skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you really shouldn't store anything in them that you wouldn't mind losing. Storing tens of thousands of dollars in your web browser is not a good idea. I'll at least pat myself on the back for keeping big ticket NFTs and the majority of my funds in my hardware wallet.

So I guess this confirms that these NFT purchases are legit and not just laundering. People are actually buying them in the hope of turning a profit or to just collect them.

But wait until the crypto market crashes again, which it certainly will and sooner than many expect, and those NFTs take a haircut. That would concern me.

So many people have their livelihoods staked on the dream/delusions of getting rich with crypto. Not gonna happen, I am sorry to say (unless you get in early on big project, are early adopter).
I think point 2 is actually quite important. YouTube used to be a source of genuinely innovative content. It is now far more corporate and anodyne, and the most popular videos are largely big production companies, and part of that is copy-striking.

Ofc, the intention of copy-striking was not to decrease competition. But that ended up happening because of the way that the system is implemented (it isn't just copy-striking, I think reporting violations/automated violation systems have the same consequence).
You can keep your ansible. Does vagrant support alternate providers for running VM's? Then yes, you can keep your vagrant too.
If one can’t use a keyboard, maybe the laptop form factor is not the right one to choose.
Sure, thanks for asking. My reasoning follows a few paths in parallel:

* Distributed data storage like IPFS, built on open source software, should reduce (not eliminate) the number of vulnerabilities to large datasets. Code can be openly audited by many contributors in a way that commercial organizations can't quite support. Minor mistakes are more likely to be caught upstream, reducing the number of possible exploit chains.

* Data ownership, sovereignty, and portability are much more possible in web3 than they have been historically. By reducing friction for no-code users to own, store locally, and selectively grant access to their data, we increase the collective resilience and integrity of data at scale.

* Evolving the incentive layer, whether for open source contributors, or for end users allowing access to data, increases adoption, which encourages a virtuous cycle. Network effects should eventually compound.

* Immediate financial penalties for failure increase the likelihood that application developers and platform operators will prioritize security; historically, security budgets are subject to organizational politics (source: former pentester / digital forensics for 5+ years, many colleagues in the space, much public commentary).

TL;DR transparency decreases vulnerabilities, distributed user data ownership decreases attack surface, incentives increase adoption of these patterns, penalties increase operator diligence.

For instance... I've never again made a mistake like I did in 2017.
Parallels supports linux VMs. https://kb.parallels.com/128445

You could use that now or wait for virtual box to catch up (I assume).
This sounds similar to the concept of tempo in chess. A move that comes "with a tempo on a piece" is a move that gains a tempo by attacking that piece.
I think I'd wait to see what the Mac Pro supports before coming to that conclusion. Could be something they're still working on for that product, and then when it's working on the Apple Silicon build of macOS will be made available on laptops as well.
Maybe someone can make an extension that will keep the rows where the notch lives black, and tell the OS that those rows aren't there. Problem solved.
So which one? 14 or 16? As the main driver for a person who uses a desktop
Get her this: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0872V4LFP/
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If Proton is made to work on Mac with Metal, there's some real future here for proper gaming on Mac. Either that or Parallels successfully running x64 games via Windows on ARM virtualization.
Gee, their opposition is organized, and that's pointed out as if it's a bad thing.
Anyone can comment on what Intel and AMD are going to do now?

Will they be able to catch up or will Qualcomm become the alternative for ARM laptop chips? (and maybe desktop chips too)
why? its the exact same cpu arch they've had since M1 was announced. Things are better but not 100% and there's no reason to assume they will magically get fixed
I'm sure CCTV footage would be helpful in tracking a masked (yay covid!) 5'9" man wearing a hoodie and jeans.
As a developer and a power user, I'd love for them to stop iOS'ifying Mac OS.

There's such a huge disconnect between what they do with hardware and what they do to MacOS.
Generally companies have a fiduciary obligation.

I don't understand your critique.

Yes reuse is better than recycling, so what's the point of Apple's recycling program if someone will buy to reuse. Any phone given to Apple to recycle is one that could have been reused. Furthermore what's the point of building a robot to recycle new iPhones that still have value instead of old ones. It also sounds underutilized if so few phone make it back. Notice how Apple doesn't break it down by model for what phones they receive back. I'd wager that most of the phones Apple gets back are the new ones from trade in. Apple is also very aggressive about making sure their products end up in landfills. https://www.theverge.com/apple/2020/10/4/21499422/apple-sues...
Actually, they kept one of the oldest mistakes: overcharging. $400 to upgrade from 16GB RAM to 32GB. $200 to upgrade to 1TB SSD. These guys control the whole supply chain without middlemen like WD, Samsung, Crucial, etc — and they charge basically double what anyone else charges.

I'm not paying $2k for a laptop below what I need as a developer, when <$2k from literally anyone else will get what I need.

Apple is ridiculous. Inflation is murder right now, and they JACK the prices without delivering more value.
I'm guessing they mean greenwashing statements about lower CO2 emissions glosses over more "traditional" pollution as heavy metals, organic solvents, SO2, NOx. Taming overconsumption is greener than finding ways to marginally reduce per unit emissions on ever more industrial production.
I like several, but every source is biased in some ways: The Guardian, Haaretz, Al Jazeera, RT, Der Spiegel, and South China Times.

I judge on which US centric stories are covered and generally agree with other international sources. I find MSNBC, CNN, and Fox to be generally bad because of two reasons: they seem to be bad at walking back stories that they get wrong, and they seem to simply not cover some important topics.
Yeah, me too - used it only for sound and video controls though.

I think they gave way too few APIs to devs for it to be truly functional.

The only time I was missing it was some emulators that didn’t display function keys even though the keys were needed for them.
In isolation, maybe. But it follows the naming convention of their iPhones models:

base model < pro model < pro max model
"We listened to you and brought back the functions keys–and made them full size!"

That's just my half-assed stab at it. Presumably someone whose job is to write these things for a living can improve it meaningfully while maintaining the essence.
The article reads like an ad.
The slide where they say its faster than an 8-core PC laptop CPU is comparing it against the 11th gen i7 11800H [1]. So it's not as fast as the fastest laptop chip, and it's certainly not as fast as the monster laptops that people put desktop CPUs in. But it uses 40% of the power of a not-awful 11th gen 8-core i7 laptop. The M1 is nowhere near as fast as a full-blown 16 core desktop CPU.

I am sure we will see reviews against high end intel and amd laptops very soon, and I wont be surprised if real world performance blows people away, as the M1 Air did.

[1] https://live.arstechnica.com/apple-october-18-unleashed-even...
>It would be better if we had the funds to rebuild our cities to make them not dependent on vehicles, but our hands our tied.

And transportation technology is partly intended to reduce the power that specific plots of land hold.
Only the Air is fanless, every other M1 * Mac has fans.
> HDMI, SD Card, and MagSafe. Things people on the internet inclusive but not limited to HN said they will never come back because the future is USB-C.

Gonna be downvoted for the snark but... I'd like to hear now how the "a usb-c dongle fixes everything and it's perfect" Apple crowd will backpedal on this.
I can relate to the “looking at data” as a skill bit, especially the part where he mentions that it’s not a skill most data scientists necessarily have. I have observed that too. (I’m one myself)

Many data scientists like to jump into feature extraction and modeling the data with ML/DS tools because for us that’s the fun part. (we might look at some plots and summary statistics but we don’t dwell there for too long.) Few have the patience to just sit with the data for a week just to look at it, checking it against our intuition about the real world and the domain and basically just trying to put 2 and 2 together without models (except a mental model of the world) and just turning the data over in Tableau (or Excel). It’s actually not an easy skill to learn because it requires other meta skills. For one it requires an ability to match numbers to the real world — and for that you need experience and a good intuition of how the world works.

My first manager was exceptionally good at doing this. I’ve noticed too that folks in senior management — at least competent ones — tended to be good at looking at data and picking out things too. I suspect this is actually a make or break ability to get to senior management at most companies.

Data scientists, not so much. (Unless they worked in the field or came from the business side of things.)
I see myself in this one and I don’t like it.
Yes. Linux run most games now. In practice there are a few small bugs here and there so Windows is still prefered for some games but I can play 90% of them on Linux with no issues at all.
webpack is usually fast enough, jest is where I need CPU & RAM.

If I were to write tests, that is.
How is it a similarity if it's only happened to one of them? Chappelle hasn't been criticized after 5-7 years for returning to stand up.

You can't ignore why someone is being criticized when discussing whether other people who are being criticized for different reasons will be treated the same way.
In terms of the outsides, this matches up almost exactly with Benjamin Button reviews the late 2016 MacBook Pro https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/10/benjamin_button_reviews_the...
> I'm baffled trying to figure which specific laws could be removed to delete capital from our society.

Sounds like a fantastic project filled with economic, sociological, political, and ontological questions. What's the space of categorizations and which categorizations have the most compelling explanatory power?

As an example, here's a statement[1] in the tax code which defines "capital asset." Enjoy!

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/1221#a
It would work the same way that it works for programs written in languages that aren't Rust. You're doing the classic thing where you're conflating a language with a given implementation.

The free software advocate's take: You say the toolchain from rust-lang.org makes this difficult? Granted—I'll take your word for it. Go fix that toolchain. (And as a side note, the fact that rust-lang.org chose LLVM is likely to do the opposite of cultivating sympathy.) It's a lot like the saying that goes something like, "poor planning on your end does not automatically make for an emergency on my end."
This is an amazing outcome. The license cost was a huge barrier to entry and the progress of deep RL generally.
Is there a tradeoff in terms of power consumption?
Oddly I have an "half sd card" that I can use for extra storage in my old 15 inch work MacBook. Its like an SD card with a food that fits perfectly (almost flush) when iserted into the sd slot. It has a lip so you can remove it easily.

I though I'd have a mountable extra storage.. But ultimately it would sometimes unmount on sleep (you could unplug and replug..) and it was a little slow. If I wanted to use the SD card from my camera, I had to remove it. I replaced it with an external ssd. which is bulkier and corded...

this wasn't the exact thing, but it gives an idea what its like:
https://www.amazon.com/Transcend-JetDrive-Storage-Expansion-...
Can you kinda high level the setup/processes for making Postgres a replacement for Kafka? I've not attempted such a thing before, and wonder about things like expiration/autodeletion, etc. Does it need to be vacuumed often, and is that a problem?
> In a rare public rebuke, the Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby upbraided Mr. Sarandos by name for his defense of Mr. Chappelle.

Say what you want about the whole thing, but the two comedy shows with Hannah Gadsby on Netflix are _really_ good and I recommend everyone to watch them.
> Has this ever happened in the history of cryptocurrency?

You're replying to a comment which mentions that yes, in fact, this has happened. https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/the-dao-hack-makerdao

However, it is unlikely that this will ever happen again. The coordination costs behind pulling off this kind of fork are massive. It's difficult to imagine today's more decentralized community could ever agree to do such a thing.

As an example, Parity later lost an incredibly large amount of other people's money and the community decided not to roll that particular mistake back: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-999.md
How do you know there’s no better alternative out there? I don’t see anyone trying to find one.
Better battery life while performing faster than any Intel/AMD chip at equivalent power usage. Portability is the reason for the existence of laptops.
The place I worked when the USB-C MacBooks came out had a hell of a time with video output. This monitor only works with a DisplayPort dongle, this one won't work with a new MacBook at all, this one works but only if you use one specific cable, this one works but glitches in ways it never did with HDMI, et c. There came to be a whole level of cult knowledge about which laptop + cable + monitor combos would work and which wouldn't.

It was a very dumb situation. If they really wanted to go to USB-C they should have had a transition period where they just replaced the thunderbolt and maybe the charging ports, until shit settled down—which it never really did, because the USB-C cable situation is insane, so here we are, with some ports added back.

It's 2021, almost 2022, and I still wish one of the ports they'd put back was USB-A. I'll probably feel the same way in 2025. Maybe by 2030, when almost none of these MBPs are still in use, I won't still need a USB-A port way more than I need a USB-C port.
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I'm claiming that most of the complications that will actually influence many of the intrinsic choices of both, will be dictated by external factors. Static typing being an intrinsic fact of software, I couldn't tell you what most of the software I use, used.

Calling for lack of metaphor is interesting. In many ways, our industry is nothing but metaphors, so it is surprising for me to see them called down.

I agree that no metaphor is perfect. But, by that same logic, I would argue that no specified type is perfect. Especially if done so in a taxonomy that does not admit exceptions. (And again, I'm not against types.)
As others have said, the option to easily configure the computer post-purchase would make a massive difference in terms of its footprint
Yeah these are mostly used for architecture. Seemingly exclusively to produce the same generative style
Regulators tend to not be super proactive and hypothetical, right? I suspect they'll wait until people losing money in truly community driven crypto markets becomes a significant issue, and then chip away wherever they interact with the real world, in New York.
Same here. I bought the mid-2018 for $3.5k (full spec). It had battery issues and now I think it's mostly just junk especially that it's quite slow with the new macOS.
C# is the only odd item there. Entire companies are doing everything else in that list using exclusively MacBook Pros.
>Apple pushed the whole industry to standardize on one connector for everything.

Because people actually want one cable for everything.

USB-C only guarantee 60W charging. Instead of telling user to use USB-C PD 2.1 Cable with Thunderbolt 4 support and this logo with x. Apple now tells its user if you want it to work at maximum speed and charging please use Magsafe.
That wasn't for desktop graphics, it was for a top-end laptop graphics SKU (I think RTX 3080 Mobile on a ~135W-150W TDP configuration?). Otherwise the graph would extend all the way to 360W for a RTX 3090.
Get used to it. Apple will likely bust their competition at some point.
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I am guessing that YouTube isn't the real problem here. If everyone self-hosted their videos, the first thing a media company would do is hire a bunch of programmers to crawl the internet, download the videos (probably in a buggy way costing you megabucks in transfer fees), scan the audio against my music library, and auto-send DMCA takedowns to the ISP that owns the IP address. If it was successful, I'd probably spin it off into its own company, and charge others to use it. Congratulations, you have Content ID! And Google already did this.

I think that moving off YouTube would be the same story as other filesharing systems. Napster worked for a few years until the lawyers found out about it. Then (and my memory is foggy here) Limewire/Kazaa/etc. worked for a few years until the lawyers found out about it. Then public Bittorrent trackers worked for a few years until the lawyers found out about it. Then private Bittorrent trackers worked for a few years until someone accidentally invited the lawyers. That's exactly what would happen if everyone started hosting video files on their personal domains. It would work for a few years until the lawyers found out about it. (Meanwhile... the lawyers still haven't found out about Usenet, which indeed still exists and is a veritable haven of piracy.)

Anyway, the problem is copyright law. Society would probably not implode if you said "movies and music are no longer copyrightable", and these probably would all go away overnight. What you'd see instead would be really competitive streaming services, and probably a lot of product placement in music and movies. (Except, you already see these things. This comment was sponsored by SquarespaceVPN! Sign up now with this offer code that I'm going to say is limited to the first 100 users but is actually unlimited because who is going to deny a customer? Also, did you know that Hacker News knows your username when you log in? Install our snakeoil VPN widget thing for only $34.99 per month and ... some security shit will happen to prevent that! Hackers! News! Scary!)
if they cancel Dave Chappelle I cancel my Netflix subscription.
It is about the same price in the US. Apparently the suppository form which is more expensive.

Annual sales for oral and suppository are around 2 mil/year. Barely worth the liability and ongoing regulatory cost.
Here’s the Obsidian Webclipper iOS shortcut I use that I modified from someone else’s on the Obsidian forum. You’ll need to modify it to fit your folder structure, etc.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0d542087f367494fb7f2282b7e4...
Thank you for taking the time to comment, rather than simply down-voting. You are right. I should not comment at the end of a day.
Other than the ML work maybe. The Apple chips claim to be very performant with ML workloads.
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I can't imagine having so few Safari tabs open that changing tabs with the touchbar would be useful ...

Honestly, I'm on the side of "the touchbar is inoffensive". Never bothered me one bit, but I don't use it anyway so I don't care that they're removing it*. I'm sympathetic, though. I always liked the butterfly keyboard, and the general opinion on that has been made patently obvious.

* I wonder if this has to do with the fact that I never look at the keyboard, so it just doesn't occur to me to use the touchbar, same as I never saw the point of keyboard backlighting.
Ask HN: Which low-code cross platform app development tools would you recommend?
I am a web app developer (Node, Python, PHP, Ruby) with no native app development experience.

I want to make an app that consists of user submitted text-only "flashcards" that can be up/down voted, commented on, tagged, filtered, and added to lists.

While the functionality is pretty basic, I do need to have user accounts, a shared database, and possibly payments.

I don't mind coding, but I'm just one person and I don't want to spend months developing an MVP. I want something that can get me started quickly, with a lot of prebuilt components and functionality, while still allowing me to develop fully custom functionality and design on top of it.

Are there any low-code tools you would recommend to get started?
The 2015 15" Macbook Pro was 1.8 cm thick. The 2019 16" Macbook Pro was 1.6 cm thick. The mew 2021 16" Macbook Pro is 1.68 cm thick. So the 16" got slightly thicker than the old one but not as thick as the old 15".

The 2020 13" Macbook Pro was 1.5 cm thick. The new 2021 14" Macbook pro is 1.55 cm thick. So that is only 0.5 mm difference.
> Damn, I liked the touchbar :-(

Yep, that's the downside of a quasi-monopolist. Limited choice.
A bubble bursting has to penalize someone. 2008 saw Lehman Bros destroyed and the larger players supported. Letting crypto investors suck it and supporting the rest of the market seems pretty politically defensible. Virtually all crypto investors have been warned - but yes, they'll complain.
What's funny about p-values and effect sizes is that the "good science", like physics, would routinely score 10^-6 or lower p-values, with models that explain nearly or even exactly 100% of the variance.

Having a p-value of 0.05 is incredibly weak, even if nobody is cheating. It's just a garbage process that's guaranteed to produce high % of falsehoods, where the exact % depends on the prior probability of starting with true hypotheses.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/882/

I mean think about the Newtonian mechanics, there really isn't almost any room for error. And once the model was pushed into more and more extreme applications and errors were eventually spotted the theory was refined into new mechanics.
We (Cloudflare) have got some things cooking here :)

I'd love to hear more about what problems you're trying to solve/features you'd like to see besides "cheaper" — can you email me at rustam at cloudflare ?
Similar to an RTX 3080 Mobile, which is IIRC equivalent to somewhere around a RTX 3060 Desktop.
> Designed with the earth in mind.

Lol
They said pretty much this minus the "we listened to you" part. I don't know why you need a pat on the back. Are you going to send them a thank you card for every thing they do right?

It's a company dude, Apple is not your buddy. They're not listening to you, they're listening to market research and usage analytics.
If the M1 supported 3 displays I would’ve bought an air last year.

Feels like I’ll have to pay a lot for that 3rd monitor!
I’m that crowd and while I think MagSafe is a good addition back to the lineup (single-purpose and the other end is still USB-C) I just don’t see the point of adding back HDMI and SD cards. Now we get to go back to the era of jeez I sure hope there’s a dongle somewhere instead of moving to a future of just one cable.

Maybe we should keep Lightning too instead of USB-C for the iPhone.
No. Magsafe is a different port. The magsafe cable is magsafe on one end, usb-c on the other. The magsafe end being the bit that pushes power out.