skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They knew all this before they put it on the market. Why not use some of the hardware development budget - and it's not like Apple has to count pennies - in order to improve upon the existing estimation algorithm?

The battery life graph over time found in activity monitor is much better.

Obviously it isn't or everyone would be using it. It's more informative from an analytical point of view, but people don't want to do that sort of analysis, that's why they spent $$$$ on a fancy computer. To do simple things for them.

Sure, predicting the future is hard. But assessing how different people use their computers, fitting the pattern of a user's activity to an approximate profile, and interacting with them intelligently to discover which features they want always-available vs which ones can slow down a bit needn't be that hard.
It's easy to scoff at the timing, but as someone who's had laptops with Nvidia's optimus tech for the past 5-6 years, I can understand why. When you spin up the discrete GPU, even a weak mobile chipset, you can easily halve your battery life. If Apple hasn't quite perfected the decision around when to switch between the integrated and discrete GPUs, then that estimate won't seem very accurate to the average user. Watching youtube/netflix may or may not wake up the beefier GPU depending on how busy the machine is at the time, that sort of thing.

Personally, I'm starting to think that discrete GPUs are a bit overkill in laptops these days. More and more, I'm finding that modern integrated chipsets are up to the task of basic 3D modeling and graphical programming; the Linux Mesa drivers are even starting to support OpenGL 4.x and Vulkan.
Systems We Love Is Live
You could be right. I wouldn't conflate "novel" with "new or cutting-edge" (one can still do novel things with old tech) but even just limiting it to novel may be unfair. I guess this is just something I associate with HN submissions from experience - many things posted here really genuinely blow me away. This didn't. The normal reaction to that might be to just say nothing, but given the browser support issue, I commented.

Given that I was additionally mis-attributing the non-cross-browser functionality to the author (see edit - it works fine in Firefox), my own subjective reaction to it is probably that little bit more unfair again now.
yay, more distraction! now in video
Yeah, Democrats never did that with say, gun control, for just one example!

I see a lot of projection going on here. I guess I'm one of those awful "climate skeptics" but with the benefit of having worked on some of the research through a contract I had with the EPA. Like everything, climate change has plenty of truth to it, it's just that it has become such an echo chamber and worse, the Marxists would like to use it as an excuse for global domination--which isn't going to happen.

Untie the science from the politics! I'm not sure that's truly possible, but that's what it will take. When half the people studying it are no longer lefties, maybe then we can have real science again.
I've found that setting really low goals and setting up accountability mechanisms works really well for me.

When I first wanted to start running (despite being completely out of shape), I made the following pact with a friend:

1. I have to go out running every day. It doesn't matter how long or far I run for, I just have to run at least one step.

2. Every day I don't go running, I have to pay them $20. No exceptions.

It worked really well for me. I didn't feel as bad as I expected about not running very far when I got started and I inevitably found myself pushing to go farther each time.
Totally worth it. I felt the productivity drop when I started emacs, but now I fly through editing tasks. I should probably put in the effort for vi as well, but that idea exhausts me :)

I learned emacs by using it as my note-taking editor, not for code at first. I'd have a cheatsheet open and all I needed were the basic navigation commands. Once I was comfortable I started coding in it.

The biggest benefit to emacs is the Mac UI and bash both share the same navigation keystrokes. My hand almost never needs to move over to the arrow/paging keys anymore.
Sounds like the exception and not the rule.

>He was discharged with a diagnosis of “depression, insomnia” and then returned a short time later for a 48-hour stay. The lawsuit says that during that visit, staff erroneously listed him as an “involuntary admission,” triggering the SAFE Act reporting provision.

Yeah, since it was an error in this case he shouldn't have had his guns confiscated. If your mental state is at the point where you legitimately need to be committed, however, then I agree with some of the other comments here and taking away your guns is justified.

But if you're not feeling well about your job or your sex life or exhibit any general depression symptoms, gun owner or not, a story like this shouldn't dissuade you from scheduling an office visit with a mental health professional. Apples to oranges.
Mystery of London fog that killed 12,000 finally solved
Would you mind sharing what jurisdiction this was in? As others have pointed out, this can vary by state, possibly also by city/hospital.
Not talking about the number of cars sold, talking about that translating into self-driving capabilities. And in that sense, it is a very aggressive prediction, given that Google has had fully-autonomous, no-backup-driver, public-road-testing for over a year.

So you can say that Tesla is at least 1-years behind. More like 4-5.
W. Brian Arthur popularized an economic theory that changed Silicon Valley
> There is no union nor labour law in China (well technically they both exist but..).

Same thing in America.

> So labour abusing is normal.

Same thing in America.

> Many tech workers are 'voluntarily' working 996 on a 955 pay slip.

Same thing in America.
Look at tuk-tuks and minibuses in developing countries -- the US has a lot of catching up to do since public transit was destroyed.
Hovering over the link to get a screenshot is a completely different dynamic and doesn't seem to save much time over just clicking on the link and seeing for yourself. This gives you a high level overview. I just tried it with a search for some information about linux network drivers and I was able to read the text on the screenshots without opening any of them.

Also Google is notorious for putting out half-baked prototypes and quickly abandoning them, so it might very well be that the concept does better with a more dedicated team. I'm going to give this a shot for a few days and see how it is.
I hate their bus ads in SF, but the product rocks. I requested a Debian Stretch package and they made one for me the next day.
None of the above. Tesla will reconsider and re-fashion Autopilot as an advanced driver assist. A car that you drive yourself, but can't crash would be worth a significant premium. Everyone else will ride the PR gravy train and GTFO a few years later. Google is just the first of many.
what economies of scale does ride sharing have?
atheism means specifically "does not believe in God(s)". the "because they were fools" comment you made is a social/moral/political judgment independent of the stance of atheism.

in other words...Richard Dawkins is not the prototype of all atheists.
not OP, but electon apps: apps based on the Electron framework: https://github.com/electron/electron
There are a few other things they could compete on:

- Availability. Who has the largest network and highest availability?
- Car Design. Who has the most comfortable or fully featured cars?
- Safety. Who has the safest car? Who has the safest track record?

It might eventually become a race to the bottom, but I think there's still plenty of opportunity to compete on other fronts for at least the next five years.
My point was that regardless of the dollars and cents for Uber to transition from staff to cars, or even if it works out at all, Uber still has the information to decide it will take X cars in Y region to make Z revenue. The only other player with that kind of information (on a smaller scale) is Lyft.
Ask HN: What's the most useful purchase you made in the last year?
Steam sells non-game application software now. Mostly content creation stuff so far AFAICT; I don't know how strict their acceptance guidelines are.
Linus Torvalds: Linux 4.9 is ‘the biggest release’
"th" (ð/θ) is definitely the hardest phoneme(s) in English, even for native-speaking children.
The Lessons We Haven't Learned from London's Killer Fog of 1952 (2013)
> Our elected representatives wanted it.

Indisputable. But did a majority of the citizens want it? Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, whereas "elected representatives" right now represent some minority due to Republican state-level gerrymandering in a lot of states, and Electoral College overrepresenting sparsely-populated western states.
Surface Phones are the best
Interestingly, there has been a recent surge in studies of evolution form the Lysenko perspective in the field of epigenetics. It does appear there are some situations which are better explained by it than by darwinian evolution.

That said it doesn't justify what the Soviets did.
What was the change that did it for you? I didn't notice that much different, at least in how i use it.
Code Folding for GitHub
Private algorithms for the protected in social network search [pdf]
Annual Reviews Are Stupid
GitHub can render Jupyter Notebooks natively.

For R Notebooks (which are HTML files), you can use GitHub Pages, which is super easy to set up nowadays, as the static files can now be located in the master branch.
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Target Flight Dates
Obama ordered something quite awful called "Fast & Furious" which was an extremely cynical attempt to allow gun smuggling to Mexico (with full knowledge of the government) and then use the ensuing violence and chaos as a political axe to try and chop down the 2nd Amendment. This is not a conspiracy theory, it actually happened.
This is an interesting thought experiment. What do people feel about recreational driving or weekend leisure driving ? For commuting, I am totally in favor of autonomous vehicles. But for a weekend or leisure drive I may not want to bother with shared ownership.

I am not from U.S. but the experience I have had with using local air travel (with Southwest) in the U.S. I am prepared to caffine up and drive up to 400mi rather than bother with the hassles of flying. (I have done that a few times and found it quite enjoyable, maybe there was a novelty factor to it)
Always? No. Will autonomous cars change it? Doubtful. In fact, it could make it worse, because who cares if your commute is 3 hours instead of 2 as long as you can watch American Idol while you're doing it.
Not going to happen, or if it does it won't last. The so-called sharing economy has mostly just devolved to low-barriers-to-entry entrepreneurship. AirBnB listings start off with ordinary joes renting out their spare bedrooms, but they got crowded out in a few years by businessmen providing real services, and consumers follow.

Uber drivers at first were mostly just driving in their spare time, but over the years the professionals came in and crowded them out.

The lesson here is that it takes work to provide a level of service that consumers are willing to pay for. That work is best done through organization and professionalization. Some guy renting his car out during the work day isn't going to find it profitable enough to continue doing when he has to compete against dedicated on-demand rental services.
To be fair I don't think Google is the gold standard for hardware. Outside of a few successful hardware releases (Chromecast and arguably the pixel line) they seem to struggle in this area.
I actually found Notes to be an amazing tool and found it to be a great system to work with. I just wish they kept the development going with a strong user experience in mind.

I found my love of using PIM in Notes.
I'm late 30s so emoji love could be the midlife crisis.
More virtue signaling and keyboard heroism!

But you really lost me at the less-than-subtle Hitler reference.
How many scientific papers are not original? [pdf]
I tried renting out my car for a month in Oakland; it routinely smelt like weed and McDonald's fries, which got annoying enough that I stopped renting it out.

A fleet would be able to handle these sorts of things better.
Reversing Course, E.P.A. Says Fracking Can Contaminate Drinking Water
Is that why my comment was down voted? LOL Weird, I don't know about Yil Yak but using a Google Voice number has never been a problem before for me. Maybe I don't use the right services? People who only use a VOIP number are out of luck I guess? I take it back... I wouldn't use that service either.
Activity tracker, webcam, game console – for dogs?
Puzzles Collector, 0.3 released
You must have let it run a really long time.

All of about 5 seconds.
A rice cooker
I stopped using Uber because it completely stopped working once I set location access to "only while in use".
I have my doubts that any of the current systems out there - even Google's - work well in extreme inclement weather. I doubt many work well in even "normal" inclement weather (ie - light rain or snow). The biggest problem is sensors.

I am not a self-driving car expert (software or hardware). Nor am I an expert in ML, computer vision, etc. But I do have minor experience in each of those. Currently, I am enrolled and taking Udacity's new "Self-Driving Car Engineer" nanodegree course. For my cohort (November), we just completed the first basic project - Lane Finding.

This project utilized Python and OpenCV, and was far from a robust enough system for it to be used on a real vehicle (for one thing, it wasn't fast enough - it does well with non-real time video and still photos, but it would likely need to be re-written in C/C++ for it to stand a chance in a real-time situation). It couldn't deal with curves, and it has other corner cases.

We had several still pictures to work with, then two required videos, and one bonus "challenge" (ie - extra credit) video. If we had time, we could try our hand with our own videos, etc. It was very easy to get things working with the still images, and the two regular videos. But the challenge video was something else entirely.

In that video, you had to deal with not only different color lines, but also a section of different color roadway, shadows and varying light conditions. With enough effort and thought, it was easy enough to get things working properly, but it highlighted the fact that humans do some amazing things when they drive.

For one thing, our eyes are better capable to handle subtle differences in color, shadow, and lighting (particularly brightness and contrast) than most traditional image sensors. Furthermore, we can "fill in gaps" and "infer" where and how things should be, based on other information in the environment. In cases of rain or snow, we can - for instance - watch where other cars go, follow the "tracks" other cars make in front of us, follow road "edges", and use other subtle cues to help us guide our vehicles as we drive (another instance - recently they repaved the road near my work - but haven't painted new lane markings - I and probably others instead used the "seams" between the asphault runs as "lane markers" instead).

These and many other issues likely are "edge cases" that haven't been fully explored in this relatively new cycle in self-driving car engineering. I am confident that the problems will be solved, likely with deep learning systems of varying kinds, as well as better sensors. Sensor data fusion and priority could also help (ie - use a LIDAR to "follow" a car in front of you, perhaps? Of course, filter out the noise of the falling rain/snow, first).

So far, this course has enlightened me more on just how hard of a problem overall self-driving vehicle systems are to solve. Furthermore, there aren't many players (companies nor individuals) in the market (which is why I am taking the course - to expand on my current skills). Solving these kinds of hard problems will be paramount for a successful self-driving vehicle to last in the market.
You're correct, but people in rural areas often dismiss the data as lies (egged on by some sectors of the media) rather than asking for better data. So it's an article of faith among rural and semi-rural conservatives that all government data are lies and that the inner cities are some sort of urban-warfare crime zone which is being covered up in the mainstream media. It suits certain political actors to promote this version of events.
You transcribed TV shows while repeating the words as they spoke them?

Did you put an inordinate amount of time in or do you think your methodology was just that good?
Just installed the update. The "time remaining" estimate is still present in Activity Monitor, it's only gone from the menu.
Exactly, it would be better to have no idea how much gas you have. You're driving it wrong. Every few hours, go to a gas station, what's the big deal?
There's a difference, IMO, between a blog post from a person in their spare time and a blog post by a startup whose main purpose is to get people to sign up for it.
because you can just write a mapping or function that does that.
Anecdote has it that a professor at my alma mater was presenting a proof to students, stating that X was obvious, before halting and wondering aloud: "Is this really obvious?" He examined the blackboard and started pacing for a good 15 minutes mumbling and thinking, before exclaiming with a triumphant expression on his face: "Indeed it IS obvious!"

That said, obviously no proof can function without assuming some mathematical background knowledge. This is a paper from a research journal, not a textbook and the readership of the journal where it was published would presumably find this clear.
Except the NSA is an arm of a democratically elected government.

Yes, and look what that's gotten us so far.
Because up until very recently, very few people outside of China that were not ethnic Han spoke Chinese.

The concept of "Chinese" is fairly inaccurate anyways. I'd like to flatter myself that my mandarin is ok (I won't starve and I generally can make myself understood) but I can't understand most Cantonese. Cantonese is classified as a dialect of Mandarin, but it's really not mutually intelligible.
To be fair, SurfaceBook has a 15W TDP dual core CPU.
Title should read available in 4 weeks. Hard to call them available when they haven't even shipped from China.
But who's going to want to deal with that? Not most people. I would not rent out my car for the same reasons I'm not a landlord.
Indeed, it's been a long time and it wasn't common to actually use URLs back then!
And there's a dual risk of interference, too.

One is the basic "environmental" interference with competing radar signals from other devices. Imagine how much more complicated this gets when a majority of competing traffic is likewise equipped.

But the other risk, which seems to be mostly ignored thus far, is sabotage. Can you design a system that is hardened not only against stray competing EMR but also against attempts to hack or vandalize your system into misbehavior or malfunction? For example, consider a terrorist plot. Or even a smart neighborhood crazy who wants the neighborhood kids off his lawn and neighborhood traffic to stop during his midday nap. Or, a British organized crime gang using stopped traffic to cover an escape[0].

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064505/
> speak Chinese

Have you ever tried to pronounce anything in Chinese? It's impossible. Even the Chinese just make it up as they go along.
Amazon can collapse really fast. My bet is that if it does it will be almost overnight and everybody will claim that nobody saw it coming.

The reason I believe that it may collapse is because now when I want to buy something online I rather go to Walmart,Target or to the specific brand store. When I think of Amazon the picture that comes to mind is of shady people trying to scam me out of my money. My perception, even if erroneous, right now is that Walmart is less shady than Amazon when it comes to buying merchandize.

If enough people start to feel this way about Amazon there may come a tipping point and the entire company will collapse. Once the tipping point happens I don't think it will be possible for Bezos to reverse it, though he will spend mountains of cash trying to.
I'm with you entirely.

I have no idea how to solve this problem. My cousin's husband is a truck driver. He makes a six figure income running between Indy and Chicago (bang, bang). He's going to retire before they can get rid of him, but this is a huge issue.

I tried to explain this problem to my father, who's a CPA. I've pointed out that his firm can get by with a dramatically smaller office than it use to due to tech. Same's true for his lawyer friends. I pointed out that the law firms are not training the next generation like they use to since they use fewer low-level lawyers for research thanks to Lexus Nexus. Account is next.

I'm not a huge fan of UBI since I think that makes people slaves of their State. We've seen such enslavement in the US under welfare programs. We've set the program up to lock people in. If they try to get out, they will lose benefits (donut hole issue). I think UBI is like that, but worse.
Your privacy is of the outmost importance...

You probably meant to say utmost. Outmost could imply a lesser importance or the complete opposite if read into too much.
The timelessness of the promises made in this specification are very interesting to me. A more idealistic (and younger) version of me would love to help build an open platform that could fulfill a lot of these promises, likely just because it's fun to build platforms. No doubt it such an effort would also be doomed to relative obscurity, not unlike the other various collaboration platforms that come to mind (Microsoft Exchange as an application platform, FileMaker, and of course, Notes itself).
But can you blame them? For years China's mantra to the West was, "Look at how great our economy's doing! Look at how divided and problematic democracies can be, they are not even that much better than China on human rights! The 21st century is not for idealistic democracies but for China."
AirPods are now orderable.
They could retitle this "In Defense of Cowboy Coding". Engineers that code this way become the owners of their codebase because nobody else wants to deal with their insane decisions.
I wonder if anyone wrote a free or open source version of Lotus Notes? I think IBM stopped supporting it after a while. It is a shame that IBM bought out Lotus and couldn't keep the Lotus software current and up to date.

A local newspaper used Lotus Notes to serve up stories on their website, before Python Django replaced it.
Somewhat related: I came across the visicalc documentation from 1981: http://toastytech.com/manuals/VisiCalc%201.1.pdf

Page 123 of the pdf (page 3-3/3-4 ) is a massive state machine showing all of the commands and modes.
This is more of the intended audience (earlier startups or smaller groups of devs), but I could have done a better job spelling that out.
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This fits with what I've seen. Got the new 15" a few weeks ago, and transferred my old system over to it. Battery life was 5 hours at best, usually less (actual usage, not estimated). But then just a day or two ago I'm suddenly getting 8-9 hours with no problem, no change in usage or applications. I don't have much data in iCloud either, as far as I know.

If it is related to background indexing, I'm surprised that there doesn't seem to be much visibility into it. None of the Activity Monitor tabs or tools such as htop revealed any particular heavy CPU/disk usage to which I could attribute the poor battery life.