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If you bear watching Netflix on the browser (for example Chrome and Firefox are restricted to 720p), you have the option to provide a subtitle file, but you are required to jump through another hoop as it needs to be in the DFXP format, not considering that you have to find one with the correct timing cause you don't have a way to delay/accel them in the interface.

There's a webpage that can convert SRT to DFXP and you can download the subtitles if someone has done the conversion be fore, but you are totally right, Netflix subtitles experience are subpar.
Yes, that or manual runtime dispatching. Which is doable if there are only a few hot-spots in the code.

It'd be so sweet if multi-versioning became well supported across all major compilers (including MSVC)
> The problem with the iPhone X is its only selling point is the huge screen.

The iPhone X is basically an iPhone 8 Plus in a smaller form factor and a better screen. For those of us who don't like the larger form factor, it's ideal. Otherwise, I'd have to choose between a better camera and bigger screen, or the smaller phone I wanted. With the iPhone X, I don't have to choose. That's the selling point of the iPhone X – you don't have to make those compromises.
Tech people in SV and the Bay live in a world where they experience consensus as a series of badly broken systems. The deep, durable pockets of poverty and misery? Built and maintained by democratic consensus. The needs-much-improvement public schools of SF and Oakland? Built and maintained by consensus. The state of BART? Built and maintained by consensus.

People on average don't like poverty, misery, gentrification, unreliable public transit, and spiking rents. But on average, people around here do seem to like all the things that contribute to those. Prop 13, "neighborhood character" concerns halting housing construction, and bus stops every block are all popular.

I can't claim to speak for everyone here. But personally? I see a lot of broken systems that I cannot fix. Where my attempts to help fix things for everyone are not only ineffectual, but actively unwelcome.

In light of that, I do what I can. I make myself comfortable. If I cannot address the suffering of others, I can at least limit my own suffering. No lives are improved if I join in the suffering of others to indulge some bizarre impulse to self-flagellate. My own suffering is not a moral imperative.
> Not just for unlocking the phone but the fact all of my apps (banking, etc) also support it makes authentication be a problem of the past...all friction gone!

Those all work with TouchID too. But with TouchID I can add my wife's fingerprint, so when I'm driving she can unlock my phone and use it to do banking or set up the navigation for me or whatever. Or when I'm showering. Or bathing the kids. Or cooking, or working in the yard, or....
I fully agree. My workstation came with an NVIDIA Quadro and it had a lot of driver issues. The proprietary drivers did not work with Wayland and with the open source drivers the screen would regularly flicker, not come out of display sleep, etc.

Based on the positive comments wrt. the amdgpu driver I bought an AMD FirePro W2100 (because its max TDP is 25W). And it's been excellent. Since GCN 1.0 and 1.1 are supported by both the radeon and amdgpu drivers, I use the kernel flags

amdgpu.si_support=1 radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.cik_support=1 radeon.ciksupport=0

to disable radeon and use the newer amdgpu drivers. Everything is incredibly smooth under Wayland in 4k@60Hz and I had no issues at all so far.
I forgot where I heard this from but I thought the reason reddit didn't monetize well was because the users were either using adblock or were too tech savvy to click on ads?

I have been using reddit for probably a decade now but don't remember ever clicking an ad. OTOH I typically misclick on a few links before I get my download when visiting pirate sites even with adblock on.
These days: Dream (highly unprofessional / suspicious), Libertas, CGMC (only cannabis & psychedelics, extremely well done), and Zion (up and down due to DDOS). The last one at the very least support Monero, but I believe it's not the only one. That list is only a list of the "true" markets; there are also numerous forum-based ones. A lot of the above also handle multisig (including monero multisig), to make sure a vendor can get his coins even if the market disappears.

There's also a galaxy of small websites / forums opened by single vendors themselves, in order to sell directly.
As you can see in the WaPo article I linked, Pennsylvania is a huge outlier. Nationwide, including state and federal funding, poor districts get only 1.7% less than rich districts. In many states, like Maryland where I live, poor districts receive slightly more funding.
It's anecdotal, but given the track record of industry analysts regarding iPhone sales and demand, it's no less solid than the linked article, IMO.
What is this paradigm shift? Bitcoin is a terrible currency, is about as good a store of value as tulips and beanie babies (Actually, beanie babies are better - at least you can play with them.)

You may say blockchains are a paradigm shift (I don't believe that), but even if they are, there is absolutely no reason for why Bitcoin is the best blockchain that has, or will ever be created. If they are a critically important paradigm shift, then I can with 100% certainty say that bitcoin will be completely dead in the near future - much like Mintel vs Internet.
Apple and Google already have walking treadmill desks, which serves the same purpose.
Ethereum:

- June 13th: $380

- July 17th: $185

- August 31st: $389

- December 16th: $700+

50% or more swings are all too common. I doubt this is the end. While I would love to see the crash happen sooner than later, I think the percentage of traders that would sell at the signs of a 25% drop or more is still too low. You won't see the big crash until more of the general population is in. After this crash, that still could be a ways off sadly as they back out only to enter a few months later.
>> You are trying to wriggle out of this, it is a form of psychological denial.

I was interested in discussing this with you further, but I am not comfortable
doing so if you are going to be making more personal remarks like the one above,
which I find inappropriate and offensive.

If you do not agree with me that personal remarks are not appropriate and you are
not willing to give me some assurance that there will be no more of them, then
I am sorry but I have no interest in continuing this exchange.
I second to this. Setting up K8S is a walk in the part.

Upgrading it is hard. Especially with stuff like Kafka/ZooKeeper run on a K8S cluster.
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I had the same reaction to this article. It's incredible how horrible SF's system is, and yet, the articles are always about New York's subway. If someone did an in depth comparison of the two it would be incredibly eye opening. The system in SF is garbage.

Thank god we'll be getting a new mayor.
What technology is it exactly? I’ve never heard of interactive screencasts until now .. really cool!
What you describe looks like the other type of shady sites. The ones that don't have any content, they just redirect you between fake pages and websites indefinitely. Sometimes it will ask to subscribe with your card or install a streaming software (always a malware). It's all a scam, there is nothing to watch.
for slowing down awkward code?
I would imagine a lot of people are on 12 month upgrade cycles. Either going straight through the carrier's 12 month program, or the iPhone Upgrade Program.
Yes. What the statistic we're seeing here is that women who divorce their spouse are twice as likely to victims of domestic abuse. Is that really a stretch?
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Honest question, not trying to be dismissive: This architecture sounds old to me, as in things were built like that in the 80s or earlier but evolved past. Is that so? If so, what makes those decisions newly relevant?
That's funny, although Trump doesn't drink but this kinda makes sense
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Dude can't even get his dates correct across a few paragraphs for the "EXTERNAL USD AUDIT" (one of either 02/01/2018 or 6th February 2018) and we are expected to believe them to be credible?
Where do you think they're gonna put the earpiece or camera if the notch disappears? You're either gonna have the notch, or a taller phone with a huge band of wasted real-estate. I think the notch was the perfect solution. shrug
"Reliable" and "seamless" don't really go together when you're talking about a combination authentication/authorization mechanism.

To know you truly have the user's authorization to do something, there needs to be a discrete, conscious act. Touch ID had that. Face ID got rid of it. That's a net loss for users.
Unless trying the product becomes fatal. Wouldn't this be a selection bias?
A paradigm shift indeed. Anyone can pick up your phone, point it at you, and then get access to all your apps (banking, etc).

I recently went to Disneyland and the way it works with normal passes now (not year round), is that they point an iPhone at you and take your picture. If you enter a new country, they take your fingerprint and take a picture of you. We are training people to use the two pieces of information that most companies and countries are now readily collecting from you, your thumb print and your face picture, as the password to your most sensitive information.
This person is trolling all of you. Look at this post he/she made nearly four years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7803526
He's a short, a bear.
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I'm having exactly the opposite with FaceID - it works brilliantly and more consistently than TouchID
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Not just that, but finding out someone has Parkinson's 10 years before there are any effects is a huge boon too.
the cost of new phones has really changed my purchasing behavior.

when it was $200-$300 to upgrade with a contract renewal, I tended to get a new phone with every iteration, regardless of the new features or condition of my current phone.

Now that the latest phones are $700+, or $40+ per month with insurance, I evaluate the purchase in the same way I've always looked at new laptops/desktops. If the current model meets my needs and there are no new features I will get much value from, I have no interest in upgrading.

have others experience this shift?

the only new feature that has me interested in a the iPhone X is portrait mode in a smaller form factor.
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thanks to everyone for putting a totally off-topic post at the top.
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I'm just glancing at this, as it's a lot to read through....

I see a few things that seem hand-wavy to me:

> Advertising? Mostly stripped out.

> Clickbait and malware sites? Dittos.

How? I like those ideas, but I'm not seeing implementation details (It's possible I'm missing them, or misunderstanding other parts of the writeup).

And this is more of a UX issue, but: I can foresee problems with people mistaking their local system for remote systems. Especially with doing some kind of recursive operation, example:

grep -r "somestringhere" /

I'm also not sure that our current filesystem setup is going to stick around, opposed to a tagging filesystem, or something similar. I've also never seen a filesystem that handled random disconnects well, and this would likely have a lot of them.

But I'm being intentionally overly-critical. I like the idea, and it would give us a "closer" understanding of what we are accessing and how it's structured.

Do you have a blog or something that for this?
If you run Kodi, there is a huge archive of subtitles that it automatically will apply. More often than not, I've started watching a movie, seen subtitles all over the bottom of it, wondered what the hell, and eventually realized the toggle to apply subtitles has gotten re-enabled somehow.
In the US, most carriers push a 24-month upgrade cycle, and charge a lot more for 12-month upgrades.

Even the Apple Upgrade program is a 24-month cycle. Although there is no real penalty for upgrading after 12 months, there is a charge of more than $100.
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I think the perceived value comes from the assumption that contracts can be written perfectly. Apparently, some people believe that the problems encountered so far are just a matter of weeding out the problems and eventually contracts will be much less likely to have loopholes like this.

I don't really agree with that worldview, but not strongly enough to bet that it won't reach some fairly safe equilibrium at some point. Even then though, a major bug could be lurking for years just waiting to be exploited later.
You don't even need a protocal change (patch) - a supermajority group of validators (miners or stakers) can censor the minority group profitably, with no way to tell in-protocol.

The fact is, all existing blockchain protocols are not coalition resistant Nash equilibria (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition-proof_Nash_equilib...) and we rely on the difficulty of coordination for security. Strong centralization can make coordination easier though.
> how is it that Spotify is still alive? How is it the Apple Maps is still lagging Google Maps so profoundly?

It could be that tech expertise and data aren't fungible.

> Or that Apple can't muster any response to Netflix at all?

Nor have they mustered a response to Johnson & Johnson—hell, they haven't even overtaken Snapple, who are only the _third_ largest soft drink business in the US.

> Let's not even get into the farcical self-driving car project they aborted

Actually, let's. I'd love to hear what you know about it.
The non-touchbar model has (IIRC) a weaker processor, and removes two of the USB-C ports for no reason aside from Apple's strong desire that you not buy it (instead paying way more for a Touch Bar you don't want, to get those two ports and higher speed back)

Plus it's still a little more expensive than the previous base model at launch, I think, despite being worse in quite a few ways.
Really? It's remarkable that we don't hear regularly how dissatisfied people are with their drug dealer? Think about that for just a second...
In high risk/high volatility environments, it's either regulation or reputation. That's why the smell of regulation is always telling: the inter-human natural trust scheme can't cope with the risk... or someone is looking to bend it in favor of one side.
I know what "punitive damages" mean. I was just pointing out that in the US, one might lose one's ability to get health insurance at all because of an injury (many conditions will cause most insurance company to refuse your application).

The possible prejudice for that can range in the millions. Even if those aren't punitive, they sure feel like it.
The price hasn't changed, just your experience of the price.

I buy my phones unlocked for megabucks, and save $15/mo over 2 years (=$360), don't have to deal with carrier locking restrictions, etc. Then when I upgrade, I sell the old one.
This has happened on a few occasions (all of them opioids laced with fentanyl by vendors). The community tends to name and shame such vendors a lot when it occurs, and markets will ban them; but the very anonymity linked to the process makes that easy to circumvent, unfortunately.

In any case, the general advice to people ordering from vendors for which there hasn't been a longstanding reputation + published reagent tests is for their customers to reagent the product themselves, especially for opioids.
It really depends, I guess.

Touch ID often failed for me. Every time my hands were ever so slightly damp or sweaty, Touch ID failed.

Face ID almost always works. It works while running, while cooking, when wearing gloves, and even in the bath tub.

It does fail when I‘m wearing a dust mask, but it‘s probably not a good idea to bring the iPhone to the workshop anyway.
almost a sort of survivor bias.
I used a 2011 MBP for 6 years until the GPU finally failed, and then downgraded to a 2010 MBP. For most things, I hardly notice any issues with it being underpowered, and I intend to keep using this indefinitely until it no longer functions and isn't easily repairable.

I'm unmotivated to buy a new computer I can't repair myself as easily or replace the batteries when they wear out, because I like using my computers for 5 to 10 years and run them into the ground.
Most 100 Mbps service in the US is cable, so asymmetric. But I think fiber is the only widely deployed technology that can give you 100 Mbps symmetric. Fiber coverage in Switzerland is about 30%: https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/document.cfm?doc_id=47090 (see page 30). So if most households can get 100 Mbps, it’s probably not symmetric, but asymmetric VDSL2 or cable.
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Unit sales and revenue for notebooks fell for Apple from 2015 to 2016. It picked back up in 2017, but not enough to bring it back to 2015 levels.

That suggests that the shitty keyboard (which improved mildly in 2017) is a not insignificant factor at the margins.
Yeah, same thing in the Apple ecosystem. iOS/AppleTV has the "TV" app which shows you where you can stream or buy something.
I looked into this in 2007 - 2008, when I was in college. I was doing a NASA internship, working on an engineering study of IP communication over deep space links. However my directive concerned IP protocol specifically. DTN was an interesting case study to me, but we weren't trying to use the DTN protocol so I never tried to actually set it up. I thought it was a neat idea, but I hadn't kept up with developments in that field since then.
One thing I dislike about articles like this is that they get you to agree on some basic point, such as, "Hey did you notice that there is a lot of wealth AND poverty in San Francisco?" Yes, I agree with that. "Well, actually, it's libertarians' and techies' fault!" Oh okay, you were correct about the first part so you're correct about the second too.

"Also, by the way, they're just like Hitler / Stalin / thinly veiled shout-out to something really bad!"

> Earlier attempts to create a rationalist Utopia failed for interesting reasons, and since we bought those lessons at a great price, it would be a shame not to learn them.

I do agree that San Francisco has this strange juxtaposition of impoverished hellscape versus obscene wealth. It's the main reason I plan to leave here within the next couple of years. But I'd do myself a disservice if I latched onto a thought that this is the fault of some political ideological minority in the area, or even the majority (bleeding hearts). This "poverty and misery" is the techies' fault in the same way that alcoholism is the fault of bartenders.

All that said, I agree with the conclusion about data. There should be a moral obligation to limit or stop this storage. It creeps me the hell out, and it's why I don't use Facebook or Google any more, knowing that this doesn't fully solve the problem. I'll add that the metaphor he depicts is really great:

> As a technologist, this state of affairs gives me the feeling of living in a forest that is filling up with dry, dead wood. The very personal, very potent information we're gathering about people never goes away, only accumulates. I don't want to see the fire come, but at the same time, I can't figure out a way to persuade other people of the great danger.

I just wish the writer were mature enough to make that argument without the scapegoating of ideology, or the wrong ideology. This isn't about libertarianism or "trickle down" (from HN comments) or capitalism or a dislike for politics, it's about technological progress. Ideologies that are opposed to the writer's scapegoats will also act in service of technological progress when it is convenient for them.
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To say that one problem reduces to another is not to say that one or the other is more important. It is, rather, to say that one is purely a function of the other, which implies that solving the latter necessarily solves the former. So, in this case, I took you to mean something like "Class is the fundamental problem; if we solve class-based inequality then race-based inequality will be solved as a side effect."

It sounds like you're saying that one is more important. I honestly don't know whether class or race-based inequality is more of a problem; I think it depends on context. Both of them have caused great problems. I will point out that many people have been as "fucked" as imaginable for being labelled as a particular race: murdered, enslaved, forcibly displaced from their homelands, etc. And this sort of thing continues to this day, e.g. in Myanmar right now the Rohingya are arguably being genocided. If one of those people could change their race, they would be decidedly unfucked in that context.
Because as the marriage goes bad, the man is more likely to start becoming abusive. Because if the man is abusive, the marriage is more likely to go bad. Both are very likely true.

Note well: I am not saying that every divorce is because of abuse. I am not saying that every man in a bad marriage will become an abuser.
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The author's basic problem is he does not understand the United States is comprised of over 3,000 counties. The differences among them are vast, and most of the country is sparsely populated. To understand America, you'd have to spend time in places outside the big cities, like Appalachia, much like Great Britain is not just London.
The Germans and French prefer dubbing, you won’t see it in the northern (Netherlands+Scandinavian) countries. In Switzerland, you have to look for version originale playings (at least in the French part).
My guess is that the solution involves squatting instead of sitting, although the West has lost the ability to squat comfortably for prolonged periods of time.
Repetitive Stress Injuries. They make the entirety of the job, hell. Trying to get worker's compensation and physical therapy has been hell. I used to enjoy programming, like many here. Now, I mostly think about how to minimize typing and trackpadding, while keeping my posture proper and taking breaks every hour. As you can imagine, this does not lead to amazing amounts of productivity as it takes me about an hour to get into the proper mindset to code most days. I work from home, however, so I'm still more productive than anyone in the office. I long for the day when voice recognition becomes decent for people with accents so I can code with my voice like my American coworkers. Right now, the detection rate in a silent room with a very good mic is around 50% on a good day, so it's mostly useless. Yeah, there's shitty tooling, horrible boilerplate all over the place, stupid features to add, and all kinds of shit like that, and all that stuff sucks a million times worse with every single keystroke or tap. I'm still in my 30's too. I just can't imagine doing this shit for another 30 to 40 years or more. I wake up in pain, I go to sleep in pain, and I feel pain from RSI during my sleep as well as most of my days, sometimes including weekends. And on top of all that shit, I still have to think through solutions and program. If I could do anything else and still make a decent living, I would, but I see no other options.
I changed some Golang code to AVX in my last project. In isolation that code ran like 2-4x faster but as part of the full program, the program was 5% slower overall. Could never make a sense of it. Any thoughts on how to determine the cause?
Thanks to DRM, if I want to watch a movie on my computer, I'm restricted to 720p because I've only access to Firefox and Chrome... t(`__`t) Netflix.
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