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Wild lands like national parks or public wilderness are places where a person can still experience risk from the natural world. That is a significant part of the whole point of having them. That’s what makes an outing an adventure and not just a pleasant stroll.

People don’t need a $1 million treasure to get themselves into trouble in the wild. It happens regularly for reasons as trivial as selfies or even just for the fun of it. It is good that there are still places where people can do that.
As some people are claiming doubt as to the effectiveness of lockdowns, let me point you to the Australian stats:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-17/coronavirus-cases-dat...

It worked particularly well in Victoria, where a second lockdown turned a ~700 case per day nightmare into 38 straight days of no deaths or locally acquired cases.

New Zealand also used a lockdown strategy. stats:
https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/...

Suicide rates in the most affected Australian states were surprising:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/nov/09/suici...

The lockdowns were terrible for many people - for all the reasons you can imagine. On the other hand, I doubt anyone here would now argue that those crazy times were a mistake.
Yeah, whenever I use Bluetooth headphones that have a microphone with my PC I have to be sure to disable all of the headset profiles so it doesn't switch to dial-up quality as soon as an app requests microphone access.

An update to that spec would be much appreciated.
Yes, what I'm saying is we should have the detection programs in place ahead of time so in the future we can more intelligently develop specific and appropriate interventions and countermeasures.

The US didn't identify any cases of covid until weeks after we now know the disease to have been here, and it took months to identify community spread. By the point we realized there was a problem, there was no realistic hope of containing it.

If we had been screening international travelers even with a slow test prone to false positives, like a generic coronavirus test, we would have known earlier that we had a problem, and that information could be given to contact tracers to contain the problem. Rather than scrambling to come up with specific and appropriate interventions and countermeasures as our hospitals were being overrun, we could have taken the time to develop a well thought out system and been ready by the time community spread could not be contained.

Looking at the future, imagine what it would do to every year's flu season if screening for fevers were common. Imagine if you got an alert that someone on your flight was identified by a camera as coughing a lot while standing in line for their TSA check? With minimal inconvenience we could be much better informed about the real-time state of public health, and change our behavior accordingly so we and especially the at-risk get sick less often.
https://www.apple.com/airpods-max/specs/#footnote-8:

> AirPods Max can be used as Bluetooth headphones with Apple devices using earlier software and with non-Apple devices, but functionality is limited.

Which is the same thing Apple says for the "basic" AirPods FWIW: https://www.apple.com/airpods-2nd-generation/specs/#footnote...
This is the only reason I'm interested in buying these despite the price. Pairing my original Bose QC35's to my Apple devices is annoying and sometimes requires a seperate app all together just to get to work. Seamless pairing across all of my devices is a huge plus for me.
Thanks for the heads up, that’s worth checking out. Think I’m on my fourth set of ear pads at this point!
I’ve got accustomed to free solutions coming and going. The key concept here is that I’ll be using a free product for a few more years, until a competitor comes along.
This is getting worse than Stack Overflow.

So you can't ask a question for more clarification unless you spend hours researching the subject?. I can get that if it's a coding question and someone was looking for a solution. But this is a scientific subject and there is a pool of knowledgeable HN users who can help with this kind of questions.
I think it means that if you move your head within a 3D sound space it'll sound as though you've turned your head relative to the source. The source being some sound emitter on the sound stage (not the iPhone).
Uhh, Tylenol = acetaminophen = paracetamol, it's all the same thing with different names.

Did you have one of the Tylenol XX formulations with other active ingredients mixed in, perhaps?
I'm not sure what the price point adds to it. Maybe headsets less than $100 are to be considered disposable?

Most of my headsets have detachable XLR cables, and some of them have replaceable ear cushions too.

Last week I took the ear cushions off my AKG Q701 (5 years old?), put them through the washing machine, and they came out great.
I've been using Mint for a while (as a beginner) and for the most part I love it. I can't get fallout 4 to work for some reason. GTA and RDR2 won't work cause of the rockstar software. I have gotten Borderlands 2 and Saints Row IV to work. I would probably completely switch over if I could also get my plex server to work, but right now I can't...
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Really quite curious to see how these stack up against the $263 Sennheiser HD1s, my current favorite over-ear noise cancelling bluetooth headphones, which sound lovely (my daily drivers are the HD820s, for reference).

I can't really speak to the price (like others in the thread) until I hear them. It's possible they're $1000 headphones for <$600, much like how insanely high-quality the HomePod is for its price. It's also possible they're just some Beats in a metal case. Impossible to tell without actually using them.

Looking forward to trying a pair.
Absolutely no irony. That's how Elon Musk happened. If you want more Elon Musk that's how you can get them I guess.

Soon you'll have an army of geniuses building that cool space utopia for billionaires while the rest of us can stay in the dying world they left us. Our NeuraLink(tm) units will get us through the day, rewarding mining enough rare earth metals with dopamine hits and pain suppression! (That, that was irony. I hope it'll still be funny in 50 years).
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/11/the-cook-and-the-chef-musks-s...
> Honestly, I don't understand why you would buy these when there are a lot of established professional audio companies offering better sound at a cheaper price.

Because it's Apple. The same reason people pay the Apple premium for anything else. It's the brand, the aesthetic, the ecosystem, and the signaling.
You should provide sources for claims like this or at least claims stated in this way. The actual real truth is, like most things with this virus that showed up a few months ago, nobody knows for sure.
Is he providing value or simply extracting value?
I've read a fair amount about soviet computing history, and this always struck me as odd - they poured so much effort into trying to copy/clone/reverse-engineer western computing equipment, pretty much ensuring that they were always a few generations behind. I read an incredibly depressing account of the Elektronika SSBIS - an effort that started in 1980 to clone the (then ~3-year old) Cray-1, and which managed to eventually produce a handful of prototypes by ~1991 or so (at which point the Cray C90 had just come out - a computer capable of hitting 16 GFLOPS).
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I meant the eBay seller. But yeah, the W10 bootloader is finnicky as hell, GRUB has nothing on it. Did you try an older version of W10, like LTSB or LTSC?
Which model? I'm torn between getting the Sennheiser PXC 550-II or Beyerdynamic Lagoon ANC.
That is not untrue, the courts have made some terrible rulings but that’s a different story. However, the law enforcement department has become increasingly trigger happy and there’s no denying of that.
I can certainly understand when going to make a purchase wanting to choose a reliable brand. However, if you know nothing about headphones, why do you suddenly need an expensive pair now that Apple are selling them?
And it’s still using lightning :(
Assuming these compare in fidelity of sound, I think it’s a no brainer for a lot of people. Likely works seamlessly with apple products similar to other airpods and, unlike those other cans, doesn’t require a proper sound system or external amp to drive them.

That being said, the fact that they stipulate they only work with apple products is a bit insane to me. I’ll stick with my wireless Sennheisers that I have to charge once a month thanks.

EDIT: Here’s the bit about them being Apple only. Hopefully it changes.

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.
According to some reports, they plan to introduce a lower-end "Sport" version eventually: https://twitter.com/jon_prosser/status/1314485686809120769

Not sure how that factors into their Beats strategy though, but prices would basically be converging at that point.
Whats the point?

Governments subpoena the information or just block the protocol outright. ( or in China, get it delivered to their door by Apple )

Commercial parties have a bag full of tricks from fingerprinting to embeds on the page itself to track you.

Privacy seeking users are already tunneling their traffic.

That leaves script kiddies at Internet cafes. TLS kind of fixed that already so... Good work?
They’re making the Smidgion which can directly connect to smartphones. The minion needs a USB connection tho, which is the $1000 one.

The raw data is actually pretty intense to decode - it took my 4 core i7 processor (2016) about 30 hours to basecall like 3gb of data from a flongle, which normally on minion flow cells you get like 30gb. This can be greatly increased with GPUs, however.

Nanopore is very locked down, but data you can share freely.
Those were unguided bombs. Modern artillery and mortars will just slowly wear down a static target like that. From a safe distance as well.
Been a Linux user for 20+ years (started on RehHat6 (not RHEL), went to slack, gentoo, ubuntu, debian and now ... Pop_OS) - PoP works great - it is Ubuntu with extra candy, some users have problems with it, I do not.

It is my primary work driver as full time netsec engineer and part time developer. PoP just works and gets out of your way (which is mostly GNOME philosophy).

Having worked in various desktop environments and window managers, PoP let's me work without too much linux admin overhead.
How do we know they offer better sound? I’ll wait for some reviews. Apple doesn’t enter a product category like this lightly or without careful price setting analysis. This is almost exactly the reaction people had to AirPods when they were announced.
Huge fan of these, and they were part of what inspired me to take up guitar again. Highly recommend. There is a fellow who does "Metamorphosis" as well, and it was one of the first pieces I learned.

edit: Thomas Csaba performing the complete Metamorphosis : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMyQM589Kbs
I have no idea what they sound like, but they look incredible. I doubt I'll buy them at that price, but I am happy to see that people are designing these kinds of things.
I also think that would provide most power to users, I will still try to come up with a sensible default definition for everyone
Qantas (the Australian airline) has already announced that they intend to require COVID vaccination as a condition for boarding international flights: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/qantas-covid-19-v...

Australia is also not even letting citizens leave the country without special permission. I don't see them loosening up until there's actual herd immunity via vaccination in the country.
“Think different” I guess..
they sell wheels for $700...
Far lower rates of obesity, better health infrastructure, and a much, much higher willingness to wear masks and defer to the elderly (who are most at risk).
Is it possible that they might actually be able to accept an audio signal over the cable as well?

It would be nice for those that have lower-latency needs.
Murat Demirbas has an interesting analysis that Bitcoin can be viewed as a Paxos variant with very, very expensive leader election: https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/03/anatomical-similar...
I wanted to link CF efforts on this also but somehow I forgot. Thanks for sharing and I really hope you are successful at this because what I experienced yesterday was really infuriating. Even if having everything behind a CDN to avoid ISP spying is still not the optimal solution, but at least is an improvement given what ISPs have already shown.
What annoys me that I would want to be a fan of someone like him but I just find his personality and behavior repulsive. After Jobs and Musk many people will now think you have to be an asshole to be successful and will try emulate the bad parts too.

People are biased towards simple explanations of the world so they're biased towards either either Musk is amazing or Musk sucks. The reality is that he's a great enterpreneur but shitty human being.
But why? Surely the point of headphones is that the sound is right in your ears and not coming out of a small device in a specific direction
Very good point! Sorry, I was confusing myself thinking about classic DNS.
If she was compliant, they would typically ask everyone to exit the house before they enter to clear it. This scenario specifically took a different approach. I don't see a higher risk of innocent people being killed, so maybe you can gather some statistics on that since the scenario is really a counter example to that.

Every building search is considered high risk. It's not an extreme risk, which is why they didn't execute it as a no-knock with SWAT, but there is still risk. The actions taken appear to consistent with that level of risk.
> Computers are extensions of people's minds and I expect them to be equally inviolable.

This is not a statement of fact and is generally a minority opinion.
Headphones are the new sneakers.
If Ashlee Vance's biography of Musk can be trusted, he worked different jobs as ancillary worker doing things like selling fruits, cleaning grain silos or even ovens in a factory.

As student he is said to have hosted parties for students in a house he and a fellow student had rented to pay for the rent (same source).
Toggling between devices really needs to be implemented better. Wouldn't it be possible for headphones to have a button to switch "inputs" between devices they are paired to?

I've come to use NFC to switch quickly to my phone, but I can't really NFC back to my PC as easily. Several awkward clicks and menus later I can start using them on my PC. Not a huge deal sure, but for a premium device I'd expect something more streamlined.
I remember reading a great presentation about how progress plateaus. People got jet engines and imagined space colonies, but at a certain point it was "good enough" and Mach 0.8 jumbo jets were fast enough to carry us halfway around the world...
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QC3 came out in 2006... That price today would be about the same as Air Pod Max in 2020 dollars.
Dude, I can promise you for 600 dollars you can buy more amazing headphones. You can probably find two cans for 300 each that will be better.

These are Apple Beats.
I work here and was in clinic this morning. We had three eligible patients. One consented to it and is having the vaccine now. The other two declined. Not making a point, just a data point.
Contact a lawyer ASAP. There's a lawsuit here if I've ever heard one.
Airpods Pro were upgraded for spatial audio (firmware I guess), but they're earbuds.
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Will stick with my Parrot Ziqs (gen1) for awhile longer at that price...
Well heck, if we want to stop the shootings I guess we better start censoring YouTube. Alas and alack, we have no choice but to start censoring!
Why “suddenly”? As I read the comment, OP transfers his previous experience with the brand to the next product? That’s how I buy too.
I have mixed feelings about wsl because support requests from wsl users are usually due to issues in wsl itself. I guess that's how windows developers feel about linux.
For someone that already has some decent over ear headphones, I read the entire press release thinking that these would be great to get. I was pegging them at $249 to $399 max. $549 shocked the daylights out of me! This is beyond too expensive for me to consider. Maybe it will come down over the years but there must be a very slim market of people who can pay that. I’m not usually shocked by an Apple price but that’s nuts. Few hundred dollars more and you can get a state of the art M1 MacBook Air and some amazing non-Apple headphones to go with it.
> the fact that they stipulate they only work with apple products is a bit insane to me.

If (and a big if, though also a possible if) they are truly exceptional and better than the competition, the desire to own these could funnel into buying more Apple products in general, so you can use them. Also, if they are that great, non-Apple users will find another reason to switch to Apple and it will boost the overall brand.

So, not an unreasonable idea. But it is bold.
Unfortunately all of these competitor products don't have the W1 chip and are treated by iOS and MacOS as second-grade citizens.

But at $600 after tax, I think a lot of people will decide to put up with that.
I’m just relieved it wasn’t peasants or “street trash”.
For commercial purposes it is actually very expensive.

(Source: Used to work for Nokia)

EDIT:

(Source2: https://www.qt.io/pricing)
Why people buy MacBooks when there're Dell? Why iPhone when there're Huawei. Etc, etc.

Because it is Apple. When your Audeze will break can you just pop up to the nearest Apple store to get support? Can you easily connect them to your iPhone, Mac, iPod?
The trick is to find "fault lines" throughout your monolith - places where it's easy to create separation of concerns and narrow interfaces. Maintain and document these like they are external APIs. Only pass simple data through it (serialized or anything easy to serialize).

When the time comes, cleave these chunks off and wrap them in RPC/REST/graphql.

It's good form even for monoliths since it makes for an easy interface to test.
Oh, I find it fascinating how the audio gear industry has taught the consumers on how much money you are supposed to spend to have audio experience at certain level. Pay attention on audiophile arguments, they will talk in terms of money(i.e. 150$ headphones vs 500$ headphones) when talking about audio quality.

I always find the audiophile market to be borderline fraud. They sell CD demagnetisers, ceramic cable lifters and all sorts of items that don't make any sense whatsoever.

Apple is my hero in that regard, where you actually pay for the product experience instead for being part of some deeply troubling subculture where passionately debating about very expensive cables and gadgets without ever being able to pass a blind test on the claims is the norm, almost like cargo cult. The most eloquent writer wins the debate and thy have lengthy take down articles with graphs clearly showing that the mor you pay the smoother the curves become. I would't usually have problem with such things but they often slide into extremism and quickly pushing you on the money-spend-for-audio-performance scale where you are simply supposed to check you bank account to see what sound quality you are about to get. So god help you if you are buying an audio equipment and you decided to do some research.
Could be fun playing a gyroscopically controlled video game on an iPad. You'd turn your body to the right, the in-game camera would pan to the right, and so would your ear's position within the sound scape. I'd imagine that could have quite an immersive effect.
You don't need to know anything about headphones to appreciate good sound quality, comfort, and connectivity.
I guess I'm pretty opinionated about this, but it was odd the author talked about the necessity of changing the way you think without also including anything about TLA+. IMO the "way you think" about distributed systems - if you want to be effective - will basically end up looking exactly like you think when writing a TLA+ spec, and learning TLA+ is a fast-track method of thinking like a distributed systems engineer. This is much, much more important in day-to-day work on distributed systems than knowing how a bunch of distributed systems algorithms work.
You answered the question. It’s because Apple is selling them. Apple has a unique ability to tell me what I need. Reality Distortion.
This is great. Assuming it is environmentally on par with standard Li-Ion batteries, it would have great applications in many fields.

- Medical Devices
- Wearables
- Foldable Phones
- Roll out Phone screens

and what not.
This whole pandemic has fued with our critical thinking. If you rewound to 2019 and had a story about a flu vaccine that had been rushed through we'd all be asking questions.

Just because there is a huge necessity to rush approval and dispersement doesn't mean the risks of unknown side effects are diminished. Lengthy approval processes and clinical trials are in place for a reason. And when you administer this vaccine to billions of people you are almost certain to see side effects. That's just simple science.
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imho the key thing about gaming on the M1 Macs right now is that many games that were unplayable on the previous generation of the same Macs (Air, entry model Pro 13", Mini) have flipped from unplayable to playable, which is what many people who use these systems (often not primarily for gaming) care about.

That said: I do think I need to come up with better wording or at least better definitions of what "playable" means (perhaps even for every game * settings * spec combination). With enough reports per game this might actually work.

For a while a long-tail of games will only have 1 report though and I wonder how to deal with those.

edit: e.g. in some cases it might sense to provide augmented information like if you are interested in performance on a MacBook Air while there is no report for MacBook Air it might make sense to add the context that there are reports on using a MacBook Pro 13" with the added disclaimer that wile in the same ballpark is not the same system (that could give enough context for the reader to guesstimate an upper/lower bound on what to expect)
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So... a volume knob?
Apple takes care of the minor details that just bug you. Same here. Also got Sony MX and it annoys me to sync them between my iPad and Mac.
I paid $349 (I think) for my Bose quiet comfort headphones, and they are good - but there are flaws that I wouldn’t be opposed to seeing corrected for a higher price. To each their own I suppose.
> The same reason people pay the Apple premium for anything else. It's the brand, the aesthetic, the ecosystem, and the signaling.

Apple is high quality. You're trying to make it sound cynical and flimsy, but it's not. It's consistent demonstrated high quality.
I'm totally in agreement with you. Sony, Bose etc. show that you can build a fantastic pair of noise cancelling "prosumer" headphones in the $250-350 range.

I'll accept a $50 markup for Apple's tight integration and marketing. That's $400.

$550 (or, in Europe, $775...) is a ridiculous price.
There are a couple of great anecdotes about Glass working at other jobs while starting out as a composer, one involving the art critic of Time magazine and another about driving a taxi.

https://interlude.hk/philip-glass-composer-taxi-driver/

'Glass understood that he had finally arrived as a composer when a woman tapped on the side of his cab and told him “you have the same name as a very famous composer.”
Fascinating, I always suspected people like this existed.