skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with this but Costco doesn't sell the Ubuntu system AFAIK. I bought my XPS at Costco, wiped Windows and installed Ubuntu manually. Still saved money over buying the Ubuntu version elsewhere.
Probably as was the last Walkman in the age of the iPod...
> the entire club scene is built on signaling glamour (status, more specifically)

Not really sure where you're coming from? The club scene is pretty egalitarian, both in politics and practically - everyone's the same on the dance floor. The only exception is the VIP areas, and I don't think they're an essential part of the club scene.
When I was in my early 20s I used to hate nught clubs because they are loud useless places,where you can't even hear your own thoughts because of sound levels. Now I've grown up a bit, I can't imagine going to one even if someone would pay me. If I was in a position to spend 10K a night in a club,my understanding of having a good night would definitely not have a night club in it.
How the Startup DoNotPay Got Their First 35,000 Customers in 7 Days
It's perfectly reasonable to me that some people consider the morality of veganism as settled as the morality of, say, rape. Especially in a world where the vast majority of us only eat meat because we were born into it and it pleasures us.

Frankly, I think the moral superiority of veganism is obvious to most people and very difficult to argue against. I think a lot of the drama is only the fallout of our difficulty squaring those morals with our culturally-backed, deeply-seated, identity-level behavior and our already existing struggle to control what we eat.
I don't follow your point. Ordering control is necessarily a feature of the cache layer. You're right that there are local pipeline effects too, but if you have a memory ordering requirement in your architecture it has to be built into the cache design all the way up and down the hierarchy.

In practice that's the stuff that's expensive.
Looks like it comes with Killer WiFi. Pretty questionable choice there.
I blame google
Change is bad unless it is great.

Don't make changes just because your designers need something to do. When you make design changes your customers must immediately love it, if not it is a bad change. When it comes to design, there is no such thing as a "good change", there are only bad changes (the default) and great changes.
Lots of people are brought from overseas on B1, J1, L1 whataver cheap visas and employed illegally. All these HCL-Wipro-Mahindra rent out whole apartment complexes in the areas where they have large customers; there these B1s are allowed/forced to live on cheap.
Agreed. I've worked with quiete a bunch of frontend developers on react applications (with serverside rendering) who didn't realise that in the end all it does is render HTML pages. And didn't have any or much experience with old school HTML and vanilla javascript. This only became a real problem when there were edge cases or external scripts needed to be integrated that didn't fit in the framework.
Yeah, that's my impression too - although it's inaccurate to say that the entire club scene is like that, there's plenty of great clubs that are about fun instead of status.

I was in Miami (Beach) for a few weeks, and despite its status as a party town I like partying much more most other places. Frankly Miami as a whole was kinda sickening for its massive income disparities and how everyone seemed to aspire to become "VIP"s, both at night and in life in general.

Great clubs are egalitarian, where everybody is just having fun and spreading the joy to the people around them. Unfortunately they can be hard to find without local connections, as Google often only surfaces the high status clubs.
Lol. I had a Zune HD. Opening the calculator app took half a minute... and that was pretty much the only app available. It was a cool device but there’s no surprise it got trampled by iPod Touch.
Agreed. And Id prefer they return to 5x4 for all tablets and tablet PCs. I had a tablet PC back in 04 that was a 5x4 ratio Toshiba R10 and it was marvelous. I ran Linux on it! 16 years ago!
The fastest general purpose CPUs in the world implement a strongly ordered architecture, so clearly it can be done.
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I would buy this laptop in a heartbeat if I could have an ISO keyboard layout in North America.
I'm saying that everyone making CPUs uses a strongly ordered cache coherency subsystem and re-ordering only comes from "pipeline effects" [1].

Slightly longer version of the same claim here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23661588

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[1] I prefer the term core-local because I think it's somewhat more accurate as it can include things like the delayed processing of invalidations and sibling core interactions in SMT which might not fall under "pipeline" effects but are still local to the (physical) core.
My laptop has Killer WiFi. I know nothing about it. Why is that a questionable choice?
> The real secret of education is it is the only method humanity has discovered to stop people making the same stupid mistakes every single generation like all the other animals.

Strongly disagree. There are plenty of educated people doing stupid, evil, destructive things. What would have saved them is a proper upbringing in a healthy community. Some colleges are now toxic institutions that achieve the opposite.
To play devils advocate say the design by the library was that you could not read the jwt data without the library verifying it.

That goes away.
Another trait of these countries is that many of them have been hit by another corona virus in recent memory. Which may mean that they know what to do in the situation.
It's a thing in every country/big city in the world - including supposedly "conservative" religious ones...
I run Ubuntu 20.04 lts on the Dell XPS 13 i7 10700 (12 ht cores!). I bought the windows version ~8 months ago. It is a great form factor and quiet and Ubuntu is a dream. I run dual 4k 32 inch monitors from the laptop when closed via the many USB c ports. It just works.
That "pocket watch" idea is kinda neat. Maybe someone could bring back the pocket watch form factor. Come to think of it, that's how I used my phone before I got a smart watch.
When I got a XPS 13 ~4 years ago full disk encryption didn't work at all on Ubuntu due to the NVME drive and Dell support had no workarounds and neither did the internet. I certainly hope it's fixed by now.
Our values determine our metrics.
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I have an older precision. Built like a tank and then some, great specs, ugly as hell, on the heavy side, awful battery, huge brick sized charger, but everything replaceable, takes being dropped in it's stride, takes any abuse it receives in it's stride.
Anyone know how well power management works with AMD and linux?

Would those AMD 8 core chips consume a similar amount of power to the i7-1065G7? (quad core 10nm)
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I think the idea is that there's competition in android lands because of multiple companies providing hardware and android custom roms to go along with.
I've been havin XPS 13 for nearly 2 years now. Personally, haven't had any issues in terms of reliability.I even managed to spill my soup on it a couple of times and it ended up working after it. Battery capacity halfed over this period, however I can't comment on this,as I don't know how other laptops perform in this area.the only weird thing about it is the camera positioned at the bottom of the screen...
This article is more interesting for what it doesn’t talk about than it does. There’s only the vaguest allusion to organized crime and sex trafficking, which seems odd if you’re talking about a “secret economics” involving models and night clubs.
At that scale, it's not about the music and dancing, it's about the sex (girls/boys), drugs, drinking, and networking...
>Theorists calculate upper limit for possible quantization of time

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-theorists-upper-limit-quantiza...
Author here.

I agree that it's more software focussed and I would be adding the role of IP in other industries in my upcoming updates.

But, the main reason I explicitly didn't go into Biotech/Pharma is because living in India which has been at the receiving end of the US Pharma's patent protections and on the other hand witness generic medicines save lives everyday; I didn't want my biases to affect the content.
Moderator dang explains his position often:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
1. Learn to read MDN and when you have a problem, don’t tell me you searched Google and searched StackOverflow And still can’t find the answer.
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Uber Eats is a dumpster fire burning cash, so I don’t think it helps Uber’s bottom line very much to increase that side of their business.
haha. Thanks.
Definitely. There are programs for the Raspberry Pi cameras which do just that. Up to 1000fps IIRC
Thanks. Glad you like it.
So that means this object could well have been the result of such a merger, right?

I guess I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. "Oh neat, we found something in this mass gap" seems reasonable, but the "changes astronomy" headline seems completely unsupported.
If you’re forced to agree with something, might as well be hackernews IMO.
>In my experience, the “hotter” the club, the less people dance or mingle, the more they signal.

Well, dancing and mingling is about signalling status too. In the end, it's just male and female evolved monkeys doing their mating rituals...
> You know, it is one thing to say that you believe it is best, and argue for it vigorously.

I'm not a vegan. I just think that, if you are trying to live an ethical life, it is the most ethical position.

> But if you are unable to imagine someone else holding a differing view in an intellectually and morally self-consistent manner

I don't know what you mean by "morally self-consistent manner." If you mean moral anti-realism, then, no, I agree with moral realism and choose to side with expert opinion. I don't think morals are subject-dependent.
> Can my perception, which by definition is subjective, be measured objectively, by some technology, at least in theory? Perhaps.

If by "some technology" you mean "your doctor asking you what your perception is", sure.

Yes, patients lie, which is why there's a whole field of study around when and why patients lie, and detecting that.

> Practically speaking, is it going to be measured in this context? Am I going to get a prediction on how I personally will feel when choosing one thing over another? No.

Yes. Do your really think you're the first person in hundreds of years of medicine to think, "Hey, maybe we should personalize treatment based on what patients want."?

This is a science that is still far from mature, and we're a long way from being able to make accurate predictions in every situation, but at this point we can definitely predict patient satisfaction with a high degree of certainty for common cases, based on what the patient says they value.
There was an announcement in April that they will "soon" be shipping some laptops with Fedora.

https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-lapt...
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Trademarks help in domain name disputes. Your registered business name only applies to that state. It's not dumb to setup a trademark for your company name after it's used in commerce. For small business it's affordable as well based on the fee structure at the USPTO.

*Not a lawyer.
https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebo...
Does anyone know the title in German?
Yeah totally agreed. I personally have not encountered a club that has bottle service/VIP that doesn’t degrade into the sort of thing described in the article.

There are, of course, plenty of clubs that are entirely oriented around dancing which are great. They tend to be on the less “hot” end of the spectrum (because the term basically means status-building).
I am of mixed feeling about this.

Sure, publishers of news got it backward about how Google News benefits them, but at the same time news are dying, and with serious journalism.

However, I don't really expect new sources to suddenly improve in quality. If they got cause and effect backward with google news, who know what else they got wrong?
AFAIK dietary lipoproteins have no nutritional relevance. Lipoproteins in your body are made by your liver to package fats into tiny droplets that can be transported by your blood. The balance of different types of lipoprotein in your blood is associated with different health outcomes, and diet influences the types of lipoproteins produced. Exactly how important any of this is a contentious subject.

The article probably meant to say that olive oil consumption is associated with higher HDL production, which is associated with better health outcomes.
Two things at play:

1) Masks. Many countries in Asia have learned from SARS and other pandemics in the last years to always wear masks. They may not protect the wearer (unless ffp2), but they massively reduce the reach of infectious particles if the wearer is infected. Meanwhile Bolsonaro, Trump and (prior to infection) BoJo outright refused to wear masks, and well, many people think "why should I wear a mask and look like a clown when not even the Dear Leader is wearing one?".

2) Population density and poorness. This specific combo has actually benefitted Eastern Europe really much. There are no metropolises anywhere near the scale of Western cities, people are not mobile (there are few foreign guests, and few locals have the money to go on vacation and bring the virus back).

Other poor countries but with high population density are screwed. Dense, overcrowded slums with no running water combined with people being forced to violate quarantine because they have no way to feed themselves and their family without going to work? That is the ultimate recipe on "how to spread a pandemic", and is what is happening in South America.
Does the sound-card make any popping sounds turning on and off?? I have an older XPS 13-9343 and sadly this was a huge issue with Ubuntu/Linux. It would pop on and off whenever you used audio.
“Mr. Glaser designed a modified version — “I NY More Than Ever,” with a dark bruise on the heart”

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/nyregion/12loveny.html:

”In fact, the only thing Mr. Glaser regrets is that, after the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001, he designed a “I NY More Than Ever” logo as a patriotic symbol.

The Pataki administration threatened to (but did not) sue him for trademark infringement. “The stupidity!” Mr. Glaser sputtered. “It saddened me.””
Fair point! Maybe more specifically, “signaling financial status.”
I'm obviously missing something. Why would distance travelled on a unit of fuel be a bad way to measure the efficiency of a car?

I know that such measures are always imprecise due to different driving styles/conditions etc. So what is a better way to measure the efficiency of a car?
Grindr Still Hasn't Deleted Its Ethnicity Filter Despite Promise
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> DoNotPay, as many other great companies, started by a founder frustration. Joshua Browder, 18 at the time, had just gotten his driving license and racked up a portfolio of 30 or so parking tickets within nine months. He didn't have the money to pay for these $100-$200 tickets and so he had to find creative ways to get out of them.

> Their tagline is "Fight corporations, beat bureaucracy, and sue anyone at the press of a button."

Entitled <redacted> starts company to allow anyone to act like an entitled <redacted>. Let's celebrate!
Actually, not having all aminoacids can lead to better aging. Vegan and vegetarian diet lack of methionine, and in animal models the carence in methionine boosted their lifespan.
Is this still a glossy-only screen option? I would happily by the XPS 15 with a non-glossy screen. I have been forced to use the Precision models with Ubuntu pre-installed and suffered both mediocre performance, battery life, build quality, and even the sound output not working.

Unfortunately I am using a Mac from my employer for the first time in years. It is nice to have hardware that works extremely well again! But the glare is bad in certain lighting conditions and the touch bar is extremely annoying. I have caps lock mapped to escape, but it is just a more difficult place to get my pinky finger to.
Perhaps more of interest to the HN crowd is the end of the article where it talks about the motivations of these promoters. They want to get out of the small money business of convincing pretty girls to show up at clubs and into the big money business of connecting rich people to investments.

It is one of the paths towards angel investment. It's not that hard to find people who claim they know rich people and who can "hook you up". It might be slightly more fruitful a path than responding to the Nigerian prince email in your spam folder, but only slightly...
Original announcement discussed here 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23637775
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Author here.

Even patent trolls wait till you are able to pay if you infringe their 'supposed invention' i.e. In other words focussing upon growth is a rational decision, when you get big you'll know if you are in the radar of trolls or genuine inventors.

This applies only when you truly don't know whether you're infringing IP, if you're explicitly copying an invention; unless you are in a country which has no regard to international laws and actively encourages its citizens to copy inventions of other countries, you are at the risk of patent litigations.
From memory, protein, B12 vitamin and iron. Again all these can be avoided with a good understanding of what you are eating while on a vegan diet (buying fortified foods to get B12 for example, or mixing protein sources).

The other thing which I believe (but no idea if scientifically true) is that different people (due to genetics or whatnot) respond to diets a bit differently. A high carb diet for me is a no-no. I get joint pains, tired all the time, break up in acne all over my scalp (and no, I don't eat grains. I eat rice or pasta maybe once a month, most/all is from veggies and fruit). If I go over 100-150g of carbs I have these effects.

My ex-wife had issues with a high protein diet that exarcebated her anxiety and panic attacks.
The initial setup is definitely easy, but I wish additional setup would have a graphical interface. Notably, changing or removing a passphrase, both of which should be tucked away somewhere in the settings.

Your current options are gnome-disks and cryptsetup, and the former simply didn't work with long passphrases last time I dabbled with it.

It's also quite difficult to encrypt an existing setup without formatting the drive. You'd need to unmount your root partition, and since you can't do that from a running system, you'd need to boot off of a USB stick first. BitLocker is definitely easier in that regard.
Night club experiences vary significantly depending on what club you go to and what people you go with.

Your typical night club in the heart of the city filled with drunk people (overflowing from bars) is not the same as the more "upscale" nightclubs on the edges of the city.

The former case is a miserable experience and I agree with you, but the latter can be enjoyable.
There are certainly clubs that don’t fit that description, but the industry, the real bulk of the cash flow and the natural end state of most successful clubs, is a status economy.

A club that can be successful and not devolve into this is an outlier that certainly takes extreme care to stay that way.
I alternate between a (now ageing 9350-model) XPS 13 running Ubuntu and a (newish) MacBook Pro (for work), so perhaps my experience is interesting to some.

I like both, but switching between the two is a bit jarring. The different keyboard layout is particularly annoying. Maybe this is worse with a British keyboard though. I switched the Mac to use the 'PC' layout, which helps a bit, but adapting between the cmd-ctrl-fn is difficult. And there are inconsistencies in the readline behaviour that I haven't worked out. I'm fairly indifferent to the feel of the keyboard - maybe a slight preference for the XPS.

I like the 16:9 ratio of the XPS, but not a big deal.

The 20.04 update has been such an improvement. The fan used to be constantly running, maybe because of the previously-experimental fractional scaling, but since the update this runs so smooth. If anyone from Gnome/Ubuntu reads this: thank you!

The trackpad on the MacBook is obviously nice: support for gestures and the bigger area. I can't stand the touch bar - I'm constantly accidentally pressing buttons. TouchID is nice - the fingerprint reader in this new version sounds good.

Few other things that are better on the MBP: speakers, brightness (especially the auto-adjusting brightness), and webcam (this version of the XPS has the webcam below the screen, which sucks).

I don't make any use of the touchscreen on the XPS and I haven't got around to turning it off from the BIOS. Seems kind of wasteful.

The coil whine on the XPS is really bad. Interested to know if this is fixed/better on the newer models?

I replaced the battery on the XPS recently, but turns out the battery isn't as official as Amazon promised so the LED occasionally does an angry flashing sequence. But yay for being able to replace this.

Also the Dell support turned out to be pretty good. At one point there was an issue with my screen and they sent a guy to my house to replace the screen for free.
I've been using the XPS 13 DE at work for 3+ years and it has been a great experience. It originally shipped with 16.04; I was able to upgrade smoothly to 18.04 when it was available and I hope to do the same with 20.04.

I use it with a docking station and two external monitors with no problems. It's normally physically connected to the network so I can't comment much on the wifi. I don't do anything with Bluetooth.

My personal laptop is a MBP but if Dell ever came out with a XPS 15 DE I would immediately switch.
Woah, absolutely not. People who try to signal their financial status often ends up ruining their social status by showing neediness and insecurities.
I think this is highly dependent on the club, and the scene. There are absolutely clubs that cater to people with status. It's usually obvious at first glance whether you're at a place that focuses on the music, or focuses on the high spenders in the VIP area.

Hell, in Vegas the dance floors of some clubs seem almost like an afterthought.
I don't think they really make use of rolling shutter, they just configure the camera differently? (which is basically limited by the rate of pixels transferred - if you reduce the resolution, more images per second fit down the data transfer channel)
> A doctor might ask you "how bad is the pain on a scale of one to ten?" or something of those sorts. That is informed by your entire history of pain experience. You're likely to rate the worst pain you ever felt as 10 - every time.

Okay, referencing studies showing that people don't accurately report pain in pain assessments is the second time you've obliquely referenced well-known groups of studies (the first time being a roundabout reference to How Doctors Die[1]).

Think about how bad this logic is: you're referencing papers which gather objective evidence on personal perceptions around treatment, and using those papers as evidence that it's impossible to gather objective evidence on personal perceptions. Do you not see how the very evidence you're referencing refutes your point?

One fix being studied for pain assessments is to additionally add a question about what the worst pain the patient has ever suffered previously is, and compare that to their rating of the current pain.

[1] https://hms.harvard.edu/news/how-doctors-die