skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Higher total harmonic distortion is an objectively less accurate reproduction of the original sound. But people can have a preference for less accuracy and that is not objectively “worse” except on one single scale that the consumer may not value.

Just like sepia toned prints are objectively worse reproductions of the original picture.
man did I miss me some Apple bashing! this thread delivers!
There's a simple reason. From the top down, the culture at Sony is, "it's good enough for 90%". And getting that extra 10% isn't going to be worth the investment. Those folks can go buy Apple.

I have dealt with SO many (and worked for some) software companies that live by this axiom. Get an MVP to market, who cares if its riddled with bugs and hobbles along with duct-tape and paperclips holding it together. "We're just going to throw it away and rewrite it later". Devs spend all their days fixing little bugs with more band-aids - dreaming of the day when they can re-arch it properly. But the truth is, that day is never coming. Why? Because think of the expense vs the gain. It literally is not worth it to have a better experience. The crappy version is already making money. Customer Service agents are cheap. Achieving Apple-level polish is simply not worth it to most companies. That's why you have Chrysler mini-vans dying after 5 years vs Honda mini-vans lasting 15 years.
"What is Brand recognition?"

Apple doesn't shit on their own brand for a quick dollar. The HN reader might argue nuance, but their consumer base is the proof.

There is nothing wrong with people having a bit of brand loyalty. It's one of a thousand shortcuts our brains take a day in making decisions.
Sounds like a defense of protectionism to me.
"Every US app"? Duolingo, Microsoft Teams, Skype, FaceTime all work in China, to name a few.
Is this still true when active noise cancellation is involved?
Maybe not a "good" alternative, but its at least an "ok" alternative!

https://www.wxwidgets.org/
Circuit board reads 8000 messages per second
Is there an open source program that runs on Linux that works with this device and does not require internet?
Odds are that most of the traffic Fedex and UPS are getting is from Amazon, and the little guys are getting shut out.
> While one should train for the worst possible scenarios one also has to be aware what to reasonably expect

Sometimes (I'm actually going to say most of time) giving the suspect warnings or time isn't a good idea. In the case of collecting evidence that is on computers, this evidence is easily destroyed if someone knows what they are doing and giving the suspect a warning could ultimately result in loss of justice.

Therefore, coming in unexpectedly, and performing actions to make sure the suspect does not do anything until the evidence is collected makes sense. Yes, coming in with guns drawn is scary, etc. But would knocking on the door and asking for the computers have worked? It might eventually, after many opportunities for evidence destruction occurred... but which way has a higher chance of working?

It's useful to note here that I think if you work for the state, you should be held to a higher standard--this is different than working at a private company and embezzlement, stealing, etc. If you have violated the trust of the citizens of Florida via doing something wrong at your state job, and a judge agrees there is enough probable cause that evidence is on your home computer, isn't better that a method of evidence collection is done that is swift and not likely to result in destruction of evidence? If someone more or less commits a crime against the state of Florida, isn't that more important than the fear/mental health of the individual suspect?
Mail is vital to so much of the economy. This horror story is exactly why it’s a good thing for everyone if the country has a well-functioning postal service that serves as national infrastructure rather than a profit-generating enterprise. But I guess that’s a controversial statement these days. Sigh.
It's essentially no different from how things currently are. RedHat releases updates, CentOS group picks those up and builds CentOS packages from them. They usually lag a day or two.

They really lagged on the PLATYPUS CPU vulnerability for CentOS 7, because they were dealing with a backlog from the 7.9 bump. Took them several days to get the patches out.
Indeed. Every time Teenage Engineer comes out with something that isn't a synth, the comments section on IG is always "No one will buy this over prices junk" - go to the website: Sold Out.
> AirPods Max come with a soft, slim Smart Case that puts AirPods Max in an ultralow power state that helps to preserve battery charge when not in use.

Instead of, you know, a power button.
OpenSSL is FIPS-certified. It supports everything and its mother. LibreSSL also breaks ABI pretty regularly. Finally, OpenSSL is the standard: no one ever got fired for buying IBM, or for using OpenSSL.
Cloud and ‘internet of things’ spur new rise in edge computing
You don't get the magic. You can still connect to them.

If your case is personal iPhone + work MacBook, it's probably easier to just use wired EarPods with the work MacBook. You'll get better microphone quality for meetings too.
The point is that these are not even close to "costs slightly more". Getting "name brand" whatever is perfectly normal. Getting Ferrari scissors for four times a reasonable price because, hey you know Ferrari from <not at all scissors>, is not.
And, if Trump did know, he would have somehow worked that into his presidential campaign and a reason to re-elect him.

Sort of like:
“Meeting with us very, very soon. Very good people on both sides,..well maybe people on one side. We’ll have to see. They are staying at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, the absolute best place. We are looking very strongly at renaming it Trump Intergalactic Hotel”.
china bans all us social media apps, because they want to control the content that Chinese citizens see and remove anything that is negative towards the ccp, etc. No one batters an eyelid.

US tries to ban 1 app that is being used to spread propaganda, farm user data, and is considered a national security threat. And everyone loses their shit over it.
I think you can have both, especially for younger people starting out in their careers having a set of tasks to work through can help them account for their productivity.

Also, I have found a list of tasks on a post-it note to be much less demoralizing than a set of tickets listed in a tracker.
Maybe it's lighter than the alternative? Not everyone wants to wear a brick on their head.

But just the word "plastic" doesn't really give any useful information. With all of the different formulations of plastics out there, the physical properties span an extremely wide range.

Source: I work in the polymers/materials industry.
You are right, I was mistaken because of the table in this link: https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/verkehr/elektroauto-neuz...

The downtrend for Tesla is clear though, if you compare the quarterly sales.

I doubt the Tesla factory in Brandenburg will change that. Tesla would have to release a new, smaller model for the European market. Now that buyers have a choice, they apparently choose the smaller, cheaper models available.
Avant-garde does not precisely mean “unlistenable.” There’s plenty of music that’s listenable but still way “out there.”

Glass’s music is maybe not consistently on the edge, but his avant-garde reputation comes from works like the “opera” Einstein On the Beach, which is a formidable listening and performing experience, even if it’s heavily diatonic and based on familiar major/minor modalities. It is a sui generis approach to musical structure and musical theater.
> They just got what they paid for?

Haha, fair. To be honest, I'm surprised it took this long for it to happen after CentOS joined Red Hat. I wonder if the IBM acquisition had any influence on this.
RHEL bought CentOS 6 years ago.

Note that the announcement blog post points folks to using RedHat instead.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish succeeded?
I'm happy with my AirPods Pro, so I won't be buying these.

That said, looking beyond audio quality alone is why these exists. None of those headphones has the ease-of-syncing these will. I'm pretty sure none of those headphones support the spatial audio stuff these will. My corded Sennheiser HD280s started flaking off around the ear not too long after I bought them, while these seem like probably they'll wear better over time.

Audio quality? Yeah, I'm guessing Apple's aiming for "good enough for most people," nowhere near studio quality. But on everything else, I suspect they've nailed it, especially for people who've used AirPods or AirPods Pro and appreciate the syncing, spatial audio, etc.
I saw that too if it's the one that was at the Ohio State University in 1986 or 1987. I was just a kid who had never heard of either of those guys, but I still remember it thirty-some years later.
You're right, that doesn't help with Apple devices though which has seen a huge market share increase with day to day users in the businesses that I interact with. Same thing goes for mobile devices, even those with enterprise management systems attached.

The options are simply not there for consistent management of your network.
Another thing that trips me up about clear cutting is the amount of organic matter that's removed from the forest that would otherwise return to the soil; soil nutrition has to be dropping like crazy in land that has been clear cut for several generations.

Also, I hope we figure out how to fruit mycorhizzal species sooner rather than later :-)
How dare tens of thousands of developers produce a free operating system, and it gets sold by one business who added graphics of a trademarked hat?
"Everything being connected" is neutral. By itself that tells us nothing about whether having had the flu will have positive or negative effects in the long run. Why then are you so quick to bias yourself towards the idea of flu have some sort of protective effect down the road?

To see how "everything is connected" is, by itself, devoid of content, let's rewrite your comment:

Old people should take it but young people shouldn't forget to do so as well: flu might leaving lasting damage to the immune system
We don't know very well how the body works on the higher "interconnected" level of how "X affects Y down the road over time" so allowing yourself to accumulate damage from constantly getting the flu once a year might end up causing severe unexpected issues down the road.
Happy owner of mx4s here. Great work headphones, but man the UX is bad. On top of everything you mention, it defaults to noise cancelling and turning off noise cancelling (I only want noise cancelling for travel, otherwise I like being able to hear) involves listening to a woman tell you what mode you are in while basically muting current audio. WTF SONY
AI guided shark detection drones are the next step in beach safety
They mean the 8-pin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_(connector) .

It's still used in new Apple products including all iPhones, non-pro iPads, the Apple TV remote, Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, and the charging cases for all AirPods.
AT&T said that the NSA was not intercepting their traffic... it was illegal at the time and Congress retroactively made it legal to get the EFF’s court case to go away.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

I don’t think this argument is particularly strong.
Does this sentence change the meaning? The OP did not say they wanted Apple. They said they didn't want to be forced into Android. Of course, without Apple, in the absence of any other alternatives, you are forced into Android.
Aye pro usually means consumer and not pro
The coloration of the iPhones are an impressive example of product differentiation. The lower end phones are distinguishable with a case on from the front and back by the colored bezel on the front, and by the camera arrangement on the back.
> but still potentially better than no vaccine at all.

There's no 'potentially' to consider, the Swedish Medical Products Agency reported the relative risk in 2011:

... The relative risk of narcolepsy was four times higher in vaccinated children and adolescents (born from 1990) compared to unvaccinated individuals.

So, incorrect, when considering the relative risk, which is all people should be interested in. Catching bird flu/covid isn't inevitable for most people, far from it in fact.
Could be that not being transparent affords an advantage in finding a mate and reproduction. Juveniles might not need to find a mate yet so only need to hide and survive.
They are damaging, but nevertheless they are ascending to leadership positions. Look at middle management - it literally selects for people with lower EQ who are insensitive towards needs of people who dont have power. Or those with narcissistic psychopathic features.

Yes, they harm things. But their nice cooperating peers are less likely to "steal" other peoples achievements and progress less.
Any sufficiently complex software will end up implementing a database.
Yes: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and...

(Distros that are not Arch usually set up one of these solutions out of the box).

It works very well for traditional QWidget/GTK style desktop apps. However, with both QtQuick/QML apps and modern Gnome apps, they have more divergent paradigms and particularly the QML apps tend to be less consistent with each other, never mind other UI toolkits, for much of the same reason webapps also are.
Oh, very interesting. I'm mostly worried about last mile distribution, but yeah, they're not stupid, they took all the necessary measures.
C++ vs. JavaScript vs. Python vs. PHP vs. GO calculating prime numbers
At this point, after four years of unprecedented corruption and ignorance-as-official-policy, it's extremely hard to see what the US "stands for". I'm saying that with all sincerity, and it is blatantly clear during the current banana-republic actions of the administration and its enablers that the US does not represent democracy.

Find actual abuses by the application or its data and then there are credible arguments. Simply alluding to some notion of evil-by-association is a dangerous game for the US to play given PRISM, FISA warrants, etc.

And let's be real -- you're typing on your made in China computer full of components made in China, your data traversing made in china routers and relays, etc. This never had anything to do with any imagined security risk, and had to do with the corrupt manchild targeting a platform for carrying content unfavorable to him. It is just another demonstration that the US doesn't "stand for" much [1].

[1] - The only saving grace right now is effectively the so called "Deep State". The career judges and civil servants who don't twist every norm and rule and precedent because of this corrupt tinpot dictator and his pathetic army of deplorables. They may not be enough, though.
New method to boost supply of life-saving stem cells
Which part is "Chinese propaganda"? I observe that the majority of the banned apps are Chinese, and that one is western, while at the same time lots of western apps remain accessible in China. That's all I base my conclusion on. At no point did I base my conclusion on anything the Chinese government said.

To say that they are discriminatory despite the above data, is an assumption. That assumption may be right (because the data is not mathematically solid evidence). On the other hand, it may be not. But I think accepting that assumption is in line with US propaganda.
I agree about the app sucking and multiple device pairing being ass (at least on the XM3s), but I don't really have an issue with the swipe controls.
> have you modified your opinion on the matter such that you now no longer consider far right beliefs to be especially dangerous, but rather only note that they are one of many risks

This was always my belief. If you examine my original post[0] I do not even discuss left/right framing, your response to my post introduced it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345741

> and that the true risk in the system is unknown and largely unknowable due to the inherent complexity of a large chaotic system

I hadn't previously considered where the "true risk in the system" lies because my concerns with misinformation are more local (will my mother-in-law do something crazy this week?), but yes I would say that I think this is a reasonable assessment. If you're thinking of society as a system, then it is impossible to determine precisely which elements introduce risk of social instability/destruction for precisely the reason you mention.
They know their target consumer. You can get two colors with one stimulus check. Brilliant.
> If you are using CentOS Linux 8 in a production environment, and are concerned that CentOS Stream will not meet your needs, we encourage you to contact Red Hat about options.

Not exactly unexpected, but disappointing: if you want to continue using something like CentOS, pay for RHEL. Lots of web hosting providers will be quite concerned.
Hmmm there are a lot of language footguns or advanced features that don't have any disclaimers for beginners. I don't think a beginner should be told to use Proxy object handlers before learning the basics of JS, async and functional programming.
Yes, and you can easily start using SOPS for Ansible secrets via the community.sops collection:

https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.sops
What’s up with the gate keeping dude? Philip is an experimental musician, avant-garde has an experimental aspect to it, so people like calling him that. Why fuss over a word?

And fwiw, things change, language is emergent, words acquire and lose meaning based on how people use it, not the other way around.
Peloton shares briefly fall as Apple announces cheaper rival fitness service
That being true and meaningful are two distinct things. That is true of anything that selects information to present to a user. Netflix recommendations, Facebook feed/ads/group recommendations, LinkedIn feed, Twitter feed, Reddit rankings, or search engine results. It could not be algorithmic and it could be mandatory editorial programming in a companies that run large numbers of local news stations.

What you said describes literally any technology that makes decisions about what to present to the user.
My point is - the ban is trivially easy to work around by using VPN, which lot of people do. And this means the stories about Chinese being banned from accessing western media don't have much to do with reality.

What is happening is pretty much the opposite - the West doesn't have access to Chinese media (except those explicitly targeting the West), for language reasons.
The bypassing has nothing to do with wanting to hide it from users Even if they did care about hiding it, they know how trivial it would be to discover it, as we already saw only hours after the release.

And those lookups have nothing to do with DNS, so this wouldn’t help nor hurt anything related to that.
The vast majority of people “who see past the US propaganda” also see past the Chinese propaganda.

The vast majority of them want to address the privacy issues raised by such apps and companies irrespective of whether it’s the US or China misappropriating our data.
It's a crash only. So it's not gonna compromise your machine, worst case is something not running any more.

The conditions are also rather special, it seems the most likely scenario is that you have any software that verifies certificates and automatically checks CRLs and there's a way for an attacker to provide you a bad certificate and a CRL. That's not something that I'd expect to be very common.
> Not bothering to look up nexus phones because they're from a different lineage than pixels, hence the different branding

You're just taking advantage of semantics then.

Anyone who's followed the Nexus line knows exactly what their wording meant, since Nexus devices did give way to the Pixel and did follow the price normalization this person mentions.

Iirc the Nexus 6
Or 6P was the start of rise in prices

They might be misremembering exact prices but I distinctly remember the backlash as Nexus devices went from strong values as dev phones to premium smartphones, then the Pixel dropped and solidified that
And significantly cheaper than, say, Sennheiser HD820 or the Focal Stellia.

We cannot know whether the price is crazy before somebody has reviewed them. I'm sure we don't need to wait for long.

If it's an amazing experience, it might be a good deal. I know I would pay huge amounts of money at this stage of my life for a great experience. Like a hundred euros for a single glass of whiskey. Or hundreds of euros for a great meal. And headphones (even battery powered ones) last a whole lot longer than a shot of whiskey or a meal.

But. They're wireless, and Bluetooth 5.0. They will be Bluetooth 5.0 in 5 years, and possibly obsolete because of that. Passive headphones bought today will be just as good in 5 years, unless something weird happens in speaker technology by then.
What do you mean by “identify a user”? Isn’t the fact that you’re filming videos of yourself “identifying yourself” more so than whatever device data TikTok and every other app on your phone is capturing?
I'm a big Pierce Bronson fan. Really liked Tomorrow Never Dies when I was a kid
OpenSuse Leap, with XFS or BTRF sounds right for you.
Another book recommend related to this subject: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. I'm 100p in and vibing. I really recommend it!
CentOS is how RedHat releases their sources in compliance with open source licenses (Presumably they're going back to releasing them as a consequence for this).

My familiarity with Amazon Linux is about 4 years out-of-date these days, but it was a RHEL/CentOS clone with a number of the core libraries like glibc being updated and maintained by Amazon on an independent life cycle.
Qt posts to HN never include a single technical comment. It is unfortunate, but I suppose that's mostly due to the particular subset of programmers that visits HN.
I know a few journalists really want to push this narrative, but I think the more it's been carefully studied, the more it's been debunked. E.g:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.11211.pdf

"After conducting a detailed analysis of recommendations received by each channel type, we refute the popular radicalization claims. To the contrary, these data suggest that YouTubes recommendation algorithm actively discourages viewers from visiting radicalizing or extremist content. Instead, the algorithm is shown to favor mainstream media and cable news content over independent YouTube channels with slant towards left-leaning or politically neutral channels."
> "china bans all us social media apps"

Microsoft Teams, Skype, FaceTime all work in China, to name a few.

> because they want to control the content that Chinese citizens see and remove anything that is negative towards the ccp, etc.

This is true. But that doesn't mean they ban all US social media apps. If you follow their Internet laws (like Microsoft and Apple do) then you are allowed to operate.

> US tries to ban 1 app that is being used to spread propaganda, farm user data, and is considered a national security threat.

This is an assumption. Proof please, because I haven't seen any.

Don't get me wrong. I am not against a ban on Tiktok. I'm against a discriminatory ban, based on unproven assumptions, solely targeting the origin of an app.

What would be much more fair would be to state: all foreign apps have to go through a security audit to certify that no data reaches any foreign governments. That way you don't have to prove wrongdoing first, and you aren't being discriminatory either.