skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if Apple have a demographics problem looming. The teeth-gnashing wife probably has had iPhones since the beginning and her reasons for not wanting to switch are understandable enough. She can also look after her phone and not need so many replacement devices.

But the kids who didn't get on the Apple bandwagon when iTunes was a groundbreaking exciting thing with an Apple ecosystem that made it all work wonderfully?

I suspect that the kids who expect parents to pay for everything might be burdened with commodity Android devices that cost a lot less than the deluxe Apple phones. Lose the phone too often and it becomes a distinctly mid to low end commodity Android device. If that happens then they get to be outside the Android ecosystem and grow up not needing Apple. Meanwhile, the parents just don't replace their phones often enough as what they have is good enough.

Apple can't produce a low-end device as this would cannibalise their premium sales so they are stuck in the realm of hardware and need to push this services model on their customer base.

As time goes on an a phone is just a commodity 'hand rectangle' with little class value. Having the latest and greatest doesn't make you one of the cool kids any more than having a fancy laptop makes you special. There are no queues outside the stores on launch day anymore and there is no returning to that.

A further problem that Apple have is the amount of markets affected by currencies that have gone south or are protected by tariffs. This affects their competitors too, slowing down the upgrade cycle. The UK is a significant market for Apple and after the Brexit vote the pound lost 20% of value making the latest and greatest iphone cost a pretty penny. Unless you are rich enough for these things to not matter then you do have to ask what you are getting for paying five times as much for a fancy iPhone rather than a similarly sized screen on an Android budget device, particularly when signal strength/battery is a huge part of what the product is.
> Nobody that works on RISC-V believes that a mew ISA will change the game in terms of performance. That's not really the main goal.

And this is why they will fail. RISC-V suffers hugely from NIHS and would have no chance against any competition in a real market without that artificial hype. They need to get better.

> They had good reason for not using something that exists. SPARC has one open specification but the version after that is not open anymore.

The fully GPL licensed OpenSPARC T2 is more advanced than anything RISC-V has to offer even though it is ten years old. Why reinvent the wheel when you can build on top of existing solutions that has proven itself on millions of machines including two top 100 Computer clusters.

> RISC-V was from the ground up designed as modular ISA where the same basic software stack can run on deep embeded and HPC.

This is also true for SPARC.
I'd be more enclined to start a buisness here in Canada, since I know that even if I fuck up financially, I can still get free healthcare.
How does Google Authenticator work?
FWIW: as the head of product, I code a few times a week but mine is all sample code for our customers or demos.

We are a developer focused company so your mileage may vary.
There are some valid points, but there's too much BS for me to forward this link to anyone who might actually benefit from reading it.
I'm not convinced this is the case. MS is developing various alternatives to Linux, such as a CLI only version, and a version with a different faster kernel.

But I agree that frameworks which can ONLY deploy to Windows (.Net Framework) will die in favor of those that are cross platform (.Net Core).
There's a gap in thinking here that I'm not really sure how to bridge, but I'll do my best.

In that specific situation, he performed an action, which resulted in a disciplinary action based on some rule somewhere by the SEC.

Some traders won, some lost. I've worked both as, and around traders for a decent period of time. It is what it is.

As far as I'm concerned, it makes life exciting.

I think any concept of 'harm' is pretty far removed from that.

In short, yes, in life, things happen. Other things happen as a result of those things.

We're all here to have fun, in the end.
whats the reason that younger women were able to catch up to their older cohort? why is that never discussed as that seems highly relevant
You should read it, it's more about how everyone has a phone already, and there are fewer must have improvements to drive new sales, so revenue growth is coming mostly from services instead.
I am genuinely interested in this.

I can't help it myself. Even if I didn't know Donald Trump existed, he is the poster boy of the kind person I would utterly dislike. So, it is very difficult for me to evaluate his presidency through an objective lens. I am human after all.

It doesn't help that polarization in media means, he is portrayed either as a do-no-wrong messiah or Satan himself.

Do you know of any relatively objective report that talks about his policies and bills he has passed (that would have been opposed by a democratic president), and their effects ?

I know a few good (what I believe to be) objective and research driven sources, but all of them are very critical of Trump.

I would really appreciate being directed towards a piece that talks about his achievements as well (without putting him on a pedestal)
I did the same exercise a few months ago! Using a little React wrapper I wrote for myself:

https://github.com/Lokeh/lilac.town/blob/master/src/lilactow...

https://lilac.town/games/sweeper
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I think that you are correct. I also think that journalists look for attention-grabbing headlines. I haven’t read the article, but the headline makes me think that the author saw the movie The Founder, where a McDonald’s co-founder leverages the real estate market as the primary profit generator, and thought, “I can apply that to Apple.”
I don't think I'm seeing it yet... it's possible the logs are stuck in your outbox... this sometimes happens on Android if the logs are too big. I only see one sending of logs that was sent without explanation in our box.

* If the logs are too big to send, it's probably enough to go on if I know the email associated with your account. You could email me at andrew@gaiagps.com and let me know.

* If that's not enough, we can get the logs a different way too or maybe I'll have some questions.
Concur. Said yet another way, one data sets entropy is another data sets negentropy.
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Yes, check out the LG Prada. It was actually thought at the time that Apple had copied that design.

Microsoft also pushed tablets long before Apple ever did. Like I said, Apple repackages things.
What has Apple invented? As far as I'm aware, they have patents of re-purposing other inventions, or design patents. But cannot think of anything they "invented" that didn't already exist before.
Thiel wrote "Zero to One" specifically about his general thoughts on innovation.

For me, it's hard to say, because we can't see what talent is in the farm systems. Also, we often won't see innovation happen in ways we can predict.
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There are unlimited mechanisms to try to "punish" somebody who violates your moral code. Each mechanism has a certain effectiveness, a certain fallibility, and a certain inconvenience.

For example you can boycott, you can badmouth, you can arrest, you can refuse to acknowledge, you can socially ostracize, you can wield professional power (e.g. give a bad grade to), you can disrupt their speaking engagements, you can physically attack, you can sue.

I think we can all agree some mechanisms are reasonable, some are unreasonable, and some are worth debating.

I'm glad this discussion is becoming conscious and deliberate.
If the speculation is correct that these features are manually added, I don't see how that's remotely possible within a year.

of course, simply extrapolating the current rate of progress gives a similarly dismal outlook.
The copy editor put a click-bait title on the article to get more hits/views, but if you read past it you'll find a fairly even and uncontroversial analysis. It's not an op-ed piece whining for more innovation as the title might imply

The author emphasizes how Apple has created an ecosystem with its iPhone, but that it needs to extract more value from the services provided to that ecosystem to make up for declining sales of the devices themselves (instead of continually raising device prices)

Authors for these publications rarely if ever write their own headlines
Is it ok to discuss politics here?

I'm a pretty big liberal myself but Beto's chances in Texas seem smaller than the size of his name implies. The polls have actually never had him higher than Cruz. At the bottom, it also says advice factored into this so maybe that was what made such a big factor?
They keep making new messaging apps that compete with each other instead of providing users with one great messaging app. Gmail's getting objectively crappier and they're killing off the much better Inbox interface. I'm not saying they make unilaterally bad decisions and I'm decently happy with my cheap Android phone but ten years ago Google was making new and exciting stuff and I haven't felt that way about them in years.
Meanwhile geeks are marvelling at the speed improvements of their latest SoC's over the previous generation and over their competitors.
With Darch, your image isn't in RAM, but all of your runtime changes are, so they are discarded on reboot.

That means only commands that are baked into your image are persisted.

That means you can test new packges without fear that it will leave boogers on your machine.
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Self-made is a stretch for whom? Trump, definitely it's a stretch. Elon isn't a stretch to say he's a self-made billionaire.

Likewise, risk is relative - it depends on if the people with the money find it too risky to invest or not, so clearly they didn't think it was too risky, nor did Elon for him to be willing to take it.

Re: Interview - I didn't watch the interview, what are you referencing that he referenced in the WSJ article? My guess is it wasn't accurate or clear enough in his mind, meaning it was a "half truth" and too open to interpretation.

Once again your further attempt to compare Elon and Trump is unreasonably loose. Trump plays his base with lies, Elon isn't playing any game - he's having fun certainly when he does things like throwing shade on the SEC for things relating to what he disagrees with like short sellers, and with things like selling not-a-flamethrowers, however he doesn't blatantly lie constantly - and I'd like you to reference with a reliable source even a single confirmed lie that Elon has said?
6000 is absolutely fine if it's a random sample of the adult population (it would be accurate to within 1%). An important thing to know is that the size of the US population doesn't affect this number.

It's much more likely that the survey has other flaws that prevented it getting a representative sample of US adults than that it got weird answers because the sample size was too small.
May be people are disappointed with innovation in iPhones compared to previous years' or for the last few years, but every time I use my AirPods, I can't but feel good about the innovation it took to make it as easy to use and comfortable.

* If I open the case near my phone, it automatically pairs and shoes battery levels.

* They sound decent for earbuds (not in-ear plugs which I hate)

* Lasts reasonable amount of time on its battery and quickly charges while in case.

I could not get this experience ever before and honestly, even after I have had it for a year. I don't know of a better competition to it.

But, letting the Mac lineup vanquish with old internals for years and gouging prices on soldered SSDs and memory - no excuse, that's just shitty.
I think it would be really cool if someone made a NixOS-based distro focused on individual users like Manjaro does. NixOS is pretty modular so it wouldn't be all that hard.
This partially explains why Berkshire Hathaway is now largest stock holder in Apple. They prefer companies with 'moat'. Ability to innovate is unpredictable.
Ask HN: 1/7 companies do remote, almost all developers want remote?
if you look at this month's whoishiring thread

Who is hiring?[0] (November 2018): 1/7 companies do remote

Who wants to be hired?[1] (November 2018): almost all developers want remote

How does this balance work?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18354503

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18354505
>maybe your ally can't admit something that they know to be true, because it happens to be unpopular domestically.

It's not like diplomacy is done in public, there are ample opportunities to convey your true intentions.

>How can they ever be fair if it isn't?

Sure, you're right that "true" fairness is likely unobtainable. This system adds an unnecessary additional component that serves only to further the aims of the powerful. Calling it a normal, necessary part of diplomacy makes it seem like it's in everyone's best interest.
Two months ago, Apple announced an ECG sensor for your wrist. A year before that, they announced face detection for the purposes of identity with enough accuracy that it can be used for financial transactions. Also, AirPods are incredible. I'm not saying Apple has a monopoly on invention, but to say they 'used to be an inventor'? That's weird.
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the dots between squares are trippy
Who are the supposed victims? Elon and Trump?
Also not the same problem, but I've been doing the same with the Traveling Salesman Problem for about 8 years now. It's a love hate play date every Sunday morning.
Between https://joindiaspora.com and https://diasporafoundation.org/ I'd assume the former is where I'd go to, um, join.
> The entire basis for your position seems to be that an intelligence apparatus can only do exactly one thing at a time. It can either be for diplomatic reasons OR commercial spying, not both...

I understand fully! Any competent intelligence agency is of course capable of serving more than one purpose at once. I do not in any way, shape, form, or manner believe that an intelligence apparatus is inherently capable of pursuing only a single task. Please accept my apologies for this egregious failure on my part to communicate clearly.

You're absolutely, completely right. All of this is completely normal. With that in mind, perhaps potshots at professionals doing things considered normal could be better justified?
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Because academia shouldn't be a tit-for-tat game played by people who wish to score points against each other in a game of judge-jury-executioner.

If you don't condone a particular colleagues attitudes or actions or reported actions - by all means please do say so in your footnotes and citations. Make sure your colleagues know of your discomfort and that they should also be discomforted by people like that being in a place where they are enabled to contribute to the field - when they should be driven from it.

However, under no account should one defraud one's editors and/or reviewers - or your colleagues who trust your work has been reviewed and approved by them. To do so is plainly dishonest and deprives those people of their right to autonomy. You aren't forced to cite, but then they don't have to approve - or read - either.

If you have to lie and cheat to people in order to get your way - perhaps what your doing is wrong, because you're certainly doing wrong to those people.

At what point do you opt out of a system with which you disagree? Is it morally acceptable to commit an unjust act to achieve what you believe to be justice? Is it acceptable to venerate vigilantism - to be a vigilante?

I would say that it certainly isn't - in precisely the same way using unjustly or immorally obtained data is unacceptable.
As a user of linux on the desktop since 2003 I haven't seen any "dependency hell" save for packages not designed for the current distro/version or software not properly packaged. Usually proprietary crap NOT in your distros repos.
Most of that is not true if you recognize costs are as much of a problem as distribution. When you only target recipients/insurers/payers instead of the providers with these rules, it sure can seem like the only option is to have most people pay more. And then treating that as the only way, stating it as fact, and making the discussion binary limits true solutions to these problems from even being discussed.
Of course they do. Moats are great for investors. Not so great for consumers.
They were the first to mass market capacitive touch/multitouch. I believe they acquired many of the underlying technologies, but so far as I know, they were the first to ship a multitouch user interface with a capacitive touchscreen.
> no ADC/DAC

The arduino has a DAC?

> no I2C

Well, I'm out then. That's a big one.
>"At times, we do prevent certain content from trending and we have now done so with this trend."

Really? "At times?" I was under the impression that trending topics haven't been allowed to appear without human oversight in quite awhile.
All those terrible things would be fine if people stopped buying them. You vote for what you want with money and if people are willing to buy terrible things then they will continue making it.
never heard of this plain text programming paradigm, very powerful
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It doesn't have to be every year. Every 4 years could be it, but it isn't. Apple's recent 'innovations' are the expected outcome of large amounts of money and demand for higher performance. When Apple released the first Iphone, that was innovation. The watch, innovative but ineffective. Apple hasn't made anything innovative enough to trump the lineup of Macbooks and Iphones. It's the same thing as saying the Intel I9 series is 'innovative'. It's planned release of better performing features, there is no big gap being crossed.
> I think people in the mainstream media just don't understand innovation cycles. They expect novelty every year, but they don't realize that revolutions are created by consistently great evolution over a long period of time.

In 1900, Lord Kelvin famously gave an address at a physics conference in which he stated: "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement."
Apple was in the tablet game pretty early with the Newton.
Same for me -- I wouldn't mind developing for iPhones, but I have no intention to fully switch to the Apple ecosystem. It's a no go as long as I can't use my Linux desktop for this.
What generation of iPhone are you currently using?

I have and enjoy the Pixel 2 and plan on keeping it for at least another two years. The Pixel 3 (non-xl) would be an ideal phone if you are moving from iPhone and are looking for a long term, well-supported phone.
This draws parallels to Valve, for me.
I'm not an expert, but it seems that may be something like the oldest trick in the book. Commodore under Jack Tramiel, for example, had a reputation for doing this kind of thing: it's rumoured to be how they ended up owning their CPU supplier MOS Technology. (Not that I think Apple is up to that kind of thing in this case.)
The issue is the reader of the article doesn't necessarily know that it has been censored like that. It means the suitability of citation is not the number one criteria, merely secondary after the social justice criteria.

At the very least there should be a disclaimer "The citations in this article have not been made from scholarly viewpoint. Reader be advised" or something like that. Similar like how google says some results have been censured.
For this comment I'll pretend I'm writing this on a Linux installed on ReiserFS. You get the idea.
After reading this I looked into James Watson (discoverer of DNA) more. He was blacklisted for some statements in an interview, many display his implicit biases, but one part was:

"there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically."

That statement kinda embodies the darkest part of this issue. It makes sense, evolutionary differences between peoples extend beyond skin color, eye-shape, etc., but at the same time it is a can of worms that can never be opened (again). It is definitely an issue of science where justice is more important than truth.

My personal take is that we will all inevitably be a light brown shade in ~200 years and we should make that transition as enjoyable and smooth as possible. Hopefully this doesn't get down-voted to heck :o
Maybe I'm missing something here, but it doesn't seem like it actually runs anything, it just has you provide "commands" and "responses", so you have to fake out your entire interaction. Which means that when you change something in your program's input or output, you'll need to manually edit the script, instead of being able to regenerate it.
Do you know what really worries me about Apple now?

So, when SJ came back to Apple, he reorganized their (then at the time) computer lines into more streamlined ones. Something like (I might get some of the names wrong), into consumer/pro and portable/desktop

iBook/Powerbook, iMac/Powermac

Now look at their line now

What the F is an iPhone XR? Is the XS "better" than the X or not? Why are there 2 iPad Pros? Is an iPad 4 better than an iPad? Which one is which?

Not to mention the dongles, USB-C mess, etc
I thought this was interesting. Although its charging for services, it fits in apples slightly more privacy focused business model.

"Rent extraction from a user base that finds it hard to go away may sound a bit like extortion. But it’s more honest and upfront than extracting data from users in ways they often don’t understand and then making money off the data, as Facebook does. That honesty is in itself a competitive advantage for Apple as it gradually reimagines itself as more of a services company."
Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine
People move slowly. Degree of adoption isn't a good proxy for value.
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Seems like a database marketing guy attacking its competitor. LOL
I love the fact that I can keep them in my ear and just go on my Macbook and select the output from the volume icon. I’m always amazed by that.
It would make it possible to trust the academic credentials presented by foreign applicants. Currently this process is very cumbersome. Some unversities require applicants to submit notarized transcripts to thirdparty for verification. The process is long and painful. And if the applicant wants to apply in multiple Universities, then they have to get multiple notarized copies of their transcripts. And if they want to apply for post grad , they have to repeat the process for getting notarized transcripts.