skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, maybe a gallon of milk did not increase that much.
But did you see prices for houses? for education? for cars? for entertainment? even high-end electronics?

Yes, for all those categories there are other (even more important) factors than inflation, but overall, we see a growth much larger than CPI
I think that's an interesting line of thought, especially if you replace sleep with anesthesia.
I was only talking about function code. It should be painfully obvious to anyone that if you opt to leverage other AWS services that those are things you would ultimately have to replace but those decisions have nothing to do with serverless.
yeah my carrier (Verizon) doesn't have good enough coverage for me to enjoy the full speed that 4G can offer so I don't care to pay more for 5G when it has little to no chance to meet the promised performance.
When I 1st heard they planned to do this, my reaction was negative. I've traditionally liked the fact that the box is complete, and also having a few spare chargers/headsets around.

But then I considered exactly how many old bits of redundant charger/headphone I've accumulated, and my family members.

This is a case where economic costs/profits and underlying resource constraints, as hoped, align. Let people reuse what they've got, or apply the fractional savings towards something they choose, rather than a baseline that's bundled for them.

If some consumers will react too negatively, Apple could throw in a gift-certificate good enough for an entry-level charger/headset, or applicable to the higher cost of something better.
I was sure that the Nexus 5 was probably not the first one, and someone was going to come along to provider older examples :P

I was surprised that the iPhone didn't already have it in the last generation, given that accurate alignment is a well known problem with wireless charging and magnets are a well known solution. Maybe they kept it back on purpose just to have a new feature for this release and/or sell another round of charging accessories.
Every technology that hasn't materialized yet is an idealogy.
Pretty much. It's too good. 10 years later, if you tried to write a better one, you'd probably fail.

Whoever wrote it should be shot.
7.7 millimeters is a substantial amount…but I guess I don't have a choice so I'll grab the new one anyways.
I think you're mixing up metaphysics and human intuition with what the math describes. The current math says there may be essentially infinite worlds created in infinite time, where yes there is least one in which you are a billionaire married to a supermodel. The only constraint is in the properties of nature (e.g. a world will never be created in which an electron has 0 spin).

However, I agree with you that it seems implausible because it implies absurd situations like, there is a world in which someone lives a life of celebrity because every time they roll some dice it always lands on 6, and every time they flip a coin it lands on heads, etc.
Well... it's Reddit.
Just because a tiny phone with a camera doesn't beat my big mirrorless+lenses setup doesn't mean I don't welcome the advances.
Yup, multiple incremental improvements is what I heard, will pass on this one and wait for iPhone 13 now.
Yes, but with more energy lost as heat
They must be really confident with their drop protection because I don't know a single person who doesn't have their phone in a case.
They're also passing the cost down to customers.
I really hope that we come back to this comment in 10 years and it's weird that this was ever a concern (like what happened with texting/voice)
It's not chamfered :/
It will become cheap enough (both hardware and subscription wise) that companies can include them in basically everything. That way you can't prevent your TV from uploading data to the mothership by not connecting it to wifi.

It's not a consumer technology.
Yeah, Spotify's pattern has generally been:

1. Demand some integration point on appleOS to be opened up

2. Drag their feet on using it once Apple makes it available

3. Roll said integration out almost silently when they finally implement it
You realize the lidar distance for a car would be entirely different. It's a way different beast.
Hasn't it always been the case that the Pro Max has a better camera package?
MagSafe is sweet, and I think it's a smart move for Apple to launch it this year in preparation for the anticipated "portless" iPhone. By the time they do that, the MagSafe ecosystem will be ready for it, and people won't complain as much about getting the phone right on the charging pad.
available in 1,800 cities doesn't mean coverage in 1,800 cities - a lot of venue coverage is being counted
Small phone! Finally!

Not as small as I would like, but I’ll take what I can get. I’ve been clinging to my 5SE for years and they stopped allowing me to renew Apple care a couple of months ago. :/

“a phone that easily fits in the palm of your hand” is a phrase I legitimately scoffed at, what are phones if not handheld devices?
I laughed out loud at that. Explaining the deletion of the charger, which is effectively a price raise, through the environmental angle is genius-level marketing and margin improvement.

To be clear: I support the move and think Apple's environmental efforts are both sincere and meaningfully helpful. It's just the best, "aren't you happy we're raising prices!" I've ever seen :)
Yes... absolutely. I want a Pro Mini (Max).
Problem with KDE is they have too many user-level applications.

KDE team could have put focus and resources on core desktop environment.

It had many problems, but still they keep diversifying further.

I really like KDE, it's been my goto desktop from nearly 4 years.
Why would this money increase inflation? It wasn't earmarked for consumer spending in the first place.
I feel like I'm going insane. On every single model revealed today, there is a differently-colored patch on the right side of the phone, below the power button. What is it?

It's not the SIM card slot - that's on the left side. It's not a new TouchID sensor - the website doesn't even mention it at all. And yet it exists in every single render.
The MagSafe works through supported cases.
That should probably be the submission's link.
I had a friend who had every single iPhone release. She'd immediately buy the new generation when it came out.

You know what I really want to see, more than any of this gitter and glam and a few features here and there? A real, actual campaign to reduce e-Waste. I way out of this bullshit, constant consumerism mess. How many more wars have to be fought, and people repressed, to continue the machine that gives us more machines?

Apple has so much money at this point. What are they even going to do with more? How about you do something that's actually innovative Apple: Officially open all the hardware specs, bootloader keys and what you can legally release of device drivers for iPhone 1-7. Maybe even contribute some code to get a DarwinBSD booting by itself on those devices; letting developers add on new layers.

How about something that will actually end the cycle of factory sludge, toxic waste and human toil that goes into each new generation of shiny new product.

I'm sick of these releases. Give me something fucking upgradable, fixable and usable. Give me something that's thicker and bulkier, but that I can take apart myself and fix.

I'm in the minority though. The rest of the planet is okay with this. Their advertising has made people even more okay with this, so they'll just keep selling us this crap, until we've extracted every last resource the Earth can give.
Just give me back the headphone jack please. Nothing since the iPhone 8 has been worth getting for me since they removed the jack.
That's certainly a great strategy if you have those options available. However, if you can't maintain a certain moderator to user ratio then that's going to be impossible.
>No matter how much they tout the video and picture quality, it's still behind DSLR and pro's can't use it until it beats DSLR at it's own game.

Pros increasingly don't use DSLR nowadays, the use mirrorless cameras.

That nit, aside, it's not about replacing DSLR/Mirroless FF cameras for Pros (which it will never do).

It's about having great video/picture quality for the average user and the ocassional pro use (which it does).

I have used it in pro contexts, as have many others (including several prime time TV shows and even movies). For photography it's even more of a non-brainer...
Im not interested in arguing with you. I wanted to show you the data so you have a chance to make up you own mind. My definition of "really reach us"(you) is that you have some more facts in this crazy world of lies, hysteria and ruined lives+businesses. If you then draw some other conclusion than I do, thats ok.
I'm very tired of my 5.6" phone (Pixel 3A). 5.4" seems a small upgrade, but maybe worth it. I've been on the Android camp for a decade, but I'm getting fed up with these enormous phones. It's ironic that there's a million Android manufacturers and zero good small Android phones, while there is one iPhone manufacturer and they may actually take the small phone market.
This is not unusual regardless of circumstances. Most landlords nowadays use software that generates prices based on lease terms. A lease for six months is less desirable than for 12 months because there is always a gap in tenancy, necessity for renovation between tenants, etc.

This causes weird outcomes depending on the lease length, like 13 months being significantly cheaper per month than 12, or one month (if you needed some extra time before your next place opens up) being three times the cost per month as compared to a standard lease.
Because Apple didn't discount their iPhones by the same price.

Plus, I really like their headphones and charging cables.
It has existed, many times, but probably most often gets "extended" until it is bloated way beyond what you need. But you're right, it _should_ exist. But it would be an afternoon's work with a decent web framework and a vanilla linux server.
The prices for these things did not go up because the fed gave people stimulus checks to pay for their daily needs.
Charger cable still included, just not the little white box that goes into the outlet
Ahh, I misunderstood, thanks for the clarification!
This page is classic apple. It looks so nice but you can't even compare all four new models at the same time
I’ve been waiting for autogenerated floor plans ever since this photo-based approach was announced:

https://youtu.be/UBORpapdAfU
Bring back touch id.
I don't really miss the power adapter as I have so many USB power sources and I will never miss those crappy earbuds though I do miss the headphone jack.
> No matter how much they tout the video and picture quality, it's still behind DSLR and pro's can't use it until it beats DSLR at it's own game.

Steven Soderbergh would like a word with you. https://petapixel.com/2018/01/30/steven-soderbergh-shot-late...
> Specifically, none of the carriers or handset makers are telling me how much the data will cost.

But...they are telling you? It's right there on each of their plan pages.

* Verizon: $80/month plus taxes for one line with 5G on Play More Unlimited - https://www.verizon.com/plans/unlimited/

* T-Mobile: $60/month plus taxes for one line with 5G on Magenta or $70/month with taxes included on Magenta Plus - https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans?lines=1

* AT&T : $65/month plus taxes for one line with 5G - https://www.att.com/plans/wireless/
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I was definitely a bit skeptical of that claim too. Seems questionable. I use nearly every charger I've gotten with a phone (except for pre-USB ones)
What are some practical use cases for it, I see very little ?
AWS is the competitor to everything!
I think it's recognizing the (at least true for me) reality that I have practically an entire box of wall-to-usb power adapters.
No 4k 240 fps video, as people were saying it would have. That's disappointing. I hate having to decide between the two whenever I shoot action shots.
Neo Nazi does accurately define the current Indian government whose primary ideologues are from the RSS which was fashioned after the Brown Shirts.

One of the founders of RSS - Golwalkar, is on record glorifying the Nazi killing of the Jews. He stated: "..To keep up the purity of the nation and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of Semitic races – the Jews. National pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindustan to learn and profit by,”
The fed has pumped 2.3 trillion dollars into the economy in the past six weeks....

I don't see how the dollar won't crash eventually. Why would foreign countries still buy US bonds?
Ask HN: A store named Black-T [feedback please]
Hey!

I came up with this funny idea of opening a store named Black-T where things which are sold are:
1. Black Tea
2. Black Tee
3. Black colored alphabet T in form of cushions, keychains etc

What else could be sold in this store? Let your imagination run wild.
If it was only about environmental reasons, wouldn't they just make it optional?

As in, they could include a checkbox (that is unchecked by default) to get these items free in the checkout process. They already ask a million customization questions, why not make this one?

I'd also think that for the percentage of people who need the charger/earbuds, having to make a second purchase on amazon will overall increase the carbon footprint for that person, since two packages shipped are way more inefficient than one. This undermines their argument and seems like it makes them depend on externalities to make their ecological calculations work out.
This exactly. Money was pumped into a deflationary environment.
It's not about not using it, it's that most people already have at least one (if not a small pile) of power adapter blocks with USB input already.
I'm having a hard time parsing your comparison; the prices for houses and education are out of control, the prices of cars rise rapidly but are mostly driven by the evolving conception of what cars are, entertainment and electronics seem historically cheap. Was your intent to say that all of these have rapidly increasing prices?
The whole 5G thing is just complete bullshit. After the tech has flopped pretty much worldwide and Verizon's and AT&T's "5G REMOTE SURGERY" and "RACE TO 5G" marketing bs didn't get consumers interested, they finally decided as a last resort to pay Apple and see if that will be enough to push this technology through.
Can you be a bit more substantial? What is it from Android that you would prefer on iOS?
I'm not willing to pay Bloomberg to read that.

But on a reasonable assumption what he is arguing is that the competition in the marketplace means that they are paying competitive prices for that order flow. They are making money but not much considering what they are doing. And it is massively better than what used to exist.

I know this and agree with it. But as I said above, "The fact that it is better than what existed before doesn't change the fact that we can do better yet."

The first point is that Robinhood is the one that they negotiate with. So the extra profits go there, and not directly to consumers. Secondly the HFT middlemen are still playing market makers, which means that they still are being paid for. There are cheaper ways to make a market work than HFT, and I outlined one above. Third, automated algorithms as market makers have the potential for some pretty dramatic events - such as the flash crash. Alternatives can avoid that.
Accessories are also up. MagSafe charger is $40, 15W max: https://apple.com/shop/product/MHXH3AM/A/magsafe-charger

The clear case ($50) looks kinda neat though, since third-party support for MagSafe may be sporadic: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MHLM3ZM/A/iphone-12-12-pr...
Considering the low cost of these items they should consider offering a free charger if purchased at a physical store upon request, perhaps even the same with the headphones.
Lightning predates USB C. If they switched now, everyone who has had an iPhone for years would moan about how they just obsoleted all the existing cables. It's a no-win scenario. I think they're just waiting for contactless charging to take over at this point.
I find the distinction between organic and inorganic a bit too harsh in this example, theres also your tribe or subculture you're immersed in. Focusing on problems you've heard about in some online forum vs. problems people around you have experienced can't be both cassified under inorganic, tribal ideas are more like in the middle of the quadrant.
it's true but also largely moot. mandarin is enough, nearly everyone speaks it.
I've looked an Ansible a couple of times, but I always think it looks too verbose, but more than that the way files for the same thing are spread out across multiple folders just makes it seem like there is a steep learning curve. Something like Ansible sounds great, but it feels like learning it would be a chore.
Jaron Lanier is a frustrating thinker. In general he's a pessimist and highly critical of AI and technology. I was at talk of his and asked him about open source AI models and suggestions for ethical frameworks to guide AI research. He gave a rambling answer about we need to pay all the human annotators ever involved in producing a model and that AI is fundamentally anti-human. His justification was as an odd anecdote about an elementary student asking what's the point of human life if robots will do everything in the future. Jaron doesn't provide a meaningful way to engage with his critique and it seems the logical conclusion of his view is that we abandon technology all together.

I do agree with the underlying claim that modern AI research erases the human effort (everything from Mturkers to exploited labor) in producing the annotations that most AI system rely on. It's also fair the critique the proliferation of surveillance states and authoritarian governments that build upon and fund current AI research.

There is isn't good ethical guidance and frameworks to help researchers navigate doing research and in understanding the implications of their works. I'd prefer critiques of AI help guide some sort ethical framework for understanding, developing, and deploying these technologies responsibly. I don't think we can just stick our heads in the sand and pretend the problem goes away or abandoning AI in liberal democracies somehow stops authoritarian regimes from building even worse things.
> How do you indicate which code is under which license?

You can apply either of these licenses at your choice, that's how it usually works with MIT/Apache. This is to maximize compatibility with other open source licenses. And thanks for the heads-up, I will fix this too.

> Do you plan to add a CONTRIBUTING.md to instruct those who want to help to understand how to start?

Since there's some interest in this, I'm definitely going to add it!
No, the SIM card slot is on the right hand side.
I don't and never have had my iPhone in a case (iPhone user since 3g)
Not the last two iterations with the X generation design (XS and 11 Pro had feature parity between regular and Max versions).
I never use cases. But then again, I break every phone eventually. My iPhone 8 has broken glass on both sides and a broken camera glass but it works well apart from that, so I was waiting for this announcement to get a new one.
There's a lot more to care about in the world than whether or not my laptop's SSD is soldered to the mobo.
How do you, or the Fed in this case, earmark where a dollar goes? Paying interest in excess reserves is the only mechanism I've heard for them to keep money "locked up." Will that continue forever? What's the point of increasing the money supply if not to let it circulate?
I think that's part of their antenna?
of course it's posted by tosh :D
The time has come for a more human internet
Not for Pro Max, since they're new and Apple stopped doing this recently. But the Plus models usually had a better camera.
I strongly suspect that the author of this article does not have much background or interest in AI, and is merely part of a push to politicize it.

I have spoken to people who are adamant that AI is racist and needs to be forced to change, but seem at a loss to go into even layman levels of technical details.

So I suspect that they are just parroting a received opinion.

To be clear, of course I know that there are all sorts of systematic forms of unfairness. But I think that AI is just an implementation of systems.

The AI umbrella extends as far as what are essentially spreadsheets. Are spreadsheets unfair, or are the policies unfair? Does it make sense to lobby Microsoft to do something about predatory lenders using Excel?
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Stripe has some serious frontend considerations too. I think their original value point was lowering friction in payment systems and reasonable rates. Stripe still does those things really really well, but so did Braintree (now part of PayPal).

Where Stripe absolutely nailed it is the infrastructure around it. Their SDK documentation and continous improvements still outpace Braintree.

For instance, Stripe has custom elements that you can use to interact seamlessly with their SDK, with little setup needed[0]

I could not find a similiar integration from Braintree.

Compartively, I find their informational SDK page a bit more polished than Braintree, respectively, though I realize some of this is personal style and taste, Stripe has clear pathways for me to find the information I want right on the side bar and referenced throughout the landing page for the client SDK[1] where as Braintree[2] is more narrowly focused, which with payments, may mean I miss a better set of features I should be aware of.

Reducing frictions and painpoints is what they won with, in the end. It was easy to setup and maintain. How many 3rd party services have both of those things that handle something as complex as payments? I can't even get AWS integrations with their own SDKs working together without some effort

[0] https://stripe.com/payments/elements

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-js

[2] https://developers.braintreepayments.com/start/hello-client/...
Because the dollars have not been permanently pumped into the economy, and the world has faith that the Fed will shrink its balance sheet.

Printing money and lending it out, and then burning the money when it's repaid, is very different than printing money and using it to buy goods and services.
It would have been sweeter if it was regular USB-C, so we're not contributing to the massive piles of e-waste generated by their continually changing proprietary adapters.
If it's about the environment how about making this opt-in (as in: the default is without the accessories but I can also get the device with a charger/cable when I want)? I understand it makes packaging and logistics a bit more complicated but not impossibly so.
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The Palm Pre looked very interesting. I wanted one. Unfortunately, it didn't have the panache that Apple's products have.