skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"earlier ARMs didn't even have a divide instruction,"

Hah. That's interesting. I think that the cheaper variants of the AMD 29000 had the same feature.

A voice in my head tells me that divides for realtime video transforms used to really be a trip.
You make excellent points, and I think the unfortunate answer is regulation will be required.
>Explain again why saying "I don't accept your claim that there is a god" is irrational?

I addressed that in what I wrote.
I am using Asus Zenbook UX430. Everything except fingerprint works out of box. Getting 6+ hours of battery life with kubuntu 18.10 installed. Also it is decently priced.
I wonder if you would have the same reaction if this was a Pakistani kid, for instance. There’re lots of talented Nigerian immigrants all over the world - this kid won’t be the first lost to the US. And there are lots more talented kids that couldn’t make it out to the US, in Nigeria and in other developing countries.
> The context we we're talking about was specifically taken in terms of intelligence. Or "potential". If you want to make the argument that intelligence potential is affected by your ethnicity, you are free to do so, though I doubt such ideas will be well received :)

The Sam Harris crowd loves this argument
Highest possible recommendation. It is one of the great food books.
Pretty happy on a Thinkpad X230 over here. Cheap as dirt and upgradable/repairable. Battery life is a few hours with a fresh battery. If I got another I'd probably pick up an X1 Carbon.

After my last ASUS laptop I will never buy a non-business laptop again.

If you stick with the Mac, it's not as good as a real tiling WM but I find Amethyst helps.
It's worth noting that the Washington Post (owned by Jeff Bezos) only costs $100/year for Amazon Prime members, who also get the first six months free.

Having said that, I tried it out and canceled before the six month trial expired. Personally, I just didn't find the quality to be THAT much higher than CNN. Just non-stop Trump ranting, more or less op-ed content on the front page section, etc.

I've settled into a habit of using the junk cable news sites for "breaking" stories, and getting more in-depth content from The Atlantic (left-leaning perspective) and The Economist (right-leaning perspective). Both of which I can read digitally for free via my local public library.

(I actually started paying for The Atlantic, because it's only $20/yr and I feel good about supporting them. The Economist is ten times that amount, so I don't feel THAT good!)
I mean their overpriced and look absolutely stupid.
Airpods seem to be entirely an US thing and a result of great marketing. If anyone could convince people to buy and wear this it would be apple in USA.
But marginal cost differences aren't what's driving demand for vacation rentals. The difference in cost is huge, and there's no way around that in a lot of tourist destinations. A nice vacation rental in my town that can sleep a dozen people can be had for under $300 in the high season. Three hotel rooms, with less space, smaller beds, and no kitchen, will cost you two to three times that. Don't take my word for it; look at rates right now in and around Dillon/Silverthorn. Connected suites and a kitchenette might be the exclusive realm of luxury resort hotels, maybe a casino hotel if you're willing to drive another hour or so, and the price will be higher yet.

We're pretty far in weeds here with talk of ingredients and prep and whatnot. Like I said, for family accommodation, with the flexibility of a kitchen and laundry, there is no competition of any kind from hotels in my neck of the woods, and there probably never will be. It's not even close. My only competition is from other vacation rentals, and all us little guys currently contribute a big chunk of our town's tourism revenue.
I've been saying the same since last year. I'm finally picking it up just trying to use it for regular everyday scripting work. It's been slow but atleast I'm starting now.
From what I understand, it can't even negotiate a traffic light.

Like here's a recent article swooning over it coming out sometime soon:

https://electrek.co/2018/12/09/tesla-autopilot-soon-traffic-...

The article there also says that the more capable version will require new hardware, which isn't something they have been admitting very readily over the years.
The passage says “will” which implies the future.
There's risk of dying every time I get behind the wheel of any car. There's no benefit to pretending real risk doesn't exist in any given scenario. I'm confident that I can be attentive and cautious enough using this tech to keep the risk similar to what it would be just driving normally.
That is pretty nice, but i note that they don't reach up to 40hz.
> In the end, are you really sure you want the world to block us?

Yes. Let's end the cycle of pretending that we can prevent information from being free.

Copyright is a dinosaur of an idea that belongs in the annals of history and out of the present.
Do you somehow imply that wireless earbuds didn't exist lol? We've had them for _years_. I used to go to the pool with a set that was also _water-proof_ like 3 years ago, watch out for the _new_ waterproof airpods coming out!
I was making a point about not buying news organizations that are peddling clickbait.

I don't think my choice of subscriptions illustrates the point that I am a consumer who buys news that suits my point of view. You are making the assumption that Conservative={Bloomberg, WSJ, Economist} (I would not call two of those three conservative) and therefore I am a conservative who refuses to read Liberal={...}

What it actually represents is someone who is sick of modern political discourse, tired of clickbait with false headlines and just wants classical news that can keep me informed of world events, specially financial events that may impact my daily decision making.

I want to pay people who will keep me informed, not people who want a slice of my attention or a slice of my emotional energy.
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> I replaced my workstation and gaming computer with this setup and am finally down to one-device nirvana.

That's a tantalizing option, what kind of gaming do you do on it?

I'm at a point where I'm ready to have one computer, but while I don't do very much gaming any more I do like to pick up new games.
The biggest advantage to the cellular bands is that they are exclusively licensed, so noise is a non-issue, or at least an issue that you are in control of, since you are the only one allowed to build infrastructure in a given area.

Cell carriers have a wide variety of bands they can deploy, from frequencies above 1GHz, which doesn't propagate well through free space or obstructions, but allows for high-density, high-bandwidth use, to frequencies below 1GHz (600, 700 and 800MHz bands in the US), which propagate well in free space and reasonably well around and through obstructions (but cant be deployed with as high a density, since signals propagate well).

That being said, the infrastructure is the biggest advantage.

My gut says that absent FCC regulations and allocations, for wide area coverage something like 500-900 MHz is an ideal spot between propagation and required antenna size. Guess where TV stations are (historically at least)?
I have a "summer of code" project. I'm a founder of Distribute Aid [1], a Swedish ngo that builds tech tools for refugee aid groups. We're an open source project [2] and are looking for people who can contribute.

There are opportunities to join us on the ground in Europe, or to volunteer remotely. We try to take a people-first approach and will match volunteers up with tasks / projects that they are most interested in. It's a great fit for students looking to build their resume while making substantial contributions to an important project.

If anyone is interested in learning more, shoot me an email at taylor /at/ distributeaid.org

[1]: https://distributeaid.org

[2]: https://gitlab.com/users/distribute-aid/projects
The cars are brilliant pure and simple, minor defects get eclipsed.

Nothing out there comes close to Autopilot. It's biggest problem is it works 99% of the time and people trust it too much.

It's also worth noting you are NOT meant to be using it in work zone. A point a lot of comments seem to completely ignore.

https://www.tesla.com/content/dam/tesla/Ownership/Own/Model%...
I have not, my assessment is based on the paper magazine. Sad to hear they are chasing clicks.
Warning: Autosteer is intended for use
only on highways and limited-access
roads with a fully attentive driver. When
using Autosteer, hold the steering wheel
and be mindful of road conditions and
surrounding traffic. Do not use Autosteer
on city streets, in construction zones, or
in areas where bicyclists or pedestrians
may be present. Never depend on
Autosteer to determine an appropriate
driving path. Always be prepared to take
immediate action. Failure to follow these
instructions could cause damage, serious
injury or death.

https://www.tesla.com/content/dam/tesla/Ownership/Own/Model%...
I utterly despise hotels for vacations. They always make me feel stressed out and claustrophobic. Waking up ungodly early to make the breakfast buffet (and no kitchen for a leisurely breakfast), dodging housekeeping (and worrying about something getting stolen), universally shitty wifi, sometimes no fridge to keep your own drinks in, expensive laundry.

Whole-home-style rentals are always more relaxing, and the only reason I've used AirBnB. I have friends who feel the same way, so I'm not alone. Are we a minority? Possibly. But we exist.
> And also I would point out that there is a strong survivorship bias in Gall's law. All sustainable complex systems built up incrementally that are still around are by definition an example of success. But we don't actively see the resource cost of incrementalist dead-ends, or the limitations.

I don't see this as a problem. As expressed, Gall's Law describes necessary conditions for success, not sufficient conditions. Not all evolutions of simple systems will work, but according to the law not starting with a simple system will always result in failure.

There's still undoubtedly plenty to criticize, and I'm sure there's a law somewhere saying that all simple laws are wrong, but this law does express a coherent logical proposition.
That's what I want to hear, thanks.
When living there, Stevenson wrote the beach of Falesa, a thriller about the rivalry between the white protagonist, a newcomer copra trader, and a colonial of the old guard who has become somewhat of a cult leader on the island.

It's a short read, but exciting, and still feels very modern. There's a touching love story in the background between the trader and his native wife, that feels fresh and open-minded and gives the story more color than for example the oppressive sickness and despair of the more famous Heart of Darkness, which is also a novella that essentially develops the same themes.

I'd recommend Stevenson. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide is still a great mystery, ideal for that lazy afternoon on the beach.
Actually the ginger is not a palate cleanser: it is used to dip into the soy sauce so that that can be spread evenly and delicately on top of the sushi which allows one to avoid clumsily dipping the sushi. People seldom do this, but a Japanese sushi chef would tell you this.
And we're also taught a fair number of facts that are just plain wrong as well. Or at least I was.
To be honest though, I'm surprised the VR porn industry hasn't really taken off. Though that's hardly the driver of high end rigs, but rather more towards something lower end.
Good GOD man, WHY
I know the daughter of the architect. The few times she's posted about neighborhood drama related to this house on Facebook, I'm always very impressed by how many people come out that both know and have fond memories of this house.
I have an Oryx Pro as well. When I don’t need the power, I find myself grabbing my iPad with “Pencil”. It’s probably a function of what I do. When I’m not coding or playing a game, I’m reading papers and writing math.

When I’m on the go, I’m not looking to do the kinds of things I do at work.
I'd like to start harvesting rainwater instead of relying on a well, but these 'spurts' you're talking about will the primary issue with a catching system. I'll probably just make a quick gravel->sand->activated charcoal filter in order to capture the bulk droppings, bugs, or whatever runs down the collection surface.
Although "Brownies" is rather cringe-worthy, I routinely write out problems just before going to sleep, and often awake with solutions.
No. Palmer Luckey even said so:

https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-founder-palmer-luckey-price-...

http://palmerluckey.com/free-isnt-cheap-enough/
I've been doing this too for a while now. I find it super easy to just git clone my public dotfiles repo when I'm on a new machine and have my dev environment up and ready in seconds.

With that said, you gotta be careful what you have in your aliases. Depending on how you set it up, you might have cascading errors as some package PATHs are installed in different directories and not cross platform centric.
Just got mine on the Presidents' Day sale. Not Linux rn but as a Hackintosh it's working pretty well apart from SD card reader, not reading fan sensors in iStat Menus / HWMonitor / Mac Fan Control and slow WiFi after sleep. iMessage, FaceTime, most Synaptics gestures working fine.

- 20L5

- WQHD

- larger extended battery

- Quad-core i7-5550U

- lighted keyboard

- 16 GiB (will upgrade later to 32 or 64 if unofficially-supported)

- Swapped WiFi to DW1830 and added a third antenna

- Samsung 970 Pro 1 TB + Lenovo SSD tray (took off the retail SSD label on one side for the heat-spreader thermal adhesive)

Looking on Amazon/eBay/AliExpress for vinyl art (Banksy perhaps) to cover up the ThinkPad logo or maybe having it vinyl wrapped with the stuff used on cars (heat-shrunk).
Because if I have to use DataBricks then I need to have things as notebooks, something that I'm desperately trying to migrate the team I work in away from so that we can have actually maintainable code that gets deployed, monitored and held to the same rigour/maintainability that we hold normal dev code to.

Also, being forced to use a cluster is such catastrophic overkill for so, so many tasks. I have teammates wanting to use spark/databricks just to process a handful of files in S3 totalling a few gb tops. Realistically we could do the same work, in a single container with Python/Julia/Scala/language of choice in same or less amount of time and with an order of magnitude more maintainability.
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There are a few things that "real" 3d is useful for, 3d modelling, cad, games, art, movies, ... Basically entertainment + modelling real world 3d things.

For most of what we do on a computer I don't think so though. Text based communication (social media, email, etc), reading books, writing documents, doing accounting, etc. These are all tasks that don't have any intrinsic third dimension, and since the information needs to be projected to a 2d surface regardless (the back of your eyeball) you can't really pack more information in by taking advantage of the third dimension.

I'm sure the third dimension will be used for "modern design" reasons, maybe you'll scroll through planes that come at you from farther away to switch "tabs" (android already basically does that on 2d displays), and we'll probably have some 3d equivalent of gifs, but I think most content really remains a 2d texture on a plane.

Even if I'm wrong, I'm sure the first iterations will be mostly plane based, just because that's what the existing software knows how to render to.
I can't speak for The Atlantic because I don't read it, but I wouldn't categorize The Economist as right-leaning. Its positions on various issues are too nuanced; I think it would be more accurate to decompose its views into economic and social issues. Then you end up with something that looks economically conservative and socially progressive. But even that sort of leaves out a lot of details that tend to get smoothed over in more mainstream political discourse.

Take a look at the Wikipedia page covering The Economist's editorial stance[1]. In particular, note their presidential endorsements and their respective positions on climate change, drug decriminalization/legalization and American military action in Afghanistan and Iraq.

To drill into a specific example, consider that they've historically endorsed Democratic presidential candidates more often than not; on the other hand they endorsed George W. Bush in 2000 because they agreed with his, "small government, pro-market philosophy".

While they haven't done it in recent memory, they have in the past abstained from making any specific endorsement for a presidential candidate. More recently they haven't shied away from criticizing both candidates.[2]

____________________

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_editorial_stance

2. Here's a fun one: in 2004 The Economist very weakly (and sardonically) endorsed Kerry by saying, "The incompetent George W. Bush or the incoherent John Kerry." In contrast they gave two ringing endorsements for Obama.
As far as I can tell, being a large successful technology company is anti-competitive behavior in the EU. This fine, and the multi-billion dollar fine last year, and the multi-billion dollar fine the year before that all are apparently for violations from 2008-2016, before Google had wised up to the fact that the EU was going to get out of fines what it couldn't get out of taxes. There will be another multi-billion dollar fine next year. There will be another multi-billion dollar fine the year after that. Technology companies are sufficiently dependent on economies of scale that the commission will never run out of "anti-competitive practices" to fine them for and it will never be the right financial move to fracture enough to escape the commission's gaze. The whole Irish tax haven thing was crafty, but the EU has figured out how to get its slice of the pie.
The ideal method that I'll set up eventually would be rainwater catching. That should prevent heavy metal infiltration. Although in this particular area there are airborne pesticide applications in the summer, so I'll have to keep a close eye out for that...
I did this on the Gear VR (which actually has better resolution than the original Rift), and it was amazing. The streams would die once in a while, but it was SO fun to watch. You could switch around to different views while you were watching, too. Timeouts made me feel like I was there when they didn't cut to commercials. :)
The working prototype of my cyberdeck is complete
> I'm being facetious here but what if I told you that nearly all machines are virtual machines? Your CPU doesn't really execute instructions, it interprets them by first translating them to microcode.

Well that’s not true.
This is that weird future shit I was hoping would start to happen.
http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/06/12/frequentism-and-bay...
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But named-args in Python are also syntactic sugar for passing dictionaries around. Object-unpacking of the the kind described here is another one.
I have no idea how the existing recommendation algorithms work.

But as a parent without white listing ... not sure I trust them.

As far as google goes they were founded based on search, and search doesn't ask you what you want. Google doesn't ask me what ads I want, they don't ask me what news I want. In fact when they let me say "no news from this source" or "i'm not interested in this topic".... they still just sent me that news anyway, even over things I said I wanted to see.

It seems clear at this point that AI, or whatever overly complected Python script everyone uses will be pointed AT US, not for us.
I've got a Macbook 12 (2017), and it's surprisingly fast - I think it's definitely viable for iOS app development, as long as you have it hooked up to an external screen.

I find that Xcode is a little cramped on the notebook screen if you have all of the panels open, but if you can close at least one of them, there's enough room to work.

I only have 8 gigs of ram in the Macbook (I have a Macbook Pro I use as my daily driver with 16 gigs), and that seems to be fine with Xcode, as long as I use Safari instead of Chrome, and don't keep Android Studio open at the same time.
This common in many competitive activities, unfortunately. I had the chance to represent my country at the Olympics for my sport (I'd rather not reveal which one for privacy reasons), but I chose to retire and pursue a university education instead.

I have none of the most desirable physical traits for my sport and I was coached by my mother, who is obese and has no background in the sport herself, until I was almost a teenager and the national team coaches discovered me. I excelled because if I didn't my mother would physically, verbally, and emotionally abuse me. It was only by destroying my opponents that I was spared of her wrath. I too hope this kid is able to find solace in chess and that it brings him peace and enjoyment instead of acting as a catalyst for pain.
"when you price something, rich people buy more of it because they have more money. If the price you've assigned to the risk is actually proportional to the cost being imposed by taking it, you really don't need to stop them. Just let them pay for the risk in money. Then use the money to pay for safety improvements or compensate victims or whatever you like..."

So don't try to stop rich people from driving drunk and killing people, for instance? Just let them do it and then pay off the victims and the victims' families?

Is that really what you're suggesting?

Somehow I suspect you'd reconsider if someone you cared about was killed in a DUI accident. No amount of money can bring them back.
Techno-fascism doesn't scare me, but techno-communism does!
Live in Tokyo and couldn't agree more.

I've been to Mt. Mitake a few times, where wasabi makes up a nice portion of the economy. Towards the top of the mountain, you can literally smell the wasabi in the air. It's kind of the locals' gimmick as well to put wasabi in everything -- pretty sure I saw wasabi ice-cream.

The fresh "real" stuff is quite earthy, and frankly, I find unpleasant in any significant quantity. I bought quite a bit last time I was there and tried to learn to appreciate it. Ending up going bad in the fridge.

Give me good old horseradish any day.
Isn't the point of `make` that it doesn't build stuff that doesn't need to be rebuilt? Am I missing something?