skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair. From what I hear, thunderbolt GPUs are a fair bit more finicky than internal PCIe ones, so for a desktop I'd still say having an internal GPU is better, but it should at least be a reasonably good workaround.

It's a bit sad to trade reliability, GPU performance, tidiness (since the external enclosure adds more boxes and wires and power supplies), price, and CPU power just for a smaller core computer though.

It gets even worse when you want a couple of big HDDs which would have just gone in drive bays with a traditional computer. With the mac mini, you'd have to add even more expensive external enclosures to your desk, which is expensive and messy. Suddenly, instead of a nice self-contained smallish desktop, you have an impressively small core machine box, with a wire to your GPU box (which has to be on top of the desk due to the short length of thunderbolt cables), a wire to your HDD box, and you still have the slower CPU.

I don't really mean to say the Mac mini is a poor choice, it probably fits a bunch of desktop use cases reasonably well. It's just not as optimal as it could be.

To illustrate how a real small and powerful desktop from Apple could've been: I'm using a really small (though not as small as the mac mini) Fractal Design Node 304 [0], with a 2.5 slot width, full length GPU, a 3.5" drive, two 2.5" drives, an m.2, and a standard ITX card with regular RAM and CPU slots. I have a 1080Ti and an i7 6700k in it with no thermal issues. Apple could've made a similarly expandable machine in a smaller form factor with better thermals and looks, but they... don't.

[0]: https://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/node-serie...
MS removing the Start button on the Windows 8 desktop in favor of the tiles of the Modern UI start page (formerly Metro) for a more mobile-like, simpler, and allegedly purer/cleaner app experience, massive user protests, and MS finally reintroducing the Start button and the Start menu. Never heard of this?
I think that they will find that sovereignty is as much in the minds of the ruled as it is in the will of the Leviathan.
If you're going to bit nit-picky about words:

"In rhetoric, loaded language (also known as loaded terms or emotive language) is wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes."

Provocative analogies can use loaded language, for example when they appeal to emotions. Riddling your text with things like how advertising "infects", "destroys", "corrupts", is "industrial scale abuse" and so on, is loaded language that's not conducive to debate.

Regardless, I've debated the actual content elsewhere in this thread, and many times in the past directly with the author over Hacker News. I'm familiar with his position — it's hardly uncommon — and his arguments. They're not uninteresting, but I'm not sure they're helping push things forward much.
I wonder if taser and other stun-gun manufacturers have a stake in this or other companies like it. Kick-start their own little arms race by building a market then double-dealing. Far-fetched?
"Good Lord, I'd forgotten what a quality phone call sounds like. It was as if she was right there in the room with me. No awkward cellular delay."

Right. I have a friend in Switzerland who had an ISDN voice line. Synchronous 64Kb/s digital voice end to end. No jitter. Swisscom discontinued that recently and now he has inferior VoIP.
Can you provide concrete examples?
If you consider the various meaning of "smoke test" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_testing , I suspect you'll agree that the mechanical meaning is almost certainly older than the electrical or the software.

That's where you have some vessel that should be air-tight, and you blow some smoke into it to see if/where the smoke leaks. You could do that for plumbing, you could do that for musical instruments, you could do that for all sorts of things.

Maybe the electrical engineers came up with the term "smoke testing" all own their own, but I think it's a lot likelier that they heard it from some plumbers or something, liked it, and then it gained _additional_ cachet from the association with smoke-means-failure.
Maybe. The chances are entirely dependent on Tesla's success. Europe has many more carmakers making the bet. I'd wager Europe has better odds.
You have conceded that iOS is worse for security, so now you want to argue about performance. Android has iOS beat there, too. Here is a midrange Android phone one generation older than the iPhone 6 beating it at the most common task for phone users — opening apps: https://youtu.be/hPhkPXVxI*

I’m not arguing performance for performance sake. I’m arguing that a four year phone is still performant compared to many newer Android phones and it is getting both* security updates and os upgrades 24 months and 12 months longer than the tiny percentage of Android phones that get either. It also doesn’t have to wait for a third party OEM to decide to push updates.

I’m also criticizing Google for not knowing how to push updates to phones running its operating system without OEM intervention - something Microsoft figured out 30 years ago with PCs.

But you don’t need to speculate how fast iOS users update their phones.

There are plenty of sites showing how many iOS users have updated operating systems compared to Android users:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2018/04/13/android-is...

So do have a cite showing that a larger percentage of Android users are running an up to date OS?
Even if treatment isn't available.

The main benifit of a bed-side test isn't that it informs the person who is infected. It is that it informs the person who is not infected.

Currently, most people who ask about STD status just take their partners word. Maybe a particuarly paranoid person will ask to see actual lab results, which could reasonably be months or years old at best (how often do you expect people to get tested?) or maliciously forged at worst (hopefully rare enough to be irrelevant at the population level).

With a bedside test, you get up to date information (subject to the quality of the test) on if you are about to get exposed, and can avoid the exposure if necessary.

There is still the cultural issue of needing to test your partner before an interaction, would might come across as prohibitively offensive.
Plan to allow drug imports will take time
Rust in Blockchain #2 – July 2019
Digital Platforms Inquiry – Australias Recommendations on Regulating BigTech [pdf]
Wouldn't the information have to surface first to call it exposed?
Who was harmed, how is anyone going to prove they were harmed?
What's the internet like?
That’s sort of what porn industry does with HIV RNA TMA test. I suspect it’s quite effective.
alas, I don't even know the handy shortcut for the cent symbol of my butterfly keyboard, I expected that to have on my touch bar :-)
It depends on Chromium but as I understand it is being worked on.
Nothing stopping you from doing just that!

Pick a game development technology that you like the look of (a language or framework or engine), do their basic tutorial, then drop by their forums. Almost all of them will have a "looking for collaborators" section where people with ideas but insufficient skill, or with skill but insufficient ideas, can shop around for partners to make something cool.

If you're not picky regarding tech, there's also TIGSource, which has a platform non-specific collaborators wanted forum: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?board=8.0

Or, if you're looking for something a bit more time boxed, a lot of game jams (game development hackathons) will help you find a team to work with on a no-commitment once off project to get a feel for whether this is something you enjoy. See if there are any running near you, and drop on by. Global Game Jam is a great one for this, but it's not until early next year, which may be too long a wait for you.
Even the design teams use Windows. I am sure bigger companies provide macs but the vast majority will use Windows simply because its cheap and easy to get.
No, it isnt. No aircraft can be stealthy by definition. You can see it, right? There are tons of detections methods, wavelengths and other stuff you can scan the sky with. And you may be able to evade some of them. In the end you buy low speed, low dog fighting capability, low payload and huge maintenance time for the bet that you may or may be not invisible. If your bet fails, it comes at a high costs since your one trick pony failed.
Any info on how to convert traffic so profitably? That’s an impressive pageview to dollar performance!
Maybe, but only if you are doing it wrong. Pro-tip: look up hashed wheel timers.
What economic damage?
A check for under $1 might not be worth the effort to cash, but I don't find a lot of value in credit monitoring either. If I were very worried, I'd freeze my reports, and use the free annual reporting to request reports on a staggered schedule.

As it is, I'm less worried about fraud than the hassle of thawing the reports in case I want to access easy credit in the future. Equifax is still on the hook for actual damages, if any.
In this Laos city, Hundreds of monks walk around the town everyday seeking alms
> So do have a cite showing that a larger percentage of Android users are running an up to date OS?

You keep coming back to this irrelevant point. Many Android phones are insecure, just as all iPhones are. Don't buy them.

> I’m also criticizing Google for not knowing how to push updates to phones running its operating system without OEM intervention - something Microsoft figured out 30 years ago with PCs.

Who cares? Don't buy them. Besides, I already pointed out in my previous post that Microsoft didn't solve this problem. Do you blame Linus for all the routers that don't get updated, or do you just not buy them?

> I’m arguing that a four year phone is still performant compared to many newer Android phones and it is getting both*

So is a five year old midrange Android phone, which is also as insecure as any iPhone. Don't buy them.
Curious, how would a cache fix the fd leak issue?
I am sure that you can rely more in those 20 people than 300+.
Taking the minimal to no frontend approach is probably underrated then, for managing complexity. i.e. with Slimvoice https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632817
It was not dumb luck. He placed his site where he knew the doors were more likely to be open and hence increase the signature, and waited for that moment to switch on the radar and fire the shot.
Yes, but one that was not active.
I have been in a hospital for check ups and an ER in Texas with no windows in many rooms.
>In fact, a plant based diet can meet all nutritional requirements with just B12 vitamins.

How expensive is that? How much variety do you have? How easy is it to not do correctly?

Any time I've looked into vegan diets it seems as though you don't have all that much choice if you want to get your vitamins and amino acids.

You can live on a poor diet for a long time, but it will do damage, so whether this type of vegan diet is easy to screw up is also very important.
Well stated. Being aware of death is transformative.
Good question.

I've read in several places that 50% of carbon in the atmosphere is absorbed by the ocean within 20-200 years.

I'm guessing that's bad for the ocean, and maybe there's a limit, and the rate probably isn't constant. It's not a half-life at all.
Carbon offsetting is incredible effective. Currently donating to organizations like https://www.rainforestcoalition.org/ ($0.02 - $0.72 per CO2 ton) or https://www.catf.us/ ($0.35- $4.40 per CO2 ton) you can offset a huge amount of carbon. source:https://founderspledge.com/stories/climate-change-executive-...
Lithium-air is one technology that would easily enable transatlantic flights. Even lithium-sulfur/metal/etc (which are much nearer term and can be had in small batches now if you call around) you could get you transatlantic (Canada to Ireland) with a very efficient airframe and even with lithium-ion with a very efficient airframe if you hop over Canada, Greenland, and Iceland.
It is the word of the Russians against that of the Americans.

What if it turns out that the S400 can detect the F35 easily?
Right, that's why you'd want to plant trees with specific types of roots that wouldn't cause this damage. But it's an important thing to consider.
It's probably needed in northern countries for COMPLETE decarbonization. And basically all large infrastructure has some level of subsidy, definitely including wind, solar, and hydro.
I don't think it's a fair assessment to say that consumers don't care about price. It might not matter as much as other factors, but it definitely still matters to a lot of people. Price was a major factor in why I sold my Macbook Pro. Why am I going to pay $1,000 more for an inferior laptop (I can afford it, it just doesn't make any logical sense)? A young art student friend of mine wants an iPad, but after I told her you can get a Samsung for only $180 (vs. $400+) she's looking at Samsung, especially since the iPad is known to have heating problems.

I will say that quality is the biggest factor though. Apple sabotaged its Macbook Pro with that stupid touchbar and terrible keyboard. My (female) friend who's only ever owned iPhones is going to switch to Samsung next time unless Apple makes a small iPhone because she said the next design is really ugly.

Apple deserves their current troubles because they destroyed their formerly top of the line products. Closed systems might not matter to the average consumer, but it's one of the main reasons I've never owned an iPhone and refused to buy a Mac until I had to for work. Perhaps I'm in an even smaller minority there, but it's certainly false to say that all customers don't care about that.
Rails are notoriously bad for cyclists.

I live in a city with underground metro, buses, trams and trolley buses (Milan, Italy.) It's nearly impossible to change the route of a tram line unless there are rails and overhead cables everywhere but it's immediate for buses. Even trolley buses can move on batteries to drive around road works or car accidents. On the other side trams can be much longer than a standard bus and accommodate more people. The trend is to have tram routes that don't share the road with cars, electric buses and more underground metro.
Not science and rationality themselves of course, but human's faith that they're all we need. Religions, flawed as they may be, offered some guidance that we kind of just assume will work itself out. The news seems to suggest otherwise.
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I'm definitely surprised not to see Japan amongst the most patient.
What is FaceTime doing that you can't do with WebRTC? And that's already open.
>creating cartels/mafias that become as powerful as nation states.

The state is balls deep in those cartels. Go read about Freeway Rick Ross and Afghanistan poppy fields for prime examples. It's all part of the military industrial complex, Peter Dale Scott has great books on the matter.
Re: Openness. I think what ultimately matters to most consumers (including techies) is stability. This includes a) continuous accessibility over time (say, for 30 years) and b) consistent usability / compatibility / affordability etc. This can be achieved by closed technology and openness does not guarantee that. Excitement or feel-goodness is another factor as you mentioned, but I don't think it's not a universal issue as some (most) people don't have to be excited about the tech.
Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year
A number of hospitals actually use UV machine to clean rooms.
A lot of advertising money is actually lost from the economy to profit for advertisers, stock buybacks, bonuses for the ultra-rich etc.
Can't blame the British for Agricural drought. Imagine how many more would have starved without Britain running poor houses there.
I've seen something similar to this implemented on high end slot machines in Vegas.

It looks like several layers of transparent LCD screens and combined they give a 3D look.
Like all recent submits for this site, this is just a collection of Amazon affiliate links. The texts are verbatim rips from Amazon reviews.
Why aluminum?
This. Our small rural community hospital with two ICU beds is one of the largest buildings and employers in the area.
More about map orientation in different cultures at http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160614-maps-have-north-at-...
When you look at an art form like "blinkenlights" and see exclusively meaningless junks and technobabble, don't see it as a failure. See it as an opportunity.
What city doesn't have brochures of fun things to do, community newspapers where new things like this can be announced or meetup groups for people that like activities like this? There are a lot of ways potential customers can actively find you without manipulating random people who weren't looking.
I'd like a way to wait on multiple condition variables. Windows has this... Or to treat condition variables as file descriptors so that select/poll/epoll can be used to wait on them (you'd get a notification of a signal, though it might be spurious, so you still have to take the lock and check the condition before you consider the CV signaled).
I've checked and it's € 50 a month in the Netherlands for the pills. There is something else going on with that pricing. There are doctor fees on top of that, but a few checks a year will never consitute the $15k difference.
I'm not smart enough to do exact calculations with aperture, etc, but I think the amount of light taken in with a 1/15s exposure with a DSLR would be more than a 5s cameraphone image.

Just taking the area of the lens, say a 5mm diameter cameraphone lens is pi x 5^2=79mm^2 vs a DSLR, conservatively 60mm diameter is pi x 60^2=11309mm^2.

So 143 times the lens area, while your example exposure time is only 75 times more. So your example of a 5s exposure would be similar to a 1/30s DSLR exposure only based on lens area.

With the advantage of bigger sensor pixels and thus much better sensitivity, larger aperture, usually stabilization in the lens, and much, much less motion of the subject during that exposure as well, the DSLR still wins on absolutely everything except weight to lug around.
Does Apple even matter anymore?
Why is tech infested with know-it-all libertarians? Honestly, do you think we'd all be better off in a lawless anarchy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
It's blind faith if its only presentation is snarky commentary.
That assumes a degree of agency in your ability to refuse sex that is not necessarily the case in many high prevalence countries.
> I already have my current place wired with VOIP, but in my next home I'm going to get a landline.

Good luck.
You are right - Terraform does have the ecosystem, but the new kid on the block is Pulumi.

Pulumi = Terraform in Typescript. That's good as well - but i was not sure if the OP is familiar with Pulumi
But advertising is explicitly designed to skew that measure - the purpose of essentially all advertising, and certainly all of Coke/Pepsi's advertising, is to convince people that they need something that they don't need; and to make them appeal to their feelings instead of their rationality when doing purchasing decisions (e.g. by inspiring brand loyalty).
Same reason "Let's just throw it away and rewrite it the right way this time!" is such a common failure mode of engineering projects.

While it nearly assures the death of the project, it's so enticing due to its simplicity.
Interesting. Where do you live? This page, https://www.att.com/local/fiber/california/san-francisco, advertises $50 "Plus taxes. 12mo. agmt req’d. Incl 1TB data/mo., overage chrgs apply. Ltd. Avail/areas. See offer details"

EDIT: Lower down the page it says "Starting at $70/mo. plus taxes for 12 months for Internet powered by AT&T Fiber", so looks like the top of the page is some kind of algorithmic promo? Also, just to be clear, Sonic advertisements also include fine print regarding taxes.
iPadOS for Multitasking and Productivity
Kentucky using 'shocking' boats to show just how bad its Asian carp problem is
Nice viz. Doing better at capturing higher end, still seems low in upper ranks.
I think you’re right about the feeling. I know I fit the bill rather perfectly at least. I’ve had an/off preference for Apple products for about 30 years and it’s mainly been driven by branding. I don’t think price has ever been a serious stopping point for me personally. Not because I blindly throw my money away, but because it’s usually felt worth it. My old iBook g4 was expensive, but it still works, sure it runs Linux now, and it’s too slow for 2019, but it works perfectly fine. So does my original iPod, that now lives it’s life as a hopelessly ineffective external HDD for third-backups.

Recently though, Apple has lost the ability to make me feel good about their products (again I might add). It’s gotten so bad that I sold my MacBook Pro 13” i5 2018 edition and replaced it with a Surface Pro 6 also i5. The MPB never felt right, while the surface feels like something that was designed by Apple. This is completely anecdotal of course, but I find that I’m often not very unique. I mean, I’ve mainly bought Apple products because they “felt right”, so I’m fairly mainstream that way. If I’m not the only one who’s fallen off the bandwagon like this, then Apple might be headed for another no-jobs slump on the computer front.

You’re probably also right about the closed eco-system. I mean, I’ve personally been looking for an alternative because iOS is too closed for me, but I do agree that most people probably don’t care. It’s not like there is an alternative anyway, at least not if you want security, privacy or the ability to install your banking app.
> That's 80% meat, 20% fat.

And that ratio is before cooking. A nontrivial amount of the fat cooks out on the grill.
well the reason to switch from CDK to Terraform is that your infrastructure management becomes a lot more cloud agnostic.

That's basically what Terraform is for anyway. If you wanted, you could have scripted using the AWS SDK in python or something.

if that's not a concern, then i suppose CDK is as good as any (probably better, since its in Typescript...but then so is Pulumi)
Because workers, including creative and knowledge workers, have very little leverage until they are essentially one-of-a-kind holders of a high-level skill set. Which isn't to say that their skills aren't valuable, just not unique. The remedies are government intervention or collective bargaining, not everyone clamoring for one of the limited seats at the "subject matter expert" table.
That's still quite good compared to some parts of the country (like anyone who has to use Spectrum).
I wonder why it's so much more expensive in the united states.
This would be a good place to start

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/07/06/huawei-em...
What's the difference between a Battleship and a Destroyer? Are these defined per Country? Here in Australia we have the "Air Warfare Destroyer" but what exactly does that mean? Is it actually any different, or just a fancy name to obscure the fact that nothing has actually changed?
I just wanted to say thank you, because this is exactly the kind of HN discussion that I find valuable (and increasingly rare in public discourse). It's so easy to get on the "credit bureaus are evil" bandwagon, especially in this story where Equifax's statements are honestly downright insulting, and your comment made me put away my pitchfork for a second and reflect on the benefits that credit scores give us. Yes, there are certainly arguments that one can have about the respective costs and benefits of credit scores, but it's good to know we can have informed debate about those pros and cons.
I've never worked with Win32, just read about the more core bits of NT, and those seem quite nice although perhaps overgeneral. But I've always had a soft spot for oddball systems.