skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite all the HN comments, Apple's made an absolute killing and charges FAR FAR higher margins for their products in part because they design them so normal people don't get totally f'd over.

And yes, the scam of a trash after market battery to make the iphone battery life look good is well known. And guess how many parents and grandparents then go to apple to "fix" something that has nothing to do with Apple?

The scammers are the people putting the bogus batteries in. Apple saying that the battery is not confirmed genuine is not a scam. Its the truth.

People can't figure out why apple can charge such ridiculous premiums on what is otherwise a commodity product. This is why.

From applecare to the activation lock to app permissions to alerting user to bogus behavior to app store quality to reversible charging cables - all the activities HN considers "anti-consumer" have helped make consumers value apple products. This will be one of those situations.

Now when you buy a used phone, much more likely to have a real sense of the battery quality in what you are buying. 3 year used apple products ALREADY carry a much higher premium vs android phones, this will help continue that trend.

And no, it's NOT that hard to replace a battery in an iphone, seriously, for all the folks complaining about that go to an apple store or buy a kit, and compare the hassle to doing the same thing with a android phone.
Is it proven to be violated? Or just currently "violated" by the best known (but not necessarily optimal) approach?
I was just thinking about the grass isn't always greener kind of situation. Everyone hopes somewhere else is going to (have to?) be better than here. Where ever there/here actually are.
I am not blaming anyone. But the same was mostly true when FOSS was young -- most users wanted convenience, not tinkering. But early FOSS supported tinkering regardless, probably because FOSS was frequently a hobby, developers (not users) did want tinkering and built it for themselves.
Do you mind naming the company? And more importantly are you guys hiring?
A race to the "promised async hell".

I wonder how many devs are struggling to debug and fix bad code written using Promise and async features. With care you can use these features safely and productively, but it is also very easy to make subtle mistakes that cause intermittent faults or strange corner case errors.
Nope, I'm in Germany and I was in the closed beta or quite some time.
The UI improved dramatically in the last months.
hackernews shadow bans as well, and I'm sure many other sites do. Next they will patent commenting on an online web page.
Update on 2015 Security Incident
Valve are not a monopoly. Steam's competition is not Epic, it is piracy.
Don't write HTML messages. Write instead short, concise plain text mails with a clear question for action of the recipient.

And let people unsubscribe by using standard mailing list headers or a hyperlink which does not lead to a login form. It is in your interest: If your mails are marked as spam in big services (Gmail...), your reputation is suffering.
Not to mention lawn darts or kinder eggs
Ex Post Picking
> A Corporation is legally required to work only to increase the value of a share, nothing more.

No. That's a misconception. Corporate directors are required to act in the interests of the shareholders, but they have a lot of discretion in determining what those interests are and how they are to be served.

Here's a reference from a decent law school:
https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/academics/clarke_business_...
For those that lived through the Windows 9x desktop monopoly in the 90s, the Internet Explorer monopoly, etc, they will see Microsoft as a prime example of how monopolies are terrible.

In fact the few areas where you actually see Microsoft improve things are in areas where they have experience but don’t actually have a monopoly (eg IDEs).
Does the author include "Falsehoods Programers Believe about $FOO" style articles? I generally find them to be clear about the fact that these are lists of false statements, especially since there's generally no content to each falsehood outside of stating it (sometimes they provide counterexamples).
Same. The only thing I am surprised is that people here are defending this practice.

I wonder if the loyalty to Apple is genuine or desperation.
Funny how the institute was founded to show how big an idiot George W Bush was. And what really for?
Python and Ruby. I don’t see how you could not want static typing. Not least because of it’s documenting qualities. Otherwise what are we relying on variable and method names to tell us what type something is?! Ha ha.

Lisp OTOH I could forgive the non static typing for the learning opportunity but not sure I’d use lisp for production code for the same reason unless there is a type checker utility.

I’ll put up with JS because of the Web and I can use TS but for server side I won’t use Ruby and Python as I can slot in C# or Java or Haskell and have much better time.

Finally Elm: definitely worth learning but hit its limitations pretty quick. The problem is you have to route everything in your app through their mandated UI pattern (imagine a web app where every piece of state including the currently viewed month of a date picker 20 levels deep HAS to be a React prop on the root object updatable only in in one root place with no abstractions like interfaces or type classes or even hell monkey patching dynamic language stuff to tame this problem).
If it's just a sensor on the other end of the telescope then it's not a person.
At first I read "bad breathalyzer" as one that tells you to use mouthwash, and not as the assumed intended bad=bogus wording.
In Japan you only have to pay if you have a device with a working TV tuner, this includes car navigation systems with broadcast TV tuners (there are lots of these in Japan!) However, the BBC rule of watching live TV on any device appears to be a completely different test of legality to Japan.

Interestingly enough ‘NHK Kara Kokumin Wo Mamoru Tou’ (The ‘Protect Citizenry from NHK’ Party) won a seat in Japanese parliament at the recent national election!

Be it Japan or UK, it is quite the anachronism to mandate enforcement of even a government broadcaster’s business model. Doing so regardless of how much use or benefit you get, makes it a sort of regressive tax.
Information security system integration consulting shops. I think we had some pen testing going on but the but the money was made selling a new IBM governance tool or SIEM solution and then a new security manager comes in and he prefers SailPoint or Microsoft so everything gets switched over.
Journals publish on the web, albeit often behind a hard paywall. When one doesn't mention the the journal it appears in, the year or title of the study, and it doesn't appear in the list of many papers associated with the professor at Wikipedia a simple link would assist. You have to wonder if the choice not to link is obfuscatory, especially when several other discussions in the article are very carefully cherry picked - not mentioning a global ban on whaling for instance.

Besides, it is the web, it is only courtesy to the reader link and cite. I think less of mainstream media who don't link to source or cherry pick. So I am certainly going to think less of someone who claims to be a scientist who doesn't bother, and question their motives just as strongly.
$5.2bn loss, including $4bn from stock-based compensation.

Net cash used in operating activities: $922mn.

Slides: https://s23.q4cdn.com/407969754/files/doc_financials/2019/Q2...
Honda’s New Tactic for Attracting First-Time Car Buyers: Esports
Don't forget power consumption. Electricity costs are probably just as big as a factor as Cperformance when it comes to the number of computer Google has.

IBM quoted them as willing to switch to POWER if they could save 10% in energy costs
> Someone noticed that crime rates have gone down, and that this correlates with reduced usage of leaded gasoline in North America.

…and the rest of the world… and it always happens after lead regulation… and there's a reasonable mechanism… did you read the article?

> Correlation does not prove causation.

This is a "middle-brow dismissal".

Anyway, here's an RCT on lead reduction in children: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20160056
Hmm. I wonder if this could be controlled enough to make a proper reflow oven, with temperature curves controlled by a host computer?
Unless you trust the GitLab team to be better than Microsoft owned GitHub
this is actually an existential financial threat for some people:

- SIM swap to get obtain SMS/telephone capability

- hijack email, if known + non-2FA or known SMS/telephone 2FA

- this could be socially engineered as well - "sorry, i forgot my password to that email account, can you change it to..."

- using gathered intel from email (e.g. monthly statements), call up banks/financial account (many of which are non-2FA or SMS/telephone 2FA)

- password reset/etc any accounts without 2FA or with SMS/telephone 2FA

- social engineer way into bank/financial accounts

- drain and profit

i've seriously considered tying up financial stuff to an undisclosed phone number on its own account.
Wasnt that bad. H.264 ratified in 2003, meanwhile even first Xbox released in 2001 (~celeron 733MHz) can play H.264 480p 2.5Mbit (DVD resolution, equal quality to 10Mbit mpeg2) movies with ease, just as desktop budget processors released in 2001 (Celeron 800/Duron 800, both included SSE).

Higher resolutions were another matter. 720p needed at least 2GHz Athlon/2.8GHz P4 for smooth H.264 720p 5Mbit playback. Either top of the line 2003 CPUs, or 2006-2007 budget ones.

H.264 1080p 30Mbit bluray released in 2006 could be decoded purely in software on top of the line 2006-2007 CPUs (dual core P4, A64 X2).
Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate
How to keep data up‑to‑date at scale
Uber falls 12% after reporting disappointing quarterly results
>> Hasn't Reddit been issuing shadow bans for the last decade?

vBulletin has been doing it for well over 15 years too.
No, that sentence was about a strong pro-BBC sentiment; goldcd's "backlash" is about a hypothetical anti-BBC one.

I stopped owning a TV way back in 2004, specifically out of disgust at the BBC piling in to the property bubble insanity along with everyone else. If that's what "noncommercial" buys you, I don't really see the point.

And I think the drift is less about the popularity of BBC TV channels versus non-BBC TV channels, than about the move to streaming and other Internet versus TV in general.
AWS has AMD machines. Amazon claims they perform worse than the Intel machines they use, and they are priced lower as a result.
Hacker News doesn't simply arrange comments by the number of upvotes they receive, it also considers the karma of the commenters and the freshness of the comments. Also, when submissions aged and comments settled, the current top comment would always get a lot of upvotes due to its position, and lock them "in place" by the strong positive feedback.

So I doubt if reading the top comments is a very objective method for evaluating controversial discussion (it has a strong correlation, but maybe not the best). Often, I see very heated discussion and competing comments moving up and down until nobody is interested in spending more energy in the debate.

P.S: Invasive profiling and tracking can be a very effective (and possibly, the only) method to uncover insights on the dynamics of online forums like Hacker News. If we track users' every move, it could make great contribution to sociology and psychology researches, and may even help answering unsolved questions in order to building a better community for everyone. Unfortunately, it's too dangerous and unethical to use, I won't support it, but I'm always curious to know the results.
Subinterpreter Support for Python (2018)
This seems like misdirection. Gitlab's largest problem is their record of operational incompetence. This will take some time to recover from. Personally, I won't use them for a least two more years, based on their data loss incident two years ago.

I do wish them luck. Github/Microsoft should have a credible competitor.
'Nobody was ever against Katie' is a bold claim not at all backed up by the thread or the harassment she received which was addressed by her colleagues.

It seems like rather than own up to the fact that yes there were people that were remarkably awful to her and attempting to downplay her contributions it's easier to just blame the media.

It's frankly disgusting.
Black Mirror is amazing because of this. I absolutely love British humor or is it humour?
as an author of a small batch (~10, give or take some at various stages) software patents, my experience has been so far that the strictest filter is your company patent office - they usually pick the crappiest ideas dismissing the better ones with long-winded explanations (which almost always can be reduced to "too science-y") - and whatever crap they decide to throw on the USPTO wall seems to be sticking there just fine. I'm really curious about USPTO examiners brain inner workings :)
I think this deserves a reminder that Facebook cancels all of your licenses to all of their software (which includes such things as React) if you are in any sort of patent dispute with them (whether they've filed it against you or you against them).
The current system was started after WWII (I think), so keep that in mind. If they were rolling it out today, it probably would be implemented differently.
> I had to work with over 4000 lines of code and thousands of pages of specifications. I also had to redesign my breakout board to better handle the power. In the end, I hope this project can help other people understand USB-C more deeply.

The spirit that moves us forward as a people.
Yes, MS is intent on grabbing that cloud market as best as they can. It's phenomenal how many technologies they're coming up with to do that. They want you to use their tools, love them, and naturally start using Azure on your next project.
A Review of Perl 6 (2017)
Uber Q2 Disappoints by Wide Margin, Shares Plummet
The default result for a startup founding engineer who gets "kicked upstairs" into a CTO role is for them to end up with no real responsibilities and end up leaving the company in ~12 months. Happens all the time.

Using Google as an example for how things should work is generally a poor idea due to the huge outlier nature of the company.
> it also considers the karma of the commenters

Karma doesn't affect ranking on HN. This comes up often enough that I wonder where the idea came from. Do other forums work this way?
Azure DevOps already is moving towards YAML build configurations. I wouldn't doubt it if it was the exact same tech under the hood.
jq is freaking awesome! It can do amazing stuff, it's like awk for JSON on steroids. Highly recommend reading the documentation: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/
No doubt they are struggling to show a path to profitability, but $3.9B of that is a one-time recognition of all their stock comp which makes look much worse than it should (Assuming that a 1.3B loss is more "normal")
Getting an entry level IT position later in life
Farmers do lose the rights to their land when they are given urban hukou, but that is part of the divine central government intervention I was referring to. It isn’t usually the case that they are migrants, but their land is being “liberated” by a nearby city and their hukou is being changed to urban so that they no longer have rights to that land anyways (they’ll also be given a small apartment, good luck with your new career as a non-farmer!).

This is a bit different from people moving from one place to another, and involves another nuance between urban and rural hukou within the same area.
Being a small language would be irrelevant to JS. The web could benefit from a sound type system built into browsers (aka typescript in the strict mode), but it's not like anybody complains about python lacking the type system, right? What web really needs is a way to write highly modular apps and let the browser download only relevant modules, with caching, prefetching and so on. None of the attempts have worked so far. If you look an any app today, it looks like the main module that has static deps on other modules that deoent on other modules and so on. When everything is linked together, we get this 50MB binary. Not a big deal for native apps or services, but it's a big deal for web apps that need to download all this mess and maybe actually use 20%. There is no way today to conveniently write a web app that would pull only necessary modules at runtime. It's not just that the language is missing some keywords, it's about the entire web world is designed around static linking: we'd need to redo existing non modules, existing frameworks, upgrade to http2 for batching multiple requests to download a bunch of small modules and so on. That's a lot of work that needs a lot of expensive devs and the returns of that work are non existent: there's no profit to be made there. That's why it'll stay this way: bloated web apps with thousands of unused deps.
We had something like this with printers and ink cartridges and toner. I think manufactures eventually lost. One example https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news...
You're wrong about multiple things here.

Regular moderators can effectively shadowban inside their subreddits by using AutoModerator and telling it to remove all posts made by certain users.

Reddit Gold has literally been renamed to Reddit Premium and is described officially as both a "premium membership" and a "subscription": https://www.reddit.com/premium
I view this as Apple not vouching (in the form of verifying/stating the health of a battery) unless THEY have a complete 'chain-of-custody' for the battery.

Honest question: How can Apple KNOW it's a genuine apple battery, if it's not replaced from THEIR inventory? Moving a battery from one phone to another doesn't really mean anything, as the article states you can move the TI chip from one battery to another battery. Seem to me then that the underlying battery can be something other than the GENUINE battery.

Amazon is replete with fraudulent SD cards pretending to be one make/capacity when in reality they're not the same quality/size as a real card.
Kubernetes open sourced their security audit. What can we learn?
Yes, race is a feature of facial recognition. Is that racist? This algorithm seems to be specifically built to detect non-ethnic Chinese faces to further discrimination.
> A majority of that [$5.2B] — about $3.9 billion — was caused by stock-based compensation that Uber paid its employees after its I.P.O. Excluding that one-time expense, Uber lost $1.3 billion, or nearly twice the $878 million that it lost a year earlier.

Not exactly as bad as the headline makes it sound, but still bad. EDIT: Still very bad. Obviously!
I could just as well say "This is not an honest comment." Much of what you said was addressed in the article.

For example, related to the "multiplier is precisely zero" paper, Cochrane says:

> Krugman asserts that I and others ‘believe’ ‘that an increase in government spending cannot, under any circumstances, increase employment’ and that we ‘argued that price fluctuations and shocks to demand actually had nothing to do with the business cycle’. These are just gross distortions,unsupported by any documentation or the lightest fact-checking, let alone by examination of any professional writing. And Krugman knows better. All economic models are simplified to exhibit one point; we all understand the real world is more complicated. Krugman’s job as a professional economist with a newspaper column is supposed to be to explain that to lay readers. These quotes about academic opponents would be rather like somebody looking up Krugman’s early work (which assumed away transport costs) and claiming in the Wall Street Journal, ‘Paul Krugman believes ocean shipping is free, how stupid’.

That is: Yes, his paper "said that", and no, that's not what his paper was saying. And a reasonable reading of his paper would have known that. And a thorough and charitable reading of this article would have revealed that.
I feel like everyone who uses MS these days and still doesn't carry over distrust cultivated in the 90s knows that the problem isn't going to be lock in. But I'm sure MS's end game is to make you want to use Azure more, which is fair game.
That's what parallel construction is for!
I understand the field perfectly well, well enough to know a thing or two about capacity factors.

It's not a question of cost but of simple physics.

Batteries aren't going to solve anything what so ever. We would need fuel cells which is theoretically possible but as far out as fusion when it comes to actually have something that works in practice.
Lots and lots of software patents wouldn't pass a reasonable non-obviousness test. Until the patent rules get changed, every big tech company will patent everything under the sun.
> .. that I'd say few teams could've pulled off in a non-Lisp.

Would you mind expanding on this? (I’m not asking facetiously either)
Fun thought. It would probably be much easier (and more dangerous?) simply using a relay and switching mains voltage than 20v DC for such an application.
> And there is a very large internal migration from states like New York to states like Virginia

I don't feel particularly qualified in this area, it's an interesting question though; but, this really needs a citation. I think you're making a very strong claim here, that there is a "very large" migration from New York to Virginia -- although I have a problem with the qualifier "states like" -- what does that mean? Blue/red states? Northeast/South? Does "states like Virginia" include Florida, because that feels like a pretty strong outlier for the rest of the South.

In any case, here's a little information I've found, which I don't have the time right now to seriously analyze to support or refute your statement

* https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/04/moves-from-so...
* ttps://www.census.gov/data/tables/2018/demo/geographic-mobility/cps-2018.html

Then there's the issue of comparing median income, without including average or standard deviation in the analysis. And while I can see the value of adjusting for Regional Price Parity, I would be curious to see a county-by-county breakdown of New York state -- I would guess the burough of Manhattan ("New York County" apparently) would also be a dramatic outlier, statistically, compared to the rest of the state.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics, I need to see a lot more to feel convinced of either argument.
Code Golf: Yahtzee Small Straight Detection
> No, it's not. The alt-right uses anonymous web boards like this one (but not HN to my knowledge) to coordinate and celebrate mass shootings that are directly admitted to be race-focused and white-supremacist-led. (Edit: The alt-right does use HN to spread hate and their "ideology", but I have not seen direct specific calls to violence here)

I'm not sure they are calling themselves alt-right or match that description. They are also not coordinating attacks but posting their manifestos and celebrating is correct.

I could of course be wrong and I know that the alt-right movement has been mired with white supremacists and others from the start but I did like the description when it at least on surface was not about that but a different take on the dominant version of the right-wing in the US; similar to the tea party movements or difference between socialism and democratic socialism.
Apple opens up and increases awards in bug bounty program
If memory serves from when I used to work for a retailer (some 30 years ago now) we were required to submit the name & address of anyone who rented/bought a TV. I think they just tallied this list against their database.