skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely the Sony's, by far.
For example restaurants and cafes and gyms
I'm very sorry for your loss. The audience for my gardening reminders email subscription includes a lot of older people. I have received a number of requests to end subscriptions on the death of a spouse. I handle as I hope they wish - immediately and with a brief note of acknowledgement.
As a researcher in acoustics (another field though) this post illustrates beautifully the difficulties of the field: how each of us feels different about sound (psychoacoustics), how even minute mechanical details have a noticeable impact on acoustic performance...

FWIW I can confirm that this post shows great expertise in acoustic engineering, from the focus on the customer interviews/fieldwork (it is still very difficult to predict through synthetic tests in the lab how actual human will rate sounds) to the paired acoustic tests (we suck at comparing more than two sounds, we need pairing like in the ophthalmologist), the use of a critical listener, etc.
> thin-margin Mom & Pop, or medium sized private enterprise that had 1 week of cash on hand and ceased operations overnight.

It would be foolish of them to fold instead of getting loans. And it would be foolish of a bank to deny a good business a loan to get through the next couple years. I think much of the moaning about closing up is to encourage low-cost loans. Which is fair, because the government should be subsidizing such loans to lower the bar for a "good" business.
>"By our very nature, we need months of runway just to keep >running. We're designed to weather this kind of storm >because "zero revenue" is the default state."

No you are not designed to weather this cataclysm. Especially a start up. This is the great cleanse. 2008-2020. We had a good run!
TimescaleDB mostly does exactly that: Recent data/partitions are maintained in row-based form, and after they reach some age, they are converted into more columnar compressed form.
you're missing the point.

According to the rules above you're not allow to use their browser engine to build a browser. Every piece of software that run in your WebView has to be supplied by Apple licensed developers. So a browser would be banned because the websites visited are not by apple licensed developers.
While this is great news for my QC 35's, the newer Bose 700's have me extremely worried for the future of their devices.

Anyone who puts non-tactile touch controls on _headphones_ shouldn't be allowed to design electronics interfaces ever again.

The QC35 had it right with physical controls.
They are showing so much respect and care for their customers that is almost unbelievable.

Kudos to their will to analyze and also document about a single problem so thoroughly.

I never bought a Bose product before, but reading this honestly makes me think about it...

If any company would cost a premium for being as careful as they are, I would definitely pay for it.
My condolences for your loss.

For the two specific cases you experienced, it seems like the auto-miscommunication could’ve been prevented if the customer service person had an option to disable auto-follow-up messages. Which is a feature you think they’d have for a much more common situation: angry customers.
I’ve got an esports side project that was starting to get some interest within the community and generate non-trivial MRR (~4k mo). I have a closed alpha that a few teams in the league were using, and I was talking at some level to basically everyone that could be in the market for the current version of the problem. I was looking into getting a business/sales partner in order to have more success on the business side of getting the other organizations I was in talks with, as I am normally just a lead dev with no business interaction. Then the league, along with everything else, got delayed and quarantines started. Within 3ish days all of the professional teams, academy teams and two other organizations are interested in my “alpha” software. So now my “side project” as of April 1st has ~10x’d its MRR (~40k).

As of now I am getting some business stuff ironed out and only making bug fixes/small updates while I get a better feeling of what type of workload difference the growth is making
People running this new “PALM” company probably never even had experiences with Palm products
Please read the rules above.

It doesn't matter that Firefox and Chrome use Safari internally. The rules above say all code run in that internal Safari must be written by Apple licensed developers.
> ..."The right side stopped working in April 2018. I got them replaced and the operator gave me "one time only exception" to the replacement fee"...

So, for folks suggesting Apple et al follow Bose's lead, it's clear they all follow the same play book i.e. a design flaw isn't their problem the moment the warranty is up.

I'm someone who will escalate and put in the effort to be righted when a company does wrong, but it would sure be nice if companies didn't outright lie, coverup or have hidden warranties/"you're an exception" when they screw up!
Why would you assume we didn't notice it?
Note that integration is in the QC 35 Series II - they aren't present in the original QC 35. They of course don't sell those new anymore, but you may be able to find them on Amazon on eBay. I had both the 25 and 35, and consider the 35 a great upgrade.
So does that mean retail stores that take more than a 30% cut are also committing fraud?
Live in San Francisco for 3 years now. Haven't seen a single needle yet or "human filth". AMA.
I went through this for a relative recently. It blew my mind that many very large companies seemed surprised and unprepared when I called them to say my relative was deceased and to close accounts, like this never happens and they didn’t know what to do.
Yeh but the other case is everyone doesn't go to work. everyone goes for unemployment. The world drops in a depression and we starve.
Unfortunately, some bash completion scripts will expand $k to \$k…
I haven't been able to find hospitalization numbers. And this seems flat incompatible with the idea that asymptomatic is the norm. Which, I grant is the new narrative, not the old.

I have found reliable death numbers. Well, posted death numbers. Quite easy to find that. I haven't even seen any posted recovery time numbers. Just recovered. Do, not sure what to make of that.

I assume you could proxy "serious/critical" with "needs hospitalization". But, that number seems to be all over the place. From 4% to 10%. Still below 20%. So, where are you getting 20%?
> In all societies in which there is a power vacuum gangs take over.

Not all. Read some anthropology and you'll find interesting examples of large non-hierarchical societies.
They are pretty amazing. I got a pair from the Amazon re:mars conference. I would have never spent that amount of money on headphones, must have for travels. So good
This. Being plain text is so important.

I don't use org mode because I don't use emacs, but I really like the concept of organizing your notes and knowledge in plain text, so much that I want to make my own thing. It's in private beta right now [1], and I've been dogfooding it for the past two months and really enjoying it.

I especially wanted to have a graph overview of all the links between the notes. It's also super nice to be able to embed local copies of PDFs, images, and voice notes, so I know as long as I back up my hard drive, I'll never lose them.

[1]: https://obsidian.md/
This is terrible. Sorry for your loss.

With a wave of deaths coming from COVID.. this is going to be a big issue in the coming days/weeks.
By that logic, no app could show a website anywhere. Clearly, Apple doesn't consider websites to be "code" in the sense of that section.
I'm not sure I buy this. 80-90% revenue declines across many industries is unprecedented. Especially in cases where poor operations didn't impact the business. Businesses like Hilton or Disney that have operated for 100 years may go bankrupt (not out of business) before this is all over.
If you have a problem with showing your CV why not just censor it? Or some other generated examples?
you can control the QC35 ANC with the app. The QC35 II's allow you to do it with a button on the headphones.

I turn it off sometimes as it can be disorienting to me at times.

https://www.bose.com/en_us/support/article/set-the-action-bu...
I have studio cans for music, but these are my dailies. They're so convenient for taking calls and make open offices much more bearable.
A Shot at the Theory of Everything: Geometric Unity – Eric Weinstein
Artificial intelligence is quietly disrupting the fragrance development process
Venezuela has damaged its own economy, and poor countries in Latin America are usually poor from under-development, not from external suppression of existing industry.

Venezuela was a prosperous and stable country in the mid- to late- 20th century. Declining oil revenues, authoritarian dictatorship, cronyism in PDVSA, expropriation of private assets, unfettered corruption, and narco-capitalism have brought the country to where it is today. Sanctions are a response to the festering illness that has infected the Venezuelan government -- they are not the cause.

Nicaragua is an extremely poor country run by paranoid anti-American leadership that openly welcomes relationships with Russia and China, but Russia is not exactly an economic powerhouse, and China only seeks natural resources and the creation of a second canal via the destruction of Lake Managua (environment be damned).

Cuba is so destitute that its government has had to forbid its citizens from boarding boats.

(Have you ever been to Uruguay? Have you ever had a conversation with a Uruguayan person?)

It is impossible to understand Latin America without considering the effect of American imperialism. But it is also impossible to understand Latin America without considering the effect of American investment. Additionally, it is impossible to understand the mid-20th-century dictatorships that dominated the region without considering them against the backdrop of a Soviet (and then Russian) effort to challenge the interests of the US in its own hemisphere.

So, when you insinuate that the US is the cause of all poverty in Latin America, it demonstrates a one-dimensional interpretation that could never capture the complexity of the full picture.

There are immigrants from all over Latin America living in the United States, from the richest country to the poorest. They want to come to the US because of its economic opportunity, physical security, and greater freedom. I don't understand your point about Uruguay.
I disagree. The great customer support is just PR and an image they managed to create. When it comes down to costing them money to do the right thing, they don't.

The headphones won't turn off, but Bose refuses to make it right for the users:

https://community.bose.com/t5/Around-On-Ear-Headphones/QC-35...

Note, the "solution" is buy new headphones if yours are our out of warranty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bugTnRbnhQ&feature=youtu.be

Edit: Wow, downvoted to -1 :/
meant disease; point stands: IN 2002 the virus was named SARS-CoV and the disease SARS
That's cute. China would not allow NK to become a friend of the US. There are so many ways to shut that down.
I have the 700s, the important controls are buttons. The capacitive interface is for mute, vol up/down, and next song, it’s not my first choice but really it works fine.

This is a non-issue.

Edit: lol; my opinions from months of first hand everyday use are wrong, and should be echo chamber hidden by people who have never used the product.
Governors are just locking people in their homes and shuffling off blame. None of them think probabilistically or listen to anyone that does.

We are looking at an economic collapse that rivals late 80's Japan. People are viewing the "economy" as money. They need to rethink their smugness. Japanese salarymen work harder and longer hours than any American yet their salaries and purchasing power are half that of equivalent positions in America. The Nikkei has still not recovered from the crash 30 years ago.

That is our future if we just keep staying locked in houses. Also this "remote work" revolution people are cheering on should be rethought pretty damn fast. If this truly is the new normal, people are not going to hire Americans for $25/hr with benefits if we never meet them. Managers will just hire Indonesians for $4/hr since it's all the same to them.

At some point we need to let businesses reopen and ues temperature tracking + mandatory face occlusion. This isn't perfect, or even that good, but widespread testing won't happen anytime soon (it's not cheap and our government agencies are completely incompetent at large project design), so we just need to accept some risk.

But since no one thinks in a probabilistic way - since we are afraid to - it's gonna be shelter in place for a few months while the governors just cover their asses instead of actually searching for an 80% good solution, and blame Trump for not figuring it out either.

There is no leadership in our government, you are right. State, federal, local. Embarrassing.
It really is remarkable that Python's numerical computing libraries have such poor performance. When doing chains of elementwise operations on large arrays (such as toy example `elementwise cos(sqrt(sin(pow(array, 2))))`), Julia appears to outperform Python by a factor 2! Numpy cannot avoid computing each intermediate array, which means it has to allocate a ton of wasteful memory. Meanwhile Julia does the smart thing and coalesces all operations into one and applies that single operation elementwise, allocating only a single new array.

Pandas does not also defer computations, which means computing Boolean functions that include the same data multiple times must make multiple passes over said data. Absurd.
There are pre-Seed focused VCs that do these kind of deals, like Precursor.
armenarmen said that happens in tribal life; but not that it was unique/specific to tribal life.
As someone who works with a lot of state IT people, if they don't know how to hire programmers, they probably don't know how to manage programmers. In a bureaucracy, if the administrators are making these kinds of unrealistic hiring demands in a crisis, it probably means that the administrators outrank all programmers and don't trust them to make their own decisions. This is not an environment to work in.
Huh.

I see that some artificial vanillin is made from lignin, but I don't know whether natural wood decomposition creates vanillin. Do you have a reference for that?
Put it on your tractor. Then simply remove it when you need to exercise.
The fact that they reintroduced the ability to downgrade the firmware is very refreshing. Hope more companies will follow suit.
What lunges infected with Covid-19 look like
>The capacitive interface is for mute, vol up/down, and next song

As a user of bluetooth headphones I am really struggling to think of a button not on that list that is important. The only thing that's really coming to mind is pause but maybe that's what you mean by mute?

Those are literally the most essential buttons and by definition you are mostly going to be touching them when the headphones are on your head where you can't physically see the buttons. This is not a great experience.
Relevant XKCD [0]

[0] https://xkcd.com/1217/
Do you have an opinion on julia?
I owned Sonys. The make or break feature to me is the noise canceling, and the Bose 700 just murdered them, it wasn’t even a fair fight. I had a screaming baby in my arms with a tiny bit of music and could only feel the vibration of baby’s screams. The 700s are hands down industry best. I tried them all.
This is also the perfect time for jurisdictions to tighten up their regulations that pertain to Airbnb.
Research by Chinese team finds 70% full can delay aging
Most of my transactions are relatively long-running (minutes) and mostly idle, so the db can handle the transaction load.

There honestly doesn't seem to be a good solution to this problem. I have reorganized my app a bit to try to keep the transactions shorter (mostly checkpointing) but it's using architecture to solve a fundamentally technical problem. I wouldn't have this problem with MySQL.

Switching from processes to threads (or some other abstraction) per connection isn't likely to show up in Postgres anytime soon, so I guess I'm willing to live with this... but I'm not going to pretend that Postgres is without some serious downsides.
In what natural scenario would a human be running with 80 extra pounds on their back? That seems like a great way to destroy your knees.

> Your local Army, Marines, etc will know better than me what to encourage here

Nothing about the military is designed to be long lasting. The system simply isn't worried very much about what happens to the knees and joints of its members. You can't even enlist in the army if you're 35. A friend of mine was in the army - his job was artillery. Even though his hearing was perfect before entering the army, he needs hearing aids now because artillery is loud, and the army simply doesn't care about his hearing.

This is an anecdote but I can deadlift 550 lbs, probably 600 if I was going for my 1RM, and I've never really had any joint or back pain in my life. Meanwhile, I have similarly aged coworkers who love running but can't even bend over to pick something up due to their bad back or knees.
Product management master class right there.
I’ve had nothing but positive customer experiences from Bose (5 times, from 2-3 different shops). I’ve made a note to voice this feedback the last time they served me. Now I did =)

I no longer use the earphones, but I can vouch for them.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here. Especially not name-calling ones.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This. It’s hard to understand how devastating going to zero cash flow is for most companies unless you spend a lot of time thinking about balance sheets. It’s way outside the bounds of what virtually any company plans for.
We're theoretically not able to prevent follow-ups for this exact reason. If I've just failed a customer, I just tick the box to say no follow up? Angry customers are why the feedback loop exists.

(We're technically able. We can change their contact details before the case is closed. It's a dirty little secret.)

But this is the problem. The feedback loop is usually intended to evaluate the rep. The rep should not be in charge of this. This would be an edge-case within an edge-case. If I had to suggest a solution, I'd suggest the only way to break this loop is for the rep to forward the 'case', recording and all, to their manager. But then we have to trust the manager doesn't want to fluff results either.
What are the important controls on headphones if not volume and song skipping? Those are the ones I use the most.
Maybe I’m unlucky, but even keeping my QC25s in the case when not wearing them, I had two fail due to internal hardware issues just past warranty. Support was a joke. I’d have felt like a fool the next time so I switched to Sony’s line, zero issues in the last 4 years and I’ve traveled twice as much.
Have you checked the Unihertz Atom phone?
I was fortunate enough to get an expensed pair of QC 35 I's at a previous job. This was a little over 3 years ago now. Never had any of the described issues. Even now they feel and sound great. Battery life may be starting to degrade, which is disappointing since I don't believe there's a way to replace it myself, and Bose probably doesn't offer any service to do it either.
Many ways that would cost China and NK much more than the US. That's how you play the game, make it hurt more for your opponents than yourself. Right now, even the possibility that NK could flip to the US makes China treat NK with baby gloves, and as a result they have a nuclear capable country right on their border. You think China's leaders are happy about that? It's another potential hotspot they have to worry about that could spill into China in addition to all the other hotspots they have to deal with thanks to the fact that China borders more countries than any other in the world. More stress on the Chinese government = more ways they can screw up. +1 for America.
I sort of agree with you on the idea but top flight soccer teams are a bad example. That requires fans / high population density and then investment from a group into paying and attracting players. West German is much more dense. You’d also have to look at the distribution of top flight teams when Germany was separated, which was probably still population density skewed.
Can you track which bikes move to which station?
I'd expect that there's significant spread of COVID-19 by persons who go to
a convenience store with the primary purpose of buying a lottery ticket.
Public lotteries continue to have benefits but I believe that, on balance, we need
an immediate nationwide ban on in-person purchases
of lottery tickets.
A. It already works well; it’s not important to bitch about capacitive buttons for the four motions that work. ESP when you don’t own the product and have actually used them. I don’t like capacitive buttons, but these are fine.

B. There is nothing you can’t do here with the phone itself. Volume up and down can be done without even looking at the phone. There is nothing that will stop you from enjoying the product even if you for some reason just refuse to accept the capacitive buttons aren’t trash.
I think QC 35s are better than 700s. The 700s are less portable (can’t fold and put it in my jacket) and contrary to how Bose positions it (that they’re more modern), they look more like call center headphones.
Like everyone else, I'm indoors with just my family, ordering food/groceries, wiping everything down, wearing masks/gloves if we ever have to go out, explaining to my toddler why he can't play with friends, etc, etc. For the last month, and probably the next two or three.

What else do you want from me? Do I really have to spend every moment watching the slow train wreck from every angle? COVID is covered literally everywhere, you can't not see it.

The good is just maybe not falling into total depression, alcoholism, or worse.
They're similar, but I'd say the noise cancelation is a bit better on the sonys. I also prefer the tuning on the sonys, but that's a matter of taste. (I don't own a pair of qc35, but I did swap with a friend for a plane ride). I don't know about the qc35, but on mx3s you can turn on/off the nc features, or cup your hand over the speakers to temporarily pause them. They also have a pretty good bluetooth low energy implementation which makes them last more than 14 hours, but I haven't ever let them fully run down so I don't know the true battery life.
Your Bose community link is broken. Maybe add the correct one?
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Wikipedia is governed by it’s users, so this might not apply to other businesses. However, I thought it would be worth mentioning that the community has written guidelines for memorializing deceased Wikipedians and dealing with their accounts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deceased_Wikipedians
Or they could just do online ordering and curbside pickup. Then availability is online and updated by the in store system. And social distance is ensured
Please don't post unsubstantive flamebait to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Shelter in place means shelter in place -- almost all non-essential procedures have stopped, where "essential" has varying degrees of severity depending on where they are. I personally know of cardiology, oncology, and internal medicine groups who have basically cut their businesses by 90% to keep people at home. It's not safe for their staff or for other patients to continue normal operations.
It's very easy to accidentally touch the controls on the Sony's and accidentally pause/skip your music. They were nice, but that was such a frustrating feature.