skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are Radeon GPUs for ML applications these days? I always found it strange that the dev community was willing to invest in proprietary CUDA.
Glad to see the counterfeit situation finally having repercussions.
On Windows and Linux, there are some useful shortcuts: F2 to edit the cell you're currently highlighting in a spreadsheet, F6 to focus the browser address bar.
If the touchbar works best for infrequently used actions then is it worth it to use so much of valuable keyboard real estate and sacrifice tactile feedback for infrequently used actions?

I think the touchbar is a cool idea and I loved that Apple explored it innovated. But I also think that ultimately it's not a good idea and good design. Particularly for the power users.
> The new Magic Keyboard also features a physical Escape key

Hallelujah!!
Totally wrong, his arguments were from the current era of science and not racist. They weren't even close to that.
Considering these are vulnerabilities in the underlying protocol/spec created by 3GPP (US, South Korea, majority Japan, with a single Chinese partner) and ratified by the UN's ITU, and exist on handsets that implement 5G as spec-ed from all over the world, nearly 0% chance.

What's your basis for the claim "Chinese vendors" did it?
It wasn’t just Reader... have you paid attention to the other stories?
I'm guessing you're trolling, but just in case not, or for anyone else who doesn't want to look at Apple's web page:

It's four USB-C/thunderbolt ports, two on each side, and a head-phone jack.

BTW, magsafe is an optimization from a bygone era when you had to keep your laptop plugged in while using it. You can now (generally) leave your laptop unplugged as you use it and stow it somewhere out-of-the way to charge when you aren't. Like your phone or tablet. Magsafe is nice, but probably not worth it now that you don't need to routinely charge your laptop in a vulnerable position. And, of course, USB-C is very easy to plug in.
In that case, I'll be a software longshoreman going forward.
I'm using awesome wm.

What was the problem with gnome? I vaguely recall a problem with polkit or something.
Wow! The "New Magic Keyboard." I wonder what it is. Oh, wait, it's the old scissor keyboard. "Largest Retina display ever." With 226ppi... But the Esc key is back! I'm so excited! /s
Example:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-cat... (bing search etc)
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It's hilarious to me that their own marketing image has two dongles plugged into the laptop so that the user can still use USB.

Apple please for the love of usability: please give me back USB. I AM the pro that you want to feature in every one of your marketing videos. I have a music studio in my house, I build interactive lighting installations for the biggest music festivals in the world, I build custom hardware controllers for fire effects that travel all over the country, I travel around the world teaching people how to build hardware devices, and when home I spend the majority of my time teaching and building software that people love; I use my laptop for over 10 hours a day.

All of this stuff uses USB. ALL OF IT. Having to carry around stupid dongles all the time is the biggest pain in my ass when I'm trying to do all of this stuff. PLEASE give me back USB, you can even call it the "stupid loser old crappy loser lame macbook for loser non pros". I don't care. This nonsense minimalist sleek design stuff is actually harming my productivity.
Is there an app on Mac that does not support clover-T for new tabs?
I just upgraded from that to a 13" MBP. Very happy.
...and that's how people use their phone cameras. Very low-quality; very temporary.
In time of depression I often recommend to start drinking. But if anyone comes up with a better drug, it would be completely irresponsible to deny them this opportunity.
Is the Wpcom site itself a theme?
Maybe now that it's called a "Magic Keyboard" they will sell it as a stand-alone product.

I usually put my laptop in front of me with an external screen above it. That way I get used to the laptop keyboard and can feel right at home in a conference room or wherever.
In the unlikely even that this was an alien object, the fact that it resembles something out of fiction is irrelevant.
Adidas closing automated ‘Speedfactories’ in Germany, the U.S.
I think I'll try that. I guess that'll work for LinkedIn/Office as well?
However, not sure if the BYOD policy will like that.
That makes me queasy to think about. Culture is disgusting.
By "touch type", do you mean "without taking your hands off the home-row" or "without looking down?"

I can't do the former, but I can absolutely do the latter. I can change the volume and brightness without looking down, and do so all the time.

Maybe I'm unusual, but I don't think I am—it's not that hard to learn by feel which keys are towards the opposite ends of the top row.

What I can't do without looking is access the middle keys, namely F4–F9. If Apple wanted to put a touch-bar there, I'd find that perfectly acceptable—I wouldn't consider it a downgrade, at least. The bar would be pretty small by that point though.
That does make me wonder: why the hell is the capslock button so big? Seems like a huge waste of space.

(Edit: In case anyone else is wondering the same things, the main answers seem to be (1) on manual typewriters, both the shift and capslock needed to physically lift the entire carriage, and so required more force and was for some users a two-finger operation; and (2) all the buttons on the sides of the letters simply fill space to the edges, if we shorten the capslock, we'd need to put something else there or we'd move the A.)
But you are not him

And you still need to control your data

And you can't do that now effectively

And if people will defend corporations and hide its fu we will newer live in better world
Cockroach Labs PM here. During the rollout of the new license, we put together a quick license FAQ you can find here: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/licensing-faqs.htm...

Noted that this is not quite discoverable. I'll push to get that fixed on our end. We'll also include a brief overview of our motivation for the change.
2010 15” here, this might be the model that gets me to update...
Psst...I think you mean "silicium" :P

(before any of you start typing your answers: that's the joke)
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right... a "Pro" computer with only USB-C ports, no HDMI out, no SD card reader, soldered memory.... dongle dongle dongle. no thanks. (before i'm accused of being a troll. I have a MBP with all those things circa 2005 or so, it's old and slow AF now. But still works for what I use it for and I have quite a few PC laptops as well.
You need to have at least 2 apps installed from Google for it to show up.
Still no MagSafe charger. Instant skip.
I used the MBP with touchbar for work. I could not live without the physical escape key, returned the laptop and settled for a Windows laptop.
Arrest them all. And by them, I mean the NYPD. They are a menace to the public safety and peace, and they should all be on trial for misconduct, or being complicit in misconduct. Everyone who has participated and not worked to change that system is guilty.
I just read your username. Well played.
1. PTSD is in actuality frequently triggered by a single, discrete, traumatic event.
2. The feelings of ostracization/alienation and general disengagement from social discourse are indeed well known markers -- except, they follow, rather than lead the onset of PTSD. In other words, they manifest as a result of PTSD -- not the other way around.

Source: https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/ptsd/what-is-pt...
So the man is essentially being held hostage by giving something of value.

That's not a great start to a marriage

And why doesn't she have to do the same
True! But things do get released.
IMO the use of Linux for out of the box stability testing is poor unless you're absolutely certain the hardware config works perfectly under Linux without any specific tinkering.
I use the F11 key daily. By accident though and has me searching the keyboard for how to get out of full screen mode.

Also to your point about people having to look at the keys to use the F ones: why not replace them with something useful? If you are going to have to look anyway improve the situation.
Security researchers aren’t hedge funds, most aren’t swimming in cash, and can’t borrow millions on a whim. Also, pouring your life savings into a bet like this is probably dumb.
"Quick, click here!" gets Bad: 0.0037 - Good: 0.9970
This increasing spread of FAANG companies across all domains in an attempt to keep customers completely contained in their ecosystem reminds me of the megacorps in the Shadowrun universe. We are not too far away from the point where national law does not apply to them any more. It is certainly already hard to make tax laws stick. And all the googlers that are proud to slave away for that particular overlord remind me of the sarari men.
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This should be in bold type at the top of the page.

If they keyboard has actually been fixed, they might keep me as a user.
I can see this in a small number of situations, but how many developers use the laptop's screen and keyboard for coding?

Pretty much everyone I know and every workplace I've seen has proper monitors and keyboards for everyone (developers included). A laptop has terrible ergonomics. That makes the touchbar a bit pointless, except when working on a train or plane, or at a meeting or conference.
No haptic feedback. I am a hunt-and-peck typist, and there is nothing more frustrating than
1) opening a web page to the user manual;
2) starting a build;
3) closing a dialog box;
4) mistakenly completing a word I am typing;
all because my ring or middle finger brushed the touch bar.

It's a solution looking for a problem. It's garbage.
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I'm still using a 2010, and while I did upgrade to an SSD and added some RAM, it's still going strong. The only thing making me consider upgrading is that OS X upgrades stopped supporting it.
How would the app even acces the camera without user approval? They must have done some nefarious shit to get around apple’s ACLs.
Where do you read about stuff like that, out of curiosity?
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It goes against the entire idea of monetary sacrifice as a signaling mechanism for the buyer. Cheap diamonds are an antithesis to the signaling.

When my partner and I were married over 10 years ago, I bought her a ring and diamond for ~$7k. We were younger, and not so wise. With time comes wisdom. It now sits in a fire safe to be made into a pendant for our daughter; my partner now wears a $20 platinum band from Amazon, and I (occasionally) wear the $10 tungsten ring we bought when we were married (which is bookmarked for easy replacement if damaged or lost). Life is short, don't expend effort on something that doesn't matter. Take a trip together you'll both remember for a lifetime instead.
Nice. Hope these changes make it down to the 13" (or new 14") model.
You seem to be very focused on the API... but that's only half the product :-)
Nope, does not work.

More precisely, it received 3 votes, but then someone apparently was insulted by being called a leisurely butt and flagged the topic.
They are. Abalone hoe is awesome
Why would anyone buy shoes on Amazon? They own Zappos, whose focus is specifically footwear, and have a pretty good shopping experience. Never had a problem with counterfeits on Zappos.
> classic single-dispatchy languages like Swift

Is C++ not classic enough these days?
That’s it! Thank you
The only one it predicts well...is itself.
I can't speak for everyone at Netflix, and as you mention it may depend on the team, but in my team I don't think anyone cares. Why should it matter how many hours someone works a week, as long as they do a good job overall?
I don't get the downvotes, it's painfully obvious that any company that is not on an exponential growth path is a failure in today's world. And the opposite, a failed company (uber & co) on an exponential growth path is almost praised as a divinity.

There is no end game, we need more superfluous gadgets, faster things, smarter things, for what ? God knows, but it seems we can't do without it. We won't stop until we're forced to.
No, but I frequently find it easier to reach the Touch Bar (where only one finger needs to move) than to press Cmd-T (where two fingers need to move). I also use Cmd-T a lot too! :-)
In addition to this you can do something like mapping Shift+Caps Lock to be an actual Caps Lock toggle. Now you get 3 buttons for one and it works amazingly well.
Who would you prefer doing daily standups or long stretches of remote pair programming with?

The one with the low resolution, low contrast, washed out, low fps video that makes it hard to read emotion or even detect where his/her attention is?

Or the one with sharp features, pleasant colour rendition, high resolution, and maybe even a pretty bokeh in the background?

Humans love pretty pictures. See OKCupids[1] image analysis vs attractiveness for example. Shallow DOF = More attractive.

See also hanselman's[2] thoughts on the matter of having a high quality setup for remote work.

[1]: https://theblog.okcupid.com/dont-be-ugly-by-accident-b378f26...
[2]: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/GoodBetterBestCreatingTheUlti...
Turning off one's microphone is not so uniformly easy that failing to do so justifies the epithet "stupid." Sometimes you can only deny permission to use the microphone, not turn it off entirely. Sometimes permissions are reset in an update. With several devices on different platforms, it can be hard to keep track. And then, others around you may have their microphones on, and voice recognition seems to work.
German newspapers report that the availability of power from renewable sources was a big plus for Elon Musk.
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Insider information is not about the information itself, but rather the source of the information. The exact same piece of information could be insider information or not depending on who you heard it from. Think of it like a watermark or stain on the information. When the information is generated within the "insider" circle, it is permanently stained until that information is made public. Legally, this stain remains no matter how many hops it goes through. However, if the same information is generated by an "outsider" that figured it out, that same information is not stained.

Example: Your neighbor Alice is a hotshot executive at BigCorp. If Alice comes over to your BBQ and starts telling you about how bad their upcoming quarter is going to be, that's probably tainted information. However, if your other neighbor Bob comes to your BBQ, and starts talking about how grumpy Alice has been, and she's always grumpy like this when BigCorp is about to have a bad quarter... That's fair game. Same information, different sources.

That said, in the US I think there must be some indication or reasonable expectation that you knew or were willingly blind to the non-public status of the information.
I wish there was an open source FPGA silicon design.
Yep. This is why I made the linux switch and I'm a happy Dell customer because of it.
It wasn't just the design or testing process that was bad, it was how they responded and it's ongoing. The four-year free keyboard replacement program is only temporary and was only put in place after many people paid for the expensive repair while Apple stayed silent then claimed it affected very few people.

Now that Apple has alternative hardware what they do next is very important - will they replace the lemons or spend the next decade claiming they're not responsible in court? Will the four year keyboard program be extended or are the 2016 MBPs almost junk already?
> At no time did I have to demonstrate that I could safely bring my weapon from concealment to ready without shooting myself in the leg or a bystander.

It's not hard. If you pull the trigger, a bullet comes out (if the safety is off and if there is one in the chamber). So, simply don't pull the trigger until you are ready to fire a bullet. Most (if not all) people that buy guns, you included, understand this basic concept.

It's not like guns require massive amounts of experience to achieve proficiency. It's a simple tool, not a piano.
I have Karabiner Elements configured to toggle CapsLock with the LShift+RShift combination. Pretty handy, and unlikely to ever hit it accidentally.
It's in the top tier price range but I can assure you that, for the price, you get one hell of a machine.
When I’m doing work I use 2 external monitors with a keyboard and mouse. All the keys I need to be efficient are right on my full sized keyboard. I have a coworker who refuses to use more than one monitor (either his laptop or laptop closed with a small square monitor) so I guess people don’t like to use them.

For personal use I use it on my lap in a chair or on the couch. The extra time it takes to look down is not a show stopper. Switching tabs is nice in Safari because you get a slight preview and it’s also great for media controls.

Do you work on your MPB and do you use external monitors? What apps do you use the function keys for?

If you think it’s unused then take a look at these 3rd party apps.[1] Pock looks pretty cool.

[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-touch-bar-apps-...
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I disagree, this shows that it is not a niche concern, and management should be aware of the workers concerns, they can overrule them if they want, but your workers are you first set of customers, so you can expect a similar pushback from your main customer base. So again if you want to overrule concerns you have a better idea of what they are and how to challenge them.
Citibank is offering the card, Google is slurping the data. No big deal.
OpenSCAD is a nice example of how this kinda stuff can work. It's nowhere near viable as a general purpose CAD program, but the concept could easily scaled up to the level of SolidWorks.

Its file format works very well with version control systems, is human readable to an extent and can be opened with any text editor (so your data isn't 100% gone if one bit gets accidentally flipped).
That sounds like the laptop was dropped or had a drink spilled on it or something, I don't think you should stereotype the entire brand based on it.
What's that supposed to mean? Employers have no business looking at your social media accounts.
Sure, here's his original essay.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170809220001/https://diversity...
At least it comes with an SSD, unlike their iMacs which they still sell with 8GB of RAM and spinning rust disks.
Unless the secret is evil.
Days and nights will be the same length, regardless of which time zone you choose.
>Some eating habits cause us to eat more or less, while others seem to change our metabolism.

In other words, "calories in" and "calories burned".
He also gave nice presentation on AD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne99laPUxN4 (surprised that you didn't already mention it, considering the venue ;-))
Can't you just switch the touch bar to show the F keys? https://www.imore.com/how-make-function-keys-default-touch-b...

> Why on earth earth downvote a fellow pro addressing an obvious downgrade - am i missing something?

It's not an obvious downgrade to most people.
I started doing this because of the touchbar. Now I like this key mapping better, but I still hate the touchbar.
> It turns out app makers have found some nifty uses for it, like the ability to quickly mute/unmute when in conference calls, quickly changing volume/brightness, stepping through code while debugging etc etc.

Maybe I've just had a limited, poor experience with it, but from the apps I've used these functions are only available on the touchbar when the app is focused... which has the controls anyway.

I was using Skype for Business and it had the audio controls in the touch bar, and also on the screen about 1.5" inches above the touchbar. I wanted to mute and unmute when I had the app in the background, but I couldn't. Useless.
> they claim "best typing experience" every time they release a new laptop

What do you expect them to say?
Wayback link to the "official fundraiser":

https://web.archive.org/web/20170808155320/https://www.wesea...

Wayback link to front page of the site at the time:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170808121314/https://www.wesea...

Characterizations of the site:
https://www.splcenter.org/splc-lists-wesearchr-white-nationa...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/24/wesearchr-charles-johnson-al...

Alt right is a branding of "white nationalism":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right
Exactly what I was thinking: "Our pro customers tell us they want their next horse to have blazing-fast performance etc."
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Yes, all that is true, and why I used the word "willful" in my comment.
When you are kind to your wrists and use an external keyboard 90% of the time, it's hard to embrace a weird alternative input mechanism the other 10%.
Language popularity is almost exclusively driven by the ability for MBA's to hire cheap, mediocre/bad programmers to slash away at garbage heap codebases in said language, while endlessly billing customers for 'fixes/improvements'. If you have a good team with good tools, you have less billing to do and maybe not enough people to justify convoluted management structures and practices.

Good languages are fundamentally at odds with how most software companies do business. They don't want to train people, they don't want to do rewrites, and they definitely don't want to hire people who can change jobs at the drop of a hat (highly skilled persons). They want the bare minimum of all of that, and maximum billings.
1. User/Business Data

2. They have the computing and engineering power to optimize pretty much anything beyond where it is today.

3. User/Business Data
You didn't mean it in that way, but the parent comment you were responding to did mean it in that way. I don't think anyone could in good conscience argue that RHEL Desktop is the most widely used Linux platform, so I you're not gaining much by refuting that argument.

(As for your point, Google -- even on Android -- still uses plenty of software which is majority-developed by Red Hat and other Linux distribution companies. The kernel alone is an obvious example, but there are many others.)
Another challenge Perl has is that many of its advocates and developers have either retired or are on the verge of retiring.
Alternative for communication? Or something else?

I'd say email + SMS solves 99.9% of problems and also limits the garbage received because people can't be bothered to start/write an email and don't want to spend money on images in MMS/SMS.

My life is blissfully quiet because of this, or I have to physically see people which is much better than all the noise.

Perhaps most people would do alright with WhatsApp or Apple Messages for IM?

Seeing how much my wife's phone bings and beeps with her apps is enough to put me off it.
You are far more likely to be killed by a drunk driver in the US than by a gun. Your chances of being killed by a gun are basically zero (unless you are travelling to the US specifically to commit suicide), so that's a somewhat bogus concern