skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it is obvious that the 2013 "Trashcan" Mac Pro was not a successful design, it seems a lot of people don't get what Apple was going for.

Their goal was a computer heavily focused on multithreaded and OpenCL loads, as most vendors were still preaching to developers that the single threaded performance increase ramp was dead, and workload would have to scale out instead.

At the same time, it is quite easy to point to the Mac Pros before and after it and say that they have a lot of wasted power and space. The new Mac Pro design has a 1400W power supply and is mostly empty space to accommodate the "fully loaded" expansion options that most buyers quite frankly will not purchase.

As Thunderbolt is basically an externalized PCIe interface, there is certainly a case to be made that extensibility is better served as a separate unit. This allowed the design of the core system to forgo modularity, and have an extremely compact design. This also allowed them to have a reduced parts cost.

But the reality was:
- Component thermals did not stay balanced, with GPUs using far more power and giving off far more heat on the high end. This meant that there was a shortage of pro-level parts usable without redoing the core design.
- As Apple didn't upgrade the core design, it wound up having dated thunderbolt support.
- There is certainly an argument to be made that extensibility within the case is a cleaner, more manageable design for the end user
- Intel's licensing for Thunderbolt has been guarded, and thus the market has been sub-par. For example, eGPU took ages to become available. Another example - Intel forbid RAID assemblies to be sold without disks.

In the end, I personally see what they were trying to go for, but in a lot of ways the way they thought technology and needs would evolve were missed by the 2013 pro. I don't see an issue with the design based on where they thought things were going - the issue IMHO is that it took them six years to react with a new product.

(FWIW, I was planning to buy the second rev of the trashcan pro - which I slowly realized would never happen)
How would a case change the touchpad being a terrible control method?
My dad's family is from Ismailia (I grew up in Cairo but went to Ismailia on an almost monthly basis and would often spend summer months there). It's such a beautiful town, hope you get to enjoy it too.
Same issue here. It's not a dialog I can close off, I've reached my monthly limit.
I like your best practices, and I like the format that you've used ("Don't do this; Do this instead; Why").
Diverse Trajectory Forecasting with Determinantal Point Processes
If they are so good why will they refuse to look for better opportunities by not moving out of the company?
It’s only ten instances of Chromium if you actually run all ten apps at any given time!
Oops: https://monday.com/
> However nature also does similar insane experiments and produces plenty of catastrophe on its own

I'm curious about this, any references for me to read about?
And it makes me wonder about using similar approaches to break down the echo chambers we find ourselves in. We have a perception of what's normal based on what we see, but what we see is based on what we're already exposed to and what we ourselves do. Randomly seeing what a bunch of other people did this week? Great for that.

I also saw someone rave about "Donut" this week - schedules random 1-on-1's with people in your company to help with cross-pollination and bigger picture context. Chat Roulette and what a dumpster fire that is comes to mind, but I wonder if a LinkedIn-based service of a similar nature would be good just to learn about other companies, other corporate cultures, etc..
You're not alone in this, I believe it's the lowest rated item on the apple store (2 stars) and the vast majority of reviews are single stars. It's rubbish.
10x has a couple of additional properties.

"magically" make the right architectural decisions, such that the project doesn't need a rewrite, when new requirements "appear".

use time effectively.

retain details about work around, land-mines, technical+functional/biz+ops requirements, frameworks in-use,

picks up new tech if required, removes tech if required...

talks to the right people to talk to about the right topics

try to stay out of politics but not disregard it...
Agree with both points, but tachyonbeam wrote:

> built-in Nvidia GPU (which
> I use for machine learning)

And I used aforementioned (gaming) laptop with GPU mostly for Deep Learning
Rending all pictures at 30 frames per second, it would be a 12-hour video.
> Given that the yields are said to be worse for the “butterfly” keys than normal scissor keys, and that they’re more expensive to make, one can only think that either Apple is stubborn as hell at the executive level, or so tightly constrained by its design goals that it can’t figure out a way to reintroduce scissor-switch keys because that would mean designing an entirely new body and case for the whole line.

I think the author underestimates large scale production pipelines, where you may be many years out (due to things like design, test, assembly creation, assembly optimization, backchannel buildup, etc). Most products are several years in development before they are released.
Equating corporate lobbyists and special interest groups with "secret cabals in black robes"? That is caroonish indeed. Unless of course you consider black suits and ties to be "black robes" ;)
He's a good follow if you like future-of-journalism topics and cute pictures of birds.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/craignewmark/
It's no wonder he had to walk it off everyday... it was probably his only stress relief.
The reason hierarchical relationships always seem to exist in the context of an organization, is that that's why civilization invented organizations in the first place. To mediate and de-personalize power.

To get large-scale things done in the world, some people need to make plans and other people need to carry them out. And the last 5000 years of civilization has been an exercise in defining exactly how people are expected to do that.

In a fully developed civilization (which we are, at least, approaching) power dynamics between people are always contained in an institutional framework with explicit limits and rights. Otherwise, power tends to get abused.
You can’t have causation without correlation.
Credit scores measure behavior, not your attributes.

The issue here was fraud. My credit score doesn’t help you assess risk if someone else is impersonating me.
An odd feature of java's secure random
I'm trying to find any contact information of the creator, can anyone help me with this?
> If you are writing a sales tax calculator and need to implement 500 different local state sales tax regulations from a scanned Word document, your best developer is going to be maybe twice as fast as your average one.

Assuming "regulations" is actually functionally different and not just some sort of lookup table for a multiplication constant, then having been in a situation with only 10 rules, even such a simple example can easily have a difference on the order of 10x just from prior experience with organizing large amounts of lookups into code (+edge cases, +consistent interface, +etc) instead of into tabular data.
Sorry to hijack, but I am trying to find any contact information for the creator. Can anyone help me with that? It's very positive.
I’ve thought about this a bit recently and I wonder how much it’s actually “poor people” who are the target of this prejudice and “brown people” just get tarred with that brush. Nobody thinks rich brown people are automatically criminals.
Hello from Montreal, where everything you said is true for either dollar amount, even in Canadian dollars. And indeed, tech salaries in that range are plenty available here. The low end of tech salaries is below $80k, but the threshold where things start getting tight is also below $80k, so no problem.

(Of course $200k will allow faster growth of savings and investment or a more luxurious lifestyle, but even $80k can work here for comfortable middle-class living.)
The crime statistics in the neighborhoods should suffice. One thing I periodically see on HN is how companies are discriminating against (group here) because they aren't operating in high-crime neighborhoods. Obviously, a company maximizing revenues and minimizing liabilities will avoid such areas. So will most individuals delivering to them that don't want to get robbed (most likely), raped, or killed. They're more interested in playing it safe given there's piles of folks out to get them and alternatives with fewer risks.

Funniest thing: most folks griping about this try to avoid the same areas and aren't volunteering to deliver high-value goods to them to address any perceived gaps. That's because they think the same things as or aren't much more inclusive than the people they're griping about. Virtue signaling and slacktivism over real activism for the groups they supposedly want to help every day.
> Keep your expensive stuff away from brown people

Why drag race into this? I’m sure the discussion was then same for concentrations of certain socioeconomic classes of people of any and all colors.
What an obscure 70s soul singer taught me about love, potential, and longevity
no deal - he fucking stole it....
You’re as dumb as god made you it seems. Some places have bad neighborhoods that are super white trash and have nothing to do with your self induced racist battle fantasies.
Uh, ICC does some crazy things to get some of its performance, such as making transformations not allowed by the standard (inventing writes), in order to get better vectorization.

So in some respects ICC is very aggressive.
This reminds me of Shuetsutai, a Japanese font that originated from ad-hoc duct tape guidance signs created to guide visitors of Shinjuku station, which is constantly under construction. The signs were made by a security company personnel who was assigned to the area, who got creative with tape and utility knives to improvise these distinctive letter shapes. He eventually got discovered by the graphic design community and ended up doing logos for films, album covers, etc.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%E4%BF%AE%E6%82%A6%E4%BD%93&t=ffab...
Usually I am the object of envy from others (family, friends, acquaintance, neighbors). As a freelancer whom can afford to spend a lot of time doing fun stuff and travel with my family, they always ask me how much money I make. I just explain I am a freelancer and I do stuff on internet, but I never disclose my real income.

One time I met an old friend whom I lost touch, we were in the beginning of 2000's simple programmers at a firm and after that each departed on our ways. So I met him in a plane, me with my family, him alone. Started talking and whatever each has done meanwhile. So he tells me he is the big boss of an international firm, has a very good salary and stuff, planes tickets are bought by the company, car with driver awaiting to drive where he wants, the whole package of a man who did it in life. So I ask him, how much you get paid USD/h? He tells me his monthly salary, which is quite big for our country and we start the math. On one side is the total annual salary + bonuses + covered expenses + medical insurance, etc etc. On the other side number of hours he works/wastes for the firm. We come to an agreement he is paid ~20 euros/hour. Then I drop the bomb "you know, I have plenty of clients who I simple refuse their projects because I don't have time for them, will you consider come working for me and help me with those projects? I will pay you double, 40 euros/hour for beginning and later we can raise to 50 after you get back in business with programming skills?"...his jaw dropped.
Thanks for saying this. Sometimes you just hope someone will come out and give the reply you can't quite find the words for yourself.
It’s probably a little of both. Remember Nextel? For a long time push to talk wasn’t interceptable by the police.

Nextel didn’t seek out street drug dealing networks as a customer base. But the cops figured out that they weren’t traceable and had great loud speaker phones, started buying them, word got out and suddenly you have a market.
This is interesting and also worrying. The first video it found for me featured a medical patient giving away their full name and date of birth.
Chameleon Theory could change our thoughts on gravity
What a discovery. I feel a bit intrusive getting to experience it. I hope her communication succeeds.
This set of sarcastic replies is absolutely hilarious (best read after the original tweet dump): https://twitter.com/mike_conley/status/1149845391153737728
If the alternative to recycling is reduction by creating products that last longer, then recycling would increase profits and growth.
> This perspective saddens me because you’re not describing a productive developer, rather just some employee good at acquiescing to what product managers (often mistakenly) want.

This is straight up the opposite of what they're describing:

> Developers who can suggest small modifications to a product spec that will drastically reduce development time

Part of the whole 10x package is getting the manager on board and increasing trust, not going behind their back.
Nobody thinks rich brown people are automatically criminals.

Really? You’ve never heard of racial profiling?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/w...

https://newsone.com/3812066/black-doctor-racial-profiling-at...
You definitely can. A control system causes a signal to be ~constant and thus ~uncorrelated to whatever you care to name.
Why not? Pedophilia is not a communicable disease.
Subs only have control over CSS, no JS. But yes it can get overcrowded.
They do allow you to drop connections with forced scale points if that's a tradeoff your application can make https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/04/amazon_au...
That's fine. HN has been inundated with far left ideas. I'll buy you a beer in Denver anytime if you want to understand the reality of America. Please carry on talking about "trans" issues that are relevant to less than 1% of the population.
Interesting on the battery lifetime. My ThinkPad Carbon X1 gen 6 can do 10-12 hrs in Ubuntu, though I had to switch the bios sleep mode to Linux. Maybe the lack of an Nvidia graphics card helps.
> the whole concept of “bad neighborhoods” where people aren’t trustworthy is partly a racist trope

There are plenty of "bad neighbourhoods" with white people and every nationality. These same bad neighbourhoods exist in UK, Canada, across Asia and Latin America, etc. It's quite rare to find any large urban area without one. It's a human problem not a race one and it's hardly a trope. It's very much real.
This kid is awesome

https://youtu.be/kJ1owcGo-QA
This can be found on many social media profiles. What’s the concern?
Here's the GitHub repo for the site: https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut - I'm sure you can go from there. :)
I don't think emitting a warning is feasible in most cases. The compiler (generally) doesn't know at compile time that UB definitely occurs, only that in some UB exists on some path that may or may not be reachable in theory or practice.

Usually these are not reachable in practice so warnings that these exist would cause a tidal wave of pointless warnings. Instead, the compiler simply prunes those paths which can lead to better code generation for the paths that are taken.
so amazing, thanks!, is there something similar about instagram stories ?
Many people have experienced severe pain as a result of childhood injuries. We’re supposed to believe that they’re all walking around with PTSD as a result?
Github this!
It's really more like wishing a consultancy would employ a competent project manager. The thing about systems is that they're designed (even if only by refusing to design and calling it 'market driven'). Some work better than others.

I've certainly seen the difference in the small number of countries I've lived in - some do a much better job of coordinating services between generalists & specialists than others. But this has nothing to do with 'western' medical science per se, which is the primary modality of each of those varying systems.
Very cool list!

Maybe Ragel deserves a mention: http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/
The effective measure against their attack is signing and encrypting your e-mail sent with S/MIME? If it's just encrypted then yes, there's malleability issues but if it's signed I don't see it happening.
I have no idea, but I Googled "pathogens evolving around vaccines" and got a couple of interesting hits.

Here is an article about how vaccines cause evolutionary pressure:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-vaccines-can-drive-pathog...

And here is a paper about how they mostly don't:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6304978/

I feel like it's weird that people say something exists and then other people say no it doesn't without ever typing it in to Google. If you are that uninterested in the topic, why even post? Surely you can't reassure yourself about your knowledge that way.
I know this will get lost in lots of comments. But the medicine to any problem is * Mental Peace *.

Try following steps:

1. Take a deep breath, let all your thoughts flow naturally.

2. See what's happening with your thoughts as a second person's perspective.

3. Know that you aren't your thoughts. It is you who can change any thought.

4. Remind yourself that nothing last forever. Even if you had all the money in world, it would still not be enough, and you won't take a dime after you pass.

5. Realize that you have limited time in this Earth. Do what you always wanted.

6. If in doubt, repeat this cycle.
Can I ask why this comment was detached?

I feel it was relevant to the point the OP was making concerning legislation vs popularity among the citizenry.
I'm sorry but I fail to understand how this post was in any way helpful.

Can you explain what it was here that you thought would help OP in helping him deal with his problems?
Are you 100% sure? Maybe they have a downside that you wouldn't be willing to accept.
The ability to create useful software is a complex, dynamic set of skills that that varies across people and across time. It isn't easily assessed through a short list of simple characteristics. It can be somewhat assessed, with difficulty and mixed results.

Yay, we can all go home now.
That's exactly what it shouldn't contain!
....criminals are not a large percentage of the population. Especially when you exclude people convicted on harmless offences such as drug possession.

It takes more than being poor and downtrodden to turn to well planned theft.

(I mean harmless in the sense that only the person using drugs has potential harm.)
I disagree from my own experience.
It's really surprising/annoying that this isn't setup correctly by default. Linux on laptops is nothing new.
> They couldn't figure out which car to remotely disable.

Well - that's why then!
Having spoken with some homeless people I think many of the people working in the back of the restaurant actually do "live" quite nearby.
But once you do discover them, they're so much better than equivalent functionality on other media devices. Same asking Siri "What did they say?" to trigger brief subtitles.

And I disagree that they're "completely" undiscoverable... if you rest your thumb on the remote, skip forward/back glyphs appear on-screen and indicate the functionality if you were to click.
Shame we can’t have nice things. Car2Go operates in my city, and it’s a remarkably convenient way to get around (even moreso given that Uber/Lyft are still banned by the city council - thanks to the taxi lobby...). They’re competing with a local car-share company for market share so their rates are very low.

I do wonder what their rates of theft are here...
Illicit signal jammers that plug into the 12v car socket seem readily available if you know where to look, no modifications necessary.

[not condoning their use]
The Windscale Fire: Britain's 'Chernobyl' (2019)
Try commenting on the video.
Yea, I’m surprised how rarely domain comes up in these discussions. And, as you say, it’s quite obvious that knowledge and raw intelligence can give you far more than a 10x advantage in some domains.

For an extreme example, imagine that the year is 1993 and the task is to write a program that produces a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem... My bet is that a certain “developer” named Andrew Wiles would have wastly outperformed a ”team” consisting of every other person on planet earth.
I don't think it's his description that got him downvoted. Rather it is his statement in the end where he "sold out" and became complicit in a system that a lot of people hate.
"The term "fork" is also misleading. All what is needed is once more universal/fat binaries which work on both architectures. macOS cannot be forked in the traditional FOSS sense; there are too many proprietary components for that."

This has a double meaning, because the original "fat binaries" used the resource and data "forks" to store the difference versions. In fact, I thought you had misunderstood until I checked the article.
Honestly, yes. That would be pretty useful for budgeting.
Your relevant article doesn't even get the first paragraph right. The Efficient Market Hypothesis doesn't mean eg that markets result in efficient use of resources or societally efficient/optimal outcomes, which the author seems to imply.
What we've been told is that during the virus phase the child's immune system becomes so weak, that it's prone to develop a bunch of infections (most common being every toddler's favorite - ear infection), and that the pattern was so common that they would write a prescription as a preventative measure.
Which is an example of the the euphemism treadmill. Secretary means secret-keeper and has built into it connotations at least of trust and often of power. Which is why top officials of many great ministries ion are called secretaries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Xgd7Cjm98
> and GPS signals are already fairly weak

You could try stopping the GPS signal from getting in, but you could also stop the (likely) GSM signal from getting out.
> My question to people with this attitude is, what is the point of your life?

> I've lost a lot of friends and recognize that life is way too short to not be putting as much time as possible toward something you find totally compelling. ...

> This pervasive idea that "it's just a fucking job" is ultimately a milquetoast cop-out. Spend your hours doing something that has impact to you.

Why can't "raising a family" be the totally compelling thing you do that has impact on you? The "point of your life"?

I'm not saying that is me, but I think the people that choose that are making a perfectly rational choice.
Do you worry that your team will see you working 80 hours/week, conclude that they have to work that much too, and burn themselves out? Even if you can work that much without burning yourself out because it's your passion/vision/company, most people can't. It seems to me that employees often look to folks at the top to set the culture and feel obligated to follow along, even if that culture includes unsustainable work hours.
"maintenance complexity of hybrid cars' dual engines"

This is an oft repeated accusation by people who only know the concept of hybrids and have no actual experience with them.

The electrical system of hybrids are inherently low maintenance and the gasoline engines run under very low stress conditions for an engine. The result is that the gasoline engine needs much less maintenance. And the brakes are barely used.
FWIW, there has never been an easier time to be alive. When you frame things like that, it really drives home how utterly unfit for modern life a person has to be to justify a life of crime in 2019. Life is always a struggle, but we’re not exactly living in a Dickens novel.
I grew up in the rural Midwest in a working class family, so spare me your appeals to the “reality of America.” Not all of us are as hateful as the right-wing grifters whose images Rogan helps launder.