skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I guess the pandemic money explosion made it easy for him to show big returns.

From the time Sundar became CEO to the start of covid Google stock was up 100%.
From the start of covid to now Google stock is up 100%

> Search sucks.

Still the best.

> Gemini a year behind (despite google inventing transformers).

A fumble for sure, but all indications Google has massively reoriented toward AI in every product.

> Canceling products left and right leaving no consumer faith in new offerings.

Only HN weirdos like us care about this. Hard to think of a single cancellation that made mainstream headlines.

> Internal power groups crippling anything that isn't deemed sufficiently DEI compliant.

Could anyone give anonymous examples of this? Could the recent waves of layoffs stop this if it was happening?
I guess the real mystery is why so many tech types speak like a infant having a tantrum, about some esoteric trivia, and then have hordes of their kind come and vigorously head-knod it, and all involved think virtue is being done.

People started using things like YAML, obviously, because it reads closer to natural language. It's like a nested bullet list, which everyone can easily read. Readability is important to people. It's why we don't all still write C and Perl.

So it's one thing to say "I think people should be careful about prioritizing readability over precision especially for production systems". It's another to do this narcissistic dramatic faux-incomprehension implying the markup language gained the popularity it did because everyone's stupider than you.
Yes, you’re right, you could get stuck in a trap but don’t you think you’re more likely to find fulfillment by turning off the TV? Taking care of the mind and body (not obsessively) is a requirement I think. All roads have some traps but some are harder to get out off if you’re in a weak state mentally and physically.
> It may be that the tools we have come to rely on so much to define such terms are, almost by definition, inadequate to to define consciousness.

And yet, we are confronted by the fact that we use the concept of consciousness in dozens of different contexts and we understand perfectly well (usually) what people are talking about. That's the basic insight of ordinary language philosophy. These aren't fundamental mysteries, they're webs of concepts tied up in language and careful attention to how they are used, un packing the web and knot of uses, reveals what they mean. The definition is a "rule" or explanation for their use in language, which is not "subjective" (private) but public behaviour.
Have people's hands gotten any bigger over the last 12 years?
I am German without an immigration background and wonder about this, too.
I feel Sony is only option left if you mostly care about width...
No, they are not. Imagine some construction work with heavy drilling outside your bedroom window.
The phone has a built in UPS for unstable power or rolling blackouts.

Also consider the power consumption of a smartphone vs a 10-15 year old PC.
Self-hosted infrastructure manager app for Android
Sony makes awesome smallish phones...but they're expensive. [Marques Brownlee]https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd) regularly talks about wanting smaller phones.
I haven't been to downtown OKC in a long while, but I don't call it having heaps of tall buildings. Having the tallest American building with not as much around it would look... interesting.

In fact, I recall the construction of a lot of OKC being 60s-70s era squat concrete bunkers. That was 20 years ago so maybe things have changed but it was sort of a depressing feel.
Is there actual evidence of this? It doesn't square with the "obsessed with cost cutting" image elsewhere.
I strive to speak multiple languages, but I think it still worthwhile to be really good at my primary language of English.

Same with computers and servers. I interact with a lot of them, but my primary computer that I use >80% of the time is worthwhile to optimize with some tooling that's not available on all the others.
Lot of words to say “Apple showed what customers want”, which isn’t even true as Apple was years late to the so-called phablet market.
I assume you mean electric unicycle?

I can't imagine delivering food on a regular unicycle - it's a lot of work.

The linked article was from 2007. He was definitely talking about a regular unicycle, and I doubt speed was a factor. The "unsafe" perception from others would be from the inherent wobbling associated with someone learning how to ride - it takes a while to get really smooth.
Let's suppose for reasons of this discussion, that Bell labs had assigned a junior engineer to determine how noise was getting into the antenna, not a couple of PhD's who were well along in their careers. Further, let's also assume that, through sheer hard work, some innate brilliance, and maybe some consultations with his mentors, this engineer arrived at the same discovery. Do you think that he would be awarded a Nobel Prize or would he be ignored because he doesn't sport the right credentials?
It's the same for cars here in the UK, where what used to be small cars are getting larger with each new release. The current crop of Minis are larger than a lot of large family cars used to be.

People say it's due to "what the market wants", but it's more to do with what the car manufacturers decide they want people to buy, advertising it appropriately.

With you on wanting a small phone, though.
I heard it as an engineering class is on a plane and the pilot announces that the plane they're flying is one designed by the class. All the students run in terror, but the professor stays on the plane. The flight attendant asks, "you have a lot of confidence in your students, don't you?" He says, "no, I know my students, this thing will never get off the ground."
> Basically there are groups here which curate content using downvotes.

Yes - it does seem that way to me too. Someone doesn't like what you said, so they go the whole hog and downvote as many comments as possible! (4 another user says..) And then get their mates to do the same.

I'd at least like to know my stats - rather than the result - eg: If I 4000+ and -3999 all I see is +1... But it be so interesting to realise there was a lot of polarity to it.

Thanks for your thoughts.
Only if you're still using java 8.
I think as most people moved to using a phone as their primary computing device (no HNers, you're not most people), the size pretty much settled on 6-7" as being in the best range to accommodate what people use them for.
Hey Hackernews! Todd the author here. Thanks for reading and sharing.
Have phone use cases changed in the last 12 years?
And driving/parking on sidewalks/footpaths.

In the last 2 years of riding bikes and walking the dog, my two closest calls with cars have been on the sidewalk during walkies.
Level of responsibility between driver and cyclist is categorically different. A driver will kill when inattentive or impatient. This disconnect between magnitude of input (slouched like a bag of potatoes, dozing) and magnitude of output (casually demolishing a building) is unnatural, it breaks the brain. It's easier to blame the weak, the system, the potholes.
I don't know about where you live but often as not in the US (varies by state) cyclists have different laws to abide by then cars. Most motorists (and cyclists for that matter) are wholly unaware of this.
Anecdatum: A week ago, I went to the supermarket across the road. It's a staggered crossing on a main road (Old Kent Road) (with a stupidly designed junction.) In two crossings, I counted 15-20 cars that jumped the red light - either "accidentally" (by entering the junction without a clear exit) or deliberately (speeding up, not slowing down when it changes to yellow, etc.)

That was about 5 minutes of time out of a two hour peak period - I'd be amazed if you didn't get several hundred an hour if you sat there and counted. There are, alas, no cameras on this junction - probably because MetPol would be doing nothing but processing these violations 24/7...
I've seen a few arguments, but I still don't see how Gamefreak/Pokemon isn't just going to sue the crap out of these developers (Pocket Pair). Maybe they can get away with loosely copying the creatures, but they blatantly rip off the pokeball/catching design/mechanics that are a part of Pokemon's core IP. Maybe someone can tell me I'm wrong?
https://youtu.be/mrepi7s66Jg?si=QDMRxQ30-8ik_5Qe @ 5:12

"…if I wanted an iPad, I would buy an iPad."

My favorite review of the iPhone mini.
Tell that to the dolphins which swim along the shore line where the take offs and landings will be occurring.
I used zsh for a few years before oh-my-zsh became a thing.

I have to admit that I don't find it more convenient.

It takes an ecosystem where things have a way of working, and establishes new conventions on top of those using a new set of environment variables. So if you know zsh, you don't know oh-my-zsh.

A vanilla zsh will feel very bare.

A vanilla oh-my-zsh will feel very feature rich.

If you end up configuring zsh anyways, I don't see the point at all.
Are we discussing constraints, or keys? The term “foreign key” without the word “constraint” totally changes the meaning.
In my limited experience biking in different cultures it's quite directly correlated to how much emphasis car culture has in society. Limited experience because I've only cycled in a few countries but is my main mode of transportation.

In Brazil and the USA quite often I experienced aggressive drivers when cycling, actively driving closer to me on a bike while shouting to get off the road, and twice in São Paulo I got hit by a car purposefully (waiting for traffic lights and got bumped from behind by a car once, cycling uphill and a car passed me and swerved onto my side on another).

While in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands I never experienced a single aggressive driver when cycling. In Germany I had a couple of drivers shouting at me in Berlin but given it's Berlin I can't generalise if German drivers are more adversarial against cyclists, it's a very car-centric culture though so I guess it will correlate.

Just some anecdotes, unsure how much of a pattern it is, would be interesting to compare with other people in car-heavy cultures (Australia perhaps?).
Which worse? Your SIM as an alternate password, or public information about you being your alternate password? ("Security" questions and "identity verification")
Bikes are really hard to see past the A pillars of a car
By far the most effective leadership I’ve worked for are the ones that already have a very comfortable nest egg or are independently wealthy.

They’re the ones that aren’t afraid whatsoever to rock the boat or do what they think is right, and are actually able to drive change.
Motorcycles get treated just as bad. Cruising in the right lane at normal speed? Minding your own business at a stoplight? Someone will take it upon themselves to make sure you are paying attention and the penalty for failure is that you die.

Car people see anything 'weird' and just lose their minds to the point that killing another human is an acceptable outcome to them. It's extremely reliable. Get a bike and you will find out exactly how many psychopaths are out there.
Also, the vast majority of people consume rather than create, and their phone is now their primary device for everything - communication, whatever flavour of social media, banking... For tapping and staring at something for N hours a day, clearly people prefer the larger screen.

(Unfortunately my XZ1 Compact broke, still just the right size!).
I think one of the big advantages of qdrant is how easy it is to do a poc because it allows you to have an “in-memory” version of the database similar to sqlite. One of the big competitors, Milvus, comes with a fairly intricate docker-compose you have to spin up to try it.
TikTok cuts jobs as tech layoffs continue to mount
Somewhat off topic, but I run barefoot (when I run, which isn't as often these days), and the responses are very similar. Mostly repetitive insults from men, ("did you forget your shoes?", "be careful, you'll cut your feet"), some curiosity, ("doesn't that hurt?"), some envy ("wow I wish I could do that") and a small amount of praise.

It's interesting how many people feel free to say the damnedest things when they see someone doing something they don't understand.
Being cheap on quality is only good for business in the short term, but bad for business overall. People are assuming the greedy capitalists sacrifice their capitalism for short term planning. I don't see evidence that this is true.
If only the traffic regulations, and roads were actually designed for bikes. Check the amazing "Not Just Bikes" channel on Stop signs, intelligent traffic lights, and read on Idaho stop.
Let's not take existing regulations like the "absolute truth and ultimate way of being". Jaywalking used to be illegal, and in my country at least, pot went from being a crime to being sold by state stores.
In other news, RIP the MPV market. You were great family cars.
'First in the Nation' Voting Site Under Scrutiny for Alleged Violations (2019)
If it's anything like this, I would say from quite a long ways: https://thelostogle.com/2024/01/02/tlo-unveils-plans-to-buil...
> The argument seems to break down: Surely you don't want to be in a strait-jacket if you're developing an OS kernel.

If you're developing an OS, there is no escaping from the straight-jacket. Your design freedom is severely limited by the fact that your constraints include all applications that will run on your OS.
I used to think this a lot, but then I find products that do exactly this and work reliably most of the time by simply asking you "Local Version" or "Server Version". This is what Steam does, what Nextcloud does, what PS5 does, and probably others. It's a naive approach but it seems to work well enough.

Beyond that, you get into complex territory but maybe we've all been overthinking the problem space.
I loved my 12 Mini, but by not including it in the Pro line (better materials, camera, screen, etc) I feel they never gave it a full chance - signaling from the outset "smaller is less". I desperately want to go back to the smaller size, but without sacrificing on the other dimensions.
Important correction, it’s not DD/MM/YYYY, but DD Month YYYY. (At least what I saw in the article)

This format is common in heavily regulated industries and frequently a regulatory requirement since it’s fully unambiguous. I (American) worked in clinical research/pharma for a bit and still write my dates like 23Jan2024.
yes - I'm asking whether if there is a limit to how many downvotes - ie can someone can go through last month's history, and downvote every single comment if they don't like you.. Or can they only downvote 4 times, as another user suggests... Although, it is - as they point out - possible to test this yourself - by downvoting a user to see the limit (or not) and then un-downvote.
I think your argument may be a little too strong. Would you refrain from discussing, say, happiness, sadness, etc. in your daily life without a formal definition of what happiness is exactly at a structural level? And I say that as someone interested in formalizing ethics, and formalizing all of those notions. The point is, to even (ideally, formally) define them we need intuition and intuitive discussions about what their definitions should be, and we are still at (very) early stages of what could constitute a real formalization.[1]

More significantly, the utility of those concepts far precludes scientific definitions, those terms have been useful for thousands of years, and are essential to human society!

(Again, certainly not against definition, but be mindful of being too strict, too soon about it :) )

[1] The benefits of formalizing (human concepts) are subtle: like formalization in math, they help us build confidence that we're not building sand castle, dig deeper into theories of meaning, and use this to slowly improve lives of everyone. But like math, we've been doing it informally for very long, and a strict axiomatic formalization is still today relatively rare (although progressing with the aid of computer proof systems) for most fields. Still, the evolving standards for proof are likely essential for many of the deep theories we've achieved (probably including say modern logic and Godel's theories, algebraic geometry, functional analysis, etc.).
While I love p10k and use it myself, note that p10k is just a theme, while ohmyzsh is a theme manager (that comes with default themes) + plugin manager + a collection of aliases + other QoL stuff.
For context, very few people and not directly in technology:

"About 60 employees were laid off, mostly in the company's sales and advertising division, according to a company spokesperson, who attributed the shakeup to a routine reorganization. The eliminated roles include workers in Los Angeles, New York, Austin and abroad."
I agree and it’s incredibly ridiculous that we’ve reached a point where phones don’t even fit our hands.

If you disagree, touch the bottom of your screen, then touch the top, I promise it wasn’t effortless.

Steve Jobs was very careful about designing the first iPhone to mold into our hands. It’s no surprise they immediately got bigger once he passed.

Unfortunately, people want it because as you say “bigger is better”. Call me elitist, but they don’t know what they want. A phone isn’t the size of a tv. Making it 2 inches larger doesn’t really solve anything when it’s already so small.

Same goes for reducing the bezel, another obvious “solution” that wasn’t needed. The bezel was meant to give your palm some room so it doesn’t touch the screen.

When you see people put handles on the back of their phones, we have a problem with function. Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave at the sight of these flip flop phones.
Like what?

Edit since you edited yourself (only their first sentence was in the comment when I first replied):

> The fact that even those who don't drive cars hate cyclists says something. As a pedestrian I see myself much more endangered by cyclists, which swerve everywhere (including the pavement), than by cars, which stay within their lanes.

I've only seen swerving cyclists everywhere when infrastructure for cycling is poor or non-existent. Anywhere where there's a minimally decent infrastructure I don't see cyclists sharing space with pedestrians on sidewalks, nor swerving crazily around.

Maybe it's an issue with not providing appropriate infrastructure instead? If there weren't roads you'd see cars not following lanes, etc.
The difficulty is that the design of cycling infrastructure in many cities (but to be fair, especially in the US) is so poor that it's actually more dangerous to follow the standard cycling rules than it is to take certain liberties away from them.
But haven't these things been found all over the world? Like as far as Vietnam. We've found hundreds of them.

"Its a cool object" doesn't quite explain its ubiquity, or the fact that they are almost identical looking despite which side of the globe their on. That suggests purpose to me.
Definition of the English word sport:

- a game, competition, or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as a job

- all types of physical activity that people do to keep healthy or for enjoyment

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/sport
Perhaps we need something along the lines of an infrastructure description language. Some of these yamls get pretty long. Using a real language (like Python) is probably not constrained enough however.
> A ticket is something where there is an understanding that we want to do it if time and resources permit, something where it would be okay for someone to grab it and do it

If you want it to be that, sure. They're really just notes with IDs and tags. What you're describing is a curated backlog / upcoming work.

> On the other hand, an idea or suggestion may easily be something that should not ever be done

Ok? So either say why and cancel the ticket or delete it if you don't want a record of it. I don't get the value of writing it down in a different place so that you have to search in two places.
Customizing my prompt was a reason to stick to zsh instead of oh-my-zsh.

But lately I've become really happy with just installing spaceship.

Sure, it doesn't look exactly like I want it to. But it shows git status.

Various features just "pop up" if I install the right things on the system.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240123143455/https://www.wired...
I'm using a DIY status page tool. We publish ours as static HTML, no JS and hosted via Netlify
> Case in point: I fill water up to just touching/under the valve...

That's precisely how I do it, and I was taught to do it this way by my mother as a kid, so you know at least two people who do it like you.
> So why do it? It makes return on net assets look better?

Precisely that, as with most of Boeing's outsourcing.

Milk the cow, run and live happily ever after.
Not sure of the year, but aluminium oxynitride exists (edit: and more commonly, sapphire).
False. Even when smaller phones are on offer, people still don't buy them and prefer the larger ones.
From 4 years ago on the linked page:

“Some comments in the HN thread seem to confuse the logical referential integrity of the relational model, and the FOREIGN KEY constraint, which is a construct where the database enforces the referential integrity.

We do use tables with ‘id’s and tables referencing those ‘id’s. We do not use FOREIGN KEY constraints in our table definitions.”
I want Iphone SE with a camera of the pro. Camera is the only thing I don't want to be crippled, everything else I don't care.
For me personally? No.
Jelly 2 - Small Android 11 Phone (General)

https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-2
The fact that you don't like what they say doesn't mean they don't understand what you're doing.
"Crass attire," really? We get it, you don't get it, but I don't know why you felt the need to report back on your lack of taste.
That kind of ignores the entire pipeline involved in computing the correct config. Nobody wants to be manually writing config for dozens of services in multiple environments.

The number of configurations you need to create is multiplicative, take the number of applications, multiply by number of environments, multiply by number of complete deploys (i.e. multiple customers running multiple envs) and very quickly end up with an unmanageable number of unique configurations.

At that point you need a something at least approaching Turing completeness to correctly compute all the unique configs. Whether you decide to achieve that by embedding that computation into your application, or into a separate system that produces pure static config, is kind of academic. The complexity exists either way, and tools are needed to make it manageable.
But the only ones who seem to be releasing smartphones in the same size (or below) as the iPhone 12 Mini seems to be shady brands one never heard of before, or really cheap ones with very low specifications.

The small Chinese companies tend to be less affected by marketing trends and just make what users really want. That's why they still have plenty of models with small screens, removable batteries, expandable storage, etc.
I think the problem is not just eyesight. I think it's that for a lot of people now their phone is their primary, and often only, computing device.

Being a computer person I have many devices. My phone is only used when I'm out and about. And I only use it for out and about sort of tasks. I don't watch videos on it. I rarely use it to write or read anything of significant length. Therefore, it's more important for me that the phone be small and portable.

If my phone was the only device I had, I would absolutely get the biggest highest spec phone. Maybe even one of those folding ones. All kinds of tasks I currently do using other devices with very large screens would be a tremendous pain on my iPhone mini.