skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If it falls on a road (like mine) with some pebbles, you are likely out of luck. It is not the height/force but the spikes.

Fortunately spare parts cost peanuts and the SE is incredibly easy to fix. A new digitizer is 20 bucks on Amazon (with a toolkit including everything you need). $10 for a new battery. And replacing both of those requires two screws and 10 minutes of effort. I've replaced almost every part in mine short of the mainboard.
It is interesting.

We hear all the time that the market wants bigger phones. But I look at data from analytics sites like Mixpanel and see something different.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/09/iphone-xr-usage-overtakes-xs/

This is from January 2019 (I can't find anything newer at the moment).

iPhone XS - 2.89%

iPhone XS Max - 3.65%

iPhone XR - 3.02%

iPhone X - 11.71%

iPhone 8 - 9.81%

iPhone 8 Plus - 10.11%

Total - 41.19%

These are all the latest iPhones. If you look at this year alone, sure, the larger phones are selling more. But back up even one year and 60% of iPhone users have the smaller of the newer phones. The 8 and 8 Plus are nearly at parity.

There's a market for not large phones. It's basically half of Apple's iPhone customers.
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Not addressed in paper: why life is now more depressing and how to make it less depressing without brain chemical hacks
It also matters what sort of keyboards everyone is using. Horribly noisy mechanical keyboards make it impossible to concentrate.
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Why Redox OS isn't based on seL4?
Are there limitations of seL4 which blocked its usage?
I apologize for the condescension, it wasn't intended. Thank you for letting me know; I've edited the comment.
Surely an unpopular opinion but my previous job of many years had individual offices and my current job of 2 years is an open office for a couple thousand employees and it’s really not that bad. I was really worried when I started after hearing all the angst online but after a month I didn’t notice, I put in headphones if I need focus and it’s all good. I’m a software engineer at a level where my role involves a lot of collaboration so maybe that’s why I don’t mind? I notice others on my team do work away from their desks 90% of the time and I imagine it’s so they can hide and focus and the company provides locations for that. We would need 3x size of location(s) without open offices so I get it, also I’m it helps that the office has embraced “open” and tries to provide alternative space within the office, also grouping sales far away from engineering :)
That's interesting. But seeing Mediatek SoC my enthusiasm is limited. Personally I want only something that's supported at least by LineageOS.

However with that price it's not bad. But for now when my Nexus 5x will eventually bootloop to a higher plane of existence I'll plan to buy last Xperia Compact in used.

Edit: in reviews people mention that there is no global version. So there's no Play store. I'll pass.

Oh and I forgot. I keep my hopes for Sharp Aquos R2 Compact. So far it's only available in Japan and I now only that it will be released in the end of April in India.
I'm currently typing this response from a ThinkPad X1 Extreme, running Pop_OS.

I've been a faithful MBP user, and before that a faithful PowerBook user. My 2017 MBP was the last straw. While I appreciate Apple extending the warranty on the keyboard, it is entirely impractical for me to continue sending my primary work machine away for 5-7 days for repairs.
I really hope Apple supports it beyond that, especially if they don’t launch a alternative in the interim.

It certainly has a lot of compute to support future iOS releases.
Love the libraries & your write-ups!
Optional collaborative spaces? Awesome. Mandatory collaborative spaces? Tire fire.
Recently got a tour from some former coworkers of the new PTC HQ in Boston, open office AND hotel style seating (no assigned location... stuff goes in a cubby at the end of the day).

So not only can you hate all the noise and distraction around you, but tomorrow it can be entirely new set of people that piss you off. Also nothing says "you don't matter" like not even giving someone 4x6 feet of space for a desk and chair they can call their own..
There is also the matter of scale. The number of jobs being automated away is vastly greater than the ones being created. See Yang2020.
The young disciple entered the temple and prostrated 3 times before the master and asked - "I wish to know the way of Microservices. I wish to glean insight on how to build them as it will let us scale and build rapidly".

The master jumped off his chair and landed head-first on the floor.

"What happened!" ask the disciple.

"I'm learning how to sky dive" replied the master.

Upon hearing this, the disciple was enlightened.
I read a few articles on weapon magazines in 80s about this.

1) while 5.56 is lighter, when it impacts with the human body the bullet will often impart the so-called "tumbling effect" (i.e. instead of keeping its straight course it basically tumbles around inside your flesh - and may create secondary shrapnel if it hits a bone, causing a lot of damage and hydroshock). So yes, if you want to hit someone behind light cover, like a wooden door, 7.62 is more effective, but if you hit directly the resulting damage is equivalent.

2) yes, the bullets are lighter/smaller - this means your average infantryman can carry more magazines as part of his load, so you may be able to fight a bit longer than you opponent packing 7.62.

EDIT: added some words to clarify the tumbling effect.
The Bugatti of phones is Samsung's upcoming fold-out model, which will cost over $2000 -- more than a high-end tricked out PC you could run a decent sized neural network on.
>It is probably the nicest phone ever in regards to size/screen/weight. I wish they would give it a hardware bump too to keep it competitive.

The SE can literally play Fortnite. How much more hardware do you need to be "competitive"?
You can hear toilets flushing? Yuck.
If "news" involves reaching conclusions, isn't that really "editorial" content?

For example, it's one thing to report what AG Barr's letter on the Mueller investigation says, and maybe also what it doesn't say. It's also "news" to report what various players say about the report.

It's another thing for reporters to speculate what it means in terms of future investigations, or whether the report is "trustworthy," or to reach similar conclusions.
Call me biased, but I’m not about to lend credence to a blockbuster medical story published exclusively by a site called “healthfoodis” uploaded by a user whose account is one day old.
Then how do bacteria or plants evolve?
Is the punishment for groping on trains still apologising to the victim on a train platform?
The crazy thing about open office is that after a while you forget how it was to work on something uninterrupted and being able to think something through.
I don't think "most" people even assume that. Only 1/3 of people under 30 even trust the mass media.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/243665/media-trust-continues-re...
The problem for some people is the open layout inhibits collaboration. Nobody wants to start talking because it disturbs others. Whereas if you could just walk into someone's office and close the door you'd feel free to yak away.
Ask HN: Anything that you pay for but are unhappy with?
Are there any products or services that you are paying for and are not happy with but either have no other choice or the alternatives don't work for you for some reason?
It is in a world where monopolies are a thing.
Just as fishing bait entice fish to bite the bait, clickbait titles entice people to click the title.

If a title is interesting enough to get lots of people to click on it, it is by definition clickbait.

Titles for interesting articles should themselves be interesting, as boring titles for interesting articles would increase one's chance of missing them.

An interesting title is only objectionable is the article itself is not worth reading.
This is definitely one of those things that I can't understand. There seem to be so many people that swear by using keyboards with the clicks...but I just don't understand it.

Especially once you get out of your own house.
Articles won’t matter. People will have to refuse jobs in open office environments or quit when they’re proposed or implemented for change to occur.
The upper classes don't need to be deposed via revolt. Diminishing their wealth and influence to the point where they can no longer do whatever it was that pissed you off in the first place is good enough. For example, if nobody was buying Saudi oil they wouldn't have the money to spend fighting a war in Yemen.
Open offices aren't about worker happiness or efficiency. They're about decreasing costs.
It's coincidentally pleasing that the cutoff `d >= 1729` is the Hardy-Ramanujan number.
This doesn't help the problem of knowing what to type on any system up-front, but fwiw, FreeBSD ships with a nano-like editor in the base install, ee(1).
I think he's referring to when they delete reviews that are affected by cultural phenomenon.
Even temporary room/sound-dividers do wonders.

I've worked somewhere that had things like these:

https://i.imgur.com/F2TDKSe.jpg

And while on paper we were one "open office," in practice the dividers created mini-cubes/"offices." Which made it a reasonable workplace.

People argue that creating distinct offices is expensive, but cubicles/dividers aren't. I feel like the reason for open plan isn't about cost, it is about trust i.e. that management wants to oversee/micromanage employees.
Yeah I live in a country were we try to balance individual freedom with a social Borg collective. Because neither Japan OR the US are very appealing.

Its bloody hard. Trying to put a square inside a triangle like those children puzzles.
Thanks! I love when they surprise me by reaching the frontpage after you submit them :)
"I’m a software engineer at a level where my role involves a lot of collaboration so maybe that’s why I don’t mind? "

do you really collaborate any better in an open office? I can't have any real conversation in such an environment because it's just too loud.
If there were an exit to a blackhole, they would stop gaining mass. If that was true they would all be the same size.
My assumption would be that the pioneer species, trying to escape predation or searching for new niches open up the niche and then the foodchain follows the "lower" life forms, out of opportunity.
I think it's very much workplace-centric. The new manager who implemented this open office system came from a commodity sales background, so having all of these salespeople in the same room increased communication efficiency.

However, this workplace is not in sales. We are much more on the regulatory side, which means we're dealing with private information. Previously we did a pretty good job of maintaining information security by compartmentalizing issues to those individuals who needed to know.

Now, although still handcuffed by the same privacy legislation, we're expected to have these private conversations beside each other in a single room. How comfortable is the person on the phone going to feel about releasing private information if they can overhear everyone else's conversation in the background?

Again, I reiterate that these people aren't leaving because of the open office space concept. Removing all of the walls in the office just happened to also remove any reason to stick it out and try to work through the other problems.
Pay Knowbility or another specialist (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19475842) - no affiliation with either - to do it for you.

It's a much deeper domain than you think it is and people have real expertise worth paying for, particularly if you need section 508 compliance for a contract and money is on the line.
Just an FYI, the 128gb option is 50 dollars more. Way more value for your dollar than the 32gb.
The title doesn't cover the nuance so please go ahead and RTFM.
The argument is that Kubernetes is like Linux was some time ago - for geeks and hackers who spent the extra time and dealt with the annoyances and bugs because Linux offered something to them that Windows did not: "Some liked to tinker, some wanted an OS to be ‘free’, some wanted more control over their software, some wanted a faster system, but all had some niche reason to justify the effort."

The argument then goes that K8S is a bit Linux was back then - harder to use but ultimately more rewarding, more open in the long run and you avoid lock-in.
The other side of this is that userland ecosystem for K8S is a bit of a mess - not sure how to solve that, currently, without reinventing OpenShift.
Exactly. A real discussion can often get loud but you can't really do that in an open layout. So collaboration becomes pretty shallow.
My company just moved from a almost completely open floor plan to an open floor plan but plenty of private / huddle rooms. Also we have a very liberal work-at-home options too.

So far, the change has been positive. People are able to, on the fly, pick the type of physical work environment they want to experience at a given point in time.

Also, our management invested in VERY nice noise canceling headsets for anyone who requested one. That technology has done wonders for productivity and has increase the quality of our video conferences.
I always figured the solution to this issue would be in 2 parts:

1. All open office layouts must include a stipend for high quality, noise cancelling headphones that won't hurt your ears long term and are comfortable enough to wear all day.

2. People should have a little LED that sits on their desk, monitor, etc that they can turn red when they don't want to be disturbed (like this).

https://redlevelgroup.com/busylight-the-next-level-do-not-di...
What I wrote was too strong, you’re right. If there’s a huge fuckup the part[y|ies] in power are very likely to be voted out, the smaller the mess the less likely they are to be voted out, and that’s complicated by the tendency to want to throw the bums out when the incumbent government has been in power a long time. I agree entirely that fixed legislative terms and term limits are stupid ideas, along with separating the legislature and the executive. Parliamentary systems are better than presidential ones.
> I’m a software engineer at a level where my role involves a lot of collaboration so maybe that’s why I don’t mind? I notice others on my team do work away from their desks 90% of the time and I imagine it’s so they can hide and focus and the company provides locations for that.

I think you hit the nail on the head - you're at a level where you have to communicate a lot. Devs that are more focused on production rather than coordination work away from their desks - that says to me that most people can't (or prefer not to) do their work at their work.
roach motel ?
Looking at the RT top 100 list, 76 films are from 2010 or later, 6 from 2000-2009, and 18 from earlier.

Were films a lot more divisive before 2010?
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> We would need 3x size of location(s) without open offices

Are you contrasting open offices with individual offices? Cubicles are barely larger than the desk/chair itself, I could believe maybe a 10%~ loss from cubicles due to inefficiency but not much more.
I don't like pure open office setups, but I do enjoy bullpen style arrangements with a team of say 5 to 7 in the same shared space. It is a hard setup to get right though.

High wall cubes are fine too... Obviously a real office with a door would be ideal, but I think that door has closed at this point in time.
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This isn't true, though. I replied to someone else with MixPanel numbers, but basically just from the last two years (iphone 8 through the new XR,XS's), 60% of iPhone users are using smaller of the newer phones. If you go back further, I'm sure you'll see similar. So, while everyone keeps saying the market wants larger iPhones, the market keeps buying the smaller ones.
Interesting! How did you integrate PayPal payment in the shell without a website?
From the article it appears that the Hardware management software was hard-coded to use Asus' update servers. that's not an uncommon model from what I've seen.

Unlike Windows updates, firmware/utility/driver updates tend to come directly from the vendor.
Your email provider domain appears to have been hacked and is being used for Black SEO purposes: http://sofialondonmoskva.com/blog/
The 99% figure is a common misconception. Prosecutors in Japan are underfunded, so they only try to convict rock solid cases, among other factors.

This Wikipedia entry seems to flagrantly defy wiki rules but seems more informative for it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_J...
"Even temporary room/sound-dividers do wonders."

I have mentioned to facilities that they should be putting these in to get some insulation between different groups but they refused.
Except that you'd arrive inside a black hole because of relativity's impact on mass.
Some very basic html with no css would be much easier to read than parsing markdown in my head. Machines should do machine work, not people.

Edit: still love idea and execution, thanks for sharing!
I think most people do prefer phablets. If you're interacting with your phone a lot, the large screen size has it's merits.

Many of us prefer the smaller size that was formerly common. The frustration we have is that 4" displays have completely disappeared from the market, aside from the iPhone SE and a few weird low-end Android phones.
It's a supplement, they're entirely different according to the FDA.
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This is why my hackles are raised the instant somebody starts a "people should be exposed to various viewpoints discussion." I want to give the good faith interpretation, which would be, maybe, a healthy exposure to different economic system philosophies or something. But, nowadays, I find this argument, or people "just promoting the right to free speech," are really exactly the kind of people that casually toss around "sjw" as an accusation.

Like, downvoted because HN is a hive of sjws? As if. Progressive, sure, but a hive of SJW as you undoubtedly mean by the word is a laughable accusation.

Nowadays it seems when someone wants "multiple viewpoints" to be presented what they really want is the right to continue to bully people. This would have been an extremely presumptive thing to say but, crististm, you've gone and made this obvious for me by trotting out the old sjw accusation.
Again, lead vs mentor.

The mentor/mentee relationship isn't usually a formal one enforced by your workplace — it's one built over time, when a less experience member of the team trusts somebody more knowledgeable, and seeks them out for advice. Any such suggestions are usually meant to be taken as as side projects, not as work tasks.

A lead giving you a task like that is probably inappropriate, because they should be focused on producing results. They should, instead, try to find low-hanging fruit that's within your reach. For a mentor, however, it's entirely appropriate to tell you to do something "useless" because the real goal isn't the end product, but the learning experience.
Noise cancelling headphones help, I find that I can't really get in the zone with the constant comings and goings, nor really relax surrounded by people, and not being able to feel good about taking a break, knowing that people could be looking at my screen and judging me constantly.
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Eat food.
Yeah, I can't believe I now look upon the times when we had cubicles as "the good old days", but compared to the open office plan hell of today they seem like a damn luxury.
This reminds me of the Runaway Evidence episode from the Ghost in the shell series. An employee with access to the codebase for a military weapons manufacturer manipulates it for their personal reasons
Not my area but I think the fuel is the problem, not the power source. Even a fusion-powered drive needs to spit something out the back to accelerate (e.g. ions), so you need to carry many kg of ionizable fuel.
The whole article highlights the effect of tryptophan as a serotonin precursor. Just pointing out that this might not be as novel as it seems. Also, 5-HTP is a naturally occurring amino acid classified as a food supplement, so not exactly a drug.
I'm in the same boat but it's really bitter since there is no real competition, is there? I don't want to switch to Linux (sorry, guys!), I don't like Windows and even just in terms of hardware, almost all competing laptops are subtly terrible as well.
"Deadlines are always arbitrary. Deadlines are a tool used by managers to control costs. That is their only purpose. Often, managers try to justify deadlines by citing other dependent deadlines, but those deadlines are always just as arbitrary."
- Alan Cooper
> 3.8 Risk of undercollateralization

> In Example C, if the price of ETH falls by 50%, Alice’s balance in the channel is effectively worth nothing. If the price of ETH falls further than that,the channel would become undercollateralized—Bob would no longer be able to withdraw his USD at its current value.

This can and will happen in the real world, and seeing how the "crypto-sphere" is teeming with scammers running pump-and-dumps, and exchanges manipulating prices, it's pretty much guaranteed.
The fun part is figuring out how far you go for each additional year. As experienced on board there's huge gains in distance for each extra year.

But looks like you forgot about relativity and that starts having a pretty big impact.
Gcc 7. I could be wrong but I seem to recall a long time ago, when I was learning this stuff in the 90s, __FUNCTION__ wouldn't even demangle.
> 1. All open office layouts must include a stipend for high quality, noise cancelling headphones that won't hurt your ears long term and are comfortable enough to wear all day.

Noise-cancelling headphones are designed to cancel predictable background noise, such as the white noise of an airplane's engines while flying. They are not designed to cancel the noise of conversations happening around you.

Furthermore, noise-cancelling headphones cause dizziness and nausea after extended use in many people. This is well-documented and also fairly understood, given the relationship between the ears and the vestibular system.

Finally, auditory noise isn't the only problem people have with open office layouts. Visual distractions and the "fishbowl effect" are also significant factors.
I lost my 6S a while ago, and was struggling to decide on a new phone. I would have picked up an X, but the XR/XS were being released in a few months, so I got an SE in the meantime. That turned out to be a fantastic choice, because I love my little SE. I realized that 90% of the reason I wanted a new phone was because of the camera, so I decided to take the savings from buying an SE and invest in an actual camera. I could not be happier with the combination.