skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I should have been specific. You are correct the Blade Stealth 13 comes with only 16gb of ram but I don't think it's in the same class as this S76 laptop because it doesn't have a 13" size equivalent.

The Blade 15 comes with 32gb standard and I thought that was a fairer comparison but should have been more specific. It also comes with much much better display options, is lighter, larger battery, user upgradable Wifi, hard drive and ram (up to 64) and is frankly just a much higher quality build.

My bad on the XPS 13 suggestion, I meant to say the XPS 15 which also does come with a Nvidia graphics card.

With this machine, I think you're paying a premium for a rebadged Clevo laptop here that runs Linux out of the box. If you are willing to spend a day you can get a Blade running Linux on much better hardware.
It is possible to think that a particular platform should be moderated heavily without thinking all platforms should be. It would be chaos if no forums had any heavy moderation, because some discussions can be easily derailed, and entire forums can be derailed with content not relevant to the topic. There is still value in having places where you can communicate and spread ideas online without certain views and opinions being censored. There is value in both approaches, and it is reasonable to prefer one approach on a targeted forum like Hacker News, and prefer another on a global social network like Facebook.
The architecture here is similar to old PCs (roughly before 2010) that had integrated graphics in the northbridge. The memory controller also resides in the northbridge. The CPU communicates with the northbridge through the front-side bus. Incidentally the northbridge also used to be responsible for high-speed I/O such as PCIe, so even if you had a discrete GPU it would not be connected directly to the CPU.

Over time CPUs have integrated all those features on-die, resulting in today's SoC-like processors where the "chipset" is merely an I/O expander connected over a PCIe-like link.
This only really works for jobs doing more menial tasks - it will not work very well for longer term projects. Instead, we should focus those kinds of efforts on reducing the length of the work day, adding more flexibility to scheduling, and pushing hard to keep work out of home life.
Possible next step for Microsoft: making Windows update service unkillable like defender service
My assumption is that Windows users are notoriously bad at applying updates, either because they are not aware of them or believe that they know better than Microsoft.

While I do prefer the update mechanism under my choice of Linux distributions, which allows me to initiate an update then cancel it if it looks like it will affect software currently in use, it is not suitable for most people.
It's open to everyone.
How would any party get voted in unless most people agreed with the regulation? If a party wanted to double tax cars or get rid of them they wouldn't be voted in unless that's what people wanted first. Change comes from the bottom up.
Banks tend to be pretty risk averse and will maintain working code for as long as they can before adopting new technology.
It's not Gentoo, but in practice, many frequently-used packages remain in the AUR and an AUR helper to make that transparent is standard kit for anyone using the box as a workstation. It's much more "source-based" than it may appear at first glance. I have ~15G of self-built packages sitting in my PKGDEST right now, if that counts for anything.
> you could fix it with taxes

Someone still has to work to produce the food that UBI wastrels consume. Please, explain to me why we should feed everyone for free? What gives them the right to commandeer someone else's labour while they languish?

All of these schemes to shift taxes here and burdens there ultimately just have the effect of making it so that the people who do work and do produce value are shouldering the burden for everyone else. You can print money, but you cannot print calories.
My guess is that there is a huge opportunity for some private entity to do Abbot-style 15 minute tests on arriving passengers (like global entry). Pay $100, check out negative, good to go. Maybe the airlines themselves could do it, seeing that people usually show up 2h in advance on intl flights.
The New Python Cx_Oracle 8.0 Interface for Oracle DB Brings Easier Configuration
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655017 (your GGP) and supposedly originally https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7... :

> In America this is being used to decide whether to keep them in jail even after they have served their full sentence.

That may not be true, but the reason why they assume that is that basch and/or the BBC said that.
Personally, that again sounds like a very pedantic and obvious point to me. However, I could be wrong so feel free to break down your point further.

My interpretation is that I think you guys are missing the fact that the intent of my original comment is in the context approximations, from which you can see the use of the 'trick' is correct.

To break it down a little further: the trick I am referring to is in practice it's often convenient to scale approximations so that you can use the unit circle for calculations, since you can use the radians as a measurement of arc length. If it's not a unit circle, the angle != arc length, so that convenience is lost.
Agreed. Another reason, besides inertia, is that optimizing for quantity of engagement is something you can program a computer to do, reasonably easily (although I'm sure they're very good at it). Optimizing for quality of engagement is, if not impossible, then at the very least a lot harder. It would probably also require a LOT more moderation, and that brings with it a whole host of other political landmines.

It is worth considering, that a "link everyone to everyone, without any particular topic or purpose in mind" social network, is just a bad idea. Goodreads, LinkedIn, StackOverflow, they're none of them perfect, but they're all a lot better than Facebook. They also all have some purpose. I think Facebook may not be fixable. So long as it makes money, though, it will not go anywhere.
Yeah. That's the role of our public regulator, the ARCEP. I believe they have power to fine or give sanctions to companies that don't comply with regulations, which seems essential.
The clarification is for other people who read these comments. See sibling comments.
The corporate users I know are rather 1-2 years delay...

A lot of system I see are left unpatched because no one has time to fight bugs in windows update stuck at some random update. If updates didn't take 1-10 hours to install and still fail 1/4 of the time uptake would be better.
That design is called Unified Memory Architecture or 'UMA' and can save a lot of production costs at the expense of greater memory latency. The Xbox is not the first one to implement it (the N64 is another good example).
"Something like this" is one of the competing theories for what dark matter is, although I think the current consensus is that it cannot explain _all_ the dark matter effects, so there must be something else too.

see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_compact_halo_object
Seems like that only applies for conduct amongst themselves. For things like war crimes against others we go out of the way to protect them and reinterpret law.

Look at the sentencing around Abu-Ghraib:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...

One guy got 10 years, most much less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...
Microsoft Closing Its Retail Stores Indefinitely
Facebook does. They instantly fired HR person who appeared in the most recent video.
When you say "user's problem", is the software dev the user? Or the end user? If you are saying it is not an issue for devs, I disagree. Dead code / used code paths add to the mental load and mantainance burden. Whether this is a significant enough issue to make a paid for product is another question :-)
Speaking of 3:2 ratio, we have to mention the Microsoft Surface line of tablets, laptops and convertibles.

Definitely overpriced for a developer machine, but there is also the Surface Studio 2, with its 4500 x 3000, 28 inch, 192 DPI display, 192 being exactly 2x the "standard" 96 DPI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Studio_2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface
Equally, everything on bulbapedia was within the scope of the project initially, so stats of Pokémon in each gen are now feeling excluded, just as programming languages are. This piece is pretty good on the topic: https://www.gwern.net/In-Defense-Of-Inclusionism
As a professional scientist, i think most of what i do day to day is engineering. There is no product or customer, but you are absolutely working within a set of design constraints to make a tool to perform a task. It makes a tremendous difference whether your engineering budget is being paid by basic research grants or venture capitalists. Funding science is a proven method of producing new tech which may subsequently be of interest to the for-profit people. The kinds of innovation that come out of big government funded science projects can never be produced exclusively by organizations whose purpose is to demonstrate growth to shareholders quarter over quarter.
Right. There will be fewer jobs that will be more commoditized, therefore driving down wages and reducing hours so the outcome of that CDL may not pay as much as it otherwise would with human drivers. Companies aren’t just going autonomous for safety benefits - they want labor gone, which is where the real costs are these days.
Do you have a link to more info?
Do you really think bank fraud did not exist before the Internet?
Eh, it was just one of the multitude of user hostile actions that drove me off Windows. Intentional or not, it isn't my problem any more.
>We can't force drug users to not own drugs

Sure you can, and we do all the time, we lock them in cages.
Is this "just" the sound of thunder? Or is there some other sound from a lightning strike, if you're very close to it?
The Artist's Way would strongly disagree.
What's interesting here is that these big brands see Facebook advertising as non-essential to their business. I suspect a large part of Facebook's market cap may rest on the assumption that it's an essential advertising outlet. If so, the knock-on effect of this would be much larger than just the loss of revenue, hence Zuckerberg rushing out a response.
That would do nothing to fight echo chambers.
Disclosure: I have been incarcerated in the United States for a drug crime. The sentence amounted to a three year stint and a 2 year parole for cannabis.

1. Cops arrest you based on success. If they can make sure you're a slam dunk at trial, then you're in handcuffs. Arresting the poorest black people will always result in a win for their career record. Simply put,racism is almost designed to be part of the system.

2. Bingo. Building more police stations in poor neighborhoods puts a jackboot to anyone who complains about the closures of public health clinics, social workers and psych wards. It can only ever be deemed a success because critics are 'superpredators' and not just incredibly poor or unfortunate. Political dissent from poverty gets bureaucratically disguised as rote criminality.

Cops at any level, even the sec, are incredible reticent about the idea of policing what they see as either too delicate, productive, or successful.
If you get a solid strike, I would agree that almost all bets are off. At least unless you put some real money into it, but nothing that usually makes sense unless you are protecting really expensive equipment.

A friend of mine had a strike land somewhere snaking its way into his mains feed. I believe the feed was ~60 amp rated.
Anyway. At least 10 meters of the feed was simply gone. Except for some soot there weren't any more signs of either the junction box, or the electricity meter. It was as if they had never existed at all! Just gone.
In Toronto; we have 3+ of these for bicycles. Transportation is democratizing.

I love seeing the same principles applied to communications.
Out of Nowhere, Something Just Rocked Earths Magnetic Field
I'd love for someone to explain how UBI won't just inflate prices. Obviously it comes down to exact implementation.

To me it seems it would be similar to the government intervention into housing - the gov't wanted more people to be able to own homes. So they create 30-year mortgages (for example). This was great because you could spread the payments out over more time, lowering your monthly payment.

Oh wait, the 30-year mortgage is open to everyone. So now everyone has more buying power. Prices rise and you end up in the same spot as before - a big chunk of the population can't afford a house.

Why wouldn't this happen with UBI? If you have everyone in the US $10,000, no strings attached, I would guess prices would generally rise until $10,000 wasn't enough to survive on.
Employers let employees fail all the time, and when that happens the stop giving them money. When a startup fails VCs stop giving them money. The illusion of autonomy motivates some people, but make make no mistake - when you take VC money you are an employee of that VC firm - with low pay, no benefits, no title, no desk, etc.
I think it could be simpler. Instead for means testing and all the administration that comes with it we could try much simpler schemes. Just give something to everyone, could be a negative tax, but a dividend is even simpler.

Since we are in the middle of various economic transitions where we need to introduce taxes to control over consumption the simpler experiment (instead of finding a region and allocating a budget) would be to introduce those taxes together with a public dividend.
Dupe: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/26/21297400/microsoft-retail...
Ask HN: Engineering Manager Interview Process
I am seeing that almost all companies have copied engineering interview process from BigTechCo and looking to imitate them by focusing on LeetCode.
I work for one giant company and completely loath that we have to subject candidates to this.

Why is everyone focusing on Leetcode now-a-days? I went through process for a couple and everyone is now asking Leetcode (or Hackerrank) even for Engineering Manager roles.
I spoke with my friends who are Engineering Managers or Director. None of them are coding on a day-to-day basis. A lot time is spent on project, program, people management and enabling/empowering people for technical/architectural decisions.

I have not written code in last 4-5 years now. I do participate in design discussions though and I feel that I have good handle on System Design.

Are there any companies who don't subject candidates to this brutal process of LeetCode? Please share below if you know any.
A lot of people seem to think that having one stay at home parent is the ideal - surely both parents working and having no time to be involved in their kids' lives is not the solution?
Discussion is ongoing here: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/26/21297400/microsoft-retail...
As far a I know, there is absolutely nothing in WebAuthn that prevents creating as many accounts as you want. It's no different than allowing signups with username/password in that regard
> Throwing police at the problem of gang violence hasn't solved it. It hasn't made the neighborhoods safer.

That is not true. We have solid data from New York during the Giuliani era and more recently Camden, NJ. Whether or not we agree with how they accomplished that is another matter.

For example in New York a massive increase in arrests for nonviolent crime and much more proactively policing in order to check for warrants etc.

The truth is that nothing works in isolation. In New York we also saw a migration of younger professionals back into the city which reduced crime by forcing out poorer residents via gentrification.

The reality is that in any nation with a high prevalence of gun ownership combined with a large portion of the population without enough to provide for themselves and often, due to criminal records, no other choice but to commit crimes to provide for themselves.
Considering that politicians / law-makers / the state are allowed to use violence to enforce laws, it's an absurd policy to say that Trump can't threaten violence on twitter.
Tech Companies’ Complicity in State Violence Runs Deep
No-one is forcing entry to take guns! If the time comes:

1. You'll be asked to hand in guns

2. You can choose not to. You can say it's in the trash. You threw it away. Whatever.

The US gov't will need a warrant to come in and search property. All for a gun that you might own? But that you now know is an "extra" crime to use? That's not going to happen. Manpower, cost, trouble, the chance of escalation - it's not worth it. So yes, keep it locked away if you so choose.

I get your point, but it's an assumption to say that the police are going to _force entry and remove everyone's guns_. That will not ever happen.

I just want to disclaim that I genuinely don't care about guns whether people keep them or not. After being in the UK with acid attacks, keep em. No horse in this race. Just do not understand why people are so determined to say that you'll have them forcefully stolen from you, when just a tiny bit of thinking - and precedent! - shows you that it's not going to happen.
Oh man, that was the best. It was large enough to have basically every interest. All while still having the basic functionality of reading and replying to text. Your "feed" was chronological messages, rather than a psychologist-engineered addiction engine.
I’m a longtime contributor and asked to use my VPN and was similarly denied. I’d like to have my VPN on most of the time, but Wikipedia won’t let me.
Amazing videos of lightning recorded at 28,500 fps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQKhIK4pvYo

It really does look a bit like this technique for generating random fractal tendrils:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion-limited_aggregation
Need both raw and averages. But not ease for reporter. Stat telling “lies” and the truth at the same time. And said you have to dig in. Like % of test positive per test, death and hospitalised vs recovery. The fundamental is you want to use a number to say it all, but one number cannot tell the truth in many situation. One might not work, even simple like average vs median and mode. And a random bell shaped curve need two parameters.

Multiple angles are hard.
I do, but usenet's reach, as compared to current social media outlets, was minuscule. The broader world wasn't aware of it, nor did it care.
It is the minimum thought to be possible for a black hole produced by standard stellar evolution.

GR has no limit, large or small, on the size of a black hole. Such black holes could be formed by another mechanism -- in the big bang ("primordial" black holes) or from the merger of neutron stars.

What has everyone atwitter about this is that, given the standard plan for things, these objects should be very rare. To have seen even one example this early in the history of gravitational-wave observation is a surprise.

Either there are more primordial black holes than people think, supernovae don't work like we expect (historically a pretty good bet), neutron stars find each other and merge more often than people think, or there's another process for making mass-gap objects that people don't know about.
Your first claim isn't true. A mask worn with good hygiene practices won't increase your risk. But taking a mask off, touching it, and then doing other things before washing your hands can.
The xbox (like many consoles, n64, gamecube, xbox360, wii, wii u, xbox one, ps4, switch ps5, XSX) has unified memory, as in the CPU and GPU share the same sdram.

The only way to do this is to have one chip (It's always the GPU. The GPU needs more memory bandwidth) connected directly to the dram, and the second chip (CPU) has to send memory requests to the second chip.

Though, this console dates to a time when CPUs didn't typically have dram controllers onboard. PCs usually relied on a northbridge chip to have the dram controllers, along with the routing to all peripherals (PCI/AGP) and present a nice tidy Front-side-bus that the CPU understands. In the case of the xbox, the GPU is acting as a combined Northbridge/GPU (a design that was common at the time in low-cost desktops and laptops)

Unified memory has a large number of advantages for consoles. It lowers cost. It gets rid of copying delays between GPU and CPU memory and it allows the game developer to dynamically allocate memory to the GPU or CPU depending on their needs.
Are you talking about in theory or in reality? Who or what do you think the people deploying these technologies are accountable to, and what prevents the accountability system from accepting "I did it because the algorithm said I should' as a valid justification?
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> My assumption is that Windows users are notoriously bad at applying updates, either because they are not aware of them or believe that they know better than Microsoft.

That's a rather broad brush you got there.

Windows users probably gained the reputation for being update-adverse when Windows decided it owned the computer, not the user (me) who paid for the electricity that the computer definitely needs.

That in and of itself wouldn't be a thing except windows updates on multiple occasions have broken stuff and restarted computers on people in the middle of their work.

How dare MS add their own timer to MY computer. It's their software, but after Windows 8.1 (the last OS that actually passably pretends to obey me), I'm done and going to Linux. Mint or Fedora. Xfce. I may not drink much of the FOSS first cool aid, but its time.

Windows 10 (non LTSC) hates me, and the feeling is mutual.
Seems flimsy to me. I can't see how this would produce the type of funding for social programs and schools.
Using current technology in the ways we currently use it. Some of the things we take for granted were considered impossible less than a hundred years ago. Logging full packet data for later decryption is already feasible, and that's all it takes if you can watch the wires.
I think you're comparing apples to oranges here. These funds manage billions of dollars of client money, which forces them into highly liquid markets with scalable strategies. That's quite different from how individuals or smaller prop funds can operate, trading off capacity for higher returns by trading in less liquid markets or with strategies that are "not worth it" for large hedge funds. If you must manage billions of client money then you are right in terms of competition, but as someone who only trades his own capital, you can see a lot higher returns.
Foundations work has historically not been taken very seriously within the physics community.
It's "ideological flamewar" Somehow it's only an issue when you're conservative / libertarian / anti-communist.

Feel free to ramble on about how great bigger government and universal basic income are endlessly without consequence.
> an average user would mindlessly click ignore until the machine is owned by ransomware.

It's the user's machine to ruin. Tech companies need to stop saving users from themselves when said users have actual informed opinions.