skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are actually open-source[1] so you can print your own case in a 3d printer and put the circuit you want inside. About the USB-C limitation, I initially thought it was a limitation too but Im not sure after learning that you can use them as thunderbolt ports. Anyway, I think the notebook seems to be thin enough and the possibilities of dongle are exciting[2] - like magsafe chargers[3] (which seems to have some patent problems).

[1] https://community.frame.work/c/expansion-cards/developer-pro...

[2] https://community.frame.work/t/what-new-expansion-card-types...

[3] https://community.frame.work/t/youtuber-elevated-systems-mak...
> I bought an expensive Macbook, and I never had any issues outside of the inevitable "moores law" depreciation.

I hope that keeps going. I used a macbook for work for almost 8 years, and they did OK, but I had one that decided not to take external power and the hard drive wasn't removable, thankfully I noticed it wasn't charging while it was near full so I could pull a backup to a spare work hand. And then there was the year where iTunes would have a 25% chance of spewing high volume digital noise at me instead of playing music. I guess that was a software problem because it went away with the next major OS X release, but no useful forum contents. I think there was something else bothersome too, but not sure anymore.
Taming Go’s memory usage, or how we avoided rewriting our client in Rust
In terms of literally killing people over that, you guys are definitely far behind.

I think we Americans are killing each other differently. Nobody has more guns--or gun violence--than we do. We lead the world in mass shootings.

Regarding the civil war part, right now, about 2,000 Americans are dying everyday from COVID-19, where a free and readily available and safe vaccine exists.

We have governors who are essentially part of a pro-COVID death cult, who are complicit in their constituents dying by spreading disinformation against the vaccine, social distancing and masking.

We've allowed a virus in the 21st century to kill more people than a not too dissimilar virus-based pandemic from 1918 did.
What kind of trade offs? The only thing I can think of is that you want extreme performance, like those "VR-ready" gaming laptops.
As much as I love speculating about backdoors and NSA wiretapping, I seriously doubt these MEs are malicious. At this point, managing a modern x86 is tough work, especially if you want to run virtualization, complex threading and maintain high efficiency. It makes total sense that there are mandatory supervisor chips at this point, and without any evidence that these chips are "phoning home," I simply have to assume that it's purpose is virtualized KVM for remote management. Worst case scenario, the CIA wakes up my laptop while I'm asleep, big whoop.
The firebombings were done with 4-engine superfortresses, which couldn't be launched from a carrier. These were massive planes that required a proper airbase to deploy.

I don't think carriers (or carrier air wings) were involved in the bombing of the Japanese mainland. The famous bombing of Tokyo that you reference was all B-29 superfortresses, launched from a land-base in mariana islands.

Superfortresses were so high in altitude, that they couldn't be escorted by typical fighters. Indeed, that was its #1 defense mechanism: just fly higher than other planes (which it could do because of the marvels of pressurized cabins: oxygen masks just weren't good enough to reach that height.)

I'm sure the Japanese fighter pilots would fly as high as reasonably possible before shooting their guns at the bombers.

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There were a few attempts at strategic bombing in 1942 from Chinese bases (ally of the USA at the time). But a single mission used up the entire fuel supply from those bases: it was possible but just not practical. The USA would have to island hop to somewhere closer before attacking the mainland... which began in full capacity in 1944.
> I'm really excited about how Framework could potentially shake up the whole industry!

It won’t. The industry used to be like that back in the day before Apple proved that most people don’t want too many choices.
All my best computer journalism memories are from staring at Byte covers and then reading them cover to cover.

Thank you for reasons to find a collection to go buy.
One recent example is in Poland - you can't strike if not working causes risk to health and life of people, so when EMTs went to strike they just quit their jobs en masse.
I think 1980-1983 was the peak for Byte
Instead of it being "excuses for limiting features because of poor software" it's "withholding root access" now? So we are shifting goal posts?
That Castle Rock case is sad.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/frameworks-new-light...

Scroll down to the battery section
You're mistaken, that's a channel by channel basis not a server by server kind of deal.

Some channels include bots used to create public channel logs, but not all. Creating unauthorized public logs is usually considered against IRC etiquette so many channels go unlogged.
But the point of “soft” work is for physical proximity to encourage bonding. Having offices in different cities creates hubs of people who like each other because loosely, they’ve become friends due to daily exposure to each other.

This is not possible/harder to achieve in remote-only setups.

At least that’s how I read the article.

This, therefore means that outsourcing and remote offices aren’t antithetical to what the return-to-office crew wants to achieve.
What's interesting is, looking at back issues, it could still be relevant today, with up-to-date content.

Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar is still going (https://circuitcellar.com/), and Hacker News contains links to similar content regarding the latest and greatest hardware and programming languages. I can picture the Byte take on Apple's processors in my head.
Artificial life: sustainable self-replicating systems
Sure. That is understood but how do I find out what is the good offer for an equity?
Another quote from Linus that's relevant:

"Imagine being an engineer at a company at Apple, and it being your job to design the mechanism that makes it so that machine cannot start up unless the chassis is fully sealed. Apple spent actual fucking money making sure that product would not work unless it is in the exact chassis they shipped it in."

That goes beyond not caring.
Oh. My. God. I have been wondering why when I come back to my PC after it being asleep I've been on random squarespace login pages. I usually tap esc a couple of times to wake up my computer.
All e-readers can read DRM-less books. It's trivial to convert from a DRM free epub on calibre to a mobi or azw3 to use on a kindle, even. I've never felt too restricted unless I buy books directly from Amazon, because their DRM is far more strict.
I have to use a Mac for work rather than Ubuntu, which I have dialed with everything just the way I want it, and it is so frustrating. It drives me batty on a daily basis.
Could you provide some sources to back up that claim? My first choice for laptop reviews (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Framework-Laptop-13-5-Review-I...) did not show that to be the case
It's a shame ARM isn't quite a first-class desktop architecture quite yet. I'd probably use one if my software ran on it. Otherwise, I figure in 10-15 years, when it is "fully featured," the architecture will have already been usurped by RISC-V.
Funny, I've never had issues with PS4 controller range but my joycons have trouble with dropped inputs if I use them more than a few feet away from the switch

Not to say the PS4 controllers are good... they just love to drain their batteries when I'm not using them, and they only seem willing to charge on the PS4 and only when its in sleep mode. TBH this hassle makes me use the PS4 pretty much never, which makes the problem worse
>The percentage doesn’t matter. I’m saying that HSBC has helped launder money for terrible people/organizations and the US government would stop more crime by appropriately punishing them vs a small exchange.

And so they (HSBC) did[0]. And quite blatantly too.

HSBC should have been smacked down hard. They were not. And that was wrong.

Is your argument that others doing the same should get a pass because HSBC only got a slap on the wrist?

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-n...

Edit: Added link to details of HSBC's bad behavior.
> If you want that, just enable strict mode for mypy.

But I can't do that if I want to do gradual typing. If I type a function, but the type system cannot figure out what's going to call it, that's when I want it to perform a check: at the boundary.

> I certainly don't want runtime checks for what the type system has already checked for me.

The type system can remove the checks if it can prove that they always pass. My point is that if it cannot prove that they will pass, I want them at runtime.
I am strongly of the opinion paying cyber ransoms should be a felony punishable by jail time. It's the only cure.
Absent that, the question is only how the ransomer gets paid, not whether they hold assets for ransom.
> No one's ever going to inject a live virus into themselves.

Ironically, that is exactly what people are doing when they get the J&J vaccine.

At this point, I think that's 20 million people proving you wrong.
A nurse's training didn't protect her from vacc misinfo she's one of the victi
Decentralizing My Ideas on Web3
> it's no thick-as-a-brick throwback the size of a 2005 Thinkpad – it's approximately the same dimensions as a MacBook.

So, it's a bad laptop in my book (pun not intended).

You see, a laptop needs a good keyboard; and a good keyboard needs height for the keys to travel. So, a laptop needs to be kind of "think as a brick". Maybe not at 2005 levels, but definitely at 2010 levels and no thinner.

However - a laptop which is reasonably easy to disassemble, and hence customize, is definitely something I support in principle. I'm not sure this can catch on if it's essentially a single-vendor thing.
In UK Maplins mail order catalogue used to get me every time. So exciting on the cover. Inside just components and soldering irons (admittedly appreciated by some) https://www.google.com/search?q=maplins+catlogue+covers&tbm=...
What? I finally switched from a desktop battlestation PC at work and at home to a high-powered gaming/compute laptop that I dock at work/home in my 3x monitor setup with mechanical keyboards and such at each location - and I'm a 1990's LAN party, lug your giant tower to the basement of your buddy's place nerd.

I was really late to switch and I don't regret it at all. Almost everyone I know made this switch 5+ years ago before me.

I also needed a laptop anyway with the battlestations, because I travel for work. Now it's all in one package and I spent a lot less money on it.
I can only assume you are as equally confused by the word "you", since it too can be either singular or plural.
> you're locked [sic] into whatever CPU/chipset was current when you bought the laptop.

Which you can replace/upgrade too.
What are the long term prospects for this company? I'd like to have a repairable/upgradable laptop, but if they go out of business in a year, it's not much of an improvement over a Macbook... granted, it'd be some improvement since I could replace/upgrade commodity components like RAM or the hard drive but if the motherboard or display fails, I have to buy a new laptop.
I think I read somewhere that they were planning to open up the specs of those modular ports. That may alleviate some of the points you bring up. (Can't find the source right now though.)

In what way do they limit the USB-C they pass through?
That largely depends on the culture of the company. I've been at places that used BI to make decisions, and other places that just used it to nitpick over events from years ago.

BI, like every other tool doesn't exist in a vacuum. It has to be present in an environment that has peopeople that know how to help themselves use the self-service attributes (i.e not Boomers), it also has to occur in a culture where KPIs and metrics are understood, and used in day-to-day discussions of the business, there should also be a training component to deploying your BI solution too.

Without these aspects being present, your BI solution will devolve into either a sales prop with pretty colors, or it will become a web version of Excel.
It's unethical to allow harm to fall upon innocent people to stop a bad person.
What kind of pains does a laptop cause that you wouldn't also experience on a desktop?
Misinformation on Reddit has become unmanageable, 3 Alberta moderators say
So I've had two work from jobs during the pandemic.

The first went great. The team was able to get more work done, and we continued to communicate very well. Unfortunately that company went out of business last fall due to the pandemic killing our sales pipeline and I was laid off.

I quickly got a new job, and it is an absolute disaster. The problem is that no one communicates and the organization is very dysfunctional. So I have no idea what is going on. I was given no introduction to the team, I just started getting emails one day demanding that stuff be done now. When I try to reach out to people they don't respond. In short I hate it. I have brought these concerns up to my management and have been told that the person I replaced complained about the same thing. So I've given up on this job and am looking for a new one. My mistake was waiting so long to start looking for a new job. The problems were evident the first few weeks I worked here. What I should have done was just quit, leave it off my resume and resume my full time job search.

However I am only looking for work from home jobs. I am just going to be better about my due diligence this time.
> Kyle Weins (iFixit CEO) basically claiming that's the reason

I.e. The last person who can be trusted to report on Apple’s motivations.

It’s an absurd explanation. Some obvious other factors are:

1. The idea that a modular chassis is less robust over time. Not that it can’t be made, but that if you make millions of them, vastly more of them will have problems because of all the connectors etc.

We don’t have any data on the framework. Perhaps they’ll prove this to be a misplaced fear, but it’s also possible that framework laptops in aggregate will need more repairs because of the extra complexity.

2. Limited hardware profiles are easier to support with software. If users can create limitless combinations, it becomes much harder to test. This isn’t an issue for the typical Linux user who can do their own homework and fix their own issues, but it’s a deal breaker for someone who just wants to buy a computer and get work done.
also turtleSpaces, a modern web- and app-based 3D Logo https://turtlespaces.org
This looks refreshing. Definitely one of the most interesting find of the year.
Linus has shown his flagrant disregard for impartiality or any form of integrity over and over again. Look through the LTT back catalogue and you’ll see that Intel is big sponsor of theirs. The fact that he gives “honest” reviews of Intel products doesn’t magically make it okay.

You’d never see Dr. Ian Cutress of AnandTech or Steve from GamersNexus pulling this shit.

Of course he makes much more money than both of them combined. Make no mistake that he is an entertainer and a businessman.
How to Mint an NFT on Solana Using Candy Machine
Candy Machine lets you set up your own Solana NFT shop. This guide explains how to setup for Solana NFT minting.
Einstein’s handwritten calculations for relativity to be auctioned
> why bother to promote such salaries as somehow common

Because common isn't the right word. Attainable is.
> Certain areas of the internet are increasingly censored

That's the point of concern. You must think your views are immune to censorship.
It's addressed in the article and elsewhere in these comments, several times. They donate them after a year in order to upgrade. Seems a perfectly reasonable and responsible use case if you want a new laptop every year.
Can I get a citation for that?

The only laptop for which that seems to be true is the MacBook, but no x86 laptop will come close to that. From what I've seen the Framework has a mostly uninteresting battery life, outperforming some likely competitors (like Dell's XPS 13 and MS's Surface Laptop) and outperformed by others (like HP's ProBook x360 and ASUS's Zenbook 13).
Unless it is a worldwide law, it won't matter except for reducing targeted attacks. For broad, automated attacks it isn't worth it to disable just for the US, that actually takes more work. They will just still have it encrypt the drive and then not bother trying to collect manually if it is in the US.
As a student, I do want my laptop to be slim and tiny, but I was misled by Apple into thinking slim and tiny is only possible if the laptop isn't at all repairable. Might sell my MacBook Pro for this thing. Though macOS is a guilty pleasure I will miss :(

Edit: Also the 16:10 aspect ratio :(
I have to reread it but the model misspecification interpretation (that highly overparameterized models exhibit DD because they reduce misspecification error) is the only thing I've read in this area that makes some sense to me theoretically.

I think DD is a huge issue for a number of fields and is really underappreciated a lot. Without meaning to sound disrespectful, much of this literature seems a little superficial or dismissive, not aware of the broad implications of the claims often being made.

This is because of the ties between information-theory and statistics/modeling. In some sense, at least in the way I've thought about it, the DD seems to imply some kind of violations of fundamental information theory and comes across to me a bit as if someone in chemistry started claiming that some basic laws of thermodynamics in physics didn't apply anymore. Basically, the DD seems to imply that someone can extract more information from a string than the string contains. If you put it this way, it makes no sense, which is why I think this is such a hugely important issue.

On the other hand, the empirical results are there, so figuring out what's going on is worthwhile and I have an open mind.

This paper seems nice with the misspecification angle, because it is realistic and seems to open a path to some interpretations that might not violate some fundamental identities in IT. Misspecification (mismatched coding in IT) can lead to some weird phenomena that's not always intuitive.

Another thing in the paper that's made clear is that DD might not always happen, and it seems informative to figure out when that's the case.

In the background I have to say I'm still skeptical of the empirical breadth of DD. These weird cases of ML failures due to subtle challenge inputs (the example of errors in identifying Obama based on positioning and ties (?) is one example) to me seems like prime examples of overfitting. I still have a hunch that something about the training and test samples relative to the universe of actual intended samples is at play, or the whole phenomenon of DD is misleading because the overfitting problem is really in terms of model flexibility versus data complexity, and not necessarily in terms of number of parameters per se versus sample size.
No, I still don't care at all about the customizability. I did it mostly because I had to use Windows but didn't want to deal with an OEM's crap ware. The customizability was actually an impediment to get what I wanted: a box.

I don't doubt that a huge market of interchangeable parts made this easier. But it's important to separate the ends from the means here, when it comes to customer concerns. The customers that want customizability and upgradability are a vanishingly small slice of customers. (Just as are the ones who want to run Linux, and that small slice does include me.)
Privacy coins, dex and p2p atomic swaps are going to become very popular.
Understanding and Managing Chronic Inflammation
> Can the ROM be read and flashed back on Casio watches?

I doubt that they use any kind of reprogrammable memory, but you can swap out the entire board like I did: https://github.com/carrotIndustries/pluto
I mean, I would pay $350 to have the peace of mind that I am immune. I don't engage in any risky behaviors, no drug use, monogamous relationship, but if my $350 protects me from a stay blood transfusion or freak accident and helps cover the cost of at-risk populations getting protected, then that would be fantastic.
It their role to protect capital (i.e. private property), not people. Protecting people is an occasional consequence of that, but when the two are at odds, they almost always side against people.
Scooters don't go that fast though, you only need to bleed a few mph of speed before you can just run off it and bail like a skateboard. I don't find the stopping distances any different than a bike. In both cases, the brakes overpower the rubber and you end up breaking traction if you really brake too hard so its best not to do that and do something more evasive. Much safer to bail off a scooter than a bike at least.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28606442
I knew the son of the editor of BYTE back in the early 90s going to college in New Hampshire. Most people probably don't realize that BYTE was headquartered in a tiny NH town about as far from Silicon Valley - both physically and culturally - as you can get. Though it was close to the Boston area - where a lot of computing happened in the early days before mostly moving to California - Peterborough is a quaint New England town that may not have had a stop light back then. When I moved to NH in the late 80s, the public schools were still all using Apple IIs from a decade earlier. The idea that a major tech magazine was being written there pre-internet still makes me shake my head in wonder.
As I understand it, redirection is our best hope. Destruction via nukes would only work for comparatively small rocks. There is a fairly comprehensive write-up of the various options on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance
What do they limit? You mean when you're using one of the non-usb-c ones that that's limiting you?
I worked at a gaming event a while back, where the players were using hardware we had bought them to match what they had at home. One of them changed the crouch binding from Ctrl to alt (to use the thumb) and the default bindings for the keys on his moise were f1 through f4... He alt+f4'ed out of his competitive game in the middle of the round, twice, before we actually figured out what was wrong.
Absolutely correct, KU780 was the Writeable Control Store described here http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/vax/handbook/VAX_...

Sophisticated customers hacking the instruction sets of their machines goes back pretty much to the beginning. The earliest I personally know of is Prof Jack Dennis hacking MIT's PDP-1 to support timesharing, sometime in 1961. Commercial machines like the Burroughs B1700 had a WCS that was designed so various compiled languages could be optimized - e.g. a FORTRAN instruction set, a COBOL instruction set, etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_B1700 It was also in the IBM360s because they had to emulate the IBM1401 software (although I don't know if the capability was open to users to modify).

Today of course you have the various optional features of the RISC-V ecosystem --- easy to load up on an FPGA.

Perhaps we should remember that we are in the very very early days of Computers, and we should expect continued modification / experimentation.
Inverted by whose standards? You could just as convincingly argue that capitalist enterprises are the ones with inverted incentives: to extract as much value from workers as possible while paying them as little as possible.
B-Trees and Databases
> In the US, they are francheses

Mostly. A bit under 10% of all McDonalds locations in the US are corporate owned.