skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Turkish Lira experienced runaway inflation in the period 1990-2005; in 1990, one USD = 2500 TL. In 2005, one USD = 1,350,000 TL. A loaf of bread cost 200,000 TL or so.

Erdogan became PM in 2003; in 2005 the Turkish government introduced the "new Turkish Lira" ("YTL") by dividing the currency by 1,000,000.

Around the same time, Erdogan invested heavily in infrastructure projects, boosting the lira.

IMO, this is how he largely rose to populist power -- the economy grew for a short while, and he solidified his base early on.

But since then he's continually blocked the central bank from adjusting rates, presumably to maintain the appearance of a strong economy. This once again caused an inflationary economy.

Now those chickens are coming home to roost. The Turkish lira has been falling steadily against the dollar, and this seems like a move on Erdogan's part to continue the farce and maintain appearances of a strong economy.

He's very scared of the economy being weak, because that was his original source of power with the populace.

This is only an armchair analysis. Take it with a grain of salt.
One thing is bothering me is how browsers themselves are becoming ridiculously slow and complicated.

I made a pure HTML and CSS site, and it still takes several seconds to load no matter how much I optimize it, after I launched some in-browser profiling tools, I saw that most of the time is spent with the browser building and rebuilding the DOM and whatnot several times, the download of all the data takes 0.2 seconds, all the rest of the time is the browser rendering stuff and tasks waiting each other to finish.
> If you have a retina macbook pro from 2014~ it definitely makes sense to upgrade to a macbook pro 16" today.

Not really. Pre-2015 Retina MBP are just as efficient and far more flexible than later models.

Wait for ARM.
My personal solution is to stop buying Apple altogether. Unless you need a Mac (i.e., you do Apple specific development), you have a much broader set of choices. If you can wean yourself off Logic (try Live, perhaps) then you can get better hardware at lower prices. Just my opinion.
It doesn't add up because we have a president that can't do math.
Cell phones have encoding/compression delay on the voice part, delays waiting for a transmit slot if the air interface is time division multiplexed, sometimes a jitter buffer to allow for resends/error correction, and often less than ideal routing (lots of people are using numbers from out of state, which may require the audio path to traverse that state).

Originally POTS was circuit switched analog connection between you and the other party --- only delays from the wires, and maybe amplifiers. Nowadays POTS is most likely digitally sampled at the telco side, but each sample is sent individually --- there's no delay to get a large enough buffer to send, because for multiplexed lines each individual line is sampled at the same rate and a frame has one sample from each.
I think you missed the point of the example, which is that people rarely clarify this because to the author their definition seems obviously correct. I made it 90% through a PhD without having considered that there could be more than one possible meaning for "piece-wise continuous".

The domain is R in this case. The less-restrictive definition would be that f is piece-wise continuous if there are a discrete set of points .. < x_0 < x_1 < ... with f continuous on each interval (x_i, x_{i+1}). The alternative definition is that, plus requiring that the restriction of f to those intervals have limits at the endpoint. For piecewise smooth function, there's an even larger variety of possible meanings, yet it's often stated without clarification.
Agreed. Even configuring Lucerne used to be enough to give you a pretty deep understanding of how it works under the hood. Arguably that’s a bad thing, but I found it very enlightening.
Comet Lake's core µarch is identical to Skylake.

Ice lake uses Sunny Cove cores, which are Intel's first significant core µarch redesign since Skylake.
Scotland's results day: Thousands of pupils have exam grades lowered
> Does anyone actually use Zig in production?

As I'm mostly retired at this point, I don't really care how marketable skills are anymore. I go for what looks interesting.
And? Most of the times those newcomers are full of ideas trying to reboot everything without spending one second to understand why things are the way they are.

I also have many seen people waiting for retirement on the private sector.
There are no updates for the 21.5" except for different default storage.
Looks like this [0] is the place, judging by the angle from video [1] (take the building with the red cupola south of there and the building in the harbor as reference).

[0] https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=e851aed9-b5df-495a-89e8-5c53d...

[1] https://twitter.com/JeonggukJeon__/status/129068971722728243...
For me the the issue with upgrading is that when you buy a piece of hardware, specifically DJ gear (Serato), mixers/interfaces, etc; the latest and greatest often doesn't support it. Then you are hoping and wishing for the company to create drivers to support your expensive hardware on the latest Catalina OS upgrade. That's why when you see interviews with many musicians that have home studios, the computers aren't the newest. Once you have a stable situation that works, why change all the time?
Well, many slaves themselves were men forcibly taken from Africa; more from Ghana region but also from Nigeria.
From that same article: "This article has been archived and is no longer updated by Apple."

Because Target Display Mode is no longer supported:

"Make sure that your iMac is using macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 or earlier. You can't use target display mode with later versions of macOS, or with Boot Camp and Windows."
Dtale Tutorial – Guide to Visualize Pandas Data Structure
Thanks to Erdogan and his actions, Turkish Lira hasn't been any weaker before. The gap will increase for sure.
I recently sold my 2016 Macbook (loved the device, the form factor, it was great — but the thing was becoming horribly slow and was starting to drive me nuts).
Got an iPad Pro (2020 + the keyboard) instead. Don’t know what I was thinking... :) Guess I wanted to try it out and see if it could work (and torture myself a bit).
The iPad pro is fun, great device for browsing on the sofa, and the keyboard is good for emailing and such. But multi tasking still sucks, apps in the background get killed or take forever to refresh content, etc. I’d go back to a Macbook but one that doesn’t take a second to swap between tabs in Firefox.
Huh, well I last did this around a year ago, so it may be that an update to either Windows Defender or unc0ver fixed/avoided the problem.

The fact that it happened at all, however, seriously doesn't sit right with me.
1Password family accounts can have multiple admins; my partner and I are both admins and can reset each others passwords and disable MFA in the event that such a thing should become necessary; that's handy in another way as well, as we also have our parents as non-admin users in there, and we're able to reset their passwords if they forget them etc.

Both our accounts have strong passphrases and are secured with MFA of course.
It’s no longer true (at least the performance bits), especially with the upcoming release of .NET 5.
I hope Apple makes it easy to install Linux when they withdraw OS support.
Microsoft Launcher for Android comes with a screen-time usage widget that takes the place of a normal app icon... After a few days I was amazed that what felt like "small looks" and "short breaks" on my phone throughout the day added up to 1-2+ hours of screen time.

On the plus side I figured this could be steered into spaced-repetition flashcards for learning new stuff, but it's tough not to take a whiff of that social media crack isn't it.

I figure there's going to be a big market for things like tech-free resorts and curing device addictions once Gen-Z makes it to their 30s. They have unfortunately come out of the womb with a cell-phone in hand and will likely have a much tougher time being freed from the separation anxiety.
> As Dyson says, we’re in the middle of a Black Swan

It’s interesting to note that Nassim Taleb who coined the term “black swan” disagrees that the current pandemic qualifies. As he points out, not only was this predictable, it was also inevitable. We have literally made movies portraying it
If that is your argument then I would counter that I do not believe the government should have any say on the clothing you wear. Though I would not be comfortable with going naked, we should not pay any consideration to religious feelings, be they Muslim or Christian - and that is all US clothing regulations are based on.

Being uncomfortable having to explain to a child what a dick is because they saw one hanging out while walking to the bus is not something I should be forced to give a shit about. Taking simple steps to prevent spreading an infections disease is.
Broccoli: Syncing Faster by Syncing Less
Can you get your friendly local repair shop to solder on a bigger BGA or are they DRM'd?
I don't mind nicely designed bezels, if they have to be there. It's 2020; they don't.
Yep, the up vector is not necessarily orthogonal to the direction vector (which is also called “look at” vector in OpenGL [1]). Another approach would be to set

y = up.reject(direction).normalized()

where

a.reject(b) = a - b.project(a)

[1] https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL-Refpages/gl2.1/xhtml...
The ironic part of this is that people tend to click on things that are sensational and fake over things that are true.
You could build a bloom filter with the profane words, then check your tokens for the page against that filter.
> SSD upgrade from 512 to 1TB is reasonable as well, around $200

Reasonable for Apple maybe, but for $200 you already get a pretty decent 1TB retail SSD.
> What kind of magic fairy dust SSDs are they using

I don't know about magic fairy dust, but Apple's SSDs are known to be phenomenally fast in benchmarks. $300/TB is compared to $200/TB aftermarket for a high end NVMe SSD. Is that markup? Yes, but it's not 300%.
I’ve also seen reports of grain silos in the area being destroyed; grain is an astonishingly powerful explosive.
Looks like a fuel air explosion to me; perhaps the fireworks factory popped a large LNG tank, which flowed out until it hit an ignitable diffusion; which then blew the rest of the tank farm open and caused the next front.
To me it’s more evidence that increased speed and reduced latency is not where our real preferences lie: we may be more interested in the capabilities of the technology, which have undoubtedly improved.
If you think the New York Times is bad, you should try looking up all of the crazy assertions made by Fox News show hosts.
> What kind of magic fairy dust SSDs are they using that you can't have a sensible amount of storage space at those prices?

The kind where Apple can make a 300% or more margin, knowing that people will still pay.

Don't think Apple have ever sold SSD upgrades at anything remotely resembling competitive $/TB prices. Clearly they don't need too because people still buy their machines.
Not at the individual level. Certain kinds of software have to seek certification before use or deployment (particularly aviation), but the developers themselves don't require any kind of certification to work on it.
The article's title is misleading and clickbait. Windows is not flagging telemetry. It's flagging remapping of Microsoft domains, which is a very big no-no for every vendor.
The current 2020/2018 (they are the same) Mac mini does use DIMMs, but it is not easy to entirely disassemble the computer to replace the RAM. Some (2014?) Mac minis didn't have replaceable memory at all. The 27" "regular" iMac is still using a design from late 2012 that has a simple door behind the stand hinge to very easily access the RAM. Even the iMac Pro has to be totally disassembled to change RAM!
Did you know it's illegal in the state of California to administer an IQ test to a black child? [1] This is a fantastic episode from radiolab about the history of IQ tests in the US and goes into how a test can be racist even without seeming so.

[1] https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/g-mis...
A^n can be computed many ways, and it is not necessary to actually do any matrix multiplications. I think what you're referring to is diagonalizing the matrix A=PDP^1, then computing the matrix power of the diagonal matrix A^n = (PDP^-1)^n = P D^n P^-1.

I just let numpy figure it out for me, but if you want an analytical solution something like that may be necessary.
... which is just a special case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
And yet with the Raspberry Pi being so popular and being on the market for so long, there are still a lot of packages that don’t support ARM.

It’s trivially easy to compile your iOS app for 64-bit as well, but like I mentioned... that transition left a lot of dead apps in its wake.
Parkinson's law at work.

Employees building the web pages are rewarded for doing "work". Work typically means adding code, whether it's features, telemetry, "refactoring" etc. More code is generally slower than no code.

That's why you see something like Android Go for entry-level devices & similar "lite" versions targeting those regions. These will have the same problem too over time because even entry-level devices gets more powerful over time.

The problem is that organizations don't have good tools to evaluate whether a feature is worth the cost so there's no back pressure except for the market itself picking alternate solutions (assuming those are options - some times they may not be if you're looking at browsers or operating systems where generally a "compatibility" layer has been defined that everyone needs to implement).
iMacs have always had upgradeable RAM, just about the only user-serviceable part in them. There's a little door you can open on the back by the power connector. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201191
> 30 hours? I take it that the author has not done much international traveling, or traveling generally. And they haven't worked a job involving long hours, or a back-to-back shift after someone calls in sick. For any adult, 30 hours without connectivity is not enough to trigger a kidnapping alarm.

(OP here) Well I'm kind of digital nomad so traveling very often and I also maintain a Saas platform, so I basically need to be with internet access all the time, I know this may not be the case for everyone, but in my case if I'm going to be without internet for more than 12 hours I know it ahead of time
It looks like a conventional big explosion. For comparison https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/aug/14/eyewitne...
Seriously, who are these people who believe that sales alone can fix everything or building a great product alone can change their life? Everyone, and I mean literally every human being I have interacted with on this topic have assured me of the difficulty, complexity, and multifaceted-ness, of what it takes to get something going from ideation to profit, either through their fear of stepping into this territory of entrepreneurship or through their experience. And anyone who has been an entrepreneur or at least has tested the water will definitely have some sort of intuition for what it takes. If people still rely on a single factor, either they are one of those fraudulent aholes or the asocial nerds who should improve their sales skills(or hire someone who has the required skills). Never understood people taking about the multivariate and complex nature of life. It is complex and multivariate; and everyone knows it.
What ethics? We didn't get rid of sweatshops we just moved them overseas.
> fidnAllDocs instead of findAllDocs.

I feel your pain on this. I'm curious to see if other people find it helps. My instinct is that its much harder to read compared to something like zilvertype. But then I _had_ dysgraphia, rather than full bore dyslexia.
Just because you can't literally copy the code from one place to another doesn't mean you can't learn from it. I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is it's fine to learn what series of system calls they're making and look at their optimizations.
It is easy enough to imagine several ways it could do so: making it less likely for people to socially distance, making it more likely that people spread the disease (or for that matter other diseases) by increased touching etc.
> We mostly just stick to a single vendor though.

This. The tools are expensive so we license one simulation tool and we build our world around it. At least where I work, there's no situation where we pay for multiple tools that do the same thing, it would be considered a waste of money to license multiple and I think I agree with that.

The same goes for the synthesis and backend tools. Driving these tools is difficult to get right so we stick with just one. There would have be a really, really really compelling reason to switch and it's yet to manifest. Sure, the tools have bugs but we report them and they do get fixed. It would have to be something quite special to make a switch interesting, even more special than synthesiable VHDL 2008!
I still find it fascinating how the choice of Intel chip generation is almost an afterthought (well, maybe only for a minority, but do most buyers look carefully? are they aware?) in the difference between models or computers when you click to buy something.

Is this a strategy of Apple (or Intel) to be able to get people to ignore (and therefore they can optimize the cost of) the generation of chip used? It's almost as if they realized people fixate on the GHz figure, and overlook the chip generation, which (I guess?) must contribute much more to effective clock speed than a small difference in Hz rate? I even fall into this trap sometimes.

It is a bit complicated for the casual buyer to have the clock speed which was the previous metric of "goodness" of your machine now have to be weighed with the generation of processor. When the name of the processor itself doesn't provide clear differentiation between generations.
Schools need Macs at that price point or they can’t buy them .
From the FAQ on the site it seems you can nominate 5 but make a rule that only 3 (or 2 or 4 or whatever) need to agree. It's a balance between security and speed of access.
Yeah, Nick Waters from Bellingcat thinks the same:

https://twitter.com/N_Waters89/status/1290681231693275136

See also this tweet:

https://twitter.com/N_Waters89/status/1290688278094647298
Regardless of the full story, fact is that Apple (and many other owners of walled gardens) can revoke your access to it at a moment's notice without any explanation whatsoever. The reason for them doing this might be there but they owe you no explanation whatsoever. Some public outrage will put them in a position to make a statement or reconsider their decision. But you have no right to it.
Hi folks, I'm Daniel from Dropbox, and I am happy to answer any questions about this tech.
You can still judge the macbook cameras by looking at the images they deliver. They're bad, really bad. I suspect that apple's laptop guru / team moved to iPhone and never got backfilled, leaving the macbooks with budget flat cameras from 2007 or something.
thanks this is a good reference, this was the type of term I was looking for. I can implement this off of a paper.

it's a bit tougher than regular string matching because of homoglyph attacks (i.e., people trying to subvert the matching by writing f_ck or f0ck or fȗck or whatever) but I can probably do a pretty straightforward tokenization at ingest time to clean that up.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd
This is serious abuse of privacy.

I presume there are privacy laws covering this?

And therefore the possibility of legal action on a large scale?
Maybe not exclusively, but it would make more sense as users of their more 'budget' machines likely won't be put off by its inability to run Windows and running existing Mac software more slowly due to emulation (unless it's been recompiled in the latter half of 2020).

Edit: Thanks to the replies letting me know that Rosetta is still a thing. I somehow forgot. Updated.
Thank you to all who replied. My clue should have been the use of the same theta instead of alpha, beta and gamma.
What was that red material?
For anyone wanting to play it a bit bigger (albeit a bit blurry) and without the background you can load the iframe directly https://treksit.netlify.app/tron/
>They will take the low pay of government to prove their abilities, then jump to the private sector.

So the job of running a $10 billion dollar per year company that manages nuclear power plants, hydroelectric dams, and supplies power to millions of people is done by someone who hasn't yet proven they likely have the capability to do so?

This isn't a summer internship at the State Department.
I know that the author wants to use VS Code. But for those reading here and live in the terminal, tmate[1] is truly incredible. Install and type `tmate`, and you have a tmux session that people can SSH into. I have used it countless times and is a great complement to a video sessions. Much better than pixelated fonts in a screen share.

[1]: https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate
You'll only be able to route traffic to their IP ranges, they're not offering to be a gateway for you.
Also think it would be great to see an indicator of whether or not there are hits, perhaps not a flash as thats pretty invasive but a number of hits, kinda like SMS or email count on icons.

The privacy thing is also making me flinch, an idea could be to disable unless clicked, when I find an interesting page, product or application I often wonder if its featured on HN
And the media has glaringly obvious bias when it comes to all they delude themselves into seeing as "competitors". They'll display past acquisitive grammar on police while murdering all logic to make multileveled impossible and insane demands "Block all crime and piracy without looking at user content at all while paying both the user and content creator!"
This is a good resource, but I with it was easier to search for motherboard with 2x PCI-E @ 16x
Social media presences come to mind, especially anonymous ones. I'd like my online friends to know I won't be back. If you have a blog, or otherwise publish, at least a brief announcement there might also be something you'd want to happen.

It would make cancelling subscriptions not needed anymore or transferring them to another person much easier I guess.
A brief skim through that doc looks like it is about a kind of security that's not relevant to my project. I'm trying to protect the user from themselves while simultaneously giving the user full power over the document.

Web workers are interesting and relevant to this use case, however the almost total isolation doesn't lend itself to manipulating the DOM without the user explicitly writing a custom API to interpret the worker's messages. So, back to the same problem.

Thanks for the link.

I'll do some digging into chrome's sandbox[1]:

[1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...
You can always boot from your mbp? Treat it like an external bootable storage system. Yes you won’t be able to use the display on the laptop, but you will be able to run your applications on the iMac. (Assuming that matters more? For me it does. I can’t stand how slow docker is on my mbp, pretty much puts my cpu to 100% and has the fans running at full speed)
You have to remember that this isn't aimed at a typographer, its aimed at people who perceive text differently. size isn't always the answer.

Obviously its not going to be the next zilvertype. That to one side, I am curious to hear from people to see if it helps.
But your use of ARM is not encompassing of the entire change here. Apple Silicon is the whole SoC environment. All the custom cores, power management, specialized hardware decoding parts.. etc...
This is far more than an instruction set change.
Phil Schiller to become Apple Fellow