skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, these are definitely OnePlus Buds.

CBP image: https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/u50683/Ear%20Buds%20...

AirPods: https://www.apple.com/v/airpods/k/images/overview/airpods__d...

OnePlus Buds: https://image01.oneplus.net/ebp/202006/30/1-m00-15-97-rb8bwl...

OnePlus Buds are shaped like rods attached to muffins, while AirPods are shaped like quarter notes (on a musical staff).
> they are powered by [...] nukes [...]

Dear diary,

Today HN taught me that nuclear power comes from atomic bombs.

What a time to be alive.

codetrotter
You can add 'Show HN' to the title for more visibility on the https://news.ycombinator.com/show page
The Experian South Africa CEO has hilariously said [1]: We were not hacked, a clever criminal convinced us to give him our data

[1]: https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/364636-we-were-not-h...
That a repair of a modern device can be expensive is one thing, but here they charged more than the machines worth for the replacement part. That is just silly. The quoted labor costs were 150, which is still a lot but reasonable. But more than a few hundreds for a new screen sounds off.
These are interesting predictions.
I did a double-take based on your comment, but after looking closely at the CBP pictures, and the pictures in this review [1], I think they are likely to be OnePlus pods.

The thing that caught me (and maybe you) is that the OnePlus pods have a flat part, and the CBP pictures have no flat part. But looking at the pictures from the review, the flat part is the end of the stem, and then the bulbous round part that goes in the ear is attached to the stem, with the flat part on the other side. The CBP pictures may have the flat part facing away from the camera.

I had to look at several of the pictures in the review which showed two pods next to each other to build a mental model of their shape.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/21331910/oneplus-buds-wireless-earb...
Powered by nukes? That is not how nuclear reactors work.
> Don't tell me that Mastodon and Mastodon clones can be replacements for Twitter, Facebook, Facebook groups, Facebook events, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, etc.

Of course not. Because Mastodon is a federated microblogging service. As that it is a good alternative for Twitter. My Mastodon client has a better UX than twitter, no algorithmic feed, no ads, no trackers, no distracting recommendations, and - importantly - breathing a friendly, open and largely non-toxic culture.

Sure, it only has a tiny number of users in comparison to twitter (about 4 million), but there is no reason this can be many many more. And hosted on a federation of 1,000's of servers. Much less risk to be de-platformed from your favorite walled-garden for obscure reasons.

The Fediverse is only at the start of its evolution, and things are becoming exciting for us devs. Diverse applications, PeerTube, PixelFed, write.as, Lemmy, many more, all start to be integrated together. A gradual process, as the underlying standards mature and new ones (content addressing, object capabilities, datashards) are being developed. Besides federated ActivityPub there's work ongoing to extend to full p2p contexts.

I'd say you should have Developer FOMO. To miss out on opportunities to stand out, and be part of a path that could be part of the solution to our social dilemma :)
Offsets are helpful, but are not the solution. At best, they're a stepping stone.

The only sustainable solution is reduction in usage. I'm not sure how feasible that is, or how to achieve it necessarily, but that's the only sustainable basis to proceed on.
This is an outright lie.

Google's carbon footprint is still positive, but their net greenhouse gas footprint is negative now, according to some particular accounting scheme which posits that 1 ton of methane is equivalent to 34 tons of carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide and methane are not equal, and arguably not even equivalent, since methane's impact is short term compared to that of carbon dioxide. That's why the equivalence ratio depends on the time horizon chosen. (100 years is customary, but if Google assumed 20 years, that makes the numbers balance even more cheaply.) So if the headline said "greenhouse gas footprint", it would be technically correct, but misleading. The way it's written, it's a lie.
My exp is the exact opposite. I find being able to avoid the people I don't ever want to talk to a much better mental health boost.

The people I want to talk to are usually busy doing actual work so we usually catch up at lunch or after work. I also have the personal numbers of those people. All the people that have time to talk during the work day I'd rather not talk to. I know this is basically an insult for that I'm sorry but I suspect you are one of those people. The awkward guy with no friends that comes to the office for his social interaction fix.

Riffing ideas is not helpful sorry but its just your awkward way of socializing. Has anyone really ever said oh ok I'll just trash this work and start over after "riffing"? No they just go "haha" and continue doing whatever they were doing.
I used Play Music and Inbox as well, and also just switched (3-ish months ago?) to an iPhone.

The YouTube Music app is not that bad, but definitely missing a feature or three that I used a lot on Play. It also seems to need to be manually started every time my phone connects to Bluetooth whereas Play would start automatically if it was the last thing that was playing on that BT connection.
Oh shit...!
Reminder: Tesla is only profitable because it sell carbon tax credits to makes of ICE vehicles so they in turn can produce the less efficient cars which are basically just status symbols.
FUSE Driver for APFS (Apple File System)
> What I still don't fully understand is why people want to write non-webpage software in JavaScript, a language designed to run in web pages.

There are multiple reasons, but it mainly comes down to

1) JavaScript is simple and widely used. And as many people are using it, those many people often also have the wish to use it outside the web for other things.

2) Webpage-Software has evolved to Application-Software in the last decade, and nowadays you can create proper interfaces with javascript&css&html which can compete with native desktop-software in terms of ability and somewhat performance.

3) You have one sourcecode for all devices. You only need to write it once, and use it everywhere with a little bit of tweaking. Which is cheaper and faster than writing separate software for every platform and device.
You have accidentally made a point in favour of paying for planting trees while from the tone of your post the reader is lured towards the conclusion that it's somehow bad.
parts + labor
The picture provided by CBP looks exactly like those of OnePlus Buds in this Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2020/08/10/oneplus-b...

Just GIS for Apple Airpods, the box looks significantly different: https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+airpods+packaging&sxsr...
Oxford librarian: Museums must be 'honest and open' about origin of artefacts
Was Microsoft ever good at building operating systems? I know they were good at selling them.
I've had an Oculus Quest for the past ~15 months (essentially since it came out). It doesn't have the power for high-end PC levels of detail, but being able to just strap on the headset and start playing is delightful.

It works quite well with a variety of games, and the Quest 2 should boost the experience.
Anyone in Eastern Europe should know to contact a local fixer, not attempt an official repair of which the closest location is Germany.
It will send a message but I'm not sure it's clear at all.

I always see the suggestion to vote with your wallet but how does it even work with a product with usable lifecycle of 5 or even 10 years? By the end of 2025 Apple will see a sales slowdown over the past few years. At that point I'm not sure it's even possible to pinpoint specific reasons, like "customer couldn't replace keycap on a 2017 model computer" which may or may not have been solved for years already.

If you have complaints and you want them to be fixed, tell them (https://www.apple.com/feedback/), unless you've given up completely on the company and won't ever return to it. Simply voting with your wallet is the equivalent of ghosting in commerce.
As a smaller player, it is very difficult to get the Chinese suppliers to guarantee they won't ship the wrong thing.

Separating the shipment is a relatively low cost way to protect the main item.

Edit: Another example that happened to a friend. He ordered some single board computers that came with some software on a CD...he wasn't even aware of the CD. The CD had a fake "Compact Disc" marking, which is a trademark. Whole shipment seized.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06610-y
Which one do you use the calls/texts?
How is China going to carve that sphere of influence out? It's surrounded by nations that are wary of that exact thing happening (again).

> this fact in turn will likely lead to a re-militarization of Japan.

Japan already has a powerful military, with the capability of building nuclear weapons immediately. The Japanese have bad marketing, but following WWII they effectively stopped being chauvinist as a nation.
Hrm, that's not a bad idea. Perhaps if we use the market to fix the pandemic. The Invisible Hand covering your mouth when you sneeze.
Phew! Thank goodness someone finally mentioned this. The next step is to ask to speak to a manager and I bet this conversation would have gone a lot better.
> These apps are absolutely addictive because they were explicitly and intentionally designed to be.

Same goes with fast food, TV shows etc. It's your responsibility to not over-consume anything; and if you have children, teach them to not do that as well. The problem is not with FB, Google etc. The problem (which is over-consumption of everything) is cultural. Blaming some specific corporations is easy but it won't lead to any positive solutions. We desperately need stoicism in the west.
That's a direct consequence of the Trump administration bungling its international image.
They bought carbon offsets which are more focused on preventing / reducing carbon from being generated. It's basically saying "if I stop x amount of carbon from being emitted somewhere in the world, it's as good as -ve carbon on the balance sheet".
Wondering if that also applies to Alphabet as a whole or only Google. I find it especially interesting due to everyone screaming "but muh CO2 footprint", every time big ML projects are announced by them (e.g. AlphaGo) that use enormous resources for training.
Do you have a website with your portfolio
Some states in the U.S. only fund 1/2 day kindergarden. Full day exists, but requires the parents to pay more for that.
Thank you. I have changed the title.
I'm stunned how even when I agree with other people about climate breakdown happening, they think "Miami flooding" and I think "my kids dying horribly in a resource war or food riot".

Though people seem to be finally understanding that sea level rise is a minor concern all things considered.
Parts and Labor
I appreciate the irony, but as a parent I can say that I much prefer my children on Netflix than on Youtube. (Caveat - there is more deeply interesting content on Youtube, but its pieces of civilisation flotsam to be salvaged from a river of shit.)

Plus your last paragraph I just don't agree with at all, ads for kids definitely has a huge impact, it was not just moral panic that made that regulated in the TV space many years ago. Youtube is so full of ads and undeclared (not that it matters to kids if its declared, and doubtful it matters much for adults either) product placement.
Yup, that was a common issue. This is exactly what happen to a friend of mine. Tried to sell him a new motherboard, he decided to just buy a ribbon cable and replace it himself.

Another friend had his motherboard replaced because he had the common issue with the old keyboard where keys would randomly stop working. Of course it didn't fix it, only wasted a month of his time. Luckily his was still covered under warranty and they managed to get it right and replace the keyboard the second time around.
I don't know but you can look forward to becoming an Oracle Certified TikTok Master.
>I just swapped from Android to an iPhone for privacy concerns.

Understandable, if Apple's claim on Privacy is to be trusted, then it does seem to be a better alternative to android when it comes to privacy; But for a power user android ecosystem offers more without rooting, is not dependent upon 'trust on a company alone' and there's no separate power-user level ecosystem for iOS without jailbreaking.

e.g.

• AOSP, so there's LineageOS as aftermarket alternative, /e/ with e foundation phone or Fairphone, dozens of other alternatives.

• Firewall VPN for android are more refined e.g. Netguard (open-source) even allows selective blocking of connections per address/ per app; this is the closest thing to Little Snitch on macOS.

• Tasker allows automation to such an extent that, several things which required writing apps can now be performed by creating tasks. Tasker is Siri shortcuts on steroids without Siri.
From the other thread about this, people were saying there are known abiotic chemical pathways to generate Phosphine on gas giants, so detection of Phosphine on Saturn and Jupiter is much less interesting.

Apparently those know pathways don't work on rocky planets, which is why a detection on Venus is more interesting than a detection on Saturn.

I still expect the outcome to eventually be: "we have found a new pathway to Phosphine, that's consistent with a rocky planet", but it definitely seems like a discovery that warrants attention and further study.
I dunno, man. I'm like ten minutes into this total, and I'm not the one who felt the need to make a throwaway and go full persecuted hegemon [1]. I can respect your very evident need to unload some stuff, but I think you might be arguing with your own imagination here. I don't even know how to use Vim!

[1] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2010/12/11/the-ind...
Displacing dirty power with clean power cannot bring your carbon footprint to zero. Your cleanest power cannot not emit. Google may become cleaner but that isn't the point.
The whole idea of VPNs (or extra hops in general[0]) providing security is very context specific. For the vast majority of people they seemingly chose to trust a VPN provider over their ISP which is hard to justify.

If you don't have a reason to be afraid of surveillance the best thing to do is nothing.

[0] usually even worse if not VPNs used by many
I am not categorically against ads on online platforms (or offline for that mater), but I do have a problem with the power these companies have gained by gathering and analyzing fine-grained data-points on us and our behavior. The fact that most people only have a very vague idea about how these systems work and how much data is collected is worrying.

The fine grained control over who you can show ads to is a problem in itself and a tool ripe for exploitation by anyone who wants to nudge certain demographics in any direction they want, political or otherwise. We have seen several examples on how wrong this can go already.

> I don’t agree that belief in pseudoscience, rumor, or superstition is anymore prevalent than it was before social media.

I have seen up close and personal how a combination of Facebook and Youtube's algorithms have cleverly identified and massively amplified certain tendencies in people I'm close to. That is a personal, political and societal problem we should not ignore.
Ask HN: Do you happen to turn problems into monsters by not taking care earlier?
I neglected an ear infection and i don't know if things will turn back to normal.

i am struggling pretty bad with procrastination, so far i have been the greatest enemy of myself.

As if there were two sides of me, one who would consciously knows the right course of action and the other who just doesn't seem to follow the path.
Just open one of his books. He travels the world with his partner and takes incredible photographs, scuba dives submerged ruins, interviews locals and mainstream archaeologists like Klaus Schmidt, digs very deep into mythology and cross references with science, gives almost exhausting levels of citations and references. Not to mention dealing with incredible levels of vitriol and threats while doing so. Not so easy to generate such nonsense! :)

Gullible means believing something. Believe nothing. This is what an open mind is.
The Guardian’s GPT-3-written article misleads readers about AI. Here’s why
The difference is that Saturn is a gas giant - this discovery relates to the detection of phospine on a rocky planet, which is what makes it unexpected and difficult to explain.
Positive media exposure can be used as evidence of effectiveness in annual budget request battles, as it is a pseudo-metric that government leaders find impressive.
I might be wrong but I'm going to guess a large number of VR users will watch VR porn. I personally don't want FB recording that I watch VR porn or what porn I watch.
Pretending to have an "all-time carbon footprint" to be "zero" isn't reasonable either.
Absolutely, but this is first phone from Purism; hardware are too far from latest iPhone too.

Breaking mobile duopoly matters.
It was well done. It certainly understood how social media works far better than anything I've seen on HN. Which is interesting when you are aiming at non technical users.

The back end minions were well done as an explanation.

It did well to be bipartisan. "Extreme centre" was clever. Their examples were sometimes political but it's hard to know how to have bipartisan real world examples, but they seemed to try.

I think it'll have a far reach and it will affect people, but there's no solution, what would you protest and where?

"Gasland", "Waco: The Rules of Engagement", "Blackfish", "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" all seemed to be actionable for instance. It's easy to buy guns, or go to a protest or ditch your meds.

For "The Social Dilemma" it's hard to change everyday life and it's hard to legislate algorithms where no one knows how they work.
Was thinking the same. I pretty much destroyed a MacBook of mine when I was running to catch a train, tripped, and landed squarely on my backpack. I had bent the laptop slightly right in the middle from where I fell on it.

That was a tier 4 repair, which the indie Apple authorized repair shop described to me as the repair category for catastrophic damage and basically just a little less than the full replacement cost.

It was a three month old laptop and so I paid the fee, as it was like $150 less than the original cost of the machine and I would’ve had to buy a new one otherwise anyway.

I was a little beat up from the fall and needed a few stitches in my hand, luckily the ER didn’t also deem that to be a tier 4 repair.
I believe Louis Rossmann had a video of something similar, where a loose/unseated display cable was quoted by Apple as a motherboard replacement.
Your 0 emission statement suffers from exactly the same criticism you're firing at Google. How was your bike built? How was your bus/train built? What's powering your bus/train? Also the assumption that a vegetarian diet is 0 emission is wrong - you're relying on a massive (oil-fueled) production system that emits a lot, to provide you with the food you buy. Sure, it's less than would be necessary if you ate meat but it's certainly not 0 emission.

Edit - I need to read more carefully, OP already went into this, apologies.
>The fact that people spend lots of time on social media just demonstrates that they derive something from it, not that it’s addictive or harmful.

I think the point of the movie is to show that it is addictive and harmful and it is built that way intentionally. And it gets worse for younger generations.

>Regardless, social media isn’t going to suddenly make me believe the moon landing was fake, so I don’t see it as being harmful.

Maybe not the moon landing, but it can make you believe many other things with out you even noticing.

We've seen examples of this already, there's nothing new here.
Scott Manley have an interesting video on the problems with exploring Venus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DEvcJgBy0c
Agreed, I'm starting to think the Internet is becoming a net negative in people's lives. Maybe if everyone reverted to 2G speeds for a few basic tasks and we can leave SocialMedia/Games/Video behind.
I thought it was mostly kids on TikTok.
Why are digital experiences more important now than ever before?
My understanding is that the presence of it strongly implies life on Venus. Just because people have a prior on that doesn't mean the evidence is inherently weak. If it turns out there is bacterial life on Mars and on Venus (both potentially the case) people who claimed we needed "extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims" will look conservative in retrospect.
> but I bet a vendor could easily make something similar designed for this use case.

True, but this cost the teacher zip (assuming supplies on hand) instead of $38US.
I am surprised that nothing has been said (or much anyway) in light of the current wildfires situations, about how maybe 3 years ago spending on public parks was slashed. Surely it stands to reason that with less feet on the ground, there are going to be more fires taking off, that could have otherwise been stopped.
It is absolutely true that adults can begin to learn piano (or any musical instrument) and reap rich rewards. And as you say the key is to set the right expectations and enjoy the sound, enjoy the process.

However, I don't agree that affordable to even high-end digital pianos will be able to approximate real acoustic pianos within 10 years in two primary areas: dynamics (being able to produce the full range of sounds from pianissimo to fortissimo) and haptic feedback (the subtle vibrations felt by the fingers and body when playing a real piano). Digital piano keybeds are getting better and better in these areas, but are just not close yet to a real piano sound and feel IMHO.

If anyone knows of any models of keyboards that prove me wrong, please share!
>" If they want a world-class CPU team for the data-center, ARM isn't that (Graviton, Apple Silicon, Fujitsu, etc. are built and designed by better teams)."

The latest Fujitsus HPC offering the A64FX is also ARM based though.[1][2] And it sounds as though this is replacing their SPARC64 in this role .

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujitsu_A64FX

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugaku_(supercomputer)
Considering Windows runs on pretty much any x86 configuration, it’s pretty impressive. Some obscure configurations can have problems with Linux due to lack of drivers, but Windows manages.

So, one can argue that the quality of Windows is changing, but building an operating system is no easy task. And Microsoft’s commitment to backwards compatibility is quite an achievement.
This has been very commendable from Google, since they started working towards it.

Sure, there have been environmental impact from this as others have pointed out, but since they were one of the earliest movers on these things, we can expect them to run into issues which hopefully they will work towards fixing for everyone. Also, we do need to compare the impact with the impact of what it replaces to keep things in perspective.

I am glad that more companies have joined them on this, since it looks like it will be very hard to convince some governments to course correct on these issues.
I was hoping that Apple's switch to ARM would prompt better ARM support for popular Linux distros. Given NVIDIA's track record with the OSS community, I'm definitely less hopeful now.
Judging from China's policies towards Uighur Muslims and Hong Kong, I think China isn't very worried about foreign censure.
>but it might be that ARM China simply refuses to acknowledge US sanctions in the future.

And then what? Sure they can sell last-generation chips within China - but they won't have access to any R&D and anything they try to export will be confiscated.