skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind the Bose Sleepbuds aren’t for music, just sleep sounds. My girlfriend got some, but they gave her headaches.

“Unlike headphones, Sleepbuds™ don't stream music or podcasts. They play content only from the Bose Sleep app.”
Why Small Businesses Should Stay Closed Forever
> 2. I'm supper annoyed how payment providers discriminate (and by law often have to discriminate) against pornographic content platforms.

IIUC there is a fraud component to this as well. As a generalization these businesses have an above average fraud rate. This does make it more expensive to support these and it is within they payment processor's rights to avoid doing business for that reason alone.

I think the bigger issue is that these payment processors have a sort of monopoly. Most businesses can't afford to not accept MasterCard or Visa since many North American customers (IDK about globally) will only have these cards, and possibly only one of them.
Half of the 35 seconds in this case is from decrypting a drive and menu screens from having multiples OSs. Removing that and using fast boot BIOS options could easily drop this under 10 seconds.
I don't follow the argument that a closed ecosystem leads to less Nullpointer exceptions than an open one. The two seem entirely unrelated to me.
Yeah - I'm backing the patreon and very excited for this work. I don't need it often, but when I do, being able to boot natively into Linux is tremendously useful.
> The study does mention at the end that spending time alone dose not mean the individual feels lonely

I'm a bit doubtful about this study. It's only anecdotal evidence, but I heard many old persons complaining heavily about loneliness.
This is more like Amazon diverting the money that used to go to the book authors back to themselves, and then when the authors and publishers start layoffs and go bankrupt, people ask why the writing is so bad.

Shameless plug, but we're working on something to take the good of social without the predatory leanings or misaligned interests: https://blog.nillium.com/why-were-building-forth/
What’s the Value of Hackable Hardware, Anyway?
> Modula

Ok now I’m curious...
I have a pair of Parrot Zik Noise Canceling Bluetooth headphones. At 326g they are undeniably and uncomfortably heavy. It's not about the headband or earcups, it's the mass it gives your head when turning, leaning, moving. I don't use them because of the weight. At 384g, the Airpod max is about 15% heavier. I currently have a pulled neck as a result of too many hours sitting at my desk. I cannot fathom wearing such a heavy headphone for long stretches. It would be injurious. That Apple would release such a heavy headphone for mass consumption is truly bonkers to me, much crazier than the price.
I run NetBSD on my Quadra 950, found a 100base-T ethernet card for it on eBay. It could have 256MB of RAM but I haven't gone that far yet.

Original Macintosh software like WriteNow feels really fast on it on System 7.
Unpatriotic college grad here, I think you're missing the "most basic fact", that the government obviously doesn't work for you and me. What's the point of getting involved with all this political junk, spending my time on it, when they're all in it for themselves, for their donors? That's a real question that's totally legitimate for most people. They're busy, the issue isn't education, it's a totally corrupt system that works for the wealthy.

Out of curiosity, how do you feel about non-electoral politics? I've found that sort of engagement is much easier to get traction for from normal people. It's easy to see the effects of your actions.
This might be controversial but here goes...

On the other side of the coin I had an unforgettable interview experience for a role that really questioned my pro-viewpoint on disability in the workplace. Prior to this interview I was a firm believer that anybody should do the job they want and overcome obstacles. Afterwards, ths changed.

Prior to the interview, the recruiter phoned me and said "Just a heads up, you might have a little difficulty in speaking with the CTO due to his disability, but I'm sure you'll be OK". A slightly odd conversation but I appreciated the information ahead of time.

Upon arriving at the conference room the lead engineer (Alice) said "Bob [CTO] works remote and a word of warning - you might have a little difficulty in understanding what he says, but don't worry I can help if you get stuck". That's now two people who have warned me.

Bob had a degenerative illness which made his speech stutter and slur heavily.... to the point I could not understand _anything_ he said. Nothing. It was like trying to understand someone who's clearly drunk more than they should, to the point of nearly blacking out (I'm serious here).

When he joined the company 10 years prior he was perfectly fit and healthy, and within 5 years became CTO of the startup. He was still healthy at this point. All good.

Bob developed illness which impaired his speech so much _every question_ he asked me had to "repeated" by Alice sitting at the table beside me. Every word that came out of Bob's mouth had to be "repeated".

It was impossible to verbally communicate with Bob wihtout Alice present to translate. It took 2 very long minutes to ask "how are you today?" at the interview start. 120 seconds. How was anybody going to effectively communicate with this person on a daily basis or have technical verbal discussions!? If they said communication would be written text only with the CTO I doubt I would have accepted the interview.

To me engineering is all about communication. You communicate ideas in varying degrees of technical depth to cater for your audience, who in turn communicate their ideas to other parties - be it board level, juniors, external parties or even the accounting department. Communication was totally broken here.

What was most concerning was Bob didn't seem feel his disability was serious enough to step down from such a role (or management didn't want to suggest he step down... maybe through fear of law suit?). His inability to verbally communicate anything would have a bit impact on their product development.

The company did ask me to return for a second/final interview (they phoned the recruiter within minutes of me leaving the building..) but I politely declined. It would have been impossible to work with Bob.
I don't know if being BPA-free has anything to do with durability. I thought it was something that only mattered for food-related products (to avoid BPA getting into your food).
Probably a really silly question: but can they sell the product as new thereafter?
and I thought they were struggling because everyone is staying home due to Covid...
"Rent seeking (or rent-seeking) is an economic concept that occurs when an entity seeks to gain added wealth without any reciprocal contribution of productivity."

What contribution to productivity do corporations or people who have enough spare cash to buy available land provide to a society?

AirBnB can be just a marketplace, that doesn't mean it isn't damaging to society at large. Excluding the moral aspects of that is an ideology based on capitalism, it doesn't mean it's right.
George Galloway vs. The US Senate (2005, video)
"Will somebody please think about the economy?!"

We will run this planet into the ground until there is nothing left but at least the stock market will be healthy.
Talk about setting the wrong price for their stock. Looks like airbnb just handed over boatloads of money to wall street.
I don't think it's a question of good or bad, but of pragmatism in not fighting against the way that our bodies and minds were designed. Software is limited by the constraints of the hardware it runs on--engineers who try to ignore this will write slow and buggy software. Similarly, if we design lifestyles and societies that ignore, clash with, or subvert our biological and bio-psychological imperatives, we are likely to produce widespread physical and mental suffering.
I have this issue with my T470. I'd love to use some Linux distribution, but not waking up brought me back to Windows.
A temporary solution was just keeping it on, which used up about 13% of the battery per night, but that's not a long term solution.
Well, if you get a common cold, then sometimes you can feel whether it is manageable, or starts getting worse.

Then you'll have a whole working day, where you are functioning at like 50% capacity, and at least you can pass on your work which might block others to a colleague.

In my experience most of the time this is the case.

Reporting in sick in the morning all the time can be quite distruptive in some jobs.

If I were in this situation I would look for a job where there is more flexibility in this regard. Or keep an up-to-date document where I list all the ongoing tasks and their statuses and next steps (this would probably add a lot of overhead though)
What a truly bizarre sentiment. Just because the kids move out means they're completely out of your life?
You should try inglor's open source tool called Root cause for simplifying and automating screenshot capture.
"This computer was released almost 30 years ago. On paper, it should be inconceivable that this can at all fit into a modern workflow. Present-day computers are gigascale monstrosities that should smoke something as old and plucky as the Quadra. And yet, they just... don't."

So terribly true. Feel the same way about my old 14 MHz Amiga.
> The quality of the added lifespan is harder to assess though.

Is it? In a sense, the choice is still available to adopt the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, if you wanted. I don't know many who would want to do that.
> “Oh, that’s a nice button. It has a good click.”

> “Is it a $550 click?” I asked.

> He clicked it a few more times.

> “It’s not not a $550 click.”

This is the most Gruber line ever. I can just imagine John thinking, 'My work here is done'.
How I got to $9.99 MRR after 7 years
The copy in the subtitle has an error "the most advance set of ..." should be "the most advanced ..."
What was disastrous about the PowerPC? Sure, they eventually moved on to x86, but I don’t think PPC itself really caused big problems. Apple was already in serious trouble at that point; PPC on its own didn’t save them but at least it didn’t kill them.

The early PPC Macs were good machines, and the brief flirtation with licensed clones at least allowed me to buy a Mac-compatible computer (Power 100) that I wouldn’t otherwise have been able to afford.
I checked, they have 8 under 400euro, all of which are celerons or chromebooks -- generally much more limited than a modern iPad.

400euro to 600euro is actually $480-$720 -- which already includes your $600 "iPad + Keyboard + more" straight in its middle. A whole M1-Mac is $1000, which is 825eur, not such a huge stop from 600eur and delivers a ton more.

The iPad hardware is perfectly capable of running full MacOS, and when apple figures out the market segmentation that extracts the maximum revenue, they likely WILL introduce a cheaper Mac to take any money they are currently leaving on the table.

It makes sense to me that it will actually be marketed as an "iPad with keyboard that can run Mac apps", rather tnan a Mac, for the purposes of market segmentation and support (People expect more support from Apple for Macs than they do for iPads, and that factors into the price).

Prediction is hard, especially about the future. But Apple has proved (with iPhone SE, the new M1 Macs, and in other cases) that they are willing to attack any market segment currently held by others.

When they do it, if they do it - they'll do it by cannibalizing sales from others, not from themselves.
I agree uninterested citizenry is a bigger problem than uneducated, but what about a citizenship test (which is absolutely, without a doubt, going to be immediately used as a disenfranchisement tool by a particular political party) is going to get people interested?

It seems like that'd fix absolutely nothing but create further class distinctions between people who are represented and people who aren't.

In fact, I'd prefer to see things go radically in the opposite direction. I think it's unjust to prevent non-citizens from voting. If you live in place x, you should have a say in how place x is run.
Must be. Since Rayo(10000)>2↑↑↑65536 it seemed easy to spam a lot more up arrows there (10k of them), but the tide probably changes after n grows by another 95 orders of magnitude. Wonder where Rayo's function intersects mine.
America is and has always been predicated on the idea that the ordinary person has the capacity to make decisions that guide the republic, either as elector or elected. This idea is the basis of all democracies, generally.

Whenever I read that people “aren’t educated” enough or are “unduly influenced” by media, e.g., newspapers, television, or social media, I like to remind myself of this.

I notice that there is, and maybe always has been, a vocal group of people who believe that we should only elect and appoint experts, highly-trained specialists in their area of government. Heinlein reminds us that “specialization is for insects”.

I’ve come to know many politicians in the past few years, some of them nationally prominent. And I can say without hesitation that the average person is as qualified to make decisions about governance as the average professional politician.

Crowds can be pretty smart. Not faultless, but smart. That idea has been fashionable for a few years now but it’s definitely not new. Its implementation has changed from democracy to democracy. But as a general principle it’s been broadly and effectively applied.
Looks to me that the only market for these headphones are people who travel a lot (flights/trains) and/or want to show a status symbol. For all other use case the design has some significant flaws. E.g. a higher end headphone such as the Hifiman Sundara has the same weight, better sound (bluetooth is anyway questionable for good sound unless you use something like LDAC), much cheaper (350) and is therefore probably better suited for stationary usage. You can also get similarly priced headphones with bluetooth for stationary use. For mobile use (walking, or even running) something with this weight is definitely too heavy.
"Over-the-ear" does not necessarily mean lack of awareness.

Basically you have two axis:

Size/Fit:
Earbuds and myriad variations; Supra-aural (on ear), circumaural (over the ear)

Isolation:
Circumaural/over-the-ear can be open-back or closed-back; and they can have various degrees of noise isolation and cancellation.

As for the look and age, it's really a subjective perspective - I personally feel I'm old enough not to care about wearing over-the-ear outside :D
According to Gruber's article, you can use these as wired headphones by plugging in a "Lightning to 3.5mm headphone jack cable," but otherwise I agree with you. "Built to last" means more than the material choices (metal vs plastic), but also whether or not you can swap out the batteries.
It's just a nonsense talking point. HN hates Bitcoin and by extension, Brave. There is no good reason that I've been able to discover except it's very easy to hate things you don't understand.
> This allows them to be more supportive and close when they need socialization because they aren't exhausted.

This part picks out an important detail, which is that if you’re capable of being alone social connection isn’t always load-bearing for your happiness and fulfillment. I don’t think this conflicts with the drive you mentioned, just that being okay without allows you to be more picky of how you are with.

It is similar to the difference between cooking whatever when you’re starving and finding richness and depth in being able to develop your craft for higher-order fulfillment. This premise, of course, relies on there being the availability of or willingness to build a larder containing the necessary materials.
Casual work 'is more about permanent insecurity than flexibility'
You will probably not see much Haskell style functional programming in Rust simply because there is no garbage collector in Rust, and Haskell depends on one very much.
I don't really want to run iOS stuff on my laptop, but I'm sure there are times it would come in handy. They would be terrible, but functional. They would be terrible, but functional.
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when we used Cypress, we found the framework itself to be flaky.

it has been months, and I can't remember the actual error we got intermittently, but I do remember it was something buried inside cypress (I think it was related to taking screenshots?) that caused our tests to just randomly fail sometimes.
> hiring someone better at double the pay

Well... if you knew how to spot somebody twice as good as the one you have now, why didn't you hire that guy in the first place?
On the one hand we love and respect Admiral Grace Hopper and on the other hand the COBOL language she is credited with is scorned. I always thought this was somewhat unusual.
They told people just to make html5 webpages for the first year or so of the iPhone.

The first third party native apps were people who managed to get the gcc toolchain to emit a binary that the iPhone could run.

Then the App Store came out a few months later. Native apps caught on very well over just making html5 sites for iPhone users, because, in a lot of cities, AT&T's network just couldn't support all the users' very well. Even then, you were limited to a max of something like 20 (?).
The Shortcut to Happiness with the 4x44 Manifestation Method
60-100 staff? Sorry but that's very naïve. Think about how many core services this takes:

-finance
-payment
-HR
-management
-verification of hosts / properties
-scam detection and moderation
-legal
-dispute arbitration
-programming
-infrastructure
-projects
-building management for properties like HQ they own
-customer service
-etc.

They'd be lucky to get away with a couple multiples of your guess. This isn't netflix, there are far more facets to operations.
Alone not lonely, lol. I think one part of it is of course partners dying but on top of that is giving less of a fuck as we grow old then really cherishing our time with the things that interests us intead of putting up with shitty people and shitty things in life

Also, the spending time with children is sadly low, imagine growing up with no grandkids to see man that must suck
The "assault weapons ban" basically cosmetic features illegal. Which is silly.

This is precisely the problem that people have with the term "assault weapon".

If you are using the words "assault weapon" you are basically saying that you want to ban guns that look scary, because this is what the original assault weapons ban did.
Instead of idealizing noble savages, we might look to present-day cultures where large extended households are normal.

We would see that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

Sometimes you get a great network of cousins who hook you up with business opportunities.

Sometimes you end up enslaved by your mother in law.
> Lightning to 3.5mm headphone jack cable

...without power?
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They already priced well above the expected range. It's highly unlikely they would have been able find subscribers for the 51,551,723 shares of the offering at the post-IPO price, before the IPO.
yeah, I find active noise cancellation bothers my ears too. Back when going to offices was a thing, I would keep multiple sets of headphones at my desk: an open-back headphone for really clear sound quality that lets sound through so that I could hear people if they tried talking to me (I like the AKG K240 MKII's for this but beware you need a headphone amp for these), and closed-back headphones when I'm finding the external noise distracting. For passive isolation I use Vic Firth's isolation headphones, they're designed for drummers to use for monitoring while recording drum tracks. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/IsoHdphV2--vic-firth...

also if you already have earbuds that you like but they don't give you enough isolation, you can always wear earbuds under construction earmuffs, which is what I was doing before getting the Vic Firth isolation headphones.
What does it mean to use wireless headphones passively? Without power wireless headphones aren't going to make any sound, no?
TBH I think the times of kernel recompiles with your personal settings are long gone. Folks these days just run Ubuntu/Fedora/<pick your distro> and that's it.

Also probably most people don't have encrypted HDDs on their home computer, so another 10 seconds you can shave off.

My current Ubuntu boots in maybe 10 secs from power button to login. And that includes the 3sec Grub menu pause.
> seems crazy to me is how much time alone increases with age

Many (to a degree or another) get tired of other people. Divorces, break-ups, tired of fights for money/inheritance, tired of people acting stupid, tired of fighting about politics, favourite teams, and many many many more.

I think people are getting tired of not getting 'what they want' from life, a partner, their kids, society, 'the system', so they self-isolate, do the things they enjoy (nothing, fishing, watching the birds, watching tv, etc.) without having anyone telling them to get their feet of the couch, don't eat cookies in bed, and other similar annoyances.

Also, depression, poverty, lifestyle, nostalgia. I was reading* that men tend to go back to their hometown and grow old/die there, women want to stay where they are or move forward. I assume that (for the 50+) this maybe has to do with the inequality and how women suffered/were treated badly when they were growing up in place A, 50 years ago vs living on place B, with today's change social mechanics.

I can think of a dozen more reasons.. I am not a psychologist, I just started observing how the 50+ like to live, as one day we will all get there :)

*Addition: I tried to remember more about that book and a couple of interviews but for the life of me I cannot remember the guy's name or face.. just his voice. He went on to explain the reason for that; in some countries/societies, when a couple marries, it is accustomed to live to the MAN's hometown, and in some other countries/societies they go to live to the WOMAN's hometown. So there could be the chance that they are not 'very' happy, they spend a life oppressed, and towards the end of their lives (and especially if the couple drifts apart -post empty nest, or one passes away) they want to go back to the place they grew up, which was not tarnished by 'hurtful memories' and they only have fond memories. Somewhere where they 'always belonged' either if they have not been there for 20-40 years. They will return and find their old friends.
All That Glitters (Like Stars) Is Not Gold
Any stories from production users of GnuCOBOL?
I hear a lot of talk surrounding their "moat" and many skeptics are questioning whether or not they will be able to maintain their competitive advantage. However, it feels like Airbnb has solved a truly hard problem: how to make people trust your service.

People are using this app to go stay in random people's homes. How often do you hear people talk about being murdered in uber? I still hear it. How often do you hear it for Airbnb? I haven't heard someone express that worry yet.

They've solved the trust and the brand issue, and _that_ is their moat.
Talk about pearl clutching! How could you possibly even pretend to care about such a tiny issue when every google search is essentially doing the same when used on Apple products.

But we both know your fear/hatred of Brave/Bitcoin has nothing to do with the users experience.

It's just a talking point. When you get down to it HN will shit on Bitcoin and by extension Brave any chance they get. It doesn't have to make sense because these products exatentially threaten their income/ way of life.
See this comment in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25386312