skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's fair to ask what I'm expecting, or, put another way: how it could be better. And maybe, as part of that, why Stripe should care.

I think your explanation did help to make this more understandable, that was useful. In the end (long before writing this comment) I got it to work the 'hard way' so at this point I'm set.

The problem isn't really me, since after all I got Stripe to work.

The problem isn't truly the inexperienced solo junior dev who gets stuck either - I don't imagine that costs them very much business.

The real problem is Shopify, and how potential Stripe customers get bounced off of Stripe to Shopify.

I honestly wonder how much of Shopify's growth can be attributed to "couldn't get Stripe to work, gave up." Or, to go deeper into that, the business owner who's looking for a payment solution, and wants it to be easy.

I think Shopify blew up partly because lots of other solutions were like "we can't make it that easy, but here's this 'easy' solution...' whereas Shopify was the company that said, "here's what you asked for, the easy solution - done."

I think if Stripe's documentation and solutions were better, some of the business that went into Shopify's column, would go into Stripe. Possibly a very significant amount.
When it comes to finance - I recommend anything that's "long convexity". For example papers by Artemis, the 100 years portfolio is quite good https://www.artemiscm.com/welcome

Then I'd say reading history and trying to imagine how those people thought like. I think Taleb is basically a historian that happened to trade a lot of options in his past life. I like Robert Shiller's idea of "moving back in time", where you read today's NYTimes daily but from say, 1925, instead of 2020.
If they're launching it over the ocean (they would be, if they were launching from Kennedy or Vandenberg) they could just say "YOLO" and let the reactor fall into the ocean. It certainly wouldn't be the first time a nuclear reactor was dumped into the ocean (either by accident or deliberately.) It's obviously not a popular thing to do, but ocean water does provide a lot of shielding..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_(SSN-593)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_(1957_icebreaker)#Nuclea...
The devkit has 16GB of RAM; no way it's not at least dual-channel memory.
I'm just your average web dev, but the Cameo site seems to send a lot of unnecessary information on pages. E.g. the request that fetches recent public videos made by someone seems to include the price paid... because, why? Reviews include the original order id... because, why? This just seems to be asking for trouble. Is this how most AJAX-heavy sites work?
>A linear increase in team size gets you a geometric increase in coordination costs.

You mean quadratic, no?
That's an illegal policy (if you're in the US), FYI.
intel's market cap is ~250B. Apple's is ~1.55T. I don't think they want to be what intel is today.
I would posit a couple reasons:

1. Death is a lagging indicator. Based on new cases here, I'd predict an upswing shortly:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQSSp19amBFU...

2. Some reports indicate younger people are starting to get it more frequently. Data and common sense suggests they will have a higher survival rate. But this does not mean they will not suffer serious ongoing health and economic consequences as result. They also risk infecting others close to them.
Wow, so we've hit exascale. I heard claims that we would reach exascale by 2020 in 2012. I didn't believe them.
There are many implementations of this for ARM.

In fact, the fastest (#1 Top500 as of June 2020 https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2020/06/) super computer in the world, and one of the most efficient (#9 Green500 as of June 2020 https://www.top500.org/lists/green500/2020/06/), uses ARM CPUs and has an implementation of these for them.
The quiet power of introverts [video]
Why? They still exist and are used by many.
Having opinions about politics is not exactly new for Patagonia. I mean, they changed their homepage to say THE PRESIDENT STOLE YOUR LAND when Trump shrank Bears Ears.
Kardashians have many more followers and are successfully engaging their audiences. Their posts must be really smart.
And that may be the moment that ARM servers start picking up steam.
I would argue that privacy is a need.
> Anyway, i know this is HN i'm asking, but can you give me at least one compelling reason why I should study lisp,scheme or clojure ?

In Common Lisp:

* (eql 'i 'I)
T

In Clojure:

user=> (= '(lisp,scheme or clojure ?) '(lisp, scheme, or clojure ?))
true

Downvotes accepted for the grammar snark, I only mean it as a light ribbing (and casual warning that programmers looking at resumes are often, probably unfairly, going to penalize such mistakes more harshly than they reward complex side projects).

More seriously: do you like programming? And furthermore, are you interested in studying programming itself, not (just) programming as a means to other things? Are you perhaps interested in studying CS itself, not just exam material of whatever collection of courses that grants you a CS degree? If no, then you probably won't be compelled by any one reason to study anything beyond that which might let you get a well-paying programming job (perhaps as a gateway to getting a management job in tech), and lisp is not such a necessity. Nothing wrong with that, but inspect your motives carefully and plan accordingly. If yes to any of those, studying new languages will be rewarding, and lisps have a lot to offer. For instance, if you studied Common Lisp, you would have an environment suitable for practical programming of applications in any domain, you would not want for language features either because Lisp supported them anywhere from recently to 50+ years ago (realize it took until Java 8 for Java to get anonymous functions, and even then you're better served by SICP to learn tasteful application of programming with them, just as you're better served by Clojure to learn tasteful application of immutable data structures) or you can add them yourself without awaiting a new version, you would have a language good for researching CS topics such as new languages (and compilers), data structures, garbage collectors, type systems, theorem provers, AI, etc., and you might save future-you some hours or anxiety when it comes to "unrelenting, constant learning" because you can frame this week's fad into concepts you already know from Lisp.

Maybe the most compelling reason to study though is that of there not being a better time. If you are so curious, just go study already! And if several hours of study makes you lose interest, or decide it's all fluff evangelized by lisp zealots not worth pursuing further, then go ahead and study something else that interests you. But the time is now. Post-college, you'll likely have less opportunity, less desire, and less time to satisfy your curiosities, so indulge while you can.

And since this is HN, a recent pg twitter thread to contemplate: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1274632047303315456
not sure about others, but for twitch if you become a partner, required for most (all? don't remember) monetization you can't stream to other platform.
Based on how rough the Jira app is on Catalina, if MacOS is going to see more of that then I think I've had my day with Apple.
I'm very much in favor of nuclear, but if you want to advocate for it, you should know what the strongest arguments against it are.

It's very easy to beat down the strawman of pollution.

The risks of living next to a coal plant are rather well understood.

The worst case scenario of living next to a coal plant is very different from the worst case scenario of living next to a nuke.
Yes. Applies to YouTube, Twitch, and other afaik.
Dropbox could run relatively well with qemu user mode.
Xcode 12
>None of them were displacing American workers -- we would have hired just as many (or more) qualified American workers if they had been available too.

Did you try increasing salaries until you could find applicants. I'm virtually certain that you did not.

What you mean is that you couldn't find American workers at the price you were willing to pay, and because you weren't willing to pay the market price, you found another market.

If you could hire 20 people on H-1Bs but you only have enough money to hire 10 local people. You have displaced 10 American workers.
I'm not entirely sold on the design, but at least it will make macOS look a bit more consistent, up until now there have been little pockets of "old UX" like Finder, Mail, etc. and "new UX" with the Notification Center, News, etc.
It's definitely concerning how people are acting but that being said I think the initial research is showing that outdoor spread during the day is very unlikely. UV light seems to be devastating to Covid and Vitamin D seems to be protective. So a crowded beach is probably not all that bad. Packed bars and restaurants? That's a near worst case scenario
Rosetta is for the other case where you want to run old software on a new machine. This is about running new software on an old machine.
If they inaccurately predict where crime will occur, their recommendations could cause an elevated number of patrols in some neighborhoods.
Keep in mind that current macOS runs ONLY 64-bit x86 apps and interestingly Windows on ARM emulates ONLY 32-bit apps. Since 64-bit extensions were designed by AMD, maybe they have some deal with them?
But would Scaramucci notice the extra $500 from devoting an hour to reading scripts? I doubt he gets an enormous number of requests anyway. If it's an ego thing, surely that's cancelled out by the amount people are actually willing to pay for his greetings being substantially less than the cheapest Pro voiceover actors on Fiverr.

Might make a lot more sense for the sort of artists that get a lot more TV/radio/YouTube exposure than actual income, but even some of them might wonder if they're devaluing their ability to charge much bigger bucks for endorsements and ads
It might be nice to have a strong welfare state that covered all possible scenarios. The problem is that it is fundamentally incompatible with the open-borders immigration that seems to be all the rage with some these days. Promise free money for nothing, and billions of third-worlders will be beating down your door. We might be able to afford something like that for all current citizens. We'll never be able to afford it for every single person who figures out a way to come to our shores.

This means that you have to choose one or the other. Both ways have people who lose, and it won't be pretty for them.
Yep, confirmed.

https://developer.apple.com/programs/universal/

"Submit a brief application for an opportunity to join the program. Selected developers will receive a link to order the Universal App Quick Start Program from the online Apple Store. Priority will be given to applicants with an existing macOS application, as availability is limited."
Nothing that these people are doing makes sense or demonstrates any capacity for forethought.
California’s bullet train project faces unprecedented woes
Did they fix Catalina yet? I’m still running Mojave just because all the terrible reviews Catalina gets.
You might see it in the State of the Union, that's more aimed at developers.
Type 3 digits followed by “ cases” in a search engine, get random Covid articles
This has been going around twitter for a bit now. I think most three digit numbers return some random local news article.
I think the crucial thing is that it could be a "soft fork", something that is fully interoperable with current browsers. The important thing is to foster a community of people who are willing accept a common ground. Think of Medium or tumblr etc, but with different angle. Sure, it won't be for everyone, but it doesn't need to be massively popular to be a success and to thrive. You could build interesting link aggregations and search engines around sites built with the "dogma" spec, which allows people more readily spend time on the sort of sites the like. Nobody thinks that you can't build low-fi sites already now, but connecting authors and readers is the tricky part.

Of course I have my own ideas how it could work, there could be an optional headers, one from browsers saying "I want light/fat version" and one from server indicating if it's lightweight so that browser can apply better default styling and disable features. I also think it makes sense to define different levels or profiles of features so that you don't need to try to get everyone to agree on everything, but that might be problematic.
Yeah, a switch gets flipped that cannot be unflipped. It becomes a mercenary situation until you can exit.
Apple will almost assuredly have a dedicated event later this year where they will announce new hardware.

Apple has development kits running in modified Apple TV's. This is a chip that has essentially been out for a few years in iPad Pros. Why would Apple announce numbers based on this? It also assumes Apple will ship future laptops without fans or ports, which is how the development kit is coming out.

Apple will most likely have an A14X out later this year in at least one laptop. That's going to be significantly newer and more advanced than the A12Z in development kits.
Rip apple. They're going to either have to copy Intel/amd Instruction sets or be surpassed by the power of SIMD.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23603852, which is also on the front page and was posted earlier.
Apple doesn't in fact have a blanket trademark on the word "apple."
I urge you to read Minority Report, or watch the movie.
I thought their changes would bring iMessage closer to the feel of Slack/Teams/(insert chat app here). It won't be multiple-channels-in-a-server style, but it may be close enough...
We pretty much know it'll perform fine in native programs, the only real question is how well the x86 translation layer performs.
They demoed Parallels running an x86 Debian VM
Rumors have it that there's a new iMac with Intel processors.
One thing to look at is that the page does at least one whole page refresh by default, even an incognito window.

If I open up the page in incognito, I see two requests in the network tab for https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/06/22/gitlab-13-1-rel...
I think this service is incredibly cool. celebrities have been making paid appearances at parties and events forever, this is just the social media version of that, a much cheaper way to get a celebrity on your social media feed. I bought one for my wife for mothers day last year, I was a little worried about how it would go over, but she absolutely loved it. Yes, it's a little silly, and no, it doesn't solve any glaring social problems, but it's more memorable and personal than flowers and chocolates.
It’s possible they will do both. Fixing bugs isn’t really keynote worthy, so hopefully there’s a ton of stability fixes behind the scenes.
I almost didn't want to upvote this because it was at 486 points.

I'm sure anything close to the same performance as the Intel chips will have better battery life, especially since they can put in as fine-grained support for throttling and idling as they want. These should cost them loads less per unit than what Intel's selling them, too. They could cut prices a bit and still have higher margins.
I'd expect them to do a few takes and "find their motivation" etc.

Many hours go into acting for each minute that end up on screen.
I mean, it is literally macOS 11. That's what it said in the About This Mac screen on the presentation.
For the Intel transition, there was no replacement iMac promised, it was an unexpected bonus when the developer kit was returned.

It seems very likely the same will be true this time around.
HN didn’t remove it, it’s just not on the front page anymore (currently entry #39 on page 2).
As klenwell said, deaths are very lagging. It could take weeks for a person admitted to a hospital to die so it shouldn't at all be reassuring that those numbers are going down. They are bound to rebound.

How is this downvoted? If you have evidence showing all of the new cases are from younger people or totally asymptomatic carriers go ahead and show it otherwise its literally a tautology, more cases = more deaths.
Its clear the design direction is making mac a touch screen experience. they are totally taking the path microsoft took a decade ago. copycat designing
Didnt ninja and Shroud bag a lucrative deal with Mixer this year?! guess they will go back to twitch after all

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ninja-shroud-could-ret...
Apple ARM would like to be where Intel ISA as a de-facto platform is today - but not sure what in my comment implied I meant Apple want to be financially where Intel is today.

Also that would not preclude them from being financially where they want to be - more Macs sold at Apple premium - even if they are to run Windows and Linux - still means more Apple hardware sales and more money.
Ask HN: United States' history from other ancient civilizations' perspective
The other night it struck me how interesting it would be to read United States' history from the perspective of other cultures that already existed at the time, and preferably from the perspective of the most ancient civilizations. How did they learn about it, what did they have to say at the time and what was their strategy / approach, how did they handle this new entity throughout history?

Any recommendations on books or other resources that cover this?
> Put it another way: What if your car could only drive certain places, at the whim of your car manufacturer?

Buy a different car? It’s not like this is a surprise to the consumer. Why does everyone feel so entitled to tell Apple their business?

The consumer loves the experience their apple product gives them. Hint: That’s why they sell a lot of devices.
I'm guessing they're not planning on releasing any A12Z products. They kept going on about how "scalable" their platform. I'm betting they launch with a significantly more powerful processor (they could easily double core counts and up clock frequencies for a laptop-class processor) on a next-gen process (i.e. 5nm). They probably don't even know what the performance will be like yet.
ARM doesn't really matter very much to Apple - Apple designs the micro-architecture and many (most?) of the other SOC components themselves.

With the technology moves Apple has made, they could probably switch to RISC-V at this point, however being able to use ARM devtools probably adds more value to Apple than any cost savings moving Apple would gain from moving away from ARM
We've changed the URL from https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-introduces-maco..., which is a corporate press release.

If there's a better URL for discussing this, we can change it again.

Edit: it looks like https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline... is probably a better URL for discussing this, so we'll change to that from https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur-preview/.

Edit 2: since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23606052 posted that and is now on the front page, maybe it's better to just let the discussion pick up there. This thread is pretty generic. Perhaps an article with more detailed information will lead to a more interesting discussion.
Monetization. The platforms require Affiliate/Partner streamers (so people with Subscribe buttons) to be exclusive streamers on their platform.
Here is something funny: The USA "doomers" happen to live, surprisingly in the USA or somewhere else doomed (Europe).

> https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1204827396999929857

Last time I checked, Taleb lives in NYC. Surprise! That's where the "doom" will happen once the USD is hyper-inflated and the USA is bankrupt. Someone is not following his own advice.

I'd also bet that Taleb is using in his daily-life more big corp products than small-family owned ones. I'm really wondering where this cognitive dissonance is coming from since many "high-profile" people seem to be suffering from it.
> A popular application of Ethereum, for a long while, was building pyramid schemes with names like “Ethereum Pyramid Scheme.” Is it a fraud, if you tell everyone up front that it’s a fraud?

> Similarly, here, Hertz was trying to trick retail shareholders into buying worthless stock by the simple expedient of offering the stock and saying, loudly and publicly and in official SEC disclosure documents, that it was worthless and no one should buy it. It’s a weird strategy! It almost worked.

So is everything reverse psychology now?
I take it that you haven't seen SF's "pitstop" system.
They're incredibly clean/hygenic and ventilated.

Yet people still befoul the streets.

The unfortunate "why" is that they DGAF, I wish I was making that up.
I'm getting "Failed to sign up for updates" when I try to sign up.
Giada Loop Machine v0.16.3 Released on Windows, macOS and Linux
Thank you for explanation.
So this solves something I waited for very long.
Even for that transition though, developers didn’t know ahead of time that they’d be able to exchange their developer kit for an Intel-based iMac¹.

See these comments on that page:

“One thing to note though is that you have to be in a $499/yr developer program to qualify for the $999 developer kit. Still, a pretty good deal for developers. Maybe they intended to give a production system all along, but didn't say so because they didn't want too many non-developers buying into the DTK.”

――――

“Yeah, I saw this earlier. This is pretty good.

Now I'm sorry I didn't join the program. I was thinking about it.”

――――

“Dammit!

I'm a developer in a small company and I originally decided not to order a DTK because of the $999 lease fee. That is, it was a capital purchase that depreciated over its short life.

If Apple had said they would swap it for an actual product that wouldn't have to be returned, I would have jumped at it.

As it is, I've now ordered an iMac Core Duo (for a higher cost) and my company's software may take longer than it otherwise might have with an Intel machine to test on. (That will depend on how it runs on real Intel hardware, not just with the Xcode checkbox flipped).

I guess they're rewarding early adopters, but the policy could also have caused a slow down in the emergence of universal binaries from small development houses.”

――――――

¹ — https://appleinsider.com/articles/06/01/11/apple_offers_tran...
It takes a while for people to die after infection. Give states like Georgia time to catch up. Their hospitals will be overwhelmed and the numbers of deaths will get there.

There is no "less deadly version of the virus". Treatment protocols have improved but that has not dramatically changed the odds of at-risk folks dying.
Simple solution, people bargain collectively and have a sort of data ombudsman representing their interest rather than trying to get a 10$ check individually.

If people were to negotiate the value of their data collectivelly you can have a 100k or a million people in some organisation that has stewardship over their data and negotiates say, a price with facebook, and that institution either manages the money and invests it or pays it back out.

The reason people are so disempowered today in the face of these huge companies is because everyone is operating under this atomistic, individualist, consumer mindset. People can effectively negotiate when they team up.
Well, in theory both AMD and ARM use MOESI so it's not as crazy as it would be with Intel's MESIF. But that's a really scary rabbit hole to be going down and I'd be terrified of memory permissions attacks striking at the boundary there. So probably not worth the risk unless each processor gets its own pool of RAM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOESI_protocol
Phone! I want first class support for SIP so I can hook up my VOIP app of choice)f( straight into the OS!

)f(: just kidding, there are no good VOIP apps in iOS :/
If all JavaScript blockers users could turn on JavaScript at any time without consequences to their privacy and security, you'd be hard pressed to find JavaScript blockers as well.
I use Visual Studio, but I could just as easily use JetBrain’s Rider and be just as content.