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I love SE. For me it’s a perfect fit factor. It’s small. I can reach all screen parts with one hand. It has a flat side, and can be placed on it’s side, eg when watching something.
Mind sharing were you ordered it from?
It's kind of crazy to me that people are discounting his ideas simply because he mentioned that he believes in God. I've read his books and had a chance to meet him. He's brilliant (and that's despite the fact that he recently had a stroke and at the time had difficulty concentrating). Read any of his books... He was able to come up with really simple models that explain some pretty complex competitive outcomes that had perplexed a lot of people for decades.
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I see a number of people reacting negatively to the 'God' section. I also had an issue with it. Let me explain why I found it odd: He spends most of the article asserting his points by tying them to real examples or at least ones that resemble common events we all see. He then launches into moralizing with God as his touchstone "But God is different. Because he has an infinite mind". No, I don't think he was talking about Eisenstein's God or some other abstraction. I don't disagree with his broader points about how you should measure your worth, but he could have made them in a much more effective way by just asking the reader to imagine the outcome of a life lived for only yourself.
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It's just a particular LVM configuration with a nice UI https://superuser.com/a/1367697
> Phytoplankton eat bacteria, correct?

No, phytoplankton are basically microscopic plants, they don't eat anything per se, they are autotrophs which use inorganic substances in the environment and get their energy from sunlight.
I just don't understand rolling your own backup drives in 2018 unless you're up to something nefarious. I rest peacefully knowing my data will never be lost by Dropbox, and the immediate backup means I don't have to mess with slow, periodic all-at-once backups.
Got a new one in November when the battery replacement for my old one failed at the Apple store. They just unboxed a new iPhone SE in front of me and I was amazed they still had any left.
Insurance brokers, container shippers, various industrial markets, trucking companies, university faculties, law firms, economic development organizations, non-profits, small municipalities, biotech firms, marketing/ad agencies, construction companies, architects - I could go on and on. The one thing they have in common is that they’re big enough to have a budget for my services.
I'd hate to call it "hustle"
Back when I bought my SE, it was cheaper than getting a 6, despite having better specs. I also check for deals online a lot, and the SE was almost constantly being discounted. I think it's not unreasonable, based on these, to assume that it never really sold particularly well.

Based on that, I'd say that they stopped making the SE simply because only a very small, specific slice of the market actually wants to purchase such a device, and it's not worth keeping a unique product in their portfolio if the sales numbers just aren't there.
Their USB drive was plugged into their NAS. The probability (as they found out in TFA) is very high that a power surge will knock out most of their devices. A house fire wouldn't hesitate in destroying both. I think "close to 100%" is being too generous.

If you don't have 3 copies of your data (with at least 1 offsite) then your data doesn't really exist.
These (fairly specialized) ski boots have a boa lace system as part of their closure system, which uses a central dial to tighten a continuous metal lace. It's not automated, but it's close.

For what it's worth, though, I didn't find them that much faster to put on than normal three-buckle boots.

https://www.scarpa.net/en/f1.html
I hate all screen design I also want a thicker phone. I want to be able to actually hold the damn thing. I get a case because those are now design flaws.
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For me, I barely physically use my phone. I use iMessage from my mbp and get most notifications on my Pebble.

I do use the phone itself for audiobooks and podcasts, but otherwise its basically a server (not the best term for that.. but you get what I mean.)

What I don't get about the larger phones is how people comfortably carry them around. Maybe its because I wear skinny jeans / pants, but there's absolutely no way I could fit a larger phone in the pockets of my pants, and I rarely have a jacket on.

But the love of the SE form-factor is not isolated to HN. I know a lot of people who love a smaller phone for various reasons.

As the tech gets thinner, I'm longing for the day when we get something similar to the folding phone from HER, but with a few modifications (e.g. memory LCD / eink for other side..)
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I think PG said[0] it well:

Suppose you own a beat-up old car. Instead of sitting on your butt next summer, you could spend the time restoring your car to pristine condition. In doing so you create wealth. The world is-- and you specifically are-- one pristine old car the richer. And not just in some metaphorical way. If you sell your car, you'll get more for it.

In restoring your old car you have made yourself richer. You haven't made anyone else poorer. So there is obviously not a fixed pie. And in fact, when you look at it this way, you wonder why anyone would think there was.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Managing complexity is not so much about the language, it's more about software development process. But I think it helps to use a safe and simple language. Engineers often forget about their own cost.
And I just don't understand how people can trust just a single online service with their backups. They can be part of a plan, e.g. to quickly get data off-site, but I wouldn't trust a single one enough (case in point: Dropbox actually has managed to loose data in the past, + the occasional security failure)
You could be right, although the Boa mechanism is really very small. The laces are metal (I think) but much thinner.
6TB drives are about £150 at the bottom end, average maybe £180. That's c. $200-240. £600 a year on back up hardware is pretty hefty.
mostly useless as if you do anything, the undo queue gets cleared.
CSS grid is supported in all modern browsers. Depending on your audience, there is a very good chance you can use it in favor of older and much less powerful and pleasant grid layout tools.
I don't care about the size too much, but small has the advantage of one-handed use, of fitting better in my pocket and being less likely to break.

I kind of care about the design. It's elegant-- I like the flat camera, the chamfered edges and the brick-y form (which I appreciate they brought back with the new iPad Pro).

What I care most about though is the headphone jack. This is why I still keep mine around in spite of having another phone-- to listen to music.

EDIT: The fact that it's cheaper, so I could get more memory for the same price as a bigger model also contributes to it still sticking around primarily for music, but also with some games.
It got significantly better in the last generation. As a result the disk I/O and network are significantly faster. While the last 2 versions had GigE, the throughput almost doubled in the last generation.
Power surges, brownouts etc. don't really exist in large parts of Europe. I also never unplugged my computer(s) in thunderstorms (some of which are on a USP, most of which were simply plugged into mains, no surge protector, no USP) and lost exactly zero computers to that.

One of the few things that actually routinely comes with real surge arresters (i.e. gas-discharge tubes, not the MOVs plastered all over the place) is anything connected to a telephone line, e.g. A/VDSL modems. On some old PBXs for analog lines these were even contained in field-replaceable modules.
My current approach.

Personal media archive, Windows 10 Pro, Storage Space with Parity across 4 HDD in a sata jbod. This is a purely software RAID. Moving the drives (or part of them) to another Windows 10 system allows for seamless recovery.

This archive, as well as all personal computers use Backblaze for offsite backup (including versioning). Versioning is important in case malware/accidents/buggy software. I don't consider any backup plan complete without this and being off-site (fire/theft)

For my business servers I use Tarsnap. (Off-site and versioning, 45 days)

Edit: Oh and everything is on UPS
Motivated minorities are over-represented in media (both social and traditional).
I had this happen to me once when working with a recruiter. They said the company wouldn't make me an offer unless I agreed to accept it. I didn't end up discussing things further with them as it seemed like a juvenile way of conducting business.
> There is a difference for Searle if only certain kinds of physical systems are conscious

There is no meaningful difference here either. Physical systems also have bounded information content as per the Bekenstein Bound.

> The other issue in philosophy of mind is intentionality, which is how any physical system can be about something

I don't see the great disconnect here either. You have to treat systems of general intelligence as if they have intentions. What else is there?
It was also retro in the wrong ways - 7th gen dual-core "i7" when the 8th gen with 15W real ones was out (or at most around the corner), and an underpowered last-gen CPU.

People wanted something that wasn't just retro, but a true classic in other respects as well.
It appears the F* language is created for verification as its primary project, Project Everest, is a replacement technology stack for HTTPS with cryptography embedded.

The challenge this paper attempts to address is embedding a low level language in a high level language plus verification. In a general sense language grammar embedding is a common problem. Examples include Boost templates in C++, React JSX which embeds XML in JavaScript, and HTML templates (ERB, Twig, PHP, Elm, Handlebars, Dust.js).

I have been attempting to solve for the problem of language embedding, in various ways, for years. The root cause of the complexity is that different parsing schemes are executed as a document is passed through different applications ignoring the remainder of the given document outside the delimiters of the syntax concerned by the parser at present. There are consequences to that approach in performance, integrity, and structure. This became apparent when I encountered documents containing FreeMarker code and Handlebar code in a way that did not respect the structure of each other template scheme but made sense in isolation.

I was able to solve for embedding by realizing that embedding is a data structure imposed upon the outer language. If a language is reduced to a primitive structure, such as a parse tree, then all languages become equally represented as various data structures. That won’t make practical sense unless the structure representing these languages is uniform. If there were a common parse tree to all languages that represents respective languages as data structures and the points of embedding are just child structures apart from the whole the problem of embedding is solved for.

Because everything is represented as simple structures in a set of like structures recursion from nesting is accounted for without increased complexity. An example in this case would be to embed an instance of assembly in the outer F* grammar which then contains as instance of F* as a string or comment in that assembly.

A demo of the simplified and uniform parsing scheme is at https://prettydiff.com/parse-framework/runtimes/browsertest.... but at this time only a few languages are supported. I am still working on expanding support and proving the concept. Unlike the research paper though, a data structure alone is not enough to provide verification, which requires a proof of some sort.
I would love to see ReasonML take off too but I think it's unlikely. Typescript is pretty good and an easier conceptual leap for most developers. I think it takes a company the size of Apple forcing a language on its developers to bring an ML into the mainstream. And although I consider Swift to be a kind of ML it's made a lot of concessions to more familiar language designs.
I'm fascinated. What sort of software needs to run with ten years uptime? How do you avoid downtime for operating system updates on those cheap servers?
True, but they're proportionally represented where product decisions become important - in the revenue spreadsheets
Plenty of large mice available, I am partial to vertical mice for long periods of work.
I loved handbrake but haven't used it in a long time since I haven't bought a DVD/blu ray in a long time.
I rarely use Excel nowadays, but if I could choose one thing to improve it would be to let me use the English names for functions. Excel is localized to my language, and that includes function names. That probably made sense when targeting non technical people 30 years ago, but it makes it harder to search online and is non intuitive when you're used to other programming languages.
It sounds like "Wonder Boys" was at least in part autobiographical as the main character there also had a huge unfinished novel that had weird details like the genealogies and dental records of horses.
Pretty cool site so far, the background noise feature is pretty soothing
It is pretty demanding indeed. But visuals are improved noticeably too, so it's worth it to have a better card for better framerate in it on max settings.

Unlike TW2, it's not using any super crazy double pass anti-ailasing which they called "ubersampling", so it's reasonable on max, even if demanding. But having that and 4K is already too much for any single GPU :)
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We’re starting to use Airtable in a pretty sophisticated way. It allows you to organize yourselves and be pretty dynamic as you learn and adapt your process. We can then have our engineers come in once the data model is robust but frankly I see our team using the Airtable UI for a long time.
> Now, if you define a physical computer as a Turing machine and nothing else than yeah, we, humans might as well be not computers at all

We're not even Turing machines. The Bekenstein Bound establishes humans as finite state automata.

> Human brain could be, in fact, a digital computer, but the mind in it is not a result of some vulgar symbolic computation, but a result of some mysterious computational process, that very possibly has nothing to do with manipulations with some abstract symbols.

So a magical computer? What purpose in a brains computation does the magic serve exactly?
They have index funds for bonds also.
Could you further explain the relation of iron, psychoticism, and autism? Maybe I misunderstood but the proposed links sound unconvincing.
I keep my porn in a folder called: Definitely not porn.
Do you ever worry about the Li-Ion pack having issues in the hot car?
> The smaller screen uses less battery

I just upgraded to the XS Max and it lasts far longer than my 5S, 6S, and 7 before it. It's even in Apple's support docs, the bigger phones have better battery life.

> I'm really struggling to think of advantages to larger phones

For me, it's all about reading. Most weekends I'm taking my kid to events that don't require my full attention. As I started using my phone for reading more, I found I was getting frustrated with the cramped space, constantly scrolling.

So this year I went all out and got the XS Max, and I gotta say: I couldn't be happier. Less scrolling, I make far fewer typing mistakes with the bigger phone, I'm not scrambling to charge my phone at 5pm.

Sure, I had to give up typing one-handed as my thumb cannot reach the opposite side of the keyboard. That's fine.
Wait a second.

Those 200MB of node modules are developers ad-hoc cobbling together an alternative to xcode and android studio, except entirely modular and where we have complete control.

You just made up a fictional scenario and used it as the evidence for your case.
Firstly, final phone price doens't matter. Margins matter. These phones are old hardware; it's not inconceivable that mass-producing them would yield margins just as good (if not better) than the cutting-edge.

Secondly, Armament Systems and Procedures? Active Server Pages?
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>People say they 'just' want a 4" modern phone, but they define it as a phone with multiple cameras, high storage capacity, and fast processors, etc. etc.. It's a nontrivial engineering challenge to get everything into a smaller package, and this at a time where the market at large has picked bigger phones as the winner.

I don't know. My Nexus 4 was fine with respect to all of these things when it came out. Not top of the line power, of course, but not shabby either. Surely our ability to get faster processors into the same package has significantly increased since then. If I could get the exact form factor of a Nexus 4 with any hardware improvements available since it came out over 6 years ago, I'd pick one up in a heartbeat.
I'm guessing Paul Graham has never restored a beat up car to pristine condition. Your pristine condition car that will fetch you less than the new parts you put in when you sell it at what the market will pay for it. Restoring beat up cars to new state is a losing game unless someone pays you to do the work, except for some rare collectibles, which I am assuming are not your personal beat up car. And even then chances are just about even that you'll end up losing money on it. It's fun to do, you'll learn lots but please do not think you will make money this way, especially not if you put any value on your time.
That's the point exactly, when you're building a public facing website, depending on your client audience it's very likely that you're not building only for modern browsers. Heck, the same holds for a large part of non-public projects as well.
Yes! The most important data I have fits inside 10MB, and even the "I'd like to keep this" stuff isn't huge.
for me it's more of a i'd rather be able to put it in my pocket easily and not have to worry about breaking it than anything else.
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I think they are underestimating how much time and effort (and employees) it takes to be a successful gatekeeper of an app store.

If too many malware or scam apps make it onto the store, people won't trust the store anymore and the whole thing is ruined. So you have to vet every release version of every app or enough bad stuff will slip through that the users will leave.

Pretty soon people will start complaining about arbitrary rejections so you need to start documenting a system of rules and applying them consistently. If you don't do that, the developers will leave. Even if you do it, the developers might still leave unless being in your store is worth the hassle of obeying all of the rules.

Then some parents will complain that their kid spent a lot of their money buying stuff in an online game or spent time chatting with a pervert and it's your fault because the app came from your store. You might need to spend a lot of money on lawyers and PR people to get out of that one.

Most of these problems are nontechnical -- they are really people problems. It's hard to see how such a small company can run an app store that can be trusted by users and app developers unless it handles a very small volume of apps.
Not that I would do this, but I've heard that sometimes people rent DVDs/BDs from public libraries and then rip them..
"but I've learned that when dealing with a Microsoft stack, there are advantages to using Microsoft-native languages like C#."

curious. can you elaborate?
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In my case, brachydactyly type d makes horizontally thinner screens (not necessarily just "smaller" ones) much easier to use. I watch people on Youtube review these giant phones, and it's the only times in my life I've experienced thumb envy.
First thing that comes to mind for me is practical improvements to sum-of-squares optimization for designing robust controllers, but I'm biased.

Really though, I would skim through the awards list and workshop lists of any of the big conferences, e.g. ICRA, RSS, CoRL, WAFR. That will give you some ideas of the big themes lots of people are exploring right now.
I second the post below. Paul Graham has written extensively on this. The stack overflow question starts with "everyone who has used it thinks it's great," so maybe the best way to find out why is to play with it yourself. :-)
You've not been paying attention. (Or are deliberately trolling.)

One of iOS 12's advertised features was that it's significantly faster than 11 on older hardware. And that seems to be true.
First, I think this long cycle was intentional, the small phones have a market, but not big enough to require frequent updates.

Secondly, I think Apple wants to drop the home button on all devices. The next SE will be edge-to-edge screen. This March will mark 3 years since the last release.

If it doesn't show up in March, maybe it will appear in September with the other phones.

But if it doesn't appear this year, then:

- they had production problems with the fancy screen

- OR they decided to drop the SE altogether
But HN commenters told me there must not be demand for this size phone!
In a democracy, there are elections where the people voice their opinions and then the elected carry out the policies expressed during the vote.

If instead we have a system where everyone has a voice, but in practice only the groups with the resources to invest millions of euros in lobbying can get their positions heard by the EU and made into law, then it is not a democracy. And those groups are not generally in favor of the common citizen.

The balance is well tilted towards those who have the most money. The voice of one citizen weighs much less than the voice of a big corporation which can hire former EU bureaucrats as well-paid lobbyists. Maybe citizens should make a lobbying fund to fight on the public's behalf ?
As the saying goes, nobody wants a backup. What they want is a restore.
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> Yes, the demand really is that low.

Do you have any evidence for that?

There are virtually no, modern, reasonably-specced and reasonably priced phones with smaller screens available currently, so it's no wonder they're not selling.

In the Android world, there's only a couple of low-end Nokia phones (Nokia 1 - 4.5" screen and Nokia 3 - 5.2" screen), low-end Samsungs like the Galaxy J3 and the high-end and expensive Sony XZ2 Compact available but these phones aren't available for sale in many shops or on many contracts. If the market doesn't produce modern smaller phones, then they can't be sold, so arguing that "the demand really is that low" is currently a circular argument.

I suspect that part of the reason why the resale value of older iPhones like the 6 and 6s are high is that a reasonable percentage of people, esp. women, want smaller phones like these iPhones which are still reasonably fast and quite usable. My girlfriend hates using large phones as she finds them too big to hold in one hand easily, and has kept using an old Android because of its 4.5" screen.

I'm a tall person - well over 6 foot - with largish hands and even I find it difficult to comfortably use a phone wider than 70mm. I also find the current trend of producing 18:9 ratio phones completely baffling, as it makes reaching the top of the screen impossible with one hand in situations like traveling on trains or buses. Widescreen videos are filmed in 16:9 ratio, so it would make much more sense to go back to 16:9 ratio phone screens.
Telco, HVAC, message switches, various embedded systems, alarm systems and so on.