skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He confidently told New Yorkers not to worry and they shouldn't stay at home in march. Pretty sure him saying that increased the deaths by many thousands there. At the time other countries had detected covid cases originating from New York, and New York barely tested but a huge amount of of those tests were positive, everyone who read a bit knew it was bad there but he just ignored it and told them to go on with life as normal. So I don't trust his judgement, at the time it was Democrats position to downplay the disease so that is what he did. Then Democrats switched position and so did he. I really doubt he will always do what is best for people instead of what is best for Democrats. I'd rather listen to scientists who aren't so political.

Edit: I'm from Europe so don't assume I'm a Republican just because I criticise him.
Is the term Butt Hurt still applicable for this?
Pretty nice for Cloudflare that their closest competitor makes very little effort to gain customers, and actively avoids the hobbyist set which is key for mindshare.
the price diff between this and the previous model is huge
Youtube does not use the DMCA nor does it comply with the DMCA.

The DMCA requires the service provider reinstate the content 14 days after the dmca is contested unless the claimant follows through on the claim by filing a lawsuit in court. Youtube does not do this.

The DMCA also explicitly states that it's protection against liability doesn't apply to service providers that do not properly implement the counter-claim reinstatement process, and as such, youtube is not covered by the dmca's shield.
It's that there's a conspiracy, but if they provide an example, you will accuse them of believing there's a conspiracy, which would distract from the argument that there is a conspiracy.
For all the other claims on GPU performance, they call out that they are comparing to the integrated graphics, and they name the GPU specifically. With this one claim, they name a computer, but not the GPU. "Compared to a computer that has a laptop 3080 in it" is not the same thing as "compared to a 3080."

And they don't define "performance". Is it fill rate? Is it TFLOPs? Is it memory bandwidth? The M1 Max has 64 GPU cores. That sounds like a lot! It's not! The NVidia Laptop 3080 has 6,144 cores. That's NINETY SIX TIMES as many cores. I'm sorry, but supposedly achieving 90% of the "performance" of a GPU that has 2 orders of magnitude more cores is just not in the realm of believable. They are being intentionally evasive here.
They were talking about switching if they got more expensive and rsync.net is already a lot more expensive unless you have very little data (<300GB).
Selling adverts that target the search keywords.
I'm surprised the fast charger isn't a separate purchase, a la iPhone.
Yeah, what gives? I remember they prided themselves on being profitable, self-funded and not beholden to VCs. Sure enough, I was able to confirm that with a quick search:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15074289

>Finally, Backblaze is profoundly different than CrashPlan in that we never really raised any bank financing or VC financing. We're 90% employee owned, and there are no deep pockets. CrashPlan raised something like $150 million which comes with "pressure to grow fast or die". Backblaze is free of any such pressure, we own our own fate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21006216

> Yev here -> we HAVE to be cash-flow positive since we're not VC-funded. When we started the company it was bootstrapped, so "making enough money to survive" has always been a part of the equation!

That last comment was from 2019, yet according to the S-1, they were actually unprofitable. What's going on here? Were they profitable before, then suddenly taking on a massive loss? Their loss in 2020 was huge compared to the one in 2019.
If faster compilation speeds matters as much as you said earlier then I'm sure it would be worth investing in machines for both work and home.
I can't tell if this is a joke reply or not
3X is standard Apple tax for many years (also for storage).
This is the one I bought!
> How about not having a notch, like literally every other Apple (and non-Apple) laptop? Is that even conceivable?

So literally the least functional and useful of all possible options?

The notch isn't subtractive from previous generations' screen space. The bezel was removed except for the area where the notch is, adding a menu bar's worth of screen space. And the center of that menu bar is virtually always empty space. Your proposal is to add extra bezels back and subtract away a menu bar's worth of vertical space, just to remove a small protrusion that you won't even notice half a week into using the device.

“The design is not just what it looks like and feels like. The design is how it works.”
> Pffft, as if Apple didn't market every. single. one. of their products as a fashion statement.

Nonsense. The Mac Pro is clearly marketed as a professional took for professional use, always has been. Ditto with their high end displays. I don’t even think they had these objects in the last Apple Store I went into, actually.

Furthermore, every single ad I’ve ever seen for the MBP has been about artists, creatives, and programmers using it to make things. They have always presented it as the professional’s tool for creating stuff, even if at times that’s been a bit of a farce.

Now compare how they presented the MacBook, a laptop that they sold in gold color. That is a laptop they presented as a fashion choice, and interestingly it’s also the laptop they abandoned first.

> Apple clearly has always chosen form over function and being different over function

It’s only “always” been this way if you’re relatively young. In fact Apple’s turn towards form over function sometime after Job’s death caused quite a bit of angst here, both in terms of their hardware and software design. I’m old enough to remember when the MBP was unquestionably the best laptop a developer could buy, and I was very sad to watch it slowly lose ground to other laptops as Apple pursued thinness over user experience, hardware specs, upgradability, or durability.

If anything else, what I’m seeing today seems like a return to Apple from earlier in my career, when they made professional grade laptops that lead the pack. There are still some changes I’d love to see, such as more upgrade ability, but an Apple that’s willing to make its devices thicker if it improves user experience is very much a “function over form” move.
It’s the most demoralizing aspect as even just typing the standard library online documentation and examples (such as Emil autoname example) would be extremely valuable.
Just curious, how did you arrive at sqrt(n)? I spent all morning thinking about this in 2 dimensions and I came up with sqrt(n^2 + d^2) where d is the displacement from the original position on the y axis. (Pythagorean theorem)
How will using them make them better if they don't store any of your searches/results ?
You can get an SD case for a micro SD card for less than 5 bucks. Can't adapt the other way inside a slot.
More important than profit margins are the return on capital vs. the alternative uses for that capital.
As much as I liked my AirPods gen 1 and the features seem tempting, my personal experience with battery longevity on Apple headphones are not great. I’ve so far had the BeatsX, Beats Studio3 and AirPods. Almost all of them completely died within a year of purchase. The AirPods still work but using them is pointless since the battery life dropped to less than an hour so I just haven’t bothered. Mind you, this is not because I’m such a heavy user, I listen to music once or twice a week at most through headphones so it doesn’t seem like this should have happened.

It’s kind of a shame because I really like the AirPods Pros for example, but if I don’t have a guarantee that I can get them repaired when this eventually happens then I feel like my money is better spent elsewhere.
I think the question is more along the lines of - was there another news, recently posted, that prompted this post?

Like for example if fly.io was announced yesterday, and they said they used Firecracker, then someone would submit this link about Firecracker.

So the original poster in this thread was wondering if there was something to that effect. Not decrying something being posted that was not new or already discussed before...
I can’t upvote this hard enough. The spongy tips ARE the killer feature of the pro. They are comfortable and they stay in my ears when I exercise!
This still technically reduces the generality of the given function since you are specifying that each function cannot have multiple overloads.

let f be a overload set matching the signatures {a -> b, i -> j}
let g be a overload set matching the signatures {b -> c, j -> k}

compose(g, f) could be given a to return c or i to return k
Not in Germany. We are great NIMBYs, elect greens and have the nicest Gartenzwergs.
I’ll supplement my anecdata to say…

I gifted my other old 2013 which had the same pre-butterfly keyboard, erased my data after I had already gotten used to the 2019. I did notice the difference in key travel then. But it didn’t bother me when I went back to the 2019 after. I honestly couldn’t say I’d prefer one over the other, besides current familiarity/muscle memory.
I'd guess that runoff is a relatively small compared to transpiration. If it takes gallons of water to grow a single almond, there's no way that a significant portion of that is still in the almond when it's exported. IIRC almonds aren't particularly thirsty compared to other nuts, they're just really popular so their stats look the most dramatic.
This is incredibly cool, I had no idea that smart canes were a thing. It kind of reminds me of the little arrow pointing a walker or biker in a specific direction, but with added collision detection.

Also neat to see that it improved the users confidence allowing them to walk faster.

I wonder what price target would make these more practical.

Additionally, I wonder how the device handles going over a curb and potentially loosing a few degrees of precision each time?
If it was HBM it would have considerably higher bandwidth. A single HBM2E stack is 16GB at 460GBps, at 64GB that's 1.8TBps of bandwidth.
Dedicated GPUs has always been just selling point. The real limit is the thermal throughput.

There has never been a reason to put separate GPU into a laptop, because a laptop can only handle so much juice before frying itself.
eh, I suppose I should have been more clear about "better direction." I meant a "much better direction."
Eh, I’m still using a ~4 year old iMac. One of those that are painfully difficult to upgrade RAM. (And I keep repeatedly hitting the limit right now.) And I’m trying to keep it in sync with an even older MBP.

And you’re right: I don’t appreciate that Apple can deliver a week later. That’s not valuable when my machines still work. Not paying a premium for that.

I’ve been chafing at the upgrade cost of Apple laptops for more than a decade of using their products. The reason customers keep paying is for the reputation, and because of their short memories. The keyboard debacle, the screen issues, MacBook Air early gen laptops burning people’s laps… and those are just the laptop issues.

I’m upset because this is just another instance where Apple’s profit margin goes up substantially. Their markup is basically 4x higher than MSRP off the aftermarket RAM/SSD.
You and everybody else :) I think its combination of placement and behavior/sensitivity contributed to its demise.
Yes, have a slightly larger Bezel instead of a huge unappealing notch. Did I mention how much I do not like the notch? Look in any of the comments sections of this new product, how many people are commenting on how this notch is off-putting? Does it seem like a worthy tradeoff? I do not think so.
A USB micro SD card reader is essentially pennies.
> I now row 15km at a 15km/hr pace 3-4 days a week (alternate with other exercise) and I have totally stopped running. Some knee and hip issues that were aggravated by running have ceased to bother me.

I started rowing about 6 months ago, and some chronic problems with my right knee completely disappeared within 3-4 weeks of daily rowing. It was kind of incredible. That knee had been bothering me for 15 years.

I can only assume it was something about the precise repetitive movement.

I do about 5km/day but this post is motivating me to increase that.
MORE PANES!
Headphones are really, truly different because you take the room out of the equation, and the listener is always exactly in the sweet spot.
They told me the weight, but I forget. It was a large "heroic" dose. The research protocol is perhaps already available somewhere (published paper, pre-print, registered study, not sure) which would have the dose.

They used manufactured/sythesized psilocybin compound in a capsule, not mushrooms or extracted from mushrooms.

I think they tried to take all the 'best practices' for quitting smoking and gave it to all participants, same experience up until quit day. On quit day, "control" group got a prescription for nicotine patch; "psilocybin group" got a session (and no patch!) -- the psilocybin group in this particular study was just one "heroic" dose session on smoking quit day, that's it.

Some of the supportive practices or suggestions included:

* just regular sessions, that were in some ways more or less like a "therapy" session focused on looking at smoking in your life. (whatever that means to you, it really was also just a good therapy session!)

* set your quit day near the beginning, several months before the quit day. Build up to it.

* at one period, every time you want to smoke, note what you feel like and what is precipating it, make a note of it. Develop a sense of what things make you want to smoke and why, and what role is has in your life.

* A "practice quit" day a month or two (I forget) before actual quit day -- just try not to smoke for 24 hours, see what it's like, knowing you can smoke again after that. Now you know what it's like, and that you got through the worst day, and what parts are going to be hardest and can develop more strategies for them.

* Get a clear list of the reasons you want to quit. Think about em. Write it down, to refer to it when it gets hard.

* Make a list of things you can do instead of smoking, after you quit. It doesn't matter if they are unhealthy (junk food or whatever), they're still healthier than smoking.

* after quit day, phone number of a therapist you've been working with, invitation to call or text if you feel tempted and need support and to talk through it. Therapist texted me daily checking in, seeing how it's going. (seriously, why DON'T we use techniques we associate with alcohol and other drug addiction treatment on cigarettes, you know? they are crazy addictive!)

There were other things too, additional like little cognitive-behavioral (I guess?) games/techniques. I don't even remember them all. I should have taken more notes on all of it! Just having people there rooting for you and to whom you feel kind of accountable to is big.

If their study really does show significantly more success in psylocybin group than control group, I find it meaningful that even the control group got really good support from good counselors. (And I still wouldn't say it was easy to quit!)
Another thing that Windows Home requires a MS account for, even if you've got away with not using one: FDE.
No, and I am still in favor of static typing. But I also don't think it's purely up to team discipline. Something about typescript (or more aptly, javascript) incentivizes crazy typing more than other languages. Luckily, the last few years appears to have had more emphasis on designing languages to take these kinds of incentives into account, so I still think the future is bright.
It's not just that. It's also that I don't really trust anything centralized anymore, and internet speeds are such that homegrown solutions are becoming more and more attractive. Another benefit is that I'll also be able to easily backup my Linux machines, which BB currently does not support. At the moment I just periodically copy data to windows on cron so that it's backed up - not ideal to say the least.
I just bought a new HP laptop with an i3-1125G4.

I just found out that this is a 10nm chip, roughly equivalent to TSMC's 7nm.

Maybe things are looking up for Intel?
"Evolve" here meant removing compatibility with xmpp clients AND losing all chat history.

Chat history matter a lot, really.
Hacker-X names his Disinformation Employer
I would love to see you provide a link to a laptop with comparable specs to the 14" MBP at a cheaper price.
> it needs all clients code changes when Kafka servers are upgraded

It absolutely doesn't. Message formats predating Kafka 0.11 are only just being deprecated as of Kafka 3.0, and won't be dropped until Kafka 4.0.

Now, if you want to use new shiny features (like cooperative sticky assignors to minimise consumer group stop the world rebalance pauses), then yes, you might need to upgrade clients.

But otherwise, you can still happily use 0.8 clients with your upgraded brokers.

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-724%3A...
It's hard to blame it on a single person. The Stanford Prison Experiment didn't involve any drugs and was as or even more irresponsible than Leary's messianic psychedelic mania fueled binge. The Stanford Prison Experiment was in 1971, Leary had already been indicted of multiple charges by that year if not in prison already, according to Wikipedia he was fired from Harvard in 1963.

So eight whole years after Learys irresponsibility the ethical standards for human experimentation in psychology were still nowhere near to what they are today.
Well no to be fair the vaccines actually don't work very well at all, compared to what was commonly understood for earlier vaccines. This is why various definitions of the word had to be adjusted to reflect the new understanding and definitions around these covid vaccines.

The covid vaccines do not appear to provide immunity to the disease at all (or not in large proportion, as in previous vaccines). Certainly not in all the cases they consider to be successful vaccinations, which use reduction in hospitalization or death as the headline numbers. Many people can certainly contract and transmit covid after being vaccinated.

And you can die of multiple contributing factors. If he did not have cancer he might have survived. If he did not have covid he might have survived. A significant proportion of covid deaths have various other factors like this in play though, so Colin's case is not unusual to be listed as covid, vaccinated or not.
Just off the top of my head, the monkey in the dark funnel study, the mit prison experiment, the Stanley milgram experiment, the rat utopia/dystopia experiment, the little Albert experiment (1919), Leuba’s tickling experiment involving his son (1930s) etc.
If you get the M1 Max with 32 core GPU, I bet that's actually well above "passable" for most gaming needs.
If its got microcode, it's not RISC.
I have used Apple products because if you calculate how long they last and the original cost, they cost less over a longer period of time.

Or at least they did. This loss in value is what I’m complaining about.

And this isn’t Apple’s forums, now is it?
What was the bug, out of curiosity?
This is fascinating. What else is interesting is that Florida who has had ZERO Covid restrictions this entire time, has the lowest levels of new cases per Capita in the lower 48.
I'd feel deeply uncomfortable backing up 80tb of data to a $60/year plan, tbh.
At some point in the future, USB-A will be phased out. If only because new devices will need the better profiles USB-C provides or because enough devices will no longer support USB-A.

I'd say 3 more years will be the turning point. You must remember, before USB there was no universal port. So USB-A didn't have to replace it's predecessor.
> JetBrains IDE

Runaway feature creep IDE? I use it too.
> Seems the value isn't quite there

I'm curious, what exactly is this machine missing in your opinion and given the choice, what would you go with other than the recently introduced MacbookPro ?
Trying to get unapproved drugs through the FDA approval process is greed?
Spooky: Enhancing Dark Mode in Chromium
> much harder to break a USB-C port then a micro USB port on all phones I've owned.

phone context, yes. But in laptop/notebook context, USB-C is not durable, stuff gets very loose.
They talking specifically about GPUs.
Why did you omit the response you received from a netty developer that showed a large performance improvement[1]? Focusing entirely on the few cases where people report regressions and ignoring all of the reports of improvements isn't a good way to make an objective assessment.

[1] https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/10622#issuecomment-701...
"They did this to intentionally confuse customers."

Same for intel, there is a huge number of people who were asking me why their laptop with a dual-core I7 is slower than a desktop with an I3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAI_Systems_Corp._v._Peak_Comp.... would suggest that a program that exists in volatile memory does count for copyright purposes.
Why? It’s a pure commodity business. They are competing against your iCloud subscription and little USB drives that cost $30.

Not sure what the long term strategy is, but I hope going public doesn’t kill them — seems like a nice little business that could just coast for years.
I'll admit up front I haven't done the math on this MBP, but are the prices really so bad on a laptop$$/year basis?

If you look at a feature comparison, sure, macs have always looked like a bad deal, but that evaporates when you bring a time calculation into it. The surveys I have seen all seem to place macs at about half the failure rate of other devices, and they seem to last twice as long. everyone seems to have a shocking story from Lenovo/Dell et. al. about shoddy hardware and incompetent support for anyone without a $10mil+ PO. If you pay more up front, you can make it back by using the same device for longer.
Apple launches the world best cloth
Personally, I almost never use !g, but I use !maps (google maps) about 1-2% of the time to plan out trips, find places to eat, etc.
Color me skeptical.

I believe you (and Apple) that the battery can be charged faster, but I am currently rendering video on an M1 MBP. Its power draw: ~20 Watts.

That's a lot of charging overhead.
All of those studies are basically scientific garbage. They're just pop-culture tripe at this point. Each one has been invalidated, repeatedly, and for reasons that have nothing to do with medical ethics.

Also the prison experiment was at Stanford.
Seems more honest than quietly donating to PACs.
An older discussion of the more general observation about caloric production was published in 2000:

https://www.unm.edu/~hkaplan/KaplanHillLancasterHurtado_2000...

The cultures surveyed are in Africa, Australia, India...

The article you link is an analysis of a burial mound in the Andean highlands and surveys a few other excavations in the Americas. It concludes "The sample is sufficient to warrant the conclusion that female participation in early big-game hunting was likely nontrivial—greater than the trace levels of participation observed among ethnographic hunter-gatherers and contemporary societies.". This leaves several questions open -- their survey is of the Americas, and we do have to acknowledge that widespread female participation in hunting is very unusual to find in hunter-gatherer societies today. Which one represents the ancestral state?

At present, it seems that in most societies, males contribute most of the calories.
I love this codebase. I’ve been working with it on the side for a few weeks: it’s extremely well documented, supports Metal, has reasonable abstractions that don’t try to be the One True Way, and the Zig port looks really clean.