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And bad for the consumer even if they’re right. How are you supposed to plan for or cope with the knowledge that you’re going to lose your mind in 15 years?
Yes. I've worked on phones in the past (Amazon's ill-fated Fire Phone) and there was no pressure that I perceived to sell more third-party accessories. There was, however, a very tangible pressure to make the phone thinner and lighter, and at the same time to pack it full of more shiny-seeming software features.

It's entirely conceivable, based on my experience, that removal of the headphone jack is attributable to ignorance and not to malice.
Is there enough bandwidth available in a cubicle farm or 787 for everyone to use their airpods?

I doubt it. Headphone jack was a nice reliable piece of hardware. Thank goodness some other brands are rooted in reality.
That’s supervised of a different sort. Also, it may end up learning the effects of the noise which may not reflect real data.
I think they did it for the reason they gave: the headphone jack is a burden for small PCB layouts.

There's lots of reasons to believe that removing the jack is NOT meant to drive accessory revenue:

1. They included the dongles in the box for years, and still sell them at $9.

2. They include compatible headphones in every box.

3. iPhones are compatible with all wireless headphones.
If a credit bureau creating documents for others to use for various reasons in not publishing then Congress needs to pass a law declaring it is publishing or make a law that what the banks do to people when reporting false statements to the credit bureaus is a crime. Do you think that a creditor that reports a false statement that a person defaulted on a loan is not wrong and should not be penalized? Its great for the people that loan money but not how any reasonable person would think the world should work.
Bluetooth headphones are only really good since Bluetooth 4 and its Low Energy standard. Everything before used too much power and connections were to fragile, as you noticed.

If you tried other Bluetooth headphones than the Airpods now, you would also notice the better battery life. My work headphones (over-ear) only need to be charged on the weekend after over 40h of use and they are very light, too.
Post-crash economics: have we learnt nothing?
Ugh, anyone remember the Latitude crap fest?

Between dead, Google Plus and only available on Android.
I used a 15gbp bluetooth headphone 6 years ago without any problems on both linux and android; battery life was fine, even sound quality was acceptable. Colleagues have been using Bose ones for years. Apple didn't fix anything.
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It is debatable if any (mainstream) language is designed for embedded use. C was designed for "minicomputers" (aka small mainframes), not for embedded devices.
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Exactly, this was a logical progression to that future. Want to make a completely wireless device? Take away the things that are easy to do wirelessly. First: audio, then power, next up is...?
Problem with non-wireless headphones is that they break. One side of the headphones stops playing sounds; you can sometimes spin the connector and get the sound back, but that gets annoying, and it stops working eventually. The less wires and connectors, the less things can break, no?
The budget comes from desperation, which is unaffected by futility. Researchers are well aware that funding goes to those who claim that there is hope. Voters demand that we do something, and throwing money at a doomed cause is something, so therefore we must do that.

... and my point is proven by the downmods: nobody wants their hopes crushed, no matter how unjustified
Yes. I believe they did it for several reasons, and while selling more accessories is probably one reason, I suspect it’s a fairly insignificant one. I can’t imagine that dongle sales affect their bottom line much, and while AirPods are a big hit, that probably would have been the case regardless of the headphone jack removal.

I suspect the two most significant reasons were to reduce manufacturing cost/complexity and to improve reliability (one less physical port to get dirty and break, one less entry point for water damage).
I am not against the future but shouldn't we have the alternative ready before we kill the 'previous' version of something? For me the new wireless headphones are not an option because of lack of hi-fi options and because of the need of charging frequently. If we had the same exact experience (great sound quality for lossless and once a year charging) than I would be more inclined to buy it.
The downside of course being the constant background noise of chewing, drinking, glasses clattering, lights under every table, and subpar quality projectors.

Can’t have it all.
Though, conversely, if we can strongly associate a given stimulus or process with a respose, regardless of understanding the specific pathway(s), is that not useful information?

It was the basis of much practical knowledge for most of history.
The headphone jack is one of the last remaining analog connections in consumer electronics and its death is long overdue.
That's a good question.

What number of AirPods users would there have to be on a 787 for the interference to become a problem?
Anyone who believes this needs to sit down and think it through.

Apple's success depends on the iPhone. Without it their services businesses become useless, their retail presence becomes an albatross, peripheral devices like Apple Watch, AppleTV start to look a lot less useful and forget about future growth in AR/VR. And so the idea that Apple would compromise all of that just to make a comparatively tiny hundred million or so is just crazy. And Tim Cook is anything but crazy.

The fact is that the market is moving towards wireless for everything. Audio included. And 99.999% of the world aren't audiophiles who can tell the difference (or even care if they can) between BT and non BT audio. So why waste valuable phone space for an insignificant number of people when you can improve battery life by say 5% ?
Ignorance of what? I’m sure they knew some people would be upset about the decision, but they must have predicted that it would be worth it for their bottom line and aggregate customer satisfaction. And I have seen no data suggesting that their prediction was incorrect.
> In other words, Amazon tacitly acknowledges it retains the power to do this again.

> But if one uses proprietary (nonfree, user-subjugating) software to access a downloaded copy of the work, one's access to the work is in jeopardy. One can't be certain that copy will be readable/playable through that proprietary software. Perhaps the proprietary software will delete that copy of the work

Amazon only has the power to do this if you connect your Kindle to the internet. You can be sure that Amazon won't reach out to your Kindle to remove your books when it's impossible for them to do so.
Dude... make yourself some edamame! It rocks.
I think this post itself is a great example. At the moment, there's a post about vaccines above this post. It has had very little discussions, isn't really about "hacking".

Literally the first comment is complaining how it's lacking:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17997400

In the OP's link, the vaccine article appears above this post by a wide margin. It shouldn't.
> Like a lot of folks here, I always appreciate things that are minimal and quick.

One of the appealing aspects of this (and hckrnews's) implementation, for me, is that it works, at least minimally, without javascript turned on. This is in contrast to other alternatives presented here.
Corsair Obsidian 1000D: https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/obsidian-1000d-case
By producing more oil than anyone else on the planet.
It is more like a texture unit than a shader core. Tree traversal is a pointer chasing problem, where the CPU/shader core executes a few instructions, then starts a memory load and then sits idle for tens or hundreds of clock cycles waiting for memory. Cache prefetching can help but is usually not a good fit for tree traversal where there is very little computation per node.

It is all about memory latency hiding and not really about computation.
> Feel free to educate me regarding how "it" works if you feel my opinion is in error.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/670.pdf

> It seems unlikely that any system will constructed any time soon which doesn't involve onerous secret key distribution, is provably correct, doesn't allow someone to prove after the fact to a third party that they voted a certain way, is secure against insider and outside manipulation,

Paper ballots aren't secure against insider or outsider manipulation and they definitely aren't provably correct. I don't see any reason why it should be necessary for the average person to understand how the system works. It should be sufficient that they can verify it, given sufficient knowledge.
They’re also striving for the future where your phone is measurably, obviously thinner than 3.5mm. As in thin-enough-to-wear-on-your-sleeve thin.

It’s a long game, but I think part of their rationale is that we had to get rid of that thing eventually — which is inarguable, IMHO — and so the earlier, the better. If you’re forced to make wireless headphones that don’t suck, you will.
There is already prep, a once a day pill that if taken consistently, is over 95% effective at stopping HIV infection, I've heard some sources say it's 100% effective. While it's not medically considered to be a vaccine, most vaccines for other conditions have a lower effectiveness rate.

There is work being done to turn prep into an injectable chip in the arm, like long term contraceptives, but for HIV prevention.
Was using light text on a bright background a good idea?

No.
The power play in the CA world has already happened, with the major browser and operating-system vendors -- using their position as gatekeepers of the root certificate stores for the overwhelming majority of devices as leverage -- working to clean up a lot of the historical bad behavior.

Also, any unilateral move by Google would have to get past the rest of the CAB, which includes Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla, who all control significant root certificate stores.
> The less wires and connectors

They probably require a wire to be charged.

They also lose charge when it's least convenient.
I recently wanted to share a grocery list/todo with my flatmates and I realised only I use Reminders.app which I switched to after Wunderlist news (though it's still kicking the last time I checked). Being on Mac everywhere and on iPhone since last 1.5 yrs migration was butter smooth.

I realise that I have been trying to de-googlify my online presence but at the same time I am completely inside Apple's walled garden and getting deeper everyday.

> someone that is "hard to deal with" for most people

This is what that has kept me on WhatsApp. I don't like Signal at all and Telegram is out of the question and no one else among I know is going to switch to Matrix.org/Riot let alone XMPP/Jabber.

> could spend time on going FOSS on my whole digital life

I moved to mailbox.org for personal email. I noticed they have https://mailbox.org/en/your-office/ too. So I guess I'll give it a try. You could try to find something similar. Private, open, at the same time you don't have to get your hands dirty at the lowest level.
The systems in use are shit. That isn't what i'm talking about. People have, however, designed secure e-voting protocols, such as: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/670.pdf

It's just that nobody uses them.
Hardly an edge case. Consider the revenue generated by the Line6 Helix or Headrush and their many clones; it's a substantial revenue generator for these companies. Most live music musicians also purchase custom molded IEMs to protect their hearing and listen to a click track. Digital wireless audio simply does not work here. Even major brands like Sennheiser forgo digital transmission on their monitoring wireless packs because 5ms of latency is enough to induce combfiltering and throw a performer off.
Caring about hi-fi headphone audio and needing to charge frequently while listening to audio is probably a combination of requirements that affects an extremely tiny portion of iPhone users. Also, there’s wireless charging.
Well, with .net being ported to wasm, you should soon be able to use vb.net in the browser too.
Headphone jack is a nice reliable piece of hardware. But it comes at the expense of more space for batteries or features that more people will use.

Ethernet is more reliable than WiFi. Power is more reliable than batteries. But the world doesn't want wires so Apple has to listen.
If you think EV has magical phishing-prevention sauce, you probably want to do more research on the topic. Especially since browsers are starting to tone down or even remove special visual signifiers for EV certs (since, if EV had incredible anti-phishing power, they wouldn't be doing that).
No. Bluetooth is far more hit and miss than a physical connection.
Yes, and yes, and yes. They seem to fall strongly into the category of things I wish I sold but I can't figure out why anyone buys.
This leaves something to be desired -- it's very difficult to tickle yourself with your own fingers, but easy with a feather, even though you know you're doing it.
What if BitTorrent had a token?
Anyone that has walked through Shinjuku, Tokyo or Shinagawa station in peak hour with Bluetooth headphones will be able to confirm that there is not enough spectrum.

I get audio drop outs with airpods everytime I pass through one of the above stations.
Google is not pulling out of Kubernetes development. Their contributions have stayed at a very high level and they remain the largest single contributor, although their % of all contributions has declined over time as many more companies have gotten involved.

You may have gotten confused by this clickbait TechCrunch headline, which does not match the article content: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/29/google-steps-back-from-run...

Disclosure: I’m executive director of CNCF which hosts Kubernetes.
There's not a lot of point to EV. Google and eBay don't even EV their primary domains; given what high-profile targets those are for phishing, the fact that they're not EV should tell you something about its utility as an anti-phishing measure.
A lot of money goes into taking a good idea for a vaccine to syringes ready to deploy. The actual study goes into the real detail:

https://gatesopenresearch.org/articles/2-23/v2
But you're part of an insignificant minority.

People charge their phone everyday so it isn't a massive deal to charge your AirPods as well. And the sound quality right now is more than good enough especially given that you're asking people to tradeoff their data usage.
> This seems to challenge belief. There are almost always rapidly diminishing returns on increasing allocation of resources once you reach a certain baseline. And almost is a weasel word there -- I can't think of anything where this is not true. Just like 50 programmers won't work 50 times faster than 1 programmer on a given task, 50 times the amount of money dedicated to a task will often provide far less than 50x the return. And the article's premise is suggesting not only a linear return on investment, but a largely exponential one.

I see research, especially fundamental research, like a lottery in which we don't know what we will win. State invests X billions of dollars, and a breakthrough will likely happen, but maybe not in the expected problem (principle of serendipity). More X billions means a higher chance of breakthrough, and hopefully on the desired problem. Surely experts and thinkers looked at efficiency in research, but by definition researching is about looking at the unknown, and when there is uncertainty, a lottery model is probably a better way of thinking about it.
While it is true that headphone cables are prone to failure, from electronics point of view Bluetooth ones are massively more complex beasts, and almost certainly will have limited lifetime (batteries can last only so long). In comparison 40 year old headphones can work perfectly fine together with modern equipment, something I would not expect from wireless headphones of today.

Also repairing a cable is really easy task generally, and there is even easier solution available: make the cable replaceable, i.e. have it also be connectorized on the headphone end.
Most SV employees don't have an engineering education, they have a computer science education - not quite the same thing.
> He moved to Canada, roughly nine months ago, after purchasing the films in Australia

Of course he moved countries, that would do it. The movie is available in both countries, but in a different "version". The rows have different id, so the query does not match them.

The legal details of online media purchases and country are crazy complex. Like batshit, no reason for it, it got that way over time and now we're stuck with it, "not fit for 21st century purpose but here we are". I worked in this area and it's easily the most complex part of it and as far as selling and streaming bits goes, pointless.
For myself and friends and family, I maintain a Linux distro. It contains Chrome, LibreOffice, GIMP, Inkscape, Skype, not to mention a full OS and video drivers etc. And it's smaller than the iOS Facebook app.
> ”I don't see any reason why it should be necessary for the average person to understand how the system works”

It’s important so people have faith in the system. Yes, verifiability can help with that, but trust in math that few can really understand is a barrier. This can be exacerbated as distrust in algorithmic feed generation and social media manipulation grows. You’re savvy enough to see beyond this, but that’s not the point: that trust needs to be solid and widespread for people to have faith in the process. This is a human issue, not a technical one.
A) They could make it thicker. It’s not an either/or.

B) No one was calling for the elimination of the headphone jack. Every poll shows broad support for it. Apple themselves said it took ‘courage’ which is not the adjective you’d use to describe an action that the world agrees with.
I think the idea is that the ‘long tail’ of users that such use features can still be 10s of millions for google, and preserving can act as a most preventing these power users from seeking alternatives.

And then taking other users with them.
no it was not, some of us still like our high quality wired headphones. with that said im also a great believer in having a dedicated device, while ill occasionally use my phone for convenience i generally use a separate device for music as it can provide much better sound quality and not hammer my phones already under capable battery but im a little more serious about my audio than most people.

it does however highlight an interesting point, most portable devices make a consideration for air travel in their design, the dell xps15 for example has a 97wh battery because 99wh is the limit for taking into an airplane cabin, yet turn on airplane mode on your phone and it disables all wireless connections, bluetooth included so if you were relying on your airpods to provide your in flight music youre out of luck
What reason is there to chase more thinness? Phones are thin and light enough as is. I'd rather my phone not blow away in the wind if I set it down outside.
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Most modern phones (not sure for S5 which is pretty old these days, but Nexus 5 was the first to introduce it) have a separate DSP for music playback.

The app must use Androids playback API though.
This is perhaps the best piece I have read in a long time. History is indeed on the verge of repeating itself but for the worse. It's so sad that only a tiny fraction of the human race sees the impending catastrophe while the rest are cherry-picking mistakes from history and repeating them, hoping for a different outcome.
You missed the most significant reason of all: space.

Headphone jacks take up quite a bit of space that can be used to improve battery life.
It's the frustration of people building their workflow on those features that is talking. It's very irritating when you find yourself in the position during your hard earned vacation to (once again) have to find a new option for something that your company needs to function.
> emergency crews shut off power to rescue the truck driver without notifying Rackspace, the double whammy that the company had never planned on: the double power outage within the 30-minute chiller up-cycle. Oops.

Wow, what a design fault.

I used to do data center electrical/mechanical commissioning, which means putting equipment and systems through their paces to prove things work and so the vendor can get paid. We had a fairly standard process that we applied to validation - but every once in a while we'd have to skip/tweak a test because of something specific to the datacenter. Usually, this was a good thing, like an extra layer of redundancy - but sometimes it was a glaring assumption that we had to run-with, despite our objections.

I remember one DC had spec'd their cooling based off of power needs and climate of the area. They had balanced things out to very thin margins - which was in some ways very efficient. But... they didn't factor in global warming. Come summer Some days they could only load to 50% capacity because they couldn't keep things cool enough. Ended up redoing much of the DC to support beefier cooling.

Single points of failure can take many forms and occur at many points along a redundancy plan. The industry has oodles more examples to pull from. But now that i'm nerdier, the better approach is to be able to tolerate DC failure in your topology than try to prop up unicorn buildings. IIRC, google doesn't even have backup generators, because utility is good enough.
I think it's beyond stupid. Most people know exactly what neurotoxin induced vertigo feels like -- did the author ever drink any alcohol? The whole world is spinning, you get sick even when lying perfectly still. It's not motion that causes the sickness, it's your brain detecting messed up responses from the vestibular system.

Also, why else would this reflex exist? Throwing up is very, very costly in terms of calories, and for much of our evolutionary history, food was scarce. Such an extreme measure could only have evolved when the alternative was even worse.
Not with AirPods it isn't. Hence its popularity.

And as someone who has owned many IEMs over the long term those cables all end up breaking. And for IEMs with replaceable cables it's the connectors that break.
You can turn on airplane mode, then turn Bluetooth on specifically.
DannyBee, in a sibling reply to yours, points out that Google has made some legally binding commitments about the longevity of the Cloud products:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17997494

No, it wouldn't require them to keep it operating if all of Google was simultaneously destroyed by meteors. But it would probably allow lawsuits against Google if they didn't give the required advance notice merely due to a change in business strategy, without a sufficient reason.

Interestingly, AWS doesn't have that kind of guarantee, though they do have a long public cloud track record of not turning stuff down.

You make a lot of additional good points about why these Google products are safe.

I'm not convinced I'd put Domains in that list, and for G Suite and GCP I'd only put the core services (G Suite jargon) and GA offerings (GCP jargon). Plus some other services under those umbrellas if Google has told you something about their plans under NDA, which they do for many customers.

But Google reliably provides transition plans and data exports if they do turn anything down, and I expect that will continue.

(Disclosure: I formerly worked for Google and GCP in particular, but no more recently than early 2015 and I have no current insider info.)
It uses the same wire you use to charge your phone.

And so it isn't like you're carrying anything extra.