skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use x220s (2011) for just about anything and everything is flawless with them. Including auto suspend on lid close and resume on open. Same experience on a few newer Dell laptops I was gifted ( will look up the types in the morning if anyone cares; I do not like the keyboards vs the x220 so I do not use them much ). I run the latest Ubuntu with i3 and my own scripts (which I have been tweaking over the years) to fix battery life etc. What machines did you try?
my ISP is using mcafee, which apparently is marking your site as "dangerous". I'm not 100% sure how they are doing this, I assume something during DNS lookup.
Sure, what do you think https://swish.swi-prolog.org/ is built with?
Easiest solution: you act like the adult you ostensibly are and wear a mask, and we adults will get on with life. And if you don't want to be an adult about it, then you are welcome to stay home, where you can be yourself without any need to wear any sort of clothing at all.
It's relevant to your claim that deaths from other diseases have been reduced because of the anti-covid measures.
Well, Apple has had obvious flops over the years, specifically because the price didn't match the features. The HomePod, for instance.

> there’s a cheaper product out there that’s inferior to what Apple claims of their new headphones

If your claim is that Apple made a product using expensive and tough materials, more expensive than, say, Sony's counterpart, and thus that is better, you may be half-right.

But if you claim that Apple made a product that sounds better than Bose or Sony's counterparts, and has better ANC, that is not verifiable, at least not until there are in-depth reviews out there confirming it.

What we know now is that Apple did not include support for high quality audio codecs. That itself is quite a red flag.
I concur. It is usually possible to get sleep/hibernate working after tinkering with video/wifi driver settings, but it almost never works out of the box.
The goal should not be to keep people happy but to deplatform the dangerously hateful.
If there is enough incentive, OSS devs would create some libraries with common interface across stores.. but there is no incentive, as android's main store is google's.
Exactly, I think sharing homes with the whole population is very problematic as on average you’ll get a lot of people who aren’t really into Airbnb as a concept and don’t really care.

Getting home at 2am happens, if you don’t like it don’t rent rooms for money. In my head I edited out the expletives from that sentence :-|
> What exactly are the conservatives doing?

Much of the rioting has been conducted/instigated by right-wing provocateurs (several specific ones have been identified), and much of the most severe lawless violence independent of origin of violence-in-general has been conducted by organized right-wing groups with the tacit, and sometimes active, collaboration of law enforcement (the police giving praise, thanks, and supplies to right-wing armed vigilantes, including Rittenhouse, just prior to the shooting he did — and doing so when they were out after curfew — while then turning around and publicly blaming Rittenhouse’s victims for being out after curfew is a fairly graphic illustration of this trend; as is the Trump Administration directive to DHS personnel on talking points supporting Rittenhouse after the incident.)
I may sound naive, but I think FB is just facing an incredibly hard problem: Finding the right balance between enabling free speech and avoiding harmful content (and at the same time make a profit from their platform).

First, people constantly disagree on what this balance should be. And even in countries where free speech is legislated, it can be hard to assess whether laws were broken or not. I just don't see how they can find a solution that will please everyone.

This issue seems inherent to any social platform operating at the scale of FB.
How is this working for other car makers, who are full of MBAs? Elon comes along and takes their market share.
I don't know about word processing performance, as I never did word processing.

I worked with (3D) graphics and computation intensive processing as well as modelling packages and the experience was horrible compared to today.

I have particularly fond memories of the workflow we used for a film project back in the late 90s. The lab only had so many editing stations and they were shared across multiple groups. So for each editing session we first had to copy the project from multiple CDRs onto the editing machine (which took ages on the 4x SCSI CD drives), edit, then burn the project to a set of CDs - performing various rituals to ensure the ROM image wouldn't be corrupted by a butterfly coughing in the corner or something - clean up the HDD so the next group could get working and hope the CDRs were even readable.

The editing experience itself wasn't great either: forget about real time scrubbing or full resolution previews.
Today you can edit films on a phone much quicker, more comfortably and with significantly higher quality.
No disappointment there for sure.

Same goes for 3D modelling packages, rendering and just plain number crunching in Mathematica, Maple or MATLAB.

Word processing is the one area that simply is so primitive by its very nature, that it's trivial to reach peak-efficiency without throwing tons of compute power and tech in general at it. If word processing is all you do, you don't need more than a glorified electric typewriter.

For many, many other applications - and yes, that even includes just taking and sharing pictures in real time - today's technology is vastly superior to anything the 80s and 90s had to offer.
Please don't rough up other users like that, even when their comments are bad or annoying (or you feel they are). It damages the community more than it helps.

Not that you shouldn't have commented! but please do it with honey not vinegar. Sometimes users don't understand what the intended spirit of the site is yet. Pointing to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html is always good of course.
In France when you are a company you don't pay VAT on stuff you buy from other companies, so the main point of the article doesn't work. Because I guess if we had sales tax, companies wouldn't pay it either

Edit: My point is that it will not make a company economically more efficient than several companies
> Note that under this definition when the machine halts it does NOT write the tape or move the head.

That's a good point. This is a more parsimonious definition because if it's going to halt we don't really care what it does immediately before.

I guess the real lesson here is that it's pointless to quibble about this because the number turns on arbitrary features of your definitions. (Also, if you think Scott Aaronson has made a mistake, even a trivial one, you are almost certainly wrong :-)
So you're fine throwing perfectly working 600€ headphones into the trash just because 7 years passed? Corporatism at it's finest. It's not ever about the use you get out of the product but how brushed the ego feels when swiping the credit card for Apple.

This isn't a phone.
As a macos user I selected linux because that's where I run emacs(remote servers).
An Analysis of the $82M eBay Scalping Market for Xbox, PS5, AMD, Nvidia
This might be pure if you can guarantee no one is changing txns - for example - while updatePersonBalance runs.
Throw in a async fn in there and all bets are off.

Looking at state mgmt solutions for JS today, many will require or recommend immutable data - for very good reasons.
Does anyone every refer to these problems as their Linux install having insomnia? Or is that just me?
For many of the same reasons that Spacex is using it for their starship. It's cheap and readily available, relatively easy to work with, and very well studied. There also really are not that many materials that have passed certification for use in reactors. I believe that "BPVC Section III-Rules for Construction of Nuclear Facility Components-Division 5-High Temperature Reactors" only covers half a dozen stainless steels.

As for cladding, the DOE's 2021 budget includes money for testing novel claddings. They are also looking for robust redox reference electrodes and additive manufacturing methods.
By downloading dynamic code, in effect you're running N (or some combinatorial number of) different apps.

Granted, you can/should strongly isolate them so it's infeasible for one module to interfere with another. But as always, YMMV in practice. And good luck testing them all either way.
One way to "climb the rungs" is education.

This is an article/thread discussing his anti-education take, when he himself (in spite of having a first class education) doesn't feel like he gained from it, and suggesting others don't either (or even that education is harmful).

His wealth and privilege is absolutely topical because he was able to bypass certain checks due to his family is.
> If there's no wind in summer and no insolation during winter you'll have to overbuild each by a factor of 5...

If nuclear power physics stopped working October to March, that would drastically effect nuclear power economic competitiveness...

Wait, what's this people are telling me, I can't just make stuff up?

You make up a completely BS example but then actually go through and try to come out with actual numbers. Right.
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1337480518074503170
Well, the majority of respondents.

I'd guess there's a significant selection bias there towards exactly the kinds of users that write their own configurations.

Starter kit users seem way less likely to hang out on HN or r/emacs, which is the source of the majority of respondents.
You're missing a "how" in there somewhere.
Yes, by design. This sort of information should be free.

The website is monetized through affiliate links.
> the [pure] FP community has achieved nothing at all [in the last 20 years]

feels so right, is it true?
Because transmitting and processing that data takes too much energy, pretty much. We have the tech to stream lossless equality audio with latencies in the milliseconds, but it takes too much power.
I agree that this is a huge weakness of some MBA programs. I think this is because a lot of the curriculum comes from academics, people with a consulting background, and people with a finance background. For many of those careers managing lots of people is not a number one priority.

When I got my MBA there was a case study(it's like a lesson chapter) I read about a top performer who didn't get along with a team. We never got to that one and it probably wasn't a favorite of the professor. But we did do a lot of cases about reallocating assets across a conglomerate or relaunching a fifty year old product or what have you. In retrospect, any insight in how to handle that troublesome high performer would have been really helpful, particularly at the start of my career.
On the other hand, navigation between the different pages is less than ideal, as is navigating away to see a larger image. This could be enhanced with Javascript to bring the relevant content onto the same page.
At this time your comment still says "It's pretty well-established fact that hospitals benefit financially by taking COVID-19 patients." Those hospitals that didn't take covid patients didn't delay as many surgeries for as many weeks. Every heart bypass is worth more than ten covid deaths have even been rumored (falsely) to be worth. This is a pointless argument that harms public health, and those who wish to distinguish themselves from Q shouldn't make it.
CDC at the moment says 12% increase compared to the average of the last three years.

Absolute number of deaths have been rising from year to year, sometimes with jumps of 90k.

Sure Covid has an impact, but whether it is dramatic is another question.
Right but how often do novel viruses emerge? So far it's once-in-a-lifetime (or less)...
What about just limiting inheritance to, say, 500k per child?
What is productivity of managers? How it is measured?

Why productivity of developers must be measured, but productivity of managers not?
I had some success with T480 sleep battery drain by finding a bios option to turn off all USB when sleeping. Went from empty overnight to can sleep over weekend.
Sales tax is better at driving capitalist competition than VAT, so it works far better for American society. The consumer wins.
Correction. Our Society has plenty of people who think they are Elon Musk
I know on boats they use a piece of sacrificial metal (Anodes) that corrodes more readily than what the boat is made of. This prolongs the life of the boat. Maybe they can use something like that in this situation too.
they've stripped surplus value from their offering..
Petco is well established (founded 55 years ago), based primarily in brick and mortar retail, and don't try to market themselves as a tech or "dotcom" company. We may be in a bubble, but I don't think their IPO is comparable to Pets.com of the dotcom era.
> the dry brush are the vulnerable that die

No, the dry brush is what makes the fires get out of control and cause more damage than they "ought to," implying that if the brush is regularly dealt with then the broader population of trees will be better off.

But (a) we're not talking about trees, we're talking about people, and (b) letting swaths of the population die from a disease does not imply the surviving population will be better off in the future.

People can't die twice because we only have a single life, and callously saying "welp, you would have died later anyway, might as well die now so our stats look good" is so unbelievably short-sighted I can't believe I'm seeing this argument made by multiple people on HN.

> This just seems like fear of the unknown..

Uh, yes, it's fear of what the largely unknown disease will do to us. We shouldn't blindly assume that it's "not that bad" if it occasionally rips through the population off of some belief it'll make us safer if we're routinely exposed to pandemics--as follows from your brush-and-forest-fire analogy--when we don't understand the effects of those diseases.

> Natural selection is not a bad thing

I do not understand this point at all. Should we not have allergen warnings on food packaging? Or glasses for folks with bad eyesight? There are plenty of reasons we intervene in the "natural course" of events to make people's lives better. Citing "natural selection" is not in any way a valid defense for just letting diseases meander through populations.
As someone who grew up on Ambrosia games—from Maelstrom and Apeiron to EV Nova and pop-pop—I'm honestly glad that the company ended the way it did, rather than getting sold off to some megacorporation like Activision or EA and having its soul destroyed and its name tarnished.

Ambrosia Software defined an era, for those who lived in the Mac world during that time, and while it would have made me happy to see them continue on, I think the circumstances that allowed them to exist and be successful could only exist during that era.

Also worth noting that there's been a recent successful Kickstarter[0] for a modern remake of/successor to EV Override, called Cosmic Frontier: Override. The impression I've gotten so far from the updates is that their timeline for release is going to be some time in the 2022-23ish time frame.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicfrontier/cosmic-f...
Except that in this particular case the aren't "unrelated" markets: Office 365 is a bundle of (enterprise) Productivity Apps and Teams is an (enterprise) Productivity app.

We also know that from a technical perspective Teams actually was a "cheaper product" because it was built on the backs of other existing parts of Office 365. It shares a ton of backend with SharePoint and it swallowed up Skype for Business/Lync. Both key products of the "bundle" before Microsoft decided on a need to compete with Slack.
On the moral side, there may be good reasons to be an anti-natalist ("Better Never to Have Been"). I think it depends on the quality of life ahead. If the earth was a utopia, I'd be more interested in having a child.

A good personal reason to have a child, I think, is having an intense desire to have a child, and an intense desire to nurture and help your child grow into a good human being.

I give at least 10% of my income to cost-effective charities (see GiveWell.org for recommendations; see GivingWhatWeCan.org for a community of others doing the same). I think that's a better use of my money than taking care of one human being. I get more time for myself (no need to take care of my own children). I help in cost-effective ways to help the next generation live a better life; it's a good balance for me. Needless to say, having a child wouldn't conflict with giving to charity, but it's easier.
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It may be dramatic, but so far it's still a lot less money than building several months worth of batteries.
Because I've been in management in my past few companies and work to accommodate everyone. I find that remote work is especially amenable to accommodating disabilities and mental health.
Academic papers claiming feasibility decades from now is a vastly different thing than something actually being feasible. If it were, then we'd have all been using fusion power since the 1980s.

If you prefer a global approach as opposed to a US-centric approach, then consider the fact that the world consumes 60 TWh of electricity per day, or 2.4 TWh per hour. By comparison the entire world only produces 300 GWh, or 0.3 TWh of lithium ion batteries. And only a small fraction of that is used for grid storage [1]. These plans for intermittent sources as a primary source of energy are contingent on vast - 3 or 4 orders of magnitude at least - increases in the production of storage capacity. This isn't something that can be relied upon. This is like pointing to Moore's law and developing an application assuming a 4 THz CPU is going to be around 10 years from now.

Lastly, I can't help but appreciate the irony of complaining about a US-centric approach and cherry-picking Australia - a country with lots of undeveloped land and huge solar power potential - as an example. Like I said in my previous comment, the bulk of global energy consumption occurs in North America, Europe, and Northern Asia (China, Japan, Korea). These places have much lower solar potential between greater inclinations of the Earth and less amenable weather. And even with it's natural advantages, Australia still only generates 7% of its electricity from wind and solar each.

By comparison, the US already generates 20% of its electricity from nuclear and several countries like France, Ukraine, and Belgium are majority nuclear generation. Nuclear is by far the best proven way of delivering carbon free energy, save for hydroelectric power but the latter is geographically dependent. It's more expensive than fossil fuels, nobody denies that, but it's actually doable with current technology. Its feasibility is not contingent on orders-of-magnitude improvements in key technologies. Using nuclear for the bulk of energy generation has been done by multiple countries, we merely need to walk in their footsteps.

1. https://energycentral.com/c/ec/world-battery-production#:~:t....
All have the same mum, with the oldest being 21. We're in Florida, in the sort of small-city environment that looks like a classic suburb but is separated from urban areas by lots of rural open space.

Empty space for humans is not in short supply, but I do worry that we are choosing to live where the crops grow best. In my case, that would be pineapples and coconut.

The decision to have 13 children (so far...) has many contributing factors. A notable one is that I found a wife who is probably more Catholic than the pope.
I don't come to HN to read details in articles unless they actually contain new information, it's the commentary that's engaging. Comments that highlight or put into context information that's usually on dozens of news sites. Twitter is rife with highly timely good content.

As you mentioned the rules and moderation is key to civil discussion. HN has it, FB does not.
> Tax creates unnecessary pain

There, fixed it for you.
The population has been primed to frame everything negatively to aid in compliance. I suggest it's not worth arguing.
There is pretty good data on this from pre-industrial England.

What you are asserting is what historians widely believed before they actually looked at the data, around the 1960s. They said this by looking at the more recent past of less developed places (like rural Russia, pre-1917) and assuming that the far past of England looked the same, and thus that nuclear families became common only recently. And they were wrong.

Of course, there are many places even further away than Russia. Lots of other cultures did have multi-generational families as the pattern, and many still do.
"PRELIMINARY AND INCOMPLETE: PLEASE DO NOT CIRCULATE" Guess someone didn't heed the warning.
You are of course free to your opinion, but the economics and cost decline curves of renewables and storage are clear [1].

The entire world is transitioning to electrified transportation, and is going to scale up energy storage (battery manufacturing) accordingly [2], faster than any commercial nuclear operation will be built. Can you build a nuclear reactor in less than a decade cheaper then storage and renewables? The evidence indicates no. But if you can, the world would love that, just demonstrate it's possible. Until then, it's hydro, batteries, renewables, and demand response full speed ahead.

[1] https://www.lazard.com/media/451419/lazards-levelized-cost-o... (Lazard LCOE 2020, pages 3 and 11 are most relevant to our subthread discussion)

[2] https://energycentral.com/c/ec/world-battery-production ("As of Dec 2019, the number of lithium ion battery megafactories in the pipeline has reached 115 plants. The world’s leading EV and battery manufacturer added a huge 564GWh of pipeline capacity in 2019 to a global total of 2068.3GWh or the equivalent of 40 million EVs by 2028.")
> Because I guess if we had sales tax
> companies wouldn't pay it either

Then it would more accurately be called a VAT, than a sales tax.
> This is one area that Apple routinely gets right. Bluetooth just works better on Apple devices.

that really is not accurate. macbooks are notoriously terrible with bluetooth. with my macbook pro, it is impossible to play music on a bluetooth speaker, as it starts stuttering within seconds of use. this is a common problem over many years, and there's a litany of solutions on the forums, most of which don't work. another common problem is iTunes automatically opening and even playing when bluetooth headphones connect. in many cases, there's no way to prevent it. in my case, the only thing that stopped it was renaming iTunes, which required a lot of ceremony to even do. it seems in zoom meetings, it's always the people with airpods that are having audio trouble. i thought it was well known that apple has terrible bluetooth, at least on their macbooks.
I can wear a ski helmet all day, but that is in an athletic stance. I think the risk is in static posture with too much weight on my head. But that is exactly the scenario I would buy these for, so lighter weight is absolutely a selling point. I have other headphones under 300g that are fine all day.