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Thankfully I am not the only one who thinks this! I had an argument with my brother over IoT devices with Echos vs Google Home products.

Google Home still requires you to use 3rd party apps but you are forced to set up the device in a location in your home/apartment. I can walk into my apartment and say "Ok Google, turn on all lights" and not have to worry about which brand of lights turn on.

When I used my Echo Dot my brother got me last Christmas, I had so many issues with the same command.
It is unclear, but there will be lower power equivalents even if not Atoms, they are talking about 4.5W non atom chips.
The manufacturers want you to buy new hardware at least every year, so that's not a barrier to new features unless you refuse to upgrade.
Seems to especially be the case on HN. Whenever someone releases something, common responses are “oh this is like X but actually worse” or “I could do this with 10 lines of code in my sleep”
Yeah as I mentioned in my original comment I use "rawtherapee" instead. Which doesn't try to take ownership of any directories, import, etc. It just lets you work with the existing structure.

I don't necessarily edit every picture, but I want to look at white-balance, and similar things, for every shot in a specific session. (Most of the time I can replicate settings from one image to the next - when I'm using studio-strobes the lighting doesn't change.)

The only images I outright delete are those where a model blinks mid-shot, or a strobe fails to fire. In an hour-session I might have 750 images, and I'll likely rank/rate all of them, but only export 20% to JPG, and then those will be pruned as I decide which are the good ones.
If you wanted to invest in lithium, someone should warn you that individuals without special knowledge should not get involved with picking commodities. You'll be buying a lot of volatility with no increase in expected return.
You should expect Apple to freely replace the battery of a phone that may unexpectedly shut down because that's already what Apple said you should expect.

Apple publicly claimed that it affects a limited number of 6s and Apple would replace the battery. That offer is still up today [1]. Then they quietly [2] released an update that applies the 'workaround' to a larger number of devices. That's a fuckup at every level.

[1] https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/

[2] https://twitter.com/jcenters/status/944330221083381761 (Tidbits editor explains)
Could you focus each job down under the an over arching label?

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Hacker News is supposed to be non-political.

What you describe has a medical term, it's called gender dysphoria and is widely studied within the medical community.
Two errors there.

1. "reset" is six keypresses long, seven if you use the Control+J approach (although terminal control codes do not affect the line discipline and won't by themselves upset the newline settings of the line discipline in the first place), and not really archaic or long. On many terminal emulators, there is a menu option on the emulator that does the very same thing.

2. The mosh people addressed this problem years ago, and made a lot of noise about doing so. It's mainly a matter of just not supporting the old ISO/IEC 2022 control sequences for changing 7-bit character sets. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13904008 for more.
> There is no way to "maintain" iPhones to keep their performance over three years

>> If you know that the battery is at fault (Apple hid that) and if Apple Store will replace it (they refused it for many people because diagnostics doesn't show an issue even if phone is throttled)

You narrowed your scope. (Note that Apple basically never refuses to replace a battery if you pay the $79. They will, occasionally, quibble about the 80% requirement for an in-warranty replacement.)

I agree that Apple should be better about communicating that batteries should be replaced after a couple years of use. My objection is to the claim that there is "no way to maintain iPhones".
Because that's just how copyright works. You can't erase attributions and redistribute without permission.
https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/voice

You control what goes where.
I think this issue is more one of poor modern TUI libraries than an issue with the underlying technology.

Drawing a progress bar with OpenGL is probably more difficult than the “go to start of line, reprint my characters” logic needed in the terminal, and yet raster graphics APIs are undoubtedly more powerful than VT escape sequences.
Unlike oil, lithium can be recycled in extremely high percentage.

By the time this will be a problem in 100 years, we'll have long moved to something else, like graphene or whatever.

I don't know why people are freaking out about it so much. My guess is it has to do something with oil propaganda. After all, the best myths are those that have a "seed of truth" in them. So once the oil industry started its anti-lithium propaganda, a lot of people must be thinking "well, it does ring kind of true, doesn't it?", even though their "facts" are 99% misleading.
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As I understand it, all the voice assistants rely on a backend to do the voice processing, at a minimum.
I bought three Google homes largely because of the price cuts, and after showing my mom over the holiday she decided to but one. She even commented on the novelty but had liked it so far
I'd like a similar service or product. My issue with a shared solution like a common area W/D besides grossness is that I need to remove my clothes from the machines within a few minutes of cycle completeness or I risk ticking off my neighbors. I push off laundry unless I'm sure I have a 1.5 hour block to be able to tend to each load. When I had an in unit W/D that wouldn't be necessary and laundry would be a chore I managed throughout the day.
Easy to get in and already usefull.

My wife didn't like the idea of having a microphone in our rooms, now she asked me if i don't want to buy another one.

And yeah it is only used for timer, reminder, light on/off and music.

I love it too.
If you want to roll your own server I believe there is a plugin for Home Assistant that can take voice input. https://home-assistant.io/

But I don't think either the Echo or the Google Home will connect to that. If you are running home assistant on a raspberry Pi, you could probably build that right into your own speaker.
What kind of Rorschach test is it that an article about bees and philosophy of mind that does not even mention gender at all triggers someone to make an anti-trans comment? In which it's asserted that someone's feelings about their own life are wrong and their lived experience is incorrect.

Maybe we could try to imagine what it's like to be a different human first before moving on to bees.

> are to be

Have asked to be, usually repeatedly and in the face of a great deal of opposition.
Sure - this is what I mean by "protocol". In the case of the image format you linked even cat does work, because the image format contains pre-rendered escape sequences. This does not work in general (e.g. for JPEG or other formats) - where you need a program that does the transformation into escape sequences.
Very interesting! Thanks for the explanation
I liked it as well.

If you missed a talk they are at https://streaming.media.ccc.de/34c3/relive

This particular talk by Charles Stross is at https://streaming.media.ccc.de/34c3/relive/9270
AI is using euphemism to change peoples attitude
There was another quote in TFA about the potential to over build mining capacity and flood the market.

But sure, buy this and hope it "surges" more than the general market. Given that billions of devices already have lithium cells in them and the historical performance of the Lithium ETF is still quite disappointing compared to the broader market, I wouldn't hold my breath that this time is any different.
It is better than the echo but it was smart of both Apple and Amazon to call their assistant by a human name. Google is punishing themselves by making their product a function of saying 'Hey [massive global corporation susceptible to PR emergencies], unlock my front door'
I believe most single-function rice cookers don't build up significant pressure, but I might be wrong about the fancier ones.
I wondered the same. One of my "trigger" issues is children without hearing protection at concerts, festivals, etc. Most people are completely unaware how much irreparable damage loudness may cause.

I witnessed our local women's march. Lots of kids. (And the most chill protest march I've ever seen.) If these speakers were used directly on children, they'd certainly have damaged hearing.
Thank you for the clarification. That means my phone's performance after the iOS 11 upgrade dropped due to something other than the battery-related throttling. Not sure if that's good news or not...
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The "unhackable" name probably just comes from a sales pitch or an overenthousiastic journalist.

The Titanic wasn't called unsinkable by people who knew what they were talking about. Same thing for that exploit mitigation hardware.
Then it's not cat anymore. The purpose of cat is to output the inputs unchanged and concatenated. If you need magic, that's a task for another program.
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On the contrary, luxury items are very often associated with « lifetime » usage. A pair of luxury shoes will last 20 years if taken care of properly, a swiss mechanical watch can be repaired 50 years after it’s been bought and transmitted from generation to generation. A jewelry is transmitted from mother to daughter, etc etc.

You can’t pretend something to be a luxury item if it’s completely obsolete after a few years. Luxury isn’t purely marketing or aesthetic.
I heard someone mention once that Richard Stallman’s extremism is valuable (in part) because, by setting one end of the spectrum so far out, he moves the middle in his direction.

By cowing to oppressive government demands, rather than support the side of the spectrum they were born on, Facebook and YouTube allow the middle to move towards oppression.

In the same way that you do not reward a child’s tantrum with their desired outcome, you do not demonstrate to the world that they can have both YouTube and oppressive governments; unless, of course, you’re more interested in brief-but-immediate comfort than extended-but-delayed happiness.
I recently listened to a Sam Harris podcast about gene splicing, in which he wondered whether the technology would become divisive because 'if you could raise your child's intelligence, you would, at any cost,' (totally paraphrasing). I found this interesting since what I've found is that "intelligence" is not universally valued at all, at least in the US. As a kid, I was part of a research study on high IQ children development, and over time I've seen from my fellow study participants that IQ alone didn't predict success particularly well in the realms of what most people value, i.e. relationships, material success, power, or fame. IQ is correlated with mental health issues as well. I'm not saying intelligence is bad, it's obviously valuable, but in certain communities (ahem) there seems to be a blind spot around the relative importance of intelligence in relation to other factors of being human, particularly social components.
Pretty anecdotal, but it seems to strike a chord with a few people in here, like anecdotes tend to do... I like the HTML/CSS approach, and then tack on some JavaScript. No stupid assembler to keep track of. I've taught about 300 kids web design, and around 150 programming (rough estimate), and that's what stuck the best with the kids. Java, not so much. From JavaScript the sky's the limit. Personally I tried BASIC, but I really learned programming by going the PHP route, and onwards to Perl and Java. But the first thing I learned was HTML/CSS. If I could choose again, I'd go JavaScript first, and perhaps Python - another lovely language.
The box subscription business model is getting harder and harder as competition increases. I can relate on two points with my own Japanese tea-of-the-month subscription (https://tomotcha.com):

- At one point customs were very slow to clear in Germany (one to two months), though shipments never actually bounced back. Paying for tea and not getting it is frustrating. Then eventually it arrives, two months late. We lost customers because of it. Eventually that problem went away and now shipments are going through as usual.

- Competition: we used not to have too much competition when we launched 3 years ago, now similar services are aplenty. It hurts conversion rates, a lot...
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I was impressed by how easy it was to connect to WiFi, download app, hit connect to WiFi. All instructions were included on a piece of paper the size of a business card
How about limiting maximum number of people in any corporation to ~80%[3] of the Dunbar Number[2][3]?

It wouldn't fix everything, but it would guarantee more competition and hopefully keep corporations comprehensible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

[2] Vsauce2 has a good introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2qjRG6iV8M

[3] Why 80%? To allow room for family/etc. This number is merely a suggestion; better values require actual research.
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When I lived in an apartment without laundry services, I found it was cheaper to just pay a laundry service for pickup and drop-off at my front door. I paid about $50 a month, when an in unit washer dryer would cost a lot more.

I also looked into a washer dryer unit that I could plug into my sink. They are really common in Europe but not in the United States. The problem is that American voltage is too low to run a dryer without a dedicated outlet.

With the way that batteries are going, you could probably make a dryer that has a battery in it so it doesn't need a dedicated high voltage and high amperage plug. Because all dryers need counterweights, the battery really won't add weight to the dryer.

Without technology changes, you can still get an apartment washer dryer unit. Most appliance store should be able to special order one for you. The problem is that they will take all night to dry your clothing, because you are stuck with the limited voltage and amperage that comes out of the standard American wall outlet.
I'm shocked that yours is the only comment on here that actually remembers what happened. The actual "fake news" that was entirely fabricated as click bate was discussed for a few weeks even on This American Life if I recall correctly. There was even an interview with a guy from Georgia (the country) who made a mint making up stories that appealed to Trump supporters and now nobody remembers how that important concept was hijacked by the demagogue.
> Be advised that Orange Pi have many different boards with similar names, but vastly different specs.

How is this any different than the general SBC market? You could make the same point about the "Raspberry Pi" which has:

* Raspberry Pi model A/B

* Raspberry Pi 2 model B

* Raspberry Pi 3 model B

* Raspberry Pi Zero

* Raspberry Pi Zero W

> Also a lot of the boards can only be powered by a DC jack, not the onboard MicroUSB.

Almost all boards can also be powered via 5V GPIO pins, so you can wire a DC jack to that to avoid using micro USB.
Lithium ore is often < 1%. I'm no miner, but I'd bet an old battery beats that!
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Bookmarking. I need a good, cross platform bookmarker with good search, preview (thumbnail) and excellent organization capability. Ideally it should seamlessly sync on all my devices.
Sure. The kindle runs linux and has a large e-ink display and battery integrated for a good price. You can do many things that you cannot do on a micro controller. For low level stuff you can hook up an esp8266 through wifi.
"but I challenge you to present one example of "freedom" that does not end up being oppression to someone else."

Freedom to make hyperbolic comments on internet forums?
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Love:

- Being super productive with terminals

Hate:

- The #1 thing by far in my book is not having better support for unicode. It is not possible to accurately determine the width of a unicode character in advance of printing it in the terminal. I'm aware that there are many non-printable and control characters with unicode that don't have a 'width', but even if you neglect those, the code that determines how wide a unicode characer is, is terminal specific and there is no way to access the information in advance in order to correctly align text that contains unicode, for example with whitespace padding.

This is the kind of problem that will never bother you until it does, but then when you do encounter it, you can beat your head against the wall for weeks without finding a satisfactory solution, and the only thing that comes close is something that detects aspects of your environment on every terminal out there.

I think that improving support for unicode in terminal is something that would be a good idea to do sooner rather than later, because unicode will only get more important, and in the meantime, people will continue to build abstractions upon very poor interfaces that will need to be supported in the future. Unicode is insanely complicated, so it might be too much work to support it fully, so one solution might be to expose some API that gives people the power to make their own work around (for example, through access to an snprintf like function for where n = max print width). You could add other kinds of 'empirical test' functions that allow you to avoid the work of actually understanding the entire unicode standard (which is still changing).

Here is a github repo that documents the unicode problems I have encountered:

https://github.com/RobertElderSoftware/roberteldersoftwaredi...

If I had to build one from scratch:

- If I was building one from scratch, I would probably put a better focus on separating out all the different components that actually make up the 'terminal'. In a typical bash session, you've got: /bin/bash, ttys, ptys, the terminal emulator, readline (possibly), process groups, session leaders, file descriptors, etc. This stuff is all extremely difficult to learn, and it is very 'invisible' to the average user. Most people don't need to think about it, but when you want to do certain kinds of automation tasks, they become very important.

It would be cool, if each of these concepts was formalized to provide a well-defined interface and reduce tight coupling between these components. As it is, to an average user these concepts blur together and seem like they're 'the same thing'.
This is great! A very amusing What If?
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It was pretty obvious a decade or two ago when everyone started buying cell phones. I don’t understand why techies are just freaking out about this now. I’ve had a potential listening device in my home since 2001, when I got my first cell phone. Most of you are in a similar situation.
I don't think it is even possible to setup an Echo without that app, so I'm not exactly sure how downloading the app is an extra step. You would have already needed to do that to get it connected to your wifi network.
https://www.amazon.com/Filters-Against-Folly-Economists-Ecol...
Can you be absolutely sure your phone isn’t recording everything?
Thanks! Super useful
For the antenna case (and I believe for the optics case too, but I'm not an optics guy) the beam disperses as 1/r^2 in both cases.

In transmit , the reflector provides focusing, which puts more power in less of the volume. In receive, the increased aperture allows the antenna to capture a greater area of the incoming wave giving more receive power. The effects are equal and usually just thought of as"gain" which is reciprocal for transmit and receive.
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There are several freely available voice datasets.

https://voice.mozilla.org/data

If everyone who reads HN commits a little time to Mozilla Common Voice in 2018, we might have a non-cloud solution in 2019.
I love terminals because they have a perfect memory of all the things I've typed. Many IDEs lack this feature. They don't keep a history of every menu command that I've used. Shortcut keys works for simple queries, but you can compare that to the power of repeating complex Vim commands.

I also like terminals because it feels like I'm talking to the computer more directly, we're not going through a 3rd party.

What I don't like about terminals is that it feels like I'm in a dark tunnel when moving around the file hierarchy, I can only see the directories directly ahead and behind me. I guess things like FZF help to do quick searches, but you get a much more visual picture when using window file explorers.
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> I trust Amazon more than Google, though

I used to believe this, and I still do too some extent.
Amazon won us over with a great online experience and best in class customer service. However, Amazon is on an explosive expansion phase of expanding their business and pushing vertical integration in all corners. They are rivaling any other company out there in terms of ability to mass manipulate as well.

I have an undisclosed relationship to the man running Amazon India's fashion vertical, and it's easy to see Amazon's position rivaling Google in terms of that feeling of "Google having too much information".

In the end, as I said I still agree with you with Google having to much information (I rely on Google apps and Android to this day), and that diversifying where that information is being gathered and classified is one of the few ways of both using these handy products and impeding companies knowing more about me than I know (a la Netflix video recommendations).

Amazon is now yet another giant to be weary of.
The problem of offline QR code payments have been solved in a much low-tech way... https://cdn3.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/980x551/p...

I see main utility when you need per-item/per-transaction billing.

Instead of having to print static-per item tags, or redirect users to a website with online checkout, you can have that thing to generate individual codes for each piece of merchandise.
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Are there any other micro-businesses that do a similar end of year review?

I used to read patio11's when he ran Bingo Card Creator, and find the Candy Japan reviews similarly interesting.
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Right, and they can offer specific "cyber" related competitive authority positions to that person, or ask them to come on board as a 1099 or via an existing contract vehicle where they implicitly instruct a company to bring the person on as a subcontractor. Or, you know, just dump a pile of money on them as a single outlay. I'm sure there are plenty of options created specifically for this scenario.
Are there any articles that aren’t ads then? This one very well could be one but is the default assumption that an article is an ad now?
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I honestly don't know. Was it the emails? Was it Benghazi? It's also totally irrelevant. During the primaries we had a single candidate with positive approval ratings. After the primaries we had to disliked candidates whose primary strength was that they weren't their opponent. Then the candidate with the higher popular vote lost. It's completely fucked!
To think they’re worthwhile, we only have to think they’re making at least a $30 difference in our lives. That’s not a particularly high bar.