skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The conference organizer denied a speaker position in a conference. All that happened in private.

The person and a third-party engaged (allegedly) in doxxing and public shaming.

Even if the conference organizer was in the wrong, there's a world of difference between those two things.
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Client side encryption is critical. CrashPlan has no business having the ability to inspect file contents.
There's a puzzling detail: that it's a couple who were causing problems to women. If it was a man, little imagination is needed to conjecture that the problem could be something related to sexual harrasement, even if mild.

A woman alone, well, it could be the same if she's homosexual.

A couple? No problem figuring out they behave like idiots with everyone, as the article describes they did with the autor. But he says that they make women unconfortable specifically.

I'm not implying that this detail is suspicious, just that it stands out when you have incomplete information. Of course you can't ask jerks not to be weird :)
Getting away from Fn entirely is tough -- it's still useful as a way of simulating keys like PgUp/PgDn/Home/End (Fn+arrows) and forward delete (Fn+Backspace).
I've seen tabloid rags refer to Kim Jong Un as [sic] "Mister Un" more times than I can count. I think it would be useful to be able to know the ordering of a name without having to look it up.
Exactly. Church.
Good luck in the courts. Unfortunately that route is very slow.

(You're probably looking at 1.5 to 3 years before you obtain any final orders - and then there's the issue of enforcing any orders you might obtain!)
Personally, I won't feel the keyboard issue is resolved until the keyboard is a user replaceable part.
I strongly feel you would be better off getting the keyboard replaced in your MBP 2013 than upgrading to a new MacBook. (See my post history/other comments on this thread for my background and a more thorough explanation.) A keyboard upgrade would be around $200 or less—check local shops near you for price quotes.
Why didn't you just replace the battery?
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You took your logic train too far. Thousands, nay, millions of people and groups stop somewhere past "I need to table some data, do some calculations and conditionals and dashboards" and before "We need this to be a multi-user application with app and data tiers".

Bash scripts don't visualize. Bash is harder to learn than Excel.

Go to vertex42.com and tell me that everyone who could ever use any of those templates will invariably need to throw it all away and ask a developer to build a custom tool to replace it.
Obligatory "Benjamin Button Reviews the New MacBook Pro" link (late 2016): https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/10/benjamin_button_reviews_the...

> Gone is the gimmicky TouchBar, gone are the four USB-C ports that forced power users to carry a suitcase full of dongles. In their place we get a cornucopia of developer-friendly ports: two USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt 2 ports, a redesigned power connector, and a long-awaited HDMI port.
There is nothing deceptive about LED backlit LCDs, they are an important upgrade over CFL backlit LCDs.
I still consider macOS UI much more superior. Also I love the new MBP with the TouchID integration.
I mostly use light mode, usually I can't get it bright enough during the day!

I will say my personal "Dev" computer uses dark modes though, I find at night with multiple monitors it's just too bright.
I think it depends on the area. I have Kaiser now, in the Silicon Valley, and I've never waited more than a day for a specialist. Oftentimes I can even go in the same visit as my GP after he refers me.

I think it's the same in Canada. In some areas there are no waits and in other areas there are long waits. I think they need to look at percentiles to get a more accurate measure.
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It should. To confirm it's working, visit about:support and look for "WebRender" in the "Compositing" field.
I don't agree. There should be no copyright claim or other legal protection status possible on public domain information. That is not the same as saying Google should be forced to hand it over. I'm talking about crawling their website.
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I wish that there was a manual for how to turn any car into a dumb-car (or at least how to disconnect them from the internet).
Or maybe an hjkl vim remapping is in order :)
Do these machines lose any performance due to Intel’s latest vulnerability?
The cheapest XPS 15" is more expensive than the cheapest MB 15".

Are there any reliable ~$1000 laptops to host linux?
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It's about $100 more to go from 512 GB to 1 TB, and these are better than what Apple puts in their machines. https://www.mrmemory.co.uk/ssd-upgrades/lenovo/thinkpad/p1
I got a maxed out late 2013 MBP and I too am going to hold onto it as long as possible. 4 core i7, 16gb of ram, discrete gpu and it still runs like a champ. The only problem I had was that the battery recently swelled up which caused problems with the touchpad and fans, but apple ended up replacing the battery, keypad, touchpad, and casing for $300 which wasn't too bad considering ifixit wanted like $1,000 bucks for all those parts and now it feels like new.
No Latin American countries have nukes, and despite spending most of the 19th century beating the stuffing out of each other on a regular basis [1] there's been almost zero inter-state violence since WW2.

Modern Russia is also nowhere near the unstoppable conventional military juggernaut that the Cold War-era USSR was.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_South_Ame...
Regardless of similarity to Wolfram products, this looks cool. I feel like I could be in the target audience, but the documentation is quite sparse. I feel like

> Your data ends up being represented as nodes in a graph that can be traversed by comparing a query (which is also represented as a vector) to nodes from the graph and use their cosine angle as a guide as to what node to traverse to next and when to stop.

Could be... at least a page, with some diagrams. Each node... is a vector? Has a property that is the vector?
Has to do that. Implemented a 68000.

It was a stupid project. I learned nothing from the project that I had not already learned along the way with simpler toy instructional examples. And yeah, the double all-nighter and having one team member give up 12-hours before the due date was one of the worst experiences in my life.
The production value of that video had me gut busting in laughs... did they pull an PS1 intro video from strike series or something lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyQ5Jf7cpLY
See: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-20/austra...
If you’re doing remodeling work or additions you need Home Depot or Lowe’s. Ace is for minor things around the house.
it's not responsive enough either. maybe I have a light touch, but I never had problems with the physical keyboard before. many times I go to pause my music or change volume and the buttons don't register for 2 or 3 presses.

I thought the ESC key was going to be annoying, but it has ended up being everything else.

also the huge trackpad is annoying. at home with the laptop on my lap I hit the edges all the time and send the mouse flying. had to turn off "hot corners" because I kept locking my laptop randomly.
Not saying every word Huawei founder says can be fully trusted.

The problem is that his statements are extremely misrepresented.
Both churches and non-profits are actually jerk magnets. Why? Because jerks know they can buffalo the altruistic majority to gain power in and eventually control over the organization.
The failure rate of the butterfly keyboard design is clearly orders of magnitude too high and is the sort of thing people should genuinely lose their jobs over (and perhaps they have). But "orders of magnitude too high" might well mean one or two percent, rather than one or two tenths of a percent; outside the company, I don't think we have any reasonable estimates of the failure rate, just anecdotes. My work laptop has no problem, although its lid is usually closed; my home laptop, a MacBook Escape, also has had no keyswitch problems, although I mostly use an iPad for portable work now. Most of my coworkers have new butterfly-switch keyboards and I don't hear of significant issues; I've talked with a couple Mac IT people at different companies and they haven't experienced huge failure rates, either. This is, again, all anecdotal, though; some people will come back and say "I'm in an eight-person group and three of us had bad keyboards."
I've commented on a similar thing previously—

I worked for a while with some older Vietnamese refugees who were largely self-taught electrical engineers. They used to tell me how they'd dream about the circuits in these high-watt lighting ballasts they were fixing. One tale specifically had them trying to find a fix over the course of a week, only to dream up the solution and come in the next morning to repair the gear in minutes.

I've definitely dreamed up solutions to software bugs and architecture problems myself.

I've never really dug deeply into why, but it's fascinating.
replace the plug with a lightning port and sell dongles
A pretty good collection in fact. Of course the stuff here is popular, but mostly for good reason, and varied, naturally. Thinking about music and Apple always makes me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
I know that feel. I was tasked with wiring up the even / odd bytes for my team's Microcomputer. After countless hours of wire trimming and breadboarding, I was so afraid to boot up the board. Popped the brick in the wall, got a solid power light, and was presented with my terminal.

Huge sigh of relief, I might have just passed out then and there if I didn't have to continue.
Here's a link to the data source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm
What’s the battery life like?
15% of your laptops have had major hardware issues in 2 years? Seems ridiculously bad given this is a premium product. I will never understand the loyalty to Macs given they are so obviously inferior to PC offerings these days.
The butterfly mechanism isn't the problem, they've been used in Panasonic laptops for years. The problem is pushing it to such extremes.
This is not about porting the number to a different carrier or even a different owner though. It's more analogous to getting a replacement SIM card.

The last time I had a phone stolen, I went to the carrier's store, they checked my ID, and gave me a replacement SIM. And the things is, if the customer service representative is empowered to do that, they could also be bribed by the attacker.
I find it astonishing that they've included it in the replacement program. That gives me no confidence whatsoever, and after having replaced and returned both 2016 and 2017 MBP models, I am going to stay well clear of this keyboard form factor.
Just use what you're already proficient in.
Totally agree with this. As an American, I really came to envy "pub culture" of the UK and how much of an integral part of socialization that it is.
> At least Tesla has demonstrated that their data collection is for training their full self-driving capability. That represents tremendous end-user value, in my opinion.

Not to me. That data collection is the #1 reason why I would never consider buying a Tesla (and, increasingly, other new cars as well.)
> 'toasterlovin makes good points about the historical and even current positives of such organizations, I'm not convinced they balance out to a net positive today but I'm much more willing to consider the notion historically

Huh, my intuition is the opposite: now that organized religions have been defanged and stripped of most of their political power they are probably more of a net positive force today than they ever were in the past.
The problem with this is this is just one of half a dozen other computers I'd be using. I see no reason whatsoever to remap anything to anything after paying nearly $4K for the privilege. It should adapt to the way I've been doing things for the past 25 years, and intend to continue for 25 more.
given name != surname

surname = "last" name = family name
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The remap is at the OS level, so if you remap caps lock to control or escape, that's what your machine will send over SSH when you press it. No need to change for every terminal app you use.
Many northern US locations get much more snow than most of the inhabited parts of Norway. Most of the places where substantial numbers of people live don't get vast amounts of snow and anyway the roads are typically cleared and easily drivable before it's time to go to work.

One really big difference is that we use tyres specifically designed for low temperatures and snow.
supposedly something similar happened when Kruschev visited Los Angeles decades ago

Anatoly Dobrynin, the USSRs ambassador to the US from 1962 to 1986, wrote that when he arrived in New York, he was amazed to see traffic jams were real. In the USSR, they were claimed to be American propaganda.

The world has advanced a lot since then. The third world now has much worse traffic jams than the US.

(Dobrynin's autobiography describes how he became a diplomat. One day, Stalin was grumbling about the old diplomats around him, and said that the USSR needed New Soviet Men, like aircraft designers, as diplomats. The next day, Dobrynin, aircraft designer, was essentially arrested at his drafting table at work and sent to the Higher Diplomatic Academy in Moscow.)
> The Win10 license is kept in the UEFI so you can reinstall from a Win10 ISO at any time and it will activate correctly.

Not if Windows 10 detected that you have "major" hardware changes. In which case, your new installation won't be activated (granted, Microsoft doesn't enforce activation on). You may need to extract the license key from UEFI and type it in manually to get activation to work. It's a hassle.
I feel the same, except with Common Lisp, whose interactivity is maybe only rivaled by Smalltalk, and whose performance can be made close to that of C for real-world applications.
I've seen some studies that indicate this is less about regions and more about exposure to high population densities and everything that goes with it, though I can't find the links now.
TCP doesn't have a request/response cycle - its a stream of bytes between applications
At least 60 since WWII. One direct result of US interference are the ongoing issues in the Middle East.
Knock on wood my Macbook Pro that is now about 6 months old has been holding up flawlessly. Keyboard is great.
Tongue-in-cheek: Isn't Google the exact company meant to bring Huawei down? Is there some sort of checksum for translations?
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"I thought the given name in Chinese was almost always two characters. Is this not the case?"

Not at all. Nowadays there are hundreds of millions of people in Mainland China with a single-character given name. Case in point: former tennis player Li Na, former basketball player Yao Ming.

I say "Mainland China" because I notice people from Hongkong and Taiwan have mostly two-character given names.
You're still trusting Apple to actually turn them off. I have zero reason to doubt Apple on this. However, I also have zero reason to think Alexa is transmitting even if it hasn't been woken up with the wake word.
Any communty really. Sport, book or chess clubs too. Theater lessons, shared houses, gay bars, anything where you can recreate a sense of being part of a group and not just being among people. The quality of the community matters though, some are human, some are mechanical. Leaders matter of lot for creating the right mix.

And work is less and less a good place for that, because of policies, specialisation, compartimenting, but also because of lack of meaning
.

Meaning is a very important component for a group, and religions sell plenty of it, which make them strong people binders.

A lot of other factors like common values, language, symbolism and stories reinforce this effect, but you can find that elsewhere, although it is very natural for spiritual groups to include all of it.
They're now replacing them in-store. It was 4 days when I took mine in to the Palo Alto store, back when they had to ship it out.
Personally I'd feel really concerned if someone upset at a conference ... contacted a personal acquaintance who is involved in it all like a girl friend.

To me that would indicate some serious "boundaries issues."
Wow, if that's your view of volunteerism, I have nothing but honest pity.
"...we will pass you and your capitalism in our advancement and wave to you as we go past..."

In our high-speed train. That's China.
Boeing's disasterous MCAS system relied entirely on a single AOA sensor and did no real sanity checking, yes. The Airbus plane this article is about had three AOA sensors fed through three redundant ADIRU modules, with the data being checked and cross-checked by each of the three primary and two secondary flight control computers, each of which also had an internal monitoring channel running independently-written software on seperate hardware checking its internal calculations.

The reason Qantas Flight 72 only nose-dived twice, if I'm understanding the incident report correctly, is that each nose-dive caused the internal monitoring to fail and that part of the flight control computer responsible to be faulted out for the rest of the flight. After the second nose dive, all three of the primary flight computers had faulted, disabling the affected flight control features.
P.S. I'm not a picky person. I work in a quiet office so even my colleague noticed the issue without me pointing. At the beginning I really wanted to fix the issue. Later it was rather for 'feedback' and a matter of principle.
Twerkaholic
Exactly this, you want to make the right choice and not be judgemental or act out of fear, but once the other party becomes needlessly belligerent one knows what to do.
There are instructions for how to disable the comms antenna for a lot of cars out there.
I can only come to the same conclusion. Typing this on a 2018 MacBook 15 inch, and it's a disaster. I still keep accidentally hitting the Touchbar ten times per day while typing (it's not a press-bar, duh)

My favorite problem is activating Siri when I use Touch ID (yes, I know you can remove Siri from the Touch Bar). I miss the physical escape key. But the Touch Bar is great for volume control and scrobbling. Touch ID is awesome though (if I manager to hit the right area), I really miss Touch ID on my Linux machine.

I need a dongle for _everything and their mother_

Don't get me started on the dongles. I was a fairly early adopter (had the first generation 12" MacBook). They actually sold USB-C adapters initially where the USB-A port only supports USB 2.0. Yep 80 Euro for an adapter that only does USB 2.0.

Then their USB-C HDMI adapter only support HiDPI at 30Hz (due to supporting an older HMDI version). Again, unbelievable for an adapter that was initially 80 Euro.

So, I had to buy a USB-C <-> DisplayPort adapter to hook up a HiDPI screen at 60Hz (third-party USB-C <-> HDMI adapters universally had bad reviews). The adapter works fine on the MacBook Pro 2016. I updated later to the MacBook Pro 2018, and for some mysterious reason the adapter does not work on the MacBook Pro 2018, no output at all (still works fine with my wife's 2016). So I had to buy yet another adapter... (What's the point of USB-C as a universal interface if it is not universal?)
Apple Computers should have SSD built-in.
Where? I've never seen any. I've heard that Italy has rules for it but I've never seen any signs in the UK, Scandinavia, northern Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, or France.

I don't even know what it would look like.

Looks like I should brush up before this summer's road trip.
Not sure what your usage is like, but after being on OSX for 10 years and going back to Windows 10, I don't miss it much. Windows 10 is pretty great these days.
> Carmakers will reduce the mortality rate from motor vehicle accidents to almost zero (with full autonomy), using the collected data.

Maybe.

But what else are they using that data for?
Looking forward to papers using pythia the AI library to analyze data simulated by pythia the physics library.
The reaction of the organizer is very sad. Civilization is based on the peaceful collaboration of people who may hate each other. Disallowing such collaboration is, by definition, uncivilized.

Being able to deal with people that make you very uncomfortable without creating a fuss is a fundamental requirement of adulthood. Regardless of the callous reaction of the un-invited person, it was not OK to un-invite them, at least for the reasons exposed in this article.

The organizer says:

> Being accused like that caused me harm.

of course it did. Just like the harm you did by cancelling invitations on behalf of a hypothetical discomfort of other people. It is exactly the same behavior.
Yuval Noah Harari on 'The Bright Side of Nationalism', CE University of Budapest
Warheads spin on re-entry anyway, so laser energy directed at any point other than the centerline (which is pretty hard to hit) will get dissipated and spread across the whole warhead.

I think the biggest impact is actually against low-tech threats: swarms of fast attack suicide boats, or 1960s-era cruise missiles that have ended up on the black market. There's a big cost advantage to being able to take these out with a quick 30kW pulse rather than a million-dollar missile, particularly since the threat itself probably cost less than a million dollars.

In a great-power conflict (where "great-power" is rapidly expanding to include private multinational corporations) the U.S. military is fucked anyway, but then, so is the opposing power. Perhaps that's the best we can hope for, because it's a pretty strong incentive not to start great-power conflicts in the first place.
I think you can actually interpret this new MacBook Pro's inclusion in the repair program multiple ways. It could mean that they don't have much confidence in the updated keyboard. But it could also mean that they want to reassure customers that they will be taken care of. Kinda like the free bumpers in response to Antennagate: Antennagate wasn't actually a thing, but they gave away free cases to mollify people and just shut the door on the whole issue.

I have no idea which of those is the correct interpretation...
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These announcements are getting just as cringey as the Wolfram announcements...

"the fastest Mac notebook ever" (x3)
"is more powerful than ever" (x2)
"the best Mac notebook display ever"

and

"the latest version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system."