skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has announced that their products are selling fine outside of China.

Samsung warned on their China demand yesterday.

>Samsung follows Apple warning, says Q4 profit likely sank 29% on weak China demand

https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/sams...

We've known that Chinese consumer demand has been plunging for months now.

>DONGGUAN, China — China’s consumers and businesses are losing confidence. Car sales have plunged. The housing market is stumbling. Some factories are letting workers off for the big Lunar New Year holiday two months early.

China’s economy has slowed sharply in recent months, presenting perhaps the biggest challenge to its top leader, Xi Jinping, in his six years of rule.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/business/china-economy-xi...

The situation in China is bad enough that local press coverage of the economic situation has been censored since last September.

>BEIJING — China has long made it clear that reporting on politics, civil society and sensitive historical events is forbidden. Increasingly, it wants to keep negative news about the economy under control, too.

A government directive sent to journalists in China on Friday named six economic topics to be “managed,” according to a copy of the order that was reviewed by The New York Times.

The list of topics includes:

■ Worse-than-expected data that could show the economy is slowing.
■ The impact of the trade war with the United States.
■ Signs of declining consumer confidence

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/business/china-censor-eco...

Sometimes a drop in consumer demand in a particular market is more a reflection of the local economic situation than an indictment of a product line that is selling fine elsewhere.
Feds Didn’t Pay $5M Water Bill. Can D.C. Shut Off Water to White House?
iPad Pros are amazing at video editing and audio production.

And I love it for doing architecture diagrams and also making changes to building plans for my home renovation. The 11inch model is also a great portable diary/productivity machine. I also have teachers in my family who use it for drawing and projecting mathematical formulas on a screen for their kids which they then email straight after the class.

They are selling well for a reason because people use them for different things.
Austrians as those who follow that school of economic thought, not as natives from Austria. Austrians are phenomenal! "Austrians" are often.. not the most pleasant people.. (apologies if I read past some sarcasm)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School
Here in India, the 2018 Macbook Air is about $1550. The 2017 version is $920.

I've been using a OnePlus 5T and honestly can't fathom any reason why I would want a faster processor any time soon. And the OnePlus 6T is even faster.

I'm just saying that charging people $1500 for a phone and then wondering why they're not buying any is a dumb strategy.
There's significantly more information in 2018 or even 2008 to indicate Amazon was worth that valuation. A companies potential has to be adjusted by risk if you want a good valuation, and in 1999 there just wan't enough evidence. This is validated by it dropping dramatically after the bubble popping.

In fact they were only saved because he had secured financing mere months before the collapse, had that not happened Amazon would be listed among the likes of Pets.com.
Many people, perhaps Apple themselves, are ignoring something very fundamental. What happened to PCs? It's not that they became obsolete. In fact that is precisely the problem. They stopped becoming obsolete. In the early 2000s you'd buy a PC and then 6 months later it was outdated. 2 years later it was obsolete. Now you can buy a PC and it will last you more or less indefinitely for everything you might use it for. Even less common tasks like extremely high end gaming are possible by just buying a new relatively cheap video card - not a new PC.

The point is that the same thing is, and will continue, to happen to tablets, phones, and various other forms of consumer electronics. There is an asymptotic decline in value gained between iterations. And that asymptote, thanks to the speed of technological development, approaches 0 pretty rapidly. This inherently means that no computing product is going to be a long term sustainable golden goose.

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The thing I don't understand here is that I think the above is so plainly clear as to be practically self evident. Yet then you have people who are certainly much more well informed on business than myself, such as Warren Buffet, declaring that a $1000 iPhone X is "enormously underpriced" and is clearly going long on Apple as his organization continues to accumulate Apple Stock. I don't understand the dissonance.
this is also why github's enabling of deleting issues is a HUGE problem. naive devs tend to want to declutter a lot and what is easier to declutter than some closed github issues?
"About a third of what passengers pay goes to Uber for commissions and booking fees."
Holy shit. That's way too much commission for a company that uses software and not actual labor to connect drivers to riders.
Not really.

The overall mobile market is growing. And it's growing into emerging markets like India and China which are very price sensitive i.e. less margins for OEMs. So quite likely that Apple will see declining market share but growth in revenue and profits.
I'd think taxpayer money should be spent in ways that create measurable benefit to both the individual and the economy as a whole.

I'm not seeing the downside of only the rich being able to understand how Post-Impressionists like Suerat were different from Impressionists like Renoir.
Also the conclusion answers the question posed in the introduction without beating about the bush. If you only read the introduction and the conclusion and you still have learned something. The lede in plain sight - good job.
I think the above argument is based on environmental impact: processed meat vs processed veggie thing to look like mean

Both require, well, processing. I would assume the meat one requires more energy to make.
wonder if abusing on the marketing material on purpose to be 'banned' is a marketing strategy nowadays. It surely got them a spot on HN after all!
Since this is trending, you might be interested in the responses from the Austrians themselves:

https://mises.org/wire/caplan-and-responses

Note Caplan replies to some of this and it's linked in the same place. Reader beware - I do not recall the jist of it all as it's been some time (~10 yrs) since I last saw this. Interestingly, Caplan has a profile on Mises.org:
https://mises.org/profile/bryan-caplan

Cheers.

Edit, more Caplan stuff I find worth linking http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/anarfaq.htm#part18
Ask HN: Is it normal to fall out of love with coding?
I started coding when I was 11 years old and I am 26 now so thats about 15 years.

All through this I have always enjoyed coding which is why I chose to study CS at college and then have been working as a dev post college. But of recently it has started to feel more monotonous and boring.

Last year I started my own company and then got acqui-hired into a startup. I realised that talking to customers and solutioning is more fun than wiriting code. How many of you have felt or feel the same way and what are you doing about it?
I collected the 1996 Netrunner CCG for years; last year I found someone who was more or less selling off their complete collection (I didn't have any of the 2.0 cards or the majority of the 2.2 cards, and was also missing a handful of the 2.1 rares - inheriting a couple boxes of all the miscellaneous spares was fine by me if it meant a 100% complete binder) so that very expensive chapter of my life has closed.

I also went out and finished my "first TCG appearence of the original 151" Pokémon collection with one of my first few paychecks after graduating (had to shell out the money for Charizard and a couple others that were never in my collection from childhood). I really wanted to retroactively declare myself the coolest kid on the playground at recess, otherwise what was all that work for? :)

Sadly, while card games were an important part of my life growing up, a lot of mental switches flipped over the last year or so and I honestly regret spending so much money and time in the card game world over the entire first part of my life. In 2012 Android: Netrunner introduced me to the LCG model and made me realize that the CCG model was exploitative and a terrible use of my money (obvious in retrospect, but when you're in the thick of it, you try and rationalize it, you know?). Then, working towards my degree for a few years after that kept me out of the tournament ecosystem for so long that I found myself not wanting to go back - there were simply more productive uses of my brain cycles than deck construction and playing games. I know they say "time enjoyed wasted is not wasted time" but if I would have programmed or learned a few languages or focused on competition math or read classical literature or learned to cook or any number of other things in that first 18 years, I'd be so much better off [1]. It's possible many coders feel the same way, and that's why you're not seeing them.

[1] In fact, should parenting be in my future, I don't think I'd let my kids have nearly as much post-pubescent "non-skill-building" fun as I was allowed to have; competition for income is fierce and it's only going to get worse.
I have never found the argument that "college isn't about getting a job" convincing. Yes, it's important to be well rounded and expand your horizons and all the other platitudes that people say. But I'm not paying tuition to be "well rounded", I'm going to college as an investment in my own human capital. I can read an interesting book in the evening to be "well rounded".
I take it you've never actually used an iPad Pro.

I can quite easily take files from cloud storage like Dropbox or S3, copy them to my local device, make changes and push it back to cloud. Or I can edit directly from cloud storage.

And if the iPad was such a hopeless device for content creators you wouldn't see Adobe bringing their full Photoshop product to it would you ?
There's even an implementation of lisp in sed :) https://github.com/shinh/sedlisp/
Borders tried early on - IIRC they had a partnership with IBM in... 1998 - again IIRC it was early 99 that their first public site went up. My recollection was that you had to register an account before you could search, which many in my office laughed out loud about. They (Borders) were a company down the street from us (a web company) and Borders had gone with IBM instead of us, so there was some bad blood there (but it had started before I got there I think).

Knew a couple other folks at Borders, and visited them at work a couple of times. Borders was just clueless at tech, and BN was starting to take a lead in tech, which helped them with sales a lot more.
don't.

Because if you can't convince someone about the product now you won't be able when selling it either.
Definitely felt the same way at various stages in my working life. There’s a huge difference between doing something you enjoy as a hobby and doing it as a job. Working life beats the enthusiasm out of you, especially when you’re not always in control of the projects you work on and the software tools you get to use.
Paywalled WSJ article. Curious, does this article consider people who have to punch a clock, or is it just for the 3%-ers who can lounge in the morning?
> sqler uses nginx style configuration language (HCL)

nginx configuration looks nothing like HCL (which is json compatible)
Film Noir has used progressive changes in focal length to subtly increase the apparent distress of the character as the film proceeds.
I keep thinking I want to get back into D&D. Would love to play some RIFTS or Shadowrun too.
Don't forget to give your boss a 5-star rating at the end of your gig, nobody is going to employ you otherwise.
AstroPad is a great app that allows people to use the iPad Pro like a Wacom Cintiq, especially when paired with their Luna Display. The dumbed-down Adobe drawing products are a joy to use. I will never quite understand why fully-featured apps don't learn a lesson from those --- gesture-based undoing is great when you're drawing! But they're really weak, compared to their desktop variants. With Photoshop on the horizon that might change but I fear that by trying to implement every other feature, they'll just ruin that great workflow the dumber versions of their apps have, unfortunately.

A portable second display is also a great use for it. I tried to use it for coding, but I really hate the material the smart keyboard's made of (I own the first gen one so this might've changed since then), I just can't type on it because touching it freaks me out. I hate that the chose that material to cover the keys with.

So with coding out of the way, recreational drawing, reading ebooks and watching movies is mostly what I use mine for. Unfortunately that's not anything close to the original promise of its capabilities.

I love it and I use it daily but the problem is when I bought it, I expected to see some support for professional use for it, too. The strength of the Apple ecosystem used to be their app support by external developers --- so, let's say for example, when you bought a Samsung (or even Surface) device with a bunch of new features compared to vanilla Android (or a touch/pen-based Windows), you could be sure that nobody will ever enable you to use those efficiently so they were a waste of time even to consider as a reason to get the device, on the other hand, going with Apple meant the opposite.

Frankly, it doesn't feel exactly true nowadays. Tim Cook's leadership gives me terrible flashbacks to the Microsoft Steve Ballmer-era.
1% isn't that low though. I'm sure you could drink a lot of that, so people did get drunk.

"It was common for workers (including sailors) who engaged in heavy physical labor to drink more than 10 imperial pints (5.7 litres) of small beer during a workday to quench their thirst. Small beer was also drunk for its nutrition content; it might even have bits of wheat or bread suspended in it. Erasmus Darwin, in his A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education, in Boarding Schools of 1797, thought that "For the drink of the more robust children water is preferable, and for the weaker ones, small beer ...".[5] Larger educational establishments like Eton, Winchester, and Oxbridge colleges ran their own breweries.[6]"
> the amount of studies/reports coming out talking about how bad screen time is for people

I haven't heard of this, do you have any links for me?
Don't scream please.
Don't know why exactly, but I'm not sure if that headline is for a new piece of tech or a new security flaw.
All forms of crime are not fungible. Drug prohibition is hard to enforce because none of the parties involved object to the transaction. Extortion rackets are not scalable - at least one party is inclined to look at law enforcement as the hero in the story. Corruption isn't something you just set up on a street corner. Prostitution isn't that big of a business and at the end of the day, the prostitutes really don't need you. Gambling is already legal pretty much anywhere there's an Indian reservation (here in the US, at any rate).

The criminal class may not go away immediately, but you can take away most of their income. No other form of crime is as lucrative. Drugs really are special.
The only critical comment gets downvoted. Is this FB or HN?
I think it depends, in languages which have implicit type coercion I think that would hurt. In languages like swift, where you need to explicitly cast even an Int to Double it would be less of a footgun. I'd rather floats have some overloaded operator maybe ~=, for approximate comparison.
They used to be free, too, not too long ago.
It's not obviously true that high pensions mean unfairly high remuneration. Another hypothesis that fits the facts you've mentioned could be that private sector salaries that could be earned by teachers are higher, and the public sector is competing by offering more attractive pensions for teachers than the private sector does.

There's another possible contributing factor: government can offer higher future pensions without increasing current expenditure (because government is not forced to fund the higher pensions until they need to be paid, many years in the future). Maybe that's why so many US states have dramatically underfunded pension plans (meaning teachers and other pensioners might not actually get their promised pensions when they retire).
I've found Gloomhaven, Pathfinder The Card Game, or other "hybrid RPGs" to be the better experience because it doesn't take up a full day.
The subtitle is "[d]isgruntled ex-guildie effectively invents new way to grief in EVE" but it sounds like the request in question was sent to a website outside of EVE. This could happen with other games or, you know, websites unrelated to games at all...
I don’t understand where’s the difficulty in answering this request? If the person doesn’t have a user account anymore on the site there shouldn’t be much data of him/her left anyway. If there is data left just collect it, send it to the person and delete it afterwards (surely there’s a way to search posts by author in their forum software). I can understand that such requests are difficult to answer for companies that run many different IT services, but this case seems pretty trivial to me.
> I'm not seeing the downside of only the rich being able to understand how Post-Impressionists like Suerat were different from Impressionists like Renoir.

You are picking the edge case here. Art and culture are much more then just rich class's pretense.

As far as wasting money is concerned, spending it just to create more replaceable cogs for capitalistic profit seeker is also a wasteful exercise. Why not ask the Industry to invest in producing those cogs and let government think the long term by focusing on things which cannot be measured in next quarter.

Why Government should subsidize the Industry?
I dabbled with home assistant and openhab for a while at home, originally I had planned to monitor some thermometers(not the usual light switches which seemed to be common).
I ended up throwing openhab and hass away and is now running nodered together with mqtt.
The thermometers are built with arduinos and different temp sensors and posting data to mqtt over wifi.
Then nodered catches any writes to the mqtt topics and passes them on to store in tsdb over its rest api. This way, I don't need to mess with the rest api on the thermometers which is very nice.

Since then I added a lot of other things to nodered, I added the coming bus departures, and data from oue heating pump.

Not sure I would use nodered in a business, but if zapier was the option I would perhaps try it. It saves a lot of pipeline for deployment and such which code would need(or at least I would require).

Also, the node red dashboard makes the above even better, I have an android tablet mounted in a frame in the kitchen to show some of the data above.

Well worth a try, I'd say.
A Real-World Benchmark of WebAssembly vs. ES6 on Desktop and Mobile
Yeah, and looks like they made some of the same design decisions as Magic Leap, such as a hip puck for the computing. I wonder if they're going to get hit with a lawsuit.
You mean a trailer studios use to promote movies?

This seems more like them not appreciating the criticism than copyright infringement.
There's even pop culture references for such a phenomenon. As an example, in the movie Beerfest, they get one of the characters drunk so he can recall the way to a secret place that he had only previously experienced drunk before.
I do not get this comment. Why would a "pro" user try to use the Pro as a Laptop replacement?

Rather think of a regular consumer, of which there are a lot more. Just doing a bit of browsing on the sofa, writing a few emails, reading news, watching Netflix in bed or playing some game.

Personally, I read a lot of papers and ebooks I get via university on it. It's great for that. Not once did I want to use SSH on it, with or without an external keyboard. I use a proper laptop or computer for stuff like that.
The undecidability of the halting problem has no practical effect.
Yet, it would be good to have an open source alternative to C++Builder. In other words, besides Pascal, to also have an option for a mainstream [native] language.
I tried the Impossible Burger 1.0 at Stanford, and it tasted really good! Not a 100% like meat, but good as an alternative. Looking forward to trying the new one.
Amazon sent 1,700 audio recordings of Alexa user to a stranger
Congratulations on the round Austen and team!

One thing I have always thought about when it comes to incentives in this model is that you have an incentive to only take in students that are likely to finish the degree and get a high paying job. This could lead to pattern matching people from backgrounds that are likely to do well due to demographics. How do you think about this and do you have any systems in place for minorities?

(copied this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18856135)
Part of your answer is reasonable, I feel this a bit too.

But now you and others have a real opportunity to discuss the issue here on neutral ground and I feel it is rude to just dismiss the invitation to provide actual examples.

Even my favourite elitist deletionism club: Stack Overflow, has been changing their ways lately it seems and are accepting requests to undelete.
I agree with this analogy. Mostly because I will give a place 5-star review if it's half decent and affordable. On Google Reviews that is.
Java was the reason.

COM Runtime was going to be native (Ext-VOS), but then they decided to go VM path and .NET was born.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dsyme/2012/07/05/more-c-net...

If you read Don Syme blog entries about .NET history, you will see a few similarities with WinRT.

Just with .NET metadata instead of the old COM type libraries.

So the double bet on COM since Vista was a bit like WinDev's revenge.

However how things turned out, it appears DevTools is having their way again and even .NET Native might be redone post .NET Core 3.0 release, as per Q&A session at Connect() 2018.
What you're proposing (giving a government entity a "backdoor key") goes far beyond anything Bitcoin does.
A Spoon That Shakes to Counteract Hand Tremors (2014)
Ticwatch C2 vs. Fitbit Charge 3 vs. Mi Band 3 Compared