skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish they'd add an LED per AirPod in the case, as an easy visual indicator that they're properly seated and charging. I don't know if I'm especially oily or something but both pairs of AirPods I've used have had charging issues in the case after just a few months, and it's so frustrating that it's almost impossible to tell if they're both charging in there.

Nothing like going out for a run and figuring out 50 feet down the road that your audio is only playing through one bud.
As long as wifi over USB is supported, why overcomplicate the core hardware? Sell a dongle as an add on option and make a little profit from it.
IMO - it's incredible how teaching is the most underappreciated profession in the United States.
Karp would love that. He’s a huge back country skier.
> But it seems to me very few people would listen or care.

Everybody cares, they just understand that they're powerless to change anything. The companies in question and the media share ownership.
> Manually having to re-pair once in every blue moon, one earbud playing while the other isn't, no automatic device switching without having to go through the Settings app everytime, A/V desync, dodgy mic quality, earbuds not waking up correctly when removing them from the case, etc are all part of the non-AirPods Bluetooth experience.

Many of these have been part of my experience with both my Airpods and Airpod Pros.
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> Spark gap transmitter were (one of?) the first form of radio broadcasting

AFAIK this is also the reason the German language uses the word funken for transmitting wireless broadcasts, derived from Funke (spark). And of course the corresponding noun Funk, often embedded in typical, lengthy noun constructs.

The German company Telefunken also has a couple mentions in the Wikipedia article you linked to, as one of the early manufacturer of commercial radio equipment.
> I found the bias of the author to be a bit... stupefying?

Agreed.

But when you look at the name of the blog, it ain't exactly a surprise.

Also, he's been at it for quite a while, looks like he's spending inordinate amounts of time "fighting the blockchain".

I'm always puzzled when I see folks like this ... the sheer zealotry is simply amazing, and it always leads me to wonder what can possibly motivate them to be so hell-bent on destroying something that has likely zero impact on their lives.
Congrats on the Show HN!

I can confirm Infracost is very easy to integrate with various automation as we’ve been able to implement it in Spacelift[0] using their CLI tool and even integrated[1] it into our OPA-based policy system.

Great stuff, and makes this use case so much simpler to accomplish. (Imagine having to scrape cost data from various providers yourself, ugh.)

Keep it up!

[0]:https://spacelift.io

[1]:https://docs.spacelift.io/vendors/terraform/infracost
I can't understand the whole merits of this case but for some reason it seems like regulators have been overzealous on some issues while ignoring other more worthy causes.

The FB case in US seems a bit stupid as what exactly do they have a monopoly on. They don't own a paltform as such. An upcomer like Tiktok can upstage them and create its own space out of nowhere in a couple of years.

While look at Apple. They have more than 50% share of mobile devices in US and their devices are actual platforms. They own it from bare silicon to device to OS to apps to services to accessories. Their own products get first class support while others can't integrate as well. Their web browser has no real competition on mobile, so mobile web for more than 50% of users is at their mercy. They get unfair advantage for their music streaming services etc. The list is quite long.
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My AirPods Max pair horribly with my iPhone 13 mini, much worse than a pair of $20 Bluetooth earphones that of course sound much worse.
> unless you are a weirdo living off the grid, basic Census-style information about where you live, your age, marital status, and race and gender identities is widely available to commercial actors.

Being able to doxx with PII was shown to be able to be done in the suburbs, so this is more accurately phrased as "anyone in low-density suburbs and below are at-risk." If the author doesn't care about that, then just say it. There's many deanonymization attacks, and this is just one, but it showcases just how little is required with an actual dataset: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf

The authors basic argument can be summarized as, "Well, companies already list all your personal data, or just flat out abuse it. So, let the government also list your personal data so we can make congressional seats as accurate as possible." Congressional seats being affected by census data scrubbing is not good, it should be fixed, but open data to the public that can be enumerated and deanonymized isn't a good thing either.

If the census can't be anonymized, or is rolled back then I imagine we'll have to start warning people about participating in the census. The irony at that point is your census data also won't be accurate because of a lack of participation.
The normal customer/client relationship is completely twisted in regards to the military industrial complex.

A normal relationship would be that you have 5 people who make guns who all show their gun to the army and the army picks the best gun. Instead the army has the 5 companies "propose" a gun, and they choose who gets to TRY To make that gun. And if they fail its sunk cost fallacy all the way down. Also part of why they choose a company to try and make that gun is because they always choose that company and they have the most "experience".

The argument for this state of affairs is that the military industry can no longer be spun up on demand and basically needs to be subsidized so it can continue exist in peace time. The reality is that these industries fuel continual low level conflicts, waste massive amounts of money and destroy the country.

The only real solve is that the they need a new branch of the military that handles production and R&D in house, and also mans and owns the factories, and to stop giving contracts to parasitic companies.
I know that it wasn’t the “anxieties and neuroses of society” that controlled the COVID-related policy decisions. Only a fool would think that.
Lamborghini Will Not Make Pure Gas-Powered Cars After This Year
he gives the impression of anti-war but also anti-appeasement. The core of LOTR is about dealing with the threat once and for all rather than kicking the can down the road for future generations to deal with
Many parts of the USA PATRIOT Act have expired. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/05/31/411044789...

Other parts have been modified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act
It's going to be tooling for the enclosure, and if there is other NRE to be considered for PCB testing (ICT, solder stencil, etc).

With a $15 BoM cost, using a domestic contract manufacturer, this would probably come out to be no cheaper than $30/unit with very decent volumes, and that doesn't factor in your profit. Need to remember to pay someone to assemble it and test it.
As a subscriber to several newspapers, it's always interesting to see how different the headlines are between the dead tree editions, and the online versions — even for the same story.

The dead tree headlines are almost always very factual and to the point. I don't think I've ever seen anything close to something like "Here's four awesome tricks to get China to admit to the Tiananmen Square massacre" as a headline in actual print.
Agreed. Soon children will need vaccine passports to attend public schools. Bars may even start requiring age passports to consume alcohol. Truly, Pandora's box has been opened.
It doesn't exist because of bandwidth...
Bluetooth should be treated as a threat at this point.

Its used in so many tracking methodologies for BT Unique IDs tied to real humans...
I find a lot of those 'review sites' are really just lightweight b.s. marketing sites that are really designed to generate product referral fees by providing a convenient link to Amazon or wherever else rather than truly a real attempt at providing good review.
As a counterpoint, the officers I know are critical thinkers, realists, and generally very capable people.
Typhoid Mary still doesn't get to work in a kitchen in my utopia.
For one thing, I'd buy an iPhone again.
Don't we actually do that? By getting consent before death?
Motorcyclists have a great trick to eliminate fogging- after cleaning, rub a little shaving cream onto the lens. It's simple, cheap, and effective. Add a proper-fitting KN95 mask and the difference will be like night and day. There's no need to dress up like Darth Vader (though that might be fun, regardless).

Masks can be uncomfortable. My biggest gripe is actually the awkwardness that sometimes accompanies taking them off and putting them on again. Especially when also wearing glasses, a hat, and/or a helmet. But given my girlfriend wears full PPE for her 12-hour shifts treating COVID patients without ever complaining about getting enough oxygen, I hope the rest of us will bear masking up while we're in the AH or on public transport. Compared to the shit she deals with, it's a minor inconvenience, at best.

Also, maybe I'm wrong but my feeling is the fear of altercation over mask wearing is overblown. I live in a semi-rural part of the United States where masks are a very political and contentious issue (probably more so than in NL). I regularly interact with people strongly opposed to them, and am often in crowds where few if any other people are wearing one, but in the past two years have never experienced any kind of confrontation. Perhaps I'm lucky and my size and physical appearance is intimidating to those who would otherwise pick a fight.
I have cheapy TOZO from Amazon, and honestly have none of those issues. At my desk, I toggle between the laptop and phone without issue...
The problem with this design is that anything that rubs or bounces against the cable transmits sound into your ear (like a children's cup telephone). This makes them annoying to use while exercising. I find that the style connected by a solid hoop mostly avoids this.
> E.g. if judging tweets for example you'd presumably do a lot better if you evaluated the tweets in context of followers and in context of past tweets - both recent and the accounts history.

Must never use followers. Or anything else the account holder has no control over. Otherwise you'll end up with the same kind of SEO problems where competitors and foreign governments create fake accounts to follow or interact with disfavored ones and destroy their algorithmic reputation.

Guilt by association in general is malice. Someone who regularly interacts with white supremacists might be a white supremacist -- and maybe 90% of them are -- but it could also be someone criticizing, mocking or debunking them. And if it gets out that the algorithm is penalizing people for doing that, they'll stop. Which is very bad.
This is a Windows subsystem. It is a system that runs inside of Windows, so it is a Windows subsystem. What is this subsytem for? It is for running Android (or previously Linux) applications and software. I agree that it is confusing, but I think it is incorrect to say that the name is outright wrong.
Cellphone privileges' given to 7M~ users apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF6X5LNBnrs
The easiest fix for clickbait would be to penalize them for it.
It wouldn't be exponential. That's the discredited "viruses grow until exponentially until the entire population is infected" model that keeps embarrassing epidemiologists.

Epidemics come and go in waves. They always did. They don't grow until everyone has been sick, they exhibit far more complex patterns than that, hence why the term endemic is now coming up so often. It doesn't seem impossible that there were waves of COVID before 2020 and they just didn't get detected as such, given the large number of asymptomatic people, the vague symptoms that can be easily confused with other diseases, etc. I don't personally think it's likely, but continuous exponential growth is definitely not a safe assumption.

Re: phylogenetic analysis. Well, the phylogenetic tree they are building classifies something as COV2 if it can be linked into the phylogenetic tree that is rooted at the samples taken in Sept 2019, and was detected after that point. If it can't be, then it's not COV2 by definition. There's a risk of circularity there.
Let’s force Meta to give up WhatsApp…..
"What, me worry"?
- Alfred E Newman
I don't think 99% of Hacker News is in favor of requiring covid vaccination in order to perform everyday activities. It probably a double-digit percentage, but there's plenty of debate. I for one am generally speaking against both that and coercive forms of vaccination against any current diseases, even though I mostly consider it an irrational bet to skip vaccination.

It's definitely a reference to smartphones, but I was thinking more of the everyday activities themselves moving over to de facto requiring a smartphone. E.g. ordering takeaway, using certain public services, ordering transportation, communicating electronically at all and so on. Plenty of authoritarian dreams are enabled by that trend.
hobbit, balrog, ent.

Not because trademarks, none are. But because courts have ruled if you use enough elements, esp characters you somehow are infringing copyright. Or rather, it is easier to cave and change your product than endure the risk and expense of long court battle.
Yup. The same thing happens with my car. I'm listening to something and the audio cut out? Looks like my wife is at home and Children of Dune is blasting in our driveway now.

I guess I like the fact that when I'm in the car I don't have to do anything for it to pair and work but... It seems like there has to be a better way.
> websites on North Korean web domains were largely unreachable because North Korea’s Domain Name System (DNS) stopped communicating the routes that data packets should take.

BGP, not DNS, communicates routes. If Reuters is getting basic IT factchecking wrong, I wonder how many errors are in articles about topics I know nothing about.
Angry Staff Officer has written about LotR a bit: https://angrystaffofficer.com/2019/10/20/warfighter-helms-de...
Do you feel this strongly about driver’s licenses?
The Wachowski’s original idea was using humans as a computational source. The humans as batteries change was to make it more accessible to a general audience.

Some discussion on stack exchange: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv...
The piece of polkit that this exploits was blogged about in 2013: https://ryiron.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/argv-silliness/
The naming scheme is Peter Thiel's calling card
TSMC and MediaTek to hire more than 10k staff in 2022
Congrats on the launch!

> The second is the people we have been speaking to are not our end users. We need to figure out how we can get introduced to our end users, and create a different set of questions for each persona.

I'm not exactly clear on what you are trying to say in the quoted text. Perhaps it is because of how you've framed it? Both the senior and junior folks are end users, it's just their role aka personas that are different, no?
Worth noting that this and the other exploit that was posted on twitter last night do not work (at least) on Fedora 34, and some versions of OpenSUSE. Generally they will not work on versions of polkit which disable GVFS. My POC [0] handles this by just setting the relevant env variable explicitly.

[0] https://github.com/PeterGottesman/pwnkit-exploit
Expanding Your State of Play
Simply disgusting, and difficult to understand. How is a market leader bribing OEMs not to use a competitor's product not the definition of anticompetitive behaviour and abuse of a dominant position?
No. It makes the world unfair. But the OP seemed to presume that the world was fair.

That’s a common wrong presumption that these “poor people are actually rich” people have: that the world is fair.

It’s also a popular assumption on message boards populated by high-income folks for obvious reasons.
I get that no cables can be nice and convenient, but routing the wire through a shirt/jacket helps avoid getting caught

edit: lol, an instant downvote - didn't realize I was on Reddit. It was at best a suggestion for when you have to get by with cabled headphones. I'm not on some holy war.
I agree. I only got a pair of earbuds because they cam free with my phone but I was surprised by how lifechanging they were. Not in an important way, but in a low key and pervasive way.

There are two situations where earbuds are far more convenient:

Getting ready in the morning - I can put the earbuds in once I'm out of the shower and dried off and listen to a podcast. They don't get in the way of getting dressed, moving around etc.. This is just not workable with wired headphones and my partner has already started work so I can't use a speaker, and even if I could I'm moving between different rooms and floors of the house.

Driving - getting headphones out of your pocket, untangling them and putting them in is basically impossible to do (safely) while driving. But earbuds are never tangled I can just open the case and put them in all while my eyes never leave the road. Means I can make phonecalls or listen to stuff easily and safely. This is a particular case of them just being quicker and easier to put in than wired earbuds - no having to thread it down your jumper just because you want to watch a 5 minute YouTube video.
They also snagged on everything, got tied up in knots in your pocket, the wires would give out all the time requiring you to buy new ones, were obnoxious to use when exercising, and limited the physical distance you could move from the device you were using to about 2 feet.

There are issues with wireless headphones, but they also solve a lot of genuine problems with wired ones.
Absent among the steps was *that* step, which for guys my age is easily the most time-consuming one.
Yes, of course the government can outlaw solving certain math problems. Anything on a computer can be represented by math. "Solving a math problem" can create Bitcoins or hack a computer system or recreate CSAM or recreate copyrighted or patented works or send a threat to someone.

Calculating a hash for Bitcoin and then broadcasting it assumedly has the same level of First Amendment protection as calculating a hash for someone else's password and then broadcasting it.
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> "Gaming their algorithm" sounds like a fancy way of saying SEO

It's quite the opposite, "Search Engine Optimization" is the fancy euphemism for gaming the algorithm.
Depends on what “worth it,” “better,” and “worse” mean to you.

If bad weather and high cost of living rank high on your list of desirable attributes, London has those. I wouldn’t wave “visa issues aside,” either. UK long-stay visas are hard to get. Maybe visit for a couple of months and decide for yourself instead of asking for random and meaningless opinions. I (American) lived in England for two years, it’s not on my list of places I would choose to live again, but everyone has their own criteria and opinions.
I use duckduckstart.com and I don't recall adding a bang to the search, so it was probably in the startpage.com results when I searched for "Google search operators."
That's just not true. They never just worked for me at least.

- Cables would get cluttered in my clothes

- Cables would eventually all break at one point

- The cables were a mess in a any jacket / bag

- The microphone was making weird sounds when they hit my face and and people would complain

- etc.
In some places. Now. I think it's something to be concerned about.
It seems like the Hangul[0]/Korean writing system was retrofitted into Chinese with the challenge being to make the imprecise precise. Hangul was designed with the purpose of solving illiteracy and so the character forms were built simply from sound components. Doing it in reverse with a larger unstructured set of symbols is quite the feat.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul
I’m curious if any of these annoyances are better when using with an M1 mac.

For example, plugging in my dock (with two 4K monitors attached) is always super slow and janky and takes several seconds for the monitors to display anything. Supposedly on the M1 this is instant.
Agreed, plus the screen glow is bad for your sleep cycle and eyes as well.

I don't think there's an easy solution. Either your side projects suffer, or your relationship. I choose to keep my relationship healthy, but at some point, if you keep postponing every project and hobby, frustration starts to mount and that's not good for relationships either.
In one HN thread, people complain about the U.S. not forcing people to get vaccinated, and in another thread it's about how the U.S. is becoming an authoritarian state. I take no position on these arguments, I just get spun around trying to track whether the U.S. is being overrun by libertarians or authoritarians sometimes.
As a former infantryman, the officers I knew were about evenly split between these types and football players who clearly had a lot of help with their coursework.
This data is based on what's seen in the wild, right? So if they see text in brackets removed more often than text in parentheses, that could reflect what sort of text people tend to put in brackets vs parentheses rather than (or in addition to) how google treats those characters.
If this were being done by a person, I might agree with you.
But it's not. It's being done by an algorithm which was carefully crafted [by a person] to improve someone's chance for getting a promotion.

I made a little change there. Algorithms don't just magically appear like leprechauns and unicorns.
My favorite is when the title sounds like what you’re looking for only to discover it’s a page full of ads and keywords. The original title doesn’t even match.

That causes me to lose faith in google not a better experience.
Post it on HN, of course.
It was interesting reading about Proof-of-Humanity and Kleros court. I think human involvement is going to become more and more important in the web3 space. I imagine these things will become the "glue" that pieces together many smart contract protocols.

Allow me to fantasize for a moment. I'm imagining a decentralized Uber where each party submits a security deposit before the ride takes place. Then, the security deposits are returned at the end of the ride unless one of the parties submits a claim. This claim then goes to a decentralized court like Kleros or Aragon court.
I'm smiling at this while enjoying music on my 20 years unmodified Senheiser HD25.
You can build up a lot, far more than is typical in much of London.

There are 3.6 million dwellings [0] in the 157,000 hectares of London [1]. There's 14,000 Hectares of Park and Open Space [2].

If you quadrupled the amount of park and open space to 56,000 hectares, leaving 100,000 for housing, and built as dense as Islington or Kensington+Chelsea (not particularly known for skyrise apartments), at 70 per hectare, that would be 7 million dwellings, about twice as many as now, even with far more public open space

[0] https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/number-and-density-of-dwe...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_and_open_spaces_in_Londo...
Human Brain Cloud: A Multiplayer Word Association Game
It's arbitrary but I got those numbers from economist John Taylor, who knows more than I do. Maybe zero inflation would be better.