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> Why would that form factor succeed in the Android space?

Because it's not Apple selling them and Android smartphone manufacturers operate with much lower margins.

Take Motorola for example, which isn't even one of the 10 largest smartphone manufacturers. They released ~30 different smartphone models in the past year alone, so they apparently make money, even if they don't sell millions of units per model.

Yet none of the models released in the past year has a height shorter than 159mm or a weight lighter than 155g.

I believe the reason why no smartphone manufacturer offers small phones anymore is not because they want to, but rather because there is some non-obvious reason why they can't. My personal theory is because it's difficult to get proper display panels for smaller phones nowadays. The fabs producing the panels switched to larger sizes due to demand and efficiency, which resulted in no smaller panels with up-to-date specs (high-refresh rate, HDR, low power consumption, ...) to be available. I'd appreciate if somebody could proof me wrong, as that'd be quite a bummer otherwise.
Actual pros are just doing it for free with the same setup but added Prowlarr/Jackett and private trackers, so it's all free without having to pay for usenet. The issue then becomes getting access to the tracker, but it's not that hard, especially for general purpose ones.
Yeah and abortion is also practically illegal in Germany :(

I don't really understand the legal framework for it but definitely a lot of abortions that are performed here are technically illegal, it's just not enforced.

And France has a lot of problems with right-wing ideologies. All but the furthest left parties in France are violently islamaphobic, for instance. In their recent elections they almost elected Le Pen (again) who wants to leave the EU, has close ties to Russia, is extremely LGBTQ-phobic, etc...

Europe has a rising alt-right problem in every country that I have any knowledge of their politics. Of course some of it is not new either, like Poland has never had legal abortions, many (if not most countries) still make changing your legal name and gender very difficult and/or humiliating, and many countries still don't even have same-sex marriage. Far from the liberal paradise I see US republicans online make it out to be
at the same time they are not really currencies, they are "stablecoins" on a many-times replicated digital machine playground where you can pay to add your own machine to interact with the others, and sometimes it turns into Robot Wars and the little coins get mercilessly cut up into bits of worthless parts that are then sold for scrap in the actual currency that runs the playground
There are two big issues with SFF, really:

- people tend to correlate size and price, and by default the correlation is direct (for some things it's inverse), so at similar capabilities (and thus prices) consumers will tend to go with the larger version

- for a smartphone specifically, there's a direct relationship between battery size and device size, and battery life is a really valuable convenience

The iPhone 13 mini has a 2400 mAh battery, the 13 has 3200. 33% more battery capacity is a lot, and at 2400mAh I don't think the mini doesn't survive an entire day of relatively heavy use without a charge.
There are some tools being worked on: https://github.com/DNSSEC-Provisioning/Multi-signer
If you go look at the theories, you will find that economics uses a lot of those overloaded terms, but they have perfectly reasonable objective meanings for them that are different from the popular subjective meaning.
It is a business, though, and if 5% of sales cost disproportionately more than 5% to produce, market, support, and all those things, then it’s fair to say “it doesn’t sell” and axe it.
Bike is usable forever (opening, editing, saving) without paying anything.

You only need to pay if you want to change some of the settings or use applescripts.
> The screen is just small enough to be too annoying to do anything really distracting on

I'm a happy user of Jelly 2 for a half year now and I bought it for this single reason. It's fully featured so you can do anything, but the screen is so small that you do it only when there's a real need, so I'm not wasting time staring at the phone for no real reason.

Cons: My co-workers make fun of me :)

Edit: formatting
Good pirates seed forever.
Show HN: I tweeted to elonmusk on community power laws and got banned
I really didn’t want to go through with putting the effort to even attempt at tweeting at Elon as I didn’t think he’d see it. Well, he definitely won’t see it because I ended up doing it and Twitter banned my account for posting this tweet which was in reference to a comment made here the other day.

That’s pretty suspicious given it was about their fake accounts.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/931832635758641158/976136613044322394/IMG_3361.png

Hopefully that link works? If not here is the link from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31376963

Messed up.
Great that they are so obsessive. I think its fair if you seed enough and then get off and delete.
> The carbon cycle has a good 800M years left before photosynthesis starts grinding to a halt.

What?
IMO a lot of the visual appeal of smartphone apps, mainly social media, would go away with small screen. I remember using my HTC desire to read the web and if it wasn't text, it was not great.

BTW the best form factor phone I had was the Nexus 4, at 4.7". I would very much like that back, but without that slippery glass back, repairable, held together with screws, with replaceable battery, shipped with LineageOS or /e/. Yep, I'll keep dreaming.
> really love and want to rewatch (Robocop)

You mean Dredd 2012.

"Are you ready?" "Yes." "You don't look ready." Absolutely the best performance of Olivia Thirlby, although of course Karl Urban was great, too.
What you're suggesting for the UK sounds like a terrible argument. Without the constitution these terrible laws will never be struck down for being illegal because they wouldn't be illegal. Courts can, and do, issue injunctions to prevent laws from going into effect when they are likely to be struck down.
Although one could argue it should.
Who has been ignoring it?
The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science with Math
The point is that people spend what they have? What would that do?
Exactly. They are so focused on trying to categorize the symptoms that if it does not fit in any known pattern they just shrug and say it is all in your head. This has a lot to do with insurance coverage but also the training of doctors.
The problem with Amazon is that my nearest Amazon, and the one that actually reliably ships to me, is Amazon.de. And the media on Amazon.de is usually German media, if there is even any media available. And I'm not German.

Just looking at a couple of shows that I watched a year ago, I couldn't actually find any of them on Amazon.de. And actually, only found one on Amazon.com, where it was unavailable. Also, the Chinese version for some reason?
> I tend to not believe unbelievable results

That seems tautologically true.
> FamousProducer™

Why be so coy about this? Naming and shaming should serve as a warning to those who might buy one expecting long term support, or as a spur to action towards LineageOS for those who many have been or are about to be blindsided by the support window expiring.
My understanding is that an attestation that you have a billion dollars looks at your bank balance, and observes that you have a billion dollars in your accounts.

An audit looks at the history of your overall financials, to ensure that you didn't just borrow that billion dollars two days ago for the sole purpose of passing the audit. Or that you didn't, like, cash a half-billion dollar check from yourself to yourself, and have the money immediately show up in the destination account, before it was debited from the source account.
Let it go. Don't do the assignments. Seriously.

What got me over this cycle was to seriously see how bad it can get.

I mean, really, now the fear has been reset to normal. I'm afraid of the consequences far more than the activity.
Flight Delayed? Blame a Spaceship
> So, by all accounts, the iPhone mini has been an extremely slow seller.

Well, it's up against the iPhone SE, which has the same size, same weight and the same processor. [1]

[1] https://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/compare/?modelList=iphone13m...
Yeah, the biodegradable part of the article is more about paper vs. plastic in general rather than single vs. multi-use.
The Pixel 3a (my current phone) has a 5.6" screen, the 4a has a 5.8" screen and the Pixel 5 has a 6" screen. However, they're all approximately the same physical size, it's just the bezels that got smaller.
And together with the SE devices?
He's using usenet, I highly doubt he's seeding the data he holds
There is definitely a subset of economists who are hacks who advocate positions because they want to help some group and not because they think they are true, just as there were doctors who said smoking was fine.
Same... Used the Pixel 2 before that. Probably will buy a spare 4a on ebay soon.
Look at the grain pattern. The texture of the grain determines what kind of wood it is. A wood has an open, porous texture. Softwoods are usually smooth with no grain pattern while hardwood usually has an open pore structure that is quite rough and sticky https://woodymanreviews.com/how-to-make-wood-trim-look-moder...
That is their sales page. Have you looked in the actual docs yet?
I think the architecture needed to support them means the total package is less than most apps. For example consider scrolling:

In Bike it's fast enough that when you scroll it just updates what you can see on the screen. This means you only pay memory for visible text. For most macOS apps scrolling performance is achieved by pre-rendering before and after the visible scroll area. So you pay for that cache and you also pay for the background processing required by pre-rendering.

Also consider simple things like window resize. In Bike that only effects visible text. If you open a large document in TextEdit you will see that resize is quite slow and processor and memory intensive. (you can test with https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/posts/moby-dick-workout/). And then after that resize there's lots of background processing to refill a bunch of layout caches I guess. On the other hand resize is instant and only does work for visible text in Bike.

I don't think the animations are expensive, but it's hard to test because that work happens in Mac OS window server and I'm not an expert there. If they really are a problem and you are on battery then you can turn off animations in preferences.
You hear this kind of equivalence made a lot: social media is no different than the newspaper, or the TV news. This never made sense to me. Obviously, some characteristic of social media persuaded people to drop their newspapers and turn of their televisions to use their phones instead. There must be something qualitatively different about social media on mobile devices that explains this.

The difference may be that it is better and more enlightening, or it may be that it is more addictive and intrusive. But, it is not the same.
Similarly, the F150 is the best selling vehicle in the US. #2 is the Silverado, and #3 is the Dodge Ram.

Clearly, this whole 'sedan' concept is a failed form factor, every manufacturer should only make pickup trucks. Why shoot for less than the #1 market spot?
* against church orthodoxy
Econ PhD here! Also IO.
> The Bloomberg article is incomplete, it doesn't mention that depending on how big the error is it could be considered securities fraud and that might automatically void the agreement.

No, not really. The Bloomberg article goes into great lengths about the implications of a lower than expected number of active users accounts, and points out in no unclear terms that the claim does not even hold if that number is significantly large, mentioning even half the number of users.
https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pinephone-pro-keyboard-...
But admittedly here in Germany SUVs are also on the rise, even though we have that "environmentally conscious" reputation.
Ever since Microsoft bought Minecraft, I have been telling people to switch to something else (roblox, fortnight... there are lots of alternatives).

I'm glad a company that was willing to sell off it's IP to one of the most closed source companies on the planet fell through...
This will be tracked with updates by blancolirio [1] There was another youtuber starting a rumor that a child was in the pilots lap according to audio logs but AFAIK there is no public data to back this up so I would just wait for updates from blancolirio.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4-Dj63KGCQ
A problem is that even within the niche of small phones, not everybody has the same wishes.

Compared to your ideal specifications, my wishes are: support for microSD card storage; battery that easily and reliably lasts a full day with moderate phone usage; fingerprint sensor, not necessarily on the power button; camera decent, not necessarily great (I don't care that much about low light performance, for example).

I'm tempted to sign up even with the specifications as you list them though. Missing microSD card support could be the major dealbreaker. Or alternatively some other user-friendly reliable method of getting lots of files from my PC to the phone's storage, but so far I haven't found any. Early Android versions supporter USB mass storage and that worked pretty well, but the transfer method implemented on newer versions is very slow and never works reliably for me.
Weird, all the europeans who visit me in the US talk so much about how great it is to have this much space.
You have a really immense archive of pop culture that is priceless. If I wanted to scroll through endless junk I'd never watch or wouldn't want to watch again, i'd rather it be my own 30TB catalog.
Thank you! I love that they do very small changes that have positive impact. It really makes the most sense for Show HN.
Maybe someone should make a stablecoin that aims to trade $1 to $.9999 and the operators take their cut purely for auditing and maintaining the backing.

Thus a true backed stablecoin where the operators have proper incentives.
Isolated scissors then?
> Even within the same game genre that barely translates. People good at Starcraft I struggled with Starcraft II, people great at Warcraft made little headway in Starcraft II (e.g. WCIII players like Grubby or Happy).

That might be true if you're comparing the top 0.1%, but someone who played a lot of Starcraft would be miles ahead of any newcomer in both Starcraft II and Warcraft III.

Your example is like saying that a world-class sprinter would struggle to be a world-class cyclist. Yes, that's true, but the aspects that do carry over - cardio and muscle development - would immediately put them in the top 5% of the field even if they never win the Tour de France.
Caffeine in general is a hunger suppressant. Many weight loss pills wil have caffeine added.
You're not missing much if you can't get series 2 onwards! The crew of all Star Trek ships now appear to need to have a group hug and good cry every episode and tell each staff member how important and unique they are rather than just solving problems in an interesting way.
Me too! AT&T kicked my xperia mini off their network for no good reason. I bought a pixel 4a which was the smallest compatible thing I could find. I also bought a Chinese 4g smartwatch hoping I can use that as a phone.
What I really want is both, a larger phone (for me happens to be iPhone) for "most of the time" and a smaller phone for occasional use. I want them to have the same phone number and keep data in sync, basically like two extensions of the same line. However, I'm not willing to pay my carrier a premium/additional monthly cost just to have two phones that cannot be used simultaneously.

Much of this is able to be done with wifi, but not via the cellular networks (without additional costs).

In other words, there is no ideal one-size-fits-all option, and I'd be willing to pay for additional hardware to give me choice of what to carry at any given time, but I do not want to pay Verizon just for the privilege of having a 2nd SIM provisioned (and I do not want to swap SIMs).
Apart from the quacks no medical doctor imho will state: 60days fast is completely safe for any 250 pounder at any age and without a medical supervision.
Yes please. Before I switched to the iPhone, I was using the Xiaomi Mi A1, which ticked a lot of the boxes for me (stock Android!) while also having a great bang-for-buck value; but I’d still have preferred it in a smaller form factor.
Fringe conspiracy replacement theory, fostered online, is refashioned by the GOP
I didn't see Xpra mentioned, but Xpra does desktop and window streaming with fast video encoding using H.265 (or H.264 and others options), and it has an experimental UDP transport - though I haven't needed it yet. In the Windows world, gamers use Parsec which matches those two network transport and encoding design decisions (which I am sure are the right direction).

To use Xpra as part of a secondary monitor solution, you might need to define a "dummy" window region for it, and I suspect X server can be configured to allow this but I don't know how yet.

I'm interested in any solutions for Linux secondary monitor devices too, especially more simple ones.

Edit: kbumsik link below uses xrandr to add a new display region and then uses x11vnc with a "clip" argument. I couldn't see such an argument for xrandr.
Maybe they are conflating Pixel 5 and 5a. 5a is larger but 5 while still a big phone, is not that bad.
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin:Terra stablecoin investors should be made whole
Looks like the compiler includes support for amd64 and arm64 code generation. It's unclear if you can compile WASM to assembly at runtime and invoke it? If so, it might be a viable way to implement plugin support.
Yall are the home of VW right?
Sadly yes, if the Mini means additional costs and only captures users which'd have bought your phone anyway it's just overhead.

Sad to say but ruthless supply chain and product range efficiency is one of the pillars of Apple's return.
There's also an open market buyback. And multiple ways of doing it off the open market, often known as a tender offer for a popular method where you get shareholders to bid on the lowest price they would accept within a range of premium buyback prices.

Off the market, an offer does become public immediately, that is a necessary component of doing it at all. The sales do not. Directly is the wrong word, there's no more direct way to affect price than a bid/ask/sale of a share. The key is that the information about how much of the stock will actually get bought at what price is delayed on its way to becoming a price signal in the market.

Here's an old-ish but good paper about it, showing how this delay can be exploited by those with inside information. Not a loophole but rather another thing to watch out for. https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
For me, I think it would help to just write a plan down and then just execute it.

Also, just set aside a time for it like with working in an office, work is from 8 am to 5 pm so can't indulge in too many distractions during that time and so body gets used to doing intellectual work during that time. Consistency helps the body gets used to it like with a consistent sleep schedule.
tldr; Don't use relational tables or unstructured document databases. Instead use structured types. The "schema" here is ultimately a collection of independent objects / classes with well-defined fields.

Ok, fine. But I'm not sure how this helps if you have six different systems with six different definitions of a customer, and more importantly, different relationships between customers and other objects like orders or transactions or locations or communications.

I don't see their approach as ground-breaking, but it is definitely worthy of discussion.
Hm. Some cases are where non-composable things might just fail; that is indeed "not especially hard or anything" to detect with simple integration tests, sure. But those you'll also probably notice without integration tests too, when your code just obviously doesn't work. Either way, sure, you'll find out about this quick, and know you have to fix it if you want to use that code to get the results you wanted to get.

But some of the examples in OP of non-composability are where edge cases (not all cases) will give you the wrong answers. In the worst case, in ways that aren't immediately obvious.

I think it's too optimistic to say that you just need to know that you should write some integration tests and then write some easy and obvious ("not especially hard") ones, and then you'll always catch these easily and early.
I would say it would have to be costing enough money or time to be negatively impacting OP's life before we could accurately call it a problem.

It's one thing to be over budget for it, but the budget just may not be realistic for the project and cost expectations have to be adjusted or the project downscaled. That's not a problem really it's just a normal part of budgeting.

The problem comes in if OP were missing work to work on this thing, or neglecting personal relationships. Or so over budget it was putting them financially in the red, leading to risky loans to pay for or borrowing from friends/family or whatever else.

Problems are things that have real negative externalities, imo.
I have given up: the iphone mini (which I own) is gargantuan.

There are a few glimmers of hope around the edges. Palm was interesting but too small (the primary problem was the battery, not the screen size). Unihertz is doing some interesting stuff in the small phone arena, but their stuff is either too small and thick (the jelly) or too big (titan). Their styling is also a bit funky in a 90's tech vibe sort of way that I'm not a huge fan of.

What I want is an iphone 4-sized phone that I can keep in my pocket w/o noticing and that provides the basics of smart phones. Even better if it could be an e-ink screen so I don't have to charge it very often.

I have accepted that I am a market of one.
Hear hear! I hope your gadget guy dreams come to fruition again and you sell 10 million! I only am chiming in to say a premium phone should be water resistant!
The industry keeps paying because of the sunk costs of legacy files and content, and the fact that Adobe also makes RIPs for imagesetters so the expectation is that it will all be compatible and work together.
So… there are tons of small Chinese Android phones. Why not get one of them, wipe it clean, and install whatever you want?
Please do at least put the minimum required version on the homepage (maybe in small text below the "Download" button or something).