skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talking about the Holocaust, you do know that Golwalkar glorified it? He stated "…To keep up the purity of the nation and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of Semitic races – the Jews. National pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindustan to learn and profit by,”
A few manufactures already do not include ear buds. I don't see the issue with not including the brick and earbuds. I don't use them anyway and it is just waste.
I think some companies tend to think of software devs as a one-stop shop. Like all you need to hire is a software dev and they can handle all aspects of the build. It would be like hiring a civil engineer to do everything, when in reality you need an architect, intertior designer, etc.
In what sense is it risky?
All it needs now is the Google Assistant. Joking aside, having been a Pixel user for quite a while now, I'm strongly considering switching to the iPhone 12 mini. I'm tired of the Pixel being tightly integrated with my Google account.
The people who continue to jumble up inflation by its consumer defenition with the huge expanding of the amount of us dollars are only shooting their own wealth and anyone who listens to them's wealth in the foot.

All you have to look at is stocks and home real estate to see that assets are ballooning no matter how cheap a dozen of eggs stays.
They're not comparable. Plugins is basically a O(1) task: You set them up once and then they're done. If your set isn't set up for technical SEO then crawlers can't read it and you won't rank well. But once you're set up correctly and it's not really possible to put more time into managing plugins and rank better.

By comparison, building backlinks and writing content you can always sink in more time, and derive benefit from that extra time investment. So the plugin stuff is more like foundations. You need it, but it's not what your strategy is.

And "building backlinks" is a lot about outreach. You need the content worth linking to, but there's also things you can do to encourage people to link to content that they already like. Relationships with other sites, encouraging people to tweet/like/reddit/socialwhatever your content, that type of stuff.
Creating 3D Stories You Can Walk Through
No Touch ID :(

With face masks such an item these days I was expecting Touch ID, especially after the 2020 iPad Air had it.
Obviously I agree, but please don't add to the problem by dumping more nastiness into the thread.

Note this guideline also: "Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

It's worth remembering that HN is a statistical cloud of posts, not a person, and so can't think anything.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Very curious to see how lidar performances matches up versus Intel's $350 L515 lidar. https://www.intelrealsense.com/lidar-camera-l515/

Intel's proud of their 3.5W power budget. That makes me want to think it'll be a different class than what we'd find on a mobile device. But I'd be so curious to see a "shoot out" between these scanning laser-rangers.
> If it was only about environmental reasons, wouldn't they just make it optional?

If the cost were the same, I'd check the box regardless of whether or not I actually needed the cable.

If the cost were not the same, we'd be in the same situation where we currently are, where you can, in addition to your phone, buy a wall charger.
I remember the days when people were saying LiDAR will never be cheap enough for regular cars.

Now it's on smartphones.
Yeah I just replaced my SE1 with another SE1. While this is tempting, it's a bit too little too late as I migrate from Iphone to Librem 5.
Check the renders. The sim slot is on the left side.
This seems like an acknowledgement that the market is largely saturated, and the main reason people buy these new devices is because advertising convinces them that their one- or two- or three-year-old device, which still works perfectly fine, is somehow no longer good enough.

I'd wager 99% of iPhone users come nowhere near pushing their device to its limits, and could continue using an earlier-generation device for several more years without any significant loss (except presumably to their ego).
"speeds up to 4Gbps" if it were a spherical iPhone in a vacuum.
>4. iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini are splash, water, and dust resistant and were tested under controlled laboratory conditions with a rating of IP68 under IEC standard 60529 (maximum depth of 6 meters up to 30 minutes). Splash, water, and dust resistance are not permanent conditions and resistance might decrease as a result of normal wear. Do not attempt to charge a wet iPhone; refer to the user guide for cleaning and drying instructions. Liquid damage not covered under warranty.

Shame. I was hoping they would develop a completely washable phone due to corona.
There's a lot going on there like "5G service in city X!" where they really mean "we have an antenna mounted at the ballpark to cover a high density use case."
Knowing the basics of CS would surely help in set the expectation for such "SQL" (or rather, RDBMS) behaviour: the problem is the problem of sorting a very large array of strings, which is unsurprisingly a hard one.

The very basic experience with RDBMS would point you at a better solution: indexes. Not sure about MySQL or standard SQL, but with Postgres you can keep an ordered index that will be used in an ORDER BY query. It's a common trick employed in programming in general: trade the update/insert cost for query cost (indexes take time to update, but querying is then fast).
You are aware that every iPhone form factor before the 6 existed, right?
I hope so, that wouldn't be a bad thing in my opinion.
AGPL doesn't work the way you think it does. An anti-fraud system service can easily communicate with Plausible over a network connection through an IPC interchange (HTTP, gRPC, etc.) without triggering that issue. The extension to Plausible to support that itself would be AGPL, but the anti-fraud service itself would not have to be.
Does the MagSafe feature run the risk of demagnetizing credit cards and hotel keys?
I switched from android whatsapp to ios years ago and still have all the messages. I don’t recall how I did it, but it is definitely possible unless whatsapp locked things down.
This seems like marketing for a customer feedback system.

Is it more than that?
This seems like the most likely answer. Disappointing how different the color is if that is the case.
No 120 Hz either :(
Yeah, if they really cared about environment, they would make their devices repairable/upgradable. At least, Macbook could do with non soldered RAM and a SSD you could change.

Although a good move, this just increases their margin. They could have reduced the price and added earphones/charger at a nominal price of say $20 as a starter kit with new phones.
CPI is not inflation. In fact, even CPI itself is not the same as it was before... According to 1980 CPI metrics, today's consumer price inflation is closer to 10% per year.
If you consider stocks and other assets, real inflation is even higher. Banks just manipulate the numbers and statistics to make things seem better than they are.

Hiding the inflation numbers is lucrative because it gives banks a free pass to print more money.

The elite love tech stocks, cryptocurrencies and other assets which are in limited supply because they provide a mechanism to absorb and delay CPI inflation. Those limited supply assets just soak up most of the newly printed currency so that it doesn't leak into the economy and cause CPI increase... That's why P/E ratios of tech stocks are ridiculously low. But it's just delaying the inevitable CPI inflation.

Eventually the value of stocks become completely detached from earnings to the point that it's no longer possible to justify the valuations based on earnings (or even the most optimistic future earnings).

This is why Bitcoin and other pure scarcity assets like Gold and Silver are great because investors have absolutely no expectation of deriving earnings from these and they can never go bankrupt... There is no price point beyond which the value of these scarce assets cannot be justified.

Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies and other scarce non-productive assets can always be justified at any price point because their entire premise is that the monetary system is a pyramid scheme.
The higher the price of Bitcoin, the more justified it becomes in its assertion that the system is a pyramid scheme and the higher its valuation.
Also https://www.apple.com/iphone-12/
Believe it or not the 'mini' used to the the standard smartphone size. As it goes in America, bigger = better so that is what you get.
Yeah, having an on-device DAC was really the killer feature for me. I'm fine using a lightning-to-3.5mm adapter but trying to be clever and putting the DAC in the adapter didn't work out super great for me since they seem to break super easily.
Because what's the alternative to US treasuries? Everything else in the world is either more unstable or offering zero yield.
What is Dolby Vision?
Great article! I've had issues getting my Twitter links to show an image and hopefully this will help. Honestly it shouldn't be this complicated and Gatsby should have a more robust SEO component.
I forgot about that! The Palm Pre series was amazing. WebOS itself was questionable but the hardware was some of the best in the 2000s.
Why does the author not just put it on github/gitlab/... instead of only offering a .zip? It's 2020 last time I checked.
Someday it'll lead to far better video-conferencing, I tend to think. People feel still & far off on the screen, to me, even with good cameras. If we could map people into space, I think we could do a lot to make us feel closer together & more alive on the screen.
Optional makes the supply chain worse by having to make two types of box, two production lines. Or by adding them separately you end up with more packaging material and more transport expense. This is a good move for the environment, even it doesn’t feel like it given the vast resources it must take to make the phone anyway.
Yeah right, I'm sure the amount of individuals in this category are so negligible to the overall numbers that it might as well be a rounding error. You want to not buy some $1000 phone due to not including $4 in accessories? You weren't the group they were selling to in the first place. We have so many cords around our work stations, sofas, and desks that the industry created and sustained an entirely successful third party market for chargers and cables. Almost all of my wireless chargers and usb hubs for all devices are some form of Amazon reseller or Anker.
"That's a weird way to greenwash profit reasons."

"I mean it helps them lose new first time customers and lose previous customers as well (once you're off the wagon, you're off). I'm all for this."

Pick a narrative and stick to it.
Slightly different perspective, but while I lived in Japan I did the JLPT as a native English speaker.

Among my friends:
Koreans have no problem with Japanese grammar, struggled with writing/reading.
Chinese no problem with reading/writing, struggled with grammar.
English speakers.. struggled with everything but pronunciation hah.

As per Chinese characters.
There are a lot of subtle differences:
'Traditional Chinese' is the original.
'Simplified Chinese' was done by the Communist party,
is the standard in Mainland China.
With notable exceptions in Hong Kong and Taiwan

For Japanese, there was simplifications in the 50's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjitai

But for the most part they're pretty similar to the Traditional (closer to traditional than simplified)

I'm not super familiar with Hanja(korean), but I assume they are the equivalent of 'Traditional' Chinese.

Then you also get into subtle drifts in meaning.
My favourite was:

手紙 The characters mean 'hand' and 'paper' respectively.

In Japanese, it means 'Letter'

In Chinese it means 'Toilet paper'
Everybody "tampers" with their money supply. And there is no such thing as a "free market". Not in currency, international trade, etc. All markets are controlled and manipulated. It's like every parrots what they hear.

Edit:

Oh god. Here comes the "CCP" nonsense. All countries have tight capital controls. And the tight capital control was part of the bargain for trade between china and the US. It's not like they did it secretly. They did it openly for decades as it was their stated goal and provided benchmarks and press releases. It's like the Fed openly advocating for inflation of 3% for decades and you claiming that they are "tampering". It isn't "tampering". It is the goal/agreement/system/etc. Now whether that capital control regime should continue is another debate. Just like whether 3% inflation is a worthy target. But to claim otherwise is just peter navarro style nonsense. It's just parroting.

Edit1:

> The Euro is the 'least tampered' big currency arguably because they have 25 nations each of whom would scream if the other tampered, meaning almost by definition it has to have integrity.

Hard to imagine such nonsense on HN. One of the problems in the EU is that some countries, like greece/italy/etc, feel that the value of the euro is being too greatly manipulated by germany. It's why britain was part of the EU but kept their currency. It's why every few years you hear about greece or italy leaving the EU/euro. The idea that the euro isn't manipulated is nonsense. All currencies are manipulated to achieve the goals of the nation/region/business community/banks/etc. And all currencies are political instruments as well as financial ones.
I think one could aim for a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_footprint in the seas near the coastline without much trouble.
As much as I'd rather they just use USB-C, the problem with it is that it's not standard. None of the fast charging USB-C things are compatible with each other (device, charger, or cable). At least with Lightning there's no chance of accidentally frying your device.
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Does anyone have info on which banks will offer mortgages on these phones?
Note that LoL for mobile was announced a long time ago (IIRC it was supposed to be out by the end of the year normally)
Thanks. I got distracted on my way to adding that one :)

If you don't mind, I'm going to detach this subthread so that there's less noise at the top of the page.
That's the carrier stuff, they will figure it out. Remember how ridiculous were data caps with GMTS?
they can just buy them at the same time they buy the phone if they want them
There are all sorts of inflation-protected assets you can buy. At a basic level, any durable asset will provide inflation protection. But you could also buy things like Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities.
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I in no way intended it to be bait. I was merely seeking clarification because for about 100 years, up until roughly 2 weeks ago, that phrase had a pretty well-established meaning. One that is different from the way you used it.
On the flip side, I had a pair of earbuds break on me a few months back, after some digging around the house I ended up finding the pair that came with an old Samsung flip phone still in working condition after like 14 or 15 years.

Been using them the last few months, i'm actually pretty impressed with the quality. They're a lot sturdier and better sounding than any earbuds that came with more recent phones.
But did Apple reduce the price of iPhones by the corresponding amount they charge for these accessories? Otherwise it is just marketing bs for squeezing more money from the customers.
Not for keynote speakers; this is only for promotional content.
Obviously it will be hard for a phone with 1/10th the z index to fit the same optics that a DSLR came.

But I work in video production and I can tell you that for 99% of people, there is absolutely no reason to buy a separate camera.

What Apple and other smartphone makers have managed to achieve in such small and (relatively, compared to a full frame DSLR) inexpensive items is pretty amazing.

They have such good quality that when I need to grab a quick pickup shot, I can easily use my phone's camera and drop the footage in with a pro cine-style camera. There are tons of apps that will let you shoot with full manual control or even flat color profiles.

People have shot entire, commercially released movies on their smartphones. Once you get to a certain image quality, it's not about the image quality but the artistic content/merit of said image.
The 12 Pro is larger than the 11 Pro too, which is a double kick there if you wanted to stay on the top camera without going up in size.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24767378
I mean, to some degree I'm not sure how much it matters. If there's some delayed response to the asset inflation then it'll be concerning, but why are inflated asset prices an issues in and of themselves?
Which would be awesome, except that the USB-C adapter wasn't included with any iPhone until last year (and those people aren't buying a new phone, it's the people who have older devices and therefore won't have a charger to use with their $800 smartphone). They may not even have a USB-C adapter at all, the only device I regularly use with USB-C is the Switch and that charger can't charge the iPhone.
It's far better if they continue to improve it rather than sunsetting the product and replacing it--but then again, this IS Google we're talking about...
All the things you enumerated are included in the fed's calculation of CPI. Are you arguing their weightings are bad?
Consistent, quality

content moderation

at scale

is impossible
I have to agree. If you try to visit the site in the OP without JavaScript enabled, it doesn't even render correctly. There's little reason for a static blog to be written as a client-side web app.
Mark Text vs. Typora: Best Markdown Editor for Linux?
You make it sound like Jaron views AI as fundamentally unethical, for reasons that are at best not communicated clearly.
If you’re specifically looking for the best Markdown editor for Linux desktop, I present you two Markdown editors: Mark Text and Typora.
I was a bit confused. Does it require a case to work? I’ve never used a case before and I don’t plan on starting.
Seems like there are apps that can do blueprint/floorplan creation using lidar. Also seems like (from the video, not an expert) Apple is using it within their ML to make the lighting in the photos and videos more crisp/clear. I was honestly interested in the idea of getting one of these devices and offering to realtors the generation of floor plans for their listings. Could cover the cost of the phone (or the iPad) in just a few weekends I would think.
I've used Azure's serverless offering "Functions" quite a bit. The dev experience is pretty good, actually - it "just works" - start it and point your browser at the URL. And certainly no problems setting up env vars or anything basic like that.

My only nitpick, and only specifically relating to dotnet, is that config files and env vars differ between Functions and regular ASP.NET Core web apps. I think there is some work going on to fix that, but it's taking forever.
The iphone is notorious for 'improper chargers' and 'improper cables' killing it. Apple is still going to sell their chargers and headphones, just now you're spending more money.

https://youtu.be/FLdliOJ0J24 at 5:00
I'm thinking the iPhone 12 Mini is going to be very popular. I see a lot of people on older iPhones refusing to switch to the monster phones.
Perhaps not, if they move to wireless quickly enough.
This article is about iPad, not iPhone.
One of the nice consequences of doing this, and probably one of the big reasons companies like doing it, is that you don't have to produce manage different versions for different regional plug standards. For example, I assume all of Europe, including the UK, will now get the same iPhone 12 box.
No fingerprint scanner :-(
I never used a phone in a case because I think cases make phones look uglier.
And also I'm careful with my phones, I dropped my phones several times and only once the glass shattered.

Although I don't use iPhones (Androids).
Backward iOS compatibility is a great way to motivate people to upgrade. It is fun and exciting to install iOS 14 on your 6s. All new shiny widgets on an ancient phone. Thank you apple.

Everything largely works - but it isn't snappy anymore.

Gotta upgrade.
$99 HomePod looks great and is in a nice spot to compete with Echo. $399 was way too much.
Sure. But at this point even just one 5G base station each for 1.8k cities/towns is a pretty decent step up.
I generally agree that the web could be simpler. A lot can be accomplished with just plain ol' HTML/CSS nowadays. I think there's a kernel of truth in what you're saying about apps vs. websites.

That said, how would you propose to do syntax highlighting instead of

> just a wall of <div>s and <span>s, for every single visible character

? Rather than being a wall, it looks to me like it's actually a tree of <divs> and <span>s for every line and every _token_.

I think the author has used Prism[1], so I assume the highlighting was done client-side, but even if you were to do the task server-side I think you'd end up with similar HTML/CSS, no?

What would be a better approach to solving the same problem?

[1]: https://prismjs.com/
Inflated asset prices means most folks are never going to be able to purchase a home, and equities (which generates wealth with no further effort besides the capital invested, for the most part) will continue to be owned by the wealthiest. Inequality worsens when asset prices increase faster than wages.
No it doesn’t. It’s magnets built into the phone.
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I think this thread needs an ELI5 for how the whole process works from the ground up as there seems to be a lot of popular misconceptions.
The overall sense of control I have over the system. With iOS it feels like I am using someone else's phone, it's not as customizable/optimizable. I can't install other apps on it (outside the store that is) and the entire dev process feels so..gated. I want my phone to be an extension of my tech environment, something I can automate and freely fiddle with.

It might sound petty but having to jump through hoops to use a custom ringtone was the nail in the coffin.
I actually never take any of the cables out of the box but I'm probably more of an edge-case. I take out the phone and use Anker cables/Qi-chargers and my AirPods Pro.
The price of a car is 35x the price of a phone. Does the cost of the LIDAR scale up 35x when going from phone distances to car distances? That is an honest question that I don't know the answer to.
People want to see new processors.