skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool though I hope they make it clear that it's not worth going after items, even expensive items yourself if they were stolen rather than misplaced. Even if the police won't do anything about it and you know where the items are. In the bay area, they won't for instance. Just please don't go after it yourself. It will get people killed.
The engines are still Safari Webkit, not Chromium/Gecko.
Agreed, but I'd like to take it a step further. Rather than fitting new compositional ideas into the patterns and structures of our existing music theories, I'd like to use computation to create new theories.

As an example, I've become really interested in the fact that tempo and meter are taken as constant, grid-like structures in pretty much all existing music practices (even within, say, Gamelan, though there you do get a lot of pushing and pulling). Typically, you have polyrhythms and polymeters to fit more interesting patterns into the fixed grid, and accelerando and ritardando to adjust the rate of grid traversal, but that's about it. Hardly anyone applies algorithmic/geometric thinking to the grid itself — likely because more complex rhythmic foundations would make human performance nigh impossible.

To explore this space, I created my own little generative music system that takes a handful of simple motifs (a la Riley or Reich) and stacks them into a recursive temporal structure, which is then pushed logarithmically toward a tempo of 0 or infinity. There are some rules so that the "performers" only play at comprehensible scales, and that pitch modulation keeps the piece interesting to a listener. You can listen to it here, if you'd like: https://ivanish.ca/diminished-fifth/

I'd love to see more folks working on tools to make these sorts of theory-stretching ideas easier to access and explore. For instance, I've really been struggling with how to hand-compose music that can fit within a nonlinear/recursive structure of time. Existing tools like Tidal or Max/Pd were built to support the existing theory. I think we need new tools that allow you to design the theory itself.
And... no Touch ID (unlike the iPad Air) [1][2].

I recently bought the iPad Air after having the iPad Pro and hating Face ID on it. It's bad enough that I have Face ID on my iPhone. I hate it so much.

Face ID is such a terrible UX that has caused me to enter my passcode to unlock more times a day than I care to count. Even if you ignore the fact that they don't work with masks, it's still a bad idea.

The false negative rate is incredibly high and a certain number of failures will trigger a passcode requirement and there's nothing you can do about that. That threshold is set by Apple.

Just give me Touch ID. I don't care that the false positive rate is too high (in your opinion, Apple; this was a state reason to get rid of it).

Another UX problem: when I had a home button I could exit the app by testing it. Now I have to swipe up. But which way I swipe depends on how the app is rotated. I could bring up my list of apps with a double tap of the home button. Now I have to do a weird swipe up-right-up to get the same functionality.

Just die, Face ID.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/specs/

[2]: https://www.apple.com/ipad-air/specs/
> not yet. If a significant portion of otherwise theft-friendly bikes have trackers, I don't see why they wouldn't learn to, someone would probably even commoditize the sniffing tech to sell to other thiefs.

They wouldn't because we already have TONS of historical data that thieves don't do that.

I am a motorcycle lover and like every owner of a nice bike I know that apart from properly chaining your bike down the single most effective way of retrieving your bike back is by having a tracker on it. In fact some insurance companies give a big discount if you have a professionally mounted tracker on your bike.

History has shown that despite motorcycles being worth 10-20k thieves still don't go through the effort of locating and removing a GPS tracker. What they do is the following... they steal your bike and only move it like 10 streets further away from its original location into some hidden dark dead end alley where no person would normally go and where the owner wouldn't find it by accident. Then they leave it there standing for like 2 weeks and if nobody comes to pick it up within those 2 weeks then they know there is no GPS tracker at which point they can safely take it back to their garage where it gets dismantled into and rebuild. Otherwise they risk of having their garage being exposed.

Now you might ask why only take it 10 streets further away? Because the easiest way is to cut a chain or some poor security and then wheel it down the road for 5 minutes. Only two weeks later they come with a proper vehicle to transport it away.

So if professional thieves can't be bothered (or is just practically too difficult) to locate a tracker then I'm sure normal opportunistic thieves won't be able either.
The music is a strange, interesting riff on the Aquarium movement of Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals, not the usual Apple modern pop stuff.
Ask HN: Show me the sexy, sexy home page of your favorite free CLI project
Would like to make the homepage of my me-too FOSS project (a command-line static site generator (IT'S DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE OTHERS, I SWEAR)) as sexy as possible. Even more than that I want it to be functional and clear. Would you mind linking to super-good home pages of CLI projects? For example, I think Jekyll's is pretty darn good but Hugo, which product I much prefer, has an oddly subpar home page.
Advertisements I guess? I still cannot believe how fast they captured game chat market, even with lots of other competitors.

Honestly I also would like to enter to this market but breaking the market share of discord will be very hard indeed.
The only podcasts I listen religiously are the intelligence by the economist and revolutions by Mike Duncan. I can listen to the intelligence via the economist app and Revolutions is ending this year (and I get it through the standard podcast app on iOS.)
I'm always a little surprised when people talk about the Apple TV remote, since I always just use my phone as the remote, and assume that everyone else would too; you always have your phone and often don't have the remote on-hand.
Wasn't there some sort of video played before the QR code was displayed? Acting as if it's an opt-in experience feels disingenuous.
>With B2 or similar S3 based storage, it's generally in one datacenter

that's true for B2, but not for s3. From AWS:

>your objects are automatically stored across multiple devices spanning a minimum of three Availability Zones, each separated by miles across an AWS Region
We're planning to introduce a Pro plan for larger file limits and explore an enterprise version for organizations that have high security requirements (law firms, etc.) that can't use existing cloud storage providers.
What is the biggest mistake e-merchants make in embedding product videos?
We'll have to agree to disagree, I think these colors are bold and super fun :)
I just did this and used hotspot sharing from my phones LTE. Was faster than the WiFi I was at!
There are two different chassis (thus models), one for the stand, one for VESA. Like...wow.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac-vesa
I'd emphatically disagree.

Touch and Pointer are different in emphasis not user intent. User Intent can span across device classes for different contexts -- i.e. jotting notes in a long form document in a meeting vs. at your laptop in private, all revolve around making progress on a text based deliverable.

Before recent MacCatalyst developments, the UI libraries were on different continents with CC and UIKit. Now, the major differences are design limited, not API limited.

UIMenuBuilder and UIHoverGestureRecognizer tells you most everything you need to know about how Apple is viewing the touch vs. pointer environment.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uimenubuilde...

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uihovergestu...
Or maybe… a TV! I mean at this point it all but certain they will converge on an all in one unit. It just needs to pack enough differentiators into it
Ask HN: Where to find high-quality software development learning resources?
I want to have a couple of go-to places to search for when I want to learn a new technology (from anything like a new programming language to something specific like Authentication/ Authorization). Most things I can find via search engines are either outdated, inconsistent, aimed at complete beginners, unnecessarily verbose, hand-wavy, or all of the above.

Where do you look for for high-quality in-depth learning materials for development related things? It can be in any format/ medium - courses/ video/ interactive tutorials/ articles/ books etc.
I have a recent vintage Logitech mouse (came out this year). The charging port on the mouse, is USB-C, but the charging cable it came with was still A to C. Same goes for the 2.4Ghz unified dongle it came with.
My thoughts exactly. Apple might have the apps, but actually getting stuff done on it feels cumbersome and strange. I'm not sure why they continue to stretch the iPad in so many directions when they could just be focusing on a good tablet experience.
The back looks better than the front
So, this prevents some legitimate use cases, for example putting a tag in a suitcase for the flight, because it'll start beeping at some point?

A shame. It would've been cool standing at that conveyor belt at the airport and rather than staring at the luggage as it comes, being able to sense one's own stuff.

Also, seems that it's not suitable for putting on a cat or dog's collar for the same reason.
That’s a fair point. It’s not something I need so I don’t consider it. But if I need a stylus I don’t want to involve a desktop environment. The whole unified os/one-device thing is unworkable IMHO. Just have a laptop and a tablet if that’s what you need. Let the tools excel in their role instead of making a ton of compromises.
Touch ID doesn’t work for me, doesn’t recognise my fingers most of the time.

Die, Touch ID.
Build for ~$300, sold for >$600.
Walmart (the company) switched to NodeJS in ~2013 and saw a >80% reduction in cloud compute compared to LAMP. Source? I saw the dude from give a talk at Mozilla about the transition.

Here was the meeting:

https://www.meetup.com/pdxnode/events/142646682/

* Ben Acker will share about some awesome drawings and tales of Nodejs within Walmart Labs.
I don't think just acceptance of tourists is enough. It's easy to deal with people, the problem is they act horribly. No one wants to educate people, that's confrontational.
>Except this doesn't have a battery

Hence the Magsafe.

>touchscreen or keyboard attached

Hence the updates to the wireless keyboard, touchpad, and mouse.

>Seems extremely unlikely to do this instead of just getting a laptop or tablet given the price.

This is the wrong way to think about these features. Yes, if this is your only use case for the device you are better off with a laptop or tablet. If this is something you do occasionally, but you primary use case is for a desktop, the iMac can now serve both uses and save you from purchasing a second device.
I haven't used it, but I've heard of others using Blink Shell [1] with Mosh [2] very effectively.

[1] https://blink.sh/

[2] https://mosh.org/
https://sixcolors.com/link/2020/11/craig-federighi-says-touc...
They don't make anyone take the role of a government. The US government gives tax breaks for certain benefits available to all employees. If the benefits are only available to certain employees, the company loses those tax benefits.

Would it be fair for another company to get a tax deduction for paid meals, 100% employer paid healthcare just to the executives while everyone else has to pay to eat in the cafeteria and pay for their own healthcare?
Any benefits over aws cloudfront - > edge lambda -> S3 ?
It’s also kind of half assed for Apple surprisingly, specifically some games from Apple Arcade are downright unplayable on my before-last gen ATV. To a point where it feels like a scam that Apple didn’t simply exclude some titles from the older ATVs, it’s just bad user experience. I remember one 3d game was super puxellated due to upscaling and like 10fps :/. Why even allow users to get this game on aging hardware?

Now I wonder if it’s worth upgrading for AA. I hate mobile games but there are a few good ports of pc games. And if i could play a good rogue game on my tv for smaller 20-30min sessions I’m sold.

I’m still going to upgrade because you can feel even simple apps like twitch tv are laggy on before-last gen.
The tuberculosis vaccine might not be the best example, it lacks efficacy in some places, for an unknown reason or reasons, such as the US and India.
Nice project!

I've been using RemarkBox for the last couple of months and like it. It's privacy respecting, hosted, pay what you want.

https://www.remarkbox.com/
It's a better experience for sure, but loading the app takes time, and it often (for me) takes a couple tries to pair with your apple tv. Also, you can't adjust the tv volume.
Eventually we're going to see Macs running iOS adapted for laptop and desktop form factors, with a "macOS" mode for a virtualized Unix system to keep developers.
It's unclear if what they announced includes support for the AirPod-type spatial audio or if it only means they are extending Spatial Audio branding to include the virtual surround feature of the new iMac's speaker array.
Not the OP, but the way I handle this to to ensure that all migrations are backwards compatible - the current and new versions of the app/API/service must be able to run with the old and new database.

This requires a little discipline, but if you follow a few simple rules it's not really that arduous:

- when adding a new column, it must have a default value set, or be nullable

- don't drop any columns

- don't rename any columns

Now, for those last 2, what I really mean is "don't do it in a single release" - if you want to make destructive changes, do it over the course of 2 releases.

- release 1: remove dependencies on the column from the app/API/service

- release 2: performs the database migration with destructive changes

It probably sounds more difficult than it actually is :) In reality, I don't make destructive changes that often though.
You go through a lot of power cables for a stationary computer?
I use it every day. A 10 second drawings saves me 5 minutes of talking every time.

Colleagues that don't have this capability at home give the impression that they are wasting everbody elses time, to the point that they draw on a piece of paper and hang it infront of the camera instead.

Also, this pretty much completely disqualifies them for doing things like, e.g., "interviews", which restricts their career development.
I see now and yes the AGPL seems vague in that regard.

If it's anything like dynamic linking and GPL that could be considered okay even if it's not the intention of the licensee. Seems like the license should be more explicit about what "interacting with" entails.
How do you know that? Why would it be expensive to run a glorified irc server network?
It’s going to be real funny if non Apple users are basically fair game for AirTags tracking and you have to get an iPhone to protect yourself from AirStalking
I prefer AGPL despite that, mainly because I don’t believe a license that discriminates on use cases in such a direct manner could be compatible with either GPL or DFSG. It’s hard to directly compare virality vs use-case discrimination as far as restrictiveness goes. However, I don’t believe there is a good argument that such licenses can be considered open source.
There are lots of GPS tracking devices that phone home over 3G. But they're all bulky and have terrible battery life. These (like the Tile devices that came before them) just use Bluetooth LE to talk to any phone nearby that will listen (in Tiles case it was their small network of owners, for AirTag it's any modern iPhone), and that phone will do the actual GPS tracking.
For myself, yes. I am waiting for the first 32GB to jump. We have bought 16GB models of the iMac and MacBook Air with the people receiving them being quite happy. I don't see any of our iMacs getting replaced just yet. Most of those people are running Parallels and that opens a whole class of worms.
I discovered their channel a couple weeks ago on Youtube and it's the best thing I've seen in a while.

In a video they show their home setup and how the stove is used as a stove, oven, heater and water heater. I wish I could have one of those.
"Touch screens are an anti-feature" – I guess you don't have a smartphone then?

The benefit is obvious: if you were the kind of person that previously had a laptop and an iPad (iPads / touch screens are nice for all sorts of things, esp. for say artists), then an optimal solution would be a device you can use as both. An iPad Pro that could run macOS and have a keyboard case with trackpad seems ideal.

Or if you're the kind of person that only has an iPad (my mom), it might be useful to sometimes have more flexibility than it provides, even though she does't need it 99% of the time.
I'm still skeptical that Apple wants it to be a general-purpose computer.
Measuring Worth
This is something I've been saying:
Try cloning and building even a moderate project from github on iSH on the latest iThing with Apple silicon and compare the same on a pinephone with a decade old budget SoC.

One will get painfully hot and visibly tick through a large fraction of the battery while not letting you look at anything else or look away from the screen without killing the 10s of minutes long operation while the other just does what you asked, does it quickly, and lets you do other things (on the phone or not) while it's working. And of course if there's something you don't like about the OS you can just change it on the phone. No need for some crazy setup process even to modify system software/configurations.

You might say it's not fair because iSH isn't running natively but it's your only choice on the iPhone.

EDIT: to be clear: even just running git clone on an iPhone in iSH can take upwards of 20 minutes and chew through ~20% of the battery on normal sized repos.
Please, do tell, of all the fresh college grads that get hired for dev/SWE jobs at Big N companies, how many have specialized skills that will bring value from day 1?

In fact, how many weeks / months / years does it take for someone to become a consistent value-add contributor to ANY company?
That's on them for putting that constraint upon themselves. Not sure why a desktop computer needs to be razor thin, it lives on a desk...
We don't, but their marketing photos clearly show a fan, which would lead to a reasonable conclusion that the thermal design is more along the lines of the Mini, and not similar to the Air.
Most likely 14-16 laptops (and iMac Pro if they decide to do that again) will have a larger chip (say "M1X") that supports more memory. The M1 only supports two LPDDR4X chips (physically on the package there's only space for two).
I don't submit change of address to USPS for this reason. I hate the USPS with a passion for doing that to people.
The higher taxes mentioned would be a demand side tactic. We could also address the root cause and not just the symptoms. The high paying jobs are one of the biggest things bringing people in. The city could create policies that make other locations more attractive for businesses to create those jobs, thus decreasing demand in the areas with the problem.

I do understand that many of the incentives are backwards, so higher taxes, policies to move jobs, etc are all difficult to handle. But I also think that building more high density housing isn't really going to fix anything. In my view, many of the people in this sort of situation chose to be - they could take jobs in other cities but the group-think says they need to be in SV and working for FAANG to be successful. Not to mention that many want a single family home with amenities to come with that.
it's too bad Apple has an irrational vendetta against the company that makes the best hardware video encoders on the market. NVENC is really, really good, at 1080p you need to be running 6-12 dedicated cores (depending on settings) in order to match the quality.

AMD chips would have failed if they had used them too - that was the era of "baking your GPU" due to failed solder bumps and that definitely applied to AMD too, Apple is just such a clientzilla that they demanded payment for an industry-wide problem caused by the switch to RoHS-compliant solders. I think it's much more about control - CUDA is a third-party ecosystem that Apple doesn't want its clients getting dependent on, because then that would constrain apple's choices in hardware. Nobody locks in Apple's clients except Apple.
> Of course, if you happen to be with a friend who has an AirTag, or on a train with a whole bunch of people with AirTag, don’t worry. These alerts are triggered only when an AirTag is separated from its owner.
Its not the real Chrome or Firefox. The iPad version is not even close to the real thing on MacOS or Win10.
Is there any infrastructure value added by western trade that rivals Chinese investments?

My understanding is there isn't and western countries have had a lot longer to prove the opposite. The relationship is mostly extractive (not in a benevolent sense) where western countries are concerned.

What's the Chinese-in-Africa equivalent of the CIA/MI6 wanting shiny rocks and orchestrating a genocide to secure them?
At AWS, we use Node.js with Typescript for several mission critical backends in our service - especially for lambda architecture, it's a strong use case
IamA Former Duty Officer in the White House Situation Room. AMA (2019)
256GB default storage? Give me a break.
Not to put you down, but I think you should differentiate yourself well from Discourse (https://github.com/discourse/discourse), as it is pretty popular with the open source communities.
How so? Inability to extend the life of the device is environment neutral?

Does Apple make parts available for their products? If you want to replace the charging chip, can you get it from Apple? Or do you need to take a bus, train, a car to go to Apple store, to have them then ship the entire device god knows where, to replace whole motherboard and then ship it back? How is that has nothing to do with environment?
Agreed. My ultimate dream - that will never happen - is that Apple would release a version of this which is actually designed to be a dock for the MBP, and priced somewhere between $500-900.

I think the reason they won't do it is that the "computer" is actually a minority of the cost here compared to all the other componentry. So they probably can't make their margins on such a device if they price it below ~$900 or so, and at that point paying $200 less for just a screen makes the screen seem expensive and the computer cheap at the same time, which is not what Apple wants.
This tag has an U1 chip using Ultra Wide Band (UWB) which means that iPhones 11 and above also equipped with those chips will be able to locate those tags from 80m away with a +/-30cm accuracy. U1 UWB uses short pulses at 6.24GHz and 8.2GHz and positioning is done by combining time of flight (ToF) and angle of arrival (AoA).
IPFS

https://komento.host/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26840855
"What people want" is not what I want.

Market share/mindshare is almost an inverse measure of quality at this point!
Very interesting, I've been looking for this.
It will do us all bad - who the f (except the us military complex) wants an arm race in outer space?!
It supports VESA: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac-vesa
Could not find the keyboard to buy anywhere. Somebody more luck? Want to have it for my macbook.
It seems like this one sentence of my message has become the focal point of it, which was not the intent. However, I corrected it to be more close to the truth, which is to say that it is merely controversial, not necessarily that its status as an open source license is debatable.