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Here I am with an iPhone 6 still.

It plays music, like my iPod did. As well as podcasts. I don't use any apps otherwise that don't come with it from Apple. On the rare occasion someone decides to call me it answers, sometimes (it's slow to answer, but after 3 retries, sometimes the first).

I try to answer text messages on my Mac with Messages.app. It's easier to type.

Not sure I want to upgrade. I was planning on it. I can afford it. Kind of just trying to see how long I can keep it going for fun. I think I've had it for close to 5 years now.
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I thought number portability was only a between carriers thing. SIM swapping doesn't cross the carrier border usually so would setting that flag actually fix anything?
Genomic data is by definition identified.
Before his story broke there was an AMA on Reddit about govt surveillance, I'm 90% this was Snowden. Does anyone else remember this?

The person spoke of these things happening in ways we "couldn't imagine". People were guessing at what he meant and his responses were mostly "it's much worse". One redditor posted some highly technical speculations to which the author responded "you're getting close".

Reddit's search isn't good enough to retrieve this but I would LOVE to find that post again.
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Would require some semblance of respect for one another, for the spirit of the site, and perhaps a more active moderation of those that stray.

Unfortunately we have a politically slanted article, and those who wish to comment on it to throw out their slanted opinions instead of having an intelligent conversation.
Customers who bought this item also bought: YubiKey
> just 21% of the public supports abolishing private insurance (which single-payer healthcare necessarily would require):

Why? In the UK, there's both single-payer healthcare and (extra) private insurance.
I personnaly thought it was a clever way and prefer that than an AdBlocker Wall.

You can either :

- Buy a no-ads pass.

- Disable your AdBlocker

- Click on "Naaah...journalists should go hungry."
Decisions are made by Google and then handed to Mozilla through a shady process called collusion.

The aim of this process is to play a two-step game in which:

1. A controversial change is made by either party (be it Google or Mozilla)
2. Another party does the same, thus cementing the planned direction

In this way, it becomes a weapon of mass control because most people do not know that both parties participate in a shady scheme backed by millions of dollars.
> TOTP is bad for people who don't have smartphones.

This only true if you're willing to define everything beyond the most mundane "dumb phone" as a "smartphone". One of my friends has a long list of exciting problems which ends up meaning he doesn't own what anyone these days would consider a smartphone.

But it's not like he uses carrier pigeons. His phone does have a (monochrome) screen and is quite capable of running software, it's just the software has to be crappy mobile Java from last century. However TOTP is trivial, you probably can't do it in your head but you definitely can do it in a Java 1.0 implementation and so sure enough it can be run on those phones.

On a brand new Pixel of course you vaguely wave your phone near the screen, it reads a QR code and sets everything up, he has to instead laboriously transcribe a secret value using T9 input, but the same effect is achieved - a changing code that he can input to prove he knows the shared secret.
> But to me the climate is the largest business opportunity civilization has ever seen.

I nominate this for "Most telling HN comment of 2019".
Not in California can they do that (non compete clauses are not enforceable in California).
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infinite scrolling of a limited set of items wouldn't be very true to the name ;-)

I agree with the problem of finding something again in a long, cryptically ordered list of several hundreds or thousands of items. Not sure a paginated facebook feed would solve that issue though
If viewing "private" information vulnerable to an enumeration attack, would this be considered hacking? See also weev.
For what it’s worth, a 2019 base-model Civic includes a backup camera, automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, lane-keep assist, road departure mitigation, more airbags, and every other safety improvement Honda engineers have come up with since 2004. It’s also more fuel efficient, which would reduce your consumption of fossil fuels.
Gini Coeffcicient of ETH
What is meant here by "exotic crust" of the black hole. I assume it's something inside the event horizon
Same for me! When I first bought it, I liked that it felt “premium”, but after using it for a while, I definitely have some strain in my wrist from the weight. Maybe it’s because it’s small enough to use one handed but too heavy to actually be comfortable. Have you tried a pop socket or something similar? (I have not) I’ll definitely be checking the weight of new phones from now on. I may even upgrade if the weight is less on any model. I would like to see something like the SE come out, because I want a phone that can do everything but is compact, but their solution seems to be the Apple Watch so you have a super small screen to accompany your phone instead of a smaller phone screen.
How to grow a lawn quickest way?
Any ideas and suggestions on how to grow a lawn quickest, without rolling out grass?
Hi - just wanted to confirm that this issue has been addressed and will be included in our 12.4 runner release.

MR: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/merge_requests/1...
If it cost me 10x to fill my 500 gallon propane tank, well it's back to burning wood/cutting down trees for me.
> requiring 5x agricultural land and fertiliser to get the same calories

What is the methodology used to reach this result?
So does Australia whilst not taxing on worldwide income.
I forgot to add that it is only for online purchasing (the only kind of purchasing I do for 10 years at least). It's 14 days minimum set by EU regulation. The item should not be used, but you're allowed to try, verify that it works, return it if you don't like it (no explanation at all needed), etc.
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What to do with your 401K during a recession
Uber has no USP except the network effect. They are just a taxi company with an app essentially (givent that their self driving efforts havn't fruited at all yet). If they outsource the competency of drivers to an external provider then they are just a taxi company with an app and not even their own driver network, making them even more vulnerable to someone else coming with a better app and using the same driver provider. Customers are the fastest to migrate when price is the main factor and the barrier to switch to a different app is literally just a few clicks in the app store.
To overcome this problem and reach the footer, I usually search for About page.
So this is something I was thinking about recently. Given that quantum harmonic oscillation indicates that quanta are actually defined as harmonics of a fundamental frequency, what if dark matter is simply all energy at a frequency that isn’t a harmonic? Likewise, what if dark energy is simply the quantum harmonic oscillator that is our universe undergoing damping? That is to say, it’s not so much that space is expanding as it is that the frequency of our universe is diminishing: lower frequency = higher wavelength, which appears to us like space is growing. The graph of an oscillator undergoing damping looks an awful lot like models of dark energy expansion of the universe.

If this were the case, we could think of black holes as nodes on this wave.
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Some of that was typical inter-departmental rivalry, even jealousy. The Media Lab had the big parties, the popular press attention, the visits by pop stars and celebs. And it had its audacious claims and characters. But mostly it had the money pouring in from sources untapped by other departments that functioned in the post-WWII MIT model of government funding. Personally, I'm grateful for full funding as a graduate students and the highest stipends on campus.

But that's because the LCS and AI labs were doing different stuff from the Media Lab. They weren't comparable. Computation and networked devices were a tool towards something larger at the Media Lab. Yes, there were demos didn't work, or couldn't work. In Spatial Imaging, we couldn't fake physics, so we were somewhat immune. But with years of retrospect I look back fondly on some of those crazy "unworkable" ideas and see successful modern versions of them. Broadening one's vision is supposed to be part of academia; the Media Lab just approached it in a non-hardcore science MIT way.

I also think the Media Lab changed CSAIL (when LCS and AI merged) much more than vice versa. Start with the Geary-designed building but look at the type of research and approach to funding. There's plenty of research at CSAIL that would have fit right at home at the ML in its old days, precisely because it is aimed at technology closer to end users and aligned with corporate sponsors and interests. Maybe that's because the world has changed; it's hard to interpret cause and effect. But the Media Lab was clearly a part of that.

Disclaimer: left in 1997, not part of current controversy.
You're right. Here I shop only online, I haven't been in a store (other than grocery store) for at least 5 years. When I buy something online, they deliver it same day to my doorstep, so why would I not. You can (for a small fee) use their service to pick up returned items (or return them yourself at their service center with no charge)
Is that the case for both govt and private corporate surveillance? How widespread is the use of Alexa in your area?
(Co-founder here)

Great feedback, thank you! We do have bulk editing (to update many stories at once to the same value) and an ability to update properties in Epics table views, but not Story table views. Your use case makes total sense. We’ll add your feedback to our internal Story for this feature, and if you’d like, we’d be happy to let you know if this ends up being built.
I remember this was hot about 3 years ago.

Nothing will happen unless it's integrated into the major browsers. Afaik, no one is planning that.
Show HN: Financial Data with Superhuman Abilities
technically Uber is a software company according to its incorporation and Rasier is the transportation services company.
It still creates the internet karma points thing, visible in the top corner.

And there is "but there are people WRONG on the internet!" effect, which means demonstrating domain knowledge and winning arguments drive their interest -- something that seems strikingly more common with knowledge workers (e.g. lawyers, programmers, professors), than, say, construction workers. People wanna feel smart, esp. in their areas of proficiency and dominance.

I'm sure someone will post the relevant XKCD any minute now...
(googler, opinions are my own)

This is one thing nice about Google Fi, Sim swap attacks aren't possible. Your phone number with Fi what is tied to your Google account, the only way to get a Fi phone number on a new phone is to sign into the Google account. So if you protect your account with good 2FA, your number is safer than any cell phone company (at least in the US).
The first time I quit social media, the strangest part of the experience was figuring out what to do with my random observations. Maybe I'd have a clever though, or see an interesting sight to photograph, and my old instinct was to share immediately. Without social media, I had to relearn how to let go and allow my thoughts fade into nothing. I'm glad I went through that--really showed me how my brain was being rewired in ways I don't care for.
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But nobody who would give up meat for climate change is going to be satisfied there. Your argument is a straw man.
The benefit is that instead of two rules for quantum behavior 1) the Schrodinger equation 2) the born rule , that contradict each other, you just have 1) the Schrodinger equation, which you already accepted.

There is also a higher level goal that also motivates him

> the quest for quantum gravity is being held back by physicists’ traditional strategy of taking a classical theory (such as Albert Einstein’s general relativity) and ‘quantising’ it. Presumably nature doesn’t work like that; it’s just quantum from the start.
No thanks, I can do that, and not risk my PII.
Really fascinating that you’re managing this condition by having an activity/energy level that’s absolutely extreme conpared to the average, and that this seems to be healthy for you.

I get the impression that capitalist society has a tendency to richly reward this trait when combined with some interest/skill in negotiation and marketable skills.
If you look at the history of the London Stock Exchange Group it's far from being British already - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Stock_Exchange_Group
I'm trying to evaluate the potential of each idea and really commit to the most promising one for a sometime, then iterate :)
Ask HN: Refactoring Software Documentation
Hello!

Disclaimer: I am the author of Helpinator software documentation and technical writing tool.

As a coder myself I usually apply programming approach to documentation and Helpinator is more than an IDE for documentation than an editor. Recently I was thinking about the ways I usually refactor documentation and the tools needed for it. The result was a blog post [1] on how to perform documentation refactoring using tools already built into Helpinator. But I have a feeling that I am missing some important things and I didn't implement tools for them yet. What I have so far: extract topic, extract subtopic, merge topics, move text selection to topic, massive TOC reorder. What else one might need to quickly refactor documentation?
I gave up meat for a decade and a half. It didn't do shit. Why? Because no one else did. And no one else will to any significant degree of the population. There likely are more vegetarians and vegans now than in the past based on the number of restaurants that cater to this diet but on the whole, people will not give up eating meat as long as meat exists. People are made to eat meat. What's next? Let's give up sex so that the population stops increasing? That's just as absurd. If meat exists and people can get it, they will eat it. It's that simple. And pretending like this is a solution in the face of that, even if it does reduce greenhouse gas emissions (which it almost certainly does), is a waste of time.

If people really think this is a solution, they can try to legislate it away. That won't work either because people will turn to the black market as they currently do for drugs and as they have in the past for meat and other foods when they weren't easily available (in some eastern bloc countries in the 80's for example).

This path is a dead end. Environmentalists would better serve their goals by looking towards things that are actually achievable rather than going down paths of impossibility. That is, if they actually want to enact change. A lot of environmentalists just want to be seen as trying to do something when their actions have no actual benefit.
[1] The post in question: https://www.helpinator.com/blog/2019/08/26/refactoring-docum...
We are looking at more wire tapes being built in California. It makes one wonder whether Cali would implode if Silicon Valley had a rapid decline
When startups die, they go to open source heaven
Programming seems to be one of the few fields where it's considered a sign of laziness if you don't work outside of normal working hours.

I know a lot of people (myself included) got into the field by turning a hobby into a career, but I don't think it's healthy to try to force yourself to spend 12 or 14 hours a day crunching away at the keyboard. Even if you truly do love programming.

Honestly, my advice is to find other hobbies and interests to do outside of work that are not programming related. Recharge during the week and use weekend time to work on side projects if you feel up to.

If you are feeling burnt out by the daily slog, I don't see how forcing yourself to "be motivated" to do more work will help.
New iPhone's 'trypophobic' design disturbs people with a fear of holes
The point of the article is that not eating meat have a lower effect on global warming than what mass media is shouting.

IMO limiting meat consumption is a good idea, and not only on a global warming standpoint.

However, I would say that a critique of the mass media communication on veganism is interesting.
Is the effort proportional to the effect ? Are there not more efficient ways to fight climate change ?
A writing that brings arguments - and data - against the hype is always interesting and refreshing to me.
In 2000’s it was «go vegan» publication, today its «anti-vegan».

To conclude, I’d say that every effort is counting to fight global warming, and the article is not against that idea.
I mean at the point you're writing a symbol table and associating it with an object so you can figure out which method to call in its context, probably it occurs to you that you're entirely re-creating a feature the language already has (but slower and worse) rather than just mostly doing so, as they are now.
> The other countries that tax worldwide income

When I declare my taxes here in Belgium the form always asks me if I have any income / assets abroad (I don't). I guess "tax worldwide income" refers to "if you also live abroad" ?
not even messed up,some just don't have the same means of entry or the opportunity
I absolutely see the primary effect. As a modern example, people who use GPS all the time don't seem to know where anything is.

Unfortunately, I almost never see the secondary effect. With all the time people save from using computers, we're not doing all the things we complained we didn't have time for. We're just able to waste more of it, in new ways.
It's actually FUD, because it's missing some important points

> For starters, Mozilla said that after it turns on DoH by default for US users, Firefox will contain a mechanism to detect the presence of any local parental control software or enterprise configurations.

> Additionally, Mozilla is also working with ISPs to make sure users won't use DoH as a way to bypass legally-set blocklists.

> The organization said it's been asking ISPs and providers of network-based parental control solutions to add a "canary domain" to their blocklists. When Firefox will detect that this canary domain is blocked, it will disable DoH to prevent the feature to be used as a filter-bypassing solution.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-to-gradually-enable-dn...
The obvious loophole for the businesses to use is to start charging drivers for the service, which makes them customers and not employees.
You realise this is just one publicly listed company (not a territory of China) bidding for another publicly listed company?
Brexiters: We want to be open and trade freely with the whole world, not just the EU
That’s partially true. The contract company can’t fully go poof every time there is a minor lawsuit and the company needs to still pay the state all the fees for unemployment and insurance that all companies have to pay. In the end the employees get workman’s comp, min wage and unemployment insurance but the state gets to collect a bunch of fees that they are owed.
Envy has been around for a long time, but there is plenty of evidence that modern social media is essentially Ph.D's doing everything they can to make an addicting experience to drive ad revenue.

It's designed from the ground up to be addicting and attention getting -- envy is just one of the buttons they press to trip that addiction.
Citation? How many vegetarians you know, do a single other thing (not counting 'giving up the straw in my soda')? Did they write their congressman? Do they even know that's a thing?
You're absolutely correct that the prices of these phones are insane, but let's be honest here – a base-model Samsung Galaxy S10 is $899.99 MSRP. You can get them on Amazon for $699, which puts them at the same price as iPhone 11. So I'm not quite buying the Apple tax, unless your argument is that Apple is allowing everyone else to charge high prices, in which case you may be on to something.
True, I should have said major countries. A small country has no chance, they best hope to chose the least worst partner /patron. But USA, UK, Germany, France etc can handle stock exchanges just fine without any HK (Chinese?) money /influence.
no, uber can just do what the taxi companies do, which is to charge the drivers for the service. That way, the drivers are customers and not employees.
At our house, because I like new gadgets and my wife doesn't care, I have typically gotten a new phone every 2 years, and handed my old one to her to use for 2 more.

Then we fucked up the supply chain by breaking two phones in fairly quick succession. :( She's on a 6S, and I have an 8. Both are about 2 years old now.

I love to shift to FaceID on a X-style phone, and I'm a big amateur photographer, so holy crap the photo magic in the 11 Pro is SERIOUSLY tempting even though, at this point, there's absolutely nothing wrong with my 8 aside from the lack of FaceID.

Affording it isn't an issue. I've just finally gotten old enough that "new gadget" isn't quite the slam-dunk idea it once was. LOL. OTOH, reloading the supply line with staggered phones is probably not a terrible idea...
It's probably part of the reading material for military cybersec.
Even in the US, many cattle are grazed on marginal lands, unsuitable for any other purpose.
The way we did it for a product search type website was to show a regular page first, with a "show more" button. After clicking that button, it would auto load the next page(s) on scroll. If all you wanted was the footer, you wouldn't ever experience the auto load.
I don’t imagine it would. It might be there already. The real problem was mentioned above. We risk a situation where each app has its own doh config and not all of them allow you to change it. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with doh. It’s that app developers are baking it into apps instead of the OS where it belongs.
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Was Uber beholden to any of that before this? Did they get benefits or perks? Could they form a union? What was their odds of suing Uber?
...users in the US.

Quite an important detail.
How is that "single-payer"? That sounds more like "public option", unless you mean that the NHS has an enforced monopoly on certain aspects of heath care. If that is the case, then raynier's statistic is still relevant.
It likely would have made tracking the perpetrators easier if there was a paper trail in the markets.
What's the chance of having a cancer after using it?

Very interesting invention though.
And yet in the UK we have a notorious data miner in the heart of No 10 giving an edict for all data from government websites to be fed into a central location for targetting.
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