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>His training is in medieval military history. He is not an anthropologist. Yet he is always make grand pronouncements about human behavior.

Some of the best software engineers studied something else. Only because his training is in something else doesn't mean he didn't read up on it or is not knowledgeable about human behavior.

Also history kind of chronicles aggregate human behavior, so it's at least a related discipline.

I'm not saying he is knowledgeable, mind you, I just think you shouldn't pigeonhole people based on doing exactly what they studied. Because many people don't do exactly what they studied and are experts in it.
I love the camera bump on the Pixel 6. I made a leather belt pouch¹ for it for use on trips and hiking, and the camera bump sits neatly on the edge of the front of the pouch (the back part curves around as a flap over the top). It gives my fingers exactly the right grip to grab it and get a solid grip on the whole device as I lift it out of its pouch.

Never used a case for any phone I've owned.

1: Using the wet moulding technique.
> can't use the software in certain ways (e.g. use in a binary firmware blob)

Yes, you can. You can combine a GPLed program with whatever you want; you just can't redistribute the result if the combination runs afoul of the GPL.

redistribution is not use. Use is running the program, reading the program, trying changes and such.

You can combine GNU Bash with proprietary code and let users remotely log in to your box to try it.

> if you distribute access to end users

There is no such thing. Copyright law does not recognize "distributing access". The program is not being redistributed when it executes and exchanges messages with remote stations.

"Distributing access" also reminds me of the idea of someone hearing the sound of your coins jingling, or smelling your cooking: as in from the famous case of Ōoka_Tadasuke that circulates as a popular parable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ōoka_Tadasuke#Famous_cases
My phone (£500/$500) was released in Nov 2017, bought in Feb 2018, and it's still just fine. Only recently have I been noticing the battery life is getting a bit pathetic.

Spending £500 on a new one hasn't really entered my thoughts. The last time I went shopping for an (Android) phone with and for my girlfriend it was a nightmare - so many absolutely shit giant phones that don't feel right in the hand
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>when done correctly, the Pixel 8 Pro's temperature readings are very accurate. Clinical trials revealed that the Pixel 8 Pro could successfully calculate body temperatures between 96.9°F and 104°F to within a margin of error of ±0.54°F.

https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/google-explains-pixel-...
Bottom left. Settings > Manage Subscription. It turns out I have it included till the end of the year because of the 5TB Google One sub https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41237943
Pixels are always pushing the boundaries of invasion of privacy. We need less of it, not more.
https://archive.ph/wY2rP
> and a headphone jack

Just use a USB-C adapter. No, it's not as good as if it was built in. Yes, it's good enough. Yes, they make charge+headphone adapters.
Also reminds me of the huge shortcoming that these "simple" serialization libraries have. In most use-cases you're eventually going to need some way to add/remove fields from the payloads.

JSON and protobuf make that easy. You can start emitting the new field and then update the receiving end at your leisure.

With these libraries you have to write your own versioning system. For a small performance improvement over JSON parsing it's pretty much not worth it. There's almost always going to be a piece of lower hanging fruit.
It's incredible to me how much worse this web page is than a comparable Apple one. Just from a cursory glance, I've seen some late loading elements, weird and confusing pricing before I've even seen the whole phone, and a weirdly masked and slightly pixelated video.
I splurged for one of the flip phones not long ago. Thought I qualified for a discount that I evidently didn't qualify for. Oops.

That said, I think it was 600ish. So, yeah, I don't know that I understand the high end market. At all.
It is unsurprising. Seliger was a fairly close presence on HN during the end of his life, and not everyone here is well equipped to understand and account for the effect on themselves of sharing such pathos. It isn't something Californian or American culture handles well in general, and even then HN participants constitute an unusual cohort selected partially (if not intentionally) for a habit of privileging rationality over emotion - which isn't at all the same thing as skill in managing one's emotions, especially at their heights. When someone speaks intemperately in such a moment, as here, in that light it reads easily as if selfish and contemptuous of the entire circumstance, and receives a response in accord with that reading.

I don't think that's unjustified, even if I did take the time to unpack it a bit for our mutual interlocutor here. It was not my first instinct to do so. Someone whom a lot of people here care about was within days, possibly hours, of dying. At a time like that, someone who speaks out of turn may very confidently expect to be slapped down for it. It's worth explaining why that's the case, because all else equal a better understood error is less likely to be repeated. But it was an unmitigated error, and the response it received is the one it deserved.
How the UK Security Services neutralised the country's leading liberal newspaper
Where do you get $30 accident protection for the lifetime of a phone? I've looked into Apple Care for this in the past, and it was about 10 times that for two years, with a deductible for broken screens.
> tech community is in for quite a shock with Tesla robotaxi's come out in a year or so and blow out the competition

12.5.1.3 is incredible. But it's still Level 3, attempting to do something stupid at least on every trip I've been in one.

I think Tesla will figure out Level 4 in the near future. What makes the "year or so" unrealistic is it will have to convince regulators that it's safe. For a variety of reasons, partly legitimate and partly due to Musk's antics, that might be difficult in a lot of the most lucrative markets (and markets where Teslas are).

Top comment's estimate for 2030 parity with Waymo et al is more realistic.
I had similar issues with my pixel 3a about three years ago, and I switched over to Pixel Experience. This got me up to Android 13, and everything just works great to this day. I'm pretty sure there won't be an Android 14+ Pixel Experience build for this device, though.
I don’t think that this is a fair characterization of what it means for a circuit to have one of its decisions be heard by the Supreme Court. It makes it seem like being “reviewed” by the Supreme Court is a proxy for “out of the norm,” and that’s not the test for Supreme Court review. Many times a case will be heard out of a circuit where that circuit applies the same logic as the majority of other circuits, so the claim that there is a strong correlation between the circuit and adherence to the majority view seems extraordinary on its face.

Recall that the Supreme Court generally gets to decide what cases it hears and what it’s said about the cases it wants to hear is at https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/supct/rule_10. It basically boils down to cases where there is a conflict between any two chains of appeals (federal circuits and states). But the Supreme Court is lazy (or smart), so when there is a conflict they usually want to see how other judges think and to see if a majority vote will arise. The cases that get granted are therefore normally just from one of the last circuits to adopt a view (often one of the previously espoused views from the other circuits), and I would need to see the data to believe that there is a bias with respect to whether they adhere to the majority view (if it exists).
I don't think these anecdotes (yours or the guy above with the green screen issue) are useful.

Fwiw, I haven't had either issue with my P8 Pro and it's definitely the best phone I've ever used, both on Android 14 and running the Android 15 betas.
to add to this, it's equivalent to the difference between trying to justify that one experiment (or one class of experiments) is wrong vs several dozens of classes of thousands of experiments are all subtly wrong so that this one experiment can be right.
They seem pretty big, but maybe people are confusing them with to old famous National Semiconductor for some reason (sold to TI in 2011.)
I wouldn't pay real money other than my YT Premium, so I'm fine with sponsor reads. I'm not alone.
Nothing refreshing about this. Their mid range Raspberry Pi Zero used to be $5, now they are giving you an underpowered microcontroller for the same price. You can get Pico 2 sized individual boards for less than $2 in Asia.
Does someone know why these are not reentrant without the GNU extension? It seems like a really weird choice to make a library for hash tables and then make the state global like that.
Why AI Isn't Gobbling Data Center Resources the Way People Think It Is
iPhones are 10x better than $500 Androids, so a steal at 2x the price.
Google Fi also has a very annoying rule where you can't sign up when you're out of the country. Found that on while on vacation.
Using credit cards is normal. Carrying a balance is a poor financial decision. I think credit card interest rates are 22% these days. Pretty sure anyone who can get a credit card can get a line of credit from their bank at 10%. I ain’t a math-magician but pretty sure 10% is less than 22%.
Maybe a potential use case for GNU Hurd?
I used to be a Google Fi fan (early adopter at that) for European trips ... but nowadays, with multi-ESims, it is trivial to get a local SIM card and use that.

The local data plans are typically more broadly useable and cheaper than the $10/GB that Fi offers.

When it comes to Europe (and this might apply to other destinations as well) Fi is a bad deal.
Cheap sounds great honestly- you can build more cheap things! I like the idea of going all the way to club cars for everyone.
You don’t write terse tricky code. That’s just silly. But you can write beautiful Typescript constructs that are completely impenetrable but will disallow all wrongdoing.
I bought a refurbished Pixel 3A for $150 and dropped Graphene on it. Has worked like a charm. Incredible 4-day battery life thanks to the absence of Google Play Services. Might move to /e/ soon now that Graphene has dropped support.
when she's certain, you'll know, because she'll publish it.
You can still order them online and they work fine.
I used Gemini Pro API to sort my folders, and it misclassified some files, I asked why, and he said it was done to "promote diversity in my folders"

...

This is very lame (and the sad part is that it's a real story).
This is wrong on several levels:

1. As other commenter said, X causes Y does not mean that Y implies X. There can be another cause for the Doppler.

And surprisingly,
2. There is at least one known mechanism that cause Doppler WITHOUT moving: when the observer is in a gravity well (ex: earth) and observing a stationary object outside the gravity well (ex: some fixed point in outer space)
Love the name! Electronic gardening vibe.
Nah, it just looks ugly and too sterile. Nothing brave, just another double palm sized phone. A girl who tries very hard to look cool, but the bridge on her head just ruins the overall looks.

Maybe ask LG to make a cool looking phone. They have created a lot of brave designs.
What happened to the guardian journal after the WikiLeaks scandal and revelations and how it was dismantled
They pretend to read, we pretend to write.
Bit of advice I'm looking for, if my question resonates for you: I've had Pixels in the past (pretty distant past at this stage) but I generally found the experience to be too "beta" or "experimental", in that various features would not carry over to a new Pixel, and I'd have to get used to something entirely different all over again. In contrast, I've enjoyed the Samsung approach, and I love the Fold. (I also carry iphones, I like gadgets)

Should I try the Pixel Fold, might I like it? (looking for opinions from people who recognize my story; no need to tell me things like "nobody can answer that for you")
One of my favourite talks:
https://youtu.be/1qSTcxt2t74
And here's my tutorial FORTH, based upon a thread from hacker news:

https://github.com/skx/foth

Forth is always appealing, whether literally, or in puns.
I did that with the Pixel 8. Although I don't really care about the better camera either.
Generic Open Source Project Can't Also Be a Successful Civil Rights Project
Ridiculous how a company the size of Google can only support such a small part of the world. What's even stranger is that they don't support most of the strong android markets.
This is all wrong. Yor title link will be considered deceptive. This should be a Show HN with your comment below as the text and include a link to your site.
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger (for certain types of systems)" is the actual point.
Do these phones have an upgrade to the "phone" part? My Pixel 8 Pro keeps dropping networks every few days and takes minutes to reconnect.
Yeah, they've got an SOS button on the back that'll (silently) make your friends' devices blink to say "come find me." Not sure how noticeable it would be on the dance floor without a noise or vibrate, though.
The front camera is a big upgrade: 10.5 MP to 42 MP from the 8 Pro to 9 Pro.

The rear wide camera looks the same, but the rear ultrawide seems like it has a small upgrade. Better aperture at least.
You should be happy. If Google didn't produce Android*, we would only have a single phone operating system and thus only a single provider of phones.

*And why produce Android without also producing a showcase phone?
It is! If you also need service, Google Fi has had a promotion for a while that gives you the $500 purchase price back over 24 monthly bills.

In fact, they also have a promotion right now where you can get $800 back on either the Pixel 9 or 9 Pro, spread over 24 months; that makes the 9 free and the 9 Pro only $200.
I'm kind of sad that the world seems to have given up on the smaller phones. The marketing of the masculine hand holding the larger phone is amusing to me, and I can understand wanting to have a larger screen. I do not like the amount of space these things take in my pocket, though.
The thing that sucks is I pay for YouTube Premium to remove ads then youtubers always have sponsored segments. It makes my $20/mo useless because I'm spending time watching ads still. I don't have a solution I'm just stating my perspective on it.

That said, SponsorBlock has been around for years. I've been using it for as long as I can remember. Basically any decent-sized channel's videos already have the sponsored segment skipped. I'm not sure why someone just posted it but we're well beyond SponsorBlock "taking off".
Why does YT algorithm do this kind of thing. Mazzy Star – Fade Into You [video]
I also love Google Fi, but FYI there are substantially cheaper phones that are still compatible. For example they will sell you this one for $60 right now: https://fi.google.com/about/phones/moto-g-5g-2024. No idea if that's a good phone, just saying that if you're mostly in it for the international coverage there's no reason to pay $800+ for a brand new Pixel when you need a new phone.
Hoping the SE 4 in the new year will be sub $500/£500.
The USA is not the World.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide
Yeah, by looking at the tags it seems that these are desktop terminals assuming most programmers use the desktop to use them.

A great list nonetheless.
I have a P8Pro and it may well be worth the money to trade it in, especially to get a slightly more manageable sized phone.
Samsung Galaxy S4 had one a decade ago. Also had a humidity sensor! A true weather station (barometer and light sensor too!)
Unstructured seems to be focusing a lot on the document chunking and data ingestion into RAGs part. Trellis handles the process end-to-end from extraction to transforming the data into the schema that you need for downstream applications.

The way unstructured built their parsing and extraction are mostly based on traditional OCR and rule based extraction. We built all preprocessing pipeline in an LLM and vision model first way that allows us to be flexible when the data is quite complex (like tables and images within documents).
At least the non-folding Pixel 9's have the symmetry in tact for the outline of the bump, but agreed, I do like the full-width visor on my 6 better.
The lack of iMessage blue-bubble is a good tell. Instantly makes you lose dates with gold diggers.
I've had a Pixel 8 Pro since launch day and have had zero issues with it. Really great phone.
I think the initial intent of the quote was to ridicule non-lisp users for reinventing the wheel, but to me it always reads as a fundamental misunderstanding of the fact that programming language constraints are _features_ rather than downsides.
I don't think you can really tie that to the brand. Because it's wrapped on different OEMs, I find it varies from OEM to OEM.
Thanks, I appreciate it!

I am by no means a talented artist, and programming comes much easier to me than pixel art. That's a big part of the reason why I made Stipple Effect, which is essentially a program that you can get the most out of when you leverage your skill as a programmer to make making art faster/better/less painstaking.
I saw what might have been the essay that defined this term and I think it was pretty articulate and had a point, based in the long tradition of conservatives pointing out that many defenders of the poor are not themselves poor and that many things that people think will help the poor don't. (The New York Times is a good illustration in that it seems left-leaning in that it is in support of social democracy (so long as it doesn't cost too much) but is right-leaning that it doesn't challenge existing power structures (e.g. control of the means of production) and most of all would hate it if Charlie Blow or David Brooks got canceled because their privilege to get paid $20,000 to give a commencement address is inviolable)

In the case of this article though it has degenerated to just another meme, a label that people use to "other" other people and prove their own membership in a certain tribe. People who are in the know will hit the "like" button, it will just blow right by most people unless something happens to make it a temporary or longstanding flash point.
Never in my life have I been interested in any sponsor mentioned in a YouTube video. It's sad to see creators having to include these humiliation rituals in their videos just to keep their channels alive. To me, such tools are just a noise filter.
The pressure provided by the bi-metalic strip is representing the temperature, and it's turning off the main heater by causing the unit to pop out.
The "signal" doesn't have to be voltage, it can be pressure or spacial position as well.
It doesn't have the same flair or humor, but I've found Technology Connections scratches a similar part of my brain.
> Most people...

You know what they say about making up statistics...
From someone who didn't finish it (ref. my other comment in this thread), the reason I dropped it was that it felt aimed at teenagers BUT not in the way (I presume) you mean: it didn't feel like a immature power fantasy trying to impress teenagers with flashy fights. More that it switched between "managing superhero powers" and "diving into teenage insecurity and typical American teen romance narratives" from time to time - and IMO not in a way that felt well-stitched together.
so Elon either lied to save face or someone misinformed him
Fair enough, but the fact that GitLab was better 6 years ago doesn't do much to help the company right now.

I wasn't using GitLab 6 years ago so I can't comment on that, but I can comment that at least since 2022, I haven't found anything in GitLab that would recommend it over GitHub.
I'm happy with my Pixel 6a. Think with my previous trade-in (some older pixel), it was like $299. Gotta time things right to get the next one at a similar price point. I def don't want that Gemini stuff on there though. The cheapest new phone being $800 seems to be a step up though.
People use their phones probably more than any other single item besides their home and bed. It’s not really that crazy, especially if you factor in camera upgrades for people that care about it.
> If you agree to some extent that races are also about determining who the better runner is

I don't agree with this to a meaningful extent. "Better" is too vague to be meaningful.

A purpose of the race is to determine who won the race. Sometimes that is to some extent the better runner, but not always. I don't care who the better runner is. I want to know who won the race.
You don't need to understand electromagnetism in order to watch television.

Also, institutions without a purpose should not be kept going.

Ie. Ai needs to take over the entire life cycle for research before this is real issues. I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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At its core, life is all about play − just look at the animal kingdom
Pixel 9 also says satellite emergency support ("Satellite SOS"). Search for info gets you to https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/15254448?hl=en&...

It looks like it's coming "later this year". Lots of chatter about it, see a few details at https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-9-satellite-sos-34676...

* apparently coming with android 15, but they are shipping android 14

* turning on satellite sos later, but this year

* us only

* free for 2 years on pixel 9 phone, but probably would cost more later?

If you go on a lot of backcountry trips, maybe you already have something like a Garmin device with paid in-reach service with texting and emergency service button - no voice support. I have this, it works well. You can do 2 way texting, also you can have your location uploaded as you travel if you wish.
Build better URLS and skip the need for this in the first place. Problem solved.
Yeah, iPhone/Galaxy Sxx price without the same reliability.

You're crazy if you spend $1k for Pixel's build quality.
That's a feature. Gets the vapid idiots to select themselves out of your life.
Didn't realize Pixel got satellite SOS! So glad to see this becoming mainstream. Birthrates are declining. Protecting the lives we have matters. I'm hoping the broad deployment of this tech allows phones to SOS on collision from within remote areas. I haven't gotten the impression these two features are able to work seamlessly yet since phones need a clear view of the sky (I'm suggesting that the satellite broadcasts become just a little more powerful against minor obstructions such as a car roof)
I spent a minute in a state of mild shock, thinking it's Native Instruments that got acquired...
It was his working theory at the time. He might have been mistaken. It happens, omg.
Never in my life I will buy any Google product. They so easily kill products used by millions without second thought. This destroyed my trust in the company, they just don’t care enough, it’s all about profit and their monopolistic position.
I hope other smaller companies with better ethics will emerge
Right, and I said that is cute, but mostly nonsense. There are no systems that can take arbitrary hits without ending. And as soon as you acknowledge that this only works by spurring growth after the hit, you are back to tolerances and growth.
I'm an iPhone guy, but - there _are_ other designs for phones, right? The squircle corners, the shiny metal band surrounding the matte back, the aqua-pill-shaped buttons, the colors - Google is a $2T company, there's gotta be an industrial designer somewhere in the building or some process for phone design that doesn't take place in Cupertino, right?