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Ask HN: Recommended Laptops for Linux?
I have a 2017 15 inch MacBook pro, and in general I'm a bit underwhelmed with it.

The main reason I use MacOS is because it's Unix-like, all of the tools I require for work are available on Linux.

I have a Lenovo Yoga at home - but running Linux on it never seems to be very smooth - the main issue I have with it (and this is a bit of a deal breaker) is that it doesn't ever seem to work properly with my Thunderbolt docks. I have two thunderbolt docks, one is an OWC, which is plugged in to two LG 4K UltraFines and I have a Belkin which is plugged in to an LG 5K Ultrafine. For various reasons, I don't want to change these docking setups.

Things that are important to me the most are RAM and screen quality. Portability, disk space, high end graphics cards, touch screens, quality of keyboard/trackpad (almost always use the keyboard and mouse attached to the docks) are all lower down the list.

Can anyone recommend a good linux laptop that would fit the bill here?
Thanks!
They said a Mac with Apple silicon, not necessarily the developer transition kit. If they were running the demos on the dkt they would probably have shown the device and said so explicitly.
It is possible that they phished a few users (or used account details from another leak) and the rest of the data is BS.

I don't think they're claiming zero knowledge. They're doing the exact opposite: they're saying they have complete knowledge, and that it simply didn't happen. I hope, for their sake, that they are correct.
I wonder how long it will take for “B cells” to become a buzzword.
Since we're sharing, here's mine:

https://jguitar.com/

Made the front page of HN a couple of years ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18037657
This isn't overly technical, but it's a good look behind the scenes at how the virtual race is being produced in real-time.

TL;DR: just like everybody else, they use Zoom (and then some...)

But what I find more striking is how a tech company in the fitness industry really hit the big time and because of the virus, has expanded their platform from amateurs cycling/training at home, to running a top pro cycling event. Apparently, it's "only" a 6-stage demonstration of the technology, to fill the media void over the summer when it usually runs. The real race is still planned for the fall.
No jokes, shenanigans, memes, etc. except for extremely witty and situational humor. It’s refreshing.
Jokes aside, I thought this was going to be about them selling this information, not a hack.
This is a very interesting idea. It could reveal only a portion and see how often that was enough for the moderator to pass judgement.
I’m so into this. I love the aesthetic and the hacker values. Do you have a blog or anything?

Edit: scrolled to the bottom, nice Twitter :)
Why not just baptize every human then?
The fact that it is very unlikely that you will be able to run linux(or any other OS; unix-based or otherwise) on a computer that you PAY(potentially more than 1500 hundred dollars) and all you get some "BootCamp" Spagetti Windows on the hardware asides from macOS. I'm sure the ones in the Apple Cult will still pay for these ARM-based machines, but Apple really is shooting themselves the foot with all this lockdown. And nybody who thinks this makes their platform "secure" or "less prone to attacks" is full of it. I'm kind of interested in seeing the clusterfuck this will turn into when Apple comes out with their own proprietary firmware for EVERYTHING on their glorified Apple Silicon.
And you should trust that company or government based on what?
Why would DNA have anything to do with crime?
This is completely expected, and common practice, isn’t it?
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One example might be the BRCA gene mutation. It gives you a higher chance of breast cancer and is typically associated with Ashkenazi Jews.

I'm sure your insurer would be interested to know if you have it, and that potentially your children are at an elevated risk.

Unfortunately there might be people interested in the ethnic association as well.
Human readable format: https://pastebin.com/E7L84W5P
Think bigger. Insurance. Loans. Financial predation. The right to bear arms. Social stigma created by incumbent politicians wishing to divide their people over meaningless differences.
It appeared to be Ubuntu for ARM64. If it wasn't virtualized, could it have been running under QEMU? Or maybe some sort of WSL type shim into the Darwin kernel?
> So you've patched this library somehow?

Yes, as mentioned, I set the k-value to 50 on this line: https://github.com/HankSheehan/EloPy/blob/master/elopy.py#L8...

Author decided to do something fancy which will only work when number of players is less than 1/2 * starting Elo rating.

> But in any case I'm not at all convinced that your charts don't just show the normal distribution that we'd expect, just in some weird way.

As mentioned, you end up with a geometric distribution. I covered a similar phenomenon in a blog post I wrote last year[1]. See Theorem 3.3 in this paper: https://kconrad.math.uconn.edu/blurbs/analysis/entropypost.p... But in short, the geometric distribution has maximal entropy over (0,∞) given a known mean (in our case, the mean will always be 1000).

[1] https://dvt.name/2017/07/10/confusing-math-with-morality/
I don’t think Gollum had a Hebrew letter on his back...
It's market driven.

If you want to sell the stock short, you have to borrow it. If there's nobody who can loan it to you, you can't borrow it so you can't sell it short. Technically, you (or your broker) have to know where you'll borrow the stock before you're allowed to sell it short. In trader parlance this is called a "locate".

When supply of loanable stock is low and short interest is high, the rate gets expensive. For example, this happens on stock holdings with lock-up provisions that prohibit long holders to loan or sell stock until a particular date. Among other reasons, this may happen after an employee stock option exercise, or after an IPO.

There's a process called "rehypothecation" where a broker can loan shares from long Client A to short-selling Client B, charging a rate to Client B and paying a cut of it to Client A. They can also loan shares to other firms.

The borrow rate is independent of the stock price. If the stock rallies, short sellers may add to their position, or they may blow out. If the stock sells off, short sellers may take profits, or they may pile in and ride all the way down.

In addition to stock loan, there is a swaps market and a rev/con market. So there are various ways for the market to absorb demand for borrow. Like, if Bank ABC is long a ton of shares and the rest of the street is short, Bank ABC can sell put on a rev/con, which will imply the short rate despite the bank actually having no need to locate and borrow shares. This kind of action naturally sets the price for borrow. No regulators involved.
Finances are different right? People tend to hide their finances because of taxes and other illegal shit, and also to prevent jealousy.

As for genetics, most of your genetics are on display every time you walk out the door. People look at you and they can have a good guess about a huge portion of your genes. For example if you have a beard and a penis you probably have a Y chromosome, though this is more challenging to figure out nowadays.

Thus mostly their's really nothing left to hide in terms of genetics. In terms of finances... while I specifically have nothing to hide, more people have things to hide in this area.
Very nice to look through. Does anyone have a list of React "design systems"? I was not familiar with this term.

Also, I am wondering: looks like there is https://spectrum.adobe.com. What is the purpose of Spectrum without an implementation like this? Why would Spectrum be a public published thing, considering that only Adobe makes Adobe products?
Redirects may have been wrong form? This was top link in Google and DDG for ‘caddy markdown’... but to your point, it didn’t respond. So I figured right page based off of the snippet and visited status. Right form of redirect should update the index, no longer show the old page.
Or at least a summary version of it with all the data they felt was relevant to keep... so everything we currently know to be important.
Recent influx of Substack posts to Hacker News
“Ten years ago, the Seed round was a single event, and companies ended up raising a few hundred thousand dollars from angel investors”

Well.. 10 years ago there was no “seed” rounds. Airbnb raised a $600k series A right before demo day in ‘09. That round got rebranded as a seed round later.
Real. https://archive.fo/tOXxh
> My experience is that being overly precise in my speech can be off-putting to people. Enough so, that when I have encouraged feedback, both positive and negative, on my communication skills it came up more than once as "making you seem like you are showing off how much you know about something and making others feel dumb."

File this under 'know your audience'. On HN (and other nerdy and text-based communication) precision is often much more welcome than in oral communication in real life. Even with the same sort of people.
> If those risks don't apply to you, who cares?

Others have mentioned that that's a bad argument, so I won't rehash that.

> getting placed at the scene of a crime

That's a pretty damn bad "worst case scenario", but here's a few I'm going to toss out without too much thought:

1. Health insurance companies can deny you coverage. In America, that can be a literal death sentence. (Yes, GINA 2008 was passed, no, I don't want to bet my future health care coverage on it not being repealed, mangled, or bypassed in some other way.)

2. International risks. A lot of discussion here is largely focused on American law. But many of us aren't American, or aren't just American. Look at my username; I have ties to another country, and I frankly have no idea what sort of risk I might get exposed to there. Getting placed at the scene of a crime in some jurisdictions is much more serious than you make it out to be; being identified as being a relative of someone else could also have dire consequences.

3. You know those scams where Grandpa Joe gets a frantic call from his distraught granddaughter Jane, and she's in Mexico being held up on a bogus charge, but if he wires their police department $500 ($5000?) the whole thing goes away? This becomes much easier if you can look up family histories.

4. You cannot predict the future. You have no idea what's coming down the pipeline.
How Not to Measure Latency (2015)
agreed w your observation; yes it's strange / weird, almost unfathomable.

also, in a genuinely non-pedantic, "aiming to help and educate, not nitpick" way, may I offer this tidbit:

tenant: legal inhabitant / renter / occupant

tenet: principle or belief
Thank you! I have a mostly empty blog http://keyankousha.com (I have some drafts in the pipeline but I don't have a good writing habit yet). Twitter is a little more active @k00bideh
A hitchhikers guide to GPT-3
I openly talk about my finances with anyone who wants to talk personal finance. What threat are you imagining this could pose?
Because you can't hit pause on your liabilities. Double entry bookkeeping doesn't give a care about your virus. Your liabilities are someone else's assets. A pause in business activity on the scale we're seeing causes a chain reaction. The restaurant can't pause rent or loans (and even if they could, that just causes other downstream effects for bank balance sheets who can no longer loan out as much because their reserves are tapped, etc), or pause utilities, and when the restaurant ceases to purchase food and equipment that causes downstream effects on distributors and suppliers who have to tighten their belt which affects their creditors, employees, and suppliers, which affects everything else. Many restaurants lease or rent their equipment. There are huge capital costs to starting a restaurant.

Businesses often operate on the margins, especially restaurants. They have to pull a lot of volume in order to make it selling food at $10-20 a plate. They maybe have 3% net profit margins, so they need to sell millions of dollars worth of food to make a decent income for the owners.
Why do we need more random serialization formats?
Hmm. No MIT.
set term x11 background rgb "aquamarine"

(for example).
Now you're making me wonder how many places the sunglasses meme in unicode could be used as a valid password.
Good point. It would be an utter disappointment for me to take this class only to sit through explanations on how to find a book in a library (something I was able to do when I was 8).
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...yes? Since when is configure+make ever just configure+make? Even today I had to do a configure+make that involved another 20 min of debugging to figure out that I had to make a symlink to hack gcc's broken platform naming conventions. Like I get that some people enjoy that, but I personally don't. The reason I write software is to let myself and other people avoid having to jump through annoying, arcane hoops. Software should be accessible and user-friendly even to the most naive user. It is not a badge of honor to be comfortable with a highly finicky, complex system that requires extra time that could be spent doing other things that you'd prefer to do instead.
I Accidentally Spent over £1500 Using Google's Map API
Another similar concept is by CrowPi initiative but it is based on ARM not Intel [1].

Their second version CrowPi 2 allows the use of any Raspberry Pi in a more laptop like hardware shell with 11.6" display. They also offering many sensors for additional IoT and hardware interfacing exercises. Currently they are on Kickstarter and more than 1600% funded [2][3].

[1]http://linuxgizmos.com/hackable-crowpi2-steam-education-lapt...
[2]https://www.elecrow.com/
[3]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elecrow/crowpi2-steam-e...
Thanks for clearing that up. Hmmm ... seems to be a lot of misinformation out there even from "good" sources, such as Johns Hopkins and the NYT. For example regarding the situation in Mass:

https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusMa/comments/hurn8r/the_n...

and:

https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusMa/comments/hv7mri/a_not...

(kudos to /u/eaglessoar on /r/CoronavirusMa for providing excellent stats and coverage of the situation in MA).
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Neither Youtube nor Facebook currently are able to filter all these incidents. This happened after Christchurch:

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1853804/mass-sh...

I could swear there was also a Christchurch copy-cat attack in Europe, but I can't remember sufficient details about it to find an article. Perhaps that one wasn't streamed on FB.

I don't have encyclopedic knowledge of Facebook atrocities (I closed my account nearly a decade ago), but without vetting content before it goes live, I don't see how they will entirely prevent these videos from reaching some users.
Or half a dozen engineers building a new "AI-driven" risk evaluation service with nebulous inputs from their manager.
Possibly it was needed for no-driver virtualization while preserving the same functionally of https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2020/07/fusion-big-sur-t... — note there’s a newer beta if you view the community link, I think, and I can’t find an equivalent public beta from Parallels yet but presumably they’re working hard on it...
You’ve got to acknowledge that people have been saying this for 30+ years and it keeps working for them. If anything the history of the company shows that when they use other people’s tech it burns them.

ESR wrote the cathedral and the bazaar how many years ago?
That's an interesting point, but if your government becomes blatantly oppressive they don't need DNA to do it.
i _adore_ matrix! keep up the good work!
Always wonder about the data density of this type of information: it’s possible to Store all the virus? It’s LIFO stack? What’s the limit?
I didn't realize how much I used this or other forms of boolean expression simplification/translation until this comment tbh. Really goes to show that while much of formal CS won't be used in industry, some of it in random places can be surprisingly useful.
Ha! Get a load of this guy, caring about people outside his family /s
No? There was nothing in the context of that video to suggest it was running on an A12Z. They were showing you the features that will be available on the chip they're going to bring to market sometime this year. This chip must already exist in a near-production form in order to meet that deadline.
GIS is specifically designed to be good at finding similar images so it's going to work great for your test case. Facial recognition algorithms are solving a different problem.

If they were promising that cloaking would work well on GIS, that'd be a different matter. I can imagine wanting your images to not show up on GIS (because people would use them to try and find the source image on your profile, or something) but it's a different set of constraints at that point.

For cloaking a big use case would be "I took a selfie with a friend and want to share it on my instagram" and your goal is for that instagram selfie to not automatically connect with, for example, a surveillance photo of you at a protest. GIS is obviously not relevant to that scenario.
Verogen might very well be in trouble because of CCPA violations either from state fines or from consumer suits.
Typo. is out. Is it a good thing?
When communicating face-to-face, you typically have real time feedback. So you can afford to be more potentially ambiguous, because you monitor for misunderstandings, and clear them up as they arise.

If you want to go all mathematical, that's similar to just sticking a checksum on tcp packets and resending vs the lengths that CD-ROMs go to correct errors.

Or to bring another analogy, compare an interactive proof (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_proof_system) with a more conventional formal proof.

As an aside, people do admire intelligence in real life perhaps more so than physical strength, but a minimum of social acumen goes a long way.
I built the first version of IntelliJ plugin[1] to make working with the reactor stuff easier. Doesn't look like there have been much improvements to it.

1: https://github.com/amzn/ion-intellij-plugin
Ask HN: Rewriting parts of website in react, thoughts and best practices?
We have a fairly complex dashboard written with PHP, HTML and JQuery but we are considering rewriting parts that are slow/needs updated with react.

I was wondering if anyone has past experience and what is the best way to go about this?

Is react the best way to go?
Well they do, just for a threat model that's rooted in Google's worldview.
There's a saying where I'm from: "clogs to clogs in three generations". Man works himself up from clog-wearing poverty to wealth; son seems the dad's journey and values wealth; grandson grows up in wealth and doesn't understand how it happened so loses it.
Why is it relevant that this can be true about any group? You’re projecting. My comment was about the fact that the OTHER group will seek reprisal and it’s at very least rather immature to stamp your feet about this after the fact. Dude isn’t a kid. He makes a gigantic show of his intellect and turns around and acts shocked when he reaps the product of celebrity.

Also to answer your other question yes, we’re all responsible for what others do because no action exists in a vacuum. Like it or not that’s the world we live in. It’s always been this way.
One major factor that may be contributing to this: Instacart doesn't offer 2-factor authentication (2FA)
If that were the case then many long holders would sell and the price would revert. Short squeezing has undoubtedly contributed to the volatile rally of TSLA, but the fact that the price remains elevated is presumably due to something more than the price impact of closing shorts. For whatever reason, the market thinks TSLA is worth this price. Personally I think there are many retail traders who don't know too much about the market, get bored of other names, and want to be on the meteoric TSLA bandwagon. When that collapses it will be a sad day for Elon Musk.
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> But how do you know that the number is greater than the fraction of population killed by the coronavirus?

You can measure it. For example you can look at excess mortality in the UK and then look at what fraction of that excess mortality is directly attributed to COVID.

Lots of people are doing this kind of data analysis on twitter.

Of course the guesswork comes in when you try to imagine how people would have acted without a lockdown.

Without lockdown would people still have gone for non-essential medical checkups for example?
They can, but mostly men like to waste their youth on such moonshots.
The context here, clear from the previous sentence's mention of incest taboo as another recent development, is that this is referencing normative expectation, as contrasted with actual experience.

That is, in earlier times, not only would the experience have been far more widespread, and likely more frequent in individual cases, but considered perfectly normal, non-deviant, and lawful. At least if you accept the author's argument (I'm undecided as yet).

But the notion that attitudes toward sexual relations with (or between) minor can change markedly over time is abundantly clear. Within recent memory, the age of legal marriage has been as low as 14 (considered "childhood") in certain US states. New York State raised the minimum from 14 to 18 in 2017:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-ends-child-marriage-ra...

The same article notes that two states, North Carolina and Alaska have a specified minimum age of 14, and 27 states lack any specific minimum age.

I'm not arguing that the low (or no) minimum age laws are right. I am pointing out that standards, and laws, within the US, and within the past few years, have included marriage, and presumably sexual relations, among minors. Along with (and combined with) attitudes toward race and religion (anti-miscegenation laws also being within living memory in the US, overturned in 1967 in Loving v. Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia), little else among human norms has changed more.
Right, but its a bit of role reversal since Victoria is run by a Labour government which outsourced this to poorly trained security guards, whereas NSW with its Liberal (read conservative for Americans) government got the police to do it.
Tesla's price movement has been in the other direction - upward. The Model 3 was originally supposed to sell for $35,000. Now, it's "$39,990 - $56,990".
A series of beautiful cursor effects
The best interactive guitar UI I've ever found is all-guitar-chords.com and I use several of its features regularly. It might not be built with the hotness but the reverse scale and reverse chord features are really nice and the main use case I can think of for using something like this. I'd like to see this as an open source library and I've started on attempts several times but never finished.
I think what would be cool is a "core" functional library written in typescript with all the basic well-unit-tested functions that could be used across different js libraries.
Then, for react, a library like react-table that just exposes the functions via hooks (headless/agnostic to ui). then the user could implement the UI as they please using the hooks.

Edit: _Obviously_ this project looks really cool and I love react so I'll be playing around with it for sure. Props to the author.
This is not meant to be confrontational in any way: what are the risks of having your genome exposed?