skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Important as in “can I turn them on and have them work”. Everything vital is a button, four things that can be done with the phone can be done with touch.

Have you actually had a problem with the Bose capacitive gestures? Because I haven’t.
That's kinda my point. That the IT in a major city can use a custom system but that discludes a lot of people. I would wager that most schools don't have a decent IT department. I know that when I was in high school they weren't great and I grew up in a fairly affluent area. Not everyone has the ability to "roll their own"
They released a product on Kickstarter that had various connection issues and batteries. They tried to fix it, but when it appeared mechanical instead of software, they posted a honest response, offered and encouraged everyone a full refund.
It seems on the surface like Rails in a sense, just with an IDE out of the box and... in js.

It's actually pretty nifty make me at least want to build a ToDo (or something) app with it.
Ooops sorry, fixed.
I used to have the QC25 until they disappeared from my desk at work. Got the new 700 and holly cow, those are great headphones. I don’t even use the app/any integration, just regular bt headphones and they work just great: I can have up to two devices connected simultaneously and switching from one to the other is seamless. I also really like how they work both wireless and there’s a wired option as well (they even include the cable). I’m really happy with the upgrade.
Bought my partner a pair of these (super expensive) headphones as an Xmas present and her experience is a little similar. Battery life on hers plummeted after about 18 months to the point where if they're fully charged at night, by the morning with no use they're at 20% or less.

Was super unimpressed with Bose support, both in store and online - they offered to wind back the firmware for us, or our other option was buy a new pair.

It's interesting reading about this not-turning-off bug as maybe something like that is happening which is killing the battery overnight.
Active noise canceling has no way to deal with complex high pitched noise, such as a baby crying. Maybe in the future someone will reach that point but for now it's only good for predictable, and especially low frequency, noise.
It was easy to avoid AIDS (unless you needed a blood transfusion) and, as a result, not many people in the west ever got AIDS as a result. AIDS is nothing like this pandemic, in other words.
I've built a z80 system on a breadboard. I did so because it's pretty much the last point where a regular person can understand what's happening from start to finish. Every single instruction. Eat that, "full stack". As soon as you add a GAL (that you didn't program), you've lost this, which on the home computer level, is the midpoint between 8bit and 16bit.
Keep writing! HN needs more thoughtful comments like yours.
Before people start fawning over Bose's handling of this, don't forget they're just like every other data mining company:
https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/consumer-pro...
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Mithril does use requestAnimationFrame unless you're in some version of IE. But Mithril rendering was never intended to run as the inner loop of an animation. Lifecycle hooks and CSS animations are preferable instead.

React Fiber basically breaks down large animation payloads so each "chunk" can fit within one frame budget, but at the cost of a lot of untreeshakeable internal and peripheral complexity in React core.
Nah they hold out on innovation until it's too late. They've had the NC crown for so long they fell complacent and Sony took their crown easily. Sony's XM3 is so, so far ahead. Just compare the feature sets and you'll see that Sony fits more for less (albeit the mic is had and USB c input is missing).
Can't you just set permissions to rx but no write? Use sudo to update if any changes are necessary.
That's because OP is operating under the wrong assumption that sites won't ban an ethical scraper. The reality is that they will, and much faster than an unethical one. They don't care about your science project, they want ad revenue, conversions...
Not Safari but WKWebView. Big difference.
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You reminded me to work on my Jump Bikes Siri Shortcut which uses General Bike Share Feed specification.

https://github.com/BrianHenryIE/Bikeshare-Siri-Shortcuts

I made it so I could ask "where's the nearest Jump bike?" in Sacramento. At some point the API stopped working, but, after checking today, it was just the URLs of the updated feeds had changed (the old ones still 200 with no actual data) so I think I've managed to fix it.

Unfortunately, Jump shut down in Sacramento because of Corona virus!

Overall, it only works OK. When Apple Shortcuts requests GPS location, it doesn't just return the GPS, it makes a HTTP call to get the street info, which isn't needed here and slows things down. Then the gbfs.uber.com API is very slow... as though they don't cache at all, whereas I thought they only refreshed once/minute: https://gbfs.uber.com/v1/sacb/station_information.json

https://github.com/NABSA/gbfs/pull/190
https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article241326756.html
Yes, your symptoms sound like this bug. Unfortunately it is hardware and not software.
The establishment of Cuba's health service was heavily subsidized by the Soviets, as was basically everything else in Cuba during the Cold War.

Chile has private healthcare (which does not exist in Cuba) as well as taxpayer-funded healthcare programs.

I personally believe that the human right to healthcare is a corollary of the human right to life. Still, I would rather have a surgery in Chile than in Cuba.

Chile's education system has been described as the best in Latin America. And incidentally, the country offers free college tuition to the lowest three-fifths of the income spectrum (https://www.chileatiende.gob.cl/fichas/43203-gratuidad-en-la...). So I don't know what you're talking about.

I would rather get a university degree in Chile than in Cuba.

If you want to go to Cuba for your medical care and education, be my guest. We will see who is healthier and has a more productive career.

Note also that you can't compare a dollar of debt in a productive economy to a dollar of debt in a stagnant economy.

> Nevermind the thousands of tortured, murdered and kidnapped children caused by the US baked dictatorships.

When you compare something, be careful to select the appropriate counterfactual. Arbitrary imprisonment, sham trials, forced disappearances...these are historically quite common in many nations in Latin America, and certainly not unique to US-supported regimes. Nowadays, the most illiberal governments in Latin America are usually those where people are poor and political leaders rail against the USA.
No would you go work with covid patients for 10k a week? Really the problem is the local nurses are underpaid and should seek higher pay
Do you own the 700s? Because I can tell you without a doubt there is noise canceling on the entire range, not as great as killing engine noise, but the difference between 10, 5, OFF is noticeable everywhere. In my example I had music on, but what the noise canceling does is allow for a very low volume of music vs trying to down everything out. I encourage you to try and put a newborn to sleep if you don’t think the crying can be predictable.
You may need to get more specific about your definition of "ethical".

For example, do you just mean "legal"? Or perhaps, consistent with current industry norms (which probably includes things you'd consider sleazy)? Or not doing anything that would cause offense to site owners (regardless of how unreasonable they may seem)?

I do think it's laudible that you want to do good. Just pointing out that it's not a simple thing.
Sony. Not even close.
Dang, you must live in an awfully rich neighborhood.
I bought my first pair of QC 20’s in 2015, and experienced mechanical failures over the years as you might expect. They replaced the first two pairs free. Then they let me buy the next two at cost. Considering I use them about 70 hours a week every week, I think their customer service has been absolutely fantastic. I’m waiting for their in-ear noise-cancelling wireless earpods that are due out this year. I don’t care how much they cost.
The degree of investigation is impressive and I commend Bose on this!

However, it does sound like they had a number of issues or regressions in prior versions of the firmware (eg. an update made some units connect to the wrong Bluetooth profile). I hope this demonstrates business reasons why it's important to get your product code right every release. Had they maintained a better reputation for competent product updates, it's unlikely user skepticism would have ballooned this into such a big deal.
Kind of ironic given their past "Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes..." messaging, though I'm not sure that was ever real.
At least where I am (Australia/New Zealand) I have been hearing that GP visits are way down. I think people are trying to avoid the health system as much as possible and are therefore putting off any appointments that are not critical.
FTR the show runners and the author had a lot of creative differences throughout the show (and especially in the later seasons) [1]

> "It can be... traumatic. Because sometimes their creative vision and your creative vision don't match, and you get the famous creative differences thing — that leads to a lot of conflict," he told Fast Company.

1: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10034023/george-rr-mar...
MX4’s are coming soon. Or were, before Covid-19.
Ah, I've recently discovered that the on/off switch on my QC35II is actually not a hardware off switch at all. My headphones refused to turn off once, which I believe was triggered by being connected to two devices at once, one of which was trying to use the mic.

The "solution" was to unpair everything and to make sure to only connect to one device at a time. I really wish the switch actually just disconnected the power.

Other than that they've been pretty solid so far.
Win9x didn't have the app store with a sandbox, one click to install, and auto-updates. If you installed a Python or a Java app without having the corresponding runtime, it just didn't work. If you had the runtime installed - which had to be done separately - and then later the user tried to uninstall them, they wouldn't get any warnings, but all apps relying on them would be broken. Not to mention versioning.

Think of it more as a Windows version of apt-get.
I've had that once a long time ago, now they always just text or email, I'd rather that... no matter what I'm trying to buy, I have 15 credit cards if one doesn't work a different one will.
Congrats, that's awesome. Good job and good luck seizing the opportunity!
Who owns the directory?
I’ll never get to sleep now.
> all of you who thought incompetent federal government leadership was OK in this modern world

Nobody thinks this, they just disagree with you about what constitutes competence.
I wonder who shot the footage. It seems like they asked for something, in a playful way. Both the men and women seem amused, or even flirtatious. The woman at 1:27 is clearly flirting, and the women at 3:56 and 4:06 stick their tongues out. And a few of the men are winking.
Wow, I've only had the opposite experience. Having to do a gesture twice because it missed my first attempt. I've certainly never thought it was too sensitive. I wonder if there was a firmware update which tweaked that. I only got a pair in early-mid 2019 and updated the firmware immediately.
If you don't want noise cancelling the Sonys are very comfortable, usb-c charging Bluetooth headphones with average audio quality.

You can turn noise cancelling off and there are also a number of settings for the noise cancelling.

Overall they are great and I moved to Sony from Bose. But if I didn't want noise cancelling I would probably look elsewhere for better sounding headphones.
What has your experience been with the multipoint feature of Bose QC35 IIs? I'll make do with above average noise cancellation; doesn't have to be top shelf in that aspect. I mainly want multipoint[1] and Bose I've been told does it absolutely seamlessly more so than the Jabras, Sennheisers etc.

[1]

What is Bluetooth multipoint, and why isn’t it more popular?

https://www.soundguys.com/bluetooth-multipoint-explained-286...
Wow. I bought mine back in 2009ish, they survived till around 2014 after near daily use. I wanted Bluetooth so i upgraded to the qc35 and they’re my current pair. I am super brand loyal now, but i will admit my AirPods are taking a lot of my ear time.
The alternate ending better lines up with the book.
Really interesting getting a window into the world of professional chemistry. So impactful on all of us but so much more opaque. We see CS jokes/memes all over the place, even if only those who program get them, but we never see chem jokes, or only sparingly and rarely beyond a high school level.
The MX3s are so good, and the price is low because of the upcoming MX4s, I wouldn't wait to pay more for the next generation.
I see everyone is focusing on 3rd party providers.

Here is another solution: smstools (https://packages.debian.org/buster/smstools), and a bunch of SMS modems pluggined into a USB hob. A SMS modem can send SMS in under 5 seconds. They say 200,000 a day max, so lets say you want to cope with sending 200,000 in 4 hours.

That's a little under 14 per second, so lets say 15 per second. You need 75 modems[0] to do that, or about AUD$4,000 worth of modems. Sorry for the AUD$ - I'm Australian. You will also need SIM's - or about AUD$1,500 worth. Don't worry about having 75 modems in one spot, the mobile phone network is designed to cope with a stadium of people all sending at the same time.

Perhaps you want to shard it for reliability - maybe 5 machines, so add another AUD$5000 for a NUC or similar all with a minimal Debian install + a web server or whatever for whatever delivery mechanism you are going to use to get the SMS's to the servers. That's AUD$10.5K total. Write some glue code - which is a week tops and job done.

The one question I'd be asking is how does that compare to using the cloud. Third party providers charge around AUD$0.05 per SMS. They say a minimum of 100,000 SMS's per day - or AUD$150K / month. The cost for the non cloud solution is AUD$10.5K for the first month, then $1,500 / month after that for the pre-paid SIMS.

Downsides: when it breaks (and it will), you will have to diagnose what's going on. That can be hard if the cause is a welding shop starting up next door. You are also going have to deal with the telco's screwing up their SMS infrastructure which seems to happen in Australia every 12 months or so. But you can fight that to some extent by geographically distributing your NUC's and using several different telco's servicing each NUC. That way it becomes more obvious what failed. Finally, instead of NUC's use industrial rated PC [1] to get your reliability up.

[0] https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283828240407 You need the version with an 'S' (for serial interface) suffix, although you can often just change the firmware.

[1] https://fit-iot.com/web/products/fitlet2/, industrial temperature rated. So, no stinking air conditioning required. :D
The writing is so good, I had to double check that it wasn't written by Derek Lowe.
LOL at the way process chemists were introduced
It’s been almost two decades since I took a chemistry class, looks more foreign to me than code to a non-programmer.
I managed to get a free replacement and upgrade to QC II for my out-of-warranty headphones just by asking nicely a second time after the first offer of a discount. There’s a lengthy thread on their forums posting the phone number you need to call.
Yeah it works well enough. I have an iPad and my S10 connected and it works as expected. Are you looking for any specific use cases?
I have purchased five or six different pairs of Bose noise-cancelling headphones, but I will never buy another product from them again until they allow customers to revert firmware.

I updated the firmware on my QC35s a couple of years ago, and the ANC got worse. Like, maybe 6 decibels or so worse, with strange white noise. I wrote to them explaining the problem and asked how to revert firmware, and they said it wasn't permitted and instructed me to "turn the device off and on" or something like that as a way to pretend to address the issue and make me go away.

I have only owned two products whose manufacturers refused to solve the problem when a new release of software or firmware ruined the user experience. The first was my Google Nexus 6P that boot-looped itself to death upon startup after an Android upgrade, and the second was my pair of QC35s.

Since then, I don't trust Bose's updates and refuse to update any of my other devices made by them.
I bought it used on https://swappa.com. Looks like there available on Verizon right now.

https://swappa.com/mobile/buy/palm-companion-phone/verizon
Very positive. IMHO they have the only Bluetooth implementation that doesn't suck. I had no problem with having it paired to multiple devices and switching from one to the other.
Nitpick: s/baby gloves/kid gloves/g.

The "kid" in the phrase "kid gloves" doesn't refer to children. It refers instead to leather made from kid goats. Kidskin leather is thinner and softer than other kinds of leather, and doesn't leave smudges on delicate articles. Hence the phrase "kid glove treatment", implying handling something with delicacy and tact.
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwkdGr9JYmE
I'm a programmer at a Fortune 500 company, and it's a similar situation. I feel very lucky. I do wish I had as much knowledge of our day to day financial situation as all of the startup guys on here though, just to know where things are headed.
I wish I knew the havkernews equivalent for chemistry, finance, etc. The closest thing I've found was https://www.foundmyfitness.com/news for nutrition.
Good point. And, people who care about privacy shouldn't be too excited about having built-in Siri/Google/Alexa integration either.
This sounds like an absolutely wonderful abuse of copy/paste history. A difficulty is probably how much context you lose if you just want to save a sentence for instance.
The best description I read was that is was a perfect "Human Zoo"
Another user elsewhere in this HN thread says it might be caused by an app keeping the microphone awake — that the hardware on/off switch might be software-controlled, which does somewhat make sense if you want to “shutdown” the headphones firmware and disconnect the headphones before powering down...
Bose have had a few bad software updates historically. My sound bar lost its bass in an early update which they eventually resolved, also they made some promises about airplay 2 which never happened on some devices. Privacy policy + devices phoning home is questionable.

QC35’s are a major seller for them so it’s good to see the effort going in to investigating the issue. Hopefully the effort gone in to investigating carries through to better software in general so it’s easy for them to verify what’s changed and also better release procedures again so they can reduce the post release debugging they had to do here.
> Julia appears to outperform Python by a factor 2

Now I have some more reading to do. Thanks.
I enjoyed his entire series on youtube, but I personally think it's nuts to make it on a breadboard. Whenever I've built systems of this sort I've always opted for point to point soldering.

In the videos he talks about the importance of using high quality breadboards, but even so, it's so easy to knock a wire out accidentally that leads to having to trace every connection to figure out what went wrong.

But from a pedagogical standpoint and having people follow along with a minimum set of skills, I get it.
When I read /italic/ or \italic\, I end up mentally transforming the text so that the slashes are vertical lines. When you do that with forward slashes, you get text with a negative slope (the wrong way).

Demonstration: https://codepen.io/adrusi/full/poJXRgy
The "Bay Area" is a big place. I live a similar lifestyle and I'm 45m from downtown Oakland. You could do closer if you're willing to spend more or have neighbors.
Ivermectin is an anti-helmenthic (thanks House! [0]); it removes worms and is presumably harmful to biotic material. There's no particular reason why ivermectin should be especially effective against viruses, AFAIK. WP tells me that ivermectin acts by disrupting cell permeability and the osmotic balance, and that it is neurotoxic to mammals, which sounds about right for somethihng meant to kill parasites.

I'm glad that people are doing these experiments, but without a convincing "why" or mechanism of action, it's risky to imagine that an existing pill will neatly fit into this novel virus's way of life and death. It also makes me think of things like my emergency gout medication, colchicine, which is also a cellular toxin and cannot be taken for long periods of time. (Again, thanks House!)

[0] https://house.fandom.com/wiki/97_Seconds

[0] https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Occam%27s_Razor
Singapore is using a high-tech surveillance app to track the coronavirus
The difference you're missing is we're still relying on COBOL, but we aren't relying on grandparents to make the butter and bread we eat lest we starve.
Capacitive controls have zero place on any headphones, let alone ones as expensive as these. The fact that you're willing to live with it doesn't mean it's not still a terrible design.

And I consider all of those buttons to be pretty important - I use all of them regularly, including when I'm not right next to my phone.

I just hope the 700's are an aberration, and that Bose goes back to a more practical design next time.
Having to find a magic phone number on a forum is NOT good customer service.
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I haven't specifically used the 700s but I have tried tons of different nc implementations. And by predictable, I mean "a milliwatt chip can record, analyze, and reproduce an inverted signal in real time". What sounds predictable to a human ear can be awfully complicated when you actually look at the signal on a frequency plot. Audio engineering is hard. There aren't many things that active nc can handle well without horrible distortions. I haven't heard any audio tech that has tried to deal with complex signals due to this effect, which isn't really acceptable in headphones. It turns into a weird digital sounding blips randomly interspersed, occasionally canceling things out.
>nothing inherent to being a “startup” that will make it any better at weathering the future

I can think of a few things:

a) expecting no revenue for a while anyway

b) mostly can work from home / remote

c) early startups can cut back to a few founders on ramen

None of that really applies to mom and pop restaurants / retail etc.
Florida reminding to maintain distance of one alligator between each other