skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any "real" (come on, techy people, you know what I mean) reasons for going Apple besides I suppose the genuine convenience of fully interoperable phone/messaging across devices (which I fully concede is probably a big one for a good number of people?)

The price differences between Android and Apple still strike me as absurd. On the other side, I went from "picking an Android very carefully for rooting" gradually to "what's on sale at Best Buy for about 150" with no major shift in experience or quality.
Not sure about this one. You can get both kinds of phones for $0 with a monthly payment.
If the balls were made of very smoothly polished metal would that be true?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding
> on a piece of junk that will be trashed in 5 years top

Remind me - how long is your Android phone receiving software updates for?
Gimme a bit. I’m going to have to come up with examples that don’t compromise any proprietary information. Most of the examples are from my work for a photography equipment manufacturer, and they wouldn’t want me to talk about it.
One-off projects are usually incredibly expensive because you have to make everything custom. I don't think this argument "scaling up must be expensive because our one-off project is expensive" goes. Doesn't one usually expect to pay 5-10× as much to have something made custom as opposed to a common product?

There's on the order of 500 of them in the world if I remember wikipedia correctly. I wonder if any country built enough shortly after reach other / in parallel / same company building in multiple countries at the same time to see an effect of scaling (materials, knowledge, experience, navigating the legislation, ...).

Furthermore, energy being X% more expensive for the next hundred years might just be the reality we have to live with in order to reach net zero realistically. (Looks like this is happening due to gas prices right now anyway, so we might as well have gone nuclear... ten years ago it was obvious that we would want to stop burning gas some time soon, but not that solar panels would become so cheap so fast, so it would have made sense, and yet...) The alternative to spending a bit extra on your energy bill is spending way more on climate adaptation, from growing food to relocating people to building sea walls in many if not most countries.
Turbines are ICEs.
We need some lucky video shots I guess, and not just a few. Something that makes it undoubtable that it's a real phenomenon (not that I'm doubting).
That’s because there is no shortage of new entrants to the academia. Everyone still wants their PhD (myself included) for some mystical reason.
Thank you for taking the time to type this out. I've been uncomfortable about telemetry data for a while but this makes it clear to me that it can be used to do a lot more than just drive ui changes. Google has been fingerprinting in this way for decades. Of course Microsoft can do the same.

I've been thinking about trying VSCode. I'm the only dev I know at my org that doesn't use it and I guess it's going to stay that way.

I really don't understand the mindset of some folks. In this dynamic Microsoft has all the power and therefore the burden of transparency and proof of good will should be on them. Why would you give away information about yourself freely to an entity with no oversight. There is no reason to trust a corporation with your personal data.
I actually think "construct" much like "disorder" is a kind of marker for an improper noun. Both are so formal as to suggest that "adjective adjective construct" is a formal term. Such improper nouns, I think, are less insidious than improper nouns without such a marker. Because they are easier to detect.

If the "highly sensitive person" were instead called the "highly sensitive personality construct" it would be much less confusing as an improper noun. It is clearly unwieldy here, but that is partially down to construct being too vague, and presumably down to me only spending 10seconds on the name.

As an example of how "disorder" helps suppose that "Persistent depressive disorder" were instead called "Persistent depression". That would clearly be much more confusing.
I think the problem with the word “privilege” is it’s used in a context that suggests someone is granted something of value by virtue of their “just existing” that others don’t have.

In the case of having a money cushion this could be true if you’re born into a wealthy family and have a trust fund. But it’s not the case for someone who has built wealth for themselves. They aren’t “privileged” in this sense. They earned it.
Really? I tried the first M1 Mac Minis, and bluetooth was terrible -- macOS would constantly switch to the worst quality profile. I use an iPhone on a daily basis, and I always with its bluetooth was as reliable as my Linux laptop.

What exactly did you find lacking in the Linux world? Are you an audio professional?
The iPhone isn't a good social status signal any longer - the majority of smartphone users in the US have one. If the majority can afford something, it's quite obvious it no longer functions for signaling high social status.

The iPhone hasn't been a good social status signal for nearly a decade at this point.
> you will spend four months deciding what to watch on streaming services

If you (or someone) use to watch streaming services so why wasting 10 years at your smartphone bothers you? You are getting some high-quality content or you are doing well-payed job, everything is on its right places, keep doing this.
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No, I'm saying you are projecting your belief that a phone is a status symbol onto other people.
Look, I am sorry this happened, but you should get the total 2700 EUR back + compensation.

"though also American Airlines, and I won't get a refund on that" <-- you should double check this, if one of the airports is in the EU you get everything back for your departure flight.

https://realworldmachine.com/travel/airline/eu-flight-compen...
"Flights must either arrive into the EU via an EU-headquartered airline or originate from the EU (regardless of airline headquarters) for the EU Flight Compensation Regulation to be applicable."

Obviously they will tell you otherwise.

Funny how people call me privileged etc. but you literally fill out a web form with flight number, upload your tickets and the solicitors handle the rest and the money gets dropped into your account within 6 months or so.

It's a lot of money, of course the Airlines are going to try to wiggle themselves out of it, so you have to fight them to get your right.

I think you will get 2700 EUR back for sure, flight compensation as well and you might even be able to claim for the BnB.
Ask HN: What's the best monitor size and type for heavy programmers?
For a trillion records, if you were in the UK government, you might just drop those above the Excel limit and proceed until journalists flagged the concern nationally.

Background context here:

- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/05/how-excel-m...
As iphones get more popular, it will lose its Veblen effect. When teenagers who have no job have iphones, it doesn't portray "wealthy" as it used to.

Among my 100k-300k/yr friends, it's about a 50/50 split. My tech friends nearly exclusively android, my wife's medical friends, iphones with a few exceptions.

I'm personally loving my new phone I got last week. It has an aux port!
It collects plenty of useful information for directing effort. Plenty of Gnome's online account information stuff gets analysed and the installed extension are queried.

If the Gnome devs see that a particular extension is installed often (i.e. GsConnect, a sound output chooser that's actually useful, etc.) then they might build that feature into the system directly so users don't need extensions any more.

I'm sure they can collect more information if they want to but I don't know if that information would actually be useful to the Gnome team at this point. I'm guessing they're looking for very specific things to optimize for (i.e. Flatpak support, hardware support, extensions everyone uses to compensate for missing features).
Thanks I see it now. I hate that UI more than any other.
Same argument that I keep on having with people who like
1. gray and darker gray buildings of a tree-less megacity beautiful, with a dash of color
vs
2. those who find small cities/villages mixed with art, trees & colourfully dressed people beautiful.
> Today, Amtrak takes 22.5-27 hours to go 642 miles Boston to Columbus, OH.

Agreed, which is why I said that building out such infrastructure is the way forward. A lot of countries, particularly Spain, France, China and Japan, prove that this is possible and that people actually use this kind of rail service if they are provided and affordable, the US just doesn't manage to build the infrastructure required out of a toxic combination of NIMBYs, ignorance, incompetence and utterly absurd construction requirements.
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Archived: https://archive.ph/EQdI1
Absolutely not true. I had an iPhone 1, a 3GS and more recently a 13. After a while with the 13, I have switched back to Android (Pixel 6). Issues I had:

- Irritating keyboard behaviour (autocorrect, having to manually add custom words)

- Inability to organise the home screen to my liking

- Inability to adjust the volume of external devices, such as other Spotify devices

- Poor audio switching - if I have music playing, and play a video on another app, the music will not resume after the video ends

- Inability for third party apps to use the alarm volume - so that if I install a third party alarm app, it will change my system media volume to the level of the alarm. Therefore, if I'm playing music and my alarm rings, suddenly the music volume will increase.

- Inability to change the snooze time (hence having to resort to a third party alarm app)

These are just a small selection of (seemingly minor) issues that I had with iOS, and there were more. I appreciate Apple as a brand for its more favourable data privacy aspects, but iOS has a lot of shortcomings and reasons for a user to prefer Android. However, it's important to note that I'm used to Motorola G phones, and now the Pixel, both of which forego any irritating skinning/custom UI over the top of plain Android.
These days, most likely a full-screen ransomware message.
Git is a pile of patches!
Isn't therr career subsidies already heavily at play ?

Having the actual price partially swallowed in business rebates or scaled into years of monthly charges changes the optics in term of price and the option to afford "luxury"
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I was forced to upgrade my phone earlier due to my previous phone using a no-longer supported version of Android. I realised when speccing out new phones that I don't use half the stuff that they can do, my main use is messaging, calling, GPS and occasional browsing. 5G and battery life is important too. So I went for a Nokia XR20. Then fact it runs Android had no relevance. I can't justify spending £1k on a phone; it's absurd.

Now all I need is a better Wifi Hotspot app so I can use it as a 5G router (low latency, channel selection etc)
If you don’t have an ID, they aren’t going to let you fly anyway.
Do you remember roughly what you paid for you solar system? I just bought a house and am considering installing one.
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What other options exist for "complex native-ish browser interfaces" in this style? E.g. if you wanted to develop a new app which is a traditional desktop GUI app with tons of menus and buttons that need to be custom rendered (so wasm/canvases presumably, rather than html), what options exist aside from this effort with wxWidgets?

For example, say you wanted to make a 3D editor/CAD program or full-featured DAW from scratch - what would you use?
It's not NOT the blood doping.
>the general public understands that it does not mean "all extroverts do X"

General public very noticeable does not. The myriad of stereotypes still existing today despite empirical evidence of the opposite couldn't speak louder. If not 'all', certainly 'most'.

Surely someone on HN would know a thing or two about generalizations and their adoption as stereotypes when repeated often enough.
Now we just need to wrap this in Electron so we can run it on desktop! ;)
Not used much anywhere.
Are cracked apps really that popular? I'm pretty in touch with tech and piracy but I haven't thought of cracked mobile apps especially for something like YouTube and Spotify
You realise you're replying to Simon about Simon, right?
There's laws for messaging and app stores as well.
What is the growth in programming languages over time?
Maybe what makes iOS great is the restrictions? If you take away the restrictions maybe what's great is gone.
Apple owner here.

Isn't Apple at risk of losing its air of exclusivity if this continues?
iPhone Mini: you basically can’t get an Android phone with reasonable specs and a reasonable size.
I prefer android but its getting harder. My employer will only let us have corporate apps on android phones that are quickly patched - right now only Google Pixel phones makes the approved list. Everyone else has iphones.
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Thank you. Good points to think about.
Is there a step by step guide somewhere how to run repos like these in the cloud?

I don't have a fast machine myself, but I would not mind renting a VM somewhere to play with it.

Any tips?
yeah, you're right...it's really delusional to think that iphone possession is a status symbol...I'd have to be insane to think that!
I like to say that Apple is a marketing company with a very good product development team. Apple makes luxury goods with huge cachet. Android covers the entire spectrum of cheap crap up to the same level of luxury but that dilutes the brand. Apple is also vertically integrated, doing everything themselves and licensing nothing.
4 years when I bought it a year ago.
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I must have deleted the last letter of the URL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bBNeyrMOJE

Note, the video is likely fake.
I can not tell you how much I love my 21:9 setup in vertical mode. But also I love to stare at my old 1366x768 with tiny energy use while long sessions of laptoping somewhere out of civilization.
The monthly price is exactly the same price as paying upfront - doesn't make any difference to affordability.
I was using an Android for years. My mother at one point was nagging me to buy an iPhone, and I relented and bought one just to get her to stop nagging.

6 months later I gave the iPhone to my sister and bought a new Android. I still use Android today.

(Apple does not make iTunes for Linux, seemingly out of sheer spite to Linux users like myself. I ended up having to use a slow paid app to transfer files where previously I used a command line and an SSH connection with RSA keys.)
I live in Sunderland.
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Go Wildcats!
Windows Phone apps were absolutely mostly shovelware, which had a not insignificant contribution to it's failure I feel.

Never used PalmOS to comment.

I think third place these days is Tizen which is in a worse place than the two big ones for apps, and then fourth might genuinely be GNU/Linux but there's massive dropoffs between third and fourth, and between second and third.
Linux phones, but they're still years off usability-wise.
This is awesome, and also awesome is this:

> I originally developed a WASM port of wxWidgets

I had some fun looking at the commits here[1] and I can imagine a lot of classic wxWidgets apps are going to be ported to wasm now. Congrats, that a lot of dedication!

[1] https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/compare/master...ahil...
Unfortunately if you were moving light speed you wouldn't experience time, so it would be rather less eventful than you imagine. If you kicked it down just below light speed existence would be a bright white/blue spot in front of you.
iPhones are durable and are supported for longer times. Some people prefer spending more upfront for a product that will last longer. iOS is not a bad OS, and some might say that is more idiot proof than Android.
Part of me wishes that they enable it earlier, but the other part of me thinks Apple will lobby for 2 years to rally MEPs against it.
I switched from Android to iPhone. I was tired of my Android phones (Samsung Galaxy’s) only receiving updates for ~2 years. On top of that, I found that there was a lot of “jank” when using some apps. They would crash, fail to load, slow down etc… I attribute that mostly due to the Java based code. I also hated having both Google and Samsung trying to bait me into their “ecosystems”. They also have both the device OEM and Google prying their big data vacuums into the devices.

My iPhone on the other hand, I am still on my first one, and it is 4 years old and still gets updates. And judging by history, it should still get updates for at least another 2-3 years.
Apps don’t crash. The battery is just starting to go on it, but a replacement isn’t very expensive. And the entire Apple “ecosystem” is optional here. Apple is just starting to spin up an ad ecosystem, but the privacy features of the device are quite unparalleled (although I wish I were able to install an on device ad blocker that actually works)
https://osrp.lanl.gov/pacemakers.shtml
Yeah, I seemed to remember the US was always tilted towards Apple. So this would be "overtaking" while you are ahead..
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i think more people like apple's hardware than their software (myself included)

android is not full of crap if it doesnt come preloaded with it. the google apps , which you can download are pretty great and the interface can be replaced with another launcher. The app selection in the stores seems identical to me
Switched from Android to iPhone a few months ago.

Hard to believe the difference. Android is really bad at many things, and I had a good brand (One Plus 6).

Taking a picture on Android is an awful experience. The Camera app takes about 3 seconds to open, and freezes for a second when taking a picture.

The Camera app on iPhone opens instantly and takes photos instantly.

The quality of the pictures taken on the iPhone are also much much better.

I don't like the closed model of the iPhone, but the quality is currently unbeatable.
A marginal effect given thermal plants run their steam at hundreds of degrees. The efficiency difference between 800/280 and 800/310 isn't very large.
Most young people (ie. under 25) seem to have at least a few cracked apps on their phone. I think it starts when you want something and don't have a credit card to pay for it, so you ask your mates and someone knows how to sideload it for free...

Cracked spotify (premium), snapchat (screenshotting messages without notifications), and various games seem to be the most common.
I attribute most of it to marketing. Both companies make pretty great phones that do more or less the same things equally well.

Apple is better at selling phones. Aside from better ads, they have prominent stores in most major cities. If you want to see the latest Pixel phone, you're going to have to visit a carrier store or Best Buy. As bad as an Apple store might be today, stepping into a T-Mobile store is worse.

I don't think the iMessage effect is what it used to be. My kids (in Texas) communicate on Discord mostly. I think they use Snapchat too. Text messages are pretty much only used to message their parents or to get a ping when their restaurant table is ready.

To me, it feels like Google has lost interest in Android and consumers will pick that up as well.
Many of those will just check continuity on pins (which might be enough for what you want) - a full on tester will run actual data at faster and faster speeds until it fails; report error rates, etc.
> cheapishness and crappiness

Not trying to attack but can you explain what you mean with that?

There are at least 200 current android phone models and at least 50 popular flavours of android around.

Sure you don't find a stock Samsung phone feeling 'luxury' but even a cheap Xiaomi with cleaned up stock android feels 'luxury' to me.
In isolation, I don't think there's much reason to buy an iPhone right now. I have an iPhone 12 Pro and a Pixel 6a and they're interchangeable as far as I'm concerned.

I also have a Mac, AirPods, and an Apple Watch, though. That makes it kind of a no-brainer which phone I carry around with me.
I fall exactly here.. I used Android for a long time, until I got tired of my phone becoming non-functional after just a year or two. Switched to iPhones, and now they’re lasting 4+ years. I miss the flexibility of Android and iOS is full of bugs and design-based papercuts, yet it still manages to beat Android in just about all the areas that truly matter to me.
I'd imagine Pornhub's audience skews younger, as do Mac users given the colleges + Mac association. So I'm not sure this is totally representative. e.g. Steam has Mac at 2% which is unrepresentative in the other direction
Price difference? iPhone SE is $429, iPhone 11 is $499, iPhone 12 $599, iPhone 13 $699. I feel like people who still are stuck at Apple pricing, have really no idea about Apple pricing. Sure, if you want the maxed out best iPhone, it'll be around 1 thousand USD, but so will be maxed out best Android.
I will use rust egui
The "micro" in microvms is less about size and more about resources. A typical virtual machine under Xen or KVM (para)virtualizes a lot of hardware and emulates a lot of devices, so that the operating system sees it as a normal machine.

The microVM emulates the minimal possible set of devices needed to run, such as disks and network devices, and in the specific case of firecracker, through the use of the virtio model. So it can theoretically use huge amounts of memory of a large vCPU count and still be a microvm.
I recommend the 'history of the universe' channel as they ask this exact question.

https://youtube.com/c/HistoryoftheUniverse
Youtube Vanced (even in its now dying form) and Spotify from APKMody or similar are the main reason I dont move. Its two extra monthly subscriptions.
I do not want to spend my free, leisure time tweaking personal devices beyond a few configuration options. I'm happy to pay for convenience.

I write code and setup cloud infrastructure for a living.
> you will just burn the "saved" energy trying to cool down the house

Did you read the article you linked? It says:

> What we found was that even when the A/C temporarily spikes to recover from the higher indoor temperatures, the overall energy consumption in the setback cases is still less than when maintaining a constant temperature throughout the day.

Even if you ignore the whole thing (as I should have, I was validating their method because the conclusion you cited sounded wrong... but then it turns out the conclusion isn't what you claim) and just read the concluding two sentences of the post, you'd have read: "An eight-hour setback on weekdays provides savings regardless of the system type"

It's a convenient myth that not turning off the heating when you're not home saves energy because the heater would otherwise have to work extra hard when you come home / wake up and consume more energy. I've heard it told by people that usually have sensible opinions. I guess it's the inverse myth in the hot places of this world. It is indeed very nice to walk into a climate-controlled place, so I can see why people love to believe it.

It makes no sense. Think about it: in the scenario where you let the AC run all day long (or leave the heater on overnight), the temperature differential between inside and outside is larger. More heat enters/leaves the house when the differential is greater, so it makes sense to let this grow smaller when you're not there anyway and only increase the differential when you're (almost) coming home or coming out from under the blankets.
Tell that to school children. "Daddy why can't i have an iPhone ? Everybody has one "