skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't get why people who have full control over their current Pro computers wouldn't want to move to a locked down, walled in garden of a "Pro" device?

The vast, vast majority of the hundreds of millions of customers they gained with the iPad aren't doing any work that is even remotely similar to what can be done on a general purpose OS. And furthermore, even if they can do some of the same work - they can't do it with nearly the same efficiency.

The vast majority of iPad users aren't even doing any work on their iPads. They're consuming.

Apple can keep trying to make the iPad appeal to users who need full control over their computer, but it ain't gonna happen until they actually give us full control.
Probably you don’t speak the languages propaganda is written for. I clearly remember an accident of USA troops in Lithuania. Hummer went off road, nothing serious. The same accident was described in propaganda sources as USA troops killing children with fake photos of Hummer, child corpses and bicycle: https://www.businessinsider.com/r-lithuania-sees-fake-news-a...
My issue is you’re asking for Pepsi before Coke has been invented, if that’s an effective metaphor?

It’s like, slow down, let’s get Apple’s own native solution in there before we get a third party one?

If not only to make sure it’s done right?

Currently the App Store’s restriction that it can’t run arbitrary code is the best one.
Oil and airline parts may not necessarily go down in price for every emergency. Forcing companies to keep 3-6 months cash for Covid-19 is too little too late. This would be regulation that has to consider many more emergencies.
Safari and app switching
I found: "Over time, components such as the straps and nose bridge material may degrade, which can affect the quality of the fit and seal" [1]

Also, some filters are constructed from charged fibers and electrostatic attraction helps in the filtering [2]. I wonder if that electrostatic attraction can be lost in some way, which would help explain the expiry date.

Anyway, [1] also says using expired masks may be considered in a crisis, best for training and fit testing though.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/respirators-st...

[2] https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2009/10/14/n95/
It it a <pre> formatted section from an old usenet post with 80 char line length... often on usenet posts were specially formatted with whitespace chars. Usenet display tools almost always use PRE and preserve that using monospace fonts to preserve the full possibilities of the information transfer.
There's one in the Newark area:

`ewr Parsippany, NJ (US)`

from https://fly.io/docs/regions/
It would be great for someone to get a part to a 3D print file maker.
After listening to Radio Free Europe for some years i think it is safe to say that there is no difference between communist and capitalist propaganda. They both serve the "good" against the "evil".
This reminds me of an old PS1 game I have serious nostalgia for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_of_the_Sun
I'm not sure who is taking selfies with an iPad, and videoconferencing has lots of quality concerns from compression and bandwidth issues that make camera quality kind of irrelevant.

If anything, I think videoconferencing really needs to move towards more abstracted forms of interaction instead of trying to accomplish crystal clear video. Evidently, remote classrooms are finding it easier to do lectures via Minecraft than Zoom or Skype.

With the kinds of advances in deepfakes and realistic looking face rendering we're getting, there isn't as much reason to be sending that much data over the network. You'd need a camera to capture things like writing on a markerboard, but just for conferencing and getting body language pseudo-MoCap would do fine.
Are you doing the firmware as well? Are you using pre-made hardware or developing custom hardware? The first place to start is at the hardware, because everything starts there and it may not support stuff you are thinking about right now. OTA is a very vast topic and can be easy in some cases if you are using existing platforms or can be quite an undertaking if you roll your own.

There are pre-built platforms like Particle where you get OTA and a basic platform for a nominal fee. They have pros and cons as any platform does. Plenty others as well.

MQTT is nice, but not all embedded platforms will support it for a variety of reasons. Security is a major component to embedded work as well.

My opinion having done these projects. Define the needs of the device and the features it needs to support now and over the next 3-5 years (best the business can predict). Then define the hardware based on those needs, that will let you know what software architecture(s) are reasonable. That will also let you look at various IoT platforms that exist like AWS etc and match them to your requirements. This up front process is way more important than it is with something like web development.

I can share war stories about what happens when you choose hardware via the MVP methodology like you would for a web project. Let's just say it never ends pretty, hardware is harder, takes more time and requires a more methodical approach then rapid iteration of typical software engineering. Of course, if you are just trying to check the temperature and humidity at a location and log them, it isn't very difficult and is solvable using off the shelf components which are low risk/low overhead.

Happy to answer questions if I can.
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It's closer to Google's Cloud Run, Heroku, or Fargate since we don't constrain you to a framework and the restrictions that come with it.
Ahh yes... The "switch editor" button in Kerbal space program to the rescue.
We're not AWS, but: 1) we own physical servers and 2) we're profitable 3) have big public companies as customers.
Apple hiring Rust engineers for storage and networking groups
> Advertising doing what advertising does. So brave on HN to point out that marketing is marketing-ee. Are you also telling me that the new car isn't going to make me an adventure seeking extrovert?

Why is that acceptable? If you lie or misrepresent the truth in almost any other field, you get criticised. But when marketers do it, they're immune. That's just weird.
Developer Task Automation – It’s Easier Than You Think
The ThunderX2 model isn't in stock, but the Ampere model is.

Base config with Ampere eMAG 8180 32 core 2.8GHz 3MB L3 is about $3,000

https://store.avantek.co.uk/ampere-emag-64bit-arm-workstatio...
Are you comparing chemical-warfare to wage-fixing?
I LOVE Loom and am a paying customer.

But your current versions have one critical flaw: you'll lose data if you're on a spotty internet connection. After a month of having to email your support to "restore my videos" I just gave up and switched to using OBS and Dropbox to share these videos.

I love, love your product. But without a more reliable upload (or being able to access my recording locally) it's too big of a gamble to use on a regular basis.

Any chance fixing this (for spotty connection folks) is on the roadmap? I'd be fine if I could just upload my own videos as well.

In any case I (almost) love your product. I expect you'll be really, really big. It's a good experience overall (when it works).
b) it's still just a guess - normalising my guess and you're guess is hard

True, but that's where the calibrated probability assessment stuff comes in. If you can at least establish obviously correct (if very course grained) upper and lower bounds for estimates and then gradually shrink them in until you aren't confident doing so anymore, you have something at least slightly better than a complete guess. And if you can choose the correct distribution that the actual values would vary over, then you can use Hubbard's approach using a Monte Carlo simulation, and get some insight into likely outcomes.

No, it's not a perfect approach, but it gives you a little something to hang your hat on.
So I got a 2019 Air just before the COVID-19 emergency in my area. I was looking for a small and light machine to carry around, with a little bit of coding and browsing mostly. I would have probably picked the most basic retina model with the dual-core processor (not like my 15m load average is ever bigger than 2.5) - I don't know about the keyboard and the graphics though, they seem ok so far.

Did I screw up? I don't live in a country with a Apple store it usually takes months for these to reach our market. I'm consoling myself that I got a good deal and I got a new machine that I needed before a long stint working from home.
You could take all of the profit (including buybacks) American made in the last 6 years and that would still be only enough to fund 4 months of operations. I'm against the bailouts because I think we shouldn't make some investments riskless and subsidized , but to blame airlines for not having 6 months of reserve is just weird.

Buybacks are just a scapegoat when in reality an airline parking 14b$ in case of a black swan event would have made absolutely no financial sense especially since shareholders expect some reward for their risks. Imagine if they did that and ended up with just 4 more months of operation at incredible losses. Stocks would probably have plummeted to similar levels anyways and the shareholders would've ended up with no returns at all.

The reality of the industry is that they had to keep prices super low to satisfy consumers expecting always cheaper flight and at the same time satisfy shareholders who are aware of how cyclical the industry is and require a big RoI to justify their risk. That requires a lot of leverage, high efficiency and a low margin of error in their cashflow predictions.
Niche market, there are barely any competitors. I believe Sony has a competing device for business, costs around 1k$

Onyx also has one, it's a bit cheaper than the remarkable.

All of these devices have major flaws and upsides.
> please consider reaching out to your elderly neighbors

I live in a densely packed city. I have no idea who lives in my neighborhood.

I would be glad to help anyone at anytime though. I am just not clear how to go about it.
I've used a 2014 Macbook Air very heavily on a daily basis for years now and it still does fine on small-medium app development. Simulator's are the biggest pain point.

I recently started dabbling in video editing a bit and that's what definitely gets the fans going.
Yeah, regarding workflow, I commented elsewhere but despite being a preorder of the RM1, I failed to establish a good "rapport" with the device when I first got it (late in 2018), and basically set it aside for a year until suddenly late last year, struggling with my paper workflow, a switch was flipped and I saw how I could adopt it, and I did, and now I love it.

The software had improved dramatically- they seem to be doing a good to exceptional job at getting incremental features out on a regular tempo without breakage, no simple task- but I think a certain amount of "hammock-time" plus increased awareness of non-digital pain points was necessary for a new perspective to flip into place. (This is re: seemingly small things like using distinct per day notebooks and per week folders, rather than a single monolithic notebook with paper-like day headings etc)

And my workflow is still limited- I am not using the writing recognition at all as yet- and there are plenty of use cases I come up constantly that it doesn't address- smart task lists, various kinds of copy paste, maps (!!!). If one has any kind of paper-based or digital habits adopting the device will be a challenge and involve frustration until it clicks, and probably even after.

But I have confidence both in the device's trajectory and moreover in the ergonomics of a community developer's engagement with the org. There is a lot of open space for patient, flexible developers to build cool stuff in. Cheers.
Obama put it in the best way possible, "reality has a way of asserting itself."
I recently had similar thoughts on Unicode: http://replicated.cc/concepts/unicode
Most of its complexity comes from its least-useful features.

We must find some way to rollback that spiralling complexity.
Or maybe, like in the old days, burn it all and start anew?
A sane and fair process for conducting Senior Software Engineering interviews
kinda negates the whole mini part.
That doesn't jive with my understanding. The US government went about systematic elimination of indigenous people. Part of that was the elimination of bison as a food source. The population of bison declined from the millions to around a thousand in under a decade arout the 1860s.
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True. What's your point?
I'm in a similar boat to you and am keeping an eye on WSL2 for Windows. It SEEMS like it could cover my entire dev workflow and have similar performance to MacOS/*nix, but then again I thought that the original WSL was going to do that as well ...
Thanks for pointing that out! That list is pretty disorganized... I made an issue to clean it up https://github.com/superfly/flyctl/issues/79
Like contactless payments, it uses NFC (the protocol), not NDEF (the data format) to write the image. You're not writing the image as an NDEF message, so NDEF-only systems (like early iOS support or WebNFC) won't be useful.
Is the webcam any better on this new Air?
It is odd because these memory issues are very real, but if you ever say "wow, devs are getting lazy and these 'desktop' apps that rebundle Chrome are really killing my machine (eg. Slack, Skype) with inordinate quantities of logic in javascript" you get shouted down.

It's bizarre. If everyone used the native toolkits we'd have far less memory usage and everyone (even the memory-constrained) would have a good experience.

Also, with these memory hogs they will do a lot of allocation and deallocation. This is also a problem with interpreted languages. And allocation is the enemy of speed, and energy usage. It'll destroy your daily battery expectancy as everything gets interpreted.

Sad.
Resurrect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_Neutral_Distribut... from 1989.
So, is Apple on discontinuing Lightning now?

Will USB-C be on the next iPhone?
Did y'all rack the servers that the containers run on? Or is it VMs running the containers? Just curious :)
The city list does look random, but it's actually the simplest cities to build out with physical servers + anycast.

We _tend_ to do better than AWS on latency to your apps, and from upstate New York you'd probably be connecting to New Jersey. I would be Virginia is quicker than Ohio for you most of the time too.
What are you currently missing with the current WSL?
Agreed. But the dilemma is Apple is not encouraging content creation on macOS. E.g., no important content creation apps are Sandboxed[0], so they can't be in the Mac App Store. And their latest development push, Catalyst and SwiftUI, is about cross-platform parity of low-powered apps, it does nothing for high-powered content-creation apps.

With few exceptions, content creation has not been successful on iPadOS. And for the last ten years, Apple has made building content creation apps systemically more difficult on macOS, e.g., with Notarization, Sandboxing, restricted file-system access, restricting Apple Events, deprecating built-in scripting languages, neglecting AppKit, and replacing WebView with the incomplete WKWebView.

In the current situation, iPadOS has been a dead end, and the Mac is, depending on your perspective, either moving backwards, or at best treading water.

It's not a good situation.

[0]: https://blog.robenkleene.com/2019/08/07/apples-app-stores-ha...
It clearly isn't an oversight. When people hold their pad they predominately use it in portrait mode. When people use it with a keyboard, they want it in landscape mode. This is pretty universal.

And, guessing, I would imagine people use this sans keyboard >95% of the time. So they gear it for that. Or should they put two cameras on it?

I highly doubt Apple was oblivious to this, but there are always compromises.

As to quality, the quality of this camera is equivalent or better than the overwhelming majority of webcams. Maybe people are doing xxx streams or something, but for a corporate meeting this is about three tiers above the average.
In fact, you can get the new entry-level Mac mini plus the Sonnet Breakaway Puck RX 560 [0] for US$1100, now that the eGPU has dropped in price to $300. Whether any given person would be satisfied with that configuration is, of course, open to debate.

[0] https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HMT22ZM/A/sonnet-egfx-bre...
Tech for Corona
I started down that path. But when you install Windows 10 Pro and your login screen is covered in advertisements and news updates, it leaves a pretty shitty taste in your mouth.
Most if not all bidets are sold out on Amazon
We got someone else to rack them. Customer apps are VMs on top of the physical servers we lease. At scale we'll build our own datacenters, but at scale we can get not-me to do that.
"if we as a world want airplane as a method of transportation"~

Maybe we ought to rethink the extent of our wants versus our needs.
A rendering engine is not a browser.

Plenty of people are building browsers, yours truly included, but they're not building their own rendering engine, indeed for the reasons outlined in this article.
You're not wrong, but this is plaintext in its purest form. It's literally just plaintext wrapped in a <pre> tag. They don't use any CSS on the site, besides the very infrequent `style` tag. This is more common with the type of people who use text-based browsers like lynx. (edit: As another comment says, note they use 80 chars)

But as someone who has bash aliases for extracting text from a website so I can read it in my terminal (or page it with `less -r`), yes, this is something that bugs me too.
It's a prize Turing got for inventing a machine that lets you compute anything using only toilet paper.
Oxford scientists develop rapid testing technology for Covid-19
It likely takes 3-5 developers just to maintain what they already have until end of life.

Whenever people come up with these tiny estimates for how much "effort" things take they ignore the organizational overhead and maintenance costs. For example, when changes are made to the CTS/CLS[0] a lot of time is spent considering how those changes will impact other .Net languages, that's a cost/overhead even without actual work on those languages.

So it might take "3-5 people to keep VB.Net alive" but only if you ignore the man-hours lost in other teams (.Net Framework, Tooling, Libraries, etc) and the people already required to maintain existing VB.Net Support (3-5~). 15-20 people is a more realistic conservative estimate.

Plus the language's popularity is almost gone:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/common-type...
Yeah, liquid handling is not fun. However, I hoped this could be somehow bypassed by physically sorting the swabs into beakers before centrifuge and then deriving a well sample from each beaker.

I'm admittedly not the right person to implement this, and ideas are cheap. I just want to make sure the idea is out there.
It's still subjective.

Someone dying of thirst values water much higher than someone drowning in it.

Someone allergic to tuna will value it much lower than someone who's not.
I never understand this argument.

If you "want" a mid-level "box with slots", that's going to be bigger anyway.
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Wow, do you have a source for that last part?
Yes, someone doesn't have to know, understand, or feel that they're being exploited for it to be exploitation.
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Also, 190 proof alcohol has many uses.
Fritz Haber is such a tragic character. Saved the world from hunger by inventing the process for ammonium fertilizer, helped to kill thousands by being a central figure in building up German chemical weapons for WWI, tried to extract gold from seawater to pay Germany's WWI debt but of course failed. He was a huge patriot, but being a Jew, he had to go on exile to England, where he died.
When the previous duo of iPad Pros was released the current iPhone was using A12 and respectively the iPads had A12X Bionic. iPad Pro is the most powerfull device in their mobile line, it's very starange that the are doing a step backwards with it.

My question was rather how A12z compares to A13. They have already explained many times how A(n) compares to A(n)X.
Firing the pandemic department certainly doesn't help... For starters.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
That's a surprisingly neat and useful page.
Coronavirus is not a bioweapon created in a lab, scientists say
Actual germ control is not really an issue most people have historically taken very seriously.

You can't see germs. They are too small.

Out of sight, out of mind.
Maybe don’t sell it but put the holdings into a big sovereign wealth fund? The wealth fund can rebalance its holdings later, and can work as an infrastructure bank or similar in future to support the country’s ongoing development.
It's because its creators were well aware of the shortcomings of the previous half-solutions and wanted to future-proof the standard.
One thing the author failed to consider when discussing F# was that F#'s community leans heavily towards compiler/programming language people. Historically, MLs have been extremely popular for writing compilers and a lot of the folks using F# today either come from that background or have been exposed to people from that background and learned about some aspects of compilers. I would wager that maybe 25% of F# users are _capable_ of somehow contributing to the F# compiler compared to maybe 5-10% for C# and VB.NET. I also imagine the F# compiler's source code to be drastically smaller and simpler given both its history and the ease of writing compilers in F#.
Is there any language where this isnt true?
Yes, that's by design; it's a purposefully ambiguous choice of words that be read either way depending on what the reader's subconscious wants to hear. Either way, they don't have to admit that they were wrong, customers that hated the old now now feel relieved and vindicated, and people are probably more likely to buy the new one. That particular choice of words is probably the result of millions of dollars of marketing psychology, focus groups and A/B testing.
If you can work from anywhere, that helps alleviate the affordable housing shortage. Move where the housing is cheap. Not everyone is going to get to live in Manhattan or SF proper.
There is a school of thought (not sure if I agree with it) that if the outcome of a process is x-ist (racist, sexist, ageist, etc.) then the process itself is x-ist, regardless of whether there was any intent to make it so.

It kind of makes sense. Bad results can and do come out of well-intentioned decisions. In other areas (business, legislation) we judge policies by their actual effects, not by their creators' intentions.
Did you tried the advanced options?
Oh woah, profitable and own physical servers? You guys are gonna be just fine :)
Hi Cameron! I'm not trying to compete with anyone. I'm just building a browser (and operating system) for myself to use and have fun with. :)

Regardless, the main things I aim to do differently:

1. No JS JIT, only interpreter. I don’t care that much about JS performance as a user and the difference in complexity is astounding.

2. I prefer the web as a platform for smart documents, not for applications. I don’t want to relinquish any control of my computer to the web, and don’t want most desktop integrations like notifications, etc.

3. In that same vein, very light on animations/transitions, that type of stuff.

4. Way less aggressive memory caching. I don’t like the sight of 100MB+ web content processes that’s so common these days.
Anything past 1995 can play Descent.