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> The MacBook Air (at $1000) is advertised to have P3 coverage. That's the exact same price (for a shipped laptop) as Framework. It also has HDR support.

True. But then it only outputs to one extra display, runs a chip Apple made from last year and hasn’t yet updated, and the rest of the industry isn’t Apple and can’t find a way to sell the same product in an iPad, mid-range desktop, entry-level all-in-one, entry-level laptop and entry-level pro laptop while manufacturing in quantity during the middle of a chip shortage. I mean, some things only Apple can do.

The closest comparison I can make to the Air in terms of price might be the Samsung Galaxy Book Pro for $999 which has an AMOLED screen, but that’s presumably because Samsung makes their own displays and wants a laptop to show them off. Everything else about the laptop is low- to mid-range and you need to pay extra for 16GB of RAM. Frankly most laptops with fancy displays end up being like the Dell XPS 9710, they ship with dedicated graphics cores and cost upwards of 2-3 grand. The exceptions with nice displays stand out as exceptions. To date, Microsoft’s entire Surface line has yet to go P3 HDR (iirc) with the exception of the Surface Studio, their giant (and outdated) all-in-one PC.

Frankly, if a third-party repairable MacBook Air with Apple silicon existed, I’d be over the moon, and more so if Apple came out with an OLED display, but in a way even OLED panels aren’t very repairable as if you get the tiniest of scratches the entire panel might need to be tossed, etc. And you might consider repairability from the perspective of “how inexpensive is it to replace?” If so, you wouldn’t want a part that’s only affordable if you buy in bulk, you’d want a screen that’s common and easy to get instead. Probably 16:9 aspect ratio too. So… a repairable laptop might not be the laptop to get if you also want the best of everything… for now, at least…
Not go be cynical, but it sounds like he's hiding something, especially with the part mentioning he doesn't have access.
One thing to keep in mind is that they were miners at a mining camp. They were in close contact with each other much of the time.

Vaccination lowers your chances of getting COVID when you get exposed, but even a low probability per exposure can be significant if you are getting exposed over and over and over again.
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There is a solution for that. Hire unskilled, or underqualified employees and train them. But that costs money and takes time so of course companies don't want to do that. Then there is the fear that the employee will leave and work for a competitor after you train them. The solution to that is to treat them well enough they don't want to leave. But again, that cost money.
Looking at the Union Pacific job site, they have five openings for train crew. They're in Rawlins, WY (pop. 8K), Boone, IA (pop. 12K), Portland, OR (pop. 650K), Green River, WY (pop. 12K), and North Platte, NE (pop. 26K). Except for Portland, all those places are so tiny that they probably already employ everyone who wants to work for the railroad.

If they want people, they're going to have to convince them to re-locate. Their web site does not indicate they are trying.

(Those are locations of railroad switchyards, which don't have to be near destinations. There's a tendency in the US to put them in them middle of nowhere, where there's cheap land for tracks, rather than, say, downtown Chicago, where they were a century ago.)
There are 12 million people unemployed and there are businesses everywhere trying to hire. They are choosing not to work at those places because they are "beneath" them. They are not unemployed because there are no jobs, they are unemployed because there are no jobs that are worth getting off unemployment for.
The labor force participation rate is at multidecade lows.

It's more like not paying $2.5 million for a house in the bay area and complaining there's a shortage. It can be an accurate statement.
Had to see for myself[1][2]. Seriously...what are you guys smoking?

- topside (primary servicing end)

...and then there's:

- frontside (replaceable bezel, magnetic retention)

- underside (venting pattern, 6 less securing screws)

- keyboard layout (escape, arrows, tilde, backslash, left ctrl, delete)

- power button (location, fingerprint reader integration)

- peripheral support (modular af, reconfigurable, select your charger side)

- camera, mic (integrated lockout)

- lid opening extruded cut (narrower span)

- internals (design for maintainability of the highest order; so different it's not even worth enumerating)

- documentation (digital first approach, baked onto every sub-assembly)

Wish I could get a closer look at the bezel electronics. What other details did I miss?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-TFTvjIl4o

[2] https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/series/swift3
The pre-built versions ship with Windows 10. The Framework Laptop DIY Edition ships without an OS installed.
Is "pay more money" your solution to the housing shortage as well?
Articles is from July 8th. This is a fast moving story.

The current state of affairs (from Muse Group's perspective) is here: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/1353 (published today)
you can look up the financials pretty easily, it's all public. american railroads in general have been trending upwards in net profit margin and CSX in particular (quoted at the top of the article) has been over 20% since 2014, so as far as i'm concerned they've got infinite money.
We use daily cron jobs that fetch from various RSS urls for blogs, and use the Twitter API. We also have data contractors that do some manual work to aggregate the content.
Remove the protocol part, and with the JS Proxy[0], you can actually do something like:

await www.example.org

as demonstrated in a tweet[1]. This is pretty interesting IMO :-)

[0]: http://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refer...

[1]: https://twitter.com/rreverser/status/1138788910975397888
Competition is not a given in a free market. As we're seeing now, big players can just buy up their would-be competitors.
Interesting euphemism.
In reality, there is not a shortage of labour, but of labourers.
You should see this: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi

The guy that predicted the 2008 housing crash (the guy from the movie) rang alarm bells earlier in the year on twitter that the US is headed for hyper inflation. That was until the SEC paid him a visit and he deleted his twitter.

If you want, go on youtube, type 'inflation 2021', adjust your portfolio.

August 11 is the date this will all hit the fan as July's numbers will be out.
This perspective is about delivering maximum value, which is a worldview primarily of silicon valley and finance folks. Which is fine and a totally legitimate play for a limited set of high value subscribers. But if someone knows that value can be obtained by following someone, then they should already be doing so on the platforms where they are most prolific. Which means that this platform is not adding the entire value of 100+x gains, but rather the marginal value which probably wasn't worth capturing previously. Then the primary value of your service comes from convenience and discovery - but my impression is those two features are strongest when your service has a large number of diverse subscribers.

Something I've been wanting for some time but have been too lazy to implement myself is a similar system targeted towards utility rather than value. That is to say, targeted towards entertainment. Something like your favorite guitarist has a new side project, Patrick Rothfuss finally released Doors of Stone, your favorite director is releasing a new movie. Unfortunately most databases for this information seem to be either proprietary or inaccurate.
I'm speaking hypothetically. Unequal treatment.
Attitude is not everything. It matters, but there are material factors in the world that are hard constraints no matter how you approach the problem.

For example, you cannot simply create a fusion reactor by “really wanting it” and “being smart” and “thinking outside the box”. You have to have all of those traits, plus extensive knowledge of physics and access to rare, expensive materials/tools in order to make a solution due to the tremendous temperatures and complex reactions happening.

The Wright Brothers had comparatively few obstacles in terms of physics. They did not need to acquire a material able to withstand 100 million degrees of heat, for instance. They did not need to understand the mechanics of a fusion reaction, which is orders of magnitude more complex than the mechanics of the Wright Brothers’ aircraft in flight.

Many useful inventions can be created with few resources. Creativity matters. But acting like attitude and elbow grease is “everything” is naive, especially in the context of nuclear fusion research.
> Since this is a frequent occurrence, wouldn’t it be neat if we could do this kind of “archive interesting article” thing using IPFS? Maybe even do it automatically when submitting it to HN such that it could tell HN itself to grab a copy?

Saving things to the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive is a far superior solution than IPFS. IIRC, IPFS only keeps things as long as they're popular, which has famously resulted in things like most NFTs pointing to dead links.
What helps us keep replacement parts available is that we'll be continuing to build new Framework Laptops with form-factor-compatible modules for the foreseeable future. That means we will still be manufacturing new batteries compatible with original Framework Laptops for many years.
How is the screen outdoors? Total brightness and glare are important factors here. IPS is good.
You're arguing that the labor market is distorted by unemployment benefits - that may very well be true. But that doesn't mean there is a "shortage" of people able to do that job.
If someone can check my math, this seems like a perfect opportunity to do a statistical test. Sample sizes are too small to say that there is a difference between previous infection and no previous infection.

Given the contingency table:

No prior inf. Prior inf.
Infected 3 0

Uninfect 4 6

A Fisher Exact Test yields a p value of 0.1923. So there is not evidence that previously infected people are safe. Similarly, if we compare the attack rate in previous infections vs Pfizer, the p value is about 0.15, so there’s not evidence one is better than the other.
It clearly looks like a mac. Let’s get real.
I'm talking to the person upthread, not presenting an economic paper.

We asked a number of people for cleaner recommendations and many had a similar story of struggling to find someone, their cleaner taking leave from work, etc.

I'm not fighting against stimulus. It was critical for many businesses forced to close or copping follow-on impacts of that. My business took significant hits as lockdowns started and I received stimulus payments (and kept working on what work was coming in).
People using iPhones are consenting to Apple deciding what programs they are allowed to run. It may be OK for some people, but not for me. I feel the MacOS is moving int the same direction.
The "just pay more" arguments are fighting back at the semantic sleight-of-hand in calling it a "labor shortage" in the first place.

"Labor shortage" frames the issue in a way that faults workers, not the business.
"wage-slavery" is not a rational idea at all. By the very nature of your existence you have to eat, drink, sleep somewhere, etc. What's "forcing" you into "slavery" is your own life as a human being. That's obviously not a proper way to describe the situation. The employer that's giving you a wage is giving you a means of survival, you are free to refuse it and pay the consequences. They have no moral obligation to take the shirt off their back to cover yours.
That's an interesting feature. I didn't see a way, but can you add sounds of your own?

I tried to do something similar in Android and it worked pretty well. I launched Musicolet, played a relaxation track, and adjusted Audio Focus to Level 1 in the settings. Then I launched a film in VLC. I was able to use the EQ in Musicolet to control the volume of the backing track while watching/listening to the film.

(I'm not sure what the full repercussions of Audio Focus 1 are; there were a couple of dramatic red warning sentences about the way it brutally ignores other apps' requests to hog the audio, but so far that seems like a nice feature)
I still have my Hobo sticker somewhere...I mean "vagrant" :/
I've been using it outdoors in the California sunshine. It goes up to 400 nit. It has an anti-glare coating, but it is still a normal glossy screen (meaning no matte layer added on top).
It’s completely custom and in-house. u/iMuzz is just a unicorn designer/engineer. Not sure how else to put it.
I know what you mean. I used to be a gamer, but kind of drifted away from it in my 20's. I just didn't have the time.

But I don't think gaming quite fits the "when I became a man, I put away childish things" feel that some of the other items do.

For example, due to time commitments and other responsibilities, I don't travel nearly as much as I used to, but I would not say I have outgrown travel. It's just a lower priority.

Also (non-video) gaming has been something adults have done for centuries; checkers, chess, card games, etc. So I tend to view this as just an old behavior with new technology rather than new behavior.
I've noticed that you said you're here to answer all questions, but then you've been selectively not answering a lot of questions, like mine, and others who ask pointed, specific questions rather than mostly fluff.

I buy lots of "gadgets"- a Pinephone, LibreM phone, a PiTop, 2 MNT Reform laptops, several OLPC XO-1 laptops- and that's just my current collection (rather than my older collection of even more obscure hardware of the past), but you're not offering much in terms of either being interesting from a social good perspective, nor from a purely practical perspective ala my Dell XPS13 and System 76 Lemur.

I wish you luck, but based just on your HN interactions, you're occupying a market niche that doesn't really interest me- that of people who care a little bit about self-actualization and repair, but not a lot.
When scanning backwards, when you find 0x504b0506 (EOCD signature), you can also check that the length of comment field (20 bytes ahead) is correct and the offset to start of central directory (16 bytes ahead) points to the right signature to virtually eliminate the possibility of mistaking a spurious 0x504b0506 as the start of EOCD.

Not sure exactly how it works for ZIP64 but it should be similar.
At that point it’s probably best to move past talking about a vaccine as conveying a percentage of immunity in aggregate among the population and to discuss the biological processes more deeply. Ie it’s really making your immune system have some ability to abate an amount of viral load hopefully more than baseline prior to vaccination. But it seems clear that any biological system would have an upper limit to abatement. I wonder whether that’s much of a fleshed out area of study.
This is how these self extracting archives work, it’s just an exe (that allows adding random data to the end) and a zip (that allows random data to be prepended) added together.
Does this implies I will need to pay Microsoft tax even if I am planning to run Linux?
MariaDB isn't even the only alternative. There's also Percona. From what I can tell all three have pretty decent followings and are actively developed, with some cross pollination.
I don't see how having high enough standard means that they want "good enough".Do you want their hiring level to be even higher or what?
And the content doesn't load if you disable javascript!
Something creepy about the hands in the animations. They look like man hands but they have nail polish and are somewhat feminine looking. I'm more confused and focused on them than the laptop.
What’s the Price of an Uncleaned Hotel Room?
Will you give them that better environment to live in? Do you even know what that would be? Of course most people would benefit from a better environment, this is practically tautological at this point when you've excluded physical, mental, and now environmental factors, which covers just about everything. But a better environment is not a likely outcome for a lot of these people.

That can look like a thief or petty criminal being repeatedly incarcerated for most of their life, with perhaps brief gaps where they are released into the world with a criminal record to discover they have practically no opportunity and skill beyond crime.

That can look like an incel who yearns for connection but repeatedly and painfully fails; they have no social skills, no close friends to help, and no family who cares.

That can look like a minimum wage debt-ridden worker who does backbreaking labor day after day yet is never able to get ahead enough to make a life that gives them any relief.

That can look like a person who faces a life of never-ending secrecy and fear, never able to be who they want to be or say what they want to say because of taboo.

All of these people would benefit from a better environment as others are all too eager to remind them. Will you give them a rational reason to believe they will get one? Empty suggestions that "it could be fixed in the future!" are hardly compelling. Your severe cancer could disappear like the wind or someone invents a fantastic treatment in the future, yet no one would dare suggest that's a rational thing to look forward to.
Reduced unit test complexity? Short circuiting implies more branches, more branches means more tests for 100% coverage.

Of course for that to be a downside someone would have to write tests for security critical code, which obviously did not happen.
Yes, it means there might be a technically inaccuracy in the use of that term [1]. But the substantive point is still sound, and it would be a mistake to miss that point merely because of such a technicality.

[1] But even that would be dubious. It’s actually closer to the technical economic meaning of “shortage” when artificial effects prevent exchanges that would otherwise happen.
Noted in other comments, but we have designed the mainboard to be replaceable and upgradeable by the end user to new CPU platforms. We haven't announced anything yet, but this is a core part of the design and architecture of the product.
This. Author chose two spaces per indent and proceeded to nest blocks 5 levels deep? Guess I have to run it through a code formatter now just to read it.

Alternatively, author chose eight spaces per indent and proceeded to nest things? My tiled windows only have ~100 columns, thanks so much for breaking my workflow with your poor choices.
What about extending "right to repair" to OS software and supporting open source OS like Linux or FreeBSD? Current product page only lists Microsoft Windows. I do not see an option to purchase it without, so Microsoft tax seems to be collected :(
You seem to be misinformed.

Everyone loves to hate Intel (and rightfully so) but Tiger Lake has better IPC and implicitly better single threaded performance than Ryzen. In real world tasks (web browsing, opening an IDE) it often comes on top of AMD.

It only loses to AMD in multi threaded benchmarks because of the lower core count (everyone loves to flex Cinebench scores online, but I buy my laptop to use, not run benchmarks).

Also, the iGPU in Tiger Lake is more modern and more powerful than the outdated Vega iGPU in Ryzen and it also has AV1 codec hardware decoding unlike Ryzen which is stuck at VP9.

Add in Thunderbolt support and using Tiger Lake makes perfect sense for this form factor. Ryzen shines best in gaming laptops with discrete GPUs.
Businesses downsize people all the time. As these employers have been doing. Why should anyone care if the market is downsizing the business?
I hear your concern, and we had a similar thought when preparing to post on HN. We made sure to display women and poc on the front page, but I admit, we can and will do a better job of highlighting diversity. Even if the industry is currently extremely homogeneous in that regard. Thanks for bringing this up.
Is a doctor also going to publish achievements?
A construction engineer should he/she publish calc of beam dimensions?
A carpenter how should he/her show creations. If it was doors or windows installed in people's houses. Something is wrong here in this industry.
Too fast, not enough weird mistakes. Please remove some of the functionality.

Also would prefer Github sources to be printed on low quality paper with more GOTOs.

Sincerely,

Adrian Mole
Age 13.754101587
> The soil is basically just a substrate to hold water and fertilizer,

This view is incredibly harmful. What lives in the soil is important too, small animals, insects, mushrooms... And the soil supports this. The density, temperature, texture are all factors to it.

Every time I get to the US, I'm aghast at the pitiful taste of the fruits and veggies. The way you are growing things produces volumes yes, but of tasteless empty shells of a plant.

Of course then you put sugar on everything because the raw thing is aweful to eat.

So you get obese people with nutrient deficiency, on top of a dead soil that is an ecological disaster.

Seing only one dimension of something or maximizing productivity always leads to some kind of unbalance, and the effects are far reaching.
Have you sent out review units to any YouTubers?
>currently they don't have even 1 logical qubit

wut? different QEC produce differently sized logical qubits and there are absolutely machines with enough physical qubits to amount to a logical qubit:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK538709/#:~:text=In%20S....

and realized QEC is definitely not far off

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7979

>for quantum computer to be of any use it should have >10k logical qubits

i'm aware and yet it's false to claim that these things don't compute. for the time being they're noisy computers but they're still computers.
Interesting! :-)

But article makes no sense. They write about the drone used for smuggling cocaine because it is the most lucrative thing, but they found only a few dozen kg of marijuana and hashish each where it was stored?
nice things very nice things about this laptop
I would very much recommend Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s “Foundations of the Science of Knowledge”. It’s a dense read, nevertheless an interesting insight on consciousness.

https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/scienc...
The Framework Laptop DIY Edition ships without an OS license of any kind. If you want a pre-built Framework Laptop, that does include the cost of a Windows license. The DIY Edition is super easy to set up though: https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Framework+Laptop+DIY+Edition...
No, you're still a cattle. Until you receive an actual offer, you're always a cattle.
Southwest Montana here: your situation sounds much worse than ours. I did have to build my own Wisp to get service to my home but in town there is decent HFC and fiber loop if you can afford it. I'm curious if you know for sure that you have regional backhaul capacity limits. I ask because I hear stories from local people here, including folks who should be better informed because they work in city planning, about limited connectivity. Their picture of the connectivity situation is wildly innacurate, in part because providers don't disclose the details of their installed plant.
How to avoid the dreaded merge hell?
I never said that it was, which was apparent from my characterization of "insane". I was merely pointing out that framing vaccination requirements as some sort of watershed totalitarianism is ridiculous. We get far less specific benefit from other intrusions. For example, spending the political energy putting surveillance valley out of business would go much further for freedom's sake.