skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the Touch Bar is discussed the discussion often turns into "is the Touch Bar useful or not?" When the crux of the whole issue is that they removed a row of keys (F- keys and escape key), because the new oversized touchpad needed to be 10mm bigger.

If they had simply left all the keys, shrunk the touchpad, and added the Touch Bar above the keyboard, people who didn't like the Touch Bar would simply choose not to use it (or even shut it off) and people who loved it could continue to do so.

That's the issue. Not the Touch Bar itself's benefit, that's a red herring.
> It means no escape if the gov raises taxes in an unjust way.

This is already the case, and has been for almost a hundred years.

Govt spending/taxation is 38% in the US! So, I we're already there.
Yep! The base model will be fine for academia; however, you might want to invest in the 16GB of RAM as Chrome and other electron apps will consume all your memory leaving your computer crawling.

When you start working, you'll probably want to invest in the pro line for a faster CPU especially if you start booting up multiple services (databases, servers, etc.), mobile development, or crunching large sets of data.
If you hold the brightness button on the Touch Bar you can slide your finger left and right to adjust the brightness so it’s one (long) press. Same with volume.
If social media platforms do not legally provide an expectation of privacy, as Facebook has recently claimed in US court[1], why should users expect otherwise?

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/opinion/facebook-court-pr...
How to design a proper USB-C power sink (hint, not the way Raspberry Pi4 did it)
> Unfortunately most teachers teach at the level of the more advanced students, not at the level of the slower students. I don't know if they mean to do this, it might be unconscious, but they definitely do it.

This is almost universally false. They target the least advanced students and let them more advanced students fend for themselves. In the US it's even more pronounced because of teacher evaluation by test scores, etc. Teachers are incentivized to ignore the smarter kids because their test scores are high already, and they get more bang for their buck by raising the scores of the kids at the bottom of the range.
Not sure of the Air specs, but I generally recommend paying for 16gb of memory. I found google docs and other web apps quickly consumed my 8gb memory. But, if you don't mind closing tabs and being mindful of running programs you can get by with 8.

If you ever find yourself CPU bound then you can spin up a VM image and run those jobs remotely.

While running low on storage isn't a problem either as several cloud options exist for that.
Both are on the edge of the north american plate, where it meets the pacific plate. Everything on the edge of the pacific plate is referred to as the "ring of fire" due to frequency of earthquakes.
>Videostreams are way smoother using Chrome, at least on Linux.

This is also the reason I use Chromium. I'd switch to Firefox as soon as it supports VA-API on GNU/Linux.
Thanks, yep. They are not the primary ingredients which is probably why they can't call it a soap bar.

Interestingly, the "Palm" in Napalm is also Sodium Palmitate.
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fwiw

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
"Easy" solution: 3D Secure.
It will affect conversion rate but that's still better than high chargeback rate which can cause you to lose the ability to process altogether.
FYI you can press and drag on the brightness/volume buttons to make adjustments immediately, no need for a second touch
I use the 2018 MacBook Air, 1.6ghz 16gb ram as a developer / development manager and it is faster than the 2015 pro it replaced with similar specs. The only thing I've seen it slow down on is compiling Rust, but I think that's just because that operation is slow.

Jetbrains IDEs works fine, not sure about XCode haven't done much with this machine yet in Mac Development.
Caps Lock is already mapped to Control.
To me the bigger news here is killing the MacBook. It's a weird product -- crazy overpriced, and with a bunch of concessions in terms of the design, but I like that it's extremely light (33% lighter than a MacBook Air) and has no fan. I had hoped never to buy another laptop with a fan again. Yes, I know performance sucks, which is why I run most of my code on a server instead of locally on my computer. I think really the best other options without a fan are all Chromebooks.

I would guess Apple will revive the fanless model when they switch to ARM processors in 1-2 years.
Even hybrids only make sense to me in the context of aircraft having the ability to taxi using electric motors, only starting their engines at the holding point (turbine engines burn a significant amount of fuel even at idle). I believe Airbus have a patent on this idea.

Otherwise turbine engines are run close to their designed maximum continuous thrust for the majority of a flight. It's not like a car where they only need ~20% of their maximum power in cruise.
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So you're fine with them touching their sweaty junk and then handing you a donut with the same hands?
You should file a bug about that with a screen recording. This dark mode stuff is new to everyone and it might just be an oversight.
Value added taxes sure, but this is a flat head tax, I don’t think biz class is going to be charged more than economy class.
It's very easy to make the soap yourself and to super-fatten it to your own liking. Basically just mixing the oil with lye and water (and perhaps fragrance). The weight ratios can be obtained with for example this calculator:

http://www.soapcalc.net/calc/soapcalcwp.asp
Just going to leave this here:

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2015/02/27/ex-delta...

I'm an advocate for security screening. I'm even fine with a bag swab or pat down. I've been flying all 30 years of my life to many parts of the globe.

What's going on in this article, if true, is not ok, it is not productive, and it is spreading a culture of fear and surveillance TO OUR OWN CITIZENS.

We are not China, Russia, or any other country that would create such a situation, but we are letting it happen.

I don't think people are against the accepted forms of surveillance you are mentioning, I think we're against the excessive stuff that's been going on.
It's C. Hoare & Co. and at least some of the family running it still have that name.
"Fenix MVP will not replace Fennec" (MVP meaning "Minimum Viable Product").

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/662#issuecomm...

I'm sure Fennec users will not be migrated to Fenix until extensions are supported. This would be a big fuck up and Mozilla is aware of this.

Linked bugs about the user agent seem irrelevant to this issue.

Everything will be okay. You can sleep on both ears.
Back in the 90's I worked at a small PC manufacturing/Cobol coding company (6-7 employees). The site had a fax server on the network. You could print from MS Word directly to the fax server, using a preset destination fax number.

Once in a while, the owner would call up and have me order mocha's for everyone. I'd pull up the order doc and print it. It got faxed to the espresso shop and 15 minutes later, hot mochas got delivered.
If you're ever in Dallas, TX, the Perot museum is one of the best children's science museums in the world. Highly recommended for both kids and adults.
"C. Hoare & Co. has been in business for more than three hundred years, and the family that founded it is still running the show."
> This reads like FUD to me. The dev team know how important extensions are to their users.

Just because they know how important it is doesn't mean they care.

I'm sure Google also knew how important ad blocking was to many Chrome users when they decided to remove that functionality from their browser, too.
Is there any way to essentially lock the touchbar in a fixed configuration? Like I'm a programmer and willing to write a mac native app if that's what I have to do, but I want the same set of things there and I don't want other programs to be able to hijack the buttons I have locked there.

If I could do that, then I can live with it, since then it is just a massive battery drain instead of being a massive battery drain as well as extremely inconvenient.
This isn't a flame piece. This is what journalism looks like. This sort of elbow-throwing happens at every level of reporting, from local ordinances on garbage collection to international politics.

> 100's of millions of dollars is pretty small in McKinseys organization, and there really is no evidence of a systemic problem here, just a small anomaly/mistake that a few partners called the shot on.

Take a moment and think about what you wrote here.

If you were a partner at McKinsey, is this what you'd tell yourself?

If you were a non-partner employee at McKinsey, how would you feel about your own retirement funds being invested in MIO, given its performance?
It's exactly how you want to respond if you plan on sharing it publicly on Twitter in the hopes of fooling those not in tech.

If my mom stumbled into that article, she would likely think they perfectly explained everything (well... she would likely contact me but, still).

Given this news is already not sticking near the top of hacker news and barely reported elsewhere, it feels like they are already getting away with it for the most part.
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> I don't really understand what the purpose of this tax is.

They tried taxing Diesel but it didn't work out. The people started to revolt. Now they turned to airplanes which has a much timid audience.

Gotta find some way to finance that lavish bureaucratic lifestyle.
> "Move fast and break things" just isn't going to cut it anymore.

Yes, the cutting edge can cut both ways. But alas is kinda needed in IT security. So easy for a security update to come out, yet the process in some companies rightly dictates that it is tested so that the update does not break anything else. So you get a delay. So even then, that small window could see that security issue exploited and the powers that be will see you didn't apply the update instantly and you're lambasted - even for following best practices and going by the book of testing. After all, any update could have an impact upon the applications and infrastructure in ways above and beyond the issue the update is addressing. We have all encountered such issues as well.

So the phrase "move fast and break things" has a younger brother now "move slow and be broken".

Be nice if the powers that be (Governments) proactively audited companies IT security proactively instead of being event driven - after the horse has always bolted. I would love to see companies fined for security issues before such security issues are exploited and abused. After all, the customer always pays. Until that happens, the same mentalities in how security is treated as a priority will carry on playing out. But the other old IT saying of "if it works, don't touch it" whilst true, equally is the source of so many security issues that it just can not carry on being leaned upon.
there's plenty of interesting mechanisms that are very plausible, e.g. piezoelectric pressure buildup.
Same. When I bought the MacBook, that was one of those things I noticed as “of course it makes sense. Why doesn’t everybody do this?” Then Apple went ahead and took an axe to it. This was truly an idiotic move. Don’t add usbc if you can’t find a way to make it MagSafe!
As much as I worry about global warming, this antagonizing view doesn't help

"Paying for the damage" is this some kind of joke? What about all the other polluters? Shipping? Coal plants?

Macron got the Yellow Jackets by hating on people that depend on cars to do their job, because wow, if you don't live in a place with public transport and already pay a substantial amount of tax in everything else and earn less than the people in the capital you should pay more right? You're the bad guys

Wow pat yourself in the back for not taking a straw and taxing those "big bad" travelers. Then wonder why your tax revenue goes down every year or people hate you.

"Oh but sleeper trains" yeah, also known for the constant robberies and lawlessness inside them.
>Remember to check out local work culture.(Americans stick out like a sore thumb in many western European work social situations)

Care to elaborate a bit? I'm an American working at a large US University with a very diverse community. I've daydreamed about moving to western Europe, so I'd like to hear what the work social situations you're referring to are.
> I do not know of a commercial airport without a train station.

I went to a business trip from AMS (Schiphol) to WRO (Wroclaw). Wroclaw airport does not have any rail station (the nearest is a kilometer away). We had to take the shuttle bus to the train station in Wroclaw city centre.

The train from AMS would probably have taken over a day. Excluding check-in and luggage drop-off, flying took less than two hours.
You can touch and slide the finger to adjust brightness and volume.
And in the scripts, use the long-form flags, so many comments are unnecessary.
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall of the meetings where that policy was designed and approved.

Did no one at all speak up and say "hey, running secret webservers on obscure ports without telling the user is shady stuff"?
How to do this?
"proper" man page is quite the qualifier. (Edit: as in, I know I'm "supposed" to use man pages, but it's almost easier to google for it. The man pages I've seen aren't as easy to use for common cases).

CLIs are much more limited at discoverability compared to a graphical interface (TUI/GUI) which can show you all the options and let the user directly interact.
Looks great! I've been looking for a good e-reader for Linux lately.
Even if it isn't worse, users aren't familiar with it, so you're telling them to get used to a new interface even though it offers them no benefit. That's poor design.
Stadia will completely avoid the issue of key resellers since I would imagine they are completely removed from the system of keys issued from publishers. They also have only announced plans to launch in US and Europe currently and it may never make economical sense to have an African datacenter for Stadia.
A shame they've forced the TouchBar everywhere. Perhaps it is like Sega Dreamcast and the little plugin LCD unit that controllers optionally supported - none of the games really used it because they could never guarantee that it was there, so it was never integral to game.

In this instance perhaps Apple thinks that everyone having one will encourage developers to use it.

But for me, I completely ignore it and force it to behave like function keys, although it does this very badly because I have to look down to see where the "keys" are when debugging (eg F6, F7 in xcode) because I can't feel them, and also it is completely invisible in daylight, as others have stated.

I routinely use my old 2012 MacBook instead to actually get work done because the touchpad is so useless as a keyboard (and turns itself off after a while, unlike REAL keys that don't disappear if you don't give them attention for a minute or two).

A real crying shame.
At the time, I thought it was all conspiracies and a really weird publicity stunt. I had no intention of voting for Bush or Clinton, so I went ahead and voted for Perot.

Looking back, and seeing some of the stuff that has come out about the other candidates, I too now believe it was all true.
I agree with you on that for heavy majority of companies (esp. medical or self-driving car ones) "move fast and break things" is not a good idea at all. However, I cannot agree with the absolutist nature of your statement.

>that company is successful in spite of itself

That's a pretty strong opinion. Some would argue that FB is successful because of stuff like that.

A bit of a sidenote, but after all, I remember how badly Zuck was clowned everywhere (including by FB shareholders and people here on HN) immediately after the purchase of Instagram and WhatsApp. People were saying that FB is dying and Zuck is trying to buy companies that are hyped but irrelevant to the core business out of desperation. These days, it is a pretty universal sentiment that those acquisitions were some of the smartest purchase decisions he could have made at the time.
Your source is a reddit post without a clear overall source and only a few anchor tags in some of the paragraphs.

I’d like to know what the Japanese thought at the time not what certain historians think after the fact.

The Soviets invaded a part of Japan and a few hours later the second bomb dropped. It’s inconclusive. From the American perspective it still worked.
I blame this mostly on Apple's human interface guidelines:

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

Scroll down to "Design Considerations": "Use the Touch Bar as an extension of the keyboard and trackpad, not as a display."

But what I really want is for the touch bar to be a display and input device for things normally elsewhere: time, date, maybe CPU usage, etc. This to me is not a hardware problem, but one with policy.

Edit: what I really want is for Apple to let people experiment with new hardeware, rather than impose their vision on how it should be used. Unlike many others I don't actually hate the touch bar and see some potentials, but not if Apple restricts its use.
Instant pop-up of a chat, from "Matt - A Real Human" is a significant turn-off for me.

For a company that is promoting privacy, it's also discouraging to see that your privacy policy seems to only apply additional data protection rights to those within the EEA, rather than universally applying them. I'm hoping, in good faith, that this applies to everyone but is specifically spelled out for those within the EEA. If this is the case, you might want to be clear that those rights apply to everyone, not just those residing in the EEA. (If not - I'd love to hear the justification!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_spectrum#ITU
Carbon taxes are the most efficient way to let the market work out technical solutions to the climate crisis. Period.

If you're worried about regressive taxation, check out the fee-and-dividend model, where all revenue is returned to households [0]. This means that for most "regular" people, the carbon tax is actually a tax credit – because most of the pollution is caused by the excessive consumption by rich households.

There is actually a bill before the House now that has a non-zero chance of passing.

[0] https://citizensclimatelobby.org/carbon-fee-and-dividend/
I don't think you even need a MacBook Air. I've always used Linux for development. If you're not tied to MacOS, get a Thinkpad with Ryzen + Radeon. It will run better on Linux. If you want the MacOS experience, get a Air.

Irrespective of what you get, you cannot do serious compute on a laptop. Because actually using it at full power kills your battery.
Here is a recent survey of several archaeologists criticisms of ancient aliens theories that highlight their racist underpinnings: https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-r...

In order to engage in a proper debate with me about this, I strongly encourage you to read each item mentioned in that article.

And if you’re looking for a cop out like “I don’t have time for all this”, at least take a look at this one: https://badarchaeology.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/is-pseudoarc...
Why would earthquakes cause a significant amount of groundwater to boil?

Supposing there were enough water vapor to do that, how would boiling groundwater form clouds at all, much less in seconds? There's still a lot of earth in the way between the fault and the sky.

Ground shaking does not mean that energy is converted into heat. Does the ground feel hot after an earthquake? Warm at all?

Earthquakes, right? Not volcanoes or magma chambers? If this phenomenon were real, wouldn't you expect it to occur right before a volcanic eruption, which actually involves large amounts of magma, near the surface, which could actually vaporize large amounts of groundwater? As far as I can tell, that doesn't happen either. The water vapor erupts with the molten rock, and mainly condenses into volcanic clouds because it has volcanic particles to condense around, not because the water vapor itself is enough to form clouds on its own before dissipating.
And if you don't want to wait for a long press, you can do one or more quick swipe to the left or the right, and it do the same as a press on the previous buttons.
Thanks for releasing this, can’t wait to start. Are there any plans for a fast.ai computer vision course?
>I consider this urge to have biological off-spring the epitome of egoism

Lol, I mean, yeah. It is. It's a biological imperative to recreate yourself.
I wonder if this means that tech companies will start offering better Windows notebooks (maybe even *nix pre-installed notebooks) for use as a daily driver, as an alternative to the Macbook Pro offerings.
No, all we have are scientific papers. And while in theory they should be considered evidence, the current financing system basically turns climate scientists into grant-seeking whores, and the results of research are determined not by facts, but by the needs of the sponsor. "Fighting" global warming is multibillion dollar business after all.
Could this be the cause of all bee deaths?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7220795/Shocking-fo...
“What every computer scientist should know about floating point” by David Goldberg. Readily available free online.
The companies have no issue in using labor from "underprivileged" markets, so why shouldn't we customers be able to buy from wherever?

Good for the goose, good for the gander.
There are two huge low-hanging fruit that Apple could do to make the Touch Bar better and appease (some of) the haters.

First, add half a centimeter of clearance between the touch bar and the number keys. I've never once accidentally hit the Touch Bar, but one of my close coworkers does all the time, after years with this, so I can't deny that it's an issue.

Second, allow users the ability to map any keyboard shortcut or menu item to a Touch Bar button. This would work similarly to how any menu item can be mapped to a keyboard shortcut in the System Preferences.
In Europe is easier to get approved but this is changing...
Creating anything is a craft and creating software programs is no different. While everyone should strive to learn how to write programs well so the intent isn’t obfuscated, it ultimately boils down to two factors: programmer’s experience and talent. Most programs, like most works of art, will be utter crap and nonsense, as most artists are - with rare notable differences. This is why I heavily support frameworks and prescriptive style of programming, or “opinionated” systems as some would call them. They are usually invented by people much smarter than the average Joe and ultimately generate better long term results. It would benefit our productivity much more if we invested efforts into translating these brilliant minds into compiler features so the compiler checks for style as well, not just “spelling”. We need Grammarly for code.
Interesting, this would be a problem for emergency communications set up to run on HF if it did indeed cause a total blackout. I know the VA out here uses HF for emergency communications in the event of a major disaster, I believe 80 meters. This would be a problem if a major earthquake killed propagation.
MagSafe was nice, but I'm a big fan of being able to use an industry standard $30 charger with 60W USB-C, 3x USB-A ports, and a removable charging cable.

Having to replace a whole $80 proprietary charging brick because the cable connection frayed was a pretty shitty deal.
I already have caps lock set to control and have literally decades of muscle memory associated with that.