skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are limited to 256kbps low bandwidth Bluetooth. Leave it to Apple to change prices of hifi headphones, but make what amounts to laughable input quality. Expensive toys for rich people that really don’t know any better. Just like the XDR display, which was presented as “competing with industry titans at lower price”, but that ended up as complete bullshit claim by Apple.

Sony’s competitors, however badly named, cost 350$ (before the usual discounts on Amazon and retailers), and have audio in, and support higher audio input fidelity. They still use low quality amp+dac, but still the end result is much better than this.
They seem to be selling pretty well depending on how many Apple manufactured. If you want them you are going to have to wait until March already.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/08/airpods-max-shipping-es...
Probably because it is indicative of a script written by a scientist, ignoring software engineering principles.
He also does thrice-weekly Twitch streams: http://twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking/videos
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~120k subs and he’s an American.

I mean I guess if you skimmed the title briefly I could see how. But to me that guy seems not comparatively popular on YouTube (and title was talking about taking the world by storm), and working with a Japanese medium and living in Japan still isn’t the association I have when title says Japanese Bob Ross.
Big brother looks so scary in the first pic.
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+1 for Fastmail.

It's a fantastic service. Offers webdav storage, calendar, contacts, notes, and more. I really like that you can also use sieve[1] for filtering your email.

JMAP[2] is really cool too, the documentation on it is quite great. It makes me want to do some cool things with it, like Julia Evans[3].

[1]: http://sieve.info/
[2]: https://jmap.io/
[3]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/08/18/implementing--focus-and-repl...
> There are parents so appalled by the prospect of having an autistic child that they knowingly expose their children to infectious diseases – potentially fatal ones – because they have been led to believe that vaccination causes autism. When a difference is stigmatised to that degree, it has a wretched effect on the mental health of those who bear it

My parents ended up as antivaxxers when 2 of my siblings were diagnosed with autism. My 3 youngest sisters aren’t vaccinated, and one of my autistic brothers isn’t up to date on his. Which is crazy to realize that damn, my mother would rather risk having my little sisters die from a horrible disease than risk them being anything like their neurodivergent siblings.
I’m the eldest, and with adhd I was always treated differently, but not to the same degree. This passage really helped me understand the anguish that has lead to multiple suicide attempts by one of my brothers.
Do note this won't teach you actual category theory (and shouldn't)
Why does Linux have so much trouble sleeping and waking?
Been running Linux for years and one thing that has always been frustrating is finding my laptops have either woken themselves up, or won't go to sleep.

The majority of time they do work as expected, but maybe 20% of the time they don't, is there a logical explanation for this?

I've had Macs and PCs which don't seem to suffer from the same issue.
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I don't think it's really ranked newsfeeds. It's also newsfeeds that pull in stuff you didn't specifically express an interest in. It starts with showing you stuff your friends merely liked or commented on, but didn't repost. Then it's things that they merely looked at, and groups that overlap with ones you're already in. Then posts that share some arbitrary characteristic with those you've read or liked. And so on. If I were only shown things that my friends actually posted, I'd be mostly OK with ranking them except that the ranking seems unstable and ends up reshuffling everything all the time. Not pulling in random crap would also slow or reduce the spread of disinformation. It would still exist, certainly, but without being able to exploit the Facebook equivalent of SEO it might not have quite the toxic effects that it does currently.

Fortunately, I know a trick that makes my feed better behaved in all of these ways. Some day they're going to kill it (they briefly did break it once already due to sheer incompetence) and then Facebook will become unusable again.
Just learn haskell
A good friend of mine used it for some time and gave me some war stories; then I went and looked it up. Wow.
Researchers warn of security vulnerabilities in point-of-sale terminals
Pepe emotes on Twitch are omnipresent, and have no political connotation.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/14/17335670/twitch-emotes-mea...

edit: Downvotes, really? I'm not wrong. Read the link, or use Twitch chat for yourself, as I do on a semi-daily basis.
Beats has been accused of adding weight to their headphones in the past that serves no obvious function other than to give them a premium feel.

It will be interesting to see the teardown video.
> ARM Macs are going to just be lost for any kind of gaming

Every game I've tried with a Mac port runs great on the M1 under Rosetta. I've sunk many hours into Factorio and Offworld Trading Company on my M1 mini, and if I gave you the same game running side by side on an Intel mac, I'd bet you could't tell which was which without quitting and checking the system profiler.

If you meant triple-A gaming, then yeah, without a sizable increase in mac marketshare, it's probably lost for the foreseeable future.
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Added to which, China can be dealt with via restructuring a trade agreement provided there is the political will. Which it looks like there is.

The fact that this plugs one hole in the sinking ship and not two is hardly evidence that it's crap.
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After seeing the documentary "feels good man" about pepe, I felt sorry for his creator.
Oh yes displaying the confederate flag which is protected speech, is comparable to death threats now? Yes Twitch isn’t a government agency, they can censor speech however they like, much like Reddit.

Perhaps we are too used to take free speech on private walled gardens for granted. These sites used to pretend to be proponents of free speech, but now that veil is being lifted and we see what they truely are. Is one not allowed to complain about this transformation? To the casual observer, these sites set the impression that they are a public forum yet they enforce their policies with a strict partisan bias. That is the crux of the issue.
You’ll instead be stuck with devs who ramble on about how the old stuff is best and who needs try/catch and goto is faster than loops etc.
I had the same thought when I posted it. Probably not, is the answer.
The hatred comes from people like me, who have worked with COBOL and will tell you it's terribly frustrating to work with, needlessly verbose in multiple places where it doesn't need to be, and often used in banks for purposes which are the death of all you hold dear or interesting to work with.

COBOL is not an interesting programming language these days, and you should not learn it unless you need it for your current job.

> [COBOL was] designed, initially, for non-programmers to be able to describe in words what it is they would like to accomplish in a way they could be understood by the computer.

Let me tell you a secret. It doesn't work for non-programmers. The complexity of "Z = X + Y" is no more or less than "ADD X TO Y GIVING Z", and bugs will happen at the same rate with either syntax. The added verbosity will only annoy you.

Another myth surrounding COBOL is that as its programmers age, there is a lack of them and therefore COBOL jobs are high-paying and you should learn it to make good money. The reality: I've never met a really wealthy COBOL programmer -- or rather, one who was wealthy because he/she knew COBOL. That's not where the money is. COBOL jobs are not particularly well-paying, and there are young people learning it, and no, they don't get awesome paychecks.
I agree that all of those have much fewer obvious negative externalities, and do provide very useful services. But I can't help but think that work in general is a hostage situation for most workers: "sell your labour for less than it's worth or die. Also you will have to simply accept a host of petty tyrannies (in the best case) or abusive behaviour (in the worst)." You have to accept because most people don't have enough capital to make it on their own, and are prevented from accumulating that capital because they are exploited in the first place. Then the CEO's/founders/funders will turn around and say "Look at this amazing thing that I personally built." The value extracted from workers (and the real suffering that entails) is ideologically erased in the narrative about why the company was successful.

I think this dynamic is generally less recognized by software developers because we're frequently comparatively well paid and well treated at work, and can occasionally accumulate enough capital to break out of this vicious cycle (though we're still paid less than the value of our labour and still deal with much of the BS noted above). However the same can't be said for the people making our computers.
That is so true!!
I was replying mainly to parent's statement that privacy and freedom focused platforms end up having a specific audience. And I don't want us to lose any of those platforms. Facebook & twitter can do whatever they want, there is no reason to be there in 2020 unless it's part of your job in the marketing department.
I'd actually see a desktop Linux or desktop Android as more realistic unless Apple stops being so intentionally hostile to their users and treat them with some dawdling infantilism. This cult game they're playing is going to eventually crash and they'll have to start designing software that's not just theatrics and showmanship
>How do you think populist leaders gain such a large voice so quickly in those EU countries?

There are two options here.

1. People are not really happy with current status quo so they are looking to choose alternative leaders via elections, just as expected in democratic countries.

2. Some bad guys post bad stuff on Facebook and, like, 30% of german voters read it and march to election booth like zombies to vote the way bad guys said them to vote (for Alternative for Germany).

Well, you can pick which theory survives the Occam Razor test better.

EDIT: And oh, wrt to "a large voice so quickly" -- when a lot of stuff happens quickly (i mean, between 1 or 2 elections) -- yes, a lot of people can change their minds quickly. Turbulent times, you know. In stable times people change their minds slowly.
It’s interesting. Pepe has never actually really been a hate symbol. He’s an Everyman symbol, in the tradition of Pierrot, the sad clown, the trusting fool, who just happens to be used by a casual online video game culture (which is definitely a superset of various hate groups, but also contains many who are simply there to Minecraft and shoot aliens.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot
True. And I'd never buy a pair for that reason. (I wouldn't want them for travel and I don't need wireless or noise canceling for home.) For travel, I have in-ear Bose and (now) Airpod Pros. I wasn't interested in the original Bose over-ear for the same reason.
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> Because Brave has a long history of very questionable business decisions, and is not really trustworthy.

Okay boomer... Seriously people, ease up on the hyperbole and approach this with a little perspective. Sure, Brendan Eich != Mother Theresa, but its not like he is claiming to be! He is just another bloke with some good ideas and some not so good ideas, trying to be successful (and honestly doing a pretty good job of it).

Sure, Brave has made some mistakes along the way and it is right to call them out on it. Stuff like secret affiliate links is not great from a transparency perspective, but it is also not really hostile or harmful to Brave users. Plus, let the record show that corrective action was taking when Brave was called out.

I am not saying we should all "trust" Brave any more that other companies (do your research and come to your own conclusions), but lets not pretend that the folks at Google or anywhere else are really any more trustworthy.

(Lastly, I am sorry if cryptocurrency makes you uncomfortable, but that does not change the fact that it is a really effective way to provide a low-friction method of exchanging value (e.g. micro-transactions). IDK if the BAT is the future of ad-tech, but I applaud them for trying to find new methods of monetization that don't involve directly harming users and their privacy...)
The one slight gotcha is if you go for the page object pattern the intuition is that each page object holds a reference to the cypress element that formed it so you can do new LoginForm(cy.get('#loginForm')) or similar which is a mistake because of the way cypress chaining works - it will result in only being able to use a single method once on the page object. Instead you need to query fresh again each time.

Which is fine when the page object is a login form, but a bit more comfortable complicated when it's notification 5 or something.
> I never really understood the combination of noise cancellation and home use only.

Sadly, you can't (realistically) wear them in bed while you sleep.
Maybe not so off-topic if you think about it.

If you recall, the early iPhones were stolen the lot until Apple tied the devices to the Apple ID. This allowed you to lock the device and make it a worthless piece of hardware when the owner wanted it to be.

In principle, with all the electronics on the AirPods, one could imagine a situation where they are locked to an Apple ID and if they are stolen they could be locked down. This would dramatically lower the resale value and prevent future thefts if Apple were to implement this.
I dont know how someone comes to the cobclusion that cypress is behind Cucumber (3x the work) or Java Selenijm (less control and capabilitu), both of which domt use Node either (wtf does that matter in context?). That makes no sense. It's trivial to set these thongs up and test them so I have to wonder where this negative astroturfing is coming from.

Obviously we prefer Cypress and it has sufficed or exceeded the capability of other frameworks, in practice, for our SPAs and page-model sites.
Personally I don’t think it is stable enough for a long lived service. But opinions differ. Might be worse if the author reinvented pandas manually, too.
The best bet you can make if you're confident nothing will get done is to not have any children.
> What does belief have to do with whether an idea can be communicated or not? It’s sufficient to be able to say the idea was XXX

What does belief have to do with a religion dying out? Everything!

Without writing, the greeks could get people to carry on their religion. With writing their religion died out. Clearly the spread of ideologies is not as simple as "writing spreads it and the absence of writing kills it."
No. The architecture of a mainframe is very different.
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It was php and it keeps getting better.
It’s nitpicking but retailers like Toys ‘r US got killed by PE, not VC.

The VC model is invest in a ton of growth companies in the hope of getting a 100X winner.

The PE model is to buy stable cash flows using mostly debt. That works until the cash flows aren’t stable any more. That’s why so many PE funded retailers are going under.
you can watch how parler evolves compared to other platforms that do not uphold your ideals, and see how it goes. maybe you are new to the internet, those who have been here a while have seen a lot of online forums without any moderation and seen what they turn into. it was never good.
I don't know of any scenarios. That certainly doesn't mean that there isn't any, but I haven't seen any in studies or anecdotally that could be directly attributed to change in diet (which is what I'm assuming what you are referring to). Even as I've gotten older I've noticed my cut phases tend to have to run a little longer than they used to, and any bulking I do has to contain better quality food (no more Chik-fil-A binging :(), and I'm pretty sure that is directly related to hormonal changes (free testosterone) for men between the ages of 40-50. It's been a couple of years since I've done a round of no carb, I should give it another round.
What makes you say that Facebook isn't doing those things in other countries? It really is. It's so easy to get caught in a web of scary news that agree with something you were already thinking, and never letting go.

I have friends and family members who will blame random problems on completely unrelated things like "new walk-way in large city" or "beheading in france". Meanwhile they will vehemently deny or state that real issues are overblown.
Ah but it didn’t used to be like this.
The Clean Air Act is a clear refutation of your assertion. Benefits there exceeded costs by a factor of about 40.

Fixing market failures increases economic wellbeing.
Very interesting. In the past, I spend some time on finding the largest number that could be calculated by a Brainfuck program when the memory cells can hold arbitrary large numbers (and not be restricted to bytes as with the official language). It takes a bit longer to take-off. For my findings, see: https://www.iwriteiam.nl/Ha_bf_numb.html
Research your audience, value proposition, and competition.
I supposed what's different from previous announcements is now that we're to see somewhat more tangible deadlines, not "30 years in the future" which will likely never happen. It would be nice to plan for an even shorter amount of time, 5 years for instance, so that people announcing these goals are actually accountable if they're not reached, but it's a nice start.
> of course the random Nebraskan's critical project is going to get a low "criticality score"

...which is the exact opposite of what it should be.
I hope they will build some of these suggested 50MW wind turbines in the next years not to far from my home such that I can have a look at them.

https://sumrwind.com/
Did they ban the Dixiecrat flag or the actual Confederate flag?
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> The M1 does one thing: run MacOS and MacOS apps. They can control the vast majority of the compiled code that will be run on the chip - unlike an x86 platform where the exact same architecture is used for desktops, servers and everything in between

The M1 is strongly related to their A14, which runs phones and tablets.

Also: what's between a server and a desktop machine?
While I dont particularly care about confederate flag, the constitution is not a bible. Constitution also does not defines broad meaning of the word censorship. Censorship can be used for private censorship as well, the only difference is that the constitution is not preventing it.

The discussion about what is and what is not reasonable censorship should not be limited to constitution and its meaning.
Sadly it seems that these days any new architecture will be used as an excuse to further lock down the platform and tie it to a monopolistic App Store
I'm curious if they'll ban symbols associated with any religions with theologies they would consider to have racist elements.

And perhaps ban the showing of flags of all nations with laws they consider racist.

My point is that I have trouble taking a company's public justifications seriously, when the company appears unwilling to take the financial/reputational hit of applying that reasoning consistently.
Europe isn't that different and its quickly getting worse in nearly every country, and of course also beyond country borders with things like Brexit.
My first reaction was rather visceral based on the title, but I calmed down significantly after I read the article as the interviewee's position is a little more nuanced. Clearly, the article editor's made the title more clickable than it had to be. Guy is arguing that monopoly powers are bad and FB appears to match that definition.

Most importantly, the interviewee states "I think monopoly is a worldview." And I happen to agree as I have a tendency to believe that too much power in too few hands tends to make things worse.

The question naturally is.. is FB a monopoly?
That's like saying using linux is being dependent on redhat and intel. Big contributors to Chromium include Microsoft, Samsung and many other giant companies. If Google abandons Chromium, it will still be maintained by other companies as too many in the industry rely on it.
I admit I just got a pair but haven't really tried them out yet. I imagine it would take a lot of habit breaking for me to get comfortable with them walking around. If you're actually listening to music etc.--i.e. actually have a reason to have them in your ear--I think I'd still find it isolating.
That sounds very useful, I'd use this
Forcing Twitch to host stuff they don't want to host is an infringement on their freedom. You're able to host your stuff elsewhere so their freedom trumps the free speech argument.

Network effects make Twitch a natural monopoly. Which means that a little bit of regulation to combat that might be a good idea.
That depends on which news you watch. I'm with you, I don't want to acknowledge that there is any chance. But I've just spent the week with my folks who leave Fox News on in the background for most of the day, and I'd say now my sentiment is much closer to "nevertheless, they persisted" – people really buy into this stuff.

And it's not a decisive minority of people either, not in either of the places I've lived in my lifetime. Certainly the vote reflects that it was a minority, nationwide, but "have you ever actually seen a million dollars"?

Even of those that know it shouldn't be possible, regardless there are many who are still hopeful it gets overturned. (Still, thank you for saying what I'm thinking.)
Sorry, I am doing a poor job communicating. I agree with your assessment of how the bazaar model works.

When I said "in this regard", the intent was to signal that "bazaar" explicitly doesn't mean an anarchic situation where all change is accepted. It's maybe more anarchic than the cathedral model, but it's controlled anarchy.

The reality is that most projects fall somewhere between the two models. The people most heavily invested in the projects tend to drive change, and this is sometimes at the behest of the community. That doesn't automatically make the project a cathedral.

Similarly, while Google controls the direction and funds the development of Fuchsia, our development process (which we publish on fuchsia.dev in the Governance section) is very much bazaar-like. This is difficult to see because we haven't been open about our processes, and we haven't engaged externally with developers. To that extent, we've been very much "cathedral". This expanded model is us inviting folks to join us in the bazaar.
That's not very a sophisticated take to be honest, especially when we're talking about a part of the world that gave us the word "realpolitik". Politicians disappoint and unscrupulous people exploit. Absolutely everyone already knows that. It doesn't mean that nothing ever improves.
Just search the products named if you want more info:

https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/energy/medium-vol...

The 450 Kw charger can be setup standalone, it doesn't have to be in a charging depot. It charges 1 bus at a time. The design is focused on installation at locations along a bus route where the bus pauses. If the bus automatically charges during the pause, it can operate with a smaller, cheaper battery.