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Toyota had the most real world electric drive train miles, regen braking, battery mgmt etc etc. I thought for sure they’d move Prius to an extender model maybe, phev earlier etc etc. instead it was hydrogen endlessly- the amount they spent on hydrogen has to be huge!

Microsoft lost the plot with their app frameworks for local apps so electron not so bad and gets you cross platform

A new tam finds a “huge” overcharge. Most AWS billing is automated - I think a bit more detail would be helpful on this huge overcharge and refund. For new folks maybe run it up to manager early to figure out approach / insure understanding is good? Hard not to see a link to AWS unhappiness there potentially- and no doubt places did overhire too. Be curious about actual timing - there was a tightening up at a lot of places not too long ago and stealth layoffs via pips etc

Huh? When you buy or install windows 12 they will ask you to agree to the subscription terms. You don’t own windows even now in most cases

They have by far the longest support historically compared to the rest of the ecosystem. It’s not even close. A while ago my parents bought an android device that SHIPPED one version behind and was never updated. Totally pathetic. I’ve seen fixes for surprisingly old iOS devices and even new features often go back some generations.

WAN failover is not fun with ipv6 - npt doesn’t solve things because prefix lengths are variable. You end up back with NAT with basic networks again but with ridiculously large address space. Firewall rules a trickier- you need to both let ICMP through but be careful because some can drive network reconfig. DHCP is second class, and the network can do weird things when port isolations are on. The number of (rotating) ipv6 addresses per host gets silly and makes logging / accountability/ trace back systems more convoluted. Then you’ve got neighbor discovery threats, header extension manipulation stuff. And if multicast isn’t working because of a security configuration that breaks assumptions but you also have multicast amplification stuff.

There is a reason well resourced companies like google cloud have been slow w IPv6 - and it can be even more hair pulling in smaller settings.

Somehow people have polluted and/or the assistants are too stupid to play well known songs from voice prompts. You get weird covers with clearly synthesized backing or random crap. It’s honestly weird. The covers shouldn’t even be on system half the time.

IPv6 is such a massive headache it’s kind of mind boggling. I used to be super enthused - but it is absolutely less useful and more annoying than it’s worth.

This feels like an ivory tower take. I worked at a job reentry program. The difference in outcomes between those working hard and those not looked pretty stark to me. Ignore the billionaires. Focus on what you can control.

Absolutely not. Tor is chock full of stuff I don’t want to be associated with from spam to worse. Where possible you can block tor traffic, abuse management on tor is pitiful

To connect to a non local data source you need to pay 3,000 for enterprise version once you exceed CE limits plus maintenance- a bit too much - wish they’d put that level a bit less

Doesn’t seem like a global outage - where is this headline coming from?

The iPhones sat capabilities from AAA to emergency rescue have diminished some of the emergency benefits and inReach some others so something like this would be great.

Hyper / mega / etc all are hype up type words Blockchain - tons of hype

A ton of techno folks build products that do privacy / security but don't really have a use case or user base perhaps (outside of the unsavory types).

Blockchain has this same issue. A lot of use cases around payments for kidnapping, drug deals etc and endless endless scams.

Wasn't there a "megaupload" file sharing site where the guy went to jail for computer fraud (perhaps unfairly).

Anyways, I would folks on what your product does, and just avoid the hyper blockchain mega drive space swarm language.

A pyramid may work with a wide flat basin at edge, especially if core material is moderating itself (vs just separating).

And you frankly have no clue.

Let me clue you in on a few facts.

Retail stores are not paying upfront. Name a single major retailer that does this. I've yet to hear of a single one doing this.

Amazon is a bookstore. Go to any other bookstore or even distributor, and ask how quickly folks get paid who sell into their market. These folks drag the absolute HELL out of payment.

And yes, the local bookstore can return the books. They are generally not taking inventory risk.

Same thing with a grocery store. Want to get on shelf? Pay a fee? Want to sell in store? Until you prove sales volume so risk is gone, you will need to be willing to accept product returns and pay fee to cover whatever you replaced.

Want data on how your product sold at store level / by day / time etc? Be prepared to PAY for that. BTW - amazon merchants get most of this for free.

The time to pay for a product that sells in a retail store and amazon is different, and much WORSE for the retail store. You can get next day payout availability for FBA from amazon. If you sell a product through a distributor into retail - if you think you are going to get next day payment - dream on.

Umm.

- Do an in warranty battery replacement (within 1 year)

- Pay a repair shop or apple for a new battery.

- Apple runs one of the most comprehensive recycling and trade-in programs out there. Every store offers both trade-in value for devices that have it and free recycling for those that don't.

https://www.apple.com/recycling/nationalservices/

- They will send you a fedex label if you want to fedex in your airpods for recycling if you are too lazy to actually go to a store.

People helping the environment are out there doing it, and others sit on HN too lazy to take even the minimal steps to reduce their impact.

And no, other companies you buy your totally wireless bluetooth headphones from do not make all this easier, but MUCH MUCH harder.

The key issue is that currently, any warehoused shipments will INCREASE ultimate required throughput rather than decrease it, because most holiday shipments need to arrive before 12/25, and the curve of shipments is increasing not decreasing.

So if you had some buffer, you'd be buffering into more constrained capacity rather than less. Buffering works better if you buffer into a quieter period. That's not this sitution. So yeah, backpressure needs to flow to shippers in terms of pricing etc.

Especially because airpod competitors with replaceable batteries will be singificantly heavier, significantly less waterproof and may be more costly for similar functionality.

Non replaceable batteries, non upgradeable memory etc is all a tradeoff. Checkout the mac mini with M1 and soldered on memory, but memory performance seems amazing.

You don't understand what is happening. UPS made this mistake once and is not going to do it again.

For business customers, accepting a package and failing to deliver for the holidays is WORSE than accepting (a la USPS) with no limits and then having it get stuck.

UPS did this to amazon once, and that was enough for Amazon to decide to build out its own delivery network.

Shippers can do all sorts of things to help make things efficient if UPS communicates the limits. Ie, no sales with guaranteed 2 day shipping 2 days before xmass.

I got the message "unforseen circumstances / returned to seller" on a recent purchase for tracking. The seller refunded the package automatically which was nice. Then it still showed up.

That's not totally true. They do support scheduled shipments for folks like Apple where the items are shipped but held to insure basically a global US delivery date for most packages in the batch. But this is pre-planned, normally at worldport etc.

Reality - these folks don't need to "do this now".

Yes, Visa may need this. Guess what, 1TB+ of transaction data paying 30 center + 2% PER LINE - you'll be able to afford to do something reliable and scalable.

Folks don't realize, noSQL is not actually that scalable except in very narrow ways. And you can spin up pretty good scale SQL stuff with things look AWS RDS, including backups, replicas, snapshots to go back in time etc (noSQL doesn't support a lot of this).

If you want to talk put a headphone in the outer ear, and you can still talk softly to each other. Headphones are super immersive sounding. And if you have the pros, you set them to transparency mode. You can still talk, but kids won't hear the movie.

I just got an apple TV and I laughed when I saw that.

Even better, your phone can act as the remote, your airpods can paid (I've heard) etc.

Other than iphone I'm very late to apple's world, but as I get older, I just love that stuff works and I don't feel like I'm getting scammed every second.

Who do you trust (brand wise) to get it right. Does someone get it right? I'm sure, but my guess is if you did brand survey's, people would KNOW that apple gets it pretty right, and most players don't.

That's partly because apple ignore HN. I need a modulare phone that I can ugprade the ram on. Apple is ignoring you, they seal their phones up with epoxy so they are pretty darn waterproof. But for normal users, this is a positive.

They call out fake third party batteries. OH NO says HN. For normal users, a plus again.

They offer BY FAR the longest and most reliable operating system support. First gen ipad pro's STILL have value! My old android tablet has been unsupported since the DAY I bought it.

Or built in junkware and adware. If I buy a samsung TV can I be pretty sure it won't datamine my viewing habits? Even top competitors turn out to be basically scammers. Will you guarantee me that samsung won't jam ads onto my TV after I buy it?

"Towards the end of 2019, owners have started to voice their dissatisfaction with larger, increasingly obtrusive, and unrelated ads showing up on their Samsung TVs. These include ads for canned beans or discount supermarkets" - this is on $2,500+ frame art TV's etc.

It turns out, despite your claims, these other very large companies selling very expensive items are scamming folks to often, it only takes getting burned ONCE by this to just reduce your circle of trust dramatically.

Is there a perfect bluetooth device out there? Sure. If I go through the amazon listings will I find that device? I doubt it. If I buy from apple will I get it? I think so.

The price of these headphones is ridiculous, I don't defend that. If they are able to sell them at this price I'll be a bit surprised. But overall, they have built user trust up pretty high.

It's amazing to me how many folks seem to have no clue about what folks value in the apple ecosystem.

Call folks fanboys (I use windows / linux all day for my job by choice).

Do your "solved problem" bluetooth headphones allow EASY audio sharing when the kid is sleeping and you want to watch something with your wife? These are two bluetooth devices on same audio stream.

Does your solved problem bluetooth headphones RELIABLY connect to your current device (without having to unpaid with another device). That is game changing.

The problem is, folks have listened to folks like you so many times and gotten BURNED so many times. Oh, it "should" work you say. Total BS at least 20% of the time.

I won't buy the max'es because I have no need for something that nice. But the $159 for the airpods? Slam dunk.

You should go back and listen to the criticism of the airpods when they came out - overpriced, stupid, whatever. Then check out sales numbers.

Do that again with the apple watch maybe? Started slow, but I'm curious what their top competitor is by $ revenue - they have just improved and improved.

Do that again with the ipod?

Do that again with ballmer and the iphone?

Do that again with the actually pretty cheap M1?

Exactly this!!

Seriously, bingo. And the idea that Google "didn't know" this is total garbage. Google's advertising business is not a neglected corner of the business.

Given so many sites run google analytics - google can run the metrics from click to dwell time etc.

What's weird - I don't have a phd in data-analytics, and I'm not google analytics expert, but it's pretty clear when some source of traffic is being tricked or the other one I had issues with (paid) to click through. Because they don't convert, and some bounce within a fraction a second.

And google couldn't determine this stuff was low quality?

If you advertise on facebook you don't care too much about reported numbers. It's add spend in, conversions out.

The facebook targeting back 2 years ago at least, amazing. There is a niche for hyperspecific advertising and facebook just crushed it (I'm not posting on facebook / no facebook app, so I think they suck for human health).

My high school they made me the IT tech support. I ran between two campuses and was called out of class regularly. Novell Netware, Windows 3.11, some BBS stuff? The only thing I didn't do was AV work.

I took my "job" very seriously. Started though because I was absolute always playing around on every system, which meant admin / root access, from the big local educational BBS to the library systems to the academic support stuff (I never played around with the grading system at all thankfully because most of the time it was just because I was blocked from doing something like use a disk in a drive or whatever).

Whoever setup these systems did things like whitelist apps, so if you wanted to use windows calculator it was blocked. So I'd jump into admin and run it from there. Nothing malicious. But I think they did have a bit of a debate (in hindsight) about which way to go, discipline or rope me in. I think the librarians carried the day actually because I'd been helping them with the netware stuff when I was in library hour (printers not printing / computers not working right / whatever).