skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a pair of AirPods Pro and I loved how they sounded but hated how they made me look, because my skin is very dark and the little white things stood out like sore thumbs on Zoom calls. I returned them for the Jabra Elite 85t which are less comfortable in my ears but which match my skin color much better. Apple lost more than $249 of revenue because they don't make them in black.

There's something to be said for considering the diversity of your market.
Why not take it further? Everybody's feed is an auction. Sorry mom, I didn't see my cousin's baby pictures, but Amazon really wanted me to see this pair of shoes and I made $2 today.
That's not the same. Money doesn't just appear all at once ready to dump on the market, we get and invest it every paycheck. So average cost basis over time gets higher as you make purchases
Yes, being boosted helps, but a vaccine mandate should be in service to very clear and significant public health goals. Herd immunity is such a goal, but that was likely impossible once Delta hit, let alone Omicron. At this point what is the goal? At best we can only delay infection, but not for very long.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.30.21268565v...

This study shows that being boosted gives you 37% protection from infection over a period of maybe a month. But this means at peak spread, you can expect an infection rate among the boosted population of 63% of the unvaxxed infection rate.

If we assume we can get every vaxxed person boosted, you're still more likely to get infected by a fully boosted individual since the vaccination rates are something like 70%. That is, for every 70 vaxxed people there are 30 unvaxxed, and 70 * .63 > 30. If we assume we can get everyone vax+boosted instantly, the estimated infection rate drops to .85 percent of the current rate. With an estimated r0 of 10 for Omicron, such a small reduction in infections has no chance of substantially slowing the spread. At this point mandates are merely a punitive measure against those the majority have deemed moral degenerates.
great story!

I believe 1 watt may actually be legal, so it was not actually pirate radio from an FCC perspective, only an RIAA perspective.
Why doesn't someone make the point that 95%+ (or 98%+ etc) of Americans are protected via natural immunity or vaccines and back it up with data?

Once that point is made, the discouraging natural immunity argument can stop because hospitals can't overfill anymore.

However until that point can be made[0] I think the "don't encourage natural immunity" position will prevent the most deaths.

By the way, I also don't condone harassment of unvaccinated people or vaccination as a requirement for employment etc either. Those are separate issues to me.

[0]: I tried looking for it but CDC data is only sept 2021 and estimated only 146M infections https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
This is a bad end-user experience but I can kinda see the flow.

You're listening on your iPhone but using your computer. Device switching then says "okay since they're using their computer if any sound comes from the computer they should hear it" and then iMessage made a sound.

Had the thing you did been playing a YouTube video or Spotify then it would be weird if your AirPods didn't switch. I think it makes sense for notification sounds to not trigger switching by default but IDK what they currently do isn't totally unreasonable.
Yep, back to wired for me as well.

Run the wire under the shirt. Need to switch from phone to laptop for a meeting? Unplug/replug. If I need to remove headphones to talk to someone, i just let them hang down. Never worry about charging them, loosing them, easily replaceable due to price (and with good sound quality as well).
Freedoms aren’t considered in isolation. Maintaining freedom for some means removing freedom for others some times. In this case the “freedom” to get timely treatment for those that need it.
This. The amount of money they manage is a mouse fart in a hurricane when it comes to such low fee business as robo advisory. That a robo advisor can get $5bln valuation on having $8 bln of assets speaks either to the silliness of the valuation or that the value is not in the assets managed (likely a combination of both factors).
We do it all the time. You are mandated to get a license to drive a car so that you don't have a higher chance of killing people.
Of course you can. You're just making this up.
To be fair I had exactly that same experience at the UCSF Emergency Room in 2017. Four hours in the waiting room, and then the only bed they could give me was against one wall of a busy hallway.
and the aws/Facebook recent cases demonstrate that the Internet is slowly loosing that property. People called me up and asked me why the Internet was broken. they normally use apps to communicate, but they thought the Internet was entirely down...
Running water is not the same thing as clean water. Cholera (from contaminated water) was endemic. Even wells were infected with cholera from sewage.
In places with good nationwide data like the UK and national level lockdowns, the excess mortality spikes also line up very well with the case outbreaks (especially pre vaccination), and considerably less well with other plausible causes of excess mortality (lockdown and unemployment induced stress, [long term effects of] reductions in access to treatment for chronic conditions)
The collaborative apps aspect of Suite/Drive is a wondrous 1-2 punch
Has anyone found a good self-hosted alternative to Jira? Them going cloud-only is a complete blocker for a lot of industries.
> Comments on HN have given me a lot of insight into how people approach things like contract negotiation or how they deal with conflict or frustration in the workplace

Also critical thinking. Lots of people on HN are really good at CT, which is something I wish I was better at... So HN folk give me something to aspire to.
To be consistent, we probably shouldn't be covering people who ride or drive vehicles. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/p1007-crash-injuries...
Yes to both of those things. The government shouldn't get to take money from me because I endangered myself.
That looks interesting. How are you liking it so far? The idea of no telemetry is neat. I think I went through everything in Firefox to turn that stuff off.
Most legal system have a guilty or innocent verdict. However, the Scottish legal system also has a 3rd verdict of "not proven". Which I personally feel is better as with most binary decision options, if they are not guilty then they are proven innocent, even if there is that grey area of doubt that would yield a "not proven" verdict, as appears to be the case here.

Hopefully, somebody with more legal knowledge will step in and enlighten a bit more.
French Bee Flight 711 Incident Report: CoPilot Subtle Incapacitation [pdf]
Mentour Pilot Video:
https://youtu.be/LAtcrdJqJDc
If you are the failure, no, it does not.

[EDIT] I immediately saw that that could be read as a swipe at NK, which wasn't how it was intended. Just that if you're on the wrong side of a failure, you're not gonna be able to "route around the failure".
yes, but no country can track a given object in LEO for its entire orbit (unless it's transmitting its position to another satellite).

So the idea is that the shuttle launches with a secret payload, and every 90 minutes you see it pass overhead. This goes on for days or weeks. Eventually it lands.

What happened? Well what you don't know is that on day 2, while it was over the Pacific and you weren't tracking it, it fired the OMS, deployed a payload, then fired the OMS again to return to it's previous orbit.

There's a whole other satellite out there and you don't know about it until you find it by some other means. And eventually you will find it. But the military is happy to pay for that short window of subterfuge.
For one thing, the survey and the earnings report are measuring different people.

The survey measured Americans (who have mostly had the longest exposure to Facebook from a global perspective), the reports (presumably) measure globally, including communities that haven't had Facebook as a pervasive part of their social discourse for the last decade+.
That's hours of "testimony" from conspiracy theorists who all have long records of making flagrantly incorrect statements on COVID. Johnson's big leadoff panelist was a Texas cardiologist who is far from a respected authority in epidemiology and seems to be courting attention by disputing every best practice that ER doctors and the scientific community have agreed works best with acute COVID patients and hyping up silver bullet drugs that have shown limited effectiveness in the best studies. I recommend everyone look up "Dr. Peter Mcullough" and getting a whiff of his reputation before investing any of their time in that panel.
> yet.

You appear to be denying the progress made over the past 30 years by deep learning, ML frameworks, constraint solvers, and immense computing power.

Prolog has been around for 50 years. I suggest you look at what it can do.

Programming languages exist only for humans to specify and discuss intended computing behavior. There are plenty of goal-solving algorithms and heuristics already. Turing completeness is all that's necessary. "Flying car" programming languages are unnecessary because they offer no additional intrinsic power, only convenience of expressiveness that could be provided by libraries.

Self-programming and -designing systems, if left unconstrained, will develop their own IRs, design, and manufacturing specification protocols that would likely become rapidly incomprehensible. They won't need anthropocentric programming languages after several iterations because it would be an inefficiency. That's what the technological singularity will look like.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
Confirmed, but it's not only google. Especially the phishing letters, Actually seeing obvious phishing messages, but the DKIM records are validating, and several other anti-spam measures are being bypassed.
how convenient.
There were those stick pcs for a while. I think those started around $100, add a $10 keyboard and a $10 mouse and you're not too far from your price point.
How do you use your G Suite legacy free edition account?
Same way I reconcile 25 years of Gallup surveys showing that 75% of smokers want to quit [1]. Investors love exploiting addicts.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/163763/smokers-quit-tried-multi...
Boki: Stateful Serverless Computing with Shared Logs [pdf]
Correct, with the key word being "suddenly". Nothing happens suddenly; but its a necessary step toward longer-term healing of trust.
They died young and were shorter. Shorter is indicative of poor nutrition. If you're in Europe, look at the royal armor in museums. Those would be kid size today.

The same goes for colonial America. Take a look at the clothing in the Fort William museum (from the 1700s). It's so small.
Firstly, I was addressing the claim in the comment I replied to that it's not open source. It's licenced under MIT

That's not what the licence states at all...

> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person ... including without limitation the rights to use .. copies of the Software.

The licence states Permission is granted free of charge to use the software, if the software is charging then that's a breach of the licence..?
> The Web is your orchestral music, Gemini is low-fi chiptune.

Likening the web to orchestral music is questionable.
Pippin is why they said apple would be entering the market for the second time
The next step is prosecution, right? As far as am I aware, criminals don't get to just cease committing crimes and walk away.

We've had a complete breakdown of law and order for anyone claiming to operate as part of an institution. And without post-facto punishment, there is no downside to joining in the rampant lawlessness.
How about we do this. For people that can and “should be” vaccinated but don’t by choice due to their own risk assessment, if they catch Covid and need hospital treatment they don’t get it.

That way they have their freedom and hospital capacity isn’t put at risk. If the people refusing to get vaccinated are willing to shoulder the risk themselves I have no problems with it.
> Since the markup language is so simple, it lowers the barrier of entry for those wanting to produce content

I see this as one of the major problems with The Web.

It's just too technically difficult for a normal person to make a useful reliable website. That naturally drives people from the open web into closed web-replacements like facebook.

EDIT: With that said. I can't really get behind something like gemini whole-heartedly. It just feels like adding rendering support to browsers for gemini style markdown and serving them with appropriate Content-Type headers over regular HTTP would be a better way to do it.

EDIT 2: Or campaigning to add support for the protocol in common browsers. That is, after all, why URLs include the protocol and I know people here are extremely fond of bashing client implementations for not displaying the protocol part of a URL.
Yes, but it is totally different economy. You need producers, PR researchers, you need sound technicians, you need studios with equipment, you need cover designers, print materials, replication lines, packing lines, music shops, logistics, shop clerks, cashiers. You need playback equipment: turntables, amplifies and speakers.

This was 1960s. Today you still need half of these plus all the internet infrastructure, which is not a small deal, online advertising, rights management, social media marketing, music aggregators, phones and computers and smart speakers.
The monitization bit is the "license" for use of the code. The MIT license applies to the source code itself, not the execution of it.

MIT allows you to: "use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software". That's it.
EU Council adopts position on common charger proposal
Yeah: the tapping interface for the original AirPods is one of the most interesting mechanisms I'd ever seen, both obvious in retrospect and yet not at all obvious. I think of it as one of the more "inspired" mechanisms I've ever seen in such a product... and then they replaced it with "the kind of thing an idiot might have built".

And like, I know the pinch mechanism does have some smarts to it: it isn't even really a button, and the thing you think you are pinching is haptic feedback; but that frankly just makes it worse as the only reason why the pinch feature is better than the tap feature is because the tap feature had an unfortunate requirement that you had to have it in your ear to use it (and to the extent to which it would accidentally work when not in your ear was, fwiw, annoying)...

...but then, for some inexplicable reason, they decided that the pinch feature also shouldn't work if the AirPod isn't in your ear, only, due to the dynamic haptic feature, squeezing it suddenly isn't a button anymore and I find myself just squeezing it harder, twisting it around trying to find the button, until the part of my brain that knows how it works turns on and goes "there isn't really a button there" and I go into problem-solving mode to figure out I need to put it in my ear again for it to work.

The tapping interface was (/is, as I still have them) incredibly intuitive on that front: the part of my brain that wanted to interact with it fundamentally got that "you have to put this in your ear in order to tap it", and I don't ever use them wrong. But with the new pinch interface, I've had a pair ever since they came out (and now have a pair of the AirPod 3, which I don't like anywhere near as the old ones) and I continue to routinely attempt to pinch them when they aren't in my head.

What is crazy to me is that I've complained about this to various people and the response that I tend to get--both from people "in the know" as well as end users giving me this exact complaint back--is that a sizable number of customers apparently really really really hate tapping their head: they find the action annoying and the sound it makes in their skull / ear canal unfortunate. The pinch interface is simply sufficiently boring that everyone seems to be willing to do it without squinching. :/
personally my favorite feature is the "autopilot" thing, which for example dcan automatically withdraw from my checking account and invest when my checking account hits a certain threshold. so for example i can just say "if my checking account goes above $30k, deposit the rest into some wealthfront investment account." i don't think a human financial planner can do this easily? just to add to your list.
And after mandates are over and with that the official crisis done, they will probably start charging for vaccines and boosters.
I don't think anybody is stopping you from living like a hermit in a cabin in the woods, right? But still, you don't.
I remember in 2020 at the very beginning when people started to panic buy toilet papers, I read something about WHO saying masks should not be recommended to general public to avoid shortage for health professionals. They meant well, but what I saw at the time was a lot of media outlets turning this message into how masks are bad, innefective, and using one in public is the equivalent of wearing a tinfoil hat. This lasted less than a month, but I wonder how much this helped with the "the media is lying to us" sentiment.
They could also change word-spacing and line breaks.
one run and one meal is not gonna make or break someones weight. one vaccine might save their life
>> Yes, a financial planner can do all of this (although most don't). But when they do, they just use automated software to do it. It would be impossible to implement these strategies manually. So why even go with a financial planner when Wealthfront does the same thing, but better/cheaper?

Thats the 100$B question right? Because fear. Because unfamiliarity. Also because 1% seems small, but its really more like 14% (if the average return is 7%, you're giving up 1/7 of your return!)
> But I’ve gathered it was spelled out in the license?

Just curious, is this your attitude towards other things as well? There used to be a very popular ebay scam, which had people sell large screen TVs and video game systems for very cheap. At the bottom of the auction description, in fine print, the auction also clearly stated that you were bidding/buying only a photo of the product, not the actual product. In other words, it was "spelled out", so no one was getting scammed according to your perspective here, right? It was on the fault of the buyers for not reading the license/auction description?
Google literally turns the internet into a garbage dump. There are so many spam news sites that can come to the fore thanks to their seo nonsense that the sites that provide real news are not even seen lol
> But I’ve gathered it was spelled out in the license?

A 2% cut was spelled out in the license.

A 30% cut was not, but the plugin author silently upped it to that over vague assertions of abuse of the plugin.

> "After check, we find your app in the black list, and a random higher rate will be applied. Usually when a guy is using a fake license key, or send unusual attacking request..."
Thanx but I'll take Prada for computing over echo chamber media for sectarian violence, propaganda and ad spam.
I hate to say this but I mostly turn Bluetooth on and off as I use different devices. If I get a iPhone call during meeting that I can not listen to for a minute, then I will check mute, stop video, and then answer the phone on speaker. I try to have Bluetooth off when I am outside anyways for security and privacy reasons, so it is complementary to that.
>If you like, you can appeal your $50 fine as well and drag it out for years

Though isn't there the issue of increasing fine costs and thinking parking tickets in which they carrot and stick it with a small discount if paid early and heavy penalties that stack up when it is delayed. Not sure if appeals freeze that process, though certainly the risk of incurring the financial costs of the other side in judgement; Can and does put many of and peer-pressures them into just paying the smaller fine as the time and effort, along with stress of taking and challenging alone, can and does take a toll.
I agree with this! Honestly, I felt a lot of the same emotions op felt the week or two after exams finished or when large projects wrapped up. To me, the sudden drop of going from 100% on and focused on accomplishing a goal to having it all finished was huge impact on my motivation. Finding a new goal helped to bring me back out of that low.
> Note that these freedoms were debated and won in an era where medicine was terrible.

That was also an era when the US was subject to numerous epidemics and pandemics of diseases such as cholera, typhus, yellow fever, bubonic plague, smallpox, and influenza, and it was debated and found that placing restrictions to try to limit the harm from those epidemics was a legitimate exercise of the state's police power and not an infringement of civil rights.
They definitely do in my view. But if you were facing the death penalty as a part of a jury trial they might feel differently, character witness statements matter to some degree.
The licence allows the author of this article to even strip the part of the code that takes the 2% fee if he wanted to.
You'd have to adjust for the period of time where vaccination wasn't available but currently the difference is best characterized as vast — the weekly rate is 10 per 100k versus 0.71 for fully vaccinated without a booster and 0.10 for boosted individuals:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-co...
I'm sorry about your experience. I do wish your wife would have received better care, but I'm not sure we can jump to the conclusion that the experience you had implies mandates and restrictions upon society are worthwhile.

Do you know that it would have been a shorter wait time during a period where the hospital wasn't overwhelmed? If so, how much shorter? Perhaps the medical staff were able to tell the signs of ectopic pregnancy in a way that allowed them put your wife lower on the triage priority list than you thought she should have been.

Does your area have any sort of restrictions? If not, how would the amount of time you had to wait be changed in a world where your area did have restrictions?

Even if you can show some benefit from the restrictions, are the benefits great enough to be worthwhile given the costs?
It doesn't have to be written law passed by a government for something to be "legally required".

Just like the government doesn't have to pass laws or implement systems for surveillance when they can just rely on FANG to do all the data collection for them.
Changing the ending is the least interesting thing about this IMO. More interesting is to observe the simultaneity of the CCP allowing Fight Club to be released at all in China (it was not previously available with the original ending, as the article notes it would've had to be pirated to have been seen at all), alongside their recently initiated cultural campaign against decadent male lifestyles (controlling video game usage, etc) and "sissy boy culture" (the purge of celebrity worship, K-Pop and K-Pop adjacent cultural trends and celebrities in the pursuit of guaranteeing a certain cultural 'masculinity'; also, 'sissy boy culture' is their words, not mine[0]).

China seems to not only desire 'Capitalism without the decadent parts' at the level of policy but also at the level of culture, and something in Fight Club appears valuable to that end, only like their market economy there is an end as to how far the cultivation of their desired cultural masculinity can go.

But we should also ask why an authoritarian government finds the re-assertion of masculinity (against its ostensibly decadent form) so enticing and what this may imply about the nature of Project Mayhem itself.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/05/super-...