skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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So the rich, powerful and elite are also not responsible for anything either? Just individually?

That seems like quite the atomised society.
You better believe that iPhone sales have fallen pretty dramatically, because that is exactly what Apple has just reported.

However, what I would like to know is whether Apple has lost market share outside of China. I would also like to know whether Apple's share of mobile usage has declined.

I think these questions are a lot more important to developers than quarterly financials.
No one really does street art like they used to. The chance you will get caught is almost 100%. We have wiped out the ability to do innocuous things like this and creativity suffers for it. It was pretty much self-policing in the sense that is was so difficult to that just because you could get away with it, it did not result in everything being covered in graffiti. But a few times a year, someone would pull off a piece in a difficult area that was aesthetically pleasing, placed in such a way as to emulate marketing/billboard placement. Now you would have 100 people filming it on their phones because they can't do anything risky themselves so they want to gain notoriety by outing someone else. Or there would be a team of nerds behind computer screens coming up with new technology to automatically bust out people. A lot of the times you get shitty graffiti (of which I am guilty myself, but it's a learning process) in shitty places. That is the price you pay for allowing people to take risks. Everything is too sterile now. For every person that is willing to risk their life and livelihood to put up some art, there are a million idiots eager to put it on youtube so they can feel like they accomplished something.
Offtopic -

I dont understand HN ranking at all.

At the time of writing Apple's earnings sits at #10 with 45 points (36 comments) and this one sits at #6 with 20 points (3 comments).
> Slightly cheaper, maybe, as the fab equipment depreciates.

Sure, but the same equipment would also be cheaper to replace than the capital required for the next generation fab, for the same reasons.

> Expansion, not replacement (of broken systems) is what drove the PC segment. It was the foundation of the growth that affected everything that used or could benefit from PCs. And we've seen that with the mobile segment.

Expansion into new sectors, not expansion into the same sectors. The same will still happen. Solutions will become more customized rather than remain general purpose. There remain considerable gains in parallel computation for instance (GPU), and ASICs will become the new hotness (again).

Furthermore, if clients cease to expand, then more computation will happen on server infrastructure. Your fat clients will become more thin clients again, repeating the same cycle that has happened multiple times so far.

You're also neglecting the investment in infrastructure (data centers, networks) that will continue to grow, if not accelerate. Current hardware is more than sufficient for most of this.
> Consumers become aware of problems, eg. high fructose corn syrup, and act accordingly, eg. buying less sugary junk.

Are we actually doing that? I've seen / heard little evidence that our trend on sugar is moving in a healthy direction, at least in the US.
So go the other way and report them for abusing 1099, for 1099 to be legal they can't even directly give you any hardware, you need to pay for it yourself, I think there are even laws about using their desks.
It's not that they're "supposed to be." But they are.

Frankly tax fraud from people working for tips in the service sector should be among the very least of our worries as a society.
Anyone know if Amazon Prime Now or other similar delivery services operate the same?
Because standing in line for food is cheaper than having someone personaly serve it to you? You are not so much paying for a potato, as you are paying for it to be fried, packaged, and in your hand, quickly and reliably.
Because modern capitalism is all about "ONLY UPSIDE, ZERO DOWNSIDE"
I don't mean to sound rude, but I don't believe the results in your $1 * 26000 races graph.

I spent a few years in a hedge fund building algorithmic trading strategies, and whenever I saw a graph (we called them 'account curves') like that, it inevitably meant that there was a bug somewhere. Usually the strategy is somehow non-tradable, either because the market is closed or the system is borrowing data from the future.

The graph shows you making about $55,000 over 26,000 races (i.e. about a 100% return) with no big swings. If the effect was that big, wouldn't people know about it already? Despite the fact that you can't apply the strategy everywhere, couldn't you settle for making a little money at your local betting shop?

Your theory is that there are more informed bettors betting at the last minute. That suggests that the market odds spike towards the 'correct' odds as betting is about to close. If someone proposed your 'bet on the favourite' strategy to me, I would have asked to see evidence of that spike. Are you able to get access to real-time odds to test the theory?
They are all down (their economy in general), but there is also a concerted effort by some in China to not use Apple products, especially after the Huawei incident.

> Chinese companies are now threatening employees by demanding they not purchase any Apple products whatsoever, going so far to withhold bonuses, garnish wages or even terminate an uncooperative employee.[1]

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2018/12/24/huawei-iphone-termination-app...

The Chinese courts also blocked iphone sales in China over Qualcomm. My understanding is the newest line of phones weren't affected (they used intel modems), but it affected the older models - which are obviously cheaper and more attractive to the avg. Chinese person compared to the $1,000+ flagships.

Both might not be huge factors in themselves, but probably contributed to Apples decline more than the other brands. It wasn't a proportionate decline across all brands. Apple was hit harder.
When it comes to gender segregation we are all marginalized in one place or an other. That is what 88.6% gender segregation for women and 88.4% gender segregation for men means in raw Swedish data.

There is no data to support that affirmative action is an effective strategy in dealing with this problem. There is also no support to the idea that a failure with inclusions is the reason why 88.6% women and 88.4% of men work in gender segregated professions here in Sweden. The very little of real scientific data, in the several research studies I have read, is ones that simply say that people feel more confident being around people who share the same trait as themselves. Multiply that effect with every challenge a person goes through from selecting a professions to being a student to graduation to seeking a job to staying in a professions for several years and what we get is a significant increase risk for members of the minority group to not select the profession or quit.

A solution need to fit the problem. 88.5% of the population has ended up gender segregated in Sweden. Is the method that the article suggest an effective strategy for that goal, and if so where is that evidence? Someone suggested that gender difference in preference is the cause but similar the data I have read on preference differences are not significant enough to explain such extreme segregation that exist here. The parent posts here suggest misogyny, which then would imply misandry to explain why an equal amount of men do not end up in professions dominated by women, but that seems poorly supported by peer-reviewed work that looks to explain gender segregation in general.

But as I suggested above, I would not mind seeing a experiment where people tried applying affirmative action as a general solution to fix gender segregation. Similar ideas has been tested before in smaller scales, like Sweden when it tried to do it in higher education. They had to scrap it because a court deemed it discrimination to give benefits to individuals based on gender, even if they were a minority. Norway is currently testing a different version, which will be interesting to see develop. I do expect it to run foul of the same issue as here in Sweden but they do have different laws and their relation with EU laws is complicated.
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Came here to make the same observation. Good on teams at Microsoft to not allow themselves to make a "we're more reliable than G Suite" joke.
This need to be higher
Maybe distinct count of Active Apple IDs?
Keep in mind that power is not solely limited to the government. My employer has power over me. My utilities have power over me. My landlord has power over me. My bank has power over me.

They all, to various degrees, are also interested in tearing down the limits to their power over me.
scottlocklin didnt say horse racing is understudied. his sources are specific to harness racing.
Happy with a lot of stuff 65 introduced (this is a nice trend in a lot of recent Firefox releases)

One thing I'm not happy about; opted-in recommendations for addons when you browse websites.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> "How are stories ranked?"

> "The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way."

> "Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, and moderator intervention."
> What is there to be afraid of?

Propaganda and asymmetric warfare trying to disrupt the information commons is something to be afraid of.

The idealistic tropes that you are quoting are not born out in real-life experience, and we have some large eveents of the last 100 years that make us wary of people who use propaganda as warfare tactics.
What you quoted is not a lie. 100% of the tip is going to the shopper. The problem is they are not paying the shopper on top of the tip.
None of them had any significant loss. United stock was up, just two days after the incident. Many people claimed to never do business again with these companies, yet there is no indication that any significant number actually did.
> I think his point was that window frames should be like dynamically typed polymorphic collections possibly containing multiple differently typed components that can change over time (like JavaScript arrays), not statically typed single-element containers that are permanently bound to the same component type which can't ever change (like C variables).

Well, dynamically typed, yes, and changing over time, but I don't think he was talking about sticking your editor and your command line in the same window at the same time. Rather, you could run a program in an mpx window on the Blit, and it would draw in that window until it was done, and then you would get your shell prompt back in that window.

I know this isn't really related to the overall question of end-user customizability and composability that you're focusing on here, but I dig the olwm-style pinned dropdown menus in your last screenshot there. It's a shame neither Open Look nor olwm nor olvwm ever did antialiased text — I know it was important for the window manager not to eat the entire palette of your cgfour or NCD, but when all your chrome text is black on slate grey, a couple of greyscale levels would have gone a long way.

Your other links are timely, since I'm trying to figure out how to do the BubbleOS windowing system Wercam this week, maybe using Unix-domain sockets and shared-memory bitmaps, or rather pixmaps; the thing that sounds most inspiring to me is Genode's nitpicker, but supporting the interposition-based design of the nitpicker window manager would require either an extra copy of all the pixels (to put them in the right place in the framed window) or a draw command that involves a whole sequence of rectangles instead of just one. I'm kind of thinking that by default windows will be embedded in my shell, like graphics in Jupyter, and then I'll see how things go from there. https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/tree/master/wercam
I agree. I've always seen 'users' as simply a term for 'people who use my software'.

It's a bit like when a local airline here once spent millions in branding research, and started calling their passengers 'customers'. It was really odd to be sitting at the airport and hear the call "XYZ Airline would like to advise all customers on flight 123 that their aircraft is ready for boarding through gate 6"...

I always think of the term 'passenger' in more romantic terms, whereas 'customer' seems more mundane. FWIW, the airline seems to have dropped that branding now, and have reverted to calling their, ahem, passengers as 'passengers'.
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Not sure how it works elsewhere but horse betting in the US is almost always parimutuel, meaning that everybody gets the post odds, regardless of when they bought their ticket. In other words, betting early doesn't give any advantage and in fact the later you can wait, the more accurate an idea you have of the actual payout odds of your bet. Thus, having access to a private betting machine, and not having to elbow other gamblers to buy a ticket at the last minute, is a real advantage.

That said, the state's take-out is so high in most states that you need a massive edge to actually make money. The slight edge a private betting machine would bring probably isn't enough.
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Turns out machine learning has some limitations.
No, it's still called populism when it comes from the left. Bernie Sanders was described as a populist.
Over the last 2 years, I've watched my business go from the 4th page of results for important searches, to always ranking as #2-4 on page 1. More than anything else, what made the difference was time. In my experience, Google heavily rewards old backlinks and old websites -- much more than it used to around 2005. Maybe it's an anti-spam technique, since age is a hard thing for black hat SEOs to fake.
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They couldn't be further from each other. Just from browsing code, they are on opposite ends of the spectrum. Go is easily readable, but at the cost of brevity. Perl is -typically- unreadable, with a lot of one liner magic.
If you are stating merely can a person write a web app in both, well, I think that goes for any language in existence.
And yet Firefox still doesn't have pull to refresh. How can they not support such a basic feature?
Price signals are not the one, only, sole legitimate form of communication of preferences.
lol we really needed a regex for this
Thank you for informing me of the dead links, for which I apologize. Apparently Apple is also a poor net citizen, allowing its URLs to rot.

Yes, I keep notes about things, some of which contain links. Obviously, these links used to work.
73-year-old sailor wins round-the-world solo-race without modern instruments
Samsung is seeing the same hit out of China.

Jan 8 "Samsung said fourth quarter profits would likely come in at around 10.8 trillion Korean won ($9.67 billion), well shy of the market consensus of 13.2 trillion won, with sales falling 11% to 59 trillion won. Samsung only has a 1% share of the China handset market, compared to around 9% for Apple, but its chips and screens make their way into handsets made by Huawei Technologies, as well as Apple's iPhones, and that segment comprises a much larger portion of its operating profits"

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/apple-v-samsung-c...
I love the top comment: "Pretty sure It's Office 361 at this point"
Well, let's just go to the source. Here's one of the articles in question:

https://inference-review.com/article/evolution-a-theory-in-c...

I don't have time to read it right now and form a judgment, but if anyone else here does I think that'd the most useful/productive way of figuring out if the article has any basis.
>"If a driver takes the job, at the price Instacart wants to pay" //

Oh fuck off.

That comment embodies the absolute lowest morals; the stark reality of the very worst of capitalism.

"If they're so poor they have to pay just to eat my shit, well screw them."

Please take a good hard look at yourself.
"Good" being the key word. Most professors I had in my day were probably masters of the material, but their droned explanations bored me to death and were overly theoretical.

Asking for help was a sure way to be mocked by your fellow students, who for some reason lived by the idea that it's okay to mock people for not knowing something they do know.

And then lab professors saying it's not their job to explain things, just google it. I was literally told several times by the lab professors that "we're just teaching you how to effectively google things".

I wonder if that contributed to my hating bad documentation and guides.
Would you program a human?
Insidious, right? 100% of the tip technically does go to your shopper.

Welcome to the world of 'tipped wages'. In my state, every paycheck, the first $520 worth of tips effectively goes straight to your employer for the purposes of paying your minimum wage and then you can have whatever is left over.
I'm almost with you there. Get rid of tipping completely. Employers should pay people a decent wage and reward excellent behavior. Don't put that on the customer at all.
It's true, Google and other sites will deindex a site like this into oblivion - as at first, it has many of the characteristics of a spammy affiliate site.

I think there is a real need for this kind of information, and I would even suggest Google or (any search company really) go as far as to build a feature/small-platform specifically for content like this. _Quality_ affiliates linking.
Lovely, there's this link on the page (doesn't work on Chrome): Add this page to your favorites
If only there were some book or website defining terms, so one wouldn’t be tempted to make up definitions fitting one‘s politics on the spot.

„Populism is a range of political approaches that deliberately appeal to 'the people', often juxtaposing this group against the "elite".“

There is plenty of left-wing populism, by the way. Jeremy Corbyn, Chavez/Maduro, Yannis Varoufakis, etc.
Look into index funds and Bogle heads lazy portfolio. There are communities dedicated to financial independence (FIRE) on the internet that can help you with these goals.
As participants in a democratic nation (whether that be the US republic, the UK parliamentary monarchy or whatever) it is our responsibility to be involved in all facets of the world we interact with.

We hire people to grow our food because it is a better optimisation of labour, not because we can just forget about the process of growing food. We need to be aware of things like: is this food processing sanitary, is the farm run by ethics that we agree with, is the environmental impact acceptable, is this food then best thing to grow in this environment (eg: growing cotton and rice in the desert makes no sense at all).

We then exercise choice by hiring people who best match our criteria.

When the only criteria we filter by is cost, we throw everything else out the window: ethics, ecological sustainability, economic viability, morality, food safety: everything.
I don't particularly care for pull to refresh, given how frequently I refresh without meaning to because of it, but I do wish I didn't have to open the dropdown menu to get a refresh button to refresh the page.
Taxis did this for many years, and Uber did it briefly. I think Postmates may also have tried it.
This is what they need to cut if they want to sell phones.

Get people gaming on iOS devices and they will buy the latest and greatest hardware to get the best experience.

But if all you can play are casual games, your experience can get no better.

Take a page out of Epic and Valve's book:

- Cut commissions to 12% for app store purchases

- Find a way to promote full-priced games, and demote free-to-play

- Offer one good free game every fortnight to your entire customer base

- Allow refunds within two weeks and if under 2 hours played

- Sell an official Apple game controller

- Offer centralised Achievements and friends

- Sign up exclusive deals with the best studios

- Discourage games from supporting older versions of iOS. Deprecate the iPhone 5S in iOS 13 so that developers no longer have to support that unique screen.

- Focus more on battery life (including bigger batteries) to allow longer content sessions
>There is no lesson to be had here, I'm just sad.

This pretty perfectly sums up how I feel after two decades of obsessing over the concept of a "good" OS. There is and will never be any such thing as an OS with a good UX + ecosystem that hits all three major use cases: development, productivity, and fun. Maybe I'm being pessimistic or maybe my standard are too high, but coming to grips with this conclusion has brought me some measure of peace.
If they're under the IRS estimate? Absolutely.

Above? Not so much.

A lot of wait staff seem content to push mis-information: "If you tip poorly, the IRS makes us pay tax on it anyway, i.e. we're having to pay to serve you!"

No, the IRS makes an estimate on how much tipped workers are paid. If you document and it's less, then you pay tax on that. But using the IRS as the big bad wolf to get more tips that you know damn sure you're not going to report, doesn't make me the most sympathetic.

I've seen wait staff say that they believe 20% should be a baseline, for bad service, 25 for "decent" and 30% for good service...
Most resturants ask you to claim your tips when cashing out, but most just fudge it. They arent going to go through the waiters pockets, as tips are their money and disclosed only to the government. It gets tricky because they try to be the middleman. Just tip cash.
This always seemed crazy to me. Basically the employer pays only a pittance and then stops paying until your tips exceed minimum wage. They're basically stealing the tips between $2.50 and whatever the minimum wage is in your area.
If their assertions fall apart under scrutiny then that is a misplaced fear because nobody will take it seriously.

If not, and other researchers can back it up - then you don't have to be afraid of an existential threat! win-win

Being a scientist means you have to adopt a mentality of passive observation and openness to being wrong, otherwise you'll just fall into the trap of confirmation bias which necessarily results in bad science.
The title, especially the "of death", is a bit misleading like you wrote at the end. Good read though :)
Here is a difference between EU countries. In France, you cannot even tip by credit card or anything else that can be controlled by the employer or the state. It's only cash and at your discretion. Thus, it cannot even be a taxable event. However you need to have some cash if you want to tip.
Sometimes I wonder if a hybrid approach could work. Specifically, a language that generally looks like Python or JavaScript, but also allows emoji as variable or function names. You could keep the advantages of text-based languages, since you can still search and diff, but also lets you use higher-level visual abstractions that images provide. I've started experimenting with something like this, but it's still not ready for real-world use: https://github.com/hugs/wildcard/blob/master/example/konami....
Apple spent $60B in 2018 buying supplies and components from 9000 US companies.

As for investing back, here's one Apple PR story about Finisar, in which Apple invested $390 million to produce VCSELs in Texas.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/component-manufacturi...

Apple is not just sitting on its cash but making strategic purchases as it goes forward.
Facebook hires one of its biggest privacy critics to oversee WhatsApp privacy