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OK, so more than I thought. I think I was in the education store. So I stand by what I said — maxes out in Mac Pro price territory.
Docker Hub is having problems
> even work with files directly

Gosh! What an incredible new feature
"...fathers of all races ..."
Ads that lead to a more expensive car is one thing. Ads that lead to a body image that increases the likelihood of health problems and early death is another.

I think it's counterproductive to describe the very concept of advertising as abusive. Nevertheless, a large class of advertising as practiced on television, the web, and on mobile apps should be avoided. In many cases, I don't even have to venture into the realm of morality or ethics-- they just create such a bad UX (battery drain, autoplaying bullshit, interrupting content flow, double the perceived loudness of what I'm watching) that the only sensible thing for a human to do is remove ads altogether from their viewing/reading experience. It's possible to do that with only a modicum of effort, so that's what a lot of people like me will continuing doing.
Why should we put the pitchforks away? The stuff that works isn't traditional medicine, and at best traditional medicine harms people by keeping them away from actual treatment. Its role in driving tigers and rhinos closer to extinction is merely a more obvious, albeit less serious, example of the problems it causes.
> The only benefit is that it offers an i7 processor at the top-end

That's not really a benefit since it uses a 5W i7 (formerly m7) versus — I assume — a 15W i5 on the Air, it's just Intel's shitty branding confusion.

The 12" is quite a bit lighter (2.03 lbs to 2.75), is fanless, and has a smaller footprint (width of 11.04" to 11.97" and depth of 7.74" to 8.36").

That's pretty much it.

The Air has touchid, likely better performances, seemingly a better display, higher storage options, more ports, better ports (12" only has USB-C, MBA has TB3), more battery life.
I think you are comparing SATA to NVME SSDs, which is unfair. Not saying Apple isn't pricing them way too high.
Based on the marketing photos on the Apple site it sure looks like the NAND is soldered to the board and not socketed.
A big part of whether or not people have the power of will is whether or not they grow up inculcated in the myth of will power. Asian cultures are very very good at this, for instance. The US used to be very good at it. Yes, sometimes circumstances make it difficult to develop will power. That doesn't mean those people get off the hook for trying.
So really the culprit is monkey-patching.
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Totally agree with you. There is a huge benefit having a clean API which works for a variety of clients (native / mobile / desktop) and a corresponding variety of team members instead of maintaining 2 different view sets on your backend, without even talking of the specific issues you can find yourself in in web development (browser specific features / inputs / styles / ...). And you still can't do any real native apps.
Seriously, every single one of us being on HN is the product of being stupidly lucky to be born where we were and be typing on whatever we are.

Millions of potential Einsteins have lived and died as subsistence farmers or worse throughout human history. If any of us were born fifty thousand years ago we would not be savant geniuses bringing about the agricultural era - if we even lived to adulthood (highly unlikely) we would have spent our days chasing gazelle to exhaustion to survive just like the rest of mankind.
Why I stopped drinking coffee
Nintendo also has a long history of missing out on many cross-platform titles.
Unless the Note series has changes dramatically, which is always possible -- I just ditched my Note 3 -- they're using passive Wacom pens. No charging necessary, the internal slot is purely for storage.
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The user experience is always the number one problem of any application. Implying that you don't like building great products because you are lazy says more about you than the state of the front-end world.
I didn't quite get this post; half these things are stuff that facebook uses, not that they themselves have created and open-sourced (e.g. BTRFS initially from Oracle)?

And yet they've set up they're own site for BTRFS and all (https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/btrfs/)
To me, my favorite part of the design of Hydrogen is that it's entirely language agnostic, and can be used with _any_ Jupyter kernel.
Kanerva's approach has been championed by Jeff Hawkins' Numenta and Redwood Neuroscience Institute. Numenta uses the terminology Sparse Distributed Representations (SDR).

While the theoretical basis seems sound, a practical implementation comparable to the SOTA is lacking.
Is this running macOS, 'coz I'm seeing a dock!
>We either eliminate these experiences, accept economic inequality, or watch the experiences be eliminated via attrition

You're not thinking broad enough! It seems to me that you view the determination of what can be done as derived purely from economics. I have money so I can do what I want, you don't so you can't, and you view that as natural. But economic determination of our freedom is as unnatural as the world it takes place in. Basically, why? Why should it matter that you have more money when we determine who can eat meat and travel? Check out Walzer's idea of complex equality, there are certain things that just shouldn't be linked to your existing wealth.

>unwilling to accept that the Universe _is_ actually a big competition, and either some people lose, or we all lose.

Hmm? The Universe isn't a competition! And there's no reason that some people have to lose. It seems to me that you just assert all these things as true and natural and unmovable and so from that follows this necessary society where many people aren't very free but you are relatively high up the heap and so are pretty free. But those things don't seem true or natural or unmovable to me, they seem completely fluid and it doesn't seem so wrong to take some of the freedom you enjoy away from you and give it to other people who have a lot less.
Given the strength of their product reviews and user satisfaction numbers it’s clear that your experience isn’t universal. That and their incredibly hard won brand loyalty and association with high value customers (when was the last time you saw an android phone being used for a product photo of a cross platform phone app?) means the wheels are unlikely to fall off anytime soon.
The price has skyrocketed though, entry model is $800 (used to be $500), the top end with all options is $4200.
To quote the princess bride: 'You keep using that word ['pro.']. I don't think you know what it means.'

Why on earth does Apple have the audacity to call it an 'iPad Pro', if I can't run any of Apple's actually 'pro' software on it?

Adobe beat Apple to actually getting the first piece of real software on the iPad, with Photoshop.

There's two applications in particular, that, beyond xCode and iOS development, keep me locked in the Apple ecosystem and have for more than 15 years.

'Final Cut Pro' and 'Logic Pro'. The day we actually see Apple's own 'pro' software on an iPad is the day we can call it a 'pro' device. It's literally just a larger version of the iPad with a pencil.

Much less the fact that it'd be great if we could actually develop on the thing...but that's a pipe dream. Expecting Apple will put it's pro software on it's pro device...well, I guess it would be almost as an extreme request as maybe their flagship phone and flagship computer be able to connect to each other out of the box?

I'm confused as to why we've got USB-C in this new iPad Pro and not in the iPhones they released not a month ago. Where is the consistency? Where is the logic? (no pun intended)

It was like in 2017 when they decided to label a laptop a 'pro' unit and soldered a non-upgradeable paltry 16GB of RAM to the board and threw literally a colourful toy in where our actual keyboard buttons used to be.

Or the fact that we've been promised a new Mac 'Pro' and are still stuck with the same poorly-received and certainly-not-pro garbage can we've had for years.

Even the new Mac Mini is more powerful than the 'Mac Pro'.

I'm a seriously 'pro' user of Macs. I have been for a decade and a half. And I'm tired of them using that word. Can they just stop?
> Pay if you profit" has real potential, and as you say has been achieved in the past via dual licensing.

But, often, that involved straight-out lying about a FOSS license, though, and presenting the dual license scheme as if it were the near-equivalent of Commons Clause. (E.g., the old MySQL GPL or commercial license scheme.)
I really loved my iPad Pro, but the point really holding it back from replacing my laptop is the browser. It's a beautiful retina 12.9" screen, but is forced to use the mobile Safari rendering engine. Give me a full browser, or let Chrome do it. What a painful limitation for a great potential daily-driver.
Where I live, bicyclists should by law be either on the road or on a bicycle path or one of a few designated shared bicycle/footpaths. There are really too many pedestrians for it to make sense to use the sidewalk for bicycles inside the cities, and of course the benefits of commuting by bicycle disappears when you have to move at the same pace as pedestrians.

Also, from my experience with traffic in general, it doesn't take many assholes to make a situation uncomfortable, nor does it take an asshole to be inconsiderate. If one in ten road users or pedestrians I meet every day has a sudden lapse in judgement, that's enough for it to feel uncomfortable.
Are you using a laptop without an external keyboard? If so, you have to hunch over at an awkward angle to see the screen. No amount of stretching or exercise will make that comfortable in the long term.

Get an external keyboard and mouse/trackpad. Make sure your desk is low enough and your chair high enough that your hands rest comfortably on the keyboard with your shoulders down, elbows at a right angle at your side, and wrists straight. Raise your monitor until its center (for a laptop monitor) or a point 2/3 of the way up the screen (for a large monitor) is level with your eyes when sitting fully upright and looking straight ahead.
Geometry of Spacetime as a Quantum Information Processing Device
The intro had me confused. I went into it thinking it was authored by LeVar and then it talks about him watching Roots for the first time and I was scratching my head...

But yes, good read.
OK, I'll say it. That is a stupid statement. I've seen that "planet will be fine" line too many times. Here is the truth: the main purpose of that line is to hide the wrongdoing.

The planet is not just a rock in space. It includes the environment and everything that is there. When we destroy that, we are destroying the planet itself.
You can have the best of both. The simplicity of multipage apps with the feel of SPAs. Turbolinks is one example that comes to mind.

Or if you want the full power of React, Redux, AND the simplicity of Turbolinks/PJAX. You can use https://jho406.gitbook.io/breezy/ which is Turbolinks for React Redux Rails, you can build SPA without APIs, just by treating JSON as a navigational format.

Full disclosure, I'm the author and I've been trying to get some feedback on the project.
YES! R Notebook is so much better in my opinion than Jupyter. I definitely prefer to work with a simple format verses JSON for this kind of work.
Am I the only one who actually like to have an edge on my devices so they dont break by looking at them? At least if there is a metal edge it can take some of the force and you have a chance of not breaking the screen. I dont understand why metal is bad and glass is somehow good? Also, I need to grab my ipad, move it around, spin it, grab it with the other hand etc. I see the edges / bezel's as very useful in these cases.
Well, as opposed to most other metal styles, BM in general has had this 'trve' trend in the 90s, but its practically non-existent nowadays
They're talking specifically about mobile devices from apple.
Turbolinks have to be my favorite part of Rails, I've used them with other applications as well, the idea that you just load partials (without a huge framework such as React) is pretty nice.
Depends on what you want to output. Webapps? Nothing, it already has all you need, especially if you are willing to use a remote server that you are ssh'ed into but you don't NEED that. For native compiled code and apps? Apple needs to release a Xcode compiler and a developer mode that lets you run self-signed binaries on the hardware.
https://www.amazon.com/Kingdel-Powerful-Desktop-Computer-Blu...

Yeah, it's ridiculous. Two minutes of searching and I found a box with a better CPU, 16 GiB of RAM, 512 GiB of flash, and 1 TiB of HDD for a slightly lower price. The Apple Tax is real, at least for their desktops.

(I have never seen the point of these tiny PCs. You can throw a desktop in a corner where you'll never have to see it. If I'm allowed to buy a normal case, I'm sure I could trounce that Mac for about $400.)
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Thats probably just inflation since the last update :)
> Firstly, "linked to sugar" is not "squarely caused by sugar".

Correct - the same goes for "Linked to drugs" and "squarely caused by drugs".

> that alone shows sugar to be far safer

Sugar is safer than cocaine, but that does not make it safe.
I shouldn't have said the only difference - sorry.

> But never mind, let's look at, oh, the lethal dose (LD50) info

This is too narrowly focused - the LD50 only refers to the immediate effects of a substance, not the long lasting effects.
I'd argue that long lasting effects are more dangerous as they're less apparent.

> Plus there is copious sugar in your bloodstream without which you'd be in hypoglycemic shock leading to death.

Yes, our bodies need sugar and create it from the food we eat. I was talking about the food we call sugar ("Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.)

I should use "added sugar" or "refined sugar".
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Even worse is the iMac lineup. In 2018, you've great 6 and 8 cores cpus in the market and it is still an overpriced quad core cpu.

The new Mac mini seems decent but still expensive for the package.
Thanks for the TrueVault pointer, that's a great resource for info! I was going to followup asking your thoughts on using their service vs doing it yourself, but reading the dev guide posted by @jameslk I came across this:

We think this comment from Hacker News sums up the technical debt required to roll your own HIPAA compliant infrastructure quite accurately. This was completely unsolicited and is not from a TrueVault customer.

"[Building our own HIPAA compliant infrastructure] took upwards of 1,000 person-hours to figure out HIPAA-compliance issues. This will continue to be an ongoing cost for us, because HIPAA is an ongoing law and it changes sometimes. It takes substantial auditing time and money." — jph
Oomd reminds me of userspace OOM handling mechanism proposed by David Reintjes of Google:

https://lwn.net/Articles/590960/
I realize the declines likely don't impact living budgets, for the reasons you stated.

However, I am wondering about issues like morale, and especially recruiting and retention.

As you know, competition for talent is quite intense right now, especially for the kind of talent FAANG employees have. You see it both in attempts to recruit new and current employees.

I'm wondering if there's any increase in poaching, or tougher competition on new talent against employers offering more of a cash component.

Of course, some of these effects may only be apparent in a few months, once year-end bonuses are paid.
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Sorry, but tables are awful in practice. I have to iterate all the elements to get a count? This is especially egregious when I’m using one like a list/array and need to know how far to iterate. Maybe there’s a better way I don’t know?
That's like saying that if you have to kill a fly, why opt for swatter when you can use a bazooka?

After spending some years building an SPA webapp, I'm really missing the simplicity of stateless HTML. The front-end framework my colleagues picked really likes to carry state around, like between pages, which has caused numerous hard-to-find bugs. These bugs are triggered when you do certain sequence of actions across multiple pages. That stuff should be impossible. We really ought clear all state between pages, but apparently it's harder to fight the framework to do this. Carrying state around is just fundamental for it.

I'm currently on hiatus from that project to work on a small one that's needed quick. So far, I haven't used a single line of javascript, and it's a multi-page form. I can add, remove, and edit rows from an HTML table without javascript or server side state. Instead of an autocomplete input, I used an input and search button and had the server return a page with search results to select from. State is maintained through inputs, hidden or not. Different submit buttons perform different actions, but they all send all fields to be re-rendered in the next page.

I gotta say, it's just refreshing to do things this way after so much time. It's super-responsive not having to load and run bunches of javascript. It's also cool to see the forward and back buttons work for free, without any special consideration on my part. I can use them to replay every action I've taken in the form, all additions, edits, and removals of rows in the aforementioned HTML table, and the different form pages.

Were I asked to do things "prettier" (to somebody else's standard of what's pretty), I would just use minimal javascript. There is no reason to go all-in with a front-end framework just for a dynamic datepicker.
For a long time Apple's problem was a lack of software on their platform. I wonder if they have gone too far now and by encouraging so many developers they have ended up lowering the standards.

To me the huge amount of low cost junk in the App Store doesn't feel right next to the high quality expensive products Apple sells.
As much I tend to be sympathetic to the no-SPA cause, it's easy to run into requirements that exclude MPA's. Incrementally updating a page just has too many potential performance and usability advantages. (Not to mention that an SPA can potentially be given some offline capability to accommodate a marginal network connection.)
I have also tried ein-mode, and sometimes use it. I haven't used it enough to have a super educated opinion but it didn't blow me away.

I don't think it supports cell folding (?) as an example missing feature

Minor point but it also can't/shouldn't support widgets, which we use at work. Any extension to jupyter is going to be written in javascript so there's an element I'd be locking myself out of the ecosystem.

I didn't mean this as a criticism of emacs, my post said that the best thing I know is emacs, just that it's (probably) not the future of editors imo so I'm reluctant to throw 100 hours into it.
> I really like where the iPad is going.

You mean becoming more and more like a Surface Pro?
He's growing up in a future that will be better than today by almost any measure.

The news just like to report bad events more and it biases our view.

'Enlightenment Now' by Pinker really explains it - we shouldn't be so pessimistic, as Obama said if you could choose any time up until now in which to exist (without being able to pick the conditions of your birth) you would choose today.
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> new iPad is faster than 92% of all notebooks sold in the last year, the writing is on the wall ... For me, the next Macbook to be excited about, would be one with an ARM processor.

With Windows laptop vendors making Snapdragon-based laptop designs, it's almost a certainty that the market will shift here. Those windows laptops are intended to keep executing code, stay connected to networks when you shut the lid (like your phone does). That must be some enormous battery-life gains.
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> Certainly 2 usb-c ports are better than 1. But why not put 4? Even better usb-c + usb-a.

Because they're not just Type C ports, they're TB3 ports, Intel's stinginess with respect to PCIe lanes & TB3 controller integration means it's hard to put many of those in a machine especially on low-end CPUs, and I guess Apple prefers uniformising capabilities to an extent (even if performances can differ see e.g. the 13" MBP) to having multiple ports with the exact same connector but completely divergent capabilities.
I'll let the official Commons Clause website speak for me.

https://commonsclause.com/

> Is this “Open Source”? No.
There are semantic differences, sure. The outcomes are horrifyingly the same. Lots of people die.

Some 10 million in fascist Germany[0], some 60 million in Soviet Russia, more than 70 million in communist China, etc.[1] Though, I'm not sure how to treat "just let them starve". Is it murder if you have the means to feed them? Is it murder if you don't even try?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...
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I work in a hospital radiology department, and the main part of my job is cost accounting.

Getting estimates of cost for medical procedures is surprisingly difficult and expensive. It takes many people many hours of work to figure out how much a specific set of procedures costs. Bureaucracy also makes the job far harder than it should be, but "moving fast and breaking things" can lead to people dying, so it's understandable why hospitals don't tend to be innovative enterprises. There is value in it, but at the same time hospitals don't have much incentive to lower costs. My job probably only exists because medicare/medicaid bundled payment schemes are finally forcing hospitals to look at costs.

Basically, it's both A and B.
I specifically meant automatic lossy compression with predictable visual quality. If ImageOptim could actually achieve it (automatically), that would save me and others an awful lot of time. But as it turns out it is not that easy.

Some very smart people at Google go to the trouble of creating projects like Guetzli. I personally have spent months on this, and it gets me every time someone claims "just use that one tool" without any evidence. I presented mine and it's reproducible.

ImageOptim is a great tool otherwise.
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I learned everything from: sqlteaching.com

It was created in a hackathon and uses sql.js, you can also create your own exercises through sql.js if you know a thing or two about web development ;)
Its because the rich use their resources to hijack the political process to write laws that benefit them at the expense of those who do not have money.

Its Capitalism.
It's like you're intentionally misreading what I wrote. Even in traditional media a paragraph is generally shorter than a page, and yet doctoral theses often span more than said page.
Is there any updated texts that you or anyone else would recommend for people new to C?
That premise is only accurate if you are planning to have everyone consume livestock feed. If that is the plan, then you shouldn't be fixating on beef, you should be going after almost all crops we grow, which produce just as few calories per acre as beef, and even lower protein per acre. Depending on where you draw the line, your argument effectively requires all farms to only grow a small number of very high calorie crops like field corn and potatoes.