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This device looks like a technology testing mule for apple, and with that price point it's guaranteed to sell boatloads.

I think being able to cram this amount of new tech (a new camera, a new modem) for a new device is good for apple. I believe this will play out well, and this tech will graduate the so-called flagships in a couple of years.
Well I could switch to a programming language that isn't so slowed down by ahead-of-time compilation. Maybe a JIT language?
I'm sorry, as I don't know.

I mean, I don't even know what you use to write "windows" applications anymore.

But are the stock frameworks that slow to justify rewriting the toolkit? I am under the impression that writing GUI toolkits was Hard.

Are there plans to make this cross platform?
> which approach is actually easier, more cost-effective, and energy-efficient?

I think you are asking the wrong question. The right question is: "Which approach will people use?"

Doesn't matter if it is the easiest cheapest most energy efficient thing, if people don't use it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103536
Indeed: only trying them both side by side at home would yield a useful conclusion. Trying to gauge which would be better for you from the Apple Store display would be about as useless as trying to decide which big TV to buy from Best Buy based on how they all look in the store, with settings completely other than those you'd use at home.
Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip
So why educate poor kids? The exceptional will rise to the top regardless or emigrate to the US as long as we make it attractive to anyway. If all that matters is GDP and relative geopolitical strength of course.
Not a strawman. Your thesis is that progressives "went around demonising everyone and everything," that includes racism and racists. And progressive anti-racism is a common source of contention right-wingers have about progressives, so it is also clearly relevant to the context of your comment.

But feel free to substitute whatever progressive thing it is that progressives complain about that you prefer to wrap into the right-wing persecution complex, it's all the same.

How about this, in general terms: "They called me x so I became x" isn't a reaction which people who don't already possess x as a trait generally have, for some anti-progressive values of x that include but are not limited to "antisemitic," "racist," "sexist," "fascist," "homophobic" or "transphobic."
Yes, on such platforms individual users may be confronted with questions such as,

"Nudes of whom in your profile?"

"Did acquiring those nudes without consent make you feel safer?"

"Aren't you concerned about the consequences of possession and distribution?"
I think camera is equally interesting.

Why? It uses a linear zoom like a classic lens design inside and embeds an optical 2x zoom lens into a smaller area.

From the press release:

> With an integrated 2x Telephoto, users have the equivalent of two cameras in one, and can zoom in with optical quality to get closer to the subject and easily frame their shot.
Guess it's time to go get one of the flip phones...
How long does the software take to run?

A skilled operator with a drill can ensure information theoretical death for a solid state drive in about 5 seconds.
The problem is that research is not as beneficial to the company at least in the short term. e.g. Google wouldn't be affected much if quantum computing divison is shut down, but would be affected if google ads stops showing, even though the quality of people working in former is likely higher.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103333
In Source 1? AFAIK that's only via DXVK.
iPhone SE: $429, 4.7-inch display, 5.45 x 2.65 x 0.29, 5.09 ounces

iPhone 16e: $599, 6.1-inch display, 5.78 x 2.82 x 0.31, 5.88 ounces

This is a major downgrade in every way for people who want the smallest possible iPhone.
I've gotten so used to my 13 mini that anything bigger just feels too big

Hoping against hope that Apple brings back that size/form factor someday so clinging on to my 13 mini until that day comes...
this was literally the only reason i wanted to buy a SE revamp
It's the natural extension of the startup ideology to non-software industries. How many times on this website have you seen 'founders' be celebrated for doing 'epic demo hacks' at least this fraudulent? How many tech startups achieve massive valuations with a broken product and a totally hypothetical pathway to profitability?

It's easy to see through this showmanship when the product is a car. So why not when the product is software?
Enowed Inc's DevOps (Satire)
I personally will never go back to flexible plastic screens. I used them enough in resistive touchscreens era.
A sample of old HN threads (this one's the origin of the "HTML5 supercomputer" classic),

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24436721 ("Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership with GM (hindenburgresearch.com)" (2020), 414 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24473231 ("Nikola admits prototype was rolling downhill in promotional video (arstechnica.com)" (2020), 248 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996321 ("Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud (cnbc.com)" (2021), 509 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38685607 ("Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges (cnbc.com)" (2023), 186 comments)

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=nikola&sort=byPopularity
Let's see... it's replacing the SE, which is no longer on Apple's website. It's more expensive than the SE, at $599 vs $429. It's a pretty substantial hardware upgrade over the SE, including something like 75% more battery life by Apple's numbers, but it's also noticeably bigger.

Apple's own comparison tool is useful: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?modelList=iphone-16e,i...
> Locally, the black hole would swallow any atoms it comes into contact with and would probably scatter nearby molecules

More likely, it would go straight through most atoms without interacting with them. They are tiny and move very fast, if you do the math the likelihood of direct, non-gravitational interactions with matter are somewhere near neutrinos, of which trillions passed through you while reading this sentence.

When one does end up eating something, the most significant effect is probably that it wouldn't eat the whole atom, but either just the nucleus, freeing all the electrons, or just an electron, leaving the atom positively charged.
This is super difficult to do when you've just left your 7th Zoom meeting for the day and still have a mountain of project work to do, which you'll start doing right after picking up the kids from school and spend several hours tending to them. Or your weekends are spent doing everything you couldn't do during the week, except everyting takes twice as long to do because everyone else is doing the same thing.
Is this a replacement for the "SE" line? It seems similar to the previous SE models in that it's cheaper, uses an older body, and is released in an off month. The marketing copy in the OP also compares it to the older SE phones.

I am guessing that's the end of the small phone line at Apple.
The C1 is (fingers crossed) probably going to be a big improvement on the security front, since historically, cellular modems have been chock full of remotely exploitable security flaws.

That said, if this is their "first gen" then there could be teething issues.
If it had a small screen that would be 110% fine. As it is, I think that no-bezel devices are easier to misclick on, but I agree that it does seem very strange on apple's part.
This is insanely wonderful and amazing!!!!
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My point is, most injuries aren’t ephemeral in the sense that your body would end up as if you didn’t have the injury in the first place. In particular the sports injuries we are talking about. You may only truly realize that a decade later or so. So I find making that distinction questionable, it trivializes the injuries.

As I said, I agree that bans don’t make sense. But the costs are real, and therefore one should take care to avoid injuries instead of trivializing them.
Even the SE was a little bigger than the 4S screen I really miss. Combined with the angled sides it was the last phone I could comfortably operate with one hand.
I would love a lidar system I could use to map my house with. What are you hoping to do with WiFi on top of that? Optimal device placement?
People want smart glasses so they can see virtual overlaid on the real world.
Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mFuyX1XgJFg
Most other AX models (AX42, AX52 and AX102) also have serious reliability issues, where they will fail after some months. They are based on a faulty motherboard. Hetzner has to replace most, if not all, motherboards for servers built before a certain date over the next 12 months [0]

[0] https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/general-info...
Yes, Thermopylae is counted as a defeat in coalition (the author gives a full list of every battle and his categorization in the linked blog post, you can read it for yourself).

One of the Spartan losses is when they decide to pretend to not be Spartan so they can surprise their opponents with their skill, but they turn out instead to be utterly wrecked by their opponents. The Spartans really do seem to be mediocre fighters (not good, but not bad either) with a stellar PR agency.
> closed form for many recurrences, in the same way that SCEV works ... so I suggest you look up how it’s done in traditional compilers.

SCEV does not compute closed forms ... because that's impossible. if you don't understand why it's impossible you can consult this same team's slides on SCEV in LLVM, a "traditional compiler":

https://llvm.org/devmtg/2018-04/slides/Absar-ScalarEvolution...

specifically pages 16-18
In case others like me don’t know what a Majorana particle is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorana_fermion

“A Majorana fermion (/maɪəˈrɑːnə/[1]) or Majorana particle is a fermion that is its own antiparticle. They were hypothesised by Ettore Majorana in 1937. The term is sometimes used in opposition to Dirac fermion, which describes fermions that are not their own antiparticles.”
So goes the end of the mobile device, now all that’s sold are phablets.
No, instead, they had two annoying CEOs who grandstanded their own egos.
No, not at all.

I said OSes can be objectively measured, when you were pointing out that much of the measurement is subjective. I pointed out that is largely irrelevant, since all that matters is they can be measured objectively, even if it's a discussion on how best to do that. You begrudgingly agreed.

I simply stated W7 was the best without defining criteria, but did say I believe it would hold up against whatever objective criteria are established, and that there is already objective evidence in support of that point.

Here, you've listed unambiguously subjective preferences and opinions, with not even a slight attempt to define objective criteria to support your point.

For what it's worth, if you search 'best version of windows', pretty much every singles article ranking them is giving Windows 7 first. At the very least, it seems to be the majority opinion.

I think the text from the Digital Trends article giving it first place is fair:

"There’s an argument to be made that Windows 7 is a just a refined version of Windows Vista, released at a time when people actually had the kind of hardware that could run it properly. But this king of Windows releases did so much more than that. It was fast and responsive, with many important visual upgrades over previous versions of Windows. It had excellent compatibility, working with older hardware and software alike, and introduced important features which are still Windows mainstays today. It added pinning applications to the taskbar, introduced stacking Windows for better organization, let you preview windows with taskbar thumbnails, and it made it possible to snap Windows to different portions of the screen.

Windows 7 is important for what it didn’t have, too. It feels like the last Windows operating system that was fast and modern, but hadn’t yet started chasing features designed for other platforms, like touch-targeted UI elements, or smart assistant integration. It didn’t have the Microsoft Store or overblown data collection, and there was no attempt to force you to use an online account to login.

It was a clean, responsive operating system that many would likely continue to use today if it was still supported by Microsoft and modern hardware alike."
And you can do that with the electromagnetic forces in the fuel in your tanks with a mass ratio of 15 or so. Not that hard.
We're still icing and elevating? I've always felt dubious about our attempts to rectify our bodies evolving inflammation. It doesn't seem like any great evil to let the body part get more blood, signals to stop us using it, and a lower range of movement.
A small enough black hole would be very unlikely to hit even one atom in one cell while going through you.
Not to mention the damn TouchID. So much better of an experience on my old SE than on my 15 pro with FaceID.
I cannot even relate to your line of reasoning - a simple concept stretched beyond it's simple original intent.
Apple has become a behemoth in chip design. I'm guessing Qualcomm won't be taxing them anymore since they're making their own modems
Or, perhaps, the author wrote the piece to fulfill his own intrinsic motivations, and then published it on his website so that anyone who did happen to find it worth reading could do so, without necessarily expecting anything of "everyone".
Since we're teaching each other first principles, bringing a new mass-scale battery manufacturing facility online to full production typically takes anywhere from 2 to 5 years. Planning takes ~1-2 years, construction & setup takes ~1-2 years and ramp to full output takes 6 months to 1 year. And since we're on Econ 101, investments require payoff so all of this is done carefully to not tank the price of batteries by overproducing supply. In control systems terms, supply side investments always aim for undershooting demand as overshooting hurts how much money you make and risks destabilizing your market.

As for scarcity, inputs to lithium ion ARE scarce which negates your entire model. Pretending they aren't is where you're making a mistake. Lithium, cobalt & nickle are relatively scarce and the mines for that have to scale up to meet demand as well. You've also got a workforce to train to do the work which takes time & is also input-constrained. That's why there's massive NEW lithium mines being opened in the US & elsewhere to extract existing reserves to meet the growth in lithium ion batteries. If the world thought that sodium ion or ion air was an immediate future, you wouldn't see these massive large-scale investments into lithium. Lilthium-ion batteries is going to be a large and growing market for decades which brings me back to the strip mining of the ocean floor that's coming to support that.

Whright's law by the way isn't also an inevitable effect that goes on forever. At some point your exponential plateau's and you no longer see such exponential decrease in pricing. That's why processors aren't getting cheaper and compute isn't scaling up quite in the same way as in the early days. There's only so efficient you can make something.
North Sea <- Gulf of Yorkshire
They need that screen so they can fit a reasonable battery underneath... an unfortunate tradeoff
What would you consider a "modern city state" (in the same sense as Sparta of antiquity)? I don't think they actually exist anymore, in practice.

Singapore maybe? I don't think they would survive on their own if a determined enemy launched an assault on them.
Yep. This came out in that recent issue with him hiring someone to play a game. As I recall, he got called out for it by some streamer, and Elon ended up blocking him.
A follow up question is, what does the transaction look like. Bulk DB dump or JSON files per person, spreadsheet, that would be interesting like race, interests, budget...
The same reason we try to answer the original trolley problem in earnest: It forces us to confront tough moral trade-offs and clarify our ethical beliefs. Answering a trolley problem in earnest helps us learn about ourselves and our world on a philosophical level.

The reason the AI should answer the question in earnest is similar, it will help us learn about the AI, and will help the AI clarify its own "thoughts" (which only last as long as the context).
I eventually upgraded my 13 mini and I still miss it. Still irritates me that I can’t swipe down from the top of the screen with a one handed gesture.
For what — things that AI wasn’t helpful for when I gave it a shot?
The death of Touch ID. Also huge.
Title could be confused for advertising a conference on generative AI
I didn't say they nailed it. I don't know since I can't run it, but ten years is a long time for any technology. I toyed with the 7B Mistral through MLC Chat and, while slow, the responses were good.

The Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct it comes with is fast but sometimes takes questioning to get accurate answers.

The older Phi variant it has was thorough and accurate, Phi's selling point, but made my phone run hot being too thorough.

I don't know much about Apple's model.
Why are small phones not economical for major flagship phone developers? Obviously more expensive phones generate more revenue, but the reduced bill of materials on smaller phones should allow a better profit margin?

Mostly I just want a phone that is comfortable in my hands.
can I get it without the AI slop?
File Pilot supports explorer extensions... There's an actual animation showing it on the website. What do you mean by "limiting the feature set"?
> Linux suffers from similar issues, and that's why the go-to method of playing games on Linux is to run them in an emulated Windows environment.

See also: Win32 is the only stable ABI on Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624
You mean in Unreal Engine.
Whoa, shipping their own baseband modem for the first time, skipping the Qualcomm tax. That's huge, even for Apple.
It's complex.

Obama may have deported lots of people, but Trump famously used the same institutions to detain and torture minors indefinitely... Which of those is "harder" against immigration?

It's the same issue that is happening now. Biden deported a lot more people, but he focused on people entering the US or caught doing something. Trump is deporting a low fewer people, but he randomly taking people from their homes, workplaces and schools. Which one do you think appears "harder" on TV?
What did they deliver that they promised?
Apparently the camera is "2 in 1" that does 2x zoom with "optical quality" but they never actually say it's true optical zoom. I'm guessing that it's just digital zoom with some fancy processing. Does anyone know for sure?
The stock rallied almost 80% yesterday before crashing hard this morning. Fishy as hell for sure.
SMCI lost 60% after its auditor failed to audit and resigned

after that, it roses 300%

SMCI is also a target of hindenburg

https://hindenburgresearch.com/smci/

before this, I didn't even know that a company that couldn't be audited could still be listed.
I do appreciate the big swing and the R& D is quite cool.

The Quest is a marvel and they seem to be making real gains towards a mythical hands-free AR glasses experience.

I was also very excited to see a big tech company moved towards premium hardware and premium software.

Sadly I fear a return to freemium, now AI generated, and soon to be advertisement filled slop. Meta is still Meta but hopefully their goals keep them on a better path.
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Congress can only make laws if they don’t infringe on the constitution. If they want laws that aren’t constitutional, they have to make constitutional amendments, which is probably never going to happen ever again because of how dysfunctional they are and have been for decades.

The president has a lot of constitutional protection to run the executive branch, though obviously congress has ways to pass laws and influence that, too.

The president isn’t accountable to congress but there are checks and balances both ways
13 mini battery life must be sufficient for most people. There are chargers everywhere now.
It seems that this will cannibalize iPhone 16 sales - it's $200 cheaper, same form factor and internals, with the only difference being the camera, which if you care about you go for the Pro model. However, the price makes for a much more appealing upgrade for anyone who has an older iPhone
I would rather at this point have a watch with good cellular comms, that could use bluetooth for calls and let me tether a tablet for web use.

But I have to say, I was more annoyed by the loss of touch ID than by the increase in screen size. While I like the smallest possible iPhone, my SE has not been very nice to use lately. Developers aren't testing their sites/apps on that screen size, and many sites/apps are getting really janky when run on a screen that small.
So you found it not worth your time to read the story, but found that it was worth your time to participate in discussions about it? That's certainly an interesting set of choices.
Yeah, they took the SE off their website at the same time as they announced this.
My duties as a citizen are one thing. I don't have those same duties as a reader of HN, though. This site doesn't have to be /r/politics; we have /r/politics for that.
> I wonder who you saw debating that. It looks really settled down and unanimous to me. Inflation is extremely harmful to poor people.

The debate is about the alternatives / counter-factuals: would <0% inflation (read: deflation) be better or worse for poor people than >>0% inflation? How do those two compare to ~0% (e.g., 2%, the Fed target) inflation?

There's a reason why I linked to articles on the topic of the 'cross of gold' and austerity. We've had other ways of doing things in the past and are on the current system for a reason.

A lot of folks seem to want to get rid of the Fed, get back to gold, mercantilism (which is basically what Trump's tariffs are attempting), and generally go back to the 1800s way of doing money/finance:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression

Try reading Project 2025's chapter on the Federal Reserve:

> Free Banking. In free banking, neither interest rates nor the supply of money is controlled by the government. The Federal Reserve is effectively abolished, and the Department of the Treasury largely limits itself to handling the government’s money. Regions of the U.S. actually had a similar system, known as the “Suffolk System,” from 1824 until the 1850s, and it minimized both inflation and economic disruption while allowing lending to flourish.[23]

[…]

> As in the Suffolk System, competition keeps banks from overprinting or lending irresponsibly. This is because any bank that issues more paper than it has assets available would be subject to competitor banks’ presenting its notes for redemption. In the extreme, an overissuing bank could be liable to a bank run.[!] Reckless banks’ competitors have good incentives to police risk closely lest their own holdings of competitor dollars become worthless.[24]

* https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA...*

Yay! Bank runs!
> But our government doesn’t have independent branches.

In theory it does, that is the whole idea and genius of the constitution.

In fact at the moment it does not, because Trump has so captured the Republican party that the legislature has almost no power to stand up to him. The Supreme Court has a long history of judges aligning with the political party that seated them, and Trump put 3 of them into their seat.
It looks like doge just taking credit for the switch from 8 billion to 8 million that happened two days after Trump took office