skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the size of these, my initial thought was that these were containers that could hold a couple of different types of ear buds. Having "stylish earring" containers that could hold the google earbuds, for example, would let you swap out various earring styles, and probably cost a fair bit less. That said, the 'integration' - giving access to buttons or whatnot - might be trickier.

All that said, this looks like a good idea, and you've executed. Good job!

AND... "Our audio module is interchangeable between earrings, so you can match your look to the occasion!" That didn't seem to catch my eye up front, but it's there.
I think you're right there would be huge challenges you mentioned. But I still think that the smarts of modern IT business-logic coupled with the scale of a company like amazon could at least do better than throwing it away in many cases.

Amazon is very customer-centric company. Given the huge pain this kind of system could cause for customers is my guess why they haven't rolled-out any attempts at a solution to the general public.

It's a fascinating problem to me. I've been buying/selling on eBay for 10 years. I also sell on Facebook marketplace for hard-to-ship items. I've learned that if you buy and sell used, you can essentially rent certain things for very cheap, which is a problem set and solution that has a lot in common with amazon's product return problem.
IDK, we should think if we would think its reasonable to add SMTP or IMAP protocol support in browsers, or if this move would be perceived as misguided, by bloating even more with things that should otherwise be optionally implemented in other layers.

For me it just look like the right thing to do. I think we should be more suspicious when the parent company have some interest in deprecate some technology giving they interests clash with the technology being available or promoted.

FTP is becoming obsolete? yes

Google might have a clash of interest with some product over FTP? no
They are limiting the spread until it has been fact checked. I can see the rationale behind that, too many people are unfortunately incapable of critically analyzing a piece of information. By the time the facts are out, the damage has been done and it can no longer be reversed. Now on the other hand the damage can still happen, after the info has been verified. But nothing wrong with being vigilant since I agree that there is potential for misuse.

Not being able to send certain links in Facebook messages is nothing new by the way, it has happened to me a few times with links that were definitely not virus links. I can't remember the contents of the links though.
Oh, they will upsell the SHIT out of accessories when you go grab the new phones.

They won't mention you can get a 23W usb-c charger for $12 from Ikea, they'll sell you the $39 Apple one.
Odd, as this shouldn't be possible - Face ID checks your eyes are open and are looking at the screen before it unlocks (unless you disable Attention-Aware Unlock in Accessibility settings).
Uber sends political ads through push notifications
Just received [1] a push notification from Uber to support California Prop 22. This seems incredibly scummy, there must be a rule against this in app store.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/jridgewell/db36fbb03da337e16db0742358213f6c#file-screenshot-jpg
Philip’s wife typing this: Thanks @r16w !

I’m glad Philip listens to me (at least most of the time haha). As the saying goes: “Happy wife = Happy life”
C'mon folks. It's _always_ about money.
Are they earrings that make sound like earbuds, or are they earbuds with earrings glued on?
> I perform rituals with my team chanting a praying that azure will stop acting wonky.

Same but with our Jenkins builds, which appear to be entirely non-deterministic. "Perhaps the praying will help," I think to myself as I create my PR.
There's a problem here: it doesnt make financial sense to do those studies on a supplement, without strong parents.

That doesn't mean they aren't helpful, and some psychiatrists already use them.

And in particular, when were talking about vitamins, minerals that the body naturally gets , the risk profile is quite good.
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Biden put a "lid" on speaking directly to the press today. idk folks, i was born at night but it wasn't last night.
> Why doesn't the US have universal laws that cover price transparency in general?

And that's just the beginning. In any modern country citizens would have access to things called "courts". Not in the US, not if you want to sue a business. In the US, courts have been replaced with "arbitration" where businesses have a heavy advantage. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/business/dealbook/in-arbi... In what other modern country is citizens denied access to courts, when they have been wronged by a business?
Blake's 7 is an interesting old series with an arc and strong characters. You definitely need concessions with the special effects, though.
It's not the environment, the main reason was logistics efficiency. They can get more phones per standard pallet and will save millions in shipping and storage costs.

The environmental stuff is a nice bonus and excellent PR.
It's commonplace for employment contracts to restrict your ability to represent the company to the press. Depending on the seniority and visibility of your position this may extend towards so-called "ethics clauses" where you will be in breach of your contract if you disparage the company or otherwise associate the company they don't want to be associated with.

Just look at Amy Cooper [1].

But it goes further than that. It's generally a good idea not to do anything that might lead to a heading like:

"Employee of X says [bad thing about X]"

When I worked at Google, I made it a point never to comment publicly on any issue or thread where I could possibly be quoted. That's just commonsense and (IMHO) completely reasonable for your employer. I'd suggest that if anyone chafes against such restrictions that they should probably seek other employment.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/26/woman-fired-by-franklin-temp...
> Everyone (to some approximation) has a charger already!

Yeah, but I could always use more for various places around the house, travel, one or more inevitably getting lost, etc. And haven’t they in the past few years started bundling better chargers than those lame 5W ones they used to bundle for the longest time? Wouldn’t mind getting one of those and ditching and old 5W one.
We changed the URL from https://twitter.com/sohrabahmari/status/1316446749729398790 to an article with more information. If there's a more informative source, we can change it again.

Edit: I've changed it from https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/facebook-twitter-block-the-pos... to what looks like it may be a more neutral source. Other users have supplied these related links:

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-post-hunter-joe-bid...

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden...
A bad coughing fit often means My lungs are clearing. I will feel much better in a bit. Usually after an inhaler.

Or I have an embolism. That’s less fun
Seems like that's how it works here?

https://www.verizon.com/basic-phones/?adobe_mc=MCMID%3D48197...

This is just a list of phones, plus how much extra a month you pay to get a phone with that plan.
Question is, does Motorolas offering support the mmWave frequency band? I know that the Motorola Edge+ does support those bands, however it had an introductory price of 999$ so not exactly a bargain.
I've added a note at the bottom of the post as your gem seems like a great option for this sort of functionality. Thanks again for sharing!
The website gives me a notification saying "looks like you're based in the Netherlands..." regarding VAT. Interesting approach, but alas I'm in Belgium (next to NL) and not even close to the border.. :)
"In a diamond anvil" is the "in mice" of superconductivity.
It's almost certainly a shader, and using little of Unreal directly. Inside a shader, you can do ray marching for volumetric clouds, and curve space by curving the rays. Some skill is need to make it look good and not show artifacts.

Here's a simpler example:

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/tsBXW3
Apple is not forcing you to buy their phone.
Dozens of USB-A charger bricks sure. Heck, I've added them to our bedroom wall sockets to save having to have extra things plugged in. USB-C? One for my work MacBook.
So I had messed up my sleep really bad this year, to the point where I was ending up not sleeping for days or sleeping the whole day (on weekends for example) and have been slowly trying to bring myself to a more sane baseline. At one point a sort of bi-phasic schedule where I would initially sleep in the mid-late afternoon and then again either very late at night or early morning. If i had more flexibility in my schedule, I'm convicned it wouldn't be that bad.
Can you describe 'lip thrills' further please?
It's definitely not just fintech. FTP is commonly used in any industry that complies with EDI standards... which is most of them. Back when EDI formats were first implemented, FTP was the gold standard for sending files across a network, and so that's what basically every large company implemented. Now, many years later, the network effect keeps those systems in place.
So if people are hating on Spotify now...

...what's the alternative? People hate Google, they hate Amazon... I remember people used to hate Apple Music years ago because it was missing tons of basic functionality.

Is it better? Is Apple Music the "accepted" streaming platform now? Do they all suck in their own way? Or is there another platform that's the good one now?
Just to be clear, are you saying paying for things on an installment plan is a shady practice?

Easy to say if you can afford a new phone up front...
This is really cool! I prefer to keep all my in-house stuff in yaml, though of course for many big third party projects (prometheus, grafana, etc.) helm charts are the way to go.

I've long been looking for something that lets me keep my static yaml for my own projects, and helm charts with occasional small tweaks, and Tanka seems to do it!

local parseYaml = std.native('parseYaml');
local k = (import 'ksonnet-util/kausal.libsonnet');
local helm = (import 'helm-util/helm.libsonnet').new(std.thisFile);
{
aws_secret: parseYaml(importstr 'k8s/aws-secret.yaml'),
// etc...
traefik: helm.template('traefik', '../../charts/traefik', {
values: parseYaml(importstr 'values/traefik.yaml')[0],
}) + {
// traefik requires a /plugins-storage tmpdir
deployment_traefik+: k.util.emptyVolumeMount('plugins-storage', '/plugins-storage'),
},
}

If I had one request, it'd be to be able to run an arbitrary command for manifest generation: jsonnet seems quite capable, but every once in a while you're in a rush and just can't figure out how to do something - that's when being able to generate the manifest dynamically via bash/python/whatever is quite useful.
We are watching The Haunting of Bly Manor at the moment, and I'm not sure if its a creative experiment, or an attempt to just add fill, but OMG, everything is sooo slow and so repetitive. Every scene could be cut in half.
So you think if someone is selling a physical product and they require registration that it's reasonable to force them to stop requiring it with the threat of physical violence from the government?

I just don't see how that is justified. The seller isn't defrauding anyone and isn't using violence themselves. It's so much more easy and ethical to just not buy the product. All you can do is take personal responsibility. Calling for violent coercion like you've done is wrong.
Unpopular opinion: although I hate how oculus sold out to Facebook (possibly backstab of the decade, after the initial crowdfunding), and although I’m a strong advocate of leaving Facebook regardless of their VR BS, there’s really nothing wrong with them requiring a Facebook account to use it. I have no idea how much the manufacturing/R&D costs of Quest are, but I doubt it makes sense for Facebook to sell it this cheap without requiring users to link/create a Facebook account. Don’t expect stuff to be free/cheap for no reason.

My point is that regulating this space of tech will only lead to less innovation. There’s an extremely easy solution that every single one of us can do: don’t buy it, don’t be tempted by the cheap price Facebook is offering. I closed my Fb account ~5 years ago now (after being on it for about 10 years) and I’m very tempted to buy Quest 2, but I won’t. If enough people do this, what ever scummy plan Facebook is weaving will fail, but even if it doesn’t, you’d be out of it.
Based on past incidents, I'd venture that Google employees are free to speak up only as long as they speak up with the "right" opinions on a vast range of topics. "You can say whatever you want, as long as it's this".
Oh cool, you're in the Seattle area? I moved away from there this summer.

> I'm really uncomfortable with the notion of backseat drivers

I assume this is referring to her being accountable to Socialist Alternative? I understand why this sometimes seems weird to people. But it's impossible get anywhere as a politician without a base of support. Kshama is open about who hers is. Corporate Democrats (and Republicans of course) are not, and tend to surprise people after the fact with their governance when they refuse to, for instance, tax the rich, or hedge on the question indefinitely. I think Kshama's ability to campaign for things and then consistently fight for them after getting elected is closely related to having SA, to not just do necessarily collective political analysis, but also do the work of mass campaigns. By contrast, traditional politicians also offload a lot of political work, but to an array of personally appointed policymakers, lobbyists, private-company executives, and others; while SA is democratically run, the corporate lobbying groups are only accountable to capital. I don't think there is a sustainable path in between these two options.
Say, one thing that I really appreciate from Spotify is the weekly playlist. I love discovering music, and it usually has a few songs I end up liking. Does foobar have a module that does recommendations? Or is there a community aggregation-of-playlists out there I could roll my own?

I still remember being impressed by the preference-clustering paper in '95 (https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.10...) by an MIT grad for what became Firefly (later purchased by Microsoft solely for their sign-in tech called Passport https://web.archive.org/web/19970116111618/http://www.firefl... , still a bit annoyed they shut it down and let music recommendation languish for another decade).
But the reason they progressed out of slavery wasn't death but because free economies were far more productive and those which were more meritocratic than hereditary casted as well. Contrary to the popular "salty aristocrat origin" memes of new wealth only from exploitation and wealth only being ill-gotten they tried factories in the South Antebellum - they largely failed in comparison even with literal slave labor.
Also, the O'Reilly Safari membership is like the best $40 a month you could spend. If you can make sure you spend an hour a day reading on there, you will become a very attractive proposition.
They do sit in the ear like a low-profile earbud. You can kind of tell from some of the photos (but the video makes it more obvious) that these aren't using the pierced hole of the model's ear. They're sitting on the ear canal opening. The video also shows some of the interaction similar to an airpod tap.

edit: Yea, I assumed wrong as several commenters pointed out.
I'm sure there's plenty of screening for law positions, but probably not for the basic knowledge they studied in college. Asking a lawyer with 10 years of work experience to recite some fundamental law trivia would probably be unusual, while it's common for programming interviews to ask fizzbuzz and standard algorithm questions.
There's a certain cultural subset which tries to bolster their self-assessed superiority by rejecting things which are popular. This is especially common for people coming of a certain academic bent who are constantly playing one-upmanship games desperately trying to be the smartest person in the room.

Python annoys those people because it's both relatively easy to get started with and far, far more successful than whatever their current favorite language is, and this is portrayed as people not getting it rather than having a more insightful discussion about whether other people might reasonably make decisions based on different needs, background, and resources rather than stupidity.
The main thesis I'm hearing here, which I think I agree with, is that a work ought to be planned out from beginning to end, and it simply is as long as it is. But then I picture some cigar-chomper type dude who thinks it's more like an assembly line where some products are popular so you make more of them, and some aren't so you shut them down. There's a disconnect (again) between artistic & commercial, between love & money, and between (as it were) work & play.
This has been a major pain point for me. Despite my `firewalld` configuration only allowing specific traffic, all my containers were exposed.

My current policy is to set `"iptables": false` in Docker's `daemon.json` on any public machine. I don't understand why this isn't the default.
What do you think about digital/interactive resumes?

I've been building out a tool to make resumes that let you zoom in to different topics, would love to get your thoughts on whether you'd like to see something like this: https://prototype.profiled.app

Looking forward to reading this in any case! I lost my contracting role due to Covid and I think it's great that you're giving away those extra copies to those in need.
You're right - I assume that kevlars spring constant is << the rod's.

If that's the case, you just set the tension in the thread so the Kevlar is near its breaking point, and start winding, like winding thread onto a bobbin...
Do you think it's acceptable for someone to circulate a manifesto that argues that conservatives are unlikely to make good engineers, because they are more authoritarian, and authoritarians are less creative, and are less likely to challenge the status quo? And propose some policy changes that the company should take in its outreach to, and hiring of conservatives?

Even if it comes with citations to out-of-context, misunderstood, or under-reproduced political psychology studies (In addition to a complete misunderstanding of the criteria on which your own job is evaluated on)?

I'll tell you what would happen if someone did that - the right wing media would have a field day with blasting both the author of such a manifesto, and the company that employs them.

I understand that this is an uncomfortable topic for a lot of people, because it exposes a rather obvious double standard.
Every year the new model has a gimmick - I mean, a new, unique, compelling selling point.

3G: 3G!

3GS: Speed!

4: Retina Display!

4S: Siri!

5: 4G!

5S: Touch ID! 64bit!

6: Finally bigger size! Also, Apple Pay!

6S: 3D Touch! (groan)

7: Dual camera!

X: Face ID!

Xs Max: Even bigger! Dual Sim!

11 ProMax: Triple camera!

12 ProMax: 5G, Lidar!

5G is meaningless to a lot of people, yours truly included, and will most likely stay meaningless for a couple years at least, given the tiny deployments and the minimal speed advantage. But it's a big deal so it had to be one new model year's gimmick. I'm happy we got over it, so maybe next year they'll have to come up with something I actually care to buy.
Income percentage I need to invest to reach financial freedom in 10 years?
I know there was at least one browser in the 90's that purported to be your one-stop shop for all things Internet - HTTP, email, and FTP client. When background Internet connectivity wasn't a thing that probably made more sense.

That being said as long as Chrome will launch an FTP client upon encountering ftp:// links, it's not a problem.
But a German is aware that phones can also be bought without a subscription, and knows the full price of the phone, I think.

If you look at how USers talk, the price with a contract is the actual price of the phone for them.
I had the same experience but somehow managed to circumvent /avoid any such account requirement for the replacement when lost that phone soon after buying it. I actually blamed the Samsung account requirement for losing my phone. At the time I argued that if I hadn't been restricted from using it normally on account of the registration demands Samsung was being so aggressive about, I wouldn't have been so indifferent to where I was keeping my phone about my person and consequently, so I told anyone within earshot, it was their fault that I never kept my new phone in a regular and always double checked secreted location. I would love to be able to force that argument thru court just to vex that company. I really think that I had a fair point even if the ultimate responsibility has fall to me, putting the vendors marketing interests before my ability to even use the device they just sold me outright, is a case I want to hear heard nevertheless.
I just don't get how Tesla is not ahead on Self Driving. Waymo has spent 10 years mapping the same city and its basically the single easiest place to do self-driving in the whole world.

If you actually look at Tesla presentation, a huge part of the problem they are dealing with is handing things like 50000 different kinds of speed limit signs in every country in the world.
Assigning lights to the associated lanes and things like that. Finding the 0.00001% cases like object falling of trucks on the highway. Understanding complex intersection without prior mapping data of any kind.

I have not heard a single clear explanation how Waymo will go from where the currently are, to overriding a global general solution.

Tesla is a silicon Vally tech company that is trying to get its hand on the exact same people that Apple and Google are. And they unlike Apple and Google have their own gigantic data-gathering fleet across every first-world country. They are so far ahead of everybody in terms of data and data gathering its not even remotely close.

The reason Tesla seems to get no respect is that (a) Elon Musk over-promised and now he is forever labeled a joke that can never be taken seriously (b) the consumer product on the road does not yet do all the things it claims it will one day do so it providing something for people to criticize.
I switched to Edge from Firefox for a couple of weeks. Works well but I'm back on Firefox now - there are a couple of Firefox features I've come to rely on like the containers and the sidebar.
To anyone who isn't stuck in the Apple ecosystem it appears that Apple is squeezing their customers yet again.

And a response defending them is no surprise. The human brain will rationalize anything.
The sleep apnea help comes from strengthening muscles in your throat, it wouldn’t have anything to do with sinuses.
wtf was the octopus about. This was a bunch of spooky concepts all mashed together without any clear theme. What was the main theme or central concept of season 2? Season 1 was clearly about the movements & what they did, whether they're supernatural or what. Season 2 was like "Silicon valley! Rhizomes! Time travel! Talking sea creatures!" just sort of a throw everything at the wall approach. Anyway it didn't work for me especially with how fantastic and cohesive the season 1 story was.

Check out the notes here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_OA#Production which make clear that the season 1 story was a cohesive, beginning to end story that the creators refined over a series of years (and it shows). Then "hey lets add a season 2."
Maybe it's just because the article refers to a specific study that surveyed teens from May to July. It's probably hard to make a concise headline that is true to that limitation and also conveys that the pandemic isn't over.