skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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In the same boat over here. I have ~$3K budgeted and ready for a new laptop but I am holding on to my 2013 MBP because of the current generation's keyboard.

I have my fingers crossed that they will redesign the MBP and fix the keyboard before my 2013 dies. Hope springs eternal.
A fancy $5 coffee drink looks, tastes, and smells different from a 50 cent cup of coffee.

A kilowatt hour of electricity that came from the dirtiest coal plant in the universe and a kilowatt hour of electricity that came from whatever the cleanest source is are completely indistinguishable when they come out of my sockets and go into my appliances.
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I disagree; good DRM is transparent and unnoticeable, and if that is the case then users do not care.

Who does care about DRM is pirates and content creators whose content is shown without them earning off of it.

Yes I am aware of fair use exceptions, but fair use should exempt a user from getting sued over using a fragment of copyrighted content; it does NOT force a content creator from offering their content open for downloading and republishing, even if it's for fair use.
>> Wish Lenovo could match up with form factor and screen quality.

The Carbon X1 has a nice 2560x1440 HDR screen and similar form factor.

Then they also have the X1 Extreme and P1 if you want 64GB of memory or a 15" version. And the T480S which hyou can still upgrade yourself, but isn't quite as slim.
Gremlin Announces Spinnaker Integration for “Continuous Chaos”
why you are not using WebView on Desktop? something like this https://deskgap.com instead of using Electron
Sure, that sounds like the code I write too. What I meant by FP as an overarching principle was stuff like wrapping side effects in monads and generally pretending your program is just a math routine that happens to include a few side effects. I don’t find that a useful way to organize programs.
I went with a System76 laptop for precisely this reason.
I’m considering the same. What ThinkPad/Linux and does everything work?

I used to be a huge Think Pad fan, and wouldn’t mind going back that way
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Mine are all remote, and are sparsebundle file systems, which I’ve not yet found a way to read in a reasonable way
are you turbocharged or just suffering severe insomnia and anxiety?
Google enforcing VMP for Widevine from May 30
That's great, but can energy that has been stored in a battery still be called green?

edit: apparently that was a stupid question...
Selective Klotho Re-uptake Inhibitors? SKRIs?
There’s a nice online collection of these style puzzles at https://www.brainbashers.com/today.asp. I usually do the hardest Slitherlink, Hitori, and Ranges problems daily, for years now.
https://github.com/LevPasha/Instagram-API-python
I think the 2015 MBP is my favourite so far.

But you should be able to find a range of models available from 2011/2013 - 2016 refurbished at a number of dealers for much cheaper than a new model—if you don't think you need the CPU upgrade, etc.

I wish these guys were available to Canada: https://www.macofalltrades.com/

Thankfully there's a guy in my neighbourhood who has been doing the same thing for a number of years (only on a much smaller scale) who I'll likely go to in order to replace my ailing 2013 MBP soon enough.

edit: You can even find replacement 2011's for not far past $1000.
No more sleazy than a beverage company taking free public tap water in mass and reselling it to the public...and serving threatening cease and desist letters for anyone who attempts to drink the public tap water for free alleging they don’t have such rights because the public tap water is owned by said company.
I had the same thing with my 2016. The USB-C sockets lose their 'grip' over time.
> so we can help with customer success.

Lol. Your privacy policy says you do much more with user info than 'customer success'.
> it does NOT force a content creator from offering their content open for downloading and republishing, even if it's for fair use.

But being able to use the fair use rights means that you must not be sued for breaking the DRM on your own.
For me the issue with slack isn't that it's always-on (because as you said, you can log off, or turn notifications off), it's that it's an unstructured forum for ideas. I think it foments shallow commenting/debating over deeper conversations and planning.

Of course all these problems can be fixed with "culture" but I think the tool itself rewards instant-replies, since conversations quickly move into the past, where "out of sight is out of mind".
I agree. I shouldn't have added 'were hacked'. It distracts from what I'm trying to say. Your conclusion that I'm saying is a recipe for putting off work is exactly opposite of what I'm trying to say.

My point was that you should have a certain set of sane engineering principles (security being one area they should cover). They should be sufficient to todays standards. These principles are not/should not be business goals: they are tools in achieving goals in a responsible and reproducible way.

I am also saying that if you get feedback that these principles are keeping you from you should include them your evaluation in determining next steps to move forward without dictating a specific manner of how you should deal with them; that's up to the specific situation at hand.
> However, if you want "proper" peer reviewed & published.

So, why would you want "proper" peer review nowadays? It should be a means to achieve something else. Just for the challenge?

I mean besides arXiv there are many ways you can get your knowledge out there if you want to give people free (or even paid) access to it. This will also create a lot of Feedback if it's the least bit interesting.

If you want your knowledge to generate new products and companies you will also find that Startups nowadays don't wait for peer review before they launch.

So the only practical reason I can see is if you want to get funding. And Then you use the funding to create more papers. To… well… get more funding.

TL;DR: If you think about that you want to have "proper" peer review meaybe you should spend some time thinking about what you actually want to achieve and if there aren't better ways to get there.
"I tried creating an Electron app with Widevine support and Google won't let me."
In that case, all it takes is the cooperation of the authors to publish their content elsewhere. The question is whether the professors are only okay providing it to you, or if they're okay with it being made openly available. If they retain the rights, it should be fine for it to be published in parallel elsewhere.

I was a bit careful about stating that its all on the authors, as it is entirely legal for the author to give up their rights to a work (and I wouldn't have been surprised if the journals did that to avoid risk of lost revenue), in which case the hands of the authors' would be bound.
Creating Responsive Components for Your Design System: Navigation Bar
CPU and graphics are sadly the only things I can't upgrade about my old MBP. It's got 1 TB SSD and 16 GB RAM now, which makes it feel a lot younger than it really is. I also don't have any problems with keyboards and hinges yet, so I'm hoping this one will still last me a long time, but I'm getting increasingly aware that I should prepare for a replacement. This can't last forever.

(I also replaced the fans because they were too noisy, but that didn't help. Closing browser tabs did help though. I still haven't replaced the battery, despite it's been telling me for years now that it needs to be replaced. I don't think there's anything else that can be replaced.)
Since VMP is not supported on Linux, this will result in Linux users being blocked from streaming Widevine protected content or only receiving lower quality streams unless the streaming service explicitly opts out of VMP enforcement.

Amazon has already started enforcing VMP today, with Linux users being restricted to SD streaming only.
The macbook keyboard sucks. I have 2018 Macbook pro and i believe 5-9 keys have dust inside them and they behave erratically.
you can't rest your fingers on the "keys" before pressing them

you can't feel what "key" you will be pressing

you get no feedback when you press a "key"

for the last one, there is an app which makes the touchpad vibrate... which really isn't the same feeling though

so yeah... that touchbar is a useless POS...
What do you think the half life of most electronics is? Why do you think so many people get anxious about Apple "abandoning" the Mac? A trickle of security updates does not make a well supported and thriving product line.
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Do we have any idea yet why Google made the dk move of increasing Maps cost 14x? I understand that things change, but it sure is hard to give Google the benefit of the doubt with the information that has been made available thus far. As it is, it feels like a two-word goodbye.
Why can't the author do the same thing Firefox does, which also uses Widevine DRM with no issues?
I'll take real buttons and the $100 the Touchbar costs back.
It’s abnormal to feel like shit from walking. Sounds like something to investigate further. Hope you can find a long term fix!
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It looks like it won't matter soon.

>These capabilities will be disabled immediately (previously set for July 31, 2018 or December 11, 2018 deprecation). The following will be deprecated according to the timeline we shared previously:

>Public Content - all remaining capabilities to read public media on a user's behalf on December 11, 2018

>Basic - to read a user’s own profile info and media in early 2020
This sucks, I know how bad if feels when you rely on a major vendor that can make or break your product. I was somewhat relieved that it happened when I already abandoned the project for a better one but had I invested more time into it I would have been furious.

The only thing I wonder here is that DRM was a thing when he started working on this project, didn't he see this coming? By this I mean that project research should start with the hardest part, at least that's what I usually do.
>This is very surprising for a language that targets somewhat high performance.

In many cases Go has opted for ease of implementation over high performance.
Yeah the 2014ish Retina MBPs are thin enough and the latest ones don't even feel any thinner.
Difference is, Inbox made filters automatically, and in gmail, you're stuck every single day modifying your filters to manually add yet-another-email address, and quite frankly, now that we know Google is perfectly capable of auto-maintaining filters, being forced to do it manually is insanely frustrating.

When combined with the fact that your address is being bought and sold like free candy, and the number of new addresses per week is over 10, it stops being a "you can do this" and starts being a "you must do these chores weekly to maintain any semblance of a useable gmail", I just call it broken. Gmail is broken.
> They could make it illegal or costly to make a false claim based on copyright. Content ID include the world "copyrighted content was found in your video", so just here we could make a first change to the law.

You're not actually solving the underlying problem. So you make filing a false claim illegal -- great, that would legitimately be an improvement over the status quo. We should do that. It would reduce the number of fraudulent claims somewhat.

So after we do that and someone says that a claim is false, what happens then? You still need to adjudicate who is right, so you still need a court. Which means most of the time the victim won't have the resources to enforce it.

What really matters here is the default. What happens when neither party will spend the resources to initiate litigation? Because whatever happens then is what will happen in 99% of cases.
Note this nothing to do with C# of the .net world except the name.

C#88 inspired thoughts but its code basically died in 88.
Killing some products makes a lot of sense, or is at least has a plausible rationale. Now that video Chromecast devices can do audio casting, it may not make sense to make separate audio products.

Other things, like Google's utter botch of tablet software and hardware points toward senior management treating those businesses like hobbies. Hardware partners and customers are indeed victimized. Getting tablets right requires product management discipline across APIs (i.e. Fragment) app frameworks that have to use Fragment correctly, UI design that doesn't promote an "it's a big phone" approach to app designers, hardware specs, and the OS. Nothing that came after the Fragment API really handled tablet cases very well.

In their latest move in tablets Google seems to have surrendered to the Windows tablet idea of a hybrid laptop/tablet OS, except Samsung, who vastly outsell Google's hardware, is still making their variants on Google's old laptop OS. WTF? If I were at Samsung I'd be pissed as hell at Google for muddying up their only successful tablet hardware partner's technology position. One could hardly do worse.
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Who now can trust Google Stadia?

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Nice to see Mozilla doing something against this. I've found those unsolicited notifications to be annoying in 95% of the cases.
It's never too late. Thanks for taking action.
I really like the Thinkpads, but they don't run OS X
> but we don't have enough time for "eventually".

I disagree with this. We’ve been told throughout the past 50 years that we “only have 10 more years to fix x.” And every single time the end of the world failed to arrive as scheduled. The sense of extreme urgency is nothing more than politics: an attempt to scare people into demanding a shift in the ownership of the means of production to fit political goals rather than environmental ones. A thought experiment: if capitalism could solve the climate tomorrow and BP and Exxon were at the forefront of it, would AOC and friends support it? Of course not. The only “solution” that crowd cares about is one that involves pure socialism which calls into question their actual commitment to the environment. It appears that improving the environment is being used as a means rather than an end: our fear of environmental calamity seemingly obfuscates our memory of the lack of freedom under Soviet styles of government.

If protecting the environment would stop serving as a dog whistle for anti-capitalism, then we’d could make a lot more progress on actually improving the environment.
> Firefox doesn't support this.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm

"Firefox for desktop supports the Google Widevine CDM for playing DRM-controlled content. Firefox downloads and enables the Google Widevine CDM by default to give users a smooth experience on sites that require DRM."
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That's a good thing tho
+1

Just confirming the survey which is great, I did exactly like in the article. I primarily use my 2017 MBP at work/home where I have keyboards, so haven't been willing to lose the laptop for 2 weeks to be replaced with a keyboard that is reported to have the same faults.

As such, I actively discourage anyone I know thinking about it from buying an apple laptop.
Building Chrome requires downloading proprietary binaries that they licensed. Chromium does not include these and does not include widevine by default, but it can be installed as a plugin.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/chromium#Widevine_Conte...
Space is pretty inhospitable though. Is it possible for living organisms to survive ejection, a space journey and re-entry?
I've no idea their internal decision on metrics for the test, but they did shoot down something in a pretty low orbit. It was at about 300km. The ISS orbits at 400km. "Space" begins at around 100km. Shooting low is exactly what you want to do to minimize risk since it means the pieces will enter the atmosphere more rapidly and harmlessly burn up. Like the article mentions only 24 pieces of trackable debris ended up in an orbit sufficiently high to possibly intercept the ISS. This is among the 23,000 other trackable pieces of debris including 3,000 from a Chinese satellite destruction test done with somewhat less regard, and about a million smaller pieces of various debris.

The article mentions the risk of any impact increased by 44% without giving the baseline. No idea what that is, but it's going to be some extremely low figure remaining an extremely low figure -- e.g. 0.001% becoming 0.00144%. And an "imminent" collision isn't imminent. The ISS has maneuvering thrusters, and in fact would gradually fall out of orbit without them! This [1] page shows the height of the ISS over time which is a convenient way of seeing how often it fires its maneuvering thrusters. Suffice to say, it's a very regular thing.

I think the bigger reason we're upset is because of the technology itself. As nations become more capable of independently defending themselves it chips away at America's martial dominance, which is a major source of our political clout.

[1] - https://www.heavens-above.com/IssHeight.aspx
I'm confused WRT privacy policy:

https://www.cloudflare.com/public-resolver-mobile-privacy/

In paragraph 2 Cloudflare says "We do not receive your phone number, device ID, IP address or any other information that could identify you when you install or use the Mobile Application."

But in paragraph 4 it says "These Service Providers may only process personal information pursuant to our instructions".

So which is it - do they collect personal info or not?
The keyboard is a big issue on Thinkpads as well. I have a X1 Carbon 6th gen and I am on my 3rd keyboard already (also, display has been replaced once as well as the motherboard) - and it's 6 months old and I babysit this thing.

Commonly known as the "keyboard lottery", some units get a decent keyboard and others a crappy one. And it's still a $2k+ machine.
Not uncommon, but still crazy. And there is not much justification to do so. No developer can regularly work for 12 hours.

5 hours should be our target. Less pretending to work would be so much more efficient.

I am not willing to further escalate inferiority complexes with others.
I disagree; good DRM is transparent and unnoticeable

Yeah, until it isn't.

I can't start GTA V for days since the "Rockstar Social Club" won't connect and glibly informs me that "I need to be on-line"

I would have agreed with you until then. But not being able to play a game for which I paid full price and not being able to get meaningful support to resolve the issue rapidly changed my stance on DRM.

It fucking sucks!
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Good point. Funny enough, the Google Drive desktop application was killed and replaced with Drive File Stream which broke the offline usefulness of Google Drive.
from what i understand, they just want the overtime pay they are legally entitled to according to their interpretation of PRC law.
I have had the exact opposite experience. Prior to 2012 I was in college and was overweight/out of shape and always felt like crap. I decided to get into shape: did intense cardio and HIIT workouts, lifted weights, and got into excellent shape within a year. I lost 50 lbs, went from being able to do 0 pull ups to over 20, I ran a few Tough Mudders (12 mile obstacle course races), etc.

I still run, lift weights, and keep my body fat % low, and if I can help it, I'll never go back. If I go days without exercise I start to feel terrible, foggy headed, lethargic. One 5 mile run will immediately make me feel great for the rest of the day.
98% of the things I plug in are the power cable and my thunderbolt dock.

The power cable was the wobbliest, but is now quite firm again
> good DRM is transparent and unnoticeable, and if that is the case then users do not care.

Then there's no such thing as good DRM, since many users will want to make use of the content they've paid for (either monetarily, or perhaps indirectly via ads) in flexible and open ways that a proprietary DRM system will not allow. Fair use is part of this, but not the only issue.
>Go was originally designed for systems that don't require absolute max performance

Originally it was supposed to be a "systems" language, and was expected to lure C++ programmers.
In exactly the same position. What a computer the 2013 is. Way ahead of its time and I think only cost me £1500. Best laptop in existence right now, hope it lives that little bit longer.