skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Food, shelter and transportation aren't included in the CPI. Yet those things are essential for quality of life. Inflation is the reason you can't own a house and support a family on a single income anymore.

There are a couple other indexes out there that track total cost of living that are pushing ~10% per year inflation right now.
Don’t forget ballooning healthcare costs.
Blue Origin launches NASA's new moon-landing technologies into space
> Which forced destruction is that?

I am referring to the lawsuit [0] that Apple recently filed against a recycler for selling rather than shredding old iPhones.

> They recycle a lot of iPhone components.

These components are lifted from previously working, usable iPhones that are destroyed to make room in the market for new iPhones. I believe my point stands.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/07/apple-g...
Can't vouch for it, but there is software available that helps with your first issue:
https://mobiletrans.wondershare.com/whatsapp/transfer-whatsa...
you are a singular individual, dang. thank you for what you do for HN
We'll see! There are so many problems with wireless charging that I don't see it becoming truly mainstream. Not being able to use your phone while charging is the most visible one (maybe 15W via magsafe will make it fast enough it doesn't matter). I also have trust issues with wireless charging in general - I got a free wireless charger from TripleByte once that overheated my phone and only got it to 60%. I'm still hoping for USB-C
Probably not your intent, but in my mind saying _anything_ is like Hibernate is equivalent to saying "run screaming in the other direction as fast as you can"
Smaller than the 2nd SE, a bit larger than the 1st one:

https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?device1=iphoneSE&devic...
I stopped trying that after it was turned into a series of direct and personal accusations of how I am the evil techie gentrifier. My experience has been the opposite of yours - showing awareness comes with the expectation that you accept blame.

Your mileage may vary.
Cryptocurrency is certainly not a good place to put savings, as its price is way too unstable to be a store of value. If you're unsure about the value of the USD, then traditional investments like gold would probably be a better choice. Like other comments mention, even though lots of money was created for economic stimulus, it's used in such a way that makes it deflationary long-term (as seen by the projected 0.62% inflation rate for this year and only 2.24% next year[1]).

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/244983/projected-inflati...
He should go to small claims court (or the Dutch equivalent) to get his 5 euros back. There was actually a case in Germany where the largest ISPs continously ignored a customer whom they charged too much at some point (similar order as the 5 euros) . The story ended with a court bailiff (?) going into the main ISP office and seizing a printer I believe. Big PR disaster and much higher cost then the original amount.

These big companies do these things all the time calculating on people just giving up. We should take the advantage of the courts to teach some lessons as much as possible.
(Comment copied over from another thread on this)

We generally assume that an attacker with physical access is going to win, but there are limits on that - the usual assumption is that it's going to take some time, and potentially leave evidence that can be picked up with enough attention to detail (such as screws not being in precisely the same alignment). This attack violates all of that - there's no physical modification of the machine, and it takes under a minute. That's the difference between an attack where you know the machine has left your control for some time and an attack that can take place while you're momentarily distracted.

The lack of response to this from Apple is deeply disappointing. The attack isn't technically persistent - rebooting the T2 will clear it. But the T2 doesn't reboot when the host OS does, and Apple haven't published any guidance on how to guarantee that it has been (eg, does holding the power button down for long enough cut power to the T2? Does performing an SMC reset? Both seem to, but is that guaranteed to be the case if the T2 is running malicious code?). In addition, the Blackbird SEP exploit probably means that we have to assume that all secrets kept in the Secure Enclave can be stolen - but we don't have a full enumeration of what those typically are, or what the total security impact of this is as a result.
For t -> ∞, a prediction that the stock market will correct in the future will always hold true.

The question is, will it correct to levels below its current ones? If you have an answer to that, you can make a lot of money.
Right, I have gobs of them too... but they’re all USB type A, so the included USB C cable with the iPhone 12 is kinda weird. People don’t have many USB C bricks yet. So I don’t think the logic of “people have them already” checks out
I want a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court of Facebook
That’s an interesting take. Maybe some will chime in here to back that up.
I don't put my iphone in the same pocket as my keys and my phone is scratch free after 3 years. The screens are made of sapphire, you don't need a screen protector.

[edit] Not made of sapphire. My head has been in the sand.
Any thoughtful reasoning behind that? Or just fatalistic absolutist predictions of doom?
Sure, but there's degrees of tampering; not many countries can get away with implementing the kind of tight capital control regime that the CCP has in place.
I don't see how 玉 has more etymological significance to 國 than 域/或. What analogy are you drawing on where the previous most common character for land/country is a worse etymological root than a character that apparently has meant only jade (or direct analogies to the material preciousness of jade) for longer than 國 has existed.

As for 黨, it is a direct analogy to 當 as in 當天. There is a little bit lost in the conversion of 田 to 黑 but at least they are related.
Not everyone wants to work that way, and having a public git as a requirement is ridiculous. The software is FOSS, why are you complaining?
> The world has evolved towards subscription models (SaaS, subscription commerce, etc.), and those are much more cash consumptive that the perpetual licenses or one time sales from before.

It might be obvious to the author, but why would these be more "cash consumptive"?
It looks impressive, but why does everybody talk in that weird way;"Wow. What an exciting day." It feels so weird and artificial. It actually makes them sound less enthusiastic and genuine to me.

They also present a lot of features (especially photos), but without comparison I am left wondering, how much better is the new stuff. And why should I buy it...

Sounds great with that new glass too; I wondered if they would show how much better it is -- Maybe do something funny, risky, and slightly stupid like the Cybertruck incident. Nope: Just 4x better than before -- Whatever those 4x means. Get some hammers out -- Do something...

The A14 is also faster than before. No real-life demo comparison. Wouldn't it have been easy to compare the games on the GPUs (stuttering frame rate on one side)? Just something. If you can't show us why it is better, it is not good enough.

Oh, and why no actual live demos with the phone instead of just 100 great photos and videos of the phone and by the phone?

The old keynotes had a slide with the comparison of the mini, normal, pro models and the end. Those actually served as an informative summary at the end. Instead Tim Cook just told us what we had seen, and that "it was the day everybody had waited for", and then I am left struggling to remember why the pro is more expensive and how much more it was...

They may be the best at this, and it does feel (overly) polished, but I feel the old much simpler Jobs keynotes were far ahead in enthusiasm and far more entertaining. Sorry.
That kind of is asset inflation. You get smaller share of the company with same amount of money than before.
Most non-americans probably? :)
Any phone that has speakers, must be having an on-device DAC, even if there's no headphone jack.
A game site I made for virtual morale events
During off work, I made a small site that has a few party games. Currently, it has two drawing games, Trivia, and a simplified Mafia game based on words. It’s fun to play with your friends and colleagues. Nice for a 15-mins relax session. Check it out!

virtualmorale.com
On Windows you could create and mount a VHD file and format it as FAT32 by using the diskpart utility, with the commands "create vdisk", "attach vdisk", and "format"
Wait, what's the other one that isn't GitHub? Sounds like we need to start working on the people still putting their stuff there!
I like how a quarter of the people who've liked the article are Hacker News bots :P
To be fair in the video they said that only applies in ideal conditions, but you can expect 1Gpbs in "adverse" conditions.
Sadly this is so true. I wish it weren't so, but here we are. USB C is a clusterfuck.
Calif elections officials order Republicans to remove illegal ballot drop boxes
You’re totally right. I just assumed it was SIM because that’s where it is today! I wonder what it is now
Having seen the inside of both venture funded and bootstrapped companies from the very early days, I have a lot to recommend bootstrapped. We raised money only much later for expansion once product, market, and revenues were certain and we needed to pour kerosine on that fire.

For one thing, bootstrapping forces you to be ultra-lean, there is no money (or people, or time) for flights of fancy or to develop any of the other pathologies of richly funded competitors. You’ve no option but to “keep it real” and that really forces clear thinking.
Wait till they put a mag safe on the end of a long chord.
I've been involved in the production of physical goods. You are right there's an increase in cost, although then the question becomes by how much.

There's the option to make the same packaging but one having an empty space where another has that space filled with these items.

Even if they had to make two separate boxes, I'd like to think that given Apple's volume, the additional costs in managing SKUs and packaging production wouldn't have too big of a hit on overall production costs. Especially when offsetting the decrease in cost of goods provided. I however don't know their numbers enough to knowledgeably argue this point. Though overall my point I think still stands regardless of the exact dollar amounts being discussed, I can't see those amounts being too serious an inpact on overall costs.
> Jaron Lanier is a frustrating thinker.

I agree. Like Slavoj but without the Zizek.

> He gave a rambling answer about we need to pay all the human involved in producing that model (even those that are consumed as opensource models) and that AI is fundamentally anti-human.

I do think this raises a very valid point in terms of intellectual property. If I train an AI to paint in the style of an artist whose art I scraped, does that artist have any claim as to its licensing? If not, should they not?
But if they switched, you’d be creating waste anyways; you’d need to throw out your lightning cables and replace them with USB-C...
The tech industry, but especially and most drastically open source, has been completely taken over by expert marketers called "dev relations" in the past decade. What you say about working too well is true; the business model of things like Kubernetes or new datastore du jour require a high touch to sustain the business model.
It's unfortunate that isn't battery powered/more portable.
They said bluechip tech stocks. Companies that have been around for decades and aren't going anywhere. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Intel, etc.
Right, I've posted this before, but long term wealth building is becoming too expensive for the average person.

The only reason food hasn't become too expensive is wealthy people don't have a reason to go out and buy up all the food. They do, on the other hand, have reason to go out and invest.

This is, however, starting to fall apart for goods that don't normally have reason to be bought up. In other words, folks with capital now realize they can hoard those resources as well in order to price gouge. This is most evident in consumer electronics as of late.

Usually, these aren't super wealthy individuals, but instead folks who have been priced out of traditional wealth building like stocks / housing. They may not be able to afford a down payment on a house, but they can sure as heck spend a few thousand buying up consumer goods hoping to gouge others.
To be honest, this move by Apple is good for first world countries where many people may keep their older devices and power adapters, but will raise the costs in other countries where people usually sell their phones (with accessories) and replace those with new ones. Oh wait, people in first world countries do trade-ins too.

I think a minuscule number of people won’t mind this. For the rest, these phones are going to cost more than before with the additional purchase of adapters.
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I think I'm the only person who likes iOS's reachability gesture. The only annoying thing about it is sometimes it will trigger touchUpInside for buttons along the bottom of the screen, navigating me away from the screen I was on.
Ah, well thanks for that info, I did not see that.

So it seems that at least at the low end, 5G add on costs something like $0-10/month, depending on carrier.
It means that if you don't already own those assets, then you have no hope of ever owning said assets.
I am, and have been dedicating about 20% of each paycheck directly into Bitcoin.
Actually countering Russian military capacity really isn't
an issue any more, and Britain and France have enough
nukes to act as a deterrent

Yes, NATO is probably safe from a preemptive nuclear strike from Russia, thanks to mutually assured destruction.

Which... okay, yes. It's distinctly better than not being safe from a preemptive Russian nuclear strike. However, this is merely necessary; not sufficient.

Have you considered the vast number of non-nuclear aggressions that Russia might undertake, and in fact has already undertaken?

Crimea was safe from Russian nuclear attack too. Ask them how it went.

Are France and the UK's nuclear arsenal going to help if Russia makes more Crimea-style land grabs? Shuts down shipping lanes? Cuts pipelines or internet access? Shoots down geostationary satellites over Europe? Assassinates the leader of a NATO nation?

Granted, there's no guarantee that the United States would help you then, either. We have not been the most reliable partner, and I am deeply sorry for that. I do not support the leaders who have made things this way. I want us to be a better partner.

Regardless, surely you understand that there is a great need for conventional military deterrence by NATO? Nukes solve an extremely limited list of potential problems.
Well, it's r/bitcoin which is arguably even worse.
The bigger phones came from Asia first (not Japan, that's where tiny is better)
That's the problem, though - we're finding that the majority of exposures are coming from super-spreader events, not one-off, individual encounters. They haven't released statistics yet for how good it's been working, so there's no way to know if their approach was helpful.

Even then, SAP is the one that developed it for 15 million. The important bits were already completely by the universities. SAP just made a UI for it - for 15 million euros. That's an insane, absurd price to pay.
From the Verizon link you posted:

Lowest plan:
"In times of congestion, your data may be temporarily slower than other traffic."

Upper plans:
"Get access to 50GB of 4G LTE premium data per month. ... . In times of congestion, your data may be temporarily slower than other traffic after exceeding 50GB/mo/line."

Of course, that's 4G, not 5G, but before they tell you whether or at what point they throttle 5G, I can't say what "having unlimited 5G" means.

For context, it looks like this means what a commenter on a Verizon forum says (quoting verbatim, looks like the GB numbers changed):

"Verizon has 3 levels of unlimited data plans. The cheapest one has the possibility of being "throttled" AT ANY TIME there is congestion on the local towers. The mid-tier has no throttling until you have used at least 22 GB in a month on a line. The highest tier has no throttling until you have used at least 75 GB in a month on a line."

from 2019:
https://community.verizonwireless.com/t5/4G-LTE-LTE-Advanced...
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If the phone lasts 5 years and Coronavirus is still causing lockdowns, we have bigger problems than 5G usage.
The next big JavaScript framework.

The original iPhone was 2.5G and could load webpages just fine. But when a modern iPhone only has a 2.5G connection, it’s useless. All we need to make 5G critical is for webpages to start being 500+ MB for basic text plus all the associated ads, trackers, and other important features.
I am just wondering if the PE ratio became extraordinarily high because high growth tech companies now are a major part of all of the large indices. Did you ever think about that?
So this isn't helpful because a) there is 'tampering' but of different degrees and b) the 'freedom' of a market is also one of degrees.

Just because there's no such thing as a 'free market' doesn't mean that some are not more open than others.

The Euro is the 'least tampered' big currency arguably because they have 25 nations each of whom would scream if the other tampered, meaning almost by definition it has to have integrity. The USD somewhat less so, but in times of war or crisis it will be. China has a fully politicized currency.

The OPs point is actually valid - any weakening of the USD might more accurately reflect what currencies might look like within similar Fed regimes. So long as it's not a crash it might help the US to soften a little.

The paradox is, in a 'global' time of crisis ... people actually seek USDs! So when the US eventually tries to push that weird dynamic to a tipping point, which we are arguably already doing ...

Welcome to the New World Monetary Order - value can hardly be measured in currency because it's made up, so get your hands on something else ... like real-estate! Which would explain a few bubbles.
Go watch some of the videos from “Primitive Technology” or “My Mechanics” or "Silently Cooking".

No talking, no music, goofy thumbnail pics with emoji faces or red circles. Just creating.

The content may not be your cup of tea but personally I as well as others seem to enjoy them.
What a shame to "pack the courts" (as you say) with people who believe in the Constitution as their guiding light.
>Across the iPhone family, we’re removing the power adapter and EarPods that often go unused, but including the fast-charging USB‑C to Lightning cable that most people need. That shrinks packaging, and more boxes per shipment means fewer shipments overall. We’re also transitioning our manufacturing partners to renewable energy. Altogether, this eliminates over 2 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually.

Looks like Apple will start a trend by manufacturers of not including power bricks with their devices.
It must be my dry skin, but I cannot use my iPhone without a case. It's so damn slippery, it slides right through my fingers if I'm not careful to keep a death grip on it.
The perfect example being elizabeth holmes/theranos. Getting access to capital is about who you know, not what you know. It's mostly a privileged position but that's the case for most things in life. Whether we like it or not. We are taught that business is about merit/hard work/etc. But ultimately, business is about relationships.
From the WhatCMS, author uses Gatsby, assume no trace of Prismjs is used.
I don't have a million USB-C cables, but I have a bunch. That is with me having just one USB device I use regularly (wireless headphone I got for cheap from amazon). I was shocked when digging through my drawer and pulling out three of those cables when I had exactly zero USB C devices. I am willing to bet I am the exception, not the norm though.
I believe the trend is more about people using their phones as their main computing device so a bigger screen is desirable to many. I'm still on the original iPhone SE but the battery is definitely on it's last legs.
Look at the watches on the wrists of the speakers in the first 15 minutes of the keynote. They are all set to 10:09.
> Food, shelter and transportation aren't included in the CPI.

This is wrong. Food, shelter, and transportation are all included in the basket used to compute CPI. [0]

> The CPI represents all goods and services purchased for consumption by the reference population (U or W). BLS has classified all expenditure items into more than 200 categories, arranged into eight major groups (food and beverages, housing, apparel, transportation, medical care, recreation, education and communication, and other goods and services).

[0] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm
The point of an SEO plugin would be to help crawlers understand your site, like handle link canonicalization, improve <title> tags like "Hacker News" -> "Foo's profile - Hacker News", and things like that.

It ("on site" SEO) has zero bearing on what other websites are doing. SEO is just an umbrella word that also encompasses "off site" SEO like backlink building.
Historically that would have been public works employment through infrastructure investment.

The government could have printed a bunch of money to build a giant nuclear is solar plant, and then have a revenue generating, publicly owned asset at the end of it. Instead the government printed the money to prop up existing asset prices.

Just like increasing a company's cap table, there's nothing wrong so long as the new money is converted into a new asset of value that remains in the company's balance sheet.

In fact, a well managed money printing event should dilute private wealth and replace it with public wealth, which is the sort of green new deal I support.
...you mean the Lightning adapters that have been in use since the iPhone 5 and would be thrown out upon the switch to USB-C?
> working to provide entertainment such that it appeases "the algorithm" and grants them wealth

nice framing. All hail the algorithm!
The screens are very much not made of sapphire.
The time has come for websites to tell me what it is that they do
I think the use cases for LIDAR in cars are different enough that it would definitely scale up the cost of implementation
Simulating RAM (in Clojure)
Presented without comment: I always have my phone in a case and have never broken anything physical on any phone. My launch-day iPhone 8 still looks great.
Basically Gflops/watt is not going north of 1 for 32-bit CPUs, so humanity is completely out of growth. This is the end. Game Over!
I'd still recommend a screen protector. They cost a couple bucks on Amazon so IMO it's a no-brainer.
Zero photos where you can actually see how thick the bezels are on the 12 Pro's product page. Guess it's safe to assume it'll be pretty disappointing considering how much they talked about thinner bezels.
Asset prices are being inflated by the low risk-free rate. That's why you see asset prices rising while CPI remains flat.
You haven't needed a screen protector in a long time.
How much older currency was destroyed in the process?
What I'm really hoping is that MagSafe finally fulfills my dream of having a secure magnetically-attached wireless charging point in a car. Accessories to this effect theoretically exist already, but they all suck.
I understand the value of the different phone sizes but still can't understand why companies are selling 64 GB models.

I know we have everything in the cloud these days but with apps with rich assets and smartphones being more capable with cameras, you run out of 64 GB quite easily. 128 GB should be the baseline model in 2020 for any phone that costs above $600.