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Amazon Alexa subscribing you to Music Unlimited without you knowing
Just found out that I was paying for Music Unlimited $14.99 a month for the past two years. Speaking with a rep, I was told that if you (or your kid) asks Alexa for a song out of its free catalog, it will subscribe you without saying anything to Amazon Music Unlimited. Do yourself a favor and make sure you aren't subscribed unwillingly by searching "music unlimited" in your order page.
> Loans would be one of the classic value creating activities, because they allow others to use otherwise idle capital to produce something new.

Only if people use loans to produce something valuable. Most people I know take loans for houses, which afaik does not produce any direct value to society.
Yeah, right... Why isn't he the guy that made things better for his employees? This is basically the equivalent of "k thx bye".

I've seen comments online say he worked hard for it. So what? I don't care how hard he has worked. A lot of us work hard too, but we never had the opportunities that he had back then and even less so today. People like him (greedy beyond measure) and corporations of that magnitude wielding so much control over our lives will bring nothing good.
Thanks for contributing to the discussion.
If we want to compare market caps, Peloton has a 35 billion market cap to zwift's 1 billion. Also, to counter your anecdata, I live in Texas and no zero people that use zwift, but many that use a peloton.
Good. That will discourage them from manipulating the market.

No need for foreign government -- the whole world can do it.
They know a lot of places will let you rent right?

With bulletproof insurance and the right accessories.
> But Early Middle Ages were pretty bad in a lot of Europe, there is no way around it.

I recommend anyone who is interested in this topic watch Paul Freedman's "The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000" Yale course lecture videos, which are free online.

https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-210
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8JcWVRFp8&list=PL77A337915...
This could be hypocrisy, but it doesn't have to be. It may be "kids, don't try this at home". The pros should have a lot better knowledge of the risks involved, and the resources to take the consequences when they're wrong. (Yeah, I know, they don't always either have the knowledge or the ability to take their lumps. They still are far ahead of the amateurs in both departments.)
There was a commercial chord keyboard “word processor” in the late 70’s called Microwriter

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter
Who is Empress? Have a link?
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> Beg to differ, 100s of engineers sharing ansible galaxy roles with semantic versioning and whatnot in a very good way at my org

I understand we both have our experiences when using ansible compared to terraform. Good to know that this scales

Regarding your point:

> state: absent, you can use in about every module.

What I meant is that you probably would create 2 pull request. The first one to actually delete things for your infrastructure and then a second pull request to delete your ansible code.
I am still not sure how changing things work in this manner, where you destroy and recreate things in a single logical Pull request/commit for example. I guess tracking multiple pull requests in a single ticket might work.

> And now you need to know two tools too, since you will likely need Ansible anyways to configure and operator the hosts later.

I agree. Well, I would use ansible beforehand with Packer to build immutable images/AMIs which are launched by an auto scaling group and a final configuration via cloudinit. Therefore I would not have a chance to apply ansible during autoscaling.

Thanks for your input and valuable discussion. Stay safe
The one thing you lose is heart rate tracking on the Peloton. With GymKit, your Apple Watch tracks your heart rate as you work out and displays it on the screen, along with which heart rate zone you are in (1-5). It shows what percentage of your max heart rate you are using at any one time and gives you a heart rate graph readout when you are done.

You could just use a third party heart rate tracker to accomplish this, but that's one more thing to put on.
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For a fun set of reads on this ("Label the chips as what the buyer wants regardless of what they actually are") from a decade ago, Sparkfun got some "fake" ATMega 328p chips in that, in fact, were nothing remotely resembling an ATMega 328p.

In the words of someone after they'd puzzled out the puzzle, "...so it looks like that die in the picture is pre-release engineering material. Where the hell did you find that?"

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/350

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/364

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/384

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/395
With HashQL there actually was an experimental implementation of this idea

https://github.com/porsager/HashQL-todos-sample/blob/master/...
> How much money is enough for these people? :(

What kind of attitude is that? If you have savings, one seeks a return on said savings by investing them. That's perfectly normal and rational behavior at all wealth levels.
I just wanted to let you know I really appreciate this idea - there is beauty in the layers of analogy.
Can you share which version you bought a Banggood? Thanks!
TI DC-DC switcher IC in one of my designs cost about 0.7EUR before this. For current production batch we had to buy it for around 22EUR (qty 100).
If benefiting from forced labour makes something uninspiring to you, then how is it possible to find anything created in the western world inspiring? Are you sure the clothes you are wearing now, which you are certainly benefiting from, weren't made with forced labour?
In densely populated areas, the value of real estate has very little to do with what's built on the property, and everything to do with the land it is build on.

GPs point is that owning land is not creating value. It is, however, very profitable.
> This is fucking unreal.

It's USA. Corruption is the norm.
> A legislator implementing a tax code is not an all-seeing god able to divine all the consequences of their proposed law. They have an intent, sure, but to say that every consequence of their actions are intentional, that's too simplistic.

It's not like they are paid for that or anything.
17% off is a very good deal for the consumer when prepaying a year. Always remember the axiom that a sale happens when you sell something the other party wants at a price you both believe is fair.

Whatever you do, be careful not to add or modify plans in a way that would lose existing paying customers. As the other saying goes, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. An existing customer is worth a lot more than a prospective customer.

There are lots of changes you could make, but you may want to ask your existing customers first as to why they made the choice they made. Ask them how you can improve their existing service. That will go a long way to inform your future decisions.
It was convenient for the people who caused Black Wednesday to pin the blame on George Soros. That this would later lead to thinly-veiled anti-semetic conspiracy theories didn't matter.
Sounds like a pain for larger databases.
Thank you for clarifying -- I didn't know that!
As someone who has lost a lot of my physical and mental health, when working at Amazon, color me skeptical.

> "We are going to be Earth’s Best Employer and Earth’s Safest Place to Work."

That being said, if Amazon puts the same resources into this as they put into being customer-centric, it could happen, but I doubt I will be a part of that.
> For regular in-room speakers, the amount of bleed depends on the relative placement of the speaker and microphone, the directionality of both, the volume of sound from the speaker and the sensitivity of the microphone.

And on how much reverberation there is in the room. If there's a tile floor, a brick wall, and no furniture with upholstery, sound is going to find some path from the speakers to the microphone no matter the placement and directionality.

If you have carpet or a rug, maybe a couch or bed, etc., then some of the sound will get absorbed before it can get from speakers to microphone.
I don't know about the Gottheimer example, but their Pelosi example seems pretty far fetched.

First of all, Congress passed a stimulus bill on Dec 21, the day before her husband bought those calls. Any 5% gain over the next couple of days or so is for more likely in response to that, and in anticipation of Trump signing the bill soon, than it due to Pelosi changing her mind about some possible future stimulus that hasn't even started being negotiated yet.

Second, the 5% "rally" for AAPL only lasted a week. TSLA's rise lasted longer, but it was rising before this. The article doesn't say anything about whether or not they actually exercised their options to buy the stock, and then sold it to actually profit. If they didn't, then this "rally" had no real effect on them.

Third, looking at other tech stocks, GOOG pretty much did nothing around or for a while after Dec 22. AMZN fell for a day or two, spiked up, came back to around what it was. FB was kind of like AMZN, but the spike was smaller and the fall was deeper. Looking beyond tech stocks, the Dow and the S&P 500 don't show anything happening around the time. Most things continued the trends they had been on before.

That suggests that Pelosi's change of heart about possible future stimulus bills didn't have much effect on most stocks. So why did they buy AAPL and TSLA? Even if they thought there would be an effect and wanted to exploit it, buying TSLA to do so makes no sense. AAPL makes a little more sense, but not much. AMZN or some other company whose products people would actually likely spend stimulus money on would make more sense.
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In Germany for example, a lot of people have no credit card.
We should always be on guard against such things, but is parent's statement really bad?

It didn't imply that other countries are backwards, or that their people are "neanderthals who've never heard of credit cards."

It's a fact that credit cards simply aren't equally popular in all parts of the world and naturally this is something that must be taken into account.

This includes places that are arguably more advanced than the US. Of which there are many many many many.
That's an interesting question. Crypto mining wants to do more and more cycles, faster and faster, so of course they need chips from the newest processes.

But in reality I don't think "blocking" is possible now. That ship has sailed (feel free to use your own cliche here). There are now exchange listed companies, eg Coinbase, that deal in crypto. There are mutual funds that deal in crypto. Tesla owns a bunch of crypto :)

A lot of older ICs, eg automotive, don't need leading edge fabs, and those other fabs also are seeing record demand.
Yes. There are alternative message boards that provide filtering (and many more useful features).

Hints: pincers, sideways walking, marine habitats.
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There are quite a few well-paid tech workers at Amazon, too. And proportionally, probably much better paid than the tech workers at Microsoft during Gates' tenure. Does the fact that Microsoft didn't employ warehouses make it better?

Amazon could exist - perhaps not quite to its current scale - without owning its warehouses. It would pay more, but the workers would not earn more. That profit would just be spread across different fulfillment companies and shipping enterprises. It's not as if with Amazon these workers are getting $10/hr but without Amazon they'd be making $25/hr. They'd still make $10/hr just with a different name on the paycheck.
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My 2 cents:
I was once in your customer shoes, and I choose the annual plan because it meant encouraging the product, helping it not to go bankrupt.
If your product/company is quite new, and provide something that people love and want to make sure stays available, they will help making sure it does. In your case, pay for the annual plan means pay more money to you in the short term, helping your balance sheet
Annatar, you've completely misunderstood the concept of debt and credit, the entire economy runs on it, and unfortunately yes, it's a signal of financial illiteracy on your part.

All businesses and nations carry debt, it's a financial instrument like any other, and it's a very useful thing.

Like all things, it can be misused.

This isn't remotely controversial.

Saying 'debt is toxic and dangerous' is like saying 'roads are toxic because they have cars, which can lead to crashes', it's completely bizarre.

These financial systems are part what enables rich countries to be rich. Nations that don't have the ability to structure are poor, it's that simple.
It comes down to asthetic preference, but honestly the elegance of Einstein's equations really appeal to me. Newton's feel somewhat abrupt, Einstein justifies why God chose those in particular.
Given that home prices have risen faster than other assets, does the traditional math of owning vs renting still play out? Is it still cheaper to own vs rent over say a 30 year period? I often wonder if you just put that money in the stock market where you don't have maintenance costs, property taxes or other costs associated with owning a home--and you're more flexible to move. Any charts that compare the long term investment of a home to stocks?
one thing i haven't been able to understand?: if each cohort group is so small (relatively i think in the thousands) combine with a UA should be 100% unique?

even if cohort is in the millions a UA+ip or geo should be enough to ID, or even add a couple more bits of window.property entropy enough to stay under the 'budget' limit
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for that matter, day trading and technical analysis is literally just insider trading. This chart, based on some analysis of the way it's moved, with no interest in the metrics of the company itself, dictates buy or sell. Every 'Technical Trader' learns these 'indicators' and trades on them. It's just shadow insider trading under the guise of providing 'liquidity' but in reality just contributes to more volatility.

Back when the stock market was founded, it was meant as a means of providing a signal of support for a company. It allowed the company to raise debt or financing based on it's stock price or signal of support. You bought company stock because you believed in the fundamentals of the business and you wanted to support it. Now it's just about how i can sell this stock to the bigger sucker, for more money than i bought it for.
Depends on your product.

If service is something that seems superfluous, temporary, a lark - such as Reface or the myriad AI-repainters etc - most people will do the shortest period of time.

If it's a business / utility tool that people find reliable/useful, most don't want the hassle of constant billing. Two months off is a great incentive for something you KNOW you'll use. And believe it or not, some people want to support scrappy startups with useful tools - I've personally gone through so many useful things that have disappeared, that I'll actively support new ones so I can use them for a long time :)

As to what you should do, again, depends. Are you happy with your income, are your customers satisfied, is your growth what you expect? Don't feel like you have to change anything :).

Also, asking your customers may be a useful way to proceed to0 ;-)
My understanding of the story is Steve Jobs just decided to say that when he announced it without checking with the lawyers, and it probably ran into patent problems.
T9 works well for common words. The poor doctor this keyboard(stick?) is being foisted on would not have a good time.
Show HN: API definition and data modelling as a service
I wish to share a service I made. It’s an online IDE for interface and data modelling and an RPC runtime. You may define your models and interfaces using an ergonomic language designed for humans and publish client and server SDKs for various platforms as source code to GIT or directly to the native artifact repositories. Our IDL/DML language is orders of magnitude better than gRPC/Thrift/Avro/WSDL/whatever, we have a lot of useful features (algebraic data types, nominal and structural inheritance, advanced templates, newtypes, foreign types, etc), also the language is completely transport-agnostic (currently we support HTTP and WebSocket) and codec-agnostic (currently we support JSON).

Currently, we fully support just two code generation targets, Typescript and Scala. Also, we have semi-completed support for Java. More languages are to follow.

So far we have a working prototype and a couple of happy clients. Currently, we have no funding and we did everything in our spare time. Please don’t be too harsh.

Probably we aren’t ready to handle HN traffic and a lot of things still need to be improved, but we hope some people may share their opinions and provide us with some important feedback.

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Moderators, please don't promote this post to the main page. We definitely won't be able to handle any serious traffic now.
> How do you know when to sell for good?

You don't ever sell for good. The goal is to increase BTC not USD. USD is a trap.
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Tangential to the review, I'm glad that 3:2 displays are universally getting praise wherever they appear. After using my iPad Pro as a sidekick monitor, I've really come to appreciate how much extra vertical space you get at that ratio. It's much nicer for coding and other tasks that benefit from seeing the surrounding context.

My hope is 3:2 might become a standard for PC or at least laptop monitors, rather than most things being 16:10 (which isn't so bad) or 16:9 (which is).
This was known for about half a year already. The risk with COVID-19 is about 40%, extreme. A high risk was also predicted for all vaccination types, not just the vector ones. But so far the mRNA ones evaded it.
Alternative chording scheme - take sequence into consideration.

Chord starts with first key depressed and ends when last is released.

One-key chords: 5

One of 5 keys to press, one way to release key.

Two-key chords: 40

1 of 5 possible starting keys,
1 of 4 possible second keys,
5x4 20 openings.

With 2 keys held in, two ways to release: 1 of 2 keys to release first, 1 remaining key to release last.

A total of 40 (20x2) 2-key chords, 45 total chords so far.

3-key chords: 360(*)

5x4x3 for 60 openings.
1 of 5 first keys,
1 of 4 second keys,
1 of 3 third keys.

3x2x1 for 6 releases.
With 3 pressed, 1 of 3 to release first, 1 of 2 to release second, last key released.

Total of 360 simple(*) 3-key chords.

405 (5 + 40 + 360) chords so far.

Yeah, biggest effort is not the hardware, but wiring the muscle memory, but I figure out motor system should be great at this if you're motivated.

(*) Simple chords - where we first just press and then just release, more options are available if we are ready to keep the sequence going by pressing and releasing and pressing again.

NOTE:
Not original, this is my take on some one else's scheme, I'll look for the reference.
> Yes, there's also something about techies that get older that makes them more negative?

Most ideas do not work and even most that work don't work as well (in terms of making money) as coinbase has. The only reason we are discussing what Brian was looking for in 2012 is because he is an outlier. Otherwise what he said back then would be of little interest.
This reminds me of a reddit comment from /r/programmer humor - someone was correlating music styles to programming languages. They decided MSSQL was the equivalent of a 6th grade recorder recital. More power to them I say!

I've been on the data side for a long time and have always wanted to explore front end but the API mandate sure did make that learning curve difficult, but for good reason.

It would be ideal if someone could iterate the existing frameworks to step something like GraphQL to a full blown front to back SQL tool.

Anyone who says SQL perms are crap doesn't know what they're doing with perms. I agree something is going to have to eloquently add controls between front and back.

Very thoughtful piece.
BPA-like chemicals likely causing “alarming” damage to brain cells
Yes, but of course it's downvoted because Hacker News users hate the idea that they aren't superior to these working class folks or that they should have the autonomy/capability of self determination. No matter the implicit classism in this case nor the implicit racism in the Bernie case.
> However, if this design is used as a local cache over shared memory for a high throughput system (trading? ML feature store?) the scalability can be handy.

In that case, one might be concerned about the hit rates. While FIFO & LRU have been shown to work very well for a remote cache, especially in social network workloads, it is a poor choice in many other cases. Database, search, and analytical workloads are LFU & MRU biased due to record scans. I'd be concerned that Segcache's design is not general purpose enough and relies too heavily on optimizations that work for Twitter's use cases.

Unfortunately as applications have dozens of local caches, they are rarely analyzed and tuned. Instead implementations have to monitor the workload and adapt. Popular local caches can concurrently handle 300M+ reads/s, use an adaptive eviction policy, and leverage O(1) proactive expiration. As they are much smaller, there is less emphasis on minimizing metadata overhead and more on system performance, e.g. using memoization to avoid SerDe roundtrips to the remote cache store. See for example Expedia using a local cache to reduce their db reads by 50% which allowed them to remove servers, hit SLAs, and absorb spikes (at a cost of ~500mb) [1].

[1] https://medium.com/expedia-group-tech/latency-improvement-wi...
Miners buy at cost parity with coin costs.

Even at the current ridiculous price of crypto, they can't afford latest nodes. And TSMC make them pay cash because they were previously burned by few mining chip makers going bust after their bet on coin prices didn't pay put.

But only underlines how chipmaking is the next most lucrative thing after, effectively, printing money.
So the future is the first successful "online app-enabled celebrity Fitness DVD" - the Jane Fonda Workout.

It cannot be a Peloton tie in or something - that is like having a concert that only fan club members can come to.

So ... something - independent - like Apple? Is Apple providing the DVD here and someone else needs to record Jane?
US Air Force war game shows what it needs against China in 2030
Piracy, tairrists, pedos, fake news, money laundering etc. Etc. One or multiple always picked as needed to get the sheep on board.
Germany is such culture and it still happens with accessories and clothing.

Apple is at the centre of this. You see people who obviously can't afford it with those (probably) fake AirPods all over the place. Sometimes they're not even connected. It's THE "look at me, I can afford it" electronics brand display for the middle and lower class.