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Temporary_31337··on Spotify passes 500M active users as operating losses deepen
I tried to convince my son to try the spotify premium which is currently 3 months free trial. He said he does not need another service on top of YouTube premium and Apple Music even if it’s free. He’s not wrong. I’m not sure how a music only service can survive on its own- I often switch between videoclips, songs, podcasts with video or not, all on YouTube. Another app/service for just some of these things is not convenient.
Temporary_31337··on Explaining tech's notion of talent scarcity
I think the only solution is more managers to manage the existing managers
Temporary_31337··on How do you recover passkeys if you lose all your devices? (2022)
Definitely not a good idea to store all eggs in one basket. I’d use a third party secrets manager with a master password that can be remembered and some backup way to recover MFA - for example a family phone number
Temporary_31337··on iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
Why so shallow? Don’t care for this particular feature, maybe but the broader fight is about ownership and control of the things you paid for. Sideloading is going to be nice for programmers as it will have to allow for more flexibility in what apps are allowed to execute
Temporary_31337··on Ask HN: How do I stop card testing attacks on my Stripe account?
Sound like the kind of thing you’re paying Stripe to deal with? Open a support case every time it happens.
Temporary_31337··on The Sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ Scam
Maybe that’s the key to raise successful programming kids- introduce them to a hobby that is worse than programming and let them switch later
Temporary_31337··on ‘60 Minutes’ Made a Shockingly Wrong Claim About a Google AI Chatbot
Who needs inaccurate responses from a chatbot if we already have journalists that can do this service ;)
Temporary_31337··on Apple’s 4.15% Savings Account Marks Golden Age of Cash
Super shallow and confusing article. One of the counter arguments for savings account presented in the article is that it’s “risky” because deposits over 250k are not insured. As we have seen with SVB all deposit holders were bailed out even above that limit and in case of Apple account, the entire Goldman Sachs would have to go bankrupt for a similar situation.

I’m curious to see what startups will emerge that will make it more worthwhile (risk/reward) to invest than a stable 4% every year.

I think on the broader stock market some staple stocks like food and oil companies are probably going to outperform the savings rate but not without risk.

Temporary_31337··on Ask HN: What would you recommend a 16 year old to pursue career wise?
Green energy - wind, solar, hydro, hydrogen etc has a lot of life left in it- there will be work installing wind farms and maintaining them.
Temporary_31337··on Cisco Systems pulled out of Russia and destroyed $23.42M worth of equipment
Even in the TASS article it generally mentions an accounting write down. I bet some entrepreneurial Russian now has hundreds of unlicensed routers and cables
Temporary_31337··on Ask HN: What helps you focus and get things done?
Loud techno music and noise cancelling headphones.
Temporary_31337··on When Will AI Take Your Job?
This, just like many other takes, confirms that there will be a short term boom in applying AI to everything. If you are in your 30s or 40s and surf this wave correctly, this may very well be the last job you will ever do. So my plan is to learn how to plug GPT to excel, databases etc and provide AI for the smaller companies that can’t integrate AI like Salesforce and big companies like Azure Professional Services will not find them profitable enough to deal with.
Temporary_31337··on Experimental library for scraping websites using OpenAI's GPT API
The table's been dropped and there was no backup so we'll never find out
Temporary_31337··on Goodbye to Google Code Jam
You are overthinking this - the team that managed this got laid off that’s there’s no more Ai story to it.
Temporary_31337··on Google Cloud now lets you suspend and resume VMs
Checking which year is this as VMWare, Virtual Box etc have supported this for more than a decade…
Temporary_31337··on Do I need to avoid dark chocolate now?
The article suggests the pollution is from batteries. So replaceable batteries would help how?
Temporary_31337··on Show HN: Find the most climate friendly meeting location
I’ve found it- it’s the metaverse ;)
Temporary_31337··on Silvergate Bank to begin voluntary liquidation
Because customers expect low or no fees for just holding cash.
Temporary_31337··on Researchers develop blood test for anxiety
IMO if you're getting a blood test for anxiety, that also implies one is anxious.
Temporary_31337··on Understanding British Money: What's a Quid? A Shilling? (2020)
The article is out of date as it suggests that the uk is in the eu
Temporary_31337··on How peptide injections became the answer to everything
Steroids at least work. Injecting peptides…. I guess you could just get them from a healthy diet.
Temporary_31337··on 20M digits of pi in 1 minute using Julia
Just wanted to mention that SuperPi - the benchmark that is very widely used for at least a decade for measuring PC / CPU single threaded performance uses the same algorithm so not really obscure. That said, multi threaded algorithms make more sense for modern multi core computer architectures, something like this for example:

http://www.numberworld.org/y-cruncher/

Temporary_31337··on Honestly, It's Probably the Phones
yes, except all the other religions, priests, oracles, pharaohs before him. And his religion was based on on an interpretation of Judaism which was a thousand years old religion at a time, Other than that you're spot on ;)
Temporary_31337··on Asteroid lost 1M kilograms after collision with DART spacecraft
1M kilograms so 1 gigagram or 1000 tonnes or about ten whales.
Temporary_31337··on Godot 4.0 Stable
How have people found the learning curve and debugging? My son did a game with it, but once we started trying custom stuff it wasn’t clear where the code for some things was - some things were in the scene some in the shapes etc. I.e. it’s crazy easy to start with but gets a lot harder as you go?
Temporary_31337··on Nvidia predicts AI models 1,000,000X more powerful than ChatGPT within 10 years
Translation: nVidia is talking up the hype that can increase its stock price (now that the cryptocurrency hype is over)
Temporary_31337··on Apple Entertainment Services are slow or down
Try Pocket Casts too, much better for makingsure your regular Podcasts are downloaded before things go offline. I tried switching to Apple Podcasts and I found out the hard way that it didnt download my episodes before a 10 hour flight.
Temporary_31337··on A Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database (2021)
If we accept that this is the default state of the Internet (insecure) then I think it is a correct assumption and forces everyone to think twice before exposing anything to the Internet by default. Here the default Docker behaviour was very much at fault but also the assumption that a Linux level firewall is good for Docker. We have docker deployments that are completely hidden behind NAT in AWS and such things are a non issue.
Temporary_31337··on Airbnb nightly rates shot up 36% in 3 years
Get the host details off social media and arrange a direct price
Temporary_31337··on Ask HN: Why on Earth does Europe have 3 month notice periods to switch jobs?
The long notice period, among other things attenuates hiring sprees like we have seen this summer and the firings that followed in the winter. It requires for the ceo and hiring managers to think a little longer term than this quarter.
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