skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO it’s all a matter of perspective. I typically keep a phone for around two years. Ignoring for a second that iPhones are typically more future proof than Android phones, the $200 difference between mid-tier Android and iPhone SE is $8.33 a month.

Is the iPhone a superior experience? IMO, yes. Do I need it? No. But do I use my phone enough that $8 a month is worth it for the improvement? Absolutely.
>I provided anecdata which does describe a common difference…

You really don’t see the fallacy in this statement?

Do you have any statistically valid longitudinal surveys?

> This is dependent on context and social circle, but it does happen

And every woman that lives in my house thinks I’m the best husband for her. You can draw any conclusion as long as you limit the sample size.
You’re thinking of FaceTime not iMessage. FaceTime however was blocked from being opened up due to patent trolling that required a different implementation.
You usually don't, but the system doesn't care either way. The system packages up critique and commodifies it into benign impotence regardless.
Android is not tied to a single phone brand. Their users have a myriad of options.
I like how Redfin has deleted price changes for recently listed homes.

You can see the same house on Zillow list at $1.1M in Jun, and then re-list at $900k in Aug, and then at $800k in Oct.

But Redfin intentionally removed it in the past couple months, and now they only show the most recent list date and price.
This is all very cool but how did I make it through this entire article without reading the word SONAR once? They even discuss underwater exploration robots using sound to navigate a space.
I think it's a technique, not a product, u can do this on your standard electric or gas stove, turn it off earlier, let it sit a few minutes
> Personal attacks are unwarranted here.

Neither is hyperbole.
The rigor drives the signal. Biggest one is rigor of acceptance screening. It is about measuring and screening students, not educating them.
> Layoffs are great. They weed out the unproductive ones.

The vast majority of most layoffs I've seen are either hastily thrown together hail marys or just done looking at how much money they need to cut and then look more or less 100% at compensation or something even more stupid. For companies of any considerable size, rare is the strategic layoff. What Elon did at Twitter is a perfect example of slashing for a number. Elon has not been around long enough to understand what's up or down at Twitter. He has a number in mind he wants to get down to and he just slashes until he gets there. Assuming there are substantial cuts that need to be made, Elon has no clue where he is slashing fat vs. bone, he hasn't been there long enough to know.
I actually saw this on my trip to London last month. Definitely one of the more interesting exhibits there, part art, part historical exhibit, part philanthropy. Definitely worth a visit in person.
Not funny, not good, and not satire. In fact I bet this does enough damage to Palmer's brand he takes it down and apologizes.
All this time I've been assuming that Apple keeps iMessage as iOS/Mac only as an anticompetitive tactic, but that this would never be admitted in writing and they'd be smart enough to only talk about verbally in unrecorded meetings.

These emails actually make me change my mind on both aspects. First, apparently they were at one point undisciplined enough to talk about risky topics in writing. Second, the reasoning in those emails is actually very reasonable. iMessage was a non-revenue-generating service that cost them money and was funded by sales of Apple devices, so it's being offered as a service to users of Apple products. This isn't unfair behavior on Apple's part.
Or even physical catapult.
In different proportions, as is evident.
There is an app called Elsa Speaks
You should try it.
Not only your regular kind of defense contractor, of all things, Anduril is in the business of automated weaponry.
So Android users aren’t “brainwashed” for choosing one operating system. But iOS users are?

I’m sure if iOS users weren’t so brainwashed they could find Android phones that are more performant that are supported longer than iPhones…
25 Tech Companies Recruiting Remote Workers in Latin America
Look, I know where you are coming from, but I'm sure you know it's not the same thing.

It's not a culture of being cheap.

Is a culture of not valuing, in particular, the Apple tax.

A huge amount of people in Europe happily overpay for their cars. In any country of western or southern Europe you'll see tons of Mercedes.

I feel like you got offended by my comment as if I was criticising Europeans somehow. I wasn't.
They will be. The distinction between lectures and tutorials will blur once every student has what amounts to their own personal professor/TA.

"Hey Siri, could you go back over step 3 for me? Where did you get the X-squared term in the denominator?"
IMO companies shouldn't care what their ads appear alongside. It's the way to over moderation/censorship.
You're right, efficiency won't come first - but you're replying to a comment about efficient means. I'm 65plus, 30 yrs doesn't seem so very long to me.
Best not to show your phone on a first date. It is like talking about religion here in San Francisco. Apple verses Google is like Allah verses Yahweh. You may not get laid.
> the mortgage interest rate is almost always fixed

It's policy. The New Deal created a secondary mortgage market through Fannie Mae (and later Freddy Mac) that normalized mortgages to 30 year fixed. There are many ways to structure mortgages in the US and not all mortgages are fixed, but the typical mortgage is because those mortgages are the most liquid given the structure of the US secondary mortgage market.
This whole inventory argument is genuinely confusing to me and I never quite understood why everyone was talking about a sudden inventory "shortage" around 2020. Did a large number of houses suddenly get destroyed? Or was there a sudden massive increase in population?

If neither of those things happened, then in my opinion there isn't actually a "shortage", and the extra demand is maybe just from remote working and low interest rates. If those factors retreat and become less favorable, I presume the demand will retreat and new buyers will crawl back to wherever they were living before and this "shortage" will disappear as quickly as it came.
Good luck with that. Arizona is filled with rabid religious nuts so I don't expect much to change until the last minute.
Additional volatility is worth it until you hit a 50 % drawdown where someone who was only partially invested would have a 20 % drawdown and then rebound faster.

Remember that investments compound, and it takes as long to go from 10 to 100 as it does from 100 to 1000. Avoiding drawdowns is critical for long-term growth.

You want a significant fraction of your wealth in stuff with tepid and consistent returns. In fact, you want this fraction to be constant over time. That will outperform any one asset class as time goes by.
The difference is in salary, not price. iPhone costs as much in USA as EU in absolute terms, but when that’s 50% of your monthly income, you go buy a cheap (or telecom sponsored) Android. It won’t be a flagship Android but at least there’s an option you can buy that on paper has all the same specs.
One thing to consider: how much of that salary is going to the high cost of living in the Bay Area? The numbers are definitely higher but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the percentages of people who are n months away from needing to find another place to live – especially if that shock turns out to be sharper than it is short.

I lived in San Diego in the mid-90s. One thing I remembered was that the very first job I had doing QA for a COBOL vendor at $15/hour had not just one but multiple applicants with doctorate degrees apply. That was fallout from the Cold War: they’d all worked for big defense contractors on projects which were scaled back, suddenly going from comfortably above average income to nothing. One of the things a bunch of people found out abruptly was how bad it can be to have a lot of your net worth tied up in housing: the market slowed dramatically (nobody needed houses near those employers, many people were waiting to see how the market went, etc.) for everyone at the same time, so a house you could easily have sold before would be on the market for a year.

Things are better now in some key ways (remote work, portable skills, etc.) but I still would be surprised if a bunch of people aren’t getting a rough reminder about how badly correlated failures can suck, especially for the ones not making experienced software engineer salaries.
There are just not enough unemployed, qualified people in the U.S. to staff a similar operation. Unless Apple radically improved automation, so that far fewer humans were needed, it would be impossible.

Only other option would be a huge surge of immigration into the U.S. and I don’t think even $1 trillion can buy that kind of policy shift.
I visited NYC this summer and observed a significant volume of gas mopeds on the protected bike paths. Gross!
If it doesn’t make money there should be some strategic importance. Phil is arguing that targeting Android users has neither financial nor strategic benefits.

It’s bad business practice to put energy towards something that doesn’t serve your mission because you lose focus and discipline.

For the things they do invest in, Apple puts a lot of energy in the user experience because they believe that there are business benefits to doing so. This is true of most well-run companies. Generally speaking, our economic system works out well because the incentives of businesses align with the incentives of the consumer.
Yup, IMO the deprecation of Hangouts was a strategic mistake.
If you ever needed further proof that you should not financially support Apple, eh?

I assume all the big successful companies are like this. To change it, if that was your desire, we need to be outside their influence. That's why FOSS is so valuable.
What were the more advanced avionics in the mid 90s that the F22 could have had?
Your overall point, about limited supply / increasing demand, is not wrong. However —

> For example, the number of UC campuses in California should have doubled as the population doubled.

Maybe. But the number of students at UC campuses in California has doubled since 1965 — even though the number of campuses hasn’t.

I think the issue is that demand has more than doubled as the population of California has doubled—because college is more of a requirement than ever.
One major difference is Singapore and Japan’s stops are profit centers and not cost centers - they rent massive amounts of property on them, meaning they’re not as dependent on debt or fare collection.
Look at the timestamp on these emails. 7am. 9pm, 10pm.
>I think you just personally dislike Palmer Lucky's politics and like so many others must critique everything he produces.

This is an odd statement. No one mentioned politics but you, and now you’re accusing the OP as being somehow disingenuous.

Don’t be that guy. We don’t like that behavior here.
Raw food stock might be harvested but without fuel to move it around how would it be processed and distributed?
‘ Fundamentally, sudo adds significant attack surface because it is a powerful tool with many features like support for security policies defined in LDAP, so the system is likely more secure without it. ’

This is uncontexualized hype clearly written by someone with no real world experience, hoping to gaslight users into thinking their current system is insecure. Then I scroll up and noticed the article is written by a company who sell presumably consulting services in unix. Go figure.

Failing that, there’s limited reasons to use BSD systems instead of Linux unless you have highly specialised requirements. Under many cases I’d imagine it would be more expensive in terms of effort required to hire/train skilled staff.
Do you think energy companies drill oil and burn it for fun??

They do it to provide consumers with energy and consumer goods. If consumers are more efficient or reduce their consumption then demand for these goods and services fall.

Shifting blame to companies to avoid personal responsibility certainly won't help solve the climate crisis.
I should apply for a job there, sounds kind of awesome. I used to work for Lockheed and didn't do cool stuff.
Carver's Gate nailed the metaverse imho. In the mid-21st century, climate change has rendered the Earth desolate and uninhabitable.

People spend all their free time staring at a screen, trying to earn meaningless Internet points. Our protagonist, Michael Paré on the Sci-Fi Channel six times a week, is a troubleshooter:

> My name's Carver, I'm a DreamBreaker. I police the thin line between escape and addiction.

> DreamCor feeds our fantasies so we don't smell the stench of our own rotting souls.

> Sound confusing?

> It is.

> Come one, come all. Play the AfterLife. Excitement, stimulation. Arouse those primal instincts. Live because you know death is near.

The problem he's investigating is pure fantasy -- scifi tech called the Transcender is letting monsters out of the VR into the real world. And no one ever considers the obvious reason why this might work (i.e. because their own crummy real-world life is also a simulation).

And okay the acting, script, and effects are not good. But they definitely nailed the tone of the Metaverse.
We have a shortage of doctors because Congress has refused to fund more residency program slots. This has held down Medicare costs, but as the population ages appointment wait times are increasing and existing doctors are burning out from excessive work.

https://savegme.org/

While more healthcare supply is definitely needed, this is ultimately a bottomless pit. Patients with complex chronic conditions have essentially infinite demand for healthcare services. The majority of those chronic conditions are caused by lifestyle issues including overeating, lack of exercise, and substance abuse. As a society there has to be a limit to what percentage of our GDP that we devote to healthcare.
That's exactly the reason why iMessage isn't used much in Europe, it's seen as an SMS client and SMS aren't used anymore.

Half of the problem is a branding issue (calling it "messages" on the phone did not help) and the other half of the issue is that it's not available on Android
Don’t Create The Torment Nexus

https://mobile.twitter.com/alexblechman/status/1457842724128...
Xess 2: CSS variable edition
The Android phone I gave her and we use is GrapheneOS, and we have a Nextcloud server for most all our needed services. It is far more private than Apple who knows where you are at all times, what you are using on your phone, who you communicate with.. and is building an advertising business to capitalize on this.
Did this guy just come in his time machine from the 90's?
The best satirist must have been Stalin or perhaps Jesus then
Not in many U.S. states.

For example, Texas has the homestead exemption, where one basic homestead is practically untouchable barring a change to the constitution of Texas or the U.S.
Telegram is orders of magnitude smaller than any of the those listed above, except maybe a Viber (I’m not sure; it seems to have some use in SEA countries).
It's really not. "A Modest Proposal" was a criticism of people and society. It was so ridiculous you'd have to sympathize with the point he's making or be devoid of morals. What's the point the author is making? It's just a morbid fixation that he says he got from video games.
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine (1989)
I wouldn't build killing tools casually despite having, as most engineers here do, the ability to do it in a wide variety of manners that would be innovative from a technological standpoint. It's presented as art and I criticize it as such, there is seemingly no strong intent at least none presented in the post, and the form is not particularly appealing or interesting. It's explosive charges strapped to a helmet with a detonator. The concept itself is not novel, as you said it's been done a hundred times in a million animes.

I don't know Palmer beyond this blog post and having googled him after being baffled by the tone. I don't dislike him and I don't know his politics.

I would have loved to have heard one of the many beautiful stories he mentioned, and I was particularly confused by seeing the lovely wedding photos at the end. It made me question whether it was satire but I don't think it is.
Is this what endpoint management apps like Jamf/Carbon Black use to monitor users?
Would you be willing to share a specific property as an example?
Furthermore, if you're trying to save money, you can hold on to an iPhone for a lot longer than a budget Android and you'll come out ahead after amortization.
It is most definitely not a bad take as I'm literally saying just what you imply: as per my comment, in many social circles that is what I've observed. Which does reveal about my social circles. Which are circles I've come across in several countries throughout Europe, and across a large spread of socio-economic contexts.

You can argue that your experience is different, I'm just providing mine which I've experienced consistently enough to find it worth pointing as a common divergence from what I see in the US.
Hardware support.

I have no idea why the hardware/software industry all focused on the linux kernel as the common base for so many hardware support. The amount of chips supported in the linux kernel is mind boggling.

I worked with FreeBSD in my early career. How do I miss the `make world`. So easy, all-in-one, clean and elegant system.
Yeah, this is as low-brow as joking about war horrors. This has potential to be truly horrific. Imagine political and war prisoners and their entire families being strapped to this thing and then enslaved for their entire lives on the threat of having their brains blown to bits at any second. Surely this is worse than any form of torture imaginable and worse than death. It's difficult to see the funny part.
This guy wrote a book 30 years ago saying his real father was a loser and a neighbor (his rich dad) was a winner for turning him on to real estate investing. Now we have to hear his chicken little investing advice every 6 months.
I don't know, but it sounds a lot like A Modest Proposal.
It should be. I heard Qatar is actively trying to sweep it under the carpet.
> What data are these decisions based on?

The data used by the person in charge of making this decision (typically a VP or a Sr Director): what is the probability of them getting promoted. If doubling down or just maintaining and polishing existing projects was rewarded, Google wouldn't have been in this state.

Now why those incentives exist that way? It was a confluence of factors in 2000's when internet was growing rapidly, Google had lots of talented employees, a bold bet in a new area (email, news, street view or browser) had a higher expected value than polishing and maintaining existing products. The culture needs a reset, Google is currently living through its "Ballmer era".
The asterisk always means bullshit.
I'm glad you do
> This could only kill people that are willing to put it on.

How does that make it better? Would you personally want to release such a product?
Has this product been released?
"Basically" means "not literally but for all practical purposes might as well be" but in fewer words. Safari's major features, for all practical purposes, are released annually and not with point upgrades unless they were planned features (same with iOS, iPadOS, and macOS) that didn't make it into .0.
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/08/1121756012/iphone-android-tex...
My experience is that Facebook Messenger is the most popular in Denmark.

I'd like to see statistics though if you can find them.
They’re among the 5 or 10 most important people at one of the biggest companies in the world. They’re not sliding down a dinosaur’s tail at 5PM.
> Was anyone convinced that Irish babies were really being eaten

I think so, considering that one of The Onion's top YouTube videos is one of its most disliked because so many people were fooled (about the euthanization of a 12 year old)
> bribe Twitter employees just to get the badge.

wow, i had no idea that was a thing... interesting
Product idea: a broken CO detector that saves up to 100% of person’s future emissions. Saves money in the future too.
I like Palmer quite a bit (his work is very important to me) and know little of his politics and even I'll admit this post skeeved me out a little bit. It's an assisted suicide machine, and he made it in real life. It's cool, and I'd probably try it if the mechanism for blowing wasn't literally just a color, but if you're not skeeved out by it, it might be best to take a step back.

Proof of a comment a year ago referencing a relatively niche post of his to demonstrate I like the guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28678205

You misspelled his name, though. I wonder if you actually care about his work, or if you're just flaming.
Laughed at "Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013)"
How do you feel about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster
By the founder of Oculus.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Luckey
Yeah, I debated commenting about the somewhat-crippled cross-platform support that recently landed, but that was really just in response to Zoom taking the ball away from their court and Apple being desperate to try and get it back.

I don’t think it had anything to do with their earlier promise (and I’m also not convinced patent issues were the real crux of the matter ten years ago).
That really puts it into perspective.
In April 2020 I was in Mexico City, and needed to get a new Apple 30W charger for my M1 Air. After scouring a ton of local tech shops to not avail^, I finally trekked to the official flagship Apple store. And they had exactly ONE in stock.

It completely surprised me that even the official store serving a city of millions had such a limited inventory. And it's not even like it's an esoteric product, the 30W comes standard with all new Air laptops!

(They did say they get shipments from the US daily and could have one delivered the following day if they happened to be out, but I wanted to avoid another hr+ trek that way if possible. I've heard of JIT inventory managememt, but to keep it THAT thin at such a major retail location really blew me away!)

^Some had lower wattage Apple chargers, but not a single one had 30W or above.
Supply creates demand. If gas / electricity was 10x the price, you would suddenly see a lot more efficiency!
Are they running a suite of NMAP Scripting Engine scripts? or is this a different type of scan?
but who's job is it to make sure that communication is happening, again; and to structure the workplace or culture so that happens? Mostly the bosses.
Yup. Being Orthodox myself, you perfectly described it. It's refreshing, especially since they include required family meals.
“You get fit in the gym and lose weight in the kitchen.”

Ample studies demonstrate that reducing caloric intake results in weight loss.
Woah. I have my luggage in my apartment. I never realized what that meant until now.
You are conflating automobile transport with working from an office. They are different issues.
it would be interesting to see how many of those layoffs target remote people (all those places, not just twitter). not sure where to find this data. Clearly, for twitter at least "remote work forever" turned out to be a trap. Anecdotally from my linkedin feed many layoffs were remote. Again, I don't know where to find real numbers on this, and I don't make any claims or judgements, just observing.
You absolutely don’t need to drink a gallon of water a day under all circumstances. You also certainly don’t need an RO filter in most places. Tap water can be a great source of some minerals, depending on location and a little fluoride is great for your teeth.

What carcinogens are you worried about in average tap water?
Is Snapchat used like them among every generation?
So Google releases features without planning?