in battery was a fire hazard). So, we had a useless controller.

Luckily, we got a refund.
I'm surprised when I hear that big CEOs have success coaches.
How can people who became successful through the manipulation and exploitation of humans understand the dark side of human nature so poorly that they don't see these coaches for what they are?
So the adult argument has fell through. Now it's about being a customer.

Service providers can fire customers. If you pay for membership of a club but never attend functions, the club will end your membership.

If the service aims to provide a community or is invested in the success of its customers then it should fire customers who are not invested in their own success.

Not to mention how many students are not customers. They are sponsored by parents and scholarships and heavily subsidized. All these stakeholders have a vested interest in academic success. Tracking attendance is better for all of them.
I absolutely love the AirPods because,

1. Because I hate wires, absolutely detest working with them.

2. The listening experience of AirPods is great. The noise cancellation opt-in mode is sufficiently great. I sit in a bus, turn cancellation on and boom people are just moving their lips.. There is a little bit noise I can happily ignore.

3. They fit in my ears very well. I have tried a lot of variations of headphones over the decade and the AirPods fit more than good enough (surprisingly).

4. I love the case it comes with, easy to transport.

5. Charging levels are great for my need, 5-8 hours listening to podcasts, some music and playing games.
Did you read the AirPods Pro features set?
One use is when you have to verify your phone number for something like WhatsApp, they send you a text and Google Play will detect receiving it and skip the step where you enter the code in the app.

So it's a very minor inconvenience that you now have to type a few digits from an SMS instead of that happening automatically.
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> there's insane variance between what's "advertised" and what you actually get

And a good reason for not trusting street drugs.

If you must do a hallucinogen, mushrooms are an option and you can pick them right out of the ground in certain places.
Funnily enough, I was just thinking exactly that - and wondering just how much tracking that site does that it's not straightforward for them to stop doing it (and/or deal with data they had previously collected).

Or is it just a knee-jerk reaction to GDPR that some non-EU companies have adopted and has now stuck?
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It's quite amazing how the only physical copy of the game ended up copied on archive.org.
On the other side: my son is a high school student and they have a rule to remove the headphone(s) if they are talking, talking in headphones is a bad manners for them.
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Put another way, do you really feel there is nothing you could learn from someone who grew a SaaS business to 20M ARR?
I had the pleasure of working with a brilliant owner of this media company, and what he did was this : he only gave me one task to focus on. Even if I asked if anything more was coming up I was told not to worry about it. He made sure everything worked out right, so truly a manager / leader in spirit.
The great thing was it created a peaceful atmosphere in the company. Focus is great, and fully agree with the article.
They don't silo them at all. The whole pitch of their Google Marketing Platform and DoubleClick DV360 products to entreprise clients is that all data is in one set and they can target consumers everywhere.
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Thanks for updating the website Leo and yes you should be ashamed of yourself.

Ill tell a funny because I cant help myself. My (I would say fruitless if I didn't have so much fun) conversations with money-men always end up in the same pattern. First I explain that if they were entrepreneurs they wouldn't be investing in anyone else. They are going to be wrong as a rule when judging one. Then when I have them unbag the emotional state of "wwwhat???" I explain they are just in the game for the game, they try to make more coins from the many coins they already have because that is all they know about life. I want investing in my business to be as fun for them as retirement since that is what I'm really competing with. Fun as in building a better world with happy people, healthy food, a nice green environment and the crazy profits + world domination as a close second. After this they explain they are not looking to have fun, they just want more money then roll their eyes. (One said my plan was so much fun he'd be dead in 2 years.) I change the topic to some horrible things going on in the world and joke how people only care about money. We could design a better land mine or beam advertisements into peoples heads! Imagine the money to be made! If you are hungry the free market waves a sandwich in front of your nose and goes "I have a sandwich! na na naa na!"
What kind of confusing marketing? Clocks are decorative products, having several different designs with same mechanism isn't just logical but also market working as it should. This way you can choose the clock that fits your preference and fits into your living space.

I don't quite understand this rant - it's like complaining there's toomany different paintings to choose to put on the wall.
I’m standing at a bus stop right now, not bothering to fiddle with wires in the cold. So I’m not listening to podcasts when I normally would. I will get wireless headphones when my current set breaks down. I surely won’t notice bitrate difference on the bus anyway.

So I don’t know about the platform thing, but wireless wins in the end, always. Because bitrate is just one detail that isn’t so important anyway.

For similar reasons, I listen to a lot of music on my Sonos, even if it has poorer sound quality than my stereo. It’s just so convenient.
Wealth lasts three generations. The failure of the last generation, which is entirely disconnected from its original creation, is what causes the success to end.
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> What on earth do you value in a $160 pair of earphones then?

Well, all the things I just listed.

It may be true that I could get 90% of the functionality of AirPods for half the price, but that would mean researching what to buy, dealing with incompatibilities, and losing 10% of the features AirPods offer. But I loathe researching what to buy and dealing with wonky hardware. I'm fine with paying a bit of money to avoid these hassles.

So while $160 is not "cheap" I felt confident that a) I'd get something I liked, b) that they'd work well, c) that I was okay with spending $160 on them. Would I spend $320? No. But I'm happy with what I got and what I paid. You or anyone else might not be, and that's totally fine as well.
Based on my PNW experience having a hard shell is rarely worth it, unless you are static. Otherwise softshell jackets is the way to go, much more breathable and fast drying.
I second this. Just about any subject matter is interesting if presented by someone who cares deeply about it.

That being said, I believe it is fair to say that I had a better experience than wife+kids at two of my favourite niche museums - the Grimeton spark gap transmitter in South Sweden and, all-time favourite - the museum of submarine cable in Porthcurno, Cornwall, UK.

Everybody loved the Ramones museum in Berlin-Kreuzberg, though.
Ask HN: Career After Software Engineering
I've been a software engineer for the last 8-10 years having been through one incubator and worked on multiple projects from prototype to hiring and raising. I've become tired of writing websites with backends and need a new challenge. I also find the process of writing software less appealing as I get older. I have a technical educational background in science and sometimes feel I should find a more technical software role. I'm in my early 30's and feel now is the right time to make this change. I'm curious if anyone has had similar thoughts of making a switch or have made a switch and can provide an example.
Whoa. What a cool idea. For some reason i just think i need to maximize what i see and shoot for the biggest museum i can find. There are at least 25 smaller museums within 30 minutes of where i am. I’m stoked!
I work in the tourism industry and I think you are onto something here.
Disagree. I love listening to audiobooks and podcasts while driving, and I love being able to just follow the GPS directions on auto pilot, trusting it will do a decent job, and warn be me when the appropriate turn approaches.

When navigating sans GPS I spend much more time rehearsing routes and turns in my head, which means I have to pause or rewind my audiobook.
It’s super easy to favour people who have a github profile with a bunch of projects in it, but that biases you towards a certain style of candidates — é.g. It’s definitely easier for single, childless candidates to devote their time to a side project than for somebody who has a family.
Hopefully, RFCs forced for a relatively long time the 'Open' nature of the Internet.

The low level protocols were saved from being proprietary. But companies moved the game to another space and things will only go worse with the globalization of the SaaS model.
http://www.pgbovine.net/python-tutor-ten-years.htm seems dead already, in fact.
does that apply to billionaires and the ultra rich?
I don't think so. The funny thing is that most people who grew companies to such level of success did so without a coach, but now that the hard part is decidedly over, a coach has become indispensable.
I appreciated the Hinton's advice that basically said 'follow your intuition because if its bad you're screwed anyway'
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But that’s the thing. A lot of people are willing to compromise just for the wirelessness.

People apart from tech-people or audiophiles don’t really care about the points you listed or if they do, the convenience that comes from the wirelessness is more important.
How meta were those tasks?

This sounds really interesting but I have a hard time imagining the structure of command/task organization. Can you elaborate?
The fact that it isn't simple doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. How much of that strengthening occurs, does it occur in the same areas as the potential damage, and can it outpace the damage and if so, for how many people? The body may be fascinating, but it sin't miraculous.
>Do you like watching normie stuff?

I don't watch popular youtubers, I don't listen to (currently) popular music, I don't watch the television, I don't watch sports. I even get make-up tutorials, and I'm a male! That's all the front page of youtube has to offer to me: things that I'm unlikely to ever click on.

>I feel like without a recommendation algorithm the site would be largely useless?

That's because for you and many other people youtube is an activity, like turning on the telly. You open youtube and you expect to be entertained, and that's what the recommendation algorithm is for. For me, youtube is a tool: I open it, search for something, watch it, then close it.
> Wait a second. I was in a business relationship with Google.

> It may sound strange that it took me two and a half years to realize it,
but Google does a good job of building a sense of community within the
organization. To make us feel that we’re not just employees, but that we
are Google.

> That conversation made me realize that I’m not Google. I provide
a service to Google in exchange for money.

People, and especially young people, should think about this more. It's
called “labour market”, not “labour community”. A company as a whole
is a faceless, consciousness-less creature that will eat you alive if
that increases the right metrics. And it's definitely not a loving
parent-figure that some of the HR people want you to think it is.

Also, this needs a (2018).
Being wireless counts for so much for me. For myself and many other people, the experience of wireless headphones is hands-down superior to wired headphones. I would never go back to wired ones.

Wires are a pain. They get tangled, they mean your phone and headphones need to always be close (which adds a certain amount of friction, once you get used to the alternative), but most importantly (for me) they get caught on things all the time.
I wish I could find videos of people actually writing complex functional programming code. These talks seem to just reiterate the same things and all example code is too simple for me to be able to visualize using it in our code base to the extreme that they are talking about
In a formal paper, the author is likely correct but the term almost certainly back much further colloquially.

Fun to see a post on HN from UNI, my alma mater. I attended a few schools and it was by far my favorite! Ranked second[0] in the best public non-research universities in the midwest too.

[0]https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/regional-unive...
Wow! Amazon and Walmart have captured 80% of online retail sales in India.

Modern colonialism.
Goodness, you can count on the weirdiest analogies on social media when it comes to china. But I guess it's par for the course in any trade war.

What china did was nothing special. It wasn't revolutionary. It was what every industrial power today did - from the US in the 1800s to germany and japan and the asian tigers like south korea and taiwan did. Protectionism + foreign investment + manufacturing.

The united states created the blueprint for success in the 1800s. All the smart nations have copied it and gotten successful.

One of the first things the US did was to place tariffs to protect local industry. And for 100 years, protectionism was how the US rose from a relatively insignificant nation to the largest economy in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism_in_the_United_St...

Without the tariffs and protectionism, the US industries would have been owned by britain, france, etc. Or maybe it was like a boa constrictor. I don't know.
I didn't know it existed and it looks fun and zen, too bad I live in an appartment.
As the other commenter pointed out, those are just the standard policies provided by Django ;)
Sell it on eBay as a merchant, or in a physical store.?
The inner padding around the collar just desintegrated after a few weeks and looks like a white plastic band. The outer shell absorbs moisture and is far from the water repellent/absorver it's advertized

It could be fake. North Face is one of the most problematic brands for it. Rumour has it the fakes are made in the same factory on the same production lines, just of low quality materials. Never buy North Face online, from a market stall, or wherever.
Interesting - if you search for "Louis Vuitton" on Amazon, a lot of stuff which is superficially similar appears.

Has there been any ruling on the applicability of trademark law to situations like this?
That comes across quite snobbishly to be honest. People pay several thousands for jewelry or watches as they expect them to last many years or decades.

$200 dollars is a lot of money for a device that in most cases will last a year or two and there are plenty of alternatives that do the same for a fifth of the price. Especially in the context of teenagers using them as a status symbol.
Which brands do you rate? I've had a Karrimor eVENT jacket for 4 years, and despite regular Nikwax tech washes is now letting water through between the shoulders - and I'm not a frequent pack wearer, so it hasn't abraded.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191226100007/https://www.wpri....
Large university, team of 8. All out-of-hours work is on a “best effort” basis only, i.e. I’ll do what I can (which may be nothing) if emailed.
For version control? Use version control.
Web Archive link for EU citizens (the site blocks access from EU to avoid having to comply with data protection laws):

https://web.archive.org/web/20191226100007/https://www.wpri....
This had me thinking - are we looking for objects in space that should not be spinning, but are spinning?

This'd at lest let us know there is life out there with the same problem, right?

I really wonder if that's part of the checklist for 'an odd object in space which we should investigate further' ..
So we put a big blob of water in space, surround it with materials to prevent its sublimation, then inside it build a ring that spins .. hmm ..