skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying that the Apple enforces obsolescence when their phones have support for much longer than most Android flagships is insane.
Did Apple demand that people pay the out-of-warranty repair cost price on HomePods bricked by this update? Because I feel like that would have been a PR disaster that would have been newsworthy. But all I can find right now is a reference regarding the 13.2.1 update saying some users have “arranged replacement devices” with Apple after contacting support.
I agree.

I think that introverts sort of self-select out of management and decision-making roles - in person. This is probably why open-seating decisions come about, which is hell on an introvert.

Maybe with remote work introverts will have a better chance to take on roles for these kinds of things or at least construct a better environment for themselves.

By the way, I read somewhere that like 85% of top athletes are introverts.
Home kit works really nice when combined with something like Home Assistant. I can use any kind of smart device I want while still interacting through the clean native HomeKit interface
Yes, but he took the jump. Are you saying he used to be standing on prestigious ground but landed in mud after his backflip?
I think it's weird that his solution to being "unhappy and overworked" in a small startup is to make a new one and suggest that everyone else do the same.
Seems like it would take too long. Probably faster to write a bot to beat it, which is still technically winning
How does Webflow compare to Wix, SquareSpace and the like?
I upgraded from 6S to 2nd gen SE because of intermittent charging of 6S. Over time, port became loose, cable didn’t fit and come out easily.
My life so far. Early 20s: I can do anything and should start a company. Late 20s: imposter syndrome. 30s: wow, there is still so much I don't know. 40s: life is over and haven't accomplished anything, 50s: post menopause and confident as hell (now is time to start a company). Haven't gotten past 32 yet(lol) but many women are most confident in their mid 50s+ according to the science around hormones and how they impact our mood and self perception. I think there's a lot I can learn personally from a fast and loose 28 year old male perception against my own perception. Probably the combo of the two is the perfect human.
Hopefully, the arrival of the mini doesn't spell the end-of-life of the 7 and 8. Also, has anyone noted the cost for display/battery replacement on any recent phone (including Samsung) has skyrocketed, making it uneconomical?
In a lot of places though you can have a good life, work 9-5, be well paid and not have to worry about all the headache that occurs from running a business.

You might not end up a millionaire but you'll generally be better paid then a lot of people in your age / social bracket.

A lot of people just don't want to make the sacrifices to run their own business!
I agree with you 100%. I thought I was the only one who held that opinion.
Its status signaling.

That's what it.

Personally I only buy 10K rupees Oppo/Xiaomi/Vivo etc every 2 years and it works just fine.
I can't speak for the US, but in Australia this argument has been used as an untrue talking point being pushed by climate-change deniers. A cursory google indicates to me that in CA prescribed burns have actually been increasing over the last few years, so I suspect it's probably the case in the US as well. In Australia it's clear that the higher frequency of catastrophic wildfires is a direct consequence of climate change.
Treasure Island in the middle of the bay was military because of its militarily strategic location. That strategic location gives it both breathtaking views and easy access to SF business. When the military left and said the city could have it, the city gov't declared that one of the uses of this incredible windfall was to build low-income/homeless housing projects on the island. They claimed that "justice" meant that the poor had as much right to beautiful views as the rich. I suggested that if their goal was to house the needy, they could house far more of them by developing the spectacular real estate for the rich and using the tax revenue to fund housing and services for a much larger number of poor elsewhere than by insisting that a few of them be housed with million-dollar views. They reacted with the predictable Godwin's Law economic and personal analysis, so I wished them luck with their homeless utopia. I have no idea what eventually happened to housing projects on the island (I left them to it), but it came as no big surprise that as tech wealth exploded in the city, it somehow didn't translate to better housing for the poor.
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> you're not getting paid, but you will most likely reap all of the rewards for any big wins you have

As someone that mostly enjoys optimizing distributed systems and debugging them. I can assure you that, I can’t build a product out of this skill set. There’s consulting, but then I have to continually sell myself, which I don’t enjoy. Working for a large company, I have of plenty of these problems to solve and I get paid pretty well.
In general I agree, but I think microservices applied in the right context can be useful. For example, say you have a system that manages bookings for a really popular musical act and frequently crashes with load when tickets go on sale. In that case it could be helpful to have the frontend service that deals with the booking requests isolated so it doesn't bring down the rest of the system.

The problem is microservices for the sake of microservices, which seems to be the majority. When a design pattern is applied just because somebody is familiar with it and not because it's the best fit to the problem at hand - that's when things get messy.
This has been the case since day 1.

Thing is, over time the tricky bits have gotten better (or even possible)

An example of a tricky bit -- crossing a multilane intersection and getting back in your lane when the dotted lines disappear and start up again.
Dropbox is making its workforce 'virtual first.'
Implement Razorpay to a Django e-commerce website
Yes, there was a specific gentrification plan that included the Ikea/Home Depot complex and separately the Four Seasons Complex, but they appeared due to quite a lot of prior work.

In the early 80s (82 or 84) they decided to incorporate on their own rather than join Menlo Park (they were just an unincorporated part of MP at the time, and still share a school district and, I believe, the fire district too). Calling the new town East Palo Alto (though Palo Alto itself is in a completely different county) was smart, despite earlier efforts to name the not yet incorporated place "Nairobi".

They had been county land so had had only had a sheriff; but before the Whisky Gulch (where four seasons complex now stands) was built they already had a municipal police department.

So yes you could say "gentrification" but it was a proactive policy by the city government.

IIRC the last active farm in the city limits was sold after 2000, lasting longer than Mountain View or (except for stock) Palo Alto.

The "murder capital" label was true only because the population wasn't high making the rate high. I personally never felt unsafe there though I only filled my car or got a coffee there.
If it's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that if someone can, and there's any profit motive, they will.

In terms of storing data? 20 years ago my VW recorded a great deal, as I discovered when the dealer's repair shop said to me "So you like to drive fast, eh?".

They knew precisely how fast, too.

What else is stored in that black box, which is often used by insurance companies, and police, after an accident? And required to be there, by US law? Or I suppose if they decided to execute a warrant against it?

These days, I'd be astonished if GPS data wasn't stored there too. And a lot more, as well.

Yet I say this ; do you know? Precisely? Exactly and precisely what is stored there?

Yet outside of the EDR/black box, there's the infotainment system, often with GPS data as well.

Note that I 100% agree with 'right to repair'.
When they released the iphone SE last year I immediately bought it. It was the fastest processor, best quality camera in an Apple phone with Touch ID.

I refuse to upgrade to an iPhone without Touch ID. Until my phone absolutely dies and there is no choice, then I may consider.
I can second this recommendation. Our Quaker Meeting was on Yahoo Groups for 12 years, but we also saw the clear signs that it was going to shut down, so migrated to groups.io a few months ago. Generally it's been quite smooth. It took a while for the moderators to figure out the reply policy settings we needed, but now it's pretty nicely tuned. (I was only tangentially involved, I'm on the committee but am responsible for a different part of communications, so in part this was a test of how well it works for users who aren't PhD computer scientists).
The irony of saying "don't be a serf! build your own products!" whilst depending on the Medium platform is either delicious, or painful. Not sure which.
Looks like it sees the FTBFS in experimental on i386.
IMO globalization is dangerous because it's putting all our eggs in one basket. We have it beyond good on the US compared to most places in the world.. And we still managed to have Trump, Hillary, and Biden be our presidential choices in these 2 elections. All it takes is one bad idea or leadership that takes the helm of an entire world government instead of several countries keeping each other in check and having different ideas/philosophies. I worry people actually want to be ruled by a king/monarch/dictator. I wish people would stop putting so much emphasis on the federal government and focus on local community politics. Higher level government should do less, not more.
What's exactly wrong with Gatsby?

I get 98 on all lighthouse scores.
Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake It
That’s what 2020 has felt like to me. The fall of Rome. It’s like we had every single advantage we could have wanted and blundered it all. Maybe we just aren’t meant to be this connected, thus aware, this effective. We’re just not responsible enough to be so efficient at changing our world.
IETF HTTP WG 2020-10 Interim – Search Method [pdf]
Moneyball is the name of the product he's building :).
> Working for Big Co. and having the freedom to focus on deep coding problems

Some of it is deep coding problems, but there's a fair bit of FAANG that's just protobuf/avro engineering and GRPC/thrift/restli midtier apps.
This is ignoring that people who upgrade often resell their phones, meaning they aren't just going into a landfill. People who want the latest can have it, while those who want a decent phone for cheap can pick one up used. Very few people buy something new and throw away the old, perfectly usable thing it is replacing.
> Yahoo Groups has seen a steady decline in usage over the last several years. Over that same period, we’ve witnessed unprecedented levels of engagement across our properties as customers seek out premium, trustworthy content.

Out of interest does anyone know what they consider their premium, trustworthy content?
Well, if superdeterminism is an explanation there is nothing to explain ;-)
Every single technology has the same pattern (overestimated in the short term, underestimated in the long term)

for example, I remember when speech recognition would "take over". Well, it didn't and people forgot about saying that. And then gradually it started doing "yes" and "no" during phone calls, then doing phone trees, and then "siri/alexa/etc is so awful" and now people use it all the time.
I don't understand how can you call something "Full self driving" car, and say that it always need a driver, because it can be autonomous most of the time.

That not most of the time events are exactly what makes it not FSD. And all the promises FSD could bring to the table that don't amount to less driver leg work.

Autonomous cars are a revolution, could actually make cars efficient, and introduce a different ownership model.
Tesla's FSD is just a very capable driver assist, which can't deliver on the promises of real autonomous cars.
Just a tip, that limit is applied at the API level in a way that allows you to create limitless GCP Service Accounts and bypass that limit by manually granting them access to your Google Drive shares. I was able to upload ~6TB of data in about 2.5 days on a gigabit connection after discovering this.
AFAIK the original ensures that the first cell clicked is not a mine.
Here I was thinking consulting at banks was the easiest money that could possibly be made. Turns out I should have been working for the local government in San Francisco.
I agree with the sentiment of working for oneself, some people are just wired with that kind of independence. However I wouldn't go so far as to say startup founders are just at another level of motivation - the successful ones that I know and have worked for are at another level of maturity in their thinking and approach to product development.

Ask an engineer to build something and they will think of the twenty features which will make a compelling product, and the great ones will work day and night to deliver them. A great startup CEO will identify the three features that get the first customer, then roadmap the remaining features in conjunction with sales, marketing, and hiring.

Great CEOs know how to build teams and solve hard problems, usually from years of experience and failures. It's hardly ever as simple as reading a book or overcoming some mental hurdles.
Helping Medium creators make a living while keeping the simple / ad-free experience of Medium is an interesting arbitrage opportunity until you prove it out and Medium integrates it into their core product offering.
Another user without a case reporting in. I udnerstand that people try to protect their expensive devices, but it seems absurd to me to hide a beautiful device like an iPhone (particularly the 4-5 as well as the new 12 generation) in some form of mediocre wrapper.

However when carrying the phone in my pocket or bag I always use a fabric sleeve with microfiber inner lining. To me this approach is the best of both worlds: The pure device when in use, but protection when carrying it around - Plus, instead of having to put the device down on hard surfaces the sleeve serves as a soft bed for the phone. And the microfiber lining keeps the display clean.

All my past iPhones looked pretty much pristine when I sold them on ebay.
I love this anecdote. It's actually really interesting. You've obviously been thinking about this issue for a long time. I want to gather your opinion though:

A) Where do we put these folks?

B) Can you constitutionally 'put' someone somewhere they may not want to be put?

C) How do you help mentally ill people without resorting to dystopian means?
Slightly earlier submission already higher on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24773390
When I ran a one man contract outfit is sign myself off as weird titles such as Grand Hegemon and Eternal Leader occasionally on emails to see if anyone noticed. Nope!

No one gives a crap about your title apart from HR and your ego.
For anyone interested, there's a free guided Wim Hof breathing session every Monday night at 9pm Pacific. I've been doing it on and off for a few months. No idea if it helps anything at all, but I enjoy it.

https://www.meetup.com/Wim-Hof-Method-Bay-Area/events/vjpnhr...
It would be nice if they put Touch ID in the lock button like they did with the new iPad Air.
I'm not talking about on-premesis work. I mean someone working remotely in San Francisco gets paid more than someone working remotely in Detroit.

I'd be surprised if the supply and demand curves are in fact the same for each gender. But even as a hypothetical question - "suppose that women were more willing to do a particular job for lower wages..." - most people would still say that men and women should be paid equally.
I don't think that's necessarily true. Google Cloud functions give you 2 million invocations free a month - that's almost 1 per second. You can keep adding another 2 million for $0.40 at a time. It's not terrible.
Next yahoo mail hopefully.

I’ve had to fight delivery problems with that steamer for about 15 years now.
I think it's more likely that the product gets acquired than Medium builds it out themselves.
Only on Ubuntu, in which the first click must be "0". On Windows it could for example be "2" and then you have to guess which of the adjacent 8 cells are the 2 mines...
I should mention that split tunneling allows wholescale collection of data about employees.

The difference is that it correlates and merges personal behaviors and data with work. They all come from the same ip address and have the same patterns.
There's also a post on the npm blog, though that doesn't focus on the changes compared to v6: https://blog.npmjs.org/post/631877012766785536/release-v700
Clients/Customers are other people
I would have much preferred a USB-C plug for all my devices.

It’s nice that it’s wireless on the new iPhone and all, but it’s still an extra cable (or puck) to carry around.

Much like the headphone cable, I think that things like charging could be done in such a simple way, that the alternatives that are presented just don’t make the users lives easier and generate unnecessary waste.
I dont use a screen protector but have a good case to handle the falls, so far so good.
I have written one for that years ago in Java. It generates a map according to my first "click" and solves it deterministically. If it reaches a state in which it has to guess, it regenerates the map, and tries again.

It happens so fast behind the scenes that the user isn't aware of it, and it makes sure I won't have to guess anything when I play. Purely skill, no random.
This is huge. So much of what we seem to know about these neuromodulation systems amounts to a number of "has to do with ..."s. Dopamine has to do with reward; serotonin has to do with happiness; etc... Knowing how these modulators actually modulate in response to circumstances may give us a much better sense of what they are actually doing.
Is it constitutional to arrest mentally ill people for being mentally ill?

It's possible to involuntarily commit someone to a mental hospital. That's not an arrest, it's a civil commitment of a medical nature without any criminal implications.

Sure, they don't want people harassed, but I see no evidence they're actively trying to prevent people from getting treatment.

Homeless advocacy groups recently blocked the construction of a homeless shelter in Lancaster because they didn't like the location. They've blocked multiple attempts by the city to force violently mentally ill homeless individuals from being treated, even though such individuals are a harm to themselves and to others...especially others. More than dozen homeless individuals have been murdered this year by other homeless persons who were prevented from receiving medical treatment by homeless advocacy groups.

The problem is that the idiot advocates base their views of "harassment" on academic ivory-tower views of personhood, and don't understand what it means to be mentally ill and homeless. It means to be shitting yourself every day, to be eating food off the streets, to spend your days and nights fighting off rats and cockroaches, and to avoiding drug dealers and persons more ill than yourself, to be lost in haze or to be seeing people and creatures that don't exist.

Nobody wants to be mentally ill, and once treated, the individual always prefers sanity. The problem with most mental illnesses that lead to homelessness, especially the schizophrenic family of disorders, is that the disorder itself makes the individual paranoid of treatment, and the homeless advocates focus all of their attention on that refusal instead of actually making the person better.

A homeless person that has their mental illness under control can transition to permanent housing and become a functioning member of society again. But in order to do that, you need to let them be treated, even if they don't want the treatment.
You could create an info product.
Without doing any research into the state of the art, I'd be curious about how well it does in rain, snow, and parking lots
Damn, didn't know the grugq was reading hacker news, mind you, even have an account here! :-)
There's a different between "fine" and "luxury". You don't want to cross it, that's your prerogative. You can judge others, that's also your prerogative. But that doesn't make you objectively correct. The iPhone will obviously work better than your PoS chinese phone. You pay a premium for that. Don't hate on it if you can't afford it or don't want to afford it.
Get a braided cable then, they last much longer (Anker seems to be good brand).
> can walk away from their work with the skills needed to create their own job immediately.

I have the skills to create my own product. Without customers, it is not a job. I realize that he corrects his terminology later on in the article, but he does not address that disconnect.
Our elections are not competitive. If we were talking about two left parties competing in our “non-partisan” General elections, you would have a point, but it is Democrats top to bottom, who are only slightly distinguishable from each other in the context of San Francisco politics. In the context of California politics, they’re expected to all carry the same amount of fealty to the Unions, the State Party and its platform as any other California Democrat and in the context of Democrats nationwide, the San Francisco Democrats may as well be the bloody Borg.

The Mayoral special election between London Breed, Mark Leno and Jane Kim could be called “competitive”, but no matter who won (London won), the trajectory and policies of the City would have remained effectively the same with the only difference being who could advance their career that year.

Or to put it another way, it is a very competitive environment as long as you are a Democrat, but it is not an ideologically or politically competitive environment and the policies of the City government are stagnant (Fix homelessness! Save Muni! Stop car break-ins! Build more housing but only the right kind, maybe! etc.). This is unlikely to change under single party rule.
If anyone's reading this and similarly hates Prop. 13 (1978), then please vote No on Prop. 19 this year!

It sounds good on the surface (helping disabled, elderly, and wildfire victims) but is truly just another way to extend Prop. 13 by allowing the type of rich homeowners who already unfairly benefit from Prop. 13 to continue to do so while buying a new house.
Why do so many of these "start your own business" nomads types have businesses that revolve around getting more people to start businesses? The author's business appears to be about monetising blogs.

It's circular. Where's the value?
Can't comment about the sound quality.

As far as privacy however, I definitely understand people's worry about the mic, but honestly I think it distracts from really looking at the data tracking practices and how much data is collected even without a mic. See [0]

I'm curious about Apple's data tracking, but based on their marketing page alone it definitely feels like they've given it a big consideration and it's not an afterthought. I cannot say the same for Sonos unfortunately. (I assume Google/Alexa etc are worse, but I don't use those, and didn't dig into it).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24680614
The WFH trend seems to be working out exactly as expected. What’s going to happen is wages in places like India and The Philippines will go up, wages in countries like the US, Canada, European nations... will go down.

The real lesson here is if an economic theory has to overcome the forces of supply and demand to work, then it’s not going to work.