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> If they could make a high res. screen that essentially is the entire front of the phone

So, an Iphone X?
Awww . I miss VRML
Scrolling down there's the Nike and Hermes editions. Maybe this is a cultural difference between here (Frankfurt) and elsewhere - I fail to understand how one would willingly pay extra to advertise a brand. The way I see it is that Nike for example should pay ME to wear their branding.

And even then I wouldn't. I'm not a walking billboard.
Might be that the company is that disfunctional. Between the news articles and the horrendous software quality, it seems to me the company is a mess.
Relatively, yes; cumulatively this is the most interesting iPhone ever.
My hatred of the dayjob is what motivates me on side projects. (The goal is to make enough money to quit)

I also find it useful to keep a journal. Recent research shows procrastination to be an emotional management problem.[1] If you can work through the reasons why you're feeling unmotivated, you'll be to turn things around.

[1]https://www.fastcompany.com/90357248/procrastination-is-an-e...
Different types for different units is a great idea. Nim borrowed it from Ada and I assume that there are other programming languages that did too.
Had a dig around for some pictures of such antennas and found this: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-model-4068-MHz-ac-plas...

Find myself wishing such tech was prevalent during the early days of mobile phones and massive external aerials, but that's just the inner Jedi in me.
Wholeheartedly agree, especially when demoing the ability to film simultaneously on multiple cameras, and the 4K front-facing camera. The 64 GB is really a slap in the face.
The photos used an example don't even look that good. They look heavily photoshopped. If apple really thinks they can overprocess their way into professional photography, they've got another thing coming.
So sleep tracking isn't useful for people unless they have sleep problems? Now that I say it, it sounds kind of obvious.
Meh... I'll wait for 2020 iPhones and the 5 cameras. 3 are barely cutting it.
Good point. The class definitions can easily be changed from float to double in just a few lines.

I used to use a lot of doubles. The I wrote some DirectX and GPUs all use float. I figured if floats are good enough for 3D, they're good enough for me :o)
This is a bold move for sure. It sounds like they might have hired the wrong people so instead of "redeploying" them they just cut pretty deeply. Definitely unfortunate for the employees but also impressive that Uber had the guts to do this. I've seen companies let dead weight hang on for too long. The fact that they are still hiring makes me think that this was not a panic move to address Wall Street.
I'm all in for the iPhone Pro but the smaller one with 256GB will be the expensive phone I will ever buy. It is really expensive in Europe, it will cost in Spain 1329€ ($1.467,36). Insane, yes, but I think this model is really worth the price.
> Otherwise people could watch everything using the free trial and then cancel the subscription.

i'd guess you can still do this, just not at launch. Just wait a few weeks/months
They also took risks, once
The article says it already does that.
Ask HN: Of all the products Apple released today, which is/are cool?
For me its all apple watch, and some iPad OS
ah, whoops, was not aware. Seems I can't change the link, maybe mods can or can just delete.
I’d like the see HN consider layoffs in other verticals as well. Particularly manufacturing.
How does this work with layoffs + hiring? Can you layoff and then hire in the same department? I assume companies agree to pay at least unemployment and possible severance too in the case of layoffs. Can a company say "These 80 employees are under preforming" and justify a reduction in force that way? (I guess in at-will employment you don't need to justify it at all, so long as you meet legal unemployment requirements?)

Are they getting rid of under performers and getting new blood or are they cutting people from certain departments (in which case, they could apply to be rehired in another division?)
If you don’t want a camera upgrade every 2 years then there is zero reason to upgrade. But the camera upgrades alone are usually worth it.
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This assumes that we keep supply and demand pricing models mismatched. The current "fixed price 24/7" model is not set in stone. AC/heating, EV charging, many industrial processes can shift demand and make good forecasts about how flexible their demand is vs average intra-day variation in electricity prices.
Wow, so the witch hunt managed to pinch a few people on technicalities. Of all the problems in America this is what they waste time on? I thought Democrats were supposed to be better than Ken Starr, but apparently not. Democrats love to say how putting your political opponents in prison is a dictator's move, yet they just spent the last two years trying to do exactly that. Nice misdirection from a rotten party.
It is reminding of the early 2000s razor blade wars, I think we are on for some fun!
I really hope I can disable that always on display mode.
The quality of the 3-cam Huawei was unbelievable though.
> I beg of you, to stop repeating the propaganda that big tech so desperately wants you, and everyone else to believe.

I fell for this hard. I was in high school reading blog left and right about how in demand programmers were and that you didn't even really need college because it was too much theory, not solving the problems companies want.

So I decided, why take all that time when I could make make money right out of high school. Turns out, that decision hsa kinda screwed me now.

Now I did get started before some of the hype. I guess it was there, but not as prominent or in my face. I do general enjou programming and solving problems and it's not just a money thing for me. Unfortunately, I feel my decisions will choke my career eventually.
If Apple added 1 byte of extra storage to their existing lineup, your statement would still be true.

IOW, it's a near-meaningless statement.
It should be called iCamera.
Come on, Apple. 13mm, 26mm, and 52mm lenses?

Have you even watched people use your phones? They always zoom in (like, 10x).

A 3x optical would have been much nicer. 4x and I would have preordered.
That's just marketing to make sure you buy the more expensive models while base model appears to be somewhat reasonably priced. Usual marketing mindhack.
This was my first thought, and then seeing multiple phones in the mockup didn't help. How did this get approved?
And yet way more iPhones with camera bumps have been sold than ones without. Life moves on. In the real world almost everyone uses a case and that negates any camera bump. People will make fun of it for a day or two online, but it just doesn't matter.
Is this confirmed yet? Would be sad indeed.
Where is the line between "fear of recession" and "being in a recession"?

Recessions happen on a somewhat consistent cycle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cycle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_recessions); people would be less fearful if they were better prepared for their inevitability. Antifragility would be a good concept to be familiar with.
Bring back TouchID too.
It looks like you're looking for a colocation host. You basically rent out rack space in someone else's datacenter. Your options are mostly constrained by geographical location though so HN is probably not the best place to ask. Maybe try some IT professionals in your entourage?

I personally only have experience with Cologix and I can vouch for them. Good installations, good network speeds, etc. My previous employers' entire infrastructure runs there pretty much. They're based in North America.

However you don't necessarily need to access the rack yourself. I believe most will install the server for a fee if you ship it directly to them.

It's also pretty expensive. 2U of rack space can cost something like $99 USD a month. It's worth it on the long run if you need extremely beefy servers though.
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I found my passion again by working on a (side) project that I care about and want to use. At work, I try to steer towards projects that I find interesting.
They improved every aspect of the phone. Each is a feat of engineering unto itself.

What were you hoping for?
They've probably kept the "long press action" for compat reasons? It's equally undiscoverable. I'm not super sad about this one; it was a weird thing from the beginning. It shouldn't have been introduced at all.

This feature was introduced in 2014. The timing of the removal makes me think it's related to the departure of Jony Ives.
Thank you, yes, my wardrobe needed an upgrade. I can store my jeans inside my jeans too.
You are correct - my mistake. It was the "Amazon.com Store Card" by Synchrony Bank.
Sounds like you have the more secure mode active which requires attention to unlock.
You can disable this so it doesn't care about attention.
That's from the article. The author of that post has had virtually all of his work funded by the oil industry.

That doesn't make him wrong, but it does raise questions. There are also few who agree with his stance.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/02/26/uds-david-leg...

Fully examining arguments against Legates would be a lot of work, but here's a discussion of his most recent paper.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
Interesting way of thinking - hooks _are_ a new framework, they are just marketing it under the same name.

I guess I'm old too. When someone shows me what (real) pain hooks solve on non-Facebook-size codebases, I'll be all ears. Until then... Thank you, classes work just fine and make my code nice and readable.
Maybe some of them were given an option, but they didn't want to move locations; so they just decided it's better to pay them severance while they look for other work? /guess
curious why you say that - wouldn't doctors (and thus patients by extension) using these tools stand to benefit as well? (in addition to Google who is definitely getting the most upside here)
According to Apple's specs, there is still a 256 GB option.
What kind of exciting features were you hoping for? What does Android phones have that is missing on iphones? Beyond 5G which isn't deployed widely yet
Is Uber short of capital? I didn't see that in the article.
Optical zoom and thin form factor doesn't work together too well.
When the future arrives, lots of people will be amazed at how little of the solution to this "issue" ended up being storage as such and how much turned out to be demand management and reasonable system architecture.
You lose the freedom to test your boss' limits the day your job is the source of your child's health insurance.
Chromebooks. £500 for a 14" touchscreen Android/Linux/Chrome browser on x86 with a nice lit keyboard... You don't save much getting a decent-ish tablet but without Linux/keyboard etc etc. Tablets - other than £150 or so ones you can throw in a bag and take on holiday - don't really make any sense any more.
Guess I'm the only one that loves this new phone, because it's better in everyway, and I use my phone all day.
Would you wear a Nike band for $3M a year?
No, let’s assume the total trips are the same, so 2 per person in the city or whatever. Taxi’s still need to get to the start and end of each trip unlike cars which just park, that added distance increases total miles driven.
I've always wondered if uber were to abandon their ongoing development efforts and focus on support and maintenance, would they would actually be profitable? It seems to me they would need a fraction of the tech workers they currently support.
That seems like a trick question, because obviously you wouldn't pick Ada, you would pick Rust. And then you would talk about Rust, and mention how great Rust is, perhaps in a thread about Ada, which hadn't mentioned Rust at all. Or a thread about C, or about C++ or even about Go or why not even Python and JavaScript.

But seriously now: the author didn't mention Rust because they probably don't even know it exists. I work in embedded and like to ask people offering courses / tooling / services around safety if they support Rust and the only answer I got so far is "no". A lot of those people either don't know about Rust or they don't care, because everyone's using C and C++.
Use your SFDC skills to be accepted in a company that does SalesForce and other more common technologies.

Once you've done some time there working on SalesForce, try to move internally to another division that does something else. This is significantly easier than getting accepted from outside in some non-SFDC thing when you have no official experience in said non-SFDC thing, and you have chances to avoid a paycut when you make the move.

Yours truly followed a similar road and it worked well. I have now CVable experience in common technologies, while I have retained my previous skills and contacts - I could easily move back. Meanwhile, should that software I've previously worked on have poor sales in country (AFAIK it unfortunately does), I'm not dependent on the vendor's fortunes but can compete in the mass market.
Uber was actively poaching from our team when I was at Edmunds.com a few years ago; hope my ex-teammates that jumped ship are doing alright.

Uber is in a precarious position and I can't help but wonder what would be different if Travis Kalanick were still in charge. I know it might be an unpopular opinion, but I think his leadership and vision were really instrumental to Uber's early success.
Android has never had good support for small devices, so I don't think that's a huge risk.
Stop trying to make "slofie" happen.
Motivation is fickle. Cultivate discipline. Set aside time to do something every day. No exceptions. Don't worry about how long you do it for. Discipline is something you can learn.
Yeah, but your accuracy also drops. You might end up with interpretable underwhelming solution instead of non-interpretable SOTA.
If you wear even the thinnest case/skin on your phone, the camera won't be protruding at all. The office apple leather skin on Xs Max makes the phone de facto flat on the back.
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Perhaps one day they will add enough cameras to make the phone flat again.
I don't have any experience on this field, but researching the subject some time ago I found that C/C++ is not unusual too. On the safety matter, when used in critical mission systems they usually follow a guideline or framework to ensure the reliability of the software, like MISRA C[0] for exemple. Another important point is that the development is real slow compared to other segments of software engineering and often takes several years to develop, with lots of tests and rigorous compliance with specifications.

Its an interesting field, but feels hard to get into.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA_C
1.5 hour just to re-announce Arcade/TV+, and give a small spec bump to iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone. What a waste of time. The only real new feature the iPhone got was Night Mode which is an exact copy of the computational stuff Pixel does with Night Sight, from their description.
1980 supercomputers: 5 tons and cost $10m

2019 watches: 30g and cost $400
this makes no sense -- all tcp connections are already to the "bare ip address". dns lookup happens independently of the ip connection. in the case of a browser, your browser asks the local resolver (or with doh, remote nameserver) what the ip is for a given domain, then connects to that ip. I suppose it's possible your network has some strange setup that pokes holes through the firewall based on dns requests, but that would be obscenely expensive both computationally and financially.
I seem to have the same problem.

(Firefox 69 w/ sway)
Cool, but still no Touch ID as well. One step .. grab my phone with thumb and it's open even before meeting my face.
I dont enjoy any of it and have been looking for an out into management for 12 years. At this point im a depressed robot with hardly any useful output. Life sucks.
That ability to record multiple video streams at the same time is the one game changer that jumped out to me. It doesn't matter to me, but a buddy of mine that podcasts and shoots video is about as thrilled as I've ever seen him on apple launch days.
> I wish I had spent more time being deliberately obtuse on the Internet.

This is going on my tombstone lol.
Because it has been that way for years? Why would people boo for the existing structure?
I was surprised by this as well - the ultrawide certainly seems more niche than a 3x or 4x for better portraits, attempts at wildlife, etc.
The argument has been made that the 11 is just as good as the flagship iPhones of the past but now they have another beyond-flagship model above that.
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They're changing the product positioning in the line so that the most popular model is now the "normal" one, and premium models are a step up from that. Honestly I like it better than giving the high end model the default branding with a worse model below it that most people will actually buy.
It seems like technology plays a role in these paradigm shifts, perhaps awareness might inspire folks to leverage the workforce in new ways, maybe with technology.
In Defense of Screen Time
It was the iPhone 6s that came out in the fall of 2015 before the SE's release in spring of 2016. The battery life was better to the 6s and 6s Plus, depending on the task. But, the 6s Plus beat it in quite a few tasks (by a lot), such as standby time, talk time, and audio playback.
Wait what? That's so Apple, take a standard feature, claim they pioneered/invented it, and then do it wrong.

I purposely shop for big batteries (over 3500mAh) and my current phone lasts up to 2 days 15 hours on a single charge, and the previous one was similar when new
My mom uses her iPad 1 since then without any problem.
Like another poster mentioned, up until 2 years ago (?) Uber was handing out very fat compensation packages even to entry level engineers. It's possible these are employees who've been at Uber for 2+ years and are frankly overpaid even if there were no serious performance issues.
Potentially something they're working on for 2021 https://9to5mac.com/2019/08/05/iphone-face-id-touch-id/
I’d pay iPhone 11 money for an SE2 with iPhone 8-equivalent hardware.

I’d pay iPhone pro money for an SE2 with iPhone XR or 11 hardware.

The SE to me is not a budget phone, it is a premium flagship and I am willing to pay for the feature of being small.
Huawei P30 Pro uses a 'periscope' style design (using a mirror to put the lens alongside the phone's back instead of back-to-front) to get 5x optical zoom, so it can be done
AI voice technology is bad enough on the phone with <insert megabank here> without physically waiting for the car in front to stumble through trying to get the machine to understand that they want bbq sauce instead of ketchup.
Ada was built on top of Pascal so they are very similar. Another Pascal language is ST or Structured Text, an IEC industrial automation language specification for PLC's.

I remember fooling with Ada years ago and I really liked the concurrency and ipc mechanisms which was quite unique in the 00's. It was a little more friendly to use vs. pthreads. Now every new language is baking in concurrency. Since I wrote mostly c code I wound up making a franken program which was a statically linked Ada/c. I used Ada for its concurrency which called my linked in c code. It was a PLC emulator I scrapped.
Sorry, I updated my edit.
I don't plan on implementing these, and neither should you, unless they get added as part of an official HTML specification. Maybe they are, but I don't see them on this list of link types [0]. Until they get formally specified, to me this is just Google doing Google things and fragmenting the web.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Link_types
Reading that sub was a surreal experience. The most interesting part for me was how it (completely subconsciously) changed the "voice in my head" reading voice into something very dull and stilted, like a second grader reading a terrible essay out loud.
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The iPhone 6s is still a great phone. I’m using a 6s+ to write this, and with a new battery it still feels new and responsive, especially after the optimizations Apple made in iOS a couple years back. This phone is 5 years old now. With each new iPhone release I look for excuses to spend the money and upgrade, and I still can’t see any reason to do so. I mean, those new cameras and faceid looks great but touchid is fine and I’m not a photographer.

I feel torn on the price of new iPhones - on one hand, spending so much makes it harder to justify the incremental upgrades. And on the other hand, after my experience with the 6s+ I’ll expect my next iphone to last at least 5-6 years as well, so forking out that much money for a smartphone doesn’t seem so crazy any more.
This is a huge generalization. Close to half of Americans have iPhones, and most because you know, it has iMessage and their friends have iMessage, or you know, because iPhones are vastly more secure and have vastly better support than their competitors, or because they're meant to be simple/easy to use, etc.

To say half of Americans are finicky and love aesthetics because there's no other reason anyone would buy one is a bit of a stretch.

(I'm probably buying an iPhone this year for the first time ever, and I don't really care how it looks, or how good it's photos are, and I'm definitely putting a case on it.)
This thread needs to lighten up. The 11 is an incremental improvement - is that so wrong? Who still upgrades their phone every year anyway?

I bought my iPhone 8 two years ago thinking of it as a 5 year investment.
Right now, professors.

If a government agency, then ... professors employed by government agencies.

It wouldn’t be much different except the government would be involved in a different capacity than they already are.
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That is a sufficient amount to turn me into a walking billboard, yes.
Consider that wearing an Apple watch makes you a billboard for Apple. The Apple Watch and the distinct white ear pods are about as well-lit of an advertisement you can get!

Is what it is, but people treat the Apple logo and product as far more of an important status symbol than Nike.

I would go so far as to suggest that the Nike logo cheapens the "person billboard" that Apple turns customers into
Late Stage Capitalism at work.

* Fire people from department X.

* Hire people for department X.

* And sell it as "lean, exceptionally high-performing teams, with clear mandates and the ability to execute faster than our competitors".

LOL
You don't need a 2 hour long presentation to give small spec bumps. The problem is that everyone now expects this whole yearly circus, and Apple puts on a show even though they only have very incremental improvements to show. It also doesn't help that most of the the cool software features were already announced at WWDC.
> I know it might be an unpopular opinion, but I think his leadership and vision were really instrumental to Uber's early success.

I don't think that's an unpopular opinion at all.

Never heard someone say otherwise.

EDIT: From the the downvotes I can tell I am wrong.

Please help educate me: Honest question: Who or what was "really instrumental to Uber's early success"?
I’m pretty sure they don’t force everyone to shoot lots of multi camera 4K videos just because the model serves their needs in other ways.

About half of the people I help choose phones would be fine with 64 GB, me included. There’s no point making them buy a bunch of flash memory they will never use just to get the better still camera that they want.
They could have just merged all the videos together into one long show. The canned scripts were just getting boring.

And, really, you lead off with a Frogger game?