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Can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebaity comments to HN? I'm afraid you've already done it a lot, and it's not what HN is for. As you'll see if you review the site guidelines, we're trying for something a bit better than internet default here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> Why did Gates choose to associate with and support a convicted sex offender and pedophile?

Do we know Gates was aware of it? If not, do we expect him or his entourage to background check (or at least google) everyone he is going to meet? If yes, then I guess I would want to know as well.
Very little e-waste is generated by iPhone upgrades. Apple is using 100% recycled materials now, has a trade-in recycling program, and their is a robust resell market for older devices.

I'd say the biggest e-waste offender right now is the server market. Enterprises are replacing entire data centers full of servers every 3-4 years because of depreciation and OPEX efficiency upgrades.
I think most probably do, but in my opinion the optimal way to use this watch is to wear all day and night and charge in the morning while you get ready. I've been doing that for 2 years with my Series 3 and I have never run out of battery.
Scraping and storing email addresses is how it usually happens, but most companies recognize it as illegal.
If they raise prices the ridership will drop. It is not clear if they will be able to increase revenue by raising prices.
Market Continues to Trade Sideways as Bitcoin Price Dips Bellow $10.300
I agree, and I don't care about any of these other specs either. No idea why they still list them.
One "could easily say" all sorts of stuff, but the parent was correct.

You can't suddenly shift the burden of proof to them to defend the nonsense non sequitir "every company out there that has a product in a supermarket follows every single law and regulation on the books."
I really hope so! I think we need to see wind/solar at half the cost of gas to really break gas as an energy source. And battery storage is quite expensive for now - hundreds of dollars per mwh. Of course, there are other interesting alternatives, too - thermal storage, gravity, compressed air, etc. But conversion losses will probably always limit those systems to 25-35% efficiency at best, plus much higher construction cost relative to solar panels.
Sure it does, but it doesn't ship in the box. In the box is a USB-A -> Lightning cable.
Why would people boo when the new "Pro" models have the same pricing as previous non-"Pro" models? That doesn't make sense. If anything, the "Pro" designation would be expected to cost more.

Of course, it's going to be very obvious to most people that the new iPhone 11 is the direct successor to the XR, and the iPhone Pros are the direct successors to the X, XS, and XS Max.
That's a fair point, thanks. I do still feel that the attribute is woefully underspecified (evidenced by the lack of the microformats list being updated, and the fact that it's a wiki) so in my opinion the least Google could do here is to shore that up. If they contributed to the wiki or formalized it a little bit (like the HSTS list or public suffix list) it would go a long way as far as how I feel about their additions to the attribute. I realize that's quite a lot to ask for "just" a few new link types though.
Clean energy sounds good to me!!
The tricky part to finding the formula for a good calcium battery (as it was with lithium batteries) is getting the interface reaction to work. It's a complicated reaction that is hard to understand or predict. Brute forcing different combinations will take a long time because the search space is large. There is some work going on to make better simulations to speed up the brute force search. I'm not a battery expert; this is all second-hand from a friend who is working on calcium battery simulation.
Sorry, I was not specific enough. It's a "silly notch" to people who don't use an iPhone with the notch. If you never upgrade, it will remain a silly notch to you forever, while those who do upgrade find that it disappears completely and immediately, as I said.

If you want to watch landscape video, a double tap switches between notched and non-notched views, so you can choose if you care. Most people don't after day one.
My AMEX corporate card didn't allow me to earn rewards. I didn't know some did. It also had a personal guarantee.

From your link

>However, if your company has blocked the American Express Membership Rewards program, you will NOT be able to enroll your corporate cards.

Also

>To earn American Express Membership Rewards points, you have to pay $90 to enroll your American Express Green Corporate card or American Express Gold Corporate card.

So only worth it for people who know they will be big spenders and who won't leave the company for a long time. For someone who travels only once a year (like me) totally not worth it. I'd rather collect the ~$30 cash back on my 2.5% cash back card.
IMO a start to finish story of a simple dedicated circuit design hooked up to some housing and working in the wild would really help sell this.
Frankenpolitics: The Left Defence of GMOs (2014)
2-3 hours is still a lot when you're only getting 18, though.
The reason software engineering pay so much better than similar fields is since there is a lack of software engineers. Encouraging people to pick that option in order to lower wages to similar levels as other fields makes perfect sense, don't you agree?
Not everyone is clued into rumors or googling everyone they meet.
The market you refer to is dominated by Facebook, Netflix, YouTube, Spotify and maybe the Google Docs/MS Office apps. None of those require a pressure-sensitive screen and largely look and work the same way on mobile as on tablet.

Some iPad apps like Procreate and Affinity Publisher are designed for the pen, but considering that iPads sell in the tens of millions, I'd wager they make up a pretty small portion of the buying public.
I love the wide angle camera on my LG G5. And it's only three years young.
Semantically, I think the erosion of trust is a symptom of having larger and more consolidated companies in Corporate America.

Trust comes from getting to know people and working with them. It's a lot easier to know 10 people than 250+. I think with smaller scale businesses with fewer employees there is a stronger sense of community and trust to watch out for each other. For a huge company spread out all over, there's not a sense of really 'belonging' to a community (some may say it's more 'using' a community), so the trust is murkier.

Imagine a family of 10 people vs. a family of 250 people. How much trust would one have in a sister or cousin vs. an aunt's cousin's daughter's niece?

Now imagine how much trust an employee would have in job decisions made by a manager's manager's VP's SVP at corporate HQ. They may hardly know each other aside from name only, so why would they care about each other, let alone trust each other? They are just blips on each other's radars.
I can recommend to implement such tools platform independently so that they also run in browsers.

Trying out a web tool is much less easier and safer than installing and running a tool locally that could do anything on my computer.
If the tool looks and feels good on the web, it is much more likely that someone will install it locally.
Sure, having too little RAM matters. But the number alone won't tell you whether it's enough since it depends so much on how the OS works. You may have a better experience with 2GB on iPhone than with 4GB on Android (for example, no idea if this is true).
Yep, cell phones have reached peak feature-dom and this iPhone X style design is excellent. We don't need new fancy bells attached to it just for the sake of it. Just make it incrementally better and faster, without messing up what was good about it previously.
> I'd imagine that during that minute a countdown upon the display starts and audible alert of about to call the emergency services

There is both an audible alert and a display change with countdown before it starts the call.
Tons of shitty "here's how to use hooks for X" articles on Medium make the mistake, so people learning hooks right at the beginning will not be completely immune.

Also that the fix is "instead of using this one kind ref, use another kind of ref and put it in state"... I don't know, like I said I'm not sure if there is a better solution, but it still feels kind of unintuitive and complicated.

Now that I'm thinking about it... what is the reason that DOM refs and other refs need to be handled by the same concept? Every time I make a DOM ref, I'm doing something with it in a hook like useEffect. Why make me jump through hoops to re-run the hook if the DOM ref changes?

(I recognize there are probably good answers to those questions, the React folks are great, I just don't know the answers! Is it just to avoid introducing one more "type of thing", and instead making refs and DOM refs the same "thing"?)
It just reeks of the same lazy garbage of that whole "separating the programming goats from the sheep" meme that went around a few years back.
"It's not that my pedagogy has faults, people are just inherently bad and there's no point trying to teach them"
A perception of status. Someone I know was debating about buying an Hermes belt that had the H logo as the buckle. Looks incrediby tacky, but it sends a signal to others who are familiar with the brand.
True self driving (no driver, no steering wheel) is far enough away that we don't know for sure if it will ever actually happen.
I mentioned this in another comment, but I see battery life as solved for most people. I wear my watch all day and all night with a third party sleep tracking app. I then charge it in the morning while I shower and get dressed. That is always sufficient to keep my battery charged for 23.5/7 usage.

I had two Pebbles and the first thing that went wrong with them was the battery. If I didn't charge it every night it would die in the middle of the day.
I have an 7 plus and will hold on to it for as long as I could until a smaller iPhone (<4.5 in) comes along.
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To be clear, what is the difficult view of the cosmos?

And, what is the view of the cosmos that is not difficult? Would that be some instance of wavefunction "collapse"?
Could you share your experience with Withings ? I love their looks but I have wondered about the accuracy . I use my Fitbit Ionic mostly for tracking my daily calories burned. I was looking at Withings but I saws on message boards that it seemed to have having difficulty calculating calories. Is this still true?
These smartphones are increasingly looking like a spider with all these lenses...
Apple start to be dead in interest level of app creators. Too much restrictions..no go zone for many
Drying Clothes Near the Ceiling
https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/
I'm interested in understanding how this will play out with the electrification of cars. As it stands now, the production and distribution infrastructure is mostly used for homes. But you could easily double your home's electric consumption with an electric car traveling just 10 miles per day. If we see a quick change in electric car adoption, our production and distribution systems are going to be massively strained. We might be keeping gas and coal powerplants online just for capacity reasons alone.
Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values
Reading the product page, it looks like there will be monthly releases of new content. So it might be a merger of the two release styles: a new, complete show/movie every month.
> Humans can't even keep in the working memory more than 7 objects at once, some people can handle a few more but not on the order of hundreds or thousands. What if the real ultimate theory of physics required a working memory of 1000 objects?

This seems like a weak argument unless you are restricting humans to have no tools (in particular some kind of pen/paper or other storage mechanism).

Even a 3 register machine is turing complete. Any reasonable formalization of the human brain's computation with 7 objects in working memory can simulate a human brain with N objects in working memory if we have access to external storage.

How to do this, and whether it's effective and worth doing, that is a separate question.

It may certainly be the case that we will never truly "grok" the mysteries of the universe in the way that one may grok an elegant algorithm. But we can discover the mysteries and convince ourselves they are true, even if perhaps in a slow and roundabout way. For an example of what this may look like, take a gander at how we proved the four-color theorem using computers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem#Proof_by_co... :

> Using mathematical rules and procedures based on properties of reducible configurations, Appel and Haken found an unavoidable set of reducible configurations, thus proving that a minimal counterexample to the four-color conjecture could not exist. Their proof reduced the infinitude of possible maps to 1,936 reducible configurations (later reduced to 1,476) which had to be checked one by one by computer and took over a thousand hours

It's not as beautiful as other mathematical theorems, but any human with enough pen and paper and time could write or verify this proof themselves. After all, a computer did so, and we can step by step simulate a turing machine so that means we can do so too.
I'm worried about the proliferation revenue-based credit in Silicon Valley. Traditionally credit needs one of the following (ideally two): 1) established history of profit, not just revenue, and 2) collateral. How else are you supposed to convince creditors that you have the capability of paying it back? Stripe Capital, Brex just look at revenue streams.

Easy credit is an obvious predictor of trouble. 2008 to bring a memorable example. Anyone here has plans for shorting corporate credit? Best I could come up with is LEAPS puts on $BKLN. I'm holding some small amount, will double down if things start going south. Wish I could short the revenue-based Silicon Valley style credit. That one is quite ridiculous.
It's midnight PST–not that odd of a time for a west coast company.
It does "disappear completely and immediately" for people who have the phone with the notch.
Robert Frank was the father of the modern snapshot aesthetic that took hold in the 60s. He defined a whole generation of photography where the capturing of the singular uninfluenced moment was more important than the perfect lighting and facade present in previous work. With purpose, he showed the people ignored by the collective myth of what it meant to be American and did it with a raw style that influenced how all future documentary photographers work. I highly recommend flipping through a copy of The Americans if you never have.
They're shutting down because it's cheaper to shutter them (even including the loss of interest on money set aside for decommissioning) than to continue operating them.

Whatever seems "obvious" to us, the hardnosed managers responsible for the actual financial decisions are pulling the plug on dozens of reactors. If it seems irrational to us, it's because there are other cost factors we don't understand. That's why I like to look at the end, rather than make assumptions on what I think I know about the means.
Now we can use machines to get our orders wrong.
The FiLMiC Pro demo showed that apps have access to all four camera simultaneously at some frame rate or another, so such a thing might be possible. Matching the images would be tricky, given that all three rear lenses have different focal lengths.
Uber's core business is a taxi app and I get that there are some clever algorithms involved, but I still don't really understand how they justify the size of their engineering team.

I read that they had 2,000 engineers out of 6,000 employees in 2016, though I don't know the numbers now. That seems gigantic.
Rendering quality would be greatly improved by generating mipmaps for your rendered text [1]. It's unclear how you're rendering text in Babylon, but you might have to use a slightly different approach to improve quality.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLRender...
Have iPhone X models appeared in Apple's refurb store before today? I just checked, and they're now available. The new top models seem outrageously expensive to me.
> Most people arent plugging their phone into a computer, even weekly.

The phones have synced wirelessly for quite a long while now. And with wireless charging on the newer models, doing so is just so damn easy.

> Its very dumb that once I switch to local, that I lose iCloud.

Can’t you still rely on iCloud for saving and backing up app data, while retaining the full local sync and backup in iTunes? I don’t recall iCloud being disabled when locally syncing, and am pretty sure apps still save data to iCloud on my devices.

> Why cant iTunes use iCloud as part of its version history??

Is that really necessary when iTunes can already sync and backup the whole device as it is when you activate the sync/backup process?
That doesn't solve the problem of a driver in a car.

And we're not discussing the quality or whether or not you like their food. We're talking about replacing people with continuous speech recognition. Many people choose to and enjoy eating there. If you don't, that's fine too.
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Uber doesn't just make apps for phones.
They also have an entire self-driving car division (computer vision, etc), car routing, maps folks, payments, the separate driver apps, etc. A company that size and complexity has plenty of work for engineers.
My series 0 worked great until the glue came off of the screen last week. Screen flapped open, caught on my backpack, and ripped the connector cables clean in half. No indication of problems until catastrophic failure, and I took great care of the thing. Bummed.
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You've reminded me of an observation I made recently about Star Wars: the behavior of Han Solo (pre-Greedo-shoots-first-bs) and Darth Vader aren't that different. It's the context that matters. If you're small and scrappy, antisocial behavior makes you a charming scoundrel. If you're big, the same behavior makes you evil.
Especially with the outlook that thousands of contractors might become full time employees by law soon.
Listen pal, my eSports Twitch career won't go anywhere with just the base model /sarcasm
I think it was a fun "throw back" to when they released OSX (the previous version was called OS 9).
We had an iPad 2 onboard our boat for almost 2 years. I'd get a waterproof case like a Lifeproof. Sea spray can be especially harsh on electronics.

It was one of the best purchases we made. We use Navionics, not only were the charts cheaper for the iPad than our chartplotter. We could also connect to the boats AIS, charging equipment, navigation, and satellite phone. Easily saved us hundreds of dollars on charts. Each component had an optional screen addition (ie. small screen for the AIS) that easily was the cost of an iPad.

For our next boat we're going to drop chartplotters completely and do all our navigation and planning directly on the iPad. Just one 10" chartplotter could buy 4-5 10" iPads.
"Cutting"... I see what you did there.

https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...
I hate you for posting this, but I'm going to hold my children really tightly before bed tonight.
A related source of great frustration: put some good stuff on the web. Lots of people link to it but almost entirely from social media platforms where every link is a nofollow. Somebody else working on gaming the system with SEO makes a less valuable and useful thing, but obtains (by subterfuge or diligent direct asking) some non-nofollow links. Your high-quality content will be outranked in search results by the other less-high-quality quality content.

A reasonable improvement to this, to reinvigorate the hyperlink: social media platforms could stop using nofollow for links put in by users who themselves have built up a degree of reputation.
$40 NAND? You do realize apple doesn’t just use any NAND, right? They use high performance ones. Those cost more.
Great examples.

These measures in the U.K. were put in place to shift demand due to constraints in total system capacity - total generation, total transmission, total distribution capacity. Eg a substation transformer couldn’t handle normal daily loads plus heating, so heating load is shifted to night.

What happens when power at night becomes more expensive due to increases demand such as car charging or low supply such as high renewable penetration and no wind?

It’s all about having the firm capacity to deliver power for hours on end. So the $/mwh of wind or solar power has to go up because grids are going to say you can only have more if you can supply firm capacity. This is already happening in Hawaii.

I implemented hot water tank load switching through smart meters on at a town with its own power plant of only 850 kw so they wouldn’t run out of power at dinner time when the river was low (and we didn’t have to fire up the diesel either)
Exactly if China wins good, but democracy shouldn't help dictatorships oppress their people and other democracy. That's way more important than technological supremacy. So China has better facial recognition because everyone is in their database. Is that a race worth winning?
more electric cars would help, but wouldn't decrease congestion
How does that work in practice? Honor system? Asking to see a receipt from a cigarette purchase?
Near term, the radical contraction or failure of most businesses that directly or indirectly depend on consumerism and over-consumption as the prevailing social behavior. In America, that's a lot of businesses. In China, that's a lot of businesses. And much of the world effectively serves consumerism in these large nations.

Long term... depends? Maybe people figure out a different mechanic to drive growth and re-orient. Maybe people abandon growth as a goal and shift toward a steady-state model (this would be interesting, but would have big global power implications unless every nation signs on). Maybe people suffer for a bit before rediscovering how powerful consumerism is as an economic engine and get back into it for a while until the costs start catching up to them again.

As the foremost expert on "my view", you can depend on these predictions to capture with total accuracy what I believe to be the crippling consequences mentioned earlier.
this is a good question, not just for Uber but for many companies. It would be interesting to see how large companies utilize large scale employment, seeing the breakdown of what needs to be done, how much of it is R&D, how much of it actually moves the needle on assisting in company operations.

I work in a big organization of over 1K people and although most people work extremely hard, I still don't see how most of what we do helps the company enough to warrant a decent ROI.
I've had all 3 gens of FitBit and never had hardware issues. My gripes have all been on software (refusing to integrate with Apple Health, I don't like the new "sleep score", and I don't want a "premium" monthly payment). I did upgrade when the previous ones were no longer functional, but I had used them constantly for a few years each time.

However, I used to leave the charger plugged in my bathroom because I would charge it when I showered. I noticed the charging posts got crud on them and got smaller over time until my FitBit would no longer charge. Eventually, I started unplugging it except for when I was charging and that fixed my issue.
If I went to a party, and saw a guy there who was well-known as a convicted sex offender and convicted pedophile (Florida convicted him of soliciting an underage prostitute), I would leave.

I believe that the list of individuals is available online in real time, it's called the sex offender registry.