skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The new Air looks good. The new mbp 13” not so much. If they’re going to lower the max ram they should at least provide an explanation why 16g in the new architecture is comparable to 32 in the previous, if that’s indeed the case.
It does compress RAM, although I’m not sure if you mean something different here.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/os-x-10-9/17/
The brother drivers are junk. However there is no reason to use them - the printers are completely standard and don't need drivers. Though in some cases it is some effort to figure out how to configure the printer.
Absolutely not.

Records generate a lot of code when you compile them, including methods to compare by value.

The boilerplate required to do that in C# without records is extensive and hard to maintain. Even structs, which are supposed to be value objects, are not easy to compare by value.

I'll put it this way: records are important enough that I stopped using C# because it lacked something like records, and now I'm going to pick it up again.
I mean I guess I agree. Every USDT they issued while not being secured is basically "printing".
I don't think this truism actually holds weight. Some engineers don't want to write documentation, sure. Maybe even most don't - but some actually do enjoy the process of writing good documentation, and they find satisfaction in creating knowledge artifacts that make their code easy to understand and use. It's not enough to just find these engineers, however - they need organizational support so that they have the right tools to create and share good documentation, and are appropriately encouraged to do so.
Ok yeah I guess I use volume sometimes.
My own perception of how others act is clearly clouded by the inaccuracy of survey sources.

I wonder how many in any set think similarly about these surveys. I assume distrust is the most logical base state, hate unknown callers / blind interactions as sources of fraud, misinformation, and marketing (which I view as often leaning against the borderline of the former).

I would also hope and assume, given the religious bias correlated with Republicans in the US, that many of them are more trusting of others.
> There's no way in hell many of the people I've talked to on here about a bunch of different things would ever have those conversations with me, or any conversation probably, in person.

Imo, you are wrong. Some of these people (even for wealth > $1bn) are just regular folks. The difference is that there are lots of people around them and lots of rinsers, so they are cautious and it is harder to find them in real life. But beyond that, you can have an average, regular discussion with them. A key point is to not think about their wealth much or at all.
Oh I was under the impression that was the exclusive purchasing opportunity. In that case, good for them. From personal experience, I just very rarely had the situation that even if it made perfect sense and would have saved money, that it was easy or even possible to buy dev tools with company money. Its stupid but I know its the same in many places, the bigger the worse it gets (unless FAANG).
The FAQ claims the compression achieved is good, but without a single concrete example -- lets see some comparisons to PNG?
One of the most frustrating parts about it for me was that I'd seen the trope many times in fiction, non-fiction, and with my own eyes, and I could see all the parallels, knew logically what was happening, and I still found myself pushing harder into the cliff. A real mindfuck.
Like it or not, that's what the argument is of most people who eat meat. I also think my tastebuds are more important than an animal. This is why things like impossible foods sidestep this issue, because they know people don't switch en masse on ethical grounds, but they do it you make a better product, in terms of price and more importantly, taste.

If an alien comes to us to eat us, I mean yes, that's just how it is. We can try fighting back of course (which species wants to be killed?) but if they win then, what can you do? Appeal emotionally with them? They could say the same thing, that it's just how it is. Might really does make right. If they have superiority in fighting power, I mean, there's nothing we can do other than accept it. And that's the same thing that's happening with us and the animals we eat.
Apple Silicon M1 – What to Expect, Based on A14
Pretty sure most MBP16 are sold with 16GB RAM
You only need to prove that the other program is possible, you don't need to actually write it (or even know how to write it). In other words, such a proof can even be non-constructive.
If you are living in the US, not homeless, getting paid US dollars via direct deposit, paying for your lattes with a Mastercard, then there's not much need for Bitcoin for you beyond 1) a speculative bet on it taking off globally. 2) a speculative hedge against the US dollar greatly losing value in the next decade.

But, if you are living in the confines of an backwards/broken/oppressive financial system, runnaway inflation, oppressive restrictions/sanctions, outright kleptocracy then Bitcoin is your sanctuary. It's complicated, risky, slow and tremendously better than what billions of people are dealing with from their local governments/banking systems.
> Your dollars lose value every year because the government creates money out of thin air (aka inflation).

I'm pretty sure it's not the government that creates most of the money. It's mostly the banks right? When you borrow money, they don't need to go to the government to create the money for that loan in your account.

And this is a mostly a good thing. I know a lot of people think it's not, but what it really does is democratise borrowing. Your ability to borrow money is mostly only limited to your own ability to make regular payments.

A slight inflation also incentivises people to borrow and invest, so it's often good for economic growth.

Maybe it won't be so good in the future when the population and economy starts to shrink consistently. But I'm not convinced that cryptocurrencies is the answer there either.
It's a multi-faceted reason as to why this is, but the most recent phenomenon I think has most to do with it: voting one way simply to piss off the other side.
T495s running Ubuntu 20.04. Absolutely perfect machine as far as I am concerned. Everything works flawlessly that I've tried and the quality is excellent. Really like it.
Per your data they do 50% better the second time.

That clearly shows a vast improvement in skill. A luck doesn't improve over time. If it was "mostly" luck they would get roughly the same outcomes the second time.
Bloor's Kavanaugh on How Networks Will Have to Evolve to Support Remote Work
I think this old HN discussion is relevant because it shows that documentation is multifaceted and just one approach doesn't cover everything.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21289832

I have often seen people complain about auto generated documentation being worse than useless when that is not the case. It's not that the documentation is poor, it's that there is a complete lack of the other 3 kinds of documentation.
Well, you're in luck. The majority of people aren't in prison for this, they are just exposed to this because they are in prison.

The guy in the article is in for 10 years for burglary due to a drug habit.
> No 32GB options on any of the models announced today is a shame. Or not I guess as it means I won't be buying anything today

I think this was the fastest way to get something out quickly and cover as many SKUs as possible.

We'll need to wait for the next/larger SKU models to get out of the 16B / 2TB / 2-port limitations. Maybe they should call those devices the Macbook Pro Max.

I wonder how many more SKUs will be needed. Obviously they are going to minimize them, but will they be able to cover Macbook Pro 16", iMac, iMac Pro and Mac Pro with only one (unlikely) or two (likely) more SKUs?
Oh, I agree. My original comment way up thread was based on my perception of the Airbus cockpit to the pre-Max Boeing cockpit.

Since the 737 Max incidents, my perception has changed and my preference now is to fly Antonov. :-)
this is a thread about nonsense jokey comments, have you learned nothing? haha
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> It’s pretty obvious from election maps and donor data that the democrats are now the party of coastal/urban elites

Urban populations, sure. Not particularly coastal aside from the fact that there's more urban population on the coasts, as county-level maps show pretty clearly.

“Elites” are more dubious. Sure, Democrats and Republicans (counting leaners) are closer to parity for voters with less than a college degree, with college grads and even moreso postgraduate degree holders strongly favoring Democrats.

OTOH, Blacks, who are overwhelming not elites, overwhelming are (and even more overwhelming lean) Democratic, and the same is true predominantly (though less overwhelmingly) of Hispanics.

So, yes, to the urban part, not particularly independently true of the “elite” or “coastal” part.
I've been confronted by Dang a long while ago in an account I lost the access to since. I was hurt, but it was also a very educative experience.

Most of my life has been spent moderating online communities. Needless to say why, I am trying to mimic the style of moderation I have been on the receiving end of.

Keep up the good work!
I'm actually surprised by the price. I thought it'd be more expensive.
I'd easily had paid another $250 extra for 2 ports on the other side, and even some more for 32GB ram.
Better camera + 14" screen would also be nice. Basically I was expecting to pay between 3-3.5k for a new macbook :-)
No, they're both DP. Thunderbolt 3 can do dual 4k60 over a single cable (including also providing power, ethernet, audio, etc) https://www.caldigit.com/ts3-plus/
> The Japanese Concentration Camps are not a point of national shame. Instead, they are a point of American pride.

> Case in point: One of Trump’s goons, Carl Higbie, referred to the Japanese Concentration Camps as “precedent”. [1]

It's quite incorrect to generalize from a widely-condemned statement made by "one of Trump's goons" [1] to America, generally.

[1] Carl Higbie appears to be a goon, quite literally.
> better memory management absolutely can be better than just throwing more RAM at the problem.

Those are not competing in any way. Better memory management does not require nor benefit from less RAM.

Apple doesn't give you a different kernel when you choose the 8GB SKU instead of the 16GB one. It's the same software, just with less RAM. And having that less RAM is best case break-even in "day to day" experience, but never better.
Going into the event, my thinking was that they'd have two aims:

1. "Wow" the audience given the anticipation without a full overhaul of the range.
2. Deliver some solid products that enable the transition while being effective for non-enthusiasts.

From my viewing they hit both. I expect they'll fill in the range next fall with bigger upgrades to the form factor.
The rise of community-curated knowledge networks
We are living through the emergence of a new business category which I believe will become an important part of our digital lives: community-curated knowledge networks
Good points there. I have to agree.
> You skipped the keynote parts where they say faster 2x, 4x, 8x... and they say faster than every other laptop CPU and faster than 98% of laptops/PCs in their class sold last year? They said it several times.

The important part there is "in their class".

I'm sure the Apple silicon will impress in the future, but there's a reason they've only switched their lowest power laptops to M1 at launch.

The higher end laptops are still being sold with Intel CPUs.
or just use PPM which is already supported everywhere
The point is that you can send your data and program (both encrypted) off to the cloud to run on 100% untrusted devices and get back a result that only you can possibly decipher. But all the expensive computation happened outside of systems you control.
These changes are huge! I'm interested to see what I can build with computation expression overloads
Entry level 13" MacBook Pro is for prosumers.

Think web developers, photographers, bloggers etc.
Trump supporters do seem to differ from my view of a 'traditional republican'; if not the actions of the namesake (which I do view as the negative things you describe) what do they see in the candidate or platform being supported?
> But I wish stuff was as simple as having a plain editor and getting started.

This is the wrong thing to wish for.

It's like... wishing for "simpler times" of the pre-modern era. You know, the simpler times without dentistry and plagues that make COVID look downright pleasant. Simpler times of backbreaking manual labour, shovelling ditches by hand.

A typical computer can now process 10 billion general-purpose instructions per second. It is a power tool for the mind. Its entire purpose is to eliminate manual labour.

The fundamental concept of computerised information technology is to automate away the processing of information as much as possible.

If you don't get this, then you don't get IT at all.

There is nothing at all good, or somehow more "pure" about programming with Notepad, or VI, or whatever text editor you fancy.

This is like turning off the million dollar backhoe, stepping out of the cabin, and digging the ditch with your hands because you feel that it brings you "closer to the dirt" or something.
In your case, a great partner might be a handful of VC firms?
Those deeper problems are describe here https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SowhatswrongwithSBT.html
Did they say what they meant when they said faster?

I saw some graphs that looked unrealistically smooth with two unlabeled axis
"Cannot" seems a bit harsh. CompletableFuture isn't going away, and is made for callback situations.

With green threads being "free" (you can have millions), it might be reasonable to just block your green thread until the callback arrives.
Apple doesn't like writing to their SSDs much, to prevent wear-out.
So why did they even change the major version in the first place?
My thinking was along the same line as yours, but the way apple framed it seems to suggest that the M1 accelerates model training and not just inference. Here's the actual quote "It also makes Mac Mini a great machine for developers, scientist and engineers. Utilizing deep learning technologies like tensorflow ... which are now accelerated by M1".
It should be pretty straightforward to test this though: installing tensorflow-gpu on a mac mini and seeing the result.
I suspect, TF's latest branch should also indicate which GPUs are supported.
Curious to hear more thoughts on this.
Software Engineers hiring at 5x efficiency and 1/2 cost
Thanks for the recommendation, talk was indeed banging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bxZuzDKoI0
In the US of the 21st century, it's far more likely that rolling back the firmware update would be the illegal thing.
That's fair. Thank you for elaborating.
Relatedly (since we've got you here), rather than blocking bad users it would be nice to be able to tag specific users in a way that shows up on the comment feed. For example, there are a few users whose comments consistently impress me with their depth, and whose commentary in a thread often flags a deeper conversation on a topic.

It might just be because I have a terrible memory for usernames, but it would be nice to be able to immediately see "Founder/CEO of Initech" or "Expert Bananacurist" next to the name.
I suspect your suspicion is going to be very wrong.
https://www.police1.com/legal/articles/3-things-to-consider-...
If they had a 20% stake, it would be 200x. Not 1000
I'm definitely aware of some cognitive impairment since dealing with COVID, with me it seems to center on some fine motor skills leading to trouble with typing faultlessly, which I could do without a problem before and now I need to review what I type three times before I'm confident I didn't mess up.

Besides that, the tiredness is mostly gone now (it had better be after a good 8 months), though every now and then it can still recur and then I'm 'down' for a bit.

As for planning, I updated my will a week ago with all this at the back of my mind.

So while I recognize some of it I am happy that I apparently had a 'mild' case of this, and I feel very sorry for anybody that had it worse (and their families as well).
To be fair to apple, people keep their macbooks for years and years, keeping them out of landfill longer. They are well made and the design doesn't really age. Written on my 2015 Macbook pro.
I am going through this right now. I have constant tension headaches and doc says I should stay away from stress, stress triggers and chocolate/coffee/etc. How am I supposed to do that with work/life/COVID and everything 2020?

I have a big project on me, and there is no way I can get the rest I need to recover properly. I took 2 days off, and my colleagues are rallying to help as much as they can, but some of the info is silo'd on me so I need to work on it.
There are so many things like that which can affect you, you see it happening, and there's nothing you can do about it. I have occasional manic episodes, and ADHD. I can see both happening, I know what they are logically, and I just get to see myself walk closer and closer to the cliff's edge.
Because Bitcoin is credibly scarce. In 10 years, Bitcoin will have 20+ years of history behind it. Your BTC2 will be much younger, probably have had a creator, a foundation that directs where it goes, possibly changed the proof-of-work and supply schedule a few times and possibly picked winners and loser on their ecosystem. In other words, your other currency won't be that different than normal fiat money.

Most people don't really get that Bitcoin is unique in this regard. Literally every other coin has less credibility and more intervention and a shorter history. That's why BTC will be more valuable.
Boris Johnson's message to Joe Biden has bizarre hidden reference to Trump
Hugo docs template / site. Docsy is a good one, there are more depending on your preferences. Nice thing here is that it is backed by git and everyone can use their preferred editor
WordPress and JAMstack
I like it as well, especially in applications like CLion/IntelliJ which have tons of keybindings I keep forgetting because they are different between Linux and macOS. The context-sensitive touch bar is actually very useful in these applications for things like rebuilding, changing targets, stepping through the debugger etc. without having to use the mouse.

There's a lot of things to complain about with Apple products, but if you ask me there's been enough touch bar bashing by now and people should just get over it. It's pretty useful in some situations, and IMO no real downsides, especially now that the esc key is a real physical key again. Why all the hate?
I've been building an over-bloated mess on Apple silicon for months now; it's been quite good at it actually.
>> They literally, knowingly and plainly misrepresented their product

> Where has that been proven? as the parent pointed out, there is a wide gulf between misunderstanding and knowingly misrepresenting.

...Is this not literally the point of the article that we're discussing? Relevant sections:

> "[S]ince at least 2016, Zoom misled users by touting that it offered 'end-to-end, 256-bit encryption' to secure users' communications, when in fact it provided a lower level of security," the FTC said today in the announcement of its complaint against Zoom and the tentative settlement. Despite promising end-to-end encryption, the FTC said that "Zoom maintained the cryptographic keys that could allow Zoom to access the content of its customers' meetings, and secured its Zoom Meetings, in part, with a lower level of encryption than promised."

> The FTC complaint says that Zoom claimed it offers end-to-end encryption in its June 2016 and July 2017 HIPAA compliance guides, which were intended for health-care industry users of the video conferencing service. Zoom also claimed it offered end-to-end encryption in a January 2019 white paper, in an April 2017 blog post, and in direct responses to inquiries from customers and potential customers, the complaint said.
I don't understand what Rust has to do with the chip circuitry, beyond stuff that could be compiled to RISC-V code to run on the emulator. But it seems to have more stuff involved.

Also, I don't understand what about AES can be taking up so many LUTs.

Clue, please?
Not everybody follows semantic versioning.
> As a side note, the fact that the federal government can use its spending powers to enforce policy that is not within its jurisdiction is very unpopular in Quebec and one of the changes Quebec wants made to the constitution.

Especially since the fact that the federal government has money to spend for these means that it's collecting too much and for purposes not under it's jurisdiction.

Quebec is very wise to want to put an end to this.
People who themselves are not attracted to STEM trying to understand the minds of people who are strong in STEM. I am getting the idea that many people who are strong in STEM are not thinking in a verbal manner, but using a kind of visual mode of thinking, being able to create complex structures in their mind without having to rely on words. This modes of thinking are not based on 'if', 'and', and 'then' lines of verbal reasoning. (It has long been an opinion that thinking and reasoning cannot be done without language, which of course is not true.)
If the 1% class leans strongly right wing, the average income doesn’t really tell you much about the highly paid middle class (or even “lower paid” upper class) as incomes are not normally distributed & you’ve got significant skew (1 billion will make more difference on the mean than $0).
Why do people still pay any heed to “technical analysis” people drawing lines and triangles on market history graphs?

It’s no more or less effective at predicting the future as reading tea leaves or casting lots.
Performance gains are probably welcome aside from the ram limitation, though I was at 16gb anyway. For those mentioning USB ports on the pro, it seems like 4 are available on the highest spec version. I'm also excited for Big Sur, let's hope it isn't a catastrophe like Catalina was.

Otherwise I'm disappointed that there wasn't a physical design iteration. I was really hoping for something. MicroLED screen, faster refresh rate, different colours of unibody, smaller bezels, more durable anti-reflective coating, more dent resistance, but nothing AFAICT.
Peering under the “hood” of SARS-CoV-2
> That fails to distinguish between politics and activism.

Activism is politics. I think the distinction is between activism and running for office.
> but some of the info is silo'd on me

What's preventing you from sharing this information or making it accessible to your other colleagues?
That's.. kind of weak. How many other perf tests did they throw away before taking this one because it showed so well? I guess we'll see the real-world benchmarks when people get their hands on them.

Geekbench is not a _great_ benchmark, but it's common enough that we could use it to roughly compare.

EDIT: Apparently there are Geekbench results that are unofficial that suggest it's faster than current MBPs, but we'll have to see.
Maxed out Mac Mini is $1699 pre tax in US and €1917 in Ireland. That's €1558 pre VAT price, or $1838 including mandatory 2 year warranty.

$139 is NOT 30% difference.
It's called "Rosetta 2", and I have no idea why you're bringing up virtualization when I was talking about translation and emulation.
This wasn't SOP for me when I was growing up. We never got spam calls. Only the occasional wrong number.
Yes, there are small semantic differences between the two. In this case I'd say that either one would suffice -- the differences are smaller than the overall awkwardness of the sentence.

A really finely crafted article would pick precisely the correct phrase based on tone and meaning, but this one wasn't it.