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NPR wins on the permalink though. I was going to link someone the apnews version but changed to the npr one due to the url.

NPR: who-chief-wuhan-lab-covid-19-origin-premature-tedros

AP: joe-biden-world-news-health-science-coronavirus-pandemic

AP is just stuffing keywords in there.

As someone who has a stReam deck[1] sitting on their desk this is a very confusing name. Before I realized this new product was steam not stream I was trying to find if valve bought elgato or something.

[1] https://www.elgato.com/en/stream-deck

I've been using Transferwise, which is now known as Wise to pay people outside of the US for years. For inside the US I'm using Quickbooks. Other then liking their original name better I can't really say anything bad about Wise.

While not as quick as a crypto transfer, wise is remarkably fast when comparing it to the US banking system at least. The person you're paying does need a wise account and their banking details entered in it, but beyond that the funds are ACH'd out of my account and converted to their own local currency and deposited directly into their bank accounts.

It does look like they have an api [1] too though as I only have two people I'm paying with it I've always just entered it manually.

[1] https://api-docs.wise.com/#wise-platform-api

Wow that is quite the list of channels leaving. Made me wonder what the user impact was. Thankfully netsplit.de is still around.

Graph comparing the top networks. You can clearly see the drop here: https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php

Freenode stats: https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=freenode

Libera.Chat stats: https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=Libera.Chat

OFTC stats: https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=OFTC

I was a backer of their kickstarter in 2016. I remember the pitch. It made me feel like the remote was going to be out of the Jetsons or something. You walk around your house, point it at something and it knows what it is and you can instantly control it.

The actual product though sorta like that didn't really work out that well. First it wasn't really whole house it was more room based.. and since all my TV equipment was all in one place the point at it and it knows which item it is trick didn't really work as hoped.. not to mention when watching TV you don't really want to have to think about where you are pointing the remote.. and then yeah just using a touch screen instead of buttons was awkward.

Long story short, I still actually do have the remote plugged in.. but haven't used it since I set it up several years ago.

It's sad that they're shutting down. I really did want to like their product. But if everyone had the same experience as me I can't say I'm super surprised.

This is great! I got a chuckle though that this is for the US only, but it shows distance in km instead of miles. I'd love it if we changed to metric but I don't see that happening any time soon.

The data is sourced from pCloud[1]. Highly recommend checking their site out if you want to know more then the linked story's summary. They show what each of the referenced categories are and also compare it to a whole slew of other apps.

[1] https://blog.pcloud.com/invasive-apps/

While I'd love to believe that herd immunity is almost here or the vaccine is effectively stopping the spread already, I think the biggest reason for the drop in new cases as well as the drop in active cases can be summed up in a single word. Christmas. Or more broadly the holiday season.

It's absolutely true that new cases are dropping and active cases are dropping as well but if you look at active cases everything peaked about a month after Christmas to the end of Jan before starting to decline this month. Easter is coming up on April 4th. If enough people have the vaccine + enough people have gotten it to cause herd immunity then active cases will continue to drop throughout March and April. But if the holidays are the main cause for this to spread (as in people ignore the "rules" and intermingle with non-household members as the holidays encourage) I predict another wave in April. The wave hopefully will at least be less severe then the Christmas wave was, but I do think the planet isn't out of the water yet.

There are a lot of downsides.. or rather hassles to running your own mailserver, this is true, but as someone who has run their own mailserver since 2001 I wouldn't have it any other way.

Email is one of the last modes of communication we have on the Internet that can still fully work w/o any big company controlling it and I think that is something worth preserving.

My understanding was the second plug powered the LED lights in the keyboard but now I'm not 100% sure if its for that or just for the passthrough USB port on the keyboard itself.. maybe both?

Reading the comments I'm surprised so many people think 20 usb ports is so out of this world. For me this would be great! The list below isn't 20, but its still 14 and honestly I could find more things to keep plugged in w/o much effort either.

- mouse

- keyboard

- keyboard extra power

- audio

- streamdeck

- webcam

- printer

- photo scanner

- card reader

- phone

- microphone

- digital camcorder

- controller

- usb drive

38 mins after this was posted it looks like Portland passed San Francisco by. Portland is at 220, SF is at 181.

This is just "Twitch Prime" being rebranded to "Prime Gaming". Twitch is keeping the same name. But I wonder how long until Twitch is also rebranded to Amazon Gaming?

Not only did they drop linux support, they dropped support for paying customers via Amazon. I had been paying for HBO via Amazon Prime Channels to watch on my FireTV and also logging into HBO Now on my Nvidia Shield for 2+ years now. HBO just recently shut down HBO Now though and "upgraded" it to HBO Max, but does not allow Amazon users to log back in.

After trying to contact HBO Max and HBO Now they both refused to acknowledge the issue so I just canceled my subscription. The only option I would have to watch on both devices would be to sign back up to HBO Max directly instead of HBO via amazon, but I'm good. They lost me as their customer due to their squabble with Amazon.

Since pretty much all the reviews here are glowing I'll offer up an alternative.

If you want what they are selling, then it does work quite well.. but there are drawbacks.. one primarily.. that made me end up not using it for my whole network and only on my ipad when I don't want ads in a game.

As mentioned in other comments, you can whitelist domains, but unlike the whitelist in ublock or something in your browser, this means you need to know the exact ad server domain/domains. For example if I want ads on for certain websites to help support or troubleshoot my own site then I'm unable to do that or if the wife needs to see an ad in her game to get gems, you have to dig through the logs to find out what ad server its calling.. or set up another profile to not block any ads.

In short, you're not whitelisting the domain you're visiting, you need to whitelist every domain that website might call too. Perhaps most people are okay with then and if so then ignore :)

Another thing I didn't like, which I mean makes sense, but in order to label a device you need to run their client. I had set up nextdns on my router which worked great, but if I wanted different devices to have different rulesets they each needed to run the nextdns client. So good luck knowing which smart device is calling what because you're not going to be installing the client on your Alexa. One other downside of this which honestly I probably could have fixed was their client broke WSL network connections so on my primary device I ended up operating in logged out mode.

That said, I might end up giving it another shot at some point but running on a very limited set of rules rather then the pretty comprehensive rulesets I had enabled. I did like how it blocked the device telemetry calls.. perhaps that is all I need to block and then handle everything else client side.

Hope this helps someone!

Adding one more piece of data to the story, I've run a large website (Social Blade) since 2008 where the primary source of revenue has always been advertising. It was only last year that we started focusing more on paid subscriptions to cover the natural drop in ad revenue that was happening anyway.

I don't have the data yet from one of my two ad providers, but the one that does provide me real time data I can see a 35% drop in ad revenue this month compared to Feb while having about a 31% bump in traffic.

+1 for the Robin Sloan novel. I really enjoyed it as well and it was actually the first thing I thought of when I saw this story posted.

This BETTER be an April Fools' Day joke. I've been using the android app with a subscription for years. If its not a joke, anyone have a recommendation for a replacement? The exact location rain data was my favorite feature.

If this is really happening this is a serious issue that needs to be fixed ASAP and everyone alerted..

but.. something doesn't look right here..

OP is a throwaway account created today, which I can understand for this type of thing.. but...

they withheld the bank name in the title/desc.. okay again a responsible thing to do.. but...

when asked what the bank name was in the comments they were not shy at naming it..

Something just doesn't feel right. Why the sudden change of heart?

For everyone's sake I hope I'm right, that this is just FUD.. to the OP if you really are serious I'm sorry, and please do report this ASAP.

Mods can we get a [2016] in the title?

100% agree. Having a 3rd party sign in is as an option is fine, but when it's the only option it is not fine. Always offer your own account system too.

Pros and Cons list for using 3rd party login ONLY

Pro: user doesn't need to sign up, just logs in

Con: If your account is terminated by the third party for any reason then it can't be used to log in anymore. YouTube recently terminated peoples google accounts for using emoji's over and over again in a live stream after the streamer told them to do so for example.

Con: If the user closes their account on their own accord for that third party site they can't log into your site anymore either.

Con: If the third party terminates the developers account for any reason then no users can log in at all!

So yeah, if you're designing a website/app/anything with a login system, please please please always allow a user to create an account on your system too. It's fine if you want to give the user who don't care the option to log in via the third party, but I and many others will flat out not use your service.

Not to beat a dead horse here but my first thought was this is awesome! I want to try this out with the team! Then noticed mac only. Nevermind... Repost to HN when its out for windows please!

As this has been rumored for a little while now and I've been a fitbit user since day 1 it got me to think a lot about what goolge might be able to do with the data and machine learning and it got me to think of two things that I don't think I heard anyone reference yet.

1) Presence. Right now Google often doesn't know WHO is watching YouTube, whether it be the logged in user or someone else in the house. If they know you're watching on a desktop or TV but your activity shows you're walking around its likely you're not actively watching or someone else is. They could hold off on showing an ad or not target it directly to you until they think you're there to watch it.

2) Involvement. Wasn't exactly sure what to call this but what I mean by this is they can measure your heart rate to see how you react to various things you're looking at now. There might already be studies on how best to control peoples heart rates when buying something or keep them watching longer but if not they'll be able to do a ton of machine learning to test this out. This can help determine when to run ads on YouTube videos to keep you from clicking off or when the optimal time would be to show you an ad to cause you to buy something.

I've been using the old Google Wifi system for several years now and its been decent.. with two big caveats

1) I hate the mobile only interface. It's nice to have one, but no desktop interface (unless I run an emulator) is really annoying when trying to manage and monitor the network.

2) You need to have a s-H-s type topology where each satellite connects directly to the main unit. Thankfully most areas of my house are hardwired so I can plug them in, but there are some areas that don't have good coverage that I'd love to chain another satellite to, but its too far for it to reach the hub over wifi (no cable is run), and it doesn't support branching off of another satellite.

For the new system it looks like their solution to #1 is to put the controls into an even worse app...

For item #2, anyone know if it will support s-s-s-s-H chaining?

On a related note.. I actually got into a support chat with them once asking about that and their support rep said it didn't work because my cable modem had nat enabled and if I turned that off it'd work great facepalm. After a lengthy discussion he thanked me for teaching him about networking.

This is really cool! Love the street view visualization! I have a request though. To save time searching for the satellite is there anyway you could provide info to what it is as well?

If you're in one of the following states (26% of the US) you can't use Binance.com or Binance.us sadly:

Alabama

Alaska

Connecticut

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Louisiana

New York

North Carolina

Texas

Vermont

Washington

My thoughts exactly! I've had outdoor nest cameras for a couple of years now and was expecting at some point it'd learn that the trees moving or bugs flying across the camera were not interesting but nope...... we get this...

It seems like I'm not the only one annoyed at nest lately though. I actually backed a indiegogo last week called Camect that hopefully will fix a lot of these issues and you don't even need to replace the nest cameras, though you can if you want to. I recommend checking it out!

I use it off and on and it works pretty well. Typically the caller (robot) hangs up almost right away before you get the satisfaction of screwing with them though and when that happens you don't get the easy option to block them as spam either because the screener quits right away.

Not a paid product, and "heavily used" maybe not, but was the only native(ish) way to live stream a group call to YouTube. You could live stream a podcast style show w/ no extra hardware or software, just your youtube/google account. It was was birthed out of Google+ so its not altogether surprising it got killed, but I was watching a live stream just last week that was using it.

Coinbase was a YC S12 company for what its worth.