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Can we get real for a second? Ethereum has no chance of taking on AWS or Microsoft.

Those are multi billion dollar business with billion dollar requirements in infrastructure investment on a yearly basis. Not going to happen.
We are not a paid user. I believe that's around 200k a year? That's a good point, I haven't looked into paid vs unpaid functionality when it comes to data export yet.
Provided a significant headwind? Tesla financials don’t look great.
> Student debt, or all debt?

Student debt, pardon me. Allowing for limited discharge in special circumstances or general discharge in broader circumstances. The first could happen through the courts. The latter probably needs legislation.
"Dijkstra's algorithm for shortest paths can be seen as DP"

Really? Sure, if the graph is a dag, but then Dijkstra is overkill.

Hmm. I'll have to think about this one.

+1 for the Okasaki shoutout.
Most of those examples don't directly impact user experience, create an increasing performance gap with new phones that would make an upgrade a bit more desirable or in cases where there are applications that push new hardware to the limit, make applications effectively incompatible with the hardware.
Won't any pure PoS system naturally evolve stake pooling that looks like DPoS?
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Sure, it's in some sense "an AWS competitor" but something like a billion times less efficient, measured by throughput, energy efficiency, or cost. So, in practice, no it's not.
Thanks for that info. I don't follow the car press so it's good to see some actual info.

I do think a brand like Honda has the used car pricing built-in. Parts are definitely cheap and plentiful, but they still seem to put some parts in hard-to reach places (all companies seem to do this). But I don't think a head-to-head tells you if the lowest-ranking brand now is better or worse than the lowest-ranking brand from 20 years ago. I'm not saying all the brands are the same, but the reliability of the average (or any) car today seems significantly better than 20 or 30 years ago. I imagine the spread from best to worse is a lot more narrow.
Really? I can feel 4 volts between my finger and thumb. Isn't painful or anything, but I can tell when a lipo battery is charged vs. discharged.
Slightly off-topic but how are other manufacturers copying Apple by making large phones? Apple was the only one not making large phones for years.
Same. I fell in love with it instantly and permanently when I got to the "NO, STOP, YOU'RE DONE" part in the Towers of Hanoi. I skipped around the book and the whole thing is like that. It's simultaneously concise and witty in service of the material.

The chapter problems look fantastic, too, and are just as well-written (and they cover a lot of ground).

It's really something!
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Because people are bad with money. Drive through an apartment complex and then drive through a neighborhood of starter homes; I'll bet the former has nicer cars than the latter.

I've seen plenty of $35k+ cars in ghetto apartment housing. People seem to look at the monthly payment instead of the total cost of the car can never seem to get enough saved to buy a house.

I don't know which is the main buyer of higher end cars, but they shouldn't completely discount people who prefer to buy cars than save for houses.
Amazing how they are working on speed when thunderbird is about 20x faster than gmail
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This is true right now, but isn't that largely because the cost of fabricating a VLSI design is astronomical, and the tools to debug any issues with a first run also cost an arm and a leg?

If you could get parts made affordably and have some insight into their operation, then you might see more interest. Sort of like how affordable PCB fabrication services have led to a proliferation of customized circuit boards for all sorts of purposes, including spurious art like conference badges.

I bet if it were affordable to get a working design with a bit of studying, you'd see a lot more special-purpose chips, especially in small 3-6 pin packages.
Or, Power over Ethernet. 48 volts at up to ~75 watts.
All my phones fit in one hand - and yet I haven't used a phone smaller than 5" in many years now.

Maybe 4" is just too small for most, even for one-handed use?
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Huge rewrites of firefox are saving it today. Seems like the best way is to rewrite in chunks allowing you to use new bits in the existing application.
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TV delivered over IP is not the same as TV delivered over the internet. When your ISP is the same entity as your TV carrier, the traffic doesn't have to travel over the internet. Comcast is already doing this with X1 and Verizon is already doing this with Fios.
> spend $100,000 on a graphic design degree that may get them a job paying roughly $40,000 a year

The cost isn't $100k. The minimum wage pays $15k per year [1]. Four years of lost wages equals $60,000. Add that to the tuition debt and you have a real cost of $160,000.

The surplus wage is apparently no more than $25k. Even here, we see a 15% return on investment. Not shoddy per se, and certainly a sustainable debt load.

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/minimum-wage-workers-poverty...
> we believe there are other factors broadly impacting our iPhone performance

Here, Let me help you with that:

* Lack of a $0.05 headphone jack

* Lack of storage expansion

* Lack of USB-C

* Expensive 3d Touch that nobody uses intentionally

* Lack of a fingerprint reader

* Nerfing NFC for months on end

Despite that, there are things you are doing great:

* FaceID innovations

* Battery life improvements

* Performance improvements

* Taking a stand against predatory spying by Facebook and Google

It's like you're so close, then you shoot yourself in the foot.
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Amateur radio tracking shows Chinese landing on moon in 24 hours
I wonder but what had Ethereum achieved exactly to this day?

Are they starting to optimize before reaching to some practical state?

If the power consumption is out of hand when its usefulness is not, then investors are putting too much money in it.
But Apple uses smaller batteries and much more powerful processors, so the effects are noticeable much sooner than with other phones.
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3 strikes and death sentences don't pass the smell test with it comes to "reforming" people, so we need to be honest about what we really want - is it to reform people or just exile them? Everyone is being disingenuous here.
I had the opportunity to choose between a used 6 and a new 8 or X after my 5s tragically drowned a couple months ago. After playing with the new ones, I couldn’t justify the price though I can easily afford it. Didn’t see much difference between the 6 and the new models in terms of function. Maybe the camera is a bit better but I don’t have kids nor do I take selfies/use social media so the 6 it is. I don’t feel like I’m missing out.
incredible amounts of energy compared to the value this gives us

Note that the value of ETH is higher than the value of the energy needed to mine it; that's why people mine. So is your complaint really about mispricing of energy (externalities) or about other people having different values than you?
The OLED display on the X uses pulse-width modulation, which is basically where the OLED panel flickers at different frequencies to adjust its brightness. Most people (like me) don't really notice it, but for some it can cause headaches over prolonged use, and in some extreme cases really bad migraines.
I see it less of a computing platform and more like the spinning table from the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The goal isn't to compute faster or better than others, it's for parties with competing interests to trust the computations that have taken place.
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The _ symbol is rendered as an arrow in the Squeak environment.
Mining is where the new coins come from, so the rewards for mining are proportional to the value of the coins.
I took advantage of the extra trade in cash.. That was a good deal.
You mean the ones who are not buying the XR or the XS Max?
Lower relative to what?
If a mining reward was 1 eth instead of say 10 eth, then 1 eth would likely just be worth 10 times more.
Couldn't you just use Yubikeys to hold your TOTP secrets? If you want redundancy, just set up 2 or 3 and keep the extras safe.
I'm not sure, but I suspect your best alternative to 32-bit floats/floating-bar-rationals or 64-bit rationals when you have no FPU is a 64-bit fixed-point value with compressed floating-point representations if you need to store it compactly in memory.
Interest free installments are all well and good, but as subsidies were phased out, there was really no decrease in overall plan price. So now we pay full freight on the handset and still have the same bill.
While it can be useful (or not) on the applications described, this is not non-euclidean. It is pure euclidean, but defined in steps.

I agree that is visually exciting and all that jazz, but this has nothing to do with Non-Euclidean Geometry... My surprise is that I though this video will give some 3D intuition on this topic, but nay.
Is it really 'thriving if it's just operating by feeding off the carcass of what Jobs forced into existence or only trivially evolving it?

Innovation and bringing that to market has been sorely lacking from apple of late.
I think GA did away with the restriction on PII last year or thereabouts.
For Proof-of-work, one wants to incentivize many miners to join the network and mine blocks and thereby increase the security of the network. Others agree the reward is too high at present; the upcoming Constantinople hard fork will reduce the block reward from 3 to 2.

I think the developers didn't anticipate that it would take so long to get to proof-of-stake, and also did not anticipate that the price of Ether would go so high and thereby bring so much mining power on board.
Once you lose that giant bezel, you get it back immediately by putting that phone in a case.

And very few people won't do it to a phone that costs several hundred dollars to buy, and that will likely suffer considerable damage if you ever drop it on any hard surface without a case.
If you spend a bit more, you can find ones that will trigger USB-PD without you having to plug a device in. Will also test the various protocols like Qualcolm's Quick Charge, Huawei's FCP, Samsung's AFC, etc.
Such an idea sounds like it would be pretty easy to simulate, and know its capacity. I'm still not convinced until I see data. You're optimizing the road network to its maximum, but that might still not be enough to prevent traffic given a point to point system. But, maybe it is, I think we'd need to see data. Also, I'm not sure all the assumptions make sense, I'd be surprised if safety was all about reaction time, there seems to be an upper cap here, where even if you had instantaneous reaction times, you still need a good distance between the vehicles to avoid a collision.
I don't know what you mean by AWS? They don't rely on V8 for isolation, they use KVM among many other layers.
Nvidia allows only 2 concurrent accelerated video encoding sessions for consumer-grade GPUs like GeForce. It appears this limitation is enforced programmatically in Nvidia drivers. This patch is known to remove such limitation for x86_64 Linux binary drivers, allowing 60+ parallel video encoding sessions restricted only by practical hardware limits.
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Comparing Ethereum to AWS is an apples and oranges comparison at best. One is first order, and the other is second order.

You could make an argument it’s a competitor to AWS Lambda, but it would be akin to saying lxc is a serverless competitor.
I’m sure non of your cons are on the top of most people’s list. “Nerfing NFC” is probably right below “won’t run Flash”.
The whole gtk ecosystem smells off. I don't know why but projects that pick qt are by and large friendlier, better maintained and more successful.

Back in the day I tried to port xournal to gtk3 and it was a nightmare because there was so much breakage between gtk2 and 3. So much so I gave up. By comparison porting my own stupid python scripts between major versions of qt was painless.
> I wonder if there'd be less tension if repos and teams were 1:1 though

Anecdotally, yes I think it helps a lot. I was once part of an organization for which each "team" having a repo is the only thing that prevented violence :-)
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So I got started working on ML in 2015 as well, and it has gotten far easier, but the thing that has gotten easier is the engineering side of things, not the ML bits.

And tbh, "take the latest model and tune it on your data" has gotten easier, but not trivial, since the code people release for the latest model is what I would call "research quality" code. Some labs will release production-ready code, but it's pretty rare. Particularly as more labs pick up PyTorch and you realise you can't afford to run that in prod.

I think the author is right about basically everything else he says, but I also don't think it's an argument against picking up these skills, since they're going to be foundational to basically everything going forward IMO. So while there won't be a huge premium for ML engineers, it will be a necessary skill set if you want to work on challenging problems.

And at some point the curve for adding data flattens out, and it becomes cheaper to hire engineers to think than subject matter experts to label data.
> To make their intentions clear, Ethereum’s core developers reprogrammed their PoW code to create an exponential rise in mining difficulty. Known as the “Difficulty Bomb,” it began slowing the creation of new transaction blocks in late 2016 and was expected to bring ether mining to a grinding halt a few years thereafter.

> This time bomb has, however, functioned more like an alarm clock with a snooze button. In October 2017, when mining time had already nearly doubled to 30 seconds, the Ethereum team reset the clock, delaying PoW’s doomsday by about 12 months. And they will likely hit snooze again shortly.
How can Ethereum be decentralized if they can so easily keep changing it?

> In June, they decided to make a clean break and to build an entirely new blockchain—one that operates solely via PoS.

How can Ethereum be decentralized if they can so easily keep changing it?

I'm a total dilettante in crypto but if something is decentralized you can't make large-scale changes to it at the drop of a hat.

Imagine how much coordination effort it takes to change TCP/IP or HTTP.
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Selling fewer phones doesn’t have any effect on the installed base if people are keeping phones longer.
The killer feature isn't throughput. Much like 2G, 3G, and 4G before it, the killer feature of 5G will be the number of low-bandwidth devices that can be connected at extremely low cost.

Ever notice how almost all home security networks support cellular connections these days, even the lowest priced options that cost $10/month? That's 2G and 3G at work. The marginal cost to the security company is probably $0. Likewise with the Kindle--so cheap that you only pay a single upfront cost premium, largely for the hardware.

Cringley mentions the desire to supplant POTS networks, but that doesn't do justice to the market potential. Home security networks switching from POTS to cellular was an incremental improvement. The growth will come from all the various devices and services that previously weren't economically viable given installation and recurring connectivity costs. Basically, IoT, except without context IoT is a meaningless phrase.

For example, I noticed yesterday that the arcade at the movie theater switched to electronic tokens. The card dispenser had a cellular antenna, thus I assume the whole thing was completely remotely managed and probably just took a few hours to install without having to provision any local services (like a POTS line) except electricity. Vending machines, etc, are obvious [existing] growth markets, but who knows where it will go.

Anybody know who's the leading provider in this space? I've always assumed Sprint with T-Mobile in second place.
Do you remember when when phones had replaceable batteries?
If you noticed your battery would not last as long as it used to, you could just buy a new one and change it yourself, no tools or action by the manufacturer required.
There is a maximum amount of money people are ready to part with for status / stronger hardware / bigger screen / better screen / more storage / integrated experience / ecosystem / something else. And I believe Apple did hit that maximum back in November 2017. I spent 1400 EUR for my X as an early adopter so as not to wait 1-2 more months for sufficient stock in my country -- and gave the exact sum for my wife's X at the same day, so make those 2800 EUR in total -- about 13 months ago and it really tested my patience even though I am quite ready to invest solid money in good and reliable long-term tech (which mostly describes Apple's; I am also heavily eyeing the maxed out iMac Pro which sits at 14_000 EUR).

I agree Apple -- and everybody else -- does little to no innovation in the smartphone sector but I don't feel that's the only factor. At certain point prices are so high that people refuse to buy and then do post-hoc rationalization. My wife's brother loves the idea of a bezel-less phone but he is not in a situation to spend the ~1000 EUR on an iPhone X or ~1500 EUR on an XS Max so he just said "screw that, it's not worth it". It seems that many others are doing the same.

I don't necessarily disagree with you -- just adding that IMO there's a maximum price you should not test your loyal buyers with no matter how much can you sweeten the deal otherwise.
I couldn’t care less about those features. I’ve never met anyone who says they would buy a new iPhone if only it had those features.

The problem is the iPhone has been so good for a few iterations now. There is absolutely no reason to buy a new one unless you are gaming. I can’t tell the difference between the 7, the X or the XS in terms of day to day capability.

It used to be there was a good reason to upgrade every year. Now you can easily go 2-3 years without missing much.
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Apple Music is already available for Android.
I'm not familiar with the author but I agree with their first few points. But I feel there's more to it than that. Apple can afford to hold off on 5G because the networks aren't there, the "5G" term as an industry-sanctioned umbrella for related innovations is firmly in the hype-phase of the hype cycle and its various features are intentionally and unintentionally conflated (both at the origin by industry and along the way by writers and pundits in media), and because Apple is an integrated hardware-software platform distinct from the only other mobile alternative, and is therefore more resilient against a hypothetical consumer exodus over not supporting something no one can yet use anyway. Unlike consumers, some investors may see it differently, but Apple isn't in dire financial straits either.

As for use-cases that 5G will enable, industry groups are hopeful for nearly every scenario that involves sending and receiving data. But technical fitness and business models are different questions entirely. And if we're talking about the kinds of hardware Apple currently makes, 5G is to be understood solely in terms of wireless carriers a customer can subscribe to a plan for, not in some intricate use-case for machine-to-machine communication.

Unlike a more invested party and component-maker like Qualcomm, Huawei Nokia, or Samsung, their customer base isn't industry at large, but people who want a tablet-like device to carry with them. They can punt this to the next generation of phones or the one after that, they can wait out the network to be built, for the insane number of access points to be deployed, and perhaps even until their feud with Qualcomm winds down, and the state of play (solely in terms of mobile data and its utility for a smartphone) isn't going to be running circles around them for a while.
I'm not comparing them, Ethereum marketing team pitched Ethereum as a world computer not me.
iPod > iPhone > iPad

This product line was born organically within them. What you think Apple should do next? They have patented a headset so maybe that is next for them.
Unbelievable! In all of my searching and asking around for exactly this I was unable to find a suitable app. Thank you for sharing—and, to the author who may be browsing this, thank you for sticking up for us digital dinosaurs who refuse to integrate into the “library as a service” dystopia. Let me know if you ever need a helping hand.
Good thing you're not a ceo.
Apple is good about doing things so the user doesn’t have to think about it

There's a fine line between that approach and the approach of actively disregarding the user's need to control their own device. Apple too often falls on the latter side of the line, and "Batterygate" was a prime example. I certainly appreciate it when I don't have to think about something, but when I eventually do have to think about it, I need to be able to do something about it.

I do give them some credit for fixing the issue by making the phone work the way it should have all along.
> two of its three degrees of orbital freedom

Three?

> I know these things because I used to work at JPL

Ok, I don't. What are the three DoFs and how do they relate to 6DoFs or six Keplerian elements? Some background-fixing?
I agree! But that's what Ethereum was pitched as.