skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it were modular, it would be more manageable. Put the "smarts" in a form factor reminiscent of a Raspberry Pi Compute Module, and put it behind a door like a decent laptop's RAM sockets.

This also offers more product flexibility from the same basic chassis. You can offer a "dumb" module for security-centric "cannot have unapproved devices on the network" markets, or a module that has specialized software or connectivity (i. e. a built-in KVM-over-IP client, or something bidirectional for hotels with internal cable and pay-per-view technologies)

Aside from the consumer benefit of "You can just snap in a new $100 module in 3 years and it will be snappy and up to date instead of scrapping a $600 set", this could be a good way to manage the ATSC 3 rollout. You can sell a 4K set today without an ATSC3 tuner, then the customer can add it as an "updated smart module" for $100 later once the format is live in their market.
BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement
I think more important than any of the above is network and capital (and capital in your network)

If you helped found PayPal and then made a couple million selling your shares,

1) You could probably fund your next venture yourself

2) If not, one of your rich and prolific buddies could probably hook you up

3) If not, the prestige alone will get you in the door with VCs, partners, and other important ears that will need to be grabbed

I think we underestimate how disproportionately these factors play into success
Tailwind doesn't let you use selectors and co-locate style definitions. It's effectively shorthand for inline styles.

Pollen lets you use nicely defined values like Tailwind, but use CSS as designed to assemble them into sets.
Interesting, did anything lead you to use non-bluetooth wireless devices? I'm wondering if the future of Linux might be abandoning bluetooth entirely.
Since I am still mostly on a plain terminal, I used to have a time when I used a rpi0w as a laptop, since I really dont need much more then an instance of Emacs and a few ssh sessions in a tmux. I switched to a real laptop by now, and its nice to have a bit of local power. But I could actually do all my dayjob on a rpi0w.

https://blind.guru//blog/2016-06-12-brlpi.html

https://hackaday.com/2019/03/26/not-all-raspberry-pi-laptops...
I wish more people were au fait with this concept. If a small business can only exist due to paying bottom-tier wages it is perfectly OK for that business to be squeezed out of existence in short order.
You don't seem to understand "precedent"
If you're that worried about it, the J&J vax isn't mRNA-based. It's a live attenuated (non-replicating) adenovirus that's been genetically modified to express spike protein. Personally I think it's less safe and less effective than the mRNA vaccines, for the same reasons sinovac, sputnik and the AstraZeneca vaccines:

When you have a whole attenuated or dead virus, your immune system will generate a slew of different antibodies against various parts of it, many of which will not prove effective at neutralizing it. Whole virus vaccines have a higher risk of generating antibody-dependent enhancement should you encounter the live virus, and higher risks of generating antibodies that may end up attacking your own cells. This is the reason the AZ and J&J vaccines have, in some cases, caused myocarditis as well as damage to platelets. It's a crapshoot what antibodies you'll develop because the target surface is so large. At least by targeting one protein you know you'll develop antibodies that are likely to neutralize the virus, and you won't develop random ones that don't and could be harmful.

As to the idea that Moderna and Pfizer would intentionally add some RNA sequence to generate nefarious proteins, first of all there's no evidence that unwanted proteins are being generated, and secondly, why? I mean, do you think they're out to get you? Why would a company the size of Pfizer, for whom the entire covid vax rollout represents only about 10% of their annual gross, risk destroying their company to try to put some harmful protein into a third of Americans? Surely both companies couldn't be doing the same thing, since they developed their mRNA independently of one another. Wouldn't we see some drastic uptick in some weird thing just in people who got one mRNA vaccine or the other? When a tiny fraction of a percentage of people who got the J&J vax started getting blood clots, the vaccine was temporarily halted. Surely some country in the world would be banning the Pfizer or Moderna shots now if there were any such side effects.
Too early to tell. Good results can show up initially only to strike back later.
Exactly, I dont want to have to go in and refactor a bloated class into 4 classes and then have to go refactor the short story they wrote about it.
The problem with all discussions of good commenting style is that it's like debating good footware. Good for what? Office? Hiking in snow? Walking on the beach? Except that we have different footware for different uses but only one set of comments.

Having such a limited commenting syntax is like assuming one permanent type of footware and debating which one would be best. I'd much rather have a smarter commenting system.

I'm not talking about supplementary docs stashed elsewhere to gather dust. I'd like to have expandable comments right where they are needed but usable differently for a glance at familiar code or puzzling through unfamiliar code. Something very brief that doesn't clutter the code, a couple of words or no words at all, with an expansion arrow to something more detailed, expanding to something fully documented with links to everything.

And comments with scope (this comment applies to this line, this one to the function, this to a group of functions...) that actively use the scope. By active I mean that if you make any edits to code in the scope of a comment, that comment changes color or some other mechanism similar to a Git merge conflict: You changed the code without changing the comment, so check and make sure the comment says what you want and click OK. You don't have to fix the comments immediately for each edit. Make a few changes, test, make sure it's working, but when it is, you can see at a glance which comments need to be checked.

The general idea is instead of debating The Best Way to Comment, consider ways to improve the commenting system itself.
I mean, just 7 years after the Bill of Rights and First Amendment in 1791 were ratified, came the Sedition Act of 1798, which was a law, passed by Federalist Congress, prohibiting certain kinds of speech critical of the government. You might notice this being a thing the First Amendment said was precisely off limits. Didn't matter.

Free speech in the US has practically never been principled in support of those marginalized, but a tool for the wealthy and rich to maintain power.
At Oxford in 1989 or 90, some kid in the Math+CS program got caught running some password cracking software (reversing the hash on /etc/password) and I think he was expelled for that.
But this is a strawman. There’s no evidence that any significant portion of centrists are so motivated.
Yes excited for custom System76 laptops someday. When they're ready of course, slow and steady is the way to go.
I think this is a great idea, and I'm a user of Tailwind.
Mmm, actually, are you saying that we should force people to be vegetarian by the law while preventing suffering from chicken and milk cows? Or should we let people to decide by themselves what to eat?

I actually know a farmer who only eat his pigs when they die of old age (he use them to find mushrooms, expensive mushrooms), pigs being very successfull in front of the mirror test and definitely sentient and more self-aware than a 4-year old, i wonder if he took that into consideration.

I for sure don't care, but if i was forced by the law, i would stop eating meat without protesting, so i guess win for the overall suffering and win for the climate? Maybe your church is onto something.
For the same reasons that the Soviet Union could not keep grocery stores stocked most of the time.
Just a gut check -- what about wake from sleep using an external keyboard? That required me to do github work, install a system service. It's these touches I miss from MacOS.
because he was hung like this
You shouldn't be paying that. The highest price flexible tickets in standard class (£169 each way) are only needed if you're traveling in the peak, which in the morning leaving London stops at 9:06am. So you should be paying the super offpeak fare for that journey (£76.20 each way). There are also sometimes fixed-time Advance single tickets from £20 or so upwards, though nothing on Monday.

That having been said, the British railway ticketing system is crazily complicated, and getting a ticket at a sane price is not at all straightforward. Fares can be restricted by route, by operating company, by class, by flexibility, by validity length, and by departure or arrival time. There are 113 different fares listed from London to Newcastle, most of which will not be available for any given departure[0].

You can also do fun(?) things by using a combination of tickets to and from intermediate stations[1], which on some journeys can save guineas.

[0]: https://www.brfares.com/!fares?orig=KGX&dest=NCL
[1]: https://split.traintimes.org.uk
In most cases I would agree but right now I am seeing actual shortages. In just web development, it seems like this year every single company decided is the time to expand. And when every company decided to expand at the same time, there is a shortage of workers to fill those roles since you can't just pull senior developers from thin air or unis.

I was making a comfortable wage previously but this year most of my coworkers have left for other jobs and I'm on the way out too since the current job listings are close to double what I make currently. An eye watering amount of money is on the table right now.

But paying more is a zero sum game. To gain developers you have to be draining them from some other company and it will take years for new supply to come in.
With a stock, store bought android rom with google play services and such?

It might help anonymize your device.

If you sign into a network regularly that you use with devices you sign into google with, or a network google associates you.with, they might correlate you with the device.

If you follow your normal routine of locations, browsing or other behaviour google is aware of, google may associate the device with what it knows about you.

It's kind of hard to say though, Google's data collection is somewhat opaque in regards to things it collects to associate you to other things.

I have noticed a few occasions where google has given me suggestions or ads based on searches i've made or on devices that I'm not signed into or associated me with data available only from such devices, other times not.

This is just anecdotal though so make of it what you will.
1080p 13": 169 dpi
4K 13": 338 dpi
Laser printer: 600 dpi
Photo printer: 1200 dpi

Laser printers use 600 dpi because most readers who appreciate typographic design and sharp fonts do not consider 169 dpi to be "perfectly sharp" even with all subpixel cleartype tricks enabled. Knuth's Computer Modern font that TeX/LaTeX use by default looks terrible below about 300dpi because its sharp serifs cannot be rendered correctly. I can't stand my 227 dpi MacBook Air M1 because the fonts on my Surface Pro (267 dpi) are so much sharper, especially because Big Sur eliminated subpixel cleartype tricks so fonts are now worse on Mac screens than they were when the 2012 Retina MBP came out. But a 338 dpi 4K display on a Dell XPS 13 is a noticeable improvement over the 267 dpi Surface Pro.
The original meaning of “collier” was a charcoal maker, not a coal miner. The relevant part of steel making is discussed in this episode of Bret Devereaux’s blog:

https://acoup.blog/2020/09/25/collections-iron-how-did-they-...
This has also been observed by the author of The Inner Game of Tennis. In a talk by Alan Kay, Alan Kay shows a clip in where the author of that book (whose name I do not remember) was challenged by some TV team to teach tennis to some lady who had never been physically active at any level. They showed him doing it, and then he explained to the TV team how he did it. IIRC, one thing he did was that, while distracting the woman with conversation, he did the correct movement with a racket, and made sure she saw him. Then he asked her to perform some very simple actions with a racket, and she unconsciously copied his movement form more or less perfectly.
You sound like a fun guy.
Because farms cost $18 billion dollars each and become obsolete in less than 5 years?
Mass sociogenic illness. This seems to describe a good deal of the mass hysteria during this pandemic (behavioral psychology has been again weaponized against the populace). Truly freaky stuff like open hostility toward the unvaxxed in the media, even wishing them death. Psychotic.
I don't think double-entry bookkeeping is such a common knowledge. Anyways, there are discussions and links trying to teach "accounting for developers" on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23964513

I personally find the topic difficult and comes with a lot of nonsensical jargons.
I don't believe you.

Here's what I mean: Let's assume you are male (gavin). That means that in professional settings when people refer to you they would say "he".

What happens if one person - just one coworker - kept referring to you as "she". "Yes, I'm working on her (Gavin's) pull request".

I simply don't believe that you wouldn't notice it or wonder what's going on.

Oh sure, maybe it wouldn't BOTHER you, but it would STAND OUT. It would come up.

And if there were no political agenda behind you saying you don't mind being an attack helicopter, you might ask "Why do you keep saying she/her? I'm a man"

Now let's raise this up a notch. What if you asked this person why they keep calling you she/her - when they are the only ones, and it stands out, and their answer was "Because fuck you, that's why. I don't care what your pronouns actually are. I'm deliberately trying to choose the opposite to bother you. Is it working?"

Hmmm...you could ignore that. You probably would. I believe that you have enough confidence and security to just ignore that. But it's fucking weird, and needlessly hostile, no? You would wonder what you did to earn this hostility and if the person is going to question your motivations/actions, sabotage you professionally, or generally be an enemy.

THIS IS WHAT TRANS PEOPLE FACE. If you are transgender, trying to transition, but you are making all the steps (hormones, surgery, makeup, social expression, clothing), but you are not quite passing, and ask your coworkers to use your PREFERRED pronouns, and MOST do (which they will), but one fucking asshole Bob deliberately doesn't and says "NO. You are born male. So I will use your male pronouns.", that is exactly the same level of hostility and unprofessionalism.

People (including myself, a cis hetero male) put pronouns in their public profiles to normalize it so that it's not just trans people that have to face the burden of having to ask for their preferred pronouns.

When you put "i don't give a flying fuck what you call me" as your pronoun, you are not just mocking their struggle, you are giving a strong signal that you are going to be Fucking Asshole Bob to any trans person that approaches you and asks you to use their preferred pronouns.
For Asians, there is a history of cameras saying "Someone Blinked!" I think it is, or at least should be, part of the conversation. My partner is Asian, and we had a camera with this problem. We thought it was funny, but it demonstrates weaknesses in computer image processing vs. human visual processing that probably has nothing to do with racism.
That’s for you to say, since you are the one asserting that a context is the important factor.
I tested the game in Firefox and Chrome and they both lost about half my key presses when typing. I guess the emulator is slow?

https://www.arctic81.com/
Wendover has a good video on this. Give it a watch (entire channel is highly recommended)

https://youtu.be/b1JlYZQG3lI
Pretty much agreed, I just think the same types of good & bad things happen without unions, just on an individual or departmental scale. It's more visible with unions because it happens all at once and on a larger scale, but I'm not convinced that the overall magnitude is that different.

As an example of the individual/departmental level where there was no union involved: I was embedded within a large, mostly customer-facing area. A scheduling change came down that said everyone had to work late hours twice a week on a rotation, for two six-week periods each year when there was increased demand. I don't work with customers, there was no need for me to modify my schedule. I ran things up the chain and a few days later there was a minor policy change that basically said "everyone except him".
Manjaro has a huge advantage over Pop, Ubuntu, Mint et all for Linix Gaming and that is how new the packages are.

I run Ubuntu on my work amd home machines because it's stable enough for working on, but I run Manjaro on my gaming desktop because of all of the recent work on things like Wine, Lutris, VK*, and whatnot, thanks in part to Valve/Steam make playing Windows games on Linux much more reliable.
I really appreciate System76's work here. Paying a few hundred dollars more for friendly understanding Linux experts I can email support questions to is the bargain of a lifetime. Also, apologies for my harsh previous reply.
Again, saving the middle class is myopic at best. There are prevailing forces beyond the reach of a middle class salvation narrative.

You are not considering economic and social issues, political and national issues, legal issues promoted by a new conservative court, and other nations actively working to undermine the republic--all of which are not controlled by a middle class, despite the romantic idea that they somehow are.
Accidentally Walkable
Glad to hear it, I hope this experience becomes the standard for Linux.
Firefly’s first rocket explode during launch above California
Freakonomics: What Went Wrong?
We happily have planes and buses, which are usually superior to passenger trains. Removing the TSA would create more total value in infrastructure than adding more trains, even though some trains are worth it.
If you're interested in computing history and the relevance of General Magic, go watch "General Magic, The movie" [1].

It's a fantastic documentary on the life of the company and its brilliant founders and employees, many of whom went on to do great things at Apple, Nest, US Gov, and more.

https://www.generalmagicthemovie.com/
They just made a list of things to check for. Use more than one checklist to get the best coverage.
I changed jobs during the pandemic. Without the gloss of the office with free snacks and cool techie coworkers, I couldn't stay focused on the turds I was being asked to polish and repolish. It was the easiest job decision I ever made.
> TSMC actually tanked (I lost money)

TSMC all-time high is 632 and is trading now at 620. I don't know about tanked or how you lost money (unless you put a x10 leverage when the stock was at ATH)
For those who like those talkies that explain things: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL448D1862FBD624BB
Sounds interesting, but it’s still a long way to beat the best finances tracking system, good ol’ Excel sheets.
No. All spatial queries use WorldQL’s in-memory k-d tree implementation and are not used for permanent world alterations.

For the Minecraft world catch-up example, it’s as simple as querying Postgres for block records in a certain chunk after a certain timestamp. No fancy spatial stuff happens on the Postgres side.
This sounds exactly how TVs worked before they became "smart", except instead of some module we had a standardized plug and you could attach what ever you wanted to the tv.

In my case, I have an HD tv from 2006, it ain't smart, but it does tune to what ever port I want by default. I've got roku on there now, but in the past I've had cable boxes, consoles, even some rabbit ears.
Got it, appreciate the perspective. Sounds like a long tale of horrible hardware, gross. Hope their newer stuff is better but unsure what would make a difference.
What I tire of this "faux egalitarian, faux equality of opportunity, meritocracy" stuff which almost invariably discriminates against the less intelligent while trying to establish equality over an arbitrary list of attributes such as race or ethnicity or gender or sexual orientation which have been deemed to be especially important, whereas discrimination against the lazy and unintelligent is taken for granted as righteous, and discrimination against the unattractive and short is tolerable. This is in spite of the fact people are born lazy, stupid, short, and ugly, and this will never change.

Thus the only two resolutions I see to the problem are simply thus. Kill absolutely everybody, thus establishing perfect equity and equality. The other solution is to use lotteries absolutely everywhere except for perhaps a special class of lottery runners (an unfortunate meritocracy), in dating, in work, in schooling, that made it so that everybodies outcomes in life was absolutely arbitrary, and thus equal and equitable.
So they're paying a specific group of 10 people $300 per month. Suppose someone says, "I'm not in that group, but I'd like to be in it. How do I get into it?" Well... the article specifies "people at high risk of shooting someone", and implicitly it would be "people that those administering this program are aware are at high risk of shooting someone". So, I guess, if you didn't already have a gun, you could get one, and start waving it around; or get into public arguments in bars and do low-level violent crime or theft; or find out whatever risk factors the administrators are specifically looking for, and start exhibiting them. Probably you wouldn't just deliberately go shoot someone, because you might end up in jail; but you might start putting yourself in situations where shooting started looking like your best option.
You’re attacking a strawman.
Love that Curie is in the photo!
A binary download is almost worse.

Edit: and why even more silent downvotes?
The Browser Interviews Applied Divinity Studies on Cultural Writing
This is wholesome hacking :)
That's helpful context about Clevo. What specifically do they lag on?

In terms of what value System76 provides, so far I'm impressed. They make lemons into lemonade.
I'm looking at the supplier websites and trivial parts like 10 cent microcontrollers have over a year wait times. This is why I have been waiting for months to have the dryer I ordered and there is still no delivery date set.

I would have no issues going out and buying the latest macbook right now but basic other products are missing.
That budget could still go to supporting their communities if we employed them doing more meaningful work rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, etc.
There’s so many ways to do personal finances but I found most of them to either be too tedious or require doing stupid things like letting third parties log into your bank account.

For me I simply had a spreadsheet with rows for each month and columns for each account: chequing, mortgage, RRSP, RESP, etc. I’d spend 10 mins a month logging in and typing out each balance. I’d chart the over-time trend and that’s all I needed to detect any changes in habit or ugly trajectories. 90% of what signal I needed with 10% of the effort.

If you don’t need to micromanage all your flavours of spending or other details, consider keeping it dead simple.
Unfortunately on HN unnecessary complexity is workshipped.
Kris?
System76 has sold laptops with 4K displays before, though they're absent from their current lineup:

- https://tech-docs.system76.com/models/addw1/README.html

- https://tech-docs.system76.com/models/bonw14/README.html