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It's not that Apple doesn't have solutions to my problem, they just don't work very well. I used to get on with the checked songs feature in iTunes, but the software would regularly lose the checks. Given that those checks were effectively "my music library," this means that Apple would arbitrarily alter my library. After loading up iTunes enough times where my library suddenly all became checked, I had to find another solution.

Setting Music on my phone to only play downloaded music worked... until it didn't. Suddenly getting a gap between songs (while one was downloading) and then hearing a song that I took off my library 4 years ago was jarring enough and it happened frequently enough that I couldn't find an alternative player fast enough.

Apple doesn't understand just how central music is to my life. It used to, but I think they got so caught up in chasing the gold pot at the end subscription music rainbow that they let what made them so huge in the first place go straight into the shitter.

Overnight, they went from the only company that gave a damn, to the only company that didn't. And it happened right after Apple Music.
Seriously, if Unicode operators are confusing to you(r group), don't use the feature. But if you're a mathematician, it's nice to have a language that understands set operators.
> I have the theory, that the value of a cryptocurrency is equal to the sum of transaction fees people will spend in the future, discounted for inflation.

How does that follow, at all?

Is the total value of all the USD in the world equivalent to the total transaction fees paid on USD in the future, discounted for inflation?
The Amazon Echo Made a Dent in the Universe
Too late to the game IMHO. A three year lead has let Alexa integrate itself into hundreds of products. And if you want a better speaker just buy the Sonos version.
There are very few jobs that require both skills, outside of a small business / startup that can't spend on both. Very few companies will pay for 1/2 of what they want in a specific role to get 1/2 of what they can get with that other req they have open. If that's how you present yourself, that's how they'll think of you.
Was paraphrasing the article that mentions the race to the bottom, but I believe that there is a net positive on the city that receives the HQ2 and that's why they are competing with each other.
Tell that to major sports teams. Want to see real hostage taking? See what happens when a team wants a new stadium.
>Some dude in Dallas who as a publicity stunt pledged to stay in his house for an entire year and just live off of stuff ordered online?

I remember that and someone already did this with Bitcoin, it's fantastic the way the history just repeats itself.
1) Light blockchain clients?
2) Umm really? Controlled by you? Not by Apple and Google who censor software (crypto as well) and such?

A bunch of companies are doing exactly that right now (can’t recall from the top of my head) and I honestly wish them all the best as the current walled garden situation is obscene.
wow! thats really great)
> Rendering graphics for Windows users by using Off-Main-Thread Painting (OMTP)

Does this mean OSX and Linux users are not using this method?
>but to think that ALL the coins will fail in their game-changer level ambition.. this does not logically follow.

Good thing no one suggested that.
>the other has a permanent effect

This is not really accurate. There are of course many ways both fiscal and monetary for policymakers to "tighten the screws", as it were. They just haven't chosen to do so in recent years.
Not sure if you're trolling, but please chill out with the personal attacks. I'm sure it feels great to make a stand, but your comment doesn't add anything meaningful to the discussion besides demonstrating your hypocrisy.
In most browsers, middle clicking a link will open in a new tab.
that's funny because I read the comments on far more posts that I actually follow the links to.
Non-mining cryptocurrencies are already here, thankfully. Ethereum will be moving from mining to a Proof of Stake model; others like Dash have been successful with it for years.
I hope Jay is able to acquire one of these. He and his crew do a wonderful job preserving our automotive legacy.
I have decided here after any time i make any decision i am gonna construct an Yes or No question to myself 5 times and only if i say Yes 5 times i will say yes to the decision and if i say No 5 times then i will say no to the decision and if its a mix of Yes and No then i will simply delay the decision by 48 hours.

Hope it keeps me from falling for such traps in the future. Let me know how you managed to get out of such situations or if you had any tips to handle them.
I guess when you call everything 'BS', you're bound to be right some of the time.
When Bluetooth is in a good mood, it'll do that. I'll have music going on my Bluetooth headset, then my home receiver will come into range and the sound will jump over. Requires my receiver to be set to the Bluetooth channel, so if it's been on the TV channel I won't hear the music.

Also sometimes it just doesn't want to switch and I'll have to do it manually.
Join unions and be active in government. That's really as simple as I can put it. I don't have an answer to how best to get others to do those things, especially with the general apathy I feel in my generation for anything government-related. But those are the solutions.
Yes. But then you can't filter by time range. In their infinite wisdom, Google has made it either-or. Either I can filter by time, or by verbatim. It drives me nuts!
On the pricing page:

"Without proof of a lower rate, default processing is 2.9% + $0.30 for VISA/Mastercard/ Discover, 3.5% + $0.30 for AMEX, and $20 for any chargeback dispute not covered."
I don't have a middle button so it's news to me. I have a modifier key for that or a right click and select "open in new tab"
That's where I closed my browser tab.
Impact of uncoordinated plug-in electric vehicle charging on residential power
As I recall, Obamacare didn't do much, if anything, to decouple health plans from employment. If anything it made it more tightly coupled, by mandating employers with more than so many full-time employees provide health plans. The individual mandate didn't decouple health plans from employers, it just provided additional insult to injury by causing those whom were un- or under-employed and couldn't afford a now even more expensive full price health plan to be facing an even larger tax bill at the end of the year.

Any other good or bad effects from Obamacare notwithstanding, if you want to decouple health plans from employment and specific employers, Obamacare is the wrong direction.
Augmented Reality Games to Debut on the Field During Super Bowl LII
I love having Spotify hooked into my Alexa. I have totally abandoned my iTune lib.
You are right, I totally forgot about them.
Amazon already has a better sounding Echo and so does Google so I am not seeing a value prop from HomePod.

Google and Amazon could project a 3D hologram of the band as the song plays, and I still wouldn't let one of those things in my house. From my POV, it boils down to two camps: "I'll trade some privacy (for arbitrary and ever-changing values of "privacy") for better sound" vs. "I'll listen to a tinny 1" speaker as long as it isn't spying on me". You sound like you're in the former, myself in the latter.

Besides, you don't know if the competition sounds better or not, at least not until February 9th.

Too late and too little by Apple, they missed this boat.

In an age where "no wireless, less space than a nomad, lame" is a meme, I'm surprised you'd let that one slip. OTOH, even someone like myself whose only debate is "buy two, or try just the one out first?" has to allow that there's yet no guarantee that this isn't iPod Hi-Fi 2.0.
succumb only means failed to prevent it in no way means die, you literally need to add "die" into the sentence to indicate death

succumbed to fear <> die

succumbed to love <> die

etc
I think you've answered your own question: who would know to buy 3 separate products, glue them together, make it work, as opposed to buying 1 product from apple, that works right out of the box?
unless I'm mistaken, this is the very first lesson of the fast.ai course.
> Im pretty sure he means there is a central design with a distributed behavior on monetary policy.

Classic standardized commodity (e.g. metallic) currency has central design and distributed behavior.

Given that the name for the distributed actors key to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency comes from that for a key set of those responsible for supply of metallic currency, I’m kind of surprised that this could be overlooked.
Because it is a race to the bottom. Who can sacrifice the most tax dollars NOW for a hope at more down the line?

This reminds me of how NFL operates at extracting huge concessions and expenses from cities for the privilege of having their team stay in town.
May I suggest thinking about what he's saying?

Sure, it might feel upsetting. But is it true?

It seems true. And that has merit.

But so does your side of it. So it's a balance.
Which is the same one that Apple itself uses. This was an issue a couple years ago when Apple kept the fast Nitro rendering engine for itself, but now that they've provided it to everyone else I wouldn't call it anticompetitive.
And if you don't know how to get to 9-to-5, I wrote a book that can help you get there: https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/
How do you determine if a chargeback is “fraud related”?
Is there an altcoin which is indefinitely and exponentionally inflationary? Such a coin would not have the gold-rush/ponzi characteristics which bitcoin has, and there wouldn't be a such huge incentive to mine new coins so hopefully it would avoid the incredibly wasteful mining arms race.

But no one would get rich quick, so it would probably never take off in the first place.
Pretty specific to america. Most other countries don't tie healthcare (and a myriad other social services and benefits) and gainful employment to one another.
Since the subject of this thread is potential regulation by American regulators, it is presumed that we're talking about American companies unless otherwise stated. I don't think anyone has intimated that the U.S. S.E.C. is going to investigate blockchain speculators around the world.
Elon and Tesla have been laying the foundation for exponential growth I believe they can achieve; along with SpaceX that will lead the way for mining asteroids etc will further be a profit layer others won't have that he can leverage in the future to his heart's content. Tie SpaceX's global satellite network and connectivity with vehicles ... there's a lot of synergy to what he's doing, a buzzword that should be used to describe the ecosystem Elon's creating.

Edit: Not to mention some other boring plans he has that will disrupt transportation even more than electric vehicles and reusable rockets will..
My US Driver's License was enough for them as well, but that was almost 4 years ago, so things might have changed.
Came here to mention that too ;-) Let me at least paste the wiki link for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Bye,_Lenin!
Switched back to Firefox a few months ago and I'm blown away by the speed.

Last time I had this feeling after switching to Chrome from Firefox years ago, haha.

Besides videos everything works like a charm. Somehow some videos won't start and sometimes I get a message that the video format could not be read, never had this issue in Chrome.
I think he referred to Pi-Hole - https://pi-hole.net
I too am interested in the detailed, specific discussion, so thank you for the link. But I also appreciate strong language calling out bad things with broad consequences. Especially by experts in fields I don't have expertise in. I appreciate the use of strong language as a signal of the current state of the solution and the probability of recurrence. Yes, Linus should modulate his language more. Yes, he's a dick. Yes, he would be more effective if he had more self-control. I just don't think this rant is entirely useless (though it's useless for reasons he did not intend so I can't give him full points)
This looks like a really well positioned and differentiated entrance into the payment provider market.

Eliminating fraudulent chargebacks addresses a serious pain point for a large market segment. It’s an angle that allows it to answer the “why not just use Stripe” from day one — which is a really hard question to answer with a just launched service.

Congratulations.
This is interesting. But I wonder what differences it hopes to attain vs. Numba's CUDA support for NumPy, which seems to work pretty well and is under active development.

One benchmark, https://www.scivision.co/speed-of-matlab-vs-python-numpy-num...
Sadly Verbatim doesn't work for Image search.
It’s a race to the bottom because it goes beyond tax revenues to include free land (that could be sold to someone else), infrastructure investments (that are likely not needed otherwise), etc.
This seems potentially backwards to me. If we apply a voltage source across the terminals, parallel coils between the terminals would result in higher voltage across each coil than would series coils. With series coils, the total voltage applied would be divided between the coils.

Could someone clarify?
The eardrums move when the eyes move
As you indicate, it's a model and based on the predicate of 100% immunization. It can't "turn out" until everybody is immunized. Also, like I said, quick Google, perhaps you can find something more relevant for your questions and share it.

But it does objectively suggest that immunization is economically cheaper for insurers, with and without 100% immunization rates.
This is what I get out of his writing. He is a great pop-culture writer, expresses some important (and mostly, relatively old, repackaged) ideas about convexity and natural mathematical implications thereof.

He is one of my favorite authors, but I am unconvinced by nearly everything he has to say. He has this cult-leader style of "everyone else is wrong, but here, you can be part of the enlightened group" that I find somewhat grating, but more importantly, he simply does not provide "extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims."

Almost nothing he asserts is empirically testable due to his reliance on fat tails and Knightian uncertainty, and when it is, it either has not been empirically tested or the entire "traditional" industry is built around the empirical results. His response to this is generally of the form "systemic failures can dominate normal effects." [1]

In the cases where he leans on statistical modelling, especially modelling with fat tails, his writing breaks down. I find his approach at that point to feel sort of "baffle them with bullshit" in the sense that he is indifferent to whether it is even possible for the reader to understand what he is saying, once he has convinced himself.

[1] e.g., https://www.facebook.com/nntaleb/posts/10155509264828375
They also have the opportunity to collect payroll, income, property and sales taxes in respect of the employees; seed a technology district; and collect taxes down the road. It wouldn't make sense for San Francisco to do this. But it can make sense for a Tier 2 city to pay Amazon for densification over sinking a similar cost into the riskier proposition of renovating a downtown plaza or whatever.
RMS dscribes ‘loudness’, not quality.

The current breed of class D amps are shockingly small and and have pretty decent audio specs(thd, rms, etc). Unless you are expecting a 50lb analogue >500w audiophile quality amp, I’m not why you would assume the size == low quality.
Well, depends on the country. In mine, it's Hydro, in others it might be Nuclear, but yes, most developed countries have a shocking amount of coal plants.
If you use css-modules the styles will be isolated to your component unless you add :global() around them.
> but the Airplay2 support will be baked into the OS so I don’t need to use a clunky 3rd party app

Do not expect everything smooth sailing with Apple software. Currently when I AirPlay video to AppleTV, I can not use the remote controller to pause and play as there will be no sound. I suspect one reason for the HomePod delay is due to bugs.
DDG's porn problem is seriously annoying. Two searches I did recently that yielded porn as results:

- „Christian Guzman dog ava“ (dog of a YouTuber)

- „nkd dpd“ (drop-off locations for postal carrier DPD)
Doesn't anyone else shudder at how honestly they express productivity as a simple brain chemistry hack? Is work supposed to be a Skinner Box?
This is one of those solutions that seems simple and neat, but falls apart on a cursory inspection. For example, it implies that the poor should die of curable illnesses. It also largely ignores the economics of the situation — healthcare is inherently expensive because it involves high technology, high safety standards and lots of training. You can't have it be like food, where people just get it when they want it, because Taco Bell employees don't have to go through a decade of special schooling before they're qualified to work there. Without an individual mandate, an employer mandate or universal coverage, there's no way ordinary people will be able to afford anything beyond the most basic services.
Holy shit, those are titanic interchange fees.
How could you be independent if you all buy the same brand of smartphone ?

Why couldn't independent unite themselves voluntarily ?
> MTA is similar to the U.S. Govt it's a criminal organization. Theft is from commuters every day and passed on through outrageous salaries and pensions.

o m g
As someone who looked at using styled components for a small project, but chose JSS (despite liking styled components) for various reasons, I would love to hear from someone with experience with both styled components and JSS - what do styled components offer which JSS does not, or, why would you choose one over the other?
It seems to me that many in the information security field have known that SCADA systems are extremely vulnerable for quite some time. To me, the question this article raises is:

"Does mentioning the possibility of nuclear system breaches increase the likelihood that SCADA system manufacturers and their customers will take the important steps to provide increased security?"
Thanks. Pardon the harshness, I just abhor the practice and see it too often.
The Bitcoin community has been working on regulations, wall street adoption and security. How about alt coins? Well, they only talk about 2 things: "cheaper" and "faster" transactions. Technology is cool, but if you want to make it you need to seriously work on the real problems.

So, to answer your question - YES. As soon as the lightning network becomes part of bitcoin, I think there won't be a need for alt coins anymore. Unless it's something totally unrelated to digital money.
What's the "loudness" of speakers like these? I see that they're ultrasound, so we wouldn't be able to hear them anyways, but are they something a human can safely be around without suffering hearing loss?
The very first time I saw the idea of ordering something online, was when Sandra Bullock ordered pizza online in the 1995 movie The Net. I was just floored, like I couldn't grasp exactly how such a thing would work and how it could really be possible.
Arguably more interesting:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=perl%20t...
Google: Augmented reality on the web, for everyone
Chargebacks have detailed reason codes which we programmatically sort. We also have a fraud analyst team that sorts through the non-fraud chargebacks to verify that they're not fraud related (some are mis-categorized by banks) before passing it off to the merchant.
Maybe it's just a semantic argument because I am a search engine developer, but I wouldn't really call DDG a "search engine". It uses Bing to power results. I would describe it as a "search interface" that gives you advanced search related tools in addition to standard search, some stratified results, and then it takes a privacy angle to differentiate itself. As such, I think the move to browser safety is a natural extension of what they do.

That said, how the heck do they make money? I only very rarely see a single ad, and there isn't much money in NOT tracking people. It's very hard to make money on search if you aren't Google (I would know, I have tried several times).
I wrote up a more detailed look at some of what's in Firefox 58: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/firefox-58-the-quantum-era...
I almost liked it, but then I wanted to open 5 links in new tabs and it didn't work, also left-click also doesnt work, it just tries to load some information from external source, only reddit link worked "OK" (but really not OK, I wanted to see comments not content of a post) for me.
It's non-trivial to calibrate your work habits and psychology for maximum sustainable productivity for different tasks. "But but flow!" someone might say. To which I'd respond: even flow has its weaknesses. Get flow-greedy for writing software, and you'll find yourself working late, eating crap, and not exercising.

And it's different for different work. The mentality you need to be a good student is different than the one to be a good salesman, which is different from that required to be a good husband, etc.

What I can say with confidence, though, is that it makes a notable difference. A long time ago I read an article linked here that talked about "stacking wins." Consistent success can deliver crazy rewards, because so many (more than in the past, I feel) areas of our lives are subject to vicious/virtuous cycles.
Ironically, the appeal of Google over competitors when they were just starting out was precisely that you could find what you were searching for without having to add a bunch of symbols to tweak your query.
I do not understand this comment. What is the link between them getting me there and le thinking that their tooth extraction without anesthesia was, wow, I prefer not to think about that?
Ask HN: What is the end game for cryptocurrency?
As crypto starts to enter the mainstream consciousness, Im curious what the killer app or utility crypto currency will provide? Aside from the theoretical, what is the end game of crypto? Is it just an elaborate digital pyramid scheme? Is there some near term utility that could be derived from crypto? Is this really just going to end up being a way to semi anonymously send payment for legal gray area goods and services? I see several barriers to widespread adoption:
1) Governments cannot universally agree how to treat it
2) Its still hugely volitile
3) It is able to be manipulated with both FUD and outright misinformation
4) probably a dozen other things.

I would like to hear objective discussion around this, and just curious what some of the better minds that lurk on HN have to think about this.
I've recently come to this conclusion too. I did remote freelance work for several months, and it was miserable. Some clients are better than others, but if they find you online (and you're not speaking at conferences, etc) it's most likely because they want cheap work.

However I have heard success stories (online) from people that find work in their local area/network.

I've decided to do my own thing (a sort of micro ISV), and if at all possible I plan to not do freelance work ever again. I'm probably not cut out for it, but I also think software development is just a poor profession for (fixed price) freelance work.