skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are being offered equity as part of your compensation, what's really happening is that you are being asked to invest in the company. You should evaluate that using the same criteria you'd use when evaluating any other potential investment. If it's a startup, this is also a very high-risk investment, more on the side of gambling than not.

My personal stance is that I ignore equity components of employment offers when evaluating the offer. I prefer to separate my investment activity from my employment. But that's just me, and different stances are entirely reasonable.
> an injury that damaged the Pancreas enough to prevent it from generating insulin. I don't know if that still "counts" as Type 1

It does. Type 1 is fundamentally about an inability to produce insuline. Type 2, an inability to respond to it.
You’re moving in the time direction — and when spacetime is curved, you end up moving in the space direction as well, to follow the geodesic.
> They also did move the Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse to USB-C.

Only for the bundled peripherals, it seems. The Apple Store now only lists the full-size Lightning keyboard without Touch ID in white, which is even worse than before when you could get various permutations of tenkeyless, Touch ID, and black.
If a function does different things in different circumstances it should usually be split into different functions.

Languages like Erlang which can have different versions of a function, selected by pattern matching (with optional guards) make this convenient:

Name(Pattern11,...,Pattern1N) [when GuardSeq1] ->
Body1;
...;
Name(PatternK1,...,PatternKN) [when GuardSeqK] ->
BodyK.
Is it value, though, that they perceive? Or is the necessity to be in that location that drives prices up? If that's the case, that necessity might not have positive causes either...
32 GB seems plenty for me for the target audience. The iMac is aimed at a rather casual computer user, especially now that they nixed the larger screen size one.
Still working on the bluetooth "wall of sheep" app. https://github.com/skittleson/bluetooth-wos . im hoping to put more insight on each device and receive avaliable notifications from the devices. I even figured out a rough estimate of how far devices are away with just RSSI and other available devices that have TX Power and RSSI within a few meters.
> necessary for fast enough transfer speeds

Source?
> When a fantabulous, whimsical home deteriorates with age, it starts to look spooky."

That makes sense. Those abandoned theme parks with knock-off cartoon characters with smiles slowly peeling off are very unsettling. I hadn’t thought of it, but it makes sense that same principal applies to other grand displays.
The bigger issue with the Magic Mouse is moving it. It has rails instead of PFT feet and it tends to tire my wrist out.

When I got an iMac I paid the $50 extra for the Magic Trackpad and it was worth it.
‘Society and governments’ can also ‘decide’ that the Sun is revolving around the Earth… so decisions and policies on paper cannot be fully credible by themselves…

What is the actual tangible evidence that the aforementioned issues are avoided?
It’s certainly always worth learning from others; just making a point about statistical comparisons.

Just because the US, Norway, and Singapore are all categorized as countries doesn’t mean you can compare their stats directly without adding some asterisks for further context each time you do it.
Wow, this is... underwhelming. Some text summaries for apps nobody use, and minor Siri improvements that bring it up to par where Google Assistant was 5-10 years ago? Even the "do you want to change it, or send it?" prompt is straight outta Android. It also seems like they copied Google Photos and Gmail features.

And the place a better Siri would be really useful, Apple TV, isn't included at all :(

All that marketing for this...? None of these things require a dramatic new AI chip or months of announcements. They're minor improvements at best.
Any kind of Rust is harder than safe C#.
For some reason the copy my library has doesn't have that page the same as it appears on hathitrust. Other nearby pages match the snippets I see on google books, but that page does not, and none of the nearby pages do, either. So I'm afraid my search here is a dead end.
Good luck convincing 1.5 billion people that they need to reinvent a language they have used for thousands of years in order to satisfy somebody else...
It has its fans but lots of people find it uncomfortable.

My biggest issue with it is that it's way too heavy. Once you go back to 50-60g mice you can't go back.
Looks like they don't have the color-matched options for individual purchase, but the b/w trackpad, keyboard, and at least 1 keyboard variant are available.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MXK93AM/A

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MXK53AM/A

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MXK73LL/A
Did you read the article?

"Care" doesn't scale. You can't just replace "the family" with some industrialized system of raising children and get the same results. Not being able to scale "care" and make it more efficient is almost tautological, really.

> Besides, what countries are you talking about?

North Korea? Former Soviet Union?

At the very least appearance of conformity was ruthlessly enforced and even private conversations were infiltrated to detect dissent.
He lost me there:

> Is this purely a semantic difference? You could argue that it doesn't really matter whether we describe gravity as a force or through geometry, and we should conflate these two concepts. But I think this distinction is important to make because it has predictive power. If you believe that gravity is manifest through spacetime bending, then you will never find two different test particles that follow different geodesics.

Don't we get the same conclusion if we believe gravity is a force _and_ equivalence principle is true?
The title I get from this link is: "Barnacle-inspired polymers could present new way to design antibiotics, researchers say"

The page linked has a further reference to the "Coacervate Dense Phase" paper.
You're talking about Dennis Muilenberg, who was the CEO during the 737 Max accidents and failed to properly investigate it (he was CEO from 2015-2019). But he came from the Boeing Defense side, and had no influence on the civil aviation side when it made the decisions that destroyed the 737 Max Program, which were made in 2010 when James McNerney was CEO. James McNerney is the guy with the Harvard MBA who spent two decades working for Jack "Company Killer" Welch at GE (he ran the airplane engine division), lost the succession battle, went to be CEO of 3M for a few years, then was CEO of Boeing from 2005-2015, and is the one I hold responsible for the real failures of the 737 Max program.

Muilenberg was the one who got fired- and he definitely deserves the blame for the Ethiopian Airlines flight, they should definitely have investigate Lion Air faster and better- but it was McNerney who was responsible for most of the 737 Max program. The engines and wings issues were basically set in stone by the time that Muilenberg first became responsible for the program.
I love this! There is similar inspiration in the US with non-profits such as KidSafeSF [1] in San Francisco or Families for Safe Streets [2].

I also have a fullstack background and have taken an approach to work on the street design software itself. Although AutoCAD is used by professionals, it's overkill for most street design projects and difficult for laypeople to use. I've been hacking away at a project called 3DStreet [3] to make street design easier for anyone -- like a figma for street design. Still in its early days. Happy to collaborate with your org, we do group sessions to help folks learn street design to influence local government to make positive changes.

[1] https://kidsafesf.com/

[2] https://www.familiesforsafestreets.org/

[3] https://3dstreet.com/
That's a 15-25 minute walk. When I was a kid, we used to walk a lot further than that just to reach wherever it was we felt like hanging out in the summer.
I use one for 8+ hours a day. I keep reading about the design being uncomfortable, but definitely hasn't been the case for me.

I guess if I actually kept my hand directly in line with the mouse it'd be pretty painful. I just about always keep my hand in a slant, more similar to how you'd use a trackpad, or as if you were holding a sort of slanted mouse.

I've stuck with it because of the well implemented 2d scrolling. Using a physical scrolling wheel feels off at this point.
Then again, the rest of the industry has figured out a way to make slottable RAM almost as fast and compact as soldered RAM with the new CAMM2/LPCAMM2 standards. The M4 has LPDDR5X-7500 120GB/sec memory and there are already LPCAMM2-7500 120GB/sec modules, with even faster ones on the way: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21390/micron-ships-crucialbra...

Two of those modules working in parallel would hit "M Pro" speeds as well. I doubt Apple will be adopting them though, for the same reason they don't offer standard M.2 SSD slots even on systems that could obviously support them with minimal design compromises.
If he was OK with python performance limitations the rust without async is more then enough
I have to agree, despite using it a lot, async is the worst part of Rust.

If I had to do some of my projects over again, I'd probably just stick with synchronous Rust and thread pools.

The concept of async isn't that bad, but it's implementation in Rust feels rushed and incomplete.

For a language that puts so much emphasis on compile time checks to avoid runtime footguns, it's way too easy to clog the async runtime with blocking calls and not realize it.
No, neither was Native AOT.

Native AOT depends on CLR infrastructure.
I was walking home from school at the age of 7. It was about a mile. The best part was the duck and goose farm. I would bring snacks to feed the geese through the fence.

Abandoning your kids on the side of the road to walk home 1/2 a mile as punishment is a bit different in my opinion. But not different enough to merit police involvement. Texas seems to agree with me:

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/HB00567F....
There's a great corollary here that bad code sticks around, because it's much harder to remove
Now if only they could figure out how to allow charging the Magic Mouse while it’s being used. I guess that technology is still years away.
> In the context of weight management, the concept of "weight loss" should never be considered. This is because two people with same weight may have wildly different body compositions; this also applied to the same people but in different conditions.

Weight loss should _never_ be considered? How does that follow? Lots of people definitely need to lose weight.
Opening large files, such as large Figma files, eats up RAM like no tomorrow
I love it. The touch-scroll works so well it's like an extension of my mind.
Arbitrary markup based on whatever they can maximally extract from their consumers is the name of the game. Product segmentation is just one of a variety of tools used to that purpose.
You can just as easily (and usually do) have public transit to take you to the airport.
Surprised that they didn't offer it with 8 GB, since they do have a 8 GB version of the M4 in the (cheaper) iPad Pro.
> It is a leaky abstraction, all abstractions are.

It’s not leaky (and that term is kind of meh). It’s just an abstraction! Such optimizations are supposed to be abstracted away (point 1).[1] The problem comes when that is inconvenient; when the client does not want it to be abstracted away.

There’s a mismatch there.

[1] EDIT: The point here is that the API is too abstracted compared to what the client wants. Of course the API could choose to not abstract certain things. For example the Vec[2] type in Rust has specified, as part of the documentation, how it is implemented (to a large degree). They could call it something like “List” and say that whatever the concrete implementation is, is an implementation detail. But they chose not to.

[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#capacity-a...
When was the last time you saw a GPU with slottable memory?

For transfer speeds, look at the data sheets for the M series. Much faster than DDR4 or DDR5 RAM. In the ballpark of GPU memory.
In addition to be unfriendly for users, with all the subscriptions it starts to be expensive for users.

Like where you would have bought a fixed price app before like 50$ now for the same things you will have to pay 10$ a month without even the possibility to resell the app later.

And look at things like the Xbox, you can't play a multiplayer game (that you bought) even just with your friends without having to pay a 10$ racketeering fee to Microsoft. And once you have no choice anymore, companies tend to insanely increase the fee yearly.
Experts say a proposed revamp to the recycling symbol is still deceptive
I'm over here doing hobbyist C++ development and web browsing on an 8gb m1 air without any issues.
It is really frustrating but I've found that most doctors and hospitals have two systems. One for new or very infrequent patients. One for established or regular patients. The latter gets appointments fairly quickly in most cases.

It is rather messed up but One Medical (now owned by Amazon) and a few other services can be worth the money because they have access to the fast track appointment line.

I only know this because after many many months of searching for a primarily care doctor and waiting for an appointment I was told about this. New patient scheduling for my doc is months out. If I email and ask if I can come in next week they always say how about tomorrow/the next day?
Other languages are not Chinese. In Chinese a lot of the meaning in the spoken language is conveyed through tones and other conversational cues.
Aesthetics is also for the environment of the object rather than the primary user. That’s the reason the logo is on the back
These look hideous tbh. I'm waiting for the iMac to flip vertically and ask me to tip.
I know it's not the same, but it's like Intel saying the Pentium IV is however many times faster than then Pentium MMX
Why are you using PCPs? The urgent care route seems more efficient, scales, and takes advantage of electronic medical records.

I personally have not had a PCP singular doctor or doctor group in years. I use an urgent care franchise as my PCP.

I have a chronic ailment that requires daily medicine and the medical staff at the urgent care has been more than capable of providing care, writing scripts, and providing referrals to specialists.
I’ve never felt memory limited on my 16gb macbook pro, on which I code, run rust-analyzer (major memory hog), video edit, etc. Most people definitely don’t need 32GB
Exactly, if you get rewarded for the 5% improvements annually but are out before the once-a-decade near death experiences.. you end up with more Intels, GMs, Boeings, etc.
Also on Wikipedia:

The Cochrane Collaboration found that exercising alone led to limited weight loss. In combination with diet, however, it resulted in a 1 kilogram weight loss over dieting alone. A 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds) loss was observed with a greater degree of exercise.[29] Even though exercise as carried out in the general population has only modest effects, a dose response curve is found and very intense exercise can lead to substantial weight loss. During 20 weeks of basic military training with no dietary restriction, obese military recruits lost 12.5 kg (28 lb).[30] High levels of physical activity seem to be necessary to maintain weight loss.[31] A pedometer appears useful for motivation. Over an average of 18-weeks of use, physical activity increased by 27% resulting in a 0.38 decrease in BMI.[32]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_obesity#Exercise

[29-32] endnotes in Wikipedia

Also interesting, a meta-analysis:

Effects of Different Exercises Combined with Different Dietary Interventions on Body Composition: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis

Yongchao Xie, Yu Gu, Zhen Li, Bingchen He, Lei Zhang

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11397086/
My employer pays $3,575.49 per month for my HDHP ($12,000 deductible). Family of 3. It's Aetna, through one of the large small-business payroll providers. Are we getting ripped off?
where do you put ur sticky notes?
I want an AI doctor so at least there is some information I can get between the months delay it takes to get an appointment.
You really want to go to bat for the Soviet Union?
Your example perfectly illustrates oversimplification: attempt to stuff categorical variable into another of lower order. If a language has absence of value available as an expressible concept (nullability), then a list is at least 3-way categorical variable: absence of value, empty list, non-empty list. Any attempts to stuff that into a binary truthy value will eventually leak one way or another.
I agree that Bazel did pretty well with Starlark, but the reason that’s sane is because it’s not Python, though the syntax is similar. It avoids getting into trouble with people using Python language features that would result in upgrade hell and annoy other programmers who aren’t Python experts.

(Though, debugging complicated Starlark code can still be difficult.)

So why not use Starlark? :)
A few years back I developed a system of 3 sided cards

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113365055855971750

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111168528593969946

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111052075781351382

which didn't really connect with people. I did a collaboration with some people where I'd barcoded work prints and found that the system was not so reliable and I'd gotten out of the house without publishing the "web side" of the prints. Also I had a few boxes of glossy paper which wouldn't let me print on the back so I developed a new generation of card

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113365041910591036

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113385742853987268

The new system reliably associates the QR code and "web side" with a print because it prints the front. I am planning a better "web side" than I had before, particularly to view stereograms with a VR headset, also to publish with the Looking Glass Go.
That doesn't mean a surplus of humans doesn't exist, and won't be treated as one. IMO, it may make it worse if the narrative switches from migrant workers are needed to do the hard jobs to migrant workers won't do the hard jobs.

The ideal of Hard working laborers is a lot more attractive than the concept of welfare queens, ect.
Even if I agree that Gothic architecture is the most appropriate setting for horror action, and I also agree with many of the arguments of the Italian Renaissance against what they have called as "Gothic", I still consider the great Gothic cathedrals as the most beautiful buildings that have ever been built.
As long as the US stays very rich and <4% of total global population, we will not run out of cheap foreign labor unless the rest of the world becomes very rich or die off en masse.
Ironically that work is now being made obsolete with apps regaining the role of native apps, or the plugins revenge via WebGL/WebGPU/WebAssembly.
I agree, I run 32gb on a dev Macbook pro and it's enough, even our largest app is around 20k files and the language server uses 5gb of ram. I often sit around 22-24gb of usage with Docker running.

For most people 32gb is not going to hold them back.
They say the phrase, “acts of god,” and are magically off the hook, according to them. So “bad weather” may be offered on a still, 80 degree sunny day. What are ya gonna do, sue, for maybe $1000?

A vile organization. When they later dragged a paying customer out, I was not surprised.
https://www.apple.com/ie/newsroom/2020/11/apple-unleashes-m1...
Glad to hear I'm not the only one with that pet peeve. It's the paragraph-starting equivalent to sprinkling in "like" everywhere in spoken language.
Thank you, and feedback noted! :)
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The sins of the 90s: Questioning a puzzling claim about mass surveillance
Lectron System, the Arduino Precursor
And which countries enable the cheap merch?
Trying to get over burnout and actually make progress.
Before Musk, Twitter used to fight those requests.

The platform can not be called better, with more bugs and errors than ever.

Why don't they apply those rules to Republicans? Why can they specifically post stuff like private info about Hunter?
I think it's likely simply gotten worse since those studies.

A friend of mine needed a specialist. She called multiple offices across two different states, and the soonest appointment available was about 4 months out.

Four or five years ago, we didn't typically see wait times like that.
Curious who uses iMac over a MBP with an external monitor? Is it mainly for front desk, businesses, and perhaps people with large homes and need stationary mac?
People will have tasty snacks no matter what. You won't be able to convince everyone to just not eat "garbage food".
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I took the Empire Builder from Seattle to Chicago in about 2008. Our departure out of Seattle was delayed 12 hours, I was not able to get into the sleeper cabin that I paid for until Spokane, where we were also delayed for 8 hours. Once we departed Spokane, the staff were universally rude, unhelpful and generally shitty. Our train was so delayed that they had combined the EB coming out of Portland with ours so they started rationing meals (which I had also paid for as a part of my fare) to half servings.
Having spent a lot of time in Japan I compare this to the one delay I ever encountered in roughly 25 Shinkansen trips: I took the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Niigata, a roughly 3 hour trip. The train was delayed by less than 5 minutes. When we got off the train in Niigata the conductors and staff were waiting by the door to bow and apologize profusely.
I'll never set foot on another AmTrak.
I'm working on a self-hostable replacement for Google Timeline, which is being discontinued. It includes a web app to view my timeline and an Android app to send tracking pings to the server. It also includes an import function for exports of your Google Timeline data so that your historical data from that can be integrated as well. I'm planning on open-sourcing both the web app and the POC Android app early next month.
> Product segmentation is just one of a variety of tools used to that purpose.

I think people here forget that Apple is targeting a certain profit margin. Currently, their gross profit margin is about 45%.

If you're rolling this out on the Mac line, it's okay to have a profit margin closer to 35% on the base model; but maybe with 55%-65% margins on the higher-tier professional equipment, to "balance" it out. It also turns out, professionals have money, and will pay despite the grumbling. The RAM prices are basically a progressive tax.
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Yes because certainty was used to refute the findings. I don't have an issue otherwise.

That certainty is what led me to believe i can look up genetic markers in my 23andme.
Many of these are customer service desks which are visible from the side.