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Ah, but wait. Now I put my audiophile hat back on and pull back the curtain to reveal: it’s fake!

Yes, much of that magical soundstage is in fact manufactured by the headphones’ Digital Signal Processing (DSP). The same technology that enables Spatial Audio to work also allows Apple to artificially enhance the sense of space and re-balance the sound to remain steady and clean even at very high and very low volumes. Those dual H1 chips are working hard.

This is also where my review became very tricky.

When you’re dealing with DSP-based sonic enhancements—especially ones like this that are actively tuned based on the shape of your head, your environment, etc.—different people will very literally hear different things. Already, I’m seeing commentary from audiophile reviewers saying that the DSP is horrible, ruining the balance of music. And those people may well be correct for their listening environment. I can’t judge their experience because it’s so dependent on factors that can’t be controlled.

What does that mean? How is it fake?

> different people will very literally hear different things

How can anyone know if other people hear the same thing as them?
Unless I am much mistaken what what blew up was a first stage, not a manned stage. I do not believe that SpaceX plans on doing suicide burns to retrieve humans from flight.
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My college student just called me saying, "Jeff Bezos is not the head of Amazon anymore, but if he thinks this will fix his problem he is wrong." Me, "What problem?" Her, "That we all hate him." Me, "Who is we?" Her, "Everyone who sees how the bourgeoisie are the enemy." Me, "Um, do you think Jeff Bezos actually cares enough about your thoughts on him to remove himself from the head of Amazon?" Her, "He's just hoping to survive the revolution." Me, "So, how are your marxist courses going at college again?"
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I mean, both are going to die eventually. But Nix will be more "successful" because its niche will keep die-hards around a lot longer to maintain it. Silverblue will be abandoned much earlier due to lack of interest in maintainership when they realize it's so complex that most people won't want to deal with it.

As a comparison: Slackware is still around. It hasn't had a stable release in 5 years, but it's in active development (the latest sudo 0-day was patched the day it was reported; how's that for long-term support?). Is that "successful"? I dunno, but I'll bet Nix ends up the same way, because it's run for and by 'server people'.

Nix's approach is more for server people, and Fedora's is more for desktop people. But both are unnecessarily complicated and don't provide any significant benefit over a traditional distro's packaging for the average user. Regular-old packaging is "good enough" for 99.95% of use cases, and that which has problems is usually just crap software that's hard to make work in any situation.

Linux has always been, and will always be, a toy rather than a practical tool. But for server administrators and embedded engineers (the drivers of its most common use cases) they'll never use either of those distros, because they aren't KISS. Regular-old package management and FHS isn't sexy, but it's very well understood and fairly easy to work with. Modern industry standard is to treat old-style distros and old-style packaging as cattle, but the above distros are pets. Though Android devs probably love the two distros.

As a side note to all this: I tried a 12-year-old copy of a Linux Desktop on a 12-year-old machine the other day, I think it was Gnome 1 based. Everything on it blew the fuck away everything on my 2018 Linux laptop for speed. I was depressed the rest of the day. Not just because new software is bloated and buggy and slow as shit, but because I knew I couldn't use that old software on the modern web, and all applications are now web applications. No modern web browser will work on such an old machine, and you can't browse the web at all without a modern browser.

So Flatpak on modern distros is supposed to fix this, right? Run any version of any app? But not if new Flatpaks, or the software inside of them, eventually change so much they won't run on old Flatpak-running systems. Or people just don't package their software in a Flatpak. And there is not a single guarantee in the entire project that they will keep compatibility for a long time, because Flatpak has nothing to do with future-proofness. So this is "the future of Apps on Linux": the same BS a new box.

Additional aside: Why the fuck is Android 10's "system files" taking up 19 fucking gigabytes on my phone? What the fuck is in there, the fucking Library of Congress? An 8K video of Linus Torvalds giving me the finger?
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I don't think the Sputnik V vaccine has any substantive relationship to phage research and therapy. And I don't think there's much reason to doubt that Russian researchers could develop a solid vaccine, if only because it's difficult to say with strong confidence which approaches would definitely fail. Rather, it's a question of whether they actually did given the political dynamics. There's good reason to discount the credibility of claims coming from authoritarian regimes. (Reasons for which most Americans have a renewed appreciation, rightly or wrongly.)

I suspect it wouldn't be too difficult to fudge the numbers (e.g. candidate selection criteria) in such a way that a mediocre vaccine looks excellent. Until it's reproduced or until other opportunities for falsification arise, trusting a result is largely a matter of the personal credibility of the researchers and, importantly, the system in which they operate.
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I know the industry moved to T+2 settlement for equities a few years back and will make a slow progression to shorter. I would love to pick your brain if you had a way to reach you
This is another reminder that we have some of the negative aspects of a cyberpunk future without the cool empowering hacking parts.

I wonder about the sort of person who would design such a website. Surely you'd have to be dead inside to create such an abomination, even if it's just a job? I am not trying to be hyperbolic here.
Or you just hit Ctrl-Enter
It’s for the reason I mentioned before: one of TypeScript’s primary goals is that it generates no runtime code. If you run the TypeScript compiler, it will generate exactly the same JavaScript code with the types removed*. Since there is no such JavaScript feature, there will be no such TypeScript feature.

I’ll add that writing manual type guards is fairly infrequent, so in practice there’s not a lot to gain here.

*Modulo polyfilling newer ES features if you compile for a lower version of the spec.
No I don't donate to political agendas, And I despise anyone advocating for them.
> Also, it looks like he was convicted under the Holy Roman Empire, which doesn't really exist anymore. I'm not sure who there is to overturn his conviction.

When Dante was convicted in 1302, Florence was the Republic of Florence. The Republic of Florence was subject to the Holy Roman Empire, but still remained a distinct legal jurisdiction (like a state.) The Republic of Florence was replaced by the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in 1569, which ruled Florence (with some interruptions) until 1859, when it was conquered by the Kingdom of Sardinia, which soon became the modern Kingdom of Italy, which in turn became the present-day Italian Republic after WW2. Each successor entity inherited the legal rights of its predecessor entity – the Italian Republic inherited the legal rights of the Kingdom of Italy, which in turn inherited the legal rights of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which in turn inherited the legal rights of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, which in turn inherited the legal rights of the Republic of Florence. One of the legal rights of the Republic of Florence was to rescind the legal judgements of its courts, even posthumously. Hence, that legal right has been inherited, through a chain of successors, by the modern-day Italian Republic, which therefore has a unique legal authority (not possessed by any other jurisdiction) to formally rescind Dante's conviction and sentence. Yes, it is a right of no practical effect, its exercise would be of purely symbolic consequence, but it would be the unique possession of the Italian Republic.

(The succession story I presented – Republic of Florence => Grand Duchy of Tuscany => Kingdom of Sardinia => Kingdom of Italy => Italian Republic – is no doubt somewhat simplified, but I don't think fleshing out those added details would change the ultimate conclusion.)
> Please take a break from your current forums/podcasts/youtube/etc.

This is pretty condescending!
If you have any of a number of disabilities, that is exactly the case.
Ha people ask "who's the best football player" all the time!
e.g https://www.pledgesports.org/2017/11/the-10-greatest-nfl-pla...
Ha sounds good. If you're ever in need of chatting about integrations this is our team's bread & butter.
So far ahead it’s actually still a better UX than even today’s iOS, just phenomenally well done.
> The result is a wall of rather intimidating errors indicating imminent doom with the disk is for all intensive purposes BRICKED.

all intents and purposes.
This seems to be especially true with the UK variant, just today Australia had another transmission in hotel quarantine between people that shared the same floor and only opened the door to get food.

> The woman's husband, in her 70s, joined her in quarantine on January 16 and she decided to stay in the hotel with him for his 14-day quarantine period. During that time, a family of five arrived in Melbourne from Nigeria on January 20, and were placed on the same floor. The family tested positive on January 24, then the woman in the room opposite tested positive on January 28. Her partner has returned negative tests during his stay in the hotel - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-03/victoria-investigatin....
Hey! We just launched a new website over the weekend and didn't get our pricing page out in time. Email me (not a sales guy) and I'll share that w/ you - omri@routable.com
I think Elm addresses this issue in a way. It has some sort of "update/render" cycle baked in, with strong typing and sum types.
>Your compensation will include meaningful equity ownership.

I'd wonder how much that's worth today.
> We have experimental evidence showing that a planet we call Jupiter behaves in a certain way

We have experimental evidence that certain light patterns have been observed. For any theory that has Jupiter in it, you could make the same theory without involving Jupiter. I don't see any fundamental difference between the evidence for Jupiter and the evidence for the multiverse.
Wow. Just...wow.

Maybe the line with the worst rhetorical trick is this bullshit in the "joining a union" FAQ: "Q: Will a union provide better wages and benefits? A: A union cannot guarantee better wages and benefits. With union negotiations, you could end up with more, the same.... or less than what you make today."

I love that because it works exactly as well when you just negate the question:

"Q: Will NOT having a union provide better wages and benefits? A: Without a union, Amazon cannot guarantee better wages and benefits. Without union negotiations, you could end up with more, the same.... or less than what you make today."
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Note mentioning that “smart” in this context usually means “able to get a large return on investment”. Making it a redundant trait description.

“Good at business” is a better description. But people aren’t normally satisfied with calling billionaires “good at business” so they add this glittering “smart”, as if he is somehow a better person then you or I, which is a ridiculous statement.
Also probably a good imaging agent, but then that's like the consolation prize for every "promising" targeting approach who's "only" flaw is a shitty half life, so no end to competition!
They still paid for it at the time, and that's why the ones who got themselves into risky positions did not get wiped out. My engineering degree had a great ROI but I still paid for it.
as someone who has had a runny/stuffy/inbetween nose for all my life, this feels too close. haha

btw, i don't really smell anything. probably always have only smekt like really strong odors or "hot" ones but no subtle smells. i dont ever remember smelling a flower or cilantro on food
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Ask HN: Do you wake up with anxiety?
I am just a regular software engineer at a Silicon Valley company. I go to bed and wake up with anxiety on an almost daily basis. It all seems to stem from work.

Psychologically and philosophically speaking, the root cause is not work, rather my own mind etc. but :shrug:

I want to do a pulse check to see how common it is for folks working in tech, to suffer from this level of anxiety.
As a side note the unifications of Italy and Germany are fascinating history and the culture that emerged due to them is also likely the reason those are the two most famous historical fascist nations (and why it was born in those places.) The nationalism required to (and built up for the purpose) unify the countries gave rise to ultra nationalism as generations of wanting to have a greater nature built a population who thought conquest was the only method to achieve peace and prosperity.
> I'm very sorry you went through what you went through. And how you deal with it personally, in your own life, is of course entirely your choice. But that very observation (see the irony?) illustrates the error in the general conclusion you are drawing from it.

No. I didn't have a choice at all. You keep using the word "choice" or assuming it when there's no choice and I'll repeat there's truly no choice. I think or act from a set of unique forces that interacted upon me in the past and even now. The only possibility things could've been different is if the starting point of the universe made the unique set of forces different and resulted in a different outcome because of it. Similar to everything else you write, I disagree.

I also am aware that the "feeling" I have from what happened to me and how I became aware about free will being illusion.. is outside my control as well like everything else in life. Anyway I think you're not willing to have a lengthy discussion by email and so for some reason by fate that won't happen. I'm always up for the emails though because it's an interesting topic that some people are destined to grasp while others aren't.
Where do thrust and chamber pressure even come into the equation? It's not that the engine exploded, the thing failed to ignite.
But on the flip side, most people commenting in this thread are descended from Dante. So do we all have standing?
Why is blatant union suppression like this even allowed?
My experience with Walmart is poorly packed boxes handled roughly by FedEx leading to a bunch of damaged orders. At this point Amazon's delivery service itself is a differentiator for me, and I don't love the company or paying for prime.
Though giving quite a show, Trump ended up leaving his place and Boden or his collaborators never were arrested for not showing up at the police station while in a coma. Putin just showed the world he is of a different advice.

Sure, nothing is black or white, but that doesn't mean that some shades are way darker than others.
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I use a logitech trackman marble, and configure one of the buttons to be a scroll modifier; when it's held down, ball movement acts as a scroll wheel. Might not be exactly what you need (can't use normal mouse movement and scroll at same time), but works for me
Amazon warehouses are one of the few reasons, I think we can all agree, that a union has a place. There is the argument to be made that if someone doesn't like the job, go elsewhere, it's the free market. True, but I see a lot of these fulfillment centers in small towns. They become a major employer, sometimes eclipsing even the local Walmart. It's a place where jobs are hard to come by, so maybe Amazon offers something the desperate, the poor, and the struggling something they can't get elsewhere. I don't have an answer for it, but shifting a little power away from the corporate monolith and to the citizens of the community it inhabits, sounds like a good idea.
AWS was similar for years. Huge losses, now they are profitable.

The big difference with Google Cloud is that they have a long history of jacking up pricing at random. Wake up one morning and find that the solution you just spent months building will bankrupt your business under the new pricing regime.
The biggest roadblock and catch22 is nvidia support. Developers using nvidia can't use wayland and hence can't contribute to better compositors as there is no incentive for themselves.

Statistics say nvidia has around 20% global marketshare and for gamers it's up to 80%. My guesstimate is developers are somewhere in the middle there so you are looking at 50% of all developers that can't use wayland themselves. How is that ever going to make the compositor ecosystem catch up.

Luckily Nvidia announced support earlier this month so hopefully this stalemate will soon end. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26004651
How so? Because I'm not going to assume that you are calling HackerNews the same as technology in any reading of the sentence, purely from context. So what other shifted meaning can be had from the swap?
I’m always afraid of relying on Google services — never know what will get cut.
That’s why they suggest surveys to gauge and looking at how much “maker” time engineers have.
Avi Loeb does what ever it takes to keep doing what he loves. I hope to see more scientist like Avi because we need to consider more wild radical ideas. When aliens have no place in proper science, wtf are we studying?
> Why is blatant union suppression like this even allowed?

First Amendment.

(To be clear, this is a terrible site. But as long as it isn’t threatening or lying, I don’t see why the government should be able to suppress it.)
It looks like both of these particular failures are engine-related, rather than air turbulence. (SN8: lost fuel pressure, SN9: failed to start one engine for unknown reasons.) These are engineering problems that probably have relatively straightforward solutions.

It is a fair point though, that landing in less-than-ideal weather conditions should perhaps be thoroughly tested. Launches generally can be done when conditions are optimal, but it might not always be possible to defer a re-entry until weather improves.

Ideally the lander would have real-time high-resolution air velocity data in the vicinity of the landing pad and would adjust its maneuvers to compensate.

I wonder what SpaceX's current tolerances are for wind for Falcon 9 landings? I assume anything more than a light breeze and they put it off for another day, but maybe those rockets are heavy enough that the wind doesn't knock them around as much as one would expect. (Droneship landings are especially difficult with wind plus a rocking boat.)
If that's true...then why do you think Amazon is so afraid of/against them joining a union if it can't do anything?
Nice timing SPAC breakout scanner
Tell me why "re-education" is sinister again?

Uyghur economy has been relying on agriculture for centuries, and suffered from extreme poverty, they need education to adapt for this fast evolving world, how hard and far-fetched is that to understand?
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Just replying to my own comment in case anyone comes back to this thread. I just stated a fact about ordinary behavior here in Stockholm, and got a few initial upvotes. I didn’t expect any particular reaction, as I wasn’t expressing any controversial opinion.

I’m therefore genuinely interested why all the subsequent downvotes?
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9229980

Published in: 2020 IEEE Secure Development (SecDev)

Date of Conference: 28-30 Sept. 2020

Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 21 October 2020
A lot of people believe their corporations when they say "unions are bad for everybody"
And from being way better than either C or C++ to write distributed applications.

Having done that with C across the major UNIX flavours around 2000 and later again with C++ and CORBA a couple of years later, it is kind of obvious why most enterprises moved into it (and its nemesis, .NET).
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I noticed on other Squarespace sites that second comment is usually just the domain minus the TLD. I wonder if "cranberry groundhog" means anything in particular.

Edit: Guess it's autogenerated? https://cranberry-groundhog-8agy.squarespace.com/
Is advocating for human rights a political agenda?
One of the key issues with failure to deliver is that market-makers get an exemption under Reg SHO whereby they don't have to locate borrowable shares before selling short for "bona fide" MM activity like delta hedging or offering stock. If an investor were to own every share of a stock, and were to refuse to lend shares to other market participants, a market-maker would still be allowed to sell that stock short. If he were to cover it the same day, it wouldn't even trigger a failure to deliver. And as long as he keeps buying and selling shares on a brief time horizon (This would be a "reset transaction" if anyone else were to do it, but for a market-maker it's arguably part of a day's business), he will never end up at the front of the queue of short-sellers who need to buy in shares at open market to make good on delivery three days after a failed settlement.

One of the vulnerabilities of the way US markets implement short-selling is that the ability to sell shares before borrowing them can temporarily create phantom shares, and the buyer has no idea. Plus, borrow/rehypothecation is recursive. This means that you can lend a share to the same person who sold it to you so that he can sell it to you again. The risk of this in a FTD situation, in my mind, could be reminiscent of a stack overflow...think of the float as memory. Fortunately the CNS system should be able to catch these alterations in the perceived number of tradable shares, but what happens when the FTD rate becomes substantial and persistent, as with $GME? Do those fake shares simply create artificial supply until the short-sellers eventually get forced to buy in, five days later?

Another weakness is that it gives market-makers the power to put downward pressure on prices during upside breakouts. Then, once they generate calm, the liquidity comes back and they can cover the artificial supply. Surely some would view this as a force for good, a control on market exuberance. However, imagine what this would mean in a commodity market -- buyers are unaware that the thing they bought doesn't exist, and the clearinghouse is responsible for ensuring that they get it. Also, it allows market-makers to create situations where they get paid free money, because all speculators who were betting on a surge by buying shares must then turn around and cross the bid/offer spread the other way to close out.

In a market with a total capitalization in the tens of trillions, it doesn't make much sense to deposit a thousandth of that much money into a collateral fund for a clearinghouse and say "you take care of it." And make no mistake, they are the ones who do the rejiggering, because FTD means that the clearinghouse is short to the buyer until the seller acquires and delivers the security.
I really like it when lawyers have to sign off on your propaganda and you end up with an asterisk pointing to fine print less than two sentences in.
I had to substitute for my manager once in the ops meeting and I've never been so terrified watching that roulette wheel spin...