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> China is explicitly against [unfettered access].

They are not "explicitly against that". They don't allow full access at the get-go, true, but it's a big overstatement to say that they are against the concept. If you look at what they've done in the past 20 years, you'll see that they're opening up to foreign business more and more.

For example, joint ventures used to be required. A couple of years ago, that requirement has been dropped. And now with RCEP, they're reducing tariffs for many Asian countries.

Walk down the street in China for 10 minutes and you'll see tons of western companies.

Western countries also don't fully adhere to the free trade principle. There are countries that blocked investment from China for political reasons, way before the "but China is unfair for not allowing access into their markets" started.
Its strangeness contributes a lot to scepticism when first presented with it. I have to admit I had this "you're making it up" reaction to allergic people. I literally thought, when I was a kid, that nut-allergy is overblown, people who claim that they're allergic to X is actually just fussy eaters, etc. (Now I know better)

As an example, I have contact dermatitis (red rashes, itchy) when I wear leather watches. If the watch has a plastic band or metal band, then it's fine. But leather always does it for me.

Part of me is thinking: is this because it's made from a mammal's skin?

But another part of me is really thinking: am I taking this too far? Maybe it's something else?

The worst thing is there's no doctors that would confirm my hypothesis. Reading online the symptoms of people who have this type of allergy is very different (people always list irritated bowel or skin rashes after eating meat), whereas for me when I eat beef (or even just soup made by using beef bones), it's actually: hard to breathe, my nose runs constantly (and effusively! - I am always amazed at the volume of snot that I can produce during the allergic times)

I have this reaction with other types of meat as well, but chicken is fine. It made me think a lot about what I eat.

Since the reaction has been mild, I've been adventurous at times, when I really craved steaks. My doctor hearing about it afterwards was aghast: she said I should never, ever do that again and I might die.

And really the child in me is still thinking: is this overblown? Would I really die from it?

It's so frustrating not knowing -exactly- what can I do or not do. It either goes from: you're going to die, to OK pop these Desloratadine pills and you're going to be fine, to "I don't think it's allergies, you have -X disease-"
> There are plenty of things to dislike about Apple, but their products tend to outlast competitors

That's a myth.
Because the ban is an admission of the influence that a company with nothing but troves of data can have, and thus is a step towards actually addressing the issues of Facebook, Google and the like.

But what we really need is a US version of GDPR
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> This is what I'm talking about. How do you KNOW that $other_headphones sound better? The Apple model isn't even available yet.

I feel this part of the discussion is missing. A lot of people seem to love the HomePod for it's great audio quality at the price, and I have heard similar things for the HomePod Mini. Apple seems to be getting decent at making high quality audio equipment(per $), I feel like the quality of these headphones could be similar to the competition.

Apple for sure has a history of overcharging for certain products (remember, you can get a monitor stand for $1k), but the M1 Macbook Air is probably the best $1,000 computer by a long shot.
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> ESU is meant to run legacy applications for some time after OS EOL

That's not correct, unless you count google chrome (and many other programs) as a legacy application.

https://9to5google.com/2020/11/20/google-chrome-windows-7/
It travels in purpose-built shipping containers, so it shouldn't really matter what the trucker does.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-pfizer-distributi...

> In order to get around that, Pfizer has developed specially built deep-freeze "suitcases" that can be tightly sealed and shipped even in non-refrigerated trucks.

https://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/pfizer-designed-n... indicates they can hold temperature for ten days.

They'll likely include seals and simple sensors to detect temperature excursions; for example, my daughter's growth hormone comes with a little piece of plastic that turns permanently pink if it's not stored at the right temperature for a few minutes.
What changed? It looks the same as it did yesterday to me.
> Simply wrapping the 1980s-era code

I just checked the Wikipedia page on XeTeX (not knowing what the heck that is at all). It's in fact actually something very recent in terms of the TeX timeline; it was released in 2004. It has Unicode support, which seems to be the big thing.

That is more recent than, I think, the last time I used TeX; which worked absolutely fine.

Someone rewriting TeX in Rust should work with Knuth's original Pascal sources, in my opinion, not some knock-off (and look at XeTeX behaviors and documentation in order to do the Unicode stuff in a compatible way).
I’m using ejabberd 20.07 on a Raspberry Pi 4, Conversations (paid) on Android, Monal on iOS and macOS and Gajim on Windows and Linux (sometimes macOS, too). OMEMO works fine between those. So do attachments/file transfers (not slow at all). Also MAM/history.

To have OMEMO working between multiple clients but the same user, make sure they’re all running and send a message from each client to your OMEMO contacts so they learn all your different keys and send answers encrypted for all of them.

In regards to Matrix. There’s only one reference client at the moment. But once other clients emerge and the protocol gets extended, they’ll probably have the same fate in that many 3rd party clients won’t support all features.
"Irregardless" is a nonsensical word.
The safest choice would be to stay put and wait for help. Always. Unless staying put is no option due to a clear and immenant threat. Because running away in case of an active shootin might put you in someones line of fire. Running down the stairs in a burning building might expose you to smoke and fumes. Or even fire, in case you do not know if you are above or below the fire. Or it might block emergency personel from reaching others needing help or from reaching the, e.g. fire.

That being said, I think there was a discussion regarding the evacuation of burning skyscrapers after 9/11.
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How are these also not simply high end conventional headphones?
In my view, this is really the more important and unfortunately often underappreciated concern here. There's a lot of talk about what personal data might be captured by these apps/services (not to minimize that either), but it seems there's overall much less discussion about the potential for the control of information/ideas over large audiences, even in subtle but impactful ways. Not only is it plausible that such interference could happen, be it to exert political or economic influence, but it's likely that it could be done surreptitiously with little to no oversight by regulators, governments and ultimately the people using these services.
IIUC, you want to vaccinate everyone to get actual herd immunity as quickly as possible so the virus can't spread before it has mutated into different strains.

The more of the population unvaccinated, the larger population available for new strains to generate in, the higher probability of multiple strains.

It's not guaranteed the current vaccines inoculate against new strains, so you could be right back at square one next winter, with a new virulent strain.
Hi, author here. I would probably agree with that. We only managed to go that far because the first engineers were quite experienced and super proactive. We also had a PM (essentially part time, since he was in charge of other areas too) and the CEO giving a lot of product direction.

It would have been really hard to do with more junior people (or contractors) without process. We are in a better place now, and planning to start hiring more junior people next year. I think without the correct support structure and process in place, we would have done a disservice to jr engineers. It's part of my focus now, though.
> I believe Apple can do better because they have so much vertical integration

That is a big part of it. But how did Apple do well enough to vertically integrate? They were not the crazy powerhouse they are now for most of their history.

Another big aspect is culture. Apple chooses not to ship things they don't think are good enough. Put aside that they're not always correct. How many other shops do that? How many places stick to the schedule relentlessly, because shipping is all that matters to them? Convince themselves they'll fix the software problems after release?

A big part, I think, is a combination of knowing when it is 'good enough', combined with the courage, patience and money to keep building until you get there (or spike the project because you missed the market window).
the anger, the entitlement, etc. - these people are narcissists. They'll never see the error in their ways.
It still fails at very basic driving activities - it’s L2 system, and is advertised as Tesla as such (driver needs to be ready to takeover at any moment).

Very good L2, but nowhere close to customer ready self driving.
Came here to post the same thing. Glad I'm not the only one interested in Ternary systems. About a year ago, I found and old used book on Amazon titled "Ternary Systems". I was really excited for it's arrival, but I was disappointed. When looking online, I didn't look closely enough - it was a book on metal alloys comprised of three metals.

Edit: If you (or anyone) has any good links/resources/recommendations for learning about ternary (logic) systems/computers, I'm all ears!
I think the comparison is far more drastic than that. I would compare $100 headphones (like your Sonys) to amplifier speaker set up of at least $2000. That depth of bass response and accuracy is quite an achievement for speakers.

I say this as someone with both Sony MDRV6 headphones and a home borderline audiophile stereo setup retailing for over $3k.
Free societies shouldn't stoop to the levels of totalitarian ones.
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I'd guess that people will be the most apprehensive at the very beginning but then will be more open to it as it goes along.
Because TikTok is a software asset of a foreign adversary known to engage in covert activities and which is diametrically opposed ideologically with nearly everything the U.S. (however flawed) stands for. How is this so difficult for you to understand???
I am a big fan of OpenBSD, but unfortunately I still need some Linux only software. I do try out freeBSD’s Linux emulation layer every couple years, but it isn’t quite there yet for the stuff I need to run.
So the alternative is to instead impose US censorship? How is that any better?
If you've needed multiple replacements, might they give you a refund? Some states have "lemon laws" about this.
Sorry to be pedantic but there actually isn't an apple logo on these. :)
I have some over the ear bose headphones, and the moment I paired a third device (phone, tablet and computer) it starter to frustrate me, as it never got the device i want to use and have to use the app to disconnect from the other device. At least that is something that apple has much better than the competition.
He also worked as a plumber.

> Throughout this period, Glass supported himself as a New York cabbie and as a plumber, occupations that often led to unusual encounters. “I had gone to install a dishwasher in a loft in SoHo,” he says. “While working, I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. ‘But you’re Philip Glass! What are you doing here?’ It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him I would soon be finished. ‘But you are an artist,’ he protested. I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well and that he should go away and let me finish.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/nov/24/arts.highe...
Warning: This article lures you with Javascript but burdens you with something called culture.

It tested this and culture is not a function.
I don't think you are correct. You imply there are a lot of people willing to buy for the current price. I think the scenario is different.

A professional trader is happy if he makes 10% or 20% a year. This is considered for most a great achievement.

The average Joe whose friend told him that he can get rich buying Tesla stocks will only sell for 200%, 300% or even 1000%+ on his micro shares.

We got a market full of people which go in and buy for whatever is there and try to sell for a lot more. Sometimes they panic and sometimes they forget about it.

Additionally we currently have a lot of index funds forced to buy because of the inclusion. Which is genius move of Musk/Mizuno and others.

It's hard to predict where Tesla, Zoom and others will end up. I wouldn't dare to make any prediction. They might grow into their evaluations given time or a lot of average Joe's might decide its time to pay rent or even buy a house. Let's wait and see.
The "apologists" are simply the people who can see past the US propaganda.
Your comment is dripping with opinion and utterly devoid of any attempt at supporting evidence.

I've lived both places. Seattle is not a low-tax paradise, nor are tax dollars completely and utterly squandered in California.

It is gross how, the more money one makes, the more entitled one feels to not have to give a dime back. It's a game to them.
They've already sold so much that you won't get them on the 15th any more, at least in Germany.

They're much pricier than I have anticipated. It doesn't look like I'm going to buy one any time soon. However, this "proves" nothing more than what we already knew: Apple sells expensive products that one can expect to work (close to) flawlessly for a long period of time, and a lot of people like that.
> Brand is a reasonably reliable proxy

No it's not. Not in this era of marketers, influencers, social media and fake news.
Does anyone know how easy it is to execute this attack? I realize it's high severity, but can't accurately say if I should drop everything I'm doing and upgrade all servers, or wait until this evening..

Seems like the most likely attack vector is having a server check a malicious certificate, which happens automatically in some cases. But not always. And it's unclear what prompts the automatic check in the first place - perhaps the server executing a remote HTTPS request a malicious user specifies?

Thanks in advance!
Glad to know they've replaced them.

What I meant was the rate at which they malfunction seems to be lower than Sony/Senheiser counterparts. Admittedly this is purely anecdotal with the sample size being about 20 people.

With the exception of an ipod touch I have never bought an Apple product, however I definitely appreciate them. I was simply trying to push back on the "image over substance" comment.
Even 10 missile bases would still be cheaper than the planes we bought.

Now what could go wrong with limitless military spending, you might ask? Easy: it's called "the USA". I've been there, and I don't want to go back.
Fact check: the cheapest original pixel was $650. The newest iterations, pixel 5 and 4a, are 700 and 350 respectively. A pixel 5 with 128gb storage is 700 whereas the original pixel with 128gb storage was 750.

Not bothering to look up nexus phones because they're from a different lineage than pixels, hence the different branding.
Oh true what happens with Cern now? Debian? FreeBSD ;)
so much of it seems to be a status play
Yeah, but there are a few bars to clear:

1. Don't distort.

2. Don't otherwise hurt the user (there were cases of earbuds and over-the-ear headphones where the maximum volume would damage the wearer's eardrums, for example).

3. Easily and reliably connect them to the desired device.

4. High quality enough that the product lasts years.

5. Trusted by users that 1-4 apply.

Most audio brands are obscure for the average user. If I ask someone random on the street about Sennheiser they won't know about the brand.
Wait, so they are not even halfway through the transition to USB-C and they launch a new product with the legacy connector? How many cables do they expect us to keep around? I'll wait for AirPod Max S :)
Also how would we know if Apple is working with other companies? It's not like they are known to be transparent or Truthful.

Apple puts privacy and security front and center as part of their brand. They zig while everyone else is zaging, trying to make a buck on user data, which they don't do.

For starters, here's their transparency report: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/
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in any case, the ones that i thought would have been lost are still somehow there : https://old.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/k90wdj...
note: there are multiple pages
I'm kind of worried we've peaked on Linux compatibility however. We've seen some of the big franchises that supported it in Valve's initial push (Hitman, Football Manager being the two I'm aware of) back away from it in future iterations and Valve themselves now have Epic as a more immediate threat than the Windows store.
How many ears do you have?
But Snapchat, as most web-scale companies, doesn't care whether a single operation gets lost and whether a small number of user have data loss. Whereas Walmart, at least, should care whether every single employee got his salary or whether the taxes for him were booked properly. Therefore a lot of "solutions" of so-called web-scale companies are to naive for an enterprise.
Honestly, you're doing the same thing you are complaining about.
Steve* thanks fixed it. My intro was Different Trains. I think his 9/11 piece is the best art to come out of that tragic event.

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Proverb
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You mean stagemanship?
I also didn't understand, because the article doesn't actually mention Google's "spying" or explain it at all. It does link to the NLRB complaint, though. It's a real slog to read through but I think the actual salient points are:

* Management "viewed an employee slide production in support of the union drive" (§7), no details but I'd assume that they somehow accessed it without an invitation?

* The firing was nominally because the employee looked at another employee's calendar, but the claim is that this rule is selectively enforced (§11b)

So the only "spying" I can figure out is if, say, one of the claimants made a Google Slides presentation about the union, then one of their bosses went poking around in the employee's Drive (?) and reading their presentations without explicit permission. If the boss abused privileged access to read what was supposed to be a "private" document, I could see how that's illegal "spying". (Although, hey, maybe don't use your employer's software to make your union presentation?)
Look at a map of national parks. Most of the population of the US is within driving distance of a national park.

The Appalachian mountain range stretches from GA to Maine, and contains dozens of state and national parks that people travel across the country to see. Nearly the entire eastern seaboard is within range of one of them.

The only part that isn’t is Florida, and they have better beaches than California, swamps, lakes, and massive crystal clear springs.
You'll not be surprised to hear that religions all have "national security exceptions" to their non-violence clauses. I offer as evidence: all the crazy religiously motivated violence perpetuated by any long living religions (the truly peaceful ones being beaten to death long ago).
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Are you saying they're popular or good? AirPods are popular but I don't think they're very good at all. At least the pros have the rubber tips.
I thought that the majority of the banned apps being Chinese, and that only one western app being banned (while leaving lots and lots of other western apps alone), should be proof enough.

But okay. Let's say it's not a mathematically solid proof. Agreed.

On the other hand, there's no mathematical proof that they are being discriminatory, either.

Why is it apologetic to not assume the worst of China at every turn?
How do you know they offer “better sound at a cheaper price?”

Did you listen to these yet?
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> I know a server can host many web pages, but this requires the port, which cannot be encrypted either

You can host multiple web sites in the same port since the 1990s, using name-based virtual hosts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_hosting#Name-based). It's rare nowadays to use a port other than 80 (for http://) or 443 (for https://) for public web sites.
This frustration UPS and FedEx are causing may make any shipping company Amazon wants to start up for other companies something that will gain traction.
So, They are renting their own trucks for last mile in some cases. But it is just a pick up per day limit. No mention of if you take it to a shipping location yourself. Bitch to bitch, but take care of your customers.
I have a similar problem - I use studio headphones at home mostly but popular music actually sounds worse without EQ. Listening to podcasts however is almost like being in the studio.
Speech-to-text issue? I had to correct a text I sent to my friend, Eddie. StT called him "Annie."
Delaware...
But get suckered by Chinese propaganda? I think there's a bit more nuance on both sides of this story.
Through legal means.
I'd make a guess that majority of HN readers are located in SV (or work for SV companies). So for people who read this it probably is a common salary level.
This makes sense from the US standpoint, but not necessarily for people living in, say, EU.
Title nitpick but this curriculum is for not just for non traditional hires—

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The entire point of it is that James Bond is the perfect man, who always knows what to do and how to get the ladies. Graig didn't play that, so in my mind it makes it a bad Bond movie.

It may still be a great movie. The Bourne triology works great as a movie but it wouldn't, and isn't a James Bond movie.

I just wish the movie producers would create new franchises rather than reboot the others.