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This reminds me of how my bathroom fan was designed. I bought a new house recently, and the old bathroom fan was covered in gunk, loud, and had an older light bulb socket. Fortunately Broan [1] designed this thing well. I could take the fan and light portion out of the metal box fairly easily, and replace it with a newer, updated unit that fit the existing metal box perfectly.

This saved significant time installing the thing. I did not have to rewire it or reattach the exhaust. Sure, I did have to waste the old, defunct parts, but it's better than wasting the big metal box too.

I think there's a lot of long term value in making semi-modular appliances. What if you could take out the logic board of one of these speakers and replace it with something more current? That saves the speaker itself, the mesh on top, and the entire enclosing.

Trick is I don't know if most consumers would care / be savvy enough to do this. Laptops have been doing a semi-modular design for a while in 2005 - 2015, but no one really updated it - they just threw the entire laptop out and bought the latest and greatest. Makes me wonder why the same mentality doesn't apply to these Sonos speakers.

[1]: https://www.broan.com/Bath-Vent-Fan/Fans-with-Lights
Solid response from a company that historically seemed deaf to customer feedback. This is a move in the right direction for Sonos - but I definitely will hold off on buying any new Sonos equipment until I see how they handle this.
Are they still using YUI?

I left because it felt like updates never happened; they just lost or reset my cost basis for my three years worth of investment tracking at the time; and it was now owned by a company hostile to tax-payer convenience.

It felt great to leave.
That and being late to work. I don't think anyone would believe me if I said that I'm more upset that I'm 10 minutes late then my boss is.

I got up 10 minutes early! I thought I was running on time! Suddenly I'm supposed to be there in 5 minutes! WHY?!!? It's like time isn't freaking linear!!!!
I had a brief stint of about two months where meditation, combined with dietary changes, exercise, and most importantly a daily routine item that kind of motivated my day made me feel like I was actually productive. Plus meds of course.

I get obsessive about things, so I tried to use those obsessions to shape a regular routine that helped everything else fall into place. I focused my obsession on exercise, specifically jiu-jitsu, because once I got to class, I didn't have to think or motivate myself, I was just there and focused on learning and fighting. Then it turned into a positive feedback loop, I'd get external validation from my teammates, I was improving, I was doing it in the morning, so I absolutely had to get out of bed, and of course after class, I had nowhere else to go but work. So that fixed my habitually late problem as well. Being 10 minutes late to class was fine as long as I was on time for work. Then I could ride that dopamine rush to have a productive morning.

Then life happened, my routines where interrupted, and I haven't been able to get it back.
You have to get permission to change doctors or just a limited amount in your network? I was under the assumption you could just switch doctors whenever you wanted as long as in-network, but I hate this whole in-network thing and out of network. Seems so stupid insurance companies dictate your care, but I guess even with socialized medicine than the government decides on your care instead. It just seems like a whole big Ponzi scheme and just another number in a database.

Hmm looked it up and their website says you can change your doctor unless maybe it depends on the state... That URL is coming up for WA, so maybe in CA it's different since insurance companies are usually licensed and separate in every state but share a common brand name.

https://wa.kaiserpermanente.org/html/public/member-guide/cho...

> You can change your doctor at any time, for any reason. Just follow the same steps as above to select a new doctor.

But I guess every company and plan is different anyways. Seems like an entire racket. Someone I know who recently moved wasn't feeling too great but didn't want to go to the hospital as worried about costs, and called to speak to someone at the front desk and they said they couldn't tell you over the phone if covered or not, would have to see the card in person and specific plan and group numbers. Ended up being nothing though, but what if they were having a more serious issue.

So stupid you can't just pick the best-rated doctor and go to it. Then some cheaper plans probably have crappier doctors who are more disparate. Seems like the whole medical system doesn't let you take control over your own health. Then some doctors end up actually making people sicker too.
Not really a fair comparison. While Woz was at HP, he wasn't the executive/leader of their personal computing division.

I don't see how anyone can fault Apple here when the person doing this was leading their entire chip division.

Scenario: I own car washes and hire someone to run and manage one of my locations. I pay them well and put them at the helm of the entire location. This person is able to completely learn the ins and outs of my business and in the meantime is slowly working on poaching other members of my staff and getting things lined up to open a competitive car wash.

Who's side are you on?
If you've visited a Disney park recently, you'll understand that the cost of entry is a mere fraction of the money they expect to extract from you during your stay.

I'm not qualified at all to say this, but I'd say the park ticket is a loss leader.

The entire park is a shopping mall now. Mobile product carts and gift shops around every turn - not just at the exits anymore. The RFID MagicBands exist to eliminate any hesitation in purchasing something. The FastPasses were built to keep you walking around and buying stuff instead of waiting in a line for an hour. The hotels are full of upsells and overmarketed dining plans (if they saved you money, why would they be selling it?). I could go on and on.
> discontinued 4 years ago - that's a pretty long tail and in line with Apple

My stereo system was built in 1999. It still works fine and will continue to do so no matter what Sony does with their web servers.
The "smart" appliances sound so dumb in retrospect.
And this is the trouble with the OP imo. While its true, I find it an unfair comparison to make.
I didn't, I was trying to point out that the unintended and inevitable outcome of making war cheaper to wage (either in dollars or lives of your own soldiers) is more war.
I believe GP alleges not that he was paid by apple at next, but that there was planning for next and recruiting happening before the moment of resignation, whilst still employed at apple, because he announced his plans and successful recruiting efforts to apple at the moment of resignation.

Seems to me to be pretty similar to this case, although, as noted down thread, it will likely hinge on the very specific details of this instance.
I don't think your 2nd bullet is completely true, although I don't think it's the same as how it worked in v4.

You can receive income in January, then switch to February and allocate it to a category. When you switch back to January, it will not show that money in your To Be Budgeted total. So you can zero out January while having the next month already budgeted for.

My system is to switch to the next month, select all categories, then click the "Budgeted Last Month" button to automatically apply my previous budget to that month. Then I switch back to the current month and fix any underfunded categories and allocate any overflows to get the balance down to zero.
Looking at my resources globally is easier in Azure as well. Having to click on each region in AWS to see all my instances makes my head hurt.
>I definitely would not submit my kids to the same fate.

You already have since your DNA is out there in a database.
From the original blog post:

"We've now come to a point where some of the oldest products have been stretched to their technical limits in terms of memory and processing power,"

Since when does playing back music files stretch the limits of what these speakers were designed to do? I have invested pretty heavily in Sonos but now realize I would have been better off connecting an Airplay adapter to a traditional sound system...
Five Myths About Building Billion-Dollar Startups
The root of the problem this "voter convenience at any cost" approach is trying to solve is that positions that low maybe shouldn't be assigned by vote at all. Vote for presidents, legislators and mayors, but you have to stop doing elections at some point before reaching the office of vice janitor of the public library. Very low voter turnout is an indicator that you are close to that point.

And I'm not just talking election pragmatics here, I'm also convinced that lower offices will on average see less abuse if given to career bureaucrats than if given to people who invest the effort of running in an election for an uncertain chance to get - whatever they were hoping for. It's more likely to be worth the effort for the self-serving type.
There's a middle-ground here using the Sonos Connect/Port connected to a traditional system. This would work well for your use case.

Some people genuinely like the Sonos software.
Python imports modules dynamically so even if we embedded python in Go, all the deployment woes of Python would still be around. Its kind of a fundamental problem with dynamically linked libraries and python being an interpreted language.
They already have 1/2 of your kids DNA.
On the last big 23andMe thread at least one researcher commented that their data has been immensely useful. And I'm fairly certain I've read a few similar comments on HN before then.

A researcher friend of mine made fun of me for signing up to 23andMe when they first offered their test. SNPs, he told me, didn't tell you much of substance. To which I replied, haven't the last 20 years (almost 30, now) of genetic research been built almost entirely on SNP-based studies? He didn't have a comeback for that--he was in the middle of his Ph.D at the time. A few years later he signed up for 23andMe =)

It's true: we're so incredibly far from the type of personalized medicine that genetic researchers promised. I'm not sure what "transformative" would look like, but I don't think 23andMe's valuation exceeds its potential, if only because of the number of 0's in medical expenditures, globally but especially in the U.S.
The shift happened gradually, then all at once. Nowadays the Instagram generation is literally obsessed with showing people everything, all the time...the bottom of the barrel being, of course, the fishface selfie, which I find infuriating. It didn't start with Facebook, but it really picked up speed. That was a platform that really penetrated into people's social circles, gave people an effortless way to post photos of themselves right from their phones, and generally created little fiefdoms of social following. We can blame platforms, and I do, a lot, but the capacity for narcissism has been latent in human nature for a long time.
Disappointed to hear this about Lo. Was just looking at a course MIT will be offering online that he's co-teaching!
Scientists re-create voice of 3000-year-old mummy
Mac users are getting bombarded by laughably unsophisticated malware
Great question. I would assume Signal has some sort of signed reproducible builds, but I have no idea what the Apple store process is like. Do you not just submit a binary to the store?
Something like DuckDuckGo operated like Let's Encrypt. If it can be done for key management, why not search corpus? What's the annual cost, $10MM? Maybe a bit more, but not crazy expensive. Someone with search experience (ChuckMcM or greglindahl) would be able to say with more certainty.
I guess I went too broad with my comment about this blog. They are saying that they will maintain them as much as possible. This means that the updates will eventually end and they will stop working. I have dumb speakers that are 10 years old that work great and will continue to work but Sonos will stop working because of a lack of software but they are still in working order. My point is that we need a way to conserve resources rather than sending them to the trash.

It's not just Sonos. Hardware manufacturer's business model is to make their products obsolete so we replace them. And it's only going to get worse with the wave of IoT gadgets that are coming in the future. It can't work forever.
Right off the bat, this paragraph totally connected:

"If I'm not interested in doing something, I can't process any thoughts about how to do it. No, I don't mean it's not fun, I mean my brain will not do it. If I don't want to wash a fence, I can't think about how to wash the fence. I go into complete lockup. I ask the question, "how do I wash the fence?" and the answer will not come to me."

I am officially diagnosed with ADHD and am in my 40s - and its not great :-)
The damage was done a long time ago when they announced they would brick your device unless you signed up to an online account.
Was thinking the same thing. OP sounds like a real gem for the front line customer service person to interact with.
Interesting! Thank you for the link.

I don’t mind training on a desktop and use it on both desktop and mobile. We kinda already have that problem since we parse Google data for a given android phone, but it doesn’t have the memory or compute for the amount of data the phone has generated over the years. The user will background the app too quickly. So we need to ask the desktop app to do it, process there, and sync results back.
I surely can't stand Windows for work. Some companies unfortunately force it in the work environment due to IT not willing to handle Linux. Better ones allow using Linux.
I like your privacy policy. It's reasonably easy to read, has a nice chart, and makes nice sounding promises.

Why don't you link to it from your home page? I had to do a Google site search to find it. (And maybe even put the 'what we share' chart somewhere more prominent)
My best personal description of it would be something like... my brain is constantly thrashing and offloading caches - with Ritalin the context switches still happen but the prior task doesn't get booted out of memory... so it's sort of like imaging running across a marshland, where every time you hit water you lose... the Ritalin might be like logs across streams, it isn't that suddenly you're always running across solid ground, you aren't constantly in single focus[1] but you can cross more of the marsh and reach the far side without getting wet.

There, that's my terrible analogy.

1. There's a flip side, staying with the marsh analogy, there are also some dykes someone built randomly in the marsh and it's really easy to run along those, and they're really comfortable... but they might not go to the far side of the marsh - but hey it's right over there and it'd be easy to get over there instead of trying to trudge through the marsh. Running on those dykes feels really good since you're definitely running, but you don't get to chose where the dyke goes and it might not be helpful for yourself to run along it.
You and I sound very familiar! I also have plans for personal dashboards using redash for everything from weather to a shared calendar. Also plan on putting it in a display in a Magic Mirror for aesthetics... but who has the time!

Couple questions, if you don't mind taking the time:

1) What makes you want to use Redash, instead of a spreadsheet?

2) If you had a service that (securely) sync'd data into your spreadsheet, would that provide all of the value of Redashing it?
Alright, let's take this for a test drive, then: I don't really think that good-faith argument exists, in general.

The idea of good faith is old and important in law; without good faith, it would be hard to enter into contracts. The underlying emotional content that we are reaching for when we try to embrace good faith is the emotion of authenticity.

However, I don't think that people are capable of being authentic. In order to be authentic, people must intend what they are saying and doing, and I am not sure that people can have internal worlds which are rich enough to enable authenticity. I certainly believe that people believe that they are acting in good faith, when they claim it, but I cannot verify that people are indeed good-faith actors.

In the olden days, good faith was achieved with a token, a bonafides of some sort. This is because, even in the olden days, it was well-understood that one cannot simply take people at their word when people say that they are arguing in good faith. This suggests that people have known and understood for a long time that good faith doesn't really exist.

Further, I think that when the rules say, "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith," they mean that we must construct steelmen before commenting. After all, giving good-faith assumptions to bad-faith arguments would be a waste of effort.

For your edification, you should know that I don't like to argue my positions.
IIRC you can request the data to be deleted. You have no way of knowing if it's been done correctly, but at least it's something you could do to prevent your kid's DNA from effectively being there.
I did literally the exact same thing recently.

However, my chromecast audio stopped working (possibly related to the product sun-setting?), and I was surprised to learn that Apple no longer manufactures the AirPorts. What kind of audio receiver did you use?
I ended up purchasing a "new" AirPort Express on Ebay, but how else does one use AirPlay these days with off the shelf audio equipment? I couldn't find anything helpful via googling.
>duty of loyalty to the company

It's interesting that this loyalty is only one-way. If someone is employed at Apple and Apple takes time to lay someone off while they are employed and not clearly deserving of being fired, there is no implicit claim of loyalty.
I know plenty of very, very well off pot users. I also know several very, very unsuccessful pot users. I'm tempted to believe that the "high on their parent's couch" types would be otherwise on their parent's couch, irrespective of access to pot.
I'm not saying anything about everyone else. I said "From experience: ..."

Either way, I think we're actually on the same page here, based on what you wrote above.
> Maybe the industry as a whole should stop handing stuff over to law enforcement and governments.

They can try saying "No", then the government will just get a court order to force them to do it. They don't really have a choice in the end – the only choice they have is whether they make it easy for the government ("you want our data? here have it!") or slightly harder ("I'll need to see a warrant first..." "No problem, we are going to the magistrate right now to get one...")
How about enacting a law that you either need to keep your hardware running via software updates, or you need to open-source all the software for others to keep doing so the moment you cease support. Would prevent a lot of waste.
I have another comment on this same line, which I'll add separately rather than editing my prior comment:

> If someone says they are always experiencing something, then we should listen instead of asking them to prove to us that they are allowed to feel that way.

I think it is important to be precise, to reason correctly on this issue. What is it, exactly, that they are always experiencing? The simple fact that they were treated a particular way, or the experience of a disparity of treatment? Those are two completely different types of experiences to discuss, and should be treated differently.

Consider this from the big picture perspective, in which a community of people wants to care for its members but wants to do so on the basis of reality, not just indulging whoever, for example, tells the best story. If I have the strategy of jumping between subjective and objective types of claims, and then refusing to give evidence when an objective claim is questioned by invoking my right to have my emotional experience validated - at what point will you learn the difference between what is objectively true, and what is simply my unsubstantiated belief?

By insisting that everyone's lived experiences are always fully validated, while simultaneously suggesting that a factual investigation is invalidating of that experience, then we have made it impossible, as a group, to discover the truth.
I'm very fortunate that I learned how to read at a very very young age. As such, I'm an incredibly fast reader, when reading for comprehension, I'm close to 700 wpm. So reading to me is easy bc I can read faster than my mind can get distracted.

I think that's the hardest part of ADHD, you'll always find some exceptions to the "rules" used to diagnose it.
I feel like all of this IoT hardware should be rented rather than bought. If your piece of crap can suddenly stop working, I don't want to own it. Rent it to me and take it back when it's useless.
I suppose I'll take a shot at a counterargument.

The problem with the military using an off the shelf system like Signal isn't the tangible features (re: encryption, usable ux). The problem is one of control. What happens when the government gets into a dispute with Signal (say, over a warrantless wiretap) and Signal decides in protest that it will no longer have any DoD affiliated customers? What happens when, through a series of shell companies and legal loopholes, a controlling stake in Signal ends up in Chinese or Russian hands?

From the PoV of the DoD, owning the system from end to end is a feature they shouldn't compromise on, even if the other features suffer and it costs more than it otherwise would.
I would expect it to matter on HN. Facts matter. Increasingly people are just saying entirely wrong, easily disproven things and because it sounds right to whatever the bias of the crowd is, it's accepted.

However I doubt that angle has any relevance to their sales decline, beyond the most fringe element. As others have rightly said, the majority of people who have an interest in the information that 23andme offers have already done it or a competitor, having probably picked it up over one of the multiple Prime Days, etc. They do have revisions of their chip and improved information, but thus far they haven't marketed that for repurchases.
There was a thread a while ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14491409

Essentially make a few Apple Pay purchases and look at the card number on the receipt. It's always the same.
because they were part of india. Move one mile into india then chase locals. then move another mile. This has been the tactic for the past 200 years.
A redesigned symptom checker for Kids
With luck. I've never been able to make the Bluetooth to my Denon work. I just plug in an old iPhone instead.
Right. Those are very extreme diagnoses. Medication is often required. What this book speaks to is the problem with overprescription as applied to the average person, and offers many solutions.
Competition + Novelty Factor Decline + Privacy Concerns + Not that much benefit + DNA doesn't change so no need to test more than once: Hard upper limit in sales.
Ok thanks for the info. I had previously used a hybrid, and only edible. I've never been able to tolerate putting anything in my lungs.

I'll try a pure sativa later on and see how that feels.

> If it's too low it's usually "muddied" so to speak.

So I think you're saying that even if you take a high potency sativa, but at a lower dose, you don't gain any focus/ADHD relief? That it's only therapeutic at high doses?

I well understand how long term use is often required in order to mitigate some of the less desirable side effects.
Commercial DNA testing companies use microarrays, which are cheap but only see common variation.

DNA sequencing is more expensive but can find all variation, including the very rare ones (eg only in your family)