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Apple’s hardware game is very impressive in recent years. I’m prepared to be impressed further.
The iPhone was very different, and in many ways much better, than its competitors. I'm not seeing that here?
If latency is a concern, you can actually switch to using these via a wired (non-Bluetooth) connection as well. There's bound to be some minimal latency due to the DSP, but an order of magnitude lower than via Bluetooth.
Apple releases often signal industry shifts. For better or worse, they’re influential in one way or another, and worth the discussion.

Mass adoption of Spatial Audio may spark new startup ideas, for example.
I agree with that in the case of something like the AirPods Pro but not necessarily for $549. Superb audio quality would have to be the main selling point at that price.
Thank you. I missed this part of the news. It is a nice addition for those that need it.
Music has never radicalised anyone, nor video games. There's only a type of music (games) people listen to (play) who then go on to do radical things.
Someone should tell the author Facebook do a lot more than simple lookalike audiences with the data they collect.

> What makes that Apple advertisement so misleading is the level of individuality it implies in terms of data collection and application. Individuality is a real problem when it comes to data collection

I guess the author has never come across this before https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity
I get your point about the state, and I largely agree, but there's also been enough stories of individuals manufacturing outrage to their advantage. So I wouldn't give either party the benefit of the doubt here.
It is consistent though, do you have a better generic system for grouping object keys than alphabetization? It’s pretty handy to approach a codebase knowing that it has enforced this convention.
Also in nature: there is a giant hexagon on Saturn! http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/diagrams/saturn-h...
Mushroom once grew to 8m tall, 440million years ago. I wish someone would try to bring them back, at least one.

Radiation-fed mushrooms were found inside Chernobyl.

Mushrooms make up the bulk of a forest, you just can't see them.
I would add the 'Secret Lives of Data' presentation about 'Raft" to this list: http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/

It's a fantastic visual walk through of the Raft consensus protocol (used in many modern distributed systems like Consul).
It has nothing to do with DNSSEC.
My mom's own experience is remarkably similar to this: repeated unexplained allergic reactions landing her in the ER, eventually blaming an additive in the meat after realizing that meat seemed to be the culprit, and finally a chance conversation with a paramedic leading to the actual cause: alpha-gal allergy caused by a lone star tick bite several years before.

Except she lives in Wisconsin, not Australia.
I might be too optimistic but I'm hopeful that Steam can figure out a way to provide Proton-like compatibility to Macs going forward and/or that CrossOver will help here.

It certainly would be a lucrative market for Steam that just opened up. Most games w/ high performance requirements were not playable on entry-level Macs up until now.
That's a great idea, I used to adjust the volume of my roommates party through the Sonos app when they were going too wild too late, but it's cool to have something directly applying to Spotify
I feel like this is trivially resolved by selling a subscription to those additional services (e.g. for product updates or support agreements).

I'm just imagining a scenario where I build something with a subscription library and then 5 years down the line they get acquired by some private equity firm and increase the subscription cost by a factor of ten. Now I'm faced with a choice of either paying license ransom or losing the ability to use all of my own original software and creative effort.
This first Gen is for conspicuous consumers on Zoom calls.

I’d wait for the second or third before I’d consider investing into this.
While I agree that it's a step forward you should proxy your whole traffic anyways if you want to enjoy the benefits of encrypted DNS. Otherwise intermediaries routing your packets can still see what you connect to by looking at the IP header (or SNI, if not encrypted).

DoH/DoT is still useful because it allows you to proxy your DNS over Tor (for example) without having to worry about tampering (or surveillance if you also use separate circuits per domain).
Do you think it preys on delusion more than the "high end" spaces of other niche markets? I think the same kind of upsells occur in spaces like sporting gear, bags and luggage, computer peripherals, etc. Hell, I think even fine food and wine are similar in how they project an artificially high "taste ceiling," if you will.
>$549!?

At this price, it is a luxury that can wait until AirPods Max 2, as I have already upgraded to XM4/Buds+/Jabra 75t this year for work and pleasure. However, at first glance, some integrated design aesthetics will provide the necessary appeal for dedicated fans e.g. the digital crown, colour scheme etc. It would be interesting to see the real world tests, and for starters, I would settle for a mini review by tubers like MKBHD.
how is this helpful? You’re not proving anything, and likely just pissing off GP.
Musk has stated that he will entertain offers to merge, but won't be doing any hostile takeovers.

https://electrek.co/2020/12/01/elon-musk-tesla-tsla-merging-...

I seriously doubt that he would be interested in taking on GM's or Ford's hundreds of billions in debt, though.
i've got a preteen son who spends time on youtube, and I can't block it with pihole because there are tons of really awesome things on there. Currently he's geeking out on animal facts.

What I've done as a bit of a middle ground is to use ublock to strip away the recommendation sections and comments. He can still search and watch whichever videos, and even look at all the videos on a particular channel, but at least he's not getting sucked down a rabbit hole. I've had the conversation with him that its not that I don't trust him rather I know how distracting those things can be and have found them detrimental even to my own attention/life.

Of course he'll probably go around them eventually as he learns how things work and finds some motivation to do so, but in the meantime he gets a cleaner experience of the internet.

FWIW these are the rules. They might be breaking something, but they're working alright for now.

www.youtube.com###related
www.youtube.com##.ytd-comments
www.youtube.com###content > .ytd-rich-item-renderer.style-scope
They might come up with new features but I would need to reforge my pan in order to get them. If I don't need those features (wouldn't have bought the pan in the first place if I needed the features) then there's no need to do all that.
Ask HN: Is It Better to Buy Electronics in the US After the X-Mas Season?
- Do they usually hike the prices / reduce the discounts during x-mas?

- Do post-xmas sale offer better deals and discounts?
That's true. States seems to be split on 60 vs 65 as the age cutoff for healthy adults.
The last time I remember seeing calculations on this, it worked out that it does use more fuel per kilogram than a cargo plane, but only about 1.5x as much - the reason being that the starship spends most of its flight coasting with nearly zero drag, which an airplane has to fight drag in the atmosphere the whole way to its destination.
I was wondering if there's any weird KPI over at MS that can be gamed by reclassifying an RCE as something less severe.
Whether these are overpriced depends on how low rates you can get. Would you say Tesla is a bad trade if you would get a debt with 2% yearly rate that you have to give back in 30 years?
I personally know multiple people that became intolerant to beef after a tick bite, rather than all mammalian meat. The symptoms manifested as digestive stress: abdominal cramping, nausea, and diarrhea. The onset of symptoms might be delayed for minutes or hours.

In one case, the person started to lose ability to tolerate a wide variety of foods. Further investigation revealed some symptoms that seemed to be related to MTHFR mutations. Genetic analysis confirmed this. Prior to analysis, began supplementing with 5-methyltetrahydrofolate. This began to immediately improve symptoms and foods were able to be added back to the diet. This continue for some time and hit a wall. Eventually traditional Chinese medicine doctor prescribed some herbal supplements.

The person in question still avoids beef, but is otherwise back to their pre-tickbite diet and living a normal life after years of struggling.
But my Shure IEMs offer better sound isolation and better sound quality and cost less money.
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It's not remotely like that. They're talking about how people will spend dollars to defend their 'audiophile' badge with no regard for what if any actual impact it makes on sound fidelity.
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That's a strange dichotomy of choices. Another post in this thread backs up entirely my point that this is music to be played in the background, not thoroughly consumed and heard. [0]

> I think to this day its great background music for programming work

This article was nothing more than sponsored content for a contemporary artist who already has all of the success, publicity, and fandom he could ever need. By leveling him to a tier much closer to reality, and throwing out the names of much more accomplished and more musically-important 20th century composers, I hope to provide a counter-point to The Guardian, which is neither an authority on music nor the broader culture.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345602
What "the point" of headphones is, is of course subjective. But I'm going to guess that for most people, the point of using headphones is have their audio portable and/or to not disturb other people. I don't think many people use them because they explicitly like the experience of audio playing "between the ears".

As to "why", people might actually prefer the (emulated) experience of a point sound source, as it could closer resemble talking to someone physically present (calls) or listening to a live performance.
In the US, the major ramification of exploiting misconduct to get warrants is that all the evidence stemming from that warrant is excluded from the trial, which is a rule we have that is not common in the rest of the world.
great for those others now lol, apple effect... everyone can raise their prices now with no guilt
Actually, you know what? You're right. That is exciting.

I'm letting my pessimism get the better of me (and am rightfully being downvoted for it).
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You will need to clone the object somehow. The simplest solution is to go through each of the object properties and create a new object with those same properties (_.clone). Alternatively, recursively go through each property in the object and then keep going deeper through each property that is an object until you get a copy of everything to assign to a new object (_.deepClone)
Google is now blocking the ads if they don’t meet Google’s standards
Primates are also fair game.
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Your own quote refutes the rest of your comment.
A bounded-noise mechanism for differential privacy
Yeah. I'm giving up on it for these reasons:

- For CLI apps, Rust has a better event loop, better language, more libraries, and is easier to deploy

- QWidgets seems like it's not "cool" anymore, and I don't feel like learning QML. I liked QWidgets because it was mostly the same from Qt 4.0 through Qt 5.0.

- The commercial side has no financial interest in adding cool new features to the LGPL code

- So how long will volunteers keep fixing the LGPL side, when their work is funding a business that does not help them?

- I'm waiting to see how Copperspice (A Qt fork that cuts off support for older C++ versions and uses STL and UTF-8 aggressively) turns out

About 10 years ago, Qt was my _jam_. I did everything in Qt. Games, CLI, GUI, IRC bots. I think I tried to build a Qt web server a couple times. For a kid who hated Windows and web stuff, it was my gateway to event loops and modern programming concepts. I just quit loving it. It's still in use at work, but I'm making plans to back out of it. Oh well.
It's crazy how in India its approximately $850 which is huge.
Designing something to be “scalable” before it’s actually established is a recipe for premature optimization at best and a poorly baked SOA with service boundaries that make change incredibly difficult at worst.

It’s important to keep mind that SOA is about scaling teams first, code second and not really about throughout per se. A share-nothing web tier plus a couple judiciously applied databases and background job queues can effectively scale a huge proportion of applications without the overhead of a full SOA.
This is super fascinating - I was always told that cleaning wounds with H2O2 could if anything, make the scars worse.
You can turn on multipoint and switch sources in the app, but it's clumsy. AFAIK, there's no way to do it on the device itself (and that's disappointing). I loathe having to disconnect one source to connect another.
Whoops, I totally forgot about alcohol stoves, good call. I’ve personally never used them, so they just slipped my mind.

2 & 3 are certainly different in their starting properties, but from a stove perspective they seem to be the same, at least today. My MSR Whisperlite Universal can consume isopro, white gas, kerosene, or in a real emergency auto gas. The only difference between the three appears to be the shape of the brass nozzle that sprays the heated & pressurized fuel into the mixing chamber. Although for the reasons you listed, I obviously would prefer Naptha if I was planning ahead, since it’s easier to get going in a dire situation.
It would not be difficult to assemble the same kind of narrative based on plentiful evidence of the same abstract psychological behavior, except from the radical left.

I happened to read a BLM post on Medium once, and I now get a daily email of several blog posts that are at least as delusional as the above beliefs about how all white people are not just racist, but fundamentally and immutably racist.

Underappreciated (and rarely discussed in the media) is that this sort of radical content amplifies the sentiments of those who are on the alternate end of the spectrum (and vice-versa), in an ever intensifying negative feedback loop. I often wonder if politicians and forum/media commentators are completely oblivious to this notion, or if they are aware of it but have some sort of a "the ends justify the means" thing going on. I also often wonder why there is essentially zero initiative whatsoever to reach out to these communities and establish some sort of a dialogue, as is done with peace talks with warring terrorist organizations - again, has this idea literally never crossed a single person's mind...or has it, but the utter lack of public discussion of the idea is a ~"strategic decision" of some kind? (That it never seems to come up even in forums suggests the former is the more likely of the two explanations.)

Human consciousness is a hell of a drug.
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> Apple is my hero in that regard, where you actually pay for the product experience

What do you think the audiophiles are paying for? The only difference here is that you appreciate white boxes and thin devices rather than gold-plated connectors and oxygen-free cables. You like your thing but don't like theirs.
That's not what I'm seeing, are we in the same thread? It is putting these in that same sphere. Most point out that there are very, very competent competitors around half the price and are looking for what makes these different (the snake oil as you say).
It uses a lightning cable??! You’ve gotta be kidding me. So if you buy these and then buy the new iPhone rumored for next September your $550, less than a year old high-tech headphones will need to charge with a deprecated, proprietary cable that you’ll have to keep around just for them.
Came here to say that. Thank goodness for YouTube! There are no records to spin backwards anymore to get the latest marching orders from Satan.
They quietly released a wired lightning to wired headphone jack cable today to go with these, for use on planes, etc.
Succeed at what, making things people want, or operating in a bureaucracy? The latter, absolutely, bureaucracy is the pupal nursery for psychopathy, but when you actually have to help people, these traits don't work well.
Cool headphones but it’s clear Apple can’t name things in original ways anymore.
> it's not like the music itself inspired people worldwide to burn churches.

unfortunately...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/us/louisiana-black-church...
Audiophiles say Apple fans only buy based on brand and he’s over here saying the headphones sound worse when nobody has even tried them.
> current approach to mental health

This is a red herring; nowhere in the section of the report on him does it describe him as being mentally ill, and it was not a sentencing factor at his trial (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53919624)

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/12258... : ". He said after being assessed by the psychologist and psychiatrist, there was no evidence the terrorist suffered from any mental disorders or psychiatric conditions, or that he showed any clinically significant cognitive impairment.

The psychologist determined he displayed a range of traits akin to a personality dysfunction, but not to such an extent as to constitute a personality disorder"

> systematic failure modes in socialization of today's youth

This is rather complicated, because we're talking about radicalisation; he was "socialized" (or at least brought to those views) by the wrong adults, which he chose himself.
The company behind Qt has been getting very passive-aggressive in the last 1..2 years about using the LGPL version for commercial projects. They didn't shut it down (yet?) but they're definitely not happy about it. Personally I wouldn't consider Qt for future projects because the writing is on the wall.
Beats are widely considered to be overpriced for their audio quality. I think it's reasonable to expect the AirPods Max to be as well, but I think the main draw of this product is seamless integration rather than pure audio quality, and the question is whether you're willing to pay a (substantial) premium for that. I expect that many will be.
This seems to be the story with a lot of tick related illness. People come down with some random illness and they see doctor after doctor who runs a battery of tests that yield no results. Finally someone decides to run the test for Lyme Disease and lo and behold the results come back positive. Kris Kristofferson is a prime example. His doctors thought his memory loss was due to dementia, until a someone finally decided to test for Lyme Disease.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kris-kristofferson-misdiagnosed...
> Seriously, how many times are we going to tweak these?

Sounds super agressive to me, highly unprofessional.
Literally first line of the article:

> A UK grandmother has become the first person in the world to be given the Pfizer Covid-19 jab as part of a mass vaccination programme.
> I was looking at this for StarCraft 2

SC2 works fine on non-M1 macs, so I assume on M1 it will run even better.
I think most people here have their doubts that they will actually be an upgrade over the QC35 or the WH1000XM4. They'll undoubtedly have a better pairing experience and the head tracked spatial audio is unique among over-ears, but there's a chance of losing in sound quality, noise cancellation ability (active & passive), comfort, and battery life. Also based on phrasing at the bottom of the page it's possible that they will only work with Apple products. We'll have to wait and see how they compare.
Yes, it is a "bitter criticism" of Apple. It is not a "bitter criticism" of you or your beliefs.
I think you could just as easily devise a moral framework where paying more tax than you are absolutely required to is immoral, given the actives that your taxes support (e.g. war).
Seems that there was a lot of controversy around his work earlier on. But I don't get about what.
Not sure it's theoretically possible. What you can do in an interactive WYSISYG editor like a word processor and what you can do with batch typesetting program are two different things.

When you edit in a word processor, you have different expectations about the interaction speed, and the locality of changes. A typesetting program can spend two seconds optimizing word spacing when you "render" the document. Word can't. It could spend those 2 seconds when you hit print - but then it's no longer WYSIWYG! It could also apply "TeX-like" typesetting changes (jumbling the spacing around in the whole document on every keystroke) but that also breaks the user's expectation.
I am not a "TLA+ promoter" but think it is a very valuable tool for anyone building distributed systems. The value of TLA+ is that it forces you to carefully consider your algorithm, which is certainly important if the algorithm is complex but equally important if the algorithm is simple. Most people will struggle to correctly specify even a simple algorithm in TLA+ because they will miss a lot of things they had assumed without ever thinking about.

Real world systems need to handle all the things you mention. TLA+ helps you consider all these issues with spelling them out individually. There is no point in building a complex system if you haven't taken the time to validate the correctness of the target system in the first place.
Is the sequel to that novel a story about women taking over the tech sector
I miss the documentary about Glass that used to be available on streaming. It's one of the few discs I plan to actually buy.

I don't understand the business model of small films that withdraw from streaming completely, especially documentaries. Surely that can't be more profitable? I think about this question a lot while going through the dreck on Netflix and Amazon Prime. I think about all that work and knowledge and art just going silent and no one ever finding it or watching it again.
Isn't there an argument to be made that YouTube has simply improved (perfected?) the algorithm news agencies have been trying to perfect for decades? We all know that sensationalism sells in media, so is the difference between sensational headlines and 'radicalising' YouTube recommendations really a qualitative difference (the latter of which is decidedly sinister and perverse), or just a case of machines outperforming humans?
Ventilator weaning is a long process
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It does have a pretty elegant solution: water. Water is an excellent shield against radiation, and any long duration mission will have a large amount of water on board for the humans. With proper positioning of the tanks, said water can do double duty as a radiation shield.