skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember when we said $800 for an iPhone is beyond expensive and unreasonable?
Thank you, https://www.start.umd.edu/radicalization-and-deradicalizatio... looks very much like the sort of thing it'll take me a while to digest...
You can’t beat 8 drivers in one ear producing different frequency ranges in a custom sized devices made from a mould impression taken by an audiologist with 1 single cone. Sorry but no engineering talent can break the laws of physics. But agree they should make a great product overall regardless.
Research would indicate the rates are profitable as mandated by law. It is irresponsible to spread misinformation on the internet.
They don't have adjuvants, but they do have lipid nanoparticles which allow the mRNA to breach cells. It's feasible that they could cause unexpected side effects.

NB: I'm personally going to get the first SARS-CoV-2 vaccine I can get, and I'm incredibly excited about mRNA vaccines in general. But, it's true that any time you inject a chemical into your bloodstream you're taking a calculated risk.
In a modern sense? I personally want the waves coming out of my equipment to be as similar to the waves stored on my computer.
Its time for a new internet rule. If Oracle or IBM buys your vendor, you should be migrating.
Taming of the flu.
If I were to hazard a guess, it would be a culture of bugfixing and software updates post-launch. These headphones no doubt share a lot of code with Airpods. Code which has received numerous bugfixes throughout it's life. Coupled with their ability to actually push out firmware updates to their users without needing them to install a separate (buggy) app, it leads to the evolution of a very stable software platform over time.

I'm just speculating, but how much embedded code do you imagine Sony throws away and re-writes for every new headphone release versus how much is retained.
That does not mean you should be pointing a gun at some one unless you intend to kill them.
by internet law, you mean inserting backdoors for the government to surveil you? Yeah I'm not sure that counts as better than banning. The version of Skype that the free world gets to use is in fact banned in China.
Your Sennheiser examples are wired headphones which are (essentially) unpowered speakers.

The Apple one is technically a lot more complex with a good bluetooth chip (especially compared to the rest of the bluetooth offerings), some digital signal processing to make the 'simple' speakers sound better, a battery (+charging circuit) for 20 hours of wireless playback and a gyroscope to adjust the sound stage to your movement (and gives a decent Atmosphere representation).

I presume a big part of the price of these high-tech cans is contributed by research and software development, not by materials...
There's no globe? Just an RSS feed of everything that's happened lately.
Mac/iOS-only rules these out for me before I even get to the price. I still believe in an open ecosystem for audio, and have the desire and need to use headphones on ANY equipment I choose.

I use cans for video calls primarily, with listening second. Personal favourite is the original Sony MDR-1000X - they just work, and work anywhere, and have a cable if the battery dies. ANC is good enough. Sound quality is good enough. I'll buy a newer model when they cease to function.

I also have a pair of PowerBeats Pro, and they are mediocre. Left only changes half the time. Audio quality middling. Ignoring the lack of ANC, they weren't worth the expense and poor value. It's left me with the impression that Apple/Beats haven't got a clue about sound reproduction.

I also use Audio-Technica ATH-50 headphones, but rarely because no mic. Clear but too sterile except as studio monitors.

Also a set of Y50s that were inexpensive but served well for lightweight on the go sound/voice. Better than the Beats that came after them.

Price is not a good indicator when so much is spent on marketing.
There is a huge difference between "FedEx and UPS are limiting the number of items we are allowed to ship", and "Fedex and UPS are limiting the number of items that they will pick up and scan for us but we can still drop everything off at a depot ourselves with no limit".

The article is using the terms "shipping limits" and "pickup limits" interchangeably, which is very misleading.
In all honesty, I ran Riven through wine, and Proton is a wrapper around wine and some other tools to cover the rough edges.
This spring, unsurprisingly, I started spending a larger than normal portion of my time in the woods. I brought an uncomfortable number of (deer) ticks home in the spring and again in recent weeks. This is every bit or more frightening personally than Covid is. At this point I know every skin tag and mole on my body from doing thorough check downs every time I get home from hiking. In Pa. we have the East Stroudsberg U Tick Research Laboratory who will take a specimen of any tick found embedded or not and run a basic pathogen panel free. The few I've sent in have been clean but being familiar with my bestie's dad's experience with Lyme there's no chance I'm not being as proactive as possible.
I'm a software architect and how I handle this between my teams is:

+ Set an expectation for teams to raise difficult problems they don't know how to solve for guidance

+ Help teams meet and determine standards and contracts together

+ Make sure teams have the power to make bold choices within their own domains

Sometimes these go a bit off the rails or a less optimal choice gets made and frankly... that's fine. Mistakes are where we learn and letting engineers make mistakes and recover from them is part of letting engineers grow.

Being an effective manager often means buying cover for your team to do their work and evolve it organically.
I migrated KeyDB, it didn't take very long at all and now my tests are much more reliable.
That seems very rare/special case and unlikely. Also it doesn't seem like it would hold water in court.
I was sure attention-based models would be a game changer in biology and protein design! I think that attention is all you need :)
The most popular PC Operating System out there will just steal BT audio connections any time it can.

If your phone to PC handoff works after calls in a way you like, I take it as you just have a use case where bad behavior works in your favor.

After all, what happens if someone wants to continue using their phone audio after the call?

Or use BT with their phone outside of a call?
How many trucks are available for rental? Can every shipper get one? Can small shippers organize cooperatives to get access to them? Who's going to drive them?
I think because software engineers tend to excel at pattern recognition, oftentimes solutions to different problems appear so similar that it seems like with a small amount of abstraction, they can be reused. But it's a trap!

Everything abstracted to the highest level is the same, but problems aren't solved at the highest level.

The devil, as they say, is in the details.
Also have the XM4s. If you go into the app, you can turn off "Notification and Voice Guide" under the system settings. It will then switch instantly when pressing the button without the woman speaking. Way better with it off.

I do agree though, the headphones are great, but the UX is clunky and nowhere near what apple could achieve with a fully integrated set of headphones.
Apple could use their position of product leadership to introduce mainstream consumers to a higher standard of fidelity if they wanted to, particularly at this price. But I guess that would cut into their Beats business and would make Apple Music look worse than it already is, and surely the profits aren't as nice as using plastic(!) drivers

You can get Sennheiser HD280's, where the audio quality is likely worlds apart from these, and earcup padding that attenuates outside noise by something like 30db passively, for $60. Or you could be a doof and buy these Apple cans
Except IBM thinks that this will convert everyone to RHEL licenses and I'm positive that is not what's going to happen.

Ubuntu is already the default for people with ML pipelines and more and more vendors are targeting Ubuntu first for their software.

CentOS will be effectively dead for a lot of companies starting next year (or 2024). (At least we aren't planning on licensing 10^5 systems on RHEL...). I imagine for those same companies, RHEL isn't far behind it.

What's even worse here is that at least for us there are some things that we pay for RHEL for. If we switch all of our other servers, those RHEL licenses won't be continuing either.

Obvious, but stupid.
Chicken might be an easier obtainable answer.
Working from home has made 49% of Silicon Valley workers feel job uncertainty
The article links to this talk[0], which has a funny and interesting sounding title: "Did you accidentally build a database?"

[0] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/strata-hadoop/978149194...
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Easy, I want all the features in Airpods but with better sound.
I got this on one website the other day, and thought about complaining to them. I suppose they don't control that directly, but if users are turned away by it, maybe they'll stop using it.
In another news :

Apple confirms AirPods Max ear cushions will be sold separately, $69 “each”

https://appletrack.org/apple-confirms-airpods-max-ear-cushio...
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I get your point as well, it is not the right way to see things, but at this point, I am tired with the whole situation and I don't really see a way out of the situation for the States. I am lucky enough that I don't need to deal with this, but sitting here idle isn't really comforting either.
A performance at the University of Florida Performing Arts center here in Gainesville. This was back in the nineties.
> Would you want the US government to ban Twitter or Facebook for spreading propaganda and/or farm user data?

Yes. If there is determined to be harm, I see no reason to protect them.

> Would you want the US to be more like China?

Governments fulfill similar roles across time and space. It's unavoidable that there is overlap. Please clarify what you are trying to imply.
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I'll spend a little on earbuds (AirPods, actually), but I feel you on the headphones. I do a lot of audio and video work, and after extensive research over the last ~decade I've just got literally half a dozen pairs of Sony MDR-V6's around; they're $100, they sound pleasant and also reasonably representative (though not as representative as my monitors, which is to be expected!), and unlike the Beyerdynamic DT-990s they actually fit on my head (I am a problem for hat-makers).
I'm asking that if the millionaire was taxed at the same rate then what would he do with his money instead of investing it?

Same principle with a lawyer being paid $200 an hour, or an actor on $2000 an hour.

Morally I'd say that the millionaire who is rent seeking should be taxed more than those working, but parity would be a start

You make investing seem like gambling. Seems that the IRS treat gambling as earned income, not unearned income.
One way around this is to make sure your kafka command streams are processed in order, in serial partitioned by an id where you want the concurrency control.

Normally you only want concurrency control within certain boundaries.

By figuring out the minimum amount transaction and concurrency boundaries you can inch out quite a bit of performance.
Tik Tok is the only social media app I use (edit: well I guess also Youtube). I'd rather China have my data than the US government or US corperations.

Edit: Why should I care if China has my data? Everyone seems worried about it, but I can't think of a good reason. I can think of a lot of reasons why I would prefer my own government from having it, though. The only scenarios I can think of, is if I become rich or powerful, or if China takes over the US.
> At least where I'm at, almost none of my Amazon orders come through fedex or UPS now - everything is delivered by an Amazon driver.

That only means the 'last mile' (figurative here) is done by Amazon. I believe there may still be third parties in between depending on the item/location.
Skills and Qualities of Top Tier ML Researchers
Just checked again and it's giving me the same errors.

Here's the error from file upload:

https://postimg.cc/NLfXFspf

Here's the error from using a link:

https://postimg.cc/QHQfDxtN
Leather is also cured in all sorts of nasty things.
I love some of Glass's works, but others I find annoying. If you experiment on the cutting edge, you will have clunkers and duds, but also break ground every now and then. Or invent something half-finished that a future composer will improve upon.

Works that transitioned from Baroque to Classical are often considered clunky by modern standards, but that's because they were trying new things. If those pioneers didn't experiment, we wouldn't have Mozart and Beethoven. (I do enjoy Baroque though.)

Keep experimenting, Mr. Glass!
What do you mean flu immunity only lasts 6mo? As I understand it, flu vaccines are done yearly due to mutations rendering the vaccine impotent for the next strain. However, it seems like you're implying that the vaccine "wears off" or something.

What do you mean?
On the other hand, CentOS systems tend to last much longer due to the 10-year support cycle. So I often encounter wild specimens that are even older than Debian oldstable.

Right now, I've got a bunch of CentOS 6 servers with 2.6.32 kernels that are freshly out of support this month. I was hoping to replace them with 8, but now I'll probably have to settle for 7. At least I can take consolation in the fact that I haven't been called in to troubleshoot any CentOS 5 servers lately.
Personally, I'd be happy to be convinced that he's not an avant-garde composer. There might be some aspect to the term I'm not aware of. But "the word doesn't occur in the Wikipedia article" certainly isn't a very convincing point.
> > "china bans all us social media apps"

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

Calling them "social media apps" is a stretch. Microsoft Teams is designed to be used within an organization, so it's closer to a corporate mail server than facebook. Skype and FaceTime are public, but they don't have the defining features of other social media sites, such as a profile, UGC, or feeds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
How does 'safe distance' work? If you can hit them... they can hit you. And they know exactly where you're firing from as soon as you send up a shell into the air.
Much more important than price for me is comfort. These are whopping 50% heavier than Sony MXs, which I already rarely use because of the weight on the top of my head. The mesh looks like a definite improvement (the Sony’s top cushion gets hot from the pressure on my hair), but I doubt that will make up the huge difference.

So this is first gen and is likely going to see a ton of improvement. I would:

1) drop the crown, just like on the Watch it will likely lead to accidental changes of volume and is kinda gimicky
2) replace metal with light solid plastic

Next gen should tought “Half of the weight of previous generated for unprecendeted comfort”
One fun thing is that the FedEx lot near me is already full of rental trucks, Penske, Uhaul, etc. as they use them to expand their delivery fleet.
Delegating and trusting someone doesn't mean a task never goes badly. Part of delegation is meeting and touching base with work that is ongoing. Participate in code reviews, have regular 1:1s with people you are delegating to.

And yes, you're not going to end up with your exact vision when you delegate. The question is whether the end goal is sufficient and minimal, and if not then you should evolve that with the other people involved.
This is lack of abstraction. You can certainly fix this in kafka using various hacks, but its implementation of an abstraction you can get in a standard db for free.

Funnily enough a list of events is pretty much what a transaction log is in a standard db. Although the events have more of a business meaning. In many ways event sourcing is removing a lot of abstraction databases give you.
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And for most people, sound quality is largely subjective. What "sounds good" to person A might sound like garbage to person B.
It should be the right of the finder to stay anonymous but the cat's out of the bag now.

But this I don't understand though:

> and they both seemed to agree that the location of the find should be kept secret

In the interest of transparency after the fact I see no problem with telling people where the treasure actually was. This gives people closure especially to the ones who suffered or the families of the ones who died hunting for it, lets them verify that the instructions they went on were indeed valid, and puts to rest other suspicions people may have.

Under these conditions a judge has nothing to go on if they want to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the finder cheated in any way. There are no details on how this happened, the initiator of the treasure hunt passed away so there's nothing stopping anyone from taking this to court. Transparency is there specifically to preempt claims like this.
When I was in high school, my friend got the cassette tape of the first part of Satyagraha stuck in his car stereo. For some reason rather than digging it out, we just went around blasting it for months. We were even singing along in overly dramatic fashion by the end of it.
What's the news about "anti-China” content being censored on TikTok?
Zero Day Remote Code Execution in File Upload Feature
The first Exploits Explained video demonstrates a Remote Code Execution hack in a file upload feature.
For most of the software on my computer, the developer certificate is enough information to know what software I'm running.

Are they going to think I'm running some other piece of software signed by Slack Inc.?
As a Swiss - yup, it's just for show & nostalgia. In my opinion, it will take another 20-30 years of wasted money for this charade until the cold-war-era folks start to become a minority; then we can finally dump our armed boy scout camp.
You're definitely right that it is an issue that the traffic is plaintext but there are trade off costs that are not addressed by these standards, mostly in user control and fall back behaviour.

You've started using a pi-hole, and presumably are getting value from it. These protocols can potentially make it so you can't use that pi-hole at all.

Traffic that is local to a network being unencrypted is not a huge privacy problem. If this protocol was adopted by local resolvers, your pi-hole or network router could use it for any requests it makes while still preserving its ability to filter the traffic. It's basically all win under this scenario.

The problem comes back to applications implementing this in ways that can't be managed taking the option away from end users and administrators. Without the protocols specifying control and fall-back behaviours on networks that don't need or want this, it's more harmful than useful.
> I always found these kind of studies bullshit: the worse serial killers and pedophiles were sometimes described as "nice" and "charming" people.

That is at first sight. Psychopaths have a surface level charm but spending enough time with them and the illusion shatters.

A real agreable and nice person has that as a baseline, that’s a big facet of their personality.
I don't plan to buy it (I have Air Pods Pro and Bose QC35 II and they works well), but if I'm on the market for NC headphones, I would probably pay premium for Apple's, if reviews doesn't find any glaring shortcomings. Why? Because of the small things - switching between active devices on AirPods works very well for me (today I received a phone call by telling my iphone to switch to AirPods even if they're attached to my laptop), automatic detection of the right ear, head tracking (these spatial sound demos sounds amazing and I hope more applications will support it).

These things means more to my average and aging ears than some flashy audiophile names.
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That makes sense to me, to hone already developed skills. I was reading this thinking it was targeted at novices
> It's also early to hype them like there's no tomorrow

Who is doing this? I basically haven't seen anyone overhyping them. In fact I would say that 95% of what I've read has been very skeptical so far.
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On a thread where we discuss the CCP's use of social media to influence public opinion in the US, it seems like the answer to this question should be apparent.
My suggestion would be no one should be CTO at the beginning. Limit titles at the start since it gives you flexibility. Lee Holloway wasn't "CTO" or "VP of Engineering" when Cloudflare started; I was "Programmer".
>Does high agreeableness necessarily translate into more empathy

I think the difference is that the personality trait called "agreeableness" doesn't mean someone is a pushover. But I do agree with you in general, my biggest gripe with pop psych as of late is the way "empathy" is used interchangeably with being nice.

Has a quiet person failed to empathize if there is no change in their outward behavior? I'd say obviously no. So I've been trying to work out why we talk about empathy when we mean being nice.

I think people talk about empathy rather than niceness because it makes it easier to admonish others. If I tell someone that they should be nicer, they likely already understand the situation as one where they could be nicer, and chose not too. Maybe they even chose not to be nice fully aware that it violated established social protocol. I am simply making a demand that they behave to my standards, and well adjusted people know that I am not their father no matter how serious I try to make myself sound. Or I can tell someone they lack empathy, accusing them of failing at a basic part of humanity. Depending on their internal thought process I'm more likely at extracting the behavior I want out of them through this manipulation. It's rudimentary bullying. Make an accusation someone doesn't want to be true, and treat any attempt to refute it as proof the accusation is true.
> You can’t beat 8 drivers in one ear producing different frequency ranges in a custom sized devices made from a mould impression taken by an audiologist with 1 single cone

And you can get these for $549, too?
OpenSSL has very strange connections with American intelligence and Huawei. They also have an odd British nuclear weapons joke I've noticed. Possible NSA front?

[1] - https://blog.12security.com/openssl-expands-partnership-with...

[2] - https://awe.com
> Nope, you can make a commercial closed-source application that links against LGPL-licensed library.

So in this case, you'd have to package the software so it doesn't include Qt (in an RPM/deb) so it pulls in the system Qt? Or on Windows, provide them a link so they can download that component manually?
> Android are a 2-year device at most if you care about security (and are not a hacker)

Apple are definitely leading the industry here, but my Samsung S7 (released Feb 2016) got a security update last month (even though Samsung has officially said it's unsupported now).
>"I don't know that. I have Apple stuff already (like most people) and know it's high quality. Trying Sennheiser is taking a risk for me. I'd pay to not take that risk."

Exactly. That's the whole point of a brand.