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Google really needs to improve the core offering of what a phone is supposed to provide instead of using half baked AI as a selling point.

I have been using Pixel 7 for almost the past 2 years. But the amount of basic core issues are crazy. Recently,since the July update, every place where the phone cannot catch network signal, it shutdowns. And with the update, somehow i feel it cannot catch network signal as strongly. That is such a crazy thing. Last year, my friend got locked out of all his valuable pictures with Android 14 upgrade on Pixel 6.

My experience of Google is so bad with hardware that it has finally pushed me towards buying an iPhone for the very first time in my life after having been exclusive with Android OS for over 10 years.
I'm in the same boat being extremely annoyed with notifications on the watch. But I just disabled them completely on my Garmin

There's a setting under Notifications & Alerts > Smart notifications > Status (switch to off). In the Garmin app
Definitely – you need to be aware of that when picking one. Some vendors are pretty transparent about their "IP location" these days, fortunately.

Some, like Truphone, even have multiple gateways that are dynamically selected for lower latency, which is very neat (but they're generally more expensive).
We built something tangentially related at SoundTrace.

Basically when we onboard a new client they dump all their audiograms on us as PDFs.

The data needs extraction needs to be perfect because the tables values are used to detect hearing loss over time.

We settled on a pipeline that looks roughly like

PDF -> gpto pre filter phase -> OCR to extract text tables and forms -> things branch out here

We do a direct parse of forms and text through an LLM

Extract audiogram graphs and send them to a foundation convnet

Attempt to parse tables programmatically

-> an audiogram might have 3 separate places where the values are so we pass the results of all three of these routes through Claude sonnet and if they match they get auto approved. If they don’t, they get flagged for manual review.

All in all it’s been a journey but the accuracy is near 100 percent. These tools are incredible
I thought Android was going to do AI features in the cloud rather than on the phone?
I usually turn to C++ when I need such things. Hopefully I remember this exists next time.
> Unfortunately due to their market dominance and muddling of (hardware, OS, software distribution, and platform ecosystem), it's almost impossible to disentangle.

I think it is more complicated, and nuanced, than this.

I have a theory that the world can only support a maximum of 2 consumer computing platforms at a time, due to the cost of writing and porting software. Therefore causing a natural tendency towards either a monopoly (seen in the 90s and early 2000s) or a duopoly (the current smartphone era).

The fact is writing software is expensive. Developing cross platform frameworks is also incredibly difficult and in the case of Mobile, has taken a massive 3rd party entity (Facebook) the better part of a decade (React Native) to get even close to "working well" (with other solutions also being decade long projects). One can argue that during the first decade of Android vs iPhone, (2007 to 2017) that the cross platform solutions were all pretty terrible, thus the massive shakeup that React Native (for all its warts) caused.

Then there is the fact that developing a consumer OS is hard and expensive. Very few companies have the resources needed to make a consumer OS. Not just writing software, but localization, documentation, SDKs, UX work, security, update infrastructure, and so on and so forth.

Honestly I'd say today's current duopoly may even be a bad thing for small software companies, basically doubling development costs. Compare this to the 90s when releasing consumer software just meant compiling for a Microsoft OS and never worrying again because Microsoft handled forwards compatibility for you!

Contrast that to now days where you see applications to control smart appliances apps being discontinued left and right because companies cannot justify keeping 2 dev teams staffed so they can patch an app once every couple years when app store guidelines force changes.
> facilitate the transfer of personal data.

I take it you oppose the EU-US Data Privacy Framework then?
I've got a Pixel Watch 2, and it's okay, but the fitness features are all unusable to me; I use a Fitbit Inspire for sleep tracking and wake alarms while my Pixel Watch is on its charger overnight, and Google only lets me turn on fitness tracking on the Pixel Watch if I migrate my fitness tracking from the Fitbit.
I mean it kinda sorta makes sense, but it is not an argument that anyone else has advanced. I think you're seeing a non-existent conflict between that state governments be representative (Article IV, Section 4) with the right for states to appoint electors "in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct" (Article II, Section 1).
Wikipedia tells me the Galaxy A50 got its last security update in February of last year, FWIW.
Sorry about that, I agree that the drink making logic is pretty broken right now! It was kind of a little easter egg that I added on very recently without much testing.
I do use the mic and speaker for short and simple conversations. Overall I like that I can go on a run and leave my phone at home while also being able to take a call if I need to.

Look, I’m not claiming it’s life changing. The way I describe the Apple Watch to people is that you can definitely live your life without it but the little conveniences add up.

It’s silly that I’m getting downvoted because it’s true. The Apple Watch and some android watches are more powerful devices more akin to a mini-phone. And because they’re more powerful they use more power. Do people really think Apple is purposefully gimping their own device or maybe there’s more too it than “these are all smart watches”.

I’m totally ok with charging my watch every night and the extra little conveniences I get from a more powerful device are worth it to me.
> That number of children surviving to adulthood*

Agreed

> Only if the elderly continue to consume pensions.

Well no, unless you literally starve them to death. State pensions or money in general is just a redistribution mechanism which doesn't change average available resources. What really matters on a higher level is the fact that a big part of population (elderly and youth) consumes but doesn't produce. Whatever they consume is either directly produced by the working part of the population or comes from the foreign exchange of the same said produce.

So if the state pensions system collapses it just means that instead of feeding your parents through taxes you now do it directly, which on average is almost the same (difference coming from elderly who don't have kids to feed them). Which still means you have less resources to spend on your kids.
No one wants Google to come in and ruin Garmin the way they ruined fitbit.
Not only does it free the device manufacturers but it's something they can offer to app developer for free without costing them anything. Personally I think this is what will be the biggest impact (When/If they open raw "api" access to 3rd party devs). There are whole slews of apps that could make of that in small or major ways if it's not something the developer has to price into the app/subscription (especially with usage being something that can vary greatly user-to-user).

Some random examples I just came up with:

* Podcast app does STT for transcriptions/"subtitles" as well as episode summarization (Even cooler if the podcast provides chapter markers)

* Games getting new and interesting types of NPC's, level generation, etc

* Filters that do more than keyword matching (for news/social apps). I can technically filter out political Spam SMS messages but only with regex/keyword matching.

* Catch-up on 3rd party chat app conversations

I know LLMs will make plenty of mistakes and are far from perfect but there are things they can do very well that are very hard or expensive to do (sometimes just for indie-level devs but also for small/medium businesses). To be able to do those for free and offline would be a gamechanger.
Justice Dept. considers push to break up Google
Hard disagree. A standard way to define iterators was long overdue, and using the existing `range` construct was the right solution.

This change will end up removing some mental load, at an extremely low complexity cost. Basically you define an iterator just by defining a function. No additional keyword, no state to manage, just a function.
You don't pee after sex?
I don’t think this would match the observations that can be made from earth of things on earth?

Though the phrasing seems a bit ambiguous. Could you put some math behind those words?
I'm more tempted to stop running again. I am less skilled at mountain biking today since I moved to a 1:3 weekly schedule (4h running and 6-16 hours riding). Our insane single friend who XCs from summit to summit 7-14 days straight 3mo/year is enjoying my conjured dream.

Health isn't my goal, it's a second-order effect. I just know that you can achieve top 1% fitness without the time-consuming yoga and gym routines.
As a single developer on a project, I'd rather push Friday so I have all weekend to fix it should something go wrong.
Grass is greener I guess; I don't have an iPhone so can't use an Apple Watch, but I'd prefer a square display to match the content it displays.
Hmm fair, I’ve mostly just compared it to Ory Keto, Keycloak and FusionAuth, and it was my favourite so far, was the easiest to use/quickest to integrate for me. But it’s definitely personal, and it’s also a space with a tonne of players, have only tried a handful!
no need to go too crazy, the samsung galaxy is stable
> Your thoughts do not match what’s on the ground.

> China is not currently sponsoring a state sponsored act of genocide.

> China has an incentive to NOT do this. Their economy thrives on a global strong middle class that can buy goods. America does not have this incentive. America’s incentive is to create petrodollar dominance through its military.

Evidently we don't live on the same planet.
Depending on your priorities as a user, Apple has been in dead-last for the past 10 years running. The author sounds upset that iOS software is limited compared to other platforms, but Apple has no one but themselves to fall behind, in that regard. Windows, Android, Linux and even MacOS make iOS look like a content consumption prison by comparison.
Think of it as "Find My" but without having to rely on random people's iPhones to detect your tracker. There are pros & cons to each. In general, I think it boils down to this:

1. Find My networks are great when you're trying to find a thing
2. Totem-style GPS-based devices are great when you're trying to find a person who might be able to react to a ping

The problem I think Totem has is that the use case is pretty limited and the cost per unit is probably pretty high. It's basically the inverse product of Yondr[1], which also has a pretty high cost for what it does. As a parent of three, and also as a dad who regularly travels with tween/teen soccer teams, have an easy way to interactively track kids would be very helpful sometimes. I see Totem as a highly feature-reduced Garmin InReach but with a much more intuitive UX for the singular use case it serves.

[1] https://www.overyondr.com/phone-free-schools
Ironically, ChatGPT (just like a human) makes mistakes which in its turn makes it more "human". Also for business communication it's excellent.
You’re right that a case does little against big drops - with or without case, either you’re lucky and the phone survives or it doesn’t.

Cases prevent scratches but, meh, I wouldn’t mind a few scratches on the back of my phone.

However the main attraction of a case to me is: grip. My iPhone 15 Pro Max feels more slippery than a bar of soap. Unless I exert a lot of force, it just slips out of my hand while using it.
is there any behind the scenes footage?
Given that water gets lighter when cooling down right above its fusion temperature, and that ice is a pretty good insulator. You'd have liquid water below an ice crust for a lot of time. It would eventually freeze entirely and be slowly eaten by the Sun's radiations. But that would take a pretty long time (well on a human scale).
Google's voice assistant is leaps and bounds better than next best thing available on a cell phone, Siri.
The "3B People" National Public Data Breach
That kind of question isn't really answerable. Patch rates and known vulnerability rates are roughly comparable. Broad hardware capability is similar. Zero days appear for both platforms on the open market with some regularity. Neither is perfect but both are quite good relative to the rest of the market.
So far as I can tell this is simply not true. There was a report made in Switzerland that suggested mammograms were ineffective, but that report appears to have been flawed and its recommendations were never implemented. Swiss doctors still recommend mammograms for women over 40.

The point here, though, is that even if mammography were ineffective at identifying cancer or had large false positive rates - which no reputable medical body has suggested is the case - medical and surgical intervention would be the proper treatment, because they work and are effective for those forms of cancer.

There is also simply no evidence that Western medicine is causing more cancer. I would believe that there are diets that can decrease the likelihood of it, but there is also not evidence nor any known mechanism by which a diet can cure cancer once it exists.
This is a valid point, but in my experience, the further the camera is from the side, the most annoying to use it is.

Like sometimes you want to take something in picture with a difficult angle or small opening. Or for example being in the middle means that there will not be space for fingers when holding the phone for a picture.
That’s a gross misrepresentation, and far from the whole truth. (Besides, ref counting is also a garbage collection algorithm)

A huge chunk of the OS runs native stuff. Add to it that android is less strict at putting apps/processes to sleep, it’s become a much less black and white question.
> I have no obligation to tailor my comment for each and every reader

You weren't responding to "each and every reader", you were responding to me. Your "figure of speech" was not justified when responding to me. Whether it would be justified when responding to someone else is irrelevant.
I recently read Stoner by John Williams. Would recommend.
One issue with SponsorBlock is that people use skip to highlight[0] on music, which should be illegal. To me there often is no highlight for music. You need to hear the first part of the piece in order to enjoy the second. And people have different views on what counts as the highlight. I don't even like seeing the skip to highlight color on the scrub bar in videos that are just music. Skip non music[1] is good though.

[0] https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Highlight

[1] https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Music:_Non-Music_Section
Other than portability concerns, what are you using it for? Do you need specific programs to work well, games, browsing, etc? If you're just using it as a portal to web based apps, something like a chromebook will give you what you need.
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I think you misread, that throttle is for the hotspot data.

And honestly that's a lot better than most throttles. Though it seems silly they even bother to throttle 5G Ultra Wideband. Are those antennas ever going to be heavily loaded with how short their range is?
Universe Could Be Twice as Old If Light Is Tired and Physical Constants Change (2023)
What makes you think I have a strong reaction?

>What I wrote needed to be said

There are apparently plenty of people who disagree (myself included) based on the comments. I think the reaction you're getting is because it's not a particularly fruitful comment because it adds nothing to the conversation, while being veiled as a profound statement.

>The degree of the provocation proves the value of the statement.

Except the response isn't a response to the claim, it's in response to the absence of one. If a researcher publishes some incomprehensible word-salad and lots of people write to the editor saying it's a worthless article, it doesn't somehow translate value to the original work. I think what you're experiencing is people being protective of HN in terms of having meaningful debate and what you said isn't particularly meaningful despite the wordsmithing.
> I am positive that people in hospitals died as a direct result of this incident.

I'm less positive than you, just because my experience of healthcare infosec is that all a doctor has to do is say "I cannot be slowed down or prevented from doing x or people will die" and that's the end of any process or technical controls on x.

Same with utilities. I've seen the ICS engineers say "No you cannot put a password on this console because I may need instant access to prevent a blackout / explosion" and that pretty much ends the discussion.

Often that's not even wrong. Of course when there is a security incident there'll be a kneejerk reaction to that, and of course that's why ransomware groups love healthcare, but in the meantime, those risks seem reasonable.

Which means I'm guessing Crowdstrike killed a lot of healthcare billing but not a lot of critical care systems because it got ripped off those 30 seconds after install if it was ever installed at all.
There are use cases where 1km is too short (and Garmen does make dedicated, multi-gps trackers for hunting with dogs), but for many run of the mill use cases (i.e. losing your dog on a hike) it seems great.
> all such physical quantities are used to describe multilinear functions

Why always think of tensors as "functions"? In physics, we often think of them as "quantities" - scalar, vector, etc.
The AGPL does not restrict running the program. Only if you run modified versions, things get complicated.

That being said, I think the AGPL is only appropriate for programs that come with a built-in source redistribution mechanism that ensures that modified versions automatically comply with the source code redistribution requirement.
I was curious how much of this water we lose to space via evaporation. Looking around, apparently not much; only few molecules achieve escape velocity. But can't find a good calculation yet.
This looks nice! Thanks for mentioning it. I should definitely install this on my servers.
Noise from the waves hitting shore would be more practical, works in the night and software to seed randomness from audio already exists.
Maybe that's the answer: Allow them to see how many. They can ask for a warrant for *the* device in the geofence, excluding a list of known devices. The phone company either returns the identity of exactly one device or returns no data.
That's whack, I have this on my Motorola and I thought they were basically stock.

The gestures are so frustrating to use I can't believe they were devised by a human being, but at least I don't have to look at a nav bar all day
Totally agree that it depends on the tools available but given a typical toolset (sql and python). I would lean towards python because some types of analysis are easier to express in code, especially when working on top of the multiple data sets.
Clearly you're not smoking "reading compreHEMPsion" because to post a banal FN statement on HN should typically involve the wrath of @dang.

If you didnt bother to actually grok the thread (which requires one to click on imgur links posted for context (but I will also safely assume that you dont even know what HoverZoom is such that you can mouse-hover over images and vids and get the image in your tool-tip-pop-up so You dont have to open a bunch of things to glean context based on image links in a thread? (gleaning context is a skill, of which I have many, you though..._?)

Here you go Muppet: https://i.imgur.com/Vu99TgT.png

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Not surprisingly, most governments have little to no respect for individual freedom and autonomy. To my understanding, this is among the best reasons not to sign such treaties with said governments, as compromising on principles surrounding fundamental human rights should be a non-starter for those that value them
> In August 2022, Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) announced its newest investment: It would put $350 million into a company called Flow, which "aims to create a superior living environment that enhances the lives of our residents and communities" — in other words, rental real estate. The company was founded by a charismatic Israeli-American named Adam Neumann. If the name sounds familiar, it's because Neumann was also the founder of WeWork — a company that was once worth an estimated $47 billion before imploding spectacularly amid accusations that Neumann had, among other things, taken a "sizable chunk" of weed across international borders on a private jet, fired a pregnant employee, and — most importantly — expanded far too quickly, leading to enormous annual losses.

Was this ever addressed by anyone at YC directly? I've heard Andreeson talk about it but never answer the simple question: this guy was extremely irresponsible and unethical, why would you trust him again?

I can't help but feel it worsened their reputation, at least to the normie. Just makes it look like VC is just a big game where if you're in, it doesn't matter much what you do.
Not wanting to dog-food your own product is probably the hardest culture to change I can think of, I wouldn't call it minor by any stretch
>get ZIRP wrong.

Buddy I'm not going off an economic theory about ZIRP like you posted, I'm going off having run valuations on companies and seen that interfering with the risk free rate made bad companies (and their wasteful activities) valuable.

I agree the problem isn't the absolute level of interest. My point is the yield curve should reflect the market appetite for risk, and we broke that relationship.
Redis is way too much, but you've got a really good point with SQLite. Thanks!
/e/ is nice. Pairs well with Nextcloud.
“Carefully” is very load bearing.

A similar but different class of issues common to web stacks is when you have proxies and multiple layers of HTTP “things”, especially when they parse data differently (eg: nginx fronting Apache)
I am sure they have some sort of honk detection, but I think the key issue here is that they don't recognize other Waymo cars, and honk at each other any time they get into a standoff, which is common in their parking lots.
Size Clarification: The Pixel 9 Pro is a new medium size. The Pixel 9 is a direct successor to the Pixel 8 and the Pixel 9 Pro XL is a direct successor to the Pixel 8 Pro.
CVE-2024-38063 Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
This is hilarious and I too would be furious if I lived there. But dear god isn't it also somewhat adorable if you allow yourself to anthropomorphise.

(EDIT: They're the ducks from Rick & Morty [1].)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZYyeNiGQJc
Simply make rent, housing, and food free. Then people need not make money for the majority of needs.