skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would prefer OpenRC, runit or something similar.
What's the secret on battery life?
If China can take out CSGs with pretty much no effective counter measures, will the US be willing to send carriers to support Taiwan during/after a Chinese invasion? It's all a game of brinkmanship - might be time for US/China to dig out the old Cold War doctrines on how to win a conventional war without winning so hard the other side feels the need to start slinging nukes.
I wouldn't expect an attack on a carrier group to necessarily lead to all out nuclear War. Seems more likely it would lead to a similar response, to a similarly sized and themed target, if only to save face and demonstrate that an equal response to such attacks will happen.

What's the US going to do? Attack Chinese cities? And then watch their own cities burn?
Except it doesn’t. It falls victim to all the same things. I’ve seen things posted with all kinds of conspiracy theories that I happen to have intimate knowledge of from where I’ve worked, and those theories are dead wrong. They’re a combination of not knowing about public information, not being able to understand it (outside of skill set), not bothering to do research before stating opinions and amplifying (upvoting) things that sound right but are in fact not, incorrectly connecting dots that are unrelated, bringing in false “facts”, stating opinions as facts that others assume are then facts, and a host of other issues.

If all you’re depending on is others to upvote and downvote, then you information bubbles are easy to form. Facebook is notoriously bad for exactly this reason, as are forums that attract certain demographics / ideologies.
That's fair. I can emphasize :) But this idea of "we need to save the planet..." is a false narrative. It might even be distracted and overwhelming. The Truth is, we need to save ourselves from us. And in that context it's important not to overlook that context and continue with our hubris-based mindset. So yeah, nuclear may or may not be a wise choice. Furthermore, if it isn't enough and we come up short on CC then we'll have at least two high priority lonlong term problems to deal with.
No, they're using a proprietary BIOS and firmware for the embedded controller. The hardware is all Intel and of course it has a management engine[1], even all the nasty vPro "features".

From the software freedom point of view it's very much a no go, although they are apparently going to release the firmware sources and looking into coreboot[2].

[1]: https://community.frame.work/t/does-intel-chip-have-intels-m...

[2]: https://community.frame.work/t/free-the-ec-and-coreboot-only...
Past related threads:

Why Not WireGuard (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28896351 - Oct 2021 (31 comments)

Why not “Why not WireGuard?” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955607 - April 2020 (41 comments)

Why Not WireGuard - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22591454 - March 2020 (123 comments)
>You can always negotiate, can't you?

You can always try. If you have always made market rate, then have you ever really negotiated anything? To benefit from negotiation skills, you would have to be making way below market and then somehow convince someone to pay you what others are making. And do it without flat out lying.
Ask HN: Recommendations for a Developer's Business Laptop?
Any recommendations for a developer's business laptop? Since it is for development I want something relatively powerful, e.g. Intel Core i7-11800H processor, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVMe drive. However, since it is just for developing, I don't need a great video card. Since takes a lot of gaming laptops out of the running since you are paying a premium for a graphics card that is just wasted. Finally, since it is for professional use, it would be nice to have the option of extended warranty/support. I would want to minimize downtime in the case of an issue so I can get back to work.
NFTs are basically an investment scam that just so happens to have a secondary market
I think it’s a bit more nuanced. As far as I know Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. can still use whatever data they have on their logged-in users to target ads.

Apple argues that’s what they do, too. I haven’t delved deep into that, but think that, technically, they’re right.

Now question is whether Apple’s “whatever data they have on their logged-in users” is on equal footing with what the other big players have. Many iOS users are permanently logged into Apple (¿maybe not even when using a browser?). I guess many also are almost permanently logged into Facebook or Google.
Yeah, look. I'm a big believer in Web3 but this whole NFT craze is about the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

It's like tech never got the lesson from the whole beanie babies thing.
Deep Reinforcement Learning at the Edge of the Statistical Precipice
Interesting NeurIPS paper with a open-source library on how to do reliable benchmarking with only a handful of runs.

https://agarwl.github.io/rliable/
fukushima as well, heck even the governement did know that. that does not make it better. in fact that makes it worse.
When you say “meat” you probably mean all the edible parts of an animal, organs meat.

Then I would probably agree.
Edit2: Blowing up isn’t the only risk from a melt down, a major meltdown on a river could contaminate millions of people’s drinking water without any boom.

First pools are shared between reactors so there’s probably only around 200 that have ever been built.

Also, the risk isn’t simply in year X for pool Y, it’s for every pool and every year. At best we can estimate the risk of a pool over it’s lifetime is probably under 2% and the risk from all pools is also under 2% in any given year. The risk of any pool over the next 50 years, now that we have very little hard data on. At least in terms of real world data ir could be 0.05% or 50% and we just don’t have enough real world data to validate.

Edit: You can scroll through this list but it looks like on average there’s around 3 reactors per location.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea...
Yeah, when someone has temporary physical access to your hardware you have lost anyways. They could perform hardware alterations and e.g. install hardware keyloggers into the device, etc.
Yeah this is what I saw 4 years ago. Shame it still isn't working. Insane how crypto projects spend all this effort on flashy landing pages, marketing, hype. But if you actually try to use the product, you find out it just doesn't actually work.
For all framework laptop owners, I'm considering to buy this for myself this christmas. My previous laptop I owned are mostly MBP, laptop from work is mbp, and my own gaming PC.

1 of the reason why I like MBP is the sturdiness and build quality, but i'm ready to go on diy stuff and leave apple for my next laptop. I was watching Dave2D video but when I saw the spring of the hinge when opening the laptop and the flex on the screen, it kind a scares me. How does it go for all of you? How's the build quality? also how's the track pad compared to mbp?

I don't want to own a laptop where opening the screen with 1 hand feels like it's going to break it. Kind a feels like dell inspiron all over again
I think a competitor vomited anger at me
It’s chilling how fast common sense has gone out the window.
Taxi companies in conjunction with city governments created a monopoly. Prices were artificially high in almost all cities. Check the prices of how much those medallions were going for at auction in NY & Chicago prior to uber/lyft. It is also possible for a driver to make more money with lower fares by increasing the percentage of time that passengers are in the car.

Uber and Lyft were profitable in many cities pre-covid.
You're not unconventional, you're anonymous.

Why do you think it's okay to smear Stallman like this?

And for the people who apparently are supporting this smear, please take a minute to educate yourself: https://stallmansupport.org/
Not only continental Europe. Connection to UK is not cheap.

But this network is not there because they are phasing out some power plants. Import from Norway is relatively small.
Which knowledge management apps with backlinks are not Electron? I'd prefer non-Electron.

Electron: VS Code (Foam, Dendron), Logseq, Obsidian, Joplin

Not Electron: Emacs (Org-roam), Athens (?)
AI Diet Planner: Use of AI to determine your diet plan
Lenovo's descent into soldered RAM and the elimination of external batteries has me rooting for Framework too.

My daily driver is currently a T-480 that's about 3.5 years old. The relative stagnation of CPU and even IO in laptops has it still feeling reasonable to use. I'm hoping that by the time I want to replace it, Framework will really have found their stride and my decision will be obvious.

And I'd rather be stuck with a touchpad than a soldered SSD, which feels like Lenovo's next logical move.
Deep man.
Massed conventional armor didn't fare too well in the Nagorno-Karabakh war. China has a large amount of long-range fires and has invested heavily in UAVs - these were the decisive things for Azerbaijan. Hopefully their planners have been studying that conflict and adjusting accordingly.
I remember and was shocked by the "bitches" story when I read the book, but I didn't remember the part about the nudes of students or the posing as a an undergraduate. Like I said, not surprising though.
AFAIK, because of this Germany also has now the highest electricity price in Europe.
I thought it was interesting that the notice about Roger's death was by Eric Iverson. The name struck me because Ken Iverson was the creator of APL and I wondered if they were related. Looking it up, they are. Eric is Ken's son -- so interest in APL has gone across generations.
I do not think that this is popular idea in Norway.
I'm curious how they went about this. A lot of algorithms "improve" older ones through taking e.g. a probabilistic approach (thus introducing failure modes that weren't there previously), or by using mechanical techniques like SIMD, or by parallelizing previously sequential solutions. How do you measure and compare improvements like that? The first one is hard to compare fairly, and the other ones can easily depend on the hardware. Of course there are cases where two algorithms solve exactly the same problem and one is just plain faster too, but did they really evaluate hundreds of those?
> Dude in BC they pretend a pod of orcas is a separate species because orcas aren’t endangered so they had to invent a species with 73 members so they could have something to complain about.

Sometimes scientists do genetic analysis and find things, yep.

We don't do this because we are drama queens, It just happens that murica has some unique cetacean species and they are experiencing a sharp decline by unclear reasons. Some people repeating the same stupid jokes about activists since 1960's don't help to provide any solution.

All seen the same to you? Can you spot the differences?

https://cdn.roaring.earth/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Killer_...
One small past thread:

The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Solution [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20003222 - May 2019 (4 comments)
it might also be a death trap for them. I mean we bury high toxical waste deep inside a mountain and try to forget it?
Yeah or magic the gathering or mlp or fine art.
One small past thread:

Stifflog - Stiff asks, great programmers answer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=574301 - April 2009 (3 comments)
I'm really sorry, but this is distressing me no end: It should be (((7 + 9) x 8) -2) / 3 = 42. As written, it equals 25.6666...
I just listened to an interview with the director of the new Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics at Massachusetts General Hospital. If you're looking to build up a balanced perspective on this subject worth a listen:

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/keep-talking/episode-17...
I read Voltaire's Candide a few years before reading The Hitchhikers Guide. I'm glad I did.
The characters, style, themes, were all taken from Voltaire's master work. I still enjoyed reading Douglas Adams. Comparing the two gave me an understanding of what English Lit is. Enjoying each, in a different way, taught me to appreciate works as stand alone objects, and in a larger canon of literature. Though I'm still glad I read Voltaire first.
Anyone know if they're planning on having a keyboard available that uses full-size up/down keys? (Or, if framework laptops are built such that you could easily swap out the keyboard in the future if they do?)

This looks super interesting for a long-term laptop, but small arrow keys bring me so much day-to-day anguish I wouldn't want to suffer through them long-term.
It’s naive at best. If there’s no mechanism for externalities then why would we stop burning coal and oil when the infrastructure is already in place?
Wouldn't the Space Weapons Ban treaty theoretically cover the launching and parking of a bunch of these in space/Low Earth Orbit? Ignoring the toothless nature of most treaties in general.
When you explain it like that, existing camera technology looks like the stupidest, most inefficient way to do things possible.

This seems like one of those "obvious in hindsight" discoveries, which are always the best ones.
But how do you do that with the web? If someone is digging into the actual source of the site, that's on them. But that doesn't mean our team has time to provide and support an API for 3rd parties.
> It's a core function of democracy.

Lobbying is not democratic. Corporations have far more money than individuals and therefore far bigger lobbying power. As a result, laws and policies will reflect what the small elite wants rather than what the people want or need.

Because of lobbying, the copyright monopolists have systematically robbed of our public domain rights. Because of lobbying, we might as well not have the right to reverse engineer anything.

Lobbying is literally billion dollar industries asking the government to help protect their interests. Hard to think of anything less democratic than that.
Chernobyl, famously, did not have a containment building around it. We don't build reactors like that. In addition today you can build reactors which simply do not have the failure modes that led to either Chernobyl or Fukushima.

> Researchers have estimated that about 1 in 5 deaths globally can be attributed to fossil fuels through air pollution alone

This is a pet peeve of mine. They always use flimsiest of statistics to "attribute it" so, but never mention how many people would die if it _wasn't_ for fossil fuels. The number would be in the billions. Much of Canada, and all of Russia's north would freeze to death. People in Africa, India and China would starve. Industry (and with it livelihoods of billions of people worldwide) would collapse. Europe would erupt in a war. And so on. Hardly a wortwhile tradeoff. And no, it is not possible to replace all uses of fossil fuels with electricity. Not now, not in the foreseeable future.
> IPFS has the interesting quality that the more popular a piece of content is, the easier it is to get ahold of.

So niche content is difficult to get a hold of?

Sounds like a bad idea.
yeah, it just feels rude to bifurcate the ecosystem and confuse everyone about the amount of i/o available
Safetynet Failures due to expired cert
Especially if the service is free, it's not reasonable for companies to bend over backwards to build, support, and maintain an API. One can expect users to build on undocumented and unstable interfaces, but they shouldn't expect the care one might receive if they had a contract to support that functionality.
I was surprised recently to see an ad for microdosing psilocybin (it's legal here). They don't even make an extract, just grind it up and put it in capsules so it comes with a disclaimer that the dosages are unpredictable.
They're not the same thing, but by conflating the two, you can lie and add bias to the meaning. :(
I’ve been using Joplin for about a year now too. My favorite feature is the totally seamless cross-platform sync. Honestly if Obsidian had better support for sync on e.g. Dropbox, I would’ve taken the plunge.

Joplin has its issues though. For instance, it seems confused about the format that it wants to store your notes in. Desktop search recently became useless too (no highlighting of search terms and ranking is broken).
A month ago I dug through the history, the only trace to origin of using 51820/UDP I've found is that the number is hardcoded in one of the tests.
You think incorrectly. I've never been able to afford a hotel when travelling, much less an expensive one.

Much like I'll never be able to afford a house because of people who think that housing is an investment and not somewhere to live.
Netflix Fired Employee Who Leaked Info and Organized Walkout with Trans Workers
Of course they are… I wonder if they are doing this already and are trying to find a way to justify it by saying.. ohhh it was the AI… not us…
In section III B (p.8) the paper states that “in 1982…Gries[24] devised another linear algorithm” for the maximum subarray problem. I remember that. Jon Bentley visited Cornell, and posed the problem to me and Gries together. We thought on it independently overnight and presented a linear solution to Bentley the next day. Gries had a simpler invariant, and I had simpler code (using min). I never knew he wrote the paper until now, and am not one of the several people he mentions in the Acknowledgement, although he does say “Bentley…challenged US with this problem”.
Please don't attack people like this when they post to HN, regardless of how you feel about their employer.
You may not owe $BigCo better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it. When something remains unanswered, it's enough to ask substantive questions respectfully.

We don't want HN to be a hostile place that tars-and-feathers people who show up to explain another side of a story—especially not on a topic they know about. For most of us, our work is what we know the most about. Therefore, people showing up to discuss something related to their work are among the highest-value contributors HN can have. We don't want to discentivize that, and attacking them for it goes directly against the mandate of the site. You don't have to agree, obviously, but you do have to stick to the site guidelines. (Btw, that also means that you shouldn't be posting generic-indignant rants here.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=disincent%20by:dang&dateRange=...

Edit: I just noticed that you got much nicer later in the thread. That's way better—thanks.
Blossom ventures…

When I pull the link it looks like they updated their data to now use ipo specifically. Of 127 ipo’s:

15% median 20% average

https://blossomstreetventures.com/2020/08/05/founder-ownersh...
Thank you for your work - it was immensely helpful for our J-lang TSDB. I am hopeful that I can get interest/support soon to open source it, as Roger was pushing me to do so. He frequently sent me comments or suggestions that referenced your joint publication. I know he was quite proud of it.
good company, but arguably overvalued https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2021/10/12/gi...
That class of attacks exists anyway unless you're using trusted boot. After all, your MBR isn't encrypted is it?
i had a dell xps and it was a piece of crap. sold it and ordered a starlabs laptop.
> bought a home

Maybe in Adams' time. These days it takes an entire lifetime to buy a home.
> Wonder if it's practical to "buffer" popular content on IPFS by copying it to normal HTTP servers.

I guess the approach would be to simply run IPFS on those servers, with the popular content in it, as a seed.
Removing the main and most important feature on a laptop is surely a good-move.

What about AMD?
It definitely does not support 1 hand lid operation. Despite the quality not being as high as a macbook pro (I've owned several for comparison) it absolutely does not feel cheap.

In cases where you may damage the device, part of the beauty is that all of the parts are sold by Framework and come with replacement guides and any tools you may need (usually just the included screwdriver).
> Main site, first element lists "Independent."

> One Director always appointed and controlled by Microsoft

> Microsoft appointed Director can effectively override "any vote to materially change the Foundation’s Membership Policy, Director Election Policy, Project Governance Policy, or any Intellectual Property-related agreements or policies" [..]

> Any change to the Bylaws which attempts to change this requires not only a 2/3 vote of the Directors, but also agreement from Microsoft separate from the Microsoft appointed director.

Ha!
Yes, systemd has a ton of surface area and options. Yes, the man pages are long. No, you don't need to read them--the beauty of systemd is you control how much of the complexity you use. Unit files can be 10 lines or 30. Most of the extra options are for security and hardening, when you need them you'll be glad they're easy to turn on. For the other components, I think have a stable, familiar, and consistent set of core services (boot, ntp, logging, networking) is glorious
This is an interesting point. The fact that they need 10k people to work on this makes them more like a government putting on a make work project than a company doing R&D. They'd be better off funding 1000 10-person startups working in VR, or just buying or copying one when / if it gets traction.

Related, I can see some appeal of getting to work at a small group doing development in a new area. It's got to be much harder to attract talent who know they are joining as a cog in a 10,000 person centrally planned effort
I’ve tried this successfully over vast stretches of time at work. However, the human element always gives way for me and I do eventually crack. Sometimes I do think it’s ok to feel the emotion because it’s not just business when humans are involved.
Yep, we are setting it up now for an upcoming firmware update!
UAVs are fine against poorly equipped opponents, but they require a radio link from the home base which can easily be cut off. Iran's electronic warfare team was able to seize control of a US stealth UAV and redirect it to land in the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident

It then reversed engineered the UAV and sold access to it to China and Russia - and any other taker, which ramped up these nation's UAV program.

It's one thing when you are flying drones over afghanistan, but against an enemy that can marshall even basic electronic warfare countermeasures, the link between the UAVs and their control center will be severed, making them worthless.

Autononomous drones, OTOH, look very promising.
It's not a criticism of all technological progress, it's a criticism of technology where you cannot accept a single worst case failure, as is the case with nuclear power plants and very little else.

If an electrical fault in your house meant killings 10s or hundreds of millions of people, instead of costing you a home (and if you're really unlucky single digit numbers of lives) we'd be foolish to allow it. As it turns out, electrical faults in a house only burns down the house, not the continent.
That’s because it is more like a cellphone sleep. Keeps the wifi on. Can get push messages etc.
In what sense is it not a literal hash? Because it had the prefix at the start to specify what hash to use and the length?