skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought about putting multiple tuners in the box, and just decoding multiple channels simultaneously. Then to switch a channel you would just "put another window in the front".

You could have a predictive system that would decode the three most likely next channels and start decoding them. In the best case, this would move the latency of the first switch close to zero, and of subsequent switches to 1/2 or 1/3.

To save energy, you could get one of these fancy remotes that they have for telefone conferences, that can detect when you pick it up. Once you lift the remote, start the extra tuners.
Apple Event October 2018 Roundup – Major Mac and iPad Pro Refreshes
The title of the post is "‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails"

Why was this changed in the HN submission? It sounds much more click-baity than it is.
I've been paying for Youtube Premium (was "Youtube Red") for a while. While there are product placements and sponsorships in videos, not having to watch ads placed in the middle of videos is awesome. It makes YT a million times better, it isn't something you realize fully until you start watching a video on somebody else's phone/laptop/etc.
It's not very popular, but Wren seems like a better alternative if you'd like a straightforward object-oriented language with a small C implementation.
you literally don't need at all

Unless you live in a place without broadcast television, or little broadcast television, and with little to no internet service.

So pretty much 20% of the United States. The nation is much larger than the east and west coasts.
Yes that additional inch in screen. More ports (not significantly, but will please). And isn't the CPU in new Air actually faster than in Macbook?
Also regarding, why they didn't ditched the Air in favour of Macbook. I believe that the Air is more recognisable (or even iconic) for some people (like me :)). Air was my first Apple product. Loving it.
"pasted in the past"
I had to reread that a couple of times
The assumption may be that any worthwhile article will immediately be "reported on" (restated with no new information) by a dozen other sites.

Edit: I'm not saying that's a good thing, guys. I agree with dionidium.
I think it's interesting that they're now bragging about how non-spatial the file manager is. That's certainly not the way to "tempt me away" from the Mac.
I have a FiOS Motorola QIP7232 cable box with a builtin 320GB harddrive (circa 2013).[1]

My last bill shows them charging me $21.99 per month for that box. (That's $263.88 a year not including taxes.)

Last week, I called Frontier FiOS to cancel the cable TV but keep the internet. After the customer rep cancelled the tv, I asked if she was mailing out a shipping box so I could return the Motorola. She said she wasn't going to bother with it. So there's one anecdote to gauge how much the hardware is worth to them. (I do see that used ones sell for ~$50 on ebay.)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=motorola+QIP7232&source=lnms...
How much does journalism cost? Americans would prefer Europeans didn't ask.
My understanding is that the authors of the paper were speculating that this object might be debris from an encounter with another star that later flew by our sun by mere coincidence.

As far as I can see, the observed hyperbolic trajectory doesn't seem consistent with a scenario where the target of the sail's payload would be our solar system.
Mass tourism is the prostitution of places.
Using compress=zstd on system root saves me about 35-40%. And I save about 1/2 the space if I use compress-force=zstd mount option. I do this on computers with SDHC/SDXC cards which have dog slow writes and lots of spare CPU time, and some of the time on HDD. I don't use compression on computers with NVMe, it doesn't appear to help much at all, and also I'm pretty sure the compression is currently a single threaded pipe, so for multi-queue devices it's plausible some workloads could become slower.

Another use case, soonish I hope to see support for selectable compression levels for zstd (currently only with zlib). And also zstd supports use of a training file for even higher ratios. Both would work well for archiving and seed/sprout use cases, where taking the heavy front end hit with slow writes will be worth it (faster download times, and of course the sprout can have a different compression level or no compression so subsequent writes can be fast.

Latest squashfs support includes zstd and also selectable levels, if you need a read-only image.
Can you illustrate a case where you can't use regular FP arithmetic and round to 2 decimal places at the end?
I've seen people using finger loops that are stuck onto the back, or straps. I managed to find a decent looking instance of the latter in a quick search (so, just the first I found):

https://www.amazon.com/TFY-Security-Holder-Finger-Tablet/dp/...

Cheers
To prevent nefarious software from listening in unknown to you.
I imagine they are ditching the MacBook and just keeping the air and pro lines. It’s easier to distinguish the two, rather than “just MacBook” vs “MacBook Pro”. I also think air->new air is a better improvement to brag about than MacBook->new MacBook.
The person I was replying to was not referring to horizontal scaling, and neither was I.

Just because a conversation starts with a topic doesn’t mean it stays there.
It is basically a race to ilvl 320 and then run warfronts for gear and then go raid/heroics if inclined. Personally, I wish they'd open warfronts up earlier and the gear you get have ilvl similar to how world quest rewards "scale" as your ilvl increases.

I play solo which is an anomaly in the genre I know, but I'm starting to feel burnout: need to run the wheel multiple times so I can do various tradeskills (the 2 tradeskill, including gathering skills, max per character thing) to be self sufficient. Need to do content on characters I'm not interested in doing the content on because, oh, my mage is my tailor and I want to craft bags for my characters which requires non-100% drop BoP tradeskill drops among other things. Reputations supposedly are going to be more forgiving in 8.1, but I'm not sure if it is just Champions of Azeroth that is shared by characters (probably for the neck upgrade) or if all of the BfA reps will be shared across characters (hoping so, for tradeskill rank upgrades).
While this attack does not discuss that particular detail, there have been many documented methods for breaking out of the sandbox (you can google around to see citations). I think for most attackers getting access to the user's WoW API is the goal.
Google Calendar is my savior. Pre-book tickets/restaurants/friends RSVP months/weeks in advance.

I usually do it in periods where I'd have a few weeks fully booked and the other two relatively free except regular ones.
I see Jupyter notebooks as the next step in spreadsheets with more code foundation and different media support. For me the interface doesn't work as well as I would like but I can see the potential.

My brother in law wants something like this for structural analysis reports where the code, data and report are all one thing that can be pulled out and examined.

Watching the new iPad announcement today I think this is something that would make an excellent iPad app as well.
Better tooling here might be good - products could have a list of advertisers that you're willing to accept ads from.

Of course, if they had that, and you chose 'no advertisers', then that would destroy their ad model.
Music downloads, free song/album streaming, indie music discovery – New Age
I'm reasonably certain the $231/year figure the author quotes is not the amount paid for a single set-top box (as he says), but the average total paid by a household for all their set-top boxes. That averages out to around ~3 boxes per household at rates similar to those quoted in the story, which is about what I'd expect.

That said, the charges are still a ripoff, and just one of many reasons I do not miss paying for cable TV.
You're using today's economy and infrastructure to make an argument of the inherent impossibility of using alternative modes of transport to flying in an argument about a possible future where everybody is rich enough to be a tourist.

...Consider that you can travel from Moscow to Beijing on a single train (or Paris-Beijing with a single transfer), it seems that traveling long distances by rail aren't inherently impossible.
Interesting they continue to develop btrfs when RedHat severed its tie which sounded like the end of the deal for btrfs when no one but suse uses it as the default file system.

But even looking how it never gained mainstream adoption for over 10 years when people always wanted something like zfs, it just feels there's something substantially wrong about its development model.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907771
This is because packages relie on each other to work. They don't just bundle all their dependencies. So maintainers have to update package based on the dependancies version that are in the repositories.

Every package updating alone (or updating all its dependancies) might make everything break on the system.

So there is a compromise here to get smaller packages, that don't bundle everything but reuse other packages.

If you want packages that bundle everything, then you can use snap / flatpack, they are exactly designed for this.
Robots have terrible dexterity.

Also, it's pretty depressing to hear the response to deskilling be more deskilling.
Let's compare prices without sales tax then.

US: 1,199 USD vs France: 1,124.17 EUR. 1,124.17 EUR translates to 1,275.31 USD according to Google, at the time of this writing. That's a difference of about 75 USD. Not great, but where do you get a 350 USD gap?

[EDIT] That $75 difference could actually be explained by the extra year of warranty for the EU version. Not the greatest bargain maybe, but Apple is hardly ripping off EU customers there. At least not more than the US ones...
On a slightly related note, I am highly disappointed with the Spectrum boxes and really miss my Comcast X1 box.

Spectrum and Comcast both rely on the same third-parties to supply their gear but Comcast works with partners like Arris to build their own custom boxes. They have their own custom OS running on the box. They're really fast and have a very modern UI. For instance it'll open sidebars to show current sports games with realtime scores. They also have their voice remote feature which, at first was a total gimmick to me, but ultimately became really helpful. You rarely know what channel # you want but to say "go to TLC" or "go to the world series" is really handy. They also have a remote control with an accelerometer that will glow when it jiggles, unlike any competitor. This is very useful at night.

Meanwhile my Spectrum box is virtually a thin client. For things like on-demand it's piping commands across the network to a remote host that is rendering what is displayed on your screen. The latency is horrible.

I've cut the cord once or twice with services like Playstation TV and Sling... but none of them really shake a stick to a proper cable plan. I'm disappointed with this price hike and Spectrum's hardware but for folks (my wife and I) who grew up in the generation of cable TV it's a difficult habit to break.
For the past year, I've been trying to convince my grandparents to ditch cable for internet TV, and the transition has been surprisingly difficult. After two attempts (I don't live near them), I am still not successful, however I did reduce the TV/phone/internet bundle from $250 to $200. Next time I see them, I'm coming prepared with the items that prevented me from succeeding before, and hopefully I'll be reducing them down to antennae/phone/internet.

The biggest problem I've found is that the cable company installed their cable modem on the entirely opposite side of the house from where the living room is (where the office is), and the wifi signal is too week to stream video. My general options are either a) get a repeater, or b) try setting up a second internet source from the living room cable (not sure if it's internet ready).
Like in the book Accelerando? Advanced civilizations might want to send digital copies of their astronauts, to keep the operation light and lean.
It's an article about a domestic US issue.
Double the RAM, Thunderbolt instead of USB-C, and two ports instead of one. That's worth the price... decrease? ;)
I recently went through setting up a HIPAA compliant web app. The team is small and has no dedicated DevOps so I went looking for a PaaS solution. After extensive researching and trialing, I went with Healthcare Blocks. They provide a great experience and were the only company that offered a sane price point for an early stage startup. Honorable mention to Aptible, especially their Gridiron product that we will eventually use.

I think another viable route is hiring a contractor to build out your environment for you. We got a quote from an AWS contractor and it was reasonable for our setup, but ultimately we really wanted a PaaS. Unless you’re an expert in HIPAA and the cloud platform you’re looking at, it’s not something I would recommend tackling on your own.

Remember that there are a lot of non-tech parts of compliance to consider as well such as training, physical security, security assessments, etc.
Do they plan to implement multithreaded compression / decompression?
You might well be right, I haven't bought tape in a long time.
"rereported"
There is a reason behind the naming. 100 is our platform, so any WiFi SSID that starts with 100- would be ours. 100-JamaicanRestaurant, 100-UpperCut, 100-BigJohn....

Hence the 100-xyz
Off topic-ish, but what do you mean by ^H^H^H^H? I feel like it's a joke I don't get.
Morgan Freeman talked about producing _Rendezvous with Rama_ like five years ago now. https://youtu.be/20DaSHa4I1k
It would have been interesting to see an evolving agent playing against these evolving invaders. Cool project!
I don't get it. You're describing Venice as it is today.
Wasn’t USB-C inspired by lightning? There was even talk of Apple engineers helping to get USB-C out.
I allow access to a very limited set of educational apps for a limited duration, less than 20 minutes for my 5 year old daughter.

The apps I choose are usually paid apps that do not have ads in them.

The only other technology I allow is a one on one session programming games in Scratch 3.
Doesn't this already exist, and that's how picture-in-picture works?
Thank you, it's fixed now.
> generates parameters that you can easily explain to someone with no background in math

I know it _seems_ that way, but there's a surprising amount of nuance there and I think we're both fooling and limiting ourselves by letting this idea fester.

For one, unlike linear regression, logistic regression estimates aren't collapsible, so you can NOT interpret them as "changing this input by X changes the output by Y". That's only true if your set of covariates is perfect, which is never true, though in practice this interpretation might not be _that_ far off.

Another issue I see is practitioners not being aware of scaled/unscaled estimates; I've seen real papers from AI groups use logistic regression estimates like feature importance rankings, but using estimates in the scale of the original features, and not understanding the distinction when confronted about it.

From a practical sense, I think practitioners are much better served using random forests as their initial exploratory models. Less effort for results that are in practice at least as good as a well-prepped logit. Plenty issues with feature importance there, but not any worse than with logistic regression.
The closest thing I've seen to what you described would be... Emacs. It actually uses the "metadata in file-specific comments" paradigm. You can put file-local values for Emacs variables in comments at the top or bottom of your file, like described in [0].

Your example could be rewritten as:

# -*- notebook-lang: python -*-

or

// -*- notebook-lang: scala -*-

Still, the usual way of using Emacs for "interactive notebooks" is via org-mode, which is a better Markdown with support for (among other things) executing code blocks straight in the org document you're writing. This way, Emacs support all your points 1 to 5, and is generally more powerful than Jupyter or other similar things, but it also means you can kiss any kind of collaboration goodbye.

For some weird reason, the more powerful a tool, the less likely it is other people will be using it.

--

[0] - https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sp...
Last time I signed up for cable was about a decade ago, and at the time, I had a HD TiVo box with twin cable cards. Worked out to something like $1-3 a month for the cards, IIRC. Way more reasonable than what my parents were paying for their awful, laggy Comcast boxes.

Of course, my cable provider had to make like three visits before they managed to scrounge up two working cards.
You might want to hold onto it for a bit. I read the occasional "horror" stories about people getting big bills for "unreturned equipment" that they were previously told not to return. Or that was returned but never logged; suggestions are, for example, that if you return your Comcast box to one of their storefronts/offices, you make sure to get a receipt, preferably one having the equipment ID's on it.
Europe is the global leader in regulation (I mean this as a pure matter of fact, not some kind of backhanded compliment). If regulating is feasible I'd expect them to be doing it in some capacity. This kind of begs the question as to why they're not doing it.

If someone has an example of a city that manages to use taxes/regulation on tourism to provide for the people who have to live there I'd like to hear it.
I'd love to see the full breakdown, but I think hints of it are there in the text. E.g., for the load balancing they say, it "helped improve the performance and scalability of network load balancing while drastically reducing inefficiencies." At Facebook's scale, those are pretty easy to translate into dollars by, e.g., looking at how many machines you now didn't have to buy to keep up with growth.
Belgium faces winter blackouts amid nuclear reactor shutdowns
I'm not sure it's an i7-8510Y - note that the MacBook Air specs [1] say it's an i5 chip. (And you can't upgrade it to an i7 either.) I'm not sure we know what chip it actually is yet.

[1] https://www.apple.com/au/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air/silver-1.6...
Your link will expire when Google update the first page.
It was better to link to its source page:
https://www.google.com/doodles/halloween-2018

Also you have a typo in the title: doogle -> doodle
Relevant: https://code.fb.com/production-engineering/introducing-data-...
Yeah there are applications where I can see this being useful and a smart-home controller is there at the top for sure. There are also applications like co-working space meeting room management, store shopping terminals etc.

As for consumers, I think it may be popular with those who like the minimalist approach, although you there are still cables, you are right. I think I'll get one though.
Scores will be coming in the next few days. I'm also planning on adding an (opt-in) leaderboard so you can see how you compare to other people.

Is a leaderboard something that would appeal to you?
That is a tautology and you could make the same claim about anything that is regulated.
>The GP comment "probably in a body bag" was almost as bad. We're trying for more thoughtful comments here.

It's just the truth. A lot of people/governments/entities want him dead. It wasn't meant to incite any kind of violence, just pointing out that he's a major target.
Great suggestion - I'll add an option to disable that.
We are seriously considering such a possibility. Do you have any specific requirements for on prem installation?
If they didn't move left to right I mean.
Been a long time since I bought a new computer. How should I think about / compare the processor options of the new MBA[1] and the non-touchbar MBP[2]? I've seen the passmark results, but have no idea how to interpret.

[1]: 8th Gen 1.6-GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
[2]: 7th Gen 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
I'm presuming you viewed it on a mobile device. On my laptop running firefox I had this experience.

My laptop is presently docked to the right of my monitor on my desk. When docked I use a keyboard and mouse with the actual laptop being slightly to the right using its touchpad is somewhat awkward but do-able.

Space bar to go down doesn't work, page down/up doesn't work home end doesn't work arrow keys don't work. Try clicking on the little arrow that doesn't work. Try dragging the screen that direction with the mouse doesn't work. Grab scrollbar manually and pull it down doesn't work. I literally skipped that section because I couldn't figure out how to read it. Note I didn't realize you could grab the scroll bar manually do scroll horizontally because I have never had to do that.

After reading this thread I tried reaching over awkwardly to use the 2 finger scroll mode on the touchpad keeping in mind the normal sensitivity is such that one full swipe top to bottom about 2 inches is 2 pages of text. So about 1 inch per page of text.

Swiping through the first section the "overview" took 62 awkward swipes left to right about 2.5 inches each. About 155 inches of travel almost 13 feet for the last few it actually went down while I scrolled sideways which made me pause for a moment.

Scrolling through pages of content is so basic that going through the massive work of making a beautiful device and all the software required to run it and making reading about it that painful is remarkable.

Its like launching a new high end clothing store and making the entrance a dance dance revolution pad where one must complete a hip hop number to enter.

It isn't merely subjectively terrible.

Edit: On my phone also running firefox in vertical orientation it scrolls normally but cuts off a bit on the right hand side, in landscape orientation it scrolls normally AND looks correct.
the game kind of forces this with 2 trade skill max for characters (provided you are interested in that part of the game, that is. But I've always gravitated towards that from my first MMO Ultima Online playing a blacksmith/miner).

And then Legion with the content that was specific to each class. Loved that idea, but it really made you feel like you were missing out if you didn't have x class to see something.

If FFXI's leveling wasn't so group focused and slow, I'd probably love that system above anyone else: I do like the idea of needing to level various classes, but I'd prefer it be all on one character instead of 12 or so I need to manage.
Unless you're communicating all of this with your managers/supervisor/team, this is a fool's errand.
Because the notion has evil and dystopian implications for the significant percentage of humanity that derives irreplaceable levels of fulfillment through procreation (and especially when one starts to wonder what you have in mind for those in that group who won't eschew procreation voluntarily).
to be fair if microsoft would bring outlook or even the whole suite to linux there wouldn't be that much for most users to be staying at MS.
Worlds largest, aka the second one found
i would go for obscure planet names from star trek universe, and append a "-lang" suffix ( like Brekka-lang ).