skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blaming China for slowing demand for its phones screams cop out. They jacked the prices for everything from the Mac to the iPad and the iPhone way too high and customers aren’t buying. Simple as that. I think they’re using China wales a scape goat.
If the expenses of the people producing these products goes up then they will all raise their prices to match what it costs to make. The price of wood and glass isn't set in stone.
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It seems most discussion on HN centers around full retail price of new phones. Don’t most people finance them through their plans? I see AT&T offering an IPhone XS for $36 a month with a 30 month contract. How is that unaffordable?
The question is if enough people “agree and pay for its fair value” to justify the existing market cap. And Apple just told investors, “nope.”

-typed from my iPhone...
Ask HN: Algorithm to find the numbers in a set where the numbers equal x?
I often find myself looking for a set of numbers within a larger set that add up to a given number x. Seems trivial, but I have never succeeded in getting an algorithm to solve this. I’m sure this is a solved problem. Thanks!
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At least the author gave us the courtesy of italicizing his broken assumption from the outset of the post.

> Because, at scale, a monorepo must solve every problem that a polyrepo must solve, with the downside of encouraging tight coupling, and the additional herculean effort of tackling VCS scalability.

Right.

But you have to get to "scale" first (as it relates to VCSs). Most companies don't. Even if they're successful. Introducing polyrepos front loads the scaling problems for no reason whatsoever. A giant waste of time.

Checkmate! I didn't even need a snarky poll. The irony of that poll is that it clearly demonstrates his zealotry, not other people's.
Apple isn't the only vendor using Thunderbolt 3. According to Wikipedia [0], the following vendors have all shipped devices with at least one port: Acer, Asus, Clevo, HP, Dell, Dell Alienware, Lenovo, MSI, Razer, and Sony.

This affects everyone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)#Thunde...
I wonder if there is 3d render for 4d space. 4d space can give such wormholes for free in 3d, same as 2d space can be folded in 3d.
Don't let it make you mad - this is science. And this kind of refining progress is precisely how science should work. This is a good thing. Start with a toehold, and move inward. Cycle back when you realize your toe wasn't in quite the right place. But you couldn't have even gotten there without that toehold. We need controlled model systems to do science, even if the models are imperfect. And that's okay - the (good) scientists know this.

If we had started with 'full' media from the beginning we'd still be describing and making media variants rather than getting any cancer research done. And we've done a hell of a lot of good cancer research since these media were defined. It's a little like the 'Standards' xkcd comic - if you make too many standards, the standards cease to be useful as a standard.

Further, the effect of the media in this case here is likely more profound when doing 'biology' rather than 'biochemistry' experiments. And until recently, the cells themselves were toeholds onto real human biology; HeLa cells are very unusual, but we used them because we could reproduce the work between labs because the cells proliferated indefinitely.
Who cares about a little unnatural media when the genomes of the cells are completely messed up. (And again, the use of HeLa cells taught us a LOT even if they were very not-normal).
Normal human cells just don't last outside of a body - so if one insisted we only use normal human cells there would be zero research, and even less reproducible research because no one could use the same stocks.

It's only and precisely because we do have a (admittedly flawed) standard that such a different and likely more natural media even can be objectively compared against.

Biology has a lot of variables. You can't hold everything constant the way you'd like. So you pick just those that you expect will make the biggest differences. And we should certainly go back and check ourselves every once in a while to ensure we don't get lazy and assume a particular protocol should remain the same in the face of changes in the field. But I don't think that's the problem here. We're just better scientists now - and we're learning that our early assumptions can now be improved on.

The article, especially in its final paragraphs is actually quite even handed. The title, however, is very much hyperbole.
Here you go!

https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/7865

https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/7866
So we should actively destroy the environment. Kill ourselves from pollution and space out urban sprawl because maybe one time in the future you might need a supply of petrol.
I don’t realize that. It happens all the time. There are many services dedicated to helping stranded people because of it.

The analogy is not quite right though. It’s more like they are forcibly reducing max speed to prevent a high speed stall.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/azdailysun.com/news/local/state...
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Apple photos does that — on device.
The 8-part BBC series The Planets includes a good segment on the Venera project, specifically the episode Terra Firma.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283775

Edit: Jump to the 16:50 mark here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsyzwn
I have been teaching my 5 year old daughter Scratch 3 since it was in beta. I am slowly writing some tutorials for other parents as I have been asked how they could teach their kids how to program. I am looking forward to some of the new features that should come with this official release
https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/7464

And this one :) This is the thread they said was relevant to the discussion and that I should comment on, and then they banned me for "spamming" their issues ticket system when I commented on it.
In the final problem, as the apple trees can be in more than one line, the minimal valid solution is 9 trees, not 12.
The way they used the L2 point to lasso a relay satellite so they could transmit information from the rover on the far side is stunning too. This was really brilliant, China's space program has really become something.
With Phabricator, yes, you can setup herald rules that stops a merge from happening if a file has changed in a specific subdir.

We use service owners, so when a change spans multiple services, they are all added automatically as blocking reviewers.
Would be interesting to use to get Docker in Docker running for CIs.
Wow, I had no idea this was in progress. Thanks for sharing!
From TFA:

"Though the moon is hardly untrodden ground after decades of exploration, a new landing is far more than just a propaganda coup, experts say.

The crater where the Chinese landed is the oldest and deepest on the moon, so the probe’s discoveries may offer insights into the moon’s origins and evolution. And some scientists suspect that the surrounding basin may be rich in minerals. If exploiting the moon’s resources is the next step in space development, a successful mission could leave the Chinese better positioned."
American media has this weird thing where they need to trivialize every single Chinese accomplishment. Every report of economic growth is followed by some "economic 'expert'" talking about how the Chinese economy is on the verge of collapse (and has been for about 70 years now), tech and medical breakthroughs are followed by rumors of corporate espionage and stealing technology, and everything is swept aside as a "big whoop".

A lot of it reeks of jealousy. I can very much understand not liking China's government, but a lot of great things are being done by Chinese people.
We designed a small tool to bring the fairy metaphor even to lower secondary school students. I actually believe it is a very promising approach.

"Nothing to fear but fear itself: introducing recursion in lower secondary schools"

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I have a suggestion. If you receive robocalls from legit companies, I think you can try to sue them. I read an article about this at https://www.whycall.me/news/consumer-wins-massive-229500-rob.... If those robocalls are coming from scammers, then you could just ignore those calls. There's no way we can stop them, anyway.
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"The frank reality is that, at scale, how well an organization does with code sharing, collaboration, tight coupling, etc. is a direct result of engineering culture and leadership, and has nothing to do with whether a monorepo or a polyrepo is used. The two solutions end up looking identical to the developer. In the face of this, why use a monorepo in the first place?"

.....because, as the author directly stated, the type of repo has nothing to do with the product being successful. So stop bikeshedding, pick a model, and get on with the real business of delivering a successful product.
No he doesn't owe anything much to the stock holders either. They put in money knowing he was at the helm now if they have problem with how he behaves they can take out their money or buy enough voting shares that they can remove him.
https://kotaku.com/game-programmer-quits-job-to-sell-street-...
As a general rule: Old enough that I feel that it would be rude to ask their age. Wikipedia entries for three of them indicate 41, 52, and 64, though.
Both of those have suffer major losses to low or near record lows. Is that really a good pitch for ”just fork it if you don’t like it!”

I just want people to admit and understand their “decentralized” commodities are anything but. Yea, the mathy database is, but you still need to put all your trust in a handful of developers with mostly no economics experience, no oversight, and no track record.
It’s a hard sell to tell someone to pay ~$100k-$500k more for a home, and spend $8k-15k/year more in property taxes to live in Chicago (or Cook County in general) out of land development concerns. Chicago’s population is decreasing for a reason, and it isn’t stormwater management.

Sprawl is not unsustainable. More costly, yes. But people will pay to not live densely and should have the freedom to do so if urban development and building techniques that prioritize mitigating environmental harm are practiced.
I always reminisce about it when I see that urchin.js snippet..

It was *superior. Often times when people ran into a wall within GA they would flock to Urchin and its fairly reasonable price.

https://www.cardinalpath.com/what-is-google-urchin-the-diffe...
The market has to e saturated
Yeah, that was amazing. It couldn't do scale-variations but nested volumes and one-sided portals could make the 6DoF navigation even more complicated and it was also possible to build interesting ambushes with that.
This argument boils down to people who have used Perforce, who believe in the benefits of a monorepo, and people who have only ever used git, who do not. While it's true that git is a terrible program that does not lead to conclusions about the merits of a monorepo.
Copying earlier comment:

Wikipedia seems to say the rover mission duration is 3 months, yet the previous rover traveled for a year and transmitted a bit longer. The Chinese seemed quite coy about it failing last time (as with many things) so perhaps underpromising in this case?

This all preparation for China's planned permanent radio telescope on the far side which would be a huge boon for astronomers by escaping Earth's EM interference.

Also out left field is the 3kg "self sustaining" biosphere of silkworms and plants with a camera inside. Interested to see how long it survives.
"...and if the dam breaks open many years too soon..."

Perhaps interesting to note the origin of this name for spacecraft. The legend "Chang'e flies to the moon" (嫦娥奔月) lies behind the Mid-Autumn Festival (featuring mooncakes, as it were). Point is, the names of Chinese space missions are every bit as carefully steeped in tradition as, say, Mercury/Gemini/Apollo.
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One very bright guy maybe still in his 30's.

Otherwise, 40's and 50's.

Not just experience. Problem solving, including creative thought. Practicality. Reduction in B.S. -- although that can cut both ways, with age, depending upon the person.

P.S. A lack of ego/defensiveness can also be very helpful. It becomes about fixing the problem, not excessively defending one's turf and an unrealistic reputation.

P.P.S. Younger people can have these things, and be quite excellent. Maybe a bit more insecurity is still common -- whether overt or over-compensated for in expression. I spent a lot of time in BigCorps; that may have influenced the demographics of my environment and thus my observations.
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I don't think there was a thief. Before the fork, the very point of Ethereum was that code is law and there is no need for human interpretation. The so-called thief merely noticed that the DAO code had a feature that allowed them to extract money from it, and they did.
I'm the opposite. I love all of the new hardware.

1. I went from the 6S -> XS

2. 2015 MBP -> 2018 MBP. The only annoyance was the touch bar in Chrome.

3. Apple Watch Series 0 -> Apple Watch 4 LTE. I can track my surf sessions and take texts/calls in the water.
It's most likely just a statement lost in translation and didn't come across as criticism to me.
> Slowly degrading my user experience over time with no way of me knowing why is not a good way of handling battery degradation.

Your user experience will always degrade with battery age. This is an unavoidable consequence of using a rechargeable battery. It is physically impossible to run a Li-ion battery through hundreds of charge cycles and have it work just as well as it did the day it was new.

Without power management, the phone would turn off sooner, in some cases a lot sooner. That is also a bad user experience, especially if you need the phone to make an emergency call. This is one example of why using software code to prolong phone availability creates a better user experience, even if comes at the expense of peak performance.
Hi Andrew- I'd love to speak with you or someone on the team about the writing/video/content side. Would that be possible? Thanks.
Airpods? Apple Watch?
+1; also strongly recommend PICO-8.

I've been using it to teach programming to my 7 yo, and it has been an absolute joy. A few weeks ago we developed PONG together (he wasn't aware that PONG already existed, so it was beautiful to see him figuring out the mechanics of the game, piece by piece).
When will the iPad Pro be a laptop replacement?
After spending $1700 on it and using it for a while I am still using my computer too much.
I just don’t get how an already highly profitable, premium device maker raking in billions of dollars a year makes people nervous by not making as money billions as expected. It’s a simplistic view I know but come on.

Really, Apple will hit an innovation wall at some point and decline as a company. Even Bezos has said as much about Amazon.
Having seen plenty of grown women using two hands to type on an iPhone 4s when those things were popular, I'd say we need accurate population data to truly confirm.
I did find this video which attempts 'continuous' non-euclidean spaces but the results are really disorienting: https://youtu.be/tl40xidKF-4?t=4m6s

Instead, the goal my engine was to make the effect as subtle as possible, even unnoticeable.
That’s what people have said over and over again. What’s the difference between BMW and Apple? Why doesn’t BMW need to get into a completely new product line all the time? (Outside of cars)
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I think the biggest thing we can do is to target individuals in social situations that are more likely to turn to a criminal life and intervene early on. People without parents present, people from places of poverty or crime, etc. Take them in and provide developmental assistance. Maybe that means a mentor, maybe it means giving them respectable clothes or other little items so they can fit into a healthy citizen.

People aren’t born criminals. We make them as a society (for the most part). The problems with this of course come down to paying now for a better tomorrow and being able to accurately identify these individuals. Other than that it’s like the problem in health care - we’re trying to treat symptoms that needed to be avoided yesterday.
I clicked the BBC link and after reading a few paragraphs with many teaser words still no picture is shown? I reach the end of the article and yes there is a picture, if you click all the links to find it.

http://www.parafame.org/DPP07DA0C0D152627%20cropped.jpg
I wonder why they haven't done anything about geoip.com
I teach kids to code on a volunteer basis. Although Scratch is very good, the kids usually gets lost. Even when we print out the solution for them to follow. When they don't get lost, it seems they are not having as much fun.

My experience is that it is literally 10 times more fun for the kids to learn to code Python with http://www.codecombat.com . The classes gets filled with excitement when I put on the 10 hour version of "Diablo Town Music" and tell them to log into Codecombat. Very rewarding actually :). I register free accounts and bring these to my classes on a printed sheet, that works great. As such I don't need to pay for the classroom edition. I have actually let Cidecbat know about this pricing flaw, but no new models have been introduced
that fit my use case has been
made available. This is Codecombat does not have a pricing tier that fits my volunteering classes with random participants well.
> Also out left field is the 3kg "self sustaining" biosphere of silkworms and plants with a camera inside. Interested to see how long it survives.

Aw man, that's how you get giant mutant moonworms.
iPhone 7 came out two years ago.
The way they used the L2 point to lasso a relay satellite

So confusing to put it that way. No one has caught anything with a rope or a cable, as far as I know. Basically, they are orbiting a relay satellite around the L2 Lagrange point so that the relay has line of sight with both the landing point and Earth. Obviously, if it just sat at L2, the moon would be in between the relay and the Earth. Orbiting around Lagrange points has been known about for a long time. If you want to cite something more recent and innovative pertaining to Lagrange points, astronomers, rocket scientists, and engineers have been working on fuel saving chaotic trajectories through the Lagrange points.

Arguably, the fact that they are the first to implement the L2 halo does win the Chinese space agency some innovation points.
he's not helping anyone by hijackng their devices
I'm concerned because I feel that society has already decided that blind people can only do these certain types of menial jobs, that these jobs are "good enough". They neatly tuck away blind people while giving them a function in society. And as a consequence there are few other opportunities given to the blind, the blind are expected to only be piano tuners and masseuses. Yes, we all must work, but we have some measure of control over our lives and can improve our situation through education and hard work, provided we have the opportunity to do so.
To split, you can duplicate the repo and pull trees out of each dupe in normal commits.
Marginal value of a new I(thing) over the prior generation is a significant barrier once it's good enough. There is no looming improvement in UI experience except probably bad ones like the failed 3D push in TV's. I won't pay a premium for a foldable screen or curly edge bezel-less experience right now and I suspect most consumers are feeling much the same entering a trade war focussed global economy. I've got better things to do with my disposable income now.

Apple has a tonne of money. It can solve shareholder disappointment by using it to buy back stock or pay dividends or something.

I don't look to Tim Cook for innovation right now.

Declaration of Interest: disappointed touchbar MacBook owner
Not until Xcode is available in the app store.
You didn't need a warning from Apple. Has anything good ever come from a trade war?
Japan space probe landed on an asteroid in 2018 (launched in 2014). They just have different priority.
Actually, again, unlike in the US, most people in the world don't do that and have to pay the full price at the time of buying the phone.
The results were promising, with the animals showing remarkable synapse repair

Anybody know how this is objectively measured?

Numerous compounds have been found that can break up plaques, but there have been such cases where there's been no demonstrable improvement in movement or behavior. It's as if the plaques themselves aren't the problem but are the immune system's response to the problem, like a scab on a wound -- ripping off the scab isn't helpful.
amazing communication system.
After the 7 is the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X. And now there is the iPhone XR and iPhone XS. So there are quite a few "better" phones above the 7.

My wife still has has 6S and it's more the capable. But if you were going to buy and "new" iPhone today the perception is that the 7 is actually quite "old".

The other commenter makes a great point about the sheer number of phones released in a short time span.
Is capitalism worth saving?
This comment threw me for a loop - "L2" and "lasso" triggered the pattern recognition in my head for "regression regularization" and it took a moment to realize the topic was still orbital dynamics.

Come to think of it, saying "Lagrangian" wouldn't have prevented my confusion - not that there's anything wrong with the terminology in OP. I'm reminded of a passage in Cryptonomicon, which I've been rereading:

"Newton wrote a *different* book, *also* called *Principia Mathematica*, which isn't *really* about mathematics at all; it's about what we would todaycall physics."
"Then why did he call it Principia Mathematica?"
"Because the distinction between mathematics and physics wasn't especially clear in Newton's day--"
"Or maybe even in zis day," Rudy said.
Theft of what exactly? Each fork is as valid as any other fork, the challenge is in agreement.