skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the info. They must have added that more recently. I noticed the same thing in Hong Kong where the 16GB 1080p option only became available after my last trip there. Just checked the Japan website, it still only has 16GB and/or 512GB with 4K touch.

Sucks to hear about the Envy.
Hmm but isn't it that AI has always been intended to augment Human actions, to make life easier. In that process, if we look closer it only means that at a deeper level AI has always been able to lead (For example autonomous driving) and it's still under our CONTROL. It's just that the AI actions as of today are limited to a specific sub system and is not aware of the other systems around it. This is what I wanted to propose through this question. Why hasn't anyone built anything like that yet, because regulations are best made when you have an approximate projection of what the Actual behavior is going to be like.
This is very similar the stories one hears regarding NIMBYism in the Silicon Valley. Hard working, successful immigrants seem to subscribe the just world hypothesis, exactly as one might predict. Their tolerance for those who aren’t able to do the same is pretty low from what I’ve seen. If they can come here poor and in a generation become millionaires and buy a home in California of all places, then why can’t everyone else.
I tried to switch to XPS 13 from MBP a couple months ago.

My main focus was to use WSL but it’s so freaking slow on disk access that sometimes “git status” on a repo would take 10-15 seconds while it’s <1s on macos or linux. How on earth do you manage to work with it? every single thing hitting the disk was noticably slower.

I went to Ubuntu and decided life is too short to use a crippled touchpad.

Went back to MBP.
I took the time to learn recutils a long time ago, and it has been the gift that keeps on giving

Sure, it is not as fast as many other formats, but on the other hand it integrates very well into Emacs an org-mode. I manage a large part of my different collections using a combination of both, and the Emacs integration means it is all less than 2 seconds away.
Your proposed classes would lead to everyone just collecting class D, because it's the only one that allows for targeted collection, which is needed even for diagnostics and debugging. In order to improve algorithms, you need to be able to figure out what the user wanted, which means being able to view their session specifically, not in aggregate.
Takeoff, and landing abort. It might turn out to be economical to have hybrid engines that are fully optimized (in efficiency and in drag) for sustained climb load (or even just to cruise) that can only deliver takeoff/abort thrust using electrical assist. It could be enough to carry batteries for no more than a few minutes of assist!

I don't know though how much the efficiency of current jet engine drops off at the far ends of their throttle range.
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 carbon. I have a 2nd gen I bought in 2014 and its been rock solid for the last 4 years. I have been running Ubuntu since day 1 and have had 0 issues. I travel with this laptop daily, so its very mobile. Lightweight, quiet, and performance has never been an issue.
It appears so.

https://gdpr.report/news/2018/02/01/gdpr-google-analytics-2/

This page carefully describes what data they are going to be using, so I don't see any reason it would violate it especially since they're not passing any PII.
Ask HN: How did you become fluent in English?
I am learning English. My communication skills are not good. How can I improve and become fluent in English?
Historically, former members of the government in France haven't ever been jailed. Chirac, Pasqua and others simply received a slap on the wrist, and Sarkozy will probably end the same. I hope, though, that this time Guéant won't get through because the evidence is so overwhelming, but we'll see. All in all, this delineates a clear picture of an extremely corrupt government, but alas still very well protected by state officials and the following governments in the name of "raison d'État".

Mediapart is one of the very few media who isn't owned by plutocrats, most of them happening to be, by no coincidence, Sarkozy's friends (Bolloré invited Sarkozy on his yacht after his election; Dassault is a senator from Sarkozy's party; Drahi is a staunch supporter of Sarkozy; Bouygues is father-in-law of one of Sarkozy's sons; etc). Sarkozy never actually sued Mediapart, because the dossier is absolutely rock-solid. He constantly complains about "undeserved attacks" and "smearing" in his friends' complacent media, but he never actually sued the website.

You have no idea how totally corrupt the French state is nowadays. It's truly terrible. Macron plans are even worse and will make France a true authoritarian state (exactly along the lines of Putin's Russia), by depriving MPs of the minority of almost all of their (very few) legislative rights and powers, opening the possibility of a third mandate for the president, etc.
One huge advantage of mirrorless is the absence of mirror-slap vibration at shutter speeds. Finally i can do long fast bursts when panning at 1/60

Plus the removal of flappy mechanical bits improves reliability and offers even faster frame rates.

There's a Canon full-frame mirrorleas prototype in the hands of their "Explorers of Light" now, so expect a big advertising push next year.
Doesn't anyone who walks into a shop more than once 'know' the staff? I recognised repeat customers when I worked in retail, even though I didn't know their names, and customised my service to them (e.g "how's the XXX you bought last time?"). That's illegal in Germany?
Not a hardware req, but I've recently become quite enamored with Win 10 + WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) after years of using a Mac. WSL lets you run a lightweight Linux shell (Ubuntu, SUSE, Kali are supported atm) without a VM. It's purely for command-line purposes, no X, but that's fine for me. Windows for UI, then I can run all my bash in the Ubuntu shell almost seamlessly. You can run the shell directly from start menu or just type 'bash' from cmd or powershell so it can easily work in the embedded terminal for Android Studio.
Just one data point, from me as a DPO-equivalent:

My company is squarely in the SMB camp at 21 employees and single-digit millions in revenue across three business lines.

GDPR compliance has already cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars and will cost us more as we go on. There will be some very minor benefits to our customers, perhaps, but for the same amount of money we could 100%-definitely-for-sure-absolutely give all of our customers things they would, if given the choice, trade those benefits for.

That's the thing; it's like when you buy an appliance. You can buy the thing that meets the needs for $X, or you can buy something that's better for $2X. Of course, the better appliance would be better. Should we make a law that requires companies to only make the better one? That law would provide a benefit, because consumers would get the better appliance, right? Okay, sure -- but at what cost? And what value-producing companies (because companies do provide value for customers!) are going to be marginally less efficient and therefore marginally less effective and therefore, on the margin, go out of business because of it?

There are valuable ideas in the GDPR. The execution is pretty crappy, and in the end it I think it likely reduces net consumer autonomy because it gives them less choice in how they relate to companies.
"Hedonic adjustments" sounds like a term for "the number is whatever we want it to be but we want it to sound official so people don't question it."

If you mix "hedonic adjustments" into every number then there is zero value in the numbers. There is no meaningful way to quantify a "hedonic adjustment". Is a smartphone a positive or negative "hedonic adjustment" relative to a landline? Lots of people would say it's positive. Lots would say it's negative. Nobody knows the actual answer because smartphones have only existed for a few years.
> If you voluntarily walk into someones shop [business], can you demand that the shop owner doesn't catalog that event?

No. Rather, the GDPR allows the shop owner to ignore such a request (that "someone" walked into the shop).

If you purchase something, and they keep records for invoicing/tax purposes, your request for erasure of that information can also be ignored.

> If you voluntarily agree to receive access to a service in exchange for data collection, can that legal contract be invalidated by decree?

No. However, you do have a right to ask the service to stop processing your personal data even though this may prevent you from accessing that service in the future.

> you can't stop people from voluntarily submitting their data in exchange for services - there is simply no legal theory in support of banning that.

And the GDPR doesn't do this. Indeed, I can offer a £5 amazon gift-card in exchange for some personal data that I will share with my client, and provided I'm overt at the time of the collection, and I hand over the data immediately (i.e. do not keep a copy for other uses) there's nothing the data subject can do to screw me out of what's a perfectly reasonable deal. Their right to erasure is irrelevant since I'm not keeping the data; they have no right to stop processing because I'm already done processing. And so on.
> Unless you know the shop owner, you would not be personally identified, and yes, in fact, it would be illegal to use technology that personally identifies you when you walk into a shop.

German law has often seemed silly to me, and this isn't an exception.
Absolutely. Just about any Windows laptop with Windows 10 will be faster, cheaper and give you a better user experience in my opinion. I vastly prefer it over a Mac or a Linux desktop because I find the Mac UI to be sorely lacking and I've never had a desktop Linux machine that didn't break itself over time.

I've done Node.js based development on Windows since Node very new (~ v0.4 or so). I build Android apps with React-Native and in the past - Cordova, both which use the Android SDK/Android Studio to build. I've been using and developing Python 2/3 apps on Windows since forever. I have done Ruby on Rails, run a PostgreSQL server for development, played around with Golang. I honestly don't even need to use the Linux Subsystem for Windows to do anything that I personally need to do, but it's there and it's gotten very good reviews from users.

The only thing I touch my Mac for is building iOS apps.
> a dentist with offices in Irvine and Orange, said he paid about $5,000 to sponsor seven buses…

I understand this dentist wanted to protect his neighborhood in his mind, but it's really sad if he's not donating any money to actually help the homeless.
Another angle I've seen, in Austin, is that people who are close to falling off that cliff are among the least tolerant of those who have. Those who are scraping by with service jobs are often least tolerant of the mentally-ill homeless person who hassles them on the way to work, and quickest to call the police. If you are a first-generation immigrant, I think it often means you do not take it as a given that you cannot fall out of the successful class, even if you are doing well now. Someone born into the professional class may feel better about themselves for tolerating uncomfortable behavior from someone less fortunate, whereas someone who in the back of their mind is worried about "that could be me someday" is not feeling good about themselves for being tolerant.

Just my own anecdotal view, I have no data to back that up on a large scale.
You can safely assume that any pro Facebook editorials are being written by those with vested interests. This is true for most companies in the media/advertising sphere. It’s always been more incestuous than the general public is led to believe.
On one hand...

- As someone else mentioned, GDPR are actually easier to implement from a technical perspective in a project from the ground level than it is a legacy project that already has tons of data.

- If you know from the beginning something is not a viable business model than it is easier to shift your business model early on in the company than post-revenue after you already have your business built on personal data.

On the other hand...

- The rules are very complex and sometimes ambiguous leading companies to sometimes legitimately be unsure if they are doing the right thing. And paying a lawyer to tell them is outside the budget of small business.

- A mid-sized product has the worst burden because they need to convert legacy data AND don't have the resources.

- To properly implement often requires a at least intermediate knowledge of devops / encryption / etc which might mean no more MBA bootstrapping v1 after spending two weeks learning mySQL or a coding bootcamp without hiring an experienced Software Engineer.

Personally as a small company I don't mind it. But I'm also a coder. If I had to outsource my code to someone who was being paid hourly and you told me GPDR would add hundreds of hours (not unrealistic) it would be a big portion of my budget with no business benefit (though personally I think a lot of benefit for the customer).
I don't think the GDPR applies to EU citizens outside the EU; only to people in the EU.

Also, the GDPR doesn't necessarily apply to every non-EU site that has EU visitors, only to those who in some way target EU customers (the rules are a bit ambiguous: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-23/)

So if someone outside the EU wants to benefit from the GDPR, the best way is to use services by EU companies, as those are required to apply it to everyone.
not if there isn't any PII
I switched from a 2014 13" Retina MBP to a 2018 Thinkpad X1 Carbon (6th gen) and I'm extremely happy with it.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-2018... is the most objective/detailed review I've seen.

One of my biggest anxieties was the fear of "upgrading" to an inferior device after a decade of being on Apple devices. Thankfully, that has not been the case.

- The 14" WQHD HDR screen is remarkably more vibrant with similar DPI.

- The battery life is almost double what I had before.

- It runs cooler, faster, and quieter than my rMBP.

- It's more than half a pound lighter than my 13" rMBP and is smaller despite having a larger screen.

- The keyboard is just amaaaazing, I forgot what a good keyboard feels like. It's a joy to type on.

- The build is excellent, still has that "Thinkpad" feel to it--like I could use it as a sledgehammer if I had to, despite looking quite slick.

- Everything works on Linux except the fingerprint reader and S3 suspend required an easy tweak before working properly (add a boot flag).

- I added a 4 year warranty for $140 USD, fair bit cheaper than Apple's. You don't get the Genius Bar experience but the Thinkpad brand is strong world-wide and there are certified local repair centres pretty much everywhere. (Fun fact: IBM still has a repair contract with Lenovo for the Thinkpad brand). In general, the machines are very serviceable with standard screws/components/etc. For every MBP I've owned, I've averaged bringing it in for repairs about 2-4 times per MBP. I've never had to repair the Thinkpad I had before that, and I hope this one holds up as well.

I bought it the week it was released, so only the maximum spec version was available for about $2000 USD. (Lenovo perks sites or discount coupons usually get you 15-20% off the retail price, or buy from Costco.)

My second choice was the 13" Dell XPS with 4K, but the deciding factor was the build quality and 4K is a bit too much (the battery/perf penalty wasn't worth the DPI gain over what the X1 Carbon offered). In general, it seems the Thinkpad build quality is much more consistent than Dell's.

If budget was really tight for me, I'd strongly consider getting an older Thinkpad and replacing the internals. The Thinkpad modding community is very active, it's kind of remarkable.
Can I try the Lenovo and sell out at an actual store? Does Best Buy or Frys stock these?
Never, ever, ever, ever again. I'll make sure my great grandchildren will know better than to ever get entangled with GoDaddy. I'm not going to tell my whole story but the tl;dr is their whole existence revolves around upselling, hard-selling, and outright deceiving, all to extract max dollars from you.
What if your biological clock could be speed up or slowed down with a pill ?
How do you define 10 million pieces of data?
Isn’t this what snopes is for?
5th gen ZBooks bring hexacore Xeons to mobile workstations
What advantages have you experienced?
It can’t be identified back to an user. It is not personal data.
For those interested in considering alternatives, I recommend giving the sci-fi book "Queen of Angels" by Greg Bear a read. [1]

That novel follows a police detective trying to solve a crime. A major source of tension is that all of the quasi-public data (public cameras, citizen movements, credit card use) is in the hands of a separate institution called Citizen Oversight. If I remember rightly, it was a separate, quasi-governmental (or non-governmental) body, broken down by region and with separately elected commissioners.

In the novel, the main focus is the relationship with the police, which was very tense; Citizen Oversight was very stingy with data. But you could easily imagine it having jurisdiction over corporate behavior around individual data. And having an active regulator whose job it is to enforce broad principles would have advantages over detailed rule-making fixed in laws. Especially so if they were part of a legally independent body.

It was definitely interesting to think about. And given that it came out in 1990, surprisingly prescient on the topic of data and privacy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Angels_(novel)
Merkle Trees: The Backbone of Distributed Software
Is there any data on what is driving this?

How much of this is due to the cost to rent?

Is California a homeless destination due to climate and general tolerance to homeless camps...etc?
Writing solid End-to-End-Tests with Buoys
One of the things I feel is important is matching your external displays with the internal one, the 1440p in the T470s matches up with all of my displays at every desk I work at. This makes it pretty easy to move around and feel comfortable.
> What, aside from the obvious associates degree at completion and an accelerated pathway to a bachelors degree from a 4-year program, does community college provide that MOOC micro-programs do not?

CCs offer 2 tracks.

Track 1: college prep. Students take a year or two of courses and then transfer to a 4 year institution.

For this track, the "trustworthy signal of competence" is by far the most important aspect of the product. So for CCs offering this track, your question is a bit ill-formed. You're basically asking "aside from the most important thing, what else is important?"

Track 2: Terminal associates degrees for students who will enter a trade immediately out of CC.

For this track, at least sometimes, MOOCs don't work as well because you need hands-on experience. Often, you also need connections to local institutions (for setting up volunteer hours and for job placement). IMO MOOCs shouldn't even try to focus on this track, at least for certain trades like nursing.

> Are the value gaps narrowing?

For track 2, it depends on the trade, but mostly no.

For track 1, MOOCs need to figure out the assessment problem and provide compelling evidence to higher ed that completing a MOOC is a strong signal of future success.

Finally, it's worth pointing out that MOOCs work well for some types of students (I wish they had been an option for me), but do not work at all for other types of students.
I don't deny that Rust's lifetimes make it possible to provide static guarantees that C++ can't.

The issue for me is a common misperception about unsafe blocks that the Rust community seems reluctant to squash. All I did in this (huge) thread was point out that unsafe code in an unsafe block can screw up 'safe' code outside the unsafe block. That is simply a fact about how Rust works.

The response in this case has been to go off on all kinds of tangents about formal verification that have little relevance to everyday Rust coding. Joe Coder's not going to formally verify his implementation of a doubly-linked list that uses a couple of unsafe pointer operations. It's probably best if he's aware that strictly speaking, none of the code that uses that implementation is guaranteed to be safe.

This is fundamentally the same kind of encapsulation that 'modern' C++ uses (unsafe code with hopefully safe wrappers), with -- as you point out -- the significant difference that C++ has a type system which would requires runtime checks to enforce certain guarantees that can be verified at compile time in Rust. (I believe it is possible to write C++ containers that catch invalid iterators at runtime: https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1571066111000764/1-s2.0-S15710661110...)

> Without [unsafe blocks], there wouldn't be a way to assert to the compiler when a block of code that used unsafe primitives was safe

Well, sure, but that's something that could be done by a linting tool without any significant loss of functionality, so far as I can see.