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Pretty bad. There is pytorch for rocm (AMD's CUDA emulation) but I don't think anyone actually uses it.

https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/pytorch/issues

I don't think you'll be doing much local ML work on this laptop
Honestly, I don't know why you'd bring up a nonbinding resolution by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in a serious discussion about federal law enforcement, the US military, and civil liberties. Their resolution is something you don't need to care about even if you live in San Francisco. (I had to google it)
Ask HN: What are your favorite freelance developer websites?
I'm in the process of creating a website for my development/consulting freelance work, and could use some inspiration.
Literally everything you've cited as a QoL improvement exist on most (if not all) laptops with physical F-keys.
That's literally how you could assume it's good for you but there are also plenty of studies that support the assumption. Plenty show that low-fat or non-fat yogurt and milk are "good" for you.

Humans have been milking everything they can get their hands on since prehistoric times. There are a number of reasons to not eat/drink those things (taste, vegan, intolerance, etc) but that doesn't suddenly make yogurt, milk, and cheese "bad" for you.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/food-features/y...
I loved the marketing copy in the "New Magic Keyboard" section...

Wow! A physical escape key?!? A scissor mechanism?!? Will the innovation ever cease?!!?!

But more seriously, kudos to them for the full 180 fix.

(Well, I know some hate the existence of the Touch Bar, but I think it has very interesting potential which perhaps could be realized with its major fatal flaw finally fixed.)
> Ladies and Gentleman, for the 17th year in a row, the future of robotics has arrived.

https://comb.io/8ajSgE
I wish it had one USB-A. I plug in a mechanical keyboard, and when a job provided the previous macbook pro, I managed to lose or break a dongle about once a month.
To be fair you could get the 15" for $2099 from various resellers
I find it interesting when people make a fundamental miscalculation like you did. They perform EXCEPTIONALLY well … when you start understanding who they are performing for.

Gold rush … something, something … shovels.

But I know. I know. I speak heresy on this site. I repent and beg for forgiveness for saying the kind has no clothes on.
It's a small detail, but I'm disappointed that they didn't make the screen edges curved as they have done with iPhone, Watch, etc. That little touch made it so much more organic/human - the square screen edges just look dated in comparison to that design improvement in their other devices.
What can banks do with your money?
How to Activate MTN 75MB for 20 Naira and 1.5GB for 400 Naira
Not sure whether to be relieved or concerned that this MBP isn't part of their extended keyboard repair program, but I'm leaning towards the former.
It does work. Despite the anti advertising rhetoric of Hacker News users advertising can and does grow many brands very quickly and profitably. I think you've hit on some reasons in your post why though many people fail at advertising. They want it to be a linear sort of thing when in reality it mirrors more of a exponential success or failure sort of model (not unlike startups) instead. Your creative and audience have to match and your offer has to be extremely compelling to get someone cold. It's also notable that direct response advertising, which many people conflate with the overall ads ecosystem is a actually a very small piece of the pie as it were. Most larger brands are fine losing money on a first interaction or sale because they have a good handle on CLTV. That said this specific article is about things like mobile app ads and website banners. It's actually much easier to succeed in walled garden environments like Facebook etc.
Not too long ago, the idea of the NSA & GCHQ working together to silently strong-arm tech giants to spy on their own citizens/customers was a laughable conspiracy theory.

Then we learned about PRISM. Hard proof that Apple, Facebook, Google, and the NSA secretly collaborate to mass-collect data on US citizens. It's 100% reasonable (and perhaps in our best interest) to assume any large tech company will and does cater to the NSA/CIA/GCHQ/Mossad's interests before their customers' - or even their shareholders'. Revenue and market share are important, but a powerful agency threatening your company takes priority over anything.

Until proven innocent, we should assume that any and every large tech-centric corporation either has been or can be forced to cooperate with PRISM. IMHO now that the public has access to the Snowden leaks and Vault 7, it is irresponsible (and perhaps dangerous) to think otherwise.
I'm perfectly capable of bad security on my apps without the use of 3rd party plugins, thank you very much!
It's definitely entitlement when your supposed "right to be heard" on non-work-related issues seems more important than the workplace disruption it causes.
It would be helpful for it to list the base specs and the max specs for ssd, ram, cpu, and gpu.
It's more about what it says to your partner, commitment through sacrifice and ability to provide
> going all in with lying in benchmarks against AMD

I'm assuming this is referencing the "intentionally misleading benchmarks" piece in servethehome. It's worth reading the follow up, in which the author discovers their biggest complaint (older version doesn't have avx2 enabled by default on zen2) was not an issue because Intel manually enabled avx2.

https://www.servethehome.com/update-to-the-intel-xeon-platin...
We'll Google it for you.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/James_Damore#Sex_and_drugs_and...

RationalWiki has a very opinionated take on things, but that article is very well-sourced (75 linked sources!) so you can read right up.

Now, it could fairly be said that his pro-KKK arguments were more "glib humor" than endorsement and I'd agree. I would also say it's part of the pattern of negative workplace behavior that got him terminated.

In a larger sense, its these "oh, [group A] isn't performing as well as [group B]... must be biological differences" arguments that often form the faux-scientific basis for discrimination. Read any racist literature, and you will find a lot of "science" claiming that [insert racial group] here is biologically inferior. And, yes, that includes much Nazi propaganda.... justifications used by American slave-owners, etc.
The greatest R&D hub of the sixteenth century
Those persons stupid enough to leave a webcam uncovered when not in use deserve the consequences of their actions.

Those who leave a microphone operational when not in use also deserve the consequences of their actions.

Stupid people reap stupid rewards.
WordPress does not support PHP autoloading, and every plugin's main PHP file is included and run on every page load.

If you have a 100 plugins, that is WordPress core files + at least 100 files to run.

You will likely run into functions name collisions before you can run it. PHP also caches the opcode to the memory. So it's likely that you will hit memory or disk IO issues before you can do it.

WordPress has wp-cli that you can download plugins from CLI. Give it a try yourself, although I don't see the point of it.
When I started building my own machines I originally went the inexpensive route with AMD CPUs and (I forget the brand) boards, but after three motherboard failures in 18 months I switched to Intel CPUs and Intel boards and never had a problem again. I haven't built a machine in years (I buy laptops, Mac minis, and Intel NUCs for my computing needs) and while it's a little sad that Intel is out of this game now if I was going to build out a Windows/Linux/*BSD non-laptop system it would likely be a NUC anyway so, in a way, I don't feel like I would be missing anything.
I have caps lock mapped to backspace, and the delete key deletes forward.

I also have press-and-release option/alt for esc, but sometimes get lazy and try to hit the tiny touchbar icon for esc.

A physical escape key will be nice to have, and inverted T arrows will be really nice to have.

I wish they'd added haptic feedback to the rest of the touchbar, but I'll take it.
You can click on it and immediately swipe left or right, without lifting the finger. Imho it's faster.
It’s my work machine, I don’t think I could talk them into that.
People make a lot of noise about the missing function keys. But the keys that I miss the most on my 2018 Macbook Pro are the "E" and "SHIFT" keys.
It's so much better in the USA that I wait until I visit home to do anything Apple related, whether it's to order a new custom laptop or to send my laptop in for service.

For example, I needed my logic board + keyboard replaced and it landed on my doorstep 24 hours later.

Definitely a different experience everywhere else I've been when dealing with Apple whether it's Mexico City or Lisbon. Most places are even lucky to have an actual Apple Store rather than some sort of certified 3rd party with questionable liability.
Darn looks like im stuck with colab. Well at least I can use dask on the bus :)
I think you missed the point when you compared a $4000 laptop to a phone that tops out at $1,500 (which actually comes with 4 cameras)
> no one needs to see all my facial flaws in 4K detail

Exactly. I would prefer a 200p camera.
Other than moissanite there are also lab diamonds. I found this on lab vs earth diamonds https://blog.onetruerock.com/blog/LabvsEarth (scroll down for the crazy graph for the price difference). Overall they seem to share lots of analytics on the diamond market.

After a discussion with my fiancee I did end up finding a earth/natural diamond(I know). I did end up using the same site to help me find a good deal and seemed to save a chunk of change.
Im planning on advertising for a network security gadget I invented. You said you're "useless" in other domains. That's not good news for little old me who is going to try and make the ads himself.

I've heard about testing ads for your various demographics before you go all in on an advertising campaign. But it sounds like there is even more to it.

Why do you feel like you would be useless in another domain? Surely you would do better than some geek off the street.
> Good time to remind that Facebook has previously intentionally bypassed permission dialogs to gather data without user permission:

I wonder if the camera app leaves some by-product that the Facebook app can exploit to derive some data that the user would not usually give to FB.

Perhaps it initializes the GPS without being prompted (as camera uses it for geotagging). Or maybe it checks for the time required to enable the camera, comparing with previous attempts in a kind of A/B test, so it can know if the camera was being used for another app?
I'm not so sure about that : take the banana for exemple. We decided that the best species was a sterile one, which can't reproduce without us. It's actually a pretty common story. And it's worth with GMO (steril crops after one or two generations)
The story of the carrot matches your idea though : only the orange one survived today, solely because of farming.
I used to have really strong opinions about keyboards. I even still have a Northgate keyboard which was an "improved" version of the original IBM keyboard. (Which largely mirrored the Selectric.)

But TBH, I use so many different systems these days that I pretty much just accept that keyboard layouts and keyboard feel are going to differ from machine to machine and there's no point fussing about it.
Until the antitrust department wakes up (if it's not corrupted).

On that note, a faang oozing into banking should absolutely raise antitrust questions.
Also because big corps pay insane amount of money and most companies can't follow, especially in berlin, which is neither a tech nor a financial hub.

There isn't a single cause to that but these companies are definitely part of it. If no one could rent these flats they wouldn't be that pricey... There is a lot of affordable housing too, I'm in the process of looking for a flat and a good 30% of them requires a Wohnberechtigungsschein
Speaking for myself - I find hitting the normal escape key location natural and easy. Especially when I'm typing fast, I can hit it without accidentally hitting another key (e.g. tab).

This might be in part because I'm a tall man, with large hands and long fingers, and also Esc normally has more of a separation from adjacent keys than capslock does.

But another reason I don't want to remap caps lock is that when I am typing on a coworker's computer, odds are high they don't have things remapped the same way. Imagine looking like an idiot in front of your peers, because your muscle memory makes you not know how to type :)

(Also, I'm not sure if people who do that remapping swap caps lock with a different key? Personally, I fully utilize the caps lock key - it wouldn't be much of an improvement to put it in an unusual location, and getting rid of it is not something I'd consider.)

tl;dr - Different people have diverse habits, preferences and needs. Apple's challenge is to design a keyboard layout that works well for as many as possible.
Wish they wouldn't call the display "immersive", especially with the knowledge that they're working on AR glasses.
I started using Perl back in 2007 for their text parsing capabilities, then moved to Python as more and more examples and libraries became available, I definitely enjoy both.
> Because that would seem to be extremely maladaptive for almost all of the last few millenia.

Malnutrition says hello. If there is any lesson of history it is "That would be extremly non-optimal of society." is not an arguement against it actually happening. Unless it would leave them literally completely non-viable extraordinarily messed up things can wind up winning out in the circumstances.

A bunch of malnourished farmers who were several inches smaller than their hunter-gatherer ancestors won out against the bands. Despite the obvious disadvantages. Numbers and potentially emplacements allowed the nutritionally stunted to not only win but essentially wipe out hunter-gatherers to the point where they are mostly found where agrarians weren't there to compete.
"I plan to rewrite Linux in C# - Linus Torvalds"

Bad: 0.1897 - Good: 0.7988

Looks like we have a winner.
Indeed. Smart TV and a load of movies on a USB HDD. Works for my elderly in-laws.
Try to get enough 1 on 1 video calls with the Senior developers on hand who understand the source code, ask them for it via direct chat on slack if such things are not offered as a necessary onboarding requirement.

Also try to understand every bit of the source code, and make sure to not rock the boat too much on ur first few days always write code that blend in really well with the other pre written codes. You can battle for code changes later on.
I wouldn't buy a Dell XPS, but I would probably buy a Gigabyte Aero with a touchbar.
They will probably do the same stuff to the 13inch model turning it into a 14inch.
I got the mid 2015 with all the bells and whistles. The only thing the new macs have that I would like is space grey finish.
cultural fecund.. what an expression.

/me swoons
> I think what is going on is that the number of times you get these "written in" postings is somehow a function of the inverse of market share and how convinced practitioners are that the language in question is so good it should be used more widely.

I view you as correct about the market share, but incorrect about "language so good it should be used more widely". Not that Go or Rust devs don't believe that.. However, I don't think that's why these posts get upvoted. At least speaking for myself I love seeing the language it's written in.

As a Rust focused dev (for fun and profit) clearly I don't like Go posts because I believe it's the best language and all of my code should be ported. Yet I do like Go posts. Likewise I like Rust posts. I like Go posts because, like Rust, I know it will be an easy install. It will be something active, growing and "modern". I view these growing and modern languages to have more active contribution to the core project (if it's a good project of course).

I'm less interested in tools written in Python because I've had enough of difficulty in the past with Python installations that I just don't even care enough to bother. I also am less interested in a cool project written in some (I don't mean Python) other old and "dying" language. I have trouble envisioning contributions being high and trajectory reaching any critical point. Those things are important I think.

Language matters to me. It's not going to make or break a project to be written in something "odd" - but it's definitely of interest. For good or bad.

These are all my views.. most of it not fact. Please take it as such :)
> I guess I’m wondering what metric singles this one out as being best?

Apple have probably decided that it is the best because it has the best hardware that is running OSX. I think they consider any other OS inferior, no matter what hardware it is running on.
The Cast System of 2020:

+ Those with Amazon Prime and Google

+ Those with only Google

+ Those banned from Google
Once again, my paranoia about never using FB from my phone is retroactively justified.
Well yeah, that's exactly what I said. Gaming the system by tweaking your title according to a random github "neural network" won't help you if your content is shit, and if it's not shit the title will be good enough.
Mapped to capslock?
Or other invasive species like Middle Management
They used to make their own motherboards and sell them to consumers. They were known for being very high quality and very reliable. Now you can only get boards for their chips from third party OEMs who tend to have much more variable quality (which vendors are "best" tends to change each board/chipset generation).
actually I use the lower volume and raise volume button, but the touchbar features a slider, so I guess thats not an issue. (also I use itunes, which pops up when a new song is there where I can skip the song)
Snapchat is a terrible example; they don't actually use the camera to take pictures, they just take a screenshot of the camera on-screen view.

https://www.techjunkie.com/snapchat-compress-photo-quality/
This is a shameless self-plug. I have written a few WP plugins because it is not as secure I wanted it to be:

- WordPress does not come with proper password hashing, and uses the phpass library. https://wordpress.org/plugins/password-hash/ will change this to use bcrypt/Argon2ID

- Comment forms do not have CSRF tokens, and hackerone/tickets for them have been neglected as trivial. https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-form-csrf-protection/ This plugin adds a CSRF token to comment forms.
I will be watching this. We can always use more better tools for making GUI on embedded. Especially ones that do their own rendering.

One of my plans is to play around with using and/or creating a custom flutter engine embedder like flutter-pi.
I respect your opinion, but all of the examples you gave are already possible with Fn-keys.

I think what the touchbar brings is always active tutorial/reminder as to what's possible with the touchbar. Due to it's very nature you don't have to be taught what's on there, you can see, you then don't have to remember/rely on building up muscle memory.

I imagine it sucks for accessibility. I'd still want one before my faculties faulter, I imagine I'd get some use out of it with my IDE.
Probably has something to do with the size. I'd imagine covering a country like Denmark or Ireland is considerably easier and cheaper for a smaller company then covering the US would be.
John Gruber’s review

https://daringfireball.net/

And before everyone accuses him of being an Apple fanboy and biased, there is no disputing that he is very much a keyboard snob. He hated the last generation keyboard and he called it out during his initial review. He also famously still prefers an old ADB Apple Keyboard and he never bought a laptop with the old one.

He’s also linked to a lot of articles criticizing it.

If he praises it, I think you can trust him.

Edit:

And Marco Arment’s review. He’s never pulled punches when it comes to Apple’s hardware, their development tools, or the quality of the OS frameworks. He’s gushing over the review unit.

https://marco.org/2019/11/13/mbp16
The two statements are identical, competence is always within a given context.
I've waited for this for so long
Yeah, I think "pro" just means "expensive" :)
What's next, Apple announcing Apple Cloud Services? This year has been crazy with how much big tech is trying to create walled gardens for consumers.
Problem is the video card performance is absolute garbage on that thing. Somehow seeming to perform even worse than a prior model I had.
My first thought when I read this was all the horror stories of people's Google accounts being closed for no obvious reason, and with no recourse (other than going viral on social media and hoping a Googler notices.) Imagine that happening with your bank.

I'm sure existing banking laws will restrict them from algorithmically banning people like this, but their reputation is bad enough to keep me away. It's the same reason I'll never use Google Domains or Google Fi - my domains and phone number are too important to lose access to.
Intel used to sell motherboards too which anecdotally I seem to recall them being expensive but performant and this article covers how around 2013 when Intel got out of the motherboard business their support of next gen processors (i.e. post 2013) on existing motherboards was lackluster.
He also said “Some of the best cars in the world are made in Germany. Everyone knows that German engineering is outstanding, for sure, and that’s part of the reason why we are locating our gigafactory Europe in Germany. We are also going to create an engineering and design centre in Berlin.”

Thing is with Brexit, you have 50% wanting to leave, 50% wanting to stay and a proportional represented result being playout out by a first past the post system, yielding all sorts of chaotic stagnation. Which all gets blamed upon the initial proportional vote.

Hence if any business is asked about the UK, the whole uncertainty and chaos will come up in the subject. Just that people love to presume that was the single reason and without that things would be different. I don't see any reason or indication from Elon or Tesla to of picked the UK, even without the current climate of chaos and limbo finger pointing politics.
No, they are exactly right. Former migrant and working-class districts have been turned into habitats for the rich and the upper-middle class. Lower and middle income groups are driven out of the city. (Not completely. After all, we need them to take a two hour commute to wash the clothes of the rich and serve them coffee.)
I wish they would take advantage of the thickness of the panel to make a bigger camera with a bigger lens. I don’t care about resolution at all, but I suspect conference call image quality might increase dramatically if it the lens could gather double the light.
Annnnnd the downvotes start. What is it about nuclear energy that terrifies the ycombinator crowd?
Not at all. A laptop and a phone have different needs. I’m never, and I truly mean never, going to use a laptop to take a quality photo.

Why should Apple put a top of the line camera on it? Is the new Mac Pro worth less because it doesn’t have a camera at all?
Agreed. Just goes to show what is possible when you have some combination of real competition and/or regulation. Here in the U.S. we have neither.
More than one of my acquaintances has reused her grandmother's ring. I expect this practice to increase as dead grandma is more frequently a post-war boomer.
Is there any way to know if this will support a 5K monitor at dot-by-dot resolution..?