skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's $199 for a battery replacement. Not cheap but given that you pay for a 95wh battery, a new keyboard, a new trackpad, a new topcase and warranty that's a pretty good deal. Your MacBook Pro will be as good as new.
Well, applied to myself I'd say: The running helps, also the feeling that you should not be doing something else then just wait until it is finished. We hardly feel that we need to survive anything anymore, it may be something that lifts the spirit because simply a will to survive is important. This Blissfulness does not really surprise me.
Isn't there some fundamental mathematical structure here which makes these problems unsolvable?

Like imagine 20 robots all trying to do some task, each one learning information as it goes. How much time should they spend doing the task vs how much time should they spend communicating with the other robots? (Assuming they are restricted to one or the other)

It's not really a solvable question. It's possible some other robot has a piece of information that would make you much more efficient, however you can't know if they have that information without asking them.

It's possible that taking the piece of information you just learned and gathering all the robots and sharing it with them will help many of them become more efficient, however you don't know if that's true unless you try it.

How can one of the robots work out the value of a piece of information to another robot? Surely all you can do is estimate?

Clearly 0% communication and 100% communication are terrible ideas. However working out which pieces of information to communicate and when is not particularly optimisable, you just have to muddle through as best you can.
Careful with that crimethink, only one kind of skepticism is allowed lest you be unpersoned.
Do you mean as opposed to humans and contemporary apes sharing common ancestors?
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Redhat internally uses Thinkpads.

Superfish was on Ideapads, and it was bundled Windows software.

While both are by Lenovo, they are separate product lines.
There are libraries abstracting the SIMD calls if that's what you want, e.g. faster (https://github.com/AdamNiederer/faster) or simdeez (https://github.com/jackmott/simdeez), but these have to use basic operations at the end of the day too and this post shows how to do that.

I'm not sure renaming the primitive operations provided by intel/amd to something "nicer" would help much here. Using plain SIMD will always be ugly and at least you can Google the names and get back the Intel documentation without first translating from a different name.
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Is this actually Tesla running their own insurance company or just Tesla selling Tesla branded insurance backed by an existing insurance company.
> I'll believe Microsoft loves Linux when I can install Microsoft Office in my desktop Linux machine.

I'll believe Microsoft loves Linux when I can install Windows after Linux and it doesn't mess up the bootloader as if it were the only game in town.
Brand names for household products came into their own not to differentiate identical products, but rather to differentiate identical-seeming products. I.e.. because of the scandals of adulteration in the Victorian age.

http://www.artisanfoodlaw.co.uk/history-of-food-law/19th-cen...

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=U29jOkKqI2kC&pg=PA96&lpg...
True. And about as helpful as offering a coat to a dead man.

It is not a problem that is retroactively fixable by other means than by what they are doing now.

They could take Android closed source and put a restrictive license on it demanding that timely updates as a condition of use. All that would achieve is that the large vendors will either stick with the old, still free to use, Android or start working on their own systems they would control again - Samsung's Tizen, Huawei is developing their own, etc. It doesn't take much to piss a large vendor like Samsung off sufficiently to jump ship. They aren't married to Android and have plenty of resources to pour into proprietary alternatives. Google doesn't have much leverage there.

The result would be only a market fragmentation, collapse of the app market and loss of market share for Google. That would benefit exactly nobody.

Phone vendors are not interested in system updates - that's a pure cost they don't want to pay, they would rather have you buy a new phone or at least not have to spend money and engineering time on preparing patches.
FYI, this seems to be the version where every old style extension stops working. For me that means Nostalgy, Enigmail, and Colored Diffs are incompatible, 2 of those are so essential that it's not worth upgrading until they work.

But it looks like you can set `app.update.enabled` to `false` in the config editor and keep the status quo until things settle… Even if this one (68.0) doesn't auto update, 68.1 will.
Interesting! Having used a Mac for 6 months after years of Windows, I had quite the opposite feelings:

> unzip hidden behind right click or freaking menu button

By default double click or Enter will cause Explorer to peak into .zip files, which is more natural to me as I might not want to unzip the whole file to see the contents.

> rename through right click or f2

The fact that in Finder the Enter button does not actually enter a directory or run/open a file but let me rename it was the biggest surprise. I personally rename filesystem objects rarely, while I 'execute' them all the time, it does not make sense!

> quicklook on Mac is the single greatest feature ever. Mainly because it works in file dialogs. (...) Windows afaik has no equivalent

Fully agree - it is a very useful feature. Explorer also has it under 'Preview pane' name, but it's disabled by default. I think that Mac version is better, because if I remember correctly it does preview PDF files, while Explorer does not. Other typical files work fine.

> somewhat related, maximum length of file paths.

Fully agree.
That assumes their are only 2 stars involved. Add a 3rd or more and things get unstable.

“We ran a series of statistical models to see if we could account for the relative populations of young single stars and binaries of all separations in the Perseus molecular cloud," Stahler said. "And the only model that could reproduce the data was one in which all stars form initially as wide binaries. These systems then either shrink or break apart within a million years." https://www.space.com/37186-sun-long-lost-twin-nemesis.html
you want me to send some nytime linkes for u there :')... sure they are reliable sources. :')...

offering counter-point as most views are highly negative and paranoid. but i suppose in my country, there's not really much negative media about these sort of things, guess intelligence agency quality and media coverage varies by country, feeding this paranoia of you guys (guessing most will be basing their well founded and very knowlegable opinions on US media posts.)

in my country, the coverage for our intelligence services looks much more positive...
https://nos.nl/artikel/2253313-mivd-we-hebben-russische-hack... (sorry, sure you can figure out google translate.. - and yes, tis is also public media, highly reliable source as always. :')... but i guess at least it's public enough for u...)
The show Outback Truckers did a little segment when one of the drivers had to deliver one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiRkiNh7VK0
The vast majority of impressions I've seen are about how the keyboard mistypes or breaks. It's not necessarily about it feeling worse - it is worse in aspects that don't directly related to how it feels to type on it. The keyboard rage is entirely justified if such an expensive device has keyboard problems that are unsolvable. It's really not helpful to dismiss the issues and people's opinions just because you happen to think typing on the keyboard is fine, no idea what anybody is complaining about, everybody is exaggerating and out of their minds.
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Amen.

Just got banned by a dozen of "thought leaders" on Twitter for saying the same things about people working for Facebook and all these "poor souls" who just got fired by Apple after it was leaked that they were listening in on Siri conversations.

If you can get hired at a software division in Google, Facebook, or Apple, you can get hired anywhere else.

Be honest. You just care more about money and prestige more than you care about doing scummy work.
In this case it led to comments that made for good reading.
"We are a totally trustworthy company, we screw only some of our customers."
The Case for a Low-Carb Diet Is Stronger Than Ever
Microsoft actually tracks this with their telemetry, they say they want to prioritize work to the features that are used most.
like a dog
> imposing free range would be terrible for the environment

It would have to be coupled with other measures to limit resources depletion, but it's the right thing to do imho. It would raise the price much higher, factoring in humane treatment. Sales would drop due to this higher price, there wouldn't be as many farm animals as now.
Unfortunately they were homeopathically poisonous due to water memory.
Ads in start menu? Apps installed without my consent? No, thank you
The reason it is being downvoted it is because it is using lazy debating techniques.

Saying that "well but probably there are people that had it coming" does not add anything to the discussion. In fact it diminishes the quality.

The article on the comments are talking about examples of people the affirm having being treated wrongly. If there are other cases of people that have been punished correctly or these cases are lying, then some sort of proof, at least implying that, would be in order.
> searched for "Great firewall latency" on my mobile

Found few blog posts, it looks like network congestion.

Yeah it may well exists, because if DPI servers can't handle all the oversaturated traffic, it may well just cap the backbone bandwidth, dropping packets, etc.

So if your packets has to be retransmitted it creates latency.
Most are concealed, and the rest are usually holstered and pointing down. Doesn't seem that hard to exclude almost all of those, leaving just a few for manual review.
You might notice these harrassment cases are almost always someone high up in the org chart.

They, I suspect, do not real work and thus have the time to conduct these activities.
> Would you prefer if he just called him a jerk?

Indeed I would.

> Telling someone that they're being mean or inconsiderate is not the same thing as censoring them.

Unless this 'telling' is a dogwhistle for the thought police to take action.

My parent comment was already flagged. One more dogwhistle and I'll be banned.
Uh... I really don't think so. Those communities are very specifically about only drinking water, ideally tap water, and absolutely hate soda. As tongue-in-cheek as the entire thing is, soda is the enemy there. If rasz thinks that the people spamming about hydration in Twitch chat (or anywhere else) have anything to do with Coca-Cola or any other company, he's wrong, and simply jumped to conclusions based on previous experience. This entire "movement" is literally about only drinking water, and the health benefits it provides over drinking soda, juice, etc. Maybe it's sponsored by lemon companies, since a slice of lemon is about the only thing that those communities allow in their precious water.
Dunno. The keyboard on my T420 still works 9 years later. None of my desktop keyboards have broken in 5+ years of use, and they were incredibly cheap (10-20€). Keyboards are a solved problem. Apple just keeps inventing new ones.
Or place's names, like Champagne.
Main system storage didn't use FAT; /sdcard did.
I have 2 Macbook Pros. One model 2017, and another late 2018 which I barely use. the 2017 keyboard feels more and more jammed, specially the space bar. The other just because has almost 0 use I can feel isn't that jammed. In the end I will start going back to a mechanical keyboard again. I'm thinking a $300 Topre. I managed to destroy all Apple Keyboards in less than a year, yeah.
If your spies are everywhere then it is useful if people think they're no good.
If your spies are no good or nonexistent it is beneficial that people think they are omnipresent masterminds.

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I refuse to use H1 because of how hostile they are to security researchers.
It happened because the CIA used shitty encryption. Someone warned them before it happened and again while it happened, and they fired him for it.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/iran_cracked_cia_go...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17771096

This was pretty big
But it seems, that Entebbe was mostly a success, because of sheer luck and incompetence (and moral hesitation to actual kill hostages) on the terrorist side.
(They could land planes full of soldiors, without the ugandians noticing, they failed to kill sentrys with supressed fire, they killed hostages because the soldiers did not know how the hijackers looked like. And the ugandian army could have been prepared, if they would not have ignired the intel they recieved about the raid)

Still, a success ...
And one more update.
Reminds "Bons Baisers de Hong Kong" (which could be translated as "From Hong Kong With Love"), a parody of Bond movies...

Souvenirs, souvenirs...
I mean we are a very different species, we have not evolved from apes, nor have apes evolved from fish. It is an idiot theory that doesn't serve us at all. These apes are not our ancestors fortunately, we are very fortunate to be real humans.

I believe all species DNA are designed by our true ancestors. Imagine what is possible if technology evolves another 1000 years what we would be capable of! And it is incredibly naive to think we are the first and only life in the universe and build an evolution theory upon that..
For motorcycle helmets the replacement interval is 5 years for most manufacturers. Why are bicycle helmets supposed to replaced more often?
> If people are flagging something like this that's so directly in the sweet spot of "interesting to hackers" and non-flamewar inducing as this, then I hope the mods aren't asleep at the wheel!

Exactly. Flags of this article would be a good indicator for dang / sctb to make HN ignore flags from these HN accounts in future.
One of the great selling points of the low-end Yugo was that it had a defroster on the back windshield, to warm your hands while you pushed it.
Only 12 hours between an email and the account termination, with no real interaction and no way to change what seems not to be a serious problem.

That would change the time gap during responsible disclosure, Alphabet/Google is changing its metrics. I mean why only small developers would have to be mistreated.

If they play it that way, Android developers community can also report platform bugs to them - and go full disclosure (report the bug publicly) within 12 hours.
We should all make a concerted effort to get people to stop using Google Play. There are multiple websites which offer apps, including ones where search can be automated. The default "app management app" should be something which is based on multiple source, independent of each others and not Google controlled.

I realize that might be very hard; and if you're logged into a Google account on your phone (which you really shouldn't be!) it's very tempting to use Google Play, so what I suggested requires either self-discipline or rooting devices to make them not default to Google Play. On the other hand, maybe the US sanctions against Huawei might actually make that a viable option? Time will tell.

Personally, I use APKPure instead of Google Play; they have an app of their own. Not the best solution - and certainly doesn't solve the article author's problem - but at least I don't have worry about Google's heavy-handed tactics so much.
The new thing is the number of ready-made meals that are also vegetarian, and directly from the distributor brand.

And for me the biggest marker is that it's now advertised on the package. Not just the small vegan logo, there is big lettering like "suitable for vegetarians" or "meat-free" or whatever. It must have become a selling point.
It matters a lot. You can squeeze impressive performance from a smartphone, too, but then you need to dump all that waste heat somewhere, plus you need to take battery capacity into account. In other words, in a desktop, power efficiency is commendable, but not critical.
Very fun book indeed, the audiobook is also very good. (narrated by Wil Wheaton)
https://www.audible.com/pd/Masters-of-Doom-Audiobook/B008K8B...
Does the comment strike you as "understanding" or even "trying to understand"?

It paints a blanket picture, with no qualifications (read a few articles at best), and belittles what the scientists in general "do".
What we have is a giant GAN - google's AI trying to spot the real bad actors from not, against the bad actors AI trying to fool the google AI.

I suspect your experience is a sign that the bad actors are getting the upper hand and one of the problems in this space is human intervention can't really scale against machines.

It could be a fight for survival for these companies whose huge market cap is based on the enormous scaling benefits of automation - however if it turns out that the automation processes can't successfully scale once automated fraud is taken into account then the only solution might be to descale the operation - making them vulnerable to traditional companies.
As opposed to what concept that is concrete objective reality?
Obviously it's not as simple as just spotting a gun. Some people carry openly.
The issue is we already experience climate based on the current methane concentration. If the addition is exactly equal to the removal, we don’t get climate change from Methane.
Doesn't Apple fix the no-fly problem for free, since the only ones affected by the no-fly are the recalled ones (any recalled lithium ion battery is no-fly)?

Sure it takes time to fix and the problem really shouldn't have happened in the first place, but if your machine is at risk of having the battery overheat or catch fire, it feels like the fact you can't fly with it ought to be the least of your worries.
> Isn't there some fundamental mathematical structure here which makes these problems unsolvable?

No. Meetings are easy to fix, there's just three simple steps:

a) There must be a point-by-point agenda before the meeting.

b) During the meeting there's somebody to take notes and keep the meeting on topic of the agenda.

c) After a meeting there must be a post-meeting report.

Unfortunately doing it right is a bureaucratic bummer that most people don't like.
It's built into the Google Drive app, press + and scan.
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/3145835
I feel like much of that is a matter of convention. Why wouldn't you put extract in the right-click menu, which can be extended by any number of applications with whatever useful functions. It's just functional in a way that makes sense.

Renaming with anything other than Enter makes sense because Enter opens the file.

The file path thing is bizarre. Windows 10 supports a path length of 32767 characters. But last I checked you had to change a registry setting before it was the default. And getting W10 to respect a long file path in Python programmatically was a huge pain.
It's really difficult to understand how a large complicated appplication should be used if you have no use for it yourself. I spent most of the last twenty years workin g on design software for transformers (the electrical kind not the newly fashionabloe machine learning stuff) but I have never designed a transformer in my life. There is no way of dogfooding such a product the developers have no use for it at all.

So we do our best, observe the users, try to provide shortcuts and hints. But watching a user work is really difficult too because in a large application the users don't all use all of the application all of the time so getting a realistic picture of the whole use of the program is extremely time consuming which means expensive and the client departments just want to use it, they very often aren't interested in optimizing it.
>A 15 inch laptop is never going to be portable or easy to carry. We don't care about thickness. Just make it a bit thicker to add a full-travel keyboard.

Well, I don't like the new keyboard, but I sure like my laptop thin and lightweight, and I use a 15.
You agreed to the ID parade.

The general rule is not to talk to the police at all. Ask for an attorney if you're being detained; leave if not.
So our DNA is engineered and then bestowed upon us by some sort of Promethean figure.

Someone should make a movie about this!
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The IPCC report goes in to what the actionable items are in great depth. If you're interested in what we know, and what the best steps are to do, it should be your starting point.

https://www.ipcc.ch/2019/08/08/land-is-a-critical-resource_s... will get you started.
He would have made do, for lack of alternatives (and a lack of technology to make things lighter then).

But that's hardly a justification when alternatives exist and the technology allows it.
LOL, dear downvoters, tell me more about my TV, muhaha.
The main reason I hear is prevention. Any kind of behavior that is too critical would be perceive as abuse. So most people now is trying to avoid interaction with women unless there's more people on the room.
You can take from the rich and give to the poor all day long - but that in itself doesn't reduce emissions. The rich will pay some taxes, or more probably, evade them, offshore stuff etc, and emissions will continue.
Wearing a helmet is always better than no helmet. Any helmet.

That doesn't mean the technology can't be improved, and there's actual science being done. Brains are being imaged. There are peer reviewed articles published every year that details the challenges of how to model brain damages. It's not fair to brush them off as just an invention in marketing.

So far it does seem that measuring impacts at an angle matches real world brain damages better than the older standards of measuring dead-on impacts. That's what "rotational acceleration" means. Acceleration is just another word for impact. It doesn't mean your skull should rotate freely.

There are enough indications that this translates to helmet improvements that most consumer organizations have started to recommend them should you buy a new one. That doesn't mean you should throw away your old helmet but it should be enough to disqualify it as "snake oil".

This new Wavecel system hasn't been reproduced yet, two testing institutes has so far failed, but it is similar enough to existing cell and slip systems that performance is not likely to be worse.
Have friends that work/have worked as a recruiter :)

PDF files aren't safe either. Even if you gave them a JPEG, they'd just transcribe your data into their own little CV template.
I'm not sure what did it at the end — I literally called the guy a cyborg and asked for someone else to review the appeal. I also filled in all sorts of appeals/forms, even for unrelated things and some even multiple times. I still don't know what did it for us.
>people like to make an elephant out of a mosquito, but in reality, without spies crime / terrorism and other things generally bad for our society (which we do all cherish and want to keep, admit it. you want your house, tv and job safety, and to go to work without having too much worries if you will be able to go home at end of the day safely) would be able to cause much more disruption

What about all the crime/terrorism they themselves have enabled in foreign countries. Why is our society worth ruining others?

And maybe these spies do end up doing some good, but their failures have led to millions of deaths. They also aren't shy about boasting over their successes, do I find it hard to believe their successful yet secret work can atone for that.
Heads up - CSS is messed up on https://kubernetes.academy/assessment/results. There were 4 results but I could only see 2 of them.