skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally would go with an HP or Dell.

The HP Envy x360 Ryzen 2500U laptop I got was $699 for 1080 IPS and... a very, very, very good service manual. http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06001791 (EDIT: linked the wrong laptop a few times... this is the one I got)

HP's and Dell's stuff usually have manuals of this caliber. As such, I usually buy a cheap HP or Dell and then service some upgrades myself (replace the hard drive, get an NVMe, upgrade the RAM, etc. etc.)

HP has been pushing "pen" compute, so it has a capacitive touch-screen and active digitizer, for anyone who likes Microsoft OneNote. Microsoft created the new universal pen standard, so its now possible to mix-and-match stylus across different laptops now (at least... any stylus that follows the universal pen protocol). Its still a relatively new protocol, but I got a Wacom active-stylus working with my HP laptop, so I'm pretty happy.

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Its more expensive than what I listed, but I'm personally willing to pay a bit more for slightly better quality than the bottom-tier stuff. The only real downside to the HP Envy x360 is the terrible 6-bit screen: yeah its IPS but its got subpar brightness and poor color accuracy. Good enough for my purposes, but any artist will want to spend on a more accurate color-calibrated laptop screen.

But yeah, just visit a store (Best Buy, Fry's, Microcenter), pick a Dell or HP you like the screen / keyboard / touchpad of... double-check online to ensure that the service manual has all the features you expect (M.2 slot, SATA, etc. etc.)... and just buy the bog-standard mass-production model there and then. Order a few parts online (new M.2 SSD) and you'll be set.
But can you close your HN account? That's the ultimate challenge.
Shouldn't only unhealthy social media accounts be closed? If anything, HN makes me a more thoughtful person because polite discourse is encouraged while poor discourse is reprimanded through mod actions (warnings and then bans).
God those houses are hideous.
If I recall correctly, in the PCjr version of the game it was spelling the name backwards instead of doing a caesar cipher on it. That is the only puzzle that caught me for a while until one day sitting in a math class (in 1986 or something like that) where it finally clicked.
Potata?
Not on Apple podcast?
Actually, I just disabled JavaScript and tried reloading on a page, and that bug happens anyway. Not sure why that's happening, but it's not JavaScript. And considering it doesn't inhibit access to the content at all, "bad bug" is a gross overstatement.

As for the better experience: faster loading and dark theme?
They could have copied Slashdot

But I'm not sure they know Slashdot
The parent said "peace on the continent". Last I checked, Ukraine and Yugoslavia are part of Europe.

For "better off" - apologies for being unclear - I didn't mean joining the EU. I was making the comparison that the same was true for countries that were (forcefully) joined into the Soviet union in mid 20th century.
So I’m other words, it mattered to Qualcomm more than to Apple?
I was confused when I read the headline, but it seems like a good characterization of a 6 year agreement. It's not permanent, but it's long enough that it seems like a real truce. I'm surprised this didn't help Apple stock more. Guess they had a solid plan B, but still, it seems much easier to have this in place for such a long time!
On-demand streaming of identical content to hundreds of users at the same time is not an efficient use of bandwidth.

It's like Netflix versus cable television - you can push the equivalent of hundreds of 1080p streams through a broadcast cable television, but attempting to push on-demand IP packets to an equivalent number of subscribers would bog down horrifically if they even attempted to stream a single show (let alone how you have cable tuners that can tune multiple shows at once).

What you need there is something much more akin to broadcast television - either a digital OTA video broadcast (good ol' digital television), or a microcell using multicast to broadcast a stream to any interested party.

(of course your phone probably doesn't have a DTV tuner, but when a RTL-SDR dongle is like $20, you should probably be asking why your phone isn't integrating that functionality. These days they don't even have FM tuners on phones anymore... despite the fact that in virtually all cases those are already built into the cellular chipset. IP-based singlecast is not a good paradigm for a lot of the use-cases that people come up with, it's just that it's the most profitable one for carriers, so it's the only one they'll support.)
I'm doubtful of whatever sort of nonsense philosophical rationalization Dorsey comes up regarding how he thinks users should use, and should want to use the service. It's likely this:

> And while Dorsey said he’s less interested in maximizing time spent on Twitter and more in maximizing “what people take away from it and what they want to learn from it,” Anderson suggested that Twitter may struggle with that goal since it’s a public company, with a business model based on advertising.

I'm fairly certain that Anderson's expectation here is probably true, and that Dorsey is at best disconnected from the reality of how Twitter's business operates if he's not being outright disingenuous. The number of ads shown increases with the amount of time spent using the service, and assuming there is some business unit within Twitter tasked with increasing revenue, that business unit will likely attempt to increase time spent using the service. Inserting this extra garbage and preventing users from disabling it serves that purpose because it makes it more difficult to tell when you've reached posts you've already read and forces you to scroll longer to reach them.
For how long? Is there a saturation and pull-back at some point?

Personally, I used my home gigabit extensively the first few months... but a year later I frequently find myself still tethered to my cellphone's 4G plan. It doesn't make a difference except once in a blue moon when I want to download something big.
AIDungeon, a deep learning generated text adventure (browser playable)
> the EU should adopt English as the main language

No and no, you’ll get an exit from the EU before you can convince people there that the language spoke at home by only 5m EU citizens after Brexit should be an official language.
What voting system are you using?

If it's winner takes all then you're right. The head of state is indeed in charge of all departments.

If it's more of a parliamentary system then the head of state needs to put x members in charge depending on the outcome of the vote. So if there's x percentage points of the population who voted for the opposing party then x percentage members of the cabinet should be of the other party.

When it's not winner takes all, it doesn't matter if a percentage of the population thinks someone is a weak leader. The other percentage will still have a say in the executive branch of the government. It becomes trickier as a leader because you not only have to have support of your own party but also from your coalition partners. (EU multi-party politics in a nut shell)

Before anyone responds, I'm not claiming this is better or worse than other systems!
realtwitter.com

...is a shortcut for activating the following filters: filter:follows -filter:replies

However, to your point, it still requires you to be signed in to work.
First, 80% of the cost of housing in the Bay Area is location. Second, many houses from 100 years ago didn't have features like electricity and indoor plumbing. Third, we're not going to invent magical 3D printers that make houses out of thin-air.
It was always the case that you can build a faster PC than a console at roughly the same price. The difference is the games are optimized for the console then usually poorly ported to PC so they aren't very comparable.
It's roughly 4X the bandwidth, not 2X... though 4K at roughly double the size with h.265 or even close to the same size is often "good enough" looking and better than 1080p.

Though, I still tend to mostly use 720p h.265 for TV watching as, again, it's "good enough" that I often don't notice too much. 65" TV at about 10' away. I do notice from 720p to 1080 and from 1080 to 4k (UHD). It depends more on what I'm watching. Some settings are better on some content, and as I mention I actually like the way h.265 degrades (often blurry in the background) vs blocky h.264. (facial hair for live motion is my guide)
Yes. You're right. But even that -- how innovative is that as a feature?

I guess what I mean is: what innovative features have they introduced?
Have you watched Sneakers?
I think describing this just as volatility somewhat misses the fact that this is the new rules and taxes in Vancouver working as designed. The steep tax on empty properties was explicitly intended to bring down house prices and reduce rents / increase vacancy rates and it seems like it is actually working, although I've also heard it's become more difficult for potential buyers to get their money out of China recently which may also be a contributing factor.
The HN Tesla threads do make me mad :) I can deal with it though
I'm not sure why more companies don't choose to go the direct listing route (like Spotify). Set a reference price, but allow the employees and market decide.

Tech companies especially have enough employees that own shares and want to sell that liquidity should not be a big issue. This allows the price to be tested while slowly adding volume (as price stabilizes, more employees willing to sell).
There is no war. Epic's store is clunky and steam is not. For me it doesn't go further than that.
I don't believe cable companies will become obsolete anytime soon, lol. There's a tendency to rely on cloud-stuff more and more, we stream video instead of downloading, 4k, 8k, we store entire collections on google drive and stuff. And even if you think 5G will solve all problems with the bandwidth — well, I won't argue, but there are plenty applications (like gaming) that require low-latency, which 5G will solve not.
were you renting in Vancouver before or after the vacant property tax went into effect?

regardless, i suspect most of these "college kids are renting mansions" stories omit the "from their rich parent's friends" part of the story.
As I mention in another reply -- I'm not saying this filtering would result in the most interesting feed, but it's frustrating you can't filter your feed at all.

If some people want more interesting opinions, great. If others want more bland but less abuse, also great. Right now you can't filter for anything and most of tweet replies are a giant waste of time.
There's enough hate, anger and other similar emotions on the left, that memes like these get made by other people on the left to combat it (with not much success, from my own experience).

https://i.imgur.com/YFQ9zO6.jpg

I would also like to remind that among the many pages removed from the very same Facebook because they were inciting hate and anger as part of the Russian propaganda ops, quite a few were targeting left-leaning audiences.

In general, populists of all stripes are going to appeal to those emotions precisely because it's much easier to evoke them. So whichever side has a stronger populist faction at any given moment is the one that benefits most. In some places (like US) it's the right wing currently, in others, it's the left.
Nice.

Speaking of curated lists, I pass these essays from pg (in no order) to anyone who comes to me asking why am I or am I not into startups:

http://paulgraham.com/before.html

http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

http://paulgraham.com/growth.html

http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html

http://paulgraham.com/founders.html

http://paulgraham.com/really.html

http://paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html

http://paulgraham.com/relres.html

http://paulgraham.com/boss.html

http://paulgraham.com/die.html

http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html

http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

http://paulgraham.com/whyyc.html

http://paulgraham.com/hiring.html

http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html

http://paulgraham.com/gh.html

http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

http://paulgraham.com/taste.html

A word of caution [0]: Over the years, I've twice come very close to quitting my job in the wake of reading those essays, and finally quit it this past month. Tread carefully [1].

In addition to this, I'd highly recommend paying close attention to how WhatsApp took on email, numerous copy-cats, the social media, the telecom industry and still won.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2982306

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10758278
And the option to choose the algorithmic filtering based on my needs, in the rare cases that the number of individuals or volume of their tweets may be too large to take in chronologically.
A mixture of things.

Historical accounts such as Adam of Bremen describing Thor as the main god at Uppsala, the frequency of Thor's Hammer versus other religious symbols, the many references to Thor in Icelandic sagas.

However Tacitus did describe Mercury at the chief Germanic god. So maybe Odin was the chief god after all.

The popularity of Odin could also be a reflection of their social roles. Consider the Lay of Harbard: https://thenorsegods.com/the-lay-of-harbard/. Elsewhere in the myths, Odin gives Harbard as one of his names, and it is believed that Harbard in this lay is actually Odin. Reading that, you'll see why the average peasant would be more interested in asking for Thor's help than Odin's. Conversely you'll see how a war leader would be more interested in Odin's help than Thor's.
Moving Faster by Starting Over
I don't understand tattoo, it's like wearing the same cloth (i.e. a T-shirt) every day, for the rest of your life.

I do think there's market for more colorful, longer lasting temporary tattoos. (Might be a startup idea for ya)
Well then maybe your company can afford it, no? (Unless you're a bootstrapping startup, of course)
In my old neighborhood, I saw Comcast fishing cables through the street drainage sewers. Not sure if there was a separate conduit that was accessed via those grates, or if it actually just laid along the the bottom of the sewer pipe lines.
Dorsey recalled that when the team was first building the service, it decided to make follower count “big and bold,” which naturally made people focus on it.

“Was that the right decision at the time? Probably not,” he said. “If I had to start the service again, I would not emphasize the follower count as much … I don’t think I would create ‘likes’ in the first place.”

If you put something in front of people that looks like a score, they will start thinking of it as a score. And then they will inevitably start recognizing and incorporating behaviors that tend to increase their personal score. Which leads to competition among them as to who can rack up the highest score, and that competition drives them into a spiral of increasingly extreme behavior in order to stay ahead of the pack.

If Twitter was smart they would just stop displaying follower, like and retweet counts altogether, or at least hide them away someplace deep within a pile of submenus and dialog boxes. Displaying this information prominently is what created the feedback loop that made Twitter into the cesspool it is today.
Exactly. I would prefer they directed their budget somewhere other than graphics for this reason. The switch still plays most games at only 720p I believe, but this is more than sufficient for enjoyable games. I think 4k is a waste of memory, let alone 8k.
Roughly speaking, 25% of spending goes to the military, 25% to SS/Medicare, and the other 50% to everything else.

It is important to note that the 25% for SS/MC is funded by a separate tax, targeted to those programs. Without getting sidetracked over budget unification, it is equally important to note that this separate tax has generated a surplus for decades, and has therefore been used to subsidize the rest of the budget.
AI Dungeon is an AI generated text adventure that uses deep learning to create each adventure. It uses OpenAI's new GPT-2 model, which has 117 million parameters, to generate each story block and possible action. I started making it as a hackathon project and decided to make it a web app so people can have fun with it. Let me know what you think.
Why do that when they can sell you a remastered edition for $60.
It's pretty expensive though. I pay $10/GB (marginal) for Google Fi. That doesn't really scale to streaming HD video. I imagine a roomier higher-frequency spectrum would help get contention down and lower costs.
You can't deny the racism. That taints everything. Read online comments on any article about Vancouver real estate, tune in to talk shows, listen to the man on the street. Asians driving luxury vehicles get dirty looks. Controversy over Chinese language signs. Panic over birth tourism. Panic over money-laundering by Chinese gamblers. Panic over the idea of luxury car garages. There is hostility even when the homes are not empty - outrage that an Asian college student could afford a mansion.
So basically Reddit
Can you use Pandas with it? I'm guessing.. no?
Clojure: Kixi.stats
Look guys I don't know what's going on with all these China news but as a european who's lived in china several years, a lot of it seems wrong. I was in south China for a year recently and many people had visible tattoos, just as many as west europeans. And nobody cared. At all.
> Collecting and monetizing data from the "dumb fucks" with little to no regard.

I doubt humans are that simplistic, but at the end of the day, it seems they all have a price, and for that price they can invent lies so they can sleep at night thinking they're decent people.

And until this headline I thought they (and Zuck in particular) still had a code of honor when they say they won't abuse the trust their users had, but, well, apparenly that also has a price.
What is LiRa?
Ephemeral - https://www.ephemeraltattoos.com/ - is basically doing that
Imagine how big of a stone structure we could build if we used modern CAD and CNC and just stacked giant bricks for 200 years. We should be one upping the pyramids and churches.
Also they run on kerosene. By the time they are fueled and prepped the other side will have taken out the facility.
I find HN more rewarding than any other social site I visit.

Healthy discussions, engaging topics and interests, no clear political slant in either direction, with multiple groups and opinions represented (you know, real diversity of thought). Finally no ads being shoved down my throat unless its engaging content disguised as an advert that reaches the top, in which case I am OK with because at least the advertiser tried, and it got support enough to be upvoted and shared.
Yeah you're right, and it's almost certainly the chief constraint most software engineers labor under.

But this is a classic race to the bottom, and regulation is coming. The days when you could write an app that takes a person's information and stores it negligently are drawing to a close. Given sufficient liability penalties, the economic question will shift away from "what if we're late" to "what if it's broken", and that's when you'll start seeing a shift away from languages like C/C++ (and probably also languages like Python and JavaScript) towards languages/platforms/tooling that provide strong, indemnifying guarantees.
That seems to be american thing. Most countries I’ve lived easily get 100mbps.
The University Is a Ticking Time Bomb
Maybe http://www.wolfram.com/development-platform/pricing/ ?
There is even a free plan. Not sure how different it is from "regular" Mathematica, or what licensing restrictions there are.
Red Hat survey finds we're living in an open-source world
Well, the FCC could coordinate a move to a new standard that uses smaller cells for the same 4G frequencies, after all big parts of 5G is about handling increased density.
Hmmm, if neutron's are of the opposite sign, is this what keeps the electrons repelled enough stay on the "outside" in orbit?
What does 5g have to do with satellites? It’s a marketing push around some scheduled cellular equipment upgrades.
I went to a public onsen in Hakone. More like a western spa than a bathhouse. They made me purchase a covering for my leg tattoo, even though I am not Japanese and therefore could never have been Yakuza.
> How many of the commenters here still use WhatsApp? Did you try switching you & friends to Signal?

I no longer use WhatsApp, and I have switched most of the people I text with over to Signal. I don't know if they use it with others, but they certainly use it with me.
> (unless the charge is moving which gives you a Lorentz force)

Isn't this always the case, though? I mean, two objects not moving relative to each other is a very specific state and not something that can be held in practice without a negative feedback loop on their relative velocities.
It seems like I'm making you upset rather than answer my question about how to invest a down payment. I'd like to see a scenario that's believable, and the calculator didn't do that. Otherwise, with this last comment, I'm not really seeing a single argument here that contradicts me with facts, it's turned into only opinion, FUD and attack. So, I don't feel I have much I need to respond to.

Thank you for the discussion, though! I do think I learned a few things. If you have one and feel like it, I'd still love to see a detailed scenario that is easy for a normal person to achieve where renting exceeds buying over a 10 or 20 year term. Is there anything else you'd like to discuss?

> It makes no sense to compare renting + no investments to owning with lots of money in equity.

So, just curious, why did you share and defend the calculator that does exactly this?

> economies of scale keep rental unit maintenance fees lower.

FWIW, that's not what the calculator claims - it states explicitly calculating house rentals comparable to purchases, where there is no economy of scale. I guess the whole point is to make the comparison as fair as possible by keeping everything equal except the method of payment.
I agree Facebook is playing word games, but I think that misses the larger point. That is, Facebook is not selling access to people's data as understood by the lay person.

The average person interprets "Facebook sells access to your data" as meaning that someone can pay Facebook to access your individual data. e.g. What sites did 3xblah, specifically, visit last week?

This isn't how Facebook's ecosystem works. Advertisers can only target users in large groups. And, there's no way for advertisers to query Facebook's servers for the personal data of a specific user.

If you explain exactly what Facebook is doing to the average person they simply don't care (even if you explain all the potential risks to their personal security).
https://www.demonoid.info/commemoration/index.html

previously posted in TF

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19675628

https://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-founder-deimos-is-believed...

There is still spurious activity on the noid connected to Diemos.

None of us have seen or heard from him, his anxieties got the better of him and he died in an accident of panic state.
Colossus: The French Firefighting Robot That Helped Save Notre-Dame
Just as there's a reason for constants in math and programming, it can be pleasing to have them on your body as well.
Yeah, just let the users follow hashtags or keywords in addition to users...
The issue has to do more with culture than exposed children. The kulcha warriors are worried about exposure by women.