skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really love my AirPods pro but need more battery life, but not a big fan of over the ear and that price...

However if they can really deliver on quality, battery life and comfort for me $549 is worth it now days with WFH and using my AirPods constantly.
I had a similarly stellar experience with Init7 in Switzerland. The person who answered the phone wasn't a network engineer, but immediately passed me on to one within 10 seconds of our conversation starting.

For me it was night and day after previous having had a municipality-run absolutely garbage ISP previously (CityCable, for anyone considering them, stay far far away). Init7 might be a tad more expensive than most, but the service is solid.
It's only year 1. Still 9 more years for the sci-fi explosion (that I, like OP, think will happen).
The implication there is that if someone made twice as much as you did and made a similar brag, that they wouldn't be foolish. You may not think these are a good value purchase. I don't either. But flaunting your income as a sign of being a winner is an ironically similar fallacy.
Remember the days when Apple was breaking new ground, pushing the limits? The iPod was fundamentally a game changer in the music space. The iPhone caught Blackberry with their pants down and they never recovered. Macbooks were a level up in so many ways to their competitors.

It was worth paying extra for the device Apple was selling because everyone else was years behind them.

Now it's wireless headphones with technologies that have all been done before, for more than $500. Or the same iPhone as last year, with a slightly better processor. Why pay more for that? I mean, sure, they seem high quality enough- but $549 level high quality?

Come on Apple, surprise me. Make me feel like the iPod announcement again.
I did hear Rumours (I never looked into it) that there will be an upcoming feature in bluetooth that will allow for higher quality. I believe currently the tradeoff is audio quality vs latency. My bluetooth headphones (Sony) switch between high quality but ~500ms latency (guess), to low quality but no noticeable latency when doing calls.
I had this game as well and also recall the bitmap and insults about your flying when you would crash. Also the comically understated 'wings ripped off' message you would get at the bottom of the screen when you pulled way too many Gs in a plane. :)
Thanks. The original post redirects to:

https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=3_...

Which is blocked at the DNS level on my network.
That is insane. I'm going to have to try that. One of my colleagues is a linux nerd and he'd probably freak if I told him that.
For comparison, Sony's WH-1000XM4 which are currently widely considered the state of the art in the active noise cancelling over-ears, will cost you anywhere between $300-$400 depending on where you are.

(I was very surprised the price can vary that widely, actually. On Sony's US page they're $279, while in the EU they're €380 which is about $460.)
You aren't their target demographic.

The lower class uses luxury products as signaling. It's why iphones sell despite being lower quality. Impracticality is necessary in luxury products.
> “ Facebook data is valuable only to the extent that it is usable on Facebook”

This is an incredibly wrong and misleading section. That data can be processed through data fusion centers and then joined against other data aggregators - all your physical location checkins from Yelp or Foursquare, all your grocery purchase history, what activities you booked on your last vacation.

I used to work for a well-known stock photography company and the company collected huge amount of data - browser signatures, upload geolocations, login locations, in addition to the actual images and customer behavior within the product.

Most of it was completely unused and one of the senior VPs of engineering was fond of saying we were making “a bet on data.” They had no immediate use for the data, but felt strongly that the larger and more comprehensive they could make an in-house data warehouse, augmented with as many types of data as we could collect, the more valuable it would eventually be in the future for use cases or third party sales that just hadn’t been thought of yet.

They are still doing this today with no uses of that data yet (or private uses selling to third parties like Facebook).

I can’t believe Stratechery would have an article so completely wrong on the absolute basics of data hoarding.
Imagine not understanding that people want a little fun in their life.
Sounds promising. Get back to me when it’s gotten to the RFC stage. A ready-made solution thrown over the wall like this, is rarely what is ultimately adopted.
Why not DoT? And DoH is mum on http cookies: "Determining whether or not a DoH implementation requires HTTP cookie support is particularly important because HTTP cookies are the primary state tracking mechanism in HTTP." https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8484
It's being downvoted because the commenter made no effort to show what kind of research they had done in order to relieve their worry. If they genuinely were "really really concerned" about the potential side effects then they would have done some research on what those effects could be, what scientists had done to account for them etc. If they have done no research, that is lazy, hence worthy of a downvote. If they have done research but not specified so then it is deceptive and worthy of a downvote.
> Also that case is hilarious, I guess they don't fold at all

Interestingly, it looks like the usual Bose folding method, just stopped halfway through.
Oh sorry. We were using a version of Bootstrap 4.
The develop branch has merged support for age, too!

https://github.com/mozilla/sops/tree/develop
I'm guessing it's not meant to one-up airpods. It's a higher margin device for a smaller audience.
hi, I just woke up to this thread!

I am maintaining the website and will ship a few improvements this week to make it more usable & improving context information (like OS version, game version, CrossOver version etc)

Thanks a lot for the feedback and for checking it out.

Two things I'm currently thinking about are

a) how to further improve the site (what do you care about? which questions do you have?)

b) how to reach people who might not be aware of the website yet (e.g. it got featured by @gruber on daringfireball recently and on /r/macgaming) but I guess there must be way more people interested in gaming on the Mac out there. Any ideas appreciated!

I'm also on twitter at @__tosh (two underscores)
There are some things you should study even though you will never need it. Getting out in a fire, first aid/CPR, earthquake procedures... You need to know these well just in case.
So the headphone jack in the pinephone is worth $550... that means the phone is worth -$350.
Apple and Cloudflare Develop New Privacy-Focused Internet Protocol
Shiba Inu Puppy: Food and Education of the Shiba Inu
At first glance, the Shiba Inu's fluffy coat and small size make him an ideal companion dog for many animal friends. However, sharing the life of an Asian Spitz such as this Japanese dog requires knowledge of the basics of dog education and dog sports.
And (at least in my recollection), Apple's devices - like the ipod mini / nano - weren't THAT expensive, compared to the rest of the market and what they offered in terms of storage space and the like.

The new generation of Macs are also err... reasonably priced for the performance? I think? I mean if they really do beat high end Macbook Pros on the same (real life) workload, they're offering a ton of value for money.
It seems only #xmonad on freenode is affected, so I've been asked by @matrixdotorg to report an issue and I'll do that asap.

Also, #xmonad:matrix.org being invite only seems to be another bug. I contacted the room admin who sent me a similar screenshot as you did, showing that the room is _not_ set to invite-only, and they had to upgrade the room version from 1 to 6 to fix it. I can now join the room.

I have to say this has been a very frustrating experience. In addition to these two problems with #xmonad, I also suffer from https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix/issues/248, https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack/issues/812. I am afraid the takeaway is that Matrix is not ready yet. :-/
Any idea how they charge? Is it usb-c lighting or wireless?
> Using the gyroscope and accelerometer in AirPods Max and iPhone or iPad, spatial audio tracks the motion of a user’s head as well as the device, compares the motion data, then remaps the sound field so it stays anchored to the device, even as the user’s head moves.

I'm not sure I want this? What does this actually mean?
> AirPods Max come with a soft, slim Smart Case that puts AirPods Max in an ultralow power state that helps to preserve battery charge when not in use.

This is a bit confusing, why would you need an ultralow power state for your headphones? Is this just so you don't have to turn them on and off? It seems less convenient to put them in and out of a bag than to just turn them off (and preferably fold them) when you're not using them if you need to stretch the battery life.
That has been the sticking point with me. Having a case that attaches them to my keyring has proved to be a great convenience.
The website is really very good. I started to learn JavaScript last week and worked through the JavaScript Wikibook. Unfortunately it is not as complex as the website linked above. I can continue working with it really well. I also like the structure and design, which makes the tutorials really easy to read. A great project.
A few months ago, I experienced sort of an inflection point regarding the love I had for Apple products when my iPhone broke for no reason whatsoever: it worked perfectly during the day, no physical scratch or anything, woke up and I noticed that the phone was hot, i opened it, tried to close some apps and I noticed that it's quite slow. I opened the settings and kept getting notification popups regarding storage and saying that the storage is full. I decided to reboot, and the iPhone did not start after that. No reboot, restore, no safe recovery, nothing worked. Took it to Apple Support, told me the same things I found online "hardware failure" and proposed to "fix" it by buying a new phone of the same (2.5 year old) model for $570.

Nope.

I'll never buy an 'un-repairable' headset for $549.
One thing I like to remind people of is the fact that the Snowden docs that revealed PRISM were years old at the time of Snowden gathering them, and even older at release... just imagine how much further things have progressed in the 10+ years since. (iirc lots of them had 2007 dates on them)
Well, I don't like Tailwind and I admit that haven't use it.
I browsed a lot about it and read the rationale twice already (it's looks amazing how often this article has been cited in just this thread). And I got more away from it after first read, and even more opposed to it after the second read.

I maintain projects, across multiple stacks, and Tailwind just looks like it would be a nightmare to maintain in the projects I work and worked. I've played a lot with the https://play.tailwindcss.com/ and my objections are even greater. Repetition of classes would cause much more painful style changes. Debugging in chrome looks like a struggle. Cryptic class names that might be used by many other libs or even might be meaning completely different things in other than the current project, renders codebase modularity as not possible - if I want to take something and then show it somewhere else outside my project, I will have hunt for WTH is overriding my styles, just to figure out that one of the "py-8 text-base leading-6 space-y-4 text-gray-700 sm:text-lg sm:leading-7" (instead of "content-container"), means something else on target site and simple name spacing encapsulation does not work fully. The example page does not even semantic use HTML tags - which to me tells that "semantic" might be completely misunderstood by the lib author.

Simple design doc in the project would solve problems raised in the said rationale. Indeed - Tailwind seems to be a ready-to-eat design doc. The problem is that it is the same design doc for all people using it.

Those reasons makes me not even remotely tempted to try Tailwind.
Oh, please. ODoH is a proposed standard. Use whatever the hell proxy/resolver you feel like, wherever you like.

DNS is a shit show of unencrypted data flying around being scooped up by God-knows-who and along comes someone proposing a standard to fix said shit show and this is the response people get.
In Sheldrake's book, Engtangled Life, if I remember correctly, he suggests that it may be better not to think of it as trees communicating, but rather mycorrhizal networks passing on the information to other trees because it's in their interest to do so (the article posted alludes to this). It's similar to how mycorrhizal networks will transfer chemicals and nutrients between trees, because it's to their benefit to keep as many trees alive as possible.

One thing I do remember that was quite fascinating, is that the exchange of nutrients and chemicals is almost like a trading network: mycorrhizal fungi will send stuff it produces that trees need to places where the reward (payment) will be highest. An example would be, if the mycorrhizal fungi has phosphorous to "trade" for carbon, if there is a tree that will "pay" less (perhaps because it doesn't need the phosphorous, or it needs carbon for itself), the mycorrhizal fungi would rather divert that phosphorus to another tree that would give a greater return of carbon.

There's a description of this "trading network" here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6584331/

Apologies if I described it wrong, I read the book a while ago.
Misleading title. Apple devices are not anywhere near ready to utilize this dns protocol. Apart from that, yeah let's shift our dns trust to one of the biggest data resolvers! The irony...

Encrypted dns might be already in use by government or military agencies, but they know too well the effects of cascading this tech down to the masses. They will never let this reach the public.
These days I would pick a movie to see based on who did or contributed to its soundtrack. Glass, Zimmer, Richter, and Preisnser, in particular.

Some of Glass' work transposes well to other instruments, but a real extra gift to the world would be if he wrote a guitar suite.

I've been hacking around with a classical guitar arrangement of Pärt's "Spiegel im Spiegel," and might see if Glass' new "The Teacher" is more amenable, as it's very much an homage about 1/3 the length and complexity.
Whatever protocol Apple uses for calling with Airpods + Apple devices isn't the same as the usual bluetooth call codec.
The whole design of this DNS system would mean that even if apple ran a ODOH proxy, they still wouldn't be able to see what the request was for.

What data can apple give them?
Yes these are expensive, but I understand that these will work seamlessly with your iphone, macbook etc. Compared to my bluetooth Sony headphones, where pairing is always hit and miss, I can see why someone wearing headphones all day and tranistioning between apple devices would see this as a reasonable purchase.

Plus you get the virtue signalling of being "rich"
I didn't understand where keys are stored. Isn't that still an entry point?
If you paid $549 for headphones, you want people to know. These are like the Gucci handbags of headphones.
Do you know this for a fact, or is it what you read or were told? I don't know anything about this incident other than what I'm reading here, which puts me at a disadvantage to discuss it, as I'm sure is the case for most if not all others here.
Let me connect multiple to a MacBook and that's our home theater system listening done...
Their target is people that want to buy an nice appliance not a pocket computer.
I'm sure they're great. But outta my budget.

I'm very happy with my Sony WH-1000XM4 that are about $200 cheaper.
Not sure how popular this opinion is among Bond nerds but as a general movie lover, I find Daniel Craig to be the best. Got mostly better storylines, best action scenes, looks fittest. Maybe he lacks the Sean Connery suave but the other things make up for it.
Looks well written, but it seems undecided on whether it's targeting experienced programmers or newcomers. I have to disagree with priyatham_'s position that it effectively targets both.

The Loops section gives a very brief description of what loops are. This doesn't introduce anything of value to an experienced programmer, and it's nowhere near enough of an explanation for teaching imperative programming to a beginner.

Personally I'd suggest targeting experienced programmers. I only learnt JavaScript relatively recently, and I found it very frustrating that every JavaScript tutorial I could find was aimed at beginners (and that isn't an exaggeration).
FDA Says Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine Meets Success Criteria
"The lower class" lol. Could you not phrase that better?
I wonder if this will eat into their Beats market. What is Apple’s long term play with Beats anyway?

These are beautifully designed and no doubt they will pair seamlessly with other Apple devices, but that price tag seems...audacious to put it nicely.
> AirPods Max require Apple devices running iOS 14.3 or later, iPadOS 14.3 or later, macOS Big Sur 11.1 or later, watchOS 7.2 or later, or tvOS 14.3 or later.

Not even standard bluetooth.
American pilot Chuck Yeager, first to break sound barrier, dies aged 97
We just invented headphones - its almost like an April Fool's joke. (After the 737 Max crashes I would have thought "Max" would be depreciated)
Until we get rid of SNI[1] in HTTPS for good there will still be providers (like my ISP) that do deep packet inspection on SNI and kill the connection right away if you happen to visit a forbidden site (and this was western Europe, yesterday, on a site behind CloudFlare)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
Also, viewed from the other side, the point of taking Switzerland would have been to have easier transport across the alps, Germany-Italy. But with all the bridges & tunnels blown up, this benefit would be lost.

In other words, I think the Swiss wanted to tilt the cost/benefit calculation for invaders, not only by increasing the cost, but also by reducing the benefit.

(Much the same game-plan seems not to have worked for Afghanistan, though. High cost, zero benefit, lots of invasions.)
>I'll never buy an 'un-repairable' headset for $549.

What other headphones are repairable at that price point?
A few weeks before black friday I picked up new 1000XM3 for a $100. These better be something amazing for that price
It's spelled Qt, not QT.

QT means QuickTime.
Why? They know people will buy whatever they make regardless.
Yikes. Windows and office are fine, but I don't see trusting windows with Xbox or any other service.
I'm guessing the case has a magnet that tells the headphones to turn off completely, instead of being in standby looking for a sensor to indicate you have put them on.

I agree though that the case doesn't seem like the best way to accomplish it. Put a switch on them, or allow them to fold in such a way that the folding/unfolding can power on the device.
Your statement is 100% correct but misses the entire point

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/04/your-statement-is-10...
There is a really good podcast that talks about this from the New York Times called Rabbit Hole:

Podcast link:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rabbit-hole/id15074239...

Article from NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/yo...
"Stunning"? God I hate apple's marketing BS

Just like whenever they call any minor upgrade "revolutionary"
They have better ground clearance and should still be operational after say a tornado or hurricane.
Not the biggest fan of the design nor the lack of options for colors. Also, no further technical specs makes absolutely hard to justify the hefty price point.
If you are not from that time, airpod looking ugly and weird was the common theme among most the reviews. Then somehow they became status symbol. There was some video or some blog which argues that Apple making weird looking products intentionally, as they want to use that as symbol rather than some other competition like product.
Don't even act like objections are all for people who want to party.

Some people don't realize that the working class have jobs, and as a free people with dignity they're entitled to keep them and it shouldn't be up to some wealthy politician to declare they can't work over ill-defined risks with unproven mitigation efforts.

There is a very clear tradeoff based in uncertainty and fundamental inability to quantify risk and countermeasure effectiveness, and many people are acting as though the cost to large swathes of the population (those with the least power!) is just the price we have to pay.

None of these politicians who are pulling the levers, destroying any semblance of normal life, plunging entire working class populations into despair are at ANY risk of financial ruin or losing their livelihoods.

Meanwhile all the insufferable city liberals are shaming anyone who dares to try to sustain themselves at their job they devote themselves to in order to pay rent, feed themselves and take care of their families.

Shame on you! Enough!
As I see this, this is a very clever move by Cloudflare.

It's intentional to force websites to move to their CDN or atleast use a CDN with anycast and prevent you from making your own CDN like you could cheaply before (spinning up DO droplets and doing loadbalancing with geo DNS).
Expensive, yes, but I haven't seen much evidence of iPhones being objectively lower quality devices overall.
That's not the case. There's no such thing as a single NHS records system. There's 4 separate NHS systems for each constituent country of the UK. If you go to A&E they cannot generally see your GP records - if they can, it's usually limited so for e.g. if you live in the same local NHS trust as the hospital is in.
That's exactly it. Obstacles shape the creative process, making it unique to each person.

A friend said to me, "I don't know how," is just the beginning—and the process of discovering how is where the energy from creativity comes from.
Man it's been a whole 3 weeks since the M1 Macs shipped and now we're back to "Remember when Apple did exciting things?"
Somehow Peltor ear-muffs manage to look nicer than this. I hope no one shows Rams one of these, he might just die of shock how tasteless they are.
For... the very little that it’s worth, these must have been in development for a long time given that I remember reading a patent 4 years ago from Apple that was for over-ear transparency mode.

As much as it’s an evolution of the AirPods Pro and doesn’t do anything completely new, you can’t say that innovation wasn’t driven here.

The price point is pretty dire though.
$500 for headphones is fine, if they would last 20 years.

AirPods look like flimsy plastic stuff. For portable heapdhones they are not water resistant, do not fold and not even come with hard case.
And given apple, there will be no spare parts and manuals.

Get Sony, much better value.
I don't really care about the details: I do not trust anyone who works with cryptocurrency. I don't care how close you were with them, I simply do not trust them and I will not work with them. I will support the denouncement their work. Cryptocurrency is a disease, and I hold those who proliferate it personally responsible.

I do, however, credit the author for denouncing it even after being involved with something similar in the past. That's called personal growth. I won't hold a grudge against your colleagues if they choose a similar path for themselves.
They may be taking Beats low market, as this year’s Beats Flex have AirPod tech at $49, leaving Apple branded headphones with the premium market.
They literally just released M1 macbooks a couple weeks ago lmao
It sounds like an unnecessary overengineered feature to me.

Could be something Apple is testing and "pre-staging" for the future though. VR/AR?