skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 11 Pro is 0.4mm thicker than the XS (and the X/XS were 0.6mm thicker than the 7). They're slowly getting there.

> We have to live with the "up to 4h" extra battery life that would probably translate in 1h of extra battery in the real world

Comparing the numbers to the stated numbers for the iPhone XS, "streaming video" has actually gone down by 3 hours. And they removed the "internet use" spec completely. You can now listen to music for 65 hours instead of 60 though.
It reminds me of the Dk “eye whiteness” tapes my parents played for us as kids (except with slightly less insightful content.)

The multiplayer thing is awesome!!
Statements like that ("we will create N jobs!") are completely meaningless.
"Pro" has been pretty useful, I think, as a marker in Apple's other product lines.

"MacBook Pro" and "iPad Pro" are the ones you buy if you need it for work, because the increased price will pay for itself with increased productivity. But buy the "Air" or basic versions if you are primarily using it for more basic tasks and media consumption.

Not sure the "Pro" distinction will hold up for iPhone, though. I guess it depends if Pro Photographers actually will give up their "Pro" cameras for an iPhone 11 Pro. And I can't think of any other profession where the iPhone Pro will "pay for itself" in productivity increases relative to other iPhones.
Healthcare has many forces driving less than optimal outcomes.

The for profit status of treatment in "western" medicine.

Laws like HIPPA that are well intention-ed, but written by lobbyists and out of field and out of date lawyers/politicians who don't understand the actual nature of data protection or the need for a patient to be in control of their medical records in meaningful ways.

There's also the lack of a national / international identity and legal / data security infrastructure: this makes it very difficult to associate government issued IDs to patient records and requests / authorizations for limited sharing of those records.

In a less crazy world the outcome might look something like this:

Everyone has a Digital ID; this is a government issued or signed PKI based contract approval key. It would be stored in a dedicated, open hardware, firmware and software, wallet that is used only for making strong signatures.

The Digital ID allows the patient to log in to government websites and associate their healthcare coverage (ideally single payer, but if they're rich and have a luxury plan that could be linked as well) at various medical centers to their (emergency) care records. They can also actively choose to, or passively allow, the sharing of specific records from one provider to anyone else, as well as obtain personal copies of all of their records from all of their providers. Any time a provider is no longer covering a given patient stewardship of those records transfers to the government agency providing this service (and is paid for out of a general fund based on taxing providers so they don't have to deal with this).

A management matrix might also allow for general records access approval, in the case that the patient just wants their entire medical history and ongoing updates to be provided to their pool of physicians.

Through that framework outside entities can also obtain access keys and links for the records at other providers which they are authorized to view the records at.

Also; of course, all of the records would be required to be in "open, patent free, free to implement record formats as standardized by the medical industry software and equipment providers"; a specific format wouldn't be legally mandated, but the use of formats that are intended to be interchangeable would be.
Fact check: R&D spend for three months ending June 2019 was $3.06B. Reported loss for three months ending June 2019 was $5.24B. So, already false.

Now take away the one-time IPO expense of $3.9B, and we're not even close to being true. Further take away the $300M "IPO driver appreciation award" and you end up with a $1B loss for three months ending June 2019. In other words, the quarterly R&D spend is over three times the size of the quarterly loss.

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
Whether it provides a valuable service is orthogonal to whether it's successful. There have been options to sublet to sort term tenants for a long time, but We seems to have a lot of other baggage.
Hm, so the crazy ugly weird lens thing was exactly as all the naysayers predicted and were called fake leakers for their trouble. Exactly. So it was a legitimate leak.
Wow, I didn't know this! Thanks!
If you specifically mean the existence of an elected group of people writing the laws matters less than people say it does, we agree.

But if you say that the systematic codification of rules (i.e., laws) matters less than people say it does, we disagree completely. Laws literally defined every major civilization back to the dawn of recorded human history.

For more modern examples, CA's employee rights laws are the reason that SV happened in SV rather than New York, Boston, Chicago, or Detroit--all cities with larger scientific and industrial bases than SF or LA. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act literally made the internet as it exists today possible; without it Youtube, Twitch, Facebook, Twitter, and even Amazon and Google couldn't exist as they do today.
It's the crisis of the hyperlink: It's diminished to the point where Google is afraid of losing it's previously dominant signal for good.

Personal publishing has moved almost entirely to platforms that `nofollow` links. And commercial sites do whatever it takes to avoid linking anywhere but back, deeper into their own site.

There have been some cases where I think people are behaving somewhat irresponsible with "nofollow": the German Wikipedia, for example, does it to all outbound links.

That's understandable from a spam-fighting perspective. But, if search engines actually implement it draconically, it deprives the search index of vast amounts of collaborative filtering.

I actually just checked, and couldn't find nofollows on either HN or Reddit links. Are they somehow setting them via some method other than the actual link tag?

In any case, I was going to suggest that nofollow makes sense for the "new" queue, but it wouldn't hurt and possibly help to remove it once user generated content has reached certain milestones, i. e. user karma, or hitting the front page.
>There are only 4000 engineers

I still feel like this is a ridiculous amount of workers when one takes into account that the product they're offering is essentially a smartphone app with a backend service that pairs drivers and customers, which regular cab markets do without almost a single person.

To me Uber feels like some sort of soviet-era experiment of replacing a market with someone micromanaging cars
Apple almost always builds up to their main announcements.
Do you really trust Apple with yours? [1][2].

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351

[2] https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/29/stop-apple-listening-siri-rec...
Yes, we are seeing very low bids. $26-$30/MWh for solar doesn't even turn heads anymore.

And battery costs are coming down too, and I think that curve looks more linear, but its coming down.

One of the issues is that these costs are so capital intensive that the financing costs drive a lot of the price drop. With near zero or negative rates in so much of the world, I think its hard to tell what the real rates would be.
Which is 20% wider and 16% taller. It's very noticeable, especially the width.
> If my SE breaks, I'll probably just pull my iPhone 1 out of storage

Fix it? The guides (and tools) from ifixit are great, screen will take a couple hours at most if you don't have shaky hands. Battery isn't too hard of a swap either.

If it's a screen, working pulls are like $30 from ebay. I don't recommend the aftermarket ones as the colors skew cold. My girlfriend's on her third SE screen now (we don't like cases) and it's still way cheaper than buying a replacement phone.
Does this cable not work to plug an iPhone into a macbook these days, or am I missing something?

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MQGJ2AM/A/usb-c-to-lightn...
Churches and nonprofits around LA do it all the time.
USually you have many volunteers with a few coordinators as paid staff
> not that far away

[Citation needed]
I don' t think that's the right income cutoff at all. In my experience the brand signaling occurs in the poor-lower-middle class regions, then stops from there all the way up to the new money but no taste crowd. Rap stars, etc. I don't know anyone in the HN/SoftwareDev income range who loves to show off brands, with occasionally some cars as maybe the exception.

Though I will say Nike shoes tend to be an exception across the board. Seems like everyone has a pair of those.
"International emergency calling also works with fall detection, if enabled, to automatically place an emergency call if Apple Watch senses the user has taken a hard fall and remains motionless for about a minute."

I like how they have thought, don't need a sim to make an emergency call, let alone credit, why not add the ability to call emergency services and use the GPS to pick the right local number.

Equally the safety feature for older people is great initiative, though I do feel for younger users, this may cause some false positives and produce an unhappy ending when suddenly your watch has called the emergency services because you had a rest after some form of exercise.

With that in mind, I'd imagine that during that minute a countdown upon the display starts and audible alert of about to call the emergency services - just to limit false positives taking up emergency services time. Also for legit cases, would offer reassurance to somebody who may be incapacitated but able to hear. Maybe they do have that, not sure, and will find out come an in depth review.
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Why does anyone care how many CPU cores, GPU shaders, or transistors the new iPhone has, then? Those shouldn't matter either if the OS manages things well, right?

Comparing RAM between different mobile OSes is not particularly relevant, but then neither is raw CPU speed or graphics horsepower. Still, people do the latter all the time - and comparing to previous iPhones IS relevant.
Dude, it is not a "contribution", it is a black-box partnership.

I will give up my data for "research" as long as I am 100% certain that my medical information will not be abused in a way that can harm me or others.

Until code is routinely audited and conforms to a strict code of ethics, you can count me out.

If you think it is "unfair", consider my position: I have a rare disease that has case reports and (small) cohorts at best in the literature. Publications on it are sparse.

Since I can be re-identified with literally zero effort, due to a lack of ethics of the STEM community, I have a target on my back.

I want to stay alive, and not be targeted by insurance companies and/or the medical-industrial complex.

Sorry, but if people want to benefit from me, then don't force unethical experimentation on me and others via big data and the wide sharing of that data.
As in a circular face? That would truncate text.
The difference is that this isn't some company with an existing footprint in a city saying "hey we're gonna hire some more people for our office here". In both the case of Chicago and especially Dallas, Uber is making significant real estate commitments to go along with these hiring plans. You don't buy up an entire skyscraper office building (and several plots of land around it) and open an entirely new office unless you're either 1) actually planning on filling it or 2) in such dire straits that you're willing to do really whacky shit to make people think you are planning on filling it.

With Uber, it could be either one, but I certainly don't think it's just run-of-the-mill 'marketing speak'.
> The timing of the removal makes me think it's related to the departure of Jony Ives

This has been in the pipeline for awhile. The XR already didn't have it, the SE didn't have it, and the iPad never had it. It's the type of feature that can't be truly great until it gets full support across the board, but that never really materialized.
The difference is meaningless in scalar code. Not everything is or can be vectorized. Pretty much no difference between one double and one float in a SSE XMM register.

> Even when that doesn't happen, CPU microcode can likely do more 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.

> Lastly, memory bandwidth usage and cache occupancy doubles, which is true even with x87.

So use floats when you have a lot of data.
Thank you!

It hasn't changed too much. We have a house in the city, so the standing plan is to stick around for at least a few years. We both grew up in major cities (NYC, Chicago), so that preference isn't likely to change any time soon.

Things like quality of schools may change what neighborhood we prefer, but we still have some time before then. If it turns out home-schooling is the best way, then we'll go that route.
That explains the lack of a 128GB option… not at all.
> it's not that far away

That's a pretty optimistic view; many people don't seem to share it.
I know this is a completely different class of device, but even though my FitBit can last a few days without recharge, the more important thing is that it can get a full day's charge while I'm in the shower.

A 24 or 36 hr battery that recharges during a 15m shower I imagine would work for most people.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/vit0303; my proof: https://keybase.io/vit0303/sigs/e3WgSc09f3CClvL90VjU0NnEN6RZ... ]
This article was a decent introduction, I suppose. I've been learning Ada for about a year now, and I quite like it. It's larger than the previously largest language I know, Common Lisp, but I like the focus on reliability and whatnot; it's a language that has many facilities programs need, but you don't need to use otherwise; it's also segmented well, unlike Common Lisp, but there's advantages to both methods.

There's a flaw in the article:

Ada doesn't define standard types like int or float...

It does, technically, Integer and Float. The rest of the article is fine.

Lastly, it's amusing to see the Rust advocates cry out due to this. As I like to write, Ada is used in critical systems such as ballistic missiles and trains, whereas Rust is used in Firefox.
There were rumors that they are going to release the new SE in 2020.
that would make sense for a business with low margins. i'm surprised more companies aren't doing it.
I've been wondering about this for years, do you have any data to actually back that up? Seeing how teslas are "very close" to self driving why doesn't uber up the game and go full self driving with lidar.
Driving people from point A to point B is a commodity. The only reason taxi drivers were able to command a premium was restricted supply through licensing/medallions and whatnot. Uber destroyed that, so now competition will drive the prices down to the actual cost of driver wage + petrol/vehicle operating costs.

Uber will see their margin squeezed down to nothing because they add nothing of value to the transaction: Any random cab company can buy a dispatch app.
There is a lot of learning, that happens in school which has no bearing in later life. Why not have a course which combines economics+investing+accounting?
Or we recognize that steering more students towards programming is good both for their career and the economy. It is only people who wants developers to stay better paid than other similar fields who thinks that it isn't a shortage.
As an unrelated anecdote, I have an e-book reader and its battery lasted the longest when I went to a place with 30+ temperatures.

It lasted for two weeks and a half reading about 4 hours a day.
It was a hidden feature that Apple struggled to communicate (and was hard to describe without physically trying it) was always going to be problematic.

How do you train users? What is the discoverability? It was a legitimate problem when most of your user-base aren't tech nerds and most people aren't reading the manual/help guides.

So you implement an app feature via 3D Touch and users just assume that feature doesn't exist (because they don't discover it). Then you add it twice (3D Touch AND non-3D Touch) and you're now maintaining two things, and have gained little to nothing via 3D Touch.

I liken it to Windows 8's gesture UI failure. If users cannot discover it, it doesn't exist. So you cannot really build much around it because you have to assume user ignorance.
This doesn't seem that compelling compared to Amex Plum, to me. Signup bonuses are alright but nothing startups aren't showered in from all sources already.
As a side note for people like me who have no option other than C for their safety critical projects, remember there's a MISRA-C standard. If that feels too much, [1] is a good starting point.

[1] http://pixelscommander.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/P10.pd...
Any $200 is going to last several years.
The Fenix is also $900. For that price you could buy two Apple Watches to switch out when one is charging and still have money left in your pocket.
Yeah, people should give him more credit for being as good a con-man as he is!
The same can be said about everyone feeling the need to go to college, at the best schools they can get into, at any price tag paid for by loans to try to get the most successful job offered in a city somewhere.

Most of us would be able to get perfectly good jobs in our own home towns, earning a modest living near where we grew up via the trades, real estate, teaching, selling insurance, etc.

We chose to pursue more because the opportunities are there and we want them. That's because of how much we value ourselves and the extraordinary opportunities that we have in our lives. It has nothing to do with how we value others.

I'm very successful and I'm thankful for the opportunities that have put me where I am. I enjoy my work and I'm thankful for that. I also had a stretch where I worked really hard and alienated myself.

But that is a problem that I also chose to fix.

I made an effort to get to know my neighbors, to invite them to lunch, to join a local church, to get involved in a local rotary club, to meet local small business owners. There's a surprisingly large amount of people who are more than happy to grab a bite for lunch and as you get to know people better, you invite them to other things when you discover you share interests. Making friends in a new area takes a little bit of work, but it's more than worth the time.
> I don't want to come off condescending, I really want to understand your point.

Same here! Well met.

> But I have no idea what you're trying to say.

Sorry, I'll try again.

> Porting a python 2 project to Julia/Haskell/Prolog is rewriting the entire codebase.

Sorry, I was thinking of new projects there.

To understand my point keep in mind that I'm assuming a world where Python 2 stays stable and maintained (if only because I'm maintaining it) so the option of not converting to Python 3 is on the table. In that world, I don't see a compelling reason to adopt Python 3 when Python 2 still exists and is stable. (And FWIW I think some of the py3 folks realize this and that's why they are so eager to "cannibalize" the old for the new, precisely because py3 can't really compete on its own merit against its entrenched incumbent ancestor, eh?)

> In my company we have >2 million line of py2 code and we spent a few weeks converting all to py3 (biggest problems being str/unicode and None comparison) and less than a month later our prod runs py3.

You paid a modest but non-zero cost to convert and then what did you get? Was it faster? You didn't convert 2M loc py2 to, say, 1.8M loc py3?

If Python 2 wasn't going away (my premise) would you have converted to Python 3? If so, why?

PyPy is delivering speed improvements, and to me it seems like most if not all of the other language features of py3 can be done in py2 with libraries. Other than compatibility with py3, what was the payoff?

> Sure, technically py2 and py3 are different languages. So what?

Two things: first, the whole reason this mess is happening is IMO because py3 interpreter can't run py2 code. If it could I think the transition would have gone smoothly and been done by now. It wasn't necessarily a bad thing to correct some warts, but it was a deliberate choice to "kill" Python 2 despite the obvious fact that we're going to be stuck with it for years to come (COBOL! FORTRAN! Like Elder Gods, these things don't die.) Really, i don't mind py3! It's the effort to throw py2 onto the funeral pyre while it's still kicking ("I feel happy! I feel happy!") that I find objectionable.

Second, and IMO this is the big deal: py2 is stable while py3 is in flux.

If the language stops changing that means people can work on the tooling and implementation instead. If I was managing a codebase the size of yours I would be much more interested in PySonar (or Cython or Nuitka) than anything that py3 brings to the table. Changes in the language require changes in the tooling (even just your syntax highlighters) so IMO they should be really good to pay for the expense of learning them and supporting them. For example, algebraic data-structures with pattern matching would be a nice addition to Python. (But then, you can do that in a library too!)

In sum, the very fact that py2 is now stable and unchanging is a killer feature (IMO) that differentiates it from py3!
iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max is available only in 64/256/512GB capacities.

iPhone 11 (non pro) is available in 64/128/256GB capacities.

https://www.apple.com/iphone-11-pro/specs/
https://www.apple.com/iphone-11/specs/
The basic economics argument assumes that there are not price points that are both higher than what drivers accept and that consumers are willing to pay. The existence of Lyft plays a role here, but both are in the same boat - they either need a new product line with better margins to take off that has some synergies with the ride-sharing business, or the unit economics of ride-sharing need to get bad enough for both concurrently to decide to raise prices.
I've had my eye on this for a while, it looks great! Co-designed by James Clarke (of SGML, DSSSL, and XML fame) and it uses XML as a built in native data type.

I don't do cloud stuff but I can't wait to give this a spin and see if there's any way I can use it to my benefit.
>It's been clear for quite some time that terms like "Extreme", "Pro" and "Max" are marketing terms.

A great example of this is the "PS4 Pro"
Here https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-new-offices-chicago-dal...

This directly quoted an Uber exec saying that it will be focused on HR, sales, and ops
I'm not really a fan of the new presentation, but that's mostly because it animates in a really annoying, bubbly way :/
Why do you keep grilling them about Android? They never mentioned Android. They're not comparing iPhone 11 Pro Max to Android phones.

They're comparing it to iPhone 6S. And it's not worth their upgrade.
> They've probably kept the "long press action" for compat reasons? It's equally undiscoverable.

It also doesn't do half as much. E.g. the long-press on the keyboard spacebar only moves the cursor, it doesn't do 3D touch's text selections.
I think for me the biggest lesson is that I am taking from these kind of stories: be focused. When you are spending time with your loved ones don't look at your phone all the time. Be there with them. I am really bad at this...
If you run a small business and have a SB card, spending just $100k can get you more than $1k in rewards a year. $1k is still probably not worth the IRS tracking down, but getting on the IRS being too busy to tackle your tax fraud is still tax fraud.