skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really just about size, not many people want to pay $1000 for a smartphone, when you can get nearly all the features for half or thrid that price.
I guess analyzing this data for Android would yield better results about size preference.
So we're supposed to simply know what other people's past, present, and future experiences may or will be?

Wouldn't using indicators like class, race, and gender to make these assumptions be a micro-aggression in and of itself?

E: To be clear I am honestly curious. This whole argument gets into a circular reasoning of "oh you should just know you silly cis het male, if I have to tell you it won't make a difference/defeat the purpose."
There's no psychology in that post, pop or otherwise.
The car industry is not as advanced as the aviation industry. It will come a time, where the level of complexity of a car means that in order to build and test it properly, it will be a ever-increasing easy business decision to take shortcuts.
As someone who very recently went from an iPhone SE - which I treasured since it came out (and which I nursed through one battery replacement and two screen replacements) - to an iPhone XR (triggered by a another digitiser failure), I can honestly say that I’m loving the performance boost, the massive battery life, the better camera and the brighter screen. However it’s taking some time to adjust to the size (150.9mm x 75.7mm x 8.3mm, versus the SE’s 123.8mm x 58.6mm x 7.6mm).

I used to be able to slip my SE comfortably into the front pocket of my pants or jeans, and it’s size coupled with its rigidity meant I never worried that sitting or bending would damage it or discomfort me. I could even put it in a shirt pocket, where it’s relatively light weight (113g vs the XR’s 196gm), wouldn’t cause undue sag in my shirt.

For me it’s definitely been a trade off. Having gotten mostly used to it though, (meaning I now carry my phone in my hands much more than I ever did), I don’t think I would go back unless I could get significantly better specs than the original SE (performance, batter, brightness, camer) in the smaller form factor.

EDIT: correction to first para.
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That’s the problem. People are applying the template for being a sports fan to politics. In sports it’s OK to be a blind believer or believe nonsense but in politics this is very damaging . I have wished before that some people who are into partisan politics would cheer for a sports team instead.
The author's app is Pedometer++. My guess is that smaller phones are over represented in his data because people who value step counters probably also value less cumbersome phones to run/walk with. I, for one, chose an SE because I can carry it in my hand comfortably while running.
Or 20 years ago, that Moto flip phone? Looked like a car key :)
Point well taken. Apps do provide some usability boost and it's true that in a mixed iOS/Android setting things can get funky sometimes, but I always assumed that it was a carrier issue.

As much as I hate Facebook, Messenger is pretty damn solid.
No, in this context educated means having a higher level of degree (high school, BS, MS, PHD). I'd argue that that only increases your experience of knowing both sides of the story if your focus is a subject such as Political Science. Having a degree in mathematics or chemistry would not affect your political knowledge at all. While having a degree in a subject such as gender studies or sociology would probably just expose you to a high degree of far-left opinions.
Exactly. I've never had the time to dig into it, but these LIFO-optimality results always strike me as being non-physical or introducing some implicit hard-to-model effects.[1]

Like you say, people can just re-enter the queue, or (in meatspace) form a meta-queue that vies for entering the moment it has an open slot, reproducing FIFO all over again.

Furthermore, you get a lot of pro-cooperation effects (necessary for queues to work at all) by giving people "skin in the game" in the form of valuing their place in line. Once people lose nothing by inventing a new name and re-entering the line, that's all gone, and they no longer have an incentive not to be disruptive, which throws off disproportionate negative utility onto the rest of the system.

One day, I promise, I will unpack this result.

[1] My comment from 2015 expressing similar reservations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182781
Seconded that this is well worth a read. Like a portal to another time/place.
Feel free to drop me a line at sal.aw4t At gmail dot com.

I'm in the process of recovering some orphaned personal projects at the moment, but I'd be happy to try to aid in requirements gathering, and architecting for testabilty.
The Pixel 3a is admittedly just outside your size limit, but it's a capable phone at a good price.

Personally I find it right at the limit of a "taller" format phone that while still big-ish, is quite manageable.
Take this with a grain of salt: it's based on a study by a group called More in Common [1], which exists explicitly to spread information that supports this conclusion.

[1] https://www.moreincommon.com
Practically speaking, I fear, that puts you in the position of the Liberal Democratic party in the UK, without its advantage of now and then being able to form part of a coalition government.
iOS 13 supports the 6s and the SE.

Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
I’ve seen them use fancy metallized plastics in place of anodised aluminium.

But yeah, I guess most Dyson items do look pretty awful.
>What sort of mindset must one have to assume that once a person becomes a "manager" or "executive" they are suddenly immoral or evil? Such an odd worldview.

Becoming an executive at a publicly traded company is a joyous and public acceptance of capitalism. Capitalism is objectively bad, given the state of the world.
I think you mean angle of descent.
Angle of attack is the angle of airflow with respect to the wing.
The author probably knows this, but I think a lot of these bad things are dependent one one another. Probably all of them. Poverty (food stamps) probably correlates strongly with all of abuse, especially physical, pain, prison, cognitive disability, other disability, schizophrenia, and old age. Dementia is heavily associated with old age as well.

Which is not to say that things are great, but I think the badness is fairly concentrated on a relatively smaller set of people than the script's results indicate.
There are at least two other variables which will lead to the same pattern - the weight of the phone and its price. Larger phones are heavier and more expensive. Thus, saying 4.7" phones are popular is like saying:

1) Lighter phones are more popular

2) Cheaper phones are more popular
No, it's either one-way or two-way. One-way is usually prohibited except in a few case, two-way is usually fine unless it violates one of the prohibitions like encryption. Your two-way communications using ham radio are public, not private.
Perhaps think of a loved one?
> I work in a wealthy, mostly-white college town consistently ranked one of the best places to live in the country.

I wonder to what extent the setting in which the author works selects for people who will feel isolated/regretful and therefore develop the kinds of problems s/he encounters.

> The town where I practice psychiatry is mostly white and mostly wealthy. That doesn’t save it.

The underlying assumption is that white and wealthy must not be worse off than the alternative.

But what if the environment itself creates problems that less affluent environments don't?

- Children can afford to move out of the house and so they do

- Couples can afford to get divorced, and so they do

- Individuals can afford to experiment with behaviors that lead to addiction, and so they do

- Families don't need their children economically, so they spend their time in the care of others or alone

There can be no regret without choice. The more money you have, the more real choices you get to make. And the more ways you can come to regret those choices.
I did not read the article, because I usually do not click such titles (only comments section), because obviously, no, the smartphone generation is not "destroyed", just different. Some changes for the better, some for the worse.

The good?
The possibilities of smartphones are just awesome. It is amazing to be in touch with people all over the world. And all this huge knowledge .. avaiable in an blink. Who does even remember how it was to not be able to google just something you want to know? You needed to have books, or know expert people, or people to know which book to read. And now? Just go online and if you know how, you will find your information. Or get your amusement, your news, your need to be acnowledged.

But all of this is still brand new. So we still have to learn not to get lost in it. Be still aware that you have a physical body with needs and sensations. And people seem to forget, that doing sports or climbing a mountain is something very different, from watching a video about it.
But television is even older and there it was only consumption. Now it is interaction - only, and that is sadly a bad part, mostly controlled by coorporations who wants to distract your attention as a buisness modell. Something there got really out of hand and with kids growing up with tailered ads accustomed to data from their whole online activity ever ... than this is where I see the real danger. But kids are allways much smarter than the older generation thinks they are, so I believe they will be doing fine.
I wonder what would be unearthed should they also choose to look at Boeing's other planes in such similar scrutiny.
This is especially made clear by app designers who hide all the UI elements of the app in the corners of the screen. If they were truly concerned with ergonomics AT ALL, they would adopt accessibility models such as this - https://medium.com/@mibosc/mobile-ui-ergonomics-how-hard-is-...
It's scary how hard it is to get quality diagnosis and how stubborn the medical establishment is in maintaining the current status quo. We have treatments for many diseases. We know the symptoms. But because your physician might not know about something, you might need to pinball between specialists (losing time and money) or even not properly get diagnosed at all.

A free web-based expert system for medical diagnostics could save a lot of lives. It's really something that should be tackled by the government (because of liability issue).

Instead, we have shitty scaremongering websites that list similar symptoms for most diseases, don't give any probabilities, don't tell you what tests are available and instead tell you to "contact your physician".
If you have a 43'' 4K monitor it's not HiDPI anymore.
Yep, I think this is either ignoring the main problems or mistaking a symptom for the disease. Certainly, people try to hire for "Ember gurus" or "10 years experience in Swift" or whatever else, and that goes poorly. But it's one of a dozen serious problems with tech hiring, and not near the top.

If anything, I think people end up hiring for framework experience because tech hiring is hard and broken. If you're relying on outside recruiters who can't read a resume, much less evaluate somebody's past projects, then hunting specific framework keywords at least gets you relevant candidates. If your interview sensitivity is terrible, then you can't accurately gauge whether someone will pick up your language/framework quickly, so it makes sense to only hire people who've already proven they understand it. And if your onboarding and codebase are a mess, you'll want people who know the language well enough to e.g. troubleshoot a broken build on their own.

Hiring people who already know everything isn't the problem with tech hiring, it's a weak effort to paper over the more fundamental problems.
Being extreme gives people a lot of energy so these activists put a lot of effort into lobbying for their view. It’s hard to get centrists fired up to fight for their beliefs with the same intensity.
A two-way conversation that involves short periods of what's technically "broadcasting" is very different from "tune in at 10pm to hear me talk for an hour".
Thanks. Very interesting.

I gather your response was mostly in reference to food delivery services. The OP was suggesting this as a platform for more than food, which is what I'm primarily interested in. It's retail shops that are less experienced with and newer to the idea of everything needs to be delivered right away that I'm curious about. Having said that, our original focus was on furniture stores who have always had to deal with fulfillment and delivery. The type of delivery is very different in nature though -- a 200lb sofa vs a 16oz burrito!

Thanks again.
Ironically, back when all iPhones were small, I longed for a larger screen, in order to more easily browse websites designed for desktops. This is a large reason why I temporarily switched to Android.

Now I have a large iPhone, but almost all websites are responsive, so I’ve been thinking I’d like to go back to a smaller phone.
It's not like the beach analogy unless you think bad experiences are somehow intrinsic to OSS.

It seems more like "$beach is a lovely clean beach" and someone gets upset because they went there and someone had dropped a piece of litter.
Since these always-on pedometers are built into newer models it seems to make the statistics less relevant, you don't need an app to tell you exactly what Health is able to tell you.

That said, you see a lot of Uber drivers using the iPhone SE, while rocking some Android phone for other things. I'm guessing it has something to do with compatibility of the Uber app, or that they're driving for more than just Uber.
>And yet, in America at least, there's only two parties representing those beliefs

There's still a diversity of opinions within those parties and you get to vote for those during the primaries. You can't say that Sanders is the same as Clinton, or Trump is the same as JEB.
Absolutely no need for this
Who said "ancient" other than you? You have no interest in what things were like 40 years ago?
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You can still buy an iPhone SE, they have the exact same form factor.
Several reasons for not switching back, some idiosyncratic:

* I trust Chrome more than Firefox on security

* I'm used to Chrome's debugging tools, and would need to learn Firefox's

* I use the Chrome password manager, and it would be annoying to switch

If Firefox were enough better I would still switch, but at this point my understanding is it's more like "Firefox is no longer slower than Chrome" not "Firefox is a step up from Chrome in the way Chrome once was from Firefox".
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This is an important thing to note and I'm not sure designers take it into account often enough. I know I'm guilty of designing an interface that looks good on an iPhone 5s, SE, 6, 6+, and X with default settings, only to watch someone with an 8+ have their scaling turned way up and blow my user interface out of the water.

Alternatively I had an app that worked well on all screen sizes, but one of my friends showed me it wasn't working because they had increased the size of their keyboard and the extra-large keyboard was covering one of the buttons.
I think it paints an unnecessarily bleak picture due to many of those circumstances not necessarily being life long afflictions, although some could be. I think you also need to account for the severity of the impairment. For example, I had a fairly traumatic experience and definitely had some issues for maybe 6-12 months, but I completely got over it. That is very different than somebody with severe PTSD that never subsides.
i too love my SE.

I used to have a 7, but was always too awkwardly big to hold or to put in my pocket. SE is the perfect size. It also has the benefit of helping me manage screen time -- i don't really wanna get sucked into long content on this screen-size, and can save it to consume later on the laptop (or never, which is most often just fine).
The distinction, in this case, is that's it's NOT about using an existing forum for something. Web pages do not come with comment sections by default. So the discussion (ie: not having comments being a restriction of free speech) is about requiring you to build a forum specifically for speech to take place. It's like requiring a shopping mall to build a stage for people to have political speeches on. I feel few people would say free speech is infringed upon if every mall doesn't build such a stage.
Capitalism is nothing more than the free exchange among willing parties and cannot be objectively bad.

If Boeing can put out faulty products that kill people will no recourse, that's not capitalism, that's the government allowing these criminals to continue operating unchecked.
Apparently a single field works fine in a resume builder. But consider a more complex app that does all of the following: display the name in various lists, has a detail view on that user, greets the user, talks about the person in third person (a report or similar). In each of those cases you ideally want to treat the name differently.

Even in English the detail view might show George Walker Bush Jr (the legal name as the person might input it), while in the list you have to safe space and revert to George W. Bush. Greeting the person as "Hello George Walker Bush Jr" is silly, you want to say "Hello George" or "Hello Mr. Bush", depending on how formal you want to be.

In languages such as Japanese you might end up generating honorifics on the fly. You can't do that if you can't parse the name.
With a question in the title, I foolishly read this hoping it may contain a hint toward a way to make work-as-life feel less soul-sucking or offer a way off the treadmill.

Instead I had the pleasure of reading a paper that talks about a "hypothetical" scenario that encapsulates my and countless others daily, anxiety ridden waking nightmare of an existence whose only off-ramp is severence, retirement or death.

So, to answer the authors question;

If work dominated your every moment would life be worth living?

No, but what choice do you have?
That is a clever solution to a common problem with battery powered devices. Another benefit to the engineering side is that designing a custom battery is hard - you need to work closely with the battery vendor on the mechanical package and the electrical interface. The final battery may not have been available when the first prototypes were out! So having a AA option made it easy to test.

With the battery products I have been part of developing we had a wire lead from the battery which made the mechanical interface more modular. This was not a handheld device however, so the trade-offs are different. Blade or similar contacts are more user-friendly and reliable for many insert cycles.
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Not really any theory, but some interesting anecdotes and research results.

I’d wished the author at least explained the 5 hour average wait. I mean, if the queue started at 30 people, then I can see it, but not if we start at 0.
There also seems to be a deep American belief that there are exactly two sides to an issue. And if you find one of them wrong then the other is right automatically.
It seems broadcasting is prohibited, but broadcasting is defined as:

> (10) Broadcasting. Transmissions intended for reception by the general public, either direct or relayed.

Edit: quote is take from "Definitions" section of sciurus link.
> There are enough businesses that happily create planes without putting profit before people.

Are there? Besides Boeing and Airbus, which other company makes safe (or not, in case of Boeing) passenger planes? AFAIK it's a duopoly.
From the initial comments here it seems like some of us are mistaking the 4.7" iPhone screen size as one found in the iPhone SE.

That is not the case. The 4.7" screen refers to the iPhone 6, 6s, 7, and 8.

The iPhone 5, 5S 5C, and SE have the 4" screen and represents 11% of these users.

The 4.7" screen most definitely lives on and is essentially the same general dimensions as the iPhone X and XS, with extra inches attributed to increased screen to body ratio.
I mean. It’s not cost that makes me choose my SE; I would pay $1000 for a good 4" phone.

Apple seems to believe its cost that keeps the SE relevant, and tried to tap the market with the XR... but very few budged it seems.
Tech hiring is fundamentally flawed much more than the author here thinks

https://daedtech.com/programmer-skill-fetish-contextualized/

Even working on the core team at some of the world's most prestigious software companies, most of the work I've seen has been completely doable by any competent programmers who can communicate with their teams and organize their own time. I've only run across maybe a single bug per 3-4 years that actually required a superb coding prodigy to fix.

Interview coding tests select for gladiators when these companies actually need legionnaires
The article does not claim otherwise.
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I saw a demonstration of this technology a few years back, at a European military-industrial contractor for which I worked.

It was being pitched as the ideal way to assassinate people in a crowd - identify them by heartbeat signature, fly a drone in to drop a small explosive package on their heads.

When I later saw that biometric information was being harvested by the same company at airports around the world, I figured - time to get a different job. So I quit.

And now, the tech of individually-targeted assassinations is coming to market.
Those are in the original too. I'm not yet sure of the purpose either. On closer inspection, the blueness is from an <a> element that wraps the blue text. The <a> element seems to have a CSS class called "taylor" applied to it. Maybe an editorial artefact? Sorry for not fixing that.
It's anecdotal, but I've never seen someone care about the weight of a phone as a decisive factor.
I just looked. About one-third is drivel, one-third is pro-Trump, and one-third is just normal stuff (there's a picture of a 1930's vintage dress, and a pretty picture some one took of Cork, Ireland). Show me the social network which is clean. It's probably a similar breakdown on many others, just biased to the right rather than the left. Also, I think Gab doesn't do the kind of algorithmic filtering, promotion, and demotion of twitter/fb/etc.
You can remove them anytime. Do you really want your car to not start at all if the seatbelt is not on? I'm sure that would improve survival rate by something like 0.1%, too.
> Then it's not voluntary.

Precisely. Prisons are allowed to create inhumane conditions to help boost their supply of willing volunteers.
Try being white trash in a poor part of the south and get back to me how "easy" things are.
I read that as in response to someone white/Group X being told "What are _you_ complaining about?"
If you're asking whether the server directories appear in the Files app, then yes, they do.

More info - https://secureshellfish.app/
Can anybody recommend a good checklist app for Android? When I search for "checklist" I only find ToDo-List apps that call themselves "checklist" app.

What I'd like is something where you can set a per-checklist timeout after which the list resets everything to unchecked and maybe allow two different ways to view each checklist (or modes): 1. All at once with little check marks that you can check in any order 2. Strictly ordered checklists where you only see the current task and check it to get to the next, ideally with a "3/14" indicator or progress bar to know how far you've got through the checklist.

Which apps can you recommend?
Intel Internal Memo Details Fiercest Challenges versus AMD in over a Decade
the response is to "Apple outsells Intel 10-to-1", where the vast majority of sells are non-end-user when it comes to Intel.