skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually in threads about DDG a common refrain is "but the results are worse!" - generally to mean less specific. I always thought that was the feature -- they don't compile a history on you, track your location, etc. As a result, they take a best guess from a global context.

FWIW, I've been a DDG user full time (mobile and desktop) for ~5 years. I have learned to increase the specificity of my search (e.g. start with a programming language before typing an error string). Feels like a very small price to pay to avoid Google.
> "oh yeah we were stupid, here's your old toys back."

"We heard your feedback and we listened."
And they get away with it because Apple normalized it.
This was a "Shut up and take my money" day for me.

I've been running on a 3-year-old machine, straining at the leash, and it's time to change.

I made my order about a minute after the store went live, and I won't get it until next month. I suspect part of that, is because I'm getting the M1 Max processor.

They'll make a lot of money, this week.
Which makes sense because some of the earlier MacBook keyboards with physical keys, like the one I'm using right now, had half-height keys.
There is no steering wheel, simply a flat panel where you swipe to steer.

There is 3D Touch where a long press on the steering screen lets you set cruise control
The other consideration is that apparently a lot of Americans have their wealth tied up in their primary residence. It's a lot harder to own a lot of stock when single family homes cost a million dollars, and you have to live there to get access to the metro's Good Schools.
Bummer, I hooe usbc can still be used for charging. Abd that will be the default charger. I love the fact that I can charge my phone laptoo (lenovo) and my wifes macbook air all with the same charger.

Bummer 2, because now producers of tvs/monitors will have less drive to reolace old hdmi with usbc.

sd cards? Are they that popular nowadays?
You could just say "I want Linux" and get the same point across.
Most of CrateDB clusters run on cloud providers hardware (azure, aws, alibaba). Using EBS (GP2 or now GP3) is also quite common. Due to the indexing / storage engine, gp disks are typically sufficient and faster disks have little to no advantage
> 1. How is this meaningfully different to WebDAV?

Webpods is more like git than WebDAV. It allows apps/users to store data in logs, and the data can be records (strings) or files. If bob is syncing from alice, he'd pull all entries from the commit-id until which he has previously synced.

An app will store data in a pod (which has a unique hostname) such as instagram.jeswin.someprovider.com. Each pod can have multiple logs, such as "friends", "albums", "comments" etc. Logs have permissions attached to them, which control who can read those logs. There are similarities to WebDAV here, but again it's more like how we use git.

> Is the assumption that web apps export stuff to your pod from time to time, or actually use it as the primary storage? If the former, isn't it more or less the same idea as Google Takeout, if the latter how do apps handle the possibility of slow pods, outages or the need to use relational databases for storage? When building server side apps you do normally need tight control over storage.

Apps are expected to be local-first, though they aren't forced to. You'd write to the local database, and simultaneously sync with the pod. Similarly, if you're pulling data from friends, those would (most likely) be stored locally as well.

Slow pods are a problem, but I hope people would generally prefer reliable pod service providers. In the same way Dropbox gives you some guarantees of reliability. If the app is designed to be local-first, the user is not immediately prevented from using the app while the network is down; and syncing can happen once connectivity is regained.

Relational databases and schemas are not supported on Pods, it's just an immutable log. Most apps should do event-sourcing (https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html), wherein they write to an event log. But this stream (of events) could be processed into an more easily queryable view.

Of course, this won't work for all kinds of apps. It works well for apps handling personal data or for collaboration tools; such as slack, project management tools, instagram, google photos, music collections etc. On the other hand, it's not a good fit for apps in which the data needs to be centralized. Such as ecommerce, banking, insurance, delivery services etc.
I would like that but I assumed I was in the minority - have you heard thats planned?
I'm guessing it's mostly for people connecting to projectors in conference rooms.
I would be more interested in subpoenas for user information than "search warrants" which I'm sure most companies have near zero since 2008 unless they have cartel tiea or whatever
Ah, awesome, that was actually something I was hoping they would do (and probably suggested once or twice in some HN threads). If I can just plug the MagSafe cable into any old USB brick, that's way more convenient.
How about we let more than 10% control the economy? One would think that the ideal of a free market at least exists to involve as many participants as possible.
I cannot imagine that represents the majority of the market.
If the discount car is relevant, then I want the search engine to show it to me whether or not you happened to pay them for an ad. And vice versa if it's not relevant. As a user, I don't care who is getting paid by whom; I care about seeing relevant content.
Why do companies fear loud Twitter mobs or small groups of vocal activist employees? These companies can simply ignore them or fire them if they aren’t doing their job. It is best for tech companies to be politically neutral. After all, half the country and much of the world don’t hold progressive Bay Area views. Serving and representing them is just as important and employees need to maturely deal with it or quit.
based on the relative differences between the m1 and the m1 pro/max, and also the comparisons shown by apple to other laptops from the MSI and Razerblade both featuring the RTX 3080.
I wish I could upvote this 10x. I don't know what Apple does with their processing, but the quality of the Airpods microphone is very poor (the worst I've ever heard). Especially outside, but even indoors.

I'm commenting to see if that's everyone's experience, or if we're outliers.
Citation needed.

New server versions are protocol backwards compatible so I'm not sure what you're referring to.

Ofc, if you downgraded a server without changing the client, that may cause problems, but tbh that's hardly Kafka's fault.
Not sure where you’re getting that from? This [1] appears to be the machine they compared with (assuming the part number actually refers to a unique spec), which only has a 3050 Ti?

[1] https://psrefstuff.lenovo.com/Detail/Legion/Lenovo_Legion_5_...

EDIT: Nevermind, they mention other laptops in the other slides, some of which do have a 3080.
A concrete object must implement all virtual methods including those marked as pure virtual. All =0 means is that someone else lower down the inheretence chain will implement this and the caller using the class type can rely on it existing.

If you try to instantiate an object without all methods implemented you'll get a compiler error about the class being "abstract". You should never have a case where there's a null in the vtable.

If there is some specific edge case around ctors then forgive me - this is C++ after all! But in practice you don't have to worry about this which is true for most of the C++ minutia.
Yes, that is true. And I hope that would be the default (at least in Europe).

But the timing of this launch (when all new machines were already using USB-C), with the decision of the European commission is quite a coincidence. Which makes the feature feel a bit out of place, or just a good upselling opportunity for Apple.
Yup, I’d just use it for storing my iTunes library and one of my iPhone backups. I currently use an external drive, which I don’t take everywhere. SD would make it trivial to have both of these with me at all times. I’d also be able to keep all my photos and downloaded videos for travel, without having to worry about filling up my internal storage.
Except this “crisis” won’t take down the larger economy since people can’t live in crypto. There was always a reasonable guarantee that the housing market would come back as the underlying assets had real world value in their own right, but the same is not true of a post-bubble crypto market.
macOS has grey menu bar where the notch is, that stays unused 100% of the time.
The touchbar Macbook Pros were released 2016 rather than 2013.
To be fair, a decked out i9 laptop can easily end up in the same price range. So I don't think it's that outlandish really.
"Guilty until proven innocent" is exactly how "DMCA safe harbor" is designed.

Basically, YouTube as a content host, would actively, promptly and sometimes aggressively, respond to the "potential" copyright owner's requests, in exchange of keeping themselves away from lawsuit.

This way, they don't need to pre-screen the content upon the uploading, because it's up to the copyright owner to find the illegal content and report (YouTube still do that in some degree with content-ID, though).

There will be false-positives, there will be false claims, but they choose to play it safe.

Just to make it clear: this whole system is fucked up, and how "aggressive" the host needs to be is a nuance that all parties involved will have dramatically different views. I just feel like lots of people don't understand the principle of DMCA safe harbor concept. It is the consequence of current copyright law; without it, user-generated content hosts can't survive the legal trouble (or they can, but would need significant more legal resources).
Unfortunately, they compromised on price. A 16GB version is immediately 3000€ in Europe, which is a lot for a less well-off area than USA.
I think many people have that issue. Voice isolation mode, new to iOS 15, helps.
You should rename the site to Crypto News. What a shame what this site has become. I'm done with it.
There is technically no reason Apple could not introduce a cloud computing service based on their silicon at some point. But would it generate the kind of profit margins they need? An interesting space to watch.
My uni was not rich enough to have an email server for students.

So, I did not have a uni mail address.

That was required.
Am I the only one who like the TouchBar? It was fast, useful and configurable and I rarely use Fn keys anyway, nothing in MacOS uses them.
DRM proves again that it is a cancer that must be excised.
The M1 gpu was comparable to a 1080.
https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/11/accelerating-tensorflow-...
I believe they are working on PyTorch support.
>and therefore can conceivably overtake HDMI at some point in the future,

HDMI will live on forever in the TV space and professional equipment. USB-C / DisplayPort was only ever an effective solution in the computing industry, not consumer / professional electronics.

Same to SD Card, both are targeting to Video / Graphics professionals.
People buying a device doesn't mean they liked literally every aspect of the device and have no complaints about any aspect of it.
What can we expect from the new Air? Will this model replace the current Air or will it be an additional more expensive offering?
Most languages get by with way fewer features and somehow people still manage to write programs in them. If you ask 100 programmers which language has the worst feature creep, 99 will say C++ and maybe one person APL ;)
Bitcoin ETF? (SEC about to approve first BTC ETF)
Maybe we should stop worrying about it and just fine the car owner. If implied consent laws are legal surely agreeing to be responsible for your own vehicle on public roads would also be permissible under the constitution.

Also, the systems in place for toll road entrances seem to be doing a good enough job. Why can't the same thing be implemented for traffic cameras?
> I hope usbc can still be used for charging

They said it can.
Not your father's currency. If you think of them as pesos, the price is easier to comprehend.

Not to mention if it makes a 200k salary worker 5% more productive, its a win. (Give or take for taxes.)
I've been running on a 3-year-old machine, straining at the leash, and it's time to change.

My daily driver MacBook Air is very close to ten years old. I wonder if I'll get ten years out of this one, too.
Picturing Our Future – AI-generated visual exploration of climate change
The. Economist.
Maybe it's just me, but I can't figure out how to do technical searches in google anymore.

If I put something like the name of an obscure powershell cmdlet in quotes, google ignores the quotes and then takes words in the cmdlet and searches for variations of them returning a mess of search results.

I've tried using plus signs and all sorts of other stuff that used to work, but these days it seemingly just gives me what it thinks I want, rather than what I asked for.
What are they supposed to say? "We're sorry we tried something new and it didn't work out?"
I thought the 2016 MacBook Pro was an enormous improvement over the 2015 models, because 3 lbs is the sweet spot for me where I no longer had a hard time deciding between an Air or Pro model. The 14" model is 3.5 lbs like the 2015 13".

Users' testimonials will probably make me happy that I waited for the second iteration of Apple silicon, but I do wish there was an option that had a combination of trade-offs like smaller battery, terrible speakers, or no magsafe to get it half a pound lighter.
Isn’t the notch strictly an improvement? The alternative is to lose that top area to a bezel. This feels like extra screen for free.
VGA is still around in my college, and the projectors are what I could call utter trash.
Why isn't there a way to mute? I'd love to be able to configure one of the buttons to mute me when clicked. Fingers crossed for the next gen I guess.
The M1 Max starts at $2700 for the 16" 10-core CPU, 24-core GPU.

The comparison to higher end graphics uses the M1 Max 32-core GPU which starts at $3500.

I'm not seeing a way for a Mac Mini to have the M1 Max, and still be priced below $1000.
Those are two well-known approaches to problem solving: GP is proposing top-down, you're advocating for bottom-up. There are pros and cons to each, and in the end it is more of a matter of preferences.

Just to give an example of someone else advocating for top-down problem solving, Bjarne advocates strongly for designing the libraries that you will need before writing specific code for your problem. He has some example videos where he goes through a code review taking some piece of procedural business code and showing how it should have been written to take advantage of existing libraries and creating new ones before.
Agreed. I'm a fan of function over form, but Apple standardizing on a single port pushed a lot of accessories and other manufacturers towards USB-C. I use my (USB-C) mac charger for my phone all the time, simply because it's there and the cable is longer.

I didn't really find Magsafe that useful anyway, as I'm pretty much always hooked up to a monitor via USB-C (which charges as well).

I guess it's nice for those that miss it, but we were starting to finally get to a world with a one-size-fits-all cable. Remember back in the day when old-style cell phones/laptops all had proprietary chargers?

But it seems the momentum for USB-C is there, so hopefully consolidation continues. Anyway, the EU and maybe others seem to be moving towards legislation to consolidate I/O types anyway.

I'm guessing the HDMI is partially due to bandwidth limitations of USB-C, though I forget the specifics.
FWIW, they are in general quite accurate with their ballpark performance figures. I expect the actual power/performance curves to be similar to that they showed. Which is interesting, because IIRC on the plots from Nuvia before they were bought their cores had a similar profile. It would be exciting if Qualcomm could have something good for a change.
FWIW I'm not familiar with Anaconda either and it took about 10 minutes to get it and the cadquery editor up and running. To each his own though!
With offsets.
Wow, this is going to hopefully support VR experiences where you carry the laptop on your back or chest…
Huh, I guess that was as bad an idea as the 640K one.
Why would I want face id when I can just touch a key?
Types are effectively assertions about the values they represent, and statically-typed code constitutes proofs that the assertions actually hold at runtime. The static typing forces you to be sufficiently rigorous in those proofs, which may require additional code as you mention. Without static typing, one has to rely on the "proofs" in one’s head to be correct (which humans aren’t really good at), instead of having the compiler double-check one’s reasoning.
Have you tried Vim Adventures - helped me a lot :)
It was a fine idea, just like 3D Touch on iPhones, that just didn't get enough use for the complexity. It was a gamble and didn't pay off.
Based on long experience I suspect most beachballs nowadays are because of locks, not lack of CPU cycles. The UI thread is waiting for something to happen in the background that should have been fast, so the developer did it synchronously, but for some reason it isn’t. Maybe a helper process failed, or there’s a network glitch, or maybe the developer just didn’t get multithread locking right and the wait will never end. In any case, a faster processor does nothing to help.
IIRC bigger SSDs in previous generations had higher performance.
I'd rather call them clear-right-to-center opportunistic free-market conservatives, with slight streaks of "leftness" when it profits them, either directly or when it's free positive PR that will make "small" people" think Bertelmann or Springer cares about them.

They do not care about tradition, and can read polls, that's e.g. why they suddenly were pro same-sex marriage when public opinion swung that way (e.g. before that Axel Springer/Bild was against it, now they are in favor).
Bertelsmann isn't in "housing", so their foundation is pro affordable housing when they noticed the polls show that a topic that concerns a LOT of people.

They are not even real free-market, only when it suits them (which is a lot of times). When regulation and/or regulatory capture suits them instead, they are all for regulation all of a sudden, like laws to force Google to pay them money for linking to them instead of treating that as matter of contract law[2].

But don't you dare change anything about the status quo that negatively affects them, then they will show you how "conservative" they can be, in the sense of conservation of their power and wealth. Some regulation or deregulation to generate more wealth for them at the expense of their own employees or at least poor people? Some lawyer working for the Bertelsmann foundation probably wrote the draft bill.

That's why they regularly (as in: always) support the CDU/CSU, always bash the SPD (social-democrats) and Green party[1], and were initially a little bit torn about the AfD when it still was a party of free-market eurosceptics instead of the racist and xenophobic wannabe neo-fascists with a victim complex screaming Lügenpresse (basically "fake news/fake media") they are now. That goes for both Bertelsmann and Springer, by the way.

The only real ideological thing I can find with Axel Springer is their plea to support Israel and fight antisemitism, and a good "Trans-Atlantic relationship". You actually have to agree to do both if you want to work with them, it's in their company wide policy/code of conduct, ever since Alex Springer (the founder of the company) put it there.

So really, they are just opportunists, who lean right because leaning right is what conserves their power and influence.

[1] Except they are playing a little nice right now, because the SPD and Greens will likely be part of the next government, with the SPD leading the coalition.

[2] If Springer didn't want Google to "profit" from linking to their sites, they could have just blocked google. Instead they opted to lobby the government to redistribute Google's wealth... to them.
The 12” was a truly awesome machine, and it would’ve been even more great with the M1.
Sorry, mixed up the number 2GB memory (0.5GB heap). So 1:500 is correct
I'm not bothered by the notch, but I understand people having different aesthetic preferences. Thickness seems like an odd complaint though. As far as I can tell they are about the same thickness as the previous models (1.55 cm). Am I missing something?
touchbar was actually nice
DMCA lets you file a counter-notification if you're sure that you're right (I don't know why nobody ever does this) but YouTube Content ID is much worse.
The e-waste from chargers is a non-issue. Our oceans aren't filling up with dongles, nor are our landfills.
Exactly.

If you're an actual filmmaker making films (and not just a content creator) you're more likely to favor Vimeo over YouTube, but you probably care more about iTunes/Google Play/Amazon/Netflix/etc.
The point is that people who do care want an always-in solution.

I have two low-profile always-in peripherals in my 2017 Air: SD & yubi. I have the same on my modern Dell Precision (which is otherwise a MBP-esque all-usbc chassis). These can be taken out, but rarely need to be & are always available. That setup isn't possible with any current Apple devices (until now).
Ya, for connecting to a hub it's awesome, just plug one cable in and you get power, monitor, keyboard and mouse. Hope that still works.

Also, I like being able to charge on either side, it's annoying having the cable across when the plug is on the wrong side.

So if the Thunderbolt 4 ports support all this, then it's amazing, just best of all worlds. Otherwise a bit of a bummer.
80,000 sounds way too low (since it's not $2m, it's $1m assets OR $200k (single) $300k (joint) income).

"We estimate in 2020 there were 13,665,475 accredited investor households in America." https://dqydj.com/accredited-investors-in-america/

I'd argue SEC pushes people who aren't accredited investors into riskier investments.
I recovered my funds, integrated Bitcoin and Lightning payments with BTCPay
Linux has offered the Virtual Function Key System since at least 1998, but there isn't a driver that uses the native 8-lane AVF instruction set on my 230% mechanical keyboard yet.
You can still use the thunderbolt/USBC ports (not sure if all three or just one) for charging. But I think only the new MagSafe 3 port gives you fast charge (50% battery life in 30 minutes).
> clearly it has an agenda.

So does suggesting that a poor person could join the moneyed elite by foregoing their $13.99/mo Netflix to purchase assets -- if that isn't an agenda, I don't know what is.

Why, by saving that $168 a year, they could easily afford a single share of Alphabet (currently at 2,846.31) in, what, 16 years?
$2500 USD (£1800 GBP) to buy in the US vs £2500 GBP. Apple are a total rip off.
Don't Apple iPhones use an adaptive refresh rate nowadays?
Having briefly had to use an old Pro from when they still had DVD drives in them (which I used way-back-when but hadn't touched in a long time), I can authoritatively say that the "former glory" is a solid two generations behind the very-flat newer keyboards. Even the one it replaced (2012?-2015?) wasn't as good as those were. Felt great to type on. I don't think nice-feeling keyboards are compatible with extreme thinness.
Xcode is getting so damn big, that I'm actually running out of disk space. It's insane.

I develop on the computer, so I tend to keep it busy.

My computers are always in great shape, aesthetically, but I run them hard. The fans are generally going from about 6AM to 9PM.
You can still charge with the USB-C ports. The supplied power adapter is a USB-C charger with a detachable USB-C to Magsafe cord.