skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have been on both buses and trains it should be obvious.

Trains: smooth ride where the tracks are good, smooth power delivery/acceleration, satisfying whooshing sound, forward facing seats, spacious aisle, feels solid and efficient. Makes one acceleration and deceleration per stop, which are at least a few blocks apart. A BMW sailing down a wide-open left lane.

Buses: rattles 10x worse than the cheapest car you’ve ever been in. Violent, jerking, loud, desperate-sounding acceleration and braking action. Cramped aisle, mostly inward facing seats, hostile, harsh, and dirty fluorescent interior. Everything about it gets right up to your face and screams in your ear at the top of its lungs, “CHEAP!” A rolling welfare office waiting room. Stops every block, even with a dedicated lane. Usually averages walking speed, or worse when you factor in the wait. (No, these are not symptoms of being old - I have been on some perfectly pleasant 80s New Flyers. I am talking about San Francisco’s newest fleet here).

Somehow it still baffles transit planners that people might care about the subjective experience of being in transit rather than the throughput or cost. How the auto industry hasn’t made that blidndingly obvious is beyond me.
> Typically there is an unsolved batch of crimes, they tag random people with them at will, then execute the supposed criminals by the hundreds to wipe away all the unsolved crimes. It wasn't more than a dozen years ago that China was still executing people as a public sport in stadiums, where you could go and watch the state executions.

Citation? This seems like a phenomenon that I should know more about.
I'm near the West Hartford border, around the northeast greenway bike path. It's got the markings for cars to merge into the bike lane on right turns.
What makes you think that Android isn't subject to the same physical limits of older batteries? You have more ability to customize the Android phones response to the battery condition but that doesn't change the underlying reason for the slow down: The battery can't handle the requested load anymore.
Very movingly written - I was immediately reminded of Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer[1] (the remote exploitation - or is it? - without the drone strikes).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Dealer
Why haven't I observed my old iPhone 4 or 5 spontaneously rebooting?
because the fees thing is very semantical

people have an abundance of computational power and can process IOTA transactions

there is no lowered balance of IOTA for performing this or sending more IOTA to a destination

the article goes on about how the computational power is a fee for no other reason except to discredit the IOTA devs

would be stronger if that point was removed, it isn't a point of contention and can be explained elsewhere
Spoken like someone who's never lived under a functioning socialized government like, say, Canada.
It puzzles me why anyone would go around fixing bugs in libraries they would never use themselves.

If you don't like my answer, then go read Kierkegaard or Sartre and contemplate the essence of your existence, and then go do what fulfills you as an individual.
I suppose the proof of the pudding is in the eating... but my personal hope is that the current election was a fluke caused by things like facebook advertising being so new;

The theory, of course, being that we build up immunities to certain kinds of advertising; there's always a race between us humans building up that immunity, and advertisers striving for novelty.

If that theory holds, advertisers have a huge advantage every time a new platform rolls out, and that advantage is slowly eroded over time, as we humans get used to the new medium.

Is it true? i don't know.
My wife had a phone replaced off Apple about 6 months back because it was shutting down for no reason about 40% battery life.

She’s recently upgraded from 10.x to latest version. She’s noticed an actual decrease in performance to the point where she’s nearly punching the phone. It just locks up for no reason.

I’d like to blame this on the battery or age of the phone but I can’t. It is an iPhone 6 but it is only half a year old.

I believe that this phone should be able to handle the latest release just fine.

She’s now looking at upgrading the phone.
>Comcast's spending likely would increase regardless of whether the net neutrality repeal and tax cut happened.

There it is. ARS is salty because "Restore Internet Freedom" worked, and they want to imply Comcast would have handed out $1000 bonuses and scheduled massive infrastructure investment even without it.

Next stop, gigabit speeds nationwide. I'm glad somebody got this ball rolling. Thanks Trump!
There are no Rust jobs apparently?: https://rustjobs.rs/
Media is cached locally on the followers' servers by default. If you follow me, and I upload a photo, my server will send it to yours. When you view it, you'll see the copy from your server, not mine.

This is changeable per-instance. For example, I don't want to host a lot of hentai or lolicon, even if my users were into that kind of stuff. I can configure my instance specifically not to cache media from servers that host it.
Spaceships real and unreal drawn to scale
Sure, but until you do Firefox comes bundled with an ad for Pocket in the toolbar at all times.
Would like to see Vultr, OVH, and maybe the big ones like AWS, Azure, and Google in there too.
Having a popular open source project is a pain in the ass. At some point the happiness from seeing people use your project turns to annoyance once you become the janitor and problem solver to people who won't take 1 minute to read the README. However, I honestly appreciate people who create open source software and answer all issues and questions.

GitHub should have a Q/A section on repos so that frequently asked questions can be answered there instead of having someone open the same issue every few months.
It wouldn't have to be an event notification. It could be a once-a-month reminder that performance may be degraded.
More specifically, I said that in a situation constructed to make the somewhat orthogonal point you're making, it works, and falls apart nearly everywhere else.
That's what people who want you to program their frameworks or produce some other code for free would really want you to believe.
> This only makes sense if you are locked in to some texture filtering algorithm already, which isn't true.

I said you could roll your own, didn't I? If you don't roll your own, you most definitely are locked in. All GPU libraries (OpenGL, CUDA, OpenCL, DirectX, Vulkan) only come with a limited set, none of which match the filtering quality that Renderman & other film renderers have.

If you do roll your own, your performance is going to suffer, and not by a little.

> I'm acutely aware of how much does or does not go into textures. Modern shaders can account for as much as half of rendering time, with tracing of rays accounting for the other half.

That ratio depends entirely on what you're doing. It's meaningless. That said, Pixar people have said 10:1 in the past (Toy Story time frame) for shading:rasterizing. You mention ray tracing, are you assuming ray tracing? Why? Toy Story wasn't ray traced.

> Render farm nodes are typically built with memory to CPU core ratios that match as the main priority.

That doesn't contradict what I said, at all.

> The textures would also stay in memory for multiple frames,

I doubt that was true for Toy Story, and it was not true for the films I worked on circa Toy Story. Textures usage was "out of core" at the time.

Texture & MIP tiles were loaded & purged on-demand into a RAM cache during a frame of render. Each renderfarm node also had a local disk cache for textures, to minimize network traffic. The amount of texture used during the render of the frame often (and I believe usually) exceeded the amount of RAM in our renderfarm nodes. You certainly can load textures on demand on a GPU, you just don't get any performance gain over a CPU when you do that.

Aside from Toy Story era assets, in-core GPU textures are not possible with today's film texture & geometry sizes. Film frames with good filtering can easily access terabytes of texture.

GPU core memory size & bandwidth is the single main determinant of whether studios can use GPUs for rendering today. Getting large (film sized, not game sized) amounts of geometry & textures onto a GPU is the main problem.
Yes, and the original point was that JP did a better job than JW.
i agree. Hillary had the opportunity to use the same services and she declined, whats the big deal? its not like she didnt have the budget either, according to this she had substantially more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi...
Newt Gingrich too on Parks and Rec.
Amazon on the Verge to Turn Heat Up on YouTube
> One can argue that replacing real-life relationships with digital ones is unhealthy.

One can argue lots of things, but I think it's a crucial support network for people not near lots of like-minded others. What "real life" peer group is a trans kid in small town in Kansas supposed to hang out with and get support from?
The internet has child porn, so let's shut that down as well??
I love Canada! I have no problem with Canada.

But I don't think it's fair to consider one nation in isolation; the entire world system has afforded hegemonic states for over a century now. Time to bring it to a close.
I just ran Geekbench with it plugged in. Got the same crappy performance with an iPhone 6, getting 1000, when it should be 1400. Here I was hoping a battery case would do the trick.
> they're reducing the peak demand on the batteries to avoid spontaneous shutdown when the aged battery can't handle the load.

It doesn't seem to help my gf had an iPhone 5 that started dying on peak demand but only after it got upgraded to new ios (i guess 8.0).

We replaced it (it had bad battery from the start and apple had a program for replacing those). After few years on new battery it started doing the same thing again. I replaced the battery and it stopped. But I know what I can expect in two years or so. Maybe I should stock on iPhone 5 batteries? Do they age less if they are unused?
Thanks for the TL;DR.

I always wondered about this phenomena - People dying from flu.
SE only came out in March 2016.
Bringing AI to the fight against ISIS
Edit: I originally responded to the wrong parent.

This isn't about survival of the fittest, if you have no skill, then you are going to have trouble finding a job that has good benefits. No one is stopping you from acquiring a skill (outside of cases when you're sick...obviously.) You can become a plumber, carpenter, electrician, etc. and make a decent living.
The way out is to stop scamming people.
Yes. Also make the batteries standard, like they did with the chargers.
That would be great if Chromium/Chrome used WebKit, they dont. They stopped using Webkit years ago
So they started this with the Iphone 6, so I guess my Iphone 5s became slow for other reasons?
What app or site are you using to test that?
People are pretty bad at intuitively understanding probability - it’d have to be stated in a way they’d understand.

“You’d probably have to buy this one thousand times to get what you’re looking for”

People still buy lottery tickets though because “there’s still a chance”.

Not sure how you fix that.
1. Thinking fast and slow - Kahneman

2. Outliers - Malcom Gladwell

3. How to read and do proofs - Daniel Solow

All of these were packed with great insights and are books I'm sure I will return to in the future for multiple re-reads.
Also known as the city of darkness: http://cityofdarkness.co.uk/

William Gibson visited the city and described it in his 1997 work, Idoru:

"There was a place near an airport, Kowloon, when Hong Kong wasn't China, but there had been a mistake, a long time ago, and that place, very small, many people, it still belonged to China. So there was no law there. An outlaw place. And more and more people crowded in; they built it up, higher. No rules, just building, just people living. Police wouldn't go there. Drugs and whores and gambling. But people living, too. Factories, restaurants. A city. No laws."
I just signed up. Going meta for a second, this only works if you make using Helix a habit :).
Ironic, given that a core tenant of our justice system is "innocent until proven guilty".

All of the things you mention are "wishlist" items right now.

Lets assume this is true (and honestly, I'd love for it to be true).

>It should be illegal for an officer to operate or be on duty with a broken or otherwise non-functioning body camera

So now that you have that law, how do you enforce it?

How does a department verify that they're complying?

How does any individual officer know whether his camera is working or malfunctioning?

How do they correct the problem if it's a technically complex issue related to camera infrastructure or hardware?

How much additional burden does this place on each department?

How do those departments pay for that added burden?

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So can we put a system in place that satisfies your very high standard? Almost certainly yes.

Should we? I don't know.

Will we? Almost certainly not. At least not in the immediate future. It's expensive and hard.
FYI, I ran the benchmark with power from wall and with out, and got the same performance. It appears to check battery life before deciding core speed.
Still your opinion. In order to accomplish the above, monetary experiments at a level never before seen were needed. The QE experiment is, at best, half over (they still need to get rid of all the assets they purchased). Driving interest rates below the rate of inflation has caused debt to accumulate in all areas of the economy.

The fact that you think the impacts of the financial crisis are behind us is hilarious. Just wait till the municipal debt starts to crumble. Places like Chicago and Puerto Rico have only been able to sustain themselves because of the low interest rates on debt. The actions of the Fed didn't fix anything, they just kicked the can down the road.
A Guide to UX Analysis
It would be nice if Go made a new i for each iteration of the loop.

Lua 5.0 made just one loop variable per loop, like Go apparently does. When I first ran into this behavior, I thought that, although it wasn't what I expected, it made at least as much sense as what I was expecting. Since then, every single time I've been in a situation where the two ways of doing it gave different results, I've wanted the "separate variable for each iteration" behavior, so I was glad when Lua's creators changed loop variables to work like this in Lua 5.1.

(Before this change I would just do the Lua equivalent of your "Creates a new `i`" line.)
"Whether it's because we have a natural affinity and attraction to such news, or because algorithms put them in front of us for profit..."

Obviously, it's both. If humans didn't have an affinity for it, it wouldn't profit.
On that note, recall that NBC's SNL had Donald Trump HOST the show in late 2015, during the campaign. How nuts does that seem now, given how much the writers hate him?

I think the fall from grace narrative arc was very entertaining. Most political candidates get to do hits on Late Night shows in a relaxed atmosphere whenever they want. I think it's a great part about America.
> running my SE for a couple of years and the battery is only reduced by 8%

Or maybe it's only degraded by 8% because it's only a year and a half (a year and 9 months tops since the first ones were sold) old?
It is not easily replaceable as with any other phone.

The issue is not creating waste, but wasting one's money on middle-men for replacing one's phone batteries.

>I know every TV remote I've owned with a battery door eventually ends up with a rubber band around it, and I think that's pretty much a universal experience.

You're relating a supposedly personal story to make your spin claims more relatable. Maybe you're like the people in late-night TV commercials who seemingly can't open a can of tomatoes without massive bleeding? ;)
> If you don't use it how do you know you're solving actual user problems?

There are many (many) ways to contribute to a project that doesn't require you to be solving actual user problems.

I'd suggest just finding new projects, review code, create pull requests for those small mistakes you see. Provide feedback if applicable. Etc.
My wife's iPhone has been running slow ever since she upgraded to iOS 11. Literally the day she upgraded, she's regretted.

I'll run the speed test later to confirm. But there is absolutely NO warning in iOS that I can see that says it's been put into low-speed mode.
one time facebook suggested a friend, i got confused and clicked it thinking they were requesting friendship. the person responded by clicking they didnt know me and my account was banned for 3 days.

facebook kinda sucks
U.S. life expectancy fell in 2016 as opioid overdoses surged: CDC
I don't think this is a reasonble analogy. I don't advance or enable child porn merely by using the internet.

By contrast, I do advance and enable senseless state violence by paying taxes. It is a source of personal shame.
Has it been confirmed whether Apple stops slowing the phone when the phone is plugged into AC power, i.e. the battery is not being used?
Some of them are too full. I must admit. But the other day I watched 3days of the condor and it was just right. All the presidents men too.

I still wonder if this is only youth neurons being drugged on all formats.
>Hell, I remember dystopian movies always had bizarre, pointless "security" announcements as a way of showing how creepy the future had become

"Hello, this is MBTA Police Cheif Kenneth Green reminding you if you see something, say something"
> the article goes on about how the computational power is a fee for no other reason except to discredit the IOTA devs

Well someone has to buy hardware and pay for electricity to run the computers.

Computational power is not free, unless you're running a botnet or something.

> people have an abundance of computational power and can process IOTA transactions

And they get in return... ?

A warm fuzzy feeling for having paid money for hardware and electricity so someone else can put something on a blockch-- whoops, I mean a "Tangle."
I think the problem is deeper. They put batteries in these devices that cannot handle load the rest of the hardware demands. Their solution is to just slow down the rest of the hardware.

I've got a phone that is nowhere near to needing a new battery. It holds 87% of its original charge capacity. Yet it never runs above 50% speed unless it is above 97% charged, and even then it only runs at 2/3rds original speed.
1) You tell me that if you take some fixed business logic and add some exceptions to it (make it more complex) you wont need more LOC's to address this added complexity? I don't believe you.

2) You can't be productive having 0 LOCs. So 0 LOCs = 0 productivity. n>0 LOCs = (presumable) some productivity. I would say we have a trend.
My geekbench CPU scores (single-core 1458, multi-core 2480) show that my 6s has been throttled but honestly I hadn't noticed a slowdown.

In which apps would I notice a significant difference if I replace my battery?

If Safari page load speeds increased I would be happy, but I assume that is more influenced by bandwidth and mobile optimization.
C# also switched to a new i for each iteration.
You can argue that they're not implementing $thing-you-like but lets be real; you can't compare IE to anything if you don't include the market share.

IE was harmful because it had such incredible market share and could do what it wanted with that.
The Payment Request API is supported in the Safari Technical Preview and enabled by default since Release 44.

https://webkit.org/status/#feature-payment-request
https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/releas...
The probability of loot boxes for most games has been reverse engineered and is available online.

Making it available in the app is no different; the user would have to be rational and look for it.

A user that would be stopped by this can already go online and find the probability.
That doesn't pass the sniff test. The available voltage from a lithium ion battery will decrease as it is discharged. When your phone turns off, that does not mean there is no more energy in the battery. It means there is no longer enough voltage to power the phone.

Over the course of many discharge cycles, the battery will lose capacity, and the point when the voltage is no longer sufficient to power the phone will come sooner.

But this is overly pedantic. People generally consider this point to be simply an "empty battery."

Android phones do not suffer these performance changes. Instead, the phones lose battery life over time, and within a year or so, you might be lucky to get 12 hours of life out of a full charge.

You can make an argument that we should optimize for duration or performance, but the difference is that casual Android users are aware that their battery is deteriorating, while casual iPhone users believe their phone is itself deteriorating, or else much slower than the newer models.
I did not notice a big difference with my iPhone 6 and 10.2. I have noticed a difference with 11.2. Very low sample counts of CPU frequency using the "CPU DasherX" app seem to back this up: my CPU has gone from running at 1.4GHz prior to 11.2 to 600-839MHz after the 11.2 update.

I'm averaging roughly 3.25 years per iPhone, having upgraded from 3GS to 4 to 6 over the past ten years. I'm going to replace the battery on my 6 and see how long I can keep it going.
Walmart is developing a store with no cashiers
> If you don't use it how do you know you're solving actual user problems?

You can fix uncontroversial bug/feature request from issue tracker. Not everything us contested, most of it is not. Also, I would expect the project to welcome someone doing the work more then just another one that came to argue .
Yes, the latest mobile Firefox does make network requests. When Firefox updated, I got a "recommended by Pocket" section full of ads and click bait. I do not want that.

And it's on about:blank just like when Chrome started capping up the blank page. I had to install a script to load an actual blank HTML page because about:blank isn't blank.
Haha, no. It just wasn’t a Note or Galaxy S, but it still cost like $700. Was a bit smaller. No idea what device it was specifically. And she couldn’t replace the battery easily, either. It was non-removable, as are basically all high end Android devices now.
Collecting tasks from all iterations to await before returning.
Strange, I have an old HP veer That is 6 years old and it doesn't spontaneously shut down. I have a 3 year old android phone that doesn't spontaneously shut down. What is so special about iPhones and why do they crap out in 2 years?
It has been anti-confirmed by me. My iPhone 6S continues running at 50% CPU speed, even when charging from the OEM adapter. Only thing that makes it run (a little bit) faster is if the battery charge gets above 97%.

(Also worth noting that the battery in my phone still holds 87% original capacity.)
That's because there is no low-speed mode. It changes based on a variety of conditions including how degraded the battery is (the OS tells you when it needs to be serviced once it's near the end of its life, 500 cycles), cold or hot temperatures, and the remaining battery life (low power mode decreases performance).