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> any [...] laptop with Windows 10 will [...] give you a better user experience in my opinion

Sorry but no, how can you call Windows 10 a good user experience? It's pure garbage, full of annoyances, inconsistencies (they still can't have a consistent right click menu UI between the one on the taskbar, the one on window titlebars and the one on files/folders in Explorer), dark patterns to try to get as much data out of you, etc.
Yep. Fujifilm have a long history of excellent lenses. I believe they used to make lenses for Hasselblad.
MIcrosoft Surface line (Book 2 in hardware comparison)is just as solid if not more solid than a MBP. You can use Windows 10 and the WSL as others have stated.
Can’t you do this anyway on the service? You are assuming there is no rate limiting and the passwords are used directly as bearer tokens to access the site.

But since you are giving advice to the DESIGNER of the site, why not simply tell them not to use passwords? https://qbix.com/blog for example
> I don't want to have to modify the DSDT for S3.

While I did end up doing that (it wasn't as scary as I thought), turns out just adding `acpi.ec_no_wakeup=1` is sufficient on many distros (I presume ones with recent kernel/systemd versions, older versions seem to require hitting power to wake up).

> I wish it had better speakers though

I find the speakers fairly comparable to my old MBP, fwiw.

> and I still feel like the low power CPU in a thin package might get bogged down when thermally throttled compared to full wattage one in a bigger config.

Yea, kinda mixed feelings on this. I really like how cool/quiet it runs with the default config, but you're right that the throttling is fairly aggressive. I mostly went with the i7 for the L2 cache size rather than max freq so it doesn't bother me too much.

You can override the throttling thresholds a fair bit. The whole machine is fairly hackable (in the good sense). I plan to play around with underclocking at some point to get a few extra hours.
I just read Shah of Shahs and I think it was a great little introduction to modern Iran and where the deep-seated resentment of the United States in Iran comes from.
Have any HNers found an effective digital version of index cards? The author mentions a" years of trying all kinds of digital equivalents a much-loved Mac outliner programme called 3×5" but then returns to return to physical cards. Probably the usefulness of actual cards comes from their materiality, but maybe there's some effective replacement that lets you combine/create cards with added digital ease - I can type a lot faster than write by hand.
We don't see BSD deployments thanks MIT licenses, which allow for companies to keep their forks and the old AT&T suit.

The only reason UNIX shops migrated to Linux was to avoid paying for workstations and migrate to Linux.

Companies like SGI dropped their UNIX and are having Linux forks, as a means to outsource development costs.

Likewise with Oracle dumping Solaris and migrating whatever is relevant to Oracle Linux.

In 100% of projects I have been involved, Linux was always chosen as means to reduce license costs, as developers do 100% of their work on Windows workstations.
I really don't think this is all that well thought out of a system. I have my doubts that the corruption that really plagues a nation occurs at a sort of point of sale like system that is being developed here.

You can still bribe a judge ... politician, government official just fine off the grid.
Many sites allow you to continue, but limit your account and nag you about verifying your email. This seems like more of a happy medium, if you're concerned about conversion.
> Asians are usually quiet, you know. Not this time.

I'm just pleased to see more Asian-Americans getting involved in politics. I lived in Irvine for a few months a while back, and it was a very clean city. I didn't see any leaves on the street, or homeless people for that matter (which I thought was strange, but I also felt safe not being accosted like in other areas of LA.) People can throw the NIMBY card around but if this is the issue it takes to see my former neighbors get involved in politics, so be it.
Things are a little different here, in that many of the small-town (when I say small-town here I really mean everything other than major cities) papers are not doing that well and are owned by faraway, faceless national concerns. But the fact remains that there's not a good replacement (the candidates, I guess, are Patch and town Facebook groups).
Is such tiered pricing allowed under the GDPR?

Because that would provide an easy way out of the whole sitation. Just make the price ridiculously high, and all users will choose the free, your-data-belongs-to-us version.
High schools may have trouble finding teachers who are qualified to teach advanced subjects, also they may not have enough students to really justify a class at that level.

Whereas a Community College may have an easier time finding instructors, since there aren't licensing rules or a need to employ the instructor full-time. Also they draw from a wider student population so may not have as much difficulty filling a class.
You can't do it with cars, either. Solar-powered cars are definitely a thing [1], but they're purely research vehicles. At 20% efficiency, PV cells will never power a practical car any consumer would want to buy. Nor would such cars likely be road-worthy on normal highways.

The engineering and physics challenges are even tougher for passenger aircraft. It ain't gonna happen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunraycer
pretty much what many in motorcycling are waiting to see happen. a hundred and at most hundred fifty but that requires judicious use of acceleration and speed. cars and trucks can carry the mass but if anything screams "this tech isn't there yet" it is the weight to range ratio we have now in cars.

yeah we can build them but looking back twenty years from now should be really interesting
> If you voluntarily walk into someones private shop, can you demand that the shop owner doesn't catalog that event?

The data protection act has been demanding that since 1998 (in UK).
I'd say most "non-technical" users dont even look at the email address it was sent to. They just assume that since it landed in their inbox, the magic 'computer' knows what its doing and they just need to read their email and reply appropriately.
I've found the slow writing exactly what makes them so useful. Whatever I write sticks in my head better.
Continuous Integration and Feature Branching
I think an important point that the GDPR gets right is to recognize that you often need to give data to services in order for them to be useful, but you currently have almost no recourse if you stop using it and don't want that data 'out there' any more. Even just the data limited data that services can 'reasonably' need will still paint a very detailed picture of you in aggregate. Forcing companies to allow users to recall consent and actually get their data deleted is the only way to prevent that picture from becoming very detailed over time.
Even at 350km/h, you're talking an 18 hour train journey. It's just too far, really.
Why Not Use Equal Temperament for All Music?
Although missed landings are uncommon in commercial service, every flight has to carry enough fuel for multiple missed landings, just in case.
Reading the bible to learn English does not seem like a good idea. The English of the bible is not common everyday English that will be most useful for communicating with others today.

Watching films or television in English, with subtitles in your native language is good advice.
Install High Sierra emoji on older versions
A win32 X server like mobaxtrem absolutely works.
I'm assuming an 18 year old has parents that should be guiding them.
Yes, that's really true. Not sure what you're writing with, but writing cards in ink and brush is really pleasurable and poses constant design challenges.
The optical viewfinder is the main negative of the SLR, and what is motivating the shift to mirrorless. It often doesn't give a great representation of the actual digital image that will be captured, it requires bulk for the mirror, and you can't overlay nearly asuch information on the viewfinder. Plus the mirror itself is loud and doesn't permit using the viewfinder while taking video.

The battery life problem is being solved. The Sony A7 III, which just came out, does much better on battery life. And personally I have an Olympus OM-D E-M5 II, use the viewfinder almost exclusively, and have never run out of battery, even after a full day of touristing. I have four spares I've never had to swap in. I'm not a professional though.
I used a MBP for 6 years, professionally, and this past fall switch to a Dell Precision 15". The new macbooks have a terrible keyboard, lost the magsafe connector, lost the lit apple symbol (loved it, because I could put an amusing sticker over it), have a ridiculously sized trackpad that I was constantly touching, only two USB C - one of which is always needed for power, and replaced the top set of keys with the "meh" touch bar thing. You can only get 16 GB of ram, and the guts are just fine.

Windows 10 + WSL is awesome, the only minor issue being some permissions stuff. I find Windows 10 to be a more interesting, an effective interface. The only thing I miss is that the Mac trackpad has a bit better detection for when I accidentally brush it. Otherwise, I'll take my 3 USB C, 2 USB B, HDMI, SD, and audio ports any day - all of which I have used at some point in the past 6 months, incidentally.

The new Mac keyboard alone was enough to make me want to toss the laptop into the trash. But, hey, it's slightly thinner, so you know, major productivity gains there!
A curated list of stuff related to the new React Context API
Monitoring PostgreSQL VACUUM processes
> I don't know what the answer is, or how to deal with it.

The answer is to give them a home, help to get back into a regular life and make sure they don't run into the same issues again that led to their homelessness.

Finland has managed to achieve this, why can't the rest of the western world follow?
Still somewhat over the top. They mention he’s a Canadian three times in the first half of the article. In case you missed it, he’s a Canadian. Although looking him up it seems he’s also an American.
Keep database deploys separate
I think your information about High DPI support with Linux is outdated. I've been using a 4k screen with Ubuntu for more than a year now without any particular issue.
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It comes down to land ownership - county owns more land in some cities than others. They cannot propose homeless housing in Rancho Santa Margarita or Coto de Caza since most of that land is owned by someone other than the county.
Similarly, this headline makes it sound like all autoimmune diseases stem from gut bacteria. That sounds unlikely.
I don't really get the argument for regulation. This is not nuclear material (something relatively easy to control). This is computers, something most 8yr olds in the western world at least have access to. If you regulate it in the USA or the USA+Europe will it be regulated in Russia? China? Can you even regulate it in the west if you want to without confiscating all computers?

I'm not saying we shouldn't try to make friendly AI (One of Musk's initiatives), rather I'm just saying I don't see how it's possible to remotely regulate this.
Drug addiction, mental illness, little education / scaffolding, no family support, etc.

Their view that if they did it why can’t others is the same as the libertarian / rich people perspective of “I got mine, you should be able to get yours.” Except not all people are the same, not all people have the same abilities, support, drive, etc. One should have compassion for those unable to help themselves. There will always be people trying to exploit a common good, but that doesn’t mean they’re the majority.

If you’re willing to risk everything by moving to a new country with no money where you might not even speak the language, you’re have above average drive and appetite for risk. For example, grandchildren of such immigrants do not share the same economic outlook [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-c...
If you make your learning less like "learning" you will have great chance of learning anything new.
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing (not necessarily in any order) are key to improving your language skills.
Pick few subjects that you are reasonably excited about. Movies, Technology, Fashion, Current Affairs, Religion, Music, Designing... basically anything that do not bore you and spend some time finding channels that talk/write about these. Make sure you are able to spend at least a decent amount of time everyday watching/listening/reading about those.

I had very poor English language speaking skills even after I completed my college. I took it as a challenge and made sure I spent at least 15 minutes every day listening English news (I live in India and this was some 20 years ago, so the options were very limited back then)
Read English news papers for about 30 minutes, and always noted down new words and their meaning and kept referring to those when I wasn't preoccupied anything else.. .those notes used to stay with me for few days before I threw those away for newer ones.
Also, moving to Bangalore helped me a lot because, many of my new friends didn't share my mother tongue so English was our primary communication medium.
Thinking about it, it was kinda boring to be honest, I dont know if i will do the same for learning any other language, but I was really motivated to learn English back then so that probably kept me going.
Students are not equally skilled. The majority of students are not really a collage level English and History and Math and Art class starting in 11th grade, though a significant number could take a subset of those.

Simply making High School arbitrarily harder is kind of meaningless if most students would fail the material.
Sadly this is illegal in EU. You have to offer both Free+ClassD and Free+ClassA versions otherwise its forced consent.

I have written more about this here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16351892
Indeed, I love WSL, and find win10 to be a better interface than OS X. Updates for OS X just move things around and change the looks, Windows 10 adds great new things - like new options for Linux distros under WSL.
Yes, this, and a second part: GDPR recognizes that data moves between services, and people should have rights about their data that can be enforced on recipients after data is transferred. Currently, agreeing to transfer is a ratchet, where the secondhand party has basically no responsibility to you.
No, Seriously. Root Cause Is a Fallacy
I follow the local reporter on twitter, who sits through the entire city council meeting every time. Except for rare cases, I just don't see volunteers doing that, because it is a huge time commitment, and while some issues get people worked up, there is often quite a bit of minutiae (what kinds of signs are allowed is a recent example).
Probably your parents had enoumous will power, most people don't migrate to another country.

Immigrants are not representative of the general population. Often they are stronger in many ways :)

Similarly, you can ask why didn't everybody from their native country emigrate.

Just my random guess...
As a local, would you accept a regional sales tax increase of 1% if it paid for real housing and counseling services for the residents of the camp?
I think that in the most recent versions X runs just fine. At least a collegue of mine is running the whole Kali linux (you now find it in the window store) inside WSL using the full desktop (and indeed just looking in the store right now it is showed with the full desktop active)
Because the rest isn’t identical? Scale, education equality, discrepancies in make up and values, notions of state responsibility, healthcare accessibility, etc.
Eventually, they will end up in San Francisco who will welcome them.
Why does OP pretend to be a girl?

It's just weird. https://www.instagram.com/p/BeuHAcogZKS/
That's exactly what I am saying. I think we would be better off if we treated Software development like a trade that had a two year up to date curriculum that actually prepared people to be hit the ground running at a company. Yes, I'm advocating the modern equivalent of "Java Schools".
In the Wikipedia definition, the first phrase uses "all provable sentences" and "are true"; the second phrase uses "all true sentences" and "are provable". "true" and "provable" are equivalent in the two phrase here.

In the other one, the first phrase uses "program that typechecks" and "is valid"; the second phrase uses "valid program" and "can be typed". "is valid" and "valid program" are equivalent, but "program that typechecks" and "can be typed" are not.

So the two completeness/soundness definitions taken as a whole are not equivalent. That's what I was trying to get at with my example - it's not that the exception throws, but that the exception even exists.
everyone quick, throw out your react apps!
Seriously? There's hundreds of alternatives.
Finland has a population that is 70x smaller than the US. They also invest heavily in education. I assume other countries struggle scaling programs from 5 million people to 350 million... and that’s why many of the great programs that Finland has don’t scale to elsewhere.
Just got the Thinkpad T480.... It has 2 SODIMM slots, you can put in a SATA or NVME drive (only 1, and only of the same type as shipped), it has great hinges, enough ports, excellent battery-life with the extended and swappable batteries and has good options for screen (1080p mat non-touch here). It has good linux support, and I got mine (i5-8350, 8GB, 128GB ssd for about 1200,- incl on-site warranty. I then replaced the RAM and SSD with some I still had lying around (32G and 800GB intel DC-ssd).

The Thinkpads have good keyboards, good-enough touchpads and screens.
The interesting question is what proportion of all programmer salaries are going to the highly compensated. It might be the case that most salaries are decreasing even though a small number of people are getting these multi-million dollar paychecks.
Even modern "Enterprise Development" is mostly web based. Few companies these days are developing WinForm apps.
+1 for a ThinkPad. I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on an x230 that I purchased for $200 and it works great for me for limited dev work.

I'm thinking about purchasing a new one with maxed out specs and it seems like Ubuntu/Debian support is pretty solid on the new models, with some exceptions of course. The p51s looks like a good compromise between power and portability for me.

edit: And the keyboard is amazing! you'll love typing on these things.
Probably would turn into concentration camp though.
I don't know about the social connections angle so much. If you're the type of person who really gets into that, i.e, would be in a fraternity or sorority, there are advantages. But as a more introverted/tech type person I didn't maintain contact with any friends or roommates from college much at all after graduation, nor they me. I can't point to any particular social connections from college that benefited me afterwards.
Sounds awfully like a gulag. I have to assume you're trolling.
EURUSD: Continues to Face Recovery Pressure
Well I'm no expert on it, but it would seem that patents are not justified in a great number of industries.

There's a bunch of businesses where capital and knowledge exists, and can be turned to making more or less anything. For instance, if you come up with some new shape of plastic coathanger, you can find some guy in China to make it for you, in millions. The key isn't that you're smart and can make a clever shaped coathanger, the key is that you are able to convince people it's useful and worth buying for more than what it costs you to open a webshop and pay the factory. You shouldn't be able to patent that. Some other person may be able to make it without your help, cheaper, and for more consumers.

Or you could make software. Pretty much any old UI innovation can be made by anyone in the field for peanuts. If it turns out everyone wants a circular knob to scroll up and down, it would not take long before every browser, application, and mobile app could implement that. You shouldn't be able to patent that; it's an obvious thing that takes no input from the original "inventor" to make.

I already had an example from the food industry. You can mash together any number of foods, pretty much anyone can.

Pharma is one area where it is perhaps legitimate, due to the cost of research. If you don't have someone doing tests to show some molecule works, nobody will know what works. And if you don't have someone showing you how to make a particular molecule, it may take a long time before consumers have that drug. I'm still reserved about it in this area though. The potential for abuse is considerable.
It's kinda like Alexander Graham Bell, claimed by the Scots (in England they call him British) the Canadians and the Americans.
The GDPR is broader than you make it look here. It doesn’t only have provisions for ”providing consumers recourse after their data has been collected”, it also provides ”individuals the right to control what data will be collected”.

It even goes further than your request for an opt-out. All data collection must be opt-in, and opt-in requests must be written in such a way that your users can understand them.

Opt-out in combination with not ”providing consumers recourse after their data has been collected” is especially dangerous. Extreme example: application X installs a keylogger, and sends all your keystrokes to evilEmpire.com. Would you consider that to be OK, as long as there is an opt-out button? Would you be OK if evilEmpire.com kept the keystrokes it collected before you opted out?
Agreed. It's a sort of silly constraint. Not truly necessary. But, there are other aspects of the project that make it much easier to completely and utterly do away with floating point.
I use (and have setup many a developer) a T450+ Lenovo off eBay. Wipe it and put Linux on it, install an m2 SSD, 20 Gb of RAM, and get the bigger battery pack. Total cost is around $900 to $1100. It works better, with longer battery life, and I like the 14 inch display personally
Maybe your hearing is just shot.
Gandi & DNSimple.
> contractors driving trucks or vans, picking up Birds from sidewalks, once picked up they are moved to another location for charging.

> PopWheel converts an electric van into a mobile charging station for micro-mobility vehicles and electric cars

Wouldn't battery swapping be best for the e-Scooter case? Should greatly increase vehicle utilization (since you don't have a stationary van while the scooters charge), and requires much less labor, van space, and charging facility space than hauling the bikes away to charge.

I can see how it makes good engineering/logistic sense for charging full-size EVs (especially using direct DC charging from the traction battery via a DC-DC converter), but not for e-scooter fleet servicing.

>with PopWheel, [EVs] will serve as the source of electricity with the potential to power everything.

How does PopWheel see this evolving? In what space can "lug-atoms-for-energy" possibly be competitive with HV grid transmission and decentralized solar?
What cost. Sounds like they just plain won.
A guess of new iPad Pro, what are you most looking forward to?
The headline of the article, which was the original title of the submission, is less ridiculous. But for some reason it has been changed.
I made a game that may help with vocab - www.esoterica.io. Would be curious to hear if helpful (peter at 3eyes.studio).

Fluency in language (and all things) comes down to practice. Converse as much as possible in English. And when you can’t find someone to talk with, read read read. Anything and everything, from message boards to magazines to books and more books. It doesn’t matter what about. Just diversify.