skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it shut down at $150.00 or does it shut down “some amount of time and unknown dollars after you cross $150”?

I’m willing to bet it’s the latter. If in a normal account, you’d then incurred $152.78 or $166.39, did the limit work? Would customers agree?

My cloud bills continue to change for several days past the end of the month (for legitimate calculations that come in for usage incurred during the month).
Dumb alternative: what if Apple was forced to give out converters and adapters for free?
I run Ubuntu on a X1 Extreme Gen 2 for a while now, no problems whatsoever. The discrete nVidia GPU is as power hungry, and running as hot during gaming, as it did under Windows (so nether a big surprise nor a real problem, anyone remember how harsh Battletech was on GPUs initially?). Battery live, depending on use (and excluding gaming) is around 4 hours (didn't have less then 3+).

The heat issue is mitigated somewhat by putting the machine on some kind of stand to have air pass underneath it. That being said, even under Windows the machine went to sleep just fine, also woke up again. If anything, that works better now under Linux.
Google makes you explicitly confirm that you want to download using cellular each time you update, noting that it might induce charges. There, fixed, how come geniuses at apple haven’t considered this? Given how nowadays there’s a toggle for 5G and someone on hn told me it’s due to contract with carriers, I reckon the answer is that sweet sweet money.
I've taken the opposite view ever since EFF has started wasting time on protests, appeals and letters on this specific issue. Instead of treating this company with the same scrutiny it treats other companies with (point out what's wrong, offer alternatives, chase legislation) it's instead spending time on these stunts as someone called it.

At this point, the cat is out of the bag, and has been out of the bag for several years, it's just hitting 'close to home' now. Withdrawals and delays that are effected as a result of these will not make any difference.

This isn't a good fight but a form of denial and while I've been a regular supporter of theirs for several years, I now question where their priorities lie.
I didn't say it's perfect, but it's surely better than it's presented by people who get nothing about it right.
It is gross negligence to standardize on anything that conflates a data bus with a power socket.

A user should have the expectation that charging a device does not compromise the safety.
China’s central bank says all cryptocurrency-related activities are illegal
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That does sound like an arrogant arsehole if serious, though that’s the kind of things one would say in jest around here. Not sure how prevalent that is, if sincere. Even in the UK, where Apple has a near-50% market share AFAIK, it means not communicating with half the population, which sounds impractical.
> What happens in 5 years when someone wants to use a better connector?

Laws change to adapt to the industry's demands. Although, I wonder what this person means by "better connected". USB-C is good enough for computers; is it not good enough for phones?

> it favored a solution that left the device side of the charging interface open for innovation

Apple is lying, of course, so it's good to verify their claims. The proposed legislation doesn't forbid the use of Lightning ports or whatever Apple wants to use. They just need to allow USB-C charging as well. So the field is still open for innovation.

> These E.U. meddlers

Sorry, but if you want to sell your phones in the EU, then you'll have to learn to play by the rules set by the EU citizens. Nobody's forcing you to sell here, and don't let the door hit you on your way out.
Depends on the rate of requests. If you’re frequently getting hit, just do the math and see when to switch over.

One disadvantage I’ve encountered is actually from a support perspective depending on your stack: if your team uses Spring for example, then you’ll know the set up having something Lambda VS EC2s is really different and there’s extra training. People generally don’t like doing stuff they’re not comfy with.
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Ubuntu 16.04 virtual environment removed from GitHub CI
> I meant it feels icky to approve of anything Apple does :P.

Oh, right. Sorry, I misread :)
Have to reply for correction since can't edit anymore.

The best Kepler chip is the GK104: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gk104.g108

Best GTX: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-770.c1856

Best Quadro: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/quadro-k5000.c565
I'm reading this and all I'm thinking is: Westerners' ancestors have done worst. China is doing what it's doing because it wants to catch up. At least they're not exploiting other people. And the audacity to call it 'Darwin's doorstep', as if he's a saint. One positive thing I'd attribute to him is he enlightened the Nazis and if it weren't for WW2, colonization wouldn't end
What is dumb about it to me is that the solution in my mind is simple: don’t give Messages.app private API access. They get access other messaging apps from the App Store can’t have and that’s what’s causing these vulnerabilities, but all they need is APNS and access to the SMS service (which is private but shouldn’t be dangerous… right?).
> so if you label me you need a more generic term.

Does Luddite work for you?
I’d imagine quite a lot. The fungibility and cheap, instant long range transmission of electricity is worth an awful lot of ungainly hydrogen in a tank somewhere else that you can’t use.
Sometimes you need to accept you just aren’t the target audience of a product.

You may love cars. You might think Tesla’s are amazing. But if you live on a small island without an electrical grid, it might not be the car for you just because it doesn’t come with its own solar panels.
Had it been successful 10 years ago, what connector would we have today? Mini USB?
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Only ~700k of the 7M homes are open to lot splitting.

This policy will raise prices faster by squeezing SFH supply and likely only a <30% of the 700k homes will want to have their property tax rates re-assessed.

There are 5M USD homes in California that pay 10k/yr in property taxes.

Nobody wants to abandon their property tax legacy.
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A big missing piece is the why. From what I can understand, it's garbage collected, it has ADTs, lists and arrays, it compiles to WASM, it has a "modern" syntax. What's the use case? Who's the target audiance? What are the tradeoffs comapred to JS, OCaml and Rust? I don't see any milestones or projets on Github. Is there a roadmap? What's the goal? A fullstack language?

I feel like I really want the "no marketing bullshit" version of that frontpage. "Grain is a new language that puts academic language features to work". Okay, but what "academic language features"? ADTs and pattern matching? Linear types? What's your pitch for developers that see new languages every 6 months, with usually more features than ADTs and a WASM backend?

I'll add that the answer to those can be "We made Grain because we wanted to, without a specific audiance in mind except ourselves" and that would be fine. I would just like some clarity on the goals and scope of Grain.
> instead of Apple’s irresponsible “you need a 3GB OS update even if the only fix is 3 lines of code in Safari..."

Your comment seems to be implying that Apple could simply ship the delta in the source code: i.e. something like `git diff --minimal --word-diff=porcelain head^1`. Would this not require iOS to be compiled on the device, and store its own source code, à la `.git`? How would you address the issue of the compiler itself needing to be updated as part of this process?

Or are you suggesting they would ship the diff for the binary? For one, I don't think the delta in the resulting binary would be as small as the delta in the source, due to addresses changing, etc. There are tools like bsdiff which can 'intelligently' handle this, but I believe they aren't widely used for operating system updates, as opposed to standard userspace binaries.

In addition to this, the diff shipped would be relative to whatever version the device is currently using, which would necessitate storing a very large number of diffs, especially for binaries, or else computing it on the fly (which simply shifts the burden from disk space to CPU cycles).

Or have I misunderstood you entirely?
Fedora doesn't even create swap partitions anymore, so you have to enable that first to enable hibernation, enabling it requires you to create a swap-partition, change things in systemd and meddle with the grub-configuration: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/fedora-hibernate.html
Honestly they're doing the right thing with buying the likes of Instagram and WhatsApp and keeping them at arms length rather than slathering them in Facebook integrations and branding, which is something Yahoo in particular never learned and IMO was a big factor in them accidentally suffocating Flickr and tumblr. Of course the Apple provoked porn ban was the final nail in the coffin for tumblr but the direction was clear well before that
Undisclosed private companies analysing facial data from NHS app
My usb-c charging cable is always occupied. phone/oculus/headphones etc. i expect that public spaces will offer usb-c charging cables so you won't even need to carry a cable.
Is there even a way to make sure a MacBook is actually turt really off?
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I’ve seen the word “stunts” (plural) used a few times in the comments but what other things has the EFF done recently that would qualify as a stunt?

This particular thing was very clearly and deliberately a “stunt” but to me it feels more like the exception than the norm for the sort of thing EFF typically does?

Admittedly I’m fairly new to EFF so have only really been paying attention to them for a year or two.
So as a dev is reponsible for alpha testing before possibly unleashing it to the public and possibly ruining someone's minute, you want lawmakers to test their own laws first before possibly ruining someone's life?

Come to think of it, car makers, product creators and such are also responsible for testing before unleashing to the public. I wish it wasn't such an amusing notion with lawmakers but good luck with that.
> And just think—we can sell the information we collect to other businesses. Or to the government or the police department. Anyone, really, who’s prepared to pay.

So sick of this lazy attack on Google. If they'll sell your data to anyone who's prepared to pay, where do I sign up to purchase your search history?

Edit: If you're downvoting, please also reply.
China says all cryptocurrency-related transactions are illegal
I'm not sure if you actually believe that. If the population I've observed is any way representative, we'd be more than happy to give full root level access if it means the cheaters actually vanish.

You might be severely underestimating how much comp gamers hate cheaters.
The only technical reason I can thing off is that the inside space needed for the usb C port is (considerably) bigger and they don't like it. But this is just a guess...
I would expect same as you that the move to only wireless would not happen soon, but this regulation could push them to do it a lot sooner. There is a 2yrs transition period mentioned in the regulation IIRC, so that sets the stage for iPhone 15/16 to be wireless, and they just stop selling others in EU.
They would if they could. Billboards can't so they don't, but businesses has monetized user data as long as it has been possible.

Read this article for example about Target identifying people who were possibly pregnant to send ads and offers about baby supplies to them: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....

Google didn't do any innovations at all in this space, they just had more data and didn't share that data with data brokers so they could do more with it.
One minute of ProRes Video shot on iPhone 13 Pros clocks in at 6GB
Interesting to consider how CDNs would work in that world!
That’s not the point, and sarcasm is uncalled for.
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Same with me, been happening for a couple of weeks now. Sometimes multiple times a day. Just yesterday I had the following:

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Body: 3484 2 0812 61 3

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BS it would hinder innovation. how hard is it to adapt any innovative connector to work with the usb-c format?

Maybe they should apply a little more innovation and make lighnting work with the usb-c format
How can a fan help when fresh air is nowhere for it to suck from? I even suspect fan-less models may be better prepared for such scenario.
"Yeah, but it's not the government so it's fine"

Just thought I'd proceed the discussion with the argument that will inevitably be brought forward.
Just pay cash?
> If you disagree please link an article where it says that they did work together

It would have sufficed to read the Carmack post.

Seriously, random internet guy, he literally *said it himself*

> When NeXT managed to sort of reverse-acquire Apple and Steve was back in charge, I was excited by the possibilities of a resurgent Apple with the virtues of NeXT in a mainstream platform.
*I was brought in* to talk about the needs of games in general, but I made it my mission to get Apple to adopt OpenGL as their 3D graphics API. I had a lot of arguments with Steve.

> I wound up doing *several keynotes with Steve* (see the word WITH?), and it was always a crazy fire drill with not enough time to do things right, and generally requiring heroic effort from many people to make it happen at all. I tend to think this was also a calculated part of his method.

-- John Carmack

I've specifically said WITH not FOR.

Please random guy, read before speaking.
The problem is police overreach, not COVID track/trace.
But it will be BETTER FOR THE DOGS, if they are bred for health and happiness as companion animals, rather than race performance.

A species or a breed can't suffer, only the individual animals.
Well, the advertisers that have no morals will, naturally. That's why setting up these global spying networks should be made illegal. Or, like what TFA is about, why other parts of the modern technology stack providers should be making a stand that those advertisers are going much too far with much too little upsides.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for advertising as a business model and it's awesome how advertising on the web has allowed at least some of the content creators on the web to monetize their valuable work. But I'm strongly against the idea that anything in that equation actually depends on the global spy network of the advertisers.
When I was looking for an espresso making a lot of them have touch screens and connected features. They will wake up before you get out of bed and have hot water ready. I specifically bought one without touch screens and all that crap. It takes maybe 30 seconds for the water to heat up.

Lots of people will get their regular coffee maker ready the night before with water and ground beans. At a specific time in the AM it will brew. Lots of old models have timers you can set. I avoid smart devices like the plague. My Bosch fridge is a smart fridge and I plan on putting it on a VLAN.
China declares cryptocurrency deals ‘illegal’
Is it possible it's a software issue? A 1.5GHz quadcore seems decently fast if comparing to many phones.
Not against this but worth remembering that South Koreans were stuck with Internet Explorer because of legislation. https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-internet-explore...
I still have 4/5. While I appreciate electric razors/toothbrushes that use USB they all still seem to have proprietary cables and connectors for no very good reason.

I dont care about apple but id love to be able to charge all electronic devices with the same cables.
Most stocks do not pay dividends. If you do some research you will find that Bitcoin pays interest at rates higher than most dividend stocks.

By your definition real estate, stocks and precious metals are also multi-level marketing since early insiders profit at the expense of late-comers.

Also Bitcoin has something like 70 million users so less than 1% adoption. In other words everyone is still early.

I’ll read those links but please note when I refer to Bitcoin, I am excluding all other crypto.

Bitcoin truly is a special snowflake and if you don’t understand the difference between Bitcoin and Altcoins I would suggest doing some more research to understand what you may have missed.
This law is not preventing airtight packaging in weights above 1.5kg and I bet that the store will still get these produce shipped in weights above that. So, what I understand what you are saying is that the hour or so of you picking it up at the shop until you put it in your fridge will result in "losing weeks of storage time", but I can't understand how that is possible. Can you explain?
I've mentioned in another comment as well, whether they go through or not isn't relevant nor will it make this problem actually disappear. The cat is already out of the bag (and has been) in terms of showing what giving up privacy to a closed company will do. If not today, then another day, another egregious action will occur. It's a story as old as time, yet we collectively never learn. By next time though, a carefully coordinated PR message may be part of the 'deployment'.
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There are shops that have so many USB-C cables that they are even selling them. Maybe you should try to get a second one there.
but they will generate advertising revenue for Apple. Just like the developer gets cut of the advertising so does Apple. The developer isn't paying but the advertisers certainly are.
Holy fuck what kind of turds are these? Their "temporary" bounty boost listing includes specifically Moodle.

That's an application that will be used by minors to a large extent, meaning they're literally leaving kids the world around unsafe.

How any of this can be legal is beyond me.

Btw they're also targeting pidgin, I'm imagining this might be related to OTR sessions over tor...?

Edit: remembered moodle is used by universities as well, so not overwhelminly but still....

Edit 2: IMHO working or having worked for one of these companies should be a career ending move. Simply not acceptable to be working in this field anymore. Not by legal means of course, but as an industry we should simply consider people who were willing to sign a contract with these criminals to be unemployable. "Sorry we don't do business with turds."
Using someone else's charging cable makes me cringe as much as using someone else's toothbrush.

Anybody who cares AT ALL about privacy or security is horrified by this idea.
Just tried it again. I have 70GB available. Got on the hotspot, started the download, unplugged the laptop, waited for it to go to sleep, woke it up - same result. I had to accept the EULAs again and it started to download from about 50mb.

Having attempted (unsuccessfully) to write a resumable HTTP/HTTPS downloader, which is what I suspect nsurlsessiond is using behind the scenes - it's really hard to get it right. Meanwhile I expect to be able to start a BitTorrent download, throw the laptop down the stairs, take out the hard drive and be able to successfully resume it on a different computer because that's a protocol that was actually designed for it.
Also was about to buy one but this changes everything. A pity.
> Saying "hey", then typing the next message is the worst

"hey" [waits for a response; then a long pause and agonisingly slow typing after you've said hey back]

"Can I ask you a question?" [waits for a response] [agonisingly slow typing coupled with intermittent pauses].

Always makes me want to yell at people to just ask their damn question.
That sounds really good, last thing I’d expect from Oracle - are you sure you don’t need to pay for an add-on for that :)
that's not what i m saying (i have spares, thank you). What i mean is that usbc ubiquity is a very good and convenient thing
The argument that the device-side should be left alone doesn't hold much water. All my laptops and phones use USB-C. All of them. Even the Apple laptops in the house. The only thing that requires a whole second set of chargers and cables is the iPhone.

Laptop chargers tend to not have the other end of the cable datachable.

And let's be real, here. This is Apple's fault. Apple alone has been creating this problem, and has been VERY aware than the EU has been pissed, for like a decade.

Apple, what did you think was going to happen?

If Apple hadn't been an asshole here, and tossed out the lightning port 5 years ago, then none of this would have happened.

The EU is forced to legislate because Apple refused to cooperate. And the EU for YEARS told Apple "if you don't cooperate you're forcing us to legislate".

You're also not wrong. This is a big shit sandwidch, and we're all gonna have to take a big bite. But this is VERY much Apple's fault that we're in this mess, and will switch to a different mess due to this legislation.

It's an improvement by miles. Fuck you Apple for holding this back for so long. Literally everyone else did the right thing before the force of law.
Seems like Instagram should be on the hook here. They have a legal team, they have a license for the content, and they provide site owners with an easy way to embed content, but they don't provide the proper licensing for actually using it? Seems like some sort of entrapment - although I'm probably using that word incorrectly in the legal sense.

Suppose I put a bowl of cookies on my lawn with a "free cookie" sign. Then I sue anyone who takes a cookie - not for taking the cookie, but for stepping on my lawn. I don't think a court would be willing to accept my stance that I didn't provide a license to enter my property.
Using an Acer Aspire 5 I bought in 2016. 5th gen i3, 15.6" screen, 8GB RAM, 1TB mechanical HDD. It works great with Linux and I haven't felt the need to upgrade.
The government of Lithuania actually did an investigation and found that Xiaomi phones spy on their users and contain a (disabled, probably intended for Chinese market) content filter system in their default browser.

Edit: source (in Dutch): https://www.security.nl/posting/721810/Litouwse+overheid%3A+...
Source in Lithuanian: https://kam.lt/lt/naujienos_874/aktualijos_875/ka_daro_isman...
The thing is, it doesn't even have to be cheap if the gear is durable. The problem is many hobbies are sized to the user (eg bicycles, wetsuits, snowboards). It would be lovely to drop a few k into one hobby and be able to transfer it back out for the next if it turns out that hobby isn't a good fit.
I would assume the other one is the protests outside their HQs?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/dont-stop-now-join-eff...

If not stunt, perhaps some other word may be suited for it. My comments on it would still be the same.
There's a minimum flight altitudes over populated areas of 1000ft in the US.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.119
The market already handles this fine.

If the lack of a USB-C charging port bothers you that much, you have thousands of other options or ways around this problem.

You don't need government threatening businesses because one company made and stands by a decision you don't like.