skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worldwide installed base of the Mac is 100 million. There only a bit over 2 million apps in the app store, so it seems unlikely a large proportion of those 100 million Macs are used to develop iOS apps.
I've always had really good results (performance and longevity) with Asus gaming boards despite them having all the LED "features." I just turn all that junk off in the bios.
Indeed.

There is also this statement:

> It’s not even an imposition. It’s opportunity. People can live in high-quality housing with access to extensive social as well as job networks

Here's the author is saying that "high-quality" housing and social network is supposedly stronger in urban areas. With regards to housing quality, I think the urban/suburban quality is highly debatable. In terms of social network as well, I think this is probably most true in the context of "professional network". Many people move to more suburban or rural areas precisely because of feelings of alienation and lack of personal connection traditionally associated with large urban areas. This has been remarked on by social observers for well over a century.

The most ironic thing about this whole post though is that it gives no credence to how the "future" predicted by the '90s kind of won: The Internet has made many professional and communication opportunities available to people wherever they may live. While we might not live in that IBM commercial version of an anonymized future where "The Internet does not care if you are X", we do live in a world where the internet has disseminated many of the traditional benefits of cities (and "civilization") to wherever a person may live. Knowledge, education, communication, art, work: all of these are much easier to obtain outside of cities now, and that has massively factored into why our current "future" has allowed that demographic shift into the suburbs to continue.
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I'm more concerned with the cold. Morning dark is a lot colder than evening dark
>I'm starting to doubt if we'll ever see another popular language displace the status quo.

That sounds a bit the end of progress. After all, Go, Rust, and Swift haven't been around for that long.

I might be open to an argument that ecosystem effects (libraries, training, etc.) lead to power law effects. But I'm not sure I believe that. I could equally well believe that the sheer scale of software development today lends itself to a lot of viable niches.
I believe these actions are egregious enough that they do warrant taking some action, a conversation at minimum. That being said, in my own experience there is a near constant undercurrent of political sentiment that I simply avoid because there seems little point in engaging only to cement how much we disagree. It's more low-key stuff, like mild comments about something someone read on Twitter or a snippet of political news.
If it really was a couple of weeks you may be within the return window.
What is the state of deep learning on AMD? Is this GPU usable with pytorch?
> it is my firm belief that the workplace is not a place to discuss politics, religion, or other highly personal and divisive issues

From the company's PoV you're correct. From the employee's PoV
I'm not convinced.
Yes, I thought of lactose, but the CNN article says consumers are looking for "less-sugary" milk. Is that really what they mean by "sugary", that it has lactose? I would have thought that "sugary" means, well, tasting of sugar, as in sucrose, i.e. sweet.

For the record, this is the other comment I refer to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21522662

But there seems to be some disagreement about its accuracy.
Yes, Google photos works smoothly. Any problem you faced while using it?
"__cfduid" is added by Cloudflare, and as far as I know, it can't be disabled.
1. I think we can agree that making a switch of OS imposes quite some costs. You made the switch to macOS and found it all right. Now imagine I'd make the switch from macOS to some other OS - I'm quite certain that it would be worse.

2. I've used Windows and macOS concurrently, and was always amazed at how bad the Windows experience was (though, yes, it has improved, and unfortunately, as alluded to by Gruber in his piece on the new MBP [1], Apple has paid too much attention to looks and not enough to functionality in the last half decade).

3. I found most "portable" options (eg Electron, qt, etc.) generally worse than native apps. Exceptions are pure CLI tools - they're great (use homebrew on the Mac to manage those!)

[1] https://daringfireball.net/2019/11/16-inch_macbook_pro_first...
I agree. The touchbar is a good feature. It's a shame that app developers haven't exploited it to its full potential.
No, I was explaining that it is not an open and shut case on a bare reading of the 4th,and I was explaining CBP's theory of law for the case.
The quality of MacOSX just degraded over the last 5 years or so. It became buggier and slower. At this point, I would actually prefer Linux for my main desktop instead of macOS (if the hardware is well supported by Linux). I used to like macOS, but just as the hardware, it became worse and worse. So, comparing the MacBook with another notebook with similar hardware quality which is well supported by Linux, I would prefer the Linux notebook.
Of course to reverse the trend Perl needs more programmers etc., but Perl for its own sake isn't really a compelling argument. The question really isn't "What's required to make Perl a more common language?" The question is, "Why should anyone choose Perl over another option?"

Certainly there's a "best tool for the job" approach that might suggest Perl for certain applications, but most of the time developers are saddled with using a single language for a task. Like choosing a hammer: You'd like to choose the one best suited for a job, but that job requires driving both 20d framing nails and brads and everything in between. Carrying an 18oz for the framing, a 10oz for the brads etc. isn't practical, so you choose the 18oz because it's the only one that will work for framing and you can still use the 18oz for the brads, you just need to use a light touch and be more careful.

All that said, I take it this article may not be entirely serious. If it had not been written by Larry Wall, I might take it as complete satire, as examples of the exact wrong reasons to champion a language.
0/10 Too thick, will not buy. Jony Ive wouldn't do this.

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I doubt many people use a wireless Magic Keyboard outdoors. I've used my last 3 apple laptops outside though... first two had no keyboard problems, the 2018 failed in less than 6 months.
I love my 15” 2017 MBP with a Touch Bar. It’s much easier to mute and slide the volume than my previous MBP. Safari and VScode have Touch Bar features I like. Glad they brought back the esc key.

On previous MBPs you still had to touch the fn key to use F1 etc... I do the same on my newer Mac. Press FN and you get what you need back.

Personally I don’t see why they get all the hate. It’s a little gimmicky but I don’t dislike it. The keyboard was my biggest gripe but Apple replaced it for free in a couple days.
Diamond doesn't even qualify as a rare substance on earth. Honestly, I don't know how the diamond racket has kept it together this long in the information age, but their racket can't collapse soon enough.
Can someone explain to me how Apple can justify only including a 720p FaceTime HD camera into the "the world’s best pro notebook"?

The last iPhone that had this FaceTime camera was the 6S, released in 2015. Since the iPhone 7 (2016) the phones have had at least a 1080p FaceTime camera. Given that FaceTime / Skype calls are such a common use case and rarely anyones uses external webcams anymore, why doesn't Apple use the existing camera system of the iPhone 11 for the MacBook?

Seriously, if I pay north of $4000 dollars for a laptop, why do I get an obsolete camera?
The book isn't for people who are able to write compilers.

When I discovered Hacker News, I'd never heard of Python. When I joined, I used Visual Studio Express, or rather Expresses because each was language locked. Obviously, I ran Windows. It was still four years until I bit the Emacs bullet.

Yeah, installing and running Pascal wouldn't be a problem for me now. But I remember a time when it would have been. I remember what that was like. Half of all programmers are below average. I'm certainly one of them.
Not parent, but I'm also a user that likes the Touch Bar (see comment history).

To answer,

> Do you usually blind type?

Yes.

> If so, what advantage does it bring to you to look down on your keys?

For simple actions (like opening a new tab) there is no need to look down on keys. IMO this is little Apple's fault, whenever I use a tabbable & Touch Bar-usable application I set the new tab button on the right. I usually place the trash button (on Finder, Mail and some other apps) on the middle of the Touch Bar.

For some more complex actions (like selecting an emoji/suggestion, or moving between photos, etc...) it's just as fast/faster to glance over and move your fingers instead of using shortcuts/trackpad.

> Also, in an optimal seating position (elbows at 90 degrees)

I'm not sure if I'm in optimal seating position, but...
(If you're meaning if my elbows are on the same height of the display yes)

> do your fingers obscure the visibility of the touch bar?

No, not at all. I can clearly see the Touch Bar whether my fingers are.
I've added a FAQ section to the site and have addressed this concern there.
Really I am pretty sure that they do apart from oddities like restriction son roles like the president
Whats with you guys and the ESC key? It's so far away do you actually use it? I map caps-lock to ESC/Hyper key which I find pretty useful.
2013 Air 13” here...
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The status quo had changed quite a lot in the past 10 years. Anything can happen.
I seriously doubt that illumos has the edac sorted out on newer parts. That's why i recommend running it in a VM.
You don't know her friends though. They might wear all rings covered with diamonds.
> You can buy a gun easily enough.

All you need is to know some guy.

> To have a loaded gun on your person you need to be well trained in most states.

All you really need is to grab a loaded gun and conceal it about your person. No paperwork required.
Traffic flow measured on various junctions
Originally saw this on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/dvqt8a/traffic_flow...
>> There is about 12g of these natural sugars per serving and show up on the label as simply "sugars" in the USA. Some consumers are turned off by this.

That's a reasonable explanation. I'm very confused by the CNN article's use of "sugary", which to me means "sweet" or "sweetened with sugar".
Agreed, as long as I am forced to use the TouchBar, it personally for me is not "the world’s best pro notebook".
yeah, i got one with touchbar, it's very bad and useless.

about butterfly switches... garbage
Chemical exposure in normal household settings (chlorine bleach, lemon juice, ammonia), diamond on sapphire, sapphire on sapphire etc. Just chlorine exposure over time (swimming, doing household cleaning) can actually weaken sapphire to the point of disintegrating.

Remember, precious and semi-precious stones are just fancy chemical compounds.
> There have been more Chrome/Firefox 0-days than speculative execution vulnerabilities exploitable in Javascript (0).

sure dude, sure
They'll probably now resort to kindly asking to view the contents of your phone and laptop, and when you don't give it to them, they'll take that as the "reasonable suspicion" they need to force you.

The courts decided good, but in practice it wont matter at all.
I have a Clevo laptop (a few years old now) and even at the time, it was not exactly state of the art in terms of weight, battery life, etc. It's proven to be a fairly tough beast (even having fallen off my bike and lived). It is, unlike many new laptops, relatively easy to open up for upgrades and repair. Getting Apple's 'fit and finish' means a closed box.
When it’s chocolate or strawberry flavored.
I'm trying to figure out what you mean by "white supremacy" because you use it so often it seems like something nebulous.

--

So it seems that "white supremacy" is a catchall term for anything that argues a biological basis for group differences. Thank you for the links and for not just being aghast that I didn't know this. :]
You're saying that like macOS is a plus here.
> Don't they have to present a warrant in the US if they decide to detain you in the middle of the night?

No, even if they don't have any of the bases for a no-warrant arrest, they don't have to present an arrest warrant. They don't even have the warrant with them, the arresting officer only has to have knowledge of the warrant’s existence.
There are a lot of "ideal" languages out there that are overwhelmingly under used - haskell, erlang, etc.

Meanwhile, Javascript and Python are eating everyone's lunches. .NET and Swift are doing pretty well too, but JS in particular is derided as a "bad" language with tons of problems, yet it's bursting at the seams with developers. How can this be so?

Frankly, it's because you can take a random person off the street and turn them into a decent JS developer in like two weeks. JS may be formally inconsistent, but it's seems easy enough for most people to get it. It's quick to see and get results, so new developers don't get discouraged.

If Perl wants to be popular, it needs to attract users on how easy it is. This was one of the shifts Python has made over the years (getting easier for new users) and it continues to grow its userbase.
For mass transit, a myriad of smartphones, e-bikes and smart buses seems like hell. Don't forget the "mass" part...
I'm not saying that moissanite's slightly lower hardness will cause problems in use as jewelry. I'm saying that, contra the parent comment's implication, it's very easy to tell the difference.
Anecdotal, but my Asus Z170i from 2015 has been solid for 4 years. Doesn't have any lights, maybe there wasn't room for them in the miniITX form factor.

EDIT - had the date wrong, it was mid-2016.
Implementing a Call Stack in a 16-Bit Virtual Machine Written in JavaScript
Everything is relative to the discussion and beliefs at hand. If you want to disagree about fried chicken, fine, have your beliefs even if I think you're wrong.

If you want to disagree about, say, LGBT rights, then I will probably deem that you are the bad person. That's how strong, deeply held beliefs work. I'm sure if I tried hard I could come up with an example of a belief that would make you consider me a bad person if I stated it as a coworker.

What you're describing is just that your values differ greatly from "new culture" values, not some new entitlement among young people.
You can search a whole info file just as quickly as a man page, and using the index you can jump to the canonical docs for any argument or command in one go (ever spent time trying to find the hyphen-character section of a man page but struggled because it's referenced in 10 places?). I'll admit that whenever in man or info, I will generally go straight to the examples section because that's just how my brain works, but at that point I appreciate that info files aren't stingy with detail.
Of all mammals, only humans drink milk into adolescence/adulthood. And only a few of them actually do it regularly.
It's funny how stubbornly arrogant Apple is, they could have taken over a huge swath of PC/workstation market share if they had undone these bad decisions years ago.

They don't really care, they are a phone company now, I get it, but still. The arrogance is astounding.
> How on earth do you use Emacs without an ESC key?

Hmm, I think I've never used my ESC key when using Emacs, I bind Ctrl to Caps-Lock and call it a day.

BTW, I also frequently (~3-4 times a day) use vim, and I never found it hard to edit with the Touch Bar Esc key. I can find the Esc location without looking, I'm pretty sure anyone can do that. It's just simple: just press the most left part. The non-display part left on the esc button display also works as the esc key, so no problem with that.

(Yes, and that's why I believe that people who hate the Touch Bar b.c. of the no Esc key have never used the MBP. It's really a non-issue.)
"Holy heck, they re-added a physical escape key. That's a huge improvement"

Amazing how this can be the first comment. What would be next? USB ports? Even jack ports on the iPhone?! /s
Still better than the current MacBook, sold!
> upper management/owners can choose to do the most profitable project, and the employee's choices are to quit or comply

Comply with what? How would you quit over a project that you aren't even told about? This "employee's choice" makes no sense when the employer creates an intentional information blackout to hide its questionable activities from scrutiny.
I believe it's

uniform(missing-middle(built form))

built form: function, shape and configuration of buildings as well as their relationship to streets and open spaces.

missing middle: built forms between high-rise buildings and single detached homes which promote walkable urban living and fit into the character of many residential neighbourhoods, which "have gone ‘missing’ from many of our cities in the last 60 to 70 years."
"The new Magic Keyboard also features a physical Escape key..." well that's what I call a feat.
I'm not an expert. From what I can tell on my phone, USB interface isn't available unless developer options are first enabled, and then USB debugging is enabled, and the phone is unlocked, and then once an initiate USB connection is made the user needs to acknowledge the host USB trying to make a connection which requires the phone is unlocked to see and acknowledge the request.

So, offhand I'm not sure to what additional degree a user is at risk if they have developer options and USB debugging enabled, if they're also unwilling to hand over their unlock code. Obviously if neither debugging nor developer options are enabled, they can be trivially enabled once the unlock code is entered.
I initially found the touchbar to mostly be a gimmick, new for the sake of being new and not really bringing anything useful to the table.

A couple of years later and I'm a convert. If I had to buy a new MBP today I would definitely make sure it has a 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. These are seemingly insignificant quality of life improvements, but I definitely miss them when on a machine without a touchbar. Conversely I haven't missed the Fn-keys, not even once.

That hardware esc key looks tasty though, I hope they bring that to the 13" model.
Ironically, that's the exact definition of a business in modern neoliberal growth capitalism. Grow grow grow, consume all resources, eat all competition. "Natural equilibrium with the environment"? Please...
Went up this morning on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04523
I think at the point where everybody's wearing rings with set stones, they mostly stop fist bumping.
If your social circle closely overlaps with your work colleagues, I would take that as a symptom of a dysfunctional work/life imbalance.

Teleworking is a major benefactor to breaking that imbalance. Typical IT workers out of every 24 hours you spend about 9 working, 8 sleeping, 2 on commuting and 3 on grooming, meals and chores. That leaves just 2 hours of uncommitted time in which to fit me-time, sports, hobbies and friends. So some things will have to give.

Teleworking doubles the amount of time you have uncommitted. That is not just a 100% quantitative increase. 4 hours can fit things that 2 hours just can not, as any outhouse activity (gym/evening class/pub/cinema/theater/...) has setup/travel/wind-down time as well.

Teleworking, or more general, the absence of the typical commute is what enables you to have a social life.
The bar thingy itself I don't care about (hopefully it can be switched off or, as a last resort, damaged by sticking a nail into it or something ;) - the problem was that my beloved Esc key had to make room for it which is absolutely, positively, a no-go. Apple seems to have fixed that so I can consider the 16", though probably I should wait for this "innovation" to make it to the 13". When will the 16" be in stores for checking out?
...to those who choose to run it, yes, it is.

I've noted this in a few other comments here but there's more to it than just the base computing system. Apple products as an ecosystem dwarf whatever you'd cobble together in some homegrown Linux-based setup, and Windows in general just feels... really messy, like there's no clear consensus on how the ecosystem should work.
What does FreeNAS have to do with OpenBSD?
Are you looking for this page? The 13 and 16 inches now have separate pages to select which version you want to buy.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-inch
I got to the 3rd "the world’s best pro notebook" before I even finished the first sentence and gave up.
> TLDR: psychologists got themselves an exception to the constitution (not psychiatrists mind you, technically not even psychologists, they're "social workers" and they have no consistent degree, sometimes no degree at all)

Wellness checks are usually done by polcie officers alone, not social workers, and it's not like the rule was lobbied for by social workers, so there is no even remote sense in which it is accurately described by your TLDR that social workers got themselves and exception to the Constitution. If anyone got themselves and exception, it was the law enforcement establishment, police and prosecutors.
Evidence of bacterial transmission: probiotic capsule to blood in ICU patients
I got a refurb XPS 13 9370 that still seems to be doing fine after a year (I run Fedora on it). I'd previously owned a latitude and while I thought it was a good machine, I wanted something lighter - the quad-core U-series CPUs finally convinced me to try an ultrabook :)

I have heard the XPS 15s tend to have more "issues."
I hope the future is more distributed teams and therefore more remote jobs, so people can get good jobs wi5thout having to move to a big city or its suburbs.
You can still hit ESC on a touchbar Mac. You tap the end of the touchbar where the ESC key should be. It's annoying and unnecessary, but it's not like they just pried the key out with a screwdriver.
That's for unlimited data. They offer a prorated, $10/gb plan as well.
De Novo Design of Proteins
Because the reasons are fairly obvious to everyone here. Smartphones are basically an extension of our brains. They are our eyes, ears, mouths, and memories. Searching a smartphone (and usually copying its contents) is an invasion of privacy far beyond flipping though a ship log or traveler's diary, so that precedent isn't good enough to establish reasonableness.
> Your colleagues are not an authentic social network who you can organise with and pursue activism. You aren't hired to do that. While you are naive for thinking you could, it's not entirely your fault. Google brainwashed you.

Well, this is exactly the question at stake. And it's not Google that makes some of us believe that it is indeed possible to not be estranged from our labor, but the history of human cooperation related to sharing our labor and other resources.

We dream of sharing labor and governance of said labor. To say Google did not hire their employees to do that is resorting to one level of rules (legal or operational). But these employees are implicitly contesting a deeper level of rules (constitutional). The question of _who we are_ is deeper than any contracts or protocols that Google explicitly defines.
Everyone I know with it does the $20/mo + $10/gb plan.

If you don't use more than a gig or two a month, that's close to one of the cheapest plans around. There are some cheaper prepaid plans, though.