skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s about they cost at Walmart with straighttalk. My son still has an SE he bought a few years ago. No contract, just prepaid service every month
It's convenient because everyone accepts it and the transaction charges appear to be half of credit card fees (or zero if the merchant uses Tencent's escrow system). When I travel to China, as a foreigner, I'm virtually the only one carrying any cash. None of the locals carry meaningful amounts of cash any more.
I received an offer from the FBI in 2003 for something I did in 2001. I was similarly distrustful even though I had already been caught and punished. It was the most surreal and frankly unnerving experience.
IIRC, which isn’t garunteed due to the years involved, it was on an IP that when he did a reverse lookup for others on the subnet associated with a cia.gov subdomain or something like that. Plus it just looked American. But we could have misinterpreted it. And it could have just been a recruiting tool or honey pot. I get lost in forests of mirrors.
We compare PostgreSQL 10 performance in two regions for all five IAAS providers with a couple of VM sizes. Local NVMe SSDs are also compared to network disks in AWS and GCP.
This situation provides another good argument for the need for Free software operating systems, especially on mobile devices.
It's starting to get cold, but I work inside, and my phone almost never drops below room temperature.
Any responsible manufacturer would notify users about faulty hardware and not try to hide the problem.
But don't you think there could be a correlation between poor family health and an inability to get a job (and hence insurance)? Caring obligations, mental health, or any number of other reasons could be a hindrance.

I honestly don't think 'get a job and you'll be fine' is a particularly good way to help to someone with health problems. It's a big hole in the US safety net.
Another way to look at this is Apple isn't putting in the right sized batteries in their phones because they believe thinner phone is a better phone. If all it takes is one year for the phone battery to stop providing enough juice to the CPU/GPU then either the battery is not of adequately designed capacity or the CPU/GPU has too much peak power draw for the battery.

Either way looks like a design issue that's just too convenient for Apple to keep selling new phones each year. If they put slightly thicker battery with adequate spare capacity or reduced peak power draw for their SoC people can get 2+ years of consistent performance out of their device. Instead Apple is designing to provide one year of peak performance followed by slow downs so you can go out and get the new phone next year - sounds not very user friendly to me no matter if it looks intentional or not.
Thanks for this comment.

The arrogance of this rich yuppie with homes in New York and London (my god, can you be any more of a stereotype?) comparing a densely populated continent to a mostly rural, sparsely populated nation is astounding.

I love Europe, and I collaborate with the devs out of our office in Prague all the time. I love visiting, and like the people. Half of our team would love to move here. Why?

They have kids, and they'd love to live in a place where the food (yes, even quality food) is half the price, the land is less than half the price, the culture isn't antagonistic to ambitious people, and where they can affordably run a business.

The US sucks if you're not fortunate enough to possess valuable skills. But it's pretty great for those of us who are fortunate in that sense. Not saying Europe isn't, but certain countries in the EU have policies that are outright cruel to small businesses, particularly NEW small businesses.
I usually think the term "fake news" is a farce, but when I read stuff like this it honestly makes me wonder if it exists.
Five years with Rust
Not really. While it varies, in most states the majority of the costs of roads are borne by users in the form of gax tax, tolls, and user fees. [0] In my state, (MI), the legislature recently substantially increased the annual vehicle registration fees to pay for infrastructure upkeep.

[0] https://taxfoundation.org/state-road-funding-2017
The defense spending isn't necessarily the issue, it's the meteoric rise of allocation in the budget year after year to defense spending. We are overspending, and it only gets worse for the citizens.
If you want to be inclusive, you have to be inviting towards other opinions, too, only that's the same difficulty as including the opposite site. Sure everyone has the right to their opinion, but whoever brings it to the workplace or other professional environment has to stand for it.

This is difficult to discuss in the work place, because this makes it topical.
If you are thinking about "verified" systems spent way too much in academia.

Fundamentally, verification system is a traffic light problem. In case you do not know, the blinking yellow is "i crashed". That condition is not checked via code verification of Red/Yellow/Green state machine. It is checked via crossed green detector: a circuit that checks for a condition "green energized" on both and should that condition occur it crashes the Red/Yellow/Green state machine. That state machine will never recover until Bob shows up at a traffic box, looks to see if a sensor is dead, looks to see if box is OK and resets it by hand.
How do you know when it's time to replace your battery?

My guess is that most of the billion iPhone users have no idea, and they really don't want to invest much time into figuring it out.
Assuming that comment is not sarcastic, you can choose for the user (default option) and still allow them to change that option somewhere.

Of course implying that there are only two possible solutions to this problem is exactly what Apple wants you to think. It's kind of like Kevin Spacey raping minor boys and saying "okay, you caught me - I'm gay," to avoid any real consequences. It's misdirection.

There are two real solutions to this issue, none of which is being offered or hinted at by Apple:

1) increase battery size to match that of competitors (so up to 2x from what it is now), making the lower battery life over the years a much smaller problem for users

2) compromise a millimitre of thickness and allow users to replace the battery on their own, especially now after Apple gained more space by giving up the audio jack.

But of course Apple doesn't want you to think of any of these. Instead it wants its customers to keep fighting over the "Battery or Performance* faux choice.
This is as asinine as the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" trope. People use guns to kill people. People use privacy breaches to kill people.

People also use ideology to justify killing people, so you're not wrong there.
There's nothing about reverse chronological order that makes it innately better for listing things, or better or worse for advertisers. Even for a feed, there are good arguments for and against different orderings depending on both the data and who you are. As one obvious example, most people prefer forum software with threaded views of discussions to strictly chronological listings of messages.

Probably most relevant in Twitter's case is that if your feed contains more stuff than you can get to quickly, any curation is probably more useful than simply missing the things that came first or the things that came last. This is why, for example, people who receive a large volume of email often like prioritization or rule-based organization features in their email clients. Like I said, this might not be your situation and a reverse chronological feed might be better for you, but it's not like it's inherently superior. Like so many design choices, it's a trade-off.

And of course you can show ads with a feed no matter what order the feed is in.
A gushing endorsement of any president's policies would probably be objected to on the grounds of it being generally OT (most comments here don't really gush, strong endorsements of anything that go beyond simple "this works for me, I recommend it" are frowned upon).

A comment saying "I am a Trump supporter, which is relevant here because [x], and here are my related views on [current topic] from my perspective as such" voiced in a reasonable tone would be fine here, I think, for the most part. Wouldn't they?

There is another type of censorship that comes from a community continuously voicing one opinion, to the point that those holding an opposing opinion avoid voicing it for fear of general reputational damage within the community - this may result in less people posting about their support of Trump here (and there is very little of this), but I don't think that's related to the moderation.
The volatility has kept me away since friends starting talking about it back when it was $50, and obviously I’m kicking myself now. But while the risk then was from the unknown, the risk now feels more like it’s from the inevitable, so I’m staying out.
Rust in 2017: what we achieved
Chrome to block ads in February
>> I wonder if Alzheimer, just like heart disease and diabetes is mostly a western diet-related disease.

Nope.

One of the professors I worked with in grad school did some groundbreaking Alzheimer research on Germans from Russia:

We have studied 28 kindreds with familial Alzheimer’s disease (FAD) that are all descended from the ethnic group of Germans from Russia. Eighteen families were of Volga German ancestry, originating from the same two villages and containing 132 demented individuals.

These families represent a model of genetic heterogeneity when compared with other reported FAD kindreds. Because of their common, isolated ethnic background, the Volga German families are likely to represent the founder effect and a single, as yet unidentified, autosomal dominant mutation. The Black Sea German kindreds may represent additional heterogeneity.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-46776-9_...
Adding some more thought to this — if anything I think Bitcoin is running too hot. Crypto-currency in general has the potential to be a big deal. Ethereum especially. BTC as a mechanism of exchange is probably dead right now. It could recover, but it will require a lot for it to become more than a speculator’s wet dream. Ethereum, on the other hand, is a hacker’s wet dream. But it seems to have more long-term potential from my perspective...

In general, as compared to the Internet bubble, this year might be Bitcoin’s 1995 (the year Netscape went public and suddenly the Internet went from being something you read about in a magazine to something that could make you rich). The next 5 years were pretty crazy, and Bitcoin has a long way to go to equal it. But maybe it will get there. The only thing is, I think this might be 1995 and 2001 all rolled up together, and I don’t think that will be good for Bitcoin specifically, and maybe crypto currency in general.
> It's important to note that no train system in the world is covered by fairs. They are always subsidized by the state. In most cities, fairs make up 20% ~ 30% of costs (tolls are about the same for toll roads).

This is demonstrably false. There are plenty of systems where fares make up close to 100% (or even exceed 100%) of their costs with fares: https://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/gallery/Map_World%20...
Let see:

1. they are slower

2. it is more difficult to cash them out

Looks like utility decreased.
If you want to be compliant, and not commit tax fraud, you will. Just because it will require some effort to track you down doesn't make it ok.
So if the AI identifies insider trading at trading firms, banks, etc., we should beware that this would create a feedback loop to look more into the investment and banking sectors and will ignore the mom and pop insider traders? That they go where crime is rampant over where it isn't and that could be a bad thing?
Gotcha. Okay.
Ok, so for majority of the rest of the population, without access to six figure incomes. Bitcoin is completely irrational. There is a guy in my shop right now, a shop full of guys making maybe $15 an hr at the high end, handing out his "bitcoin consultant" business card. These are the people making irrational bets on this, while those invested years ago are profiting on their foolish dreams. People with no money to be wasting, are wasting their money.
> casual internet browsing, candy crush, and texting.

All these slow down as well. Try using instagram on low battery.
I’d rather have the ability to choose. I recently had my battery replaced (6S) and saw my Geekbench 4 score go from ~1700 to ~2450. My phone is frequently attached to a charging cord at my desk during the day so battery life is less of concern, yet this CPU throttling occurred even when the old battery was at 100% and phone was connected to the charger. There’s really no excuse for that other than that Apple was trying to be deceptive.
And I will repeat myself. You comparing suggestions about which beliefs are allowed in the workplace is a false equivalence. They both have the ability to be controversial, but you're ignoring the context and assuming that they can both be the same level of controversial. To make a mockery of your statement:

>>Take a moment to put aside your very strongly held personal belief about gay rights to consider this dispassionately: aside from the fact that you feel right in your views, what is materially different about your suggestion from the suggestion that people should not be allowed to play League of Legends and participate in the community, because playing League is unethical? What would your reaction be if I was advocating this position as strongly as you’re advocating yours?

That statement is fundamentally equal to your previous statement. But the levels of controversial and how it actively affects people on a day-to-day basis vastly differs. Now to address your axioms:

>1. nonviolent personal beliefs should not determine eligibility for employment, but violent activity, or endorsement of violent activity, may; and

This depends on the collective community's beliefs. Note I am using the word community here, not just drawing a comparison to job-related activities. A company that advertises itself as being pro-LGBT hiring someone that espouses views like 'Transgender people don't exist', despite being a non-violent statement, goes against their overall goals. When a company hires someone like that, the end result is that people start leaving because people have a limit as to who they're willing to work with. Not all bigotry is violence and as an aside I have met people in tech who believe black people are inferior.

>2. nonviolent personal beliefs should only determine eligibility for employment if they are used for discrimination or advocation in the workplace, which is a matter of inappropriate professional conduct.

Often the two go hand-in-hand. We live in a world where what you do both outside and within the company represents them. The smarter people use multiple accounts and properly separate their work and personal lives. However when the two connect it becomes a matter of passive advocation in the workplace. A company allowing someone that believes black people are inferior to continue working at their company is not only a PR disaster in waiting (especially if they intend to promote him to higher positions) but it's also a tacit approval of his opinions. These views often subtly alter your perception too, and allowing said person to be a part of the recruiting process is, again, a PR disaster waiting to blow up.
You're right, they technically do. I guess I was imagining something more akin to it being designed to be user-servicable, instead of it just being a technicality that it is possible, subject to having the right tools and nerve to attempt it.
I am the operator of LA Tech News and we have yet to install and RSS feed for others to utilize. What are the pros and cons of doing so? https://latechnews.org/
Yes. Everyone knew it was all crazy. I think theres a perception that nobody knows about bubbles until it is too late. The truth is that people know, but they gamble that they'll be able to get their money out before it bursts.

Look at Bitcoin. Clearly a bubble. But... do you pull out, or do you roll the dice and see if it goes to $30k?
This is so over blown, but expected for something related to Apple.

Batteries wear out and need to be replaced after a year or two. Apple does something to make the phones last longer, and people frame it as a negative.

I’ve replaced a handful of batteries in iPhons and it is quite easy for anyone who knows how to use a screw driver and watch a YouTube video. Or just pay some small business to replace it.
Zero maintenance work implies you are not doing security patches or upgrades, so as soon as you have a problem, not only will you be left holding the now broken pieces, nobody will have any reason to help or support you, unless you pay them $$$$$$'s(and even then.... maybe not).

I hope whatever you are running under k8s isn't crucial or important, and I really hope I'm not a customer of whatever you "operate".

Maintenance is real, that applies to everything if you want it to work reliably for any length of time. There are various ways to handle maintenance, do a little consistently and constantly (what most of us professionals do) or do large bulk-replacements every X time (like when stuff crashes and burns - and nobody can remember how to fix it, so they just replace it with whatever is new and shiny).
Thanks. I'm using free samples I find around (common source being decompiled soundfonts). I also plan to integrate Faust audio processing which would enable true digital synthesis and HiFi sound effects. Next version of guitar should have wah-wah effect.
> Once the rail lines are paid for, the cost per passenger is very low.

If that were the case, the whole reason for this article wouldn't exist, because NYC wouldn't need any maintenance for its subway system.
Any evidence of this?

In the United States, Lyme disease is mostly confined to the north east.

https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/images/maps/2015-dot-map-title.jpg

But Alzheimer's is not confined to the north east. It's not even more prevalent there.

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/arts/culture...
Not uncalled for at all. The people talking to me about Bitcoin and how big it is are almost all in their 20’s. They have a vague idea about the Internet bubble but they certainly didn’t live through it in any meaningful way. It’s like someone telling me I can’t properly appreciate the 70’s since I didn’t experience them as an adult. It’s totally true!
I don't think the outrage is excessive and I am more inclined to think poorly of the people not outraged by this. And those ok with the price of replacing something that should be user replaceable anyway.

This is one of the richest companies in the world who charge some ridiculous prices for their products arbitrarily slowing down older models of their phones on purpose for no other reason than to force their customers to upgrade to newer phones. Planned obsolescence. Their stated reason for doing this is smacks of bullshit.
Indeed, 10-15 years ago in almost any area with a population you could easily find an open network to get onto the Internet when you wanted to. I could check email and lookup some quick things even while riding public transit, without needing mobile data. There was also a grassroots movement of sorts to "share your WiFi", and even a well-known security professional opened his: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wirel....

Now there's almost none of those left, and what places do advertise "free WiFi" are captive/login portals. It was more free and open back then, I actually quite miss those days...
I spend at least one month in Greece every year, they are _almost_ as relaxed as 20 years ago.

Is there a chance that mass media tries to push one specific narrative, which does not reflect actual state?
We don't need it in every thread.

Cryptocurrencies and blockchains are significant technological innovations. There is more to discuss than making the same tired tulip comparisons.
Could you stop make your point using such widely false and over generalized statement ?

The point of people who think that our society is de-humanized is that when your society was forcing you to work in a farm or to go to war, you didn't have the free will to be alone. You were indeed "forced" to engage in activity involving using your body to do meaningful work (farming), do things with your peers (war).
This assumes that Apple doesn't know best

Apple probably does know better than majority of users about their combined preferences. They can track user behavior around power management and see what they actually do versus what they say they want and design against it.

On the rare days..."

They don't design for rare days though, all good product managers design for the majority of use. Why would they put extra effort into adding a functionality, which could be confusing or inelegant to most users, which is only used rarely by a superuser?
Bitcoin has achieved so much already that people considered impossible. If the government is not able to build their own competitor they'll certainly embrace it at some point.
A replacement iPhone battery can be bought on eBay for around 10 bucks shipped. I’ve replaced a few iPhone 6 batteries.

Support a small business and have someone else install it for you if you need a new battery. It won’t cost that much. If Samsung had stores they would charge you something near Apples price without question.
Payscout starts with culture. Their vision is to become
the thought leading and fastest growing global payment
processing provider in the world, and one of our Cultural
Attributes is Innovation.

"our"? Obvious Press Release Copy-paste Is Obvious
It's really great that Apple just removed that option eons ago.
E trade and Ameritrade were new companies at the time. Buying stocks on your own without your bank/a brokerage was not commonplace actually and that was a pretty substantial barrier to entry.
It makes perfect sense for Apple to optimize their devices for stability and max run time. These are arguably the most important features of any device.

Any other behavior, including offering the user power options (because many users won't understand them) would introduce a poorer user experience (abrupt hard shutdowns, constant need to charge) and likely sway some portion of non-tech users to purchase a different brand when they refresh.

At the end of the day the battery is replaceable and if you chose to buy an iPhone you're already aware that they it is a "premium" device.
The owners will get some interesting housecalls at some point, I'm sure
Do you mind expanding on that?

With APIG+Lambda you get CloudWatch integration 'out-of-the-box', and can expand the metrics and logs you send out with a few added lines of config.

You can also toggle X-Ray for a detailed view of your call graph.

If the default implementation isn't good enough, you can define your own CW events, alarms, and log filtering.

I'll grant you that you can't just ssh into a host and tail some logs, but if you're keen you can send your logs to elasticsearch for a better arbitrary search experience.
They will be required to, or nation state force will be used.

An example: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-15/the-final...
It's not considered faulty, more like degraded over time. So the CPU is throttled when the battery is no longer optimal to preserve battery life?

I rather have shorter battery life with same performance so it's more noticeable that I need to replace the battery.