skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this. They're not trying to take over Grado's market, they're trying to sell more stuff to people who have already bought heavily into the Apple ecosystem and value comprehensive and simple functionality.

For example. I own Sony MX3s. They have decent sound and great ANC but the use is massively frustrating. Swipe controls don't work, the app sucks, pairing with multiple devices is a nightmare. But I keep them for planes, and use my AirPods pro for everything else.

If these headphones have sound and ANC at least as good as my MX3s, and in addition have the standard Apple package of features (insta-pairing with multiple devices, tightly integrated with iOS and Siri for effortless feature control, best in class microphones for voice calls, etc. etc., plus looking cool) I'll buy them and give the MX3s away in a heartbeat.

(Though... how do they charge? Its not clear anywhere I see...)
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Beautiful Apple-1 replica with Tesla batteries
This is true for nearly all AAA games now. They're buggy garbage when they come out.
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Wow, really? Wouldn't a merger dilute his ability to control the company and make ambitious bets? I can't image Musk going for something that lets his BoD fill with old-school auto industry types.

Or does "merger" include "buyouts"?
Well, the M1 is spectacular, so the algorithms are working correctly.
> I'd also like to point out society does not exist to gift every person peace, safety, and health. A just society offers opportunities, not guarantees.

In that case I won't guarantee not to nick your stuff, just give you the opportunity to not have it nicked.
Jetbrain's model is a good middle ground - you get perpetual access to versions released while your sub was active.
Yes, I'd rather play a game in potato than a slideshow in retina.

Nobody is discounting that somebody might have the opportunity to play their games on a better system, these tests just show what's possible... Which is a lot more than I'd have said a month ago.
Yes, there's a lot of work being done on more intelligent fuzzing. To throw some terms into the mix, there's coverage-guided fuzzing (which is now an old technique), concolic testing (which combines concrete execution with symbolic execution in order to reach new branches in a targetted way) and grammar fuzzers (which generate valid inputs according to a grammar).

These are not really mutually exclusive with the type of work gamozolabs is doing because even with hyperintelligent input generation, you still ideally want raw speed.
Nice alternative for someone with no other living human around.
> The US has not only stayed in afghanistan for far longer than the USSR

Don't forget about the US "sojourns" into LatAm! There's lots more where that came from.
In Ontario (as elsewhere), there's been a giant ramp up in cases since the start of September, with an accompanying discussion about whether or not reopening schools is the cause. But a recent testing blitz at a single Toronto school uncovered 26 infected individuals scattered across 18 classrooms:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-stude...

Still not obvious one way or the other about whether these students and staff are spreading it amongst themselves or if they all got it from other symptomatic cases in the community and independently brought it to school with them. But either way, it's sobering how much of it is going undetected.
Yes, I read it.

Literally the second line of my comment:

> This marks the official rollout with general public availability (pending supply issues), so that's cool. It's just weird that the article refers to this dose in particular as a "historic event".

Here's the line from the article I'm referring to:

> Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England, who witnessed the "historic moment", said: "We couldn't hug her but we could clap and everybody did so in the room."

They even quoted "historic moment" almost like they were being sarcastic about it. It's just weird.
100% you’re on point here, but there’s one problem that happens when they do add “is this a 5% problem”: eventually (and I’d say pretty quickly), the public gets wind of “if I say the right things to get marked as a 5% problem, I get an automatic escalation to someone who knows more.”, and suddenly you get a big chunk of level 1 calls in to the upper tiers.

For evidence, see: “Retention departments give you the best rates if you threaten to cancel” (which then caused companies to have to rename the retention departments and change the policies.
I have no objection to taking the vaccine but being as informed as you possibly can about your short and long-term health is surely important. After all this crisis is about health, we are clearly concerned with our health so why does this not extend to concern around a rapidly developed vaccine that you are going to put in your body?

Humans err all the time, why is this an exception? Why is no one here skeptical, or at least curious? Why is critical thinking set aside?

Science is now relative. Not only do we have mass misinformation but the side effect is an overreaction seeing intelligent thinkers reject their principles in order to put as much distance as possible between them and the perceived thought cancer.

What we are witnessing is compulsory hard-line. Where will you be when the mob comes after your curiosity? How many friends will you lose, how many thoughts of your own will you be free to have?

I really don't get how everyone is ok with ushering in what would otherwise be seen as dystopia. And don't compare this to a war. Wars are to preserve freedom and our principles. This war is the complete opposite. We have given up on free thinking, western values are out the window, right or wrong, but make no mistake this is the reality and we should at least acknowledge it as such.
There are also some stoves that can run Isopro through the same heating cycle that Kerosene and Naptha go through, theoretically allowing you to use Isopro below its vaporization point. My MSR Whisperlite Universal can do that by simply inverting the Isopro canister (it also runs right-side up in warmer weather), but personally I’d opt for white gas if I was going anywhere near Isopro’s failure temperatures, just to be safe.
If any Apple engineers are reading this, for the love of god please make the low battery notification volume adjustable. Thank you.
EVs are not something only some companies or people can do, they can be replicated by any car company at this moment, look EU companies, Renault and Volkswagen are already in top by selling electric cars across Europe. Also GM is working on EVs, their Electric Hummer maybe released soon as well
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Irish_Unification_of_20...

Tiocfaidh ár lá indeed.

Amusing that a date picked in 1990 could end up accurate when you consider shifting religious demographics in Northern Ireland and the potential impact of Britain leaving the EU.
> knowing full well that I'll be lucky to get much more than 4 hours doing non-gaming things off cord (with brightness where I prefer it.)

Finding it in stock is a challenge but the Zephyrus G14 is exactly this. RTX 2060 GPU pairs perfectly with a 120hz 1080p display, and it still gets >8 hours on battery doing normal non-gaming stuff
What's wrong with Disqus? Seems relatively benign among things that people might be tempted to force upon the people who use their site.
> People who use CentOS want a boring Linux distro like RHEL. They just don't want to pay for RHEL subscriptions.

There's a lot of people using CentOS indirectly, through CloudLinux. Whatever happens there, a lot of people will be affected.
About the expensive part. In the grand scheme of things the iPhone is 1000+ EUR, with an extra 200 for AppleCare, a watch would be around 500 on top of that.

Adding 550 for something that will sit on one's head for hours and hours isn't outlandish in comparison.

I'm in the Pixel 4 / cheapish Sony headphones camp, but for people riding the high tide it doesn't look out of place pricing wise.
I'd guess they really want to get rid of the LGPL option (which was introduced when Qt was owned by Nokia and presumably they were more interested in Qt as a platform to develop their own products on than as a revenue stream), but the KDE Free Qt agreement means they can't just get rid of it.
Wouldn't it still show up in netstat?
Feldman's second string quartet (https://youtu.be/QPMUHVza-KA) is very long, has lots of repetition, with occasional pulsating rhythms/drone notes. I quite like it when I'm in the mood. There's a lot in it, but it's so slowly developed so slowly moment to moment it has characteristics of minimalism.

This short article covers some of his work including the second quartet from this perspective in slightly more detail:
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/arts/music-where-minimal-...
only advantage of Tesla at this moment, I think their Level 2 driver assistance.
Battery’s have been constantly improving, so a lot of really promising research from 20 years ago ends up looking like a tiny incremental change when it hits the market.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosynthesis_(metabolism)
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Apple gear is, to a degree, a classic Veblen good. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
> I would instead sell half of company and acquire GM and Ford for that money

Anti-trust?
Right - I gifted a pair of MDR7506s to my girlfriend the other day.

I love that they include an insert telling you exactly how to take the entire headphone apart - I don't think I've owned a pair like that before.

But, I broke out my B&O H6s to do an A/B test after giving them to her, and I think it was a mistake? The H6s are of course in the next higher price price bracket, but the 7506s did not compare musically to them at all.

As much as I appreciate the repairability of the 7506s, I think would recommend something a bit more musical as a daily driver.
This was my thought as well on one possible strategy they were trying here. Make the in-ear AirPods and their Beats line look like a good deal.

Apple continues to be highly successful, so chances are they do know what they're doing with the pricing here.
> West Germany did much the same with all roads and train tracks crossing into East Germany and Czechoslovakia.

Bridges crossing major rivers as far west as the Rhine river as well.
I bet I spend 20 or so hours a year researching headphones. My current daily drivers are $11 earbuds and a pair of $80 cans for focused listening. As with most things, there are a vocal few who do obsesses and come across as elitist, but I have a hunch that people like me are the (largely) silent majority.
States and State College systems should fund an org to create standard open text books for everyone to use. The content can be refined and tweaked with updated pedagogical techniques and knowledge as they develop.

The ebooks don't need to be bound by regular page numbers and the print books can be compact guides and references.
At this point, any deal would be good for them
I love me some Shure, but it's to early to trash these new headphones before having listened to them.
AirPod Pros are my first Bluetooth headphones which just work and I love the transparency mode. They may not be for you, but they are not a rip off.
Theft by refusing to process legitimate KYC seems to be the most popular way these days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345719
thanks a lot for the pointer!
> Mein Kumph
> Which is directly at odds with needing TLA+, because if you do need it, it means the complexity of the algorithms is so great, that you won't be able to keep them in your head and understand every aspect of their performance to make something work well.

I don't think this is correct.

What TLA+ allows us to do is be more creative in our design and choice of algorithms, while allowing the computer to help us reason about whether the choices we're making still result in a system that is correct. "Correct" in in this context means two things: "safe" as in it doesn't lose or corrupt data, and "live" as in it eventually makes progress without deadlock or other blockers. That doesn't capture "meets the SLA" or "fast enough for real use" or even "tolerates gray failures". All of those are critical properties indeed - but unless you have fundamental safety and liveness you're never going to get those properties anyway. You might think you have them, but then you'll have a bad time eventually.

So TLA+ (and similar tools) aren't a complete solution to the problem, but they are an exceptionally useful one. Fundamentally, they're useful because distributed and concurrent protocols, even very simple ones like 2PC, are wickedly difficult to reason about clearly. Computers can help us reason, and specification languages can help us communicate clearly about our reasoning.
I'm shocked by how many people claim to be able to state absolutes about a product that they've never tried. How do you know your headphones offer better sound isolation and better sound quality?
.. who were also of the far-right. Which is the real linking factor here.
Luckily the LGPL license can never be revoked on previously released versions. So it's possible to use Qt 5 and never have to worry (as long as you follow the requirements of the license in terms of dynamically linking the libraries).
I miss the Qt Webkit module, it give so much more control over WebEngine. WebEngine is great but anyone one who want to use will be much better served using Electron
If they just want a free (beer) RHEL clone, the best choice might turn out to be ... Oracle Linux. Who would have thought?
>How does apple becomes your hero when they are selling the same thing ?

They sell the product experience. Easily connects, looks nice and sounds nice. Every now and then they would throw some audiphileish numbers in the product description(like it updates 3 gazillion times per second) but it's never the central argument.

Apple products are always about the experience and they wouldn't hesitate to put higher end specs when matter and lower end specs when it doesn't and make nerds uncomfortable or even angry because it would miss-match their convention of GB per USD or Herz per Euro. This is the way it always was, most famously with iPhone where Apple doesn't disclose RAM or CPU frequency or battery capacity and all-knowing reviewers will angrily tell you that Apple sells 1000$ phone with 4GB of RAM and how ridiculous is this compared to, say Samsung where you get 12GB RAM for the same price.
Many people do not realize that they do not "listen" to music. They simply put it on for background ambiance, to do other things. And before anyone feels further offended, please see this [0] post from 30 minutes ago on HN that completely proves my point made in the previous post.

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

Philip Glass wrote his music to be heard in the concert hall. Very few people responding to this article have ever heard any of his works performed live. If people were to actually sit there and listen to his music as intended, the reaction to my post would be very different.

Sitting still and listening carefully is a dying practice. I would challenge anyone reading this to seriously ponder, "when was the last time I sat in silence and intently listened to a long-form musical work?"

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345602
What a step back. There are no technical benefits to over-ear compared to in-ear and yet they charge more. This makes me lose hope that the Airpods line would improve over time.

The Airpods Pro (I still cringe at the stupidity built into the name) at least had strong technical merits. The only step they missed on was keeping them open back. You lose the ability to have cavity resonance for low frequency frequency response. The phase issues associated with this are imperceptible at low frequencies.

If they coupled that with tuning filters with microphones (flatten response and linearize phase up to an acceptable amount of delay: ~10 ms) then they would have a great product on their hands. Instead they made a piece of jewelry.
> The problem is actually regulation and lobbying, which making new players harder to emerge.

Regulation in many cases, especially in those I mentioned, makes sense:

- Taxis should not be allowed to discriminate for anything, especially not skin color. Also, at least in Germany the fares are regulated to ensure people are not ripped off in "hot times".

- Hotels, and most AirBnBs are de facto hotels, are regulated to prevent issues with fire safety, theft, privacy, noise complaints (it's illegal to build hotels in residential zones for a reason) and many others.

- Something like Grubhub putting their own intercepting phone number in Google results via shady SEO tactics and charging people for any call is just ripe for abuse by competitors, additionally it's extremely unfair.
I suspect that many are hoping that ICE cars will be more expensive and less popular by the time their ban rolls around.
There is a reason why Toyota closed the Fremont plant in the first place.
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Hm, wouldn't you want to look at Ford credit default swaps to quantify that? Here's what I found for Ford CDS price history, don't know offhand how to translate that into a bankruptcy probability:

https://www.assetmacro.com/united-states/credit-default-swap...
Chang'e-5: China's Moon Sample Return Mission
Even better, IMO, would be if all targets were also proxies and a client could choose -- at "query time" -- any combination of (proxy, target) that they prefer.

If you wanted to go a step further, you can even allow "chaining" of proxies, such that the path a query takes might be, in an extreme example, similar to how Tor operates:

Client -> Proxy 1 -> Proxy 2 -> Proxy 3 -> Target -> Resolver

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Anyways, this is kinda sorta interesting, I guess, but honestly I'm more excited by and looking forward to the (hopefully!) eventual adoption and roll-out of "DNS SVCB and HTTPS RRs" [0] -- one of the other I-Ds (linked in the OP) on which ODoH is built -- and I suspect many other HN'ers will be as well (although I'd happily settle for SRV RR support in browsers).

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[0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https-02
Pass. I do not need bigger, heavier Airpods nor a subpar audiophile-on-the-go experience.

I live in a home in the suburbs. I do not wear audiophile headphones in public.

I bought a Schitt Bifrost/Valhalla and Grado PS1000e combo 8 years ago. I use them every day with my Macbook Pro. Except for that year that High Sierra broke all USB audio stuff, it has been great with my Mac.

I use Airpods and Airpods Pro for Apple bluetooth benefits. They are great.
Choosing to have google or quad9 spy on you doesn't mean AT&T no longer gets your DNS data when you use plain port 53.
I was thinking that it was might of been on private land and if the location was known, the land owner would have a claim to the treasure.
There's no comparison because it's now near-universally recognized that the moral panic on those topics was silly. But many people in the 80s were pretty convinced that heavy metal and fantasy role playing could drive you insane or make you start worshipping demons. It was the subject of Tom Hanks's first movie! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazes_and_Monsters)
I don't see a logo on the original AirPods or Pros either
We are interested in the same audio gear. But they have CABLES!

Most people I know would rather want a headset without any and I suppose that wireless devices come with an array of software problems that Apple can fix better than the others (just supposing, I don't own wireless speakers myself).
Apples Spatial Audio Is Becoming a SWOT Moment
The more I see and start to connect the dots on this, the more I see the SWOT light for Samsung, Facebook/Oculus & HoloLens starting to flash red.
Is this meant to make RHEL more attractive than CentOS because now it will be more stable?
Venerable EnglishRussia.com is looking at "Computer Center of 1980-90s"

https://englishrussia.com/2010/10/05/computer-center-of-1980...
30fps is widely regarded as the minimum playable FPS. If you personally found it OK that's great, but you're definitely in a small minority on that.
This isn't totally accurate for the guidance from CDC's National Center for Health Statistics:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/covid-19.htm#understanding-the...

In summary:

- COVID-19 deaths are counts of death certificates that list COVID-19 as a contributing cause of death.

- A death certificate can list multiple causes of death. The dataset I work with includes up to 20.

- Causes of death are determined by the medical professional who fills out the death certificate. They use their professional judgement.

- COVID-19 deaths are counted differently compared to usual death data. In the usual tables listing deaths by cause, each death is only counted for the underlying cause of death (there can be only one). That's the cause which kicked off the whole process of dying. Still, for the COVID-19 deaths, the disease must still be a contributing cause.

As a note, I don't believe any allegations the professionals filling out death certificates are following firm and unreasonable rules. The group of people who file death certificates in the US is just to varied: physicians, medical examiners, elected coroners, district attorneys, etc. Coordination, let alone conspiracy, is nearly impossible.
I wouldn't be surprised if this means that another project will crop up soon-ish which does what CentOS did before, rebuild RHEL so there is a stable, boring distribution for people who want RHEL without wanting or being able to pay RH.
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It's a discussion. If I saw someone on the street wearing these, it's not like I'd go up to them and be like "why did you waste your money on those?".

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.

I hate to say it, but I agree with the comments that mention these being more of a status symbol than anything. There's nothing wrong with that either, but that's the reality. I mean, they are pretty much guaranteed to perform worse than high end Sennheisers while still costing more, so what else could it be?

I find the argument of "I need professional grade headphones to do my job, but don't have the time to research the best option" just disappointing I guess.

I own AirPods Pro myself, but those are intended for a different market and are actually a decent value (compared to the Sony which has better sound quality but worse integration with Apple stuff).
> Beats are widely considered to be overpriced for their audio quality

That's why Beats was a perfect fit for Apple, Apple products are also overpriced for their performance...
Dungeons and Dragons advocates for:

* Innate race-specific characteristics [1] steeped in centuries of colonialism

* An antiquated notion of intelligence (INT) that neglects other types of intelligence (emotional, linguistic, spatial, etc.)

* A strong focus on collecting currency (gold, silver, platinum) and hoarding items that exacerbate wealth inequality

* The illusion of a meritocracy where higher level characters have "earned" their rank and enjoy the benefits of easier gameplay

* A problematic reference to Adolf Hitler's charisma [2] that was claimed to be misquoted but was still stricken from further editions of the manual

The list goes on, but it should be easy to see how D&D can be a gateway to further radicalization and dehumanization.

[1] https://www.polygon.com/2020/6/23/21300653/dungeons-dragons-...

[2] http://www.theescapist.com/basic_gaming_faq.htm#hitler
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