skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that video was a scam. The car took a hardcoded route and they simply kept trying over and over again for a take where the driver didn't have to take over. It's estimated they needed over 100 attempts to get usable self-driving footage.

Now they're removing FSD from the website in response to DoJ pressure.
Indeed. Common Lisp should be more like C++, where the right way to write Hello World changes every few years. If your language isn't moving fast and breaking things, it means it's abandoned and probably shouldn't be used for real work.
Yes. Two years in and it is only available in one out of six models; even Apple has no faith in it.
Those who pay attention to our "justice" system might go along with part of that... Besides lots of these transfers have nothing to do with "social justice"; they're military spending or Drug War stupidity or similar. The point is, if Kansas were run the way that actual Kansans would democratically choose to run it, it would be even more awful than it already is. (It would also be better, in some ways, but we don't need to argue about that.) Those sweet federal dollars convince them to make different political decisions than they would have made otherwise.
On the rackmount hardware front, once upon a time there was the XServe. I still have an XServe G5 in storage (one of these days - maybe when I get around to renting some rack space somewhere - I plan to get it up and running again alongside my Sun Fire T2000 and an old Dell PowerEdge I've got). They're discontinued now, but Intel-based XServes are readily available on eBay, last I checked.

There are also rack-bracket-case-things that let you rackmount pairs of Mac Minis. Some colocation providers actually specialize in providing Mac Mini space to fill the macOS server niche.
I wish I had an option to buy a 15 inch mbp without a touchbar.
Just a prototype, will this work?
That's not true at all. In Spain no language was forbidden as was in France and Jews were expelled because

- The pressure of mendicant orders.

- The pope.
Right - I don't mean to minimize the effort at all, it must have been a massive undertaking already! Thank you for all your work!
Scheme needs a standard ffi so badly.

And R7RS is better, now.
Violating Betteridge's Law of Headlines! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Not every iteration of a beloved product series ends up a classic. This is a down period for the MBP. I hope the clout of some decision-maker within Apple has taken a hit.
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Visio in the browser gets 72m, Fusioncharts is crying somewhere in a corner.

Any idea what the pitch is? Get bought by MS for a 1b down the road?
The funding levels are per capita obviously. And the point is not that funding levels don’t vary, but there is no systematic bias toward richer districts. Around here, for example, Baltimore and DC spend far more per student than the rich suburbs surrounding them.
It's good because it offers the opportunity to simplify and rationalize the type system and associated protocols without losing features.

In the early 1990s I worked on an experimental Newton OS written in Dylan. At that time, Dylan was still called "Ralph," and it was basically an implementation of Scheme in which all datatypes were CLOS classes. It was "CLOS all the way down."

Ralph offered substantially the same affordances and conveniences as Common Lisp, but with a simpler and more coherent set of APIs. Ralph was easier to learn and remember, and easier to extend.

To illustrate why, consider finite maps. The idea of a finite map is a convenient abstraction with a well-defined API. Common Lisp offers a couple of convenient ways to represent finite maps, and it's easy to build new representations of them, but there's no generic API for finite maps. Instead, each representation has its own distinct API that has nothing particularly to do with anything else.

By contrast, Ralph had a single well-defined API that worked with any representation of finite maps, whether built-in or user defined.

The upshot is a library of datatypes that is just as rich as Common Lisp's, but with a simpler and more coherent set of APIs, and an easy standard way to extend them with user-defined types that also support the same APIs.

There are signs in the Common Lisp standard that people were already thinking in that direction when the standard was defined. See the sequence functions, for example. Ralph, designed by Common Lisp and Smalltalk implementors, carried that thinking to its logical conclusion, and the result was something like a tidier Common Lisp.

Twenty-eight years later, Ralph is still my favorite of all the languages I've used for serious work. Its development system, Leibniz, remains my favorite development system. My favorite current tools are Common Lisp systems, but that's because I can't have Ralph and Leibniz anymore.
Not quite. Many authors hot the mark for me. Neil gaiman, Stephenson, Peter Watts, doctorow, all write prose eloquently without getting obtuse.
I like having touch id and the brightness / volume sliders and do miss those on my non-touchbar laptop, but thats all i use it for.
I am not a fan of the Touch Bar. I’m one of those who thinks the 2015 MacBook Pro is the epitome of human achievement.But that being said, one thing that is cool about the Touch Bar is when you are viewing a video and it puts a “smeared” thumbnail onto the Touch Bar making it easy to visually seek. That’s really useful sometimes.
There are many things in the tech world that have gotten fantastically better in my lifetime (I am 40). GPUs have been amazing, machine learning has made great leaps. virtual reality is now semi-awesome and improving.

But a few things have been getting worse. One of the things I most lament is the move to touch interfaces instead of tactile buttons. See phones, cars, remote controls (apple tv) and now keyboards on laptops. It is a worse interface most of the time. I absolutely abhor it. The trend shows no signs of ever reversing though.
According to Mathew Flatt it will fasten racket.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t09AJUK6IiM
> the uncanny ability to never be seen to be demonstrably incorrect

I think that may be very easy to do, just state that everything you say is just a theory or your opinion... but this is just a theory.
Same here. Though it helps a little to customize it - in particular removing Siri from the bar, heh. No more accidentally calling Siri. Another improvement was realizing that you can change volume/brightness with one continuous move (touch -> hold -> slide).

In any case, I'd like to keep Touch ID, but drop the rest.
I use a new basic 13” MBP because the Touch Bar is such garbage. God willing Apple releases a 15” model with no Touch Bar later this month.
Yeah that's all I was thinking about - what about for people like me that's in front of the laptop 100% of the time?
It would not be better than circa-1992 Dylan. It would be better than present-day Dylan, though.

My opinion only, of course.
Since merely having a PhD in theoretical computer science doesn't really count for being an expert in this area, do you happen to have a reference for that?

Don't get me wrong, I do believe you, but am looking for the relevant theoretical results about this.
I think you view is too simplistic.
I've talked with Albanian friends about the persecutions/humiliations endured during the ottoman domination. They mentioned catholic people who had to live in the mountains, far from the rivers and in absolute poverty to keep their religion.
Let's also not forget the genocidal behavior of the ottoman empire against the Lebanese Christians, the Serbs and the Greeks (mostly in the 19th century).
So you're saying, adblockers in the UK are illegal due to copyright concerns? I don't think that holds. If I buy a magazine and rip the ads from it, that's perfectly fine. This logic even holds in a school setting.
Agree. I found out that the small MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar still has an escape key and still has a headphone jack! So that is at least something to be excited about.
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The Learning Group at PARK did release Smalltalk, but guess that's not "for the general public".

I was under the idea they never really wanted to release a product for mass consumption.
You can. But one day, some 10xer will be short on time and will duct tape your module with 10 other modules.
> Just because you own land doesn't mean you have the right to keep people off the land simply because you don't want them there.

Sure it does. Entering someone's land when they've told you to stay out is known as "trespassing".

> If it were otherwise, then what's to keep from having a company city, or company state?

Assuming the land is legitimately homesteaded and purchased? Nothing. And there's nothing wrong with that.
My new work laptop has an idiot bar. It's constantly offering me unwanted autocomplete items and the like. I have sensitive peripheral vision and am easily distracted by "squirrels" that lie outside my field of focus, and that fucking bar is like a constant squirrel generator. Thanks, Apple.
The problem is that many preprints are hit of a very high quality.

You'd be better off obtaining basic literature from books and then grabbing research papers off scihub.
Self driving will work well when everyone uses a self driving car. The reason why ant colonies do not have any traffic issues is that they work together. Now imagine if all cars on the street would communicate with each other, knowing where each wants to go and when.
I think the problem with self driving is the people on behind the wheel rather than the technology
I would like touch ID if it worked more than about half of the time. I don’t understand how it can just go dark and just not be responsive at all.
I would be surprised if they don't start phasing it out. This along with the keyboard issues are major reasons I won't just buy a new MBP today.
The author used the touch bar for two years and didn't think of removing the Siri button he accidentally clicked so much, or of adding volume controls to the expanded touch strip.

This review is worthless.
>It’s a mistake, and will set you back to think of politics as a zero-sum game.

I think we have a bit of a meta-false-dichotomy here. I agree it's a mistake to think of it as a zero-sum game. I also would say it's a mistake to think your advice will reliably work.

I've often sat in career advice talks and they often give the same advice you gave. Invariably during Q/A someone will point out they followed that exact advice and got screwed. The responses by the panelist fall into two categories:

1. I don't believe it and there must be more to the story.

2. You're in a poor organization. I suggest you find a better place to work.

So yes, the advice is good, but only when it works :-)

As a company gets bigger, the likelihood of faulty incentives existing goes up. The likelihood that what's good for my team + boss is bad for the company goes up.

Personally, I don't have illusions. I've worked in jobs where the advice you gave won't work. And I side with the second answer. Instead of playing bad politics, it's just a lot better to find an organization that is worthy of me/you. The advice people who had been in the org gave me was consistently "Forget about what's good for the bigger picture and the company. Make your boss look good even if it's a bad solution and will waste others' time and money." I didn't follow that advice and I paid for it. At the same time, my time and effort is valuable - I'd rather use it for something better than this. Either I work to change the organization's culture, or I leave.
You analysis was stated as "most states show ..." when the fact is you can add up the population of "most states" and not get anywhere near most of the people. So it's a mistake to think that way.
Which is why I don’t like that center console at all
Before I invest the time.and money in buying a book. How did they deal with the confounds? And was there a study on the intervention you could point me to?

Reading the summary of the book on Amazon, the experiments looked pretty confounded and it didn't mention any successful interventions.
> existence of so called Dravidian people is just a theory

uh, what? care to elaborate?
Windows 10 will banish Spectre slowdowns with Google's Retpoline patch
I agree with writing a lot of code being the way to write better code, but as soon as I encountered the part about "absolute and total intent to replace almost everything you write with better code once you start experiencing real problems first hand" strikes me as not possible in every environment.

If you are writing your own monolith from a basement and are a single developer, sure. Once you have founded your company and made your millions you can decide what, where, and when to change in the code. However, for the vast majority of people who do professional development it is just not plausible to suggest that you create every project as a throwaway.

Because in corporate development, once a project works (even a low percentage of the time or with major problems) it can and often will continue its life forever. Greenfield development has a different process in most places than maintenance / sustaining, and most people will find that making any reasonable structural changes to a legacy / monolith / inherited code base will take years of mostly political arguments because management will be unable or unwilling to recognize the writing on the wall.

Analysis paralysis is obviously a problem as well that exists on the extreme end of the other side. However, I believe actually prototyping and testing early in the cycle is the best of both worlds: you get both the ability to respond to problems early in the cycle because you're exercising the code already, and the process will not cripple you from making those changes.

I agree that writing a lot of code is the cure, but please, for the love of all that is programming, stop insisting that every early prototype makes it into production with their awful duct tape and bubble gum patches intact.

Break the problem down early, learn some of the finicky bits of the technologies you've chosen, and be pragmatic...but insisting on taking your first (often terrible) crack at the problem directly into production where you'll be stuck on it for possibly a decade is pretty bad advice in most environments I have developed in my professional career.

It's a recipe that'll often get you stuck troubleshooting irritating design-induced problems for years to come or hopping to a different company.

There is a middle ground between no design and spending years on whiteboards and blogs before writing a single line of code...that middle ground is what needs to be mined instead of constantly taking an extremist stance.

But hey, this is corporate development...so the loudest voices and most extreme opinions always seem to win out.
I don't know, never is a long time :-) Alexander the Great was the last person who had a shot at instituting a single currency...
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Before China spy chip report, Bloomberg published 5 false stories about Apple
the biggest issue i’ve had with the touch bar was touching it by mistake.

i solved it by having a static set of buttons and an app that vibrates the touchpad when i touch the bar.

the touch bar is the force touch of macbooks.
Inspired by a blog post, which I think made rounds on HN as well, I customised my Touch Bar using a Mac app called BetterTouchTool.

Now I have shortcuts to my most used apps on the left, a Now Playing display connected to Spotify in the middle and audio controls (including a volume slider that you don't have to expand first to use) on the right.

This setup is always displayed, regardless of the app currently on the foreground. This means the controls are once again in a predictable place for my fingers and has made using the touch bar a much more pleasant experience.
I think the keyboards in 2016 and later MBPs are deliberately terrible so that Apple can say "Our market research shows that customers view hardware keyboards negatively" and use that as a basis for either phasing out the Mac or introducing a new piezo touch keyboard or something.
Apple's in an awkward spot right now: macOS isn't being iterated on, iOS is where they're putting all their engineering effort, and they're marketing iOS devices s being better than computers.

There is no way they will retrofit proper touch into macOS. Instead, in a few years time, you'll run xCode on an iOS device like any other creation tool, with the whole lifecycle on iOS.
> If we can apply the same ingenuity to the end of life stage

Did you miss above? I'm saying that IF devices can be recycled effectively at end of life, it may be more effective in economic terms to do away with the idea of making the thing repairable (beyond consumables) in life.

> Also note that a lot of "ingenuity" is production is just shipping parts across the world from wherever human labor is cheapest.

I think that's a little too cynical - take the car industry as an example - are you really going to argue that outsourcing to reduce labour costs has played a more significant role than technology and quality shifts? If so perhaps you should warn Germany, who still seem to be cranking out millions of cars every year, paying German wages, and turning a profit..
I'm still not in love with it, but there are two things that make the touchbar much more tolerable.

BetterTouchTool and HapticKey.

The advantages of BTT are obvious but HapticKey has been a really pleasant surprise. It gives every interaction with the touchbar haptic feedback. I now use the touchbar much more frequently.
That 90% discount is because your/our tax dollars make it cheaper for China to ship here than for a business like the one you work at or might get a job at or even start in the future to ship to China or other countries.

I agree that we shouldn't pretend that we can make everything domestically--but we also cannot allow our economy and basic goods--by virtue of subsidies, no less--to atrophy while we become dependent on the parasitic influence of the PRC. China is not a free country, they are a aggressive totalitarian regime and it is a shame that the US will soon be 100% dependent on them for every good we buy.
Okay, name some good reasons why the driver should have to look away from the road to see their speed.
Zero-day in popular jQuery plugin actively exploited for at least three years
When the only means of preserving your history is to speak it truthfully, that's what you do.
It's a down period closing on three years, and Apple have yet to even indicate a change of course.
I tried to hint a doctor once to maybe test me for this, but she wouldn't give. I feel like adult ADD isn't yet recognized in my country as a legitimate thing.
Absolutely one of the best websites in the world in terms of user interface and usability. I'm always surprised that using this site actually feels rewarding even though I'm doing administrative tasks with my government.
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> . The whole reason for the first 2000 yen not being tax deductible is this is something you are only supposed to do if you seriously want your money to go to a local government, and allowing non-taxed return gifts defeats the intention of how the system is set up

I definitely found it strange Japan is allowing the local governments to gift 50% back.

In the US, legally any portion of a charitable contribution you get back in personal benefit (e.g. an expensive banquet) is not tax deductible.
I love it. I programmed it to show my current TODO task, when I am on break as well as my battery and time. So I basically replaced my menu bar with it.

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/my-mac-os/tree/master/btt
Wow, amazing. These are Nazca like, right?
So does the vegetable section of the grocery store fwiw.
When my son started at an LAUSD school (Los Angeles Unified School District), I was surprised of how much fund-raising is going on - for a school of 500 pupils (or roughly), the local (parent) association raises roughly $500,000. Now I live in relatively good area, where lots of people own houses, have good jobs, or their own businesses. But I can also imagine that just few miles to the east that won't be the case - hence school there might get more money, as they need to.

I certainly can't say which works best, but I'm appalled by the ass-licking during fund-raising events. It's beyond gross... Call me a socialist, but I'd rather spent my taxes on fixing this, without getting me involved community-wise, though every year we pay our "voluntary" debt, or you feel guilty about it (and not get invited to the yearly party or so... lol).
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I have used Little Snitch for years. It is invaluable.

Micro Snitch seems to be less useful.

Honest question for users of micro snitch:

How many times since installing micro snitch have you been alerted that you are being spied on?
Do you think it’s absurd that titles like Doctor is regulated? You may not think it’s neccessary to have a professionalized version of Software Engineering but what about code running RTS, critical health care systems etc?
She's Reddit: A source of statistically significant gendered interest info?
If the site you're injecting HTML into has some crazy HTTP headers set (Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *) then yes you can:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/25861695/235908

By default you cannot.

If the site you're testing with allows arbitrary image embeds, maybe they're that crazy, since even without stealing cookies you can still gzip bomb:

https://bomb.codes
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> Dravidian which literally means Southern Indian

No, that's a common misconception. The majority of people with Dravidian heritage now live in Southern India but there's no "literal" meaning where Dravidian means Southern India. There's ample archaeological and linguistic evidence that Dravidian populations and languages were endemic as far north as what is now geographically Iran.
That's a bit bizarre as a conspiracy theory. Apple certainly isn't focused on their Macs anymore, but if they were going to phase it out they'd simply do so. They've never asked anyone for permission before.
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My car (2018 Honda HRV) has full touch everything. I hate it. Luckily the volume and track selection controls are on the steering wheel as buttons.

I don't want the Heater and A/C controls to be touch. Once you learn where tactile controls are, you don't have to take your eyes off the road. You build the muscle memory pretty fast to their location. This is many times more difficult, if not impossible to do with touch.
I’m in the same place with my personal laptop, however I did use a work-issued 15” with touchbar for a couple months before changing jobs and I actually liked the touchbar shortcuts for Xcode because it exposed stuff that for some reason I’ve never been able to remember the keyboard shortcut. Everything else (especially changing volume) I remember being a pain in the ass
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Ok, let's have one.
Would there have been sufficient Western tourists for that to be a market?

I think it's more likely they were produced for the residents of those places, to send to friends and relatives. "Look how nice our new home is!" — and it was nice, in 1980, compared to what it replaced.
Literally anyone with an Android or Chrome OS device. Granted, they didn't download and install it themselves, but I don't think that invalidates the point.
You can, and very much should, remove the Siri button.