skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sort of disappointed by the pricing. The base model is ok, but the higher price tiers add way too little to justify their price bump. You'll be hanging a dock or dongle off the back anyway with so few ports, so I only see value in the ethernet jack for the middle tier, and in the 512 GB bump for the top tier.

The M1 air and mini were great value, because they replaced machines that were ridiculously slower at the same or lower price. The new iMac does a secret price hike (by starting at $1299 instead of $1099) and the performance jump for those middle tiers is not as big as for the air and mini. I don't think this offers the same amazing value as the previous M1 macs, especially since a desktop needs more RAM and more storage.

Also, it is very amusing they're still selling the dual core i5 21.5 inch non-retina iMac to hit that all-important $1099 price for schools. That's a terrible product, but they just keep selling it indefinitely. I feel sorry for all the people that will buy that model.
Hi everyone!
I am launching a mobile app, and I am looking for beta testers. Mostly final years students and graduates, to tell me what can be improved.
Choosing Databases
We are building something new and trying to make a decision on which database to use. It's come down to Postgres and Mongo. In terms of what matters to us, definitely speed of development and performance at scale. We'll also need ACID guarantees.

I know Mongo has had many issues in the past, but we've heard good things about "recent" developments (WiredTiger to replace mmap, which was causing a lot of issues; mutli-doc sharded-set transaction support; etc). Seems like they have ACID support now?

Postgres has improved a ton too, and we are likely going via AWS Aurora, but we are concerned about future horizontal sharding capabilities. We've heard good stuff about the newer DBs like Spanner and Cockroach, but are unsure if that's the right way to go for a new company.

I know this is Relational v.s. DocumentDB argument has gone on for a while now. What's everyone's updated view?
This is the best news of the whole new Apple TV announcement!
I'm pretty certain that the ATV remote beams good old fashioned infrared signals to change the volume on your TV/soundbar/receiver directly without involving the ATV itself.
Honestly teams “just works” for a lot of companies. My company had a 100% in-office culture and transitioned to using Teams extensively within a week of the pandemic starting. The fact that it’s built off of Active Directory and integrates with existing Sharepoint and Exchange systems is a huge plus for business users.

Totally agree it’s shit for developers though. But for business teams, MS Teams works great. Teams does “just work” — if you’ve already made a large investment into the Microsoft ecosystem (which, to be fair, 90% of corporate America has).
What? I have an iPhone and an Apple TV, I use my phone as the remote 99% of the time, mostly because I always have my phone on me. I bought an Apple TV because it’s the only device that doesn’t sell user data, nothing to do with how it is controlled. The touch remote is pretty crap for actual use, nice to see they’re going back to buttons.
I'm underwhelmed.

- Anyone wanting a 27" or a better screen will have to wait.

- Only two TB3 ports.

- No improvement to the Magic Mouse, the worst peripheral in Apple history.

- If you're going to offer three keyboards, one of them had better be a 65% or a TKL. This is bizarrely out of step with the market.

- The colors are nice, but honestly, who cares?

I guess I was expecting more of a desktop computer instead of MacBook Pro with a dedicated screen. It's hard to imagine jumping to one of these until the graphics performance is figured out.
> program my Drone, or Run a CNC, or Play steam games, or link to the Oculus, or run VS Code, or use Fusion 360, or Run Linux or Windows VM's

But you don't have to use (and pay extra for) a Surface for that. I'm not saying the iPad is a computer. I'm saying that iPad is a touch+ink device superior to the Surface (most models of which are kinda mediocre computers IMO).
VC++ already does multihreading code generation across multiple compiler phases, using modules won't change that.
I have two Sony TVs, one from 2016 and one from 2020, and they both work fine to control volume from the remote. One goes to a set of Homepods and the other on the TV itself.
For starters, storage costs. Free users can upload files, images, and videos up to 8MB (25MB for Nitro members). Storing and serving those in perpetuity adds up, plus bandwidth for voice and video chat and 800+ employees.
I can't believe I didn't notice right away that this "article" is a native ad for Spotify. Ugh.

Meanwhile, the open podcast ecosystem keeps getting better instead of dying off like Spotify and Apple wish it would. [Podcast Index] and the Podcasting 2.0 ecosystem around it is helping keep podcasting free and open.

* https://podcastindex.org
Seven colours too. Added final rainbow colour purple.
What I need is the inverse of this -- my wife is forever losing her phone around the house, and I need a button on the wall that you can press to activate "find my phone" mode and play a beep on it.

EDIT: Thank you for all the suggestions!

I'm aware that this is possible from another iPhone or iWatch or iPad -- this is the current workflow. Use my phone or take the ipad away from the kids to play the beep. Is a button on the wall too much to ask for?

I've actually experimented with the iCloud API to try to get this functionality to work, but it's not a supported API so I run into the uncrossable chasm of "put your password in this python file and voila!".
1) We distribute Grafana as docker container along with our product to customers. What is the impact for us and our customers?
2) We build Grafana on a platform which is not supported by out of the box. What is the impact for us and our customers?
Agreed -- what I had in mind was the underwater loans of 2008. A house bought with leverage can occasionally look real strange in the short-term.
Biggest reason is that macOS is designed as a pointer interface and iPadOS/iOS is designed as a touch interface. You could argue that with the Magic Keyboard and Trackpad, the iPad is well suited for pointer input and I wouldn't disagree. However, macOS with touch as an input option would be atrocious, in my view. Rather than opening the door for touch input on macOS, they should bring iPadOS closer to a desktop-class, touch-first experience.
I guess bicycles thieves are either savvier or have an easier job.

Their modus operandi is to throw a bicycle into a truck or van, move them in lots of fifty across state lines, and tear them down to components.

Any trackers will be quickly rendered useless once they're in the van, and immediately found and discarded.

I'm definitely planning on getting Airtags for my bikes, but mostly for amusement and occasionally forgetting where I parked, I don't have much faith in them as an anti-theft device.
Why are they only considering the atmosphere for expansion/relief (and consequently multiple heat exchangers)? Why not a standard hydronic heating expansion tank with a pressure/temperature relief valve? Do these systems boil over often enough to make that impractical?
Fantastic article!!! They definitely need your animations, it's way more intuitive.
Couldn't disagree more. I've used touchscreen laptops and surface for years and if I go back to a non touchscreen portable machine it feels stunted.
If you feel strongly about it, you can order a version with just two Thunderbolt ports and nothing else. That way all the ports will behave the same.
Exactly! It’s crazy to me that more than 6 years into this USB-C journey, you still can’t buy a USB-C hub for under $100. Back in the day USB 2.0 hubs were under $50 within a couple years, and then practically free (literal giveaway swag) within 5 years.
My number one complaint about the current Apple TV 4K is the lack of support for the HLG[1] HDR-format used by among others BBC.

It means I need to play certain content on Android Plex on my actual TV and it just feels so unnecessary.

Here’s me hoping they have that fixed with this new release.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Log-Gamma

Edit: Developer docs seems to imply it is supported, but I can’t see any software like Plex for tvOS actually enabling it, unlike on Android.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avpla...
Like they did for ethernet?

So welcome to Dongle Hell Part II: Desktop Boogaloo?
I LOVE the colors - I almost want to get one just as a monitor but it's pretty small sized. same aw pretty reaction as their actual pro monitor until I saw the price not worth it for the video editing i do.

I personally see a good market fit for this. An example is my business partner, who doesn't do intense video rendering or compute, but has n joke 100s of tabs open and does other digital multi-tasking, streaming video & capture from web. Keeping open tens of FB power editor and other large sqlite and hunky react sites is a hit. M1 should be great for that some of that. Maybe some stuff in an ML accelerator might help with too but that sounds like mostly marketing?

Mostly it just looks really cool IMHO +M1 for chrome. Personally I love the style but seems like most comments so far don't.

The max 16 gigs ram limit is really bad though.

I really hope for an update for the large size MBPro I'd totally get a purple one, M1, with a TON of RAM and fast storage NVMe or whatever. I actually miss the 17 inch though my 16 is really nice literally 14 hours a day for a couple years workhorse. If they can get a skinny bump like the iMac that'd be amazing so long as lap heat isn't a problem seems the limit is the power plug.
I'm a bit biased (I work at Assembled and used to work at Stripe), but Jen's story is awesome. From learning SQL to then doing sales ops and support at Stripe and finally leading quite a few business functions at Assembled is really inspiring.
> The problem isn't that composing the two specs was hard, but that their desired "composition" required internal details from both specs.

But there's nothing 'internal'.

In conventional programming we pretend details are internal, e.g. by storing database handles as private fields. But that database is out in the real world.

TLA+ needs to be able to tell you that you can reach a bad state from a particular interleaving of reads and writes to a supposedly internal variable.
> This is making me want to take the J&J one instead.

On one hand, we have mRNA, which is self-limiting and that we know exactly what it encodes, as every single base has been put in there by us. We know what protein it encodes. And if that protein turns out to be harmful long term, guess what, the virus has it too.

On the other hand, we have a viral vector vaccine, which injects a live adenovirus which then delivers the instructions? I know we have chosen a harmless virus, but it's an entire virus nonetheless.

mRNA vaccines are seeing their first large scale deployment now, but they are based on decades of research. Humans know a lot about mRNA, which is how they even became possible.

I prefer the more precise approach mRNA vaccines provide. Mind you, they are both good for our current situation. I would have gladly taken J&J if that was the option. Ended up getting Pfizer due to the current halt and I'm very happy about that.

It's just that mRNA vaccines open up entire new treatment options. We have come a long way from having to grow viruses in chicken eggs (which is something that's still done).
Apple's differentiators are the display, keyboard, track pad, chassis and OS, not the CPU/GPU/storage/RAM.
> The main difference is if you aim by using a pointer on the screen or if you aim by touching what you want to interact with.

Yes. That is not a small difference. That is, in fact, a huge difference.

The buttons on my phone are physically larger than those on my laptop's screen, yet they are significantly harder to hit reliably. Manipulating text remains a chore on touch device, except when those touch devices provide a pointer erzats (of which Apple removed a large part of the convenience when they broke selection support with the deprecation of 3D touch).
They won't mind at all if they never intend to do X and it helps them get a discount.

Poison pills like that are common in conservation easements, for example. Our family owns land with an easement which, if I recall correctly, states that anyone wishing to break the easement will owe back-taxes reaching back to 1992, with compounded interest, on the development rights to the land.

In return, we were able to keep the family farm when my grandparents passed away.
I've been saying this for 15 years and no one will listen.
People are breeding digital horses, and spending real money
When you care about it, use max. For enterprise, use 95 perc and charge 5x.
Yeah in that case they had to put a weight on the seat, keep the seat buckled, and also keep applying force to the wheel. At some point you just have to give up as the threat model becomes too big.
We have a similar setup and it works pretty good, the only thing missing is the auto generated clients and that sounds like it could be really useful. What are you using there?
True, but my point wasn't so much about the likelihood of a fork as whether or not it would be a good thing.
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I don't know the answer to that, but thinking about it generally: If the suffix was just a single hex digit, it would work to detect a persistent tag. After, say 5 key rotations, if the last digit is still "E", then it's highly likely that the tag that's constantly in range is the same physical thing.

Meanwhile, if you're trying to use these things to track visitors to your store, you're only getting 16 bins of people. My "E" tag will be the same as 50 other people who've visited last week with the same "E" suffix.

I'm having a hard time finding the actual whitepaper on this. Hopefully someone links it in this thread.
Here is an image that shows you what California's property tax system has done: https://twitter.com/nextdoorsv/status/1265719788875272192

Keep in mind that the tax break can be passed on to children when the owner passes. I fail to see the collective good in that system. But at least the owners of that $3.5M home never have to leave while they pay $800/yr in property taxes and the newcomer that moved into the identical house next door pays $25k/yr.
On the product page https://www.apple.com/imac-24/ the section talking about the "Brilliant 4.5K Retina display" is showing a clip from "The Croods: A New Age".

I thought Apple was fairly close with Disney, so I'd have expected to see a Disney or Pixar movie, not a DreamWorks movie. Or was that only when Jobs was running things?
> and don't allow you to move up like they used to

Is there even a position to move up to?

> These terminations are arbitrary, unnecessary, and legitimely harmful to people's lives, so no I don't think it's fair or humane.

That's something they should bring to Modis, their employers. Also, do they operate any other data centers outside of Google ones?
The key is to hire him before he steps over the line.
Indirectly! It uses an adenovirus as the vector to do so.
I use mac fan control ( https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control ) on an older iMac and ignored the problem.

It's easy enough to "clone" a Mac boot disk to an external device if you need to ship it back, but at some point the "computer isn't working" problem comes to all systems.
> And even if users don’t have an iOS device, an AirTag separated from its owner for an extended period of time will play a sound when moved to draw attention to it.
That's what I'm hoping!
I went down this rabbit-hole a few years ago. Had some FiiOs, expensive in-ears, and lots of FLACs.

I did hear a difference, but it's not obvious. It's not a "OMG WHOA" when you put on the latest crisp FLAC compared to whatever streamed from Apple Music. On some tracks, the difference is nil. But on the occasional track, the hi-fi version is just clearer end-to-end. And on a few tracks, you will hear tiny little things you'd never heard before, and this can be actually exhilarating -- like, there will be a track I've listened to 100 times, and now suddenly I hear the bit of sticky-spit sound as the singer opens his mouth right before starting to sing... and that instantly makes it like you're standing right next to the microphone. Sounds silly, but it's cool.
Just an interesting question here, if you are saying vaccination is a moral obligation does this mean you are a moral realist [0]? My guess is not.

You may mean to say for you vaccination is a moral obligation which if this is the case you are a moral relativist [1] and therefore your moral obligation does not necessarily apply to others.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/
sharing and building code is an important aspect of computing and making computers fundamental to people's lives while working to make them difficult to understand is very wrong. They don;t do it partly because it's so unpleasant.
I too, found the anti-stalking features might hinder the use of AirTags for locating intentionally stolen items: (1) it has a removable battery, and also (2) "someone can tap [the tag] with their iPhone or NFC-capable device and instructions will guide them to disable the unknown AirTag".

The anti-stalking feature also seems to contradict its privacy features:

> Bluetooth signal identifiers transmitted by AirTag rotate frequently to prevent unwanted location tracking.

But also, in the next sentence:

> iOS devices can also detect an AirTag that isn’t with its owner, and notify the user if an unknown AirTag is seen to be traveling with them from place to place over time.

If an AirTag is supposed to be "anonymous", then how can a user be informed that this tag has been seen with them over an extended period? This would mean that there is a way to identify a particular AirTag in the first place.
Thanks for you feedback! I will add a `how it works` in the document later. But I'd like to answer your question here first.

Since Cusdis was designed for self-hosted, the data should be stored in your own server. The Docker image provides both sqlite and pgsql options. Then the comment widget that embed in your web page talks to this server through a http call, which fetch all the approved comments and display them.

The "Try it now" is a demo server that I've hosted for the people who want to just look around what is it look like, it's not scalable and shouldn't be used in production yet. It run in my vps on Digital Ocean, data is stored in this vps with a pgsql instance.
Remember the old imac g3? Unless I misremember, something like 13 different color options!
Still trying to look for the spec of those Keyboard.

I hope those New Magic Keyboard are not using the so called "new" Scissors Keys on current MacBook.
only red star os allowed?
But do you leave your phone's screen turned on 24x7?

I buy that there are more expensive things you can do with your phone, but even if turning off Bluetooth is only giving you back a small percentage of your total battery usage, that might genuinely be noticeable on an older device with an older battery.
I have an 8GB MacBook Air, which I use extensively for development (Xcode, Eclipse, often both at the same time) and I'm actually really happy with it.

8GB on the M1 machines feels much, much faster than 8GB on an Intel MacBook Pro. No doubt there is swapping going on, but it's so fast you just don't notice it.

(I would probably have got the 16GB upgrade if it were available, but 16GB can only be custom ordered directly from Apple)
You might as well give up now. They can't even let you match across ONE color! https://9to5mac.com/2018/04/16/space-gray-odyssey/
It’ll fit in a "Costanza wallet", but will make anything minimal pretty uncomfortable… try the AR view
Comparing to the mini:

- plus a 4.5k monitor

- plus a webcam

- plus a better mic & speakers

And this monitor and webcam setup is probably better than most 4k monitors and most webcams, at least at the entry-mid level ranges.
Honestly, the old remote as-is is one of my least favorite remotes ever because of 1) the issues with accidental touches and 2) when you pick it up, you never know which way it should be pointed without looking.

But add a little silicon sleeve that solves both issues, and it quickly became my favorite.
I’d slightly revise your description of the scheme from no business model to a intentional no revenue business model allowing for the valuation speculation to run rampant (i.e. at anytime we could stop investing in our growth, then it’s all profits). Of course by the time they go public like say Uber and set multiple records on quarterly losses and the investors drop the bag on the public it becomes obvious they can’t stop spending or the business will go under so instead they will continue accumulating billion dollar plus losses every quarter so by the time the shit hits the fan original founders and investors are on to the next thing and can always say they took a xx billion dollar startup public and that’s when the company lost its culture and the corporate greed ruined it.
I feel like kodwo eshuns early writing on the drug tech interface is relevant to this conversation: http://ccru.net/swarm3/3_abducted.htm
Wow the site is responsive!
Serious question: How is the community impacted by SSPl, BSL, etc? The average end-user who makes no modifications and is not reselling as-a-service is fine, there is no additional burden with either AGPL or the non-OSI-compliant licenses.

How does the AGPL screw over the community less than the other licenses? AGPL is problematic for a slew of reasons, lots of corporations (whether or not you agree that for-profit enterprises make up the bulk of the "community" is a separate discussion) disallow it entirely (mostly thanks to Google's precedent).
Magic Keyboard with Fingerprint Sensor
That's why the software can be replaced with Rockbox, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26876247

Audio/DAC quality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871983
I noticed that too - a footnote says "available on Apple TV" or something - so I assume that Apple made a deal with Dreamworks (and can't with Disney because of Disney+).
Really cool project. I have been spending most of my free time lately on a similar side project: https://neptunely.com. It takes midi files as input and generates original samples that fit with your composition.
I'm wondering if you could as part of the O operator list all the variables in consideration for the "next"-state asar as that operator is concerned.

like O[a,b,c]X in the next state which is determined by a change to any of a, b, or c, then X will be true. In the case where the set of variables is all of them they can be omitted and thus get the existing behaviour.

I also suspect that the O operator with with a subset of variables will behave identically to other instances with the same set.

However, I feel like this will still hit walls before practical limits, Beth would just need a non-trivial example