skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(This is a repost of my comment here because others seems to have made the same observations.)

Ok, That is a valid excuse.

And the abnormal price hikes of the new model of iPhones indicate that Apple was well aware of the possible economic downturn, and thus sought to compensate the anticipated fall in sales by squeezing higher profit margins.

But what is their excuse for not penetrating the next biggest market in the world, one of the world's fastest growing economy, right next to China - India?

To me, Apple's attitude in India, and many other countries, is akin to that of a spolied brat who won't do things unless he has his own way. Some examples -

a) Apple management lamenting that India doesn't have a debt-based culture. (That's a broad view - the comment was more on how the cellular services providers don't sell their phones bundled with "plans" in India, and Indians tend to buy their cell phones outright which obviously makes the iPhones too expensive and unaffordable to many).

b) In the last 2 decade are so, India has witnessed a revolution in digital payments and seen various innovations in this area. This has made it very easy to do micro-transactions. And yet Apple in India REFUSES to integrate with the local financial infrastructure of the country, and only accepts credit cards / debit cards only from Visa or MasterCard for Apple Pay or iTunes. (Note that this is deliberate because the indian options give more privacy to the user - for example, with a credit card, Apple can know our credit rating and better profile us, but with certain indian payment options they will be deprived of this valuable information).

c) Objecting to certain policies of the government (this is understandable though from a capitalist point of view to maximise profit).

d) Totally ignoring the way how Indians use their phones and their requirements. (For example, Indians have been demanding a dual SIM phone for many years, and it is kind of a de facto standard feature here. And yet, it took about a decade or so for Apple to respond to that).

To summarise, Apple's management seems to lack creativity and the COURAGE to step out of their comfort zone and try out new business models and / or new processes in other countries.
He also wrote “last week, as we were celebrating the summer solstice...” which puts the article probably sometime in late July.
I think there's some precedent using Alexa for DnD, although I'm not a user myself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/6f0s97/i_started_using...
Doing same thing over and over is boring whether it's coding or not.
I develop and design apps and websites. When I'm fed up with coding, I start designing, working in colors and pixels. I suggest you to improve a side skill so you can switch when you get bored/burned out.
"produce 10% fewer". Yes, much better sound to it than "reduce production by 10%".
My friends and I play via Google Hangout and Google Draw. Works well enough.
Only is a big caveat, for the "dotcom" that survived the bust and became the biggest company in the world.
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First of all, I would say it is absolutely normal to fall out of love with coding, and I wouldn't worry about it! If you're enjoying what you are doing, that's a good thing.

Unlike the top comment, I don't think this has to be a sign of burning out (although it can be) - humans are complex beings. The world changes, and we change as well. What was enjoyable to you 15 years ago may not be as enjoyable now, and what you enjoy now might not be what you will do for the rest of your life. At the same time, if you find that you miss coding, you can always return to it later.

If life pulls you towards a more customer-facing role and you discover that you like it, that's a best case scenario to me! Go for it.

I've been coding since childhood and I'm 38 now - and I have had periods where I did other things and enjoyed that as much if not more than coding. Rediscovering a passion is a great experience in itself, worth having at least once.
But only smuggled. We also dont see commercially viable Heroin production and poppy cultivation in the destination countries, despite the favorable climate. Growing and producing some drugs inland is just not a viable option, despite an significant price premium caused by smuggling.
US population: African-Americans 40M, Whites 200M.

People in poverty: African-Americans (27%) 10,8 million, White: (9,9%) 19,8 million. So there are twice as many poor white people as black people.

How can poverty explain that black people get dementia more often? There are twice as many white poor people as there are black.
While Dell sells many models with Linux preinstalled, it only does so in limited regions. Even within regions, it can differ between what is offered online and what is offered in stores. The most probable answer for an individual is no, Windows only. Despite the fact that at least earlier releases are Ubuntu Certified, per https://certification.ubuntu.com/desktop/models/?query=XPS+1...
The game relies heavily on visual queues for efficient puzzle-solving, so I don't think its very suited.
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If only people would put down Mieses and pick up Ronald Coase.

The "gig economy" relies on the jobs being simple and atomised. It relies on the quality being easy to collapse into a single number, and no tacit knowledge or ongoing relationship involved in the production. Managers keep assuming that these kind of internal transaction costs are unimportant, and that's how you get outsourcing disasters.
Tim Cook was COO. Steve Jobs had the vision, and Tim Cook know how to execute it.

Now Steve Jobs is gone, Tim Cook still knew how to make products into real stuff that can be shipped to customers but there is noone to give him a vision.
Storing it on an immutable blockchain probably violates the GDPR in the first place, at least if you have no method to render the data unreadable.

To wit, Article 25 of the GDPR ("Data protection by design and by default"):

> 1. Taking into account the state of the art, the cost of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risks of varying likelihood and severity for rights and freedoms of natural persons posed by the processing, the controller shall, both at the time of the determination of the means for processing and at the time of the processing itself, implement appropriate technical and organisational measures, such as pseudonymisation, which are designed to implement data-protection principles, such as data minimisation, in an effective manner and to integrate the necessary safeguards into the processing in order to meet the requirements of this Regulation and protect the rights of data subjects.

> 2. The controller shall implement appropriate technical and organisational measures for ensuring that, by default, only personal data which are necessary for each specific purpose of the processing are processed. That obligation applies to the amount of personal data collected, the extent of their processing, the period of their storage and their accessibility. In particular, such measures shall ensure that by default personal data are not made accessible without the individual's intervention to an indefinite number of natural persons.
I'm not convinced by the way the author argues. For example, he gives U=aln(quantity of apples)+(1-a)ln(quantity of oranges) as an example of a utility function and in the very same section claims that neoclassical economists only use ordinal scales, hence the criticism of presuming cardinal utility doesn't apply.

But does it really make sense to use a nonlinear function to represent ordinal preferences?

As a philosopher working in the so-called theory of value structure - basically, about the meaning of 'better than' - my criticism of preference modelling would be different and applies to both camps. First, if the modelling is descriptive we know that people have e.g. non-transitive preferences and completeness also doesn't hold. Second, there are also pretty good arguments against the transitivity of 'better than' from a normative perspective that at least need to be defused somehow. IMHO, the right solution points towards conditional preferences and/or lexicographic decision procedures. In a nutshell, multiple criteria interact in complicated ways and the assumption that the outcome of aggregating them is a neat complete preorder is generally not warranted. (And there is plenty of work on nontraditional decision theory by e.g. Fishburn to support alternatives.) Third, there are good arguments why some of our evaluative comparisons between items are cardinal, at least on an interval scale, whereas others are purely ordinal. I understand why this would be an undesirable point of view for an economist, though, since there is no known rationally and normatively justifiable way of aggregating ordinal and cardinal utilities into a meaningful overall assessment. From a measurement-theoretic perspective, an overall ordinal utility is the best you can get in this case. There seems to be a certain tendency of economists to dismiss certain plausible views because they are technically undesirable rather than on the basis of substantive arguments.

Another thing is that as far as I can see, economists who presume ordinal utilities do not seem to care enough about Arrow's Theorem in contexts with multiple attributes. At least they should make clear that IIA ought not hold when ordinal preferences are aggregated.
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The extravagance brings the potlatch [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch] and similar customs to mind.
I couldn't agree more. The other, perhaps equally worrying thing is that the App Store is becoming a graveyard of abandoned and unsupported (as in not running on newer versions of iOS) apps drowned out by apps and games designed to fleece (vulnerable) people.

Instead of curating the store and promoting quality apps and games Apple is actively promoting the 'evil' apps. Apple should be working with apps and games publishers on other platforms to port their successful titles to iOS- instead Apple is only interested in taking their 'cut'.
An Income Sharing Agreement (with a max tuition much higher than $30K) would be great for high-risk fields like the arts and humanities.

A percentage of earnings from a single George Lucas or JK Rowling would finance the school while the vast majority of students would pay nothing.
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, it's the most mentioned book on sleep recently. According to this book there is no such thing as sleeping "too much". Sleeping a lot is correlated with higher mortality, but that is because sick people tend to sleep longer in order for the body to recover, not because sleep in any way causes ill health.
Yes, epidemiology is not deductive, and in the end it depends on whether observation is "specific enough" for you st unlikely to arise from other hypotheses, which in turn depends on your prior, which is informed by laboratory results in addition to field results. Epidemiology is a truly fascinating subject.
Ah, right, I forgot those. That's true of course.

I think you could still use them for side-effect detection (watch for images/scripts/etc with a known data uri suddenly appearing in your DOM) - but at least you couldn't actively query it without the extension doing anything.
He hired the guy who created Objective-C, and understood why Objective-C was better than [alternativeLangs].

The world is full of people who can code. Very few of them think strategically or understand that code is irrelevant unless it has some really, really good reasons to exist and do what it does.
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I'm a new college grad. I find my code still isn't very clean and I don't have a good answer to design decisions and abstraction decisions. What is a good book to make me a better programmer who can understand and write more complex codebases?
Read my comment above again, referencing the example I cited across thread of the effects on the Yugoslav economy. I'll make it easier this time[0]. Yugoslavia is a perfect example actually because it wasn’t subject to Leninist Vanguardism, didn’t have the same competitive issues with the West, furthermore the worker councils weren’t subject to anywhere near as restrictive central planning constraints seen in most Marxist states, so it pretty much ticks all your boxes.

Put it the way. What are the conditions in western democracies that are hostile to the success of workers cooperatives? We enjoy pretty egalitarian, fair legal and regulatory environments that aren't obviously hostile to them. Even if they were, many European countries have frequently had explicitly socialist governments and have had plenty of time to establish legal frameworks compatible with voluntary collectivism. Why hasn’t it worked?

[0] https://capx.co/do-workers-need-capitalists-new-lessons-from...
Well, they do own Linkedin too.
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> issues closed with no linking comment to where the actual solution is

This does annoy me. I'm not sure theres a great solution though. Should the maintainer create a new forum post of behalf of the user? Probably not, often with support requests to open source projects - the user disappears right after posting it. This is likely to happen even more if the issue is moved by the maintainer elsewhere.

> This whole "not putting support" in github issues is kind of BS in my opinion. Whats wrong with the issues being cluttered up? It has a search functionality, and tags, Id rather have one source of truth.

The clutter does make things harder. Issues now need to be tagged, issue counts on the project page are meaningless, maintainers must constantly search for the "IsReallyAnIssue" tag instead of just clicking on the issues link, etc etc. How much these things annoy you or anyone else will vary wildly based on personal preferences, and the scale of the project.

But - Heres the thing. It's their project - they are entitled to request help/support requests are made in one place, while bug reports are in another.
So the GDPR is only about personal data? What are my responsibilities if I run a chan, i.e., I store no personal data about my posts other than the IP address where they originated? What if I use some tracking technology such as a cookie or localStorage to identify unique browsers regardless of their IP address?
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The 30% cut is only for digital products sold via native apps.

That's why the Amazon iOS app lets you buy physical products but e.g. Kindle ebook purchases are not supported in the app.
Age of Aquarius https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%92%D0%B... was a pretty popular Russian role-playing game back in the day. Setting is modern urban fantasy (with guns and spells), with spies and magic mixed up together. I used to play it a lot in high school in early 00s, and at my first job in the game industry I actually got to know one of the game's creators, Slava Makarov, who later went on to create World of Tanks. I didn't know the game got the second edition in 2011 until just now, though.
They can exist as long as there is exploitable cheap labor willing to work for peanuts with no job protection or benefits. As soon as there are real jobs everyone would leave such companies in droves... and their business model would collapse. In order for such a company to exist you need an indentured lower class that's barely surviving and has very little ability to lift itself up. In another words from a societal perspective such companies an anathema to be eliminated, not cheered on.
> Mises, who did not work one day in his whole live in a private free market enterprise,

This is one of my big big complaints about economists.
It doesn’t strike me as anti-science, more like anti bad science?

If you can’t reliably reproduce an experiment, you can’t make statistical inference from it.

The reproducibility crisis in the humanities is very well known.
Probably a lot of culture that gets attention is counter culture but that's does not happen in vaccum. In order to create the counter culture, one needs to learn the culture first. It can happen outside universities as well but that does not discount the importance of art and culture education.
The very concept of DC is as specified by the US Constitution to prevent exactly this sort of inverted priority problem.
> (Are Red/Rebol creators seriously claiming that Clojure's syntax is complex?)

Red's author here. I have nothing to do with those websites nor their content. They are not official Red nor Rebol sites. I do not see a single quote from me there, nor from Rebol's author. Stop spreading false information please.
How easy would you say it is to move back into a developer role if I say switch into product management role?

I am scared I will be asked a lot about why I am switching back into coding and why I left it in the first place? I am scared of coming across as indecisive
That may be fine for ancient Jews and Arabs, but it still presents a bit of an obstacle to speakers of Germanic languages, including English. With the exception of Yoda, I suppose. I bet Lisp would be totally natural to him.
Quickcheck like libraries are reasonably good at finding missing corner cases in my code. It also helps if the person writing the test is different from the person writing the code and the person writing the requirement.
Except that the sword has been in Poznań, Poland for over a thousand years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Saint_Peter
The iPad Pros seem to have been an attempt to shift a certain content creation niche away from Macbooks towards the iPad range.

They're nice devices for visual creatives and for music, albeit in a rather limited way. (Kraftwerk play live with iPads now.)

But they're not a substitute for the full desktop experience. So you get a clash between Cook's smaller-lighter-thinner aesthetic and the real-world demands of professional content creation.

The result is a very expensive toy you can do serious work on sometimes, but definitely not all the time.
Sleep deprived people can't tell how impaired they are. Sleeping only 7 hours a night has serious long term mental and physical health consequences, and is affecting your productivity short term. If you don't believe me, read Why We Sleep, it's a great investment in your future health.
> There are other ways to appreciate art and culture, such as visiting museums, reading books, watching documentaries or other youtube videos on these topics, et

And who becomes incharge of those museums? Who makes those documentaries and those books?
Is it coding in general, or what you've been coding? I've had projects that I thrived on and couldn't get enough of. I woke up actually excited and couldn't wait to get to work. It obsessed me. I wouldn't want to take breaks. I'd work late and time would just pass with me in a zone. What I was doing excited me. It had utility. It had purpose that I could see. It used new tech that challenged me. It was hard work, but very rewarding.

I've also had projects that I absolutely hated. I didn't believe in what the customer was doing, it was the same 'ol thing, etc. Bland. Cookie cutter. Boring. You get a few of those in a row and you question everything. Luckily, as I progressed in my career, I can pretty much pick and choose what I do and can turn down projects without even giving it a second thought, but I had to get to that point.

You're relatively young still. That's not to be demeaning. We go through stages of life. You don't just stop growing and keep the same interests. Maybe you just weren't exposed to a more social role before like you're in now, so you didn't even know you'd enjoy it. There's nothing wrong with changing direction, as long as it's a positive move for you. Only you can know that. It gets harder to change anything about yourself the older you get, so if you're gonna make a change, I wouldn't wait too long.
I tend to see MMT as on the right track in seeing money/finance as a system of control. In that the limits are never financial but resource, technological, social and political.
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Be honest: would you have taken an answer like "no, it is not normal to fall out of love with coding" seriously? In what theater of life is "permanence" and "unchanging desire" the norm?
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Interesting, I've always had way more trouble with pip than npm/yarn ecosystem.
Also relevant - check out HarmonQuest[1], it's Dan Harmon (of Rick & Morty) doing a campaign which is then animated over. It's absolutely hilarious and very well made. Also, given each episode is only 25 minutes it's not quite as big of a commitment as Critical Role!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonQuest
Very well said, the day Apple fixes itself for Indian market, they will likely open a sales flood gate like none other in their history.

Remember Xiaomi? All they do is launch a product and people take more they can afford to manufacture.

Lastly Apple products are just impossibly expensive for almost all of India.
Ah, yes! There was also a Dutch translation of Das Schwarze Auge (called Het oog des meesters, i.e. The Eye of the Master) which got me hooked to roleplaying. There were even tv commercials for it at the time. (Talking about the mid eighties here.)

The Dutch version soon lagged behind the original, but fortunately we lived near the German border and bookstores in Germany were loaded with extension kits and prefabbed adventures. It was a great boost for my German reading skills! ;-)
Can confirm. I have a condition which makes it hard to see in sharp detail more than 8ish meters away. My wife has the same, as do many others in my family to some degree. There is a very robust industry producing adaptive devices for nearsightedness.

I've even heard things like contact-lenses-as-a-service advertised on general interest podcasts.
I'm referring to increased symptoms of anxiety, psychosis and increasing normalisation of weed as an every day thing.

I specifically mean smoking weed, watching TV and living a more "relaxed" lifestyle (which isn't inherently bad) over doing things that might me seen as productive, both in a traditional sense (school, work) and in a personal development sense (hobbies, friendships, health).

I know that there's a very big chance that it's just a correlation, and not a causation. In these specific cases, it really did feel like weed did make things a lot worse. There were long stretches of time where one of my friends in particular would stop smoking (conscious decision) and mental health stuff would get better.

Note: I'm pro legalisation.
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