skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do we now have publishers, journalists, authors, distributors, illustrators, etc.? Also yes.

We sure do. When you obsolete labour, you free people up to do other things. However, I question how true this will be with the AI revolution.

The printing press is an example of mechanical automation which does not extend into either human creativity (content of writing) or other mechanical processes. It merely provides a means of making multiple copies and passing them along.

The printing press among others inventions from the industrial revolution are a false equivalence to the coming AI. AI with the ability to perform physical and mental tasks along with internet-like connectivity and an ability to learn will completely obsolete all work. If not immediately, that is the only foreseeable long-term outcome.

AI is not a printing press. It is a way to invent and apply the equivalent of a printing press to all existing and emerging labour markets in an exponential way. Very dangerous when you realize its impacts are not bounded like the industrial revolution. This is an existential threat that comments like yours waive away too easily.
Sennheiser Momentum.

Or if you want a boom mic, some of the “Pro” or “G” branded logitech headsets.
It didn't fail for any technical reason though, the whole government behind it was stumbling at the time on it's way to full collapse from a heady medley of internal and external forces.
Hey sorry, just now seeing this. I worked at a small web shop out of college. A lot of respect among team members and friendly environment. Just not enough money in that org to support the employees like my current org.
Wait… I can’t play video games on my extremely powerful MacBook Pro without Windows Bootcamp… and now Apple is making a gaming console? I already have a powerful computer. Consoles are backwards in evolution of gaming unless you consider the price, and I’m sure an Apple console wouldn’t be cheap. Like others stated, cloud gaming would even make more sense.

This probably annoys me more than it should.. but I’m resentful towards Apple for making computers incapable of running modern video games.
Got some Samsung Galaxy Buds Live for my birthday and they're honestly one of the best tech products I've ever used. The case recharges them, the setup with a phone was very easy and worked well, they pair perfectly with my Ubuntu laptop as well. Taking them out of the case they automatically activate, put them in the case automatically shut off. And so on. They do just work.
I have exactly the same problem! I’ve resorted to manually disabling Bluetooth on the device I don’t want to use… never had that issue with Airpods.
For those interested, this is safe to read
> If you look around the programming language space, you'll see the exact opposite attitudes, features get added into languages willy-nilly

Java has been going with the last-mover advantage of only ever incorporating a new feature when it proved to be useful by other languages. That has been going on for 25 years, so it is definitely queen of this category. Not sure why it is seldom appreciated, but it is also a very small language (compare the number of keywords it has by c# for example), and it was even named “blue-collar” for a reason. So I still don’t see Go anything new even from this perspective.
You're seriously considering ordinary people buy puts against their salary!

Not going to happen.
Wouldn’t the unique copies be 10000*9999?
That's not true. Every treatment of Paxlovid the company will sell is going to make a lot more profit that vaccines.
Also (generally) better sound quality (mic) and no latency/artifacting issues. Much cheaper as well.
As soon as one miner goes down another one will come up because it is profitable, yes maybe they can stop it in the US, but at this point the network effect and momentum is too strong, allot of money is invested in it. The FBI would have to trap over so many people and entities around the world to stop it.

I think the only way to stop bitcoin is economically, like say Satoshi appears destabilizing the market.
A million times. The "inconvenient" audio jack+cord does not run on batteries that will end in landfills. And it's barely an inconvenience at all.
Governments cannot shutdown Bitcoin as a protocol. They could ban the mining and ownership of it. This doesn't at all stop the protocol from operating, but institutional investors and most retail would abandon it, crashing the prize.

None of this will happen, as governments aren't this united. Even within the US there's crypto-friendly and crypto-hostile states. Right now, Bitcoin is explicitly recognized as an asset/commodity, not as a currency. Property, not a security.

There's definitely regulation pending regarding crypto. In particular, many non-Bitcoin cryptos are likely securities. Stablecoins backings are to be regulated. And there may be mining regulation where it's not outright banned, but (CO2) taxed.
How exactly would that "should" work if there just isn't a standard set price?
Absolutely. We're trialling this for our SSH bastion server. The security keys don't need any setup at all, which makes it much easier to handle backups and replacements.
India is building a lot of public transit now. I will be interested in seeing how that changes the culture of such cities. This is long term - transit needs to go close to where you are and where you want to be before people will use it, so a large part of the change depends on if/when they build more lines after the current ones open.
As mentioned by other I think search is becoming more muddy and that is part of the issue.

The thought I have in the back of my head is that for thousands of years lots of information was written down, but not any more.
What happens if digital storage is affected/destroyed for what ever reason...

Back to the stone age?
Some people are saying that this is notable because Pfizer has a financial incentive to keep vaccine mandates.

That is not true. Pfizer is going to be making a lot more money from their COVID treatments than from the vaccine.
Recognizing the state is probably the most important skill to get good at. Whether it's from long term burnout or just a short term lethargy, you should practice acknowledging it instead of just wallowing in it.

My computer is a gateway into another world of positivity some days, and a self imposed prison on other days. But you can't solve computer burnout at the computer, so stand up, detach yourself from it, get some breathing room to regroup.

After that I usually go work on a physical project, go for a walk, go for a ride, be outdoors or if that's not possible be physical in some way, like a makers hobby. Weight training is a great option for indoors too.

Burnout can be related to overworking, but it can also be related to not being stimulated enough by your work, a long term anxiousness built up from all your time being spent on something that doesn't satisfy you. It's worth trying to identify and solve the cause of the burnout rather than just working around it.
Millions of people died, there's no victory.
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Funnily enough, that’s the problem I have now! I don’t have the solution but my current strategy is to work on making the website as a whole more helpful and valuable to users, improving SEO and being more active in the target community. The knock-on effect will hopefully be more subscribers, and maybe more feedback for improvements.

Thanks for the extra Python advice by the way.
Taxed differently - gaming console (aka entertainment) vs ‘work computer’.
Y’know what headphones really did “just work” though? Wired headphones, circa 2017. Their battery life was infinite. You could “pair” them in seconds to any device with a headphone jack, aka any device, because we’re in 2017. Oh, and they were cheaper and better for the environment.

Courage, indeed.

And this is why I’m currently typing my comment on an iPhone 6S...
MPOW M30 just work for me.
"It Just Works"... This is merely a tagline from Apple, an advertising slogan. As such, I have never taken it seriously - let alone the fact that it is also a hollow statement. Who does/did takes it seriously?

That members of the wider YC community do take it seriously, or worse actually believe and re-bark it in the first place, just shows that, in this instance, being fluent in 'tech' is not a panacea for gullibility.
I encountered several of these annoyances myself. Turning off auto-switching removed some issues with them randomly jumping between devices but now it's just more manual labor to connect them.

Having had my share of annoying buzzing sounds I wrote these up a while ago, since I got them replaced 3 times I don't have any of these any more though:

- https://annoying.technology/posts/abea6876cf4f2e13/

- https://annoying.technology/posts/d3e6a4bce1e140b2/

I'm still using them every day and despite the annoyances the small form factor and the sound quality are just good enough to put up with it.
As near as I could figure out RTkit asked Polkit "do I have permissions to set this real-time?", and Polkit said "no". But perhaps I'm wrong; I found it all very hard to debug as mentioned before, and I didn't care that much just to play some game. I don't have the game on my laptop any more; I'll have to try your pkcheck command next time (although that still won't fix anything, but might get me closer; thanks!)

What I lament is not so much that things have changed, but that things have changed in ways I no longer understand or can debug. Back in the Old Days™ you could more or less understand your entire system from a few very basic principles. If something didn't work, you could go in there and usually figure it out on your own.

Not that I have rose-coloured glasses about the Old Days™. I remember having to run that horrible "xfree86 -configure" thing when I was starting out with this whole Linux thing. Clearly, things are better now because the last time I had to look at "configuring X" is so long ago I don't even remember how to do it (or even what that filename was; /etc/x.conf? Or /etc/x11.conf? Not sure).

I don't think it has to be like this. Just because "su" and "sudo" aren't sufficient and the concepts in e.g. Polkit are good doesn't mean the implementation of these concepts also is.
I don't quite understand this reasoning. If the transplant is going to shut off the patient's immune system anyway, what's the point of the vaccine given that they are going to undo it shortly afterwards? There must be some nuance that I am missing.
Shutting down cryptocurrencies so the planet can live a bit longer sounds really good.
AirPods are great when they work, frustrating when they don’t. Mine seem to be in a frequent pattern of not connecting to my phone automatically lately, and I couldn’t tell you why. I don’t feel like that was happening nearly as often a few months ago and I’m guessing it has something to do with the many updates and changes they’ve made to how Bluetooth connections between AirPods and iPhone seem to work.

I’ve also experienced my fair share of quality issues - static coming through when noise cancelling operates, which Apple replaced my AirPods under warranty for.) Now I’m experiencing a very tough to describe effect where one AirPod seems to cut in and out of transparency mode repeatedly and in a subtle way.

All in all they are a great product and I agree with some of the other commenters that for all their flaws they are miles ahead of anything else I’ve tried.
I got an occulus quest 2 (manufactured by meta) recently and it's a lot of fun. VR is not revolutionary but it's definitely going to make money for meta and others.
AirPods used to work. They no longer do.

I got AirPods shortly after they were released and they were great. They were basic Bluetooth headphones with a decent, minimalistic UI that "just worked". They wouldn't try to be smart and just remain connected to the last device they were on, which worked well 90% of the time and the last 10% wasn't a problem because the connection process was very quick. Under the hood it was presumably just bog-standard Bluetooth which is good enough and can actually be reliable given my experience.

But then Apple couldn't leave "well enough" alone and decided to over-engineer and fuck everything up. They tried to do the whole multi-device thing where it's supposed to automatically & seamlessly switch between them, and the problems in this article arise from this - presumably they've now overlaid an extra management layer & protocol on top of the existing Bluetooth. Even disabling the automatic switching feature doesn't help, as the extra complexity seems to still be involved in the background and makes once quick operations take much more time.

Connecting to AirPods from the audio menu on another device now takes much longer and doesn't always work - sometimes it'll keep spinning and eventually time out for no reason. Connecting via the Bluetooth menu always works and is faster - I wonder why the audio menu doesn't just do whatever the Bluetooth menu does? Same story on iPhone - connecting via the audio menu is now error-prone and I sometimes have to try again using the Bluetooth settings.

Also a problem I have which I suspect is an isolated bug but is still annoying is that since these new changes, I simply cannot get within range of my Macbook without my music playing though AirPods on an iPhone stopping. I suspect the automatic switching garbage they introduced, which despite being disabled, still plays a part. The AirPods don't even actually switch so it's not like the setting didn't apply, they remain connected to the original device but merely pause, so in the end it's the worst of both worlds as it's not even giving me the extra functionality and just ruins something that used to work perfectly.

Not to mention, in typical Apple fashion, all these overlay protocols have zero observability and you can't even tell what's going on beyond a spinner that eventually times out. Same with AirDrop, HomeKit, etc but at least those are used infrequently enough that they aren't too big of a deal in practice, but AirPods are particularly problematic especially in a post-pandemic, fully-remote world.

Of course, given the recent changes to iPhones, wired headphones are no longer an option either unless you keep dongles around. They should've either switched the new iPhones to USB-C or added a Lightning port to Macbooks so that wired headphones could be used without a dongle you'll inevitably be missing when you need it.
> You're misdefining "authoritarian"

No, the economic sphere is strictly top-down authoritarian where workers is in a dependency situation wrt to their boss. The pandemic has made that abundantly clear.

> You're free to manage your own property however you wish.

Only if you actually have property to begin with, which most don't by no fault of their own. And what a few do have, by no merit of their own.
> OP should try using another brand of Bluetooth headphones for a week

Extensive user of various BT headphones on Android for few years now - went through everything from cheap Corwin E7 to Galaxy Buds to Bose QC to latest one Sony WH-1000XM4 - had minor issues with the Galaxy Buds - had to wiggle them in the case to get the charging going but other than that all of the other ones work really well - Sony being the king of the hill - even two devices work as expected and the sound quality is good.
You never know, maybe he invests heavily in hospitals and respirators.
The market, that ill-tempered, irrational screwball, has spoken, and its says that everyone wants wireless headphones. The manufacturers have listened, and fervently believe that you’re wrong if you disagree.
>Unless we foolishly enter a time machine, this is irrelevant.

I don't think the holocaust is "irrelevant." When you stop believing it can happen again (which apparently you've done), you lose the defenses to keep it from happening again. I'm very glad my minority kid has means to self defense if people ever choose to attack her perceived ethnic group. Also, there are plenty of murders in Netherlands, too. Although not as many (but then again, stay away from gangs and a few large cities in US, and you'll probably find you're far from any non-lottery-ticket risk of murder).

- Our kids won't ever have the internal debate about reproductive rights: birth control will be a norm and abortions will be available.

Neither will ours, many US states allow this.

- We'll stay healthy more easily with healthier food and a more active, less car-dependent lifestyle.

Healthy food is widely available in US and you can live with just a bicycle in places like Chicago or even in rural areas if you stay fit.

- Our lives won't revolve around our jobs, we'll be able to be more present for our kids.

I have this same thing in US.

- We won't have to solve all of our problems (education, health care, housing) with huge piles of money, driving us to work harder and take jobs that exploit others just so we can stay ahead.

My family makes maybe 75th percentile at best in our city (and I'm guessing you will too if you're internationally mobile). If you live away from the coasts that is plenty for those, like in Midwest. Is that huge piles of money?

- Our kids will probably not have to spend a ton of money or time taking care of us when we're old.

In US kids are not deemed slave to their parents, they can do as they wish after reaching adulthood.

- Our kids will grow up in a more multicultural environment, hopefully giving them a broader view of humanity.

I live in one of the most multicultural nations in the world. The city I live in, in fact, I am a minority as a white European descent person. Will Europeans be minority where you live in Netherlands?

Netherlands sounds like a great place. I'm sure it'd be fun to live there. But the reasons you give make no sense, you can achieve all your goals in America and many other nations. I think you're just culturally, ideologically, or politically interested in Netherlands. Which is a great reason to go of course.
I don't have AirPods, but every time I've had a meeting with someone who does, the microphone quality has been terrible, even in quiet environments.

The sounds has been muffled to the point where, while I could still understand the person, it took me 50% more cognitive effort to make out what they were saying because of the low quality. It's almost always much better when I ask them to switch to the built-in MacBook Pro mic (which is decent).

It's an insidious problem. People like their setup because they can hear you well. But what they don't realize is that they are themselves barely understandable. They don't hear themselves and people aren't used to giving them feedback.

Is it just me?
Additional anecdote, I have Sony XM3s and they are constantly having issues on both Android and Linux while being expensive and having excellent noise cancelation. They just worked for like the first 2-3 months but after a year, they've seemed to have gotten worse in basically all aspects (although interestingly switching from Sony's app to GadgetBridge for pairing and config, I seem to get better battery life). The connectivity has gotten so bad and I've caused so many interruptions in telemeetings that I bought a new pair of wired IEMs because I know analog actually just works (though my laptop lacks a headphone jack because of OEMs follow Apple's trends regardless of if the idea was good or bad).
Why do you need all these regions? Is there any real money to be made outside of G7 that will be greatly decreased due to increased latency?
> I think it can be claimed that it limits the rate of spread, not total spread/infections.

Sure. We're probably all getting this thing at some point. But, that's why I said "until all ages are able to be vaccinated."

I really wish the US and other countries would take the Singapore route and require the unvaccinated assholes clogging up our medical system (and exhausting our highly trained/educated/caring physicians and nurses) to pay their own healthcare costs incurred due to COVID.

Having the unvaccinated directly realize some cost for their own ignorance seems highly appropriate here. Although I suppose at least some of them are paying the ultimate price with their life, which is also very unfortunate.
Learning happens in the brains of sleeping babes
I love this tool!

I use it every day to insert monitor data from Lunar (https://lunar.fyi) into The Monitor Database (https://db.lunar.fyi)

I also use it occasionaly to insert data from my Meilisearch instances into Postgres/SQLite for more accurate filtering when needed.
Want your smart display or speaker to stop talking? Just say “stop”
See 'Can I post a job ad' at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
If blood samples from 2017 have similar number of positives as blood samples from 2019, then we can be quite certain that the positive tests (or test) from December 2019 were false positives. (Which I think is already the vastly most likely explanation.)
I have a decorated history of calling people on their bullshit. I have the 'you have been let go' and negative resume references to prove it.

The fool is the person not understanding the game they're playing.

Techies who do other people's work are perpetuating the game they despise - they are indeed fools.

Middle managers who perpetuate the game are smart, because it is their job to perpetuate the game. It is not their job to change the rules of the game - that's the job of the techies who can refuse to 'pick up the slack', let targets fail repeatedly and signal to upper management that the game isn't working, forcing them to change the game, which the middle managers will once again perpetuate, because that is their job.
It was too soon and done in a stupid way. They will try again later.

As another example: just because Google Glasses flopped because of privacy issues it doesn't mean that future Apple/... Glasses which will have exactly the same privacy issues will not be a thing.
I wonder, does "just work" mean work perfectly 100.000% of the time. Or is 99% of the time close enough?
Now you've damned me to eternal torment.
Without Apple device a firmware upgrade is not possible.
Gemini can play videos just fine already.
15kb of CSS is all you’ll ever need (2016)
Ok, so the reason I said bad is because this happens to me. I’m playing music on my laptop. I go to the bathroom. Maybe an auto-playing video with sound pops up on my iPhone. The headphones switch to my phone. Now I’m back at my laptop and have to manually reconnect the headphones.

Perhaps this is what people want, but in my cases it’s two tech annoyances (auto play video and fumbling with the Bluetooth menu).
$500 Wal*Mart laptop? Why be rich uncle pennybags when you could instead use an RPi4?

The only common tasks on the Pi4 that have unacceptably slow performance are web browsing and any IO speeds for the primary SD card.
It's an operator because it's functional (although often with side effects): three expressions go in and one expression goes out.
Control flow constructs deal with statements instead.
Honestly, the fact that I no longer snag my earphones on random protrusions, like doorknobs and bus ticket validating machines is a bliss. Cables inside at a desk: sure, why not. Cables outside: hard pass.
I don't think you can tell if "the text" of the page has changed since then without manually looking though. I'm not sure how you'd solve this technically, it's probably more than just telling you if the html bytes are identical, since small changes probably happen all the time to "the same article".

Or it might be good enough, because this kind of content is rarely updated at the same url?
It probably doesn't worth the cost. Metadata can be trivially stripped, and altering the encoded video and audio streams for each user for fingerprinting is costly.
how the hell does a list of annoyances about a product makes it to the #1 of HN

oh Apple I get it

you people need to diversify
I read way too much of this comment before I realised you were joking. Got me good.