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What i'd really love is if there was a service where I could pay a technician to take previous generation Macbook Pro with it's excellent keyboard and no touchbar and transplant a new logic board with modern 8th generation intel processor, 16gb of ram and an nvidia max-q gtx 1070 (or AMD equivalent) into it, complete with working USB-A ports. I wonder if it could still fool MacOS into thinking it's a real mac without having to go the hackintosh route.

That would be the perfect laptop.

Does anyone know anyone who has done this? Could you get something like that done in China?
Yeah because people who have homes aren't mentally ill. /s

Being physically ill isn't a correlation of having neither money nor a home. /s

Being addicted to drugs isn't a symptom of mentally checking out to avoid the problems you're literally unable to address. /s

Edit: yes, you're right, it's a lot more complicated than just housing. But housing, I think, is a big cause.
That downvote with no comment thing is because they are trying to practice THEIR right to be forgotten.
The concept of the "global log" is mentioned many times in the article, but not much detail on this critical piece:

> ... the consensus protocol is only being used for inserting transactions into a global log. For every other part of the protocol, replicas can proceed completely independently from each other.

Clearly this central resource can't be distributed or replicated. Right? So it, and the hardware it runs on, and the communications links to it, are a single point of failure. True?

If the global log goes down, or can't be reached at all, or perhaps only from some region of the regionized application, what happens?
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This is one of the stronger conclusions by, of all things, $TSLAQ Twitter. The conclusion is derived from the fact that Elon's plane made two very recent visits to D.C., that none of the actual salespeople were prepared, and that there is precedent of companies under investigation to pre-comply with DoJ requests to drastically reduce charges under settlement.

Most of these $TSLAQ people are, of course, short-sellers, so take it with a fair bit of salt.
I miss the separated power button. Having it on the corner of the keyboard is bad ergonomics.
No amount of money can circumvent the pidgeonhole principle. If the city wants to house all it's residents, then it needs to start by building more housing. Sure, some homeless need extra services, but if there aren't enough units the whole effort is moot.
...around half of my taxes go to the poorer regions...

And then the cause of the problem is presented as if it were the solution.
What is FT8 and why is it controversial with hams?
Because Cook would have known about the results of the security audits that were performed.
guys the government and corporations all told us that it wasn't true, we have to believe them. they wouldn't lie about this.
I’m using an old paper tape punch machine to print out (5% of) the human genome. The punches are from the early 80s, and it’s really neat to be able to physically see each bit of data. The plan is to fill up a room with the punched tape, sort of mirroring a strand of dna and giving you a sense of just how large the genome actually is.

Unfortunately I’m having a hell of a time finding space to print in. May just end up finding some commercial warehouse space on Craigslist
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What’s fun about microservices? I find them annoying, but a necessary evil depending on context.
> enough to write statically typed code in Lisp

Certainly not in the way "statically typed" is usually understood.

Containers (outside of specialized arrays) aren't parameterized, so every time you extract a value from a list or map, the "static type" is the top type. SBCL remains essentially unityped with islands of type propagation for better performance of (mostly) numeric code.
I saw the end coming when they removed the breathing standby led from the Unibody design.
At the risk of coming off as some bleeding heart liberal, what's to stop corporations from doing this kind of stuff all the time? What percentage of it goes unnoticed?

Everyone knows about lobbying, but until very recently, I didn't know about the whole "astroturfing" thing.

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted for this... I didn't really intend to make my post partisan, though I realize that the self-deprecating "bleeding-heard-liberal" might appear that way.
That they must know everything is ridiculous, that they must be able to find out anything less so.

If the CEO can't find out (almost -thinking medical stuff) anything by asking then that company has a problem as do it's shareholders.
At the risk of opening the world's largest pressurized can of worms... sort of. There is an argument to be made that The South cared about state's rights only in the instrumental sense that it allowed them to protect slavery. They were also in favor of stronger federal government when it protected slavery, e.g. fugitive slave laws.
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I had to switch to a newer non-magsafe Macbook Pro, and it has been less of an issue than I had thought. The USB-C cable pops out fairly easily if you (eg) catch it on your foot and drag it, or walk with the computer without unplugging it.

But it's definitely not as good as Magsafe - if the angle of the cable is not out from the computer (say it's being pulled back under the computer) the connector may not pop loose and you might end up with it detaching from the wall charger instead (it's nice that the cable plugs in at both ends). And if you drag the cable there's a good chance the computer will drag a bit, too, rather than staying still like it would when the Magsafe connector detached immediately. So, you could still end up with the computer on the ground because it dragged a bit before the USB-C connector detached.
Ha, that's going to thermal throttle like nobody's business. Just get a proper laptop if you want specs like that.
The proof is a little trickier than I remembered. There's a bit more housekeeping to handle that each head can be on a different cell of their respective tapes.

Try coming up for a proof for the case where each head moves in the same direction so they're always all on the same position of their tapes first. This can be extended to the general case by some annoying bookkeeping.
I had a prof in college who demonstrated stuff in vi and I knew immediately that I wanted to do what he was doing. If he'd have been an emacs guy, then I probably would be, too, but instead I still prefer vi over anything else ~15 years later.
It's honestly insane to try and solve homelessness in San Francisco because practically none of the people that are homeless in San Francisco have any chance of realistically living in San Francisco long term when even young college-educated people who have their lives together struggle to eke out a living here.

The best thing that could be done with all this money is to spend it on providing support in other towns and cities where the cost of living is much better and the homeless people being helped have an actual chance to get back on their own two feet and support themselves.

Trying to support homeless people in the city with the most expensive cost of living in the world is counterproductive and condemns any homeless people supported here to a lifetime of support.

Furthermore, the money would go a lot further in other places since the cost of living would be lower and you could pay to have more social workers per homeless person.
Time isn’t the biggest constraint, it’s our inability to do reasonable things in large groups. Ha.
Correlation does not imply causation.

Physical illness and drug addiction (and even mental illness in some cases) are more likely a symptom of homelessness than a cause.

From accounts I've heard from homeless people, one of the biggest problems homeless people have is boredom. This leads to both depression and drug use, both of which can lead to both physical and mental illness.
The mechanism used in Japan to compensate for the brain-drain should be used worldwide.
It's getting harder and harder to deny the proposition that Apple's business model is selling adapters.
It's all just speculation but this seems like the exact kind of story you would want in order to pass some legislation to prevent foreign manufactured chips being used by USG.
As an American, I had to learn the same thing. Only as a young kid, but I specifically remember this experience.

I think most people forget this, that you have to learn that a lot of conversation is not literal, it is opaque code for something else.

I am still a pretty literal conversationalist but I can translate fluently.

A friend had a great anecdote about his first meal with his girlfriend's family. The father asked, "is there any salt?" and my friend answered "yes" and just continued eating. He really had no idea that people say things like that instead of what they mean, which is "please pass me the salt," because his family would always just come out and say something more literal.

People who are used to using indirect language are usually shocked that there is any other way to talk.
They have become a disappointment for me. A lot of misleading articles, paid promotional content, and so on. Now this one... I have blocked them completely from my social media and news sources.
Agreed that they won’t close shop over this, although it could be similar to how Dan Rather stepped down from CBS over the document controversy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy
Actually, this is object detection because there is a bounding box which is generated localizing the object(s).
Classification would be if each frame returned a class and class score without the bounding box.
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I concur. If it really is a chip being inserted on a board, then that's hard evidence that can be verified by cracking open the hardware and looking for said chip.
I feel the need to clarify AWildC182's comment because I think it reflects poorly on amateur radio as an inviting place for younger people.

There are some "scenes" in amateur radio that are dominated by older, somewhat conservative leaning discourse. Some VHF and UHF repeaters are like this, and there are many groups of people who chat with the same group every night on 80m SSB.

Some newcomers start out on VHF/UHF repeaters and if they live near one that is like this, it may turn them off to the entire hobby even though it's just a small part of it.

I recommend CW and FT8 as less conversational ways of getting on the air. If you are in the mood for a conversation, you can do so on CW, and there are conversational digital modes.

I personally like contests and experiencing propagation and band openings, but don't really need to have a long chat.

So my recommendation for a new licensee would be to jump right into MSK144 and then determine what to do next :)
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It's a reputable news organization. Mike ain't calling the editorial shots. It's possible that both sides completely and earnestly believe their story is correct.
> It's literally "one stick, alone, weak — many sticks, together, stronk".

So that's why they say those people are living in the sticks.
We are far too well paid to be called scientists.
The current state of Apple users is pitiful. Wishing for features that were removed? How can you support a company so much for caring about you so little?
TuriCreate also provides good tutorials on doing this:
https://apple.github.io/turicreate/docs/userguide/object_det...
Great advice to do reference checks yourself. But HOW? Like, what are the brass tacks steps that you'd follow to do that, given the time and resource limits most new-ish people have?
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Do you have console access, via VNC for example?

If so, download the new bsd.rd image and place it in /

Reboot, and at the boot prompt type:

boot bsd.rd

Then follow the prompts.
The design is pretty ugly. I'm not sure why each device Square sells has different processing fees. They didn't use to charge a fixed fee ($0.10), but now they do on all new devices, which gives me no incentive to upgrade. Their rate is pretty much 1% higher than you can get from a merchant account and even more when it comes to debit cards. My long-term bet is on Clover and even Stripe. In a very short term, Square launched a bunch of devices, but most don't work with Bluetooth barcode scanners, so, their mobile promise is unfulfilled and this actually is their niche. They also push for the super expensive Socket barcode scanners - you can buy a better one for a tenth of the price, but Square won't work with it, because they want to sell you the expensive Socket. Last, but not least - Square does not give nonprofit discounts. Both Stripe and PayPal gave our nonprofits half percent off from the processing fees.
That is why events must be persisted and reliably delivered. And in the frontend, you must subscribe to the state of the world and not necessarily each state change. This way if frontend goes down and comes back up you can show the new state instantly.
> I have yet to actually speak to anyone because i don't feel like there is anything i would want to say.

That's true for many people. You don't need to use it to make a statement or to express your individuality, you can just participate in contests, enjoy propagation, etc.
What is the modern mainframe?
IMHO mandatory reading before posting on this issue:
http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-SF-Poin...

The data is incredibly detailed, absolutely fascinating and messy as you'd expect, dispelling a lot of the overly simplistic rumors like other states "shipping" SF homeless people, homeless people all being one type of person or another etc etc etc
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Prima facie this strikes me as an apples-to-oranges comparison. New York and Los Angeles are large cities with millions of residents and dominate their geographical areas (LA perhaps less than New York, but still). San Francisco has something like 884,000 residents, which makes it the second largest city in the Bay Area (after San Jose, with 1,035,000 or so), which has something like 8.7 million residents if you go by Combined Statistical Area (CSA) definition, which makes intuitive sense to me having lived here. By comparison New York has 8.6 million out of 24 million for its CSA; LA has 4 million out of 18.7 million for its CSA.

So really, a more meaningful comparison (if one is resigned to handwaving about tax bases, without delving into details of city finances) for SF would be Boston, with 865,000 people out of 8.2 million for its CSA.
Not sure what you find funny about it?

And I don't think they do. Some people, sure. Every population has a bunch of people who would say things like that. Because they can, because they enjoy it, it likely makes them feel better, or so they think.

And there are people who enjoy listening to them and repeating what they say.
Ha, well, if you take your (pathological) example and apply the 30% reciprocation value rule, then no, it does not go ad infinitum, but there is eventually the floor of $0.

But more practically speaking, from the perspective of say, the mayor of a town in Japan - he has revenue being conciously directed towards him from mostly anonymous citizens of the country. Reciving a real (monetary) gift from someone you hardly know definitely would require a reciprocation. In some ways, sure, you're reciprocating to your hometown for your education/etc, but it's not being seen that way from the town's perspective.

There's also the factor that the redirected tax revenue is a physical thing, where as the 'education and life experience' imbued upon a child growing up is a rather non tangible gift .
I think the comment referred to Inktomi (that had just lost the search deal to Google,) not Yahoo.
I agree if you have no idea what you're doing - which seems to be the case for many developers starting new projects stuck in the paradox of choice.

But like anything else, if you understand the toolset, ecosystem, and have the experience, it can take far less time than esoteric documentation and conversation would have you believe.

I always begin with this pattern, but it's because I've acquired so much experience and know-how with it that it's a quick upstart. However, this didn't come with any ease. Most want to just dive into really myopic course work or tutorials that are "just examples" and "shouldn't be used in production." The WORK to understand it is getting each nuance under your belt. It's just like any other skill set - it takes patience and deliberate effort. Documentation spelunking and trial / error experiments.

That being said, under the fire of a manager, timeline of capital, or just the raw impatience inherent to humans we wind up falling back to what's safe, what has plentiful easy-to-learn patterns, and listen to all the other folk who get 50% through, stop, and then just spin up terribly organized monoliths.
I highlighted Camden and Great Neck specifically because they were specifically named in the book cited by OP, and show how the funding gap has closed since 1991.

As to the idea that aggregating by state doesn't capture what we're interested in: the second image in your link shows that, accounting for federal funding, poor school districts get more money in almost every state, including most of the most populous ones: California, Texas, Illinois, New Jersey, etc. The only populous states where poor districts receive less than rich ones are New York and Pennsylvania, and in both states the delta is less than 10%.

Now, if you're talking about comparing between states, that would be very misleading. All it does is set up specious comparisons: e.g., Baltimore, MD gets half as much as Scarsdale, NY, conveniently ignoring the fact that the rich MD suburbs around Baltimore also get half as much as Scarsdale.
Glad to hear something will happen in collaboration with the Mayor's office, at some point in the future. Until that point, pass Prop C and propose a repeal whenever you all come up with the plan that's so much better.
Could it be foreign propaganda?
I actually really like that the power block can be separated from the charging cable now. Yeah the tabs may have been nice, but the base of the cable would always get mashed.
> Part of me was excited [...] decode ISS transmission [...] cheap as chips baofeng

You can totally do this without spending more money! I've got my first award hanging on my wall for using my cheap as chips Baofeng to do this very thing. The award itself is really cool and has "INTERCOSMOS" across the top in English and Russian, along with an illustration of the Russian ISS module(s). The decoder I used was the free Robot36 app on my Android phone. I believe there is another SSTV event coming up on October 27.

If you don't want to speak to anyone, this kind of activity is awesome. Turn squelch off, TDR off, dial in 145.800 and hold your Baofeng next to your phone running Robot36. You can easily monitor the ham sats and other sats too; heck you can just sit on a park bench and do this really easily. If you want portable sat & ISS tracking, there are apps that do this really well.

Since I got my extra last year, I've volunteered at three events (1 ultramarathon and 2 public safety drills at local hospitals), joined a club I like (TheGuildGlobal.org), and talked to people all over the world. I haven't set up the outdoor antenna for my donated Swan HF rig yet (thanks to some super nice local hams) but Echolink is actually really fun; I didn't believe it until I tried it. And how else can you talk to someone in Japan and someone in Scotland within minutes of each other. I heard the guy in Japan dropping his jaw open when he found out I lived in the same city in Japan where his daughter lives, so you never know. (A day after that I talked with a guy up in Seattle, where I'm originally from, about the Green River Killer for a few minutes. Fun stuff. Haha.)

I haven't had a single old man conversation that I felt I couldn't politely and immediately end. Heck, I've had old timers cut out on me with "welp, I just arrived at my destination, have a nice day, K1ABC clear." It's that simple and normal.

Anyway, I hope you'll give it another chance. Find the stuff you like and build on that. Find people you don't mind talking to, and talk to them. Find nets you like and chime in. There are some really awesome people out there who aren't political and who would love to talk just about anything you see here on HN. I know because I'm one of 'em. Hope to hear you on the air sometime --KM6NHH
I lost not all but a good portion of my sense of smell, and it never came fully back. That was over twenty years ago.
The Soviet regime was so terrible that they had to build a wall to keep people in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall
Remember that article where Bloomberg employees get paid more if their stories move markets? Yeah ...
One could argue that such an API exists. It even understands natural language!
Let me ask you the question this way.

What evidence would have to be produced for you to disbelieve the Bloomberg reporting?
I'm fairly certain that both Bloomberg and the companies involved have a high degree of confidence that what they're saying is true and have sufficient facts to prove it. That confidence would seem to be misplaced on one side or the other. If anybody had any real doubt they'd let this story die.
Firebase has this presence feature as well.

Also, "fully owning" everything isn't a selling point for everyone. Some don't want to own the uptime, manage infrastructure devops etc. Serverless/managed services have their use cases.

Small teams, individual developers, bootstrapping an app quickly, running a web app with no servers to manage... Often times much more valuable capabilities than being able to reimplement to functionality already availabile to you for very low cost.
If they never removed features, Apple computers would still have serial ports and scsi busses. I'm not saying I don't miss many of the features in this article, nor am I being an Apple apologist, but sometimes you need to take a step back before you go forward.
>You can always earn more money and get more stuff.

I can't just buy another wife
Government intervention and citizen activism. That's about it.
Not sure why everyone is just following with that terminology - positive/negative rights. All rights are 'negative rights'. What you're calling positive rights are in fact privileges.
Oh, so you know what the truth is in this case? Good for you! /s
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The global log is replicated using a Raft-like consensus mechanism, so that all replicas have a copy of the log, and agree on its order. So even if one replica site is lost, the others have a full copy of the log, and can continue.

You can learn more about Raft from this excellent visualization: http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/
Also the psychological trauma of no longer being able to speak a language you technically know.
Sure, that's a reasonable way to look at it, and the only way consistent with having the victors write the history books. In the same way that the Commerce Clause always allowed the federal government to regulate growing wheat for personal consumption, the Constitution already allowed the federal government to forbid slavery - it just took a civil war or a supreme court hearing to make sure everyone agreed on that. Under that view, the 13th Amendment was legally redundant, but was passed just to leave absolutely no room for doubt.