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Phones from 10 years ago don't work any more because wireless companies are dropping 3G. AT&T literally sent me a free phone that just arrived out of the blue. Will this 10 year phone will also include replacing the transmitter, modem, and antenna layout?

If the goal is to make parts replaceable to reduce waste, what is the difference between keeping a phone for five years and throwing it away to buy a new one, then keeping that for five years, vs replacing all the parts in "one" phone over a ten year period? Two complete sets of parts are used.

My son has a six year old phone. When he lost it, he wanted the same model, which we bought used. It still has the latest software, because it's not android.

What is the difference between ten people owning ten 10 year phones, and ten people each handing down a phone that one person bought new?
Agreed. I use Windows/Android for the same reason- I know what I'm giving up but the upsides are important enough to me. I am talking about people who don't have much clues about either.
I primarily use MacOS and just don't understand how this can still be a seemingly common problem in 2021, when most of the world uses laptops. Shouldn't this be a top priority for Microsoft and for vendors?

Apparently it isn't, which may explain why almost every quarter Apple reports year-over-year gains in laptop sales.

If I were the boss at Microsoft, this would become a top priority. Immediately.
Using RSS to replace social media
Finland also has voter-decided party list order, but here you still vote for a single candidate - the party list gets ordered according to votes received by individual members.

Seats are distributed to party lists according to their vote share, and then within a party list according to the individual vote amounts.

And you just write the candidate number on the ballot (see e.g. photo in this news article: https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/yle_news_explains_voting_...), so it is quite simple. The voting booth has a list of candidate numbers if you don't know yours.
I imagine this would just turn into everyone inserting 10 second pauses on the tests that fail. Which works, but now your suite doubles the run time. Actually turning nondeterministic tests into deterministic ones is... hard. Really hard in some cases. Many devs don't even understand how to get there, even after years of E2E experience.

One place I worked, the E2E suite took a full hour to run. Everyone reran the tests. Merges took a full day in many cases. Management tried to force people to fix broken tests. But they also required new tests on new features. So it was a constant treadmill. There was basically a full mutiny by the end and the company killed off their entire E2E suite.
Is this different from someone calling Stossel a fraud in the comments? The platform just added a comment on his post. The more interesting thing for me is to see if this has other ramifications if decided in favor of Stossel.
Yeah that decision make sense for multi platform. Suspending functions will work on JS and Kotlin Native.
I want a Linux Stupidphone.

Small screen, degoogled, featureless (no camera, no Bluetooth, no sensors; nothing but WiFi, 4G, microphone), decent battery life. Can make and receive phone calls and messages.
I don't think the stocks liquidations at the beginning of the pandemic is a good example of this. shit was hitting the fan and cities were closing down before most of the "insider trading" happened. If the information they used to make their trades was on the front page of every newspaper, it's not insider trading.

I think the conflict of interest alone should be enough to ban them and their close relatives from trading individual stocks
Nrtsearch: Yelp's Fast, Scalable and Cost Effective Search Engine
> Honest question: it's still a consensus that they do have value in situations such as airport Wi-Fi, correct?

No, with SSL and https now the default for 90%+ of the web, you can be sure no one is casually listening in.
> > and at an individual level it’s very manageable

> And yet, we have horror stories of students and even experts being hit by surprise AWS bills.

They obviously didn’t bother to manage it. But that doesn’t mean it’s not manageable. It takes all of 5 minutes to set up a budget alarm on CloudWatch. It was one of the first things I looked into doing when I set up my own AWS account years ago specifically because I didn’t know what I was doing back then and thus didn’t want any surprises. If I managed it then, then I find it hard to believe others cannot too.
What keeps people small and poor is the insistence that people should save in monetary terms.

It's not rocket science. When you keep your wealth in monetary terms, you don't get to have it in physical terms. Money represents how much real wealth you could have if you spent it. It's deferred consumption. There is no real wealth in something that didn't happen.
This is why my XPS13 laptop's battery is swollen. It was extremely hot many times I pulled it out of the bag.

And because of the battery swell, I cannot use the trackpad clicks anymore. Dell should recall and help customers.
From the owner's manual for the 2001 Ford Explorer, page 167: https://www.fordservicecontent.com/Ford_Content/Catalog/owne...

>Use 2 (Second) to start-up on
slippery roads or to provide
additional engine braking on
downgrades.

>Use 1 (First) to provide maximum
engine braking on steep downgrades.

The weak point is the engine, not the transmission. If you're at 7,000 in fourth gear, and you command a shift to 1st gear, it will grenade your crankshaft. Some transmission control modules are smart enough to refuse to do this.
> All of that said, when we accurately track the amount of food people are eating, their weight does pretty predictably move with the calories in almost all circumstances.

This is only true in the short term - days,weeks. What is observed in the long term is that people, even the overweight and obese, reach stable weights without changing their lifestyle. So, if I were to start eating a surplus of 1000Cal/day compared to my current diet, and without changing my lifestyle in any other way, i would gain weight quickly until reaching some other significantly higher weight level, and then plateau there until I change other aspects of my lifestyle.

This may be due in part to simple energy calculations (I need more energy to move around a higher mass), but is likely also affected by other metabolic factors as well (e.g. I would also develop stronger muscles to hold my bigger weight, and stronger muscles directly need more calories to be maintained).

It's also extremely important, when discussing practical weight loss, to remember that appetite is also directly controlled by your body chemistry, and may vary wildly between people, probably explaining a huge amount of the observed weight differences.
I cannot watch this entire video, so it is possible that you explain conceptually how your acceptance tests are different from end to end test?

I would like to undestand what were the goals of your initial end to end and what are the goals of acceptance testing, and how you define these acceptance testing from test objective perspective.

I assume end to end tests could be described by this definition: "test the functionality and performance of an application under product-like circumstances and data to replicate live settings. The goal is to simulate what a real user scenario looks like from start to finish" [0]

[0] https://smartbear.com/solutions/end-to-end-testing/
They should be paid market rate for their labor. Why should prison take away your basic financial rights.

Edit: it's disgusting to me that anyone downvoted this. what do you believe, if not that people have a right to the fruits of their labor, even as criminals? believing otherwise is believing in slavery and exploitation.
It also fails to appreciate the economic and emotional angles. Not only are do the cheapest ultra-processed foods tend to be the worst for you, but those foods are also designed to be as addictive as possible. Economic stress especially is omnipresent in modern society. Some people turn to drugs when life is stressful. Some people turn to food. Sometimes I wonder if there’s really that much of a difference. “Once you pop, you can’t stop”.
Not even a bad idea!

toppost: money is speech in the US. And it makes little sense to just force them to earn less. Preventing corporate ties otherwise seems more appeasing.
I always mocked out 3rd party tests in my tests. I've never actually had a problem with some third party changing their API. That's the whole point of a versioned API anyway. I think when people talk about e2e tests, it's more about testing only integration between contracts that you own.
A quick web search for "apple lobbying against right to repair" will give you many results. Apple is not the only one. Here is one article, as an example:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-20/microsoft...
They did not fire you just because they disagreed, they did so because others would harass and complain until you were fired. Sorry if the attempt at making some sort of 'both sides' point went off the rails, but cancel culture was created by the right and was their exclusive domain for almost 60 years in post-war America. There was a large list of things that you were not allowed to say, to do, or even to be just because right-wing pressure groups and 'concerned citizens' would ensure that you had no job and no voice if they found out.

The only thing that is different now is that the shoe is on the other foot. I guess when some people find they no longer have license to be an asshole the transition can feel a bit uncomfortable and needing to learn about these things called 'consequences' that everyone else has been forced to endure must seem a bit strange.
How much of an effect can metabolism actually have though? That's the crucial part of this. If someone claims to be 300lbs and not losing weight eating say 1700 calories a day (made up numbers) I would just say they are either incorrectly calculating or not being truthful. By virtue of thermodynamics if they have a certain amount of tissue then they require a certain amount of base calories to maintain that tissue.

Essentially, I think people misjudge how much of an effect metabolism plays compared to other factors, misreporting or miscalculating caloric intake, self deception, etc.

Body composition is another thing entirely and involves going a layer deeper to macronutrient breakdowns and exercise variants.
Hey, they have to fill their days with something.
0. Eliminate police unions, period. A group entrusted with upholding the law through sanctioned violence must not be allowed to have any other command structure. When a factory's union goes against management, the factory shuts down. When a police union goes against their management, we get the police riots of 2020.
You're not another EU country anymore, mate.

Not to worry though, the whole damn thing will collapse sooner rather than later, and then you'll be happy to watch the implosion from a comparatively safe distance...
The little line at the top is actually an interactive slider control so you can rotate the inner disk from point A to point B.

Definitely not an intuitive interface.
You've made about 20 comments in this thread, mostly demanding sources and then dismissing those sources with vague ad-hominem and making zero attempt to engage with the substance of any claims.

Since you seem to be very well educated on this topic, can you share your sources? I'm eager to read them.
what about grep?
You'd be surprised at the number of people whose monthly income is below the price of an iphone, who own an iPhone in some parts of Asia.
Yegor: I like the way you run windscribe and fully believe in your honesty and integrity (in fact, windscribe and mullvad are the among the few private vpn providers I've ever recommended). My point wasn't that. It was rather that the primary threat remains security of the setups themselves more so than the ownership. May be you don't agree, but that's my view.
> It's been clear for a long time that every single commercial VPN service is a waste of money.

This is nonsense. It depends entirely on your goals. It's important to me that my ISP doesn't know what I'm doing while I couldn't care less if my VPN provider does. I also need to circumvent geoblocking from time to time.
Ignoring the fact that we've had prisoners, in places like e.g. Guantanamo, on and off who were/are held for decades without ever even being charged with anything, China has also charged its prisoners with crimes.

You don't agree with China's decision to make practicing religion a crime, I don't agree with the US's decision to make possessing drugs a crime. Both are "crimes" punishable by incarceration according to the two governments.
I would personally use something like DxoMark's tests as a starting point to evaluate cameras and lenses. EDIT: and such things as the camera on a smartphone.

That sets the starting point, and then I can compare as I go along.

https://www.dxomark.com/rankings/#smartphones-mobile
As the name implies, it takes feeds and brings the best from them to surface. Every click on article links counts as vote from a unique IP address.

It's created by me. I enjoy the read view on Unfeeder for long articles. I don't longer use or need a feed reader since I created it.
EU formally blames Russia for GhostWriter influence operation
I'd love to help but it's been so long that I don't remember what exactly it was I was struggling with. Thanks for the offer, though!
This should be updated to link to the original website, rather than to R-bloggers, which is a blog aggregator.

http://skranz.github.io/r/2021/09/24/bundestag2021.html
FB was toying with adding a screen before Apple's prompt: "Here's why tracking is good, actually." Wonder what happened to that.
As someone who knows a lot of police officers, it just sounds like the poster also knows a lot of police officers.
I see, but these "receipts" are just emails. I would be extremely surprised if someone else's emails are getting routed to your gmail inbox. Seems very unlikely...
In almost all conceivable contexts, no. If you've ever done any work with electrical code, you are familiar with the spacing requirements between electrical conduit and data wires to prevent magnetic interference: at least a foot apart, and perpendicular crossings if crossings are necessary. The voltage on underwater electrical cables are quite high, as is the bandwidth on underwater data cables, so you definitely can't have them mixing if you want anything near optimum results on data transfer.
Every bitcoin transaction produces more e-waste than throwing away 2 new iPhones. China has the right idea; it's time to put a stop to this immensely harmful nonsense.
I’ve built LFS 5. It took about a weekend but I learned a TON about linux in the process.

Back in those days we had to compile kernels if we wanted anything more than the distro provided (depends on distro).

I started with slackware and had to compile in support for cdrom.

Good times.
The puzzle was originally conceived in 1906.

Love me some Sam Loyd, there is no greater chess puzzler in my mind.
Thanks so much for the insight!
Yeah, that statement is an oversimplification of an oversimplification. The idea behind it philosophically is that it is far easier to prove that something exists/is happening than to prove that it is not. Essentially that if someone is going to make the claim that google is doing X, the proof is easy: a single instance of it happening. To prove google is not doing X requires you to create a collection of all of googles actions, prove that it is a full collection of their actions, and then prove that within that collection exists what the topic of debate is. Therefore, while it is not technically impossible to prove that google is not doing X, for the purposes of debate we should treat it as if it is and the burden or proof should rely on the person claiming that google is doing X.

Of course, as people living in the world we don’t necessarily need full proof to try and protect ourselves from the actions of an entity we don’t have full knowledge of. But saying “I don’t want to give google X data because of what they theoretically could do with it” is different rhetorically from saying “I believe that google is doing X with the data, and if you don’t prove otherwise it’s probably true.”
Part I was an excellent overview of what caused the WW1 trench stalemate (TLDR: not as much to do with machine guns and bone headed generals as you might think).
Part of the trick is that the boys are split into two parts and progress from more inside to more outside along the wheel. Since the unit "a boy" is based on real world experience where boys can be different sizes and especially since how much space a boy takes up in an image can vary depending on angle, we mentally accept that this mashup of different amounts of body parts adds up to "one boy" rather than thinking "No, that's just 85 percent of a boy and over there we have 105 percent of a boy!"

As someone else noted, we accept in one position that two partial boys each count as a whole boy and then in another position we accept that they each count as just part of a whole boy when paired differently.

(Edited in hopes of improving clarity.)
That's an interesting point. I would love to see someone testing this assumption.
From the article: "If the elements in the soil and water of a region work their way into the plants grown there, they also work their way into our bodies when we eat the produce of those plants, or when we eat the meat of animals fed on those plants. We ingest these elements, process them, and use them to build flesh, teeth and bones. So the elements making up our bodies can tell us something about the food we’ve eaten and the land that supports us."

Seems like the same idea would apply to regional differences in health including mental health. An obvious one would be if the land is high in lead, the people living on it might be more violent. Areas with oil wells are likely affecting air and food quality. Maybe areas with a lot of lithium result in happier people. Western medicine has largely ignored environmental effects. A map of background radiation levels across the world might have an interesting health story to tell as could multi-spectral satellite imagery. Oritain might be sitting on a wealth of very useful health data, unaware of it.
FWIW, iAd for third-party apps was shut down. They still sells adds for Apple News and the App Store.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAd

Selling search ads on the App Store kinda sucks--I wish they hadn't done that.
Same with my Dell Precision... I have to do a full shutdown before putting it in my bag.
So would posting it anywhere online essentially. Twitter would work for the same usecase. Or the old sending it to yourself through the mail thing.

NFTs also don’t put the image on chain usually instead just linking from the metadata so a fraudster could register a bunch of placeholder NFTs and then later put stolen art where the link points to. Hey Presto you can steal art and “prove” the actual creator is the fraud.
At least on Firefox, the reader button allows one to read the full article if it is triggered before the pay-wall pops up on your screen.

I know someone will fix this behavior, but this trick works on quite some websites :)
Yes, I was merely commenting about Volume.

Also, if you are passionate about a topic, replying answers comes very naturally to you.

But I don't expect HN to get it
I suspect its this video [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-xvc2o4ezk
Having lived in both poor and rich countries, I never saw a fervor for helping far away lands in a poor country. The are simply not enough resources to mount effective overseas charity campaigns.
Nobody is banning advertising. They're letting people opt out of tracking advertisements/data brokering.

Just stick with content ads.
Lots of companies that have been around a while and haven't replaced legacy applications still run those behind the web server they were designed to run behind. Moving to another server seems simple until you actually try to do that with a handful of 15-year-old sites with proxy rules, rewrites, custom headers, and such in one server's central config file and a bunch of per-directory access files. Technical debt is a real thing.

Shared hosting is still huge for small sites, and the major control panels for that (cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, vDeck) still support Apache as the primary web server.
It seems like they're preparing for total independence on all fronts in preparation for major aggression. They're extracting raw natural resources and stockpiling at a record rate, shutting down foreign business dependencies, further isolating their own people from the world at every opportunity.

This looks to me like preparation to move on Taiwan and expand on other "disputed" territory. They may suspect that the Biden admin will allow it.
a colloquial subjective objective :)

if it's "well i like this one better but maybe someone else could like the other one more" then its subjectively subjective

as opposed to here, where its so bad i cant see that happen
This already happens in the US. If the perp is male he likely gets named. If he or she is of the majority “race” they’ll likely be mentioned, otherwise it’s a more bland description at which point people guess that since those attributes weren’t mentioned then the perp is likely not of the majority population.

On the other hand some publications will publish gender, race, religion, age etc regardless.
It is fighting in a space which is very competitive. Java, Go, JavaScript and Python. The later two are being favorite of every university or coding camp graduate. You stay relevant or you die.

Unfortunately, that implies faster dev cycles and areas like docs which are not well served.
5G will still be here in 10 maybe even 20 years.
The middle ground that not enough teams are exploring is following the so-called Functional Architecture. If all side-effects are effectively segregated and reified, then one should be able to swap them out for determistic mocks that run instantly.

So you could E2E a distributed system realistically and instantly.

You can still simulate things services being slow, unavailable, etc if the code handling those is expressed as pure logic instead of coupling itself to IO.

Interestingly, in addition to fixed examples, you can perform generative testing over this setup e.g. what happens for various combinations of services being slow/down.
Out of curiosity, I wondered if the FDA agreed. And they do:

https://www.cfsanappsexternal.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/index.cfm...

The FDA does warn against using the name "white tuna," but they sure don't seem to care in practice.
It would be great if this works well. I've noticed it's something that doesn't really exist. If a book is extremely popular it might have a good plot summary on Wikipedia but if not all you're going to get is one or two teaser paragraphs.

I often find myself wanting to continue a series that I didn't finish or just had a book come out without rereading all the previous ones. Having a big compendium of five-page plot summaries would be incredible.
AltTab: Windows Alt-Tab on macOS
Some years ago I was contacted by the descendants of an English engineer who was working at the Long Island NY cable station of the German Atlantic cable via the Azores at the start of WWI.

Back in the 1950s a family member had recorded him on open reel tape reminiscing about his experiences, and this was later converted to audio cassettes. They sent me the tapes, and I cleaned up the audio for them, and they gave me permission to post the transcription and audio on my site.

Turned out he was actually watching the signals coming in from a German operator when the cable was cut by the Brits, and he talks about this on one of the tapes.

The story and short audio file are on my site:
https://atlantic-cable.com/CableStories/Claypoole/index.htm
It's different because Facebook are shielded from liability for other people's comments that they publish, but not for their own comments.