skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious as to where this mass automation story originated. I haven't seen any real evidence that anything besides the most basic repetitive tasks will be automated in the future. This automation would also likely just lead to a new set of low pay, desirable jobs.

Sure, Moore's law and advancements in machine learning/vision push to make automation more economically viable for certain areas that were already good candidates. For other areas where human's adaptability is even moderately valuable, technology is a long ways away from coming anywhere close to beating out humans.

Technology breaking the chains of toil is a very idealistic thought. I can see technology augmenting more jobs and allowing humans to toil more efficiently, but not total automation.
It's definitely not universal. But in my opinion, it's more like there are people who think they're better than us that are upset that we're as successful as we are. And being predominantly white men doesn't help, even if we do tend to lean left. That shitty documentary Nancy Pelosi's daughter made is probably a good example of that. The premise is basically that tech workers are terrible and are destroying San Francisco. I'm sure there's similar sentiments on the right as well, but theirs seem to be more of "these rich tech liberals want to tell us how to live" or something along those lines.
I've always been curious where you take your career when you get too old or don't want to do it anymore. There'd be sudden drop off in income level, which applies pressure to any who don't plan well in advance. Makes me think of professional athletes who end up broke because they didn't plan properly and no longer have the body to perform.
You got two facts wrong:

- The T460s (and T470s) only has one free RAM slot, the other is soldered on as well.

- You're implying that the X1 has a soldered on SSD, but that's not true, it has a standard M.2 connector for the SSD. Maybe you were thinking about the MacBook...
I can sit and code for 10 hours at a time without my genitals aching.
Worse pixel density than a Macbook and the screen is 16:9 instead of 16:10, giving me less real vertical real screen estate than a 13 inch Macbook.

I really, really, really want a new ThinkPad, but they simply cannot compete with Macbooks. For the record, I am a huge ThinkPad fan, I count 14 thinkpads around me, the most recent one I have being X240. For me, the epitome was X61T. I still have two of those in mint condition. But today, when I buy a laptop it will be a MacBook.
Modern rival http://witheve.com . Current approaches seems became much more math heavy.
(That sense of mild threat you feel right now that is preventing you from either watching the video or commenting here is entirely natural and nothing to worry about. Go about your day as normal.)
And it is MUCH thicker (or at least it seems so side-by-side)..

Which it has to be to have space for the ginourmous rj45 plug... (I can easily live with the small dongle to get native rj45 on the x1s)
I have had trouble with G2s clogging after a bit of use, so that they stop and start unevenly. I've found the Uniball Signo 207 and Vision Elite to be much better, depending on whether you want a gel or liquid ink.
I don't have a scale with me but Lenovo lists the T460s at 1.4kg and the X1 at 1.13kg. So it's significant (~20%) but not that high. Note that the T460s is a different model to the normal T460.
They also make dual-core i7 CPUs - the quad-core models aren't very common.
> You don't have to be a structural engineer to build a house

But you need to know exactly what parts actually require a structural engineer or structural calculations. You'll be much faster at building your house if you don't have to think about when you call your engineer and when you can just guesstimate. And you are obviously re-using a lot of structural engineer work when you do (because you buy a prefab door where someone already did the calculations on the hinges etc.) Same with not needing to be a computer scientist to do most software engineering, but you need to use a lot of CS work done by others, and it speeds up your work immensely if you know what term to google.

Also, implememting these deep things (trees, linked lists, hash tables, etc.) mean you have a much better understanding of the tradeoffs you do when you use them. Trying to remember some O(N) numbers for various structures is much harder than just spending 1h making a toy linked list, 1h making an array backed list, and 3h making a hash table just ONCE and then you are set for life understanding the complexity of those things.
> ability to handle stress gender difference

https://www.google.com/search?q=ability+to+handle+stress+gen...

First result:

http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2010/gender-st...

First paragraph:

> Men and women* report different reactions to stress, both physically and mentally. They attempt to manage stress in very different ways and also perceive their ability to do so — and the things that stand in their way — in markedly different ways. Findings suggest that while women are more likely to report physical symptoms associated with stress, they are doing a better job connecting with others in their lives and, at times, these connections are important to their stress management strategies.

Note that the Gizmodo publication removed data and references from the text, https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-di...

> The text of the post is reproduced in full below, with some minor formatting modifications. Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted.

Disclaimer: I have no idea how this facet affects one's capacity of performing in a tech role, if at all.
I agree, especially if you look at the comment on the bug:

> "The JAWS people didn't answer emails when we reached out to them (admittedly quite a while ago), so we've been focusing on NVDA support. Patches to improve the situation with JAWS are welcome. Note that we may eventually implement UIA as opposed to IAccessible2, but that work is currently going slow."

That, to me, is a perfectly reasonable and polite response. "JAWS didn't care about us so we've worked with others. If you can help, you're more than welcome. Things might get better at some point anyway but it will take a while."
I don't think it's technology to blame exactly, but I think technology is a part of the story. I think decreasing areas for expanse created a crisis for capitalist profitability, which tech was one "solution" to, but it's a solution that makes increasing portions of the population surplus/unneeded labor, and increases wealth inequality.
Does it have up to 5 years on-site warrenty (the fix it at your place) on the next business day.. 3 years are factory default, the 2 year upgrade costs peanuts (compared to the machine)?
In the good old days ppl went to church. I have a feeling religion will make a come back.
It is not an accident that Thailand is a Buddhist country - people are tolerant to whatever is not harming others living beings

Oh really?

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/05/07/thaila...

So tolerant!
Really cool to see the Ryzen 3 at i3 prices beating i5s in some benchmarks! Really looking forward to the future of AMD.
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Show HN: Python module to easily generate text using a pretrained char-rnn
There may be substance in your comment, however a screen is a great way to temporarily pacify a child in order to enjoy a dinner and not disrupt every table around you.

There's plenty of time in the day to teach a 6 year old to program, no worries. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14909897
interesting to see there's only 140 damn true moments (at the time of writing, anyway).

that's like, almost two and a half hours
I'd recommend knowing about bootstrapping[1], there must be simpler articles but the basic idea is to randomly sample with replacement to generate new datasets which can then be used to test the variation of properties of the original dataset.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(statistics)
Buzzword compliance.
Several AR, FAL, misc battle rifles and carbines, 1911s, shotguns, etc. Let's just say more than I have fingers and toes to count them. What I don't have is any east block guns, other than an old Mosin Nagant; I'd like a few good AK. Also a Fostech Origin 12, and maybe SCARs. The gun industry has grown so much over the last 20 years there is just too much to choose.

Don't worry, all securely in safes, except for the 1911 on my hip.
Right, 3MB vs 4MB of L2 cache in the case of the X1
London, in the City, so yes, it's our fault. But it also adds that kind of prestige that people expect.
Yes. They're the typical data structure backing most relation database indexes. Knowing when they will perform well (and more often, when they won't) follows directly from knowing their structure. (The example of trying to do a range search on two dimensions in the post above is an example that doesn't perform as well as — again, I find — people naively expect it to.)

Have I ever implemented one? Not yet. Do I ask for a BTree implementation or exact, low-level understanding on an interview? No.
Because of "significantly higher variance in male scores"
I guess the question is what portion of the population is employed in these "most basic repetitive tasks", and with those automated, how many people getting paid are actually neccesary for capitalist production? If a lot fewer than the people who exist... what is to become of them? Some tech types say "Universal Basic Income" as an attempt at a solution to that.
I have a T431s and I love it. It's been going strong for years now!

It's a nice compromise between an ultrabook and a massive brick of a laptop. It is 'cheap', powerfuland easily upgradable but still very portable.
This is so simple and easy to understand, good job
Trucking, fast food, and retail could face huge amounts of automation in the next few decades, and thats a massive amount of low end jobs that could disappear. I think the idea of "fully automated luxury communism" is pretty silly, but there's almost definitely going to be substantial job losses, and I think we're approaching a limit where we don't have good low skill jobs to replace them.
This is a remarkably optimistic comment. Ten Democratic congressmen writing a letter does not make the FCC's position more unpopular within Washington. Realistically, the letter could equally have the opposite effect, polarizing the issue further.
Source: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-ryzen...
How is Bill Binney still walking around a free man? Surely he had security clearances and made an oath not to break them. Is it just that he's riding a fine line and not disclosing classified information?
Another argument for basic income? The displacement of any worker who drives for a living as at our doorstep.
The Netherlands has had to deal with flooding for many hundreds of years[1]; it's been a problem long before the industrial revolution that so many point to as a primary trigger of AGW, so acting like this is a matter of climate change is just politically-motivated BS, to be honest.

The thing we should learn from this is the fact that whether or not you subscribe to AGW, the solutions are found in technologies that protect us from the harsh effects of climate (however they may be caused) rather than naive attempts to proactively change the course of the climate itself.

Think about it: even the strongest proponents of AGW seem to agree that at this point, there's very little we can actually do in terms of suppressing or reversing the trends (people argue that any improvement or slowing is worthwhile, but that completely ignores economic principles like the law of diminishing [marginal] returns and opportunity cost).

The truth is, we have fewer climate-related deaths per year now than ever before. Why is that? It's not a result of cutting down carbon emissions, that's for sure. Instead, we are simply more adept at living safely in a variety of climate conditions thanks to technology and industrialization. Developing countries have seen the greatest improvements as a result of technology, but we all benefit.

Can we count on people to dramatically change their lifestyles in response to economically-inferior proposals based on politicized science? Absolutely not (how has that track record been globally?). What kinds of incentives can we rely on for changing people's behavior? Answer: clear economic interests[2]. If and when it makes economic sense to deal with climate-related challenges, the market will incentivize the most practical solutions via innovation. The Dutch have proven that point (and not just recently).

If you don't believe we need technology to keep us safe from the climate, I encourage you to pick a random spot on earth and try living there on your own without any form of modern technology or any of the products of industrialization. Your struggle - and increased risk of death - would have been the same (at least in scale) at any point in the earth's history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands#Floods

[2] Referring to natural market-based incentives rather than artificial government-imposed incentives.
Sounds good to me. Following the authors login why make anything an offence? It doesn't stop people from doing it anyway.

It seems like this is intended to stop dodgy marketing companies re-identifying data not hackers. And there doesn't need to be some technical way to know if they've done it. Any company can do illegal stuff and get away with it. They don't because if they are caught (and all that takes is one employee to come forward - and making it an offence to knowingly handle that data makes that more likely) they are in a lot of trouble (in this case an unlimited fine).

Why can't researchers work with fake data sets? If my data has been anonymised I don't care who the person is, I don't want them re-identifying it. Maybe I'm not seeing the necessity for this, and, if it exists I'm sure when the final Act comes around there will be an exception for researchers. Seems like panic over nothing for now.
How do you know if it's making "everyone" better off or not? What does 'better off' mean, and how do you measure it?

If you could demonstrate it made 'everyone' better off, I think it'd be an interesting question to consider. But I suspect many of those at the bottom ends of our actually existing inequality are not so "better off".
I often address the NSA by microphone, I doubt they pay attention to me though. I'm just like "Hey NSA, monitoring my "steps"" haha as I try to start a fire.
I knew about the RAM but the difference is still significant. In the X1 your max is 16GB and only if you decide on that upfront. On the T460s you can go up to 20GB at any time. Didn't know about the SSD, thought it was soldered on, thanks for the correction.
Belorn.. I feel like HN is a guy thing.. talking about guy stuff but not in that I have a small penis kind of way and I need to make up for it kind of way more in a Im clueless about woman stuff needs wants desires it seems like I only cause things to get worse.. but I want to try kind of guy club
What he said is actually correct from Psychological standpoint

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Ge...

The ratios of each trait combined together is what gives you your personality.
Blockchain tech has a lot of potential uses outside of currency. In those fields, the likelihood of a constant foreverwar amongst the contributors is way lower.

Also, providing a sliding cost on the network might make the miners agree it's more cost effective to step back from this breakneck energy-use-maximization game they're playing.
I was reading about the UK's upcoming GDPR implementation on the BBC earlier, and I assumed the ban on reidentification would apply to service providers and businesses etc., and not to researchers or private individuals with legitimate intentions.

Is this not the case?
You can also use those same constraints without QOS bits. Small amounts of data sent bi-directionally gets lower latency (VOIP). Large amounts of data sent in one direction gets lower priority (large ISO downloads). Combine with protocol detection to set initial values.
No mention of wifi performance. The last ThinkPad I had (T450s) it really wasn't that great even though I had the high-end Intel wireless option.
As far as I can tell the Statement of Intent[1] references this only in the following paragraph:

[We will:] "Create a new offence of intentionally or recklessly re-identifying individuals from anonymised or pseudonymised data. Offenders who knowingly handle or process such data will also be guilty of an offence. The maximum penalty would be an unlimited fine."

Following that there is also:

"Create a new offence of altering records with intent to prevent disclosure following a subject access request. The offence would use section 77 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 as a template. The scope of the offence would apply not only to public authorities, but to all data controllers and processors. The maximum penalty would be an unlimited fine in England and Wales or a Level 5 fine in Scotland and Northern Ireland."

"Widen the existing offence of unlawfully obtaining data to capture people who retain data against the wishes of the controller (even if the they initially obtained it lawfully)."

"Protection for journalists and whistleblowers - The important role of journalists and whistleblowers in holding organisations to account and underpinning our free press will be protected by exemptions."

Which seems more like creating clear legal charges for activity that is already illegal.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
Apple MacBook Pro lasts 135 minutes longer on battery in full screen mode
Canadian humans have an average less than goldfish.

Whew. That was a close.
> I suppose if no one knows how to write anti-fragile tests or it takes way too long, then using a tool like this is a step up.

This is kind of the situation I'm in, but I see how you could get yourself in a position where you have no idea what your longer integration tests do because they're generated by Selenium IDE.

Browser integration testing is hard.
I think a better solution would be that when an email is entered, nothing is shown on the site but instead an email is sent to the entered address with the breaches it appears in. Maybe I'm crazy, but didn't HIBP used to work like that years ago?
I wonder if they really did get the hinge right. The reason I ask is that I just replaced the wife's laptop because the hinges were stiff enough to beak the case around them (after years of use.) That was an economy model that we purchased off lease so it didn't sting too badly. The housing on my Y50 is cracked around the hinges. I need to open it up to clean out the dust but I'm afraid to do so.

My wife's laptop was replaced with an Acer. If I were to replace mine today it would probably be with a Dell XPS 15. Only time will tell if these are any better.
There are some boneheaded things in there.

I'm also seeing a lot of legitimate grievances too.

But because of some boneheaded things, other areas with much more substantive proof and claims are being completely ignored.

And the narrative is being sold as "Your gender means that you’re biologically incapable of doing this job and should never have been hired". Of course, paraphrasing into a inflammatory tidbit is easy to burn that strawman.

Again, I go back to my initial comment of "What use is there to discuss it, since each side demonizes the other?"
Why do you consider it so disgusting?

As an aside, we use it at work because it offers server side rendering, seamless transition to client side rendering, and most importantly, React Native.

What are better alternatives in your mind to cover these use cases? Also, in your eyes what problems can be solved better than React is solving them in?
I have my T460s with the 2560x1440 screen. It's indeed great and I assume it's the same panel you get on the X1.
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Really cool star history and stats view for GitHub repos
Chilling Effects.
> Arguably it's the welfare money that significantly led to the culture breakdown in the first place by destroying economic and social structure.

A cursory examination of the level of violent crime (particularly against property holders) in states where there is little or no welfare state compared with those in which there is a pretty comprehensive welfare state would suggest this isn't a very good argument...
Only if you buy it for value appreciation and/or income. If you buy a second home in an area that you like instead of one with high potential upside it's not an investment.

I would guess that few vacation homes are bought for the return they generate. If you want to invest in real estate, you'd rather buy homes in large cities.
> No point in building the wrong thing well.

This is validation, and in systems engineering (which software engineering both came from and fed back into before we, in software, forgot about it). It's part of the V&V (verification and validation) portion of system development. Verification means ensuring the system is correct with respect to the specifications and requirements. Validation means ensuring that what's being made is actually the correct, desired thing.

We need our software engineers to study systems engineering, where you will find formal methods being applied to the task of developing complex systems, and rather effectively at that.
> Usually the reviewer will point it out and it's a 10min fix.

And in order for the reviewer to recognize the situation at all, and then point it out, they would need knowledge of the underlying data structures, their performance, and as you mention, pragmatism to know when to use it.

(I'm presuming that everyone on your team shares the responsibility of code review, and you don't funnel it through a few people with knowledge of how things work. (I believe that robs those that don't of the opportunity to learn through review.))
Yeah, I think that's actually the _main_ argument for UBI that's getting tech sector people and YCombinator interested in it.