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The best 'cheap' phone that was ever released in the US was the $499 Google Nexus 6P by Huawei in 2015. It was an octa-core phone that made Apple's dual core iPhone 6s (also released in 2015) look like an overpriced joke. The 6P's aluminum body was lighter and thinner than the iPhone 6s, its camera took much better pictures _by far_ especially in low light conditions (restaurants, evening travel, etc), the iPhone's old backlit IPS LCD screen had _nothing_ on 6P's gorgeous AMOLED. It took Apple 2 years to catch up to the 6P, with their iPhone X, and even then it didn't beat the 6P in every category. It was a beast of a phone. Mine finally died last year after 2 years of heavy use and 4 years of being a backup phone.

See for yourself: https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=7588&idPhone2...
Have so many fond memories of my Eee PC 1005HA, running backtrack and taking it to coffee shops. Netbooks were just the ideal form factor at that time for running Linux.
I asked RCN for IPv6 every year or two since 2010 at dslreports. They've changed their name to Astound, since then. It may be Astounding, but they still have no IPv6.

It's OK. I've decided that even when my house has IPv6 native, the Hurricane Electric tunnel is still quite useful to me. Static addresses are always nicer than dynamic.
I Like my iPhone SE (currently 3rd gen, previously 1st gen), but goodness is it ever slippery. It’s lovely to look at, but tough to use without covering it in a case.
The Livebook Desktop App
U.S. House passed $280B Chips and Science Act
I got an Asus Zenfone 8 mostly because it was one of the smaller Android phones available. It's mostly stock with a few UI changes, and I don't think it had any bloatware apps preinstalled that I can remember.
I had a 701. I loved that thing. I got linux on it and used it in college so much. I eventually upgraded to an 11" macbook air but man, that eeepc was a workhorse for me. Yes it was slow, but the battery life was incredible with the bigger battery and having a full OS laptop in a tiny form factor was amazing. What was even more incredible was that dell mini laptop.
Plenty of reading in their video description.

The intuition is one can construct larger tilings from smaller ones using a weird trick in a way that prefers frozen corners.
> {dev:true} | {prod:true} | {stage:true}

This can't be accessed safely. Because all value in typescript can be sub type of how it typed.

It means code following will pass.

var a = { dev: true, get prod() { throw Error() } }
var b: { dev:true } | {prod:true} | {stage:true} = a

And there is no guarantee that access any of these fields is safe.
Happens to the best of us :)
If I removed all Google apps, my phone would be like a paperweight to me. Maps, Photos, Calendar, Gmail, Drive, Books, YouTube and others are all critical to my workflows, and even just for navigating the world and taking photos in general.
When YouTubers use an Android camera to record some short clip on-the-go, it's always so obvious - it usually has that obvious "jello-vision" rolling shutter feel that old digital cameras had. Meanwhile it took me ages to realize that Doug DeMuro uses an iPhone for like half of his shots (only noticed due to the characteristic green lens reflections)
5.9in is not small.
Interesting, personally I hate the extra mechanical point of failure on a flip phone, but I haven't seen anyone before say that not being a flip phone is a deal breaker for them
But technical debt bites you in every new feature by slowing new code addition.
> Talking about scale - number of dead in Iraq for example would dwarf that of Ukraine.

Edit: I was referring to the scale of war crimes committed. See this quote:

> I'm sure the US has committed 1 and 2, but I would assert that the scale and quality

1 and 2 as listed in my comment are categories of war crimes. Russia in five months has committed war crimes at a scale that eclipses the US history of modern warfare. This does not include Russia's past history of documented war crimes.

I meant quality not in the sense of high or low quality of war crimes, but the nature and severity of them. I think a better word in fact is severity. E.g. instances of severe atrocities including rape, murder, torture, targeting of civilians, etc.[1]

Anyways, maybe I'm biased or brainwashed or whatever, but I see a qualitative difference between how the US conducts international affairs and the way Russia, China, North Korea, the Taliban, etc. do.

I don't have the data to back it up, just my personal observations and experience. I trust the US and other western democracies way more than the other countries I listed. The former is nowhere near perfect, but also no where near as bad as these other governments/regimes.

[1] This is severe.
https://news.yahoo.com/footage-appears-show-russian-soldier-...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10710451/Rape-Russi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_2022_Russian...
> Most of the things one would do with the 2x can be had by just walking a bit closer to the subject

Except for the main reason I ever used it: depth of field and more natural proportions.

Digital zoom can’t do that and no portrait mode is not the same.

On my old phone I would often switch to 2x and walk away from the subject to get a better photo.

Here’s a good example of how faces change when shot with different focal lengths: https://imgur.io/gallery/ZKTWi
If I have a rubber hose, the existence of a second hidden volume implies an infinite amount of volumes.
Is this satire? A meme-coin "killer" which is itself a meme and has turned "some" "investors" into "billionaires"?
I understand the sentiment, but I won’t accept the latency penalty. ISPs shouldn’t be doing dynamic prefix assignments anyway because it breaks too much.
That's okay. On HN, unlike Reddit for example, self-promotion is fine, as long as it's done tastefully as you've done. There's no problem with posting your link in the original post, people actually want to see what you've built.
I love logisim. I used it on a course called "Digital Systems" in undergrad. It was one of my first CS courses - I had a project to create a digital calendar (it displayed time of day, day, month and year) and had so much fun learning to use it. Got to play with all sorts of quartz crystals, latches, flip-flops, etc.

In the end, it was so exciting getting it all working - I even implemented leap years (for february et al). Such a great tool to learn about circuit design!
Great reply. I agree that the writing in the post is excellent. While we're giving constructive feedback I'd add this sentence:

> I cover tech here in Brazil for +10 years and run a +9 years old independent,

It should be past tense "I've covered", and in English we do everything backwards so 10+ and 9+ are more natural. So I'd change that to:

I've covered tech here in Brazil for 10+ years and run a 9+ years old independent,
I wasn't trying to compare second-hand price vs new, I just added that since I didn't want to come off as complaining when I'm not really concerned by the cost of new phones (or electronics for that matter), it was just an observation. If anything, I'm thankful for consumerism enabling me to buy from an ample supply of quality second-hand electronics.

>cheap/expensive is relative

I guess that's kind of my point if there was one. Today's cheap smartphones are at the price of flagship phones from <10 years ago. I find it noticeable how far goalposts have moved when it comes to what cheap (let alone expensive) means for smartphones. Which is just a remark and not a criticism, consumers command markets as it should be and I'm more than aware my habits are not extrapolatable.
I don't dislike notebooks, but I definitely have one foot in the "don't use notebooks for serious software" camp. I recently worked on a project where we're trying a notebook as the development platform for a data visualization report. The designer uses the notebook + bokeh to iterate on the report, and then we use nbconvert with some environment variables to create reports for different datasets.

My biggest issue with this paradigm is we actually had a lot of problem getting notebook development to work consistently bug-free on the various environments we have (Windows, Linux, VScode vs in-browser Jupyter, etc). It seemed like it would've been so much easier to just use a vanilla python script that generates the html report files. With hot reloading the iteration could be just as fast.

The other issue is that everything was horribly slow with the amount of data we were dealing with (~150MB of json). This is probably more related to python/bokeh than the notebooks themselves, but it meant that re-executing some cells was painful and would often hang or block the IDE.
You can be successful without one, but I wonder how much more successful you'd be with one. I ran a business for a year, but my flaws were reading financial statements and closing deals with investors, both skills that would be strongly aided by a MBA. A lot of people in the region who were Founding CEO of a unicorn had a MBA.
This is great. It's always been an exercise in frustration to do wireframes well, especially with hidden line removal. But this has a lot of applications elsewhere, like cel shading, decals, user interfaces.
My phone is the thing I use most out of all things I have.

So spending a few extra cent per hour of usage to get a nicer one is very easy to justify.
This completely wedged my browser and almost wedged my workstation. I had to kill the browser from another window. Just put up a spec sheet, Asus. Make it a pdf if you have to, but we don't need the TV show.

I do like that LineageOS supports several Zenphones. I hope this new model also is amenable.
The only problem with Asus phones in general, which is also apparent in their ROG phones, is the lack of updates. Their hardware is top-notch, literally; I've never seen faster phones. But, they don't update them consistently enough, unlike Google and Samsung which have pledged multiple years of software support through Android releases.
yeah i wish i had one of these over the 13 pro. i basically never use the camera.
I have an ASUS zenfone "max pro m2" I got for my wife.

The stock android it came with had some annoying rough edges compared to a google pixel. This is in terms of the audio levels for apps and notifications, basic user level experience stuff, not advanced nerd stuff.

She moved to a google pixel and was much happier. I installed LineageOS on the ASUS and it's been great with this "upgrade"

I'm hoping they put more effort into refining the OS on this phone.
Access times can number in the years, but durability is good!
Hamel here, one of the core developers on this project. I just want to say that we are really excited about this new release of nbdev and the added functionality it brings to users. The thing I'm most excited about is that you can use nbdev for more things than ever before, such as: Documenting existing codebases (even if they aren't written in nbdev), blog posts, books, presentations, etc.

We also have an amazing notebook runner, as well as many other quality of life improvements. We will be adding more tutorials, walkthroughs and examples in the coming days. If you are interested in using nbdev please get in touch!

Other resources:

- A detailed walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7zS8Ld4_iA&t=3225s

- Blog post: https://www.fast.ai/2022/07/28/nbdev-v2/

- Documentation: https://nbdev.fast.ai/getting_started.html

- Conversation b/w Jeremy Howard and JJ Allaire: https://youtu.be/xxVVSxcjNQs
Any customer of scale negotiates a deal with aws. Aws loves making pricing deals. Public pricing is advertising.
>No you can safely keep much larger amounts of money in an FDIC insured bank. Real regulated banks have the strongest protections against theft, fraud, and insolvency that you'll find anywhere.

Not when the thieves are the government and the banks themselves.
Bezels have the opposite effect to what you are purporting. The most difficult to reach places on the iPhone 6 are the bezels. A 6 inch phone is not one-handable imo. That is coming from someone with larger than average hands.
I have a rule that I spend the most money on things I use the most.

Mattresses, phones, computers, desks, chairs, etc. Is a thousand dollars for a phone a lot? Well, depends on how you look at it. I use it for more than an hour a day, every day, so a 1000 dollars over two years for a device like that doesn't seem insane to me. Comes out to about a $1.40 a day.
The best thing I ever saw for the EEE PC was this glorious hack

https://beta.ivc.no/wiki/index.php/Eee_PC_Internal_Upgrades
Love the size and weight of my Pixel 4a. I broke the screen on mine a few weeks back, and paid over half the original price of the phone to have it repaired.
It's just a self fulfilling loop because as they become more inept fewer and fewer competent people will choose this role. They have been in decline since at least the 80s it's a problem for a lot of government agencies.
This "6 months" time frame is different for everyone - I keep over a year in cash.

Not even bonds/CDs - just a high yield account. It is instantly accessible when I need it.

If and when the market ever drops 30+% and a recession starts to loom (seems pretty close to what's going on now) - I never have to worry will I be okay, what if I lose my job, what if I get hit with some massive unexpected expense.

I have money in the bank to get me through it all. I won't be forced to sell any equity at a time when its worth a lot less, I won't have to change my lifestyle one iota.

That security is worth the potential loss of future gains. I already have a lot in the market anyway and I keep adding more.

I'm also single with no kids so 1+ year in cash looks very different for me vs someone married with kids and all the associated costs. Even so, it's an approach I find very comforting and I hope to maintain when I'm further along.
It matters not at all when the discussion is about transparency and due process. It doesn't matter how guilty you think OJ is, you can't throw a bloody glove over the fence in order to conduct a search.
The post was removed. Anyone have a cached copy?
I loved my 701. Could take it anywhere, attach external monitor and keyboard if needed. I got it out again a few months ago and now my 8yo uses it.
> That's kind of the point

No, you've mistaken excuses for profundity.

> if you think there's some group of people somewhere that has some reliable method of excluding people who act in irrational and self-destructive ways

Yes, successful people, for many any definition of succesful that you respect. If one is successful, one clearly wasn't meaningfully self-destructive. If one is self-destructive, one expects to be systematically less successful. On average, in expectation, and with time lag. This isn't an observational trend, it's a definitional link.

Let's be concrete: if a professor makes a great discovery and then Cipola writes them off as stupid because he sees them struggling to tie their shoes, Cipola's model of stupidity is invalidated by the reality of the professor's useful contribution to society.

I've seen this happen.

> The usual response is to assume some sort of nefarious plan.

Cibola blamed the failure of his model on chance. He could also have chosen to blame it on conspiracy. He would still be wrong -- it's just a poor model.

> Not recognizing [self-destruction] is a cognitive blind spot that people who don't do those sorts of things tend to have have.

Sure, but this guy has enshrined Fundamental Attribution Error into a philosophy. It's not a blind spot, it's a blindfold.
also on a Zenfone 8 currently.

main complaint is probably that the buttons are too easy to press. every time i pick it up i inevitably press something to wake it. hoping the 9 is better.
There are, but tiny volume means price is high, and the people who want small don't want to pay non-mainstream price. Simply put the market is small but vocal and generally price-sensitive.
Aren't recesssions - by necessity, always declared retrospectively? Or at least after they have already started, due to how they are measured.
I'm unconvinced that breaking them up is a good thing or not.

But for me the biggest "for" argument isn't that the broken up companies will compete with each other (that makes no sense because you'd break them up along business lines where they don't compete anyway).

Instead for me it is that it removes cross subsidies both financial (as in "we can give away this loss making application because we make so much money from X) and marketing (our new product Y is inferior to the existing product Z but we can make Y the default in our other apps and then people will just use it).

This removal of cross subsidies does increase competition.

However it's possible to force the removal of cross subsidies by other means (eg, the old "force the user to be able to select the search engine in Internet Explorer" regulation etc).
While I (like many!) loved my Eee PC...

>This Eee PC ran a “Pine Trail” processor so Joanna photographed it with pine branches. This was state-of-the-art tech blogging in 2009.

...it bothers me more than expected that the picture shows spruce branches.

#NotAllConifers
> Snowflake, SingleStore, Clickhouse, Hyper, sql server columnstore index, duckdb, Apache Arrow compute, redshift, the list can go on.

I’m confused.

Are you suggesting he was involved in all of those other databases?
I mean it's all relative, but yeah, $429 starting price for a phone coming from a company that is known to support their products for a minimum of 5 years is really not bad. Especially since these phones hold their value far better than any other brand on the market. I bought an iphone SE (2nd gen) in 2020 for $450 and sold it for $230 in 2022, so it worked out to about $110/year. It was a fantastic phone, but I upgraded to a 13 mini because my work offered to pay for the phone. I used to have a Moto E, which I think most people would consider a "cheap" phone and a) it wasn't a great phone b) i had no desire to keep it more than 2 years and c) by the time i was done using it, it's secondary market value was low enough that i didn't bother selling it.
Yes. It took me six years to cash out of Autodesk, since the first stages went to getting enough cash to pay the taxes on the next stage.
So in essence instead of having the browser talk to a server somewhere, it can now download a server, and start talking to that.

The browser then no longer needs to "go to the server", the server will come to the browser.

Is that correct? What would be some use-cases for it?
Ask HN: Any guidelines to avoid suspension, ban from Google Play?
There are a lot of Google Play suspension, ban posts out there, I know this can be minority since when something bad goes it just pops up in social media. But still, it is worth avoiding this kind of poor fates as small companies.

Any guidelines, advices to avoid suspensions, ban from Google Play since prevention is better than cure? (Ignore the false flags by bots, since we have no control over it, other than to reinstate the account writing a blog post)
I suppose that's what it would look like currently, but as content increases and the aggregate long tail of unpopular material grows ever larger there could be shifts in desirable storage solution characteristics that fit different economic niches. An extremely dense, extremely cheap, and extremely slow WORM storage device could find a place somewhere in the future. Cheap as in order(s) of magnitude less.

The next immediate step from online tapes today could be offline tapes with online indexes & robotic retrieval systems. These exist today. The continuous falloff would be a matter of priority ranking given to content requests-- not merely FIFO-- so ever less popular irrelevant content gets shoved further back in the robotic retrieval queue. A recently iced bit of content might be top priority for the tape loader while something not touched in years might sit hours down the queue. The continuous decline isn't defined by the storage media but instead by the capacity of the retrieval systems. Speed would continue on a slow decline as content increases even more and the low economic value of that content make investing in increased capacity impractical.

Eventually you get to a point in some far off future where the retrieval time for some obscure bucket of bits is measured in significant fractions of a human lifetime, where a dying grandfather requests a video of his wedding 70 years earlier only to have it arrive just in time for his own grandson's dying moments decades later.

I think I've gone too far imagining unlikely slow storage dystopian futures though, so I'm going to stop now before I start ranting about the Slow God who needs only enough access requests from the masses of his adherents to prioritize his retrieval from the depths of cold storage. But Dante Alighieri warned of what was stored in the coldest depths and it was no god... Oh God what hath this comment awakened?!?!

Okay now I'm really done.
I disagree with the solution to this one. Most of the time, the diva developers are insecure. In some cases, you just have to give them more job security.
Official Definition:

When arguments about whether or not we are in a recession get so frequent and heated that they are annoying, we are in a recession.

When people accept their fate and stop talking about it, the recession has ended.
related series on building a bread board computer:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2...
I'm sorry to hear that you don't think I should be a US citizen because I live overseas. Fortunately, I don't give a shit about your opinions.

Here's my opinion, I think the US should do what virtually every other country in the world does - accept that its power is not absolute, and tax its citizens based on residence, not on citizenship.

Do you have skin in this game? If not, get off my back and stop trying to make my life worse. Expats are already screwed by the tax code. We have FATCA and FBAR and we get denied basic financial services when we're outside the US. Many banks in other countries now deny American expats bank accounts because they're terrified of repercussions from the US government if the foreign bank doesn't fill out US tax forms correctly.

We don't need more of this crap you're pushing. Stop screwing up ordinary people's lives. I will make the most charitable interpretation I can here and assume that you want to hurt other Americans and tell them if they don't like it they can stop being American out of ignorance, not out of malice.
> the whole thing about meat having an unacceptable carbon footprint pisses me off to no end.

Well, as far as I've looked into it, the production of meat is significantly more water and energy (carbon) intensive than if we were to consume plants directly. And there's also the carbon output via methane. The meat production is completely unnecessary and it's not an efficient conversion.

> The fact that eating insects is being suggested as an alternative makes it even worse.

I don't know why someone would suggest eating insects at all. We don't need either of those things. Just eat the plants directly. There's no need for an inefficient conversion mechanism from plants to something else.

> As someone who is has eaten plenty of bugs

Interesting. Why did you do that?
My wife enjoyed her 6P, then it died prematurely of bootloop. As did the warranty replacement one.

Got a double payout from the eventual class action suit.
I’m not a fan. Async is a superset of sync and it would be much better long term if the overhead of an immediately fulfilled future could be optimized out by the compiler at compile time and be properly reflected by the type system without having to shoehorn this on from the outside.
Apparently quite a few nutritional research papers claiming that whatever "food" products you are selling is "safe".
Other immutable state distros such as Fedora Silverblue and openSUSE MicroOS Desktop offer a “toolbox” environment that runs as a Flatpak with relaxed restrictions for development tasks. Is something like that an option on SteamOS 3?