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Real estate is rather different from the commodities markets, though: It's most definitely not a commodity (if you don't count things like mortgage-backed securities, anyway), and the markets are frighteningly illiquid. There are things like futures and options on real estate, but they operate very differently from your average put on hard white winter wheat.

There's an argument, not entirely (as far as I can tell) unreasonable, that at least some trading firms - the market makers - are benefitting the small folks in these markets. The argument goes that they do siphon profits out of the market, but it's mostly the profits of other financial firms. What they're ultimately nabbing is profits that come from information asymmetry, and that asymmetry usually benefits hedge funds more than farmers. So hedge funds make less money, yeah, but the impact on farmers is greater price stability, which is a benefit to them.

By extension, the implication is that, when hedge fund managers complain loudly about high frequency trading, it's crocodile tears.
I'm trying to work in 2 hours chunks. Then have a break, walk, eat, check email. Reapeting this 3-5 times per day.
Earpods are still included?
> processor cache occupancy

Shoot, why not just browser cache occupancy? Is it possible to fingerprint the New York times as JavaScript and check to see if it's loaded out of the cache?

> Boffins

Ah the register... Always gives me a chuckle, especially the never ending beer 'curing' everything series
The article's "Egor" operated in a world with PvP. If the article is implying that you need a government (society, community) to solve these problems, then you must allow PvP as player governments need state sponsored violence in some form. Humanity hasn't figured out any other way (yet). Except many modern games went the other way: revoking PvP and imposing more rules from above.

Early Ultima Online had the makings of the most scalable player-driven/secular solution: karma (reputation). It operated on simple rules to identify good guys and bad guys so it couldn't capture all forms of griefing but it laid out a way for players to identify and police themselves without "Gods" (for the most part). Serial Player Killers (PKs) would earn negative reputation and titles (e.g. Dread Lord). If a PK was spotted near a town, a posse would form to hunt them down.

Later versions of UO rolled back this system, unfortunately, and even introduced servers where PvP was not allowed. This had the unfortunate consequence that PvP server users were seen as asking for a fight.
In the UK a new iPhone is ~£1250 there are so many more things I would rather spend that money on.

I spend so much time with my phone, I use it all day rely on it so much, it's the epicentre of my digital life.

But still, I think it's too expensive. I think once you touch the £1,000 mark you have to start proving far more worth than polished marketing. My work thankfully proved an iPhone 8, otherwise, I was going to buy an iPhone 6 or 7 [0]. I just cannot justify the extra money for the difference in the product.

[0] https://www.johnlewis.com/browse/electricals/mobile-phones-a...
I've been running Silverblue (https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/) for the past month or so and for the most part you can use it as a daily driver. The OS itself is an immutable image created and updated with OSTree, and you can layer RPMs on top if they don't fit a containerized workflow. For applications, you either run Flatpaks (for desktop) or Docker/OCI images through podman.
You don't have to convince me that this proposal is bad - I agree with you. I'm pointing out that your alternative (supporting terrorists, fascists, or whatever) is even worse. If you support terrorists that terrorise those trying to get this passed, that support will also help terrorists that, say, want to terrorise people who campaign for Catalan independence.
You could wrap the tubes in cardboard tubes so you couldn't see what they were made from.
> the stronger Google & Facebook's oligopoly is

Blocking a few big players is easier than blocking many small ones, so from the point of view of blocking ads until the advertisers stop being shady this might no tbe a bad thing.

If the ad/tracking industry wants me to play the game their way instead of not at all, they need to start playing by decent rules which includes following GDPR's various stipulations.
I was an OS developer for the 3DO, and the first PlayStation, an then went on as a lead game developer for various publishers. The games industry is a cesspool, with the worse aspects ambition and creativity pressured together into the perfect storm for youthful slavery. Fuck that industry.
Check out Common Lisp, which was the first standardized OOP language (1994) with its Common Lisp Object System. Classes, class hierarchies, meta-classes, ... all there. It's not using message passing, but that can be viewed as a simple case of its generic functions...
I didn't say anything about an alternative definition of practicality. I said that practicality might not be as important for some people.
I think the reason has nothing to do with the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, X, XR or XS. I think the reason has to do with 2 back-to-back iOS updates that didn't hugely slow down my iPhone 7 Plus.

I'm used to really wanting the newer iPhone when I update iOS 12 months after buying but the last 2 updates haven't fit that mold.
The truth of this matter is that most people really don't care. On top of this, schools generally communicate with the business world to figure out what their curriculum is going to be (after all, that's where you're expected to go when you finish studying). To my mind, it is then not a huge leap to figure out that a strong foundation in ethics is not a desirable quality. After all, what big company these days doesn't want something that's at least a dark gray?
True, but many countries regulate and limit them much more aggressively than the US typically does (I use "typically" since most regulation is at the state level)
I know, I was making fun of the NYT's ridiculous apologetic attitude towards politicians: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18466253
Most users don't care about any of those things.

- You can use the included adapter instead of a headphone jack. I do this every day to plug my phone into the car and it's no big deal. If I had a newer car stereo it'd be bluetooth anyway, and wireless headphones are pretty cheap now.

- What would a normal user use NFC for other than Apple Pay?

- Most people couldn't care less if the port is Lightning, USB-C, or micro USB so long as it charges their phone.

- iMessage works flawlessly, and the standard (at least here in the UK) is WhatsApp rather than MMS now to communicate across the iOS/Android void.
For me the annoying one is the loss of TouchID. I find it a convenient system and I'm not super keen on the use of FaceID as a replacement.

My hope is that now other phones have introduced touch sensors under their screens, that Apple will add that back in.
It depends what I'm working on. When the problem is challenging than I cannot even sleep after work. What is more, I got small kids, so after work I play with them, chat with wife - this gives me super charge!
If we fail, there's still a chance that another intelligent species manage to develop on Earth before the planet becomes inhabitable for whatever reason.

That doesn't help us, although it does raise a few other questions, like "How do we preserve knowledge for the future?".
iPhones without headphone jacks still come with a pair of earbuds; they just have a Lightning connector on the end of the cable instead of a 3.5mm audio plug.
If there was a real demand, there would be a roaring trade in cases that reintroduce the jack without having to use a dongle.
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There are a lot of differences (improved camera, edge-to-edge display, Face ID, much better SoC). However, SoCs and cameras are already so good that the average consumer does not notice the gaps as they did with e.g iPhone 3G -> iPhone 5.

This will be a term problem for many phone manufacturers, the market does not grow as fast anymore + people keep their phones for more cycles. Anecdotically, many of my friends and family members would upgrade their iPhones every two years. Now most of them are still using the 6s, SE or even 5s.
Exactly. The current approach seems so backwards. Yes, don’t discriminate in either direction - choose based on real value, based on skill, experience or potential. This inverse descriminarion is just as bad, if not worse. It may be necessary for a temporary rebalance, but after that it needs to go away. Just like all the skin color Emoji, what in the world? All they do is promote racism and highlight skin color as a key difference. Why aren’t there Emoji for different eye color , hair color and all combinations? A blended color is far better.
In that article, the author claims that a human brain cannot create something more intelligent than itself, and argues by saying that over several billion years of evolution, no human brain has ever done so, thus it must not be possible.

That argument is totally nonsense. A hundred years ago, you could argue that humans cannot invent an internet, because over billions of years (minus one hundred), it's never happened.

There's a more rigorous way to argue for the claim in question, which debuted in my doctoral dissertation. Or, not quite the exact claim in question, but rather the following claim: that an idealized mechanical knowing agent cannot create a more intelligent idealized mechanical knowing agent than itself (at least, not one which it can actually trust). The idea behind the proof is quite simple, but requires familiarity with computable ordinal numbers. If knowing agent X creates knowing agent Y, then presumably X knows Y's sourcecode. Thus, X can infer a sourcecode for the list of all naturals n such that Y knows "n is the code of a computable ordinal". If X actually trusts Y, then X knows that whenever Y knows "n is the code of a computable ordinal", then n really is the code of a computable ordinal. Combining these, X can infer the ordinality of the ordering obtained by concatenating together all the ordinals which Y knows are ordinals. Thus, X knows a larger computable ordinal than all the computable ordinals Y knows. Which, depending on your definition of intelligence, arguably suggests X is more intelligent than Y.
https://github.com/awwaiid/pry-timetravel

But I think the idea has been around forever.
Well, right now for me, iPhone's biggest feature is its price tag, in which it is its own league. The rest of the package is lackluster
Can anyone think of what features were removed from the iphone from the original one to the 6?
3 months isn't that fast. Electricity won't go more then 2 usually and landlords often won't go past the last week of the month, unless your renting from a non-corporate landlord.

I have a stretch in the past where my landlord filed on me 4 months out of the year and I pulled together the funds to pay rent + court costs + filing & lawyer fees before the end of the month...

Also had Electricity turned off and that requires paying bill in full + deposit, so usually close to double your bill, or 1.5 times if you owe 2 months. They sure take their time turning it back on too.
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While I know you mean sexps, ordinary Tcl itself has a lot of Lisp-like features that I didn't really understand when I was using it in the 1990s -- it's a lot closer to Lisp than it is to something like Perl which it resembles more superficially.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted for something that is very possibly going to happen. People hate hearing crony capitalist reality on HN and trust too much in large corporations that are solely there for profit to shareholders and will do so at any cost.

Look at the dongle nonsense Apple has pulled on customers for profit. Look at their genius bar overcharing and lying to people about their broken devices (see: Louis Rossman https://youtu.be/o2_SZ4tfLns).
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I can second that, game jams got me back into enjoying gamedev. Try joining https://globalgamejam.org happening at end of January.
Gift giving is more than just empty cash transfers.

You could level your hate at anything. "Great, mom. Now I'm stuck playing with this one corporation's toy instead of having the cash to buy whatever I want. Ugh, I hate it!"

It makes you sound ridiculous.
I wonder if there's a bit of the "end of Moore's law" in play as well. There appears to be a slump not just in iPhones, but in all smart phones: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/22/gartner-reports-first-ever...

Basically, the delta in speed and functionality gains for new models isn't what it used to be, so people hang onto old phones longer. Personally, I buy ~$150 androids because I tend to drop them, and a $1k phone would be a bad idea for me.

The end of "phone subsidies" probably also plays into this.
Sounds like the editor version of blub, <shrug>

I use multiple-cursors a fair bit; maybe 6-10 times a week on a full week of editing.

Sometimes it's not code, but data files I get from elsewhere that need some minor rearranging.

People have different needs.
> An admin named Lorry [] preached the virtues of arrogance, ego, and random destruction

I was wondering if that was the same "Lorry" as the (in)famous UK ISP "Lorry" and, yep, it's him. Looks like the article just missed the trailing 'l' off the URL (linked via his Wikipedia page) ->

http://arch-wizard.com/confessions.html
For me it is because they’ve become too large. Last year I got an 8 as I really needed a new device and the size is pushing it. The X models are larger still
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Not to mention that NFC payments are not nearly as secure or privacy preserving as Apple Pay.
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Is it really an issue? Have you tried tires with a decent puncture resistant layer? I am using the cheapest Schwalbe's Plus tires and commute year-round in very harsh urban conditions, when it comes to glass shards and whatnot.
The thing about trading bots and purchasing systems is that they're generally self-contained and regulated by a very human legal and physical world system that determines which algorithms are allowed to run on the platform, which contracts and title deeds are void and which commodities don't actually get physically delivered. Even Stross' old-school cyberpunk singularity story throws in a plot point where a decision is made by an imam! If private equity firms want to force businesses to act in a certain way they're much better off sending legal threats to management than coding a certain set of rules into a purchasing system which is readily bypassed with a quick phone call to the bank, unless those firms think the algorithm is doing a terrific job with the purchases in which case maybe it's not so malevolent after all - computers making real time purchases in line with the parameters management think benefit the firm are useful. Even toy systems like the DAO with no purpose except to prove that "corporation as code" could be a real thing saw the ecosystem rapidly monkey patched when people started to dislike the code's outcomes. They're also a reminder that people have very strong incentives not to work towards universal "corporation as code"
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Yes, for each of these, many people do not care about them. And yes, there are people who don't care about all of these things at the same time. But that might be a smaller group.

For anecdata, I want a headphone jack and wireless charging. USB-C is nice-to-have. I switched from Google devices to S8 for that reason.
And the irony is these bubble markets invariably collapse, because speculation is not a good foundation for sustainable profit.

The opportunity costs of prioritising the financial industry over other activities are almost incalculably huge. Bubbles aren't the only problem. The industry has cannibalised top talent and kept it from working on useful problems, which has created a huge deficit in future potential.
Do you have any suggestions for someone who wants to get into the fintech space with no financial experience but 10-12 years of Enterprise software development/architecture and some management?
Yeah, a long time ago, I went to work in a little consulting company. It was perhaps 6 people.

I found out why they hired me, and it wasn't for my technical skill. They wanted me to break customers' things and then lie to customers. The reasoning was, that contracts were reviewed and renewed yearly.

The worst came down was for a japanese factory (back with Windows NT4.6 and Win98 clients). Half the engineering staff was Japanese and half were American... I think you see where this is going. Files were being sent to the server, but being WinNT 4, couldn't read japanese files. So half of their enterprise was not being backed up.

I mentioned this to my manager, and they threatened me with a lawsuit if I said anything. I quit right there, and then went to the client and told them what I was aware of. Soon after, they lost the contract (shocked, I say!). Not too long afterward, their building caught on fire, and their VP ran. Last I heard was that he was wanted by the FBI for suspected arson..

Thankfully, I've not worked in small shops like that since.
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Also in the UK, and I can't remember the last time I actually bought a phone outright. I resigned myself years ago to paying ~£40/mo for a contract and insurance. Every 2 years I get an upgrade to the latest iPhone.
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Perhaps this is a long play to test the elasticity of demand for iphone.
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Never been to MIT or any such place, but I know the story from the Jargon File: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html (It mentions the Caltech hack, too.)

Interesting to read some more details in this article.
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Why do you want a headphone jack instead of embracing the future? Do you want to go back to PS/2 ports as well?
Over here I still miss my Galaxy 4 that still had removable batteries...
It's well understood by the locals that the Hong Kong (and possibly other Asian cities) system reaps most of it's revenue from land rights around/immediately above the stations. In

In Asia transit hubs are often also retail hubs and the commercial rents become profit for the public transit system. This makes perfect sense as the retail value of the nearby land can most obviously be credited to the transit system.

I'd imagine that the problem with the United States is that this real estate was sold early on or was never owned by by the transit system allowing the spillover benefits of transit hubs to be captured by private interests.
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There is also just a general kind of burn out. In phones, in social media, etc. Maginal utility from consumer tech is now so marginal that people are starting to not upgrade every year. It was bound to happen. I’m sure someone will come up with a more creative name for this when it starts to impact stock prices.
I am not taking about GPS.

I need GPS like system with satellite confined in a room capable of resolution within 1mm error.
Agreed.

To be honest, the disappearing headphone jack might be what finally helps me convince my wife to let me upgrade our car stereo to something with bluetooth support.
I'm glad you asked because I had to do a bit of research to come up with some evidence - stuff that got lost in the back of my mind when I read about it a while back. Essentially the US has jurisdiction if it's cleared with USD - and how can it be cleared with USD if there's not some US institution in one place or another. Someone with legal expertise should chime in and correct my primitive babblings. But how about:

https://www.crowell.com/NewsEvents/AlertsNewsletters/all/For...

(NYS has jurisdiction over a foreign entity by virtue of a tie with a bank in the state.)

https://cblr.columbia.edu/the-u-s-jurisdiction-over-transfer...

(An article about jurisdiction of USD transfers.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267428

(Another recent HN discussion on this topic.)
I thought carriers are in charge of (and the cause of) low res MMS.
this is very interesting and nice post. thanks! i love this use of fork. it should be obvious from the description of the function that it can be used as such but really never even came to mind. cool!!
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Not having a headphone jack isn't enough reason for someone to stop using their preferred device, but it seems overwhelmingly the userbase would prefer it.

Trying to argue about demand when we're boiling frogs is pointless.
> - You can use the included adapter instead of a headphone jack. I do this every day to plug my phone into the car and it's no big deal. If I had a newer car stereo it'd be bluetooth anyway, and wireless headphones are pretty cheap now.

Bad wireless headphones are pretty cheap. Even the expensive Apple AirPods can barely keep up with a $20 wired pair of Xiaomi or VSonic IEMs on the quality front.

I can go through a pair every 6 months and still come out ahead before the batteries fail in the AirPods.
> (or at all)

Rovelli's position is that time is not fundamental, not that it does not exist. It emerges from something more fundamental.

That is, he argues that there exists a theory (or family of theories) from which one can derive both General Relativity and Relativistic Quantum Field Theory in their effective limits, and that such a theory does not need to be paramaterized by time (or more broadly, does not need to explicitly reference the notion of time at all).

More precisely, he and Connes propose[1] that statistical regularities in a generally covariant quantum system (our block universe) are just as much "laws" as dynamical relations like F = ma or F = dp/dt = \gamma(v)^3 m_0 a_parallel + \gamma(v)^1 m_0 a_perpendicular. There are macroscopic constraints and a low-entropy initial condition in the universe that takes our system away from being in just any configuration with equal probability, and towards a configuration with an entropy gradient. From that entropy gradient we can recover a notion of time, and even coordinatize it. Time emerges in a block universe (and indeed most subregions thereof) arranged in this way.

> something is happening now when it is beyond our lightcone

Galaxies probably don't cease to exist at the moment they cross out of our causal cone with the metric expansion, or soon afterwards. We exist even though there are observers who saw our ancestors cross out of their causal cones. Do you think the density and spectrum of the CMB evolve very differently for them and for us? Do you assert that such a question is meaningless? Do you think Rovelli does? (If so, why do you think that?)

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[1] A. Connes, C. Rovelli, "Von Neumann Algebra Automorphisms and Time-Thermodynamics Relation in General Covariant Quantum Theories", Class. Quantum Grav. 11:2899–2918, 1994.

https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9406019
The iPhone Xr is £749, which is little changed from previous iPhone generations.