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Yes, I think visualization provides the key benefit. When I read something good, my imagination recreates the sights, sounds, smells, and experiences in great detail and tunes out the real world. I lose all awareness of the book's text and everything around me. It's like I "live in the story." This mental state can persist for hours, even in loud environments with high levels of activity around me. After I sleep following some deep reading, I notice a heightened ability to visualize a problem and run mental simulations of potential solutions. It's like I "live in the problem." Interestingly, when I have played video games with similarly high levels of focus, I have not realized work improvement afterwards. In fact, video games seem to degrade my work performance. I think that is because video games generate stress and do not stimulate nearly the same level of mental world-building that good fiction does.
This requires collective action. An individual can't meaningfully influence the situation.
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> USB C is just as much standard USB as USB A is.

Not in the sense of "if you buy a device, this is probably the connector it has". The fact that it's defined by USB-IF or whoever doesn't mean that USB-C devices are common or inexpensive.
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I don't think those two ideas are in conflict. First, fun and novelty are not always the same thing. I can have fun playing my 5000th hour of Civ VI and it can indeed fly by, but it doesn't mean something particularly novel happened. Second, the experiencing self and the remembering self can have very different perceptions.
AWS has quietly started offering SLAs for services that previously had none including Redshift, EKS, Direct Connect, API Gateway and Lambda.
Making the user experience of DRM worse is better because then fewer people will use it. If the platforms all made it so that you have to solder a new chip into your phone before you can play DRM content, there would be a lot less DRM.

The argument that platforms have to do this for competitive reasons is doublethink. If the experience is worse and that will cause customers to flee, how is it that they would only flee from the platforms that don't have DRM but not the content providers that require it? Wouldn't that create a huge market opportunity for new DRM-free studios, who would then out-compete the traditional ones by being available on all platforms instead of only on Insecure Expensive Proprietary Slow Cableco Platform Nobody Likes?
I thought I would hate the new MBPs and it kept me from upgrading for a while. But after making the switch last year, I'm pretty much fully onboard.

The USB-C ports are great, and I am looking forward to the future where old-school USB ports are dead and everything is USB-C. There's the occasional frustration with not having all cables be equal (you could have a USB-C to USB-C cable that transfers power, slow data, or Thunderbolt-3 data… it's unintuitive).

The lack of ESC-key doesn't bother me as much as I thought either. I finally made the switch and remapped caps lock to escape and will never look back. I use BetterTouchTool to get the ideal touchbar with shortcuts to my 5 most used functions, a Spotify player and a couple system controls. It's perfect, customized to my liking, and beat the previous FN-key setup I had. TouchID rocks. I never see Apple's crap TouchBar implementation.

I have been having the keyboard issues, usually it materializes in the form of double impressions of keys I type. I'll end up with `ee` instead of `e`, and a couple other letters like that. Doesn't seem to be happening as much as it used to (after a "top case" replacement for an unrelated TouchBar issues).
That is a perspective I haven't heard, and one that could help a lot of people on both sides better understand immigration. In a world with hundreds of autonomous countries, it's hard to envision that becoming a reality unless countries set up immigration partnerships. It definitely is unfortunate for regions where there isn't much opportunity, since the current system typically allows your citizens to just leave and go to the highest bidder, unless the government restricts emigration.
That's Creative Commons itself, by "Creative-Commons-style" I meant "something like, but not exactly CC itself".
You can buy a brand new house with insulation and heating for under $200k in parts of the US with low land value. Even in California, you can buy a brand new house for $250k, mortgaged for under $1000/month— they're just in the parts with cheap land.
Not that I condone the wireless companies selling this kind of data, but if you're in a situation where a bounty hunter is after you, step one is don't carry a mobile phone.
The team has world class compiler and GC experts. You should know better.
I also was strictly vegan for a while, and lost that religion too. For sort of similar reasons! I think it's too focused on the ethics of one part of the situation, and misses the whole.
Even if the keyboards weren't notoriously unreliable, I would still hate how they feel to use. My $15 wireless iPad keyboard feels better to use than my MacBook's.

And that's on top of all the other issues that have been discussed. At this point, the only thing holding me back from switching to a Thinkpad is iOS/macOS development. Maybe I should just get a Thinkpad and a Mac Mini. It wouldn't even cost that much more than a MacBook Pro..
How fast is the SSD on that machine?
> On the other hand, giving people an MIT license and saying "You can do whatever you want! Go nuts! Innovate!" is a boon to creativity. If some startup took my weekend project and made $1 billion off of it, good for them! That's the innovation that open-source is meant to encourage!

How does attribution-sharealike-noncommercial fit this case?

It sounds like he doesn't mind if some people (small startups) make money using his project, he just doesn't want anyone (large companies) to be able to.
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I'm wondering if this is going to royally bite them in the ass. I have a Gen 2 keyboard in a 2017 13 MBP that needed an Apple Store visit to remedy the spacebar under warranty.

$700 to replace it out of warranty will mean I relegate it to a desk and NEVER BUY ANOTHER APPLE COMPUTER AGAIN.

Because someone, somewhere in their vast organization needs to find a solution where a stuck key doesn't require brain surgery to replace the keyboard, top plate, and battery.

I was already sore at the dongle requirements, but willing to overlook in light of the dozen or so OTHER dongles they've made me buy over the years. The subtle differences in OSX that sold really expensive hardware are no longer there.

(And don't get me started on the walled garden permanent phone lease they're easing us into.)
> The CIE 1931 curve showing a bump in red inside the blue is misleading I think.

The CIE color space isn't intended to represent the cone responses, though. The goal was to have a set of reasonably orthogonal, positive-definite functions with which to represent all visible colors as linear combinations of primitives. The "green" Y coordinate was chosen not for its color at all but because it matched the experimentally derived "brightness" function. X and Z are only kinda associated with red and blue.

But because CIE can represent all colors, you can use it to define other color spaces like sRGB which do correspond closely to retinal cell responses. There are also refined versions like LUV and LAB which are (sometimes nonlinear) transformations from XYZ and are intended to better represent perceptual "distance" linearly.

XYZ is just the basic language all these things are defined in, which was its purpose.
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Just buy a used 2015 MBP.
Install gentoo
I love my XPS 13 "Sputnik" laptop. I might go for the 15" version when my mid-2014 Macbook finally dies. It would be nice to have official Linux support on the 15" model but as a practical matter, I've never heard of any serious issues running Linux on that model. I have no interest in the current Macbook line, too many regressions, and I'm very sad about that.
I've never seen any major browser (or some other method) censor/rewrite an individual page that's protected by SSL before.. as far as I know then it's not possible, which is why they've had to resort to banning the entire website (which in GitHub's case would be too costly).. If you know about previous incidents then please do share.

From today we know they are already able to do whatever they please (as long as they can get people to use their browser).. abuse other organizations reputation to spread lies and misinformation. If governments don't act then it won't be long until all these Huawei, Lenovo, OnePlus, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, etc devices come with their browsers preinstalled (and likely default back to their browser to open links from other apps even if you tried to change the browser).
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My understanding is that whether or not endorsement is required is dependent on which "area" you submit to. And even if I'm wrong about that, "endorsement" in their terms is really just meant to mean "this person is not a total quack / spammer / etc." So don't feel shy about reaching out to people in the academic community who are potential endorsers and just ask "I want to submit this to ArXiv, would you be willing to give it a quick look and possibly endorse me so I can submit?"

If you already know somebody in the academic community, it would probably be better to try them first. But if not, it appears that ArXiv etiquette allows cold-emailing people... they just ask you not to blast requests out to mass numbers of people simultaneously.
Angry comments that begin "I suspect" do not count as substantive on HN.

If you continue to break the site guidelines by using HN primarily for political battle, we're going to ban you, as I explained yesterday. That's not because we support dystopian surveillance, evil dictatorships, or whatnot. It's because we need to protect the commons here as a place for intellectual curiosity, rather than a scorched-earth battlefield.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This sounds very interesting!

Can you explain why the tools/data to reproduce the research generally don't get to github?

It looks like machine learning improvements could be made by people who don't have lab access as well.

Is it some legal / financial reason, or just it's not common in biological research?
There are 2 problems with this license.

1) Sometimes it is hard to tell, if an entity is regarded to be commercial or not. Is a hacker, who receives ad-money and donations a commercial entity? What about a university? It's unclear and therefore many won't touch your code.

2) The license may not be fully compatible with, MIT, BSD, Apache, etc license which also hinders integration.

Anyway, I would also welcome a license opening up your code for hackers and non-profits alike... Maybe someone knows?
This [1] is arguably even more useful. It gives a perfect illustration of how to keep housing prices low. 1995 is a key moment. Japan has been going through nearly 3 decades now of something between recession and stagnation. Their GDP was higher in 1995 than it is today. For some contrast, the US GDP has nearly tripled since then.

This is also gross GDP and not GDP/capita. Japan at one point had a greater GDP/capita than even the US. Their plummeting fertility rate and aging population is just icing on all of these problems and one that, incidentally, also helps with housing problems. As some villages face the probability of just going extinct there's even widespread issues with homes simply ended up completely abandoned. For instance on one prefecture nearly 11% of all homes had been simply abandoned. [2]

But indeed all of these factors (along some other uniquely Japanese trends that others have hit on) are sure to result in low home prices. But again, this is nothing anybody would ever want to emulate.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wykaDgXoajc

[2] - https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/16/national/social...
What an interesting implementation of 1984's "Ministry of Truth", just threaten the commercial providers of your crap with market exclusion.

It always irks me that we (I and my non-tech friends) now communicate using media controlled by corporations, e.g. WhatsApp or FB Messenger, or Google Chat. At least email is still open. On FB Messenger you can't share PirateBay URLs because they "may be harmful to your computer".

It'd be wonderfully dystopian if desperate Mark agreed to China's requirements so he could gain a few more million advertising targets in "the growing market", and after that point you'd no longer be able to talk about Taiwan because, let's see, how about the error message "this topic may be harmful to the national security of China"?
You might be right, however what I've often observed is that people will estimate a task based on how long it would take them to do it if that were their only responsibility. They often ignore the fact that they don't get a full days worth of solid, productive coding due to meetings, build problems, releasing, code review, recruitment, fire alarms, sickness, status reporting...

As I recall, at IBM they used to give 3 estimates, best / expected / worst case, and then weight them something like 1/3/5 to get the planning estimate.

One person I worked with recorded estimate vs actual for multiple years. They were frequently an order of magnitude out.
I've always wanted to do something like this as an experiment - automate everything, including the setup (creating accounts/any hosting) then tie it to a genetic algorithm whose fitness is determine by the amount of money/ad revenue it generates. And I have no control over it at all once it's released, it just reproduces on its own.

My main issue I have with the author's post is not that it's dodgy (it's resourceful and nerdy and the first I've seen of it so it gets a free pass from me!), is that it's really hard to find something that's actually healthy when eating out... unlimited takeout around Hell's Kitchen sounds like a recipe for a heart attack!
> I don't like the change to the arrow keys though, I keep fumbling with them.

They should fire whoever designed the arrow key layout. The up and down keys(the ones used most often) are super tiny. I regularly find myself wanting to hit up and accidentally hitting down or left.
British Columbia has built about 125 new hydro plants in the last 30 years. The environmental studies take about 5 years and cost millions and employ many biologists and environmental specialists.

Negative effects can be mitigated if the plant is designed to take them in to account. Be it not changing flows and levels except very slowly to avoid stranding fish, keeping some water flowing past the intake structure to keep sediment moving, creating fish ladders, fish spawning channels, etc.

Hydro is really one of the least bad energy sources if you have to pick one.
Overtime in China is the norm, in factories, if you do 40 hrs per week, you will only get the minimum wage in your city, mostly around 200 dollars a month, and you will get kicked real quick.

This looks more like an industry behavior, which is not uncommon in China, for example Tencent blocked on its WeChat self-media platform(a little like Facebook's Instant Articles but much more low-brow and dominant) unflattering articles about PinDuoDuo when it was goinf public in the US, which they invested in.

Cellphone reviewers has long been under control of the brands, they give out guidlines about how to write the review along with test units, manage them in their work groups.

The 360 Chrome brower queries these URLs every time you start the browser or open a URL, namely to give the url a safety and info badge.

site.browser.360.cn

cdata.browser.360.cn

cdn.weather.hao.360.cn
Is this even required reading anymore? I think we read it in 7th grade or so.
How do you like it? Been looking at those.
Japanese house typically can't be usable after 50 years. That's because of humidity, frequent typhoons, and earthquakes.

New building regulations will be introduced every time new anti-earthquake building tech was invented. So the old houses which doesn't satisfy these regulations will be devalued soon.

That's why nobody want to live in a old house. Or more like nobody can be able to live in a old house.
This is currently listed as the most starred repository on Github with 153k stars:

https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A%3E0&s=stars&type=Reposi... (There was the freeCodeCamp
repo with 300k stars, but I don't see it in the list anymore.)

I am surprised that this protest does not get more media coverage. Also, Alibaba and Huawei are in the list of companies...
> (I also think he conveniently avoided one of the reasons we're seeing license/open source splintering -- because of attempts to find ways to _make a profit_ off open source. See the Amazon/ElasticSearch dispute. This is a real thing going on in the landscape he's talking about, with maybe more impact than the ideological concerns he talks about, but is inconvenient for what he wants to talk about. I still have no solutions to it.)

Yep, I didn't want to get into the details of what people are caring about here, because I don't think it's necessary to make the broader point. And I also mostly want to get people thinking about this, and priming them on specific things isn't as useful as just providing broad strokes.

I do think that the relationship between capital and labor is a huge aspect here, along with the cycle of "thick client, thin client, thick client" that we currently see with the move to the cloud. As you say, those are other essays :)
Yep. I have a 2016 MacBook Pro that's had two top case replacements for bad keys. It's been a year since the last one, and that's because I am EXTREMELY careful with this one specifically around heat.

I strongly believe that heat under the keys is the cause, and not dust. I never, ever let the CPU temp spike (using iStat menus to show the current temp and disabling Turbo Boost).

I also never charge an external device like a phone or iPad using the USB-C ports to avoid creating heat.

Lastly, this computer never, ever sits on any surface that isn't solid. No bed, no couch, no lap. I use a tray or something similar if it's not on a desk.

If you heat the computer to the point that you feel that trademark snapping sound in the membranes of the keys, you are screwed. You might as well make the appointment right then since your keys will fail soon.

I might just fail this one on purpose because I could use a new battery which you get with the keyboard switch. Oh, and my camera no longer works for some reason.
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Open an EU anti-trust case. If you're not an EU citizen try finding someone who can take it to the EU who is, or look into whether you can get the EU to act on your behalf anyway.
Then Google/Microsoft/Amazon and others who are being impacted by this issue should throw some non-trivial money at media creators who are willing to commit to DRM-free content. Like Creative Commons or the Blender Foundation, for starters. We had a comparable opportunity there when Netflix started offering streaming services, but they chose to go with DRM across the board. Fine, whatever. But unless the tech industry seriously gets behind this, Big Media will start to take their "content" hostage and mandate use of their own DRM 'solutions' to "protect it adequately" - with royalties for use set as high as the market will bear. Yeah, you can say that would be an antitrust violation, whatever. Legal processes take a long time, and Big Media have plenty of political support behind them. They don't have to care if they can make things crappy enough for everyone else.
I used to use Evernote when I was using a "digital ink" product (that also never caught on). I used it for several years and it worked well.

But then Micosoft's OneNote got very, very good. And I switched.
But you see, the author described this absurd optimisation as fun. Fun is a very practical use of time and resource!
Hi Ganesh,

Thank you!

We’ll work on our website and email wording to try to avoid misunderstandings like this going forward.

Best

Christoph
? None of the employees have been able to cash out yet
The new keyboard is the best-feeling keyboard I've ever used. I love the tactile experience!

But the failure rate really is unnacceptable. Within a couple months of getting my 2016 Macbook Pro, keys started dying and falling off. My manager has resorted to just carrying around an external keyboard everywhere.