skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A portion of the wages of the higher paying job you're theoretically commuting to are priced in.

Aka "it's what the market will bear" or "supply and demand"
Version your API from day one (instead of company.com/api, support company.com/api/v1). This makes it a lot easier to support legacy users.
I read the announcement and was pretty impressed:

- 20% faster processor

- 4 - 5 hrs better battery life

- 30% faster FaceID (I don't know how slow the previous one was, but I know the speed difference between the TouchID on my iPad Mini 3 and my iPhone 7 makes me love it on the latter and never use it on the former)

- 2000000:1 contrast ratio (!!)

- wide angle and "telephoto" lenses, plus 4k video support, and better low-light imaging

- AI image processing magic

- Dual SIM cards (a must for the Asian market)

- "immersive audio" (this is a maybe: I'll be impressed if a phone can pack speakers that beat my studio headphones, but the 2019 MacBook Pro 15" is 95% as good, so there's a possibility)

- incremental improvements to WiFi and LTE

That all sounds pretty compelling to me. I'm not sure if I want it enough to pay $1000, but this sounds like a pretty solid improvement in pretty much all ways.
Successful renewable energy infrastructure demands that large-scale, grid-tie energy storage is also in place. This is why battery tech and renewable tech are so intertwined at this time.
I still think it would have made sense for the first-gen pencil to charge off the (keyboard) accessory port. It's magnetic, it has power, and all the iPads have it now.
Dont Fall into Entrepreneurship Trap
You can achieve ALL your dreams as an employee. Millions of people have achieved financial freedom and a great lifestyle without starting a business.

Be the best employee you can be and invest a significant portion of your income.

Don't fall for the entrepreneurship trap.

You however need to look out for yourself.

Corporations look out for their own bottom line (profitability). Your bottom line is your family and your career.

Don't ever put any company's interest ahead of your family.

What I'm trying to let you know is that, while entrepreneurship is very much encouraged, you shouldn't think being an entrepreneur is the all n all to the point that you start treating your #job and #boss with disdain. Just be #SmartnPrudent
I'm a startup founder and I use my phone more than anything else to demo my company's technology. But any of the modern phones is fine for this (I've been rolling with a 7 Plus since it came out), and frankly I prefer the LCD screens to the new OLEDs because of ghosting/lag issues.

There may be other folks out there who want the fastest phone for the purposes of demoing technology. For me, I mostly just don't want to look like I'm a luddite (although I've seen a surprising number of founders/CEOs who rock the SE).
Roger that. Battery needs replacing but I'll gladly give Apple £80 to do that instead of £1.3k for a new one.

Really glad I got the 128GB 6s now... lots of storage makes the difference in longevity.
Brahma, do you know that india was founded on a caste system, part of which used children sexually for idol worship? Let's talk about how wonderful that system was before its reform!

Every single system that man has invented has relied on exchanges of goods and services. Anyone can call them exploitative, and some are. However, in America, you do have a choice. If you don't like it, you can run for a political position. You can start a non profit. You can start your own business. And if for whatever reason, you still can't stand it after all these choices have basically been handed to you, you can try living in a different nation where more or fewer of these things are available. No one in the US is going to threaten you, like in the former USSR or North Korea if you try to leave.

If all you want to do is whine, then have fun doing nothing good for your fellow man or yourself.
Maybe it's because urban environments aren't really "nice". For all I hear about the joys of urban living, as espoused by others, I haven't enjoyed it much. Public transportation is crowded and smelly. Fat people take half of my seat (not nice to say, but I'm not sure how else to put it). Things are small, which for a taller guy like me, is pretty tough. As in, every thing is tiny. Living spaces, shops, streets. Streets often have trash strewn on them, and don't smell particularly good. I have to keep one hand on my wallet. Sometimes, hobos got aggressive. Not as much as an issue for me, but I'd hate to be a 4'9" lady. Keeping pets is hard. Cooking food is hard. I didn't have kids, but those I knew had a hard time with them. Things are very expensive. It's loud. There's a lot of traffic. Some times (all winter and some times in summer), it's bad weather for walking. I guess I shouldn't be complaining, since I at least didn't see much in the way of human feces.

This is not to say there aren't up-sides. I like the food, and there are interesting people. It's also much easier to find certain things; for instance, a few major cities still have serious "maker shops" with tons of electronic components. Smaller ones or sub-urban areas often can't accommodate them, as they are in low enough demand that serious density is required.

Maybe this is just NYC. I didn't live there a really long time, and I guess I might have gotten used to it? Still, I like sub-urban living and empty green space. I can hardly blame people for moving out, if it's viable.
It is just an upgrade to an existing lineup of Xs+Max, but with a reworked naming scheme (similar to iPad vs. iPad Pro). It is about as Pro as Xs+Max were.

Do you see a lot of artists using iPad Pro as their main tool? Me neither, but I do see a lot of them using it as their secondary tool that also doubles as a general-purpose personal computing device. Which is what, I feel, iPhone Pro lineup was made for.
Yes but if you change architectures, you will have replaced much of your original codebsae.
They can call it what they want and I understand what they were going for, but it'll always be iPhone Ecks to me.
People have complained for years about battery life. So Apple finally increases the battery slightly, and now I see people complaining about the weight. I understand now why Apple has resisted this for so long.

All Apple phones are too thin, too slippery, and too light. I want my Treo back! At least give me the curved 3GS again.
When you wake up exhausted (or not) you can see what/when contributed to that.

I used such for a couple years. Best part was specifying what time range I wanted to wake up, and it would watch for the best actual time to wake me. Much happier mornings then.
I live in a 3rd world country and had to go to hospital with no power and no lights. It was chaos, amputations by flashlight, doctors unable to see where to hook up IVs, etc etc. How could you honestly think that the power going off would be anything except a horrible horrible thing?
> 300 murders

I don't understand. (I live in chicago)
Have they solved OLED burnin? A static always-on watch face seems risky.

What do people think the lifetime of this is, 3 years? 10 years?
I’m betting this will have horrible noise temperature. Not good for receiving.
I categorize announcements in two buckets:

1. Spec bumps: These are mostly invisible to the consumer, it just gives them a phone that's slightly faster or lasts longer. Faster matrix multiply falls into this category.

2. Features: These are actual changes the user can see and interact with. I named a few examples, both on software (animoji/sound focus) and hardware (face unlock/soli) side.

This presentation had almost none of the latter, other than Dark Mode. I'm not sure why that statement is so hard to understand. None of the stuff you named were really features. No one goes to the store to buy the phone with the slightly faster cpu or better matrix multiplies.
1980 watches: 30g and cost $35

https://www.timex.com/browse/collections/ironman/

(sorry)
Amazon is perfectly profitable. AWS being more profitable does not make the ecommerce unprofitable. Also profit is a financial formula derived from actual operating costs and margins.

Free cash flow has nothing to do with positive or negative cash flow, it is the payment cycle of AR vs AP that gives them a very big buffer to work with. Also you can't claim that they have very little space for growth and then discount the very subsidiary that's growing fastest.

Reinvestment isn't some made up argument, the company has been taking gross profits and reinvesting into expansion for decades. It's what they do best and it's crystal clear in the financial performance. Claiming that Amazon is insolvent (do you know what that means?) except for a single subsidiary is ridiculous and seems to indicate a failure in understanding the business or accounting.
Pound hit a low of 1.1959 a week ago, and The Telegraph noted "there is a risk of sterling falling further"[1]. Taking that price gives £1002.42 ((999/1.1959)*1.2), and pricing in a potential drop doesn't seem totally unreasonable.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/09/03/markets-live...
I'm not sure that Ruby is actually any faster or more expressive than Python. Having used both languages I consider them roughly equivalent.
I find that placing my device on my ankle is significantly more comfortable for night-time tracking.

The band I have is of a suitable length for both wrist and ankle use.
Interesting, I don't mind sleeping with a watch band on and there are a few 3rd party sleep tracking apps for the apple watch already that are decent.

My biggest complaint is there's no way to disable the screen that's good enough for sleeping. In theater mode it still wakes up if you tap the glass and I accidentally bump it way too often when lying in bed. I really want a better night time mode where only pressing the crown will light up the screen. If they do add an officially supported sleep tracker I hope they'd run into this issue and fix it.
Wireless but still needs power, no? And my computer has to be on?

The rest of my complaint is mostly about how complicated a restore becomes if I was using local backup, and then arent home for a while, and need to remerge local and cloud backups. Last I remember, the interface makes you choose one or the other to restore, and then your version history gets all mucked up, as the one you choose becomes the new golden branch.
There was a post here recently about an attempt to bring those concerns to Rust: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-pitch/#
Dear devs, please `return false` from your keypress handlers (or preventDefault, stopPropagation, any of them!)

Otherwise my browser doesn't know you do something important with them, and uses keyboard for its own navigation and shortcuts, which fucks up your page.
I think the school situation is a big part of it as well. Just anecdotal but almost everyone I know that left it was to go to a better school.
Animojis as "new tech" that an "average user would be excited over"?
Alan Kay has been known to post here[1].

He hasn't posted in a long time, but rtm has also been on here[2].

Walter Bright is a relatively frequent poster[3].

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alankay1

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rtm

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=WalterBright
but, isn't that like, socialism? /s
If you're going to lay off people in a cross cutting manner, who would you choose?
Forget about microphone. How about a small radio receiver inside the explosives that the seat has. If the correct signal come, the ejection seat fire. No more worries that the place is coming to attack you ;-)
To my mind this quarter shouldn't be used at all in this kind of discussion since its so messy. e.g.: I take your point, but that $2.56B is the culmination of over ten years of R&D compensation. It's not at all representative of the company's broader financials.

OP's inference that Uber's quarterly loss is more than double Uber's quarterly R&D costs in general shouldn't be propped up by a moment in time observation.
> Be the first with self-driving taxis

This is thrown out all the time. How exactly does this save them?

Are they going to spend billions to purchase and maintain a fleet of their own taxis? Are they going to be paying people to "borrow" their self-driving cabs? Something else?

I just don't see how this suddenly changes the equation in a meaningful way. People aren't going to spend more for a self-driving ride and the costs can only go down so much.
We're using a pretrained model on tensorflow. However, we're planning to make it in-house in the near future.
There is surplus value to the customer that you aren't accounting for. Mass transit is a far worse experience than Uber.
> How many people will refrain from charging because it is going to cost you $50 instead of $10? [..] Given that traffic never gets better I would say none!

Are you honestly trying to argue it doesn't have any effect? "What day of the week is best to fill your tank" is like an age-old question. Obviously within reason. Not if your tank is empty and you have to be somewhere. Less so for people who think this to be beneath them. And probably also less so in places with cheap fuel (US i hear?). But it certainly changes behavior and is a good & easy first step.
Now this is slick. I don’t think sensor fusion is a large focus for apple, judging from their lack of talking points on it. I would think with the resources to make their own ISP they could do some serious information theory work and put out photos that look far better than what smartphones do today. I originally figured that this low hanging fruit would be immediately exploited by phone manufacturers putting multiple camera sensors on a single phone, but I think that may be a little too optimistic and its something we’ll have to wait another few years to see.
Anyone else notice the irony of Cook's statement near the beginning that the last model lineup has a 99% satisfaction rate?

So why do we need new phones then? "People don't know what they want until you show it to them." ~ Steve
Ada exists because of the US Department of Defense. In particular, it formed a working group, headed by a military officer, which

>crafted the Steelman language requirements, a series of documents stating the requirements they felt a programming language should satisfy. Many existing languages were formally reviewed, but the team concluded in 1977 that no existing language met the specifications. Requests for proposals for a new programming language were issued and four contractors were hired to develop their proposals [1].

The success of the language resulting from this process was ensured by the D of D's strong desire for a standard programming language shared by all of its contractors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)#His...
I wonder how much this is due to directives to under report. I have had issues where the police refuse to report, and I've heard of many others doing that as well.
The fact that taxi cabs existed for decades and were profitable means that this price point exists. That was the whole reason lyft and uber entered the market in the first place.
I had to replace my SE battery earlier this year (well, I didn't absolutely need to, I did it because I intend to get another two years out if it). Otherwise mine is still chugging along perfectly well.

Software wise it's a perfectly fine device, definitely some limitations, but only because the processor is a four+ year old design. Some SPA or otherwise heavy webpages cause it to choke (ex: it hates USAToday), but 99% of what I try to do works great. Per Apple and MacRumours, the SE will get iOS 13. No idea how well that will run, but we'll see.

If you can get one in good shape to hold you over you'll probably be happy with it.
Sigh. Somebody always responds without reading the full comment.

"I don't like part of the first sentence therefore there's no need to consider the rest of what the comment says."

There's no sin in saying you don't agree with a comment. But please, please stop taking one point out of context just because it pushes personal "anger buttons" because you really, really have no idea.
Ah, well, I think it's certainly valid to take a CEO's behaviour as a signal you use to make predictions about their future behaviour.

And I think it's valid to use that to make predictions about the company's viability and/or make predictions about the likely outcome of any private or public stock market investment.

Choosing whether to do business with someone who fully discloses their past choices and is truthful about their future plans is a whole different thing from judging whether their past choices are criminal and/or dishonest.

Unless it is revealed that they are withholding other relevant transactions, I'd say the man is honest. But "honest" is not synonymous with, "someone I want to do business with."
> This phone is 5 years old now.

The iPhone 6s is not yet four years old, it was released in late September 2015. Still a good phone.
I have an SE still, it works completely fine. I don't really use my phone for much besides maps/social media/web browsing so I never felt like i needed a more powerful device. The camera is great.
UXem – Just another user research tool
The obvious option is to do some extra learning on your own time (or see if your employer has any programs that are designed to level up their employees) :)

You might also take yyyk's advice and look for a company that allows you to do both. If you're in one of the following areas, my company is hiring SF devs right now :D

Burnaby, BC - https://boards.greenhouse.io/goclio/jobs/1740124?gh_src=1a97...

Calgary, AB - https://boards.greenhouse.io/goclio/jobs/1816592?gh_src=aca0...

Toronto, ON - https://boards.greenhouse.io/goclio/jobs/1816593?gh_src=752a...

Canada - https://boards.greenhouse.io/goclio/jobs/1831417?gh_src=411f...

We have offices in Los Angeles and Dublin, Ireland as well and are looking for good devs right now.
> if an employer puts more weight on this quote over a candidate's qualifications then it was a bullet dodged

I generally agree with this, except when the candidate in question needs the money paid from a job more than they need a good job.
A lot of this work is self made at companies although.
The company I have experience with using personally-backed corporate cards has been around for a century, has hundreds of thousands of employees, and billions of yearly profits. While I'm sure that your comment is true, 'maturity' is definitely not the only deciding factor in personally-backed vs company-backed cards.
You don't have to carry anything to listen to music, podcasts, or audio books with the wifi-only Apple Watch (beyond the bluetooth earphones, presumably), and it tracks your run too. The thing has 16GB of storage and a full ability to exist by itself. I've never used the S3, or the Garmin, so I have no idea how great they are, but I just had to comment on the Apple Watch thing.

There are some things that the Apple Watch seemed designed to be tethered to an iPhone, almost like they were (bizarrely) afraid that it would make people not want to upgrade their phone. They've taken a really rapid approach away from that, though, and the watch is becoming dramatically more powerful by itself, even though it could already do all of the basic things.
If you keep your finger on the icon a little bit longer after the menu shows up then it will start shaking and you can delete it. No need to use the menu.
It really does seem hard to get visitors these days, even for original niche content. The first page of Google search results is half social/video/news carousels instead of genuine long-term content, and a lot of the other links point to repetitive articles published by generic big-name websites that never really add anything new.
Why would you give your open source code a tighter security and engineering review than your in-house code? Are you hoping for security through obscurity? And quality through obscurity?
This is a bizarre take. Our transit system definitely needs expansion but the W and S sides are both served by train lines. There are large areas that are pretty far from train service but that's the case on the NW side, too. Maybe you're trying to pull a fast one on people who aren't familiar with Chicago, because I'm not sure why else you wouldn't mention that those parts of town are where most of the black people live, who predominantly make up the demographics that have been leaving the city. They are leaving as a result of the legacy of segregation, and yes, inadequate transit service is an aspect of that, but generally limited economic opportunity and high crime are what drive people to move.
This so much, I had to give up going case-less after my Galaxy S2 because of that ridiculous trend of glass backs and generally fragile designs. Designs that are in fact completely useless except for marketing material because almost everyone will need to put a case around them.
We have a couple of Europeans at our company...

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...in our Toronto office.
If you already knew there was a cost difference, why didn't you just say so?

> The difference is meaningless in scalar code. Not everything is or can be vectorized.

Multiple scalars can be packed into one SSE register even in scalar code. This is not the same as vectorization.

> Pretty much no difference between one double and one float in a SSE XMM register.

Even then, some arithmetic operations have higher throughput with floats than with doubles.

> I have no idea what that means. As far as I know, there's no CPU microcode dealing with floating point numbers.

Your CPU doesn't execute the ISA directly in hardware, it first converts it into architecture specific micro-ops. That includes FP operations.

> So use floats when you have a lot of data.

That's not the point. A lot of the time, the cost difference will indeed be irrelevant. The point is that there is a cost difference.
Seriously. This giant phone trend is nonsense. Nonsense! I'm a 6'5" man with large hands who still swears by an SE, despite being mocked by friends and strangers whenever I pull out my "tiny phone". I had a 6S and promptly ditched it for an SE after feeling like the thing was designed to slip out of my enormous hands. That whole "reachability" feature they added when they started with this phablet obsession was basically an admission of guilt—"Yeah, this phone is too big for your hands and goes completely against our brilliant ad campaign about the phone vs hand size, but Samsung made a big phone and people are buying it! We're scared they're taking our customers away so we're making big phones now. Here's a workaround."

Thanks, I hate it.

As someone holding on tightly to an out of date iPhone and a 2015 MacBook Pro (oh my god, the current laptop keyboard/trackpad/port situation is a whole 'nother even more intense rant), I think Apple has fucking lost it product-wise. I'm saying this as someone who has been on Apple products since 1987 and lived through the dark days of Apple in the 90s.

To me it's an example of what happens when you put a finance guy and not a product guy at the top of the totem pole. Instead of asking "is this product the best it could be?" the thought process seems to be "Will this product make money? How can it make MORE money?"

"Yeah, it doesn't sit on a table flat anymore, but it'll sell when we market it as 'THE SHINIEST IPHONE EVER'"

"It sure is awkward to use one handed, but it'll sell when we market it as 'THE NEWEST IPHONE WE'VE EVER MADE'"

Bigger and bigger iPhones with better and better cameras and more and more letters tacked on to the end will sell to a captive audience when Apple has the brand power they do. And that might seem good enough when all you're doing is comparing yourself to what the rest of the market is releasing, and when market success is beating last year's sales. But is that the Apple we want?

Nope.

I want my Apple back. The SE was the last phone form-factor that still had Steve Job's approval on it, and it sucks that it's so obvious.