skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to offer another perspective on the battery front, that only really matters for casual browsing. Anytime real work is done on a machine, you'll be plugging in within a few hours on everything anyway.

If you're doing CPU/IO intensive development work, they all fall down so quickly that I don't think it matters on the differences. It's really a browsing/videos metric, which is relatively unimportant to me when buying a workstation class laptop. I don't think I'd buy any laptop based on battery life as a primary factor, and the overall usability situation for most stuff on the market isn't as grave as it used to be (which your post accurately recalls).

I've owned the XPS15 with 6-core 8th gen Intel (maxing out the scales at 97Wh battery) and have a Thinkpad X1 Extreme. I've had MBPs in the past too.

For the touchpad on Thinkpads, I think they're pretty good if you're on Windows, most are anymore with MS Windows Precision drivers as the Thinkpads use. For me, a major driver for me towards these is the Trackpoint.

Depending on your usecase, my favorite machines on the market today are the X1 Extreme (development), X1 Yoga (consulting/development), Samsung Notebook 9 Pen 13" (home), and Macbook Air (home).
>why should they resolve the problems with it.

Class-action lawsuits.
Show us the server: https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/6374
Interactive colour science in the browser with Google Colab
I wouldn't doubt that there are genuine concerns, but what Facebook is doing has nothing to do with actual civil liberties, which isn't something that FB grants or could even take away.
> There's nothing fair nor sustainable with this model.

This is an opinion and not fact - it's how it looks from your perspective. The line between what is a smart investment and unfair feudalism is pretty gray, and I am betting people decide how to frame the situation based on how it personally affects them. That is, I am betting everyone is acting in a self-serving manner.

> Not what's good for the SF boomer wanting to sell his shack for 2M and retire in Florida.

This statement comes off as ageist. Why is it wrong for the SF boomer to want to make a gain off their investment and retire elsewhere? This is a core mechanism of every modern society.

> A couple of billionaires in Atherton should have no say on Caltrain improvements that could benefit millions of working people at the expense of a couple of trees in their backyards.

You are cherry-picking. It isn't just a "couple of billionaires in Atherton". But even if it were, why can't they choose to defend their quality of life? Why does everyone have to live in the bay area? This all comes off as people feeling entitled to live in a highly-desirable region, but on terms that suit them.
People start companies in these clusters because there are lots of programmers (to a lesser extend vc money) in those places, and you are more likely to be able to recruit programmers to those places.
This article cites its source as:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/business/boeing-simulatio...

Many questions are still unanswered including the catch all "does this particular variety of MCAS upset look like runaway trim to some pilots, most pilots, or all pilots?"

The 40 seconds part is something of a theoretical construction that just means if you're surprised enough that you only try to fight the plane with yoke elevator control alone (unlikely in my pilot, but not 737 pilot, estimation), you've got merely 40 seconds and that very well could induce panic.

Central to reacting to an emergency is stabilizing the plane enough to buy time, hopefully indefinitely, but even if you've bought 5 minutes that's OK to move on to rational troubleshooting including preparing for an emergency landing. If you don't ever get it stabilized, panic might set in. Even a stable approach to an ocean ditching is better than an uncommanded nose dive, because you know one could end well and the other won't.
I think a more correct title would have been "date storage antipatterns"

storing in UTC is fine as long as your clients are time zone aware and can convert to local and send timestamps with time zone so that the server can convert back to UTC.

the "options" provided are just examples of how not to do it.
Techniques to Make Mobile Call to Action Buttons Intuitive
Theresa May to resign before next phase of Brexit
I think the EU is going to have quite a windfall in court when Apple shuts down the free repair program for these machines.
Wow! Forgive me, but why can’t you just keep them in the same place? My wallet and keys are 100% of the time in the same place when I’m at home, and my phone is either in my pocket, my hand, charging in a specific spot, or on a random surface in the house. That last one is rare, but happens. It takes roughly 30 seconds to walk through the house and find it. What am I missing?
This type of hyperbolic comment doesn't belong on HN.
You are very wise and thoroughly correct!

Perhaps people might consider offering such elegant points as yours, instead of making the claim that the current line is correct and that's all that matters.
Man I hope they don't listen to requests like these. I'm all for an improved screen, arm processor w/ better thermals, better and more reliable keyboard, but the design needs to move forward not backward. I can't imagine how anyone can use a 2012-2015 macbook and think the chassis and keyboard should be reverted to that in 2020. I mean it was great at the time, but would be horribly outclassed today.

Despite various issues with the new mac design, it was a good step forward and by most measures makes the previous generation feel old by comparison. Yes maybe they're over-optimizing for lightness and thinness, but these are indeed important aspects of a portable device and should not be ignored entirely.

They just need to correct the balance a bit more toward the middle, not go back in time.
I'm from Coimbtore, Tamilnadu.

Me & my sister loved reading Misha in the early 90's. Some of the stories where deep.

Is there an online archive for those magazines?

P.S. I'm writing this via kindle & I didn't take any effort to search for it.

Edit:typo
Probably something like:

"We don't encourage people to commit terrorist attacks, we only encourage them to do what it takes to ensure the survival and dominance of the white race."
They work in open offices but ideally grouped together say 10-15 people grouped in an office with an open door.
So separatism is only bad if it targets non-whites?

So when Basques and Catalans say they want to leave because the rest of the country, especially the south, is full of half-moorish lazy fucks, that is cool.

Guess the same about the two halves of Italy.

I don't care as I don't use Facebook, but it's a double standard.
>I think my arms dealer provides a much clearer example of facts removed from tech where people in HN are understandably defensive.

guns are much simpler situation, and this is why it doesn't make the situation clearer. Imagine if that specific gun dealer could look into the brain of a buyer. Would you hold him accountable for not checking the Parkland shooter's brain?

>the law does create liability if the seller knew or should have known the buyer intended to use the good/service in the commission of a crime.

Is SaaS company "should have known" what is in the data it is SaaS-ing? We know that the answer is "yes" for banks according to the explicitly written money laundering, etc. laws. There arent such explicit laws for SaaS, for Facebook, etc. Is Facebook liable if somebody uses it organize a crime like say a bank robbery or an unpermitted protest?
Then you can talk about Russia's Gregorian calendar switch.

The day the Russian revolution began on 25 October 1917, it was 7 November 1917 in England.
Thank you. Free speech isn't just an amendment for the government, it's a principle for society.

If Facebook were a television station with limited air time for a single track, it would be perfectly valid for them to decide (reasonably) who gets air time. However, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have infinite tracks and time. I don't think the OPs argument is as strong, with that in mind.
Boeing 737 Max Makes Emergency Landing in Orlando After Engine Trouble
They support a vast number of currencies and a vast number of payment methods.
> [Rent control policy] will tend throw currently homeless people under the bus.

Precisely the opposite is true. Uncontroversially the immediate effect of abolishing rent control will be to create more homeless.

Rent control does not apply to new construction in many cities such as SF, so it does not affect the incentive to build. The mechanism by which abolishing rent control might lower prices somewhat for wealthier people moving into the city is by clearing out the less fortunate who have built lives here, adding their units to the market. Those that have nowhere else to go will become homeless.
>Our efforts to combat hate don’t stop here. As part of today’s announcement, we’ll also start connecting people who search for terms associated with white supremacy to resources focused on helping people leave behind hate groups. People searching for these terms will be directed to Life After Hate, an organization founded by former violent extremists that provides crisis intervention, education, support groups and outreach.

The fact that they're readily going down the slippery slope of propaganda by identifying people with Wrong(TM) beliefs and directing them at the Right(TM) beliefs does not sit well with me. Censorship aside, this is a different issue and a very dangerous precedent for a "platform" to be setting IMO.
With respect, putting a bad idea in quotation marks doesn't make it a good idea. Mencken was extremely intelligent, but applied over-broadly, the concept embodied in this quote implies we should defend even murderers against the oppression of banning murdering.

I much prefer "Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake."
What does it mean to be an anti-racist conservative, and what do you think about the conservatism movement in that you have to use that extra qualifier?
And what about more complex things? Twitter and Twitch bans people who question some of the modern beliefs on gender ideology, even if they bring up the discussion respectfully.

Not to mention, it just means extremists go to platforms that welcome them (Voat, Gab and others). That means platforms that use to have a big mix of views, like Reddit, are now horribly one sided and those other platforms are all extremist.

Keep in mind, we're not seeing the "right" or "moral" view. We're seeing Twitter/Facebook/Reddit's CEOs/Mods/deciders views.
Most conservatives claim to be anti-racist, and then go on to support systemically racist institutions such as gentrification, police militarization, union-busting, or charter schools.

What makes you actually anti-racist?
Best vote for the winner.
Why I like Wire in this regard, they seem to have their front-end and back-end open sourced. I believe their servers AGPL licensed, but it still allows you to run your own instance. Sadly people are highly more likely to use either Signal or KeyBase than Wire, which I think is my favorite since it doesn't tie you to a phone number (tip: register from the desktop first), and you can delete all your account information.
Yes, but all that is just as true for the role of actually getting someone to fork over money. Witness the huge graveyard of interesting ideas built by talented engineers who can’t sell or market to save their lives.
>You can be separatist if it's not by race.

Except you can't, which is why for example "Islamophobia" is a thing. Things that should be ideologically separate are inevitably tied back to race/ethnicity, because nobody seems to know how to separate race/ethnicity from ideology in debate. Just listen to how much flak Sam Harris gets on the subject.
> I never understood Tile and the rest.

People lose things.
It is a start.
Facebook and YouTube are private corporations and have no obligation to platform any idea. They have the freedom to remove any content on their platforms they like, and your freedom of speech doesn't trump theirs. Of course, you can continue saying whatever it is you like -- you just have to find a platform for it yourself.
> Averaged over all 13 data points in the figure, the average expected length of stay in a single-family home is 11.4 years for first-time buyers, and 14.8 years for buyers who have owned a home before.

I'm not sure how long the average landlord owns a rental property but I would be incredibly surprised if it was longer than this.
A lot of this article is about benchmark construction methodology and performance optimizations. If you just want to see a cross-browser JavaScript performance comparison, scroll to the bottom.
Yeah, though playing as Malkavian in Bloodlines really pays off once you finished the game a few times using other clans. Too many things are only hinted and hard to understand without knowing the broader context.

I hope they won't mess it up in the sequel.
There's a Youtube channel called something like 'AI Channel' that has relevant talks. LeCun did a big one a few months ago. Hinton has had at least one Google Talk.
I think email works really well as a federated solution. Mastodon is trying to make a Twitter clone that works more like email. That's the logical evolution here IMO. Eventually, we probably arrive at something truly decentralized on a blockchain governed by smart contracts, but that's not at all needed to replace the major platforms. A federated answer similar to email would be good enough. Then each server in the federation can choose what content to replicate or ban.
> Strangely, I'm not seeing a wide enough condemnation of this. Another country is building destructive weapons, bringing down LEOs; how is this a good thing?

I've seen some criticism from certain individuals. However, I haven't read any condemnation from any Western government(as yet). I'm not sure but Western governments(or at least the US government) was probably taken into confidence either before the event or soon after the test. Considering that China already has this tech, it becomes paramount for India to have it. I think this is generally supported by the US(the government) as well.

> All the while the region suffers from chronic poverty, poor access to clean water and basic services.

Developing such such security apparatus doesn't mean we are ignoring poverty and other essential things. Both can be done simultaneously, just like the US did(explained by a sibling comment).
No please.
Normally UBI is considered to be sort of a truce between the left and the right

By whom? There is nothing outlandish about implementing UBI without gutting every other aspect of the social safety net, it's just that the interests against it want their pound of flesh in exchange for any increase in social services.

For instance, all of this could be paid for with a tiny portion of the US defense budget.
Why are you even applying to work for someone else's company then if you're so super rich? If you're gonna be arrogant you can expect many companies to shut the door for you.
I remember too. Wonderful books at throwaway prices. I remember Ya Perelman's books on physics. Also a wonderful book just on limits which helped me understand the concept in a way which no other maths book could. And we also used to have beautifully illustrated magazines. I still have many of these books. I think Ya Perelman really made me fall in love with Physics.
Yes, this is what I'll need to do every time, which is crazy to adapt your code to the tools and then back again.

And it's even

val n = customer.getName()
val f = n.firstName
service.withname(f)

Gladly with Some/None NPEs happen seldom with Scala but they do from interfacing with Java libs from time to time.
The other main way for it to play out would be to vote in some left wing style wealth redistribution. That kind of thing does happen. Maybe not just now but if Google and Amazon's AGI robots were taking over everything I could see a vote in that direction.
They are free to express this content on any other platform, including their own.
No one’s mentioned the obvious here. We have computers so we don’t have to remember basic things. It’s far more useful to know a thing exists and what words will help you search for it. Being able to build things through first principles will mean you understand things better, but doesn’t make it required. It’s not clear to me why you are implementing things that should already exist in a library, but I will say, if you are slower than coworkers, and that this is indeed a problem, then turn it into a strength.

I have a sort of mild dislexia, where I tend to confuse my perspective. For example, am I looking at a local minimum or a local maximum? The plus side is I’m super creative, but the down side is I have to constantly make sure to double check my work. As a result, I can be much slower developing software, but because I’m paranoid, my code tends to be less bug prone.

What I’m trying to say, is if you find you’re slower than coworkers, then make sure your quality is higher as a byproduct of this slowness. The main thing about work, is it’s literally not a competition, teams work better when we each work to our strengths.
Related is how use rust "as a library". I wish I could "compiler to rust":

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-first-class-suppor...
From my perspective, Medium is little more than a place to host blog articles. I've never discovered other posts on Medium, only through other sources, like HN or Reddit, and I've probably read hundreds of Medium posts over the past few years. In fact, I don't think I've ever visited Medium's home page.

I don't really know why this issue—it's certainly not something I've done consciously. Perhaps it's the continual barrage of popups that makes me unconsciously distasteful of Medium, or the fact that it appears to be monotonous. When I arrive at someone's blog on their personal website, I always click around and explore because the whole site is a personal expression, but reading Medium feels like walking through a faceless, generic office building.
I can't emphasize enough how important these books were in shaping my childhood in a rural town in India. I still vividly remember making a fuss when Misha and Sputnik stopped after the fall of Soviet. A part of me is forever indebted to Russia for this.

Given the strong Communist presence in Andhra Pradesh, the state I am from, we were lucky to have a great number of these books translated to Telugu, by no less than legends like Sri Sri.

I have some of the children's books uploaded on my blog at http://linkdot.link/sooviytt-prcurnnlu-childrens-books.html

PS: I named my daughter Aelita after the science fiction classic.
Most "nationalism" is based on physical location and community and you're not going to get a lot of support for banning that.
Here's another story that ain't so glamorous:

BS Physics 2008. Somehow landed a 'dream' job with a major DoD contractor, despite the recession (total miracle). They closed up our plant, due to the recession, in 2010 and I moved to a smaller contractor. Got through the whole clearance process only to find that my (now) spouse was a lot better choice than the rest of my team. Good work, but the heart wants what it wants. Jumped with no safety net, and got into neuroscience where my spouse got into grad school. Worked there for free for a few years and got into grad school. Boy, was that a mistake! Horrible grad experience in neuroscience and quit with an MS. Was unemployed for about a year with a nasty depression and health issues in the family. Finally working in DBA stuff and data science. Still love bio/medtech and neurosci, but there just aren't the jobs here (need to stay local due to family health issues).

Overall, not that bad considering the recession, doing about average against my other graduates of 2008. Still, the corporate DBA stuff is ungodly boring and the family health issues aren't a snack.

In the end, we all try really hard, but kids, health is everything. Everything else falls to the floor in the face of health issues.
Introduction to Time Series in R
Now that's a policy that folks across the aisle should be able to unite behind (provided that it only entails disclosure of repair details vs. dictates design requirements, which is a different matter entirely).
http://vision.stanford.edu/teaching/cs131_fall1415/lectures/...
I think terrorist content is different from nationalism/racism. The latter is still a deeply held belief. Regardless of how we feel about it, everyone has the right to feel love or hate or superiority.

This is really a failure of state to install controls and protections from out of control elements. This is a breakdown of state measures to deter/punish unlawful acts and failure to protect WHEN actions occur rather than breakdown of society.

One cannot make an entire society conform. To me, that’s terrorism too.
> I mean it was great at the time, but would be horribly outclassed today.

By what?
>and assume there's money behind it.

I mean there is always going to be money behind anything. It's largely how our society works.

You instead should ask yourself what end goal the money is being spent for.
OK here's a better alternative. Instead of rent control on a per-unit basis, cities could provide subsidies to long-term low-income residents that reduce their personal expenditure on rent. The subsidies would be paid for through taxes, thus amortizing the subsidy across the local tax base instead of impacting an individual landlord or unit.

But let me note that this must be done only for long-term residents (that is, those who have been there for years). For example, if someone moved to SF within the last 5 years, they should have known what the price of living there is. This is one of the most desirable cities, and it makes sense that it would be expensive and that not everyone would get to live there. Those moving there in recent years therefore, simply made an irresponsible personal choice and must yield to the consequences, rather than being subsidized at others' expense.
Did you read the sentence right below that conveniently cropped screenshot?

| Searches for terms associated with white supremacy will surface a link to Life After Hate’s Page, where people can find support in the form of education, interventions, academic research and outreach.
facebook only moderates posts in English

There was plenty of videos of the NewZealand shooter still up on Brazilian facebook
I think that was my point, though poorly made. Hiring someone to just do that negligible bit of sales and marketing seems a little dismissive, and much harder in practice than someone might think. Better to stick with a cofounder or develop those skills yourself.
> "Where does it end?"

It ends, as it always does (and must) with massive hypocrisy on the part of the arbitrary censor, since "harm" is so poorly defined that it ends up being replaced with "whatever seems fashionable today".
Without delving too deeply, because I don't want to engender any negative emotions: do you take the people who openly advocate genocide against you seriously?

If you do and it doesn't cause you to experience any negative emotions, I am surprised.

If you don't, I am also surprised. In light of what has happened in Pittsburgh and Christchurch.
One step at a time. Facebook is based in the US so it makes sense to tackle problems occurring in the US first.
Totally with you on the accurate labeling: this isn't censorship.

This is deplatforming, which is entirely different.

> This sentence indicates they're picking and choosing which ideologies to censor. [...] This is wrong [...] This is censorship of political thought, not censorship of "hate speech"

Are you saying that hate speech comes off of a vacuum?

These two concepts do overlap.