skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if I am starting to get fat, I want people to tell me

But would you want random people to tell you, unsolicited, "you're fat, you need to lose weight".

Also, I'm obligated to note that the energy balance model of weight gain and loss has come under close scrutiny in recent research, and it is never as simple as eat less, exercise more. https://www.nature.com/articles/ejcn2011132
The notch is a design tradeoff, not a gimmick.
Science if: if X happens, then Y happens. The truth is asking what is X and is a mostly philosophical exercise, but the truth becomes pragmatic when belief in X lead to Y outcomes. Eg belief in God can lead to good outcomes even if God itself is unverifiable in a scientific sense. The truth can be a self fulfilling prophesy.
I'm reminded of a great little short story I read a couple years ago called "Noise Level." I'd be very surprised if Bradbury hadn't gotten the idea from there. I guess it's a bit of a spoiler to reference the story here, but it's still worth reading if you haven't.
It's a macbook though. You can just write a program that moves your screen down a millimeter or however much and live your life notch free with peace of mind.
Fully upgraded 16-inch MacBook Pro will cost you $6,099
I hate this, but us purchasers have no one but ourselves to blame.
These are unit market share numbers, so will include large numbers of PCs - both consumer and corporate - at price points where Apple isn't interested in competing because the margins are probably too low.

I suspect by value their share is far higher and their % of profits is even bigger.

The strategy is very clear and it's the same as the iPhone. Dominate the high end and capture all the profits. Of course gaming is an exception to this.

The bad news for Intel is that they make their margins on high end CPUs too.

For Intel and AMD there are two different questions: will Intel fix their process technology, and will AMD get access to TSMC's leading nodes in the volumes needed to make a difference to their market share?
>Anyone can comment on what Intel and AMD are going to do now?

In the short term, nothing. But it isn't like Apple will magically make all PC user switch to Mac.

Right now Intel will need to catch up with Foundry first. AMD needs to work their way into partnering with many people with GPU IP which is their unique advantage. Both are currently well under way and are sensible path forward. Both CEOs knows what they are doing. I rarely praise any CEOs, but Pat and Dr Lisa are good.
Sure, you can move the clock and indicators, but it's the default place for them. Also not sure about eq. fullscreen applications.
If Apple actually cared about sustainability, they would make their devices repairable.
Speed holes? -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whnms4CLJys
Of Chickens and Pigs
Modern SSDs generally have more bandwidth than DDR2.
"trust the science" used to be spoken unironically.

I think the pro-science side during Covid shot themselves in the foot with zealotry and false sense of certainty. Science , unlike religion, should be amendable. It's supposed to be provisional. A major part of science is debate, the inquiry of knowledge, not just being told to shut-up for the sake of science.
You should consider just writing it with React Native or Flutter. It can be pretty time-consuming to learn a new no-code tool.
While it is important to reaffirm that science != truth, it is even more important to reaffirm that (proper) science most of the time is considerably closer to the truth than "the stuff some random wacko posts on YouTube/Facebook/Twitter/whatever", even if that stuff offers easier explanations for the problems of the world...
>is still the best way the human race has so far discovered to learn and advance

The way I see it - it's really successful in some domains and is worse than useless in others - because it rides on credibility it acquired in the domains it is effective in, it creates false confidence in results it produces in domains it doesn't fit.
I completely agree with that, Microsoft's foundation was software. What is intriguing is that when they decided to "go hardware" (which started with Mice and Keyboards and later game consoles, tablets, phones, and laptops) their execution strategy didn't evolve to making their own silicon until much much later. Apple was much more aggressive here with the PowerPC alliance after Motorola let them down followed by later moves into chip design.

I am always fascinated by seeing how the "core competency" of a company constrains its execution options later in its existence. Sun, for example, really was a 'sales' company first and it couldn't "sell its way" out of the wave of Linux clusters that started displacing its servers. Now as a hardware company it too was let down by Motorola and that was some of the genesis for SPARC much like Apple's move. But as a sales company Sun kept shooting anyone who used their "open" architecture CPU by ruthlessly out selling them.
I similarly did not get in to using MuJoCo because I want all my work to be reproducible with open source. So I spent time trying to get RL working in Godot video game engine, but ran in to some road blocks. I know MuJoCo already has all the necessary pipelines so this is exciting indeed!
It is a wlel kwnon pohnnomeen taht you can sawp all the ltteers in a wrod and as lnog as the fsrit and lsat is ccrreot it wlil sitll be cibemreplohnse.

https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/
The iMacs have almost always been just laptop components in a display case (I'm obviously excluding the iMac Pro). I think getting rid of the USB-A ports is fine, and the SD card slot was always in a weird, hard to reach spot.
But how exactly do we draw the line of what's acceptable with YouTube? Should YouTube be forced to host hardcore porn [1]? If not, why not? You could say "well anything that the FCC allows", but then that means we'd have to disallow most videos that have curse words in them (not to mention it would greatly reduce the appeal of YouTube for me, since part of why I like it is because it allows stuff that wouldn't be allowed on TV), but if you're saying that YouTube should be a free-speech zone, then how exactly is porn not protected speech?

I'm not claiming I have the answer, but I feel that the vague "omg youtube is a platform so it should allow all my videos!!!!" argument is extremely reductive, and tends to imply that it should just be this total anarchy of a platform. If YouTube doesn't regulate their content, it's going to be hard to find advertisers, and if they can't find advertisers it will be hard to monetize the platform.

[1] Obviously legal stuff, porn that's outright illegal should of course not be allowed.
Any time DDG fails me, I just append "!s" to proxy the search through StartPage instead. I've found it scratches the itch pretty well for 99% of my use cases.
Apple Announces Polishing Cloth
Deprecation Notice: Recover Accounts Elsewhere
I miss the 2012 model every time I use the 2018 model I own now. One was peak Apple design everything worked, was robust, and just genuinely pleasant to use. The other rock bottom form over function with a disastrous keyboard that I never got used to with it's crap layout, lack of essential keys, shitty cheap feel, etc. And that was before it started having the well publicized issues.

I like that they are going back to basics with the new models. Not crazy about the notch but otherwise it is all good. Decent screen, memory and ssd are super expensive but at least there's plenty of it now.

I'll wait a few months to see if their quality levels are back where they should be. Because I'm beyond taking their word for it after my last experience. I'm particularly curious to see if it delivers on the performance hype and thermal behavior when actually using it for doing work. If that's even close to what they are promising, it's going to be a bad year for Intel.

Does anyone know if those neural processors do anything useful or is that only for people that use specialist stuff like video editing tools? I run docker, intellij, vs code, etc.
I think anotherhue would agree that half a million write requests per second counts as a valid answer to "you can't do what you need with a beefy Postgres," but that is also a minority of situations.
Q: "Who are you"
A: "a person who is a member of the orthodox church"
I think you misread the graph. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/mac/standard/A...

The graph there shows that the new chip is higher power usage at all performance levels.
I know Apple has a translating feature called Rosetta. But what about virtual machines? Is it possible to run Windows 10 (not the ARM edition but the regular, full Windows 10) as a virtual machine on top of an Apple M1 chip? It looks like UTM (https://mac.getutm.app/) enables this, although at a performance hit, but I don’t know how well it works in practice. What about Parallels - their website suggests you can run Windows 10 Arm edition but doesn’t make it clear whether you can run x86 versions of operating systems on top of an M1 Mac (see old blog post at https://www.parallels.com/blogs/parallels-desktop-m1/). I would expect that they can run any architecture on top of an ARM processor but with some performance penalty.

I’m trying to figure out if these new MacBook Pros would be an appropriate gift for a CS student entering the workforce. I am worried that common developer tools might not work well or that differences in processors relative to other coworkers may cause issues.
And at the same time, their non-pro machines come with only one spare (not for power) USB-C port. If they loaded up their machines with them across the board, this would be less of an issue.
Director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center Steps Down
So if I want a new Macbook purely for software development and building mobile apps, what should I pick between the $2499 14" and the $3499 16"? Doesn't look like there's any difference in Xcode build times from their website
What default-opt-it dark pattern did they employ to get people to agree to that sort of contact?
> Some 11% of Americans will join the Top 1% for at least one year during their prime working lives (age 25 to 60), according to research done by Thomas Hirschl, a sociology professor at Cornell University. But only 5.8% will be in it for two years or more.

> The same holds true for those lower on the income ladder. While just over half of Americans reach the Top 10% at least once in their careers, only 14% stay in it for a decade or more, Hirschl found. (The minimum income threshold for the Top 10% was $141,000.)

https://money.cnn.com/2016/01/07/news/economy/top-1/index.ht...
> Personally, I would never consider a web-based software for professional use. An opaque profit model

I worked on a web-based version of a major player in the industry and the projected ended up getting canned. Ironically, because (I think) they really couldn't figure out a good way to profit from it. A license for the desktop product was like $xx,000, but the ideas tossed around for the web-based version were like $y.00 per minute of instance time (basically like EC2 pricing). Turns out that $y would need to be Very Large to be even remotely profitable.

The product itself was pretty slick though. I was really surprised at how well it performed.
You should favorite it, if you want to leave a placeholder on it. It's a link near the top of the thread.
Yes, CNBC obviously seized on the number 10% to make it sound like a small number of people, but the top 10% of Americans includes over 25 million people.

If we can't address inequality without inflaming envy then we're better off not addressing it at all. We'll just end up creating more tyranny in the pursuit of ending tyranny.
I cannot believe that no prosecutor got a warrant just to see if they were telling the truth in their PR materials...
You can have a named factory function returning an optional<T> (or your preferred fallible type).
Or people look up "bad" stuff using that search engine (Bing is notorious for porn).
I think is about the same if compared with a windows-based with the same specs (GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile) and so on.
Coscto is selling this prescription for $8.
And here I am sitting at my 2011 Dell Latitude wondering what is so special about that. My sis had my 2013 Sony Duo but that's now become unusable with its broken, built-in battery. Yes, 5 to 8 years of service is nice, but not great or out of norm for a $1000+ laptop.
About 15 years ago I got a job in IT with lots of ssh hops and server work. I approached it the same way I approached the Linux terminal. I made a rule that everything I typed from thereon out would be in Vi.

Recently I did the same with Emacs. I'm a big fan of learning through complete immersion.

My opinion is that my method is horrendously inefficient and arduous. There's a lot of room for deliberate practice.

Here's one:
https://www.shortcutfoo.com/app/dojos/vim/learn

If you can improve on that method please do.
Well, if you're working to pay your rent, bills, and food expenses, and you're only working part time (because you're a full time undergraduate student), you may not have a lot left over to pay for software licenses.
Isn’t most of the components in MacBooks recyclable? If I remember correctly, Apple has a recycling program for old Macs so it’s not like these machines goes to landfill when their past their time or broken.
it burns my microsd cards way faster than dd, what do you mean "inefficient to its core"?
> You are also conflating a type of machine (Dutch bike) with many random US issues, such as legal protection and theft.

No, I explained how an coaster brake is a very poor idea in a country with a radically different attitude toward cyclists and a heavy bike you can't bring inside easily will get stolen almost immediately.

> you are randomly throwing in issues such as lighting

I didn't "randomly" throw that in. It was part of my discussion about how Americans are hyper-price conscious and do not value bicycles, so features the rest of the world considers standard on a bicycle can't be found on most bikes sold in shops because they have to be as cheap as humanly possible.

Not my problem you speed-read my comment and then arrogantly felt entitled to critique it

> I’m happy for you that your identity is so tied up to your biking hobby

...Who hurt you? TIL riding for transportation is a "biking hobby" and because after almost two decades of transportation riding in a country incredibly hostile to such things, my "identity" is "tied" to it. Christ, it's like I'm talking to a republican who lives in Idaho. "nice biking hobby"

Who hurt you? Go ignore your country's century of brutal colonialism and slavery profiteering or something.
How often are you looking at the bottom of you laptop?
Oh, looking more closely the notch is actually quite wide - yeah, that might be doable to fit a post it over it. Still a lot less maneuvering space for that than on a normal laptop.
That's compared to the PC chips, not M1. M1 uses less power at same performance levels.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/mac/standard/A...
> Reading these comments it seems America has forgiven him... I assure you the rest of the world won't forget...

People working the “defense industry” (you know - making weapons to kill millions of innocent civilians) are just showing up in this thread a lot. This guy is the reason they have their jobs. Colin Powell is a piece of shit to anyone who doesn’t work in that sector. Dude straight up lied and got entire states worth of people murdered all for his own vanity.
please, ban this guy ahahah
These are the exact categories for my startup ideas.
On a deflationary account of truth, scientific statements can be true if they meet the standard of empirical verification. It’s raining diamonds on Saturn is true if we can detect diamond rain on Saturn right now.
Same, I'm replacing my 2016 13" MBP. Thought about getting the 13" M1 but decided to wait for this refresh and I'm glad I did.
That doesn’t seem huge? 50M for 130 is a bit less than 400k revenue per employee. Of that revenue you’re already spending at least 100-200k on the employee themselves
Except for purposes of immersion in games and movies, I might just always have the top menu bar visible if the treatment for many full screen apps is just to have an opaque black bar with no content.
He just hit 9M https://twitter.com/axboe/status/1450188650852065291
I think the scientific consensus is what the article is taking shots at. Rather than the scientific method.

The scientific consensus is largely political whereas the scientific method produces many results which are politically inconvenient.
I could see a statically typed language that would give you a live reflection system and macros. I think it's more if you have to chose, you'd rather have that than static types.

But I think it is possible to have all 3, it just doesn't exist in any popular language that I am aware of.
These things don't cost anywhere near $1000 combined. It's a "pro" tax with the standard Apple tax on top. That extra RAM costs, what $50? The extra SSD space is maybe another $100? The display is the only wildcard here and you'll have a hard time convincing me that's an $800+ component upgrade.

If you want the M1 chip and/or want to be in the Apple ecosystem the price is probably reasonable, but in comparison to the price points of previous-gen MacBook Pros stacked against competitors, this one seems overpriced.
Probably depends on your eyesight. I like small laptops with very high resolution, but I have good eyes.
Yeah they’re basically forcing everyone to purchase a non-base amount of storage (and RAM, to a lesser extent) and charging them for the pleasure.
it's probably written as one of those "universal" apps that's basically just a packaged browser
To be clear, I'm not saying that the FSF has written a poor license. It's a fine license for many libraries, especially at the time it was written.

I'm saying it's a poor choice for a brand new library written in a language where the vast majority of the ecosystem utilizes static linking.
The thermals: https://live.arstechnica.com/apple-october-18-unleashed-even...
Keep in mind, that this statistic doesn't necessarily mean that the top 10% own a lot of wealth. if the bottom 89% owns a total of 10$ worth of wealth then the top 10% isn't doing any better. take all that wealth and calculate what it would be if it was divided by 300 million people and then divide that number by the number of years it takes to acquire that wealth and you'll find, it's not very much wealth at all.
Actual bank accounts/debit withdrawals can be more difficult than say a credit card theft. But even then it's not flat out impossible to recoup
Is the increased thickness the reason for the much longer battery life?
I expect to be surrounded by pitchforks and torches for saying this, but I genuinely believe that Linux is the true winner of today's presentation.

The last few months have been watershed times for both Apple and Microsoft. Starting with Apple, their developer relations are starting to crumble in a major way. Not only have developers stood up against their highway robbery, but other companies like Microsoft have one-upped them just for the hell of it. Today's presentation was almost completely devoid of any software discussion, which is really what puts the nail in the coffin for me. A 5nm laptop chip will always be more powerful than the 14nm one I've got, but at least my chip runs the software I want. Without a commitment to replacing 32-bit libraries, updating their coreutils or making a package manager developers actually want to use, I think Apple's message is clear: We're pivoting away from the 'Pro' market and heading straight into 'Prosumer'. To their credit, it seems like they've made a fine prosumer laptop.

Microsoft, on the other hand, has usurped their enthusiast community with Windows 11. The strict CPU requirement in particular was a bad move on their behalf, and it's going to leave a lot of their install base out in the cold. While I don't expect a whole lot of consumers to pivot to Linux, I can imagine a lot of developers making the switch. Many devs already use WSL, so they're pretty familiar with Unix systems as-is. The Windows-to-Linux onboarding experience is getting better and better as Wine is continuing to close the gap in compatibility. Especially for the gamer/enthusiast market Microsoft traditionally caters to, the value proposition of using Windows is diminishing by the day. Windows 11 does nothing to change that, and actively impedes your workflow if you're on a Ryzen CPU.

I think for a lot of people's workflow, Linux will be the only thing left that "just works" in a few years time.
You missed the joke they were making about the Boeing 737 MAX.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos 'may have lied to Congress'
it seems the "one last thing" this time, is, well, a notch, at the top of the screen, on a proprietary system that makes heavy use of the top of the screen as part of the ui.

the whole value proposition of the apple ecosystem is that it is all beautifully designed, integrated and pleasing such that it inspires you to go forth and design beautiful things.

but now they've gone and stuck a webcam in the middle of the menu bar. jobs is probably rolling over in his grave.
Interestingly, early versions of MacOS 10 supported this as a hidden feature. It never really worked properly.
I'd requested a citation.

Apparently you have none, as I suspected.

Ironic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639553
I used DDG for 2 years. Recently, I've been testing brave search, which I personally think is much better.

They're investing in their own index, whereas DDG is just Bing, but without tracking.
Because if it hadn't been magsafe, the child would be tethered to… a laptop? Presumably bolted on to whatever surface it was sitting on?
True, and most of these wackos range from home-remedy moms to yogi babas.

The worrying trend without a counter force is authorities like Big Tech and institutions masquerading imperfect science as truth.

Just look at the Covid shit show we’ve seen. Makes you wonder if these people should hold any power whatsoever.

We should strive to be transparent. Whether that’s debunking bad science or doubling down on good science.
They are talking about the way people from these countries typically phrase things as a result of their native language, rather than trying to characterize the actual personalities of the people from these countries. We just add more friendly sounding little filler phrases in our speech and often phrase instructions/commands as requests in English. This doesn't make us fundamentally nicer or more reasonable, it is just a social convention.
I wouldn't, but sadly, some enterprising person will no doubt take use this idea to name and shame people, which will have a silencing effect on future founders.
Is DeFi SO large??? Stablecoins have a mkt cap of ~130bn.
And it's not like bitcoin (or the stock market), where you can start with 1000 tokens valued at $1 each, and then when the price increases suddenly the nominal wealth increases as well. These are stablecoins after all!
Who knew such a negative spin could be put on 'saving money in uncertain times'
The notch is awful, it took Apple years to finally upgrade their crapy 720p camera to a mere 1080 and now they added an ugly notch around it that ruins the aesthetic of every program in fullscreen. Even in normal mode I have several menubar apps that show things like cpu load, bandwidth, etc that span almost the full width of the screen, the notch will certainly make it worse.
Wasn't there a rumor that AMD was creating ARM chips? It will be great if we have ARM versions of EPYC chips.
Adding bounds checks and ASan is not an order of magnitude improvement over C. Chrome, for example, is doing all of this already in C++ in a more advanced way than anything I've seen in Zig. Clang offers UBSan [1], which is extremely advanced. Yet it is not enough.

It is not a "nuanced and balanced" approach: Zig is simply not memory safe.

[1]: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html#...