skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anyway, the issue for me is that these are supposed to be audiophile/professional grade headphones - something you buy explicitly because you want the best audio quality. If you need these in the first place, then it's worth doing 20 minutes of research to see if it's the best quality for your money, or even in general.

This is where you’re wrong. That’s not the audience they’re targeting. Their target is Apple users bought into the ecosystem who may or may not use AirPods. If they see an Apple made headphone, they implicitly trust it to be not crap and hardy even if it may not compare well to the competitors. Your passionate arguments for why there are cheaper alternatives don’t matter, this has been the same argument for a lot of Apple made products. They are one of the few companies on the market that has demonstrated a commitment to quality (for a premium, of course) for the masses. Their brand is very very strong.

I am not an audiophile and I don’t care to be. I like AirPods and my first reaction to this was: oh nice, my Bose headphones are pretty old. These look quite pricy but it’s Apple, I trust that I’ll get a fairly reliable product that looks beautiful and works really well with my phone (no custom janky apps).
> China is using TikTok against the interests of US citizens

Evidence other than Donald, the Mr.Credible’s claim?
The price is steep as is the apple way, but I agree that saying "EGAD How can they charge as much as HD6-whatevers" when those headphones basically require an external amp just to run is just a little silly.
Very true, same with my local center. I would imagine that could increase the cost of renting your own Penske/Uhaul box truck.
> not sure if you got flagged because Afghanistan didn't have actual 'castles'

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nad-e-+Ali,+Afghanistan/@3...
I mean... it could be juicing metrics as you say. I certainly have no love for these companies. But more likely its to minimize support, confusion, and a feeling of brokenness.

Alice, Bob, and Charlie are in a group.
Alice blocks Bob.
Bob sends a message.
Charlie responds to it.
Alice says “what are you on about Charlie?” Because she didn’t see bobs message because she has him blocked.

Alice and Charlie work out via messaging back and forth in the group that bob sent a message and that Alice has him blocked. That’s awkward for everyone. And happens every time bob sends a message in the group.

How would you deal with that?
Do you really want China to have the social media history (secrets, likes/dislikes, usage profile) of our future leaders?
I work for Oracle on their cloud platform (including reasonably closely with the Oracle Linux team, as my team is responsible for the main platform images).

Speaking entirely for myself, opinions my own, may not reflect my employer etc. etc:

I came in to this job expecting OL to just be a CentOS clone, and not really expecting much from the kernel they ship with it.

It is both a CentOS clone, and a bunch more. Oracle takes the CentOS packages and applies bug fixes etc. that upstream RedHat has failed or refused to apply, so I've actually found OL to suffer from fewer problems than CentOS, and we've even had to apply mitigations for CentOS 6 for stuff we haven't had to do to any other OS we distribute. For entirely selfish reasons, I was really glad to see CentOS 6 go end of life last month.

On top of that the OL team hires a significant number of upstream kernel developers, including the core maintainers for a number of components, like XFS, Xen, and so on, and produces the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (a really curious choice of marketing terminology), that incorporates mainstream bug and security patches, while being closer to mainstream than RHEL/CentOS, and the kernel patches submitted upstream by OL devs.
Ah, looking again at floorplans, some appear to be stacking two stair paths in one stairwell. So if you have a fire in one apartment, maybe the smoke only reaches (say) even-floor-number front doors.
Spotify HQ mode is not a bad digital source. Do you mean that's all (these) people think is required to get high quality playback?
thank you and i totally agree
The device is just an oxford nanopore minIon, a commercially available nanopore sequencer
NPR had a great episode about this! A lot of people that I grew up with had chronic fatigue. We lived in one of the most tick populated area in the US and the teachers will just let us roam the shrubs and trees when we were on school trips. I always wondered if the population suffered from under tested and diagnosed Lyme and Lone Star disease.
Yes, this is exactly it. The conspiracy theories about buying-CentOS-to-kill it are understandable but totally off-base. Red Hat brought CentOS in-house at a time when the company was trying to grow from being a single-product company to a portfolio one, and it became clear that Fedora wasn't working for what at the time RH called "layered products". The hope was that CentOS would provide a more-RHEL-like community place for work like RDO to happen. That was partially successful, but the plan wasn't really realized — and speaking from a Fedora point of view, that "Fedora is failing at a thing we need so we'll turn to CentOS" wasn't a healthy dynamic for either project. CentOS Stream serves the initial purpose better, and now RH's distro ecosystem story is actually linear rather than a crazy MC Escher contortion.
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Re: "I often need something that just works similarly to how a traditional desktop application works, looks be damned."

It's annoying how many dump efficient UI design to chase the latest fads. We Vulcans cry.
They are apparently the best now according to Sandy Munro. Maybe they were shipping the lower quality over to them?

regardless, past != future
I agree and really love the Daniel Craig movies but, they're from a different era.

In my mind it ends up being like the Jordan-Lebron or the Ronaldo/Messi-Maradona debate. There are just too many intrinsic differences between the two eras that it makes a real comparisons basically impossible.
Numbers being objectively worse doesn't mean that the experience as a whole is objectively worse. If that was true no one would buy vinyl and the iPod never would have succeeded.

Sound is like food. People like different flavors and that is OK.
> 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.

That's no bueno. Are we to assume this only works with apple devices?
The largest competitors now are Toyota, VW, Daimler, GM, Honda. Their combined market cap is about 400B. Do those companies have high debt loads?

I agree competitors will be in trouble in the coming EV transition and some are discounted, but I do also think Tesla is now vastly overvalued by the market. They've only just started making a profit, and they are still burning huge amounts of cash. I wouldn't be worried about solvency but I would worry that the future return promised by their valuation is extraordinary.

Tesla has risen 800% in the last year, that seems to be unjustified by their progress in the same time frame.
> I don't think that's true, and your information appears to be the result of doing Google searches on SEO'd tax and accounting law partnership pages.

It's absolutely true. You can give up to $15k a year to anyone. If you gift more than that amount to certain people, you have to file Form 709 with the IRS. Income taxes are due on the amounts after total lifetime gifts to a person exceed the lifetime exclusion limit, which is currently $11,700,000. If married, these numbers are doubled, as each spouse may gift individually.

But even if none of this applied, you can find a list of exclusions right on the IRS website, which states:

Transfers Not Subject to the Gift Tax

Four types of transfers are not subject to the gift tax. These are:

Transfers to political organizations,

Transfers to certain exempt organizations,

***Payments that qualify for the educational exclusion, and***

Payments that qualify for the medical exclusion.

I'm not some "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" making shit up from a Google search. I have family to whom I gift money, which means I file this form every year. Congress is full of a bunch of wealthy elites looking out for their own interests. Thus, gifting money tax-free is not difficult, at all.

Also, I'm pretty left leaning. My shitting on the state for mismanagement of (and outright lies on the use of) lottery funds is because I want them to be held accountable and live up to their promise.
The Windows Holiday Soft-wear shop
I don't support this. Not out of some silly sense of what "qualifies," but rather because it feels like this self-admitted marketing attempt will dilute the culture.
Less than that. SF has had about 20.5 confirmed Covid deaths / 100k so far.

The USA overall has had about 86 confirmed Covid deaths / 100k.

And the USA total is likely a more significant underestimate than the SF total, as there are many places where there has been an abnormal spike of “pneumonia”, “stroke”, etc. deaths never attributed to Covid.
Anyone saving encrypted secrets in git will probably find it helpful to enable cleartext diffs:

https://github.com/mozilla/sops#48showing-diffs-in-cleartext...

If you have many secrets you'll probably still end up breaking them out into different files to minimize conflicts between multiple in-progress branches. A good place to start is keeping a secrets file per environment+service:

- sops-dev-mywebapp.yml
- sops-dev-mydb.yml
- sops-prod-mywebapp.yml
- sops-prod-mydb.yml
That looks really interesting, thanks for recommending it here.
GoldenEye. You got the classic Pierce Brosnan suave and you get Sean Bean as the villian. Was my first bond movie and I still love it. Great action pieces too.
IMO it's important to separate the economic infra and the public utility portions of it -- but economies of scale might be had when combined.

Some retailer getting their consumer product shipped to a customer is not a problem for the government to solve. Getting medicine to someone in need is. It's hard because on the surface they seem the same, but systems that functions like the former and latter have very different economics (say in the fail case) and their budgets/designs have to match the needs.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm

> However, getting vaccinated early (for example, in July or August) is likely to be associated with reduced protection against flu infection later in the flu season, particularly among older adults

August / July is too early, people's flu immunity wears off before the end of the season. This is well known.
Ooh, I get that with pepperoni, especially bad with the 'snack' type of pepperoni stick. Not other preserved meats, just pepperoni. I mentioned it to a doctor and they absolutely just sighed and said "Yeah, well, bodies are weird, maybe don't eat pepperoni then?".
At least some government let their citizens know that they are being surveilled.
I think that's even less likely to be true - Amazon had been doing long-haul trucking for quite a few years and letting UPS/Fedex/USPS do last mile delivery for them. I can't imagine they went backwards on that just because they ramped up last mile delivery.
I'm surprised the 737 max did not rebrand after the issues. Will consumers care, or will they continue to buy the cheapest ticket?
That's of course true, but then banning TikTok increases YouTube's monopoly, making Google's privacy and data protection issues even worse.
Japan is also very SF yet very fantasy/historicall all at the same time! 300 km/h trains, 30 milion people megapolises but also ancient shrines, temples and vulcanoes, often right next to each other (at least in Kagoshima :P)!

Still, I would welcome more ambitious space stuff being done in space in Japan. Hayabusa and Kibo is nice and cool, but we need more! :)
Also, narcissistsic sociopaths can have a high capacity for empathy in the sense of knowing what others feel and think while also ruthlessly manipulating, being two-faced based on who is present and the gaslighting others when these obvious differences are brought up (differences like switching the entire tone of voice and mannerisms at the flip of a switch, as if it was new person, just to suck up to or put down people depending on their goals).

Working with such people can be a nightmare because they appear so charming outward to powerful people in decision making positions, while being cruel and sadistic to others, leaving very little for these people to do because the higher ups love the individual and cannot imagine what is hidden from them.
And this will be expanding to cover more use cases. See https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-centos-stream-updates#Q10:

_In the first half of 2021, we will be introducing low- or no-cost programs for a variety of use cases, including options for open source projects and communities, partner ecosystems and an expansion of the use cases of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer subscription to better serve the needs of systems administrators and partner developers._
> Yes. If there is determined to be harm, I see no reason to protect them.

But should the US government, given the current developments, ban Twitter and/or Facebook? That is what I'm asking.

Because they are quite literally doing the same as TikTok. Now, is TikTok spying for China? Except for a few reports, there is no proof of it. In fact, the US government would not ban TikTok if they sell their business to US companies.

So either TikTok does not spy on their customers for China, or they do, and the US government wants to have control over data illegally harvested.

Either way, forcing TikTok hand is not a move made to protect US citizens.
I would wager around a year at max. Most materials related to Distributed Systems are information heavy(requiring you to read and remember) as opposed to being math heavy(with the possible exception of graph theory, which usually none of the fundamental texts expect the readers to know). Even many popular papers like raft, paxos, chubby, BitTorrent, gfs etc do not require much mathematical knowledge beyond basic arithmetic. You can read them like a non-fiction and understand most of the things.

Not saying that Distributed Systems is easy, doing research in Distributed Systems is very challenging, but I don’t think reading and understanding these materials should be that difficult for an average software engineer.
Thanks for saying this. None of the people here have even tried the headphones yet, don’t know what they are made of, and don’t know how computational audio plays with material..
Disaster Recovery/Rescue. Some major ecological disaster where what you need is on the wrong ocean
> Not true, because the current CO is not a rolling update.

I'm not sure where I claimed it was?
Most people don’t give a shit about understanding how things work. They want something that they can afford that doesn’t suck and looks good.
Why exactly is that disappointing? Isn't it more disappointing that some companies expect to be able to run the same OS for 13 years and get security patches backported for free?

I don't think this will hurt RedHat at all. How many RHEL customers are actually generated as a result of providing CentOS for free? Not many I suspect.

Those who want to learn about RHEL can still get Fedora, or CentOS Stream, or a RedHat developer license.
Are you suggesting that if one of our trading partners engages in protectionist measures (tariffs, dumping, subsidies, etc.) that we shouldn't retaliate?
Note that DoH (and DoT) shipped in iOS 14 and Big Sur, though aren't particularly easy to enable.

You can use something like iMazing Profile Editor [1] to create a .mobileprofile (which is just XML) to configure DoH or DoT.

[1]: https://imazing.com/profile-editor
> Although most humans are not going to understand that the CCP owns 51% of every company.

False

Only state-owned corps have the 51% rule.

Proof is Elon's plant in Shanghai.
There are a lot of those dark traits out there, and we have to segment them. Just from my exp, I see more dark traits on successful people, albeit it doesn't necessarily mean that people with dark traits are more likely to succeed. Can't say if it's universal though.

I'd also argue that dark traits linked to social success are more or less born, or heavily influenced by childhood exp (which is essentially "born"), so it's kind of difficult to "pick" it up after reaching adulthood.
> Even in the more nefarious case of ad-tech, I'd personally prefer more relevant ads than generic non-relevant ones.

We don't need surveillance infrastructure to achieve this. Advertisers can simply place their ads on pages that are relevant to their audience.
Joining my voice to the choir: Proton works pretty dang well.

I've made Skyrim, Fallout, GTA 5, etc. work (or kind of work) under WINE and Proton is so much easier and cleaner. On top of the Linux native games, like those from Paradox, I've got no reason to use Windows outside of my work laptop -- I do AD admin stuff occasionally so a Win10 box is useful there...

But solid 10/10, would recommend Proton.
At least as of Qt 5, the main drivers were static linking, liability, and not having to say you’re using Qt, iirc.
Java compiles to machine code? or does it still require having Java to run the byte code?
It's called Lawful Interception and is the norm in most western countries.
What does the Tk family lack to make "thrivable"? It doesn't have built-in resizable editable data grids, but that gap alone is not a show-stopper.
but requiring a perpetual license as long as you distribute your Qt-reliant software is insane in my mind

I'm an embedded Qt licensee. I don't get any of this at all and now I need to spend hours I don't have with my legal team understanding what the impact is. I suppose we're staying on 5.15 for the lifetime of the product I haven't even launched yet.

I mean, it's a given every time Qt pops up on HN a good 50% of the thread is sucked up with licensing questions and information/misinformation. Getting kind of tired of it all.
Maybe a Find My iPad style feature? Using their crowdsourced bluetooth-based system.
Frankly, I've owned several in-ear products from various companies (Shure, Sony, Bose, UE), and none of them hit the sound quality of the Airpods Pro. None of them. Maybe once you get in to $400+ IEMs, but I'm not spending that much on IEMs.

Similarly, the HomePod. I have used a Nest Audio (returned), Nest Hub Max (returned), Echo Studio (returned), a Sony GTK-XB7 (really like this one for parties as it gets very loud), and a UE Hyperboom (also really like this one as it has a 24 hour battery). HomePod has the best audio quality. Are there speakers that are better? Oh hell yes; I have a pair of Mackie MR5s that blow the Homepod out of the water. But also, they're five times the size.

I would not put it past Apple to do something great with these. In my mind, they've established themselves as being a top-tier audio equipment manufacturer, alongside Sennheiser, Sony, Grado, Beyerdynamic, etc, and I really think the people who don't believe this just haven't been using their full scope of audio products.

I do think one needs to answer whether $500+ is something one is willing to spend on a piece of audio equipment. Its a ton of money, and audio naturally has a rate of exponential decay of return (you can get 95% of the audio quality of $1000+ headphones with a $100 pair of the right ones). That's a separate question from whether they deliver value previously only seen in $800+ devices. If they can do that, then these are worth it to some people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQGOcOUBi6s

Here's a nice video on the immune system that might help you out. Their other videos on the immune system, the complement system, and viruses might also be helpful. Not the most technical deep dives, but good, abstracted explanations.

In short, I don't think the vaccine prevents entry of the virus into the cells. That still happens, as it's a mechanical protein interaction (as far as I know). However, the vaccine (mRNA ones at least) work by producing the protein on the outside of the virus and putting that in your system, so your immune system learns how to respond. At least that's my mile-high interpretation.
The personality and behavior that you find repulsive is probably the most conducive to progress. I am not one of those (if I do say so myself). I don't like to step on other peoples' toes or piss people off. I value the happiness of certain other people over my own, mostly. I am unwilling to sacrifice certain things (family) for other goals that I might have.

These traits (some might say virtues) are limitations on what I can accomplish. People without these limitations are often perceived as assholes, but with the right combination of other traits/virtues, they can really do great things.

That's how I see it anyway. I'm not making excuses for myself, and I still intend to do something great, but I don't have expectations of changing the world or being the greatest.
China's economy is a mix of communism and capitalism
"On the other hand, the Israelis claim to be "God's chosen people""

That is not correct.

A quarter of the population of Israel isn't Jewish. They certainly don't.

And of the ~75% who are, around half identify as secular / not religious.
I actually dislike the rubber tips. The original AirPods fit my ear so well that I can shake my head without them coming loose, and comfortable to the point that I literally forget they’re there.

If they had better battery life, they’d be the perfect easy headphone.
I don’t understand the argument you are trying to make. That price controls are good? Or that a national carrier will always be profitable because they can just jack up their rates?
The best Bond movie.
> which legally is 100% a matter of foreign policy, and therefore at the executive branches sole discretion

I don't think the executive branch has sole and arbitrary discretion over foreign policy? For one thing, there's the treaty clause, and the foreign commerce clause of article 1 section 8. This judge apparently agrees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party
Bill Gates’ favorite reads of 2020
Are you sequencing the whole plasmid or just your inserts? The reason I'd never use a nanopore for my plasmid work is because the reason I sequence is to confirm assembly and sequence, especially after cloninf protocols, which is going to be one of the more common (if not most common) use cases for plasmid sequencing. I need Sanger for the base pair level accuracy.
Could the nuke joke just be his site is awe.com and the Atomic Weapons Establishment's site is awe.co.uk?
Again another Apple post.
Not OP, but:

* Knowing little about headphones it would take me more than a couple hours to research properly

* I don’t enjoy this research. So unlike most leisure this could be evaluated as a time cost against other activities like working on my business, which translates into a money cost.

* There is a seamlessness when everything is apple. It all works very well together. Having another sort of device makes it the odd duck out and a source of friction even if it is superior on one or two metrics. These headphones will seamlessly switch between multiple devices and work with Siri/Apple music etc

* If there is ever a problem, Apple support is excellent and there are apple stores all over the world. I’m also in the stores reasonably often if I need to buy some other thing, check out a product or need servicing on another device. Apple also offers excellent mail service with premade labels and pickup. Servicing things is work, so this servicing convenience lowers the effective cost.

I won’t personally be buying the overear headphones. I really like my airpods and have tinnitus so I’m not sure I should be using noise cancellation. But hopefully the explanation above gives you some explanation of how buying an apple product can make more sense once you’re already in the ecosystem.
Re: "too bad there are no good alternatives to this"

What about the Tk/Gtk family of products?