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>Apple completely cannibalized their iPod business with the iPhone

no, it's not cannibalization to upsell existing customers to higher margin items
FWIW I tried to restore my iPhone backup from my Mac last week, and it totally failed. If I hadn't had iCloud, I'd be SOL.

(This is not a defence of Apple btw - it's unforgivable that they lock down the phone so you can only use their backup feature, and it doesn't actually work).
I had to look these up, so I'll do folks like me some favors:

Consequentialism is an ethical theory that judges whether or not something is right by what its consequences are.

Retributive justice is a theory of punishment that maintains that wrongdoers deserve to be punished, in proportion to their crimes, as a matter of justice or right.

All of these seem to abandon the wider outlook that punishment in lieu of rehabilitation has had on society at least in the United States. A single punishment without rehabilitation is already generational. This also postures crime as some kind of primordial evil; there are certainly some crimes and specific natures of crime that I could see most people agreeing are "evil" but when we're talking the vast majority of crime worthy of punishment do people really believe that evil is what's at the center of it?
If you had continued reading, you would have seen that the author opposes punishing families and is using this as an example case for a philosophical argument.
Very timely too, with the New York civil (should be criminal) case being conduted by Letitia James against the Trump family, lol
On Android, the Learn More links aren't present, so the privacy invasion is not disclosed at all, beyond the deceptive first-page "summary".
I was curious about this, so I looked and I see that Isaacson, whose published book excerpt was the basis for CNN's initial report, issued a clarification on Sept 8:

> To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not. They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Musk did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a major war.

source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/starlink-and-ukraine-mu...

It's possible the mainstream media is just using outdated information rather than actively trying to misinform.
The trick is to not wait in the main NJT lobby area. All their tracks are accessible from the other Amtrak hallways and you will get timely notification from the video terminals.

The old trick was to watch the green Amtrak monitors, because the NJT trains would pop up there first a few seconds before the official NJT displays. That system is gone now so you can't get an early jump on the track assignment but being in the other hallways puts you at the other end of the train from the crowd and it's easier to get your preferred seat.
How much RAM do the devices have ? Why is Apple still mum on that basic hardware spec ? Weird.
My conception of the position is that you can throw whatever data at me, but as long as you tell me the requirements I can get the data through with minimum cost and maximum accuracy.

I used to think knowing the business is important, but now I understand that it's impossible to know every business I'm in. I should rely on the BI for requirements and just do my job and do very well. I don't want to be a product manager or a manager so I prefer to stay in the technical side.

About the other questions, yes I automate as much as possible. I don't have any free time sadly as I'm just one man team (previously we have 6). I'm overwhelmed by this YAML engineering.

Anyway I'm starting interviewing soon.
TO add a bit, not every junior position work on YAML engineering.
Buying a real camera was the best travel decision I've made. Everyone thinks phone cameras are just as good until you actually get a decent camera. And they are just as point and click. Seriously, phone travel photos are garbage in comparison.
Given companies are allowed to advertise waterproof-ness and wholesale deny warranty claims when any water indicators inside the phone are triggered, I don’t think the FTC is going to do much
Damn, you're lucky it's not something important. Especially with accounts for things like Google or Facebook/Instagram where they boast about not having any human support and you are totally shit-out-of-luck if you can't get in.
Why not replace the battery?
Same here, the prices I’ve been quoted for a heat pump are $25-$30,000 Canadian. And the installers will spend the entire meeting trying to talk you out of it and into a natural gas unit.

We need more Europeans to come open businesses here installing these!
If the DOJ's case is that Google pays $10B to Apple to exclude competitors then they're suing the wrong company. Their story is actually that Apple is the one with the monopoly that they then sell piecemeal to third parties. Therefore (if that is illegal) it is Apple's behavior they have to change.
I am going to the competitor. I am paying for the software, but I don’t want your “enterprise tier”, which is really designed for 1000+ employee companies.

BTW, I did just this this morning. The AE came back to offer the enterprise package for the price of the mid-tier package.
I've been aware of breathwork since I was a teenager, but I always look for easy actions, with low barriers:

Watching my resting dog breathe I noticed he inhaled slowly and exhaled without much apparent control, just relaxing and letting it all huff out, then pausing awhile before the next inhalation; I tried this, it feels good, so I keep doing it when I want to feel more calm.

From reading Breath, by James Nestor, I learned that a good target for calm-inducing breathing is about eleven seconds for an inhale/exhale pair, common with many religious activities like chants, etc. Breathing like my dog, I aim for five seconds in, ~three out (not counting, just letting it out), and as long a pause as feels right, sometimes pushing myself a little to extend.
Some commenters are praising the USB-C port, so it's worth noting that this change is because of EU regulations.

Government decision makers are often [edit: Not] qualified to make good technical decisions, but sometimes they do. Or they get lucky.
Yes, if they’re unwilling to show a small detail like this due to sanctions that the Russian government supposedly would rain on them in retribution, one wonders what else they’re unwilling to disclose from their other investigations for the same reason.
Unfortunately, PC games, and most "AAA" titles are so shit lately, i just don't bother anymore. I just play the same game even while beefing up my PC. They even destroy amazing games like the old CoD Warzone. All trash now.
Yes, same machine helped, it's definitely one of the factors it uses.

I have a near-20-year Google account I can't access because I lost the 2FA number. I have the username, password and recovery email. But that isn't enough, apparently.
It’s Lambdas All the Way Down
Not everyone associates self-worth to monetary or financial reasons, it takes a quite quirky human (and culture) to give that much of your identity to money.
If you take the consequentialist point of view ("The suffering you save must exceed the suffering you inflict"), then isn't this trivially ruled out by his own admission that "What’s clear is that when rulers enforce family punishments, the ruled shiver with terror"? If on top of all the excess suffering caused by the collateral punishment, you add that the entire population lives under constant fear, then it seems difficult to imagine that you are "obviously" compensating for this by saving enough suffering to make it worthwhile. I certainly consider the psychological effect of living under such a system as suffering. This is without even getting into the disproportionate amount of "false positive" suffering from identifying the wrong criminal and punishing the wrong family vs. just punishing one incorrect person.
The crazier thing is that at Penn, the train is usually on the same stupid track. You realize this after you see the regulars lingering around certain areas of the mezzanine so they manage to get to the front of the line once it's formally announced.

So I think its more a keeping people off platform thing or overall zero care for customer service.
Discussed on HN before, but the previous link doesn't work so I resubmitted it with the new link.
In Quiet there is no global naming. A community is joined through an invite link (a bundle of onion addresses) so multiple communities can have the same name. Usernames are unique only within communities, and we use certificates signed by the community creator as a single source of truth on names. However, in order to allow joining when the community creator is not online, we will release changes this week that let users join provisionally with any name, even duplicates. We will show an 'unregistered' badge until registered and a 'duplicate' badge if duplicate. We will also show an aggressive warning to everyone if the registrar is malicious and gives multiple public keys the same name.

It seemed important to get unique usernames within a community because users expect that from apps like Slack and Discord.
Are you saying that maybe it should have been named Linux Download Manager to fool more people, or Debian Download Manager?

Proving trust is hard.
There used to be not-well-liked (by designers, or users) help system, which when the user toggled it on, would display a description of purpose what you pointed at, and — when very well implemented — an explanation of why an disabled. It was called Balloon Help.

Unfortunately, it had no idea what you already knew, and would continue popping up bubbles until you turned it off. Of course, there was a fair chance that within seconds of turning it off, you would want info on something again. So, you'd mouse over to small global icon for it, pull down a menu, choose enable, and then it would gleefully show balloons for much of what your pointer passed over on your way to the one thing yow needed help with…and again on the way back to the menu toggle to shut it off.

But eventually, some kind person invented a system hack that made it turn on for just the duration that you held a modifier key, and it was glorious. For users, at least. For programmers, it was still annoying, because you were supposed to create all those descriptions: one for each enable control or interesting element and, to do it Properly™ one for each possible reason that the given widget was disabled.

Most users never got to experience the modifier-key method. Most developers, if they implemented it, only provided the item descriptions, without bothering with the disabled state.

Microsoft decided to partially imitate Balloon Help by providing, and asking third parties to provide, a tiny question-mark button in each dialog box. Clicking it let you then click any one item to get a description of it. Which was annoying when you wanted to know about multiple items. And more annoying when many or all of the items you clicked didn't have descriptions. If you weren't in a dialog window, yow were supposed to use the program's Help option, which was completely different.

Both Balloon Help and question-click-help eventually were replaced by that unfortunate idea: a smallish floating window that is simultaneously too small to show the content (often having scrollbars in both directions) and too large to get out of your way. With seemingly nothing satisfying available, help systems continue to diverge, offering varying degrees of utility like local HTML that opens in a web browser (often slow to launch), actual online web pages (useless if not connected), sidebars that resize your workspace and open sluggishly, and animated talking characters that won't accept "Go away!" for an answer (::shudder::)…

On the whole, I'd take something like "Balloon Help with modifier key", except for when a tutorial would be more appropriate.

…

But back on topic of grey buttons, other terrible-but-trending designs are "everything is light/medium grey" (makes everything look disabled), "one or more enabled elements are fancy/coloured while one or more equally enabled elements are grey" (often used when the greyed options are "Obviously what any sane user would want, but that negatively affects some target metric").
Many languages refer to items as gendered, so instead of "it" it would be "him" or "her". This is a pretty common thing to hear in English when in those regions. The post is likely referring to the lightning port (from the post title).
Interesting results: combining Llama-13B with Wikipedia backed by a vector database can reduce hallucination, and significantly improves its performance on MMLU scores.
I’m a part of general public and I agree. I’d never thought connecting my iphone to pc through a cable because it’s such pita to do so and speeds are absurd for that type of device. All connectivity goes through telegram (thanks to creators for amazing data limits, opposed to email’s 20mb no-exec nonsense).
At Penn station, you used to be able to wait on the floor below (which has a staircase from the main floor as well as its own staircases down to each platform) and then just directly go down to your Amtrak as soon as you wanted rather than waiting for them to form a giant line. My dad taught me this trick, and we both used to use it to be able to avoid waiting longer, but once when I did it one of the Amtrak workers got super angry at me for it despite the fact that I did wait until after everyone leaving had come up, and as a socially awkward teen, I was too nervous to ever do it again.

I suspect the rationale behind not telling people beforehand is that they don't want to have to deal with people trying to get on at the same time as people leaving, but I feel like the main reason people are so aggressive about trying to get to the train as fast as possible on Amtrak is precisely _because_ the system treats them as too irresponsible to get timely accurate information. If people didn't need to worry about having only a couple short minutes to avoid missing their train and could plan ahead where to be when the train arrived, I think that a lot of people wouldn't feel the need to try to jostle through the crowd to race each other for the earlier spots in the line.
looks like it's got ~40% less traffic...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_railway_statio...
Considering:

- Not everyone is proficient in bash.

- Some install scripts can easily go on for thousands of lines, especially if they are designed to work with multiple distro or architecture, or both.

- Said install script might be integrated deep down into someone else's build pipeline.

- ... that's assuming they aren't the type that would blindly download and run random exe from the web in the first place

Pretty common, I would say.
Anyone have an estimate of the G forces the driver experienced?
I'm happy with this pre-recorded style by Apple. It's really high quality so it's fun to watch even I've never considered to buy anything. Though this session is a bit boring script for me.
You can file a dispute[0] about items with credit reporting services. The reporter has a time window to reply with supporting evidence. If they don't, you win the dispute by default. If they do, you can dispute it again.

I had a completely BS negative mark on my credit report[1]. I ran that process in a loop (maybe 3-4 iterations IIRC) until the reporter was either bored with it, annoyed by the paperwork, or on vacation until after their deadline. They didn't reply in time and the mistaken mark went away.

You shouldn't abuse that process to get rid of legitimate reports. In the long run it's easier to just pay your bills as best you can. But the credit reporters have all kinds of processes they can use to ruin your day. You absolutely should use the processes available to you to make sure your report's accurate.

[0] Like https://www.equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services/cred...

[1] In before "you must've done something wrong!" Nope. A large government agency claimed I owed them money. I had all of the receipts showing that I paid in full. I eventually had to involve my senator, resulting in an apology letter from a very high ranking official (and I'm sure a few chewed butts). They didn't get around to removing the derogatory report, though, so I did it myself while waiting for the second senator inquiry to wrap up.
You and I agree there, but people out there are declaring LLMs have "sparks of AGI" and self-awareness.
I suspect the data transfer requirements of CarPlay can be handled by USB2
It's been around for a long time (centuries?). In most textbooks, you'll get different semantics for italic and bold faces. Modern textbooks with color printing often use color in semantic ways.
Damn. I've tried about 5 anti-depression meds + threapy so far and I still want to leap off a skyscraper... luckily(?) there's none in my area
There seems to be a very different way of thinking when the human interface device is a computer vs a pen and paper or a book.

I can do some things behind a computer, but some kinds of thinking require me to be away from a computer. Oddly, the shower seems to be a place where I do some of my best thinking.
> If the LLM generation cannot be copyrighted, then it cannot violate a copyright…right?

No, that doesn’t follow.

E.g., a photocopier in its normal mode of operation (because it produces mechanical copies of works already fixed in tangible form, which therefore are already copyrighted if copyrightable) cannot produce work that is copyrightable, but can produce things which violate copyrights.
We'll probably do this soon. Tor simplifies peer discovery and NAT traversal a lot though, so disabling Tor is actually harder unless you have a very reliable STUN/TURN service you plan to support forever.
That's a cute trick with the ATOM feed content-type. Simple idea, that probably(?) will not trip up any dedicated readers, but makes a nice usability win.
It shouldn't be any more opaque than why the larger device also has a larger battery. Optical zoom requires additional physical space for the optics doing the zoom. This doesn't make all smaller device options the basic models it makes them the smaller options of their class. Some people want the top class but still smaller, even if it means it doesn't have everything the largest top class option does.
Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan, as game developers fume
> you just need to hack one person

bribes are probably quicker and easier.
It was a no-brainer. It should have happened years ago.

I like lightning. I liked firewire too. It's always kept too long, when its a lock-in.

They had to be made to. Now, lets hope no more new happens in the form factor and cable basics for a while.
I don't see it as deceptive. More like dumbed down by removing all technical jargon.

How would you describe the issue briefly to someone who doesn't know what machine learning is? Sure, a lot of people know about it now, but I think much of the general public still has only the vaguest idea, and that was much more true a couple years ago.
> the author opposes punishing families

I have to read to learn that ?

I’d better save my time and assume the same thing
Pretty much every train I’ve ever boarded at Penn station was empty when it pulled in. Trains that come in with passengers discharge them then leave for service.
Yeah, you can’t just leave out knock-on effects when talking about consequentialism. They’re consequences too.
Measuring BP with a watch is probably most accurate while lying down, eg during sleep, given yesterday’s Blood pressure should be measured lying down: study https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37471354
It's often faster to write down notes while listening than type them out, and you can make quick graphs/tables/etc without formatting hassles. Especially if you would be using a phone and not a real keyboard. That's why police always carry those little notebooks in their pocket.

Additionally, there are many cases where it's possible to type and print something, but faster to just write it. Ex. writing the address on an envelope rather than making one in Word and trying to remember which way the envelopes go into the printer (which inexplicably is the opposite of the picture on the tray).
I write and maintain content for a living. Switching to a static site generator is the best thing I have done for my productivity since I started that website.

Powerful text editing tools I'm familiar with, source control, fully offline work, and very lightweight tooling that starts quickly (just a python script).

I wrote a bit about the experience here: https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/ursus
Wow I wasn't expecting it to be as bad as it is. Charging per download and install and removing the cheaper tiers is ridiculous. Good news for any griefers out there who feel like making a particular game developer lose money, just download and install the game a handful of times. What a terrible decision by Unity, shame for all the developers who have spent years and years learning a powerful tool run by complete sociopaths
It’s true sometimes people can’t guess if what they’re tasting is red or white. And people may not agree on which wines they like better.

But it’s obviously true that different wines taste different. This is easy (and fun) to test at home.
I stopped into a pub in Dublin, Ireland once and everyone was drinking a pint of Guinness w/ blackcurrant. I had no idea that was a thing.
Foldable is a long intermediate solution for bigger screen until AR become usable/portable in everywhere.
If they are selling them (I.e. a scam) it's likely a combination of ML and good old fashioned sound alike production. There have been people who are very, very good at sound-alikes for ages and ML is just going to make that easier.

This is also somewhat of a commentary on just how banal and formulaic radio pop has gotten. Sigh.
A faster processor reduces execution time allowing the CPU to return to sleep status faster. Total energy used is power x time. While increasing operating frequency increases power quadratically due to P = CV^2, it is usually a net energy savings to let the frequency boost as high as a mass produced chip can go to minimize time spent in the highest power state. This assumes a finite bursty workload.
Like this story that makes the rounds once in awhile. Who knows how true it is but..

"Due to complexities in their manufacturing line, a popular toothpaste company would occasionally, accidentally, ship empty boxes to their customers.

Not only did the boxes cost money to ship, but when customers received the boxes they would often complain. Ultimately the toothpaste company began to lose customers who would seek out inventory for their stores from other, more reliable suppliers.

One day the factory gathered their top managers and creative minds and told them they would need to focus their efforts on solving the empty box problem.

After nearly six months and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on research and ideation, the factory came up with what they thought was a fairly smart smart solution to their problem. They would add highly sensitive scales to the factory line.

Any time an empty box would reach the scale it would be weighed, the line would stop and a loud buzzer would sound, at which point a factory worker would need to walk over and remove the empty box. Problem solved, right?

Yet the company quickly ran into another issue: just a few months after rolling out the new scale system there were no empty boxes being reported. The scales weren't encountering any empty boxes at all.

Confused by the results, the factory manager traveled down to the factory from his city office to see what was going on. He noticed that by one of the supply lines, just a few feet before one of the new scales, someone had placed an inexpensive desk fan. The manager noticed that as boxes rolled down the line, empty ones would merely be blown off the belt by the desk fan.

When asked about the fan, an employee on the factory line standing nearby explained: "Oh that? We put it there when we got tired of hearing the buzzer ring."