skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 to ThinkPad, good quality, great for Linux, and TrackPoint which is the vim of mice (no moving off the home row).

(Pair the ThinkPad with a Linux desktop using an external USB "ThinkPad-style" keyboard, and you've got TrackPoints + exactly the same keyboard layout (and OS layout/key bindings, etc) across laptop and desktop.)
I think a 116F tub is above what most anyone could tolerate for 45 minutes.
Web pages and books almost always format code with fixed-width fonts.
Adding “smart” hardware & software into a TV is negative incremental cost, because they make a profit selling your viewing information.

Source: I designed a product that helped networks package up and sell ad space based on this data. I am so not proud of this.
It does raise the question if there’s less complaining now because older issues have been resolved.
> I bought my MBP in January of this year (2019) and tomorrow I’ll pick it up from its 3rd repair. I’ve grown tired of this repair routine.

That sucks, but I think you've just had bad luck. The quality, longetivity, and service of Apple hardware through Apple stores isn't perfect, but it's been consistently better than the alternatives for me and everyone else I know. Sorry your experience has been bad.

I'm curious what you've had to get repaired?
Practically, we look at text all day long, so having a font that is easy to read is good ergonomics. A font may be good for code, but might not work as well in a tool like htop or gotop.

Monospaced fonts are also interesting from an artistic perspective that resonates with programmers. Font designers are able to be expressive and original despite — or perhaps because of — the constraints of the problem: all characters must have the same width and the text should be readable for long periods of time, often at small sizes.
I am a sci-fi enthusiast like Bezos, however he seems to cherry pick the themes that he likes to apply to himself and Amazon e.g. driving mankind towards the stars and solving energy crises.

There are however plenty of dystopian concepts in science fiction which his company seem to be propelling us toward:

* Compression of labour wages by replacing/augmenting with robots.

* Building an evil mega-corp (think Tyrell, Liandri, UAC, Weyland Yutani) that has its tentacles in every market.

* Facilitating the demise of human privacy laws

* Encouraging consumerism and subsequent pollution.

I am sure there are other themes in sci-fi that could be applied to Amazon.

Looking forward to my subdermal Alexa powered chip!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrruSboN1bQ
... where a 20oz sugary drink is 80+% of the daily recommended sugar intake.

But the sugar is also hiding the phosphoric acid, which also has negative health impacts, along with amplifying liver damage.
In my experience programming interviews are done by programmers, so they usually aren't about "the value you created in the past job".
Learn to love the trackpoint and when you go back to a MacBook you'll be sad it's not there.
> greedy, power-mad megalomaniac

Why do you think that of him?
The reason I'd be interested in something like this has nothing to do with the cost.

Even though the "smart" part is obsolete, and it's entirely used with an external AppleTV/Roku/whatever, because of the "smart" crap, it takes longer to turn on than it takes my computer to boot. They didn't bother to make it compatible with universal remotes, because those wouldn't have access to the "smart" features, so you have to suffer through their incredibly crappy proprietary remote to select between inputs. The "smart" features track you and invade your privacy.

I'm definitely willing to pay a premium for a well-made TV without "smart" crap. (But isn't that just a monitor?)
I switched a few years ago from MBP to ThinkPads running Ubuntu (with Gnome). It's been an overall improvement for sure, and there are very few things I miss (iTerm2 is the big one; there's no Linux terminal emulator that has all the advanced features I loved in iTerm2 like incremental search/highlight/copy. Gnome terminal with tmux is...acceptable). And of course it's much cheaper; on both computers (P51 and X1 Extreme) I paid about 2/3 what I would have paid for a MBP.

The big downside is battery life. On both the ThinkPads I've had, the battery life has been roughly 4-6 hours, despite my attempts to improve it with Powertop and/or TLP, and despite keeping the external graphics card shut down. I find that pretty painful; I like to work outside most of the day when the weather's decent, and now I have to be meticulous about plugging in whenever I go inside for a bit. If it weren't for having it charge up over lunch, there's no way it would make it through my day.

Some folks seem to get better battery life with some ThinkPads running Linux, but I haven't been able to pull it off. In fairness, I do a fair amount of CPU-heavy work -- but I was doing the same kind of work on MBP, and the battery life was much better.
There's no real package manager. You can't rebuild your kernel. You can't upgrade your hardware. Once your HW is unsupported by Apple you're stuck with an old OS that is unsupported by third party software as well.
> Is it not indicative, though, of the progression of changes to MCAS over time, different speed envelopes, significantly more elevator control, etc. And no process to decide when those changes should warrant additional documentation or training requirements?

Yes, that's exactly what it is. And that in itself is a big deal.

But it is not the 'omg pilots knew about MCAS causing crashes and didn't/couldn't report it' that the media coverage is spinning it as. The title very misleading.

I've had people call me a 'boeing shill' (what would such a person even have to gain??) for pointing out these sorts of issues in the coverage back when the media was saying aoa-disagree would have prevented this from happening (it wouldn't, most commercial pilots have no native idea what aoa is, only airlines with ex-military pilots would get benefit from that package). The vast majority of people just read the headlines, assume them to be true, and move on.
Since you can’t anonymously purchase anything from Purism I don’t think it was that much of an issue.

People aren’t going to use ToR to purchase a device from a store that collects PII that defeats the purpose of using it its right there with using ToR to log into your Facebook account.
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Device manufacturers don't need DoH to implement an architecture of control. They already have everything they need to do so. They don't even need to use DNS at all.
It does equal more expensive. Maybe not more expensive than Pepsi, but more expensive nonetheless.

Even if you assume you'll return 100% of them, which you won't, you have to value the time spent doing so.

And when you don't return 100%, which will be the case for most people, you eat a fee.
Thirded. I got mine 1.5 years ago and I love it as much as the first day I got it.

The T480 running Ubuntu really hit a sweet spot for me. I could get 32GB of memory (double the memory of other developer laptop options) and it has hot-swappable batteries for extended coding sessions off plug. I'm not a huge fan of dongles either, so the built-in ports (ethernet, HDMI, MicroSD card slot, etc.) were nice.
Everything is a cost.

Marketing brings in more revenue if done efficently making it a profit center. It is no different than sales.

Marketing spend is usually fixed in costs and the goal of efficiency is to acquire more customers for the budget.

Most engineers dismiss this part of the business, but if you can do it successfully, businesses will pump more money into it.
From the manufacturer site:

https://swindonpowertrain.com/uk/news.aspx

>So compact is the 70kg HPD EV powertrain - 600mm wide by 440mm deep by as little as 280mm tall, that the motor, inverter, single-speed transmission and cooling system assembly fits under the bonnet of a classic Mini, in a quad bike or under the loading platform of a light commercial vehicle

I can see an utility of a (relatively) low cost version of something like this for a large part of services (think of repairmen/electricians/plumbers/small couriers) that could maybe make their vans "hybrid" without replacing them, and even if they wouldn't have that much of autonomy, it could be enough to allow for entering city centres on electric (at the cost of some reduced carrying load, lost to the batteries) and do the delivery/whatever without polluting there.

At least here (Italy/Europe) a lot of cities have pollution issues that they try to resolve by limiting traffic to vehicles older than a given Euro level or even entirely prohibiting ICE vehicles circulation.

That is a problem for a large number of small activities that cannot afford to buy (besides their current ICE one) another electric van for the city.
Have you ever actually tried to do this? It is hard.

A family friend, a very smart guy himself, was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. Since I’m a neuroscientist, he asked me for advice. I work on brain stimulation, one of the better treatments for Parkinson’s Disease. My institute is a Parkinson’s Centre of Excellence, and I collaborate with movement disorders specialists. I have easy access to experts and tons of relevant training and literature. Nevertheless, I found it very hard to make a recommendation, even between the options his doctor had laid out—-and I wasn’t even considering price, since he has excellent insurance. This decision was smack in the middle of my wheelhouse too; helping with, say, a decision about kidneys would have been even worse.

There’s no way people, especially people in vulnerable situations, can reasonably be expected to catch up with experts that have a decade of advanced training and then second-guess them.
Interesting -- thank you.
Someone should do a list of all the TEA-inspired frameworks in JavaScript & other languages.
This is such a strange story - my thinkpad T490 lasts all day, my MBP lasts about 4 hours. (granted it's a 2012 model but still).

Battery life isn't one of the things Mac books have ever had going for them in my experience.
The description of the API and whatnot is on the github page which is linked in the title bar of this post.
I've pondered quite a great deal about this very same question. I'm the owner of a 2015 MacBook Air, and I'll probably won't buy another MacBook when mine dies.

What I'll definitely do is get a Thinkpad Carbon X1 and put elementary OS on it. The Thinkpad line has been around for ages and are praised upon. It's fairly linux-friendly, and elementary OS is a great distro, stable enough to work on, and its polish and attention to detail resonates with a MacOS user.

I've been using elementary OS on a VM in my gaming PC and it's been working flawlessly. Really like this distro.
Drucker also stated that the basic functions of a business are marketing and innovation because those produce results; everything else is a cost.
Then get a Vizio.

My P series can be run: with remote, with app, or via the tablet it came with (also app).

It’s a barebones glorified monitor, but it works great for streaming.
No, no, no, arghh no! No matter how much you research, study, network, and prep for any one special particular company, if you are the one to reach out you’re going to get ghosted a certain percentage of the time. If that percentage is around 90-95%, which is what it is in my experience being in the industry for 20 years, then focusing on 5 companies may mean zero callbacks. You need to cast a wide net, especially as a junior engineer.

I’ve tried this strategy of targeting an insider in my network and pitching myself through him. Several times. It has never worked for me. Ultimately it ends up at “Whelll, nice talking to you! Next step is to apply for this job id online. Good luck!!” What does work is if conpany initiates contact, THEN you go through your network to gather information about the role and hiring manager, and so on. Having an insider pushing for you after company has already expressed interest has been a lot more reliable to me.
Effective Frameworks for Building a Happy and Healthy Remote Team
Right. It is more sensational. It's misleading though. It's not like Coke gives a flying fuck what happens to the plastic downstream. They aren't fighting recycling, they're fighting their product costing more. It's just coincidence that those are related. I was pointing out the article's bias.
You can as well argue that you are expert in programming that your expertise are not limited in a solving a particular business problem. This way you open up yourself to more company or any business in general.
Frntier- market theses and investment memos
Rich person bad
I've been using Macs since a 12" Powerbook around 2004 and think I've only taken a Mac in once over those 15 years. My current Mac is a 15" MBP from earlier this year as well. One precaution I took is to get a silicone keyboard cover. I've had no issues with it.

Though I haven't had a problem with the keyboard (likely thanks to the latest generation of it and my silicone cover), I know that lots of people have. Apple deserves criticism for that, but at least it sounds like the next MBP is going to have a new keyboard design.

Hardware aside, I don't want to run Windows or Linux. Apple would have to screw up even worse than this keyboard thing to get me to switch.
Space colonization is probably about empire building - and people build empires to feel powerful.
Saying there's no remote is a marketing gimmick. There's a remote, your phone plus the app.
> Vice [...] said "we don't need any more studies."

That's not shocking given who said it, but it makes it seem as if their support of the initiative is rooted on anti-intellectualism.

My family was basically homeless when I was young, the only reason I could get access to quality higher education was the standardized tests we have here.

I'd like to see the data that one college used to decide that there hadn't been any academic impact between students who submitted tests and those who didn't.
The 3 main things I look for in a "coding font" are whether I can differentiate between i,I,l,L,1 and 0,o,O characters, whether or not it is readable at tiny font size (7px to 9px range on my display) and that it is a monospaced font. first and second are nice to have in any font.

For over 4 years I have sworn by the excellent Fira Mono font by Mozilla more specifically FiraCode (variant with added ligatures), before that it was Consolas. Beyond the three things I have mentioned I do not desire anything more from a font.

[0] http://mozilla.github.io/Fira
Relevant segment from Adam Ruins Everything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koqNm_TgOZk
Having to use my distracting phone (and make sure it is charged) just to change channels is weak.
Basically any latest laptop from Lenovo, Dell or Asus.
You have also the advantage that you can put Windows or Linux on it
Not sure how it panned out elsewhere, but we used to have newspaper, magazine, and aluminum can, recycling bins in school parking lots. They got moved of course after all the "predator" laws but even after being moved most were abandoned as people used them for general trash; as in they did not want to pay for services or take to dump on their own their regular trash.

Just slapping recycle costs on all three forms of drink containers should be sufficient to boost return to proper places. I remember bottle deposits doing well.
"Venture"
Does the fuzzer generate just random input or does it adapt the input to achieve maximum test coverage (e.g. using constraint solver)?
Ask HN: Which VM is the easiest to target(for a compiler)?
I am working only a high level dynamically typed language, I learnt how to make it work as an interpreted language(most of it is written in java and the heavy lifting is done by ANTLR parser generator)

I have been wondering which VM would be the most easy to target?(I am very new to writing compilers) JVM, LLVM or even some web assembly interpreter (The language being similar to PHP/Perl)
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Move to space to save the earth is useless statement. Human isn’t able save natural resources on earth, how come he can build enough resources to survive human being in space or mars or whatever. I would say Focus on earth, invest on the broken things
Our democracy today is dominated by the old
The article also misinterprets Marxism/communism.

Amazon is logistics, takeover would give the public a more extensive USPS plus digital infrastructure... it's not a revolutionary seizure of the means of production.
>you increase the odds of actually getting through to a single job offer

You haven't AT ALL explained why your "~5 companies approach" is more likely to get you an offer.

It's not. That sort of approach would be less likely to get you an offer anywhere that I've ever worked.

999 times out of 1000 you don't have a clue to a company's current business needs just by looking at public information, even if you had insider information, a random insider probably doesn't know the current business needs of anyone outside of their day-to-day job. Even if you did know the company's current business needs, unsolicited job applications from strangers to people who aren't recruiters mostly go straight into the trash bin. If I personally received unsolicited job application from a stranger, I'd probably just ignore it. The most I'd ever do is reply telling them to apply via our career site like everyone else.

Plus what exactly would you say as a "run of the mill beginner" for "what you can do for their business" that would catch anyone's attention that a quality resume and cover letter submitted though the job portal wouldn't?
There was already a process to decide if MCAS should be in the manual.

That was exactly the job of these two technical pilots who both signed off saying the MCAS was “benign” and didn’t need to be included in the manual.

These guys had direct communication with the FAA who clearly had the final word on the manual. The FAA trusted the technical pilots word (and I doubt it was just these two guys alone that decided).

The question is whether these simulator test pilots were under any pressure from Boeing to downplay it but based on their lawyers statements they seem to be defending themselves and saying the conversation was simply being misinterpreted and they didn’t have concerns. The other question is whether the FAA was too quick to trust the information coming to them.
Andrew Yang's ideas on automation and mass unemployment are not based in reality
What do you mean by "decommodifying" housing?

My view is increasingly that it needs to be de-assetified, if that's a word, or de-financialised, almost certainly through a land value tax.
anyone possibly tldr'ed this thread and has just the usable answers to the original question?
Monaco 12pt has been my font for the past decade
So, just the same as a MBP in that regard.

I use X1Carbons as a daily Linux driver after MBP and am very happy with them.
The Chinese Threat to American Speech
Okay fair enough, do we know why the top times haven’t changed so much, it would be interesting to know why.
Just because it's in Coca Cola's best interest to undermine effective plastic recycling policies does not mean it's dishonest to claim that Coca Cola is undermining effective plastic recycling policies.

> Especially when they do so much to push for the recycling efforts in other ways.

Comparatively ineffective ways.

The fact that a company like Coca Cola can choke policy by making it rain money so that effective policy that hurts their profits cannot be implemented is the crux of the article. How is this title dishonest?
Hooks version is now live :)
WiFi passwords aren't typed in frequently and can trivially be written down on the home router itself, CorrectHorseBatteryStaple has lower entropy than a random one of a bit smaller length.
They say the best speakers are the ones you add but it doesn’t have ARC or optical... seems like this is only good for people with AV receivers. But those people obviously don’t prioritize simplicity so I don’t think this makes sense.
Ha, indeed.

It's almost like a weird form of localized entropy reduction. Driving improvements in some areas whilst externalizing damage in others.
The x390 comes with a 13.3 inch display, as opposed to the previous 12.5 inch screens, but it's just 4mm longer and 7mm wider than the x290. They reduced the bezels on the screen to gain the majority of the new screen real estate, so the keyboard won't be any larger than the old one.
You are absolutely correct, it's usually indeed dictionary-based but there are rainbow tables as well http://www.renderlab.net/projects/WPA-tables/
This is for those saying depression is not an illness.

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/november9/videos/653.htm...
Actually, there's considerable evidence to suggest that for financialised assets, there's an extraordinarily strong incentive to block new production in order to inflate asset prices.

We see this in, for example, housing, diamonds, law degrees, and doctors licences. Until Uber and Lyft came along, in taxi medallions.
Some alternatives to core async that I think are very thoughtful are promesa[0] and manifold[1]. We've got a large chunk of core async code that if I had to redo I would use one of those libraries. They are conceptually simpler, I think, and they don't have the same downsides as the `go` macro.

That said, our code works and I'm not about to rewrite it just because some new libraries came out.

As for spec and transducers, I do use spec quite heavily, though now that clojure.spec.alpha2 is on the horizon I'm holding off a bit - it will be really nice to have data-based specs instead of macro based ones.

For transducers I've only used them when I've found a performance bottleneck in a data transformation pipeline, which for me means only on toy algorithm problems and not in production code. But that says more about my line of work than their usefulness, I think. I didn't find them too hard to grasp.

There's some cool work being done with hooks that are mentioned up thread, and I think there a fork of reagent that is experimenting with them. This is actually a really exciting time in cljs-land, there are a lot of interesting projects exploring what we can do to build on ideas from React (hooks) and Svelte. The Svelte approach is especially interesting to me, since it's basically just a compiler, which we can do with a macro. And with shadow-cljs the build tools are better than they've ever been.

[0]https://funcool.github.io/promesa/latest/
[1]https://github.com/ztellman/manifold
Even if you don’t have a different word for green and blue, one could certainly express the idea of a blue that is like a leaf rather than the sky.
Guy Just Found a Faster Way to Multiply
This is the biggest corporate and right wing driver for opposing socialized medicine in the US. It isn't the free healthcare that is problem,because a rational corp would love to offload health care costs onto the worker, it is that it will completely upend the relationship between corporations and the government.