skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In answer to your question, that would be asinine. That's one of the few things Apple has (almost) consistently gotten right on their laptops—close the lid, it goes to sleep. Period. I can't describe how frustrating it is to use computers that think they are smarter than you (or are just unable to work properly) and stay on when you close them.
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I disagree. The pro models are nearly entirely owned by enthusiasts and power users in my totally-representative sample. These people like options and are happy to pay for them.
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I've been having trouble getting the page to load. I noticed I'm not alone. Anyone care to speculate on why and how I can avoid this on my sites in the future? I'm guessing someone in devops or sysadmin or with experience would have a good guess
It's not you, it's them. A proper manager should be actively integrating you into the team. It's as simple as dragging you along to meetings so you learn what's going on, or CC'ing you on emails, or having you assist a coworker instead of handling a feature by yourself.
You can read the paper that inspired the FaunaDB transaction protocol here: http://cs.yale.edu/homes/thomson/publications/calvin-sigmod1...

Or if you want a very concise description, see slide 13 from Daniel Abadi's presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/abadid/the-power-of-determinism-i...
It's not writing real code (except for some examples), but this guy's got some chops: http://emacsrocks.com/
Is reinstalling the OS on an iPhone really a thing? I can't imagine that any significant number of people do that. Non-iCloud backups are probably more common but still extremely rare, as are any backup solutions that require more than a few minutes to set up and permanently automate.
More context: Jack Dorsey (on behalf of Square) explicitly called out Stripe this morning over the issue: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1053312141657178112

EDIT: I misinterpreted the thread: see comments below. Although Stripe's response was likely correlated to it.
Hopefully this act of deception gets punished. Not just a slap on the wrist few million dollar fine, but the criminal indictment of the head honchos.
If this were proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, China would be shown to be guilty of a massive act of corporate espionage.

Surely geopolitical pressure combined with the commercial pressure for that not to happen is enough for Bloomberg to retract its story regardless of truth?
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That's the big "One more thing" they've got for us at the end of the month. "No more headphone jack!" (Crowd erupts in applause.)
The elimination of MagSafe is nearly too painful to talk about. It was magical. Now it’s dead.

Here’s how it worked: The power cable was magnetic. Instead of sticking into the laptop, it connected to the side of it. If someone tripped over the cable, the cable would harmlessly disconnect from the laptop.

That feature was really removed? I've accidentally yanked the power cord multiple times on my laptop. MagSafe saved the hardware from major damage.
Given the hack involves hardware I'm quite inclined to believe Apple and all the strong denials.
> While the Smalltalk model holds a large number of objects in a single ‘space’ - we could imagine a system where each object has internal space which holds a cluster of inner objects, and so on. This introduces a recursive aspect in the design.

Kind of reminds me of tuple spaces. Which is a neat idea. From the system vs program perspective, your system is running on this tuple space. Programs are individual actors capable of accessing the tuple space and triggered via some mechanism (like being notified if a certain type of data is posted or periodically executing a query and running if they receive a response). You can then grow the system by allowing tuples of different types to accumulate, and developing or extending actors in how they process this store.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_space
Not really.. There's an OEM in the middle deciding what mix of preinstalled crapware is best for the OEM where they can now mix Google and other crapware (more freely than before.)
>Tim Cook is not properly informed - which is very unlikely at this point

Humor me, why is this unlikely? Why is it not possible that (whatever three letter agency) grabbed a few engineers, told them to do X without talking to anyone else, at the risk of them and their families getting disappeared to a black site?

Besides, in security controlled jobs it's perfectly normal to not be allowed to disclose what you're working on even to your direct superior. This idea that Tim Cook / Apple PR must know everything that's going on at Apple is kinda ridiculous.
You have to watch this "Confederate shop supplier from China" (Whole video is amazing): https://youtu.be/RDd10-poMm8?t=900
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Re your first paragraph: What you're doing now is learning the tools, learning the codebase, learning the terminology, and learning the company structure and procedures. This takes time. Nobody is surprised that it's taking you time. The people in your second paragraph who are doing fine? They already learned this stuff. That's why they're doing fine. When you have learned this stuff, you'll probably be fine too.
>let the free market decide and if needed, then regulate it more.

That is exactly what happened over a 100 years ago. That additional regulation was called the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890.

When the US DOJ broke up Standard Oil, who had control of 90% of the market just like a certain search engine does today, consumers and the market were better off...and even Rockefeller who lost his illegal monopoly, saw his fortune double as a result of the breakup making him the richest man in the world.
This is it exactly. I still need to charge the thing, and I often have it sitting next to my computer. So I charge from the handy port I've got right there... with an adapter.
I use a 2013 MBP and I agree with this article in that I don't really want to "upgrade" to a Macbook without most of those features. In fact, even the 2013 is missing some features compared to the 2011:

* The old style Magsafe, where the cord comes out the back instead of the side. I still feel that one was superior.

* Accessible RAM. I upgraded the RAM in my 2011 from 4GB to 16GB for a fraction of what the 16GB in my 2013 cost pre-installed and soldered to the motherboard.

I can live with these, though. I absolutely will not buy a computer that doesn't have a real escape button - I don't actually use any software on my mac that I couldn't use on Linux, other than Apple Developer software, and that is not my primary function, just something I do sometimes.

Other than that, I do agree that the tabs on the power supply are pretty sweet. I think I would be fine with USB-C power, but it would be kind of nice if they didn't do away with perfectly good QoL features just because.
For the first part, probably just take it to the Apple store or just "factory reset" it. I don't think the average apple user cares enough to completely reinstall iOS themselves. Same goes for non-iCloud backups - the average person probably doesn't care enough to do backups normally, much less plug it into their computer manually. I'm not saying you're wrong, but rather taking your complaint with a grain of salt. It's sad but the average apple user (from my experience) doesn't care.
How many of these articles need to be written? Seriously, just buy a different brand of computer. There are plenty of us who don't care about these "features."

The keyboard is great. USB-C is great. Buy some new cables and get over it, already.
Thanks for the subtle racism towards southern italians...
HR is there to protect the company. Period.
Finns know that phrase. Just like Americans know the words "your majesty" despite not having any royals.

Finns use it exactly in same way as American would say "your majesty". It would likely be a sarcastic remark coming from a Finn. So the meaning is not that far off.
What about the argument that some places are more expensive than others, and sometimes, for a few years, it makes more sense to live in a cheap place while you set up your finances, and then make decisions about where to live for the long term?
Any idea what the instruction set looks like? Is it a Von Neumann architecure?
Isn’t the editor of Bloomberg the guy that used to be editor at The Economist for about 10 years, that is until 2-3 years ago? I don’t think he would have let something like this get published if he had had just the slightest doubt about the veracity of it all. And yes, I do trust the morals of an editor that I respect and have respected for more than 10 years more than an amoral corporation like Apple which is by law forced to first care about shareholder value, truth and morals be damned.
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Sssssssssss...ahh the sound of air leaving the bitcoin balloon slowly. Smells like wasted energy to me.
Batteries for this model are quite easy to replace, and pretty cheap.
LOL. Bloomberg is not going to "close shop in shame" over this. I seriously have no idea what set of assumptions you must be using to think that this is even in the realm of possibility. It's like saying "worst case, an asteroid hits us in 20 minutes."
In an emergency situation I'll probably have my cell phone, too. What I'd love to have is an app (or packaged web app using WebAudio) that encodes/decodes PSK31 so I can plug in an audio cable from my iPhone to my Baofeng and start typing.
This is entirely normal for your first month. Be patient with yourself and you'll catch on.
No need to work so hard, VMs self-identify: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1009458
Call me a pessimist but I suspect Google will just do both: Take the money for the Play ecosystem and continue exploiting your personal data for financial gain.
US courts have not always agreed with that interpretation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_v._Hearst_Corporation
I agree with you that we should be able to talk about it and criticize it, but I think declaring 'there are no reasons for this' requires more thoughts on the perspectives of the individuals or entities involved.

Certainly it is a (somewhat mitigated) loophole that can be exploited, so in that respect it is not good. But weighed against the positive impact for the rural towns and the connection it makes back to hometowns, you could argue it's worth it.
It's all driven by testing needs.

On my webapps, I can use Selenium IDE to simulate basic user interaction to check for regressions in all features of an app, but also create realistic loading of frontend servers.

There are a bunch of android tools to do the same for apps that can run in the emulator distributed on a cloud.

On Desktop apps, people can use anything from MSFT Terminal Services to Citrix to pound native apps into submission.

Oh man, native containers would be awesome on OSX, bonus points if we could run a full UI.

And there's the economy of scale of "same tools" "same platform" for local development vs cloud deployment. Makes testing so much easier.
Sure, though it isn't like we've weighed Pando either - I would say we just have better estimates of its mass (and of course "largest" is ambiguous as to whether it means area or mass here).
"Quivering"? Who calls them "Quivering Aspen"? I have only ever heard Quaking Aspen. Is that not right? Is this a Berenstein Bears situation?
I don't think I believe in "actual" real numbers.
I'm talking about the arrest, plenty of news sources, especially local ones, will have an article saying so-and-so was arrested of such-and-such crime. Even if you're found not guilty through a trial the news article saying you were arrested will remain (because you were arrested). It would be the same after an expungement, articles citing the arrest can likely remain based on the fact that even if you were legally not convicted, you were still legally arrested (unless expungements cover that as well).
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The rural states' power in federal government is largely imaginary. In many elections, they have gone overwhelmingly for the losing candidate. If you look at a county by county map of the last election and then realize that the winner of the election actually lost the popular vote even after taking something like 85% of the counties in the US and you can still make the argument that the population centers should have more representation it's really just a naked left wing power grab at that point -- and likely an argument made by someone who has never really lived in rural America and doesn't understand it.

Yes, you have more people in the population centers. They're generally a very homogenous group by political thought, and vote almost as a left wing bloc in most cases. You're simply arguing that the left should be more powerful than it is. Nobody cries about the electoral college until a Republican wins. Nobody cries about representation when the left is in power.

There are things that are wrong in the US political system, but the electoral college and the house representation aren't those things. They're the best of the bad solutions to keeping away from a tyranny.
To me, it looks like he's doing the exact opposite and is agreeing with Stripe.

"Companies like Square and Stripe would be taxed at a significantly larger total contribution than much larger companies like Salesforce."
The arrow key layout gets me cursing faster than anything else. I simply can't reliably find them by touch.

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MBPs from that vintage didn't have the battery glued in. Anyone with fine motor skills can easily do the repair themselves for $90 in parts and tools.
Fair enough. Note, I'm not arguing that there is no appropriate use of FTC action to stop anti-competitive behavior. The informally discussed actions attributed to MSFT employees would probably qualify (certainly using browser monopoly to effectively block websites). However, it never happened and "informal conjectures" are pretty dubious. I don't think that rises to the standard of evidence that Google wouldn't exist had the FTC not intervened.

From the same article

What eventually humbled Bill Gates and ended Microsoft’s monopoly wasn’t antitrust prosecutions, observers say, but a more nimble start-up named Google, a search engine designed by two Stanford Ph.D. dropouts that outperformed Microsoft’s own forays into search (first MSN Search and now Bing). Then those two dropouts introduced a series of applications, like Google Docs and Google Sheets, that eventually began to compete with almost every aspect of Microsoft’s businesses. And Google did all that not by relying on government prosecutors but by being smarter. You don’t need antitrust in the digital marketplace, critics argue. “When our products don’t work or we make mistakes, it’s easy for users to go elsewhere because our competition is only a click away,” Google’s co-founder, Larry Page, said in 2012. Translation: The government ought to stop worrying, because no online giant will ever survive any longer than it deserves to.

I am certainly familiar with alternative options to popular digital products. Some of them do in fact gain adoption, which seems to counter your position that it's impossible to gain traction because of monopoly power. They often get bought by the incumbent (Facebook's properties being the most obvious example). Note that some independents (Snapchat, Twitter) have also managed to rise post-Facebook and IPO. It's not clear monopoly power is what makes these supposedly subpar products dominant. Certainly I use Google Calendar because I use GMail, and I use GMail because I don't care enough to look for another email provider. It's good enough for me. If a better one came out, worth switching to, I certainly would. Just like I switched my email from Yahoo! to GMail when GMail came out. I think there's a difference between a company being big and holding the lion's share of the market (Tide holds 50% market share in laundry detergent) and being a monopoly. Telecoms and utilities are monopolies, in many markets. There are no other options. I don't see why Google Search is (DuckDuckGo exists and has done pretty well with a focus on privacy, for example; and of course Bing). But I also disagree that it's _not_ because Google has the best search results. As far as I can tell, they do. Who's better?
This is turning out to be one of the most bizarre news stories ever
Why let people out of prison? What's the point of temporary incarceration without any form of rehabilitation?

Presumably, if society is willing to let people return it must gain from their return. That cost benefit trade-off is the exact same one that occurs with your website example.
http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-SF-Poin...

For example, there's a longstanding rumor that the homeless are being "shipped from out of state" from places like Texas giving free bus tickets. Here's the messier statistics:

"Sixty-nine percent (69%) of respondents reported they were living in San Francisco at the time they
most recently became homeless. Of those, over half (55%) had lived in San Francisco for 10 or more
years. Eight percent (8%) had lived in San Francisco for less than one year. This is similar to the
survey findings in 2015.
Ten percent (10%) of respondents reported that they were living out of state at the time they
became homeless. Twenty-one percent (21%) reported they were living in another county in
California. California counties that respondents reported living in at the time they most recently
became homeless include Alameda County (5%), San Mateo (4%), Contra Costa (3%), Marin (3%),
Santa Clara County (1%), and some other California county (5%)."

learn more:
https://www.google.com/search?q=sf+homeless+population+repor...
Those are limited subsets of functionality, and vba isn't all that's not there.
If you have a 1366x768 screen why would you need DPI scaling? You shouldn't be affected by this issue at all if your resolution is below a certain threshold.
And potentially a group of people. Maybe I am giving Bloomberg too much credit at this point, but their article cites a number of sources -- albeit anonymous ones -- and I think it could very well be a coordinated effort from a group of interested parties.
Or you may not be seeing black movies because you don't watch black movies. I think the only solution here is the "Android" route: allow people to log in to their account and turn the knobs on the recommendation algorithms, or turn them off entirely.
That's true. Until it was discovered, Troy was considered to be mythical. Now most people think we have Homeric Troy.¹

But how far do we go? We practically have the specifications for Noah's ark ² - so do you expect us to find it, large enough to house every animal except dinosaurs, cruelly left out? ³

So at first I thought you made a pretty good case, but I don't know, man. There's a lot of weird stories that are super specific, like the one I just quoted.

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¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy

² https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+6&versi... - "The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it..." etc.

³ https://alvinalexander.com/sites/default/files/styles/previe...
San Francisco has a tiny population (because California likes to start a new ‘city’ every two blocks) and nice weather.
Yes. The magsafe adapter is gone. You now have receive power via USB C.
note: the evil gentrifying landlords are the ones fighting apartments.
That sucks. I've certainly been there. Unfortunately, you've got to keep one thing in mind: HR exists to protect the company. In this case, that means it exists to protect the company from you! The chances that you'd get anything but extremely carefully crafted legal boiler-plate from them is basically zilch.

The hiring process is broken in some very sad ways right now. I wish it was better.
Are Souther Italians their own race?
> But "we", who? Patrick Collison, Sam Altman, Marc Benioff, etc,

The recommended statement by Wiener addresses this: "A broad-based stakeholder group — including Mayor Ed Lee, then-Supervisor David Chiu, the Controller, the business community, labor, and social service nonprofits..."

Watching Bill Gates try to solve problems in education [1] was a real wake-up call for me. I had a rather involved conversation when the initiative was first announced with an education leader who was deeply suspicious and expected failure (and, what's more, for exactly the reasons that the RAND report identified).

It turns out that, sometimes, leaders who have dedicated their lives to problem X really do know better than people who have succeeded in the business world.

And perhaps more importantly, that more money isn't always a "no downsides" proposition. Big spends on the wrong ideas can suck the air out of the room and divert other resources away from more promising ideas.

But I suspect that the people whose names you mentioned already know that the most effective ideas are probably going to come, in part, from people who have put in their 10,000 hours working on actually solving homelessness.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-melinda-gates-foundatio...
>Yabasic (Yet Another BASIC) is a free and open source BASIC interpreter for Windows and Unix platforms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yabasic

Because I had to look it up
Why is this fee still with strings attached ? If they are going to charge for play services, just deliver play services for the fee. They want OEMs to bundle playstore, youtube, maps etc., still pay the 40 bucks, and end-user anyway has to pay with ads and personal data. So how is this helping anyone ?
It's one organism with 47k appendages. This is my opinion and I stand by it. There's probably way more to learn from Pando than we think, don't delete data that you don't understand.
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Like others in the thread have said, he's not writing code at 1000 wpm here. In this ~20 minute clip he's written at most 50 lines. It's more his ability to solve problems where he finds them
Good riddance!

In my experience MagSafe 2 ruined the MagSafe connector design. It’s nearly impossible to use MagSafe 2 in anything but a stable flat position. Forget using it while laying down.

Also, I work in a metal fabrication workshop, which means the brass contacts and their housing on the laptop side of the MagSafe 2 connector on my MacBook Pro are now blanketed and burned from poor contact due to metal dust interfering with the connector.

There are aftermarket MagSafe type connectors for the new MacBooks. This is a superior design in my opinion because it makes both sides of the connector replaceable.
Is the hard drive and battery still user-swappable on a 2013 MBP? I have a cache of MBAs to last me a decade or two, but I'm always interested in other options if I come across them inexpensively.
Your context is inaccurate. Square and Stripe are both opposed to the tax, and Jack was continuing making comments against it just as this blog does.

It's Marc Benioff, from Salesforce, that has been calling both of them out.
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Yes, that’s also possible in making Bloomberg retract the story. But it would take a big hit on its reputation (whatever it is) and also lose a lot of sources. I’d also imagine reporters leaving it for other places, thus making it worse. It seems like there’s no good ending for Bloomberg in this story. One escape route seems to be the nuclear option of revealing some (not all) sources, what they said, when, where, etc. But that also guarantees a mutually assured destruction. I feel bad for the Bloomberg reporters now (assuming they didn’t do this out of malice and dishonesty).

Maybe a closed hearing with all parties involved could bring some closure, with some face saving retraction or statements.