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Haha, I wondered the exact same thing when reading it. Same thing about the spindle. It talked about how you could measure how accurate a spindle was but not how one was constructed.
> This seems like a perfect example of why labor organization is important

I've just always seen life as "unfair" and "up to you to fight for what is right". A labor organization/union has always struck me as "too good to be true" and unrealistic.
>“To me, it is the absolute obligation of institutions of higher education to become ethical beacons for the nation,” Mr. Barrios said. “We should not kneel before executive orders that seek to politicize education.”

To me, those two statements contradict one another.
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> Hoarders/scalpers are not aiding price discovery, they are manipulating the price by artificially changing supply or demand. They don't have to do so sustainably either.

one could reasonably argue otherwise. let's take the example of toilet paper in the early weeks of quarantine. with or without the action of scalpers, such a massive shift in demand was going to cause toilet paper to go out of stock regardless. without scalpers, you are shit out of luck when this happens (perhaps literally). with scalpers, you at least have the ability to buy it at an eye-watering price. even before you run out, knowing that you have to pay $20/roll is a strong signal that you ought to use one or two squares per wipe instead of 3+.
Facts are facts, you're clearly an Apple fanboy the way you're responding. There were large screen Android phones that were running 60fps in Geekbench before Apple, so clearly the GPU performance and density existed and was shipping.

Apple actively advertised (real print ad campaigns) AGAINST large screen phones, they said they were un-ergonomic and too large of a form factor to hold and use single handed. The company had a real psychological opposition resisting large screen phones and gave non-technical justifications for their opposition.

Simultaneously, Steve Jobs attacked mini-tablets, claiming "7″ tablets should come with sandpaper, so users can file down their fingers"

So let's just be clear here: Apple creates a PR narrative that something sucks unless they do it, even if that thing categorically sucks (non-one-handed-use-phones, mini tablets). Specs don't matter when Apple devices consistently had inferior performance, and now that Apple Silicon leads, of course specs are front and center.

What's happened is, after they ship, they ret-con the reasons why it took so long, in order to provide an excuse that they had misjudged the market, that Steve Jobs had been wrong in his intuition about big phones and small tablets.
Nice to see the old angular frame[0], but disheartening to not see no LCD model. I have avoided OLED so far since I can spend a lot of time looking at my phone’s screen in low light and I’d rather not deal with PWM.

I had hopes for Touch ID comeback (IIRC Apple has a patent for fingerprint reader integrated in phone body or screen), but oh well.

[0] Although it was much better when power button was on the top—in all modern iPhones on/off can be easily mistaken for volume up/down by touch.
I see how to set up Back Tap but none of the options seem to function as a "back" button. Which option did you set it to?
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This is an important framework for locating where your current approach is and finding what works in it. The success stories of people negotiating the territory without a map is pure survivor bias.

I think some of the snark about ideas like these comes from how we all get so heavily invested in exploring territory that when someone asks if we've looked at a map lately, it's an affront to our lived experience, especially if we've been walking in circles for years.

I've done the bottom-up organic approach of building things to scratch my own itches, and have been a PM for the sales-safari approach companies and have failed in some very predictable ways. The challenge of being someone who lives in the future and just building what's missing is that the rest of the world is literally designed around being future-proof. I think that altruism is the story we tell after. When I'm successful, I'm sure I too will be very grand.

The top %5 of wealth I have seen get made had two criteria. 1. they made a big bet that someone else was wrong, and 2. they made an amount of money inversely proportional to the amount of actual work they did.

If you are burned out from over work, how smart could you really be? I've come to suspect that suffering is nature's way of telling you that you are being stupid, and that it is usually better to be right than persistent.

A product is just something someone else actually wants. The only question is whether you have a someone else that can want a thing. Enterprises and institutions are famously clusters of non-individuals who only not-want things, and "for everyone," almost always reduces to "no one." I don't know that there is product idea advice to give other than it is probably best to have more acquaintances than ideas, and of the problems to solve, that seems like the smartest one to solve for.
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A limiting factor is Siri. It took them 8 years to allow asking to play a particular song on Spotify.

Usually the first thing I say to Siri is 'Hey Google' so it goes to Google Assistant.

I'm not really sure what "seamless integration" is left. I (and my friends that have similar devices) use smart speakers for power control, getting the weather, playing music, and setting timers/alarms. It doesn't take an sole-source ecosystem to make that work well.
Also, I don’t want other people negotiating for me. Software Engineers are so high in demand that I believe I can do a better job negotiating on my own.
==That means that earnings were coming from somewhere, and if not from core consumer products, then presumably from other things that the stock-market-wealthy were buying from each other, at presumably inflating prices, or at least quantities.==

It isn’t a given that you need to increase earnings to increase your P/E ratio. The “E” is your Earning Per Share. Buying back shares lowers your denominator and magically increases EPS, which drives the price higher.
"There was a post about it from BackBaze. They know some people abuse it and put several Tbs on there, but they still make money on average as most people have 100s of Mb ..."

... and this is a mistake.

The issue is not whether you will tolerate loss-leaders or not. The issue is that you create an antagonistic relationship between provider and consumer.

It doesn't matter how nice you are (and the backblaze folks seem very, very nice) - this is a structural reality that will produce predictable bad outcomes.

Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but if your organization creates opposing interests - antagonistic relationships between the consumer and the provider - someone is going to lose:

"... paying a flat rate for unlimited storage, or transfer, pits you against your provider in an antagonistic relationship. This is not the kind of relationship you want to have with someone providing critical functions."[1]

[1] https://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/11/flat-rate-stor...
> I'd pay decent money for a 4" phone.

I have a 4" iPhone SE. It’s great, but the web is becoming less and less usable as designers/developpers have larger phones and forget smaller screen sizes. It’s common to have cookies/newsletter popins with a button that’s too far below the screen, and sticky menus are the hell.
> Doesn't reducing the price of lending tend to lead to more lending?

Theoretically, yes. If loans are 2% instead of 4% then that may induce people to take one up to do some kind of economic activity (start business, renovate house, buy a new car, etc).

But it is not guarantee: people may feel too financial vulnerable to take risks with borrowed money. This is where the limits of monetary policy are run it.

There are points where the government starts spending on various projects: if a contractor is hired to build a bridge, and it will take "x" years, then all of its employees may feel more confident and do more spending because for the next "x" years they're set. Their money then goes into other people's pockets, into other people's pockets, etc.

Public/government spending to kickstart demand is what Keynesian economics basically is.
The post was about the Backblaze backup service, not B2. You can't abuse B2 by putting too much data on it!

And B2 is more or less fine for streaming. The bandwidth bill will be significantly less than the storage bill.
Needs to [2018] tag. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17040768
I'd pay decent money for a 4 inch phone as well. I've been in the Apple ecosystem for years but decided to search for a current Android phone that's around that size, but couldn't find anything decent.
I imagine you can do this through gear reduction -- reducing the ratio of your leadscrew to the tool movement essentially reduces the inaccuracy of your leadscrew, iiuc. the percent error is the same, but you care more about absolute error than percent.
Collective bargaining is a big win for the working class (and yes, that includes tech). Even though we get paid a good chunk in the USA, our overall benefit package is thin in comparison to other developed countries. Not to mention our healthcare situation.

Unfortunately, the scare tactics and propaganda of large corporations have won out in the USA. Folks hate collective bargaining with a passion.
> The difference is that we have neither the scientific knowledge nor the computational power to make an exact model of the human brain

So AI is the part of computing we don't know how to do yet as in the joke :) ?
Since the issue of where and when to vote is so sensitive, important, and subject to fraud and suppression attacks, perhaps it might be best to direct people to the authoritative source rather than aggregate them.

Even if you mean well but get it wrong you could conceivably be on the hook for 1 year in prison for every person you misled.
How then? Higher education and houses, sure, but car price inflation has been tame since the 90s, and equivalent electronics plummet in price over time.

As far as I can tell entertainment has only gone up sharply in price where it's supply-limited (e.g. Hamilton, the Super Bowl), because more people are rich than in the past. I'm most curious about that one, since there are so many interesting substitutes and prices are all over.
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Completely agree with you. I’m typing this on my trusty SE. Work gave me an XR back in February which I tried for a week, horrendous device.

While the lack of 3.5mm is a drawback, the phone looks only a few mm wider that the (2016)SE, which feels like the best I’m going to get befor they EOL the SE.

The wireless charging may be good enough to solve the clunkyness of having to have a lightning+3.5mm adapter.
That picture of the control room reminds me of so many ridiculous military contracts. If a project includes a Star Trek style control room like this, it's a sure sign that the project is mostly a fantasy role-playing game designed to impress PowerPoint-wielding "decision makers" while funneling tons of money to contractors. For example, these guys design lots of fantasy role-play centers for the US government: https://www.dbia.com/portfolio/us-army/

A real functional control room has no reason to look like anything but a pretty standard office setup, maybe with a few extra displays. An example of a modern one: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/wp-content/uploads/sites/227/2...
Monetary theory has some very well defined concepts. But those only appear on the equations, and when people go naming them they go and mix with the same names they use on unrelated discussions.

And then we get some completely ridiculous things like people arguing that the Keynes return of investments apply to each investment inside an economy.
Yes, it's almost like a standard, but it is optional. Some people like 16 columns. I personally use 12 but have used 16 in a project that required smaller segments.

This comes from paper design, as usual, and I don't think 12 was the number. It's just a number that makes sense for desktop screens (where it began).
I use Jelly, a tiny smartphone that fits the little keychain pocket of my running shortpants, I don't even feel it while running. They released a newer version of it, Jelly 2, if you're interested in small phones.
Yup. I really thinking in getting a echo dot, but I have serious privacy concerns.
It's not a lack of "get-up-and-go" that perpetuates lack of opportunity. "All one needs"? You could gain some insights here by having a few conversations with people doing the sort of precarious contractor work that was mentioned previously. I doubt they're lacking elbow grease.

There's also an implication that it's simply okay to let job security rot away, that people in precarious work should simply read a few blogs and retrain. I'm not convinced that it's a good plan to ignore creepingly pervasive employment insecurity.
That varies heavily from state to state. It's anywhere from no regulations (e.g., New Jersey) all the way to only licensed dieticians may provide individualized nutritional counseling at all (e.g., Georgia). In general, states lean towards the latter.
So the article claims that device uses a proprietary connector (lightning jack) That is not a common USB cable. (Most USB cables were usb micro and are now becoming USB C)

Also, it depends on implementation as well. Some devices are compatible and need the quick chargers.
Where do you live?
Because I'm from Europe and I used to work for a US company but in a European office and it was kind of a running joke among us that the people from the HQ would always call everything "amazing" and have these all-hands meetings that felt like rallies to us.

I think this fits the cliché that we have about Americans, although I'm sure it's not like that everywhere.
rightfully or not, raising prices in these situations is considered distasteful by most people. the long-term damage to the brand is probably not worth the short-term profits. retailers would rather just run out of stuff or limit customers to two boxes of pasta to maintain their image.
> You _do_ still have the problem of people dying as a result of private industry, but the rate at which people die per mile is an order of magnitude lower if you take the bus versus a car.

These numbers don't reflect the absolute difference in safety between these modes of transportation. Imagine a world in which buses replace cars as the primary mode of transportation. You've now got many, many more buses on the road. So, if there is a collision, rather than probably being car-on-car or car-on-bus, it's most likely to be bus-on-bus. That will raise the fatalities per billion passenger miles in two ways: (1) The amount of energy in a bus-on-bus collision will be quite a bit larger than when a car hits a bus or a car hits a car. (2) When there is a fatal collision, the number of fatalities is likely to be higher. (It takes no stretch of the imagination to imagine if one person on a bus dies in a collision, his fellow passengers are more likely to also die.)

You also have second-order effects, like vastly reduced visibility for bus-drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists...

> Forcing manufacturers to deal with the externalities we're discussing would also incentivize them to encourage safe driving, no?

No. Not if they don't actually have any control or responsibility over the externality, like in the case of drunk driving, which was my original point. The only things a manufacturer could do in that case is fight for prohibition or install a breathalyzer in every car. The former was tried and turned out to be pretty bad for society. The latter probably would destroy the industry and/or be trivially worked around by the dedicated drunk.
> Private and secure.

As long as it's sending data to Apple, it's anything but private.
The lockdowns caused this, not COVID-19
Is 15% a big deal if your expenses drop by 20%?

A company should be allowed to pay for the ‘supposed’ benefits that human interaction brings.
You can fight for what you want more effectively when you fight collectively.

There also seems to be a popular misconception that unions prevent you from negotiating for yourself. Unions set salary and benefit floors, not ceilings. If you think you are a superstar negotiator, you're free to demand a higher wage than that floor.

Actors and football players have unions, yet also have an incredible wage disparity between the top and bottom end of the pay scale.
I recently came across this YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMCXHnjXnTnvo6alSjVkg... which provides some examples of system design on a whiteboard, very useful to put all pieces together.
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It sounds to me like maybe serverless just wasn't the right solution to your problem.
With the prime day sale, it's even a smaller fraction.

However, there's probably a bit of a difference with the amount of on board processing that the two devices can do.

For example, my iPhone can do voice to text while on airplane mode.

{guessing} Similar on board processing would allow a HomePod Mini to work with HomeKit without needing to go to the cloud - Amazon working with Hue does need to go out to the cloud to get that voice to text to command layer. {/guessing}
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Let's start with defining terms here. I would argue that spying (e.g. observing) and attack (DDoS, trying to alter data etc) are already different.

Second, you can doubt, but you don't have any evidence that they're not doing this (as well as I don;t have any evidence that they're doing then). Given that Norway is a part of a block that is opposite to Russia, I'd expect that Norway has operations that are targeting Russia.
But that's true of Google too. It only hits their servers when you "hey Google."
It’s been said that you have a whole new body every seven years. Perhaps teleportation is just a matter of speeding that process up.
That's correct. But the new, Google-involved behavior is that for 5+ users (which was previously "unlimited"):

" Customers that have 5 or more End Users will receive a total amount of Google Drive storage equal to 5TB times the number of End Users, with more storage available at Google's discretion upon reasonable request to Google. "

That is new behavior, and rubbing some people the wrong way.

I think the more curious thing is how long will they grandfather in the existing Gsuite users to the old, "unlimited" behavior. If they do that for long enough, at least it wouldn't feel like a bait-and-switch.
> But there is no strong evidence so far that it’s a cause of good health.

The linked paper seems to contradict this pretty strongly.

E.g.:

> "vitamin D is a powerful nuclear receptor-activating hormone of critical importance, especially to the immune system."

That's just one example - the article mentions several others.

> I just read specialists claiming this

There are a lot of quacks in this field - are you sure you're not reading some of those?
What an annoying presentation. They try to make 5G look like it's invented by Apple by labeling it "innovation". No, Tim Apple, it's Qualcomm who made that chip. You just had your hardware team build it inside the phone.

The screen, same deal. A fancy name for technology that's been around for a while. Nobody will really see the difference between the screen on an iPhone X and iPhone 12, but hey, it's a sales-talk.

Speaking of 5G, they're trying to sell us onto the idea that we need it. We are still dealing with relatively low bandwidth caps from our providers, and nobody in their right mind is going to use 4GB/s to do... anything. Do they expect us to willy-nilly download games of 4GB on the go or something?

5G is technology for the providers and their benefactors, not for us the comsumers.

On to the CPU. It's faster. Great. It was already industry-leading fast. I respect processing power as something amazing and I'll respect this improvement for what it is. Great job. Not too impressed because I wouldn't use it myself, but it's nice.

Then Touch ID, wow I'm so happy they reintroduced it last-minute during this pandemic where we all wear masks when out and about. What's that? They didn't include Touch ID? You mean their superior technology that is pretty damn amazing and convenient to serve NEXT TO Face ID isn't there even though they could have?

Yikes.

Well, at least the announced 120Hz for the Pro Max and 90Hz for the smaller Pro model was nice. Hm? They didn't do that either? Oh. They're still stuck on 60Hz while the competition is delivering phones for half the money doing all of the above since about a year ago?

Yikes.

MagSafe, though. Now that is quite nice! Not even kidding. They invented magnets at Apple, like, whoa I'm going to assume that the magnetic connection will allow you to charge the phone and ALSO transfer data! Wild assumption, huh?

The case with a spare pocket for the Apple Pencil was a nice touch, though, especially now the iPhone 12 supports it. That's also a lie. I'm lying. They did not do that.

At the very least they're good for nature and such. No more charger and earphones! As a result the price has gone down a whopping $300 across the field, with a respectful nod to the people who are struggling in these dire times.

That, too, was a lie. They did no such thing.

It's another iPhone X. Nothing new here.
Curious, why not get a smartwatch with LTE?
Do we really have to have this conversation every time the term "serverless" is used?
Thanks. That clarifies things a bit.
Most folks expenses aren't dropping by 20%. I've been remote since March, but my rent/life/expenses (key) hasn't changed. If anything, I'm paying more now for utilities and food since I'm home all the time.
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Saw one of these recently in a query that was ported from PostgreSQL to MySQL. Same thing join-with table-expression to fix it from 6+ hours to seconds. MySQL will sometimes consider a subquery to be 'dependent' even when there are actually no dependent terms and could have been evaluated once.
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The civil war was imminent because people were hungry. And the ones were not hungry were underfed and had to wait for hours in endless queues to get a bag of rice, a bottle of oil, etc.

As illustrated in a quote from one of your favorite comrades:

"Every society is three meals away from chaos", Vladimir Lenin
Norway likely has irrefutable proof, at least enough so that it can confidently claim another nation was behind it all. Also, presenting detailed proof could reveal something about Norway's capabilities which they'd rather keep hidden.

Now, let's play a thought game: what would happen if Norway DID in fact present evidence and proof?

In the end, no amount of evidence would be enough or credible enough or good enough or acceptable enough etc.

This has been heard already in numerous cases such as GPS jamming in Northern Norway, poisoning of an opposition politician, interference in elections, shoot-down of a civilian passenger aircraft, deploying a military nerve agent in Salisbury, failed coup plot in Montenegro, and so on.
Yeah, just one more example that the deletionists won years ago.
That would be impressive, unfortunately it is not correct. You can see this article, and the comments, for more information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24618031
Considering that the person referred to in the article, Hans de Zwart, is the one who translated the Dutch article into English, I'd say he knows how to write his own name.
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