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Yeah if someone could explain the disparity between this press release and the general narrative that would be sweet.

When the iPX first launched the narrative was "holy shit this phone is flying off the shelves", since then OLED stock has been falling (really good time to buy tbh), apple cuts back production, and the narrative has gone sour.

What gives?
Interestingly Apple spells out their overall revenue (88.3 billions) but not their profits (they only mention profits per share). This is obviously not a coincidence. I wonder why...
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You can say this, but that doesn't mean it's high quality or used by anyone who has the option of private insurance.
BPF in the kernel was just for the sake of expediency. The point is that the BPF code shows a somewhat common pattern that real kernel code also uses. The “real” exploit is finding a syscall that falls into that pattern somewhere
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A couple jobs ago, my black coworker shared with me something along the lines of:

>Racism will make you crazy, man. (boss name) will walk into the room and shake everyone's hand, but not yours, and he's already walking out and so you're thinking "did he skip me on purpose cause he's racist? Maybe he just didn't see me cause I'm tucked back in here in the corner? Why am I tucked back here in the corner, anyway?" You're at starbucks and the barista shoots you a weird look - is it cause she hates black people? Maybe she just had some shit in her eye or maybe you're just imagining it.

He told me that while everyone knows racism is still alive, as a black man he's caught between detecting real racism and being an alarmist playing "the race card." It's an impossible fight, it "made him crazy."
It could be racist, for example if you believe you will get worse care because you believe the (some race) medical staff are inherently racist to your race.
> This is interesting, as the majority of the publicity I've seen about the iPhone X has painted it as lackluster.

This happens every year when a new iPhone comes out. Contrarian news drives clicks.
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I have a titanium implant and have had MRIs. It might be a problem if you wanted an MRI of your teeth, but anything else is fine.
Makes Apple's recent $88B quarter seem gargantuan.

Apple's quarterly profit is nearly half of Google's quarterly revenue.

These companies have a very similar valuation.

Is the proper way to interpret this that investors are a lot more optimistic about Google's future vs Apple's?
previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7964873

There was a lot of talk on what FRP (Functional Reactive Programming) really meant, and if Rx is really FRP.

My understanding these days is that Rx has distanced itself from the FRP term proper, while retaining the goals of programming with reactive streams.
Beleaguered.
Where do you get dealflow as an independent investor in these things? Seems like incubator demo days and shark tank events are brimming with everything but biotech.
My shop specializes in multiplatform FRP applications via the reflex haskell library [0].

After many years of wrangling FRP my biggest learned lesson is certainly this: not everything is a stream! You need to be able to mix streams (also called events), which embody push semantics and behaviors (things you can sample), which embody pull semantics. This is important for performance and for the structure of large applications.

Coming up with a set of primitives to efficiently combine events and behaviors in expressive ways is really difficult but worth it.

[0] https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex-platform
> International sales accounted for 65 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

Could be related to the above? Most of the publicity I've seen is domestic to US, but it's certainly possible overseas has a much different view on the iPhone X.
We see this over and over -
People guess how many iPhones Apple is selling, and predict a big problem. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2016/10/03/iphone-7-...)

Later, Apple releases numbers which suggest that it's selling great (https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-iphone-7-tim-cook-first-quar...)

I think maybe it's time to stop listening to "analysis" on their sales until there are real numbers.
I try - I am a member of Sydney Angels [0] who are quite active, but it is a uphill battle. When it comes to biotech here flashy sales pitches are all that matter.

0.http://sydneyangels.net.au
> You need volume to ensure stability, not utility

Wow you've drunk some serious kool-aid there.

You need both. A huge volume of nothing is still nothing.

The "you need volume for stability" argument is what pro-bitcoin people used to say when Bitcoin could actually be used as a currency. Many people would say "Bitcoin isn't a legit currency because it's so volatile", and we would say "No, that's only because there isn't enough Bitcoins out there yet compared to USD for example". This was a valid argument and used to be my go-to-comment for convincing people. But that's only when Bitcoin can be used for something.

Now Bitcoin is like a pet rock, it's scarce, but very risky because the value that comes from the scarcity is based on people's perception only and not based on utility.

My point was that if the value is based only on perception (speculative value), this is very susceptible to manipulation.

I can't believe people actually believe just because something is scarce it's automatically valuable.
Yeah you really should go, you have to have these teeth till the end, best to look after them the best you can.
I was kinda like you, I hadn't gone to the dentist for maybe 2-3 years, and have just gone and have gotten 1 filling that had half fallen out, re-done and another new hole fixed. And was told to switch to an electric toothbrush as I was brushing away my gums (which I highly recommend, if anyone is still using the hand brushes), which is kinda irreversible and potentially really bad if it goes too far.

And there are a tonne of other things your dentist will be checking each time. Paying ~$100 a year is a small price to pay to keep your teeth healthy.
> "this new thing called Reactive Programming"

Let's take an age-old paradigm and present it as something new... why, I don't know, maybe so we can come across as an expert on something "new" and high-tech for fame and fortune...

...at least until someone who has been around the block comes along and figures out you're at best a bullshit artist and at worst completely ignorant and unqualified to be presenting...
Any thoughts on Mullvad?
They just released a beta client for mac os and I have been using them for a roughly over a year I think, and it quality is awesome and so is the privacy policy.

To be honest, I feel like it's (one of) the best VPN providers out there.
"I'd like to apologise. I was raised in a rural area without floride or proper dental care. My teeth are in a place where no matter what I do I will be losing almost all of them over the next decade. I am frustrated."

I am in a similar boat. I first learned about flossing in my 20s. My mouth is now full of crowns and fillings and it's just a matter of time to get implants or something else.

Unfortunately dentistry doesn't have any "good" approaches. All of them are just various degrees of "bad".

But you can slow down the decay a lot. The best thing I have ever done was to get an oral irrigator. It has helped my gums a lot so my teeth are pretty stable now.
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No dry mouth, chronically. I've been told I breath through my mouth at times when I sleep. I breath a lot through my mouth when working out as well.

Thanks for the pointers. I'll look into them.
I don't follow. The second law of thermodynamics doesn't say anything about the specific efficiency limits of an energy conversion or storage system. Ideal reversible systems can maintain entropy if fully isolated (e.g. insulated). In real systems, perfect isolation is impractical, of course, but the resulting loss of energy is a function of the shortomings of the manufacturers of the system (e.g. use of low R factor insulation, high resistance electrical conductors, or poorly shaped pump impellers, etc), not some simple "2nd law limit".
They say Proof is in the pudding.

I am wary of applauding before seeing how well this is implemented. India is known to come up with lot of big programs that make good rhetoric, but not all of them are implemented with equal amount of vigor or commitment.

I am sure part of the motivation may be to help next election cycle which is coming soon.
They don't spell it out where? It's in the consolidated financial statements linked from that page https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Q1_FY18_Consolidated_Fin... (under Net Income). There is nothing to wonder about.
Ah, interesting observation. I’ll look at changing it to something more like what you’ve suggested.

If memory serves, the reason it doesn’t first split the description on white space is that some categories contain whitespace, and would never match.

Thanks!
20.1 bn USD sounds like a very spelled out number to me

BTW: the total number of shares is well known
Pretty much. Unless highly technical (like hardware hacking, Windows internal, reverse engineeeing and such), most courses at Blackhat are way overpriced for the content. Moreover, I discussed with a few guys from FireEye at last year’s conference and they mentioned that they were not getting paid for teaching those course. If true (I’m skeptical) I wonder there that money goes.
I love Bear. It's just the right amount of organization without getting in your way.
That's not a big concern for prototyping. It will reflow just fine. There might be a few solder balls rolling around afterward, maybe a bridge or two. Most of the time, this means your stencil apertures were too big, or that the cut-rate Chinese solder paste wasn't the bargain that it looked like on AliExpress.

Slump is a problem if you're trying to run a six-sigma process in a factory, of course, but that's not what's being discussed here.
I just call it an ad. It is after all the core competency of the prominent stewards of open source.

The software is the ad, the tangential service is the product; keeping up is the infinite sales call that requires no calls.

This is the price of free.
What if you allowed users to curate lists of articles (maybe with options for RSS or notifications)? I think we would see lists like "Seminal papers in X area". Maybe anything that helps people find stuff that is a) good b) what they are interested in would get them engaged.
What a monster.

I wonder whether AMZN reaches a point where they crush the competition at all levels and become a glitch in this somewhat functional current capitalist system, marking the start of a monopoly blob system without a name yet. Then I remember, their approach now seems to be all about building internal interfaces and reusing them with the customer in some way (see eg. AWS).
It isn't about destruction, more like symbiosis.
But they may still morph the economy into something different and that change is scary.
What exactly do you mean? It's in the consolidated statements they provide as part of this document. 20,065 billion $ vs 17,891 billion $ last year.
"Alphabet cracks $100B in annual revenue as advertising soars" was the original article title.

As the earnings release progressed, Reuters decided to change the title to, "Alphabet's earnings miss Wall St. estimates as spending grows"
> 'Sharing economy' means that they aren't stuck paying mortgages on rooms they can't rent during a recession.

I'm not sure I understand, why is this not the case?
You might enjoy F-Droid then. All apps are built from source from public repositories, with known malicious libraries stripped, with a broad definition of "malicious" (tracking and advertising). Also everything's free, in both senses. No need to wall up the garden.
There's been a lot of studies on such sleep cycles (esp: without an external day/night cycle). But I can't really imagine a study that removed people from external influences on sleep (including their own children) for 20 years... Without having serious issues with separating out other factors...
I'm curious as to why you think that lacking impact is due to dissimilarities between humans and test subjects.
My best guess would have been that a lack of incentives for parties with the power to realize such advancements are overweighing.
Statistical significance aside, blanket statements such as what I responded to are simple, not true when compared to reality. I do not believe that humans can be unbiased when interrupting data to form a conclusive hypothesis. This is why the scientific community has a peer-review process to filter out biases.

However, I will agree that my initial response was lacking and would have been better if not stated at all.
I believe some women have similar feelings, but I have no way of knowing how true this is. It seems reasonable and semi-justified all things considered.
Awesome to see tutorials about making serverless apps!
I figured, thanks for that!
You start interviewing and you see that none of the above happens 99% of the time. You wasted 2 years learning a bunch of stuff when you really should have been interviewing six months after writing your first line of code.

I agree with this. I have interviewed a good amount of engineers, both as a SWE at Google as well as founder of my own company. From that experience I can tell that the only thing that asking mostly hard interview questions does is reducing your candidate pool to 0.

Even with mostly moderately hard questions your candidate pool at the end of the funnel is probably going to be around 5% to 10% as compared to the start of the funnel. Plus after a certain level of question difficulty as an employer you're probably optimizing for the wrong skillset.

Perhaps for super competitive positions, e.g. for algorithmic trading at reputable Wall Street hedge funds, there's a place for killer interview questions but it's definitely not the bread and butter.
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Do you have a citation for the claim that there is no racial disparity? Here's a ProPublica report that shows a staggering disparity: "Deadly Force in Black and White"(https://www.propublica.org/article/deadly-force-in-black-and...)
Speculative execution modifies observable state. What you call it is imaterial.
when talking about 'backpressure' it is essential to distinguish whether we are talking about pull streams or push streams, and if the backpressure mechanism is in-band or out-of-band.

usually when we talk about a 'reactive stream' we are only talking about push streams, because if you are truly reactionary the consumer doesn't control the flow like a pull-based iterator does.
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> Tell that to all the people doing 25+y for doing or dealing pot. They must agree with you!

> I'm no expert on arms dealing but isnt the US Gov the one that gives out the most weapons to radicals? I thought the US as a successful exporter of weapons..and certainly of violence!

I feel like you're just going for cheap points, but the thing is you don't even get those if you can't stay on topic. It's kinda pointless to talk with you if you keep running off on random tangents. Aren't we talking about financial regulation?

Actually, I'm not even sure if there's anything to your comments beyond an emotional hostility to the concept of regulation or something represented by it, so maybe we're not even communicating at all.
> Later in 1982, I changed my F2L system to the current system. [..] By 1983, I was consistently averaging 17 seconds. I knew three more cubers capable of achieving sub-20 averages consistently. We practiced together. As the cube rage cooled down, I stopped working on my system.

Maybe she considers 1983 as the year speedcubing was born?
Maybe she just meant round about 20 years. Maybe she wrote it in 2001 and published it in 2003?
"top selling iPhone" is a relative statement, the whole pie can be shrinking and Apple could've hoped for more sales, but compared to other (8 and older) iPhones it is still doing good.

The forecasts in the media were about the absolute levels not relative.
> This is interesting, as the majority of the publicity I've seen about the iPhone X has painted it as lackluster.

People really like believing in rumours.
If you run it at a higher level of abstraction than linode volumes with parity and can tolerate up to 8 drives / 1 server going down at once (like this setup on minio should get you), that would take you a long ways towards adding one or two 9's.

High availability is just one S3 feature though. Other important features are paying for what you use, and effectively unlimited storage growth (you will probably revisit this before you hit $32k/mo the 320TB would cost). Even if this didn't add reliability, those other features still have utility above the raw Block Storage Volumes provided by linode here.
Responding only to a small part,

> And if the person is already dead, in the eyes of the doctors, what "undesirable outcome" could their measures have?

Even if doctors believe someone to be dead, when family members disagree, doctors can reasonably extrapolate that those family members will be distressed when life support is stopped.
Unless those doctors have no empathy at all, that would be an undesirable outcome for them.
A slightly more cynical view would include doctors fearing media backlash and legal action.
Personally, they got me this holiday season because I originally signed up for Amazon Prime to watch American Gods... then since I had Prime I got free shipping...
Do you have any suggestions on how can I not too expensively measure my sleep quality at home?
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> I guess I feel that the medical profession is always going to be better off, in the long run, if we speak honestly and truthfully about what we know.

I couldn't agree more.

Although the case is different, I cannot help but remember Salvatore Crisafulli [1], which went into coma after an accident and entered Persistent Vegetative State (PVS). After two years he showed signs of conscience and was even able to begin communicate again using the movements of his own eyes. What is most striking is the fact that he was able to recall a number of events happened around him while he was in PVS (e.g., the nurses accidentally dropping him while moving his bed) [2]. This happened despite the fact that at the time a number of doctors kept repeating that he was completely unconscious.

The human body is so complex. We can try to gather some knowledge by means of experiments, models and statistical data, but we must realize that the scientific method is a human endeavour and is therefore imperfect by definition. Being a scientist (I study cosmology), I feel deeply embarrassed whenever I hear people professing their irreducible faith in «science».

[1] https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stato_vegetativo (Italian)
[2] https://www.ibs.it/con-occhi-sbarrati-straordinaria-storia-l... (book in Italian)
Hard to say, but it's just a different kind of outspokenness. I mostly became aware of it when staying in Central/Eastern European countries. Communism has taught people there to be hesitant to give their opinion, even more so when not asked for it. It certainly helped to tone it down a bit myself.
> Is the proper way to interpret this that investors are a lot more optimistic about Google's future vs Apple's?

I've read institutional investors don't see Apple having sufficiently diversified revenue streams to warrant a higher P/E. Something around 60% of their revenues come from iPhone alone.
It could still be lackluster and sell more than previous versions. The iPhone is still spreading out into the world I assume, and the proportion of the world that wants or can buy an iPhone keeps increasing for a while longer.
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These are excellent points and very interesting food-for-thought, the 'organizational thinking' that leads to the tools being terribly complex and steep to learn for individuals.

But don't these tools have product managers, and don't product managers create tools to serve customers?

The only cynical viewpoint that I can think of for artificial (or lazy) complexity is consulting dollars.
The broke ones need you to work 15 hrs a day and "you'll get your backpay once were back on our feet"
Interesting mention about appointing John Hennesy the chairman of the company.
I don’t know that “racism” is the right word to describe that, and in fairness you’re not going to capture its incidence in hospitals by gathering the mortality statistics for this particular surgery.

On the other hand, I do think that much of the racial tension described in this article can be more charitably attributed to, for lack of a better word, a bad hospital. The quality of care this family experienced is one of the reasons I (speaking as a white guy) won’t go to certain hospitals in my area unless it’s an emergency. In fact, most recently a relative of mine broke her femur and I was asking the EMTs if we could choose the hospital (we couldn’t, which is probably better for society, but unfortunate for my family).

On a broader note I dislike the New Yorker setting this article up to be about the medical concept of death in the headline, then making it a story of racial tension in medical treatment. The story explicitly mentions the races and professions of various people involved, even going so far as to refer to a sympathetic staff member as African American.

I was interested in reading a new perspective about brain death, but this just seems to be trying to develop a story.