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There is another aspect to this people might be missing:

If every phone that is shipped must come with a charger, but half the chargers are never used, then the marginal value gained by customers from the manufacturer improving that product is also halved.

So why bother making the charger good? Half the people won't use it! They'd have to pay for something that's not a direct benefit to the product they do want to buy: the phone.

This is one of the reasons the chargers that come with typical electronic devices are so bad. So very very bad.

They're big. They're odd shaped. They can't be plugged in side-by-side. They're heavy. The don't provide much power. They're inefficient. Etc... Some are downright dangerous.

It's a race to the bottom where noone wins.

Here's the thing: I like the "fancy" chargers Apple makes. They use very advanced technology such as gallium nitride circuitry to miniaturise their chargers. They're tiny, yet powerful! They don't get hot. They're light. They're safe.

But I only need one or two, but only when travelling. At home I need none because the IKEA power strips have USB charging ports built in!

I'd much rather concentrate my dollars into a couple of really good chargers instead of a bunch of mediocre chargers that's forced upon me on a one-to-one basis with the number of devices that I own.

Also: I haven't used a wired charger for my phone in about a year. Why include a wired charger if the customer has a choice of charging technologies? Should Apple include both a wireless and wired charger? Should they include a car-kit too?

No. This is the point of standards: it lets you mix and match components at will instead of getting a fixed combination.
Doesn't work on mobile :(
Conservatives would trivially argue against such nonsense with facts and reality.
at least in austria it is. total weekly supermarket hours are limited unless for a special reason (in tourism villages or near transportation hubs (bus stations, train stations and the like)) and they can only be open between 5am and 9pm, though supermarkets can't do that as the total would be higher than allowed. where i live they open at 7:40am and close at 8pm mo-fri and 740 to 6 on saturday
What about credibility?

Surely that is the foundation for everything else. Note I only skim read the article, so maybe missed it.

Edit: “Once you’ve established that you’ve already built something impressive, then you have the credibility you need to show how it could grow into a massive company.”. But it doesn’t really cover that every part of the presentation needs to push credibility - or am I just thinking more seed-stage investments? The story should ooze believability?
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I do mantra chanting and noticed that if I chant it louder then after 5 minutes my nasal congestion starts melting away. So definitely humming helps and if you do rythmic humming like part of mantra then the effects are manifold
Also the commitment of resources and user interaction research and development consequences of user behaviour, I'm sure weren't decisions made by whoever proverbially "slaps on the last button at the bottom of the screen ".

I would be fascinated to learn about how the effects of such a interface change are studied.

Edit to clarify my inquisitive interest is in the Who Moved My Cheese effect on subsequent purchases after a long loyal customer has been made aware of the possibility of their most important attributes of the product which they're buying and paying a premium for, aren't guaranteed to continue to be available at all. If the most frequently used interface is up for unexpected total disruption, what is the effect that has upon the long term purchase plans of previously loyal customers?
Then have a 'Nice To Know' free of charge. Yes, it only impacts IPv6 so if you don't handle IPv6 RA (or any IPv6 traffic) you are unaffected.
Overton window.
I enjoy football, MMA, boxing, and gladiator sports in general. No one at this point - parents, players, fans - should have any illusions about the consequences of playing these games. These are blood sports with huge toll on the human body. Since ancient times humans have watched and cheered on brave people who enter the ring and battle. It speaks to our competitive spirit.

Many things in life can have severe, life-destroying consequences including smoking, drinking, and eating fast food, but none of those can pay you tens of millions of dollars and the praise of millions of people like sports can.

So let everyone make their own decisions. It's sad that some people's brains are scrambled while playing football. Not everyone dies of smoking cigarettes. Not everyone dies from brain injuries related to football. So all of these articles and hand wringing - so what? Don't watch. Don't pay money. Let those who like it continue to. It's everyone's right to make their own decisions.
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Spotify will let its podcast hosts include full songs in their shows
Sorry about that, I didn't do it on purpose! I use the service https://ipstack.com to look up IPs and use their data to display discounts based on location. I pay for this, so I was hoping it's better quality than it is.
500 mil$ to get a 2 bil euro datacenter.

The datacente will then create revenue through services and add jobs. Jobs wont be just employees, you're going to have security, shipping, power plant jobs, recycling servers, etc.

It also seems that they'll get some energy from datacenter heat back plus greenhouse heat... so a nice opportunity to do research and create bleeding edge facilities.

It's also credits, as in Microsoft first invests and then gets free electricity for a while...

Then there's a nice national security benefit having datacenter in your country.

So overall a good deal...
Everyone I know that got a USB-C phone eventually complained about loose cables. I have been using the same 6 year old lighting cable without issue.

On it’s own that doesn’t mean much, but plenty of people dislike USB-C from personal experience.
Berlin gives middle finger to anti-maskers in tourism agency ad
Facebook also censors joebiden.info in private messages
If you are aiming for elite (or semi-elite) schools you need sports or clubs to appear well rounded. 95% of students aren't really trying to get into those colleges.

A lot of public colleges essentially create a formula (GPA and SAT/ACT) and the "soft factors" likes clubs and sports only decide when you are in the gray area.
> Google employees are free to speak up

Try to show up for work in a MAGA hat, and see if you're still employed by lunch. Google employees are, at best, free to support the dogma approved by Google.
I don't have papers handy but I've been using L. Sakei nasal probiotics to treat CRS quite effectively. Not quite cured yet after 5 days but much, much better.
This is why I like to use both a host-based firewall __as well as__ a network-based firewall. For the VPS's that I have running on the internet, I always use the hosting provider's firewall offering in addition to iptables (or ufw).
The randomness in the observed color of the ball. (The observable represented by the "color operator" could have two or more distinct eigenvalues.)
Do you have a patent number?
Facebook and Twitter begin restricting circulation of Hunter Biden expose
He used javascript so he's probably talking about composition without type checking.

But yes more important then just composition is to use combinators and segregate your combinators from IO.
I feel mixed about the price going up. On one hand, it feels like gouging. There’s no way the phone costs that much more to manufacture. On the other hand, I’ve been using an iPhone 6s+ since it came out (5 years now) and it still works really well and still gets software updates. I’m thinking of getting an iPhone 12 but I still don’t actually need to - a battery replacement every few years keeps it working as it did when it was brand new.

How long will my next phone last? At least 5 more years. Probably longer. Spread over 5 years the price is fine, and I’d rather buy something that’s designed to last (and remains supported) than buy a series of cheap phones that get ruined or ignored every couple years by software updates. (Looking at you, Samsung). If my phone lasts 50% longer, a 30% bump in price is reasonable. Even if I don’t use it that long, I can make that money back on the second hand market when I upgrade.
You got burned because you watched S7 and S8 and you have a grudge against D&D. But S1-S6 developed many good characters and plotlines, and it's OK leave a world in progress. Especially in GoT world which is all about treachery and turmoil -- the idea of a tidy ending for everyone is absurd, unless everyone dies. So someone new knows to watch only S1-S6 and it's a good show.
Isn't the likeliest explanation that 1) random Ukrainian energy company paid Hunter Biden for access to Joe Biden, and 2) the payments were not useful in actually getting access to Joe Biden? "Thousands of dollars a month" doesn't seem like "get close to a former VP/future presidential candidate" money.

(Of course, this explanation isn't exactly a good look either, but at this point it's a choice between imperfection options, and one seems a lot less imperfect.)
Why is managing up important for Product Managers, and how to do it well
This comical notion has always struck me as scientism at it's finest. There is nothing "pretty likely" about it considering a) we have no idea how abiogenesis occurs, and b) we have literally zero evidence of any form of life outside of our rock.
> At the time that you're negotiating your salary, you're the marginal worker.

Very well put.
No, they wouldn't. Instead of wasting their energy on having to justify their existence, they'd rightly complain to HR that the manifesto author is creating a hostile, prejudiced work environment for them.

And their media would back them up on this, while calling for the head of the author.

You shouldn't have to fight to justify your right to work, when someone uses generalizations and statistics to call it into question.

Do you disagree with this premise? If so, what if the facts happened to fall against your assumption? How are you so sure that facts and reality are on your side in this question? Are you an expert on the subject? What if the experts disagree with you? Do you then endorse the circulation of such a manifesto, because it's fact-backed?
> They’ll just lose access to FTP.

What percentage of the "general population" do you think has ever used FTP. Even once in their entire life. I'd wager it is less than 1/10,000 users. If we look for people who use FTP at least once month, I'd wager it is less than 1/10,000,000. Where are these users that need FTP but would get stranded because they can only install a browser?
> Ultimately, if the Justice Department or other regulators asked for those documents, Google would have the option of declaring them secret communication.

What if they just banned English from all company documents and let people use a smattering of all other languages the employees know? With some documents in Chinese, some in Swahili, some in Spanish, and the most confidential documents in obscure tribal languages, it would be fun to watch the Justice department try to piece things together.

For employee productivity they could just hand out AR goggles that translate everything in sight automatically to a language the employee knows -- they're Google, after all.

Or simply invent a company-specific language that uses the same words as English but with some words switched up, e.g. Customer -> Clown, Stock market -> Circus, Earnings -> Feast, etc.
Anti-trust is a hack.. We need proper taxation. Large corporations like Google have TONS of advantages that small companies have so it's easier for big companies to get bigger.

Part of this is taxes... if we just taxed them properly they wouldn't grow large and wouldn't need to be broken up.
When you say one thing but mean your motherboard
> survey of 1,523 U.S. teens from May to July this year

Given that, I would take this with a grain of salt. Half of that time is summer, when teens normally aren't in school anyway.

So if being able to socialize with friends and peers is an important part of teens' mental health (I think it is), then this study doesn't really cover that very well.

Also, July was a few months ago. It's possible things get worse over the long haul.
Companies do depend a lot on referrals and I personally have basically not needed a resume except for pro-forma purposes for 20 years. One downside of that though is that companies hire solely from what would be called the old boys network, which probably wouldn't sound so ideal in other contexts.
StrongDM does indeed look interesting. Can it be completely self-hosted? I am asking because some of the architecture docs mentioned "app.strongdm.com" as a necessary element, which has a webpage behind a (customer?) login. This is an external dependency that is not acceptable for my use case.

I haven't found a conclusive answer in their documentation yet.
The "average person" doesn't use FTP. There's no reason to include this in a browser as already noted.

If you're at the user level where you need FTP, then downloading an application is not an unreasonable request.
This is true, but Google also had very specific guidance around this topic when I worked there (10-5 years ago). We received specific training about this. The core message was approximately, "You don't understand the legal trouble that you're going to get yourself into by talking about markets, competitors, competition, etc. Innocent words or phrases may have very specific legal definitions or implications that may be surprising to you. Speculating about these things will bring you trouble, the amount of which which will also surprise you. At Google, we don't talk about ourselves in relationship to our competitors, we only talk about ourselves in relationship to our customers"
It's gone so far now that nothing can surprise me anymore. If Facebook and Twitter made a joint announcement that Zuckerberg won the 2020 election and that Jack Dorsey will be his vp, and that anyone disputing this, whether in public or private or off platform will be banned - even that would not surprise me. If people went along with it so as not to be cut off from their likes and "influence", even that would not surprise me.
idk. I'm listening to music on YT. Because on the only vertical I care about - can I actually find the damn music I'd like to hear - YT is miles ahead anything else.

So God bless YT and its amazing, likely illegal in some abstract sense, music collection.
I did notice they had written "pg_stat_activity", but assumed it was a typo, since the original question was about running the Percona extension. Never thought to check their profile; seems like crossed wires.
We are not sheep we know the cost and we value the product. That is not being a sheep. I have tried and don't care for Android phones and tablets. Not because I feel like having an Apple on the product makes it better but because I enjoy using it more.
This all true and is a good warning. However... if you can find the right job, something that leverages your already existing experience and skills, you won't necessarily need to start at junior level pay. So I would agree wholeheartedly that the uniqueness of your situation means you should expect to spend a lot of time finding the right job. Fortunately, this business is such that our version of "a long time" is everyone else's "got a job real fast!" :-)

I assess tech companies getting purchased, and have done 50 in the last two years. I'd say over 90% say it's really hard to hire and/or hang on to talent. It is absolutely a seller's market.
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Hacker news is full of pseudo science lately, all sorts of anecdotal medical advice keeps popping up on the front page.
For a lot of the people you're asking here, the answer is probably "don't use a streaming platform to listen to music". That's why there's at least one subthread about recommended music-playing programs.
They can’t. Because that actually is a technology not built to be moderated.
Weirdly, this article has more points and is younger than some stuff on the frontpage right now, but doesn't appear at all thought it hasn't been [flagged].

Does HN block NYP, or am I just going nuts?
I kinda don't have a problem with the omissions, but the "marketing spin" seems a little over the top.

How standard are these usb-c bricks and are people going to be worried about cooking their phones? (Apple's chargers are of pretty high quality, but it seems weird to plug a phone into a usb c device that can charge a notebook).

Also I feel that the headphone ommission to save the environment would be more believable if they weren't selling $100 wireless earbuds without replaceable batteries.

Much like "Reuse your towels in the hotel" is as much about saving the hotel money as saving the environment.
How could that be true when the general consensus is that Comey’s reopening of Hillary’s case greatly swung the 2016 election?
Price gouging is immoral. Making a profit isn't.
As a non american who went to a pretty strict school, I can say that my school life was hell because the teachers didn't care about the rest of the classroom bullying me until it affected their class personally, that's it, when I dared to fight back; and my parents siding with the teachers didn't help the least bit.

A strict environment might be good for education, but I don't think helps reduce bullying.
You could, as in the case of much of civil engineering, have a more widespread requirement for professional engineer and other certifications for people past some minimal level of work experience. (There actually is no software engineering PE at this point or it's at least being phased out.)

But now you're requiring 4-year degrees and making it very difficult for anyone to switch over from another profession.
Agreed, but when the iPad came out with it, I was hoping they'd find a way.
> you should have some theory to back it

You're the one claiming the contrary and accusing them of something based on it - you prove it if you want to accuse them of something!
And almost entirely from people who don't and won't own iPhones anyway.
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Google and Intel warn of high-severity Bluetooth security bug in Linux
Probably autocorrected version of “trills”
I have yet to see conservatives cancel something in the last 12 years.
Ugh, Moffat's Sherlock, despite having very few episodes (about 12), was dead in the water halfway through because it turned into Moffat's trademark LOST-style garbage string along of ever less sensical unresolvable plot twists
This is what I don't get. People are screaming for digital channels to not allow disinformation even though they are just a passive communication channel. Is anyone screaming at printing presses for printing the NY Post? It's a garbage publication and this information is at least suspicious, but why are we holding Twitter to such a high standard of integrity and not actually journalists?
I’ve never had a problem, and I’m confused what people do to their cables to break them all the time.

But if you don’t like apple’s cables, buy a replacement from the supermarket or corner store. They cost less than a cup of coffee.
You must be referring to professional sports and not college sports. If not, college kids make their own decisions when they are recruited at under the age of 18?
Why are the noses broken on Egyptian statues?
Tangential joke I read somewhere, in an article about the history of computers:

Some spreadsheet software was named Buddha because it would assume the Lotus position. I thought I read it as Excel, but I searched, and found this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Software

See Section "Origins":

[ Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation technique as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Incidentally, competitor Borland code-named their Quattro Pro software "Buddha", as the software was meant to "assume the Lotus position" and take over Lotus 1-2-3's market. ]
Have you ever seen a current Google employee clearly denounce Google's privacy practices? It seems they are very loud and keen to organize when it comes to issues that closely affect them, but the mass surveillance of the general population usually takes a back seat.
The latest iPhone is not even remotely an essential item. 'Price gouging' as a concept does not apply, and you're watering down the term by trying to do that, which is dangerous.
Nitpick, but not everyone dies of aging.

There are plenty of deaths due to violence and stupidity.
The worse Chromium gets the better. It will take decades to reverse the damage that HN and many web developers did by pushing a single browser engine instead of fighting back.

Next, Microsoft needs to get on top again and show Google how it's done. OG monopolism.

Finally some blood!
Nice! Bought it. Cool!
Great idea. Although did you consider making classier looking earbuds?
USB-C cables are less durable than lightning cables. But the ports are more durable than lightning ports.

I'd say that's a good compromise given the relative costs of a phone vs a cable.

That said, my Nokia 6.1 had the USB-C port fail in just a couple of years. Apple's design for the USB-C ports on their laptops looks extra nice and durable though. They are machined out of the aluminium of the case itself.
I'll be honest there are too many contributing experts from Uber, they have/had systemic problems in hiring and culture I would find it hard to accept the book.
This kind of analysis sounds a lot like the moralizing lens Shakespeare's plays were put through in the 19th century, which led to a lot of balderization. Judging all these acts exclusively through a 21st-century lens is pretty reductive. Saying "Hamlet sexually harassed Opheilia" is fine, as far as it goes, which isn't very far.

It's a tragedy, and he's the protagonist of a tragedy, not a hero. His becoming obsessed with the unjust death of his father and fucking everything up is the whole point. Saying he's acting like an ass is both obvious and a distraction from the main event, which is to see a great man brought low by his flaws, and to contemplate fate, the human condition, or whatever else you can take away from the play.
Smart+cellular phones, I think clearly fit the category of life changing and world changing. World societies have been greatly improved by wireless access, everywhere.
Not yet, at least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN
Here lies any hope that Microsoft would handle their fork with more decency and user respect than Google's version. It boggles the mind why Microsoft is bothering to fork Chrome at all if they're going to go through with Manifest V3.
Presumably the payment method will be banned and getting banned in a old game purposely to get a refund sounds like a lot of work for 60$. I can't imagine that would be significantly abuse.

Sellers should not be able to take away goods after the sell; that's pretty much universally understood as theft.
Right. I have a pile of existing charges and cables, no problem.

The new free included cable will let me charge my new phone* from my MacBook, something I currently cannot do!

* I don't actually plan to buy a new phone, but hypothetically.
I'd like to try YouTube Music (mostly because it's included in my YouTube Premium plan), but it doesn't have an option to turn autoplay off (i.e. you can't just listen to one song), which is a dealbreaker for me.