skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example, the React team provide a set of codemods to help automatically upgrade codebases when there is a new version of React (https://github.com/reactjs/react-codemod). Until `recast` gets TypeScript support, everybody who uses TypeScript has to do this repetitive work manually.

Another example is how many `css-in-js` libraries require Babel plugins to work their best (e.g. https://github.com/emotion-js/emotion/tree/master/packages/b...).

And additionally there are also plugins that optimize React code (e.g. https://github.com/thejameskyle/babel-react-optimize).
There are people who successfully predict how many e.g. iPhones are being sold. But they’re not publishing this information, because it’s very valuable. They’re mostly selling it to hedge funds and market research firms (or they work internally at those companies).

In other words: when you see someone publish a “forecast” that a particular company’s product isn’t doing well, the analysis is usually flawed. If it weren’t flawed, the market price of the analysis probably wouldn’t be “free.”

I’m speaking from experience - I know a quantitative researcher who successfully forecasted Apple’s iPhone sales to a fraction of a percent a few years ago (very clever method!), and I’ve personally done this with Tesla model sales/production.
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What are the actual numbers? They added a new product: a high-end phone. Maybe they aren’t selling as many of the expensive product that they weren’t selling the year before?

The simple fact that they had no idea how it would sell could mean they asked suppliers to be ready at the high-end of expectations.
Safari iPhone 7 here, it seems to be caused by Firefox Focus content blockers. I disabled it and it works fine now.
"I live in the U.S., but I think I'd prefer to live in one of the countries for losers."

... from the article:

"Here is the list of the world’s top Loser Countries: (.nl, .de, .ch, .no, .dk)"

As someone who travels to these countries frequently (rsync.net has a Zurich location) I can certainly get on board with the desire to move to Switzerland. It is a nicer country than the US.

However, it is a ridiculous notion that the social success of these countries (and of Japan, which is conspicuously absent from that list) is due simply to some bad legislation here or there ... just a few technocratic choices made the wrong way.

In reality, the reason things are so nice in Switzerland and Norway and Japan are because they have extremely homogenous populations and cultural legacies.

It's easy to expand your circle of empathy to people whose names are also Lars Larson[1], just like yours is.

They didn't invent jazz, though ...

[1] Or Hiro Tanaka.
> I never said I didn't want to read about it

Then what article do you propose instead? If none that matches your "bar" exists, will you write one? In the meantime, what's more important, people being aware that cops carrying toy guns around to plant is a thing, outrage or not, or them talking about cat robots or something?

How many emotional "this is nice!" posts and comments are on here? How are they intellectual? Why is "outrage" not okay, but elation is? One difference that comes to mind immediately is that one of them can threaten the abuse of power, the other cannot.

> only that the bar should be higher than the bottom of the barrel.

Is this article just the worst outrage bait that is even possible to write, or is "bottom of the barrel" hyperbole? Why not simply ban sophistry? If you can be mad and still think and argue clearly, more power to you. If you can't do that even when you're not mad, tough luck. Wouldn't that be cool?

> You have provided a perfect example of what this discussion does not need, and what articles like the above lead to, thank you.

I asked a question, you don't even attempt to answer it.

No matter how you describe cops carrying toy guns to plant on peoople they murdered (and in my mind, no matter what honest mistakes may have lead to it, once you plant a weapon it does become cold-blooded murder retroactively), it will always lead to "outrage". It ought to.

Do you know, say, a book about the Holocaust that doesn't contain outrage bait? I mean, with such a huge and incredibly important subject, surely some people tried to give it the treatment you consider proper? But how would they do it without hiding what they're describing under euphemisms?

> Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

-- Bertrand Russel

The flipside of love is anger over abuse and murder. You cannot have it both ways. You can keep yourself together, you can react rationally, cold and precise even, but if you don't feel anything, if people feeling something annoys you more than what they are "outraged" about, what you find intellectually gratifying is kind of moot, because the only reason someone would care about it would be a solidarity and empathy you yourself deny.
Well, Conal has also distanced his work from the FRP term.
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Define "fully licensed". Short term rentals are illegal in NY for "Class A" buildings - Class A meaning buildings that are meant for long term rentals: https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/almID/1202799183928/

So either your rental was illegal, or the building was not a Class A building.
They sold 77.316 million iPhones for $61.576 billion. If I do the calculation right, that's an average revenue per iPhone of $796.

That seems extremely high to me. Also, iPads bring in less revenue per unit sold (13.170 million sold for $5.862 billion of revenue, or $445 per iPad)

What do they count in iPhone revenue? “deferrals and amortization of related software upgrade rights and non-software services.” according to https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Q1_FY18_Data_Summary.pdf, but what are those, and why would they be different for iPhones vs iPads?
Nice thing about corruption when it involves the government and not just two corporations is the government occasionally throws people in prison. In the US commit insurance fraud against a private insurance company and they'll just drop you at most. Commit medicare fraud and the government will claw back what you took, fine you, and maybe throw you in jail.
I'm an animator working in similar space to John but using media like embroidery and digital painting instead. I've previously written about some of the concepts if anyone's interested: https://medium.com/@elliotschultz/making-of-animal-collectiv...
I really hope so. Excepting the fact that it'll probably be bad for the economy as a whole, I can't wait for it to pop and for most ads to be eliminated from my life. It's miserable to be surrounded by constant reminders about a million corporations trying to persuade me I need to give them money.

And it seems like advertising is yet another industry (alongside payment processors, legal services, and real estate) that have managed to 'insert themselves' in the middle of all other commerce, skimming vastly outsized portions of profit off of the entire economy, by being intrinsically 'needed' to do business.

It seems to me that all of these things should be driven by competition to infinitesimal profit margins, because everyone needs them and there should be a big payoff in undercutting each other to take everyone else's business. In practice that's not true at all, which I think means that 'everyone else' severely lacks high-level bargaining power to force these industries down to reasonable cuts.

I fantasize about a scandal in which it emerges that click-through rates all lies and advertising barely actually works and the whole industry goes belly-up as a result.

... okay that's enough cynicism for today.
US is getting rid of its unique foreign corporate income tax. Since the majority of Apple’s revenue is overseas, we can’t guess the overall rate they are paying from the US rate.
I’m having he same problem when I zoom in. This seems like another page that tries to interpret swipes near the edge of the screen as ‘goto next page/last page’.

iPhone 8, latest release of iOS.
I quit because of what you call his "quote voice." As if everyone in history talked in that way.
Their borrowing rates are super low. They can simple just invest the cash they have in an asset that is safe but has a better return and can make money on the difference.

Even if the difference is like .5% that is billions of dollars.
You don't need reason in order to stop doing things that hurt you. Even simple animals learn to avoid painful things.
Their best quarters were supply-constrained.

If there are d units demanded and p units produced, and d >> p, then unit sales = p. Next year, if there are d' units demanded and p' units produced, and d' >= p' while p' > p, then unit sales are going to go up. This tells you a little bit about d', but not everything.
Lack of familiarity with SQLite—-and maybe some mistaken assumptions about its behavior :)
While there are better than open plan (and sometimes the only way to get small offices which still receive a bit of natural light) they’re still a pain if you find motion in your peripheral vision distracting. Frosted glass helps.
"The other case has no such moral quandary, because the thing is already (definitionally) dead. ... It’s not rational if you accept the axiom that a braindead human is dead."

This article and this case are getting attention precisely because people are disagreeing on the definition of death. If everyone accepted the definition of death axiomatically, there would be no controversy and nothing to argue about.

But people do disagree about it, so if you want to convince people you can't just appeal to axioms that there's disagreement about. You have to make a case.
Disabling the referrer header completely can prevent you from signing into some sites unfortunately. Another option in Firefox is to use network.http.referer.spoofSource.

In the URL bar, type:

about:config

Search for the following setting:

network.http.referer.spoofSource

Double-click to set its value to true. This basically sends the destination or target URL as the referrer.
Since Apple releases subjective statements instead of hard numbers about iPhone X sales, I have to go by personal anecdote.

In my circle, where at least one person always buys the new iPhone, there isn't a single iPhone X owner. I know several would love to have it, but the improvements vs. the previous generation can't justify the expense.

My opinion is similar. Before the announcement, I wanted to change my Android for an iPhone. After seeing the price, I'll go with a vastly more capable Android again.
Yahoo has a full library of production Sketches; that is, fast approximate algorithms for computing stats on large datasets.

https://datasketches.github.io/

Hyperloglog for fast COUNT DISTINCTs is included in this library, as well as quantile sketches, reservoir sampling sketches, theta sketches, etc.

https://datasketches.github.io/docs/TheChallenge.html
Interesting, this is what the Referrer-Policy header is supposed to do, site by site. It make sense to enable it private browsing mode, though... and then you'll see how many sites break because they use the Referrer as some kind of authentication mechanism (yes, seen in practice multiple times).
I think that if the Oakland hospital was more kind to the mother, she would have accepted the death of her daughter. This would have allowed the mother to move on and not totally waste her life caring for - by all definitions - a dead teenage girl. I feel that the stories about her 'voluntary movements' are probably wishful thinking. And even so. What kind of quality of life does her daughter really have.

Not to mention: how will her other children fare under this whole ordeal. In some way her religious attitude has caused her to make a ton of bad decisions. And now to admit that her girl is actually dead is inconceivable. Because then she basically admits that the past years were for nothing. But the sad truth is that in reality, the mother lives in a fantasy world. Her girl is no more and for the sake of herself and her children, she should really move on and find a way - left or right - to come to terms with the fact that although her girl may seem to be alive, she isn't (anymore).
VW intentionally misled buyers and regulators about the actual emissions of their cars. Unless Intel knew about Spectre/Meltdown when they were designing their chips, it's a pretty different situation legally speaking.
Eluding taxes is super-unethical.

They show off that they're environment-friendly, how about people-friendly?

America made it possible for them to start a company like that (could've happened in Italy, for instance), people gave the a shitload of money, and they don't pay taxes thanks to a loophole.

It doesn't matter if one is obliged by law to do something or not. I don't have to offer an old lady my seat on the bus, but what kind of piece of shit doesn't do that?
Google does consulting now?
>>Are we in an advertising bubble?

I think the very real fear is that we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of how we market to humans, and the bubble has not yet to even begin.
Sounds like full employment theorem at work. I haven't kicked the tires on kubernetes yet but I don't really see what all the fuss is about. I liked AMPLab and Mesos but I guess that doesn't have the branding power of big G.
I don't agree. We stop people from doing dangerous things all the time: we signpost dangerous substances or locations (like high voltage rooms), we have rules for safe driving and safe crossing of traffic, we control the trading of toxic substances and lethal weapons and so on.

You don't have to be "the ruler of the world" to be interested in protecting people form themselves. It's more like a moral responsibility that we have to each other. And something that comes natural to many people too- for instance, if someone walks too close to the edge of a building etc, someone's always likely to yell out "be careful" or someting along those lines.

And for good reason. People just want to protect each other. That's nothing to do with curtailing personal freedoms, or trying to rule it over each other. It's much more to do with caring about each other.
Apple doesn't "owe" taxes. They pay precisely the minimum they're required by law.

Will you pay more than you are required to? I guarantee you the answer to that question is no.
I know, 5 more years of this and they will be netting a trillion dollars in sales per year.
Advertising as a business is nearly 200 years old. Seems pretty future-proof.
There have been major tax advantages. The impact is lessened by the recent tax reform, but consider Apple has hundreds of billions of dollars in wholly-owned offshore subsidiaries. Up until recently, if they repatriated that cash, they had to pay 35% in taxes. Much better then for an Aa1-rated company like Apple to take out debt at a very low interest rate.
Your world does not address the difficulties of dealing with shared state and coordination, which is what FRP addresses in a principled way. FRP means you don't have data races on checking global variables and events littered all throughout the program, firing and mutating in an order that must be considered effectively random.
Parrt/bookish: A tool that translates augmented markdown into HTML or latex
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Ask HN: Besides technical interviews, how would you want to be evaluated?
excuse me, but what's ph standing for?
Sure, but once you have that large number of listeners, if ads only turn away a small percentage, there is no reason to not have them. They would just be refusing (nearly) free money.
They basically are.
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I mean, it's not surprising considering the 8 is split into two phones. Did people really think one of them would beat out the X?

They made more money, but only because everything they sell is more expensive. Shipped fewer devices this quarter.
Just curious, did it break any popular website?
While there are certainly abusers out there that relish it, (likely in most of the worst cases) I think you'll find that many who commit undeniable abuse don't do it for any sort of joy. They would describe their motivations as being good or an unfortunate necessity–sometimes even altruistic. Abuse is a complicated thing and many who mete it out were, or are, themselves victims of abuse.

Not trying to detract from your overall point, just thought it was worth noting.
I'm going to add myself as a data point. After suffering years of feeling sleepy regardless of how much I slept and frequently unmotivated and withdrawn, I was diagnosed with severe sleep apnea. A few years ago I was given Dexedrine, Ritalin, Adderall, and I even tried self-medicating with modafinil to ameliorate the symptoms of what doctors thought was ADHD with varying levels of success; but the drug-free treatment of sleep apnea with a BiPAP machine got rid of all of these issues; in addition, I feel about ten years younger.
Related to this essay:

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

It is taboo to plainly talk about the value of human life, yet everybody is making such calculations every day, though almost entirely at the subconscious level.

Consider the following pairs of people. Imagine that you must choose death for one out of each pair.

A sick 90 year old man, a healthy 5 year old child.

A terminally ill mother, a middle aged man in jail for multiple violent felonies.

Your young child, a young child living in South Sudan.

A woman with a lifetime of schizophrenia, an undocumented worker who is trimming your trees.

Your spouse, your child.

These kinds of questions are uncomfortable to consider, and the answers are very personal.

I wonder: are the benefits of such conscious valuations greater than possible downsides?
> It all depends on how much money is actually being put on it

Other hand a lot of public health stuff is really cheap as long as everyone gets it and it's timely. AKA people go to the hospital and get IV fluids and sent home vs going in two days later and spending a week in the ICU (or up and dying).
Also paywall skipping, to track what sites are bringing you traffic, to pass fields to forms to report problems, to present targeted traffic based on use, and of course, advertising.
Re: VCs - That makes sense. The thread I was referring to is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16252568

As much as I read about new tech stuff, I had no idea how far things were along until all the deepfake porn headlines hit the news the past few weeks. I guess amidst all the hand-wringing over Carrie Fisher and Grand Moff Tarkin's "looks" in Rogue One it never really struck me that that stuff had 'arrived'.
My point still stands.
That word is a blast from the past. I can see by your username that you also remember those days :)
A market correction is not bad for the market. Think of it like the symptoms of a cold - your body is fighting an infection, so you'll feel unwell for a while, but ultimately you'll be healthier for it.

This is one of the many reasons that interfering in an economy to prevent "recessions" is a bad idea. It prolongs the problem and worsens the inevitable side effects.
People think IBM has more growth potential than Apple!?
​Linux performance before and after Meltdown and Spectre fixes
There are several referer settings.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pyllyukko/user.js/master/u...

user_pref("network.http.referer.userControlPolicy", x);

// TODO: https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/issues/94, commented-out XOriginPolicy/XOriginTrimmingPolicy = 2 prefs

user_pref("network.http.referer.spoofSource", x);

user_pref("network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy", x);