skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funnily enough the Tic-Tac description looks quite close to the fictional "Droplet" in Liu Cixin's 3 body problem. This is fiction so the author might have been influenced by this event.
Or they knew about the bug, but considered it just a visual glitch (not considering people might get upset about privacy implications), and didn't prioritize fixing it.
Some employees literally doxed their colleagues. This has nothing to do with a "bubble" and more to do with being a terrible human being.
Today I learned...

Presumably those cows are treated quite well too. I've been stuck in cow related traffic jams before and I've seen how well they're regarded, so I can only assume milk cows are taken very good care of. Injections seem like they would be off the table because they're both not free and inflict pain. That means there are probably calves involved. Any idea what happens to them?
16-Inch MacBook Pro Released
Nah, I would think he's their friend as his role is likely to mostly involve promoting "company culture" in all-hands meetings and via the corporate blog.

It's facts that they all avoid or diligently rework to fit their version of the truth.
So that's a neural network thing? If the input is 'word space' it trains to detect buzzwords?

I'm honestly interested - do we hobble our neural networks with our choice of training space? If for instance, the HN-NN-input space including 'prepositions and word-frequency statistics', would the network train for sentence sophistication? Just because those stats were in front of it?
>Stickers do not work

They do though.
`info x | less` gives you a better info browser than info
> But what if your coworker likes attending KKK rallies and you're African-American? Or your co-worker is out there on the weekend holding signs that say "Death to Gays" and you just happen to be gay?

What's the solution for the people in your country who are attending these rallies and holding up these signs?

This boycott model of employment will eventually have them fired from minimum wage jobs too. So where would these people work? They have a responsibility to contribute to society, make money, support themselves, pay taxes.

I would not like to see such people as my coworkers but I'm at a loss as to what should be done with them. As the years go by, robots will do more repetitive and manual jobs. Where would such people be exiled to work?

To a large extent, if we both showed up to work, accepted each other's pull requests, acted professionally and respectfully and went home, I'd be ok with it as a compromise.

Broadly though I'm finding it difficult to reconcile the prospect of someone exceptional who is working at a top tech company, with someone whose intelligence is low enough to advocate outright racism or bigotry. It seems like the example is very far fetched, and doesn't do much to advance whatever point you're trying to make.

I think it's probably best to use a more realistic example, wherein the prospect of working side by side with someone would honestly not be so daunting.
Is it "tensions" if 1 or 2 out of 100's of 1000's of employees get fired?
>save a requirements.txt

pipenv

https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/managing-dependencies...

https://dev.to/yukinagae/your-first-guide-to-getting-started...
Why is it limit only?
Why cannot I turn it off entirely?
And why does it take 6 clicks of separation go get to these settings?
why? It's never explained why
This reads like a mid-2000's "BSD is dying" slashdot post...

1) GNU extensions aren't always well thought out or standardized. Assuming everywhere is a current GNU userland will break frequently on multiple non-Linux OS's - look up trying to use `awk` on MacOS, which has BSD derived version.

2) Trendy developer conveniences with half-assed security like containers aren't really in line with OpenBSD's goals. If you want isolation, look into chroot, pledge, and unveil.

3) I'd blame Cisco in this case, not OpenBSD.

4) Says who? If a browser works, most people will be happy. The main use case for OpenBSD is network appliances like routers and infrastructure serving.
Most of it will be used for cache by kernel if you don't use the image building and Clair on the same host.
Where are you getting this? Standard white milk in America does not have added sugar, not even low-fat milk.
So depending on how carry is calculated that would be 4.24% or 2.24% performance per year. That is far below the average return of the market.
Not exactly correct, the Supreme Court still has to accept the appeal onto its docket. Many of times, the Supreme Court will disregard the case and leave it to the lower courts to hash out.
>Google has a major lawsuit on its hands, regardless of whatever arbitration agreement it makes new-hires sign. Google is causing harm by capturing employees hearts and minds.

What's next, suing a woman because she breaks your heart?
Driving a lot of LEDs: https://mobile.twitter.com/GregDavill/status/119251563062629...

Processing video (especially if you have weird requirements like 14 bit greyscale input): https://gregdavill.com/blog/2018/9/9/boson-camera-project-pa...

Experimenting with non-mainstream CPUs:
https://www.thanassis.space/myowncpu.html

https://github.com/cliffordwolf/picorv32
My programming job was really hard, and a lot harder than grad school in econ. I personally think domain matters a lot.
Why People Use Stickers and How You Can Make a Profit of Them
What's 'CP'? Is that supposed to be PC (Probable Cause)? I still don't get it.
> Featuring a new Magic Keyboard with a redesigned scissor mechanism and 1mm travel for a more satisfying key feel, the 16-inch MacBook Pro delivers the best typing experience ever in a Mac notebook.

Feels like they claim "best typing experience" every time they release a new laptop.
My bet would be General Partner, LP = Limited Partner?
Looks like you get your escape key back, that's nice.
Too little, too late. If it weren't for the OS, which they are also butchering, I would've moved away from Apple sooner.
Maybe because they started out so low, and there was a long way to go with improvements.
Wow, what a great post.

The most interesting question for me is, if you are a company with VC money and they are on your board, does the age of the vintage of the fund the money came from impact the strategy of the company down to a product level?

It looks like you could literally calculate/estimate the time left in the fund and see how much pressure it will put on the CEO to get positioned for an exit, then predict that impact on product, and the entire culture of the company.

e.g. "we're an engineering driven company," vs. "the fund that gave us the money has 2-3 years left in it, which means all our product decisions are based on getting positioned for a forced exit, so create tech debt and STFU."
This could sort-of work.

In The Netherlands, healthcare is billed according to a"diagnosis-threatment combination" (DBC, diagnose-behandel combinatie in Dutch), which is a government-mandated set of billing codes. Each code covers the whole diagnosis/threatment pipeline, for example "uncomplicated total knee replacement" which covers imaging, surgery, and a few days of revalidation until you leave the hospital. As these codes are standardized, it is relatively easy to know in advance what it's going to cost the insurance company.

The codes are sort of overlapping, for example a breast MRI has it's own code (usually 270eu, but with outliers both ways), but there's also a code for the combination of a mammography, breast MRI + lumpectomy.

Hospitals are nowadays obliged to publish these pricelists, even though insurance is mandatory etc., after some court cases involving uninsured people not knowing costs in advanced. Just having these lists could work wonders in terms of transparency.
He says while commenting on web site based in the USA
I love Perl, but this is delusional
And it's never true (or hasn't been for awhile at least). It's clear they're engineering for thinness above all else, usability be damned.

I'm typing on a 2014-era Macbook Pro right now and I doubt any new scissor keys are gonna feel better than this. All of the newer Macbook Pros I've typed on have been terrible.
This is not evidence against the above point.
Strange to be getting a "Page Not Found" error on this link: https://www.apple.com/us/shop/go/macbook_pro/select

Usually they put up the splash page prior to new Macs being available.
They're running out of ways to word their puffery.
Marco posted an update earlier - https://marco.org/2019/11/13/mbp16
Still no LTE modem?
I was so hoping for a constant bezel width. Unfortunately the top bezel is still a lot larger than the side ones. I know it's because of the camera, but that makes for an awkward looking device…
> I'd argue that titles, as long as they're neutral and accurate, have nothing to do with the upvotes you'll get.

This is nonsense. If the title is accurate, then it is closely related to the content, and the content has a lot to do with the upvotes you get.
It's really something that one of the first promotional photos on the page is a macbook hooked up to audio gear through daisy-chained dongles and adapters instead of just a regular USB or ethernet cable like it would've been in the old days. The price of thin.
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no". It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older.
How do you feel about openbsd's pledge()? I would really like something as simple as that on linux...
Is rural hobby farming a massively scalable lifestyle? Would it still be less detrimental to the environment if everyone was doing it? I can’t imagine how much land, forests, wild animals that would displace.
I don't see this going anywhere. There are too many arms manufacturers in the US, and many of them strictly military arms. The defense industry is not going to be sued by those families with deaths, because some nation state bought some fighter plans or bombs.
I know this is becoming repetitive, but seriously still no optional touchbar? I mean for gods sake, why?

Doesn't pretty much all professionals from programmers to editors to musicians _still_ use function keys as part of their workflow when touch-typing?

I mean if the touchbar was above the function keys it would be an added bonus, but removing function keys for "professionals" is like telling a pianist that he now has to play on a touch-keyboard with no tangents.

I am more than ready to pay for an upgrade but now i am going to keep my still excellent 2014 pro with no stupid gimmicks and a good keyboard.

EDIT: To all the people downvoting me, why? Why on earth earth downvote a fellow pro addressing an obvious downgrade - am i missing something? Why jump on a bandwagon an "be an optimist" or "stop complaining" if this gimmick makes coding/working slower for us?

It reminds me of when most of the pro market fled the revamped Final Cut X Suite which was so dumbed down it was almost a "kids editing program" while Apple gave no fucks.

EDIT2:

To all the people saying they don't use F keys. I simply don't believe you. You also control brightness, volume and playback with these buttons and i have never seen anyone NOT using these keys without looking. Especially the volume keys all the way to the right tap-tap-tap without looking - i know you have done this ha!
Hope the keyboard in this one is a lot better
Attention to detail would be noticing that that is exactly what they state in their last paragraph.

What's the point of linking to the FDA definition anyway? Apart from it obviously being a result of lobbying, it's completely irrelevant to the question of whether or not plant milks are, well, milk. It is overly specific as is, for starters, nobody would deny that mammals other than cows give milk.

The only result following from the regulation you linked is that people selling milk can legally only drop the specifier "cow's", but not "donkey" nor "almond", before the word "milk". Plant milks will keep being milks, as they have been in the English language since at least the 13th century.
> The far greater purpose is for the man to signal commitment to his bride [..]
> You can’t bypass that sort of thing.

Q: Any actual evidence that cash is any kind of reliable signal for commitment to a relationship? There would appear to be plenty of celebrity divorce counter-examples.

[In the spirit of full disclosure: my wife didn't want - or get - an engagement ring]
I have a Pro at work and dislike its keyboard so much that I still have a 2013 Air at home. This is the first Pro I’ll consider in a long time because of the Esc key.
it's also used in high frequency trading (market data processing, order passing, light strategies)
"Bad JSON Parsers" Bad: 0.0006 - Good: 0.9992

"Bad XML Parsers" Bad: 0.9998 - Good: 0.0003
I'm astonished and pleased to see they walked back the two worst things about the original Touch Bar MBPs - the lack of a physical Escape key, and the full-size left and right arrow keys.

The lack of physical function keys remains regrettable, and the Touch Bar is still no worthy substitute, but perhaps this is a sign that Apple is finally interested in listening to feedback from its long-term customer base, even if that feedback conflicts with the design team's desires.
Having real engineers with 6 years education on assembly lines is very important, and I'd say that's one of the reasons why China has so much success in manufacturing.

Without engineers among line workforce, there will be nobody to spot and correct tiny manufacturing defects and mistakes in the design that would otherwise be quietly "duct taped" and forgotten.

For my 10 years in OEM manufacturing, I haven't seen a single design that the factory people didn't send back to the client without a long "to fix" list. And those designs were coming from rather serious clients, with serious in house engineering.
Would it materially harm a company with a trillion dollar market cap to offer a version of this without the touchbar (thus yielding a lower price), so people can afford to upgrade the soldered memory and NVMe drive?

Would it also harm them to make a version that didn't have soldered memory/NVMe drive?

Ultimately, this is why I switched to a Dell Latitude. Being user hostile to basic memory/disk replacement doesn't fly with me when spending $1500+ on a machine.

And if replacing either breaks the crypto chain - I don't need a black box T2 chip, I'll do my own disk encryption.
Yup, symbolism. Gold and precious stones are eternal in some ways.
> Being fired from Google amounts to not just losing a job but "friends" and the only people who the company encouraged socializing with.

That's something I experienced. I was laid off after 15 years and really I was laid off from my friends too. The company even monitored social media accounts which at the time seemed bizarre but now it's common. I was told by someone still working there HR declared unfriending a fellow employee was considered bullying.

I'm trying my best not to put all my eggs in one basket. I'm trying to make friends outside of work. Everyone knows you shouldn't date a coworker but really we should also not base our entire social life around coworkers either.

But as mentioned above you are in that bubble. Apple even went so far as to encircle everyone with their new building.
Well, step 1 is finding an answer to the question in the title. Can it?
The remoteStorage reference client can also sync with Google Drive and Dropbox:

https://remotestoragejs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-sta...
There's a difference between using the computer and expecting privacy on it. It's entirely possible that you're not supposed to use certain equipment for personal use, but if you do it anyway, that doesn't erode your right to privacy.

I'm not saying this is always the case in the EU, though. Obviously there is equipment where for many reasons it's absolutely vital that you don't use it for anything personal. I'm not supposed to run a torrent client on the company server, for example. You can't just "borrow" a company car for a personal trip. But when I happen to use the laptop that the company has assigned to me to work on, to do a bank payment, my boss has absolutely no business knowing the details of that transaction.
An "accept our cookies" window blocker would be so incredible. I mean how are they even getting informed consent when I can't tell what's going to happen when I deny the request? I want to read an article, not judge whether you're trying to invade my privacy.

Firefox, please treat "can set cookies" as a permission and allow me to set it to "ask" by default, and allow it to be toggled by clicking on the site permissions lock box. The existing user interface does not give me any control.
After much deliberation, I bought a 2017 13" MBP, upspecced to 512GB SSD and 16GB RAM. While I've not had a complete failure from the keyboard, it did need looking at at the Apple Store when it also had the entire display assembly replaced because the keyboard had damaged the screen - despite me looking after it well, always putting it in a soft slip case and then a laptop bag.

While I've liked some elements of the design, it's not (to me) a Pro piece of kit, and I've sine replaced it with a 2016 15" MBP which is much better built and doesn't need extra dongles to connect to everyday devices (and has magsafe, which is the best piece of design I've seen in many years).

Given this performance, I'll never buy a new Macbook again - particularly given all the issues about thermal throttling, battery life and indeed the way that macOS seems now to be going.

Don't get me wrong, there are elements of the 2017 MBP that I love - it looks amazing, the screen is fantastic and it's just so precisely made. But the lack of ports, the lack of ruggedness, the keyboard and the performance outweigh any 'look, shiny!' feeling I have about it - so much so that I've not sold it because I feel like I'm stitching the buyer up - even though they've not held their price compared to previous models, which shows that people know this to be the case, and the keyboard still has the 4 year warranty in place.
> Mac Pro starts at $5,999 and Pro Display XDR starts at $4,999.

Is this the first time we got a starting price on the Mac Pro?
So basically they made what the 2016 lineup should've been.

In November 2019.

OK.
Holy heck, they re-added a physical escape key. That's a huge improvement. a slight shame they didn't just move the touchbar up and re-add the F key row too, but it is a good compromise and improvement regardless.

This could be the one a lot of people have been waiting for if the new switches/design pans out.

PS - Although I might be an unusual demographic as I touch type and wouldn't use the touchbar regardless (since I look at the screen, not the backs of my hands while I interact with a Mac).
Yeah... at this point I half expect to read from Apple:

“When we changed the key travel from 1.0mm to 0.5mm, it was so much better that it became the best keyboard in the world. And now, with the change from 0.5mm to 1.0mm, we’ve made it even better than ever: Welcome to the world’s best typing experience.”
"Elon Musk writes Redis blockchain Golang" -> Bad: 0.0041 - Good: 0.9955 :D
Britain has excellent sea connections, several existing large car manufacturers take advantage of that. (Germany does too, with river transport.) I doubt the land transport makes a significant difference either -- a good rail network extends across the whole EU, and there is car manufacturing in Spain, Romania etc.

I'm not going to pretend I'm in any way able to make a reasonable comparison, but companies like Ford and Nissan appear to have had no intention to move their UK manufacturing to Germany.

Tesla certainly considered it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/13/tesla-cit...
Great, now I hope they make a 13-inch version. There's no reason to sacrifice mobility in a pro laptop.
A first look at the 16-inch MacBook Pro
The other side of that coin is that a lot of women renege on the commitment at the first sign of trouble and leave the man broke and hopeless. I have witnessed it several times. The double standards in our society are glaring.
To any business, $10 / month is literally nothing. If you pay $10 / month as a person, then I can see why it matters, but to a business that amount is nothing.
Was in certain parts of the Apple website before.
Yeah, but it takes a lot less of them than it does to manually weld. I’m not saying this is better or worse, but stating what it is.
Will the fan make something this time or will it be a placebo again?
Made a special point to request an Air instead of a Pro when I started my new job recently. Office manager was confused and insisted everyone else was using Pros but I stayed strong. No regrets.
In the UK and the `Buy` button redirects to a not found page.

https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/go/macbook_pro/select this 404s for me.
If you turn up in another country, sure, I have no problem interacting with you (assuming that you don't support the policies of your state). If I travel to the US though, I'm just as powerless against the state as you are - in fact, even more so - and so I'll avoid doing so.
Anyone has price prediction for this beast ?
Don't the claim the best everything everytime they release a new anything?
I think you can downvote after getting 500 karma.
This is great. But what is it?
It's because number theory is ancient. The concept of primality is millennia old. The words used to describe numbers are thus built up over a very long time, and often were meant to evoke imagery, concepts, or even personalities.

If you examine younger branches of mathematics with fewer numbers, like topology or category theory, you will find more systematically-named rules and more systems named for people. The list of separation axioms [0] is the best-known example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_axiom
Elon Musk unveils brand new technology

Good: 1.0000 :)
I feel like LTE modems in laptops are pointless since virtually every smartphone is capable of creating private hotspot to share LTE connection.
This depends on what you need out of it. I found it difficult to install despite being somewhat technical at the time. My goal was a secure desktop install.
For those of you mentioning the esc key, I suggest mapping capslock to esc, I've been doing that for years now (both Linux and Mac) and it's awesome. Except when you're using someone else's computer and constantly turn capslock on and off...

Edit: You can do this natively since Mojave(?) in the keyboard settings without having to resort to something like Karabiner.
How does tape over a camera prevent remote takeover specifically?
> The new Magic Keyboard also features a physical Escape key

Thank god for the return to sanity
Scissor keys are the old ones that everyone likes. It was butterfly keys that people have the problem with. Apple is going back to the good ones.
I'm sure they're still rolling this out.. the "buy" button on the MacBook page leads to "Page Not Found".[0] Unfortunate, because I've been waiting for the 16-inch ever since the first rumor came up..

[0] https://www.apple.com/us/shop/go/macbook_pro/select
If this holds up, then man... am I happy.

I ran the gamut looking for comparable laptops recently in an effort to figure out what I'd do if they didn't get it together, and the options really vary and nothing feels as nice.
It's starting at the same price as the previous one, $2399
Memo from a Climate Crisis Realist
It feels like a single child is in charge of directing, writing, editing these marketing materials. It’s the “best”? Surely that alone will convince your customers who saw how you made the worst laptop keyboard ever when you shrank the depth. Surely you want to convince them you fixed that issue. Oh? You’re just going to ignore it and say its the best? The baseline price is $2400? In the highly competitive $1500+ laptop space? Bold move, Cotton.
It seems to be a global issue.

Edit: Replaced the _ with a - and it works