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I'm not saying film is perfect. But it's an often overlooked choice that has worked well for the last 50 years.
This is exactly the phone my wife wants to upgrade from her showing-its-age, 5-year-old 6S. It'll fit into her existing case. It's not too big. It's affordable. It still has a home button.

She's hardly a power user, so this might be the one phone she gets for the next five year, too.
USO is doing a 8-1 reverse split next week.
This was originally in response to your parent, but gonna attach it to your comment instead, cause you're right.

I don't believe we've found the low-hanging fruit at all, it's still all over the place.

There are hundreds of pieces of software and hardware that are expensive, or unintuitive, or user-hostile, many are all of the above. HN complains every day about bad software. Is this really the best we've got?

There's just no way. What it does take is people willing to take a step off the usual treadmill and getting their talent and ability sucked into large companies and willing to take a risk to build their own stuff. That ability is there, the will is not. Some people have 30,000 HN comments. You're telling me 10k of those detailed thoughtful comments aren't absorbing time that can be put into building better stuff?

Hardware is thousands of times more powerful and cheaper than it was 20 years ago. Software is likewise more capable, or at the very least, libraries are way more abundant.. Say what you want about new languages, but I'll take the option of Rust, Nim, Go, Clojure, etc, than what existed 15 years ago any day. Not that that stuff was bad, but today you have the option, and it's fucking cheap to build.

Why aren't we building? Why do we act like we need millions of dollars in funding to do stuff you can do in your underwear? Do we really believe all the good ideas are gone or have been executed well? That seems crazy to me. I just think we're lacking imagination and we've adopted a woe is me attitude (I know I struggle with this all the time).

That's just software, where greenfield stuff is cheaper than anything in the world, where implementing your thoughts is a matter of sitting down. If you've worked in any business, you know of the inefficiencies within, and if you've worked in a big one, you really know about them.

There is so much low hanging fruit! Just about any product you can pick up in your house, any regular process you go through, there's a major opportunity to look at that and think about how that can be done better and cheaper and more reliably. What's more, that's about the easiest thing to do, because it's just working off what already exists.

Sorry if I'm not more specific, but there's gonna be people looing back in ten or twenty or two years and wondering how so many people missed x or y or z, which in retrospect is so obvious.
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Yup not cold at all here in Indiana. Please disregard the snow that we had earlier this week...

Lol. It's quite difficult (misguided) to generalize about an entire country!
We are watching large energy companies consolidating US production like other regions in the world ( Mexico, KSA, Iran, RUS ).

The frackers were causing problems in the global oil market.

New technologies normally get consolidated by the larger monopolies over time.

The only way to do it is to bankrupt the smaller players.
Before iPhone, Apple's internal project called “Paradigm
> a $400 iPhone SE bests a

> $3,000 top-of-the-line

> MacBook Pro in single-core

> CPU performance.

Whenever I see these sorts of benchmarks, it just makes me focus on how much iOS is the limiting factor of these devices.
The number of physicians per capita in the U.S. is greater than Canada or Japan, both of which have cheaper healthcare. Yes, apparently most European countries have a significantly higher ratio. But, interestingly, all the Anglo countries (UK/GB, US, AU, IE) seem to cluster together.

The issue seems more complex than something simple like number of physicians. A high ratio is unnecessary for cheaper, quality healthcare (e.g. Canada, Japan), and whatever dynamics control the ratio in the U.S. (schooling, licensing) probably also exist in other countries with similar legal systems, but with different outcomes.

Data: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS?location...

EDIT: Looking at the ratio of GP to specialists for Canada (~1:1) and California (~1:2), it's more likely that the problem (such as it relates to numbers of physicians) is that we have too many specialists in the U.S. See https://www.cma.ca/sites/default/files/pdf/Physician%20Data/... and https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/CAPhysicianS... And that probably has to do with 1) how we consume healthcare in this country and 2) the career expectations of medical students. And arguably this is a typical pattern of American culture more generally and in all our industries. Everybody wants to push the envelope and everybody expects the products and services they consume to be bleeding edge, both as a cultural expectation and in pursuit of higher profits--as consumers we tend to assume more costly services are more advanced.
I think Covid is causing other causes of deaths to be reduced (less car accidents, flu etc. than usual), so the -50 on the chart implies that (1) all Covid deaths are being accurately counted) and (2) non-Covid mortality is slightly down.
And they really don't provide real-time data analysis of 6.8 billion users. At any given time, there aren't even 6.8 billion people awake on the entire planet. Their real-time analysis would be on a vastly smaller subset. Is this too much of a nitpick?
Right. It's also a signal that retail investors don't have much of an impact on anything.
Agreed! It’s easy to forget how popular it was in the 2000’s
I like the old adage: If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
> if there's no demand for oil, suddenly you're holding barrels of toxic waste with real storage costs

Thing is ETFs like USO are created specifically to not take physical delivery of the oil. It wouldn't hold any May expiring contracts by design, and is already shifting out its June contracts. If suddenly every single contract for July, August and beyond went negative, and the fund didn't have enough cash to weather it, it would declare bankruptcy. That doesn't actually need this specific situation to happen. For example buying a contract at $100 and selling at $50 would have the same net effect for the fund as buying at $20 and selling at -$30.

There is no additional liability for the investors beyond the piece of paper they are holding (which is not a contract for oil delivery) becoming worthless, which is why zero is the hard floor.
Modern stock (Google-flavored?) Android has also taken up buttonless gestures with the last couple of generations of Pixel devices. Depending on your Android version and your phone, you can toggle it on and off in settings by searching for "gesture".
An age old question.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conflicting_Wikipedia_philos...
Just the home button, the rest are mechanical even on the newest iphones.
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How to do it for mutual recursion is sketched in my other comment. Java's stack inspection doesn't inherently require counting stack frames -- it's a choice. I agree it's a bad model anyway.
>Only took an 8-standard deviation event

I'm assuming that it's only 8-standard deviations if you assume a Gaussian distribution.

Wittgenstein’s Ruler (Nassim Taleb) suggests that it's overwhelming likely that the correct distribution is more fat-tailed than Gaussian.

>When someone tells you it was a 10 sigma event, meaning it is 10 standard deviations and it is Gaussian; unless the information came from God, you can reject the Gaussian distribution for that domain. We show the derivations.

https://nassimtaleb.org/2019/07/wittgensteins-ruler/
I don't really see his attempts to use the new gestures on the old-design iPhone as proof that the new UI is better. People still tell me to "tape" long after it was obvious that DVRs are better. It's simply muscle memory.

Still not sure that this my next phone though, probably going to stick with the old school SE. I had asked work for an upgrade, got the giant XR, and after five days put it right back in the box and handed it back. Presumably someone else at work got it. But I didn't want to carry a brick everywhere. Honestly something the shape of the iPhone 1 would be fine -- a little thicker to put a better camera in and more battery, but doesn't require me to take a dual-wielding feat on my next level up.

The new SE/2 seems workable -- if not what I want in terms of size. But I doubt I'm going to convince my work to buy me a new phone in this economy, and I'm happy with the old SE, so I guess this one is a pass. It's cool that Apple made a cheap phone, but what I actually wanted was a small phone and price wasn't that relevant.
the typical buffer overflow would have been caught by OpenBSD's protective malloc.

> [...] OpenSSL adds a wrapper around malloc & free so
that the library will cache memory on it's own, and not free it to the protective malloc. [...] So then a bug shows up which leaks the content of memory mishandled by
that layer. [...]

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=139698608410938&w=2
You should clarify by thinner channels whether you mean decreasing the channel length or width.
> So, yes, a $400 iPhone SE bests a $3,000 top-of-the-line MacBook Pro in single-core CPU performance.

This is baffling.
That's all very interesting and does show that you're well familiar with the topic at hand. Which only makes me more skeptical of the fact that you have said nothing to back up your original assertion.
Yeah, but you need to explicitly annotate your functions with @rec.
>It still has a home button.

Why is this a benefit? The removal of the home button might have been the best thing since the home button itself. The gesture that replaced is an order of magnitude better.
Not there yet, but Hades is a Greek name: They should name a product Hades and then kill is just so gcemetary has, you know, appropriate oversight & leadership.
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I meant width I believe - the distance between source and drain. Thanks.
It’s such a weird feeling when the “button” is dead.
> Not being profound at statistics should be a strict no-go for anyone practicing medicine.

I think you will find that your bar would exclude the overwhelming majority of doctors.
Interesting point that iPhone SE might be hard for people used to iPhone X or later to downgrade to due to the swipe gestures.
> Once you get used to the post-iPhone-X interaction model, there’s no going back. A week with the new SE has not shaken my belief that the X-style interaction design is superior. Not one iota.

I have an iPhone 8 (TouchID) and an iPad Pro (FaceID) and personally the multi-tasking gestures are ridiculously inferior to the home button. FaceID is nice (ApplePay, unlocking, etc) but switching to another app (multi-tasking) is painful in the "post-iPhone-X interaction model". Am I alone in this or is it a learned behavior that I simply haven't gotten over the hump yet?

EDIT: Turns out there is some nuance to iPad vs iPhone. I should also note that I'm probably referring moreso to the multi-app interface on an iPad (where you can have two apps running at the same time), which is still weird to me. Sliding left and right makes sense - get it now, but you have to remember what your last app interaction was. Also, weird downvotes?
If your video was encrypted once and multicast to all n other participants, couldn't you do it in such a way that it would be decryptable by n different keys that you handed out, one per participant, without anyone knowing other people's decryption keys? There will be n^2 keys total, but only n streams total.

What would be an attack scenario here that wouldn't exist with the entirely infeasible n^2 streams scenario you mentioned? Nobody would be able to use the keys they possess to make an imposter stream.
There are exceptions to that general approach, of course. Even Swedish politicians need to be elected by popular vote, and this requires some amount of people-pleasing, along with the terrible consequences of that.
Isnt mips open source ?
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That's not how it always works. Sometimes they reduce the price and sometimes they play hardball. You are completely at the mercy of the hospital who charges whatever they feel like. And if you, the insurance or the hospital make a mistake they are happy to send you a 300k bill that you will have the responsibility to clear up over the next few years by constantly calling insurance and dozens of doctors who all somehow got put on your bill.
Yes, btrfs works better on embedded wrt to corruption than ext4. ZFS is too hard to setup. But on embedded devices silent corruption isn’t so rare. After 2-3 months of usage on an SD card it’s almost guaranteed in my experience from last year. USB thumb drives & eMMC fair much better, but I’ve still lost entire DB’s.

Given all of that, when corruption does happen you can frustratingly (rocksdb at least) loose an entire dB due to a single checksum error. It’s good rocksdb has checksums but an FEC code could both checksum, and be used to correct the data. Unfortunately off-device backups aren’t an option.
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Actually, it could be an interesting exercise to write a non-trivial program in the original version of COBOL (or BASIC or FORTRAN); indeed, the people who created these now “old” languages were not stupid; rather, they had specific design criteria in mind, and the languages were constructed to fit those criteria. However “brain-damaged” these languages may seem today compared to more recent alternatives, I also think that an average student or an office worker would have a much better chance to casually learn programming in one of these simple “old” languages to a degree which would make the skill useful to them in their daily tasks, than to try, and fail, to attain practical level of command of, say, Python or JavaScript.
The Saudis launched a price war just as the coronavirus struck and ramped up production to try and squeeze Russia and/or American shale producers (depending on who you ask). Like most people, they had no idea how hard the virus was going to tank demand and so we ended up with a huge oversupply. Supposedly Trump brokered a deal to get everyone to cut production, but that doesn’t kick in until May 1st.
She won't be able to re-use the same phone case because of the bigger camera lens size in SE.
Can I use this to notify people in a building that food is being served out in front of the building?(shelter)
> It's cool that Apple made a cheap phone, but what I actually wanted was a small phone and price wasn't that relevant.

I’d like to shout this from the rooftops. All I want is an iPhone I can comfortably use with one hand whether it’s $400 or $1400
Right I agree but that will happen in a few weeks already when measures are relaxed. There is no reason we know of that the virus will wait until winter. The next wave will already have started in places where lockdowns are being lifted.
When I see those benchmarks I wonder what they are actually measuring because it's very likely not general purpose compute.
Not having a specific well-defined use case... Under no circumstances would I call that a “product”. I would call it “really cool tech” at best, but I can’t fathom how a “multi-billion company” can’t figure that out. Yes, this gives me obvious schadenfreude...
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I wonder how comparable Geekbench actually is across different CPU architectures and operating systems though?

Linus Torvalds is quoted here: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=185109&curpost... as saying that Geekbench 4.0 shouldn't be treated as a valid comparison between desktops/laptops and phones. (However this review used Geekbench 5.0 - not sure what differences there are).
I thought this was standard practice.
Somewhat tangential question: why can't oil producers "buy" these negative contracts and pump the oil back into their wells?
A sibling of mine is a very highly paid medical specialist. She studied, worked and studied more doing exams into her early thirties. Combined with having to travel a lot to get experience meant she wasn't able to settle till her mid thirties. Prior to that she earned good money but worked insane hours not including study time. I know because I stayed with her sometimes. I work in a pretty stressful job but I couldn't handle the stress her job entails on a daily basis where she sees extremely ill people in theatre and whose lives are literally in her hands both there and later in the ICU. She's well into her fifties now but still one week a month had to be available to work in the middle of the night if called on a rota. She earns a good multiple of what I do but I think she earns every penny.
Something like this happens in Indian Railways too. Lower class tickets are dirt cheap -- around 20 cents for a 100km journey. Whereas an air-conditioned first class ticket costs about 10 dollars.
I’ve found it’s helpful if you make a slight half circle from the multitasking bar (whatever the bottom bar you pull on is called) to instantly go back to the last app.

But it’s a memory game with what is on your app stack. Was Duo open last or email or calculator? If you aren’t sure you need to pull straight up into scroll mode... I don’t think there is a great solution to this, Apple has surely spent millions and millions every year on mobile UX.
I just wonder, what % chance is there of lights out? Because if it's only a 30% chance that that'll happen, then doesn't that mean a 70% chance of it coming back up, quadrupling in price in the next year?
If you assume something will automatically happen, without a particular mechanism, how likely is it to?

Seems to me that is a popular cargo cult few are immune to.
> People just aren't auditing random code on github for fun

No, just the important code that everyone is running.
FaceId is trash but swipe multitasking on the iPhone is an amazing iteration. That said, the tap to hold for an hour to move icons around is also trash. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Citing COVID-19

That disease is going to get a whole lot of bad news laid at its feet. Basically if any company has anything bad they want to get off their chest, now is the time to do it.
I do miss the home button for authentication. FaceID requires "full attention", while TouchID works even while distracted, and (crucially) in landscape.

But for multitasking, I really do prefer the swipe-up gesture. I don't find it painful at all, it feels very natural: touch from the bottom, slide up, and then horizontally to select what you want.
> Anyways, beyond 400 miles or so, there's not so much value in longer range passenger EVs (obviously semi trucks for freight are a different use case).

If you could have a much longer range, then you could put up with more hassle to charge, which in turn could make some technologies feasible that would not be with lesser range.

For an extreme example, if you can go long enough on one charge then it might be feasible to use a non-rechargeable battery and replace it when it is out.

Believe it or not that has actually been considered. There is a company or two working on EVs using aluminum air batteries. Those are among the highest energy density available in batteries, comparable to gasoline. They are currently used in some military applications for aircraft and submarines.

The claim I've seen is that you could do an EV with these that would have a 2000 km range using less battery weight than current lithium ion EVs use. As I said, these aren't rechargeable, so every ~1800 km you'd have to take it in for a battery swap.

Presumably they would design these cars so that this would be a fairly easy operation. The dead battery would be sent back to the manufacturer for recycling. As the battery is used, the aluminum anodes become oxidized. The manufacturer can replace the anodes, and can extract the aluminum from the aluminum oxide and use that for making new anodes.
We were still on the standard through the 70s, but FDR and company did devalue the dollar with respect to gold during the 30s to finance all the New Deal programs. Bretton Woods in 1944 re-established the gold standard for the dollar and then all other currencies were pegged to the dollar and that continued until 1971, when Nixon "temporarily" suspended it, effectively creating the modern fiat boondoggle we have today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
When you click to install, it says the extension can "read and change your data on www.googleapis.com".

Can't it read and change your data on any site where you invoke it, not just www.googleapis.com? This seems like an interesting conundrum — the only pages where you would invoke it are pages that have information you'd like to keep private. But you're granting the developer of the extension read/write access to the content on these pages, which seems unwise unless you know and trust the dev.

As someone with an accessibility-related extension that needs broad access, I can say that some folks are hesitant to install any extensions that have broad read/write access. Some companies (including Google, I'm told) forbid employees from installing extensions that have global read/write access, and would presumably feel the same way about this extension since it is intended to be invoked on pages with private content. I wish the creator the best of luck — this seems like a cool tool! — but I wonder about how this will pan out.

A couple pricing suggestions, since I also started out at $10/yr: set your price higher and offer coupons. I thought the affordability and simplicity of $10/yr would be a winner, but it isn't. People expect discounts on software, so they'll wait until they get one. If you don't give a coupon, many of them will give up and uninstall. You'll have more revenue AND more customers if you price at $15 and give random $5-off coupons.

Also, it appears this is a free trial that becomes paid, with no free functionality past the expiration of the trial. I would suggest allowing some functionality (perhaps 2x uses per month?) to post-trial users, so they have a reason to stick around instead of just uninstalling.

It would also provide a greater inducement for people to sign up — I like the idea of your extension, but I won't install because I don't value it at $10/yr — and I don't want to spend time learning how to use a tool that I'm only going to have access to for a short time. If there were an ongoing-but-usage-limited functionality, I would be much more likely to install.

I'm happy to share more learnings from 7 years in the Chrome Store, if you find any of this helpful. Contact info is in my profile.
Are the people videos streamed via LiveView as well? Super impressive. Congrats!
Seeing that the OPEC production cuts don't go into effect until the 1st, what would actually happen to this oil if nobody could legally buy it due to lack of storage?
> pump the oil back into their wells

That's...not how oil wells work.
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Sorry for the delayed response. And thanks for catching my math fail.

Those numbers came from https://esb.nu/blog/20059695/we-kunnen-nu-gaan-rekenen-aan-c..., but given it's in dutch it's probably easier to use this table that a redditor compiled:

https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/g4tqvk/dutch_antib...

My bad on not including the source originally; I was on mobile and couldn't track it down (and therefore probably should have just not commented)
The X adds Taptic to the mechanical click of volume buttons
It takes very few viral particles to catch covid.