skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what always just works? Plugging headphones into a headphone jack.

It also uses significantly more well-developed technology which does not require the use of rare earth metals and eye-wateringly complex semiconductor manufacturing processes.

And those wired headphones will still be in use years or even decades after those AirPods have corroded to nasty plastic and metal lumps in a landfill somewhere.
Wouldn't wired use the DAC on the device rather than the headphones? I thought the 3.5mm jack carried an analog signal.
I use my xm3 daily and don't notice a difference. I use both methods of connection because sometimes it's quicker to just plug in on some devices, and others it pairs right away. Love these headphones.
I'm a Bose QC-35 II convert. Slide forward on the power button and it'll switch the paired device. Also excellent sound quality and ridiculous battery life.
Fwiw, Bluetooth does operate on the same spectrum as WiFi. But I agree about the Bluetooth spec.
This also signals an end game, where the last vestiges of true improved, customer facing improvements are over.

With nothing left, one delves into short term growth numbers.

Because of this, some indexes may de-stress reddit by date search, and, by freshness. And some end users will click, become annoyed more often, and stop clicking on reddit links.

They clearly have nothing left, and no other idea how to improve reddit. They have signaled they are well past peak growth.
If you're within the warranty period (or have AppleCare) you should definitely bring them into an Apple store. It might be a hardware issue. If you describe the problem to them they will almost certainly take your word for it and give you a free replacement left AirPod. Even if it's not a hardware issue you'll get a fresh new battery for one ear :) I've done this several times between my two pairs of airpods.
> Their battery life was infinite.

That's true, but only because they used your device's battery.

It takes more power for your phone to drive headphones than it does to transmit a bluetooth signal. This is not such a big issue any more since recent phones have crazy long battery life as do recent bluetooth headphones. In 2017 it was a bigger issue.
Friction and liquids? Seems pretty much like the wet wipe used to clean my countertop - only a different friction material, and a different liquid solvent.
DevOps Via Negativa
A few years ago I wrote some toy code to scan for raw texts stored on Ethereum. Some were interesting to read. See below (the way to read: expand "click to see more" -> "Input Data" -> "view input as" - select UTF8)

* A (a bit creepy) love letter https://etherscan.io/tx/0xee30531afa6147ce450d9404bcc3fb9758...
* A Chinese student activist's open letter (some media reported about it at the time)
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x2d6a7b0f6adeff38423d4c62cd8b6ccb70...
Witch Pardoning Spreads to Catalonia
We had a baby monitor that apparently broadcasted on AM, a cassette player, and a lot of shouting and we weren't afraid to use it :p. I'm not sure it even worked outside the confines of our own house.
bookmarked. Really cool.
Really? I always see them go flying when taking off a mask to eat or drink. The random protrusions to escape the faraday cage that is your head don't seem to interact well with elastic loops.
Google rewrites many page titles
The effects of eating five cheeseburgers a day are spread out over decades. The result of a group of people choosing to each five cheeseburgers a day is a tiny increase in the average load on the health care system over many many years.

The effect of COVID on the health care system is a large short term spike in load.

It is almost always in almost all systems much easier to deal with a long term small steady increase in load than to deal with a short term massive spike.
Same here. I love my Pixel Buds. However, they are setup on all my devices, I just have to go and pick to connect depending on which device I want to use it with. Not sure if there's a way around that, for any Bluetooth device.
I prefer not being at the end of a leash. To each, their own.
There is something weird about the AirPods Pro product line. I think a lot of us who are very technology focused can appreciate the marvel of engineering that they are. Long battery life, excellent noise cancellation, the right weight, water resistant, etc.

By many of my friends and my wife, all of who work in non tech fields but otherwise are 100% apple device people, all seem pretty much not impressed by them.

For Christmas I got my wife a pair of Nothing headphones. They are 1/3 the price and I figured it was worth a try since she basically just stopped using her AirPod Pros.

Now she raves about these cheap Nothing headphones. Tells her friends they are better. Less obtrusive, clear so they stand out less, good audio quality, and they don't try to magically switch devices, they just wait for you to decide what you want them connected to.

They support AAC on Apple, but have not great Bluetooth Audio support for Android.
I use the "PowerBeats Pro" for this. I don't know if they've been updated with some of the newer features, I bought mine a couple years back when they came out.
That just means your phone's or PC's DAC is crappy compared to the internal one, and any other headphones would sound just as bad.

I have an older pair of JBL E55, which are about 50% cheaper than yours, and on a modern phone they sound slightly better on wire than on wireless, presumably because their internal DAC is mediocre.
This is not that complicated:

Is a heart attack going to infect your provider?

Is neck cancer going to infect your provider?

We have a vaccine that significantly reduces the odds of putting our healthcare providers at risk and becoming part of the group of people crippling our ability to provide emergency medical care... if you don't take it not because you're ineligible, but because you've decided you know better, you should not be a priority.

And really this is already how it works. When ICUs get overwhelmed, people with COVID who code might not get resuscitated.

The massively increased risk to the provider combined with the chances of recovery mean you will just die:

https://www.cdha.nshealth.ca/system/files/sites/documents/co...

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And I guess saying I have strong feelings supposed to be some backhanded ad hominem? I mean clearly you have strong feelings as well, writing tirades about the "fatties", the difference between us is what I write is based on reality
> It has been suggested that this was to make it harder for people to notice how old the programme was

This is tempting but I don't know how much credence to give it.

It's more to do with a style that was taken on and kept. My father still writes the month in a date using a Roman numeral, e.g. 25/XII/21.

The date format has been around for many years. There weren't that many BBC programmes made, even over the course of many years. To try and convince viewers that a programme was not "old" was difficult. It might be black and white, and the quality certainly would have looked dated.
In my aforementioned example, the set of development practices most often called "agile" was neither the right approach nor what we did. Agile as defined as the ideas in the agile manifesto might have been what we did. It would depend on who you asked and whatever their particular axe to grind was.

So I don't know, and quite frankly we didn't really care if we were "agile." All we found was that "agile" is simply too lossy of a descriptor for meaningful conversations about development process.

People writing books and blogs about what they mean when they say "agile" hasn't caused the industry to coalesce on a concise definition. That horse is out of the barn, and I don't expect we're getting it back.
I had this problem too. For me it was solved by dimming lights and screens right down about 4 hours before I went to sleep and routinely eating as soon as I got up (especially when my stomach felt knotted).

I used to think my body had a 25 hour schedule lol.
SO LOUD
I have tried using zlib-ng on a project before, but I found it had too many issues when trying to deploy it. Almost every distro packs zlib, and zlib is so fundamental you can't just wholesale replace it, so you wind up with an almost the same library and regular zlib. I can't remember the exact details(maybe something with RPATH?), but we had to wind up just using the system zlib due to deployment issues.
It’s too general though isn’t it. It would be like the “doing stuff” industry being a thing. There might be people who use the term, but that doesn’t mean the term points to any actual phenomenon in the real world.
Beats Flex have the same BT chip as the AirPods and a different design that holds both ear pieces to the back of your neck.
I sent her an email about it. I hope she can fix it. :)
Same is true in India. Those who do not have servants are charged higher prices when you go to buy grocery and pantry items.
>Is -0.1% deflation really that disastrous for economies? Is it really worse than 10% inflation?

Yes, it has to do with how people react. Japan has been fighting it for awhile now.

http://honesteconomics.com/history/japan-and-deflation/

Japan has many problems. Their immense debt basically requires them to have a total tax burden of ~95%. That is to say, you work for the government for the entire year and you dont even get anything for it. They are just paying the interest payments on their debt and dont get services from their government.

Then you have the real factor that as boomers leave the workforce. There isnt enough people to replace them.

The only thing that seems to be keeping Japan afloat is their government owned slaves. Their judicial system still has forced labour and also a 99% conviction rate. Get accused of a crime and you're going to be producing goods for japanese companies. There's also the "technical intern training" which basically enslaves non-citizens and traps them in these jobs for life. The numbers are extremely suspect as well. The number of goods produced and recorded by big entities like their automotive industry or electronics like Sony couldn't possibly have been produced by the these government slaves. Makes you wonder where the forced labour camps are that aren't making it into the numbers.

>I've never experienced it, so can't speak too authoritatively, but it kind of feels like accepted wisdom in the economic academia: so it isn't questioned - but a lot of economics is propaganda for the powerful, IMO - would minor deflation really hurt the common man significantly? Or would it mostly just punish the rich and powerful who are extremely leveraged?

This derives from the fractional banking system. Basically a bank will lend out $20 for every $1 it has. That is to say if they have a 20:1 ratio. The central bank manages this ratio.

The idea is that in a deflationary environment, you kind of break the fractional reality. Interest rates would be bottom or negative. So you are giving money away AND deflating which means the people you give money to can just hold the free money and make money? Who wouldn't jump at such a wonderful thing?

You can see this happening. Germany's 10 year bond right now is -0.065%. So you buy that bond and the person lending you money has to give you 0.065% per year? for 10 years? LOL? Japan is positive at 0.14% but has been awfully negative lately. Obviously Japan/Germany are worse off because they were the losers of WW2. The boomers retiring harms them the most.

To avoid deflation, they are giving away free debt. Why? Debt is money. For every $ that exists, it's just debt. That's the fractional banking system.

Oh and here's the real kicker. https://medium.com/navigating-life/we-just-went-from-fractio...

The USA on March 26, 2020 eliminated the fractional banking ratio. They can lend out $1000 per $1 if they so please. What a disaster.
> I've met Afghan refugees here [in the US]

How can you not see the obvious problem with that logic?!

(Aside from the anecdata issue.)
Do you never get up to make a drink or something?
That doesn't explain over-engineering. I would understand building slower and less efficient systems if that took less resources. Or more complex systems if it achieved something. But modern web takes more resources to develop and achieves nothing
I'm assuming you've never tried to maintain a nutritious diet through dollar stores and food banks before. It's very difficult. Additionally, when you take into account special packaging made for dollar stores, some of the trash food is actually more expensive than healthy items available at the "rich" store.
This is awesome, but there's a slight bug in this implementation: Wordle won't count additional instances of a letter as wrong-position, it'll just flag them as wrong. For example, if the word is TRACE, and I guess TRACT, the first T will be green, but the second T should be black, not yellow. In this implementation, at the moment, TRACT would return GGGGY, but in Wordle it would be GGGGB.

I actually made the same mistake in a Wordle solver I was writing recently - it's easy to miss, since Wordle doesn't make this explicit and you have to infer it yourself.
Why? Because citizens want an expert-staffed and functional regulatory body, but aren't willing to pay the tax necessary to fund it, at parity with private sector salaries.

The root of all government problems is "We trust you to make decisions that impact a large amount of monetary value, but also pay you less than the amount of money flowing through you, and also pay you less than private industry would be willing to."

Which... sets up an interesting dynamic.

There are a lot of selfless saints out there. But there are also a lot, not. And so internal processes and regulations pile on top, in an attempt to curb the worst of corruption.

Can we make the system better? Eh... maybe? But it's important to remember that a lot of features that look insane are actually reactive solutions to problems inherent in the system.
As someone who develops automation software for the capital markets industry its too early to state what the impact will be on jobs.

For sure what I have personally seen is backed by this article in that automation has not resulted on job losses.

It has however resulted in task losses - meaning tasks that humans would do are being done done by software autonomously - this has freed up time and the theory is this time is then deployed to more valuable tasks.

In my mind the jury is out how this is really working out but if the gain is shift from work -> leisure time without impact on growth then I also see that as a win but as we know the distribution of these gains is far from even across society which is a growing problem.
How have consumers let companies get away with "premium" phones being the ones with fewer features?
Privacy concerns are breaking the Census
Note that the linked guide describes the cruise/air/tilt version that includes a master identity scheme. Most people don't need to do something as complicated as all that and can just use the defaults for everything and in the end dump the private keys to the device.

Backing up the secret key material is still an issue with FIDO2.
Aftershokz Aeropex, silly name aside, is a decent product that gets you a Bluetooth device you can wear all day without losing
Yeah, and I'll jump in with a contrary opinion.

I think people are much nicer on Reddit than they were on forums, and nicer on Discord than either.

My memory of forums is that you constantly had to scroll past long-running inline reply wars that would suck people in. The fact that this kind of thing gets quarantined to a downvoted sub-tree (on Reddit) or just scrolls into the past, accessible only by search (on Discord) helps keep these new community platforms a lot less toxic.

And yeah, the newer platforms (especially Discord) are maybe a little less valuable as pure stores of knowledge, but I think the structural resistance to domination by assholes is very valuable.
Cars these days are the same -- you know what didn't need fancy pants computer tools to diagnose? Horses. Let's bring back horses.
A mRNA anti-tick vaccine to prevent Lyme disease
> It’s funny how Americans surrender medical autonomy to the government but draw a strict line in the sand in other issues

You're implying that all ~332 million Americans are a homogenous and single-minded mass. Please stop generalizing, it's not a good look.
Airpods work wonderfully compared to previous headsets! Apple vastly improved the pairing process and reliability over previous products.

What Apple needs to polish is the multi-device support. If you're going out for a walk with your phone they will work (nearly) 100% of the time. If you have a Mac and a phone and are switching back and forth for Zoom calls, they will reliably annoy the crap out of you. Before WFH I assume Apple thought this was an edge case, not something we'd be doing for hours each day.

PS Google Meet deserves some blame here, too. I often end up with "Airpods for output, Mac speaker for input" and this is entirely due to Meet's burying these weird defaults in a Settings menu.
> It takes more power for your phone to drive headphones than it does to transmit a bluetooth signal.

...are you sure? And, is that still true even once you consider the extra encoding the phone’s CPU has to do?

I was under the impression that conventional 3.55mm jacks output exceedingly little power...
Nowhere was dominance of fossil fuels or the very powerful industrial upswing stronger in 01922 than in the United States. But the US did not then have the huge international network of overseas military deployment and occupied territories it developed later that century. It did have some overseas territories: the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Cuba, Guam, Alaska, Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Wake Island, the Panama Canal, and arguably Honduras; but these were primarily naval bases and tourist resorts, not pools of cheap labor or troves of resources to exploit.

To be sure, sugar from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Hawaii, pineapples from Hawaii, and bananas from Honduras were obtained by exploitation of the residents of those unfortunate lands, enriching the US colonists, and gold was mined by the colonists in Alaska; but these resources were peripheral to the projects of US industrialization and energy supplies. 50 years earlier the US had none of them, just huge tracts of land taken by force from Native Americans.

In Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and Germany, the story was of course quite different. But it is perhaps not coincidental that the industrial power least addicted to plundering resources from colonies abroad became the land most prosperous in the epoch when industry and invention reshaped the world.
>The mobility, flexibility and convenience of no tangles and accidental wire pulling and causing phone to drop - all worth it.

You can thread the wired headphone/IEM cord under your shirt, or even over your ear and down your back [0] to prevent tangles and wire pulling that causes a phone to drop.

It's less convenient than wireless earphones, but it solves the problem, and comes with advantages (better noise isolation and sound quality with certain models, plus you don't need to worry about the batteries degrading and having to buy a new pair after possibly 2-3 years, so you save money). I'm considering switching back to wired after my current AirPods pair dies for these advantages.

>Wired is dead

Not at all. You can get high-quality, professional earphones (in-ear monitors or IEMs) that fit in a pouch in your pocket, which are great for people in loud environments (better than noise cancelling due to their noise isolation); who appreciate music (sound quality is noticeably better for any genre); or who do professional audio work.

[0] https://imgur.com/QOSNA9T
Quantization of Neural Networks for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
The "right tool" might be an adapter or hub.
As much as that sucks, it's not all that surprising. You decided to try to undercut everyone else who desired a living wage. That's not to say getting infected with malware is "what you deserved", nobody should have their security compromised. What I'm saying is that you compromised your security by not working with people you can trust, people who are asking for a living wage and thus don't have to resort to putting malware into the products they create.

People in China aren't bad people, they're just people put into a tough situation. It's plenty easy to get good quality products out of China, just like anywhere else. The problem is that few people are willing to pay the real price for products, they want cheap regardless of consequences.

As someone also in the electronics design and manufacturing space I find this type of behavior very troubling. I demand what I consider a fair wage for my work and in return I also try to support other people in the industry also getting a fair wage. If all you do is buy the cheapest possible services you are really telling others they should do the same and not support you. The only solution I see is to stop pushing the costs of your business onto others that can't afford it. Go buy quality used hardware from people you can trust rather than complaining that a former colony of yours is trying to steal something from you.
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>>Are not capitalists exploiting the labour and time of others to accumulate capital?

They are not in any way exploiting the labor and time of others, at least not in any meaningful sense of the word 'exploit', where it connotes an immoral act that causes harm. They are trading resources for that labor and time, by making an offer that the worker is happy to take over all others. Your moral framework is totally incoherent, as it would imply that an offer that a worker is happy to receive, is an act of authoritarianism toward that worker.
Go for a walk. Watch a whole sunset. Don't punish yourself for "being unproductive". The modern world is INSANELY complicated. Process your feelings. Notice your emotions.
The missing documentation. Just hope they manage to keep it up to date.

The feature creep here is immense despite the claims it's modular because individual executables do fixed tasks...

Don't get me wrong I understand the power of systems but it's not written with a OG UNIX mindset in mind which is a little sad.
This setup tests the entire validity of the computer: drivers, operating system, libc -- I think that's what makes me uncomfortable with it way more than a bug a fuzzer can find in openssh.
Oh, thanks for clearing that up. I thought you might have been talking about Novell.
Give up on TLS client certs.

The UI for client certs in browsers are miserable, terrible, horrible and insert every other awful adjective you can imagine. Seriously, it's so broken as to be unusable. Everybody knows it, nobody wants to fix it.
Well, they are? You just need to look them up. It seems you expect others to drip or force feed you these regulations or something.
Hopefully all those problems will go away one day. Apple is rumoured to be working on a new wireless connection to achieve lossless quality, which would mean a more modern interaction. The Airpods don't solve any Bluetooth problems, they hide them.
Not to dismiss your work, but you can simply use developer tools and find the "solution" in the local storage. I was wondering how they made it scale, and I noticed that there are no network requests going to a backend service to check the guesses, then it was easy to find where is stored on the client side ;)
Yes, polkit does have some overlap with sudo. What it has over sudo is a real API, programs can use it to authenticate an IPC request for an action to a privileged daemon while that daemon is running.
Covid amongst vaccinated is still contagious