skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately something like this would never come to market, but I use a laptop that comes close enough for my needs. My current portable is a HP Elite X2 1011 G1 (yep that's a mouthful), it's a previous generation version of their current 1012 G2 product. It's a Surface-style convertible that is as fast as a typical business desktop machine, with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB M.2 SSD onboard. The keyboard base has 2x USB3, a SmartCard slot, full size DisplayPort output, some sort of HP proprietary dock connector, a TRRS headset jack, and an internal battery. The tablet portion doesn't have any ports other than a TRRS headset jack, but it does have a Wacom stylus as well as a MicroSD slot and onboard LTE celluar data (I'm using a Ting GSM SIM with that).

Using it as a laptop I get 12+ hours of battery life. It draws from the keyboard battery first, so you can run that dry and still have 5 to 6 hours of battery in the tablet, making it an all day machine. It's only slightly bigger than my last convertible, an ASUS Transformer Pad, and much more powerful.

It doesn't have the wide range of ports in this article, but then nothing out there does. If I need VGA/DVI/HDMI I can carry a DisplayPort cable with those ends, and if I need Ethernet I can carry a USB3 to Gigabit adapter. Both would fit in the slim case I kept from the Transformer.
There’s also a “custom apps for business” program:

https://developer.apple.com/business/custom-apps/
> Facebook allowed the device companies access to the data of users’ friends without their explicit consent, even after declaring that it would no longer share such information with outsiders. Some device makers could retrieve personal information even from users’ friends who believed they had barred any sharing

How do you know this information never left the device? Or, given the nature of the FB API, that it used the device at all?
Smart way of reframing the irritating noise of planes flying overhead
My weather check is normally looking out the window. I don't use forecasts very often.
For some reason it's a common attitude of sysadmins in the former USSR.
You still think about a family as if it's a community of individuals. You participate in a community when you have a personal interest that overlaps with the collective interest of the community and you're out once these interests diverge.

A family is a tribe. The support is mutual and unconditional. It's postmodern because to embrace this sense of belonging you need to renounce part of your individuality and indipendence, values that are deemed sacred by modern society.
The math rendering on that is unfortunately broken in firefox.
No one is being stopped from asking for $200k+ salaries.
Build the wall! /s
I guess odd because it’s really only used in North America. I’ve never seen a piece of letter sized paper although I’ve heard of it (first after deciphering the weird PC LOAD LETTER error on HP laser printers which is extra confusing if you don’t realise that letter is a paper size).
The volume buttons become control and alt in Termux, and if you swipe from the left and open the keyboard menu, you can enable a little overlay that includes keys like tab and escape.

See more info at the Termux wiki: https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Touch_Keyboard
Wow, what a nice looking weather website. Thanks. Didn't know about it.
All of the benefits described by the author's proposed "postmodern family" are already enjoyed by much of the world's population, a large portion of which lives in extended family compounds. From India to the Middle East, and S. America to much Africa, families live together in multigenerational housing.

Indeed, even many Americans lived in this type of arrangement up until the WWII era. And the benefits to this living arrangement are significant: multiple income streams provide resiliency against sudden sickness and death, better living quarters, available childcare instead of having to pay someone outside the family to do so, etc.

Unfortunately, modern Western society has decided that living in multigenerational living arrangements is shameful, and indicates failure.

I support the idea of this author's "postmodern family clan" (although I don't like the name). Particularly for those people who don't have extended family, suffer from abuse from family members, or are estranged from their extended family. However, we should also consider the advantages of the living arrangements enjoyed by much (most?) of the world's population -- the extended, multigenerational family unit.
The link to the paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10436
I wonder if this threat was part of the impetus behind the creation of the Dead Hand system[1], which would put a retaliatory strike in motion automatically after a decapitation?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
While that's an anecdote, it's true too often for me to feel that forecasts are "stunningly accurate". That label implies near-perfection, which is laughable.
That person might have been banned, deservedly so. If you want to enjoy the internet you either lurk, or you learn to ignore the haters.

FWIW I liked to read you post. Especially your point about balancing cohesion vs unit testing, as this is something that the TDD evangelists never bother to mention.
"chance of precipitation is 80%, less than an inch possible"

How would you determine, in a scientifically rigid manner,
the limits on conditions which would validate that forecast
as "right?" Or the inverse. What conditions would
invalidate it as "not right?"
> so it should be much easier to predict right?

Yes, because the goals of the forecast are different. A weather forecast seeks to predict a future position within the phase space of the system; a climate forecast seeks to predict the overall shape of that phase space.

"It will be 1C warmer in February on average" is a useless prediction if I'm deciding whether or not to wear a heavy coat tomorrow, since day-by-day variability swamps that average. But it is a very useful prediction if I'm designing infrastructure that needs to last 50 years.
If you want something that you can buy now, or soon... here are some options:

- GPD Micro https://liliputing.com/2019/01/first-look-gpd-micro-pc-handh...

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- Clones / look alike of the GPD Pocket
This tech isn't new; there was an article 10+ years ago about an inventor who had a working prototype of this, and he was pitching the idea to the military, and the article detailed how he even went around messing with pedestrians by sending them audio only they could hear.

(That article has since been brought down, by the way.)
Data analysis, algorithms and model building/prediction testing.

Same thing more or less.
>This is not denying the bad behavior of intelligence agencies in the past.

But to say it is okay for someone to work for those agencies is to deny their bad behavior in the past. There has been no change to those agencies except they are better at covering up their current day bad behavior, so to say it is at all moral to support them is only possible if you find that their past behaviors weren't really bad.
>Wouldn't it ultimately be better if every culture produced their own content and then we could maintain some local identity?

Many cultures do produce their own content, but it's often less entertaining than American content due to budget constraints, censorship restrictions or other government interference.

I think seeing at this as cultural imperialism is incorrect - it might be so if the US were somehow forcing other countries to watch American content, or if Netflix only served American content, but neither of those are the case. This just a matter of commerce in a global marketplace.

What would be better is people having a choice, not being kept in a government-enforced media cocoon in order to keep foreign influence from affecting their cultural identity.
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You're just in the wrong location of the country.
Preferably the 11" Macbook Air.
There are credible scientists who disagree with the climate change narrative. Just because you don't agree with them doesn't make them "nut jobs" or "deniers" or any other label you care to attach. Equating folks who don't agree with a lot of climate change assertions with flat earthers is not productive in any way.

And I agree with you're analysis; legacy media typically trot out straw men only to signal how superior their view is.
Genuine question - how would I do this in VB.net? Is is as painful as I imagine, with a lot of classes?
I think the category “startup” is too generic for us to provide you a valuable answer. What is the size of the company? How long have they been running? What stage (seeds, A, B, etc), who are the founders? What is the domain?

Give us more details and we’ll provide you very targeted questions to ask. Since you’re talking about an offer, I’m assuming this for a specific startup...
> Well now. I'd probably buy one for novelty if the price wasn't absurd. Bonus points for trackpoint. More bonus points for the USB in power supply brick. I do wish that was standard rather than usually one "power" USB port in the laptop.

The Surface Book 2 has a USB slot on the charge brick.
A request is communication with certain semantic content, which pulling on a mailbox handle lacks. There is no general understanding among people nor specific agreement between you and some other party that pulling on your mailbox handle is how to ask you for access to your correspondence.

This is not the case for HTTP. A network protocol is an agreement about the meaning of certain clusters of bytes sent over a network. When someone operates an HTTP server, a reasonable person could conclude that they take HTTP messages to mean what HTTP says they mean. A lot of cases get more interesting because there is also something generally understood to mean, "Please don't access the following resources by automated scraping, independently of whether my server decides to grant those requests."
My first thought was adaptive surround sound. So everyone in the room got the perfect sound. Also a speakerphone that only you can hear would be nice
Whatever happened to the 'netbook' form factor? That just seemed to disappear overnight.
This says a thing or two about society.

- economy aims at making money, not being good

- what you pay for is people caring for other people (by integrating facts into valuable knowledge)
I love the exercise of this — it reminds me of the hours I spent as a kid, drawing multi-angle views of what I hoped would be the “Commodore 256” or “Amiga 5000”. The loving inclusion of each port, paragraphs of explanation — it’s just great.
HR: no sorry, it’s policy

Worker: but you set the policy, it can be whatever you want it to

HR: ...

Saying “policy” must be a cover for a real reason that the company wants kept secret
It's a "strawman". You see this in fake wrestling: a designedly weak contender is set up to get owned by the audience's favorite protagonist
It would seem that throughout history and across the world, societies with at least a pretense of long term monogamous relationships have survived longer than polyamorous ones.
Want to hear what you want? Pay for the real thing. It s fake news that paid news are better. Advertising allows publishers to not pander to specific audiences.
I've heard about such scams since years ago at sites like http://whycall.me and another similar sites. People should be aware of these kind of scams by now. Keep spreading the word and informing our family about them is the key.
This is straight out of Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos.
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I have similar thoughts every time I see food trucks that are charging full-service restaurant prices for people to stand on the street and eat carbs. There's an argument to be made that it's faster or more convenient than full-service as well as higher quality than conventional fast food and that you're paying for that, but it's also asking consumers to accept less than previous generations expected for their dinner experience, while paying as much or more. I see it as a symptom of the rising cost of running an establishment, instead of a reflection of changing tastes. Some humans are too good at making virtues of inconveniences instead of tackling the source of the inconvenience.

I'm pleasantly surprised whenever I see a Tiny Home that isn't a death-trap with a single exit.
The Surface has a "hub" but it's not nearly as powerful, and already in the $199 margin (Surface Dock).
That story is a perfect example of perception of a situation and how people view it in many ways. While you say the narrative is wrong, many feel the narrative was right.
Can't we just make (targeted) advertising illegal? It would solve so many problems ...
Unless you know about the particulars of US paper sizes, it sounds like they mean 'half the length of a letter that you might write to someone' which does sound odd. What letter? What about? My letters may be one paragraph or three pages.
I guess it depends on how often you need to use the notebook standing besides some server while carrying the notebook in your hand. Or just move it around; take it out of the bag and put it back again..every day, sometimes multiple times.. Weight can start being annoying at some point.
It appears that they have done this both in violation of their Terms of Service and their Privacy Statement, as they failed to notify customers of the change in policy when they began working with the FBI. These terms previously stated two things: (1) no use by law enforcement and (2) we will notify you of major changes in advance, providing the opportunity to opt out. They changed the agreement well after the FBI began using their database (with their consent and facilitation and profit motive) and it may have only been changed with the publication of the BuzzFeed News story.

> Changes to Privacy Statement: We may choose to modify this Privacy Statement at any time. We will provide advance notice of any material changes to this Statement, such as sending you an email or posting a notice to allow you the opportunity to survey the changes and decide whether to continue using our Services.

I'm curious whether this is also in violation of the GDPR. Most genealogy and DNA related companies, including Family Tree DNA, undertook huge changes to comply with the GDPR back in early 2018, so it would be strange to have them suddenly placed themselves in non-compliance.
Passport Photos, from ‘Anything Goes’ to Today’s Mugshots (2017)
Facebook is the new Philip Morris.
Haven’t used Brave, how do you like it?
The likelihood of 6 adult individuals meeting and having sufficient overlap in goals and interests and habits to create a cohesive home is laughable. It's hard enough to do with just 2 financially independent individuals, not to mention navigating relationships when the value of one individual drops relative to the other(s).
Both Netflix and YouTube have far more content than what is promoted up front to every user. The regulation need not insist that 55% of the content archives be Canadian (that would be absurd). The regulation could focus on what content is featured on the home page.

So nobody need fear their favourite Netflix show being taken away. This would only affect what users see when they first sit down to watch. That would have a powerful effect. I think it would be enough to keep Canadian shows going so that Canadian culture can be maintained in a distinct form.
There are basically no laptops with good keyboards anymore. I've given up on trying to find one. Thinkpads have gone down the drain. Lenovo aren't even offering on-site support or extended warranty on all models anymore (even if you want to pay more!). They've gone from quality business models to, well, slightly better than garbage.
Right, there is a nuance, but it's often lost today because newspapers want to appear "independent." They are so terrified of appearing partisan, it dilutes their coverage to nothingness, just covering both sides. It too often is:

"Side A said X"

"Side B said Y"

Well, that's of no help to me. I could simply go to those PR pages myself and see what they said.

So this is not about ignoring them, but about not giving equal credit to both view points or being mouthpieces to propaganda.
> even Sergio Bonelli's pulp book comics are actually great

I am from Turkey. I learned reading and writing before my school age, with the help of graphic novels. Me and many people I know, literally grew up with different Bonelli series. A great number of graphic novelists and artists from Turkey would easily refer to them as "inspiration" or "reason" to start drawing/writing. Zagor, Mister No, Tex and Martin Mystere (or with its Turkish printing title Atlantis) has been really popular, and in more recent years we had the chance to read Julia, Dylan Dog, Nathan Never, La Storia and many other one shot series from Bonelli.

I believe, until the mid-1990s, when you mentioned the term comic (or "çizgi roman", meaning graphic/drawn/illustrated novel), people would come up with those titles rather than Spider Man, or Batman. They have been available along with Italian titles but for a very long time, they were never as popular and widespread.

I am not sure about the usage of term "pulp" (mostly due to English not being my native language), but I'd consider those titles as important and serious as big auteurs' (Pratt, Manara etc...) creations.
Colour me unsurprised. It's never worked for me, I've spoken to doctors who have agreed it's been useless for them and their patients. I won't buy any product containing it.

It's nice that there's now research backing up these anecdotal pieces.
This implies that only people who have the means and desire to pay for accurate news will get it. Given that accurate information about the world, our society, and its politics is required for making accurate decisions about how to vote and spend one's time and money, shouldn't we start treating journalism as a public good and funding it independent of anyone's ability to come up with a business model that will work?
>Advertising allows publishers to not pander to specific audiences.

Advertising driven business models force the company to pander to their advertising overlords
Another project in the same field is"Deep Solaris" : https://www.biss-institute.com/cases/case-5/
and (in Dutch) : https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/onze-diensten/innovatie/project/zon...
Thanks. The title could use a rewrite.
Seems a little light on tests?
I was going to suggest him to get the smallest macbook pro ...
You simply don’t understand how much it costs to run a decent newsroom. Online ads have never been enough to cover costs.
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>Worse yet, in the face of getting caught they double down on going even further into their false narrative.

This is the common predictable behavior of compulsive liars
check the site over here: https://mltrends.com/
Old school .. whole lot of people say they heard voices in war, and military mission over 20 years ago
Interestingly, if you go right back to Kent Beck's TDD book, you'll see you're in agreement with him. Also with rails testing as it comes out-of-the-box. Testing individual functions is orthogonal to testing a unit.
Elon Musk’s Hyperloop: It’s Bad, Folks
> I use the forecast put out by weather.gov that's supposedly tailored to the square mile because it gets the 12 hour forecast right about 40% of the time.

Unfortunately, this is an example of false precision. The highest resolution numerical forecasts run by NOAA have a grid of about 3km, already coarser than your one-square-mile "tailored" output. The effective resolution of numerical weather models is also 2-3 times coarser than their grid spacing (because of numerical diffusivity and similar effects).

What you're seeing isn't a "tailored" output, but instead an interpolated result from a coarser grid.

Forecasting of very high-resolution effects is the subject of active and ongoing research, but unfortunately popular meteorology does not do a good job of discussing current limitations.

Look at the confusion in this set of comments, for example, about what degree of forecast error is normal/acceptable.
It looks like this was known for a while now.

>The Food and Drug Administration withdrew its 1976 approval as a nasal decongestant in 2007

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylephrine#Decongestant
Ditto. I instantly thought of a less successful and intelligent version of Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley.
Facebook to Integrate Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp
Was YouTube Built as a Copyright Infringement Machine?
Why a CS degree is better than teaching yourself how to code
What is the statistical power and what makes the sample "random"?
The increasing rate of generational change makes this more difficult to organize than in the past. One hundred years ago, a granddaughter was basically living the same lifestyle as her grandmother. Today, the two would have less common ground and more likely to be in different political hemispheres.
> The likelihood of 6 adult individuals meeting and having sufficient overlap in goals and interests and habits to create a cohesive home is laughable.

I disagree. Already, there's a significant movement underway in the US called "co-living", which shares a lot of the features described by the author:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coliving
> Chess is a meritocracy. So is tennis and sales. Anyone can play. The best player wins.

I'm not sure you are having the correct definition of meritocracy in mind. A meritocracy is a system where the actors who provide the most benefit to the society, benefit the most. However, in chess, tennis, etc., there is no real benefit.
That's also a thing with app store : the fact that someone else's app works one way doesn't mean a lot. Your app could get accepted for months and then all of the sudden be rejected after an update makes it go through validation again.

But that was the App store's rules, and people more or less learned to go with it. What worries me a lot with the recent news is that the lottery could now affect enterprise certificates as well.
There's a lot of software that used 20MB at the most in the XP days, but doesn't run on windows 10 or is missing some random new 2010+ era feature and just needs a patch, but now the only modern version of this software is a minimum-viable-product SaaS monthly subscription.
I said on one of the other posts about this that I wouldn't be surprised if Apple gave Google a heads up to let them know they have to be consistent. Especially given that Google basically apologized. Now I'm more convinced.
Soooo, when is the kickstarter?

I have had so many countless sysadmins ask for a keyboard similar to that one (perhaps not the keyboard layout). I think the primary interests are:

serial port (yes, even today not having to carry a dongle is great)

ability to use kb/vid/mouse as a kb/vid/mouse for servers

multiple network connections

I would probably pitch into a kickstarter for that laptop.
so they say. but the data lives somewhere, and when it has enough value it will be a commodity.
It strikes me as ironic that the more the military gets put on a pedestal by the public, the more they resent said public. Both of these (the public's worship of the military, and the military's disdain for the public) have experienced a clear upward trend over the last 20 years.
> But this raises a deeper question: is your Average Joe Citizen (who is not an engineer, but maybe a barista, salesman, banker, etc) equipped to have an opinion about climate change at all?

This comes off pretty condescending. What makes an (assuming computer) engineer any more capable of reading & comprehending reports than a barista or banker?