skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is actually really common to have several monitors, at least one of which is vertical in order to have one dedicated "code-reading" screen. When I worked at a large investment bank, most technology people had this set-up, at least in my own experience/recollection. When the monitor is vertical, and you have one file of code that has a few thousand lines, it becomes much more practical to have 1/10th of the code in your view immediately, as opposed to 1/25th and needing to reconstruct the hierarchy of the application's codebase in your immediate mental memory
>are more trying to uphold a cultural value of free speech

Which is almost always a red herring. Typically the ones being deplatformed are causing harm to individuals, for which even the founders of free-speech philosophy said should be an exception.
Most major 3D modeling programs support OpenCL, as well, not just CUDA. In particularly any of them with MacOS ports are not CUDA-only (since, you know, MacOS hasn't supported CUDA-capable GPUs for many many years now), making the argument for CUDA specifically rather moot.

In terms of just GPGPU performance Vega is pretty competitive against Nvidia. It's not nearly as one-sided as the gaming space is. That is, in fact, the one saving grace of the Radeon VII in the first place vs. the RTX 2080 - its stronger professional workload capabilities.
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Does the syntax sort of kind of remind anyone else of Shoes?[1]

http://shoesrb.com/
"Apple says it can authenticate a user using Face ID on their iPhone without turning over any of their personal data to a 3-p company."

So is this feature exclusive to Face ID and iPhone? Would users, Face ID enabled or not, be able to use it with only their iCloud email/ID? And would older iPhone models incapable of FaceID still be eligible?

These may be just questions of a skeptical mind, but I really hope Apple isn't using a pro-user, pro-privacy feature to phase users out of older models.
iOS allows you to set your default password manager...
Not sure if that's possible. iMessage is a mobile first product, so presumably you need an iPhone to start using it. Then a Mac computer. It's definitely a closed system that works great if you buy into Apple's family of products, less great otherwise.
The entry level Macbook Pro is not the best bang for the buck. For about as long as I can remember, the best value in the neighborhood of $2950. So the 'good' Macbook gets cheaper due to inflation and not much else.

Right now you can get 32 gig of RAM and the 512 SSD for around that mark. I'd probably throw in the video card upgrade for a personal computer, maybe not for a work one unless you're doing AI.
Seems like dust is going to be a problem.
I assume this uses ECC DDR4 which would at a minimum explain some of the price tag. That will set you back $500+ retail for 32GB alone, still don’t understand where the rest is going with a 8-core CPU and a RX580X though.
Have a look here https://zworkstations.com/products/z840/

I tried coming up with something similar to the base spec MacPro but got larger storage, more cores and an Nvidia card with a decent saving.
In some countries, it's fiscal liability - such as paying hefty fines. In others, that are not so friendly, the HR representative who receives/processes the legal request and/or whomever the country wishes to charge could very well land in jail[0].

In a choice between strictly maintaining your privacy and fines/jail time, most - if not all - companies will sell you down the river (if given a feasible chance that it doesn't entirely ruin them, say for example, if they weren't purely in the privacy trade) to save their own hide[s] (e.g.: see the whole PRISM scandal and its fall-out).

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-brazil-idUSKCN0W...
The main problem I have with the predominant discussions around antitrust in contemporary internet software is that they largely ignore one quality that truly makes something a monopoply. That is, truly onerous monopolies don't just own a vast majority of some market share. They hamper the ability to switch to another product. Facebook, Google Search and Chrome, the most discussed products in current antitrust discussions all have viable quality alternatives.

Don't like Chrome? Pick up Firefox, it's quick and easy to change. And it's the best product it's probably ever been.

Don't like Google search? There's Bing, there's DuckDuckGo and more.

Don't like Facebook? Try any of the bajillion other social networks. Hell, quite social networks and call your grandma instead. It's better for ya.

Antitrust isn't supposed to be a bludgeon to knock whoever is on top off the top. It's supposed to be a tool to break open markets where companies have successfully closed off competition and made it impossible for opponents to succeed. I just don't see that in the web right now. There is no conceivable reason Facebook couldn't be replaced and there's ample research showing that young people are already making that transition to other platforms.

Meanwhile, industries like internet service, cellular and in some places water provision, leave consumers with essentially no alternative and no choice. I see this wave of anti-web 2.0 furvor as people championing a good cause, antitrust, in utterly the wrong place for our time.
> Microsoft would have to be doing anticompetitive behavior to be monopolizing the desktop market

No. I think the distinction here is important and worth being mindful of.

Whether or not a company is abusing their monopoly position has no bearing on whether or not they are a monopoly. You can't abuse a monopoly position if you aren't a monopoly to begin with, after all.

The distinction is important because in the US it's perfectly legal to be a monopoly. What's illegal is the abuse of your monopoly position.

I think by any fair standard, Microsoft can be considered to have a monopoly in the desktop market, whether or not they're leveraging that monopoly in illegal ways.
"I want higher taxes because the government can do better things with the money"

Note that this thinking only applies to nations which are currency users, not currency issuers.

For a nation with it's own fiat currency (currency issuers) government spending creates money, and the role of taxes is not to fund spending. Taxes fulfill other roles, like controlling inflation and expressing social policy.
It obviously doesn't fit everyone's needs, but the plain old iMac is quite reasonably priced for what it is.
60%...wow.

Cool - thanks for answer Q
A monopoly regulates supply to extract more money from the consumer than a competitive market could. What's the good parts?
Well, you can almost surely write entire apps in QML if you take the C++ entrypoint for granted.

Just a couple examples: you can do Bluetooth discovery scans in QML without writing any C++ [1], you can read from ~20 sensors without writing any C++ [2], you can write complete 3D scenes declaratively in QML [3], and the list goes on.

[1] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtbluetooth-bluetoothdiscoverymod...

[2] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtsensors-qmlmodule.html

[3] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qt3d-wireframe-example.html
I'm not sure how it is not a problem of the users. The up next recommendation is a product of your past behaviour and aggregate behaviour from other users. If you keep on watching 'wrong think' content then yt is going to keep serving it to you. They basically want yt to censor wrong think from their platform even if this content is engaging with their userbase.
Why? The only way to replicate it is basically "do good work and network". I'm not going to be able to give you any secret sauce (because there is none, not because I don't want to).
Perhaps Minecraft would be the ideal game, assuming the children haven't already played it.
Or perhaps its just a reminder to the user that free speech does not need to be extended by private organizations...They have in their TOS to remove content they do not deem fit in the same way users do not need to use these services.
Gotta give money to the winning team...

Alphabet: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000067823&cy...

Apple: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000021754&cy...

Amazon:
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Facebook: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000033563&cy...

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You "make" a loop but "take" a bight, as unhelpful as that may be. A loop is a step in making a knot, where as a bight is just a handful of rope somewhere in the middle of it.

You can tie a regular bowline, or a bowline on a bight. The same knot will need a different technique for tying on a bight, since you can't pass the ends through. When you tie a bowline on a bight, first you take a bight, then you make a loop.
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A rebate was a key part of getting Canada's recent carbon tax through parliament. The standard arguments against pricing carbon are "it'll kill jobs", "it'll kill industry" or "it's just another tax on hard-working families". I think that any effective green policy agenda has to have a lot of direct and obvious quid-pro-quos to address these concerns. It's not ideal in a narrowly rational sense, but it's politically expedient.

Some climate-related policies are going to be inherently painful, so we should seek wherever possible to mitigate that pain, spread it around equitably or ration it out over time. Getting people to transition to more sustainable lifestyles is obviously the goal, but uprooting a bunch of low-income workers has terrible optics and burns political capital that could be better used elsewhere. You're aiming for diffuse costs and concentrated benefits.

The calculus is slightly weird in the US due to what I will politely describe as a unique political culture, but you can frame a lot of it in American political grammar. Call it the "war on weather" or something, appeal to the self-image of America as the world's moral leadership, sell it as every citizen's patriotic duty and use the term "common sense" a lot. Emphasise how it'll build a long-term economic advantage over China. If you think immigration is bad now, just wait until half of South America becomes uninhabitable. If we pass this R&D bill, we'll have a monopoly on this technology in the future. Green policies are eminently achievable in the US political landscape, but they need to be thoroughly decoupled from liberal rhetoric.

https://globalnews.ca/news/5202108/carbon-tax-canada-2019-re...
I was looking for this and didn't realize it. I'm designing a fantasy console and wanted to include a modern-syntax, small, interpreted language that has many independent implementations - a new BASIC or Pascal. Lua comes close to this but attention is really centered around the PUC-Rio and LuaJIT implementations and not on being easily reimplemented, and every "classic" option one might think of(including Lisps and Forths) falls a bit outside today's mainstream.

I may be getting the book soon...
Unfortunately there's no way to implement this as a OAuth2 flow and without having an Apple device. Seems unreasonable to require an Apple dev account just for providing sign up - it can be tested without installing apps or just borrowing an iPhone.
> I think this is one of the key things -- so many things in technology are just given to you as-is with no way to change them

This is the main reason RMS went from being a developer to an activist. He was (and is) trying to prevent this from happening.
User defined field perhaps?
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Random forests can be applied to images. The RF algorithm only needs to be tweaked to split its trees by comparing the difference of two pixels to a threshold.
> monopolies are not a bad thing, as long as they are not government granted ones.

I disagree. Outside of "natural monopolies", monopolies are bad things whether government-granted or not.
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Seeing the amount of tail left for the bends that are listed as alpine worried me. They should really all be able to take one knot inversion without capsizing.

As someone who climbs I'm surprised that the EDK is not high up there.
That is a wonderful list. In addition I would add "Sapiens". It showed me how the world really operates. Its key ideas is: Humans are different from other species because they can communicate in larger groups by telling stories, even about imaginary things. These are called 'Myths'. Some examples of popular myths are Money, Religion, Companies, Laws, Nations etc.
are we talking about workstation nas here?
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There is a session on WebAuthN on Thursday.
I you're right that it would fall. But I think that would be temporary until they got used to the 20 hr week.
MetaMask is actually working hard on these problems, and building faster than ever, but they're big problems that aren't trivially fixed in a point release. You can expect some big announcements this summer.
Depending on the utility, rates are often adjusted on an annual basis, explicitly to track towards profit neutral or slightly above.
further, you can dominate and control a market with a minority share of that market (depending on market characteristics). google's many anti-consumer actions with chrome show that 70%+ market share is more than enough already.
Where exactly in Europe do you live that catered lunches are a thing yes bosses are so horrible, if you don't mind me asking?
In addition to computing I also dabble in woodworking, where there are tools in the 'corvette or porsche' classification that everyone drools over, and those guys can spend way more money on tools at a lower salary than I do for 'fancy' Macbooks. Of course, their tools last 3x longer if taken care of, but the outlay can still be breathtaking.

"A good craftsman doesn't blame his tools" isn't a warning against complaining. It's a warning about picking bad tools in the first place and scapegoating them instead of accepting that it was your decision all along.
IBM is still very successful and profitable as well.
The inertial trackers in current-day phones do not have anything like that kind of stability. They accumulate errors at an accelerating rate (they are essentially doing a double-integration of the error).

Using just MEMs based accelerometers, your position error would be hundreds of feet within a minute or two. Gyro and compass can slow the error down a bit, but not enough to be within a road width over 30 miles.

I think it's more likely that GPS was working in the anecdote above. It would be hard to find a place that had 30 miles of road and couldn't get a GPS/GLONASS fix.
there's also this https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11948
Actually - does it lock you in, in a more literal way.

If I sign up for a service using Apple Sign In, is then possible to sign into my account from a Windows etc machine subsequently?
You were not using Swift 10 years ago, or even almost 10 years ago. It was released in 2014.
What does CUDA support that Metal 2 cannot do? Recently I've been implementing some 3D mesh algorithms in Metal 2, and it was quite easy to do.
Some screenshots display that it also works on the web, I'd love to find out how exactly but I ain't buying an Apple device and a developer license for that.
In terms of relative purchase power, in 1987 you could build a "newest processor" 80386 with a then-huge 80Mb drive in a tower case with you basic setup and pay about $3,000 when building it yourself. According to my inflation calculator, that's $6,182.61 in today's dollars.

In 1987, PC's Limited (later renamed Dell) 386-16 included a 16MHz Intel 80386 CPU, 1MB RAM, a 1.2MB floppy drive, a 40MB hard drive, and a monochrome video card for $4,799.

We just tend forget how powerful and cheap Moore's law made things. In terms of relative inflation-adjusted dollars, many of us old-timers have already spent as much or more than Apple is asking multiple times on 'prosumer' machines.
Yes they did.

Student Loan Overhaul Approved by Congress - https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/us/politics/26loans.html

Ending one of the fiercest lobbying fights in Washington, Congress voted Thursday to force commercial banks out of the federal student loan market, cutting off billions of dollars in profits in a sweeping restructuring of financial-aid programs and redirecting most of the money to new education initiatives.

The revamping of student-loan programs was included in — if overshadowed by — the final health care package. The vote was 56 to 43 in the Senate and 220 to 207 in the House, with Republicans unanimously opposed in both chambers.

Although private banks will no longer be allowed to make student loans with federal money, many will continue to earn income by servicing those loans.

The Congressional Budget Office said the direct-lending approach would save taxpayers about $61 billion over 10 years. Roughly $40 billion of the savings will be redirected to higher education. Education programs will get an additional $10 billion from the health care package.
MacOSXHints used to be the place to go prior to its closure in 2014 — haven't found anything with similar quality since.
I don't understand why this gets downvoted. It's an entirely valid point and probably SwiftUI took inspiration from it.
Bitwarden seems to work quite nicely as well but in addition to that Bitwarden is open-source.
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We use Google Sheets as a team for its collaboration functionality. However it still has a lot of room to improve with its visual customization for charts and formatting and such.

I realize some people don't care about how beautiful a spreadsheet looks, but in presentations or sharing complex information, it matters. And formatting anything complex with charts and such is a major headache in Sheets (like my latest struggle to get annotations to properly appear, or move a single peak data label so it isn't cut off from displaying).
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> More recently, YouTube has been aggressively promoting content from Russia Today (RT), a Russian state-owned propaganda outlet.

The author is a moron.
A couple thoughts:

(1) A lot of independent video people spend their time getting better at video stuff rather than learning the sysops stuff they'd need to set up or maintain something like that.

(2) Latency!
According to the documentation the latest OS release is required on all platforms SwiftUI targets.
I'm pretty sure "for the pros" in this case means "for the suckers"
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> Android has supported exactly this since 1.5 (2009)

But I think those widgets are still so Vista/Dashboard-like in nature; they're made to look good and present simple information, but rare are the widgets that are generally more useful than the features built directly into the launcher (of which my favourite Android launcher remains Nova).

> I honestly have no idea what you're talking about here. Multiple workspaces aren't exactly a new innovation

I didn't say the iPadOS implementation was a new innovation. You might be trying to read something into what I said that isn't there.

> Mission Control just seems to be a fancier but less usable variant of alt+tab

The difference is that Mission Control doesn't just handle open windows or apps, it also handles groups of windows (Spaces). It's also far from being less usable, especially if you are accustomed to using multitouch gestures — and with things like MacBook or Magic Trackpads, the crowd of people who're allergic to taking their hands of the keyboard no longer have the monopoly on productivity.

Basically, they took that productivity and brought it to a touch-first system, making it work for touch.

Not a new innovation, no. But the best kind of innovation: taking something that exists and improving upon it.

(And iOS already has Cmd-Tab support)
It would be possible to spec a similar machine for similar cost as less (once the component parts are available like the new Radeon Pro), as the $6000 starting price tag is for the base model, i.e., only 8 cores, 32 GB RAM, and a Radeon Pro 580X. (The Afterburner card appears to be standard.) The 1.5TB ram, 32 cores, etc., are upgrade options. Based on past Apple history, a fully-specced Mac Pro could top $20k.

https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
That explains why the illuminati want to split us into different time zones. Keep us divided.