skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They had a choice between slowing the device or providing a substandard user experience when the old battery couldn't keep up and the phone shut down. I think there are plenty of reasons to criticize Apple but I have no idea why people have latched onto this obviously false narrative.
I can run actual Firefox with ublock origin.

or Bromite.

or Brave.

or anything really.
> but what Alex Jones did was not just "the wrong words", it was blatant slander that permanently ruined the lives of these people.

How did it do that?
All incoming texts, whether sms or iMessage, show up in a gray bubble.

Only your own outgoing texts are in a colored bubble
Sure. I don't disagree with that at all. I'm just saying if OP finds that reasonable he would also find it reasonable that basically every media company would go out of business.

I'm not at all a fan of lying, not in the least and think news companies get off way too easy... but $1 for every lie * every person who heard it... that's just a little wishful, lol
To add to this, when we did our gun buyback in Australia plenty of homemade guns were handed in to rort the system. But it worked
Citation needed. Is this really true? I keep hearing about RCS etc but I also keep hearing it's not actually a good standard. Not even sure it does encryption frankly.
> The iphone SE which is basically last years model

The iphone SE is not last year's mode. It's an iPhone 8 body (including camera) with the current CPU. For example, the SEv3 came out this year and has the same CPU as the iPhone 13 which came out at the same time.
Genuinely, do you have an idea how to correct people who are convinced that down is up?
Sometimes? Often. The individual must be protected from the many, and this is why so many are working to get rid of protections for individuals of all sorts — the many like to get together to prey on individuals or on a few standing alone.
I'm sorry, but no they won't. They will make a small amount of money, and then will be sued into the ground by Apple if they ignore the mountain of cease and desist warnings they will get.

There have been a few attempts to make a cross-platform iMessage client (see: https://bluebubbles.app/), and they all require either genuine Mac hardware, or a virtual machine with spoofed serial numbers.
Some years back, they decided on an IDE-as-a-service path where they were going to brick your IDE the day your subscription lapsed.

No they didn't. This is a total mischaracterisation of how JB's subscription works.
"monitoring the little bastard doesn't know about via my WiFi router" proves for me but of course that will be a matter of opinion
Doesn't really matter whether they could do the same if they don't.
That’s always been true of android but the parent implies that something has been changing.
Just the one order of magnitude, really[1] - "The forensic economist also estimated Jones' personal net worth between $70 million to $140 million."

[1] https://www.insider.com/alex-jones-free-speech-systems-infow...
Number of people from Coding Bootcamps working at FAANG
> No, because PBKDFs are not a good mechanism for creating encryption keys

I'm curious about what you mean by this. Isn't it in part what PBKDFs are designed for?
If it’s 2d only, wouldn’t his perspective be an infinitely thin line?
Or am I being too literal and missing the point
Peddling conspiracy theories on the internet to gullible idiots is very profitable.
A big enough hunk of steel can certainly contain a nuclear explosion.
> Some people have value systems that require disclosure (I'm one of them), but other people don't

If you don't believe that your value system binds anyone else to behave in a certain way then how much does it really bind you to behave that way? Ethics and morality are either objective and universally binding or they're merely an arbitrary personal inclination that isn't even binding on those that have the inclination beyond legal or professional implications.
I think there's a strong case that Alex's apologies were not genuine nor would result in changes in future behavior on air. Even as the first trial was wrapping up Alex was calling one of the plaintiffs "slow" and "manipulated by some very bad people."[1]

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/alex-jones-railed-against-sandy-19364...
Yes. I've never used whatsapp or telegram. I use SMS weekly or daily.
Whoa, that’s great to hear. My Android-user friend said otherwise, but maybe she was misinformed or I misunderstood or something.
Having investigated some of these questions with respect to quadcopters and micro-mouse 'bots, the power density (both in mass and volume) of capacitors is pretty terrible. Whether you're talking about aluminum electrolytic traditional capacitors or double-layer supercapacitors, they're inferior in most cases to a lipo. That's especially true if you're open to high-discharge 50C or 75C lipos, which can dump their entire energy capacity in ~60 seconds.

If you only need a few milliseconds of 'zap', yeah, a capacitor bank is great. It's the only option if you need to do that more than a couple hundred times in the life of the battery; a chemical battery will wear out but a capacitor can last for millions or billions of charge/discharge cycles.

But even a time as short as 1.461 seconds is probably on the far side of the inflection point where capacitors make sense.

If you like, run through the options on Digikey:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/electric-double-l...

ex:

https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/products/electronic-...

Also remember that an ultracapacitor is about as far in behavior from a physicist's ideal plate capacitor as you can get - they're not linear, they have highly significant internal series resistance...
Alex Jones is being sued in civil court which means this is an entirely private affair, and he is being judged by a jury.
It is not clearly a better experience. Give me a break. 99% of the time it is a grid of icons that launches apps. The notification area on Android is far superior and is actually quite useful compared to iOS where it is a jumbled mess. Apps on both platforms, more and more, are virtually identical. If you want integration with apple watch, then great use apple but your blanket statement about superior experience is exactly the pernicious "network effect" (fanboi-ism) these kids are being hit with.
It’s already being done and will only get better: https://twitter.com/sergeykarayev/status/1569377881440276481
its the only iphone model with a physical front button. it will be my replacement come december!
I have definitely been wrong about technology before, prime example was camera phones when the first appeared; couldn't for the life of me see the point.

With that caveat, I don't get how this makes employees/customers/clients more engaged/productive or form rapport/have better experiences.

Like the Facebook thing I'm definitely not using anything that has to be this massively invasive (eye tracking, facial recognition, etc) from an advert company.
He is 16 lol

I saw plenty beheadings and horse appendages.
Won't help with coredumps, or generally if you can't reproduce.
The families are being stalked, harassed, and threatened with violence by Infowars viewers who think the victim's families are crisis actors that faked their children's deaths, and that will likely continue forever. It's not people like you, it's the psychos that follow Alex Jones.
Maybe America is different but to me 400 for a phone isn't cheap. If poor people in the US are buying their children $400 phones then they can shut up about high living costs.

I'd consider my ~$130 Oppo to be the upper end of cheap with NFC and snappy performance.
Adding to sibling post from phao, Optimizers like ADAM essentially do a diagonal approximation to Newton's method, which gives some, though certainly not all, of the benefit of Newton.

There is the seminal paper "Deep Learning via Hessian-free Optimization" [1] that applies Newton's method (Hessian free because of a clever trick of solving Hx=-g iteratively without explicitly constructing the Hessian, and getting an approximation without full O(n^3)) - but n^2 or n^3 is just too large in practice when the diagonal approximations work just fine.

[1] https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jmartens/docs/Deep_HessianFree.p...
You can hate the King with a passion but still pay your taxes. Sometimes people feel like they barely have a choice and can hate them in-part for that too.

I hate Verizon and Comcast with a passion but if it’s between them or no internet access, well I hardly call that a choice.
put it this way: I have never in my life heard of this man, and I doubt most people have either. Alex Jones has somewhere in the region of 100m viewers
But it is a long principle of academia to avoid being scooped by putting out priority-proving work. Consider US patents; or, further back, I read here yesterday that Galileo published anagrams of his results and Kepler took great delight in reverse-engineering them, accidentally finding other true facts other than Galileo's intended discovery.
The low end goes way lower with one than the other. And that's important for everyone who's not as privileged as you and me. And believe me, an iPhone (any brand new unit), just as the Pixel or the Galaxy S22 are way unaffordable to a huge swath of the population. That being said, the low end of Android phones is quite good and quite quite cheap.

It's like saying that there are Lamborghinis that cost as much as a Nissan GT-R Nismo. Yes, that may be so (even if it isn't in reality). But your Nissan Altima is way more affordable to way more people.
The API is private to system apps from the device manufacturer. Most phones ship Google's Messages app for SMS & RCS.
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On the other hand, this seems like a teachable moment, where perhaps kids can be encouraged not to marginalize others based on trivial differences in messaging apps. The drumbeat of inclusivity is pretty loud these days so it shouldn’t come as too great a surprise that including their green bubble friends would be the decent thing to do.

I don’t place much blame on Apple for completely stereotypically standard teenage attitudes. If it wasn’t green bubbles it would be uncool sneakers. The answer is not to force interoperability (though that would be great!), but for parents to help their kids grow out of these tribalizing behaviors.
If they were able to complete it in a week then it is a big deal… especially about wording if that they would be scooped.
The old school formatting of this document makes it hard to read. I might re-format it as a way to force myself to read it.
The 128GB Samsung S20FE is $475 CAD today
I know the "green vs blue bubbles" gets a lot of press, but as someone who is not a teenager, and on the contrary is considerably past middle age at this point, that is not the real reason iMessage has a stranglehold on users.

I've got an Android, and I recently went on a vacation with a group of friends who all had iPhones. I did feel a bit like a leper in the group chat we had set up for our vacation, and it wasn't because of green and blue bubbles. Not only was the experience pretty broken for me, it essentially broke the experience of everyone else. I couldn't do emoji responses, which are a huge way folks communicate in group chats these days. Videos I received on my phone were essentially unwatchable. Videos or images I would send to the group would randomly just not show up on some people's phones. At the end of the vacation my good friend said flat out (jokingly, but still with a point) "Dammit hn_throwaway_99, just get an iPhone".

It's the breaking of group chats that makes iMessage the lynchpin of Apple's anticompetitive stance here.
It was on discovery but a very long time ago (maybe a decade).
This is the problem with BBC Breaking News: headlines can change. "Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims" was the actual headline when I submitted, but it's now been amended to "Alex Jones told to pay $965m damages to Sandy Hook victims' families". I literally copy and pasted the original, unedited, into the "title" field on the submission page, but there's no way for me to update it to reflect the BBC's amended headline.

In an ideal world the title field would auto-populate from the page title, which would (at least mostly) work fine on BBC News because they're pretty disciplined about keeping page titles and rendered titles on the page in sync. But we don't live in an ideal world: not all sites do that, and there's no hard requirement for them to do so. Plenty will, for example, SEO the heck out of the page title such that it doesn't match the title rendered in the page. You wouldn't want to use the page title as the HN title in these cases.

So we're left with the current situation where an article's title can be updated, but the title on HN isn't. Can't really blame either HN or article submitters for that.
You mention dogs. Which one is more likely to fights among themselves, owning two females or two males?

An other easy question. Let have two human households, one where two men live together and one where two women live together. Which one is more likely to have domestic violence?

Based on biologically, those two should have a very clear and simple answer. The actually answer is that two female dogs are more likely to fight than two male dogs, and in human households, both of them has statistically identical rates of domestic violence.
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Articles report on fines, salaries, etc all the time, often with an element of payment in the future. "Facebook fined..." and "Facebook told to pay a fine..." have little difference, and I don't see many arguing the semantics of those articles.
My guess is a lot of their parents are iPhone users who pass their phones on to their children. My wife only recently upgraded her iPhone 8, and only did so because of how noticable better the photos were on my new iPhone. In my experience Android phones don't last that long.
Can somebody explain the statement from the lawyer, as reported by Axios:

> «We disagree with the basis of the default, we disagree with the court’s evidentiary rulings. In more than 200 trials in the course of my career I have never seen a trial like this», Pattis added. «Today is a very, very dark day for freedom of speech»

given that another bullet states

> claimed the shooting was a "false flag" operation planned by the government using "crisis actors" to undermine gun rights

which gives very little space for interpretation.
Video games use this trick all the time. When the player sprints or gets a speed boost, give them some actual boost, but also increase the FOV.
It's definitely not universal. The imessage effect has been instrumental to Apple's market share in US so they won't be altering that.
Those people funded super pacs and politicians.
> graphics performance

For the Linux users I was referring to, the most graphically intensive thing many of them run is a desktop compositor.

But yes, today, AMD iGPUs are a great choice for mobile, and AMD dGPUs are a great choice for desktop or for i-don't-care-about-battery gaming laptops.
> When iMessage came to the iPhone, Apple didn’t intend to rule the world with blue bubbles, blue was just an indication that you were talking to one of the few other iPhone users.

While I want to agree with that statement, Apple really makes it obvious that they try to make SMS suck compared to iMessage.

The biggest glaring example is the green and blue shown in their messaging app.

Their design guidelines literally for iMessage for businesses say contrast of text to background should be 4.5:1 or higher[0], but to target 7:1. Now what do their text bubbles comes out to?

iMessage(#FFFFFF/#4389F7): 3.4:1

SMS (#FFF/#68CD68): 1.99:1

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Most recent protests in the US, until 2020, have been fairly soft and lacking the vigor behind movements like the Arab Spring.

If we the people become enough of a threat, you can bet there are strategies in place to disrupt our communication infrastructure.
It's a really really really short article. Really short. Please.

It gets to the point in the second paragraph: the green bubbles have bad contrast. It mentions the design of the green bubbles rank as "very poor" by accessibility standards.

That's why it matters.
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Dall-E produces good looking images within certain parameters.

When you are in its bounds it seems magical, once you go outside it seems like a weak joke.

And many of the reasons it is bad outside its sweet spot are fundamental to how it works not a flaw that can be iterated away.
It's extremely common, but I don't really know how to get you evidence of that over the Internet.
It's insane to me that Intel just can't figure out what to do vs AMD. They continually position themselves as the premium choice and price their products accordingly even though that isn't true any more.
You’ve got a fair point although I will play devils advocate at you can find them occasionally in deep corners of the internet like /r/libertarianUncensored, and even there they aren’t the majority
As a French who grew not far from Champagne, I’m actually convinced the most you should spend on a bottle of Champagne is exactly 0 dollar. At an equivalent price point, you will find plenty of better sparkling wines all around. Buying Champagne really is buying the brand.
87% of american teens

imessage/sms/texting is king in the US
Soli did seem cool. Wasn't Jacquard the smart clothing technology? Surprisingly, I think there are some products: https://atap.google.com/jacquard/products/
Not sure about that case, but yeah copyright laws are also nuts.
That study appears to conflate smart phone use with social media use. Which one is really to blame?
slowhand09: "My daily driver is a Hellcat..."
Incredible how Brian Eno was able to pioneer this style of music
I'm pretty sure every kid I know has a phone. Most often than not, it's a hand-me-down from someone else.
KeePassXC supports TOTP. Right-click a key, TOTP→Set Up TOTP... and put in the secret key (and settings if needed).
>What if you performed simple public records requests and realized that this whole event stinks to high heaven and that it was immediately politicized by politicians and billionaire media elites to suppress the rights of American citizens?

Are you claiming to have done so? If that's the case, what were the results of your "public records requests"?

What rights have been suppressed? Please do tell.
Why is bezelless a “feature” or improvement?
Sony Xperia still offer a great experience. Near stock Android, regular updates, quality cameras.
And with a much better regard for security!

For instance, you could still own an iPhone 5s, released in 2013, and receive security updates.
IntelliJ definitely prompts me every time I open a new file extension that the plugin isn’t installed for.
You can set iOS so that a double or triple tap on the rear of the phone case can trigger almost whatever you want including opening the camera.
"26% of teens own a VR device"

Sounds very strange.
> It's like a survey on how may times you have sex in a month.

Exactly like, for teenagers. Their answers tend to either aspirational or lies.
Science/academia has been for as long as I can remember.
> the only thing proved was that it cost Coca Cola less to produce and ship plastic bottles.

It cost them less because it expends less energy to ship them, therefore contributing less to global pollution in that aspect.

I find it frustrating that a lot of environmental actions these days only examine one part of the total environmental impact of something and disregard other aspects which may make the proposed solution worse.

Paper straws often contain those forever chemicals everyone talks about. Corn based alternatives take more energy to make in some cases. "Recycling" plastic has spectacularly backfired in that we shipped it across the world to be "recycled" and it just ended up being burned or dumped into the rivers feeding the ocean. We could have just tossed it in a landfill and had less impact.
How sad.

Its gonna come here too. And probably is here already but I am an out of touch old man. We love to ape america and all the kids wanna be in eupohria on hbo.
This is quite frankly utter bullshit unless there is a lack of parenting going on i.e. you brought your kids up to be judgy assholes.

My kids and their friends have a right mix of all sorts of phones. They don't even talk about it. They just work out how to deal with it. Mostly that results in them picking a common platform, usually Discord or Snapchat and using that.

This is not a technology issue!
You could say the same (“but what about $GROUP”) for quite literally any such study. Sampling broadly is an oft-insurmountable part of such research; this demographic spread - along with the relatively large collaboration across six universities - is actually much larger than typical study samples that involve only WEIRD [1] populations.

[1] “White, Educated, Independent, Rich, Democratic”
What astonishes me is how the mind of teens just cannot palpate the world they live in. Not to plagiarize Louis CK but even with an android flagship in their hands at 14, being cast away due to strange techno/market forces is enough to forget everything and suffer.

in 2050 kids will storm out because their pocket nuclear fusor isn't the trendiest. 'thanks moooom'
> 2. with the "help" of US, some kind of revolution which will topple the government etc. which ultimately will make things worse for the people of Iran but will be a win for the US

I don't believe the result of a coup is that cut-and-dry. The current government of Iran is democratically elected by only the most charitable of definitions. A majority of the animosity between the US and Iran is at the governmental level. A truly democratic Iran could easily become a viable and strong ally for the US in the region, offsetting our reliance on Saudi Arabia and Israel for regional influence. Of course, it could go the other way. But I don't think it is clear at all that the fall of the Islamic Republic would be a net-negative for the people of Iran.
Apple phones also last long enough, barring accidents, that if the adults are using iPhones, the kids can probably get hand-me-downs that're still usable and receiving updates for at least a couple years.
I would either: 1. keep quiet and enjoy your access. The hole will get patched.

2. Share on github. Give back to the community and ask people to pay it forward.

3. Entered into a dangerous conversation with the company that could provide you with some cash or land you in legal trouble depending on how the conversation goes.

Facing those choices I would probably do 1 because it is the easiest and safest but seeing how you made a post about it.. I think you want to do 2 and I think you should share.
Tangential, but what are the consequences of upcoming layoffs cutting across the industry and impacting mostly these "soft" non-technical roles? Will this create a large disgruntled segment enough to start upheaval the like of the French or the October revolution?
> Also, why would being a tech scion mean that you wouldn't want to use an iPhone?

I think this is the opposite of what the person who is replying to you is saying. I'm going to disagree with both of you and say that I think that the kids of techies would be far less likely to have an iPhone, because they're more likely to judge technology on its merits rather than on marketing (for the same reason that both of my parents being programmers made me a programmer.) On the merits, iPhone/Android is going to be closer to a 50/50 split than an 87/13 split.
iPhones are amazing, and there are definitely a few brands of Android-based phones that also deserve to be called amazing. iMessage definitely helped, at a time when SMS sucked and nobody (not Google) was stepping in to improve the situation, but they also crush Androids in accessibility and ease of use all day. Something that gets teenagers hooked early...