skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only person on here who is bothered by the specs of the base models? For $2400 you get a 2.2 Ghz machine with a 256 GB ssd and 16 GB of Ram. That was seriously overpriced and it hasn't budged in this new release. Seems like you've got to spend well north of 3K to get a reasonable machine. That is way over the market.

The model in the review is fully loaded. Apple will charge you a cool $3200 to upgrade to that 4TB ssd mentioned in the review. Apple's habit of gouging on peripherals is not... endearing.

Also, aren't many premium laptops 4K at this point?
A couple of my ETFs have >4% dividends, both of them are New Zealand based.
> No, the whole concept of national identity is very recent

No, it's not, though some current national identities are. The idea of Israel as a nation (distinct from either a state or regional identity), for instance, is at least as old as the Old Testament.
> Nobody is going to suffer from an extra pound of weight.

For many things in life, it’s not about whether or not you suffer, it’s about what’s more or less pleasant. And for many, that even trumps an occasional inconvenience.
No dongle at all. Just a different cable. The adapter cables are fine. It's the devices that aren't attached via cables that are awkward.
US-China trade war dims bright future for semiconductors
overpriced Bluetooth speakers

What other BT speakers are quantitatively better and cheaper?
Barbie typewriter (2015)
Given that there will be people insisting that the main objective of the program was nuclear power, not weapons, a show like that would be risky. Does Netflix want their shows accused of glorifying murder? I'm aware that there is the argument, perhaps with evidence, that Israel was halting weapons research aimed at them, but Netflix may not want to take the risk that the debate goes against them.
No, But the lady they exploited is saying that they misrepresented her for their own benefit. I think I would be tempted to sue them for slander if I were her.
Iroquois Nationals face travel delays to Israel over Haudenosaunee passports
Dune undoubtedly is a masterpiece. But, it's neither fun nor light-hearted like OP requested.
This page implies that the grain synthesis step is informed by analysis of the grain in the uncompressed video: https://bitmovin.com/cool-new-video-tools-five-encoding-adva...

That is confirmed by this article: https://jmvalin.ca/papers/AV1_tools.pdf
why do you specifically mention GTX 1080? There is zero difference between 1050ti and 1070 when it comes to encoding, does 1080 change anything?
Yeah with the smile! But my favorite part ever was the marching band on the bad guy to end up in style, and in music :-)
> Netanyahu...proved Iranian...intent to resume bomb production

Israel has dozens, if not hundreds, of nuclear bombs. Why should Iran not have nuclear bombs as well? The US and US industry was pushing for Iran to turn more towards nuclear production in the 1970s.

Iran also has made offers for a nuclear-free Middle East agreement - offers Israel has always rejected. What is the line - Arab and Muslim states in the Middle East are not allowed to have nuclear bombs, but Jewish ones can?

Some people might say Iran has theocratic and undemocratic elements. But the US and Israel had little problem with the Shah's lack of democracy. Also the US and England backed the conservative, fundamentalist mullahs in Iran from the 1950s to the 1970s against democratic republicans like Mossadegh. The US only turned against conservative fundamentalist mullahs in Iran at the very end of the 1970s who wanted US (and USSR) interference with Iran's internal affairs ended.
There are a lot of USB devices that do not attach via a cable. You can't just use a different cable in that case, because you were not using one to begin with.

VGA devices always connected via a cable, so you weren't adding bulk. Even adapters for devices with integrated cables (grrr...) were pretty minor compared to the sheer heft of the VGA cable itself.
Here are three problems:

Higher kinded polymorphism results in trivially undecidable type inferences without something like currying; the restrictions needed to support it would be arbitrary and weird given that Rust does not have currying (essentially some rules to reconstruct the restrictions of currying in type operator context).

Instances of both Future and Iterator do not implement the Monad type class as defined in Haskell, because the "fmap" operator does not return the "self" type parameterized by a new type, it returns it own new type. This is because the state machine they represent is leaked through their function signature.

Do notation doesn't work with the imperative control flow that Rust has, which other people have already discussed.
Interesting. If you play games, I can see the point - otherwise, I'm not sure why you'd buy a desktop for personal use! You're then stuck with it wherever it is, your desk in your spare room or study or whatever.

The only thing I use an actual computer for is development. Anything else, I either use my iPhone or iPad.

A laptop, on the other hand, you can use wherever you like - and you can still get a reasonable facsimile of a desktop PC by plugging it in to a full-size keyboard/mouse/external monitor(s).

I posted earlier. But while a suitable MacBook Pro and iMac are around the same price, a separate 5K monitor is $1300.

(I've got 2 x 27" monitors plugged into my 13" Macbook Pro. They're 2560x1440, it's true, rather than 5K, but I'm old enough, and sit far away enough, that I don't mind. Hi-DPI is very worthwhile when I'm using my laptop as a laptop, but from a distance of 1m it's much less of a draw.)

I’m not too concerned about the hiDPI. More about the usable real estate when you push it passed the pixel doubled resolution.

Performance isn't as good, but I've always found this an OK tradeoff. I like the portability and the option of using my PC in the front room.

My first job when I got married a few years ago was remote and since then I’ve had jobs with a liberal work from home policy. I’m very careful to separate my work life (including side projects) from my home life so my (step)kids know not to disturb me when I am working. I work in my office.

As far as performance goes, any development I do for myself, for whatever reasons, tends to be less demanding than stuff I do for money;

The most demanding thing I will be doing is running Android emulators and Windows VMs.

and for the non-development stuff, mainly (e.g., now) me staring at the internet via Firefox, it's just not an issue.

That’s what my iPad is for..
Sure, electron apps get this very wrong. App makers are free to write software that prioritizes something else than being a good Mac app. But Apple's own apps should be good Mac apps.
Average speed driving through SF is 18MPH, average speed in Boston is 20MPH. [Source: http://infinitemonkeycorps.net/projects/cityspeed/]

25MPH would be an improvement for a busy metro.
I don't really get it. If all they had to show were 15 year old documents, so dating before the Iranian nuclear accord, wouldn't this indicate that Iran did in fact fulfill its side of the agreement ? The main argument seems to be that if they kept the archives then it must mean that they want to resume their research program at some point in the future. I'm sure if Israel had any clear and direct evidence showing that Iran violated the deal they would have shown it.
A Rust-flavored effect system is quite a bit different from do-notation. You're probably right that such a thing could achieve the same ergonomics and efficiency as built-in async/await, but you're also probably right that it would be a huge amount of complexity.

When people say that monads and do-notation don't work in Rust, they're talking about a user-level Monad trait and a simple CPS transform built on top of it:

- Such a monad trait is impossible to write even with HKT because it would have to abstract over both Option/Result (type constructors) and Iterator/Future (traits)

- Such a CPS transform would be extremely limited (not composable with built-in loop structures) and/or extremely tricky around TCE, lifetimes, and allocation (the typical type for `>>=` would involve `Fn` trait objects...).

Effects bypass this by leaving the CPS transform in the compiler, instead only exposing delimited continuations to userspace. Which is basically what async/await does, just non-generically.
It is true that the problem is more complicated than just Oil. However, if you look beyond the superficial aspects, the bottom line of all conflicts throughout history boils down to the two interchangeable currencies of money and power.

Perhaps the reason Oil seems such a convenient rationale is because it is readily convertible to power and money.
In the U.S. nearly all cyclists are (at least occasional) drivers, too, but the reverse obviously isn't true. I think you're right to notice that this has a pretty big impact on what kinds of arguments get through to each group.
Exactly, because most people that design a bomb have no intention of using it.

/s
When I’m doing web development, I usually have both the web page up and the IDE with back end API. When the API end point is hit, it breaks in the IDE. That doesn’t even include database clients, looking at things in the AWS console etc.
Tons of trolls use disposable email addresses to register multiple accounts for forums and similar to harass others. I block most of the popular mailinator domains for my larger public forums (200k+ users).
I've tested Linux Mint 19 (based on Ubuntu 18.04) on a spare laptop and it seems to be working well for my use case. I'll be upgrading my main machine soon. I prefer Mint Cinnamon's UI to Ubuntu's.
This article has almost nothing to do with Shenzhen.
That would be great for local
travel within a community, and the effect on community design. I’d still like to go to other states and cities in reasonable times, though so perhaps there could be another mode of speedier transport available, such as trains.
Is it really that hard to believe that some people prefer to have a lighter laptop. My daily driver is thinkpad but I really appreciate my mbp when traveling or for conferences because it's much more portable and I can carry it with ease
> Does Netflix want their shows accused of glorifying murder?

There are plenty of Netflix shows that glorify murder already. The Punisher comes to mind.
Graphing Calculators Are Still Around; Here Are the Best for 2018-19
The article says Iran was hiding and saving these documents so that when the 15 year ban on nuclear material expired, Iran could startup it's nuclear program from where it left off.
Well yes, with money as a proxy for power, but that makes it so oversimplified as to be meaningless. Ideology, religion, a desire or freedom, resources, sheer malice, and much more is the nuance that matters too. You can boil anything humans do to power and resources, but is that really informative? If you do that, then the Allies and Axis in WWII are indistinguishable, and that’s unwise.
I agree. Thus the desire for a 27 inch 5K iMac with the effective resolution cranked up.
Here's what I do, I shrink a partition on my HDD (or have it already partitioned so theres space for several OS partitions,

Then I install the latest and greatest on the free space or a much older distro partition, leaving my current work distro safe on its own partition,

Next I copy over as much of the contents my current home folder as I can. Now, I can truly "taste" the new distro and if it isn't a good transition I just go back to my current favorite. I've found I probably install a new favorite distro twice, first time is to check it out, mess with stuff decide if its an improvement or not, and ensure everything still works. Then re-install the second time, now knowing what I like from the new one and just install with the packages/settings that work.

Any time I get stuck or have some unexpected difficulty I still have the previous favorite distro to boot back to in an emergency.
The week he pays for the gym, TSA pre-check, car insurance, and health insurance, might be more interesting.
The article mentions his fart machine. A few years back I dug around, found them, and bought a couple. They are here:

http://fartbag.com/

Later on I was going to a family reunion with a lot of kids, so I wrote to ask if they sold in bulk. They said sure, but the minimum order was 50. That seemed like a lot, but it's probably one of the best purchases I've made. I've been giving them away for years, to the delight of some and the horror of others.

Highly recommended, and 100x better than a digital equivalent. Their analog nature means you can get a great variety of sounds out of them.
18.04 is stable. Feel free to go ahead and grab a copy. PPA's are also up to speed.

If you want to hop on board a rolling release, firmware-buster-DI-alpha3-amd64-DVD-1.iso will give you a fully working debian testing install with closed source drivers.

(Weekly builds are known to fail from time to time)

Then, pair that with a sources.list generator: https://debgen.simplylinux.ch/

And one more ingredient: if you use gnome 3, you may have to copy a file to get gnome extension installation via chrome working. Copy the contents of /etc/chromium/native-messaging-hosts/ to /etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts/.

A bit off topic: for gnome 3 extensions, this has been indispensable: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/723/pixel-saver/

For tiling window managers, I recommend i3: https://i3wm.org/
This would explain why watching your favorite sports team lose has been shown to lower testosterone.
Well done! The content is excellent and I like the design. "Happy, Profitable, Efficient and Green". That's something I can get behind. Subscribed.
https://jmvalin.ca/papers/AV1_tools.pdf has a brief technical description, but no results. It cites a DCC paper from the authors of the tool, but I couldn't find a copy online.
How to get a SaaS built when your not a programmer?
For the same reason an alcoholic shouldn't try to moderate their drinking.
Does AV1 do subtitles? The reason most pirated videos use MKV instead of mp4 is because it does subtitles easily.
Target has one for $39 in this week's sales.
As both a traditional sports fan and esports fan I agree that it can invoke the same responses.

I see the "lack of physical skill" argument a lot and my typical argument against it is endurance and mental performance. Esports players at their peak train for 8+ hours a day and can compete for 4+ in some longer events. Doing anything with your body for that long takes physical and mental conditioning.

I also see a lot of traditional sports detractors saying "What's the point of just watching someone play the video game, seems boring" and it really blows my mind how much of a disconnect there is.
No one will see this because my politics aren't left-wing enough, but the linked article is incorrect. You can define dyadic functions in kdb+, it is just not generally encouraged.

To do so simply declare a function that takes two parameters in the .q namespace:

q).q.toThePowerOf:{x xexp y}
q)4 toThePowerOf 2
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> The first part of your comment is unresponsive to mine;

I interpreted OP's comment as complaining about the lack of more general abstractions in Rust that would allow you to implement async/await. Your comment specifically mentioned Haskell-style monads (eg. a `Monad` trait), but that's not the only way to implement something like this.

> the last part is offensive & wrong

Quoting steveklabnik:

> it’s an open research problem if do notation can work in Rust. Until that’s solved at all, we’re just not sure it’s possible. ... "Open question" doesn't mean "impossible", mind you. But nobody has ever come up with a design. In the meantime, we have users to support...

Isn't this what I was saying? "We don't know how to do it, so we're going with the easier option."

Edit: To be clear, I don't think async/await we've ended up with is necessarily in the wrong direction. But I also don't think that "we thoroughly explored the design space of do/monads/effects and concluded that they were impossible to implement ergonomically/efficiently" is really true.
Seems more likely to be a membership in the 50 cents to $1 per mile range which is what it currently costs to operate a car (including for any deadheading). Not sure why anyone would offer for a fixed fee unless it was for a very high number.
Tried 18.04 for an afternoon, it effected a wide variety of system freezes on my ancient i7 920 + GTX570, so, back to rock-solid Debian 9.
I think that @manicdee is getting at is, making executive decisions doesn't make one directly involved in carrying out the actions.

Otherwise we'd have the CEOs of telcos out in the field splicing fibre.
Yep this is me. I need to be able to roam around my office and even just sit in different postures (standing, couch, leaning back in office char, on high top stool) to keep me from getting restless.
You will always be downvoted for these views here. Israel has a natural right to nuclear bombs, the only country to bomb civilians with nuclear bombs has also a natural right, and the rest of the world are either bad guys or free riders.
There's no reason why the show would have to glorify murder or be otherwise partial to Israel.
Exactly. My home office is my work area where no one disturbed me. I have my keybosrd, monitors, and my wired connection to the Internet.

When I’m out of the office, I’m available for my family. When I am in my office I am “at work”. It’s especuslly important during the summer when both my wife (she works on the school schedule) and son are home.
Elon has never done anything like it before, but cave diving rescuers/experts and navy do have their skills from experience.
<nitpick>It's USB-C, not Thunderbolt. Same cable, different protocol.</nitpick>
If we answer it enough times it's an indicator to fix our documentation. Also, often times the reason someone is asking something leads to learning useful stuff about the problem.

The downside is repetition, but we invest in doc improvement to avoid that too much.

The upside is personalized support which really means building trust with our users and also really trying to understand what they're trying to accomplish. Yea it has overhead but you just build that into your operations.

In the long run we probably will start adding things like a Knowledge Base or using other support mechanisms but we've found so far that chat based support is very effective.

Anecdotal. YMMV, etc.
And I'll nitpick myself, it's not the same cable either, just the same connector.
Chat and GitHub issues.

Edit: Email as well.
Ask about beauty routines for these people and you'll learn the difference. The urban elite spend a lot of time on exercising, creating food habits, and fashion.
I shudder to think what watching the Redskins year after year has done to my body then.
You're right. I wanted to illustrate that type checking shouldn't be a factor in the the parents context as you can use code to explicitly type check or prove it.
I've heard responses from former Obama appointees that the documents in general were not surprising. They believed that Iran had an active nuclear program, was lying about it, and was hiding it. So they tried to create a deal that would not require countries to trust that Iran was complying. Overall it looks like Iran was complying with the deal, even if we can't assume good faith. So Netanyahu's speech came across as overtly political.
> when you async call a function, it does eagerly evaluate until the first suspend point. This is less overhead than immediately suspending, plus it removes the dependency of the language feature on a userland event loop.

This seems wrong. There's no more overhead for Rust's approach- which to be clear immediately suspends only the callee, not the entire stack of async functions. In fact, if you immediately await the future, the control flow is literally no different from eagerly evaluating until the first suspend point.

There is also already no dependency on a userland event loop. This is, again, because only the callee is immediately suspended. It's still entirely up to specific leaf future implementations to interact with (or not) the event loop.
For that I have an iPad. I tried to get away with the 2n1 but I really prefer a 4:3 screen for pure consumption than 16:9.

Besides, my iPad has a cellular modem, is lighter, has better battery life and “unlimited” LTE data.
Just because that level of abstract thinking renders other activities meaningless does not mean it should be the case with conflicts/wars too.

The superficial and nuances of wars only matters when you want to justify them. For an outsider, it is pretty clear who is fighting for more power and resources, and who is fighting to maintain their power and resources.

The point that I am trying to make is that we as humanity need to look at wars for what they are, bloody murderous missions on quest for power. And until we stop glorifying wars with various superficial reasons, we are doomed to forever repeating these conflicts and murdering our own kind.
In that situation the open outwards/rope solution is indeed more save.

In your case you could design it such that you can’t close the door after use without unblocking the other one. Typically people would like to close the door to the bathroom after usage.
There were times when India or Pakistan lost, people would burn cities in madness.

I guess we have civilized quite a bit.
> The specification is finished

Maybe not. There are still normative (i.e. changes affecting the spec) cases in the bug tracker:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/aomedia/issues/list?q=label:Hotl...
This entirely misses the point, which is that most people -- yes, even altruistic, considerate ones -- don't think of their decision to have kids as politics.
There's a non- Jewish-vs-Muslim argument: no country that does not today have nukes should be allowed to develop them. Hold the line. It may not be "fair", but it's safer for the world.
> guaranteed optimisation to a single stack frame and no allocation where possible

You are literally describing stackless coroutines. And the generator state transform is that optimization.

If you want to get this without using generators explicitly, it's still stackless coroutines just not how Rust supports stackless coroutines. There was some discussion about making it more implicit but no progress was made in the implicit direction.
Gamification is dead. Now what?
At your first point, this is really only true for celebs like Paris Hilton who make their money through appearances and are famous for being famous, but a lot of celebrities have paparazzis following them around all day, everyday and certainly don't want it. Just google "paparazzi kristen stewart" too see how much she abhors it and how invasive it is in her life.
For what it's worth, I had moved to 18.04 from 16.04 and regret it.
Booting takes longer, and I have an NVidia 1070 but NVidia XServer Settings has stopped working and if I try to run it it hangs the systems where the only option is to hard boot.
I have been doing programming, including functional programming for more than two decades, I still don't really know what a "monad" is. Each time someone explains it to me, I understand something different.
KBE total return is about 12.8% (42.70 to 48.19) based on http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/perf.php?KBE,VFAIX,VFIAX (those numbers are adjusted based on distributions and splits)
I had a similar experience back in 2012 when I bought a 13" MacBook pro after carrying around a PC laptop.

But, I wrote "at this point".

Does 3mm, at about the same weight, really make much difference?

I suppose incremental improvements(?) in "thinness" accumulate, and in 2028 we'll all be complaining that the new MacBook Pro at 2.8mm thick is easily bent and has no ports.
Ah, cyclists. I probably only notice the bad ones. I've seen too many who feel they are above all the petty traffic law automobiles must follow. Like stop signs and red lights. I wouldn't call them patient.