skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true, but I don't think the price translates. Most folks use their phones for messaging, internet, videos, camera. That's about it. And the things you do on your phone don't translate to these price tags. You're not getting a bunch more from a 1k phone than from a 500 phone.

I personally try to get flagship phones, but used a few years after their release. That, and avoid upgrading my phone as much as possible :P I'm jealous of Apple folks here, they support their devices for eons longer than Android!
I can see wanting a smaller phone. That is an underserved market segment. But implying that phone marketing is patriarchy-driven is laughably absurd. Marketing for phones is probably more diverse and carefully balanced than for any other product category.
Only works in the US and not even in all states. Ridiculous. What's the point of satellites to then be so geo-restricted?
Brussels slaps down Thierry Breton over 'harmful content' letter to Elon Musk
Just curious, what do you usually use your phone for? Just calling and texting? Or maybe reading emails and browsing the web too?
As a consumer, I just don't care whether it's fair or not. Android and iOS are competing, almost identical platforms. They both do what I need, but only one of them doesn't always break.

Saying it's not fair to compare them is like saying it's not fair to compare a minivan to an SUV when making a car purchase. They're different, but similar enough.
Which is why I don't trust GrapheneOS. They seemingly push Google on the privacy and security crowd while ignoring truly freedom-respecting devices like GNU/Linux phones, which would be supported forever.

For GrapheneOS, trust in Google is ultimate. If you don't trust it, you're out of luck. My threat model is different.
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I know someone on our local SAR team that had mentioned they were having issues with folks using the Apple devices for SOS that resulted in long delays. This is for coastal British Columbia, so perhaps not a universal experience - but something to keep in mind.

Personally, I'd stick with the better known option, and like another commenter said - the battery life on the Garmins are pretty amazing, and it doesn't weight much.
In the Google Pixel 2024 Keynote, one of the presenters, Dave Citron, had to try three times to get Gemini to perform the preapproved, practiced demonstration task - 33.3% success rate for something that Google KNOWS will work.

see https://www.youtube.com/live/N_y2tP9of8A?t=1692
This is literally still how it works. Instead of a contract you have a device payment plan where you're defacto locked into the carrier because if you leave you owe the balance on your smartphone.

The trade-in and switching deals are all done as bill credits so that you are locked in for 2 or 3 years.

If you are using a big three cell carriers with the unlimited postpaid plans and aren't getting a brand new latest model Pro phone for free you are throwing your money out the window, because you're still paying for the phone in your higher plan price.

You will almost certainly save money if you buy the device yourself and use an MVNO instead of the big three postpaid plans. Especially if you buy the device used after it depreciates for a year or two.
And so long as we're all divulging secrets here ...

I've hacked the HN CSS to my own liking, links in my profile. Most of that's styling and such.

What's not included there is something I find useful: some visual tweaks to not specific contexts (users/sites) of interest.

As examples, it might be handy to recognise admin comments and posts immediately. Or YC hiring notices. Or people or sites you find particularly clueful. Or perhaps not.

I've found it useful, and a little classification goes a long way (long tails, Zipf functions, etc., etc.).
I am genuinely not sure what you mean by either of these. I also think this goes against the HN guideline "Assume good faith."

But more importantly, I think all of us are hoping one day to wake up and see, "Show HN: Skysheet". It's never been easier to build now with ChatGPT + Claude, what are you waiting for?
> They are polynomial

I don't think this word means what you think it does. Or I don't. Exponents are just the number the value is raised. Squaring a value just uses an exponent of 2 where cubing uses an exponent of 3. Polynomials are x^2 + x + 1 type of equations. But admittedly, it has been 30+ years since I've thought about them at that level, so maybe I'm the one with fuzzy groking
I've been writing code for decades and I only recently got to the point where I'd consider my code good. Either writing good code isn't that easy, or I'm just really bad at it...
By which metric generates more value?

It answers better on HN? Gives you more value answering messages or watching YouTube?

Which far fetched edge case scenario do you need to justify the very small diminishing returns between a high end and premium phone?
Why is it so big, heavy and expensive?
Does quanta magazine manage to reach this level of detail in other fields?
> I do the same percentage as it doesn’t really affect your way of living and enjoying life.

Exactly. It's an extension of the "pay yourself first" principle (which I also do).

> I wonder how do you usually find out about your local, overlooked but impactful organizations?

These days, I'm active in my local community in various ways, so I'm pretty aware of the various organizations in it by default. That also helps me to choose: I have a good idea of which ones are good and which ones are dubious.

When I started, though, I chose organizations that had helped myself or people that I know in the past. That gave me the confidence to get going, and things evolved from there.
Eh, they are when motion is involved.
So you think there should be more testing so the testing track is stable?

I worked on Pixel, left Google in October. I agree vehemently with what you're saying, its just, you're barking up the wrong tree on a couple different levels, the easy one above, and a more difficult one below.

Management did what you wanted a few years back, #1 and #2 and #3 priorities were "stability above all else" since Pixel 6.

This unfortunately didn't do anything in practice, other than enable newly minted middle managers to punch down, hoard work[1], and hide poor decision making and lying easily.[2] Net negative effect on product of course.

What managers wanted to legislate was "care about your features", but I observed over years that you simply can't enforce that. Ironically, given the above behavior from the new management layer, people got more detached. Unit test coverage went up, I'd bet, which is also a lesson in unit tests have significantly diminishing returns. E2E tests are hard and flaky, but they pay 100x dividends in these situations.

What you want to legislate is the truffle hunting that lowest level management does is bad. i.e. say we can definitely do whatever pet thing some guy 3 levels up says we need to copy from iOS this year. Then, hold it back because it's not done, but still announce it. Then, layer on a special process to get you on the betas to get the feature you thought you were buying. All of this keeps each individual happy and yet, remarkably, leads us directly back to the initial situation we were trying to fix.

From all this, you can also derive why things only launch, and never improve (tl;dr: management has 0 incentive to do anything other than latch onto the latest vague ask / iOS copying from above)

[1] Estimate everything takes 3-5x engineers it did 3 years ago. it's a huge win: I'm managing this team because I did it myself 3 years ago, so this makes clear what a talented engineer I was/am. When I solely listen to the vague asks from people 3 steps above, they'll want to give me the headcount I need to get their pet project done, so this gives me more reports. My compensation scales with report count. And if the estimate is questioned in any depth, well, we're making sure we have enough to deliver this Priority™ at high Quality™. Also, no one is going to question it anyway, my manager made me a manager because they trust me.

[2] it's very easy to work around blatant irresponsibility by flipping it into "the guy lower on the totem pole is insufficiently committed to quality and collaboration [taking forever to do anything]"
I think the current iteration is weak for work, but I expect them to become fantastic once they're able to build them with 4k screens.
> Or, like being a kid forced to watch advertising during TV breaks, wondering why the TV screen istrying to sell me cigarettes.

Cigarette commercials have been illegal since 1971.
Flytrex Reaches New Heights: 100k Drone Deliveries and Counting in the U.S.
I'm too locked in to the Apple ecosystem to switch, but I really wish they made a round watch. This one looks so good compared to whatever Apple puts out every year. A round watch face just makes so much aesthetic sense.
No, it's not all just calling to a cloud backend. The newer Pixels have hardware to do some stuff on-board, including non-trivial stuff like realtime audio cleanup (that works amazingly btw). STT and TTS are done mostly locally as well (with some cloud processing used when network connection is available), but can work all offline. The Gemini Advanced stuff is going to the cloud though.
Very cool! Isn't the units rem rather than px though? E.g. for h-64
Regulations don't much care about what's technically possible.
Nice to see they haven't changed anything from the Nexus 5 days. I purposely stayed on the official firmware in the hopes that I would have a seamless experience. The day before an epic trip around Europe, I upgraded to the latest version. It broke video recording so that all videos had garbled audio. Ruined priceless memories. Meanwhile my friend's iPhone 5 was operating perfectly fine and wasn't always running out of battery like the Nexus was. After the trip, I had enough and bought a used iPhone. That was the last time I ever considered Android. This also turned me into a die hard Mac user. Can't believe I wasted years of my life trying to make Linux and Windows work when I could have just used a Mac.
Their European presence is regulated through Ireland now https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/arid-41435437.html It’s hard to see the platform lasting long in the EU if Musk keeps on his current path.
They're really, really old. Dating to System V Unix. At the time it was pretty common to have stateful libc functions.
Weird take. Do you think your Garmin and your 10 year old watch can do the same things as an Apple Watch? No.

Apple Watches are more like mini-iPhones. For example, I can take calls from my watch without a phone nearby, which is more appealing to me than multi-day battery life.
Can't fall behind on those javascript benchmarks.
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Good to see axios cover these types of topics!
Perhaps they're catering to people with different hand sizes and gender is not a factor?
Love the camera on pixels, hopefully this one takes it to next level.
Yes, but you more or less cannot extradite for contempt. So, this penalty is mooted if they simply take the billions they've extracted from the general public and relocate to another country.
That's why I order mine online from Zenni. I've heard reports of some quality control before and I've had one pair come that was a bit off, but I've still saved an ridiculous amount of money as someone who loses glasses constantly. I just ordered a pair that was ~$50 and a lot of that was just expedited shipping. I made no attempt to find the cheapest frames/lenses either like a lot of the ads for normal discount glasses show. Oh, and that's WITHOUT insurance.

I have no idea why they're so expensive at most vendors. It shouldn't be cheaper for me to order glasses without insurance. That said, the cost breakdown I saw from Zenni definitely showed that the major cost was for the lenses and given that they seem to be the cheapest vendor, I suspect they're actually telling the truth. Lenses seem to be pretty complex as well to manufacture, even for simple prescriptions.
Max and Netflix with Ads

That is an important distinction. Those plans together only represent a $17/month value.

And that value is assuming you actually watch both of them regularly.

You would almost certainly save money using an MVNO and a not-brand-new-super-pro phone.
I didn't read patriarchy on the original comment.

I read that they need to use gigantic manly man hands for the gigantic phones, because otherwise people would realize that it's a "two-handed" phone for most of us mere mortals, that's impossible to use with one hand for anything but the most basic tasks.
I more meant that they probably have enough of the market now to stop collecting information. They can just charge their customers to access what's already there and offer a small discount if those customers contribute their new data
bought a 15- bearing in mind that the 12 mini was also too large for me (5s was perfect).

15 Pro has been dropped many more times, can’t be operated with one hand at all. It’s the first time I had to have a replacement screen actually- after owning iPhones for 15 years.

Anyway… I’m considering going back to the 5s. I would only miss wireless charging and apple wallet I think. (and apps are now made for the larger screen and will have elements that are inaccessible due to going passed the edges of the display).
i knew there would be someone to just try to get out of the answer by failing to just go with the spirit of the question by being pedantic. even my own attempt at dispel pedantry just allowed for even more pedantry.
For others who observe then, I will post a final reply too.

> the whole thing is about deltas.

That isn't physically possible.

Take the collapsing ice sheets. Ice isn't melted by a change in temperature, it's melted by reaching a specific absolute temperature. Saying "if the temperature goes up by 5 degrees this ice will melt" isn't a checkable claim unless you already know what the baseline temperature is, because going from -50 to -45 isn't going to affect it whereas going from -2 to 3 will.

Every claimed tipping point is like this. Abruptly thawing permafrost, coral die-off, ice sheets etc. All dependent on actual absolute temperature levels being crossed. Baseline is everything!

That's why when Mann claims the baseline doesn't matter everyone calls him out on it (except on HN...). Only someone who has totally lost their grip on scientific reality would claim otherwise. That this has happened to such a high profile climatologist should make everyone concerned about whether there's a psychology-style replication crisis in the field.
Apologies, I meant my comment as a dig on the old idea that the larger phone is for men. It genuinely amused me that they used different hands to hold the phone. Especially since I have no real concept looking at that page on how big it would be in my hands.

And note that this was a serious criticism a few years ago where it was a complaint that all things are designed for 6' men by default. I don't know if that is still the general belief, but it got a ton of traction for at least a short while. I would be surprised if there aren't a fair number of folks that still think that.
MIP ... Garmin Fenix 6 pro.
It asked me to. Guess it's because I have logged in to a google property before. I'm sure they wouldn't be tracking my views.... right?
Phone with scuba glasses and the woke AI. In fact it looks like Bender from Futurama, only with a nondescript personality. Thanx but no. No need for an AI to lecture me or avoid questions because it thinks it might remotely offend a hypothetic alien civilization.

Can't stand the iPhone either. At least it has a good camera and audio, but most of the apps are either junk or you have to pay for Apple rent seeking. A lot of shady Chinese apps. I spent hours trying to find a decent calculator like the stock one on Android. And the on screen keyboard is outright annoying. Couldn't turn off haptics either.

So I'm still using my Pixel 4a until it dies. The iPhone is garthering dust on my nightstand.
I upgraded from a Pixel 3XL to a Pixel 7 Pro XL. I've been generally happy. But...

Back in September 2019, my Pixel 3XL had a problem doing an OTA update. I spent hours with Google support (both live and over email). Their only suggestion was to reset the phone and restore from backup.

The problem is...
I had had the 'backup' option in settings enabled, the whole time I had the phone. I thought it was being backed up regularly. But I could not create a backup from my phone. I tried rebooting the phone, but the 'Backup Now' button was still greyed out. Based on some information from the web, I disabled my PIN. That caused my Google accounts to be logged out, but DID enable the 'Backup Now' button. However, the backup failed. I tried doing a backup via adb, which also failed.

IIRC this was before Google Authenticator had the ability to transfer 2FA codes from one device to another. So, without the ability to restore from backup, a reset would mean I needed to recreate 2FA codes for tens of services, which is pretty time-consuming.

I wasn't the only person with this problem: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/13519859?hl=en

I really like Pixel phones, and just ordered a Pixel 9. But for the foreseeable future my parents will continue getting iPhones.
So true.

It feels like Google's marketing has gone full dark side.

And it's lazy marketing. Nothing feels genuinely positive for the consumer.

It's depressing.
Yep, on first read I happened to get it right, but on further examination, I see the ambiguity. The trick is to not associate "software" with "critics", even though they're right next to one another and software could be an adjective rather than a noun.
My pixel watch 2 can't sync the Google workspace calendar.
I think the key difference is that in a loop body you can return from the outer function. In a function passed to m.Range you can't.
They probably were trying to imply that they had to use a male model to hold the phone because they are now huge
27 meter diameter in fact. A 27-meter sphere is about 150 times as voluminous as a 5-meter sphere.

It's still a mind bogglingly small amount considering that humans have spared no toil, sweat and blood on industrial scale gold mining ever since the dawn of written history - and since gold is so valuable and hard to destroy, most of it should still exist to this day in form or another.

Yet, if you smelted it all to a single object it would fit on a typical single family housing plot.
You must have had that single magic version of Apple Maps no one else got for a long time on release.

They lost the batterygate lawsuits, right? Guess you missed that fiasco that resulted in Apple paying out over half a billion. In this case Apple deliberately degraded previous user experiences on older phones, which means previous behavior (in this case performance) stopped working, done deliberately by Apple.

yes, it didn't go to zero, but it didn't do what it once did as decided remotely by Apple).

Apple also promised user data security, sold user data, and got hauled before Congress in 2011 for that. But I guess your user data was safe in offshore data silos.

I could go on, but I think your recall on iPhone downsides stopped working.
It also heavily depends on the amount of notifications and the brightness of the display. As well as a few - to me not easily identifiable - other factors. In the last few weeks I had battery life between 30hours and nearly 6 days.
If you haven’t read Greg Egan’s Orthogonal Trilogy, you might like it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clockwork_Rocket
I'm white, blue eyed and speak without an accent but I do have friends of shall we say Mediterranean complexion who have run into problems with hotel security.

It's all in the small print too which nobody reads (these hotels have legal advisors).
It's doubtful they'll ever charge for SOS. The "one year, one more year" thing is likely to make the accounting and liability work out. If they had just said "free for the life of the phone" it would have locked them into providing the service for many years, and required revenue deferral for many years. Easier to just under-promise.
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I had a Lyft driver who nodded off several times during a ride to the point we had him leave us at the nearest corner as soon as it was safe. It was genuinely scary.

I messaged Lyft and they really didn't seem to take it seriously or care. They of course worded it in a way to avoid any potential legal problems, and I doubt anything came of it. That driver should not be on the road.

There have been several other less notable incidents where I was worried for my safety.

I'm here for the robotaxis
This would be an improper use of a comma.
There's no information in the graphic.

It's a neat concept and execution, unfortunately the current iteration is sort of a flyer or cut sheet creator.

I'm not sure if image generation is good enough to actually visualize information, but it's worth experimenting, since Microsoft PowerPoint and Figma haven't figured this out yet either.

Consider https://www.reddit.com/r/Infographics/ which shows good and bad examples of infographics along with plenty digital flyers or chartjunk.
Yeah this is very annoying about notifications on my Samsung watch too, probably an android watch issue in general. For me, watch notifications have become just a way to know about particularly important things like email or certain chats. Often my watch will vibrate and I'll just switch to the tab with my mail in it without bothering to wait for the watch.

It's crazy how they can't manage to make these work faster. There's more than enough processing power in there, but the software is just so bloated.
Thanks for the extra detail. Maybe another brush on it is something like, walking burns glycogen but since the ratio is lower for the same calorie expenditure, it’s harder to fully deplete your glycogen, which is what causes the more intense forms of hunger.
This repeated pearl-clutching from the media is getting tiresome. They're acting like X itself is a problem now, as a whole, in theory. But they loved Twitter...?

No one seemed to think twice when Twitter was using its social media platform to amplify left wing views. Not just left, but one of the furthest and most fringe left parts of the country, San Francisco.

America has a natural memetic immune system that precludes things like being a Nazi from public life, but it has no such immune system for the extremist left, some versions of which did many times the damage of the holocaust in the second half of the 20th century, the half we don't really learn about. Don't believe me? Walk down the street wearing a swastika and a hammer & sickle and see which one gets you attacked faster.

We need to develop some memetic antibodies quickly.