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> US public housing projects are some of the most dangerous places on the planet.

Hyperbole, but go on. To hear it from some people the 5,000 people that died during 9/11 was the worst thing to happen to humanity, ever.

> We need to give the common person a path out of poverty that doesn't involve higher education.

Like a .................... living wage? That's not very popular with the law and order crowd.

> Once those people are able to move up the ladder, those at the very bottom (homeless) will be able to move up as well.

A nation of 180 million able bodied Americans can only tackle one task at a time. We are incapable of chewing gum and walking. The buffer will overflow!
Maybe you wouldn't but tons of labs, research groups, etc would shell out for one. Allows people to use Unix tools but doesn't makes the biologists unnecessarily scared.

I'm only half-joking. I've seen a lot of wasteful spending in government and medical research divisions on Mac Pros (this was before the garbage can design) for precisely these reasons. At my last research job, I got a beefy (at the time) Xeon 24 core Mac Pro with 3 Tesla Nvidia cards as my work station. Really couldn't complain. Was a super nice machine.
Still confused how Assange is being treated differently to anyone else in his situation.
More lines viewable at a time. Most places have line length limits and they're well below full screen width. There are people I've worked with who enjoy reading and writing code on a vertical orientation.
While I like this for privacy purpose this is pretty nafarious.

There is no mechanism by which you can use this sign-on without Apple. That means you are stuck with these specialized accounts you would need to re-setup once you leave apple. Just another lock-in.

This is definitely not the first time apple does anything like this. If apple really cared they would make a tool for any device or operating system to enable this. But they will not.
what exactly does someone need a mac like that for? what kind of software that only runs on mac os needs a computer like that?
I don't agree that every solution Finland or Iceland comes up with can be replicated to the rest of the world. These are ethnically homogenous countries with a small population and the majority of which is centered in a small area. Swedens perfect approach to education in the 2000's has now been debunked and even the swedes are telling everyone not to do what they did! I think the same would be true of Finlands "solution".

The US by contrast is a continent in its own right with a vastly diverse set of people and cultures. My own experience of the bay area is people are extremely giving and donate a lot of money and time towards homeless efforts. However I feel the latest backlash is born from fatigue towards no solution in sight. If homeless refuse to accept help or seek alternative options to sleeping on the street why would you want to keep helping? I am still stunned that the tiny city of San Francisco had a $300m annual budget to help less than 5000 people. Thats $60k/homeless person, this is greater than the per capita GDP of every single country on earth except the US.

Anecdotally I have a guy living in his car on my street that is filled to the ceiling with trash, he refuses to move or get into a shelter despite us trying to help him. Sadly the neighbors on the street are starting to sour towards him after 6 months of having social workers reach out to help and various charities try to assist.
Apple hardware has always been ludicrously overpriced compared to competition, nothing new there. They charge what the market will bear. You don’t complain about the price of a Lamborghini, you either pay it or you don’t.

The 1k stand is funny though. It’s the hardware equivalent of $200 t-shirts (yes, they exist - go check the various Prada, YSL etc): you know it’s not worth it, they know it’s not worth it, but you buy it anyway just so that people will know you have so much money that you can overpay for trash.
The beautiful thing with democracy is that these housing solutions that provided an actual solution to homelessness where banned, are still illegal, and thus won't be "brought back" even if they make perfect sense, were preferred by the people who used them, are a free market solution, and much cheaper than the alternatives.

See San Francisco as an example of what happens when more money is poured in the "modern" solutions - very little reduction of the problem, if any.
Solo developers? Don't big companies like AirBnB do that?
I was surprised that it ever went out. Even when the last Mac Pro was introduced the cheese grater look was a very nice looking machine.
It will shred my wallet for sure
What a beast! Too bad you cannot use it for deep learning (No Nvidia GPUs).
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So React.js but native and in Swift? I'm hesitant but hopeful.

Tutorial: https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui/
To me this looks very similar to what Google is doing with Flutter.
General Anti-Avoidance Rules fix this.

A GAAR (which lots of countries have these days) goes roughly like this:

If you do something that only makes sense because it reduces your liability to taxation, that doesn't work, and tax is due as if you hadn't done it.

The UK's version uses a "double reasonableness" test, which tells a jury that the way to assess the rule is not just to decide whether they, ostensibly reasonable people, think the accused did something that makes no sense except to avoid tax, but that they should imagine whether _any_ hypothetical reasonable person could have thought it was reasonable to do this. That's a deliberately high bar for the tax authorities.

I don't think having an Irish subsidiary with four employees that supposedly sells all your products produced in China under direction of staff mostly based in Swindon seems reasonable if not for the tax benefit, but somebody else might reasonably think so, and so I concede that a "double reasonableness" test would allow you to keep claiming the tax benefits of doing that.

On the other hand, if you pay hardly any taxes because you claim to be a "second hand car dealer" but it turns out you never saw any of these cars you were supposedly dealing in, know nothing about cars, and had arranged in advance for the cars to be bought and sold at a calculated loss so as to avoid taxation, now I struggle to imagine how any reasonable person could not see that for what it is, and so (sure enough) real celebrities who tried such a scheme ended up having to pay their taxes (and for the lawyers they'd hired to try to argue this was fine).

Another fun element of GAAR is to require people who sell avoidance schemes to tell you about them. The requirement goes like this. If you sell somebody a tax avoidance scheme that doesn't work you're in hot water _unless_ you told the tax authorities about this scheme first. This way the authorities know what's coming, and the people who dream up schemes keep their income, the only downside is if you're a grifter hoping to avoid taxes it might be less likely to work now. Boo hoo.
I wish we could concentrate our effort at work and be allowed to work less hours for the same pay and output but companies pay for your availability not for your output so never gonna happen.
I sell a physical product on a Shopify store. Charge-backs cost me $8000 out of >$3,000,000 revenue (14 orders out of 11362). At least one of them (totaling $2000) I should have known was fraudulent because I even asked for photo ID confirmation and received a scan of a print-out which I didn't check well enough.

I simply started to require PayPal for international customers instead of Stripe checkout and that reduced fraud to zero.

(edit: PayPal fees are like 4.4% for international, but it's cheaper than using something like Signifyd on-demand which takes 4% on top)
Looks a lot like Flutter
Can this retroactively support apps targeting iOS 12 and older?
... if you looked at the screenshot of the app they showed it also had sign up without using Apple Sign in and just using a email address.
Yep, it doesn't matter if reference displays cost $40k+, if most people who thought they'd want to buy an Apple display are comparing against displays that cost $1k ± $500.

I think they'll end up selling the new displays to two market segments: (1) people who actually use the high-end features in their work, and (2) people who have deep/corporate pockets and want to show off that they can afford the most expensive tech imaginable.

There are quite possibly more people in the second group than the first.
Is there still a market for these very expensive workstations when you can get much more compute from the cloud?
My experience was exactly the opposite. The employees only had to intervene when I was buying stuff that needed human interaction (alcohol and expensive items with these anti-theft thingies that have to be removed). Maybe it's just that self-checkout in USA sucks?
What? Apple, today, has enforced the ability to ensure that a flashlight app isn't vacuuming up your location data.
That's a really sad way of looking at things
In cases of a trustworthy third party, what is the concern of linking to Google/Facebook account compared to an Apple account that doesn't offer any data? I don't think I've seen any instances of Facebook integration credentials being hacked/stolen.
OLED absolutely is not the future of display technology. Besides phones, it's a stopgap solution for TVs until MicroLEDs become feasible.

OLED makes for terrible monitors to use for hours on end, with all the stationary UI elements causing burn-in. It's an unsolved problem.

OLED also isn't all that bright, especially on a smaller screen. You want those nits for bright HDR content, like the sun, not to stare at it all day.

OLED also isn't substantially more energy efficient.

OLED visibly degrades in quality well within its lifetime.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love OLED TVs to watch films on, but they don't make for good monitors.
Finding the perfect placement for the 3.5mm audio jack took most of the time. The rest was easy.
The question the whole web asks now: what does this mean for React Native devs
So you’re not the target market. Apple didn’t become the most valuable company in the world by making products for everyone.
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This is not for consumers. This is for AV industry professionals whose companies are footing the bill.

Apple has, rightly, been under fire lately for forgetting about the pro market. This display, in the context of the presentation, is intended to demonstrate that their professional focus is back.
OMG An Apple product has finally made me feel excited! It's going to be pricey but I've dreamed up this for some time.

If it's truly repair and upgrade friendly, this would definitely be something that will pull me back to the Apple world, after leaving in disappointment around the touch bar.
Personally, as an iOS developer, this is by far the biggest announcement.

Haven’t had the chance to dig deeper, but the comparison between the UITableViewController and that snippet containing just declarative code looks absolutely promising.

The only downside is that we’ll have to wait one or two years before we can use it if older iOS versions still need to be supported. Let’s hope for extra quick adoption of iOS 13.
I think that was the most interesting part of the presentation. Does it mean the end of AppKit and UIKit?
> When the light turned green he took forever to get going and even after 20 seconds he was still going dangerously slow so I honked him and felt like a jerk. I did not understand why he simply didn't use the bike lane.

Cyclist here. My experience suggests that when a cyclist takes the lane, they're doing so because they decided it was the best option for them. I wish more drivers would give them the benefit of the doubt.

There are many reasons not to use the bike lane: debris, drivers turning into the bike lane without looking, pedestrians walking into the bike lane without looking, cars illegally blocking the bike lane, needing to make a left turn (it's typically illegal to make a left turn from the far right), a cyclist keeping up with traffic, etc.
Based on my colleagues, nothing about computer interfaces is immediately obvious.
I’m one of the engineers that spearheaded this initiative inside of Apple. I just wanted to thank the HN community—I’ve been reading HN for 10 years now and it’s been formative in my development as a software engineer.

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For someone so pissed off about what they perceive as misinformation, there are simple facts here that are just false.

"As background, Mohan first began working in the internet ad industry in 1997 at DoubleClick, which was aquired by Google for $3.1 billion in 2008. Mohan then served as SVP of display and video ads for Google for 7 years, before switching into the role of Chief Product Officer for Google’s YouTube."

Err when Google closed DoubleClick, he was " Product Management Director for Ad Serving, reporting to Susan Wojcicki, VP of Product Management." Not a senior exec, not "SVP of display and video ads".

He was promoted to VP in 2009, and SVP in late 2015. I'm too lazy to look up when the other job titles switched.

Seriously, this stuff is just not hard to get right, and if you are going to take someone else to task for misinformation, why are you not doing everything in your power to get it right (especially since this person seems to believe it's so easy).

My best guess is she grabbed this stuff off a linkedin profile or something without bothering to actually try to verify it (which you should, since lots of people only list the job title they left with, not what they had).

I haven't bothered to fact check the rest of the claims, and the article is otherwise interesting, but seriously.

If you are going to try to run someone down, can you at least bother to get the data right?

Is this really the best we can do?
Why shouldn't food tampering be illegal? I believe it's illegal in almost all US states, and is a felony is some.
I hope it still supports low-level control when you need it.
I think you're right on the comparison for the monitor. Dell has a monitor that's nowhere near as bright with nowhere near as good of a contrast ratio for about the same price as Apple's: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-ultrasharp-32-8k-m...
I bet it's going to stay relatively the same, for now. React Native still works across iOS and Android, which is one of the key features. SwiftUI is iOS only.
> I had no way to turn off, playing ads the whole time

Carry a paper napkin or restickable mouse pad with you
Nope, nah and no. What happened for you?
My thoughts exactly! Don't they have render farms for this sort of thing? What's the value of having all that power under your desk to get turned into so much slag with one beverage malfunction!
Mouse support would be cool. Much easier to use a mouse when interacting with text then doing touch in my opinion.
The biggest change would be separating Facebook and Google's ad businesses into separate companies.

They should be able to sell ads to support their free products if they choose. But having the advertising business under the same roof as the product business creates an inherent conflict of interest, not least towards centralization and lock-in.

If Google instead sold ad space and data to AdWords (the external company), responsibilities would be more clear.
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Well they want to make it look that way but they simply lie. Before anything else they compare a LED display with an OLED display and I doubt Sony pro display users even consider this Apple "X-price" display. Their comparison checklist is pathetic or better said: misleading.

If you need more pixels you may consider Dell's 8K display(which makes more sense for 8k streams that were demoed anyway) which is also cheaper, though it lacks HDR. But there are plenty 4K HDR displays so Apple's display is nothing new to say at least.
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I am not an AV industry professional. Are there competitive displays now? How much do they cost?
Fastmail also has to read your email in order to transfer it from the sender to your browser.
fmr founder of Pagedraw here... this looks amazing. I wish we'd built it! :)
Yes, many media workflows. No one rents cloud servers to edit 8k video.
"Pro"

Fairly predictable. Commodified tablets for consumers, laptops for developers (still working on that...), hugely expensive thoroughbred (status symbol) hardware for professional content creators with professional budgets.

Problem is, there's much more money in the prosumer niche than there is at the high end. For every successful LA movie score composer there are thousands, even tens of thousands, of bedroom DAW users.

What "pros" really want is outstanding performance at an affordable price. This is outstanding performance at a painful price - which is a novel combination of aspirational and incredibly annoying.
Are you talking rural or urban environments? By that point in time the streetcar was popular, and public transportation was plentiful. You used to live near to where you worked - cars enabled us to not live close. I can't find any actual statistics, but given the awareness of our commuting times, I think commutes have gotten worse.
How would you compare this to React.js? In particular, how does SwiftUI approach the concepts that Redux solves [EDIT: in other words, state management]?
Exactly. I read it and enjoyed it because it opened my eyes to a new way of looking at things, and it also kinda made me realize that is where some of the problem with my depression does lie. Enough that I know if I'm feeling down, simply doing something with people is a great way to help lift myself up before it gets into full blown can't leave my room depression.
This one wasn't limited to certain browsers/platforms like they have been in the past. You could just go to apple.com and it was there for everyone.
Ask HN: I'm burned out. Now what?
They say the first step to coping with burnout is to admit you have a problem. If I'm being honest with myself, I've been burned out for years. My heart's not in my work, I procrastinate on important projects, turn in substandard work. Yet somehow I've managed to keep going, somehow never being let go from my job for underperforming.

But what can I do about it? Most articles advise taking time off work. But, for various reasons, I can't afford to take more than a week or two off work at a time. I take weekends and holidays off, and use my vacation time. But it never seems to help. If anything, time off only makes things worse. Intead of feeling refreshed, I feel even less motivated when I return.

I exercise, eat healthily, get plenty of sleep, and meditate. None of it seems to help.

I've tried looking for another job, but haven't been able to find anything, even though I'm willing to take a pay cut. Going back to school to train for another profession isn't really an option for me at this point, and I don't really know what I'd want to do anyway. I actually feel really privileged to have the job I do, though in some ways that makes it worse because I think I should leave to make room for someone who heart is more in it and would do better work.

Anyone have any knowledge of what to do when you're burned out but stuck in your job?
I switched to Outlook because of this.

I also like how you can set it so only a specific email can login. That way if your alias is compromised, your account won’t be.
New Mac Pro
Apple developers will be glad they get to rewrite their entire application with a new UI framework and paradigm or risk their apps looking garbage on the platform (and stop working by next release). This must be the .. fifth entirely new UI framework from Apple?
In industries where latency matters, there absolutely is a market.
A hypothetical Australian citizen who did things in Britain which are legal there but illegal in the U.S. would simply not be detained at all.

It doesn’t matter whether Assange committed these so-called crimes because he was never under obligation to follow U.S. law in the first place.

I don’t see why Russian private citizens who broke U.S. election law should be detained either. I don’t approve of their behavior from an ethics perspective, but from a legal perspective it’s not their responsibility to follow laws in a country where they have no rights.

If I conspired, from California, with people in Tibet to circumvent Chinese law, I also would not expect to be detained by U.S. police.
I'm a bit more impressed with this article. This person posted the project to reddit 14 hours ago [https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/bw6xs7/lyricsr...] and already here's this professional looking write up generating additional clicks...really makes me wonder how much residual income a site like reddit creates. Reminds me of remora fish somehow..