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My daily driver phone is an iPhone 7+, which Wikipedia tells me is from 2016. It works great and people often compliment the pictures from its camera.
That's not "8+ years old" but it's in the ballpark :)
Main reason why I like this change: single cable in the car for both Android Auto and CarPlay. It was so annoying having both in the car.
It may be false, but is it obviously false?
"It absolutely reduces your ability to take it oxygen easily."

This is absolutely false. There is very strong evidence that masks do not effect gas exchange. One example of many: https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/face-masks-may-inc...

Masks do make your lung muscles work slightly harder, but there's nothing wrong with that.
I'd say the best home technology is Roof.
USB 3.0 isn't really necessary to support higher charging speeds that is mostly through Power Delivery which I believe both the regular 15 and pro support since they both advertise 20W fast charging.
Not to sound like a paid Apple marketer, but I think there's a distinction between wireless headphones and using AirPods with an iPhone. It's not like it's a herculean effort to use wireless headphones with a standard bluetooth connection, but it's enough of an awkward series of moves that I never enjoyed it. But I have to give Apple credit that AirPods (with an iPhone) just work way more seamlessly, to the point where the idea of quickly tossing them in and out of my ears isn't an annoyance. If I'm playing a video game and I want to listen to a podcast, I pop one into my ear, press play on my phone and I'm listening. When I'm done I simply put it in the case and it disconnects and is charging. I have a pair of Sony XM3's but as soon as I got the AirPods I basically never touched them again.
> Price of the final good (or rather demand for it) can significantly influence the price of labor in certain cases though.

Absolutely, which is why I believe labor markets are a viable solution. Demand signals can propagate backwards and labor organizes accordingly.

> There is no fixed "cost of labor" which is somehow directly tied to output produced by those workers.

I think we're getting wrapped up in future vs past again. For any given product, a certain amount of different types of labor went into producing it. These hours and wages that went into the labor represent objective measures, and are fixed costs because there is no way to undo them.

If you were to make the same product again, the cost could absolutely be different, and you could make an educated prediction on the cost based on past knowledge, but you could not do so with 100% accuracy. I'm not suggesting that costs are predictable, but rather that they are measurable, and our current system doesn't even bother to measure them, it actually just erases the data with each transaction.
This leads to a more fundamental question: What is the universe?

Is the optimal move in an a given chess board considered knowledge? If so, can't we create entirely new sets of knowledge from the emergent properties of an arbitrary set of rules called a "game"? If we can create an infinite set of arbitrary combinations of rules and states (games), then knowledge should be infinite. Maybe not all knowledge is scientifically applicable, but we have learned a great deal about science and engineering from studying chess. In fact, we are starting to learn more about learning as a process and not as some magical thing that human beings can do, just from studying the best way to make decisions in this totally-contrived and scientifically-useless game.

Taking this a step further, let's look at the animal kingdom. If learning about the intricacies of the mating habits of birds can help an arbitrary bird increase its impact on the future gene pool, is that knowledge not worth something to the bird? To bird society? Are the things we learn about ourselves knowledge? They certainly have utility. Is there any limit to what we can learn about ourselves, about the stochastic process of life? Is life not part of the universe?

Is computer science even knowledge? It seems if we're more directly concerned with the physical nature of the universe, we ought not to care about what the system of a computer actually does; we only need to care about what it is, about its physical structure. Except, that's not actually how we pursue knowledge or science at all.

In my view, Asimov's sentiment can be reduced to a complete tautology: we're at the point where we know almost everything there is to know about the things we think we can know.
Phones have reached good enough. In the first years of the iPhone, each iteration brought major important changes. Now, there's not much in the way of changes to get excited about. It's the same with other phones, too. 5G is maybe important, but more inevitable than exciting; same with usb-C. If Apple put a headphone jack back, that might be exciting though. :)

Desktop computers are laptops were around this level of good enough when iPhones started coming out. When was the last time an annual computer release was exciting? Apple's releases manage to get some attention, but mostly because they're pursuing alternate paths than the mainstream, and even when they were using mainstream intel processors, they didn't follow Intel's update cadence. Barely anyone is excited when Lenovo puts the next version intel/amd processor into a Thinkpad. It's expected, it'll be better, but it won't be exciting.
I agree, but that’s mostly addressed by putting a case on it.
apple can't do that, they are kinda like a fashion brand
Well, it seems "ternary" is more common than "trinary", according to https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/cepkv7/difference_bet...

Update: there's also the "Ternary tree", the "Ternary search tree", the "Ternary heap", and the "Ternary numeral system". Most have even Wikipedia articles. There is no Wikipedia article for anything "Trinary" related to computer science.
Most smartphones are already faster than the Switch. The quality of games on a platform is not directly related to its technical capabilities or SDK, but to the business model and platform incentives.

Apple has fueled a race-to-the-bottom followed by an almost forced transition to f2p, and they benefited immensely in the process (30%), but I think that most gamers and indie devs are not satisfied.
Hello and thanks for your comment. I appreciate your feedback and have removed the third-party analytics code to enhance security and privacy.
I don't understand this sim-swapping concept. Where I am from (EU country), if you need to get a new sim for your number, you have to physically go to your service provider's stores with an official proof of identity (passport or identity card) and do the change. Upon changing, your previous sim immediately loses service
Even non-rural areas. See the December 2022 North American winter storm's[1] effects on Buffalo, NY. 11 people froze to death in their homes because power was out for days. Of course a lot of that blame goes to the city government for not having a plan to close the roads well in advance of the blizzard, having no plan to clear the side streets of snow, and thus making it impossible for the power company to service many of the downed lines in residential neighborhoods.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_North_American_w...
Ancient android might not get security updates, but is actually still very usable. The vast majority of apps will still at least run and talk to their servers on a 10 year old phone.
Nice. Some ideas:

— Add "my location" as an option in the searchbar.

— Show results based on the IP right away.

— Show a feed of the latest commits by people in a location.

The standard convention on HN to show off stuff you made is doing a Show HN[1]. This will get more attention, as it's favored by the algorithm and some people check only the Show HN page and not the main page.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/show
You're right, and now I realize that I missed the point of the comment I responded to.
Washington left with chip on shoulder after Huawei exposes export loophole lapse
I really don't think it is. It was a problem with the Apple one as well or else he wouldn't keep having to get new ones.
11G is not lethal for the short durations you need for 0-100 (or even 0-200).

A typical car crash at 20 mph is around 20 G deceleration.

If you look at racing car crash data, one study reports 50 G as approximately the threshold for when you start to see frequent brain injuries.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16531891/
Well.

Hold on, I’m off to write a screenplay for an artsy indie period piece psychological horror film.
My apologies on my former post, the auto correct on my phone did a number.

For the use cases I know, some quality loss wouldn't be to much of an issue, but at least rudimentary video would be desired. Lag of that sort wouldn't be too bad of an issue considering it'd be to maintain a level of security and privacy that is difficult to match.( Since Signal is still working on not needing to use phone numbers, to add a privacy/ anonymous benefit to it)

I know both Jitsi Meet and Google Duo( now google Meet) have a bit of info out there about the challenges they encountered upon finding methods to implement multiple-person E2EE video chat.

Duo had a cap of about a dozen give or take, callers at first before they could scale up. Jitsu added E2EE as a toggleable option after getting their initial product out- so this might be the sort of thing where it doesn't start out with lots of Participants, at the beginning.

Finally, you mentioned exploring some of these options not over TOR. That might be beneficial for those seeking anonymity, since TOR usage has been used to fingerprint people when no one else on a network was using it. ( VPN's and Bridges are other methods of course to plug that hole, but usually have to come from the user side at cost and some technical familiarity.)

Push to talk is not something I've seen before- I take it the technical load would be less in that format?
The Google ones do since the... 6a iirc?
what would a tarp do to help?

i'm certain i'm overlooking something, because it's not like cars are generating heat to be reflected by a tarp, unless you mean a driven car, thus warm, covered by a tarp, would maintain its heat longer in -50c ?
Same here. I dont mind the larger trackpad with smaller edge on the new MacBook, or the thin edge on iPhone, providing they can make the false sensitive trigger at 100% accuracy. Not 99%, or 99.9999%, but infinitely close to 100%. I am not sure even sure if that is possible. But right now it isn't. And the random trigger is annoying enough to side with you on the subject matter.
Yes, and? The usb forum knew at the time that they needed a replacement for micro USB, even if they were being slow about it.

Do you think it is likely now, based on the current state of connectors?
America (and I mean both US and Canada) has a private corporates problem as they own and run the country.
Pixel 6 onwards have 5 years https://www.androidpolice.com/google-pixel-os-update-length/
They are imagining it like an elephant killed just for its tusks. For some leather goods made from certain animals this might be true, but today almost all parts of the animal usually have a buyer and end up getting used in some way, even if it's just ground up into dogfood.
If you go to Italy the airport scanners might think you're a wheel of cheese.
Will be released on 9/18.
Not OP, but I used to use a decent pair of wired, in-ear headphones with the male Lightning to female 3.5mm adaptor since I found wireless headphone quality during that time to be subpar up until the airpod pros came out. I still had a lot of issues with this configuration however as the adapter was flimsy and would break frequently, and since the DAC was now placed in the adapter itself, the audio quality was noticeably worse than in the previous 3.5mm models. But even with good bluetooth headphones, bluetooth just doesn’t have enough bandwidth to listen to music at high fidelity.
Sadly, he'll lower risk of one thing and increase risks of another thing -- most likely, cancer.
How exactly does this "foil counterfeiters"?

Is every buyer supposed to scan the chip and verify? Does that scale?
Steam is the ultimate example that piracy is a service problem
Guaifenisin fucks me up big time-- it always leaves me with bouts of existential depression and borderline psychosis a day or two later.

YMMV-- age is definitely a factor. When I was younger (20s) I was able to handle it without issue.
It may have also had something to do with his belligerent non-compliance, brandishing knives, and suicide/bomb threats, what do you say?
I conceed you that point. It's gonna be annoying for a while.
1) Most consumer grade chips are rated up to 80c-110c. EDIT: Ah you weren't naming any random chip, that's the chip they're using. My b.

2) That doesn't say if the chip gets dislodged, whether or not it's big enough to notice before someone swallows it. A grain of salt probably isn't. Hopefully the materials are safe to ingest.

Horrendously irresponsible practice by the manufacturer, IMO.
Did you see that recent Google open source that uses git-notes for all the extras something like GitHub adds on top of git?
That's correct - I keep adapter plugged all the time (they are very slim) to my iphone 13 mini (but worked great even with my iphone xs) and another to airpods pro, micro-usb to my logitech mouse, and usb-c to my vape and android phone (I'm mobile dev). I just bought 2x such cables so that I have 2x lightning adapters and bought few to my family as gift so it's easy to share.
All of the above, and the oil price, plus ...

... Rent-seeking administrative bureaucracies, which seriously dilute the effectiveness of education, healthcare, government, town planning, infrasfucture investment ... everything.

The trends for admin in universities and hospitals is literally off-the-charts exponential. Nothing exponential lasts forever.

Baby-Boomers will all die, eventually, but I hope their parasitic hippie socialism dies with them.
It’s obviously market segmentation.
Yeah, it’s just a product (or a product category) reaching maturity.

Every new home computer announcement in the 80s was super exciting. Now, exciting new computers are few and far between.
Mobile gaming is about 10x the size of the PC and console markets.
We can and we do. It's just that some product names are limited by origin - like a piece of (other) cultural art, food also has a locational history.

But I do agree that maybe average customer don't care about that.
Depends on your use case. If you're doing pure classification then there are smaller encoder-only models like DeBERTa that might get you better performance with a much smaller model size (so cheaper inference).

But if you need text generation and are ok with a 7B+ parameter model, Llama 2 or one of its derivatives is what I'd strongly recommend. The community around it is much larger than any of the alternatives so the tooling is better, and it's either state of the art or close to it on all evals when compared to other similarly-sized open models.

If you're comfortable sharing more details of the task you're trying to do I might be able to give more specific advice.
The behavior is very obvious if you use them for text. (I have had a few cases of naively stating my margins, the browser exactly displaying what I meant, instead of what I thought I have said, and needing to understand why it worked.)

Just don't use margins for layout, I guess.
If you had a gambling game that was simply "heads or tails, even money", you would expect over a Large Number of trials that you would get 0. But once you observe exactly one trial, the expected value because +1 or -1 unit. We know this is always going to happen one way or the other. Why then, does the bell curve of "expected value" for this game not have two peaks, at 1 and -1? Why does it peak at 0 instead?

What I'm asking about, I know I'm wrong about - I just want to know how I can derive that for myself.
What It Looked Like When India Landed on the Moon
>The visual studio pro is still expensive (it should be FREE! community ed doesn't count) and still not as good as Jetbrain's Rider, which runs circle on VS. In

Why would you need pro? Also did you use VS with free extensions like Roslynator which significantly increase its refactor capabilities?
USB-C - check, 2x optical zoom - check, 2.5k+ pix screen - check. So, basically, Galaxy S10 plus?
If you're going to assume that, then why not assume that Plato was equally made up and just a story?
Please encourage them to make a backup and get it into a VM. You should be able to find Windows 2000 if it will run on that.
This is why they invented cheesecloth, no?
Medieval Peasant 1: "I think we should stop dumping raw sewage near our water supply. It is probably making us all sick."

Medieval Peasant 2: "If it was making us all sick, how come only half of my children have died before the age of five?"
Only for the 0.01% of users who want to do that.

Also, they kinda had to announce _something_ new this phone could do.
There is a zero percent chance that I would ever want to boost my AirPods case, (which I charge every few days) while draining my iPhone (which I charge daily). If I had an Apple Watch, I would not bring the puck charger with me anywhere. I don't think that "most people" would; a subset of iPhone users have purses, and a subset of iPhone users have Apple Watches. I'm pretty sure the intersection of those two subsets is not even close to the majority of iPhone users.
Although it wouldn't surprise me if today's Azure OpenAI offerings route to certain US-centric regions, I'd be very surprised if Azure isn't working day and night to try to provision OpenAI capacity everywhere they can in the world.

(Disclaimer: I work in the cloud organization at Microsoft, and these are totally my own thoughts and opinions and don't reflect any kind of inside knowledge I have. I think I can say that provisioning LLM capacity and GPU's is something we basically all have a tremendous amount of passion about.)
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The lesson I've learned (I build scientific instruments as a hobby) is not to chase the latest, greatest ideas. Many of them only work because the implementors have access to a huge knowledge base, excellent parts and facilities, and really smart people to help debug the inevitable problems.

I focus more on maximizing what i can get out of a simple hardware setup, which means skipping anything that involves complex digital analysis or extremely sophisticated and sensitive equipment; it means more time having fun and less time debugging problems where I actually don't know enough to debug the problem.
Fourth-generation programming languages were hot for a while until people got sick of writing GUI applications in SQL.
The worst IOT devices are based on old EoL Android versions hacked on without any understanding by each party adding a little and resell it as the next higher margin product like nesting matryoshka dolls while planning to dissolve the respective business before anyone sues them for the abomination they cobbled together.
> A huge leap forward for iPhone

Marginal improvement presented as huge leap forward. If only words had to mean something

> with a gorgeous new design featuring a durable, color-infused back glass

Didn't the iPhone 2 have a back glass? What's durable about a back glass, aluminium doesn't break.
It's pretty wild that Apple has held prices down the last few years in the face of elevated inflation. I decided to calculate the inflation-adjusted price of every iPhone ever, and the 15 line are some of the most affordable (in 2023 dollars).

Full table and charts are here: https://www.perfectrec.com/posts/iPhone15-price

But the take aways are:
- iPhone 15 is cheapest base model since the OG iPhone in 2007
- 15 Plus is cheapest large iPhone ever
- 15 Pro is cheapest pro ever (and $250 cheaper than the first Pro model, the iPhone X).
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they are holding it for next year's upgrade
Disclaimer: that is not my domain, consider it may be all wrong.

One big difference in my understanding is the symptoms. For SARS-1 and MERS, people get symptoms earlier on, so they can be quarantine earlier and infect fewer people.

I would guess that parts of the symptoms are triggered when the immune system starts reacting, and hence maybe for those two, it would just happen earlier?

> Shedding a lot of virus early, before the immune system has had a chance to develop and mount an attack, seems like what one would expect.

But yeah, that's generally what I would expect too.
that is completely ok - after 10 years I can say that "I am 90% parmigiano" and prove it by scanning the thousands of chips that will be inside me.
USB 2.0 is a missed opportunity for bringing Stage Manager/screen mirroring feature from iPadOS to iPhone. This is already possible with iPad and a USB A + HDMI -> USB C adapter (plug keyboard/mouse into USB A, monitor into HDMI, and USB C into iPad).
I know I’m in the minority but I preferred the smaller lightning cables to these USB-C cables that were designed to carry 100x the power that a phone would need.
That's not really true. .NET Framework is still around. Even .NET core 3.x which is EOL a while ago, is still widely used with active stackoverflow and if you're loud enough with the .NET team at Microsoft they will help you there too.

The only difference I see between both is that there is an authoritative opinion when it comes to .NET (Microsoft) while there is no authority figure when it comes to node/Javascript. Even the actual runtime, package manager, module resolution, build tools etc get forked and replaced but since there is no authority, everyone is like "lets wait and see who wins". While with a language like .NET (or Go for that matter) you know that whatever comes from Microsoft (or Google) is the authoritative answer and people are more likely to jump to it right away.
That wasn't my point. The point is more that back then, science wasn't nearly as commonplace.
This is a "fun" story so it gets coverage far out of proportion to the actual product announcements... which is that in 2022 they put a chip in 100,000 wheels of cheese. Presumably a trial run that didn't progress any further in the following 9+ months?

The use of blockchain here is very questionable and makes the rest of the product suspect to me.

"The p-Chip is like a special anchor that uses blockchain technology to create a digital copy of real things" -> lol what? It's just a chip that returns a unique serial number when scanned?

Seems like you could accomplish the same thing with an RFID tag (or possibly even a bar code sticker) along with a centralized database.
My carrier offers them 0% interest, rolled into your phone plan payment.

But, go figure, the sticker price is like 10-15% higher than on the Apple site.

They just hid the interest in the price.
They might later add VVC Video encoder instead.
This doesn't provide a counterpoint to the original comment's point.

IMHO, it's true that a static site generator should be the way to go in 2023, instead of using a web framework with a db.

I am personally running a hugo blog, on netlify, with netlify CMS. I have 0 costs, great performances, everything needed out of the box. What else to ask for ?