skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Bailing-in creditors and diluting shareholders is fast and cheap by comparison.

I agree, whether the planes go through bankruptcy to a new player or the old ownership is radically changed, it allows to things to take a different course. With big dilution you can imagine the new owner essentially having bought the business before bankruptcy.
Totally with you on the 720p camera.. here a comment that was posted when the new 16 inch MB Pro was announced concerning the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21524522
This. It's sexy but it's still basically a glorified iPhone. At this price it should be running full macOS.
I hope wikipedia has not been updated yet... The specs are the same as the 2018 model except for the storage! No reason to buy the new one
I already had an iPad Pro + smart keyboard + pencil once... and got rid of it and switched to a Surface Pro. We still have an old 10" iPad 2 + an older iPad Mini in the house and they get use for typical iPad consumer stuff.

When I add up this new iPad in the minimum 128GB/Wifi/11" config this one is about $400 more than I paid for the Surface Pro + KB cover + MS Pen. (Which is i5/8GB/128GB/Wifi-only)

The Surface has been so much more useful due to it's "real" software ecosystem and ability to just plug devices & memory cards right into it. 4 years on it seems like this new iPad Pro is no better except for even slicker hardware + touchpad.

Not there for me till they fix the software and make it a lot easier to do real world tasks that require working with files on other pieces of hardware you have local.

Some of the use cases like traveling and doing photography or video on the road have just been so much easier with the Surface Pro. Even just doing things like downloading a spreadsheet from the bank. Maybe you can do that now but you couldn't when I had my iPad Pro. Safari wouldn't let you download a file and open it in the app of your choice. So even though Numbers (or Excel) would have been fine to do finances there was no way to get the files. If the bank had made it so the app could generate a spreadsheet and then let you share it with Numbers that would work, but those use cases never got enabled, and there were so many cases like that.
256 definitely isn’t enough for anyone who backs up their phone to the computer. They’re pushing folks to the cloud. I am pretty insistent on having a local phone backup, but have to use a symbolic link to an external hard drive to accomplish this. Seems like a pretty extreme step to have to take just to back up to an external drive.
New Crypto in Go 1.14
Canada unveils $82B Covid-19 emergency response package
My colleague launched a podcast on coronavirus news https://coronavirus.fm/
Lockdowns do not have to last that long.

Once the epidemic is under control they can be lifted, but precautions and strict procedures must remain, which depend on the people being diligent and with a strong civic sense.

See China, Korea, etc.
US Pres. Trump: Will Invoke Defense Production Act Against Coronavirus
Honestly I'm worried about ordinary Russians, especially the older generation - check this link where people line up in droves to kiss an Orthodox icon: https://varlamov.ru/3830001.html

Navalny gets reports that people who are tested for Coronavirus are told the following: "The result will come in 10 days. We will not answer queries. If the test turns out positive, they will find you".

Meanwhile not a single person has been reported to have died in Russia even thought this country has a border with China and there is a huge interaction between the two countries.

The Russian government is not taking this seriously and will try to cover up cases. This will be Chernobyl all over again.
> The Pro is still a much better choice for programmers.

I'm not totally sure I agree. I typically do a lot of programming on my MacBook Air. It's simply a box I use to ssh to something else more powerful to do the actual runs.

Yes, if you're running computationally intensive stuff on your MacBook Air you're going to be disappointed, but if what you're mostly doing is typing into a terminal screen then it's probably perfect. And probably even over-powered? :)
Have you tried Nextdoor?
Has the bidet's time in North America finally arrived?
India is the next cloud hub. AWS and Azure are earning hands over fist here.
In some ways, gold is the only real money. Governments have been secretly taxing their citizens by forcing them to use the gov't issued currency while printing more of it. Savers lose value in this process to finance short term needs.

You can't print gold. Even when gold prices wildly fluctuate, gold production doesn't b/c it's already so hard. In times like now, we're going to print lots of USD in one way or another.

Is there a gov't issued currency that's held its price better than gold?
Release OBS Studio 25.0
Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of Covid-19
Well, just add up how many times they go to the toilet?
Do you mean it would get expensive to run multiple applications that listen on a single TCP port?

It _might_, if you need a bunch of ipv4 addresses it'll add up fast. But you could always put your own router app in place to accept that port on one IP, find the right ipv6, and forward connections along.
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.

Does that still holds when using the power adapter?
>it will take a lot of time and effort, sure. But not impossible.

“Taking a lot of time” is what’s implied by impossible.

By the time you are done building whatever-it-took-long-time-to-build a new generation of users have just emerged.

Your product is either a) obsolete to the youngest users, or b) you, as the product builder, lost the point of reference of the youngest generation

From the blog:

>I conclude that it is impossible to build a new web browser.

And a new OD. The entire world communicates now by two OSs only..android and iOS.
Literally nobody knows. Assuming that as an epidemic it will burn itself out (perhaps killing many, with most of the survivors gaining immunity), the enormous economic dislocation and disproportionate demographic impacts will likely result in political turbulence, as those who were less well off under the rapidly disappearing status quo have no reason to assist in its re-establishment.
Lucky you, because yours still has a U processor, not a Y one.
This is silly.

Reading through the complete licensing terms... even to this non-lawyer, the author(s) don't seem to understand licensing.

So there's the CoronaVirus License, thingy....

A little further down the page...
"PlantUML is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version. "

OK... so that's contradictory.... there's no "or" in picking a license and terms of one license are, in principal and spirit, antagonistic to the terms of the other.

And then there's a very confusing bit about image ownership...

That wipes this UML tool off my candidate tools list.
“Other illness” is extremely vague. Apparently having had a high blood pressure reading counts. What about sore knees? Migraines?

Edit: if you scroll down, you find info that is actually meaningful: a chart showing deaths by age. What this shows is that 90+% of people over 60 have had a doctors visit that turned up an issue.
don't know if i am a customer of this product yet, but this is the best ad i've seen from Apple. they are firing on all cylinders.
They've seemed to be streamlining their non-iPhone lines lately, which is nice.
Tuxedos aren't cheap, but the coolest thing about them is they have a way to preinstall Linux and setup full disk encryption with LUKS and you just set the encryption key when you first turn on the machine. Never seen anyone else offer that.
min and max can also be comparing one part of a more complex object:

In [1]: l = [(19, "John"), (19, "Jack"), (20, "Jim")]

In [2]: min(l, key=lambda x: x[0])
Out[2]: (19, 'John')
They lost the war of headlines.
There is no Mac OS X and Apple's service/warranty.

Also if you try to match the boxes spec by spec; the Mini are usually not that much more.
That's kind of a big statement to make without support. What do you mean "viewed as a utility"? What policy or economic outcomes would result from that? Remember, utilities aren't perfect either; they're still monopolies and still bad. Because they're government-regulated, there often ends up being even more cronyism than a regular oligopoly. I at least have two options for internet where I live; I have one for gas. It's practical (if extremely capex-intensive) to pull more internet fiber; it's not really practical to create another gas distribution network. Heck, I get pretty good FTTH gigabit symmetric from one of the "big guy" ISPs, and it's not nearly as pricey as I expected. It's also a little different because the marginal cost of an additional BTU is much higher than that of an additional gigabyte of data transferred. Not non-existent, but pretty small.
I can see a 'hipster' web browser with a reduced feature set coming along at some point, and all these heavy monstrous JS apps masquerading as web pages will fall out of style.
Decades? Apple's basically defined by Jobs era, and not-Jobs era
That's actually very surprising to me.

I'm running linux with an anemic window manager, and with nothing but chrome and slack open (20tabs in chrome) I am consuming 6GiB.

If you add teams, pycharm and outlook (electron) it consumes 9GiB... Actually, that's also less than I expected.

Well done pycharm.
For weight but not functionality.
Except in airlines there are almost no profits :)
Oh, I see. I thought that was news I missed or something.
GoTube: Simple command line tool for downloading YouTube videos
I had a 2014. It is a great laptop, no doubt but I recall before several patches I had issues w/ USB 2.0 port connectivity. I had the screen replaced once. So it wasn't without its own set of bugs. Working beautifully now.

My only beef is no NVME and it stutters a tad. If I could find a 2015 w/ 16gb/1 tb spec w/ NVME...

I'm hoping the glitches in the 16" can be worked out, eager to see how the 14.1 will look...

and I know Apple kremlinology is never the most accurate way to look at things, but boy were the Mansfield/Forstall years great...
It does support files on external storage devices now with the USB-C port. It also supports SMB shares, which is great since I keep most of my stuff on a NAS and can access it over my VPN.

Developer tools are an obvious weak point, but FWIW I sold my Surface to buy an iPad Pro a few years ago and I'm happier with this. Considering an upgrade from 2016 model (9.7" with lightning) to the new ones.

It wouldn't work as my only computer, but I have a much beefier desktop for gaming and whatever workloads the iPad isn't suited for. That list of workloads is getting smaller and smaller though.
Hey, HHKB uses Topre so technically it’s not quite mechanical either! ;-)
That's exactly what he said at the end of his comment.
> Recently upgraded from my 2015 15 inch MBP to the new 16 inch MBP (32 gigs of ram)

Hah, that's exactly the upgrade I made except from a 2013

> Having to look at the keyboard to change volume is not an upgrade in user experience

Agreed; I wouldn't call the touch bar an upgrade, just a very tiny downgrade that doesn't matter much with the Escape key now separated back out

> The touchbar freezes for me once a week or so and I have to go to the command line to kill the process

Yikes, can't say I've had that happen :/

> The icons don't make any sense - (xcode dustcan anyone)?

You can turn off the application-specific touch bar buttons in your preferences and also customize what buttons appear. I have mine configured almost exactly like the old button top-row, except with an optional volume slider and a dedicated sleep button (which is nifty). But yes, just having the physical buttons instead would still be slightly preferable.

> the finger print sensor has never worked for me on any apple products and its a waste of space

It's just part of the normal power button, though? It doesn't take up any extra space
BBC sets out plan to inform, educate and entertain during unprecedented times
The original SE was announced March 21st, 2016.
If it can change very fast, it’s not real power
> Lives are on the line

You could say that about many patents, probably most medicine ones. Also no one would want to do business with Italy, and it probably breaks EU & international laws.
We May See Unemployment Numbers That Match the Great Depression by End of 2020
So there are actual whiteboard type solutions like Vibe (paid product) that can plug into Slack or Zoom etc, but I have not used them personally.

I have tried a number of different things with my teams over the years. One is of course just a screen share and use a drawing app or UML etc (Visio was common). But what I like right now is to use a document share app, specifically Quip for us, which allows everyone to open the document in real time and it supports drawing, shapes and text entry etc. Plus when you are done it is a saved document that everyone has access to so you have the documentation done now too, and if any changes are needed you have change tracking built in. It is far from perfect, but for most smaller teams it works well and doesn't require extra licenses or anything.

I will say none of these solutions are perfect, but I am also the person that still likes to write my notes and draw on whiteboards to let me think through problems. And doing that with any digital software just never feels as natural (or fast) to me. I may just be getting old, but even when I am just doing architecture drawings myself I write it down first (whiteboard/paper etc), then document it digitally once I have settled on something more well thought out.
I'm less stressed than I have been in most of my life.

My best guess as to why is that the shoe finally dropped. When growing up in the cold war, we were children afraid of dying in a nuclear war. Then we got older an experienced AIDs, terrorism, wars, y2K scares, and all kinds of other events. And while they all brought some trauma and pain, with 9/11 even shutting things down for a brief time... life in the USA just kept on rolling. But those of us who grew up in the Cold War never expected that to last. Many of us turned into adults who live with a constant underlying anxiety that everything will blow up and society will shut down.

Well, it finally did. And somehow that is calming. Because now instead of being anxious over what may come, we just need to react to what did come. Sure, I have problems I'm dealing with now, both at work and home. But they aren't stressful, they are just things I gotta get up and take care of.
But there is a choice, and as a Canadian why on earth would you expect me to work for your reserve supply instead of mine? The US needs a reality check.
How to Make a Messaging App: Unique Features, Cost and Timeline
It's not an either or. Someone can easily have 50k of gold and 10k of material goods. 60k of material goods may be excessive in volume and use.
/bin/bash is popular in Linux systems, but not BSD or Mac or probably other Unixes which may not always have bash and if they do have it, it will be somewhere else. Also, a number of niche-ish Linux distributions are trying to replace bash with something else. It's no longer as portable as it once was.
This is underestimating modern processors and overestimating programming compute resource usage.

Your post may apply if we're working with 4K+ resolution video files, rendering and other activities, but the modern programmer, even compiling binaries, will be fine on a MacBook Air.

How do I know?

I use a 2 generation old Macbook as my primary personal development machine. I write Go, Rust, Java and TypeScript using the common tool chains for all those languages.
Well... the 1970s weren't a hyperinflation, but we were trending there. Inflation was not only high, it was increasing. Would we have wound up at hyperinflation if Volcker hadn't clamped down at the Fed? I don't know; that's alternate history. But it felt like we were headed there.
State unemployment websites crash as applications surge
Someone else will buy the assets and restart manufacturing, maybe with less safety issues even
Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are worse for your driving than texting
But now you're taking about tooling and not languages. Rust will eventually get there.

IDE support is already very good and better than for many popular languages (e.g. dynamic ones).

Performance profiling is also better than in Java. I'd take perf over visualvm any time.

Java had much worse tooling when it was at the age of Rust today.
Yes, they could have gone with the i7-9700 trading 6c/12t for 8c/8t. There's also the question of power, which despite both being marketed as 65W parts do not have the same thermals.

Maybe the i9-9900T would have worked?
Show HN: A curated collection of 100+ app store screenshots
Can you get work done on a tiny laptop?
Make the most of these times. Learn something new with me:)
Live example of male bias in the tech industry! :)

Diversity is a desirable thing sometimes.
So for peak load, it’s an upgrade compared to the previous generation MacBook Air. But for sustained load, it seems to actually be a downgrade, as the previous gen still had processors of the U series.
Notes:

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- FEMA is moving to level 1.

- The DPA was last invoked during the cold war

- Links to FEMA [1] and Wikipedia [2]

- Doctors may now practice across state lines

- A 100 page plan has been recently published which references an 18 month cycle for the pandemic [3]

- There was a reference to a "significant proportion" of serious infection rates in the millennial generation based on early reports from India

Links:

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[1] https://www.fema.gov/defense-production-act-overview

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act

[3] https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6819-covid-19-respon...
The 30M-Line Problem: Is your computer more stable than it was in 1990
China finds Japanese anti-influenza drug Avigan effective against Covid-19
I'm not knowledgeable enough to know which is best. Is it more efficient for these companies to go under, and for luckier rivals to buy their assets and consolidate? Or is it more efficient for the government to provide capital (for some consideration of course) and smooth out the dip? Whichever leads to better outcomes is what we ought to do.

I'm not a pure capitalist. I don't subscribe to the theory that market forces always lead to optimal outcomes. As such I don't buy the notion that bailouts are always the wrong decision.
I was at a company that got acquired before. It was so awful. I'd rather just work on this forever than get absorbed by a big company.
There is a middle path, where creditors are converted to shareholders and shareholders are massively diluted.

Effective control of the company will be placed in the hands of people who re-capitalize the company, and they will definitely not let the old management stick around.

Relative to bankruptcy, this has the benefit of allowing the company to continue operating. It also deters future recklessness. Probably should have happened in 2009, but didn't.
This is what blows my mind about their decisions regarding software priorities. Being able to build Macintosh apps on a Macintosh was fundamental to the survival of the platform. Hell, there isn't even a coherent story about developing client-side web applications on an iPad, something much simpler—the interpreter's already there!
It is in the eyes https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/detecti...
The primary examples of the new features revolve around using WSL2, like mouse support and tmux.
Is yours the retina 2014? Those can take standard NVMe M.2s with this adapter: https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-Adapter-Upgrade-2013-2016-201...

I've done this on a '14 13" MBP so I can help if you have any questions.
OP is talking about how it got to millions in the first place, a hypothesized peak between two human populations who were suppressing it.
It's only irrelevant if your immediately equating console and terminal in response, and then asking for a definition, was irrelevant. Were you irrelevant? (-:

I dismiss it because there's a mountain of usage contradicting that johnny-come-lately parenthetical. It's a well-known distinction; documented by lots of people, including me for about two decades now (actually longer, 2000 is simply when I wrote the FGA).

And if your case is based upon the Win32 API function naming scheme, your case is founded on sand. I should not need to explain why to any Win32 developer. (-:

In reality, the thing that ConPTY gives one is not a pseudo-terminal, because the wrapped applications are talking to consoles as far as they are concerned. It's not the simple implementation that I would have chosen (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17818942).

It's a much more ambitious architecture, that aims to let terminal I/O applications talk to Win32 consoles as if they were old 1980s terminals, to let 1990s and later Win32 console applications have their I/O driven via systems that ship terminal I/O, and to let both the old 1980s terminal I/O applications and the 1990s and later console I/O applications almost seamlessly share a common screen and input buffer.
eBay is full of cheap refurbished Latitudes, because businesses are constantly replacing them with something newer.
I use Raft for the same reason I use Ethernet. As my distributed computing teacher said, it’s a terrible protocol but the best one we have.

Raft, and I believe Panos, contain some of the 8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing. The most unavoidable being assuming the network is heterogenous. I won’t say this keeps me up at night, but it distracts me when I’m eating lunch.

Mere mortals don’t have all identical hardware or all equidistant network ping times. And even if you start that way, upgrades will at least temporarily change that dynamic. Geographical redundancy will really change that dynamic. And often it’s when we are changing things that they break. So it’s all fine until you get new customers and have to upgrade and then all of your new customers get to watch you crash and burn during an upgrade.

Rabbit and Consul reduce this surface area by having two classes of users. I’ve heard of Raft variants with three (pure consumers, full voting members, and new or returning members who are still catching up) so that you can use machines unprepared for leadership and they will never try to elect themselves leader.

Right now we are still in a weird era where networking is so stupid fast that it’s faster to get data from another machine than from your own storage, but that can’t last forever. Berkeley did some really crazy things when this inversion of costs happened in the 80’s, but by the time I learned about it less than 10 years later, we were already tut tutting about how foolish that was.

I think the big thing I’ve been waiting for from a relay group type solution is for the participants to discover the network topology and elect a local representative to receive and rebroadcast the inbound stream of updates.

I don’t know that you have to funnel all traffic through that intermediary, the way statsd does. Just the cumulative event stream could represent an order of magnitude decrease in packets with only a slight increase in latency.
Personally I think the type system (via traits and genetics) makes it really easy to build abstractions with low costs and friendly APIs, which makes composing good software that runs faster much easier.

There seems to be a class of developer that's been brainwashed into thinking generic programming is bad. It's pretty damn great when your type system is well designed.
This is just shifting the problem to a different industry. The insurance industry would not have been sufficiently capitalized to weather this storm.