skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The $329 iPad is pretty nice. It’s cheap and fairly powerful.
Feedback might be exactly the differentiator between the "open" and "closed" systems to which they refer.
I think his point stands, honestly. Apple's "pro" machines aren't really all that pro anymore compared to the PC market. Nor are the new machines very "pro" in the rugged or robust sense. Hell, the new keyboard's being taken out by grains of dust.

The new MBP is basically an ultrabook like the X1 carbon or the Dell XPS - which is fine, but that's also Apple's entire notebook product line for "pro" customers. They completely lack equivalents for any of the higher end workhorse machines that the PC manufacturers offer.
Who has a useful trackpad anyways? An actually great one, besides Apple?

I have no idea why this is the case? Patents or too expensive to justify?

Genuinely curious
With what battery life? Is there a minimum requirement? Would you accept a dramatically lower CPU speed to increase battery life?
Hey mamcx—totally agree. Actually, I've got designs for something very much like what you suggest. I was actually thinking of designing a simple query language for it so that you could search for certain types of relationships etc. too.
I’m sure the $329 iPad cannibalizes the iPad Pro. I don’t think Apple cares enough about the Mac to worry about cannibalization.
There should be a list of commonly known facts that people who are new to the internet have to read so they don't think things like this are novel.
You might want to read the “Glacier” short story by Alastair Reynolds in the “Galactic North” anthology.
I love this guy's stuff. I have his Max plugin for MaxForLive in Ableton and it is a blast to play with.
Into cold and empty space ?
It seemed to have worked pretty well for WhatsApp, no?
Of course, people have different needs. My point was it's possible one wouldn't be able to maintain one's current standard of living if out of job and living on this future UBI.

Then people would want to work to regain at least their previous standard of living.
Building a Robot with AI – Part 1
The rise of the iPhone explains a LOT about where Apple puts their attention. What it doesn't really explain is why the changes they do make to Mac products seem designed to annoy. Since they're not upgrading the processors couldn't they just leave things completely alone and keep selling the old models? I'm not sure they'd take any more heat for that than they do for dropping connectors and such.
>They just use Scala because it's a better Java that boosts their productivity.

I spent three years on the 2nd largest Scala 'team' in the U.S (first as an engineer, then leading a sub team), the problem is that using Scala as a 'better java' doesn't really buy you much productivity wise. A small percentage of sub teams tried using Scala this way and hit a lot of road blocks with the unfamiliar syntax, immature tooling, and other quirks.

The teams that had huge productivity gains were the ones who leaned heavily on the functional features WHILE caring about overall readability. That means yes, we used Scalaz but we discouraged the omission of dots and parentheses (as you mentioned), discouraged operator overloading/symbolic methods, and were very deliberate about when to reach for features such as HKTs or some of the more unfamiliar features of Scalaz.

Overall it lead to a very productive and fun development experience, and at the same time illuminated many ways in which the Scala ecosystem could also be improved.
Oh nice! Will start using that as soon as we get to 1.26 :) -- currently stuck on 1.24 (upgrading takes a bunch of work since we're building under openembedded/bitbake, so I wait until the new version hits the upstream layer)
Additionally, unemployment wasn't increased long term. In the short term, however, unemployment would rise drastically and suddenly and destroy people's lives.

The Luddite movement for instance wasn't a group of people against technology in general. They we're against being put out on the street to starve while factory owners got rich because new machines were invented. That sort of rioting and destruction can easily happen again if we take a "tough shit" attitude to people who lose their jobs en masse to technological improvements
Not having upgradable components can mean a lack of options a pro might need. But even without that in the past users could upgrade their machine by buying a new one. Except when Apple didn’t update the hardware in years.
Some things I can do on my personal machine, but the company VPN is not transferrable so if I need connectivity to something on our network I have to use the work machine for that.

My workaround has been to use a 34-inch widescreen as my primary monitor, with the iMac's built-in screen acting as a second monitor, and then I can just toggle between whichever computer I want to use. It's an okay solution, but it means my primary display isn't 5K
The first and third examples are fraud. These have nothing to do with the proposed issue anymore than someone falsifying that a plane can fly (for whatever guidelines a jurisdiction uses to govern that). The third is subtle because it's not 1 in 1000 (randomly) but 1 in N-members of 1000, making it not in 1/1000.
thats what most SAFTs already do.
The Neural Search Frontier
I'm glad we had the myth for a bit, if only for the game.
The Mac has a snooze light? Where? I’ve been using a MacBook Air since 2010 and MacBook Pro since 2015 and haven’t seen anything resembling a snooze light. Would love to discover this!
A future society where everybody still works maybe isn't utopia but it doesn't seem so bad and neither does a future society where nobody works. What seems really terrible is a society where there's only enough jobs for some fraction of the population. There's no economic law that there's always more new jobs than old jobs and I don't believe we're going to hit some magical AI take-off point so I think this middle ground is probably the more likely future and it's going to take a painful reorganizing.
Apple, Marzipan, Delight
Based on other transit tunneling projects, even if it just came in on time and on budget, that'd be a huge win.
I think they'll address it by eliminating the keyboard entirely à la the MacBook Wheel[0], albeit perhaps with a touch screen. From an absolute, ergonomic standpoint, it will suck. But soft keys won't fail or get crud in them like hard keys do, and Gruber will soon be writing thinkpieces about how the keyboard is the most failure-prone part of a computer, and the complaints about recent MBP keyboards are inherent failings of hardware keyboards themselves rather than Apple skimping on quality, and Apple is taking the lead in something the industry should have done a long time ago by eliminating the hardware keyboard.

[0] https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA
Cool cool, that makes sense. I probably don't have good advice for you then; what I will say is that things should end up much more stable in a few months, but there's a massive async/await/impl Trait/futures/tokio/hyper upgrade going on, so stuff is a bit more chaotic than usual. Once that's over though, stuff should be solid for quite a whole.

I don't know if rustls supports your use-case for TLS, but you may want to check it out.

Thanks again. It's really invaluable to hear about these kinds of things.
> leave things completely alone and keep selling the old models

That would trash the brand. You can't be selling cutting edge out of one side of the company while milking legacy products out the other. Perhaps more fatally, it spoils Apple's incredibly effective "make your product obsolete before someone else does" philosophy.
Meh. It's not real overkill if you don't have fail-over hardware.
I'm sitting next to bindgen's author in meatspace right now and he says yes, it has been on stable for a long time.
ACL Best Paper: Tricky Stanford DataSet Adds Questions That Don’t Have Answers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

Which among many other things, mentions the Lemming Suicide myth:

> Lemmings do not engage in mass suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating. This misconception was popularized by the Disney film White Wilderness, which shot many of the migration scenes (also staged by using multiple shots of different groups of lemmings) on a large, snow-covered turntable in a studio. Photographers later pushed the lemmings off a cliff.[234] The misconception itself is much older, dating back to at least the late 19th century.
Wasn't really a response to either actually. :)
Kind of, yes. More and more products and services are going to offer cli clients.
Angular, vue, Azure, kubernetes, docker, choose your weapon.
I was a J2ME Developer when the iPhone launched. Now I’m an iOS developer.
I don't really understand the status report either, because on the main page that Benjamin Chaffin says "Even after 10^230 terms, the smallest missing number is still 852655." But that number isn't listed in "holes below 10^7".

As for how it may be calculated, there are several program listings there. None of them seem to be very optimized, but none of them are attributed to him, so he might have a better algorithm. Also he's a processor architect at Intel, so he might have access to some exotic hardware.
I was using that to point out that they have abandoned their audience before. This would not be that surprising.
Receptionists
what exactly do you mean? Are you saying that RL requires less compute?

I would say having an obscene amount of compute is definitely a big competitive advantage, especially over a lot of small academic research labs.
An entire genre of adventure game, reduced to simple entertainment. :-)

Yet another black mark against Disney's attempts to make "nature more interesting" only to be just making up just so stories.
Even better:

"Hello,How,Are,You,Today" |> String.replace(",", ".") |> IO.puts()
Maybe it's not about AI as a strategic asset, so much as it's about private sector data collection of the kind that AI can utilise as a strategic asset. The ability to perform image recognition against user photos would be limited to countries that host the headquarters of a large social network, for example.
This might not appeal to you but there are a lot of reasonable non-nutty right wing news commentators on Youtube. It's not really news but they inform you of news stories and put their opinion on them. They seem more sensible than Fox News and don't have quite the same rigid set of political beliefs. They also have their opposition Youtubers who do their best to find fault in what each other says.

I've started to think the idea of left and right wing are grossly over-simplistic. They might have made sense in the days of mass media where there was no room for personal differences but now you can find popular Youtubers who support a mixture of traditionally left and right ideas.
Ah sorry, was thinking of rustfmt-nightly, not the toolchain.
Terriers stay small because they're given whiskey as pups and the way to catch a bird is to throw salt on its tail are two other childhood facts that I find hard to completely give up.
Google Production Environment
Fo: experimental language which adds functional programming features to Go
Not sure who mentioned immediately launching a ship the day after landing, but I said sending out ships after colonizing, settling turf wars, advancing, etc. There’s no telling how advanced their ships or other tech would be at that point. How much would even 500 years do for space travel after they were already able to achieve such short-timespan intergalactic travel? I can’t fathom.

Anyways, lots of ways to skin a cat. Making wormholes may be one way, but faster space ships, or controlling gravity, or teleportation, or some other fantastical exploit we haven’t even begun to imagine may be another.
I would add that humans also integrate gyroscopic & acceleration information from the inner ear to understand relative balance. Multiple sources of sensor data is a net benefit, not a drawback.
There's a great short story by Arthur C. Clarke about lemmings, but he does admit in a later foreword that the premise is actually a myth.
I didn't run it, but in the code it appears to take commands from stdin, but if they're coming from a TTY (interactive), they are processed through readline. The "-f -" trick didn't seem to be supported by the code.
Cool! So, one thing that may be of interest is the Rust/WebAssembly work; https://github.com/ashleygwilliams/wasm-pack is a huge part of this story and is very open to new contributors who are just learning Rust.

On the server, there's a lot of churn right now, as async/await is being worked on in the compiler, futures are landing in the standard library, and the general ecosystem is undergoing a huge upgrade. So it also needs a lot of work, but may be harder without already knowing Rust.

One good thing to remember is that while it may be a little out of date, that just means it's missing some things. Nothing in it is wrong, it just is missing new APIs that may make some things a bit nicer.
As an occasional pedestrian & occasional road cyclist, I'd personally much rather have any automated cars around me using both LIDAR and SFM than SFM without LIDAR. Wouldn't you?
> You can't be selling cutting edge out of one side of the company while milking legacy products out the other.

Except that's exactly what's happening with the MacBook Air, Mac mini, Mac Pro...
Every Dell laptop I've ever purchased has had the on-premise technical support (which I used to great effect over half a dozen times) and most of those were purchased through the Dell website which I assume is targeted towards consumers. It may have been part of paid warranty upgrades but obviously not enough to make an impression.

I always used the Dell web chat to get warranty support and the vast majority of the time I just wrote a few sentences that made it clear that I was a power user that knew what was likely to be broken, someone would get dispatched with 24-48 hours, and I'd spend less than hour on the whole affair (most of that time spent doing something else while the support person replied or the tech worked on the laptop).
The current Apple TV could serve that purpose - no reason for it to run macOS. Or even to be any faster, the 4k Apple TV is surely fast enough.
How Are We Changing the Internet? How Is the Internet Changing Us?
Putting "Instruments" in quotes would help. It's some program for Apple computers here. This is not about figuring out what measuring instruments are sending on the wire, something that's often proprietary.
The second is more a matter of degree than principle.
That doesn’t seem like the best example. I’m not sure what the context was for that video, hit it doesn’t look like Steve said that tablets would fail. He said that a tablet made in that era would only be useful to rich people who want an extra device just for content consumption. That’s still most of the market for tablets today.
Boring Company Will Build High-Speed Train to Chicago's O'Hare Airport
I don't like it either BTW. My favorite is how spending on the FBI/NSA is based on government debt.
"White Wilderness" snippet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOOs8MaR1YM
Disney popularized the myth, but I think it was around before them. I think they wanted to get video of those famous/interesting lemming suicides but the lemmings wouldn't do it, so they coerced them into it.
>Maybe its the higher bitrate..

An HD Netflix stream has about the same bitrate as a DVD, but has drastically better image quality. Modern codecs are extremely efficient in terms of bandwidth, but that comes at the cost of computational complexity. Decoding HEVC or VP9 is far from a simple task; hardware acceleration of video decoding is absolutely crucial for power-constrained devices like smartphones and laptops.
PostgreSQL, MonetDB, and Too-Big-For-Memory Data in R
Just my 2c, as someone who went Windows - Linux - OS X - but: completely agree on Keynote. It has the best UI of any software I’ve ever used. No kidding.

Pages is good, useable, nice, but not worth buying a Mac for.
Are you asserting that all economists and financial goobs are "BS artists," or merely most? Is there a way to tell the difference better than "he hasn't gone belly up yet"?
Well, there are two groups that worry me: those that don't know Windows can be minimized, and those who believe they're much better at using computers than they actually are. And honestly, the second group worries me more.

That group doesn't represent the majority of users by any means, of course.
Stop calling text based graphics CLI! Grrr
Apple Improves User Data Privacy in New App Store Guidelines
There are several laptops in the $300-$500 range that would work depending on your needs. (i.e. the cheaper ones have i3 cpus.) Asus, HP, Dell, Acer, etc. Make sure to select one (though many are) that you can upgrade -- for lots of them you can put in up to 32 GB of RAM (some 64), install an m.2 SSD... I've had my eye on https://www.amazon.com/Acer-E5-575-33BM-15-6-Inch-Notebook-G... for a long time in the event I need to get a new laptop for personal light dev use -- looks like they just refreshed a newer model too, linked from that page, though maybe not worth it if you're going to upgrade it.
Facebook’s longtime head of policy and comms steps down
This is confusing me more and more not your comment but Apple’s position on this. I used to think the Mac Mini was a bit if a cast off because it was really the only Mac for awhile that didnt encourage buying all your periphels from Apple.

That being said with the ending of Airports and Apple branded displays it appears first party accesories arent as important as I thought. I’m not entirely sure why it’s being left to stagnate.
If Wall Street is not to blame for "business cycles", why are you against bailouts?

There's no such thing as sound money, it's always being manipulated. This is by design.
Thanks for this list.. you have killed my productivity this afternoon.
325 degrees farenheit to be exact.
I think Allen Steele's Coyote series features this, but I can't seem to find any reference to it. (And I no longer have the books).
The main reason is that its not 2012 any more and the executive branches already know what crypto is and won't spend resources on that war of attrition.

The do-ers in government already know that their available tools to stop crypto would only slow it down as it routes around them.

The legislative branch could easily take a less educated reaction, and you saw that in 2011-2012 in the US. In the meantime, crypto grew faster than the knee-jerk machinations of government could react and it is already big enough and the officials are more educated about it.

There doesn't need to be a vested interest in the governing institution. Distributed ledgers offer a chance at a more efficient and egalitarian form of governance itself, without invoking the 19th century political ideologies that shaped the 20th century and now prevent anyone from proposing anything radical. Blockchains and DLT currently don't achieve that, and various agencies in the executive branch recognize its ability to offer them benefits and adapt to reach their potential.
Yep. The 13" Air was a really popular machine that people loved. Apple could have simply updated it with a better display, specs and USB C and they would have made a killing. Instead, they decided to make the 12" Macbook and keep the crap display on the Air...

A lot of people are saying that Apple doesn't make a better Mac Mini because they're worried it would cannibalize their iMac/Mac Pro sales.

But if your entry level machine is providing more value for $ than your pricier models, then perhaps there's a problem with those model.

Just looking at the iMac lineup in Canada and the prices are insane for what you get. Just for example, the basic 21.5" iMac, when upgraded to a SSD, costs $1700 CAD.
I have a 5k iMac. No real complaints with it, although the design is pretty dated with its massive bezels and huge chin. Compute-wise it serves its purpose for me, good performance for an all-in-one.
I have to admit that my first thought upon reading the title was that this was some satirical piece about the way some people announce or describe their software.

"Doohickey - CLI app written in C++, Boost, and the STL"

"whatchamacallit - an admin module written in JS, React, React Saga, Storyboard, Redux, Express, nginx, Electron and markdown"

"mugabe-rails - a library written in Ruby to parse JSON"

"lasagne - a meal made using cow, spaghetti, and tomato"

Instead, what I took away from it was something much more insightful and mature. He pretty much defined his most minimal MVP, committed to getting that working, and completely dispensed with the notion that he had to invest in the more fancy tech up front. He got a working solution for his problem and if needs be, it can be made fancier now it actually works for him.
Microsoft and Apple have a comprehensive cross-licensing agreement, so that would make sense.
Tldr: Disney committed lemming genocide
>You two are describing solutions for "feeling depressed". Clinical depression is very different.

No, I'm talking about clinical depression. But it's interesting that this viewpoint seems to be quite prevalent on HN.

>Depression is out of your control.

Perhaps in some cases, but in many cases there are things you can change that will improve it.

You seem to be making an assumption that clinical depression can't be due to lifestyle factors. This is an incorrect assumption, based on my own experience, that of family members, and research looking into psychological stress and neuroinflammation (for example).

>Even while living the happiest moments of your life you can still have depression lurk in the back of your head, probing you with negative thoughts.

The triggers for depression aren't "moments". It builds up over a long time, and isn't due to short-term factors. So while you might have a "happy moment" during depression, that isn't likely to cure it (and that isn't what I'm saying at all).
Consider it as if you were a child victim. Imagine coming across these pictures of your abuse, or your family coming across these pictures. Or your coworkers. Or strangers. The pictures reenact the crime, invoking shame, dread, and helplessness. Here are some stories: https://redd.it/8af7io, http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/a-victim-of-chi....

As a moral principle, it should not be legal to share these exploitative pictures. In terms of information, every copy of a picture increases the probability that it comes back to haunt the victim.

Finally, many viewers of child pornography find the pictures horrible or even traumatic. Many people are unfazed, but some experience nightmares or severe anxiety, especially investigators and moderators: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/.
There are most definitely laws that forbid them from stating "we do not sell your data" and selling it anyway.

Also, why would they sell your data? The bank accounts you connect to YNAB already have your data and sell it. Do you also not use banks?
re: react-navigation, I am one of the two primary maintainers of this project and I started working on it in January of this year because it was in a pretty rough state. I think it has come a long way in that time even though there is still plenty to do. I would love to hear what simple things have taken hours for you when using it, feel free to reach out on Twitter in DM @notbrent or email brent at expo dot io. Also, the roadmap for our next major version is here: https://github.com/react-navigation/react-navigation/issues/....
I realized something like this a while ago; that Apple is catering to casual users and neglecting its upscale offerings, not pushing its desktop software business forward. The problem in the long run is that the loyalty of smartphone users is fickle; there's no vendor lockin. Suppose someday people decide that X smartphone maker is the next big thing; what's tethering them to Apple products?
Other comments aside, it strikes me that it makes for an amazing way to:

Launder money for black projects.

Track people who think they’re beyond the reach of government.