skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not Xeon or EEC Memory, but 150W+ CPU + 150W+ GPU combination on an iMac. iMac could have been powerful, but it never was. Not because we have invested new cooling solution to cool the CPU and GPU, because the iMac were never positioned as such. Steve Jobs wanted the Desktop to be completely silent. And it is still shipping with a HDD as default.

Before the iMac Pro, the Mac Pro was the computer for professionals. They made a major mistake with the 2013 Mac Pro. Apple never shipped good GPUs in Macs compared to Windows PCs.

Not a product line, but the whole Mac Ecosystem. Try Disney telling you they are throwing Mac Pro away from their production system. And it is not even 10%, likely 1% of their revenue.

If Apple’s missteps were hurting Mac revenue you would see it in their quarterly revenue where they break down the amount of revenue they make on Macs. Looking at the numbers, it hasn’t hurt Mac revenue. I would love to see a more compelling Mac Mini for instance, but I can’t honestly say that not having updated it in 4 years has hurt Apple.

And the quote was from... 1996? How about a more recent quote.

Jobs told people what he would do with Apple and he mostly did just that.

- He milked the Mac and used it as a cash cow

- He gave up competing with Microsoft and made a deal with them.

- He introduced iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and the iPad.

- He even took “Computer” out of the name of the company.

- He delayed the OS release that was suppose to come out in 2007 and moved engineers to the iPhone.

- The only slightly industry changing thing he did with the Mac after 2001 was the MacBook Air and that was overpriced and underpowered for the first two years.

As far as being “tied” to the Mac, he didn’t even use a Mac until 2001 when OS X was introduced. His primary computer was a Dell running Next.
Pretty fascinating to see all the applications of Salt. You would think that the food industry is the largest application but not quite
https://eusalt.com/sites/default/files/page-documents/Salt%2...
OWTF v2.4 – Offensive Web Testing Framework
Generally, the downside of having tissues grow / heal faster is increased growth rate of cancers. I'm speculating, but exposure of the skin to the sun's ultraviolet radiation may have helped determine the trade-off.

Also, I would argue that there isn't a large selective pressure for skin to heal faster. Once a wound has scabbed over, the risk of infection is relatively low.
There is a lot of push to include your linkedIn and Github profiles on a resume. This is probably a result of someone worried not having one would be more of an issue then a blank on. Still one wonders what other projects they have used the account to interact with.
>Unless you know each and every witch personally, how can you know what rituals they engage in?

>What I would be interested in is to find out about Wiccan/Neo-Pagan believes regarding the peace symbols

So, do you or don't you want know what neopagans think? On one side, you disregard all anecdotes. The other side, you want to know said anecdotes.

I'm beginning to think this an insincere request. I know very few whom would answer that kind of question.

Tl;Dr. Go look up occult books on symbolism. There's a lot of them. Perhaps that would be more up your alley.
Do you know if this phone works in the US? I have gotten Nokia phones that weren't explicitly for use in the US before and there was definitely wonkiness in the compatibility with the US wireless carrier bands
I've never thought about it that way, but as a mixed-race white/asian, I wonder if including that information rather than just letting them assume "white" from my name actually hurt me rather than helped me when I applied to (and did not get accepted to) the ivy league 20 years ago.
>Individually wrapped cookies in a box with a plastic tray to hold each cookie.

When used in cases where an item should be consumed sparingly anyway (as with sweets), I don't see the individual wrappers as excessive. It helps keep the food from spoiling due to exposure, thus prolonging the useful life of the product.
Perhaps. I do trust in the work of the the shadow dom manipulations behind the scenes, they're way smarter and way more interested in that. I work with people that make stuff in squarespace and just do html and css, and vue is a choice just in case they decide they want to come over and try some of the other apps. So approachability to me a feature, I don't want to be the only one that can make a trivial update just because someone goes in, looks at the JSX and nopes right out of there.
Unless I'm missing something it doesn't solve the main issue with tabs vs. space which is that most people and editors don't do it right, that is indent with tabs and align with spaces. How does Elastic TabStops deal with that? For instance in code like:

int main() {
printf("%s, %s, %d",
somevariable,
somefunction(),
42);
}

Because beyond that I personally (and very subjectively) consider that adding comments on the same line as the code is usually a bad idea when you can put them on the previous line and it's both better suited to long comments and easier to match the comment with the line. In the example from the gif in the article consider the distance between the `x();` code and the matching comment all the way to the right. Putting it on the line before would make more sense IMO. Most decent code editors will also be able to wrap the comment more easily that way. That being said I'm anal about enforcing 80 columns in my code so maybe I'm just a weirdo.
The description could include features, advantages and benefits:

- Features - what the tool does;

- Advantages - how are the features better than the competitors';

- Benefits - why are the advantages useful to my business.

Users (devs) are typically interested in features but the people who make usage/purchasing decisions (often non-devs) are more interested in benefits.
I think this would look better as some kind of <meta> tag inside the HTML document.

I think that the document itself should have knowledge about its security requirements (the "allow" field in <iframe> tags requires this), so it seems awkward to have part of the responsibility in the HTTP server and another part in the HTML document.
> Is plastic waste that much of a problem in first world countries?

Yes is the answer...

A lot of the plastic waste from first world countries gets shipped to Asia (very cheap; the container ships are much emptier going back...). China received so much plastic waste that in January it banned imports. Consequently shipments to other Asian countries have skyrocketed. Many of these countries have terrible records for the amount of waste plastic washed into the ocean.

Some UK statistics:

- 475,000 tonnes of household plastic waste is recycled per year

- 800,000 tonnes of plastic waste [i.e. not all household] is exported to China, Vietnam, Thailand, etc.

- Those three countries are in the top 10 for plastic waste reaching the ocean.

Sources:

- https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/uk-plastic-polluti...

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42456584
Stripe Enables Corporates to Create Their Own Cards
As an interesting side note, that capsule building was used in the old DOS PC game Transport Tycoon as one of the futuristic type of buildings that would appear in cities in late game.
http://sidenote.hu/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/nakagin_capsul...
Let us apply the standard to mentioned example: Nazism.

> it must be both sincere

Yes.

> and meaningful

Most certainly yes, considering the millions that fought for and against it.

> a place parallel to that filled by the God

Ultimate goal of purification.

Charismatic and visionary leader.

Integrated New Testament and writings by Martin Luther as holy texts. John 8:44, Cleansing of the Temple, Luther's On Jews and Their Lies

Aryan/Nordic chosen race. (Compare: Jewish chosen race.)

"Sought to convince all parts of the new German society to subordinate their personal interests to the 'common good'" (Compare golden rule, and religious communes.)

> not 'something that a person can readily change'

Often yes. (Though I do take issue with this one, given that conversion is the most talked about religious experience there is.)
I think you missed some sarcasm there. Are you sure you were in admissions at Harvard?
I agree you can "get things done" in any language if you know the concepts. But an expert at a language gets things done in the most optimal way, most rapidly, with minimal tech debt.

That's all I'm saying and it may be anecdotal but it's been my experience in the industry.
I looked at their website, the only things I would consider investing is VR kits to try out new steam video games, nintendo switch for a specific video game, goPro when I go hiking once a year, audio mixing equipment, and a 3D printer.

Everything else just seems like its not a worthwhile investment. Either the item offers next to no value short term (speakers) or offers little value because I can window shop it at a store (Laptop, ipad, phones, etc)

Also, I wouldn't want to rent a macbook pro either. Especially considering how awful the keyboard layout & lack of legacy ports are for 2016,2017, and 2018 editions are compared to 2015. You'd probably won't get a choice in what edition you get, that'd be really hard to track

I can definitely see some younger millenials buying into this. Getting new shiny tech is always a hot conversational topic, but older generations I can't see this flying by.
Left school 4 years ago now. At primary, it's mostly kings and queen's, magna carta etc. Secondary it's mainly WWI/II (including "roaring 20s US" and Weimar). For sixth form it's the USSR, America, and I think China (I didn't do A-level history). (This was the AQA course anyway)

Weirdly we learnt almost nothing about the British Empire, which I think is sad because some people have a rose-tinted view of it. You can't begin to form an actual opinion until you know the history, the good and the bad etc.
The dev-specific explanation will often be dull and hyper-specific, narrowing your target market even among developers.
There needs to be written (and if given the time I'll write) a yelp specifically for engineering interviews. Only interviewees can give reviews, and reviews will be restricted to binary yes-or-no questions (did they inform you of a decision in 24 hours? Did they try to sell you on the job? Did you still want to work there after you interviewed there? Did it seem probable to you that you had absolutely no chance of getting that job?, etc.). Think of it in terms of a Joel test, only strictly dealing with the hiring process, and publicly (freely) shared. Call it a Matt test.

These reviews would be aggregated and allow a new prospective candidate to decide whether it's worth the gamble to take the time to interview with that company (a bet amounting to hundreds of dollars of lost time if they're already employed elsewhere). The goal is to encourage hiring managers to step up their game, cut out the baloney, and quit putting their own staff through breakneck quotas of pointless and feckless interviews.

It's also to draw a huge scarlet spotlight on the companies out there that do nothing but interview and never hire. These tirekicker companies are a scourge on the industry and it's a necessary public service that they be identified.

If your company is so choosey that it has to go through 100 onsite interviews to pick one candidate, fine, but candidates have a right to know that before they commit to your process.
You wouldn't have to if elastic tabstops would be supported out of the box.
Do you know how much is black? If it's less than 8% (or whetever the US average is), then it's literally "damned if you do, damned if you don't".
Before Robotaxis Choke the Streets, Cities Start Taxing Ubers
Ah. So the headline is misrepresenting what's going on. These people signed contracts stating they are ok with these restrictions to allow the offices to be built.
I don't believe that developers should be penalised for having empty GitHub profiles. Not everyone is an open source software contributor and that is a silly yardstick to use to judge people.

That said, if you know your GitHub profile is not going to help your CV, just plain don't include it.
I search for a specific item in my history all the time, but it can sometimes be difficult to find what I'm looking for via Chrome's itemized list search, especially when the <title> tags are all the same. I think this would help me find it, in relation to my other activity and time.
Meh, this is just snobbery. Processed American cheese is still in fact a cheese, and whether you like it or not, it has its place.
In Harvard wanted to stay a top school, they wouldn’t set the lottery threshold to 1200, they’d set it to 1500, with minimum 4.0 GPA. They’d still have a huge pool of applicants, but it would likely end up with a class around half Asian, which is what they are explicitly trying to avoid.
Okay but that's kind of a different problem isn't it? If people can't be bothered to comment their code properly I doubt they're going to write high quality LaTeX documentation on the side.

I find that Rust deals with that mostly well, the doc format is part of the language, the documentation generation part of the toolchain. You can even validate example code from the comments. You can enable warnings for missing documentation on methods. In my experience documentation for Rust crate is generally at least okay-ish, it generally saves me a trip into the code itself. That being said Rust prototypes are also a lot more expressive than their C counterparts (no questions about "should I free that pointer?") so that probably helps as well.
I did have to explain jrebel (java class reloading while running) to a manager lately, so it definitely happens
Fleur de sel ("Salt flower") is also popular in Brittany.

We also use salted butter in almost all of our traditional dishes.
My specialism is scientific imaging, so here's a few examples off the top of my head:

VTK would be one. It's at the core of dozens of scientific and medical imaging applications, and is being used for new specialised applications all the time. This does sophisticated volume rendering of 3D images. Used by both open source applications and proprietary.

Or OpenSceneGraph, again the core of many applications, also 100% OpenGL.

Or Volocity, a commercial OpenGL volume renderer which originated on the Mac, later ported to Windows, which is all OpenGL under the hood.

There are hundreds of bespoke scientific and medical applications out there doing analysis and rendering of images. OpenGL is the fundamental underpinning of most of them. Scientists have been using OpenGL for decades. (The availability of OpenGL on the Mac was why many were able to switch.) Some vendors might use DirectX when Windows only, but these are a rarity outside commercial acquisition software due to the ubiquity of Linux and Macs in this domain. This is just the domain I know most about; there are undoubtedly many more in different domains.

The workstation class GPUs have some features the gaming ones don't, but it's often equivalent hardware with different drivers, or has some extended capabilities. Double-precision floats, etc. If you don't use these extra features, there's not much practical difference. The actual OpenGL implementations are generally stable for all cases in my experience. The main problem is vendor implementation differences in my experience, e.g. nVidia being laxer than AMD/ATI and allowing broken code to work which others would reject.

For new code, I'd like to say Vulkan, but the support isn't fully there yet. For example, Qt 5.12 has Vulkan support but it's not yet universally available, and it's disabled by default unless you compile a custom build from source. I'm currently just starting to get to grips with it for a new project, but it will be hard to deploy for the next year or so. The drivers are there for Windows and Linux, and with the MoltenVk on MacOS X it might well work well enough (I'm yet to progress far enough test this). Unless you are wanting to write multiple rendering backends, Metal and DirectX don't look too great for portable code. I'm hoping Vulkan will be the OpenGL replacement it's touted to be, but we'll see!
They reinvented Rent-A-Center.
He does need to justify his choice of materials and his approach -- certainly by the time he is bringing in heavy machinery. This metaphor is too muddled to tell us much.
You could just assign a token an id on its first use and keep that around, even if the name changes. Merges would then be trivial.
Even if your audience is a developer they'll probably more easily grasp a plain-language explanation than a technical one as they skim search results.
I think he might have fit in at Dartmouth?
Hold on, does that mean that a web site is allowed to vibrate my phone? Since when and who agreed to that idiocy?
Salt does other things to food besides alter taste and preserve.

"Salt is special. See, rather than simply flavoring meat by working itself in between muscle fibers, it actually alters the structure of meat, primarily by causing certain parts of the protein myosin to become dissolvable in water.

What does this accomplish? Well, by dissolving myosin, muscle structure is greatly loosened, allowing it to retain more moisture (this is the principle behind brining), and more importantly in this case, it allows proteins between muscle groups to cross-link, causing them to stick to each other.

This is why, for instance, sausages get a nice bouncy, snappy texture, and why if you remove the salt from one, it becomes crumbly and dry (see here for more info on salting and making sausages, and here for some deeper scientific info on the process of salting meat. http://qpc.adm.slu.se/Low_salt_pig-meat_products/page_23.htm...

https://www.seriouseats.com/2013/05/food-lab-tacos-al-pastor...
(and a variant I like even more https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/02/how-to-make-mexican-pueb...)

The same idea works with steak, but you need to be careful if you are anywhere between immediately salting the steak, and less than an hour. (scroll to the Salt section) https://www.seriouseats.com/2011/03/the-food-lab-more-tips-f...
Well said. Would only add that US history, well-taught, cannot help but entrain classical Greek and Roman history and culture.
>Yet, you seemed to stop a step short of calling this structural racism against Asian Americans. Is there something I am missing for why you didn't take that last step?

If we remove legacy admissions, does the Harvard admission system become racist against white people? I don't think so. Harvard is trying to counter-balance a (semi) racially stratified society.

Imagine a caste society. Higher caste children are provided with much more material support and are going to be more equipped to get high scores on standardized tests and participate in extracurricular activities (and the right ones). Would a school that looked only at test scores and extracurriculars be race-blind? No, it would just be an indirect observer of race, in this way we have 'laundered' race.

In a racist structure there is no way to be blind to race, you either perpetuate it or you work against it.
When i was at uni they described the intention as:

40% for book learning (memorisation)
30% for variations on things you've seen before
30% for applying concepts in new ways, requiring "deeper" understanding

From that perspective, if I want good students I don't care if you can answer a standard question quickly and accurately, I care whether you can reason something about a harder question given time to think.
> Doesn't work as well in languages where indentation is significant.

Store the bytecode, indents and dedents are present as <indent> and <dedent> token which are no different than e.g. <brace, open> and <brace, closed>.

Well technically those are in the tokeniser, the AST or bytecode would reify the structures they delimit, and if you stored the AST or bytecode the separator would be reified from there.

But the point is that for the machine indentation is no different than any other token (in fact Haskell is defined using braces and semi-colons, the common indentation-based version is an augmentation of the base language which semantically just inserts braces and semicolons)
Spiral – Facebook Built a Machine Learning System for Self-Tuning Real-Time Serv
> Annoyingly this chip lacks the Compressed (RVC) extension, making it incompatible with all existing Linux distros. These will either have to be recompiled without any Compressed instructions (which increases I-cache pressure on other CPUs that do support it), or we'll need to ship two versions of everything.

Perhaps ARM actually did have a point with their "FUD" campaign against RISC-V:

> https://archive.is/SkiH0

(EDIT: in particular, consider point 3).
Does anyone on HN use Pega? What is your opinion?
I was first introduced to Pega 7 years ago because my company I worked at adopted it as the go to solution for building all applications. To me the company stands out as a bit of an oddity because it is a closed proprietary tool set with very little information out there in public. Many developers hate it because it sucks all creativity out of their work and it puts so many constraints around what and how you can build. Yet upper management loves the company because Pega does stellar job marketing its capabilities as panacea.

Does anyone here work at company that use Pega?
Day to day importance of salt in history is preserved in language.

"Worth his salt."

Salary.
I like VLC but one of the developers is a major dick. You sometimes see him ripping someone a new he for asking an innocent question on forums.
the transition towards mechanical would of course prompt an enormous amount of decisions to be settled democratically (since we have been doing them ad hoc all the time), but the democratic decision is a decision by humans, and all the following similar cases would mechanically follow the same ruling, until either the population changes its mind (through the democratic process) or the population realizes it misformalized a law by an unforeseen case which again prompts a democratic consultation.

So it would still be decisions by humans, the resolution of the law would increase and capture more detail messy real world situations of our daily lives.

The only horror is that it would force us to either treat everyone as equals before the law, or force us to democratically change the law back and forth when we choose to be inconsistent, forcing us to realize we are discriminating on some (un)identified factor.
It's not strictly necessary, no.