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What you call "imposing their will" might be called "balancing the scales" by others. In any organized society, government necessarily creates economic rules and incentives one way or the other, through action or inaction. The debate must be over which rules provide the proper incentives to maximize utility for the most number of people, not whether rules should be made at all.
Why is it that low power mode is usable but slowed down mode because of a battery is sometimes almost unusable?
Same here. I already had my battery replaced under that replacement plan, and for $25 why not get it replaced at some point this coming year and hopefully get another year out it.
The title (which includes the url attribution) of this article is misleading. Before clicking on this, I thought it was an official statement from Apple about this problem. It is not, it is a post on Apple's support forum that started back in October.
If this is an issue that affects every iPhone say past 2 years (although I think I've heard reports of the issue affecting much newer iPhones), then wouldn't a much better solution (for the future) be to make iPhones with user-replaceable batteries? Why do people have to come in to the Apple Store to replace their batteries? Is Apple just counting on the fact that not too many will take them up on it?
What would the non-coincidence reason be?
This is a great response imho. It doesn't fully tackle the issues I'm having with the approach Apple is taking, but at least Apple acknowledges its customers in a human way. This is almost un-Apple.
This is great, and it's going to really hurt some independent shops that offer battery replacements.

Also, I wonder what percent of people will walk into an Apple Store intending to get their battery replaced and will end up walking out with a shiny new iPhone. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple offered incentives to folks who want to just trade in and be done with the old device. At the very least, they've got you hanging out in their store for 15 mins.
See the original Uridium on the C64 in action here: https://youtu.be/N0TfHkNpRNs

Smooth scrolling could be achieved in character mode by making the borders wider, hiding 2 columns or 1 row, depending on the direction. The visible area could then be adjusted on a pixel-by-pixel basis, revealing the hidden content gradually.
I don't think it's a completely manufactured scandal, although most of the reporting was deceptive (as is, I'm starting to suspect, most reporting, full stop).

I think the non-manufactured part of the scandal is having your phone throttle itself w/o telling you it's doing that is pretty annoying.

You're left wondering, is my phone running slower or is my mind playing tricks on me?

I think Apple's response here is great.
They're turning up in Edinburgh too: https://lothianbuses.co.uk/news/article/Lothian-introduce-th...

I suspect a lot of bus services around the world with emissions targets are phasing them in right now.
It's not just battery life, some people might live with 50% battery but due to chemistry they can't put out the designed voltage leading to the iPhone suddenly turning off.
At least now they are finally making it very clear what they were caught doing behind the curtains (from the new support page on battery performance, linked in the press release):

In cases that require more extreme forms of this power management, the user may notice effects such as:

Longer app launch times

Lower frame rates while scrolling

Backlight dimming (which can be overridden in Control Center)

Lower speaker volume by up to -3dB

Gradual frame rate reductions in some apps

During the most extreme cases, the camera flash will be disabled as visible in the camera UI

Apps refreshing in background may require reloading upon launch

Many key areas are not impacted by this power management feature. Some of these include:

Cellular call quality and networking throughput performance

Captured photo and video quality

GPS performance

Location accuracy

Sensors like gyroscope, accelerometer, barometer

Apple Pay
I've only watched about 5 movies in the last 2 years, but 3 out of those 5 were completely empty, 1 was packed and somewhat noisy, and the other was full but silent (but my experience might also be skewed because the theatre within walking distance of my apartment was not that kid friendly being in a restaurant/bar district downtown and serving alcohol on premise.
YMMV certainly. As it does for all of us.

What I can say however is that the overall perceived stability and performance of my Mac has declined since the good old days of Moutain Lion. My 2017 MBP often freezes upon resume, there is a palpable lag with the overall UI experience, and the OS experience is bloated with the App Store/iCloud/iTune Store shenanigans.

For the last part, I know things have been adding up for a while, but I feel we are now reaching a tipping point. Enough of a tipping point that I now find myself relying more and more on my 2015 OpenBSD Thinkpad for work, music and movies although it has half the computing power of my Mac.

The downside is the missing ecosystem, the lack of seamless synchronization with my other iThings, which keeps me one foot in. For the moment that is, because I am slowly exploring self-hosted alternatives. And once I am confident my self-hosted system can match Apple's for most of the required features, I'll say goodbye to a 15-year relationship for good.

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It's a two-way street: my expectations are probably higher that what they used to be.
I'm old enough that embarrassment is now something I dish out, rather than receive.

Ask me to throw away my outside food or beverage, and I will ask you to either leave me alone and give me what I paid for, or refund my ticket price in cash, so that I can walk myself to a theater willing to do that without angling for additional passes at my wallet. It is not my responsibility to support any captive-audience business model, nor do I have any desire to put up with non-negotiable, one-sided adhesion contracts.

The societal pressure should be for theaters to stop doing this sort of small, self-serving rule-making.

The business is selling tickets to shows. That can't be the loss-leader for some other profitable business that goes on once people walk in the door. If I buy a ticket, I expect the theater to leave me in peace to enjoy the show. I don't want it fleecing me coming and going, like a bunch of carnival operators.

The only rules I implicitly agree to are those that ensure that no customer will detract from the other customers' enjoyment. Silence your phones. Silence yourselves. Keep your shoes on. If you must make out with your companion, do it quietly and non-obviously. Deposit trash in the designated receptacles. These are just ordinary rules for not being an ass in public.
This was a Half-Life 3 kind of issue. They kind of got backed into a corner where they could never really talk about what the truth was. Would it have been better to go out and announce: "we're not working on Half Life 3"? Tough to say.
They wouldn't have to give anything for free if, like for many other phones, the owner could replace the battery in 1 minute flat with no special tools...
The other option would have been to alert the user this was going on. This didn't always happen. They were degrading users phones while showing the battery as fine. That's the problem, you can't just start degrading performance without telling people why.

When you have people running 3rd party apps to determine whether their phones are still running fine, and then going to get battery replacements and finding performance returning, and nothing the OS told them indicated anything was wrong, that's a problem.
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Hopefully they chose to wait, so employees could spend time with family.
It's definitely a multifacted issue. I suspect that income distribution between urban centers and other areas definitely plays a major role, as does a person's risk calculus associated with performing the act itself.

As far as 'drinks per hour' guidelines go, that's usually standardized as a single unit of alcohol (e.g. 1 1.5 oz shot of 80 proof liqour OR 12 oz of a macrobrew lager OR 6 oz of a typical wine).
>Make it an option?

Hmm, that could work, but I feel like that might go against Apple's ethos. Not malicious, they just seem to like telling the user what's best and surfacing fewer options. I feel like the average user doesn't want to have to make this decision

>Plus, having the phone shutdown would force users to upgrade out of necessity without feeling swindled.

I'd disagree, but may be in the minority. I would hate having to upgrade because my battery life is shot. A large reason I chose iPhone was the battery life
My 6 would die at 30% with some regularity, even though supposedly only the 6S was impacted and hence only the 6S got free repairs.
It was a step back from iOS 10 on older hardware. I upgraded an iPad Air and iPad Pro first gen and the UI stuttering/stalls makes both machines feel slower. I decided beforehand not to even try on the 5S, which was a good decision except that Apple constantly nags to update and downloads the entire 1.1 GB update file to my 16 GB device without asking me (yes, I have background App updates turned off) and forces me to delete it manually to get storage back. It's infuriating.
I noticed RTD had new buses last time I was there. I recall that the original TransTeq EcoMark buses were very progressive for their time. If I remember the story correctly, RTD couldn't find a company that built the right bus for them, so they went off and more or less built their own. Then, over the next decade and a half, I began to see their distinctive low floors and warty roofs in cities and airports all over the nation.

I proud of my little city for leading the way, but I'm a little sad to see that TransTeq seems to have disappeared. For a while, it seemed like their ideas were taking over the world. But at least the technology advanced overall.

Anyway, my favorite part about the new BYD buses on the Mall is their noise. They have a speaker on the front that 'growls' so that the otherwise-quiet buses have a harder time sneaking up on pedestrians. New solutions to new problems!
To be fair that is a pretty decent response. The reality is batteries do degrade over time and they have to manage that. They should have been transparent about what they were doing and I'm not sure giving the user control over it is all that sensible.

Are there any battery experts who can chime in with their opinion on this?
This is a good smell though. It likely will adversely affect the efficacy of the lawsuit.

Company internal investigation followed by public facing change is pretty much the death knell in a civil/monetary lawsuit.
If you want to do the same thing the sensor is ~$250. You can get one on a devboard from sparkfun for $260: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13233

Adafruit has a low-resolution thermal sensor (8x8 pixel) for $40: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3538
If iPhones are really experiencing that rate of degradation, then Apple are solely to blame for using such an aggressive battery management profile. If they had given up a millimetre of thickness, overprovisioned the battery and managed it less aggressively, they could have easily reduced battery degradation to <20% after 1,500 cycles. Adding 50% to the capacity also gives you 50% more current at the same C-rate. I think this is a clear case of Apple prioritising shelf appeal over durability; it's the same root cause as the Galaxy S7 battery crisis.
I like the bottom-line perspective you provide at the end, of "success = preparedness + luck."

Preparedness is what we can train ourselves for, and preparedness also has the effect of making you more able to see and take advantage of opportunities that come your way. And to someone who doesn't know how much you've prepared, it appears that you're just luckier.
Well, sure, but I guess I read what he was saying as "CPU can rebuild buffer before next frame", not as "CPU + specialized chips can etc." But if you read it the latter way, yeah, the Amiga creams the ST. But if what you're doing isn't something that the blitter can help with, the two are roughly the same.

So for example, on the various 3d wireframe games that came out for those platforms (i.e. Starglider, etc.), the ST had a slight edge due to its slightly higher clock rate. In fact anywhere where it's just polygonal drawing, the ST had a very slight edge.
Apple is rolling out machines to make this process faster: https://consumerist.com/2017/06/07/apple-putting-screen-repl...

To your second point, I'm curious to see if Apple only offers this to original owners, or if a subsequent purchaser can get it swapped at this price also.
This whole battery scandal is ridiculous. It's literally the opposite of planned obsolescence, they're prolonging the usable life of these phones by underclocking them enough to stay functional for a full day, when otherwise they'd be shutting off randomly. I wish I could underclock even with a fresh battery in order to have solid 2-day battery life.
How do they produce exactly same number and energy distribution of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos?
A Bitcoin millionaire is giving away their fortune to research
I think that’s highly unlikely.
Really? 45 minutes for an Apple tech to do a battery swap?
> Early in 2018, we will issue an iOS software update with new features that give users more visibility into the health of their iPhone’s battery, so they can see for themselves if its condition is affecting performance.

Thank you! I've always thought phones should provide info about battery health.
I totally get what you are saying, I am just saying that people will still fall for active managers like they do today, although in far fewer numbers and active managers will not completely go away. Also, when almost all people are indexing there will be a few arbitrage opportunities for active managers.
Awesome! Thanks for adding your notes to the discussion.
Wow, this is awful. I've met coin exchange directors, and one of them mentioned to me that this was a topic of concern within their management. Specifically that their families might be targeted too. I don't know anything about Mr. Lerner, but hopefully the police will find him safe, soon.
D still has optimization passes.
I like this comment referring to someone else's (Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips) opinion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16013565

How is it "completely manufactured"? Apple programmed (and hid) the slowdown because it knows the batteries it is shipping with its phones won't last more than a year. Linus compared it to a car performing worse after 1 year of usage..
Old batteries draining to zero quickly isn’t even the primary problem. The primary problem is phone instantly shutting off during a peak in CPU usage because the battery voltage drops below a usagable threshold. This can happen with old batteries long before the battery life meter goes down to zero.
No, that's not what is being stated here.

The iPhone 7 came out a year ago. iPhone 7 users are also being offered the $29 battery replacement.
Made it about halfway through this article but couldn’t go on. There’s a big, big difference between appropriate discretion and faking authenticity.
I understand the promotional cost of swapping it is valid until December 2018 as per the article (though I am not a native speaker of english so perhaps I got it wrong).
That's kind of the idea behind ORCHID: https://orchidprotocol.com/.
Too many rules and things to follow, nobody in their right mind can do that, certainly not successful people. Need a list of maximum five thumb rules to follow, otherwise it is ineffective.
> I am the guy that goes to work, to work, so he can move on with his day after work as soon as possible.

If you were my coworker, I'd buy you a good lunch for this attitude.

More people could stand to share this approach.
> To address our customers’ concerns, to recognize their loyalty and to regain the trust of anyone who may have doubted Apple’s intentions, we’ve decided to take the following steps:

> Apple is reducing the price of an out-of-warranty iPhone battery replacement by $50 — from $79 to $29 — for anyone with an iPhone 6 or later whose battery needs to be replaced, starting in late January and available worldwide through December 2018. Details will be provided soon on apple.com.

> Early in 2018, we will issue an iOS software update with new features that give users more visibility into the health of their iPhone’s battery, so they can see for themselves if its condition is affecting performance.

> As always, our team is working on ways to make the user experience even better, including improving how we manage performance and avoid unexpected shutdowns as batteries age.

I cannot think of a better move from Apple than these three options. Bring awareness to the user by displaying battery performance and if updating the battery would resolve their power issues, you have a (now even cheaper) method of fixing it. As I understand it, the only way to tell if one needs to update their battery is by downloading some third party app (that costs money) and then praying that it helps in some way.

Also wanted to point out that by going deeper into the issue with this article shows (at least to me) some sense of transparency and should be really encouraged. While I disagree that they needed a scandal to bring clarity and it should've been brought up a while back, it's still great they did it nonetheless. This has been a conspiracy for some time, glad to see Apple has shed some light on it.
it's called 2 of 3 multisig and it's a standardized part of most cryotocurrency. it requires X of Y separate key signings to complete a transaction from an address
Shamir's Secret Sharing allows this even without dealing with multisig wallets.
And what to do about it? Most conservatives want smaller federal government, which reduces the aggregate size and expenditure for government, but exacerbates fragmentation. On the other hand, progressives want larger federal government, which introduces standardizing layers, but spends way more on aggregate government.
Even if rent control raises the risk, it's far from a requirement. These things also happen in cities whose state governments have banned rent control.
Unique river ships of 19th century Russia
I need to see the word iPad here. Need to replace a battery in an iPad Air and would love the reduced cost.
Transmissions lines resurrect hi-voltage DC
My hunch tells me specialized funds won’t beat cap weighted indexes from places such as Vanguard because of fees.
Top 8 gifs I made with code in 2017
Bookshelf.js is dead
The terms themselves don't induce scoffing, it is the specific usage patterns over time, which then becomes associated with the term, devaluing it as a meaningful way to communicate.

Synergy was frequently used in a mindless, vague way by individuals who wished to appear in-the-know. Thus, it was devalued, as people actually in the know did not want to be mistaken for those those who didn't know how to use the term.

This dynamic usually happens with high-level abstractions that have much complexity and nuance, as it is difficult to assess if the term is being used in a meaningful way. "Paradigm" and "synergy" are good examples of such powerful yet tricky concepts prone to misuse and buzzification.

Some philosophers say that the meaning of a word is determined purely by its usage. In this view, a word like synergy loses much of its meaning, as it is commonly used in such a jumbled and unclear manner.
Simple solution. Replace your battery once a year.
Clothes? If I could trademark the "Steve Jobs" name I'd use it for a recruiting company!
How many times have Apple written "We apologize" in press releases this year?

I think I read one during the whole disk encryption fiasco a few months ago..

Edit: no, that was the username: root, password: (blank) fiasco. And literally less than a month ago.
Why buy a movie pass when I can just buy a ticket then theater hop after?
You could take a private key and split it into three parts and store them separately.
> (as is, I'm starting to suspect, most reporting, full stop).

Don't hate on all journalism (or anything, really) just because of some bad apples. Even if it were true (which it isn't), it takes away all motivation for people in that industry to do the right thing. Why bother spending time on well-researched reporting, if all you get back is "fake news" or "all journalists are corrupt and produce clickbait"-hate on Twitter?

More specifically, here's a Q&A, and a previous article, discounting Apple conspiracy theories by The New York Times:

"Is Apple Slowing Down Old iPhones? Questions and Answers":
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/technology/iphone-battery...

"A New Phone Comes Out. Yours Slows Down. A Conspiracy? No.": https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/technology/personaltech/n...
Idk if the grandparent comment is correct about the degradation rate, but I’d need to see more evidence supporting the claim that Apple is doing something aggressive relative to the rest of the industry. Overprovisioning the battery is silly, and would deservedly cause a much bigger controversy if it were discovered.
The point is, these consequences can include everything up to and including termination, and a resultant difficulty in finding a subsequent job that pays as well. The young woman probably didn't think of that when she blurted that out. Or maybe she has a trust fund to fall back on, but the people around her may not, and she wasn't setting a good example.
Can nothing influence rate of oscilations of neutrinos?

I have trouble accepting CP symmetry violations.
Ask HN: How does Google QA its search results ranking algorithms?
Mostly just curious on how Google tests changes to its search results ranking algorithm to ensure those changes work as expected for a significantly sized sample from its population as well as ensuring there is no regression (one change to the algorithm undoes another)

Or perhaps, how would you go about it taking the Google’s scale into consideration.
They're orthogonal dimensions. My fault that this isn't clearer.

Here's a simpler ordering of operations:

1. Start with the most valuable, highest-leverage thing you want to focus on.
2. Figure out what the riskiest bit of that thing is. Focus on de-risking it.
3. When you're de-risking (or more generally whenever you're just doing that thing), start simple. Beware of adding in unnecessary complexity.
This might be the single most arrogant comment I've ever read on HN. At least those enterprise developers perform actual engineering instead of copy pasting the newest JS framework tutorials and pushing pixels around like all the boot camp hipsters without proper CS education nowadays.
New GCP Cloud Dataflow Pricing
If I owned a candy company I'd invest in this company big time!
Comic: Babysitter Siri
I agree, and imagine they probably tried. Maybe it's a new supplier, maybe newer apps are more power hungry than predicted?
I'm not a battery expert, but it needs to be pointed out that other smartphone manufacturers do not have this problem. It was Apple specific - it's not as if every device with a lithium battery shuts off at 40%. So it still feels like they're doing it to mitigate a fault with the device, and should've been more transparent about that in the first place.
Coal provided electricity to power electric powers ends up _still_ being cleaner than ICEs, which are just about the worst in efficiency or cleanliness as you can get.