skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is definitely the key takeaway, here. Macs will always be a different kind of computer for a different class of consumer; people will either love them or hate them, regardless of processor speed or battery life. A Macbook is a Macbook, and if you want the benefits then you have to also live with the downsides.

Consumers already know this. They'll buy the new Mac even if it's worse (see: 2016), the new iPhone even if it's slower (see: 2022), and the new Magic Mouse even if it's still broken. It doesn't matter how fast or slow the Mac is, Apple has long proven that they exist in a market segment of their own, for better or worse.
[cowboy bepop theme music plays]

It's not obvious you can just go back and edit the formula already. Also it will be hard to do neat tricks if the sampling positions are not fixed on the x axis in world space.
The CDC page on the bundling of vaccines which goes quite a bit into the why of it - https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/why-vaccinate/combinati...
Sneakernet!

“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.“ -Andrew Tannenbaum
I used to search for recipes on the Internet. The spam became unbearable. Then I spent $30 on a cookbook, one recipe per page. Very happy with the outcome. Simple, fast, effective: it just works.

Happiness meta-rule: Throw electronics away, use analog equivalents instead.
Surely, I have given up to the pretty tribe on a couple of pull requests, as I have better things to do with my time, and it is easier to make their wishes come true than endless arguing.
> But it crushed FB, Snap, and 1000s of small businesses in the process.

Ironically, this is far more of a narrative than this guy’s idea of Apple’s “narrative.” The idea that banning user tracking hurts small businesses was FB’s narrative to try and get backlash against Apple for its tracking crackdown. That genuinely is a narrative because from Apple’s decision we have seen that consumers (1) prefer not to be tracked (go figure!) but also (2) are spending more than ever.

What he calls Apple’s “narrative” is actually their substantiated history of privacy-protecting technologies. Not just tracking, but iCloud Private Relay, Hide my Email, iMessage E2E encryption, keeping many things on-device only. Even the example he gave as a gotcha - personalized ads - has an opt out button right there! Try opting out of FB’s tracking and ads network and see the difference.
In answer to your first question...
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx/th...
vs
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air

So 1800 for the Lenovo vs 1200 for the Mac.

This is a meaningless comparison.
This is surprising. I would have assumed the opposite (people with high functioning autism seem less susceptible to social pressure to have children, and more likely to use birth control, for example.)

Any guesses as to why?
The case was Bernstein vs. US. If you want their reasoning, the text of the decision is probably available somewhere.

https://www.eff.org/cases/bernstein-v-us-dept-justice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
Not sure at all what you are talking about, it certainly isn't the article where the airline package handler was stealing things from people's bags. This isn't a case of something lost, it's a case of something being stolen.
Updated the post, sorry! haha
Does it strike anyone else as being odd that Apple is noting this in their “Newsroom” press release? Don’t get me wrong, great for Shazam and all … but why is Apple - the company that bought them just 4 years ago - is making a todo about it?
> Use a foldable bluetooth keyboard, case with kickstand;

Some recommendations from my subreddit:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMobileComputers/comments/uvjty1...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMobileComputers/comments/sqvrsg...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMobileComputers/comments/uvjnhe...
Link to the full article: https://www.youngmoney.co/p/apples-diabolical-plan-control-a...
An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm (2003)

https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf
One of the traits of seniority is to understand what that "it depends" means in reality.
Great work by Phoronix as well posting the initial results, as well as creating the open-source test suite so anyone can run it on their own hardware any time they would like.
Not to mention the usual problems with Phoronix benchmarks: it doesn't say how many benchmark runs were done, where are the error bars, was the software actually compiled properly etc. Phoronix folks don't understand what they are measuring; they also don't really care - I remember one of their benchmarks measured the execution time of a command that was erroring out.

Phoronix Test Suite isn't a benchmark, it's a marketing tool.
They aren't similarly priced though. It seems the Lenovo config is above $2000 according to https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx/th...
>the UK still has astronomical alcohol consumption, but they don’t get labelled the same way as the Irish

To be fair we certainly do have a reputation for drunkenness and general loutishness in parts of the Continent, apparently in anywhere with cheap holiday resorts the UK has a bad name.
The presence of the backspace key has spoilt me. I hardly write anything with a pen and paper these days.
Apple don't seem to be particularly great at making new GUI applications these days. I suspect a lot of their old guard staff has finally moved on, and the institutional knowledge in that area has suffered.
Are you basing this on math or history?
Ooof I think the reason was an issue with compression between our teaser branch and the main branch, so everything was loading with full size png/mp3/wav files—it should be fixed soon!
Part of it depends on if "build it five more times, again" is a viable strategy.

Building five "Netflixes" with identical content is possible; the amount of content wouldn't change (it would decrease, the cynic says); you just need parallel copies of everything (servers, bandwidth, etc).

The fun would come in syncing usernames, etc through the system.

It's an entirely different class of problem compared to "acquire resource, convert it, sell it".
Part of being human is embracing both of these realities though. We can get satisfaction from spending 4 hours perfecting some small nuance in code to make it run smoothly and we can feel awe pondering the vastness of the universe.
I wouldn't instantly go that far. There are people who can be senior in 6 years. People truly that good are the exception, not the rule though.
There is a much easier way: the president has pardon powers, so as long as you have somebody willing to commit murder, he can pardon them and then appoint new justices who know that they have to toe the line or they will die.

I am not advocating this, just pointing out an even more straight forward way to do this.
That’s too bad. It was just a fraction of a point. It’s meant to make guessing (not educated guessing) a zero sum game
I have a bunch of these [1] Namando mini slim keyboards connected to firewalls/routers. They are cheap but have 64 keys and are backlit which is useful for router closets. That said I am not a fan of mini keyboards. My brain is wired to use full size so mini's really slow me down.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Namando-Compact-Keyboard-Portable-Com...
And let’s not forget these were very similar parties back then. Southern democrats were FDR democrats. Woodrow Wilson from 1916 is a model of a modern democrat that believes in experts and expert agencies running the country. George Wallace was a big labor guy.
They are stronger than they look. keep in mind that all joints in a lack have no cross brace so the leg-surface joint is actually pretty strong.

The big thing is that a tight install of the legs and adding tension and mounting the hardware helps cross re-enforce them. The examples where people use a second lack top as the bottom are WAY more reenforced than one would expect, you probably could use it as a chair.
the imaging equipment that goes into space is definitely state of the art, though the requirements for it would have been locked for some time.

It's not like the JWST folks said "we're going to fly a canon 5D!" and then were 20 years out of date when the JWST flew. Pretty much all of the sensors are built from scratch, using very advanced/specialized techniques. Given that the tech is all custom, including some stuff that probably had to be invented or otherwise figured out to begin with, it's hard to say the "tech is old," given it's just now flying.

In other ways, some of it looks old: one of JWST's main sensors images at 1024x1024. There might be other constraints at play here—how much data you get per pixel is directly related to your telescope's angular resolution and sensitivity of sensor.

Here's a page that discusses the JWST's sensors:

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/innovations/infrared.htm...

The journal article linked at the bottom of that page is also quite interesting as it talks about the science of the sensor technology and also the background of astronomer's requirements too. You can find it easily on google with a `filetype:pdf` filter.
This is touching on something I have been thinking a lot about as I progress in my career.

The thing good and bad code have in common is the fact that it needs to updated. Either for bugs or changing business need.

So focusing on the operational side becomes much more important. Code is the trivial part. Creating systems that can be modified reliably is the hard part.

I rather have ownership over a "poorly" coded service with proper ci/cd, integration tests, monitoring, and a team that reasons about and follows strong operational processes, rather than some beautiful code in a vacuum.
River sounds like a cool kid who needs some guidance
Globohomo means global homogeneity, even if some right wingers seem to think it means...something else lol
Are you a woman, by any chance? Autism diagnoses have historically been very male-biased.
Learn C with Dr. Charles “Chuck” Severance (With Kernighan and Ritchie's Book)
There are entire albums on Spotify which are full songs of 80s pop classics, played at a slower speed, then uploaded as a new album from another artist.
The PowerPC problem for Apple was that IBM was not interested in advancing the architecture in the personal computer market, and Freescale had left the market as well. I don't think there was anything intrinsic to the PowerPC ISA itself that made it a hot and slow chip. It was simply the lack of R&D and commitment to fab on new process nodes, etc. The switch to Intel was necessary because they literally had no quality supplier for chips and at that point x86 was practically the only supplier for desktop computer MPUs.

Note that their portable / consumer devices have always been ARM. Like, back to the Newton even.

Apple now makes their own chips. They've dealt with that vulnerability. And they're fully onboard the ARM bus in a big way and they've managed to bring their customer base with them without a lot of hassle.

Over the last 40 years Apple has been burned multiple times with having their key ISA be dropped by its manufacturer. 6502 became a deadend (quickly.) Motorola dropped the ball on the (relatively successful) 68k, and tried to get people onto the ill-fated 88k and then pulled the eject cord and everyone went PowerPC. That lasted maybe a decade and Motorola/Freescale&IBM started to flee the ship. I think Apple has learned their lesson. They don't want to be vulnerable on this front anymore.
Yeah... without delving into specifics here, it's possible to both deeply distrust the FBI and the people they are investigating.

An often-abusive organization can be tasked with investigating deeply corrupt people, and we don't need to pick a side and declare them the good guys out of tribal loyalty.
It feels weird that 8GB is the entry level for a $1000+ ultrabook in 2022. I remember 4GB being standard 10 years ago. That whole "doubling every two years" thing really tapered off.
I stand corrected. I never heard that part of the story.
I look at all advertising as obnoxious. If it is unbidden it is little different from a door to door salesman knocking at my door trying to sell me solar.

With regard to Apple not tracking us with PII, that is good however.
Had some issues with my cursor just disappearing during trials, lead me to get a slower score by the end!
Regular sunlight exposure is correlated with lower all-cause mortality.

https://doi.org/10.1111/joim.12251
The sample size is so small that I wonder how can they be so sure of their conclusions.
Anyway, at least the title here is an overly broad generalization that can’t be supported by this research.
> Finally, this little thing has a soul. Like the Eee; like the 8-bit micros of yore. I don’t know how better to put it. The Macbook Pro is a very capable workhorse, but I think of it as just a tool.

Yes, a thousand times, yes!

Our personal devices used to have soul and personality, because they weren't capable of doing everything. The personality shone through the fact that they had unique interfaces, sometimes limited use cases and hard tradeoffs.

There was a culture of enthusiasts and hackers that gravitated to the Palm Pilot, the Blackberry and the iPod. Modern devices stick everything into a generic black slab of glass running a locked-down OS, so these cultures have long since splintered.

These Micro PCs are expensive, but they're the closest we have to the Cyberdecks promised in '80s sci fi novels and are customizable to an extent that the average Android/iOS device can't be.
> Unfortunately, it's just an anecdote.

No, it's part of the distribution of outcomes that the current system can produce.

Someone getting killed down the street from me is not "just an anecdote", either, even if I know a bunch of people who walked that path just fine and there was one other one guy who "only" got mugged.

Think about the complete lack of care that produces a system where if someone accidentally uses your SSN once (or perhaps it was a single keying error by someone else), that it can cause repeated associations between you and that person for years.

The problem is that most of the cost of errors is externalized to consumers, especially in the worst cases. The only incentive to prevent these errors and mitigate these errors is to do the bare minimum necessary to avoid the regulatory or legislative hammer.
I actually saw Grace Hopper in LA during the early 80s. She told this story, along with showing her physical "nanosecond" (the string representing the distance light travels in a nanosecond).

I doubt she said "no one ever called it a bug before this." I also don't remember if she claimed to have written the notation in the log, or merely said that someone did. It was a just a charming pun about bugs, and a story about how big that computer was.
It's obviously not trivially preventable on the personal level - otherwise people would be losing weight and keeping it off when they try. The reality is that almost everyone really struggles to lose more than about 15 pounds.

Perhaps it would be easy to prevent on a societal level by getting rid of endocrine disruptors, taking junk food out of grocery stores, or something similar.
> The man pages sometimes document things only by implication, or with confusing wording, such that if you already know the answer it makes sense, but if you don’t it’s near-impossible to find out. (To be fair, this affliction is definitely not exclusive to OpenBSD’s manpages.)

Man pages were not meant to be the only documentation except in the case of simple programs. For everything else man pages were meant to be a concise reference for people who already know how to use the program but needed to jog their memory about some aspect of it.

If you needed to learn something complicated, such as sed or awk, you weren't supposed to try to learn from the man pages. You were supposed to reach for your copy of the Unix Programmer's Manual.
Video calling is "easier" in that the p2p option is workable for some variant of "Works".

It is much much harder because you can't do the "cache everything on the edge" solution. If storage was infinitely cheap and small, Netflix could run their entire business by sending a USB stick with every single movie/tv show they have on it encrypted to you, and everything would play locally. This is basically what they do with their edge servers/CDNs.

You can't do that with video calls, because the video/audio didn't exist 1 millisecond ago.
Completely disagree. Videos take forever. Often times I have a specific query and text is easier to search than information within videos.
YMMV. It seems like google only lists "authoritative" domains on the first few pages. Tried to fight the brightest TV by nits / mcd/m3 and that trick didn't work for me :(

Sometimes adding "reddit" helps.
It's a really cool result when you tell people about it, but actually when you think about it, it doesn't seem as useful as it sounds at first. The combination of some fundamental assumptions - you know the number of candidates in advance and you can't go back to previous candidates (*edit - should have added another one here: that you don't know anything about the distribution from which candidates are drawn before you begin) - don't really seem to match any of the purported applications, nor any I could think of quickly off the top of my head.

In reality, you're usually be able to gauge some estimates of the moments of the population distribution before you have to make any decision (which also aren't always final). Ie, you'll be interviewing a couple of candidates before you send out any rejections, you'll see several potential mates before you narrow in on one, you know from experience what a nice appartment looks like when you visit one,...

There are also other problems in other potential applications: a gig economy worker needs to not only optimize the value of the next gig but also the time spent searching for the next gig, when buying a used car the biggest problem is the information asymmetry regarding the true value of the car, not that it's gone if you don't buy right away,...
I would be very interested to read an article titled "What I learned as a senior engineer working with a new grad".
There's no "other foot" here: we all want clean air and water, healthy farms and forests, etc.

I've never heard "intellectuals" complain about the good things oil has provided: energy, nitrogen fertilizer, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and other useful chemical byproducts, and so on.

Those things are not the problem. It's the undesirable consequences that are the problem. We are victims of our own success, so to speak.

(Just to give one example of how oil itself is not the problem: biodegradable plastic has been commercially available for decades. We could make e.g. plastic shopping bags that lasted only as long as they were needed, but it's cheaper to use nigh indestructible ones. We could use biodegradable plastic straws.)

- - - -

In re: "a ready and steady supply of energy", I like to remind people that the Sun is a maintenance-free fusion reactor so powerful that it can burn out your retinas from 150,000,000 km away.
> Why aren't we using a bit more modern techniques now, ...

because those in power don't care, this problem doesn't really affect them, they don't know about potential solutions (too old and/or not programmers), they are afraid of structural change anyhow, etc, etc.
I'm sure there's causal effects in there, but I also wonder if it's not similar to how riding an unregistered motorcycle puts you in a much higher risk cohort. Of course, riding an unregistered bike is not going to cause an accident, but it's a behavior of people with very high risk profiles.

As a motorcyclist, if you have a license, and your bike is registered, you become part of a behavior cohort that's barely represented in crash statistics when compared to the other cohort.

Someone who's likely to smoke, is potentially the type of person who doesn't take care of themselves in a number of dimensions, putting them in a higher risk behavior cohort.
Is there a CLI program similar to that? (for identifying songs based on a sample).

CLI app not Python notebook, btw.
It's a round number of inches that happens to be right, possibly because "this size is good for a table" is what probably went through the engineer who decided what size a rackmount should be at the beggining of time
And a real estate company, and a hedge fund, and a bank, and (this is more recent) a data center company.

Big companies have the scale to efficiently internalize activities that smaller companies have to outsource. As time passes, they try to turn these internal service companies into profit centers.
> But then you write some test cases and realize that you actually need Unicode symbols. Now you know what your implementation needs to do.

If your customer decides they want/need ASCII your test is immaterial. The same is true for writing any tests before you've got a meaningful specification. You're just writing code to write code. At that stage it makes more sense to write a scaffold in the general shape of the task than a bunch of tests defining precise but made up requirements.

Aspirational tests are great if you know exactly what you need to do. They tell you when you get there. If you don't know exactly what you need to do they're just wasted effort that get thrown away with nothing having been gained.
Every iteration of this prezzo I've seen over the years has made for a fascinating morning read, thanks!

As much as I enjoy the results of the work, I'm always a bit curious how the sausage is made. Is pushing the hardware limits your primary job or something you do periodically? How do you go about selecting the gear you use? How much do you work with the vendors? (etc etc) I'd really enjoy a behind the scenes blog post or something wrt this serving absurd amounts of traffic from a single box.
Small correction - a state Senator from Missouri, not a US Senator.
> Following the above heuristic, isn't there a chance you never look at another apartment that would be "better than the others you've looked at" once you enter the decision window, and therefore keep looking until you reach N and have to take the last option?

Yes, obviously. As Wikipedia says:

> The probability of selecting the best applicant in the classical secretary problem converges toward 1/e ~ 0.368.

The classic solution to the classic secretary problem works in less than 37% of cases.

But in reality, you tend to know a bit about the distribution beforehand, and you are also interested in getting eg the second best secretary (if the best is no longer available), instead of just going for best-or-bust.
It's also perfectly sized as housing for Prusa i3 3d printer, and people have been doing it a lot:
> https://www.google.com/search?q=ikea+table+prusa+i3&client=f...

Truly magical piece of furniture.
I think that what we have here is a trolley problem:

* A sin tax on sugar would be the utilitarian approach.

* Avoiding regressive public policies would be the deontological approach.

I'm inclined to pull the lever, but my opinions may be biased by the fact that I spend very little of my income on sugary foods and so would see little impact from such a tax.
As inane as this sounds, it just hit me that the JWST is some 5 light seconds away. And for some reason, that boggled the mind, that we do these things.
https://youtube.com/user/TheTedNelson
Ah sorry I thought that was a typo. The only keyboard I've had that could do MIDI was a full sized crazy over priced thing that by today's standards would be an antique.
Indeed, I like to buy mate in bulk at the latin-american markets, you can usually get a pound of it for cheap

I've even had some progress making my own carbonated mate drink, but it can be hard to get the flavor right
There's a single Waitrose south of the river. Huh.

EDIT: Okay, 2. Missed the one in Greenwich. Still huh.