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> One thing that I think has been lost in photography today thanks to the smartphone is the value of high quality lenses

Indeed, I have a Lumix LX3 from 2008. The sensor in my smartphone is better, as are the quality of the photos in low-light, and the autofocus is much faster. But in good lighting conditions, the photos from the LX3 are much higher quality.
What else can they do? They either comply with the law or stop delivering to avoid non-compliance and enforcement. Do not get me wrong. It is big news, but if Amazon gives up on EU front, American workers will demand the same treatment. /s We can't have that. /s
Amazon would have to really screw up bad for me to give up the crazy benefits of a Prime membership to become a social justice warrior. Its just too valuable for a rural customer.
So at my previous employer I kept separate work and personal phones. At my current employer I decided I wasn't going to do that. Who wants to carry two phones? Or pay for a personal service you barely use?

I'm fortunate enough that my work phone is (now) an iPhone 11 Pro. I routinely go to Australia for extended periods and need a phone there. For years (>5) I used the last personal phone I bought myself, the iPhone 6S, which was still doing quite well since ~2 years ago it had a free battery replacement.

But I finally decided to upgrade this. I like the 11 Pro (particularly the cameras) but I find the narrower screen a little annoying (compared to the previous work phone, the iPhone 7 Plus).

But damn phones are expensive now. I couldn't justify the almost $2000 for an iPhone 11 Pro Max and decided to spend "only" half that on an iPhone 11 instead. It lacks one of the cameras but it has a bigger screen than the 11. I really see no reason to spend the huge extra on the 11 Pro or Pro Max.

But by God do I hate Face ID (even more so on my iPad). It's horrible. Apple says the false positive rate on Touch ID was too high. I say the false negative rate on Face ID is too high and this is incredibly frustrating. Worse, Apple tries to make it more secure by forcing policies on you like 5 failed attempts means it asks for a passcode. Failed attempts include passive fails where you just haven't positioned the phone right.

I think Apple just got rid of Touch ID to have more screen area, honestly. That's not such a bad thing but what I'd give for an iPhone that had a fingerprint sensor on the back (like the Samsung Galaxy S9 did, which I also briefly used).

So the presence of Touch ID makes me almost want to buy one of these but I can't go back screen size wise. As an aside, I am tempted to get rid of my iPad Pro and replace it with the newer (non-Pro) iPad because those still do have Touch ID.

This really is an updated iPhone 8 with a modern CPU. It seems like a pretty good deal to me.

But please, Apple, give me a Touch ID option.
What about sending Atlassian a cease and desist order, citing copyright law? They are not hosting your personal copyrighted content with your permission any more and have given access of it to unauthorized parties. I think you should consider seeing an IP lawyer. Since they are not being reasonable and are forcing you to legal measures, simply restoring your account is insufficient, you will want a settlement. Each violation of your copyrighted material might be good for $250,000 in fines.
> One way to mitigate that is to report only cases requiring hospital admission. This isn't ideal by any stretch,

It doesn't count all the frail people living in care or nursing homes who are put onto a palliative pathway and allowed to die, for example.

This could be about half of all Covid-19 deaths.

https://ltccovid.org/2020/04/12/mortality-associated-with-co...

> Data from 3 epidemiological studies in the United States show that as many as half of people with COVID-19 infections in care homes were asymptomatic (or pre-symptomatic) at the time of testing

> Data from 5 European countries suggest that care home residents have so far accounted for between 42% and 57% of all deaths related to COVID-19.
Tell me about it. I hope Apple can address this, it's so frustrating to type in the password every single time, and some apps just refuse to work without biometric authentication (payments apps)
I loved the SE, but now am on an 8 after it broke. TBH I adjusted pretty quickly. It is a bit unstable to hold at times, but I rarely notice it. And just as often I wish I had more screen real-estate such as to fit a PDF on screen. :shrug: trade-offs.
There’s probably more than 10k potential sales tax rates in the US, so you get used to it.
I think it's amusing that Amazon knows exactly what it's doing with this threat. France knows exactly what it's doing with this threat. The only people who don't seem to understand what's happening are the commenters here on HN.
There were a lot of firsts in March 2020.
The true anonymity is not actually near where people think they are, even on the purpose built for.

So in many ways, block chain is less anonymous because the true data set is provided to the public. They do data science, connect dots, an de-anonymize the wallets.
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Mid- and high-end Android phones (e.g. Google-owned Motorola era) used to have a soft-touch plastic casing which was incredibly grippy, and felt and looked great. Then some phone reviewers decided that in order to be "premium", a phone must be made of slipperiest materials known to man. And so here we are, with everyone covering up their "premium" phones with cases, so they're both uglier and thicker than they used to be when they had soft-touch casing and headphone jacks. Progress.
There's the 400 f/4 DO II - fantastic lens. The DO tech turns a mainly tripod lens into something you can easily hand hold.
Even milk/cream last for 2 or 3 weeks unopened and butter/eggs even longer. I do have more or less my usual amount of beans, noodles, and rice in the house as well as canned goods. I'm not going to starve if my power goes out for a day or two--as happened to many people in the last bout of violent weather that swept through the eastern part of the US.

But prepping for a month or more of no utilities--as some people were doing early on--and planting large gardens to ensure a food supply didn't make sense to me. If it makes them feel better, it's mostly harmless. But it's hard to see it being a rational response.

I wouldn't really describe my local groceries as back to normal. I can't get everything on my shopping list. But there is absolutely no shortage of food, including fresh and frozen.
I don't see why you say that NixOS does not have enough documentation, a commonly cited problem is the lack of tooling rather than the lack of documentation which would be fair. NixOS has the most extensive documentation out there for any linux distribution which I've used [0] and each package is documented and contains the information of any option it offers from the nix code itself and the tooling [1].

Furthermore I do not think you can compare Guix to Nix for commercial work as Nix is LGPL [2] with the packages being MIT [3] where Guix is GPL [4] allowing for Nix derivative work to be used commercially with little restriction.

I wish Guix had stayed as a guile layer for Nix and not gone off in its own direction because of the licensing ambiguity (as far as I can tell this is the reason) in Nix packages. If anyone has more insight on why this split happened or the possibility of making such layers for Nix I'm very interested in this topic.

[0] https://nixos.org/learn.html
[1] https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html?channel=nixos-19.09
[2] https://github.com/NixOS/nix#license
[3] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/COPYING
[4] https://guix.gnu.org/about/
I have a conspiracy theory that Apple redesigns the form factor every few years so that the "gotta have it" people are forced to upgrade to the latest and greatest device, and those with last gen's model feel that they need to keep up with the Joneses.

edit: I think this is a very real, but subconscious aspect of Apple culture and it exists across all of the product lines. Phones just happen to be one of their biggest products.
Only if you talk about the simulated features of the simulated world, rather than compare the "simulated world as seen by its inhabitants" with the simulating world.

We don't have dragons on earth, but I can simulate dragons.

In the sense that this simulation exist in our world, you are right that the simulating world will then always be "richer" because it contains the simulation.

But if I could enter the simulated world, I could ride dragons. I can't ride dragons in "our" world, so in that sense it is clear that we can simulate things that do not have a concrete existence in our own world, and I to me at least that would make the simulated world "richer" in that respect by making things possible in the simulation that requires you to be in the simulation for it to be possible.

Similarly, we can clearly simulate something with more detail - e.g. we could simulate a world where our elementary particles can be subdivided endlessly, if we choose to. In the simulating world this would "just" be a simulation, but in the simulated world it would be that worlds reality.

There is even no reason why, with sufficient resources and time dilation, it would not be possible for the simulating world to simulate a world equivalent to the simulating world, so it could well be turtles all the way down.
I realized recently that Face ID is useless when I'm out and about because of face masks.
FaceID is designed to work with or without glasses.

> Face ID is designed to work with hats, scarves, glasses, contact lenses, and many sunglasses. Furthermore, it's designed to work indoors, outdoors, and even in total darkness.

https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT208108
Isn't this what Groupon started out as?
Are newspapers going to start selling subscriptions without advertisements and trackers? I would love to pay for one. I recently canceled my subscription to my local paper over the unnecessary tracking: https://twitter.com/mcculley/status/1247247733133660160
I wonder whether it would be feasible to create some limited but advanced enough standard for editor-packages which could be used with all editors. Similar to the LSP oder webExtensions that browsers have. I mean a good part of editor packages are probably quite simple and could be generalized enough to work with all mature editors.

Textmate-Package-Format for some time seems to serve that area, but somehow it died out.
It's a tragic story. In some way, he'll live on in his contributions to a better and safer internet, for whatever that's worth. Thank you for your contributions, Lee, and I hope you have the best life you can.
School wasn't cancelled nationwide in early March. My area didn't cancel school until March 15th.
In most all the systems I have worked on its more about screwing the user from a technical perspective than a deliberate business action, though there have been some of those too.

Either way it all comes down to some combination of mental laziness and no ethics. There is no ethical code, that I am aware of, for writing software.

Here are my experiences as a web developer:

* Frustration at the general technical incompetence of my industry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821318

* Many software developers need things to be easy, unprofessionally so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22859326

* JavaScript developers can't interface to the browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22740897

* People (only software developers on security) who self-admittedly have no education, no experience, no credibility, and no practice of the art find themselves subject matter experts and cannot understand why an actual expert would disagree with their hastily formed opinion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868620

* Hiring software developers is still somehow an arcane mystery few people can objectively figure out.
Nice, now if they can start making phones with easily replaceable batteries, screens and charging ports that don't break on every one of my iPhones, we'll have a product that should've been made from the very start.
Apple web dev: It’s butter-smooth on my maxed-out Mac Pro, what are you on about? /s
I have to wonder if it's a marketing mistake to call this phone an SE. Most of the people I know who were sticking with the SE did so because they loved the small size and form factor. It seems that offering an upgraded iPhone 8 to those people is going to fall flat.

That said, this looks like a fantastic bargain. One of the best cameras and fastest chips on the market on a $400 phone with years and years of OS support.

And in my own opinion, a 4" screen is obsolete these days because app and mobile web design has moved on to larger devices. 5" is even starting to feel cramped on some apps like Google Maps.
Metamucil should still be in stock.
This is why I leave IntelliJ to the default code style settings for Java; they’re good enough, and I have more important things to do.
Also guess what, France has happily demonstrated that their exact gameplan with US companies is to prescribe vague plans and figure out how to fine you for not meeting them 3 years later. American ignorance of the EU's protectionism is breathtaking
That's not what it's saying. The headline is suggesting it's notable that there has been a school shooting each March since 2003.
Seems like the only performant and small (sub 5.5") Android phones are usually Japanese and hard to come by, at least in Europe. I have seen a couple of them which looked great (Kyocera and Sharp, I think) but I don't feel brave enough to order them.
In Vietnam, the F100 (successor to F86) was in use, and it was actually obsolete at the time in comparison to the Migs.

The F100 was the first jet that could fly supersonic in level flight. It was known as the widowmaker, as it was basically a subsonic aircraft that could go supersonic, with pre-supersonic cockpit and controls. The workload on the pilots was intense, and many pilots died in flight school.

Since it was basically obsolete, it was used as ground attack aircraft, with fighter support provided by F105s.

Source: family member flew F100s in Vietnam
Even "pro-car" people are in favor those who would rather not drive keeping off the roadways. This is a strawman on both sides of the argument.

Clearly a functional public And private transport infrastructure are both useful to everyone who also leaves their domicile.
If the IRS were to garnish your accounts, they can get all the account numbers without your assistance. Giving them the information might save them a day or two in the processing.

I am not a fan of giving government agencies sensitive data that they do not already have readily available for historical reasons. The federal government historically have not done well in technical security audits. This is not specific to the IRS and I am not picking on them specifically. More generally this is about technical security audits and not the checkbox governance audits. They are getting better in governance and compliance audits.

All of that said, I am a firm believer in "People can't mismanage, lose or otherwise accidentally leak data they do not have in the first place." I barely trust my bank to manage my bank accounts. Having worked for a bank, I know how antiquated their back-end systems are.
There is the option of reducing sensor size which allows very long focal length equivalents but at the cost of reduced image quality - I have Nikon P1000 which has a 24-3000 zoom in a package which is fairly large but still pretty portable.

Is the image quality as good as my full sized Nikon gear - definitely not. Can I take more pictures that I couldn't even attempt before (wildlife and landscapes) - definitely.
Pretty sure that’s the main point of the article. It took a global pandemic for us to not have a shooting
I regularly charge and listen - ill plug my phone into my 15,000 MA Lit battery when hike/walk for miles and listen to podcasts or the radio.
I tried the LSP-based Java extension for VSCode on a large project (~2M lines, large Gradle build) and it was unusably slow. More than 30s for a "Go To Definition" command with my CPU pegged the whole time. Caveats: It's possible the VSCode implementation was bad, but I think it was the LSP, and this was a few months ago, so things might be better now, but it would need to have orders of magnitude of improvement in performance to be tolerable.

IntelliJ handles this project pretty much without breaking a sweat.
yes very true! It can be a great way to make purchases possible, make purchases cheaper,and/or buy less packaging.
It's a statistic, but not terribly useful. I wouldn't consider ongoing pandemic lockdowns as some sort of solution for what comes down to a cultural problem. Incidentally, we made the problem go away artificially, but that doesn't mean that we really know anything as a result besides that school shootings don't happen when there's no school to shoot up.
Smaller as in similar sized to the iPhone 8 (5.4") instead of the iPhone 11 (6.1") or 11 PRO (5.8").

https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iphone-12/

I went from an iPhone 6 to an iPhone SE instead of the 8 over the size.
I definitely do. One of the main differences is this specifically is not mass-marketed, and I agree that anybody would would have the capability of doing this should already have the knowledge to not fuck it up. I'm just saying its a false equivalency between the two
Well this was enough to give me some perspective. Time to clean up and delete some accounts. Thank you.
The point of the article is to explain the happy statistical exception
It feels like the automotive industry's product lines. Gradually increase the size and shift it more towards luxury, then introduce a new economy product line. Maybe in 2022 we'll get the iPhone XSE.
I'm sure that's a huge help for people who like to check their notifications or other things on their phone while it's sitting on the desk without picking it up. There are tons of situation where your face is not in front of the phone yet you would still like to unlock it without contorting you or it, and how well face I'd work or not has nothing to do with it.
But not covid gloves ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You know CPAP has 50% compliance right? A huge amount of patients never get used to it. And even of those that stick to it, they struggle through the night with it. They define successful CPAP treatment as 4 hours or more a night, when 4 hours is obviously insufficient.
Pixel 4 face unlock works for me with big aviator sunglasses as well as not. I forget if I added another face or not though. Though, it doesn't work with a mask on and its not as fast so I do miss the fingerprint sensor.
The sony xperia compact phone models were my go to for a while since they had covered all of that.
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Do you have any evidence to support your assertion that it was an issue with an organisation rather than the technology?

Not all technologies are good. Not all organisations are good. Sometimes it's one. Sometimes it's the other.
When was the last time you needed an airbag? I wouldn't be upset on _principle_ if it turns out my car doesn't have a working one; I don't even expect to use it frequently. However, when I do _need_ it, I'll need it badly.
Did you mean to say company? Because Amazon isn’t a nation, they simply comply with the best practices set out by the governments they operate under.

In this case the French government gave an order, which they need more than 24 hours to comply with, so they are temporarily shutting down in order to understand the law and make changes.
Repeating myself here but for me FaceID actually does feel like an improvement, despite my many doubts about it in the beginning.

Yes there are some occasions where it doesn't work well (when you're trying to unlock the phone without looking at it properly) but there are also many occasions where it works much better. Most of the time my phone now unlocks so smoothly that I don't even realise it was locked. I just take it out of my pocket, swipe up and I'm on my home screen.

Agreed on reachability though, that has never worked well for me either. I just avoid using it now.
So next does Google get to dictate ownership of the Trello account, since there's an @gmail.com login?
yeah I think that is the basic premise behind drop.com. Basically just a non-localized version of it.
Right. The takeaway isn't that it's a victory for gun control. It's that under the status quo, it takes an absence of school attendance for there to be an absence of shootings.
The iPhone comes (came?) with a pair of headphones that have a Lightning jack on the end of them, in place of a headphone jack. Just use those with the iPhone and use your regular headphones with everything else.

Or, if you want good headphones, then just let in the missionaries who've been telling you to accept Bluetooth as your Lord and Savior. (There are some really good Bluetooth headphones nowadays—studio-monitor quality audio, enough battery life to get through a working day, and <$200. I refused Bluetooth until headphones surpassed this bar, but they eventually did, about two years ago.)
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No, there really aren't. Trust me, I spent days researching this and ended up with the Pixel 3A phablet that I hate. There are exactly zero decent Android phones <= 4.7".
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In East Africa, there are at least two operations that I'm aware of that do this among other things - One Acre Fund (https://oneacrefund.org/), and Apollo Agriculture (https://www.apolloagriculture.com/).
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It isn't about the screen size - it's about the external dimensions. This is almost as large as the Pixel 4A, Samsung S10e or iPhone 11. You are only saving a couple grams and a few mm.

Hopefully the Sony Xperia 5 II comes out soon - it should be smaller than this.
If you're in the UK there are lots of Mutual Aid societies that have set up to help neighbours who are self isolating. You can see the directory here - https://covidmutualaid.org/

I'm in one of these in Shacklewell and it's great to see people helping each other on small scale with shopping, prescriptions and friendly phone calls and chats.

It's interesting that most of them are using WhatsApp or Facebook groups. They're not really tools that are suited to this kind of thing but they're the easiest and most available thing we've got.
Mine took this photo yesterday, and I can definitely see room for improvement both in overall sharpness and in detail clarity like the signs and foliage: https://i.imgur.com/U1mmscV.jpg

It sits above my personal line of "good enough", though, and every photo will be mangled by $social_network JPEG compression before anybody else sees it anyway.
One could also ask the question "how many people would prefer to have a phone that didn't --need-- a case"?

Given the choice between a thin phone that needs a case and a phone that is as thick as a thin phone with a case that is more durable, possibly has a headphone jack and a slightly larger battery, I would personally go for the latter.
That's a completely different thing. One, Facebook is based around the concept of a real person being behind just about everything - when you administer a group, you can see which person posted the individual company/page posts. Two, nothing can happen to your personal account based on the actions of the company page or other people associated with it.
> I’m wondering if they time spent in writing asm for av1 could also be spend in writing an optimising pass for the c compiler?

Frankly, no.

Improving the compiler could get a few dozen of %, which is huge already. But 300%+, no.