skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I kinda agree if this is inflation, but deflation is different.

Why’s that?

> This is a problem because people horde money, just keep saving - why would you spend it? And the economy dies.

This is one of those things where local Keynesian reasoning can lead you to the wrong answer, and tons of people get trapped there.

“Hoarding money” isn’t harmful. Ideally, people should be “hoarding” money unless they want to buy something. “Passive investing” (the rational strategy with an inflationary money) is not a good thing, but a harmful inefficiency.

The key realization is that at any given time, the total human productive output sits more or less on a pareto frontier, with positions in the space representing how much of various goods are being produced. For didactic purposes, we can pretend this space is 2D and has only two goods that can be produced - “capital goods” and “consumable goods”. So you can shift human productive output between these two goods, but the total output is capped.

When people spend money, what they are doing is (often indirectly) bidding for the right to decide how some fraction of human productive output gets allocated. Either into capital goods (e.g. by buying stocks) or into consumable goods (e.g. by buying a TV).

When people don’t spend money (because they are saving/“hoarding”), they are simply choosing not to participate in this auction process. This means the people who choose to participate in the auction have less competition. Because the amount of goods being auctioned is fixed (or more accurately, lies on a pareto frontier), the people buying the goods pay less than they would in the absence of “money hoarding”. This means their purchasing power has increased!

Inflation, less saving/hoarding:
People who don’t really want to spend money are forced to do so anyway unless they want to lose wealth. They either buy consumable goods they don’t really want, or invest in stocks without really thinking about it, introducing inefficiencies in asset allocation.
People who do want to spend money (because they actually want a good, or have a solid investment thesis, or have a business plan) have to compete with those other people, and lose purchasing power.

Fixed supply, more saving/hoarding:
People who don’t really want anything or have an investment thesis just sit on their money and it naturally appreciates in line with economic development. No need to buy index funds - money already behaves like a market-wide fund behaves today.
People who actually want to buy something or have an investment thesis don’t have to compete with the former group, making it easier for them to bid on socially efficient allocations.

The effects are somewhat marginal, but I expect that with a fixed money supply, the economy would be more oriented to capital goods production and less to consumption, and also asset allocation would be a bit more efficient thanks to decreased distortion from blind “passive” investing. Life is easier for people who just want to save for the future, or don’t have an investment account.
You still end up with more usable space since now the menu bar isn't taking up those pixels.
Top centre is where Gnome Shell on my Fedora install shows time, notification indicator and application notification icons (hexchat, Steam, etc.). Hardly an useless part of the screen!
Still no removable storage? How are you supposed to get your data off if it dies?
>> because your previous revolution was universally hated by users.

Nah. It was hated by a small but vocal minority of users, of which HN has a lot of.
Some people, like me, have the top menu bar on auto-hide. So, the notch there is definitely not a universally good thing.
Such a claim warrants some examples.
> letterboxes fullscreen apps.

Sounds odd but I'll see what it's like in practice
> XDR

What does that mean?
It is simply incorrect. We have most of our customers on Cloudflare and the larger customers are on enterprise deals. My only criticism to Cloudflare is simply that it is just not as stellar as some of the more expensive alternatives. It is not a high end service but still the right choice for a lot of sites.
Oh hell yes. Thank you! I think it's time to give Pop a chance again then!
For me personally, they hit it out of the park -- except for the notch, which seems like a complete showstopper to me at first sight. Maybe it's not so bad in practice if games and full-screen videos keep that whole strip solid black? But almost all the screenshots are of fullscreen apps, so it seems Apple thinks it looks a bit ungainly too.
Are these M1 Pro/Max based on the A14 or A15?

Does “M1” == “A14” or does it mean “M1” == “5nm TSMC node”?
Tensorflow supports Metal AFAIK.
yay more-nitors!
Here's a bunch of discussion about this from only 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27807850
Absolutely not. The 16 inch is a huge laptop even if it's thin. Might as well make it a touch thicker if it means better thermals/battery life.
haha, the feet do look silly, and the black keyboard as well. i don't care as much about the ports, since they're typically out of sight.
It likely charges slower, though they is a minimum needed power - you cannot charge with a mobile charger.
Apple is maintaining a Tensorflow plugin: https://developer.apple.com/metal/tensorflow-plugin/
I"m guessing by rejecting perfectly valid and correct programs that are unable to be type checked. There is a large space of "false negative" programs that a type checker will reject, but that could be perfectly correct. E.g. compare Python-esque duck typing with nominal typing.
I would like to upgrade to Apple silicon, but I have no need for a laptop. I hope they put the M1 Max in a Mac Mini soon.
Yup. This was more than many of us demanded TBH.
Well it also depends on what your success criteria are. If it's a side project and you've invested nothing in it other than your own free time, success could be $200/month in eventually passive revenue.
For sure. Mine has been the perfect dev machine. My Docker build times are the envy of the office.
They probably want developers to optimize around the notch shape. Would be dumb to change the shape next year when they add faceID.
And reviews say they're terrible.
I was really hoping for wifi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 but besides this i'm floored!
The benchmark to power consumption comparisons were very interesting. It seemed very un-Apple to be making such direct comparisons to competitors, especially when the Razer Blade Advanced had slightly better performance with far higher power consumption. I feel like typically Apple just says "Fastest we've ever made, it's so thin, so many nits, you'll love it" and leaves it at that.

I'll be very curious to see those comparisons picked apart when people get their hands on these, and I think it's time for me to give Macbooks another chance after switching exclusively to linux for the past couple years.
A spatial audio implementation could range from mind blowing to meh. I want to hear one that can reach this level:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYdIidUIbAs
In this regard I would recommend them studying the 1 man 4 wives problem in the Islamic world.

This is a far more worrying scenario. It is my belief that if the OIC came together and enforced one man - one women, a lot of problems like ISIS would disappear.
As a PC user, I'm sold and looking to get one soon.
I came very close to writing almost this exact code just the other day (except it was username or user id for me), but came to my senses. It's just so tempting in a dynamic language...

In a static language, you either can't do it, have to really go out of your way to do it, or at least do function overloading (which is a bit cleaner)
Well, unless you’re only ever using text edit, the menubar is there for er, menus? It’s going to be interesting to see the gymnastics around this
Not to mention - how do you cover the camera to maintain privacy if its now part of the screen ?
My guess is it will work like using a 65W adapter on a Mac that prefers 95W. It will charge if you're not doing much but it will drain the battery if you're going full tilt.
And they got rid of the touch bar which everyone dumped heavily on
They are selling these to people who know what the competition is, and care.
...and the Apple store is down lol :-)
I can’t believe they didn’t color the menu-bar black to hide the notch.

I suppose the notch is only in the way if you are watching 4:3 video in full screen. For every other use case, the notch is hidden in either the menu bar or black, horizontal bars.

I’m also wondering if the led backlighting is arranged so that backlight is completely turned off in the black horizontal bars shown when viewing 16:9 video in full screen.
I know it will be an unpopular opinion here, but bringing back the HDMI and SD card port is making the macbook much thicker and will eat up some space than can be used by battery instead, all that for ports I will never use. I wish there was another option without these ports.
No, it would be just be slower to charge
The touch-id is so fast, I don't mind.
Dynamic typing was great before I knew anything about programming. I'm talking like, at a middle school level.
Fewer "Silly" errors.

After university, the opposite became true. No difficult to diagnose undefined behavior because of ambiguity in typing.
Airbnb said they would help find a comparable place for us to stay. A comparable place was $2000+ more than the place we had booked initially (due to most places being booked 6 days before a holiday trip). They gave us a $200 coupon. Which meant we spent $1800 more on a place than we planed to.

I expected them to have some plan to ensure users don't get fucked if someone sells their house. Dozens of similar, but more expensive, places sat empty during that holiday. Airbnb could have given us a coupon for the difference between one of those and what we pair for our original place. That is what their initially made it sound like they were going to do. That is not what they did.

I'm a frequent user but not because I like them as a company. Because they are a monopoly.
They basically showed that in some fullscreen images in the demo, so I think that's how it'll be.
Hard agree. I've been mildly on the side of "enough with losing features in pursuit of thinness" for a good while, and while I appreciate the heft of my 13", I'll let them worry about that for the next New Thing when it comes in Goldest Gold.

For now, magsafe! HDMI! A keyboard that works!!!
You're kinda supposed to be doing that periodically BEFORE it dies.
As long as they are classified as highly-risky assets, I don't see the problem. The problem of 2008 was in mislabeling highly-risky assets as OK assets.
Sounds like a brilliant case for multiple-dispatch.
HDMI and magsafe are back!
That's very silly reasoning imo. You're making decisions on believed future indicators and ignoring the actual present facts.
This was my biggest concern. Having the option to use MagSafe is much better than always being required to carry around yet another charger.
Yup. They will have 20/40 core arrangements as per Gurman

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/01/apple-silicon-roadmap-gurman-...
I think only sqlite rivals the frequency to crypto-junk.
The 6K pro monitor Apple sells.
You're provably wrong : if it was a minority, they wouldn't have reversed. See headphone jack on iPhone.
Seems reasonable. They still sell the Intel Mac mini, despite having an M1 powered Mac mini already. The Intel one uses the old “black aluminum means pro” design language of the iMac Pro. Feels like they are keeping it as a placeholder in their line up and will end up with two Apple silicon powered Mac mini’s, One consumer and one pro
If you listen closely you can hear the IT procurement IOs being opened up en masse.
>small

Do you have a source for that? Because if that was the case, it would seem silly for them to undo.
I would go with Rails.

Authentication via Devise including social login, other social/gamey aspects can me quickly implemented with gems.

MVP withing a week for sure.
Thank you!... m not the only one feeling this was BS rambling, that could probably be someone making an article out a twitter-thread.

Article felt pointless, maybe someone venting his frustration on how to pursue new things during or after a burnout.

Probably he needs a friend(s), at least a chocolate one (https://youtu.be/CISFw4o0j4U)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28908383
so where do you stay at when travelling?
Just as a footnote... Obviously clickbait doesn't cause droughts, that part was a joke about irresponsible news reporting on the water threshold being sensationalized.

If you look at the graph in OP's post, the lake has reached low levels like this in years prior to now, which is very telling about how much certain news agencies are over-embellishing on how current low levels are dire.

Lets keep sanity and practicality involved in this. I also did state that global warming is real. I do believe it is a real issue, faulty correlations are not real though.
I only saw the final 5 minutes, but gd, that looked amazing.

Maybe I'm a bit sensitized to it because I just failed miserably at putting together a simple screencast.
Have backups like you're supposed to? Removable storage or not you should have backups of the device.
I imagine most games and videos can be run in 16 by 9 aspect ratio and that'll draw black bars above and below thus hiding the notch anyway.
Whenever I'm on a new machine I get a momentary glimpse of what an ungodly mess the Web is without adblockers. I'd love to know what percentage of web users employ an adblocker, I suppose as that number increases the remaining users can expect to see an increase in both the volume and visibility (and arguably obnoxiousness) of the ads.
AirPods 3rd Generation with Spatial Audio
You can look up such details before buying in https://psref.lenovo.com. Then usually the hardware maintenance manual is available in support, that's the main reason why I end up getting their laptops, although their obnoxious wireless card whitelists (don't trust "compatible" FRUs BTW) make me always look elsewhere in the first place.
Then get an Air.
I know I'm in the minority regarding the keyboard, but on my 2019 model it's been flawless and I really have come to like it quite a bit, more than the one on my 2014 even (except for the vertical arrow keys that is. Seems like nobody at Apple actually tested their usability)
As is typical for apple, the phrasing is somewhat intentionally misleading (like my favorite apple announcement - "introducing the best iphone yet" - as if other companies are going backwards?). The wording is of course carefully chosen to be technically true, but to the average consumer, this might imply that these are more powerful than any CPU apple has ever offered (which of course is not true).
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-inch
Text Encoding no longer available in the Firefox menu panel
also, the inaction on climate change is a catalyst as well.
people have been pushed to more extreme political views, because cooperating and sharing the wealth is not in the interest of the wealthy minority.
I think the 140w power adapter is to support fast charging, they mentioned charging to 50% capacity in 30 mins, I'd imagine power draw should be much less than 140w
I don't understand why you'd have an issue with it? The screen area cuts into the previous gen's bezel so, at worst, you'd just black out the top of the screen to have the exact same screen size as before and, at best, you can use the extra display for things like the menu bar. What's the issue?
Just so I don't misunderstand, does that mean I need XDR or will it work with any monitor? I was very surprised to see that the original M1 only supported one external monitor so just want to confirm before I press buy.
I can’t believe they’ve done that either. I’d honestly consider getting one, but I can’t stand notches on any device.

And I’m sure we’ll see everyone else start to copy this “feature”.
Oh, if they classify them as any assets, they would be fully regulated.
>I’m also wondering if the led backlighting is arranged so that backlight is completely turned off in the black horizontal bars shown when viewing 16:9 video in full screen.

That would likely help a lot, very interested to see it in action.
Yes, the VA is more akin to the UK's NHS (socialized costs/medicine) than a single-payer system like Medicare (socialized insurance/private doctors).

The VA was under-budget even before the two wars started in 2002/2003.

Then the ruined bodies and psyches rolled in, and VA wasn't given additional funding to handle the aftermath.

It's pretty clear how that ends up. The wars above cost $Trillions but the aftermath costs a few more Trillions that VA and other agencies didn't have.
Maybe its a typo and they mean the Magsafe3 connector? I though the USB-C standard was limited to 100 watts.
If it works like the iPhone, it'll be alright. It doesn't really cut into screen real estate. You just get a little extra notification area
I'm more speaking for the average junior dev -- I part-time as a mentor for a coding bootcamp and get to interview thousands of 1st year junior devs on a yearly basis, and the burnout rate is incredible. Contrast that with my time working in infosec, where I had 20-30 hours a week of free time in which to work on random side projects, play call of duty with my boss (literally), etc., while we wait for X thing to be approved or wait for an incident to occur (which might take a whole quarter). When I did the same for the DoD, things were amusingly both less lax and slower.

Now as a CTO at a YC startup, I've created an environment where devs have good work/life balance, time off is encouraged, engineering has significant say and sway on product decisions, etc., but this is by no means the industry norm.

On the infosec side, the industry norm seems to be infosec is largely consolidating as the industry switches to outsourcing everything to public clouds (read: disappearing), and what remains is pretty relaxed unless you are chasing bounties all day, which is typically a self-driven situation. Penetration tests for example seem to have longer timelines these days even though most of the tools are now automated (our startup just went through SOC-2, and I can tell you from the server logs almost all the checks on our staging server happened in the last 72 hours of the evaluation period). My assumption is for the other 26 days of the evaluation they are indeed playing call of duty, and so it goes for the whole infosec industry.
TBH I'd love to have Touch Bar but improved with haptic feedback, making it much more useful.

It helped me a lot while debugging and loved the customization it offered for the "static" keys on the right, but having no haptic feedback always caused me to miss the button unless I stared at it, killing the purpose greatly.
Ignoring that none of the changes was presented as "revolutionary" (the touchbar wasn't mentioned, magsafe was referred to as "Brought back", and the ports were simply noted for convenience), for some small but very loud subset of HN users, an Apple event is all a giant lie if it apparently isn't hosted by some sneering Apple detractor.

It's an Apple product launch. Like every product launch ever in the history of ever, they point out the features of the thing they launch.
Wow looks like Apple has abandoned every bad decision on the MBP for the past 5 years in one swoop. No touchbar, increased key travel, added back hdmi/sd/headphone/power jacks.

Plus bumped up RAM limit, M1, new displays, 120Hz... Wow.
To think that I had entertained the thought for 6 months or so that I had did it enough a d would not have to post this link again: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#LGPLStaticVsDyn...

The LGPL text does not require dynamic linking. It's FUD.

What the LGPL requires is that the LGPL part can be replaced. That's possible with static linking, that's possible with other languages than the ones relying on a linker step, etc.
Given the power efficiency of the M1, I’m not sure it matters all that much.
But that notch is kind of a really ugly blight on the face of an otherwise good looking update. Especially since it's lacking faceid or something equivalent to windows hello
Ah now we're thinking with portals.. perhaps they can sell a set of 3 for this exact use?

If you're playing games or something that takes heavy focus, you want to stay ahead of charging, not wait for something to die l.
I would imagine that it letterboxes the display for any apps that don't support the extended display.
This article seems to be mostly a eulogy of someone who seemed to be a good teacher and a good person. That's great, although a bit odd material for HN's front-page.

But he does this mostly by comparing and contrasting his father's teaching style with a straw man or caricature of "modern" pedagogy, which I find to be unwarranted.

There are still good teachers out there. The Socratic method is still used to great effect. Sure, there are poorly run classrooms out there (always have been), and norms around discipline have changed, but that by no means this entire generation is weak minded.

Some of it is downright untrue, too. My kids would LOVE to be informed they could re-take a test as many times as they wanted.

Unfortunately this mostly seems to be complaining about "kids these days" without any data to back up the assertions about what the kids these days actually are, and that isn't good content.
I tend to be hypercritical of Apple these days, and even I'm excited about this machine. Removing the touchbar, bringing back MagSafe, useful ports, etc. vastly overshadows the notch.
It makes me sad that no one will never be able to build anything with those chips.

I imagine there could me many, many innovative products built with these chips if Apple sold them and supported Linux (or even Windows).
Yeah, but can it run CUDA pipelines?
What's the other option? Under the screen has image quality issues. A thicker bezel means less screen space. Sticking up over the display is a worse compromise. Putting it on the bottom of the display really isn't ideal.

For most people, the only thing it covers is the menu bar.
This is literally a dream laptop. Improved in every area and lacking in none I can think of right now. And the price is crazy cheap for this performance if you ask me.
That's not really the debate in Python :)

Almost every Python user now has to "deal" with type annotations. It's tempting to gradually add type annotations, it's nice documentation.

But it also rubs me the wrong way to have annotations that are never checked(!). In many codebases, you might just have "casual" style type annotations in Python, and nothing ever asserts that they hold. That's nagging on me, a bit.
I wonder. Maybe full screen will behave differently and the menu bar will never be hidden?

Otherwise I am looking at my web browser in full screen and how do you design around that? You have to push the tabs down anyway, might as well just make the menu bar static.
I kindof think of them as a giant set of unit tests. The compiler/linter etc. can check every variable and every function call to check to make sure you didn't mix up your types, which _will_ blow up at runtime if you got them wrong.

So rather than write them all by hand, just get your tools to do it.
Apple headline: New chip is faster than old chip.

HN: 54 points

Slow news day.
Great update, I think Apple did the right thing by ignoring developers this time. 70% of their customers are either creatives who rely on proprietary apps, or people who just want a bigger iPhone. Those people will be really happy with this upgrade, but I have to wonder what the other 30% is thinking. It'll be interesting to see how Apple continues to slowly shut out portions of their prosumer market in the interest of making A Better Laptop.
How many people are mad at Joe Rogan on this issue at this moment? None, they're all on Chappelle right now, it'll be someone else soon.

One other note, on CK, I wonder the overlap between people who want him punished forever and those who support rehabilitation of actual felons.