skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they don't use slow SSDs.

The read / write speeds on the SSD in the Macbook Pro are insane.

see: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/13/2018-macbook-pro-fastes...

we are talking at least 6x what other laptops use.
Indeed, being open source is a major advantage!
Did they introduce a keyboard that doesn't suck?
I'm not agreeing with the GP's attitude about more frameworks. In fact, I really enjoy working with Phoenix and am glad the author(s) put in the hard work to build it.

But

> You don't need to learn it if it doesn't solve a problem for you after all

is not true. I don't like React and I have to use it at work because that is what was chosen.
I don't get why companies keep using this phrase... Of course the new model is "the best ever," so why even say it.
I think anyone who hears 'diamond' and 'crypto' in the same sentence and doesn't think it's a ponzi scheme needs their head checked.
you're marketing to the same people.
Glad to see a laptop with Coffee Lake. AVX-512 makes a big difference for code that can use it.

Also in this update: Pro Vega 20 GPU is an option.
If you're using React, I wrote this short tutorial on how to use Google Sheets in React apps: https://appendto.com/2018/08/the-simple-stack-a-primer-on-us...
At Australian Ballot Boxes, the Left’s Empathy Deficit Came Home to Roost
According to the FTC: "A plain agreement among competitors to fix prices is almost always illegal, whether prices are fixed at a minimum, maximum, or within some range."

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

I know there are examples that don't appear to conform to this rule, but I don't think it's fair to make a general statement that businesses can collectively bargain when the FTC is so clear about price fixing.
Some simple things (logistics, catering, etc) in countries like Argentina are more difficult. However, your are right. We had a LOT of fun last year. I think I am pessimistic because of everything that happened these last few weeks.
Google Actions
After getting too many feedbacks and iterations from the Google Action Team they approved my maths quiz and bollywood quiz the app

Please try on your mobile phone or Google home devices

How to use Maths Quiz on Your device

1) Go to https://assistant.google.com/services/a/uid/000000cc054bd9e3?hl=en
2) Click on Send to Device button -> Send on your android phone

OR
Open Google Assistant app and just say Maths BODMAS Quiz or you can type Talk to Maths BODMAS Quiz

How to use Movie Quiz on Your device
1) Go to https://assistant.google.com/services/a/uid/00000089b72c3096?hl=en
2) Click on Send to Device button -> Send on your android phone

OR
Open Google Assitant app and just say Bollywood Movie Quiz. you can also type Talk to Bollywood Movie Quiz

please try and add your feedback/comments and rate both the apps!!
I'd have tried a Dell XPS or Surface Pro.
People were paid for work and you'd buy groceries with money.
I've lived in Toledo, and I've heard the Twin Cities get colder than Fairbanks in the winter. They have frozen lakes, the only thing they don't have is polar bears.
If you'd like to use google sheets with React for free,
I wrote this: https://appendto.com/2018/08/the-simple-stack-a-primer-on-us...
I am a student researcher at a US university and I asked(including the research proposal) if they have any special pricing for us. Every time I asked - I was told that my application was under review, but I never heard any verdict. We finally finished our project without actually testing it on a headset. Here is the paper we've published: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8500085

If anybody for Oculus is here, can you please tell me what is the proper was of requesting research hardware?
Love these overpriced facebook machines lmao
As a Vim user: no physical escape key, no deal. I've recently tried working on one of these, and the bar is really annoying for another reason: as you switch between apps it keeps changing right in the corner of your vision, distracting from what's going on on the screen. WTF were they thinking?
There is no need to guess, it’s stated.
“I’m currently analyzing with different attorneys and advisers the steps to take next. One of the pieces of advice they gave me were not to give any names to avoid escalating the situation even further. It pains me to do so, because I feel I need to warn the community so that this doesn’t happen to more people. But I understand this is the way things work and right now I need to trust that the justice system in my country will do its work.”
Let's not discount Apple's history of entering and quickly dominating huge established markets.

Also, Tesla already makes and sells pretty great cars. Customers are happy. The cars are incredibly safe. What do they need now that they've successfully built the parts of the business that are outside of Apple's core competencies?
After 8 years of macbooks, after using the 2018 model, I switched to a Dell Precision 5530 running Ubuntu 18.04 and it is awesome. The hardware is great, and having Unix under it all was the only real reason I liked Macs (used to be hardware, too). Granted, I don't need Adobe stuff, or anything else that doesn't run or have an alternative on Ubuntu (although it is dual-booted with Win10, but I've never used it, just keep it for when I want to play a game)

The Macbook pro 2018 was the worst laptop experience I've had in at least 15+ years. So disappointing, but maybe this will let Unix laptops finally start taking real market share.
You can create a second account and enable "show dead" in it's profile, to see all the live and dead comments. So the ban is easy to notice if you are looking.

(Also, there are some false positives from time to time, so you can "vouch" the dead comments, and with enough vouches they revive.)
There are several reasons to believe a blog post over a told-in-person anecdote; for one, this is more or less an open forum with no time limits or constraints on research. This is when combined with the fact that these possibly-incriminating* details of the story were provided voluntarily, which generally adds credence to a claim. Until an opposing blog post appears telling the opposite story (which makes perennial discussion similarly easy to take place), it makes the most sense to believe this account over a secondhand story of a story that doesn't even have a written record.

* If the story of the stalking, etc. were true, it would be damaging to the author's reputation. It would naturally be in the author's better interest to cover it up by not mentioning that detail given that it was true.
Thank you so much for sharing this information.
8-core CPU means that I can rebuild my code almost twice as fast. That's 8 minutes vs. 16. Doesn't make me laugh.

I guess there's a reason it's "Pro".
Making a chip-8 emulator is a reasonable project for those who are interested.
I think there are people in applied math data science and statistics who use Windows and OSX.
I watched this unfold on twitter, and in the organizer's defense, he only addressed the situation and the culprits after those people started a public discussion regarding the ban. The organizer was defending himself.

It's a difficult situation to be in.
Sadly, this is basically true of every major OEM. It's just you generally have recourse to make the change yourself.
Beijing is turning to Ukraine to modernize its military
Sure.

Neither is the hardware, nor is Intel’s or the Motherboard’s, etc. Would it be ideal? Sure. Is it possible to have every level be completely open source? Maybe, but you’d struggle.

I still believe the point is clear, though.
> It’s not open source.

WL is essentially just a bunch of useful functions collected into a common platform, and I think we already have the open source equivalent of that - it's called npm, and it's great, but it is very different, and it has some pretty big downsides which are the direct result of it being an open source project rather than a commercial product. I don't know if WL is as elegant or high-quality or deeply functional as Wolfram claims, but if it is, isn't that likely a result of it being built the way it's built?

It might be that there's a middle option - a way to open some core part of the language, while still keeping enough closed to make up a service layer that they can charge for, as you described - but today's announcement is pretty strong evidence that they considered that and rejected it. It seems pretty presumptuous to assume they got it wrong.
That reduces to "you don't have to worry about performance because the GIL doesn't let you write performant code". That's not what I think of as "helpful".
I think this is splitting hairs. A conference organizer has basically one consideration: make things run smoothly. The whole effort is already so complex and error-prone that most of the time you're killing yourself just to make them work at all. Principles are nice, but when it comes down to either banning a couple people, or facing a backlash from the attendees and sponsors, that's probably the simplest choice the organizer has for the entire event. You lose two ticket sales, but the event keeps running.
And for good reason. Nursing is physically demanding, especially seeing as how the majority of American adults are now obese. It's common for nurses to physically injure themselves trying to move a patient that they're simply not strong enough to handle.

So yes, nursing needs more men, as the job shares a lot of the same physical requirements of other strength-requiring occupations such as construction.
Of course not. So, tell me, when are you going to be happy? When ratio in conferences are 33% men, 33% woman, 33% minorities? What did you accomplish by that?
Have you come across a second issue with the screens as well, which causes them to develop moving yellow spots? (for examples see: https://gregsamborski.com/macbook-pro-led-screen-discolorati...)
LCD displays where backlight is actively controlled probably still draw more power when displaying black than white
The same way it takes two sentences to mention Mr. Smith?
Tails 3.14 Is Out
Flagged for false headline (and correspondingly awful article).
Regain control of branches with Git rebase –onto
> Yeltsin, then 58, "roamed the aisles of Randall's nodding his head in amazement," wrote Asin. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, "there would be a revolution."

It's awe-inspiring to imagine that not too long ago the societal order of multiple countries depended on their millions of residents being ignorant of such a simple fact. What really gets my mind going is the next thought: what are some simple facts that would cause revolutions nowadays if made widely known?
That is not correct. I have no interest in damaging anybody. That is why I did not write names and other things that happened in the article. He has already been banned from other conferences.

I am trying to protect myself based on what happened and other people told me, I assure you the last few weeks have been a hell for me. My only objective is to be able to run my conference as I want and not to be harrassed.
> Now I'm stuck with a $1500 Asus laptop that barely plays Netflix a year and a half later. despite an 7th gen i7 and 16gb of DDR4.

Any idea what's wrong with it?
Science fiction. The poster you're responding to I think means that the common philosophical issues brought up in science fiction aren't being thought of by the creators of this technology in advance.

Basically, they're too preoccupied with whether they could, and not thinking about whether they should.
I couldn't care less about the order of my name(s) or my name itself either...call me Mike, Michael or whatever is easier for you (Machiel, Maicon or Maycon, Michaela, Michelangelo, Michal etc.) Why do people make a such big deal about names anyway?
I see. Today I learnt something new!
No, only tried on stable. Looking forward to testing 67 when I get the update.

I should clarify that I am talking about the situation when running Firefox with GDK_BACKEND=wayland.

UPDATE: Ooh! Firefox 67 in my package manager! I am happy to report that I am now able to use Firefox with WebRender on Wayland directly. One glitch so far: It leaves a one-pixel row transparent at the bottom of the screen. Weird :)
I would add to this that I genuinely don't think that the keyboard failures are due to dust - it seems far more likely to me that the switches are simply failing due to poor design.
And ear computers. They can make computers on wheels as well.
1. No OLED

2. No keyboard fix

3. No thin bezels

4. Still annoying touchbar.

5. $2799 for the 8-core with 16GB RAM and only 512GB SSD.

Hahaha.. No, thanks.
I feel like this is such a common refrain and yet when a maker like System76 tries to enter this market they still still fuck it all up by jamming a number pad in the side. Why do they all do this?
Blockchain Technology over Cryptocurrencies
Some churches and most volunteer organizations have one thing in common: altruistic people . That's not to say there aren't annoying people involved but I've made some excellent friends via volunteering because those organizations don't have much of an appeal to jerks. Also a shared purpose can help bridge some gaps and initiate contact between people. The number of organizations that can use people skilled in STEM is quite high. It doesn't even have to be directly related to our profession. Even understanding algebra is good enough for many mentoring/tutoring organizations. One organization I was involved with for years told me that just showing up on time every week was pretty damn good for the students I mentored because they so rarely get a stable adult relationship in their lives. All that to say that if you're on HN, you have a lot to offer and maybe get some great friendships in return.
FWIW, many Hong Kong people have both a Chinese name and a Western one, and then it works quite nicely, respecting both conventions:

FirstWestern Family FirstChinese

Such as Andrew LEUNG Kwan-yue, Tommy CHEUNG Yu-yan, etc.
Switching to AMD shouldn't require anything from a developer.
Chinese and Japanese, however, usually adopts the preference of locale name ordering.

For example, Stephen Paul Jobs is rendered from Roman to Kana as スティーブン・ポール・“スティーブ”・ジョブズ Suteibun Pouru Jobuzu

In Chinese as 史蒂夫·喬布斯 Shidifu Qiaobusi
My grandfather visited Moscow after chernobyl on invitation by some radiation chemistry prof he knew. You had to stand in line to buy a weight quantity of bread and other basic necessitys like cheese, butter oder meat. There was only one type of bread. They ate their eveninglunch in a park. I can not tell how the food was for official delegations but this was what a privat dinner with a relative well off friend looked like.
I know people who genuinely believe that people in countries with socialized medicine have to wait months to see a doctor
Can a mod kill this BS? Even from the article itself (yes, I put on my wading boots):

"To be clear these are just registrations. Although an official would have to sign off on the validity of Wright’s claims, this is not definitive proof that he is indeed Satoshi or the creator of the Bitcoin code."
I may be off but asynchronously queuing two messages and implementing a synchronous block in business logic does not sound the same to me as a TCP request response cycle.
Then i don't think there is a problem with your logic - at the end of the day i think the question is: are you treating people fairly? and if you can honestly say that [gender] is not playing a role in compensation then you are fine.
Well I think a certain amount of food should be free, and only really communists talk about that kind of thing historically. I was curious if that had been implemented there. For example in present day japan individuals do not pay for medical care. I wondered if the soviets ever tried to do that with food.

I’d like to see free food, shelter, clothing, medical care, and internet access made available to all people. I just wondered if the soviets tried any of that.
It would be a major achievement to make it less reliable. I have had computers for ~40 years now, and none had a keyboard as bad as the one I'm using now (MBP13, 2018).
> 1. Few human organisations nowadays promote values as bad as most religions.

It sounds like your mind is inhabited by a caricature of religion, rather than a realistic conception of the thing. For instance, our neighborhood church uses their facilities to provide (secular) services to the local community. They also organize a monthly service day where community members (not just their congregation) provide help to people in need. Many other churches do similar things. And there is a reason why so many hospitals in the U.S. have religious names: they were started by churches.

If you want to hold religion to account for the bad that they contribute, you also have to give them credit for the good. And I think once you start doing that, you'll find that it's all pretty much a wash.
To me it’s absolutely insane that people have gone to the lengths of actually writing software in order to fix a very basic issue with an extremely expensive luxury product of the worlds largest company. One in this thread mentioned using tape to cover up the Touch Bar in order to avoid triggering it accidentally!

Apple ducked up big time with the post-2015 generation MacBooks, and it was caused by the weird hunt for thinness and gimmicky features which nobody want from a professional portable workstation.

"Thinner than a 2015 MacBook Pro" is last on most people’s wishlists. What good is a thin laptop if the keyboard fails and the performance you pay for can't be used since the operating temperature is too high?

It says a lot about a company when a large amount of customers just don’t care for the new features and they just want the new performance in the old form factor.

It’s like the ones who made the current generation never uses a laptop, and has no idea about how people are actually using the product.
As a listener to this podcast, I have to say that your characterization of end of the empire "at the hands of the Germans" is a just bit of an oversimplification.
Paywall bypass: http://archive.fo/P8FCS
Feel free to run to the front of the battle and take the arrows for the rest of us. Chiding others for not sacrificing themselves to boost corporate profits is a shitty thing to do.

I also don't believe you've thought through all the failure modes and misaligned incentives that happen over time.

Not wanting to live in a "1984" dystopia is not extreme by any means.
Until it overheats and throttles :)
> Another strategy is to volunteer. In a recent survey of over 10,000 people in the UK, two-thirds reported that volunteering helped them feel less isolated.

I am not digging further. Self-reported.

My experience: I did a sting in volunteering, in a shelter (I worked the day shift).

First question asked when I applied: "What are you doing here ?".

Second question, from the social worker running the shelter: "What do you think my role is ?".

It caught me off guard. I thought about it for a while and then said: "You manage the volunteers as much as the people in need of the shelter ?"

"And it makes up most of your time and takes most of your energy.", I added when I quit, three months later.

I believe the volunteers are good people but their objectives aren't aligned with the people who need the shelter. Good things there's a middle ground where each can meet and fulfill their needs though.
Do you have a good understanding of the legal differences? My understanding is there now an open source license that anyone can fork, including companies basically committing IP theft, and then a basic license that is free unless you are selling Elastic as a service? The idea is that Elastic would put all improvements into Elastic Basic, and Amazon can't use this source code in its forked version?

IMO, it doesn't seem like a near-term risk, but could Elastic ever change its basic license so it costs money for everyone?
Correct, but misleading in the context.
The SSDs they use really do cost that much though. Even if you got them from another manufacturer they'd be about that expensive. Apple don't use cheap SSDs...they use blazing fast, top of the line units not found on many other laptops.

If you have criticism, price isn't a valid one.

But you can definitely argue that they should have cheaper/slower options so that consumers who don't need blazing fast SSDs can still benefit from increased storage.

Here's how the 2018 Macbook's SSD stacks up against the competition: https://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2018/07/macbookprossdt...

That's why there's such a huge price difference. Not because they're randomly picking high upgrade prices to screw customers.
>This year, we had to handle issues that honestly, as an adult, we would never expect to have to handle from other adults.

I had a similar experience in a class recently. I couldn't help but keep thinking "my 9 year old knows better than to behave like this" (and my 9 year old has his own developmental challenges). The behavior was really shocking considering everyone in the room was an adult.

Unfortunately there wasn't much I felt I could do. It was a short class, and I had the impression that this person was well versed in pulling the appropriate levers to protect themselves from any negative reaction to their behavior whatever they didn't like by claiming privilege, race, sex etc whenever possible (this person made lots of conspicuous references the very first day and the second .. .and so on before trouble started). They were also always just some terrible victim of something or other ... but as time went on it was pretty clear that it was all just a system that allowed them to behave poorly, make outbursts and bully others.

I specifically asked not to be in any groups with this person and my request was honored thankfully.

To be clear I mentioned privilege, race, and sex, any consideration of those things was NOT the source of the problem, had there been none of that I'm certain that the person in question would have found other ways to manipulate the situation, their behavior was the real issue.
Spreadsheets are a great way for non-programmers to prove an algorithm or calculation. I always encourage non-technical people to start in a spreadsheet, because if they can model it in a two-dimensional spreadsheet, a programmer can very easily extract that out into working code. Spreadsheets are a perfect working reference.
I actually really like the touch bar. I'd enjoy my 2016 MBP if it wasn't for the 2 keys that are now unreliable on the keyboard. That and the fact that it crashes every time the battery runs out.
I'm currently using the last, best 2015 macbook, and having tried a newer model as a work computer for a short while previously, am dreading the day I need to think about replacing it.

How about this apple. "macbook util". The pro line can keep the thin delicate stuff. Give me the 2015 case, screen, keyboard, and magsafe, with some new internals and a usb-c. I'd happily hand over my money.
Ah, you're right! The whole stack is open source if you ignore the non-open-source parts. (Intel compilers are also popular, by the way.)
> To that end, anything made in Excel is completely worthless.

I suspect this lady and her employer find worth in this approach, which would make your assertion incorrect.

I've also seen numerous $100k+++ "proper" software projects advocated by people who share a similar mindset as you, when a mildly complicated spreadsheet that could be built in a week or two could accomplish the same thing and more.
And everyday your President brags about the fact that US is back to full employment.
So if these jobs were somehow back that you would need an army of Mexicans... Not sure this is the expected result, for Trump supporter.