skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never had an Uber driver pretend their card machine is broken / take the long way around town / etc. Taxes used to -s-u-c-k-
That's their point, it's literally self selection: people who do not care about the notch are not going to write comments about it, and people who care are never going to shut up about it, giving an extremely poor window for understanding how much it actually matters or how it impacts real use. That complaints like this are self-selective is both well known and the OP's entire point; it's amazing how much effort all the replies seem to be going through to not understand this.
That's because the terminology is dumb! Or at least, very misleading, since it's anchored on a different part of the spec than the previous dominant terminology
I can remember that in the beginning it felt cumbersome to me because I wasn't all too familiar with that language's type system and so I had all kinds of errors thrown at me.

But it's something you just have to get used to, and now that I understand it much better I feel more productive and have more confidence in my code. And the communication aspect is definitely a great help too. No handwritten documentation can be this consistent, completely independent of who touched the code (though to be fair, it's still difficult to get the naming right).

I can't imagine the people calling it a waste of time got over the hump in the beginning. To me it's obviously a timesaver. It does a tedious, difficult (for humans) task and does it quickly & with perfect accuracy. Beforehand worrying about all the type signatures and interfaces felt like 4D Sudoku across various modules, now I can concentrate on the interesting parts.
+1 for a helpful recommendation. Much appreciated.
My only concern is if it will distract me from work with it always sticking out.
Yep...

> "There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there's some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly," Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program, said at a media briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday.

This was science not that long ago [0]... Then whoops, mandatory masks... "but trust science now, we're surely 100% correct now!".

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-mas...
When my startup was acquired, we had to migrate from using Expensify to some god-awful corporate nonsense (SAP Concur).

Lord, how I miss Expensify. It was the epitome of intuitive.

It makes me sad that Expensify was not a first-mover in this space. Once SAP or whatever garbage-ware gets baked into corporate enterprise architecture, it takes an act of God (or equivalently the CTO's dedicated focus) to replace it.
That's fundamental to how NAND flash memory works. For high-end PCIe Gen4 SSD product lines, the 1TB models are usually not quite as fast as the 2TB models, and 512GB models can barely use the extra bandwidth over PCIe Gen3. But 2TB is usually enough to saturate the SSD controller or host interface when using PCIe Gen4 and TLC NAND.
You need to understand that I'm talking about net taxes. Referencing [0], the bottom 20% of households have a median market income of $15,800. They receive $9,600 in transfers and services. Their pre-tax income is $25,400 and they pay $800 in taxes. States and municipal taxes vary, but even high sales tax states and counties have rates of 15% or less. Let's call it 20% just to be extra generous in the discussion. Take their $24,500 in after tax dollars and spend every bit of it and pay 20% on all transactions. These households have paid $4,900 in non-federal taxes. So their net contribution across all levels of government is $4,900 - $9,600 = $-4,700. On a net basis, they don't pay for any part of the operations of the country at any level because the federal transfers pay for all of their non-federal tax burden.

If you look at the second quintile and do the same math, you also get a negative result. Only at the middle quintile does it even become possible for them to spend so much locally that their local taxes offset the amount in transfers and services.

I stand by my statement that a very large portion of Americans don't pay for any government. Assuming you consider ~40% of Americans to be a very large portion. I didn't say a majority, just a very large portion. Though it is possible that a majority of households don't pay for any government, depending on the specifics of their local tax rates and spending habits. If the middle quintile doesn't spend ALL their money at a local average tax rate of 12.8%, then they don't contribute either.

0. See page 31, table 1 of 2013 Distribution of Household Income and Taxes [pdf], https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-...
They literally had a Unity developer in the showcase during the keynote.
How much of that 64 GB is in use at the same time though? Caching not recently used stuff from DRAM out to an SSD isn't actually that slow, especially with the high speed SSD that Apple uses.
Yep. Starts at $2500 CAD before the extra 13% tax :( and that's not even the spec I would want
All of these are available and widely used in C++ (for example [1]). They are not enough.

[1]: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html#...
I don't understand comments like this. They're not buying it and they're explaining why.
Could this be an older version?

The current version should be:

https://www.openjscad.xyz/
Why is it meaningless? A lot of investment bankers quit, change professions or get laid off and can never re-enter the market. Just look at the number of analysts vs MDs and you'll see that the funnel gets a lot narrower at every stage. And you don't see many analysts in their 30s, so where do they go? There's a lot of turnover in the top 1% and 10%.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/01/07/news/economy/top-1/index.ht...
Salon is not news, it's yellow journalism.
Why? There are plenty of server oriented ARM platforms available for use (See AWS Graviton). What benefit do you feel Apple’s platform gives over existing ones?
Slow growth over 13 years in an easy-to-monetize category can get you there.
Or if your menu bar has so many items it can't all fit to the left of the notch? Would probably have to straddle the notch, but would still look pretty weird.
I was skeptical going from 2011 macbookpro keyboard to 2021 MacbookAir M1... but the new keyboard is a _JOY_!
rails on science while throwing out social sciences theories left and right as undeniable truth, all unironically.
A single big core in the M1 could pretty much saturate the memory bandwidth available.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
Yes, way worse.

Nice attempt to spin the question. Sounds familiar at RT
The Ruby VM a Speedrun – Penelope Phippen [video]
Just configured a MBP 16" with M1 Max, 64GB RAM and 2TB SSD. Delivery (USA) December 23-rd. WTF?
He typically just dual-boots windows anyway so selection isn't much of an issue, though I also don't know if that is working yet on the M1 platform
Microdosing LSD, duh. This is HN.
Seconding this. If both iOS and MacOS had a "Pro Mode" that didn't treat me like a toddler, I'd be jumping into the Apple ecosystem head-first.
You can use the power port to connect a dongle too. I have two dongles that have multiple interfaces, as well as a power passthrough so I could connect my power to either one of them. Though I don't use either because my usb-c monitor powers the MacBook.
In which domains do you believe it's ineffective?
What actually is a "pop-up store"?
Is it a store that is only intended to have a short-lifespan?
If so are they fraudulently misrepresenting growth coming into an IPO?
The iPhone 12? You must have gotten a bad shipment because they’re supposed to include a USB-C to lightning cable.
The article goes a little too far -- the quoted statement isn't true. You can create a local account after the OOB experience finishes. You only need a Microsoft account during the setup process. It's still dumb but the author isn't telling the whole truth here.
I think for non-marketing technical folks, these are best described thus:

“Here are the AirPods Pro internals translated to the regular AirPods form factor, without the noise-cancelling and modular-tips, for $50 less.”
Why is that a defeat? Did he think he was good with people, or want to interact with clients? Or at your company was the parser team a professional dead-end or something?
Cool. When you chose CloudFlare, did you also look at Fly.io?
The notch doesn't look annoying on the Mac as that area is used by the menu bar anyway. However, I don't understand the reason for it since it doesn't have faceid. Why not just go for a punch hole design? What else is in that notch??
Penzeys Spices is also really well-known political activism and it seems to be working for them -- it's just part of their brand now to get emails from an impassioned CEO who really really hated Trump and willing to put his money where his mouth is to the tune of almost a million dollars last election.

So many people vowed to boycott them but it never really came to anything and they made a nice profit off of trolling Trump supporters.
> c# is primarily a windows-oriented development environment so probably not so great.

I'm not confident that is still true today. .net core is multi-platform all-the-way and is the future.
Maybe they added the notch so that when they remove it next year people will have to dish out another 2-5k to get the non-notch version. Specially given that there were a lot rumors that iPhone was going to get rid of its notch this year. Now it's likely to happen next year.
Other companies say "We listened to your feedback and delivered."
What alternative methods do you suggest for the "domains it doesn't fit"?
The Agony over Dorland vs. Larson: The Case of the Bad Art Friend Explained
Bad Art Friend explained in a legal overview and summary. One of my dear friends told me about an article called Who Is the Bad Art Friend from the New York Times that was rocking the writing world. The lengthy article from the NYT details how writer Dawn Dorland ended up suing writer Sonya Larson for copyright infringement.
Strange: you'd think that nerds shut in their rooms is the perfect circumstance for coding.
I think you missed (or at least aren't building off of) the point of my comment.

I'm not questioning the pedagogy in the original comment, just the specific math. x^(1/10) takes a value of dimension [length^10] to a value of dimension [length].

Interestingly, I think you could take this in a few aesthetic directions. From a pure math perspective, this is where you can start talking about set theory, cardinality, etc. Irrational numbers are infinite sequences of digits we can only approximate. From a computer science perspective, you can talk about Newton's method, and also make the argument than an algorithm which converges to a number is a quite meaningful way to describe that number. Some would also add a caveat of 'efficiently' converging. And combining the two perspectives together, you can discuss that the set of computable numbers are of a lower cardinality than the set of reals -- aka 0% of real numbers are computable. You could also look at things from a geometrical perspective, and show how roots higher than square roots are tied to higher dimensions are are nonconstructible in the plane (this might be very hard to show!).
We should stop making Science a religion. Science is a powerful tool for generating and validating models of how things work. But it often works slowly and is certainly fallible (at least in the short run). Science as a methodology and persuit should be praised and supported, but shouldn't be followed blindly based on the views of a subset of scientists. Scientists often disagree about the details of models -- more than people outside the field would believe.
found a (new) 1 TB usb-c flash drive that does up to 1000 MB/s read and 900 MB/s write.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1655140-REG/kingston_...
The XPS has a 720p camera and people complain on forums it has terrible picture quality. It also has thicker bezels than these new macbooks.

I think apple made the right trade-off. Thin bezels and a good camera at the top of the display. Sadly you cannot have both in a laptop without a notched design.
Are they also not allowed to comment about it?
Where are you seeing that? The only comparisons I've seen were labeled as being against Intel and AMD integrated graphics.
Do people really train locally? I'd have thought the field moved to aws or some other hpc by now. Seems like a waste buying such a nice laptop to just melt and abuse it when you can abuse amazon's hardware instead. The battery won't be happy being discharged every day since it seems like in my experience macbooks don't bypass the battery when on ac power unless you start the computer up with the batty unplugged (not so easy on newer computers)
It’s only a matter of your preference, whether you like more real estate on the screen or better portability.
I'm talking specifically about R2 and other offerings where they're competing more directly with AWS.

Their other stuff is where you want to be in business. Market leading technology that you can charge a premium for.
"Prudent households worldwide increased savings by $2.7T."
Just a fun anecdote: unless you print your emails on paper, it's unlikely considering the entire Internet weighs 60 grams.

Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/jun/07/guardianw....
>the stuff some random wacko posts on YouTube/Facebook/Twitter/whatever"

The problem is the way that it has become trendy to use such disclaimers to dismiss, in a very handwavy way, the "wacko posts" that are actually sourced from legitimate researchers and/or research which happen to fall on the wrong side of "consensus". And the truth is that the vast majority of people who insist that these are "wacko posts" are just as ignorant as the posters, substituting authoritarian faith in "science" for actual knowledge regarding the subjects that they feel so passionately about.

I doubt the average "pro vaxxer" has read any more scientific literature than the average "anti covid vaxxer" for example. And so this appeal to authority becomes a pure vehicle for dogma. You don't have to prove anybody right or wrong, just associate your opposition with the "facebook wackos" and suddenly you've sneakily convinced vast swaths of followers that a certain opinion or conjecture is false, because duh, you're not listening to those cooky wackos, are you?

In the words of a certain infamous broadcasting station, "this is extremely dangerous to our democracy".
I've hopped, but it's mostly been driven by mergers and such. When the company ceases to be the company that hired me, I move on. This has still resulted in changing jobs every 3 years or so.
As someone who bought a new MBP 2 years ago, and never wanted a TB, why do you like it? What's the use case? In my situation, I run in clamshell mode, connected to a large 4K monitor 90% of the time, so I can't even touch it most of the time, but I never found a use for it that wasn't inferior than the function keys it replaced.
14" + M1 Max (24 GPU cores) with 32 Gb Ram is the sweet spot imho. It costs a bit more but you get twice the memory bandwidth and double the ram, which will always prove handy.

I develop iOS apps and I think this is the sweet spot. I am not sure what impact the extra bandwidth of the M1 Max will have though. We will have to wait to see. For video editing is clear. For Xcode not so sure.

14 or 16 inches is up to personal preference. I just value more the smaller package and the reduced weight. Performance is about the same.
Good point on the presumably different behavior of people who might underestimate how much at/of a risk they actually are.

And I agree that the weakest the "protect others" is, the least justifiable mandates are. The story is definitely not as straightforward as it's often portrayed.

Thank you for the peaceful exchange, I've very much enjoyed it.
The Apple cores are full custom, Apple-only designs.

The AWS Graviton are Neoverse cores, which are pretty good, but clearly these Apple-only M1 cores are above-and-beyond.

---------

That being said: these M1 cores (and Neoverse cores) are missing SMT / Hyperthreading, and a few other features I'd expect in a server product. Servers are fine with the bandwidth/latency tradeoff: more (better) bandwidth but at worse (highter) latencies.
Was it also "true" in 1877 when Giovanni Schiaparelli detected canals on mars that there were canals on mars?
> I expected them to have some plan to ensure users don't get fucked if someone sells their house.

Well, they probably banned the owner from the platform, easy-peasy;)
From Wikipedia: Science (from Latin scientia 'knowledge')[1] is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world.

Science can be equated with Truth, but not what passes as science these days. All the author talks about are papers, peer reviews and academia, which at this point everyone is aware, is full of fabrication. Countless peer reviewed papers don't have findings that can be reproduced, a lot of them are just summaries of other questionable studies. I think it's important to define what is considered science and what is not science before we get into the discussion of whether science is the Truth or not.
Intel's 2021 laptop chips (Alder Lake) are rumoured to be released later this month (usually actual availability is a few months after "release"). I expect them to be pretty compelling compared to the previous generation Intel parts, and maybe even vs AMD's latest. But the new "Intel 7" node (formerly 10++ or something) is almost certainly going to be behind TSMC N5 in power and performance, so Apple will most likely still have the upper hand.
Much better mic, much better camera, much better speakers, much better battery. There’s a lot more in this 2k Pro compared to Air.
They are repairable, but not by consumers in most cases.
Just do subcategories like the actual Dewey Decimal system

30 Hobbies
31 Solo sports
31.1 Weight Lifting
31.2 Running
32 Team sports
32.1 Football
33...

You get the idea.
I like the ability to connect my laptop to my monitor with a single USB-C cable and charge off that. I wouldn't mind having both options - MagSafe in my bedroom, USB-C at my desk.
This isn't relevant to the chips. Take this to the other thread.
It'd be great if they wrote up their analysis along with the anonymized data so that independent researchers could check their results.
lol... public service... yes, they are greedy AF:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/rheumatology/generalrheumatolog...

Colchicine, the old gout drug often cited as a cheap anti-inflammatory, hasn't been such a good deal since FDA approval, a study showed.

The inflation- and rebate-adjusted Medicaid price per pill jumped from $0.24 in 2008 to $4.20 after the FDA officially approved a branded form, Colcrys, through the agency's Unapproved Drug Initiative pathway in 2009.

and

Accordingly, Medicaid spending on single-ingredient colchicine rose 2833%," they wrote, and "58% of this increase was attributable to price increases alone."

and

"Only a fraction of an investment was required for Colcrys, a product that has provided no increased value and an unnecessary, long-term cost burden to the health care system," argued B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, of the University of California San Francisco, in an accompanying editorial. "The current study findings illustrate that we can never allow such an egregious case to take place again."

say what you will but this is just stupid american bullshit.
> I disagree with the possibly unintended insinuations that children of rich people can't work hard because they have a safety net, that facebook was an easy success, etc etc.

did you really just try to defend the children of billionaires?
The obvious answer would a philosophical approach. And an example of a domain it doesn't fit would be ethics.
Legal documents printed by law firms are printed in black and white with laser printers, so the litigious class is shielded from the predatory practices that consumers put up with when buying color inkjet printers
this isn't real. Google has the worst results in comparison to both yandex, baidu, and even ddg/startpage/bing/any other google clone like duckduckgo.
I have never owned a Mac anything but the addition of an SD card slot is making this seem very attractive to me. Conversely the latest Surface Pro eliminated its little hidden microSD card reader, seems inexcusable for a device marketed as "Pro" and has really put a damper on my desire to upgrade.
You could always disable that sort of nonsense completely with Windows 7. That's (one reason) why Windows 7 was qualitatively better than the modern junk. Some of us actually do run multi-day jobs from time to time, and not having 100% control of your own computer in that environment is simply not an option.
The 16" is already built to maximum battery capacity by law
On reflection I think they've decided that their pro users want 'more GPU not more CPU' - they could easily have added a couple more CPU cores but it obviously wasn't a priority.

Agreed that it's hard to see how designing a CPU just for the Mac Pro would make any kind of economic sense but equally struggling to see what else they can do!
Non-traditional for sure. And I think most PR heads would highly discourage. Seems to work for this company OK. Thinking different can be an advantage.
improved tRAS times

Has this been documented anywhere? What timings are Apple using?
I think you're equating the pro-mask side with some pro-science side. None of which has to do with the validity of science, or what truth is. You're talking about politics.
In the early 90's there were two print magazines: "The C++ Report" and "The Smalltalk Report". The former, even with the far simpler language it was then, was chock full of programming arcana and 'what does this code do?' type puzzles. The latter, by contrast, had effectively zero such content. I loved both languages but this difference was always very stark.
All good points but:

1) In the pro market (audio, video, 3d, etc) performance is very relevant.

2) Battery time is important to all types of laptop users.

3) Apple is certainly working on more desktop alternatives.

4) You don't need move all your devices into the closed ecosystem just because you use a Mac. Also, some people just don't want to use macOS on principle, but I'm guessing this is a minority.

> AMD's product line has improved drastically over the past 4 years

My desktop Windows PC has a 3700X which was very impressive at the time, but it is roughly similar in perf to the "low end" M1 aimed at casual users.

> Their Zen 4 announcement may also be on the 5nm TSMC node, and could be within the ballpark of M1 Pro/Max for performance/efficiency, but available to the larger PC marketplace.

That would be great.
> Holding up the CIA as a bastion of virtue whilst denouncing the public faces of our war crimes is the best way to maintain your karma here.

You’re joking, right? The CIA is shit on all the time. It’s a fucking joke just like most other state run agencies that are all self-interested and don’t actually look out for the public good.

The CIA is responsible for huge amounts of horrible shit across the entire world. Constantly instilling puppet dictators and destabilizing countries for generations now - all for the glory of US capitalism and imperialism.

Doesn’t mean Colin Powell is absolved either. Everyone involved is to blame. Even the voters.
Whatabout laptops like the Asus rog flow 13? It's been 4K and possible to buy for half a year at least? Am I missing something?
I bought a USB-C lightning cable for my older iPhone X, but went magnetic wireless charging after so hardly ever use it.
Any heading that has the word 'may' indicates that the article is questionable.