skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To successfully define a laptop standard, it would have taken a consortium of companies. Likely companies which aren't necessarily in the business of selling integrated laptops themselves, but would benefit from the existence of a laptop standard.

It's likely companies like Microsoft (pre-Surface), peripheral manufacturers (eg, Logitech) and motherboard manufacturers (eg, Gigabyte) would have gladly got on board in that era.

It's likely too late to start this in 2019 (but I may be wrong). Certainly the late-1990s would have been the ideal time for this.
If you use your GitHub profile as part of your personal brand / marketing then these things absolutely are relevant.

As a developer in a professional context you'll hardly ever work alone or be the sole contributor.

Even if you use a GitHub profile just as your personal code repository code still is communication, even if it's just with your future self.

Therefore communication skills are crucial. A well-thought-out README file and consistent, readable code help others to understand your work. These aspects often are more important than what the code accomplishes.

Working, even efficient, but unmaintainable code is a risk. Ultimately, code is a precise specification of what the software at hand is supposed to do. If that specification is hard to understand it'll be much less useful.
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Dynamics of the 3-Body Problem
This was one of the first things I realized I had to do back when I installed a Red Hat 3.0 for the first time.

My alias was for rm itself. I replaced it completely, as the habit of using rm is hard to forget. Today I don’t use an alias anymore.
Cross functional programs are frequently suffer because they’re treated as cash cows by the university, but no home department owns giving them enough attention. A wise friend once advised “beware interesting grad programs.” (Example: MIT has world class engineering, and a Top 10 business school. The anecdotal reviews I’ve heard from graduates of both are higher than joint engineering-business programs, even if the latter look better on paper)
Eero Saarinen had amazing neo-futuristic style.

IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center is another example of his work with similar style.

Sans the asbestos and lead paint these buildings are amazing.
Getting tests when you have symptoms is a completely and totally different topic than widescale testing of asymptomatic individuals without specific risk factors, which is what we are talking about here.
Yes, you're right. I can't say that I misread it, nor did I consciously make that assumption. Oh well, faulty heuristics.
Same here; I'm woman, and over 50. I use a landscape snapshot from an enjoyable daytrip for my profile photo. Is this, like removing graduation dates from a resume, an undesired tell?
CodinGame: Challenge-Based Training Platform
If you see using samples as cheating, you will get stereotypical generative music. You can get very convincing [0] results by driving virtual instruments with MIDI, or even loading samples directly for playback.

[0] https://youtu.be/3Lo7yyZcSzU
Despite that he wrote an elaborate technical cookbook, does anyone from the gourmet chef world really consider Nathan Myhrvold an authority on cuisine or cooking techniques or taste?
Many of the old 5-1/4" drives were low-fidelity copies of the original Shugart Associates drives. So speed differences and fluctuations were not uncommon.
Get ready for it.. I've had a employer make me work 36 hours straight.. I started hallucinating and fell into psychosis. I'm still recovering. But if they think your the only tool they have they'll blunt you until you won't repair.
> What's your alternative?

When I execute rm I mean to delete. When I'm not sure I expyre[1] the path: https://github.com/lonetwin/expyre

[1] shameless plug -- but you did ask ;-)
Agreed, but there seems to be a reasonable explanation, so I'm not about to start complaining.

Plus it's described on the website as a periodical table, so I'm not even convinced the author is claiming it to be a periodic table.
I like using the ‘trash’ command through Homebrew, on macOS Terminal:

http://hasseg.org/trash/
Use React hooks with class components
Most have SSD drives now that trims the space on delete. Not sure how easy it is to mark regions on the SSD for "undelete" when it has been trimmed. In some cases the deleted region of the drive may even be mapped to another place on the memory chip itself to cycle it.
Many years ago while dropping off a pickup full of cardboard I got to talking with the guys at the recycling plant about what they did with it. They said the aluminum, iron, and clear glass gets recycled in the US; non-clear glass is sent to huge piles of glass somewhere to be stored indefinitely; and all the plastic, paper and cardboard is sorted out, compacted and bundled, then put on a train that goes to a freighter that takes it to China and then they recycle it there. I researched the Chinese side and found the plastic stuff is stored in huge piles for years on end because it's all dirty and rural villagers eventually bike it to their house and individually clean each piece using spring water, and only then is it suitable for recycling. And the cleaning process toxifies their rural farm land and streams. The cardboard and paper is shipped to inner China where it is burned.

At that point I stopped recycling paper plastic and glass since it was clearly absurd and far more resources such as fuel and labor were being expended on this charade than if one were to simply burn their trash in a barrel in the backyard. I'd tell people about what I'd learned but no one believed it.
This seems pretty excessive even for one of the very competitive benchmark focused areas in deep learning. It is not necessary and probably harmful, and lots of very good groups don’t do this kind of thing.
Not possible. You cannot block a specific script by that approach.
There’s North; Then There’s Norilsk
Journal 2019.11 – spec/select, clj jiras, tools.deps
It could be fifo and you would still be able to undo damage for some time.
K-Mart still exists???
Well, (a) I bought Levis (maybe that was the real mistake), and (b) I'm a fatass.
I have backups..
It's a bit clunky (as is 'apt' itself, tbh), but it should only ever install security updates and targeted bug fixes. You can configure apt relatively easily to have it download updated packages, but leave it to the user to actively install them (check out the apt configuration files in /etc/ - specifically the 'apt.d' folder).

As for Windows 10, it's in its own class of terrible design - try as they might, the Linux folks are nowhere close to matching it.
Advantage I see for glass is that it’s rather inert, so you never have to worry about BPA or whatever else leaching into your foods, or it catching on fire or melting. Harder to abrade Pericles into your food.

Also, glass can be scrubbed entirely clean, unlike plastic. When I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I had to throw away most of my dishes that were not glass or metal.

Disadvantages of glass clearly include fragility.
The latest TIOBE index [0] put both ActionScript and TypeScript in "The Next 50 Programming Languages", from rank 51 to rank 100

also Pascal is mentioned at rank 204

based on that yes ActionScript do make the cut in term of popularity, or you can also remove TypeScript and Pascal from the article

also hypocrisy much?

in one of your other comments

You are welcome. D did not actually made it to the list
based on the language-popularity-selection criteria I’ve used,
but I thought it is prominent enough to be included and
overrode my criteria for it.

so that part "prominent enough" is completely subjective right?

[0]: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
This still sounds like a bunch of excuses to continue abusing people. Intense pressure exists everywhere: don't put academic work on a magical pedestal, there's a lot more to working in the industry than just keeping your boss happy (and uh, a lot more happens in the industry than just building the next Uber for X).

Still no excuse to overwork people to near death (yes, there are extreme outliers like Goldman Sachs & whatnot, but this kind of overwork is a pandemic in academia).
Japan’s elaborate, colorful manhole covers
Fedora is immaculate out of the box on my x201 and x201t. I don't have to do a single thing to it.
OOP vs. FP. The pursuit of extensibility part #2
If you can still find one on then used market, I'll put in a plug for the Lenovo X1C 4th Gen (2016 model) as an ideal Linux laptop. It's what I switched to after the x220, and I describe it here:

https://amontalenti.com/2017/09/01/lenovo-linux

Fan never turns on, matte display, awesome connectivity, great battery life, and everything on Linux just works.
Noob question: Why is it bad to use for i in range(len(foo))? Because you can just use for bar in foo?
There are 2 OpenSUSE variants, LEAP and Tumbleweed. Their release model has changed maybe 3 years ago.

LEAP is exactly the same package versions as in the newest SLES I believe. I would expect them often to be a bit older package versions than Fedora, but I haven't compared recently.

Tumbleweed is a leading/bleeding edge rolling release distro. The closest equivalent is Fedora Rawhide.
Yes, the only time I hear the fans on my MacBook is when I boot into Windows.
Best is different to everyone.

My top choice = best for Freedom;
X200 or T400 for about £50 to 70. Debian or Trisquel.
£3 or so for a cheap SOIC clip, beg/borrow a Raspberry Pi, and libreboot it.

If you want something more modern (but not as Free);
X250, T450, T550. (13/14/15") Lots on eBay due to high turnover from business. I have an X250 running Debian (one blob for the WiFi). Perfect robust student laptop.
Something often overlooked because it doesn’t fit the “evil professor overworks students” narrative, is that students themselves elect to put in more hours because they feel reaposible for their projects. During my graduate studies I worked under a professor who literally banned lab access to prevent people from working weekends. I hated that rule, but obeyed it, though I know some others snuck in anyways.
Maybe, but many people that used to use Sketch are now using Figma. Adobe is doubling down on XD, and Framer is also rapidly turning into an extremely powerful tool.
Or on locally hosted infrastructure.
I 100% disagree. Even just saying that it was hacked together gives some context for

1) Why the code looks so unconventional

2) What you do in your spare time.
I don’t understand the second paragraph. Could you explain?
I bought two sets of these from Walmart.com: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Corelle-Livingware-Winter-Frost-W...

I remember that the Walmart product description said the mugs were different, but this was a few years ago.

Looking at the Walmart.com description today, it mentions:

"11oz stoneware mugs"

"Mugs are made from a durable stoneware material"

"Mugs are not under warranty"

Of course, I have no recollection of whether this was indicated on the box.
(Video) Origin of Consciousness
This is not fine, as deleting a small file can be very long if there's a large file to be deleted in the trash.
One point five million uploads and counting. What a fucking waste of time, CPU cycles, and bandwidth. For Facebook, it is Whack-a-mole on steroids and meth.

Yet politicians still seem to want more, something along the lines of no anonymity / fully moderated social media. Not going to happen in free countries.
So choose between:

1. A developer who doesn't respect himself first and foremost to write a README/maintainable code so that his future self and others can have an easier time.

2. A developer who cares about communicating his work to himself/others and making the environment easier for everyone to work for the future.

Right.
Why do people have such a hard time accepting this? People readily accept that it's luck for someone to grow to 7 feet tall and become an elite basketball player. Yes, it still takes a lot of hard work to reach the NBA and not everyone that tall makes it, but no amount of hard work can turn a 6 foot tall person into a 7-footer.

I see no reason not to think that everything else about a person is similarly determined by luck, even the fact that someone is a hard worker at all.

I think the biggest myth of all, in Western society, is the myth of laziness. Spend a little time talking to anyone that society brands as lazy (i.e. pot-smoking video gamers) and what you'll find is a discouraged and disillusioned person. What we call "laziness" is really learned helplessness in response to an ever-increasingly complex and unfair society.

If every trait associated with success (intelligence, conscientiousness, grit, drive, determination, etc) were as visible as height, we'd have a much harder time justifying the labelling of people as "lazy."
Meh, if the non-free blobs are included as part of the distro (as they are with the Debian 'non-free' channel, similar to Ubuntu) it's as good as we've ever going to get. Even Intel wifi cards rely on a non-free firmware blob, and will only work with "non-free" Debian.
I would think the dense mass of the pan slowly becomes hot and holds a fair bit of heat. This should be a fairly gentle way to cook, but have the same disadvantages of an electric stove top versus gas - slower to respond to range setting changes. When you turn the stove down the glass would take longer to radiate the heat it absorbed into the food than metal would. Not sure about the mass of typical pans of each material, or heat retention potential of glass vs steel/copper. Slower response to lowering heat could cause food to be burnt.

I haven’t used glass cookware, though I always thought it looked cool as a kid. I do have 20 years of glassblowing experience though.
nilfs2 is my alternative. It's a log-based filesystem that results in continuous checkpoints that can be upgraded to mountable snapshots at any time. Realized you blew away a file you needed? Made large modifications you wish you hadn't? Just find an earlier checkpoint and your good to go.

Backups too. Nothing replaces backups.
Yes. Iterating over a range of integers equal to the length of an iterable is really clunky compared to iterating directly over the iterable. Plus, if you actually want to use one of the elements of the list, for instance, in the body of the loop, you would have to do foo[i] instead of referring to it as bar.
> However, I haven’t bought a Windows laptop for quite a while

Are you talking about buying a laptop with windows pre-installed, or installing windows on a barebones laptop?

I doubt that a laptop with linux preinstalled from e.g. dell requires you to install drivers. It's been a while since I did a barebones windows install, but I would be surprised if no drivers were required.
This is probably a stupid question but with the internet as a distribution method is there anything stopping someone from doing their research independently and publishing on their own? I am sure if you are doing quality work you would still be able to get a hold of a professor somewhere who would be interested in working with you. Of course this would not apply to situations where there is lab equipment involved but I am thinking of the perspective of math, computer science, etc. where the work can be done on any commodity computer.
Lots of academics do “Uber for ice cream but with AI.” Academia is iterative.

Arguably, it’s even less competitive than the real world. It’s theory vs. practice. Guess what’s hard? Getting enough paying customers to be sustainable.
Google Maps gaming platform expands after a year of success stories
The problem with kubic was the unknown space it was in - was it an appliance, or a generic distro with kubernetes packages. The btrfs stuff could have been quite good if they shipped btrfs snapshots as the update mechanism (like coreOS), but there was the pressure from the SLES/openSUSE side to let deployers install random software as needed, which meant you were left with the mess of "zyyper dup" + snapshot + reboot, and not having a known version for doing config updates.

The team behind is really smart, and doing good work - it just needed a forceful vision imposed on it for it to go somewhere.
How Does Zalgo Text Work? Guide to Using and Misusing Unicode Diacritical Marks
> It is still the case that many jobs (like nursing) are not taught at a university, simply because there is no path to academic research.

You can do research as a nurse. There are nurses with PhDs even.
Why in God’s name are you using Kali as a daily driver? Anyone who does this has no idea what they’re doing. Kali is made exclusively for pentesting, with a modified and insecure kernel specifically for running certain pentesting apps better.
Probably the same person who came up with the idea of using widescreens on laptops. At least with keyboards, if you have enough money, you can buy a brand new laptop with mechanical keyboard.

Nobody is even making 4:3 monitors anymore, laptops or not.
I assume you mean computer models?

The problem here is that, although it might be possible to figure out a drug's efficacy by modeling just it's primary mode of action, in order to find it's side effects you have to model every other interaction it might have.

In other words - we can tell whether a drug will kill cancer cells just by looking at how it interacts with cancer cells. But to figure out how it interacts with the rest of the body, you have to be able to model the entire body with nearly perfect fidelity. And this is not just a problem of having insufficient knowledge - although it is that - we just don't understand all of body's systems anywhere near well enough to write such a model) but it's also a compduting power - recall that the protein folding problem is NP-Hard with an enormous number of degrees of freedom. In some cases it can have several hundred degrees of freedom, and the number of cases you have to check scales as the factorial of that.

Maybe someday we'll have numerical techniques that can solve the protein folding problem and other organic chemistry problems using achievable computing power. But we can't today. Even if we had a perfect atom-for-atom model of the human body we couldn't run it.
Check out nilfs, where this is explicit. Every filesystem action results in a checkpoint, and checkpoints are garbage collected only as-needed to maintain free space.
I was surprised when I learned that e + pi is not known to be transcendental. Everyone would be floored if it weren't, but it's still an open question.
This would allow smaller players to step in and to start grinding some market shares of the big players. It would also turn the laptop market from a high margin market to a low margin one. Standardization is just not in the interest of any big player so it's probably never gonna happen. If you are a small player and want to go that direction you're probably gonna be bought out. The only way i see would be to somehow get pervasive open standards and libre schematics implementing them, and then cut out the big players and get several manufacturers to produce them. But that too is hardly gonna happen because of geopolitical problems: most of these manufacturers are domiciled in china and thus this move would cut to much income from western (and korean, japanese) countries. So for that to happen we would have to relocate some manufacturing industry and somehow not put them in the hands of any of our local big players. The problem here is not some problematic business decisions by companies, it's how we organized our economy. It would take radical changes in the economic/industrial policy to make that happen: much stronger anti-trust laws, which would keep companies smaller and force cooperation; public- instead of private-regulated prices so that you don't die to foreign companies' exportation when you start doing that; etc. This would drive cooperation up in all of the economy, take power away from multinationals, reduce waste, hinder "useless innovation". Long road ahead but i think that's what we need and that's what gonna happen at some point anyway: the capitalistic class may still be floating currently, but at some point the systemic crisis (financial instability, natural disasters, political instability, scarcity of energy and other basic resources) is gonna hit them too. What we have to make sure is that they don't get more out-of-sync with that than they currently are.
A friend of mine just told me she's going back to school for a doctorate despite being a successful researcher at an Ivy league school. Basically if she wants to run a lab or lead projects with good funding, she needs the title, even if she doesn't learn much along the way.
We had a T420 for a while, they are nice machines and I think the last of that series where you can wipe the BIOS password without replacing the motherboard.
https://www.thevisioncouncil.org/content/digital-eye-strain

https://www.aoa.org/patients-and-public/eye-and-vision-probl...

etc.

There have been several studies linking myopia and other eye issues to close work, digital eye strain, dry eyes, etc. I leave it to you to find them on your own via google.
I’ve seen your posts before so I am pretty sure you’re a CS PhD student. It is important to remember that getting a PhD in CS is unusually good. There’s a lot of money, limited need for expensive equipment, good job prospects in academia, and little stigma about going into industry.

Also, it seems to me that a culture of abusive behavior and hazing has not yet set in.

None of this is true in the natural sciences, and advisors often do not treat students with even the basic dignity due to any human. This kind of thing is rare in computer science.
And when your actually need the index, generally you use enumerate(foo).
It seems Fuchsia is first to truly realize modularity through software components. Not with the focus on resource sharing (libs/dll's), but probably something similar to talking to a web API's (or smalltalk objects).

So possibly Google is moving to a conceptual world where factories/brokers on the net create instances on behalf of a device, either on the device itself, or on destination devices, which then negotiate with the requesting device and perform the requested service.

The old dream of transparent ubiquitous computing as reflected in Sun's adage "The network is the computer" may become a reality. It seems computing is maturing, finally.
Can someone help me understand why Americans still buy Lenovo computers after Superfish and Lenovo Service Engine?

Why isn't Lenovo as much of a security risk as Huawei?
Like what? Sh? Zsh?
Thanks, that sounds entirely sane. You cleared this up while in the US?

The article makes it sound like living in Korea, and at the exact time some pop star was in the news for seemingly abusing privilege, was part of the reason. Although I'd be a little surprised if any bureaucrat senior enough to care about the news cycle was involved here (without knowing much about Korea).
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There's evidence that the following are beneficial on an asymptomatic population level:

Obesity screening

Blood pressure screening

Cervical cancer screening (pap test) though most medical providers test at the wrong intervals.
It's just an API migration. You can't actually start recycling until you start receiving pre-sorted waste streams, so you roll out the pre-sorted waste streams and just source all of them to the same landfill you've been using. Later, you can source some of the recycling streams (independently of each other, even) to recycling.
> If you start doubting everything around you, what is left is your own mind that must exist since it is thinking and doubting.

Actually, what's left are merely thoughts. Cogito ergo sum actually begs the question: in attempting to establish the existence of "I" (a subject) it assumes the existence of "I".

The fallacy-free version is: this is a thought, therefore thoughts exist. From the existence of thoughts, you cannot deduce that a subject is needed unless you additionally assume that thoughts necessarily need a subject. But do they really?
Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right