skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great observation. I remember eBay and PayPal’s partnership being extremely important in making people feel protected. As I recall, there was well-advertised buyer protection by using them. Good feedback systems for buyers and sellers in both cases have proven a valuable asset.
Evidence on Public vs Private Law Enforcement From Bail Jumping [pdf]
I mean, I agree they look ridiculous — but I remember when people wearing Bluetooth headsets looked ridiculous. They were way chunkier than “regular” headphones and made the wearer look like a complete tool. Maybe they still do, but they’re ubiquitous now.

Hell, AirPods looked ridiculous 2 years ago.

So even though I agree with you entirely, I’m prepared to recognize that the world may change around us fairly quickly.
It is simply because of Huawei costs: 900 dollars, while Apple costs 1.5k dollars.
They're still around, if that's what you're saying. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18862412
Or there was a last minute reprieve after the article was posted.

Not everything is malicious, friend.
Yes; I have it on my Windows Surface devices and I switched back to a pin because it's a pain in the ass.
OT: Tim Cook/Apple is on the wrong track. The entire line-up of a product company is fundamentally flawed and heading to nowhere:

Today was the first time, I saw the new iPad Pro in action in a shopping mall nearby. It was a lazy Tuesday evening and I was in shopping mood. The first thing I did was running Sun Spider in Safari. Not an up-to-date benchmark but still a good indicator for performance. This thing reached insane 119ms. Without having any noisy fans and a battery that runs for days. Then, there is a buttersmooth 120hz screen, also the first time I saw a hi-fps screen live and it's so nice. All packed in some slick enclosure, thinner and lighter than any Surface Microsoft ever made.

I would have bought this device without thinking (this is what malls are for after all) and I really don't care if it's 1,000, 2,000 or even 3,000 bucks.

But tell me--what should I do with an iPad Pro? The OS is not just crippled but utterly useless for any real use case. You don't have to be a pro.

I could work via SSH on a remote server, nah I can't test properly without the major browser being installed or at least Safari's dev tool. Maybe some mockups with Affinity Designer? It has the most responsive digitizer, so c'mon. Nope, the files are so big and exchange to my desktop goes always through a slow cloud, this feels like going back in time and juggling floppy disks. Maybe some Word? No, I prefer full-fledged Word. Contracts are too important to fiddle them together on a subpar Word, I don't open Word for fun, I make or lose money with contracts. If I used this device the entire day I would also eventually get RSI from moving my hand up and down all the time (there is no Vimium for Safari).

This is what I mean, Tim Cook does not have this obsession with details like Jobs had. Let me not start with Macbooks, non-existing Mac Pros or odd, LG-branded screens. Steve thought all features to the end. Tim doesn't and ships one half-baken product after another.
The Fugitive: Evidence on Public Versus Private Law Enforcement from Bail Jumping

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18862432
Obligatory Dale Gribble (from King of the Hill) Reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxcOf9nwwKE

"You're telling me there's a poorly trained, quasi-legal police force that operates with few, if any government controls? ... It's about time."
Wow, I thought you were making that up to fit the mood... until the Wikipedia article. This is bananas.
Yes, that's another factor, along with the increased weight. But even controlling for those things I still notice (and dislike) the increased size.
I've found that increased LTE speeds on paper haven't really translated into real world speed increases for me -- my phone can do 1Gbps LTE on paper according to the manufacturer, but I've never actually seen higher than 50Mbps or so, even when within 100m or so of the base station with line of sight.
I'm pretty sure the graph was originally meant as satire.
girlfriends know yelp.
It is not how it is played out elsewhere in the world. First there is additional tax Apple is putting on upon the US retail price tag. Second, almost all foreign currency had deprecated against dollars in 2018. 2x might be dramatic, but 150% is what I see with my own eyes.
AirPods looked ridiculous 2 years ago

Oh, they still do.
> Apple costs 1.5k dollars

If you buy the XS Max with 512 GB of storage, unlocked (which happens to be $1,449.00, by the way). iPhone XS starts at $999.
That is what I was alluding to.
I am surprised you haven't seen anything like it. It happened against Korea, Japan, and Taiwan although the magnitude of scale wasn't anywhere as large as Huawei.

And it is not like this is the first time Apple has been under attack anyway. If you are carrying out Business in China with any sort of Government involvement ( which is pretty much 90%+ ) you need to use a phone from Chinese brand to prove your loyalty.
All of your complaints were true under Jobs as well.
> First there is additional tax Apple is putting on upon the US retail price tag.

I believe this tax is actually decided by the Indian government?
Maybe predictions were off for reasons the article says, but the article woefully misses the biggest factor in why the “gig economy” (cringe) won’t be as big as we originally thought - you can only pay sub minimum wage for so long before people say fuck it and walk away flipping you off.

These companies provided very little as far as tech revolution. They mostly rely on cutting wages and offputting risk/liability/taxes/benefits onto the workers. That’s a business model that’s doomed to fail. The word we’re looking for is “greed”.
You brain can be updated, here is why
> I have it on my Windows Surface devices

…that's not Face ID?
The French youtuber Benzaiehad this happen to him too.. Culprit was 20th Century Fox, for X-men Apocalypse.
Reuploaded the review without the movie content playing in the background. https://youtu.be/9DjfTisCYDg
> Sears had everything. Global supply chain, check. Top notch distribution operation, check. System and infrastructure to take orders and handling billing, check. Name recognition and established customer base, check.

I've never understood this line of thinking. I worked in engineering at Sears, and I left the company in 2000. So I was there when Amazon was getting big, and I quit Sears to go work for a company in Redmond Washington.

Sears just didn't have the engineering manpower. When I'd wander around the Sears headquarters in Hoffman Estates, I saw tons of people working on marketing, clothing, and advertising. There weren't a whole lot of people working on the Sears website.

From my perspective, in 1999 our engineering team was mostly concerned with whether the cash registers worked (Sears was ahead of the curve when it comes to the sophistication of their registers) and whether customer service worked (we had over five thousand customer service representatives working out of a series of Regional Credit Card Operation Centers AKA RCCOCs.)

Competing with Amazon isn't trivial; even in 1999 Amazon employed thousands of people.

More importantly, Amazon lost a ton of money to get where it is today. In 1999, Amazon lost something like thirty cents on every dollar that they sold.

As someone who actually worked at Sears, it's inconceivable to me that Sears could have stomached the idea of losing that kind of money. And I don't see any scenario where they'd make the kind of investment in people, even if they could find them.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/28/business/amazon-s-risky-c...
See for yourself:

Apple:

https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a220m.1000858.1000725....

Huawei:

https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a220m.1000858.1000725....
A fish that bytes
Very well stated. I have an older iPad, which I think is a fantastic device, that I use for general browsing, managing my portfolio, and personal email. There’s no reason for me to upgrade other than maybe as a status symbol.

Honestly, none of my friends care how latest is my iPad, and neither do I. There’s no use case the newer version has that makes me think, “Wow, I need this in my life.” Speaking of which, combine all this with the ridiculous pricing of the new iPads, it just doesn’t make financial sense to throw away money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYqZJrGV_tc
Apple is American. They think American / the West is trying to humiliate China again. So they say they will stop buying Apple ( for now ). Relation to Apple being Huawei is a phone company ( Well to most consumer they are, when in fact they are more like a Telecom Infrastructure Giant ).
That doesn't change the fact Apple chooses to have the customers pay for it to maintain its own margin. It is not wrong, but it does make it expensive.
Announcing automated data wrangling
You’re basically correct about the mechanism of addiction but wrong about alcohol and relaxation.

I drink maybe twice a month. It’s relaxing. I am in no sense addicted to alcohol.

Alcohol is primarily a GABAergic, so of course it’s relaxing. Habitual use will down-regulate those receptors, and the addictive cycle is triggered by medicating the resulting anxiety with more alcohol. None of this is surprising.
> what really makes it is being able to invoke and use Siri reliably when my phone is in my pocket

Interestingly, my AirPods seem to be defective and this is something that mine won't do ;)

> Apple made a trade off, but in this instance, it does not seem like a worthwhile trade off and it does hurt their image when they make some seemingly anti-customer choice like this.

Every Apple device is a tradeoff. It just so happens that the removal of the headphone jack was a trade off that a larger-than-usual number seem to have taken issue with, though it's not clear that this is a perspective shared by the majority of iPhone users.
What is the chances that after going down this rabbit hole, you end up with racist algorithms that match people who are within the same ethnic group? It seems quite possible that you would find more "compatible" matches with people who are more genetically similar.
Is there any way to do that on Chrome macOS?
You act like the US is just an innocent judge forced to punish those naughty countries. We have now spent forty years economically attacking Iran, paid people tons of money to kill Iranians, invaded and destroyed a neighboring country, and spent the entire time threatening Iran with nuclear/non-nuclear destruction. Yet they are considered the "bad actor."
You forgot those Apple listed prices are US only and never included any Sales Tax. In reality everywhere on the planet are paying $100 to $200 more on top of those prices. In the case of China has both Import, and Sales Tax. ( It works more like VAT though ), it adds up to around $300 on top of $999, closer to $1299.

Edit: Yes in case Apple is ridiculously expensive in many part of the world.
Exactly, I’ll buy a new iPhone when they release one in a form factor like the SE. I’d also love to see a high-privacy, compact, phone-first flip phone from Apple, but I understand that I might as well pray for rain in hell.
I find that its difficult to justify an xbox/ps purchase, especially when the biggest titles get shared between them, while its usually trivial to justify nintendo.

I also find it humorous that xbox/ps have gone down the road of building an “entertainment system” (which is part of the justification issue; the price is always higher for it, for things I don’t need/care, especially since I have a pc for that stuff), while nintendo stuck much closer to games specifically, despite the NES name.
Sounds very much like Service Merchandise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Merchandise
That's true but I could imagine that Jobs would have seen these flaws and fixed them after a decade. Just because he uses himself the stuff.

Look, Jobs called Goolge's Vic to tell him that the color of Google's second 'o' in the logo was wrong and hence looked bad on the iPhone. Do you think Cook would ever do this, do you think Cook uses any of his products seriously? When did Cook write the last contract himself? Does he code? This guy just write emails, something a Blackberry could do better than an iPad or iPhone, 15 years ago.
Im curious: can you give me example of how you would use a vacuum tube port on your iphone?

Here is my story: i left my cruise cabin in the middle of the night and went to the bow. In shock I discovered it was almost as bright as a daylight - oh my the full moon looks beautiful. I was alone and played the titanic scene for a monent. Imagine me alone, warm summer night, carribeans, full moon and cruise ship gliding through quiet ocean. Perfect moment hard to repeat with all these circumstances. I immediately reach out to my pocket to put headsets on just to listen to some Leonard Cohen’s songs. Imagine my shock when I realized I forgot the iphone’s jack adapter ;(
I don't agree with Prof Caplan on a lot of things but generallly respect his intellect. But I was very surprised and disappointed to read his views here on alcoholism being a matter of choosing "a beverage over one's family" rather than a legitimate medical issue.
> The article doesn't really have information on the Purdue system other than saying that it might cost high-earning students 250% of the price of their education.

tl;dr; on that is you borrow a certain amount (that you choose, but is capped by the program). In exchange, you pledge a certain percentage of your income every month for a certain number of months (5-10 years generally) [0]. The maximum amount you'll repay is capped at 2.5x the loan amount (i.e. if you borrow $10k, you'll repay a max of $25k).

Practically speaking, the gist of the program is that it's good for students with middle income career outlooks, but terrible for students with high income career outlooks (i.e. talented CS majors) since you'll end up paying more than a traditional loan.

[0]: The percentage pledged varies by the loaned amount and major. The number of months seemingly only varies by major. You can play with the calculator here: https://compare.vemo.com/

Purdue's program: https://www.purdue.edu/backaboiler/index.php
See also: http://postgrest.org/en/v5.2/, which works with usually zero configuration against PostgreSQL databases
I disagree. Jobs gave us iTunes, iPod, iPhone. These were revolutionary devices IMO. Sure MP3 players existed before, but the customer experience made me feel, “wow I need this!”

I haven’t felt that way in a while. There’s nothing really new that apple is doing at the moment. Thinner devices that’s im going to wrap in a case are great. A higher resolution is nice. Deeper blacks and face recognition instead of passwords? Okay cool. Certainly not worth $1000 to me.

Don’t get me started about the MacBook Pro. Some how apple managed to take a very fine machine and in 2016 decided, “You know what? Let’s just take a massive dump on this thing and add a Touch Bar.”
I believe it was a tongue in cheek response which served to point out how horrible society would be if the parent comments wish were to come true.
Google glass should also on the list
Looks like you want a MacBook Pro.

It's not Apple's fault Intel/AMD has been producing pile of trash CPU's for years.
I started writing a reply to the GP in this vein, but the examples I came up with didn't quite fit.

Yes, the iPhone shipped without copy and paste, but that was never meant to be a computer; it was merely "an iPod, a phone, and an internet communication device" rolled into one. The original iPad shipped without multi-tasking (pseudo or otherwise), but it was primarily competing with netbooks, which couldn't competently multitask anyway.

I cannot recall any Apple products in the "modern Jobs era" that were quite as much of a solution in search of a problem as the iPad Pro. The iPad Pro is a $1,000+ product aimed at professional artists and content creators who by definition spend their days working on various assets aka files. But the iPad Pro doesn't have a file manager, just a bunch of kludgey workarounds.
Or there are significant fixed costs that have not been amortized - for example, R&D for an entirely new type of burger. It’s very possible that the materials cost (growing ingredients + manufacturing) of the impossible burger is less than the materials costs of a beef burger while still costing more in a store.
To the people downvoting this, what else are we to believe in regards to CFC emissions apparently being illegal for quite a few years now, but yet we are seeing CFC emissions rise specifically in east Asia https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/12/industrial-chloroform-emi...

If they lie about CFC emissions, why on earth would they be truthful about carbon dioxide?
Agreed. As some other posters have pointed out Apple has some amazing tech in FaceID, AirPods, an ECG on your wrist. But where they fall down is the assume pros don’t want ports in their laptops, think people don’t want customizable desktops and underserve their best devices with software.

Not to mention charging money for mediocre services.
CubeSats Joining Hera Mission to Asteroid System
The Road to React Mastery – Handling Events
Not really limited to just RESTful APIs, you can write an RPC api as well and call stored procedures to perform all sorts of complex actions on your data.
The US has actively caused many nations to be wiped off the map, including attempting to remove Yemen right now.
This is quite an assertion. I am not privy to jobs vision for the iPad because I haven’t seen much written specifically and it’s evolution is pure speculation as he’s dead now. But you can’t extrapolate from the iPhone and call it a day. And the iPad and the Watch as well are not practically products that have matured under the jobs umbrella. Critical consensus has been pretty positive about the progression of MacOS under Jobs (it was quite a rocky road but look by 2008).
Forgive me for not knowing much about constructivism. You mention having “a positive reason to believe such a set exists,” but what more reason could there be other than the fact that the axioms you’re using imply that such a set exists? Do constructivists believe that a prime with a googol base-10 digits exists in ZF, even though no one has constructed one?
The Road to React Mastery- Understanding State
Animals, or at least cows, pigs, and chicken, clearly show a level of consciousness that plants do not
Uber betting everything on self driving cars may be their only hope, but it should be clear by now that their runway is shorter than the time required to bring lvl5 to market. We’re not even into the real edge cases yet, and automation is still really hard to get right. Maybe the tools being applied are simply not up to the task, or if they are, decades away from the maturity required.

All of which is to say that Uber is in trouble, and having been such a notoriously bad actor, will be kicked down the hill at every step.
Hmm, I felt the same way about the iphone vs android when they were first competing. iOS felt very limited and still does to this day. I don't think this is a new problem inside Apple. Tim is no better or worse than Steve I think. Posted from my macbook :P
i have this idea of using VR and a pokemon go approach to LARP D&D. goggles on and wander the area while your goggles respond to various QR codes placed about to produce goblins and treasure or dungeon environments, and on.
> I think a lot of us forget that Amazon wasn't the only big e-tailer in the late 90s, it's just the one that survived. There were lots and lots of bigger and smaller places that straight up went out of business after the .com crash, but Amazon, despite taking a massive beating, survived.

It's my opinion that The Dot Com Crash is what created Amazon.

Here's how:

I worked in Redmond Washington during the crash, and there were thousands of people who lost their jobs due to that. I knew so many people who were struggling to find work.

This was Y2K, when Seattle wasn't the tech powerhouse it is today. T-Mobile didn't exist, Google hadn't opened any offices in Washington, and tech companies were failing left and right.

I think that the crash gave Amazon an opportunity to hire people. There was a lot of talented people out of work.

Arguably, this may also explain why T-Mobile has become so huge. I worked there before they were T-Mobile, and I can remember how tiny we were. You could fit our entire operations team into a conference room.

Nowadays, T-Mobile is HUGE and I think a lot of that may be a combination of geography and timing. In 2003, Sprint was bigger than T-Mobile, but they're based in Kansas and the Seattle area just has a much larger pool of engineers to support a company like that.
> You forgot those Apple listed prices are US only

I was given prices in dollars, so I assumed that the poster was talking about the US.
My wife uses it for illustrating. Nothing else comes close. You don't buy a Ferrari to race in rallys.
If you want to look at it that way, I think it's unfair to not consider the startup costs of operating a taxi. A medallion in New York is no longer over a million dollars, but it's still pretty expensive. https://nypost.com/2018/06/09/139-taxi-medallions-will-be-of...

Becoming an Uber driver has comparatively much lower startup costs (buy a car). In the short-term, Uber drivers will have a much better cash flow, and potentially in the long-term too. Taxi drivers would see their cash flow significantly drop, but that's due to competition. Uber artificially has lower prices in most locations except when surge pricing kicks in. If their prices were not artificially low, I think you'd actually see a bit of parity. Yes, taxis would see lower cash flow, but it would not be a race to the bottom like it can be if Uber is artificially pricing lower.

Paywall, so I can't read the whole article and see if they address this.
3 Myths About a Job in Industry After a PhD  Debunked
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Pompeo and Bolton probably both want to overthrow Iran.
Not an issue in practice. Most students choose degrees that have real world demand.
Addictive, certainly. Toxic at normal doses? Evidence says no.

Carbon monoxide, tar, and tiny soot particles are very bad for you. Nicotine? Not so much.

Addiction is annoying as hell and I don’t recommend it. But let’s be accurate.
It's not dangerous, not nearly to the extent you're making it out to be.