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Every single company that sells things does this. You are talking about an Apple event and promo page where they are quite literally giving a sales pitch for their new products. That they (over)hype their own products is not only not notable or interesting, it's entirely expected.

It is a bit bizarre that your comment, or variations of it, appears for every single Apple release. For those people so jaded and annoyed at the existence of Apple, why not just skip those threads?

There's something unique about Apple that draws in the detractors, however (seriously -- just look at the comments! What a junkyard of noise). It's a bit like a thread about the Super Bowl having hundreds of comments by people announcing that they aren't interested in the Super Bowl. Neat.
Royalties, man, yeah.
The problem with Blackberry for me it was the bad dev ecosystem that you had, poor documentation, hidden features, some nice ideas like OTA updates that were replaced with stuff like play stores, the need for the carriers to connect to RIM to make some use of the vpns, etc

When it worked was really nice, but the dev exp wasn't pleasurable at all
IIRC, there are two species of birds, A and B, in the North Atlantic that cannot interbreed. But A can breed with C which has a range to the east, and C can breed with D again further east. And so on, around the arctic circle, until you get to Q which can breed with B.
I'm listening with only half an ear, but it sounds like they're pushing something called "Censorship OIS"
I think it's less users choosing it, but market forces pressuring most tools to turn into ad-ridden nightmares.

There are secondary effects like the ad-ridden product may have more money for development and deliver better features. But at this point we're all wondering if there isn't a better funding model that can deliver both good experience and sufficient development funds.
>OEM desktop chips which can only be found outside North America (think AliExpress, or random sellers on eBay).

Lenovo offered Pro Series Ryzen APU small form factor PCs. Like the Lenovo ThinkCentre M715q with a 2400GE. I believe HP offered them as well with the 2400GE at some point.
>which seems like a huge amount until you look at how much staff is needed to keep the park running (including apparently an entire private army), and the amount of damage done on a daily basis which then needs fixing.

[Spoiler]

They did mention that the real money maker for the park was information collection, not the admission fees.
> I know it’s not an ideal support mechanism, but I think this is one of the services HN provides to the community (informally).

I would like to know where and why Stripe's customer support failed in this case. Or even if it failed at all. Those are the only relevant details.

It's immaterial to the discussion whether any other web forum was used as an alternative to Stripe's customer support. I'm sure HN didn't signed up to be any company's customer support channel, or if it's reasonable to get it involved in this ordeal.

If I have a problem with Stripe, I want my business to be dealt with Stripe directly, and in the process not get a web forum involved. I would hate to be in a position where escalating an issue so that it becomes a PR issue as well is seen as the first step in a problem-solving workflow.
Whoa, what's with the huge bezel? My only Mini is a 1st-gen, but that has a tiny bezel on either side, with somewhat larger ones top-and-bottom, and I really like the resulting overall size & proportions. Did the top and bottom bezels shrink a ton so it just looks like the whole thing's bigger all around because they all match now, or did they widen the sides? Looking at the dimensions on WP it looks like the height is what got bigger, with the width staying the same, which is confusing—did they change the screen proportions, too? I thought the old size & look was just about perfect, like a trade paperback.
The name of the band is 'Pixies', but it's simply easier from a sentence-formation POV to refer to them as "The Pixies". Much as it may chagrin the purists.
If Apple didn't do it above and beyond not just what is normal but what is reasonable without an eye roll, then it wouldn't appear in every announcement, would it?
This was my first thought of application too.
Sometimes the alternative isn't much better, so instead of trying to punish myself and get a pixel, degoogle everything, etc. I voted with my wallet. Do I just keep my iPhone and let them get away with the CSAM on device scanning? I chose not to, even if the privacy is worse on android. Some may think that's ass backwards, but it was a solution for my beliefs.
The current variants (except maybe Mu, we don't have enough data yet) are not too bad for kids, but at the same time I don't want to create an environment with heavy selection pressure on the virus to mutate into a form that is especially contagious in children.

Every grade school is an incubator today. We are just begging for a Nu variant with a transmissiblity factor of 3 in small children.
It's you who brought up MAD. For a small country like Taiwan it may be enough to make the attack painful enough that it's not worth it to larger power. This essentially was(and is) Switzerland's defence strategy.
They really do. Unions, churches, charities.
Hacker News discovers sales and marketing
Do you really call iOS a competitor to android?
Its like saying KIA is competitor to a Rolls Royce.
Androids range from 50USD to anything else.
Apple and Google makes phones but they’re not competitors, their market segments, user base have different opinions on what they want and do.
I genuinely thought they were going to show the screen expanding to take up the full area. But nope. Just marketing-speak. Ugh
So was I? Which phone can even achieve a 20W power draw...

The only hybrid VP9 decoders were AMD's that only supported Windows, which they stopped shipping years ago (any current/Linux AMD drivers that support VP9 decoding only do so via an ASIC), and Intel's that was only supported on 3 generations of GPUs (Gen7.5, Gen8, and Gen9) and is obsoleted with an ASIC in Gen9.5.
What?

They're ads. Just like product placement in videos. When the actor is drinking Coca-Cola(tm) with the label pointed perfectly to the camera, that's an ad.

The fact that it doesn't "feel" like an ad to you, is just the industry adapting to audiences general dislike of "obvious" ads.
Show HN: Live Webinar on Building a Synthetic Data Pipeline w/ Apache Airflow
Angel Investments are very very illiquid.
In addition, minorities have reason to distrust the medical establishment.[0] For all the noise made about "voter ID is racist", almost no one has said that "vaccine passports are racist". Do we really want to create another two tiered system where minorities are the outgroup again?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
> You have to argue that there’s something unique about the not_the_United_States schools such that there’s something nullifying intrafemale competition.

Why do you think this? You only have your school experience to go on. You have nothing to base this claim on.

I think it’s entirely possible that the conditions of school create much of the competition you are observing, and that US schools are more extreme than others.

School intentionally creates behaviors. There is no reason not to believe that it has side effects.

And yes, to get any insight into which of is right, we’d need someone to have studied it.
You took a similar path that I did with my personal website. Kubernetes, istio, redis, OIDC, redux, sagas, you name it. All this unnecessary complexity was, however, deliberate. It was an excuse to learn about all the interesting things people are talking about. Then one day I decided the experiment was over and rewrote it from scratch in ~24 hours using plain create-react-app and Ubuntu on a $5/mo droplet. It was a valuable learning experience.
There's the apocryphal[1] story about the (Trappist? Belgian?) brewer-monk who, when asked about his favorite beer, answered "Budweiser" because of the consistency over millions of gallons.

The linked[1] article below also highlights that "quality light beers are incredibly difficult to brew". So here you have Budweiser/AB excelling on two fronts: a difficult brew and incredible consistency.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/11/light-bee...
Ideally, companies should be forced to deposit everything needed for manufacturing a product - 3D designs, software toolchains, PCBs, BOMs, service tooling - at the national archives to be held in trust.

Once the manufacturer ceases supporting a product, everything becomes open source.
I noticed higher end brands start to do this about 10 years ago. It’s really weird in my opinion.
Waste is an inherent inefficiency.

In silicon manufacturing, the inefficiency is actually pretty low specifically because of the kind of binning that Intel and AMD do, that GP was complaining about. In a fully vertically integrated system with no desire to sell outside, the waste is realized. In a less integrated system the waste is taken advantage of.

In theory capitalism should broadly encourage the elimination of waste - literally every part of the animal is used, for instance. Even the hooves make glue, and the bones to make jello.
Of course not.

We all know that there have been no functional improvements to software enabled by processor speed increases since the 8081. Everything since then has been programmers slowly using up their "wait()" calls placed in code in the 70s to fake it.
It can be summed up easily: Most of the teachers left years ago due to a toxic work environment and all of the content went stale making it not live up to competitors.
sensor shift OIS (optical image stabilization)
>> Removing the home button is not the same as making an all-screen design.

Well, when the half inch bezel will be removed it will feature an "infinite all screen with really no bezel". Lately Apple has been pushing quite a lot of BS in marketing. I'm not sure if it's always been like that or I just started to "wake up". I remember when they announced the Apple TV 4K they made it sound like it's the first 4K device in the world while they were actually pretty late in the game. Now all I wait(hw-wise) is an iPhone with usb-c and, no glass back and better camera.
*12.9
Yep. I was actually thinking of zoos as a counterpoint to my post upthread. But the difference is that of scale: how do you allow a T-Rex or a herd of brachiosaurs the square miles they need for their territory and still keep them within that territory? You may as well just say, "let's not bother fencing them in and just use the ocean itself as the barrier."
Honestly, I expect that half the classes I write will be records, once I have access to this.

A lot of the time, the software I'm working on has data objects that are really amalgamations of other fields. Example: "Address" is the street address, the city, the postal code, etc, etc. These sorts of objects should be immutable. Records are perfect for that.

If I need to add additional logic, methods, then you can add those to a record. But it continues to enforce that the state is immutable.
The other day I saw a post here about trip planner being the most failed startup idea (https://blog.garrytan.com/travel-planning-software-the-most-...) and by coincidence I found Inspirock a few days later, which, in my opinion, is the best implementation of a trip planner I've ever seen. I'm not affiliated to it, I simply liked the idea execution very much. Don't know if it will float or not, sadly.
Can we change the title here to something less marketing-ish? Possibly just "Apple releases new iPad mini"?
Everyone overhypes their product releases. But the reality is that most of us just don't pay attention to them. Microsoft talking about Windows? Eh. Samsung announcing something? Neat.

Apple announces something, however, and the detractors just have to flood in and give their hot takes. I suppose that speaks to the influence of Apple now.
The Shake Build System
From the macrumors keynote feed comments:

These keynotes are ****ing uncanny. Plays like a Black Mirror episode. Don't know why.

Nailed it.
Is it just me or are these latest announcement events lackluster and over-produced? I'm not judging the devices (going to pick up the watch series 7) but the events themselves are tough to sit through.
> There is just nothing else on the front

... except for a giant f'ing bezel
It was more of a "there are a ton of packages which also need to be patched" kind of thing as well.
Show HN: Inferrd – Heroku for Machine Learning
[UPDATED FROM 10.0 TO 11.0!]

Hi everyone. I've written some instructions and scripts to build LFS (Linux From Scratch), version 11.0, as simply as possible (I know, not that simple, but anyway). It's basically a super summarized version of the LFS book.

You can check the instructions and get the scripts from my GitHub repository: https://github.com/luisgbm/lfs-scripts

Key points:

- First, this guide does not replace reading the whole LFS book. I highly recommend that you read it at least once. Only then you should use the automation scripts provided here.

- The whole process is run inside VirtualBox.

- You need two hard disks attached to your VM (one for the host, one for receiving the LFS build).

- Most steps will be executed via Shell scripts (there are four of them).

- Some steps need to be manually run.

- At the end, you will be able to create a separate VM and boot from it directly.

Hope you enjoy it, and feel free to send me feedback.
Why not? They have the freedom and opportunity to create FOSS code just the same as anyone else.
Hey, Lucas here. I’m excited to share Inferrd along with my co-founder Theo. It’s a product we started working on after dealing with our fair share of deploying models on GPU in traditional clouds (GCP, AWS, Azure) for consulting contracts.

Hosting AI is challenging because it requires GPUs and most of the time, data scientists are left to design and build the infrastructure. Configuring Nvidia and Cuda is another issue that can consume days or weeks (add a few more weeks for TensorRT).

That’s why we built Inferrd, it’s a Heroku-style GPU hosting platform specifically designed for AI models. All the libraries are pre-configured, no cold start and out-of-the-box support for most major frameworks (spaCy, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Scikit, XGBoost). In addition, we leverage GPU sharing to provide very competitive pricing. Lastly, we provide key authentication, smooth scaling and monitoring tools.

AI hosting is a very interesting new space, and we’ll be around to answer any questions!
$0.25 sounds less than benevolent.
This reads like a comment from January 2010. When have you ever been able to install your own desktop apps on a device running an ARM-based SoC?
Design is misunderstood, often by designers, and it seems like you also may have some misunderstandings based on your assessments of what should designers do (vs what they do). Based on your comment it sounds like the designers you work with have an over-emphasis on visual UI design. I don't think you are to blame though - I have observed a consistent dumbing down of design discourse and practices among people that don't take the time to learn the depth of what is available. This includes most practicing designers. I have observed that designers are less interested in educating the world about their practices than perhaps they need to be in order to change this situation. Design in most cases is essentially a set of knowledge work processes, the best of which is built on solid research practices informed by psychology and cognitive science.

For anyone interested in up-leveling their own understanding of design I recommend the articles, videos, courses and other materials available from the Nielsen Norman Group
https://www.nngroup.com/
As an engineer, the trailing 0 is significant: it indicates with what precision it was rounded to. [0.5, .15) could become .1, with 1 significant digit, but not .10 with 2 significant digits.

Doubtful it matters in this case, but that extra zero can convey extra meaning.
Huh? I’ve never heard anyone refer to a car model without an article. If you purchased a Mustang you’d say “I got a Mustang”, not “I got Mustang.” Even when talking about the model in general rather than a specific car, it’s “The Mustang gets 30 MPG”, not “Mustang gets 30 MPG.”

(I’m from the PNW, in case it’s a regional thing.)
A price drop is expected with an audience expanding from millions to billions, even if the cost of the average game has shot up.
The Crime of Curiosity
How it would have hurt to get a vaccine?
> usb-c

Thank goodness. Glad to see them ditching the legacy deadweight Lightning connector.
I was always impressed by Treehouse and recommended it for people trying to learn to code. But it did require you to have more inner drive (or grit) than a bootcamp
So, a question: traditional objections to galactic travel (e.g. 1G accel) is the requirement for huge amounts of propulsion mass. Even with a method of perfect E=mc^2 of some special fuel matter, you still need a whole load of propulsion mass to chuck in the opposite direction, which in turn requires more energy to accelerate.

the question is, could we get around that by converting from mass-less forms of energy, and generating mass on-the-fly, skipping the need to accelerate tons of acceleration mass; or is there some restriction that would disallow this?

If I fire 2 photons at each other on a ship travelling at 0.5c, and this creates 2 particles e+ and e-; would the particles also be travelling at 0.5c along with the ship; would their velocity/momentum be in random directions etc?
> People always say this but it's simply not true.

There are also cases where it does not go well, e.g. flint. Those companies you list suck because they have monopolies which I think is a separate issue. Also, a local municipal organization has a ton less bureaucracy, there is not much incentive for corruption, and the result of corruption won't tank the economy. A national bank would be a whole different ball game. If a guy gives his friend's company free water, so what. if a guy who works at a national bank gives his friend's shitty company a sweetheart loan that he knows they won't be able to pay back, that will have a lot more dire consequences if repeated over and over.
Ok this, box plots are a good way to visualize and show distribution esp to a not so stat heavy audience.
> relativity to Maxwell's equations, you get relativistic Maxwell's equations

Maxwell's equations imply (special) relativity, so there's nothing to be added. Maxwell's equations imply the speed of light is the same in all reference frames, which is all you need to derive special relativity.

That is why people of the time were trying to understand how this can ben so, why the did things like Michaelson-Morely to look for invariance/ether, and why so many of the terms used in relativity predate relativity, since they were invented to handle that Maxwell's Equations had this invariance.

Basically, Maxwell's equations, as written were relativistically invariant, thus compatible.
This is kernel API for VPUs not for GPUs.

Power reduction is not really questionable. You can't really achieve smooth playback at full-res without VPU on devices where these things are used.
Also "iPad mini features an all-screen design" while immediate picture underneath still shows significant bezels. Turns out they are just talking about the home button.

>With iPadOS 15, powerful new ML features include Live Text, which uses on-device intelligence

The chip enabling this has recently turned out to be used as an on-device intelligence agency, that reports estimates of crimes back to the mothership and could go very wrong in some countries.
> Those who don't see the challenges that these teens go through is clearly delusional.

No one is debating the challenges of coming of age in the age of the Internet. I'd disagree that its entirely FB's fault as if the rest of society, kids and parents alike, lack all agency to make sound choices - that they must passively consume and be consumed by all that FB offers... or that theses sorts of problems are best addressed by literally legislating morality.

Its convenient and easy to hate FB; expedient, really...
USB-C is nice to see. I wonder if the next iPhone will finally make the upgrade...

EDIT: of course the new iPhone 13 is still lightning.... https://www.apple.com/iphone-13-pro/specs/
You see the same misconceptions in the other direction as well.

It's like some people think a work stoppage from cleaning up a dead worker or hazardous material spill don't result in lost productivity that workplaces would rather not incur.
I am a landlord, I specifically bought a property that is zoned for more units so I can build more housing when I have money again in the future. My dad is a landlord, he is actively building. More units mean more money. You can support a larger population. As a former renter I want more units too. I hated paying 38k / year for a mediocre apartment in SF Bay.

>Meanwhile local politicians and boomers support NIMBYism and oppose all housing developments

This is 100% the issue. Build more housing. Allow smaller units and efficiencies for lower income residents. Get rid of some of the bureaucracy around building, so much of it is just implicit NIMBYism.
Roots of Progress explores a fascinating and critically vital question, but does so under ideological blinders and using manifestly obvious rhetorical techniques (strawman arguments, blame-the-victim, historical revisionism) which hugely impair the entire project.

Tremendous potential. Miserable accomplishment.
> I think as a society we need to prove that we are smarter than these companies and are capable of discipline and self-control.

I think it's a losing game.

For as long as big social is allowed to be “free” with its paying customers being advertisers, it will keep benefitting from trolling and other unhealthy behaviours (narcissism?) that happen to drive up engagement and ad revenue. With user lock-in, full control over UI and algorithms at its disposal, big social has way too many tricks up its sleeve for your average tired-after-work-or-school, running-out-of-willpower, vulnerable user to consciously compensate for.

Normalising paid social (forcing interoperability, downgrading platforms to pipes) is probably the most straightforward way for us to finally gain the ability to vote with our wallet and to choose client software crafted with our needs in mind. (I’m not a proponent of regulation bloat or special rules for select big companies; I think a small but strategically focused general requirement could be enough for such a change to happen.)
Does anyone know of any other streaming/content delivery services that do similar?
Probably the biggest news is the death of the Lightning connector. USB-C now paves the way for connecting anything, across different hardware platforms.
A gun type nuclear weapon is an extremely simple device, though with relatively low yield. To the point where the US did not feel the need to test it before dropping Little Boy. Weapon delivery systems are a larger issue.

As to Japan having weapons grade plutonium or highly enriched uranium, 5 years is a long time in a weapons program. At it’s peak the US was pumping out hundreds of nuclear weapons a year.
No we’re stuck with it because average was used colloquially for arithmetic mean for decades.

I wish people would stop bad-mouthing the arithmetic mean. If you have to convey information about a distribution and you’ve got only one number to do it, the arithmetic mean is for you.
Revolutionary spyware.
Obnoxious overhyping is not normal in most cultures around the world.