skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say the situations look worse here. Most of the blackface I'm aware of that got removed was mocking racism (community), or the lack of nuance around what makes something racism (always sunny). Both were fairly obviously not condoning it.

This content directly mocks trans people and makes assertions that they're not legitimate. It's as far as I can tell, not a fictitious situation, just part of a routine. Seems like a real blunder to greenlight this imo. This is lacking nuance to the level of making fun of asians for having squinty eyes or black people for big lips.
"I have a message that millions of Iranians are desperate for you to hear". That's why I've put it behind a paywall, so you can't read it.

Seems legit.
Based on recent experience, Amazon KDP is similar. However, you can talk to somebody on Amazon KDP. It may take a while but after a few bussiness day someone will reply your emails.
Exactly. No touch bar and cost more money
I'll wait for the Linus benchmarks/comparisons.
Photo/video import mostly. I don't feel like transferring 1TB of data over crappy built-in wifi chip on my camera or having to plug the camera in and have it act as a fancy card reader.
When I interviewed at Apple years ago there was a poster on the wall that had a picture of a MacBook with a MagSafe charger connected. A kid was crossing by the desk the laptop was sitting on it and it was about to cross the charging cable. Without MagSafe laptop could've fallen on this kid's head.

The writing on the poster said: Come work with people who invented MagSafe to save children's lives. (or something similar)

I really liked that poster. Never worked at Apple but I still remember that moment.

MagSafe is great! What a shame they took it away for a few years!
Somewhat. The free educational license was only acceptable for 'personal' projects, so not suitable for class work.
> Is it mere coincidence that neither party opposes the health-industrial complex, or the military-industrial complex?

At the end of the day, if the government really wants to do something, corporations have no choice but to comply, like with the Sherman Antitrust Act or the lockdown during the pandemic. There's nothing stopping them from opposing the military-industrial complex or the health-industrial complex outside themselves. They just don't want to because neither would grant them any short term political benefits. Both parties share a hatred of Big Tech, but they still can't get anything done because they hate each other more than they hate Big Tech.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Something like "the software world is complex, and so is the physical world, so comparing the two makes sense"? If that's what you meant, you're right, but the problem is that comparing the two doesn't lead to better insight in those. If that's not what you meant, then sorry, I didn't understand.

I think that in general we should stop using so much metaphors in the software world. There's no need to go look for a shed. If we had to statically type and test every shell commands we typed, we would lose lots of productivity. On the other hand, maintaining those very large scripts that started as a simple line and are now used for deploying all of our application, and tend to fail in surprising ways, would be easier.

The other problem with metaphors is that they are also hard to refute. I've never built a shed, nor worked on a high rise. I don't see why that experience would be relevant to building software, or necessary in a discussion about static typing.
You mean intellectual property? It's not just the algorithms. You also need patents and the design of the machines.
I feel like this comment was intended to spell out how poorly the world is doing, but those companies have moved technology forward leaps and bounds. I won't pretend to know enough to suggest they're net good for the world or to know everything they've done, but I'm also very aware of the progress we've seen because of those companies.

Just think about how much money people have saved from DIY projects on YouTube, for example or how skills have been learned.
They did that to compare against the last comparable Intel chips in a Mac, which seems rather useful for people looking to upgrade from that line of Mac.
The association of usernames with emails isn't public. But I was responding more to the sheer inelegance and inefficiency of such a solution, and the irony that such a contraption is required on a social media website that's mostly for people who make websites. Shall we have a third party website - and corresponding username/email database - for every missing feature?

HN is a technical embarrassment.
> what's the general need for microSD?

I use a USB pendrive formatted with a case-sensitive partition to cache data for an app I use, because it's far better to spend 20$ on a pendrive than 200$ for a SSD upgrade.

Given the choice, I'd prefer to use a SD card for that than a USB pendrive, as the USB pendrive requires either a USB hub or a USB pen always sticking out of the chassis.
Those aren't claims, it's automatic Content ID. In this case YouTube has every right to prevent music from being uploaded and can prevent you from removing the Content ID claim, even when you have a license/it's in the public domain, because YT isn't abiding by or invoking the DMCA at all. It's like saying "guitar tryouts just don't play stairway to heaven" - you can forbid it even in the absence of AT&T sending a legal cease & desist your way.
Well if you are also exposed to notch-less experience elsewhere, ie work, it can become quite annoying. If that's your whole world, I can imagine you just learn ignoring it
0. The Diplomat (International analysis)

1. DW News (German perspective)

2. BBC (British perspective)

3. Sky News (British perspective)

4. Al Jazeera English (Middle-eastern perspective)

5. WION (Indian perspective)

6. Dawn (Pakistani perspective)

7. The Print (Indian perspective)
same for my m1 air! :D... but then I remembered that apple does trade ins! :D
>The differences between the A14 and A15 are so small it doesn't matter.

The testing shows increases in performance and power efficiency.

>Apple A15 performance cores are extremely impressive here – usually increases in performance always come with some sort of deficit in efficiency, or at least flat efficiency. Apple here instead has managed to reduce power whilst increasing performance, meaning energy efficiency is improved by 17% on the peak performance states versus the A14. If we had been able to measure both SoCs at the same performance level, this efficiency advantage of the A15 would grow even larger. In our initial coverage of Apple’s announcement, we theorised that the company might possibly invested into energy efficiency rather than performance increases this year, and I’m glad to see that seemingly this is exactly what has happened, explaining some of the more conservative (at least for Apple) performance improvements.

On an adjacent note, with a score of 7.28 in the integer suite, Apple’s A15 P-core is on equal footing with AMD’s Zen3-based Ryzen 5950X with a score of 7.29, and ahead of M1 with a score of 6.66.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16983/the-apple-a15-soc-perfo...

Having your phone chip be on par with single core Zen 3 performance is pretty impressive.
Thank you for a very honest and thorough answer.
The new models are a lot more expensive though. And the entry level model of the 14 inch has an 8 core variant of the m1 pro, which probably will not perform that much higher than the 8 core m1 in the 13 inch.
I'm very, very happy they haven't done this yet.
Just on the offchance anyone from ddg reads this - a while I and orhers requested a bang for search.marginalia.nu - a more old school web search and would love it if I could !mg search :)

Edit for hn link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550764
It absolutely doesn't render the carbon-neutrality of the chip useless. Concern about waste and concern about climate change are bound by a political movement and not a whole lot else. It's not wrong to care about waste more, but honestly its emissions that I care about more.
They're both GA104, but the desktop version does have 15% more cores enabled and 30% higher clocks.
Hopefully they will stop the mouse at the letterbox border, otherwise it would be terrible UX.
Why no one is talking about the base 14" 8-Core CPU and 14-Core GPU but not a single mention in the presentation ?

How the new M1 Pro 8 core compared the the M1 8 core ?
Agreed. Icing on the cake: an incredibly specced Framework laptop is less than the starting price of the 14" MBP. And it has a 4:3 display ratio. And I can choose my ports!

I'm confused why so many people seem hellbent on convincing me that a notch is a good thing, suddenly. Can't y'all understand that I have a personal preference towards rectangular screens without any holes in them? I admit that it doesn't make the laptop unusable, but IMO it's an unacceptable compromise in a $2k+ machine (that if I specced out, I'd end up paying close to $4k for)
This is incorrect. You decided you were going to do a unilateral implementation of a feature without discussing it at all. It was an anti-collaboration mindset from you.
I would be surprised if there are lower-end MBP (smaller than the 14") but a 12" might be better differentiation than 13" vs 14".

I just want a pastel orange MBA though.
And get this, you can host our ads in your product and select where they’ll be played. Any revenue generated from our ads will be passed on to you, less our commission!
Not to mention, with the mini led display, letterboxing will be indistinguishable from the bezel.
Lumping Java and C together is a stretch. Even Ada and C. I think Ada is a good example that your proposed classification scheme is invalid -- what is low vs high level?
Maybe Java has historically been weak in the language features department but it has had non-optional automatic memory management from the get go. What about C#? It's not exactly unpopular.
You can just take them out or pause your music?
Similar boat. I know it is a 50/50 love/hate in terms of fit (understandably so, because not everyone has the same ear shape), but I personally loved original Airpods in terms of fit. They fit my ears perfectly, I could jump/run/etc., and they wouldn't move even a tiny bit.

But with Airpod Pros, no matter which eartips I used, they would always not feel 100% correctly, and would move by a tiny tiny amount if I was actively moving, and over time I would need to readjust them in the ear once in a while.

The new ones they've shown today look more like Airpods Pro, but with a fit closer to the original Airpods, which I would (admittedly selfishly) be really happy with.
Damn, I liked the touchbar :-(

I think that Apple's biggest mistake is not making it more obvious that the bar is editable in all programs. It becomes pretty useful when you can keep only the functions that you use the most.
One might argue that Surface laptops were Microsoft's answer to MacBooks.
That was 'a stunt' which 'makes no economic sense'

https://www.ifixit.com/News/15794/apple-daisy-cobalt-recycli...
The laptop I bought for my dad have touchscreen "by accident", as neither of us recognized it as a feature to go for. Now he says its the best feature of the laptop, from pinching on maps to selecting checkboxes/radiobuttons. I dont know who was more surprised to find it useful.
I don't disagree with your argument, but I think your statement "In the whole of the USA, there are only 80,000 accredited investors" is not quite right. According to this MSN article, "To be considered in the top 1% of net worth, a household needs combined assets totaling over $11 million." [1] That means there are about 3M households that have at least $11M.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/what-net-worth-is-co...
Chromecast Bluetooth was prohibitively laggy in my experience.
I think the 12" MacBook was a great design. The ultimate compact laptop - I even would have bought one if that day the Apple Store had one in stock. But it didn't work out technically. Maybe it had, if the Intel 10nm process had been right on schedule. With the 14 nm parts, it was just too much of a compromise. With the M2, Apple might consider bringing back that form factor, that should work nicely. And move the Air to 14", tiny bezels. That would be the outer form factor of todays 13".
Photos. Photo journalists need often to send pictures they just took to their agencies to be in the first places in the race who brings the content first on their web page.

I actually use my microSD slot on my xps quite often for camera related stuff.
I am pretty sure 99% of MacBook Air user may not care.

But MacBook Pro has a different audience. Lots ( if not all ) of media professionals needs it. And I am willing to bet it is more than 1% of the MBP user base.
But it's also been around for at least a year. And upcoming pcie 5 SSDs will up that to 10-14GBps.

I'm saying Apple might have wanted to emphasise their more standout achievements. Such as on the CPU front, where they're likely to be well ahead for a year - competition won't catch up until AMD starts shipping 5nm Zen4 CPUs in Q3/Q4 2022.
> I can live without HDMI, but it never made sense to me to put SD on the chopping block.

HDMI means external monitor. For some (most?) an external monitor is a must-have.
There’s optical digital line out up until the 2015 Macbook Pro, sending light out of the headphone jack. You need to add a little plastic adapter compared to standard TOSLINK cables, which I presume were getting too big.
It's a bit .. I don't have the right term, but abnormal that people have to migrate that much to get healthcare.
Exactly, corporate never risks them getting into wrong hands, no matter how theoretical risk that might be. Same for phones
I don't think I'd make that assumption. https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/M1_compatible_games_mas... , for instance, has a number of games that do pretty well in Parallels.
Spotify now also allows downloading music to the Apple Watch https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-05-21/enjoy-more-ways-than...
I don’t think we know. The Apple website shows GPU benchmarks for pro apps for the new MBPs, where there is a big performance leap relative to the top GPU from the last model. But I haven’t seen comparisons on gaming against nvidia GPUs, which I think is what would be needed to make such a claim.
Just today I got one 6s and one iPhone 7 screen repaired(6s got the glass replaced, the 7 got full assembly replaced) and battery of the 6s replaced at a shop that is not authorized by Apple. It cost me 110$ in total.

Previously I got 2017 Macbook Air SSD upgraded using an SSD and an adapter that I ordered from Amazon.

What’s that narrative that Apple devices are not upgradable or repairable?

It simply not true. If anything, Apple devices are the easiest to get serviced since there are not many models and pretty much all repair shops can deal with all devices that are still usable. Because of this, even broken Apple devices are sold and bought all the time.
Unregulated =/= illegal.
Doesn't that mean that the problem is the policy of the F500 company and not whatever the supplier had in mind?
Can I ask how you got into being paid for producing music? I produce music, and what I have released is on Spotify, but it makes me a tiny fraction of what I spend in time and actual money to produce it. I don’t think it’s a problem of the music being good, at least I have plenty of people tell me they like it (even before knowing it’s a song I wrote), and I do think some of the music would be appropriate for films or games, but I don’t even know where to start if I wanted to make more than a pittance.
You're talking about selling working devices but parent was also talking about repairing them.

Seems like a huge waste to throw away a $2000+ machine when it's out of warranty because some $5 part on it dies and Apple not only doesn't provide a spare but actively fights anyone trying to repare them, while the options they realistically will give you out of warranty being having your motherboard replaced for some insane sum like $1299 or having you buy a new laptop.

Or what if you're a klutz and spill your grape juice glass over your keyboard? Congrats, now you're -$2000 lighter since there's no way to take it apart and clean the sticky mess inside.
How close are you sitting to your 4k, presumably like 15 inch, screen? Or, how good is your vision?

A 4k, 15 inch screen is "retina" at 12 inches away and has a ppi of 293.72.

There may be something to be said about subpixels; but, it may be a placebo effect over a 1440p screen, honestly.
I agree with you on paper but I don't like how the notch just looks out of place. I don't see any way around it here, though; to get decent laptop cameras something has to give.
I am happy to get it, I still shoot with a large-sensor digital PAS camera and bought a hyperdrive just so I could rip the cards and have an HDMI port.

Excited to leave that thing behind.
I don't plan to go back to MagSafe. I have multiport USB-C chargers all round my house and don't really want to buy lots of cables or proprietary chargers to add to the mix. I'm sticking with USB-C even if it's slower. SD cards I don't use. And HDMI I rarely use so dongles are fine, but it's nice to have I guess!
It depends if they want to test how things sound through a Mac and happen to have high impedance headphones lying around. Seriously though the DAC in the Mac is very good, you’re talking $300+ to get something better and for my money it sounds nearly as good as a Topping D90 for example.
Maybe currently, but they are only on their second generation of laptop chips.

I guess going forward the current A-series chip will be lower power/performance than any reasonably recent M-series chip (given the power envelope difference).
Yes, it's by definition because the definition is tendentious.

The definition: "If Google [meaning Google's organic results] delivers users the thing they want"

The consequence: "ads have to be things users don't want" because advertisers whose product is wanted will be included whether they pay or not.

Now, you could widen it to say, look Google is still delivering the thing users want, they just sometimes do it by organic results and sometimes do it by ads, but that's a very convoluted reading of the definition, which clearly is using Google as a stand in for "Google's organic results".

The problem with my argument isn't that it failed to be a tautology. It's that the definition is questionable, and that's the profitable angle of attack: "users don't know what they want" "there can be multiple equally good options" etc. But saying it's not by definition is just silly. The definition is the whole thing up for debate!
Show HN: Arnie SMTP buffer server in 100 lines of async Python
Here's the 100 lines of code:

https://github.com/bootrino/arniesmtpbufferserver/blob/master/arniesmtpbufferserver.py

Here's the github repo:

https://github.com/bootrino/arniesmtpbufferserver

It's MIT licensed.

Arnie is a server that has the single purpose of buffering outbound SMTP emails.

I wrote Arnie because I got frustrated using complex queueing systems simply to buffer outbound SMTP emails. I'd rather spend time writing this than spend the same time debugging Celery configuration.

A typical web SAAS needs to send emails such as signup/signin/forgot password etc.

The web page code itself should not directly write this to an SMTP server. Instead they should be decoupled. There's a few reasons for this. One is, if there is an error in sending the email, then the whole thing simply falls over if that send was executed by the web page code - there's no chance to resend because the web request has completed. Also, execution of an SMTP request by a web page slows the response time down of that page, whilst the code goes through the process of connecting to the server and sending the email. So when you send SMTP email from your web application, the most performant and safest way to do it is to buffer them for sending. The buffering server will then queue them and send them and handle things like retries if the target SMTP server is down or throttled.
It is not to “clearly” visible to me that this is not a materialist anthropology. It was his explicit purpose in TGI to strip the concept of human nature of its ideal dimension, meaning Platonic, humanistic, moral, ethico-religious, unscientific “mystifications,” in order to reveal man’s species-being as a social animal, distinct from the other animals only in its capacity for (social) self-actualization through labor. Even in your own excerpt, our social relations are described in terms of relations of production (which can be more or less satisfying).

Is it perhaps this aspect of his thought which is preserved in the affluent, technological, society, and which brings alienation, as a lapse from an ideal, normative order of being, to its extreme pitch?
I have no idea why but I insist that something will happen in 2025. I picked this year randomly some time ago.
Air will replace the 13” in all likelihood. The difference between the two were minimal to begin with. If the Touch Bar is going away, there’ll be virtually no difference at all.
What % of people are media professionals? Tiny.
None of that pricing would seem all that unreasonable of Youtube weren't operated as a loss leader.
In a certain way, yes. A quick search on Amazon shows I can get a 1TB SD Card for $150-300. However, the rated speeds are in the 100-200 MB/s range rather than the over 2GB/s for Apple's 2020 MacBook Air (never mind the faster speeds of their new MacBook Pros which is 7.4GB/s).

Yes, the $400 that Apple charges to upgrade from 256GB to 1TB is high compared to the $200 for an SD Card. At the same time, the storage is 10-20x faster. I think the storage is different enough that Apple doesn't have to worry too much. Sure, some people might try that strategy and walk around with a laptop with a card sticking out a bit and some third party will make a microSD adapter that doesn't stick out, but I think most users will probably opt to pay for the storage and Apple can ignore the small number that buy niche products.

I think between saving money on their Apple Silicon processors and being in a great place to have serious differentiation between the Air and Pro line, Apple doesn't have to worry.
Ahh, the pricing of rectal indomethacin.

Here's the tale: If you have obstruction of your bile ducts below the liver or gallbladder, usually gallstones or sometimes neoplasm, you need an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) for extraction or sampling.

ERCP is sticking a tube down the throat, stomach, small intestines into a tiny opening at the ampulla of Vater to access the bile ducts. Sometimes this process causes inflammation of the ampulla and associated ducts leading to blockage, and can lead to pancreatitis due to back flow and pressure, because the pancreas also excretes its digestive enzymes via the ampulla).

A few trials circa 2015 showed rectal indomethacin reduced the risk of post-ERCP pancreatitis, and eventually it made its way into the guidelines. It is the only proven preventative treatment, so they have a natural monopoly.

Hope that helps.
Is there any reason to believe these will have improved single-core performance? Or are these just more M1 cores in the same package?