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I was disappointed as well. But I get it.

After three years, Pixel users still have to refer to a guide [0] or track down a Google Engineer's Amazon reviews [1] to find a 3rd party USB-C cable on Amazon that doesn't have the potential to fry their device [2].

If I were Apple, I'd be hesitant to jump on to USB-C, when Amazon and gas stations around the world are selling $5 cables and chargers that are so out-of-spec that they introduce the very real possibility of damaging devices that will end up at the Genius Bar for an AppleCare+ repair/replacement.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/wiki/officialguide/usbc...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AFLICGQRF6BR...
[2] https://www.engadget.com/2016/02/03/benson-leung-chromebook-...
Hi! GitLab employee, first of all thank you so much for the detailed feedback! It's part of my job to relay feedback and make customers feel heard, so I'll talk to my team on ways to improve (you can see my job description here if you want: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/community-relati...)

As per your second point, and this is speaking personally and not really officially, I do think our feature goal has been historically a bit too ambitious (although hopefully transparently so: https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/#breadth-over-dept...) seeing as how we're barely out of the startup phase. But we have had a big hiring push this year and have almost tripled our headcount (which did introduce growing pains of it's own lol). Once we've stablilized a bit, we will be able to dedicate more resources solely on maturing features.

I hope this doesn't come across like making excuses, these are just my observations as a user-turned-employee. I will take your feedback about not being heard into consideration though so we can improve on that!
My in-laws are currently using my hand-me-down iPad 1st gen. I’m still using my 2nd gen.
Yea well Google doesn't care about your feelings. They care about how much money they can squeeze out of a rock.
Because they overlap almost entiely in use case?
What is a good use case for async in python? I absolutely loathe the async nature of javascript and find code much harder to follow.
"Incredible" is a pretty big stretch. When you can calibrate the cameras yourself, the math isn't actually that difficult to work out. Also, there are plenty of us that use the phone in a "pro" sense as a mobile computing device, not as a photographer or film director.
Interesting if this is a way to get out from under crushing Bay Area tech salaries.

I still see zero reason a company like Uber should be based in San Francisco. We landed a man on the moon with parts built all over the United States, so it's not "that's where the talent is".
> As I like to write, Ada is used in critical systems such as ballistic missiles and trains, whereas Rust is used in Firefox.

You mean to say that Ada is good for much simpler, easier, smaller-scope projects?
Can anyone from Mozilla explain why a Firefox Account is required to use this?
The Android phones in 2013 were a pretty good size, small by today's standards.
> Almost everyone I know has a case on their phone

I don't think people put cases on their phone to make them thicker. I think they use cases to increase durability. Making the phone itself thinner means that the phone in a case will also be thinner, so that's perfectly compatible with the claim that people prefer thinner phones.
We will do another pass on these examples pretty soon. Thanks for the feedback.
Could someone explain in layman’s terms what does the ability to detect brain signals before action has to do with free will?
Android on the Jelly Pro was usable but recharging 2-3 times per day was not. Just a little bit bigger, please, to support a bigger battery and a slightly larger on-screen keyboard.
> is this sort of brain-dead Redditor "humor" what HackerNews has devolved to?

You should consider reviewing the site guidelines.

"Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
but this really was the least exciting iphone keynote ever, which was totally expected, but still disappointing. none of the more interesting rumors came about, like ultra-wideband positioning* and apple tags.

apple product cycles have lengthened, so this was inevitably going to be a lower-the-base-price and harvest-the-late-adopters year for the notch model era. i think apple may even keep the same style next year to introduce 5g (to reduce additional manufacturing challenges) and settle into a 4-year cycle so they can really milk the capex (which is what happened to macbook pros as the product line matured).

i’m still happily using my 6s.

* edit: apparently i missed the part where they talked about the U1 chip in the new iphones, which does the UWB positioning.
Maybe the 435 people should get together and start a Uber competitor?
The stitching feature is vaporware.
What sort of workflow are you trying to achieve? Devise is effectively `User.create(email: params[:user][:email], password: params[:user][:password])`
So?
They could lie (which is far worse) or say nothing and let people speculate.

A job candidate with solid skills will be able to show their value to employers, and if an employer puts more weight on this quote over a candidate's qualifications then it was a bullet dodged.
I agree the product is in polishing stage, improving existing ideas and features rather than introducing new ones.

The focus internally is on the next leap forward, presumably an AR device.

If you go back and look at the iPod release history [1] between 2005 and 2007, (first iPhone released June '07) you can see a similar incremental improvements, specifically in software enhancements, improved form factor and longer battery life.

I believe the difference between then and now is that the Watch and iPhone are production testing grounds for hardware that will be used in an AR product. In this way the new product is being developed in the open.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Classic
In Apple land Pro simply means the best one. Get used to it.
open records, tied to a uniquely identifiable data point? what if those digital ids were _leaked_?
Most people would not want this because people use plastic cases to improve drop performance (to the chagrin of Apple). A case on a uniform thickness phone shadows light and makes ultra-wide angle optics more challenging.
If you type the say command into Terminal on a Mac and have it say "iPhone X" or "Mac OS X" it will pronounce it correctly (Ten instead of X). Doesn't relate much to the argument, other than being a neat easter egg.
Sounds like a job for DE Shaw which has custom hardware for these molecular simulations.
Some of those are imPROvements and PROvides. Search for whole words gives 69. Still.
Empathy in Artificial Intelligence
This is naive. Read spooky23's posts and the links posted by him. It is a horror story and a huge violation of their privacy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20183968

You can find more details about the situation by just searching for: "Enfamil" site:news.ycombinator.com

Then on the news.ycombinator.com URL ctrl/command + f "Spooky23"

Anyways it is extremely bad.
Another factor is shrinking household size. A house that before gentrification held a bunch of children, at least one parent, and often some grandparents or members of the extended family now is occupied by DINKs, retirees, or singles. Families with children of course still exist but as a smaller percentage of city households and typically with fewer children. The 2020 Census should yield some very interesting statistics on how much the average household in cities has changed just in the past decade.
I am at a loss here. I will admit I never read into Libet and his studies but how did no one notice the lack of control?

"In a new study under review for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Schurger and two Princeton researchers repeated a version of Libet’s experiment. To avoid unintentionally cherry-picking brain noise, they included a control condition in which people didn’t move at all"
Yup I gotcha, I wasn't really disagreeing with you, just adding the obligatory "well actually it depends" comment. ;)
I just retired my 5s and bought an SE for $100 from a 12 year old. It's even rose gold hah.

Only reason my 5s needed to go was because it doesn't support VoLTE, which the SE does, and is needed to get calls at my house.

As others have said, would totally spend $900 on a similar sized phone with upgraded internals. But, looks like I'll just hold onto this one for ever...
It still has to exit and you can’t discount that cost. Nobody will sell you a house for BTC and not exchange them for dollars. That means nobody will sell you the house for face value. You’re still going to have to discount the sale price to cover the exit costs unless you have data that shows otherwise.

For instance, if you came to me and offered me either $500K in dollars or $500K worth of BTC at today's prices (good luck defining that with volatility) I'd say sure, for $550K worth of BTC and I'll exit it immediately. Well, probably not, because I'm sure that BTC is either dirty or avoiding taxes and that's not a conversation I want to have with the IRS/FBI, but that's why you'd have to pay me so much more.
The picture was there [0], but later livescience.com updated the website and it's gone due to link rotting. Even worse, archive.org didn't have the image archived (but the "zoom picture" text can be seen). Wikipedia is one of the most affected website by link rotting.

What gives, the Web? Donate to archive.org today!

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20081010224347/http://www.livesc...
It feels like yet another way for Google to offload the hard work of indexing the web into other people.

See also; microdata, and the monthly alerts I get from Google about the content of my sites being malformed, yet they validate just fine in a dozen other tools.

If this keeps up, eventually we'll have to log in to Google to provide it with with the URLs of new content, and fill in all of the meta data about each page. All in the name of whatever buzzword Big G comes up with that month.
Depends if you mean work on your phone, or on your phone at work.
I want an iPhone Max that can use Apple Pencil.
But that's just me.
That's not exponential, it's quadratic (still fast).
Oh, I see what you mean. I would assume that the Peek menu UI will remain supported, or perhaps there will be a compat library that will port it to the iOS 13 context menus. I'm not sure. I also don't know how it would work if a pre-iOS 13 third-party app implemented both 3D Touch and a long press to do different things on the same UI element.
Why Y Combinator In 2019-2020
I don't mean to be sarcastic - but how is sleep tracking useful? What practical benefit do you get out of knowing how long/how you sleep?
They are in a race: Be the first with self-driving taxis and go for the monopoly, or run out of cash. I don't want to sound pessimistic, but my bet is on the latter. It's just such a hard problem, especially in cities.

I just hope there won't be a kind of AI winter when some of these startups run out of money.
No, but it will slow the innovation in that space, which I consider to be a positive development. It's on-topic, because slowing innovation is why people are complaining about Google's position being strengthened.

(Also, my perhaps naive hope is that the better the Google's market share here, the more damage will be caused by EU regulating the space.)
SMT would be amazing if there was a way to share data across “threads” without going through memory. GPUs have this and it works wonders for performance.
"exceptionally high-performing teams"

12h sort of performance.
I don't think forcing people to use electricity only when it's available is a practical solution to the availability problem with wind and solar.
True, but even then, your best camera is the one you have with you. I have a nice Canon DSLR setup, but appreciate good camera quality from my phone, because even if I don't have my camera with me, I almost always have my phone.
This is partially true.

I recently moved back to southern Louisiana as all my family lives and is from here. One major difference I've noticed, not once have I been asked what I do for a living. No one ever talks about work or what they do. The culture down here is certainly different from the rest of the United States. Granted I've primarily lived in various areas of the Pacific North West but traveled throughout.
I've always felt it's just clever marketing, feast or famine. Remove the Goldilocks/mid-grade option and let the customer regret not spending enough.
Yes, I meant expansive. Oops.
Because you iphone is accessible on seconds notice anytime anywhere. You have to plan to bring a DLSR with you.
Uber's stock has been going down the drain. Why would they give more reason's for investors to cash out?
Bill Gates saying he met Epstein because "people around Epstein said he knows a lot of rich people" doesn't prove at all that Bill Gates needed to meet Epstein.
Who would have published such an example? When we deal with opsec, we have to consider what is possible, rather than what has been done in the past. We have to do better than merely "locking the house after the thief has gone".
This seems to suggest that the crime gap is shrinking.

https://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploads/research/pdf/p66.pd...
This is a big let down for me. I love endurance sports and currently use a S3+LTE with bluetooth headphones and it's the perfect running companion. I don't have to carry anything to track to run and listen to my music, podcasts, or audiobooks.

But I was really expecting more innovation from the "by innovation only" event. Garmin's flagship watch has a feature that extends the battery life by embedded TWO SOLAR PANELS into the display. That is innovation.

https://buy.garmin.com/en-CA/CA/p/641375
It's still available.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-watch/apple-watch?option.watc...
It was difficult to follow, but I think the point was to exchange the cost of the uber for a drink (same cost) but walk home.
Networking - which I do - will only take you so far. I have a strong network but you still need to have the requirements for the job. Why would a company hire someone who doesn’t have the wanted skillset when they could find someone who does.

I only started really job hopping and taking my career seriously 10 years ago at 35. I’ve always had at least a half a dozen interviews and a minuscule number of rejections. My network got me to the interview without going through an ATS. My Resume Driven Development and knowing the game got me offers.

Ageism outside of the cool hip startup world is exaggerated. Most of the older developers confuse ageism with not keeping their skillset in sync with the market.
> And investors bring it upon themselves.

Of course.

Yes you have the occasional bad apple, but so what? You're a VC...you have 10 bad apples for every 1 good one.

The calculus is in favor of pouring gas on a promising bet, even if it increases the risk of explosion.
> but nobody is saying we won't have to significantly raise revenues to pay for it.

Actually I dislike this statement - the federal government will be collecting and disseminating a lot more money than it is today, but less money will come out of people's pockets. It is the case that taxes will go up, but "taxes + health insurance" today is more than "tax + health insurance" under medicare for all, the tax goes up, the health insurance becomes 0[1].

1. At least for primary care, it's highly probable that a lot of "extra" medical care wouldn't be captured like vision insurance, dental and pharma.
So, like the ultimate SDR?
Seems like they are still shipping $1k phone with USB 2.0 transfer speed. I don't mind lightning connector (though usb-c would be nice) but this transfer speed is so disappointing. Even Samsung galaxy s5 note (5 generations back) already had that.
And you literally need a thousand volts to kickstart a fluorescent lamp, at least on decent tubes.
Interesting analysis, but why isn't b2c viable anymore?
I'm also still using an SE and I'm not sure what I will do if it breaks. I want Apple iOS, but I definitely want the size of SE and nothing bigger. And the 3.5 headphone jack. And the not-too-curved edge so that I can it can stay on it. I'd pay 500 for a newer model with a newer CPU.
Curious to know how many of the engineers who were laid-off were specifically iOS. Relevant to me since I'm pigeon-holed and in the Bay Area :)
>The US isn't going to risk a dam flooding or a long term grid failure over a distant minor ally.

People are irrational. For the sake of transgressing a minor boundary, wars have occurred, even if the boundary has no strategic value. Suppose there are patrols into barren hinterland, that could still cause a war, even though the lands could not support permanent habitation.

It is theorized that Germany started WWI because of growing popular support for the socialist party.
I interpret it as a reference system. To a frequentist, a probabilistic statement is "this coin flip is 50% heads in reference to this set of coin flips." Your elements of the statement are the event, the probability, and the reference set of events.
WeWork looks like a bubble waiting to burst
Yeah, and possibly die of malignant melanoma. At the same time, no sun exposure is also a risk of melanoma - not sure if due to vitamin D or more possibly - due to the hormetic effect of mild skin DNA damage.
Even ignoring that line, it's still basically the only feature they announced for the phone...
did clouldflare buy mozilla?
Cause major metros are expensive as hell, they usually soft-ban children and parenting, they are openly hostile to quick/reliable transportation, and generally depend on lots of labour from other slightly-poorer non-local people to remain viable.

If you carefully curate your life in such a way as to have very few responsibilities or needs, city living can be a lot of fun. I get why people like it, I liked it too. And if you are wealthy, you can buy your way out of a most of these problems.

But for regular, average people, making regular average wages, city living is mostly just a long list of painful drawbacks, and most regular people couldn't afford it even if they were willing to put up with all of that.
What specific nlp tools are you using? For example under what bucket ie scikitlearn, tensorflow, pytorch, etc and are they in house?
If someone comes out with a point-n-shoot that's about as good as a semi-recent iphone camera, does live photos(!), and has backup-over-wifi I'm back on a dumbphone on release day of that device.

And yeah, entirely for kids.
I think it’s more that Apple prefers a powerful OS on a slim devices over long battery life.

Even if they don’t already have a lot of excellent embedded hardware folks, which I doubt, I don’t think they would have trouble hiring them, if they wanted to.
Same boat, same reasons.

I opted out of EHCR here (apparently I was one of the very few who did from a conversation with my GP receptionist) because I simply don't trust "It'll save us money" as a reason (I also don't trust my gov to be competent).
As a Foreign Reader, it really pains me to read that there exists parents in other countries (maybe mostly USA?) that worry about whether their kid will one day become a School-Shooter. :(
I have 64GB Max (for the screen size and zoom lens) and I'm perfectly happy with it. iMessage and Safari don't even need that much. Not everyone has to shoot motion pictures on their phone.
> If suburb living is so desirable, why does it cost more to live in the city?

Cities are very good places to live if you are very rich, and you might need to live there for certain work (commuting has a time cost, and doing it with a cushion for a job with long hours and strict on-time requirements can be prohibitive, for instance.) So, there are reasons why cities are desirable for some portion of the population

But price isn't just demand, it's the intersection of supply and demand, and the available land in a given radius of a point (say, a city center) goes up with the square of distance. So even if desirability increased with distance, it'd still be possible for price to go down.
Palestinian Esraa Gharib..Mysterious Deaths and Cries Reflecting on Social Media
The Watch does too much. I love the Fitbit Versa because it helps me get off my phone. Just important notifications and reading texts and that's it. I can't really "do" much on it except glance at notifications and that's exactly what I want. Helped me keep my phone in another room in the house or in my bag at work and not look at it at all.
This comment is weird. What you're saying is exactly what Apple has been doing for 5 years straight. The iPhone has been getting thicker each year since 2014 (iPhone 6 was the tinnest iPhone ever), battery size has been increasing every year as well. They've been increasing the camera size too though, so that's why it's still a bump.
>as the desperate need to get something safer than C/C++ without compromising performance and interoperability

Object Pascal

D

ATS

Common Lisp

Ada

even Fortran!!

the list can go on and on
I could be wrong on this, and someone more knowledgeable feel free to correct, but the way I understand it is:

When you start a corporation with no history, any credit obtained is obtained through the founders personal credit history, with all the liability that entails.

When the corporation reaches a certain point of maturity, the corporation starts having it's own 'credit' and non-personally backed credit lines can be obtained.

I'm ignorant as to the variables used to determine 'maturity' (though processing volume and tax history are probably two, since I know you can get a corporate credit line backed by outstanding accounts receivable alone)

This is for a DE corporation and I'm a California resident.
I’ve been using the app called AutoSleep (I think it was like $5) and it’s pretty awesome. You can even export your own data. Highly recommended.

Obviously not a solution to the native sleep tracking issue but definitely good for what’s available right now.
For anyone who might not get the reference: https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/in-mice-explained-77b61b59...
Alexander Wang of scale. "was recognized as Forbes 30 under 30" https://scale.com/press
Rustacean Terminal Chat App in Rust
I posted above but recently moved back to Southern Lousiana. While I cannot trace back thousands of years I can trace back to my great-grandfather who was a shrimp boat captain in the same region I live now; I could back further if my grandmother would stay focus on the task at hand. Furthermore, Cajun culture has maintained their traditions which I believe is the most important aspect of maintaining a group identity, sharing those values.
A good pocket in women's clothing is unicorn level fashion.

I however always have a bra strap. I end up storing my phone there most of the time.
Sorta kinda, assuming co-pays were made quite reasonable then it becomes more a question of how to philosophically deal with the free-rider (from public bus) fame. Having a low fare, even an unreasonably low fare, decreases excessive use through weird psychological effects.
West/South sides.

There is train access there. However, most people don't go because that's where the dangerous areas are. Also, the train gets pretty agressive in those areas.

> commute to work via two 45-minute bus rides,

That's pretty much what the north side of the city is districted for. It sucks, but the CTA is having budget cuts and the areas don't have that demand, and the politicians fail to understand quality infrastructure. Build a circle line, and I can guarantee you that the city will expand a lot. (Right now businesses/white-collar jobs are primarily locked into loop+west loop)
WxPython – Creating a PDF Merger / Splitter Utility
Stellar lumens again airdrop and again dump
To be fair when I'm at work I don't use it much and it's connected to Wifi. If I'm traveling and actively using it for hours it definitely doesn't last this long.