I know someone who has constant issues with their Window PC breaking Chrome and the only known short term fix to get Chrome working again was to rename the app to something like Chrome1. When that no longer works, the only option was to reinstall Chrome.
Don't know how wide spread the issue is but if that's happening, it's not surprising Edge would become the default, especially with reports of other dark patterns people are experiencing.
We can barely agree on what the definition of middle class is. A quick search shows one source quoting anywhere between $48,500 to $145,500 a year which is a very broad range. Part of this is cost of living varies significantly in different parts of the US. With the current average salary, average home price, and current interest rates, people aren't wrong that housing is very unaffordable in most places.
The notion of "middle class" is a convenient propaganda piece. Turns out most folks consider themselves middle class. So as a politician, you can score easy points by saying scary stuff like "the middle class is disappearing" or "I'm here to help the middle class". The moment you start using more meaningful classifications (for example proletariat, which has a precise definition), you alienate some part of your voterbase. I guess with a term like proletariat there's also the fact that it's one of the scary words that the bad people use, which might turn off voters.
> The notion of "middle class" is a convenient propaganda piece. Turns out most folks consider themselves middle class.
Yup. I've met people living paycheck-to-paycheck, never having much more than 1 paycheck's worth of money in their bank account, that think they're middle class. Shit, I've seen people that are on food stamps that think they're middle class.
The worst part is that so many of them will vote against their own best interests because they think they'll be millionaires one day.
When I was young in the days of yore, “middle class” was something like “median household income”, maybe a bit more but not double, which got you a 30-year fixed in a part of town that was safe but not swanky, and was easily had by a worker with a college education or trade, or a hard worker, great saver, without.
“Upper middle class” was your doctors and lawyers, but the typical kind (the 100-week partner guy was fucking “RICH”). They had nice houses in desirable parts of town.
“Lower middle class” were workers without differentiated skills or educated folks with really bad money habits / some other issue like that. With my folks it was some college but dropped out to start a family (have me), got in tax trouble young. Lower middle class almost always rented forever.
“Poor” was like, no skills or flat lazy, or conspicuous drug problem, or something like that. They rented in bad parts of town. But rented.
That’s context or color, not numbers. But we were “the poor relations” relative to the spiffy college graduates or the folks with two incomes, and had IRS trouble, and rented in unglamorous but perfectly nice places.
I always thought all that numerous stratification into "upper middle class" and "lower middle class" and "upper lower middle class" and "lower middle upper middle class" and so on was kind of pointless and only serves to either 1. satisfy people who feel the need to precisely identify their own position on the totem pole or 2. pits people against each other who are actually in the same class and should be fighting together.
Most of us are N missed paychecks away from being broke. For some, that N is 1 or 2, for some it's 5, for retirees, the number may be even larger; but we all inevitably need money from our labor to come in in order to live. And this is true regardless of the dollar amount on that paycheck. We're all in the same boat.
For a very few lucky people, that N is infinite because their money grows faster than they can spend it. They get richer just by existing.
To me, these are really the only two meaningful economic classes. Do you have to work for your living or not?
Middle class is anybody who is not poor and not rich.
So it is clear from this definition that the lower bound for it is income of $48,500 from what you are not considered poor anymore and upper bound is income of $145,500 from what you are considered rich.
Now the most important consideration is - if a person can't afford a home, then can they really considered to be not poor?
I would say its rather backwards. Thinking of things as lower class seeks to afford rent, middle class seeks to afford housing, and upper class is beyond it. House ownership is basically the cornerstone of class wealth in the US. Prehaps with secondary lower/middle/upper modifiers your degree of success there (e.g. upper middle class comfortably affords their house, but it's still the bulk of their wealth; lower lower cannot reliably afford rent)
Those numbers are probably the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quintiles of household income. ie, the middle 60%, so that’s a large swath but it seems reasonable to me.
I am looking forward to the Apple Vision Pro and spatial computing. I'd love to compare the experience Apple is creating against existing AR/VR competitors. I think a lot of people still vastly underestimates the potential here due to the existing underwhelming experiences we've had going into the space.
Primarily computing. Right now that might mean a clunky headset tethered to your Macbook Pro to power the OS in virtual windows but the dream has always been advancing tech to the point where you could wear a pair of glasses and have all the computing power and OS running in the cloud (to remove the need for most of the hardware to be on the device). I'm a big fan of that vision.
We don’t have the tech to fulfill that vision (still research topic) Considering the constraints of Vision Pro: bulk, weight, battery live, resolution… Are you excited about any use case?
I presume the person you’re replying to is figuring that this technology won’t always have the same bulk, weight, resolution, and battery life constraints, and that’s why they’re excited about it.
From the demos shown it doesn’t look badly compromised for being a first generation product.
I’m not $3500 excited but I would buy the product as shown at $1000 or so.
I think it could be a great computer for traveling, especially the idea of being able to have a multiple monitor-like setup on the go without dealing with setting up a bunch of equipment.
Computing on airplanes would be so much better than struggling with a laptop on a tray table, and you could sit back and relax to watch movies rather than being hunched over a phone/tablet/IFE.
The “watching content while doing chores at home” that influencers have been showing off with the Quest 3 seems pretty nice.
I don’t buy into the idea that a device like this will replace smartphones or computers as our primary computing devices even when the technology gets far better, but it definitely has a place.
I briefly played around with the options here and didn’t see any specific questions that triggered an incorrect response from GPT-4, which I’m sure exists. It would be interesting to have that available and revisit this post when a future version of GPT comes out to attempt and try asking the same question again.
Perhaps a better lesson we all can learn from should be “don’t idolize” rather than “don’t meet your idols”. Learn from the good and the bad and grow from the experience.
Reminds me of the famous quote from The Dark Knight, “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain”. No one, companies included, is perfect. You stick around long enough, you’ll find the bad.
There are other ways to reach one's goals or dreams, but at least for GP's case it seems the "idolization" of Bill Gates and Microsoft has motivated them to work hard and improvement themselves to the point that they could eventually get hired by Microsoft.
One counter saying that it's not a worthwhile goal... but I'd say that every goal , worthwhile or not, requires a certain level of rose-tinted glasses anyway.
Depending on the email service provider, for domain emails, you can create a group email that forwards to all parties added to the group.
So you can create a group email address such as family@smith.com that forwards to both john@smith.com and jane@smith.com and any other family members that’s part of the group. This is how we have it setup.
Generally speaking, a waitlist isn’t interesting and doesn’t add value because users can’t try the product. It might be valuable to the creator but it can wait to be announced on HN when the product is ready.
As some others have suggested, you could write a detailed blog post about the values and share other details to see if that is valuable to the community and perhaps offer an opt in on your blog instead.
Don't know how wide spread the issue is but if that's happening, it's not surprising Edge would become the default, especially with reports of other dark patterns people are experiencing.