skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally fair. I meant ad arbitrage. I.e., the advertisers are themselves running ad-supported sites.
Ive 16gb but everything fits under 8.

Til i kick in an osx vm. Then i need an additional 8gb easily. Macosx tends to eat memory for breakfast
Wikipedia says this guy has been around the block as a couch analyst.
> What else would you be plugging into a macbook? Particularly in a setting like a coffee shop which is probably where the highest risk of someone tripping over the power cable is.

an iPhone, an Android Device (if I'm doing development) and headphones (especially in a coffee shop)

>This is true. Though if Apple were going to give up on Magsafe as a competitive advantage I wish they would've just licensed the patents and allowed USB-C to use the same tech

The moment you have a data connection, accidental disconnects (like they happen with magsafe all the time) become very annoying and possibly lead to data corruption and/or kernel panics (in the thunderbolt case when you have, say, an external GPU connected to that cable)

Try yanking a USB-stick while it's copying data.

If you really, really want to use one of your ports for power only, use one of the various third-party magnetic USB-C adapters (like https://griffintechnology.com/us/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-po... - first hit on Google)
> I'm surprised you haven't learned yet that the constitution grants authority to congress to pass laws, which include laws related to safety.

Have you actually read Article I, Section 8? You'll have to squint very, very hard to see any authority to pass laws related to safety in it. That's because it's simply not there. The state governments, of course, do have that power, and the Congress arguably has power to regulate cars used in interstate commerce.

But there's simply no constitutional scope for safety regulation of cars built & used in only one state.
If you go for an obscure distro it is. Ubuntu has good hardware support.
Reminds me of http://www.tau.ac.il/~algazi/mat/Goffman--Cooling.htm from pre-internet times.
WebAssembly update
I want to run lots of VMs to simulate different network topologies. But lots of people these days can make good use of power: 3D as you say, CFD and FEA and other engineering applications, computational chemistry or bio, machine learning, financial modelling...
(SQL Explorer author here)

We actually use Looker as well internally. It's a great tool. When we were smaller, Explorer fit our needs really well (I should hope so - since I specifically wrote it for us), but as we got bigger (~40 employees now) it's harder to manage a large number of reports, and we started getting a bit of a backlog of "please add field x to report y" engineering tickets. Looker has been a great solution to allow people to self-serve even more.

We still use the heck out of SQL Explorer as well, but Looker adds a ton of additional value (though notably, is not terribly cheap).
I have no auto-telemetry activated in my OS. I've also deactivated it in my browser, Firefox, through the about:config settings. However, I am free to file a bug-report anytime I wish, as is anyone else. Referring to concerns about the contents of this telemetry as "rubbish" is every bit as potentially unreasonable as claiming to know precisely what it contains; unless you do – in which case you might provide some strong citations verifying the telemetry contents exclusively as "crash and feature usage data", and to be extra helpful, clear definitions of "feature usage" in that particular context.
Japan’s Disposable Workers: Dumping Ground [video]
I cannot take anyone seriously who calls himself a libertarian. For Christ's sake, learn something about the various traditions of right- and left-wing libertarianism, study the basics of anarchism (e.g. Stirner), and read some Adam Smith.

Libertarianism is either mislabeled right-wing liberalism, which has a long-standing tradition, or it turns out to be no more than a fairly inconsistent mix of classical liberal and anarchist ideas peppered with some generic right-wing gun-nuttery and diffuse anti-government sentiment. You know, in the end somebody has to pay for the military, police, firemen, ambulances, roads, drinking water, sanitation, food safety, consumer safety (like not getting electrocuted by your vacuum cleaner), schools, hospitals, ...
Creating a Service Oriented Organization
There's something in that, but doesn't segmentation make sense purely from a pricing perspective?

There are many people who would love a Mac but don't have a ton of money. Apple don't have to slash prices to meet that demand, the current Air was already doing OK. But they're actually moving in the opposite direction, raising prices.

And there are many people who like Macs and are prepared to spend a lot of money on one. Why limit their options to a very narrow range of models?

(I guess the cynical answers would be, low-end users aren't worth much, and high-end users will upgrade frequently anyway so there's no need to sell them a machine with headroom for future expansion.)
It will trash the short new and used EV market less than 200, Leaf, i3 etc.

Even now the depreciation on Leafs are crazy, and this just makes it more so. The way I look at it right now the EV market is like fast moving computers, everyone is scared to buy in that they will miss the next upgrade and have buyers remorse, and that is the 200m mark. This just confirms it.
In a similar vain, I don't regret "choosing" a non-elite uni (Oxford Brookes) which let me miss lectures and tutorials for 3 years, tinker with my own code all day, showing up only for exams and the final year project ("thesis"-wannabe-thingy) for a proper B.Sc. graduate degree. I did sometimes go to Ox open lectures and such, loved the overall high-brow intellectual vibe in town back then (2002-2005). But the workloads and schedules of my acquaintances there, oh my!
AtomBombing: The Windows Vulnerability That Cannot Be Patched
>Adverts (or what certainly look them) on my start bar... really?

Sounds more like malware than windows 10.
In regards to the touch bar, I want to have a go at debugging on one of the new Mac's.

That's really my main worry, I can currently step through/into/out of functions etc in my IDE without even looking at the keyboard, if the touch bar is going to be the same then I'm not overly bothered by anything else.

I fear the lack of haptic feedback will make the whole process feel awkward.
You can make that choice. By not buying the MacBook Pro.

All these articles and comments that imply that Apple has put a gun to their head seem a bit overblown.

Hell, Apple is still selling the old model if you're really that upset about USB-C.
They're a public tech company. If they don't grow like cancer they will die.
Starbug (same guy who was the first to fool a Touch ID sensor) demonstrated that he could create fingerprint masks from press photos of a politician. See his very entertaining talk at 31c3: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VVxL9ymiyAU
Wow. I understood very little of what you wrote above. It's like you're speaking a foreign language. I can write a TCP/IP stack in assembler, but thinking about ad networks hurts my brain.
Is there a useful distinction between a viewpoint and a bias? It seems to be a matter of connotation management when choosing which to apply.
The Blade Pro is priced at $3700, which puts it in another class incomparable to the MBP.
which I didn't succeed to fix in time, which translated into a late first experience with girls

I can't help but feel that you caring so much about this might be the second stage of your regret.
Yeah, and that Subtext blog service he's using doesn't handle the error very well (and looks like the whole thing is in debug mode).
I love my iPhone 7. It's my favorite computing device that I've ever bought. 100% serious.
> Now, the sacrifice I don't understand at all is capping RAM at 16GB.

Totally agreed. The laptop I'm writing this on has 8GB and Firefox happily gobbles most of it. The server I recently built has 16GB which already feels very constrained. My next laptop is going to have 32GB for sure. If Apple don't have a 32GB Macbook Pro my next laptop ain't going to be from Apple.

Oh. And it's fares well, no?
My biggest concern is that Apple products don't have any agreement on connectors. Apple is becoming a company you need to buy dongles/adapters to connect their own products together. While I can get some stuff done via wireless/bluetooth its odd I cannot simply take the provided cables with my phone and connect it to my Mac. Let alone the corded headphones.

Still I really don't understand the touch bar. When Microsoft is the lead in fully touch screens for their PCs and tablets you know something is wrong at Apple. A touch bar?? Really, what about all that screen where the action is really taking place.

Then comes the abandonware as I term some of their hardware, namely the Mac Pro but you can add the mini to that. Don't they have any shame?
Is this whole thing satire? I'm taking it as serious, but maybe the joke's on me...

> these new Macs seem to have gained an average of $200 over the preceding models of the same size. What makes Apple think they can get away with that? Apple can get away with that because it always has gotten away with it.

So, inflation has gone up 10.7 percent since 2010, which is just over $200 on a $2000 laptop.

http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

Seems like a bogus assumption to suggest that Apple is "getting away" with something. What comparable companies with comparable products have left their prices untouched since 2010? The Big Mac went up more than 20% since 2010.

> Apple fanboys are proud to be the first and proud to have spent so much. It’s a luxury thing, I suppose. [...] This very durability presents a problem for Apple

I'm totally confused. Apple has a problem because it's products are too good? The products outlive your cheap shitty Windows laptops 3:1, yet only luxury and status explains why people buy Apple products?

> All Apple needs is a new product category, right? Another iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad will do nicely. Where is it? It isn’t anywhere and in that sense Apple has lost its mojo.

Same argument every year. This one has been used every year that a new product category was introduced, because it's deemed not new enough. How many product categories have been introduced since Apple started, or even since the iMac? And how many years have elapsed since then? It's a strange myth or fail or arithmetic to think Apple has done something mind glowingly innovative twice a year for the last 15 years.
I agree about Tribes:Vengeance; a pox on whoever decided the game needed a "prequel" that focused on a single-player mode and ignored all the aspects of the previous two games that made them so great. That entire franchise has suffered since it left the hands of Dynamix.

I can't get on board with you regarding Freedom Force, though. While some of the levels were a bit tedious, the character customization and feel of the game was superb. I can't think of another superhero game since (at least, outside of the MMO realm) that allows you that degree of freedom (no pun intended).

FF was a decade too early; had it come out in 2012 it could have ridden the Avengers wave.
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From what I found, Apple's laptops are sligthly above average in terms of reliability [0]. Sqaretrade sells warranties though, so there might be some selection bias, but I'm not sure if it would benefit Apple or not.

[0] https://resource.squaretrade.com/laptop-reliability-1109
I was curious how much altitude would affect aging so I did a quick google search. "The atomic clock calculated that for every 12 inches of elevation, 90 billionths of a second are added to a lifetime (79 years)"
Auto Reboot to install an update is never a good thing, and totally unacceptable. I recently saw someone miss a conference presentation because their (Windows) laptop decided to do this. It doubled down on my determination to never touch Windows again.
Grain of salt taken :)

I've got personal experiences which says IDE-first is a bad approach. However, once you've learn the basics you should definitely graduate to an IDE as a student like you say.

My experience has been that many students don't learn a single thing well enough to build upon to gain those extra tools you mentioned. An IDE might bring them closer to that point faster, but I also think it makes them leave things behind they should know.

(recent graduate, informal teacher to many friends getting in to CS industry)
People in informal language constantly use "exponential" to mean "more than linear." Which drives me completely insane, but I think it's time to just accept it.
Thanks, that was a great response. Sounds like you grew the company larger than you wanted to run.

Did you have a VC monkey on your back or just realized too late what was happening and couldn't turn back? Or did something else make you grow it so big?
Thank you, got the cached one. Good comparison.
How dishonest can you get? Would you like to explain why Libya was an issue at that time, and not in the preceding decades?
I feel like I might really dive into this conversation.

Technically feasible, yes, agreed. The simulations tell us this much, that at point T+x, we could have a green electricity grid, but you have to take into account the process of getting there and that means economics and politics. And there's a lot of half-measure that seem green, but just kick the can.

Ok, from the engineering side, the flexible, dispatchable sources will be required like I said, can't fully remove them. They can be hydro, which is clean and great, but it's not universally available and were it is, it's expensive to setup and tends to wreck local ecosystems. In most developing countries, the flexible source will remain what is already available most likely, at least in the short-medium term, and that is coal and gas. (this will be mostly for economic reasons)

... “renewable electricity generation from technologies that are commercially available today, in combination with a more flexible electric system, is more than adequate to supply 80% of total U.S. electricity generation in 2050 while meeting electricity demand on an hourly basis in every region of the United States.” ... That's why the time frame is 30+ years and that's in the US. What about less developed countries ? What's the time frame there ?

What I'm saying is: we will get there eventually, we really need to, our survival as a race might well depend on it, but it's going to be one hell of a ride, it's going to take a while and it will occur at different paces in different places.

And that you need a combined approach in terms of policy as well: investments, direct grants or subsidies for large producers for new and existing renewable plants and transmission infrastructure / public-private partnership projects (depending on your countries economic preferences), incentivizing individuals to go green (ex: subsidies on solar panel purchases by homeowners in Germany, government backed buybacks of old cars, subsidies for electric cars), better environmental standards, incentives for green certifications and an actual independent third-party validation of the companies that receive/offer said certificates, increased power to government environmental agencies (don't overdue it, point is not to shrug Atlas through punitive measures, but to get them to work towards going green), tax-breaks for companies that can prove low-emission is an option, but would probably be a bureaucratic nightmare, carbon-tax and myriad of other tweaks and measures.

And the 'Free Market' doesn't like any of this. Politics and economics, not just the greatest engineering challenge we have undertaken to date.
All signs point to "never" with regard to newer OpenGL versions, and there's no signs of them adopting Vulkan either.

For modern graphics you're stuck with Metal or MoltenVK: https://moltengl.com/moltenvk/
I always read about this API shutdown. How come that Buffer and Crowdfire still operate?
Guess I'm not alone who isn't good at this. But i now have realized that you have to very few set of close friends than like 20 acquaintances(i know it sounds obvious) and i never miss an opportunity to meet them no matter how busy i'm with the work.
Second post, I did find it interesting another blog compares Cook to Balmer. both expanded their companies bottom lines but both also reigned over a stagnation of innovation
In isolation this comment is not absurd or incorrect. But when you consider the contorted meaning of nearly every word describing political affiliation, describing one's self as a libertarian is very minor offense, and far less inaccurate than the typical use of "right" and "left" in modern American politics.
Coursera also has two great sets of Algorithms courses: one on analysis and one on implementation (the latter by Sedgewick).

Self-taught programmers really have an embarrassment of riches these days.
I wrote in a different thread about Cointent that I believe the "pay for ad free" model is addressing the problem in the wrong way. First, the pain of annoying ads already has a solution. We are already bombarded by content that its not very painful to just switch to another publisher and read a different article that is less annoying (unless its breaking news.)

Also,Your solution doesnt address the problem at the moment I am experiencing the pain. You need to win on intellectual grounds without the emotional drivers. Youll probably get some traction and users but never mainstream scale. its too disconnected from the pain point.

My idea/opinion, "charge a donation for sharing content."
When someone feels compelled to share, they are seeking emotional validation, thats worth paying for.
New Apple MacBook Pro's Most Intriguing Feature: Payments
Please test my app for Twitter, which makes conversations from your tweets
I think others have done a good job explaining this, so all I'll add is: accounting is an entirely different exercise than valuation. Which seems strange... But the goal of accounting is tracking assets and accounts more so than understanding value.
Amen. They could have phoned in a re-skinned/graphically updated Tribes 2 and it would have been an improvement.
Worth thinking about: Corporations.

in my mind, that gives every national union (EU included) the "strength through division" you are talking about, but without all that other geopolitical risk.
Microsoft Edge in progress for WebAssembly browser preview
I have created both, still a work in progress, but once there's something to show a Show HN might be in order.

https://github.com/blind-dev
https://blinddev.org
Lenovo Thinkpad T540p - the worst track pad I have ever used - truly abysmal. Avoid, avoid, avoid!!
Just plug the adapter into the end of your headphone jack and leave it there. It's a female adapter, so it can just hang off of your existing 3.5mm jack. You make it sound far more annoying than it actually is.
I like a device powerful enough to do development on while still being able to commute with it.

Me too! So despite my complaints, this direction is probably OK for me (except they're getting even more ridiculously expensive).

All this business with overpriced adapters and dongles still makes me more resigned than excited, though.

I'm going to give it at least a year before upgrading. I assume by that point, the MBP will be more or less the same, just missing the headphone jack. :)
I'm in an arranged marriage, and I have literally no desire to marry this girl. 0. But I feel like because I have no spine, I'm going to end up marrying her, or running away at the last minute before the marriage and abandon my family. I want my family, I love my family and want to be with them, but I don't want this. They are pressuring me to go through with it due to the ramifications of what would happen socially, and I am starting to realize that they are overblowing those ramifications just to get me to marry this girl. What should I do? Just tell my parents I don't want to do this and have them essentially hate me for the next few months to year?
The real question:

If the new 15" MBP was the same weight as last generation and included the new Kaby Lake processor, more RAM, better battery, etc. would you pass on it for the weight?
Pandoc is also a easy way to write markdown in a distraction-free editor and compile to docx, PDF, or latex
Thank you for sharing. This is lame but I couldn't edit the title :/
Well, it's big-O of exponential!
Thanks, will reach out for sure.
Fiber links are valuable long-term assets, and remaining competitors will generally be happy to buy them from a distressed company.
MS does not have an iMac equivalent yet, but you can get an Air-equivalent Surface Pro for $1100. It does have some drawbacks over the air (which I guess has been merged into the regular MacBook now), but also has a number of advantages.
Maybe you can explain it for the ignorant masses in terms we would understand? :D
Would you like to come up and see my etchings ? Better still, stay here and I'll bring them down. :)
My 50 year old mom started lifting weights. She's feeling incredible now, and her blood sugar has dropped. I'm waiting for the day she'll be able to backsquat my body weight!
Then we're into the same price category as Apple, for anvil-esque hunks of plastic with tiny trackpads and low-resolution screens.
Well, there seems to be tremendous support behind what he is saying. The chat is exploding.

My favorite takeaway so far:

[Thiel on Trump] "The media always takes him literally, but never seriously. I think his supporters take him seriously, but never literally."
"60.0 kilowatt-hours of energy (equivalent to about 1.8 gallons of gasoline)"

Interesting. Just for an oranges to apples comparison, I wonder how many KWh the most efficient gas powered generator can produce on 1.8 gallons of gas.
The entire US-Mexico border visualized in 200,000 satellite images
That seems neat, but it's also unpractical. Looking at the touch bar is like looking at the keyboard. I like to keep my eyes focused on the screen.
50 years from now AIs will extract history from your HN comments. Maybe some people/AIs will write PhDs about HN comments. You are representing mankind :-)
At this point, the only major tech company whose products/services I gladly pay for is JetBrains. I wish them all the very best.
Apple Music is decent, Google Play is probably more worthwhile
(app author here)

It is tied to Django. When generating the schema information to show fields, etc, it introspects the Django application metadata. So in that sense it is tied to Django and expects to be querying a Django application DB. I would actually love to remove this requirement though, and have it just be SQL Explorer.
You make it sound only slightly less annoying, TBH.
The idea behind PickingPlaces is to make it easy for people to get help from their friends when they need to find a new place to live.

You put all the info about what you are looking for on one page and send it to your friends to get their suggestions. You can draw areas on the map to show where you would or would not like to live.

We will scrape information about properties from any urls added to the site and allow visitors to vote and comment on each suggestion.

All this functionality is available without needing to create an account.

You can also simply browse different neighbourhoods in different cities and discuss them to figure out where you would like to live.
Machine Learnings #15: The first autonomous beer delivery
My father was leasing a Leaf. He just leased a new one, brand new, otherwise identical to the one he had before, and substantially lowered his (already insanely low) lease payments.

If I were in a two-car household, I'd probably make a Leaf my second car right now because, for all that it's a way worse first car than a 200 mile range EV, it's not much worse of a second car, and the cost pressure downward on it is insane right now.
You've get 14 days of return policy. Assuming you're talking about the new Touch Bar MBP, you've still got at least a week left.