skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also see my 6 core MBP under 100% load at times, and I work with more "standard" stack of ruby/python and swift.

But from what I read (on barefeats benchmarks, no less) clearly shows that Xeon CPU is inferior for those use cases to fastest Core iX CPU.

To put it in simple terms, for peak loads choose Core iX. For heavy, long term loads choose Xeon.
These aren’t for gamers....
Genetics is a racist pseudoscience pushed by white males.
It has no meaning whatsover, French are a social construct.
yes, finally!

voice control (an accessibility feature for now) lays the groundwork for more pervasive computing for all, but mouse support fills a hole until that happens.

i don't think voice control will replace physical controls, but do think it will grow in usage over time to become an important augment to physical controls.

now i'm just waiting for pervasive handwriting input with realtime OCR and indexing (for instant search), which can replace all sorts of note-taking and annotation workflows (and the requisite printing to paper that now often entails).
Yep, that is true.

In the physical product's case, you are out the $15 + $50 (or whatever your product cost you to make and ship).
Well you forgot about ProTools which although I really dislike is even more important than Logic in post production. And Avid / Adobe on the video side. All of which will run on Windows and I am seeing increasing adoption of Windows in these places.
One in 90 lifetimes is a high number. Considering people bike for basically their entire life in the Netherlands that basically means that 1 in 90 people gets a brain/head injury, which in my opinion is rather high.

I do think the US is much higher in terms of serious bike accidents, but with 1 in 90 lifetime statistic I'd still be wearing a helmet. I don't care if it's 1/3100 of other causes of death -- it's a simple thing that doesn't cost much and it doesn't waste time, so might as well do it.

The 1/3100 statistic is also potentially flawed for young people. If you look at causes of death in the US, for example, the top few are disease-related, most of which are usually causes of death for people 50+ years of age. For people in their 20s and 30s car accidents account for a much higher percentage of death, if not the majority of death, than for people in their 70s, for which disease is by far #1.
Apple’s new iPadOS includes mouse support for iPads
iOS had MFi gamepad support. It has never had general gamepad support. Not sure it does even now. At least now you can have a gamepad that will work with iOS and all Mac games. Most Mac games do not work with MFi controllers.
In order to read this article you must redeem your privacy to more than a dozen companies or go through five screens with a confusing UX to change parameters. Oh Irony
DriverKit
Yeah, I mean net neutrality lasted all of one year -- there wasn't a problem and there still isn't a problem. Perhaps one day net neutrality will be an issue but it's not one now.

The issue that local governments granted monopolies to cable companies and telcos -- that's the true problem.
It's not just that. It's also that US onramps often involve a very tight curve followed by a very short time to merge. This makes it difficult for many cars to get up to the speed of traffic before they merge, and also leaves drivers with very little time to negotiate the merge.

More cautious drivers are going to be more intimidated about this than most people, so they're more likely to move move over a lane so that they don't have to deal with it. They also, of course, tend to be slower drivers.

I've no experience driving in Europe (Europe, I love you), but I suspect that a big part of why I don't see this sort of thing happening in Canada is that, outside of very dense places like the middle of Toronto or Montréal, the onramps tend to give you a good kilometer to merge. Sure, you might also be liable to get a ticket for loitering in the left or center lanes, but that's also illegal in the USA. It's just not enforced, because everyone does it, because the roads encourage you to do so.
Apple doesn't care. (despite me thinking they should, their biggest growth was right after iTunes for windows.) They care about offering services to their paying customers, not anyone else. If you don't buy their stuff, they don't care about you. Compared to fb/Google who care about you to make you pay attention to ads, it's a refreshing twist.
> Having driven both in Europe and the US, this is one of my pet peeves in the US.

Funny, one of my pet peeves since I moved to the US is the "keep right unless passing" or "left lane is for passing only" or any other variation of the same sermon. Sounds logical at first, but it's really bureocracy.

If the highway is congested, then the rule becomes meaningless. The traffic density is so high, that it's perfectly natural to use all of the available lanes.

If the highway is not congested, then the density is low enough that you should be able to change lanes as necessary, with minimal fuss. If that's the case, then the whole "keep to the right unless passing" is really just a crutch. In this situation, what we really want is something along the lines of "pay attention and don't make people pass you on the right", but that's not enforceable. So we come up with a rule like "keep to the right unless passing", because that can be enforced by cops.
All the other browsers have been complaining more and more recently about patches and improvements they can't make because they can't get permission or explanation from Chromium's overseers.
I think that is a consequence of maximizing engagement.
Here's some more random rules:

- Any maneuvering should be done with the gas pedal only. If you have to brake you are too fast. (Unless there was one single(!) idiot.)

- In general, it's good to track every car you see and extrapolate their intentions. There is a lot of communication going on. The range extends more if there are less cars.

- Pay close attention to cars trying to enter the Autobahn. Either move a lane to the left if there is space or speed up/slow down obviously enough they can adapt and get up to speed properly. When entering, speed up to ~60 kph and watch the others to see which space they offer you. You can mostly rely on them making space if you adapt a little. (Slow down if they speed up and vice versa.) It's extremely hard and dangerous to re-enter from a stop, so be confident and trust it will work out.

- About the distance thing: They started checking this, so pay attention. You can pay a high fine or lose your license!

- Going fast is really bad for your fuel economy. You'll have to get gas more often.

- Before and while travelling, keep close track of sudden 'Vollsperrung', which means the whole road is blocked (eg caused by accident, or eg quite recently they found an unexploded bomb from WWII under one of the main autobahns). If you drive into it and are unlucky you can get stuck all day. Be prepared for this to happen on longer journeys, so keep enough water and things to keep you warm in the car. 'Stau' is unpleasant, but 'Vollsperrung' can be a nightmare.

- There are two kinds of rest stops. The comfortable ones now all have toilets where you have to pay. If you stop at the small ones the toilets are free (but also a lot dirtier), so if you're stingy, stop there.
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I tried Tile, and for a number of reasons it didn't provide real coverage.

It just crowdsourced the bluetooth range of people connected to the internet who are willing to run the app, which is a really small zone of moving flashlight cones, densely clustered near civilization.

I really needed Tile to work in the middle of nowhere. It's not an all-terrain device. And honestly, if it's not going to work in any location, it means I can't ask it where I dropped my thing, while engaging in outdoor activities. That was what I wanted it to be for.

I needed Tile to take new batteries too. That said, Apple devices are also battery hostile, and I despise Apple for pushing that trend.

I also wanted to not have to give personal details to use Tile. I can think of procedures for operation that obviate personal identification, passwords and periodic logins to accounts, and if Tile didn't offer the option, then the motive for why they left that part out is clear and user hostile.
"Entertainment as News" fits a lot of what people consume.

News Business contains overlapping elements of Show Business. Production, post-production, dramatization, acting, advertising, storytelling, actors, agents, a whole lot of money, etc. Both are sometimes owned by the same networks and parent corporations too. There's a difference between "news as a business" and just "news".

If a news business were to broadcast plaintext news with only raw pictures, videos, and audio, and bare-minimum graphics to the masses, then their broadcast would be super boring to the layperson and not grab people's attention the same way explosions, special effects, and hypothetical opinions would. As the saying goes, "it's just business". (Imagine a content comparison of 'weather.gov' vs. 'The Weather Channel' for context).

Entertainment is the sauce businesses add on top of the pasta that is the news to make their product more appealing to consumers.

Now, politics is the most popular flavor addition to news (and has been for the last few years). News Businesses have self-politicized their news products because that is the "entertainment" trend of news that is a hot seller. This is more than just "news" - it's finding ways to innovate facts and opinions to sell a particular "product" to a particular demographic.

Whether it's the government or a corporation, someone in a suit sitting in an armchair at the top is going to favor pushing the version that benefits themselves the most. Don't just hate or like sources blindly because they say "we are the good guys!"[1]

[1] "Are we the baddies?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
> But it is Swift, which (at the risk of stating the obvious) QML is not.

sure, and I agree that Swift has some better features and a better foundantion than JS on which QML is based upon

> And you can't write an entire app in QML.

This however is not true. I've worked on multiple pure QML apps so far (well, if you don't count the auto-generated main.cpp). Remember that you have access to a complete ES7 JS engine which allows for a lot of stuff.
You must be joking. It was front page here and r/technology for months before net neutrality was repealed.

There is no question that public support for net neutrality is broad and bipartisan. The only question that remains is which 2020 candidates will stand up to say they support net neutrality.
I fall in this camp but I would never drop $6k on a monitor that provides such a marginal benefit over dual 4k monitors with an ultra high end VESA arm for a fraction of the price. It's outrageous.
> The overwhelming majority of the tourists I encounter fall into the Millennial bracket, and I don't think it is possible for them to be less enthusiastic about visiting the US.

You could say the same about American millenials. We aren't thrilled to be here either - if we all had dual citizenship with another first-world nation, I'd bet 70% of us would have left the country.

I doubt we've ever had an economy that was as strong (or at least, looked so good on paper), while people had such a negative opinion of what the future holds. Trump and the Senate Republicans (and their supporters) are destroying this nation.
Aside from Excel's built-in "Track Changes" features (which stores the revision log within the file), the "Spreadsheet Compare" tool that ships with Excel is a decent diff engine that can be paired with any VCS. Sharepoint is another "official" solution.

Unstructured use of Excel is a completely orthogonal problem.
I work in hollywood (editing television/movie trailers)... at least our agency is editing off of imacs. I can't speak for others but shared storage (Avid Nexis) is very costly. We transcode to proxy material, cut with proxies, and then uprez/conform to hd, uhd, etc. No one, at least I can't think of any agencies, editing higher than 1080p. Hell you even end up editing in lores super compressed mp4 for some projects.
@observable/useState/React.Component.state are all conceptually identical, just with varying implementations of the magic. All of them summon an observable value from the void and provide some method of updating said observable.

That said, @State seems most identical to useState -- it provides an observed value which you use $/.binding to update.

> It's very weird and funky because the whole point of non-class components is for them to be pure functions which have no state.

That's a false assumption, that's not the "point" of functional components. Functional components were always pure simply because there was no way to make them stateful. There are distinct benefits for using stateful functional components over classes -- mainly less boilerplate and abstractable/re-usable state functions.
"I've been taking companies to Washington where they've complained about Google for a long time and there were politicians blocking it once, but the blockers aren't there anymore," Reback said. "I don't know if it's the Trump administration that triggered it exactly but it could have been what broke the dam." - Gary Reback, http://www.carrferrell.com/attorneys/gary-reback

"The last time that technology companies faced this kind of scrutiny was Google's antitrust investigation, or the now twenty-one year old lawsuit brought by the Justice Department and multiple states against Microsoft.

But times have changed since Google had its hearing before a much friendlier audience of regulators under President Barack Obama.

These days, Republican and Democratic lawmakers are both making the case that big technology companies hold too much power in American political and economic life.

Issues around personal privacy, economic consolidation, misinformation and free speech are on the minds of both Republican and Democratic lawmakers." - Techcrunch

If no investigation has been announced and no case has been filed, is there a document hold?

If not, these "threats" may be signalling these companies to find and destroy incriminating evidence, and giving them the time to do it.
When the Curiosity rover took a "selfie" on Mars, I got a giant vinyl print of it to hang on my wall. I've been recently downloading all the images from the Nasa Apollo Journals where you can see every single frame they took in orbit and on the moon. There are some absolutely stunning black and white photos, I wish I could get my hands on some replica negatives and do a silver print.
In a world where every other tech company swindles and manipulates consumers at every opportunity, I'm happy that at least one is incentivized to do the opposite, and has the power to do so.
Goodbye, savings account ...
Because the Xeon-W CPUs reduce frequency per core as you increase your usage to more and more cores. The 18-core version still has 4.3 GHz single-core turbo frequency.

My workflow is mostly multicore so to me the iMac Pro is clearly superior.
Some meta:

The cynic inside me thinks that people’s negative responses here are not really about corrupt media (tm). They are just reflections of the contrarian attitude that runs rampant on this site. The fact the HN guideline has to explicitly forbid 'shallow dismissal' tells you how much compulsive negativity is happening on this site.

(And yes, this post is also a display of my own negativity.)

I am not defending the media in any way. This is low quality journalism (on a site that does not seem journalistic anyway). The achievement of the 16-yo in the story is not outstanding in this field. HOWEVER, instead of reading yet another comment saying 'meh Markov chain', I guess I’ll prefer something like more advanced materials on text synthesis, some related projects, or just some advice for the author would be nice.
Thorsten Ball very recently gave an interview on Software Engineering Radio [1] where he discusses the books and the language and his thinking on each.

[1] https://www.se-radio.net/2019/05/365-thorsten-ball-on-buildi...
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I guess you never heard of the time Boris Yelsin though a grocery store was myth because he had never seen so much food in one place.
Google Fi used to be great! The last few months had a couple of very bad support experiences and decided to port out. It took about three weeks, but very happy with finally leaving them.
The big issue with older mac pros is for how long is it able to install the latest versions of MacOS?
I agree with the sentiment of the comment you're responding to, but I also think this is a valid question and don't understand why your comment appears to be downvoted.
That's awesome you talk to them. I imagine most people yell or do something dangerous because they think they'll never have to face you afterwards.
I think their point is that outside of some online communities (i.e. most people in the public sphere) there isn't interest or even awareness to net neutrality.
Great feature, shame it's tied to apple hardware - making it inaccessible to those who cannot afford it.
Pop music is already pretty algorithic
Show off a programmable persistence of vision display?
The difficulty is that antitrust law as originally written did care about "whiny competitors", not just harm to the consumer, but the Justice Department in the Reagan era changed their standards (without changing the law) and both Democratic and Republican administrations went along with it.
If anything, Netflix is more a victim of the monopolies that media conglomerates have on copyrighted content licensing.
Fb and G screwed themselves by: forcing users to submit real cell phone numbers (no forwarding numbers allowed) and real names. I’m laughing all the way to the apple oauth signup. So tired of G and Fb abusing users
> there wasn't a problem

Throttling traffic to certain websites [1] is not a problem?

The reason net neutrality policy came into being is ISPs were beginning to violate it [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/22/major-int...

[2] https://www.freepress.net/our-response/expert-analysis/expla...
There appears to be a web API for this, which would be cross compatible.

If you have used Apple's service - which is completely opt-in - you could always go into an account and change the email you associated with it if they let you do that. And if you don't, this would be in the ballpark of switching email providers - yup, you'll need to change some accounts, because you've decided to no longer pay for the service from the Apple email forwarding.
If people were honest to each other all the time, we wouldn't need laws. Let's be generous and assume your question is just naive - could you ever envision a situation where an innocent husband-to-be (e.g. a nice, do-no-harm person and with reasonable means) is taken advantage of by a clever woman (with what is perceivably considered shady past in the given era) for her own material benefit? Do you think this never happens (hint: belletry is full of such situations and I'd recommend you to investigate common causes of suicide)? Doesn't husband-to-be have a justified interest in protecting his life, reputation, possessions from the baggage the unvetted fiancee brings? Do you think the fiancee wouldn't lie as much as possible in order to protect her planned future?

If you truly are just naive, please think about the points I mentioned; if not, there is no point to discuss, as your mind is set in stone anyway.
I don't understand why you're being down voted... It's a valid question. Nothing pops into my head when I imagine a corporation that owns a majority of real estate. It's a conversation worth having.
Is that right? I thought there were several payment service providers and interchange networks.
I'm pretty ignorant about knots, but is there any specific reason the hangman's knot isn't listed? Perhaps I'm just unable to find it?

In case its not included at all - I realize the knot has macabre associations, but a site aiming to be an encyclopedia of knots should in my opinion include every knot there is, good or bad alike.
IIRC, Excel XLSX files are just ZIP archives with a bunch of XML inside. Therefore, if you can come up with a way for a version control system to transparently look inside ZIP archives, it ought to be possible to version-control XLSX files using the same tools you'd use to version-control any text files, no?

(Though this only solves half the problem, the other half being that even if you can wrangle Git or the like to version files inside a ZIP, Git is far from being a tool that could be considered appropriately usable to dump on the Excel audience...)
Regardless of how much you get done, you're still at work for those hours. It's not like people who work inefficiently have more free time.
The housing case is non-traditional because the entity the cartel organizes through is the local government rather than a corporation.

You have to live somewhere to get a vote there, so the people (sellers) who already own property in a location get a vote while the people (buyers) who are about to move there don't until after they have and have switched from customer to owner. The result is that the existing property owners have a lock on the local government and pass anti-competitive rules that constrain the housing supply and raise prices.

You might think renters would help there, but there are areas where the majority are not renters, and the areas with majority renters often end up with abominations like rent control which cause market rents to go even higher while neutralizing the threat to the anti-competitive rules by paying off just enough of the tenants to retain local majority support.
I've never seen this note in India and didn't know that something like this existed.
To some extent, you can adapt your driving style to avoid getting stressed. It doesn't work in every situation but when I want to avoid stress on an autobahn with 3 lanes I try to establish a common speed (e.g. ~120kph) for the middle lane by following someone who drives with a very constant speed.

That way we can pass the trucks (right lane) and the racers on the left lane can do whatever they are up to. Sure, when there are no trucks around, I switch to the right lane too.

In my experience, this doesn't make you a whole lot slower (comparing end-to-end travel time), but the stress and gas consumption is quite a bit lower (compared to driving mostly on the highspeed left lane).