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> the Airpods are miles better than any bluetooth earphones I've ever used when it comes to switching sources

I think this just depends on Bluetooth version. My current FreeBuds 4 switch between devices seamlessly, no manual switching needed.

With my old headphones I head to switch manually, but it wasn't that much of a bother with a switching widget on the main screen (instead going deep into the settings).
My goal is to ship, twenty-five years in software
I’m not so sure this applies with centralized tracking/filtering.
> there should be an international initiative to ban automated military weapons

You think the Houthis will agree to that?
The problem are the people who are blindly following along and calling the other 50% white supremacists for not following along.

I think people are starting to give little credit to the tinfoil hat people because maybe out of all of us, their brand of crazy has merit.
Your (and other's) complaints about the volume of the AirPod alert notifications makes me think either (a) your hearing is more sensitive than most or (b) I've lost more hearing than I thought I had. Either way, those alerts play at what seems like a reasonable and moderate volume to me.
Is it just the US going rogue? Seems like it is happening on a larger scale.
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The terms are not clearly stated, the explicit LICENSE document https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/blob/mas... offers a standard MIT license, unlike the wiki description.
What happened to Zhi afterwards? I felt like the article ended just as things were getting good.
I think I see where you're coming from, but come to a different conclusion.

If you are, rightly, disappointed about low quality results in SERPs, then why not direct your frustration at Google's search algorithm? But ultimately once the algorithm has decided what to return, I don't want any of it to be tampered with. Maybe there's an argument that once you're using a black box, it might as well be the best black box it can be, but I don't agree.

I wonder whether there is a case for legal action here. Google would not have wasted time developing this rewrite engine unless it had an effect on clicks. Whether that is positive or negative, only they truly know. What if it was found that it was, or wasn't, being applied consistently to the results of their competitors, but not their own sites, for example?
North Korea is poorly connected to the rest of the internet, by their own design. I know that a few years ago, there was only one link to the outside; not sure if that's changed, but I have no reason to think that it would have.
Why not promote both though?
I was one of those humans, and it's more that the algorithms were initially designed under the assumption that we would keep doing that work for free, forever, but once the communities we were doing it for were destroyed, why bother?

Also there was a lot of pushback and poo-pooing the human element; lots of well-regarded (at the time) people saying that there was no future in human-curated content, and I know that I (as a young person) believed them. Look at the cool stuff they were making; they have to be right! They're smart adults, they would know, right?

It just stopped being fun to curate.
The most talented brewers I see, have really talented QA folks standing right behind them helping them make targets for their process and blend things that are out of spec ect.

The smaller breweries will always make something different but their consistency is atrocious most of the time.
To me the real key here is making multi-datacenter instances easy, whether those are multiple datacenters in the same country or 37 countries.

But even to stick to your question, the G7 spans probably a dozen time zones. Even if you stuck there, you'd still have a pain with a multi-region app and see benefits.
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Ask HN: How will you prepare for a Covid-like disease in the future?
Imagine you have approximately 90 day warning that a disease with similar (or even slightly more dangerous) characteristics than Covid has started spreading in a far away part of world - as far away as Wuhan is from San Francisco.

Knowing what we know about Covid and civilization’s response to it - what will you do to protect yourself and your loved ones?

Some options:
* move to an island? different country or jurisdiction? Which one?
* move to a country house with food? Meds? Guns? Something else?
* continue doing what you do? For it was not so bad?
There's one major annoyance with Sony headphones and earbuds - no way to mute/unmute yourself - you must walk back to your laptop to do it. Why, oh why, Sony?
i been messing with other search engines a lot. kagi and marginalia. nothing too good or bad so far. I really want to be done with google.

ddg seems like a clone of google so its not much better
But how will we create our utopia?
Tech companies only stand to gain from partnering with an invasive government. The idea that they'd side with us over the state that regulates them and provides a market to seek profit is a fantasy
It's definitely not an issue with bandwidth, instead it's an issue of standardization. There just doesn't exist a bluetooth profile that supports high quality duplex audio communications between two devices. It's pathetic.
Yea I agree, just offering a solution. I am excited for Apple to switch to USB-C for the iPhone as well. It's quite irritating that it's not... one cable to rule them all! But then they went and added HDMI and SD back to the Mac, so now they have a better argument since they aren't actually doing the one-cable approach.
These numbers can be further separated by "with Covid" and "from Covid" causality, as well as co-morbidities and expected lifetime. E.g. if someone was soon to die from illness A, but died 3 months earlier from complications induced by Covid, and the hospital received a financial payment for classifying this as Covid-related treatment, that should be broken out into a separate reporting category. Such deaths would not much change all-cause mortality for the year.
You becoming obese doesn’t affect me the way you catching Covid does. Yes obesity eats up healthcare resources as well but not to the degree and certainly not as quickly as Covid cases do.
Ok but what do you propose though? The vaccinated still spread COVID granted at a lesser rate. A permanent mask mandate? COVID is not going away.
You can use it for free, that doesn't mean it won't take a cut. I could write code under MIT that is a keylogger, it's free to use, doesn't meant there aren't other consequences. In fact MIT protects the creator from any of those consequences.

Sure, based on the license, someone could fork AdMob Pro and remove the ad sharing but that's not what the blog author did.
You'd be foolish to sit under the piano if only some piece of software is verified, and not the entire operating system, and the silicon. And not just the correctness of blueprint of the silicon, but the freedom of manufacturing defects of that exact build of the silicon, and all the hardware around it: every DRAM memory cell, every capacitor. That still leaves the possibility that a bit is flipped due to silicon being struck by radiation. Consumer-grade hardware is quite susceptible to random errors caused by cosmic rays.

All verification makes assumption about some lower layer that is not itself verified.

For instance, you can't deduce the issues uncovered by Meltdown and Spectre from the semantics of the x86 instruction set architecture; so if you use that alone, you can falsely prove that x86 programs don't have security problems.

Rationally speaking, you shouldn't take any risk, however small, where there is no benefit. You wouldn't risk $1000 if the expected value from the entire risky event $900. If you're putting your life on the line, there has to be something in it other than convincing people that you really believe in something being correct.

Consider this: people have died for the sake of showing that their belief (e.g. religious) is correct! For instance, set themselves on fire or blown themselves up, or suffered as martyrs all the way to death. Just because some programmer put himself under the piano while his code was being fuzzed doesn't mean that it's correct, just that he or she is reckless and has a fanatical belief in the work. (If the programmer is reckless, I'm disinclined to believe in his or her code.)
At this point, “3” represents a tiny fraction of the population so isn’t even really worth breaking out
It would be a great feature if they tracked the date when the content actually changed... significantly. I guess that could still be gamed.
"reform the police" is rather short. Not sufficient?
Not so sure older content (like the stuff I wrote in the late 90s to mid 00s) would be negatively impacted, so long as search providers pay careful attention to the <!DOCTYPE> tag (or lack thereof). I wouldn't characterize holding people to at least a bare minimum of standards (e.g., title in the head and nowhere else, which has been the rule since at least HTML 2.0 in 1994) as "punishment", any more than dinging them for unclosed parens and other typos. Language is how we communicate understanding, and markup is how we frame presentations on the web (mostly). People need to be prepared for the consequences of making it up as they go along rather than educating themselves on the standard (whether spelling, grammar or markup language).
I was amazed at how soon I could pick up my baby after her 4 heart surgeries. Obviously, it was a bum scoop as opposed to picking her up under the arms (never had that luxury), and she was medicated, but literally 3-5 days after surgeries, we're back to having skin-skin. Maybe it's because their bones aren't as strong as an adults and there's more flex, but still, really took me by surprise. Even hours after surgeries, her diaper/nappy needed to be changed, so the nurses/I/we would carefully do it, but it was really eye-opening considering she just had major open heart surgery.
Developer of the extension here, happy to answer any questions.
Fat taxes are a form of this. I think the primary difference is that they have strong economic incentives aligned against them. I don't see this as the case with vaccine and mask mandates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_tax
I guess it depends on the use case. ANC on my FreeBuds (which are open type) is certainly limited, but it's a make or break difference in e.g. public transportation.
What am I supposed to see? I get a black screen with a blue link to your GitHub.
I wasn't proposing an alternative, just chiming in that I don't believe the GP's assertion that "It ends with covid vaccines". Mainly because the government now has a powerful tool at its disposal for fighting pandemics and it will not want to stop using it once the threat is finally past us because it has so much utility and expandability for future health crises.
So this is a "This week vercel is sponsoring" episode...
https://bgpview.io/asn/131279#upstreams-v4

https://bgp.he.net/AS131279#_graph4

They have two peers, AS134544 in CN and AS20485 in RU.
The issue is that companies are setup to protect themselves in every way possible, and they will do that. I worked on an abusive team and raised blatant harassment to my skip.

They ignored it, so I slowly worked my way up the chain to the head of engineering. I was given all the support in the world, and then suddenly let go and told to pound sand. My lawyer said that I could fight it for settlement but it would not be worth the investment to do so.

During that time I learned many others quit in the same office as me. The only impactful thing I could do was post a negative review on Glassdoor, and tell people 1-1 about my horrible experience. I ended up going from a midsized company to FAANG, and my career is better from it.

It was slightly worse than this. The head of HR was going to cull my office of abusive team members, but they themselves were fired before they could do that. This was before I joined. I reached out and they were willing to speak with the head of engineering about the history of harassment, but my company refused.

I also had a direct line with the founder, who in onboarding gives a two hour spiel how this will be the greatest company to work at, because their number one priority is employee experience. They ghosted me and several other senior members when we tried to raise concerns with them.

My best guess is that, they were seeking to be acquired and did not want to risk any drama which might impact their valuation. About a year after, they were acquired by a company with shitty terms for employees.

I think that employees should prioritize themselves first, if the company won’t do that. To your point though, this is a flawed system.

Perhaps the next wave of startups will clue into this. I think it would be a huge competitive advantage if done right. Creating a safe and productive work environment can help people to flourish.

I refuse to put that company on my resume.
> Haggling is price discovery

Yes, the issue is that the price does not need to be discovered. The seller knows the "real" price, and is just hopping to screw over the buyer.
I once had an EE friend that built these tiny chips he called Annoyers. They simply emitted a loud chirp at a random time interval. The interval was too long to effectively locate the chip, and the chirp was terribly annoying. It could take weeks to find the quarter-sides device hidden in someone’s home (or the battery would just die).

Of course, while he was explaining this to me, the chip slipped from my fingers and fell down an air vent of another friend’s living room. The comedic timing was perfect, and it really might have been the funniest thing to happen to me in 2012.
I'll add kxt.org (kera in Dallas/Ft Worth). They have a kind ofor bizarre format of old pop song, new pop song all day long. Might not be your cup of tea, but they play a lot of new music I would not have heard had it not been joined with things I've liked for a long time.
Does that happen at the firmware level or the driver level? It seems Qualcomm devices are pretty actively developed in the Linux kernel?

I found Linaro, which claims to be doing work on Qualcomm devices: https://www.linaro.org/blog/highlights-from-linaro-connect-o...
Do you really think Republicans are not getting vaccinated because they “don’t trust” pharma companies?
I know this is going to sound conspiratorial but I think you’d have to be pretty naive to accept the reported deaths in the US due to Covid to be that accurate. Hospitals(which in the US are for profit mind you) were quite literally given more money for reporting a death as a Covid death for a period of time. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fac...

Actually you could say it’s difficult to trust the numbers coming from any country for a variety of reasons, whether it be under or overreported.
Yes, the idea (at least in our app) was to mimic the experience of a real whiteboard, where your colleagues also tend to be behind you. The app also serves educators who in fact called out the resulting eye contact and visible body language as one of the key benefits.

We do have an answer for the "overhead scenario" though (we call it the "tutoring scenario"): rather than using a whiteboard, you point your external camera at your desk and share a piece of paper. Then you can all write on the shared surface while facing each other online.

Our original plan was to synchronize cameras with projectors and deliver a remote whiteboard-to-whiteboard experience. Tricky but we did it in lab conditions. Put it on the back burner though, given the much smaller market.

I do like the idea of facing the whiteboard and not having to turn around. I guess a simple hack for now might be to just video conference with your colleagues on your cell while the laptop/camera faces the board (and your back)? I'll play around with this.

Thanks for sharing. Please keep 'em coming!
You can't catch obesity from someone coughing in the same room as you.

But to extrapolate further:
Sugar taxes have been tried in countries - Mexico for one. I think there was massive backlash from CocaCola/Pepsi etc, for infringing on their freedom to make obscene profits. I seem to recall discussions here about some of the lawmakers finding Israeli spykits on their phones (the ones pushing for the sugar tax).
edit: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/technology/hack-mexico-so...
I think that is the worst reason for them to rewrite titles. If they left the title as-is, then I would be able to see in the search results that it was a spammy site and ignore it. Instead Google is helping to launder their SEO and present it as a more legitimate site. If Google thinks a site is gaming their algorithms they should de-prioritize it, not rewrite it.
The FBI did not present any evidence that Gang Chen had anything other than normal scientific collaborations in China, of the type that are not only common, but actually actively encouraged by scientific organizations around the world.

The goal of the FBI (and the goal that you appear to be advocating here and later in this thread) is to criminalize normal, open scientific exchange between American and Chinese scientists. They hoped that by going after one of the most high-profile ethnically Chinese scientists in the US, they could make an example that would scare everyone else away from normal scientific collaboration with Chinese scientists.

> A naturalized US citizen doing research with federal funding, especially from DoD and DARPA, has no business participating in conversations with PRC officials while using "we" and "our" to refer to China and its ambitions

First of all, anyone can express themselves however they want, and even if we believe what the FBI wrote in the complaint, there's no evidence of espionage or other wrongdoing here.

Second of all, it came out that the FBI had truncated and fundamentally misrepresented this email. This email contains Prof. Chen's notes on a talk he saw by a Chinese scientist. The "we" and "our" in the email are part of Prof. Chen's paraphrase of what the Chinese scientist said.

The US already went through one paranoid period in the 1950s in which it targeted scientists based on their ethnicity and perceived political views. One of the people the US government went after was the co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Qian Xuesen. They stripped him of his security clearance, which effectively ended his scientific career in the US. When he tried to leave the US, they arrested him and held him for years. When he was released, he went to the People's Republic of China and founded their rocketry program. The US' persecution of Qian Xuesen was not only immoral, but stupid. Not much has been learned in the last 70 years, it seems.
To be fair, Rails 2.3.18 was released two days before Docker itself was, so OP might have some general issues to fix up first, hah. :)
> I claimed that we should secure secrets and prevent attackers from executing routines that they shouldn't have permissions to execute.

While this is obviously a noble goal, you mentioned restricting employee access to secrets in relation to restricting (employee) access to code as well. To me, this is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We can obviously make things harder for attackers by making things harder for everyone, but to carry it out even farther, we may as well make the code fully immutable since then an attacker wouldn’t be able to do anything to it then. If you disagree with this, then surely you must agree that there’s a balance to be found and it depends on the needs of the organization?

> I mentioned that profitable organizations often secure their applications

Well, I never made the argument against securing applications, but assuming you meant that they use microservices, that’s great, although unfortunately it doesn’t mean anything about the overall appropriateness of microservices. Profitable companies are known for moving so slowly they are unable to adapt to anything even when it means their existence is at stake, and also for blindly following the path laid out for them by laws, shareholders, stakeholders, etc. almost as an automaton without brains. So this supporting point isn’t hugely convincing.

If your point is that in a very specific set of cases, microservices are appropriate, then we are in agreement. However this wasn’t the tone generated by the comments I was replying to.
It's kind of a Dragon's Lair style platformer, really. Twenty minutes of work down the drain because you forgot to push left on time. Pretty standard for its day.

The game might look great now, but when it came out it was mind blowing. We'd watch the intro at parties.
Not everything needs a length of 51-60 characters. Instead of "Home" use "The is the starting page for this website" ;)
I'm sorry, what is the context of this tweet? I don't read the news a lot, I apologize.

Why the urgency?
> If we're going to start filtering all "obvious clickbait" then the search results are going to change fairly dramatically

Isn’t this the intended effect?
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I just upgraded to a pair of AirPods Pro after my old AirPods were slowly losing battery life until they can barely get through a single podcast ep. It was pretty cool and eerie putting them in for the first time and having the noise cancellation activate and just drop out all the ambient noise. I've never used active noise cancellation and it really makes you realize how much ambient noise you tune out.

Beyond that I'm not 100% sure how I feel about them yet. They definitely don't fit quite as well in my ears as the originals and anecdotally a couple coworkers mentioned returning theirs because they were falling out. And they definitely don't fit in their case in the same way as the original. The way the originals just magnetically fall into place perfectly is an amazing piece of product design. Really makes them feel like some otherworldly artifact. The Pros are definitely not the same in that regard.
> there's an immediate threat that needs full attention

I think that's exactly what Snowden is trying to say
No, they end up getting done by armies of gig workers.
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This is a good argument, IMO. The main dangers I see are of status-signaling "non-skills" dominating education, and of overall malinvestment in skills that aren't needed.
I don't want or need popup permission prompts. If something needs to run as root, I run it as root from the console, as God intended. In the process I am assuredly avoiding all sorts of potential security vulnerabilities, such as this polkit code which is not installed on my system. Now get off my lawn.
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The frustration of Julia macros for me was never knowing what AST would be produced for a given expression. This is a bit more manageable if you have a typed AST (e.g. OCaml but ppxes have other issues) or an obvious one (e.g. lisp). I like the way rust handles it where the macros operate on a tree of non-delimiter leaves and [delimiter, subtree list, delimiter] nodes which can allow for figuring out what the input to a macro will be more easily and for more varied macro syntax. Other languages that want a full AST before macros force the macro input to be a bit more AST-like, e.g. the Julia parser picks operator precedence and OCaml won’t let you use _ as an identifier.

Maybe it is better now but when I looked at macros ~5 years ago some language update changed the ast produced by the parser and I basically gave up.

I like that Julia offers some macro-like techniques that replace a lot of the cases where one might use a macro for performance reasons.
I use Airpod Pros (no Apple, I will not say "Airpods Pro"). Some of the gripes are familiar; some not.
It's working pretty well in the US -- not perfect, with uneven progress, but very measurable. The Cuyahoga River hasn't caught on fire in about 50 years.