skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you forget about DeFi (decentralized finance).

People are using DeFi to make degenerate bets on various crypto projects. That typically involves

(1) buying tether,
(2) using it in an overly collateralized loan to borrow tether,
(3) then using that tether to buy another crypto,
(4) watching/hoping the price of that go up
(5) selling that corresponding crypto, locking in gains, and repaying the loan

If tether drops dramatically in price due to a lack of confidence, these loans will be affected. Such crypto tokens may be bubbling up only because these DeFi loans are possible.
Looks like they focused a lot more on utility this go around. Going to try out the 16 inch but hoping it can fit in my bags well and isn't a hassle for traveling.
People rotate in and out of that 10%. 25 years ago I maybe had a net wealth of 500 bucks, 15 years ago I was negative 180k. Today I am in that 10%. By the time I get to 70 I probably will not be in that 10% anymore. Hell one 'RIFF' and 2-3 years of 'sorry you are not a good fit', medium sized illness, and I could be there again.
FaceID isn't iris-based.
Based on the numbers it looks like the M1 Max is in the RTX 3070-3080 performance territory. Sounds like mobile AAA gaming has potential to reach new heights :D
I would argue that the really big benefit of dynamic typing is that it enables a really nice interactive interpreter shell experience. I think it's also important from a prototyping standpoint that Python's static typing model does a lot of inference -- you don't have to add an explicit type annotation on every single variable.
These are some top notch MacBooks!
how about searx
Curious as to why? You get more screen real estate with the notch and, at worst, you have the same display size as before? What's the issue?
It will of course work with other monitors, but there aren't that many high res monitors out there. The Apple display is the only 6k monitor I know of. There are a few 5k monitors and lots of 4k monitors.

There's one 8k monitor from Dell, but I don't think it's supported by macOS yet.
> I think you're getting stuck on the word "merit". It has context; there isn't some universal concept of the worth of a person being discussed here.

No, I'm not equating it to worth of a person -- that's why I chose to compare Alice Walton to economics departments and political think tanks and bank CEOs (who I'm sure are not always of the highest moral character). This is about economic merit.

You said this:

> Democracy ought not be a meritocracy, but the economy should be, which means some people will and should be left out of decisions... I would love it if the government could grow the number of people who, on their merits, help guide the economy...

I picked these examples because to me personally, it's clear that just because someone has acquired more capital, it doesn't mean that their opinion with respect to guiding the economy is more valuable. Otherwise, George Clooney is of higher merit in this context than the faculty members of top economics schools, and so we should heed his economic decisions and guidance accordingly. That doesn't strike you as... a little odd?

To put it another way, just because you do well at a game (e.g. "the economy") doesn't mean you should be the one dictating and guiding the rules of the game. It's a bit circular -- in what direction do you think such people will guide the rules? What incentive would the winners have to change the rules?
Considering how half-assed Kafka is in general, that it needs all clients code changes when Kafka servers are upgraded. It is very likely that user hit Kafka bug.
I keep seeing this advice for windows users switching to Linux - that they "need" a DE that is incredibly similar to Windows in order to feel comfortable.
However, I think that's really the wrong approach. You'll just end up making them go into that headspace where they expect/want linux to work exactly like windows. If they really wanted something that's just like windows, why would they even leave windows to begin with?
$1999 starting price. Even higher than predicted.
Wages are sticky because people generally don't like job hopping. Over time they absolutely lead to higher wages as firms compete for employees.

As far as corporate tax incidence, the literature is pretty clear that they reduce wages. They reduce return on capital too, some estimate that a $1 corporate tax costs capital 60 cents and labor 40 cents from what I've read. Some estimates are 50/50 though. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20130570

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00142...
Elixir and Erlang, in my estimation, similarly force simplicity by the nature of its own constraints, in this case massively concurrent processes designed to fail. The difference is constraining the OS interface instead of the bare metal interface. The antithesis is maybe the object orientated model where interfaces are mutable and state is unreliable.
Windows Hello is widely praised as an excellent feature, I don't see why FaceID on Mac would somehow be different.
I guess we always have the option of showing black on that part of the screen and effectively getting the old display back (ie a huge bezel).
> Under the screen has image quality issues.

I don't care. You need to process the hell out of a selfie image so you don't look like a goblin anyway. I'm sure the ML wizards at Apple can figure this out.

> A thicker bezel means less screen space.

The notch is a huge bezel with cutouts.

> Sticking up over the display is a worse compromise. Putting it on the bottom of the display really isn't ideal.

I agree.

> For most people, the only thing it covers is the menu bar.

It's not about what it covers, it's about harmony. A small hole is also superior, though most Android phones do not get the positioning right either. No, I don't care about Face ID, especially in the era of COVID. A finger print reader on the side or on the back is superior.
Any rules of thumb for how much cash compensation a founder can expect to draw in the first ~5 years of a successful startup? The stock compensation numbers make is sound like these founders are rich but it isn't liquid and could go to zero.

Do founders need to be independently wealthy before starting a company?
I think the parent comment is taking issue with how they frame it, not with the actual decision
Huh, seems I'm confused with the terminology.
Min 1440p is what I'm referring to, in either case.
$400 to upgrade RAM from 16GB to 32GB -- Ouch!!
They said "function keys, replacing the touchbar." So they did mention it.

But yes, I don't care how they market it. They'd be dumb to pause and say "oh yeah we were stupid, here's your old toys back."
The full-blown Max they talked about is an $800 upgrade.
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-inch
It's combined with double RAM (32GB), double GPU (32-core).

The $200 upgrade is called 'Max', but is still 16GB RAM, and 'only' 24 core GPU.
100%, well put. Our energy markets team is larger than our engineering team :). But it's also certainly a technology problem in that meeting each market's idiosyncratic requirements requires technology.
I don't really like the chassis design. It looks dated. But the rest of the Macbook Pro sounds really exciting!

For those who missed the keynote, here are some laugh-inducing moments -
"Our Pro users love to use physical function keys. So we have added them"

"Our Pro users like to connect a lot of devices without using a lot of dongles"
The 16" has a 140w charger, the 14" has a 97w charger. Did the TSA stop limiting chargers to 97-100w? I priced both w/32core 32gb 512ssd and the 16" is only $299 more than the 14" .. I want the 14" though, I'd like that 140w charger..

edit: I confused this with the battery maximums, nevermind! Thanks for letting me know!
Not suggesting this is whats happening, but you can pay for this kind attention.

On HN you probably don't have to though. Lots of fans of Apple things here.
I was excited to replace my 2017 MBP with a new model that has a decent keyboard and old-school features like multiple kinds of ports and an SD card slot.

With a starting price of $2000, I don’t know that I’m going to pull the trigger right now. My guess is this is a sign of a supply chain crunch, and they are maximizing profit instead of revenue, which makes sense.

Still disappointing that getting these basic-seeming features (I don’t care about the performance) costs $600 more than my last MBP. The base Pro shouldn’t jump in price by 50%.
I didn't even notice that they were full height. There was something off aesthetically when I saw the pictures of the new keyboard and I figured it was just the missing touch bar.

As a touch bar hater from the beginning, I'm super excited to be able to hit keys to play/pause/skip music, mute, and adjust brightness without having to look at the touch bar to do it.
Something like this?

https://developer.apple.com/metal/tensorflow-plugin/
Finally this dongle hell is over. It was so cringe worthy to see all Apple users carrying around a bag of dongles. Reminded me of the old LAN party cable fun…
If you don't care about "workstation" branding, or out-of-the-box Linux compatibility, you can get a high-RAM laptop by looking at gaming laptops.
I haven't seen this syntax before and I just knew it would be c++.
Intel CEO Hopes to Win Back Apple by Making Better Chips Than Apple
> how will we keep the owners of all that capital and production from wringing out the lower 90%?

Tax machines like you tax employees.
>this might imply that these are more powerful than any CPU apple has ever offered (which of course is not true).

Excuse my ignorance, what is?
I don't understand. Was your camera cover extra wide or why would this be different now?
Sure, tax cuts to the moneyed class, and "bread", er, spending designed to benefit their holdings, or mollify the masses such that they can continue to enrich the few hundred.

The reason politicians in the US engage in such shenanigans is that those wedge issues are the "circuses" that allow the status quo of imperialist militarism, supported by both parties, to continue. Is it mere coincidence that neither party opposes the health-industrial complex, or the military-industrial complex?

>It wouldn't be that difficult to set up a grassroots organization that raises more money to lobby for a carbon tax than oil companies spend on lobbying for subsidies. Even so, politicians would still keep oil subsidies and merely only pay lip service a carbon tax because the former boosts the economy in the short term, and the latter is the opposite.

Isn't it more parsimonious to conclude that the reason is that the grassroots organization can't keep up the flow of money in the way that the few hundred can?
Look at the old Macbook pros. The bezel at the top was thick. All they did was cut into the bezel so, in letterboxed mode, the display is the same size as the now previous gen of Macbooks.
> I'm not sure what you think would be difficult exactly. You've said that archive.org has already done the programming needed to ensure dynamic resources are discovered, and now those resources are content ids rather than URLs. Nothing's really changed on this point.

The point was that it's outside of the level which IPFS can possibly help with. IA actively maintains the code which does this and any competing project would need to spend the same time on that for the same reasons.

> Yes, but you would also have many more volunteers. Many people who wouldn't donate financially would donate CPU and storage. We saw this with SETI@home and folding@home, for instance.

That's an interesting theory but do we have any evidence suggesting that it's likely? In particular, SETI@home / folding@home did not involve either substantial resource commitments or potential legal problems, both of which would be a concern for a web archiving project. There's a substantial difference between saying something can use idle CPU and a modest amount of traffic versus using large amounts of storage and network bandwidth.

SETI@home appears to have on the order of ~150k participating computers. IA uses many petabytes of storage so let's assume that each of those computers has 10TB of storage free to offer — which is far more than the average consumer system — so if we assume all of them switch, that'd be 1.5EB of storage. That sounds like a lot but the need to have many copies to handle unavailable nodes and one factor controlling how many copies you need is the question of how much bandwidth the owner can give you — it doesn't help very much if someone has 2PB of storage if they're on a common asymmetric 1000/50Mbps connection and want to make sure that archive access doesn't interfere with their household's video calls or gaming. Once you start making more than a couple of copies, that total capacity is not looking like far more resources than IA.

> > nobody has a commitment to provide resources or even tell you if they decide to stop

> Why not? If you provide a client to participate as a storage node for archive.org, like SETI@home, then they would know your online/offline status and how much storage you're willing to donate. If you increase/decrease the quota, it could notify the network of this change.

All of what you're talking about is voluntary. One challenge of systems like this is that you don't know whether a node which simply disappears is going to come back or you need create a new replica somewhere else. Did someone disappear because they had a power outage or ISP failure, tripped over the power cord for an external hard drive, temporarily killed the client to avoid network contention, just got hit with ransomware, etc. or did they decide they were bored with the project and uninstalled it?

Since you don't have an SLA, you have to take conservative approach — lots of copies, geographically separated, etc. — which reduces the total system capacity and introduces performance considerations.
I'm thinking there's an interesting parallel between our browser-based p2p project [1] and cloudflare workers / DurableObjects. Instead of DurableObjects, we got HashedObjects [2], and instead of workers running on an edge network somewhere, we got in-browser p2p nodes running a browser-to-browser mesh network.

In general, what they do with infra, we do with cryptography & datatypes.

[1] Hyper Hyper Space: https://www.hyperhyperspace.org

[2] HashedObject: https://github.com/hyperhyperspace/hyperhyperspace-core/blob...
Probably - some of the marketing shots they showed in the event showed it being hidden with a black bar, but I couldn't find any that showed the toolbar itself being below the notch. At any rate, if it doesn't exist at launch, someone will make an app for it.
But it doesn't work on my non-standard OS that wasn't designed for the hardware!
Landfill as a Service^TM. Apple is truly a very dirty company.
Yes it does overlay it according to the screenshots shown so far. But it's still a problem for full-screen applications.

I don't see the advantage - it's a half-baked solution to a totally self-inflicted problem; they've intentionally been decreasing information density in the last few updates - they could just roll all that back.
Yeah, Brookings or whatever cesspool that made this left out those taxes as part of their narrative.

I included them to counter that narrative and the you RAN with my intent.

EDIT: To that point, you can absorb statistics from an organization but still disagree with their editorializing.
C++ constructors cannot express fallibility. Rust factory functions cannot placement-initialize (write into a pointer) an object too big to fit on the stack (aside from the perma-unstable `box` syntax, which I don't know if it even works or not). A unique_ptr factory cannot stack-allocate an object.

I don't know if it's possible to create a safe interface to fallible initialization, which is agnostic to whether the object will be constructed via return onto the stack, or onto heap memory. I'm interested to hear about proposals though (I've discussed this in the Rust community discord, but that isn't as public or concrete as a long-form article).
The metaphor doesn't really works, as in software lots of high rise start as a little shed.
The camera is pretty much in the same place?
I've got to say these M1 chips are very tempting. I've been a Linux guy for a long time now and these make me contemplate the switch. I really wish apple had a real competitor in the laptop space, but honestly no one seems to come close to apple's hardware quality. I'm really hoping to see some M1 style chips for non-apple hardware in the near future.
Yeah it’s surprisingly ugly. Maybe it’ll grow on me but I can’t help but think this is the first post-Ive laptop
Dune: Science fiction’s answer to Lord of the Rings
Just for the sake of example, I consider solving partial differential equations challenging. Listening is not challenging. One may not do it for a variety of reason, but we call can do it no exception, the act is as easy as it gets. A bit like walking.
I cant believe none of the news websites aren't using the title : 'Apple turns its silicon up a notch'
I wonder how this will work with Apple Calendar or Safari in full screen (with the new iOS 15 compact tabs). I wonder if they are moving to a concept of full screen where the top bar is always visible.
Amazing update. I still wish the m1 air supported 2 external displays though, as I would still prefer the smaller form factor, lighter weight, fanless design, and cheaper price, as I don't need the pro power. Hopefully the refreshed air will get support for 2 external displays sooner rather than later as it is otherwise perfect.
I was going to answer "presumably this is why Safari has always put tabs below the address bar", but the most recent version finally changed that by default. :\
Keyboard travel was fixed in 2020. I have the last Intel MBP, spec'd to last, with a physical escape key and Touch ID, and I love it.
Haptic feedback, and also elimination of the lag. It often takes >100ms for the bar to respond, which makes a quick adjustment to the sound slider impossible.
I don't think Apple really designed Safari to be ordinarily used in full-screen with compact tabs.
Wow! Apple just can't win with you, can they? I'm glad they aren't arrogant enough to revisit some of their design decisions.
I pretty much live in a fullscreen tmux session and a fullscreen browser window so the notch is pretty lame in my opinion, maybe iterm can put some fun stats or a clock there but to me it's basically like 2 lines of lost screen real estate - not enough to dissuade me from getting it since they put the touch bar where it belongs (the trash), added real ports and fixed the keyboard.
Definitions of ethical may differ. Shielding far-right sites, cesspits like Kiwi Farms which make it their stated goal to drive people they don't like to suicide, criminals like DDOS vendors, credit card fraud forums, etc. all under the guise of being a "neutral passthrough layer third party" feels incredibly disingenuous to me. The aforementioned people are Cloudflare's customers and Cloudflare hosts their content (yes, sometimes with a short ttl, but the public IP address still terminates at their web servers). They can not be afforded the same leeway that actual internet exchanges are when routing traffic to bad actors.

So no. They may have demonstrated business-friendly behaviour. But ethical? No.
Your question seems to be along the line of "you do know I can use this to make money for free?"

Their goal as I understand it is "yes, but we will make it so cool and easy and reliable after a while you will want to pay for the extra to make even more money"
I prefer USB-C with PD to all of the vendor specific ports except maybe MagSafe.
I agree. I don't want in-laptop HDMI or an SD reader - I can use an adapter for the half dozen times I'll ever need them.

But, I also want the high end processor and memory, so alas, here we are.
I wanted to kick the tires on CadQuery, but I had to install and understand Anaconda first. Any tool that requires me to understand a build system or a language package manager to correctly and safely build the software before I can use it is not ready for prime time.

If this was important for my life, I might put in the effort. If it is for passing curiosity, I probably won't. Especially when it impacts not just this software but opens an entire universe of what exploits can now be run on my PC.

When I have to set up a VM to sandbox an environment for a tool, it stretches my patience. It makes the tool extremely cumbersome.
USB A. Ethernet. Dongles are here to stay.
This is an interesting announcement. Are they aiming to cut into some of the Spotify market share?

Anecdotally: I have a hard time getting Siri to play what I want. I like the personal station under “Listen Now” in Apple Music but Siri has no idea what I’m talking about.
It wasn't a good look prior to Apple's announcement of the M1 Pro and the M1 Max; in the aftermath, it looks absolutely delusional.
I would be extremely surprised if the TSA started checking the wattage on power supplies. I've never even done the separate liquids thing.
How exactly would you expect them to convey that information without sounding arrogant? We all know about the TouchBar. They know it was a mistake, we know it, so why mention it in what's essentially a sales pitch?
IANAL, but sticking a mendacious LICENCE on the code looks to me to be fraud, rather than copyright violation. It seems pretty clear-cut to me, so you might be able to get a legal opinion to that effect in a half-hour consultation.

In the UK, many solicitors will give you a 30-minute consultation for nothing.
Poll: Do you find Humanity's lack of science-faith disturbing?
It was the best of times: Science™ delivered in record time a perfect vaccine for a newly-emerged super-virus. Millions promptly lined up to get protected from the super-virus. The go-alongs got their jabs as the months progressed not because they were worried about the super-virus, but to do their part in getting the government to let life get back to normal.

It was the worst of times: a vocal minority refuses to get vaccinated, and are successfully throwing their sabo [0] into the public health machine. Some of those who are In Rebellion Against Science™ consist of airline pilots, nuclear scientists, soldiers, police officers, teachers, doctors and other medical workers, people who've already recovered from COVID-19, protestors against 'vaccine passports', etc.

I proudly count myself among the vocal minority. I suspect I have an auto-immune condition already, think the jab could possibly finish me off, and have obtained the anti-serotonin drug cyproheptadine in case I happen to catch SARS-CoV-2.

Got myself another -4 HN comment recently by trying and failing to preach my own understanding of settled science. I noticed a single upvote before a brigade of Dark Helmet Downvoters [1] arrived.

Decades ago scientists figured out that excess oxygen is toxic & invasive ventilation harms lungs [2]. There is a simple antidote for oxygen toxicity. While ventilators are sometimes useful, they are known to not help with pneumonia. There would've been no need to worry about SARS-CoV-2 if Medicine™ hadn't forgotten best practices for patients whose oxygen levels are low.

I am submitting this as a Poll so the silent minority can anonymously share what they really think, without risking getting downvoted.

[0] Sabo/Sabotage & Star Trek VI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKLIivrA3g0

[1] Space Balls reference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8XddGIaLaU

[2] The Folly of Medical Hyperventilation - https://www.taxiwars.org/2021/06/folly-medical-hyperventilation.html
I haven't yet gotten the COVID-19 vaccine, but I'm considering it.
I'm going to skip the COVID-19 vaccine and wait for the COVID-22 version.
I'm never going to get a COVID-?? vaccine.
I've been vaccinated, but I respect freedom of choice. If people don't want the COVID-19 vaccine their choice should be respected.
I've been vaccinated; some people need coercion to do what's best for them
I'll take the booster as soon as the Experts say I'm eligible.
I've been COVID-19 vaccinated, but will not be going for boosters.