skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, I get this feeling that there's a boardroom of execs out there saying "well, the Samsung Note sold a whole lot of devices, clearly the reason is because it's big!"

Then the release a bunch of only-big iphones, which sell more than the previous generation of iphones, and they go "Aha! We're on to something here!"

Like, there's a ton of reasons that sales of a new gen of iphone could be higher than previous, or that the note sold more than some other iphone model, etc, without having anything to do with physical size of the device.

I for one am absolutely desperate for a galaxy s1 sized device with a headphone jack, long battery life, and reasonable performance, regardless of thickness. I would probably pay 800 dollars for such a device. It's just me here and now but judging from other comments I've seen I bet I'm not alone.
In my experience, working out in the 90-100% range is Evil Magic. It works for a while so you think "Hooray, I'm stronger than I've ever been" and you enjoy posting heroic numbers. Then it stops working and becomes all about demonstrating strength rather than building it.

It sounds a lot like you've reinvented bodybuilding with your protocol. You're probably not actually stronger in a strict 1RM sense than you were before, but you may well be healthier and you sound happy, so why worry?

If you occasionally threw in a peaking protocol and worked your way back up to the 90% range you'd probably be beastly; the trick is not to stay there.
Siri Shortcuts is a rebranding of an acquisition. Apple did very little to innovate here. They bought a company's tech and added Siri support mostly because they wanted the power of IFTTT but in their own proprietary format.
>I use them (via Laravel) on work projects and I hate them. I hate that I have to look at a routes file or controller to find out what is pointed where in my file.

Laravel's router is one of the best out there. It makes default parameters a breeze. If you ever get into API development you have no option but to become an expert on routing.

>Is this wrong?

You should read more documentation and tutorials and try out some other frameworks to see how they handle routing! You'll realize that Laravel's routing is extremely easy to use compared to frameworks. Automatic routing by naming convention like CakePHP and Rails is a recipe for an unmaintainable mess when you're forced to then structure your controllers based on the request type and name them whatever you want your endpoint to be.
That's definitely great advice. I really appreciate!
9x performance on the Neural Engine compared to the A11 is the big increase. We'll probably see slower CPU/GPU increases with massive advances in AI for a few generations now.
> Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, iPhone X, ARKit, Siri Shortcuts, FaceID, iMac Pro.

Those aren't transformational changes, they're are incremental changes that Apple is already good at.

A transformational change would be creating high-quality media shipping to Apple TV- a direct competitor to Netflix, fully contained in the Apple ecosystem. Building a content media division is very hard for Apple to do, but would keep them relevant.

Apple is missing the boat on media, which is the probably the biggest battlefield in 2018. Disney, Netflix and Amazon are setting the pace and there's no reason why Apple couldn't compete. Not only compete, but win in that space, with the insane capital and ability to lock into Apple hardware.

Nobody is talking about smartwatches. Everyone is talking about what they're binge-watching. Apples winning the wrong conversations.
Someone moving to another state is not interstate commerce.
I didn't miss the point. I'm arguing that the two kinds of format are completely different. A graphics format is a side-effect of the actual editing, an afterthought. With an office document, the format itself is the core of the experience.
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Please don't be uncivil in comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Currently on the frontpage with 250 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17971516
Please don't respond to incivility with worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Governments aren't striving for ideal outcomes - government is necessarily a bunch of scoundrels whose chief goal is to stay in power, which is achieved by giving sufficient bungs to donors and voters:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11612989-the-dictator-s-...

Sorry to ruin your day ;-)
I feel like the Bragi dash out "Apples" Apple's airpods. Apple had a real opportunity to make a OS for your ear as well as your wrist.
What said is kind of a catch 22. The one thing a person with social anxiety would be reluctant to talk about is their social anxiety, the lack of talking of which further worsens the anxiety.

I used to be an extrovert/ good at social interactions when in my country, but have found it very difficult to replicate my social interactions in the US.

I break social relationships into 4 kinds. Acquaintances , close acquaintances , friends and best buddies. Each have very well defined boundaries. Having a pool of predefined things to talk about has made making acquaintances significantly easier in the US. Not having a rule set for interaction makes the options too wide, and causes a type of decision paralysis.

I still struggle with converting those to close acquantinces and friends, but I am getting better. And I am one of the good ones. Most people from my country only hang around people of their nationality because of being unable to make basic acquaintances with people. These people aren't socially awkward, just completely confused in a system with foreign rules for interaction.

I went on a tangent here, but I am sure there is a point in there somewhere.
If the sticker price for the car with the loaner battery was $10,000 less you might think about buying it.

What I mean is, that problem is just one of thinking of it as purchasing a battery, which you wouldn't do if swapping them was common.
Breaking up banks would create the Bell -> AT&T situation. Sure, better than nothing, as at least there are 3 offspring companies. Though the US has no shortage of competing banks. (But the big banks have too much influence, that's undeniable.)

> We basically gave them a big sack of cash

We had no other choice, really. They paid it back.

> and asked them not to do it again.

There is a long list of new regulation overseeing systemic risk related concerns. (We shall see their effectiveness and longevity.)

> No one went to prison and GS went back to paying out bonuses.

Intent is key for successful criminal prosecution, and it's very hard to prove.

The solution is known, and old. A competent proactive expert non-understaffed and non-underbudgeted oversight agency that can react to the changes in the market/industry (eg new products [investment vehicles, etc.] appearing) without Congress.

And serious compliance regulation that creates a paper trail for proving intent. (To deter people from stupid shit.)

Aaand [corporate] whistleblower protection.
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I've seen many posts on HN questioning whether there is any value in a permissionless uncensorable internet of the type some cryptocurrency platforms are building toward.

Will the concept get less mockery now?
Nope, but I imagine you could create one using something like the IPFS protocol: https://ipfs.io/
And yet despite your criticism they are selling more devices than during Steve Jobs by a large margin. My iphoneX is by far the most usable and comfortable form factor of a smart phone I’ve used in the past decade. I’m just glad Apple has far better ways to decide on their device strategy than internet hot takes to so reliably and predictably miss the boat.
i don't genuinely enjoy most parties, but i do very much enjoy small gatherings of close friends. unfortunately, close friends do not grow on trees, and as an adult, i don't actually get that many opportunities to meet a broad range of new people. i find that parties are one of the few places in american society where it is acceptable to just approach people who seem interesting and start talking to them, so i see value in them even if i don't like them, per se.
> seems like a bad idea.

Bad idea for whom, and why? Because of your personal preference for a smaller phone? Clearly, the market doesn't agree. Well TBH, I don't know the market numbers, but surely Apple doesn't cull their lineup of products that are selling well?
What I mostly do not understand is that Apple did not structure this as a 'we will store your library for you' instead of a 'you can redownload from the store anytime'. The first case would mean that rights holders cannot force Apple to not redistribute that data anymore, because either it would be transparent to Apple, or at the very least the ownership for that copy of the data would lie with the customer, not with the rights holder. (And ofcourse it could be a nice implementation detail that Apple deduplicates multiple copies on their servers).

The only conclusion to be drawn is that Apple does not care for the best interests of their customers, and probably gave in to the demands of rights holders, which is concerning.
A bit of both.

The color palette was limited. 216 web-safe colors, 256 if you didn't mind the user's open programs changing how it looked.

Colors displayed differently on different monitors, and 'dead' areas of the screen, where colors would be less vibrant, were common.

And finally... The web was different, so we tossed all the rules. If you liked it, that's good enough! Why pander to anybody else? This was your own thing.
> News organizations provide a service (news reporting). News aggregators provide a service (news aggregation). Why shouldn't they both get paid?

That's a good question, and it seems to me that's the whole point of this legislation.

Currently there is a mega-multinational company which posts record profits for services that consist of scraping and unauthorized distribution of third-party content, and in a manner that even eliminates any traffic from the content creator's site.

So in the current state of affairs only the scraper gets paid, and the content creators are left with the bill.

How is that fair?

> Why should news organizations be entitled to profit from unauthorized access and distribution of third-party content while the creators are left with the bill of creating it?

For some reason you've invented this silly idea that researching and developing a newspiece is, somehow, the same as scraping websites.

I'm sure that we can agree that journalism and web scraping have nothing in common, just like xeroxing a book is not the same thing as writing a novel.
So "buried in a mountain of legalese" is the test for whether or not a term can be enforced? Trying to imagine how that can actually be implemented legally. Contracts shall not exceed 1000 words?
I must admit, that I find your sentiment very understandable! It is an egoistic challenge, after all.
For me the problems I describe are highly relevant, and I'm very curious about any solution that isn't written in Julia. And I do think, that those challenges are also highly relevant for a large part of the scientific computing community. So whatever language excels at those should get proper recognition;) And I do believe, that if you can implement a hard problem efficiently with little effort and not that much code and still have it composable, that it will very quickly influence the quality and user experience for the end user.
Here's one example, Apple will still repair the iPhone 4 which started selling in 2010 and was discontinued in 2013.

https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service
Thank you (and favorited for later reference).

Here's a question that I don't see answered in this page though: I'm a non-smoker and asthma patient (was diagnosed at age 7, the cause is most likely second-hand smoke from my father), so I always stay clear of smokers and don't let anyone smoke indoors while I'm around. What is a reasonable policy to assume wrt vaping? Do we have any evidence regarding second-hand vaping? I'm not particularly worried about getting addicted that way, but about whether the smoke from an e-cigarette can be harmful to me as an asthma patient (or to others).

(And while we're at it: What about Marlboro's Iqos? I stood next to someone using one of these a few weeks ago and the reduction in second-hand smoke and stench is remarkable.)
And yet people still download Torrents.
I'd say that's a exceptionally decent camel at $55k.

Average price is $400. Australia sells camels (I'm assuming wild herds captured) for $1-1.5k per head.

https://www.mla.com.au/research-and-development/search-rd-re...
How a New York Times Software Engineer Ended Up Covering Miss America
I'm struggling to post a comment that doesn't just consist of a lot of swearv words strung together.

I knew this might happen but I'm really gutted. I'm actually worried about how my time management and workflow is going to fare in light of this.

It's weird how much this bothers me.
The average home today was a mansion a hundred years ago. They became average because we built more mansions. If a hundred years ago we had built low end housing we would all be living in low end housing today. The Soviets did exactly as you are suggesting and they figured out the hard way that building low end housing leads to people have low end homes.

"Mansion" is entirely subjective. Its just a way to refer to the nicest homes available.

Well-being is based on production and production is not a zero-sum game. We can have low-income people living in high-end housing. All we have to do is keep building nice homes.
They didn't assume that; they have been investing in alternative sources of income for a long time, including in renewables and EVs.
The ordinance of Villers-Coterets[1] was limited to legal documents, whereas the efforts led during the Terror were aimed at eradicating local languages[2], seen as so many shackles keeping the peasants from being enlightened.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinance_of_Villers-Cotter%C3...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_France#Fren...
The way I understand, it’s really more like minimum feature size (like think a trace/wire and not a transistor). So it’s more like a sort of DPI measurement
A few cups of water before bed does wonders for me.
National governments are obligated to ratify, and turn into national laws directives and laws coming from Brussels. If they don't they get fined after a certain period of time.
> I certainly lost the illusion of online communities being like real communities

this was a really sad part of growing up for me.
I thought the context was wireless ISPs becoming viable alternatives to landline ISPs like Comcast, so it seemed like a relevant comparison.
No - I don't like the taste of prison food.
> Brave doesn't touch first-party ads. If you wish to advertise to your visitors, we respect that.

That's pretty interesting. So, as an online publisher, if I make my own deals directly with the advertisers and then host and serve the assets myself, Brave doesn't flag it.

I used to do this, but it's very time consuming. I've essentially delegated this work to Adsense.
I pay $75/mo
Most important part of the linked article so no one else has to pay the penalty of reading for my earlier misquote: "[Quote Investigator] has determined that the author of the quote is not someone famous or ancient.

It was crafted by a student, Kenneth John Freeman, for his Cambridge dissertation published in 1907. Freeman did not claim that the passage under analysis was a direct quotation of anyone; instead, he was presenting his own summary of the complaints directed against young people in ancient times. The words he used were later slightly altered to yield the modern version."

Thanks for sharing this the-dude, you've helped make me a little less misinformed, even though I'm sad to learn it's not a direct quote :)
People still run windows?
I've made it a habit to `git stash list` and `git stash show -p stash@{2}` when I want to inspect the stashed changes.
Lua is a pleasing language to work with, but only that, unfortunately. It has never caught on in desktop apps due to a lack of suitable GUI library bindings. It never caught on in web apps thanks to a lack of suitable web frameworks.

There are at least a dozen half-implemented or abandoned Lua GUI projects, including at least three Lua-to-Qt binding toolkits and one briefly maintained by PUC-Rio (where Lua originates). But the other day I wanted to write a simple GUI to support formatting documents with a certain LaTeX template, and I struggled to find one that could guarantee that my users would be able to run the software on their various OS platforms. There are even more half-working Lua web frameworks, including Lapis, Ophal, Orbit, Sailor, and Tir, three of which have had brief moments in the limelight as the "preferred" Lua framework. There are at least three projects that attempted to add types to Lua, and no less than six parallelism libraries.

If you view it as a competitor to Python, Lua is a case study in open-source community mismanagement. There are five projects that attempt to solve every outstanding problem usually none of which has more than three regular contributors. There are many competing "Lua standard libraries", and after the falling out between Mike Pall and PUC and the controversial introduction of integers, there are four similar but distinct versions of the Lua language in common use: Lua 5.1, Lua 5.2, Lua 5.3, and LuaJIT 2.

But if you view it as a research project, Lua has been incredibly fruitful and continues to be. Any organization with the critical mass required to maintain their own internal ecosystem can use Lua without ever noticing the disarray in the wider community, and many do. It's just... annoying... from the perspective of the US/European open-source crowd.
Free and ad-supported are not the same thing. Similarly, advertisements don't require that the provider disregard your privacy entirely. I just don't understand why anyone would think it's ethical to block ads for an online news source that pays its content creators with ad revenue. It's part of the implied contract of consumption.
I'm really curious what the german government will do. As far as I know they (CDU and SPD) have a paragraph about being against upload filters in their coalition agreement.

Interestingly the one who spearheaded article 11 and 13 - Axel Voss - is a german CDU politician. Preach water and drink wine?
Everywhere has this phenomenon in some guise, it's only the US that's self absorbed enough to think it is unique.
>I was so excited over how the EU managed to get GDPR so right

Agreed, though I could really have done without every damn site having an extra popup that gives me a choice that isn't a choice...click accept.
You can just fill a can with gas and bring it to the car.

(this is what a tow service will do if you've only run out of gas)
kinda reminds me of ajit pai going off on why he hates america. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNR3Z6hWTvg
This is especially infuriating considering I don't buy anything at Wal-Mart, yet a portion of my tax money is still used to prop up their business model of rock-bottom prices for everyone who does shop there.
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You've mentioned this multiple times in this thread, unnecessarily. The comment you are responding to said nothing about ratification, only "an organization that thinks this is remotely ok" which qualifies (domestic government hypocrisy notwithstanding).
There's duktape (https://duktape.org/), which, from skipping over the documentation seems very similar to Lua when it comes to embedding: It also uses the stack based approach. Looks like there's some ES6/7 support.
> B) It's a constant problem in Miami where high tide is now above the level of many roads so they've had to jack the roads up several feet more.

No, it isn't. It's a problem during king tides. Yes, king tide flooding is getting worse, but "constant problem" is an exaggeration.
Still, as it prohibits opt-ins by default, it protects your privacy. Even if you just click the popups away.
> Kicking someone off Reddit isn't censorship

It is corporate censorship. It's not government censorship.

It's not only governments that can censor. Any entity can censor.
This is the risk with any online service and you evaluate the customer service of the company as part of the evaluation process of doing business with them. Valve enjoys a pretty good reputation and so most people accept the trade-off.
Probably less than 74 people a year "at that level" have left.
And it's not like my news app can't make 50 http requests to do good-enough aggregation itself, for free.
Are you sure Apple is selling more devices because of the new direction OR the mobile market is just larger than it was 7 years ago.
Original poster was claiming that any "pawn shop" speakers will beat HomePod; that's what I was replying to.
Agreed, but Britain also has a pretty bad track record when it comes to surveillance, basic liberties, and Internet freedom. I would not be surprised if they independently pass a similar law in the future.
Looks like it. Section 4.1 eliminates lower level languages on code size, and 4.2 eliminates higher level languages on performance. The challenge in C form would be:

Create a better string copy way:

while (*d++ = *s++);
>"Wrong on several points. First, HomePod is fundamentally a speaker; the "smart" functionality is decidedly secondary."

From the Apple product page:

>"HomePod is great at the things you want to know, and do, in your home. From getting the latest weather to sending messages and controlling your smart home accessories,2 Siri makes
it easy to multitask with just your voice."[1]

Unless you can tell me you were on the design team for the HomePod, you have just entirely made up the fact that the smart functionality is "decidedly secondary."

>"second, no, HomePod did not come out "years after" Airport was discontinued; it was a few months."

Apple stopped developing the Airport and disbanded the team back in 2016.[2] So yeah that's a couple of years. Selling through on existing stock is not the same as actively developing is it?

>"Third, calling Apple Watch mere "jewelry" is silliness; it's a very impressive product by any standard."

A watch is commonly accepted to be both an accessory and a piece of jewelry. It's amusing that you want to dispute this when this watch has become an incredibly fashionable accessory to have at the moment. And just to put a fine point on it, when Hermès is designing for you, its safe to say that you are in fact producing a fashion accessory.[3]

[1] https://www.apple.com/homepod/

[2] https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/21/apple-reportedly-stops-develo...

[3] https://www.apple.com/apple-watch-hermes/
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Are you talking about this from experience?
or just plain (outside-EU) theory?

In practice though, most of EU gov-burocracy, incl. courts, prosecutors, statisticians, taxation, food-control, cultural/educational, whoever, esp. in recently-joined former-this-or-that countries, exist mostly in order to make work to each other = i.e. support/keep the whole system. Sadly, that is the reality.

And yes, they may charge u of (inexisting) offense (and even without sending u email), if that has any chance of putting oil in the cogwheels for some years. No matter what, the state does not lose.. it just somebody's nerves and taxpayers money wasted, but who cares.
re: 1 -- i've yet to see this ever happen to anyone I know. In fact, i've seen a handful of sketchy situations where it might even be warranted, and it still hasn't happened.

The thing I see all the time, online and off? Comments like yours where people (mostly guys) self censor out of fear of this hypothetical life catastrophy.

I think we dudes are hurting ourselves here. Far more than PC culture wants to harm us (which seems on the internet like a lot, but in reality, is effectively nil)