skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a pair of fancy Bose over-the-ear headphones. They have the "connect to 2 devices" feature you mentioned. And it inconvenient.

It will connect to my cell phone and computer at the same time. I'll be on a zoom call (computer) and something will make it decide to disconnect and reconnect from my phone - so I'll get a 10 second interruption notifying me of this glitch.

Also, if someone calls me, I haven't figured out how to force it to switch to my cell phone.
> i do not understand "why" would a for-profit company like paypal or facebook would jump the bandwagon, build their own existing model of tracking and money movement with the poster of "crypto" and be like any other crypto model.

Because money is a system of control. Even Bitcoin and other "decentralized" currencies are still systems of control, and the large Internet companies extract revenue from control, so of course they would want "in" on something they see potentially bypassing their controls over time.

Why would they sit and watch this grow around them, or be beholden to existing legacy systems like SWIFT or credit cards, when they can potentially build something they are in complete control of instead.

Ask yourself why governments reacted so harshly and swiftly against Diem, and you'll see how important a system of control money is.
I'm getting a different experience. Google seems to have been sending me on a slightly longer route to avoid lefts where there are no stop signs for incoming traffic/traffic lights.
Don't look up.
A New Era of the PC
> The “text based interview” is one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard.

Could you elaborate on this? What are the downsides from the candidate's point of view?
>You should have secure copies of your master key. Especially if you've invested time in building up your web of trust. Backing up encryption keys is also useful. If they're lost, data cannot be decrypted later. Signing keys are the only ones which are completely expendable.

Where can I read to how to do that?
The truth is that most web content is irrelevant garbage. Do you care that an ad doesn't have a 'published on' date? Do you care that the brochures you get in the mail that you instantly throw out do not have a publish date?

Most web content falls under this category: ephemeral junk. It's irresponsible to use the web for meaningful research purposes. For most technical questions, go to manuals, and for most humanistic questions, hit the books. The web can be a means to inform research, but the majority of material is basically "39 weird teeth whitening tricks the dentists don't want you to know."
Spark gap transmitter were (one of?) the first form of radio broadcasting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-gap_transmitter . Since it is not very selective - its signal spreads through the whole spectrum - its use is forbidden today; think a single radio station which transmitter over all frequencies, like you can turn the dial and it will always interfere and you can't get rid of it.

Because tuning was a known "phenomenon" and having the possibility of using the radio spectrum for multiple transmission was desirable, efforts began to make transmissions more selective so they wouldn't pollute the whole radio spectrum.

Radio pioneers didn't have anything close to modern small, powerful, solid state, very close to sine oscillators at the time. They had to use what was available so they could modulate their transmission. In a simplified model, a radio transmission be thought of as an antenna whose electric potential varies with the sine of time at, for AM broadcasts, the order for hundred of kilohertz. This oscillation is then "multiplied" by the signal one want to transmit. Better results occur when the "transmitted signal" (think about it as something close to a payload) has a much lower frequency than the "carrier": the frequency at which the potential of the antenna would oscillate to transmit a constant value.

Now, early broadcast really worked around the technology available at the time. To oscillate the electric potential of the antenna, they resorted to eletromechanical methods. Very interesting solutions were developed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-gap_transmitter#Rotary_g...
I wonder how easily they will allow open-access articles to be searched, found, and filtered from those that require a subscription.
Come on, that's not how it works. There are specific, well-defined circumstances that define what a particular legal entity (such as a company or a corporation) is and who may or may not act on its behalf.

Otherwise, any kind of company could escape responsibility by simply pretending it doesn't exist and every employee just acted on their own.
I don’t see what’s magical about taking results from other sites lol. What happens if bing and Google block them?

I’m skeptical of their privacy policy as well, given that you need an account and have to pay, it’s unlikely they don’t know your searches.
My annoyance is that gen3 audio controls are significantly more difficult to use. With gen2 it was possible to simply tap the side of the airpod to pause, skip, or go back, and the user had the option to set which side controlled that functionality.

Gen3 has a sensor that has the same functionality, but it is more cumbersome to use. The sensor is small and angled in a position that makes it more awkward and difficult to access. It requires some precision and dexterity - a pinch rather than a tap. The sensor is on the stem of the airpod, so it feels less secure to press. There is also a small click when the sensor is pressed that gets annoying.

I live in a cold environment and frequently have to wear multiple layers of gloves, mittens, hoods, and hats when I go for long walks, so I lose that functionality.
Apple seems to only improve peripherals (like the AirPods) with new hardware releases; not software updates. They make money based on units of AirPods moved.
What would you consider unsafe to read?
Apple spotlights Black voices during Black History Month
I use Android and bought the cheapest wireless/bluetooth earphones I could find. They "just work". When I open the charging case, they connect to my phone. The bad points are the sound quality and the lack of noise cancellation
I understand why pigs are “impure” (parasites in the meat), but why dogs?
Whip up some css to your liking and inject it into hn's HTML - there's lots of examples of people doing things like that.
Quick, be afraid!
Why is this comment being downvoted? What part isn't true?

This statement seems very specific to the US cultural context:

“The only way to get compliance from people and get accommodation [is] if we demonstrate the ability to withdraw these [mandates] in the same manner in which we put them in,” Gottlieb added.

In Canada, there have been experiments with slowly increasing the number of areas where you are required to have a vaccine in order to enter. They put it on Beer/Liquor stores recently and it saw a huge jump in the number of vaccine appoints.

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/first-dose-vaccinations-quadrupl...

They are putting the requirement on big box stores (e.g. Home Depot/Lowes/Walmart, excluding the pharmacy areas) now and probably will see another jump.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1995579971859

That said, it does appear that this current wave is mostly over, but deaths are primarily among the unvaccinated, so it is probably still a good idea to aim for near full vaccination:

https://twitter.com/OurWorldInData/status/148607668061993779...

Covid vaccines should be treated similarly to other public health vaccines, like Polio. Although we really need more effective Gen2 vaccines that do not require constant boosters and they need to outright prevent infection rather than just reducing the death rate. These Gen1 vaccines and their semi-effectiveness have been incredibly confusing to the general public.
> There's a bunch of influential people that are bent on making "Linux desktop" be something that competes effectively with Windows and MacOS.

And not necessarily with the interests of Windows or MacOS end users, but more corporate interests.

I think a lot of Windows users for example were and would still be fine with a system that is effectively a single-user desktop. A permission prompt to prevent random apps from spying on you using your microphone and camera is probably a Good Idea for the average user but all this user policy business is just pointless; users themselves should always have access to their own devices anyway, just as they would on old Windows installs where the user was typically the only user and always administrator.

And yeah, I don't like that a few people get to define what exactly constitutes a desktop for everyone. Especially if under the guise of "this is what a modern desktop requires" they're free to turn the platform into a bloated, overcomplicated mess.. exactly the kind of thing I was happy to get away from when I left proprietary operating systems behind two decades ago.
NKosmatos pointed out in another reply that this post was about software rot, and not data rot.

From the Wikipedia article he linked for software rot:

“[software rot] is not a physical phenomenon: the software does not actually decay, but rather suffers from a lack of being responsive and updated with respect to the changing environment in which it resides.”

The software doesn’t physically rot. Its relationship to something (the world) does.

I attempted to draw a parallel of this to a database because, for many folks, the immediate environment of their app is a database of some kind. The world is kind of like a database, too, because it is read from and written to. But unlike an in-house data store, it changes without regard for dependant applications.

In the second paragraph I attempted to distinguish two kinds of programming endeavours. One is like chopping wood for fire, the other like retrieving and then cutting a hard substance. Whatever the purpose of the latter, it takes planning, experience, and the result is both intended to last a long time, and to be versatile. But the former is cheap and short and for the moment. You’ll have to do it again, many times, and in slightly different ways, depending on where you are, who you’re with, what the weather is like, and so on. Dijkstra’s seeming dismissal of rot may be directed against the latter, but not the former.

I guess my third commentary is that many, many software systems are not designed at the time of their construction, because they are sudden and their manifestation is opportunistic. This lack of design at the point of construction is an implicit assertion against the expected lifetime of any such system. It admits rot as a matter of course.
My counter point is that I have my AirPods paired with 4 different (Apple) devices, and I’m constantly amazed that they always seem to be connected to “the right one” every single time. The handoff is seamless and hasn’t made a mistake about guessing which device I want to be driving them in the two years I’ve owned them.
why would companies who are trying to deceive not go through the trouble of changing the last-modified header? At any rate lots of sites don't set last modified anyway so that makes it January 1, 1970, GMT.
> I want a better sleep schedule but not bad enough to put it into practice

This sums up the issue. Most people could get decent sleep if they wanted to or even made a basic effort, but their current poor-sleep compromise isn’t bad enough to make them want to give anything up. Or they don’t understand what they’re losing because it has been so long since they tried a reasonable sleep schedule.

> That implies my personal projects make enough money to have a family on. Not true now so the grind continues.

Consider giving up the side projects for a month or two. Side projects are one of the topics where people think they’re going to miss it more than they actually do. A month or two of total disconnectedness won’t sink your side projects, but it’s long enough to test the waters of a healthier sleep schedule.

You may find that after getting your sleep under control, your daily efficiency and energy levels improve such that you’re getting your work done faster, spending more quality time with your spouse, and ultimately freeing up a nice slot of usable free time in the day that could spend on side projects without wrecking your sleep schedule.
We can’t afford to stop solar geoengineering research
He’s also been a prolific public commenter during the pandemic and one of the few who has been able to navigate the politics of explaining the situation accurately but still being accepted by many conservatives.

In terms of the headline, being a Pfizer board member is a lot less important than knowing the comment is from Scott Gottlieb.
I barely ever use my headphones with my laptop, but my Sony headphones on an Android phone work 100% perfectly all of the time.

I've never had a hiccup.

Okay, I mean, if I'm in an area with thousands of others using headphones, I might get some interference. That's it. Otherwise, totally fine.
I think this is kind of a big "duh" statement. Mandates were issued in the face or surging numbers and we now have waning numbers. I'm very hesitant to declare victory too soon but the day is seemingly coming soon. Of course, we'll have to reverse course yet again if there's a new wave which very well might happen. The next stage should shipping billions of doses to the poor nations that haven't gotten any yet.
The Art of Fasting
Part of the cause of software rot is the fact that much of our code is tied to a specific platform or paradigm. So if you're working with Java 5 code it might be hard as hell to work with since it doesn't take advantage of the conveniences of modern Java. Same with legacy C++ apps or any other app to be honest that's older than a few years in most programming languages. Ideally, you can write around the core logic while replacing what's not actively supportable anymore but when you're stuck on a business mandated timeline you make due with what you can do to minimize the software rot.
I have 2 sets from Monoprice, both pretty inexpensive. The cheapest ones don't have a very good microphone and they are tinny, but fine for podcasts. They also switch ears and pair easily like a champ. I can Pair either one, pull out the other one and let it pair, then put the first away, or leave them both in. I've been really impressed.
The slightly more expensive pair will only pair the right one unless I create a specific profile for the left one. Switching from one to two is hit or miss and forget about switching from right to left (or vice-versa) without pausing everything for a minute or so.
Here is the API you are looking for: -- https://archive.org/wayback/available?url=example.com&timest... -- this will show the oldest timestamp of a archive that the wayback has. The trick is to set the timestamp to be /really/ old and it will show the first snapshot it has.
If the bits are identical, where does the hidden information live?
I have a $20 pair of Sony wireless headphones that charge via USB C that have equivalent audio quality to my $199 AirPods pro.
>Since you seem quite interested in learning economic fundamentals, I highly recommend you check out the Moody's Talks Inside Economics podcast [0].

Sweet thanks or the recommendation!

>One topic they have discussed with fair regularity lately is the current inflation rate. They point out that you can tease out what factors contribute to that 7% inflation number, and once you subtract out 2-3 specific components, components that – with some inductive reasoning – we have good reason to believe are transitory in nature, the inflation number that applies to the broad majority of fundamentals is actually closer to the fed's 2% target.

That's kind of the complicated thing about these metrics. CPI is often criticized because they already ignore beyond important factors. Like Housing isnt included in CPI? That sure makes CPI a much lower value measurement.

Then people continue to cut out of CPI and oh look we're at 2%? No, we're not. The actual 7% is already too low, the actual number is most likely higher.

>I'm not an expert in this area and I don't grok the economics on a deep enough level to be able to reproduce their argument in situ here, but their case that the fed's strategy of holding steady is in fact the most responsible thing to do to achieve that 2% target.

The Fed in the USA is politically handcuffed and they understand what's happening. There's a geopolitical approach going on, there's a boomer retirement going on, pandemic. lots of factors.
Maybe that audio jack wasn't such a bad idea after all.
> I think there's a lot of cases where you'll have a good amount of writes independent of audit lots. For example a chat system, or leaving comments on anything. There's a lot of scenarios where writes are common and this isn't a problem related to DB scaling. Each one of those writes will cause the user to wait a long time (location dependent) since your controller action will wait for your database to return before it sends an HTTP response back to the user. But I do agree there's tons of opportunities to take advantage of read-replicas for reads.

Yes definitely but many applications are 99.9% read, and stuff like chat doesn't really require instant <100ms responses. It really enables a load more performance for those usecases.

For many of those B2C sites $350/month would be nothing to save a load of latency and increase conversions. It's obviously not a solution for every single web app out there.
As much as people hate wires, I have to say that I much appreciate the "just works" aspect of it. Even wifi, while it has improved an awful lot over the years, is not nearly as reliable as the (albeit annoying) ethernet cable.

I have the same issue with wireless keyboards and mice. The idea that I have to charge or put batteries into my mouse is infuriating.
> Others are due to bad configuration defaults from Apple. Forcing AirPods to connect to the last device and turning off “pause music on removal” fixes two of the author’s problems.

I don't even necessarily think these are problems. I almost always want whatever I'm playing to stop when I disconnect my headphones, and there are times I don't want the headphones to connect to the last device (ie: I've been listening to something on my laptop, left the laptop behind somewhere, and want to start listening from my phone).
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I have a weird muscle disease that is treated with just taking over the counter L-Carnitine. The issue, vitamins and supplements are not regulated. So, I will try to take a new brand and after a few days my symptoms will come back because the pills don't have the L-Carnitine like it says and there is no one to make sure it does. It will cost me four to seven days of pain, and no one is held responsible.

My best guess is one in a thousand actually needs them so the 999 have a placebo effect and the 1 suffers. I told my neurologist, and he couldn't even prescribe them for me because that isn't a thing. So now I buy all I can find that works and hope they don't stop making it.
Yeah it seems that all of the (in-ear) Bose wired headphones were discontinued.
I have always understood it to be an example of English irregular language: “I am an expat, you are an immigrant, they are economic migrants.” —https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation
I'm not sure if it would be classed as a "neuropsychological hazard" but one form of information hazard I encountered in recent years is true information that requires a finessed understanding of both risk and psychology to not act rashly upon it.

For example, let's say you get a brain scan out of curiosity only. A small aneurysm is detected with a confidence of 95%, and said aneurysm, if real, has an estimated annual risk of rupture of 0.5%. The operation to clip said aneurysm, you are told, has a mortality rate of 10%. Do you have the op?

In the books I've read covering such medical ethics topics, a disproportionate number of patients do/would have the op because the knowledge of the aneurysm will "play on their mind" even if the odds are hugely in favor of leaving it be. For this reason, amongst others, unnecessary/preventative testing is discouraged by many medical professionals. (A similar dilemma is faced by folks in affected families who have to choose whether or not to have genetics testing for fatal familial insomnia risk – would you want to know if you're likely to face this usually inherited condition?)
There are a wide range of options between startup bros and government. For example, in the US, a lot of electrical component standards and testing are managed by the UL, which is a nonprofit ngo.

Maybe something like "a UL for drug approval" might be worth a go.
The absolute worst annoyance, IMO, is that if you are listening to audio with an iPhone, AirPods (Pro), and an Apple Watch, and set a timer on your watch (say, a 1.5 minute rest timer at the gym) it will disconnect from your phone to play the alert from your watch and then fail to play music from your phone again without sometimes requiring full Bluetooth cycling, or another 1.5 minutes of fiddling - removing any and all convenience of the device ecosystem. There are support issues open on the Apple forums going back years, but it’s still unresolved. To contrast, my Bose SoundSports can seamlessly achieve the above example just fine, so it’s not a fundamental flaw in the use case, just Apple’s implementation of some part of it.
How would anyone just “take down” ethereum?
My addition...

Annoyance 0:

The default behavior is to pause when you remove a single earbud while listening to music/podcasts. But, especially when working out, this is not what you want, because you just wanted to scratch or wipe off your ear. At minimum, this should be an option I can set ("only pause if both buds are removed"), but afaik it's not.
> ONS claims only about ~17,000 deaths in the UK over the two years are pure COVID with no other comorbidities

I dont think this is material, covid kills a lot of people with comorbidities, and there are a lot of people with comorbidities. You can see it extremely clearly in the all cause mortality, the peaks line up with the peaks in covid diagnoses. You would never miss that many extra deaths. New york hospitals were a lot more full than usual during the first wave. There is no hiding that.

And countries like australia, who have had very low covid infections, but have had lockdowns, have shown not even a blip in all cause mortality. So lockdowns are not the thing causing deaths, its the covid.
Reminds me of my roommate’s Jambox bluetooth speaker years ago…I learned that it had this behavior while fully asleep at 4:30am after we’d had a party, when, every few minutes it started loudly blasting “BOOOOP. LOW BATTERY” alerts.

The trouble was that it was hidden somewhere in our messy living room, and the alerts weren’t frequent enough to find it quickly, so I was standing around in my underwear for ages, waiting for each subsequent alert and getting a bit closer each time, because it was too loud to go back to sleep.
Note that you have to configure that on each device separately.
I can't speak for Rome because I have not been in churches there but for the rest of Italy, 99% of churches are Free Entry and the few very famous touristic attractions have a single fee no matter who you are.

Maybe you are confusing paying for a guide as tourist with paying to visit the church.
Most people need to do something on the gradient of "run in one city that's nearest my users" to "run in every city everywhere". We have excited single region users in Sydney, because the internet sucks for Australia/New Zealand.

Running in the right first location is good for users. And Virginia is almost never the right first location.