skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also have a long way to go in instilling trust. Their decades of abuse of customers using their printers shows they are very happy to throw customers under the bus (intentionally preventing printers from printing). I just don't see any reason to buy from a company that has such a long (and intact currently) history of such customer abuse.

I don't know what abuse they will foist on laptop purchases but given their company culture I figure it isn't smart to trust them to prioritize customer interests.
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I'm all about considering alternatives when it comes time to replace my MacPro, but HP probably isn't going to be one of them. A colleague ordered a couple of attractively priced HP pre-built systems (not the 'workstations' though) within the last year and the ordering and fulfillment process was as byzantine as you would expect from HP. What advantage does HP have over any other prebuilt PC system? (Perhaps the awesome website for downloading drivers...)
I like the idea, but Excel is too damn good and flexible at what it is designed for. It can make many complex things simple, and to match what just one Excel professional can do, you'd have do keep an entire development department.

I know this because we tried it, and it was complete pain in the ass to continuously adapt our "Excel replacing" applications to rapidly changing business/analytics/reporting requirements.
My first PowerBook was £1749 I think in 2001 but I'd hoped we'd said goodbye to that kind of pricing at entry level.
That actual inspires confidence for me. I expect the opposite -- for HP's marketing people to scrub out anything that isn't positive, and the fact that they're being honest here is refreshing.
Thick, plastic, and ugly. Something tells me the technical merits won't mean a thing for many creatives if it means being seen in public with these turds.
Most of my colleagues on our SRE/devops team have Lenovos and swear by them. I have a System76 and I wish I could recommend it. Great system software packaging, decent mainboard and display, horrible keyboard, touchpad and case quality. I'd go with a Dell or Lenovo for my next one.
I hate to say it, but HP has been reduced to a punchline in pretty much every space they used to be respected in. I wish that they would just let the brand die and rest in peace.
Can't think of too many people that edit in Final Cut on their 13" or 15" laptop screen. The touchbar would be pretty annoying to use with your laptop docked and plugged into a production appropriate screen.
Rates can't rise without significant damage to the economy. They've been 0 for so long for a reason. Last year they went up by 25 basis points and 2 weeks later the stock market plunged and stayed in that state for months.
Very nice (besides the price, that's crazy).

As for the horrible colors, you can actually choose your own color.

I wonder how well would Linux work on this.
I'm a little surprised that the main website of a major computer manufacturer can't handle the hits generated by a tech-based social network like HN.
I've purchased two certified refurbished Macs, a MacBook Air in 2012 and a Retina MacBook Pro in 2015. Both were cosmetically new.
Haven't we always? Just because the ad isn't served from apple.com doesn't change things much.

That said I suspect many upvotes-before-read here, as the site is horrible. The "move away from Mac" sentiment seems to pick up on some popularity here recently.
While I don't completely disagree, you might find this helpful :) :

F1 → ⌘?,
F5 → ⌘R,
F11 → ^⌘F,
F12 → ⌘⌥J,
⌥+F4 → ⌘W (just window/tab) or ⌘Q (entire app).
"Available with 128GB DIMMs. Expected availability late 2015"

Typo or haven't updated the site since last year?
While I had the same initial reaction, I think it's a fair conversation starter on how competitors are responding to Apple's offerings.
Looks nice but no way can I live with that battery life.
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As with many arguments that hinge on a perceived hypocrisy or an interpretation of someone else's motives, this is all a little lacking.

The only exception that these folks allow is that workers (other than themselves; the AAUP functions as a union to some extent) should not be unionized at their own university and/or that the university should not have to pay what already-unionized workers are demanding.

It'd be pretty inauthentic if people who support the existence of labor unions believe their workers or community members shouldn't unionize.

On the other hand, nobody is under obligation to automatically pay whatever unionized workers are demanding. That wouldn't even be a negotiation, and negotiation is what unions are for. That some strikes are overreach and won't receive universal support isn't some kind of argument against the existence of labor unions. The reality tends to be a lot more subtle.
If the site exercised enough direction and control so they specified you must do the work at their desk in their working hours. If they deny you the right to substitute an acceptable alternative person, or work for others, then the relationship would start to seem of employment. There's quite a lot of other pointers.

Uber seem to fail most of these "in business" points for their drivers with their heavily one sided agreement.

Going back to IT contractors and IR35 in the early '00s it's been a constant "discussion" of where the line is. For contractors we had to get quite good at amending contracts, and satisfy other aspects to be able to remain unaffected. In that case the govt wanted us to be employees, contractors didn't!
"Companies follow laws, laws do not follow companies and that's the way it should be. Corporate interests are already extremely over-represented in Government"

As your second part notes, corporations do indeed often change laws. Laws and reality go hand-in-hand, both ways. Many laws change because they're not working well, to include offending a politician's bigger donors. Companies are a major part of politics, regardless of our preferences.
Using a computer, having running water, driving a car, etc are all wasteful activities. And yet in every other instance people seem happy to simply reduce their use to "save the planet". But vegans say you can't reduce meat consumption, you must eliminate it. This seems a stark contrast to everything else, if your argument is environmental damage.
An argument against work-life balance
Not likely - I clicked "How to buy" and got lost in a gallery of all kinds of machines, with no trace of the Z...

EDIT: found it out, but what a way to divide your conversion rate!
If you wanted to go crazy you can use transferables to get around the memory copy cost. It would be a fun experiment to figure out at what point does it make sense to use multiple workers considering the initial cost of worker distribution.
Why post some advertisement?

That said, how is the Linux compatibility?

I use a Dell Latitude for laptop and generally get no name PCs for desktops (built by some local company that know what they do.) Why would I want to go Z?
It also mentions Windows 8.
"Natural" is a terrible word for describing things when you are trying to make a point. It doesn't mean anything. Natural things can be safe or unsafe, well tested or unknown, healthy or unhealthy, better or worse.

I really wish people would use the actual comparison they are trying to make when they use "natural" - say "food that people haven't tried living on for extended periods" or whatever.

Natural has become an advertising buzzword designed to trick people into thinking something is good because people associate it with a bunch of stuff that "Natural" does not imply.
Where's this research, out of curiosity? Ensure also has a very different nutritional profile than Soylent. Just because it's a liquid food doesn't mean it was designed with the same goals in mind, and all the details suggest it wasn't.
> Macintosh and iOS have all sorts of software features for accessibility, and they've had for years

Yup, I remember seeing a blind guy on the subway using voiceover on an iPhone 3g (that would be the second iPhone ever) - totally blew my mind at how adeptly he was able to use the thing.
https://dbatools.io - started as a solo project, which the lead developer has gotten others involved in. The site is simple, the descriptions of each of the cmdlets (functions) are excellent.

Every open source project needs a site like this.
Not quite true. Antimicrobial doesn't mean quite what you think; it means anti-some-microbes. Honey, for instance, has several antimicrobial or antibiotic aspects. Some honey is so because enzymes in it produce hydrogen peroxide, while other honey is so for different reasons, not fully understood. If you feed mice a lot of honey, their intestinal flora rebalance -- in one study, for instance, feeding mice honey as a food supplement increased their bifidobacteria and lactobacilli counts. This is actually probably good for digestion.
Copy and paste the URL to another tab. It's a redirect based on referer header.
But there's no "source code" here to encrypt. The model in this paper isn't even self-modifying.

The only "source code" are the learned network weights. These are the only parameters that describe the encryption function. You can still run the model forwards or backwards.

We already don't understand neural network weights on an intuitive level. No need to encrypt them. :-)
Cool! Also, have you tried giving some bits of the key to the adversary?
That is a nightmare. I already have a hard enough time typing on the MacBook Pro's keyboard. I use an external mechanical most of the time except when I am away from my desk. I just about get all my real work done at my desk though.
You may or may not be right, but certainly at this point they are not public services. The tragedy is that people treat them like they are, hence cries of "censorship".
Sad. I can remember 20 years ago when I was a SysAdmin lusting after HP machines because they were built better than anything else, the quality of the case and components was unquestionably superior.
What about a lifestyle where you have time to take a break, but you don't want to spend that break preparing, eating, and cleaning up after food? You'd rather spend it, say, reading a great book, working on an interesting side project, playing a tabletop game with friends you invited over, or just laying in a hammock reflecting on life?

Due to how cultural values vary, I'm not surprised that many HN readers are repulsed to some degree by the idea of not preparing and consuming a traditional meal. It's just a kind of conservatism, a recognition of traditional values that help us find another way to enjoy life.

In my own time growing up, my family had traditionally prepared meals almost every day together, and yet even as a child I had little patience for it. I was endlessly curious, wanted to explore the world, play with dad, tinker with my computer, read something, write something, draw something, make something. My life was incredibly full of worth and value to me, and I enjoyed it immensely -- and yet, meals were only ever a distraction, merely one of the lesser chores I had to take care of to keep enjoying the rest of my life.

This sentiment is still largely with me today. Today, meals either serve as a mechanism for me to guarantee people I want to spend time with will be in the same place at the same time, or else I'm alone, in which case I simply see no point in all the bother. There are still many things much more interesting and spiritually fulfilling to me than preparing, consuming, and cleaning up after a traditional meal. Gladly would I accept a solution that successfully meets all of my nutritional needs while also allowing me to do any of those other things instead.
But then the decryption key, or at least the code to generate it, would have to be embedded in the source. This is how malware crypters work on a basic level. Besides, a program that suddenly decides to encrypt itself means we essentially have a general AI on our hands.

It definitely will get harder for us to reason about what AI software is doing over time, but it's way too early to start comparing ML algorithms to the complexity of DNA. We may not understand exactly why a NN is using certain values to get the result, but we can reverse that logic through the use of debugging and logging.
macOS has become a consumption device than a productive workplace. Look at Apple Pay. Really, are people so lazy to be not able to keep their credit card next to them. Imagine apple as a bank. Horror! Horror!

I remember an opening dialog from Woody Allen's comedy movie Whatever Works. He says human civilization has downgraded themselves to the level that they cannot be trusted to flush their toilets once they are done. Apple is being a big catalyst in dumbing down powerful machines. If these high end machines aren't for powerful users than who is the real consumer of it.

Did anyone notice what they done with port? You cannot plugin your USB drive in there anymore. There is no SD card slot for a Photographer. Buying all these dongles will add up to $200. Wow, it has mp3 jack that means I need two separate headphones.

Really?
If only they had sent the HP name with Agilent and kept the Compaq name for printers and mediocre PCs.
I mean, not for nothing, but you do know you can still buy the old style MBP with 2x usb3 and an hdmi port, right? You don't have to get the new style ones that they announced.

That said, I hear you. I wanted a 32gb model with crazy good battery life also, but to be honest, Windows laptops are kind of all shit right now. I'm in the exact same boat as you. I hate the new MBPs and need a new laptop soon, BUT I'm still landing on the old style MBP as the way forward every time I look through the available options.

Probably not much help, but that's my 2 cents.

e: that said I am going to keep refreshing this thread and hope someone mentions something I haven't looked at yet.
I had the skylake version of this and returned it in two weeks. It was a nice little computer but had a lot of weird issues.
I just got one from System76. I like it a lot so far.

https://system76.com/

(I got a lemur)
I really like the sounds of the XPS 13 but I'm really wary of going to a 13" screen. I currently use a 17" MBP...
Would like to see a Surface workstation (basically, beefy GPUs and CPUs and proper industrial design) but realistically the market's too small.
This is not the result of the post-Brexit vote. It is just convenient event to excuse greed.
As a developer you've never debugged and use the F-keys?
What evidence does anyone have that users are reluctant to uninstall and/or download another app?

It takes literally a few seconds to do.
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I'm always reminded of scenes in the west wing where they argue about "naming your opponent", and how it gives them extra publicity and recognition.

I've seen a whole heap of microsoft etc saying "My Mac couldn't do that" or "I switched from a mac". It feels like a bad strategy to give apple that much air time in your ads.
Are you confusing functional programming with procedural programming?
This was one of the reasons I returned the xps 13 I bought. As nice of a computer as it was, I found the touchpad to be very frustrating to use vs my mac air.
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The decades of Apple Marketing on the disaster of the Windows UI is seriously the biggest barrier for these people.

I do some sub-contracting on Video projects (My expertise is audio) and the "creative crowd" since the 1990s has made Apple apart of their identity. Most shops were Windows shops till mid 2000s to Final Cut. Now most shops are again Adobe shops and many are switching back to Windows and it really is a weird identity crisis for many of them. Also then hate how excited I get when I see non-Apple tech replacing their machines.
I got a Asus Zenbook UX32vd a few years and I'm still very satisfied. Good Linux support and a nice screen and keyboard. The mouse pad could be more responsive though.
True, but this is a little different since the market for this technology is still a huge unknown.

When you're making a new drug, you know there's going to be guaranteed demand.
Sadly, this happens too often on various things - in 50% of time I don't end up buying the thing because I don't know where to checkout. It should be easier for me to spend money, I guess.
Chromebook and SSH into a REAL computer ;)

on a serious note, look at Aorus X5, I like the RGB keyboard. you can get it to colour the keys based on context. could be a nice alternative to the overpriced touchscreen of the new macbooks.
Usually not, most come from Apple's 2 week free open box return window
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Am I the only person who is more than a little freaked out by the name choice for Soylent? Sure, I get the nerdy reference but the main point of the movie is that the products Soylent made are made from people. Why someone would name a company after that is beyond me, not to mention that the founder appears to have a cult-leader-vibe.

/shrug
I was hoping there would be more commentary on the Lenovo superfish situation as it stands today. This is exactly my concern with purchasing from them.
> I haven't used the F-keys in probably just as long. At this point, all I do with those keys is raise/lower the volume/screen brightness.

This... puzzles me. Admittedly I spend most of my personal time in linux, and professional time in windows, but I never have enough keys for shortcuts. Like.. I'm up to binding ctrl-shift-* and ctrl-alt-*

Is macOS not very able to be keyboard driven? Or is that personal preference?
I unfortunately gave up Soylent when it was found to contain high levels of carcinogenic heavy metals. I believe they found it had 10-25x the minimum amount to be considered carcinogenic for arsenic, cadmium, and lead.

It's a good idea to make a product that could reduce meat consumption and food waste while helping the environment but maybe this isn't the best way? Maybe helping people and corporations better manage and track food would be a better alternative. Also all the new types of meat alternatives like new veggie burgers, such as those from beyond meat etc are looking really promising and we should support those efforts globally.
I'm curious about this myself. I want to know what they'll do with the video card as well as if they'll be able to solve the coil whine issues. Also hoping for an improved touch pad.
That's a really nice structured approach to what risk is and how to classify it but it doesn't actually address how to get rid of any specific risk and that is what is required to actually get rid of the risk, the secret is in between those line-items listing various stages of risk.

And quite a few existential risks in the start-up world are not so easily classified to begin with, for instance, founder conflict is a huge risk and yet didn't even make the list of examples here.

Still, very useful post but mostly from an analysis point of view, a 'where are we and where do we want to go' rather than 'how are we going to get there'.
Surprised to see no mention of the excellent Latitude E7450 and E7470 and the Latitude E5450 and E5470.

Run Linux beautifully, if you care about that.
So for $2700 you get a computer that doesn't even have an SSD but comes with a 7200 rpm SATA drive
I'd say it fits closely to Swiss values. On international level, bank secrecy is less a thing than it was in the past, but nationally, for Swiss citizens, nobody can know the details of one's bank account. Even the Swiss tax authorities. Also, you can buy and sell gold bars anonymously here (I did it once with 100g bar in my bank — no questions were asked and no papers needed).

So, why not Bitcoin.
Comparing this with surgery is not fair, I think. Here (with a food like soylent) the gains are low and the risks are high. With surgery, the risks are high but so are the gains. Before you go into surgery you're given a list of 10 ways you might die if something goes wrong. Oftentimes, though, the alternative is certain death (in the very near future).

Edit: I was replying to "But we have made surgery mistakes along the way". On a second reading, I notice that you did not actually mean to imply "it was necessary there so it's necessary here".
> keep the lid on for a couple more months

I'm starting to believe the lid will stay on indefinitely. The news about Nissan to me says they will drag their feet as much as they can, and all the "hard brexit" noise was simply for tabloids to build some political capital May didn't have.

After the vote, I was bullish that they wouldn't actually dare break away; then all the noise about hard brexit scared me; but now I'm going back to the original idea that nothing will actually happen, we'll just keep on arguing for decades until "old brexiteers" give up or die a natural death.
well, sorry to say this but healthcare operates in a way that puts individuals at risk for the benefit of moving medicine forward. For example, surgeons tend to be at at their prime in their early to mid 40s. Getting operated on by a typical 35 year old is flat out dangerous, statistically speaking, but we allow it because to get better, people have to practice their craft.
I think the rest of this subthread has made it fairly clear that HN is unimpressed with the sentiment you're replying to as well.

I'm not sure what you thought your comment was intended to achieve but I strongly suspect it wasn't the most effective way to get your point across.
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Like every Apple Ad I mean "event" of Apple?
My problem with it is that my current work setup involves a keyboard, a mouse, and two monitors that are plugged into the laptop that sits to the side. My laptop monitor is used for company email and messaging. The TouchBar would almost be out of easy reach and would not be useful to me in any way. I would have to wonder how many people are in a similar situation.

I guess they could offer an external keyboard with the TouchBar and I could use that.
In the UK (and also in, for example, Poland) self-employed people pay much lower taxes than the employees - hence we're all very happy to trade away our rights.
You can just wait until the demand has been proven, and then jump in. That's what's happened to GoPro and to most PC/smartphone OEMs, and it's what happens to pharma companies when their drugs go off patent.

I don't think the money to be made in VR/AR will come from making the headsets themselves, but from providing some sort of software with lock-in. If Magic Leap has that, then they could become the Apple of AR, but so far it looks like they're just developing fancy hardware that the Chinese will quickly clone.
Thinkpad P50 - 4K screen, Xenon CPU, 64 GB Memory in a supprisingly nimble package.
I would recommend a Surface Book. Even if you don't plan to use it as a tablet at all it still beats every other laptop on the market. Initially it had a lot of issues but now they have been fixed and it really is amazing.
I love grocery shopping and cooking. It provides mental relief from the day's grind. The sites and sounds at a good grocery store are stimulating. Wegmans comes to mind.
Functional self-driving trucks*

That's the crux of the issue. People need to stop acting like we have self-driving cars. We don't. Once we do (a few years out, at least), THEN our governments will start figuring out how to deal with it.

And by "governments," the plural is important. Remember that every single jurisdiction that a driverless car goes through must approve of them. And for long haul truckers? That's hundreds of jurisdictions for any given route.
I've basically never used the F-keys. Are you using them in an IDE?
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T460. Install Ubuntu. Install powertop and tlp. Run powertop to make sure its happy with the settings on your machine. With the extended battery this setup will get > 10 hours battery life (for programming workloads) and is near silent with an excellent keyboard.
Wasn't superfish limited to consumer devices, i.e. not Thinkpads?