skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've similarly found AirPods both "just work" from a user experience, especially compared to alternative bluetooth audio devices, and also are quirky from a reliability standpoint. There have been fixes pushed out in past, particularly with the earlier models, where fixes could be done via OTA firmware updates.

The remaining quirks all feel related to Bluetooth tech and, specifically, the low-power available to AirPods (compared to, say, my giant Bose headphones).

I can only speculate but I think AirPods are currently limited by the bluetooth tech itself. What I expect we'll see is apple will ship a version with a proprietary radio system. They probably won't be compatible with non-Apple devices but they'll be 10x better than today's AirPods (more reliable, simultaneous audio from multiple devices, even better battery life, etc.).

There's no guarantee Apple will pull this off. But I'd bet it's far more likely there's a team of engineers dedicated to this strategy as we speak than that Apple just "gave up" on one of their best-selling product lines as soon as the MVP proved there was a huge market.
Chromebooks may borrow the Pixel’s battery-preservation trick
Will it connect to my google account? Also, targeting Windows only, but they do say not "yet" available for Mac, so perhaps in the future. Really odd that there's no linux support considering you would think ChromeOS (based on Linux) would be a prime target for this.
Well, actually a lot of these strategies are really hard to implement on your own. For example, in direct indexing you are buying hundreds of stocks in an attempt to replicate an indexing. You are also constantly rebalancing and tax-loss harvesting.

You could definitely just buy an index fund, but it's not exactly comparable.
Russians had leading rocket science for years. They don’t now, and can barely assemble a rocket that works. Why is that? Does that loss of capability apply to other fields too?
It's a lot safer than other things we consider harmless.
yeah.. pretty much. i did not say "I'm more important than animals because I said so!!!". i said "humanity is more important than animals". there is a difference. if you can't see that then the joke is on you
Don't you mean "let's not pretend counterfeit and fraud are _strictly_ an Amazon problem"? All this proves is that it's also Walmart's problem as well.
The same idea works tonemes distinguished by common graphical features as well.
Colombia, not Columbia.
On my alternative universe, the same people that decided to pick Motorola might also have had the perspicacity of putting in place the mechanism to prevent such actions.
This of course is under the assumption that time is expensive relative to the accuracy of the market clearing price of the goods being sold. In many cultures this isn't true, people have lots of free time, but each person buying the good might assign different value to it, so by spending a bit more time the people who need the lower price can still access it, whereas the shopkeeper can still make the money to keep the shop running from those who can afford it.

Honestly, thinking that there should be fixed prices for everything, if you're a rich westerner going in, means you're trying to externalize the effort of setting a market clearing rate, and trying to piggy-back off of the locals. If it's at some multinational chain, then sure, don't have people haggle with you over the price of some McNuggets, but at a family owned business, if they can get an additional 20% of the price of the goods they might be doubling their profit margin, so why wouldn't they haggle?
In edge case matters not defined by current law, sometimes.

But precedents that simply overturn other laws -- or as applies to the matter at hand, in the United States at least: the 4th Amendment - no.
SDL2 on Linux Now Prefers Wayland over X11
This reminded me of Keybase where they signed and published [0] their root Merkle tree to the Bitcoin blockchain, as part of their server security mechanism. It was an ingenious idea at first until when it came to signature revocations. Even though they have the mechanism for that too, the data itself is still stored onto the blockchain forever with no "garbage collection" on deprecated data, outside of Keybase's control.

[0] https://book.keybase.io/docs/server/merkle-root-in-bitcoin-b...

[1] https://keybase.io/docs/server_security/merkle_root_in_stell...
Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
I can’t wait for “This product is awesome 5/5 btw I don’t own it” and “My favorite 1/5” in AR
Yep, that's... just not a lot.
Noisecore might be a better comparison.
Too bad they didn’t turn in those buzzing AirPods for the buzzing noise recall.
If you broaden the scope of the economy beyond about 1AU, we absolutely do have a thriving fusion power industry.
So this doesn't actually appear to be the case.

Over the last week I've gone through all of the steps of registering a new domain, setting it up with Google Workspace, sharing some docs back and forth, deleting the entire organization, and then signing up for a new google account using the same email address (so no gmail). After each step I waited 24 hours.

I was able to access Docs and share back and forth using this reused address on the new account. You'll obviously lose all of the existing share connections, but it's not like the address itself is burned.
If you insist: There's a difference between destitute and poor. Someone working as a janitor with a unimpressive but acceptable salary, who has to pinch pennies to make ends meet, can still be a good poster. (Anecdotally, a lot of good Twitter posters seem to have lots of problems with student debt and the like.)

Obviously, it's not literally illegal. But it seems like you're not going to filter just for people who can afford to pay $1/month, but for people who are dumb enough to actually do it. Some rich people have interesting things to say; few (no?) rich people dumb enough to purchase money JPEG avatars do.
This is perilously close to "people who get COVID are innocent victims so forcible interventions are justified, while people who got HIV chose to do it so those same nterventions are less justified."

I agree that, for the average person, COVID is easier to contract than HIV. But by the same token, COVID is much less severe than HIV, even with modern treatment plans. It's not at core about some abstract principle about how preventing disease spread trumps all other concerns but is instead a cost benefit analysis. Keeping the country shut down perpetually is an extreme cost that we are continually incurring.
Also people using Firefox' refer[r]er spoofing option* -- a useful anti-evil tool that helps protect you from surveillance adtech.

*'network.http.referer.spoofSource' in about:config : "true = send the target URL as the referrer"

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer
You don't need WiFi 7 for that, a totally reasonable WiFi 5 setup can achieve the same.
I wanted to like it, but the iphone client was too buggy, unusable :(
If you cranked up the maximum swap size, would you theoretically be able to build the kernel? (Is it truly a viable Linux machine if it can't build its own kernel?)

What would be the expected build time? Days? Months?
Who authorized the code to run?
Yes exactly. When the lock down and mask mandates resulted in neuroplastic infants and toddlers not seeing as much lip and face movement during critical speech and socialization age (and in many case, daycares and schools being shut down resulting in less critical socialization), you sacrifice younger children in the hopes some others will be saved.

So we sacrifice other lives (young children) so our own adult lives can perhaps be saved.
California used to require you to, even for traffic tickets. Want to appeal your $600-$1000 ticket? Better have that on hand for the bond. But if you choose to just pay it, they thankfully had payment plans! Just not on the bond...
All I said is that class based pricing exists in the US, but it works via physical separation rather than directly based on how the customer looks.

That physical separation is maintained by the actual physical class separation along policed municipal boundaries that exists in the US.

Developing societies instead use walls with barbed wire and hired security for that function.

That said, there are pretty strong correlations between the tier of the grocery store and the appearance of their average customer.

And yes, there are wealthier but frugal people who shop at cheaper stores, but they are an exception.
Last time I was in a public library books about the Internet were next to books about UFOs!
I think the point he is making is that profitable fusion-based electricity generation isn’t a physics problem; it is an engineering problem. Engineering requires dealing with people in addition to physics.
well, not here...
I’m not the expert but I think traveling 5 km but having to come to a full stop every 500 m and then having to accelerate will burn more fuel than driving 6 miles at a continuous pace of 50 km/h.
Yes its very common even in richest places. Case point #2 - Geneva, Switzerland has the biggest public hospital in whole country (HUG). They employ around 10k personnel overall, and Geneva is relatively small city (they call it the smallest metropole for a reason). There is no shortage of money or high tech equipment.

But if you came pre-covid during say weekend night and you were not clearly about to die, 10+h waiting time in emergency was not unheard of (wife was serving there for some time as doctor, those folks deserve some proper respect). Simply overwhelmed, not enough staff comprised mostly by junior doctors. Now they are properly good in diagnosing whether your excruciating pain is life-threatening or not, but it must suck big time to be on patient's side.

This is by far the biggest emergency in whole canton. Any private clinic or smaller medical centre will send serious cases straight there.

Its not something discussed frequently but that's just how things are, in one of the richest and well-organized countries in whole world. Don't expect much better experience if you have bad luck with timing.
The FAQ section is refreshingly and hilariously honest:

https://www.interdb.jp/pg/faq.html
> With COVID becoming endemic everyone is going to get antibodies

Vaccines provide better protection than infection, just to be clear. It's not true that you're safe because of a previous infection.

See: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...
Ask HN: Affordable places in the world with 10G unmetered fiber home Internet?
Asking for a friend ;)

If you live in a city, please also narrow down the area.
Ah, that's too bad. The Android one is OK.
Very disappointed that Microsoft recently killed all support for office android apps on Chromebooks asking users to use the web version instead (which has all sorts of limitations even considering the android apps having limited functionality in the first place but atleast allowed offline access and some quick non-web features)

So now we get Microsoft trying to get android apps into their own devices instead. I would say Google should insist that support for office apps come back into chromebooks if they want any sort of support but no they wont as they are saying "we are happy chromeos is a great option for office (web)apps"

The windows "cloudbooks" were never worth a look - I guess this is how large companies behave. (I have no hatred towards any tech / company - use android / linux / chromebooks / windows all the time - just bizzare that well functioning android apps are now being taken out of chromebooks)

references : https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/microsoft-ending-chrom...
Even taking for granted that the truth is singular, that doesn’t mean it is well known/well understood.

Your priors are still heavily dictated by your experience living within certain cultures.
> See, we can both play the "freedom" game.

The doctors and nurses you're asking treatment from are people who deserve freedom and work-life balance, too. Many have been fed up and are quitting. Would you support the government forcing them to continue working? Would you force young people to be doctors and nurses?
The author seems to be under the impression that changing from a 4-of-7 multisig to DAO control is not an improvement?

> Indeed, as long as a proposal gains more than 50% of the votes with a 1% quorum, it can execute abitrary code on behalf of the DAO - even such code that will give anyone dictatorial control over it in perpetuity.

Of course this is how it works. The DAO can do whatever it wants, and is controlled by the thousands of users who vote using their tokens. This is a huge improvement over a small multisig!
@dang could we change the link to The Verge's article?
We're super glad to have saved you from almost paying a developer
In what jobs? I don't think that's true. Or it's only true if they make a career change. The jobs it is true for, like pilots, do have a problem with retention and they give large bonuses to keep people in.
Choosing to ignore clear trends is a strategy as well. I put away the smartphone for several weeks this year, was surprised how many things it discouraged and a few times prevented.
My airpod pros work better than my airpod pro max's but both buggy.

- if your listening to your airpods and answer a phone call on your apple watch the speaker it chooses is not the airpods its your watch! so I'm thinking wow they're speaking really quiet only to realise its coming from my watch!

- switching audio devices while on a call takes far too long

- when I switch my audio output on my iphone sometimes the whole phone hangs. Seems to be fixed now but it was a problem for such a long time that I'm too scared to change audio devices on my phone

- when I connect to my mac sometimes they just wont reconnect and I have to reboot

- when I connect to my mac, then my phone or I disconnect them for a while when they come back the audio jumps up to max. I'm scared to use them with my mac because of this!
As I recall the basis of the argument against lockdowns (which yes was made by legitimate epidemeologists before covid made everything so politicized and tribal) is that the disease eventually comes right back and infects everyone once the lockdown ends. I do think there is a good argument about allowing vaccines to be developed and delivered though. But benefits like preventing hospitals from being overwhelmed were believed to already be achievable with social distancing alone. So one must be careful to not give to much credit to the lockdowns alone.

As for excess deaths, it presumably depends on how well the country can endure the self-inflicted downsides (such as a recession) that comes with it. Countries where it causes severe problems probably are the very ones who didn't have the political will to maintain the lockdowns, leading to some biased conclusions. We also have lots of other issues caused by covid response such as shortages and spiking prices all over. Being outright dodged by pointing blame at some indermediate actor like "corporate supply chains" or "hoarders" or whatever.

The point is there are arguments that can be made on all sides. No need to insult and dismiss people.
That doesn't sound right to me at all. What is the evidence for this?

I'm not part of every conversation at YC of course, but I've been in many, including many where TechCrunch was mentioned, and I never heard anything about "blocking" (that actually sounds absurd to me) or any indication that YC had power over TC. It was the other way around; YC or YC startups were always hoping that TC would cover a story and not always getting what they hoped for.
I think the sound quality is remarkably good given the size and form factor. It's not comparable to over the ear headphones of course, but that is a different use case.
Indeed. This project feels worthy of exploration, and collaboration. There's an AirTable clone https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb; makes me wonder how the two projects can be federated. Happy to talk about that.
The National Ignition Facility is enormous and cost $Bs. But don't let its large size make you think its anywhere near practicality, it is not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility
FYI this doesn't actually seem to be the case... quoting from my other comment in a different thread:

Over the last week I've gone through all of the steps of registering a new domain, setting it up with Google Workspace, sharing some docs back and forth, deleting the entire organization, and then signing up for a new google account using the same email address (so no gmail). After each step I waited 24 hours.

I was able to access Docs and share back and forth using this reused address on the new account. You'll obviously lose all of the existing share connections, but it's not like the address itself is burned.
So if you were the first to invent misinformation, you would immediately add it to your local language to make that fact public? Doesn't make sense. You'd rather make up some newspeak code name. It's more plausible that Russians made the word to describe what their worst enemy (USA) was doing, so they could be aware of it and counter.
Of course they have it, whole western (or more probably whole) Europe has significant discount for students and I think elderly too, for any kind of tourist attraction. But not 10 or 20x, more like 20-50% of full ticket.
And now you know what this article is a pretext for.
I'm using Confluence for note taking and as a diary and it works pretty well (search functionality is beyond abysmal), compared to all the other options I've tried.

But this one is the first desktop application which is really interesting and could have become my solution for these tasks. I'll definitely keep it installed and try it out.
Why don’t you use a keyboard to type the text and make it actually readable?

The content might be interesting but the barrier to understand it seems unnecessarily high to the point I don’t want to invest time to figure out if it’s worth it or not.
You don’t read the contract, you pay the price.

People just arbitrarily pulling in code from random people on the internet and expecting everything to be fine is hilarious. Your project, due the due diligence.

To answer the hypothetical, the author is still at fault even if was malware.
We count on you: Balancing privacy and analytics
Sounds like a lot to deal with, for the price. I’ve never had to replace the pair of wired earbuds that come with an iPhone.
The way I understand it, is that with Q>1 in a confined plasma you no longer need external heating and can just let the fusion heat power the plasma. I.e. you "ignite" it and it burns within confinement (self-sustaining). Whereas if Q<1 you need to continuously provide heating, and the efficiency of that heating is probably quite low so the "total" Q appears lower.

Basically, once you have ignition + confinement, Q no longer matters as you no longer have to heat the plasma to sustain it. Correct me if I'm wrong.
AFAIK some filters are mechanical and others require the electrosatic charge to reach their stated performance. Half-masks or full face masks are typically of the former kind, while smaller masks of the latter kind.
> Ownership, and power, is distributed among all the miners, albeit a number much bigger than 7.

Not much bigger. Over the last month, 97% of blocks were mined by the top 10 mining pools.

https://btc.com/stats/pool
If device switching is more of an annoyance/issue than it is a pleasing feature, you can configure it. And it's configurable per-device.

When AirPods are connected, go into the bluetooth preferences, select "Options" next to the connected AirPods. Change the value for "Connect to This Mac"
Seems their plan is for public posts to be $1/post but "Posts among friends will always be free."

I imagine if they become successful they can look into lowering the public post price depending on a person's region. Let's leave aside how they'll go about determining that, VPNs, and such; that's something for the future.
This is what is making me want to switch to Wealthfront or something else.
Interesting; I wasn't aware. In the US it's still very normal (and free) to deposit/withdraw cash at physical branches.
>But in this case, they were surely unaware, and merely saw a film with a harmonious ending.

I guess my questioning revolves around how exactly they interpreted the rest of the film, which doesn't let up on the anti-capitalist, anti-state sentiments. Perhaps the censors are only human and operating a bare minimum of ideological policing but I find it hard to square that laxness with the intensity of their current cultural campaign.
The key to understanding it is just not to expect it to have mass appeal, ever. It lowers barriers for developers and tech hobbyists. It is a nice crunchy area for developers to have fun with that doesn’t require herculean feats of programming to serve or consume. It's like ham radio.

My only beef with it is we already have gopher!
Even if you control 70% of hashrate, that doesn't mean you can just do anything. You still have to abide by the rules. You can't approve invalid transactions or directly steal people's money, only re-order past transactions.

This is in contrast to ENS, where the equivalent of a 51% attack allows you to do just that - steal names, change registration parameters, basically anything.

Furthermore, in PoW coins, 51% attacks are fleeting by nature - they usually only run for a short time. Compare this to ENS, where if you get 51% control once, you can give yourself 100% control for perpetuity, because you can execute arbitrary code on the smart contract.
>"vastly overrepresents content that is actively harmful to society, meaning conspiracy theories, right wing propaganda and general fake news"

Your list seems lopsided.
Also consider that young children are the demographic least affected (symptoms and death) by COVID. It was obvious a few months in, but these debilitating policies continued.
I wrote this[1] because I wanted something that didn't require any setup and I didn't want all kinds of features getting in my way. Just run the server and have it save the wiki to my hard drive. I guess you do have to install a D compiler in order to compile it, which might be classified as setup.

https://github.com/bachmeil/tiddlyd
Sloths are amazing animals and the three-toed variety seen in this article is insanely cute but unfortunately for them, their cuteness makes them a desirable object for the tourist selfie industry and people who want them as pets and therefore a target for unscrupulous poachers. And since they're too slow and low on energy to defend themselves it means they're an easy target and most likely won't survive their captors very long.

They've managed to survive for so long by perfectly adapting to that very specific "goldilocks" rainforest canopy environment. Take them out of that environment or stress them out too much and they will get sick and die. They really don't make good pets. That's why most zoos have only sloths of the two-toed variety as they're more resilient vs the three-toed sloths featured in this article.

I wish Colombia would make the sloth trade illegal and also inform tourists not to pay for any services related to interactions with wild sloths under the penalty of law. If you destroy the demand for a service, the supply will naturally fall, but the core issue is more complex as the quote below highlights what the main problem is:

>December through February are typically the busiest months, when he and his friends can sell at least 30 sloths. “I really want to stop,” says Morales, who provides for his mother and nine siblings. “I feel like I don’t have another option.”

I totally get that when people are desperate and out of options of making a decent living they will turn to less humane gigs to feed their family. The key would be to get these people out of poverty first so they don't have to capture and sell wild animals.