skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: $ 6000 Stolen from me by Sequoia-backed Coinswitch / Kuber - What to do?
Coinswitch.co claims to offer easy no-login crypto exchanging. You send them crypto, they send you back a different crypto.

Works well until it doesn't. Suddenly they steal your funds, refuse to return them demanding KYC -- but then refuse to ever complete your KYC, stalling perpetually.

In my case, they stole over $6000 in Ethereum (which originated from Coinbase) from me a little over a month ago, and despite my submitting KYC multiple times and their not saying there's anything wrong with it, they continue to tell me just to wait. This puts me in a terrible financial situation over the holidays, the timing couldn't be worse.

Countless reviews online show them doing the same to MANY other people lately, buried beneath hundreds of suspicious looking positive reviews.

This startup is apparently based in India and well beyond the reach of any legal measures.

What would you do?
I'm all for shitting on overpriced products but those you list aren't the same product category.

Wireless noise cancelling headphones worth a damn are expensive. Not to mention, Apple is the only company making a headset where the mic doesn't suck and have trash fidelity when you need to speak and listen at the same time.
The problem is that you have no idea what they'll think is a reasonable license fee in 3 years (and that's not theoretical, Qt does change their mind on terms and fees regularly when there's another random sales target to meet). With the previous model, you only have that issue when you want to update, and know you can always ship what you currently have to your customers in the future at known cost.
Nonsense. Every country I've heard about is prioritizing nursing home residents, and few of them received the level of criticism that the UK did regarding nursing home residents.
as ultimate escape hatch it will be available via Stadia which also works well on the M1 Macs
You can downvote me into oblivion but I don't think apple gear (especially headphones) deserves HN's main page.
What happened to HN???
it’s not a comment about in store experience, it’s about audiophile culture.
I guess Apple is officially the new Bang and Olufsen when it comes to pricing! My goodness...
I'm very interested in what minimalist tropes you would say Berio and Feldman explored in any of their work.
Most people working without air conditioning are in a job where they should have a mask that is a lot more uncomfortable than a simple N95! There are a lot of chemicals that a N95 won't filter and those are typically used by the types of people who don't have air conditioning.
It was less than a year before people started reporting it, and it took less than 2 years before a study was released by the Swedish health agency warning of increased narcolepsy risk in Children--not 4.

Also the increased rate of narcolepsy was 0.005%. That's why it took several months before anyone noticed it.

Additionally the flu itself can cause the same kind of narcolepsy, which means that this vaccine was worse than other vaccines, but still potentially better than no vaccine at all.
I'd play that. I'd even buy a console for this purpose only. It'd be great.
I don't have fiber but I do spend slightly more on business class internet, they have tech support that is an order of magnitude more helpful and knowledgeable than normal residential internet. With business class you can get real static IPs and better support SLAs.
>The lack of a standard 3.5 mm audio jack is disappointing for a product in this class, but to be expected from Apple.

They quietly released a lightning to 3.5mm audio jack cable today to go with these, for use with legacy gear. It's $35 and is somewhat over-engineered (allows bi-directional usage, containing both an ADC and a DAC).
Kids Are “Failing” Online Learning
Why are so many people upset by this?

It’s like they have some kind visceral reaction to seeing someone who isn’t being thrifty and researching every little thing out with spreadsheets.

It doesn’t affect you. They’re not telling you to do it.

If you want to get a better deal by doing the research then do it.

I’ll probably get these for the same reason as the parent; I vaguely want some air pods but I haven’t got around to it and I prefer this form factor.

I trust apple not to sell useless knockoff rubbish in a shiny box. My relationship with them is no more complex than that.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to try it out yet. I'm not particularly interested in the TV watching use case (I don't watch TV), but I think that there could be some cool AR use cases that I would love to play around with.

Such as a Zombies Run sort of game where you could hear the zombies behind you, or approaching from other streets. Not sure if any such applications exist yet, though?
I understand why Cloudflare wants this (marketing, as well as being able to serve their customer’s content through restrictions, thus making them more valuable to those customers),

but why does Apple want this?

My knee-jerk is that they want to further hide/make unstoppable things like the Gatekeeper network checks, but there has to be more right?
By Windows 10 widgets, do you mean UWP/Metro/Fluent widgets? In my opinion, the screenshot you linked is still common in Windows 10 apps.

If you want something closer to Metro, you can use Qt Quick and https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquickcontrols2-styles.html#universa.... But Qt Widgets does not ship with a Metro-like theme.

Newer Windows 10 apps have Fluent design, including acrylic effects. I don't know if Qt Quick 2 supports that, but I'm not optimistic they've updated the appearance to match.
I wonder if there is any chance that's stagepersonship.
If you've had a family member or a friend go down the rabbit hole, you'll understand both the zealotry and the difficulty in peeling it back. Here's what I've observed:

Youtube videos of sermons & bible study -> youtube videos of sermons preaching the end of the world is nigh -> youtube videos of deep state / conspiracy discussion -> youtube channel for a particular conspiracy theorist -> alternative website that isn't youtube[0] to consistently dole out conspiracy information (end state)

The end result a couple years later is that it now sounds crazy to suggest that Dr Fauci is not a mass murderer, to suggest that the US is not currently engaging in a shadow-WWIII with China, and to suggest that covid-19 is not a bioweapon produced by China. Forget about peeling back "ordinary" disinformation like the kind that gets flagged on twitter.

[0] For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Wengui#G_News
The original point of product branding was to allow people to use it to purchase pre-packaged food from a source that they could trust.

The commenter is simply saying that they can afford the price and that they trust Apple's brand not to disappoint them based on previous experience.

That seems fair enough to me.

Personally, I wouldn't buy these because I don't like the styling. I'm also moving towards products made by OEMs rather than outsourced manufacturing as I'm not too price sensitive. i.e. I'm not in the target market segment.

If I could get over all that I'm sure these would be good enough.
We migrated away from Qt in large part because of the licensing uncertainty. The discussion always devolves into nitpicking about the license and pricing, because it's such a major handicap for Qt.

It feels like every six months they completely revamp the licensing program, and the LGPL version always seems to suffer from a corporate sword of Damocles
Let the authors enjoy reading their own creation. I'll pass.
i am afraid, these times are over with the advance of drone technology, look at the last Karabakh conflict. it's not just the US anymore, but lots of countries can use affordable drones an operate without much human or economic loss. Whereas the side practicing mountain guerrila tactics will have to abandon all civil economic activity, and still lose lives (you cannot stay in shelters all the time)
Jelastic Announces Jakarta EE 9 Availability in over 100 Data Centers
Canadian MP's microphone malfunctions during confidence vote, hilarity ensues
My AirPods reportedly sound like shit on calls and the same is true for any AirPods [Pro] user I've been on a call with.
A quick look at the repo and it doesn't shout simple and flexible...
This is hilarious. Couldn't stop laughing.
A dozen lines of code is a lot. Especially when it's in a language you don't know and don't already have installed. Often, the most difficult program to write is "hello, world", since when it fails, it fails in ways that are difficult to understand and specific to your installation and infrastructure. It can be hard to get help for those.

I'm sure that once you've bitten the bullet and learned Kubernetes, these things are easy. But for a lot of use cases it's great to avoid having to bite that bullet, do a one-click thing, and get back to your core development.
> Or you notice them but because they also match symptoms of colds and allergies, and you’ve been getting them on and off for months, you assume they aren’t COVID.

Exactly. I have occasionally runny nose combined with sporadic sneezes and coughs pretty much every winter. If someone like my had so "mild" COVID symptoms they would consider themselves asymptomatic (paucisymptomatic?), and rightfully so. (My actual COVID symptoms were not as mild, but not very serious either.)
Realistically, a premium product like this one is not targeted at minimum wage earners.
Ah, fans. Gotcha. We don’t have those on our system.
The recent vote to buy expensive planes confirms many swiss and myself included in the opinion that efficient defense capabilities clearly is not the national focus. There were two main points in support of planes:

- policing the skies

- radar tech

As for policing, I'm quite sure many swiss would prefer to have 2-3 high-speed unarmed exploratory planes instead. Wanna shoot down the offender? Just a single missile base in the center of the country would do the trick more efficienty and for cheap. As for radar tech, we could most certainly have a better and cheaper solution adapted to our country by just asking for it at ETHZ or EPFL. We are not Russia or the USA. Our country is minuscule.

Just remembering the recent scandals with the israeli drones and the useless command software that cost tens of millions while we have degrading education, postal and healthcare systems makes me furious. And I'm far from the only one.

Fuck the army.
The way you wrote your comment seems to imply you prefer criminals to point a gun at you
I strongly recommend getting in touch with the developer of ProtonDB [1]. That database encountered the same issues and went through a number of revisions for scoring/confidence and is at a great place right now. You can reach him on Discord [2].

[1] https://www.protondb.com/

[2] https://discord.gg/uuwK9EV
Having paid $350 for Bose QC3 headphones 4 years ago, that I use every day but sometimes have to fight with when e.g. my MacBook Pro keeps trying to steal focus even though i shut it and am trying to use the headphones with my phone now, etc. I completely agree. Paying a bit more for something that just works as well as my airpods do, assuming that this delivers, is totally worth it.

On top of that, I expect the sound quality will be a big step up, and the spatial audio might be really cool.
It would make them think twice about using the reviewer as a cheap refutation engine. Perhaps even make them try to refute themselves. Which would be a win for everybody.
No,because the stock will crash (faster). Loses for many, many years. Also with all that cash a firm might launch a takeover--using that cash, if Tesla is ever weakened enough
Look here mate yer over thinking it innit?

In Python:

S = lambda x: lambda y: lambda z: x(z)(y(z))
K = lambda x: lambda y: x
I = lambda x: x

That there is runnable code and with it you can implement numbers, math, logic, etc.

That's all the SKI combinators are: those functions. You apply them to themselves in various patterns and they model numbers and arithmetic and programming languages.

In [1]: S = lambda x: lambda y: lambda z: x(z)(y(z))

In [2]: K = lambda x: lambda y: x

In [3]: I = lambda x: x

In [4]: K(I)
Out[4]: <function __main__.<lambda>.<locals>.<lambda>(y)>

In [5]: _(S) is I
Out[5]: True

In [6]: K(I)(S) is I
Out[6]: True

Hope that helps.
It's completely disproportionate to the amount of Apple news here.
The person administering the vaccine while not wearing gloves for instance?
Rosetta 2 seems to work well for most games seeing performance way beyond what Intel Macs with integrated GPU were capable of.

There are a few games like World or Warcraft that already come with native support and similar to apps there are many games where native versions are expected to become available within the next days and weeks.

So yes, it is still early but out-of-the box the M1 Macs do really well compared to the previous models.
I worked for a computer support once, and just as I was hired, they went from (IIRC) 6 weeks of training to only 2 weeks. Nobody came through that knowing any more than they started with in regards to fixing computers.

Luckily, I already knew how to fix them. I found the job to be a cake walk and quite liked helping people. But I had to listen to people around me fumble through it.

It was frustrating at the time, but my favorite thing that happened was that I was admonished twice for having average call times that were too low. To them, that's a warning that someone is just getting people off the line without fixing their problems.

They monitored calls and they said I'd never received a complaint, but the system would keep flagging me for low call times so I had to artificially raise them. They suggested that I have a conversation with the clients.

I didn't, and I didn't stay there much longer, but it was quite a crazy situation. But I also felt much less pressure to handle calls quickly after that, too, which was nice.
You might be interested in things like the Pandora/Pyra, the Cosmo Communicator or the GPD Win.
You Learn from Good Businesses and Bad Trades
Or there are commenters like you that would happily throw ANY ammount of money just to get their hands on a new piece of gear with apple logo no matter how shitty it is...
Seems to me like there should be something like a "Docker for games" which uses container tech to create a lightweight, predictable execution environment for video games.

I suppose that's kind of what Proton does, although it focuses on emulating a Windows environment in particular.
ORC – Nim's new memory managment
"Wouldn't it make more sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it, not dying from it?"

It wouldn't make any sense at all. The reason is that not only do older people have a greater risk of dying from Covid, they also have a much higher risk of being hospitalized[1], and remember the justification for the extreme measures we've taken and continue to take is the fear we will overwhelm our health care systems.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...
this is like saying "programmers follow trends and there are many things in the tech industry that are frauds therefore you should not program the computer"
Waste. Physical electronic waste and opportunity cost.

For example, these cost more money than an average resident of Sierra Leone earns in a month. You could donate to feed their family.

Or for $550, you could spend $300 on buying a Kenyan family 5 sheep, $100 on gifting 5 Serbian women a month of literacy classes each, and $150 on 15 rides to school for refugee children in Egypt. Taxes not included.¹

¹https://cwsbestgift.org/
> This is not the first time YouTube has been linked to radicalization and white supremacist content. There has been an ongoing argument about whether YouTube’s algorithm pushes people toward more extreme views over time.

I can see this in the small tech bubble I’m apart of. Right now I’m bombarded with Apple M1 is the greatest ever!

If I start to watch news stuff it seems like I go deeper and deeper into the videos that trigger the strongest emotional responses. Same with the Tech bubble, OMG Apple or Google did what!?!
They're not looking so hot at the moment. Huge outflow of people and businesses due to the one-two punch of COVID and rising crime + defund the police.

The recent announcement by Goldman Sachs about moving a large chunk of their operations to Miami is not a good sign for NYC.
> America is a dangerous place, and just like you're a 'regular person at the range with an AR and a Glock' - guns are everywhere.

You are more likely to be violently attacked working at a convenience store than being a cop. But we would not tolerate it if the guy next to the slim jims pointed a gun at every random customer. Citizens that choose to carry a weapon for self-defense cannot point their weapon a people just in case, or even put their hand on their weapon or flash it to other people, that is called brandishing and is a crime. Yet police do it as a normal part of their interactions. This idea that police should be allowed threaten and intimidate other citizens as a normal part of their job because “its so dangerous” is ridiculous.

> it's probably very ingrained SOP to have weapons drawn

Then this is a failure of their training or a failure of the individual police. Hand waving police having deadly weapons drawn and pointed at fellow citizens because of habit is not acceptable.

> That they had their 'guns out of holsters' is actually perfectly reasonable because systematically, it's too dangerous for them otherwise.

First, it is not too dangerous. Second, if it is, then pick a new line of work. If you are too scared to do your job correctly and would rather put citizens at increased risk then join the post office. And maybe, just maybe, a policy of shoving guns in people’s faces is what escalates many of these situations.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing the anecdote. Seems odd to me you are asking people. Isn't there a line or something?

My biggest concern with virus rollout is millions of doses sitting on shelves waiting for "high priority" people to get them (who refuse) while "low priority" people are still banned from getting.
Where is Sundar Pichai in all of this? Why is it up to Jeff Dean to publicly represent the company? Pichai appears to be in hiding, as per usual. It's astounding how weak he is, especially compared to the very strong decision making that typified life under Larry/Sergey/Eric.

It's obvious that people like Gebru terrorise their colleagues by claiming anyone who doesn't join their racist jihad against white men are terrible and need to be fired. When Pichai canned Damore he set Google up for a never ending strem of events like this one: he basically told the extremist activist wing of the workforce that they were in charge, not him. Very few tech CEOs in America are more deserving of being replaced than Pichai but given the voting structure of Google stock it's hard to see how that can happen.
What would we consider a "radical" opinion, though? That always mediates itself through politics. Do you think people will not be angry if YouTube leads people away from EVERY 'radical' political opinion?

You'd get accused of 'silencing' opinions. Dito any social network, especially Twitter. You'd be taking away a medium for people without the ability to get on old mass media networks, which invariably will be people with 'radical' opinions.
Given that there are only 5000ish cases in a country of 300+ million, right now your odds are pretty good. Best to take precautions when you are in the woods because ticks have other nasty things they bring along which are also quite bad.

Treat outer garments, ground cloths, packs, and tents with Permethrin. Wear a DEET based insect repellent. Wear long sleeves and long pants to prevent tick attachment. When in the woods check yourself daily and remove any ticks that you find as soon as practicable. If you are with someone else, check each other as ticks most often attach in places that are warm e.g. skin folds and it is difficult to check all of your own without assistance. Use a smartphone camera if you are alone.

Most of my familiarity comes from Lyme disease but ticks that are removed within 12-24 hours are much less likely to spread Lyme disease. It is likely, but I do not have evidence to support this, that a similar fact is true for meat allergies.
We phased out QT after hostile licensing e-mails.
Producing ICE cars isn't the same as making EVs. A good example of this is Tesla's Fremont factory (which used to be a GM/Toyota facility) and their Shanghai Gigafactory. The layout of the Fremont one contributed to significant inefficiencies in manufacturing compared to GF3 which was built from scratch for EVs.

Buying Ford and GM would also mean taking on the baggage of hundreds of billions in debt, pension obligations, employees with minimal experience in building batteries/drivetrains/EVs, a dealership network that doesn't want to sell EVs and the old guard that has no desire to innovate.

Tesla uses manufacturing methods no other OEM does (e.g. Giga-press casting machine for Model Y/3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga_Press). The facilities they are currently building are massive compared to Ford/GM's factories. They vertically integrate, soon going all the way down to cell manufacturing/lithium mining. Buying an incumbent OEM would end up a burden.
Sorry for asking, but is this shadow-WWIII supposed to be a hot war? An economic cold war seems obvious from my steady diet of such conspiracy-minded websites as Reuters.

(and if covid-19 were a bioweapon, why would people be anti-mask anti-vax?)
they already are making self driving cars
> it's harder to argue that care homes have a lot of QALYs to save.

Not true at all. They may have fewer life years left, but they're orders of magnitude more likely to die from Covid, so preventing a Covid case in this population actually saves more QALYs than preventing a case in a younger healthy person, statistically speaking.
You're asking what's wrong with wasting money?
It's not "the brand", it's his experience with the brand: he has a demonstrated trust in it based on his history with it.

If the alternative is a day spent comparison shopping and researching, then an overage of $200 is actually pretty reasonable, as opportunity costs go.
Sony fixed the multi device pairing in the mx4.. would be nice if they could just do a software update to fix it on the mx3.
> $549!? ...I don't understand why you would buy these when there are a lot of established professional audio companies offering better sound at a cheaper price.

In addition to brand trust which other commenters describe, there is multi-device interoperability within the Apple ecosystem. Pairing with multiple devices is non-trivial and multi-device operation is not as seamless with non-AirPods hearables. This is about extending the AirPods user experience (UX) to an over-the-ears form factor.

Bang-for-the-Buck consumers always struggle with Apple positioning. UX is almost always the intangible factor.
It is part of their marketing. The fact that others sell or actively use your data, e.g. google, facebook, microsoft, apple was handed the opportunity to charge a premium for the absence of such tracking and data usage. If you watch the presentations, they branded/poised themselves as the privacy centric approach.
> a way to manage the devices on your network besides being forced to set up MDM on everything.

It's sort of like cleaning malware off of an infected PC from within the infected OS.

It was always theoretically impossible, and now we're just seeing the gap of "Well in this case the enemy was imperfect" closing. It was never going to stay open in the first place.
Looking for explanations of changes in suicide rates
It's one of my favorites of all time. It has a great balance -- not overly complex so it's very casually playable, but enough good physics to make it really interesting and challenging. I still like to fire it up occasionally. It's not hard to find if you look around and it plays well with dosbox.