skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A substantial % of the maximum number of immigrants ppl. want to let in can't afford the median rent in my area, unless they are staying at 2-3x the occupancy of a listed apartment. Landlords will undoubtedly turn a blind eye to this, as the rent money is in their hands today, and the cost of schools, utilities, social services etc. not met by the increasing population is a bill due in the abstract future.

As for the ones who can afford their own houses, I think the market for real estate has increased here at at least 3x the rate of inflation over the past twenty years, we certainly don't need more buyers.
It’s better, but still drives me crazy. Microsoft has come long way but still got heaps of work to do (I.e. no way to customise ribbon in Outlook)
> People like interactive sites which give immediate visual feedback for actions.

Precisely. That's exactly what you get by disabling javascript on most sites.

Two of the fastest sites that I know are sourcehut and the D-language forums. They are much snappier than any javascript-infested site.
Which has nothing to do with why Apple took on debt to pay dividends.

If Apple took funds from a foreign subsidiary to pay shareholder dividends it would have to pay

1) Federal Corporate income tax of 20%.
2) CA state corporate income tax of 9%.

Then out of the 73% left over, the shareholder would pay state income tax + federal dividend tax. That means the shareholder ends up keeping between 50-60% of the funds Apple paid.

If Apple borrows the funds instead, it owes no federal or state corporate tax. The shareholder just needs to pay state income tax and federal dividend taxes, so after tax they end up with 70-85% of the funds Apple paid.
This is true, but note it was released in 1991, many years after the Mac's introduction. By that time, the Apple II was definitely on the way out. The last hold outs (schools...) probably needed encouragement.
It ain't superstition, it's humor. It's how I sometimes say "you don't want to do that."
U.S. Army Soldier Charged with Terrorism Offenses for Planning Deadly Ambush
Why some nations are rich and others poor (2016)
You do realize that's 5W total, not 5W per core? Apple is currently around 4-5x the performance per watt of Intel's most efficient parts.
You seem to be putting in a lot of effort to miss the point here.
I've been an Xbox player since the very first one, and my gamertag has been Xbox Live Gold (and now GamePass Ultimate) since the dawn of the service. If they have the audacity and malice to shove Facebook on my dashboard, I will buy that hideous PS5 without giving it a second thought and switch wholesale.
Waste of human attention.
Apple does use Google Cloud and AWS for some things, but is investing billions into building their own data centers.

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/apple/apple-spend-10b-us...
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The GPU in the Xbox One S was far from top of the line, it's pretty mediocre. A middle of the road GPU from that time frame was easily 200% faster than it.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/?architecture=GCN+1.0&...

That being said, frankly I'm amazed at what most modern mobile GPUs are capable of and for most people who are casual gamers, that level of performance will be more than enough. What Apple will bring to the table will certainly be better than that, it's already better than Intel GPUs and they can still support 3rd party GPUs if necessary.

The demo they showed of Shadow of the Tomb Raider running at 1080p looked great for a game, AND it also looked awful if you compared it to the PC version on Ultra settings.
I upgraded to Catalina for work and have had an abysmal time with basically anything that is external to the macbook (monitors/webcams/hedphones) - if I had to estimate, I'd say I lose anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour a day just trying to get the goddamn machine to do things laptops have been perfectly capable of doing without issue for the past decade.
Yeah it was kind of cool that the page loaded in like a couple hundred milliseconds.
I guess it depends on your WFH situation. If you live in a big enough house to have a dedicated office room, probably it is better to WFH. If you live in a studio, where you do everything in a single room, then it is better to go to the office to change the scene a bit.
If they're really concerned about privacy and security, their machine would be air-gapped and the web wouldn't even be available as an attack vector. What it really is though is a superiority complex fulfilling their need to be "better" then filthy JS developers who don't code in Rust and Scala.
> its getting a bit scary about how far USA is behind Asian countries in high tech

Yeah right.

Cambodia, North Korea, Myanmar, Mongolia, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India, Laos, Thailand, Nepal, Russia, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Which of those are leading the world in "high tech"?

China's only consequential tech company is Huawei. South Korea has Samsung, SK and LG. Taiwan has TSMC, Pegatron, Quanta. Japan has Sony, Nintendo, Canon, Hitachi, Panasonic and one or two others that are relevant.

It's amazing how far ahead the US remains after so many decades.

Apple, Intel, AMD, Cisco, nVidia, Qualcomm, Google, IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, Micron, Texas Instruments, Lam Research, Applied Materials, Western Digital, Seagate, Broadcom, NetApp, Adobe, Facebook, Salesforce, VMWare, Dell EMC, HP, Intuit, Marvell, Oracle, Analog Devices, Microchip Technology, Citrix, Xilinx, Maxim Integrated, KLA Corp, Tesla, Illumina, Agilent, Intuitive Surgical

That's a partial list of large US tech companies. Asia has nothing like it, and that's before getting into the vast number of US software & cloud services companies (Workday, ServiceNow, Splunk, Twilio, Cloudflare, Datadog, Palo Alto Networks, Akamai, etc.), of which Asia has no comparable list.

Besides that, Asia isn't a country, it's silly to pretend they're somehow one unit. They're all competitors. It's equivalent to pretending Europe or Latin America operate as combinations.

Show me the Asia equivalent of AWS (Alibaba's 1/5th size clone?). The world lags embarrassingly, the US has a ten year lead in cloud services.

Tencent is a gaming & entertainment company. Baidu is a languishing search company that never got outside of China. Alibaba is an advertising platform that does nothing special. ByteDance is mostly social media, there's nothing special about that either (see: FB, Twitter, Snap, Pinterest, etc).

China is the only individual country that comes close to competing with the US in tech and they're still well behind in most tech segments and surpass the US in none other than digital payments.
And absolutely useless for any company that wants to sell a phone outside of China without Google Play Services. Most phones run with Google’s closed source equivalents not the unmaintained AOSP versions.

You don’t know what the apps on your Android phone is doing because they all interact with Google Play Services. Most phones don’t even use the open source dialer.
What I am about to say, I mean with absolutely no disrespect. What you consider non-toxic is considered uptight and overly sensitive by many... Whether you think that's right or not is beside the point. I understand the need for political correctness and politicing at work. It keeps conflicts from arising and it avoids hurt feelings. It's not as valued by many people outside of work. That can affect the growth of sites like this.

Put in another way: each stream is an individual community. By making such explicit rules, they are policing culture and suppressing certain identities. That is counter to the environment needed for growth.
Before you file an issue, double check if an issue for the problems you experience with the Dark Mode already exists in this epic: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/2902

And of course: have fun on the dark side (as they are the ones with the cookies)
LingQ is something else. The ideia is that you should feed the app with "input" from your target language that you care about[1], and listen to it again and again. Memrise is more like a Duolingo that actually works haha

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw-u_vVx6Is
It's also very hard to keep that account anonymous due to the crazy about of data gathering Facebook does and the ways it used that data to recommend you to new "friends" and what not.
That's what happened last time:

Intel support was announced during OS X Tiger, and 10.4.4 was the first public release with support for x86. 10.7.0 was the first release without support for PPC. So 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard were the two major releases with support for both Intel and PPC.

Now, Apple tends to provide security updates for at least a few years for each OS release, so I can envision recent Intel Macs getting security updates for another 4-5 years.
I can affirm that everyone under 20 I know also strongly dislikes Facebook.

They are all on Instagram though...
So is this the death of Mac gaming?
chick-phil@hey.com?
And how many American workers work for companies founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants? Or work on projects and inventions that are the brainchild of immigrants? The job market is not a zero sum game. The US has 5% of the world population but is responsible for a very disproportionate amount of the world's technological output because it attracts a disproportionate fraction of inventors and engineers from all over the world. Why do you think the most immigrant rich cities in America like SF and NYC also have the highest incomes? If immigrants drove wages down and stole jobs from Americans, you would expect places like rural West Virginia to have higher incomes than SF. Spoiler: they don't.

If you have 1 million jobs held by Americans and 1 million jobs held by immigrants, and you kick out the 1 million immigrants, you do not get 2 million jobs held by Americans. You get 500k jobs held by Americans and 1.5 million extra jobs in China, India, the EU, and other any other regions that are less keen on punching themselves in the face with self-destructive industrial policy.
I and any other third party can buy their way into the google Ad Exchange, but nobody can buy their way into iCloud's servers; for example, China had to ask Apple to create a segregated iCloud to support iOS in China.

It is possible that the US government has some snooping contract with iCloud, but they are definitely not the party I am trying to protect myself from. I am trying to protect myself from businesses using my data to influence my politics, lifestyle and purchases. Look into the business of companies like Liveramp, to see the kind of data exchanges that Google helps proliferate.
I'd run JS by default if I could trust random sites on the internet. But, you know, that's not really a thing unless you're really naive.
> I’m not highly conversant with ARM linux, but in my mind I imagine it’s still largely a second class citizen

In terms of distros maybe yes. Most distros are targeted at laptops, desktops or servers, and few of those have ARM processors.

In terms of architectural support by the kernel and low-level infra, I see no reason for that to be true at all. Open source kernels and (at least lower-level) userspace have for decades paid more attention to compatibility with various hardware architectures than proprietary operating systems.

Of course you'll have fewer drivers for hardware associated with a particular architecture if there's less interest for the hardware, or if the hardware is less available in form factors that most developers are interested in. But that applies at least equally to non-open source platforms. If MS or Apple don't have a commercial interest in maintaining support for a particular platform (and they usually have only one or two in mind), nobody's going to do it.
Very good chance most of the money is made from very few people. If you got a cut of money from advertisers targeting you, my guess is it’s be quite a bit over 5 bucks. Especially in an election year.
Kudos for this.

Does this only simulate what would be considered a typical traffic load, or can it simulate outlier events (sport games, concerts, COVID quarantine, etc)?
You're being too literal about it. I was referring to the policy.
> I think it is easier for predators to target their prey when they are alone. I was never alone.

I hate that this is true. But it's probably valuable advice for any gender.
Monsanto uses GMOs. GMOs are not equivalent to Monsanto.

There are many many examples of GMO foods that we all eat every day that are not related to the genetic modification done to make plants able to handle having roundup sprayed on them. I had some papayas over the weekend - something like 4/5ths of all papayas in the US are GMO because the ringspot virus nearly wiped them out prior to scientists genetically modifying them.

Taleb basically sticks his head in the sand and acts like Monsanto is the only game in town when it comes to GMOs and thinks that it is too dangerous for us to do at all.
No. The price of a good is set by the demand. The suppliers of most goods don't have much use for their goods themselves.
I've been really hoping for the Maps team at Google/Waze to release a similar "traffic congestion" view to highlight consistent hot spots. A simulation is also pretty good, but the real data from Maps/Waze users will be even better!

Ideally, a government dashboard to see traffic congestion changes per year, month, day of week, but also hour. If we can create metrics for cities like p99 door-door trip time (i.e. latency) policy makers can better measure changes, bottlenecks, etc and plan better.
Agree with you on some points, I’m really excited to see what’s next. I’m also betting on a new, and faster, MacBook maybe with a discounted price to incentive the migration?

About the virtualization, they will probably make it more efficient, resource wise? Some cloud providers are also offering ARM so...

Anxious to check the GPU performance too!

To add: Control Center on macOS and some other UI improvements hints for Mac w/ touchscreen?

Could we finally see a true BYOD, like Dex or using the improvements in Handoff?
Possible for a bunch of reasons that women in the field tend to be more assertive and have better communications skills. Those are primary management skills.
Versioned releases of Kiwi TCMS available now to enterprise customers
It quite evidently is. There are no flamewars going on in the comments of other articles that are about technology.
Monetize Open Source Software with XS:Code
In general I think all these are positives, but these two worry me:

> "using a consistent design language across platforms"

Apple famously refrained from doing this at first, because for platforms with fundamentally different form factors, use cases and input methods it doesn't make much sense.

I do appreciate some parts of the redesign, but others like reducing the information density make things look nicer but make them less functional. We get it, whitespace is good to let things "breathe". Nontheless:

- I use those buttons that seem to be MIA in the screenshots of the new Finder though (to switch between views, the sort menu, the cog icon with extra actions). Will I have to change my workflow?

- I use a lot of items in the macOS sidebar. In the current Finder, my sidebar can show 12.5 items without scrolling. In the screenshots, it's showing 9. Am I going to have alter my workflow here too?

All of these seem like minor things, but they add up. There's a reason some people still download and learn Vim— the 5 seconds it can save you from each time you reach out to a mouse adds up. It might just be 5 seconds, but you do it _all the time_.

Like vim, this doesn't matter for many people, but for people who use an OS mostly for work, not for excitement or leisure, it can be worrying and annoying.

> "introducing new, well tested convenience features."

My worry here is that they might be popular in iOS, but that doesn't mean they are well-tested per se. Launchpad was a "well-tested" iOS feature (the home screen), but when it first arrived in Lion, it was terrible:

1. It was very buggy, as new software tends to be.

2. It was poorly thought out for the Mac.

- It didn't have a search bar, which makes sense in iOS but not in macOS.

- The only way to edit it was with click and hold, which makes sense on touch devices but is unseen in pointer devices.

- It uses the whole screen, which makes sense in single-app environments but not really on large screens with multiple apps are used. Coincidentally, Apple has realized full-screen experiences are dreadful when attempting to multi-task and changed some of these (Siri, calls on iPad) on the latest iOS.

3. It was in general unnecessary. macOS already has a bunch of ways to open apps: the Finder, Spotlight, the Dock, for some users, the Desktop. This is subjective though.

There's a lot of power-user tidbits on the way some of macOS feature's are implemented right now. You can option-click the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Sound task bar items to bring up extra options or information. People like me who constantly need to read the IP address or access the Bluetooth debug menu rely on these little power features for our workflows. I sure hope Apple hasn't gotten rid of these with the introduction of the Control Center.

[1]: https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/36343-67506-000-lea...
“Apple’s own pro apps will be updated to support the company’s new silicon in macOS Big Sur, and the company is hoping developers will update their apps. “The vast majority of developers can get their apps up and running in a matter of days,” claims Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering. []...

Microsoft is working on Office updates for the new Mac silicon, and Word and Excel are already running natively on the new Mac processors, with PowerPoint even using Apple’s Metal tech for rendering. Apple has also been working with Adobe to get these pro apps up and running on these new chips.“

So the bottom line is: “your previous tools won’t work, will have to be rewritten, the burden is on the developers so we can rake in more cash”

Great, customer focused, and completely altruistic move back in the days when they killed Nvidia cards on high-performance rendering and simulation machines (and everywhere else).

So, Apple has performance libraries that are better than what Intel has to offer? So, cross-platform applications are now again “passe”?

I don’t use my iPhone for working. Why would I want iOS Apps on my computer? So I can install Apple Mail instead of Outlook
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23601098
What I can't see is why the 2014 Mac Mini is supported and the 2012 one is not. This is technically nonsense and really this age thing is just a poor excuse.
I also said I didn't expect to actually see it used for launch.

In reality you'd only use it in space. During launch you've just got uranium, which isn't very radioactive before you start getting fission products.
Washington had $550M to $650M dollar worth of unemployment fraud
If you just write notes down, that is what will happen. Your note pile ends up being a graveyard of stuff you don't even know you forgot (but will never rediscover or reread) and stuff that's still nicely in your mind.

One key strategy to avoid this kind of note graveyard forming is to interlink notes. That way seeing a note can essentially lead you to wiki-binging through old ideas, trains of thought or re-stumbling on reference you thought was interesting once upon a time.

The value of interlinked notes is showcased by the late German sociologist Niklas Luhmann's notetaking system which he used to rediscover things he'd forgotten. His knowledge base consisted of ~90,000 index cards that were apparently worth referring to because of the wiki binge type effect his hyperlinking system allowed.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NfdHG6oHBJ8Qxc26s/the-zettel...

https://www.amazon.com/How-Take-Smart-Notes-Nonfiction-ebook...
That's correct. But where's the fun in that ;-)
> This sounds like an enforcement nightmare. It’s a nice idea, but how would it actually work?

The same way anything works. The largest players write the regulations, stand up a new regulatory body, require anyone that can be remotely considered a data collector or warehouse or whatever term they come up with to 'pre-certify' their operation at a 6 or 7 figure sum to crowd out any upstart players.
Jira truly takes the cake for world's most over engineered website.

I wonder how much of the world's coal and gas has been consumed by browsers struggling under the load of Jira.
There is no austerity. Here is state-and-local spending as a percentage of GDP from 1970 to present: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/courses-images-archive-re...

And here is GDP in 2010 dollars: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD?location...

State and local governments went from spending 10% of $23,000 per person to 15% of $55,000 per person. Per-person state and local spending went up by a factor of 3.5, even after adjusted for inflation.

With respect to public infrastructure specifically, there has been no austerity. For example, here is a graph of NYC subway ridership from 1970 to 2014: https://i0.wp.com/plot.ly/~millerstephen/4.png?w=773&crop=0%.... Subway ridership is up 75% since 1980. The capital budget during the 1980s averaged $3.4 billion annually in 2020 dollars: https://wagner.nyu.edu/files/faculty/publications/rescue.pdf (fig. 5). The 2015-2019 capital program (5 years) averaged about $6.5 billion 2020 dollars. So a 90% increase in capital spending for a 75% increase in ridership. Punchline: MTA is so massively wasteful, that wasn't enough. The system deteriorated the whole time leading to catastrophic failure in the last few years.

The London transit system, by contrast, spends about $3.2 billion in capital expenditures to run a system that is very similar in terms of age, size, etc: http://content.tfl.gov.uk/tfl-budget-2019-20.pdf. Despite spending half as much money, London has been able to significantly grow the network while keeping maintenance current and maintaining on-time performance.

Honestly, invocations of "starve the beast" and "austerity" are nothing more than gaslighting. It's a cop-out for why our public services are so shitty, even though we spend vastly more on them than we used to spend.
Don’t iPads get significantly better battery life than similar casual workloads on a similar form factor Intel PC (like a MacBook Air)?
Looks like after they complied with Apple policies.
I've brought this term up a handful of times before, but nobody I know personally feels the same way I do about this. I find this kind of thing incredibly strange, but it is just the norm for so many people.

Celebrity culture just makes no sense to me. They were in a movie and are now rich so now I have to care what they have for breakfast? It just seems so backward.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23603866
“Better driver” /= “faster”
Nginx is late to this game.

Caddy 2 has built in support and is now 100% open source (no closed source binaries).

We made the switch a few weeks ago, works really well.

https://caddyserver.com/
Given that Amazon was able to get there, what makes you think Apple can't? I would struggle to believe that Annapurna Labs has any significant advantage over PA Semi given the track record PA has had since joining Apple, and the fact they had nearly a decade head-start.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...
That's a really good point. People do do a lot of non-rational things when they feel like they've lost control.
The trailer looks amazing. I was actually just imagining a video game like this a few days ago, so it is something of a wish fulfillment plus baader meinhoff syndrome to see this.

I can't wait till tonight when I'll have enough time to get it installed and try it out!