skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where did you find this info?
I'm amazed that there is no mention of the sheer repairability of these devices.

I don't think I will ever encounter a laptop line that is generally so user-accessible. A couple of regular screws and you pop the case. A few more and you can replace the entire keyboard. The hard drive was held in by a single screw in most models and you could easily swap it in without even popping the entire case. The RAM had it's own bay that you could access by removing a single crew. The Ultrabay mechanism was also a huge nod to the design philosophy of making the user feel like the hardware was his/hers to do with.

It's incredibly sad to me that we've abandoned that for the sake of "thinner". I wish I had a legitimate use for older hardware so I could justify picking up one of the IBM-era Thinkpads from eBay and just maintain it into perpetuity. Like the cars of yesteryear that you could mend with some string and a brick. Sure they're not "sexy" and it won't get me likes, but it's actually mine.
Given that you seem so confident in your theory you should be able to clearly explain why it's so important for the US that oil be traded in USD?
> Is there some sort of evidence for this?

What type of evidence would change your mind?

> The new CoC is founded on an ideology that explicitly rejects it.

The GPL is also founded on an ideology that rejects proprietary software, yet Linux is used by plenty of companies who develop such software. "Foundations" are just an origin story. What part of the actual text of the CoC prevents a meritocracy?

> If that were the purpose of the new Contributor Covenant, I don't think anyone would be complaining.

Reusing the previous example, the purpose of the GPL was to drive out proprietary software; yet the people using it in Linux do not yield it that way. It doesn't matter what purpose the original writer had in mind, only the purpose of those who have the power to interpret and implement it. Do you believe the TAB has any other purpose in mind?
Then make sure there's a way to preserve all settings and function from older versions. Tell me if I'm using something "unsafe", let me get it out of the way once and then leave me alone. Don't cut out functionality, don't change the UI, don't break what wasn't broken.
It’s simply not true at all.

One can argue that cheap and easy access to oil was a reason for wars, sure.

But the USD is the world’s reserve currency. There’s no need to start a war over any attempt to pay in another currency - the money all ends up converting to USD anyway. It’s just such a minor thing in the scheme of things that no one is going to war over it.

I mean, Trump pulling out of the Iran deal has done more to promote non USD settlement than anything else. But no one really cares about the settlement aspect there.
requires members to honor the Christ

The text does not permit this interpretation.
It's also important whether the SATA controller is passed through USB or properly connected. Some boards have abysmal SATA performance because of that.
>SA is a godsend to any entrepreneur who has an idea that is viewed as high risk based on traditional VC investors. If SA pulls out of being so proactive with their investments then it will be a huge wake up call to many early stage startups for sure.

This implies that "traditional" VC couldn't get high risk stuff funded, but SA can. That has no basis in history or reality.
Just to call the police.
Working on an alternative GitHub Trending UI with some extra features
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Sometimes it gives you some motivation or moral support to keep developing the software. I often see people open feature requests but don't even bother to give a star. If I put a repository out there that just works for me, I'm less motivated to spend extra time to accommodate features for other people. It's free software, there's no monetization like the view count on youtube, the least you can do to support the developer is give a star.
> This code of conduct that requires members to honor Christ

Does it? It says that it requires developers to conduct themselves in a manner that honors the overarching spirit of the rule.
Why?
Github offers the possibility of see the repositories and developers that are more appealing for the community daily, weekly and monthly (https://github.com/trending). Also you can filter them by selecting your preferred coding language. It’s pretty good for having an idea of what the community is most excited about.

However, I want to add some features. For example, the ability to know how much time the repo/dev is on the spot and its relative gains and looses positions during the permanency on the trending chart.

For those reasons and because I want to show some uses for zircle-ui (https://github.com/zircleUI/zircleUI) is that I'm trying to present an alternative approach.

This project is very alpha yet, but in some days I will show a beta version.
Honest question: Is there an audience for this besides network engineers?

For anything else, I'd prefer either a human-readable text-based protocol or something like Protobuf that generates (de)serializing code from a schema definition.
"Having a CoC seems to be a trendy thing nowadays."

Here, then, is an example of how society falls. Never has any good come out of such things, and for as long as one seeks to dominate, oppress and limit another in any such way, no matter how sweet the words, their meaning will forever remain imprisonment of another.
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We need these more than ever. I am surprised there are no startups focused on component houses that users can design online and order. Construction of new homes skews towards large, expensive houses because labor costs to build are so high that building small homes is risky or yields less margin. We are in desperate need of affordable homes in America because of this. No one wants a manufactured trailered home either...they are absolute crap quality and very expensive (horrible value proposition).
Because the stupid stupid neocons wanted to “finish what they started” in Gulf war 1, and reshape the Middle East.

Edit, appears this isn’t as well known anymore. It was literally the taking point during 2002/03 but here’s a good starting point: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strateg...

Or https://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=neoconi...

The good thing is that no one can argue this is a conspiracy: the neocons were very open about it and you can find their writing everywhere.
The Wayback machine got a snapshot from mid March 2018 at least : https://web.archive.org/web/20180315125217/https://sqlite.or...
Sure, but I don't think they have the time since the outage is still ongoing.
True, but it can be decomposed into different steps at least (trying to find less-wrong projections, effective 2D triangulation).

The complexity of working with 3D spaces typically feels worse and harder to untangle to me.

It's like.. I dunno, having two jugglers juggling ten balls each and passing them between each other, or one being asked to juggle twenty[0]. But that is a personal thing - it may also just be sign I'm bad at maths in 3D space.

[0] http://www.juggling.org/papers/limits/
The CoC can be used as a stick by Linux Foundation platinum members to get a grip on more outspoken maintainers. That way they can put more generic programmers who are used to corporate "professional" culture on the kernel.

Linux means big money now, you can't leave that in the hands of the rabble.
Having someone else manage merges into the stable kernel branch isn't new. In the old kernel dev model (circa 2.x kernels) after the first few patches in a new stable kernel, Linus always used to delegate stable maintenance to someone else (Alan Cox) so he had more time to work on the experimental branch. So Alan would maintain 2.0 and Linus 2.1 for example.
Didn't we all encounter bosses who would call endless meetings and who would laugh at points that they could not understand? This one is important, even if the fellow from the Name of the Rose had a strange take on it.
That depends on how you reckon things. It sounds like an extremely unwarranted axiom routinely disproven by normal world events.

I don't see the semi-functional United States outcompeting dictatorial slave labor economies. If your metric is how much value you can offer to huge multinational companies, it's plain that democratic societies are completely rejected and not even in the running.

'your investors' may very well demand completely inhuman behavior, because there's a cost to humanity, ethics and decency. If you insist on being decent and the flow of capital is completely frictionless it will all bypass you without a second thought. You will be actively choosing to not be the lowest-cost, highest-return option.
Maybe this summary article on lwn.net <Code, conflict, and conduct> :https://lwn.net/Articles/765108/ and article <The kernel's code of conduct, one week later>: https://lwn.net/Articles/766699/
I love stuff like this thanks. It's really interesting to see that Falcon is based on the https://github.com/socketry/async library.

I've previously been looking at https://github.com/ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby based on its use in Rails and was wondering if there's a comparison of the two approaches anywhere that would be newbie friendly?

I was also wondering will Falcon run on JRuby? (I see that nio4r does so hopefully that also means that things like Async-Container will.)
> 39. Be not a grumbler.

Oh dear. That's basically all of us.
Best CoC I have ever seen! I do not think that it is joke. From sqlite's source code:

The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of
a legal notice, here is a blessing:

May you do good and not evil.
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.
May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
People seem to be upset about the religious parts of the code of conduct, just read the overview, it's in no way intended to force religion onto people.

If the religious bits was to be deleted, it would be hard for anyone to disagree.

I see it as no less good or bad than any other code of conduct I've seen. Most of them could be used to throw anyone out of any project, if you chose to do so. The code of conducts for a lot of projects are so selectively enforced that is ridiculous.
Yeah, some actual growth numbers and customer numbers would have been nice, but I don't see The Economist overselling the popularity at all; instead, I just see them saying that it is growing (based on my reading of the first paragraph).

Edit: fix typo
This looks useful. I really like the nwdiag python package. This has and packagediag which might be nice to get integrated with protocol.

http://blockdiag.com/en/nwdiag/index.html
Better better title: "iPhone bug gives everyone with physical access to your iPhone [that has a specific combination of settings turned on] access to your private pictures"
Maybe people don't pay because they didn't want the "content" and it isn't good content anyway, but are merely being manipulated into watching it (through "feedback loops" like social media "likes", etc) by the creators of this garbage content for the purpose of getting ad views?
The URL should change with either offset (which is dynamic) or ideally ID as cursor (which is static).
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Another odd fact: Skoda is the 5th oldest car manufacturing company in the world (after Daimler, Opel, Peugeot and Tatra - another Czech company).
Arab petro-states are not the only nation states in the region.
It's just noticeable when it happens during someone's work day.
There are no perfect value systems, yes. They are still great tools to prevent tragedy of the commons / prisoner dilemmas. And that's something we as a society must archive to thrive. An alternative is regulation, created by again some kind of value system like your utilitarians. I'd prefer not ending with a shitload of highly detailed regulation just because otherwise we'd fuck up the fabric society for personal gain. If there are effective alternatives in the first place...
Everything you just said is true. So basically in order to help some technology proliferate, somebody had to create a cult around it. Good. If the problem was social as opposed to technical, and someone correctly identified it as such and fixed it, this person does not deserve our ire or contempt for solving a social problem with social engineering. He did the right thing, in that case.

As for SpaceX: everybody has accidents, and they'll have their share, too. Space is hard. Still, since everyone has been saying that SpaceX is going to fail, and that they won't be able to pull off the next important step, and every time they did it afterwards, it sounds like the story about the boy who cried wolf now.

And yet I have no kind words for Tesla's fully self-driving project. I fully agree with you here.
The cynical part of me says it matters now because there are special interests that for one reason or another have an interest in reducing SA influence or want some concession from SA and in reality it has 0 to do with SA being a brutal absolute monarchy which it has being for a long time.
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I had the 701c "butterfly" described in the article. My previous laptop had been a no-name 486 brick with a black and white screen that I bought at a Taiwanese electronics mall for ~$2000. It was barely portable. The 701c, by comparison, was small and durable, had a nice screen, a faster modem, and easily fit into my daypack. I bought it used for about $800 in 1996 and carried it with me throughout Southeast Asia and wrote my first book on it in a cheap hotel in Penang. The previous owner, bless his soul, had even installed Doom on it.
Unfortunately they are going away from that. X280 the same as X1 series do not have easily swapable battery (you can still replace it but you have to get inside of the machine). X280 also don't have Ethernet port even tho there is a room for it. They are replacing SD card readers for useless microSD card readers. X280 have also soldered RAM with no expansion slot. Thinkpads was and to some extend still are great machines, but Lenovo is slowly going in to all glued together, non fixable direction
>But with the Silicon Valley crowd

Yep, the SV crowd thinks they're the enlightened ones, saving the planet. Between billion dollar valuations based on blood-money, the massive financial inequality and the state surveillance apparatus they built to put us in, I doubt the proletariat think too fondly of the place.
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> The Ultrabay mechanism was also a huge nod to the design philosophy of making the user feel like the hardware was his/hers to do with.

At first I agreed with you, reminiscing that I really loved Ultrabay customizability - switching between a battery when I was on the road, a CD drive to load software when I was in the office, and a hard drive when I needed to archive stuff.

Today though, in the age of fast bandwidth, all-day batteries, and USB, I'm struggling to think of what I would do with an Ultrabay. The closest I can get is that I could use a battery on the road, and a space-saver empty bay around town, but...that's what external batteries are for these days. The more I think about it, the more I think the fondness for Ultrabays only makes sense in the 1990s/2000s, but there's a good reason they're gone.
The silicon atoms in my CPU also don't employ any numbers either, but "it's a thing that can calculate" is a decent high level description of what it does.
The ultimate CoC to put an end to this silly practice.
The difficulty with moving to a defined contribution scheme, which makes a tremendous amount of sense, is that the employer-governments actually have to pay the costs of their promises instead of kicking the can down the road.

Taxpayers don’t like that because they’d rather pretend to believe that investment returns will fix everything while really just saddling the next generations. Government employees don’t like that because they’d rather have the extravagant promises they can extract, figuring that future governments will find a way to pay them.

If both employees and taxpayers prefer to keep pretending that the Emperor is wearing clothes how many politicians are going to fall on the sword of good government?
None of the articles mentioned actually contacting Apple (unless I missed it) so they appear to have bypassed responsible disclosure and gone straight for personal publicity.

It could be they did, and the writers choose not to mention it but the media are usually keen to tag on the "Apple were told about this X days ago" data.
Was it the resistor that regulates fan speed?

That resistor usually burns out because the bearing of the fan doesn't work properly anymore, causing the fan to draw too much current. So if you don't replace the fan, that resistor will burn out again soon.
Those are nice looking houses, I'm surprised.

My wife and I are thinking about building a new house. I'm surprised how many new houses are still built from bespoke plans, and how much the plans cost. You'd think house plan 'Open Sourcing' would soon give us better houses at better prices. (I hope so, anyway.)
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Many journalists (and news outlets) are currently fired and not working in the sense you mean, because Facebook made a compelling (and fraudulent) case that millenials only watched videos. Across the industry, news outlets got rid of journalists to repurpose investment in video production.
You banned my account and not the one I replied to? Baffling.

I'll probably make a new account eventually because I enjoy communicating with the intelligent people on this site. Your behaviour is very inconvenient, though.
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They are not fully back up from their outage.
Nothing of value was lost. None of what this WM offers seems to be really useful.
Yeah, my broken list does mention that ICE powers generators.

Sometimes I hate HN comment syntax.
What would you use this for? If it runs some service via wifi, the sd-card size isn't necessary and you can geht cheaper boards with more features.

Small size is needed if you want to embed this into something but for that use case it lacks easy access to io ports and other peripherals.
Meritocracy is meaningless without an utility function.

And communication is (or should be) an important component for a lead dev.

Linus is a great guy, but some remarks of his were completely unnecessary and overly abrasive. (Without exact technical details about why the code is shit.)
I'm as skeptical of Microsoft as any Linux user who read the Halloween documents, but your comment is overly conspiratorial.

People have been worried about scaling Linus for years, but it seems like there was not much focus on scaling the Linux developer community in general. Contribution quality was maintained through harsh criticism and personal attacks at times, and Linus didn't seem to care if this intimidated people into never contributing at all. Linux has matured, and it's time to acknowledge that some of the rough edges (antisocial aspects) of hacker culture need to go to ensure the project can continue to grow and attract the best code from everyone.

Re: Valve, they've been working on Linux support ever since the Microsoft app store was announced. They see it as a threat to Steam, so first they made the Steam box, Steam for Linux, and now the new DirectX -> Vulkan translation layers (they've also contributed a lot of work to the graphics stack). This isn't some new reaction, it's a strategic hedge they've been working on for the better part of a decade.
Would our lord and savior Linux Torvalds be able to participate in the SQLite community with this CoC ? :D
> Hortensius, however, says that what keeps ThinkPads relevant is trusty productivity rather than any specific aspect of a given model. [...] “It’s because I can count on it that those things matter.”

Funny to read this, as I await my Lenovo X1 Carbon to come back from repair, as it shut off one night and never came to boot again.
I've also got an ~~IBM~~ (edit: it's a Lenovo!) Thinkpad X220, a motherboard-only shell that I plonked my own hardware choice into, taped a slew of Debian stickers onto and haven't had a fault with, ever.

I'll defend the Thinkpad brand with a religious fervour, for the same reason Peter Hortensius says in the article. But under Lenovo's stewardship, I'm left with a lot to be desired.

I hope I was just unlucky with this X1 Carbon, that fervour is willing to give Lenovo a second chance, here.
Indeed, it endangers only the optics - which if each higher level of VC is playing the game of optics and not sustainable value (meaning they don't actually understand the long-tail market, or they do and playing the optics game/gambling for quick money), then it certainly endangers the survival of their VC fund/company, perhaps reputation - and perhaps if they take money from the wrong people, it could endanger their own lives; what happens if you lose someone's $1-10B+ who's expecting a decent return (under shallow pretences and understanding) who's a bad actor?
>> 38. Be not lazy.
So there's a lot going wrong here, pay-to-play, investment in hedge funds that no-one had ever heard of, investment in funds that ended up performing poorly, etc. However that isn't the real problem here - the real issue is decades of under-contribution to these funds by the state government.
>Yeah, sounds like those employees should definitely pay the price for something they had nothing to do with.

Oh, it's grand to read these sorts of comments from one of the most righteous communities now that the scandal is in their backyard.

Yeah, who cares if the guy signing your paycheck is hiring death squads to murder journalists! My photo app deserves to sell for millions!
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Yeah, we're still facing issues with, erm, Github issues.

Also, while they haven't updated this blog post for a while, their status page has been very up-to-date and informative: https://status.github.com/messages
After your first few times it’ll be second nature.

Be very respectful in asking for time and how you use their time. Give a $20 amazon gift card for their time.
There isn't... as much as I love Bret Victor's work, Processing is out there today teaching people how to code so I take any criticism of it with a very large grain of salt.

Until someone puts the work into implementing some ideas from Learnable Programming, Processing is one of the best we have.
I agree on most point but why would more damping could increase costs? Apart from the fact that one can increase ground clearance and soften the spring, thus resulting in stronger damping, the cheap gas monotube suspension price isn't really sensitive on the damping force required for normal applications
Not the first time someone has bought it up on a Google stage Tim Wu, Yuval Harari, Clay Shirky...
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I don't think any of this is meant to be serious anyway. This is literally a set of rules meant for a order of ascetic monks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_Saint_Benedict

Although, religious aspects aside, there are many valuable tenets to be found in there, which will be directly opposed by those who want to get angry about it.
I use a lowly X220i (i3 variant of the X220) every single day. It's been upgraded to 8GB RAM, a 128GB SSD and dual-band wifi.

The 9-cell battery get me 5-6 hours of web surfing, email and Youtube, and it still feels like a new laptop, despite being ~7 years old.

My work-supplied T440 feels like a toy in comparison.
I would be curious to know the technological differences with https://www.relativityspace.com/stargate