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Ugh, all the comments about how it's overpriced in this thread.

"This is crazy! You can just build your own for half the price!"

Snooze. You could have made this comment about most of Apple's products for decades. Some people apparently just don't get it, so here it is from my perspective:

As long as Apple does what I need, I'm not going to buy anything else. I'm definitely not going to build my own PC to save a few bucks. I recognize that not everyone is in this position, but my time is valuable and the difference between "click buy" and "research and buy a ton of parts and assemble them and install software and drivers and blah blah blah" is worth thousands of dollars to me.

I rely on a Macbook Pro for work every day. I generally keep them for 2-3 years, and given my preferences, work setup, software, and how much money I make with these things, I'd pay triple (or more) what Apple currently charges for them vs. getting some shitty Dell or Lenovo and hassling with Windows or Linux. That's not to say everyone should feel that way, but that's my situation, and I'm not alone.
What advantages does Windows offer over Linux other than gaming?
I would like to think that HN isn't subjected to brigading[0], but unfortunately there's a lot of money to be made in this topic, regardless of which way the sentiment swings.

When I see things voted up which are misleading, false, or ridiculous, my reaction is typically that of distrust and an expectation of manipulation. But my hope for humanity lies in believing that some posts are simply because the poster was mistaken.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_brigading
Next time the politician reminds you you’re are under attack from those on welfare, think about the problems of the highly profitable businesses that administer it. 1 for you, and, 2 for me.
Checkout Macstadium. https://www.macstadium.com
There probably is but it will be built on top of Mac mini or Mac Pro farms as Apple does not allow virtualization of macOS on any hardware not carrying a Apple logo (I believe that is how it is actually stated in the terms even). So of it is available it might not be a cheaper option.

But I believe Travis CI does have macOS workers available for free, but they might be scarce in available time slots.
I keep thinking eventually we'll run out of ancillary people to give gobs of money to and finally try giving it to the obvious...
Not only that, but they also apparently recompiled Linpack with the Intel compiler -- which is notorious for favoring Intel chips -- before running the benchmarks. Some really shady stuff going on here.
Not saying the price is not outrageous but I found it ironic that you spec maniacs can’t tell the difference between a sata ssd vs pcie ssd. You will be hard pressed to find retail ssd that’s remotely close to the performance in these new macs.
If you need a document-based approach there are a few options you might want to consider (and certainly not table-based relational db).
I've migrated part of our project to Couchbase (not CouchDB or others) and beside a technical comparison... I've appreciated the ease of onboarding for new hires to this technology, scalability and maintainability... all aspects that become critical in the long run. If your project involves mobile clients, I'm sure your devs will appreciate the easy to use SDKs packaged with features (I personally loved the fine grained offline sync with backend and/or between two local DBs)

A technical comparison is here, but it's on the couchbase site so it could be biased https://www.couchbase.com/comparing-couchbase-vs-mongodb
Evolving threats to Mac environments – TechRepublic
Fake Elon Musk Verified Profile Caught Promoting Crypto Scam via Twitter Ads
Little of both. The SSD is a very fast 1TB model running on Apple’s custom controller (so you can’t just compare to a random one on Amazon). It’s also an obscenely high priced upgrade.

Probably more column B (expensive) than A (good)
I find WSL can really help in this regard. It's being actively developed by Microsoft and they're making the interop between WSL and windows better over time (a good example of this is https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/11/05/what... on what's new in October)

So what I tend to do is use linux install paths and do my scripting work in WSL, with my more GUI/Corp apps in windows.

All they need to do now is get raw network sockets working and finish off Linux Docker engine support in WSL and I'll be sorted!
I’m pro vote shaming.

Voting is not just a right, it’s a civic responsibility. I don’t like when people who don’t get their pay docked complain and try to get out of jury duty, either. It’s selfish, if you simply choose to leave the work of democracy to other people. And ungrateful for those who sacrificed to protect our rights.

I live in a co-op building. Folks on the board make sure leaky pipes are fixed, welcome new neighbors, renovate the lobby, and a thousand other things. So yeah, if I don’t show up to the annual meeting to do the absolute minimum to vote, when I have the ability to do so, I’m being a selfish asshole to my neighbors. I’d deserve a bit of shaming.

I’ll soften the stand to note that there are more barriers to voting for some than others - barriers that can all be fixed through policies, however.

Edit: I’ll add that even if you’re against vote shaming, this data is important to be public for other reasons. Yesterday I was making phone calls specifically to infrequent voters as a volunteer, many of whom aren’t aware there is an election or had no idea where to go to vote. Those folks who simply don’t know and need help are routinely the nicest and most appreciative of getting calls from strangers.
Party affiliation is already public record in many states. I don’t understand the concern.
dude.its called a joke
> "Unless you used optical audio, audio input, or the SD-card reader"

Craftily hidden in a footnote for that paragraph.
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If this was a PC then a 1TB SSD would be about $200, but the 2018 Mac Mini has a non-upgradable soldered-on SSD on the motherboard so you have to pay Apple's build-to-order prices if you want one. (The RAM is technically upgradable but requires a security Torx bit to access just to be annoying.)
I do prefer the macOS ecosystem overall and distinctly dislike the UX mess that is Windows 10. I have been using Windows for decades now, and feel very comfortable with it, and I still maintain a desktop tower for gaming and intensive work, but if I had the option to switch to a macOS machine I would. There just isn't a Mac hardware out there that fits my needs. But each year I feel Apple is making the Mac ecosystem worse and worse. At some point the software advantage will not be worth it.

That being said, if someone likes Windows 10 now, there really is little reason to remain on Mac hardware. Practically, most creative software exists on Windows.
I like PCs.

The PC specs are amazing, value for your money is excellent, and now is so much open source documentation explains how to install or build on a linux based machine.

And outside of laptops, a custom PC can still be built with whatever specs needed.
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Now, Tesla is dealing with the Streisand effect. I can see ramping electric car production to levels comparable to conventional car production to definitely be challenging, but what part of Tesla’s manufacturing process is necessarily more unsafe compared to conventional car manufacturing?

After reading this article, I’m of the opinion that Tesla is intentionally trying lowball their workplace injury numbers. The article mentions 48 were reported, but the fired medical professional says the actual number was probably twice as much. Let’s say that this estimated actual number is indeed true and there were 96 actual injuries. How many factory employees does Tesla have compared to and conventional car factory and what are injury rates there (pick something in the same state to keep workplace injury laws the same). It makes no sense to me to underreport this number and risk serious repercussions as opposed to report accurately, give injures employees sufficient medical care and support, and improve the manufacturing process thereby reducing the rate of injuries. Yes, Tesla is burning a lot of money, and doing the right thing would cost them more. The question is how much more compared to the risk of getting caught underreporting.

This entire situation reeks of “Move fast and break things” applied ad nauseum to where Tesla is becoming its own worst enemy as opposed to its short sellers.
> 3. Ability to run Linux natively using WSL.

But what are you doing in WSL that you can't do on a Mac (or, of course, a Linux machine) without a 'subsystem'?

Sincere question, because the 'Mac is not Linux' things that wind me up tend to require X11 to fix, WSL would be no different.
How else would you interpret the comment? The only thing they mention is the lack of GPU, so I'm curious why you would say that.

In any case the price is due to the SSD and RAM upgrades. You can get the i7 with 8gb RAM and 256gb SSD for $1300, which is still pricey but what do you expect from Apple...
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In terms of the retail price. More like 30-35%.

The 1TB SSD is a $800 option on the 128GB base model, and a $600 option on the 256GB model.

The 2TB SSD is an even more eye-watering $1600 option from the base model.
I find the timing of this announcement a bit amusing. Given AMD's planned 'new horizon' announcements today, I'm assuming Intel rushed out this press release over the weekend in order to preempt AMD.
Software and drivers that consistently work without the need for fiddling. Every year I give Linux a chance, and every year I quickly sober up.
Yes, that seems to be correct as well, right? We subtract an infinite number of problems from the undecidable set, and it is still an undecidable set and cannot be generated by a TM.
Mac Mini review
> Why aren't more instances of voters realizing that someone has already voted on their behalf if this is so easy and smart?

I can see two reasons (there are likely more):

1) If someone is going to vote as another, and they are smart about it, they will do some pre-research to pick out likely non-voters to become. Voting as someone else who is not going to vote would not likely be caught, because that non-voter will have no opportunity to notice the 'heist' since they do not go vote.

2) At least in the US, with low voter turnout (55% for the 2016 election is quoted by this page [1]) then someone has a somewhat large chance of simply randomly picking a non-voter as their "surrogate", and if they do win that pick, then that non-voter will not notice due to their not going to the polls.

Now, whether either of these strategies would allow an individual to amass sufficient votes to change an outcome is unknown. Even "close" races in the US often have a few thousand votes difference in the final counts, so for someone (or some group) to change an outcome they either have to find enough #1's above to amount to several thousand votes or have to "win" at #2 picks enough without "losing" at a #2 pick enough to get caught out. So it feels like it would be difficult to pull off a few thousand of these, in a single day, without getting caught unnless a fairly large group is involved. And the problem then (with large groups) likely shifts to keeping the entire group quiet about their activity (i.e., leaks from a group member become the downfall point, not other voters noticing double voting).

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics/popular-vote-turnout...
There is a hefty premium on top of any upgrades from the base model, but Apple SSD with the T2 chip is insanely fast - check out the benchmark for the iMac Pro and MacBook Pro 2018.
But it is on an actuarial basis
I'm from Cottage Grove area, in fact my childhood dentist was there. None of this is news, it is a terrible legacy, Cottage Grove was not the only area contaminated, much of the entire Eastern Twin Cities suburbs have problems in the water with ongoing cleanup efforts. 3M is a chemical company, in essence. How much cancer did it cause? I don't know...some. While many Americans don't agree that climate change is an important issue, I think it's well accepted that just dumping chemicals is bad. I think the issue is whether it's in one's own back yard or not.
Elon Musk Walks Huge Boring Tunnel in California
This exact comment is specific to this reviewers use case for his Mac Mini; it can't be made in every apple product thread, other apple products are used for things other than home media centres.
it's common practice for journalists to get review unit, which they later return. Not just apple, everybody does it.

Also, in case you're not familiar with Marco, he was a co-founder of Tumblr, created Instapaper, and is the developer of Overcast (podcast app for iOS). Not sure he needs the money
I'd be interested in this alternate claim. You mentioned something about Bayesian updates.

Ironically, I see this the other way around. I think people are having a hard time accepting the possibility that humans are partial halting oracles because of their bias against anything that seems religious, even if it makes more sense.
A Growing Trend of User Data Abuse and How to Protect Yourself
This is a blatant violation and misuse of voter files. In Illinois, for instance, "Voter data is available to registered political committees for bonafide political purposes. Use for commercial solicitation or other business purposes is prohibited."[1]

I've been noticing a trend where more and more average Joes are just downloading these files and doing whatever they want with them (specifically, ad targeting). So it's not hard to imagine what malicious state actors have been doing with them. And on a social level, it feels as tho these apps are in violation of the spirit of the voter files purpose.

With these specific apps it appears to be a classic case of "it's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission".

1. https://www.elections.il.gov/votinginformation/computerizedv...
Individuals have huge power over pollution in general and corporate pollution in particular.

Individuals are in the end the drivers of corporate actions because they are the consumers.

It's not necessarily about buying less stuff but about changing your daily actions and about buying only products you consider environmentally friendly.

Corporations will produce what sells. We decide what sells through our individual choices and actions.

Edit:

We can also make it quite plain to corporations: For example, why not ask coffee shops/takeaways how they plan to pack our order before we actually order then walk away if we don't like the answer? If many people start to do that I'm sure things will change fast.
It's the fastest SSD on the consumer market by a good margin. My main gripe with it is that Apple doesn't provide any affordable option for large, slow storage. Of course you can always go external, but then it won't be so much mini anymore.
Why is BGPSec un-deployable?
The very human challenge of safe driving
The idea that consensus entails convergence to the truth, when the best thinkers have consensus on antithetical ideas in different time periods.
You are an extreme miserabilist and a hateful person - please stop and think about what life is about.
Apple charges +$600 (USD) for a 0.25 → 1TB SSD upgrade.

I heard some complaints, but was all like "Yeah, but modern Apple SSDs are 3GB/sec, that is pretty good, bros..."

My coworker clued me in, though:

1TB samsung 970Pro M.2 (3GB/s)
was as low as AUD$304 here just
yesterday. Thats ~USD$215. I
don't usually mind paying the
_AppleTax_ but that is ridiculously
overpriced.

I buy all sorts of overpriced Apple shit, but that is so overpriced it's kinda offensive.
the concentration of computing in the hands of very few cloud providers has been only made possible due to almost all software being free/open such that it has become a commodity

On what do you base this claim? The desktop OS market became concentrated in the hands of essentially one provider, and neither it nor most of the software that ran on it was free/open.

The cloud market is arguably more competitive, and becoming more so; the core of the revenue might be going to four or five big providers - which is already more than the above - but as a client you have much more to choose from.
Those units are not given out for free. Apple get them back after the review period. It would be a massive conflict of interest otherwise.
100% this, but for people who don't make money from using the computer I can see how the high prices are a real problem
Hi horseRad,

Do you have a citation/source/link for statement?
Pity that it's so hard to source W10 Enterprise LTSC (previously LTSB), you can bypass pretty much all Windows Update woes that way, miss out completely on Cortana and Edge, and avoid having "features" no-one asked for rammed down your throat every few months.

Despite Microsoft's FUD[0] ("The Long Term Servicing Channel, which is designed to be used only for specialized devices (which typically don't run Office) such as those that control medical equipment or ATM machines"), it also appears to run Just Fine[tm] on the latest desktop hardware[1]

It's the only version of W10 I'll go near.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...
[1] I've had W10 LTSB 2016 running for months on two home-built Ryzen boxes (1x 2700X + 1x 2400G)
While I'm with you on the issue of honey vs. sugar, it's not quite so simple... Where's that honey coming from?

Locally harvested? Great! But likely not the bulk of supply.

Supermarket honey? Transported from Goodness Knows Where -- very likely China or Chile, where the bees are intensively fed... (you guessed it!) sugar! That's why the honey is so flavourless, not to mention the Carbon footprint of all those honey-kilometres.

Bees are almost as intensively farmed as anything else, and, while the effects and outcomes are nowhere near as severe as other forms of intensive husbandry, the honey is not necessarily the pure and innocent product you might think it is.
Finnish authors have also "library grants" and "library compensation" which means those independent authors will get paid if somebody loans their work.
So you can also support their work "for free" by loaning the books.
the delusion that millions, if not billions of people are going to undergo what amounts to a spiritual revolution that directly goes against the highly pervasive & manipulative social conditioning that surrounds nearly every aspect of their lives is more absurd than even the most grandiose technological panacea.
consumers can't even exercise the self restraint not to consume themselves to death.
Can Turing machines invent Turing machines?
Since I am part of this aforementioned technical community, I will spend a few extra dollars in order to get: 1) high resolution screen, 2) large track pad that works well, 3) native "unix like" shell, 4) sleep that works 100% reliably when I close the lid.

I don't consider it a fashion statement, I just want it to work. After 20+ years I don't like to tinker with my desktop anymore. I would go back to Gnu/Linux for desktop, but finding the right hardware with the above specs is a challenge if not impossible (I have yet to find a track pad driver that works as well as Apples).

I have not reevaluated in 2018, If there is anything better I would like to hear specific examples of hardware and OS combinations?
I'll take that as a no?

I don't have a strong position, just that it would at least an interesting engineering challenge.

AB testing human flourishing...

Would be a bit like the Foundation.
Maybe, but a simpler hypothesis is that what Oracle intends to do is to scare up a few billion dollars with FUD.
Looks pretty handy, but wish it could capture the actual edit distance somewhere. You can set a max, but many use cases call for knowing how close the match was.
But its perception that counts if your asking people to move to a new area especially if your recruiting internationally

And also living in a small liberal eclave isn't that appealing.
It's always a good idea to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Do you need to use that much soap? Do you need to keep the lights on everywhere? Do you need to use a tumble-dryer or could you let your clothes air dry instead? Do you need that shiny new phone or is your current one good for another couple of years?

Yes, all of these are absolutely small things individually, but put together and done by many people, it does make a difference.

A big thing you can do individually is to Buy Less Stuff. Be happy with the TV you have, don't change your wardrobe just because of fickle changing fashion nonsense, don't replace stuff that works just fine. Break the cycle of consumerism. Don't support the polluting corporations.

The very biggest thing you can do is to be politically active. Vote for pro-environment politicians and parties, be part of political initiatives.
That makes a lot of sense, thank you! I got the impression that the parent comment meant that the certification itself means nothing, hence my confusion.
Other post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18384883 .
Apple MacBook Air 2018 review: Retina Display and new keyboard
Most people I've heard this rant from, when further questioned, have barely touched a Mac and don't know anything about macOS to be able to substantively trash it.

Approximately how many cumulative weeks have you spent in OS X / macOS?
Have you tried Kodi (kodi.tv)?
> This, combined with the “Our Trusted Partners” section, clearly shows that this isn’t about getting people out to vote in order to strengthen the democratic process - it’s about supporting a particular political party.

Was there ever a doubt? The "article" is just a democratic party propaganda piece. The app is a pro-democratic party app.

> As an independent, this is really troubling.

As an independent, the most troubling part is how so much of the "news" companies are just a propaganda organizations for one political party. The lack of objectivity and professionalism and decency by so much of the media is troubling. Especially since the media has been brow beating tech companies into being biased just like they are.

> Then again, maybe it will lead to an implosion of the party system and a shift to independent voters.

I think it'll have the opposite effect. An entrenchment of the party system where the two political parties are even more extreme as only the most loyal members remian.
As far as I know you are correct. All physics is computable. Scott Aaronson, with expertise in quantum computing, claims all physical processes are Turing reducible.
I don't know what y'all are asking me to do here exactly?

It seems like someone needs to do some research to find a list of whiskey distilleries and their annual output?
When we look at China: banning Western social media platforms and promoting their own... Maybe their are good reasons for doing so. In this case, better policing of the platform...
> Why do people post and upvote webpages that are behind a paywall?

because it's explicitly allowed by the rules. I like your flair idea though, seems like a nice middle ground.
Off topic, but wasn't there a famous comment around the warm at first and then starts feeling cold..around peeing? Do you happen to know the exact comment?
I have dual booted Ubuntu for ~3 years on my MacBook Pro (13” late 2013 model) and used it as my main OS.

I had to install a webcam driver but other than that everything just worked(TM)
Since the gp also mentioned NAS and backup, I would presume they're definitely talking about some ∗nix, yes.

I'm not sure if Linux would make for a play-for-play better home theatre OS than MacOS, but it would certainly be both better than Windows, and better value than a Mac.
There'll be a diaspora soon enough, as other companies beef up on their OpenJDK rosters to bolster credibility in the face of Oracle FUD.