skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure there is, price for pre-paid customers, which is what most of the world uses, and their phones get used until they either die or get stolen, there isn't a two year free exchange program in place.

Ideally I would be using Windows Phone, but given how it all ended up, Android it is, even if Google's stewardship leaves very much to be desired.
Good job projecting your reasons to the world.
Myriad Android phones are substantially cheaper than even the iPhone SE. $200 is a lot of money for a lot of people.
Pico-8 implementation with SDL2 and RetroArch back-ends
Even if there's no reason, there's still a reason: choice
Reminds me of a story I stumbled across a long time ago (at least as measured by internet time) about a guy in Michigan that figured out a method to build Stonehenge with a small crew and simple tools:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0
>Why wouldn't you buy an iPhone now that Apple has copied all of Android's best ideas?

Because I can still - albeit with some amount of work - run whatever I want on my Android phone.

Not that it'll last, I guess, but as of today, still possible.
Ah yeah I have iOS ad blocker turned on.
Werner Herzog: ‘Film-making is always some sort of risk-taking’
Apple can't compete on price and more apps are available for free on android.

Having the most features only matter to a very small population.

Something rarely talked about. Having an iphone gives the impression you have more money than technical ability.
Lol, I assume the author is either a troll or extremely privileged, or both. Iphones are still crazy expensive in most of the world, even the SE hasn't changed that, where I'm from SE is worth a month of your salary, the higher end models are nearly untenable.

The most popular smartphones around are all different Xiaomis and Huaweis, since you get good hardware for like $100-200 max. Do you think people buy them for android and now that iOS has widgets those people will move to iOS?
Care to explain ? I have an "un-rooted" android phone, I can use call recorder without rooting
You could customize a style for your diagrams and then include it via a one-liner in every diagram you create. This also allows for branding of diagrams.

Personally, I'm a huge fan of the simplicity and whenever I present such a diagram to teams or execs, I break the ice by warning them it'll be "ugly" or "let's go back to 1995 for a sec" :) More importantly, the focus remains strictly on the content because of the basic design.
Until there is a full fledged Firefox with uBlock Origin, there is no way for me to leave Android.
Yeah, at this point, just use PASETO and be done with it. It's not worth trying to figure out which JWT misconfiguration will burn you next.
> It's a university, university IT is often ultra political […]

While you're not necessarily wrong, another option is budget.

If this is academic- / research-generated data, then it could have been paid for by grant money, and most of the cash goes to paying grad students and perhaps some computer equipment.

IT may have chargebacks (they have bills / cost centres to pay too after all), and no one wants to "waste" grant money. Often these things are 'shadow IT' run in an ad hoc fashion by just throwing together some PCs.

If the group's expertise is in medicine / biology, how many members want to give up their day-light research hours to run the computer infrastructure?

I've spent about half my IT career in the academic sphere, and cheap solutions can be a fight to implement even if they solve the problem; even free (open source) ones can be an effort if they take time or slow down the workflow.

And these people aren't stupid: they 'know' they should do some of these things. But people 'know' they should get exercise, and how many folks do that?
Terrible article, beyond the obvious bias, it is rather shallow and misses then entire walled garden side of the story.
I personally don't buy this premise of 'Improving your lifestyle, by including friction in our products'. Screen size is not limiting someone from not leaving Facebook, Instagram, TikTok etc. If they don't want to use it, they can uninstall it on their existing device. These kind of devices just prey upon compulsive buyers hoping 'If I buy X, my life will magically get better'.

Buying such tiny screen phones at this point of time would just limit the productivity as an when needed, if that's all one needed they could dig up their 10 year old android device with 2.5" screen or better buy a current feature phone with 4G and 30 days standby time for fraction of the price.

IMO, If a new smartphone manufacturer wants to enter the space with the premise of 'improving lifestyle', then perhaps they should build devices for pure Linux smartphone OS like these[1][2] where productivity is available when needed via web apps, supposed lifestyle culprit apps aren't available anyways and help build a better ecosystem.

[1]https://store.pine64.org/product/pinephone-community-edition...

[2]https://postmarketos.org/blog/2020/06/15/pinephone-postmarke...

[3]https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
They don’t belch hundreds of pounds of methane into the air, which helps.
The article is for VIPs only, sorry.
> OS: Android 8.1

Nope, thanks for the effort.
He spoke at my university and said something that stuck with me, “never ask a question to show that you know something, but always ask in earnest and be vulnerable to the fact that you don’t know something.”
Can this myth die? They throttle phones with old batteries that cannot provide enough current. This avoids that phones reboot spontaneously. Replace the battery and it is as fast as ever.

I used an iPhone 6s (2015) until recently and it was still butter smooth on iOS 13. I gave it to my niece who is still happily using it.
I personally prefer learning programming languages by making a project/program with it, it's a far more practical and interesting way of learning new programming language.

I realize it's probably not the best way to learn, there's the chance of not learning a simpler or better method. But I personally just don't have the attention span to read through books or take online courses.
> Who needs Android when iPhone lets you choose your own default apps?

Well, iOS 14 makes a little bit of progress here. Which is great. But it will be very far away from Android. iOS will just "allow" this for Web and Email applications, while Android has a rich and open intent and app system that doesn't need permission from Google.

Android also has a great app chooser. Click on a web link and it will ask you in which browser you want to open it. Or set a default from there.

So, good small step forward, but still miles away from what you can do on Android.
I personally know several vegans that have had minor health problems because of their diet. You can eat a very healthy diet as a vegan, the problem is most people are not educated or motivated enough to get proper variation in their diet.

Its much easier for the general public to eat a varied diet by not restricting themselves to veganism.
The worst thing is that the image appears to bear absolutely no relevance to the article at all.
> and telling yourself the lie that anyone who disagrees with you must be being paid to do so

I specifically said "can't help but wonder". It just crosses my mind, no assumptions are made.
These are all true, but the Zune was still awesome... Video support, awesome customizations, and a very fun interface. I had all 3 of the Zunes you mentioned. My least favorite was the original, because the spinning disc would sometimes hit buffering issues, but the rest of the device family was practically perfect.
Everything capitalist is.
Someone commented in another thread (on an article about virtualization on Macs) about the flood of low value articles being posted now, especially related to Apple and the WWDC announcements. This title is so hyperbolic that it fits that description.

FWIW, I’m an iOS user and wouldn’t consider Android for many reasons. But I would never say “almost no reason” to describe choices people make among the two main smartphone OSes.
Odd, not paywalled for me.

Try http://archive.is/gCxX0.

You can create these yourself!
By this logic, there's no reason to buy Windows laptops over MacBooks, because MacBooks can actually do anything a Windows laptop can.

Yup, so I guess that's why Mac market share is a whopping 10-20%.
I mean, not exactly, but it brings this to mind:

http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
> By eating food that is more unhealthy for you in order to save the planet, it means that you have valued the planet's health above your own. I find this to be irrational.

I find it more irrational to believe that one can be healthy in an unhealthy environment.

> I am all for finding the cleanest, most environmentally friendly way of feeding humans. But if the result is less good for human consumption, then I am simply substituting one evil for another, and nobody can take any moral high ground over it.

The article is about flimsy speculation on one extreme situation (vegan junk food vs. regular junk food). Nutrition science offers us precious little certainties, one of the few being that processed food is less healthy than food cooked by humans with a few simple ingredients. An healthy and balanced vegan diet would be fantastically more healthy than the choices of at least 90% of americans.

Can you create some optimally-healthy diet for a small group of priviliged people at the expense of fucking the environment and resources for everyone else? Probably. Should you? I guess it depends on how you see your relation with the rest of humanity.

In any case, this is all theoretical. I bet most people gasping about this are going to down some pizza & beer within the next 24 hours.
Basically, US Customary is english units pre Imperial standardisation.

Then in 1959 the major non-metric countries (I want to say US, UK, SA, AU and NZ?) unified their units under the "International Yards and Pounds". This metrified the definitions of various non-metric units.

So for all the units with an "international" version, "US customary" and "imperial" are now the same thing (though the pre-international versions might still be used in some contexts e.g. US surveyor units are, in fact, pre-international US customary units), and there are units which were not unified, most notably units of volume which remain different in the US and in imperial dominions.
Wow we should do this and see how smart they get.
Diesel exhaust soot density is in the 1 to 2 g/cm3 range. Flour is about 0.6 g/cm3. So the soot is indeed a bit heavier. But you can adjust the amount of flour you weigh out to visualize the volume, and it still seems like a lot. The point your parent comment was making still seems valid to me.

I could not immediately find a reference for typical soot exposure.
The point is that people construct these comparison classes which are poor but not impoverished. And then draw all sorts of faulty conclusions
This article misses two huge reasons for veganism: global warming and animal welfare. It doesn't even seem to try represent vegans fairly, which pisses me off (even though I'm not one).
What is the solution? Maybe massive taxes for manufacturing plastics for consumer uses? Just brainstorming here.

It seems like the incentives need to align somehow.
Yes. iPhone XR already had great battery life and 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max have more than 4-5 hours additional battery life compared to Xs and Xs Max. My 11 Pro can easily last 1.5 days with heavy usage.
Without that headline nobody would have even looked at it so understandable. Just a reminder that you don't have to click on every link (or read every article) on the internet.
It's true!

I considered adding some kind of fix for that, but a fresh game is a mere refresh away, and I liked the opinion on Board Game Geek [1]:

> It's probably also worth noting that if this happens then all players involved need to re-visit some ideas of basic strategy.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/861192/if-game-stuck-perfec...
I’m pretty much vegan myself and have been an advocate for plant based diets here on HN many times. But the discussions on this topic don’t ever seem to go anywhere productive here with people mostly talking past each other.

There are plenty of other places people that want to debate this stuff can go.
Yes. My 4 year old Windows laptop and 5 year old iPhone have the latest operating system versions. The latter will get iOS 14.
"Its much easier for the general public to eat a varied diet by not restricting themselves to veganism."

Which nutrients (micro or macro) would you say most people would be missing if switching from a omnivore diet to veganism?
It's the nickname of the guy who wrote a famous tool called ProcDump in the late 90s. It was very useful for unpacking executables.

http://protools.narod.ru/unpackers.htm
Weird, it works fine here:

https://i.imgur.com/EGdEH2t.png
Hey, I'm sorry. That's awful and wildly unfair.

For what it's worth, this stranger on the internet does not believe that a real PHP developer is somehow incompetent. When I said the language is horrible and you shouldn't use it or promote its use, it's not a personal attack on anyone.

Most of the devs (PHP or otherwise) I've ever met have only used a subset of the 5-6 most common languages: PHP, Java/C#, JavaScript, C, Python, C++. This includes very smart, very talented developers. So that has little to do with it. But if you haven't gotten to try Swift, Rust, Go, Elixir, Clojure, OCaml, etc, you just can't realize how bad PHP and Java are.

But a PHP dev defending the language is definitely counter productive to the goal of looking knowledgeable about programming.

The only positive thing I can say about the language is that it handles (non)nullable types better than Java. Java's nullable references might be the worst language design decision of all typed languages.
Writing that as a mobile game developer:
As long as supporting variety of devices on Android makes me suffer during long debugging evenings - I think that open nature of Android makes the mobile innovating much faster.

Competition between Android phones is enormous - which results with such great hardware features like 90Hz+ displays, truly full screen displays, under-screen fingerprint reader. Picture-in-Picture, Split view - those things were available for a long time on Android - and I loved to add support for them.

I think iOS would be never like nowadays if no Android was released, without Android will never innovate as much - due monopoly of one company using that OS.
What kind of "technical ability" do you need to operate a phone?
They lost a $500 million class action lawsuit. I'll try to be open minded but my time is valuable so can you provide a stronger heuristic than the settlement?
The problem is that there's likely to be a fair amount of logically broken 3rd party code out there because x86's memory model semantics doesn't reveal the issues. The compiler can't help here, it'll just do what the developer told it to do.

It's a whole new 'it works on my machine' issue (for some people).
If you aren’t using the element blocking features in uBlock a Origin (not sure if it’s supported on mobile) and are using only subscribed blocklists, then using NextDNS as the DNS provider could be an option. It’ll take care of blocking for all apps, not just for one app (like Firefox). It’s kinda like running a pi-hole on the cloud.
I have one, money. If there were apple phones on every price point it'd have been a different story. Add in modular customizations (camera options, camera locations, # of wifi, size options) and I'd be a fan.
IMHO the biggest argument is that vegan diet is much less resource-intensive. Much more people could be fed globally, because per gram of omni food a multiple of resources (water, soy, space) are used compared to a vegan diet.
What I find interesting is how behavioural patterns seem to have travelled through not only generations of the same population, but even when they experienced significant immigration and changes in government - for more than a hundred years.

I wonder what the implications are in the context of the U.S., its military and police force. One thing I've realized in recent times is how history - and dark, violent history - is alive to this day. There are things that have been going on for centuries, old forces and habits that keep repeating the same sins, erupting to the surface. I suppose this is the flip side of the coin, what happens when a population loses trust in public institutions.

I'll quote the conclusion from the latter link.

> Our results show that past formal institutions can leave a long-lasting legacy through cultural norms – even after some are generations of being governed by other authorities. Nearly a century after its demise, the Habsburg Empire lives on in the people living within its former borders – in their attitudes towards and interactions with local state institutions.

> Comparing individuals living on either side of the long-gone Habsburg border within the same modern-day country, we find that respondents in a current household survey who live on former Habsburg territory have higher levels of trust in courts and police. They are also less likely to pay bribes for these local public services, demonstrating that the institutional heritage influences not only preferences and unilateral decisions but also bilateral bargaining situations in citizen-state interactions.

> The specific mechanisms through which the Habsburg effect prevailed remain an open question for future research. The substantial waves of migration and displacement that accompanied the institutional disruptions in the successor states of the Habsburg Empire suggest that the cultural norms of behaviour are unlikely to have survived solely by intergenerational transmission within families. It rather seems that such channels as the persistent nature of continuous reciprocal interactions in local communities, the content of knowledge and behavioural patterns conveyed in schools, and the quality of human capital of bureaucrats and citizens may have also played a role.
Cozyroom: Free peer-to-peer spatial audio environments
You're saying homicides have historically varied in the US by a factor of 2, and this variation cannot be correlated with notable changes in gun availability. Previous comments mentioned a factor of 10 difference in homicides compared to countries in Europe, arguably with the most notable explanatory correlation being gun availability. If the only crimes we are talking about are homicides, then there does seem to be a pretty good case.

Some people thrive on the empowerment, liberty and responsibility associated with these incredible death machines. But that's no reason to mistreat the data. For instance, the ratio associated with other death machines like cars, which have somewhat similar availability across the pond between US and Europe, is a more reasonable factor of 2/3.
American Airlines will book full planes, scrapping social distancing
I'm not vegan but this article is junk.

Junk food is well known to be unhealthy.

A lot of animal fats cooked at high temperature are known to be carcinogenic.

There is widespread agreement in nutritional medicine that most people eat too much meat and not enough fruit and vegetables.

IMO the phrasing "vegan junk food may be even worse" and the whole article sounds like cherry picking and clickbait.
this is fabulous.
I'm a retired Marine. I wonder how much the retirement system of the military effects the decision. Although it just change a couple of years ago the retirement was an all or nothing deal. You do your 20 years or more and you can retire. You do 19 or less you get nothing.

The military, and I believe the USMC, can be downright hostile to it members. Just being able to retire is more like survival of the fittest. I can't tell you how many good Marines have been kicked out or not allowed to reenlist for poor decisions.

The USMC also has a up or out policy. You either get promoted or you get out and later on in your career you might have to retire or wait for someone else to leave the service so you can get promoted.
We've got PR spooks citing Hieronymus Bosch for why we all need to broadcast our identities on the internet, and that's the top comment.
The Chinese Communist Party’s Ideology and Global Ambitions
https://www.1843magazine.com/1843/the-economics-of-fun/the-s...

> This piece is from 1843, our sister magazine of ideas, lifestyle and culture.

So probably should change the link anyway.
For sake of argument, the most important thing is app support, not the operating system. I’d happily run Windows 7 or Mac OS X Snow Leopard if I could still access all the apps I use now.
* VIPs, professional models, and the promoters who bring in the professional models.
Intel 4K+GNOME Optimization Yields 5% Faster Render Times, 10% Lower Power Use
It is not ok, but that is how telecommunications industry has ever worked, "want updates? get a new phone".

Even on Symbian best days, you would be lucky to get at very least one time update, and Symbian was the exception, as no else every provided any kind of updates.

I agree it is very stupid, but if Google prefers to have Android in every piece of mobile CPU without arm wrestling OEMs, that is never going to change.

Note that while Project Treble has actually turned Linux into a pseudo microkernel, where standard Linux drivers are "legacy" and everything else runs on their own process with Android IPC, the situation has hardly changed, because Google is still leaving to the OEMs the responsibility for the update process.

On a side note, any of my Windows Phones has gotten more updates than all my Android devices combined.

But as I mention in another thread today, iDevices aren't for price sensitive pre-pay customers that use the devices until they die or get stolen. The majority of the world isn't US with free exchange programs every two years.

In some locations, the hard paied for unknown brand Android device is the first computer many people manage to own, so they aren't even on Apple's target demographic.
Not paywalled for me, maybe that link works: https://www.1843magazine.com/1843/the-economics-of-fun/the-s...?

I'm in the EU, so maybe paywall is US only.
The Jelly 2 phone seems much more compelling than the Palm phone. Better in all areas.
Well, seeing that the update you cited in the article allowed the phone to continue working at a slower speed instead of shutting down entirely when the battery was old - yes.

I never said that Apple could defy the laws of physics and prevent battery degradation.

Also, if I bought a brand new phone that was released in 2018 and even if it did have an old operating system - but a new battery, I could update to the newest OS. If it was a used phone with an old battery - I could replace the battery for $70.

My son just replaced an iPhone 6S that I bought in 2015 late last year. I replaced the battery before giving it to him. It was and still can run the latest OS version. It will be running the latest OS until at least September 2021.
I wanted to give it the benefit of a doubt, but then my suspicions were confirmed and I wanted to warn others.
The Seven Turrets of Babel: A Taxonomy of LangSec Errors (2016) [pdf]
The biggest arguement against this is that we know a lot of minerals (iron etc) we're deposited before any multicellular life formed on earth. In a few short millenia we've used most of those resources. By extension, if someone was here before us, they'd have used the same deposits and we wouldn't have found them.
I’ve been around HN for a while (on a new account) and these are the HN comments I miss.
Welcome back contingencies!
>This is the Zune of phones to me.

The Zune was a great device yo.
Windows machines get forcibly update because users didn't use their personal property the way Microsoft wants. How exactly they shoot themselves in the foot is irrelevant, they have every right to do so.
Going from the posts in this thread it seems like HN thinks "the internet" is all social media and ads. What you're wishing for is another type of misinformed opinion, one that you agree with.