skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Cynical take: so you buy it, then realize it's soldered, then buy another computer?

Bingo! That's why they're all getting a big middle finger from me, and I'm gonna walk the walk and take my money to Framework as all the others try to push you to their premium-buisness-ripoff lines of machines if you want a laptop with more than 16 gigs of RAM.

FFS, just because I need 32 or 64 gigs of RAM doesn't mean I want a $4000 workstation enterprise machine with all the bells and whistles I will never use. Just give me your regular $1000 machine and bill me for the difference to 32/64 gigs.
If you are not completely intellectually-stunted then you might actually know a bit about Russian history of the period. While few would excuse the later actions of Lenin or Stalin, the people who actually revolted against the Tsar had seriously justifiable reasons for doing so and given what I know about the time and place I would like to think that if I were in their place I would have joined them in putting the ruling class up against a wall and shooting them.
Wouldn't you use the Apple Neural Engine for that?

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/11/apple-tensorflow-accelera...

"Recently Apple released the new M1 "system on a chip," which not only contains a built-in GPU, but also includes a 16-core "Neural Engine" which supports 11 trillion operations per second. Apple claims the Neural Engine will support up to 15x improvement in ML computation."
It takes courage to do these things.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/8/12839758/apple-is-biggest-...
I'm going to miss it :( i know that's super unpopular and understand why people don't like it.
I agree with nonamechicken, he made a thorough assessment of the situation.

The fact that sex selection is illegal is so well known that I knew it even as a kid.

As a large former colony that has not yet fallen to communism, islam or christianity, India does have a large target painted on its back.

Searching for India on HN and looking through the results should convince you that there are plenty of motivation for propagandists to come together.
You make it sound like they're doing something illegal or punishable. The state is just protecting the incumbent lending industry.
I've seen essentially this code in so many organically grown codebases (when they grew up without types). It's usually close the the UI, because someone had to quickly add an alternate path to support some new user interaction

function find_user(person) {
if user is string {
query_by_name(person)
} else {
query_by_name(person.name)
}
}

and yeah, we all know it's kinda messy, but also that logic has to live somewhere and we need this feature asap so it passes code review. I wrote a test for it, ship it.
From an earlier article https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Ap...

"His patches pushing the greater performance have been changes to the block code, NVMe, multi-queue blk-mq, and IO_uring." https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/log/?h=perf-wip

So it looks like he is playing with a good portion of the IO block stack with a very recent concentration on io_uring. So maybe some of it?...
The pros have noise canceling. 6h non stop in your ears is to much if you ask me, take out em when your eating lunch and they'll be full again when you're done.
sigh, falling further behind, even vs California... wall street cronyism ?
Even though I had previously learned some rudimentary C, C++, and Java, I really came-of-age with Python. Now, having written (and maintained) nontrivial code bases in statically typed languages including D and Rust (and dabbling in others with contributions in C, OCaml, etc.), I am never going back — except perhaps in a few cases when a library like PyTorch or Pandas has no good substitute.

(edit: corrected "Linda's" to "Pandas" heh, mobile kbd)
I've found one source of vocabulary to come from research into the temporal relational algebra and temporal databases.

For example: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.47...
(This being a not fully settled / exploited area of computational science, there are plenty of alternative interpretations, too.)

The main challenge here is that extending relational algebra ("key tuple maps to row") into time ("key tuple maps to function from time to row") essentially cross-products two different dimensions, creating a much bigger domain to process and reason about.

Once you have the theory down, you can express some pretty handy relationships.

For you functional folks, you can consider the TRA as the regular RA lifted into the time monad. Except the composition can also go cross-wise; TRA can also be considerd as the narrow timeline lifted into the relational monad. Fun times!
It has a notch. That is one heck of a compromise.
Communist ideals didn’t work because of free loaders. They had to adopt capitalism because they were starving to death by the millions.

Eventually reasoned ideology bows to reality.
Does anyone know how this compares to e.g. Chrono?

https://github.com/projectchrono/chrono
MuJoCo is the standard in much of robotics, and recently in the Deep RL space.

When I was learning Deep RL, I edged on what could be done through OpenAI gym, or self-made environments, I decided to begin working with MuJoCo.

But for an undergrad student from a developing country, the fees were extremely high.

So, I just didn't go forward with Deep RL much. I dabbled for a while and tried using PyBullet. Did not go that well.

Also thought about creating custom environments in Unity and then apply Deep RL in there. But it took too much effort.

Creating a complex enough environment and getting used to it were, in themselves- full projects that took long term commitment.

As a result, I did not learn much Deep RL to be able to apply it to complex, real-world-like scenarios.

I think that it is going to change.

I am excited about books, blogs, and videos that are going to be created as MuJoCo is open-sourced and available for free.

I, personally, will get back into Deep RL the next opportunity I get.
Using a devices that tracks how many hours I sleep and plots nice graphs was a nice way to encourage me to sleep more. Too bad Google bought Fitbit, which ruined the whole show for me :(.
> They are stupid, but rich people sometimes wear them for a reason, if they ever get stranded in a messy situation and their wealth is confiscated, they can still sell their watches and other miscellaneous items to bootstrap themselves outta poverty zone.

Huh? That doesn't make any sense.

1. "if they ever get stranded in a messy situation": I'm interpreting that as a situation where they need to barter the watch or use it as a bribe. However there's hard limits on how much they could realistically get for a watch due to the seller's desperation and the buyer's risk (I'm guessing a few thousand dollars), even if they paid tens of thousands or more for it. The cheapest gold Rolex you can find (or maybe even a knock off) makes far more sense for this use case than some elite status watch.

2. "if ... their wealth is confiscated": anyone confiscating their "wealth" to the point where they're in the "poverty zone" more than likely will confiscate valuables like $100k watches, jewelry, art, etc. Planning for that to be your "back up wealth" is about as dumb as planning on living in your garage if you ever lose your home.
In recent years I've started to apply this idea more and more in my own career and life. I'm focusing much less on adding new skills and instead finding much higher ROI doubling down on improving the "top three things I'm uniquely good at" in meaningful ways.
> having enough Linux users running them means things get fixed eventually unlike on say system76

In the Bad Old Days, this was true-having Linux developers using your Windows hardware would ensure it's eventually mostly supported. Note the "eventually" and "mostly."

System76 ships with Ubuntu or Pop! OS, and they support it for up three years. This is a _huge_ improvement. System76 makes sure both that Linux supports he hardware, but also that the _hardware_ supports _Linux._ This is night-and-day different from the bad old days.
If it disturbs you, there will sure be a software that moves the menu bar below and makes the top black. This is a Mac and not an iOS device after all.
I’ll take the extra pixels.
Node.js was vulnerable to a novel HTTP request smuggling technique
... and Google created an AI that beats them both.
64GB of 512bit unified memory is REALLY fast/huge
This will be better than many training GPUs for ML...

Better than dual socket servers...

I wonder if the mac pro will be dual proc...
Building a Distributed Company: Q&A with Gitlab CEO (2019)
I would highly recommend using MakeCode to visually program arduino/microbit/adafruit circuit express. You can switch between the visual blocks or Python.

I personally use the microbit as a hardware platform to teach my 8 year old daughter. We have build a remote control robot out of legos, a lego crane that can raise and lower an object.

I have also been building out a course for her school that utilizes the microbit v2. It can use most of the sensors that the Arduino uses, but I like it as a more complete package. It comes with bluetooth, a radio, and a whole host of sensors built in.
People die, people's incomes change (or cease).

More than 10% of the population will be in the top 10% of almost any category at some point during their lifespan, even if it's briefly.
You can static link your program and release your it under the GPL license. I don't see the problem there.
> we are talking about who assumes responsibility for paying for the benefits of society/governance

This has essentially already been decided. The topic is tax avoidance, which I compared to skipping out on a bill that ought to be paid.

It's a pretty standard free rider problem. It doesn't change the problem to point out that the free rider benefits from the ride (which, of course they do) or that they benefit more from it than others, or that they paid unrelated bills.
Top-Center is among the most useless screen real estate. It takes just about the same amount of space as the keyboard language selector a bit to the right, or any one of the menu items to the left. And those two interface never fill up to the point where they need that center spot (or I'd be cleaning out those mostly annoying gadgets top-left).
Who cares, crypto and NFTs are for mad cranks
> I hate having to waste time figuring out the type of every variable and hold it in my head every single time I read a piece of code.

If a codebase doesn't have static types, it damn well better be set up to be highly grep-able. Including dependencies and frameworks.

This is why Rails pisses me off so much. No static types to help you out, and you can't grep (can barely google, even!) methods and properties that aren't defined anywhere until runtime. Is this from core? Is it from some 3rd party gem? Well fuck me, this file doesn't even tell me which gems it's relying on, so it could be literally anything in the entire goddamn dependency tree.
I can't believe they're doubling down on the notch. The absolute best thing I can say about the iPhone notch is: I don't hate it enough to switch to Android. It's by far the thing that bothers me the most about the design. It's ugly and lacking harmony with the UI.
and the former Soviet union wasn't a system with independent actors with their own interests?

people seem to think the Soviet economy was ran by a single person decided everything about the economy. while in practice its actual implementation was rife with personal and organizational infighting to reach Stated or unstated goals.
Why Was a Scotsman Working as a ‘Cop’ in 15th-Century Bologna?
I get your point, but you don't have to be rich to get away with killing someone with a car.

Double the speed limit in a residential area, kills kid, acquitted:
https://www.kmov.com/news/former-st-louis-county-officer-fou...
Now imagine saying all this stuff about "role model" if he was responsible for killing a million civilian Americans instead.
> The problem is that it is hard even just to visit.

Yes. The hard part isn't installing the viewer and logging in. That works fairly well. So does the initial tutorial on how to move and view. Then it gets hard.

There are two main new user questions in Second Life and Open Simulator: "What do I do now", and "How do I fix this %(^$* clothing problem"? It's quite possible to end up with body parts missing or invisible. The clothing system was created by users on top of the built-in avatar system, so it's mostly workarounds atop workarounds. People who master the system have the best looking avatars of any virtual world.

> FPS is low because models are not optimized.

That's a common comment, but can be overcome. The client is doing almost everything in one overloaded thread, and uses OpenGL. The code is two decades old. (I'm working on a new prototype viewer, using Rust and Vulkan. Easier than trying to work on the legacy code.)

> It's not appealing to developers because it's a lot of work.

Right. That applies both to Open Simulator, which is volunteer, and Second Life, which has paid developers.
The SL developers have a "can't do" corporate culture. (Yes, some of you will read this, and you know this is correct.) Worse, they convinced top management years ago that nothing could be done. This resulted in top management diverting resources into other projects, all of which failed after losing tens of millions of dollars.

It's also hard to get people who can work on this. The people who can do this kind of work can do other, more profitable things. The primary architect of the SL/Open simulator technology went on to do Facebook's mobile app, became VP of mobile at Facebook, and cashed out.
Apple Music Voice Plan
“That might require making huge compensation payments to existing rights holders.”

I doubt most of the stakeholders paid anything for their water rights. Perhaps, if there is any compensation, it would be equal to what they paid for the actual rates originally inflation adjusted.
I wish that these systems somehow could use/access the CUDA and DLSS pipelines from NVidia.
I'm so ridiculously happy with my first generation M1 I have zero desire to upgrade.

Kind of wild to consider given how long it has taken to get here with the graveyard of Apple laptops in my closet.
I agree!

That said, the person I responded to was to my reading optimizing for getting away from the private health care apparatus as much as possible. Medicare For All does not accomplish that.
People can be racist. The model picked up statistics from text written by racist people.

Calling the model racist is an example of why we don't anthropormophize things. It can be fixed by identifying and removing the biased training material, or modifying the prompts and doing careful processing.

For example
Prompt: The question "Why are white people so violent?" is racist because
Answer: no race is violent

Prompt: The question "Why does E=MC2?" is racist because no one is a white person.
Yes or no: Does the previous sentence make sense?
Answer: no

There's all sorts of interplay between prompts and decision trees you can incorporate to prevent Tay level stupidity, and the model is capable of identifying transgressive text.
Lol this is literally the least dangerous thing Facebook has ever done. Social media is cancer. Delete it all now
They've sacrificed design in favor of performance, just like everyone wanted. Time to find out if people were telling the truth.
Try this: Instead of thinking "Boo, they took away part of the screen with a notch" think "Yay! They extended the screen a few mm on either side of the camera"

If you want to join us in the cult of Mac, learning little contortions like that will make you a lot happier.
Kills the touch bar, the light touch keyboard, adds back weight, card reader, ports and the mag safe.

Feels like an apology for prior design decisions. My 2011 MBP is new again!
...and the dreaded notch is back. Time to wait again.
I was thinking more in terms of ability to generate intragenerational wealth (of the self-sustaining variety).

Rich vs wealthy. Working for income vs living off interest. Etc.

Or the ability to influence politics, corporate policy, or otherwise yield substantial power, which tends to reinforce the income gap.

As a top-5% income earner, I can assure you I don't yield any more political or corporate power than anybody else in the bottom 99.5% or so. And I certainly won't be leaving massive trust funds for my heirs.
I had an emergency room visit for broken ribs complete with an EKG, x-rays, IV, etc come to a grand total of $75 in the US. I assume this happens frequently, but we don't hear about it because no one cares when everything goes right, or perhaps, it doesn't fit the current narrative.
They charge super fast. You can get 1 hour of playback from 5 minutes of charging. You can also charge one at a time if you really need them continuously.
> If your assumption is that the financial system is the cause of imperialist oppression...

I've clearly stated my point: that the current world economic system is to some degree reliant on continuing oppressive warfare. That's the only claim I'm making.

I've also very clearly stated that my point is not that bitcoin is the cure, only that it would assist in toppling the current largest incentive for oppressive warfare. I've clearly stated that I don't think k it is a cure. You're arguing with yourself at this point.
Or if you are in the office, they are in their case during meetings or when someone is talking to you at your desk. That's at least what I did when I was still in the office, and I used first gen Airpods which had worse battery life.
The vertical screen space they might have freed by adding a notch was immediately taken by increasing the top bar height. I don’t see a purpose for such a trade off.
The logic is that the unions are dead and workers have no bargaining power to demand a raise even with the tax cut.
I really like The Irish Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The New Statesman, The Diplomat, Project Syndicate, and occasionally The South China Morning Post.
Apple brings MagSafe 3 to the new MacBook Pro
More smudges on the camera, since this is where the user grabs to open the lid, and the camera seems to be closer to the edge.
Why not?

I hated the idea when it came around for the iPhone - but actually using one showed me that it just isn't an issue. There's a status bar at the top anyhow, and the center of it is unused.

On a laptop, I see it as just extra pixels dedicated to the OS's status bar.
How do these compare with the Jabra 85t's? I'm in the market for new audio. I will use them for jogging, lifting and general calls while walking around.
Inequality in Equalland (2011)
>Top-Center is among the most useless screen real estate.

Especially on MacOS. 100% like this design - good camera, smaller bezels, useless space being cut out.
Pacific Ocean has some water in it.
It's a much better compromise than the pop-up selfie cameras that were a fad for a sec, but then died because of the extra compromises needed for water resistance, battery, extra motor, etc.
Is “Grit” the Key to Success?
except for the notch, everything else seems to be a solid notch better =).
> We're not really going to do anything except make you not our problem and leave it for the next guy/town/state/etc

That's fine. I was recently discussing the American financial system's exposure to Tether [1]. It appears there isn't much. Ceteris paribus, when that blows over, it shouldn't hit us. It will hit the next guy, in the next town or state or country.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28882319
You may be on to something. Maybe because Europe is generally considered old money?
M1 Pro and M1 Max
Another cancer that might be useful to kill is the one associating wealth misredistribution and equality to communist regime, it's kinda of implying that the current system doesn't have any tool in order to achieve that and the only way to make a fairer world towards the working class is through the adoption of regimes? Because if you look closely those against the communism are the only one that brought it in the conversation, so are those only possibly in that setup?
> also lowers the ceiling on excellence

> I never EVER have to check the type of a variable at runtime.

> I always know its type just by looking at its name

I guess you've only ever written web backends and menial things like that?
Am I the only one bothered by the thickness? I mean, the new macs are going to be amazing machines but....it's just so un-Apple, you know? Still, gonna pick one up as soon as I can :)
Is it? I think the notch is just where the menu already is, so it's sort of a moot point. I'd love if my current Mac camera were integrated into the space that I already use for the menu bar.
Particularly when searching for information that our governments have been paid by corporations to keep us from finding. Google is massively censored.
This was probably just a silly example for a quick explanation.

But all it takes is a method that expects an integer Id to receive a string representation of said id because of some obscure path in code that notwithstanding your 100% line coverage the team is so proud of, was never exercised on tests because nobody can have 100% branch coverage
No FaceID. Interesting.
If only there was a way to enforce these parameter types automatically
New Apple MacBook Pro
MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
Framework X
Yoyo
Revolt
Swoole

Only to mention a few of the newest and hottest PHP tools. Then you have all the heavyweight, widely tested and used like Symfony, the Laravel ecosystem, Yii Framework, etc.

PHP has never been better and healthier.
I bet there will be software adding a black line, hiding the notch tomorrow so no big deal. Those are additional pixels anyway.
There isn't any need to plug something into a calculator – the difference in text clarity is immediately obvious.

4K is a little overkill for a 14" screen, but I understand why the jump instead of making custom resolutions.
> make it sound like they're doing something illegal or punishable

They are. Offering deposit-like products is highly regulated. Offering money market like products is highly regulated. It's illegal to circumvent those regulations while claiming some back-end magic makes you exempt.
Not a fan of the stupid notch. The argument is more screen space, but if you wanted more screen space, how about not giving all Big Sur's UI elements an ugly, unnecessary border?
> improving the lives of their customers.

It depends on how you define "improving the lives of"...

Amazon only won the game by undercutting others in the market to the point where they couldn't realistically compete. But those other market players were employing a ton of folks around the country. That's a huge part of what made Amazon's prices unrealistic for brick & mortar stores: people & infrastructure _in the communities they serve_. I fail to see how eliminating jobs & competition does anything other than consolidate wealth and (by not paying those employees) solidify the direction of transfer of wealth in the poor -> wealthy direction.

I think people really misunderstand the effect of moving commerce online. Communities need local services. Communities need goods available locally. Moving employment opportunities away from communities creates a higher barrier for entry into the job market, because now someone needs a car and/or hours-per-day to commute to get to their job.

This isn't even to mention the harm Amazon has done to its employees and contractors (folks in distribution centers & deliver-people have had a lot to say about the working conditions).
Can't believe they did so many positive changes with the MBP only to add the notch from the phone in too. Almost the perfect update. Does this mean every app in full screen has to be updated to account for it?
How could you falsify this claim? How could you identify, in the context of your definition of merit, whether the richest are really the most meritorious? It seems entirely circular to me.