skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US is a pretty large market, plus carrier bundling is quite common in Europe too. You are usually free to choose a non-bundled phone as well, but I have no ideas what the numbers are.

Within the bundled packages, my impression is that Samsung is very dominant as well among the Android phones.
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New Zealand is outside the US and it's not unusual for people to buy their phones from their carrier alongside signing up to a plan especially if they are spending a lot of money. Phones purchased directly from the carrier are guaranteed to have the correct LTE bands which makes it easier to be sure you will get the best performance. Also carriers offer sweet interest-free deals with free stuff throw in which makes it more appealing than buying a phone outright. It's usually people buying cheaper phones that may just pair up an cheap phone from an independent store with a cheap plan often from a virtual operator.
Such a great comment, thank you
Is operator salary the highest cost? I'm honestly curious, and it sounds logical. But it also sounds like a statement that just keeps being repeated without it being confirmed, or universally true.
> more PhD scientists, researchers and engineers than a dozen Earths can afford to fund

From a brutal evolutionary standpoint it doesn't matter how many we fund, what matters is whether the competitive environment produces enough winners to solve the mess we're in.

Totally valid to question whether the current environment is optimal even on those limited terms, though, before we even get started on the ethics of inequality.
You can imagine that people in Ferguson might be unwilling to report petty crime until the police can’t do much about it as the punishment for stealing a low value item can be summary execution and you might not want that for the kid down the street who has gone off the rails a bit. So that probably affects the clear up rate.
> Uber bought out almost the entire CS department of CMU (Pittsburgh) yet they run their cars in Arizona.

Not really. They hired a few faculty and dozens of other staff from a robotics institute.

https://www.post-gazette.com/business/tech-news/2016/03/07/A...
It only require one person to come up with something that transforms society completely. The more people we have to more likely some of them will do that.
Modern Vintage Gamer has a great video on that as well: https://youtu.be/BaX5YUZ5FLk
This is also not 100% voluntary by Netflix though for some of the bigger languages like French and German it totally makes economic sense too (as mentioned in the article). A few years ago EU mandated that a certain % of content on streaming services serving EU has to be produced within the EU. There is only so much English language content you can pump out in Europe so making (or just buying existing stuff like in the case of Finnish content for example) it in the other languages.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/26/eu-third-...
For my projects I've built most of the infrastructure stack myself:

- https://github.com/queer/singyeong if I need message queuing / etc

- https://github.com/queer/crush if I need a basic JSON store or cache or ...

- https://github.com/queer/mahou is my WIP to replace container schedulers

It's a very satisfying experience to see my own tooling reach this level of maturity ^^
>but not as much as a (typically unionized) operator.

Why do you need to specify the "unionized" drivers? Do they cost more? Why? because they are paid fair(like paid extra if they have to work on Christmas or extra hours)? Or maybe they union negotiated to keep the salary in sync with inflation?
I disliked about all my mice in my life so far that they use some kind of soft silicone finish which dissolves over time (after say 1/2 years) and becomes really sticky which makes the product unusable
Like, seriously? I've had a Tizen TV for almost a year now and every minute of using it I'm cursing myself for not buying an LG (the bezels were slightly thinner on the Samsung and I figured Tizen couldn't be too bad).

It's a complete disaster! The menu system is infinitely worse than even Sony's dumb TVs, which is saying something, becase Sony can't make software for shit.

A short list:
- auto-brightnes does literally nothing
- changing the brightness manually requires to you go 6 levels deep into the menu
- the bottom quick settings bar thing has a bunch of stuff hidden in an invisible tile that shows up only after you try to navigate over the edge, which is the most undiscoberable crap ever
- the quick settings contain exactly two settings anyone would care about, the rest are useless and obviously non-comfigurable
- can't hide the giant cursor when screen mirroring
- can't set a default app to launch into so it takes 4 clicks and half a minute to turn on the TV (we have an app instead of a cable box because wasn't the kind od the point of smart TVs??)
- can't install apps without a Samsung account, can't remote control it from a phone without a samsung account
- the phone remote control can't enter text!!!!! You have to use direction keys and a shitty on-screen keyboard
- no always-on cast receiver
- DLNA randomly disappeares, can play like 4 codecs. Half of those you can't even scrub in and the colors get weirdly hue-shifted when playing HDR video (despite the TV supposedly being HDR10, I believe)

This is as much as I care to type on my phone, but I'm sure if I asked someone in my family who actually still uses the thing, I'd get another 10 lines to add at least.
I've noticed the same here in New Zealand. My local mall is not a particularly large/important mall but it still has a Samsung store. Even if that wasn't there, all the carrier stores sell Samsung. All the electronics stores sell Samsung. Hardly any LG mobiles to be seen!
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LG had good phones. But while most other phones allowed some minor cracks in their glass, the earlier LGs did not. One minor crack and the touch UI would stop working (they fused the touch sensor to the glass or something). They insisted on this "feature" for longer than most competitors I believe, and for every customer that experienced it we would 1) Never by an LG again, and 2) Bitch about it to others. I'm sure this was a factor to their downfall as well.
Oh, you're right, there are some email addresses, but not many. In the first 10,000 rows of Australian data, there are 62. I could be wrong, but I think the extra data about users (i.e., location, email address, relationship status, workplace) was scraped from Facebook so it only includes it when it was already publicly visible.
I don't think EU ever targeted Huawei's consumer business. It's only the US for this exact one.
Given that this may include data about EU residents and the GDPR has strict rules about data breaches and may even impose fines in cases of negligence I wonder if anything will come from this.
How long did you have the mouse? I’ve had the primary button fail on my mouse after 2 years
The original paper titled "The Perils and Pitfalls of Block Design for EEG Classification Experiments" here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9264220

Abstract: "A recent paper [1] claims to classify brain processing evoked in subjects watching ImageNet stimuli as measured with EEG and to employ a representation derived from this processing to construct a novel object classifier. That paper, together with a series of subsequent papers [2] , [3] , [4] , [5] , [6] , [7] , [8] , claims to achieve successful results on a wide variety of computer-vision tasks, including object classification, transfer learning, and generation of images depicting human perception and thought using brain-derived representations measured through EEG. Our novel experiments and analyses demonstrate that their results crucially depend on the block design that they employ, where all stimuli of a given class are presented together, and fail with a rapid-event design, where stimuli of different classes are randomly intermixed. The block design leads to classification of arbitrary brain states based on block-level temporal correlations that are known to exist in all EEG data, rather than stimulus-related activity. Because every trial in their test sets comes from the same block as many trials in the corresponding training sets, their block design thus leads to classifying arbitrary temporal artifacts of the data instead of stimulus-related activity. This invalidates all subsequent analyses performed on this data in multiple published papers and calls into question all of the reported results. We further show that a novel object classifier constructed with a random codebook performs as well as or better than a novel object classifier constructed with the representation extracted from EEG data, suggesting that the performance of their classifier constructed with a representation extracted from EEG data does not benefit from the brain-derived representation. Together, our results illustrate the far-reaching implications of the temporal autocorrelations that exist in all neuroimaging data for classification experiments. Further, our results calibrate the underlying difficulty of the tasks involved and caution against overly optimistic, but incorrect, claims to the contrary."
Apparently referring to this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rootmy-tv-coming-soon-dev...

Which seems to mean that current unpatched LG TVs should be rootable for modding.
there's a lot of tradeoff in samsung phones, from thermal envelop to installed crapware, but their success is not just marketing, they usually come with top of their price class camera, and that is something a lot of people care about.

especially mid range a lot of phone produces washed, sad mockery of pictures unless you're under the sunniest day conditions, and even then skin and faces get garbled by the ai-thingy lot of them sports. this does matter to a lot of consumers.
Correction they lost 2 shuttles not one
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Are you suggesting that that altercations that wouldn't result in death, did result in death due to hospital overload and as such trigger the murder/homicide stat?
The causes are likely many issues interacting in a complex manner. That said, yes, obviously locking people in a house with the person most likely to murder them, while simultaneously putting enormous financial strain on that household, is very likely a contributing factor. I don't think anyone is arguing that point.
Long-time Ubiquiti fan here

Their lack of Wifi 6 across the range, and the security problems drive me to look at alternatives. Found the Netgear WAX610. Very happy with them.
We have a galvohead 20w laser 200x200mm

Great device.
But ezcad is bad software.

Waiting for lightburn to support galvo.
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To be expected from your previous comments, but your website is snappy. Navigating it feels great.
Replacing iPhone battery feels like reassembling a mechanical watch. It isn’t soldered, but it’s glued in weird way requiring applying heat. To change battery, you have to disconnect 4-5 tiniest connectors, looking like LPT for fleas, extremely fragile.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+12+Battery+Replacement/1...

And you just can’t buy original battery, they’re available only to selected service centres.
Roads change over time. The information about those roads gets updated. It continues to be updated well.
If we do green field development, we often end up with a stack like this:

- Backend: Java + Spring Boot

We went there from node and we did try a lot of other backend stacks (Go, PHP, Clojure, Python, ...). Java has evolved quite nicely recently, APIs and libraries are rock-solid, well documented and battle tested. I plays very will with our DDD approach anyway. Many problems have already been solved for us here. Flyway for migrations, custom session handling mechanism. We do not use an ORM.

- Frontend SPA: Svelte

Again, we tried most of it, from vanilla JS, over Backbone+Marionette through React, Angular 1 - ?? and Vue. Svelte is a good compromise of an opinionated approach, high flexibility and ease of learning. It scales very well for big applications. Built with webpack.

- Frontend styling: Bootstrap

Yes, we developed with all of them again, even wrote our own. IBM Carbon is nice, but the svelte implementation has potential for improvements. People tell me everything looks like Bootstrap, but the point is: it's well tested, very well documented, extensible and accessible, has accessibility concerns baked in and can be themed easily. If done well, an app doesn't have to look like Bootstrap. We might pull in Tachyons for utilities if necessary.

- Data store: MySQL/MariaDB or Postgres plus Redis

You name it, we tried it. Postgres never let us down, we know it very well and its SQL support is a breeze. I personally like MySQL/MariaDB for some technical reasons. We had mixed experience with SQLite and bad experience with SQL Server. Oracle is pretty good, but the pricing is no in our favour. Everything related to caching and session handling goes into Redis. For search and analytics, we might pull in Elasticsearch or InfluxDB.

- Configuration

Config files or environment vars à la 12 factor app. We use Hashicorp Vault for bigger systems. We are dispassionate, though, what ever the client has decided to suffer through will be supported.

Complementary tools and technologies: Docker, docker-compose, Docker Swarm in prod, trying out Dokku at the moment, Keycloak for OAuth, Jenkins for CI/CD, people are trying to convince me to use Github Actions. Deployments are usually done on big machines on an IaaS offering (we run Azure and AWS as well as bare metal), no cluster systems, no micro services. We do not use Kubernetes.
My LG G3 was a decent phone but I never once received any Android update.
thanks for the link which confirms "ahead of" as in "more crime"
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Dunno how much this affects how much policing is being done: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-de...

But it seems like there are a number of police departments that have less money to operate.
> I wonder how detached from reality people are.

Is it other people detached from reality? It seems unrealistic to assume 100% of people will not want to use such a service.

> There are many reasons this won't happen.

The very fact taxis and Uber exist means there is a demand for such a service.
Life does not imply free will.
Yeah, that's why I specified my location and climate. Except for things like the boiling and freezing point most of these are highly subjective. My point is that what specific temperatures we align them with is not only subjective but also somewhat arbitrary depending on whichever scale we're used to.

If I lived in a region that uses Fahrenheit, I'd probably have picked values that are nice round numbers in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius.
I disagree, most of the countries with booming populations are rather poor and don’t do much innovation or research. In the age we live in it’s almost impossible for a lone wolf to fix a big problem of the humankind because of complexities involved. What is necessary instead is team work and funding innovation. Individuals don’t count as much anymore.
It says "Accidents" are 173,040, traffic fatalities would then comprise 20% of all accidents. Aside from suicide, the rest of the top 10 causes are medical causes broadly associated with aging (which I'm sure many on this forum would also assert is preventable/curable.)

FSD is perhaps the ultimate solution but there are common-sense road fixes that can be applied, a la Oslo, Norway which achieved zero annual traffic fatalities:

https://thecityfix.com/blog/how-oslo-achieved-zero-pedestria...

FYI here is the article for the death of my friend. The philosophical differences between DOT and safety advocates are quite infuriating:

https://pamplinmedia.com/scc/103-news/199653-buttressing-saf...

[Don Hamilton, Oregon DOT public information officer] "There's nothing that engineering can do to stop drivers from harming themselves, and there's no way we can engineer from an irresponsible behavior."

[Roger Averbeck, Chairman Southwest Neighborhoods Inc. Transportation Committee] "It's a very wide roadway (with a) wide cross section, very wide traffic lanes… ong distances in between traffic signals and safe crossing locations… and particularly in this… historic section, the land use is set way back away from the road with parking lots between the businesses and sidewalks. …This creates this wide, open environment that is definitely a factor in people’s behavior. People do not drive that fast… through the middle of Multnomah Village or even on Capitol Highway through Hillsdale in the middle of the night. It's the environment that people are in that encourages speeding."

I wonder which worldview the HN crowd will more closely identify with?
Interestingly enough, that was sort of one of the things I occasionally used my WinMo6 HTC Tilt for JUST A LITTLE.

Back in 2007 there was a period where I was doing a lot of work on deployed standalone application servers at remote client sites, some of which had little to no internet connection.

We'd audit servers before I traveled and send me with the "right software patches", but it didn't always work out perfectly and tethering was pretty primitive back then.

I loved being able to call someone, have them check something out of sourcesafe, then throw it up on one of our servers, where I could SSH in from my phone, grab files, edit them, then shove them on my MicroSD card, pull that, shove it in a USB adapter and patch an install for a server with no internet connection.

SUPER hinky by today's standards, but it felt pretty amazing at the time.
The west also invented many of these resources. Before we found ways to turn them into resources they were useless. You are following the same line of reasoning we heard about how the earth couldnt sustain 4 billion, 5 billion, yet here we are wealthier, safer, more numerous than ever because we found ways to transform completely useless materials into valuable resources.
This is the first time I've heard of T9 being used since we moved on from the old Nokia phones that pioneered T9! Bring back fond memories of my Nokia 3310 and 8210. But yeah it's odd to see T9 in the context of a touchscreen phone...
> Further, given how culturally different those countries are, trying to compare the two would be ludicrous.

If the original post was making a comment about american culture (its "hyperviolence"), why wouldn't you compare it to a different culture? That is how comparisons work.
I don't have enough information to comment on the YoY statistic, as I am sure it could be due to a variety of 2020-esque factors.

But I will comment on the murder rate in Philadelphia. Good lord that's a lot of murders per capita (NYC has 5x the population of Philadelphia)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest.

> Ask questions out of curiosity.

> Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more.

> don't be gratuitously negative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less

> Assume good faith

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
https://archive.is/20210401021541/https://www.economist.com/...
We need both and that require more not less people.
bad parenting -> unfettered access to advertising influences
Bias and corruption is a general organizational ill, and it happening within corporations with billions and billions of dollars can cause some nasty problems to people, and people will have just as little (or even less at times!) recourse when it affects them. It's not unique to "planned economy" stuff.

A super banal version of this is stuff like Google's "moonshots" that exist basically to just burn ad dollars, or Amazon's Prime Video stuff, which is rumored to exist so that Bezos can hang out with actors. These are not really _problems_, but they're massive initiatives and projects that are based around the whims of a few people. Let's not get started on a certain Mars-facing person...
The implication of this study is that life on Earth could be amongst the longest in development, which would be a solution to the Fermi paradox.
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https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...

For the UK it was a high year, but that's partly because the ONS are counting homicide, which in this case includes the death of 39 people in the back of a lorry in Essex. (https://news.sky.com/story/essex-lorry-deaths-two-men-found-...)

So its either up 8% including these people in the back of the lorry, or 1% if you exclude it.

nowhere near the 39% quoted in OP.
Samsung has led the way in many respects. Higher refresh displays, multiple cameras, always-on displays, in-screen fingerprint readers, much larger phones, etc.
The firefox addon is now also maintained in the former repo :) It's a great addon indeed, it makes the internet still function.
Just wanted to thank you for htmx!
Nope. I spoke to the woman who issued us with an account and they just had it built for them.
In a war zone usually a lot of people die, this is not the case. Also how is this different from like 2018 Paris riots or 2019 Paris riots?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y1z12D5bx7c
>isn't that all big tech does?

Obviously no. Most modern conveniences - electricity, planes, abundant food etc came partly from some form of big tech.

Self driving tech has a chance to fix the 1m+ annual road deaths. Not there yet but give it a while.

Sure some CEOs can the rent seeking etc but that's what competition and regulation are for.
Or maybe, you'd have the same dollar a million times... you never know...
it removes the separation between your structure and your styles so you can style as you go.

this sounds wrong because “separate responsibilities!” but in reality structure and style are so interconnected, for html and css, that you’re often changing one with respect to another so why not colocate the info.

also, managing a large css stylesheet is often terrible and it becomes write only as a result. it is easier to add new styles that override than attempt to find out which styles impact your target elements and change then. this is again due to the way that structure and style are intimately linked for html and css.

its better than writing raw styles on the html because that is rather obtuse, tailwind shortens many of the common style attribute names. e.g background-color: #efefef becomes bg-gray-50. this links into then named color palette that tailwind gives you.

also, *everything* is configurable.
But all parts do try and eventually will use as much as the resources the west uses. In fact, as the population on the west declines, the population in other parts of the world will make up for the resources demand.

We will deplete all resource and cause irreparable damage in all possible scenarios. I think that much is clear. I hope we are technologically mature enough to be able to artificially evolve until that happens. That’s our best bet.
We weren't desperately short of ideas when the world population was $1billion and the proportion with education, money and prospects for social advancement was still small.

I think we'll cope pretty well with a small drop-off, especially if that's coupled with much of the world getting better prospects at the same time.