skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A level headed classy response to a knee jerk baseless claim.

To think that two (or three or a dozen) clever engineers couldn't independently look at one of the most popular mobile apps and think "I can game this" is silly.
Apple's power management decisions have always been a little... odd. This throttling reminds me of their older Macbooks with removable batteries, which would actually slow down when running on mains power only, because they (deliberately) designed their AC adapters to not be able to supply enough power to run the computer at full load:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080913210306/http://support.ap...?

The exact opposite of all other laptops I've used, where AC-only/AC+battery will be the highest performance, with battery-only being the least.

It'd be interesting to see if these iPhones run faster or slower when plugged in and charging.
I had one of these phones too - it was a bad batch of serial numbers according to Apple. If this happens to you: https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/
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>"If Amtrak has in fact implemented PTC on all of the tracks they control, I would blame the freight railroads who are the other 20 full members of the AAR."

This is exactly the logic everyone has been using to absolve themselves from any blame. 'Yes it was our train and our customers but it wasn't our track.'

If Amtrak is doesn't want to take any responsibility for peoples lives when they offer service on tracks they don't "control" then they should restrict their routes to tracks they do control. People who purchase fares on Amtrak should have a reasonable expectation that the carrier uses routes that meet modern safety standards.
That only works with diet coke.
Your claims are not backed by reality.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Germany/Uni...

You can dive into each individual metric, but the purchasing power is probably the single best one to look at for determining how economically empowered people are, and the US is significantly better than Germany - 2nd in the world, in fact, beaten only by Switzerland.

Looking at housing in particular, "Double" is flat out incorrect for rent prices. In the US it is a bit higher, but only about 10%. Double IS correct for purchasing housing... but in the opposite direction of what you're claiming.

If you went from living outside of the city in Germany to living inside a major city in the US, then yeah, I could see things being more expensive, but comparing the two countries against each other, it's just completely incorrect.
You seem to be saying that Mastodon is bad because it's not Twitter. The whole point of Mastodon, and the article, is that it's not Twitter.

Most of the instances are smaller, and most of them have people within a single conceptual community. That's the point. It's not an echo chamber, it's a place where people can share information. It's not a place to rant about your political opinions (unless, you know, it is) it's a place to discuss things of common interest.

But all means, if you're worried about being in an echo chamber, go to Twitter and expose yourself to other opinions that you will disagree with, see no evidence for, and have no means of changing. But if you want to interact with people in a way that enriches you, your knowledge, and your appreciation of community, Twitter is not the place, and Mastodon might be.
It's totally true.. links to Law of Attraction blog

Come on now.
A few things that I haven't seen discussed much.

1. Battery degradation should happen to all phones, regardless of OS/manufacturer. How do other phones handle this (flagship Android phones etc.)?

2. If other phones don't experience these shutdowns on such a wide scale or don't throttle the performance so harshly (to literally half or one third of original performance) to avoid shutdowns, what about the iPhone is different to force them into this decision?

Geekbench which posted the larger group of data confirming this, they could probably run the same analysis on S8 phones from Samsung.

Now, if the same does not happen on other phones, the entire debate being framed as it currently is, is a pretty amazing PR spin.

It's much easier to justify the decision between phones shutting down or throttling the device, than it would be to justify a engineering decision that makes the above two choices the only choices, despite other vendors being able to seemingly pull off this magic trick of keeping devices working for more than a year.

With all of Apple's resources and engineering know-how, it seems a stretch that they would be the only ones incapable of solving this issue.

I don't actually know if other vendors solve it differently, but I do know that they have the same battery life, the same phone thinness and powerful specs.

Does anyone have a clue about this? Seems like the more interesting story.
Its ability to respond to economic crises becomes very diminished if it does not have this ability.
No. It's too difficult to get into disagreements that are essentially arguing over the definitions of terms. You just shouldn't police beliefs, period.

They wouldn't say they consider republicans subhumans anyway, they'd find some existing objectionable term and rationalize the expansion of that to include mainstream republican views.
> They were traced through their registered email addresses, one of which roughly translates into "selling souls" in Romanian, according to the affidavit.

I wonder if it's a reference to Dead Souls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Souls).
I'm in full agreement with you. A good chunk of the comments in this thread seem ridiculous to me. Some people not deeming these users as doing anything important enough ("Most users just use their phones for casual internet browsing, candy crush, and texting.") to get what they paid for.

Here's another one, apparently straight from Apple's marketing team: "It makes perfect sense for Apple to optimize their devices for stability and max run time."

This was perfectly timed to come out just after the silly Mozilla thing, with people talking about how they've lost trust in the company; here's Apple gimping their hardware and not telling their paying customers a damn thing about it.
Man, like-kind doesn’t even allow silver to gold. I can’t imagine even the most liberal interpretation would allow trading between different blockchains.

This article seems to have an agenda.
You managed to go through the legal system in under two years? Impressive.
Are they planning a dockless bicycle hire system like the very convenient Mobike system in China?
Taxes are paid by less intelligent people to more intelligent ones. That is the reason why YOU must pay them.
Also read the official blog post on defer: https://blog.golang.org/defer-panic-and-recover

It covers about half of these gotchas by laying out how the defer statement works in plain English. The other half (like how closures work inside loops in Go) are covered elsewhere in the language tour.

I do really like the visualizations! Makes it very clear how these mechanics work.
I actually think that the outrage is not enough, this problem wouldn't even happen if people were able to easily swap batteries like everyone did 10 years ago.

Wasn't it obvious to Apple that batteries start to suffer from degradation over time? Wasn't it obvious that the solution to this was the replacement of batteries? If so, why didn't they implement a replaceable battery?
What? The IRS gave guidance for this in 2014! It's right there under item Q-6 in Notice 2014-21. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf

"Q-6: Does a taxpayer have gain or loss upon an exchange of virtual currency for
other property?"

"A-6: Yes." (quote continues, but there you go).

I have no idea how folks came to the conclusion that 1031 swaps were ever acceptable, but it's always been clear that the IRS did not think they were.

TL;DR Don't get your tax advice from Reddit. (Or random commenters on hacker news, for that matter.)
> the average person with a job who elects an insurance plan

It also forces you to stay in a job, even if it turns sour, until you've lined up an alternative.

I can't help but think that employers like it.
Yeah, and I support the 'right to repair' laws, which could make that even more affordable.
This is an interesting point, and may be a clear distinction in why people are so definitive on one answer or the other (not understanding the variables involved). Is it common in Europe that you can't turn on red? Everywhere I've been in the US turn on red is encouraged, though there are a few exceptions where signs are posted to prohibit the normal behavior.
I feel like this is already partially the case with OSM. Many cities offer online GIS services where you can download lots of data using a GIS program (MassGIS for example). Openstreetmaps allows anyone to make their own mapping app without worrying about where to source the data.

The main barrier is getting contributors to add data to OSM. Some cities like Boston / Somerville seem to have hired office staff to improve OSM, as I see a lot of edits from usernames relating to the city in those areas. Another barrier is that the GIS system can be hard to work with, a lot of the programs being expensive and comercial. I managed to compile QGIS from the AUR but got confused by the thousands of coordinate systems and the exporting process, so my hometown will have to go without subdivision labels until someone more experienced can add them.

I'm really hoping that more people can make maps apps using OSM data, since OSM is often up to date enough for my needs in the areas I am in, but the best app I've seen so far (Maps.me) has a kinda old interface as well as map rendering that feels too cluttered to me compared to google maps (details shown at various zoom levels).
It’s a double edge sword I guess, because if these are treated as securities - many exchanges will need to subscribe to a lot more regulation and start providing tax paperwork (1099s included) - requiring them to have an SSN on file, removing loads of the anonymity people may be fond of.
The lexical structure may be symmetrical, but the meaning isn't.

If gays wanted to prevent people who are anti-gay from marrying, then you might have an argument.
iOS 11 turned my iphone se from a solid, dependable little device into a flaky, crash-happy rectangle of frustration.

11.2.1 and they still haven't fixed all of the major bugs. Including this one that is driving me insane as a developer: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176896
AmigaOS was cooperatively multitasked whereas BeOS was preemptively multitasked, and I don’t think AmigaOS has memory protection (BeOS certainly did). AmigaOS didn’t support multiprocessing either, if I’m not mistaken. The BeFS filesystem was a pretty impressive marvel in terms of metadata and Amiga certainly lacked anything even remotely similar.
Who Owns the Digital Experience?
Private-Sector Attribution of Cyber Attacks: A Growing Concern for U.S. Gov?
It's not in your interest to be dismissive and insulting with others here, and it breaks the guidelines by being uncivil and unsubstantive. Could you please stop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I thought movies were to make money, at least ones like the recent spat of Jurassic ones. JP, yeah, realism to a degree, BoB Horner became a household name because of it. And it was somewhat realistic for the research at the time. But nearly all the dinos should be covered in furry Emu-like feathers now if we want realism. And shaggy dirt-brown feathers aren't good looking and 'dazzle'. Maybe for some it's worth $10.50 to watch, but not for most.
They can prosecute the operators of those sites, not like it didn't happen in the internet before. Usually some things survive, but at the cost of extra hurdles (e.g. only accessible via tor, but even there, some people got busted through bad opsec).
I'm not sure what your point is. Can you clarify what you're trying to get at here?
I wonder if we'll someday see ISP-issued modems and routers gently probing their customers' local networks, and sending out emails when they identify known vulnerable devices.
> The one place where today's GPUs aren't as good as Toy Story is filtering & anti-aliasing

This only makes sense if you are locked in to some texture filtering algorithm already, which isn't true. CPU renderers aren't doing anything with their texture filtering that can't be replicated on GPUs. Where the line should be drawn by using the GPUs native texture filtering and doing more thorough software filtering would be something to explore, but there is no reason why a single texture sample in the terms of a software renderer has to map to a single texture sample on the GPU.

> BTW, textures & texture sampling are a huge portion of the cost of the runtime on render farms. They comprise the majority of the data needed to render a frame.

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. This is the entire shader, not just textures and is an extreme example.

> The entire architecture of a render farm is built around texture caching.

This is not true at all. Render farm nodes are typically built with memory to CPU core ratios that match as the main priority.

> Just getting textures into a GPU would also pose a significant speed problem.

This is also not true. In 1995 an Onyx with a maximum of 32 _Sockets_ had a maximum of 2GB of memory. The bandwidth to PCIe 3.0 16x is about 16GB/s and plenty of cards already have 16GB of memory. The textures would also stay in memory for multiple frames, since most textures are not animated.
They care about loosing money and risking to lose money.
Not having an electric car, does anyone know what Teslas, Volts and Leafs do?

Those cars have the extra problem of having batteries out in the cold too.
> So you're saying the solution is simple, everyone just needs to change their behavior?

I think his argument is: Everybody should do their work that is the purpose of the community. This is why they are member of the community.
Go with iFixit. I've been happy with them, but I tried a cheap no-name from Amazon, and it refused to hold a charge at all within 48 hours.

(I've mentioned iFixit lately; I'm just a happy repeat customer.)
It’s currently worth $16k, so no idea where your skepticism that it’ll reach $3800 is coming from :)
Batteries have a predictable discharge cycle. They're fully charged when their output voltage stops increasing and as they discharge the output voltage slowly falls until it reaches a certain threshold where the output voltage is no longer enough to power the device. That cut off voltage is a fixed number. The part that varies is the time it takes to go from fully charged to the cut off voltage.

As a battery degrades, the time is reduced.

Regardless of what the initial voltage is, a plot can be drawn based on measurements of the voltage to see how quickly it's approaching the cut off voltage.

So the battery capacity should really be where the voltage is relative to the last peak when fully charged compared to the cut off voltage.

If Apple is reporting a battery at 40% capacity when it cuts off then they're fudging their numbers.
The era of putting faith in novel web services is over. Big company, small company, whatever, it's pretty clear at this point that you need an exit strategy when planning to buy into a service with your data. It will eventually be gone. See also, AOL Instant Messenger and Google Reader.
It will surely be lower quality and degrade quicker than brand one but it will not spontaneously combust if you are worried about that.
Testing, review, history of changes... many things that are completely unheard of in the average small development shop.
It's a pretty bad look. When I think of social tech I think of the possibility to magnify the voice/reach of individuals. When I read an article like this all I see is that magnification going solely to big spenders. How do I form an independent political ideology if I'm only being told the part of the story that heavily monied interests want me to hear? Would I ever experience an anti-monied-interest being put on a level playing field with the monied interest?
According to Dr. James DiNicolantonio, we should be eating more salt, not less (https://twitter.com/drjamesdinic), but I agree about the intermittent fasting.
He's being downvoted because it's not true. The oldest person on record was 122. If there were a bunch of Tibetan monks walking around at 120+ we'd know about it.
I would imagine games would be an exception. Plus Unity started on OSX.
I agree wholeheartedly. Code has no gender or race.
But with Dinos, we can't. We've no idea what their color was, if they even have color receptors in their eyes, nor their movements. Fantasy is just as good as reality when it comes to T-Rex coloration and if they had feathers or not.

BTW, I tried to do a quick google on the current research and mostly came up with mixed answers. If anyone form HN knows about dino feather coverings, please chime in!
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Chrome is Not the Standard
I also commonly see bike lanes go dashed and a right turn lane appear to the right of them.
SATSQ.

Behavior outside a community should have consequences inside it when it has consequences inside it.

If your behavior outside of a community causes an uproar and crisis inside the community when it becomes known, it has already had a consequence inside the community. It will already have future ramifications. All you can do at that point is decide whether you want the future ramifications to include a commendation, condemnation or silence from the community.

Communities are not hermetically sealed environments. In my opinion it is silly and childish to pretend they are.
Kingdom Hearts 3 features an area based on Toy Story, so we can actually draw a direct comparison between the original movie and modern real-time rendering.

Digital Foundry compared them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkDadVrBr1Y
There was a senior design class I took at JHU in Mechanical Engineering where outside companies and a few individuals would sponsor design projects, some which are similar to this story. In my class one group build a pedal for a bike for someone with a prosthetic leg. It was an amazing class where you were presented a problem, and then you designed and implemented, or created a prototype of, a solution. It was 20 years ago but I would imagine they still have something similar.
That's true. I guess the context is key here!
What it says to me is that women are just as capable of men in the engineering fields, and America has a unique problem that keeps women out here.

So yes, it makes sense to have a movement for diversity here, because something is pushing women out of these fields, so we have to push back.
> it is silly to claim that "Americans" are living poor lives

Good point. The funny thing though is that the median American leads a fairly drab life, but still fully subscribes to his own exploitation, if you will. Witness the election of a Republican president, house, and senate.

As John Steinbeck is reported to have said, "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
> Just because the stuff is old it doesn't mean that you can't build machines with enough redundancy to make them very dependable.

I can do the same with 1-dollar modern parts.
No, it only checks the battery state. I'm suspicious it runs off the battery even when plugged in, and works like power>charge controller>battery>power management>system rather than power>power management>system when plugged in(or "plugged in" to a case). An iphone usually wont boot with no battery
Yet another social-media whatchamaycallit.

Somehow I end up not following my own advice and simplifying and making only one point per comment. That way people wouldn't focus on a minor thing about it and ignore the rest of it.

(The advice being: I think a good part of the reason why some one-line comments end up getting so many upvotes is because they say only one thing. The more things you try to say then the more reasons there will be for people to disagree and downvote you so no one else reads your message.)
This brings to mind Louis CK's "everything's amazing and nobody's happy" routine from several years ago[1]. Sure, Apple could communicate this, and a thousand other trade-offs like it, but that would shatter the illusion which people pay Apple so much money for: a magic black box that just works.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8LaT5Iiwo4
Just FYI, coinbase is paired with GDAX, their exchange.

You can transfer your bitcoin to GDAX and withdraw it from there for free (they will eat the bitcoin fees)
So you admit that you want to go out drinking and this is the only reason you want the trains to run all night? Bars, izakayas, and clubs in Tokyo also stay open extremely late like in NYC and yet the city doesn't grind to a halt when the subway system closes.
The only thing I miss from OS/2 is SOM, which was much better than COM.
If newspaper headlines start talking about how many crypto-holders are engaging in tax evasion, you can guess where those limited resources will be targeted.
I guess we should take a look at how the electric car makers do it then? They have this problem and deal with it now. Not having any experience with electric cars, I can't speak to how it's done.
33% of Sellers on Amazon Marketplace Are from China
Same here - my grandmother was a programmer, and my mother was an electrical engineer.
Maybe now they'll stop gaming the system on sites like Reddit and HN. They were banned from reddit for shady practices for a while, and went so far as to switch to different domains to get around it.
I wish they designed it such that one's identity were not bound to a server. They should have bound it to a crypto key or DNS (like email). With the current design, if you use a sever you don't have control over and it disappears, you lose that identity.
Proof: http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/se7en-john-doe-ha...
MIT Media Lab's concerns about the cryptocurrency IOTA
My BeBox running BeOS5 has been happily participating in TCP/IP (v4) communications on my home Ethernet network for twenty years. (Admittedly it’s off most of the time these days because I’m concerned about the health of the hard-drive, but still.) It even ran a web-server for a decade with uptimes measured in years.

(I had an amateur radiotelescope wired up to the GeekPort and exposed the controls over HTTP. I’ve long since retired that setup in favour of a modern SDR linked to a Raspberry Pi 3.)
This is why I don't want Mark Zuckerberg in any public office. I really think the guy has no moral compass because all his actions point to a very sinister "money is everything" attitude and that everything has a price.
Like, duh. Of course the government won’t embrace Bitcoin. It’s an absolute threat to national sovereignty.

Virtual currencies that are not anonymized - no problem. But not Bitcoin.
A decent beer that's been left out a little too long - solid fundamentals that haven't necessarily achieved quite what you want, and may be on the verge of going bad at any moment. Add bitters to taste.

(Not really a cocktail, but oh well :p).
So, what do I pay in? Does that mean every transaction in monopoly should be taxed? How about coins ERC20 tokens inside ethereum? what if I trade one crypto kittie for another?

I get that buying something for USD and later selling something for USD you've made a gain.
If we're to believe the Vault 7 leaks, it seems like the CIA's cracking abilities are rather run of the mill. The NSA appears to be where the real hacking chops.

I totally believe that in the Swordfish era of the early 2000's they would have legitimately hit up a high schooler with some demonstrated ability.
But is it fair to say that observers with more samples have a better vantage point than observers with fewer?
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