skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't really matter whether your visit is motivated by self-enlightment or selfie-taking. The plane you use consumes just as much, the effect you have on local life is just as dire.

People have found other ways to broaden their horizon in the past.
Betteridge's law of headlines. No.
They have almost 6GB/s write speeds? Also, you can get a 2TB PCIE SSD that writes at 2000MB/s for $600.

https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/501128/Samsung-SSD-9...
It doesn't, I believe mostly for reasons of keeping apps from using large amounts of memory in general, and by helping keep write cycles to a minimum.
I think the issue here is the stupid name "OpenJDK" - everyone who has anything to do with Java development understands JDK to mean "Java Development Kit", and here those sneaky bastards give you a package named "jdk" but containing jre.

Would it hurt them to name the project "OpenJVM" instead?
I would guess that our "motor" skills are as good or better, but that our "tactile feedback sensing and response" is far worse. Not only are we not training it at all, we are abusing it with weird signals all the time in the form of vibration motors.

I would separately guess that "tactile feedback and response" is harder to find and more important for a surgeon than "fine motor control", though obviously they do need both.
Video: How do we figure out that rocks are billions of years old?
Typing on real keyboards with all ten fingers is quite a different engagement of dexterity than dabbing at a screen with two thumbs, or just an index finger.
If HN'ers up vote it, they must either think it's relevant, or else don't care if it isn't relevant. If they don't up vote, then it doesn't really matter.
Do people go to see Venice, or to see Venetians?

The easy, facile answer is to move all the residents out, turn the old city into Historic Venice Amusements District, build a commuter transit line out to New Venice (with no tourist attractions), and all of its civic services are then paid for by income from the tourist trap. Everyone has ready access to service jobs in the tourism and public safety sectors. If tourists want to see real Venetians, they pay to bring some in on the train, to be photographed in a nearly-authentic setting.

"Nobody goes there anymore--it's too crowded."

You shouldn't curse your own success. Plenty of cities would dearly love to have throngs of visitors that seek only to look around, have fun, eat, drink, and otherwise spend their vacation money. I know of one in Florida that was specifically built, from the swamp up, for that single purpose.

If you don't want all tourist attractions to become Disneyworld, you have to visit places that aren't yet well on their way to that endpoint. There are many places on this planet that are fun and interesting for visitors. I can very easily choose to no visit locales that have been overrun and ruined by overtourism. It's not difficult. If an underemployed local is trying to sell you discounted show tickets or pass out ad-laden maps of local attractions, you're in one. If your hotel has posted a warning about pickpockets, you're in one. If you can't discern the boundary line between the gift shop at the exit to the last attraction and the gift shop at the entrance to the next one, you're in one.
More information on the GID/UID can be found in the iOS Security Guide:

> With the exception of the Apple A8 and earlier SoCs, each Secure Enclave generates its own UID (Unique ID) during the manufacturing process. Because the UID is unique to each device and because it’s generated wholly within the Secure Enclave instead of in a manufacturing system outside of the device, the UID isn’t available for access or storage by Apple or any of its suppliers.

> Software running on the Secure Enclave takes advantage of the UID to protect device-specific secrets. The UID allows data to be cryptographically tied to a particular device. For example, the key hierarchy protecting the file system includes the UID, so if the memory chips are physically moved from one device to another, the files are inaccessible. The UID isn’t related to any other identifier on the device.
The GID is common to all processors in a class of devices (for example, all devices using the Apple A8 processor).

https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide....
Apple has switched chips several times. Around 1996 they moved from Motorola 68K chips to IBM PowerPC chips for the G1-G5 series of machines. PowerPC innovation fell behind Intel and around 2006, Apple decided to move to Intel chips to keep up with PC technology.

The move to Intel chips allowed dual boot Macs which I believe brought a whole new set of customers. Developers loved the ability to run Windows, Mac and Linux on the same hardware.

Microsoft has ARM versions of Windows produced for the Surface RT. If Apple switched to ARM to build their own chips, they have the ability to innovate quickly. But, they also have the risk of falling behind Intel again down the road.
Oh, I'm fairly sure they've tested all their MacOS core software that comes with the OS (and the OS), but all the third party stuff and things in the MacOS app store likely need a lot more time. (at least for those that weren't already shipping iPhone/iPad versions).
It's interesting how big of a difference it makes when you allow local disk I/O, and you need to schedule around it. At Google they disintermediate storage and all (not really all) I/O goes to their cluster FS (Colossus, sort of). They don't have to schedule around I/O resources because every process has access to the full I/O resources of the entire cluster at any time from any node. By contrast as soon as you let some open source or off-the-shelf commercial thing leak into your operations, it will demand ordinary POSIX disk I/O and then you've got big problems. I propose that some companies would actually be better off concentrating on disintermediated storage more, and I/O workload scheduling less.
Dumb question, but have you ever pasted in the past? Once you do it once and turn on pasting, you won't get the warning again.

about:config --> devtools.selfxss.count needs to be 0 when Firefox boots up to get the warning.
I totally expected I'd be buying this right away, but the prices just seem outrageous. And I had no problem plunking down $1150 for an iPhone XS recently.
There's a reason he became a doctor.
Jailbreaking has never violated the warranty. Apple just doesn’t support it so they won’t service your device until you update it to the latest software, which is completely reasonable.
So, after further consideration I think the one to buy is the base i5 model with 256GB for 1099. Buy the RAM separately. It looks like it has 2 slots. With my local vendor 2x16GB DDR 2666Mhz comes out at 300 USD or so. I already have an external 1TB SSD, but otherwise a Samsung T5 is available for around 220 USD. That's a 1600ish USD system, which is somewhat reasonable for a mac with those specs IMO. Would be nice if Apple just gave you that for around 1800, but the 2300 they want is just unreasonable IMO.
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The Macbook feels out of place now

Think of it as an entry-level, but fully capable Mac. For people who use their phone almost exclusively, but need a computer once or twice a month for work.

That's exactly how my wife uses hers.
I agree that the terminology choice wasn't great.

I think the points stand whether you call it something else though.

Basically, the lifestyle that lots of people aspire to (whether it's viewed by me, you or anyone else by a good ideal or not) isn't achievable at scale.

That's what I tried to get at with the 'eliminate these experiences' bit. Reducing their desirability so that they sort of fall out of existence is one way of doing that.

For cars, you'd do it by making other forms of transport better, for example.
Nothing in the article about this being open source or available to the public?
I agree with starbugs, for the record. I'm not married to Mac laptops (I used PCs for many years) but even with the new great ultrabooks out there (which I keep a close eye on), I still haven't seen something that adequately replaces the Macbook. It's gotten a lot closer but I don't think the market has quite caught up yet.
and even authentication can be done stateless. Makes load balancing easy since each request can go to a different server
They call it an InfintyEdge display...
We have knowledge of probability. The probability of the interstellar object being a light sail is equal to the probability of the characteristics matching a known light sail. That's not zero, since it's lining up. It's low enough that it's discountable by many people, to be sure, but not zero.
The amount of engineering FB us doing, I wish they would make something important that social networks.
> If you are running XCode, you have no choice but official Mac or Hackintosh.

So... don't run XCode?
That's exactly what I just thought, ha.
So when you debug your app?
I am not sure about this. I have always worked with Windows professionally and until 4 years ago also had Windows laptops. Then on whim I bought a 2014 MBP for personal use and I think the software and hardware are much better than anything I have seen in the windows world. At work I can use Surface Book, Surface Pro and HP laptops and in my opinion they are far away from the level of quality of my MBP.
I.e. violates half of your warranty, because any but the most obviously mechanical problem can be blamed on messing with software.
Indeed you are correct, I'm not using the term VAT correctly. But here in New York you still have to go through three layers of sales taxes to acquire your MacBook Air: New York City local sales and use tax rate of 4.5%, New York State sales and use tax rate of 4%, and Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District surcharge of 0.375%

My main point was that it makes little sense to compare prices US prices without sales tax to EU prices with the VAT included. The second -more subtle- point that I wanted to get into but was really only skimming, is that the very meaning of the price on a sticker is vastly different in the EU and in US.

In the EU if you write 1,350 EUR on a sticker, anyone can walk in your store and buy that product at that price without paying a eurocent more. No handling fees, service fees, sales tax or any other obscure hidden tax. This is the law. Sticker price is final price. If it's not on the sticker the merchant has to pay for it. It's quite a shock when you first walk in a store in New York City while visiting from France and the price asked at checkout is not the one written on the sticker.

The law is the same for online sales, though shipping costs don't have to be included. Ridiculous $30 dollars "handling fees" or "service fees" on $50 tickets that you print at home, added at the very end of the lengthy checkout process, are to my knowledge completely forbidden. I'll be happy (in fact I'll be sad) to be corrected if I am wrong about that.
Could there be economic reasons for the price jump?

The Surface Pro was in a similar price region. I'm interested to see if Microsoft raises the prices of the new Surface Generation too. It looks like new computers are getting more expensive overall. Maybe it's because the hardware lives longer nowadays.
A shift from lightning to usb c is apple losing because they didnt donate their port to the spec. They could have "invented" usb c. I understand why they didnt, but I still prefer lightning to usbc.

They are doing this before the EU makes them do it. What apple did do was force the market to adapt to a plug that can go in both directions. And they thinned out the plug quite nicely, it never needed to be so thick.
* Employees with desktop administration done with JAMF.
He's crude, but he's not wrong. 90% of the market will never use more than one USB-C port. And even then, almost exclusively for charging.
"edge to edge" is definitely a stretch.

Ha!
I hope so. I just upgraded a 2015 11" MBA's 128GB SSD to a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO NVMe drive by using a $14 adapter (ST-NGFF2013-C)[0]. It works perfectly.

[0] http://eshop.sintech.cn/ngff-m2-pcie-ssd-card-as-2013-2014-2...
> The impulse to blame the "kids these days" seems like an ever-present force

Lamenting a lack of experience with arts and crafts and similar sounds more like an "education these days"-complaint to me. If children do suffer from a lack of trained motor skills it is not their fault, but it is something to take seriously, for their sake more than anyone else.

Also, I dunno waiting for a proper study is worth the risk. It would take quite long, which means that if it is a problem we already screwed over a generation. Plus, people complaining about a lack of physical education these days is not something limited to surgery.

Taking physical education more seriously as being important for general development, and not something just for the people who want to continue in sports is probably beneficial for everyone in the long term anyway.

(tangent: I wonder if these students would perform better when handling robot arms with a control stick than previous generations)
If I were a funny alien civilization and had some time to kill I would totally play skimming stones involving solar systems and Oumuamua like objects.
> I had to look up "penal offense." The relevant definition seems to be "liable to punishment."

You seem to have looked up “penal” alone in a general-use dictionary, rather than the legal term “penal offense” in a law dictionary. Unsurprisingly, the treaty, a document of international law, uses a legal term of art in (one of) it's legal sense(s). The term generally means “an offense punishable by law”, but is more specifically construed in a couple different senses, narrowly as synonymous with criminal offenses, but sometimes more broadly incorporating also offenses which are not criminal but include an exemplary / punitive sanction as well as (and particularly not tied to) any compensatory one.

Termination of employment is not a sanction (punitive or otherwise) by law. (Well, in the case under discussion; it can be a legal sanction, e.g., under military law.)
You state that with an unwarranted degree of certainty. You're making the same argument, and mistake, that proponents of 'X is going to kill hard drives' have made for decades.

There have been many 'this will be the death of hard drives' technologies over the decades: zip drives, optical drives, tape drives (there was a time when they were predicted to be everywhere... never happened), CD (then DVD) writers, etc. Not to mention MRAM which has been the hottest tech that hasn't really happened yet for 3 decades. These were all going to be some combination of more durable and/or cheaper per Xb. But they all lacked the one critical advantage that hard drives had: massive economies of scale. Here's my prediction: spinning rust isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Novelty and breaking expectations regarding established HCI conventions are different sides of the same coin, I guess.
Also, and I say this as someone who has years of experience programming in multiple languages including PHP--It's a logical fallacy to say just because most people do something it is the correct course of action to take. This is a logical fallacy known as argumentum ad antiquitatem or an "appeal to common practice".

PHP is probably fine for many of the things the author mentioned particularly brochure, content-based, sites, blogs, portfolios etc... (although increasingly using static based sites hosted from s3
or other static host seems to make more sense, in terms of cost and performance.)

Then there is a whole host of other problem domains where PHP does not make sense as a technology choice, Data Science, Graphics, Comms/Messaging, Systems programming. Let's choose the right tool for the job.
What's the old adage about "when all you have is a hammer you treat every job as a nail."
I worked full time on one at some point. Doing RoR dev. It wasn't powerful enough. But the form factor is really fun. You can hold it with one hand and type on it.
It is super lägg to scroll as well. The scrolling is bad and the website is too heavy to scroll properly on my iPad pro 9.7 with Safari. I guess they don't dogfood their stuff after the IOS12 release.
30 years ago, I heard a mechanical engineering professor at Stanford complaining about Indian engineering students never having used a screwdriver. That was something the lower classes did. Now the US has that problem.
The linked-to text from the UDHR starts "Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense."

If your choice of definition were correct, that would mean that any firing which is part of a punishment would have to go through the court system first. Since that isn't the case, that means your choice of definition is not correct.

The penal code is "a code of laws concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment" - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/penal%20code . A penal offense is something which is counter to the penal code.
God, no. The TRRS port is the last thing I want to see go.
A Newtonian Refugee
What if it's payload contains an AI in a tiny container rather than a biological being?
Sounds like you just want an A-Series MacBook (with decent keyboard?)
Based on business results the Apple execs are right. To detriment of the relatively small number of professional users like software devs or photographers.
Ask HN: US startup running out of money. Sale option?
I have started to consider selling our tech startup. I want to explore this possibility and understand how it would work. Not ready to pull the trigger, but worried enough that this might become a possibility.

We raised <1M so far; runway is ~4/5 months; team is small, mostly in the Bay area.
We built a prototype which might be interesting for the industry; one paying partner is using our software product internally, but not in full production yet.

Any of you has gone through this process before? What are the things to consider? Who can help in the process? How can we try to price our value to an acquirer? Any pointers on things to read, or people to speak to?

Also, when do you think it's time to go down this path? What are the signs to look for?

It has been a tough few weeks lately (more than the usual "tough" you experience every day in the life of a startup), and any help is really appreciated.
Live demo here: https://victorribeiro.com/invaderz/

I'm finding that I can barely last 7 generations to be able to see it 'evolving'. Handicapping the player by waiting for the previous shot to hit before firing again and making the move speed ridiculously slow makes this game too hard even before the genetic algorithm makes an impact.

Also, because the player's move speed is so slow, the easy tactic for the algorithm to head towards is to simply push each enemy to opposite ends of the screen -- ie: hug the wall. If you're clearing one side, the player won't be able to reach the other end of the board even if you move as fast as possible.

TLDR: Interesting concept but to really demo this concept you need to make the game a little easier for the player / don't handicap so much.
I wish we had a physical switch that cut power to the camera and mic...

I worked on some old networking equipment a while back that had a physical fail over switch. If you opened the cover you could watch the connection switch, fun stuff. Also very effective.
Well don't be very excited. Have you heard of Louis Rossmann? He has some videos on Youtube regarding Apple's tactics to make its hardware hard to repair and ripoff people who get them repaired at the Apple Stores. Even CBC did a story on it.
Nope, at least not yet, as the NVMe controller in the T2 chip doesn't work with Linux yet. See https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux/issues/71 for details.
That’s my experience as well. My g4 mini still boots up fine, it’s just that a 1 ghz ppc and 1 gb ram is basically a raspberry pi so even as a linux machine it isn’t particularly useful.
Great question! In the simplest case, AdaNet allows you to ensemble independent subnetworks from a linear model to user-defined DenseNet/AmoebaNet-style networks. But more interesting is sharing information (tensor outputs or which hyperparameters worked best) between iterations so that AdaNet can do neural architecture search for you. Users can define their own adanet.subnetwork.Generator in order to specify how to adapt training across iterations.

Out of the box, the meta-strategy is little more than simple-user defined heuristics (e.g., “if the the deepest candidate subnetwork performed best, try subnetworks that are one layer deeper than that”). However, the AdaNet framework is flexible enough to support smarter strategies as you mentioned, and abstracts away the complexities of distributed training (Estimator), evaluation (TensorBoard), and serving (tf.SavedModel).
Looks interesting - Apart from not requiring an additional file, what are the main improvements over connect()ing state to containers with redux?

Edit. isn't updating the store on internal state (albeit not via setState, but it's functionally the same) change essentially 2way data binding? One of the things I hated most about knockout.js was funky state stuff when arbitrary components were asynchronously updating common state .

Am on my phonio tho so I may well have missed something critical here!
We're building something just like that at qri (https://qri.io) a free and open source dataset version control system. Right now all datasets on qri are public by default, but we're working toward supporting. encryption and private networks.
You concluded all this from horizontal scrolling?
While corporatocracy is a grave ill, it is not moreso than the bigger picture present in the article, which is that the nature of reality is bending in a PKDish fashion. Reality and the unreal are infecting each other. This is a Baudrillardian simulacrum.

It's not even proper to say it's constrained to fascism as the unreality springs from non-authoritarian sources like flat-earth memes, wikipedia wars and distraction leading to an amnesia of how to actually live properly and we're doing to ourselves.

FTA: Dick believed that we all live in a world where “spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups—and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into heads of the reader.”

FTA: Most notoriously, the current U.S. president recently retweeted a flattering message that appears to have come from a bot densely connected to a network of other bots, which some believe to be controlled by the Russian government and used for propaganda purposes.
A result of the T2 chip is, that you can't access the SSD under Linux yet, which makes running Linux on it pretty pointless.
Requires ECMAScript 2021, but transpilers should be available soon on npm.
How are the animations done? They are pretty janky and horrible on Firefox 63, so I am guessing they are not using normal CSS animations?

I've not used react or react-native so not sure how it handles this.
Faraday Future founder resigns, employees being furloughed amid cash crunch
I think I will buy one of these, a new Mac mini and an MacBook Air. It was a successful event I think.
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Don't forget they're still selling the old MacBook Air for $999
I'm not sure Wikipedia would be the best choice—you want kids to understand it's not a definitive information source and that you need to check the citation links for anything serious.

To be very, very clear, I'm not anti-Wikipedia, I just think a "real" encyclopedia would be much better.

Britannica stills sells DVD's that can be used offline.
"line speed encrypted" ~= "encryption that goes as fast as the device would if not encrypting"
So with $120m/y in less than 2 years you'd exceed the price of the whole thing and also likely get worse interconnect speed and possibly raw computational speed.

AWS looks like a bad deal here.