skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, just make sure the DVDs or BDs you buy have HTL (i.e. use inorganic dye).
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This...feels very much like the old canard of "Apple must release a cheap computer to compete with all the shoddily-made Windows computers!"

Apple's not shooting for marketshare. They never have been, they (probably) never will. And, conversely, it's very unlikely that most people with Chromebooks and Windows laptops today would be interested in switching to a Mac—the software's either not there, or very different.

And I say all this as a devoted lifelong Mac user.
The two are getting closer and closer. Witness the gradual creep of iOS apps onto Mac OS int he last couple of iterations. This will continue:

https://www.cnet.com/news/macos-catalinas-ipad-apps-for-the-...

At some point they will merge iOS and Mac OS, given that iOS makes them all the money, and is now capable enough (with a different UI toolkit) to provide both phone and desktop programs.
Have you read Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman?
They gave him a Nobel for tackling decision problems. I guess that's one important problem to humanity in general.
From recent experience using the Pinebook Pro and manjaro, the answer is a resounding yes.

From the start, it was clear that a decent arm chip in a laptop is very usable. Paired with an SSD, and more ram, it would be killer.

MacOS would need some care to make it less heavy in terms of background consumption, but I don’t see that as being beyond Apple’s reach. Windows is a different matter, not sure what MS can bring to the table there.. The work being done right now in porting iOS applications to work on macOS clearly points to a strategy being developed.

Think it’s going to be an interesting couple of years.
I honestly can't tell what was removed from the second picture(the one of the golden gate bridge).
Depends on the country. But why would you like to purchase one?

I asked this business if I can buy a stake before they filed for bankruptcy because I saw potential and value that I could bring to the company. I still do.

If a restaurant of bakery goes bankrupt I would not want it for free since I don't understand the business, nor can I bring value to the business.
I guess this reasoning makes a sense in apple ecosystem. But why not both options in single device?

My 7 years old dell can replace desktop workstation and tablet. Its replacement better have the same features.
This is just the latest of their comments. Here is an article from earlier this month: http://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20200416-amazon-close-french-dis...

The relevant part:

> The company said the closure would affect “millions of
clients who use our services to have products delivered to
their homes during this confinement period” as well as
"employees and small and medium sized businesses" that use
the company.

Regarding inspection of other companies, please refer to my answer to js4ever in the same thread.

EDIT : also, "others do just as bad" is never a good defense.
Where's your data supporting this claim?
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None.

I've never liked the smell/taste, and on the occasions when I get some caffeine from a different source, I find that, at most, the effect I get from it is a bit of jitteriness and a headache later on.
It seems to hide / reveal the being(s) you clicked on.
Otherwise, I have no idea what this is doing or is for.

Edited to add: Maybe it means "library"? as in you can see the library of all the creatures?
Please forgive me.
A Shazam for plants?
The option to have automatic updates (whether it is enabled by default or not) is an entirely different issue than the obligation to have automatic updates. The first one is a blessing, the second one is a nightmare.
> I imagine it would be pretty distracting if someone says for example, "don't think of scary thing X", and then the scary thing manifests visually for you because you are thinking about it.

That sounds about right. For me, "don't think of a pink elephant" results in the image of a pink elephant, though if I'm not concentrating on its location it's just… somewhere.

> Have you always been able to do this, because you mention practising this skill?

I think I've always been able to do it – but I haven't been doing it as much since I stopped playing with toys, going outside and generally doing activities where such a thing would be useful, so it's less instinctive.
It seems more like a platform for call-in talk radio style podcasts.
TL;DR anyone? Time is money after all.
Their regular laptops are priced at 2x or more the market for similar specs. The Mac Pro is more than 4x.

Unless they align themselves with market price (within a premium range, maybe up to 50% more than median), I don't see how they can "destroy the market" (they could still be a commercial success though).

The prime selling point of cheap laptops/chromebooks is their price.
I seriously doubt that Apple would release an ARM-based laptop that would "destroy" the massive low/mid-tier Chromebook and Windows laptop market for three reasons:

a) They'd have to release it at the same price point or less than those products (that's not The Apple Way)

b) Chromebooks have a huge market share in the educational space, and Windows low-end laptops have a massive market share everywhere else (and in general, the first person to a market usually maintains their lead for a long time, even given other factors - just like Apple with the iPhone)

c) This would require users to switch from one app ecosystem to another on a different platform that attracts developers that want to monetize directly compared to the app ecosystem on most Chromebooks and low-end Windows laptops (which are still x86_64-based and have a plethora of free/FOSS productivity apps)
That would be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=588kZu1JeFw ?

I mean, it's trying to do the same kind of thing, but this looks to be a lot better at it.
Corona may have blown over by winter.
I imagine that with lockdown rules, it has more chance of being noticed and approved. It'd be cool to see Larry or Jerry mention it. Even cooler if they wanted in.
The Artificial Intelligence podcast by Lex Fridman. It's mostly focused on science tech and philosophy with a lot of high-profile guests from different fields.
Everyone I know with an iPad Pro has the keyboard case. I hate the keyboard... but I can put up with it while travelling. I don't think the keyboard availability is an underlying issue, but I do think that people will balk at a $700/year license for something that runs on an iPad, because they feel like it's a toy, not a tool. However, the CPU is not what causes that; the CPU has more raw compute power than many Intel laptops that people do run expensive software on.

I want my iPad Pro to be a good workstation, but the reality is that will probably never happen. However, if Apple uses the same hardware to run MacOS, then it could happen. Yes, they would need to tack on some more I/O (or at least release a first-party dock) and RAM, but they could still make a very thin and fast device that would blow Intel laptops out of the water. I would not buy one of these because I don't really care for MacOS. (I use the iPad as my "laptop" because it doesn't really require any customization or maintenance. I have my SSH key on there, that's about it. I use it as a dumb terminal and it's great for that, but with the right software, it would also be a very capable computer.)
Looks like the text “rawpixel” at the bottom left
there are many pedestrian overpasses in some big cities (like the one I live in)

but it's not so simple, because then you have to climb up stairs, which takes more time... you walk more steps

add some heavy duty sun and people rather wait in the shade down below rather than climb up.

Also pedestrian overpasses tend to be really narrow (read: uncomfortable)

Also, why should we be so stingy with time? it's better (IMHO) to lived relaxed, otherwise we will end up under conditions similar (they say) to amazon warehouse workers which have their bathroom breaks measured in seconds.
One of the most interesting parts of this press release, following it on other boards, is the immediate "We already do that. Nothing new here."

That kind of reply would immediately lead me to think it was just a useless release, but then I see people posting comments along the lines of "No, we don't do that. In fact, we have a policy against doing that because of the danger of aerosolization"

For my hacker/systems wonks, this a great example of group learning happening world wide. I imagine there are many ICUs that do this, and many that forbid it. In such an environment, releases like this aren't submarines or spam; they're recurring prompts to administrators elsewhere that they might be missing something important.

I hate to sound cold, but damn this is an interesting example of how organizations learn. One commenter asked "I wonder how many of those hospitals who forbid intubation are doing it to patients with good insurance"

For the record, as far as I know this is a horrible thing to suggest. But the overall point, that large organizations have incentives that are many times removed from the actual work being done, is a good one.

This kind of conversation facilitation across borders is what the internet was supposed to be doing. I think this is the first time I've seen it working the way we had hoped. What's especially interesting to me is that many of the signals we look for in social forums, like "this is just a spam press release", "nothing new to see", or "there's some ulterior motivation here" voting up or down, etc., are actually counter-indicators and inhibitors of overall progress.
According to Wikipedia, Chrome OS usage share is just 0.18%. Yes, that’s just one fifth of one percent. And their K-12 share is nowhere near that high, worldwide.
With this sort of analysis I always feel like: https://external-preview.redd.it/DodWFQ9mQkVyWoKFa0ZIu12PYrP...

The problem in making decisions is not obvious calculations, but assigning importance in relative of each other.
That doesn't help if the company went out of business in the meantime.
> Purchase and checkout items while you shop, rather than waiting in line at a cash register. Or just skip shopping in person and order everything via delivery.

I believe this is starting to happen in some places, example (and an interesting video on RFID tags in general)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QKrHi-G9WQ
> Why is it so important to go to a school like Cornell, CMU, or UPenn?

Colleges spend a lot of time and money on selecting the smartest students, so companies don't have to. Screening is quite expensive, and anecdotally, people from prestigious universities generally pass interviews at a much higher rate.

Being around smarter and more ambitious people makes you smarter as well. I feel that has a lot more impact than faculty. My top CS school had some senile tenured professors who were barely comprehensible, so we had to learn a lot from each other.
It could be an interesting experiment. I cannot stop but see time wasted everywhere, people using things that actually slow them down..

Also I believe our brain is very very much tailored to enjoy rapid resolutions.

Yet I still worry about overuse of the idea leading to more stress (faster faster faster).
I think this is a very good point, and I find the reasons for which it is getting downvoted wholly unconvincing. Time is only good insofar as I have the mental/physical energy to take advantage of it. Lots of tasks double-dip in the time they take require from you - firstly when you perform them, and secondly, when you're too tired to be creative in the free time that is left over.
I run VMWare fusion on my Mac for virtualization. Being able to bump the Linux desktop to what the full retina screen can handle is glorious (though I had to fiddle with sizes on the terminal to find something that my eyes could work with). Got a Windows VM for the occasional MSI things that head my way. Nice access to the hardware - disk, cpu, memory - with a lot of snapshot management. I've got both Oracle's VirtualBox and VMWare's product, and VMWare is superior on everything but the price.
Oh wow that's news to me, I had no idea there was a world competition for this ! Guess i'll have to edit my other comment now :-/

edit: wait something looks odd at http://www.worldrps.com/ , is it really an internationally recognized competition ?
Hmm, another reason to stay on High Sierra rather than upgrading to Catalina.
And iPhone SE has better specs than pixelbook pretty much all around except ram at the same price. How does that even work?
> I’ve often wondered what society would look like if optimized for saving people time.

No TV, entertainment etc, which basically exist only because we have more time than we know what to do with, so we pay people to kill time.
>The court also upheld the lower court's conclusion that the $517,000 wager was excessive.

Quebec courts are not arguing that Rock Paper Scissors is not a game of skill.

They only ruled that the bet was "excessive" which is against the law.

IANAL, but betting half a million dollars on three hand gestures qualifies as excessive imho.

I am thoroughly impressed that the loser actually made good on their commitment though and took out the mortgage on his house!

My friends would try every angle to weasel their way out of a $100 light hearted bet!
> why should we be so stingy with time?

Because it's fungible. If I save 10 seconds, maybe I get to keep those for myself.
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What is worse: a nuclear weapon or a psychological weapon? Nuclear weapons sound more dangerous, but they cannot be used invisibly without triggering a catastrophic response, meaning their power is largely from the leverage they give to the owner. Psychological weapons can be hidden and used without detection, can be approved of by secret courts, and directly benefit governments in far more scenarios with far lower risk. They are also cheaper. So what is more dangerous to the public?
You still don't get it, I'm not talking about myself, just how the public reacts. I don't think preferential treatment based on skin color is ever a good idea.
You directly implied that people are buying Apple products for the logo. I don’t believe I misinterpreted that.
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Airbnb has always figured out clever ways to screw the hosts. When I first hosted guests were much more polite and clean. The last few years the ones I've gotten have been pretty messy and more likely to break house rules.
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Pivoting into these more "essential" reasons for renting, like wanting to isolate from family, seems like a smart move, so long as AirBnB hosts are taking the necessary precautions to make their properties suitable for self-quarantine. Certainly a better option isolation-wise than, say, a hotel (even if you decline room service - and room service actually recognizes that you've declined it - the rooms are in close proximity to one another, often have some degree of shared air, and the lack of a usable kitchen means having to break quarantine if you want to eat anything other than microwaved food). I'd imagine partnering with local/state/national governments to provide housing for people being specifically quarantined would be another good use for AirBnB in a similar vein.

Another legit non-tourism-related use case I can see still being relevant is for people needing temporary housing, whether due to moving into an area or because of foreclosure/eviction or some other reason why they don't have permanent housing. I don't know what the process of renting or buying a home looks like with social distancing (thankfully I moved right before the outbreak and didn't have the "fun" time of finding out for myself), but I can't imagine it's particularly easy or quick. And likewise, while you'd hope that banks and landlords would have the slightest bit of human decency and be a bit lenient on late mortgage/rent payments, I strongly suspect there are plenty of assholes out there.
2020 - Finally, the year of linux on the desktop.
Hotels also can not ruin your chances of staying at another establishment by posting negative reviews about you because you happened to mention the shower didn't work.
it seems to me, that this has to do with a fundamental difference between selling products and selling services (I don't mean not software services)

when you are making products (material widgets of any kind) it is possible to achieve marginal costs with parallel and serial manufacture, and with technology and specialized machines.

but if you're selling service (e.g. a waiter) then it's not really possible to "industrialize" production the same way

and don't get me started on software (becuase I wouldn't know how to start)
> Most of the users will just get on with their life when using your software, but it is the "power users" who will make sure that you're aware of how much your team's work sucks.

It is enough that one make a viral blogpost detailing why he thinks your software sucks, for a lot of people to instantly put your software in the "won't touch" category though.
> A good UX is one that combine the two

good metaphor is of help. e.g. desktop metaphor for tool to manage files. works good for beginners, doesn't constrain experts.
Is Excel a video game? If I have fun with a program, is it a game even if the author didn't intend it?
Our oven broke, unfortunately. So ours (and perhaps yours) next best bet is to order a bread-maker.
and somehow only $200K would be accounted for
Thanks for the feedback. It does have a short write up on things to do. I have a lot more opinions on that, but was trying to balance out the overall length of the post.
Will try having one out just on the dev environment :)
Finding 600 people willing to pay $250 for a part time course is likely to be non-trivial. Getting those people to sign up at a regular rate will be harder. Assuming those things are possible, there will be less revenue while growing to that point and the growth phase is probably many months even if working very few hours was not in the mix.
Subtracting all the delusional fluff about small sizes, this article is about a Janet binding to Gtk3.

ldd app.bin|rg -o '/usr/lib[^ ]+'|xargs stat -L -c %s|perl -lne'$s += $_; END {print $s}'

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to each their own, I guess...

I am just (strangely) reminded of Charles Dickens' classic a christmas story: "bah! humbug!".
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But uBlock origin.
You may already be aware, but for others reading, the cascading collisions scenario is called the Kessler Syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
a) Absolutely agreed. Considering the previous Macbook 12" was priced almost twice the price of the Macbook Air and marketed as a premium ultracompact, why would they do things differently?
This explores it in a rather poor way. Once you and all your friends have a hundred year on your accounts, why not just stop working in this society and just go build a new civilization using bottle caps as means of exchange? Why being slaves to people who fix prices for everything all the time?

Also. Economy there had no sense. Every person is passively using 24h worth of 'money' every day by simply existing. That means, to make ends meet they must earn 24h + some surpus to make a living, but the dude earned something like 5 hours in a shift (he had ~23:55 before shift, and 1:04:50 after. If shift lasted 8 hours, he was making just 13 hours per day - totally unsustainable.

The idea was nice, but I feel it was a somewhat wasted potential.
Ideally, the road would be at a lower level than the sidewalk. Then you wouldn’t need to spend time climbing up the bridge, and it wouldn’t be a big deal to have multiple wide bridges. Think Venice, except roads instead of canals.

Presumably engineering tech will also get better and cheaper and some sort of rapid outdoor escalator or elevator could also solve the problem.

Regarding stinginess: I understand where you’re coming from, but I also feel like there are time-intensive aspects of modern life which have little-or-no value, like waiting in traffic.
I prefer a single space myself.

However, my copyeditor recently told me that, in order to promote distancing, MLA is going back to two spaces after a period for the remainder of this year...
In Germany, and generally in Europe, yes.

Being off work for such should not result in severe reduction in income unless your income was already high; at least that is the case here in Norway where laid off personnel get 80% of their normal salary up to a limit that is above average salary.

Edit: typos
The point is that your AirBnB host (if there even is a host, which ain't a given) won't be traveling between dozens or hundreds of rooms and potentially spreading viruses among all those rooms.
If you don't have a second can you can just create a loopback interface to transmit locally.
No only that, there’s plenty of evidence showing virus + mechanical ventilators leading to deaths that virus + simpler interventions otherwise wouldn’t. How many deaths were actually unnecessary and preventable[1][2]? I suppose under ordinary circumstances, these deaths could be considered medical malpractice?

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-22/almost-9-...

[2]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ventil...
asian-american (49) here. Get over it. The world isnt fair. The world doesnt owe you anything. You may or may not be discriminated against, if you are, it is just another challenge. Be thankful you are not disabled, stupid, dirt poor, or abused. There are many challenges in life and they are all unfair.

Find happiness and learning even through disappointment and failure and you will have a fulfilling life. Life truly isnt about the destination, it is about the journey (success AND failure).

My cousin is an asian american activist and she sees everything through the lens of a victim, don't be a victim. I feel sad because she cant be thankful for what she has, she can only be resentful for what she is missing compared to white people.

My parents gave me the following lessons:

If you see a problem fix it. If you arent going to fix it, then there is no point to complain about it. Some things can't be fixed, move on.

Life is not fair, there is no value to you in being angry about it. There are a million ways life will treat you unfairly. That IS life.

Success <> happiness. True and everlasting happiness comes from within.

You might be discriminated against. Too bad. Life isnt fair

You might have to work twice as hard as a white person to get the same promotion. Do it. You still might not get the promotion. If you have to, leave and help their competitor to do better.

Someone might not want to rent to you because you are asian (not as much of a problem these days). Find someone that will and be the best renter possible. Pay your rent early, fix things that are broken, leave the place spotless when you leave.

There are actually many more, but Im sure you get the gist of it.
This only really works if nothing ever fails.

It's great for data analysis and terrible for programming.

The reason it sucks for programming is because you can't debug it or inspect intermediate variables, which is really really annoying.

It's great for one off transformations and plotting, but a really, really really bad idea for programming.

Then you add NSE, which makes it hard to functionalise procedural pipes (especially for people who learned tidyverse) and it's a recipe for unmaintainable and profoundly annoying legacy code.

That bring said,I love it for interactive analysis.
And it would become a great and cheap portable option for iOS developers that just needs an Apple system to develop and compile and publish mobile apps.

I get (but I don't agree) that Apple wants to lock developers into their platform.
It seems that the moderators have silently edited my post to remove the link. I have “referer” headers restricted in my web browser, so I did not see the redirect.

It seems that the so-called “vanished” article would be more appropriately named the “disappeared” article.
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