skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading this I immediately thought of the B&W PX. Really nicely made headphones which felt like they would last a long time. The battery would probably be the first thing to go. I really wanted to like them, but alas I just couldn't wear them comfortably for very long. They were too heavy for me.

By contrast, the Bose and Sony headphones, which feel more flimsy in comparison, I can wear for hours without issue.
these sorts of things don't surprise me any more. I remember scientists insisting the blood brain barrier was absolutely impermeable. Turns out when you're sick, it gets leaky and that's a source of many diseases.

throughout the history of gene therapy we've found that simplistic models of human physiology don't work. at some point you'd think that people would stop being surprised, and instead learn to use the rich sources of data and machine learning to deal with these sorts of problems.
The Social Dilemma Is Dangerously Wrong Part II
You might like the root cause open source which runs with playwright to capture test results automatically including screenshots, logs, stacktrace in a nice ui. https://github.com/testimio/root-cause
If you’re old enough (and of the right subculture), you may have been hauling your 70s hi-fi system around, but not on roller-carts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boombox#/media/File%3AChicago_... (also stops any complaints about these being too large :-) )
Interesting. Is apple buying Arm on the books too?
And time waiting for the wifi to reconnect. That is an entirely different wait cycle.
Interesting. Totally anecdotal here, but here are my thoughts:

As I get older, I see less value in friendships, mostly because I realize that many of my friendships didn't serve me and added a lot of stress to my life (and distracted from time that could have been spent on career / legacy). Meanwhile, time invested in my personal life, hobbies, and career pays off in spades - spending a few months getting better at algorithms helped me double my wages with my next job jump. It is interesting how social we are with friends at a young age, then most decide on a constant - but low - amount of time spent with friends.
The funny thing is, except for "tickets closed" and maybe "costs saved" there is no metric here you can directly attribute to a single developer, and probably not even a team.

Even "hours worked". What do you mean, hours spent in the office? How do you know the person was not drinking coffee or staring at their code in thought of something else.

That being said, I think your metrics are good. And even single developers should be measured by them (which means all developers get measured by the same metric and get the same value). Why? Because it helps the business of SLAs are hit, no matter why they are hit.
I’ve said this before and it’s only getting less crazy sounding, but this is all a preamble to governments launching geo engineering schemes. They sound good, appeal to new voters, and will have the benefit of being just in time for “its too late for change, but not too late for <cue fanfare> Geo engineering!”

Govt spending follows, and politicians get to sell the idea that no change is needed.
You don't need, but have, my blessing! Go for it :)
This is the issue. There is no such thing as news. It is infotainment designed to shock, outrage and be sticky for the sole purpose of selling advertising.
But, also, prostitution is supposed the be viewed just as a morally neutral "sex work", not different from being a hairdresser or sandwich artist?
If you're not running javascript, probably. Better yet fire up a VM if you're heading into the nether-regions of the internet. Or there's also Sandboxie, anyone still use it and recommend?
They work via cable, but only actively (with power).

Source: https://www.slashgear.com/apple-airpods-max-water-resistance...
As a parent without nearby family, I think you're right. It's hard work. We went away to university, got jobs, settled down and bought a house. To move back close to family now would be an upheaval - there was probably only one short window of time when it wouldn't have been as much effort. Persuading our parents etc to downsize and move close to us might have a better chance.

It would be nice to live around extended family. People definitely do, but, here in the UK at least and excepting big-city-dwellers, it seems linked to lower economic status - people for whom one job is much like another.

Maybe eventually the link between where you work and where you live will be weaker, for more specialised jobs.
Of course they gonna blame the creator of the app, not Apple. The customer has no idea about the development and what entitlements are available or not. Why should they blame Apple, I don't understand your point.

As the creator, notify your users about it and there you can blame Apple as long as you want. But if the users are not notified, they don't really know that the creators are waiting for Apple.
I feel like this is not some great engineering feat with Airbnb and has much more to do with classism and the type of person who typically owns that beautiful vacation home you want to stay in.
> not fighting against the way that our bodies and minds were designed

Our minds and bodies were not designed. They evolved — slowly — under conditions of relatively harshness and scarcity that to a large extent no longer exist. The human "habitat" has changed radically in the past several hundred years. One might argue that we're no longer adapted to our environment. Evolution doesn't work quickly enough for that.

I'd also suggest there was widespread physical and mental suffering in the distant past. It wasn't the Garden of Eden in prehistory.
They broke my old.reddit experience with their shitty tip icon on every damn comment after "brave helper" switched me to a "browser variant", without asking of course..
Want something fast? Mac IIci, 8MB memory, System 6. Word 4 Screams.

Boots in literally seconds, cold boot is longer due to memory check.
I miss ffffound.
Of course it can be measured externally, it is just too expensive.
doesn't allowing "prefer not to say" mess up the data anyway, or is there a way to work around this?
What attention would it get? I mean, it's a neat OS, but it's an ancient enough unix that porting packages to it would be somewhere between difficult and impractical (even if you could compile ex. modern gcc for A/UX, it would need more disk+RAM than is likely to be on a machine of that age), and I'm not aware of any features (or even applications) that would justify trying to clone it (beyond the cool factor).
In my experience, project managers work as hard as they can to fight that tendency too: they usually insist that tickets be observable and testable independently, specifically to discourage developers from logging time on non-visible tasks.
The first step to protect democracy is to imposing huge limitations in the governments and a review of the antitrust laws to cover tech companies.

Governments around the world have too much power and our antitrusts laws are outdated.
>Sure, but did the market reject it because it was a more open platform, or because of other considerations?

Obviously other considerations.

Where there is only a small handful of options within a class of product, any statement about "what the market wants" should be limited to very broad strokes. The consumer doesn't select from the entire possibility space, they buy from the available options.

Any "correlation is causation" statement about minor details when there are dozens of other larger distinguishing feature are the words of a lying huckster. Giving them the benefit of the doubt isn't that they're not-lying, the benefit of the doubt is that they're lying to themselves too. That's how wrong it is to make those inferences.
Ask HN: Lessons from the 90s Internet Entrepreneurs
Our domain has similarities with the internet of 90s: Potential is huge, technology is rough and the current market is immature with small userbase and lots of opportunities.

I'm looking forward to learn from the internet entrepreneurs of 90s such as Paul Graham. I enjoyed his book Hacker & Painters and looking for more content like this.
I think that peak is when people have very young children that require large amounts of time from their parents. The decline is children getting older, going to school, going to college, and starting families of their own.
There was a trend for a while in the 90s of people using Walkmans with big DJ style over-ear headphones. Maybe that's what they're talking about?
Honestly, having studied a bunch of official figures that I « was surprised of », I found there were just blatant lies covered by a scientific stamp (actually someone succeeded to pass a paragraph from Mein Kampf into the same journals, after replacing « Jews » by « Men »). The « scientific evidence » we’re governed with is frequently grossly manipulated, and yet it routinely passes peer review, journal publication and makes its way on TV channels and then into law to « curb this unprecedented situation that disenfranchises [place this politician’s favorite group here] ».

Politicians have very well understood that modern civilization is governed by scientific beliefs rather than religious beliefs, and masquerading science for political gain will give you power for a very efficient cost.

The problem is not Facebook, but that our science is as vulnerable to 51% attacks as Bitcoin.
Is it that poor? During the pandemic my son has stayed in touch with his friends on the phone in these big group chats and smaller chats as well. I’m amazed at how natural it has become for them. They talk, gossip, play games (Roblox, Fortnite, nba 2k), and even watch YouTube and TikTok together.

I think the model they created will persist into post Covid, with the addition of physical connection.
I meant with a cable. Sorry if it wasn't clear, I updated my post.
Can confirm. I used to like staying alone and being connected via social media. Now, I don’t enjoy that anymore. Maybe it is because I am tired of the dopamine hits social media provides.
My Lenovo laptop with Pop_OS seems to work just fine - keyboards lights, wake/suspend/flippy screen to tablet mode.

I get the impression more manufacturers are testing with linux nowadays, I think they realise that for a small (relative) amount of effort to just test the most obvious of things gives a good payoff, and the community will fix the quirks.
>You can buy a Raspberry pi for 30$,and run whatever you want on it. For those in lower income nations this is an absolute game changer.

Except that decent RaspberyPI configs that could replace PCs cost around $60-70(In EU) and once you add a display, peripherals and a decent microSD card(which is still smaller, slower and less reliable than even a budget SSD) and you're looking at over $100 and for that kind of cash, a second hand X86 notebook(old beaten up Dell/Lenovo with an i5, 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD) gives you way more power and flexibility with what you can boot, install and do with it, it's not even a competition. Not to mention it comes with a built in battery so you can carry it to school unlike a PI, and before someone sniggers and shows me a link with a Raspberry PI based notebook just to contradict me, ask yourselves if you would actually use that as a productivity daily driver for work and play vs a X86 laptop.

Sorry, even in developing nations, second hand notebooks/PCs are a way better deal in every way as a personal computer than a PI which is why PIs have never taken off as PCs and are still stuck in the hacker, tinkerer, learning, embedded, automation niches.

>Phones need to sorta be closed, who wants a null pointer exception to lock the dialer UI in an emergency ?

Why do they need to be closed? Having closed source software is no guarantee of quality nor security.

>Of course if you really want to, you can buy one of those open phones and program your own dialer from scratch, not a very good idea for the typical user though

By wanting more openness we don't mean reinventing the wheel and coding open source dialers from scratch, we mean we need Apple and Google to not lock their hardware to their appstores so we(companies, users, banks, developers and even governments) don't become prisoners to their walled gardens which is basically the current situation.
I'm also surprised they didn't call out gender. From everything I've read, men are increasingly isolated as they age, whereas women tend to cluster together. This also has been linked to higher-by-gender suicides for isolated men. <chagrin>Granted, I guess if you're dead you don't have to worry about showing up in the list and skewing the graph inconveniently.</chagrin>
The problem with this is that you find yourself in a position where you're adding educational access as a means to manipulate the voting base. Want to disenfranchise people (as an example) from rural areas in your state over the long run? Funnel education funding away from school buses and into schools that offer wide varieties of academic programs (that can only be offered in large schools).

Before you say "that would never happen", the US has a long history of using literacy tests to disenfranchise voters, including many cases where those tests were applied unevenly or administered in ways that were openly discriminatory. [0]

[0] https://www.crmvet.org/info/lithome.htm
YouTube lets users mute gambling and alcohol ads
There is no such thing as news anymore. It is infotainment designed to shock, outrage and be sticky for the sole purpose of selling advertising. Additionally, the FTC and SEC have failed us in letting such enormous consolidation. Just look at something like Parler that got popular for a hot minute but will fade back to obscurity whence it came. We need to start taxing advertising revenue aggressively to make disinformation more costly.
The Hercules emulator plus the MVS 3.8j version of the IBM mainframe operating system are both freely available.
Have you never heard about the word "Virtue Signaling"?
Yes I would describe that as an explicit equation rather than implicit.
This is a market with a lot of froth and if they listed the price at $1 trillion, speculators would have bid it up to $2 trillion just because they want to sell it to a greater fool.
Everyone should flag it. A brand new user submitted it. It's spam trying to drive traffic to a VPN review site.
> Yet another throw-away product from a self-proclaimed environmentally friendly company.

$79 for airpods max battery service [0]. user-replaceable battery certainly would be nicer. but to describe as "throw-away" seems extreme.

[0] https://support.apple.com/airpods/repair/service#battery
As someone who loves being alone, this is great news!
This is what will lose them section 230 though, right? The bloc that "snaps" is going to vote, and those votes are going to have consequences.
It is simply not true that Apple products with sealed batteries have zero value, and therefore can only be thrown out, when they expire. The market for Apple devices with dying batteries is quite strong: just browse eBay if you need proof. There’s an industry of buyers who refurbish these devices at a profit, and the purchase price for these used devices remains impressively high.

Heck, I just sold a three-year-old iPhone X with a “service battery” warning for nearly $400.
Your vindictiveness harshes my mellow. Forgive them.

The magic isn't in the mushroom, it's in the love, compassion, forgiveness, and gratitude that [can] emerge naturally when the mushroom god addles your brain chemistry.
Ask HN: How can I add constraints to my work to become more creative?
Cybersecurity Company Fireeye Hacked
2x IPO strike price in first day of trading after $613M recouped stock options after the layoffs. Stock consolidation and 180 day lock up period creates a big risk for when employees sell. Lots of them probably have tens of thousands of shares, exercised them very cheaply, and will want to offload them. I'm not going to touch this stock with a 10-foot pole. I do wish I could short this stock but options aren't available for it yet.
This comes up a lot (ohh it is a just a crud app and you just need a couple of people)

This is fine and it is common misconception about how large app businesses work. (kudos to airbnb for making complex things look so simple)

Here is a great post about Uber and why Uber gets complex (once you have many product lines across hundreds of cities, each with their own subtleties and rules/regulations)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346
> Spending 2-3 weeks on a bug is never good, if you're not communicating progress

Assuming that it is important to fix the bug and that the developer is competent and trusted - why not? What would communicating progress improve here?

Mind that you cannot communicate when it is done (otherwise it would not be a hard bug) you can only communicate what you have done so far and what you try next. But what kind of business value does that create?
I think the interior of America has given up on distancing.
I’m curious too, my understanding is that 90% of COBOL work is done in older mainframes (or ported from older mainframes to newer ones) and likely uses whatever IBM compilers. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of GnuCOBOL being used outside of learning.
>more travel for keyboard

I am glad I am not the only one.

.7 mm - butterfly keyboard

1 mm - new 16” MBP scissor keyboard

1.3 mm - old scissor keyboard

I dont want a 0.3mm thinner MacBook at the expense of typing experience. To me it is a world of difference.

Edit: I guess there are too many M1 news this is now being flagged.....
I saw Scala taken over and destroyed by the FP fanatics who want to turn every language into Haskell. I hope they don't do the same to Rust. Just use Haskell and leave the rest of us alone!

It sounds silly but its true.. as you increase the complexity of the language, the hardcore users making the libraries adopt those features, which means users have to adopt those features as well. Pretty soon everyone is talking about monad transformers and HKTs and it takes 4 hours to write something that would take 15 minutes in Python.

Then the wave of FP consultancies and trainings show up so they can bill you $10000s on workshops and conferences to teach your devs monads.
Thanks for your answer. But I think this does not address my question (I am genuinely curious from a layman's point of view). As far as I understood from the article:

A well known TM exists with 748 rules, that halts if ZF is inconsistent. Anybody can build and run that machine. Is that correct?

If that is correct, I can run that machine. Imagine I have loads of computing power to run it. Do I have a chance, in principle, even if it is an infinitesimal chance, to either step into a loop or see my machine halting, before BB(748) steps have been done, maybe even within my own lifetime (in principle)? Or is it guaranteed that this machine can not loop or halt before BB(748) steps?

I think it is an interesting question, because in the first case, a proof of ZFC inconsistency would be possible in principle if I get lucky and a halt or loop exists early on (though a proof of consistency would not), in the latter case it would not be possible even in principle because of the limitations of our universe.
Throw away two of your tools.
I guess because it's very very likely the rest of the custom internal systems is already written in one of those languages, they are both used a lot in such contexts.
I think we're in vigorous agreement.

I use the AirPods Pro not because they sound the best, but because they sound good enough and the convenience factors make them worthwhile.

I dump on the HomePod because it lacks any convenience factors that are meaningful to me [1] and it doesn't even serve the "speaker that sounds good" purpose [2].

So I really want to know what the value prop for AirPods Max is. They're not convenient or useful for travel because they're too big. They're not "best audio quality", because that's been done at lower price points. Spatial audio and ANC? Already solved, better, by AirPods Pro, at half the price. They're not even usable for critical listening or gaming because of Bluetooth.

So what are they for? Fashion? (Nothing wrong with that, but I'm sure as hell not going to spend $550 for it.)

[1] Siri can't understand me and it false triggers constantly.

[2] It wasn't even like, "hey its good but there are better speakers". They sounded like a cheap plastic box. They were better than my $100 Google Home. They're worse than the $120 soundbar I put on a TV. It's a low bar.
Literally not how markets work, but okay.
It is fine as it is also "Apple Alternatives".
I agreed with everything until Netflix. Netflix is incredibly complex.

But yes, we can all agree that these take a lot of people to run
Also monitoring laws and taxes in every municipality in the world. Maintaining the app is by far the simplest and easiest part of their business.
No, during the pandemic it's been completely work from home.

Which has been great. I've recovered so much of my time back. I can sleep longer etc... And my health is better.

The reason for the four hour commute (total.. Not each way), is that my wife works in the Bay as well but in the opposite direction. So we split the distance. Her commute is two hours (hour each way) since she can drive. But it's better to be closer to her place of work since if there's anything that requires us getting back home, she can respond faster (20-30 minutes in non rush hour).
W3C Strategic Highlights October 2020
Rumors indicate an AirPods (Max?) Sport in the coming months. I'd guess that those will be a lot more competitive with the XM4s/QC35s/etc., and likely will cost $299-399. I'm interested in how they'll differ from the AirPods Max, though -- a crappier speaker? More plastic and less aluminum? I think the trouble is that the AirPods Max (to me) seem more like $350 headphones than $550 headphones, so it's difficult to imagine what they'll do to hit the price point I actually have in mind.
I don't really see the relevance. AFAIK they have an IP address which matches her, which a judge considered good enough reason to seize her equipment and double check.
Huh. My experience has been the opposite. I used to just focus on my skills but that ended up with me doing things on my own and not getting to enjoy the things I thought I would. With time, I noticed this and have started spending time with other people to look at things from their perspective and experience new things. This has been a better experience for me.
> This isn't netflix, there are far more facets to operations.

With Netflix I think you need to count the content creators, since first party content is the majority these days.
The report goes into detail about what his path towards radicalization was. The posting of the manifesto is not what I am talking about here. The argument was that had he not had such easy access to well organized hate communities who would egg each other on to take it further and further that the incident probably wouldn't have occurred to begin with.

I don't know if this is not well known in tech circles perhaps but this is basically an established fact among those who study this kind of thing for a living. Those communities effectively act as an extremely effective radicalization pipeline where the most extreme version is actual acts of terror and mass shootings.

In the exact same way that say law enforcement and intelligence agencies spent the last 15 years trying to ensure that access to jihadi material wasn't freely available online they are now being asked the question of what exactly is the difference because not only are the outcomes very similar but so are many of the steps leading up to it.
I don't know how old you are, but based on the comment it seems likely you haven't travelled all the way along the journey yet. People can be retired and alone a long time - it seems such a potentially lonely existence that it's worth taking some actions earlier in life to reduce the possibility. I don't know whether the best way would be cultivating friendships or focusing on family.