skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i was mostly talking about reading side, not mutation side.
This. I no longer answer calls if don't recognize the number. I was helping on a campaign with a phone bank and no one was answering.
>I expect our migration from 3.1=>5.0 will be a total non-event, but we don't want to risk any regressions during our current crunch phase

FWIW, I just did a find/replace across 66 projects for `netcoreapp3.1` => `net5.0` and it build and passed tests first try. There were a fair few new nullable reference type warnings though!
I'm going to be pretty sad if they don't keep releasing Intel MBPs, I need to at least be able to run x86 Windows in a VM on my laptop.
tech specs say 500nits on the pro and 400nits on the air, so its possible they are different screens but also possible they just have different backlights
I don't know about that, I think the confident move would have been to release the new chips along with a big design update.

As you say, I think the average consumer doesn't understand the difference between an Intel chip and an Apple chip, and will probably not understand what if anything has changed with these new products.

I would say developers would be the group which would be most anxious about an architecture change (which is probably why this announcement was very technically-oriented), and developers on average are probably going to understand that design changes and architecture changes basically orthogonal, and thus won't be comforted that much by a familiar design.

On the other side, average consumers probably aren't all that anxious due to the arch change, and would be more convinced that something new and exciting was happening if it actually looked different.
They have said exactly that multiple times in the presentation. Mini & MBP will maintain higher clock speeds indefinitely.
Woah, apologies if my comment was too short and came across as snarky. Sounds like are a lot more familiar with Linux Desktop than me. I'm fairly new (a few years) and for me everything just works and is more configurable. I am constantly battling with Windows in a way I do not on my Linux system. In my mind, KDE is a better desktop, but I am still forced to use windows because there are a few tools that don't have good Linux alternatives.
Nah, I'll stick it out. Family court would f me over more than this.
What is peace? And when is something peaceful? Webster's dictionary defines peaceful as "untroubled by conflict, agitation, or commotion". Certainly, if almost 10% of my coworkers were violent, I would not call my workplace peaceful. If one in ten of our servers were disrupted due to commotion, clients would quickly start leaving for alternatives.

In my own country we also saw protests after the death of George Floyd. These were dispersed forcefully by police, indirectly because of Corona restrictions. I do not think the police officers, who put their health and safety at risk, felt particularly peaceful when engaging huge crowds with batons and riot shields.

There were peaceful protests, and there were violent ones. There were orderly citizens as well as looters and rioters. The trend is what matters, the frequency. Imagine if 10% of a rock band's concerts resulted in venues being burnt down, people seriously hurt and even killed, would that band's concerts be considered peaceful?

I've seen videos from the affected cities and neighbourhoods, if that's what a peaceful America looks like then I hope they never experience commotion or unrest.
And 16GB is fine for that. That's not what is taking the majority of the grandparents ram.
M1 has 16MB of L2 cache; 12MB dedicated to the HP cores and 4MB dedicated to the LP cores.

Another important consideration is the on-SOC DRAM. This is really incomparable to anything else on the market, x86 or ARM, so its hard to say how this will impact performance, but it may help alleviate the need for a larger cache.

I think its pretty clear that Apple has something special here when we're quibbling about the cache and power draw per core differences of a 10 watt chip versus a 100 watt one; its missing the bigger picture that Apple did this at 10 watts. They're so far beyond their own class, and the next two above it, that we're frantically trying to explain it as anything except alien technology by drawing comparisons to chips which require power supplies the size of sixteen iPhones. Even if they were just short of mobile i9 performance (they're not), this would still be a massive feat of engineering worthy of an upgrade.
My goto is Amazon because of the prime shipping cost. E.g. pay a monthly fee and get "free" shipping. It's so convenient not to have to worry about that cost.

I've looked stuff up on Etsy before and the shipping charges were crazy. I wanted to buy about 50 euro worth of balloons.. the shipping would have cost another 50 euro.
What's clear from this thread is that there are a hundred ways to clearly support a candidate that don't break the rules. If you agree with the intention behind the rules don't try to undermine them. If you don't support the ban on electioneering, then be open about it and try to change the policy.
Highly relatable. I've never considered taking my own life, but there were certainly moments where I thought "i need to get this fixed, i cannot live this way for the rest of my life".
I guess I am not human, then.

I'd lie to pollsters because I dislike the practice. It causes irrelevant news, and feeds into strategic voting. One distracts / causes pageviews, other one lowers the integrity of our democracy. My data can skew the accuracy of pollsters, however little that is, thereby hurting their interests.

I am also open to lying to telemarketers as I despise their job. Perfect example of a Bullshit Job.
What would be a comparable card at 2 TFlops?
What if you don't have a party affiliation?
> polls are the best tool to determine where to do what

Seems like that may not be the case anymore.
...because they identify themselves as such? I guess it's possible that someone impersonates a pollster, but that'd fall under the second part of my comment, which I haven't see evidence of happening.
If I didn't have five of them calling me every day, day after day, I might be more likely to answer.

If half of them weren't push polls trying to disguise themselves as unbiased, I might be more likely to answer.

As it is, though? No. Go away. All of you go away. You'll find out my opinion when I vote. Until then, leave me alone.
Didn't they claim it's the fastest per-thread performance in the world?
It's arguably made them blunter and more strident, but I don't think "righties" are on particularly solid ground if they want accuse the left of being uniquely mean and insulting.
Can you think of any situations in which non-secret ballots might cause undesirable effects?
The 2019 MBP 13 supposedly uses an 8th gen, 14nm Intel part (14nm is 6 year-old technology).

A more fair comparison would be Tiger Lake (20% IPC improvement) on Intel's terrible 10nm process. The most fair comparison would be zen 3 on 7nm, but even that is still a whole node behind.
Obligatory: https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/

I realize the spectrum isn't limited to startups vs bigCo's (you can be self-employed as a consultant etc.) but the numbers are almost always met with disbelief. Just look at this HN thread where people are accusing each other of being liars or "lazy".
One of the slides mentioned that the air is limited to 10watts though. I wonder if it does have the same soc but its nerfed beyond 10watts.
I will agree with tptacek that this is likely a harmful idea and will undermine some of the current strengths of the community.
I'm in the NY/NJ area and have a near endless selection of places to choose from: a bunch use cornmeal on the bottom... I'm not sure if that's just to prevent sticking to the oven or not, but it produces a texture I really prefer.

See, that's the thing: there really is an infinite variety. I know that's true of other foods, but very few other foods are available in such diverse forms with that level of ubiquity. In a 5-square mile area I could easily get 10 different types, and it's all available with pretty much the same convenience as fast food.
Taking a neutral stance to the poller. That's not the same thing as taking a neutral stance on the issues.
I'd be curious to know what portion of their user base for the Pro series are developers. Anecdotally, quite a lot of devs seems to use Macs; but I have no idea what that fraction is, relative to the rest of their market.
I mean, if you're looking for sub-1% accuracy, you're not going to get it, but polls are usually accurate to within a few percent. In the US, the last couple of elections were quite close, so fairly small misses had a big impact (at least in 2016; in 2020 the only state that was clearly a wrong call based on polls was Florida, and arguably Georgia).

Notably, polls were generally fairly accurate for the US 2018 midterms.

In general, polls work better in electoral systems where national polls are useful; the US presidential election in particular is challenging.
the right hand ones are the only ones that can drive external monitors (on mine anyway). I feel like I'm the only one that has this - I had a MBP 2019 - first batch - and I thought I'd read that one side was different than the other re: power. Power works on both sides, but monitors won't run from the left usb-c ports. but it's not documented anywhere. :/

thx for tip.
> Your party affiliation is a matter of public record, and you're not required to vote for your party. Not really a big deal IMO

Can I have affiliation for 'no party' ?

Or better yet, never answer the question so the answer is NULL ?
I'm not sure why this was downvoted. The degree divide is growing as an electorate bifurcator, with the GOP fast becoming the party of the college-less:

> https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2020/1027/As-college-...

And as I pointed out, it's not solely for the reasons college-educated progressives are eager to suggest ("ignorant, uneducated people vote republican"). Student loan forgiveness is a flatly a regressive policy, amounting to a handout to people who are already economically advantaged.

> https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/09/student-loan-forgiveness-cou...

> Biden laid out a narrower plan, saying he would forgive $10,000 in student debt for all borrowers, and the rest of the debt for those who attended public colleges or historically Black colleges and universities and earn less than $125,000 a year.

Imagine being a non-college educated voter earning $60-70k a year, and reading that people earning upto $125k a year will get a handout.
are they, once again, not upgrading the camera?

I'm pretty sure there was a part of the presentation talking about a camera upgrade. But it's not something on my wish list, so I didn't pay attention.

Double-check the recording on Apple's web site. The answer may be there.
A 30% solution rate for homicides is abysmal. For rapes, you have to discount the solution rate by the reporting rate. And those are the university educated police detectives. Then there is the problem of uniformed patrol cops who abuse people without probable cause and beat a fair number of them resulting in high rates of complaints. On top of that they get petulant about the complaints against them.
who ultimately pays is the government

At least in the US, I believe that employers are required to pay for workers' compensation insurance to cover injuries on the job.
I am 'doing' real software - I saved up my money writing CRUD and quit as soon as I could afford to.

What I am personally doing in no way negates the fragmentation that is present. SwiftUI is the latest contributor to never-ending CRUD hell and I am merely informing the young and impressionable, that SwiftUI is not your friend - it is your anti-cross-platform, proprietary, closed source devil spawn (being dramatic for fun :)) and if you ever want to start solving real world problems instead of learning the latest framework that does what we did 20 years ago but 5% better this time, you better listen real careful to annoying debby-downers like me, Joe Armstrong (RIP), Rich Hickey etc who got fed up with the corporate matrix and went a different way.
Part Two: Taking reasonableness seriously
Another chrome tab!

That will do it.
> Modern web is too heavy for the old dualcore i5, unfortunately.

It's a shame that the web has become this borderline unusable mess. I shouldn't need a quad-core machine with multiple gigabytes of RAM to just read the news online.
It was, but it was an optimization over earlier VM-based packet filters, which were definitely not optimizations; they were pursued as elegant system design, not high-performance networking.
Tabs being "open" doesn't mean they're loaded into ram.
yup looks like I'm wrong.
Did you read the article? The Times now employs more people than it ever has and is doing better financially than ever.
Oh I am sure judging by how excellent MacBook Pros cool things, having passive cooling will make no difference at all. I mean, during summer I put my MacBook on a large ice block that I freeze over night, this way I can maintain acceptable build & development speeds during the day. Should work the same for the MacBook Air. No?
Goroutine like .NET IAwaitable/Task both abstract the thread away. No one thinks about threads when programming async/await code despite in any await keyword a thread change can happen.

Both solve the same problem with the same technique (under the hood it is all the same). One language had the benefit of late birth (go), the other suffers with its friends through a library/language migration (C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, ...). async/await is effectively the modernization of structural programming to benefit from modern concurrency.
I think the Electoral College 'stole' it, from the popular vote.

I blame a combination of:

advertisements :: all political ads should probably just be banned period

misinformation on social media :: probably _some_ of which are foreign powers trying to divide the population of other nations

Lack of IRV :: I'd prefer any IRV system over what we have now, though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method seems like a winner focused variation of eliminate the 'biggest looser' first and yield the winner IRV.

The Electoral College :: for distorting the entire process and being non-necessary in the modern world. In the late 1700s when it was created the speed of communication was horseback letters and trans Atlantic sailing ships. It made sense to select a representative who would then travel in person to the core of politics, learn more, and possibly change their mind if the interests they represented were better served by another choice. The hyper-politicized, party focused, blindly following electors of today may as well not exist.

To solve voter representation and choice I believe the US needs:

0) Go all mail in ballots everywhere, like Washington State https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/faq_vote_by_mail.aspx

1) IRV, preferably "beatpath method, beatpath winner, path voting, and path winner" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method

2) Remove the electoral college. Step A.1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta... Step A.2) Require all votes are counted everywhere. B) Constitutional amendment removing the Electoral College; and while we're at it, mandating IRV of some sort (and hopefully enumerating academic criteria of the method rather than enumerating specific methods).

3) A ban on all political ads and limits on campaign finance and PACs.

4) More voter (general populace) education, an informed public is an implicit requirement for a functional democracy. Probably also better info-graphics presenting 'the books' (money in, money out) about who's paying for what results.
> It's only these handful of swing states (WI, MI, PA, NV, GA) that have such a massively different ratio of votes in-person vs. mail-in.

No, its not.

Its only those states that got a lot of attention to their count because they were swing states; the states that were easy to project very early on, no one outside of the media decision desks making the call cared about the details. And lots of them didn't have rules separating and delaying the count of mail-in ballots, anyway, which meant that differences in mail-in ballot patterns (which there almost certainly were because of partisan differences in who voted mail-in, entirely predictable given partisan differences in advocacy for and against mail voting) wouldn't show up clearly in the count timing the way it does in places where the process delayed starting counting mail-in ballots.
While that seems intiutive that NYT is being sidestepped by free sources, they are in fact doing very well as a business and reporting record profits. They have no debt, in fact through cash on hand and lines of credit they have access to over a billion dollars. They bought out their headquarters in midtown manhattan. Their stock price is near all time highs.

People pay for quality. It's why people still pay for services like HBO instead of watching free content on youtube.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/business/media/new-york-t...
There is such a thing as speech ghostwriting. I'd even wager it's pretty standard for most high-level politicians and CEOs.

It works very well when the format is a unidirectional speech, but obviously breaks down in a conversation/debate.

My point here: If you want to figure out how smart Ma is, I think your reaction to how he performed in that discussion with Musk is a much stronger signal than how you perceived this speech.

The probability of this speech being heavily managed is very high, especially since the global tech/investor crowd got that wow rection after that disastrous event with Musk.
I also refuse to tag sarcasm. Your typical computer nerd tends to be also a bit high on the autism spectrum which correlates with difficulties at identifying irony and sarcasm - which explains the downvotes even for statements which are in line with the HN mainstream (like your's). Keep the sarcasm coming!
Multivitamins' 'benefits' are all in your head: study
Didn’t Hitler have some Jewish ancestry?
Wow! Hot take. What Azure services were you using?
Did you read the story? NYT newsroom is bigger than ever, it has more cash than ever and has increased it's amount of subscribers several-fold
Its worth mentioning that there are other desirable traits in a system besides efficiency. Robustness in the event of failure is useful with planes and automobiles even though it adds weight and makes them less fuel efficient. Similarly with government policy it might make sense to opt for a less efficient but more resilient or some qualitative attribute like more freedom of choice. This would be particularly true in a society where a basic income was needed because presumably society would already be extremely efficient at producing goods and services such that the demand for human labor is far smaller than the supply. I'm not sure if I'm pro basic income or not but I wish more discussion would go into what a healthy set of societal characteristics would look like before discussing how to get there.
It's hard to find stuff now. There's more content and people online now but it's harder to find it seems. I find google searches bring back marketing/SEO results.
It's even easier to explain than that. The RAM is integrated into the CPU. While there are a few SKUs here, Apple only designed and built one CPU with 16GB RAM. The CPUs are binned. The CPUs where all RAM passed testing are sold as 16GB, the 8GB SKUs had a failure on one bank of RAM.

There are no 32 or 64 GB models because Apple isn't making a CPU with 32 or 64GB of RAM yet.
Being "that judge who wouldn't let them go after some nazi's ill gotten gains" is a great way to dead end your career if you're a Massachusetts judge. The Massachusetts judiciary is very politically minded. Other states are different.
I agree, and think that not wearing that kind of thing at the polls is appropriate to keep it apolitical.
Previous votes generally aren’t semi-accurate.

For example ask people to vote on ‘universal background checks’ alone, you’ll probably get a majority voting in favor.

If you ask if a gun owner should give their guns to a trusted friend of family member for safekeeping if they feel depressed or suicidal, most people would also say that was a good idea.

Of course they wouldn’t realize they had just criminalized it.
Thanks! Turns out that this setting is hidden unless you first check the "Require status checks" option.
now we're talking!
So you're saying no one would have died from CoVid-19 if Trump weren't in office? Citation needed.
After spending the late 1990s and 2000s on Slashdot, with the trolling and toxic flamewars, HN reflects how a mature social commenting site should be.
Frankly, this has an obvious answer: The people who answer polls are not representative of the population at large. Yet this was known decently enough since 2016. But more at the heart of the issue here is pollsters are providing a service not to inform but to persuade (both the public and donors); internal-polling is actually what matters. And instead of reformulating the service with more accurate questions for total populace (who will your neighbor vote for?), the pollsters doubled down on the standard methods and made (roughly doubly!) a larger polling error than 2016. I mean the Maine senate race was on average ~15 points off the final result[0]. Frankly this was the race for the pollsters to prove themselves that they can self-correct, as they have demonstrated to be unable to do this, it is clear they just should be abolished.

[0] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/senate/me/main...
Assuming that people are lying at random.

I would bet there is a significant correlation with voting habits -- particularly in this election cycle. Why wouldn't someone who holds the view that polls are corrupt and biased have their attitude towards answering them affected by that?
The reality is that we can't answer this until we have some hands on.

It really depends on whether their secure boot architecture can be disabled (unlikely knowing apple), or allow adding ones own keys (unlikely). Bootcamp probably won't happen since windows does not support the architecture: they'll be pushing people to use VMs.

They might also provide some untrusted path to boot without it being able to access certain secure features. I wish they did this, but also won't keep my breath!

That said, the kernel itself needs to have support for the hardware architecture, and then drivers for all the new hardware they're pushing out. I don't expect this to be soon, though I'd definitely be willing to sponsor anyone willing to work on this.
Surprising as it seems, 8GB seems to be enough for most "normal" users. My wife has an 8GB MacBook Pro and I'm always shocked by how many open tabs she keeps in Chrome and how many Office documents are open at any given time.

My 16GB MBP is constraining sometimes and the next one will, doubtlessly, come with at least 32GB. Until Apple can do that, I won't use an ARM-based Mac as my daily driver.

As for the 8-core, it's 4 beefy ones and 4 low-power ones. Load will shift from one kind to the other according to usage patterns. This is how they achieve that 20-hour battery life.
I think a large proportion of Trump voters believe parts of QAnon-pushed conspiracy theories - especially that he is "taking on a Deep State conspiracy", and data indicates some support for that[1][2].

Surely they don't believe the "blood drinking paedophile" part though? It seems outrageous, and yet I know a bunch of people on HN believed PizzaGate back in 2016, so maybe I'm underestimating it.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/22/qano...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/02/majority-o...