skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a datapoint, I'm a very long-time Mac User (started with an LC) and have used Macs heavily in scientific computing. A Mac Pro was my go-to machine for a very long time. But when my lab got a grant to buy some new workstations? The Mac Pro wasn't even on the list being considered.
Why isn't slush more popular
... given how popular gulp is?
What I learned from writing 6 functions that all do the same thing
This article ignores decades of scholarship about the roots of the industrial revolution and capitalism.

The short answer is that the Europeans (maybe for some of the reasons given in this article), were greedier than the Chinese.

It's likely that the Chinese empire reached the New World before Columbus. http://www.economist.com/node/5381851. But the thought of enslaving an entire population and stealing all their natural resources didn't even occur to the Chinese explorers. Whereas the Chinese expeditions were financed by the empire, the Europeans expeditions were financed by debt, so the men needed to arrive on land and quickly acquire wealth for themselves at all costs, or else they would return to Europe broke or never return at all. And this led them to commit the horrendous acts in the New World we know so much about.

Western Europe, now full of gold and silver stolen from the New World had levels of wealth it had never experienced. This led to increased demands for certain goods (like English wool), which forced the population off of the land and into urban centers, thus creating the landless working class. This process was called The Enclosure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure. An urban, landless working class, was a necessary condition for the industrial revolution. The extraordinary wealth ready to be invested in industry, a product of colonialism and the slave trade, was another necessary condition for the industrial revolution.
If you get into the quantum realm cause and effect start to get really blurry. Nevertheless quantum theroy is an exact description of nature. Maybe cause and effect is just a very good model of our daily experienced macro world and therefore hardcoded in our brains.
My research into this topic has led me to lazy event sourcing so far https://blog.eventsourcing.com/lazy-event-sourcing-ed7e59007...

My current view is that by eliminating or reducing the need to serialize domain objects, we're creating a system which is easier to argue about and provides an easy way to adjust domain models as the understanding or circumstances evolve.
Stephen Fry on Language Pedantry (2010)
via their "cloud".

now if you refuse to give apple all your email, wifi passwords, pictures, etc, you will not have any integration.

Mostly like google stuff. If i do not give google my wifi passwords then i can't get my android watch to use wifi at all! Apple is just catching up on the game they invented.
I am ok with the Mac as it is, I don't see an issue with it, and actually am looking forward to eventually being able to play with the magic toolbar from Swift in a future acquisition.
Yeah the freedom only exist as long as one is willing to ignore the rat race of shinies that is modern consumer computing. Unless one do that, the entities that can produce the most code the fastest is the ones that control the market, even if the code if "free".
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not generally accepted. When was the last time a MacBook had one? And they still sell like hotcakes. Ultrabooks are selling pretty well too, without Ethernet. Even the Dell XPS that everyone recommends doesn't have Ethernet.

It's generally accepted that Ethernet is gone now because people have been buying laptops without Ethernet for years now.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12825767 and marked it off-topic.
I suggest to proceed with the PEP if you have a good idea about the API. Get it out there, it's not required to spend hours on mailing lists - other people can do that if they like it.
“Happy Halloween”
How do you do input to the different VMs/TVs?
It doesn't sound like a contradiction to me. A very small segment of users are 'pro-level' users.

Now yes, it isn't supported, but if you accept that as the reality then it is not contradictory.
> How did you know to type [Compose]dh to get the desired character?

I went to Iceland a few years ago and looked into how to type ð and þ in order to be able to send e-mail about people, signs, and place names, even though I didn't learn the language. It's also useful for linguistics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_dental_fricative
With most these student loans the government guarantees the lender will get their money back, even if the loan is defaulted. Thus, the proliferation of bad loans as there's no risk to the lender.
Some laptops were designed around Linux. See e.g. system76
Have you ever looked at "bare" latex? It really isn't any more complicated than html. Especially early html.

But you are being somewhat naïve on the render in thirty years point. Html from two years so probably renders differently today. Never mind how different it is on machine that is rendering it.

So, could someone have made a simple one? Maybe. Evidence looks unlikely. Plenty have tried.
Great artists something something
You are not the target audience.

i will pass on this one because they keys are probably garbage, but I change my layout between several languages and i actually have some of the layouts printed out because i am still not very familiar with them.

Not my use case either, but visit any audio or video editing room. I will bet you money that every workstation will have colorful stickers on top of all the keyboards to remind the operators which keys do what on their audio/video editing software.
Also, while the presentation is funny, the "leanings" are something that anyone in the industry will tell you for free while waiting in the free beer line at GDC.

Ideas are worth very little; ability to draw and code and execute is where it's at, and modern business is hyper optimized to exploit money out of suckers by strip mining the society we all have to live in.
I've started putting DOIs on my relevant github repos: https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/

There are clearly still issues with versioning and so forth, but it's a start for software that isn't suitable for writing an article about.
Which seems to be the justification for claiming large parts of territory for the PRC.
The whole situation with large amounts of "premium" plugins that apparently are GPL for the most part (or at least should be) but don't like to talk about it, include all kinds of license activation features and are split into a separate "free" version with reduced feature set and advertisements splattered all over is a little strange. It's also very off putting when you're used to the typical way open source is developed and distributed.
"But you can't play with all that expensive equipment until you get to at least the graduate level."

This will come as a surprise to the expensive equipment I used as an undergrad.
Well, I've been waiting for a suitable desktop Mac for the latter part of six years. I'm certainly not OK with the disrepair their product line is in, nor with the value for money of the "Pro" (or, as I prefer to call them, the "Air SE") range.
What's stopping Canonical ?

1) Their goals. They are trying to get Ubuntu more widely adopted, not to polish it, at least, not yet.

2) Orders of magnitude, risk involved and business model. Apple is like what ? 100,000 employees and 50 billion in revenue. And Canonical is something like 1000 employees and 50 million in revenue ?
I am not a historian, but the Romans seem to have grown at the expense of weaker and more disorganized foes, who either didn't have any form of centralized leadership prior to contact with the Romans (like the Gauls and Iberians) or who were pitched against eachother in civil war (like the Egyptians). When fighting against similarly sized centralized states, like Parthia (or Carthage, in the early republic), they had a much harder time winning anything out of them. I think they mainly exploited a preexisting assymetry.
The author mentioned ShareLaTeX but not the other popular cloud service overleaf.

I actually would have done the same given my experience with both. Recently I tried out overleaf in order to allow others to collaborate on a paper. However, what was compiling perfectly fine on my local machine just refused to compile on overleaf, keep throwing me error related to $ symbol even though I did not use $ symbol at all (I used my own bst and cls). After googling for 30 minutes without finding a fix, I gave up and turned to the alternative, ShareLaTeX. It compiled perfectly with no errors on the first try.
All I could think of was some node package manager is killing people in China?...
Can we all take a moment to consider that not a single one of the percentages in the screenshot of the Kardashian game's purchase screen is accurate?
They keep saying NXP fabs cannot be used for manufacturing Qualcomm chips. All the RF and analog front end components could probably be moved over to NXP fabs. And the digital products of NXP could be manufactured by 3rd party fabs, giving Qualcomm better pricing per unit.

However, I fail to see a marriage made in heaven between sensors (from NXP) and processing(from Qualcomm) pricing complete solutions for automotives.
Does web.skype.com work on Windows Chrome too?
Because I think people are overreacting.

UNIX support was never a goal for macOS, neither for NeXT, rather a nice way to bring developers from Sun and SGI into their platforms.

The business value for developers was always the Objective-C libraries, which is quite clear from most presentations done by Jobs, some of them available on YouTube.

It is as if some people needed this week's presentation to wake up for the real Apple culture, that goes back to the days when they kind of toyed around with A/UX.
or, hear me out, some kind of dynamic programmable bar just above the keyboard?
It was probably a government contract.
Just google Skylake LPDDR4. Or Kaby Lake LPDDR4.

For whatever reason, Skylake doesn't support LPDDR4. And the Kaby Lake refresh isn't going to include chips suitable for the MBPs, but even if it did they also won't support LPDDR4.
Those pro-level users were what kept Apple alive during the dark years but now that greener pastures have been discovered they can easily be abandoned.
/me puts on tinfoil hat

the sim card has one important difference. It lives in a device that provides it with 24/7 battery and radio access.

That is really worrisome when you think about. A tiny computer running applications you have no idea/access. powered 24/7. Always with you. With access to battery, network, mic, etc. And the other side of the network that could monitor it's traffic for malicious actions is owned by the very people that could abuse it in the first place.
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12805656
List of Iowa Writers Workshop people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iowa_Writers%27_Worksh...

And that is just one school. If you throw in all the other top programs you are looking at thousands of writers who are pretty much all top earners in their field. Sure, you might be the next Ernest Hemingway or Hunter S Thompson but I think in both cases what you are looking at are writers who filled a certain ideological void in Cold War america that perpetuated certain myths about creativity that were politically fashionable and the market for presenting yourself that way in a now highly professionalized writing world (after the student loan boom) is very very small. People just aren't looking for another Hunter S Thompson to wander around drunk spouting scandalous opinions and having counter cultural experiences. Same with Hemingway: we get it... Men struggle to grasp the duties of masculinity in a world that is fraught with danger. Yawn. There just isn't any material left to write about in those areas and you have to go to school to learn how to get out beyond those bare bones topics by studying past writers and meeting good current writers. Same with "Art" in my opinion. I mean sure you MIGHT be another Basquiat or Banksy but it's been done.
Welcome to the pyramid at the end of the world
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12825130.
Note that ShareLaTeX is entirely free software licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License[1]. Which makes it much better than most cloud services (you can self-host it if you want). In particular, it looks like overlaf is not free software which is pretty ridiculous given the competition[2].

[1]: https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex
[2]: https://www.overleaf.com/help/17-is-overleaf-open-source
I think most of the statements in the article are true, the problem is there is not (right now) a superior alternative. Yes, Microsoft is trying with the surface, Linux I'm sure has come far, but there is simply not any alternative that can realistically compete with the Mac platform right now. There is simply no pressure on Apple to dedicate further resources to this area, because there is not much for them to gain. It sucks for users of their products, but probably great for stockholders.
It has been argued that a big part of the picture leading up to the industrial revolution is concurrent growth in life expectancy and wealth. The former and the latter both drive one another, and the effect of small increases compounds over time to generate sufficient capital and interest for technological progress.

http://ideas.repec.org/p/cte/whrepe/wh016301.html

"During the 17th and 18th century the English economy underwent a dramatic transformation: its capacity to feed and increasing population increased impressively. ... Perhaps for the first time in the history of any country other than a land of recent settlement, rapid population growth took place concurrently with rising living standands. ... The notion of life expectancy provides the most important tool to examine the phenomenon of mortality, taking into account the age structure of the population. Life expectancy at age x is the average number of years that a person of age x will still survive at a given date. The most commonly used indicator is e(0), life expectancy at birth (or at age 0), but sometimes other statistics like e(1), e(5), e(20), e(50), are also tabulated. Their main advantage is that they capture age-specific mortality profiles: for instance, an increase in mortality concentrated in the age-group between 20-25 (due, for instance, to a long war) would affect e(0) but not e(30) because the probability of survival, given that a person is already 30, does not change. Decisions about future capital and consumption are not taken by the agent when he is born but, rather, when he is twenty or twenty five years old. Therefore, the relevant survivial profile for considering the influence of mortality over investment choices is given by adult life expectancy. In fact, making the distinction between e(0) and adult life expectancy is expecially important for our problem because adult mortality behaves in a completely different way from infant and child mortality in the first half of the 18th century: adult mortality rates decreased very sharply from the end of the 17th century, while infant and childhood mortality rates were unusually high between 1680 and 1750. ... If life cycle inspiration was present in rural England in the 18th century, farmers who were becoming aware that old people were gradually living for longer periods must have been more concerned about their own means of subsistence in the future. This may have been an important stimulus to reduce consumption, increase savings and take into account longer horizons."

Which still leaves open the question of how and why the early parts of this avalanche got started in England but not in Taiwan or Japan or Sardinia as analogous islands, and why the actual timing as opposed to any other plausible century.
Wow, I really liked that article. I thought it articulated some really important insights, first that Apple could reasonably be seen as abandoning the core computer user market, and second an acknowledgement that the market they are leaving in favor of the consumer market is probably immaterial to their current business model.

It is clear that there are two "kinds" of users of computation platforms, the "apps only" users and "developers." It is also becoming clear that "content creators" (graphic artists, writers, video producers, Etc) are seen more and more as "apps only" users rather than developers as well, even though their content tools are very demanding on the platform.

If they are correct and the market is segmenting, then I think you can expect to see "artist workstations" emerge as a category with tools wrapped around a computer to help in their content creation, I think that certainly became true of synthesizers which have "workstations" as a category distinct from instruments you might play on stage or in a studio setting.
> nonsense

In simple terms, capitalist farmers produce a surplus, kibbutz farmers produce a deficit. Kibbutzen operate within a market economy and have all the resources of it that are available to the capitalist farmer - they still can't make a go of it.

> not a principle of communism.

Collective ownership of the means of production means confiscating it.

> Forced labor

When the collective decides that certain work must be done, and with no market forces, that means assigning people to the jobs. I.e. forced labor.
I not think that, but they did show that "Not more than three passes" doesn't imply kick-and-rush. My comment was triggered by your statement "time moves on".

So, the math still may be right.

For an extreme example, scoring without possession is as good as impossible. That could lead to a rule "keep the ball"

However, that doesn't imply one should optimize for possession alone, as the way to maximize possession is to play backwards when even pressed a tiny bit, scoring own goals if needed to keep possession.

Also, I don't see huge defensive benefits of possession if you want to win. In the end, it is about two teams both getting equal number of possessions (+/- 1), so to score (which is needed to win), teams will want to maximize their chance of scoring on possession and to minimize that of their opponent.

Only if your chance of scoring is lower than that of your opponent or if you are ahead 'enough' (where 'enough' depends on time to play and speed of you opponent), you will want to minimize the number of opportunities both teams get, even if it means your probability of scoring on possession goes down.
Note that Overleaf.com is proprietary, while ShareLaTeX is completely free software under the AGPL (and self-hostable).
> I've chosen to view this update as the start of the uptick where we go back to regular updates (perhaps with a longer period than historically) and more exciting things to come.

I'm just curious as to what brought you to that conclusion? Was something said?

The last few years I've been sitting around kicking dirt waiting for an OSX convertible type of machine, I know there's never been any talk of it, but I figured if anyone could make it correctly it'd be Apple.

I've given up at this point. It almost feels like I was suffering from Stockholm syndrome looking back at it.
It supports none of the arm Chromebooks.
and this is the norm all over the world. And SIMs cannot exist without the network operator. So in the end, this is the worst vulnerability of SIM cards.
The Power of Bottom-Up (Evolution) vs. Top-Down (Design)
That's an equally inadequate summary of some revisionist takeaways.

Fundamentally, the Chinese were in a box. Japan was in isolation, and surrounding countries were no threat to the kingdom. China's problems were all internal, which made looking beyond their boundaries for solutions counterproductive.
Note that ShareLaTeX is entirely free software (under AGPL) and self-hostable. Overleaf is not.
In cold, deforestation-ridden England, coal hit like crack. They switched to fossil fuels not because they could, they did so because they had to. Contrast this with the abundance of biological resources in Brazil: if you want growth, you simply cut down some more forest. Much easier, much more predictable, negative long term effects are only starting to be fully understood today and the understanding is still not sufficient to make it stop. It does not scale though, like the once-in-a-planet's-lifetime escalation of productivity that the switch to fossil caused in Europe. But they did not know that there either. If England had not grown out of the limited biological resources of their island, the industrialization might have never happened.

Quick googling led me to this scan of an article from 1977:
https://nature.berkeley.edu/er100/readings/Nef_1977.pdf
"An Early Energy Crisis and Its Consequences", looks like a very interesting read.
Not very convenient but using Stylish it comes down to adding entries into a text file:
https://github.com/stylish-userstyles/stylish/wiki/Applying-...
You seem to think that bringing race into this is somehow acceptable. It's not.

If you have something specific against the quote other than innuendo, I'm sure there are less offensive ways to make your point.

Looking at other world views prevalent at the time, the metaphysical was inextricably tied up in the physical. Christianity asserts that the world is real, and that it is worth studying.
I think the whole 'pro-user' description needs examined a bit. Tons of developers at companies use macbook airs which are far less powerful than the newest laptops.

Ex: Rob Pike uses a macbook air. Is he not a professional?

There's a huge range of needs even within the pro user camp and I'd posit that the majority of them will be well served by the new Macs. If you're doing game development I'd argue Apple hasn't made great machines for you in the past so I'd expect a continued miss on the portable VR front as well.

For those that are doing visual work - are current generation machines actually not powerful enough?
I was a PC user my whole life, since the days of DOS and PC Tools, until I made the switch to Macs in 2011. The last time I used Windows (10) was last year when I was stuck with a PC for 2 months.

I don't feel the Mac is in decline at all.

Although the new MacBooks are out of my budget for now, there is still nothing that makes me want to go back to PCs/Microsoft. I still remember the almost daily frustrations I had with Windows, some of which continue to plague it to this day. It remains a massive, kludgey hodgepodge of inconsistency. Even if Windows wasn't bad in my opinion there really isn't anything bad enough on the Mac side to make me switch.
I am using Slack, GotoMeeting, join.me, etc., and in general -- I'm working remotely.

Linux is better for development, but worse for collaboration. You can get almost everything working, but it takes effort.

GotoMeeting screensharing tends to work, but not always. Join.me doesn't. The tools for Windows (my other OS) are much better if you need to capture screenshots or recordings often (typical use case: hotkey -> record part of the screen -> paste into Slack.. this is doable on Linux, but on Windows, it takes almost zero effort).
The audio is getting better on Linux, but I have many audio devices (external DAC, audio-through-Displayport, analog headset, etc.), and switching between them quickly is more painful than how it is on Windows. This is aggravated by the fact that I hate all DEs (except maybe Gnome3), so I use i3 WM -- which is brilliant but stuff like clipboard management doesn't work well out of the box.

In general, Linux can work for my (your?) use case, but it's significantly worse than Windows. It's better for development though (in general). Currently I run Linux VMs under Windows, that works okay.

Ah, and Skype for Linux alpha works fine.