skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is getting a little off-topic, I was just answering a question. I don't consider the existence of risk of conflict with China to be misinformation, what I consider misinformation is interpreting Trump's december 2nd speech in which he mentions "waging war on slavery" as a confirmation that the missiles will soon be flying.

If you want to understand what kind of misinformation exists on GNews, please feel free to peruse it and see for yourself.
Yes, but that was not true.

Youtube really does have far-right extremist content on it. It really does drive you towards it. This is something happening in reality.
Did you comment on the wrong post? This seems unrelated to sops.
"Ugly" was my immediate impression too. The band looks like a 1980s era idea of futuristic, with a pair of oversized Apple Watches stuck on each end.

I wasn't a fan of the Airpod aesthetic either, but they made a bit of sense, because they seemed like a reasonable evolution from 15 years of marketing around their iPod/iPhone headphone cables.
But is Apple your hero?
The backup is stored on Alibaba servers in Singapore.

I don’t know why it serves anyone well to 1) believe the company’s word at face value and 2) not believe that the Chinese gov does not have backdoor agreements with the largest Chinese tech company.

The better question to ask is what information TikTok even has on someone. It isn’t exactly an app that asks for a lot of real world identity data to signup with.

IMO their biggest thing would be their ability to use computer vision to instantly process videos and match faces with real world identity databases and then to link faces and backgrounds to locations, family members/connections, interests, etc.
Tesla and SpaceX were definitely years or decades ahead of their time, but PayPal would have happened without Musk. There are lots of competitors. PayPal was the one that hit the right features in the right place at the right time (with the right lawyers to talk to the right regulators), but it was far from unqiue.
> ... why you would buy these ...

Feature-terms: For the microphones.
Benefit-terms: For comfortable all-day telephony, up to 20 hours between charges.
> the difference here is that your example is lukewarm extremist content at best

That is "a" difference, not the difference

> This kind of content paints wild ideas but does not contest reality

It describes reality in ways that are not actually true.

> or directly incite weird actions.

You do not know the direct or indirect consequences of such content. Understanding causation in a complex, chaotic system is far beyond the cognitive capabilities of the human mind. To make it even worse, the mind typically (and incorrectly) perceives itself to be capable of such calculations.

> Here's some examples of what I mean

I belong to a wide variety of communities - I could also provide similar examples of silly thinking from those who fall into various categorizations. I don't disagree that the "far right" types may indeed pose greater risk (but to be clear: whether that is actually true, is unknown, and a body count perspective strongly suggests otherwise [1]), but to speak as if they are the only risk worth worrying about is itself contesting reality.

Reality is infinitely complex, but the conscious mind does not perceive it this way. Even worse, it (the mind, which is in ultimate control of each comment posted on forums like this) seems to refuse to even consider (almost without exception) that it is infinitely complex. I believe that this may be much more dangerous than it may appear (to the mind...which may happen to be just a little biased on the subject).

[1] Here I refer to war, in general, which is not the fault of "the far right", who seem to very conveniently get all the media attention.
REMINDER: Research proves that it's easy to correlate IP addresses in HTTP[S] connections with the domain you are connecting to with a very high success rate.

You can resolve the websites from the Alexa top 100k list and create a ipaddr -> website map that will successfully apply to 90% of Internet traffic without ambiguity.

A lot of research papers also show how easy it is to fingerprint and detect a TLS handshake.

Assuming the SNI problem is going to be solved, the other problems are still here.

TL;DR: use Tor.
Anyone who finds trees interesting should read Richard Powers's amazing, Pulitzer-winning book "The Overstory"

http://www.richardpowers.net/the-overstory/
The basic idea makes sense to me and it's great to see efforts to improve DNS privacy. However, I'm not really convinced by Cloudflare's analysis of the processing overhead:

The blog post only discusses how the proxying and encryption affect latency but not the processing at the server. In contrast to plain DoH (or DoT), where only symmetric cryptography is used after the first set-up, ODoH requires asymmetric cryptography (which is several orders of magnitude slower) for each individual request. The "less than 1ms" that they claim for the 99th percentile is no problem for the client but it is a problem for the resolver.
Asymmetric cryptography is also used for verifying DNSSEC responses, but this is only necessary for records that are not cached.

On the other hand, an ODoH resolver may require to set up and keep track of a lower number of TLS connections as the number of proxies is likely smaller than the number of clients.
Apple is his “hero.” As if they cured cancer.
The defining featre of an "exponential" curve is that there is no "bend". The bend is an illusion create by arbitrarily imposed scale. What there is, "quality that matters to to you" and "price you can afford", and you should ignore the part of the curve with too-high price and too-low quality.
D&D has its problems, yes. But it is nothing like Youtube in how strongly it drives radicalisation.
Well, this could probably encourage the creation of privacy-oriented proxys (they just have to forward queries, so it should be relatively inexpensive compared to a full DNS server). What is the likehood of someone getting logs from Cloudflare (who promises it does not keep logs, but let's assume it does) and at the same time hacks into some random privay-oriented organization?

Of course, one might imagine a State actor using all their resources to do just that. But this would be a very complex attack. At least, it would stop all kind of ad tracking.

The worst part of this proposal is that it will further centralize the DNS infrastructure.
He is a big hero in my home town of Stuttgart, I went to see his operas there many times, one of them I think was funded and had its premiere there.
While everybody can hear, they won't hear it anywhere near as loud. So you can listen to music as loud as you want without disturbing your neighbors or even the people in the next room.

Secondly, you arguably get more bang for your buck. For a budget of say $300-400 split between open headphones and a DAC you'll get much better sound quality than similar money spent on speakers and an amp. Finally to get the most out of speakers you need space to set them up correctly and a room with decent acoustics. Headphones avoid all of that.
Ya that's a fair point, but the flip side is that there are people in the comments ready to preorder, also without having tried the product. There's something cringy to me about that level of blind brand loyalty.
Using rustls[1] instead of openssl has worked well for me so far.

[1] https://github.com/ctz/rustls
Covid-19 spurs national plans to give citizens digital identities
Sony WH-1000XM4.
Ha, yes okay maybe just from their secretions may be a tad optimistic. However, there are some papers out there about the associated microbiota, although I have no idea if they just mushed the whole tick up to get enough material.
It's not in my interest if it costs me more and makes future planning more difficult.

The software subscription business is essentially a huge price hike masked by paying in installments.

>simply disappearing and being frozen in old versions because of no revenue stream against them.

It means that the new features in version X were not good enough to entice new buys or upgrades.

Subscription model is great - for the software companies. It's not a good model for consumers.

The current subscription model will end up being just like Fifa or Madden games, the same thing every year with minor changes because consumers are locked-in and have no alternative.
It is not just about data. It is also about asymmetry of control. China bans all of western social media and gets to censor tiktok with it is rising share of users and a bunch of others. Go write something about Tibet Taiwan or Tiananmen Square
Do not buy their 1st gen product for at least 6 mos to 1 yr. Especially for these audio products which are not Apple's domain expertise

All the airpod pros (ear buds) during the 1st year of manufacturing suffers from a rattle issue that develop over a short period of time. Many people have warrantied 3-4 pairs of these.
https://archive.vn/Jct1t
I think LGPLv3 has anti-tivoization provisions. That said, I don't see how Gtk's license has anything to do with The Qt Company's recent antics. I'm in no way advocating people choose Gtk over Qt.
Tell me about it. Did you know that Beats Solo 2 have this strange problem where at some point one of the ear-cups would stop functioning on Bluetooth and the way to fix it is to stick some aluminium foil into the audio cable jack? It's so ridiculous and I am amazed that someone the internet discovered this solution and the solution is working for the others, including me.

Apple's products don't break down by themselves but Beats do. My pair had the faux lather completely peeled off, the retracting mechanism on the one side lost its tik and I have aluminium foil stiffed inside the cable jack so I can listen in stereo.

They came as a promotion when I bought my Macbook few years back, which still functions flawlessly.
Wow. Violently disingenuous.
I've stated this is my worry with the BioNTech/Fosun vaccine - transporting it safely to Eastern Europe. They can't seem to transport frozen fish properly, I really hope they keep that vaccine in proper conditions, otherwise it'll be rendered useless...
And Gtk isn't a good option for non-Linux use. wxWidgets is LGPL (sort-of, modified) as well. wxWidgets is much more reasonable than Gtk for cross-plattform use, though can't compete with Qt Widgets in terms of features, API design, ease of use, stability etc.

It seems really weird to me how "but teh licenz" is brought up every time with Qt, when Qt itself is available under the same licenses as all the other toolkits like Gtk, wxWidgets etc.

This doesn't quite apply for embedded development (as LGPL's Tivoization clause might start to bite), but 1.) neither Gtk nor wxWidgets are viable in that space anyway 2.) considering that other people here found that Tesla manages to ship their car firmware with LGPL Qt - well. Can't be that hard to comply with it. Also, 3.) while we're used to free tools and libraries for desktop development, it's much more common to pay for tools in embedded development.
Early in my time in the travel industry I heard of mid-to-senior-ranking staff in major travel companies who would file fraudulent travel insurance claims for "lost"/"stolen" devices, when the device was neither lost nor stolen. It was told as if this was a fairly common/routine act.

Of course it's not just in travel where this kind of thing happens. I once watched as an acquaintance who worked in a senior/highly-paid job for a major bank, deliberately destroy a high-end phone/PDA (it was a long time ago) so he could claim a new one from his employer.
Those quotes in the next paragraph are explicitly attributed to William. There is no explicit attribution for the "historic moment" quote.
There's CopperSpice.

https://www.copperspice.com/
RedHat provides developer subscriptions to their products: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/getting-red-hat-devel...
[Submitter/I made this]

While working with water basin data, I made this little web app that lets you click anywhere and see the upstream drainage basin/watershed for the point, as well as the downstream path to the sea/end of the line.
The core 5% of their audience would just buy what they know rather then spend their time researching the market they don't know and don't have any interest in. Spending that time and attention on research would be much more expensive to them than the cost of the headphones.

And the 95% really want to signal others that their time is as expensive as of those 5%.
Pricing a product is always a very hard thing. I speak from experience working at a startup and trying to understand what price the market will bear.

The beauty with Apple is they build beautiful products that people covet. They effectively create a new market and force people to re-assess what they would pay for XYZ feature. I am sure the average user would never dream of spending $500+ for a pair of headphones yesterday. Now the landscape is all different.

Its the same for the iPhone. Why do these things costs $1000? I can get most of the same features in just as nice a package with many Android phones. But still iPhone is the dominant winner in the US market.
Until proven otherwise. And honestly, where is the 'national security' risk? There is probably far more data available in public databases that China could gather and analyze, not to mention you can apply the same paranoia to other services US and foreign.
Yea. I think this is an extremely short-sighted move. Many RHEL customers utilize CentOS. I know CentOS is a community but it is led by Red Hat developers. Suddenly pulling 8 years of support from their community project is not going to be looked at favorably by any IT team.
It lets everyone hears but the sound is not that loud, e.g. manageable even in a room with bad sound insulation. Beside, a comparable speaker setup in term of sound quality takes a lot of space and cost a lot more which may not be desirable.
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This article isn’t about access to photos or Bluetooth.
Allergies are very strange. The skin in my mouth falls off when I eat beans, and there is very little literature about that one either.
I think the problem is that the music I listen to is mastered so poorly (compression wars) that the more expensive headphones just expose how bad the music sounds rather than make it sound better. Maybe if I changed my taste to enjoy classical music instead of J-pop.
I think you're right, but your example is faulty. The Nexus line started at $530. It was only a few of the later models that were budget. The successor Pixel line launched at $650.
Reading The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben was pretty mindblowing. I encourage anyone who found this article interesting to check it out as well.
How long do you think it will be until people get a probe to a nearby star system? 1000 years? 10000 years? Never?

I think we will sooner than most people expect. And once we can do that we may also be able to start building a remote factory to build other probes and expand farther. Then it's only a matter of a few million years and we will have expanded to most stars in the Milky Way.
Trump is too busy wallowing in self pity to think about the petty spite he was pursuing against TikTok.
World Cup winner Steve Thompson reveals he has dementia and joins legal case
So you never take any vitamins, medicines, etc?
The only solution is onion routing AKA Tor and similar.
If you include Beats, then Apple has a ton of experience on staff shipping over the ear headphones.
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When Apple releases a new product and it’s not understood why people would buy it, I’m always reminded of this quote from former Palm CEO Ed Colligan when the iPhone was launched:

“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”

Since then I’ve not wanted to bet against Apple.

The reason people will buy these is because they are part of the Apple ecosystem. I have no knowledge of this, but I’m sure their out of the box pairing experience will be much like other Apple products. Hold your phone near it and it just connects. Far more seamless than most Bluetooth pairing.

Any audio controls are built into your phone.

And typically Apple has hardware and software designed to work together. They’ve done this with the iPhone camera to completely disrupt the digital camera industry.

It’s the ecosystem plus the benefits of hardware / software integration.
That kind of knee-jerk rejection is just as weird as a knee-jerk promise to buy. All we know right now is that Apple has introduced wireless, ANC, over-ear headphones at a premium price.

If I were looking to spend that kind of money on headphones -- which, we should be clear, isn't that hard to do if you're serious about it -- I'd absolutely listen to these. Given Apple's general approach to usability and quality, it'd be insanely foolish to dismiss them without trying them.

>Honestly, I don't understand why you would buy these when there are a lot of established professional audio companies offering better sound at a cheaper price.

This is what I'm talking about. How do you KNOW that $other_headphones sound better? The Apple model isn't even available yet.

I mean, it's dead solid clear that Apple's making a big move here. It could fail. But they tend not to fail. If they're pricing these on par with serious high-end over-ear headphones, then they expect them to be able to compete with those high-end headphones on all the points people care about in that market.

& about that: Your counterexamples aren't in Apple's target market here at all. None of them are wireless, and none of them include noise cancellation.

Moreover, the Audeze are open backed, which (for the non headphone nerds still reading) means those around you can hear what you're listening to. You get great sound that way -- lots of folks would argue that the best sounding phones in the world are all open-backed -- but it means they're terrible choices for most modern headphone applications, like in a public place or open office.

I love me some Grados, but they have the same problem.

Apple's play here is against the high end wireless, ANC product in the market, not these audiophile-only options you mention. I have a $300 pair of ANC wireless Sennheisers that I typically used on planes (ha, ha; remember travel?) or in other contexts where I really needed isolation. They're clunky to use and have weird idiosyncrasies, but they do sound better than my Airpods Pro, and they work better for long flights.

If they broke, would I consider the new Maxes? Absolutely.
That "everyone else" hearing may include other people close by in the same room, not from other rooms or other apartments. In addition, getting the same audio quality from speakers costs a multiple of the price of a high-end headphone pair, and even then it's very difficult (think room reveb and positioning).
At any sane price point, headphones blow away speakers.

It's hard and expensive to move a lot of air precisely, and speakers are influenced by room acoustics. $5 headphones beat $50 speakers. $80 headphones beat $200 speakers. And $200 headphones beat $400 speakers.

I can't afford to find out beyond that, but I suspect things get more nuanced on the ultra-high-end.

For me, for music, I'm happy with something like a Sony MDRV6 studio monitor, which sells for under $100. I don't know of speakers I like under $200.

Headphones are also nice for teleconferencing, where speakers aren't.
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>Honestly, I don't understand why you would buy these when there are a lot of established professional audio companies offering better sound at a cheaper price.

Probably because most of these companies have been "upgrading" their headphones for years, but really just making tweaks and increasing the price. So much of it is just marketing.

I'm a former headphone addict who used to own a lot of expensive headphones. I saw the progression from when $300 was expensive (if you exclude the electrostatics), to suddenly $1k is the norm for a "High End" headphone. Then $1.5K, then $2000, etc.

I'm not planning to buy the Airpods Max, but I give kudos to Apple for finally stepping up with computational audio and doing more than just making minor tweaks and marketing the hell out of it. Apple might actually push the other manufacturers to get off their ass and do some actual innovation.
You've never seen a little kid get a bump and only start to cry when the parent starts to coddle them? This is very common.

I can remember being a little kid and being afraid of stuff. A parent telling you not to be scared because the situation was normal can work.
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/ima...
I'm a proud audiophile. For me it was always about the music.

These are not incompatible pursuits. In fact, they pair rather nicely.

As a kid I was amazed by music on the cheap radio we had. And then when I listened on headphones, it was a whole other world full of details I couldn't hear on the cheap radio speaker. And it made me fall in love with music even more.

As an adult I spend a few years learning about the gear and making various purchases, even building my own speakers from kits. Did I like tinkering with the gear? Yeah, that was kind of fun, but it was largely a means to an end, which was the music.

The unfortunate fact is that music lovers who don't think about the gear are getting a crappy version of the music. If you know what you're doing, you can get some pretty world-class sound for well under a grand or even a few hundred bucks. If not, you get a Bluetooth speaker for the same amount of money that sounds like garbage and sucks the life out of your music.

You can still enjoy music that way! Many do! I sure can! But it's like wandering through the Louvre with filthy, smudged glasses. If you really like the art, it's worthwhile to clean those things off so you can really see what you're looking at.
> don't malfunction

I love my AirPod Pros, but the right bud is “crackling” again. It’s the third one I’ve had, and seems to be a design issue.

So far, they’ve replaced them.
Dependencies. For example, the Python TLS library of record is based on OpenSSL.

OpenSSL is old and supports lots of platforms. Some people need to use OpenSSL because of the platform they're running on. I do hope the situation gets better, and over time we have seen competing TLS libraries replace OpenSSL in more and more places. It's not an easy problem to solve.
It's also early to hype them like there's no tomorrow, or preorder stuff that nobody you should trust has seen, but there we are.
But why turn around a legacy automaker, even if he thinks he could? It would have to fit into his greater strategy, e.g. providing branding for his EVs or providing auto workers that would otherwise be hard to find, etc.

I took this as just an offhand comment saying "we might be willing to do this if they can convince us it will benefit Tesla" not a statement on how likely it is to happen.
Frankly, good luck with that. I attempted for a few months to do that for my Pixel 3a (which in theory is officially supported). When I followed the official guide to compile android, I found that a LOT of things did not work that I expected it to, including: VoLTE, SMS over LTE, and wifi-calling. The phone was useless on LTE, I had to force it onto 3G for any phone functionality. I also had a weird issue where a new SIM would refuse to work in it, I had to activate a new SIM in a Google Stock android, then it would work in AOSP.

I had to manually search through the Google image to find what libraries existed, manually extract them, add them to my AOSP build, THEN compile. I was only able to do this because others had done much of the grunt work already (i.e. GrapheneOS), but when it was "upgraded" to Android 10, it all changed and all my work went out the window. Now I just use GrapheneOS and accept the comprimises I have to deal with.