skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whereas any dating of when my last desktop build was would be deceptive because they're replaced piece by piece. The closest occasion I can give is when I went from one to two desktops, but even then half the guts of the one I had before went into the new case, and were replaced in the old case with new purchases.

I mean, I've met people that only wear underwear once or twice before throwing it away, too, but I wouldn't say that's normal. People would generally rather replace a drive, processor, ram, or screen than spend 10x as much on an entirely new system. They don't because the manufacturers make that option difficult or impossible.

People didn't love VCR/TV combos, and people don't love this. Manufacturers love this.
Very low and zero value to me.
Think Google Inbox (RIP :tombstone:) meets Basecamp (:campfire:).

A little like Superhuman in that it's a an email client that uses Gmail as its backend and it has a plethora of keyboard shortcuts.

Pretty blown away by how quickly the setup completed.
Freedom Markets™ theology prohibits taxing megacorps who abuse the commons.
that works great until you need to raise capital. You either need to do loans (unsuitable for early stage companies due to risk and capped upside for investor) or issue equity which brings us back to square one.
I know that for a people who were not yet understanding about bolides and ways in which the astronomical environment interacted with the planet, ascribing the destruction of the city to a deity seems quite plausible.

If this event is the cause for the salt pillars in the area then I could also see people making up stories about it as well.

I am left with the question though of how does a bolide become full of salt?
Anyone know the typical amount each of the 1.5 million people deposited for homes that won’t be built with evergrande ? is it like $100 that tesla takes for solar or is it a integer percent fraction of the house price ?
Is that a property of the components being soldered in, or just a property of the fact that Framework cannot get access to the highest quality components on the market?

Genuine question, I know very little about electrical components.
It's not just about upgrading components, but also about having more choice during initial specification. It's a real PITA trying to find laptops that have almost everything you want, and inevitably you need to make multiple compromises.

And it's also about replacing broken components without having to ditch the whole laptop.

I'm really excited about how Framework could potentially shake up the whole industry!
> The third, a giant, heavy Carbon X1

A 2019 Carbon X1 (14") weighs 2.4lbs and the laptop they're drooling over starts at 2.8lbs.
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Even when I'm home 90% of the time during COVID, I use my laptop in lots of places: my desk, my bed, my dining table, my kitchen counter, my couch. I can't drag my desktop setup all around my apartment like that.
Right but the structure of professional education for things like medicine and law is completely different in the UK from the US so an apples-to-apples comparison isn't easily possible.
I would clarify that - it is not in their best interests to care.

what they want is:

To sell you a laptop with a current cpu and memory.

If you are "price insensitive" they will allow you to get a better cpu or more memory for a significant upcharge.

next year, they want:

To sell you a laptop with a current cpu and memory.

They do not want you upgrading the cpu or memory yourself

They do not want you to add next-year's cpu yourself next year.
I've never been able to do a backlit screen in an otherwise unlit room. I get eye strain so fast. The litte reader lites are great. $5 and clips to your book or headboard or nitestand or wherever you want, and the light is pretty focused on your book.
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Do you imply that freedom would be increased, if we increased the amount of communication 100-fold, by flooding the Internet with 99% spam?

This seems to be a natural corollary to your argument.
Most of the people who worked on Azure Pipelines got transferred to GitHub to work on Actions. You can even see the same names of developers contributing code to both the GitHub runner and the Azure DevOps agent.
And look at a Ryzen with an integrated GPU. Wow, it has pins and fits in a socket, it's a miracle!
How are the speakers?
Not to challenge it, but how does it differ from Cost Explorer in AWS?
My favorite part about ebooks, and specifically Kindle/Amazon is that you can flip through your highlights. I will highlight parts of a book I really enjoyed and sometimes write personal notes about them as I read.

I enjoy going back and spending 15-30 minutes going through my highlights and notes on books I previously read and re-reading sections around highlights. It brings back a surprising amount of memories and emotions from the book that get lost over time. Now Amazon lets you read these with read.amazon.com and offers some export features. The export features are still not perfect, but are better than they were.

I also like the sheer number of books I can keep on my Kindle and they don't take up physical space in my home. I don't want hundreds of books stacked up that i read once. So instead I find that I read on Kindle first. Then if I REALLY enjoy the book, I will purchase a physical copy for my bookshelf. So my bookshelf becomes a physical embodiment of my curated favorites. I also have an obsession with old books, so I enjoy hunting down cool copies at used bookstores to get the right one for my bookshelf.

Here is the tool I use to get highlights and notes off my Kindle and onto Notion, which allows multi-device syncing and web-access to my notes and private storage.

https://github.com/paperboi/kindle2notion
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LOL perhaps an unpopular opinion in this day and age. You could also really lean into the wastefulness of the everything bucket (you do say our machines are "hauling ass"). While I do not use any of the apps you describe, I think you are really talking about a mindset which I DO moderately adopt and I DO feel guilty and stupid about. I SHOULD use my fs to organize my data and take control of my life. Why? It is a state of mind and a state of being. It will help me be better at other things like, organizing my email so that I am not contributing as much to climate change via compute, just to store a bunch of meaningless emails that I'm afraid to delete lest I lose something I someday want to search. That is whack, you are right.

This is kind like, organizing the drawers in your kitchen/bathroom. You might not want to do it but once you do, if you've done a good job, you can love it forever. Our brains don't crave a filesystem exactly but they do thrive on the efficiency gains we get from categorizing things.
> However, that 4.73 billion dollar profit can give every one of their 210k employees each an extra 20k per year

There are two problems with this argument.

First, we do not believe in the labor theory of value. Time has a value. Risk has value, land has value, and there is also value in nature, so if you were to distribute all the profits solely to labor, you would have only labor and no capital.

That means no equipment, no burgers, no fries, no land, no buildings, no cash registers, no working capital, etc. Just a bunch of people standing around, not even being able to work because tools are required to work and the moment someone suggest paying for the tools necessary to do work, someone like you pops up and starts complaining that there must be no payments for capital, all payments must be only for labor, and so no tools are ever purchased.

No land is purchased. No money is borrowed to pay for any expenses, etc.

The second problem is opportunity cost. McDonald's market cap is 180 Billion dollars, and it earns about 5 Billion per year for a yield of ~2.7%. But this is a risky return. Alternately one can invest in 30 year treasuries that are guaranteed and earn 1.86%. So that corresponds to a risk premium of 1% and a real rate of ~1.8%. In real terms, the risk-free rate is actually negative and the McDonald's earnings yield is approximately zero. Thus the earnings accruing to McDonalds are basically just enough to make up for the loss of the value of the investment due to inflation, so you'd get your original money back, with a healthy dose of risk.

That is charity. You should be on your knees thanking investors for supplying the 200K workers of McDonalds with 180 Billion dollars of capital that allows them to have jobs while the investors are getting basically nothing back in exchange for taking on that risk.

Of course these yields are temporary. Investors may not be getting anything back now, but long term, these types of yields are unsustainable and they will go up. Investors do need to get something back for their investment otherwise the investment wont be made.

And getting back just the original amount invested is generally insufficient to motivate investment and is characteristic of a dysfunctional economy that is unpleasant for workers. When yields are so low as to just match inflation, that's when you see things like housing bubbles as investors turn around to buy up real assets like land because there is no point in investing in risky ventures, and that is when more people who don't understand the world start moaning about how unfair all the expensive housing is, while with the other side of their mouth they advocate for zero interest rates because payments to capital are "bad". We would like to live in a world where ventures are funded, where investment in productive capital is funded. We like the idea of SpaceX and Tesla and mRNA vaccines and M1 chips. We like investment. But that means that the investment must be more profitable that merely buying land and holding it to get back your money in inflation adjusted terms. And the greater the reward for investment, the more investment that will occur.
I'm curious. What are these religious reservations?

What religion/church is/are it, what is/are the scopes and what is/are the reasoning/s? Is this about {some,all} {vaccines,drugs}, or perhaps about injections or the production process or... I'm curious.
Yeah, the usual. Same reason used for everything soldered and non replaceable keyboards.
If you have no sync enabled, they say they're not scanning it. The scan is part of the upload process.
They must be thinking about X1 Extreme, I assume. I've been using one, and it's giant.
>I have no problem with Apple ensuring that an AASP uses only genuine parts. If I don't want to do that and pay less, I can always go to U Break I Fix

Yeah, I'm not sure what the story is here. 3rd party repair shops exist. I like that Apple keeps a close eye on what AASP is putting in people's phones -- it prevents AASP from baiting-and-switching the customers by using Apple's logo but putting in inferior, cheaper 3P parts.
to clarify: I use it offline for games and my primary systems run macos or linux.
It was either that or Boehringer Ingelheim.
[Disclosure] My name is Ben Schaechter and I'm Co-Founder and CEO at https://www.vantage.sh/ - before Vantage I worked at both AWS and DigitalOcean in a technical product management capacity.

Advanced Analytics is our biggest feature update since the initial launch of Vantage and gives you the ability to see costs for each individual AWS resource broken down day-by-day by category (i.e. Data Transfer) as well as subcategory ("i.e. EU Egress Charges"). So imagine seeing the cost of pretty much any resource including things like S3 Buckets, Lambda Functions, SQS Queues, SNS Topics and doesn't require any tags/changes to your infrastructure.

We believe this provides a richer set of analytics than AWS Cost Explorer provides. I'd be happy to answer any questions if folks have them - our original launch happened on HackerNews and we got a great set of questions.
Then, again, the "premium" versions of the e-reader lines like the Kindle Oasis or the Kobo Forma should scratch that itch for you, right?

https://us.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-forma?utm_source=Kobo...

The biggest downside, of course, being that they're each about double the price of the Kindle Paperwhite or Kobo Clara HD models, respectively. Both of those devices are perfectly serviceable to me, so I'm not yet so old or rich that I'll pay an extra $100 for physical buttons.
I think you're right. Many people "care" about repairability in the market sense of getting pissed off that a keyboard replacement costs >$500 for some reason. The right kind of marketing could bring them onboard.
I've tried reading lights, but the backlight on my kindle is much better for preserving night vision. I think it may also make less of an impact on ease of falling asleep... just to add my $0.02!
Many products are released on a yearly basis, but very few people are upgrading every year.
But in a society with a social safety net for bad financial decisions (bankruptcy, welfare, etc.) the public needs the nanny state to save us from stupid investors.
Uh, nice, didn't know. That will fix a lot of bad (nondeterministic) code out there :)
I bought an Oasis for the warm light option and it was well worth it. My use case is reading in bed and the old Paperwhite would hurt my eyes no matter what setting I used. The Oasis, with the the ability to use warm light and invert to light text on a dark background made it possible for me to read comfortably in a dark room.

The problem as always is not being able to quickly navigate around a book. Not a huge problem for linear fiction but for anything else, even more complex fiction (I'm currently reading The Divine Comedy), it's really annoying when you want to jump forward and back through the text. End notes are getting better with links that open up an overlay on the page but if I want to reference a previous section of the book I have to figure out where that section is and how to get there, sometimes using the search function -- all of this means I rarely bother.

I have a book light that was too bright so I wrapped a few layers of masking tape over it to make it much dimmer and warmer. I'm going to start using that with physical books I think.
okay, that'd make a lot more sense. The X1 Carbon was heavily advertised as being thin and lightweight.
I didn't install the windows 7 telemetry updates (or the force upgrade to 8 updates, etc...)
Only a guess but they also act as a sacrificial device in place of the motherboard's USB-C connector. I've read here on HN that Macbook USB-C adapters regularly fail.
You must be out of touch. In the last 20 or so years of work (~8 employers), I have never had a desktop as a primary work machine (I've had desktops as a secondary machine). My primary personal machine has also been a laptop in that time frame.
They have to use DDR4-3200 to be able to put the RAM on a stick. Integrated systems can use LPDDR4x-4267. You can't put that on a stick. It's a trade-off. It turns out it takes extra power to drive high-speed signals across long traces with connectors.
I didn't say there was, and I figured there had to be, given the amount of open implementations. I was speaking more to adoption path and resulting customs rather than what is technically possible. Like for example to use "FIDO authentication", if I have to plug in a specific USB key, pass it through to a VM, etc, then that extra effort isn't worth it for 90% of my accounts (although that won't stop them from insisting that it is!). Whereas if Firefox can handle it in software by default, and I can easily backup/restore its keying material with standard shell scripts, then I'm much more likely to see it as a benefit.

FWIW do you know if the server can reliably determine what brand of authenticator is being used (eg through a pubkey signature)? I haven't studied the protocol enough to know if it contains those kind of anti-features.
That's only the half of it - everyone cares when they have to repair their device. You start to feel the unfairness of it when companies charge you exorbitant prices for common components because they've designed it in a non-standardised way for that particular device. Or when you face the reality of (for e.g.) having to pay to replace the whole board because of a malfunctioning soldered RAM or soldered SSD, and realise how shortsighted it was to buy a device that is designed not to be repaired.
Probably to shave off the cost (and volume) of a socket.
It seems like there is as of yet no hypothesis as to what causes the mutations?
Same story on Gough Island, a few miles to the north:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough_Island#Invasive_species

At this very moment, there is a scientific sailing expedition:

https://youtu.be/DSulas1b6aw

Part of "Saving species from extinction: The Gough Island Restoration Programme":

https://www.goughisland.com/
Very exciting. Hoping they will make something similar with:

. 15 or 16 inch chassis

. 4k display (OLED, if possible)

. largest battery they allow on an airplane

. no keypad

. 2x speakers facing up

. AMD, if possible

. arrow keys as Apple does it

. charge a premium for this - ppl will pay it!!!

Basically just copy what Apple does but with a little customization. I know this would be difficult but hoping someone from framework will read this. No one wants to buy a dell XPS but its the most popular windows laptop in its class for a reason.
On a tangential note, I find it wild that we have so little record of such an extraordinary event that happened as recent as 1490 (when China was prospering under a unified empire): sounds like historians were writing "It was reported that stones rained down from the sky, killing ten thousand, in an obscure town in Gansu province. Anyway, back to the court..."
>And the employee doesn’t exist to make money for their employer’s shareholders

which is why the employer pays the employee for their service.

>this entire article shows how employees can capture some of that money if they work in solidarity.

creating a cartel is one way to strengthen your bargaining position.
> it's too expensive to realistically consider

Too expensive under what constraints and how impossible is violating those constraints? For instance, does the UK have cheaper areas to live with childcare costs in-line with incomes? Can you or the other parent take a career holiday to look after the children? Your lifestyle expenses are so reduced you have no room to make savings and apply it to your child?
My edit was to indicate that the air burst might have been a distant inspiration for the Jericho story as well as the Sodom story. There are about 600-1000 years between event and writing by most estimates, so there was plenty of time for it to inspire more than one story. But local geology plays a big role in many Biblical stories, not just these. People who are teachers look for teaching moments, and find them in the things that surround them.
>Given that water is a fundamental necessity, it's supply should not be subject to rigged markets and monopolistic pricing

How do you feel about land? Zoning restrictions, property taxes, etc?
> I'm just pointing out that expecting "innovation" is incompatible with that.

No, it's not. There's a huge difference between "let me update these 2 apps which I care about" and having to upgrade the whole system to get those 2 new updated apps.
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Having related emails batched and then providing easy ways to pin, snooze or mark done is so useful. Clicking the "sweep" button (Mark All As Read) after prioritizing the email you care about is such a satisfying feeling. I'm not quite at inbox zero yet, but definitely feel like it is now actually possible with a bit more work on my end.
Technically ereader screens are frontlit: the glass in front of the e-ink display refracts light across the display evenly. So instead of looking right at a light source, you're viewing refracted light scattered across the entire display.

I also get a headache from backlit screens. Frontlit e-ink is much better.
>"True, a Big Mac here costs more — $5.60, compared with $4.80 in the United States. But that is a price Danes are willing to pay. “We Danes accept that a burger is expensive, but we also know that working conditions and wages are decent when we eat that burger,” said Soren Kaj Andersen, a University of Copenhagen professor who specializes in labor issues.”

Is there a name for this kind of rationalization ?
> The speakers are loud enough.

I will miss the Apple speakers when I am finally forced to switch away.
This is a wonderful comment that juxtaposes any suggestion that requires buying a scanner. That said, I wonder if this works at the scale that OPs kid will be tasked with?
That would also be true for any use of iCloud Photos, no? If you don't trust this, then you also can't trust them to be storing them encrypted on their servers.
We are over ten years out from the ipad 1. it shouldn't be very costly to put in some hardware powerful enough that it at least makes it so typing text doesn't have input lag. That wouldn't even take much more beef than a $40 raspberry pi. This is like a TV manufacturer evil business genius tier move. Why spend $4 on a decent wholesale board when you can spend $0.04 instead on a terrible board and the consumers will buy it anyway?
Bingo. You have <5kph for walking, 10-25 kph for this whatever-it-is-which-I-hope-grows, and 50+ for cars. They can mix occasionally, separated with paint or good will, but as much as infrastructure permits we need all three.
We recently faced this; if you are using the docker/login action I'd give that a check as it turned out it was logging us out by default at the end of each job; resulting in some race conditions when running multiple runners on the same machine (sharing the same docker daemon).

Simple fix was to add `logout: false` to the action options.
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I am relatively new to the startup world. As an early employee, I am offered options at a price with a total value of X. For a company of a total of 30 employees, what is a good framework to think about my compensation? I would love to chat with someone with prior experience who might guide me in the right direction.
+1. Dates us, but the magazine and the era itself fit so well together I thought.
Yeah came here to say this, I think what they meant to say is "It cant be done at the profit margins we want" not "It cant be done".
Unfortunately currently framework says it is impossible to have a slim, tiny , customizable laptop with a trackpoint option (due to the keyboard height). Hopefully we will overcome this one too and I would be all in...
The Framework is definitely on my radar for next laptop. I kinda want to wait and see how it pans out in the long-term, though. I'll be eagerly awaiting for the Gen 2 version of the laptop, or the "Framework Laptop - 1 year later" reviews.

For the moment, my Dell XPS 13 laptop from 2015 is still going strong, and I'd hate to ditch a brand/model that's been working reliably for me for six years for new-shiny thing from a company that might go under in a year.
> Lastly bond prices have an inverse relationship with interest rates, which means that as interest rates rise, bond prices go down. So no, when rates go up to x+5 you will never be able to find bonds that pay x+5.

Indeed, interest rates are inversely related to bond prices. And bond prices are inversely related to yields. Yields and rates are highly correlated. In fact, the way banks finance mortgages is by selling bonds. The market rate they can get on those bonds determines the rate they can offer to homeowners. So of course these rates move in tandem.