skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do people with electric cars only charge once per week? I concede There could be some demand response if people could know that they can charge for less every Sunday night. But as you say when you are empty you are a price taker.

I live near Vancouver which features the most expensive gas in North America, and decent public transportation, and I believe traffic is the only thing that keeps people from driving more, not cost. So demand seems inflexible over the long term, and with electric cars I think you have even less flexibility to choose your time and place to charge, unless charging becomes ubiquitously available.
Lots of people disappointed in the new iPhone. The reason I see is simple; Apple has long been outsourced a large fraction of its hardware innovation capabilities to other companies rather than having a full vertical ownership of the production line, unlike its competitors (Samsung, Huawei, etc).

This works very well when most of the required technologies are already there for bringing their idea to the reality so Apple doesn't have to push the state of the art for the manufacturing technologies. Multi-touch, Retina Display, Apple designed SoC were all good examples where this strategy worked out very well.

The trouble is that now most of the low hanging fruits are gone and the rest of innovation opportunities lie within the manufacturer side and require non-trivial investments. For instance, getting rid of notch requires camera under screen technology. This is being developed by Samsung, their competitor. The same thing applies to fingerprint sensor under screen. While all the competitors are shipping 5G in their flagships, iPhone 11 couldn't ship 5G due to their hard dependency on Qualcomm. In short, the current landscape doesn't allow Apple to keep itself on the bleeding edge in the smartphone business.

I'm curious about how Apple will address this problem. Disappointingly, I haven't seen any positive signal to indicate that Apple has a good plan to address this issue. It first tried a high-price, even-more-premium strategy and this turned out to be a disastrous one. Apple now tries to expand into the services business and chooses to be a competitor to its own ecosystem by exercising its dominant position. I'm pretty sure that this plan will work very well, maybe too well sufficient to de-prioritize the iPhone business just enough to keep its marketshare around 3~40% and make no more commitments. I hope I'm wrong.
It's not just millennials, really successful people are starting to move to smaller metros so they can have big houses and less negatives.

There were a series of NY chefs that moved to Minneapolis to start restaurants so they could have a yard, a dog, and an interesting menu customers appreciated.
This service is super useful, I use it to test the custom domains feature in my app.
>> but that doesn't mean we should join in on it as outsiders and say things like "well at least he gave the guy some precautions for the future".

An extreme version of this, where social approval is expected by perpetrators (sometimes justifiably) is vigilantism. It is illegal, and society is worse off for it in a general sense, and yet...

Compare a blackhat who takes over all the routers and sells the botnet to organized crime ring vs a grayhat who does the same but instead patches the vulnerabilities on the devices or uses them to do internet census and puts the data in public domain. Both are illegal acts and both have victims (maybe some devices are bricked in the process), but one is definitely worse. And that is true even if in both scenarios all the devices got bricked so consequences are exactly the same.

>> rather than providing leniency in punishment after the fact

I meant judgement more in social disapproval sense. As for actual judges, they already have some leeway and often use it. There is a reason politicians who want to be seen as being tough on crime like to introduce mandatory minimums.

I agree that crimes are better prevented by reducing a need to commit them, but taking into account intent and mitigating circumstances is one of the ways to do that. Mandatory minimums just make sure criminals leave prisons with a Phd in crime instead of a mere Bachelor's.
At least I’m happy to see small form factor still got audience.
I have that issue with it. The images of the phone make me physically uncomfortable
I am at loss how is this connected to free will at all. I always though of it this way: If I was born with the exact same DNA and if I had the exact same experience as another person, given the exact same options, would I always make the same choice. If yes, then there is no free will. But it seems impossible to reproduce the exact same situation.
Huge caveat: "among nonimmigrants."

The article is about white flight. LA and NYC's populations have grown over the past 2 decades, and Chicago's population is roughly the same over the last twenty years.
The best phone form factor ever made. I loved my N4.
Man, I really need to keep better watch out for opinion pieces. Not that I disagree with this guy, but I'm looking for information, not moralization. Here's a NYT news article about the subject: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/us/politics/terrorism-wat...
Same. I bought a 7+ when my 6 died, and I hated every minute with that phone. My X is, IMO, the best iPhone I've ever owned, and have no real desire to upgrade. Usually I upgrade every 2 years, on the "S" cycle (the 6 was an aberration), as I cared more about performance than having the latest 'look' phone.

This is probably the first time I haven't felt the hankering at the 2 year mark.
It's exactly like the laptop and desktop refreshes. Nobody who bought a 2016 MacBook Pro has any business buying the 2019 model. The performance gain and overall differences are far too slight for that to matter.

But that doesn't mean you just stop updating your products every year.
> the biggest infringement of fundamental rights in a plain daylight in the free world.

Guantanamo Bay ring a bell?
It's just occurred to me I never made that connection - every I know just calls it the XS (ecks-ess).
”Garmin's flagship watch has a feature that extends the battery life”

By about 15%, according to that page. Anybody know how realistic Garmin’s battery estimates normally are or have a pointer to a real world test? I find it hard to believe that a watch’s face would be facing the sun a lot, even when not wearing a coat or long-sleeved shirt.
If there’s “more capacity” in the same volume it is almost certainly a lie. And sellers that lie may cut corners in other areas. And lithium ion batteries can explode.
This strikes me as a sort of "Uber? I could build that over a weekend" kind of comment.

27k does sound like a lot, but your figures seem arbitrary if you've never looked at their internal software, operations, what's being developed that we don't know about, etc.
From my own analysis, about a year ago, I do not believe this to be true. Rust is memory safe, but it does not offer the type system that Ada does. The type system is where a large portion of Ada's safety comes from. They're both tackling software/system safety, but from different directions and to different ends.

Additionally, modern Ada (after the introduction of SPARK, what 15 years ago now?) offers even more safety features that I've not seen in Rust, through the form of code contracts. Conttracts which can be used as run-time checks, and (to some degree) as static proofs about the code.

Extend Rust's type system and add a contract mechanism, then it'll have the same use-case that I have for Ada.
In most of the US, probably. It's not so clear cut in London. The tube is usually faster and more pleasant. (London's air quality is pretty bad, and many Uber drivers have an annoying habit of driving through heavy traffic with the windows open.)
Yes but if it is really based on the iPhone 8 size I'm not interested.
I think it will be a close second along with domestic espionage
The Old Republic was OK with slavery and left Anakin’s mother to die. Any one of us would have done the same in his place.
I believe this was being debunked throughout this thread. The usual exaggeration and hyperbole. Instead of 'most', replace with 'some', 'little' or 'none'.

And again, all modern useful garden plants depend upon a serendipitous/random mutation in the past that introduced new genes into the line, duplicated genes for useful growth patterns, or hopped genes to where they do entirely new things for the plant. At random.

So really, none of that above was real science, but instead more careless Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt being thrown about.
I'd hate to disregard the numbers just because they don't match with my own assumed narrative. Considering this is looking at data from 1990 I'm sure there was plenty of impetus in the 90's to marginalize and ignore whole communities, so I don't know if we can assume that that is a new trend by any means.
So now I need to run a proxy on every machine, and a service mesh, and a control plane for that, which depends on its own other services.... does it ever feel like we need more infra to run our infra than to actually run our stuff?
We Built a Slack Bot for Ad Operations Workers
IIRC this only applies for on-sites and not the phone screen.
Are black holes made of dark energy?
Am I correct that if a Watch user goes far away from his/her phone, receives a SMS during that period of time, and then comes back, the notification is never shown on the Watch?

If so, how come this is not a #1 issue Apple needs to address? The Watch is then unreliable for notifications and doesn’t eliminate the need to check the phone from time to time. I’m amazed this is not talked about.
I'm pretty sure that fall detection only activates when it senses rapid acceleration. Just because you stop moving doesn't mean you'll trigger fall detection.
Having ergonomic equipment is pretty important IMO regardless of the job.
That's what I used to do with my Pebbles. I recently tried an Android Wear watch (TicWatch C2) for a few months, and it failed to live up to my expectations for battery life. I'm now using a Fitbit Ionic, and it fits the bill quite nicely.
Did you read the second comment on that link from Spooky23? It is legal. Also the second linked article ascribes to the practice being legal. It was a Propublica report.:

"Yes, you are. The events surrounding what happened to my wife was very painful (an ectopic pregnancy that nearly killed her), and a thoughtless reminder was very unwelcome. I still feel violated and betrayed.

In our case, I found out the marketing list from Enfamil and bought it for my zip code. _I complained to the hospitals’ privacy officer and the state regulator and found that everything was legal._

There is a lot of data on the topic...

Prescriptions: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/10/medical-d.... Linkage to lifestyle data: https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/18/health-insurers-personal....

In our case, the hospital pharmacy issued drugs to her indicative of a pregnancy. The pharmacy or insurer provides that information in real time to data brokers. The pharmaceutical companies assign quotas and send salespeople for certain drugs. There are other ways for data to get out that we’re not certain of. Perhaps the insurer “anonymizes” and sells subrogation information. Or the lab. In any case, they knew that my wife was admitted to an OB floor of a hospital, but didn’t know the outcome.

It’s not going away. The US government uses these same techniques with companies like Google to combat extremism or terrorist conversions — they actually use factors like this to target potential recruits with counter-information via ads. "
I live in Baltimore. We have more murders at a population of 600,000.
Warframe is pretty guilty of the many resources trade off, and starting out the game you're basically forced to pay for more warframe slots because you don't really have good enough loot to grind the good loot that people will trade plat for. It's a strange design decision because one of the main draws is how fun/different the different frames and weapons are. I'm hopeful they will address that in the future new player experience rework because I believe they make the majority of their money from the primes and cosmetics.

They support the hell out of their game though. I just started playing again and there's so much new stuff to do.
How does Warp deal with IP based ratelimiting (eg: Google) and geographic restrictions (Netflix and Youtube)?

Also curious if Cloudflare is using fully audited and libre systems like some VPN providers do, so as o ensure privacy claims are worth the paper they are written on.
As long as the Fed keeps lowering interest rates
Hear hear! The City of Cape Town nearly ran out of water a couple years ago. We all learnt to use much less water. People invested in rain harvesting water tanks and grey water systems. Well as a reward for saving so much water the city has now imposed a "water tax" [0] to cover up for the revenue shortfall because we are not using enough water. Parking bays that have been around in the city for over 100 years are now require you to pay a hefty fee to park. Cities are just becoming too expensive and my own personal gut feeling is that there probably to many city managers wanting to earn bonuses by increasing revenue collection.

[0]https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/cape-town-water-tax-wha...
Any number of reasons. They might be high performers in skill sets not needed in those business critical projects. You might be leery of the time needed to get up to speed on something completely different.
Is Regus really pin compatible with WeWork? WeWork offers cheap 1-desk offices with Internet/utilities bundled. Last I checked, Regus offered a "1-desk office" that was much more expensive, could fit several people, and didn't include amenities like Internet bundled.

There were online retailers before Amazon, too.
> It strikes me that if Uber is laying off software engineers, their company outlook must be very, very dire

I doubt that. Uber's place in the market is very much theirs to lose. It's more reasonable to think that this is the market for software engineers in SV/SF starting to correct itself.
Though it considers it "non-standard" the word also exists in the Oxford English Dictionary: https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/99668
I think this depends on whether other manufacturers go that route. Apple would rather have their own Watch cannibalize iPhone sales than some Android Wear gadget.
Something I'm curious about is how this will affect plant manufacturers. Specifically I'm thinking about generator manufacturers like MHI, Siemens, GE, Toshiba. Do they just shut those divisions down and move on?

There's also a lot of other businesses that exist for building/maintaining/repairing plants and equipment that are non-OE and their futures seem grim.
Yup, I think they specifically referred to polished steel in the keynote as well.
And a nuclear plant costs about the same to run whether it's running at 100%, or 20%. Fuel costs are negligible relative to capital and operational costs. So when lower-cost competition appears and eats into the demand for nuclear power, it actually increases the per-unit cost of nuclear power, which makes alternatives more compelling, which eats into demand, which turns into a cost death spiral.
Glad to see the companies we know and love getting into healthcare:

Amazon: People who shopped for MRIs also shopped for...

Facebook: You have been tagged in this x-ray...

Apple: Glucose Monitor Pro, starting at $999/$42 monthly (gold/64GB, Apple Pencil and iCloud storage sold separately...)

Google/YouTube: Dr. Oz, Stephen Fry, and Ben Shapiro DESTROY healthcare in amazing TEDx talk...
Disruptive Testing – Matt Heusser
But three lenses
>I would say far more people have a lightning device than a USB-C device right now.

This seems funny since Android outsells Apple 4 to 1 and Windows outsells Apple 5 to 1, (and Android and Windows use USB-C for phones and laptops respectively). So quick math here would tell you that USB-C penetration is 4 to 5 times more broad than lightning based purely on sales.

EDIT: Also Apple uses USB-C on some laptops, so those numbers would affect it too
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Doesn't Apple support deleting builtin apps from the phone now?
Reviews of this camera are pretty bad. It doesn't produce better photos.
Meh, the pixel seems more interesting (although google is terrible for privacy) the only good news is on the better battery / also I think they killed 3D Touch no?
Don’t forget the industrial scale tax evasion
Because otherwise they're not ``growing''. A company with just enough people to maintain what they already have can't promise to take over the world or whatever.
Yea, and now you have to have two cars (car payments, insurance, gas, car tax = $$$), and you have to worry about your kids getting hit by a car when they're outside of the house, even in their front yard.

Housing in other parts of the country is absurdly expensive too, unless you go to "low-CoL" locales, but then you run into the problem that there's no jobs there, or the jobs pay peanuts, so unless you banked a bunch of money while you were living in the high-CoL area, you're not going to be able to afford one of those nice houses anyway.
Thanks. That confirms pretty much the picture I had in my head of how Redis works these days.

It's frustrating that there's no obvious middle ground this and Kafka and Pulsar, both of which are memory-hungry JVM apps with multiple external dependencies. Both require ZooKeeper; Pulsar also requires BookKeeper. None of these components are operationally simple.

I'm a fan of NATS itself, but NATS Streaming's clustering design leaves a lot to be desired. In particular, it punts on failover/HA, asking you to instead run an SQL database or shared file system that provides this. (An obvious low-maintenance option here would be CockroachDB, but NATS doesn't support it.)
Not even exclusively for work. If I'm away from my desk for any reason, be it in my vehicle, in the server room, at a friend's place, and I need to urgently know something I always reach for my phone. My phone has my passwords and credit card numbers. My phone gets me connected to all my friends, near and far, for whatever reason. I have access to my email and most critical documents. I use the cameras and microphone to document my life, my projects, and special moments to me. And let's not be glib about it, it's a great tool for passing time between when I'm doing useful and fun things. I can browse Reddit while waiting for my wife to get her hair done.

I find it odd how people will happily pull their wallets out for a PC they will spend a ton of time on, but then balk at the idea of spending half that on a device that lives in your pocket and can help you do practically anything that comes to mind, even if all that comes to mind is entertain you for a few moments. Is it just down to the physical size of the device?
Is it really innovative, though? Solar-powered digital watches have been around for nearly fifty years.
Same. This is something I wouldn't have anticipated before buying the watch. Somehow, my habit formed around charging it when it needs charge rather than overnight.
The bad news is: There is no Android alternative either. Phones with 4" and good processing powers and reasonable cameras just don't exist. Really dire situation. I guess I have one more year with iOS 13 before I'll need to get used to use an outdated iOS.
Get an iPhone 8 instead, probably the best value out there for iPhones.

If you are worried about shelling out money, remember that an iPhone 8 isn't $449, it's $449 minus whatever you sell it for in a year (probably not much less). And it's even less if you just buy it used or Apple refurbished in the first place.

The iPhone SE works fine but the screen size is too small for many apps that get scrunched up pretty badly. You’re using a screen size that a very small fraction of Apple users are still using, which means app developers don’t care to make it work nicely for you.

The camera is bad by modern standards, I can see a big difference even for small 4x6 prints, and Touch ID is the slower 1st generation. It's just really old hardware all around.

On the plus side, it has good battery life, a headphone jack, and it's still an iPhone running full iOS.
With you up to the conspiracy theory at the end. Doesn't take a conspiracy; just a need to pay for what things are costing.
To clarify, since I can no longer edit my comment, HN should be aware of other layoffs as well, especially layoffs due to automation...
Agreed, I'm curious what they are actually working on with a team like that. Although they do have a not unsubstantial physical data center presence so I think a fair number of engineers are in support of that and not software engineers.
I agree that TypeScript is great, but I've seen it used to establish its own kind of technical debt is what I'm trying to say. If you establish types for your poorly designed application it will only entrench bad design deeper. So, throwing a type system at that problem isn't actually helpful at all in cases like that.

I agree though that using TS and not worrying about actually defining types can be great. I do think you can run into sort of wandering inference bugs or cases where other peoples' types can be poorly defined, but that's a rare problem in my experience and well worth the benefits you get otherwise.

Anyway, I'm definitely not trashing TypeScript or suggesting no one should use it or anything. I almost always start new projects with it.
Your connections are likely routed to where Opera has available resources to handle servicing you.

Bandwidth in Asia and parts of the Americas is very expensive, whereas bandwidth in European datacenters is close to free.
Well, I suppose you can always attach a USB harddisk, right (?)
https://mobile.twitter.com/cindygallop/status/11700878902374...

The idea Gates was unaware of Epstein's past while arranging million-plus dollar donations with him is adorably naive.
Everyone knows what you mean, but the technically accurate account is that during normal use or while sitting still on a desk, the device's accelerometer registers an acceleration of approximately 1 g directed towards the center of the earth, and when the phone starts falling, the acceleration drops to approximately 0.

(Then the acceleration will asymptotically approach 1 g again as the device's velocity approaches terminal velocity, but well before then the software will have determined that the device is in free fall.)
This is the lowest end iPad for students and people who just want a basic tablet, it's also only $320. It has the CPU out of the iPhone 7 and pencil and keyboard support. I own the previous 2018 one and combined with the pencil it's a pretty great tablet for a good price. Used it a lot for note taking in the past and to control media around the house.