skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal laptop is an 11" Air mid-2013 and I still use and love it. I especially love the keyboard on it because the keys have height, feel closer to a mechanical keyboard, and don't capture as much dust and dirt as the flat keys on my newer touchbar 2016 pro work laptop

This is good news from Apple as I was not into any of their more recent laptops but I'll probably upgrade to this one

I only wish they had a 11" version but not a deal breaker
Volunteering and being part of a completely different group altogether is what helped me. Working with young people of tomorrow to help them polish their skills and share some thoughts along the way while being a friend has done me wonders.
Still no 13'' MacBook on offer with more than 16GB memory :(
I remember when the iPhone X broke the $1000 barrier and made phones that cost even more than that suddenly acceptable. It seems Apple is successfully pushing up the acceptable price for things.
I am not familiar with such conspiracies, from what I seen he is accusing Apple of incompetence a lot and the keyboard case confirms that Apple can do sometimes stupid designs and he is accusing Apple of anti-repair shit and this is also true see the right of repair laws that are debated in US states and EU.

We do not have any emails or other internal Apple materials to know for sure why Apple kept hidden the fact they crippled your iPhone CPU (again for the fanboys the issue was the HIDDEN part) but for now presuming Apple is hidden things for your own good is let's say naive.
The only negative thing that comes to mind is pocket. DoH is also controversial due to the implementation, but at least I understand the incentive they had.

I just hope Firefox keeps being a real counterpart to Chrome and doesn't try to mirror it. Funding is a problem as Mozilla is far too dependant on Google, but I don't know a solution to that.
It's unfortunate they've been systematically destroyed through legislation in favor of more returns to shareholders for the past few decades.
You definitely see it in defense-related locales.

Driving around Newport News, Groton, or even Birmingham is like being on another planet economically speaking.

But I definitely see the point, as most of the suppliers are sized for defense, not commercial industrial volume.

And from their perspective, I get the choice. Why risk expansion, when the trend has been towards free trade and offshoring? A 100x customer who decides to switch suppliers in a year isn't a win. At least DoD is a semi-reliable customer.
I don't love coding on a tiny screen when I'm not using my laptop keyboard to awkwardly type with an external monitor.
I have an idea to increase viral RNA test throughput (PCR) by 46.5 times using a binary encoding scheme that I hope someone here might be able to validate/invalidate. Sorry for the thread jack, but I tried posting this yesterday but didn't get picked up.

https://wet-robots.ghost.io/how-to-increase-covid-19-testing...
I hope there will be a 14" MBP as well with a working keyboard.
You can get a quad core i7
I probably would except for the lack of ports and weak CPU.

Still just waiting on a new 14" MBP.
Because none of the professional grade studio monitors, DJ headphones, or in-ear monitors that I own are wireless?
Coz, it's a lie, half truths are lie essentially, I agree its a sales tactic but nonetheless it's a lie.
I like it a lot and keep coming back to it. I’m using the LTS/18.04 variant of it. Some of the things I like include:

- great installation experience that just works. Most of the distros I’ve tried have had problems with this

- comes with a newer kernel and the correct set of drivers, so most of the time I’m not battling with it

- its an Ubuntu derivative, so every tutorial on the internet works for it. I’m not seasoned linux user just yet, so this has been quite helpful

- its relatively lightweight and for the most part gets out of your way

- superficially, I like its theme more then Ubuntu proper

I hope they keep doing the right things with the next lts.
Wrong, and let's try to keep things civil. You clearly missed the point and are dying on a hill not worth it.

I'm not alone in my disgust about people's activity during the lockdown: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/18/coronavirus...
An autoclave is more like a pressure cooker than a steamer.

You need temperatures well in excess of 100 degrees Celsius to reliably kill everything, especially bacterial spores (which, admittedly, are not the major issue here).

To do so, autoclave use high pressure steam (121C at 15 psi) for long enough that everything reaches that temperature. A microwave won’t even get close to that, though it can disinfect, rather the sterilize, just like boiling water can. You also need to be careful that the entire object gets heat-treated; home microwaves often have hot and cold spots and one missed spot can spoil everything.

This stuff is fairly complicated and I’d encourage you stick with established methods if you can, which I think is currently treatment with a UVC lamp.
Whole world seems to be celebrating that Javascript desktop turds runs 10 times slower and consumes 10 times more resources than 20 year old native applications. So I guess everything is worth celebrating.
It does ship with ed, though.
Gold is long term cash.

Sovereign funds / private wealth purchase gold as a hedge against inflation. Ie their short term cash (actual cash) being worth less tomorrow. It has this characteristic because gold fundamentally has zero yield.

When you enter a crisis period or period of deflation. Which we are seeing now. There is a flight to short term cash (USD).

Good bugs who hoard gold or draw parallels to Armageddon and huge price increases in gold do not account for the simple fact that gold is long term cash.

During the GFC the same liquidation profile was observed for gold.
Well, we've mined 320,000 tons of bismuth so that's probably a better comparison than copper. This is all just to get a wide ballpark estimate.
Polyend Tracker – Old school tracker in hardware form
I have just read a German article explaining that Deutsche Telekom provided 5 GB of location data to the Robert Koch Institute.

The data will be analyzed to understand the mobility of German residents.

So it's not real time tracking but it's still tracking.
The least we can demand for these bailouts is that executive bonus of last years will be returned. These companies don't deserve bailouts and should all go into chapter 11.

We got all severely fucked last time. Boeing bought for $52 billion shares back and now they want $60?

I hope Donald Trump is going to push his Tough guy act now. If he says no to all the bailouts he is going to be remembered as the best president ever.
> Doesn't docker spin up an entire vm for containers?

(It generally does not. Instead it uses more lightweight isolation primtives. That has always been one of its main selling points.)

EDIT: see reply

> That does seem pretty heavy for a MBA of any generation?

It very much depends on what you are running inside the containers. I regularly have a dev environment with ~8 relatively lightweight containers running on my Early 2014 MBA without any problems.
Ask HN: ML Production Workflows?
What does your ML production workflow look like? What workflow tools if any do you use to automate and what are some of the tasks you're leveraging the tool for?
With the travel market in tatters, when can Airbnb go public in 2020?
I'll continue to be skeptical about the "next computer" marketing of iPad Pro before there can be some breakthrough of multi-tasking design.
iPadOS 13.4 will let you remap the useless capslock key to esc:

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/02/06/ipados-13-4-hardwar...
It really just goes to show how far you can get without knowing the fundamentals these days.
I have a current Macbook Pro that's mine and a butterfly-switch MBP from work. The butterfly is acceptable, although I've finally gotten a doubling key, x, which is a problem for doing cmd-x.

The new MBP keyboard is noticeably different in feel from the old scissor-switch keyboard, but not especially so. It's comfortable to type on and I'm happy with it.
NPM Is Down Again
State of software development 2020 research
They screwed the pooch so badly that they’re worth a trillion dollars.
It was an awful experiment that should have never left the lab. What could possibly have been the thinking for the entire butterfly/touchbar line, "People should be looking at the keyboard more when they type. Also, there's not nearly enough wrist pain going around. I wonder what important part of the Macbook we can ruin to address both of these problems."
Is there a way to resize a pane? Normally one of my panes is just to run a process (like a local server) where I don't need to see output from it and 2 or 3 lines would suffice
The excuse that always seems to endlessly get rolled out is that these companies are 'too big to fail'. So they continuously get bailed in the US and the UK too whether it be banks or airlines.
I don't think it would be better to have a worse camera. You can't fit much camera at all in 5.9mm anyways, and cameras are useful.

What would be better is if the whole thing were as thick as required by the camera module - a "whopping" 8mm or so. You could use this difference to make it stiffer and more durable (it's going to be uncomfortably weak to hold at 5.9mm), to add more battery capacity, or to improve the thermal performance.
You need something more powerful than this Mac Mini just to be able to scroll that webpage.
I think there are a ton of inefficiencies that could be fixed, but I don't think we need to risk destroying our economy to fix it. There are a lot of reasonable, incremental steps we can take.

This is an older article[1] (2003), but I imagine the findings are only more relevant today. It compares the costs of the US healthcare system and Canada's, and there are huge discrepancies in price. Obviously the systems are very different, but I think we can trim the administration costs while keeping our privatized system.

I'm not an expert, nor have I done a ton of research, but it seems that making costs transparent (and having instance pay advertised costs) would go a long way to cutting costs. Care providers do a lot of work to deal with insurance, so if we move that to insurance companies, they'll find ways to reduce their own costs and we can eliminate a lot of redundant jobs. Medical care providers should focus on medical care, insurance should focus on financial care, and individuals should shop for the best deal. Ideally, I only interact with my insurance when I need it, much like auto and home insurance. I don't tell my auto insurance every time I change the oil, so why do I do the same for health insurance and checkups?

- [1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa022033
Bismuth has low toxicity for a heavy metal but I think I'd recommend skipping the dental crowns. Bismuth makes very pretty dangly bits handing off earring or necklaces though.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bismuth+jewelry
What's really funny is that this guy had the balls to publish a book named "Creativity inc." which talked about the "culture of candor", the egalitarian culture of Pixar... much of this talk was later challenged by numerous women who opened up about the sexism and misogyny they'd faced there. And of course the other guy that founded Pixar, John Lasseter, turned out to be a molester and so was laid off. Great company!
Pinnacle now says shipping 3/21 and the EUA notice is gone. Maybe they received approval?
I thought NodeJS was single-threaded?
I wouldn't expect that port to support USB data at all unless explicitly stated. They call it out as "a USB‑C port for passthrough charging."
Typically my annual physical is blood work (cholesterol, blood sugar, liver enzymes), blood pressure, chest exam (heart/lungs), check for testicular cancer, and soon a finger in the butt to check the rough size of my prostate.
That couldn't be more wrong.
> There is legitimately nothing wrong with this computer

now /that/ is a powerful pitch!

Seriously though, a quad core processor at this clock speed in 2020 is incredibly underwhelming.
Departments Accept Pass-Fail Classes to Lift Pandemic Pressure on Concentrators
"The refined scissor mechanism with 1 mm of travel delivers a responsive, comfortable, and quiet typing experience."

What in that says "invented" "new" or even "wonderful?" It seems like you're reading into the text what isn't even there.
I don't think anyone will try. It's 'impossible' in the sense that both Microsoft and Opera threw in the towel and turned their browsers into Chromium skins. If even Microsoft can't pull it off, it seems unlikely anyone else is going to seriously try starting afresh.

Mozilla have been successful in swapping out large chunks of their browser for superior replacements (for instance replacing the JIT, several times iirc), but that's not quite the same thing.

Another point: why would a company bother? Amazon's 'Silk' is just another Chromium-based browser, but I imagine that works just fine for Amazon. What's the downside of taking Google's hard work and putting your branding on it?
Are Hackintosh a practical reality? (genuine question)
'kitty' term user here, and I use the heck out of kitty's tab and split controls, even with i3 (and even in the presence of tmux).
4 years but who's counting.

Sent from my MBP 13" 2018 with sticky spacebar.
Coronavirus’ effect on autism research may have long-term consequences
> there is no clear-cut definition between species

It's not clear-cut in all cases. But it's clear cut bilaterally. Two organisms are in the same species if they can successfully reproduce, i.e. produce an offspring that can itself produce offspring. If they can't, they're in different species. (Multilateral fuzziness arises if A can reproduce with B, and B with C, but A not with C.)
This is really cool Sundeep, thanks for doing this! Question for you: what did you use to draw the diagrams for the "Javascript Regex" book, such as on the cover? Thanks!
> I also find it utterly bizarre that screening would include lung capacity testing

Until I was 15 I used to play water polo at a reasonably competitive level; I had to get yearly "sport physicals" (not sure what they're called in English). I didn't always go to the same hospital and the procedure changed a bit from one place to another.

One year they tested my lung capacity, and they told me that I had "the lungs of king kong" (I think I was at about 125% the average/median/expected for someone my age and size).

It was the best physical ever, I still cherish that moment.
Your trade-in would cover over 1/3 of the price of a brand new machine. That's a fairly significant discount.

If you used it for a year would you say you got $959 of value out of it in that time?

If I purchase a new car, I can either trade it in for lower Kelly Blue Book value to dealership and avoid having to interact with eBay or Craigslist lurkers, or put up with strangers haggling and try to get more from selling it to private strangers.

Same applies to a laptop.
Imagine for a second that you were constantly being assumed to be an incorrect gender. And let's further assume that it bothered you. Would you want to spend all your time telling people to not assume your gender (and consider the high possibility that they're going to get a reaction like this)?

No, you're not. And so every dude on this thing is going to use "he" everywhere cause "no-one's complaining". And then when people who prefer different gender pronouns come in, they're going to see people being assholes about gender pronouns, and they're going to say "fuck this" and leave (note, they're not going to reply either, cause they also are sick of it).

And so to prevent that, people other than the "supposedly offended person" need to step in, even if they weren't asked.

I'm not going to reply to further discussion here. I hope this was useful to you.
Wouldn't it make the most sense then for the Bailout to be mostly for equity at the current price? They have stock, they want cash, they sell the stock. American Taxpayer holds onto the stock for a while, fixes the company, and then sells for profit.

That of course is if the American Taxpayer wants to save that business.
I'm not aware of anywhere that /bin/sh won't work. /bin/bash is extremely non-portable though.
Don't see a source for the million a day figure?
The forthcoming beta of iOS adds global keybindings for caps lock.
There is something wrong. I’m running two separate Rails apps, MySQL, Oracle, RabbitMQ as a broker between the two apps, Redis, and both have Angular FEs that I use VSC with. Same year MBP, and my CPU load rarely reaches 5%.
So much this- I struggled with my butterfly mbp for about 18 months all under the guise of "its a stout machine, the keyboard isnt that bad" or "I can use an external keyboard".

Then I grew tired of the macbook fan noise when running windows 10 and debugging with the touch bar. I ordered a surface 3 laptop and immediately realized how important a nice keyboard is to me. Its tactile, its got enough travel, the keys feel nice. I type with fewer errors and I work faster. Anyone want to buy a 2018 macbook pro with 6 core and 32gb ram?
> I am a bit confused by the usb-c port for pass through charging. I would have thought a great opportunity would be to have the stand be able to wireless charge the iPad while in use but I expect the power requirements of an iPad in use would exceed current standards.

Looking at the published photos, there doesn't appear to be a mechanical interface along the edge of the ipad to the stand.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MXQT2LL/A/magic-keyboard-...

I've never laid hands on an iPad Pro but photos show it has 3 pogo pads on the backside, is that enough to do data and power? I was under the impression that USB-3 required multiple pairs of data wires. Some sort of proprietary signaling?

Maybe it is using wireless power?
I bought the 2018 MBP and also agree. The keyboard has been a disaster. I’ve had it replaced 4 times now and won’t be looking back at their laptops anytime soon. The resale value has completely gone away for a 3500 purchase.

Shame.
Which part of those two sentences is a lie?

"The refined scissor mechanism with 1 mm of travel delivers a responsive, comfortable, and quiet typing experience."

Is any of that false? How do we know?
Which is still a 1.2 GHz base clock.
It's not a VM, which is the point of docker in the first place.

I agree, though, that it's next to unusable on a low-power dual-core system like the MBA if only for limited RAM.
Eurovision Song Contest 2020 cancelled over coronavirus
PigPaxos: Removing the Scalability Bottlenecks in Paxos
You can do the same thing in Japan for less than $1000.
This is not true - even a 10 year old MBA handles it fine. Try disabling your extensions – especially any ad blockers which aren't simple domain blocking.
Not if you live in a rainforest with ample access to water. It’s got very little value, whereas in a desert it’s got high value.
The front facing camera is seriously neglected.

They keep on adding more powerful/fancy cameras to the rear that people likely under-use in the common case, while the front camera that is commonly used for work, video conferencing, selfies, etc remains on the wrong edge and is under-powered. It is almost farcical with the new keyboard setting the top to the non-camera edge.

The front facing camera should be the premiere camera on the iPad, and should exist on the top and side, with triple microphone array (top, left, and right). Scrap two of the rear cameras to offset the cost.
Yes! I think it is normal than everyone cares about their own country, and of course in HN people are more worried about the US and the SF area in particular. But I'm also sure there will be other initiatives that could benefit more people and as someone from Europe (we're minority here, but still quite a few!), that's what I'd like to help with.
This headline is pretty misleading IMO. The article cites the number of people who have filed for unemployment in Minnesota over a two-day period and then quotes from this[1] tweet from a Washington Post reporter:

> Good Lord. In the past two days, 31,000 Minnesotans have applied for unemployment insurance. Minnesota is roughly 1/60th of the U.S. population. If other states had the same rate, it would be 1.8 million.

[1] https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1240123879491801092
Judging from the (in my opinion) really clunky multi window feature in iPadOS it seems they are struggling to get even close to the usability of macOS. I don’t think so far iPadOS scales well to larger screen sizes and multitasking. A lot of things take more clicking compared to macOS.
It is 2 black swans this time, coronavirus and gas prices, but yeah, you are right
New study shows Type-A blood people MORE prone to coronavirus
Great initiative, Ragnar! Good luck!
Economists recognize Germany’s unique position that is overheating their manufacturing center. If the DM still existed, it would be ~50% more valuable than the Euro.
The existence of DNA is an observation: it's data. That DNA is the means by which traits are passed between generations, now that's a theory. It's open to falsification. No matter how many examples you can provide showing the theory to be true, all I need to do is provide a single counterexample to prove it false.
Sorry, I meant "at the moment". Wuhan is apparently now in the tail end (if you believe the PRC). But I didn't say that. Precise communication is hard!
I thought solid state Lidar was still under development, at least as far as cheap mass production goes. Is that not the case? Or is that just true for lidar that’s powerful enough for self-driving cars? Or is this not solid-state lidar?
But people often speculative that macOS development is on the back burner these days. Release to release they have not seemed to add much of use in a long time. They keep introducing new limitations on apps and deprecating stuff. That has questionable utility if your goal is to get work done.

Of course Windows 10 is also in bad shape.
Coronavirus: World looks to China for what pandemic does next
With less features.
... and toilet paper, apparently.
such a great research, well done! Love the slideshow :)
Hospitals Need to Repair Ventilators. Manufacturers Are Making That Impossible
Absolutely an ECC would be great and cool. However, I'm not sure if Apple is going to provide ECC memory since they already do with Mac Pro's and they might want people to just buy a Mac Pro instead of Mac Mini.
Intel’s 10nm chips have very low base clocks. They’re almost always in some sort of boost mode.
It's a start. Americans will like it. They'll demand it again. And the government should keep giving it.

This is our opportunity to get basic income perpetually.

We should've had it decades ago already.
https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc was posted in another comment; it appears to be exactly that.
Looks like they're taking data from Minnesota, extrapolating and then taking a 'conservative' estimate based on some finger in the air math.
Before it was called Visual Studio Online it was called Team Foundation Server.

To make things even more confusing, there is now another product called Visual Studio Online, which is a completely different thing (it's a cloud IDE) https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/visual-studio-on....