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And I think particularly worrisome for Apple is the parts that are potentially innovating rapidly are data-driven AI and ML where Google is better (think Google Assistant vs. Siri and the Pixel's low-light camera features).
I mean congrats to the team, but I’m really not sure there’s much scientific use in this mission. Don’t get me wrong, there is tremendous engineering and propagandist value that could lead to other high-value missions like mars etc but the reason no one is going to moon right now is that it’s kinda boring from a space point of view. India and the US went to Mars which is enormously more difficult and were able to do science experiments there—incredible. While the ESA mindblowingly landed on Titan which is insane. Congrats to the team but chill out with the hyperbole.
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I don’t mind the lack of knobs as much as I mind the lack of a notification. If Apple throttles my cpu because my battery is degraded I expect that of Apple. What I don’t expect is them doing so without telling me because I can fix the issue by replacing the battery. Since most people would understandably assume a performance degradation over time was software updates they stood to profit from this omission. That looks bad and that’s why they replaced batteries.
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I ran a popular D* pod for about 7 years, called Cryptospora.net. We had approximately 30,000 users signed up. It was with much regret that I I shut my pod down, permanently, last month. Here's why.

There were certain neo-Nazis who would get banned from pod after pod, but they just kept signing up at new or foreign-language pods, and it was impossible to prevent neo-Nazi content from being shared to my pod and being displayed in my feed. There is CURRENTLY a large amount of child pornography being shared on the D* network. It became impossible for me to stop child-porn content or neo-Nazi hatespeech content from being shared to my pod and displayed to my users.

I made a thread in the Discourse channel for Diaspora podmins, and a github issue ticket. I suggested that the programmer community within D* come together to implement some form of OPTIONAL federated moderation system, so that I could import ban lists from other pods (ones with an actual staff) and make my ban lists available for other pods to import, based on some standardized TOS formats.

The D* core devs BANNED me from their CENTRALIZED forums for podmins, including their Discourse channel, their Github issues system, and their reddit sub. Apparently discussions about moderation are a bannable offense for these guys, and they are ADAMANT that there will NEVER be any effective network-wide system for preventing child-pornography abuse being posted to their network.

I would suggest that if YCombinator still owns shares in the Diaspora Foundation, they should consider rescinding ownership of those shares, and potentially suing the Diaspora Foundation for their money back. YCombinator should not be an unwilling share-owner of a child-porn sharing network.
Most people don't know what ray-marching is but are familiar with ray-tracing which is similar. So I used the correct "ray-marching" term where I have a more technical audience like my videos, and I use "ray-tracing" for a more general audience like a gamer would see.
I would have said ray-marching here on HN, but someone else posted this, not me :P
I have a feeling that Jonathan Blow will enjoy playing with engine and work something brilliant on top of it.
Monorepos and packages are not mutually exclusive. You can and should have many different projects in subfolders I'm your monorepo, each with their own builds and tests and artifacts (though hopefully somewhat standardized). The point is that now it's easy to release changes across multiple projects, integration test between them on a specific global patch, etc, without a whole pile of complex tooling.
"Less civic-minded folks are illegally off-roading, tromping though delicate natural areas that are off-limits, and leaving behind mountains of garbage that can endanger wildlife."

It's ok to be a misanthrope.
Junior developer salaries here are low enough that people just change industry. It's also not just about the salary but the way that they work. That all being said there are start ups out here that do look for experienced devs and pay accordingly, my previous comments mostly relate to large local businesses.
As with most things the concept of "decentralization" is shades of gray. While there is no central controlling entity in the Ethereum network, there are people behind it and using it and people tend to congregate into groups with power structures.

If you want to force a transaction to be reverted you need to either create a cataclysmic event prior to the event you want changed, or you need to own billions of dollars in hardware and spend tens if not hundreds of millions on electricity currently to overpower the network via 51% attack.
SVN allows for you to create mutliple repos within a repo. (That's probably why the path based auth works).

Git has the idea of sub-modules, but they're really just filters. (They're in the same repo). So ultimately, you don't have that kind of control.
> implies that battery replacements were the dominant factor why

No it doesn't, only that it was "notable enough".
BMW doesn't raise the price of their cars every year, let alone at the pace of 30%. Should that happen to BMW, I guess the consumers will happily take their business somewhere else. It is impressive enough that Apple can keep doing this for this long and only until now we see a substantial backfire of its action.

And those car manufacturers don't have a margin that as lucrative as Apple's, which is 38% in the letter.
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It’s not overpriced because people agree and pay for its fair value.
Venera Probes. Very impressive.

https://www.universetoday.com/36684/landings-on-venus/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observations_and_exploration...
If Apple creates a new phone with an ear phone jack, I will upgrade to that.
Until then, I will keep my 6s until it stops working.
Really odd how American media coverage of this event is so thin and most comments in social media are negative. I suppose the Chinese didn't help by keeping it really quiet themselves until it landed.
You and I both know that the comments section of HN lacks sufficient space to discuss all the things we thought of / could think of :)
It's almost assembly -- far from designed for proof of concepts. It's a toy for folks who enjoy challenging technical limitations such as low resolution, limited storage and processor power (not to mention palette).

Tight constraints tend to breed innovation, however.
Extensive discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18807723
I guess what I'm picturing is the first time you plug in your keyboard/Yubikey/whatever, your system prompts you "A new device 'AcmeCo USB Keyboard' (VID=xxxx/PID=xxxx) wants to provide service(s): Keyboard Input. Allow? Once/Always/No/Never." After that, your system saves that combination, and assuming you authorized it permanently, whenever you plug in that VID/PID, it has access to be a keyboard.

If it tries to present another HID later, that would result in a new prompt, the same as a brand new device. If it changes HID while plugged in, that could even be a more severe message along the lines of "Hey, this keyboard just tried to become a video adapter and thumb drive, that's really suspicious and you should probably destroy it with fire".

Likewise, VID/PID changing without being unplugged/replugged in, changing too quickly, or even just after too many new VID/PIDs in a short time period should result in a temporary lockdown -- in the same way fail2ban blocks repeated login attempts from a given IP.
That's a big reason I didn't move to the XS. I use my phone on low brightness a lot, and the flicker is worse with brightness lower.

Is this intrinsic to oled, or will future versions be able to avoid this?
Yes because humans are still the end users here and humans congregate into groups. Network effect is a human trait. In order for any network to be useful it needs a majority of people agreeing to use it, and to that end it ends up with inertia. There is no utopia, there's just "more decentralized" or "less decentralized"
None of the top 10 best selling cars in the US [1] are what I would call “premium”. Do you really see a $36k Toyota Camry as being above average?

I’m not saying the price isn’t insane, but there’s a big gap between that and a mid-range 7 series for $96k.

1: https://focus2move.com/usa-best-selling-cars/
Anyone that doesnt adopt innovation ends up holding onto archaic technology. The same people judged for the removal of CD drives. It’s usually always a minority voice and it doesn’t have much value in the overall trend of technology and market adoption.
The passion is actually for the application of the scientific method in a field that is simply rife with misinformation and ideologues, but thanks for casting aspersions. I can assure you that you haven't made a very strong intellectual argument for your case though.
Also, I should have mentioned, but concurrent compilation of Wasm (for incremental tierup) essentially puts the final nail in the WX exclusion coffin. (but we deployed that long after the first reason, lazy compilation for asm.js). The only solution in the long run afaict is out-of-process compilation, which we will explore this year.
Wikipedia seems to say the rover mission duration is 3 months, yet the previous rover traveled for a year and transmitted a bit longer. The Chinese seemed quite coy about it failing last time (as with many things) so perhaps underpromising in this case?

The article doesn't mention it either but I thought this was all preparation for China's planned permanent radio telescope on the far side which would be a huge boon for astronomers by escaping Earth's EM interference.

Also out left field is the 3kg "self sustaining" biosphere of silkworms and plants with a camera inside. Interested to see how long it survives.
you must be new to chinese state rhetoric
That is so cool, can't believe had never heard of it:
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Same. Went in the last day of 2018 and got the battery replaced on my SE even though it was only at 88%. Hoping it lasts for long enough that design trends change and apple issues another SE or even an original iPhone sized phone.
The hyperbole is perhaps a bit much, but ridiculous statements that there isn't scientific value don't help either. There are ride-along scientific payloads from Holland, Germany, and Sweden, and they landed in the oldest crater on the moon which may reveal secrets about its origins.
There could be another reason why most people decided to follow the DAO fork: perhaps it's simply because they agreed with the actions taken by the Ethereum developers to return the money to the shareholders instead of leaving it to the thief?

Or do you believe that users would have followed the developers even if they forked the chain to pocket all the money themselves?
I’d buy several. It was the most best way to give family members an affordable way to be part of Apple’s ecosystem and now I’m weighing Apple’s pricing vs disappointing them with an Android device when it’s time to upgrade.
Nordic has the nrf91, which should be fairly high volume and low cost. I'm sure other companies have similar solutions in the works (TI and Silabs probably have something).
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An advantage of ray-marching is that the acceleration structure is built into the shader math, so it requires no additional memory or loading.
This allows the fractal to evolve in realtime, which could not be done with ray-tracing without regenerating the bounding boxes or octree every single frame.
>> If I can set my phone to ignore all the data at the first hardware level, and it is a simple enough level that no attack is viable (that second one being a large "if"), then there is no large problem anymore.

> My old no-name Android phone (not USB C) has such an option, and searching around it seems to be a reasonably common feature, although not present on all devices.

I use one of these. The nice thing about the newer versions is that you can verify the impossibility of a data connection through easy physical inspection.

https://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-3rd-Data-Blocker-Pack/dp/B00...
Smart money is already out because the market is in a downturn and people are in denial. Smart money buys in when weak hands sell at the worst moments. More down before up.
I’m skeptical of any reporting that refers to a crypto asset’s “market cap,” as if there was enough liquidiy somewhere in the system for all HODLrs to exit at anywhere near that price.
Thanks, I feel like I’m the crazy one when people talk about “just fork it” in response to the fact that developers of any specific coin could crash it at any point. That’s not how it works in reality.

Bitcoin could be entirely ruined by a couple dozen people around the world in different ways at any time. Eth and other coins even more so.

The idea of who “gets trusted” in these coins is just nuts. I’m not anti-coin... but man, I’m feel like I’m far enough from it to see a reality that many want to ignore.
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This makes me mad. Billions are being poured into medical research and I wonder how much of it is being wasted. Several weeks ago I heard that some study concluded that moderate amounts of alcohol and coffee are good for you[0]...Argh.

[0] https://abc7news.com/health/alcohol-coffee-could-be-key-to-l...
The lock-in is real, especially when you’re younger and more vulnerable to peer pressure. I doubt my kids would appreciate being the cause of a downgrade from an iMessage group to MMS.
Apple does not "always throttle the CPU". Battery performance management only kicks in when the battery starts to get low. A fully charged iPhone battery, even an old one, can supply sufficient voltage for max performance. Peak voltage falls off only as the charge is depleted.
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> I’m really not sure there’s much scientific use in this mission

LOL what???
This is special pleading; there is no stock, no matter how blue chip, for which the market cap reflects the price at which all 'hodlers' could simultaneously sell their position.

That's just... not how markets work, at all.
I believe the eventual plan is a radio telescope on the far side of the Moon, it would have huge scientific merit.

One of the mission goals here is to test for radio "silence" in the region.
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Why would the minority side of the partition go offline? How would it even know that it's on the minority side of a partition?
USB-PD only raises the limit from 3 amps to 5. It doesn't increase the risk of fire very much at all, even in a counterfeit cable.
iPhone upgrades are slow because Moore’s Law is dead and, guess what... the new iPhones don’t offer significantly better performance per physical size.

(And note that Moore’s Law being dead just means density doesn’t double on schedule. I am not suggestion there is zero progress in semiconductor technology.)
> You also have to provide the immigrants with whatever social spending to which locals are entitled

Do you? Why?

I'm not saying you shouldn't, but I am saying this is an assumption worth questioning.

Also, consider that adult immigrants save your social services one of the biggest costs borne by our society - a K-12 education. Someone with a high school diploma arriving to the US is a flat-out gift of ~$140,000 worth of education.
Voxatron from the same developer is also a lot of fun. I got both in a bundle deal for like $15 I think. Well worth it.
Can you show when this has successfully happened? Can you show a popular coin that the devs went one direction with, a different group didn’t like, forked, and became more used than the original?
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While i could easily afford the latest Phone, i can simply no longer justify the price to myself any longer. I was a big iPhone user ever since the iPhone 4 came out, but last month i got my very first Android. A Xiaomi A2 for $200, that is roughly $600 less than the XR.

Needless to say the latest iPhones (8, XR, XS) outperform this device in every aspect, but the Xiaomi A2 really is top bang for the buck. As for the other money saved, thats $600 more for my kids education fund.
Another thing is that yesterday made a triple top on ESH19 at ~2520 on the daily timeframe after all the pension buying last week of dec, so the recent run on equity indices were already facing some pretty stiff resistance.
I thought I was imagining it until I saw your comment. Interesting that some see it, while others don’t though.
A growing population in CHicago proper is not a problem. It's the solution. The problem is the growing population in the Chicago suburbs, getting more and more land paved, and thus worsening the stormwater problem.
Actually, reading your comment made me realize that perhaps one thing that is making people less likely to upgrade is that there are now so many versions and models that it's not readily visible how "old" your phone is, so there is less status-climbing pressure to upgrade.

I mean, when I read your comment, I couldn't remember how old the iPhone 7 actually was - I had to Google it. The iPhone XR, XS Max, XS, X, 8 Plus, 8, 7 Plus and 7 were all released in a span of just over 2 years. With so many different models, I think there is probably less social pressure to upgrade because it's no longer like "OMG, why do you have the 3-year old iPhone?!" when no one can remember when all the jumble of versions came out anyway.
No silver bullet here, I think.

It's definitely the case that a mega monorepo doesn't, in practice, have the atomic commit property. E.g. once you add owner files and separate code reviews, you're in for a world of hurt. Case in point, Google developed an internal tool to split cross-cutting CLs into manageable pieces, wrangle all the owners and approvals, presubmits, etc, and then submit the CL piecemeal--i.e. not atomic.

Chromium uses a different model. It just DEPS's in other repos at pinned versions. That has a whole other set of problems.
The best phone you can fit in an iPhone 4-sized package isn’t signicantly better than an iPhone 4.
Great article, there aren't many resources for writing proc macros right now.

However, I think this could be done with a generic impl of WritableTemplate for all T where T: Template.
This trope is like 2016 (or whenever the hell it was) either way it’s old and it’s dumb. Buy a dongle, attach it to your headphones and leave it or get air pods. That is what the market is doing. I mean I’m not thrilled with lack of a headphone jack but the overall market for iPhones doesn’t really care.
Do you have links to the GitHub issue and other discussions that you were banned for?

Edit: found one: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/7866
Or... the Chinese phones are better (for them).
Since it seems like the season of anecdotes, I will also chime in.

I thought iPhone 7 was good enough until I tried the iPhone XS. It is far superior in every way over iPhone 7, and I am very happy I made the purchase.

The webpages load before I say blink, the screen is big, and I am enjoying reading books on it now. Other than that the camera is excellent and better everyway over my old iphone. I am not making this stuff up.
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More used? No, but why is that necessary? Wide use is all that's necessary. Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum Classic are traded on all crypto exchanges that matter.
Mine was when laptop tried to charge screen and not vice-versa, using Amazon USB-c to display port. In the end, laptop gets new mother board.

To be fair, OSX warned me something was drawing too much voltage, and I still tried it like 5 times after that, but the screen did flicker on a few times and work for a sec before it all went kaput.
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