skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple are clearly making trade offs and I suspect that gamers aren't a priority

Baldur's Gate 3 demos notwithstanding, Apple seems to have little interest in PC gaming, which is usually Windows/DirectX first with macOS being a distant afterthought or delayed, overpriced port. They also killed off 32-bit games, which further reduced the PC game landscape on macOS.

However, Apple has its own massive ecosystem of game devs on iOS, and it also has Apple Arcade.

If a PC game isn't on iOS, you may have to rely on cloud gaming if you want to play it on macOS in the future - which may not be much worse than the current situation of mediocre ports.
The Covid Cult by Tom Woods (Mises Institute)
Shame the images are too low resolution to read well.
Is it a bad design, if it could be held wrong?
I've been over these stats 4 times and reread the parent comment and its post but still have no clue how one is supposed to tie to the other.

I think the point I'm having difficulty with is the thin majorities in the study. Does the study say much? Or did pew do a study and publish its research just because...well...that's what it does?

If that puts me in some hivemind, so be it.
> that we have done a poor job explaining

Yes, indeed you have. I've tried to both skim and read the "introductory" documentation for `Options<T>` and the only gain I could figure out is monitoring + refresh. I still have no idea how to use it though, so I don't.
I was going to riot if Long Chile was not included.
Silverlight wasn't even born until 2007, so it's hard to see how it was dead in 2006. :)

Or maybe you're saying it was DOA?
PasswordSafe (pwsafe.org) plus dropbox on Windows. pwSafe2 (app77 LLC) on Mac and iphone.

I favor a smaller program that has been audited and has less attack surface.
Understandable, because their own ones fall apart so often from normal use.
> It's not a big deal.

It is a big deal in that it psychologically reinforces the mindset that you should be aligned with a party. Instead of voting for a candidate on the basis of their policies and merit.
I agree about the upgradability/repairability. However, if you look at like a cell phone maybe it makes more sense. No one has ever complained that you couldn't update the RAM or the CPU in a iPhone. In order to upgrade the hardware of your cell phone you have to purchase another one. I'm guessing Apple is looking at the Mac hardware in the same light. "Want more power? Buy a new laptop!"

The more interesting question is how does this affect the Mac desktops? It would be a shame to throw out a whole Mac Pro machine just because it only has 64GB RAM. Then again, this event did release the Mac Mini, which is a desktop and does not have upgradable RAM or storage or CPU. Hmmmm...
Grand parent seems to have a stream of comments where they are critical of anti-China propaganda, but from a western perspective. I'm curious exactly what mental model of the world the GP has.

I don't agree with the dismissive attitude GP portrays, but in the USA vs. China situation we appear to be stepping in as a planet, I can't help but recognize that there's something going on, some war for the minds via public influence campgains, and it's probably not being done by only one side of the equation.

In this way, I'm a bit disappointed that GP is being down-voted to oblivion: how can we see dissenting voices if they're being hidden because they come across as shocking/incendiary? We say that HN isn't a platform to discuss politics, and yet "Xi Jinping is fighting a new enemy – Genghis Khan" is clearly a political piece. Of course all this would be easier to discuss if GP wasn't attacking everyone.

Anyways, food for thoughts.
> If the situation was reversed, I doubt Biden would concede until the last vote was counted either.

The situation was essentially reversed when it was Clinton and Trump. Clinton was behind after the night of the election in 3 states that she needed to win, by amounts ranging from about 0.25% to 0.7%. That's comparable to where Trump is now in the 4 states he needs to win.

She conceded the morning after the election.

You really think Biden would be more like Trump than like Clinton in this kind of situation?
On the other hand, these are the tools and spectacles that make such "lock-downs" for a minimally lethal virus politically possible. We are our own jailers and it makes me sick.
Okay, that's fair... sdk_config.h is a monster!
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The same is true of an election being decided by one vote.
On the other hand from that source white college graduates backed Trump by a 4 point margin.
We are on hacker news, where median income is about $400k
A sibling mentioned this is called sortition. The main drawback another sibling mentioned is lack experience. I think a good combination is 'sortition & incumbency'. Elections occur in two phases:

1. If an incumbent wants to keep their seat, they keep their seat with a K% chance, say 50/50; and,

2. All remaining seats are chosen at random from the eligible (see below) that apply for the position.

An additional tweak is to require 'previous experience' by having statesfolk work in lower level representative positions. For instance: anyone qualifies for city council (maybe not metropolises) or county level positions; a person just puts their name in the hat to get started. Once a statesperson has successfully had a complete term at city/county level they can move to the state level, then the Federal level. It could even be lateral: lower-house to upper-house. There are 10s-of-thousands of county & city level positions, giving a sizable pool of new statesfolk to draw from.

The incumbency mechanism allows a subset of representatives to maintain stability & gain experience "in situ"; the pipelining provides a naturally trained pool of statesfolk. The sortition mechanism is a robust anti-gerrymandering, anti-corruption, anti-just-about-everything-we-don't-like-in-government mechanism.
key takeaway:

> As an added bonus, within the Rust set of Apache Arrow tools is DataFusion, a Rust native SQL query engine for Apache Arrow. Given that we’re building with DataFusion as the core, this means that InfluxDB IOx will support a subset of SQL out of the box
Some formatting issues:

- the right alignment of the dates is too far to the left

- the phone number / email header is not aligned correctly

- if you have a date range, then it should look like 2010-2012 and not 2010 - 2012

BTW I’ve literally never seen a resume that didn’t have at least one formatting error. Closest was one that had a comma that was accidentally italic.
> "The intention behind the rules" is a thing that lives in your imagination. It cannot be quantified. That's the point of having written rules.

The intention is important because not all rules can be quantified. Language is subjective and words are often ambiguous.
People already better themselves for the sake of their own consciousness, family members, children and peers.
> Interesting that the tech and data workers of the times feel as justified in opining on the paper’s direction as the writers and editors.

A colleague at a hip American energy-tech startup tells me that this is the new normal for zoomers (<26 years old) in the workplace. "Speaking their mind" at all times on chat when it would be absolutely inappropriate for them to do so in person, no awareness of or care for the existing hierarchy. This meshes badly with boomers and gen-x'rs who implicitly expect a much higher degree of formality, and react in unpredictable ways to insubordination or feeling challenged. It's only going to get worse as the generational shift widens.
I'm expecting as this issue plays out, there will be a way to inject an updated framework to an existing app with a utility tool. Probably first party but definitely third party.
But not everything is a monolithic REST web app. Sometimes you have many different components -- from CLI apps to serverless functions -- and having a lean but powerful stdlib is amazing, especially with builin type safety, consistent lining, and cross-platform native binaries easily under 10MB.
Arun Debray has notes from his undergraduate and graduate programs in mathematics here: https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/a.debray/lecture_notes/
Sorry, to answer your first statement, I am not blaming users as people interacting with the UI. I am not blaming the engineers either. I am more curious why some machines operate inefficiently under the circumstances I experienced.

This was power balancing combined(?) with minor reader issues.
Well from the sound of it he's instantiating objects manually 5 levels deep and he has control over all those constructors since he passed a new parameter through all of them.

So it sounds like basically he's not using DI (is just using it to pass stuff to controllers) and is surprised that using a library designed around DI is awkward. The correct solution is use DI to construct that hierarchy and then you can just request IOptions at the bottom/where you need it.
Winnie the Pooh is at it again...
Also: you assume you are the arbiter of progress. Not everybody agrees with your assessment.

For example: spending an extra hour or three each day, waiting for the compiler, might not seem like progress to everybody. Their assessment is as valid as yours.

Furthermore: you assume that people who hire must also agree with you. But, some people who hire want coders coding more and waiting for builds less. That is a legitimate desire.
> No PCIe, meaning no eGPUs. How did they look past that?

With ease, I imagine. eGPUs are niche at best, and user-serviceable hardware and GPU vendors are two of Apple’s least favourite things. Macs’ support for eGPUs, such as it is, has always struck me as a strange aberration. I say this as the owner of an eGPU, which I’ve given up any hope of using outside Boot Camp.
The complaint is that Apple interprets “in its class” to mean literally the slowest mobile processor of the prior generation made by Intel. It’s not even “fastest in the class of low-priced value notebooks for everyday use” which is what a reasonable person might interpret that to mean.
A Landfill is an Ecosystem unto Itself (2016)
With Clojure, are you writing tests in the Spock DSL (or is that Groovy?) or are you writing the tests in Clojure and importing Spock as a library and extending its classes etc?
Great! I can now watch ads without being bothered by ads in between
I've heard about lenses, but never actually worked with them. This syntax seems to construct a "path" of sorts from the root to a field. What language is this? What type does the `set` operator/keyword return?
If your intent is to share counterpoints, you'll carry your ideas more effectively if you don't attack the people you respond to.
Is this somehow related or similar to oscilloscope music?
https://youtu.be/qnL40CbuodU
I've been using Discord on a near-daily basis for 9 years, in servers from 10 to 25,000 people, and I think I can count on two hands the number of actual breakages I have had with the product. It's honestly pretty nuts.
Ouch! HttpClient/WebRequest ReadWriteTimeout never timing out is going to affect a lot of systems and result in production issues.
I think you missed the point: if people feel like their opinions will be held against them, they will not share their true opinions, and polling will fail.

The comment seems on-topic to me regardless of whether the culture war represents reality or not
Agreed. I have a pixel work phone and iPhone (XS/12 pro) for personal usage. Even though the Android is also current gen it can be unresponsive at times and also the face unlock is terrible on the android. I can’t remember the last time faceid failed but on Android it’s atleast 2-3 times a day.
- No terms of use (404)

- No privacy policy (404)

- Contact leads to about:blank

- Unclear of what it actually costs

Nah thanks, I do business only with valid partners. Seems to me this is a product that actually isn't available, and that this is just a landing page.

As a European, I can certainly not use it if your service isn't GDPR conform (so that's also important).

While I like the general idea, a lot of pages in the blog (documentation!?!?) seem incomplete, too.

I have no idea what the SDK is for, or how to try it out with the first "free requests".
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No project maintainer has to deal with unsolicited pull requests.
That sounds awesome. Sounds really fun to hack around. I might buy a Pinebook
Ok, so you burned out (maybe not for the first time) and you took an unpaid leave from work. As more time goes on, you convince yourself that your brain is atrophying as you fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.

The time comes where you have to go back. How do you do it? How do you shed this feeling of being broken goods in the eyes of yourself and (most likely) others? How do you heal the infected wounds of burnout? I can’t figure it out.
I agree, I was referring to the fellow making such wild accusations.
I'd prefer to store my hot raw video footage on my disk, and my preferred way to do that is by buying a $350 2TB nvme instead of paying Apple $1000 or whatever for the privilege.
Does it worth repeating that "fingerprints are usernames, not passwords"?

It is straightforward to copy someone's fingerprint. If technology does not include some additional biometric property (blood vessel arrangement, unique capacitance?!, unique heat signature that will not change over time?! ...) that is hard to obtain, it is pretty much useless, especially if someone is really keen to hack you ...
When Apple does eventually produce larger than 16GB / 2TB / 2-port Macs I hope they don’t name them MacBook Pro Max. As long as they are called Macs this naming convention seems silly. I’d prefer that we don’t have any Max Macs.
> But, the Intel MBP16 runs 6 & 8 core processors, and trying to theorycraft what performance the Icestorm cores in M1 will contribute gets difficult.

Anandtech's spec2006 benchmarks of the A14 [0] suggest the little cores are 1/3 of the performance of the big ones on integer, and 1/4 on floating point. (It was closer to 1/4 and 1/5 for the A13.) If that trend holds for the M1's cores, then that might help your estimates.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...
There will be a bill to pay for lockdowns and I expect tax rises are looming but this policy is bonkers.

If some jobs have become zombified because working practices have changed then those jobs need to go. We should support those people through the transition but trying to prop up unviable businesses isn't a sensible policy.

Coming out of this period should be a period of creative destruction but it seems to me current politicians don't have the backbone for it.
Arguable if he had the attention span and work ethic to follow through, but it’s completely something else if they just ... forget to do it.
The easiest way I’ve thought of to do this is simply to have companies pay to keep their copyright. And have it scale with time.

You get... 20 years? If you want 21, it costs 1,000. If you want year 100, it costs 1,000,000. Some sort of scale to it. If something isn’t worth 1,000, let the public have it. And the older it is, the more you need to justify its value. Disney is the perfect example. They pay some price, maybe 50M/yr to keep their multi billion dollar enterprise afloat seems a good trade off for the public good. I’m sure there are much better numbers but if you aren’t willing to put any skin into owning your copyrights, the public should get them. Having culture as a whole perpetually owned is not healthy.
I run 128GB of RAM on my desktop and I will never go back.

I don't want to be forced to close my complete dev. environments to work on another project; or play with a ML project.

The cost of additional RAM is marginal, to me it's the way it should be. Your time matters, your productivity matters, why not max it out?
It seems to me like the EU distorts competition more than Amazon does in this case.

The EU generally favours competition, and urges member-countries to deregulate wherever that makes sense. But when it comes to big American firms, the EU sometimes seems to hold a double standard.

FYI: I'm an EU citizen.
Huh? I think you may have a very incorrect idea about who is being burdened here.

A major effect of these changes is to make it simpler for anyone ("makers" included) to securely implement devices which expose web services, by making web browsers refuse to allow external web sites to send arbitrary requests to those devices.

Most network devices have no need to receive such requests. No action is necessary on their part; these changes will make those devices stop receiving those requests.

The few network devices that do need to receive those requests can opt in to receiving them by responding to a CORS probe (an OPTIONS HTTP request) with a specific HTTP header. This is not complicated to implement.

Web browsers already implement complex CORS policies. Adding this is not a huge burden upon them, and may actually obviate the need for other more complex defenses.
You can take 11 modules in one semester? How do you do that? Even assuming they are all 2h per week, do you have to look at the academic calender (or timetable) and try to find all courses which dont overlap?
The federal reserve keeps statistics on this and I believe there is a business school professor at Harvard Biz that did a significant review: entrepreneurship on _average_ underperforms just taking a job. On net, mostly individuals lose money because like OP the outcome is mediocre to poor and very lengthy, even thought some do very very well.
"Local", in this context, means localhost (i.e. the machine that the web browser is running on). It does not mean other machines on the private network.

Generally speaking, this simply enforces that, if you are running a web server on your local machine, external web sites (either on your private network or on the Internet at large) cannot trigger requests to that web server.
> Plus I'm waiting for the typical Apple move of screwing early adopters by announcing that next year's model is 3x as fast, $200 cheaper, etc.

They aren’t screwed, the early adopters adopt the new model early by definition. They get the new model and the move on to the next new model.

I know several of these bold individuals.
If you turn showdead on, you can see stouset's childish, obviously triggered response.

These are the people who volunteered to run our elections. Childish, immature, fragile snowflakes that can't handle being called out like adults.

Sad state of affairs.
Most product placement is pretty obvious. I don't think it influences me. And I don't really watch any popular media. I could not even name one popular sitcom showing today.
Sure, but that’s not what the iPad is for in Apple mind.
I mean, you have to hand it to them that the point of this change is to strengthen the security of "everything in LAN is trusted" networks: Using the browser as a gateway to access internal services is one of the most important ways to break into local networks.
Hrmn... Does it matter? Without IPC, does clock rate tell us much? The real-world benchmarks will be very interesting to see.
Big Banks are at the front and center of money laundering of over $2T
Are they virtualizing x86 though? Having Docker running arm64 on laptops and Docker x86 on servers completely nullifies the main usecase of Docker imo.
Drug Themes in Science Fiction, by Robert Silverberg (1974) [pdf]
My team did this when we moved Bing.com over to .NET Core, but it's internal. I will see if we can make it public. The problem is there are some skeletons in the closest that are irrelevant now (some since NS2.0, more since netcoreapp3.1), so I wonder how informative it will be.
I also read something along the lines of that they have do some EDA work either on windows or on special mac builds of the tools. Might be just gossip keep in mind, not that it matters (beyond ones religious devotion to mac)
Dumb question:

Is there a way to make the margins wider (preferably free)? This may sound odd but I dislike moving my eyes horizontally, and I'd like to take advantage of the notes you've recommended somehow.
Enjoy that while it lasts... Hackintoshes are going to be a dying breed in two years.
That means the rule would be wide open to interpretation. After all, who decides what a major issue is?

It would seem far easier, and straightforward, and not a burden on anyone is simply wearing a plain shirt.
How are companies still releasing hardware with 8GB RAM? My MacBook Air from ~2016 has 8GB of RAM.

My first PC which had 8GB of RAM was built in ~2010 if I remember correctly. My current machine has 32GB. In all honesty, 32GB is not even much, considering my motherboard can take 128GB (in the old days, if your motherboard could take max 8GB RAM, people would fill all the slots to capacity). Also, I have a Lenovo machine that I paid $200 for that has 8GB RAM.

WHY any power user would buy a MacBook is beyond me. They've become devices that only my mother would use, not to get work done.

Apple should've made the baseline 32GB with 128GB as max spec. It would've forced the whole industry to give us more RAM. So for the next two years RAM will still be stagnant, all other manufacturers that copies Apple will indeed keep shipping 8GB without blinking.
I suppose it is drawing a distinction between warfare (strategic engagement) versus combat (tactical hostilities). For example Mogadishu was a battle not a war.
You could presumably email Arun and re-compile: "If you want to look over the .tex source for any of these notes, please send me an email."
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I've had a personal playlist of videos I maintained since 2008, a collection really, with multiple fads I once used to share with the various social circles I had during the last decade at college and university. But now more than half of the videos are gone due to the various ban episodes YouTube had (FU cancel culture, FU Carlos Maza). Fortunately with YTdl I can save at least half of what has been my good fairly big portion of my adult life.
Is there any solution? Perhaps using more proxies and indicators rather than direct questions?
Don't you want a custom design (re "skinning") anyways for an application like that?

Yes, navigation is something you'd need to at least partially build yourself, but in my experience it's not a big deal (I haven't done TV apps specifically, but lots of embedded things with D-pad-like controls), since most UIs have clear navigation hierarchy. QML is very common for this kind of application, and I'm not aware of anything else widely used and open that'd be better for this specific thing.
While the newspaper does run ads, NYT's ad revenue is in large part driven by their 'native advertising' business (T Brand Studio).

It's a fundamentally different approach to advertising compared to what Google and FB are doing.

I think the problem is more that it's harder to quantify a carefully crafted brand campaign, and easier for middle-managers to look at a chart of click-through return rates and make decisions based on that.

I see this as the ability to test and measure beating out a better method that is less quantifiable. Basically the same thinking that leaves us with policies like No Child Left Behind where education has shifted from learning to test taking yet people are still under the impression they are the same thing.
The called code is made unwind-safe at the FFI boundary using `std::panic::catch_unwind`. A panic will be converted to an Erlang exception.
You mean what about Russia, a country that uses a script it borrowed from Bulgaria :)
Seems like a solid resource. In case others were wondering which courses were what - there's an index here http://abel.math.harvard.edu/pamphlets/courses.html
Isn't it a core Republican talking point that the Democrats secure support from low-wage people with generous handouts? This seems like another example of the OPs point about the world being upside down.