skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
your scenario was about a couple watching movies in bed, though...

To be honest, I really love my rMBP 2014 hardware, it was basically perfect. Great speaker, as you say, good enough keyboard, BEST display, etc.

If Apple releases another MBP based on 2015 I'll take a quite good look again.
>What more do you want Congress to do?

Congress could investigate, or keep talking about it, or push for something to be done to negatively impact the parties that did it, or anything really. Even the slightest deviation from the present course of "don't say out loud that it happened and hope everyone forgets," would be a welcome show of some backbone.

>And how will that be different from trial by media?

Look at history to see the many things Congress can do when someone tries to pull something on them. They have options, they just aren't taking any.
>There is no way that this wind turbine will be more profitable than a normal one given the pretty crazy cooling requirements.

As long as the insulation method for the superconductor is good, once it is cool, keeping it cool should use surprisingly little energy, especially compared to the output of one of these things.

>Also I don’t really understand why they chose that kind of superconductor that apparently has to be cooled to -240 when there are other superconductors that need to be cooled to just 150K...

They do the same for a lot of the SMES systems - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energ... - Apparently the difference in cooling costs isn't that much and there are a variety of benefits to using the low temp ones that more than offsets that cost.

*edited to correct brainfart
It's a question of what your morals cost. For Finland, the cost of doing the right thing is a few tens of millions of dollars. For America, it's billions more. And America is willing to sell it's morals for that amount of money.
While China has a bad record in human rights, I suggest to apply a lot of source criticism what comes to "social credit system." Especially here in Hacker News comments where discussion is generally more intelligent.

Here is more in-depth and fact based article about the topic:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/16/chinas-orwellian-social...
Well here in the US we have an actual credit system in place. And since basic necessities are often dependent on credit rating (employment; housing purchaes ; rentals; vehicle financing/lease) it’s pretty dystopian. Not to mention for nearly 20 years now we have had secret no fly lists (no due process to get on or off) and even secret kill lists (no due process), I think it’s just another way to skin the cat, and maybe we should look at our-dystopian-selves in light of outrage at our foreign friends.

Edit: I think here just as there the majority will have “good credit” and actually like having an nearly permenant underclass...so just as here, I don’t think there will be much incentive to change there either.
Thanks for sharing as I’m hoping to stay real close to to the tech scene in Toronto from abroad
If you actual compare the data and spout outdated and trite political philosophies, healthcare systems that have significant government involvement tend to be more effective and offer a better quality of care for the money spent than free market solutions. Policies should be made based on data and facts, not sure political philosophy coined years before any of these issues became apparent.
If this is merely an input method then MathML is pretty much all you probably need as it can be pasted into or consumed by most applications handling math, including Word. Plus TeX for, well, TeX.

This format is mostly geared towards input as well, in that you have defined automatic replacements as well as a format that can be typed easily and be built up to rendered math during typing. If you have your own completely different input method you wouldn't gain much from this.
My favorite theory is that the post WW2-era American value shifted to personal liberty and the American dream: your home, your picket fence, and your car. You choose where you go, when you go, and how you get there. Drive on those new interstates! Take the family for a picnic. Go surfing!

How can you be truly independent and live that perfect magazine cover life if you’ve got to wait on the 9:27 to take you to the B line so you won’t be late to work?
Not talking about ACA. The ACA has existed for what, about six years?
I've been active duty military my entire adult life, over 20 years, the military healthcare system is the ideal system you're advocating for. I'm an expert in how horrible it is.
It could be argued that the primary purpose of a government is to make things better for people (with deliberately broad/vague words used there). I'm not sure how this qualifies. There's certainly a lot of negative language in that article, and negative language has a habit of not making things better for people.
Ash HN: Why apple ads are so creative?
I am watching 'Holiday — Share Your Gifts — Apple' ads on YouTube and pop up in my mind. Why apple ads are so creative? People behind those ads are so creative? Why and how can we become creative like them?
LG 4K over usb-c

They are really cheap used or refurb
Health INSURANCE should not be profit driven as it's a risk pool, and profit driven means they will charge high premiums and attempt to deny as much as possible. Health CARE should be driven in part by profit.
A great number of politicians, judges, etc. of the US are basically plants that are there only to ensure the survival of said greatest ally; they don't care at all about the US or its citizens and sometimes are even openly hostile to them.
Your average elevator has iirc 7 or 8 cables, each individually capable of bearing twice the load of a full cabin.

Cable slip is very unlikely (though not impossible). Something definitely went awry in that situation which is very rare.
That black mirror system is p2p when China's system is centralized. I believe the black mirror system is worse.
yup, now that I read myself again, I see my bias. For me, more developpers working on several "identical" GPL'ed software makes the viability of the GPL software better... So, well, I'm biased :-)
Beyond the obvious issues and extreme aims stated in the article, such a system is also a new, interesting take on the problem of 'crime and punishment' that might be food for thought.
last paragraph I wrote.
I feel like this is the sweet spot for the editor to do some of the heavy lifting, for example being able to type "\alpha" and have the editor automatically transform it into the symbol α. I write a lot of LaTeX, and I would absolutely love an editor which could just transparently deal with all of the underlying mathematics markup so I would never have to see it again, and just directly edit the damn equations. Serialising and unserialising mathematics markup mentally is basically the antithesis of mathematical notation.
What I've learned in 10 years as an SDE
And how is this different from any society?
This is obviously going to be an unpopular sentiment, but I am somewhat excited to observe the results, and I'm glad this is happening during my time on Earth.

Yes, it is a horrible thought, but in many ways inevitable: if the tech exists, it will be used for both good and evil. Better that other societies can see the outcome sooner rather than later.
chezmoi: a tool for managing your dotfiles across multiple machines. https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi
Are you talking out of experience? I've used a linux laptop for the last 6 years and have had only small issues.

Hackintoshes tend to break (more specifically, the OS) with every OS update.
True, at 0-100km/hr in 13.3 sec a 1.7L 914/4 could only be a nostalgia piece. A 1985 turbo VW Golf diesel that I keep as a 'nostalgia' piece could probably match it - but may have to be going downhill and with the wind :)

for reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_914
> similar results to what exile would have had at one time

Can people on the list leave the country?
Lots of western expats live in China because they have economic opportunities they don’t have access to in their home countries. Says something about the state of western world when so many young people go to China to climb the career ladder. Social mobility in western countries is almost non existent.
Exactly. iCloud Master Key? Done, no VPN in App Store? Done. List of Banned Keyboards in App Store? Done. iMessages, I assume is still encrypted, but China don't give a damn about it as long as they can get it via iCloud.
I think what OP describes is closer to 'widespread paranoia crippling the economy' than being 'privacy conscious'
Real numbers for Illumina sequencing currently hover at around 600 USD per 30x coverage human WGS (and this is pure sequencing cost, excluding data storage and analysis). Prices are not dropping since Illumina has no real incentive at the moment. That said, Dante Labs is using a competitor (BGI) who claims to be doing cheaper sequencing (at reduced quality).

Even so, Dante is currently definitely operating at a loss. That’s not a problem though since their business model probably isn’t really consumer genetics. Likely, their actual business model (like that of every major player in the field) is gathering large panels of sequence data to either analyse themselves (and then sell the insight to pharmaceutical companies) or to sell (pseudonymised or aggregate) access to companies. So, in reality, they are preparing large-scale biomedical studies. And not only are they not paying study participants (their ostensible “customers”), they are actually getting the study participants to pay for their participation.

(Note that there’s nothing necessarily nefarious about this whole business. It just explains why they can offer their product to consumers “at a loss”. In reality it’s simply an investment.)
A Time to Fast – Effect of Caloric Restriction on Aging/Disease
I'm pretty sure it just got worse over the years.

I was visiting amazon.de (not .com) yesterday and 50% of what I saw had article names/descriptions like eBay 10 years ago. "desk light white awesome whatever keyword buy". Then I looked at the Audio CDs and sorted by price, and everything was 0 - XX €, yeah - because I was logged in apparently some of the music I can stream for free. Totally interesting to me if I deliberately visit the AUDIO CD section. Also not sure if it still sorted by price or not, because for sure the first 3 pages were all 0.
A worker needs to be trained, and willing to work. And has huge medical liabilities, along with tons of other clerical duties. With machines you don’t need to worry about them getting to work, sexual harassment, unemployment insurance, etc.

Of course there is a point where humans make more sense than machines, but the formers cost keeps rising while the latter’s cost keeps dropping, so the trend is clear unless that dynamic changes.
> Veritas Genetics were also offering a 200USD genome a while back. I think that was Illumina sequencing, but it was a very limited time offer.

Yes, that was on Monday Nov 19th. Veritas offered 1,000 genomes (Illuminca sequencing) at USD 200. They sold out in 6 hours.

* Disclaimer: I work for Veritas.
Indirectly it could increase spending as they are preventing people from leaving and spending their money overseas
In DrRacket, you can press Ctrl+\ to insert a lambda character.
This isn't my experience at all, I have a 2015, a 2017 and 2018 MacBook pros. The 17 isn't all that tbh and I only have it because they replaced my 16 model. The battery isn't all that and the keyboard is a big dodgy. The 2018 though is absolutely fine, the battery is great and the keyboard has been fine the whole time. I have to use the 2015 for one of my contracts and Im always glad to get back to the 2018.
For future reference: do not try to escape from a malfunctioning elevator by yourself. The controller won't be locked out and the elevator can start moving without any notice. Use the emergency phone or button in the elevator and wait for a technician or the fire brigade to rescueue you.

Most likely the jolt was simply the rest of the cables catching the load of the cabin. If the brakes got engaged or the elevator ran into the buffer the elevator will not be aligned with the ground floor.

Glad to hear you got off with nothing more than a slight fright though.
Ah the new FILTH aka Failed in London, Try Hong Kong
Image captioned `Westfriedhof Station, Stockholm.` is actually `Westfriedhof Station, Munich.`
It's not odd when you look at the link I posted that shows that the 3rd of the "Big Three" was much smaller than the other 2 in terms of volume and brand.
I don’t think this is a reasonable assumption. If the participants explicitly stated that the photo isn’t harassment, then it’s unjust for us to assume things about the situation unless we have some information that supports the assumption.
The Intuitionist
The Westfriedhof station pictured is also in Munich, not Stockholm, guess it's a copy/paste error. It is kinda nice, but it's relatively young (15 years maybe?) whereas most of our subway stations are from the 70s and not half as nice.

Edit: it's 20 years old, not 15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfriedhof_(Munich_U-Bahn) and the others pictured are also on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg-Brauchle-Ring_(Munich_U-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidplatz_(Munich_U-Bahn)
I'm slightly surprised that neither the article nor commenters here have mentioned Safe Harbor (or Privacy Shield).

Well, maybe not _that_ surprised, this is a very American-centric community.

Snowden's revelations had a direct effect on transatlantic ties, with the Court of Justice of the European Union holding that the EU-US Safe Harbor system violated the essence of the right to a private life. That's a big deal, and it's a very important piece of case law here now. I'm not sure if Schrems would have been able to make his case without those details being made public.
Why now? Patria AMVs sold to the UAE have been spotted in Yemen-bound convoys at least as far back as August.
JFYI (and it may depend on each country's building regulations) -anything (being it slabs, rooms, corridors, terraces, staircases) in "public" buildings is required by norm to be calculated for a "dense crowd" (cannot say if that is the proper term in English) which equates usually to between 400 (static) and 600 Kg/m2 (dynamic).

This roughly equates to 4-6 people per square meter.
Wow, the top thing on my mind this morning was that the CIA was able to listen in on a phone call from the Saudi head of state.

Now this.

I have already been thinking about the possible necessity of a decentralized personas. If an employer wants to see my office persona, then I don't want those people to see my gaming persona. No reason to connect these things to a central identity.

Decentralized personas are natural in the entertainment world where you take on different characters. Authors might publish under a different name. Now even a Twitter bot with a crap AI can be a popular persona.

As negative as a turn of events as this is, it could be a positive in odd sort of way in which we might view hackers blowing open vulnerabilities. This software, like any can spread like FB - crawling across the globe and no extra cost to the goons running it. I wonder what my score in China might be even though I don't live there. Maybe next, Valenzuela. Now is the time to construct a defense - if even possible.
Advanced Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning [video]
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan
Personally I like the 2017 model (9360) better than the 2018 model (9370).

The 2018 model notebook is thinner but it suffers from problems as a result of this: No USB A port. The SD card slot was replaced by a Micro SD card slot. CPU heat management is also an issue. Finally, it has a smaller battery (52Wh instead of 60Wh, 13% less!).
The display went from 3200x1800 to 4K which doesn't really make sense for a 13inch display anyway.

See https://www.notebookcheck.com/Editorial-Dell-XPS-13-9370-Sex... for details (German)
I think it’s funny that in this case amateurish is perfectly fine for the audience. Photography circles aren’t necessarily concerned with creating accessible art that hangs in people’s home and affects them every day. IKEA is.

“Finally, I got in touch with the lead designer at IKEA who had picked the photo more than 10 years ago. I ask him why he picked the photo, and he told me that the first thing they design at IKEA is the price.

This photo was just very, very cheap, and that’s why they picked it.”
Downvoted, this kind of conspiracy thinking needs to be backed up by facts or at least some somewhat credible sources.
Ah like the annoying teenagers on the bus sodcasting
Elisha Graves Otis, Inventor of the Safety Elevator
I think it really comes down to what you mean by 'internet outage'. Maybe if you're in a smaller town, the one ISP can have a service outage. Or a large hosting service like aws could have an outage. But those are always going to be limited in scope, both in time and users affected - as far as I know, there has never been a time where the entirety of the internet just went down. On the other hand, demonetizations do happen and they do not have the same limitation of scope - they affect every business and cash using citizen of a country.
The one that gets me is that the "Add to list" button seems to be in three or four different places when you look at the page for an item, and I have to hunt for it. I tend to bookmark a lot of books and such with the wishlist, and go back when my Amazon Chase card has reward points built up.
> Yahoo failed because they were out-innovated

Their most popular property ended up being Flickr, and they let it rot when smartphones and apps started being popular 10 years ago. Instead pro users fled to 500px and other communities, and social users wen to Instagram.
I have to agree. Even if you don't speak French, there is less emphasis on money wealth, more on everyday important factors, and the city just has more history and is more relaxed without the money imperative injecting itself in everything. And there is a decent, diverse tech scene too, though language will be factor if you want to work locally.
I felt the same. If it was not for the many lives it will ruin it would be a very interesting experiment to watch. And ponder about the myriad of unintended consequences that will arise. Like the reported false positive of the model on a bus advert being repeatedly charged for jaywalking.
I have a different workflow in TortoiseHg than ufo. In your terminology, I only consider revisions that have been pushed as being baked, while unpushed revisions are the clay. We already have tools to manipulate revisions, while the index, stash/shelve and patches are all just reimplementations of revisions with less convenient UIs. I just go ahead and commit whenever I like (without having to stage!), and sort it out afterwards with a combination of update (like git checkout), revert on specific files (like git reset --soft), and rebase (like git rebase!).

You might say this is trading one complexity (staging area) for another. But you need to be familiar with these commands anyway, so you might as well use the same things for other tasks. Plus, they're visualised on the same revision graph as everything else (e.g. "oh look, one month ago I saved that private commit").

Mercurial has a few properties that make this easier than in git. For example, there is no concept of detached head / garbage collection; when you save a commit, it is simply saved forever unless you choose to forcably remove it. (I have never found myself wishing for Git's refs and heads; they are just straight up unnecessary.) But I could imagine a git wrapper that had these properties too (e.g. when I checkout an old revision, it automatically creates a new branch with a special name that refs the commit I'm leaving behind).

(PS: Having said all of this, 90% of the time I just go ahead and commit and push everything, and 90% of rest of the time it suffices to just untick the checkboxes next to files that I don't want to commit before clicking the commit button in TortoiseHg. This is massively easier than any of these strategies, and it's opt-in. I'm sure there is a command line way to do this but I find a GUI is great for this task because it's quite visual.)
To echo others in this thread, sadly, my relationship did not survive my partner's mental illness.

My girlfriend had a quite extreme form of borderline personality disorder, possibly with schizophrenia - but it's hard to know exactly because she would often be uncooperative with professionals and was often using drugs. She also didn't talk to her family, but never told me why.

Eventually, after struggling for more than five years, I threw in the towel and broke up with her. I still supported her financially, because she was incapable of work, and was trying to encourage her to seek professional help.

Within a few months, she had committed suicide and left a note blaming me for leaving her.

I found out later, after contacting her family, that she had two children by different fathers that she had left with her parents then ran away from - among a ton of other things she did to ruin the lives of anyone who ever knew her.

I spread her ashes last month with her sister who hadn't spoken to her in over 10 years.

It has hit me quite badly, and often I regret breaking up with her considering what happened, but deep down I knew I couldn't continue. It was affecting my own mental health so badly that I was struggling keeping myself afloat. The best thing for her would probably have been to call it off much sooner, before she became too dependent on me - but the guilt of breaking up with someone who is severely ill meant I couldn't bring myself to it until I could no longer cope.

As nice a story as the article is, my advice would be that you do have to consider your own life as well. If you can't look after yourself, you can't look after someone else.
How I uncovered my inner geek
As a DC resident, I partially agree with his conclusion on the DC metro. But, the stations he chose are suburban, not downtown. Tokyo is a much larger city than DC. so, it’s a bit apples to oranges.

It was designed to get people into the city from the suburbs. As such, it completely fails today, where most jobs are also in the suburbs. It fails for reverse commuting as well, because, as noted, most stations are not within walking of commercial hubs.

That said, the expansion to Dulles came with lots of rezoning and denser development. Arlington started this before the expansion with the Courthouse-Clarendon-Ballston areas, with increased density and walkable zones. Reston and Herndon are doing similar things.

Now, if we can figure out how to build a line from Tyson’s to Rockville or Bethesda (without going all the way downtown and back out again).
> Even 30x would leave gaps

Correct - the coverage number is an average across the sequenced parts of the genome. In some areas the coverage will be much higher, in others much lower.

Importantly, what is commonly called 'whole genome sequencing' is not really that. There remains ~5-8% of the genome that is (almost) impossible to sequence with current technology, and as such has no coverage. Areas with lots of repeats, centromeres, etc.
The Black Mirror system reminded me more of Uber: drivers doing the utmost to ingratiate themselves to passengers for fear of losing their livelihood through a few bad scores.
It's a once a month / once a quarter occurance. I'm not sure if it's because of changes to the webservice or not enough financial backing.

I've basically given up on using early access pijul. I've had a problem with each of the last three versions, primarily pushing to Nest. It wouldn't be an issue if I could install pijul on NearlyFreeSpeech (because then I could self host on a known good version). I want pijul to succeed, its patching model sounds good. Clearly, it's working for some group of people. But I'm not one of them, and it's past where I feel like I'm wasting my time. I'll try again when they're v1.0