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That's been Google phones even since the Nexus days. They review super well then three months after release there's some crazy-ass hardware problem no phone has ever experienced before. Screen discoloration, glass backs cracking while laying flat on a table, power buttons getting stuck, spontaneous camera glass cracking, etc.
"Magdalen" is pronounced Maudlin. That's how Oxford's locals detect 'tourists' ;)
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Samsung, which uses Android, is the most popular phone brand in the world. Google doesn't need Pixel too be as sucessful as iPhone because Android dominates the iPhone and come pre installed with multiple Google products which is where the money is made for Google.
> I don’t know why people expect privacy in Vegas

I expect privacy in any hotel room, regardless of where I am. Certainly not the same level of privacy I'd expect in my own home, whether purchased or rented. But daily security checks? No way, that's unreasonable. If I've put up the "do not disturb" sign, I expect no one to enter my room, at all, except in an emergency, or in a non-emergency where I'm present and have agreed to let someone in. That seems to me... entirely normal and reasonable to expect.

> there are more cameras and technology watching you here than anywhere else in the US

What does that have to do with it? Just because casinos want to watch what's going on to prevent cheating (or just too-good play), that doesn't mean the hotel-room privacy situation should go to shit.

My last few trips to Vegas I stayed in Airbnbs; I guess I will continue doing that for the foreseeable future when I visit.
Not to mention RE: payday loans/credit cards, paying 30% APR might seem bad, but if you've got a broken car and a $1000 repair bill, taking the 30% APR loan, paying it off in a year, and incurring $169.85 worth of interest in the process, is probably better than you losing your job. Sure, it'd be better if everyone had an emergency fund so they never need such high APR loans in the first place, but banning such "predatory" loans isn't going to magically make that happen.
You can. But it's not as great to put your face in a pair of boobs with glasses.

Glasses always create a distance between your face and the world.
If we can suspect X given Y, but we shouldn't build models on top of the assumption of X, then what are we supposed to do with Y?

To me it seems like you're arguing that it was a bad idea to build on the assumption of Newton's theory of gravity because eventually it would be replaced by Einstein's theories of relativity. Which is obviously not sensible, since Einstein's theories were in part the result of trying to explain inaccurate predictions made by building on Newton's theory.
Interesting, it seem the GPS is is used for getting location of totems and it then shares the location with other linked totems via Mesh. Then a simple calculation is used for getting initial bearing and as you rotate the totem (which I’m sure has a magnetometer)the lights brighten as you get closer to the bearing! Nice!
Emerson Electric (in TFA) does not make consumer electronics, that’s another company called Emerson Radio Corporation.
The observation of the Hubble constant requires us to measure distance to an object in space. This is very hard to do at the extreme distances required (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax). In the end, the variation in the Hubble constant might be only due to our limited accuracy in measurement.
I had a role developing systems of increasing complexity of hardware, software, and interfaces and my mantra / threshold for development was always “no phone calls”. I sought to make a project robust enough to support like any other by on-site and field staff and direct my attention to the next challenge.

19 years is incredible! Congratulations on a job well done for nearly a quarter century!
That passive voice… “the Verge is told” lol. Quality gotcha journalism.
In terms of percentage of my day that I spent using X, my smartphone ranks pretty highly. More so than my TV, car, etc that are high budget items that you can spend a lot on.
I'm not trying to be offensive or hostile but, as much as I value the higher-quality content on youtube, if youtube went back to being just a place people posted videos of themselves doing stuff instead of what effectively amounts to studios making youtube content, I'd consider that a win.

Again, not that your content isn't likely appreciated by your audience and valuable. I just miss the days of youtube just being a fun video platform instead of another TV channel.
I got the SE 2 used, a year after it came out for a serious discount[1]. If that's something you're comfortable with, you can get a really good deal if you pay attention to what's posted on FB Marketplace.

More than anything, I'm most impressed by Apple's OS support. I'm pretty convinced that SE phones are some of the best deals in the industry if you keep them until they run out of support. They have the same guts (minus cameras) as tier 1 flagship phones. Apple is a bit tight with ram, but the processor is faster than any Android phone.

And the support - 7 years is standard right now, and it could very well go longer.

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1. I think I paid $150 for it. It has a small crack in the screen, but just the part that's over the chin, not anything that affects the display. If I wanted a pristine phone, I'm sure I could have found one for a bit more. But after several years, I'm happy with my decision.
EU actually did that:

> These regulations will empower independent repairers and end-users by ensuring access to spare parts and to the information necessary to repair for at least 7 years after the end of the distribution of a product in the market. Additionally, manufacturers will have to make compatible software updates available for at least 5 years.

https://repair.eu/news/new-eu-rules-smartphones-and-tablets-...
Looks like, unsurprisingly, the resolution is more about mandating censorship than it is about curbing actual crime. I'm pretty pessimistic about the future of a free internet - there have been lots of attempts at censorship-resistant protocols, but they require widespread adoption. If they haven't already been adopted, I doubt they ever will.
What is the issue when people associate "inflict pain to other" with "taking pleasure for myself" ? I dunno man, I dunno.
How would you rate the quality of the dubs?

Do you think it's usable for learning? Seems like you could end up with some quirky learnings.
This was a major issue that drove me away from Android. In addition to first party bugs, I got tired of 3rd party accessories not working correctly.

My theory was iPhone probably got tested on most 3rd party accessories. However, the fragmentation in the Android space meant I’d have no idea what devices they actually tested with.

This is further compounded by the fact that Android isn’t really an open platform, at least in a practical sense. I can’t just load up a patch for something (assuming it exists) without fully switching to some open source ROM that’s going to come with its own issues.
The "human body measurement" test in that article seems flawed. When you launch the Thermometer app, there's only two buttons: Object temperature and Body temperature.

So I'm not sure why the author tried to measure body temperature by using "Object temperature" mode with "default" setting and measuring the temperature under the tongue. The Body Temperature test has always been accurate for me and matches my higher end forehead thermometer.
Please ban this throughout the entire state, not just SF.
I wish YouTube Premium (and honestly, Spotify too!) had a feature where I could voluntarily commit X additional dollars per month to be directly distributed to the creators I watch according to their share of my total watchtime, with some kind of manual opt-out button for individual videos/creators that I explicitly do not want to support. I am already a member of several Patreons but wish I could cast a bit of a wider support net for the people I watch enough-to-want-to-support-them-but-not-enough-to-join-their-Patreon, yknow?
I had a Pixel 4XL that could not do basic phon calls. 7/10 tries I would get no audio but the other person could always hear me. I wiped the phone and it magically started working, then about a week after that it was back to not working again. Also the back cover started peeling off the phone since all they did was use a tiny bit of glue to keep it on.
There is a very old theory called the "Tired Light Hypothesis" which supposes that for some unknown reason light loses energy as it travels over cosmological distances. This would reproduce the observed redshifts, but it has issues predicting pretty much every other cosmological observation.

In particular it doesn't explain observed reductions in surface brightness (expansion has the effect of "defocusing" collimated light). And it doesn't explain observed time dilation effects.
This.

The AGPL deception is you brand yourself as community-minded. As long as you don't rely on external contributions that's fair. But what the AGPL startups don't emphasize is they require you to either assign your copyright to them or give them extra privileges to your contributions to be able to relicense it under non AGPL (if they don't they don't know what they are doing).

AGPL is also not considered a very safe license by large organizations even if you want to run it internally unmodified, alongside the rest of your application. Many big companies have blanket bans on AGPL.
Pretty much in the same boat here. The P9P is around the same size as my P8 (0.1" shifted from depth to width), which is great news. I would pay more for a better camera, but I care more about compactness than camera quality.
I don’t like spending $1k on a phone, but my iPhone 11 Pro lasted 4 years and the only reason I upgraded was because the 15 has USB-C. It would have needed a battery upgrade otherwise but modern phones do have much better longevity.
… if you are looking to scale this to a couple of hundred megawatts, just stop reading and thinking about this now

I thought that was one huge appeal of flow batteries is that you can basically infinitely scale them. China has a 100MW installation (potentially more since this 2022 report)

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/09/29/china-connects-worlds...
KDB is an absolute nightmare, a barbaric piece of tech that should have never existed.

Here is a link on how you do queries: https://code.kx.com/q/basics/funsql/

TL;DR;

This is a select:
q)t:([] c1:`a`b`a`c`a`b`c; c2:101+til 7; c3:1.11+til 7)

And this is another select:
q)?[t; ((>;`c2;35);(in;`c1;enlist[`b`c])); 0b; ()]

Mind that these are the basic queries :)))))

The future of kdb+ is in the toilet.
>What if the universe doesn't expand at all? What if we're completely wrong and redshift is caused by something else entirely, like some yet-undiscovered phenomenon that occurs to spacetime or electromagnetic waves? How can we be so sure it's space that's expanding, not time?

I suppose that's possible. Does that hypothesis adequately explain our observations?

Is the model we currently have completely "correct"? Almost certainly not. But it appears to be less wrong[0] than earlier models.

If you (or anyone) can show how the above describes our observations better and more completely than our current models, then it's likely "less wrong."

But you offer no evidence or even logical argument to support your hypothesis. As such, it's not much more than idle speculation and essentially equivalent, from a scientific standpoint, as suggesting the universe is a raisin dropped into a sugar syrup solution[1] and absorbing the liquid -- hence the expansion of the universe.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Relativity_of_Wrong

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compote
The win-win solution is to only buy Pixel phones that are several generations old. The kinks are ironed out, they're less than half the price, and for 95%+ of users, they're just as capable as the latest-and-greatest.
Who the hell cares what is considered "cool"? I use the phone that's best for me, I don't give a damn what anyone else thinks of it.
Just a heads up, the VPN ads are annoying sure but I think a lot of people would agree the RAID SHADOW LEGENDS ads are the worst lol
I think your information about lack of notifications is outdated.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
As I've mentioned in another post, that leads to questioning one of the most well tested theories in physics, so you need extraordinary evidence to prove it over something as elementary as doppler shift. Like, if it's Earth's gravity well causing us to see things differently, then things that are further from Earth should observe things differently.
Sony seem to be abandoning the NA market which is kind of unfortunate. Their new Xperia 1 VI isn’t available in either the US or Canada.
Wait, you can install uBlock on chrome mobile?
Looks interesting from the tech perspective.
I was nearly going to buy two for my kids. We don’t go to festivals but now and then on larger events and a fun toy.

But looking at the size I am a bit hesitant. Airtag does the job and soon they will have a cellphone…
I don’t have any grass of my own but just enjoyed a patch above the Dufferin terasse in Quebec City.

For others interested in alternative options to maintaining an otherwise lifeless lawn Re:wild is an organization dedicated to finding solutions to bring pollinators and biodiversity back to our cities and neighborhoods.

https://www.rewild.org/
No desktop mode?
too bad pointer alignment isn't visible in a base64 dump of memory
Until they decide it to be enabled by default.
I guess I have never really understood what the point of using a credit card is if you are not going to carry a balance. If you can actually afford to buy the thing, why would you not just buy it? What is the point of borrowing money and immediately paying it off?

To me this seems like asking for trouble. I don't trust myself to keep track of so much money moving around; it would be too easy to overspend.
Lydiard-Interpreted
And a different take on the changes: https://antonz.org/go-1-23/
Will setting that other than default default give the site one more bit to fingerprint you?
With uBlock Origin installed (I use Android Firefox), you can block large media elements from loading for all sites or per site. see https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches
Show HN: Vlm Run, Extract JSON from images, videos and documents in a simple API
Hey HN,

We’ve been building out an API for ‘Visual ETL’ that we call vlm.run. We’ve been working with foundation models (GPT4o, Gemini) for a few months and kept running into failure modes like:

- Hallucinations: even the best foundation models continue to hallucinate outputs for complex visual inputs, even when adhering to a schema.

- Rate limits: frontier models like GPT4o are still too expensive or rate limited for high volume visual data. Our API is designed for production workloads which means speed, stability, monitoring and, if needed, private deployments.

- Off the shelf schemas: Defining a schema takes trial and error to get right. We’ve put together a taxonomy for common visual tasks that are ready to go from day 1.

Some examples we’ve put together:

- Presentations: https://docs.vlm.run/guides/guide-pdf-presentations

- TV News: https://docs.vlm.run/guides/guide-tv-news

Sign up for an API key and try us out on a 2 week free trial. Check out our docs at https://docs.vlm.run/what-is-vlm-1 and reach out if you have questions!
This describes the average Android phone for sure, but the Pixel line has been pretty solid in my experience.
My iPhone SE is $429 apparently.
It is much more likely that your astigmatism is very mild, and your optometrist decided not to correct it, and corrected only the myopia. This is common because toric contacts are more expensive, more difficult to put in, less breathable, and fall out easier.

As a longtime user of toric contacts, I have tried a dozen brands and every single one has the exact same mark. The shape will keep them from moving out of orientation, but it isn't enough to put them back into orientation if put in wrong, at least not quickly.

Care to share exactly what contacts you are using? Do you have astigmatism in one or both eyes? If it is toric and for astigmatism it will say so on the box- many people have it in only one eye, so the boxes will be different, and only one will say toric.

If you really are using toric contacts, but not aligning the mark, I am willing to bet you will be able to find the mark, align it properly, and your vision will be remarkably better.

Edit: One reason you absolutely need the mark is because the optometrist also needs to be able to tell if they are staying in orientation like they're supposed to, by visually checking the alignment mark. It needs to point straight upwards (vertical). If not, they can prescribe you one that is made pre-rotated to compensate.
So who does make good phones?
I think spamming peoples posts/conversations not a great way to promote or sell if you are not doing a shady business. So with mentio I actually tried to prevent spam content.

We don't yet started to help people at Hacker News. But for example you created a post that asking how to promote your AI Startup on HN.

Mentio creates a thoughtful reply (eg. Listing : SEO, Social media accounts, Affiliates, Directories..) and namedrops an AI directory that you can submit your product at the end. I tought this was very useful and people don't generally realize/care if this is an automated response as long as it was very helpful.

It's not a bug it is the feature.
Monopolies are very profitable.
It was fun to read about this in the North American Numbering Plan documentation.
No Qi2 is really silly. A full year to integrate this in your phone design and you punted. It's really just adding a few magnets google, come on.
people in the rick steves link say you just tell tmo when you get back in the us to reset it/turn it on for the us. This should not have unclear limits of course.
It's crazy where phones are at now. My $160 Motorola phone has 8GB of ram

The camera is terrible though photos upon closer inspection appear smeared/blurry. My older Motorola which I paid more for has a better camera.
I went through many moto/samsung/google phones. Every single one sucked ass after about a year or two. Wasn't a big deal when the phones came with contract renewals. Became a major deciding factor to abandon them when I had to hand over my own cash.

If I'm paying 500+ for a device it needs to you know... last more than a few years.
There's also only one Bluetooth stack on Apple's platforms (presumably shared), so testing is more straightforward. And if so inclined, there's also the Made for iPhone program that requires validation, but again that's with one device in two form factors. It's not a fair challenge comparing Android device support because the task is bigger, though Google could probably do some stuff to make that less painful.
A few that we experience as we’re building Trellis out:

1. Managing end-to-end workflows from integrating with data sources, automatically triggering new runs when there’s new data coming in, and keeping track of different business logic that’s involved (i.e. I want to classify the type of the
emails and based on that apply different extraction logic)

2. Most out-of-the-box solutions only get you 95% of the way there. The customers want the ability to pass in their own data to improve performance and specify their unique ontology.

3. Building a good UI and API support for both technical and non-technical users to use the product.
It's not about selling them. It's about protecting it when you drop it etc.
I think you misunderstood what rms said there (but if the transcript is accurate, he was unclear).

Yes, Multics Emacs was the one used by secretaries (except at AI & LCS where they used TECO EMACS on ITS). In both cases most of the extending by non-programmers was done with macros (`c-X (` which is still that command today).

Multics Emacs had an excellent design and you could in fact write some very simple functions with a copy-and-modify rote approach (nothing wrong with that!). But beyond that I never met one whom one could describe as knowing Lisp. In fact most would have been intimidated if you'd told them that they could improve the editor by "programming".

This "programming is impossibly hard for a person like me" attitude was a bad cultural property of the 1970s, thankfully now somewhat in the past. But that change depended on direct work on the problem by people like Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon in the LOGO lab (part of the AI lab).

Excel is a great (in volume and reach) example of this: many people write very complex and sophisticated programs in Excel and still don't believe they can program. Now Python is embedded in Excel some people can be tricked into writing real programs. And, presumably, tricked into running sophisticated malware!
Adding support for encrypted client hello to the TLS library is pretty exciting. I've been waiting a while for that.
What I Learned Writing an Album in Just Intonation
Don’t you think jumping to a complete existential crisis over such a simple comment is a little extreme? That alone is a red flag that maybe dogma has taken over. No, nothing I wrote suggests one must shut down all scientific discussion or inquiry. No, it does not mean you cannot investigate X and its implications. No, it does not mean you cannot build speculative models on top of X. Yes, it does mean it’s important to be careful with language and avoid enshrining what is only an assumption as an unassailable fact of reality for generations.
I've had a dozens od Bluetooth devices (of both computers and headsets), and have never not had Bluetooth issues. I would not isolate "Bluetooth issues" to Android.
Just did an extraction and table mode targets this rly well :)
The flaws were much more excusable with the Nexus phones since they were dirt cheap, but the price of the Pixels has crept upwards and now they're more or less at parity with Apple and Samsungs flagship prices.
Insightful and inspiring vision.
Well, from the phone viewpoint people buy them to get a less garbage-filled android experience. Most consumers don't really expect phones to last forever... because they seldom do.
It sucks about google fi after 90d, but Verizon is $10/d or $100 per billing cycle, no? It was easy and cheap for me to get a local sim (in Barcelona and London, at least). Does verizon still lock your phone? I had a bad experience traveling with Verizon to Munich. It was one of a handful of reasons I dropped them as my carrier. This was many years ago though.