skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, you are bound to come across someone who finds a feature useful even if the feature is not useful for the vast majority of the people. I like Apple laptops and own a MBP myself, but I definitely think that the butterfly keyboard and touchbar hurt Apple's reputation. The butterfly keyboard has had a lot of technical problems which is frustrating for the users and hurts Apple's bottom line due to the repair costs. The typing experience on the butterfly keyboard is also not the best due to lack of travel.

The touchbar is a flawed design concept imho. The entire reason I touch type is so that I don't have to look down from my screen. My eyes remain on the screen for 99% of the time I am working. It's jarring and discontinuous for me to have to look down to use the touchbar. That's why I personally never liked it. I think the tactile feedback of a real physical button is essential.

I think Apple realizes this already to some extent because they went and added a physical escape key.
The non-software engineering world is laughably behind the times when it comes to computer technology and software. SolidWorks is one of the defacto industry standard CAD packages, and their version control software essentially just creates copies of the files and increments the versions. There's no real concept of change management on the content level.
> My experiences working with ex-Googlers was not positive

I believe you, but the fact that they weren't working there creates a statistical bias in the sample, don't you think?
Why are you concerned if someone else does/doesn't do something? You can only control your own actions. Not protecting yourself by covering your webcam because the majority of others do not is not sound logic. I have a bright pink piece of tape over mine, and it is always a conversation starter. I have seen later that many people do wind up covering their webcam. It's not a 100% conversion rate, but it is definitely > 0%.
Honestly python won in large part because perl took over a decade to come out with perl 6. Knowing that there was a backwards-incompatible upgrade on the horizon shortly and having that be true for a decade meant that new projects in perl or major upgrades in perl were delayed and then shifted to projects in other languages. Python and ruby both were beneficiaries of this (especially with PHP going through a similar process with PHP 6 which took 5 years before being abandoned.)
Germanys Finance Committee Forces Apple to Open NFC APIs via New Legislature
As an American I read that as, "we don't have to change, and anyone who suggests we might is in on some conspiracy." Head out of the sand, my friend.

You are right that the death penalty is rare. Rare as in very few developed countries allow it.

Regarding guns, please stop to ask why our friends and neighbors need to carry a killing device to feel themselves.

The US has its problems, but it has corrected many of them over time. (vide: slavery) This occurred when citizenry was not content to leave things where they are and dismiss criticism.
You’re right - I wrote that in jest. I was first to complain but I truly do like the content that makes it to hacker news and the way in which it is ranked. I would say 9 times of 10, I’m surprised to see what’s on the front page because it’s definitely not the mix of information I normally consume. It’s cool to see what people are doing and think about new frameworks like rust and clojure and even erlang.
AMD processors were also vulnerable to spectre v2. I don't know the status of the mitigations or whether it was fixed in zen 2.

EDIT:

I found the list I made a few months back. no guarantees, but i think it is mostly accurate.

Meltdown: Intel, IBM, some ARM

Spectre v1: Intel, ARM, IBM, AMD

Spectre v2: Intel, ARM, IBM, AMD

Spectre v3a: Intel, ARM

Spectre v4: Intel, ARM, IBM, AMD

L1TF: Intel, IBM

Meltdown-PK: Intel

Spectre-PHT: Intel, ARM, AMD

Meltdown-BND: Intel, AMD

MDS: Intel

RIDL: Intel
Again, why? There are many dozens of rights that I value more highly than the right to reproduce in the face of global ecological catastrophe.
They were commonplace and accepted twenty years ago. They're illegal now because of politics and political activism.
> automatic parallelization in multi core context as something only hurting high performance

Automatic parallelization hurts high performance? What do you mean - things like throttling when extremely high-end vector instructions are used?
..or it could be an opportunity for them. Apple relies more and more on services for growth. For instance, why not make iMessage into a cross-platform app, as a real privacy-focused competitor to Whatsapp, Telegram etc?
It's only pointless if you have a single layout.

It's very useful to switch input layouts.
well these resellers probably didn't made a lot of money from hardware sales and more through extensions/cables/whatever.
> Given Google's reputation for avoiding any type of direct customer support, I'm perplexed as to why they are trying to do this.

To reduce the threat of Apple from siphoning folks away from Android and thus disintermediating their advertising business.

That's the reason they went into Android and Chrome and half-baked subscription services: to defend the advertising business.

Nearly everything Google does out loud that's not GCP is ultimately motivated by the need to defend, sustain or grow the advertising business.

The rest of what they do gets a lot of media attention but comes close to being a rounding error by comparison to ... the advertising business.
Previous discussions on the StackExchange moderator fiasco saga:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21173643
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21288421

And a pretty important comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21175143
Same issue with the super weak bluetooth antennae in macbooks.

My iphone6's bluetooth antennae lets me walk all over the house while listening to something with my headphones (an essential modern experience!) while my $2000+ macbook pro will barely let me leave the room without losing connection.

Wifi antennae too. On bad internet, my laptop cannot even connect to a wap that my phone can, so I'll tether my phone to get internet.

I want my laptop to be a portable powerhouse of connectivity too!
I understand why using an anchor tag is not always technically correct, but I don't see how wrapping something like an image in a button is the right thing to do, for an onclick event.
Yea, I tried that excuse. I said me and her best friend were just planning a surprise party for her. But the whole Saturday at 3AM thing didn’t really add up.
> if you don't have to live near a FAANG the money you do make can go much farther

I have a friend who moved to the Utah/Idaho region, giving up a FAANG job, in order to escape the spiraling cost of living where the FAANG jobs are. I respect that.

I'm at my third FAANG living in one of the high-cost-of-living areas of the U.S. In the meantime I'm planning my escape. So long as income vastly outstrips my cost of living, I'm going to keep my FAANG and save like there's no tomorrow, and as soon as the math works out that I can maintain my current quality of life with a combination of a lower-paying job combined with interest on my savings (the proverbial 4% withdrawal rate) in a lower-cost-of-living area of the U.S., I'm out.

Er, yeah, less effective application of that figure of speech. You know what I mean.
Although they certain have boards with flashy lights, Gigabyte has been my mainstay for stable boards, and they do advertise signal integrity and thermal safety. (They also have a Black Edition of many of their boards, which has extra testing)
The new versions of sql don’t require capital letters on all the keywords. :p

More seriously color syntax highlighting works far better than capitalizing almost everything in sight. I’d recommend dropping the caps convention.
"..Windows Update makes Windows barely usable..." I find this claim to be over exaggerated. I'm not exactly sure how their update schedule works exactly but in my case it updates some parts transparently without me needing to stop working. Updates that require reboot definitely do not happen once per week and never when I am in front of computer.

I have no problems with access to working "Unix like" shell either. My laptops and desktop are beastly and have no problem running Ubuntu in VM. WSL works like a charm as well. But I rarely use either since for Linux development work and for running servers I use real Linux computers in headless mode running NoMachine for remote access. Windows being used for developing Windows GUI software duh, and for productivity tools, Video, Photo, CAD, PCB design etc. etc.
I had a coworker I was training start crying because she got offered a better job and was going to lose all her new friends. I had to explain to her that her coworkers aren't her friends, her friends are whoever she wants.

This culture of being friends with your coworkers is odd to me. My coworkers suck as friends, the vast majority of the time. And heaven forbid you don't want to be friends anymore, because now you're stuck with them. I have much better luck making friends by joining and participating in clubs dedicated to my hobbies.
I could live with the new touchbar on a 14" MBP. A 14" MBA might be perfect. Will be interesting to see if these other laptops also increase their thickness.
> Imagine that happening with your bank.

This already happens, a lot.

Do something that generates a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_activity_report (generally, stuff that looks like money laundering) and your bank will cut you loose, and they aren't legally allowed to disclose why. Running a marijuana dispensary? Forget about a bank account.
I’ve only been using vim for about 10 years but I’m pretty sure I’ve hit escape less than a few thousand times in those years. One of the first things I did was imap jk <Esc> and it turns out that’s really all I need Escape for (Ctrl-C is goto to return to normal mode)...
I also like the Touch Bar and I think this..

>Phyisical keys are great but 12 buttons labelled F1 to F12 with different functions depending on the program also isn't he pinnacle of UX

x1000. Function keys have almost always been useless to me. Once in a while I will remember what one is mapped to and use it, but for the most part they go unused.
Mostly because we've made it such that they're the only people who can afford to move into city cores any more.
- Heathen refuseniks who refuse to do business with any of them.
It’s amazing! They take away the 2011 17” and com back with the worlds best 16”.

Apple marketing may be responsible for a dumber consumer

Signed,
Me (the guy who runs out and buys every amazing apple product)
Truly new ideas are so hard because they require an entirely new mindset to contain them. First you need the mindset or else the ideas look like nonsense.

Like your example, leaps in math may be easy to see in retrospect but were hard to come by without anticipating a world that supports their existence: The concept of zero. The concept of limits. The concept of imaginary numbers. None of these are hard concepts, but on face value they seem arbitrary and "not entirely real". It is only deeply through exploring their implications that they have value. This is difficult not only because there are so many possible random ideas that lead to nowhere but also because fruitful ones seem like they must have been considered already.

How many people thought that "zero" might be a useful abstraction but didn't go further because it seemed like it must already have been considered? If you want to have a new idea, take a germ of a simple idea and follow it curiously without self-doubt. Think of the famous story of how Feynman came up with quantum electrodynamics: trying to understand the physics of a wobbling plate.
I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. Of all mammals, only humans ride bicycles. We should stop riding bicycles.
I'm not sure that $2400 with 16 GB of RAM is what I would call "perfect".
Here are some comments in german by Metin Hakverdi, Member of the Bundestag and part of the Finance Committee:

https://twitter.com/MetinHakverdi/status/1194596777833455621

https://twitter.com/MetinHakverdi/status/1194597127940452352
Yeah Data in the US is a bit ridiculous. You can get a GB of data in Vietnam for $0.50. I usually get the 16GB plan but buy it every twenty days.
Sears took the same approach starting over 100yrs ago of bundling a bunch of disparate services - clothes, tires, appliances, etc. At the time it seemed equally all consuming.

We’re basically seeing another iteration of this now with Amazon, Google and Facebook
Personally, I like controlling the brightness and volume with Touch Bar. If anything, it makes the adjustment more precise.

But again, that's a personal preference. It's just so many technologies have changed over the last decades, that a slight variation in how I adjust my backlight doesn't bother me much.
10 for "world's" which includes "world's best" "world's most". A very cringey read if you ask me yet people eat this stuff up.
How does one "bypass a permission dialog"? What's the permission dialog for, if it can be "bypassed"?
Finally, I've managed to get a perfectly meaningful and top-rated headline:

I've developed a cute Bittorrent client. Upvote, you leisurely butts!

Bad: 0.0001 - Good: 0.9999

Not sure, if I should give it a try?
If Japan had hundreds of acres of solar panels back when the tsunami occurred, they would be resting out on the ocean floor, leaching heavy metals into the water. Definitely better, right?
I don’t understand the point you are attempting to make. These are all political acts. The fact that you like some of them and dislike others doesn’t change that. Even the choice of sketching the “hard-done-by innocent researcher cruelly hounded out of his job” is a political act. This is the point - how do you isolate that from the workplace when it’s clearly so tied up in it?
For the Observation Training, your worker seems to work X tasks in a row when you manually click them to assign a task, where X is their "Observation Training" level.

So that automates their work if you assign it to them manually.

The self-starter training seems to take effect when you've not manually assigned a task to them. They will search for a single task to complete X times in a row, with a slight delay between each task, where X is equal to their "Self-Starter Training" level.

When their tasks are started automatically via this skill, the "Observation training" seems to be ignored.
the 8 is basically a 6s, right?
I think it's both what you and the parent are saying.

People in the younger generation (myself somewhat included in that) do feel extra entitlement toward saying what they want, when they want, in whatever forum they want. But it's a lot harder nowadays to keep one's personal and professional lives completely separate. I'd lean toward considering this trend a good thing; we don't work in a vacuum. Activism absolutely does have a place in a professional setting when so many social and political issues contribute to discrimination in the workplace.

At the same time, making judgments about the parent's values is a bit out of line. Some people really do just want to go to the office, put in a full day of work, and go home where their "real" life happens. I personally think that's a limiting attitude, but don't begrudge people their need or desire to go that route.
It’s amazing! They take away the 2011 17” and com back with the worlds best 16”.

Apple marketing may be responsible for a dumber consumer.

What am I going to do with my 2019 15” i9?
Signed,
Me (the guy who runs out and buys every amazing apple product)
The photos in the article do show the physical escape key but do not show the sides of the laptop where the ports would be. I hope that it has a MagSafe charge adapter and an HDMI port.
If a bug resulted on you being unable to post to Facebook sometimes, or you posting to your friends only what you meant to post to everybody (the setting called "public"), why would the mass media cover it?
> and by the way, where on earth are Larry and Sergei?

They're long gone, enjoying their billions, and left poor Sundar holding the bag like a deer in the headlights.
"Aquilino held up the abalone and looked square into its beady-eyed face.

“You,” she said, “are the future of your species.”"

If Abalone ever evolve, this might be the cause of a whole new religion. /s
Around the world thousands of vim users rejoice over the physical esc key.
i remap capslock to escape regardless of the make/model of laptop i use, so the lack of a physical escape key didn’t really effect me.

i never type with capslock on, and find using it for escape helps my vim workflow
actually with a "home grown" vpn (userspace) you control the transport. thus you can even create a transport on h2 which makes it way harder to detect.
They used to make cardboard guides that could sit on top of the older ibm keyboards when most of the world used one... I don’t know that you can replace the feel but some haptic taps or something might improve the touch bar. I generally like it bur on it and my older MBPs I pretty much used escape and volume and screen brightness settings and otherwise never used that row. Since laptops, the f-keys simply aren’t what they used to be, it’s not unusual for them to be overloaded or even require a shift like key to be pressed for f-key behavior.
YC, effectively, owns the whole stack (i.e. vertical). Their main selling point is the YC network and being founder friendly to derisk creating startups. YC also created the continuity fund that is where the typical VC comparison would be. I am not sure what the terms on it are but I imagine it is geared only to their companies. This means YC is willing to assume more risk and gives a vote of confidence for their products. It's amazing really to see this grow as big as it has in 15 years give or take.
Is it just me, or does the touch bar remind anyone else of the MS Word Ribbon?
How are buses not mass transit?
> So political activists realised they can brainwash or pressure idiots by claiming that any opinion, person or class of people they don't like creates "lack of safety". It's a kneejerk reaction: safety first.

People didn't just suddenly start killing jews in nazi germany. It starts with a shift in sentiment and you probably want to stop that before it gains momentum. That makes me understand how e.g. the "there are good people on both sides" comment made people feel unsafe.

> workplace example

That seems so much like a right wing caricature of "the left" that I'd like to read a source to make sure it isn't just exactly that. Not that I'd expect this to never happen... stupid people can be found everywhere in society. A more plausible scenario leading to this might be affirmative action (something I'd expect you to vehemently disagree with anyway) having its budged cut and someone still trying to go through with it by combining multiple things into one, even if this subverts pretty much the entire purpose. I'd expect reasonable lefties to have a similar stance on gayness checks as they have for sex checks on bathrooms... people will generally do the right thing and abusers should suffer consequences.
Well, I can't speak for your experiences because I don't know your experiences.

What is "right to be heard" mean? For me it usually means employees speak their concerns with management, and management is receptive enough (ie they care about employee retention) that if something is really bad they hold a Q&A session. Maybe act on it.

I'm an empowered, high-demand employee in a high demand industry. If management doesn't want to hear about my concerns, that's fine and they can say so. I'll find another employer in less than a week.

Edit: to give a more concrete example, my employer was in talks to write software for client X, a corporation well known for being Bad People™️. A bunch of employees came forward that they didn't want to do business with client X. Management discussed it thoroughly with these employees, hosted public roundtables, etc. I wasn't part of this discussion so I can't say the outcome, but yes the employees who cared demanded a right to be heard, because often that's why we work for progressive employers in the first place.
That's probably only one of many applications. Just search for DFE (data flow engine). Maxeler is one of the manufacturers.
The EU and EAA - with a roughly similar land area and population to the US - has free roaming by law. Your French plan is good in Norway.

The US could institute a similar regime that'd permit state/local carriers to exist and compete.
When doing user research (and I for one reason or another don't have other/better equipment around), I've used the MacBook as camera, mic, and screen recorder, when applicable (attaching a non-Apple mouse, of course, because those things are bonkers).

In these situations, a higher resolution camera wouldn't hurt. A better mic is higher priority though, so I'm happy to see that in the specs.
Hopefully they wont lock your accounts if you violate their TOS elsewhere in their ecosystem...
Well, from someone who's had to rely on his work-issued Thinkpad a lot over the last week... Thinkpad keyboard are complete crap. Those keys can travel all the way into a garbage can for all I care.

I have no idea if this new laptop's keyboard is any good, but it would have to take several steps back before you get to lenovo. One arrow key pops on and off as I use it. (This lappy is 4 months old and I've rarely done anything but remote into it so the keyboard should be pristine.) The escape key needs to be pressed extra hard -- beyond the "click" -- to register sometimes. Also, the right-click area on the trackpad expands and contracts mysteriously (best just to turn that off.)
Let's see how it flies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21524925
Haha. Will be great to see what the front page looks like tomorrow.
> The news also follows the recently announced hiring of John Donahoe, former eBay CEO, as the sportswear retailer’s next CEO.

Hmm, I see..
I'm about to complete my decade as a full-time freelancer. I'm not 100% happy about my own web site, so I wouldn't link it here. However, some pointers:

- Have a blog. This is a common advice you have probably seen many times, but I can say this from first hand experience, that it works. I have received offers just because they came across some of my blog posts.

- Papers and talks: If you have given talks or have written academic papers, have them front and center. They tell a lot about you in a positive way than a thousand words could ever have.

- Unless you are a creative designer, I'd discourage you from reinventing the page design. So don't go for horizontal scrolling, splash pages, or those pie charts that tell everyone you are 90% good at Python.

Good luck.
bundling hardware like that is not uncommon. i’ve worked with three orgs that did this to one degree or another...and it was always a pain in the ass, in my experience.
To be fair, I doubt most people, even developers, use the function keys enough to touch type with them.