skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use a 2018 Mac mini with an OWC Helios FX enclosure with a stock AMD Vega 56 GPU. My workload is some light gaming (Mac only no windows/boot camp) and 3x4K displays in scaled modes for web/software dev.

The mini itself is compact, fast, and generally great. Handles VM based dev workloads well. It’s small and quiet (not always silent though).

I used the machine with just the built in integrated GPU for a few months. For gaming it was bad. For lots of 4K screens it was... doable, in the sense that you could actually plug them all in, but UI effects would lag and it felt weirdly disjointed. Some tasks would be very fast then hit a GPU related thing (scrolling, OS animations, etc) and lag, stutter, making the system feel slower than it was.

Got the eGPU and it was 100% plug and play. Works beautifully, completely fixes all the UI issues, games generally run great (as good or better than my previous hackintosh with the same GPU in a direct PCI slot)

I’ve run into a few very small issues. USB-C connector tolerances are not always tight enough to reliably move equipment while it is all on, so sometimes if you grab the mini and drag it around (maybe to position it to plug in another cable) the GPU can disconnect. This generally falls back “gracefully” to the internal GPU but can be a bit annoying. You also have to think a bit more about heat management in your space. The GPU and mini all get hot when under load, you can’t stuff them in an unventilated hole. Overheat behavior is generally that the GPU shuts off and needs to be power cycled.

Compared to an iMac... The iMac is probably a better standalone deal and experience. However, in my case I have many machines and many displays. Mini+GPU lets me share generic displays across multiple machines in a way that an iMac simply can’t. Especially if you have existing windows gaming hardware where you can “recycle” the previous gen GPU in the Mac it can be way more cost effective. The GPU I am using is more powerful than you can get in any mac other than the Mac Pro.

Vs the Mac Pro... well the Mac Pro is better, but costs 4-a zillion times as much. kind of different ballparks. If you want a headless desktop and don’t need the Mac Pro crazy, a mini+GPU is a good option.

As a budget option? Mini+enclosure+GPU isn’t particularly cheap. My setup was ~2k without displays and I have a fairly simple spec setup (512GB, 16GB ram, slowest 6 core).

Where it shines is in modularity with other equipment. I can share the eGPU with laptops, share the GPUs with other windows machines, and share displays with other machines, in that environment it is cheaper and more flexible.
My best guess is that they are using an i3-1000G4 for the base model.

The i5 option could be an i5-1035G4 with a cTDP of 12W or even an i5-1030G7 with a cTDP-up of 12W and an increased base clock.

The description of the i7 matches an i7-1060G7 at 9W TDP.

HTH
Their employees certainly aren't happy about that either - https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/united-auto-workers-call-o... especially given https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-genera...
It's almost impressive that Docker-on-macOS works so seamlessly that people are downvoting this comment. Yes, Docker containers run in a Linux VM on macOS. It's just one though, and generally seems fine on low resource workstations, unlike Vagrant setups from a few years ago that tried to run a VM for every application.
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He’s not asking for reviews, or using the usual precautionary tone: he’s claiming that his solution work, explicitly seeking limelight. I’m afraid of two things:

1. Without professionals pandemic specialist to deliver the message, people who care about rumours, organisation and industrial capacity, there will be runs on pharmacies and hospitals won’t be able to treat severe patients in time. Or that people start taking large amount of a fairly toxic compound. Or that people leave quarantine because they have taken an (unproven) treatment. The 200,000 people who have seen this video, how many know how to measure a viral load? How many will decide to order Chloroquine vs. have the lab experience to measure that?
Chloroquine is available OTC in many countries because most people take it as a prophylactic. Can you guarantee that the same people won’t double the dose, to an amount that even Pr. Raoult sees as hard to manage? There’s already been some problematic situations with masks.

2. Other doctors in this pandemic or the next, admire his success, stumble on a treatment that has similar numbers but isn’t a solution (because of confounding factors, lack of random control trial) publish it through the same channels.

I’m not a clinician, but I teach people how to use proper scientific method and avoid listening to the loudest voice in the room, even when that voice is right, because science was built on giving time to the less appealing criticism.

I’m not criticising his work: he’s onto something. I am criticising his presentation because he’s explicitly ignoring good practices.
> You just need enough people to wear them for R0 to fall below 1

This is the point I wanted to make but I went with "everyone" instead of "enough"

For what it's worth, I think you'll find here in the US at least a very pigheaded attitude towards wearing masks. And that includes myself. I just don't want to live in a world where everyone has to wear masks. It's soul crushing.
Demystifying Stablecoins: Cryptography meets monetary policy
I am french and currently stuck in lockdown. I've had similar feelings with these projects being mainly directed to the US (not that it is a bad thing at all, more that I don't find it directly relevant).

As much as I would also love to help the whole world, I have a feeling that I will personally be more efficient working on small projects trying to solve relevant local issues.

I am not sure where to start, but if anyone is in the same situation and/or have some ideas, let's get in touch and try to do something.
Worth pointing out that traditional automakers' factories remain open as well. The difference is they have the UAW, which still has some small amount of bargaining power. They were unsuccessful in securing a full shutdown, but did manage to negotiate a partial one, with some additional precautions to help limit the spread.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2020/0...
You said “highest since 1940” and called it sensationalist.

But it broke the 1940 record, which means the title is correct and not sensationalist.
They were going to lower it to 50 (from 60) in England too[1] but they seem to have opted for 55 instead.

[1] "In August 2018, ministers agreed that in the future bowel cancer screening in England will start at the age of 50." https://www.gov.uk/guidance/bowel-cancer-screening-programme...
Successful Headless Solutions Answer Customer and Employee Needs Alike
... Huh. If you'd asked me to guess where Apple would first deploy Ice Lake/equiv gen, the Air would not have been in my first few guesses.
let's add some news context

"Honda Plans to Shut Down North American Plants for Six Days Due to Virus Concerns, Demand Decline"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/honda-plans-to-shut-down-north-...

"UAW, Auto Makers Agree to Partial Plant Shutdowns to Curtail Coronavirus. Ford temporarily closes Chicago factory for virus-related parts shortage... The United Auto Workers and Detroit car companies reached agreements on coronavirus-mitigation efforts that for now will avoid a two-week shutdown of U.S. factories."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uaw-presses-auto-makers-to-clos...

"Volkswagen, Airbus Halt European Production Amid Wave of Factory Closures" (Europe not US)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/volkswagen-airbus-halt-european...
This has worked for me as well. Whenever keys got stuck I could press them quite hard and seemingly crunch whatever is causing the issue. For example the tab key would only react intermittently. Press it, and almost massage it with lots of force and it works fine again.
Trust me, I am the LAST person to advocate corporate socialism. But I think this deserves an honest conversation.
I really wonder what would happen if we didn't save the airlines. What would happen if we let an entire industry collapse under the weight of a natural disaster? (That's not a rhetorical question, I'm honestly asking). Wouldn't that cause a domino effect crashing through the whole system?

Don't get me wrong - I agree that it's terrible to have to continue bailing out greedy corporations. But is this the time to rebuild the system? I'm not so sure we can handle that on top of everything else going on.

We should attach all kinds of strings to this bailout, and then hold our representatives responsible for fixing this mess. But I'm not sure letting the whole thing collapse is the reasonable thing to do.
Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index:  Americans hit by stress, job losses
To summarize your post:

"I should pay to support quality journalism, but since there's stuff free online, I won't, and it will die."
In fairness, that keyboard switch style hasn’t had 1mm off travel before, so don’t you think “refined” is somewhat accurate?
Some day, irregular verbs in English will be completely getted ridded of!
The new XPS 13 is 16:10 and has a good trackpad, supposedly.
Apple Updates iPad, MacBook Air with New Keyboard
> "We've gone back to where we were three years ago after a mistake, sorry."

That would be refreshing, I'd respect that.
If they hadn't used stock buybacks, they would have issued dividends, and we would be in the same situation.
If you liked the stability of the butterfly switches, but the travel and reliability of the scissor switches, the new thing is really pretty nice, and is arguably an advance over both.
If I remember correctly, in Zero to One, Thiel states that one of the strict conditions for a startup to succeed is having great timing.

I think the article is not accurate or maybe the author didn't include Thiel's opinion on timing for the sake argument.
3D scan any physical object and then send it to a 3D printer. So many possibilities!

- Cosplayer? 3D scan yourself, you now have a model you can make minis out of.

- Need to replace a simple valve to help treat covid19? This does most of the work for you.

- Game dev? You can scan a real world item, either importing it directly or using it as an outline for an in-game object.

For most high detail or functional things you probably will need to make some adjustments to the scanned model, but it could make the whole process waaay easier.
Same. I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with 8GB of RAM and I've been doing fine. Sure, there are some hiccups every now and then but it works. I have Spotify, VS Code, Slack, Kitty tmux sessions and more open 24/7.
I read that as "elegant" not "made better". It's possible that people could read it either way.
government bailouts are not capitalism
I agree -- while some of us have been fussing with WebEx in the corporate world for years, Zoom seems to have sneaked in from the ease-of-use, small market position. It's working great for my kid's school that has zero dedicated IT workers.
> Like, binaries are LLVM IR, Jit'd to the local architecture.

LLVM IR is not platform independent, it's really just a bunch of (closely-related, ofc.) platform-specific IR's. What's wrong with WASM? Everything else seems broadly OK, of course. (Also, WASM directly supports "applets", via Canvas.)
>Setup and updates are relatively painless if you choose the right hardware

Agreed. But this is where "I'll pay an extra $200 to not have to worry about that" comes into the equation
When companies do these buybacks, they deprive themselves of the liquidity that might help them cope when sales and profits decline in an economic downturn.
Low gas prices would be good for airlines normally, because gas prices are a large portion of their operating costs.
Apple released a pro product that’s not aimed at programmers. The physical form factor and keyboard are useful even if the computing could be done in a phone.
> see if there's a pattern in those we know to be infected vs those we know aren't

You don't know who is infected and who isn't. That was my second point about not having a training set.
1) Hoping Trump will have a backbone when facing corporate cronies
2) Hoping that executives will skip bonuses, after seeing what happened to Wall Street in 2008

In the old language of my ancestors, rotfl.
How to identify the stages of grief in Covid-19 messages
What I dislike about my convertible is that you can never use it as both a tablet and a laptop at the same time.

I know it’s obvious but I didn’t realize it when I switched from a laptop + tablet to a convertible in the hopes of simplifying my setup.

For example, it’s annoying when you’re taking notes and need to look something up on the web: either put up with poorly optimized interfaces or convert the device to a laptop.

So I’d much prefer a tablet plus laptop for my particular usage as a student but am too broke to buy another new setup. What makes convertibles so desirable to you?
> But is this the time to rebuild the system?

Thing is, though, whenever this conversation is relevant (ie when the airlines need a bailout because of recession, whatever), you can always dodge the issue by saying "but we have too much going on right now for this".

> We should attach all kinds of strings to this bailout

Definitely. But normally what happens is that corporate lawyers are much smarter and more devious than government lawyers with the benefit of huge leverage and these strings get waived, ignored, litigated for years, etc.
At a quick reading, here are some things that pop out:

1) In your 94 well example, you'd need to dilute each individual sample 1/94. This could cause problems. The lower leveraged scenarios may be more useful due to lower dilution.

2) Similarly, very small scale liquid handling is relatively difficult to do. As you multiplex the number of sources into a well, the volume of each of those sources will decrease, increasing the difficulty and uncertain. Once again, a lower leveraged solution is likely viable.

It's also worth identifying that the bottle neck in testing is moving towards the availability of sample swabs, and reverse-transcription reagent (these happen up stream of PCR). Given those constraints, the emphasis should be on making all other steps in the detection chain as reliable (so simple) as possible to make the best of the bottle necked resources.

That said, it's a very clever idea.
My least favorite thing about HN is that it upvotes trivial Apple hardware news to the top link. Literally no one in the world cares about Apple keyboards except Apple fans.
<start of rant>

if apple sold a licence for macos we can cut this BS and besides , i can only see audio professionals and graphic designers getting their monies worth. I get the argument about the "eco-system" but at what cost would you buy it though. you get outdated hardware with STFU prices. will we ever come to a consensus Linux distro and get rid of these idiots ( mac , windows ) .<end of rant>
All the industries they are looking at bailing out already are huge political donors: airlines, oil & gas, etc.

These industries have already priced in that they can do whatever the hell they want, completely fall apart and they will get bailed out.

They know that:

1. They are needed, or seen as needed by politicians

2. The appetite for true nationalization of industries is extremely low in the US, so they will get bailed out instead of taken over by govt.
I think you are looking for an iPad?
Why not use AMD chips instead.
ctrl+p money sounds about right... thanks for sharing
Is this any different than the previous version(except the keyboard)?
> Lioudmila Lakovleva

Iakovleva (Yakovleva), for God's sake...
Biohackers team up online to help develop coronavirus solutions
Write however you want to write, choose whatever best practices available, any design pattern, design principal.
Just add lots of comments, as many comments as possible which talks about what each line is suppose to do. If you are using a pattern, write at the start that this is x pattern used for this scenario.
if you are branching the code, which scenario each branch will take care of.

At the end, if you comments and logs are complete and self explanatory, any one can come in and change the code or debug the code.
The confusion with the EU travel bans was that it seemed somewhat arbitrary, allowing UK etc. It was also announced somewhat ambiguously, where some people thought it included shutting down cargo shipments

This border closure is also different in that both sides have negotiated a mutual agreement

That said, yes, we should realize how much perspectives are shifting with each passing week. Ideally we'd try learn from Europe's hindsight rather than blame their rate of infection on greeting rituals
When we cast our randomness as a string we impose a lot of structure. Proportionally, getting to English from there might involve a lot less new structure than in the previous step.

Often I wonder if I'm just spouting gibberish, saying things like this, but it does make sense to me.
I'm going to build a small online service with only one product and a subscription fee by month. I had to compare the Payment Gateways to know which one fit my needs.

To do this comparison, I made a small spreadsheet which could (maybe, or not) help you. Here it is: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12-sWEe-gsoGm0kT5LMcM...

Feel free to add comments if you find any issue.
That issue was actually recalled and given an extended service warranty period, I think. Otherwise, those 2015 ones responded well to being baked in the oven, if you still have yours.
Well, they are calling it the "magic" keyboard. How does that strike you?
This is below baseline. I still don't understand why it's important for them to make compromises at the keyboard, which is an essential part of the notebook experience. A keyboard has keys, keys have a certain height. Get over it Apple. I've tried the latest 3 generations of keyboards and the 2015 still comes out on top. It looks as if Apple's engineers are trying to fight the keyboard. Macbook's keyboard were almost unquestionably the best among notebooks. Now we're happy if they're not crap. Of course this is all personal opinion and I'm sure Apple tests these things extensively and only release them if they make for a significant improvement. They wouldn't release a broken keyboard and deny they're at fault for years, right?
If he's not crucified by his base for letting the disease go rampant, he won't get crucified for anything else. In any rational country his approval ratings would be in the teens, not the forties, right now.
Refined doesn't mean any of those words.
Here's two definitions from Google:

> with impurities or unwanted elements having been removed by processing.

> developed or improved so as to be precise or subtle.

It basically just mean improved, which most people would agree.
Isn't "4K" the resolution??
US, China, Then UK Lead World in VC Tech Investment and Eigen Joins Tech Nation
Gold is valued because it doesn't tarnish. Bismuth, on the other hand, becomes beautiful only with a patina of oxide.
Hallway – make WFH less lonely
Coronavirus: California issues warning about disinfecting wipes
Thank you sir. I know what I can do for the next few days!
So is RAM upgradeable in this? Only offering soldered ram / SSD is reason to not buy these.....
I was going to comment this, but you got here before me. So, I would just like to ramble about type theory and constructive logic a bit.

According to the Curry-Howard correspondence and the BHK interpretation of logic, there is a syntactic correspondence between types and logical formulas and between terms and proofs.

Here, the unit type corresponds with truth because it is trivially inhabited with a single inhabitant. The product type A * B is interpreted as logical conjunction because you need a proof of A and a proof of B to inhabit it.

The unit type (true) is the identity of the product type (and). Unit * A = A * Unit = A from an isomorphism perspective. From the category theory point of view, a Cartesian monoidal category is a monoidal category where the tensor product is the categorical product and the unit object is the terminal object. It's no coincidence that the terminal object is written as 1.

So, an n-ary sequence of propositions connected by ANDs is like an n-ary tuple type, and an empty sequence of propositions connected by ANDs is like the nullary tuple type, or in other words the trivially inhabited unit type.
Boeing unfortunately has to be bailed out, if we as a world want airplane as a method of transportation. It’s only Boeing and Airbus, there are no others.

Management should be punished excessively as a warning to others, though I do not expect them to be punished at all.
There is middle ground between those extremes...
Not really, the operating system is not very advanced.
Keep at it! You're definitely on the right track.
Completing the welding apprenticeship at NNSY results in an hourly wage of $29.73. The overtime pay schedule at NNSY. The issue online is complicated because NNSY also has "shipfitters/welders". They are paid substantially less than production welders. Production welders at a repair yard like BAE/Colanna/Lyon make in the range of $27-$30. They also make significant overtime.

I agree that the myth of the super-high paid welder is mostly fabricated, but when it comes to shipbuilding at a nuclear yard it's a lot higher than you would expect.
If an individual is expected to have a 3-6 month 'emergency fund', would it be reasonable to expect the same of a corporation?
The front facing camera is also massively neglected for the MacBook Pro, which I use all the time (!) for video conferencing.
The Tao of Hashicorp
Silver is used in industrial processes. Its plunge in price is a signal that industrial output is dropping.
> Regardless of using the start menu or not, there's a lot of background tracking (for user behaviour and ads) that needs to be disabled by registry edits.

That stuff also has a nasty tendency to ""accidentally"" get re-enabled after updates from many reports I've heard.
Ordered to close now.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Tesla-s-Fremont...
I bet it could be
Will I Regret This?
Perhaps you should buy something more in the price range of the mac-mini to make a real comparison rather than the cheapest dell.
The conversation is dominated by the fear of gov't abuse. So few point to how successfully South Korea has leveraged their vast surveillance infrastructure to tackle this problem while maintaining a vibrant democracy. (When's the last time the US actually imprisoned a leader? Or even held a powerful person to account without pardon?)

The lack of trust in the US is really disappointing. Americans are so proud of its democracy---yet consistently hate and distrust the government.

I fear at the end of all of this, it'll be like the line at the end of The Big Short: "They will be blaming immigrants and poor people."
Fantastic. Finally some sanity about disintermediating work from locality.

Sidenote: Carl Icahn is currently shorting commercial RE, so I think you're right.
> Where it shines is in modularity with other equipment

Thanks for the insight, that's where I see it shining is sharing the GPU between a work desktop/laptop, and then a personal desktop/laptop for gaming. All whilst still being able to take advantage of the benefits a slim and light device has when moving around.
People buy really expensive iPhones as well.
My point wasn’t that the iPad Pro is for most people. Just that the features it and the future regular iPad supports are enough for most of the computing needs.
> Like say you compare people by their age. That's a perfectly fine operation for sorting, min, max, etc. Now you find two people have the same age. Are they the same person?

They have the same age, which might be the minimum age of the group. I don't think it makes sense to talk about the minimum person of the group; minimum/maximum imply that it's the thing itself which is ordered.