skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ive seen a lot of requests for an AMD version but i always see people complain about AMD's linux support. Do you plan on running windows? If you are planning on Linux is the support really as bad as people complain.
I say that because intel's linux support seems to me as top notch. ive never really had driver issues that i can think of
As the other comments have noted, Cory addresses this further down in the linked post. He further expanded on this in the post he wrote when he quit smoking[0]:

> That was my homework: go away and think of an immediate reason not to smoke. When I came back, I had my answer ready: “I spend two laptops per year on smokes. That money goes directly to the dirtiest companies on Earth, the literal inventors of the science-denial playbook that is responsible for our inaction on climate change. Those companies’ sole mission is to murder me and all my friends. I’m going to quit smoking and I’m going to buy a laptop this year and every year hereafter, and I’ll still be up one laptop per year.”

[0]: https://doctorow.medium.com/i-quit-9ae7b6010c99
>>> NYC real estate is arguably one of the safest bets in the modern era.

Respectfully disagree. All it will take is 1 dirty bomb going off in manhattan to make parts of the city unhabitable or unsafe.

If and when that happens, it will be pandemic-level exodus. NIMBY and all that
> This strikes me as inefficient. If you have some apartments, you should deliver them to people to whom you owe apartments. Then you take the cash from those people and deliver it to the people to whom you owe cash?

I would guess the apartments they have aren’t in locations where those who bought apartments want to own an apartment.
And don't forget that classy startup noise.
Pretty sure this is entirely based on classical optimal control theory. But hey good luck getting any clicks with that instead of good ol' AI.
> We need shorter release cycles with less risky upgrade paths

Either you speak for yourself or you have no clue how a market works.

Long term support i know to be paid for by enterprise: hence there IS demand.
I am growing increasingly unhappy with Thinkpads in general, but as far as I know there is no real alternative for TrackPoint users. There are some that have a TrackPoint but they lack three physical mouse button that are in reach of ones thumbs.
I am so happy to see the Framework laptop get the good publicity it deserves, and I hope it helps them grow much more.

My fear is that when it becomes popular enough, one of the BigTech's may just make an offer too good to refuse, and just buy and bury the company.
My Body, My Choice
I wonder about the trackpad, too. Apple has always smoked everyone else at trackpads. After using theirs for so many years, every time I touch another it feels crusty and unresponsive.
>I want innovation in my own code, my applications, browsers - not my Operating System/BIOS/UEFI/etc...

So either your applications and browsers come from the distro's package repo, in which case when their upstreams update to newer versions that require newer dependencies your distro doesn't have, your distro will be stuck on older versions lacking the innovation you seek.

Or you use flatpaks or snaps, which don't have that problem because the flatpak / snap bundles the newer libraries, but then the stability of the OS doesn't help you. And you're still stuck with an old flatpak / snap daemon that could cause problems with new flatpaks / snaps, and with an old kernel that could be missing syscalls that the newer libc's inside the flatpaks / snaps require. Eg I remember discovering that 16.04 and earlier don't have the getrandom syscall, which made it impossible to run a newer OS's Docker container since its libc expected it.

To be clear, I'm all for people wanting to remain on supported OSes for a decade. I'm just pointing out that expecting "innovation" is incompatible with that.
Also just bc the link is buried, see https://doctorow.medium.com/i-quit-9ae7b6010c99

He traded smoking for buying a new laptop every year. Now that it's been years, I guess he could quit and not buy a new laptop. But also people do more wasteful things. I do understand though, I drive laptops into the ground over many years but still 4-5 years per laptop
That's really apples and oranges. Meme stock investing is basically a collective pump and dump. GME trading at $400 or $200 is clearly ludicrous on the fundamentals. The underlying business is not significantly different than it was when it traded at $4. It's all fair game from a trading point of view, but it trader histrionics and has nothing to do with the business. Diamond handers are trying to hold on to their nebulously earned rewards. They have a lot to lose.

Evergrande is a huge company operating in an opaque market with a highly interventionist government looming over everything. Investors have essentially already lost most of their stake and are choosing between cutting their losses or holding on for a very possibly change in direction that makes them whole. There's a lot to gain and relatively little to lose.
I've only had laptops for over a decade. And I had system board failures.

Honestly, I'd rage if I had to throw it out together with the perfectly good CPU, GPU/VRAM and maybe half the RAM and pay for a used replacement board with all of those integrated.

Or what, buy a rework station and risk damaging them or having them work improperly due to shit soldering skills?

I guess I could learn to fix the board itself. But that's pretty hard, there are no schematics, no components for most laptops, failures are not evident and one component can lead to a cascade of failures across the board. A used board was $100. Now they're ~$500 because there's a CPU and GPU there.

My next computer will be a desktop in a handcrafted case (I'm also trying to fit a Li-Ion battery/UPS between the PSU and components).
It just haa a horrible screen resolution.
They care about keeping new laptop sales up and repairable anything goes against that.
Perhaps not for free, but it's not unheard of for labor unions to negotiate temporary lower wages in order to try to save the viability of a business that they want to keep working for.
The Framework is larger and weighs more than contemporary machines that have larger displays (e.g. ThinkPad X1 Carbon 9th generation), and it has worse performance and shorter battery life because soldered-in RAM isn't some kind of scam, it's actually much better.

In short, it was not a lie that you get smaller, lighter, and better laptops with integration. You do, in fact, get all of those things.
>I've bought a new Thinkpad almost every year since 2006.

Why? I bought a thinkpad and used it for 7 years. Who needs a new laptop every year? Especially these days

Sorry I know it's besides the point of the article but it stood out to me
Linus has now invested in Framework, which constrains how he is allowed to review laptops on his channel because of the possibility of a conflict of interest. He says it's worth it to support what he believes is a great company with an awesome product vision.
Was watching this video and thought it sounded almost exactly like jwz's story about this that was posted here years ago - and at the end/in the description, he specifically mentions that's where he got it.

The visual aids in the video really helped to explain the original story - I'm glad there's a visual to associate with this story now!
I agree with everything you wrote, but I don't see how any of it proves that they made the "correct decision."
"customers don't care either"

People care about Right To Repair; that's why the FTC has been pressured into action recently on the matter (not that I entertain any hope that that bunch of bought-and-paid-for bureaucrats will actually achieve anything.) Framework has blown a vast hole through the false arguments offered in opposition. One must simply care. That's all it takes. Every manufacturer that has opposed RTR has the means and talent to do at least as well has Framework has done, and probably better. They just don't care.

Thankfully the vestigial remains of our free market are sufficient to run the experiment.
One wonders how Iran would be today if the US had not eliminated the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran in favor of religious monarchy, and whether they would've continued their progressive trajectory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état
I have nothing to do with machine learning but it seems like the hashing approach would only work if you are “training” on the evaluation set instead of a separate training set. Afaik in image net like challenges the set of labeled training images does not contain any of the evaluation images so there wouldn’t be any hashes matching any of the evaluation data.
Weight loss and physical fitness is just a never ending battle. You will have small victories and defeats but the main thing is that you keep fighting. It’s a pain in the ass but so is dealing with all the health problems if you don’t. So try calorie counting, keto, vegan, carnivore, whatever just keep working at it. You are unique and what works for you will be as well, hell what works changes year by year also.

My own personal journey just took a turn as I had been trying to lose weight for rock climbing for years and could not cut through a certain weight. It turned out I needed to way reduce my protein intake for a time so I could shed some useless chest/arm/leg muscles, but it took a year or two of super low calorie fatiguing diets to make an adjustment and figure it out.
Has your team considered looking into buildkite? We love the flexibility it gives us. Being able to dynamically build pipelines is a very nice feature that not many others have (at least that I could tell when I was researching).
Amazon's service IS a "Netflix like model" - like you note about Amazon's model, neither are a comprehensive solution.

The model I want (and presumably you would as well) is a Spotify/Apple Music model, where the vast majority of all books are available for a single subscription. Audiobooks are even worse! Audible's consumer hating model still treats digital media as something you purchase one at a time (or rather two a month).
Wow. I am from Argentina, and although not this one, we received some magazines from Spain in the 90s. That's who I learnt that Spain currency was the Peseta (and a few idioms as well!). I have good memories spending some afternoon reading them.
I don’t know if it’s correct , but I often think of a classification model as learning the parameters of a dirchlet distribution with the final softmax layer being a sample from it
I believe 2600 is still in print.
It is by design. Amazon wants you to consume only the ebooks you purchase via them. It's almost useless for anything else.
On the topic of e-readers I just want to share these two resources for free e-books. I am pretty sure I originally got them from HN and I have been reading almost exclusively from their collections ever since. So if someone can have the same enjoyment from them as I had then they do really deserve a re-post:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/
There are a bunch of bed mounts for smartphones and tablets. [1]

1: https://www.amazon.com/phone-holder-bed/s?k=phone+holder+for...
Art and literature of all kinds has a long, long history of portraying people from the past in historically inaccurate ways that the people doing the portrayal take for granted.

One obvious religious example would be the many paintings of Christ showing him as a blonde European wearing contemporary (for the time of the painting) European clothing.
... is still Roar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roar_(film)
Do you have an example of a corporation that makes laptops that says it’s possible?
Notepad++ has a toolbar option that will uppercase all the currently selected text. Write a paragraph normally and then uppercase it with one click.
yeah 1440x900 does kinda stink, but the screen is so small it doesn't really bother me too much. plasma does a good job shrinking itself down enough and virtual desktops help. 99% its a full screen chromium window so who cares.
Any kind of socket would require additional height. Probably at least 5mm. And you would certainly want to avoid that on mobile devices. For memory thats less of a problem, because you can plug it from the side, but CPUs have way more pins, so that won't work.
I don't even care about slim. Light yes. Slim doesn't really do a whole lot for me past a certain point (which for me was a decade ago). Being able to replace parts is way more important.
I've been a user of shortwave for a couple months now, and I emphatically recommend giving it a try. I'm a very persnickety software snob and tried almost every email client without it sticking. I'm sure this won't be for everyone, but if you've struggled to get to inbox zero, I recommend giving it a try.

The channels are a cool addition, but most of the value for me is just the ease with which I can process volumes of email.
> Unless you pirate them, most books are encumbered with DRM.

Depends on the publisher/genre. Tech books (from O'Reilly/PragProg/Apress/Manning anyway) for example are most often not encumbered with DRM.
Does that mean there will be another ten years of 32-bit support, or is that already out of 14.04 at this point?
The only a tiny minority of people probably care about the upgradability of their laptop. Many many more probably care about the repairability of their laptop, though.
You know, I can't think of a concrete example of that, when pressed, so it is possible this was just something repeated to me by coworkers and friends doing Apple apologia, and I just treated it as a truth. A quick Google doesn't appear to show Apple or any other corporation saying it, so I'll take the L on it.

I think my overall point still stands. I still find it irritating that, until very recently, the only way to get a nice, slim laptop was to accept that everything is hard-wired in. Framework proved that that's not correct.
What you're supposed to do, apparently, is buy a brand-new laptop, use it for a few months, then flip it on eBay before it gets too old so you can recover most of what you spent on it and buy the next new laptop.

I worked with a guy who practiced this with all his personal hardware.
Highlighted on the Linus Tech Tips video on the Framework laptop, there are thoughtful touches like drivers installing in unattended mode upon OS install, so the team clearly puts importance on that seamless functional experience too.
> BTW in the case of speed limits: during a burst of sensible lawmaking, California set speed limits but also modulated them with the idea that people are sensible: if the speed limit on a road is set to 25, but the dominant traffic is at 35, the presumption is that the proper limit is actually 35.

As a Californian, this interests me -- can you cite a source for me to follow? I found this page [0] from Caltrans, but it speaks to determining the posted speed limit, not overriding the posted speed limit.

[0] https://dot.ca.gov/programs/safety-programs/setting-speed-li...

> The most widely accepted method of determining the posted speed limit is to set the speed limit at what is called the “85th percentile speed”, which is the speed at or below which 85 percent of the traffic is moving.
The first thing that jumps out at me about that number is that it doesn't appear to account for the type of road.

If I had to guess most people driving down the highway use "Autopilot" while less use it in city driving. Since the highway is safer this likely skews the numbers significantly. Basically the situations where "Autopilot" may be used and is used is likely already situations where accidents are less likely.
But you can easily phrase it as an NP-hard problem: Are there at least X unique solutions to a board of particular size?
Famously, air traffic controllers striked in 1981 when Ronald Reagan was president. He fired all of them -- almost 12,000 people.

Certain groups are just not legally allowed to strike in the US. Air traffic controllers are critical to the economy and safety of the country.
Exactly. Like I said, I'm astonished that this hasn't been a thing you can buy for a long time. The new Kindles come with a USB-C connector, maybe that changes things.
That's a good point, I've lost count of the times I've hovered my mouse over that IFunctionParameters tooltip expecting a nested tooltip to appear with the actual types
That's weird. I always see people claiming AMD is superior for Linux due to their opensource drivers (intel and nvidia are not).

btw certain distro devs were provided with Framework laptops a while back

https://frame.work/blog/linux-on-the-framework-laptop
I long preferred "real" books, despite having an e-reader for over ten years, but the e-reader has a killer feature: the backlight. Having a backlight means I can turn the light off on my nightstand, and read at night without keeping people up. (Yes, I know they make reading lights. No, I haven't tried one. They look like they're a pain.)

I also realized after looking over my (physical) bookshelves that I don't actually care about most of the books on there. This is after multiple rounds of clearing out the shelves and making trips to the secondhand bookstore, free library, etc., so it's not a matter of cruft. If I'm honest with myself, most books are "read once and discard," though there is a small collection that it feels distasteful not to keep copies of. Certain classics, or books with particular personal significance, for instance.

The cost of ebooks is an issue, as is the DRM. I haven't experimented with digital lending from libraries so I don't know if that's a solution to the cost problem, but it could be. DRM is... well, a perennial problem for digital media. And it does feel like something is missing in a world without secondhand stores and free libraries.

(Edit: It is in fact a frontlight, not a backlight. Duh.)
It's not pointless. It goes to show that there are good policies undertaken by certain groups in regards to managing nuclear power (such as the U.S. navy that has operated reactors longer than anyone without much incident), and bad ones (like Chernobyl).

On the other hand, for these other energy sources there are serious faults with the underlying technology that policy can't do anything about. Take a coal plant. The entire mechanics of that technology rely upon taking a block of solid carbon and converting it to a gas and expelling it into the atmosphere where it lowers air quality and increases the greenhouse gas effect. There is no way to policy your way out of that inherent fault with this underlying technology where you need to add more carbon into the air in order to produce any energy.
That is fair, and an understandable position to have.

My thoughts are that if upstream can already see the requests coming from my network to be able to resolve them then I might as well get the benefits of having more visibility and customization of it since privacy has already been given up for the service.
I'm not even sure n-o-d-e was even a thing in 2017!
> Amazon is the only FAANG company where I can get a hold of an actual real person.

The other A in FAANG has actual real stores with actual real people who you can talk to.
Onyx boox note air is USB-C.
One recent example I can think of is POC||GTFO: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/

Granted, it's not a paper magazine (although you can buy paper compendiums of it) and it's free to distribute. I think the world and technology has moved beyond paper for the distribution of knowledge. YMMV, but I see that as largely a good thing.
In an alternate universe where the Framework concept was commonplace, you might say the same thing about a laptop built 5 years ago.

Framework means you can custom-build it, just like your desktop. Reparability aside, that alone is a milestone.
In general, I think it's a good tradeoff to pay PMI in order to get into a house earlier, or keep a larger down payment invested. PMI is generally <10% of the total mortgage payment and can be eliminated through appreciation, if one is willing to pay for an appraisal.

I waited in order to save the traditional 20% down payment, and, in hindsight, that was a dumb financial move. Investment returns would have outpaced what I was paying in PMI by 10x each year, and the place appreciated enough in two years that I could have refinanced with no PMI without putting any additional money in.
An interesting disconnect to me is that I thought you were referring to generic websites, not ones that you can actually add/do stuff in. Contrast a site like "Youtube" where you usually just passively consumer (and indeed it DOES have a shortcut list viewed by typing '?') and something like jira where users are expected to be somewhat familiar and doing lots of things
> if I have a heart attack across the street from a hospital, you know, I'd appreciate them trying to save me but unless there is some special circumstance I'm not confident they're required to.

In some countries, especially in central Europe, failing to give aid where reasonable can even be a crime. In the US it depends on jurisdiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue
These are gorgeous, thank you for the links.
Good point. I've tried out adding an editorconfig to a gist, it didn't work.
iFixit has repairability scores for products. Eg this Surface gets a 1 out of 10 because MS used adhesives among other problems. They traded off repairability for thermal, rigidity, and mechanical concerns.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Go+Teardow...
With Windows installs, they use Windows Precision drivers and feel at least as good as a Surface Book trackpad. YMMV with Linux however.
Same here but for fan noise. Since I've gotten the m1 macbook air, I don't think I can go back to a laptop that runs hot and needs a fan.

In the event that I must get a non-m1 laptop, I can definitely see myself buying the framework laptop and putting ubuntu on it.
This creates inverted incentives: to take as much from the pot as possible while putting in as little as possible.
Same reason as why such communal systems never work if they get much larger than one family.
Hey, AMD (Zen2 3800X) and Linux (NixOS - 5.14.6) user here; other than a weird bug once on temperature reading I haven't had a single issue between Linux and AMD.
But imagine if your next desktop build required you to also throw away your SSD, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers. You can also re-use a case in future builds, and re-use a high quality PSU in future builds.

I also don't really care to replace individual components in my systems, but being able to upgrade laptop hardware without throwing away the chasis and storage seems pretty nice to me.
Interesting! I just signed up for Chordify [0], which does extraction of chords from YouTube videos, and then plays them while you play along to either a grid of chords, or an animation showing the current chord and the next ones coming up. Has chord diagrams for Guitar, Ukulele, and Piano.

Really nice, frequently accurate (it's not perfect :-).

[0] https://chordify.net/
We're not. There was huge outrage when the Snowden documents were released, and the warrantless surveillance program was judged to be unconstitutional in 2020.
Bingo. This is essentially the "PR" cover story that all ousted government employees seem to use once they're caught out. "Oh, I didn't realize I was even working for a murderous regime! I liked the paycheck though!"
So the concept is you would click through to every post to read it? I have to admit I never twigged on this, because it seems insane.