skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I held off buying a new MBP replacement for two years now thanks to the massive criticism over the butterfly fiasco. I'd say the complaining was useful and had an impact. Not wasteful at all.
They've turned around. That is amazing for any company, especially apple.
Since we've worked on the same browser engine before, I should ask the obvious question: what do you plan to do differently that will make it better than existing engines?
Do you scale-to-zero - shut down my containers if they aren't getting any traffic and then start then up again on-demand when traffic starts flowing again?
Keep in mind that probably the most important spec when considering a new laptop is one that is often not directly stated: the processor series.

I'm not talking about i3/i5/i7, but rather U/Y/H. This letter determines the TDP (thermal design power/point) them machine is designed to run at. The TDP will govern the setting for the base clock speed, and, just as importantly, the throttling behabior under load.

Processor series TDPs are Y: 4.5W, U: 15W, H: 45W.

The new MacBook Air appears to have a Y series processor, like the MacBook, which means it will be aggressively throttled to keep power consumption and heat generation low.

Practically, that means that the new Air will not be capable of running sustained workloads much above its base clock speed, which makes it unsuitable for many programming-related tasks.

The Pro is still a much better choice for programmers. The 13 is suitable for many things, but the 16, with the H series processor, is really preferred for computationally intensive work.

You can get away with this machine if your workflow primary involves a text editor and remote servers, but otherwise I would still opt for the pro.
With X or Wayland????
Extraordinary Times Call for Extraordinary Measures
I have a $100+ Logitech keyboard for my existing iPad. It supports only one position; is not backlit; and has no integrated trackpad.

There's definitely an Apple tax here, but it's also a premium item, so that pricing doesn't seem ridiculous to me. Also, the existing Bluetooth options will still work, and the Apple Smart Folio keyboard is still an option at a lower price point.
Its a GC language, so yes it needs more than C++, but less than Java. I believe that is because often structs can live on the stack.
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“Richer” is an interesting word here, with the connotations to food and pleasure. I, for one, would not find a world of robot restaurants to be a “richer” experience.
The Road to PS5
There is a lot more to quality than megapixels. What I care about for the front-facing camera is the sensor size and lens aperture. I want more light hitting the sensor for cleaner images.

I've had to do meetings and interviews using the front-facing camera in environments where I don't have control over the lighting and the results were not great.
the calculator doesn't handle that because how _many_ times you go is not a valuable metric. The question is more how many times do you _poo_ in a day. Because pee uses little to none (men) or little to some (women).

then there's the question of how many sheets you use, on average per poo. Some folks use way more than others.

this is a pretty useless calculator.
As someone who started programming in VB.NET, this is so true.

It was a great language for beginners that also had enough oomph to build commercial applications, everyone who I spoke to who actually used it loved it.

Why a 1 trillion dollar company like microsoft can't hire 5 dedicated devs is beyond me.
"toy compilers"

FYI, there are at least two. The Swift playgrounds app.

And Pythonista, which is actually quite a nice IDE for small projects, and even lets you build GUIs.
I hope that day never occurs. iPadOS is like a toy compared to macOS, although recent macOS has got more locked down (no directories in root, separate OS partition with incorrect total size reporting etc.).

When the 2 converge I am outta here.
> If you have to reference human minds to make it meaningful, then it's not objective. It's a cultural construct.

The fact that certain proteins, e.g. androgen receptors, alter their shape in the presence of specific androgens, implies that the protein's configuration contains mutual information with the shape of the androgen. But this connection between the androgen and its receptor is independent of minds to recognize the connection.
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Fair points. I'd consider 1,3,and 4 more behind the scenes, lumped in with manufacturing. But you definitely got me on EZPass.
As others have said it is the physical resolution, which is why the term used in macOS is "Looks like X by Y". The default of "looks like 1920x1080" is straight "@2x" - so the rendering is pixel doubled in both axis, giving a crisper image than a same size "real" 1920x1080 display.
I am thinking of going to Dell from an 2014 MBP, what did not work with Dell on your last experiment?

The latest XPSs look very nice.
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Using Poop Photos to Improve Digestive Health
https://www.crappsy.com

Photos you take of your poop are scanned by their algorithm and rated on the healthiness of the poop.

Based on that, you get a "Crappsy Score" out of 100 and health recommendations to improve your gut.
I think the cost is roughly: "we force you to reason about, and account for safety in the code." Then given that this is now explicitly forced upon the developer, are Rust's constructs overly complex, or reasonably once someone gets over the learning curve? The alternative is using a managed runtime, which probably should be the default for most programmers. But for those that are doing systems programming, we absolutely need something "like Rust." The memory access patterns need to be explicit.
Sounds like you're trying to emulate the "cleanup" GCC variable attribute:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attribute...

Example use:
https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/blob/master/lib/frr_pthread...

(FRR requires a GCC/clang compatible compiler, so no fallback/workaround.)
The order says that one can go outside -- why are you trying to contradict that?
> If the prices of those things spike dramatically,

Futures contracts have existed for a very long time for exactly this reason. [0] It's up to management to use them responsibly. For an example from the last crisis, Ford managed to avoid needing a bailout while GM and Chrysler took part in one. Management makes a difference. I'd want to steer out of a situation where management uses government to finance its carelessness.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_contract
The Poop Photo Revolution
"A jaw-dropping example .."

I'm glad people at the Smithsonian get to have fun writing intro sentences like that.
As long as you don’t have any other diseases, you’re statistically sort of “safe”. 0.2% risk of dying for your age group regardless of physical health according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

Wash your hands, stay safe.
Playstation presentation of PS5. "PS5 lead system architect Mark Cerny provides a deep dive into PS5’s system architecture and how it will shape the future of games."

Sony have been quiet for a while now so relieving to hear more about it. It's for sure an exciting generation shift coming up.
I like the idea of an edge service that is accessible to everyone.

The list of cities looks pretty random to me. In particular I am not seeing anything in the Northeast, New York, etc. In upstate I already have 30ms latency to AWS and Azure in Ohio without terrible tail latency.
No touchbar? Woot!
It's not always because of development reasons. There are administrators at the customer's side that favor everything with LTS in its name, because of security fixes and support. We are selling on-premises products. If this was a cloud solution, then LTS would not have mattered much for us.
Meh, the camera was on the left bottom side of the screen. On every online meeting, I was looking like a parent talking to kids from the corner :D

Also, I had a windows edition which works pretty bad with linux. A friend of mine got a new Linux edition with fixed camera and I think perfect XPS is 15" 32Gb for linux. That's my alternative #1
I only hate that it replaced the top row of keys. If it were an addition instead of a replacement, I'd be okay with it. It has it's moments, but so do the keys it replaced.
Aren't they still chewing through their backlog?
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My father wrote a dBase application forty years ago that, to his amazement, is still in use in some places today.

Inertia is a hell of a force.
This might shed some light as to why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BLgS7m0W94

tl;dr: phone webcams have DMA, laptop webcams are using USB.
California law is indeed broad ("Each health officer knowing or having reason to believe that any case of the diseases made reportable by regulation of the department, or any other contagious, infectious or communicable disease exists, or has recently existed, within the territory under his or her jurisdiction, shall take measures as may be necessary to prevent the spread of the disease or occurrence of additional cases.")

If, for the purpose of argument, we stipulate as fact that the fears are overblown, he might be able to successfully attack this order as "unnecessary" under that law, but that sounds iffy, and the health officers will no doubt be afforded substantial deference.

A better avenue for attack would be via the US Constitution and its basic protections for civil rights, liberty, and freedom of assembly. The Fifth Amendment specifically applies, forbidding that anyone "be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." The regional lockdown affects ~7 million people, to contain a disease that has affected ~300 (?) known patients (please correct me if this is badly wrong) so this lockdown may be serving a compelling government interest, but it is probably not doing so via the least restrictive means available, which would usually be the standard for abrogating civil liberties. It's a meaningful case, at least.

Whether he wins or loses such a hypothetical case, though, it would leave things clearer than the situation which jgalt observes nearby:

> it seems more like Musk is the sort to get sued, not the one to be suing

Better to be fighting in the courts from the start, rather than being confronted by the sheriff partway through the workday.
The "standard" definition preferred by political economists (for the obvious reasons) is useless for making accurate predictions. The economic effects of inflation are all due to the changes in the money supply; the changes in prices are an side effect of this and many other factors, not a cause.
You just made my point for me.
Well I'm on a 2016 macbook air, 8gb RAM and doing web programming everyday. 3 phpstorm windows, sometimes Photoshop open, more than 20 tabs in Chrome, iterm, figma, paw... Honestly it runs pretty well and I was waiting for this update.
Can't have <1 poop per day, it seems.
That one makes sense. IIRC rt is a Russian owned company, I think.
A care person is a very low skill job, it's not a critical bottleneck. (In many cases family could make do, especially if you have some cooperation. One person can't do it but two could trade off doing two people.)
> It behooves one not to make egregious mistakes when talking about the mistakes

Admittedly it's been a little while since I last played around with custom shells and terminals on Windows and I had also rushed my post so you're right that some details were wrong but you're just as far off with your corrections as the points you were criticising so you're really not in a position to be making platitudes about egregious mistakes.

I didn't say cmd.exe was a terminal emulator, I said it was multiple layers including the terminal emulator but not exclusively the terminal. Ok, techically it's conhost.exe that provide the terminal emulation, I'd lazilly lumped that together with cmd.exe because cmd.exe depends on conhost.exe when not run headless. The former requires the latter so you can't just drop cmd.exe into another terminal emulator and run it (other people have tried and there's extensive blog posts about the hacks they've had to do to get it to work, like running conhost.exe off screen).

If you want to be 100% technically accurate then cmd.exe is actually not like any of those things we've described. It's certainly not equivalent to Korn or other language REPLs as you stated. In fact the "language" part of cmd.exe is barely a macro language (again, due to it's DOS heritage). Plus shells orchestrate with byte streams where as NT's streams work very differently and cmd.exe doesn't even behave correctly when used as a CLI tool (which I'll get into below).

You're right that cmd.exe itself doesn't make DOS syscalls, as said aboveI was rushing my post which caused me to conflating two points. What I really meant to say was:

1. cmd.exe builtins read from the NT console API's stdin. Which means you cannot fork out to cmd.exe as a CLI command because any prompts ("Are you sure you wish to delete" type things) just whiz straight past without pausing for input. This was highly annoying when I was developing my alternative Windows shell and wanted to make use of rm, copy, etc rather than having to write those commands all over again.

2. Windows, and cmd.exe by extension, supports running other console applications which don't use NT's console streams because they favour some of the other hacks used in the DOS days. This means those applications also don't work with alternative shells let alone alternative terminal emulators.

Also I think it's disingenuous citing your own blog post as a source. I could link you to the Github repository where I've had to put in numerous workarounds for the shell I've written to work with Windows. But instead I'll link to something a little more recognised:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-l...

(I did have a hunt around for the blog posts from other developers building console solutions for Windows and the similar problems they've ran into but since it was around 5 years ago when I gave up first party Windows support, those blogs are now lost in the mists of the ether).
We don't (yet) because we really loathe slow response times and booting peoples' apps is absurdly slow sometimes. Our #1 feature request for Firecracker is suspend / snapshot functionality so we can do that.

Instead, we give everyone $10/mo of credits and have a really tiny VM that you can run full time for $2.67/mo.
Honestly, while I'd love to try this out, I'm afraid of committing to a solution that might not be around long-term, which for me at least overrides concerns of peace of mind and ease of use, and I'm doing a hobby project at the moment.

I'm using bare AWS at the moment because a) they gave me $5k in credits for YC SUS, b) they own the physical servers, and c) I can trust that they'll be around a long time, so I'd rather get locked into AWS proper rather than a service that might be built on top of AWS (e.g. CloudFormation vs. Terraform).

But I get, better than I did two months ago, just how freaking hard it is to build something, anything. This is amazing work, and I couldn't do it. Kudos to you, and I look forward to hearing about your amazing success!
Turns out it’s valuable to foster an intuition for how the world we have to navigate literally every day works?

I’m shocked.

Welp, let’s climb back into our ideology for 8 hours.
There is a dramatic difference in how flattering the angle of a photo is. Portraits should always be taken minimally at eye level, never below. Having the camera any lower makes people look uglier on video or selfies.
Giant asteroid extincts a bunch of species... Sure, the now vanished mega fauna were not adapted to asteroids. But as a once in a hundred thousand years event, it doesn't mean they were otherwise unfit.
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I built this app a while ago. Now that many of us are forced to work remotely, maybe some of you will find it useful.

If you mention YC in the invite request, I'll activate your account faster.

https://whatimworkingon.com

Happy to hear your thoughts.
I think we fit that category. We definitely have features/philosophies that match the Wikipedia article!
I think System76, Lenovo, or Tuxedo is a better choice than Dell XPS for Linux from a reliability standpoint. Additionally, if you plan to do full disk encryption, the XPS line has all sorts of issues. https://www.dell.com/community/Linux-Developer-Systems/XPS-1...
In the olden days, we complained about apps that used all our ram. Nowadays, we complain about Firefox or proprietary web browsers using all our ram, when in reality they're doing the best they can. The task manager can't show users who's actually to blame, so lazy devs get the glory while hardworking browser developers cop the flack.
To start with, they don't pay a lot of their (former) employees. Global travel demand is going to take a long time to recover and a lot of furloughs are going to happen across the industry in any case. Second, the new company probably takes on some amount of new debt. If they can't find it in the private market then there's nothing wrong with the government stepping in. The two keys are that the government steps in after the current equity holders are wiped out completely, and that the government support comes in the form of loans, not grants.
The first thing I notice in that comparison is that one chip is rated for a 45W TDP and other is 15-25W. While I think these cross-segment comparisons are exciting and show great progress, it's just not fair to the electrons.
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As a developer, how would I step into, step over, step out in Xcode without function keys?? (Continue being ctrl-cmd-Y is the worst shortcut ever). It truly hampers my development because I have to look at the touchbar to see where on earth those keys are (F6, F7) or step in/continue in Chrome (F10, F11).

Also, where on earth is the escape key??
Scientists sounded the alarm on coronavirus for months. Why did UK fail to act?
> you don't really disprove the US-first mentality OP is mentioning.

Not the grandparent, but I don't think that was the point. We're out of time to finesse ideal planning. We need hardware. Now. Ventilators are hardware. A device in the US means the US doesn't need to source it from somewhere else, and at the end of the day it's likely to save a few lives somewhere, and that matters.

I mean, sure, maybe your compatriot volunteers are jingoist nutjobs who refuse to make ventilators for anyone but americans. It's time to put that aside and just get stuff done.

Also, note the collision of framing: if someone encouraged you to check on your neighbors and shop for them if needed, you wouldn't refuse to do that because other neighborhoods might need the help more, right?
That is not the widely-used terminology of Microsoft Windows where a console is a specific I/O mechanism, different from a terminal.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/tui-console-and-terminal-paradigms.html

That the word "console" may denote other things, including a part of a pipe organ, is irrelevant. When discussing Windows Terminal one is almost always talking about the Microsoft Windows I/O mechanism, that's been around since Windows NT 3.

* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/console/consoles

(The parenthetical "terminal" is a relatively recent addition to the doco. Not a wise one in my view, because it confuses more than it clarifies.)
And yet, it is not the point that management/owners could not have foreseen this, and so do not deserve to have the company go under.

Even if the company goes under, there will still be airlines afterwards regardless of who owns them. Should we all pay to keep the ones that happen to be there, or let new players have a go?

Dinosaurs didn't hedge themselves either, in terms of evolution. But life went on anyway, and mammals dominate now.
It's generally harmless for philosophers to believe stuff, since they don't drive buses, and they generally get their vaccinations regardless of the epistemological status of their effectiveness. For that matter, they continue to eat food, despite the uncertainty whether they're really holding a peanut butter sandwich and not, say, the average temperature of the asteroid Ceres.

They get to be anarchic, as long as you can't prove otherwise -- and "prove" in the mathematical sense, not the scientific one. All it costs you is paper, pencils, and the price of a trash can. (Which they never use.) If you shut down the line of reasoning just because other people are incredibly, dangerously stupid, you're going to have to shut down pretty much everything.
I'm still using my 2012 macbook pro and doubt I will buy Apple's new Impossible to repair™ "Gree[nd]™" machines when it finally dies.
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Unfortunately the bankruptcy process is extremely slow and costly. A lot of built-up value like institutional knowledge is destroyed.

Bailing-in creditors and diluting shareholders is fast and cheap by comparison. This is particularly true when the business is likely to continue operations similar to those in place at the time of insolvency. Bankruptcy works for Theranos or Pets.com, but not so much for airlines in 2020.
It's just not worth it money/usefulness. To me it's going too far with tech.
> still is.

While the RAM technically was replaceable on the previous model, it's a major pain that requires you to basically tear the entire thing down. I was hoping for something as easy as it used to be.

Here's a "professional" video of it being done, note the person even breaks the cable for the LED indicator in the process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQq4hLKv1Cc&feature=emb_logo
We do not expect people to be honest in other aspects of their life. Just look at the cosmetics industry. Politicians with their campaign promises. Management with their corporate right-sizing and synergies. Kids and Santa Claus. (haha!)

Anyway, I consider fake reviews to be dishonest .. I consider this to be more like "putting a positive spin on it".
Well, they don't need to be exclusive as long as you're in the group that's not being excluded or treated badly. If you are, then you don't have the luxury of ignoring it and separating those issues so cleanly.
Interesting that this find contains iron artifacts, so Gabon had iron-working in the 14th-century (or long-distance trade). I have traveled some of rural West Africa where life is not too different than centuries ago – no electricity, no literacy, and the only sign of modernity is the fact that people wear second-hand t-shirts, or the packages of biscuits and sardines one might find for sale. But we know that in pre-colonial West Africa there was ironworking going on, because it was used for weapons and jewelry and there was a traditional caste dedicated to it, but none of that metallurgical activity survives today. I would have liked to have had the opportunity to witness iron being worked according to the old ways, but I suppose it is easier for communities now to import that from the outside world, even if they are cash-poor.
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There's Comac, with pretty much unlimited money behind it.
> Could they be any worse than current management?

Pre TSA nationalized security checkpoints it was actually faster to fly from Phoenix to Las Vegas...
The companion app is written in Qt, it's the same app whether you use it on Windows, Linux, Android or iOS. Because of that the interface can be a bit whacky, but it works fine.

Heck, even the interface on the remarkable itself is written using Qt!