skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US government hasn't used their military to force anyone to transact in dollars, or even threatened to do so.
The dollar has value primarily because taxes inside the US are denominated in dollars. If you don't pay your taxes with dollars then eventually civilian law enforcement will show up and seize your assets.
My tastes are fairly similar to yours. I'm curious which boxes aren't ticked by the more recent X200 series Thinkpads since the X230 in your view?

I recently purchased one, and I did a bunch of research before deciding which to get. I settled on an X270 because it's user upgradeable, supports two SSDs, has two batteries, has hardware VP9 encoding/decoding, includes a USB C port, and is hopefully much closer to the ruggedness of the impeccable X200-X230 range than the newer models. The only thing thing I felt like I compromised on was the lack of support for 32 GB of memory. I was able to purchase an i7 X270, 4TB SSD, 16GB RAM, and replacement batteries all for under $1k, and it blows any new laptop that costs twice as much out of the water for my needs.
High and Heavy: NASA's Most Powerful Space Telescope Ships Out
It's illegal for movie theaters to jam cell phones. If this actually works and becomes popular, I don't imagine it would take too long before this became illegal too.
It’s no longer a fully rational argument for some people since they’ve bet everything on crypto. A large enough portion of the argument is now emotional. Tbf certain subjects on HN trigger me as well
This looks scarily similar to modern blog spam. Funny how little the internet really changed us, we just share more information but the basis is the same.
Right, and the ones that require root to install are steam, vscode and kicad. Kicad is probably in the worst situation because it uses a PPA. Please double check your links before posting, it will save us both time. It's also not really relevant what the official website says, as it's traditional in open source for the packaging to be handled by the distribution, not by the upstream.
You’re using the word “magically,” so obviously you think the answer’s “no.” But, then, what does turn people into fascists if not fascist rhetoric?
> Just wanted to point out that there is definitely a niche for it :)

Thanks for the info! I get that controlling the whole stack can make sense (great post about this here: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-... ) but just seems like yet another user management system might not be the best use of resources. But I'm not entirely in that world (of deploying ssh keys to servers, for example) so appreciate the perspective.
> USD gets its value from the legal requirement that taxes are paid in USD

How long will that last? Miami and El Salvador are already proving you wrong.

> For USD to go to zero, the United States as we know it would have to collapse

Not if your government and country switches to crypto before the fiat collapse.
$69 fee + $20 per pizza? Absurd.
Regarding point 4, it has nothing to do with unbanked people. The demand for stable coins comes from exchanges that don't want to deal wih US financial regulations.
PC like desktops are in no danger of going anywhere, there will always be a huge gamer and hobbyist market for them.
I'd totally use humans to order...

Just adding $1 to the price of each pizza will more than pay for a humans wages to make the order.

Automatic integrations with pizza companies can be done later if the service sees success.
Math as “One of the Great Humanities”
While all such claims should be taken seriously, the issue remains that such statements are sometimes invented or exaggerated by people who recognise the damage they can cause.
Everyone deserves the presumption of innocence, even evil mega corporations - because at the end of the day real abusers are able to hide in the noise that’s generated by those making disingenuous claims.

This is a common tactic in the political space: it’s the tactic of muddying the water with so many false claims that legitimate claims are just dismissed as rhetoric.
> On the advice of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mao declared full-stop to the Great Sparrow Campaign, replacing the birds with bed bugs on the Four Pests naughty list.

Sadly, we're grading on a curve these days and this sounds almost unbelievably reasonable by modern standards.
No less sad than your typical elitist hn commenter. Gfy.
From a close friend who has been a baker for decades:

The margins on flour, water, and salt (bread) are thin.

The margins on sugar (pastries) and meat/vegetables/cheese (pizzas) are better.

She doesn't bake bread these days, but makes a good living off of pizzas.
People who are declaring themselves to be women are demanding they they treated like women, get all the privileges of women, and criminalize descent.

This is very different from your word games. Having a right to do something everyone else does, like buy a house, get credit in my name, etc is different from demanding I act out your identity under punishment of arrest.

If you are drowning, I am not obligated to save you, yet somehow I’m responsible for your feelings?

Some people saying yes and some people saying no is literally what a “sides” thing is.
Ah absolutely, the much more tangible short-term example of “guys with guns” is (admittedly ever more militarized) domestic law enforcement.

But the implied threat towards anyone who say, started dumping US sovereign debt, or transacting petroleum in EUR, or whatever is very real. Countries have been liberated for less.
Haha the end result of being conditioned to wear shorts to the beach.

In the future people won't even look at each other anymore. It will be taboo.
that fundamental a change to diet drives cultural changes that are nontrivial.
Nobody is mentioning a big open source project like Grouper, https://incommon.org/trusted-access/

Can someone tell me why is this project, or 4 softwares, not more widely known?
« By appealing to everyone with these clean lines, gradients, and rounded shapes, no one feels particularly compelled by them. »

To be honest, I think this bit of fashion is just a pendulum that swings back and forth every decade or two.

One curious thing I noticed on the swing back in the opposite direction around the early 90s (when many logos changed from circles and constant-width strokes to ellipses and more 'stressed' letters): the new logos somehow seemed to me to be "cleaner" than the previous ones, even though that's also what I'd felt when things were going the other way.
I think it’s targeting the consumer market?
We had an office virtual get-together and we got prepaid vouchers to everyone on a popular food delivery app. Everyone could order whatever they wished to, from their favorite restaurants. This accounts very easily for varying dietary needs, who else might be physically with them so that they can order more or less. I can't see the simplicity of this being beat easily.
Something or the other does stick and prosper. Intentions are rarely misunderstood or misguided. At best there is weird discrepancy between what is thought and what is revealed. What I'm saying is strange and may even be out of context I know but this shouldn't be taken as evidence of non-chalance.
Hibernate is a tricky term that doesn't mean the same thing to all people. The working definition I use is all state is dumped from memory to disk and then retrieved upon startup.

Sadly Hibernate is very complicated and has largely been deprecated from both Windows and Linux in favor of Sleep.

Since Hibernate is gone, let's take it off the list.

Sleep (S3) has been largely removed from these laptops in favor of a "low power mode" that emulates but does not actually sleep the device.

This is why it was previously very safe to keep your laptop in sleep or hibernate mode in a bag, but now isn't- not because user behavior has changed, or that software has changed, but because Dell's hardware has.

A shutdown and startup incur significant setup times, not just for the computer but mental workflow- remembering to open your applications back to where you left them, etc.

In the past (5 years ago) it was normal to expect a laptop to go to sleep when the lid closed and then wake itself back up.

If Dell is telling people not to expect to be able to simply sleep their laptop by closing it and then putting it in a bag, then they're not expecting people to treat the laptop as a laptop. Back in the 80s, we called such computers "Luggables".

A $2,000 laptop in 2021 should not be assumed to be a glorified luggable, it should be a laptop with the same functionality as laptops had in 2010.
Its just a list saying that managers are dumb, lazy, egoistic and evil. It contains about as much wisdom as all the lists saying that the working class is dumb, lazy, egoistic and evil.
Can China afford to stay isolated as world abandons ‘zero Covid’?
I guess it depends on how high a level you're looking at it from. Both lockstep and rollback are variants of the general approach of "shared deterministic simulation" where you're mostly just sending inputs. ("Mostly" 'cuz on reconnect or desync or whatever you'll probably want to send full state.)

I really enjoyed this GDC talk on rollback networking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jb0FOcImdg&t=536s

(From 2019.)
Why hasn't Jack looked at Nano?
Wow! Some of those are dead on describing the upper middle class in modern American society. You can see from the comments here how people can't stand the look in the mirror.
I actually think that defining the metrics is half of the game for productivity. Once you define the metrics, it's relatively easy to game it.

That said, I think software development is a relatively well defined task. There's typically some clear need from clients, and there's some restriction. Your problem space is somewhat confined.

Now, corollary is this: the more restriction you have, the easier you can be productive (or invent a way to be productive). Specialists can be generally more productive than generalists because they can have a more precise definition of "being productive".
1. [must] Runs Linux

2. [must] HDMI, RJ45, >=2x USB-A, >=1x USB-C (2x if it's also used for charging), headphone jack, card reader (preferably one where the sdcard clicks into, so I can leave the microsd adapter inside and always handy; currently my laptop has it half sticking out so it would break off). I can understand that a serial cable requires a dongle, but network cables I still use daily. Install one of those openable ports if you must, but I won't buy your laptop if it doesn't have a network interface built in.

3. [must] Changeable RAM so I don't have to buy an overpriced 32GB laptop, but can just buy a regular laptop costing half as much and spend 70 bucks on an upgrade.

4. [must] Changeable SSD. Same story: large SSD with no HDD (because with an additional HDD you again have all its downsides like noise and power draw) is overpriced, and I don't feel like reinstalling everything anyway, so I prefer to just transfer the SSD from my previous laptop and toss whatever they stuck in the new one.

5. [must] 1080p screen so no scaling bugs or larger-than-necessary power draw. I don't see more pixels anyway and 95% of the time I'll be looking at an external screen; if you work 8h/day on a laptop you should probably be looking to change that.

6. [should] Fast CPU cores. When I selected my most recent laptop in 2018, CPUs had actually nearly gotten slower than the previous one in 2012. But they draw less power! Whoop tee doo... good job intel on power saving by just doing less. I'm buying a daily computing driver, not a phone, and I am very rarely more than 1.5 hours removed from a power socket. Also, I still can rarely use more than one core per task (and am doing just one thing in the foreground; dual core would be fine), but I suppose it's the only way these days to get any sort of performance. Still, I'd rather have 4 cores with 100 benchmark points each than 32 cores with 75 benchmark points each. (And hyperthreading counting towards the number of cores is misleading, as it adds only a few percent performance.)

7. [wish] WiFi 6

8. [wish] Buttons above the touchpad are nice. Keyboard: the more buttons the better, basically. I actually use home/end/pgup/pgdn/scroll lock/printscreen/pause/menu/function keys/media keys/etc. unlike what laptop designers seem to think. There's so little choice in this that I guess I'll just live with whatever I can get at this point. Also, death to the combined up/down arrow key.

9. [mkay] GPU is cool but, often, time thermal restrictions make it only a little faster than the nowadays pretty performant and efficient integrated graphics. Useful for hashcat though.

A. [wish] My current laptop has taught me that not all LCD displays are made alike. The vertical viewing angle on this one is so terrible that the colors are always distorted on at least one part of the screen no matter your viewing angle. I have no idea how to objectively look for this, but a nice screen is a bonus. Then again, as before: I won't spend 95% of my time looking at this screen anyhow.
> Not going to last very long, though; ultrasound filters will soon appear on all relevant gear, including mobile phones.

Only if this technique actually gains widespread use. Even then, it will most likely only appear on gear that must still record, such as body cams. For consumer tech, this would just be additional costs, which the manufacturers are not going to bother with.
Probably not what OP had in mind, but under the assumption that you want to buy a new laptop, one thing I would look for is low carbon footprint (many manufacturers publish this information), and low social impact in terms of the conditions in which the laptop is produced (still more difficult to have this information).
Considering how many outlets have covered this phenomenon and the dearth of videos of it you can find in the dark parts of the internet I'd say it's completely true. Downvoting doesn't make it false either.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-ed...
Fwiw I’ve been using MacBooks for 7 years and maybe only a handful of times did my dev workflows break (and always in fairly minor ways). Home brew makes things pretty easy

However I am still on a 2015 MacBook.
So he was a hypocrite, but that is an insult we reserve for people who we can't say are wrong.
There are people upset he doesn’t agree with them. They are trying to paint this as him bullying a vulnerable community.

If a Netflix show makes a group feel threatened and reacts by trying to censor him, that community should just stop watching him.

By the reviews from actual people, not people paid to write reviews, I’d say there are a lot more people who enjoyed the show.
Miya Marcano’s Killing Is a Wakeup Call on Apartment ‘Master’ Keys
As does the show "The Last Kingdom."
Microsoft's Surface laptops have 3:2 screens, which is just as good or even better.
The Campaign to Wipe Out the Common Sparrow
AU-China ties bad, but softening SE Asian links worse: ex PM Rudd
This is very true. And it reminds me that, at first, I did like Facebook, and I thought it was fun and cool. It's only when you realize how little meaning there is to the interactions that they start to feel shallow and depressing.
Go binaries still include the Go runtime which handles GCing etc., much like Python.

They're not VMs, but it's really a semantic difference, if you're comparing it to Java, especially now that GraalVM native compilation is gaining popularity.
On the contrary. Farmers have killed pests for thousands of years, with good results. This is merely a natural elaboration of that. It's a reasonable plan.

Which goes to show you that even what "makes sense" can be dumb.

Which is a strong argument for personal autonomy and against totalitarian measures.

To avoid putting all of your eggs in one basket and such.
I like these types of projects (auth) and happy to see this is a thriving area. I was a little puzzled by the very first line in their gitbook [0] documentation:

“Kanidm is an identity management server, acting as an authority on accounts and authorisation within a technical environment.”

Shouldn’t that be authentication, or am I misunderstanding the purpose of Kanidm?

[0] https://kanidm.github.io/kanidm/intro.html
Wow billions and billions invested in multiple companies with different strategies. Goes to show that if driverless tech is solved and we have a winner take all scenario that we usually see in tech, a car company letter may have to be added amongst the FAANG acronym.
Is this something like rapture. Invented in europe but known only in US?
Ask HN: Would you show up to an adult math circle?
Traditionally, math circles are a group activity where a bunch of young students get together to discuss mathematics that they might not have otherwise seen in school.

I'm a mid-career software engineer who was an undergraduate math major a decade ago, and recently realized that I was missing the thrill of learning new math in my life.

I'm curious about starting a math circle for adults in SF - something like twice a month we'd gather somewhere and play mathematical games or discuss a paper together or listen to a guest speaker give a talk.

Did anyone else have this "math club/circle" experience as a child and miss it as an adult? Would anyone be interested in joining something like this?
Something or the other is obsure about this task. But to be honest I'd have never come across something as ridiculous and what is purported to be true here. My ability to write useless stuff is unprecedented and unmatched. This is how I operate. This is how the dice rolls and how it always lands on an eight or a double-six. That's life for you.
I read an interview with a watchmaker once. He used to make watches in the $2000 range, before moving on to watches much more expense (I forgot the number, $50,000?). The reason was simple: someone buying a $2000 is often there for a once-in-a-lifetime purchase - graduation, marriage, etc. Someone able to spend $50,000 on a watch typically will have no issues to start collecting them and buying many more.
On top of that, even though banks aren't required to keep more than 8% of deposits in reserve, they are subject to loads of regulation on their balance sheet to ensure that they are well capitalized. The FDIC exists to stop a run on any bank, but the regulations exist to ensure that if a bank needs to be taken into conservatorship, the assets to bank the deposits will eventually be recoverable.
May the tens of millions who died from the biggest mass murderer in history, RIP. And let there memory always serve as a reminder of what the path of socialism looks like.

https://fee.org/articles/who-was-the-biggest-mass-murderer-i...
Maybe, I think it is more likely due to the huge presence of free advertising in the form of YouTubers driving around in their FSD betas.
M1X will be a trade off. Trading battery life for speed. It will still have great battery life relative the dumpster fire of x86 laptops.
> The US government hasn't used their military to force anyone to transact in dollars, or even threatened to do so.

There were rumors that Iraq under Saddam Hussein was looking to start pricing their oil exports in something other than dollars...
Honest question: Do you actually enjoy this (or any similar) kind of remote team event via Zoom? To me at least this seems like a properly dystopian future.
Similar to what I was looking for after I ditched macs altogether. Closest were Razer Blade Stealth and X1 Carbon. I opted for stealth and linux just works on it (Pop).. and there's a discrete gfx when I need it. I opted for FHD instead 4k since I didn't see it as newded on 13".. colleague opted for 4k. I wish there was 32 gigs though. That's only thing I miss. Apparently there's an AMD 14" now available too.
Incommon is focused on .edus, as far as I understand it. That might be why it isn't as well known as it should be.

I've definitely heard of Shibboleth, it's one of the big players in OSS SAML implementations.
Wow, Feynman's explanation of the halting problem is thorough yet concise in his usual amazing fashion. Many thanks for linking that book!
It is Illegal to jam the phone signal in case of emergencies AFAIK. Not aware of it being illegal to jam recording devices in such an environment in which they do outline (somewhere) no recording allowed in the theatre.

Audio is an odd thing in law - in the UK I can record many things audio more than you would legaly be allowed to video.

But privacy laws are the ones that curtail video recordings mostly and with that - this kinda sits on the other side of the fence.

However - public nuisance may prove an area and pets may well dislike this, so if anything it may be classed as an assault upon an animal. Depending upon the impact upon animals like dogs.

So my main concern would be public area's with people using guide dogs - will this cause the dog distress and what would be the impact.

So I'd imagine already laws that may see this fall foul of - but like many things it will be how it is used and not ownership.
Do these things work with any programming language? Like, do they still allow for "squiggly lines" (linter/static typing) in the editor?
I would prefer 15".

This would give me a large display, large keyboard, more space to shove SSD.

But since these stuff adds weight and size, I currently prefer 14" because these are easier to move around
While we are here, can anyone recommend a laptop with a crazy bright screen and a good battery? As in "I am sitting by the pool for a couple weeks and need to work, too." Will be Chrome and Office so most every other spec is secondary.
Thanks! Your reply was helpful in giving the background although the background itself wasn't so helpful. Just to be sure, is the sole purpose of these articles to suggest why (and not how) to improve productivity? I think I am looking for the secret to 10x productivity which is still hidden somewhere inside those articles. Or is it?
Then it must be very easy to find a few examples.
This is a very insightful way to put it. When the wheels fall off USDT will become valueless in no time at all.
I have had pretty good luck with the product forums for the thermomix; the recipes are obviously written for that machine but it’s easy to repurpose them.

No ads, no seo, no life story.
In Europe it's called Dobble.

https://www.dobblegame.com/en/games/
This is DBS, similar to therapies for motor disorders like Parkinson’s. It’s also invasive; a surgery is performed to implant an electrode into the striatum. rTMS is noninvasive and much less targeted.

Based partly on motor disease research into disorders like Parkinson’s disease, there is a growing theory in the neurosciences that brain disrhythmic behavior is the root cause for a variety of disorders, with a plastic feedback loop on top that reinforces things as the disease progresses. Closed-loop stimulation that disturbs the maladaptive behavior when it starts works stunningly well for some motor diseases, and at least in one patient, for MDD as well.
>You’re better off being very expensive ($10k tattoo artist) than broadly appealing.

This is like saying you’re better off playing in the NBA than shooting hoops in the park. Yes, anyone can shoot hoops in the park and make $0 but wouldn’t it be so much better to play in the NBA and get paid millions?

It sounds great in theory but you better hope you have the talent, drive, and luck to make it happen.

Baking a $30 cake and baking a $6,000 cake are totally different ballgames and the actual baking is quite different and the business part of it requires totally different skills/network/etc.
Not agreeing that you belong to a biologically defined community that has a unique set of issues is about as far from from dehumanizing as it gets.

By this argument, blacks are dehumanizing by not accepting whites who want to be black, even though any biologist can tell you “race” doesn’t exist in any meaningful way. In fact the left successfully used this argument to defeat the popularity of far-right white supremacy groups.