skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder about speeds. The only places I've seen a lot of people on motorcycles is in heavy traffic where the speed is only slightly faster than you could ride on a bicycle. In the US most traffic is at higher speeds on residential roads, and you are expected to jump over to the freeway with very high speeds to get around. As such the practice is much more dangerous if you drive like you are in the US (not that it is ever safe)
Adding another voice in the choir of "just use wired headphones" -- I have never had a pair of wireless Bluetooth earphones that make sense from a usability standpoint and at this point I am pretty soured on the whole asset class. My wired headphones just work and give me none of these issues!
> but nothing seems to stop the slow, steady drift of the sleep clock into the future.

I've always struggled with this. When I was still in school (pre-university) was the most extreme. I would stay up late on Friday nights (01:00-02:00) then sleep until at least midday on Saturday. By Sunday night I couldn't sleep until 03:00-04:00 so got a very short sleep before Monday.

There was a reason for it back then: night time was when I could use the internet. Because there was no pressure to get up early the next day, I would spend as long as I could online. I wonder if this caused my later problems or if they were innate.

Later in uni it was normal for me to be completely nocturnal. I overslept my alarm every single morning, which just became more and more of a joke as it would go off a mere hour or two into my "night". I remember well the first time I "lost" a day. Woke up and made a cup of tea and it was already dark. I hated it. I hated that other people had actually done stuff that day and all I'd done was slept.

Now I'm older I find it much easier to stay on top of. At some point something in me switched and now I can't stand it if I'm not ready to do something by 09:00. I remember my brother expressing a similar sentiment when he was 12 (me being 15 and in the aforementioned weekend routine). I wonder why it took me until my late 20s to feel the same way.
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I'm a software engineer in NYC, and have always wanted to explore Europe. Visa issues aside, is London worth it? Is it comparably better or worse than NYC, in your opinion, for a single guy in his 20s?
I see that a lot these days with "most recent update" that I'm pretty sure is a lie. Or maybe they changed some tiny thing to make it not a technical lie.
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Bluetooth is so broken at a deep and fundamental level. We should really have a low-energy wifi protocol. The listed problems are just the tip of the iceberg.

The fact that my headphones can't be simultaneously connected to both my phone and my computer is ridiculous. The connectivity is awful. The latency of connection and disconnection is embarrassing. On top of that Apple has the worst UI to handle all of of the weird things that can happen.
I don’t read French, so I can’t make out everything on the website, but my thinking was more along the lines of a Data.gov or other open data site where the data is freely available, along with a wiki for researchers that is public, perhaps like lkml. Also, multi-language is a must. The cathedral is not just a national treasure, it’s a historical site treasured by the world. It’s data should be as well. This could support research for decades into the future.
> Forcing AirPods to connect to the last device

If only it were that simple. Unfortunately this config option is not a property of the AirPods themselves, but to each individual device you own, so you can’t just set it once. You have to go to each device you have on your iCloud account and set “connect only when last connected to this device”.

But it’s even worse than that, because the option is only available to be changed when you have the AirPods connected, meaning you have to go to each device you own, connect your AirPods to them, then go to the menu, find the option for connection mode, and set it to “when last connected”.

And if you forgot a device, it will happily steal your AirPods connection “automatically” the next time it boots up or decided it wants to connect them. And you have to search around and figure out what the hell your AirPods are even connected to.

Did I mention Apple will occasionally release an OS update which changes this setting back to “automatically” again? Now you get to do this whole dance over again, but slowly, as your individual iDevices get rolled-out updates.

(I have 5 devices near my work desk that are potential AirPod connection thieves, this is a huge annoyance to me if you can’t tell.)
Why you care if others get the vaccine if it does not stop the spread and new mutations as we saw with the recent variants

I’m fully boosted etc. I don’t think it’s fair to compare it to Polio
Too bad the NC7s dont remember which state they are in. You have to toggle them every time you put them in you ears.
Airpods Max are a disaster! I had trouble with bt range on my qc35 ii, switched to sony and will never go back. just wish I could return my airpod max, they’re engraved
Do you have any proof the supplements don’t have l-carnitine? You should get a lawyer if so, that is an easy case against the supplement maker imo.
Source? Or is this anecdotal?
YMMV but what helped me during studies was for example to watch my favorite series and at least have the open book in front of me and eventually go into it. Also if there is any lengthy stuff you need to learn (I mean weeks or months) it might help to start with the most interesting yet possibly completely irrelevant and way over the top part. Other popular tips I used to hear from others include studying at night. Oh yes and some structure helps, I mean having a high-level learning plan that helps you slice your tasks and days. Also for practically every exam I used to write myself self-written summaries of the material. (5-30 pages depending on how lengthy/difficult it was; using colors can help as well for particularly boring stuff that boils down to memorizing) Not sure if it's an option but finding for a particular exam (if it's more than a month of learning) a study partner is also great help because you can keep each other motivated and try to explain to the other. (That requires actually understanding the stuff...) Personally I also skipped most of the lectures which were not mandatory for me and instead only went only to the practical lessons where we had to present our exercises.
There are R meta programming techniques called non standard evaluation. It has many similarities to the macro system in Julia
Nice. I'll then try to work around the problem by only buying things that don't rely on oil.
Most things that are perceived as repetitive and therefore something you can automate aren't likely to be easily automated. The reason is that many repetitive tasks have contingencies that have to be mapped out. Even some of these aren't covered by employee training or corporate policies and so it depends on the judgment of the individual employees which in the end destroys the fantasy of robots everywhere and programs to replace paralegals and accountants.
You are assuming that what they found is indeed a marker of covid-19. It might well be that they found antibodies for another coronavirus that for whatever reason shows on the tests used. There are many coronavira and not all very well researched. Nor is each test precise in each condition, e.g. in the paper they describe how specificity and sensitivity vary depending on the age of the sample, then calculate false positive/negative values using one of those values. Has the test been tested for pregnant women and frozen samples? Might there be other factors, e.g. cross-contamination with some equipment they use?

Its not unusual for even well-done studies to later be revealed as flawed, so its important not to take results of one single study as ultimate truth.
It is my opinion that bluetooth headphones are garbage.

I have several - cheap, expensive, ear buds, over ear. They all suffer from issues between devices, one device out of range weird noises, can't decide which device to connect to. Some of the issues I blame on my phone (Pixel3a).

I spend so much time walking around my house turning BT off on all but one device so I can go outside and listen to something.

Much easier to plug my wired headphones into the device I am using. It is simple, reliable, and I don't have to charge my wired headphones.

For me BT headphones go mostly unused except for yardwork/woodshop time, where the wire poses extra annoyances.
Yeah, this is my biggest bugbear.

I don't know how it is in other countries but it's a big issue for me in the UK as we have a large network of little country roads that are frequently single (or 1.5) lane and poor visibility. I've had a few journeys in areas I didn't know and Google maps took me down lots of twisty country roads to save a (theorised) couple of minutes/miles compared with sticking to the simpler main road.
> But Starbucks would never adopt such a robot, because they know customers wouldn’t like it.

Incorrect - I would much prefer getting top-quality coffee from a robot than some barista all other things being equal.
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Same when switching noise canceling - why so loud?
I was excited for Neeva at first. But then I saw the premium includes some kind of NFT trash attached to it. I'll take my money elsewhere. I signed up for the Kagi beta and am hoping it will be better.
Hi again HN,

Last month I posted this Show HN [0], which was well received but most comments were by people asking for a demo / video / docs, because the install step was too much a barrier for entry.

So here it is updated with video and (partial) documentation. I really wish I can get people's feedback on the tool itself.

Sorry for those who've seen this before, I won't repost soon.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29655974
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The B.A2 variant has emerged and is spreading. I’m not sure we’re rounding the corner just yet.
Would love to see this happen.
So monetary policy does everything except cause inflation?

The article is paid. But I see it excludes energy which is pretty relevant, especially during winter.
There's no reason to think that 7-730 hours is so little for you that it's hurting your performance if it's just based on those measures. Don't give yourself sleep anxiety over pointless chasing of 9 hours sleep.
After using airpods I am never ever going back to wired headphones.
Your anecdotal evidence and personal preference is irrelevant in a discussion about statistics.
That’s especially common in blogspam where they programmatically update the year to the current year when compiling a stolen best-of list.
On that note, Reddit seems to be faking their last modified date metadata for SEO purposes. I’ve seen many old threads (where all the comments are 5 years old with no edits) show up in my Google search results with today’s date below the link. This coincided with and is likely related to the removal of automatic thread archiving 4 months ago.
This is the ridiculous experience with all blue tooth headphones. "BATTERY LOW CHARGE NOW!", or "DING DING DING". Your battery is effectively 10% or 15% because they become impossible to listen to once they get low.
Oh makes sense, I seem to recall that anti-freeze supposedly tastes sweet?
In case you don’t know this, since it isn’t obvious, you have to set them not to automatically connect on each device they are paired to. And if you unpair and re-pair them you have to do it again. This is annoying but not as annoying as auto-pairing.
For anyone who wants something very close to "just works" checkout the Jabra Elite 85t or 75t.
If you're connecting to one device most bluetooth headphones will work just fine, the biggest pain point is when you have multiple devices to switch between. I've got some nice noise cancelling headphones I like to switch between my TV and ipad, where you've got to dig into the settings of both, disconnect it from one before connecting it to the other (which takes an unlock and 4 clicks on the ipad and about 10 clicks on the TV).

The biggest pro of the airpods for me though is the non-pro version, for whatever reason I just cannot stand in-ear headphones. The gripes in the article are all valid though, personally I'd really like to be able to pair bluetooth headphones to as many devices as I like then have a button in the system tray (or anywhere where it'd be a couple of swipes/clicks maximum) that is the equivalent of "I want sound from this device now"
Some of the complaints OP lists are related to using the Airpods with multiple devices. While the complaints are correct, the Airpods are miles better than any bluetooth earphones I've ever used when it comes to switching sources. The dance to get my old earphones to move from my phone to my tablet was annoying and brittle by comparison.
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It doesn't stop the spread, but it slows it and reduces the severity of the disease. Both of which help our health services to cope. You might care because you want healthcare to be available for yourself or your loved ones should they need it.
Ditto. And since we now wear masks at the office, one notices how wireless earbuds are "mask compatible" when you try using cabled ones.
> Annoyance 7: When moving from working on my iMac to my MacBook, I get a notification asking me if I want to switch my AirPods over to my MacBook. The notification isn't an issue, but the fact it doesn't go away after you ignore it is

I have the same issue with Do Not Disturb notification on Mac. There is no way to have it not show up if you have a set time for DND unless you completely disable all notifications.
I have a cheap pair of SoundPEATS I got off of Amazon for $23. They don't suffer these issues. They "just work" with my Android phone and Thinkpad running Windows.
> For example, the FDA has been pushing to regulate diagnostic tests as medical devices.

I assume you mean COVID home tests and things like that? Call me strange, but if I buy such a thing then I'd like to make sure it's held to some standard of accuracy and safety. I do not have the resources or knowledge to find this out myself. Most people don't, and you can't just rely on "internet reviews" or the like.

Someone has to do this, and while the FDA and government authority may not be perfect, they're the best we've got, and we can at least somewhat hold them accountable through the democratic process (which also isn't perfect, but better than anything else we've got).
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Are there any downsides of being connected you can think of?
Related link: http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-airpods-repair-recycling-imposs....
Agree. Let's also ban giant TVs, large cars, PC gaming rigs, ACs, dryers, cheap air travel and subsidized international transport to deliver our cheap garbage.

It's all excessive and can't be justified, given the doom ahead.
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For me, the most annoying "feature" of airpods vs other BT audio was that Siri started announcing incoming calls, and reading the contact name in full, or the full phone number, both of which take forever. I finally found a recipe to shut that off.

I don't recall siri being this invasive with my Bose BT headphones. I wonder why airpods got this special (annoying to me, likely wonderful to others) treatment.
Why would satoshi appearing destabilise the market and destroy it? Something I’m obviously missing!
The problem with analogies is that they are contextual.
I think so too, but do you know? I mean, only a few per cent of infectees require much medicine, and Pfizer's market share won't be 100% of that. It's not obvious that x>y.

Anyway, he may also well be thinking that the best policy is to have a history of assessments that turn out to be correct in hindsight. "Drop restrictions when the number of infections declines" is at least plausible.
>There are two types of genius. Ordinary geniuses do great things, but they leave you room to believe that you could do the same if only you worked hard enough. Then there are magicians, and you can have no idea how they do it. Feynman was a magician.
—Hans Bethe

Seems like Bethe hung out with some elevated company.
Very true, and it's not very intuitive, but at least the setting is available.

I guess that's the problem with "it just works" magic -- when it doesn't work, you need to have a few settings available. And unfortunately, those are rarely included.
if you instantly play the music you were listening to right before the call by clicking the play button on your keyboard, your music will play at a lower audio quality

I don't recall the names of the specific bluetooth profiles, but I wish Airpods and bluetooth headphones in general gave you more control over this. Sure, the older headset profile is noticeably lower quality but it's also virtually lag-free. I have a shitty old headset I use when gaming on my phone specifically because there's no noticeable latency.
Within less than a year of use my AirPod Plus now makes very annoying buzzing sounds when the microphone is used or any other vibration happens. Its like having a wasp inside your ear. This only happens in transparent and noise reduction mode.

Assuming its broken not sure if I trust the product enough to buy another.
They are paying for API access, not scraping results. Why would they be blocked?
In my experience, the annoyances actually get worse over time.

I got my AirPods back when the original ones were released and the experience probably was as good as physically possible (short of including multiple radios so they can maintain connections to multiple devices in parallel and simply mix the audio client-side).

They then (2 years ago?) released this new feature where AirPods could automatically switch between all your devices which is just too slow and is more of an annoyance in practice, but even disabling the behavior made the existing experience much worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30085538
> So monetary policy does everything except cause inflation?

No, inflation can have more than one causes. That's why care is needed to identify which factors contributed to a particular incident, just as you might have a different solution to a headache based on whether, say, you also have symptoms of a cold or were drinking heavily the night before.
I can't edit anymore but please also see this comment chain below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30083921

All this fuss about THREE positive samples from December 2019, which might be false positives.
That is absolutely false and made clear in the Catechism (though abortion is, fundamentally, not a matter of faith, but of ethics, contrary to popular misconception). Abortion understood as the intentional killing of the unborn child, even in the case of high risk of death, is always gravely morally illicit and falls under murder. Even in the given circumstance, it would violate the principle of double effect.

Now, what is morally licit is not abortion, but also by virtue of the principle of double effect, a procedure intended to save the mother's life that unintentionally and as a side effect results in the child's death. For example, it is morally licit to extract the affected tissue with the implanted embryo during an ectopic pregnancy. This extraction will result in the death of the child, but the death was neither intended nor was the death of the child the means by which the mother's life was saved nor is saving the life of the mother a lesser good than the life of the child (though in this case, both would very likely have perished if this condition had been allowed to continue). Note that the situation must be proportionally grave, meaning you could not licitly perform such a procedure if the risk to the mother was not proportional (like experiencing headaches because of the pregnancy). In those cases, proportional care is permissible.
That's a massively more complex implementation for no benefit.

Also it's definitely not enough to set a HTTP header. Need to use a different schema so that the restraints on content can be expressed in the URL of a link.

A key feature of Gemini browsers is to visually distinguish between links to Gemini:// URLs and links to HTTP:// URLs.
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BT is garbage except for very simple products like mice: poorly thought out, even more poorly implemented, generally brittle.

And the audio quality is compromised, although aptX Lossless may finally start changing that.
It greatly reduces deaths, which is the point of a vaccine:

https://twitter.com/OurWorldInData/status/148607668061993779...
By web-devs I didn't mean your average employee but any company doing web development and making bad decisions.

I have nothing against the individuals doing web-development, it's just a job to eat and pay rent.
Latest is on GH: https://github.com/kubelt/whitepaper/blob/main/kubelt_whitep...
The list of phones that still have a headphone jack is ever dwindling.
Where did you see that they’re paying for API access? Their FAQ says that they’re making anonymized requests but don’t go into more details than that.

That being said, even if they did pay if they have any traction at all they’d still be blocked. Why would their competitors help them?

In any case I doubt it will take off, people who are poor aren’t going to pay 10 bucks a month just to search when there are dozens of free competitors.

Happy to be proven wrong.
I’m a huge fan of the Sony high-end line, and am currently using the WH-1000XM4 myself. They’re excellent, but they do share quite a few of the annoyances listed in the OP article (in particular the delay when going from call to audio and vice versa, and the audio quality degradation; though, truth be told, I believe that’s a macOS issue), and they have their own annoyances. Most prominently, the utterly useless “second device pairing” audio message that plays for a full four seconds and drowns out whatever else you were listening to. I routinely need to ask people on a call to repeat what they said because of this. Yet Sony arrogantly states that this message is somehow “important” and therefore can’t be disabled.
The whole series spans almost two decades. I think the quality of SG-1 is really the chemistry between the characters, and not a lot of plot drifting.

The Expanse is indeed the only character centered sci-fi at the moment, as I feel ST Discovery misses the mark on the chemistry bit.

I was pleasantly surprised with acting and scope in The Foundation (Apple TV), but it isn’t SciFi in the vein of SG-1 (action adventurish as you note)
Maybe I didn't get enough sleep, but when I saw the title I was thinking, what the hell does the Fed have to do with Cannabis?

CBDC is Central Bank Digital Currency.
CBD is is an abbreviation for cannabidiol.
> My bose headphones that used to work great now don't work as well as airpods.

My AirPods experience has also declined the past couple of years so I think it's just over-engineering and ruining the perfectly functional Bluetooth and/or audio stack rather than an intentional attempt at ruining non-Apple headphones.
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Modern technology erases it too. I am already seeing the drives that I used in college to store my raw camera files and LR catalogs degrade to the point of not being able to read the data as I try this month to move them to fresh storage. For some of my oldest photos, I only have whatever processed JPGs I happened to upload to a cloud provider that stuck around this long. The silver-based negatives from my film work at that time, though, are still fine.
So is Google’s New York City office, for that matter.
This tells the OP what they could be doing instead, but not quite how to get there out of the rut they are in. Apathy or lack of motivation can be difficult to shake. Don't get me wrong-- they are great ideas, it just seems like going from A to C without addressing the issue of a vehicle, B.