skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It has literally determined every aspect of our being. You can't move forward without understanding what got you where you are.

So has physics. Why stop at hunter-gatherers, why not go back to the Big Bang? Would you argue that we need to study astrophysics to deal with obesity?

It's not absurd at all to suggest that evolution is a red herring, any more than it's absurd to suggest that astrophysics is a red herring. Prehistoric archaeology is highly speculative at best. I'm not saying it's unscientific, I'm just saying there are a lot of things about prehistoric societies that we could be very wrong about, due to lack of direct observation and evidence, and thus it would a poor guide for our current and future societies even if we decided to base our behavior on our ancestors (which we shouldn't).
Apple does offer "battery service" for AirPods:

https://support.apple.com/airpods/repair/service#battery

I strongly suspect the the "service" is giving you refurbished AirPods with new batteries in them, but it's still cheaper than buying new AirPods. (Although somewhat marginally in the case of the non-Pro model.)
Yea honestly to me the only reason to get these is seamless bluetooth integration Apple gives.

As long as sound quality is top of class (which they appear to be) then to some extent the thing comes out to "is better pairing experience worth a $200-300 premium over something like Sony MX4s?" For now, I will stick to my MX4s ($280) until maybe Max's come down in price.
I don't exactly understand your obsession with "vindictiveness". I'm not saying we should have a policy of rounding these people up and throwing them in prison. This is my emotional response, not a proposed policy response. They, however, literally did support a policy of rounding people up and throwing them in prison.
I've been using Linux on Dell laptops (various distributions and desktops, Precision / Inspiron) since the late 90s and it's always just sort of worked, had an IBM Thinkpad along the way as well. As another few comments mention, solid vendor firmware really seems to be a key factor and I prefer ATI/AMD gpu chips for their no-nonsense out of the box performance (I'm not a laptop gamer).
DynDNS53 [1] + cron script every 5 minutes

[1] - Run your own dynamic DNS service with Amazon Route 53 https://github.com/agorf/dyndns53
I usually lurk around here, so I made myself an automated weekly digest of the best AskHN threads, like this one. Found it useful so I ended up making it public as a newsletter around a year ago.
Yeah this is the hardest one to replace for me, too. Nextcloud has a photos integration that has reasonable facial recognition/grouping, but Google photos semantic search is really useful. Part of what makes Google so evil though is that they gave away the photos product for free for long enough to kill off any real competition. There are certainly loads of teams who could do it just as well or better, but not for free. And of course now that there are no viable alternatives, Google will start charging. Typical monopoly behaviour that should in itself constitute a reason to stop using them.
Well, don't forget you're supposed to "estimate" everything (based on a 10-second glance at the description) before you do it, and you're also measured on the accuracy of your estimates.
How much would you pay for replaceable AAA batteries? How long will they last?

$79 is pretty bad.
If your complaint is carrying a USB to lightning cable -- though you keep jumping to wall warts/chargers and not a 17 gram cable -- yeah, I guess that's a big burden.

But your comment seems like it might be contrived to begin with. This headset only really makes sense for iPhone users. That is the target. Those people are already carrying using lightning cables in their life. Pretty much anyone in the Apple ecosystem has to charge a multitude of things with lightning still.
With $200 billion in the bank, I'm sure Apple could have figured out how to get power to them over a wired connection
If I'm reading it correctly, it loads up an array of points [0], and after you move your cursor it loops through all points and finds the one with the nearest distance [1]. It seems like every image has the URL structure /images/[index of point].jpg.

The interesting bit is it keeps a list of the 4 point/images you've most recently seen, and will ignore those when searching for the new nearest point/image. Then scales that image to point at your cursor more accurately. This is why it feels pixel-perfect or so, because you won't get a repeat image until you refresh, or try the same location 5 times.

To test that out, ctrl+tab away and back to the tab without moving your cursor. You'll always get a different image. Then refresh the page, and ctrl+tab away and back again without moving your cursor. You'll see the same images in order.

Also neat that what was once a jQuery app now uses React and Typescript.

[0] https://pointerpointer.com/new-positions.json

[1] From /static/js/Point.ts

const bruteClosest = (position: Point, positions: Point[]) => {
let index = undefined;
let closest = Number.MAX_VALUE;
for (let i = 0; i < positions.length; i++) {
const pos = positions[i];
const distance = distancePoints(pos, position);
if (distance < closest && !lastPicked.includes(i)) {
closest = distance;
index = i;
};
}
lastPicked.unshift(index!);
lastPicked.length = Math.min(lastPicked.length, 4);
return index;
};
There is a nice blog post that describes this:

https://brauner.github.io/2018/09/08/thinkpad-6en-s3.html

I recently bought a T14, which also has this option.

(It enables S3 sleep.)
This is a fancy way of saying "I'll pay more for nicer headphones because I use them a lot". Sadly the point above is that you'll be forced to pay more again and again thanks to the fact they are wireless only so you'll need to replace the batteries.
Yes! But the major pain is Windows (and the hardware, isn't as efficient) It's like a worse Apple. I would also immediately go with a thinkpad $X Yoga, if there was a ryzen AND >FHD model.

I think most people looking for a "laptop" just aren't aware, how useful a pen is. They don't think "annotate everything", anymore, even tho they grew up like that. Their mind has grown bend over the laptop.

The device itself isn't all to the appeal, too: The inter app operability is key to get the mind free. iOS does this quite well, superficially. But for me the honey moon phase ended when I realized - well, Stallman was right!

The locked down, and locking-in, overly profit-driven ecosystem just kills it for me.

I believe an ultimate device like that could really revive the Linux desktop, because the device would thrive with a holistic ecosystem, where apps can coexist, don't habe to fight for the user's wallet.
> "Those smartphones were marketed for balding dads in white shirts, working in cubicles. "

While true, I wouldn't say that's a burn because it was exactly those people who could afford smartphones and justify paying the painfully high bandwidth charges of that era. Remember, those phones cost as much as a iPhone today but in 2005 dollars (ouch). The ubiquitous Blackberry, a.k.a. the "Crackberry", and Palm devices were also aimed at the same business and professional market.

These early devices paved the way to the current smartphone market.
Maybe to you.
> I'm surprised he didn't mention anything about bluetooth pairing and general ease of use.

Gruber is writing primarily for people who are familiar with Apple's products. That they pair easily with multiple Apple devices is assumed based on the original AirPods. I suspect if there was any regression he'd have mentioned it.
Terrible analogy.

Picture is different than live. Intent is different, too.

CD cover was completely unexpected for me.

Ignoring your own children, do you normally take pictures of nude children on a beach? Would you commercialize a naked picture of your baby son?
As a personal trainer, yes there are several movements that have the same effect as a Facepull without gym equipment. I would recommend "YTWL" movements in a prone (face down) position. Search YouTube for "YTWL"

It's actually better to start without equipment because those muscles are typically very weak for people who haven't specifically exercised those muscles
I had to finally learn about face pulls when I was doing hundreds of pushups per day and a bodybuilder friend pointed out how my front/top delt was massive and my rear delt was soft and flat. And sure enough, looking at myself sideways in the mirror, it was pretty comical.

Though there are other ways to work the rear delt. I prefer some rings at home.
In these days of self identifying as whatever anything goes.
The reverse is worse, I think, feeling lonely while surrounded by people, or being with people who make you feel alone. I recommend a film called Somewhere by Sofia Coppola, it's about an actor (not old) going through the motions of his life, always surrounded by people, yet his internal landscape is vast emptiness. There's a scene where he falls asleep while watching twin pole dance routine in his hotel room! Coppola has a good eye for these "lonely in a crowded place" condition. The female character at a temple in Tokyo in Lost In Translations comes to mind, and the Bill Murray character calling home. Likewise Marie Antoinette, two characters isolated and lonely, navigating the party atmosphere in the Chateau Marmont of its time.
Rust's dbg! is one of those ideas that felt obvious and beautiful once I saw it.

Apparently it's inspired by Haskell.[0] I'd love to see it officially picked up in other languages.

[0] https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2361-dbg-macro.html#prior-a...
And then what? Magic? Are there any viable geo engineering schemes that could be deployed in the short term, without a risk of catastrophic side effects?
Helping Law Enforcement Lawfully Access the Signal App
The Tailwind beneath my wings [audio]
India is hitting their targets.
All of this work is designed to be highly iterative, (relatively) low cost prototyping. Cutting corners is exactly what they are trying to do. If you hadn't seen before, until SN8 they were flying this thing without a nose cone. Cutting corners here is OK. The point is to find the mistakes. Better to find these issues now than to be something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA-19#Damage_during_manufact...
Bluetooth is transmitting crudely compressed audio. There is a proprietary aptX codec which aims to make Bluetooth compression suck less, which Apple devices do not support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AptX
I have a fairly nice headphone setup at my desk (HD650+Schiit Magni/Modi2). I am willing to admit I am biased against other headphones, especially ones that are cheaper than my setup. I am interested to try out Apple's new cans and see how they hold up. They probably won't survive my own biases.
Don't know what? It's engineered trash from a trash company.
I think another aspect of heavy > light is it's (perceived) as a gauge of how much "stuff" is in a product.

If I picked up some very light electronic, I may suspect that it's simply not very dense, and it was made bigger to (try) and fool another "quality signal", size. You know, knock-off products made to look like something bigger/higher quality but containing mostly air.

It is a shame though, since light can be very strong and high value. I personally wouldn't want almost half a kilo of headphones on my noggin, and this article's emphasis on weight is ... disappointing.
> I don't think it's really ranked newsfeeds.

That's .... a kind of ranking. Personalized ranking made by algorithms based on what they want to show you using their own patterns is still ranking. Dynamically adjusting ranking based on new data (or not) is still ranking.
If you want something more than the Wikipedia content, try the book Wittgenstein's Poker. My book club read it about a decade ago and it's one of the few titles we keep referring back to.
I have no idea. 8 years ago I liked Airbnb but now with the stupidly high cleaning fees despite having some boomer host tell me that I'm "disrespectful" for not leaving the place spotless I've switched back to hotels.
I once talked to a retired hardware engineer, a fellow who made real electronic devices, not software. He told me that, over the whole course of his career, 80% of the projects he worked on never made it to market. In other words, 4/5th of his total "productivity" turned out to be waste. Make of it what you will.
I said nothing about efficiency. All I am arguing is that Airbnb didn’t screw themselves. No money was taken from them. They raised the money they wanted to raise at a price they thought would be tolerable by the public markets.
Considering that Apple's battery service fee is $49 per AirPod, that tells me that the residual value of a failed AirPod (a single one, not both) is $99.50 - (depreciation) - $49, so $50.50 in the best case, and almost certainly nonzero in the worst case.

It's probably safe to assume that in light of how they're constructed, Apple does not repair a unit when received and send the original repaired unit back. The customer likely receives a refurbished unit. But we do not know what Apple subsequently does with the failed units, so it's unfair to assume without evidence that they incinerate them or bury them in a landfill. They may well possess some trade secret that allows them to be able to repair them in a factory and ship them out later as refurbished units. There are technologies that are much more economical at scale (especially achievable with Apple's resources) that are probably infeasible for a mom-and-pop shop. And possibly more environmentally friendly, too (cf. trains vs. trucks).
Isn't InstantGo/ConnectedStandby basically the same thing as S0IX ACPI state? (according to this: https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/64867/tryi...)

It's seems doable with modern kernels: https://01.org/blogs/qwang59/2018/how-achieve-s0ix-states-li.... Maybe you should give it a try.
I'm not a photography expert, but won't plastics subtly deform over time (especially when exposed to sunlight)?
Installing popular open source apps on Linux is generally super easy.

On Ubuntu (and most other desktop-centric Linux distros) the installation process is going to look something like opening the "Software Center" application, searching for "Thunderbird" and clicking "Install."
I honestly don’t understand how this is still an issue with Bluetooth devices in 2020. Why is there no lossless duplex audio profile / codec available at this point?
There is lossy compression. There is a rather old codec (SBC) at a few different bit-rates, and a couple newer better codecs from the last 10 years (aptX, AAC, ?). Apple does have the control to make sure better codecs are supported and used. It can be pretty hard to determine and control what codecs are supported and which one is used, this is almost always hidden and never mentioned anywhere.
Lossy compression, lots of different codecs with differing qualities and compatibilities. However, Shure Aonic 50 BT sound quality for me was phenomenally good (though they were uncomfortable to wear)... most other headphones I've tried have been mildly tolerable to terrible.
It's only meddling if you're way too stressed out by trying to keep up with capitalism.

If you live a simple life without too much stress then it's not really meddling.
Thanks for the hint. I have tried everything else I could think of the improve the audio quality but not this one. I'll give it a go this afternoon!
You can do this somewhat abstractly. By saying "when storing user data it must inform the user agent the purposes of that data using a standard mechanism". Then for http you can bless some RFC and the standard way.

But you are right. It isn't ideal.
Unfortunately the culture of helicopter parenting is harmful.
> When I break something in an Airbnb, I pay every time. When they fuck up the parking and I get towed, the Airbnb paid. So we both keep using the service.

This seems very orthogonal to concerns about being murdered.

> Michael Sandel talked big talk about Airbnb monetized something that used to be generously gifted, but he omitted the special math of how rich people exchanging stuff with each other results in that thing being utilized 10,000% more, simply because it is sustainable in the sense of people retaining and not hitting the home button, and he never really talked about, ironically, the lack of justice when people break or steal your shit and there is simply no remedy.

I'm sorry, I honestly don't really understand. I'm assuming you're discussing Sandel's recent work on what he sees as the moral limits around markets.

You're saying that markets provide a recourse for property damage, which makes them more just? That, again, seems unrelated - no reason you can't have recourse for property damage even if you are letting someone stay in your house free of charge.

I also just think the narrative you're spinning is sort of misleading. Rich people overwhelmingly do have remedies for wrongs and have the capacity to pursue legal action.
Also along these lines, with support for a lot of different DNS providers:

https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient
I am also extremenly frustrated by this. Even on my linux-only librem 13, it still occasionaly fails to start after a sleep. Suspend to disk is even worse. If there was a kernel dev out there accepting donations / patreon to fix this, I would be willing to sign up for a decent amount.
I still bail out when a Linux install won't pick up my wifi without intervention, yet I put OpenStep on a DEC, LinuxPPC on an iMac, NetBSD on a Performa, and BeOS on something I forgot I had.

Had these phones never existed, I'd get around to the Amiga that's in the garage.
Apple's BT does not apply any additional compression to compressed audio. If you are listening to an MP3 or AAC, it sends the already compressed audio over the channel so there is no quality loss. If you are listening to uncompressed audio source, I believe it's compressed before it's sent because of limits to Bluetooth bandwidth.
The very definition of suburbia prevents it from becoming elderly and walking friendly: large lots for houses with garages and multi car wide driveways, 6+ lane road crossings, parking lots spacing everything out.

I can’t imagine any elderly person with mobility issues being able to cross any road with more than a 25mph speed limit, especially the main roads that are 4 to 8 lanes wide at intersections with 40mph speed limits.
The machine boots System 7, I have some native Macintosh applications installed. NetBSD/mac68k provides a Mac application that takes over the whole machine, loads the NetBSD kernel into memory and starts running it, the only way to exit from this is to reboot.
> Email applications such as Mulberry are still just as useful today, just make sure to set up your IMAP and SMTP correctly and you're good to go

really? there's email clients for MacOS 8.1 that can understand IMAP and SMTP over TLS1.2? Because otherwise you'll be using some old thing that only supports plaintext authentication.

the most secure way to do email on such a thing would probably be to ssh to another local machine on your LAN and run a terminal based email client from that.
Same - my Audio Technicas are over 10 years old and when the earpads started to wear, they dug up some new earpads from the archives and it was definitely under $30 total.
>Native means you have access to the hardware through the kernel of your choice, it's not about performance.

Yeah, I know what "native" means.

I talked about the use of "native performance". That when used for comparison, it doesn't mean anything, unless it compares between the program running on the native OS and virtualized on the same machine.

So, saying

"Near native performance" i.e. not native"

(a) doesn't say anything as a general statement (of course it's less than 100% of native, as its virtualized), and

(b) is moot as an argument against the M1 (since this "non native" performance could still could be e.g. 100% or even 120% of the native performance of another machine, which would make it more than enough).
> Directly raising GDP has an indirect, positive net effect on quality of life (not spiritually or philosophically, though, I might argue; although, I only think of these things because I live in an industrialized, developed, “rich” nation).

I don't think you can solve these by fiat.

Governments can only realistically focus on improving the liberty and prosperity of their citizens (you know "life, liberty...).

Happiness is very subjective and I'd say in many cases comes from inside. You could be the richest, most famous and powerful person in the world and still be unhappy.
We could always do it the NASA way and.... just talk about it for 40 years and then spend double on something that doesn't work...?

:-)
It's never this simple. You have to decide what subset to use, understand how that subset could interact with the avoided language features, have a strong team culture that can agree on the subset and have the discipline to commit, understand how new language features affect that commitment, etc. In addition to needing to read and interact with other libraries that probably use it anyway.

The team aspect alone is a deal breaker for me--when you have a technology that attracts people who are intrinsically interested in the technology, good luck trying to get them to avoid certain parts of it. That's a losing battle.
We’re not ‘not interested’ we actively don’t want what you’re proposing because we think it’s unjust and harmful and so we’re arguing against it.
I haven't check for a few years but there were free tools available with great quality (providing intra-word timing even)
> If you knew all the busy beaver numbers, then you could settle all of those questions.

A lot of important questions in number theory could be answered, but not all. For example, the mentioned Collatz conjecture (3n+1) is of different type. To prove this conjecture you need to prove the halting for EVERY argument. Checking halting of a single program will not be enough, so busy beaver won't help. This is a next level task in the Arithmetical Hierarchy [1]. Though, in fact, you can define the next level Busy Beaver that could solve Collatz conjecture. To solve more complicated problems you need high-order Busy Beavers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetical_hierarchy
Then the problem is with the protocol no? Seems like an architectural issue that the Linux community needs to spearhead with HW vendors to resolve. Good standards that reduce sources of error are the only antidote to vertical integration approaches that big tech is going down.
> Everyone who has direct experience of this time has been dead for half a century at least.

TIL: I'm dead.
Honestly, I just went through all the JeroMQ examples ported from the guide [0], and translated them to Clojure. I added no dependencies outside of JeroMQ, and tried to port them in an as-idiomatic-as-possible way. It actually wasn't too hard once I wrapped my head around it, and it took me about 6-8 hours in total (spread over the course of a week or so), so not a huge time sink. This also had the (unintended) benefit of me getting pretty good with ZeroMQ (and networking patterns in general), so I think that time investment paid for itself several fold.

I definitely think there needs to be a better messaging with the library support in Clojure; as it stands, a Clojure newbie might (very reasonably) look up "clojure zeromq" on Google, get a crappy, unmaintained library, and dismiss the language as having "bad library support", when in reality most of the Clojure veterans that I work with do the same thing that I do: when the Clojure libraries are bad, just use the Java ones.

There are exceptions to this in rare cases; I haven't done a ton of ClojureScript, but the bit I have, I genuinely really liked the Re-frame framework. I'm not a frontend guy, so I'm speaking largely out of my ass, but I found it to be a lot more pleasant then vanilla React.

[0]https://github.com/zeromq/jeromq/tree/master/src/test/java/g...