skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we see sufficient evidence in our current time that self-loathing is a very useful fuel for self-righteous piety and zeal. If you can be persuaded your very identity is evil, you will do horrifying things to fight it.
> "This is what folks at 37signals figured out years ago and good on them. Do not take VC money unless you are already a millionaire and aiming for the moon.
reply"

But 37signals/Basecamp DID take investment money.

They took money from Jeff Bezos investment company named Bezos Expeditions - back in 2006 (14 years ago).

https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests...
Same data shows that Black and Latina women voted for Democrats at historically high rates, as did Asians. And Black and Latino men outside of conservative states.
How will this affect the prices of their high end models? Will the be cheaper?
In my experience, if the machine beeps and spits your ballot out, which it will always do if you don't vote on some of the elections (and I never vote the stuff I don't know about, like school boards) then the poll worker will grab it and try to shove it back in. I don't think they are trying to invade your privacy, they just are trying to be helpful. But, in the end, they aren't respecting the secrecy of my ballot.
I would be interested to see these errors plotted against state population density.
Thank you, dang! More than anything, what makes this place a joy to frequent is the quality of the discourse. Your guiding hand is visible in the curation of both articles and comments.

Community sites like HN fall into many common pathologies. Your laser focus on avoiding those traps, and intentionally chasing positive models, has me always looking forward to loading the site and diving into the discourse.
Implementing a basic eCommerce cart with and without Vuex
There's no more core i7 for Macbook 13

Sure there is – you just have to select one of the Intel-models and customize the processor.
Replace an Anandtech deep dive containing hard data with a soft and fluffy piece based on a vendor presentation?
The only bad thing about the current 16" is the Touch Bar. There is a lot to like about the rest though.
Apple used to be better about developers, I think, back 2000-2010 or so.
To be clear, InfluxDB IOx will be using Apache Arrow, DataFusion and Parquet, and contributing to those upstream projects, not creating our own thing.
With respect to all, I feel this is all missing the point. Expecting a compiler to remove dups just isn't sensible when you can do it yourself so easily on the generation side. Just drop the AST/equivalent data structure into a hash table, with a quick exists check before you add the next one. Those that match, turn that code into a sub-function which all the rest call.
Seems light.
> GiB

Please don't.
I wouldn't say it's always been very good. How well do you remember MSDN? In the mid-2000s, Microsoft documentation lived on three or four separate sites, and I don't remember the names of all of them. The two that spring immediately to mind are MSDN and TechNet. MSDN had the infuriating issue of broken links. You'd be deep-diving on an issue, find a link to an article that looked like it might perfectly address your question, and... 404.

It got so bad that a VP ended up making a pronouncement, declaring a war on broken links. He announced a multi-year plan to reduce and eventually fix all the broken links on MSDN. This was the vacuum that was partially responsible for the birth of Stack Overflow.
That's the one, thanks.

It is a shame, it's not something I ever really did (or not for long, for a period I do recall having Arch on my 2013 Air) but I like the idea - I like Apple's hardware, just not the software.
Note: the A16Z article is written by Martin Casado, now partner at A16Z. I met Martin at VMware in 2014-2016, where he was leading the SDN (Software Defined Networking) team after the company he co-founded, Nicira, was acquired by VMware in 2012. Martin also (co?)invented Openflow.

I didn't work closely with Martin, but I've noticed multiple times how good he is at vision, strategy, understanding tech and predicting where it's going. Not surprised he led the investment in Isovalent, which I believe is a very promising company.
Not strictly comparable, but my company provided Lenovo P1 that's a few years old got 64 GB. Can't imagine having to deal with 16 GB a few years later..
Oh man the caliber of the comments on KOS is way lower than I expected.

How does such a great author get such poor comment quality? It's kinda sad :(
What do people think about this way to explain eBPF:

Microkernels were presented as the future in which fewer things would run in the kernel. Instead we've gone in the other direction in which more is running inside the kernel.

Monolithic kernel: the Network Device runs inside the kernel and the Packet Filter outside.

Microkernel: both the Network Device and Packet Filter run outside the kernel.

eBPF: both the Network Device and the Packet Filter run inside the kernel.
If US presidential election pollster cold calls are reaching voters in the UK, things are really screwed up.
I hate the Touch Bar
Any "teachers" / "educators" in here who have the flexibility to experiment:

- What tools have you used successfully? For what number of people concurrently?
I've been really happy with the following mod for the last couple years of TouchBar usage:

https://community.folivora.ai/t/goldenchaos-btt-the-complete...

Fully customizable while being much better for muscle memory by giving you exactly what you want where you want it, gives you icon-shortcuts to script, and still allows you to have as much dynamic functionality / information as you like. So, for example, mine looks roughly like this:

- Fullscreen

- Bck/[play|pause]/Fwd

- CURRENTLY_PLAYING_SONG

- AirDrop

- ConfigMenu

- Emoticons

- (Un)Caffeinate

- (Dis)connectBluetoothHeadphones

- (Dis)connectMicrophone

- (Un)muteVol

- VolDown

- VolUp

- ScreenDim

- ScreenBright

- Date

- Time

- Weather

- Battery%

CURRENTLY_PLAYING_SONG playing shows the album cover, song name, and artist, but only shows up if there IS something playing. Same with AirDrop, which shows up only if there's something that I could AirDrop to, and then gives me a set of options of who to AirDrop to. The Emoticon menu opens an emoticon submenu on the TouchBar with most-recently-used first.

That all fits fine into the main touchbar, with other dynamic touchbars available modally (ie, holding CMD shows touchable icons of all the stuff in my Dock (my Dock is entirely turned off)), CTRL shows LOCK AIRPLAY DO_NOT_DISTURB FLUX KEYBOARD_DIM/BRIGHT, etc. ALT shows me various window snap locations.

Edit: BetterTouchTool also replaced a bunch of other tools for me. Gives you the same kind of tools for scripting eg Keyboard macros, Mouse macros, remote-control via iPhone/Watch etc with a lot of reasonable defaults.
Odds are he was neither the Nazi of his Hawke persona nor the progressive vegan of his Jesse James persona but a psychopath who enjoyed messing with people and found claiming these identities useful to that end.
It is a common mistake in tech circles for people to believe that they are smarter than the people making decisions like this. Besides the obvious part about protecting their reputation as being easy to work with, there are always details behind the scenes in decisions like this that make them make more sense. You don’t know their tax position, what relationships/deals that being less friendly here might have endangered, etc.

Investors have given them $2.5 billion for a reason. One of those, undoubtedly, is that they are not stupid. Suffice it to say that they believe that this decision is worth at least $800k to them in the future, or they wouldn’t have done it.

If you are ever in a position to become a LP with General Catalyst, then perhaps you can ask them for their rationale and decide for yourself if they are trustworthy based on all the facts. Until then, making judgments based upon not even close to all the facts is just useless speculation. Your conclusion - that they are just stupid or terrible fiduciaries - is almost definitely wrong. You are no expert, but they are.
The async stuff may require some attention, but it's part of the performance story when dealing with many requests, not when evaluating just one.

As regards configuration, all the means you could want for configuration are there. You can access items directly [1], or via strongly typed objects. These all support multiple sources of configuration data, and many means of overriding them.

I generally really don't like environment variables as they expose configured secrets to everything in the same machine / container, but we make use of the standard configuration system's environment variable overrides, but we use akv2k8s.io and thus only expose secrets to the container's entry point application.

[1] public Startup(IConfiguration config) { // injects config store
var setting = config["yourConfigKey"] // ... but you now have to convert this from a string for any other datatype
}
> make a custom Settings class class which just loads settings via good old `Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable

Why would you prefer that, to the the built-in classes to load settings via good old environment variables, among other sources? Which do you think new people coming to your team would prefer to see?
While the justification may not be satisfactory they do call this out in the FAQ:

NetPBM's big vice is that it has originally been developed to be hand-written and passed around as plain text. A binary format exists, but still handling optional comments in the header, base 10 ASCII width and height values, arbitrary whitespace inside the data and out-of-band image size and color depth is too painful for the sane user.
>Get ready for documentation subscriptions. I wish I were joking

I thought that was what the $99/year was for.
End of year 2020, and still you can have a Macbook Pro with 16 GB of RAM at most. Why not 32 yet?
Reminds me of the Feynman story about knowing something vs knowing the name of something :-)
.NET Multi-Platform App UI (MAUI)
> I reached out to the smartest polling guy I know: David Shor, an independent data analyst who’s a veteran of the Obama presidential campaigns who formerly operated a massive web-based survey at Civis Analytics before leaving earlier this year

Before being fired for pointing out that violent protests alienate people: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/case-for-liberalism-...

Schor’s firing is a tremendous example of how free speech values make people better at their job, and attacks on free speech values can jeopardize organizations and political parties. It’s conventional wisdom now that failure to condemn violent protests earlier cost Democrats votes, including among minority groups. This was quite apparent from polling this summer. (By June, YouGov polls showed that Latinos were more worried about the “breakdown of law and order” than about “systemic racism.”) Creating a culture that makes people afraid to have dispassionate, context-appropriate discussions about what the data was saying made it harder for people to do their jobs effectively.

Obviously what kinds of facts are relevant to an organization’s mission differs greatly depending on the organization! In many contexts Schor’s comments wouldn’t have been relevant and may have been better left unsaid to foster workplace harmony. But in a political organization, obviously some heated issues will come up and people need to be able to have honest discussions about them.
Last Epoch.

It's made by an indie studio which doesn't have the resources to port a game like this to a ARM. They also use a lot of third party software so it's not even up to them.
May just have skimmed GP and missed it.
Maybe in a year or eighteen months, I'll be able to move to this, from Framework code that still has dependencies that nobody has ever updated to .NET Core.

This version will be nearly out of support by then...
Thanks for mentioning that, I'll try and make sure we accommodate keyboard navigation shortcuts.
My last two jobs were in Fortune 500 and were 100% Go ( backend services / API ).
I find 10x more content on Twitter in half the time
In some countries, voicemail is not a thing.
Take action: buy a Mac, and return it. If they want to know why, tell them¹.

Repeat for every new model.

¹ They will have to give you a full refund: it's your right as a consumer. Note that this may not work for companies.
>What I find interesting is that this project is already almost a year old and only has six contributors

I don't think this is a fair criticism. Postgres only has 7 core contributors - and influxDB is far less complex targeting a much simpler use case.
I'm surprised the dropped Intel so fast.

I would have thought they would have allowed people to buy both ARM and Intel models for a period of time.

I guess not.
No, the "military oath of enlistment" is LITERALLY the oath of enlistment for the military. As in the US military.

As in the oath that enlisted soliders/marines/sailors say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces_oat...

Anything else or other associations are in your head, not reality.
Caught up with the 1990s when RAM and disk compression were popular on Macs and PCs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics

Interestingly enough Stac was apparently co-founded by Nvidia/Stanford's Bill Dally. The story of them being "sherlocked" by MS-DOS 6.0 and successfully suing Microsoft is interesting as well.
And just like that, within a year pretty much all of Apple's lineup will become the best available platform for AI inference, since each and every one of the new machines will have a TPU.
No virtualisation -> I’m guessing no Docker.

Am I missing something?

Mind you with 16Gb, Docker won’t be that useful.
Serious question but how do you get in so many situations that lead to violence?
Personally I think M1's performance is big enough news to deserve a thread devoted to more hard data. Intel has fallen from 1st to 3rd place in single core performance in less than 1 month after holding the crown uncontested for a decade or more. It's a huge shift for the industry.
For me its just Chrome. About 100-300 tabs at any given time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-90iRQbd0fg
It's beyond scope of a hacker news comment for me, but Epic case against Apple/Google store distribution terms is sufficiently different IMO.

How exactly would Epic ship this open platform when Google and Apple expressly control what apps run and do not? From where I stand, without intervention their only option is inferior browser based streaming solutions like this:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/5/21551152/fortnite-nvidia-...

Courts are worth a gamble, worst case scenario Epic is back where it began (minus the legal fees of course), paying Apple/Google 30 percent and still selling plenty of software on the app stores. The Epic case also works to serve Epic's wider public agenda against app stores as litigation theatre too if nothing else.
On my machine, if it goes more than 5G into swap it starts to become less responsive.

It really depends on your usage patterns. VM abusers and people who need to keep an eye on more than one project at the same time (as in multiple IDEs) can't do with 16 Gb.

And please don't tell me to start closing software, I'm willing to pay for more ram to have everything handy. Except... I can't.
NASA X-59 QueSST: Silencing the Sonic Boom
Were the mail in returns against the poll? Or only the in-persons? I know in my area of Texas, the mail-in returns were more Dem than the polls, but the in-persons were much more Rep. Could it be that one side focused on in-person voting and self selected into in person votes.... perhaps. Could it be hacking or other fraud, not very likely. Such accusations need a lot of support of proof, because faith in democracy depends on faith in elections. I don't think we're seeing enough proof anywhere. (I would look to any place that has a mandatory recount where ballots are hand counted). I don't think any Texas races were that close though.
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I’m hoping the M1 can be used for prototyping with small data sets, then final training on Google Colab with complete data sets.
Very excited for the tear downs of these to understand that as well. Could just be a binning thing as well if there’s faults in the memory.
Weird to evaluate the NYT evolving the past four years and not mention The Daily podcast.
Thankfully lifestyle-business focused "VCs" are a thing: https://tinyseed.com, https://earnestcapital.com, https://indie.vc
I think we can all be right. A benefit of generating the code is that this deduplication is much easier than if all the code was hand-written (especially w.r.t keeping the code updated as new API functions get added).
I use the 2020 macbook air personally and 16in professionally and the keyboard drives me insane, to the point I bought a magic keyboard to be able to function without screaming at my computer for accidentally turning my video camera on yet again during a meeting. I really wish they would have a no touch bar option, because I could use more power but still be able to touch type. Touch bar is the worst technological "improvement" I've ever come across.
They still sell a lot of other intel Macs, including a 13" MBP and a Mac mini.
To put the 3.5x faster CPU into perspective.

I added various machines to my hash benchmarks. My MacAir with an i7 CPU is about 2x slower than a desktop CPU or AMD laptop cpu, and has about the same speed than my ordinary Cortex A53 phone. That's mostly the 2 vs 4 GHz difference.

Their latest A14 Chip is described here https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...
and it's with its 3Ghz entirely plausible that it is 3x faster than the MacAir or my current A53 phone.

https://browser.geekbench.com/ios_devices/ipad-air-4th-gener...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-an-individual-biology...
> Sadly this is true of the left as well as the right; they are all selling something.

citation for the "both-sides"-ism very much needed.
A college degree sounds like a laughably low bar for being considered "elite." 27% of American adults have college degrees. In a state like Missouri which is presumably not considered a particularly liberal or Democratic or "elite" state, over 50% of adults have college degrees.
> They serve no purpose other than to

Come on, you know that's not true.

Prisons exist primarily to control threats from society. And secondarily to punish people for getting caught breaking rules, partially for vengeance and partially for deterrence.

Societies have tried other methods of controlling threats beyond imprisonment, including (but definitely not limited to) ankle bracelets, public shaming, shunning, exile, offender registries, altering brains via chemicals, brainwashing, torture, or surgery, altering bodies via sterilization or mutilation, death, even collective punishment.

So prisons aren't great, but they're better than many of the alternatives.

On a personal note: that crime of any kind is even possible in a 100% controlled environment speaks to the malicious incompetence of those administering the prisons, and to our shameful collective thirst for vengeance. As with people, judge a society by how they treat the least powerful.
The stock Manjaro at the moment. Haven't tried anything else yet. Is mobian and SXMo what you recommend?
While I have never been banned, I have been warned several times by dang about my behavior and I deserved every one of them. It seems to have worked too, because a lot of times I'll write a nasty comment and there will be this little voice in my head asking "what's dang going to think of this?" and I'll either edit it, not post it, or delete it.
Aaaaand you've actually answered your own question. Why would people not give an actual opinion to a stranger when there's this default opinion of them as (a) having wrongthink they should be ashamed of, or (b) too stupid to realize their wrongthing is in fact wrong?

Guess we'll never know why those dummies would possibly hide their true preferences.
I guess I'll throw my 2016 MBP out then.
Sorry, that was careless language; I meant they have identified some outrageous comments - most (if not all) the screenshot exclude the username.
The Bazel 4.0 Release
Definitely not if the metric we care about is keeping components out of landfills.
"For decades, the phrase “Eternal September” has been used to describe the tipping point for a message board or online community—the inclusion, or invasion, of new users who dramatically change the existing subculture. (The term originated in September, 1993, after America Online made Usenet, a decades-old message-board system, accessible to many of its members, who were new to the Internet.)"

Actually, it predates that; referring to when a new crop of undergraduates would arrive at schools on the Internet.
For no particular reason, I feel very strongly that you could achieve much more accurate results by asking people to estimate what _they_ think the final margin will be then average those results.

I'm inclined to think that community members know their community well enough that given a large enough sample, this average will trend towards the true result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd

edit: A quick google search found: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289826354_Predictin...
Anandtech posted some comparisons of the A14 against Zen 3 today, which may be an interesting comparison: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

Seems like the A14 is within 10-20% of the desktop 5950X in single threaded workloads. The M1 will probably close the gap with higher clock speeds. AMD will probably still be ahead on multithreaded workloads until Apple releases a chip with 8 high-performance cores.
Any guesses for GeekBench 5 scores?

My expectations:
- Single core: 1600-2000 range
- Multi core: 7000-10000 range
- Metal: 19000-23000 range
Illegal, no. Taxed extra.
It could be that a lot of other professions don't have the same reflection rate as scientific areas.

In science and engineering, we are constantly being forced into realization that we were wrong, and we constantly try to fix things where the fix is just yet another problem we created.

I mean, even if you can code for 20 years, if anybody asks you whether you can program or not, you'll probably answer "nope I don't know anything about programming"... and that's a sign for an experienced person in that profession.

On the other hand, a lot of professions can get lucky with social camouflage, where they can blame others and it doesn't stick out for a controlling person. A lot of people that made it this way never were forced into reflecting on their bad decisions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxed_stability#Unstable_air... indicates that the MD-11 (which regulators certified) is aerodynamically unstable. (That plane has a compensation system, similar to the 737-MAX.) Is "intrinsically unstable" different from "relaxed stability" in some subtle way?

And while military planes are quite different from commercial planes, many (most at this point?) military jets are aerodynamically unstable.
Can you run docker and virtualisation software on these? I read a comment about Federighi mentioning that there's no EFI or dual boot, which I can't find now, and I assumed there's no virtualisation at all.