skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the study by the University of Michigan (cited at 1:09) interesting that Japanese workers slept less than 7:30 hours on average. That doesn't seem to be an outrageously low number. As a matter of fact, in the first year or so after my son was born, I regularly slept much less than that, and not just for some weeks.

I personally like sleeping, but I know at least two people who don't and try to minimize the amount of sleep they take. I'm sure one of them does quite a bit less than 7:30 a night on average.
That's not how it works. The phone crashes when the CPU load spikes higher than the degraded battery can support.
The article implies men tended to have higher lead levels than women (otherwise, adjusting for sex wouldn't have done anything).

Does anyone know why this would be the case?
Accomplishment: Getting back into housing.

What I learned: The laid back, people friendly hippie culture for which California is famous didn't actually die. It just moved to the Pacific Northwest.
Do you just want something that assesses soft skills?

Or do you also want something where all your interviewers will give the same candidate the same score, and that's robust against being gamed?

The former is easy: "Tell me about a time you helped a colleague improve their performance", "What do you think makes for a good coach?" etc etc.

The latter? I've never seen a convincing way of doing it.
winklevoss? Distributing keys doesn't prevent you from having a few "digits" (no pun intended) removed. "Oh you can't get them? Call the other key-holders. Better hope they like your fingers as much as you do."
> Such a project is now underway (Alpine linux for Mobile)

Check out PostmarketOS. It's made a lot headway into attempting to create a single, semi-universal image that can be used on multiple devices.
If replacing the battery voids the warranty, that doesn't count as 'user replaceable' in my book.

If the phone is under warranty, why wouldn't you take it to Apple and let them replace it for free?
If you have more than one person logging in, it's far easier to identify who did something as root by looking at the username that logged in.

Also far better to encourage running sudo for every command, gives a nice simple audit log of what happened, right there in your syslog, so you can identify and undo mistakes, and also eliminate lines of enquiry.

Clearly you can cover your tracks with the old sudo vi / !bash and similar tricks, but the goal isn't to protect against hostile privileges users, its to know what happened so that when John is on holiday you can see what he did to fix the problem you had last week.
You act as if there is no method to replace batteries for the previous generations of iPhone.
> Sales tax is not VAT

From an economic standpoint, yes, a sales tax literally is identical to VAT. The difference is in the point at which the payment is collected; the incidence of the tax is absolutely identical.

> even what in the US is called a “general” sales tax applied to a far more limited set of end products than a VAT would usually apply to.

That's really not true at all.
Go read Dan Kennedy's book titled The Ultimate Sales Letter. It's a timeless crash course on copywriting. Don't waste your time on anything else.
The last time I checked I couldn't change the battery of my mobile phone and tablet.
I don't understand the opposition to giving the customer a choice. If they prefer a crashing but faster phone, what do you or Apple care? The default setting can be to slow down, then if someone cares enough they can change it. This seems not only reasonable, but optimal.

But then again, I'm on Android now precisely because of this attitude of hiding information and configuration abilities (I hate paternalism), so I'm not the target market.
> To sell this content first create and exploit an insecurity in jr.Engineers or fresh job seekers in technology by saying they are not an effective engineer unless they buy this book/package

Where are you reading this?
This is the first real argument I've heard on this. Everything else has been noise about apple slowing phones to rip people off.

Thank you very much for sharing your experience.

To be fair, they said iOS upgrade may help fix the problem, and I agree that they were probably just saying "update so I can check that off my list of things to recommend."
My wife just two days ago had a shutdown on a 6 at 45-50%
Found a source (not much more detail though) http://www.businessinsider.de/winklevoss-twins-cut-up-key-to...
It's great that you've got a new product: it's likely best posted as a Show HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Would you please stop resubmitting, though (and it looks like you're creating new accounts to do so)? It's gotten to the point where it's effectively spam:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=zamjs.com
Bug reporting and other forms of feedback are time investments, which are not cheap. If those investments seem to go nowhere, I reinvest in things that do go somewhere (like work-arounds). Of course a lack of reporting means that bugs won’t necessarily be fixed. Part of my point is that unfixed bugs making it into public releases is not surprising, given Apple’s lack of investment in their tools.

Apple needs to make highly-visible changes to draw contributors back, such as a giant and reliable search feature, publicly-visible lists of bug reports, and public comment threads on everything (as a start). Otherwise, if I’ve already been burned many times before, why would I keep wasting time submitting bugs into a black hole?

Xcode builds need to work without any compromises. I didn’t mention Xcode because I need a work-around (and frankly, “add and delete a space” should never be a reasonable thing to have to do). I mentioned Xcode because its glaring list of bugs can only lead to conclusions that are bad for the platform: maybe it means “we don’t know what we are doing”, or maybe it means “we don’t care about developers”, or maybe it means “we barely use our own tools”; not good.
Note that China has reproduced to a large extent and in some areas exceeded these services within a few years precisely through massive government intervention
It works in commercial cameras like Hasselblad H4D-200MS.
"If Apple hadn’t made this change those phones would have randomly turned off instead"

If Apple hadn't redlined the CPU to hit benchmarks the battery wouldn't have been in such a poor state to need to be shut down/throttled so early in its lifecycle.

They are 100% to blame this situation and have taken the least consumer focused choice up until this point.
Point taken. +1

I will stop the chain posting.
An undirected light source like a tree would also be terrible for light pollution. Even if you used conifers to keep them going year-round, they don't seem like very good street lights.

I want a few to use as nightlights. Even if the first plants are fairly dim, if there's not a lot of competing light they could be reasonably effective.
What kind of terminal disease would you want to die from on a planet with only basic health care?
Lots of quick hacks lead can lead to the accumulation of technical debt which can seriously impair the ability of the system to function. This can be even more problematic if the technical debt becomes a living entity intent on surviving and thriving whilst being dependent on an ever growing number of quick hacks as its only means of sustenance. ;)
I configured it so I can only sudo with my password. So even if someone gets hold of my private key, they'd have to guess my password for sudo access. Also, as someone pointed out you can restrict sudo commands, which is the sensible thing to do.
Obviously setting a property such as visible=false will lead to an invisible form element. Is there a way to detect other invisible form elements, like if one was hidden behind another part of the UI?
Yeah, I have owned various Android and iPhones over the years and this was a pretty common issue especially with an older phone in either a hot or cold climate.
Because forms could be easily hidden behind other elements, and checking if those forms are hidden that way comes at the expense of CPU.

Autofill is a bad idea in general. I've never willingly used it, yet somehow I'll discover that somehow there's still autosaved form data in my browser. Better turn the thing off all together.
Native ads. Match that up with content creator networks
I did this at Microsoft for years (go underneath the desk in my cubical and take a 20-30 minute nap). It helps if you tell your cow-orkers "I take naps occasionally, if you see me under my desk I'm not dead, so don't panic". No bad political repercussions.

There was a nap room at Apple. I never used it. The room did not go well, and they closed it after some . . . incidents.
Your loss... there's gold here.
Any site that doesn’t control the content of their ads deserve to be starved out of business as fast as possible by ad blockers. That is: I don’t mind ads, I just don’t accept “adtech”.
I had plenty of reboot, freezes and boot-cycles on my not even 1 and half year old nexus 5.
Maybe you just use your phone to do an odd call or two if you never experienced anything strange?
> That a person having respiratory issues might not be thought of as requiring hospitalization to me seems like something that could happen without negligence on the part of a rehab facility.

That a person having respiratory issues might not be thought of as requiring his oxygen tank refilled strikes me as pretty clearly passing the "reasonable person" test for negligence, on the grounds that if I - with no first aid training to draw on - happened upon someone in such a strait, that would be among the first things I thought to check, once it was evident the person's airway was patent. It seems like an obvious enough concern, after all.

On the other hand, I do carry glucose tablets in my satchel against the possibility of happening on another person with diabetes in severe need of a blood sugar boost, so perhaps I am simply not in all respects a reasonable person.
2018 will be the year that a major US exchanger gets raided by the FBI/SEC.
At a place with a soda fountain you can usually get water cups for free, BUT at a concession stand type setup, often the only water on offer is bottled, which is probably why they'll give you free soda but not (more expensive) bottled water.
It ain't right, but.. it is.
People often don't realise the person who improved the codebase within a short span of time had years of experience in the domain. I know a class of engineers who are solving the EXACT same problem using the EXACT same method from from company to company. To someone from outside, it might appear like they are job hopping looking at their average time spent at a company.
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because it's hard to determine whether something is visible. what if it's offscreen? what if it's partially off screen? what if it's 0% opacity? what if it's 0.001 opacity? what if it's 1px height/width? what if something is overlaid on top of it?
Because:

1. Removing weight.
2. Removing moving parts.
3. Removing cleaning cost

Does not seem like a good idea?

I have friends that are involved in aircraft design. They tell me they count every tie wrap for wiring vs. weight requirements. The remove as many moving parts as they can to cut mantaince cost.

I worked at a company that made a complex piece of networking equipment. On the board they spent a ton of time engineering out caps. They only cost a few cents per board. The cost was not the issue. It turns out that removing as many as they could upped the MTBF by 40%.

Everything is never that simple. Boeing did not just add this type of window because they thought it was cool.
And people did buy it, at least in poorer countries... I know it was on sale for less than 330 € in Serbia (istyle.eu/rs).
Next wave - aggregated subscription bundlers? Would also facilitate cross-marketing
An exchange doesn't have to have all of their assets ready to use at a moment's notice. They could have 95% of their assets locked up in an inconvenient but safe method. If their hot wallet starts running low, then they begin the process to top it up with their hard-to-use multisig protected funds.
What does it mean to "exceed" a service?
They got acquired by apple (greplin renamed themselves cue) for a reported $40-50MM.
> If you brought Bitcoin's transaction volume up to Visa's it would be using as much electricity as the rest of the world put together.

Nope; that's not how it works. Bitcoin's energy use scales not with the block size but with the value of the block reward. If bitcoin prices rise, more hash power will be applied to compete for it. And when the reward halves, many mining outfits become unprofitable and will be turned off.
among the gazillion uses timestamping is one of them and pretty important
I love all of Edmond Lau's stuff. I accidentally found one of his Google talks while trying to find something for my team when we started on fixing a massively underscaled tech stack. I bought the book read it and shared it with a few other engineers. Super valuable and a lesson I keep trying to teach to our organization is how worth it is to build better tooling.
Figured out a solid business plan and a proper direction after a key pivot. 2018 here we come!
The guidelines also ask that we don't comment on flagging: just do it and move on.

> "If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
Wow awesome - I love this comment in particular:

“For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.” CVS!!!
The hardware/software behavior could be 100% justified and it still wouldn't excuse the fact that they've hidden it all this time, driving millions of people to buy new phones when they really just needed a new battery.
Read the sales copy. I just copied the first few lines of the first paragraph.

"The most effective engineers — the ones who have risen to become distinguished engineers and leaders at their companies — can produce 10 times the impact of other engineers, but they're not working 10 times the hours."

Taken from https://www.effectiveengineer.com/book
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Depends on the route you take, doesn't it?
I still don't undestand why HN instead of being at the forefront of innovation aligns up with old school money. I guess most here are dependent n the old system and VCs
This is an appropriate response.
Much better than google selling phones that are just barely crawling after not even 6 months of very average use..
> and The Bell Curve not getting a fair hearing

If you put that line at the beginning of your comment you'd saved me a couple of seconds reading.
That doesn't imply what you claimed at all.
It's funny, a service center replaced my whole iPhone for free (thought with terrible customer service included) when it started rebooting, being slow and -- get this -- the screen started popping out on one side cause the battery puffed up. This was before this problem was publicized.
What do you mean "started using the A330" ? It has been Qantas's go-to medium-haul airliner more than 10 years, long enough they they've all been refurbished recently with "A380 like" interiors.
It is about battery life. This is how the battery should be measured:
100% -> Doesn't charge more
0% -> Do no provide enough voltage/current for safe operation at current power mode.

At 5% the phone could switch (configurable) to extended battery mode (low power mode) and alert the user.

As the battery ages the user will notice better a faster battery discharge (from 100% to 0%) and not the performance slowdown.
I've also seen news reporting be frustratingly inaccurate on plenty of occasions, but I guess the right approach is to apply some amount of skepticism and think about the limitations of news reporting and the signs that the reporting is biased or editorialized.

In this case, I saw lots of headlines like "Apple admits it deliberately slowed down old phones". To me, the word "admits" is a big red flag. It's a loaded term that you can apply to pretty much any public statement, and it suggests (but doesn't directly imply) that Apple is admitting to wrongdoing. Phrasing like that signals to me that the reporting is untrustworthy.
Thank you guys. Seeing it twice made me think someone should mention how aroused batteries were making the OP, but I'm glad to know there are some fellow folks who have this covered ;)
I visited NYC a year ago for the first time. It amazed me the amount of police present everywhere. The sheer number of police out and about was shocking.
I mean I'd blame the role of privatization more than government incompetence for most of those.
Well, I'll stay on the post topic. It's unlikely that you can get the lab notebooks from most of 20th century Physics, this is what you're really looking for. It's not that important, because once the results are published by a few different groups that don't trust each other and will scrutinize their peers' work, all relevant data have been measured again and again. If theories like Special Relativity were really wrong there would be consequences like having to close all particle accelerators because they wouldn't work. Many key experiments are routinely done as part of the university courses, and many results are also routinely used in other fields, engineering included. E.g. linearisations of Planck's distribution are done in Remote Sensing for estimating surface temperatures, they work great btw. We also understand light bulbs, pyrometers, infrared thermometers... -those work straight with Planck's Law, how else could they find the temperature-. There are GR corrections coded somewhere for your GPS to work, etc.

If by seeing "how well different theoretical models express experimental data" you're planning to apply idk assorted non-linear regression models from equations you're not familiar with to see which one has the minimum chi-square or something like that, well I guess that's what hobbies are for. Differences tend to appear at the limiting cases, there you need more Physics than Levenberg–Marquardt fun, so it's better to start there.

I have to warn you that your wording matches the usual stuff you get from Physics cranks (the bane of the trade), hence the knee-jerk reaction, sorry about that. I'll try harder next time.
Well, to be fair, I never really stopped doing it. But I do handle things differently.

I still don't think that makes it fair to assume the woman in the article wasn't doing something similar. We don't have her side of the story. We have someone else's version of events.

Also: A man telling a woman that her observations about her own experiences aren't valid and she just must be doing it wrong has a not nice name because it is not nice behavior. Which may be apropos of nothing if you happen to be female and just failed to say that.

Either way, I wasn't asking for advice, I was giving testimony, so your comment is guilty of treating me like a victim when I wasn't playing the victim card at all, just testifying from firsthand experience.
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What are they gonna do about it, "Yes I do want my phone to shut down immediately instead of continuing to be able use it"?
For years individuals and the tech press have reported about the forced obsolescence of Apple devices, with many detractors claiming otherwise. It would appear that instead of "eating crow" they've decided to double down and are now parroting how this is "manufactured" or "overhyped".

Let's be clear: Apple knew that they were pushing the hardware of older devices so hard as to lead to premature expiration. Instead of being forthcoming about this, or reducing the unreasonable load they were placing on older hardware, they used software to throttle the older devices causing many consumers to buy a new (often iPhone) device as a response.

This is especially greedy and deceptive and Apple has earned every last bit of negative coverage (and then some).
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>A chemically aged battery also becomes less capable of delivering peak energy loads, especially in a low state of charge, which may result in a device unexpectedly shutting itself down in some situations.

In my years of experience owning smartphones, since the original iPhone, and including a Samsung S4 (decommissioned last month - purchased in 2014). I have never experienced sudden shut off from an aging battery.

Have I been lucky or is this extremely rare?
I sold my iPhone 6 because the performance became unacceptable after just 1 year. Do I still get $50?
If that scratches your itch, take a look at Boundless (playboundless.com). Though it's still pretty early, and the player base is tiny, the economy is pretty interesting
Take away the mining and all you've got is basically a less capable version of Git - which is somewhat the same data structure (a merkle tree)

So to answer your question indirectly, unless you like using inappropriate, inefficient data structures--if you are gonna be tracking shipping containers or the mail.... a good old fashioned database is what you need.
From my experience there are two factors I can see:

Due to end user advertising the US a lot of people are tuned into taking drugs. It's just a part of life. I am 50 and people seem to be baffled when I tell them I don't any prescription drugs unless I have something acute. I see tons of people taking antibiotics and pain killers immediately when they have a problem. That starts from childhood on.

Doctors in the US are really quick prescribing hardcore drugs. I have had several occasions when I had an injury like a bruised and got a Cocktail of vicodine and muscle relaxers. They make you feel real good quickly and I can totally see how people can get addicted. In addition people who have withdrawal symptoms get cut off cold turkey and get no help. I guess that's even more so in low income populations that barely get any healthcare.
Please don't post rageful rants to HN. Some websites may treat their users as cattle, but that's no reason to spoil this one.
But not really unreasonable in context; how much can a comparison with Equatorial Guinea really tell us about US policy?
I spent one week short of mine months on the walk. I averaged about eighteen kilometres a day. On walking days I'd walk about thirty kilometres. I'd highly recommend it! Europe is very beautiful and very safe. I encountered no hassle and wonderful hospitality and generosity.
The first generation iPhone was released in 2007 so the device you're talking about would have been at most 5 years old at the time. Nevertheless that's still considered extremely old for a modern device.

(For reference, my current device is a 4 year old iPhone 5S because I like the form factor, and it still does what I need. It's just about getting to the point where I'd like to upgrade it, but that's mainly because I keep running out of storage space.)
No. Because it is still about battery life. If it were only about the spurious shutdown then the throttling would happen once in a while, but the reports are about long lasting performance reductions, sometimes down to 50%.

If the battery is in a state where the only solution to prevent sudden shutdowns is to continuosly throttle the system to 50% then my hardware is seriously degraded and someome REALLY needs to tell me that.