skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, as long as the laptop is one with good support - Thinkpads, HP's business machines, etc - you won't have to fiddle with device drivers. As to "where even to find them" the answer is you don't need to look as they'll be installed with your distribution unless you're using 'odd' hardware. In the latter case you will have to go looking so the choice is simple: either use known-supported hardware (a large and varied group) or accept the challenge. Given that you don't seem to like tinkering with device drivers and such you'd just use a Thinkpad and be done with it.

As to whether you'll find commercial software (which seems to be what you're after) to your liking depends on what business you're in. If you're doing video production, animation, software development or engineering the chances of finding something are higher than when you're in graphic design. Do mind though that the non-commercial alternatives (e.g. Inkscape, Krita, etc) are often on par with the commercial offerings.

And yes... I actually do make the argument that running Linux is easier than running MacOS on a Mac. I don't say running it 'on a generic laptop' is easier, as said the choice is yours. I can install it anytime, any place where I have access to the 'net or happen to carry a USB stick with a distribution, on any supported hardware. I can run it as a live distribution on other hardware. I can run it on a Raspberry Pi, on a laptop, a server, you get the picture.

Try it for yourself, it actually works on Apple hardware. Don't believe what you hear from those who feel they need to defend their decision to invest in other platforms.
Then they fixed a "bug" and removed content from their platform:

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-10-13/fac...
There are still people living who, in the middle of the last century condemned other people to death for only doing their jobs. Of course, a future AI may decide to simulate our reality and torture you for a subjective eternity if you do not do everything in your power in this reality to bring that AI into existence. You plays your cards and you takes your chances, but in general its simpler if you try to do what you honestly believe is morally right. And if you honestly believe that the right thing to do is pummel our society with shitty advertising then please do your very best.
Me too! I've been looking for something like this, but wasn't been able to find anything. Very nice to see this here, perhaps I'll build one if I have time at some point, or order one if it becomes available.
In the absence of an IOMMU configured to block GPU accesses to non-GPU memory regions, yes - however, drivers should block any request to do so.
They might be trimming the first inch or so, so that there's a neat edge
> I can't think of a single right that exists inherently. Where does such a right originate?

From our own human nature, actually. Think about this for a minute. Would a normal person be willing to believe something because you were forced to? If someone was violently attacked, would they not fight back?

By recognizing these aspects of human nature as something fundamentally not controllable by laws, we can instead force government to work with that human nature instead of contrary to it.

Now, the current conflict is being caused by pitting these against each other. Because people believe they are unsafe because of people who own guns or use hate speech, you now have two groups of people who believe that the other group is making them unsafe.

This is ironic, because we're actually becoming statistically safer over time, but it does lead to some very real conflict because people believe there's another group out there that wants to harm them, instead of realizing that both sides really just want to protect themselves, barring a few fringe whackos on either side.
They/we did, of course. But the supply never matched the demand up or down. Usually it was lack of.
Cambridge Analytica denies accessing data on 87M Facebook users, claims 30M
Processors have plenty of liabilities under the GDPR.

https://www.taylorwessing.com/globaldatahub/article-obligati...
Well, if you're root... and configure IOMMU in such a way, etc.

Otherwise, it simply depends on system hardware architecture and drivers.

If the GPU is in a position to read and write physical memory (bus master DMA), and there's no hardware level protection like IOMMU or it's not properly configured, operating system has very little say in the matter, be it Linux or anything else.
Hydrologically they are the same lake.

The rivers drain into it quite far apart though.
Pretty sure they don't care about the box you check. They're just looking at your name and maybe your extracurriculars.

I like to check random boxes. Given the precarious definition of race one could probably argue they belong to any race.
I don’t actually question, because she still went to 4 years of medical school, exams, residency, etc...

Racists probably question.
It was never on the App store, they just offered a download that could be installed without jailbreaking:
https://justgetflux.com/sideload/
CEO says Facebook will impose new EU privacy rules “everywhere”
Facebook Data on 87M Users May Have Been Improperly Shared
I don't suppose anyone here knows whether this plays out differently with very large shippers? I could imagine that having a real 24/7 in-house operations center could be cost-effective and desirable for a giant line, especially one like Maersk that is both huge and somewhat reputation conscious. But I have no idea whether they do.
Which aspect, the partial or the pipeline?

The partial application operator clearly wins over bind, IMO, which is currently the way you'd do that [ addTwo = add.bind(this, 2) ] if only because you don't need to specify the this parameter. It also gives the option to "bind" to other parameters than the leftmost.

The pipeline operator in that example is a little contrived, but coming from any functional background it makes a ton of sense. Depending on what I was piping, I might also format it more like:

x = 5
|> addTwo
|> add(?, 10)

...which would probably resonate with anyone used to promise chains:

x = Promise.resolve(5)
.then(addTwo)
.then(add(?, 10)) // or v => add(v, 10)

It's still contrived, but it is a reasonably familiar flow in JS. It would also clean up async/await syntax a lot assuming they could be used together:

x = await foo(await bar(2, await baz(3)))

...becomes...

x = await baz(3)
|> await bar(2, ?)
|> await foo(?)

...which honestly is a more accurate representation of what's happening.
Before the Touch Bar, you could always use modifier keys in combination with volume keys for continuous (rather than discrete) volume adjustments. Except it was on the screen, with a huge volume display, using volume keys you could feel with your fingers, taking up less keyboard space overall.
Ask HN: Unions
Hey all, throwaway account for obvious reasons.

Has anyone on HN worked in a union shop or is an active member of a union? If so, how did you become a member and how does it compare to non-union work?

I'm asking because I'm seeing more and more of my peers being fired then re-hired as 1099 contractors at severe loss of pay and benefits. This doesn't really give them a whole lot of negotiating power.
Use ORCHID Screen in the Laravel Framework
Those factors all correlate with class...it doesn't need to be about race.
No doubt diversion of purpose clashes as well. I don’t particularly care what the owners thought HN would be or how they think it should be run. I found a better reddit (because tech and politics was already most of what I was interested in) and so I stayed here doing what I did on Reddit. The whole ‘SV startup’ thing is just an annoying undertone I have to filter out (yes I know what ycombinator does) as I navigate the site.
I've heard that they were more to discourage illicit drug use than "indecency".
Radiolab's More Perfect had a pair of very interesting episodes on Edward Blum:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/more-perfect-plaintiffs/

and

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/architect-edward-blum/
> And they specifically dropped that when they changed to Alphabet, so the writing was on the wall for people to see

Still there actually. https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
In the UK, that makes it cheaper than the Philips Hue PIR-based motion sensor, which is crazy. And while non-Zigbee, you could easily integrate it into an existing Hue setup.

It enables you to add more intelligence to your home automation because not only can it detect motion, if you offload the processing, it can enable object recognition.

So your cat doesn't trigger it. Or triggers a different action.

Because you can control the IR leds and filtering, you can mount it in a dome for ultra-cheap external pan and tilt with an external IR illuminator.
HN is a majority-international site

Sorry, but is this claim based on pageviews, or the origins of the comments being posted?

It's not like guardian.co.uk/international is in fact international news and opinion.
I've used Pharo, and, way back, programmed professionally in Cincom (then ParkPlace), IBM VisualAge, and whatever the Windows version of Smalltalk was called was called (Visual Smalltalk?). Also tooled-around a bit in Squeak.

All three of the professional environments were very good. When Pharo kicked off, it was supposed to have been people building a free Smalltalk you could use to build real world software, as opposed to the research-oriented Squeak community. They didn't stick to that path, tho.

As another post described, Pharo is a mess, and it doesn't get more reliable from release to release. It's too bad. The idea that any Smalltalk environment today is state-of-the-art is just misguided. I would rather use Intellij IDEA any day.

Smalltalk is still a beautiful thing, tho.
Thanks! Didn't know that about stingrays.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16757670
Indeed, and as usual XKCD has an explanation for the "someone hasn't heard of everything" phenomenon.

https://www.xkcd.com/1053/

However HN does seem to curate specific on topic informative posts, especially early on in the conversation (when everyone is reading, rather than just people looking for replies to their comments).

Overall I think I agree with the policy.
Why Kids Are Addicted to Video Games
> I disagree that "every country" does this.

I meant that they call their armies/airforces/navies 'defense'.

> Many countries in Europe and Asia do not use their defense forces as a tool for attacking other countries and getting involved in regional conflicts that were only affecting people in those countries.

I wished that were true, but almost all deployments of EU troops over the last 4 decades fall into that category. And there have been a lot of those.

> And countries that do it are usually just "helping" US-lead invasions of countries (an example would be Australia -- the single reason we were ever in the Vietnam War was because of the US).

Ditto Iraq, Afghanistan.

> While I may be a biased given that America bombed my home country and engaged in a "peacekeeping mission" when I was a child, for a civil war that had been going on for many years and had nothing at all to do with the US, I never understood how Americans can see invasion of other countries as being anything other than that.

Agreed, they are invasions, and the worst ones are the ones under some kind of pretext.

Where are you from originally?
That's what they believed, but it isn't necessary. It's easier to see these arising out of very fundamental parts of human nature.

Simply put, those who are attacked will fight back. Those who are forced to say or believe something will instead resist the idea.

Therein you have a basis for the first and second amendment, i.e. freedom to think and freedom to defend yourself.
Facebook: most people could have had their public profile scraped
Anecdotal evidence as an Asian male: way back when I was in high school, I applied to a particular brand name university in the US.
In my class, I had the best or second best admissions profile. The rest weren't really even close.

I was not accepted by this university, but fellow students from much more desirable demographic groups (from an affirmative action perspective) were. They were all wealthy, quite possibly from wealthier families than my own. And they had different skin color and/or gender.

These were students who couldn't even handle AP calculus (and if you knew the name of this university, you'd be shocked), let alone match my extracurricular activities, test scores, etc.

One of them had enough self awareness and integrity to apologize to me, and openly blamed affirmative action for her being accepted instead of me.

The others let it get to their heads.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

Asian enrollment percentage at Caltech (strictly meritocratic admissions) doubled with a doubling in the absolute size of the college-age Asian population; on the other hand the percentage Asian enrollment at all the Ivies stayed approximately the same.

Assuming Asians didn't stop applying to the Ivies in direct proportion to their population increase, at best this looks like reverse disparate impact; at worst, race-based quotas or admission standards.
U.S. expects talks with China as trade fight escalates
Why? Why do you buy into this meme of tyranny of censorship and dictated truthiness?

Progress cannot happen in society without good & bad ideas freely propagating, and individual decisions to buy into them or not. Every significant cultural movement stems from a counter-cultural uprising, and these sorts of things would be swept up in the "vetting".
Same reason we have driver's licenses.
I guess I still don't quite understand the importance of "authorized" since the captain wrote:

>Question I would like to transit the Old Bahama Channel on our return northbound leg

He was clearly asking, not informing.
The government and private organizations have a history of using race to penalize and constrain certain specific groups in the U.S. Many of these race-based policy decisions continue to give compounding returns to groups who benefited from discrimination against blacks, Hispanics, Asians and indigenous people. Until the issue of compounding returns is fixed (i.e. equalized), having a "color blind" attitude will continue to uphold the effects of systemic racism.
PHP dev? ;)
The thing you're looking for is the class of the laser. Class 1 is completely harmless, class 2 is harmless unless you intentionally stare at it, class 3 is immediately harmful and class 4 is the kind of laser that cuts bone and metal.

I'm not sure what class this is, but it should be mentioned somewhere.
Leave it to 'em to find a way
This doesn't just apply to Asians. Almost anyone getting into a top college (who isn't a legacy, under-represented minority, or recruited athlete) is adopting a very intentional strategy to design their application, starting well in advance (usually around mid-to-late middle school). College admissions at top schools is an arms race between stricter admissions criteria and prospective students designing themselves accordingly, nearly irrespective of who they are.
Wow this is interesting. If people/CEO's use personal access to Trump to influence US Government contract bidding, that could really interfere with bidding processes. Given his penchant for commentary, this could have farther reaching consequences.
I'm Asian, my kids are going to apply to universities in America in a few years, and I'm OK with Affirmative action.

Yes, I know they might have slightly better chance of acceptance if Affirmative action is gone. So what?
Water rights aren't terribly contentious in that part of Michigan. The Muskegon is tiny and the sort of river hydro is being removed from.

http://glpf.org/funded-projects/muskegon-river-dam-removal/
Greece/present day/crap plumbing.

https://www.worldnomads.com/travel-safety/europe/greece/toil...
You are blatantly embedding a false premise here; that the goal is or should be world peace.

That is an absolutely inane stance to take. How about instead of the obviously unattainable and unrealistic goal of "world peace", we just go for "more peace", or "less violent death" or similar goals. It is very hard to argue that American hegemony has not significantly reduced conflicts around the world. Not all of them, not equitably, and generally in pursuit of economic rather than ideological interests, but there is basically nothing to be gained by opening up the US to actually being threatened by competing powers.
It is a myth that the Vietnam war was mostly a war between US conventional forces against Vietnamese guerrilla forces.

In point of fact, the majority of the battles the US military and ARVN engaged in were against the NVA (North Vietnamese Army). That is, conventional forces vs other conventional forces. While the VC (VietCong) were very active and played a crucial role in the eventual victory of North Vietnam over South Vietnam, they were never the primary military force deployed by the communists.

Moreover, the VC were not just guys with AK's. They had the full panoply of military hardware that light infantry uses: from anti-tank rockets to mortars to light anti-air missiles. The VC even had a few tanks. The VC did not engage solely in small unit guerilla operations either. Once in a while, they would launch major offensives using coordinated assaults of 10's of thousands of soldiers.

What history has shown is that while insurgencies can cause problems for established regimes, without outside logistical and financial support (i.e. supply of arms, food, money, etc) they usually cannot win.
Page 51:

> The private keys for both key pairs are saved in the device’s Keychain and the public keys are sent to Apple’s directory service (IDS), where they are associated with the user’s phone number or email address, along with the device’s APNs address.
Why so? I'm not sarcastically asking, I genuinely want to know.
Not really, if Asians were actually being treated the same (and the schools admission rates shifted to a higher percentage of Asian students) then people would start bitching about privileged Asians.

Meanwhile Asian people are actually pissed off for the right reasons.
Discrimination is an act by one human against another. You can't tell just from looking at ratio of the broader Asian population and Harvard's Asian population whether or not they're discriminating. Human behavior is subtle, and when OP said that blatant discrimination was happening he was pretty obviously not referring to that ratio as the thing that makes it blatant.
Perhaps the problem is self reporting? If the captain is still mentally affected, he might not remember to follow through with that? Or he might not have understood that he was even incapacitated at that point.
One could more broadly observe that many things in Japan uncannily resemble China. That's because they frequently came from China, though its unpopular to point this out. Religion, philosophy, writing, architecture, technology, food, etc. To its credit, Japan has preserved some things lost in the mainland, and does have some interesting endemic culture... it's just a lot smaller portion of modern "Japanese culture" than popularly supposed.
That's only if your septic tank is improperly sized or otherwise malfunctioning.

Around 20% of homes in America have their own septic tank. And essentially all of them flush their toilet paper like everyone else.
Say you have an interactive graphics application but it uses a drm library called SmokeLib, you could unlink it, provide an alternative and regenerate the executable.
> Also note that B.V.S did appear to have a 'Hourly Update' feature that did not appear to be subscribed to.

From the article, "The Coast Guard report also noted that “El Faro crew did not take advantage of B.V.S.’s tropical update feature,” which would have provided hourly updates."

So hourly updates apparently were available even if not subscribed to.
"The Complicators Gloves" - https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Complicator_0x27_s_Glov...
Oh nice one. Did the links get blocked when Messenger was in “non-Secret” mode?
When you have an undersized septic tank, this can become necessary. But not necessary for most.
DHS has detected cellphone surveillance in D.C. and doesn’t know who’s doing it
I disagree strongly. Employees are a stakeholder in the company, and if they can band together to enact change on the companies goals for a moral purpose, then that is an option as well.

If their efforts fails, they can choose to resign, or take other actions as employees in history have. It's not the only option, it may be the only option ultimately that succeeds in removing yourself from complicity.
i gonna guess even in whatsapp
If somebody keeps their own private matters or dealings, it's not your role or your right to pry there to ensure they're "right". Other than that, people freely share both ways about what they believe and discourse continues. The solution to "wrong thinking" is to spread "good" information, not to witch hunt for censorship.

The overarching social problem with social media platforms is the pigeonholing. Freely sharing and discussing is quickly segmented away. The marketing & political money is made on outrage and tribalism, and these amplify differences to the point of segmenting others off if there's any dissonance at all.

Less categorized places of discussion, where members share a broader forum or space, must be more civilized by nature. You have less cherry picking of engagement. You end up exposed to (and exposing others to your) offensive differences, and need to deal with that exposure. We get that outside of social media circles, and it's overall a more healthy environment. Consequently, more and more people are recognizing that social media is not a place to anchor their trust, information, and time, which is a positive change.
That's for general aviation travel. What are the chances of death when in an airplane that has a strange smell?
I’m a female chef. Here’s how my restaurant dealt with harassment from customers
You are factually wrong. You are indeed right that email was designed to be open, but because emails became unusable in that form about 20 years ago, every mail provider have deployed massive spam filters that rejects most unsolicited mails. Hence, currently, email is not open to unwanted emails, one have to go through many holes to arrive to mailboxes where he isn't invited.

The filters are so good, that many people find that they can't even reach people that have asked them to subscribe to their mails, because they are still filtered out as spam. Enter MailChimp, the trusted mass mailer provider that help companies bypass the spam filters by giving their mail a respectable envelope. If they allow spammers their envelope shouldn't be respected. Actually, that's clearly the theme of the OP.

And no, by using email I consented nothing. Where I live that's actually the law - I can sue whoever sends me commercial unsolicited email, unless given explicit permission (opt-in), spammer can be liable for compensation for each and every incident.
"Go Fish"
There really needs to be more press on the experiences of Asians when dealing with college apps - reading that made me feel gross; it's sickening to me that that's considered okay by so many people.
> approving this well is a technical environmental decision, and shouldn't depend on how much people scream.

That's completely incorrect because the state is run by politically elected leadership who ultimately answer to the people. If the people hated Nestle because its factories were painted green, they have the right to complain and ultimately vote for leadership that would disallow Nestle to paint their factories green.
But that's precisely the question being posed by this lawsuit: are Asians actually discriminated against less than other minorities in Harvard admissions?