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The HomePod is wired, not battery-powered. I don't think you've looked at it very closely.

Having purchased the HomePod, it's noticeably better than the bookshelf speakers I own (AudioEngine A2+ and Odyssey LES).

It also sounds as good as my Vizio soundbar/subwoofer combo, though I've not compared it at high volume or with movies.

It is, not unexpectedly, vastly better than my battery-powered BeoPlay P2 Bluetooth speaker.

I'm very impressed.
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Essential sold fewer than 90,000 phones in its first six months
Razer caters to gamers. 0.41% of steam users use Linux.

Let's be generous and triple that number, 1.2% of Pc gamers use Linux. Razer's decision makes sense to me.
Cleve Moler is 78 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleve_Moler), he is popularly known as the co-founder of MathWorks, and co-author of numerical computing libraries such as LINPACK and EISPACK. He maintains a blog (https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/) and still programs in MATLAB from what I can tell. He talked about a bit of MATLAB history last year in Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) -- https://extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov/sessions/dinner-tal...).
Please don't start ideological or political flamewars on HN. They're not what this site is for, and destroy what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why not just use Notes.app?
Privacy?! How does that affect the neighbors? Or is it related to future "property value" and its influence on the whole neighborhood?
My market research (teenage kids) indicates that Instagram is their platform of choice.
The article immediately has to caveat the difference between "public" and "private" blockchain. This seems to be the #1 question in any blockchain discussion. What exactly is "blockchain"?

Merkle trees, super useful (e.g. git). Distributed ledger, super useful (e.g. developers' local copies of kernel source). Proof of work using GTX 1080s plugged into hydroelectric power-plants, waste of resources.

If "blockchain" means only "public, distributed ledger powered by proof-of-work" then I don't think "blockchain" has a future. But if "blockchain" means any of the above without proof-of-work, then blockchain is already the #1 mechanism for software development, has a myriad of uses and is a total no-brainer.
> They walk onto airplanes and fly home.

Unless they have been declared persona non grata by the receiving nation ( Article 9 ).

Usually the individual is given 72 hours to get out but that is not codified.
@make3: I think you're fine to have that opinion and I think its reasonable (despite your downvotes). I'm going to +1 you because you are truly contributing an important opinion to the discussion and you shouldn't be downvoted for that.

The main issue is that "Artists to get paid for their work" seems to work against copyright in many respects. Consider CD Project Red, which has DRM-free downloads on Good ol Games. Basically all modern copyright protection schemes are effectively outlawed on the GoG platform and yet "Witcher 3" manages to do incredibly well. (As well as many other games on the GoG platform)

In contrast, the heavy-handed approach with DRM and Lootboxes on Steam and whatnot seems to be failing hard at capturing audiences and letting people feel like they're actually contributing to the artists / creators of various works.

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Another model: the Patreon model, seems to be the #1 source of new upstarts around the internet. Youtube Stars and high-quality content like "Smarter every day", and also lots of... unsavory... lower quality content... gets paid through the Patreon model (which is wholly independent to copyright).

You can destroy copyright tomorrow, and ALL Patreon stars (comic-artists, Youtube stars, minor video game developers) will continue to be paid for their work.

Even in the music industry: it seems like "gigs" are the main way for bands to make money. Some money is made from iTunes / Amazon downloads, but most of that money goes to Sony (or other Publishers). Not the artist themselves.

As such, the general feeling is that "copyright protects the Corporations", not the artists. Corporations deserve a cut of course: middle men are necessary in a lot of fields. But I think almost everyone feels like the current copyright system provides too much benefit to the middle-men, and not enough benefits to the artist.
...through a cloud service. This is a critical caveat, IMHO.

We are beginning an era were the largest cloud providers will attempt to differentiate with custom hardware. But the providers will keep the hardware to themselves, and just sell the services.
Has Google published data on the memory bandwidth of TPU v2 (aka "cloud TPU")? I'm having trouble finding it.

In any case I agree, we shouldn't be looking at the stated peak compute of either of the chips.

(Disclaimer: I work at Google on XLA, and have in the past worked on TPUs.)
WOW This looks amazing! Thanks for sharing it.
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I thought it was pretty interesting that he no longer uses email. He did use it from (1975 - 1990), and he still works at Stanford.

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
They tried. The Republican Party leadership suspended all investigation of Equifax. Equifax is part of the finance industry and the finance industry are major sponsors of the Republican Party.
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Another valueless "disruption" being injected play money to destabilise the semblance of healthy capitalism we had on a macro level.

Venture capital enables subsidies to speculative companies in hope of a small probability of profit, which destroys perfectly good small companies [0] , and acts as a libertarian version of socialism [1]. This exposes the fabric of a normal economy to small stressors, a couple of which may hit it big and destroy entire industries. This has its brutal repercussions [2] which are not only economical, but also social, as the sum of jobs destroyed is bigger than the new ones created, at least in low innovation sectors, and which makes extremist movements grow out of the general frustration with the state of things (isn't Trump the result of "disruption" in politics too?).

However, in my opinion Universal Basic Income will fix all the major problems acting effectively as a universal VC - and paradoxically a healthy one as not guided by buzzwords or credentialism, which should be the only way any subsidy work, as it frees everyone from black swan risks which are fruit of unexpected outcomes of technological advances (and a good thing per se), and enables them to work on bettering the world in an amazing way (my speculation). Until the AI comes along... Well, that's for another story.

[0] https://m.signalvnoise.com/venture-capital-is-going-to-murde...

[1] https://medium.com/@willszal/venture-capital-as-socialism-47...

[2] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/515926/how-technology-is-...

Edit: build an argument
I suspect you're referring to μTorrent, which has been descending into awful spam-infested garbage for a long time now. As another user suggested, give qbittorrent a go.
I signed up for Facebook recently after deleting my account 9 years ago. I was banned within 30 minutes after updating my work history and a profile photo. Submitted an appeal with my drivers license and passport. Unbanned in a couple hours. Kept building my profile over the next couple days and was banned 3 more times. Submitted appeals each time with all the requested information. Nothing malicious, political, or sexual posted, just the average guy setting up a Facebook account. Been banned for over a month now, finally just gave up. They never emailed me other than the initial welcome to Facebook email. Just had to try my login every couple hours to see if I was still banned.
opinions:
1. instacart gives companies besides amzn/wf a logistics platform to ship out retail goods. It makes these other companies more competitive. This is why you see a company like Target acquire Shipt.
2. it won't be a premium if self-driving cars exist. it might be a waiting game for investors, just like how uber and lyft are floated right now.
How is an association choosing not to associate with you any different from banishment or expulsion? Let us remember that in the 1960s, speech promoting civil rights was incredibly non-consensus and "dangerous" and resulted in banishment and expulsion for countless proponents. So too was speech in favor of gay marriage during the 1980s. I am not in favor of legislation limiting speech, I am just pointing out that the distinction you draw between what goes too far and what does not is founded in your own opinionated perceptions and not in reality.
The same will happen (and is happening!) to Instagram. They've recently changed Instagram to non-chronological "curated" feeds, and added a bunch of ads into the mix. What used to be a very pleasant social network has become way less enjoyable in recent months.

They also just (after years of resisting) opened up the posting API to some partners.
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As a former restaurateur, I would like to tell you, contrary to popular opinion, during the last major economic downturn in 2008 (2009 for me since I was in a southern state, and the downturn hit us a bit later than most), spending money out to eat actually went up.

The theory goes a little something like this -- people actually spend more money on themselves to cheer themselves up when life gets shittier. So folks, too depressed to cook, would go out and at least try to eat, drink, and be merry.

Now how this correlates to these dining services has yet to be determined.
Discussion from 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2513293.
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This is very strange.

This morning I began noticing what I first assumed was a very small insect meandering around on my screen. I quickly realized that it was not an insect after I tried to squish it (the dot just kept moving about).

I would describe this as a single pixel, that moves around my screen in a meandering fashion, very similar to how an insect moves.

My next thought was malware. I attempted a screen recording using Quicktime but was surprised to find that the meandering pixel did not show up in a screen recording. Hmm.

I was able to record it on my phone.

Any ideas what this could be?
Hmm -- I wonder why they chose to not use Jupyter as an REPL "backend" (Jupyter calls them "kernels").
Stellar advice.

I likewise didn't find any perfect instruction manual for keeping a baby healthy and alive, but I did find the process of reading and considering the advice they gave to be helpful in forming our own processes and opinions.

I'd recommend that any prospective parent take some time to read several baby books from conflicting perspectives, to give you the opportunity to be intentional about your parenting style.

Watching other parents is also really really helpful if you have the chance. More often from a "we need to make sure we never ever do that" perspective than anything else.
> Netflix usually doesn't offer even English subtitles to an English-speaking movie if you're in a non-English speaking country!

Sadly, this has nothing to do with streaming and everything to do with rightsholders (aka "Hollywood").

The rights on the subtitles are held by the company that makes them, are then sold to the company that distributes the movie, which are then resold to regional distributors, separately from the rights to show the movie. This means that if you want to show, say Transformers, you have to negotiate with one company to show the picture, another company to license the sound, and yet another company for each set of subtitles.

It just isn't worth the effort in most cases to negotiate the Transformers English titles in France, for example.

Movie industry licensing and asset packaging are stuck in a time when you had to move physical reels of tape and film around, and still haven't caught up to digital technology.
Hidden work when launching a SaaS
Schizophrenia patients calmed by video game
Even though I agree with you, it would make for a much better conversation if you provided some evidence yourself instead of insisting the onus is on others to prove you wrong.
I haven't seen "Primitive Technology" but the oft aired PBS-hosted series "Alone in the Wilderness" sounds like it did comparable things for me. The impact of watching a man build a cabin with only hand tools and using no electricity alone in the Alaskan interior, here narrated in the gentle voice of Dick Proenneke, left me with an appreciation for the self-reliance and craft of a day long gone.

http://www.aloneinthewilderness.com/
Would you rather be xXTheRealMrGuyoramaXx or mrguyorama_123 instead? I really don't see how it's that different. It solves the problem of first come first serve, without forcing people to come up with the random meaningless bits themselves.
We've been reducing middlemen to few, not to zero. e.g. Amazon, Whatsapp, Facebook, Airbnb etc. Hell, even peer-to-peer systems have some kind of middlemen.

If that middleman is in a big enough market with low barriers to entry and lots of competition, and is able to drive cost down with smart tech, it doesn't really matter to most users whether he exists or not.

Decentralised systems never promised low transaction costs. A private party running a database can do it cheaper and faster than a set of decentralised actors working for some incentive to establish the same database. That seems pretty much inevitable.

They did promise something else. Trustless-systems. But it hasn't been shown yet that consumers value this. (e.g. see our most valued companies like Facebook to which we routinely trust data (from secrets to nudes) we'd never, ever share with anyone else)

Blockchain's value proposition, as I've always interpreted it, isn't 'material' in the sense that transaction costs or speed are, but more based on the culture and the relationships of the 'value network'. i.e., the relationships aren't based on trust+laws, but on code+math. And it doesn't appear to me that the market values these relationships/culture, but it seems that the market does value the material aspects. hence there being no real blockchain users of blockchain applications. (except for the whole store of value thing, which drives basically all the price changes, but nobody envisioned the blockchain to solely be digital gold and nothing else).
Has anyone had an iOS device lose battery really fast, only lasting for less than a day, until you reboot and everything is fine again?
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I have never had a good experience with instacart. I’ve ordered from them probably 10-15 times and every single time, without fail, they either forget an item or replace an item with another item that I don’t want. This makes the service unusable, because if I’m cooking dinner that night and want to order instacart, there’s a high likelyhood I’ll be missing something crucial for my recepie, meaning I’ll have to go to the store anyway.

Not to mention the shady fees. The last time I used instacart, there was a box checked called “service fee”, I clicked on it to see what it was and it said “this $10 charge is optional and helps us keep running instacart”. Meanwhile the tip for your driver box is not checked. I bet a large number of people assume the service fee is the tip, and leave tip blank. Blatant tip stealing.

Plus they mark up everything you buy, and obfuscate this so it’s impossible to really know how much extra instacart is skimming off the top.

Amazing prime now on the other hand has never messed up an order. They always deliver on time. The prices are actually cheaper in some cases than in store.

I can’t wait for instacart to go out of business.
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It is in rare cases like Library Sharing.
What if the author is a company? Like Disney.
This part is so true:

"I’ve built and sold software for the Mac and iOS. Those products all had simple billing systems. But with a SaaS, you need to handle all of that yourself. You need to handle payments, and invoices and everything inbetween."

Edit - both Spark (Laravel) and Bullet Train (Rails) will help with a bunch of this stuff:

https://spark.laravel.com/

https://bullettrain.co/
Just noticed that Inspector seems to be related to cling, and cling has a built-in Jupyter kernel IIUC.
>are being purchased outside of Iceland

...as opposed to any other business? if you're setting up any kind of business[1], chances are most of the capital investments won't be goods from iceland.

[1] other than ones centered around processing raw resources https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Iceland_...
I fully agree with you. I love 3rd party Mac apps that look and act like Mac apps (Like Sequel Pro) but you still didn't answer my question.

From a developer point of view, it's just better to make a Web App or a Electron App that will be used by everyone irregardless of their OS. Not only it's less of a hassle to develop but also guarantees that more people are gonna use it.
> high-performance CPUs (including Intel Skylake)

Any plans for ryzen?
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Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

I didn’t downvote you, but presumably people disagree with “Here’s an FPGA” as comparable to being given a working piece of hardware. That is, would you have said that the best comparison to a V100 is this same FPGA box?

I (and others) get what you were trying to say: TPUs are ASICs that aren’t general purpose at all, so an FPGA is a better comparison than a more general purpose GPU. As an end user, that just isn’t true though. If someone hands you an f1.16xlarge, you have to build your own psuedo-chip for machine learning. While with this offering, TensorFlow handles the acceleration / offload for you.
That would imply a level of concern and corporate maturity that seems absent.
> 2) Economic downturn: Will people still order groceries at a premium?

I'm not sure about the data and large trends for this, but here's my anecdote: Right now Instacart is the cheapest way for me to get groceries. Someone with a gun took my driver's license from me a few months ago, my bike was dismantled by thiefs, and I don't live within walking distance of a grocery store.

Lyft/Uber there and back is $20. Bus there and back is $6 (but with added time and stress). Instacart is $5-6.

Yes, eventually, it will be easier for me to bike there or to drive there, but not right now. Right now the cheapest way for me to get a large grocery trip done is Instacart.

So maybe they could survive. Not everyone is in my position, but someone who works two jobs, doesn't have a car and lives far from the store...that could describe a lot of people in the near future.
Wikipedia has cancer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
HBM is fairly new so it is probably a cost issue for the target market.
> b) Languages.

I wrote above about why this is, and you're right, it is artificial, but it has nothing to do with technology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16360889
If I told you that Equifax is one of those "trusted intermediaries"...
Cling (the underlying just-in-time compiler) supports this.
However Cling is more a standalone REPL and has a different execution flow. Here the idea of Inspector is to be executed from within running, compiled programs
While Guam is of strategic importance, as much as Kadena is, I doubt most Porto Ricans would vote for independence. I just don't see that happening. But who knows, maybe they would. If they did vite for independence I don't think the USG would oppose it.
We are using Netflix in Germany and it works fine. Though we primarily use it for Netflix originals now, they usually come with English and German subtitles, as well as English and German audio.

(Being Dutch, I am used to having subtitles, so for some reason I prefer English subtitles over audio only. I guess that I have to concentrate less with subtitles.)
The common ground used to be the Dreamers. Children that came across the border without documentation, but have proven themselves contributing members of society through objective, conservative metrics and trust in our institutions. These people voluntarily gave their personal information to the government in a hope that has now proven itself false: that they would be granted some semblance of stability.

We have walked backwards as a society, by putting people in power that would consider even that level of humanity to be too great a political burden to bear.

> we just parrot

Not a parrot, by any means. These people are every bit as real as my neighbors and friends. It's far too easy to fall into a silo when you take a narrow view and consider only the past decade of migrant history. Consider that: before 2003, ICE did not exist. That the first of our immigration laws: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, was rooted in white supremacist ethnocentrism.

Consider: in pursuit of the foreign bogeyman, we have crafted a system of authoritative overreach that extends into a region occupied by 2/3s of our nation's population:

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
How many of these users simply aged out of the demographic? I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a combination of people aging out and not too many new users signing up.
I think medieval people were hardened quite a bit by what they had to endure outside of war. Almost all of them would have lost brothers and sisters in childhood, infections of the smallest of wounds could cost you a leg or kill you, famine and the plague weren’t things that only happened to strangers far away, etc.

As to that button: that’s only true if you are very much the stronger party in a conflict. I think there were quite a few Iraqi soldiers in AC units pressing buttons wondering how soon a missile fired by a Predator drone would hit them.
I assume instacart has a liquidity event (IPO) lined up for the near future (next 12 months), and a few late stage and previous investors are laying down a cash runway to get the company there. Notably this round ($200m) was less than their last round 1 year ago ($400m) so it seems growth has slowed and its time for an exit.

So its not a bet, its a holdover cash infusion until the IPO, and is not exactly risky given how mature and well-capitalized the company is at this point.

The only real bet is that they'll be able to IPO before a market downturn, which seems pretty safe, I have yet to see anyone put forth and truly plausible triggers for another large global recession - there are no debt and enforcement chains I can see that would drag the system under again. But I'm not a financial expert, just an armchair economist, and if I knew what would trigger the next recession I wouldn't be posting here ;)
The service fee thing sounds like a class action lawsuit waiting to happen. Lawyers, start your engines...
Netflix and their subtitles is so strange. I have an account but the subtitle selection is so limited. The rip of a Netflix show, especially recently, will have upwards of twenty subtitles, I assume from every region they're allowed to show the movie. In the actual app, you're lucky to have more than four, with two of those being English and English for the hearing impaired.
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I have never witnessed this kind of behavior first hand at any of the companies I've worked, and there are very few people I've worked with I can imagine perpetrating this kind of behavior. I really think there is a percentage of bad apples in tech that are really ruining it for the rest of us. And tech would be better for not just women, but also most men, if we could root them out.
Acc to article, seems like it’s happening in established businesses like Retail. Maybe those old businesses are due for some consolidation?

In last earnings release, Bezos said he’s doubling down on Alexa, which I presume includes increased hiring.