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I am hoping that SOME TV manufacturer SOMEWHERE follows Apple's lead and markets a privacy-conscious TV as a feature. I have never bought a smart TV (I last bought a plasma 12 years ago), so I have managed to somehow skip the whole smartTV thing. And I'd like to continue avoiding it.
You most definitely do need a complete box. No gaps and all joins welded. And no wires passing through.

A partial box can actually make things worse:

Depending on wavelengths the intervening metal can actually focus the waves (it's called a "director").
I think this is big. I've never gotten an Echo because I don't trust Amazon, but at $99 I'll buy one or two of these.
> killing Allende in cold blood

people unfamiliar with the story might find it interesting that the exact manner of his death is somewhat disputed. obviously he wouldn't have died then if it weren't for the coup, so it's not like what you wrote is really a stretch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Salvador_Allende
I absolutely loved my palm pixi for this reason in 2011. Had to wait 6 years for wireless charging again...
With my browser (chrome) it was H.264. Still, I'd take 6 Mbps H.264 over 1.5 Mbps H.265 any day. I'm sure the apple stream was VBR as well - I tried to pick a representative/average segment to do the quick calcs on.
That may be somewhat due to policy changes. Reddit did try to be more hands-off in the past.

But perhaps a better example than reddit is the internet as a whole. ISP and hosters are dumb carriers and moderation is mostly left to the individual sites. Depending on your hoster it may take a court order for them to do anything at all.

In other words we need more platforms that put themselves front and center, avoiding that also avoids the reputation problems with a hands-off approach.
You mean to say they should have courage?
There is an in-between option, at least for some use cases: Over time iteratively create a more complete set of constraints/heuristics, use them to generate one or more candidate solutions, and then manually tweak them.

Each round of iteration, look at which missing constraints caused the most manual tweaks, and improve from there.
Bias? It’s called the electoral college. It’s part of that unpopular document called the United States Constitution.
I just tried to tell it to play music, but my closer iPhone picked up the order instead -_-;
Can you share any reputable studies of these effects? The amount of crazy conspiracies around 5G makes finding these “real” problems impossible, even if I’m skeptical about your claim considering the amount of information to the contrary.
I think a big part of the runup of stocks has been the low interest rates.

That is: I've got some money to invest. As far as rate of return goes, a stock at a P/E of 10 is about the same as a bond paying 10% interest. (Yes, the stock can go up in price. It can also go down. And so can the bond - when interest rates change, bond prices change. But stock prices factor in expectations of future earnings changes, which bond prices usually don't.)

Now bonds are only paying 4%. That stock P/E of 10 looks really good - so good that people keep buying it, and the price keeps going up, until the P/E is more like 25, which puts it back at approximately the same yield as bonds.
Android manufactures are just switching to USB C. And the budget phones are still sold with USB B
More like you really need to adjust your monitor’s contrast.
I don't understand why the page says it wants more civility on the internet, but the demo takes me through a pretty standard trouble ticket process.
You're not mentioning the fact that Allende's government did not respect the laws and was declared unconstitutional by congress[1].

[1] https://obtienearchivo.bcn.cl/obtienearchivo?id=documentos/1...
This looks fantastic, I would be willing to pay money for this honestly. Might sponsor development.
The Fed has confused inflation with the change in price of consumer goods, but this has led them to all sorts of flawed thinking.

In my view, inflation IS the debasement of the currency.

One would typically expect consumer prices to change when the currency is debased but when you literally define it as such you give yourself all sorts of additional levers to pull that distort the true situation.

For instance technology fundamentally drives down the price of goods. Have I reduced inflation by improving technology?

Offshoring manufacturing to get cheaper labor reduces the price of consumer goods. Have I increased the soundness of the money by doing so?
I have a homepod that I use exclusively for playing musing and it's quite good at that. It's definition of what's "disco" and isn't doesn't quite match mine, but...close enough.
As noted by Twisol, those holes previously contained `(fab a)`.

I'd delete my comment now that it's addressed, but 1) it's too late, and 2) I'm too happy about "unbound usings".
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As someone who has worked both in the Bay Area and outside of it, I moved here because of the job market, not because of the salary. I would take a salary cut any day to move away, but I want to stay with my current company AND keep access to the SF Bay Area job market.

Literally the only thing keeping me from listing my house right now and moving to a different area is that not enough Bay Area companies have committed to permanent WFH yet. Once that happens, I'm gone.
Yeah. On the other hand it does give decent intuition about how certain interactions would result, especially if talking about massive particles traveling much slower than light.

I remember reading an article here a while back that involved a macroscopic re-creation of the double slit experiment results, but where mere observation remained possible, because light did not sufficiently influence the substrate. In that experiment the particles were droplets traveling on top of a set of waves, working in the pilot wave fashion.

Any attempt to use anything of similar scale to the particles to observe which slit the drop went through would break the interference pattern, but mere light did not, allowing one to visually see how a pilot wave style interpretation could work, if it were not for that whole (photons travel at the speed of light, so these would need to be faster than light propagating pilot waves) thing.

Indeed it looks like flubert linked a video from an earlier study of the same basic mechanics, prior to the more recent one that included the double slit experiment replication.
The usual narrative goes like this: Without the constraints on data collection that liberal democracies impose and with the capacity to centrally direct greater resource allocation, the Chinese will outstrip the West.

In surveillance, yes. But that's not where China's productivity comes from. China does have some centrally directed resource allocation, but it's at a very coarse level. See "Made in China 2025".[1] That's industrial policy. Japan became an industrial power in the 1970s and the 1980s through good industrial policy, run by the Ministry of Trade and Industry. It's a help when you're developing a country, if done well. Most of the "Asian tigers" did that. Done badly, it's a disaster.

What seems to make China go now is a large number of medium-sized companies aggressively competing. Like the US up to the 1980s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025
Android (especially budget phones) are still sold with USB B. So they will switch to USB C and not bundle a charger with the box and market it as some environmental gain (which it is).
The footnote on that item is a bit disappointing:

"Not compatible with non-HomeKit Thread devices."
There is a new Nest audio device out which apparently has good audio and is at the same price as Homepod Mini.
Siri lives in on your wrist, in your pocket, or even in your ears with AirPods. It's a pretty significant difference. When you can access Siri anywhere, you only need to put speakers out where you want music.

Google and Amazon need to work harder to get presence so they push them out using aggressive pricing.
And LG keeps the best LG screens.
The coolest part to me is that they're using the S5 watch SoC to power it. Pretty cool that Apple's various hardware teams can just grab a part off the shelf to use in a completely different class of device.

I'd love to see them reintroduce AirPort routers powered by an A-series chip.
There's no point switching from lightning to USB-C now. The MagSafe (should make it just as nice to charge while using the phone) and dropping earpods in the packaging kind of confirms a suspicion I've had that they really, really want to get rid of the port all-together on iPhones. They've switched to USB-C on iPad.. there it makes sense, they're making it more like a laptop. But phones will go all-wireless. Like, there's no other logical explanation now considering they're going all-in on USB-C on MacBooks and iPads.

They don't want to do the switch now because they don't want to send the wrong signal to accessory makers. They want them to focus on Bluetooth and wireless charging.

If they knew it'd take this long to get here, maybe they'd have switched to USB-C at an earlier stage. I know there were many blunders and delays with things like wireless charging and Bluetooth 5 audio. So the situation has become kind of awkward.
This is exactly why the internet is the way it is. I don't mean this as blaming you personally, it's just the incentives that exist under a capitalist system. The "problems" of the internet are structural in origin, and I'm skeptical they can be fixed with a chatbox.
This is what I thought they wanted to advertise by showing the attachments that go directly on the phone.
They could go also back where they were a year ago and lose half your money. Then enjoy a lost decade of no recovery as the US piles up Japan-style debt. Not making a prediction, just saying what goes up fast can also come down just as fast. For less narrow stock choices, there's whole index funds, both domestic and international. Also bond funds.
Because the alternatives are even worse. Anyone with money is still better off buying US bonds knowing that the euro or the renminbi or even physical assets like gold are even more volatile.
Nope... it just seems to make the glass stronger (more shatter resistant). Which is unfortunate, given how bad iPhones scratch over the last few generations.
Are you hiring? Asking for a friend.
Being in tech, I am friends/acquaintances with several people that work for both Google and Facebook. I also interviewed with both. In both cases, it was because an in house recruiter reached out to me on linkedin, not because I had some inside connection.

At the start up I interned at during the beginning of my career, I got the interview and the job because I knew one of the developers. Every other job has been bog standard: apply , talk to recruiter, do phone screen, do onsite.
"A world with a “public square” designed by a small group of white dudes of a certain age is not going to serve everyone equally or well."

I feel like the author shoots themself in the foot with this quote. Not only does it feel anti-inclusive - it also implies that demographics determine how well people are "served" by a social network's designers and operators.

If the implication is that 'non white dudes' would be better served by their own demographic, isn't that an implicit argument against a one-size-fits-all digital public space?
I never used a case with my SE. i just try not to drop it. I had to get a case for my XS, reluctantly, because the camera is not level with the body... so I was afraid of scratching it, plus the phone didn’t lay flat on a table. The XS was made for use with a cover, not an option.
Not the same style but Marques Brownlee is hugely successful while creating useful, entertaining, and valuable content.
If they could make these work in a wireless atmos setup seamlessly with the apple tv I'd buy like 14 of them and place all around my living room. Syncing video and audio in real-time wirelessly is really difficult apparently, there's a standard for it called WiSA but almost no adoption sadly. I'd love to cut down on wiring.
The commenter specifically used that tree of spans as an example of the horrible mess that is modern HTML. So it is necessary here to deliver the feature, and I think the broader point is that we might see a mess in the DOM inspector, but it is a requirement to deliver certain modern features in a productive way.
Gatsby doesn't offer a syntax highlighter out of the box. It has markdown (and MDX) components that generate pages, and those in turn can have syntax highlighting plugins. AFAICT prismjs indeed is the predominant one used by Gatsby sites (at least, in mine). But thanks to SSR prismjs will typically run at compile time.
Reasons NOT to grow your QA department
"The fastest path to financial success is going to be dumping all your money into some kind of short term leveraged bet. This will come with a huge risk of losing everything."

Betting everything on a single number in Roulette is certainly not what OP had in mind ...
The SoC in the Homepod is old. It's the Apple A8, which was used on iPhone 6 (2014).

The HomePod Mini uses Apple S5, which was in the Apple Watch 5 (2019)
If waste really was an issue, Apple could do better and not use crappy insulation for their Lightning and MagSafe cables.

I buy 3rd party cables because I know the cables will eventually fail in a year or two.
I have the same options with the Google assistant/Chromecast etc. That doesn't answer the question of what the homepod line's market share is.
Most people only use their iphone for messages and phone-calls.
I'd be happy if Apple was consistent with their cables.

Right now, some have Lightning, some of USB-C. I hate having to carry so many cables when I travel (Lightning for phone, old brick for for Macbook, USB-C for iPad, proprietary cable for watch, USB micro for GPS).
Do you mean LTE-M? Is that considered 5G?
Come with the power adapter. With the size constraints, I guess it was not possible to have it built in.
also don't forget the ugly Android phablets
> Google and Amazon spy systems

I have only used an Echo in the past but fwiw Google does specify what they store and how they use it. https://store.google.com/magazine/google_nest_privacy
Uh oh, is this guy questioning PG worship on HN? Get him!
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Don't be silly; I didn't equate the two.

I was pointing out the weakness of their argument. Just because something is old and established doesn't make it good.
Great feedback. Data Engineering sounds interesting but also appears to require heavy statistics. Unsure if an introductory course here is sufficient, or if whether one would have more success familiarizing with the tooling/software available.
Consumer inflation actually is inflation, by definition. This isn't being confused, this is understanding how inflation is defined and using terms correctly.

Inflation is about the prices people actually pay, on average. Your neighbor's house getting sold for a lot of money isn't a real cost to you like rent. Someone paid that price, but they are not necessarily typical.

Inflation does include rent (or "imputed rent") to the extent that people actually pay those prices on average. Some people really do pay higher rents, but many others have lower housing costs locked in via home ownership or rent control, and they count too, so this is going to drag down the average. That's just the nature of averages.

BTW, stock market indexes are an average too, and it's heavily weighted towards tech firms due to market capitalization. Only about half of the stocks in the S&P 500 are up for the year.
Where is the rhyming connection here?
eSIM gives way more control to the carriers which is not a good thing. I can take out a physical SIM, move it to a different phone, bring it abroad, lend it to someone, etc and the carrier has no say in that.

With an eSIM, once it's provisioned onto a phone it can't be "extracted" and getting a new one involves the carrier, which can say no or make the process difficult/annoying, even if unintentionally.
I'll add to the anecdotes: my iPhone 6 plus has no case, and looks like it was pulled out of a box a few hours ago. I don't understand the whole case universe/how people can drop their expensive phones so consistently.
Pick your poison: If you don’t choose your sacrifices, life will
Primarily use mine as a speaker and HomeKit device. I have a couple light switches that I use with HomeKit and Siri works really well with control of that.

I also use it with Apple Music and from time to time as an AirPlay device. It also works really well for those purposes.

I don't typically use Siri for reading emails, text messages, or other things like that. I will ask it what the weather is as I walk out the door to determine whether I need to grab an umbrella or a hoodie or something. It also works well enough for that.
disagree, sort of. The marketing was always shit, but the 2 big differences between LTE and 5G are latency and cell size.

Cell size matters because there is a ceiling for how many devices an LTE cell can support in a certain range. Thats why you get crappy speeds/connectivity’s at concerts/events/crowded areas. As I understand it, 5g can support more devices per cell, and also can have smaller cells for more connection density. With latency, LTE has a baked in 300ms min latency that 5g does not, so 5g can be used for latency sensitive applications.
Would thicker case help this problem?
This doesn't check out to me (well, the home part does, but I'm not sure we've seen significantly above normal growth there compared to historical norms, outside of hot coastal markets), but for other assets the price doesn't matter, as you can just get a fraction of them or they're split.
Exactly. Anthropomorphic language is such a useful and normal way of thinking and expressing ourselves.

If you say "the classifier thinks this roadsign is a truck" everyone knows you mean "the classifier has labeled this roadsign as a probably a truck with a high confidence". No-one seriously would take you to mean the classifier thinks in the same way a person thinks any more than if you say "The toaster wants to pop up but it's jammed," they would take you to mean the toaster has a yearning like unrequited love.

If we remove our ability to use language in this way we give up on a mental model that is incredibly useful for simplifying lots of explanations and reduce ourselves to a very clumsy literalism instead. As long as we understand the limitations of this model and are clear that it's not literally what is going on it's very useful.
marketing is absurdly relative and cyclic, smartphone sold you custom icons and wallpapers just like microsoft salesmen did in 82. Now they'll try to make small looks cool again. Wait for the iphone nano with only half a screen and new piezohaptic actuator matrix underneath.
I have never had or heard of a USB wall plug adapter "wearing" out in over a decade. How vigorously and/or frequently must one plug and unplug to cause this?
Yep, that actually made a pretty big difference. Thanks.
It happened to me exactly once (and the sample size is big enough) that a date was turned off by me being in tech. It happens. And it happens much more frequently when being in tech is part of your identity, like being actively in politics, or saving the oceans. A strong proposal is likely to cause a strong reaction, sometimes negative.

But while I understand why being "political" may be part of someone's identity, I am more skeptical it is needed for a techie to have "tech" as part of their identity.
If you're concerned about the USD and you want a low-risk way to invest your money, you could invest in a basket of foreign bond funds: https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/portfolio...
The comparison table makes is seem like the mini can't be paired with an AppleTV at all like the regular HomePod can.
"relatively speaking it's a niche"

It's equally as ridiculous to say "small phones are a niche" in 2019 when nobody was selling small phones, as it was to say "phablets are a niche" in 2013 when Apple wasn't selling a big phone.

I would bet that the Mini will be a runaway bestseller.
To buy a house, just start one of the largest companies in history. Easy-peasy.
Does the Chinese dual-sim iPhone have any restrictions or downsides compared to a US or EU model? I might consider it as my next step if I can let go of the iPhone 8 and its fingerprint sensor.
We had 4 precincts with two councilmembers each, and got $50/mo for one council meeting (~2.5 hours), two caucus/committee meetings (~2 hours each), and usually at least one event a month we tried to attend. Meetings were in the evenings about 7-10 and events were almost always an all-day Saturday affair. The terms are 4 years and staggered, so each precinct has one member up every 2 years in the off (odd) year elections. I've heard all kinds of different setups from single-year terms, to term limits, to staggered 5 year terms and everything in between.
If you are not paying for a service, should you expect the same protections?

If you do but implicitly (by sharing info good for ad targeting, etc), should it not be made explicit then? It should stop being "free" and legally become "free* (conditions apply)".
I think if you have a genuine interest in this topic and some basic understanding of maths (probability, etc.), textbooks can be quite accessible. Read, for example, "Coporate Finance" by Berk and DeMarzo or have a look at the CFA study material.
The magsafe is really cool but for anyone interested in the wallet accessory just be careful with putting NFC chipped cards there. Paying with Apple Pay from your phone could get confusing.
Maybe there's an opportunity for aftermarket bezels? Bezels can always be added, but never taken away.
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Grabbed a screenshot - It's a Belkin product under design but not on sale yet:

https://i.imgur.com/k2Bqhsp.png
Sophos says achieving RCE is extremely difficult: https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/10/13/top-reason-to-apply...

I also assume that routers won't pass ICMPv6 RAs, so limited to a single network segment. And, only affects Windows 10.
> Republicans control the senate despite only having 40% of the popular vote nationally in the Senate races.

That's because the Senate is there to represent the states themselves in the federal government as individual political entities.

IMHO, if you want pure majority rule everywhere, you might as well just abolish the Senate entirely, as it would be redundant with the House.

Personally, I think some kind of geography-proportionate representation is necessary to prevent the non-urban areas from becoming neglected hinterlands. That said, I do dislike the way the Republicans have used this system to extract maximum partisan advantage, so some reform is necessary. Rather than making the Senate representation proportional by population, I think it should lose its monopoly on executive/judicial confirmations and the House should have equal say in those.
That's literally how they define inflation, so money earmarked for consumer goods is the most likely to "cause inflation" by the Feds definition