skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article addresses both points:

> The first manufacturer to make a point of dropping the headphone jack (I believe) was not Apple – as is commonly believed – but Oppo, and back in 2014. Their reason for doing so was at least a credible technical one: they said it made their phones about half a millimetre thinner. Maybe that was a selling point, maybe it wasn’t. But Apple couldn’t fall back even on this claim, because people found ways to fit a 3.5mm jack socket into the iPhones that lacked one, and even posted videos on Youtube showing how they did it. It wasn’t easy, but it was clearly possible. If Apple genuinely thought that omitting the jack would leave more room for other features, they didn’t actually provide any.

> Some manufacturers claimed that the presence of the headphone jack made it difficult to keep their phones waterproof; but there’s a whole range of good-quality phones from around 2019-2020 that are waterproof to a reasonable degree, without sacrificing the jack.
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I'd probably like bluetooth headphones more if they actually worked more than 50% of the time. Probably because the rooms where I use them are filled with RF noise from so many other devices, they just don't work reliably enough to be usable. They work for a while and then drop out, or simply can't connect at all. Luckily Sony still sell wired headphones.
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Many phones had great waterproof ratings with a headphone socket. Nearly all phones today are thick enough for sockets, a 3.5mm would fit fine on my Pixel 7 pro. The thinness wars ended when too many people sat on their phones and bent them.
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How's the quality on that? I think similar devices made weird popping noises sometimes.
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While it is hard to do damage to a 6.3mm TRS socket and plug, I wouldn't say the same of the 3.5mm one. As a kid / teenager I damaged a number of sockets and bent a number of 3.5mm male TRS plugs.

So I wouldn't call it a "just works" technology as it is far from perfect.
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I've used a Nokia (HMD) XR20 phone for a few years. Weather proof with a 3.5mm jack.
I had an HTC Wizard (branded by T-Mobile) many year ago, which had a 2.5mm jack.
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The alternative in practice is not all utf8 characters, the alternative is lowercase letters. If there are no rules that require uppercase and alphanumerics, or length, then many people will use passwords that are easy to type, and short, and not impose security difficulties on themselves. The alphanumerics + case rule is addressing human behavior, and effectively does increase the search space (by a lot) for most people, not decrease it. It would be nice if most password entries could detect other utf8 chars and allow them to substitute for cased alphanumerics, or if longer passwords could relax the rules. The point is to meet a threshold of security against attackers, and the blanket rule does that but ignores some viable and convenient alternatives.
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Did you even read the article? The author points out both of those points are essentially just excuses. Phones haven’t been made thinner, and you can still fit 3.5mm jacks in most phones, and there are plenty of waterproof phones with a 3.5mm jack.
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I don't think the choice is between "no government oversight" and "far-right hellscape"
Space, and water/dust proofing
I have no idea how many hours I work.

Just no idea how to measure it.

Hours at laptop? Hours thinking about it? A 1 min slack reply at 8pm, does that count as 1min?

I could argue that I work anywhere between 25 and 60 hr / week.
Isn't big tech in a fierce competition for employees?
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You are free to express your opinions ("I don't like immigrants from Africa"), but you are not free to choose any manner of speech, as there's restrictions in certain areas, such as hate speech or inciting violence ("Kill the N-words!")
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I too like the simplicity and standardisation of the 3.5mm headphone jack, and think it's a shame that it's fallen out of fashion in smartphones. But I think this is something that a small number of people get really disproportionately angry about. It's most obvious every time Fairphone crops up in discussion here, and all you see on HN are people furiously shitting on it over its lack of headphone jack.

> If you’re a fan of the 3.5mm jack, it’s time to vote with your wallet.

Not sure why the author thinks this hasn't been happening already, and the 3.5mm jack is simply losing the popular vote. I really just don't think that many people care about it, in the scheme of things. If removing it helps make the phone even marginally thinner, cheaper or more waterproof, I suspect most consumers will happily make that trade-off. Bluetooth headphones can also be more convenient in that you don't have to remain wired to your phone or deal with tangled cords, etc. Like the author, I also have a Samsung Galaxy S10 that still has the headphone jack but a few months ago I finally caved and bought a pair of bluetooth earphones.
My Bose QC 35 headphones have a 2.5mm socket but on the headphones end for when you'd want to use them wired. It came with a cable with a 3.5mm male plug for the source device and the 2.5mm male plug on the side that goes to the headphones.

Never seen a wired headset with 2.5mm male plug that goes to the source device however.
Depending on how your forms are set up, this will cause the field to be marked as invalid as soon as the user interacts with any of the forms fields, if not on load. Also, this requires additional handling for copy paste etc.
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> If working 60 hours per week isn’t productive, why is Apple, Tesla, Netflix, etc so successful?

Why do you think that just the amount of hours worked per week dictate how successful a whole company is? You are focusing on one very basic metric to derive a very complex conclusion...
A bunch of other SoC manufacturers have working system sleep implementation, either manufacturer supported or community supported. Never mind much faster boot options (like hundreds of ms to kernel).

So you just need to pick one that also has whatever camera interface you need supported. Say any RK3399 based board can be made to boot to simple userspace in 1-2s and have working upstream camera MIPI-CSI drivers and ISP. System sleep is ~300mW so ~60mA@5V. Pick one with wifi onboard if you need that. And it's all opensource software, no binary crap that can't be optimized.
rsync is secure and all distro contain it in their package manager ... Able to continue a discontinuated transfert ...

What does it bring better than rsync so?
Unfortunately, personal account automation like this is also in the reasons for "could get banned". Sigh.

I thought about building a scraper using something simplistic like Puppeteer to login to my account since the Discord browser experience is basically the same as the Discord app (which makes sense since its Electron). It would just issue a command to scroll arbitrarily up on a given channel/etc. until a certain earliest date was reached, and scrape all the data.

But.... again I'm sure that they have all sorts of mechanisms to detect unusual user behavior, so this might be JUST as vulnerable to detection as the aforementioned DiscordChatExporter.

Even leviathan walled gardens like Google let you export your data in a reasonable fashion (Google Takeout) - this is probably my biggest issue. On the other hand even if I could find an equivalent user-friendly platform, I'd never be able to convince all my contacts to migrate off Discord.
This site is more usable on my phone than 90+% of "mobile sites." It loads instantly, even on a crummy cell connection.

There's no ad divs that load 5 seconds after everything else and screw with the layout while you're reading something. There's no attempt at "infinite scroll," which universally results in stuttery scrolling and a generally sluggish experience. No fake modals with infuriatingly small close buttons, heckling you for your email address.

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> Isn't big tech in a fierce competition for employees?

It sure seems to be in a fierce competition with employees.
Analog signals won't survive a 1000km undersea cable, but for a few kilometers you don't need amplifiers at all. The loss-per-meter of optical fiber is much lower than a coax cable.
Same as most companies that have the "all IP you produce belongs to us" clause:

There's no (financial) upside to them doing this, and it runs the risk of you open-sourcing something which someone else in the company is trying to be protectionist about. Or is actually Microsoft IP.

It's annoying, but sometimes you can negotiate exceptions.
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> We actually have done this, across industries. And now we have a "right to repair" movement because people realized their freedoms were curtailed.

The difference is that for tests requiring doctor requisitions that is the government locking down access, whereas right to repair is laws preventing companies from locking down access (to increase their profits)
Voting with your wallet by failing to purchase a phone from a huge corp like Samsung, is not something that will change Samsung's behavior, I agree.

Voting with your wallet by buying a phone with a headphone jack, especially from a smaller maker like Unihertz, is impactful and helps ensure those alternatives stay around.
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Strong disagree - I use pass and I love it. I switched from keepass and not looking back.

I guess it's for personal use, never tried using it in a company.
USB C ports break just when I look at them slightly wrongly. In comparison to that, 3.5mm is a dream.
Huh? No. Not since 2022. Catch up.
My understanding is that Jeff Bezos would remain involved in the followup
I am not sure how others here will feel about this, but if you cannot take a business to $5000 per month in almost any market, then it might be more of a "you" problem (I don't have the right skills, I don't know how to sell, etc) than a "I chose the wrong business" problem...

Maybe the reason why business #5 or #6 is more successful is not that they changed businesses, but that they finally developed the skills necessary to make it work through their failures. If they went back to business #1, they could probably make it work this time.

Takeaway? Chose one thing and develop the skills (sales, etc) instead of jumping to the next thing.

If we are talking about $500K per month, then that is a different story...

I can handle the downvotes...
Not sure where you got that but it is not true. MS employees are free to make non competing open source projects in their own time on their own hardware.
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Isn’t adding a headphone jack introducing another pathway for liquid to enter a device, or would well-constructed hardware prevent that from happening?
I think it's much more simple than having a separate manager or founder mode..

Good founders will want to learn or at least understand all tasks that sets their business apart without becoming micro-managers, when their become overburdened by details in certain areas the default action should be to delegate to someone they _trust_ with doing in the area rather than just hiring someone with a CV and charisma that _implies_ that they are good at handling that area.

This probably often works well for most founders initially when they only need to delegate practical tasks that they know how to measure directly.

However once the money stakes, and most importantly number of people grow. The tasks needed to be delegated are managerial rather than practical so the founders become faced with another kind of delegation that they have less proficiency in.

This is probably where things go awry, at least some of their early promotions or delegations probably didn't thrive as managers, faced with failures they start seeking out managers from the managerial class from the outside rather than risk finding the right people with domain knowledge to promote.