skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In Europe, losing your job does not mean losing your health nor your finances.

It does if you're freelance, which a lot of the events industry is. Or if you work for a small business that folds as soon as it has no business.
You can't install your own software on ios without jailbreak (which is not available since iphone 5 or so)
Someone bit into mine. Gross.
"3 apples" is just a rough (though often useful!) and very context-dependent abstraction anyway. real-world apples differ in size, so you might want to count a small apple as half an apple; and does a big "twin"/"conjoined" apple count as two apples? at
best you're using some arbitrary size treshhold. it gets hairy/edge-casey pretty fast...

i know this is nitpicking, but i think when you really look at it, "infinity apples" isn't that much more of an "idea" than "3 apples". (even if the latter is more useful in day-to-day life)
> The LiDAR Scanner measures the distance to surrounding objects up to 5 meters away, works both indoors and outdoors, and operates at the photon level at nano-second speeds.

Light travels 30cm in 1ns. That's not really a very exciting precision at 5m range. That's like 4bit resolution.

Are there any specs aside from this marketing blabber?
I can’t imagine anyone wanting to use this for development. But then again, I don’t see how people develop without at least one, preferably two external monitors.

The new MacBook Air for $999 would be a lot more appropriate.
Hope to see a 11" one as well. I <3 my 2015 Air. It's small but simply does everything I need. At home I plug it to a bigger screen and my Model M keyboard and it's the perfect desktop. When I travel it easily fits in any bag and I hardly notice it.
> No ability to do any kind of coding or scripting

Buy better apps. Textastic + Working Copy FTW.
Yes, and my butt is held in the seat by utilizing quantum electrodynamics, in a way we don't fully understand just yet.
Yeah, but a lot of them will likely be chains. A lot of culture will be lost, at least here in the UK.
There would be a lot of dead people but the economic impact of those deaths would be pretty insignificant because highest fatality rate is for people in their 80s.
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I doubt they did it for anything like that. I bet they just want to get more 3D content for their upcoming VR goggles.
Tangential, but I’ve observed that preferences of what caps lock should be is dependent on your domain.

I write and use a browser in my work. Caps lock as backspace makes the most sense. There will be others that will (unnecessarily) argue with me that caps should and always will be escape.

A possible (mainstream) solution is to change the caps to a custom key that’s configured in the initial setup of a device.
What I really want to see is a (non-protruding) back camera in the centre and with a wide enough lens to be able to see through the screen 1:1 while pointing at a surface.

It would enable way more YouTube creators to be able to see properly while they’re recording.
At least now USB SSDs are cheap, small and fast
Perhaps because it's not new; the previous iPad Pro shipped with it too.
I'd love a glimpse inside the room when they write that sort of copy. Are they all super serious about it? Or laughing their asses off?
So who is this almost $1,000 iPad for? Typically the argument for Apple's wild pricing is that "it's for professionals" but if you can't do anything "professional" with it...it sounds like the surface or something would be better since you can at least do those things with it.
Samsung tablets are basically the same price. Your argument has been false for years.
Any idea how exactly the "lidar" works ? is that like the kinect or a true lidar that project a moving laser point and measure time of flight ??
Both are true. To have a huge success you need a great product that "sells itself" and you need sales and marketing to sell it.

Having just a great product will get you so far, but won't break through into the big leagues. Having only sales and marketing but a shit product will get you a flash in the pan.
> Caps lock as backspace makes the most sense.

But you have a backspace key on your keyboard?
I think the reality is more subtle than this. Is, for example, the discovery of DNA going to be falsified? I don't think so. Is the notion that living organisms evolve going to be falsified? Again, I doubt it. The case of Newton and Einstein is relevant here. Einstein didn't "falsify" Newton but rather enriched our understanding of physics. A better model seems to be that scientific theories fit into a spectrum of certainty: a very few that are certain up to the highly speculative. That scientists need to be open-minded and maintain a level of skepticism is necessary, however, the extreme skepticism you appear to be suggesting is not warranted.
The identity element is the term you’re looking for
Last gen iPad Pros already have USB-C
This is not a solution for the present, also to prevent this happening in the future I would strongly suggest not focusing only on China but maybe have a program setup for this kind of emergencies that were predicted already and for some reason governments were not prepared, this will happen again and it might originate in a different place, it might affect the young and it might be more infectious.

Blaming China is good political strategy to shift the blame and responsibility though, so use that if you are a politician responsible of inaction maybe you get re-elected, you could blame the immigrants and people working over the borders ... fuck political thinking...
Always check the [buyers guide](https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/) before buying Apple stuff :)
There's three of them already: iPad, iPad Air and iPad Mini.
Yes.

But it’s interesting when two things evolve towards each other, but starting from different places. Like comparing bats and birds, or penguins, otters, and fish.

In this case, evolving from a device designed for touch only into touch-first is going to be different from a device that evolved from—let’s be honest—keyboards, punch cards, and the command-line.
How old a tool is has nothing to do with how good it is - we use simple machines and screws and wheels and multi decade old technologies like the internet all the time. Just pick the right tool for the job and keep inventing new ones to expand the opportunity set.
Yes, creditors restructure payment schedules all the time.
Yeah, sorry, I do know what epicycles are. I just don't understand the connection to this issue. It is not like predicate logic was invented to explain the behavior of Python.
I remember that the author of XKCD dug up that the EPA puts a human life around 8.4mil.
Who do you buy from then?
reminds me of my favorite post in response to the latest macbook pro keyboard (can't remember if I saw it here or on reddit).

> When we changed the key travel from 1.0mm to 0.5mm, it was so much better that it became the best keyboard in the world. And now, with the change from 0.5mm to 1.0mm, we’ve made it even better than ever: Welcome to the world’s best typing experience.
Still massive bezels though. They could draw some inspiration from screen implementation of huawei matebook series with nearly no bezels. Can't vouch for their durability however.
I doubt they shoved a real continuous wave lidar there. Most likely some tof sensor with difraction grating
They have some good examples in the article. For example, the IKEA app that will be able to instantly measure your room and suggest furnishings.
Extrapolating from the cult-like following of Apple products: there's no way they don't fully believe this themselves.
Major US banks will NOT be rendered insolvent. The fed won't allow it. They are literally too big to fail. They'll just be bailed out.
Bond's are a great hedge, until they are not.

With the policy stimulation starting with printed money to buy domestic assets, and moving rapidly towards printed money to finance fiscal support, it's not clear that bonds everywhere are a good hedge.

https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/TVC-IT10Y/

Gold on the other hand, has been a decent hedge universally for a couple thousand years.
They're very quick to update!
and militias
Samsung Biologics, Aprinoia Inks Deal to Develop Alzheimer’s Treatment
Keep in mind though that this pricing is not about the unit cost, but more about marketing it as a premium device.

Even with no camera on the back the price would be the same, they may or may not even justify it with improving a different component.
Ask HN: How to get up to speed on mental models for building IoT projects?
I'm starting an IoT project with a client. I've been building web software for two decades and would love to get up to speed on key IoT concepts.

Things like device shadows, choosing between MQTT/HTTP, how an MQTT broker works, the key challenges and good approaches around ingesting data, sending OTA firmware updates and new device settings down, the pros and cons of rolling our own vs e.g. using AWS's tooling.

I've googled around and have found piece parts. But are there any good ebooks or similar resources I could dive into?
lidar?!

Between the 3D front-scanner for Face ID (which, incidentally, worked less well than TouchID did at the time of FaceID launch), the whole touchbar debacle, the UWB radio locator stuff in the latest iPhones, EKG support on the watch, and now LIDAR on the iPad, it seems like Apple is lately really into putting esoteric/novel hardware that nobody really wants or cares about into their newest high-end devices. There's even an argument that the now-debunked butterfly keyboard foray falls into this category (literally nothing was wrong with the scissor/mbair keyboard, as evidenced by the fact that they've returned to it essentially unmodified).

You can make the argument that Face ID/3D front scanner has enough "wow" or utility to be a selling point. I'm not so sure about any of the other stuff, especially the UWB and now LIDAR. This feels like throwing stuff against the wall until something or other sticks—pretty un-Apple, IMO.

I feel like Apple's hit a rough patch in terms of traditional Apple-level innovation; the AirPods and HomePod are mindbendingly great products, but outside of those, "going back to the old keyboard" is the biggest selling point they've shipped really since going all-in on Retina and then Display P3. Everything else user-facing has been incremental (e.g. TrueTone, routine CPU/GPU advances). To be clear, I don't mean to disparage the technical merit of these achievements in any way. It's a major achievement to do what they've done, and there's a lot more of it, across more product lines than ever before in their history, but my iPhone 11 pro maximum mclargehuge is not twice as good as my iPhone 7 was, CPU/GPU increases notwithstanding.

(I'm really, really glad about the T2 boot security that prevents Evil Maid, and the speakers in the new rMBP 16" are astoundingly good, and the 120Hz on iPad Pro is lovely, but this comment is about marquee/headline features.)

Maybe they're just more startuppy now, trying different things in different directions to see what cool technology ends up sticking around. I'm reminded of the time they shipped a bunch of speech recognition launcher/shortcut stuff and voiceprint login out of left field with os9. I still don't "get" where they think they're headed with AR (which is not to say they don't have a cool plan, just that it's not obvious from the outside what, if anything, it is).

I sure hope they've got something big up their sleeve other than the impending AnX CPU macOS laptops.
No because it's much more rare. All the gold mined in the history of the world could fit into one moderately sized warehouse.

190,000 tons of gold mined in the history of the world vs. 700,000,000 tons of copper.
It is a laptop in the same way that a penguin is a fish. Same in so many ways, yet different paths to get there lead to different trade-offs.
... but it „operates on the photon level“ - that’s got to be a first for an optical system /s
CPU options:

- i3 1.1Ghz dual core 4MB L3

- i5 1.1GHz quad core 6MB L3

- i7 1.2GHz quad core 8MB L3

any more details?
I haven't spent $5k on healthcare in my entire life
Potentially narrow down and identify asymptomatic spreaders of the virus in early forming geo clusters. This information could lead to more effective quarantine measures early on or post containment to avoid further outbreak eruptions.
To be honest, even though it is extremely overpriced, it will be a great addition to my (new) iPad Pro.

This 11 inch iPad Pro has been my main machine since it was released in November 2018, and as such it has been great value for money.

I am a bit of an unusual case since I’ve been using iPads to cover (almost all of) my computing and workflow needs since the release of the first iPad in 2010. iPadOS has given the platform an enormous boost in utility. The new keyboard brings is a step closer to being a zero-regrets laptop alternative (i.e., an option orthogonal to as opposed to in replacement of) a laptop.
With a locked down OS where you can only use Safari and devs pay Apple a 30% cut on every sale. Not the future I'm looking for, thank you very much.
It was funny to see all the disposable N95 masks sold out at the hardware store, but all the reusable respirators with replaceable P95 cartridges still in stock.
Low Earth Orbit Satellites and Impacts of the SpaceX Starlink Constellation
I wasn't commenting on whether Thiel or Andreessen are right or wrong, I'm just saying the article misrepresents Thiel's view as they appear in Zero to One.

Also not sure if Thiel has changed his mind since then. Judging by recent interviews (e.g. with Eric Weinstein), he hasn't.
Yes, you can. You just need to sign it appropriately. Also, there's been multiple jailbreaks since iPhone 5.
If the government asked for constant location data in exchange for $1k / month "UBI", most people would take that, and they'd be silly not to because that's likely the highest price their data will ever fetch.
It's a big improvement with regards to bezels but they still have a lot of room for further improvement.
It's not normal in the UK at all to have that kind of check-up, especially not pre-emptive MRIs.

Screen too early and often can lead to too much preventative medicine and procedures, which ironically while preventing specific things aren't without their downsides and can cause an overall lower quality of life.

Sometimes it can feel like the NHS swings the other way and is hesitant to refer for diagnosis even when there is an issue, but in general they try to balance things for everyone. Also, what can be beneficial for an individual may not be beneficial for society as a whole.

That said, if something feels wrong, then please do keep on at your doctor to get a diagnosis. It can be feel like you have to borderline harass doctors to get referrals sometimes in the UK but if there is an issue then don't give up.

I know I was on deaths' door when the hospital finally diagnosed me properly. My GP was still telling me I just had intercostal muscle pain and to take painkillers and come back later even after the hospital had figured it out.
It doesn't make a real difference to policy makers. If anything, it introduces more red tape. The number of available hospital beds is the critical number here. If the people who need hospital beds rises significantly, there has to be an administrative decision to open more impromptu hospital space to deal with it.

If you're sick, but not needing a hospital, the public communication has already mentioned what you need to know. Try to self isolate. Avoid being in crowds. Avoid coughing in crowds. Testing people that are only going to recover without assistance is simply stretching the necessary resources even more thin. And...some countries have mandated that covid19 folks be totally isolated. That's unmanageable when 1/5 to 1/3 the population already have it, and becomes more to do without much benefit. For those places, it shines a light that the government can not manage this problem, even if most will make a full recovery.
I like the algebraic point of view as a way of spotting essential patterns like this :) The essential missing step here is to point out that conjunction is multiplicative, not additive, and this is why `all` gives the unit under conjunction, rather than the unit under disjunction. Corresponding to `sum` is `any`, which gives the unit under disjunction for the empty list, since disjunction is additive.

That said, I do think there is something to the perspective presented in the article. Something which is not accidental to the algebraization of logic...
Definitely not for a web dev.

1. iPad doesn't have a serious IDE. And syncing your workspace with a local computer is not trivial.

2. Safari for iPad doesn't have a dev mode.

3. However, if you only use terminal and vi, iPad has a great terminal app: Blink. Honestly Blink is better than most of desktop terminal in the market.
https://blink.sh/
An Open Letter to Web Developers
The Macbook Air doesn't have a headphone jack? Wow.
These types of magazines[0] seldom write something without getting paid by the topic. I don't have proof in this case, but it sure reads like an ad.

[0] From their 'About' page: “the go-to news and luxury lifestyle recommendation platform for the affluent, on-the-go gent.”
Are you involved in sales?
Can't wait to see the benchmarks of the base model i3 vs the quad-core i5. $999 base config having 256GB SSD is nice, $1299 for 512GB of storage isn't too bad, either.
> self-checkout

A self-checkout is not automation, it's simply transferring the same amount of work from the paid employee to the customer
This is actually an A12Z CPU.
“iPad Pro will be available in stores starting next week.”

If only the stores Outside of China were open...
One can own multiple mansions and fly around in a private jet, and still act without fear of losing those things due to risk.

Or one can hedge their bets and optimize for retaining creature comforts at all costs.

Point of this thread being, Elon could certainly be forgiven for doing the latter, but he still seems to be tacking closer to the former.
what a joke. a desktop "code compile server" that still uses a low tdp laptop processor. I guess for the low price of $6000 I could get a real workstation part.
Odds of Recession at 80% – A looming recession
Interesting, so we might have moved from:

Big, incumbent non-SW company (Kodak example) being challenged by start-up
to
Big, software incumbent (Salesforce) with massive developer resources being challenged by start-up.

Maybe the strategies need to change - perhaps increasingly partnering with the software incumbents (if you can't beat 'em, join 'em).. Maybe someone can add some insight..?
was going to say, that'll be some trick
Let's just be happy they eventually fix their mistakes. :)

Obviously the marketing copy is going to put positive spin however they can. That's what marketing is, and what mostly any other company would write as well.

I'm just grateful!
Stock futures again limit down -5% in Wednesday morning pre-opening trading March 18th 2020
Anyone here who has experience working with JS/TS development tools (vscode, yarn, webpack, Node.js etc.) on a recent MacBook Air? I wonder if the performance is noticeably worse than a 13” MacBook Pro for this type of work.
Doesn't mention Catmull specifically but here are the DOJ settlements:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-s...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-l...
So the question is, will these fail when an eyelash falls into them and cost $1000 to repair?
I strongly disagree about climate change. It's nothing but a technology problem. The people addressing it are people like Gates with his funding of advanced nuclear and Musk with his driving of EVs, solar power, and grid scale storage.

One of the major reasons we've failed at tackling climate change to date is that we've been treating it as a political, economic, or ultimately moral problem and trying to solve it by moralizing.

I call this approach "abstinence based environmentalism," making a direct analogy to abstinence based sex-ed. It works about as well. Trying to shame people into using less energy or pursuing less economic activity is going to be about as successful as shaming teens into not having sex.

If we try to push abstinence based environmentalism really really hard by legislating it and trying to force people to down-size, we'll get a populist counter-reaction and we'll see the election of explicitly anti-environmentalist candidates. That's worse than nothing. That's going backward. We've already seen some of this.

We've been approaching environmental problems as moral and political issues for decades and what do we have to show for it?

https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-05/processed/017-ca...

Total, absolute failure.

To stop CO2 and methane emissions, replace fossil fuels. To stop STDs and unwanted pregnancies, give teens contraceptive pills and rubbers.
There are other differences besides the storage.
maybe it's an odds /likely thing? They kept eating bats, alive too. No need for bats to bite you
Basically same as the current AR, but with actual measurements. So the scale is actually correct, distance measures are correct, and so on. Can create a 3D model up to the range of the LIDAR etc etc.
> Help With COVID is a marketplace for people (especially software engineers) to find projects to contribute to, and for projects to find help.

Do you know how "software engineers" can "help with COVID?" By getting into their cars and bringing supplies to elderly people in their neighborhood.
What Apple SHOULD be working on right now is FaceTime for Android.
Covid-19: How the Technology Industry Is Responding
I bought one of these for my fiance for Christmas, and she loves it. She uses it to take notes during meetings, and then convert them to text and import into OneNote. It seems to work fantastically for that.

I was a little leery, after my experience buying a similar e-ink tablet years ago through indiegogo, which took forever to get delivered, shipped with a painfully obsolete version of Android, and bricked itself in short order, but this seems like a very solid product.
I wish they would offer customers of the previous gen a coupon. Mine has been serviced and given a new keyboard and it still double types.

No chance I’m buying another one any time soon.
> What it sounds like you're upset about is actually the growth of international trade and deindustrialization in the US. You're putting it in crude and xenophobic terms: China taking advantage of the US.

Actually, what it sounds like is that I was correcting you on on oversimple model you were using to make the point to another poster that everything is peachy. Throwing around terms like "upset" and "xenophobic" is not a good way to have a productive conversation.

> It was by an impersonal and ubiquitous economic system.

"Impersonal an ubiquitous economic systems" have no agency, btw. The system didn't do anything.

Just point the finger at the foreign workers earning their pennies an hour

Yet another actor that's missing from your model is CCP policy makers.
> If mist forms on my glasses from breathing, I assume the mask must be doing something.

That just means the mask doesn't fit well, and air is going in and out the top instead of through.
Yes I wonder what's going to 'win', tablet or 'laptop which can act like tablet', or will they both stay?

At this rate we'll have to start comparing tablets like this to laptops like Surface Pro and it's clones (or vice-versa, maybe the Surface is the clone, don't remember exact sequence of events) because the only difference is the OS. And if more 'tablet modes' start emerging from main OS the gap will become very narrow.
Fn + E should work as Ins.
It's a shame there isn't a way to try the keyboard in person due to all the retail shutdowns.
Son’s Empire Wobbles as Credit Rout Hits SoftBank Debt Load
Yes. But currently that effect is being significantly offset by massive demand for gold as a reserve metal.
Apple Airpods Pro Now in Best sale price
http://bit.ly/2UfzmW6