skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a Cricut Maker just a week ago to see if I can save on buying a full-on laser cutter for some thin acrylic sheets. The machine and software are incredibly locked down. Can’t use anything to work with the Cricut other than the jank desktop app it forces you to use. You have to be a bit creative with custom cuts by uploading an image to the design software and having it threshold the image to identify cut lines. It’s workable but seriously it’s just a toy for scrapbooking.

It’s not surprising though. The machine is probably sold at breakeven like printers [0]. It’s a shame. The machine is decently built and can do a lot more.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/why-all-printers-suc...
It doesn't look like there is a Thunderbolt port ( a 40 GBPS port ). I recall reading that it has something to do with it working on Intel only hardware.

But whatever the case is, lack of Thunderbolt is unfortunately a deal breaker. I've moved on to unifying all my docks and power chords to only be Thunderbolt. It's unfortunate because the Ryzen chipsets are clearly getting to be superior from a price/performance point of view.

EDIT: I am writing this as someone who supports System76, and has only ran Linux professionally and at home for the last 10 years.
As the vice president of my HOA (for a few more months) I'm happy to report that I've never heard of a request for solar installation that wasn't approved on the first request.
>I just called your comment stupid, not you.

To add fuel to the off-topic grammar pedantry fire: "Stupidly phrased" applies "stupid" to the phraser, not the phrasee. So no, you did in fact call them stupid, not their comment.
Oh, interesting. I knew about C-s and C-r there, and knew C-k as kill to end of line, but didn't know yank worked there too - thanks for the tip!
Nice, but I still prefer Rust's match syntax. It feels natural and ergonomic.
Which business and union are you talking about specifically?

As unions usually live on either/and employee dues and government grants, making sure both the company and the industry overall is doing well is in their best interest, as otherwise the union will certainly not be alive.

So would be useful to see an example of a union NOT wanting good for the company/industry as that would be an outlier compared the the rest of them.
Yeah, Chance The Rapper is a more organic and less political example of a rapper making it without a label.
I've got the Thinkpad E495 with AMD Ryzen 3, Vega and 1TB HD, Fedora 32 for under 500€.

Excellent machine, faster than anything else I got.
But it was only a short time test balloon, I fear. Not available anymore.
Because the pair of distinctions chosen makes sense in some cases and not in others.

I provided two examples in my comment above.
Do you run a business? I do. Industry-wide races to the bottom that have existed for decades before I was even born have put margins so razor-thin that paying more than slightly higher than the usual industry thresholds is untenable for smaller businesses. You raise your price too much to compensate, and your business dries up. Regulations designed to curtail abuses by large corporations can be devastating for small businesses.

I don't like this fact, and this obviously isn't going to be true for every industry, but these twee 'truisms' don't accurately represent reality.
I'm surprised to see people here treating SMS "2FA" as anything but some snake oil annoyance to be worked around. I setup mine to go to a VOIP number where texts show up in email. I have plans to write something that looks for these messages and spits the code to a terminal or XMPP. My goal is to get that code into my paste buffer as quickly as possible.

If you're using a password manager and have a security model that includes trusting your own computer, you really don't want the snake oil. In fact with US bank accounts, "2FA" steps make your account less secure, because the security of your bank account ultimately relies on checking your transactions every 30 days - anything that gets in the way of easily logging in undermines that.
The alternative to a car with bad brakes or a plane with design flaws is another car or another plane. The alternative to a covid vaccine is that you get covid. Even for young and healthy people, that can mean debilitating long-term illness.

There is no safe option here. We have to think like we are in war time, not peace time. Allowing people with informed consent to take this vaccine will save far more lives than banning everyone from taking it.
> I really dislike a numpad on a laptop.

Was going to say the same.

Also, I will not buy a 1080p laptop. We're in 2021, give me 4K or at least 1440p or I'm not interested.

I also personally prefer 13" laptops for travel convenience. (Not that its a concern right now, but I assume one day it will be again!)
It's my understanding that the DMCA's "truth" provision is limited to whether the person is authorized to represent the copyright holder, and not anything to do with the actual infringement claim itself
> "...but humidity spikes in the summer making deicing salt difficult to store in the off-season. Climate-controlled storage is expensive and deicing salt is quite heavy and bulky."

to provide some color, just-in-time doesn't literally mean holding no inventory and perfectly matching inflows to outflows. it means that stores of inventory and intermediate work product are minimized as much as possible in light of the typical mean and variance of a process, but not more than that.

in the case of a town, that means you'd likely size the salt store to be one storm's worth of salt and then trigger a replenishment as soon as a storm is imminent (just in time; that is, when necessity is established, but no sooner). you'd also likely try to deplete the store at the end of a storm season and replenish a storm's worth at the beginning of the next.
Chains and studded tires lead to increased road wear. When I lived there the joke was MN has 142K miles of paved roads, but only enough asphalt for 100k.
Just looked into that law. It does exist https://code-enforcement.saccounty.net/Programs/pages/autore... I remember when I lived in SF and I would repair my own car and everyone kinda looked at me weird. Maybe it was because people probably thought I was stealing a catalytic converter or something.
Asking the real questions. How are expenses paid?
I can't speak to the 4700u or the pangolin specifically, but I can offer this perspective on PopOS/AMD:

I've been using System76's PopOS with my Asus Zephyrus G14 (4800hs) as a daily driver and I really like it. (freelance/web)

The battery life is comparable to Windows (on integrated graphics mode, it has graphics switching available)at 7-10 hours with 70% brightness and balanced power settings using VScode and firefox.

The g14 has a 75wh battery vs the pangolin's 49wh, so I would expect less battery life from the pangolin despite the 4700u having a lower default tdp, since the 4800hs likes to sit at around 6-10 watts when doing non-intensive tasks anyway.

In 2021 I'm not missing any major programs. It's pretty incredible how much is cross-platform now.
Whatever happened to fired Covid-19 data manager Rebekah Jones?
Can't help but see this as bad for everything; to me it feels like if "curl" or "ssh" raises $23M. I would love for these people who work on these great tools to make lots of money, but what this means is that "now Docker has to figure out how to squeeze money out of this particular (admittedly good) tool in the chain" -- and the tool usually suffers.
I pay for Docker Hub. It’s a no brainer if you rely on it for your CICD pipelines.
Looks like original Docker did Series E in 2017: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/docker/company_finan...

This is apparently "new/restructured Docker" which did Series A in 2019. From the footnote in the article: https://www.docker.com/press-release/docker-new-direction

It does seem weird to just start the letters over like that, as if it's a new hot startup.
Maybe cos it's a laggy as hell?
I can only comment on C# / F#.

The C# versions of F# features tend to be pretty clunky compared to the F# versions. This is because F# was designed for them from the beginning, rather than having them tacked on. Functional programming is getting easier in C#, no question about that, but honestly, it still kind of sucks. And the OOP-minded C# devs on your team still won't be able to make sense of your code that leverages all these fancy new features anyway.
Because the direction Chromium is heading is in large part controlled by Google, more than Firefox. Also Chromium still has Google bits, otherwise ungoogled-chromium won't exist right?
If you chose to allow Chrome to know your location, so it can show you on the map, do you consent to have your location tracked continuously and associated with your Google account?
Tbh I don’t have an opinion on this matter as I don’t game on Linux at all. I’m inclined to believe your side actually. As I find doing almost anything on Linux is a harder than it is on windows.

My green account rule is separate to the matter.
Costco list the model and the manufacturer provides all the information about the chips on their website. If you're running a distro with a 2 year old kernel then you may have issues, but I run Arch so it works flawless. I just got a Ryzen 4600 on Costco for $429 and everything works great.
>Russian standards of propriety are very similar to American

Yeah.. I invite you to post some pictures of an openly gay relationship on social media and show it to the average Russian and that'll cure you of that illusion.
Ubuntu has pretty good LTS too, actually. And up to 10 years "end of life" support.
I had a co-worker who mixed his own breakfast and lunch batches. They were fairly tasteless but he was eating on like 4 bucks a day.

The problem was taste. At some point he was getting literally depressed. I told him to do 1 normal meal once a day, and his mood improved.

Taste is important. Variety is the spice of life.
The point was that rock/crystal salt is useless if it gets wet, because then it can't be reasonably used/moved/broadcast. If it turns into giant bricks of salt, it's impossible to work with.
Swell launches its app for asynchronous voice conversations
Prime example of regulatory capture.

Eye exams are remarkably automated with current technology. My last fitting took a few minutes and was mostly performed by the assistant. There’s no reason it couldn’t be performed at a retail store for a fraction of the cost. This is already the case in other countries.

I currently order 2-3 years of contacts at a time because my vision is stable for a decade now.

I have a friend who simply changes the date on his prescription in photoshop every year and orders online. I’m not recommending that, of course, but it speaks to the silliness of this situation.
It's produced by a "Reputable" company and has a good update process. I can TRUST my software updates from brave.

"Ungoogled Chromium", while FOSS, have no good update method, and since i'm not going to build it myself, I don't have the same level of trust that something malicious hasn't been implanted.

Brave provides similar features to ungoogled chromium and I don't have to support Mozilla or Google and their practices.

Big issue is the trust factor. As well as all the Chrome zero days going out, not having security updates in a timely manner is risky.
With Moore's law, you'd have 2^10 more computing power after 20 years. So you would definitely not have used a computer from 1985 in 2005.

However nowadays, I imagine we're getting maybe 2^3 every 20 years, by the way things are looking. And the baseline is much more capable.

So I wouldn't be too shocked if a desktop from 2021 is still usable in 2041. I was occasionally using a desktop from 2009 until 2019, and it was ok for web browsing, movie watching, editing some documents, etc.
> I think it's interesting to discuss how many are stuck on java8. [...] But then when 9, 10 and 11 came no one made an effort to upgrade. Why?

A lot of things broke in Java 9, which was short-lived (both it and Java 10 lasted only six months each), and then Java 11 broke many other things (for instance, it removed all of J2EE). As late as last year, I was still seeing changes in libraries to fix issues with Java 9 or later. It's not that no one made an effort to upgrade, it's that it was a lot of effort, and often required upgrading to later versions of libraries, which have their own breaking changes.
> If you own something you should be able to do whatever you want with it. It seems like a simple constitutional right to me.

However, if a group of people want to make a legally enforceable agreement between themselves for their mutual benefit, then it shouldn't be possible for one of them to renege on that agreement later.

See also: easements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easement). You can own property but if an easement exists then you can't do whatever you want with it. If easements were suddenly unenforceable, chaos would ensue. So the matter is certainly not as simple as "if you own something you should be able to do whatever you want with it".
My main reason to go for a laptop was that I wanted to continue coding where I left off and not have to worry about differing settings and system configuration.

Did you solve those problems? and if so how?
And? How is it relevant to my point about letting European countries to decide their policy for themselves? Some countries like Poland have announced a complete discontinuation of gas import from Russia in the near future (though I suspect they still will buy it indirectly like Ukraine), others like Germany would like to continue import the same amount (which for the whole EU has already decreased compared to the previous decade from ~630 billion m3 per year to ~550). Note that it's much easier for Poland to do, since it still uses coal for 70% of its electricity generation, compared to Germany with its 30-40% renewables and powerful industry.
In many EU countries

- Annual driving distance of petrol vehicles is 10000 km/year or less (250 km or ~155 miles per work week) [source: ACEA_Report_Vehicles_in_use-Europe_2017]. Extending this range by 112 km/week on average is not a bad proposition, if it's real.

- Average TCO in the first 5 years is over EUR 40_000 anyway [source: www.leaseplan.com/corporate/news-and-media/newsroom/2020/30-09-2020]. So most people who can afford a new car, can afford this one.

- The price tag EUR 25_500 is fair. VW Golf 8 is a vehicle of a similar size, and it starts at EUR 26_100, so it's basically the same.

- In the cities, street parking is often the only option, and most industrial areas use open parking; so getting some sunlight is not impossible.

So this tech is not more expensive than conventional vehicles (at least on paper). It can potentially reduce charging needs by 40% or more for a typical European user (who admittedly doesn't drive much). It's not very attractive without a network of easily accessible charging stations, but that applies to all EVs.
And here I wasn't asked at all about my preferences! I wonder why our experience was so different.
One reason, good or not depending on your views, is that China’s GDP is 10x Russia’s, 20x Iran’s, and 1000x North Korea’s (and I have to suspect that’s generous towards NK).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
$5.7M stolen in Roll crypto heist after hot wallet hacked
Valve isn't trying to probe your asshole to extract every last bit of value from you at your expense. They just want to make games. And from that perspective, a non-desktop VR headset doesn't seem profitable.
Docker was created by a VC-backed startup in 2013. So they have had an incentive to make money from the very start. At no point was Docker not financed by VC money.
I can typically get 4-6 hours with an OEM x201 battery? I really don't try to max out the battery though. It really depends on your usecase as well, as I don't do anything too harsh with it.

I have an x200 as well, so if I was really worried I could just carry a spare battery.
These cookie banners are so annoying - govt messes this type of stuff over and over. Let me control cookies on my end, I can choose not to accept cookies using my own browser controls, or delete them after 1 hour etc.
Yes. Someones gotta pay for the free container registry all my sideprojects depend on!
It's not just the $90 million given to this one organization either, although they are facing their own controversies with BLM chapters raising alarm about the lack of transparency from BLM leaders (https://apnews.com/article/black-lives-matter-90-million-fin...). Corporations have given massive quantities to many other organizations (https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/want-know-where-al...), which are pursuing similar social/political/activist goals even if they aren't the same "official" Black Lives Matters organizations. In total, $10.6 billion was given, and that's just what journalists were able to identify (https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/12/10/six-month...).

It's a massive injection towards the entire ideological package associated with Black Lives Matter. It's not just about injustice in policing (which does occur but is very rare), but also about everything from environmental causes to tax policies to universal healthcare. Put another way, these donations in the name of racial policing equality are bolstering the entirety of progressive politics.
Not to mention you need an account on their system.
> Really? Sounds pretty terrible to me. Few books. Few videogames. No movies. No TV shows. Most of the internet obliterated.

This is such bullsht. First of all, the fcking Internet is public domain tech (DARPA, Web). Second, the evidence is overwhelming that people will create vast amounts of content without any idea enslavement rights. According to your logic we wouldn't have janitors cleaning rooms if they couldn't collect a toll in perpetuity.

> Any content that is created is copied and regurgitated so much you'd be hard pressed find out who actually created it.

Here's a hint: no one. You created zero of the 25 letters you used in that comment, zero of the punctation marks, zero of the 184 words. You strung some words together in a unique arrangement, but you are piggybacking on a vast amount of effort which you contributed effectively zilch too. And you think your contributions deserve special treatment? What a f*cking joke.

> Is it worth re-iterating that all of the open source licenses is supported by copyright protections?

I don't support licenses. Licenses are for losers. Public domain is the only game that matters. Keep in mind that the tool we are using to communicate was made public domain by Tim Berners Lee.
My father has very little patience for broken things, software or otherwise, so I'm really not sure what you're talking about.
I see that you have less than one job posted per day. Am I missing something?

What price range are you aiming at? For instance, fiverr is for tiny gigs, upwork - for low to mid paying jobs. What is your range?
Isn’t this the usual story where copyrights have to be vigorously defended for legal reasons or courts question their validity?

It’s also reasonably likely that this old version of Acrobat contains 3rd party IP that Adobe themselves licensed, and don’t have the right to freely distribute.

Neither of these are ideal, and should be part of a good case to make for IP reform, but I don’t see how it helps to educate people by publishing these stories without describing how things work.
Yes, I agree that the more advanced an economy gets the less coupled GDP is to physical labor. But efficiency is not a 1:1 relationship with GDP unless the work input is equal. Meaning, just because there is an increase in efficiency does not guarantee there is an increase in productivity so efficiency shouldn’t be used as a perfect corollary to GDP, just one aspect that helps drive it.

It’s like saying “my per hour pay rate went up” and assuming your annual take has also increased. That’s only true if your total hours didn’t drop enough to erode those rate gains.

To your point, GDP and efficiency are both increasing but hours per worker are generally decreasing.
This seems almost too simple & good to be true. The counter points in the linked article mention that its too "computationally expensive" to calculate the payments, and the additional management costs could outweigh the benefit to smaller artists... how could that possible be true?
Firefox on iOS, like Chrome, is a shell around the engine behind Safari. Performance is pretty similar.
coctco.com has actually been a good alternative for me. Less selection, sure, but I can usually find everything I actually need. Plus, they seem to treat employees well and aren’t trying to monetize my face/sleep schedule/words/browsing activity/etc.
Subscription-based UI/UX design service
The fading HTTP Referer header and (Google) Search paywall bypasses
Is Google 'Do No Evil' dead?
You're not alone. Why anyone would prefer an off center keyboard only to gain a numpad I'll never know.

Being left handed makes the numpad even dumber. It's placed on the wrong side of the keyboard.
> flexible CIGS panels which are not fragile

However, they do degrade noticeably over the space of even a couple years.
Still no 4k equivalent resolution. yawn.
Nothing. I use Chromium. I just prefer it over Brave.
Seems more sensible to me to base everything off of usb-c instead.
Yeah, this is abjectly terrifying to me. A signal that I need to begin looking at alternatives to Docker.
Interesting choice of animal, given that Pangolins are suspected of being the source of the virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210210/did-the-new-coronav...

All publicity is good publicity, I guess...
Cost of education and healthcare has outpaced wage growth though, hasn't it? The 2-3 months you've calculated above represent 20-25% extra money to spend on those, much more if you hold the biggest expenditures (military and social security) at the same level. So it seems that the 1% could significantly fund the things you're hoping for.
K8S uses containerd which is the official Docker runtime.
I had the same problem. As lenovo seems set on making thinkpads more like macbooks I just embraced it and got the m1 macbook air instead of another thinkpad. It’s amazing, as long as I don’t need to repair it.
Nuclear energy solves one pretty big problem: the need for coal and gas power plants. Big fat proportion of CO2 and other toxic stuff is released to atmosphere at those power plants.
And trade policy and inferior products didn't play a role, it's all labors fault?
Its not about it being free online, its about discovery. Spotify is currently excellent for discovering new bands. TPB? Not so much.
An accurate simile. Study woke and only woke.
The Pandemic's Economic Impact on Dental Practices in the U.S.
Hmmm... I don't think so.

Old process nodes (such as 130nm process, which is 100x larger than today's 12nm or 7nm processes) are still useful today. They're much cheaper to operate, because all the equipment is old and better understood (while 7nm and even 12nm processes are highly proprietary). Case in point: the Perseverance Rover that just landed on Mars is literally built from the ancient 130nm process. (POWER architecture)

Instead of ordering all the chips you need, you instead want to just ensure that the 130nm (or 45nm process, or 22nm process or whatever) will remain useful for 50 years into the future.

Lets say you base a modern government project (a spaceship, a jet fighter, a naval super carrier, etc. etc) off of a modern 14nm process node today.

1. You can order all the chips you'd "ever need" today, which is expensive today because tons of people are still using 14nm nodes.

2. Alternatively, you can order the company to continue to support the 14nm node for the next 50 years. This seems like the superior option. You order the chips you need later, when you need them. And 10 years from now, people will be on 3nm or maybe even 2nm process, so it'd be cheaper to order 2020-era 14nm chips at that point.