skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is worth point out this is 13% down in Revenue. Given Apple have a higher price range of iPhones this year, ( the iPhone XS Max ) and higher entry level price compare to last year with iPhone 6s. The unit shipment must have been down ~20%.

Apple did make price adjustment in China, including cutting wholesale price and promotion. I am wondering if those eats into Profits.

Having said that, in the Conference Call:

-Active iPhone installed base grew to a new all-time high in every operating segment ( Including China )

-Install base growing, people are holding onto devices longer, but staying inside the ecosystem

And interesting bit on 5G. Tim Cook says Apple doesn't comment on future products, but says it is "extremely early innings" for 5G, especially on a global basis.

May be we wont even see a 5G iPhone in 2020.
China does not have much of an expansionist history, but the Communist Party does. CCP has only controlled China for 70yrs, during which time China lacked the ability to get involved in international conflicts beyond its own borders.

As it becomes a great power it clearly has an agenda of extracting raw materials in Africa, selling manufactured goods across Eurasia and the rest of the world, and linking the supply chain from Africa <-> China <-> Europe more closely. It will likely guard those interests with force once it's able to.

Same as the US. Hard to complain when we've been doing it for 50+ yrs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
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Arguably. I look at it as equipment vs training vs organization.

The stuff can change, but it's even harder to change the way people think. And almost impossible to reorg and entire organization. And all militaries are very effective at making sure people think and behave in desirable ways -- kind of important when things start exploding around you.

So a response that might be advantageous for pushing across continental Europe isn't optimal for a chaotic beach assault.

You throw a Marine in the former, and they're still going to respond like a Marine.
Congrats! Used webflow for 2 yrs to launch my last startup. That was 4 years ago. And now using it again for the next one. The CMS is new and what a wonderful thing it is. Love the thought they put into releasing very polished product. Great work!
Only if massive pixels on an offbrand realplayer that only two sites used and had to be installed to your desktop counts as "deep into streaming."

It also froze every 30 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Awlgy3qUSE
The Case of the Mysterious AWS ELB 504 Errors
The Red Pill documentary by (feminist!) Cassie Jaye opened my eyes to what MRAs are all about. It's a fascinating watch, and I'd honestly be astonished at anyone who comes away from watching it thinking that they have no legitimacy.

Her TED talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WMuzhQXJoY
It's not a wicked problem. It takes very little effort to research and conclude that the empirically established standard of medical care for transgender people is to allow them to transition and allow them to integrate into society as the gender they tell you they are. It takes very little effort to discover that gender has not been and is not a binary in every single human culture, either.

They are different. For a different reason. Flat earthers don't hurt people by having a very wrong belief. TERFs want to deny transgender people their basic human rights and largely succeeded for a great long time. That's injustice.
Thats a great point. There's a precedent of them heading in that direction. Although with Apple, they're trying to make keyboards that can be activated by a light sneeze or slightly higher than usual barometric pressure.
Good point! Our documentation[1] gives lots of examples. Also, our docs repo[2] (Docker/Jenkins) and marketing website[3] (static/CircleCI) are both open source and running on FeaturePeek, so that shows some real-world examples.

[1] https://docs.featurepeek.com/intro/

[2] https://github.com/featurepeek/documentation

[3] https://github.com/featurepeek/marketing-website
Yes, since the operational outcomes of the first and last questions are the same, the main notion this poll really confirms is that people in general don’t understand cryptography.

c.f. also the recent Australian prime minister who claimed that legislation can override mathematics.
Why is there such a large range for referral fees? And I wonder how the referral fee itself is calculated.
FaceID fails when my beard length changes from week to week. FaceID is not as reliable as the marketing department claims...
It's a reasonable request that I concur with. This sort of piecemeal subscription model is really annoying. The main reason all other streaming services took off was because people didn't want piecemeal cable bundles. Once you pay for a subscription, you should get everything under that banner. No more paywalls. That's a reasonable expectation when seen in the context of other streaming services. Second, if you are pretending to be a tech company offering soft services on the internet, act like one. nytimes is the slowest and most bloated ad/tracking infested site that I visit. It brings firefox mobile to a crawl. This may be one of the reasons why a middleman like apple news may actually work, simply by reducing the friction. If you can make nytimes.com behave like lwn.net, I would pay.
I've seen it in the form of an employee desiring a negative outcome for the business because that outcome is tied to vengeance for another employee's perceived professional mistake.

E.g., "I'm not going to help that team because they need to feel the pain of the decision I didn't like."
Joy is in my TODO list. I have only heard good things about it. I never got into it years ago when I was more interested in concatenative languages (neither I learnt cat, which I think is quite similar). Much more recently, I stumbled upon it again in nsl.com. It seems like Steven Apter found the Joy combinators very interesting and implemented them in other languages.

It looked like a totally dead language to me and this does not help with motivation, but I should definitively check it at some point.

I will have a good look at your project too. It looks like something I may like. It still looks quite far from something I may use at work, but I'd love being wrong about that.
> 2) How easy is it to operate these shafts in a degraded capacity if there is physical damage to the vessel during operations?

This is my concern as well. I fear poor uptime during busy operations, and in a real shooting war, for it to end up in drydock after its first or second engagement.

I'm curious to know the military history regarding the relationship between (a) how much a country faces an existential threat vs. (b) the attributes of their weapon designs.
"According to the university’s lawyers at Nixon Peabody, the litigation is the first-of-its-kind 'direct patent enforcement' campaign against an entire industry."

Didn't the CSIRO from Australia do something similar with respect to their wifi patents?
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And the entire gaming industry.
good, somebody should sue these people for making bulbs that give people headaches!!!
“Creation, distribution, discussion, or any thought about encryption is illegal and will be punishable by up to life in prison under new anti-terrorism laws.” They will certainly try I am sure but at the end of the day encryption is just math and that is impossible to ban.
Because you can read a sentence much quicker than you can listen to an audio clip of that same sentence. The inflections don't convey as much unambiguous information as actual words. Was that sigh because someone was tired, frustrated, or just needed to take a breath?
By what metric? I have friends that have been working warehouses in Ohio since the early 2000s and they have vented frustrations to me about how Amazon is causing a race to the bottom for warehouse labor.

I've heard a lot of horror stories about Amazon warehouses. I'm sure a lot of it is FUD or whatever, but it seems that even Walmart has better conditions.
> There's a trove of clever people on HN

I think there is trove of people who think they are clever on HN. Most likely includes me, but I don't comment much because of that reason.

Disc: Googler.
I've seen this and it works rather well in that one can have per-language bottom level build setup (with autoconf for C, setuptools for Python, ...).
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I've seen these arguments repeatedly, yet I only see this mattering to those companies where employees have a relative level of power and choice (e.g. non-game industry programmers, etc). Elsewhere, the attitude appears to have remained: "use them as much as possible". Consider assistant managers at your local chain store. Pick a chain! Outside of a handful of companies that are well noted for their bucking of the trend, regardless of market, these employees will be used and abused, year after year. If my anecdotal experience is representative, the more they actually care about the job, the more they'll be abused. Managers get the same, and by the time you get to district or regional managers, they are mostly the people that survived the lower levels...where "survived" means "did the abusing" not "got burnt out and quit for greener pastures".
I lost my dad to this. So far, nothing helps. I have no idea what the solution is. It only works when THEY want out.

But why would they?

We're brutally, brutally mean to people like this.

Every time somebody dunks on a flat earther or their ilk, puts somebody down to defend the superiority of their own worldview, they've added a brick to the wall that keeps these people from feeling like they can rejoin society.

The first time they pop out of the cave, feeble amateurs in the world of normies, they slip up just a tiny bit and get their head bitten off. There is nobody there to to say "if you tried, we'd have you". For most of us, it isn't true.

It seems like few people realize that this is part of the residue we unwittingly leave on the world. That the cost of performative intellectual superiority, even if you're actually right, is the burning of rungs on their ladder back up.

Needlessly dunking on misguided people worsens a world that we ourselves are stuck with.

Be nice.
> and then I said something unkind about someone I don't even know.

I personally try to thank our office's cleaning lady. She does a lot of work, and everyone appreciates it.
From looking at the release notes, while still not perfect, it looks like things have improved significantly with this update.

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-prorender...
Seems obvious for anybody that's had a job. I'm more self-motivated than the average person. I'll go above and beyond on tasks and take pride in my work, which benefits the company. But if I work in a shitty workplace, even my work ethic and quality will drop and I might even start doing less than is required.
I, too, have contributed to Wikipedia, although I don't really find my contributions to GA/FA efforts to have colored my preferences.

I'm not sure what you find "fishy" or "holey"; a trip down memory lane is relatively easy. Lojban's early history explains the "bad blood" very well: James Cooke Brown, inventor of Loglan and head of the Loglan institute, was upset that people wanted to use Loglan in their own ways, without his approval. [0][1] The dispute was so bad that the courts got involved. [2] The Logical Language Group decided that it would be better to fork the language than to deal with Brown's attempts to control the community.

pe'i ko tavla fo lo jbobau fi'o kansa lo se jbobau

Edit: I found lojbab's own words on the fork: https://mw.lojban.org/papri/the_Loglan-Lojban_Dispute

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loglan

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

[2] https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914bf26add7b049347ac5...
Thank you so much, I'll pass on the message. Really appreciate it!
Same; except it's a Dell Inspiron that's about 16-18 years old. It's outlasted a couple of my thinkpads but that's probably because I've taken those thinkpads places I would have never taken the Inspiron.
> But causes for a pause are not necessarily under your control or the OSes privilege; You can take a critical section, write to a local file .... and wait 20 seconds because the drive has gone to sleep, someone competing for the disk, swapping in/out, a recoverable disk error, or the fact that it is not actually local but rather virtualized SAN across the internet.

If the write to the local file needs to be protected by a critical section (seems unlikely to me, but... I can imagine some situations like that), the alternative is performing the write inside of a CAS loop instead.

When the CAS-loop fails (because its been 20-seconds and the compare-and-swap has a grossly different value you were waiting on) you have to perform a 2nd I/O operation and restart the entire computation.

What is more performant? Locking your other threads? Or potentially doing extremely expensive work repeatedly?

Locking your other threads (especially if there are some other threads that have work to do) could very much be the more performant answer. In fact, I would argue that the locking implementation is more likely to be work efficient.

> Upon a quick review of history, my use of lock free structures and algorithms is dominated by reliability requirements ("nothing must unexpectedly pause the system" - mostly seqlocks), and only a few cases for performance - mostly shared lists and shared (often reference) counters.

I think that is reasonable and typical. I think beginners think of "lock free" as a potential improvement to efficiency. But the advantages of lock free are entirely independent of performance, it has more to so with requirements as opposed to performance in most cases.
>The balance of calendar 2019 will be an exciting period, with major launches on all of our platforms, new services and several new products"

A nitpick, but I wish people in business would diversify their vocabulary and learn to use words other than "exciting" to describe everything. Calling something exciting does not make it so. Show why it's exciting, don't just claim that it is.
> In general the spread operator should only be used for forwarding arguments not for array operations.

Not quite. You should also use the spread operator when you are spreading an iterable into an array:

const unique = [...new Set(arr)];
Everyone has something to hide... and do you really want your fetishes and sexual interests tracked and profiled? That random BDSM video you viewed, etc
ML conferences have way bigger budgets.
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Sorry for your predictions about 2025 are going to be debunked in a few years :)
I’ll keep the book on my list
> [porn] is very easily classifiable with a list of the physical features of actors (with maybe a few behavioral distinctions), the actors in the video, how they are matched ("how" doing a lot of heavy lifting here) and possibly director, producer, and age of content, it would be easy for them to have a very specific dossier on all users. Moreover, it would be financially beneficial, because it'd be easy to maximize engagement with that stuff and a past record of engagement time

See, this was my thinking when I created an account and tried to train the recommendation algorithm.

I was sorely disappointed when the secret sauce turned out to be nothing more than:

for vid1 in watch_history[:-10]:
for vid2 in all_videos: // Notice how it does not exclude watch_history
best[Levenshtein_distance(vid1.title, vid2.title) + Math.random()] = vid2
return ksort(best)

I would conclude their engagement maximizer is meant to give me the worst possible recommendations just so I spend more time on the site and load more pages (ad banners) before I find something, but then it would have taken the highest Levenshtein distance instead of the lowest. I'm not sure what the sibling comment from jedberg ("They’re doing all that stuff and have been for many years.") is on about, because they are definitely not matching the video content. I'm guessing it's still too computationally expensive. Reverse psychology (letting you think that you are getting personalized hits but giving you unrelated stuff instead) seems a bit too much like a conspiracy theory. And the theory of giving you something somewhat-good does not explain why it always matches the title and never anything else.
Spreadsheets, common. "maintained really well", not so common, so that's great!

Congratulations, you joined a very resourceful company that was able to concentrate ruthlessly on their product-market fit by leveraging the tech that they knew.

Now you can take all the spreadsheets and the glue code, and then cover the entire system with behavioural end-to-end tests.

Then you get to pick one part at a time and develop a replacement with a more standard stack, keeping the old and new part running in parallel, looking for differences in behaviour in order to discover functionality hidden in the spreadsheets and add to your test suite.

Then when it's all done you have a great story to tell about how you took a startup that had a great product-market fit but an unorthodox stack and migrate it to something that let the company hire from a more accessible pool of devs.
I don’t like this false dichotomy. It’s a truism “you can be right or you can be happy”. You can be right and happy. In my experience yes-men are often sad and keep shallow company. If you’re getting a lot of pushback from the group you’re in you might be in the wrong group.
Thats not federated though. It's the opposite. That's a centralized middleman.
Anything customer oriented tends to benefit
I think those Psychonetics people were also inspired by Heinlein's ideas about Speedtalk[1] from “The Gulf”.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedtalk
Playstation, xbox 360 / xbone, & more all work with it. Use those!
It seems you agree with me:

>With the exception of machine learning,
There's nothing _wrong_ with touch ID. It's just that FaceID is way better. It is faster and more seamless, it can work even if you are wearing gloves.

Plus, it lets the phone not display sensitive notification details until you are the one looking at the screen(with attention detection on, the default, you have to be really looking at it), only then it will display the details(including actual messages, depending on how it's configured). This is great in many scenarios.
Looks like you have a good plan there :)
Drug research? Really? There is no part of Apple that is optimized for drug research. Even with the iPhone, they already had an OS that was the basis for it.
In bulk, as opposed to targeted spying - you can send an agent to hide behind the bushes, or plant a microphone, or infiltrate a group. Which was possible for a long time before computers or electronics (minus the microphone example), but it's not possible to do it at scale - you can spy on a few hundred people this way, but not on a few million.
They did build a land version of the EMALs launch system. Here it is launching a F-35. There must have been a design change between when this was built & tested, and when they installed it on the Ford. Which would be the wrong thing to do - always install upgrades/changes in test before production.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDAQtlmtCe8
No, their model is fine. Sell a decent product for money. The problem lies squarely with hordes of credulous morons who either don’t know or don’t care that their news is fake, and aren’t willing to shell out for quality content. Whether that exposes a deeper flaw in human nature, or is just an oddity of our times, is left to you to decide.
Have you ever been in a real warehouse? One that's baking in the sun in the summer, no AC because it's too costly, probably 100 degrees inside, no ventilation, pallet dust everywhere and you get a nice inhale when something is moved on the floor, not being in a technologically present company where machines break constantly and you need to do a lot of manual work in these conditions lifting a 35lb box every 8-12 seconds for 12 hours....
I've never really gone to tube sites (I just know how much business they do), but I can't believe it's that bad. I'd also think it would be cheap enough computationally, and iafd.com has pretty much compiled and indexed everything already.

Maybe there's an opening for someone who can do it cheaply, or they've discovered that it's not worth it?
People are joking in this thread but I think the REALLY BIG problem is that a lot of American workers are increasingly internalizing their compensation needs above other needs like health, happiness, or social well being. When we should be concentrating on a lot of our personal issues, we kick the ball down the road saying "oh when I have more money" or "oh when my career progresses" when we would be much better served by acting on them immediately and with highest priority.
I think it's doable if you're at the right place and have enough opportunities around you, and something to show for. I feel that companies and startups around tech hubs are more willing to give someone a chance, and look through the formality, if you manage to convince / impress them.

Where I live, far away from tech, it's almost impossible to land a job in ML / AI / DS unless you have a (minimum) Masters degree in something relevant. Preferably a Ph.D and solid experience to show for - I know because I work in the field, and lots of F500 dinosaurs are just now waking up. But are also unfortunately clinging to their old ways of hiring people.

Schools all over are also picking up slack, starting to offer specialized graduate degrees in those domains. When I got my degree in ML, it was a sub-field at my schools engineering department, mixed up with signal processing and control theory groups.

When first trying to get a job, the main problem was to explain what I actually could bring and do, and a lot of the recruiters or managers had no idea what Machine Learning was. Then you said "It's basically Artificial Intelligence" and, and they were instantly wooed.
In anything…

People like to rag on psychology for this, but the same replicability problem affects a lot of fields. Some of it is sloppiness (or straight-out fraud, which is more likely here) but it's also just that science is hard!