skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could we use M1 chips on non-apple boards? If yes, I wish Apple releases these for non mac os consumption. Eg. Running linux servers in the cloud.
Because it’s built-in. I can’t leave it behind. That’s the whole point. It’s also e-waste - a whole slot most people never use.
If it's a B2C model, then ad-supported might be the way to go, but if it's B2B, there are lots and lots of great examples of making things work. You definitely need to figure out the math about the incremental cost of additional free users vs. the margin generated by those that pay. But assuming the math holds, the product-led model works wonders.

From Zoom to Calendly, from HubSpot to Monday.com, the free tier generates an enormous user base that leads not only to upgrades, but also to a fantastic feedback loop that makes the product stronger and stronger.

In the space where we operate - the democratization of design - the most successful example is by far Canva. It has over 99% of users that are on the free plan, but with 60m users, that 1% is golden, and generates $1b in ARR. Melanie Perkins recently shared some of those numbers and their journey here: https://medium.com/canva/a-note-to-the-canva-community-1d4b0...

So, in the end, it's all about making sure that small % of customers that ARE willing to pay, pay you enough to make it all work. It sounds obvious, but it takes a lot of time to figure it out (we certainly do not have all the answers yet, even after 7 years). But here's the key: among the large amount of free users lies the very audience you need to listen to in order to determine what people are willing to pay for. That discovery process ends up being the game changer.
True! Also, not everything can be described as right or wrong, true or false.

Does current flow positive to negative or the other way round? Well electroncs flow negative to positive but current flow can be however you define it. If we all decided to change current flow to a different direction and invert a load of maths, it wouldn't be wrong, just another way to be right.

I think the missing piece is education of philosophy to people so that they understand how to evaluate, how to disagree, how to define terms, how to communicate what they know, what they think and what they don't know.

Is a window still a window if the glass is painted black?
Generally agree to invest to avoid eye stain, but this is overkill.
By my math, a 4k laptop screen needs to be 20" diagonally before the pixel density drops to a perceptible level. Any smaller than that and the pixel density is so great that I don't think you are getting any improvement to clarity at a typical laptop viewing distance.

20" laptops are a pretty rare occurrence today, even in the desktop replacement space. Most laptops I see with 4k screens are 13" to 17".

So my question is, why waste GPU cycles (and by extension, battery) driving all these extra pixels?
OK, but there are dongles for that, I use one (the same one) for 10 years, since I got my first camera.

Used it before laptops had sd port, and now use it when they don't have it again. No issues with that.

In case of cameras there are sdcards that are wifi enabled, and also newer cameras should support wireless transfer - isn't that easier and faster instead of pulling out the card?
Can’t see an advantage for them in updating to a new 13” design. 14” is pretty much the same size physically, no? 1/3 inch difference. I guess they’re only keeping it now so they have a starter offering at a low price point.

To get the low price point in a year or two they can just have the low end 14” be the starting Pro machine. Only advantage to the 13 now is the touch bar, if you like that.
> Could you walk us through how you would offer a Rust binary with a statically linked LGPL Rust crate that is replaceable according to the license requirements (v2.0, 2.1, 3.0, pick your poison), without also releasing the binary's source code?

I see that rustc has a "--emit obj" option, from there surely any decent build system would allow enough customization to do what you want but there's enough raw capability to write a user guide that says "build your stuff with rustc --emit obj lgpl_lib_1.rs -o lgpl_lib_1.o and link with our proprietary .o with lld" ; and you'd be good to go.

> * Edit: keep in mind that .rlib files are not stable across compiler versions.

sure, that's not an issue, just say that you used compiler version x.y ? the LGPL does not require that things work with any compiler version, only that there is a way to patch / rebuild the LGPL parts. e.g. if I ship a C++20 proprietary library with C++20-specific types in the API which interoperates with a C++20 LGPL lib, of course things won't work with GCC 2.95 and everyone will be fine with that.
If you're hosting someone else's code.
Yes.

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/vaccin...

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993270974/why-lagging-covid-v...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/15/9874126...
I wonder what this means for the new M1 pro then. Can I have 2 external monitors AND the integrated screen on? I guess we'll have to try
Apple has finally put a braided cable in their charger. I hope we can say goodbye to 20 years of charger cable breakage.
Don't buy them?

Acer sells MUCH cheaper machines all day:

$1.6K for a Predator here:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/2021-Flagship-Acer-Predator-Trito...

Apple has been told that their products (watch, airpods, iphones etc) have been too costly for decades now. And still makes money selling them.

What I don't get - Apple's stuff seems to last forever. My dell's just crap out (battery, drivers, updates etc). My wife on a mac -> she just goes and goes. I'd love to see the support histories on old ACER's and Dell's vs Apple.
M1 Pro is on the cheapest model, and M1 Max is on the most expensive model. So I think you are just flat out wrong here.
This article sets up a strawman argument and then attempts whataboutry to prove her thesis.

She is neither an expert in the philosophy of science, philosophy, or any of the fields she is critiquing.

She also fails represent what science actually is: a way to organise the best set of information we have collected thus far.

Science has never claimed to be the absolute truth on anything, and that an implied assertion the author is attempting to make.

In the end, the author is only able to prove that science, like all human endeavours, is imperfect. She let all of us down by failing to say what she would replace it with, or simply articulate reasonable boundaries through which science ought to be seen.
HDMI, yes. USB-C ones are another story though.
Doom is now playable on Twitter
Wow, scrolling controls the animation frame by frame. Never seen that. Cool and frightening.
Yes, eg virtual memory, virtualization, iommu, nx bit, boot security/drm as used in consoles, come to mind.
I hope we will see this on more devices.
This is a huge boon to performance.

Might even forebode soldering RAM onto packages from here on out and forever.

Steamdeck will probably have a crazy 100gb/sec ram b/w. twice of current laptops and desktops.
Could an asteroid impact push the Moon closer to us?
I use DDG for years, and it's at most once a month when I can't find something and need to fall back to Google. Maybe I got used to the suckiness? Or maybe it's relative?
Yup - I misheard while watching.

The chart only shows a line up to about 105W, so it's not clear what they're trying to represent there. (Not that there's any question this seems to be way more efficient!)
i have this issue. it’s super frustrating, because a reconnect is required every 5-10 minutes.
I agree. I finally upgraded from a Iphone SE to a 12 Mini. The notch is horrible and I’m not sure why people wave it away with “I got used to it”. I’ve had it for months. No idea what lunatic at Apple thought it would be nice for a laptop.

Can’t they come up with something a little more original than removing screen real estate to stand out?

I will be switching back to an SE just based on how overall unwieldy the new phone is. The notch is just one of the nails in the coffin.

The notch to me says, “now I know which products not to buy”.
Importing pictures videos from camera, car DVR, just storage, gopros, drones, raspberry pi etc.

Much faster to pop the SD card than to connect via USB to transfer files. Much more convenient not at desk.
I dig the REAPER video in the post!
> The Mighty Apple with trillions in bank cannot come-up with something "innovative" and chooses the "trade off" approach?

Do you think having money means Apple never has to make tradeoffs? There are always tradeoffs. It's just not possible to make a good webcam that exists in the tiny space at the top of an ultra-thin screen with ultra-thin bezels. Most manufacturers just make terrible webcams, including the Framework that you've brought up as a good alternative (which has much thicker bezels besides).

That's one way to go. Another way is to make space for the webcam. Apple can't magically throw money at every conceivable problem until it disappears.

You don't have to buy one of the new MacBooks. I suspect that most designers aren't going to have as much of a problem with it as you're suggesting, though. Outside of full screen most folks won't notice it after a while, and when you go to full screen Apple adds a black bezel anyway.
Considering the entire content is aligned with a popular political ideology, it's clear that she's just using it as an argument for her ideology.

She even implied that a straw-man claim she attributed to science was wrong for no other reason that that it was the year 2017. The very first sentence is critical of the fact that people are trying to understand something scientific!
I still remember when "reimburse me in bitcoin" was an option in the early days.

Quite the interesting company
Also $400 to go from 32GB to 64GB if you start with the 16 inch MPB with the M1Max. So $400 in that case buys 32G extra instead of just 16GB extra.

Interesting.
Key travel isn't back to what it used to be, but it's moving down everywhere so apple at least isn't far behind. I went from a T series thinkpad to an M1 air and the keyboard was a clear downgrade, but in practice I find it to be "good enough".

Apple:

.7 mm - butterfly keyboard

1 mm - current mac scissor keyboard

1.3 mm - old mac scissor keyboard

Thinkpads:

1.8mm - T series thinkpads (aka the ones with the good keyboard)

1.5mm - last year's X1 carbon (the thin and light)

1.3mm - this year's X1 carbon
> Most of us prefer to live inside a game.

I am interested in hearing about how you escaped the game, should you wish to say more.
That approach leads to a webcam that's garbage. Apple chose the notch approach to allow thin bezels on most of the screen while still having a 1080p webcam with good low light performance.
> their all-in-one printers do require ink to scan, and they've been doing it since at least 2016

Oh they've been doing that for over a decade. People just sort of... put up with it.
Toyota sets aside $3.4B for American electric vehicle batteries
As far as I understand, he was absent from about 2015 on. There was an article, which I can't find right now, that discussed the mess this left the design team in. He basically retired to his home, and he would require the design team to come present to him at some local place (he wouldn't go to Apple). Then he'd give zero feedback. (This is from my recollection of the article.)

Pretty telling since that was sort of the heyday of Apple's devices having all sorts of conflicting designs.

Edit: I think this is the article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/jony-ive-is-departing-apple-but...

With a summary at: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/01/jony-ives-departu...

Furthermore, it's hard to imagine Ive and Ferrari gelling. Ive's style is about as diametrically opposed from Italian design as I can think of. I characterize his design as character-less, something Italian designers don't go for.
The real irony is their popularity on "gaming" laptops, where the 4k display results in noticeably worse game performance while not looking any better to the naked eye than a 1440p screen probably would.
These things came at a great time for me. My late-2014 MBP just received its last major OS upgrade (Big Sur), so I'm officially in unsupported waters now. I was getting concerned in that era from 2015-2019 with all the bad decisions (butterfly keyboard, no I/O, touchbar, graphics issues, etc.) but this new generation of MacBooks seems to have resolved all my points of concern.

On the other hand, my late-2014 model is still performing... fine? It gets a bit bogged down running something moderately intensive like a JetBrains IDE (which is my editor of choice), or when I recently used it to play a Jack Box Party Pack with friends, but for most things it's pretty serviceable. I got it before starting university, it carried me all the way to getting my bachelor's degree last year, and it's still trucking along just fine. Definitely one of my better purchases I've made.
Well, it's kinda like if someone made a really nice meal for you but left a booger on the top of the plate.

You'd complain about that booger, right?
Some people will still be needing an intel machine or a bootcamp machine for software compatibility reasons
That's just not the same.
> The way you'd have to do static linking isn't something that is easy to set up in most build systems,

it's trivial in CMake which is the most used buildsystem in languages with a linker, just set -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=0 on the command line

> and deprives you of the ability to do certain post-build steps (such as signing the build)

why would it ? I build my app as a set of static libs linked together in the end and there's no trouble signing it... and it does not make sense for people who will build their own custom version of your app to sign it.

here's a guide inspired by instructions given by Cisco to rebuild one of their proprietary apps for instance on iOS:

https://github.com/freedesktop/gstreamer/blob/master/README....
You can have that by using Any as your type if you so wish typically and escape the type system for those rare circumstances.

Also C# suffers a similar issue with what I call "unproductive Java bureaucracy", since it's basically Microsoft Java. Bureaucracy is not static typing. You can also have full dynamic dispatch and still have static typing too.
If that were the case you could probably see an interposer. And I think the B/W would be even higher.
for folks following this the 2020 Dell XPS camera's have absolute TERRIBLE quality.

https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/XPS13-9300-2020-version-w...

The Apple camera solution here, while it doesn't make you happy, may make others happy.
Dandelion Wine is one I bounced off of during my initial Bradbury infatuation around age 11 or 12, but in my 30s have found to be excellent. It is, in part, about experiencing the world as a child, but is probably not something most (to put it mildly) children can appreciate, if that makes sense.

I did have a fair bit of exposure to small midwestern town & country life as a kid, and a lot more second-hand via my parents, and I can't discern how much of my appreciation of the story is due to that. To someone with—for example—only urban, coastal experience, would it hit anywhere near as hard as it does for me? Will the next group of people turning 30, who've never seen a house in the US with actual you-have-to-go-work-a-pump-by-hand-to-get-water well water, with a wood burning stove in the kitchen that sees daily use, et c., be able to relate to it as I do, which relation may itself be far weaker than people who grew up like that full-time? I'm not sure.

His short stories are great. There were two thick hardback volumes published, each collecting 100(!) stories, that'll give you plenty to chew on. Widely available used, pretty cheap. Unless you dove really deep on Bradbury in high school, odds are much of it will be new to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stories_of_Ray_Bradbury

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradbury_Stories:_100_of_His_M...

No repeats between the two volumes. 200 total stories. Does include most or all of The Martian Chronicles, which I prefer to read on its own, personally, though these might be useful for filling in gaps since IIRC they contain a couple stories that weren't in every printing of The Martian Chronicles.
World’s Richest People in Crypto
I wonder if 64GB in unified memory will jumpstart ML developments for Macs. I cannot wait to run a Mac Mini farm.
Same, I have the 13" M1 Pro and I don't regret it.

I don't.

I don't regret it...
This whole thing seems like flamebait rather than a sincere attempt at curious discussion.

Why do you care so much about your HN downvotes? Why did a few downvotes turn into this screed? Isn't there a better venue for this, or maybe just someone in real life you can vent to?
Which is why we never hear these horror stories about phishing attacks trying to get people to send things to the wrong account.

The fact is that in many, perhaps most cases of theft the Government isn't able to do much more than punish someone they think did the crime, maybe they can recover the assets, just as often those assets are evidence and you don't get them back for years.
Maybe both would be fine, I am just saying the code part is much less useful to me than the visual/parametric editor. Onshape for example has scripts which can do things like generate gears and that is great, but I use scripts for less than 0.1% of my onshape work. The visual/parametric component is what users like me really need. I added it late to my comment but here is an example of one of my recent CAD projects.

https://twitter.com/TLAlexander/status/1450001567088713730

I will check out those videos when I get a chance.
tbf, DDG can't know that they have no requests because they don't collect history, although that wouldn't be a completely mad assumption. It is also conceivable that their market share is simply so small that no-one the police are chasing are known to use DDG for their web searches.

In fact the second is more likely since otherwise the Tweet would read, "we haven't been able to serve any warrant requests", rather than "we haven't received any"
I think the parametric constraint driven way of doing CAD is actually already pretty programmatic. While I'm not sure, I'm imaging that there might be some sort of isomorphism between CAD-style constraints and Prolog-style logic programming...
That was just the top of the links when I searched. I think the important point about Delta pilots is they won't have to join Southwest and American Airlines' pilot rebellions against forced medical treatments from which they believe they will receive no benefit.

Some people don't like Mr. Berenson, but I think he's consistent:

> [...] The pilots I’ve heard from don’t want [systemwide flight cancellations] - they didn’t become pilots NOT to fly. But they also recognize they are speaking for tens of millions of working Americans who are furious with the choice the Biden Administration is forcing on them: your right to make medical decisions for yourself, or your job.

> So what happens next? The answer may come down to a delicate dance between the airlines - especially Southwest and American - and their employees. If the airlines signal that anyone who wants an exemption can get one, they may keep the anger to manageable levels.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-not-so-friendly-skie...

Edit: Can't respond to the comment below. Don't care about Snopes, I think they mostly peddle whatever the consensus happens to be, even when provably wrong. Berenson's substack seems to support that there is a silent rebelion amongst airline pilots.

See also: URGENT: A Southwest Airlines pilot explains why you will not hear anything about vaccine mandates from his union - and why Southwest has more flexibility than it admits to stand up to the White House - https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-a-southwest-airli...
Yes, I clearly see in the first frame a wallpaper with black background that hides the notch.:)
So they give me a real estate by removing the bezel and remove the vertical display space to hide the notch.
Nice solution, but as I sad, not for my use-case.
That's absolutely bonkers. I can think of 20 different ways to provide a decent web cam without having a notch in the screen. I would have preferred for them to leave the webcam off entirely before I would have ever settled on such an absurd solution.
The video we're discussing extolls the virtues of a heavy, gearless, coaster-brake bike.
Expanding on the question, what are good examples of angry Twitter mobs that ended up costing companies a lot of money? (With or without the legal system being the source of those losses.)
I'll jump in saying "Weekends" but add the following fun bonus:
https://www.npmtrends.com/react-vs-vue

the dips are Christmas.
But still not fanless, right? Maybe they'll update the Macbook Air with some better graphics as well, so that one could do some decent gaming without a fan.
As if that assurance by DDG would've stopped the authorities from requesting something.
Onshape is a good combination of visual + you can set exact values for things. I’m always happy to try new tools, but I tend to fallback to Blender for artsy stuff and Onshape for more precise parts.

I suck at 3d modeling, so I evaluate tools from a “how much value can a noob get” point of view.
Absent a VPN, ISPs have teamed up (as in, are often ran by the same media giants sending the request) to give customers a 3/6-strike policy for DMCA takedowns. So people self-hosting could eventually mean no internet for them (at least, for as long as the internet isn't considered a utility).

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130227/14231422143/comca...
Assuming PHP-FPM is left running, you should be able to restart Nginx without wiping the cache.
Probably just my misunderstanding:

Some of the items in your list sound like things that were features of Smalltalk IDEs back in the late 80s ?

- time-travel debugging

- live debugging and modification

- saving, sharing, and replaying

p304 "Debugger Windows" "Smalltalk/V 286 Tutorial and Programming Handbook"

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/SmalltalkVTutori...

----

And later, Rewrite Rules:

A very large Smalltalk application was developed at Cargill to support the operation of grain elevators and the associated commodity trading activities. The Smalltalk client application has 385 windows and over 5,000 classes. About 2,000 classes in this application interacted with an early (circa 1993) data access framework. The framework dynamically performed a mapping of object attributes to data table columns.

Analysis showed that although dynamic look up consumed 40% of the client execution time, it was unnecessary.

A new data layer interface was developed that required the business class to provide the object attribute to column mapping in an explicitly coded method. Testing showed that this interface was orders of magnitude faster. The issue was how to change the 2,100 business class users of the data layer.

A large application under development cannot freeze code while a transformation of an interface is constructed and tested. We had to construct and test the transformations in a parallel branch of the code repository from the main development stream. When the transformation was fully tested, then it was applied to the main code stream in a single operation.

Less than 35 bugs were found in the 17,100 changes. All of the bugs were quickly resolved in a three-week period.

If the changes were done manually we estimate that it would have taken 8,500 hours, compared with 235 hours to develop the transformation rules.

The task was completed in 3% of the expected time by using Rewrite Rules. This is an improvement by a factor of 36.

from “Transformation of an application data layer” Will Loew-Blosser OOPSLA 2002

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=604258
Apple don't offer cheaper laptops. No one doubt it lasts longer in average.
No paywall articles please.
Why does the notch have to be so big if it's only used for a camera unlike iPhone where it hosts a multitude of sensors?