skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of fuss about which institutions accepted money from Epstein, and who dined one evening at the same table with him.

There is much less interest, it seems, on the big picture: we're talking about someone who had been convicted for sexual abuse of minors and sex trafficking, with about 34 minors involved; convicted for just one case, allowed to benefit from a non-prosecution agreement, given a joke sentence and let go. The judge who allowed this said "I was told he belonged to intelligence and he was above my pay grade". I had a hunch this judge might have died later in mysterious circumstances, so I googled him. He's not dead: he became the US Secretary of Labour with Trump.

So Epstein was free to fly around with his private jet full of underage sex slaves, to and from his private island, and to keep meeting and forming ties with powerful people from all over the world- industrialists, politicians, presidents, royals. In his safe they found money, diamonds, and a fake passport with stamps from many countries.

The other day I was reading a random conversation on the internet from a couple of months ago. One person was recapping these facts, another was replying: "if this is true, Epstein's life in prison will be very short". A few days later he was dead. The guards were not watching and the cameras were not working.

The picture that is forming is that of someone managing a high end prostitution ring, for many years, probably with the intent of collecting blackmail material, and probably working for some foreign intelligence.

That Elon Musk, Minsky or anyone else might have met him at a dinner table should be absolutely the last of our concerns.
“The economists John Schmitt and Heather Boushey found that among 24-to-35-year-olds, almost 20 percent of college graduates “actually do no better than their counterparts who left school after high school,” even before taking college debt into account.”

Well, duh. It takes time for a degree to generate a return. (And besides, what’s with this crazy wording? Why not say that more than 80% do better?)

Try looking at 45-to-60-year-olds. I seriously doubt that those with no degree are doing just as well as college graduates in that age group.
Out of curiosity, using what service?

I have wondered if they use the refurb store to clear out new inventory at a discount, but retaining more revenue than if they sold to a retailer. By officially discontinuing a product, they can force (most) people into buying one of the new models.

Protip: the extended warranty that comes with buying something with a credit card DOES NOT APPLY to refurb purchases. That means if you buy a refurb, or even if Apple swaps your device for a refurb when you take it in for service, you can't utilize the extended warranty.
There are probably also some age-cohort demographics at play. As millennials start to have families, the suburban (or small-urban) lifestyle becomes more appealing. It's a big generation, so they pull the demographics around. Who knows, they might even drag some of their Boomer parents who were living the fun empty-nester-downtown-lifestyle back out of the big metros with them.
You can remove the icons from the home screen, but it doesn’t actually delete the app from the device storage. They’ve said that’s in case you need or want one of the apps again; it’ll “reinstall” essentially instantly.
The nobility provides digital “land” to the serfs in exchange for data, time (being an audience), and sometimes money. The serfs choose where to spend their resources, and by doing so they increase the value of the lands while also becoming more reliant on them (less likely to migrate, more likely to come to their defense).

Edit: this focuses on the commoners side, and I agree with what JetSpiegel said regarding the top-level aspect.
Apple stopped providing battery talk time on iPhone 11
It's tunable for one, and it might be very fast to tune. At very high frequencies these are targeting (>50ghz), making an antenna suitably wideband to cover the entire bandwidth of some service is difficult and might result in a compromised antenna.

For security applications, the ability to turn it off is kind of nice; no antenna = no backscatter. OTOH how stealthy can a plasma antenna be when it is on?
Yeah, I was looking forward to pickup up last year's tech at a discount. Pretty lousy of them to force people to decide between super high price and 2-year-old tech (esp with the screen diff).
That's the beauty of open source software - you're free to fork and I'm free to continue using GIMP. If GLIMPSE offers better functionality in the future then I'm free to switch.
I'm not talking about real-time demand matching/load shedding here as a consumer solution - as I mentioned, I think matching on a day-ahead (and perhaps also eg 6-hour ahead) basis could well be a lot better than we have now because wind and solar generation is quite predictable on a day-ahead basis, as are outside temperatures (so eg for space heating energy consumption may be relatively well predictable too).

The beauty of this type of approach is that it can be done by incrementally building on things which already exist.

There's already an electricity market, including day-ahead pricing in most pools. Professional power traders already trade these markets. Smart meters already exist and are capable of dealing with pool prices not just flat rates. Smart thermostats already exist. EVs already have the capability to stop/start charging based on more than just whether they're plugged in or not. Even better, most of these already have standardised APIs.

What's missing is the software stack which ties all of these together - and that can be done incrementally, device by device (on the load side).
What could stop this from being grey-market legal in the US? Usually it's tailpipe emissions, which obviously don't apply.
I understand your point, but GP is talking about avoiding the need for batteries by pricing people out of the market instead. If you're not using batteries, supply during dark or windless hours is inelastic, because there's nothing being generated - in other words you're not solving the problem and you can't really charge anyone anyway because there's nothing to deliver.
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That depends on how you look at it. From the perspective of meat machines, sure. But from the perspective of general intelligences, which have some ancestry in meat machines, not at all. Just something that happened way back when. Like electrical engineering.
The masses can go somewhere and build their own utopia?! This actually made me laugh out loud.

The masses are mostly average and below. They are the people living paycheck to paycheck, the working among them are on the verge of employment induced burnout, and almost all of them have no savings, and little / no access to capital. They are myopic and/or willfully blind. They have little to no situational awareness and don't solve problems until it's too late.

They are incapable, vision-less, disorganized and most importantly: resourceless - how are they going to just go and build a utopia?

The top 10% will get elysium and the 90% will get nothing.

> Im not sure that there's the stomach for active oppression throughout the whole of the ruling class.

Not personally but oppression is automated, thats the entire point. The rich live in their gated community bubble, and automation and security takes care of things at the boarders.

> Additionally, comms being what they are, cheap mesh networks can win through attrition so the masses can simply go off channel and avoid monitoring. From there the only way to find out what they're doing is through trust ie. Be (or pretend but then the entry bar gets raised) a good actor at which point the oppression stops

Mesh networks can be DoS'd easily if they become a problem. I know, I built and sold my first startup doing this.
...because they want to sell products in other countries?
Love my SE. Replaced the battery for $15 off Amazon yesterday. With replacements available on ebay for under $100, I don't have to baby my phone or use a case.

If apple offered a modern SE, I'd probably buy it, but I'm also quite happy with my SE as-is. If the SE wasn't getting iOS 13, I don't know what I'd do... thankfully it is.
Is it still water resistant?
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Another article [0] (2007) featuring the image.

[0] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/22113395/ns/technology_and_science...

EDIT:
Presentation from Igor Alexeff and Theodore Anderson (University of Tennessee):

https://www.ysc.org.ua/2011/data/i.alexeff_presentation.pdf
My TouchID drops to like a 10% success rate if the humidity's much different from it was on whatever day I set it up. Or if I've done any work with my hands in the last week or so and roughed my fingers up a bit. Or if I've looked at water in the last hour. I've configured it several times and it never gets much better. I end up using the code most of the time. Probably need to just disable it, it fails so consistently that it'd be faster just to use the code every time.

That's on a 7+, though, and Macbook fingerprint sensors seem a little better (more like 50% success rate) so maybe it's just because it's an early version of the hardware.
You're being dense. The attendees don't know ahead of time if they're going to have a major announcement or not.
2020 iPhone I've read a lot of buzz about being a pretty big release - e.g. https://sea.mashable.com/tech/6142/the-2020-iphone-already-s...
It's talking about a recent total population loss including immigrants. The article specifically discusses this.
Not in the Pacific Northwest (Puget Power).

Also, to make this work best, appliances need to be connected to the internet and the power companies need to have an internet ABI where the current power price can be extracted by those appliances.

At last, an actual use for internet connected appliances!
Or they can start driving for Uber!
Which they removed a few months ago.
> Boomers and GenX stayed for 30 years when they had pensions,

Uh, GenX was being born as private pensions were being phased out; GenX was 401K at best from day one for the most part, outside of public sector.
I suspect the popularity of the large form factor phones is boomers who have aging eyesight and motor skills.
There will always be lots of people disappointed in the iPhone. We will only know the magnitude of disappointment once financials are posted. Speaking of which, R&D spend shows they are making non-trivial investments. Apple secrecy is what keeps you and I seeing the R&D results before they are ready. "Signals" is not something Apple likes to give, which is probably why you aren't seeing any. I would argue that hardware+software integration is more important than 5G, underscreen fingerprint, or notchless design combined. Apple is the leader in deep integration across hardware and software. Services is just an extension of having a default out of the box experience for the most important experiences on an iPhone. Nothing new here. First it was "notes", "calculator", "stocks", etc. Now they are moving up the services stack to movies, gaming, etc. Next it will be Uber / delivery via Project Titan.
It’s not just about exchange rate. The cost of doing business in Europe is generally higher than in the USA. Higher taxes, more consumer protections, more employee rights, cost of localization, smaller economies of scale, countless other differences... these all add up to Apple having higher costs in the UK.

It’s not just Apple. Take a look at how AWS prices vary by region for another tech example.
... and it worked, he and Garret are each worth $10b.
Taxis are an extremely bad example as they did not operate in an open market, essentially behaving as a government-sanctioned cartel.
Asia works well, it says I’m in Singapore.

“Americas” should be big enough for them to find something cheap to host a rack.

S3 certainly charges the least for US bandwidth.
Lol. I'm looking for someone that loves JHipster, Java, Docker, Microservices, Kubernetes, and open source.
SPARK contracts look super interesting. It seems like that could let an optimizer do some great stuff and decrease the mental burden of reasoning about mostly pure functions by calling out specific side effects. What is different about its types? I don't see anything obvious. What I'd miss about rust is the borrowchecker and const by default.
The $/mwh for renewables is only part of the story. The intermittency costs they impose on the system as a whole is higher than the direct cost of producing the energy, and the only way to solve this is through improving battery technology by orders of magnitude. Additionally, the intermittency costs per mwh will increase as the share of renewable energy increases.

In general, renewable energy investments right now are completely irrational in terms of the environmental impact, as they cost up to 10x more than the total social cost of the carbon emissions they are displacing. (And also much more than _current_ carbon sequestration tech!) [0]

[0] https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/BFIEPIC_WP_20196...
Because they might not be high performers there? There is no such thing as an objective "high performer" in any area.
Went to college in 2002 as the first cohort through a newly created "digital imaging technology" program. I failed an assignment because I wrote about how SSD would become standard over HDD, something "incredibly unlikely" - I wonder how my professors feel today.
I think because phones are largely still changed on a 2 year cycle in sync with contracts.

I’ve been handing down my iPhones since day one. All of them have got 6 years minimum use.
when i was there it was 5% first year, 15% second year, 20% every 6 months in year 3 and 4.
It's anti-businesses that have business models that depend on playing loose with customer data. For the pro-business people, they don't like that, because anything that's against just about any business is bad in their eyes; the only thing that's important to them is profit.
For everyone here saying they can't vote with their wallet. You actually can. Apple is so proud of costumer satisfaction. Just buy whatever phone, use it for a day, restore backup to your SE and return the phone saying large screens are not for you. They will see it both as costumer satisfaction statistics and from reactivation of your beloved iPhone SE
My uber alg:

1) open the Uber app.

2) X - price of ride with uber.

3) open the Lyft app.

4) Y = price of Lyft.

IF Y < X -> Choose Lyft.
Else : Choose Uber.

Currently, Uber is around 20% more expensive. Not good.

The rest is irrelevant to 99% of the customers.
This is probably good news for "City Storage Solutions," Kalanick's new startup, given the volume of recruiting emails I've seen going around from them.
So what if you're temporarily in the US on a tourist (B1/B2) visa? Or on NAFTA status? Or as a non-resident using H1-B (which is dual intent)?

Non-resident alien doesn't mean illegal immigrant at all. As the name implies, it means you're a non-citizen who is also not residing in the US.
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This storage hasn't changed for almost a decade now, I'd expect 64GB to have been canned well before something like, say, the headphone jack. Even 128GB is quite low these days.
Yup:

>Apple Watch Series 5 and Apple Watch Series 3 have a water resistance rating of 50 meters under ISO standard 22810:2010. This means that they may be used for shallow-water activities like swimming in a pool or ocean. However, they should not be used for scuba diving, waterskiing, or other activities involving high-velocity water or submersion below shallow depth.

https://www.apple.com/watch/compare/?afid=p238%7CsR2VtjPIL-d...
It is said it could be used for 60ghz wifi (wisig)
I don't think we're arguing the functionality of the design; this is purely based on the phone's aesthetics. (And, for those of us with trypophobia, our opinion on the design is likely due to a deeply rooted instinctual and evolutionary reaction.)
I agree. I've been an Android user since 2009 iirc and never owned and iPhone, I am going to buy an iPhone as my next phone due to all the shenanigans Google is doing. Every damn Android phone I've bought lately has Facebook preinstalled, theres other things, but I'm done with it all.

The one thing that kills me about iPhones is the miniscule amount of storage I get. I dont want all my things in the cloud, the cloud is useless to me without access to internet. The cloud is only useful for long-term backup storage if anything.

My phone comes with 64GB and I'm using 58 of that data, I popped in a 64GB SIM card and I'm only using 12 probably cause I filled it up before and wanted to have room for more photos and stuff. I may well buy an iPhone but I want more storage space out of the box, not some cloud solution. It also annoys me that the Macbook Air starts out at 128GB, that gets eaten up so quickly as a developer.
The point I was trying to make which I didn't do so well is I might object to private companies such Apple or MS increasing prices. I can always opt out of their products. When it comes to services such as water I don't expect government to want to make a profit. I don't have an alternative water supplier. The rate at which the prices of such services is increasing is higher than the rate at which our salaries are increasing.
Thanks. Having an app to switch seems a pretty good compromise to me.

Headphone jack’s ship has sailed anyway, so it’s mostly a matter of making peace with it with decent alternatives.
Those tags are going to be a really big deal. I think they may have even upstaged the iPhone if announced today.
Crying as I read this. I can't imagine. Thank you for sharing. So sorry for your loss. As a new father, hits home hard. Nothing is more important in life than your family and friends.

As a new father, things like SUDEP and SIDS are terrifying. I hope one day technology will improve, so we'll have fitness bands or smart cameras or smart mattresses that can detect these rare events and report back data so we can understand them, and hopefully at some point, intervene and prevent them. Sharing your story will hopefully inspire people to keep working on this kind of thing, so hopefully it might help save some other child in the future.
I thought they axed Kojima it was exactly because they were focusing on cheaper, more profitable mobile games.

https://www.polygon.com/2015/12/16/10220356/hideo-kojima-kon...
All it takes for EV's to explode and finally surpass combustion cars from the market is to put a low cost, good enough quality electric car in the market. Combustion engines must be put in the past. They're still better in some ways, but that will change.
Seems weird to me that they would offer 64GB as base, then only 256GB and 512GB. IF this is for professionals shouldn't they have had a 1TB version? Or larger?
> mocked by friends and strangers whenever I pull out my "tiny phone".

Interesting. I don't often get mocked for having an SE, but I do often have people asking what model my phone is and where they can get one.

My current hope is that we might see something like the SE come back now that Jony Ive's had at least a glancing blow from the boot. Maybe now Apple's at least a little bit more able to resist the constant drive to make the phones wider and wider so that they can fit the same amount of electronics and battery into a thinner and thinner device.
Compared to most new mirrorless or DSLR cameras, an iPhone is cheaper. A mirrorless or DSLR camera may have better sensor and optics (if you buy the right glass) BUT the computational capabilities of the phone far outstrip the computational capabilities of the camera.

I find that modern phones are better than traditional cameras a) by nailing exposure more consistently in tricky lighting conditions, b) having a far better display for proofing your shots, and c) can use computational photography tricks to create great HDR photos.
> Multiple scalars can be packed into one SSE register even in scalar code. This is not the same as vectorization.

They can, but can you honestly call it a common case for scalar code?

> Even then, some arithmetic operations have higher throughput with floats than with doubles.

By far the most (90-99%) of FP computation is additions and multiplications (or fused multiply adds). For scalar case (1 double or float in SSE register), they take precisely as long on modern x86 hardware.

Sure, float div executes in 11 instead of 13-14 clocks for doubles and I'm sure transcendentals are even worse, but they're rarely needed. Even then, if the dependency chain allows, the cost is often OoO scheduled away in integer dominated code.

> Your CPU doesn't execute the ISA directly in hardware, it first converts it into architecture specific micro-ops. That includes FP operations.

Except that SSE instructions pretty much are micro-ops as-is. Despite similarly sounding term, microcode has nothing to do with micro-ops.

> That's not the point. A lot of the time, the cost difference will indeed be irrelevant. The point is that there is a cost difference.

Well, I've written a lot of SSE, AVX etc. SIMD code. There sure is a big difference when you're processing large amounts of data. But... I've seen floats introducing silly precision related bugs [0] and a ton of useless float -> double -> float conversion chains. Most of the time most programmers should default to double.

[0]: Example: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/dont-store-that...
That's not an HTTP error code.
> GP is talking about avoiding the need for batteries by pricing people out of the market instead.

Nope, I talked about incentivizing consumers to shift their demand based on a volatile price. I pointed out that much of this can be accomplished without need of batteries.

For example, have the hot water tank heat up water higher than normal when electricity is cheaper, and lower when electricity is more expensive. Hot water tanks lose heat very slowly, this could result in never needing to heat water during the expensive times.

It's a heluva lot cheaper than having a battery do it.
Nah, it's fine. I charge my Apple Watch for 15m before bed (to make sure it'll last the night) and while I get ready in the morning, and that's all it needs to stay on my wrist literally the rest of my life without ever coming close to running out of power.
> What could stop this from being grey-market legal in the US?

Impact safety is the usual one besides emissions, which as you note shouldn't be an issue.