skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counter point, Apple is bringing computation closer to ears. The Sennheiser 650 is an analog cabled experience and will accurately reflect the upstream digital to analog conversion, typically made without regard to the destination device. If Apple can use on-ear computation to make a plastic driver cone sound like a more expensive material, why would you care about the materials used?

https://www.kenrockwell.com/audio/sennheiser/hd-650.htm

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Think for a moment about what is possible in a device as large as the Airpods Max. It could fit the guts of an Apple Watch, which can already stream audio via cell modem without a host computer (as long as you are using the Apple services).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204691
Has Google produced any similar initiatives?
More precise, according to whom? If PG is explicitly defining brevity as fewer characters, then redefining it to “elegance” is to simply ignore what PG said and replace it with something else. Perhaps that indeed is a better working definition, but if we’re commenting on PG’s articles then we need to look at what he actually said and not what you wish he’d said.

If you want to write your own articles and explicitly replace brevity with elegance, don’t let me stop you.
Sounds to me like one follows the other?
Between probability and us having observed like millions or billions of planets, I'm already convinced. But hard evidence? Direct observation of said extra-terrestrial life? No, I've seen none to convince me.
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It could just mean ultra low power in the same sense as any other modern device. Sitting in a state where it can react to a power button press.
Be careful not to equate pro audio equipment with “overpaying audiophile” gear. Spending $500+ on headphones is common for engineers and musicians alike (typically custom fitted IEMs).

Studios and professionals spend large sums on demonstrably better equipment. You won’t find many who identify as “audiophiles” in the “$1000 optical cable” definition of the word.

AirPods Max are headphones lacking a headphone port. They will not be used by audio professionals. Latency is avoided at all costs in studio, on stage.

Apple’s new headphones are a fashion statement. To some, wearing a new release conveys status. You know how much it costs and they own it. The price of a Porsche might appall you too.
Godspeed, General.
If you listened to metal you didn't go out and shoot Muslims. On YouTube you have people deliberately manipulating facts to convince people to follow their extremist views. You are comparing apples to oranges. You should compare the history of propaganda media such as radio (Nazi's and Rwanda), TV and the internet.
Edison was an asshole too. And Franklin.
Developing SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidates was not the difficult part. Within weeks of the genetic sequence of the virus being sequenced, several existing techniques (inactivated whole virion, mRNA, adenovirus vector, to name a few) were rapidly applied to develop vaccine candidates. These techniques range from extremely old-fashioned (inactivated whole virion) to brand new (mRNA).

The thing that was sped up was the entire clinical trial schedule (not the "Sci-Fi" part). Clinical trials are costly, so private companies would normally proceed cautiously. They would take longer on the pre-clinical trials (e.g., animal trials), and take longer to evaluate the results before beginning Phase-I trials. They would wait for Phase-I trials to finish before deciding whether to proceed to Phase-II trials. They would again wait before proceeding to Phase-III trials. But this time, various governments were providing guarantees and financial backstops, so companies could begin Phase-II and Phase-III trials before Phase-I trials were complete.

Just to illustrate this, Moderna's Phase-I trial is still not complete, and will not be finished until November 2021.[1] Yet Moderna began its Phase-III trial in July 2020,[2] as soon as it had enough safety data from Phase-I and II trials to do so.

Long story short, the main speed-up came from removing all financial considerations from development, not from Sci-Fi advances in vaccine development (though Moderna and Biontech's vaccines are using new techniques).

In some sense, we were lucky that SARS-CoV-2 is not particularly difficult to develop vaccines against. A wide range of techniques now appear to have decent results. Influenza is a much more difficult virus to develop vaccines against, because of some of its special properties (reassortment of the 8 sections of its genome, much faster mutation rate).

1. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04283461

2. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04470427
So given their planned approval is still a few days away, we can expect about 10,000 deaths between now and the next step.

Less than 10,000 have died from vaccines ever, globally, ever.

Rolling out these vaccines to the high risk is the easiest decision that the FDA has ever made.
> 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.

Would you pay $100 for a 100MB usb drive? Would you not react and try to dissuade a friend from making a purchase you recognize to be ill-considered?

It’s your money, do what you want, but people are upset because there are (probably, since we dont know yet) better options that don’t have an Apple pricetag. The purchase would be based on complacency with a brand, and not conformity to rational principles and knowledge.

Few have already posted that they would buy this because it’s Apple, in order to avoid 1-2 hours of research. I really hope these aren’t the same people complaining about how terrible capitalism is.
I am a big fan of https://greenteapress.com/wp/ for CS and Math related subjects.

What OER sites and books would you recommend for your domains?
I make electronic music. 7 years ago, in a very sad period of my life, I made a classical piece of music, (From midnight to 4am) which I am very proud of it today. It would make me really happy to get some feedback from you guys if you know a thing or two about music. It tells a very personal story and here is the link to it:

https://soundcloud.com/bitmarx/story-of-a-rexile
I wonder if he was randomly determined to patient 1 for the vaccine, then they thought the conspiracy theorists will go nuts if they find out William Shakespear had the first shot
Very smart. Tesla joins the S&P500 in 13 days. Investors tied to this index are short at least $100 billion in stock. A $5 billion offering will have little impact on existing shareholders but take advantage of the high stock price.
I'd love to hear an Airpods Max mic test here. This is the only meaningful info I could find on its microphone:

> With AirPods Max, voice calls and Siri commands are crisp and clear due to beam-forming microphones that block out ambient noise and focus on the user’s voice.

Mic quality has become a much higher priority for me and I think others since starting to work from home. In my opinion, high-quality voice audio helps greatly improve the quality of conversations over VC.
Saying that youtube/conspriancy theories caused his to shoot people is the same as saying that metal music or video games caused this.

A mentaly ill person is a mentally ill person: it doesn't matter what triggers him because he is mentally ill and then they'll point their finger on the thing he read/listened instead of focusing on the fact that he was mentally ill.

No sane person will shoot up a school because of right-wing radicalization or video games.
I really do like my QC35's, but I agree the primary issues are:

- I can have 2 connected sources of audio (ex: phone/laptop). However, only one works at a time. So when I get a spam phone call, I loose audio for my ongoing video call until I decline the ring.
- I can't use wireless without turning on noise cancelling. This means, I can't really walk around and use them at the same time
> Having a more "front runner" distro for RHEL (RedHat Enterprise) is great for RedHat. Since bugs will probably be caught in CentOS and don't end up in RHEL.

I thought that Fedora was already serving this role
No Windows 7 support?
Indeed, much of Feldman's late period fits this description. I would also recommend Piano and String Quartet [0] [1] from Feldman as an extreme example of his interests in minimalism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_and_String_Quartet_(Feld...

[1] https://vimeo.com/231496382
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A merger of a $600B company with a $60B company should have minimal impact on board seats.

But it's hard to tell how serious he is. All he's really said is that he'll read any offers that come in. I doubt he'll do much more than read them, but who knows? One thing Musk does not lack is hubris, so I'm sure he thinks he has the ability to absorb and turn around a legacy automaker.
This is, like so many other stories, another glycobiology story in disguise! I had a great discussion with one of our collaborators about where we thought the alpha-Gal came from that is so antigenic.

Our rough hypothesis was that this is a microbiome related problem, and there’s now some kind of bacteria (or something else!) resident to ticks that produces this sugar. My bet is that the little beastie that produces this epitope has adapted to produce alpha-Gal to avoid detection by the immune system in other mammalian hosts. The tick is simply a delivery mechanism for the alpha-gal producing organism.

Here’s the thing though - I don’t quite get why we don’t know what is going on yet. We (probably) have genomes for the ticks, and we can guess (sort of ok) what sugars they can make. We can also do microbiomes to figure out which possible beasties are found in the saliva. I must be missing something big so as to explain why we’re not much closer to answers?
Neither does YouTube, I think that was the comparison. I'm sure you could find all sorts of right-wing, left-wing, Islamic, or other extremist content if you try hard enough. To say YouTube pushes it on people is just not true. If anything, their content moderation policies and algorithms are too strict.
I won't be looking up the page in the book for you but here is a search result instead:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/09/elon-musk-ran-a-nightclub-ou...
Probably absurdly bass heavy with muddled mids, based on other Apple and beats headphones. So I’m sure the mainstream will love them.
So CentOS is no longer relevant for production use. I wonder who stands to benefit. I really don't see it driving more sales to RHEL like the execs probably predict.
How is it helpful to post an example of a buying guide for over the ear headphones? It solves the exact problem the OP pointed out: that they don't know what to buy and don't want to spend the time researching themselves. It gives you an answer right at the top of the page, from someone who did the research for you.

EDIT: would love to continue this conversation with those who replied to me but HN has decided I am "posting too fast" (my last post was an hour ago?) so... shrug.
The unemployment rate for licensed healthcare providers is very low. There are really no extra physicians out there.
Actively? It sounds like you're erroneously attributing some sinister 'purpose' to the algorithm.

The YT recommendation algorithm doesn't have any preference for what it sends you to, only that you keep coming back.

The music industry might do something similar (simpler, poppier tunes), but it's far, far slower than YouTube, so you can accumulate less 'radicalisation' on aggregate.
Propagation, but I’m not entirely sure it makes sense in this context.
Safer for investors that is. Which are as likely to bring the business o an end by optimizations and acquisitions as running out of money is.
> Without some way to do that ISPs will not be able to get away with such customer hostile behavior.

I guess it won't take long until the first community or HOA decides to ban Starlink dish installations for faked "optical nuisance" issues.
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> They sell the product /experience/

But that's what you said the "audio gear industry" were doing

> I find it fascinating how the audio gear industry has thought the consumers on how much money you are supposed to spend to have audio /experience/

That's how you began your argument.

> 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.

This is also the same line of reasoning for "audiophile products" vs (how ridiculous is this compared to) "average headphones".
> It doesn’t affect you. They’re not telling you to do it.

Sure it does. This religious consumerism is favouring one of the biggest polluters on earth, with products that are as hard to repair as possible. And the favorism it's not even warranted: Apple produced a bunch of crap over the years. But zealots just ignore that.

And not only has this a negative effect on our shared resources, many people also plainly abhor when other people refuse to think.
The iconic American inventor is still a white male
Interesting that apple is increasing its stake in privacy. On all their billboards and advertisements of course they like to present it as a boon to the customer. More importantly, I think it’s a negative for personal data hungry competitors while being relatively unrelated to Apples business
Edit: Looks like Availability differs greatly across the world. Also wish HN had strikethrough markdown. Keeping the comment below intact.

And while 460 Comments are shitting on its Pricing.

Shipping time is 12 Weeks for Green, 10 Weeks for Blue, and 8 Weeks for other colours. This is looking like the original AirPod launch where supply wont catch up to demand for quite some time. They are selling like hotcakes.

Yes, it is expensive, but it also has 9 Microphones, 9 Sensors and two H1 Chip. So it is more expensive than a B&W PX7, it certainly does offer a lot more functions.

Cant wait to see the reviews.
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My take on that comment: "I don't have the expertise to separate one pair of high end headphones from another. My experience with Apple products tells me Apple consistently puts out products that meet or exceed my expectations, so by buying the Apple version of product_x, I feel it's a safe bet."
It’s not like 600B evaluation is equal to being able to sell for 600B. Let me explain.

If you got a company named T with a total of 100 shares. Now they want to raise money and someone is willing to pay $10 for a share. You get a market cap of $1000. They create the extra share and someone is still willing to pay $10 a share. Magically they are worth $1010.

Now T is selling the share for $10 and the next guy willing to buy only wants to pay $9. Magically the market cap drops to $909.

Right now many Tesla share owners believe they will get rich by holding. Someday all of them might realize at the same time everybody is holding and decide to sell. If that day is tomorrow it will not be 600B actual dollars changing ownership.

If Tesla would raise 25% market cap they would destroy the stock. I guess it might take at least a month or more for the market to absorb 1% new shares.

Right now we have a market where a lot of people sold and the same or new investors freshly bought again and are optimistic. We got many people buying and not so much selling. Market cap is in a way a to simplistic metric.
I love how the No True Swedish Man, when the numbers are going down, is following the voluntary measures to the dot but when the numbers are going up retroactively is not.

By the way despite all the drama hospitalizations are still not at the level they were beginning of the year. But I’m sure that’s because they are following the rules again?
It is, but there's way over a million families in america with a net worth over $10 million.

Bezos is rich. He started a rocket company. Blue Origin has done nowhere near what spacex has done, and that difference isn't down to just throwing money at a problem.

Don't get me wrong, throwing money at the problem is important, but it's just one ingredient.

There are some rich people who have made a difference -- Bill Gates comes to mind as someone that put money and effort in. Chuck Feeney on the "throw money at a problem" side.

But for every Bill Gates there's a Larry Elison, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergy Brin, and dozens more that don't seem to do much.

When it comes to the next generation down, it's even rarer to find kids who are driven to make such a success.
My defence would be that Apple isn't an audio company and although they're great at everything they do, I doubt they can catch up with Sennheiser, Grado, Audio Technica etc when it comes to pure audio quality.

Where they're better is probably connectivity, noise cancellation (which is still garbage imho), integration with their hardware.

Same with their Homepod - it was innovative not in absolute audio quality but in the way it was omnidirectional and could "fill a room" with sound (if I remember correctly, from having read a review) and connectivity. If you just want great audio for your vinyl, CD or Flac collection then you don't get a Homepod. $300 worth of HiFi gear would be better.
I'm a somewhat clumsy person, so I'm willing to accept some of the blame here :) I had a pair of Grados that I didn't like quite as much, my next job gave me a pair of Beats for free, then I got a pair of AirPods and then upgraded to the AirPods Pro. I will not be purchasing the AirPods Max.

So far the AirPods Pro have been the best combo of convenience, build quality and sound quality for me. But I still think about those Porta Pros.
Thanks for this insight, I was not aware of this difference. As far as I can see though, this doesn't account for the drastic difference, given the average sales tax in the US is roughly 7% [0][1]. On top of the $279, the price would then end up at about $300.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_Stat...

[1] https://www.aarp.org/money/taxes/info-2020/state-sales-tax-r...
This is one of those situations where the overlap between colloquial and technical usage can cause confusion when one leaks into the other.

In colloquial usage, asymptomatic encompasses presymptomatic. In technical usage, they are different.

If you develop symptoms, then when you were a carrier before then, you were presymptomatic, rather than asymptomatic.
Maybe someday I'll see Qt and not think "Huh, Quicktime?"
> difference between sensational headlines and 'radicalising' YouTube recommendations really a qualitative difference (the latter of which is decidedly sinister and perverse), or just a case of machines outperforming humans?

No, the difference is that YouTube doesn't get a free pass; you don't hear “so and so was radicalized on Fox News (or OANN, or wherever)”, but that's not because it doesn't happen, instead it’ll get blamed, if anything, on groups and alternative media that the radicalized individual fell into after being radicalized by something shaped like traditional media.
We're gonna need your belt...
TIL: "black water diving" is night diving, especially over a very deep zone. It sounds like you don't really go any deeper than ordinary open-water diving, but you get to see creatures migrating from much deeper than you would ordinarily get to see.

Including, apparently, a lot of transparent juveniles. (I'm not exactly clear on why juveniles in particular can be transparent.)
I am not sure how CentOS Stream makes any sense. CentOS stands for Community Enterprise Operating System, how on earth can CentOS Stream be called an Enterprise operating System?
Whether Tesla is a bad trade depends on how it compares to other Stock. Whether you can buy it on margin has nothing to do with anything.
> Kubernetes allows you to do just that with about a dozen lines of a infrastructure-as-code script.

Apart from what was already mentioned - what if I exceed the number of machines in my cluster? What if I want XGB RAM and there is no such big machine in the cluster? I don't even have to ask these questions if I use fargate because I don't care about the underlying cluster at all.

> Kubernetes does that out-of-the-box, and allows you to keep your entire deployment in a repository.

You've got it backwards. Kubernetes allows a configuration where you can access the containers. And now, if I have to deal with a system using Kubernetes, I don't know if someone sometimes accesses the containers unless I look at the code and check that it is up to date / successfully deployed.

> With Kubernetes, health checks are 3 or 4 lines of code in a deployment definition.

Yeah and code in your running service and monitoring and alerting... and and and. Maybe for you these are small differences, but for me that is a huge maintenance burden.

> Oh, and unlike Fargate, you can take your Kubernetes scripts and deploy your app on any service provider that offers Kubernetes.

That's certainly an advantage. But it doesn't make Kubernetes simpler. And that is what we are discussing
the mic is hot garbage on those
Better is subjective. It most likely doesn't have the audio fidelity as the headphones OP mentioned, but something like Transparency mode is such a great feature for me.

The end product experience doesn't always correlate to existing metrics of quality.
I think the only reasonable thing that js can do here is what it does - copy the reference. Also, there is a simple way to copy all properties from a object: const copy = { ...object }; Of course, if these properties are themselves objects, then changes in one of them will appear in the other.

One way to have a deep copy which shares nothing is const copy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(object)); but that may not always work. In short, copying a arbitrarily large object will probably waste memory, so it should be a little hard so you don't do it unless it's really necessary.
The gentleman who took those photos actually has a LiveJournal page in Russian where he posts these urban explorations, you can find his urban explorations of Russia and Japan. There are several interesting places he's written about: https://ralphmirebs.livejournal.com/
Interestingly, that cable seems to use a 3-conductor (TRS) 3.5mm connector as opposed the usual 4-conductor one found on EarBuds. So I guess that implies it doesn't carry mic input?
There is no report yet to tell that. I think YouTube is just a scape goat for the society problems that led to that terrible event; any day someone can come forward with a theory that the bad things on the planet are caused by X, Y or Z where X, Y or Z can be anything from Youtube/Twitter/FB to video games or drinking beer, then the reaction will be to try to ban that. I saw the ban that was the result of this event, it was illogic to anyone with knowledge of the matter, but it was well accepted by uninformed public.
My WhisperLite Universal can do that too, on top of running pure liquid stoves. I personally wouldn’t trust it below ~20F; it can run white gas too, why risk it?

My actual favorite stove, although my heaviest, is my BioLite CampStove 2[0]. It consumes biomass (sticks, pine cones, etc.) and runs a fan that drives extra air into the burning chamber for more heat and less smoke. The part running the fan generates electricity from the heat (using a peltier device, I think) which is enough to run the fan and produce a small amount of spare power. It’s not the lightest stove, but it generates a lot of personal warmth and in areas with a lot of biomass it has effectively unlimited runtime. Illegal to use in areas with forest fire risks though, hence my dual ownership of a WhisperLite.

0 - https://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/campstove-2
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But I think that's the point. Because Youtube has such a fast feedback loop, they have a special responsibility to avoid over-optimizing on getting you to watch the next video.
Yep, they made up that 500ms number.