skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bugs are infinitely more expensive to fix in production. The best example is 737 Max - how do you quantify monetarily the lost lives? The reputation damage? The lawsuits? The future contracts that were lost?

But you don't have to go to that extreme. For instance, I just heard today of a lost contract from a coworker: the client was fed up with a call management system that was dropping calls like crazy and nobody was able to fix since you could not even replicate the system (the last time they tried it, the test system pulled stuff from the production db and it basically brought everything down).

How do you calculate the cost of this? Cost of debugging, lost revenue, lost referrals, brand damage, and the toll on developers and everyone doing crisis management.. I'd say 100x is a very optimistic estimate. It can very well cost much more than that.

Trivial bugs are trivial bugs, and not all the bugs are the same. A misaligned table is nothing compared to a monolith/blob of 50Mb (either a binary compiled from C or minified JavaScript) that crashes with "segfault" or "undefined" but runs fine in debug mode.

Bottom line: bugs in production, especially on complex systems, can be very hard to identify and fix - and sometimes can cost you your business.
Yes, but do you know how long it took us to get CSS to this stage so that it could draw arbitrary shapes???
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> Under capitalism, most systems are for-profit. Even governments and charities operate to raise capital to fund projects.

I think we're mixing things up here. A non-profit raises funds to run its operations; it does not seek to make profit, it does not have any private ownership of the means of production (the literal meaning of capitalism), and it does not seek to grow its profits YoY, rule out competition to sooth investors, and the usual day-to-day business of for-profits. That it needs money to run does not equate it to actual for-profit corporations in a capitalist society.

I agree with your last point though. For-profit corporations are not necessarily evil if they can put ethics before profit; it's just that American Big Tech chooses not to do so.

I also applaud your move.
Any plans for AMD or ARM processor options? The amd ryzen stuff has nearly good performance per watt that the M1 does. I really can’t see myself buying another intel processor for at least a few generations.
Any idea if we/when we can get a Ryzen based models?

Ryzens have higher thread-counts and Vega Graphics outperforms Iris graphics.

If this can be paired with Thunderbolt, I'd be super happy to purchase this laptop.

The idea of swappable ports is great! Why not make a large 17" model with desktop components and even more ports?
We also know that confirmed cases are mainly among the unvaccinated and serious outcomes are nearly all (99%) among unvaccinated, despite fully vaccinated and unvaccinated being roughly equal populations in the US at present.
Your controversial opinion is not bad as a vision. But I don't think it would work out that way unless aforementioned significant societal changes occur.

As a newcomer, you won't be able to buy a home. Similar to now, there will be many other more wealthy people who want to buy that home "as an investment" so they can keep growing their wealth in relation to their peers.

I already fear we are heading towards economic feudalism. Throw in living forever and I fear something more akin to SLA Industries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLA_Industries

As you say though, with people pushing for things, hopefully significant societal change would avoid such a disastrous future.

edit - more concise.
Canadians too.
You don't think the backticks lend a nice old school vibe?
I do not find it that amazing anymore.

Roughly a third of us have few worries. Media, business, a whole lot of news and opinion bolsters that third, the assumption is things are fine.

Like two different worlds.

Yeah, govt is out of touch, but so are many others, all oh whom dominate the national dialog.
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Lzip, which is a better version of xz, is designed to be well designed. If you see what I mean.

https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_talk_ghm_2019.html
Sounds like Teletext was basically a digital-magazine protocol.

This is, a TV-station would continuously broadcast the latest Teletext-magazine for Teletext-clients to cache. Then users could view articles from their local cache.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext

EDIT: Apparently most implementations wouldn't cache something until the user requested it, then the user would wait until the next send.
Are you trying to start your own company off the back of the research these guys have done?

I didn't see anything about this company claiming 100% open source and private consciousness. I thought that was a different company that never really did anything because of issues you've asked about. If I'm wrong in that, please correct me. Certain chips just couldn't use custom open firmware, so no device was ever going to be 100% open.

Just seems your questions might be a bit off target. No wonder you never got a response "the last time around".
The most effective response I have personally found to "I have nothing to hide" is:

It's not about you. It's about people who do have things to hide. Journalists and their sources, whistleblowers, dissidents, lawyers and their clients. They need privacy. Therefore, be on the side of privacy.

There are of course many other arguments, but this is the only one where I've felt like people I spoke to listened and began to change their minds.
Where is mine?
It is interesting that none of the infection-recovered were infected - though with only 6 individuals, that could be luck. There have been other hints natural immunity is stronger versus later variants.

But your other point doesn't follow. The vaxed still tested positive at a slightly lower rate than the unvaxed. With no severe cases, no one died & no burden on limited emergency facilities was created.

There's not enough info to know how much the vaxed spread it to others; they conjecture that their "patient 40", an unvaxed individual who had an asymptomatic case, was the "index case" that brought the infection in. Especially in the conditions of a mine – which might have limited ventiliation – perhaps that one unvaxed person shedded enough infectious material to create all the subsequent infections.
What about Arch, Gentoo, Nix/Guix and *BSDs?
This ruins your compression ratio, since references between files becomes impossible.
Lift: A functional parallel IR for high-performance GPU code generation (2017)
Depending on the mine, I'd guess miner is a prexisting condition in and of itself
Apologies for the miss. There were almost 1000 comments on the last big thread! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26263508

End users have the ability to order replacement parts for every part of the laptop, down to the granularity of things like individual flex cables. We've also released reference CAD under open source licenses for the Expansion Card system for people to be able to develop their own (https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/expansioncards). Our embedded controller firmware is also open source, and we'll be posting the repository shortly. Full schematics for the rest of the system are available to independent repair shops that get Framework hardware in for repair.

Our main manufacturing partner is Compal, who makes laptops for many other large US notebook makers.

Apart from off the shelf modules like the SSD, RAM, WiFi, and LCD, the Framework Laptop is entirely custom to us, and we own all of the design and tooling. We don't have an EE on the team page, but I am actually an electrical engineer by training (or at least that's what it says on my degree from Carnegie Mellon), and our systems lead Kieran is an EE by background as well.

We own the embedded controller firmware, which is based on Chromium EC, and we'll be releasing the source soon. We use a licensed BIOS that we've customized for this go-around, but we would like to move to an open BIOS in the future.

Some of the reviewers have positive comments on their hands-on experience with the webcam. While it won't be at the level of a standalone plug-in webcam, it is substantially better than what is available in other notebooks.
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Awesome man. I'm not trying to say you can't be successful on weed. I was, and I know many others who are. What I'm saying is it's easy to get complacent. A lot of the smokers I know obtain some level of success and then just rest in it. I'm saying you need to keep your drive and keep pushing. It doesn't even have to be success in the business world. It's success in your relationships, your mental health, and your contributions to the world. And again, I'm not saying you can't maximize those things stoned, it's just that most people I've seen don't. Is that the weed, or is the weed just a symptom? I can't say, but I can say I'm a hell of a lot better off from having quit.
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I'm always slightly lost when people use movies as a reference when talking about espionage because I even as entertainment pretty much all I consume is non-fiction. When I did eventually consume some le Carre (RIP) I think I enjoyed it much more than I would've done because I understood why he decided to write and the parallels he drew.
Pretty much any culture living next to water is going to, sometime, experience a massive flood event that seems to affect the “whole world”. It’s pretty easy to see that being encoded into an oral tradition and expanded on over time.
It's such a tired design. I think the goals of this project is fantastic but man the macbook is getting ugly. They really need a refresh. It feels like it has been over a decade now...
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The issues with the "free" paradigm you point out are interesting indeed, and I think I have read some of your points elsewhere. I have also thought that the "free" model -- advertising -- is a creator of bad products, and like you said, it distorts many of the assumptions that make the market work.

I had also exaggerated my point on "all for-profits" and "simple" truths. Like I commented below, I do not believe that all for-profits or capitalism are necessarily evil; it's just that the American version of it often makes it look that way.
This would be perfect for me. I have a pile of Macs with various individual hardware failures that would never have been replaced had I been able to easily swap out new parts. (Not to mention the ridiculous hardware failure rate of Macs.)

I also hate having machines with that one piece of hardware that doesn't work on *BSD, because getting it to work is such a pain. It would be much easier to swap out the offending hardware for something more compatible.
Something about a malware creator failing to remove their own passwords before distributing it is poetically just
Yes! We can't pre-announce anyone's reviews, but we have sent review units out to a few of the big tech review YouTube channels.

The pre-order volume has been roughly in line with our expectations. The one big surprise for us was just how much more popular the Framework Laptop DIY Edition is than the pre-built Framework Laptop. We expected some preference from early adopters, but it's actually multiples of volume.
Just as no one else has yet mentioned it, it was also used apparently in the 70s and 80s to broadcast software downloads[1]

And the venerable BBC micro had a teletext adapter available for it too [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesoftware

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro_expansion_unit
Hi Nirav, exciting times ahead!

Key highlights I'd like to point out is that you nailed the screen specs (3:2 and brightness) as well as the 1080p camera which is something that has always annoyed me.

Do you have a timeline of how long you expect to keep the mainboard design replaceable with this frame?

I'd personally love to see an AMD chip in there over Intel but this is right up there for my next laptop purchase (when i need!) - I expect people might wish to swap out the motherboard/cpu combo.

Also, can we expect a bigger version?
I get paid way too much to develop software, but most of what I actually do is work with data in Excel. There is no easier way to get quick answers on a small amount of data regardless of skill level with alternatives and the ability to then share those answers and the work leading to them with non-technical stakeholders is what really separates Excel from the "just use Python/awk/Jupyter/ad hoc solution X" sprinkled all over this thread. With Excel, there is a single solution that works for me, my engineers, my PM, my program manager, my account team, my customers, and my finance stakeholders. Asking any of those parties outside of engineering to go learn R would be quite embarrassing.
Why a 3:2 display? That is an extremely odd choice. I used 4:3 displays for years, and was very pleased when wider displays became available.
Ryzen tends to get better battery too. I read an article complaining about high temperatures and bad battery life, both of which tend to be significantly better on AMD hardware. Honestly, it's the only thing keeping me from ordering one today.
If you're wondering why I shared it again, I got an email(!) from HN inviting me to share it again, which is an interesting thing I didn't know existed

You can read more about it here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

And see other invited posts here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/invited
Noticed that, too. He lives in Fletcher, NC about 20 minutes from Ashville, the home of Moog.
No excess mortality, though.
Wow you were able to jump to a devastating conclusion with absolutely nothing.
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Unfortunately I don’t like Electron, and I did try out some solutions (e.g. Fluid[0]) that don’t use Electron, but it felt best to create a native Mac app with Cocoa.

[0]: https://fluidapp.com
Australian here. Could someone explain why the state government is suing anyone? Wouldn't it be more normal to charge them with breaking a law?
From our manufacturing partners, there was definite skepticism at first, but as we worked together it became immediately clear that what we had proposed was entirely doable! For consumer electronics brands, I think their challenge will be the business model shift that comes from focusing on longevity instead of short replacement cycles. We have a counter-positioned business model to that!

Nope, it is entirely doable from a technical perspective to build an ARM SoC-based mainboard for the Framework Laptop! I haven't seen a RISC-V SoC that has the necessary interfaces for it to work well in a laptop yet, but I strongly suspect that isn't far away.
Why not? Microsoft Surface devices also have a 3:2 display. Personally I love 3:2 displays as vertical space makes for a far more pleasant experience programming and reading.
> From the first Visicalc to Excel 2300 I don't think we'll see the end of spreadsheets for a long time coming.

We might even argue that spreadsheets were already used in 1295 BCE, as shown in Fig. 1.1 of [0].

[0]: http://uruk-warka.dk/mathematics/ER6%20tables.pdf
pm is proton mail I presume
1) What are the chances of a 15.6 inch version with a numpad or should I not hold my breath?

2) Are dGPUs expected in the this or an upcoming version?

3) Color options other than white?

4a) Does the keyboard use low-profile Cherry switches or something else? (Edited)

4b) Are the keys backlit? (Edited)

5) ETA on TB4 ports?

6) Is there a 99Wh battery for the laptop?
Unfortunately don’t have time to check out the paper, but vaguely I am aware that methyl groups are like an accessory that can be attached or detached (by the cell, normally) to an arbitrary section of DNA within your chromosome. And it can be used in this way for regulation of DNA expression. Because when the methyl group is there it’s harder for that section of DNA to be read (transcribed) because the methyl group is physically in the way. The train can’t run on the track because there’s a big rock on it

DNA is like code, but then there’s this whole meta level of DNA regulation that determines whether each section of code is used, and how much

So by demethylizing some section of the DNA, implicitly that means the scientists made that section of DNA be used more often. And it just so happens that when that section of DNA is used more often it contributes to various processes that ultimately end up with the plant organism as a whole producing more “yield”, or parts of the plant that we like to eat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_methylation
Thanks!

We aren't able to announce anything yet, but we have certainly designed for being able to support different CPU platforms, and for folks to switch between them by upgrading just the mainboard or the mainboard+memory.
Many of PKD's stories are about identity and memories, subjects just like that. And several of those stories have been adapted into film/TV.
If coercion is bad, but so is persuasion, just how is a democracy supposed to operate?
I guess I get part of your point, but let me also joke a little:

> To see a counter-example, look at China. Their system is completely opaque and politicians can easily stymie even the strongest business entities. The judiciary is not independent but subject to the latest dictator’s whims.

To see a counter-example, look at America. Their system is completely opaque and corporations can easily stymie even the strongest of political entities. The legislative is not independent but subject to the latest corporation's whims.
Offer more money. That’s the entire solution. These people didn’t become ghosts. If there’s no supply of labor at the price you’re offering, then increase the price.
Any plans for a different keyboard layout? I see you have planned for different languages, but I didn't see different layouts.
I looked up coercion and here’s what it says: the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats.

I think vaccines become coercive when you can no longer say no. There will probably be many restrictions, from flying, to school and employment, but the moment someone who just wants to bury their head in the sand and never go anywhere, to say no, that’s why it’s crossed a line.
If you want to dive deep into Jaynes' ideas and even discuss them live in a group setting, this is the perfect time for you. There is an amazingly social polymath, Shrikant, that used to run live discussion groups in New York City. With lockdown, he turned to zoom and opened the discussions to the world. Among a huge number of other deep ideas and discussions, Shrikant is especially interested in Jaynes' work and, so far, has held 22 discussions sessions, painstakingly working through the various aspects of the book.[0] The next session in the study of Jaynes' work is this Saturday, July 24, at 12pm EDT.[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqpF1l8gdXlHzVrJjI2wD...

[1] Mental Space: That which makes us Self Conscious Humans https://www.meetup.com/52LivingIdeas/events/279582843/
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Heh, in Spain we got several Teletext channels, and, as I didn´t have a computer until early 00's (I used them in the library or at friends' home) that was my pre-Internet.

Between 6 or 7 Teletext services you got tons of info and different news, oppinions, services and info about weather, books, music, and sometimes even short tales.

Jokingly I knew some Basic and C++ due to books and exercises at school and some learning centers outside... wild times.

In two or three years with Linux and a computer at home (2002-2005) I learnt how to read Teletext with XawTV+Alevt and event learnt how to pirate Nagravision in order to watch... ahem... some Canal+ "movies".

Also, a fun thing: if you find an MPEG ts "raw" recording from TV (not a Youtube cast) you may even be able to decode and dump the VBI frames and read whatever was happening on the Teletext just fine.

Crazy times.

Today the Gopher revival is the closest to the Teletext' simplicity.

gopher://hngopher.com

Have fun.
For me the web browser version of slack works better than the electron version.
"One of the characteristics we need is people who are willing to step outside their technological comfort zone and just make something work."

Honestly (and no offense), this sounds just like every place. My current job expects me to be full stack on multiple stacks, be the application security champion, and provide rotating (1 week every 3 weeks) prod support for about 10 apps that we own. And it's a mix of legacy and somewhat newer stuff, so DB2 to Dynamo, JSF to Angular, plus all the no-code stuff like Tableau. I feel like this is a huge efficiency drain. Did ECON 101 stop staching about specialization of labor? I'll never be an expert when split across 10 different technologies. I have a bad mid year rating because I'm "slow", but it shouldn't really be surprising when I'm context switching all over the place.

I would love a place that says "you will do this one [tech/language/stack] 90% of the time". As soon as a posting or manager starts talking about a plethora of tech that I will have the "opportunity" to work with, I mark that as a potential red flag, it's really just a matter of magnitude since they all do it.
We haven't tested those internally, but we hope to see folks in the community try them! We are absolutely happy to help anyone who gets stuck, and as we see which distros are popular we can plan out more official support for them.
> Acer Swift 3 SF313-53

Wow, does look almost identical, except renders/photos are showing keyboard for this laptop removed than bottom case for Acer version. To be fair they don’t seem like a huge ripoff in terms of price though, only ~$300 which is more of a simple reality of low volume products.
Read-only as in KeyFax was literally a broadcast image of Teletext, rather than actual Teletext. That way, people without a compatible set or decoder (everybody) could watch it.

That had the knock-on effect of users not being able to call up a page at will; they had to wait until it was broadcast.
>Try Lynx or something similar.

- Links (faster), lynx (delays), retawq (needs a little patch, but it flies on a toaster), w3m, elinks.

Also, Gopher, gopher revival is the "new" teletext :D.

EDIT: in a similar vein:

gopher://magical.fish

gopher://mozz.us

gopher://hngopher.com

https://lite.cnn.io

https://text.npr.org

These will show up better in a text browser than in a graphical one. I tried them under retawq/links/lynx and everything it's crystal clear-readable and usable.
What will really blow your mind is that you can cat a png and a zip together and the resulting file is both a valid png that looks identical to the image and a zip that contains the same contents as the archive.
I used to work at in construction as an estimator and we used spreadsheets. No backups, no version control, a single value change took 10s of minutes to propagate through the many sheets in the file. We fixed errors when we saw them, but I always felt it was an exercise in pointlessness.

These were not small companies either, ~$800M in yearly revenue for one, and ~$150M for the other.

Then, afterwards, the end value would be massaged to what felt right. And yet, these sheets were seen as part of the "secret sauce" of the business.

It's one of the reasons I really wanted out.

Programmers have a reputation of being arrogant assholes, but I think this push-back and ridiculing other industries of using excel for stuff like this is completely justified. Excel spreadsheets let these people FEEL productive and like masters of their own fate with a bunch of numbers neatly encapsulated in their own little cells in a table, but their actual usefulness is questionable. For construction, it gives a rough feel for a project, but a lot of it is smoke and mirrors.