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I have a System76 Galago Pro with 32 gigs of ram and an i7 processor.

Works GREAT, fan of the keyboard and everything.

The case is kinda shit, but it doesn't really bother me that much. I'm not obsessed with having a designer laptop that looks beautiful, just something to slam around and run programs on. Additionally, having a ton of ports to plug things into has been very welcome after migrating off of the touchpad macbook pros.

Linux desktop is nice because of the great docker support, and honestly it tends to work quite well for pretty much everything I throw at it. Multi-monitor support is great, it works fine with my 4k monitor. I was AMAZED when I plugged my usb-c headphones into the usb-c port and heard sound come out.

I tend to just travel with a ball mouse because I have really severe hyperhidrosis which renders basically all track-pads, even Apples', completely unusable, and uncomfortable to boot. Moisture + friction is not a great combo.

I admit that I'm a bit of a weirdo and this set-up would be sub-optimal for a lot of people due to support for various adobe products. But I'm happy with the setup.

If I could go back in time I would probably get a Surface laptop and set my home computer up as a server, and automate sending work to it, because I'm a big fan of indie video games and would enjoy being able to play games on my laptop.
Be careful here, it isn't 6 days until data is recovered it is 6 days until it is fully protected again, there is a big difference. During the 6 days the data would be available it just might have to be reconstructed on the fly by the error correcting rather than read directly.

In most systems we assume that "primary traffic" (read/write stuff) is prioritized over "rebuild traffic" which is recovering lost shards. So when you specify these things it is best to specify "how long to rebuild a shard while the array is providing storage services at its maximum specified rate." This assures the customer that if they have a 24/7/365 non-stop traffic pattern their data will still stay protected in the face of drive failures.
That looks nice. People learning hardware, too, might follow-it up with a study of Plasma MIPS:

https://opencores.org/project/plasma

Then, they'll understand at least one architecture inside and out. Plus be able to customize it to their liking. :)
I'd just get a Dell delevoper edition.
Get a T or a W, they are fine, old-school corporate machines.

Carbon is the new, fashionable, Macbook-like device with soldered-on RAM, etc; likely from a different design culture. Its biggest upside is likely the hi-res screen.
I found that using this snippet leaves the cursor at the start of the date string, so I have to shift+A then enter to get to the next line to start typing. Adding +'put _' to the command inserts a newline so that you can immediately switch to insert mode and start typing.
Holy shit dude, what next gonna get mad at emoji posting? Too bad I cant emoji spam on HN
No palm detection by default. Horizontal scroll was so sensitive, that even on the slightest movement triggered it. Taps were too sensitive. And vertical scroll was sluggish.

All these things I managed to fix more or less with xinput, by changing some Synaptics properties. And worked fine. Then I jumped versions wit Ubuntu from 16.10 to 18.04 and everything broke. The properties I've used were gone or changed. So I had no chance to use my old settings and I would've started from square one. So I just left. Was tired of the bullsh*t.

If only there would have been a comprehensive application to do this without editing config files and reading forums and scarce documentation. Then I would've stayed probably.

Oh and trying to have 3 and 4 finger swipes and such. No that was another horror story.

So this whole thing is not just about the touchpad for me (but was the final straw in a way), but the overall experience with Linux. The un-userfriendliness of it. The very top layer is nice and you can configure it relatively easily, but as soon as you go one level deep, it's configuration hell if you're not lucky.

And this coming from a guy who loved to compile his own kernels back in the day. Now all I want is a good user experience.
> In general, a lack of legibility to consumers means they are unable to choose efficiently, which implies that the other party is likely taking an outsized amount of profit.

This is wrong. Not only is it possible for an inefficient market to produce a state that is suboptimal for both buyers and sellers, but in fact this is literally the textbook definition of economic inefficiency.

Just because the consumers are suffering from the inefficiency, that doesn't mean that the insurers aren't as well. It's not surprising that neither insurers nor patients are happy with the situation.
While it may not be risky for those of us who are comfortable dismantling hardware and soldering third party chips to the motherboard, you have to admit that is a much higher barrier to entry than browsing to a website designed to leverage the latest webkit exploit. I think it's enough to severely limit the size of a given platforms homebrew community.
32KB was a ton of memory in the 70s.
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With public insurance you would have no customer base besides those who are high risk. As a healthy individual there is absolutely no way I would sign up for universal healthcare. Thankfully the government won't be able to mandate it anytime soon as we have a first and second amendment protecting citizens
Iframed banner ads can’t log keystrokes outside their frame, browsers don’t allow that. And no site in their right mind would include ads that aren’t iframed.

A keylogger would be possible if there was some kind of zero day exploit, but this isn’t that, it sound like the tweeter didn’t do their due diligence. I’m curious how someone gets as far as looking through the minified JavaScript without knowing the browser doesn’t allow that, obviously(?), otherwise all your passwords and information would have been compromised long ago.
Go has one BIG advantage compared to Java with respect to both JIT and GC. Go has structs. This introduces a little more complexity that Java chose (reasonably) to avoid by making everything a primitive or a reference. There isn't any "direct" objects or explicit pointers like Go has.

This may muddy up the language vs Java a little bit, but it also gives a lot more tools to work your code around the runtime's limitations. And thats a perfectly fine design point by me.

If you're going to have platform limitations (no JIT, simple GC) then I need reasonable tools when I hit them. It's much easier to avoid frequent allocations or implement arenas in Go. This takes the pressure of the runtime to be one size fits all.

I know, I know, Java is getting Value Types some day! We'll see where that lands.
> In that case, assuming 10,000 drives, to recover one dead 12TB drive and a recovery rate of even 10 MB/secs per machine, recovery of one drive should be done in under a second.

I want to know where you can find a drive that can write 12TB/sec of data!

(In other words, you clearly missed half the problem. To add a new replacement drive, you have to be able to write to it the data from an original drive. Also RS code calculation is fast these days, but it ain’t that fast)
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Do you talk about this kind of things during breakfast when you visit a country? Mind boggles.
That type exists, yes. There is also the variety that is simply impossible to unlock from one side.
The "Rapid Ramen Cooker" took till 2010 to be commercialized: it's a plastic tray.
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So the number of raw qubits are in the order of a million for large prime factorization or to make Shor's algorithm a reality. This is because the physical qubits are highly unstable and prone to errors. The error correction methodologies will result in a fault-tolerant logical qubit. Depending on the error correction algorithm, the ratio of logical: data/physical qubit is 1:1000 at the minimum. You need 4000 logical qubits at least for large prime factorization give or take 4 million raw qubits.
Agreed. It'd be pretty easy to create a proxy for that via blood pressure or cholesterol or some type of improvement metric combining the two
True; however, this bad behavior could be easily countered with a very simple algorithm. Dropbox could do better here.
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For example, I do think figuring out compensation
structures is really important and something the
CEO should spend time on. And it’s something that
most CEOs don’t.

This. I've been a part of three startups and in all three, the CEO didn't take compensation seriously. In today's economy, you can't sit on your hands and assume that 3-5% annual pay raises and the promise of future stock payouts will keep talent in-house, year over year, when the big guys are pushing the pay bar higher and higher.

For example, in my last job, 3 years of startup caused my annual pay as an iOS dev in the Bay to drop ~30k below the average for someone of my tenure. I loved the company, but I couldn't justify the loss in income, especially with housing prices being what they are. CEOs should consider compensation as critical to their company health.
Azure has the 2.7 GHz Intel Xeon® Platinum 8168 SkyLake processor. It has clock speeds as high as 3.7 GHz with the Intel Turbo Boost, but that's for a single core not all core, and also not sustained.

And on GCP the best CPU is 2.6 GHz Intel Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge)

So when these Z1d instances are GA they will be the fastest available VM's across the major clouds.
> I suspect that the care-providers and care-purchasers are too close, and that collusion is a source of the extra cost that Americans experience. (They also have far reduced waiting times, which is a genuine expense).

You've got it completely backwards - the providers and payers are dramatically less connected in the US compared to the NHS in the UK.

In general, the US is moving towards more captitated models, but if anything, this is bringing their incentive structure closer in line to what providers in the NHS already experience.
I've got that laptop and it's fine in Windows. Maybe the problem is Linux, not the laptop?
I thought AZs were in the same physical location, just separate networks, no?
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But going back to the car insurance example, making sure my brakes are working, making sure my headlights and turn signals and brake lights are working, making sure my tires are road-worthy, all of this highly decreases the chance that I will be in an accident that needs a payout from the insurance company.

In many states in the US, there actually are checks done for these things to make sure the car has had its routine maintenance performed... but they're not done by the insurance company. They're done by the government.
There is nothing wrong with throwing away obsolete code.
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Thanks for the detailed reply.

It's something we have been thinking about a lot. As you write, there is no real good way of dealing with this. Stating both options will make theses read convoluted.

Writing the thesis as a question doesn't help much either and confuses some people. (We have tried.)

We think that the best place to correct for anchoring and setting up the stage for a discussion is the discussion info, the popup that appears the first time you load a discussion.

Regarding the "should abandon" and "should embrace", what kind of new claims do you think would arise, compared to a single thesis "should abandon"? We normally were able to fit all claims of two theses multis in comparative single thesis debates, sometimes though not at the first level as they require an implicit assumption to be stated as a parent pro or con.

We leave it to users, but consider comparative single thesis debates much easier to write than multis with a lot of linking. If there are more than two options though, multis are required.

We see most multis in team situations, not public discussions, e.g. us discussing which framework, library or design to choose.
For me Ubuntu 18 was worse then 16.10.
A lot of properties I used to fine tune the touchpad with xinput were gone or changed.

Was very disappointed. So if you haven't made the change yet, then you might want to stay on whatever you're on for the time being.
That's a terrifying map -- the vast majority of the USA is red as in "negative net savings on average."
Is that what is happening with the XPS line? My XPS 13 9333 goes to "sleep" but the backlight and the fan stay on, and the only way to revive it is to do a hard reset. And that's on latest windows 10.
There's so many good quotes in this article. Two of my favorites:

"It isn't that the generational hypothesis isn't true for Go, it's just that the young objects live and die young on the stack."

"... we are led to the conclusion that memory, or at least chip capacity, will follow Moore's law longer than CPUs"

Kudos to the Go team!
That seems to me like a natural argument against a natural hypothesis, rather than a proof that the hypothesis is supernatural.

I guess I'm using a definition of "supernatural" like Richard Carrier's: "mental things [that] cannot be reduced to nonmental things" (http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2007/01/defining-supernat...).

So under this definition wizards, psychics, ghosts and gods are all supernatural; but Bigfoot, UFO abductions and fairies aren't.

The Artemis Fowl series is great. Although in the context of this discussion I find it funny that the fairies do have magical powers, it's just that flying isn't one of them.
> Except Kenneth Arrow showed market based health care doesn't work.

That is a really disingenuous reading of Arrow's work. Even if you ignore the myriad of ways in which the global heathcare market has changed in the last 55 years and how those affect the US (which is the largest player in the global system), that's still an unjustifiably broad interpretation of his research.
In Switzerland, it fairly common to have Legal Expenses Insurance, which might help you against your other insurance (e.g. homeowner's policies often include it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_expenses_insurance

Of course, whether THEY will pay out on a claim is a separate question.
> In reality, captioning isn’t that hard.

Maybe if you're an expert at it. Transcribing, then timing the subtitle seems like a lot of work.

Have you even tried with auto captions? Youtube is pretty good with it lately. I watched the first 2 minute of the video with auto captions and it's about 80-90% accurate.
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> Can this be reformulated

Roughly, yes.

> Also curious what are the stats from other providers.

As to other providers, most are 6+ 9s that I’ve looked at, with many in the 8-9 range. Anything over 8 is (as they admitted) essentially marketing porn and not a useful metric (for reasons they mentioned as well as ones said by other comments here).
I thought of something along those lines at first as well. However, the problem is that the answer is not logically deducible using this method as it requires both of you to agree on a counting system and an end condition. And since the puzzle states that the two of you are not able to communicate, this method would not be viable.
The given solution allows you to deduce the result with only the information and actions you have readily available to you.
It seems to me like the machine learning algorithm here is mostly learning how to add JPEG compression artifacts to images.
Yuval Harari [1] argues that the violence in New Guinea is an example of a "simple agricultural society with no political framework beyond village and tribe."

In other words, yes, New Guinea is violent, but it doesn't represent a hunter-forager society.

[1]: Sapiens, p. 82
The part I don't understand is the "spooky action at a distance." Isn't this just the same as if the qbits were already in whatever their final state was as soon as they were entangled? Or in other words, is there any experimental basis for determining that the "cat" stayed alive at all? It seems a lot less magical when we just determine that in fact the value is the same no matter when or where you measure it, although it may not be predictable. And since the "entangled" qbit always had the same value, no matter when you measured it, then there is no "spooky action at a distance". The action occurred when d=0, and what you actually have is two copies of the same ROM.
The medical changes in the US take forever for change to occur. Even if greater access to some of these common medications is to happen, it will take close to a decade or more to see it meaningfully impact the industry. There will likely be a few drugs that become available before that, but likely not many and not enough to change the cost basis much.

The US medical and pharmaceutical community is a very powerful political lobbying group as a whole and while some of this might be good for them they are not great at change, so it will be fought for years to come.

Medicine in the US may become more affordable, but will not lose its prestige or the solid return on investment for physicians overall, IMO.
Oh, this resonates with me so much! I'm running 4 different DeepSpeech models right now, each using a differently processed version of LibriSpeech dataset (mfcc/fbanks/linear spectrograms, deltas? energy? padding? etc). Because the original DS papers didn't bother describing it, and every implementation I found uses completely different methods and libraries.

Not to mention every one of those implementation packages their preprocessed version into a different data format, and then creates a different data pipeline (and I only looked at tensorflow implementations)
Only because we have the technology to make perfect copies of digital images, but not perfect copies of physical objects. If we had that technology -- and there is nothing in the laws of physics that prevents it -- they would be exactly the same. That's the whole point.
In the entire rest of the world it is much easier to mandate things to the people. It is much harder in America as many voter will see it as a slippery slope against individual liberties. "First its my health care, next its my guns, and finally its my freedom of speech" will be the argument preventing it from occuring
It could be made into a real meta search engine, and you could have layers of searchers, a network of searchers, with a common memory space, and parallelize the whole thing in sequencel, throw it on a vps with a few hundred/thousand cores, index the entire ipv4...
You would probably need to use a big cloud
this.

I've seen so many "senior leaders" jump into a project and try to implement these types of "textbook processes" when in fact they don't solve any of the issues at all.

The project just gets dragged out, etc.
>It's strange that sentencing can be increased for crimes you haven't been convicted for.

Sentencing is a range. Based on the facts presented to the judge during trial and through third parties in the sentencing phase (victim statements, letters from your pastor, parents, friends, and teachers, etc.) judges can choose the low end of the range or the high end of the range. It's no more strange to give someone the high end due to unproven statements of assholerly, than sentencing being more lenient for good qualities that have never been proven.
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> They have separate divisions for FCRA and non-FCRA data, so which products and data points you have access to depend upon who you are and what you're doing with the data.

Do they still any of that data in bulk, or only in a productized form for a particular requested person or group of people (e.g. a company's customer list)?

Just trying to get a sense of how extensively their data might be getting repackaged and sold by others.
Amazing. One of my fondest memories is when, at age 10-11, I "played" Core War [0] with an older friend of mine (he was 20-21 back then, and a CS student at one of the best CS universities in Italy, Pisa). I loved to learn how to program in a game-like environment. I still remember several things, ~30 years later.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
So Go set Heap to 2X and CPU 25% as GC overhead. In Java side may be due to generational/copying GC Heap is recommended 3-4X and CPU ~20%. This is good read about Java GC tuning:

https://engineering.linkedin.com/garbage-collection/garbage-...
> Found that guy that's never ever had a serious health issue.

No, people who have serious health issues are the ones who tend to prefer the more complex treatment options, shorter wait times, and customizable interventions that multi-payer systems have to offer.

People who don't have complex health needs are the ones best served by single-payer systems like the NHS - and the data around treatments for complex conditions (like cancer) backs that up very plainly.
We'll improve that wording, thanks for bringing it up.
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Supersonic civilian transport was here in the 70's. It also wasn't evenly distributed then either. Hypersonic okay, now you have my attention.
That's how I read it as well. Kind of rephrasing "I don't know why anyone trusts them after all their high-profile security problems, I wouldn't be surprised if their BIOS was unsigned code loaded over an unsecured HTTP connection."
> To me that reads as though you are unable to use it because the device itself is imprecise.

It is a call back to lokedhs's original issue:

> Once in a while I try to use it, but I find it almost impossible control with any kind of precision. Changing the sensitivity doesn't help much.

which is what they were asking about when they wrote

> How do you use it? Is this just a matter of getting used to it, and if it is, how long does it take?

right afterwards, not "what finger are you using" (the index of the dominant hand would certainly be the obvious choice to just about anyone).
I could tell you who is selling what, and a little bit of who is selling what to who, but I don't think any one person has a complete picture.
In UK I'm pretty sure it's nothing, certainly you don't get anything (money/rights) if oil or coal is extracted from beneath your property ... but then people are allowed - with planning permission - to build down from established property. I expect the Crown owns it all.
How would you feel if insurers prodded overweight people to exercise and eat better, or else their rates go up or coverage cut altogether?

How would you feel if insurers prodded lazy people to engage in healthier lifestyles?

Empowering insurers could be useful in this regard.
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