skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you guessing on the 500ms? Looks like the most recent AirPods Pro can achieve 144ms [0], so I'd imagine the Max to be slightly less.

Not great, but should allow phone conversations without too much fatigue.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/22/airpods-latency-test/
Same here, I am a Mac user since pre-OSX

most of my Macs were entry-level models and/or low performance laptops with integrated GPU like the 12" MacBook and I know Macs were not the ideal platform for gaming but that did not hinder me from enjoying games w/ low FPS because the alternative (without a gaming PC) for me would have been not to play them at all.

That's where I am coming from and that's the main motivation for building this website. I am excited about what Apple Silicon Macs mean for gaming. This is a huge shift.

Sorry about the downvotes!
If I buy a frying pan and open up a restaurant with it I don't have to keep paying the frying pan company so long as I use my pan to create meals. Subscriptions for software libraries and components weird me out much more than subscriptions for services and end-products (with recurring costs for the service providers) do.
I loved my Porta Pros. They sound fantastic and they’re so cheap. The problem was that they broke a lot (thank goodness for that lifetime warranty). After third or fourth time sending them back I decided I wanted something more reliable.

You get what you pay for, I guess, but man. Best worst headphones I’ve ever had.
This product will do about as well as the iPod Hi-Fi I reckon.
Yes. Historically, new forms of mass communication have been always been used to stir up insanity and violence, dating back to the invention of the printing press. Wide distribution of Martin Luther's antisemitic screeds led to pogroms across Europe, the Nazis picked up where he left off using the new inventions of film and radio broadcasts, and now violent, racist ideologies are once again gaining mainstream purchase thanks to platforms like YouTube.
The FDA set a meeting date for December 10th, that was at least somewhat arbitrary. They reportedly had no one working for 4 days during Thanksgiving break, so It's likely they could have just worked through Thanksgiving and had that meeting last week if they'd wanted to.
It’s not that it’s innovative in its function. It’s innovative in the speed of design and ability to leverage parts in their supply chain they already have.
Some might disagree, and cheekily point out that apple's high-end customers care deeply about NOT having 20 year old gear. Because fashion.
I wish they'd have gone into the research being done to combat alpha-gal meat allergies. Living in NC and loving meat, this concerns me.
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Theoretically if we return to "life as normal" once the vaccine has been distributed to everyone who wants it, but a significant portion of high risk individuals do not get vaccinated, it could overwhelm our hospitals.

That said, I think the fears about many people refusing the vaccine are completely overblown. All of the folks who I've talked to who are concerned about the vaccine have expressed willingness to get it after it has been out for a few months without major side effects. They wont qualify to be first in line anyways, so they'll have to wait regardless.
I just don't understand the free/commercial differentiation. I was trying to get some projects working from uni, and I wasn't sure what I was allowed to do nowadays. I thought it all had to be commercially licensed so gave up.
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Stop parroting debunked allegations.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/iivbk5/elon_m...
Didn't even notice those until you pointed them out. Truly cringe-worthy.
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This uses Lightning, so I guess that confirms that iPhone wont switch to USB-C for at least a few more years.
The acute problem I see is heavily armed aggro people driving around in heavily-flagged technicals. (albeit Dearborn, not the more commonly found Aichi, technicals)

When the soviets decided that whatever their System was doing, it was not doing what they had been brought up to believe in, they changed it. In russia specifically, wikipedia says 3 people were killed during that change. (Romania was the most violent by far of the Warsaw Pact, with O(1000)) The US has not only stayed in afghanistan for far longer than the USSR, it's clearly had more than 3 people killed in political violence so far, and I am not optimistic enough to think they will get to a system "with liberty and justice for all" without adding any more...

But I am a cynic, so my fingers are crossed that I am wrong.

Edit: the "3 people" are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_d%27état_atte...
; please let me know if I am missing any more violent episodes.
Topic is not accurate. David Niven's Casino Royale is missing.
because they really produce lots of cars every year, they do have facilities to produce as many cars as you want and their respective revenues are 130B and 150B, +Boeing 75B.
The industrial wireless microphones and headsets used in TV production are exceptional for sound quality and delay.

They require a special license to use, and require dedicated hardware (ie. they won't connect to a phone). Shows whats possible if walled garden and regulatory constraints are lifted though.
A frying pan is owned property.

Software is copyright literature under licence.
I've read in one of the 9/11 anniversary articles that majority of the people that survived from 2 WTC were the ones occupying offices with the windows facing 1 WTC where you could witness constant barrage of jumpers. Many of them mentioned that when they saw them something instinctively pushed them to get away from the place.
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I think these look beautiful and are likely well constructed. The lack of a standard 3.5 mm audio jack is disappointing for a product in this class, but to be expected from Apple.

The questions will be sound quality. A lot of people on here are already stating that they don't know why anyone would buy this product when they can get better sounding products for a similar price. I don't know how anyone can know how good these sound yet. I personally assume these will sound quite good as Apple has made a number of nice sounding products over the years. With that being said, at $550 it is competing with audiophile grade headphones so it needs to at least be roughly in that class.

If it is even roughly in the ballpark of other $500 headphones it is going to be a no-brainer for a lot of people due to the integration with the Apple ecosystem and the stylishness of the build.
Ah, that's from the Press Release, which is for a more mainstream audience who maybe would expect all features to work otherwise.

From the tech specs page on the product itself though:

> AirPods Max can be used as Bluetooth headphones with Apple devices using earlier software and with non-Apple devices, but functionality is limited.
Very cool. I love the front page experience with multiple topics showing questions and answers from your own topics. When did this launch? Looks early on, but still you've built out quite a bit of functionality for it.
As a standard, the UK makes medical decisions based on QALYs saved (quality-adjusted life years).

Although you can argue that keeping hospital beds free saves a lot of QALYs, it's harder to argue that care homes have a lot of QALYs to save.

And, it's not obvious that care home patients are the first to occupy hospital beds (I'm unsure about it); care home patients with COVID have tended to die in their care home.
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I'm guessing you purposely left out the Japanese OEMs in your assessment? Their debt to equity ratios are pretty low.
This is really cool, but is this not costing you? It looked like it was 1.25 a min on the Rev site.

Is there some sort of free demo time slot?
I don't know - how many tens of billions did VCs put into Uber or WeWork, when these companies are not making a dime...

It seems like that's not a factor. Perhaps they find it boring, or perhaps the technical risk is just too high. It's all or nothing. You can BS your way through a classic tech startup as Adam Neumann did. It's harder with something that is a single flagship product that has to drive (Nikola) or fly hundreds of people in the air.
as if they had perfect reason for their previous invasions
Jazz that radicalises you to mass murder does very much not exist.
Following the license should not be considered a "shitty thing to do". In fact, it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
I should have mentioned Consumer Hardware. More of a buy and ready to go approach.
Besides assuming that Apple can’t match those other (very small, likely undercapitalized) audio companies in terms of sounds quality— something I sort of doubt considering that Apple probably spent more in R&D on these than those companies have had in total cumulative revenues combined— it also assumes that it’s all about the sound quality. As someone who just ordered these, I wear noise canceling headphones (currently Bose QC from nearly 5 years ago) for several hours a day while I work, and I can tell you that I care much more about comfort and noise canceling performance. I just assume great sound since that has been available for decades now in decent headphones. I remember buying Grado SR80s back in 2002, and they sounded great. Unfortunately, they hurt my ears after 30 minutes and everyone around me could hear my music. Also, they had a thick, heavy cable. Sound quality isn’t everything.

Considering that Apple just made Intel look like a bunch of fools despite Intel making more processors for longer than just about anyone, at this point it’s silly to be so skeptical of Apple when they introduce a product like this after years of effort.
finding this a really weird comment. In both NYC and Chicago I've had no problem walking into a store where I can try many different sets of headphones and talk to someone on staff about my listening habits, taste in music, and environment where I'll be listening. Both times I got straightforward advice and wound up buying a headset that lasted at least five years that I loved.
http://archive.is/EyxPA
Does this imply the majority of consumers care more about the brand perception than actual value?

I mean, we all know apple fan-bois are vividly after the apple logo, but come on, there's still the majority of sensible people who put actual value higher than the show-off effect.
You mean the Bose Quiet Comfort and the Sony WH1000X category. None of the headphones you mention are relevant in any way.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe he knew the difference between the success and failures; it was all just piled up and someone had to come along, sort through it, and tell him it was important. He sought patterns.
Kind of. Everyone involved with the attacks seemed to be directly connected to the local black metal scene at the time, but it's not like the music itself inspired people worldwide to burn churches.
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I’d just get Starlink. Even if the deal was worse in terms of cost it would be a way to say fuck you to the ISP. Without some way to do that ISPs will not be able to get away with such customer hostile behavior.
https://negativo17.org/steam/

Are the packages I used on my Centos 8 box. Looks like I had the rpm fusion packages (free and non free) and EPEL libraries. Hardest part for me was getting the video card working. Perhaps went down the rabbit hole of getting the AMD proprietary drivers in place - which was really rough early on. Not sure folks even use those now.

sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-steam.repo
sudo dnf -y install steam kernel-modules-extra
The plans are expect to change as/if other vaccines become available. If the other vaccines in the pipeline get approved on the expected best case schedule we will be vaccinating anyone who wants it starting march. If there are unexpected issues things could take longer (the UK could still discover something and withdraw Pfizers' approval as a worst case)
You are looking at a phenomenon that economics would describe as the Cost of Search. It is a situation in which a market inefficiency exists because searching for a product is difficult, or involves research and/or background knowledge.

Part of the value of the Apple brand is that people will pay some fraction of that cost to avoid that search while also being sure that their product actually works.
anything for attention am i rite?
> which is a shitty thing to do when you're not a mom&pop shop but a company like...

Why? That's the whole point of LGPL, it doesn't matter how big you are, so long as your users can replace your copy of Qt with a modified copy you can use it under LGPL.
Also, macOS will not let you enable a DoH profile and Little Snitch (or probably any other tool using the Network Extension framework) at the same time. I don't know if this is a bug or intended behavior, but it's a disappointment.
I think the hard part about distributed systems is the combinatorial explosion of possible system states, which is also common to any concurrent program. Really distributed systems is just concurrency on hard mode, where failures are basically guaranteed instead of being very rare.

I wouldn't particularly say I'm a TLA+ promoter (it's a FOSS project), any more than anyone who has a great fascination with a language/framework/algorithm/viewpoint is a promoter. We're all promoters of the memes that live inside our heads!
When you aren't price sensitive, you apply that sort of thinking to most things, if it's a one-off purchase. I do at least.

I recently bought a car. I spent about a year deliberating over it, picking the right market segment, picking the right model, picking the right financing option.

Last week I bought a microwave. I just walked into the store, looked at what they had on the shelf, and picked a Panasonic one that was around the right size I was looking for. I didn't even look at the features, I just looked at 'Panasonic.'
The article says there was no secret sauce, which isn't quite right. Some factors that played a role:

- Australia had had an unusually bad fire season and an associated scandal about the government response: our PM was on holiday in Hawaii while an unprecedented area of land was burning. The framework for state/federal cooperation on disaster management was being revised right as 2020 started, and there was political will for strong measures, such as ignoring WHO recommendations to let international borders stay open.

- Victoria had strong state of emergency/disaster powers, including the right to impose movement restrictions, and clear conditions and precedent for imposing them.

- The states had the power to close their borders, and did so, isolating the second wave to one state. Victoria was the odd one out - the other states set the bar at near-total suppression.

- The lockdown really, really sucked. The Victorian state government relied heavily on the support of the federal government, support from the general populace, and federal spending on income supplements. They still came under enormous pressure to end the lockdown early, even with more federal and individual support than states in the US would have gotten.
Yep - this happened to a family member about 9 months ago.

Wasn't as straight forward as you might think to diagnose.
Can you tell me where you read this? I'd love to read the sources on this!
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yeah but how do you find those people without a massive civil rights violation?
Most people (especially small indie devs) will be fine with the free LPGL version, regardless of whether you charge for your software or whether it is open source or not. Just make sure that you dynamically link the Qt libraries (so the end-user can theoretically replace them if they want to) and don't use any of the GPL-only add-ons (unless you are OK licensing your whole product as GPLv3).
> How does apple becomes your hero when they are selling the same thing ?

Because he values image over substance, and his personal identity is tied to Apple.

One thing about my Grado, Audeze, etc. I can repair them. I've had the same pairs for years, used day in and out, and when I wear them out I can buy new parts and easily fix them. I don't need to go to a "Genius" or have to spudge them apart and not have them ever fit right again.
There's an exponential curve of cost vs quality. Buying in the bend is best. The difference between a $50 and $200 pair of headphones is staggering. From $200 to $500 is still significant. From $500 to $1000 is extremely slight. From $1000 to $5000 is basically unnoticeable.

Apple looks to be using plastic driver cones more at home in a $30 pair of headphones while selling something at the inflection point where headphones get really good.

I'd bet heavily that these $500 headphones get outperformed by the $100 Sennheiser HD 280 pros. A $400 Sennheiser 650 will no doubt blow them away while still being $150 cheaper.
The hilarious thing about this thread is that all the so-called audiophiles on here sneering at Apple's attempts at audio are the same people who will go out an happily waste their money on all the lovely snake-oil that is prevalent in the audio industry. Oxygen free gold-plated cables, special power cables etc. etc. ...
Your example is a bit apples-to-oranges, in a few ways.

First your examples are using different constructs, as well as different languages. It's perfectly reasonable and "lispy" to write a for loop like your first example, e.g. (this is pretty much the same as the first example in https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/for.html )

(for ((i '(1 2 3)))
(x i)
(y i)
(z i))

Likewise Lisps don't have a monopoly on factoring common functionality out into helper functions like 'map', e.g. a C-like equivalent to your second example is not at all unusual:

map(
seq(x, y, z),
range(3))

(I've replaced the symbolic name '->' with a made up non-symbolic name 'seq', to do the same job of applying multiple functions to an argument).

Secondly you bring up "off-side rule" indentation, like Python, without mentioning I-expressions or their equivalents. These can be used by all Lisps (and anything else based on s-expressions, like DSSSL, since they're trivially convertable to/from s-expressions. Some Lisps also have native support (e.g. they're standardised in Scheme https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html ).

> map/reduce/recur/let/etc are special

I agree for 'let', and it already is a "special form" in most Lisps. I disagree for 'map' and 'reduce', since they are ordinary function calls that are not special in any way (that's part of the appeal for functional programming and macros: that we're not stuck with a finite number of first-order "control structures"). I've not encountered "recur" before, I assume it's a Clojure workaround for JVM tail-call deficiencies? A quick Google shows that it's also a "special form", like 'let'.
> people who love photography don't obsess with the camera

That’s simply untrue.
>"Seems reasonable?"

Maybe to you. To me it reads like: do not ever touch this tool to do anything that has even remote chance to go commercial.
If you have the study, I'd consider it, but second-hand anecdotes from the "nazi-adjacent" aren't really compelling evidence. Google did take some minor steps toward curbing things a year or two ago, but I don't know that anyone has done a comparative analysis of the current and former state of YouTube's recommendation system.
Add a few more proxy hops and you’ve effectively reinvented Tor
GP is self-indulgent, not mentally ill.

My brother spent $2,000 upgrading his golf clubs, and didn't improve his score at all. GP said he's willing to spend an extra $200 to avoid two hours of research. Most of us here make at least $100/hr. The opportunity cost alone makes the purchase reasonable.
Well, I would consider myself to be an audiophile. I got professional level equipment for about $400 many many years ago. Today it is probably even cheaper. I spend a lot of time on PSU, interference from power grid etc... Solved by $20 car battery...

For an "audiophile" AirPods are ripoff similar to CD demagnetizer.
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Not sure this is the weakest link in value-for-money for Apple products. Like many people I know, my iPhones have been changed for no fee, outside warranty, for minor or major issues.

I'd say it's more about Apple moving from a yearly/bi-yearly iPhone renewal goal to a 2-3 years calendar, with now lucrative gadgets to buy in between. Fine by me: just get the long lasting core products and then pick what you want/need.
Subscriptions are much safer pricing models. You want apps, software etc. to be sold by subscription.

Why? Most businesses are not MS/etc. which have resilient multiple income streams. Many single-app companies either go under, or stop selling that app and so no longer update or support it.

A subscription model ensures that the developer always has a reliable app-specific income stream to justify investment & support.
> but I think we can never have 100% privacy because the destination IPs cannot be encrypted or hidden

This problem is solved in I2P (https://geti2p.net) by adding a few intermediate hops between you and destination. You will know someone is connecting to the network, but you can't find what they're doing.
I worked for a call center and there was a girl there I didn't think was good at her job.

Then one day, she tells me that she tells people to unplug the power cord, cup the end in their hand, and then plug it back in.

Suddenly, I really liked her. It's a genius move that makes them think they've done something obscure, but she really just wanted them to actually check the cable.
I've never had luck with cold calling. Cold email has worked a few times, but I've always had to craft my email pretty intensely. Aim was to show I wasn't a drive by emailer, but that I'd actually done some work around something the recipient was interested in.
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I saw Glass at a performing arts center in my hometown. The PAC has a lot of season ticket holders, and Glass' music triggered an older attendee to march to the front of the auditorium and yell, "this isn't music". He was quickly ushered out by his wife, but Glass was noticeably smirking, and the whole thing really added to the avant garde vibe of the performance. Amazing concert BTW. One of my favorite artists.
I find hope in the knowledge that even the media or corporate masters allow us to use can be used to radicalize people. The questions I have are about what tools we can learn from white supremacists.

All coverage of this is about maintaining the status quo. Where are the lessons learned about how to disrupt it?
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