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> Other companies compete over best or newest features. Camera location/exterior shape forces their status-conscious demographic to buy new phones.

Frankly this kind of comment has no place on Hacker News.

There are many, many reasons to be critical of Apple. "Doesn't compete on features and only cares about what the device looks like superficially because their customers are sheep who only care about status" is not only a lazy take, but also doesn't even remotely describe the reality in which we live.

> I don't see what is wrong with calling out a very rational decision to continue making high status products rather than deviate into high tech products.

I genuinely can't fathom how one could conclude that Apple as a company isn't investing in technology. I mean, even at a superficial level, you're talking about a company that in-houses their own chip design and has dominated the mobile CPU market since doing so. They're very competitive in the desktop space in compute power with their very first chip line in this product category, and are absolutely crushing the existing players on performance per watt.

The've leveraged this advantage into being effectively the only meaningful player in the wearables space other than Garmin. Satellite integration into the phone is a direct shot across the bow of devices like the Garmin inReach, and the greater battery life (plus satellite integration) in the Apple Watch Max is going to start eating away at a chunk of Garmin's marketshare for GPS-tracking watches. Though Garmin still wins here for serious backcountry enthusiasts who spend multiple days in a row out of reach, Apple is leaving them a smaller and smaller margin in which to operate.

I stand by my original comment that this characterization of Apple is not reflective about of our reality. For Apple's many faults, they are extremely competitive from a technological perspective. Precisely because they are so unbelievably good at identifying how and when to apply a technological advance to achieve the largest possible impact for their customers.
this seems to be a "If all your friends jumped off a bridge would you" type of response.

Just because other western nations also have irresponsible levels of spending does not justify the US spending
I've never used Copilot, but are you worried it will only spit out:

up = foo.north()
right = foo.east()
down = foo.south()

And you won't notice?
It's always Electron apps come up when someone mentions that we have too many resources :)
This is a great feature but it's a huge double-edged sword. I need to remember to turn it off when I'm expecting a call from an unpredictable number, and then I need to remember to turn it back on again after I receive the call. It would be great if I could turn it off for some number of hours or days.
I think equating dollars to lives is too utilitarian a take to be useful IMHO. The goal of charity could be so much more than "lives saved (globally)". It could also be "lives improved (locally)" which cascades into "societies improved (locally)" which further cascades until the effects of local acts of love are far reaching and impact cities, state, and countries.

If you don't know an individual who needs the $1000, then sure, donate to charity. But not all charity has to be in the form of large cash gifts and not all charity recipients have to be cancer patients on the verge of death. Sometimes being charitable to individuals is as simple as taking out a coworker or neighbor to lunch and just talking to them. Lots of people suffer from loneliness, depression, and things other than cancer and would benefit enormously from someone going out of their way and showing an act of love to them.
"The connection has timed out. An error occurred during a connection to ccadb-public.secure.force.com."
It is interesting to see the use of the A* path finding algorithm for finding optimal matchings of nodes.

The approach from Chawathe et. al splits nodes from the before/after trees into chains by their label in the syntax grammar, and then runs myers’ longest common subsequence on each pair of chains. Some parameters t, f are used to have an approximate ‘equals’ method for subtrees.

This iteratively builds a set of matchings between equivalent nodes from the old and new trees. Here’s the paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/235968.233366

I’d be curious to see if this approach handles re-ordering of nodes better. The ‘fastMatch’ algorithm described above will typically miss matching cases where a node that is not order sensitive (i.e a function in a namespace can be moved somewhere else in that namespace).
All of this has a super simple explanation: the shitty products always have org structures that treat software dev as shitty cost centers.

It took a long time to realize that the most compelling devices have good, well maintained software.

I don’t mean to say that software devs are geniuses or that these orgs have to hire the best of the best. No, they just need to create an org that prioritizes software dev. Low attrition, increased visibility, the usual. You don’t need fancy new features. Just make sure the intern who wrote your v1 Bluetooth driver feels compelled enough to stay on to become a staff engineer running a team that still assures bugs get fixed. Simple.
A lot of charities let you "remote adopt" a poor child or animal, where you make monthly payments to the organization and they send you pictures of or letters from who you adopted. This seems to combine the best of both worlds, where you're funding the whole organization and all its activities in that area, and have this "anchor" to remind you that you're benefiting the lives of real individuals.
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I am hoping the US/EU anti-competitive bills are going to go through

(plus my phone is falling apart, and I don't want to give Google another penny after their manifest v3 behaviour)
Or maybe you land in a new country, the iPhone is like "hey I see you're in a new country, want a data package?" and you could just opt-in to something straight from your phone and be connected before you even get off the plane without needing to buy a disposable SIM card.

With that being said, I think it would be better if carriers were just global tbh. But that's a dream.
As you sound quite reasonable and self-aware, can you explain your rationale more? I have difficult understanding it.

I had the exact same idea as this company and I'm sure thousands of others did as well. The goal wasn't to make money (though that's obviously a pleasant aside), but to fix something that, from my perspective, is very broken. Our current DNS system entails you paying an ever-increasing and perpetual rent to a company for them to do literally nothing. You are paying them to not remove your name from a database, which is less work on their part than deleting it would be. That's seems just so dysfunctional and exploitative.

And just to also make sure we're on the same page here - when this company distributes your domain, they no longer own it in any way, shape, or form. Even if they wanted to go scummy and swap back to our current model (perhaps after gaining large marketshare), they'd be literally unable to - because they do not control, in any way, these domains once they are distributed.
> If we had an incident where we needed to revoke every single one of those certificates at the same time, the resulting CRL would be over 8 gigabytes.

I don't know much about this stuff, so apologies if this is a silly question:

If you needed to revoke all the certificates, couldn't you just revoke the handful of intermediary certificates and call it a day? I assume you'd want to revoke them anyways if there's a situation severe enough that merits revoking 200 million certificates.
The most obvious honeypot in existence.
Well, looks like it's the end of the line for my 1st gen SE. It's been a good run. I'll miss you, little guy.

Looks like my other options for a small phone are 12/13 mini or possibly the 2nd/3rd gen SE. But not nearly as compact as the 4" SE.
He specifically _didn't_ configure it in that way.
Would love to add phone call recording, with proper user permissions. Unable to do so with current iOS APIs though. Open to ideas here.

Do have desktop recording on the website to capture audio if the call is on speaker. Some users use that.

Adding another number to the call seems inelegant.
So does airpods. Either way it should just be a setting.
There’s 1B iPhone users. If 10% upgrade to a 14 pro and over the course of a few years that will ramp
Yea, I was under the assumption there are literally thousands of programming languages and you can fork most of them when I replied.

I’m not usually a “just don’t use it” kind of guy, but in this case it’s valid, imo.
Apple has apparently used a very very high gain (i.e. highly directional) antenna. That's how they got around having that big external antenna found on competitive hand-helds.

I quite like the idea of aiming it by hand using software as the guide.
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They say this in the linked press release, though: "Given the outlook for inflation, the Governing Council still judges that the policy interest rate will need to rise further."

Well I was just talking about this year so its entirely possible(and I'd say probable) they hike next year

> I guess we'll see what happens by the end of October.

Probably not, the BOC doesn't meet again till December so I'm not sure what we'd see at the end of October.
It's really weird how folks talk about e-waste and environmental factors, as if a switch to USB-C wouldn't mean three trillion Lightning cables getting yeeted into the ocean… like, I personally am quite over Lightning, but come on, folks

also deeply weird and annoying that the Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse use lightning for charging, that was a dumb call out of the gate
Why do people get so but hurt about Apple products? Yes vilify they for putting a good camera in their phones. It’s obvious an evil manipulating ploy, and the customers who buy it are all stupid pretentious morons who are chasing after fame!! And not you know, just regular people who’d appreciate a better camera in their next phone upgrade.
Republicans want you to equate the difficulty with paying tax as the tax itself
To Clear Deadly Land Mines, Science Turns to Drones and Machine Learning
I have an ultrasonic cleaner that I use for 3D printing, and they have a similar effect on my AirPods. I wonder what could cause this interaction?
I've had the same issue if I am expecting a call but not sure what number it will ne. But iIf you already know the number, adding that to contacts will solve the problem ?
you are placing open code in a vendor lock-in, to start
I would wonder what would be the effect of eSIM only on MVNOs in the US. Three major carriers have good eSIM support but the adoption among MVNO is low. And prepaid plan from Verizon doesn’t support eSIM either.
It's the kind of 'low bandwidth' you'd see with analog telephone modems. A single JSON request-response over TLS would take many seconds.
>We re not the strong and beautiful United States, but if us shithole countries can tell people an estimate they can touch up, the US can as well Im sure.

you may have HN confused for reddit, you'll find very little american patriotism here
> Does the target iPhone user in the US just not travel?

AT&T charges me $10/day up to $100/month for unlimited calls, texting, and data while overseas, virtually anywhere in the world. That's low enough I can't be bothered to go to the trouble of SIM purchase, swapping, and giving everyone my temporary number on arrival.
> Can anyone name a recent open source library or program that is widely used and community controlled beside Linux?

I'd answer the opposite question. What do I use in my daily work that isn't open source? Sure there's binary blobs/drivers here and there, and whatever the cloud providers are keeping to themselves.

But c'mon, all the languages, the build tools, web frameworks, libraries, databases (sql and non-sql).
Forgot AirPods, which is being discussed in a separate post.
Seems to be iPhone only. I want to know how much it is after 2 years. Will it be part of Apple One?
Former consultant here. I once got staffed on a project to "predict the economy"

Not an exaggeration - it failed (obviously) to the tune of $2M. And then the client bought another $5M extension on a different project.

Consulting is so insane sometimes.
You don't get to say both:

"FOSS is just not a good business model. But when making decisions about what libraries to use, or where to invest my time, such concerns are simply not my problem."

and:

"It’s morally wrong to make the product popular, by advertising it as Open Source / Free Software, and then doing a reversal later."

If their business model isn't your problem, then what you think about their license isn't their problem.
Would this run on Google Colab? The free tier maxes out at about 12 gigs of vram, which is easy to hit when running the original unoptimized version.
Are there Bluetooth headphones that are better? My understanding is that it's a limitation in the Bluetooth spec. I've heard talk of Apple wanting to do their own thing specifically because of things like this.
they even did a video of a success story where someones life was saved because of crash detection.

https://9to5google.com/2021/02/23/pixel-car-crash-detection-...
Python lacks the flexible universal binary distribution solution which nearly all of the new comers has. Consider golang, rust or docker images. Most probably docker image distribution is the only available solution for now and volume management is the worst problem on that front.
> Currently I see those people flocking to Web3, if there's an alternative I'd be interested to hear about it.

Freenet is decentralized and so far is unstoppable. You probably would not like 80% of information that’s being exchanged there… but that’s actually a sign of quality, if you think about it.

Speaking of which , if I say write an anti-Putin manifesto on Web3 - will Putin’s thugs be able to stop me digitally or biologically? What are my protections?
I want System 6 support for my SE/30 from 1989.
if someone offers a typical small extension author $500,000 for their extension, I think they're going to ignore Google's rules and handover the keys
https://www.findmespot.com/ is a popular brand of satellite emergency beacons I know of (I've never used one, though). You don't need a full satellite phone
We'll live in a new paradigm: Earth plus Airpods!
I have no interest in reducing the overall tax burden, and it would be helpful if proponents of ideas like FairTax were more explicit if this is the goal.

I want the various governments of the US to have control over a larger slice of GDP, not less.

Please cite one of those studies that claimed that higher income quintile and higher wealth quintiles would pay more under a "FairTax"-like system, because I've never seen one that makes that claim. Here is that specifically rebuts your claim:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23059394

"The FairTax is promoted as being progressive, but there is considerable skepticism of this claim. We examine the distributional effects of the FairTax, as well as the current system it intends to replace, under both annual income and lifetime income approaches. Global measures of progressivity suggest that the current federal tax system is progressive while the FairTax is regressive. Our results are also robust to different assumptions used for estimation."
The passive phrase "will look into" fills me with dread. Old Seattleites will remember voting for a light rail system, only to watch friends of politicians get hired to "consult" on the project and piss away the entire budget in the consultation phase. Just do it!
Based on the pictures, Canadian models will have sim tray.
If you like small languages you may also be interested in Oberon (which is smaller than Zig).

https://www.miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html
If you haven't seen the documentary King of Kong, it's quite an entertaining backstory for these events.
Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for 30 seconds
The comment you replied to above, expressed that organizations and people involved in exploiting gambling addicts should be punished for doing so.

Sure, they said “legally held accountable” and you replied that these organizations are already operating legally.

So then the matter is: should these companies be allowed to continue operating as they currently do because it’s legal? Or should we push for laws/regulations to be changed so they stop exploiting people?

This is not a matter of fact issue. It’s a moral, political, and yes subjective, issue.

So your question, even if you didn’t intend it to, very much has to do with morality.
fwiw this concept was a major plot point in 1947 book "Sea Gold: a Rick Brant Electronic Adventure"
Presumably you negotiated your current employment contract, yeah? Wages, responsibilities, etc.

Unions aren’t “legal warfare” - they’re a tool to help contract negotiations when a group of employees doesn’t have enough power to be treated fairly as individuals.

It sounds like you’ve been lucky enough to not be in the circumstance of being treated unfairly as an individual. I’m happy that’s been the case - but that’s no excuse for ignoring when that happens to others.
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Hmm that's like saying Google is free.
> Probably not, the BOC doesn't meet again till December so I'm not sure what we'd see at the end of October.

From the linked press release: "The next scheduled date for announcing the overnight rate target is October 26, 2022."
Yes.

Iphones are Nikes and the major consumers are poor people.
FWIW I've got Samsung Galaxy Buds that also suffer from a similar case charging issue [1]. Seems to me that it is a problem with the technology itself which hopefully companies will improve in next product iterations.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/galaxybuds/comments/if7ajj/ultimate...
Well, I found that satellite phone plans start around $50/month - so it should be less than that.
And me and "MY" post don't exist in a vacuum!

> you seemed to make yourself the arbiter

I didn't. At least, not to those of us who can deal with some flexibility in interpreting written communication, and use a little tool called context.

But then again, there are definitely people out there who need every. single. nuance. of the most basic statement spelled out for them, as if they're biological GPT-3 endpoint (and this site certainly does feel like it's drowning in those people these days) but I don't write comments for them.

Instead I write comments for people who are interested in actual conversation over browbeating everyone in site because they assumed the most useless interpretation of your statement was the correct one.
Correct. Apple products work well together, but also make it a huge pain in the ass if you don't buy everything from them. The kids have apple products and we can't manage them effectively because we don't have apple devices. This provides a strong disincentive to want to give them any more money.

Samsung was only mentioned because are there any other real competitors to a full smart watch?

Garmin will likely keep me because running gps for 10+ hours at a shot is important.
A full smart watch is far less of a priority.

(On Sunday I ran for roughly 10.5 hours, GPS active the entire time. When I finished, I had 33% of my battery left.)
"will look into" is code for will not do.
As I mentioned, every year that I've used it (I think 5 at this point), it has gotten a little bit better. More form-to-form transfers, less manual arithmetic within forms.
I used to do that, now I just use https://www.airalo.com/. Cheap and easy.
Right. I agree in the cases where monetary assistance are not involved.

> I think equating dollars to lives is too utilitarian a take to be useful IMHO. The goal of charity could be so much more than "lives saved". It could be "lives improved" which cascades into "societies improved".

Sure, but I guess I think "life saved" is probably the extreme case of life improved.
I am just curious how are people dealing with EMF radiations emitted by AirPods? I have 2 sets of AirPods and Bose QC35 but I stopped using AirPods altogether and I use QC35 using the wire.

NIH study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6701402/
I would have this on if it wasn't for the fact that I get calls from delivery drivers, who all have unknown numbers, and for whom the notification must be immediate.
Your ears have on the order of 1 megabit/sec bandwidth, so anything more is irrelevant, specifically Wi-Fi 6 is 1000 times overkill.

Bluetooth uses about half the energy per bit transmitted compared to wifi. So, using wifi would cut all your run times in half or increase your battery size. The data transmission is the dominant power consumption of wireless ear phones.
They quite literally already are. Find me a manufacturer that comes anywhere close to supporting devices for as long as Apple does.
I know it's Safari under the hood, but Brave on iOS is great.

I do hope that Apple decides to / is forced to allow real 3rd party browsers at some point, though. I also hope that a decent Linux phone becomes a realistic alternative.

I'll check back in 10 years to see if either of those materializes.
How often is attach really used though?
Not if CHAR_BIT is 10 or more!
What's worse is that their boss is bad at their job. I sold phones in retail for one year and in that time I learned feature, function, benefit. I think some of these VPs should go back to school.
People vastly overstate the implications from one-sided anecdotes.

Not only are these firms 'different at every office' even within the same office it varies a lot.
Disagree slightly. It seems to me that the issue isn't how the taxation happens but where. In your example, the $55k person is paying less taxes up front than $$$ Mega-corp, but increased taxation on Mega-corp (and not $55k person) means Mega-corp now charges $55k person more for goods and services.

So, your main point is worth considering, but it's missing a vital point: the current taxation system is opaque in where funds come from. An alternative simpler taxation system is more transparent on where funds come from - I don't consider that regressive.

Let me put it crassly: if everyone paid 33% in taxes, the average voter would be more aware of the cost of tax-funded projects. Imagine what sort of voting that would lead to. I say "crassly" because in reality such a shift would definitely place a heavy burden on the poor in the near term. I honestly don't want that... but I also don't want to pull the wool over eyes.
1 USD = 3.6 AED

Also, the article states that the offer was for $16,000 in equivalent local currency, so ~AED60,000.
I think you're misunderstanding. This isn't an issue with noise cancelling or transparency mode. The issue is with the way the AirPods Pro mic picks up the user's dialogue (and surrounding noises) and relays/amplifies them to the person on the other end of a phone call.

For example:

Person A calls Person B. Person B answers using AirPods Pro. They begin talking. Person B decides to wash a dish in her sink while talking to Person A. Person A goes from hearing Person B's voice clearly to barely hearing it at all behind the seemingly amplified sound of the dish washing. Person B is none the wiser and doesn't understand why she has to keep repeating herself. Both parties hang up in frustration. Then they break up and enter simultaneous but separate downward spirals until neither can afford AirPods Pros anymore. Then they meet again and decide to talk on the phone. They hear each other clearly. Their lives improve. They can afford AirPods Pros again. The cycle repeats.