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The title and discussion in the linked article describe this as "worse after firmware update", but the title here suggests Apple removed the feature entirely.

On my end, I've noticed I have recently been checking whether it was on or not. So, I am one more person experiencing some issue here.

Having been involved in such projects on the corporate level, I do agree that driving efficiency and reducing costs, even when everyone wants and tries to do them, is rather difficult, and very slow to implement. However, once you go down the track and commit to it, a major benefit is it raises the awareness of the importance of frugality and efficiency, and future projects do become more efficient. So maybe if you cannot make a huge dent like $2T, it could help slow down the increase in deficit.

Netflix Engineering is probably far ahead of any other competitor streaming service, but I wonder how much the ROI is on that effort and cost. As a user, I don’t see much difference in reliability between Netflix, Disney, HBO, Hulu, Peacock and Paramount+. They all error out every now and then. Maybe 5-10 years ago you needed to be much more sophisticated because of lower bandwidth and less mature tech. Ultimately, the only real difference that makes me go for one service over the other is the content.

I think Netflix for a few years now has been optimizing for "the cost of production of each consumed hour". They have been doubling down on acquiring/producing international content, reality tv and live specials—which are all cheaper, and less risky given the formula repetition. And when they have an expensive show that is not viral and super-successful, even if it was good by many standards, they cancel it. Many have noticed the reduction in quality and the increase in rate of cancellations, but it doesn't seem to be hurting their subscriptions much, at least not yet.

While it is true that most of the election-year policies are promises that end up not being fulfilled, the policies that are chosen by the candidate to push the most are also a reflection of their character and beliefs. And just like you've to distill the fake from real promises, you've to do the same for the character they project, because how they present themselves is not always any more real than the policies they promise.

Sam needs to hire a consultant when he wants to name products. First it was ChatGPT, then came the 4o's and o-1's, and now this. "World" is not easy to pronounce for some non-English speakers (the "rld" part). For a product literally meant to be used by everyone, that's quite the faux pas.

This video explains how they plan to catch the booster with Mechazilla [1]. The team at SpaceX has some serious guts to be doing this!

[1] https://youtu.be/ub6HdADut50

I know it is a privilege and a rare opportunity to go into space, but it strikes me as something that should be compensated for at higher than the going rate of astronaut salaries of $100-$150K/year. They overpay for every bolt but count the pennies when it comes to the salaries.

For starters, tents shouldn't be allowed in the downtown area, which is the heart of business, shopping and tourism in San Francisco. It is one of the most expensive areas to live, so just like most residents cannot afford to live there, it is only fair that homeless people don't live there as well.

I don't understand the influx of these kinds of posts. I use ChatGPT and Claude daily, but I wouldn't say 90, 80, or even 50%. Not because I don't want it to be, but because it just can't.

LLMs are perfect for those who are at the beginner-level with some language, or with rather simple code that is not very business-specific, or solving/implementing tidbits that are isolated from the larger surface area of a product, or writing utility functions that do something that is well and simply defined, or the boilerplate of almost anything.

However, most of the time spent in programming is never spent on these stuff. They might constitute the largest percentage of the lines of codes written, but 90% of the time is spent on those other 10% of lines.

Give it a CSS problem like centering an object within a bit of a complex hierarchy, and it will go the rounds suggesting almost every solution that can be tried, only to loop back with the same exact confidence. I'd say, in certain cases, LLMs could be a time drain if you don't push the brakes.

Low price to pay for our AI-generated theme backgrounds in Chrome. /s

I think worse than other carriers. They are still positioning themselves as the underdog uncarrier, so it feels even less authentic. I don't see much of virtue-signaling from AT&T and Verizon.

Booking.com has one weird "feature" where they allow you to checkout without signing-in, and using the email of any other Booking.com user without verification in the checkout form. I had dozens and dozens of orders "placed on my behalf" this way; they were all no-shows and their CCs were declined, and they ended up disabling my account for fraud suspicion.

This is what a Dutch Roll looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmjam1evDD4

Will these leak and thrusters issues affect the return trip?

Apparently, this is the list Ilya gave to John Carmack more than a year ago [1], which was shared by an OpenAI employee 10 days ago [2].

[1] https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-diffe...

[2] https://twitter.com/keshavchan/status/1787861946173186062

I wonder if these food/grocery delivery apps are shooting themselves in the foot with how they balance pricing/fees vs marketing/promotional costs.

You can almost always find gift cards for these services that are 10-20% off. And once you stop using these services for a short while, they bombard you with 20-40% discounts to pull you back.

So it's likely the fees are too high because they need to offset the marketing spend, but then the reason why people avoid or use these services not very frequently is because of the high fees.

Maybe there is a world in which spending less on marketing and lowering the fees could result in lower acquisition cost and higher retention.

Tangential, but this is a horrible choice for a header font at this size. I thought something was wrong in the rendering as I noticed white random smudges in the text.

I like they raised the broadband minimum upload speed from 3 to 25Mbps. Spectrum's 300 Mbps broadband is only 10 Mbps up. Let's see how fast they change their statement that "an upload speed of 3 Mbps is enough for most households" [1].

[1: https://www.spectrum.com/resources/internet-wifi/what-is-a-g...]

Notably, these web apps will "continue to be built directly on WebKit and its security architecture", so a progressive app added to the Home Screen can't for example run on a Chrome engine.

For those of you who decided not to have kids in your 20s-30s, and are now in your 40s+, when changing that decision now becomes increasingly more difficult: did you regret it? Did your position of “I want to live my life, I don’t want the hassle or the cost, or there are too many humans already, or something else”, did that position change or weaken?

Asking for a friend :)

Why no names? I am curious to see the product and how they are positioning their business model. I haven't seen something like this before.

The 20M figure includes Quest 1, 2, and Pro, and spans several years [0].

[0: https://skarredghost.com/2023/03/03/quest-20-million-mainstr...]

A quick search shows me a number of alternatives to Carta, but none that I have ever heard of or come across. Is there any competitor that is considered the second best? Carta just seems to me what everyone had been using without a second thought.

How's Threads doing from the POV of HN crowd? It seems to me like a clone of Instagram, with some celebreties double-posting their X or Instagram content to it. After its first few weeks, I probably have visited once a month.

Tangential, but I quite like the error page. Informative, concise and avoids any confusion as to what is going on.

> This Deployment has been disabled.

> Your connection is working correctly.

> Vercel is working correctly.

> If you are a visitor, contact the website owner or try again later.

> If you are the owner, please contact support.

I don't buy the article's argument around the "Fear that GCP may be abandoned by Google". Yes, it is highly unlikely that Google will wake-up one day and announce a deprecation day for GCP, like they did with dozens of other products. What is not unlikely though is that they under-invest in it compared to AWS, and being a 2nd or 3rd player, they would fall behind in products and/or reliability, unable to compete on price or features due to better economies of scale of the competitors.

Before Google kills products, they lose interest in them.

An intriguing idea, but a few issues make this a very hard sell: 1) resolution is too low, 2) eInk's slow refresh time will make it look like your entire world is flashing, 3) due to the low resolution, you can only render like a paragraph worth of text; there will be a lot of page scrolling, and 4) price is too high for a one-utility device. Maybe there could be a v3 or v4 that can solve these issues.

It was intended as a pun of "The Three Body Problem" novel, I would guess.

The article doesn't make opt-out very clear. If you submit a request and ask to opt out of future tracking, are the data brokers able to re-collect your data on the next day and keep/use/share it for 45 days till the next deletion cycle?