skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data bundled with the code is good, but code mixed with the data is a whole different thing. Notebooks are better than Excel in that regard I think.

As for expecting people to religiously and accurately observe procedures, I work with human beings, you seem luckier...
I never use the OS drive for storage, and unless its a requirement to run, I dont load apps on the system drive either. I normally have at least 3 drives on my computer. OS/Apps/Data. With imaging software, replacing one piece of the 3 is damn simple, and there is a better chance of ransomware not taking out your data. So I would definitely use and keep the 256GB drive.
> IBMs fall began with the PC,

IBM was enormously successful with the PC, so successful that IBM was assumed throughout the 80's that they would continue to utterly dominate the desktop market. (See the humorous 1984 Apple ad for what people thought of IBM and the PC at the time.) Everyone quaked in their boots when a new PC was imminent.

> which they made an open design explicitly because of anti-trust pressures.

I haven't heard that before in histories of the PC I've read. The way I read it was IBM made it open to cut costs and because they didn't think the PC would be a big market.

Additionally, IBM closed the design of the later PS/2 and fenced it in with patents in order to continue dominating the PC market and fend off clones, which contradicts the idea that such behavior would entice anti-trust action.

Do you have a reference for your version?
I know it's impossible. Since I don't have any Apple phones iMessage is useless for me. The vast majority of people in the world are similar to me.

Apple's products are not a play for anything. Their services are built for people with more money than sense.
Google and Facebook IDs work on Android, Windows and Linux.
Excel's API are increasingly web service friendly.

How many people prefer Slack native desktop over the web experience?

Excel is the ultimate rich client experience for power users. Maybe we should brining the web to Excel, rather than the other way around?
They can avoid unnecessary redundant infrastructure as an example. Imagine trying to dig for construction when there are 30 potential cable companies running utilities underground.
> Seasteading would have real, permanent consequences considering the agenda involves recruiting a large number of people.

Sure, that's kind of the whole point. Try things out. You can always move back to your home country if it doesn't work out. Exactly what consequences are you trying to claim would happen?

The point of these kinds of things are that everybody can have a say in how things are run, a bit like an HOA where everybody isn't just creating an intentional living community, they're creating a whole new concept for organizing a society. The United States alone has many examples of this, from communes all the way up to the Mormon church. Lots of failures, a few phenomenal successes.

> In the areas of the world with little poverty, you generally find well developed rule system. Similarly, areas with great, squalid levels of poverty often have few-to-no rules.

That's the charter city argument. No rules means that people with power get to decide who gets to do what. By making a new city with new, commerce-friendly rules, the hope is to replicate the success of Hong Kong.
Apple restricts ads and third-party trackers in iPhone apps for kids
That is the one that really got me. I expected the Mac Pro to start at a ridiculous price and I wasn't shocked by the monitor but $1000 for a monitor stand is crazy
Yes, I wonder what framework Apple engineers looked at for inspiration, and if they looked at shoes. Although I doubt they are allowed to answer this question.
The is wild, baseless speculation.
I think the only surprise here is that Amazon hasn't been named yet, but maybe they are setting the table here, so that that one doesn't look politically motivated. :)
My question would be: is there still a market for these very expensive workstations when you can get much more by building the machine yourself?

Yes, because a lot of media people are scared away from the thought of putting together their own machine (and a lot of them also depend on Mac OS)
Completely disagree as it just seems like we're going to waste a lot of time with disclaimers rather than having a real discussion (a la CA prop 65 warnings). How far does the "employer affiliation" responsibility go? If you leave a company, does it still apply? If you're in a company backed by YC does it apply? If you disagree with what your company is doing does it still apply?

I don't go out of my way to acknowledge my employer affiliation but I don't go out of my way to hide it either, e.g. do a search or look for some of my more technical posts.

I put the same amount of effort into my post as the parent did into establishing the evil of this page.
I had a small lab bill for my daughter (right after she was born) sent to collections because the address they had on file was for a location my daughter had never lived at. My wife and I had moved 2 years prior, and somehow the lab used our old address which they got from ???.

Reason #283942 that our medical system is horrendously broken in the US.
Which one? It probably runs on Linux too.
I don’t know if I’d call either party an enemy but I see your point.
The FTC and the DOJ brought us PRISM?
And what 27" 4K HDR monitors are you using? I've been looking for something similar for a while and haven't seen much with those base specs...
Federighi said on stage that developers are their biggest pro users group.
The house judiciary committee is democrat-controlled, so at the very least it's a bipartisan investigation(s). Both parties have spoken out on antitrust (if only for separate, self-interested purposes).

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/03/tech/tech-antitrust-house-pro...

>The Democratic-led investigation comes as the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are taking their first steps toward a potential probe of their own into Google, according to three people familiar with the matter. Regulators have negotiated to divide oversight of the tech industry between the two agencies in recent weeks, these people said. The two agencies have also reportedly split up oversight of Amazon, Apple and Facebook.
Considering FB just handed over a private citizens data to a convicted hacker simply because he requested it, I would say I'm pretty happy about this development.
This is nothing new and it is not unique to modern advertising or politics. Important philosophical and theological texts going back to ancient times are very clear on how unfulfilling material desires ultimately are. To make it even worse, our own desires are terrible predictors of what will make us happy. Lessons from psychology abound. Winning the lottery often ruins peoples lives. Couples in arranged marriages report similar satisfaction to those with chosen partners. When presented with more choices, we are less happy with our final decision. The deeper you dig, the “worse” it gets.

> To understand the limitation of things, desire them. - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
For OkCupid there's a clear motivation for exaggerating things like height, looks, and income. What motivation does one have for anonymously posting an exaggerated income? Are there really that many trolls who want to depress those making less than $500k/yr?
It is definitely a good move to get mentored in the things you mentioned, and great that you are looking to improve in areas where most developers wouldn't care so much.

I'm interested in the driver behind this because it sounds like you might work somewhere where they don't have a lot of patience or time for thinking. Which to me is a bad sign. I think people at your work should be helping you with most of these things, as they have all the context.

Normally things are prioritised in teams (unless you are the only technical person there?). If you have your own mini backlog that needs prioritising, then you should be able to draw on your colleagues to help you. Stand ups can be useful for this. There might be some skills for you to improve, but it's not all on you.

In addition to getting a mentor, I recommend go to a coding meetup and ask other developers how they do things and handle the same problems.

For me prioritisation is simple. If production systems are down - that is the priority. Otherwise major bugs, and then tasks, and tasks where the boss has said its high priority first.

Other than that I usually try to finish what I have started before starting something new unless blocked. And keep long running things going (e.g. something where you need to check logs once a week).

For the general backlog someone else decides the priority - the role is normally called product owner or product manager, but might be done by a manager, team leader or even CTO/CEO. However developers can influence the order if they have an opinion.
Who is going to give up that money on an Intel in 2019 ?

A few months later it will be running at half the speed due to new sploits being found.
> Right after we put sanctions on Chinese tech, we start taking steps to limit our own?

I don't see this as taking steps to limit our own tech at all.
Comcast and AT&T have the ability to force consumers to pay more with no chance of losing revenue. Regional broadband monopolies + no net neutrality allows them to,

1, Zero-rate their own video services [1]

2, Throttle competitors like Netflix

3, Charge competitors more, passing on costs to consumers

[1] https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2019/02/13/isps-are-violating-t...
> "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" world.

I don’t know, I can afford it, but Apple is losing it (see MacBook Pro fiasco).
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20086976 which seems to have roughly the same story.
No, the OS on iPads and iPods Touch was always called iOS - the OS was only called iPhone OS for a very short period of time.
I assume AppCode will support this the same way it does with InterfaceBuilder and Storyboards - i.e. it won’t do anything but launch XCode to handle it.
AdGuard Pro for iOS is back thanks to the new App Store guidelines update
Society is relying on technology for every little thing. We should discuss realistically securing tech before we continue allowing these companies to siphon more data from us.
I've found that 256G is 'not quite enough', so my old Macbook has 256G and I moved my media folder to one of those flush-mount microSD card adapters. It's read-mostly so who cares about write cycles?
More like Xeon tax.

The new Mac Pro has a ton more PCIe lanes and DDR4 channels. It's a completely different league, it can't be directly compared to mainstream platforms that only have dual-channel and 16-24 lanes.

EPYC would've been a better value, but it's still not cheap. Big computers with lots of memory and I/O capacity will always look ridiculously expensive next to mainstream desktop.
Well the docs say you can chain an id() property on any view being built in the tree which would hopefully allow you to reference it at runtime and insert/delete children, but I don't see anything obvious for assigning that id to like an outlet so you don't have to traverse the whole tree to find it.
My point is that a developer is spending (give or take) $4K extra for utility they don't need (my argument being that $2K should get a dev all the monitor they'll ever need). A well-paid developer can afford to do that once in a while, but they have to be choosy, maybe spend that $4k of extra utility you don't need toward upgrading the BMW to the "M" version you'll never put to full use on public streets. Buy that Colnago bicycle you'll never be in good enough shape to put to full potential.

But blow $6K on a monitor when $2K will do? Nah, you need a multi-million dollar exit for that kind of diamond-crusted iPhone silliness. The rest of us wage-slave devs making only $250K/year make do with 5K monitors that are more than good enough.
https://searchads.apple.com/

They're monetizing user data/behavior.

One example, I didn't search very hard.

> User response is an important
signal of ad relevance. If customers
don’t tap on an ad, Apple Search Ads
will stop showing it to them.
Hm, isn't releasing go links publicly also verboten? :)
This comment is like a time machine back to the old Android vs iPhone battles. Just let it go, the war is over. Did anyone win?
In reality, pretty much nothing (particularly since now, third parties basically only get name + email). The value is that some (small or large) number of potential users might not know or believe that and trust Apple more.
Why is iMac better than iMac pro for single threaded?
> It's almost as if the theory that monopolies inevitably grow to take over the world has serious problems :-)

I'm not sure the sequence of progressively bigger monopolies is a positive thing.
> These are ethnically homogenous countries with a small population and the majority of which is centered in a small area.

Minnesota has pretty much the same population as Finland, and is almost as homogeneous, too.
That ‘rumor’ was never prevailing - it was a theory, very frequently and quickly shot down by most Apple rumor sources, and by Apple itself at WWDC last year...
This seems like a promising direction.
How are Money or companies a myth? They both have impact and are literally tangible.

I can understand how aspects of religion are mythical, but the others ...
We know that the current administration is willing to bend the rules to get what it wants.

Assange is partially responsible for the current administration taking office...If anything, they would be bending over backwards to find a way to pardon him for that favor. And also for embarrassing the previous political administration.

It turns out, it's not politics. It's that the US government believes that Assange broke the law when he tried to help Manning. If it were another set of laws, they might have turned a blind eye. But trying to decrypt classified information, and furthermore, publishing classified information that put US field personnel at risk...that's not something they'll ever let slide, because it sets a precedent that there's no punishment for stealing classified US intelligence.

Contrast that to WaPo and other newspapers which faced no punishment for publishing classified documents...because they didn't come by those documents illegally.
Allow me to temper some of the glee exhibited in the comments and even in some of the reports but a key line here is:

"The divvying of antitrust enforcement does not mean that the agencies have opened official investigations"

It is worth keeping in mind that antitrust enforcement in the US doesn't care about whiny competitors but if the enduser and customer is harmed and it doesn't appear to be the case when it comes to any of these corporations.

This whole thing is terribly misguided, there is a long list of companies and markets worthy of antitrust scrutiny and these tech companies if they are on that list then they are at the very bottom of it. The real drag on the economy are the high prices of healthcare and housing, there is also the case that ISPs have obvious monopolies and are providing inferior products and services and the list goes on.

The role of the media here shouldn't be ignored, they coined the term "big tech" to conjure negative associations and they continuously publish alarmist coverage about any combination of these firms, they also stand to benefit if any enforcement action were to occur.
Apple’s $1k Pro Display XDR stand is the most expensive dongle ever
Especially when said monopolies actively manipulate consumer's perceptions of what a fair price is to begin with.

Witness the premium Intel put on 4+ core CPUs for ages, then suddenly when AMD picked up pace, they could deliver them at half or a third of the price...
Discussed last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16896880
It's interesting that every company in that list (except Walmart) had a massive spike in contributions to the blue team starting in 2016.
> Typically the ones being deplatformed are causing harm to individuals

"Typically"? Spoken like someone who actually looked at all cases? Or just taken some cases your peers agree on, and painting all cases with the same brush without even looking at them?

Who did Carey Wedler harm, for example? See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzlPhxf4Rd0 Or is that "not typical", as in "No True Scotsman"?
I know pretty much what he/she meant, was just making a point that I don't believe in Flutter's long term success.

Trying to sell Dart a 2nd time was a mistake.
4k gaming displays are $800. plus there some bonuses with gaming displays: high refresh rate, freesync.
Is this only if you're using checkout?
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Wait, hold on.

Why does a browser need a revenue model? Why can't a browser just be a piece of software that's "finished", with the occasional security patch?

Chrome is incredibly overcomplex because it attempts to be more than just a browser, and it is part of Google's strategy.

A regular browser doesn't have to be an OS in itself.
It's designed to be useful for more than one kind of "Pro". The old Mac Pro, for instance, seemed to completely forget about music studios and their professional requirements for Macs. This new machine may seem like overkill to software developers, but as an audio engineer, it's perfect.

I don't even want a 1TB SSD in it, the 256 is perfect to hold the OS, a few DAWs, and all the plugins I could ever want. Everything else gets saved to drives in a toaster anyway. A rackmountable unit with a ton of PCI slots for HDX/Dante cards was on my Christmas list, and I'm not alone- there's a reason they made a point of showing how many HDX cards it can fit in their presentation.

It also looks like an amazing workstation for video editors. I really don't think it's designed for software engineers who make 500k a year.
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The small print on the page that mentions this stat says that the measurements were taken on a new 12.9 inch iPad Pro using the Gen 2 Apple Pencil. Not sure what latency reductions may make their way to the other iPads, but nothing is stated right now.
I think this is fair, but do you ever manage to actually recover the funds?
Have you seen an Android tablet support matrix? A year is exceedingly good.
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They are making their margin from the fancy marketing, AND from not having to talk with their doc about it. It is called the shame coefficient. Clearly prices can be had for significantly less as seen in a comparison site [1]

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>People doing CUDA work are not using Macs.

The important question is are the people who want $6,000 workstations using CUDA?

For me personally, I would LOVE a monster workstation, but if I found a Mac Pro under my Christmas tree I'm not sure I would actually use it much. I would have to keep switching back to my old Nvidia desktop to do the things I specifically want a monster workstation for.
I'm not entirely sure my Lightroom cache would fit on this drive...
Probably --- CP/M is disturbingly flexible. Whether it'd be useful I don't know. Hardware-wise, you need 16kB or up RAM, preferably starting at 0x0000; a different base address means you won't be able to run standard binaries (they need to be recompiled). But that's all you need. You don't even need interrupts.

The way you port it is to write a BIOS containing a few basic routines for console, printer and serial input and output and disk access, link it together with the kernel and the shell, and you're done. It's not a lot of code, particularly if you have simple hardware. You don't need a timer, interrupt based I/O, memory management, or anything like that. If you've got more hardware it's always useful. CP/M 3 had a sophisticated paging system which would let the bulk of CP/M itself be held in a different address space but it's pretty complex and I'm sticking with CP/M 2.2.

The biggest problem with a TI calculator is fitting enough text on. I know that recent calculators have bigger screens but my TI-85 has a 128x64 screen, with 21x8 characters with the default font. I don't believe Turbo Pascal will be very happy running with that although the documentation doesn't specify a minimum. My 1982 PX-8 laptop has an 80x8 screen, and that's cramped.
I wouldn't consider this a replacement for the cinema display.

The Cinema was a high end great monitor for professionals, as opposed to a monitor for professional graphics/video people.

The two are radically different, and this time, Apple just went for that niche (albeit making a pitch to do your coding on it, which was kinda dumb in my view).

The LG (or equivalent) is a replacement for the old Cinema Display, and is probably great for doing everything. I don't know anyone outside of photo/video (or devs at Adobe making sure their apps look great) working on the new XDR.
You don't have to implement it to the exclusion of other methods. There are plenty of merchants on the web with Apple Pay and also Paypal, straight up credit card numbers, etc.
Then they're waiting for a Taycan.
> As a bike commuter who's not exactly in Tour de France riding condition

You don't need to be in "Tour de France" condition to take the lane on city streets (discounting your use of hyperbole). I do so all the time and intersection navigation is far easier when taking the lane than it is when forced to ride all the way to the right.

Pedestrian style infrastructure is suitable for pedestrian speeds (3 to 6 mph), not bicycle speeds (10 to 30+ mph).

> Yeah, it's a pain to turn left from a physically protected lane on the right, but those small delays are totally worth the added safety of the curb/whatever.

Except that the curb does not continue through the intersection. A car approaching from your right at the intersecting road, a car approaching from behind preparing to make a right turn. Or a car approaching from the opposite direction preparing to make a left may not see you until it's too late.

The vast majority of bike crashes occur at intersections. Very few are due to cars rear-ending cyclists.
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