skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
News. It isn't simple new. It also needs to be relevant and important. Something being factual (e.g., X happened) isn't enough. It also needs to be relevant and important.

Use a proper definition of news, and much of what gets passed off as news is in fact fake. News is not noise.
"Intelligent life"? What about dogs? Dolphins?

May as well argue about "Civilizations that produce iPhones are rare" - the definition is particular to humans. Monkey-troupe intelligence may indeed be rare, and insectoid emergent reasoning the norm. Or whatever.
Their pay is top tier, $300-400k+ for new grads.
> Apple has always advertised functionality and performance of their products, even when the case was (charitably) pretty shaky.

"I'm a Mac." "And I'm a PC." was _absolutely_ designed to appeal to the fashionable, "hey, you're going to be far cooler than this stuffy nerd" than just "functionality and performance".

So, in among everything else, they absolutely do care about looks. I'll agree that they don't "[not care] about anything but looks", but it's a part of the brand.
I think there's an argument that kind of underhanded behaviour is not in the best interests of Australia.
buy low, sell high. money, please
How do you do that? My company’s 60kLOC typescript codebase takes several minutes to compile and I don’t know how I’m supposed to diagnose what the problem might be; diagnostics flag exists but I don’t understand how I’m supposed to take action on it. Current plan is to break the project into a lot of smaller project references but yeah compile speed has probably taxed my company significantly in productivity and I don’t feel confident about addressing it.
Yet mass shootings and gun violence only seem to occur overwhelmingly in countries where there is less friction to buy weapons (like the US).
Thanks for the feedback! This particular version was a custom build for a client. A minimalist soltution with a fixed keyboard and mac mini was the preferred set up.

I am working on a version optimized for a laptop -> usbc hub -> multi monitor set up.

By having structured set ups with a set number of power/USB outlets and cable lengths controlled on the back end, I can provide super clean set ups.
Software guy going hardware here, throwing down on machining hardware here in China next week. Funnily enough, I actually saw magnesium being machined for the first time on Monday: a part for a medical device. The machinist said it requires different coolant (white in his case) but sources online say you can go dry as well. You also need different fire suppression systems in order to safely machine it, as the chips may burn from friction on blunt tools or excessive feed rates. I wondered why bother, so I just looked it up, assuming in the NeXTcube case it was aesthetics. It does not match aluminium in terms of its thermal conductivity, but allegedly may be one-third lighter, more dent-resistant, more easily machinable, and better able to shield electromagnetic radiation and dampen vibrations. Seems a lot to pay for some nominal benefits unless specialist applications demand it. PS. Never saw a NeXTcube except in a museum maybe, but earned some of my first Unix software money programming embedded cryptographic applications for the abortive Cobalt Qube and Raq ecosystem, incidentally the only MIPS target I've ever written for, but no doubt NeXTcube-inspired.
I believe Bouffalo has floating point.

Both are SiFive cores, so well documented and supported.
%10-20 of the desk, but eventually you might end up competing with lower cost replicas or plastic alternatives. Maybe building a high-end brand is the only survivable way.
Yes, but don't waste your time with American exchanges, the regulations are too burdensome. Bitmex actually maintains a high score section, a lot of people are doing extremely crazy things trading in the crypto space https://www.bitmex.com/app/leaderboard
Pretty nice design work. Personally I think it would be fascinating if the new "desktop" form factor for appliance running devices[1] looks simply like a desk. The biggest challenge I see is the keyboard. A lot of variability there that might be difficult to support.

In an adjacent category, something like this for electrical engineers would be pretty awesome. A lot of instruments have gone "USB connected with computer as display device." I could easily see a workbench that had 'tilt-up' bays that would expose oscilloscope ports, or powwer supply ports, etc. With the instrument displays on maybe three or four displays across the back.

[1] Not general purpose "computers" which often have slots for different peripherals that would not work well in such a configuration, but I digress.
> When it comes to bitcoin exchanges, there really is no need for conspiracy theories

You're saying you don't think that any existing exchanges are conspiring (or have conspired) to defraud?

> there have been multiple high profile stories of very large players engaged in fraud, embezzlement, and duplicitous price fixing, and they are completely unregulated.

Doesn't this make such theories more plausible, not less?
I am looking into anti-stain+anti-fingerprint laminate tops :)
i grind php daily, and am aware of them
Don’t neglect osteopathic graduates as well (though I’d imagine that is only several thousand more)
Progress Bars are the most user visible insight into The Halting Problem that our entire industry has. In so many cases, if we knew exactly how long things would take to compute we'd have already computed them or we'd have a world bending solution to The Halting Problem that would change everything. It's really hard to describe NP Complete/NP Hard to the average user, and it shouldn't be a surprise that the poor tool that keeps having to do it over and over again in so many places and ways, the lowly progress bar, keeps getting blamed for our industry having failed to solve (and unlikely to ever solve) The Halting Problem.
You're not wrong, but Apple also does advertise themselves as fashion. Their products are highly visible. Not too long ago, their computers literally had a giant glowing logo on them. Now it's just shiny. You can spot someone wearing their Apple headphones from 300 meters away. Apple is a fashion statement. It's designed that way.
Then I'll just find a different job.
Seriously, I'm utterly baffled by all the people claiming that 8 GB isn't enough for the average user.

The only situation I ever ran into where it was a problem was in trying to run multiple VM's at once.

Otherwise it's just a non-issue. Programs often reserve a lot more memory than they actually use (zero hit in performance) so memory stats are misleading, and the OS is really good at swapping memory not touched in a while to the SSD without you noticing.

Yes, sometimes it takes a couple seconds to switch to a tab I haven't touched in Chrome in days because it's got to swap it back in from the SSD. Who cares?
"it’s not developer ready yet."

Hey, what if we just... kept it that way?

Kiss all that speed goodbye once software developers get their hands on this. And then the low end current-gen models will be even slower when running "the code that runs ok on the M1 hardware, I guess, ship it."
>Not saying that Coinbase does this, but incoming wires/ACH/whatever continue to roll in during an outage, but they can stop the initiation of any outgoing xfers, and then be slow with them claiming a backlog.

That would only make sense if coinbase was down for several days at a time. If it was only down for a few hours then that's nearly not enough time for enough money to flow in (aren't wire transfers batched per day rather than processed in real time?). It also doesn't answer my earlier question of "why don't they just stop pumping before they run out of money?".

>A big Canadian exchange, quadrigacx that blew up ~2 years ago was doing all sorts of tricks like this.

Perhaps that's exactly what's happening at coinbase, but pointing to them being down when there's high trading volume isn't a convincing argument.
Yeah this is my #1 concern with all of this. It's bad enough in software to need a new leap in hardware to completely bury all the issues.
with lots of tiny, short lived objects, reference counting can be hugely inefficient.
While I won’t go that far, arguing that macOS with a Windows 95 UI is a good idea, I do agree that Big Sur’s current UI is a mess.

Traditional macOS users valued the Mac user interface deeply, and IMO that was why while iOS 7 got a big refresh, macOS got a much smaller one, only with flatness refinements. Big Sur feels like the iOS 7 for the Mac, and I’m very sad that I’ll have to wait at least 4~5 years to see the new interface improve in a better state.

Some of my key annoyances (except for bugs):

* The new control center now requires more clicks, but due to the padding getting bigger, I can’t put all of the shortcut icons in the menu bar

* The new control center and notification center’s UI is so foreign from other parts of the macOS. It’s just… so custom.

* There are now multiple variants of the title bar thickness, and all of the Apple apps now use all four. It just feels ugly. The title ban of the Photos app and the Calendar app are almost the same — why does one use a .unified one and one uses a .unifiedCompact one? And why does Safari uses a .unified one when it doesn’t really have any information to convey?

* This is from Catalina, but the NSSwitch stuff collides with checkboxes… but well I’m guessing that’s for Catalyst trying to look native

I can go on and on… but my general feeling of Big Sur’s UI is that it would take multiple years to make this better.
What I really want to know is if that is a solid piece of metal or just a metal “shell”?
Great comment!

I think Industry-specific workstations have a lot of potential. Generic one size fits all desks don't cut it for many people.

I thought streamers/gamers would be a great market too.
The height-adjustable desk we have at my company are the Watson C9 which sounds like it might be up your alley design-wise.

It has 4 thin legs instead of 2 T-Rex style legs and you could probably customize it with storage on both sides to get close to a tanker-style desk.

https://www.watsonfurniture.com/gallery/images/859

Edit: I should also note that it is a bit more of a B2B company as opposed to B2C, but figured I'd share since I am very satisfied with them.
That's not really on this topic. What linus wants to use personally has little bearing on what architectures linux will (eventually) support.

Edit To clarify: i mean, linus is saying he wouldnt go to the trouble personally, not that he would reject a patch adding support. Those are two very different things.
From Laptop to Rack Mount Server
First time hearing about Cloud-Mercato. https://vpsranking.com/en/ is something I have seen before and https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench/wiki/VPS-Hosts allows the results to be replicated.
People who work there will tell you that they provide liquidity, which is a valuable thing to have in markets. I've always been a bit skeptical of how much value they provide there though given that they don't hold on to anything for very long but I'm not particularly informed about it.

Mostly it seems like they scrape pennies off out of the market to enrich the people who work there (they have no outside investors afaik), so imo they are pretty neutral. Not a bad place to be, lots of companies are negative.
How about being able to go buy stocks/ETFs paying nothing in commissions and razor thin spreads today? A few decades ago you'd pay O($10-100) per trade and then some in bid/ask

This is all largely thanks to HFT. Robinhood is only viable because big HFT firms are willing to pay dearly for the privilege to serve retail order flow
A continued paycheck? A great line on your resume?

As an employee I'm pretty sure you're already compensated for ALL your work. Don't imagine they'd be inspired to give you something unsolicited.

If you wanted to negotiate a kind of bonus before you implemented it you might have some leverage, but afterwards the cat's out of the bag and you got nothin'. That said you'd need to be really careful negotiating and not let slip any important information.

If the idea is so hot one might want to shop it around or use it as a basis for one's own new business.
> No, it's literally not.

Yes, it literally is. It's a remote-accessible listening device, controllable by someone who is not you. By any classical definition, this is a spy device...

> Yes, the argument that anybody who uses one of these devices has then essentially no right to control or complain about the privacy of them is obviously dumb.

Moving goal posts and bordering a straw-man argument by adding the "no right to control" part, but saying it's obviously dumb doesn't make it so and isn't productive conversation.

When you buy third-party hardware running third-party software that you cannot audit yourself, there is implicit risk that the device can do nefarious things. I don't explicitly believe that Amazon is doing anything malicious, but I also don't trust their systems implicitly. One developer with the right access can potentially remote-access any device, anywhere...

I understand this risk, and I believe you do as well, but I also don't go around complaining that this risk exists. This is implicit in purchasing third-party products, which is the underlying point the argument tries to make...
Do you have any tips on diagnosing what a problem might be? I don’t know how to interpret the diagnostics flag output to actionable changes to my company’s code, and while I can blindly do what the wiki article suggests (found it a while back when trying to figure out what to do) I would much prefer if I weren’t just trying time consuming changes to our large codebase randomly... been stuck with slow compile performance with typescript for almost a year now and I can’t tell what I’m supposed to do, or if the TypeScript compiler is just too slow.
The Government pretty much caused this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Delhi_riots
War of the Worlds (1953) opening monologue (redux)
Yes, reading some more of the discussions it seems like the answer is that (roughly) the same amount of memory is used, but hitting swap is no longer a major problem, at least for user-facing apps. Seems like the original quote is reading too much into the retain/release thing.
Yeah. There is this system wide bug on iOS where the animations actually BLOCK user input / state changes. You can see this if you type in your pass code fast enough on the lock screen, such that you are interrupting the animated fade in of the dot for the previous digit. You’ll often lose a digit and have to start again from scratch. Infuriating! It’s the most fundamental relationship to betray, the relationship between touch and input. It registered my touch, but decided to ignore it because it wasn’t done with its pointless animation that some manager thought would look neat. Same thing happened with calculator and they fixed that one case, whereas it’s clearly a fundamental issue with UIKit.
The metric they used was the oldest artwork. The table contains a citation to "Pääbo (2014)" in the line where intelligent life forms. Of course, question is, what do you consider as art :). Is a dolphin frolicking in the water performing a piece of art? Our own judgement might be clouded.
I like Argo and have used both solutions, but I'm not yet convinced that YAML based workflows are superior to Airflow's Python Code as workflows.
Well, the great thing is that as long as computers are bifurcated between a majority of slow Intel PC's and a minority of fast Apple Macs... apps will need to remain usable on Intels, so they'll hopefully stay super-fast on Macs! ;)
Updated the title, to be more accurate.
I think both of your responses can be cleared up by noting that @nl was responding to, and quoted:

> the employee was put in the unfortunate immediate situation of either not getting their lawfully permitted license, or paying the bribe

In this context, "options" mean "options to fulfill the CCW licensing goal".

Reporting it to the DA, state police, the FBI, or anyone else wouldn't further the CCW licensing goal (though it might fulfill others, and I'm certainly not arguing against it!).

Similarly, saying he had other options (for "getting their lawfully permitted license") because he was the CSO of the biggest company in the world may well have other meanings I didn't catch, but reporting bribe solicitations is not one, unless the dialogue had already veered from it's previous aim.
Ready for developers to port developer tools =/= ready for all developers. Systems dev is actually a fairly niche role in the industry, M1 will be a boon to them but for the vast majority of devs who either aren't interested in that kind of work or not trained in it, M1 is a huge monkey wrench.

I buy a new MPB every two years, and you bet your ass my next one will be an M1. But that'll be in 2022, I'll be quite happy to stay on my x86 machine until then :)
I can appreciate some kind of dual screen laptop, for the right kind of person and application, maybe, but this monstrosity is.. very strange. It seems to cater only to folk who have doubled down so many times on never learning ALT+TAB that they've committed to probably never getting laid for 7 lifetimes.. one for each of those insane matroska doll screens, which I can only assume are about 100dpi each.

Also, one bump and it would obviously explode. Zero need for it in any application, and I don't want to meet anyone it remotely appeals to. Sorry.

As for the dual screen case, there are much cheaper and far more practical options available that plug in via USB, if it really were the case you need those extra displays on the move. The primary need for this I imagine would be demo units. Certainly not trading from your local Starbucks, where you would rightly deserve every glare and smirk received for presenting this horror.
"Luckily" I recently bought a 2015 MBP (to replace my 2015 Air) and had been set to move to Linux next. Now this recent news make me want to reconsider.
> Not only faster, but I bet simultaneously accessible from both the CPU and GPU.

It is. We know they're using a unified memory architecture, they pointed it out in the presentation.
VSCode has a progress bar (well a throbber) that shows up when the language server has waited long enough that the UI should show some activity. But for my workflows it only shows up when something has gone wrong. So when I see it, it’s a good indicator to either restart TS server or reload the whole window. Not a great experience or solution!
'Song for a New Day' by Sarah Pinsker is a Nebula award winning book about live music vs. virtual reality in a post-pandemic/bioterrorism world. It was written just before Covid took off, so it's interesting to see how well it predicted the 'feel' of the pandemic lifestyle.

https://www.amazon.com/Song-New-Day-Sarah-Pinsker/dp/1984802...
not OP, nor do we use airflow (not sure there is a fit for us) - but $300-500 for something that could cost our modest company an equivalent half day of human time to mitigate, with possible tens of thousands in lost revenue if it occurs at the worst possible time, seem like a win-win peace of mind proposition.
The book and the film where written and developed cooperatively so both really ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ However, they are both based on clark's 1951 short story The Sentinel[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentinel_(short_story)
>> Anyway, entropy is measurable just like any other physical quantity

Uh, I measure the mass of a baseball by putting it on a scale, and I get an objective number in kilograms. Similar for velocity, temperature, and volume.

So far as I know, entropy is pretty unique in that there isn't, and will never be an instrument that gives the number of bits in a baseball.

>> So it's inherently a subjective concept.

Yes, this is my point. Almost nothing in physics is subjective.
Well, the question was why would anyone buy the e-mail offering...
generally speaking, one sentence responses that beg the question don’t contribute much to this forum in my opinion.

here is an entirely plausible chain of conditions leading to the GP comment:
1. it is very difficult to buy a PS5 right now.
2. son wants a PS5 for christmas.
3. grandma wants to buy a PS5 for her grandson.
4. tech savvy parent wants to make it easier for not tech savvy grandparent to accomplish the goal of buying a PS5 for their grandson.

(heading off a potential objection—“why doesn’t grandma buy something she can actually figure out how to buy”—by just saying that sometimes you want to do something nice for someone that you need help to accomplish and this kind of communal help among relatives and close friends is pretty common practice)

reading the GP, i do not understand why you chose to interpret the comment as hostilely as possible. you did not even ask “why don’t you buy the gift for your son” which would still be presumptuous in context. you asked instead “why don’t you take care of your son”, which assumes a whole host of negative things about someone you have never met who has given you no indication that this question has any basis at all.
SpinLaunch is building a centrifuge to launch satellites into orbit
It would be super cool if i could make a desk builder that made each desk automatically have cable routing custom to unique set ups.

For now it looks like making a more modular one size fits all solution makes the most sense.
What Blade Runner tells us about Modern AI
The current version module system is built on a decade of anguish that finally toppled over and forced some serious interest. The problem is that it was a complete non-issue for Google because of the monorepo so the golang devs employed by Google severely downplayed the problem.
>It's just not a concern I have.

Because when you fabricate a war we send our young men and women there to die a pointless death as your allies. Because if you descide to use nuclear weapons its over for us, and if you descide to ignore global warming its equally over for us.
This is a nice product but they are targeting diminishing market of desktop computer users. Most people I know are using laptops, sometimes with optional extenral monitor and other peripherals. This is what they should be really targeting.
I, too, am on 2014 hardware. The real step that would move me to update would be more RAM with the Apple Silicon. The last gen Intel hardware did offer 32GB of RAM, but not much else to justify the cost over a 6 year old precursor.
> Especially fun in Web UIs where the callback that would remove the spinner will never be called because some error occurred somewhere in between and is only logged in the console where no normal user will ever see it ...

I know it’s unpopular in these parts but checked exceptions would make this impossible.
Maybe that Google should update their styleguide then, they fail to mention this performance advantage
https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Exceptions
How to strip Apple Silicon Universal Apps
It's all mostly redesign for the sake for redesign at this point. Desktop OSes had been feature-complete for quite some time, but they still have to update every year. They have to. Don't you even dare question that. I'm still on Mojave and it does everything I need from an OS. I also absolutely love native Mac apps, which are becoming rarer and rarer. And no, iOS apps that run on macOS aren't native mac apps. The abomination that is the mojave app store? That definitely took some extra talent to break every single UI guideline, but thankfully I only open it once a couple months.
> Aldi had great success posting "hauls" until they were caught astroturfing.

Is there a decent rundown of this anywhere? I tried a couple of google searches but didn't find much.

(I often get the feeling this is being done by various companies, especially on Reddit, but I find it hard to distinguish between astroturfing and sincere consumerism. Especially when they are probably working in combination: astroturfing to set the tone, then genuine community members jumping on the bandwagon and acting as unwitting accomplices. So I'm interested to read case studies wherever it has provably happened.)