skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on the hunt for a manager that understands principles like these -- if you need someone with the wide-ranging skills of an experimental physicist, please get in touch. Email is in my HN profile.
New Yorkers May Have to Pay Package Delivery Surcharge to Help Fund MTA
Some quick points about this.

The British Medical Journal and Royal Society of medicine have published a number of concerns about this vaccine.

"Will covid-19 vaccines save lives? Current trials aren’t designed to tell us"
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037

"All these data for the different vaccines are potentially very promising, but none of the phase III trials have been published in peer reviewed journals or analysed by age group, gender and case description...

As public health professionals, we believe that the results of clinical trials, whether interim or final, should be subject to an appropriate systematic process, and then published in peer-reviewed professional journals. Reporting the covid-19 vaccine trial results in press releases before publication in journals is neither good scientific practice nor does it help to build public trust in vaccines"
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/11/27/covid-19-vaccines-where...

"When good science is suppressed by the medical-political complex, people die

Politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do so in the public interest, they say, to accelerate availability of diagnostics and treatments. They do so to support innovation, to bring products to market at unprecedented speed. Both of these reasons are partly plausible; the greatest deceptions are founded in a grain of truth. But the underlying behaviour is troubling."
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4425
I suppose that's one way of keeping protesters off the streets.
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> Sennheiser HD660S, Audeze LCD-1

These are wired headphones that lack ANC.

Haven't listened to them, but just looking at the features it's pretty obvious these aren't for the same people. Apple's cans are Wireless high quality headphones with Active Noise Cancellation, transparency mode, and seamless switching. The only thing they have in common with the ones you listed is "Headphones".

This is all setting aside the fact that you are prejudging audio quality of a product nobody has reviewed.

I suspect there are a ton of people like me who are just fine with good sound and very interested in getting wireless noise cancelling headphones.
I like this type of meta content and will keep an eye on this. We're building a machine learning platform[0] according to our workflow but although we delivered for our clients, we always are looking to refine that process, either by exchanging with others, reading reports and papers to generalize and embed good practices.

Many reports, though, miss the mark and are usually from management consulting/advisory firms. A report from 2019 predicted that: "By 2020, more than 40% of data science tasks will be automated". I found that making such a prediction in 2019 about 2020 was odd.

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- https://www.eff.org/ai/metrics

- https://www.eff.org/issues/ai

- https://www.stateof.ai/

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EDIT: Given early access requests we're receiving, here's a link to spare you the flow and go directly for sign-up: https://iko.ai/invite/lEMzE_hKwJ2SUbfLdnK7SbZb1c3zUCOAQexakL...
I'm saying there isn't one (well, a hundred messages in and there are a handful at last :) ). Nobody is discussing what's new for instance. I'd be interested in the status of moc (isn't mentioned on the page).
Why wouldn’t they?
That does nothing for mail delivered after the warrant has been issued, which is what's being discussed in this post.
Turns out tweets are not law... who knew!
So, given that YouTube does the same, it logically follows that Google is a Chinese company? :-D
Also entry-level iPads, the iPhone SE. The regular AirPods. All very good and very affordable products.
This can result in larger than necessary diffs when refactoring, leading to unnecessary conflicts during integration.

Semantic versions of those could be interesting.
For the record the Iridium satellite phone network has been using (radio) inter-satellite links from 1990s.
>conspiracy theorist

The confirmed CIA operations are enough to make someone a radical. To suggest the US hasn't been in a shadow war with china would require ignoring what our intelligence agencies have been continuously telling us.
I have in fact made Skype calls from China.

I don't know where you're getting your information about those apps' source code from, but since you were wrong about the second part, I'm going to assume you just imagined a plausible story and claimed it as fact.
If TikTok were a flappy bird clone... we wouldn't be having this conversation. It was not being banned "for the sole reason" that it's of Chinese origin, it's the fact that the app is essentially a mass surveillance device.
Having just bought a pair of DT 1770 pros, I will be really interested to see how these compare. Also, how they will interact with my DAC/HeadPhone amp.
> TikTok would have to comply?

How is that so?

Tiktok is a us Corp. Legally they are subject to China laws.

Politically they can be hurt by influence from the parent's domestic operations.

I suppose latter is what you meant?
Advent in the Ruins
The video in the link says that an automatically adjusted hoop has better results than a manually adjusted hoop.
> would in reality consist of a 1 hour drive to the port, followed by 1 hour check-in and a 1 hour boat ride to the off-shore launch facilities. Next you'd have at least 1 hour of boarding procedures (limited elevator space, pressure suit fitting, seating) followed by fuelling (maybe another hour?). So after about 5 hours or so you are finally clear for launch

I see that the TSA mindflayers have not been kind to you. Many of those steps do not have to be performed sequentially. For example check-in and suit-up could be performed on the ferry. And if you're already throwing stupendous amounts of money at travel then you also don't have to pick a slow ferry, consider jet hydrofoils. And you don't even have to start at some port far from a city. If the city has a major river it could take up passengers in the middle of the city, travel down the river and on towards the launch platform.
And if we're talking about strapping hundreds of people onto rockets then the safety margins on everything would have to be improved far enough that the dry-loading probably is not needed anymore either.

As far as logistics go it seems hard but possible. But you may be right that regulatory conditions could prove prohibitive since not everyone will just go along with musk's plans.
Any reason you can't use the LGPL license?
For the core and majority of the library, yes, but some specific features (eg Charts) have been released as commercial-only.
What is the first minute of his symphony no. 11 if not minimal music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU_uBDujLAE

The theme that starts at 2:18 is just so typical for him (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU_uBDujLAE&feature=youtu.be...).
I do believe that he composes symphonies, they are just not so different from his other works.
The build quality of beats though is complete garbage. Plastic that can snap in half and then you're boned out of hundreds of dollars. These airpods will live or die based on their durability and battery life. Personally, I love my nose cancelling Sony's. They come in at a lower price point and last YEARS.
Can anyone who is following this closely provide a good link to a summary of what has actually been fixed?
Can someone decode the term "non-traditional hire"? I'm sure I knew what this meant at one point but forgot.
I'm interested; what's the definition of avant-garde as defined by the Western art music world?
How is it different from Lawful Interception functionality required by law in all telco equipment used in the US?
Judging by the FAQ, there's no commitment to 'evolve new features' or even 'receive fixes' in the licence. So the frying pan analogy is more accurate - one could end up paying again and again for no service at all.

While the FAQ says 'Maintenance is included', they phrase that as 'access to the latest version' and 'support'. That doesn't place any legal obligation on Qt to fix bugs.

Qt can leave Qt6 to rot, never update, and still get money from subscriptions. Or Qt could be busy with Qt7, and in order to receive said fixes one has to significantly invest and port the application.

Access to support means even less - they could automatically close all tickets and still techinically comply.
Phone cameras still aren't as good as SLRs, and never will be due to sensor size and optics.

Apple could have made these as good as $500 Sennheiser/Grado/Sony cans. But they didn't.

Rants about "traveling with an orchestra" don't even make sense when one listens to music produced exclusively in-the-box. And even if I am listening to recorded material what is wrong with nuance and detail... after all that is what the mixing and mastering engineers heard when they made it. Do you think they choose their microphones and recording hardware willy-nilly?

Software is a terrible substitute for hardware! Hardware is easier to understand, latency-free, and produces a more harmonically interesting result
Thanks for the share. From the link:

> Why do I need a flu vaccine every year?
A flu vaccine is needed every season for two reasons. First, a person’s immune protection from vaccination declines over time, so an annual vaccine is needed for optimal protection. Second, because flu viruses are constantly changing, flu vaccines may be updated from one season to the next to protect against the viruses that research suggests may be most common during the upcoming flu season. For the best protection, everyone 6 months and older should get vaccinated annually.
The Lightning charging situation is a really unfortunate signal. I'd seen the Beats Flex announcement a few months ago where they discontinued the Lightning version and made the new ones use USB-C, and figured that meant they were planning to phase out Lightning in favor of USB-C and MagSafe. With these using Lightning instead of USB-C, that's obviously not the case.

So now if you've just bought an iPhone 12 and picked up a $40 MagSafe charging cable to go with it, you can go get the Lightning cable back out of the drawer because you're going to need it again for at least the lifespan of these headphones.

With the Qi charging case for previous AirPods (the various earbuds versions) they can charge off the same MagSafe cable as the phone (though without a magnetic connection for now).

Maybe Apple wanted to put a MagSafe pad on one of the ears for these, but couldn't make the magnets work without interfering with audio quality?

At the very least they could have gone USB-C, and then if you had an iPhone 12, AirPods Max, and an Apple Watch, you can charge everything using MagSafe Duo and a USB-C cable, which plugs into either the MagSafe Duo charger (for phone and watch) or directly into the headphones. But no, it's a Lightning port.
Not really surprised by this.
I wonder if your family would've stayed
I have one question regarding the current Pfizer data (it would be great if anyone with experience in statistics could help out):

UK healthcare professionals received this information called "REG 174 INFORMATION FOR UK HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS" [1]

It states that the "efficacy of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 [for 75 years of age and older] was [...] 100% (two-sided 95% confidence interval of -13.1% to 100.0%)"

What does this mean? With my very minimal university statistics knowledge I would say that they are 95% sure that the efficacy lies between -13.1% and 100.0% for age >=75. And that means: We simply do not know (probably due to lack of data in this cohort). Where am I making an error?

Thank you in advance!

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Because, if you have Western values, to which the CCP is diametrically opposed, they are actually "the worst" in some sense.
I tried to use wxWidgets awhile back and gave up. It was a mess. Macros everywhere.
You are correct! I think my point is that when your independent project grows so large that is has effect on the other, the main operator (RH) has to acknowledge it and do something about ti.
I agree on a philosophical level. I disagree on a corporate level. I have yet to have an experience with a government that actually maintains bleeding edge security and proper maintenance. The farther down you go the administration levels, the worse it becomes.
I'm a little confused by this. Well, first, I'd encourage you to try Fedora Workstation for your family -- we've worked on making upgrades painless, so that they're basically an automated thing that happens while you go for coffee once or twice a year (at your option). But second, if a "Fedora LTS" would fit your needs, why not give CentOS Stream a look? It's not actually going to be that different from CentOS Linux, and almost certainly will have less constant change than a theoretical Fedora LTS would.

Also, I am not one of the highest upptity-ups in the company or anything, but from the inside: I see no evidence whatsoever that this is the result of IBM anything.
From Tik Tok? Sure, I can't picture a scenario where that would matter much.
The reason is cultural asymmetry. The US culture is more attractive than the Chinese one to most of the world.

America has the image built. China doesn't. It's behind.
China will open when their culture is at a similar standing to the US.

Of course the image built is breaking down now, but it's still ahead of the Chinese one.
Forks are generally required to maintain the original licensing of the originating source. That would be like taking part of the Windows source code and "forking" it with the only change being the licensing. Just because you forked it and changed the license doesn't make it true.
For the same reason everyone who buys a motor vehicle has to buy one with a catalytic converter. The actions of every individual affect society as a whole.
This. There doesn't seem to be any mention of a lossless codec over Bluetooth 5.0. Why spend so much effort on sound quality on the device if the source is lossy?
That could be said about literally every film on the planet.
Same could be said for CEO, you aren't really acting in the capacity as would be described by a guidance counselor. However, it is a nice signifier as to who "the boss" is. Same for CTO, it tells people, "this person owns the technical stuff", which at a software company is super important IMO.
It seems to vary with the originating site. Most of my experiences have matched yours, but a couple of sites let me in after one screen with no additional screens or even replacement photos - and that was using same browser and same IP.
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Agreed. It's definitely doable in the winter but is objectively less "easy" (have to pull out/put on weather gear) and more dangerous (lower visibility when it's snowing or raining, and fewer cyclists are out in general so cars don't expect you as much).
My understanding is that China is part owner in many enterprises, at least thats the case for foreign manufacturers. Sorry I don't have a link that explains this more clearly.
Very fine piece of evidence
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Well that sucks. Is this to try to clamp down on users circumventing subscriptions, or something else?
Typically means someone without traditional credentials, such as a college degree or any work experience.
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Thanks I appreciate that. I would still prefer a positional switch but that will make a big difference..........once I download the app which I have never used because I just assumed it was bloatware. whoops.
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In contrast we’ve got four or five UPS trucks (which are quite a bit bigger) down at the ‘local watering hole’ at lunch time every day. My town has a population of about four thousand. Of course you can’t really tell because at least FedEx and Amazon have been making deliveries from rental trucks, and then there are the Lyft-like deliver people driving around with Toyota’s full of packages.
There's times when you might be able to expect a huge spike, but even then, if the product is early, so the overall design is still pretty fluid, I would try to keep flexible.

It's more important to be aware of overload, and provide feedback to users (or potential users) and some form of load shedding. And test that all. For a lot of applications, being able to quickly plop together a second monolith could work to address spikes. Or switching to a bigger machine: Epyc 2-socket systems get you up to 128 cores (256 SMT threads), and I think 8TB of ram. You can do an awful lot with that.
They already have something like that. The steam runtime has been in development since at least 2013 now.
Einstein On The Beach is definitely on the extreme end. On the other hand, Itaipu (my personal favorite) and many of his symphonies are about as close to mainstream as modern "classical music" usually gets.
How's gdpr working out? Seriously, I'm in the US and have no idea what's going on with it.
> Seems weird that retailers are complaining over a $100 cost (very generous estimate) spread over 100+ packages

Some counterpoints:

- 100 as a cost for a truck run sounds like it could be a little low; you've got to load/unload them, and I'm not certain what the drop-off process looks like if you have more than a couple packages. I know from experience, loading up a van full of 50 PCs and monitors, driving to a location, and unloading, then driving back is a 1-2ish hour job for two people. (And in that case, the Van was already owned.) Yes that's a bit more of an 'extreme' example but since Newegg was one of the impacted retailers it felt like a relevant example.

- Online retail's 'Race to the bottom' has eliminated for many industries the ability to buffer for cost shifts like this. By that I mean, 100$ over 100 packages would still be an extra dollar per package. But if you're selling 5-10$ gloves, that 1$ may be cutting your profits in half.
That's because the ones mentioned are all audiophile headphones focused only on sound quality. There are plenty of headphones, notably the Sony wh1000xm3 for $230, which have bluetooth, noise canceling, and a built-in microphone plus they work with non-ios devices
with cloud being the talk of the industry these days. how pervasive are SRE roles. I would wager a good system admin | SRE can save a company thousands if they provisioned their own hardware i.e colo instead of cloud instances etc
I hugely regret buying a Samsung TV. I had sworn off Samsung due to bad experiences with their phones and other products, but there were enough positive reviews of the TV that I made an exception.

Huge mistake. Terrible software, hardware bugs, issues with motion interpolation (even basic things like 24fps over 30hz judder reduction), audio sync issues with sound bar, etc.

I'll get an LG soon.
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I don't know why you suspect that, I don't think that Russia is quite the American boogeyman you think it is, outside of attempts to use them to make Trump look bad/worse.
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I just recently did some literature research on this, it's definitely very interesting.

-The antigen causing the allergy is called alpha-gal (a glycan, i.e. a sugar based molecule, present on proteins)
-Humans are one of the few mammals that do not produce Alpha-Gal natively

-IgG and IgM antibodies against Alpha-Gal are very common in healthy individuals even in high titers, however IgE (the type of antibody causing allergies) is rare

-For some unknown reason, tick bites induce IgE antibodies against Alpha-Gal (possible reasons are the frequency (you get stung several times over several years, like repeated booster shots) and the saliva of the tick causing Th-2 response (converting IgG to IgE excreting B-cells)

-There's a famous case of a therapeutic antibody against cancer (Cetuximab) that is produced in mouse cells (remember: mice produce alpha-gal) that causes anaphylactic shocks (meaning a strong allergic reaction)
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I assume this was meant to reply to a different comment?

Just in case: I did not say that people care about how things work. You get in every category Apple sells products in other products that are more affordable, do not suck and look good. Besides, many people buy Apple products that they can not afford, that's part of the problem.
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> However, this is Apple. Which means it is likely they will find some clever way of making these headphones obsolete. Or they will break in some unfixable, or expensive to repair, way.

It's Apple -- they'll keep iterating on it, come out with a better model at the same price at right around the same time the battery wear in your current model will make you choose between an expensive battery replacement or just getting the new version.
Primates are mammals...
You can statically link as well:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#LGPLStaticVsDyn...
Most of the app I write have a sla and a load balancer is a great piece to have ready for simplifying/automating rolling updates, even if the backend has a single node
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I think there might be some confusion about "rolling" in the context of CentOS Stream. The updates are continuous and there's not released minor versions, but all changes are changes that are intended to _very shortly_ land in the next every-six-months minor release of RHEL. So you aren't going to suddenly see more "environment changing out from under me" than you would on RHEL or CentOS Linux.
The Chinese Communist Party wants total control of China. They exercise strict control over all people, religious groups, and legal entities. Large enterprises can come to resemble small countries in their influence and so definitely fall under that umbrella. In practice the CCP does this by choosing most of the directors of the companies, who in turn are essentially puppets.
There’s plenty of anti china / anti America content on YouTube. Other than banning Alex Jones, I don’t agree with YouTube censorship or such.
Sure, but that defeats the quest for horizontal scalability. You can build highly performant systems based on serial execution, but not sure this is an area where Kafka excels particularly.