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> The design space has been very rapidly moving towards online, live collaboration tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, etc and FOSS just has no answer for this market.

Oh, but it does: https://penpot.app/
A purposefully wonky implementation that drives you to download the 'official' drivers and their super handy payload?
That's about as accurate as saying Medicine doesn't make any more reliable predictions than astrology
Looks like pretty much all high tech company's slowing the hiring. That usually indicates that in few months it would not be surprised to see stating the blood bath in tech companies.
Don't see the same with my family, girlfriend has a 13 Pro Max, mum and sister have the 11 Pro Max.
This links to a 2014 article about Content Centric Networking.
Morbid curiosity sometimes makes me seek out death and decay on the internet. Could this be the secret to my happiness?

But seriously, you can self-reflect about you constantly comparing yourself to to others and and some point you really should ask yourself what you want yourself. Even if you assume that the self-presentation of people on the net is honest, winning the social media competition is an illusion.
As my late wife discovered a food sensitivity to Nightshade plants, that are common in our diets, can mimic the symptoms of both Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis.

When we cleaned up our diets and got chemical based products out of our house, we switched to Hemp based cleaning and body products, her Lupus and RA symptoms went away and never returned.

Common Nightshades are:

Potatoes
Tomatoes
Eggplant
Peppers (including bell, cayenne pepper, and paprika).
Gojo berries are also Nightshades, they are not a 'superfood'.

The list is far longer than just those common ones.

We are what we absorb from all sources.
He's on usenet, not torrenting. No need to keep or seed anything. OP is hoarding and attributing negative consequences of his own decision to a concept itself.
Professional help. Nobody is going to be able to help you without knowing the specifics of your problem, and nobody here knows the specifics of your problem.

There are a million ways that people have gotten through these kinds of issues, because there are a million people, and each person needed something different. Either you can risk failing to find your "thing" that will get you through, or you can enlist the help of someone who's trained in helping people like you.

It'd be like trying to operate on yourself; you'd never think to do it, so why do you think you'd be able to self-treat your behavioral injury?
I also thought about XML. It has the Document Object Model (DOM), the structure which describes the data.
It sounds like you have a lot of concerns about this that all kind of conveniently put you in a place to pirate whatever you want.

Most of the time I watch things once, so I rent it if it's not on a platform I subscribe to. Generally then I can watch it on my tv, ps4, phone, computer, whatever.

Consider that money spent on these products are an indication to studios about what people like. Movie studios, production companies, they make stuff they think they can sell for a profit. I suggest that you try renting movies or buying ones you like. If you run into a situation where one of your concerns comes to life, I think it would be very reasonable to pirate something you've made a good faith effort to pay for. This is kind of how I started and now for the most part I rent/buy with some exceptions. Still downloading some trash tv shows.
> The forthcoming case on discrimination against Asians in college admissions for the sake of diversity will likely open some eyes to the reality of this so-called equity.

Unfortunately, this has been ongoing for many years now, but has been getting very little media coverage. It's unlikely that this trend will change for the foreseeable future
Illinois Facebook users get payouts for facial recognition class-action lawsuit
I don't think it's as much a culture difference as you think, more like the environment where we use the cars.

I'm from Europe, living in bigger European city, and I have a small car (3-door RAV4). I bought it so I can drive and park easily in the city and go up hills and mountains when I leave the city once a month.

And if I'm honest, that is the best car I could afford. I see lots of rich people with bigger and bigger SUVs cruising in the city in Germany: G wagons, BMWs, Audis, Volkswagen Touaregs, Porsche Cayennes everywhere.

I went on a road trip in the US, rented an SUV that would be huge and impractical here, but there, it actually felt small. The roads were wide, traffic wasn't bad, parking was easy. I loved it.

If I lived in the countryside in Europe where I need to transport stuff for my ranch/farm (and if I could afford it), I'd definitely consider buying a pickup truck.

The same goes for properties. The reason why I lived in a 30sqm apartment with my wife was that is all I could afford while living in the city, close to good job opportunities. I would have been obviously happier if I could have a 300sqm house.
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I hold the opinion that economics isn't a science, that it's akin to numerology, and that it's social role is that of modern-day court astrologers.

> In economics, what is "utility"?

First result (using https://andisearch.com/ ):

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/utility.asp

> Utility is a term in economics that refers to the total satisfaction received from consuming a good or service. Economic theories based on rational choice usually assume that consumers will strive to maximize their utility. The economic utility of a good or service is important to understand, because it directly influences the demand, and therefore price, of that good or service. In practice, a consumer's utility is impossible to measure and quantify. However, some economists believe that they can indirectly estimate what is the utility for an economic good or service by employing various models.

Circular definition, "impossible to measure", "indirectly estimate", "various models"...

Sounds like mumbo-jumbo with math to me.

"Utility" isn't a scalar value, or a vector, or even a matrix. It's got to be a higher-order tensor or some even more exotic mathematical object, eh?

> I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."

~Fermi
I think it is more intertwined with your movie-watching habit. Akin to that in the DVD age most people probably only had maybe a couple of dozens, few with entire walls in their home dedicated to movie storage.

Almost all of the movies/series I watch are somewhat obscure (from a Hollywood perspective) so I like to keep them around. But I don't watch nearly enough movies or care enough about their longevity, that a single, non backed up external drive wouldn't be good enough.

I guess there are many people who pirate for the sake of pirating trying to collect as much content as they can without actually consuming it all. But don't know what proportion this is.
Admittedly also on the rise in Australia, but they're nowhere near the size of pickup trucks that occupy American highways.
> GPUs aren’t cars

I think another comparison is with hard drives, which are also used by some cryptocurrency schemes, and do degrade faster with intensive use.
could you explain this in a bit more detail? why it's difficult to mint new DEI, or why it's difficult to put collateral into the system?

is the incentive that "currently it trades below 1.0, so I buy it, then redeem it for 1.0" which should drive the price up, right?

where does the money come from to finance this arbitrage? is there a redemption pool that shrinks every time someone executes this cycle?
Ask your corporate to pay for it.

I am glad they kept AGPLv3 to keep freeloaders in corporate under check.
Hell is freezing
I don't recall hearing anything about this before today, myself not living in Illinois.

An Illinois friend just mentioned it upon receiving $350 check in the mail, and says it's been big news in Illinois. So i started looking into it.

> The $650 million settlement was approved by a U.S. District Judge in February 2021… The lawsuit was made possible by Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act, which allows consumers to sue companies for harvesting biometric data without permission.

I'm curious how much of the HN audience has been aware of/following this.
You're correct. The reason is not to attribute industry common practices to a specific company, but it makes sense also to expose it :) The producer is Google. I think (not sure) that they support their phones for 3 years.
You've just eliminated all social sciences, by your metric of "reliably".

edit: your take-away from this should be that you're mis-defining science.

edit2: you all forgot that medical and nutritional science has a reproducibility crisis, it's no less "science" for it. Add to the fact, the notion that nothing is reproducible in Economics is false. See for example: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/famous-economics-experime... , https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaf0918
I don't think I've ever heard anyone talk of Germans as environmentally conscious. Car culture is usually one of the first things that comes up when someone talks about Germany.
Is the effect of media on intelligence really the primary concern?

Ad absurdum: if watching the Kardashians for two hours a day doubled your intelligence (however you decide to measure that) would you do it? Would you have your kids do it?
I'd argue the only problematic data hoarders are the ones who've gone put of the way to monetize it (corporates). They tend to collect too much, literally sell to some of the most problematic groups on the planet (whether they realize it or not).

I've yet to see a pirate who isn't basically a library.

For the record, I don't require libraries to necessarily have to play nice with the Publishing Industrial Complex to be legitimate.

Long live the Signal! May it spread far and wide! Fnord!
There's so much free (as in beer) content on the web that you don't even need to pirate stuff, either.
I wish they would release a modernized phone with a decent processor and camera in the form factor of a pixel 2.

How much compute does the average person even need from their phone these days? Aren't most people just browsing the internet and checking emails?
Web Apps, Web Sites, Are They All the Same?
At least not as bad as German "Borschtsch"
Oracle does owe HPE $3b after Supreme Court snub
One concern with a very small phone is that it necessarily has a very small battery. If you can charge frequently, or you only use the phone for an occasional text message it may be OK for you, but if you're checking it every few minutes and active on social media you'll likely not be happy with it.
https://globalnews.ca/news/2934513/empty-skies-after-911-set...
Infusion of $3.5bn not enough to revive Terra's 'stablecoin'
> I have a long list of thoughts but the simplest one was the fact that moving/rotating/scaling a layer is 3 different tools.

You might find that fact to be on the ageing side :) Unified Transform tool has been available for many years now. It's all three (and more) tools in one.
The UI is quite clean and responsive; it looks great! What is your frontend tech stack if you don't mind me asking?
> organically grow a cryptocurrency ... to usefulness

You might be right, but the only thing they were ever useful for, was money laundering.

So, I don't think that drawing a greater distinction between the first wave of money-laundering crypto, vs the current wave of Ponzi crypto, is really a defense of either.
Why isn't there a streaming service that has basically every movie and tv show ever made before, let's say, 2000.

Netflix etc. can keep on having their own new stuff exclusive to them, and fair enough if some `special' older content with a high ongoing value was kept off the `everything old' service (Star Wars, Star Trek, James Bond or whatever).

The streaming services have become too much like tv: you can only watch `what's on'.
Similar user, and I have no idea if there will be anything left to buy after the Pixel 4a. I expect the 4a will be good enough for another 3 years at-least, if there are no accidents.

Hopefully by then there is something available which continues the form factor. 4a has been the perfect successor to the Nexus 4, it's a little taller but other than that has practically the same footprint.

With the 6a moving in a different direction (eg: removing the headphone jack) I'm just hoping someone else comes along as a spiritual successor for the Pixel Xa-series.
You should probably get your burning envy under control before you realize this is just a buying opportunity and it fully consumes you.
I have a much longer list of content that I want to watch on streaming services - and never care about rewatching - that I don’t even bother with pirating anymore.

As far as $45. I spend less than that on streaming services.

- Netflix $7 (T-mobile discount)

- HBO Max - Free - bundled with AT&T fiber

- Amazon Prime Video - I would have Amazon Prime anyway. But let’s attribute $6.00/month to it.

- AppleTV+ - it’s part of a bundle. But let’s attribute $5/month to it.

- Disney/Hulu no ads bundle - $14

- Paramount Plus - $10/month - no ads

Besides, I travel a lot and it’s much more convenient to use streaming (unlimited data) than trying to maintain hardware. My Plex server has been down for a year.

Admittedly- my wife and I do have the AMC Stubs+ movie pass ($50) because we actually enjoy going to the movies as part of date night.
iPhone SE 2020 was a reason I switched from the Android. I have dedicated tools for my hobbies and I am using phone for messages, simple games, navigation and reading stuff mostly. These bases are covered by both sides, but only one had the form factor I was after.
Now I'm considering iPad 6 Mini to be my next planner, bullet journal, occasional article reader and note taker. Having small form factor phones can certainly be an entry point to the device ecosystem for some people.
I don't pirate, I pay for content, but I like to own a digital copy of music content. So I buy MP3s rather than subscribe to a service. It's probably strange-- and maybe dumb-- but I feel like in the long run I never know what will happen to a service in terms of how it may change in price or quality. If I own a CD or an MP3, I know I have what I want.

It may not be rational. I know some people think I am crazy.
Eh I recently switched to two 14tb disks of different manufacturers. One is usually in standby and once a week I do a rsync to it. Btrfs on both for checksums.

Good enough for me, I assume it's way more likely that a PSU failure fries them all, in which case no variant of raid would have helped anyways. For important stuff I have an off-site Backup, but that's only around 800gb anyways and growing a few gb per year.
I just wish s10e has replaceable battery... (even tho that would prob ruin ip68 and design :) )
US brings first-of-its-kind criminal charges of Bitcoin-based sanctions-busting
Ouch. I wasn't aware of that. I think I've rooted in the past the S2 and S3, but it was long ago.

Another brand that seems to be well supported (although not as extensively, timewise, as Samsung) is Google. LineageOS still supports the Pixel 1.
I jumped at getting the iPhone 13 mini immediately and haven’t looked back. I remember having an iPhone 5 and how much I loved the formfactor for the same reasons OP mentions.

Sure the battery sucks and the phone locks up from too many things happening sometimes, but those are perfectly fine trade offs for a phone that fits into my life and isn’t my life.

When I bought my 13 mini I also bought the new iPad mini to have a larger device for content consumption and the combo is lovely
I got one, and I love it! But it's not really a phone at that point
From what i have heard it varies a lot on a state by state basis. I suppressed my urge to look up heat pump statistics because frankly i should work on more important things. Just uhhmmm please don't act like i am supposed to research for you unpaid. I might fall for it and hate myself for it later.
If the noise in polygenic scores is random, all that will do is reduce correlations. Random measurement error always reduces the ability to observe relationships. To be clear, I do not know enough about polygenic scores to judge one way or another how the noise "works" vis-a-vis the entire analysis.

The Porsche comment is snide, but actually exposes a similar error in your critique. Sure, a tax return-derived measure of income would be superior to measuring if someone owned a luxury car. But, if you found yourself in a situation where all you had to go on for measuring economic wellbeing was (luxury) car ownership, your analysis is likely to improve by including it rather than excluding it, unless the measure itself had serious other issues with its accuracy.

Likewise, for SES, it is an imperfect measure, but it is the best we have for measuring social position in a concise way.

Having worked in research and universities for a while, the type of critique presented in this post is one you often see of new graduate students. They are able to tear down problems with research very well, but tend to overlook whether the study itself was still informative, or whether the opposite finding is likely to be true.

For example, suppose we wanted to know if video games or watching videos on the internet are making you dumber. A study like this may not convince you it's making you smarter, but it presents decent evidence they're not making you dumber. You can point out how the measures aren't perfect, but that is far from saying the opposite is true or the observed trends are completely spurious.
I know very well how heat pumps work, and I find it ironic that you assumes others don't know because you don't understand it or haven't heard of it.

A heat pump doesn't have to take heat from the outside. By using heat from the extracted air, you can use whatever you want to generate heat inside and get multiple times the effective heating as it's reused. Use wood, electrical floor heating or GPUs. It doesn't matter. The energy from the extracted air is transferred to the fresh supply air. The exhaust air will be freezing.

Also, electricity has been expensive the last two years, but mining has still been profitable, considering I already have some GPUs in my workstation and home server.

You don't earn money by using a heat pump, you do(or at least did) by mining. By mining and using a heat pump on that energy I increase the usage of that energy. Win win win.
The graphics modes also varied wildly regarding text readability (with sometimes different fonts or different font sizes at least). This approach let them have just normal text as it otherwise also appeared.
What do you mean by 'Strattera' almost killed me? I was prescribed this and might have developed a liver issue from it although I'm not sure. Just curious if you found yourself in a similar situation.
The homophobia isn't the problem.

Neither is the bullying.

The problem is that too many people think they have the right to act as "masculinity police", judging the men around them and seeking to punish men who don't measure up to some arbitrary standard, and they go unpunished.

ACAB (all cops are bastards) includes vigilantes who play at gender-policing.
Sure, unfortunately if you buy something on iTunes, it isn't available on amazon and vice versa. I guess you just have to look at your devices and pick a platform based on that. Most of the time I just rent a movie and watch and it expires so it's not really a problem I deal with a lot. I just rent the movie right before I watch it. It's pretty convenient.
And that’s why I used the word allegedly.
Have you disproven the claims and the validity of the video or even the leaked Twitter all hands video by them which that is still circulating around the internet and even the same media outlets are also in directly referencing it?

I have not seen a full refutation or disproving of those video(s) since their release and the claims made about Twitter being 'fake'.

Sorry, but yes. I have heard from the other side and I could not hear anything because they were either still silent, did not report it or referenced the matter with very careful wording. Maybe it is because it was true, since there was no denial or debunking around the leaked all hands, or even this video.
> For Apple, 10m phones is peanuts. But for an independent company 10m units per year would be spectacular. If Apple kills the Mini, those people will need a new home.

Hm, I’d suspect most of the customers are more attached to the Apple iPhone than the form. I’m one, but, I could be wrong!
An acquaintance of mine I lost contact with used to copy each DVD he rented from the video store, back in the early to mid 2000's.

Then he realized he had a box full of DVD-Rs, nicely ripped using DVDFab Decrypter and processed and RCE-stripped with the latest DVD Shrink, but had never gone back into that box to rewatch any of them, and had never been asked by anyone if he had any of those movies.

It was at that point where he decided if he really liked a movie, it was worth buying to have the original box and leaflet.
Ford has phased out sedans[0] for the US market and are instead chasing higher margin trucks and SUVs. The exception is the Mustang.

0: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/ford-exec-says-this-is-why-it-s...
Noone wanted to use it in the first place :)
Musk Slams Biden: 'The real president is whoever controls the teleprompter'
Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday Updates Cause Windows Ad Authentication Errors
If you hadn't included the link to Macrumors, I'd have guess that the mini sells poorly because the iPhone SE is available and much cheaper. Personally I really surprised that the SE doesn't sell more.
And who do you think reuploads stuff after DMCA/NTD takedowns?
That's a sweeping generalization, but ignoring that and assuming it's true: so what?
> Your piracy is an excuse for data hoarding, which is a problem.

Your fake concern an excuse for busy-bodying, which is a problem.
I don't understand when did the ability to choose a product fitting your preferences become a bad thing on HackerNews

Because so many on HN have been indoctrinated into the "scale at all costs" mentality.

It demonstrates the difference between HN and the real world.

On HN, if you can't serve a billion people, your product is niche. In the real world, billions of people earn a very nice living making niche products.

It's why so many people on HN don't understand Panic, or its PlayDate. They don't understand artisan anything. They've forgotten the whole hipster movement, which still exists in pockets of the world. They can't grok that there are companies that have been in business for hundreds of years making products one at a time — by hand.

"X doesn't scale" is HN for "I know nothing about how the world works."
I can't tell you: "Don't be anxious."

I can't tell you: "Don't be afraid."

I can't tell you: "Just take the first small step."

I cannot use reason, logic, or statistics to try to convince you that the thing you're afraid of is no reason to be afraid of it.

Deep self-reflection, meditation and/or professional help is all I can suggest, but is even that good advice, given it can be reasoned away as "won't work"?
Your argument suggests that there are actually 2 smart phone markets. One for iPhones, one for everything else. I think this is a fairly reasonable assumption for the majority of consumers.

Let's assume very few people are switching ecosystems at this point based on form factor. That would mean Apple made a new product to cannibalize 5% of their existing market. No similar product exists in the android ecosystem. It seems reasonable that an android phone maker could get similar market share but have these sales come from a combination of their existing sales and competitors sales.