Not that MS is the poster child for chivalrous competition…but this level of desoerationjust signifies how important the battle for the branded browser is.
Anecdotally noticed the same.l with my 3.5 year old. Also in addition (pun intended) to what she’s learned it’s made her much more curious about a bunch of math concepts.
I find the ultra wealthy moving to avoid taxes pretty hilarious. It’s basically saying I have enough money to do whatever anything, except live/be where I’d like to.
Even within the US I know many wannabe New Yorkers who count their days and have to pick and choose what they come “home” for. Obviously to each their own but feels like optimizing for the wrong thing.
// Obviously to each their own but feels like optimizing for the wrong thing.
Depends on a percentage, isn't it? Few people are quibbling about paying +/- 1% here. On the flip side, I heard of a guy who sold a business for 10M. He moved to Florida for a bit to avoid paying New York 10% - 1 million. When we're talking about 10%+ of your income, it begins to matter.
This article is trash but the data from the research is actually interesting.
Without CarPlay it’s still super easy to stream audio from any app and has been for a decade (sure maybe CarPlay makes it even easier?).
It is interesting and contrary to the headline that people with CarPlay listen to radio 20% less than people without. More so they listen to streaming services almost 10% more if they have CarPlay.
Obviously correlation is not causation. If you can afford a higher end car then you are also more likely to be a premium Spotify/Apple/Sirius subscriber. Regardless it still looks like a good investment on Apple’s part.
$75k. Tell me the government doesn’t take privacy seriously without telling me that government doesn’t take privacy seriously.
> Three weeks ago, genetic testing firm 1Health.io agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a $75,000 fine to resolve allegations that it failed to secure sensitive genetic and health data, retroactively overhauled its privacy policy without notifying and obtaining consent from customers whose data it had obtained, and tricked customers about their ability to delete their data.
I already find the narcissistic "welcome to you" message on the package inducing of extensive amounts of vomit. And then they only get $75k for this? I want them go DOWN.
We’re not actually seeing the kinds of boogeymen people like to trot out when this kind of data is leaked. Nobody is conducting banned genetic research, nobody’s insurance rates are going up, nobody is getting ethnically cleansed as a result of this info…
A few stolen identities, some bank fraud, but largely the systems in place can handle it. It’s caught at the other end.
A single stolen identity can cause years of emotional harm and turmoil. Someone’s life is often completely uprooted from this. That one person alone should receive significantly more than $75k
A single car accident can end a life, yet we drive cars. The value gained by technology like 23andme is vastly outweighs the cost of some occasional negligence or theoretical harm.
Besides, if you can find a specific person who was specifically harmed by this exact breach, I bet you could sue for damages, and get more than $75k.
I'm just going to do my monthly HN login to say, and possibly skirt ethics here because your comment truly deserves it, that this is the dumbest thing I've read on here in a long time. I can't tell if this comment is satire or being real.
What? No. If we really take privacy seriously, we might consider giving them a discount on their use of our genetic data once they have shown responsible care in handling that data -- similar to how no-claim bonuses work in insurance.
Wouldn't this incentivize insecure practices and bad practices so they can get 75k? Wouldn't that be the effect, everyone tries to as little as possible until they get paid?
I wouldn't. If I leaked data due to honest coding bug and someone gave me $75K with even a handshake agreement to put it towards fixing the problem I would put 100% of that money towards fixing the problem. That's my moral standard, if money with even a verbal agreement to put it towards a certain purpose, I either honor that purpose or don't take the money.
If they took away $75K I might be forced to lay off someone, possibly one who could have fixed the problem.
$75000 is a lot less than buying even 1 security expert. It's just the cost of doing business if you don't charge them some substantial % of their revenue for a year. Say 20% - 50%. It has to sting or there will be no change in their processes.
Why is it so hard for Android OEMs to keep supporting their devices? I don’t buy that it’s just planned obsolescence. As Apple invests in making devices usable for longer and longer this doesn’t seem like a competitive move.
Because these devices are usually being supported by teams of only a few people. Eventually someone decides that a new project needs all hands on deck to meet deadlines and people get reallocated internally from the "least important" projects.
The fixes are simple, but they all share one problem: they cost money. Hardware orgs are almost universally run by the most penny-wise pound foolish people imaginable, so that problem is completely insurmountable to them.
There's other issues too (e.g. upstream vendors don't like upgrading and charge absurd amounts of money for it), but the main problem is simply a lack of institutional priority to do the work.
Well, nothing you say is wrong, and it isn't simply that they are foolish. Hardware companies just can't figure out a way to give us free OS upgrades and make money. They generally stop making money the second the check clears. Apple has that one figured out, the longer you are a customer the more Apple services you buy. Google has a fundamental different model with Android where they are trying to make money and coerce their integrator partners to keep upgrading, but the money is way different.
Xiaomi doesn't make money from HW sales either, they rely on services revenue. They also have the same same 3yr support life every other Android OEM commits to.
It's not foolish, it's shortsided. At the scale major OEMs operate, even a dozen engineers per device generation would be a rounding error.
Except in most cases one of those years hardly counts since many non-top-of-the-line android phones ship with an already outdated OS (though this too has been slowly improving, as has the time it takes to get them up to the newest version).
> Hardware companies just can't figure out a way to give us free OS upgrades and make money
The biggest question is : why does it take so much efforts to design an upgrade ?
Unfortunately Google never made it mandatory for chipset/hardware designers to have an abstraction layer (similar to BIOS/UEFI/ACPI/system tables) that would make a single Android kernel and OS install and work on every devices...
(And I have criticized Microsoft a lot for many things, but I have to acknoledge that they have an amazing backward-compatibility track record, even for device drivers, while Linux has its stable_api_nonsense policy...)
I have no technical knowledge of Android but from a user perspective the whole system reeks of overwhelming technical debt. Updates constantly break old features and need rapid roll-forward patches. The whole OS is plagued by irritating slow-downs, screen flickers and weird interactions. It feels like no one knows how to tackle major changes so they just update the fucking volume UI every 6 months and call it a day. Android TV degrades continuously. It feels like no one cares.
I don't know anything about android tv. You can blame Google's garbage A/B testing addiction for that.
Android on most devices is very stable. If it's not (manufacturers fault), just install LineageOS (basically stock ASOP, with device drivers)
Because Microsoft wasn't and isn't an Android OEM.
The Surface Duo was supposed to be a Windows 10X companion device until at the last minute they hired a firm (Movial) to port the metal to Android. Halfway through the port they brought on that entire division as MS employees and that's who basically was running the Android porting shitshow.
When was the last time Apple released a radically different device ?
Ask differently how long was the original Apple Watch supported ? Or the original iPad ?
I don't think any of them had more than 2 or 3 years of suport as the hardware radically changed in the next revisions. Faulting Microsoft for failing to support a first gen innovative hardware concept for more that a few years is kinda harsh.
I always tip well because I get that tips are misplaced wages, but the tip economy is so messed up.
A huge piece is that it's based on an asymmetry of information. I don't know how much a barista makes so I assume min wage and tip accordingly. Consequently a business owner has less incentive to raise wages because customers are accustomed to subsidizing their payroll. Sadly employees are the pawns in all of this and viewed as having their hands out for being greedy as if they have their hands out or are the ones who program the %s into their Square terminals.
I've also seen a few courageous businesses try and move to fair wages + no tipping, and then reverse course because they weren't able to keep employees. I think the only solution is systemic, like getting rid of the tip minimum wage, but that's unlikely.
The tip minimum wage does not exist in a couple states. California, Oregon and Washington are three examples. But tips are still expected in those states.
I miss the “Under Construction” banners. It was ok to tell your visitors your site was a work in progress! (Also you generally had to publish and debug live.)
The rebranding really was disastrous. Echoing other comments, as someone who bought 6 packs largely for nostalgia or to reconnect with SF from the east coast the new packaging ruined that.
