skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything about the base specs are just good enough. I’m not defending it per se, but if you spec’ed the machine for any given purpose, whether software dev, or rendering, it’d probably raise the cost by at least $1-2k, and then you’d have the “real” machine. So, the reason the price looks egregious is because most of it is just base cost.

This is a computer made for the engineers who’ve already “made it,” who are making that $500k a year and are looking for a Porsche over a Corvette.
Honestly... my company is wasting a lot of money renting out this building for our offices. We could all EASILY be working from home and while I can't say for certain I am fairly confident all of us could get the same amount of work done in half the time. I get 90% of my work done before lunch and the other 10% done the first hour after getting back from lunch...

Personally, if they allowed me to work from home, I believe I would get a heck of a lot more done. Currently I know I have to work roughly 40 hours then as soon as the day is over I forget about work. However, if I was simply expected to get the same work done regardless of my hours I would work a few hours every weekend. I would stay up late when a problem interests me... concepts like this seem to evade employers. If I wasn't more productive (pretty sure I would be) I would at least be just as productive and a heck of a lot more comfortable in life.
I have the previous generation hardware design as my personal laptop and a late-2019 macbook pro for work and I really don't hate the new one. I know some people have had some issues with keys getting stuck and what not, but I've actually had a pretty good experience with mine. I touch-type and I can type just fine on the newer keyboards. I would have liked to have a physical escape key, but besides that it's fine. I'm happy with the thinner and lighter design. The options of core i9 + 32GB of ram alone is worth getting one of the newer ones over a 2015 model.
Don't want to be rude, but 200 dollar tshirts are nothing.

Get to 'boutique' italian makers (only I know is Brunello Cuccinelli) and you will be paying 500+ for a simple tshirt, 1300 for a 'long sleeve tshirt' and the likes).

(I am not trying to be rude, but last few years being involved with the very rich, a lot of the brands they buy general people don't even know or heard of them vs prada/gucci/whatever on the hiphop videos)

[0] https://shop.brunellocucinelli.com/en-pt/woman/collection/to...

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yeah, HN commenters just was an expandable mid-sized tower. a gaming PC, but a Mac. But the best use case for a gaming PC is to play games...which the Mac will never be the right platform for. Even if Apple supported Nvidia with Nvidia drivers, if you want a gaming PC just get one.
You have to bear in mind the target market - notice that it has dual 10Gb Ethernet, and that many users will be using a NAS. There are a shedload of PCIe slots there too for more storage.
It can't be any worse than the iMac. While yes it is subjective but Apple has had a pretty long list of ugly and hideous prpducts.
My dad is a graphic designer who got his start doing desktop publishing on a Macintosh II using QuarkXPress. He's faithfully stuck with the Mac since the '80s and currently has a trash can Mac Pro, with which he is mostly happy. He's never billed anywhere near $500/hour as most of his work is for small print periodicals (<50k circulation) and online presence for small nonprofits.

Currently, his only outstanding need is for better render times on Final Cut Pro (rendering videos of conference proceedings for YouTube), but I know he'll balk at $6000 for the new Mac Pro. I don't know what I'll recommend.
With a blood infection, they won't send you home IIRC. They can be really serious.
I don't see how "the target market will still pay for it" is justification for insane markups on commodity hardware.

I understand paying a premium for the R&D that would have gone into the case and cooling design, but to then go and put such dated hardware in it and still start at $6000.
Anybody know what Apple's problem with nVidia is? Are they still feeling burned from the BGE failures several generations back?
Flutter draws its own controls, so no, it cannot take advantage of SwiftUI.
meh, i'm just starting to fool around with music editing and my 250 GB laptop is out of storage. Also, it's a three year old laptop and that's what it came with. They could have kept the stainless steel and given me a bigger drive.

Who exactly is the intended user for this ultra-expensive, non-portable, box if it's too lame for hobbyists?

This is just apple sticking a vacuum into their customers pockets, applying the same over-pricing policy that is now standard on their phones.
12k for max specs feels low. I'm thinking the over/under is 20k.
Independence comes in degrees, and I'm not convinced a "truly independent" browser would by truly better for consumers. It'd need a revenue model, and its not clear to me what that would be besides bundling with a paid product or displaying banner and text ads.

Essentially Mozilla is selling ads, but only to one advertiser (Google) which is easy to disable.
The same split happened with the original iPad – iPhoneOS 3.2 was only released for the iPad and then they merged them into iOS in version 4.0. Both were well supported though.
I hope it's more than this. A lot of sass websites have features inexplicably broken on the ipad pro, even though they display perfectly. And some google sites refuse to load. This is even if you request desktop.

But go to icab mobile, set user agent to desktop, and the sites load and work perfectly.
It looks reasonably priced only compared to this Mac Pro.
> the housing is much more than a decorative shell. It provides rigidity to the space frame.

edit to add: Why are you trying to poke holes in Apple's use of a phrase that you've only just discovered?
I frequently have to re-enter my Google credentials on the web on Google properties. I assume Android is storing those deeper in the OS, like Apple is storing your Apple credentials.
And... don’t discount the luxury signaling effect people with money will do with hardware like this. It’s the real gold Apple Watch all over again.
Name + ICD diagnosis, what a wonderful leak for blackmailers wordwide! (/s)

Seriously, these two pieces of data that are innocent alone, when taken separately (HIV, chlamydia, cancer...) should NEVER have been linked together, ESPECIALLY when given to a third party, EVEN MORE stored together.

I pray it will result in many lawsuits with hefty punitive damages, and that as a consequence private data will be considered a liability to be deleted as early as possible (just like corporate email in many companies)
For awhile apple was trying to "bring iOS features to the desktop", thankfully now they've realized each device form requires a special user interface.
It's practice, not just theory. There's a good reason companies are effective at a certain scale and beyond that it's an impending disaster.
Is regulation really "one and done"? MS got fined (repeatedly) around 2000 so they're done with regulation?

They at least have shady sales tactics.
That's why anti-fraud-as-a-service companies only charge the commission when they approve the transaction, while the declines are free. If everything is declined, they are not making any money.

[Disclaimer: Used to work at anti-fraud-as-a-service company, acquired by a payment behemoth long since]
> 256g SSD is shameful

If you don’t want it, don’t buy it.

There’s a pretty obvious general pro workflow for a configuration like this, where OS and apps are stored on the main drive and data is stored elsewhere.

Where’s the shame in that?
On the flip side over in Linux land I built an 8 core 16T desktop with 64GB of RAM and two 27” 4K HDR monitors for less than half the price of the base Mac Pro.

Oh and it has an RTX2080 which beats an RX580 so badly it’s practically attempted murder.

I bet the apple tax I really do (typing this on a 5th gen mini) but the base model is hilariously expensive and in a world where I can buy a 12 core/16T for 499 that beats a 1200 intel cpu obsolete before its released (and that 12C will drop straight in).

They’ll sell, apple stuff always does but unless you need macOS’s for some reason I don’t see how.
I don't believe those organizations typically share that information with other corporations. Sorry if I've let this aspect overshadow the more general point of foundation control -- I was just trying to avoid a potential loophole in that hypothetical model.
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Audio engineers for example don't need stupendous graphics, but do appreciate most everything else.
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I'm going to quote the facts you provided earlier:

When Google closed DoubleClick, he was " Product Management Director for Ad Serving, reporting to Susan Wojcicki, VP of Product Management."
She made no claims about what position he had at DoubleClick. She just said "Mohan first began working in the internet ad industry in 1997 at DoubleClick." This is not an error.

Then, you said:
"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." Meaning, that you correctly point out she should have said "Mohan first served as VP, then SVP of display and video ads for Google for 7 years." Instead, she said "Mohan then served as SVP of display and video ads for Google for 7 years"

So, that is 1 minor, incorrect detail in the article that you've identified - an extra "S" onto "VP". What are some of the other "clearly wrong facts" that we should just trust (appeal to authority?) you spotted? If you have no time and are "too lazy," as you say, why choose to spend your time attacking the most minor detail instead of the most egregious and appalling incorrect fact?

Seems to me like you couldn't find much else wrong with the article.
IBM's fall happened long after the anti-trust action against them. It's Microsoft that tipped them over, not government regulators, and IBM made one disastrous mistake after another, starting with the PS/2.

While MS was convicted of anti-trust, there wasn't much of any action taken against them. The reasons for them slipping would make for an interesting book.
The pixel dimensions and scaling didn't work out so well, it was really awkward. Scaling to the same UI size as the MacBook Pro 13" and 15" the display showed scaling artifacts a screen door effect. When scaling to native resolution the UI elements were far too big and there wasn't enough screen space. The new 4K will scale much better to the MacBook UI sizes.
Is it just me or is it odd that they show how the new display can be connected to a Mac Pro or a Macbook Pro, but it doesn't feature even 2 inputs so you can connect both and switch between as needed? That was already the reason why I bought the Dell 30" screen instead of the Cinema Display, as it only had a single input.
Applications written in React Native typically are cross-platform; saying that they are not is a pretty large misrepresentation of the framework.

At its base React Native provides a common set of native components with the same API on both iOS and Android such as View, Image & Text which can all be styled and laid out through common APIs. These APIs pretty much give you most of what you need to make an entire APP. Sometimes you may want to have different behavior per platfrom and for that you can use the Platform API (provided by React Native) to switch for each platform. This would allow you to do things like change the styling on each platform or the native components you use.

React Native makes it pretty easy to expose native components to JavaScript. It is also up to the native component author if they want to create a common API for all platforms that they support. In the case of Views & styling it makes a lot of sense to have the same API on iOS and Android, but sometimes they are some platform features that are only available on one platform.

Wile Swift Layout is not cross-platform, it may soon be and I think it does a lot for promoting declarative UI & maybe they did take some inspiration from React!

View docs: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/view.html
Styling: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/style
Layout: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/flexbox
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They invested $150 million in non-voting stock from Apple, at a time when Apple had $1.2 billion in cash reserves. As part of that Microsoft agreed to support Office on Mac for five year, and Apple agreed to drop their long running lawsuit against Microsoft alleging Microsoft copies the look and feel of Windows.

Apple's business was struggling a bit at the time, but with those cash reserves they were a long way from needing bailing out.
> Apple made a computer "just for the pros", like HN begs for in every butterfly keyboard thread.

> It's for people who don't know what a CPU core is but know how to produce a platinum album, get an Oscar nomination, or bring a revolutionary industrial design to market.

Wait, what? When I say "for pros" I mean able to support latest specs. Something that had the latest NVIDIA cards, or could at least USE the latest NVIDIA cards to do ML or rendering would qualify under most people's definition of Pro I think? Right? When did the definition of Pro become "Music Producer"?
At this time, yes. They saying "go and buy display without our logo, as now we're focusing on other pro group". For years now Apple after each conference was bashed for lack pro hardware and display for video editors, etc.

I would bet that next year will be with smaller displays for everyone, and maybe native terminal on iPad... :)

Either way todays WWDC was one of the best in recent years, and they responded in a good way to many problems and wishes.
> GW Autobahn Rule 3: Slower traffic stays to the right!
As in the US, whenever possible, move into the right lane. Most German drivers are good about this, but some non-German drivers are not.

Having driven both in Europe and the US, this is one of my pet peeves in the US. This causes so much unnecessary risk. I used to chalk this up to the super light driving test in the US (at least compared to Europe).

But recently I realized it's not just driver education: the road UX is different between Europe and the US on main highways. Here in the US, the right lane very often "disappears", i.e. becomes an "exit only" lane. The result is if you're going straight for a while, you find it easier to not stay on the right and then have to change lanes. In Europe, the road design tries to minimize the "vanishing right lane" syndrome: exits ramps are separated; and if need be, it's the left lane that goes.
"The Autobahn is great! There are no speed limits!"

The first speeding ticket I ever received was from doing 270km/h in my old 2003 Porsche Boxster S I had back in 2013. They took a photo of me, and said that I am "accused" of speeding, and would I very kindly like to send them my personal details to some office in North Germany.

I didn't bother, and they also didn't care to follow up.
These two aren't homophones, but (in American English, anyway) "weary" does sound like "weird" rather than like "wear", while "wary" sounds like "wear" but not like "war", so it's kind of worse.
I'd rather have my escape key back.
Did they ever release sourcecode at DeepMind? I mean, not the frameworks or such but the code used for the experiments...
I'm confused, didn't they spend a while talking about how great the 8k streaming/editing/etc is on the new mac? Why isn't this an 8k monitor?

After all the dell UP3218K has been available for a while now and its 8k (and actually priced less, and comes with a stand). Frankly, it looks nicer too as they seem to have overdone the industrial cheese grader look IMHO.
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It's super configurable and does everything I need, especially when I'm using a keyboard. It's very well documented [1].

It was $10 which feels like a fair and sustainable price for something like this. It's nice to understand the business model.

That said, there are lots of free calculators available.

[1]: https://s3.amazonaws.com/tlasystems/PCalc-Manual.pdf
You must be selling digital products where the marginal cost of what you send to your customer (who disputed the transaction and isn't sending the product back) is $0.
"A rose by any other name would smell as Marzipan". Even if it's called SwiftUI and not Marzipan, it still has all the same future problems as when it was called Marzipan [1]

[1] https://blog.iconfactory.com/2019/05/what-to-expect-from-mar...
Did not know about this. thanks
But that is THE FUNDAMENTAL problem. No one should be able to impersonate you and open up credit cards in your name simply by knowing your Name, Address, DOB, and SSN. Just as no one should be able to purchase things using your credit card account by knowing your name, credit card number, and expiration date (all of which are printed on the card, which you give to people for B&M purchases). The system is fundamentally broken, and that fact gets ignored by all the focus on "data breaches". At a minimum, we need to move to multifactor authentication and one time use "credit card numbers" generated at the time of the transaction.
Does it have RGB? For that price it better have one RGB led in each of those holes.
This is similar to Abine's Blur service, which provides a throwaway phone number, and (seemingly) infinite throwaway emails addresses that can forward to your own personal email address.

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Yeah I was expecting something actually interesting - but nope, markov chains.
Lots of talk about 8k video/etc, but you have to buy a dell/etc to get a 8k monitor. Really?
It would be interesting to see this legal arguement unfold with FB...I just think the problem is FB unilaterally modifying the terms.

In other words FB saying we are going to now start providing you with X services and you are going to give us Y data.

Sure the user might benefit from X, obviously even that could be argued, but the idea is this isn’t a bargained for exchange/negotiation. This is unilateral modification without consideration, it’s not enough for FB to say they modified the data collection/rights which is justified because FB also changed the service.

That’s like saying you ordered a cheese pizza for $10, the company unilaterally charges you for $1,000 and justifies that because they bring you 100 pizzas...at no point was there consideration for the modification of the agreement even though you got 100 pizzas. Similarly can FB just start collecting more data/selling to third parties by unilaterally changing their terms and justify it by saying a unilateral change in service equals legal consideration?
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Does this effectively kill the ability for services to have sign-up promo codes?
Charge money to any OEM that wants to ship with Chrome: i.e. every single non-Apple manufacturer of phones, tablets or computers.
Apple doesn't allow you access the IMEI or even Mac address. And they announced at WWDC today that they're locking down people scanning for wifi access points + bluetooth beacons to determine location also.

The purpose of this isn't to make you anonymous. It's just to make sign on a little simpler and for apps that you think might not be super trustworthy or apps that don't actually need your email address you can choose to give them this proxied one. Obviously social accounts and other applications that will ask for your real name will know who you are.
There is absolutely no technical reason why it should be the case if done properly.

With SIM cards or other hardware devices, your private key is never leaked (if "done properly")

With cryptos like BTC, you can generate many keys from one source of entropy, and treat them as disposable.

I don't see why medical records couldn't be encrypted with a disposable key, given by a hardware device which stores the seed, and only linked to the matching public key.