skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had 3 pairs of airpods over the years (2 original ones, 1 pro), all used heavily, haven't experienced this kind of an issue even once. And neither do I know anyone else who did. I don't know your situation, but I have a feeling you might have gotten a faulty unit, in which case a warranty request might be helpful.

I switch my current ones between a macbook and my phone multiple times a day, all it takes is pressing a single button in my taskbar on macbook or control panel of my phone.

I heard they even have an autoswitch feature now, where you can use your airpods with macbook, but when a call comes in or you play a video on your iphone, it switches automatically to that device, and then back. Haven't had a chance to test that feature myself tho, so YMMV.
This is incorrect. USA has laws protecting against government overreach[1]. In the case of China, the government does not need the court of law to access your data.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...
^ this. Eighty percent of actors work as waiters & waitresses. Eighty percent of startups make $0. Why is this article topping hn?
Pardon me but I'd pay for some peace and quiet on my commute. In Europe, so much as a loud phone call, let alone playing music on loud, is generally considered rude. Is that different in NYC?
Dunning Kruger Effect and all
BTW, a thousand cubic meters is the size of the passenger deck on an Airbus A380.

He remarked "we can make it bigger."
The FDA released today all the data they're using for the upcoming Dec 10th discussion, and it is quite detailed:

https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download

Writing a peer-reviewed paper two weeks after the data are out is hard, even more so when you have an emergency use authorization ongoing (which requires far more data).
May I ask, how does one play a cactus?
I honestly doubt it. The unpleasant sensation of having my ears filled with goop is far stronger than any caution advised on the package. And those who don't experience this don't have a reason to use them, even if they are advertised as safe.
match made not in heaven but on Oracle Cloud
Because the issue isn't the skim. It's that there's only so much money to spread around in a world where "everyone" expects to get access to all the world's music for $10/month.
I am curious if you have tried to learn a musical instrument or learn to sing? Learning to play a musical instrument (or sing) at a level were someone would want to pay you, is probably equally hard, if not harder.
Depends whether you value money more than code contributions.

I don’t think it would hurt to have AWS release some of their software, like the Nitro hypervisor. The world would probably benefit from that more than any license they’d have to pay.
I really wish Deezer's user-centric payment system would get traction. It would apportion royalties based on a subscriber's listening instead of all plays across all subscribers. https://www.deezer.com/ucps
> I consider the Pebble far superior to the AW: customizable and easier to program, with a longer lasting battery and display always on.

Sure, but this argument can be easily taken to its logical absurdity. Someone who just needs a watch that shows the time & date and has a stopwatch can get a Casio which accurately does all this and has a battery that lasts years, in addition to an always-on display (note: for what it's worth, the Apple Watch also has an always-on display). From that perspective a Casio is vastly superior to both a Pebble and an Apple Watch ;-).
This is a stupid metric. Maybe 80% of artists don't earn much because nobody wants to listen to them.

A better metric is how much artists are paid per stream. If it's the same for everyone then I don't really see how you can complain. If big artists get sweetheart deals then that is an issue.
Spotify's total revenue is around 8bln/year. It's a bit hard to establish how many musicians are active on Spotify, but the sparse info on the web suggests that it's at least a million. Those 2 numbers tell you enough if you're want to make a living from music and are not already famous.
I may be missing something here, but reference counting + cycle detector is what Python has been doing for many years now?

In my experience, it's the worst of both worlds. You no longer have the full determinism of reference counting - you only retain it for non-cyclical structures, and in a large enough program, it can be easy to introduce those without noticing (with callbacks etc). But you still have the overhead of RC on every reference assignment.
But then you would have nothing to announce when saying “we listened to the community and blablabla”.

This way they can keep up the illusion that they do everything with good intentions and did not expect people would get angry. “We are not the baddies, here’s some sweetener to prove it!”
The primary reasons I was aware of was that alcohol dries the mouth out (which makes sense, it also dries hands out), and dry mouth grows more bacteria than a saliva rich mouth.

These links also indicate alcohol can lead to oral cancer, killing of good bacteria.

https://www.sharecare.com/health/healthy-oral-hygiene/effect...

https://www.prairiedental.com/blog/alcohol-vs-alcohol-free-m...
Similar thoughts. I have worked with some folks who basically just do 'java' all day. It's a web app, but there's a team who gets to pretty much do just 'java' - little to no web stuff, little SQL (that's another team), and... There have been times over the years when I've been envious of that type of situation, but then I think I'd hate it. But I sort of hate the current state working across all things web.

You forgot 'SQL' (or broad 'data management and access'), as well as security and performance stuff in your list above.

I don't want to be a 'stick in the mud' but.. I also resist some of the newer/shinier things, precisely because they don't always stick around (and I've been burned). But also, I don't really have time/bandwidth to be an expert. Doing server mgt, security, etc half-assed, by just following a couple of readmes... that can lead to lots of trouble.
Starship Launch: Nope
Raptor Abort at T-1.3 Seconds
You know, thinking fish and vaccine are treated the same does not show smart understanding of region. Honestly, it shows not understanding it at all.

Not that vaccines are about to be flawless. But failure will be different.
Does it? I'm not really asking for sources, but more if you ever looked that up or if it's an assumption. Not saying it's an unreasonable assumption, just wondering whether I should be doing the same or if I should look into it first. Because afaik record labels still get the vast majority of cd sales whereas concerts and merch is where it's at to help the artist.
I don't think it's true for doctors, the wealth there is more distributed.
> For those that are not aware of it - all sufficiently large corporations in China are actually more akin to State-owned enterprises

Please, how do you go from "State-owned" to "everything is tightly controlled." I am genuinely curious.
No.

As noted, there is a significant risk of Starlink going out of business. The RDOF grants are not venture funding, and should not be used as such.

The FCC's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund exists to bring high speed fixed broadband service to rural homes and small businesses that lack it.

I do not believe that Starlink would have excluded the areas it got subsidies for from service had it not gotten the subsidies.

Starlink must have ALL the money to launch and operate ALL the satellites it needs to become profitable. The subsidies do not even cover the cost of replacing deorbiting satellites.

> It is true that plenty of companies operate that way. However after 20 years of running companies, it is extremely safe to say that Elon does not. In fact he tends to take every scrap of money that his company is generating, finds ways to borrow or raise more, and then reinvests it into even more ambitious projects.

This is not proper use of RDOF money either.
AirPods Max are headphones.

Soon we will all see many pairs of AirPods Max.
Hello everyone, I created a simple script that allows a website to be a valid JSON and still be able to present the information on the browser.

Any feedback is appreciated!
Mystery illness in India: hundreds sick, experts baffled
I recently saw some numbers from who I thought was a very popular author. Content creation is a labor of love.

Thanks for playing the music.
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> If Ant is 'essentially' state owned, whereas its action reflects the will of the state, then its action need not to be controlled through government regulation or Chinese SEC.

No. Not really. CCP is not a big uniform entity. There are different competing entities.

Also, ownership is different from control. I am not sure how this simple fact is overlooked.
How do psychologists measure personality traits to classify people in these kinds of categories (dark/light)?
>Given you cannot replace battery, this is not high quality according to my standards.

Cool, just don't be surprised when the sales numbers and reviews end up not reflecting that sentiment. Mostly because I doubt that vast majority of people use that metric as a baseline measure of high quality.
"Away from campus community, BIPOC individuals are not as likely to have access to preventive services or quality health care."

Perhaps this is generally true. I don't know. But I doubt it's true for kids going to Cornell - one of the top 20 universities in the US.
tl;dr in several provinces there has been a number of cases where folks got verbal warning for doing it. Given the scale (1.5 billion people), it's bit like saying "in US you can call the police to murder your annoying neighbour and they will come and shoot him on the spot".

VPN use is ubiquitous in China, it's as simple as that.
Learning to play music and paying for recording equipment isn't exactly easy either.

I wonder the portion of apps by solo devs versus songs/albums/whatever music units by solo artists (who also didn't have anyone else involved in the process). I definitely don't have a strong prior for which has a lower barrier to entry.

We aren't talking "hello world" nor "row row row your boat."
Because I'm not burning time commuting in COVID WFH, I'm getting extra sleep. The extra sleep has made me healthier.
Alternate version minus obnoxious youtube personalities: https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/
Surely you could say this about almost anything? 80% of an unspecified group of self-identified musicians don't make a lot of money in music isn't a very interesting statistic.

This just in as well, "over 80% of basketball players make less than $200 playing basketball" if you count recreational leagues.
exhale - Well, thankfully we get to watch again tomorrow. Pretty impressive that they could safely abort at the last second like that.
In a previous life we customised some router firmware of a linksys router. One of the many issues I found was the password validation logic was `validatePassword(password) || password == "password"` via shodan I could see many of these devices with remote admin (login) enabled and avalable on the internet. The overall code quality was easily the wost I have seen in a project.
Looks like a nice resource, many thanks!
I agree there's no grand plan here, but from another perspective, the rise of TikTok/WeChat/DiDi/Alibaba (e.g. was surprised to see that I can use AliPay at CVS in my area in the US), shows that China doesn't need US companies and will go ahead with its own internet, it's own tech industry, etc. Also see initiatives like this: https://www.cnet.com/news/china-has-big-ideas-for-the-intern...

US influence in China will wane because the US can't really compete the way that US companies have done in other markets; hence, what can the US do but try to blunt/dent/hurt the growth of Chinese companies e.g. by interfering with TikTok (since we're not going to out-compete them or win out in the marketplace)? These are flea bites, not fatal blows, but it's all that the US can muster for now from a "policy" perspective. And keep in mind, the US may not have a grand strategy here, but China certainly does.

Or, to condense it into a thought experiment, think about what it would take in some alternate future timeline (which may not be so far-fetched), that would make it more likely for Alibaba to one day acquire Amazon, then for Amazon to acquire Alibaba... We may already be headed to that future.
Just upgraded to CentOS Stream from CentOS 7, so far so good.

Contrary to most commenters, I am actually optimistic. I switched to Arch on the desktop a decade ago because I was tired of having to often nuke and pave my install every 6 months. I am still with Arch all these years later, even for my work machine and I work as a programmer so instability wouldn't fly.

Obviously the support window for CentOS was much, much longer, but if they're careful we can perhaps have the convenience of a rolling release with the stability of RHEL, or close to then more power to them.

My only concern is the short EOL window for current CentOS 8 users.
That is not how the GPL works. The GPL only entitles you to the source code of software for which you have been provided binaries. If the software has not been provided to you in binary form, you have no claim to the source.

This is why the cloud providers can get away with custom in-house patches to the Linux kernel.
I'm already on my third set of AirPods so I don't have much hope on battery life
> Why say that? Why not just say you were attacked and going to try and determine why and make any changes

Because they would be out of business tomorrow if they say they think it was a 13 year old from Ohio just fooling around on a Sunday.

This is FireEye marketing itself for the F500 by selling fear of an invisible adversary with unlimited resources that already deliver innovative black hat capabilities.
It breaks down for wealth distribution.
Today I learned that we have a part of the ear called a meatus and I would like to unlearn this, please
The reporter meant 'used'. I have never heard the use of 'created' and if there is a meaning to that that I don't know about it's not widely used and should not have been used by the writer.

The 'many inside the US' is kind of laughable. I mean what would you do to pull this off use IP addresses in China or Russia just to draw attention?

I mean if you want to pull off a burglary in a residential neighborhood you don't drive in with an auto that draws attention you go with an auto that looks like many others that have been seen before and isn't noticed.
Sounds like you pass on them. And if you're serious, it sounds like you're a terrible and biased hiring manager either way. You should stop doing this.

Especially since you acknowledge that it would be illegal or at least unethical if you acknowledged it. Knock it off.
Less than 200 pounds already covers those who earn zero.
Try us out at Geocode Earth! (https://geocode.earth)

We wrote and maintain the open-source Pelias geocoder(https://github.com/pelias/pelias) at Mapzen and have been continuing to improve it in the 3 years since Mapzen's shutdown.

Geocode Earth is our hosted service built around Pelias so you can get started quickly, not worry about keeping data up to date, or doing all the fine tuning and optimization that we've had to do to get fast and reasonably accurate autocomplete outside of Google and Mapbox.

Using our hosted comparison tool you can see that we do a pretty decent job of finding two out of 3 of the Chipotles (the third might have been deduplicated or not in OSM):
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Most our users end up passing a focus point, in which case the results are generally even better, although they're the same in this example
https://pelias.github.io/compare/#/v1/autocomplete?focus.poi...
I use Qt professionally. What exactly do you want me to say here?

Salivate over bullet points on a release announcement when we treat every update as maintenance to a core featureset that's been sufficient since Qt 4.8? Jump into a tangent about the meta object compiler on a release announcement? Talk about the translation system apropos of nothing?

The only things that matter here to me now are if the license details change, if they made breaking design changes or deprecated features.
Mt Everest Grows by Nearly a Meter
Oh come now, this is Red Hat, a company based on Open Source software. We're not wrong for wanting to hold it to a higher standard. They have benefited from the OSS community just as they have contributed to it.
Can't find it now but I remember an article talking about how to get rich like Bill Gates that started off with "pick better parents".
1 270 9.97783% ls
2 236 8.72136% <custom crypto script>
3 188 6.94752% cd
4 158 5.83888% clear
5 148 5.46933% emacs
6 120 4.43459% sudo
7 104 3.84331% <custom script for writing>
8 98 3.62158% ll
9 70 2.58684% j
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Most developers are working for companies which pay them salaries, so likely those app generate more than $200/yr. I would say only ~5% of developers.

If the question was worded, what % of apps generate < $200/yr, then I would say ~98%.
Perhaps the problem is there are simply too many musicians all fighting for the same fixed size pie. I'm guessing the reason is there are a lot of people willing to work for a very low pay because they want to be a musician and not that they see it as a profitable pursuit.
In China as well:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181029-in-china-chengdus-p...

I suspect whether you have liquid or solid earwax (genetics) makes a huge difference.

Every Japanese shop sells bamboo or plastic earpicks (and more exotic materials like titanium) designed to scoop out the gunk from your ears.

And then you have these French cotton buds that have a small flexible spoon-like end on one side:

https://www.quies.com/product/otospoon-dual-action-earwax-re...
No, I mean more like, if what the US Govt is alleging is true - that TikTok is siphoning data to Chinese military/security agencies (hence “national security threat”) that would definitely still be possible even if there were data protection laws - after all, the point of spying is that it’s generally illegal.
Services like Bandcamp are working on a similar premise to that, but it's stuck in a bit of a catch-22. They need a lot of cash to sign licensing deals with the sort of big ticket artists that attract the numbers of mainstream customers they need to have that amount of cash. They have carved themselves out a nice niche as an artist-friendly music store, but their path towards competing with companies like Apple for the mainstream is about as uphill as it gets. Bandcamp isn't exactly a streaming service, but it's the same battle to be fought.
How much were they making from cd sales before?
That's a sign of excess supply vs demand
When you stick things in your ear the risk of puncturing your own eardrum is real. It's a lot better when you can see what you're doing. And you can verify that you got everything.
I don't think you understand how DNS works.
I don't think you're in a position to comment on what I do or don't know about DNS.

Encrypted dns is still a myth to most users. Major resolvers do not support it since it directly conflicts with with their data collection business.

Except those users using Firefox or Chrome, which come with DNS over HTTPS (DoH) preconfigured. Or those who've been running DoT on their home networks, which I setup quite a while ago now.

From the Wikipedia article on DoH, emphasis mine:
"A goal of the method is to increase user privacy and security by preventing eavesdropping and manipulation of DNS data by man-in-the-middle attacks[1] by using the HTTPS protocol to encrypt the data between the DoH client and the DoH-based DNS resolver.

DNS over TLS (DoT) RFC:
"This document describes the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) to provide privacy for DNS. Encryption provided by TLS eliminates opportunities for eavesdropping and on-path tampering with DNS queries in the network, such as discussed in RFC 7626."

The lack of DNS encryption isn't what Apple and Cloudflare are addressing; it's that whoever runs the DNS resolver can still see the websites you're visiting and ODoH fixes that.
I don't think anyone experiences quiet in Manhattan.

Doing it on the platform is generally considered acceptable by all; doing it on the train leads to mixed responses, but NYers just kind of accept it, despite any muttering under their breath.
Would you control for population growth? It's always tough in these questions. Do you need twice the music for twice the people? You sure need twice the music jobs, from the artist side. So even if the 20% is bigger, it might be relatively smaller.
Agree, "customers" who use CentOS are not paying for Linux and won't pay for any other distro. Somebody has to work to provide a stable distro and supported on many hardwares, hypervisors/clouds and softwares running on top of OS. But the funny things is that usually there is a huge contradiction on people who uses CentOS on production, they are the same people who pays for proprietary software like Windows, Office, Oracle DB, VMware, etc... sometimes spend millions of dollars on these softwares, but save some bucks using a free Linux distro!! But I do respect the ones who are entirely open source, just don't think any big company besides Google for example, would have a huge IT teams to support everything
Most everyone react positively to positive feedback from peers.
I was supporting CentOS 6 until about a couple weeks ago.
I’m not sure that’s true. I don’t think it takes much. I made a baby sushing album and that’s net me around $70/year.

I made it to help put our daughter to sleep. My wife and I got really tired and it helped to have a recording. I thought that others might find it useful, apparently it does.

Maybe it’s just the utility that brings in listeners, but it’s literally just shushing.
Just curious, why is this app not available on the Icelandic Play store?
> There is also photostructure.com, but they don't seem to be planning to make mobile clients any time soon :|

Sorry about that. I certainly get the appeal of "one app to rule then all," but as an indy solo dev, I have to focus on building features that give my users the best bang from my limited time.

File sync is surprisingly hard to do cross-platform--most apps have pretty abysmal app store ratings, including the built-in ones from NAS manufacturers.

I personally use Resilio Sync as a one-trick-pony that just copies my smartphone photos to my NAS. There are several other apps to that do this, as well: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/#...

PhotoStructure's sync process then automatically finds and imports new files into my library.

A homepage bookmark icon on my phone that links to my personal PhotoStructure library works well.
You don't have to actually play an instrument to mix things together.

But I take your point. With that analogy one can probably find an "app maker" that similarly is just drag & drop for some basic CRUD app. Just not sure that anyone actually makes those and tries to publish them to commercial repositories whereas I did get a lot of mp3s sent via MSN because half my friends were making music, and honestly many of those tracks were hard to distinguish from what I'd expect from a professional. Nowadays there wouldn't be much stopping them from signing up for a random music site account and uploading the songs there.

And yes I did learn to play an actual instrument, I know it's shit^W painfully slow (that's why I stopped taking lessons).
This is exactly why browsers support doing their own name resolution: because some OSes advance much more slowly.